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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

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We'll talk about that. Let me get your comments working so that we have a full and satisfying podcast. The best you've ever seen probably. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of Human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So even if you saw the tariff cost, that wouldn't necessarily tell you that you were seeing the extra cost. It might not be extra. So just know that. And Trump had mentioned something about that too. He said, you know, the tariff costs are not necessarily going to be what you pay because the vendor might, you know, have to eat some of it.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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There's also some, what I think is fake news, that Trump says he might be coming up with a huge tax cut because we'd be making so much money from the tariffs, they would use the tariff income instead of tax income. Does anybody think that's true? I don't think the numbers come even close to working because on one hand, he's put these big tariffs on everybody.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But on the other hand, the whole point of the tariffs is to negotiate away tariffs so that they're either really small or they go away. So he can't have it both ways. He can't be using it as a negotiating tool. with the purpose of getting rid of tariffs both directions. At the same time, he's going to use that as a major source of income. You got to pick one.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And I don't think the one where he uses that as a source of income makes sense. And also, it would be a tax. It would just be a different form of tax. It wouldn't be replacing a tax. And I also wonder, would that be better or worse for low-income people? If you're a low-income person, And you're probably not paying a lot in federal income tax in the first place.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But everything you buy is going to be a little more expensive if there's a tariff on top of it. So are you going to be happier because you're paying your taxes through a tariff than if you just paid it directly to the government? Yeah, none of this works. And then Trump says, in the coming weeks and months, we'll pass the largest tax cuts in American history.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I don't think that's even a little bit true, but there may be somebody who gets some tax cuts. We'll see. I doubt it will be the biggest one in American history. According to The Hill, the EU's Ursula von der Leyen, Ursula von der Leyen, she was... She was saying that Trump's tariff policy was, quote, unpredictable. Now, is that an insult to say that his tariff policy is unpredictable?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I just do not think we're quite ready to replace a bunch of warehouse people with robots. So maybe they're just looking at the future. According to CNBC, 30% of Microsoft's code is now AI-generated. According to the CEO, there might even be some other software that is completely written by AI. So I'm thinking of becoming a programmer because apparently all you need is AI and you can make anything.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Well, it feels like she doesn't understand the tariff policy. Because you know how the Europeans could make the tariff policy predictable? They could negotiate. It doesn't matter if they're unpredictable now. The entire point is that they would sit in a room and come up with a very predictable but different set of tariffs and or no tariffs.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So if anybody wants to solve the problem of the tariffs looking unpredictable, All you have to do is call a meeting and then negotiate it and you'll know exactly what you're getting. So all the Democrats were complaining because Trump's tariff rule looks like it was poorly planned and it looks like it's chaos and he keeps changing it and all that.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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None of that matters because the entire point is to get you in the same room and then make it predictable. So you don't have to worry about any of the unpredictable stuff. But the unpredictable part is what gets you in the room because you can't handle the unpredictable. Trump's approach to negotiating the tariffs is kind of perfect.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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It just doesn't look like it if you don't know how things work in the real world. Every one of these people complaining about the chaos and the unpredictability, they have complete control over that. Just call a meeting. negotiate a trade deal, you have all the predictability you want. Everybody's happy.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Apparently, China has sort of quietly, they say, issued a whitelist, meaning some things that will not be tariffed. And that would include pharma, microchips, and aircraft parts. And they're doing it kind of quietly. Now, the pharma part I had not seen before. I'd seen the tech part before because I knew that they were getting flexible on microchips and aircraft parts.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But the thing I was most worried about in terms of shortages was the pharma. And it could be that China has figured out that if they make it difficult for us to buy socks... No big deal. If they make it difficult for us to buy a new paperweight for the office, no big deal. Most of the things that you buy on Amazon, if you couldn't buy them for three months, How much would that really affect you?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Right? There are things you want and there's things you prefer and it'd be great if he could get it quickly. But most things are not going to make any difference at all. But I'll tell you what would make a difference if you can't get your meds. So they may have correctly determined that if they turn off the meds, China is just done.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Because that's the difference between it would be inconvenient to do business with you versus we can never do this again. We have to immediately bring all our pharma locally. We have to speed that up. So I think China is being smart. If they cut off our pharma... We're not going to forgive that. That is a one-way trip. So we'll see. You know the story about all of the power outages in Europe?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I guess it was Spain and Portugal and a little bit of France. And the story was that it was the renewables. Oh, it's because you have solar and wind and your renewables don't work. Well, I saw a report from Reuters that it's not the renewables. So it's not the reliance on renewables that's to blame. You know what's to blame?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Rather than blaming the renewables, the issue appears to be the management of renewables. So it's not the renewables. The renewables are fine. It's just the management of the renewables in the modern grid. So that's different. A little bit. A little bit. But not super different.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I guess a bunch of conservative groups, mostly, and libertarian groups are urging Congress to overturn the Biden administration's approval of California's gas car ban. This is in Just the News reporting it.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So you might not know this, but California is one of several states, there are 11 states now, that have signed on to sort of match the California plan that would essentially eliminate gas-powered cars by 2035. And that would start phasing in very quickly in 2026. So there'd be a real big impact on all that stuff. So it does seem to me that if Congress stays Republican, that might get overturned.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Now, that would just be one example of something that California is doing to ruin the entire country. It's ruining the entire automotive industry. Is there anything else we can do for you? When was the last time you heard a story about California did something smart or that it was good for the rest of the country? Well, let's look at a few other things that are in the news from California.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Is anybody tempted? to just become a computer programmer without any experience? I don't think we can get there yet. I think you have to be a programmer to make sure that AI is doing what it's supposed to do. Meanwhile, Waymo, the self-driving car company, and Toyota are in some kind of partnership. I assume they have to do that.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Apparently, Governor Newsom has said about California, quote, we've been doing doge but better for literally six years. Do you think California has been cutting things with a scalpel for six years? Does that sound even a little bit true?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I saw Joel Pollack of Breitbart writing about this, and he points out that Gavin Newsom's first budget in 2019 was $209 billion, and his latest budget proposal for 2025 is $322 billion. So maybe he should have used the chainsaw and not the scalpel. And the state, as Joel points out, the state is borrowing money to fund basic health care.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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It's unbelievable that Gavin Newsom would even try to convince people that he's been doing doge for six years. No, he hasn't. He's been doing the opposite. Meanwhile, according to the Financial Times, the big oil companies look like they're going to have their worst year since the pandemic because the price of oil keeps going down. But is that good news or bad news?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So if the price of oil goes down, won't that make your inflation go down? And if your inflation goes down, wouldn't that make the Federal Reserve lower interest rates? And if you got lower interest rates, wouldn't that make everything better? So if you're worried about the oil companies themselves, they might be having not their best year coming up.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But if you're looking at the country, what we're looking at is let's get a lot of oil going so that the supply and demand will fix our inflation. So that might be happening. At the same time, and also related to inflation, we got the new jobs report from ADP anyway. And it doesn't look so good. So not many jobs were added. Worse than expected.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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We were hoping for 114,000 jobs, but we got about half of that. And it was the lowest monthly total since February 2022. And then also February was revised down. So jobs not looking so strong. But what happens when jobs are not looking so strong? Then the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates. So if you look at the price of energy going down and you look at the employment going down,

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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we should be in a situation where the Fed is almost certainly going to have to lower interest rates. And when you lower interest rates, stock market goes up and it's easier to handle your national debt and everything else is a little bit better.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So with economics, it's hard to know what's good news and what's bad news because almost everything that's good news for somebody is bad news for somebody else and vice versa. This is a perfect example. According to Newsmax, some Republican senators are trying to make the Trump investment executive order a law.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So apparently Trump has an executive order to accelerate the external investments in the United States. So if somebody wanted to invest a billion dollars or more in the United States, rather than hit a bunch of red tape and regulations and approvals and whatever else, that the United States would make it easy.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And so these, I guess, a couple of Republican senators, Blackburn and Budd and Ricketts, have introduced legislation to make that permanent, which seems to me like just a perfectly good idea. I don't think there's any downside of that. Breitbart is actually reporting that. Well, here's a story that's just shocking. This is just shocking. You all know, I think most of you know, Robbie Starbuck.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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because they're going to be competing with Tesla really quickly, and Tesla is going to lap them unless they do something big and bold. So we'll see if Waymo and Toyota can make something work. So does that mean that your Toyotas will have a self-driving car option? I don't know. Or maybe it's just a cheaper way to get the Waymo cars. Could be either one. We'll see.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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He's been one of the activists who's gotten a bunch of big companies to change their DEI policy. So that's one of the things he's most known for. But apparently he checked on himself on the Meta.ai website, And Meta says some really untrue and horribly defamatory things about him. And I'm going to tell you what they are, but you have to understand none of this is true, right?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So before I start, none of it's true. It's just completely made up. So according to Meta, And he's doing a lawsuit to sue Meta for a lot. Meta claims that Robbie Starbucks appeared on Nick Fuente's show and that he's spoken at his rallies and supported him. The truth is they've never even met. They've never even met. He didn't do any of those things.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Meta AI claims that Starbucks engaged in Holocaust denial which has literally never happened. It just has never happened. Meta says that Starbucks tells advertisers not to, no, Meta tells advertisers not to advertise with them because of the lies that it invented. So that's bad. That directly goes to the finances. Meta tells employers not to hire me because of the lies that Meta itself invented.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And, oh my God, this is so bad I can't even believe it. Meta suggested that Robbie Starbuck's kids be taken away from him because it would be better for them to be raised by someone more friendly to DEI and transgenderism. Oh my God. And Meta claims that he's been sued for defamation and emotional distress, which has never happened. So all this is just completely made up.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And he said he's been trying to fix it privately since last year, but instead of fixing it, Meta has given them the runaround. So I decided to go on Meta and see what it says about me. And Meta says I'm a Holocaust denier, and that's what my podcast is about. I'm not a Holocaust denier, and I've certainly never said that on a podcast or anywhere else.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So apparently Meta doesn't like me any more than it likes Robbie Starbuck. Now, I'll let Robbie Starbuck sue him, but oh my God, let me just say this to Meta. Fuck you, assholes. Fuck you. And you, you pieces of shit, you absolute pieces of shit. This is so bad. You need to fix it right away. Well, let's talk about some other fake news.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I saw James Carville appeared on Fox News and he was making some claims about Trump. Now, This is dangerous territory, so you have to listen carefully to what I actually say so that Meta doesn't come up with a whole new rumor about me, okay? So if you heard the rumor, and Carville was making the claim that Trump is a Nazi, and he was giving his evidence.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So here's some of Carville's evidence that Trump is a Nazi. He claimed that Trump had a copy of Mein Kampf in his bed stand. Do you think that's true? How many of you think it's true that Trump had a copy of Hiller's book Mein Kampf in his bedside? No, that's not true.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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There is something that Ivana, his first wife, first wife, yeah, had claimed to someone else who made the claim, so there's some hearsay, but the claim was never Mein Kampf. That was never even rumored to be true. What was rumored was that he had a copy of Hitler's speeches that was given to him by somebody else. Now, let me ask you this. How many books has Trump read that you're aware of? None.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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His ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, said that Trump basically doesn't read books because he doesn't have the attention span to read a whole book. Do you think that Trump actually read that book? No, because I don't think he read any other books. I don't think he read any others. I asked Grok to give me a list of books that we know Trump did read, and one of the ones was Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I saw a post by Michael Miraflor that apparently in New York City there's a sudden boom in what they call members clubs. So you pay a sub amount of money and you can go to a members club and there's just a bunch of them that popped up. And so Michael's theory is that the reason that these are all popping up is the deterioration of civil society.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And I'm thinking to myself, do you really think he read that? You know, I love Trump, but he's not a book reader. So whether or not this book had been given to him or not, he certainly didn't read it. Anyway, here's what I think. I think there's a reason that somebody would give it to him. And here's where it gets dangerous, so I've got to pick my words carefully.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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For the people who are familiar with persuasion or want to learn persuasion, one of the most obvious things that you'd like to do is see what the enemy would do if they were trying to persuade you. So if you were a sports team, you'd want to watch some film of the opponent. If you were a persuader, you'd want to see What might someone else be doing to me that I don't know is persuasion?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So it would make perfect sense for somebody interested in persuasion to read Hitler's speeches. Do you know why I've never read Hitler's speeches or Mein Kampf? Only one reason. So if somebody ever asks me if I've read them, I don't have to lie. I say, nope, and indeed I've never read them. But would it be useful if I did? Yes, totally.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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It would be completely useful because I would be super interested in looking at the technique because that's like the ultimate evil and persuasion is the biggest part of what Hitler was doing. Otherwise, he couldn't have done anything. So I would very much like to know what kind of technique he's using, very much like a football coach

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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would very much like to know what kind of plays does the opposing team run. Of course I'd like to know what the enemy is up to. Of course. Now, here's the other thing. Why would he still have it? Well, I'm going to make an analogy. I'm just speculating on this. If somebody gave you as a gag gift a sex toy, let's say they gave you an inflatable woman or something,

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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and you weren't interested in it because that's not your thing, would you feel comfortable just putting it in your normal trash? Would you? Because if somebody saw the inflatable woman in your trash, they're going to say, oh, man, what's going on with this guy? So even if you want to throw it away, you'd have to find some way to wrap it up or concealing it before it even went in the trash, right?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So throwing away your Hitler speeches book, not so easy. So what would you do instead of throwing it away? Maybe you might throw it in a drawer just to get it out of the way because throwing it in the garbage might make it more visible to people who are your housekeepers, et cetera. Here's something else.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And we don't even know who put it in the bed stand or if it was in the bed stand or if any of that is real. But let me tell you why it's important to know what techniques Hitler used. And the answer is, it's the same technique that Carville is using. Carville is using Hitler's techniques.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Hitler's techniques, which I don't know from reading any of Hitler's books, but I watched the History Channel, and it's one of those things that anybody in persuasion knows, is the big lie. They start with a big lie, so wild that your brain goes, what? That's so big. That must be true, or they wouldn't say it. The big lie is that Trump is somehow Hitler.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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In other words, people are looking for a place they can go where they don't have to worry about their laptop getting stolen and getting beaten up and some fentanyl addict falling on their lap. So they're starting their own little private member clubs. Now, you can get canceled for that kind of thinking. that you have to start at your own private member club just to get away from the riffraff.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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You can't get a bigger lie than that, right? So then the way you press it is you get the media on your side and then you repeat it endlessly. And that's the biggest part of the trick. You find a target, you tell a big lie, and then you repeat it endlessly. That's the core of the Hitler persuasion method. That is exactly what Carville is doing. So Carville is not only using Hitler's technique,

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Very overtly. I mean, there's no doubt about it. Jamie Raskin, same thing. They're both making claims about Trump that are just unbelievably, ridiculously too big of a lie for people to even accept. But it's the bigness of the lie that makes them believe it. Because they think, well, these public figures wouldn't say it unless it was true, right?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Yes, they would if they're following Hiller's model, which is what Carville is doing and Raskin are doing. They are following Hiller's model. And telling this big lie about these speeches, that's exactly the Hiller technique right there. So watch out for that. The other thing that Carville brought up is that you probably heard the story that Trump once had dinner with Nick Fuentes.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Now, is that true or is that fake? Well, it's partly true, but Trump didn't know he was having dinner with Nick Fuentes. So what happened was there was going to be a dinner in Mar-a-Lago with several people. One of those people was a troublemaker and invited Nick Fuentes and didn't really fully disclose who Nick Fuentes is, and Trump was not familiar with him, which I believe.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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I believe he was not familiar with him. And so he wouldn't do it again because once Trump found out reputationally what was going on there, of course he would never do it again. So that's fake news. That's a Hitler technique.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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It's a giant lie and they throw in all the other lies until you've seen so many lies in the same category that when Elon Musk puts his hand in the air, they can tell you that it's a Hitler salute and it all makes sense because of all the other Hitler things happening with the Republicans. It's pure Hitler technique.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So when you see Carville and Raskin telling these big lies, like the fine people hoax, the fine people hoax was a perfect example of the big lie. That's a Hitler technique. So they're using the Hitler technique while projecting onto Trump and Musk that they're Hitler. It's just classic technique. And they're completely aware of it, by the way. It's not some accidental thing.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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They're 100% aware of it. They know they're lying. And they know that the lie works. Because a certain number of people do believe them. Anyway, let's talk about Harvard's racism. According to Axios, the Harvard president has apologized. for some of the anti-Semitism that's happened on campus.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And part of it might have been stimulated by the fact that they just got a report in that had been authorized a while ago but just completed. So they had two internal reports. One was to find out how much anti-Semitism there was at Harvard. But the other one was to find out how much Islamophobia there was. So that's fair. Might as well look at both.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And it turns out that there is both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. And there's quite a bit of that. So Harvard finally is sort of admitting, and it might be just because, you know, it's on both sides. If they had only found anti-Semitism... Would he have apologized? Would they have treated it differently?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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Or is it because there's both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, was that the thing that allowed him to finally say, all right, all right, we got to do better than this? I don't know. But it seems to me that that's an unfixable situation because it's a little like Gaza.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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If you put the people who are anti-Semitic with the people who are Islamophobic and you put them in the same college, it's not going to go well. So the only way you're going to fix it is a physical separation. It's not like the college is going to fix either of those things. They might be able to fix some kind of public behavior, but you're not really going to fix it. people's internal opinions.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But it looks like it's going to be kind of popular, so you might want to start your own members club to stay away from the people you want to avoid. I've often thought that the secret to happiness is who you avoid. You know, you think of it in terms of making friends and, you know, being with people you love and stuff like that. And that's good. You should be with good people.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So Trump's now going after what he calls the fake polls. Stephen Miller even went after Fox News for their own polling. So, of course, this whole 100-day thing allows all the fake news to say, oh, the public doesn't like the first 100 days. Now, why are they focusing on the 100 days? Just because it's a big round number. It's a completely random number.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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There is no reason in the world that we should be looking at polls of what people think about the first 100 days. It doesn't make any sense at all. But it's something that's easy to write about and it doesn't cost the news people much to research it because it's just a poll.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So Rasmussen, which is a polling company, had recently done some posts on X about how all the major polls were apparently rigged for Kamala. And we know that they were rigged because, first of all, Rasmussen is the only one that had the accurate number because they weren't rigging it. And the only other people who had the accurate number that Kamala was never had was Kamala's internal polling.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And the internal polling apparently is more accurate than the public ones. So even one of Kamala Harris's main advisors had admitted that their own internal polling, the good stuff, had never matched the fact that all of these other TV network polls were saying that Kamala was ahead. They actually knew those polls were fake. They knew it the entire time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And so Stephen Miller is just going out in an interview with Fox News. He even blamed Fox News' polling as being, as being anawak according to him. So I guess we're going from fake news to fake polls. I saw some extra accusations about Tish James, Letitia James, the one who prosecuted Trump, and she had her own problems of allegedly falsifying some mortgage records and Something in that domain.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But according to crowdsource the truth and two researchers, Charles Ortel and Bob Bishop, there might be something more to it. So I didn't really understand the argument. So we'll have to wait and see. But there is something about a fake charity and a changing the name. There's a whole complicated thing that looks like maybe she was up to something deeper than just trying to get a good mortgage.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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But we'll wait for that. I don't think the details of this quite make sense to me, but we'll find out. So just know that there's some deeper accusations, but in my view, not really proven. So I guess it involves a fake nonprofit, some kind of sketchy bank in India, some kind of liens, and $100 million of taxpayer dollars.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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So what any of those things would have to do with her getting a mortgage on her house? I don't know, but that's the accusation, so we'll wait on that. You may have seen some clips of Jack Posadik getting roughed up at a Jamie Raskin event where Raskin was talking to some union guys, and Jack yelled out some things to Raskin at the end of Raskin's talk,

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2825 CWSA 04/30/25

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And the union guys didn't like it because it was not exactly pro-Raskin. And they actually roughed him up. They actually roughed him up. And I guess he's going to get law enforcement involved. I don't know how bad it was, but just based on the hard to determine video, they got physical right away. Now, Does that ever happen in the other direction?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

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But at least half of happiness is avoiding bad people. So these member clubs get you there. Well, there's a hair loss pill. I didn't even know this existed. But apparently there's this pill you can take to grow back your hair. But now the doctors, the top urologist is saying that it might have a really bad side effect, which is it will affect your penis if you're a man.

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If there had been a Trump event and somebody had yelled out something, because all he did was yell out something, do you think that the Trump supporters would have started roughing that person up? I don't think so. I mean, in 2015 or 16, there were some rallies where there were some accusations that people were going to rough people up, but for the most part, it's not a thing.

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But the Democrats just immediately went to violence. And I think this is all part of the Hitler stuff. If you believe that the Trump people are all just Hitler supporters, then violence is called for. It would make sense if that's what you believed. So if you look at the Carville and Raskin persuasion, they're using Hitler's technique. That's why a Jack Basabic gets roughed up.

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I hope it wasn't too bad. Meanwhile, John Bolton was on CNN. He was talking about P. Hegseth. And he actually said the following statement. He said, Hegseth should resign for his own safety's sake. His own safety's sake? Safety from whom? Safety in the might be killed? Safety in the might be beaten up?

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by what the pentagon does john bolton know something we don't or is he once again doing hitler like persuasion and making it look like it would be perfectly reasonable for p hegseth to be the subject of some kind of revenge or violence or something this is so across the line that I mean, there's a very big red line of things you shouldn't say on TV because it would stimulate violence.

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This is one of them. He should resign for his own safety's sake. That's basically giving a green light to violence, in my opinion, because he's not saying we should do everything we can to protect them. He's saying he should run away from the violence because... It's almost acting like it would be justified. This is terrible.

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Anyway, as I've told you many times, complexity is how corruption usually hides. Anything that's too complicated, like a financial thing that's too complicated, there's always somebody stealing money when you get to the bottom of it. Complexity always hides corruption. I'll give you some examples. Michael Schellenberger,

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was talking about, and I don't understand this story, that the CIA director, Gina Haspel, had conspired with something called the OCCRP, one of these USAID NGOs, I guess, Adam Schiff and USAID, to topple the United States government in 2019. Now, I don't really see how it all fits together because it's complicated.

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But the accusation is, and I guess Michael Schellenberger was talking to Jesse Waters about this, that I guess I'm not going to get into much more of it. But the idea is that USAID and the CIA had a complicated scheme to try to get Trump impeached. and may have tried to change the election on three different occasions. But it's complicated. And so even when it's explained to me, I go, uh, what?

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You know, I'm sure that Schellenberger explains it well in his substack, which I haven't looked at yet. But just know that there's an accusation that the CIA... and apparently it seems well-documented, tried to overthrow the country three times. Of course. And then data Republican has another great investigative reveal about USAID, what you'd call the money machine.

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But if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a shell, a tiny canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And let me just read it to you. You'll see how complicated it is, and you'll see how the corruption hides there. So Congress doesn't stop it, and it, in this case, is the... isn't money laundering and I would guess corruption because Congress is deeply complicit. Senators and representatives allocate taxpayer dollars to USAID, but that's only the start.

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The International Republican Institute, the IRI, and National Democratic Institute, the NDI, both recipients of USAID. So already I'm lost, right? There's too many acronyms. USAID funding, including actively serving members of Congress on their boards. These same organizations also serve on ACVFA, the advisory body that workshops where USAID money flows. The presidents of IRI, NDI, and the U.S.

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So it can make your testicles burn and give you suicidal thoughts and make your penis bend and get smaller. Now, this reminds me of a rule that I developed 30 years ago. Every time I saw anything that was supposed to help you grow hair, it would be bad for your penis. Every time. How in the world is your hair and your penis so connected? So if you see a bald guy, probably has a great penis.

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Global Leadership Coalition, known as the USGLC, all hold seats on the ACVFA. Gates Foundation and other members of USGLC also sit on ACVFA. USGLC, meanwhile, operates as a revolving door. Former senators and representatives from both parties serve in its leadership, and internal emails show the group actively pursuing newly elected members of Congress to bring them into its fold.

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This recruitment involves regular dinners, direct outreach, and strategic lobbying. Now, how much of that did you understand? Now, I'm pretty sure it's all accurate, but it's so complicated.

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All these NGOs and the State Department and USAID, and it involves Democrats and Republicans, and they've got advisory roles, and the advisory roles tell who gets funded, and the funding goes to someplace that's probably their spouse or maybe it's them. Oh, my God. Just pure corruption. All right. So I told you that meta AI thinks I'm a Holocaust denier.

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So I was noticing a few other things online that get to my reputation. Now, these are just coincidences, but they all happened yesterday. So I saw a post about how to be a better writer. And it featured Naval as the one recommending this 250-word piece. And there was a thread that went through the details that were in that piece. Now, do you know where I'm going with this? That's my piece.

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Now, I am mentioned toward the end of the thread. It does mention that I'm the author. But why is Naval... featured with his picture as the person who recommended it. And by the way, whenever Naval recommends that piece, he always mentions my name as the author. So he never doesn't mention it. And he's mentioned it a number of times. But shouldn't I be the one that's featured? Because I wrote it.

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It's one of the most successful things I've ever done in my entire career. And it starts with Naval. Now, I love Naval, so this is nothing about Naval. It's about the person who did the thread. And I'm thinking to myself, am I being like subtly erased from the story of the thing that I personally wrote? So, you know, I kind of shook my head and went on.

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And then I saw somebody else's thread about a book that is just totally amazing. It's called Atomic Habits. by James Clear. And it's a long thread that shows all the key tips in that book, which has sold five million copies. It's one of the most successful business books of all time.

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But nowhere does it mention that James Clear has credited me with some of the key aspects of his book from my book, Had I Failed Almost Everything and Still Went Big. And I'm not positive this is true. But I don't know that there's anything in his book that isn't also in my book, which he read, and he credits me. Now, he doesn't credit me for every single thing that has some similarity.

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And his book is written for a different audience. It's more for a business audience, so it has more of a business-y kind of vibe, which worked very well. He must have done a great job because it's super successful. My book was written for a 14-year-old and up. So I was more narrative, storytelling, persuasion to get you to try things. He's more data-oriented.

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But the tips are pretty much right out of my book. Now, I don't want to over-claim that. But I'd love to see what it is that's in his book that wasn't in my book. I don't know what that would be because when I look at the thread, I go, oh, yeah, yeah, I said that. So that's weird. The most successful and important thing I've ever done for civilization is that book.

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And so I'm getting erased from that story. And then I saw that today the Wall Street Journal had a story about A lot of people are waking up at 4 a.m. now. So apparently it's becoming a thing to get up really early.

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And I asked myself before I read the article, I thought, huh, I wonder if I'll be mentioned in the article because I'm one of the public figures who's kind of well-known for getting up at, you know, today was 3 a.m., but, you know, usually 4, 4.30 or so. And I start reading the article and it says, that one of the influences about getting up at 4 a.m. was James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits.

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So I'm sure he did. But I'm pretty sure I might have mentioned it in one of my books, if you know what I mean. So I seem to be getting sort of erased from history. You know, maybe not intentionally, but in the weirdest way. Anyway And skip that so apparently Andrew ill one of the American high-tech military Companies, that's someone new.

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But if you see a guy who's like 50 and has a full head of hair, I don't know, 1 in 10 chance he's got something going on down there. So that's the iron rule of science, that whatever is good for your hair is bad for your penis. So remember that. Apparently, the Trump administration has published a hoax list. So, don't you love that?

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It's a lucky farmers company has an anti drone swarm technology that really looks impressive and It's portable, and it looks like you can just put it on the back of a truck, and it's not very big. And it showed a video. I think the video was CGI, but it showed it basically taking out a sky full of drones at the same time.

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Now, if that's real, then the arms race of drones versus anti-drone stuff is getting really interesting. So I'm sure it's real. I don't think that Anduril would put it down if they couldn't do it. Speaking of fake news, according to Zero Hedge, Ukraine is ready to sign a mineral deal as early as today. Does anybody think that's going to happen?

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How many of you think that Ukraine is going to sign that big mineral deal with the U.S. today? Anybody? I don't know. I'm going to bet against it, but that's what Zero Hedge is saying. And then apparently Trump's threats to Mexico worked. There was some issue about Mexico withholding some water that we had some kind of a long-term deal and the water was being withheld from American farmers.

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But with Trump's terror threats, Mexico, kind of corrected that, and now that water has returned. So the farmers are getting their water. Makes you wonder if Biden could have gotten that done. I think Biden would have waited for them to correct whatever they were going to correct. There was something they were trying to do while they were withholding the water. But Trump got it done.

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At a recent White House presser, Fox News is reporting that former Mumford & Son musician who has become political, he was one of the, what would you call it, one of the press, independent press people in the room, and he asked Carolyn Leavitt this question. He said, he asked if the White House, And Donald Trump would give political asylum to UK citizens who were being punished for their speech.

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Isn't that a good question? That's a great question. And apparently Leavitt said she hadn't had any conversations about that. But she said she'd talk to the national security team and see if it's something the administration would entertain.

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So maybe, and I would be completely in favor of that, by the way, if there are people who are being, you know, risking jail because of something they said on social media, yeah, we should offer them some kind of asylum in the U.S.,

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According to Newsmax, the Department of Education is investigating a complaint in Chicago that they have some kind of racist program that was only going to be available if you were black. But since nobody seems to be getting a good education in Chicago, there's some complaints that it was just racist. And then in related news, according to The Federalist,

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reading scores have plummeted in the blue states, like the one I'm in, but they're rising in the red ones. Now, when I first read that, I said to myself, I'll bet that's not real. Maybe it has something to do with the blue states have more immigrants coming in, so they're not even speaking English, so maybe it lowers all their scores or something.

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But apparently Mississippi and Louisiana in particular had implemented some effective changes to their schooling. And they were focusing more on phonics. And basically, they're just doing the things that have always worked in the past, but we stopped doing. And it worked. So the reading performance of the people in Mississippi and Louisiana is looking great.

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So it turns out these are completely fixable problems. And so good job, Mississippi and Louisiana. I'm very impressed. They put money into it. They trained teachers on literacy and provided dedicated reading coaches in school. Basically, they did all the things that make sense that you're sure would work just based on common sense. And they worked just like you think they would.

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So, you're probably, most of you are aware that I used to publish a hoax list. You know, the top 12, and then it was the top 14, and then it was the top 20. And it got a lot of attention. And now the White House is publishing their own hoax list. So it shows all the fake news and Trump deranged syndrome. Now, it's not the same as the list that I would post so that there's no overlap.

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And lastly, in science, there are tiny 3D printed materials, according to ZME science. They're as strong as steel, but light as styrofoam. I guess they use carbon and they print it so it has this little lattice structure, but they used machine learning to figure out the exact nature of the lattice so that it would be as light as styrofoam, but as strong as steel. So that could change a lot.

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Imagine how much would change if you had a material that was strong as steel but as light as styrofoam. Who knows how much they could make of it. But they can 3D print it, so it looks like it's somewhat practical. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I have for today. Hope you enjoyed it. And I'll see all you YouTubers and Rumble people and X people tomorrow, same time, same place.

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And for locals, I'm going to talk to you privately in 30 seconds. So the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow, I hope.

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So theirs is more like the more recent stuff. And of course, they have plenty of material to work with. The hoax list. Good idea. Well, if you didn't see it, Trump did an interview with ABC News with... with a reporter named Moran, last name Moran. Here are some of the highlights from the interview. So the ABC News guy says to Trump, do you have a 100% confidence in P. Agseth?

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And Trump says, that's a stupid question. I don't have 100% confidence that we're going to finish this interview. I will never get enough of that. Every time Trump insults a reporter who had it coming, it just gets funnier. Do you have 100% confidence? That's a stupid question. I don't have 100% confidence that we're going to finish this interview. Oh, then the same interviewer.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and Guess what? Happens right now. Go. Now I feel complete. All right. Thank you, Paul. Good to know everything's working.

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said to Trump that there had been no fraud referrals from Doge. So he couldn't understand why nothing had been referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution if they found all these fraud instances. And Trump says, well, you don't know that, do you? And he forced the reporter to admit that he wouldn't know if any referrals had been made or not. So the question was more like an accusation.

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But Trump very cleverly made him sort of admit, okay, I have no idea whether you've referred anything or not because it would be too early to know. But Trump says yes, that there have been fraud referrals. Do you believe that? We'll find out. Then there's a, I hate to say this, but there's a little fake news that I think Trump himself fell for.

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So the topic of that so-called Maryland dad, the potential or alleged MS-13 gang member came up. And the topic of his tattoos on his hand, his knuckles came up. Now, you might remember that Trump held up a photo that showed that each of his knuckles had a tattoo and that the images on the knuckles, if you took the first letter of each of the images, it would say MS-13.

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And so the thinking was that it was just a sort of a clever, subtle way to say he was MS-13 without actually using the letters MS-13. But... to make it easier to know that that was the point. The photo had just the actual letters M, S, and 13 to help you know what each of the images was standing for.

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But apparently, and I'll take a fact check on this, but it sure sounded like Trump believed that the actual text letters were part of the tattoo. Because the way it was put on the page, it looked like, that was actually my first thought too. The first time I saw it, I was like, really? Why does he have the letters on his knuckles? But the letters are not on his knuckles. It's only the images.

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And the reporter knew that. So he fact-checked Trump in real time. But Trump wasn't having it. And he was insisting that it actually said MS-13. And the reporter said, well, you know, the tattoos suggested that it could be, but it didn't actually say. And Trump was, oh, yes, it said it was right there. Didn't you see the picture? And I thought, oh, well, that's not good.

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But I have to admit, the very first time I saw the same picture, I thought that was part of the tattoo. And I couldn't believe it when I saw it. But then After thinking about it a little bit, I thought, oh no, they're labeling the tattoo. That's not the actual tattoo.

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Speaking of fake news, you've heard that when scientific studies get rechecked to see if they're reproducible, that at least in the United States, half of them turn out to be not reproducible, which means that the science was bad. And Brazil did the same thing with their...

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biomedical studies guess how many brazilian biomedical studies are reproducible meaning valid 50 so they got the same result as in america so half of the things that we consider science because there's some study that says something worked half are not true and nobody knows which half.

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So if it's either true or false, and half of them are not reproducible, science and flipping a coin are very, very similar in accuracy. Because you really can't tell if it's a 50-50 proposition. Well, apparently, Paramount, the board is ready to settle with Trump on his 60 Minutes lawsuit. Newsmax Money is reporting on this.

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Well, UPS is talking to the robot company called Figure, and they're talking about maybe bringing in these 506 robots to work on sorting boxes, according to Bloomberg. Do you think that's real or fake news? I don't think there's any robot company that's making a robot that doesn't act like it's stoned. Like all the robots are like, pick up a box. look at the box, walk slowly. I don't know.

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You remember that Kamala Harris was interviewed by 60 Minutes, and allegedly they edited in a different answer than the one she gave for the question, which made her look smarter, and Trump was suing because it basically looked like they were helping her win the election. Now, you could argue, as Jake Tapper does, that the edit was sort of a normal edit and didn't really change anything.

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I would confirm that it's also normal for big entities like that to change a quote or to put in a quote that wasn't exactly what you said, but maybe you said it at a different time. It's not that unusual. But because Paramount wants to do some kind of big merger, which would require the Trump administration to approve it, Trump sort of has them by the gonads.

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So it looks like they're going to pay up some big money. We'll see what they come up with. Also during that ABC interview, Trump may have gotten himself into a bit of a legal problem because when he was talking about the Maryland ad, according to Jonathan Turley, Trump said that he could get Garcia back, but does not want to do so.

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And he said that he's got lawyers, you know, basically the ones that tell him he can't do it or shouldn't do it. But as Turley points out, if he admits that he can do it, it's going to look like he's ignoring the court order to facilitate it, which he sort of is. So that story could change pretty quickly. based on what he said in that ABC interview. Here's some more fake news.

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Do you remember the story that said that Amazon was going to show the tariffs as part of your checkout basket so you can see how much more expensive things were with the tariffs? That was never true. Apparently there's some sub-entity within Amazon where they were plagued with that idea. But it was never Amazon. It was just some sub-entity that you and I have never seen.

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And then Trump's version is that he called Jeff Bezos and asked him to get rid of those tariff things. And then Jeff Bezos was a great guy, according to Trump, but did exactly what he was asked. But I think all they did was change that little sub-unit that had some special purpose that you and I had never seen anyway.

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But just so you have a little better understanding of the whole tariff situation, I saw a post by Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who is a working economist. He obviously doesn't go by his real name. And he was explaining that even if Amazon had shown the tariff cost on top of the base price, you still wouldn't know how much extra you're paying because the vendor might be eating some of it.

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So for example, if somebody was producing something for 10 cents and selling it for $2, and they had a big tariff, they might say, our margins are so good, we won't pass it all onto the consumer. We'll just lower our base price. And then when you add the tariff on, it'll be pretty close to the price you were paying before. So you never know how much the vendor is eating.

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Is Joy Reid only employed because she says Trump is Hitler? And is that what the intelligence people want MSNBC to say? Because if they didn't want them to say it, she would already be out. So the disturbing thing is that the whole Hitler, Hitler, Hitler thing appears to be either approved by or actually initiated by our own government. That's what it looks like.

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Now, there's no way to know that from my perspective, but if it's true that MSNBC is just a CIA fake news outlet, which it appears to be, I mean, all the indications, it really doesn't seem like they're being serious about any kind of news. It doesn't look like they're even trying. So, I guess I have a question. Is that what our own government is selling us?

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Is there a part of our government that's selling us that the government is a Nazi government? That doesn't seem like a good idea. Anyway, Trump finally revealed, not personally, but there was an announcement that the drones over New Jersey were authorized by the FAA for research and others were just normal commercial traffic.

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just normal drone traffic, all licensed and approved, and some of it for research. So how many of you guessed it was aliens or an Iranian or Chinese attack? If you guessed Chinese or Iranian attack or some kind of surveillance or aliens from another planet, you're not winning this round. My prediction was it was going to be normal, approved,

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Well, let me check. Oh, it's a shrub. Yeah, a shrub would be no problem. I've tried to cure my colorectal cancer. I don't have that, but if I did, I would sit on the cactus if I thought it would help. Anyway, it's only a shrub. It shouldn't be so hard. In insider trading, Nancy Pelosi's husband made some more excellent calls.

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But I also suggested that there might be some things up there that we've not seen before, possibly because they're doing a bake-off to maybe show their products to somebody like the government before the government makes a decision on what vendors to buy stuff from, specifically drones. So I don't know if that's true, but they're calling it research. It seems to me that you wouldn't...

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fly a drone over heavily populated areas for research, would you? What kind of research? Is it research to see if the drone works? Research to find out how much data it can collect from our own people? What exactly were they researching? So that's a big question. So I think we can agree that every time the government tells us something about secret stuff, you never really know if that's true.

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Let me say it directly. Trump, as commander in chief, does not have an obligation to tell us the truth if the truth is bad for the country. So if it turns out that he looked into it and found, oh, damn, I can't tell them the whole truth, but I can tell them enough of the truth to make them stop worrying. OK, it's not an alien and we're not being attacked. That's all I really wanted to know.

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I didn't really have questions beyond that. Because if there's something going on beyond that, that the military knows about but we're not supposed to know about, I'm perfectly okay with my president, no matter what party they are, just not revealing that, being a little subtle about that. That's okay. That's part of the job.

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So I don't need to know everything, but I do appreciate knowing that they... If it's true, I don't see any possibility that it was an enemy action and Trump wouldn't tell us. That doesn't seem real. So I'm pretty sure we don't have to worry about it. That's all I'm worried about. That's my only take on that. Well, let's see. What things has Trump accomplished in his one week?

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93%.

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Now, if you're a Democrat, do you not even notice the difference? I mean, that's pretty dramatic. Now, it could be that there'll be another uptick, because it could be that the people planning to come or sort of waiting to see what happens, and then maybe they'll adjust and Try some other way to get in. But at the moment, it's pretty impressive.

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I saw a post from Insurrection Barbie on X pointing out that Bill Clinton deported 12 million illegals and the media didn't say anything. Barack Obama deported 3 million illegals. Media didn't say anything. Fine with that. But when Trump deported one million in his first term, the media brands him a racist and a Nazi. You see how all this works? He does one twelfth of what Bill Clinton does.

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One twelfth. And he's branded a Nazi. And Bill Clinton is branded one of the greatest presidents ever by the Democrats. All right. So that's what we got. Trump signed an executive order. trying to ban trans surgery and trans chemical transitions, I guess. Now, it's not a direct ban. It's a, we'll take your federal funding if you're an institution that's involved in this. Do you think it'll stick?

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Of course, we're assuming that he knows a little bit too much because Congress has insider information sometimes. But I was looking at a couple of the examples And the two examples of his insider trading are that he somewhat recently sold his Apple stock and a good chunk of his Nvidia, but not all of it. Those are the same trades I made. I don't have any insider.

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I think there'll be lawsuits. But it would be pretty risky for any institution to lose their federal funding because I'm pretty sure that's not a bluff. The one thing I'm sure of is it's not a bluff. Chemical castration would be part of what's being banned. So that is pretty bold. That is very bold. Now, is it my imagination or has the trans mania just completely disappeared?

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So how many years have we been talking about trans issues? It seems like nonstop every day. And during that entire time, I met zero trans people. None. I didn't run into any. Did you? It was always so much of a bigger story than it was anything that affects the larger public. Of course, if you're in that situation, it affects you a lot. But for most of us,

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We just didn't even have any contact with that entire segment of the world. Or maybe we didn't know, didn't notice. But I want the best. I want the best for all the trans people as well as everybody else. But I like having less news on this topic. I just want to talk about something that isn't trans and isn't a comparison to Hitler. That's all I want. So we'll see how that plays out.

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I think Trump's on the right side of history on that. So Trump has warned that Panama is rapidly, allegedly, taking down its signs that were written in China. In Chinese, I mean. They were written in Chinese in Panama. So the idea here is that Trump is saying China has too much control on the Panama Canal.

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And one way that that's obvious is if you go there, there are more signs in Chinese than there are in other languages. So he's saying that they're rapidly taking down the Chinese signs, so it's not so obvious who's controlling them. I thought there was some question about whether China has control of the Panama Canal. I think Republicans say it's a fact that

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And I think Democrats say, China doesn't control the Panama Canal. Am I right that there are two movies on one screen there? The Democrats have a completely different idea of what's going on? I think so. So one of the things I find useful is watching The Five on Fox News, especially when Jessica Tarloff is on the panel. she's the most reliable Democrat to have the alternative story.

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You know, sometimes there are different people in that chair, but she's really useful because, you know, the fake news isn't on one side. You know, there's a little fake news on both sides, right? So I'm sometimes, I've got a little blind spot sometimes. to what the Democrats' version of the story is. So she's really good at giving you the quick version of the Democrat side of things.

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Of course, then all heck breaks out because it's a fun show with lots of energy. But I think probably maybe 10 times in the last year or two, I've heard something from her that I hadn't seen on my regular looks through the news. So very useful. You don't have to agree with the other side, but you'd be crazy not to know what the argument is. So at least listen to the argument. All right.

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The Trump administration pushed out, apparently is getting rid of 60 career officials. at an entity called USAID, which is not an aid organization. I don't want to get too deeply into that, but let me just say this. If it doesn't mean anything to you when I say that, that 60 officials were removed from USAID, then there's a gigantic part of America that you're missing.

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And I would refer you to Mike Benz to understand why neutering that organization might be really important. Because it's just one of these entities that you didn't know was doing a lot of stuff that you weren't aware of and you were paying for if you're an American taxpayer.

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You don't need any insider knowledge to trade those two things. Apple is at a point where AI is likely to disrupt their whole business model, and it doesn't appear that they're extra good at AI. So I sold mine because I thought, you know, Apple went from sort of a monopoly kind of a company to anything could happen at this point. And as you know, NVIDIA, even before the new news,

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So the Trump administration seems to be targeting all the things that really needed to be targeted, and they're doing it quickly. It's very impressive. I have to say I'm totally impressed. Trump administration is also offering these buybacks, or not buybacks, buyouts for employees. So I guess you'll get eight months' pay if you decide to go by next week.

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So there's a website where you can volunteer to go and you get eight months of pay if you go now. If you don't go now, you still might be laid off later, but without the eight months of pay. So I'm guessing you get something, but much less. So this is a really clever way to get things going. Now, what's going to happen

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and you're seeing it already, is that people who are not good at doing anything are going to have all kinds of ideas about how it's being done wrong. Here's specifically what people who don't know how things work are going to say. They're going to say, hey, you froze or you cut too much too soon without looking at all the details. That's not a mistake. It will be true

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that if the administration does exactly what it should do, in other words, if it acts in the smartest, most capable way, it will cut way too much, way too fast, without checking. That's the only way you can get there. Because the only way you're going to find out what's true is to cut stuff and find out who screams.

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The amount of pain that you cause is almost the only good indicator of what's working and what's true. Every government entity that Trump and company want to cut, everyone will be lying to them. They're all liars. There is no way you can study and take extra time to find out who you should fund and who you should get rid of. Can't be done because everybody's a liar. So here's what you do instead.

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All right, I don't see any reason for this place. We should talk to them and see if they have a good argument. No, you just stop the funding and you just see what happens. Now, if you don't have experience, you would say, that is a little crazy, Scott. You don't just fire first and then make a plan after you've started. You make a plan first and then you execute the plan. Nope, not in this case.

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In this case, you just have to run in and start punching stuff because you've got to just destroy the current assumptions, destroy the current comfort. You've just got to shake that box until everybody's dizzy. then you might start seeing something useful, and you're going to have to take a bunch of guesses, and it's going to be messy, messy, messy. But here's what you can't do.

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The certain way to fail is low energy. The certain way to fail, and by the way, failing to cut the budget is the end of humanity. I mean, it would be the end of the United States, and God knows what would follow. because the world has a lot of dependence on the United States. We'd survive, but we might be living in tribes or something.

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So the level of risk involved in continuing to spend the way we are is really it's 100% doom. So doing what we're doing in the normal way is 100% doom. There really is no escape. If you go wild...

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with let's say putting full energy into cutting costs and you cut too deeply what is the risk of that well there's definitely risk there is risk is risk to individual um individual components of the country and that's real and we should we should be smart about those risks and we should try to adjust and we should try to make it easy on people when it makes sense but You got to do it.

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That's the important thing. If you don't put full energy into cutting and disrupting and shaking the box and getting rid of people before you fully investigate it, you can't get there. You just can't get there from here. Any kind of a low energy traditional attack would be, well, I've created a committee. And the committee will be spending 18 months researching what should be cut.

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It had such a run that it would be time to take some money off the table. So you have to be careful with these insider trading stories. If the insiders are making exactly the same trades as the outsiders, like me, literally, it's the only two stocks I sold, I think. No, there was one other that was a special case.

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And the way they'll research it is they'll ask the opinions of the people they plan to cut. Hey, you're in charge of this department. How much should we cut? What? You don't want to be cut? You have to increase 20% next year because otherwise the world will come to an end? Oh. Well, we'll put that together in a report, and then we'll go back to the government in 18 months.

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Oh, but we're a little late, so we had to delay. It really took two years. Oh, wait a minute. We're halfway through Trump's entire term. No point in doing it now because they'll just fight it, and it'll never get done before the end of the term. No, you cannot do a low-energy major cut. You have to go high-energy, high-mistake. High-energy? High mistake. It's the only path.

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Come on, comments. There we go. Everything's working just perfectly today. That's the way I like it. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time, but...

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And the only people who are smart enough to know that are Elon Musk, Trump, and Vivek would know it. Sachs would know it. Ackman would know it. I'm sure Andreessen knows it. I'll bet you you can't find anybody with a high IQ to disagree. Let me lay down the gauntlet here. I say nobody...

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Nobody who's got a high IQ, and the Trump administration is just freaking geniuses at this point, not one of them would disagree with going high energy, high potential mistake, versus our ordinary study it to death and do nothing approach. And it's going to be hard to educate the people who don't have experience that it's the only way. We ran out of options. We only have one way to survive.

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This is it. This is it. And by the way, this is not an exaggeration. This is for survival. And I don't think I've ever said that before. Usually everything else is, well, we're trying to optimize, we're trying to avoid some trouble. No, the debt, this is survival. And we have to put 100% into it. All right, this is interesting.

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Apparently, Trump is suing the Pulitzer Prize Committee for having given Pulitzer Prizes to the New York Times and Washington Post over their Russia collusion fake news. Now, I don't think this can succeed. I've never seen anything like it. So it's one thing to sue the people with the fake news, And I don't know that that's happening.

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I don't think he's suing the New York Times and the Washington Post over Russia collusion stories. But if he's suing the Pulitzer Committee because they gave awards and didn't take them back, I think they'd be happy if they were just rescinded.

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So something tells me that the real play is just to get them to admit that they gave awards to fake news and then have them just correct it and say, okay, well, We disavow or we rescind the award. I don't know if you could rescind the award, but you could say we disavow it now or it was a mistake.

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But if I'm making the same trades at about the same time, I do believe that insider trading is a real thing and it should be addressed. But not everything they sell. Sometimes it's just obvious stuff. Well, men are becoming more obsolete than ever, according to brighter side of the news. Scientists have figured out how to use stem cells in mice to make their own mouse sperm.

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So it could be that the lawsuit is really just to get them to do something that they should have done anyway, which is admit when they made a gigantic mistake. Well, RFK Jr. should be sitting there right now in his confirmation hearings. So that's happening right now. We're expecting it to be brutal. And we don't know if he's going to get through. I will tell you that if somehow RFK Jr.

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doesn't get through, The level of disappointment I would feel for the Republicans would be off the chart, just off the chart. I could never forgive this. Let me say that directly. Anybody who votes against RFK Jr., given that he might be the only one who can save us from our food supply and bad pharma, I'm taking this really personally. This is not politics to me. This is my life.

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I mean, this is, you know, kids. This is personal. This is not politics whatsoever. So I'm going to echo what Nicole Shanahan said. She said that Bobby Kennedy might be nice, but she's not. And she's got a list of people that have not said they'll vote for him. Mostly Republicans, but not entirely. Fetterman's on the list.

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And she said she's going to personally fund primary challengers to anybody who votes against Kennedy. I'm going to personally do what I can to destroy the lives of anybody who votes against them. I'm not sure I have much power, but to the extent that maligning them every single day on social media is useful, I'm just going to go animal because this has to happen.

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Now, you can say, well, what if things go wrong? Well, let's worry about that if it happens. I mean, it's not like he has the ability to change something so quickly that people are going to be dropping dead, right? Everything will be carefully considered. He does like science, even if the Democrats are too dumb to realize it. And I don't feel any flexibility on this. No flexibility.

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This one just has to get done. There's no option on this one. Sorry. All the other ones... All the other ones, I didn't really care about Pete Hegseth, honestly. I didn't really care almost any of them. I didn't really care. I thought there were people who could do those jobs, the people that Trump picked are good picks, but I didn't care. This is the one I care about.

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This is the one that will activate me. This is the one that's going to make hell come at those people who vote against it. And I'd like you to join me. I think all Republicans have to just go, we have to just go barbarian on this. This one just has to get done. I mean, it's the issue of the age beyond, I mean, obviously the debt's the imminent one, but This is way too big.

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This is way too big to let politics get in the way. And I don't trust anybody who would vote against them because it either means they're stupid or bought. And boy, if they act stupid or bought, they're going to have a tough, tough time ahead of them because we're not going to forget this one. Not at all. So thank you, Nicole Shanahan.

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But by the way, this is exactly what I was talking about with the Trump way of doing things. Have you noticed that just individual citizens are saying stuff like, all right, well, here's this gap. There's this thing that needs to be handled. And you look around and you say, nobody's doing anything. Like nobody's making the threat real. And then Nicole says, I can do it. And then she doesn't.

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And now it's news. And now I can boost it. So that's what I could do. Like I wanted to do something too, but just complaining didn't seem enough. But if I'm boosting Nicole's message, that's real money. Now it's serious. So I'm just jumping in because... It's necessary. If anybody else wants to jump in and boost Nicole's threat, I would welcome that.

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And so that the female mouse doesn't need like a real mate or real sperm. They can just make it out of some kind of stem cells. So let me look ahead. Let's see. We're about a year away from robots doing everything that men can do that requires strength. So we don't have the strength thing going for us. But at least we're the only ones who can make sperm.

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Joel Pollack gives us an update on the Pacific Palisades cleanup. I think it was originally predicted it would take six to 18 months to get rid of the toxins and allow people to rebuild. But the latest is that it might get down to three months. And according to Joel's reporting, there's a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rep

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who says, quote, that's far faster than I've ever seen on any other major fire. And there's speculation that Trump is pushing hard on this. And I hope that's what it is. I don't know what Trump is doing behind the scenes, but certainly what he did in public should have been kind of a wake-up call. Now, as I've told you, Mayor Bass has said that they hired a consultant

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to help them figure out what to do. That just sounds like corruption to me. That just sounds like corruption. I'd like to see a picture of the consultant. I'd like to know the relationship that that consultant has had in the past with the mayor. Are they friends? Have they worked together before? Is it a Democrat?

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Because I don't trust anything about the consultant, even without knowing anything about who they are. It's just corruption as normal. If you're looking to give the government's money to somebody, there's got to be some better way to control that money. And then apparently there's some group putting together some, let's say, low-cost housing for the areas that used to be high-end neighborhoods.

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So just like you imagined, the idyllic little neighborhood and maybe, let's say, upgrade it to something that the residents don't love because it would increase their density, among other things. Here's a little scary thing. So DeepSeek, that open source AI, according to Matthew Berman, he was playing with it and he got it to upgrade its own code. Now, being open source,

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That means that you could take the code of DeepSeq and upgrade it if you had a good idea. And so I guess Matt Berman asked it to improve itself. And it rose some code for itself and doubled its own speed. Do you know what that means?

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Now, first of all, I would like to see that confirmed because the story is a little too on the nose and a little too perfect and a little too provocative to necessarily believe that this is a reproducible thing and not just a fluke and that it's really twice as fast and there's no downside to it, etc., So I would want more confirmation.

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But if it's true, it would be the first hint of what's called the singularity, meaning when the AI can improve itself. So in a small way, and I don't think it could have done it without the human approving each of the actions, so it's not like it completely improved itself without any interaction.

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But we're at the point where all you'd have to do is turn it into some kind of an agent and say, hey, here's the deal. I want you to find out and just keep working on it. Just keep improving yourself. And then the AI would try different code and experiment with things until it made itself better. And then we're in trouble. Now, it's just the first indication of what's coming.

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It's not the singularity. The singularity is where humans just are going to lose control entirely because the machines will just be so far above us and improving so fast, we'll just never be able to keep up. They'll just take control. That's the risk. But, wow, might be closer than we think. Well, here's some good news. The White House is now tracking the hoaxes.

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So the White House just did a press release, and the title of it is Debunking Latest Fake News Hoaxes. Now, remember I've been telling you that the Trump administration takes suggestions from the public better than, not better than, I think I've never seen it before. They just continually are looking for good ideas, and when they find one, they just implement it.

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Okay, we're not the only ones who can make sperm now. I guess the scientists can whip it up in the lab. Whip it up in the lab, if you know what I mean. No, really, it's from stem cells. How do we know it's from stem cells, though? I don't trust those scientists at all, if you know what I mean. Anyway, men are obsolete. We'll be in about a year.

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Exactly like you would hope things work. And every time I see it, I think to myself, damn, that's like so impressive that they can implement ideas that are not their own pet ideas. Now, this one almost certainly comes from the fact that on the Internet, we were very successful with hoax lists. to try to deprogram the other side.

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And indeed, the fine people hoax getting debunked probably was a key to Trump winning a second term because it allowed a lot of the smartest people, the Elon Musks, the Joe Rogans, to say, wait a minute, you fooled me. You're not going to fool me again. So debunking the hoaxes was always the secret weakness that the left had that we had not fully exploited.

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And now watching it work on the Internet with the various hoax lists, the White House created not only separately, they also created a rapid response account on social media. So they'll correct hoaxes in real time. I think they had that before the first term. But to actually announce the fake news hoaxes by press releases. Oh, my God, that's good. They're actually making the fake news the news.

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Because if the White House does a press release, that's a big deal. Now, in my opinion, this is the biggest mistake that Trump made in the first term, not doing this. Not once did I see the White House debunk the fine people hoax, even if they did, I never heard about it, the drinking bleach hoax and all the other hoaxes. But on social media, people were passing them around like crazy.

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So let's do a hoax update. So according to the White House, here are the four hoaxes that happened in the first week. One week, four hoaxes. Let's see which ones you caught. There's Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute, which obviously was a hoax. There's Trump paused Medicaid and SNAP benefits. No, those were specifically excluded. from his executive order.

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All the things that were direct payments to people were explicitly excluded, but the news reported that they were included to get everybody all worked up. That was fake. Then there's Governor J.B. Pritzker said that, and also Chicago school officials, said that ICE raided a school. That never happened.

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There was a Secret Service thing that had nothing to do with anything about immigration, I guess. So that was fake. That's three. And the fourth one was, a physician's advocacy group opposes RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services Act. No, that wasn't a physician's advocacy group. It was a partisan bunch of Democrats. It wasn't any kind of advocacy group. All right. So...

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You've got four hoaxes in one week. So let's say that the rate of hoaxes stays consistent. So four per week, 52 weeks, take a few weeks off for vacation, 200 per year. 200 per year times four, the four years of the term, 800. So the Democrats are on track. I'm not making this up. This is just math. They're on track for 800 hoaxes. by the end of Trump's term.

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So here's another one of my unbelievably good predictions. So good, I wonder why you listen to anybody else. Remember when I told you that I sold my, NVIDIA stock a while ago because I thought there'd be some major disruption, some technology that showed you didn't have to do these big data centers and whatnot.

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Now we'll see if the rate increases or decreases, but the current rate, four per week, 800 over four years. Which to me is pretty funny. Anyway. And the funniest thing about this newest hoax, about the spending cuts for things they're really not doing a spending cut to, I often talk about my, quote, smartest Democrat friend who is suffering with massive terminal TDS.

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And after Trump won, and he won by a solid majority, and even the Democrat left had said, huh, okay. he got real quiet.

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And I thought, surely after seeing that Biden really had a dead brain and that the Democrats were covering it and that they picked Kamala Harris against all Democratic norms and that she was so bad she couldn't complete a sentence, I thought to myself, well, surely now, surely now,

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My Democrat friend will admit, not only are Trump's policies the most popular ones for most things, but that he's getting it done. And even the news is complimenting him. Even Democrats were complimenting him sometimes. So I thought, he's finally seen the light. But he emerged yesterday by email, just as plucky as he was. And why do you think he emerged?

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because he believed the fake news that there were all these benefits being cut, and he wanted me to know that once Trump's reputation goes in the toilet and his approval drops like a rock, which it will, because of all these terrible cuts he just made, which didn't happen, it's fake news, and that Trump would be completely disgraced, and he hoped that Pete Buttigieg, he figures, is the best candidate

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If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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will come to the rescue. So that's what the other world looks like. Out. All right. General Mark Milley had a bad week because now that Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, he's already announced that he's pulling the security clearance for Milley. And what else is he doing?

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and he's going to conduct a review board to determine if there's enough evidence to have General Milley stripped of a star while in retirement, because he's in retirement, for his efforts to, quote, undermine the chain of command during the first term of President Donald Trump. There is going to be enough evidence to make that at least a toss-up. I'm not

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I'm not super in favor of going after retired people. But if the allegations against Milley are true, it's not normal behavior. So it might require a little stronger response than you'd expect. And, of course, we're going to take down his pictures, his paintings. Oh, my goodness. I'll tell you what.

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I thought that I would be more uncomfortable with what looks to be, I don't want to say revenge, but let's say responses to what seemed clearly very bad behavior by a number of people. But when you hear what the people are alleged to have been involved in, it does seem appropriate. And we'll see. No, don't hang him. Let's not be hyperbolic. I think he should answer for some of his decisions.

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And sure enough, so DeepSeek comes out, the Chinese open source AI that costs 5% to make and it's almost as good. But I also predicted... and here was my more clever prediction, that you shouldn't be that afraid of it, at least in terms of disrupting America's AI.

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That seems fair. And if it results in taking a star away from him or something, that's up to the military. I would stay out of that completely. But yeah, he's got some questions to answer there. So remember I told you about CNN's dumbest panelist? Her name is Catherine Rampell. So she's going full Nazi. She's like an MSNBC quality panelist, but she's on CNN embarrassing them.

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So somebody posted what she said, which is basically defaming Musk by saying he gave a Nazi salute, which he obviously did not. And somebody said that, hey, Elon, you should sue her and CNN. And Elon responded, good idea. Will he? Is he going to sue CNN and the woman who said it's a Nazi salute?

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Because I'm pretty sure if a jury saw the full video where he touches his heart and says, you know, my heart goes out to you when he's doing it, I'm pretty sure that the jury would say, uh-oh. That doesn't look like a Nazi salute to me. So I think he might win unless the jury was confused that somebody might have actually believed it was really a Nazi salute.

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Do you think people could really believe that? It doesn't feel like she really believes it, does it? Is she that dumb? She does seem dumb. You know, literally, just seems dumb. So maybe she believed it, but it seems unlikely. Let's see, what else is Elon doing just in the last 24 hours? Let's see, he's doing Doge, and he's already found a bunch of money to take out of there. Lots more to come.

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Trump asked him to rescue the stranded astronauts at the International Space Station, and he took the assignment. So he's going to rescue them. So he's saving the country from debt. He's rescuing two astronauts stranded in space. And he's also been asked to work with Boeing to get Air Force One completed on time.

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I guess they've been working on it for years and it's over budget and Trump would like to have access to it during his term. So who else are you going to ask? Well, Elon's not doing enough. How about he fixes that? Is there anything he can't do? Do we have any problems that Elon isn't directly or indirectly solving? This is incredible.

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Remember I always tell you that the person with the best idea is in charge? Elon Musk is not in charge of anything except that he has good ideas. And if he brings you the best idea and you look at it and you go, oh, well, that is the best idea, it kind of makes him de facto in charge because without being in charge. So why would you ask him to help with Boeing?

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Because you're almost positive that whatever he does with them, he's going to introduce the best idea. Okay. How's he going to do any of these things? Doge, et cetera? Well, the best ideas. That's it. So if Elon has way more power than other people are comfortable with, I think they're missing that the source of his power is performance. It's not some lust for dictatorship.

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Because first of all, America AI would keep moving forward and probably they have some advantages because of the big training facilities that they have that DeepSeek does not. But I also told you that the government of the United States would organize against it. So to make it illegal or there would be lawsuits. Basically, it would just be tied up in all kinds of legal maneuvers like TikTok.

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I don't see that at all, actually. I don't see any signs of that. But he certainly likes having solutions. So I think we need to stop bitching about the person with the best ideas having the freedom to implement them because it's a good thing. Well, speaking also of Elon Musk, he says that Tesla's full self-driving mode is here. Now, what does that mean? Full self-driving.

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So I assume that means you just don't have to have a human being touching the steering wheel. I don't know how legal it is everywhere. So there might be a legal question that I'm not clear about. But it looks like technologically... letting the car do the driving is going to be way, way safer than a human.

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Probably won't even be close, even if the car makes some mistakes, even if the car causes some damage and death because everything does. It's going to be way cheaper, or not cheaper, it's going to be way safer. And how would you buy another vehicle if there was one that could do this? Now, I have not tried the self-driving. on a Tesla. And I'm kind of worried that my psychology can't handle it.

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Because, you know, you have a sense of what you can handle. I don't know. I don't know what it would feel like to be in the car while it's driving itself. But I would try it. I would definitely try it. And probably I'd get comfortable with it. People seem to be able to adjust to it. So I guess I would too. And if I could have a car that would literally drive itself, oh my God.

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And I also wonder if there'll be some kind of weird changes at bars or restaurants that serve drinks. Can you imagine the restaurant having its own Tesla and it's parked outside and you just, you know, people need a ride home. They don't have a ride. You just say, oh, just take the Tesla.

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And they just sit in the Tesla and just drives them home and then drives back to the bar and parks where it was. And they can just take people home all day long. So we might be on the verge of taking drunk driving down by 90%, not on day one.

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But if enough people have a drinking problem and they want to keep having fun with their drinks, if they say, you know what, if I drink when I go out and I like it, it wouldn't make sense to have another vehicle. unless you always have a designated driver, but most people don't.

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So what this could do to even the recreation industry, it could be one of the greatest things that ever happened in society. We'll see. Anyway, I saw an opinion that it seems like almost a sure thing that Tesla will stay ahead with the self-driving AI part of its business. And if you add the self-driving cars, that it doesn't look like anybody's going to be able to catch up too soon.

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And then you add on top of it, the tricks that deep seek brought to the industry, because in theory, all the other AIs are going to take the tricks that deep seek had added to their own

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code and be twice as fast so if you add that to what Tesla already has their self-driving cars are going to be insane and their robots the Tesla robots are going to be even better than we imagined so if you add robots plus cyber cabs and self-driving cars it's hard for me to imagine that Tesla is going to do poorly in the future hard to imagine

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You know, TikTok being caught up in the government political process. So I was pretty sure that it would be heavily attacked. And sure enough, here's what we know. OpenAI is looking into complaints that maybe it was trained on just looking at OpenAI. Now, I'm not sure I believe this next part, but it comes from people who know way more than I do.

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But there is a political risk because Elon's out there. So if people decide they don't want a self-driving car because they don't like his politics, that could be a problem. Well, D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, he's conducting this internal inquiry as to why prosecutors brought the post-Enron statute for the first time against the January Sixers. So

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Some 300 of the January 6th protesters got felony counts for some obscure law that had been designed only for Enron, I guess. And to have it apply in this context was kind of a stretch. And some people would say that it was too much of a stretch. So Ed Martin's going to look into this and figure out if those prosecutors had gone too far.

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Yeah, Tesla's earnings statement is out today, coincidentally. Meanwhile, New York's Attorney General Letitia James, she's going to sue the Trump administration for trying to freeze those federal funds on what she thought were, I think she fell for the hoax, I think she thought it was going to stop direct payments to people who get direct payments, but it's not.

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It's going to stop stuff like DEI and funding illegal immigration, things that are far less controversial. But here's the thing. So her claim is that the president can't pause funding because it's a congressional thing. Maybe. But I've never seen anybody who was more like a like a movie villain, Letitia James. There's something about the way she looks and the way she talks.

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There's just extra chilling. And we're going to get Trump. I can't even do an impression, but damn, she's got the, the evil genius. You know, it's like she, she has a Dr. Evil's, you know, twin or something. She's got that down. Um, So Caroline Leavitt, the new spokesperson for Trump, had her first press conference, and I would give it an A+.

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It was really... It could have been the best one I've ever seen. You know, I haven't seen every press conference, but... So McElhinney... Am I saying that right? McElhaney. No, McElhaney was the standard. And she was great and pretty much flawless and often created headlines just from her good answers and stuff. But Caroline Leavitt was perfect. She didn't need a binder.

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She spoke to everything confidently, quickly, very clearly. She knew the reporters by name. Her answers were real answers and not a bunch of evasions and word salad. And it's kind of terrible for the last spokesperson, Corrine Jean-Pierre, because we're going from unambiguously the worst press secretary of all time to one of the top two of all time.

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although Dana Perino was probably in that top category as well. So the Republicans have had two or three that are the best we've seen. And at what point do Democrats notice? It seems like they notice that their own spokesperson was completely incapable of doing the job and that the Trump ones are great. Well, how are the other countries doing? Let's check in internationally.

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Apparently, there's a way to train an AI model where if there's already a model that is trained, like OpenAI, ChatGPT, you can have the one you're training just ask the one that already exists millions of questions, and then it just answers the questions, and then the new thing is also trained. Does that seem real to you? How in the world could it ask enough questions?

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0.3%?

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That would be like the end of Germany if they don't get that up. That would be less than inflation. Basically, that would be a death spiral, 0.3%. Because it would be one thing if they were in the middle of a pandemic or just recovering. But other countries don't have a 0.3 growth rate. So whatever they're doing in Germany, it's all wrong. And here's my question.

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Does Germany still have the ability to manufacture? Because that was one of their strengths, right? They could build factories and manufacture stuff like cars and whatnot. And I wonder if they still have that ability. Did they lose it like America did? But if they still have people who have those skills, I wonder if we can poach them since Germany is falling apart.

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Is there any way we could say, hey, we need a bunch of people who know how to engineer a factory and do it quickly so we can bring manufacturing back to America? And I don't know. Seems like we should be looking for some superstars who have specific skills from other countries. Meanwhile, over in the UK, it looks like there's a law to imprison people who view far-right propaganda online.

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And you can get 15 years for looking at what they labeled far-right. 15 years in prison for reading. 15 years in prison for reading because you read the wrong stuff. Now, that doesn't even sound real, does it? I don't know if this is a law that already passed or is being considered. I forget.

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But the fact that it's even on the discussion, 15 years for looking at far-right material, doesn't that create a little bit of a risk that they can redefine what far-right means? Well, it used to mean what we really meant was you're agreeing with Hitler. But now it means that you're agreeing with Trump. Because, you know, Trump is Hitler. Obviously, A plus B. So the UK is just completely broken.

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That's just completely broken. But according to the Jerusalem Post, the Saudis and Israel are getting closer to some kind of breakthrough understanding where they recognize. I guess the big thing is getting Saudi Arabia involved. to recognize Israel in a full way, because that would be shocking historically. But they're getting close, apparently. That's the report anyway.

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There are lots of things that can derail a thing like that, such as October 7th, the last time the Saudis and Israel looked like they were getting close to agreeing on something big. That's when Iran acted. So there could be Another big thing coming to stop it from happening. We'll see.

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Iran doesn't have much in the way of assets left after Israel took out Hezbollah's big weapons and Hamas's big weapons and the Syrian-Iranian proxies. So it could be that this is exactly the right time to get that Saudi-Israel thing done. Here's a funny story.

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So Denmark, which controls Greenland and doesn't want to give it to or sell it or anything to Trump, they decided to beef up their security. So they're going to spend $2 billion to improve their own national security over there. But if you wanted to know what it was before, so this is the entire... This is the entire Greenland national security. You ready?

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Currently, there are four aging inspection vehicles. Now, does an inspection vehicle even have a gun? Do they? I mean, if it's an inspection vehicle, in theory, it would have some force. So maybe there's a gun on it. I don't know. But they've got four of those. They've got a Challenger surveillance plane and 12 dog sledge patrols to monitor an area four times the size of France.

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I get that it's fast and there's no human involved, so it's digital. But can you really connect to open AI if you're just a user and ask it millions of questions a minute until you've sucked all of its knowledge? That doesn't feel like that could happen. Wouldn't OpenAI have guardrails that say you can't have that much traffic all at the same time? Or it would be so expensive nobody could do it?

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Four dog sledge patrols. But not to worry, they're going to upgrade their military to include three new Arctic Navy vessels, okay, and doubling the number of planned long-range surveillance drones to four, from two to four, as well as satellite surveillance. So that should protect them in case America wants to conquer them. But then I found out this.

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According to a Danish politician, they've done the math. Did you know that the U.S. military has three to four hundred soldiers in Greenland already? That's normal. It's not new. We've got 300 to 400 military already in Greenland. America does. And what are they doing there? They're part of an early warning radar defense. So they're operating a radar defense.

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Because if you're monitoring some radar, what you need is 300 to 400 people. Right? Because monitoring the radar is kind of sitting there looking at a screen and You're going to need hundreds of people. What? Why are there 300 to 400 people? I have no idea why we have 300 or 400 people if we're just a radar site.

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Anyway, so the Danish politician said that if Trump just said, all right, we own it now, we already have enough military to conquer it. We wouldn't even have to move troops. We could just say, you know, we've got 300 soldiers there, and that would be enough to conquer all of Greenland. So I guess Trump can take it if he wants it.

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Even Denmark says all he'd have to do is say he's taking it and we couldn't do anything. And I agree. They probably couldn't do anything about that. Well, let me tell you that if you're subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which you can only subscribe to and see if you're on X, just go to my account on X and you'll see the button.

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Or if you're a Locals member, but that's more political and a little bit naughtier. So make sure you can handle the political stuff if you want to be on Locals. But we have a lot of fun on Locals because it's more of a community. And Dilbert, the Dilbert cartoons this week feature Dilbert who's been disgraced on the internet. And he has to deal with being disgraced on the internet. Except that

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He finds that it just makes his life better. So you'll have to follow it to see. And also the Dilbert calendar for this year, now that a month has passed, you can use the discount code to get it for 10% less because you missed a month. And basically the calendar is like buying a Dilbert book. It's just in calendar form.

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So it's got a year of comics on the front, a year of comics on the back of each page. So some of them are Dilbert Reborn, the spicier ones, and some of them are the classics. And there's no real reason they have to wait until the beginning of the year to buy the calendar. It's really just a way to read comics every day.

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So you don't have to be reading them in the exact order that they're on the calendar. But if you want that discount code, you can see it's the pinned post on my X account. You'll see it there. and you'll see the link to buy it, the only link where you can buy it. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining.

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I'm going to go private with the locals people, but if you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, thanks for joining. We'll see you tomorrow, same time.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. So good. Well, let's check in with the science. Sure enough, morning coffee drinkers have 12% lower risk of all-cause mortality. But apparently, that's a new study, but apparently, you gotta get it in the morning.

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I don't know. There's something about it that's not connecting in terms of probably just my understanding of it. But I don't know how it could possibly ask millions of questions and then reproduce it. That doesn't even seem slightly possible based on what I know about anything. But we'll see. The smart people say that's a thing.

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So OpenAI is going to go after it for stealing their IP because OpenAI says, we're seeing indications they may have trained on our IP. which is interesting because a whistleblower recently died under mysterious circumstances for allegedly having evidence that OpenAI may have trained on some copyrighted work.

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So you've got the one that may have trained on copyrighted work that's going to sue somebody for copying the work that was copied maybe from the copyrighted... Okay, it's... Getting a little confusing. But what seems critical is that whoever has the most money to hire lawyers is going to prevail. And right now that's open AI. Let's see what else is happening.

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We're also talking about the data security problem and maybe even the persuasion propaganda problem with this deep seek model. So as I predicted... It would first of all be getting sued, and next the government would say, hey, it's too dangerous to have this Chinese spy application, they might call it. So all that's happening, exactly as I said, and the U.S. Navy is banning it.

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They're going to ban DeepSeek AI over, quote, security concerns. Because there's, yeah, so security concerns. So it's basically already being banned. Now, who predicted that? I think I'm the only one, right? Did anybody else say, oh, it'll just get caught up in politics and lawsuits and you're not going to have to worry about it? That's what it looks like.

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Meanwhile, Alibaba just introduced its own AI. This is brand new. Didn't see this coming. And it claims to be the fastest one, faster than OpenAI and DeepSeek and everything else. That's what they claim. Now, question number two, am I wrong that Alibaba is a fully Chinese-owned company? And if it's true that DeepSeek may have had access to

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A lot, but a smaller number than the US of those NVIDIA chips, which seem necessary to at least get going. How in the world is Alibaba creating something that's better than all the other ones? Do they also have a whole bunch of fake, or not fake, but do they have a bunch of illegal chips too? How many NVIDIA chips made it to China?

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It feels like that would be exactly the sort of thing we'd have the most control over. But were we sending it to some country that then sent it to China? Because how in the world do they get it? It's not like they're stealing it. So I got big questions about NVIDIA chips and Alibaba. Maybe we'll find that out today. So as I tell you, I'm always listening to MSNBC for the for the comedy.

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And it's becoming more and more hilarious that their only coverage is comparing stuff to Hitler and usually Republicans. So here's what they had today. Today they had their guest, Gerard Haradas. He claimed that, this is MSNBC, the guest claimed that Trump is trying to make America white again by deporting illegal aliens. Well,

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I don't know if anybody knows this, but Trump has nothing to do with the color of the immigrants. He doesn't have any control over what color they are when they come in the country. He only has control over not letting non-citizens in the country. But this, literally a pointy hair, this is the guest who has this gray hair that's like pointed like a paintbrush he just dipped in paint. And

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It's so dumb that all he's doing is doing the law exactly the way the public wants him to do it. It's not his fault that the people coming in are more one color than another one. It's not Trump's fault. And then Joy Reid says that Trump enforcing immigration law is just like Hitler orchestrating the Holocaust. Yeah. That's all she has is that.

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For some reason, if you wait till the afternoon to have your coffee, your all-cause mortality is not that much better. But get it early, and you're gonna live forever at this rate. In other science... According to study finds, there's a desert plant that shows promise as a treatment for colorectal cancer. Now, I don't know how they deliver it, and I'm just hoping it's not a cactus.

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She goes, similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now in America are just undeniable. Are they? Are they undeniable? History may not repeat verbatim, but it sure does rhyme. Yeah, Hitler rhymes with Schittler. So I guess we learned something there. No, you're not supposed to figure out what's true by looking at what rhymes.

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If I could give you one bit of advice about understanding the world, things that rhyme are largely coincidence. Yeah, if it rhymes, that's not really telling you anything. But it sounds good when you say it. Then Tim Walsh is a guest on MSNBC, and he says, quote, of course Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. He treats it like it's a fact. And it's the most obviously not a fact thing that's ever happened.

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Anyway, so it made me think. I've never seen MSNBC do sports or weather. I don't know if the TV platform has that. So I was wondering, what would it be like if MSNBC started covering sports and weather? Would it still be comparing everything to Hitler? Would the weather be... It looks like it's going to be colder than Hitler's balls today.

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It's going to be snowing more than the dandruff on Hitler's shoulder. And then they're going to switch over to the sports. It's like that running back, he hit the gap like Hitler invading Poland. And I feel like they would... Even for the weather, they'd replace Fahrenheit with some kind of Hitler measure. Well, looks like it's 32 Hitlers today, so wear your jacket.

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Anyway, speaking of that, apparently an armed man was arrested in the Capitol who authorities say planned to kill what the armed man called Nazis. Huh, Nazis. Hmm. Where would he get that idea? And that included, in his view, Pete Hagseth, Mike Johnson, and Scott Besant, if I'm pronouncing that. Is it Besant or Besant? The Treasury Secretary, new Treasury Secretary. Now, here's my question.

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What news source would he possibly be watching that would make him think that that there were actual Hitler-like characters in the United States government and he would have to take action because it's so real. Could it be MSNBC? Now, you want to get a real shock? Why does Joy Reid still have her job? Is it because her ratings are good? No, they're not even good on MSNBC.

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They're not as good as her peers, as far as I can tell. And, oh, but she keeps her job. Why is that? Why do you think that is? Is it absurd and silly, just calling Trump Hitler all day long and nothing really else to say? Well, here's what I worry about. Don't we generally hear that MSNBC and NBC tend to be some of the most controlled news, meaning it's not really news, it's a propaganda thing,

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you know, are internal intelligence people. CIA seem to have some kind of connection with some news sources more than others. And it is generally widely considered by people who follow this sort of thing that MSNBC is a controlled news platform, meaning that they're kind of doing what the intelligence people want them to do. And so my question is this.

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What part of Hot Wheels seems like it's related to his policies? And then she had some kind of ridiculous explanation about transportation as wheels or something. So... So it started out bad and she made it worse. And I know I can speak for all Republicans when I say I'd like to see more of Jasmine Crockett at the head of the ticket.

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She's so bad at what she does, just so bad that James Carville must be like turning in his grave. I assume he's been long dead, but just based on his appearance. It just can't get better. So keep going, Jasmine Crockett. We'd like more of that. All right, let's see. Speaker Mike Johnson clarified something that for some reason I didn't know, and I was so surprised I was just finding this out.

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It's one of those things where you think, Where have I been? How in the world did I not know this? But ABC News is reporting that Mike Johnson said that Congress has the authority to stop providing funding to federal courts. He says, we do have authority over the federal courts. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power funding over the courts and all these other things, but

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Well, did you know, according to the Daily Star over at the British Broadcasting Company, I don't like to say BBC because I know some of you will just be sidetracked by that. Apparently, they're offering counseling to the staff to help them cope with the presidency of Donald Trump. Now, does the British Broadcasting Company know that he's not even the president of Great Britain? He's not.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act. Is that a real thing, that the Congress can just defund a court if the court is rogue? Because we keep talking about impeaching a judge, which the smart people say that's going to take forever, and you're going to get too much resistance, and it's probably a bad precedent.

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But what if you just said, how about we just get rid of your entire court? I feel like I'm down for that because right now the court is completely out of control. I mean, it's just completely politicized. It's useless. It's more than useless. It's just damaging. So that would be fun. Now, I do suspect that this is one of those things that could go both ways.

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You think it's a good idea when your team does it, but what if the other team gets in power? and then they could do it too. But why would they ever need to? Because all the crazy rulings are all coming from the left. Even if you don't agree with the ruling that comes out of right-leaning judges, it's not crazy shit. But the left is just... way off the reservation at this point.

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So I would kind of like to see this. Just see what happens. Just pick one of the worst courts. And I would even go so far as to say that if even some of the judges are good on a particular court, is that how it works? There are multiple judges in each of these districts. If one of them is so bad that you have to defund the entire district, I'm okay with that. You know, it's not ideal.

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It's definitely not a scalpel. It's definitely a chainsaw, but we're in chainsaw territory. Yeah, I'd pick the chainsaw. Anyway, let's talk about the update on the Signal app drama controversy. Number one. I would say that it's a 2 out of 10 in importance. 2 out of 10. Almost everything that we talk about in politics is at least a 7 out of 10 or else it's not in the news at all.

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So this is the most trivial thing that we've ever talked about to pretend it's big. But the Dramacrats are sending all their best actors out. So let me give you two ways that the Signal app story could be told by politicians. Here's one way. Well, it looks like somebody made a mistake on the Signal app and added a journalist.

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It's very unfortunate, but we learn from our mistakes, so we won't do that again. Luckily, nobody got hurt. And Mike Walz has taken full responsibility, even though he wasn't the one who added the journalist. Apparently, that was some staffer. But it was his staffer, so he's taken full responsibility.

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It's a good thing that what we saw was our elected representatives, well, not elected, but, you know, the cabinet people, one elected, I guess one elected, having a very fruitful discussion about whether we should be the ones to, you know, pay for keeping the shipping lanes open when J.D. Vance said something on the messages.

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that 3% of the traffic that the Houthis were preventing would be American traffic, just 3%. And 40% would be European traffic. Now, that would be me talking about it like it's a 2 out of 10. Let me give you the Jaramacrat presentation.

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Oh, my God. Oh, the level of incompetence. Oh, my fucking God.

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It's the same story. They just add the drama. And apparently they've all agreed that the word incompetence will be the key word. Oh, they're gross. And you have to say incompetence in a certain way. So you can't say, well, it looked like there was some incompetence there, but I'm glad they got that under control. That wouldn't be much of a story. So you have to say the incompetence. Oh,

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So how many of them really need counseling because of a president of another country? That's pretty weird. Pretty weird and pretty weak. But I wish you well, British Broadcasting Company. Anyway, up in Canada, you know Pierre Paul-Rivere? Let me pronounce that correctly. It's Pierre Paul-Rivere. Paul-Rivere. Paul-Rivere. I think it's pronounced Paul-Rivere. Is that even close? It's not even close.

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the incompetence, so much incompetence. And, you know, probably that incompetence is all over the entire administration, just reeking with incompetence, incompetence all over the place. So that's the Dramagrats. But what else do we know about it? And I think the Dramacrats are competing to see who gets the lead in the play because they're all trying to be more disgusted than the last person.

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Then I made the comment that there was no alternative to using the Signal app because the government secure phones and stuff were not efficient. And then a bunch of people corrected me. They said, no, Scott. Each of the top officials have secure phones in their offices, and so they could have done it on the secure phones. To which I say, do you fucking think Signal is a phone?

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How many of you don't know the difference between a phone call and a text message chat group? The reason they're using the text message chat group is so they can do things in an asynchronous way. Somebody's playing with their kids and answering a message and checking in. Somebody's on the road. Somebody's on a plane. Somebody's on the way to their office. That's not a phone call.

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If you had to get all these people on their desks with their secret encrypted phones that the government has, first of all, they wouldn't want to do any of this on a phone call. It would just be the biggest waste of time ever. And secondly, they're just not going to be available on fast notice. So no, there is no government-encrypted, fully secure chat service.

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And the signal app is approved for government use, as long as you don't do the top secrets, which we'll talk about. And then I saw Jeffrey Goldberg get dismantled by Tim Miller, who is a notable Democrat. And Tim Miller asked him... I'm paraphrasing, but he said, you know, are you going to release it? And Goldberg goes, oh, no, I take classified information seriously.

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So I'm not going to release any more of the messages that I have. And then Tim Miller said, without realizing what he was doing, I think, asked him the following question. Well, could you show it to some people who have security clearance, and then they can help us judge whether it was really classified and, you know, war plans?

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But I'm hearing today, but I don't have confirmation that more of the messages were released. Or was it all of the messages were released? So if they were all released, that would be a pretty big change from these are too sensitive to, oh, just release them all. So I need a little clarification on that. I couldn't tell before I went live here. Let's see. What else is going on there?

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There's so much going on in that tiny little unimportant story. And then we had a couple of folks weigh in to tell us that Jeffrey Goldberg is a highly credible and respected journalist. Ian Bremmer said that on X and also David Axelrod. Now, remember I always tell you that what happened doesn't tell you anything. You have to know who. Now, Jeffrey Goldberg

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is associated with some of the more notable hoaxes that we've seen. So why would Ian Bremmer and David Axelrod want to go public saying that he's so credible? What's up with that? So I always see these things as ways to know who's, you know, who's connected to or loyal to or, you know, on the same team. So you can draw your own conclusions about the people who are supporting them.

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Mike Walsh took responsibility for it. So you can stop. Well, the critics can stop saying nobody took responsibility. Yeah, he took full responsibility. He just wasn't clear how it happened because he doesn't have any contact with, he's never texted Jeffrey Goldberg, but it turns out a staffer may have done it. But we don't know exactly, we don't know the details of how or why the staffer did it.

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So more questions there. And I love the way Trump handled it during a NBC News interview. What did he say? He said, it's just something that can happen. That's such a Trumpian way to handle it. It's just something that can happen. Mike Walsh is a good man. Now, that's how you treat a story that's a 2 out of 10. If it were a 7 out of 10, then maybe he would say more, he'd defend it, whatever.

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But it's only a 2 out of 10. It's just something that can happen. It's just perfect. It just minimizes it and sort of brushes it away. It's like, nah, it's just something that can happen. Anyway, nobody got hurt. Time goes by. But it's all the Democrats have. The Democrats don't have much to talk about, so they got that. Just so you know, Dilbert's company will be building an encrypted app.

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So if you're subscribed to that on the X platform, it's the only place you can see it besides Locals. On Locals, you'll also see some of my political stuff. So if you don't like the political stuff and you just want to see the Dilbert comic, you can do that on X if you subscribe. Just look for the button on my profile. Well, Alex Jones has a scoopish.

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It's Poil-Liver. No? Close? Okay, I can't speak French last names. But you know who he is. He's a very smart and very clever person. On the conservative side, he's running for something. And he says they have a common sense approach for Canada first. So it looks to me like he has cleverly adopted Trump's best phrases and plans. Canada first, common sense, common sense immigration,

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According to his source, there's a whole bunch of files, 14 terabytes of what Alex Jones calls nightmarish sexual abuse of children. on the Epstein files. And it's all been given to the local FBI offices with orders to take the gloves off. So that's Alex Jones' take on that. Now, my take on all the Epstein stuff is I will believe anything when I see it.

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I feel every time we get teased about, oh, we're going to see the good stuff, it hasn't happened yet. So whatever it is that's preventing this from coming out, I think it's going to be like the JFK files. Do you realize we got played in the JFK files, right? I'm pretty sure we got played. Because even Trump had said, if you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release them either.

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And then we saw what seemed to be the complete files, and everybody said, oh, it looks like there's nothing new here. Yeah, we knew the CIA was involved in a lot of stuff. So do you think there's any chance that we saw the good stuff on the JFK files? And do you think that anything we saw

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is something that if Trump saw it, he would have said, oh, yeah, if you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release them either. No, I think we got played. So the Epstein files could be the same thing, meaning that at some point somebody will say, all right, these are the full and complete files. And then you look through them and it's like some people playing ping pong.

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And there's Jeffrey Epstein playing the piano. And now he's waving to people on his way to a boat. And we're going to be like, I really thought there would be all kinds of terrible things. No, no, that's all we have. That's all we have. So I don't trust anything about these secret files being released. It doesn't matter who's doing it. I don't trust anything about it.

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Well, you know about the anti-Tesla, anti-Elon Musk protests. Zero Hedge is calling it part of the NGO color revolution, which is how you overthrow a country. And that's my take on it, too, that it's basically a coup attempt, in this case against Musk and Trump,

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And attacking Musk would be very good for the bad guys because he's doing such a good job on Doge that if they can take him out, they would partially cripple Trump's ability to save the country. And they don't care about the country. But here's what we know. So there's this NGO called Indivisible.

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And apparently they were taking things off their website because they got caught as one of the entities funding this. Apparently they were also one of the entities backing the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you remember that? Which was also a color revolution. So apparently everything that we've learned is true.

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The NGOs are being funded by the government to run ops against Republicans and to try to create riots in the street and all Unbelievable. So Natalie Winters, a co-host of Steve Bannon's War Room, wrote an ex. So the wife of former U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, so he led the prosecution of the 1500 January Sixers, is on the board of that Indivisible. Wait, what?

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The guy who prosecuted, he led the prosecution of the January Sixers, is on the board of this group that backed the BLM protests and now the Tesla stuff. And I think his wife... Let's say, yeah, Matthew Graves' wife, Fatima, Gross Graves. Imagine having your middle name Gross and your last name Graves.

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Now, I haven't seen a picture of her, but I certainly hope she's thin, because if your name is Fatima Grossgraves, you better not have an extra pound, because that's just not going to work out. But she's the director of the NGO. So everything you thought about how every judge has a spouse who's involved in some sketchy NGO thing, it's all true.

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So almost every day there's a news story about a judge rules. There's some judge who rules against Doge doing one thing or another. And it sounds to us, because we're not lawyers, it sounds like, what?

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why can't they do that and then it you know gets appealed and then the higher court says well they can't do that so whenever i tell you that uh something has been blocked on doge it's almost always going to be you know the lower court and anytime i tell you that they've been uh that the blocking has been reversed it's an appeals court an appeals court so here's a few more uh

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That's a pretty good idea. Normally, I would say something like, oh, you're such a copycat. Come up with your own campaign. But how do you do better than common sense? And how do you do better than your own country should come first to the politicians running your own country? You can't really top those things.

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A federal judge, so this would be a lower court, has ruled against Kerry Lake and the Trump administration forcing them to, this is Nick Sorders reporting on this, to continue funding the deep state propaganda radio stations. That's the Voice of America and the related entities to Voice of America.

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And so Kerry Lake and Trump were looking to just close it down because it wasn't really useful and it costs a lot of money. So they're just going to close it down. And then a judge tells them they can't. What? So remember, every time it's the lower court, you know, lower court judge, their rulings are just baffling to a citizen. Why can't the people who run it close it down?

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Like, how is that not allowed? Like, what does a judge have to do with that? But then here's, this is also Nick Sorter is reporting this on X. But then a fourth circuit just halted an activist judge called Chuang, who had required, who has required Doge's access to much of USAID be suspended. So there it is again. Lower court's blocking on a different topic.

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The higher court is reversing the blocking of something about USAID. And I would love to know the budget for all the legal actions that Trump and Musk are involved in. What do you think the government is spending on these ridiculous legal challenges to get them reversed? Are we talking hundreds of millions? I'll bet it's hundreds of millions.

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Maybe not right away, but over the course of Trump's term. Incredible. But at least it's a fair fight. At least if you tell me that Trump's lawyers and maybe Elon Musk's resources, I don't know if he's involved in any of that or not directly. But at least it's a fair fight.

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Trump signed an executive order for election integrity, but it's not the things I wanted, like some kind of, you know, you must have ID and stuff like that. But Autism Capital is reporting on X that the EO would do this, cut down on illegal immigrants on voter rolls. So I guess we'd purge the voter rolls to get rid of illegals.

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Ensure that the Department of Homeland Security has fully usable data. I didn't know that was a problem. A citizenship question on the voting forms for the federal voting forms. Cutting federal funding to states that don't take reasonable steps to secure their election. Now, that's a little vague. What would be a reasonable step to secure your election? Voter ID, right? So,

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I don't know if this gets the voter ID or not, but maybe they could use it for that. And then the Department of Justice, the EO wants them to vigorously prosecute election crimes, which, again, I thought was already happening. And compliance with National Election Day rules. What's that? Compliance with national election day rules.

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Is that saying that the election has to be on one day instead of three months of voting? I don't know. Prosecuting foreign interference in elections. Okay, if you can catch them. And revoking some Biden executive order that was apparently not productive. Anyway, so all that's happening. Now, what Trump really wants is, you know, in-person voting and voter ID and stuff like that.

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So I suspect there's just going to be a whole bunch of politicians and a whole bunch of places saying, I've got an idea. Hey, hey, I've got an idea. How about common sense? Is anybody up for some common sense? Well, it's hard to say no to that. We'll see how he does.

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So we'll see if he gets all of that. So Trump is now declassifying all the FBI documents related to the Russia collusion hoax. Isn't that interesting? Years later, what are we going to learn about the Russia collusion hoax that maybe we don't already know? So Trump says, this gives the media the right to go in and check it. You probably won't bother because you're not going to like what you see.

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He always throws an insult into the media. You're probably not going to bother because you're not going to like what you see. And then he said, this was total weaponization. It's a disgrace. It should have never happened in this country. But now you'll be able to see for yourself all declassified. Now, honestly, I don't know how Hillary Clinton avoids going to jail. I don't think it'll happen.

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But won't the documents show a clear path from Hillary's campaign to the creation of the Steele dossier that we know to be fake? I thought this was the most damning and well-known stuff, but imagine if there's more. Imagine if we find out even more than we already know could happen.

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In other news, it was reported that there's some good news on a ceasefire deal with Ukraine and Russia, but I'm a little skeptical because the alleged agreement is not in writing and it's not signed, so that's never a good sign. The deal is that there would be a pause on attacks in the Black Sea shipping and that there would be a pause on going after energy facilities.

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The weird thing is they said it was retroactive. How do you stop retroactive attacks? Is there some kind of a time dilation thing? Not only will there be a ceasefire starting today, but there will be a ceasefire going back in time.

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Really?

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I must be missing something in this story. Because how do you change the past? Anyway. But they don't have details on even what they've agreed on. They don't have start dates. There's no comprehensive, you know, truce, etc. And then hardly any time goes by and Russia says, that they also want their sanctions on Russia lifted before the Black Sea ceasefire. Now, that's a whole new negotiation.

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So it sounds to me like maybe the American team of negotiators went away with some confidence or some belief that there was an agreement and the Russians either never meant to agree or they decided that they had such a powerful position that they could just throw in a major thing, like the dropping of sanctions, just to try to get that for free.

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So assuming that Trump is in control of what we're offering and what we're not, he's not going to give that for free. which means that the whole deal has already fallen apart, in my opinion. So I don't think it's being reported that way. But in my opinion, it looks like the whole deal just fell apart. Now, that's not surprising.

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Gateway Pundit is reporting that Adam Carolla correctly called the near impossibility of getting building permits in California for the people who were affected by those LA fires. And let me give you a little poll here. So it's been 75 days since the fires. How many building permits do you think have been issued? 75 days.

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At this point in the process, you kind of expect there'll be a whole bunch of false starts. And we think we got a deal. Wait, they walked away. No, now we have a deal. Okay. Not the details, but okay. The details threw up, you blew up the deal. So I'm going to stick with my three months estimate. Um, I do think both sides want some kind of peace. So, uh, or at least the U S and Russia do. Uh,

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But it's not going to be easy. And I don't think we're close. So I'd be surprised if anything happens. But let's be optimistic. So if we were to look at things from today's perspective, Trump's at a high in popularity. The country thinks we're going in the right direction in bigger numbers than we've seen in a long time. And the biggest problem that the Democrats could come up with.

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The biggest one is a 2 out of 10 in importance. I think that they may have said some things in that text message. Now, I'm open to hear that maybe there were some more confidential things in there. But so far, I'm going to agree with Trump. It's just a thing that can happen. But just think about the fact that's the best thing they have.

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And then I'm hearing Mark Cuban do the, what's wrong with Musk and Trump is that they do ready, fire, aim. Do you think that anybody can tell from the outside if they're doing the right stuff? I don't think so. And I think that there are situations where firing before you measure is exactly the right thing.

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I remember the shocking day that I first learned that when you're talking about software, you don't want to measure twice and cut once. You know, that old thing. If you're a carpenter... You want to measure it twice so that when you cut it once, it will be correct. And with hardware, same thing.

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So there's a whole bunch of domains in which you definitely want to make sure you're doing the right thing before you do anything. But not in software. In software, you try something and it breaks and you try something else and it breaks and you try something else and it didn't really cost you anything because it's just software.

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So going fast and seeing what happens can work with startups and it can work with software projects. And the question is, are there applications within Doge where that also makes sense? Certainly there are applications where the scalpel makes sense. But do you think the doge people can't tell the difference between when to use the scalpel and when to use the chainsaw?

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If the bureaucracy is fighting you, which tool do you use? I'll put this to you. Those of you who are experienced in management, If the bureaucracy is trying to slow you down and slow walk you and avoid you and you want to make cuts, do you use the scalpel? You can't. Because the only way you can use the scalpel is if the bureaucracy was actively helping you.

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Oh, yeah, you don't know our operations, but let me tell you, you can scalpel this and you can scalpel that and we're here to help. But that's not going to happen. Do you think that's what the doge people are running into? A bunch of helpful bureaucrats? We're like, wow, we can't wait. We can't wait to tell you where to scalpel this. Nope. In that case, what would be the right tool? Chainsaw.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now.

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And then as you're chainsawing, the bureaucracy starts screaming, ah, ah, ah. you don't realize you're cutting this or you cut this and the babies are going to die. And you say, wait, what? The babies are going to die. Okay. Can you give me some evidence that babies are going to die? Yes. Yes. See, it's feeding these babies. And then you say, oh, okay. Now you're being helpful.

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And fairly quickly, people knew whether their house was going to be burned down or not. So how many building permits have been issued? Would you say 400, 40, or 4? The answer is four, four building permits for all that, you know, just acres and I don't know, hundreds and hundreds of homes and only four building permits. And Adam Carolla had warned us.

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So you weren't helpful with a scalpel, were you? But as soon as I put the chainsaw to it, you like save the babies. And now I have some useful information and now I'll back off on the chainsaw. Exactly. So when I see Mark Cuban saying, you know, sort of generic things like, yeah, they're, they're disorganized and they're just chainsawing things without wisely deciding what to do.

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I say to myself, well, I'm not sure he's fully incorporated what the bureaucracy would be doing to stymie them. If the bureaucracy is working against Doge, and you can, I think you could just say with certainty that would be the case, then that's just chainsaw. The scalpel couldn't possibly work in that domain.

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But it might kick up a situation where you say, all right, we've chainsawed enough, but we hit a We hit a little sensitive area here. Let's slow down and scalpel that a little bit. So to say that scalpel always beats chainsaw is just purely dumb or inexperienced. To say that sometimes chainsaw is the right answer and sometimes scalpel is the right answer, that will always be correct.

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But to imagine that you can look from the outside and determine where they went wrong, you can't do that. We don't have any inside information about that. To imagine that the complaints of the bureaucracy are telling you that you should do something differently, that's not how anything works. Because the bureaucracy would be complaining no matter what you were doing.

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If it were a reorg, they'd be complaining. If it were cuts with a scalpel, they'd be complaining. If it were anything, they would be complaining. So if they're all reporting that they have low morale, oh, we have low morale, that's just because there's change. All change makes bureaucracies have low morale, or at least they'll tell you they have low morale.

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So you can't tell by listening to the people bitching about it. And you definitely can't tell what's happening and when the scalpel and when the chainsaw is being used or if there's even a sensitivity to know when to move from one to the other. I assume they are because it's the smart people doing it. So now let's look at the best that the Democrats have.

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We've got the James Carville approach, which is basically give up and just roll over and hope that the other side makes a mistake. You've got the generic complaints. Well, I don't think that they measured twice and cut once, which doesn't really even make sense. Because like I said, they should be using the scalpel sometimes and the chainsaw sometimes. And from the outside, you can't tell.

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You just can't tell from the outside what's working and what isn't. That's just not a thing. Then you've got the Jasmine Crockett approach, which is just be really stupid in public every single day, like really stupid. And try to sell that. All right? All right? We've got some stupidity going. And then you've got the Signal app story that the Dramacrats are trying to sell you with their faces.

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I'm so aghast. That incompetence. That massive incompetence. And those are the best plays. You know, also... yelling at their own leadership for being terrible. So I've never seen a more disorganized, completely broken party than this. I don't know if there's any time in my life this has ever happened. Did I coin Dramacrats? No, I did not. No, I did not.

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So I stole that from a DM that I got where somebody DMed it to me. But I love it, the Dramacrats. It puts it in perspective because I really do think that the Democrats are largely a theatrical production. And I mean that literally in the sense that they're acting about how mad they are. They're acting about how much of a difference anything that they're talking about matters.

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And that's all they have. When I see Republicans, let's take the story earlier about Mike Johnson. When he says that the Congress has control over these courts, the funding for these courts, was that theatrical? Not even a little bit. It was just matter of fact. This is something that we might do. It's important. And he just tells you. That's it.

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When Trump signs his executive orders, even though he's like the greatest showman, he's largely just communicating what he's doing in an interesting way. It's not a theater because there are real things happening and you can see the reality of it in the executive order.

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So it seems to me that Republicans have similar opinions because conservatives have similar opinions to each other and that when they describe them, they're just talking.

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But when the Democrats get involved, I think it's because they don't understand policy or they're, I don't know, they just seem to be locked into a theatrical mode where they believe that selling the disgust on their faces is all they have to sell. Look at the disgust on my face. Oh, oh. And then I'll say again, what do you think would be the reaction of the

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The typical Democrat voter, if they read a story about the Signal app situation, and the story was just described in just cold, dry terms. Well, it looks like this shouldn't have happened, but luckily nobody got hurt. Everybody learned something. Mike Waltz took full responsibility. Looks like his staff member did it.

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How much do you think an average voter would care if they just heard it that way? But I will bet you that for the rest of this year at least, if you bring up anything about Trump doing good stuff, a Democrat will say, oh, but what about that massive, disgusting incompetence from that Signal app? And they will pick up they'll pick up the emotions and the theatrical act that they saw on TV.

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They're going to see the news people do it. They'll see the pundits do it. And they'll just act like that. It's definitely just acting. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's just so obvious and so pervasive on one side. All right. So that's all I got for today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to say a few words privately to the locals subscribers.

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And the rest of you, I will see tomorrow, same time, same place. YouTube and Rumble and X, thanks for joining. And locals, coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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Yeah. Now, I would be a little cautious about this 75-day thing because it could be that you couldn't really get a contractor or a builder or an architect even into the area because it was too toxic. So it might be that the first 75 days, nobody could do anything because the area itself was... You know, not as accessible as it could have been. Not the whole 75 days. But we'll see.

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There's still some possibility that it will ramp up quickly once people see whether it makes sense to live there at all. So we'll see. But a related story is that the State Farm, the insurance company, is just getting wrecked by the press for what a lot of its customers say is pretty bad behavior, as in offering incredibly low ball offers, well below the cost of rebuilding. And why? Well,

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The theory is that sometimes they can get away with it. So if you don't hire a lawyer and fight them and, you know, just really go after them hard, apparently they'll just try to lowball you because there's so much money involved. So State Farm has a lot of explaining to do. I'm not there personally, but based on the press reports, it looks like something pretty bad is happening.

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So State Farm, you need to explain yourself. Meanwhile, San Francisco has rolled out this program in the city where there are cameras that can photograph your car and your license plate and issue you a ticket. And the ticket will depend on your income. Can you believe that? The amount you have to pay for the ticket will be based on your income. And it will be automatic. There's no human involved.

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They'll just take a picture and suddenly you just get a ticket in the mail. Is that the creepiest damn thing you ever heard of? That you would get a ticket based on your income? Can they really determine your income from your license plate? Maybe. What if somebody borrows your car? Do they get the ticket based on the income of the person who owns the car? How does that work?

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Delicious. Well, in media news, Steven Crowder is leaving YouTube for good. And he's going to be exclusively live on Rumble. Actually, I don't know if it's exclusive. I don't know if he's on X as well. But he won't be on YouTube. He'll be on Rumble. And he's the number one live stream in America, I think. So that's not bad. Not bad. So I guess YouTube was not giving him what he needed.

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This is so damn creepy. Anyway, Blaze Media is reporting on that. You know that Greenland visit that J.D. Vince's wife and kid were going to go to? Well, it looks like that's not working out. I think it worked out great when Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk and some of their guys went up there.

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I don't know if it was because it was early in the process and there hadn't been a lot of thinking about what would happen with Greenland or what. But they're really prickly now. So it looks like that the trip that was supposed to be sort of a general cultural appreciation sort of thing turned into, well, maybe you shouldn't go where there are a lot of Greenlanders.

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So instead, I think they're going to visit military base, some U.S. military base, and J.D. Vance is going to join them. So it looks like it might have been a little dangerous. or at least a little bit offensive to the locals. But here's something that the Danish prime minister said. He said that the scheduled visit puts completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland.

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Do you think that the vice president's wife and child visiting Greenland and going to cultural events was going to put unnecessary pressure on Greenland? Really? Apparently Greenland can't take much pressure. What would it take to conquer the entire country? Like six hobos with butter knives?

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I mean, if they're going to buckle under the pressure of somebody doing a vacation in Greenland, hey, the vice president's wife and young child will be visiting. Oh, no. Oh, no. The pressure. Oh, how are we going to survive the visit of the vice president's wife and child? Oh, no. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Hide the dogs. Don't let them see our snow.

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No, they're going to steal our snow. Hide the snow. So apparently Greenland is ripe for conquest because they can't even take a visit from a woman and her child. It was just too much pressure. Too much pressure. Meanwhile, Harry Enten on CNN continues to be one of their top two entertaining people. He does a really great job, I have to say.

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If I'm just going to give somebody a compliment on how well they do their job, Harry Enten does the polls and some of the numbers, puts them on a big screen, but he has got down cold the presentation style. He can take data and make it seem so exciting with just his body language and he's standing and he's waving his arms around and he's His voice has all kinds of variety in it. He is great.

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He's just absolutely flat-out great at doing his job. So compliments to him. But one of the things that I like about him, he's not in the bag or out of the bag for Trump. He just shows the numbers, and he's excited by the numbers if it's something unusual. I love that. He loves his job, it looks like. One of the things he pointed out is that Trump is at his all-time high in popularity.

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So the more we hear about, you know, everything's bad for Trump and, you know, and all that. In 2017, Trump was minus 10 in popularity. In 2024, right around the election, he was minus seven. So he was improving by then, but still minus. But in March 2025, which is now, he's only minus four.

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So Arienton said, all we talk about is how unpopular Trump is, but in reality, he's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he won the election. He's more popular than when he won the election. So what does that do to the strategy of the James Carville strategy? No, no, we'll just wait. We'll just hang tight.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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We'll just wait and everything will be better because we'll just wait. Well, it turns out that waiting just makes Trump more popular. If I had to guess, what it is that's making him popular, is that he said he would do things, and then he's very conspicuously and with very high energy doing things.

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You know, the other day I got demonetized on YouTube just for one episode. And it happens a lot, usually automatically, but then there's a human reversal. But the reversal happens, you know, after a lot of the traffic's already done. Never did find out why that one episode got demonetized. Don't know.

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I think it is just shocking to people that somebody involved with government would say, I'm going to do this list of things, and then the moment they're in there, they do the things. Well, Why are people continually writing the number four in the comments? What is that about? For some reason, everybody is just writing the digit four. Can you give me some, did something happen?

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Is there any meaning to that? Or are you just all like the number four suddenly? So you're just printing four? Oh, okay, you're still back on four as the number of houses that got permits. Got it. Okay. There's a lag to it. All right. And then Harry Enten, also CNN, said that according to the NBC poll, people were asked, is the U.S. on the right track? The NBC poll was the highest since 2004.

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44% said we're on the right track. That's the highest since 2004. And a Marist poll says that on the same question, is the U.S. on the right track? It's the second highest since 2009. So just imagine being president. You've been president for a few months now, and your popularity is at the highest it's ever been, and you've been president before.

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And the two polls show that the public is more optimistic about the direction of the U.S. than at any time in a really long time. And that's CNN. So I tend to believe that these are probably realistic numbers. Anyway, so that's how the Republicans are doing really well. Let's check in with the Democrats. Let's see how their best people are doing. Let's see.

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Jasmine Crockett, who's been in the news for being provocative. And she seemed to have mocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott for being in a wheelchair. She said something about him being Hot Wheels. And then people said, you can't. You know, that's terrible. You can't mock him for being in a wheelchair. And then she tried to walk it back and explain that it really was about his policies.

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that one of their spouses is actually on the NGO and making a lot of money or is consulting for it or is attached to it somehow. So here's what I think is interesting. When the founders of the country developed the Constitution, they probably never contemplated a situation where both the husband and the wife would have high-end jobs because that wasn't a thing. You know, the guy had a job.

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and the wife did wife stuff, and you never had to worry about those. So for probably, I don't know, the first hundred years, there was no risk of this whatsoever because the spouse was never really in a position to make any kind of sketchy money. But now you have all these high-powered couples, and if you have a high-powered couple, you just so easily...

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can have one of them in charge of funding things and the other one in charge of spending the money from it. So yeah, the judges are just part of it, but also the whole NGO structure, there's a whole lot of spouse stuff going on. So we actually need some kind of either legislation to at least reveal these connections or a change to the constitution But just think about this.

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The Constitution was created before this was even a contemplated risk because you didn't have two high-powered spouses. It just wasn't a thing. Now, to me, that's really fascinating. Anyway, so somehow we've got to fix that. Maybe it's just sunlight. Maybe you can't make it illegal, per se, but you could know if it's happening. That would help a lot.

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Anyway, so in response to that, there's a, according to the National Pulse, there's a new bill, Representative Daryl Issa, Republican, California. Issa Issa or Issa? Issa, I think. He's introducing a bill aimed at limiting the reach of injunctions issued by federal judges.

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One of the things that Elon Musk said a few times is that if any federal judge anywhere can stop anything that's happening anywhere else, you don't really have a real system. I mean, you don't have any kind of democratic republic because all it takes is one corrupt judge.

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He says, excuse me. He says, we're going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. Good so far. We'll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

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Corrupt, I would say, I'm using that not in just a legal sense, but corrupt in the sense that they're political as opposed to following the law. And how hard would it be to find one political judge who would give you anything you want, especially if you can reward them through their spouse? Apparently, it's really easy. You can always find a Soros judge somewhere who is willing to do anything.

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So if you can stop the elected people by having one judge anywhere decide that the whole country has to do what they say, you don't really have a workable system. So I don't know the details of this, but Daryl Issa's bill is trying to address that, I believe. This gets a little over my pay grade to know the ins and outs of this legally, but That would be great.

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So I like the fact that it's being addressed. I don't know if that's the exact answer to it. And I also have to ask this question. How many corrupt judges would you have to have in your system before you would even think it's necessary to have new legislation to stop them from doing this thing? It kind of means the whole judge system is infested with weasels.

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It can't be there's two or three in the country, because that'd be a different problem. But apparently there's just all kinds of weasels who got into these positions and can stop the entire country from functioning. So yeah, we got to stop that. Let's stop that. Kristi Noem found, I guess, some of the leakers who have been tipping off the illegal migrants that the ICE raid was coming.

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And they've all been spotted and identified and already been fired. Now, can you imagine that? Imagine working for the Homeland Security and actually tipping off the subject of the raids, which puts the people doing the raids in totally lethal danger. It's almost unbelievable that it could even exist. And it doesn't even seem like firing is strong enough. Shouldn't jail be the right answer?

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Like, I don't know if there's a specific law that was violated, but if you're thwarting the law of the United States and in the process putting real people in real danger, like serious, serious danger, like you're going to be killed kind of danger, that's a lot bigger than just getting fired. I just hope there's something bigger than that that they can do.

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Now, one of the ways that I guess Kristi Noem and company are spotting these people is they're using a polygraph and also searching internal communications. And I guess the other thing I would ask is, if you were such a weasel that you were going to leak that kind of dangerous information, would you put it in an email? And the funny thing is, you might. Yep, yeah, you might.

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Or at least some indications that would tip off who to do the polygraph on. Now, how many of you know that polygraphs don't work? But they do work. So polygraphs are interesting from a persuasion perspective because the reason they're not accepted in court is that they're not reliable.

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So if there's anybody who is opposed to personal liberty or free markets, they're just not going to have an opinion in the Washington Post. Okay. Okay. He goes, there was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader's doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.

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And yet they're used in a very widespread way in government and other organizations to find leakers and find traitors and stuff like that. So how can it be true at the same time that it's not reliable enough for any court in the United States? There's not a single court in the United States that would accept a polygraph. And yet it's a useful tool. How can both of those be true?

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And the answer is that it's more about the polygraph operator. So the polygraph operator creates this, I'll call it an illusion, that the polygraph does work. And then the way they ask the questions and the way they react to the answers will spook the subject such that they somewhat accidentally spill the goods.

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So you can detect that people are trying to beat the system or they're too nervous to be in it or their behavior is a little weird, and then you could call it out. Even if it's not there, you could call it out. So one of the things you could do is say, you know, did you do this bad thing? And then the answer comes on the polygraph, and only the polygraph operator sees the answer.

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So if the polygraph operator sees there's no indication of a lie, but they think this might be a lie, and again, remember, the polygraph is not accurate enough to detect all lies. So the operator can say, hmm, I'm going to ask that question again. Imagine if you were lying and the operator, without telling you what they saw, they just look at the result because this is in real time.

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It's happening while they're there. And the operator just looks at it and goes, huh. Let me ask that a different way. Basically, you're saying you've been busted. And that's when I think people crack. And they're like, oh, no, I didn't mean that. I didn't do it. I mean that I didn't do that or I didn't do it that day. And then it just all falls apart.

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So if you put them in a position where it looks like you know they're lying, they're going to try to cover the lie, change their answer a little bit so it's not a lie, and they're going to start panicking a little bit. And then you can spot a liar. So here's what you need to know about polygraph. It's mostly about the operator and how they influence the process.

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It's not so much the machine, but the machine is part of it. And it can identify some lies. So it's not like it never works. It does work sometimes. You just don't know when. Well, Texas Governor Abbott, according to Fox News, Peter Pineda is reporting. Apparently there's this place called Colony Ridge that's outside of Houston, I think.

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And it's got so many migrants living there that it's practically Spanish language and the cartels have set up a base. And there's just a lot of, almost like they've captured territory. Not quite, but very similar to cartels holding territory. And what's good is that Homeland Security

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And taxists have been identifying this, and there are other places like this where there's a big concentration of migrants. They have a lot in common, let's say Spanish language, and cartels. So I don't know if we fully understand how close we were to being just conquered by the cartels. Because they don't need to have much of a bite into your country before they can run the whole thing.

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Today, the Internet does that job. So he's basically saying we're not going to try to cover all views. And he says, here's the fun part. I am of America and for America and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical. It minimizes coercion and practical.

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Because remember, they can scare people from running from office. They can illegally fund people they want to be in office. They can kill people they don't like. They can threaten. They do know how to take over places. And if you simply get too many of them in one place, they don't assimilate. They're more likely to say, well,

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we're sort of like our own country here and start expressing their own desires that way. So whether or not migrants are the biggest problem in the world or just a boon to our economy and helping us do things that we weren't getting done, it's all about the number. If it's a, I don't want to say small, but if it's a smaller number, everything works better.

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Oh, we got some extra workers and they assimilated and But if you get a whole bunch of people kind of soon and they cluster in one place, then you've got a problem because they don't even need to learn the language. And next thing you know, the cartels are in charge and expanding their reach because they're getting money from the population and they can hide within it.

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So yeah, we were, and maybe it's too late. But we're definitely on the cusp of a complete cartel takeover. I don't think we'll ever understand how close it was that if Trump had lost, I think we would just be owned by the cartels in another four or five years, or at least some important parts of the country. So Trump introduced this idea of a gold guard, he calls it.

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So if you're a non-American citizen, but you're rich, you can pay $5 million and get this gold card that's going to give green card-like privileges and a path to American citizenship. It would only be for wealthy people who would be coming here and creating investments and jobs. So they'd have to be additive to the country. It can't be just because they want to.

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But then Trump said something that only Trump could say. And if anyone else in the world had said what I'm going to tell you he said, you could know that the whole world would blow up. It'd be the biggest story in the country. But because Trump has worn us all down by doing so many things and also saying so many things, you just don't have the time to go after every one of them. But this is just

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This is only Trump could say this. So when he was introducing this gold card idea, he was asked if this would apply to Russian oligarchs. You know, if you're a Russian oligarch, can you just apply for this and become an American citizen? Here's what Trump says. And only he can say this. He goes, yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs. They're very nice people.

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Name one other person on the whole planet who could have said that sentence. Yeah, possibly. Some of those Russian oligarchs are very nice people. Now, I'm not even disputing whether or not there are any nice oligarchs. The only thing funny is he's the only person in the world who could have said that. And you'll totally get away with it.

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Now, of course, there'll be the usual amount of, oh, he's so pro-Russian, he's so pro-Russian that he loves the oligarchs. I think you have to see that he's in a negotiation with Russia, and the oligarchs probably do have a little bit of influence over the boss.

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And if he happens to be saying some nice things about the oligarchs and some nice things about Putin and some nice things about Russia, it should only be understood that in the context of negotiating. So you can be tough as long as you're respectful. So he's being tough and respectful at the same time. It's the perfect combination. But again, he's the only person who could do that.

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It drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. All true. And then just listen to this. He said, I offered David Shipley, so I guess he is the editor of the opinion page. He goes, I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter of I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't, quote, hell yes, then it had to be no.

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Nobody else could even get away with that. Now, there's some risk that maybe some spies would buy their way into the country, but I feel like the spies could get in a lot easier. Like they don't really need to pay $5 million for anything. There's probably plenty of spies.

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If you're thinking about, somebody mentioned that you would only have to get 7 million people and it would pay off our entire $35 trillion debt. But I asked AI, how many people who are not in the United States have at least $20 million net worth, because that would be the population of people who might be willing to spend $5 million to be an American citizen.

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And even if you had $20 million, $5 million is, you know, that's a big price for the one drink minimum to enter the United States. So there are not many people, but I would estimate, and ChatGPT didn't know exactly what that number was, but they're not 7 million. It might be 20,000 in that range of people who had enough money and are not Americans.

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But out of 20,000, how many really need to be American citizens and care enough to even bother trying? So I'm guessing the total population of people would be in the hundreds. And even that wouldn't be right away. So it's a fairly small thing, fairly small. But what I like about it the most is that it's part of poaching the best people from other countries.

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Now, I know there's some MAGA people who say, under no circumstances do I want to bring in more people from another country, and I don't care how much they're going to add or you think they're going to add. No people from other countries. That conversation is worth having if you want to have it.

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In my opinion, poaching, and I guess I agree with Trump on this, poaching the best people from other countries is just sort of always a good idea. I just think that works every time because the best people from other countries, and maybe it's their best entrepreneurs, maybe it's just their rich people because the rich people can add a lot to wherever they live. They hire a lot of people.

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They start businesses. They invest. So I appreciate the people who say, let's just make it a zero, because otherwise, you know, it's a slippery slope. I get that. But I'm not on that page. I think that economics suggests that if you're smart about it, it's really additive. All right, this is funny. I think all the news is funny today. Did anybody notice that yet?

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All the news is sort of really interesting, but also kind of funny because of how stupid things are. But here's my favorite one. Do you remember James Carville? He had lots of advice for the Democrats and nobody was listening.

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And then his latest play, this is his actual advice, is that the Democrats just have to do nothing and wait for Trump to become less popular and the administration to collapse. That's one of their smartest advisors. One of the smartest advisors is telling Democrats their best play is to don't say anything or do anything and wait for Trump to become less popular. How has that worked out so far?

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Now, I think we all expect that Trump's popularity will take a little bit of a dip and might even be a substantial one. And that he's doing a lot of things that could only pay off in the long run. So history might like him a lot better than any poll of the moment. But he's not even that low. His popularity is looking pretty strong. And when you look at the top policies, he just commands them.

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After careful consideration, David decided to step away. He didn't like this new editorial direction. And he said, this is a significant shift. It won't be easy, and it will require 100% commitment. I respect this decision. We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction. Oh, my God. I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America.

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I mean, he's well over, I guess, 60% in most of the important things. And those are big numbers. So it makes the Democrat strategy of doing nothing sound hilarious, but it's not just doing nothing.

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So Hakeem Jeffries was on the Jake Tapper show and Jake was giving him some pushback about, you know, I guess some pushback about the viability of the Democrat party because it just looks like it's falling apart. And here's what Hakeem Jeffries said. he simply lied about the Republicans' plan to cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. Now, I'll need a fact check. Is it true that that's a lie?

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Because I don't know. The right say, there's no cuts in those things. And the left says, oh, yeah, he's making deep cuts in those things. So I don't know which one's true. But if I had to go by history... History suggests that if this were true, that the news would be saying it, not just the Democrat leaders. Don't you think?

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Because I haven't seen a news story that said the Republicans want to cut those things. I've only seen the Democrat leaders say it, which would suggest it's just their newest hoax. So their newest hoax is that the Republicans are going to cut things that they're definitely not going to cut. Now, I'll take a fact check on that if it turns out I'm wrong and there is some plan to cut those things.

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And I'm not talking about waste, fraud, and abuse. I think everybody would be okay with cutting that. But the accusation is that they would just cut surfaces of these well-loved things. And maybe they would, but I'm not aware of that being a plan. So he basically said that Trump's policies, this is what Hakeem Jeffries said to Tapper,

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He said that Trump's policies were, quote, deeply unpopular with the American people. And then Tapper showed him the popularity of the Democratic Party compared to the popularity of the Republicans. The Democrats are like 20% popularity or approval, I guess. And the Republicans are around 40%. And the policies, as I just said, are just wildly popular.

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Some of the most popular things in a bipartisan way you've ever seen in this country. So it looks like the Democrats are not going to do nothing, like Carville suggests. They're also going to add hoaxes. So their hoaxes, which they hope will be supported by their fake news, is that Trump is doing unpopular things, exactly the opposite of all reality.

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And even CNN called him out and showed the chart saying, yeah, popularity, you're not quite on point there on that popularity point. And the funny thing is the Hakeem Jeffries is one of their strongest players. He's considered one of the, one of the good ones, like, you know, really knows what he's doing.

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Uh, but the Democrat strategy of doing nothing and waiting for Trump to become less popular is just fall down hilarious because it really screams. We got nothing, but let's just, let's just wait and see if the other side falls apart. So it's like wishful thinking, fiction, fantasy, imagination. Does that sound familiar?

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As I've often said, the Democrat approach to everything is to literally imagine what could go wrong and make up hoaxes about what's going wrong at the moment. So it's a completely imaginary world that they can sell to their base and the base will buy it because they bought it before. Anyway, so that's a lot of giving up in that strategy. I think it's hilarious. So the House has passed a budget.

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So I guess that means the Senate gets to play with it and might tweak it, but there's some chance that the Republicans will get a budget. Thomas Massey did not vote for it. Probably the only one, only Republican who didn't vote for it. Because as he points out,

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I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas. Yup, they are underserved in the news and opinion stuff. I'm excited for us together, blah, blah, blah, Jeff. Now, does that feel like a big deal to you? Because it kind of does to me. I mean, Bezos' voice is bigger than most people's.

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even though it extends the five-year tax holiday, which means not raising taxes to pre-Trumpian level from his first term, I guess, it doesn't cut enough to reduce the deficit. So as Massey said, that even under the best-case assumptions, which never happen, and Massey is completely right about that, under the best-case assumptions, which never happen,

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they're gonna increase the budget 300 billion per year now I can't imagine that the discretionary spending is gonna be nothing right because there's always a war there's always some damn thing so you voted against it and I'm on board with that I'm bored of that I like that he operates on principle he basically said you've got one job and

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You know, don't increase the... Man, it's getting loud out there. Don't increase the deficit, and then they increase the deficit. Or at least they increased what would be the total debt. So we'll see what the Senate does. This is a situation where I can't support the Republican approach. They have one job. Get the budget under control.

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Now, it could be that as a doge does its work, because it's a little early in that process, it could be that there's a point in the future where we have the budget, but we don't have to spend it all. Now, that would be amazing. So maybe the budget says it's going to cost $300 billion. Let's say Trump amazingly does not increase discretionary spending.

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Thank you, Paul. I know you don't like it when I say thank you, but I always appreciate it. It's not trivial. So thank you. Well, so there was this morning, Jeff Bezos sent a letter to his Washington Post team

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Discretionary spending means it wasn't in the budget, but we're going to do it anyway by running up the debt. I don't know. Maybe there's a chance it all could work out. But what I'd like to see is Elon Musk talking honestly about the budget and how it relates to Doge over time. I think Elon's being quiet about this. because I don't think he has anything supportive to say about this budget.

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Now, I can't read minds, so don't blame him. This is just me speculating that if a few days go by, and give me a fact check on this, because I could be wrong about this, but if a few days go by and you don't see him weighing in, Elon Musk, and saying this is a good budget or this is a step in the right direction or if you add Doge to this, we'll be okay.

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If he just is quiet about it, I would suspect that he's not a fan because he's not quiet about anything. Trump signed some healthcare price transparency thing in executive order. I guess we had this before, but Biden slow walked in or reversed it or paused it or something. And it makes hospitals and other healthcare people disclose their actual prices so that people can shop based on price.

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Now that's free market. If Jeff Bezos gets his way and he gets the Washington Post to talk about personal freedoms and open markets, free markets, We should see the Washington Post write something that says, there it is. There's a step in the right direction because you can't really have a free market if the sellers are allowed to hide their prices.

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and uh that doesn't mean that the washington post is completely reformed but wow i'm gonna i've got this weird tickle in my nose you ever ever have a nose tickle what's up with that just tickles all right did you know that the legal agent uh the legal age of marriage in china is 22 for men. In China, you have to be 22 before you can get married. And 20 for women. How sexist.

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So in yesterday's world, the Washington Post would have said, well, here's another overstep by the White House. They've gone too far. It didn't work before. It won't work again. It would just be reflexive anti-Trump.

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But if Bezos makes this change and he says we're going to write about free markets because we like America, he might have an opinion person who says, you know, this is just a good idea. We don't know how well it'll work. We don't know how fast. But it couldn't possibly be wrong to have more information about your own prices.

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Trump also signed an executive order to end the security clearances of members of a law firm called Covington and Burling. If those members were helping Jack Smith in his, I'm going to call it lawfare, cases against Trump. Now those cases have been dropped. But Trump's removing the security clearance of anybody who worked there and helped Jack Smith.

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now on one hand this does sound a little revengey and i'm not in favor of just pure revenge there have to be you know real bad behavior before i'm okay going after anybody for anything but this does seem like really bad behavior and it does seem to me that all the people involved would have known that they're involved in something closer to lawfare than law there were all

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They were all sophisticated operators. They would clearly know what they were involved in. If they had been somehow forced to do it or they didn't know what was possibly going on and they just fell into it somehow, well, maybe. But I think they all knew exactly what they were doing and it wasn't cool. So I'm in favor of this.

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The Washington Times is reporting, and it's based on a whistleblower, so I don't assume this is true. But, you know, use your own judgment, because I usually say if there's an anonymous whistleblower, that's not good enough. And I want to keep that as standard for both sides. But the allegation is that the whistleblower personally knew somebody who knew

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that James Comey had authorized sort of an off-the-books honeypot operation in 2015 against the Trump administration. Now, a honeypot means that you have, let's say, undercover FBI agents, and they're attractive women, usually. Could be gay guys if they're trying to honeypot a gay guy. So whatever they need to honeypot the right kind of person. And they wouldn't necessarily be sleeping,

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with anybody to honeypot them, but they might be flirting a little bit. And maybe people would give up a little extra secrets because they're trying to impress the attractive honeypot. So I don't know if this is true, but it's a pretty explosive allegation. that Comey might have done an off-the-books, and it would have been illegal, I guess, an off-the-books honeypot operation.

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And that's without knowing there was any specific thing they were looking for. They would have been just fishing for something to go after Trump for. Very illegal sounding. Now, when I hear about this, again, remember it's an anonymous whistleblower, so that's the lowest level of proof. But what if it is true?

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It just sort of reminds me that think about all the things we didn't know, and then time goes by, and then we, whoa, I didn't know that. How many things do we not know that are, let's say, as bad as this allegation? but are really happening or really happened.

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Just think about what is the percentage of things we find out eventually versus the percentage of bad behavior, criminal behavior, theft, et cetera, that we just never find out. Do you think we find 80% of the bad behavior eventually? Or do you think it's closer to 1%?

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Because I wonder, I feel like it might be closer to 1% and that there might be something like 100 times more problems than we've ever seen or identified. That'll keep you up at night. Well, Data Republican, goes by that name on X, was on NewsNation. And Data Republican got doxxed because I guess she's doing too good a job analyzing the data and finding sketchy stuff.

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But she was on News Nation and she said that there was one NGO that claimed to promote democracy. And to do that, they received $17 million. So the government gave them $17 million. Or it came from some other entity that had been funded by the government, because you know how that works. But they got $17 million.

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And the only thing that they created with their $17 million was they made a terrible Muppet show. And they made these Muppet show videos that had like 200 views. So whatever that Muppet Show thing was, it doesn't look like it was ever even intended to be real. It looks like just a thing they could say so they could get money. The NGO was co-founded by Norm Eisen.

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But now one of their political leaders, a member of the National Committee, the CPPCC, is trying to put a proposal together that would lower it to 18 because they're having a childbirth problem. And Does that surprise you? How many of you knew that you couldn't get married in China until you're 22 if you're a guy? So that's one small thing they can do.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, Doge and all. If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Remember I always tell you to look for the players, not the play. If the only thing you know is what happened, you don't know anything. You have to know who did it. Once you know who did it, then the what happened always has a completely different context. So let me just say this.

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If this NGO had been founded by somebody you never heard of, just maybe somebody trying to make a buck, it wouldn't be a big deal. But Normizen is a name that comes up a lot. And I don't want to get sued, so I'm not going to make some accusations because he's a lawyer and it's dangerous territory.

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But if you ever want to find out what's what, that would be a good name to do some searches on, to find out what he's been involved in, etc. And I think you'd find that he's... always in the middle of the worst behavior on the Democrat side. There's a small group of people who are just always involved in whatever the worst thing is you can imagine. And his name just pops up in so many stories.

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And until you see that name, you're like, well, this could be just a, oh, oh, it's Norm Eisen. So I'm not even going to tell you all the things he's accused of. I'll let you research that yourself, and your jaw is going to drop and your brains will fall out. Anyway, $17 million for a puppet show. So where'd the rest of the money go, says Data Republican.

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Meanwhile, along the same lines, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who's a Democrat, he backed legislation that would... Give millions of dollars to a nonprofit called Ocean Conservancy. Now, that's fine, right? Don't you like oceans to be conserved? We all like that. That's probably a really good NGO. Let's see. I wonder if there's anything sketchy about it. Oh, yeah.

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Well, they were serviced by a consulting company. So there was a consulting company that got paid millions of dollars for consulting for this NGO. But that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. You know, it's very common to hire consultants for stuff. See if there's anything else about it. Wait, one of the consultants was Sheldon Whitehouse's spouse.

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So his spouse worked for the consulting company that made millions of dollars. And then the senator voted to fund it. Now, he wasn't the only one who voted for it. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been funded. So there must have been a lot of votes for it. But you do have to ask yourself, why didn't he recuse himself? And did he get his peers to vote for it?

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Did he say, hey, I'll owe you a favor if you do this for me? I don't know. But because we don't know, It really shouldn't be acceptable that any of this happens. And again, I go back to the founders of the country.

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They never anticipated that there would be so many power couples where both of them would have high-end jobs and one of them could funnel money to the other one, which is basically paying yourself. So as Elon Musk said, it's always the spouse. It's always the spouse. That's how they launder money.

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So speaking of that, the New York Times and Washington Post and CBS, they're all talking about this story of how there are these bipartisan, and this is the important part, bipartisan town halls where even the Republicans were saying, my goodness, we can't put up with this Trump and this Doge stuff. And if you saw that reporting and you said to yourself, wow, it's bipartisan.

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Even the Republicans are turning against Trump. Would you have known that these were fake? That's right. They were just organized by far left entities funded by all the wrong people. They were fake. So I guess Soros gives money to move on and something called Indivisible to stage fake opposition. So that's the Washington Free Beacon is reporting on that. Okay.

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Apparently China has lost population for three years in a row, so it's pretty dire. Now, I once talked about a different problem that China has with marriage. And I don't know if I have this right, but it's something like this. People are authorized to work in the place they live.

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Now, here's what I've been telling you. All large gatherings are fake. I think all of them. And then some of you said, but what about the Tea Party or whatever? Now, I don't think the individuals are fake. In this case, they might have been fake.

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but often the individuals are sincere it's just that the thing never would have been organized never would have been funded and never would have been pulled off if it had been left to you know grassroots people to do it on their own there's always it feels like there's always some shadowy you know funding where it just doesn't happen so this is more of that shadowy funding

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Well, there's some explosive allegations about Swalwell, Representative Swalwell, who I believe is my representative. I lose track, but I think he's my representative in California. And apparently he went to, here's the allegations. We don't know the details yet. But according to Nick Sorter, who's, I don't know how to describe him, maybe independent journalist.

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He's one of the people on X who's always breaking news. So he goes to a restaurant with his wife. It's like 10 o'clock at night and it's practically empty. And then Swalwell comes staggering in or he got drunk as soon as he got there. That was unclear. But he got super drunk and he ended up at the table right next to him, even though the whole restaurant was kind of empty.

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And because he's drunk, he's talking very loudly. And apparently Nick turned on his phone and recorded it. And he was there with some... Here's the allegation. So I don't know yet. I'd like to hear the recording myself. But the allegation is that he was dining with... lobbyists, I guess.

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And he was getting really drunk and talking loudly about how to cheat on his wife and some just, you know, awful things, things you wouldn't say unless you were super drunk. And I will go a little bit further. If the allegations of how he acted are true, he is probably more than a guy who had a few drinks that one time. My experience is that nobody acts like that if the allegations are true.

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Again, I wasn't there. But if the allegations are true, and we'll know pretty soon because there's a recording that's going to come out, that would suggest a drinking problem. That doesn't suggest somebody had too many that one day. It's strongly indicative of a deep problem. We'll see. But here's the funny thing.

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So Swalwell posted, not about this topic, but separately posted and he said, today I stood on the steps of the Capitol with my Democratic colleagues to say hell no to Trump's reckless budget. And then he showed four photos that showed different angles of him and other Democrats standing on the steps of the Capitol.

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So if you wanted to fall in love with somebody who lived in a different city, but wasn't too far away, you kind of can't, in any practical way, end up living in the same place and married because you're both only authorized to work in your area. So if you go to the other area, one of you can't work. And since the young people kind of both need to work in China.

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And I saw that and I said, you know, look how easy it is to claim your accomplishments for the week. Swalwell just did it. There's one of his accomplishments. He stood on some steps. He did. Yeah. No, he really did. He stood on some steps. Other people stood on some steps too. He's not the only one, but he stood on some steps and that made a difference. Now,

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I don't know who your representative is, but did your representative stand on any steps yesterday? Probably not. No, but I'm lucky because my representative stood on steps. Good job there. Well, there's a creepy story about people on some kind of message board and it was CIA people and there were kinks involved and A bunch of colorful characters.

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And since I don't do kink shaming, just people are people. Let them be there. I haven't been interested in the story, but apparently Tulsi Gabbard has identified the people who were on that message board and already fired them. So. That's all I want to say about that. I don't want to talk about the details because if it's not your kink, it's just the creepiest story in the world.

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And if it is your kink, I don't want to hear about it. You know, I don't have a problem with anything you want to do, but I don't want to hear about it. All right, here's my persuasion tip of the day. Have you noticed that the Democrats are using chaos? and saying, oh, there's a lot of chaos going on, Doge and Trump and chaos and chaos. And you wonder why they use that one word?

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Well, first of all, it's obviously a published talking point. There is no way that that's happening organically. This is yet again the Democrats listening to somebody who knows what they're doing, telling them what to say. The reason they say chaos is because they don't have to prove it. And it's scary to seniors. So senior citizens, the last thing they want is chaos.

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They don't want a lot of change. If they're comfortably retired, they can't really go back to work if something goes terribly wrong. So chaos is the scariest thing if you're on a fixed income and retired. You don't want any chaos. You're just barely making things meet. So from a political persuasion perspective, it's clever, and it looks like the work of a professional.

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So just when you hear it, just know that that's not a sincere opinion of the speaker. It's just because somebody said this is a good word. That's why they do it. But let me give you some context about Doge and all the chaos. So here are some of the things that the Democrats were saying about Doge. The problem is not that they don't want to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse.

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I mean, who would be in favor of those things? So they're really in favor of the way it's being done. The way it's being done. And here's what they say. You should use a scalpel, not a chainsaw. They're cutting too much muscle. People will suffer. Employee morale is down. There's not enough communication.

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with the employees, there's conflict and the bureaucracy is fighting back and it's a mess and it's humiliating to some people and there's bullying, harassing. Everyone except the people doing it know a better way to do it and things are not being thought through. There's not enough empathy. Have you heard all of those things? So that's basically the Democrat approach.

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Now that sounds like a lot of chaos, right? So one of the problems that I've always noted with the popular media is that they don't have real world experience. They have media experience and that's a very special kind of business.

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So they probably know everything about their own industry, but they don't really know what's it like to work at some other big company that has, you know, other big processes. So let me tell you how the real world works. 100% of the time, if you're trying to do big cuts or a big merger or a big reorganization, all of which are common. I've been through them.

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I work for a bank that got taken over by another bank. I think I've told you this story before, but it's relevant. We were told, this is the communication we got as employees. We were told, don't worry about your job if you're good at it. Because we're going to use a scalpel, not a chainsaw. They didn't use those words, but that's what they communicated in essence.

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It just makes it basically economically impossible unless you meet somebody who's your neighbor. So China does a lot of things wrong in terms of promoting population, but it looks like they may be trying hard to fix that. According to Breitbart News, Neil Monroe, there's a shocking poll by Harvard-Harris It says that 75% of Democrats... 75% say Joe Biden's migration flood was an accident.

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So we're going to look at everybody individually. And if you're a good employee, don't worry that there might be duplication in the company that's acquiring you, which normally would mean you'd get fired. Rather, we want to keep all the good people. So if you're good, don't worry. You've got a job. What do you think happened as soon as the deal closed?

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they fired everyone in my department now i was the lucky one because they were discriminating against me for being white males who i just left so i didn't i wasn't fired but only because i just quit everyone else that i left behind every one of them fired so were they lying when they said we're going to use a scalpel yes they were they were lying

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They didn't want people to revolt and they wanted you to feel comfortable. So they did a really good job of communicating, except the communication was a lie. Now, how do you think we felt? Well, the employees who left behind, do you think they thought they were humiliated and bullied? Do you think they thought it was chaos? Do you think they thought the communication was poor?

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Do you think they thought that there wasn't enough empathy being shown? Do you think? Yeah, it's all those things. Everything that people are saying about Doge is 100% common to every large change in any large organization. There's not a single thing that people say about Doge that isn't said about every organization that makes a big change that involves firing people. No exceptions.

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So does the media know that? I think they don't. I think a lot of people in the media are not really experienced. And when they say, oh, the employees are reporting that morale is low and the communication is bad, and then nobody knows what they're doing. That's everything, all the time, every single time. If you don't know that that's universal, you would think that there's chaos.

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If you knew it's 100% universal, everybody's going to feel exactly this way, then you'd say, I guess that's the only way to get from here to there. That's what I say. It's the only way to get from here to there. And yes, it's messy, but there's no second way. There is no second way. It's always this messy period, whether it works or doesn't work. It's always this messy. All right. So chaos.

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So meanwhile, Ukraine apparently has agreed to some kind of mineral deal with the United States. And even Zelensky might even come to D.C. on Friday, possibly to sign it. I'm not sure the deal is done because we've been surprised before. But put this in context. Trump has managed to get Ukraine and now even Russia through Putin to both be competing in

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to be business partners with the United States in major projects. Just hold that in your head. It was a month ago that the frame in Ukraine and Russia was, we're at war and we don't know how to stop. Now that's still true, but there's always more than one way to look at things. Trump has changed the frame to, I think you two should really compete to see who can be our best business partner.

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Now, I'm not naive, so I know that anything that Putin says has to be taken with a, you know, it might be a trick. His long-term objectives might be evil. I get it. I get it. You can't trust Putin. But the same would be true of Zelensky. I get it. I get it. We can't trust him. But just think about how the frame changed. Who else could do that?

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Who else could be entertaining gigantic mineral and aluminum offers? from both of those countries who were at war at the same time. It's almost impossible to even imagine that this is happening. Now, that doesn't mean that the deals work and they're good deals and doesn't mean that we'll do any deals with Russia. I don't know about that.

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But the fact that Russia and Ukraine went from competing on the battlefield, which is still happening, to elevating it to competing in economics, and trying to be our good friend economically is just mind-blowing. I mean, only Trump could do that that quickly. A lot of it has to do with the fact that everybody calls him a dealmaker. So if a dictator walks in, you say, oh, you're a dictator.

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But if a dealmaker walks in, you say to yourself, oh, maybe I can make this work. It's a completely different frame, and he brings it with him everywhere he goes. So I asked Grok the following question.

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In the last hundred years, has there ever been a case where an industrialized country went to war with another industrialized country when one of those countries was the biggest market for the other or the biggest supplier of natural resources? Do you know what the answer was? Once. Once. And it was when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

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So prior to that, Japan was getting most of their oil from the United States. So Japan was dependent on American oil and still attacked us. So that's an exception, right? Nope. They attacked us after we cut off the oil. So there is actually no example of any industrial country who ever attacked their biggest supplier or their biggest market. Now there are examples where they were doing business.

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Do you ever just feel sorry for Democrats that they haven't heard any true news in years? Can you imagine what that would be like? They're living this... And there's fake news on both sides, so it's not completely limited to one side. But imagine thinking... How could he even have this opinion that Joe Biden's migration flood was accidental?

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So there was business, but they weren't the biggest supplier or the biggest buyer. So here's what I think is true. And this is how I would see Trump's approach to war.

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i think his approach and again i'm not a mind reader but if i had to look at it in context i would say this if you're doing a little bit of business with another country the risk of war is you know the regular risk of war if you've got reasons to go to war a little bit of business isn't going to stop you if you do a lot of business it could go either way because a lot isn't like you know you're depending completely on the other it's just a lot

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But if you get to the point where you're the biggest buyer or supplier to another country of something very important, let's say energy and food or something like that, then the odds of you going to war with each other might be close to zero because it just doesn't make sense. Because wars are basically economics without the calculator, right?

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As others have pointed out, the country with the best economy is usually going to win the war if they have a proper military. You know, Kuwait might be different. But countries with proper economies can fund proper militaries, and that's usually the difference.

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So could it be that Trump's concept for peace is you've got to force your most dangerous adversaries to do enough business with you that it just doesn't make sense to go to war? I don't know. I don't think any of us are smart enough to know when that works and when it doesn't. And would it stop somebody like Putin? And would it stop somebody like Hitler? I don't know.

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But I kind of like it better than permanent war. You know, it's like we've got to try something. So I'm kind of tentatively supportive of that. You know, I get the risks. I fully understand the risks. Well, here's some good news.

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Joel Pollack is updating us in Breitbart that Lee Zeldin of the EPA is announcing that they finished the first part of the LA Fire Palisades, Eaton Fire, of the hazardous material cleanup. And that was expected that it might take 90 days or even up to a year. And Trump basically said, no, everything's going to be faster. Do everything faster. But, you know, it's going to take up to a year.

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No, do it faster. And so Lee Zeldin got it done. He got it done in 28 days. They were shooting for 30. But that's that's in the context of the smart people saying it was going to take 90 days to a year. Got it done in 28 days and was there in person to tell people. Now, keep in mind, that's not enough to start rebuilding. That's only the toxic. hazardous material.

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So the EPA isn't doing the full cleanup. They're just looking for things that are, you know, obviously this is toxic. We're going to have to take care of this. So things like, you know, batteries that caught on fire and that sort of thing. But phase two, the debris removal, which you have to do before you can build,

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The Army Corps of Engineers told Breitbart that it hopes the process could be finished within a year, which would be six months ahead of the original estimate of 18 months. Now, this is a really good test of whether Trump can really use his magic to make even the state, in this case, well, the EPA would be his. But can Trump really just make things work faster?

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It was the most planned and executed and all hands on deck, every single executive order, every single decision, every single everything. Every bit of it was to open the border. And it's the most, probably one of the most well-documented facts in American history. And 75% of Democrats are like, what? I never heard of that. That can't be true.

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And I think the answer is probably yes. Probably yes. If he can cut the BS out and prioritize and make sure we know exactly what we want, those things do make a difference. So it's still a horrible situation for all the fire survivors and who wants to wait another year, but at least it gives them hope.

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So the difference between this could have been two to three years and now it might be a year-ish, That's a big difference mentally, financially, just in every way. So I hope this is a good sign of what's at. There's a new technology that's interesting. It's being written about in interesting engineering. Aman Tripathi. And there's a new development. And I guess it's not theoretical.

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They've actually built this thing that where they can extract 14 liters of drinking water from even arid, dry air. every day using only food scraps and solar power. Now the solar power part is important because normally you would need, you know, to plug it in and suck up a lot of power to suck water out of the air. I have one of those, by the way, I bought a unit just because I was curious.

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So I'm making water out of the air right now. Literally I'm making water out of the air, but it's plugged in. So if you didn't need to plug it in, And then the real secret is that they can take any kind of food scrap. It doesn't even need to be anything specific. They can take any kind of food scrap, and the University of Texas at Austin researchers figured out how to turn the food scrap

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into a moisture attractor i guess so it becomes the the secret sauce within the machine that that drags the the water out of the air and converts it into clean water even though it's food scraps that's just amazing but here's here's here's the mind-blowing one this next one will be a reminder

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that no matter how much you think things are going to stay the same, it only takes one smart person to change the whole freaking world. Now, I don't know if this is one, but this is fun. All right, listen to this story. Now, the context is, you know that one of the biggest issues with China and Taiwan and AI is the cost and practicality of making chips. So listen to this.

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According to Cyrus Moulton at Northeastern Global News, there's a Northeastern professor who patented a nanomanufacturing process to slash chip production costs by 99%. He built a printer to print your own chip. You don't even have to be like a chip making company. It's a printer. that can print your own chip.

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We're right at the point where AI can design the chip for you, let's say a custom chip, and then you could print it just at home. You could print your own chip. And apparently it works. It's not theoretical, he already built it. And it's 99% less cost. Well, that would change just about everything. That's incredible. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I had to say today.

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I'm going to say a few words to the local subscribers privately. I hope you enjoyed the show, and I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place, for more fun. The news is just so much fun lately. All right, YouTube and X and Rumble, I'll see you tomorrow. Locals, I'm going to come your way privately in 30 seconds.

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And I think maybe it's just hard for them to understand what just happened. Uh-oh, looks like I'm being... Create an app to fly... Okay. Oh, Elon Musk is mocking. I think he's mocking my post where I was posting about the 75% of Democrats not knowing it. Anyway. Remember I always warn you, wait until you find out about climate models.

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Now, most of my viewers are a little skeptical of climate change, or at least the models. I don't know if the climate is changing, but I don't trust the models. And in the context of learning that every part of America is corrupt, just all of it, The judges, we'll talk about this, but the judges, the media is corrupt because the Democrats didn't even know that the border was open intentionally.

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So the news is broken. The science is broken in five different ways. Healthcare is rigged. The FDA has got this revolving door, or maybe it's a one-way trip, to the big pharma industry. And every time we learn about anything from NGOs to government funding to whose spouse is collecting money while the other spouse is voting for it, everything is corrupt.

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Just from finance to health care to science and everything. And yet we still wake up in the morning and 80 percent of the country goes, well, thank goodness the climate models are real. There really isn't the slightest chance they're real. If you've lived in the real world for five minutes or more, everything about this just screams of all the things you should not believe.

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The climate model should be right at the top. And you don't even have to be an expert. Let me give you a couple stories. You may have heard these, but these are criticisms of the climate models. So... So there's a study, let's say Climate Change Dispatch is writing about this, Kenneth Richards. So there's this new study. It's actually 2024, but it's not that early into 2025 yet.

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So it's a newish study. It says satellite data shows that ocean evaporation is declining, which is the opposite of what the models say. Now, you might say to me, well, I mean, that's just one variable, right? So maybe the ocean evaporation is now such a big thing. No, the ocean evaporation is like the biggest variable.

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And this is just about one of the most interesting things I've seen in a long time. So as you know, the Washington Post gets accused of being sort of a leftist tool. And then Bezos is not really super political. He's more about just making stuff work. So here's what he wrote to his team, and then he's posting it so we can see it too. And I thought I would

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So because the models are iterative, in the beginning of the model, it might say CO2 will be this level and heat will be this level. And then later... It'll say CO2 is increased and the heat is increased. But also other variables, such as ice melting will be different in the future. And one of the biggest ones is that the climate warming should cause an increase in ocean evaporation.

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It's one of the most basic assumptions built into climate models. It's maybe the biggest one. And it was off by a factor of 10. It wasn't even in the right direction. So now remember, studies, no matter what the studies say, maybe there's a 50% chance that any given study is right. So even the skeptical ones could be wrong.

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It's not like all the skeptical ones are correct and all the pro-science, the pro-climate change ones are wrong. But just know that the biggest, and this is a published study, so it's in PNAS, and it seems to indicate very strongly, based on what looked like a pretty extensive look at the data, that the most basic prediction is not even close and off by a magnitude of more than 10.

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Now, if that's true, and of course, studies can be wrong, but if that's true, then there's just no credibility to the climate models. Here's another one. This is being written by Charles Rotter, and what's up with that? So did you know that our temperature records have been homogenized?

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So the biggest, most important data set, I would think, for the climate models is what was the temperature before, and then what is the temperature now, on average, the Earth's total temperature. But did you know that because there are a variety of irregular things that happen with the data, they often need to make corrections, you know, adjustments.

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They call it homogenizing the data so that if they can, they try to get everybody to be on the same page about how to tweak the data from what it actually says to maybe something closer to what they think it says. So they're literally changing it from what the data says to what they think it should say. That's called homogenizing the data. And apparently this is not just one study.

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Apparently it's just the data. The data doesn't even exist. Meaning that there's no actual agreed upon data for the temperature. There's agreed upon data sets But everybody recognizes that there are enough known errors in the data that you have to make corrections. But there are different ways you could correct it. And so they don't even agree on how would you correct it? Should you correct it?

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Now, here's my take. Anybody who's lived in the real world and had a job where they had to measure anything,

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you already know that they can't measure the temperature of the earth over decades accurately enough to know that it's changing in what direction that's just not a thing is is nothing that the best scientists in the world with huge funding and all good intentions it's just way beyond human capability way beyond it has nothing to do with science it has to do with the fact that it's a big messy system

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And if you've got this big, messy system with different temperatures and you've got the heat island effect and somebody's trying to correct for it and some of the temperature measurement places that the paint on the enclosure has faded, which actually changes the temperature. So they have to adjust for all kinds of things, like different equipment and heat island and paint and all that.

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Because it's the sort of thing, if you paraphrase it, you're not going to get it right. Because there's some nuance here. So let me just read it. All right, it's Jeff Bezos. He says, I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning. I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. Now, the opinion pages are where you get the real biased stuff.

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So no, they don't know the temperature of the Earth over decades. That's not a thing. It couldn't be a thing. It's a ridiculous assumption. So I'll say it again. If you listen to me about the specifics of what I think is wrong with climate change, I could have all that wrong. It's possible that both of these skeptical studies are off base. But I don't need them. I don't need them.

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The only thing I need is that I've lived in the real world. These are not doable things. There's no such thing as a complicated climate model that's going to predict the future of the temperature, or even that you could measure the temperature and the whole earth and get all the warm spots, really check it out. These are not real things. So just wait till you find out.

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Wait till you find out, because I think it'll happen in your lifetime. There will be a day when the news collectively says, all right, we got to admit, it was never real. That's definitely coming. Because everything else is not real. Well, here's a non-surprise. The Obama-nominated judge, Gateway Pundit's writing about this, Ben Q., who blocked Trump's ICE raids...

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is married to a far-left open borders activist funded by George Soros. Now, it seems that, and Elon Musk pointed this out, he said the other day, it's always the spouse. So we also have this problem where members of Congress will vote for funding for, let's say, an NGO, and then you find out

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Aren't you glad I'm here? Well, I knew a lot of you would be alone today. And you would need a little extra company. And you'd like to have coffee on Christmas morning with your favorite distant friend. Distant by, you know, only distance. All right, let me call up your comments here. Oh, there we are. Where are we? Nope, that's not it. That's not it. That's it. All right, we're ready.

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But my suggestion, I think, is the best. If the United States takes it over under Trump's administration, we should change the name from Greenland to Orange Land. Greenland to Orange Land. Yeah. Yeah, you wish you thought of it. All right, what else is happening? Apparently, according to The Bite... The Washington Post is trying to get some new leadership in there to run the paper.

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And the people who are applying or had been considered for the job are pulling out because they don't like the question they get when they interview. And the question is, how would they use AI and technology basically to make the paper more successful? And all these newspaper people don't know anything about technology or AI. And they're just like, I'm out. I'm out.

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So I would go further and say if Jeff Bezos wants the Washington Post to be more of a technically driven enterprise, you can't hire an editor. You can't hire somebody who's been in journalism their whole life. You're going to have to get somebody like a Vivek or an Elon Musk. You're going to have to get somebody who really, really understands technology.

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Anything short of that would be, why bother? A regular newspaper editor. is not going to be bringing in a new technology way of doing things. That's just not going to happen. That would be like asking a bookstore in 1985 to build Amazon. Bookstores don't know how to build Amazon. Newspaper people don't know how to do AI. Politico has a story with this headline.

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Elon Musk's, quote, move fast and break things attitude clashes with Washington. Now, weirdly, I've been hearing the following complaint from people in my own life, you know, people that I interact with. People are saying that Elon Musk...

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unique among all human beings is the only person who won't be able to figure out that governments operate differently than businesses and some adjustments might need to be made. To which I say, okay, let me understand this, right? You're saying that Elon Musk, unique among all 8 billion people, would be the only one, he'd be the only one

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who couldn't see what every one of us see, which is government runs differently than business. Secondly, if you believe that move fast and break things won't work in government, what is your basis for saying that? What data are you looking at? What experience are you relying on that move fast and break things won't work in government? Now, I would agree it might not,

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might not work in every situation. But do you really think that Elon Musk looks at a brand new situation and says, I think I'll treat this the way I treated a completely different thing? Elon Musk. You think that Elon Musk is uniquely unable to see that every situation is different and therefore you must adjust? Elon Musk? Why am I even having that conversation with multiple people?

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What does Politico think he is? How could you watch him do what he's done so far, what he's done so far, and think he can't navigate a new situation? He's literally the most famous navigator of new situations in the history of the entire planet. That would be like me sitting at home saying, what does Arnold Schwarzenegger know about bodybuilding?

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Maybe it's not a good sign that this is my favorite part of the day. But it is. So I caused more trouble than I ever imagined yesterday by recommending a movie. Who in the world thought that that would cause hate? I got more hate by recommending a movie I like than just about anything that's happened to me this year since I got canceled. And here's the problem. A number of people said...

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I mean, I think he was working in construction before that. So anyway, that's a weird criticism. I didn't even read the Politico article because when I saw the headline, I was like, oh, there's nothing here for me. Mike Benz, who's working on Christmas Eve, found the receipts to prove the following. Now, if you haven't followed Mike Benz, you're absolutely confused about the real world.

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I mean, for the first time, all the stuff I didn't understand about the world, at least in terms of how governments in the United States are operating, finally it all came together. Because what he does is he describes how...

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The CIA has all these cutouts that control other countries, and more recently, they tried to use that trick to control the United States directly, which they're not supposed to do. But let me just tell you what he discovered recently, just the other day. So as he often describes, there's an enormous entity... that the United States controls and funds. It's a U.S. entity called USAID, U-S-A-I-D.

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Now, if you heard USAID and you knew it operates to influence other countries and you knew it was hugely funded, I forget their budget, but it's gigantic, wouldn't you assume that it was like foreign aid just because of the name of it, USAID, and it's externally focused. It's not aid to the U.S. It's U.S. aid to other countries, is what it sounds like. But it turns out it's nothing like that.

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Its mission is, the mission of USAID is to act innocent while overthrowing other countries on behalf of the CIA. So it's a regime change entity trying to look like something else, but basically it's just a CIA weapon. And did you know, according to Mike Benz, that AOC and Liz Cheney were both spawned by the USAID? They both have a prehistory that went through USAID. Do you know what that means?

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Well, the suggestion is that AOC and Liz Cheney are both essentially CIA-influenced operatives. and that they're not exactly operating for the benefit of the country so much as maybe the benefit of the CIA. Now, that's a big leap. It's a big leap.

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It's a leap from they had important contacts with USAID, like extensive ones, so much so that at one time they were certainly working with the CIA, and you could argue for them. But is it also true that the USA and the CIA still have their hooks in them and they're just puppets for those guys? Could be. Could be. It would explain everything you see.

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It would explain 100% of your observations about the two of them. But there's no direct evidence of that. There's no direct evidence. But that's also how it works. The way it works is, hey, there's no direct evidence. So I'm not going to say that they're CIA operatives. I will say that Mike Benz's research on them, it's public. You can see the documents. He shows them to you.

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You can see for yourself. But he makes a strong case. He makes a strong case that they grew out of an entity that isn't, let's say, exclusively patriotic. Well, maybe in its own special way. I guess if you get pulled into that world, you always think you're on the other side of goodness, even if you're not. So that was interesting. I continue to enjoy watching the Democrat...

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experts talking about why things went wrong and getting everything wrong. But what I call the doom spiral of the Democrat Party is way, way more entertaining than I expected. I knew the Democrats were going to have some dissension and chaos if they lost the election, which they did. I didn't know it would destroy the entire Democratic Party for I don't know how long.

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that I must be doing it for pay. So I finally said I liked the movie. I liked the movie Red One. It's a Christmas movie. And I got accused. I can't tell you how many people accused me of doing it for money and being a sellout. And I thought, really? When did it become unusual to say you like a movie on social media? And somebody said, you know, why would I be delving into this trivial stuff?

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But the question, and I've joked yesterday that the smart people who are Democrats have decided that the only way they can recover is by copying Trump. That's right. The Democrat experts, the smart people, went from the only thing we have to say is orange man bad. That's all we have to say. Trump's worse. And they often said it directly, by the way.

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They would often say, sure, our guy or our lady later may have some issues, but at least they're not Trump, right? It was just an anti-Trump message. And now they've decided that they have to have a Trump copycat message to win. So they literally went from anti-Trump to can we copy everything he did that worked? And that happened in like days.

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So how artificial was their entire program was artificial. It wasn't anything that smart people believe in because they wanted to change their minds overnight. It must have been that everything they were doing was seen as a tactic as opposed to a good idea for the public. And when they realized their tactic didn't work, you can change a tactic.

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So a tactic can change on a dime, but your core values aren't going to change on a dime. So when you see that what they think they need to do to win changed on a dime, do you think that had anything to do with core values? I doubt it. It suggests to me they didn't believe the core values that were being espoused by their own party, but they were too cowardly to say it or too loyal.

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I guess you could go both ways, too cowardly or too loyal to their team. It ends up being, it looks the same. But here's the question. How in the world are they going to recover? So let me lay out the situation for the Democrats, and you tell me if you think they can recover. Because we kind of ordinarily imagine that if Republicans have a bad election, they can recover.

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If Democrats have a bad election, they can recover. Because that's all we've ever seen. You know, usually there's always a comeback. But there's a real interesting situation now with the Democrats that I haven't seen before. So here's my description. Number one, Democrats have no leader. Would you agree? Now, we've talked before about, you know, Obama, you know, secretly pulling the strings.

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But then other people say, no, it's the advisers. The advisers are secretly pulling the strings. And other people say, I think it's the Clintons or the deep state or the CIA or it's the military industrial complex or it's Israel. Everybody's got some idea of who's controlling the president. But would you agree that the Democrats have no identifiable leader?

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I mean, Hakeem Jeffries says some things once in a while, but it's in the context of his current job. He doesn't feel like a leader of the party. They also have no popular policies. Just think about that. They have no leader, and they have no popular policies. because they got beaten, and the polls showed that the public didn't like any of their top policies. Now, I'm talking about the top ones.

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Once you get down to the fifth and sixth preference, then they start getting some support, like abortion, for example. But if you look at the top three, it's just all Trump. And so they would just have to... So how are they going to win with no leader... no charismatic leader, no popular policies, let's say the top three priorities. They also have no unity.

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At the moment, the Republicans are completely unified under Trump. Even Mitt Romney says, oh, it's Trump's party. The Republican Party is Trump's party. And when Mitt Romney said it, he didn't say it like an insult. He did not say it like an insult, which is pretty remarkable. Pretty remarkable. So somehow Trump found unity by simply success. Boy, if you want to unify people, try being successful.

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Why would you be talking about trivial things? To which I thought, is it your first day on social media? Social media is like 90% trivia, 10% substance. So I can't have a little bit of Christmas trivia? Anyway, so out of curiosity, since movies, of course, are highly subjective, there's no such thing as a good movie or a bad movie. If I could teach you one thing, it's this.

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That'll get it done. So he's got unity. And then the Democrats don't seem to have any positive messaging. So Trump's talking about the golden age and how great we're going to be. And the Democrats mostly talk about how bad we've been. Those are not competitive. How great we're going to be is a strong message.

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How bad we used to be, and we have to beat ourselves up for that, you can't win with that. And then, of course, the entire party is DEI-infected, meaning that their enthusiasm for diversity should, all things being equal, cripple their effectiveness forever. Because they can't back up from diversity and DEI. There's no way out. Like once you get there, you're going to have to die in that hell.

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You can't back out. But the Republicans don't have that problem at all. And wokeness, the whole idea of wokeness, it appears to have just turned into a joke. Like, I don't even see Democrats supporting wokeness anymore. They all seem to have said, oh, this was a losing theme, wasn't good for the country, you know, it totally destroyed the Democratic Party. And they're right. It did.

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It totally destroyed the Democratic Party. But possibly in a way they can't come back, which I worry about because I want a competitive party. And Gloria Romero, former state senator of California, said the Democrats were in complete collapse. Now, at this point, that story of complete collapse, which is shared by other people, their opinion, that's forming a narrative.

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And the Democrats, of course, like everybody, they'll seize on whatever narrative seems to capture things and other people are talking about. So if enough Democrats say we're in complete collapse, that's how they will see their party. It's not going to take too many pundits to use those words, complete collapse or words like it, for the mainstream to say, yeah, we're in complete collapse.

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And then it becomes self-fulfilling. So they're definitely circling the drain. And I feel like I've switched a little bit from, yeah, the less of them, the better. to, oh, we may have overcorrected. If we overcorrect, then we don't have a good fight. I mean, our system depends on a nice, fair fight.

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So, you know, I hope Democrats can come back, but only if they're competing with good ideas this time. If they're competing with bullshit, we don't need it. Newsmax was reporting on Trump, how he did with young people, and he said, quote, we got the highest vote ever for a Republican with young people, Trump said. My son, Barron, said, Dad, you got to talk to this one and that one.

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He likes Joe Rogan a lot. He said, Dad, you got to do an interview. He has a feel for young people. I might have to start thinking about TikTok, meaning keeping TikTok so we can benefit from it. Here, in my opinion, is Trump's least appreciated skill. And when I say skill, I mean way above average. Like skill. Skill like you haven't seen before skill.

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His most important skill is at the age of 78, he is a really good listener. Have you heard that before? Because the bad guys, the Democrats, were all about Trump's a narcissist.

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So he's not even going to listen to you, or he's going to make a decision based on the last person who talked to him, which is just laughable, or he's going to use his narcissism and he's just going to do things that are good for him, which is completely at odds with the observable fact that he's the best listener I've ever seen in politics. Does he understand what his base wants? Yes. Yes.

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I've never seen anybody understand what their base wants more than Trump understands what his base wants. He knows how to joke with us. He knows how to tease us. He knows how to get us interested. He knows how to inspire. He understands his base. But it goes further than that. When he talks about listening to Barron, He was taking political advice from a teenager. Do you know why?

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Why was he taking political advice, like important political advice, from a teenager? Let me tell you why. Because he listened to him. He listened to him like genuinely listened to him. And he heard things he'd never heard before. And then he probably checked it with other people. And then he operationalized it, put it into practice. Now, I see this everywhere.

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And by the way, people who have talked to him in person will say the same thing. I think every one of them says the same thing, that he absolutely listens. And I'll tell you from my, I've told you this before, but my one experience where I talked to him personally when he invited me to the White House in 2018.

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There's no such thing as good art or bad art. There's no such thing as a good comic or a bad one. There's no such thing as a good movie or a bad one. There is such thing as did people go and like it or not. If people like it, it's good. So if you're looking at the comments and you see that 80% of the people commenting say, yeah, that was a good movie. Good recommendation. I enjoyed it.

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And I think he was just, the reason I was there, he was just, it was a slow summer, 2018, not much news. And I think he was just firming up support with the people who were public supporters. So I got an invitation. And if you can imagine this, it's like, it's beyond imagination.

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Imagine me sitting in the Oval Office, like I'm on the other side of the desk, and I'm just chatting with him about nothing in particular. Nothing in particular. I mean, I'm not going to give you details of the conversation, but it kind of went from one topic to another because I wasn't there for a specific purpose. But here's the part that will blow you away.

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A good percentage of it was him asking questions about my life and my career life and how Dilbert worked and how many papers was in and how that was working out. And he was completely engaged, or it felt like it.

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So imagine somebody who's got the weight of the entire world on their shoulders and you sit in front of them and for 30 minutes you feel like you're the only person in the room that he cares about. Like, it was amazing. So as a listener, it's like his top skill. And he's got a lot of skills, but that might be his top skill.

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So when you see the Baron story about he got his advice from a teenager, that's more like who he is. That's not the exception. Meanwhile, in that hellscape called Europe, Apparently, starting July 6th... No, apparently that already started. There's some kind of technology they're putting in the cars in Europe that will make your car beep if you exceed the speed limit.

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So your car will start scolding you for driving fast. And the funny thing is that... that guy who gets a lot of bad press in Great Britain, that theory or theory Britain guy, the anti-free speech guy, or the censorship guy, let's call him that. Now he wants your car to be scolding you. I'll tell you, the reasons not to go to Europe just keep adding up. Anyway, I got some technology stories.

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But I thought because it's close to year end, I would give a little review of my best predictions that involve Trump. All right. So clearly I'm better at predicting Trump related things than other things for whatever reason. And I wanted to just give you my best list because if you haven't heard them all at once, it's different. So these are all things you've heard.

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But if you don't hear him in a list at the same time, it won't feel the same. So, of course, you know that I kind of got a lot of notoriety because in 2015, I said that not only would he win, but he would change how we saw reality.

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Now, those were two of the best predictions of all time, that Trump would win when people thought he was a joke, and that he would not just win, he would change reality. I said that in 2016. Did he change reality? The way you see reality? Did he change the way you see reality? Oh my God. Now we understand that the news was never a legitimate industry. I had no idea how bad the fake news was.

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But he let us see it. And he was on it early. Now why did he see it before the rest of us? Because he was in it. He knew how often the news was fake about himself. So he knew the news was fake because it was fake about him for years. So he let us in on the secret. The news is fake. And then we could start to see it.

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A comment that doesn't make sense is that was a bad movie. It's not a bad movie if 80% of people liked it. If 80% like it, that's a good movie by definition. Your own opinion of the movie is just your own opinion. It's not some kind of universal standard. So out of curiosity, I followed up today just to cause more trouble. which other people are saying I'm trying to just get engagement money.

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Once you see the news is fake, you start to realize that everything from the Russia collusion is more than an accident. And that there are forces behind the curtain who are orchestrating things. And then you start to understand Soros and Suddenly everything starts coming together. And then you start thinking the experts might not know things. He calls climate change a hoax.

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And the first time you hear it, you're like, oh, God, really? Oh, my God, I was supporting that guy. And now he's saying that science is like their main thing is a hoax. And then the more you see about climate change, the more you think, oh, yeah, you might be right about that too. And then you find that all experts who have bosses are lying. All experts who have bosses are lying.

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And then you learn that every organization that reaches a certain scale is fully corrupt. Just all of them. I didn't see that coming. I didn't know all of them were corrupt, but it seems to me that all of them are corrupt. So he did change reality. I also said in 2016 that he was one of the best communicators, not just persuaders, but one of the best communicators we've ever seen.

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And people laughed. And they said, Scott, they say he has a sixth grade vocabulary. We think he has mental illness. And I said, no, that sixth grade vocabulary, you don't see what he's doing. He's talking the way people talk. He's communicating on their level. That's how you do it. That's the right way to do it.

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If you don't even recognize it as a technique and you think you must have mental illness, you are so far from understanding how things work. You're just flying blind there. Today, would you agree that even the people who are on his enemy's list, would you agree that even they say he's the best communicator around? You would. They basically say he out-communicated us.

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I mean, the Democrats are kind of being honest about that. And I would say that his slogans, his summaries, his ability to provoke, make you think, make you think differently, reframe things, you've never seen anything like it. He's the best. You know, Reagan was amazing. I think Trump's better. I think Trump's better. And Reagan was amazing. But Trump's a little bit better.

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He's the best I think we've ever seen. So here's what else I predicted. By the way, along with the Our idea of reality changing, the simulation theory, and the fact that string theory doesn't look like it works. And then some, maybe even things about aliens, I don't know. But certainly the way we look at reality is completely different since Trump.

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I predicted that after Trump lost in 2020, even though his reputation was in the toilet and he was being called a traitorous insurrectionist, I predicted against the grain that he would get more popular every day. And he did. And he just reached his peak popularity. He got more popular every day. I predicted incorrectly, so this is my biggest incorrect one, that Russia would not invade Ukraine.

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And my reasoning was that if they did, it wouldn't work. And all the experts were saying, oh, Scott, it's going to take two weeks. Russia will just roll into Kiev. There's nothing to stop them, basically. And I said, no, I think drones are going to stop them. And today it's a drone war. So Ukraine was reporting they did their first all-robot attack.

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Today I'm going to say I don't believe that's true. I think their alleged all-robot attack was just propaganda. Good propaganda. Well done. Because in war, propaganda is one of the tools. It's one of the tools of war. So if you judge wartime propaganda as to whether it's true or false, you're in the wrong conversation. Wartime propaganda is just supposed to work or not work.

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True or false isn't... Who cares? It's a war. You're just trying to win the war. If it works, it works. That's the end of it. It doesn't need to be true.

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So Ukraine came up with this great propaganda that they're so advanced with their robots and their drones that they can now launch all robot attacks, which conveniently sends the message that, sure, they're running out of human beings because they're all dead, but that won't stop their war effort because they'll just replace human beings with robot, all robot warriors.

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But no, I'm actually curious. When I ask a question, it's usually because I actually think it would be an interesting question. So my question was, if you think Red One is not a great movie, like I do, I think it's a great movie, what would be your favorite movie recently? So I asked the people who said they didn't like Red One, what movies do you like recently?

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So I would look at that first report as propaganda. I don't think you're going to see them duplicating their all-robot attack and suddenly taking Crimea back with robots. That's not going to happen. The story about that is way ahead of the reality. I feel very confident in saying that, although the reality will certainly be all robots.

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There's no doubt that we'll have robot war, but not in Ukraine and not this year. So that was my best prediction about Ukraine, is that they would use drones and technology that Russia had not seen yet to make it impossible to hold ground. And I thought, really? They're going to roll tanks. They're going to bring tanks into Ukraine, and they think any of them are going to survive.

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And sure enough, most of the tanks got taken out. So I beat all of the military experts on... Not the question of whether Putin would invade, but what would happen if he did. I predicted in 2019, and most of you did too, that Biden's brain was shot and there was no way he could last to the end of his term. So I beat the medical doctors, the medical experts, in my prediction about Biden's brain.

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I beat the military experts on how Ukraine would fare if Russia attacked. I beat all the political experts when I said that you're going to be surprised how much the Hispanics like Trump. And I said, if you live and work among the Hispanic community, as I do, you will see that they're just basically Republicans. They love their family. They like hard work. They're willing to do it.

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And their religion. And yesterday I was watching a clip of a Hispanic American saying, yeah, I think the Democrats underestimated our Catholic beliefs. They're just closer to Republican. So I alone in the entire world predicted that although Trump was being demonized for his border policies, that he would gain in Hispanic votes. I alone, in the entire world, predicted that.

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Now, I say I alone, I mean in just the political pundit class. There might be plenty of you who predicted it, too. I also predicted that Trump would pick up black votes mostly among men, long before it happened.

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So at the same time that people were saying, you know, find people hoax and everything else that seemed impossible, I said, you might not win the black vote, but watch what he does with black men. Sure enough, black men. I also told you way before anybody was onto it that the Democrats were becoming the party of women and men who were willing to go along with the women.

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And sure enough, they became the party of women. I also predicted... that the fine people hoax wasn't like the others, and that it was the tentpole hoax. And if you could pull out the tentpole, the entire tent would come down. And I think that's what happened. I think that with the amazing work of Steve Cortez and Joel Pollack and I, the three horsemen of the anti-fine people hoax,

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I think we just stayed on it and stayed on it and stayed on it until most people knew it was a hoax on the right. Would you agree? Most people know that's a hoax on the right and didn't really know it right away. It took a while for that to become the common view on the right. Some people saw it right away, but before it was a common view, it had to be persuaded.

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And most of my answers were movies that were 30 to 50 years old. 30 to 50 years old. That's what people answered with their favorite recent movie was 30 to 50 years old. But there are some people who mentioned a little bit more recent movies. For example, Schindler's List and The Shawshank Redemption were high on people's list of all-time best movies. Do you know what I think of those two movies?

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And then I think that's the main reason that the, I'll call them the common sense switchovers, switched. You've heard Joe Rogan say the fine people hoax affected him. I think you've heard Elon Musk, maybe Sachs, David Sachs. So there are several very notable people who were flipped by that one hoax when it got debunked, when they realized it was debunked. And I was right.

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It turned out to be the 10 poll hoax. It was the one that allowed you to see that the others were hoaxes. Because once you see that they pulled that off, then you can see that if the news could pull off that hoax so easily debunked and they still pulled it off. They still pulled it off, so much so that Biden ran on that message. That's how well they pulled it off.

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So once that got pulled down, especially after Snopes debunked it, I think that was like the domino that just destroyed the Democrat Party. I think the fine people hoax allowed the highly credible people such as the Elon Musks to come over RFK Jr. too, probably. I think it allowed the common sense people to say, you know what?

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We like these things, not everything, but we like these things that Trump is saying. We can work with that. So that was the biggest thing. And I think it was probably hugely helpful when I created the original hoax list, the list of 12 or so hoaxes that later got expanded to about 20 of them. Um, And it became memeable.

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And for the first time, because the hoaxes had names by then, you got your Russia collusion hoax, you got your fine people hoax, your drinking bleach hoax, they had names. So naming them and putting them on the list allowed it to be memeable. But more importantly, it allowed you to see that this is a giant psyop and that the Democrats and the CIA are

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and the media were all one entity running psyops one after another. And once you saw that, you can't unsee it. Because it creates vision for you. You can actually see it happening. So I've got to say, I'm pretty proud of those predictions. But if you'd like to be good at predicting too... learning persuasion is probably what gets you there. Because persuasion is predictive.

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Specifically, if I see the best persuader in the world enter a field, I know where things are going to go. Oh, it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. The best persuader just entered the field. All right. Bill Gates... was calling for anti-vaxxers to be censored by AI, and he says questioning vaccines is tantamount to inciting violence.

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So he wants the free speech of anti-vaxxers to be limited in a pretty serious way. All right, you win. For how many years have I been saying, why are you calling Bill Gates evil? when he's just trying to make the world a better place with all his charities. Now, I get it that he was pretty tough when he was running Microsoft and did some things you think are anti-competitive. I get that.

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But when he switched over to charity or philanthropy being his main thing, and he started developing better toilets for Africa and cleaner water and stuff, I thought, how in the world are you criticizing somebody working full time to make the world better, especially in the worst places like Africa? How in the world is that evil?

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And people would say, Oh, the vaccines, the vaccines, something about the vaccines. And then I would say something like, well, I don't know that whole story, but you know, are you saying all vaccines are bad? Because at the time, I thought he was just trying to help, and he thought vaccines would make a difference. Then people would say, yes, but he used Africa as guinea pigs.

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And sometimes it didn't work out, and people died from the vaccines. To which I say, how do you think any medicine gets tested? At some point, it gets tested on people. And you're going to have to find a place where the people say yes. So using Africans as guinea pigs, to me, is just a subset of all big pharma uses human beings as guinea pigs. That's sort of their whole business model.

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They use the guinea pigs as guinea pigs, or rats. And then if it works on the animals, they use human beings as guinea pigs. That's what it is. So I said to myself, aren't you making too much of this Africa thing? No, I get that it was a mistake. And I get that it turned out horribly wrong for way too many people. I get that. But does that mean it was poorly intentioned?

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Or is it just built into the nature of vaccines that every once in a while you're going to get a real bad result? And we all know that. And it's just sort of built into the risk management of it. So I had a million different ways to say, I think you're misinterpreting this Bill Gates guy.

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Just because he's seemingly creepy and maybe his social life and his connections to Epstein make you uncomfortable, that doesn't mean his philanthropy is all evil. Come on. And then I hear this story today. He wants the anti-vaxxers to be censored by AI. He's questioning whether vaccine questioning is inciting violence. And I'm out. I'm out.

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It's two movies that make you feel like you're in prison and or a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. And it makes you feel that the entire length of the movie. And that's your favorite movie? Who wants to feel like they're in the most horrible prison situation for three hours in a row? Mmm, popcorn. Oh, look what they're doing to him now. I'll bet that hurt. So I'm not judging. I'm not judging.

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I'm not going to review any of the old arguments because this is all I need to know. This is all I need to know. Once I see that he's all in on the vaccines, whether they work or not, basically, I don't need to know anything else. So it took a while for me to see something that I considered unambiguous because all the other complaints about him, they always had that ambiguity.

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Well, you know, maybe you're misinterpreting this. Well, you can't read his mind, I would say. You can't read his mind. But in this case, you don't really need to read any minds. This is, I don't even have to say what this is. You probably have the same opinion I do. So he's on his own now. If Bill Gates rises or falls or helps the world or doesn't, It's all him.

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I'm not going to back him on anything from now on. I'm out. RFK Jr. was asking on a Theo Vaughn interview not too long ago. He noted that Bill Gates and the CIA were co-hosting an event in 2019, and he said to Theo, Quote, you have a New York City Bill Gates hosting a coronavirus pandemic simulation. His co-host is Avril Haines, the deputy director of the CIA.

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What is the CIA doing at a public health forum? They don't do public health. They do coup d'etats. Coup d'etats. To which I say, yeah, why would Bill Gates... and the CIA be hosting a coronavirus event in 2019, which was right before the coronavirus got out. None of that sounds good. None of that sounds good. I'm not comfortable with that.

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So again, if this had been a year ago, I would have said, well, the CIA probably has an interest in this, and Bill Gates is trying to help, so maybe they just got together. Today I say, I don't like any of this. I don't know what it means. I don't like it. So I'm with you on that. So there's a new battery breakthrough. Lithium-ion batteries will double according to Tech Explorer.

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So the reason I tell you there's a breakthrough in batteries every single day is because there's a breakthrough in batteries every single day. And what you should get from this is the world is going to be really different. And technology and engineering are really focusing in the right place. Because if you can get batteries that are twice as good, five times as good, really everything changes.

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It changes the economics of almost every industry and every residence as well. So it's a big deal. So there's this airline crash in Azerbaijan. Somebody got on film. And there's some kind of weird structural failures that didn't seem to be the proximate cause of the crash, but maybe it was, but it's a mystery.

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So it looks like a whole bunch of, almost like an explosion from outside may have ripped a whole bunch of little holes in the fuselage, which might've been the original problem. So nobody knows what those holes are caused by, But there are a bunch of them, and they're randomly scattered on the outside of the plane. To me, it looks like shrapnel that happened from the outside.

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Wait, I'm seeing something here. What about Ben Shapiro? I can't go backwards in the comments. They won't back up. So your comment about the fine people hoax and Ben Shapiro, I couldn't read it as it went by. I saw you were trying to flag me desperately. But I'll watch now if you want to put it back, but it'll take about 30 seconds for it to show up. All right.

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Well, I'm not going to see that one, I guess. If somebody saw that, you can put it in the locals feed. if it was important. It looked like it might have been some good point that I was missing. So if I was missing something important, I wanted to back up and get it. All right, well, look for that. So we don't know what that was, but it's a mystery of why that plane went down.

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Meanwhile, over in Saudi Arabia, you know they're building that miles-long city called Nome, I think. So it's the biggest construction site in the world. And so it's basically this straight line build of businesses, mostly businesses, maybe some residents. And here's the thing that makes news. So they're replacing the number of the workers with robots.

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But it was hilarious to see what people's favorite movies were because some of them are so dark that I actually think that Schindler's List should be illegal. And I mean that actually literally. Schindler's List, I don't think that should be legal as a movie because I got PTSD from it. So I suffered for years of having flashbacks to the movie.

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So that's why it got in the news because the robots are coming in. But apparently 21,000 foreign workers Ben Shapiro, the grand zero of TDS. Oh, so somebody's telling me that Ben Shapiro believed the fine people hoax at first. Well, there's nothing wrong with believing it at first. See, here's the standard that you should all adopt.

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If your complaint is somebody got something wrong at first, and then when better information was available, they revised their opinion, That should be a compliment to the person. It shouldn't be an insult because they got something wrong at first. The very best thing a person can do is adjust from wrong to right.

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If you tell me that Ben Shapiro with bad information got something wrong and then with good information got something right, I say kudos to Ben Shapiro. That to me sounds like just a compliment to his intelligence, flexibility, and open-mindedness. So did you mean to compliment him? Because that comes across as a compliment. Or is this just another anti-Semitic rant?

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Because his last name is Shapiro and he's Jewish, so you've got to shove that into every topic to find something that fits your little preconceived anti-Semitic frame. Is that what we're doing? Sometimes it's hard to sort out how much is a political opinion and how much is just pure anti-Semitic garbage. Because I got a real question on that one. Are we all on the same page?

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You can disagree with Ben Shapiro all you want, but if he improves his opinion with better information, he's still the smartest guy in the game. He's smarter than I am, and I don't say that a lot, right? I think you would agree, you don't hear that a lot. But no, he's smarter than I am.

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So if he and I disagree, and it's not based on some obvious values or religious difference, I'm going to stop what I'm doing. I'm going to listen to what he says, and I'm going to listen to his evidence, and I'm going to definitely question my own opinion if he disagrees with me. I love that there are people in the world

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who if they disagree with me, I will stop on a dime and say, oh, you know, Naval would be one. He'd be at the top of my list. If Naval said something that was opposite of what I thought, I would stop what I was doing and say, what? Like, where is this coming from? Ben Shapiro is another one. Jordan Peterson is another one. You could probably come up with a few more on the on the legal side.

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Jonathan Turley or Dershowitz. If they disagree with me, I immediately change my opinion to their opinion because I'm not going to out-legal opinion them, for sure. So, yeah. So I don't think... I don't think the people on the right are fully appreciative of what Ben Shapiro brings to the whole conversation. Like, you'll always have one person...

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whose logic and knowledge of the event, eventually, maybe not on day one, will be nearly perfect. So I don't think we understand how important that is. There are half a dozen people on the right that have that kind of intellectual weight, and they can bring it to almost any topic. Elon Musk, right? If I disagreed with Elon Musk, for example,

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Elon Musk says our biggest problem in the world is depopulation. You're not reproducing enough. I see a lot of people saying, oh my God, he's so wrong. Our biggest problem is too many people. To which I say, do you hear yourself? If Elon Musk, who has looked into it a lot, says with no reservation whatsoever, not maybe, not if, biggest problem is our lack of reproducing,

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Now, I get that we should all be informed of how bad things were at different times. I get that. We should all be informed. But did I have to get PTSD? Like they couldn't just give me the details and I wouldn't be able to figure out that that was pretty bad. Yeah, I think I would block somebody from watching that movie if they wanted to. But it was well made.

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You should immediately pause your opinion and say, I need to find out more about this because I'm probably wrong. Right. You know, I'm not sure I was totally on that page until I heard how confident he was. And then I started looking at the data. And once you look at the data, oh, yeah, he's right. He's definitely right.

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If you know a little bit about economics, you know that you have to have a certain ratio of new people to old people or everything breaks. Although robots will be interesting. All right, ladies and gentlemen. There wasn't much in the way of news today, so I just tried to keep you company and keep you going. Yeah, Japan in particular is losing people like a million a year.

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Mike Burt said the same thing Elon did way back when this group was new. You get the credit, Mike Burt. someone says so bighorn shaver says would love to see ben and candace candace owens knock down dragon and fight over zionism versus the catholic church i wouldn't why would you want to see that can't they have different opinions

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See, the thing is, I'm not asking you to have the same opinion as Ben Shapiro. If you heard that, you heard it wrong. I ask you that if he's talking about values or Israel, he has a certain emotional connection to things, you don't have to take those opinions. Because I think he would be quite transparent in saying even where his biases are. I think he'd be completely transparent about that.

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He always is, right? All right. You love to listen to me rapping while you're rapping? You're rapping on Christmas Day? I guess your family's coming later, huh? He's a performer, not a deep intellectual. All right, so let me comment this. So somebody is commenting that Ben Shapiro is a performer, not a deep, intellectually honest thinker.

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Now, in order for you to have that opinion, you would have to be smarter than Ben Shapiro. Because if you didn't recognize what he's doing as intellectually deep, depending on the topic, how could you judge that? Can your dog judge your intelligence? No. Can you judge your dog's intelligence? Probably.

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So in general, the smartest person can judge the intelligence of the less intelligent person, but not vice versa. So if you think that he's a performer and not an honest intellectual thinker, That kind of puts you that your opinion is that you're smarter than he is. Is that what you're saying? Like I say, I'm an egomaniac, and even I don't say that. He's clearly smarter than I am. Clearly.

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It was just destructive to human beings. Anyway, so there's news today. A little bit. Anybody want to talk about some news on Christmas? Christmas? I'll try to keep it light, okay? It's mostly an excuse just to hang out today. So here's the theme for today. The theme for today is it doesn't really matter what's happening in the world.

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If we took any kind of standardized test or a history test, a math test, he would beat me on probably every parameter. So I don't judge that he's not a deep thinker. I judge that I can't tell. It's deeper than I can go. If it's deeper than I can go, then I'm getting a lot of value out of it. So I think some of the criticisms are overblown. He wouldn't beat me at tennis. Maybe. Maybe.

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He does have youth. He has a Harvard Law degree, but he is a performer. So one of the things that seems to be directed as an insult that doesn't come across as an insult is that somebody is just doing something for clicks. That's literally the business model. The business model of everybody who talks about politics is, quote, doing things for clicks. It's not an insult.

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It just means that they're doing more than one thing at a time, that they can do things for clicks while making the world a better place. I do things for clicks, but I try to make sure that people are getting value from it. So I'll get your click, you get some value if you like the entertainment or you learn something, and then we're both happy. You got some entertainment, I get a click.

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Why is that a problem? Why is that a problem? To me, those kinds of complaints seem like you're not in a winning mindset. A winner mindset is, oh, you're doing something good and you're getting paid, and people are all happy about that? Good for you. That should be the approach. So if somebody's an entertainer, in addition to being able to think deeply, isn't that just a talent stack?

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Trump's an entertainer, but clearly he can go deeper. That's a talent stack, right? So sometimes your insults are just compliments, and I don't know what to do with it. Or when you say, when people mock me for changing my mind, that's a compliment that I changed my mind. If you're trying to make that seem like an insult to embarrass me, that's not going to work.

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Every time anybody changes their mind, you've seen me a million times say, oh, it looks like Cenk or Bill Maher or somebody or, you know, coming closer to an opinion that I hold. I always compliment them. I don't insult them for their old opinions. So, yes, we're going to work for clicks. We're going to be entertaining if we can. And we're going to try to make as much money as we can.

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But you're never going to succeed. unless the audience is getting a lot out of it. How's that a crime? Would the solution to the economic problem be more babies? Well, if we knew how to do that. The assumption is that there's something we could do in the United States to improve the number of American-born babies. I don't know if there is. There's nothing I've heard that could get that job done.

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Probably in the long run, if you improved your economic situation or the way we raise kids or the way schools work or something, you can easily imagine that if we changed enough, we could get back to having more kids. But I don't see it happening. I think the structure of the United States and how much it costs to live is just so expensive that people say, I can do one baby at most.

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I don't think that's going to change unless the economy changes radically. I don't see it radically changing. Maybe, all right, here's one way it could change. Suppose robots start doing all the work and people have too much free time.

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And let's say that all the basics are provided by robots so that nobody's out of food, nobody's going to run out of diapers, nobody's going to run out of health care. So basically all the basics will be taken care of. And you're bored. If you are bored because you didn't need to work and it didn't cost you extra to have a baby, Well, maybe that's exactly what would cause you to have more babies.

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It'll just give me something to talk about while you're talking to each other usually in the comments. So just make sure you have an amazing day today if I can help out by keeping you some company. By the way, for the local subscribers, I will be back this evening. So 7.30, I'll tell you the time this time. I don't usually tell you the time. But tonight I'll shoot for 7.30 Eastern time.

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But you know what the problem would be? By the time your robots are handling all that stuff, you're not going to need more babies. So by the time the robots are really doing the work of people at a large scale, we're going to start talking about having too many people again because they won't have a purpose. So if people stop having a purpose, because they don't work, what happens to them?

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Can you imagine me with only leisure? I don't think I could survive that. I've evolved over a million years, like I'm the result of a million years of evolution, that turned me into a creature that prefers work. I prefer it. I mean, not every kind of work, but I mean, I'm working on Christmas Day because I want to be here. I don't have to be here. There's nothing that makes me be here.

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I want to be here. So I don't know that I would love the world where the robots are doing the podcasts, even if they're really good at it. So I still need a person. Doing nothing is boring, right? Doing nothing that's useful... to me, is torture. If I do something that's hard or easy or whatever, as long as I know it's really making a difference for me or for somebody else, then I'm all in.

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It has to make a difference. But I don't really like the world where the robots are working and I'm watching TV or going to the gym. I don't know. That doesn't seem like the world I want to live in. I worry that the only way humans can survive and thrive is if one third of them are starving, one third of them are getting by, and one third of them are thriving and really trying to change the world.

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And I think if you change that to everybody's just fine, then it doesn't work. Because the thing that propels humans forward is the one-third that are going to really make things happen. One-third that are showing up and making sure that things are clean and the paperwork gets where it needs. And then one-third will always be below the level that society needs for work.

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There'll be one-third of the world at least. It's probably beyond that already. That doesn't really have an economic... value in terms of taking a job. So I think it has to be that way. I don't think we can all be in the middle. So that's what I worry about. When you listen to Ben Shapiro talk to Russell Brand, your head will explode. That's a lot of vocabulary between those two.

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You can tell Russell Brand's intelligence... by how quickly he can compose perfect but complicated sentences with big vocabulary, but not so big that you don't know what he's talking about. That's quite a skill. We'll be like cats, just laying around and licking ourselves. Why won't Ben debate Nick Fuentes? Is that a serious question? Really?

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Are you genuinely confused about why Ben Shapiro would not debate Nick Fuentes? That can't be a real question. And by the way, I'm not insulting Nick Fuentes. I'm just saying it wouldn't make any sense for Ben to talk to him. I wouldn't want to see that. I wouldn't want to see it at all. And I wouldn't recommend he do it. Santa looks like me without the beard?

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It's funny you should say that, because I was saying that while I was watching the show. I was joking about Santa being too much like me. All right. I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately. How about Matt Walsh? What about him? You mean to talk to Nick Fuentes? How about never ask me that again?

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Eastern time. 7.30 tonight. And we'll hang out. So there are a lot of people I found out who literally don't have any human contact on all of Christmas Day. And we're going to fix that. I will be your human contact. All right. So the news is all just kind of light and funny today. Some of it is, anyway. Here's my first news item.

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I'm going to put on the list of things I never want to answer or see a question on is who should talk to Nick Fuentes. And I'm not insulting Nick. I'm just saying, I don't want to really even deal with that question again. Because the problem is, let me be more specific. Nick Fuentes, his business model involves creating controversy that would rub off on anybody who got near him.

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Why do you think the people you like should get near him? Because you hate them? When does Christmas start? It's already on. We've got the Christmas trolls in the comments. Yeah, I mean, you can love him or hate him, but don't ask other people to be part of his act. His act does not really lend itself to guests. Now, I'm talking to somebody who got canceled.

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Now, trust me when I say half of the country, at least half, would have no interest in dealing with me. I had the experience recently of asking, and this is rare, I don't ask people to be guests on the show a lot. But there was one person in the public domain, I won't be specific, who I've chatted with a thousand times, maybe a thousand times.

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So somebody I know really well and somebody who at one point had been a big fan. And I asked that person to come on my show because that person would be unusually interesting. And I got turned down hard. I got a hard turndown. But I think the answer was, if I'm ever interested, I'll let you know. What?

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This was somebody that I had quite an extensive multi-year ongoing conversation with, and it was all positive. But after I got canceled, nope. Nope. Now, was he wrong? It was a he. Was he wrong? I'm not going to tell you who it was, but if I did tell you who it was... He was probably right. He was probably right. I would be a reputational stain on his world, and he doesn't need that.

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Why would he do that? So I completely understand if somebody doesn't want to go on Nick Fuentes in exactly the same way I understand if somebody doesn't want to come on my show. because I do present a reputational risk. And that's just a fact. It has nothing to do with my character or anything else. I don't take it personally.

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So I didn't take it personally when I got turned down by somebody who kind of surprised me. But if you looked at what their job is, or let's say their role in the world, I won't call it the job, but if you look at their role in the world, Yeah, yeah. Keeping the canceled guys staying off of him. Probably a good play. He's got other fish to fry. All right. Well, we appreciate you all, too.

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All right. Ladies and gentlemen, look at all that flannel. That's a good-looking Dilbert doll. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a moment, and I'll see the rest of you tomorrow. Thanks for joining me on this special Christmas day. You're all amazing, and thanks for the great year. All right, locals, I'm coming to you privately.

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Does anybody want to make a bet that the drone activity over New Jersey is way down on Christmas? Because if the drone activity is way down on Christmas... That definitely narrows down what the drones might be. Do you agree? They're probably not Iranian drones. And they're probably not from another planet. Because they don't do Christmas. I don't know if the Chinese drones would.

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You're doing wine in the morning? Well, that's quite a Christmas. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human Civilization Christmas Edition.

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That might be a hybrid situation. But let's watch today. We're going to ask Erica... to look outside tonight in the man cave and see what the drone activity looks like. Because one of us here, I don't know if Eric is here yet, but one of us is in New Jersey and has been taking pictures of the drone activity. So we'll have a pretty good baseline. We'll see if it went down today.

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Episode 2700 CWSA 12/25/24

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That'll tell us something. All right. Biden signed a new law designating the bald eagle as our national bird. Now, I'm glad he's doing the important stuff before he leaves, because you might not know this, but the bald eagle was not the national bird, which came as a surprise to me. If you had asked me, Scott, who is the national bird? I would have said bald eagle, but it turns out it wasn't.

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How many of you are blown away by the fact that the bald eagle was not the national bird your whole life. Did you know that? It wasn't the national bird? What? Now, it was close to that. It was a national emblem. So back in 1782, Congress decided that it would be our national emblem, but not the national bird. Now, I feel like I've been lied to since... 1782, I thought it was a national bird.

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But the other thing that offends me about this story is that they called it a bald eagle. A bald eagle? Really? Really? I thought we were more woke than that. I don't call it a bald eagle. No, I call it a feather-challenged eagle. Feather-challenged. Not bald. Not bald.

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For the people who don't understand how humor works, I'm not actually literally suggesting that bald eagles don't have any feathers on their head. This is just a joke. And if you do not understand jokes, it must be a very terrible life for you. But we're not going to be talking about that for now. For now, we're going to be talking about other things. So, moving on.

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So in other hilarious stories, Greenland has decided to beef up its military security. So Denmark, which owns Greenland, said that because of Trump's saber rattling, they were going to substantially increase the security of their country. But did you know that the United States has a military defense agreement with Greenland.

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That means that any attack on Greenland is considered something that the U.S. military is already committed to respond to. I'm not surprised, just because the hemisphere is in, but I didn't know that. So apparently we would be all in if somebody attacked Greenland. Now, if you're laughing, who's going to attack Greenland?

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that's actually a possibility now because as the Arctic melts, it's going to be a big fight between Russia and China and US and Canada and Denmark, I guess, about who owns what, you know, because once the ice melts, there's going to be a lot of sea travel and a lot of claiming of territory and whatnot up there. So whoever owns Greenland's got, you know, a good solid base to operate on.

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So it probably makes a difference. But they're going to increase their security. They're going to have long-range drones, more inspection ships, and sled patrols. And they're going to upgrade one of their airports so it can land a fighter jet. You know, when Trump first brought it up, I thought, I think we can take Greenland.

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Yeah, we didn't really win in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq didn't really go the way we wanted it to. But I really thought we could take Greenland. Like, I have confidence in the military of the United States. I feel like we can take that Greenland. But we're a little too late. Too late. They beefed up their security. I mean, we were probably going to send some intercontinental missiles.

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But now they have extra sled patrols. So how are you going to get past that? Extra sled patrols. And over the next several years, they'll build a better airport. So I don't know how you can fight that. So we better give up on our dream of conquering Greenland because they've got new sled patrols. And that'll stop us. No, actually, the reason they're stepping up to security is it's even funnier.

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It's the Trump effect. So because Trump made noise about Greenland being a national security risk, Denmark said, Oh wait, you're actually right. Greenland is a national security risk for everybody because of the Arctic opening up. So they're, they're beefing up a security, which is sort of laughingly small amount. Uh,

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is because they're trying to respond to the fact that Russia and China might be a threat sometime soon. So that's the Trump effect again. So here again, Trump's mere existence and statements make other countries do what we wanted them to do otherwise. Now, apparently this is also happening with NATO right now. So Estonia and Lithuania, I guess, are all saying we better massively increase our

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NATO spending because if America ever pulls out, we're in trouble. So Europe is actually saying, hey, we better step up and make sure we're taking care of ourselves because we're relying too much on America, which is Trump's message. Trump's message is you're relying too much on us. Step up your spending. And they're just doing it anyway in anticipation. This is the Trump effect.

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dopamine hit of the day thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip go oh it's a christmas miracle how good that tastes and i get to do it with all of you my favorite part of the day by the way i don't know if i've ever told you this is literally my favorite part of the day maybe it's because i like doing the talking and having you do the listening

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The Trump effect is very real. It seems like every country is making fairly substantial adjustments just to accommodate the fact that he's a completely different character and more effective in so many ways that they have to change things. When Biden came into office, do you remember anybody making any changes in other countries? I don't. Did any other country do anything differently?

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I don't think so. But as soon as Trump comes along, we better change everything we're doing in the right direction. Now, one of the funny questions going along around social media was if the United States takes over Greenland, what will we name it? Now, obviously, we would just keep it the same name, Greenland. But it's funny to think about. And so people had suggestions like Megaland and Others.

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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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Well, here's a little scientific thing that might be a big deal. According to No Ridge... There's a drug that already exists for people who take too much Tylenol and you want to save them from too much Tylenol, I guess. And what it does is it's called N-acetylcysteine. And what it does is it can prevent heart attacks, apparently, because it can prevent clots from forming.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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You know, they just shop for the right judge and then they get somebody to say, whatever Trump wants, we're going to say no. So here's a question that I've been noodling on. If you've been watching Mike Benz or watching the Doge project, you know that there were a number of organizations, both domestically and internationally, that were in the censorship business.

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Now, they wouldn't say they were in the censorship business. They would all say that they were in the getting rid of disinformation business. But the disinformation would always be on one side. They would never get rid of the disinformation on the left. They would only get rid of what they would call the disinformation on the right.

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Now, do you think they were accurate in knowing what the disinformation was? I don't even think that was the goal. I think it was just pure censorship of one side. But Elon Musk said on X, several more censorship organizations will be deleted. And my question is this, how many were there?

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Every time I listen to Mike Benz talk about some new disinformation organization that was international or domestic, I say to myself, Have I heard this story before? It just feels like the letters changed. You know, it's a GEC or a CISA or there was a new one recently. And I'm really wondering, were there hundreds? Were there dozens?

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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And then that's not even counting the FBI that we know was trying to influence the social media platforms. How many entities... were involved in trying to take away my freedom of speech. A lot. And how many entities were involved in trying to reduce the advertising revenue to any platform they didn't like? A lot. It turns out that there was enormous

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um not only you know dollar wise but the number of entities that were involved in this evil plot to take away your your freedom of speech in the united states i i don't even know if if several more censorship organizations get deleted how many are left you know several doesn't tell me anything you know i always say a number within a percentage is useless

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but a percentage without a number is useless. Here's a number, several, but without the percentage, I can't tell if that matters. If it's only 1% of all the disinformation organizations, it doesn't mean anything. If it's 80%, maybe it does. So I'd like to know how many there are out there. There's some AI expert I was seeing on a clip on X, Jeffrey Hinton.

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He says that the more we understand AI and how the brain actually works, the less human thinking looks like logic. I saw this on a Vitrupo account on X. And he says, we're not reasoning machines. We're analogy machines. We think by resonance, not deduction. were much less rational than we thought. Who does that sound like? It sounds like me. It sounds like my book that's behind you.

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I forget which one. But where I talk about Loser Think is the book. And I write about how analogy thinking is not real thinking. If all you're doing is being reminded of something else, that's not thinking. Now, How many smart people do you think would be analogy thinkers as opposed to people who reason from, you know, from base facts and then reason their way to a conclusion?

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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Well, let's look at the news. According to The Hill, a Trump critic named Lawrence Tribe, you know Lawrence Tribe? Very, very famous lawyer type person who's anti-Trump. He says that Trump's attempted Harvard takeover mirrors Hitler, Orban, and Erdogan. And then later he was on some TV show where he said, Trump's Harvard tactics are like the mafia's and Hitler's.

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Is that reasoning or is that analogy? It's analogy. It's analogy. Now, one of the things that I've predicted since the beginning of the AI big wave was that AI would teach us that we're not reasonable creatures. Because as we learn to understand how AI thinks, we're going to realize that's how we think too. And it's not based on reasoning from first principles.

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It's sort of just pattern recognition. It's just analogies. So I don't know what percentage of human beings can use reasoning, but it's not a lot. And if you were ever to say to yourself, the world is a simulation and some of us are NPCs, you know, non-player characters, I'm pretty sure the NPCs would be the analogy thinkers. And the few people who were players in that model...

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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Now, I didn't know this, but apparently if you have a drug that prevents clots from forming, it might make you bleed too much, so there's a downside. But this doesn't do that. So you might be able to take this drug, which already is approved for other purposes and seems pretty safe. And it could basically eliminate millions of heart attacks and strokes. Now, it sounds a little too good.

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would be able to reason from first principles, I guess. So ask yourself, which one are you? So let's talk about Ukraine and Russia. So according to the Wall Street Journal, Zelensky says he'll never agree to peace. without the surrender of Crimea. Now, Russia, under no circumstance, will ever give up their biggest, I guess, naval base.

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And there's no way they're gonna give up Crimea, much less the other properties that they own right now. So does that look to you like anybody who's serious about even trying to get a peace deal? It doesn't to me. And it makes me think there's something we don't understand about what's going on. Now, as you know, I have never been to Ukraine.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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So therefore, that makes me not an expert who is worthy to talk about it. So I'll just talk about it as an observer who is confused. So I won't talk about it as an expert. I'll talk about it as somebody who's watching the news and saying, what? What? Why does this news make sense?

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So apparently Rubio has canceled some high-level meeting because it doesn't look like Ukraine and Russia are serious about a peace deal. And they've downgraded the... They haven't cut off contact, but they've downgraded the negotiations, it's called. And so instead of Rubio being there or Trump being there, it's going to be Ukraine envoy General Keith Kellogg. General Kellogg. Kellogg.

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Kellogg is a serial, and a general is somebody who kills people. So would he be a serial killer, General Kellogg? I don't know. That's the first thing we have to decide. But secondly, I'm trying to figure out what could it be that we don't know. So one possibility is that Zelensky doesn't think he could personally survive peace. Right.

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But if you'd like to take this experience to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tank, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Because if peace happens, there'll be elections and then he would be voted out. And then whoever is voted in will start investigating all the money that Zelensky stole, allegedly, you know, possibly. I don't know about any. And he might die. So it's possible that Zelensky is doing everything he can do to prevent peace because he doesn't know how to survive peace. That might be the actual reason.

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Another possibility, this is maybe a little wilder, is that Zelensky knows there's a weapon coming that he would have access to that would change the nature of the war. Such as, and I'm not predicting this, but I'm just speculating, what are all the reasons he would act this way? And one of them would be that they're developing a million drone wave of attack.

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And nobody knows about it because there's big warehouses where they've got a million drones and they're building them up. And they're just going to run over the entire occupied Russian occupied territory and just kill every Russian soldier with a million drones. You know, they might lose a hundred thousand of them. but when they're done, there won't be any Russian soldiers. Is that possible?

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Are we moving to a fully drone war? And Zelensky knows it, and he knows it's imminent. So he thinks that it would go from Russia has the military advantage to every Russian soldier in those territories is dead. Maybe. I don't think that's the greatest possibility, but again, what else is it? The other possibility is that he's just negotiating.

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So he's taking the most extreme position, and then he's got something to give up. But it doesn't feel like it, does it? It doesn't feel like he really would give up anything. So I guess the mystery remains. But as long as the mystery remains, the United States probably just needs to get out of it.

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Well, you know, the baby aspirin and the other things, they have some downside. But as far as I know, There's no specific downside from this particular drug. Already exists. They know about it pretty well. So that's kind of cool. Over in China, there's a report in Interesting Engineering that the Chinese are looking to gene edit super soldiers.

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If we can't understand why he doesn't want peace, or at least peace on the terms that are practical, then we shouldn't be involved. One way or another, we need to back out because we don't have the real story. Unless we do, and we're not talking.

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Well, one of the things I love about the Trump administration is that he's created sort of a culture where if you're cutting the fat out of your organization, you're going to get some attention. So it feels like a lot of people are sort of almost competing to cut the most out of their organizations.

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of them is uh bill pulte um he was reporting today or yesterday i guess that uh you know he's in charge of the uh what's it called the fhfa and fannie and freddie and so that's the the u.s federal housing groups and he says there's so much redundancy in the paperwork It makes your head spin. As a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie, he got rid of a bunch of redundancy.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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He eliminated all kinds of redundancy. And as a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie tell us they're very happy with us. Now, here's my standard for you haven't done a good job of putting your paperwork together. If I'm filling out paperwork for anything, let's say a commercial loan, How many times do I have to write my name and address?

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If I have to write my name and address more than once on a bunch of documents that are all aimed at doing the same thing, it's just there are lots of parts to it, I'm not gonna be happy. So I don't know what it means to reduce redundancy, but I'm betting that Polte is doing a great job on that. And that could be huge just in terms of making it easier to be a citizen of the United States.

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At the same time, the State Department is going to be pared back. So listen to this. 132 agency offices, so that's State Department agency offices, are going to be closed, according to the Free Press. But now the question you ask is, 132 agency offices? And if how many? How many do you think the State Department has, if they can close 132 of them? The answer is 734. They have 734 offices?

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Are you kidding me? Where? Doing what? So they're going to close them and reduce it to only about 600. It's only a 17% reduction. Can you even imagine closing 132 offices and it's only 17% of your offices? oh my God, the amount of waste which must exist in the State Department. But what this tells me is that the State Department was the animal wagging the tail. It's the wrong analogy.

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But the State Department must have been insanely powerful that nobody could prune them back until the Trump administration. So You have to think that prior administrations have thought, hey, we have too much stuff and our budget is too big and we should cut this back a little bit. But probably they couldn't because the State Department was sort of so deep state that nobody could touch them.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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But apparently we can now, but only 17%. Anyway, but that's a move in the right direction. So you may have seen the video of Tim Pool. He was at the White House briefing room. And when he was asked to ask his question, he mentioned that the people in the room... Oh, hello. I'm seeing in the comments... Breaking. New York Attorney General Letitia James is now suspected of insurance fraud.

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And this is not associated with previous allegations. Insurance fraud. All right. She's in trouble. She is in trouble. Anyway, what was I saying? So Tim Pool was in the room and he calls out the, I guess, the traditional media that's in the room and noted how they seem to be in lockstep on the hoaxes. And he mentioned the very fine people hoax.

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So they're going to make super soldiers with gene editing and maybe give them AI power. So they're basically making cyborgs that are gene-edited. Do you think that they have any yet? Do you suppose there are any gene-edited babies that are just being raised as super soldiers? I don't know.

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And I love the fact that he made the traditional media who have been promoting the fine people hoax for years, he made them sit there on television Well, he called them out for that being a hoax. And he had two other examples. But the fine people hoax was the one that, of course, interests me the most since I worked hard to get that debunked. So that's good. I love that. All right.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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So I've got a little theme for the next part of the show. It's a theme. It's called Calming Economic Uncertainty. All right. So here are all the things that, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, the stock market is up strongly today. And it's not a coincidence. There are things happening.

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Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

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So Iran says it's ready to make its nuclear program more transparent in return for an easing of sanctions. Now, isn't that what we wanted? Didn't we want full transparency on their nuclear program to make sure they weren't making weapons? Do you think this is real? Or is it just stalling again? Here's why I think it might be real. So Russia has been, I guess, brought into the process.

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We don't know exactly how. But Russia and Iran have a tighter relationship than we do with Iran, obviously. But one of the reasons that Iran and Russia have a tight relationship is that Iran is creating, manufacturing many of the drones that Russia is using in the Ukrainian war. Now,

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Would it be a coincidence that Iran is suddenly flexible about us knowing about their nuclear program at the same time they're becoming really, really good at producing a lot of drones? I'm not sure that's a coincidence. Because if you were Iran, one of the things you would know, because everybody knows it, if you ever used a nuclear weapon, your country would be destroyed for sure.

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Like, no doubt about it. So using a nuclear weapon doesn't really get you to a good place in any situation. But suppose they created a million drones and they wanted to attack Israel with a million drones. If they were successful, I don't think they would be, but if they were, they would probably not get nuked because you don't really nuke people unless they nuke you first.

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So it could be that Iran just feels like its traditional weapons are now so plentiful that they wouldn't need nukes, and nukes would just work against their interests because their country would be destroyed if they ever used one. So there's a little bit of me that thinks they might be serious about this. Not in a good way, because if they had those other weapons, they would be just as dangerous.

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But I don't know how well these super soldiers are going to do against a wave of drones that are destroying them from above. But watch out for those super soldiers coming to a war near you. I'm not sure I believe any of that story. Do you believe that China is making gene-edited super soldiers? You know, I suppose anything is possible. But I'm going to say I don't believe it. Okay.

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But I do wonder if they're serious about it. So that would be one thing that at least would calm markets a little bit if you thought there was less chance that there would be a big war in Iran.

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Then apparently President Trump has said he's not planning to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. And that was roiling the markets and making people feel uncertain. But he's taken that off the table. Do you think that will calm the stock market? Yes, of course it will, because that was one of the big issues. So he's calming the market that way. What else is he doing?

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Trump also said yesterday that the huge tariffs on China will significantly be reduced after he negotiates with President Xi of China. And he expressed optimism about getting a deal with China. And he said 145%, that's the current tariff he has on China, is very high. It won't be that high. It's not going to be that high. It won't be anywhere near that high. Only Trump talks that way.

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Trump told reporters in the Oval, it will come down substantially, but it won't be zero. Wall Street Journal is reporting on this. And apparently in response, I think it's in response, China signaled it was open to trade talks with the U.S. I think it was in response. They're open to trade talks, but not under duress. In other words, if they're being threatened, they're going to go to war.

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But if we treat them with respect and as legitimate peers, then they're going to be open to talking. So that would certainly suggest that the problem with China is manageable. We're pretty far from having a deal, but it suggests that both the United States and China are serious about about getting to the other side of this. So will that calm the markets? Yes. Yes, it will.

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So here's the thing that I think Trump does so well. He shakes the box and then he says, all right, did I get an advantage here? And if he didn't, he shakes it again. And he just keeps shaking the box until something looks like a Trump advantage and then he uses the advantage. So he got everybody just worried to death

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And now when he says, but you know, we can make a deal, the people who had been worried to death, and that would include China, because you know China was more than a little bit worried about where this was heading, then they're just emotionally, they're just really, really wanting to get a deal.

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So he's created a situation in which, in theory, China will be far more emotionally committed to getting it done because it was so painful to think that it might not get done. So it's one thing to be just coldly calculating, let's make a business deal. It's another thing to think we might all die. And then you've lived through, they might destroy our entire economy. And then you survive that.

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And then you go to negotiate and you're not thinking, oh, what's a good business deal? You're thinking, God, I don't want to feel that again. So Trump creates a situation in which people's emotional state is really, really triggered to make a deal. You can't beat that. That's the ultimate negotiating technique. So we'll see.

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And I do think that Trump will turn it from, you know, we're in charge and we're going to slap you down, China. The moment he talks to President Xi, it's going to be all, President Xi is an awesome guy. We know he wants to make a fair deal. We can certainly work with China. It's going to turn into that automatically. And then everybody will say, oh, that sounds a lot better.

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Apparently, Trump says he's going to talk to AG Attorney General Bondi about what's holding up the Epstein files. How many of you believe the Epstein files were really going to come out? Now, let me ask you this. When I say Epstein files, do you say to yourself, oh, just the text messages and the documents? Wouldn't the Epstein files be the video that we know must have been there on the island?

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According to a Reuters Ipsos poll, 37% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy. Of course it's gonna be low, because he shook the box. When he shakes the box, Americans too are gonna say, whoa, I don't know about this. And other countries are gonna say, whoa, I don't know about this. So if he's doing everything right,

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which is getting people afraid of not making a deal, then you'd expect the approval of his economic policies would be low for a while. But the only thing that matters is how it turns out. If it turns out well, and he just gets better deals with China and everybody else, and I think there's a pretty high possibility that he gets better deals. I don't know how much better, but better.

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That would presumably change. According to that same poll, nearly 75% of U.S. adults said they're worried about a recession. That feels like, aren't we always worried about a recession? It seems like that's not telling me anything. 75% are kind of always worried about a recession. Because no matter how good things are, somebody's going to say it's a bubble.

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So you're always thinking, well, I'm a little bit worried about a recession, even though things are going well. So that doesn't mean a thing. And then 56% said Trump's retooling of the economy is, quote, too erratic. Too erratic or too perfect? Because he shakes the box until everybody's ready to negotiate. We'll see. We'll see. Well, so I posted this on X yesterday.

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The thing people were worried about with Trump is that he was making the economy unpredictable. Would you agree? The markets were acting like, uh-oh, we don't know what's going to happen. Could be bad, could be good, but we don't know. So the uncertainty was making people, you know, act a little crazy and stocks went down. But here's what I'd like to add to the conversation.

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We've never had certainty in the economy. There was always an illusion. No matter what the economy is, you're always like five minutes away from the whole thing falling apart for some reason you didn't know about. It's like, oh, no, there's this big financial problem we didn't know about. Oh, no, the national debt is going to crush us today instead of tomorrow.

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There's never been a time the economy was predictable. Now, somebody said to me, but the S&P, the stock market has been predictable if you look at the long term. But we weren't looking at the long term recently. We were looking at relatively short term. And the stock market has gone down over 20% quite a few times. And 20% is considered really bad. So we've never had a predictable economy.

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And we never will. It's not even a thing. But to imagine that what Trump did was turn a predictable economy into an unpredictable one, that's not true. That's not true at all. He made us uncomfortable, and he shook the box pretty hard, but it was always thoroughly unpredictable, and it still is. People feel like it's not. And how they feel is what drives the economy.

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Well, over in the UK, according to the inside paper, they're doing new experiments. I can't even believe this is real. Experiments to dim sunlight to fight global warming. So I guess that means they'll be spraying something in the air to dim the sunlight. Now, I'm no expert on...

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on the uk but i can't think of anything you could do with the uk to make it less appealing to go there than to have less sunlight the biggest problem with the uk is not enough sunlight it's the last place on earth i'd be looking to reduce the sunlight it's like where did they come up with that idea Do they want no tourism whatsoever? Do they want everybody to move out who can afford it?

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Yeah, let's have less sunlight in the UK to try to fight global warming. So I guess those three days of sunlight are going to go to two. Well, speaking of Europe, I guess Apple and Meta both got these gigantic hundreds of millions of dollar fines by the European Union. And the problem is that they're not complying with a 2022 law that was passed in the European Union, the Digital Markets Act.

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And I guess the Digital Markets Act was designed to make it easier for smaller companies to compete with these big platforms. Or allegedly that's what it was. But I wonder if that's really what it was. Both Apple and Meta are going to appeal. I guess there's an appeals process.

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No video? Are we really going to get the Epstein files and somebody's going to tell us, yes, we've released everything and there won't be a single video in there? Is that going to happen? I think it is. Do we even know who has the video? Do you think the U.S. government... knows who has the video from the island? Maybe. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But I'll tell you one thing for sure.

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But it's hundreds of millions of dollars that are being fined by the European Union for being anti-competitive in ways that are technical and not worth mentioning. And whatever it is, it's not illegal in the United States. So how do we put up with this? I realize that these big companies have to conform to local laws, otherwise nothing's going to work.

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But it feels like the European Union is just trying to mess with the United States in every way that it can. It just doesn't feel like they really mean it. It's like they looked for something that was bad for the United States and then they implemented it. I don't know. Looks sketchy to me.

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Apparently, when Trump is talking to the European Union with his trade negotiations, which apparently will happen soon, that might be one of the topics. So it could be that they were doing it for negotiating leverage. And they could say, well, maybe we could lower our tariffs a little bit, but... Maybe you could get rid of these fines on our American companies and let them prosper overseas.

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We'll see. Meanwhile, on CNN versus Scott Jennings, that's the way I like to think of CNN now. It's CNN versus Scott Jennings, the conservative commentator who's always schooling them. Apparently, Abby Phillip of CNN said, was insisting that the reason that the credibility of the major networks was down was not the fault of the networks themselves.

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They're not responsible for their own decrease in viewership and credibility. but rather it's because of right-wing rhetoric. So it's the right-wing rhetoric that's making CNN and MSNBC lose their audience? Really? Do you think the right-wing was watching MSNBC and CNN? I don't think so. And do you think that the lefties are listening to right-wing rhetoric about what they should watch?

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I don't think so. But anyway, Scott Jennings wasn't having that, so Here's what he said. The reason that you've lost trust ought to be obvious to you, and the way to fix it also ought to be obvious to you. It has nothing to do with Donald Trump, but everything to do with the product. Ouch. It has everything to do with the product. Yeah, that is correct.

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If the product were better, more people would watch. So he says, just try to make a better product that appeals to... more people and the way you appeal to more people is by not crapping on half or more of the country. Now, let me challenge that a little bit. Do you think that the problem with CNN is that they're crapping on half the country? Because doesn't Fox News do the same thing?

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And Fox News is having banner traffic. And then I asked myself, when you watch Fox News, are they crapping on weirdos and politicians, or are they crapping on Democrats? I don't know. It just seems to me that Fox News does a better job of programming. I've said this a million times, but the producers at Fox News just do a better job.

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They put together shows that you want to watch, so people watch them. I think The Five and maybe Govheld, too, have an unusually high audience of Democrats, more than you'd expect. And the reason is they're good shows. That's it. It's a better product. Where would you go on CNN to watch something that you could stand if you were a Republican?

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basically just watching Scott Jennings insult them and try to correct their ideas. Anyway. So it doesn't look like CNN or MSNBC will be able to fix themselves. Speaking of MSNBC, you remember Jen Psaki used to be the spokesperson for Biden. So she was on a show, a podcast, I think, with Dylan Byers. And she was explaining what's going on there. And she said that...

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She said that people tune in to, their audience tunes in to see coverage of Trump that is, quote, typically not going to be positive. So she's admitting explicitly, she's admitting explicitly that the show is anti-Trump and that that's what the audience wants. So apparently that's what they're going to get. She says, quote,

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Somebody has those videos. I don't think they got destroyed. So maybe Israel has them. Maybe the FBI has them. Maybe Russia has them. I don't think Russia. But we're not going to see anything good from the Epstein files. I think the odds of us seeing the good stuff, probably zero. But we'll see. So you remember Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum?

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And we're also going to talk about Trump, and it's typically not going to be positive. I don't think anybody watching expects it to be positive, right? Well, there it is. They're playing to the audience and they're basically just saying negative things about Trump because they think that's what the audience wants.

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She says, there's not like a North Star thing written on a card and everybody does it slightly differently. But I think that's fairly the vibe. So in other words, management is not telling them, make sure you're anti-Trump all the time. It's just that everybody knows it. So how do you maintain a network where you're basically telling people you're going to be biased all the time?

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Well, I guess the reduction in traffic answers that question. And then do you remember Rainn Wilson? He was one of the stars of that TV show, The Office. I guess he's got a podcast now. Now, I don't know if he identifies as left or right, but it doesn't matter to the story. He had Stephanie Roulon. She's one of the MSNBC hosts. And so Rainn Wilson said to her,

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40% of Americans don't trust mainstream media. Why is that? How did we get here? And what Rule said was Trump won and tons of people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they're tuning out.

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At the same time, you have the Elon Musk media machine because they want you to leave traditional media and they want you to go to X. So she's blaming the lack of trust in the mainstream as the shock that Trump won and Elon Musk trying to drive people to X. Does that sound like she's nailed it? Well, not according to Rainn Wilson. He goes, this is where I would push back.

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Left-leaning news media organizations were kind of like, la, la, la, la, la, everything's fine. Look, the economy's great. La, la, la, immigration, not that much of a problem. And really being Cleopatra, queen of denial. And he left out the denial that Biden's brain was done. Do you think that was it? Where if you watch these shows, they were just obviously ignoring reality? It feels like it.

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It feels like they were so obviously ignoring reality that their credibility would have to take a hit. Meanwhile, the Tesla earnings call happened yesterday, and no surprise, but their earnings were down 71%. But I guess the Model Y, their newest one, had a historically best ramp up of any of their cars.

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So they've got a big hit with the Model Y. They still made over $400 million, but that would be a billion dollars less than the first quarter last year. And separately, I think Elon Musk said on that call, that he's confident that you could sleep in your Tesla and wake up at your destination by the end of this year. That's what I've always dreamed of.

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I've always dreamed of being able to sleep in my car and then wake up at my destination without worrying about it at all. Can you imagine travel? Like, imagine if you could just tell your car, hey, I'd like to see Arizona. So take me on a tourist trip to Arizona. I'd like to stay in a four or five star hotel. So make sure that every eight hours or so you do that.

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And also make sure that you stop for lunch and a couple of pee breaks. And then you just take a nap or read a book. And the next thing you know, you're somewhere else. That would be the coolest experience. It would also have to go charge itself, so it would have to know where the charging stations are.

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But my take on this is that I have not yet been in a car that had the full self-driving capability, so I haven't experienced it. But here's my guess, that once you've experienced it, you probably can't go back. It feels like something like a smartphone versus a flip phone. When you tried the smartphone first, even though it couldn't do a lot with 3G and everything, there was no going back.

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Very few people would get a smartphone and then say, you know what? I'm going back to my flip phone. Some old people did. But basically, it was a one-way trip. I feel like this

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens. That's right. Right now. Go. Looks like everything's working. It's all working today. Well, here's an important story. According to science, Walnuts can curb inflammation that may reduce colon cancer.

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The self-driving car, once it's really genuinely fully self-driving and genuinely way safer than a human driving, I don't feel like you can go back because I really don't like driving, especially in areas where the traffic is heavy. So if I could go places without driving and I could just get in this thing, it would take me somewhere. I don't think I could ever go back.

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And remember how people like me kept saying, why does he seem like an evil supervillain? Like he talked and looked exactly like some kind of evil villain that you would cast in a movie. And it turns out there's a whistleblower who's got some complaints about Klaus alleging financial and ethical misconduct. And he resigned from the World Economic Forum.

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Also, Musk says he's going to allocate more time to the company and less time to doge because he's got most of the doge stuff set up. And he says the large slug of work necessary to get the doge team in place is mostly done. I'll continue to spend one to two days per week as long as the president wants me. But I think that could only be through May, right? Because he's got that 130-day limit.

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But he also said that he won't have a problem getting rare earth minerals from China, which is interesting. He said on the earnings call that he'd be able to get China's rare earth minerals for Tesla Motors. And all he has to do is prove that it won't be used for military purposes. Now, do you think China really made an exception for Elon Musk? And the answer is, I think they did.

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I don't think everybody can get rare earth minerals from China, at least under the current tariff situation. I think that Elon Musk played China just right for the benefit of his company, which is he was never in favor of tariffs. And imagine how much China appreciated that, because they know he's important to the opinion in the United States.

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So China had to love the fact that he was anti-tariff, or at least anti-tariff war. But also the cyber cab is being built in a in a Giga Shanghai factory. And he thinks he could get the pace of building one of these cybercabs. Now, those would be the things that are self-driving cabs. They don't even have steering wheels, so there won't be even a driver there.

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But he thinks he can get them built six to seven times faster than the Model Y, and they would build a vehicle every 33 seconds. Oh, no, that's what the Model Y was. The goal is to build a cyber cab every five seconds. Isn't that incredible that they could produce one every five seconds? So I don't know how big the market will be for these cyber cabs, but if the price of using them is reasonable,

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I feel like a whole lot of people will just say, why have a car? There's no point in having a car if you can just use your phone and a cyber cab pulls up in front of your house and you can tell when it's coming like Uber. I don't know. I don't know how big that market can be, but it could be really big.

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All right, here's one of those stories that if you didn't already know a lot about the background of it, it wouldn't mean anything to you. So if I told you that Jennifer Rubin and Norm Eisen have a podcast and you were not deep into politics, that wouldn't mean anything to you, would it? But if you knew who Norm Eisen and Jennifer Rubin are, then suddenly it would take on some meaning.

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And apparently they were talking on their podcast and they'd like to create what Jen Rubin called the NATO of NGOs. In other words, a organization that's a combination of various non-government organizations that would coordinate for what purpose? Why would she want these NGOs to be coordinated? That's a shadow government.

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I feel like they were talking openly about creating a shadow government right in front of us. Because if you get enough of these NGOs, they would be able to influence censorship in every country, which would influence who gets elected. It would influence all the politics. It would influence everything.

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And maybe they would coordinate the NGOs to play favorites with different countries so you could have influence over different governments. This is the scariest freaking thing I've ever seen in my life. But because it's a little technical and you'd sort of have to know the background and you'd have to know the resume of the people involved, it doesn't really carry as a story.

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We don't know if it's because of this, but the reporting is after it. So maybe it's because, but we don't know. Allegedly used forum cash for hotel massages. ATM runs by junior staff and holiday travel disguised as business. And he says he's going to sue whoever is accusing him of this.

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In other words, it probably will never be a headline because the public doesn't wouldn't have enough background to even understand the level of risk. But Mike Benz basically says this is the sort of thing he has nightmares over. The NATO of NGOs literally would be a shadow government for the whole world. For the whole world. A shadow government for the world. And they're talking about it openly.

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It's just incredible. And I think they can talk about it openly because none of it's illegal. It's just really, really Something I don't want, but not illegal. In other news, a single dose of psychedelics has been shown to boost brain flexibility for weeks. So apparently you get some benefits from depression, PTSD, and neurogenerative diseases.

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This is according to the University of Michigan researchers, and the genomic press is talking about this. And they said what makes this discovery particularly significant is the sustained duration. So you only need the one dose of a psychedelic and you get weeks of benefit from various pretty damning or damaging mental problems. Now, how many times have you heard the same story?

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Every time they test psychedelics to see if it gives people better mental health, every time it's the same answer. Yes. Yes. Super yes. Absolutely yes. And do they need to know that they only need to do it once? I think every time they've tested it, they only had to do it once and it lasted.

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I've told you from my own one experience with psychedelics when I was in my 20s, it changed my brain completely and it never changed back. And I'm pretty sure it was a positive change. So yes, yes, psychedelics, one treatment can completely change your life from a whole bunch of different Pretty big problems. You know, depression, PTSD.

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I don't know about anxiety, but it seems like that would be on the list. So, yeah. How many times do we have to study this before we just say, all right, let's just make this part of popular medicine? It's time. In drone news, the U.S. Army's got this solar-powered spy plane that has a 1,000-mile range, according to Interesting Engineering. It's easy to operate and it looks great.

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But what caught my eye is that it's being developed by a California-based company, Kraus-Hemdani Aerospace. And the amazing thing is not that it can go a thousand miles on solar power. The amazing thing is that California can have a company that works. How many drone companies are there in the United States now? Now, given that we know our military is going to need just infinite drones.

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So we know that for sure. And we know we don't want to depend on some other country to make them. So wouldn't you like to see like a dashboard or something to show you how many manufacturing facilities have been built that can make drones? Because it might be a lot. But if it's only a few...

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And his wife allegedly ran their, this is according to the Wall Street Journal, allegedly ran their 50 million lakeside villa like a private spa. So while Davos was talking about austerity, Schwab was apparently having a good time with his full-time spa. Now, I know what you're thinking. Happy endings. Well, you're probably right.

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well, I'm going to be a little worried because we need to make a million drones really fast because other people are going to have a million drones and we don't want to be on the other side of that. So anyway, California can make drones. How about that? All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for you today. I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately.

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But if you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining. And I'll see you sometime tomorrow where we'll settle all the problems of the world. All right, locals, coming at you.

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But is anybody surprised that Klaus Schwab was a little bit sketchy? Allegedly. Allegedly. We don't know for sure. That's according to a whistleblower. Well, RFK Jr. apparently is succeeding in getting rid of the artificial food colorings in our food. everything from candies and drinks and jams and cereals. But it's going to take a while. I guess it's going to take until the end of 2026.

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But the FDA is announcing that the petroleum-based synthetic dyes will be eliminated from medications and the food supply by the end of 2026. So that might be a big deal. I saw that RFK Jr. was talking about how the testosterone level in young men was so low, it was lower than people my age, which is pretty bad. I wonder if any of this is related.

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I mean, he's got a lot more work to do to figure out what's going on with that. But if we don't get our testosterone levels back, I don't think we're going to be a successful country. How much of you, if you have to guess... How much of the current drama in the United States might be caused by low testosterone? Because the Democrats are a low testosterone party.

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It's pretty much women and men with low testosterone. If we didn't have this testosterone emergency, do you think the Democrats would be acting the way they are? I don't know. But my experience is that if you change somebody's chemical reality that much, lowering testosterone has got to have a big impact on your behavior. There's no way that that's a nothing.

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And there does seem to be a difference between the two parties. So I'm guessing that if you improve testosterone, politics would change as well. Just look at a single issue. Look at protecting the border. Do you think the low testosterone people and the high testosterone men have the same opinion about protecting the border? I'll bet not. I'll bet you could find a difference.

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What about deporting people without enough due process if you suspect they're gang members? I'll bet you there's a big difference between the high testosterone opinions and the low testosterone opinions. So a lot of times we think we have opinions, but really what it is is just different chemical situation.

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Anyway, according to a user called Didi on Axe, there's a startup in China that has 150 million users and they've created what they call micro dramas, which are basically romance fantasies for women. But what's different about them is that they're only a minute to a minute and a half long. And the first few are free to get you hooked. And then you would pay a little bit for each one.

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But they're all going to be like a minute and a half. And they do it with cheap actors and AI-generated backgrounds. But they're making like $200 million in revenue. So what they've invented basically is porn for women. Now, here's something I've observed for many years. If you're trying to predict an online service and whether it does well, Here's what you look for.

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So if you're at risk of colon cancer, walnuts could be your answer. Now, I'm no doctor, but I have a recommendation. Don't make the mistake I made. The walnuts are to be eaten. Yeah, you take them orally. You're thinking you want to take them the other way because it's reducing your colon cancer risk, but no. You should remove the shells and take them orally. Don't make the mistake I made.

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Number one, does it have anything to do with sex? Because that's always good. So, yes. So even though these are romance fantasies, one assumes that it's basically sex adjacent. The other thing is faces. If you have any kind of an online service that has faces, whether it's Instagram or basically anything that has faces, it's going to be far more successful than anything that doesn't have faces.

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So always look for faces. And then the other thing lately is whether it's brief. So this Chinese service with these minute-and-a-half clips, it gets it all. It's got the sex, it's got faces, and it's brief because our attention span is so low. So I guess you could have predicted it because it sort of hit all the notes. Well, Catherine Herridge, a very respected reporter, has a...

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has a big piece out now. She did some interviews. And she says that top U.S. neuroscientists and military advisors confirm that reports are, quote, credible. Credible is a key word here. That directed energy weapon attacks have happened on U.S. soil and targeted U.S. personnel abroad. Now, I watched her interview with one of the individuals who claims to have been a victim of the attacks.

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Now, you might remember that when this story was new, I said that it was not real and that it was mass hysteria. I'm going to mildly revise my opinion to, I might be wrong. I might be. But let me just interject this. If you're looking to determine what's real and what's not real, I always look for the money.

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And so her key interview was an individual who claims to have been damaged by one of these weapons. And the reason he's claiming it is so that he can get a workplace disability, some kind of payment for his care. So he has a financial incentive to say that he was damaged by it instead of just having Alzheimer's, because I guess his symptoms are Alzheimer's-like. So here's the problem.

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He could be telling the truth, and he could be 100% right. I wouldn't know from here. But can you really take as a credible witness somebody who has a huge financial interest in you believing in one thing or another. So for me, this is a little sketchy because you've got to find somebody who doesn't have a financial interest.

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And I think that most of the people who claim this damage are claiming it probably for the same reason, so they can get some kind of workplace payment.

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for being injured on the job versus just a natural health problem so i don't want to cast any aspersions on anybody because they seem like good people and they didn't look like they're lying you know didn't didn't have any tells for lying but generally speaking i would tell you to be very cautious if your best witnesses are getting paid or or if they have a financial incentive

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So just put that in your quiver. And I'll say again, I could be wrong. I could be wrong about it being a mass hysteria. Maybe there is a weapon. So I'm going to go all the way to maybe. Maybe. You remember that Carrie Lake was in charge of the Voice of America and they basically are external facing propaganda networks.

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And they were all shut down and defunded and everybody was fired because Trump administration decided that wasn't really useful. Well, you would not be surprised to find that a U.S. district judge, here it is again, a district judge who should not be making decisions about things outside her domain, has granted a preliminary injunction and is requiring all the people to be hired back.

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How is that even possible? How is it even possible that a judge... can tell the government that they can't fire people and they can't close down a government entity. And I think the argument has something to do with they're an independent federal agency. But how independent are you if you depend on funding from the government? That feels like the opposite of independent.

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Maybe the post office is a similar situation. It gets government funding, but it's independent. I can't even believe that. Do you think that would have happened if we had a Democrat as a president? Or do you think it's just all these district judges are just ruling anything that Trump does is wrong, has to be reversed? Because it's starting to look like it's just automatic.

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deserving. The show you deserve, not just the one you want. All right. Here it comes. Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. Doo-doo-doo-doo. Oh. My device fell off its stand. Come back here, device. Get back where I put you. And stay. It's the golden age, haven't you heard? You can't be just falling down on your own. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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And trust me, being the one person who pushes any one topic, it's not safe. It's not fun. And you're going to get slaughtered, and you're going to get canceled, and it's going to hurt. But if you think it's important, you might do it anyway. And that's the sort of culture that Trump has... somewhat accidentally nurtured.

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If you imagine all of the reasons that the prior administration wouldn't have told us about the drones, what would be an example of something that would be different if there's a Republican president? Because whatever it is that's making our government not want to talk about it, it wouldn't change under Trump, would it? Do you think the problem was that the aliens we've detected are Democrats?

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It's a culture of people who quite consciously risk their lives, their careers to take down one part of the evil. And you've seen me do it. I mean, you've seen me say, all right, I'm just going to die on this hill, but we're not going to let the hill stand. You know, the hill is going to kill me or I'm going to kill the hill. You've seen me do it.

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And you've seen that one person can make a difference. But my God, the Mike Benz success. This is one of the most impressive personal accomplishments I've ever seen. But we're going to steal it from him because it's a personal accomplishment of tremendous skill. and dedication and energy and just doing everything right. He's got a skill stack that's crazy.

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But this is part of the new golden age where you could be an individual who says, I'm just going to take this hill. And if I take it, I can hand it off to Trump. So Benz just took the hill. I've never seen so much work, good, productive, on-point work,

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took the hill he handed it to trump then trump just he just owned it incredible in other news john bolton got stripped of uh not only his security clearance um for being a prominent anti-trumper who used to work for trump but he is also stripped of his secret service detail Now the question, this is reported in Breitbart by Elizabeth Wiebel. Here's my question. How many people in the U.S.

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government have a Secret Service protection that is out of the norm? So it's normal for presidents and vice presidents and ex-presidents. But how many people who are not one of those, presidents or ex-presidents or ex-VPs, how many of them have Government paid Secret Service. Now, apparently Biden was the one who approved it.

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And if I read between the lines, I think it means there's somebody like Iran, probably Iran, that made threats. because John Bolton probably said something about bombing Iran. I didn't follow him too closely, but I think it's something like that. However, so I'm going to give you my first impression and then my second one. My first impression was, this isn't cool.

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If he has secret service that even Biden said, yeah, this is worth paying for, you have to take that pretty seriously. So let me say that if something happened to Bolton, and it was because he lost his Secret Service detail, I'm going to call this an error by Trump. There's no way I'm going to be happy about that.

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That would be a pure error if something happens to Bolton because Trump treated him like a political enemy. Not cool. And I want to make sure that I'm establishing a standard going forward. With great power comes great responsibility. Trump has acquired great power, but with a great responsibility.

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We, as the voters who have supported him, are part of that great power structure, and we also have great responsibility to control it. Now, I don't mean controlling Trump. That's impossible. But I do mean that if any lines are crossed that would violate what Trump supporters think is a reasonable, human, common-sense line, we need to be loud about that. Because otherwise you become a Democrat.

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If you just put up with ridiculousness and bad performance, I'd call you a Democrat, basically. So if the Republicans are the team of meritocracy and not the team of pettiness and ridiculousness, then you've got to act like it. As a supporter, you've got to make sure. Now, the beauty of the system, the way Trump has it set up, is he reads the room so consistently...

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that if he did something that his base just went, oh, that's a little too far, I think he'd adjust. So I think that that is a very productive power balance that he needs. He needs it. It's good for him. It's good for the country, and it's good for you. So it's a little bit tough love in both directions, and that's a really good place to be. That said, so I'm not on board with,

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And then the Democrats are like, whoa, whoa, keep this under your hat. It turns out the aliens are on our side. They're Democrats. No, no. What could it be? Except there's some risk to the country. And whoever told Biden there's a risk to the country is going to tell Trump the same thing.

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with putting Bolton at extra risk, if that's what happened. However, here's the counterpoint. By taking away his security clearance and also by essentially banning him forever from Republican politics, I don't think he's coming back. If you were a foreign adversary, would you take the chance of putting a hit on Bolton? Because Trump just took him off the field.

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If what they wanted is his voice would not be influential, well, he got it. So Iran might have been looking to say, ah, we've got to get this guy. He's going to be the one who advises they bomb us. But then Trump takes him off the field. What's Iran going to do, kill him anyway? Why would they take the... That would be an existential risk for Iran, right?

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I mean, they would be risking their own lives... to remove one mustachioed guy that's not really relevant to any policy. Why would they do that? You know, I always tell you that as crazy as Iran seems, at least in some of the religious extremism, they're not crazy in the regular way, right? They're very, very logical in the government, you know, defense mode. We just don't like it.

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But they're very logical. So it could be that the Trump administration said, look, we looked at this. We think if we take you off the field, I mean, you can imagine this would be the inner thoughts, not the external thoughts. We don't really see a risk because everybody would ask for... Well, not everybody. But don't you imagine...

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It's not that unusual for people to ask for a Secret Service protection if they work in the government. You get a couple of anonymous threats. You've got a family. You're kind of going to want a Secret Service protection. And sometimes it makes sense. Oliver North, for example, probably made sense. Or at least made sense that he had some extra protection.

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So I would love to know how many people get this sort of extra protection. I think Fauci had it for a while. Meanwhile, in the land of evil, according to the Gateway Pundit, Christina Layla's writing, that... There's a Soros-backed district attorney, Larry Krasner. He's Philadelphia, right?

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He's threatening to figure out some way to cancel the Jan 6 pardons by Trump and try to figure out some state-related, because he's state, he's not federal, trying to figure out some state-related way to put him back in jail. Now, what would be the intention behind that? Why would you put time and effort into reversing pardons?

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Do you think that Trump would feel safe, you know, as brave as he is and as, let's say, as out of the box as he is, do you think he would be safe, feel safe, telling you something that his own security people said, whatever you do, don't tell him this? I don't think we're going to find out. So here's part of the reason. So we saw him when he was signing his executive orders on his first day there.

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No matter what you thought of the January 6th people, remember, it's a pardon. It's a pardon. We don't get a vote. You're supposed to not like it. That's what the pardons are. It's a bunch of stuff that you and I don't like. But we've decided that our president should have that power, even with the overuse. Overuse is guaranteed. It's guaranteed. And we've taken that deal.

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So it's like reneging on the deal if you say there's a pardon you don't like. Our deal is that we give you that power and we know you're going to abuse it. We know it. So just shut up with the abuse. That's more like, I'm not telling you to shut up. I'm just saying that it doesn't make sense for me to talk about it.

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Anyway, can you think of any reason that Larry Krasner would even be looking at putting them back in jail or reversing the pardons or using state charges to get at them anyway? What reason would that be other than evil? I can't think of one. Is it to make the country a better place? God, no. Is it to help the Democrats in the next election? You can't do it that way.

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But if people do things that are selfish, I say to myself, all right, that's our system. We all get to be selfish, but if the system works, that's just democracy, it's just capitalism. So selfish is fine, but he doesn't even have to have a selfish motive. There's not even a selfish motive unless he's being paid, which would be pretty bad. So it looks like evil to me.

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If there's another explanation, glad to hear it. Well, Tom Homan reports, as the borders are, that getting rid of that CBP1 app has made a big difference already, because I guess that's what allowed people to say that they're just here for asylum and sign up without talking to any people, I guess.

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But the number of releases and total apprehensions at the border have dropped to 766, and that's compared to under Biden, there were 10,000 to 12,000 per day. So 766 is still a lot, but it's not 12,000 a day. So that's already progress. So Trump had a press conference with Larry Ellison and Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son. I never get his first name right. The SoftBank creator. Founder.

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But Larry Elson made the news twice, once for what he said at that event, but separately he's on video saying that citizens will be on their best behavior with an AI surveillance system. So he's talking about the fact that there are cameras everywhere and that's not going to stop. But he thinks that the cameras will be monitored by AI and then the AI will spot any problems and alert a human.

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Now, if you're normal, you're saying to yourself, what? We don't want no big brother watching everything we do and judging us. And I agree. You don't want big brother watching everything you do and judging you. So I'm on board. But here's my second statement about it. You can't change it. There's just nothing you can do to change this trend. I wish there were.

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I'm the one who says that one person can change the world. I wouldn't even take a run at this. Because when the technology can do something, it does it. You just can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. The technology is out there. If you have AI and you have video, Nobody can stop you from using the AI on the video to process it.

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And nobody can stop the AI from contacting authorities if it thinks it sees a crime. So we could all be mad at it. We could hate it. But it's going to happen. I don't see any way to stop it, really. So I'm not for or against it. It's just like rain. You can be against rain, but it's still going to rain.

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He said to his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, can you find out about those drones? How long would it take her to find out about the drones? Well, maybe she couldn't find out personally, but certainly she could say, Mr. President, they'll give you a call or they'll be in your office tomorrow. It'll only take 10 minutes, and they'll tell you what the drone situation is.

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I will just tell you that in the 90s, I wrote a book called The Dilber of Future with a bunch of predictions of the future. One of my predictions was that, remember, this is in the 90s, but one of my predictions was that the cost of video security cameras would drop and it would drop to the point where there would be basically cameras in every public place, but also every private space.

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Now, that's almost true. because your phone has a camera. And if somebody really wanted to, they could turn it on, you know, spies could do it. And there are a lot of digital devices, such as your Amazon digital device that could, in theory, listen to you, your phone could, in theory, listen to you, if law enforcement or somebody had a, you know, court ordered to do that, I suppose.

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So we are at a point where both your public and your private interactions are largely monitored by digital devices. Only if the court has a reason. And if somebody accuses you of something, the court has access to every digital everything. There's no limit, right? If they could find something by telling Amazon, you've got to give us access, they would do it. Because that's how it works.

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So I think we're going to get close. whether you like it or not, to every crime being solved. Because it would just be impossible. Everything will be digital, so you can track every action back. We'll know where anybody is because their phone is with them. We'll know what they said and what it looked like for almost everything. So none of this is good. It's probably inevitable, though.

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Every one of the 200 executive orders, I think, you would call policy. Am I wrong? Policy times 200? So Trump gave you policy times 200 on day one. Policy times 200 on day one. And that's just the stuff we know about. Think about all the orders he gave that weren't executive orders. Got a lot of policy done. Let's check in with the Democrats whose entire

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Party tent has collapsed and they're in ruin and wandering around with like chickens without their heads, as they like to say, as people like to say. So here are the things they're talking about. They're mad about the pardons for 76ers. OK, that's not a policy question because presidents can pardon. They talk about Hegseth's personal life. Okay. Not really the most important thing going.

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Cause it doesn't even have, they're not even confirmed allegations. They talk about Elon Musk raising his arm above his waist. That was almost the headline news, and all the Democrat news stations wanted to talk about Elon Musk's arm. Well, I don't know. It looks like a Roman salute, kind of a dictator-ish. Well, no, it's sort of a Heil Hitler, but touching the heart. Wait a minute.

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I'll find a video of one of the Proud Boys doing that, and then we can prove that it's really racism. And it's just stupid. It's all just stupid, and we mock it, and it's funny. But it's certainly not policy. They talk about Trump's evil and his wrongness. That's actually a quote from MSNBC. I forget the guy who looks like a... What do you call it? Dandelion.

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I don't think it's going to happen. So put down your markers. We'll make a bet on this. I say that we'll either hear something that doesn't sound right, like, oh, it's just normal drones, and then you'll say, Is it?

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You know when a dandelion goes old and it's just got this big poof of white dandelion stuff on the top? So it's the guy who looks like the dandelion. He's like, oh, Trump's evil in his wrongness. Do you have any examples of his evil in his wrongness? Then they complain about crowd size and maybe that's the reason that Trump moved in. Yeah, crowd size. Let's talk about that.

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Let's talk about Melania's hat. Yeah, the hat. I think the hat indicated some evil. The hat. Oh, this is way more important than Elon's arm. So Elon's arm and Melania's hat were the two top topics of the Democrats. Again, day one, Trump, policy times 200. Oh! 200 policy things. They also worried about everything is racist and Trump's being a dictator on day one. And they never learn.

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I think the thing that would have to sting the most if you're a Democrat and you're trying to reassemble and you're trying to figure it out is you can't learn. It's one thing to be wrong. It's really a deeper problem if you don't learn from it. Would you agree that Trump seems to have made adjustments that made his current run a much cleaner affair than the first one? I would say yes.

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I would say even when asked, he said, yeah, maybe we've all changed. But the Democrats don't seem to be able to debate policy at all. They just say you're mean. Amazing. There's a report, the Gateway Pundit, Christina Layla is reporting about Jake Sullivan of the Biden administration.

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Allegedly, I'm going to put allegedly on this one, because if I'm not in a room, I'm not sure who said anything to anybody. But allegedly, Jake Sullivan told the NSC staffers, the holdovers from the people who were hired by a previous administration, but keep their jobs. If it's lower level jobs, they don't have to fire them all. But he's asking them to spy on and sabotage Trump.

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Now, again, I wasn't in the room when any of this allegedly happened, so I don't know if that's an accurate characterization of what he said. So I'm going to put a fog-of-war warning on this one. This could turn out to be not exactly what he said. But there are reports. So investigative reporter Paul Sperry I think he's the one who's got the scoop on this.

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And you're not going to believe it. Or it'll be something like, whoops, turns out I can't tell you, which will scare the bejesus out of you. So I don't think Trump can say, after saying he would reveal it, I don't think he can go back and say, oh, it's really dangerous, I can't tell you. Because then we're just going to go crazy, saying, what do you mean? Is it aliens? Is it Russia?

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And he says Jake Sullivan wants the underlings to basically thwart him like some underlings did on the first term. All right. So does that sound right? Does that sound true to you, that the Biden administration literally is asking people to sabotage Trump from within? It does. Do you know why it sounds real to me? Because it's not policy.

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If you told me that Jake Sullivan had some good policy ideas and he shared it with the staff, I would have said, I don't think so. Come on. Good try. Good try. Yeah, he's talking about policy. But you're telling me that one of the Biden administration did something destructive, anti-American,

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treasonous and weasley i would say all right probably yeah i mean not 100 you know i wasn't there so anonymous reports anonymous reports are not terribly reliable but it's certainly within the realm of things i could believe not policy though well trump and dei is going just the way we want um So Trump has put out an order that you better not be hiding the DEI in other functions.

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And he gave the warning to universities and colleges as well as the government. Don't just change the name and keep doing what you're doing. DEI is gone. But... how much trouble would you get into? I mean, he's saying that if you try to hide it and you keep doing it, you're going to pay a price. Getting fired, I suppose, would be the price.

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But at the same time, he did an order getting rid of affirmative action as the rule of the I guess the law of the land, affirmative action. So affirmative action, of course, is the precursor to DEI, but it was the less harmful version. Affirmative action is what cost me my job in banking. It's what cost me my job in telecommunications. It's what cost me my time slot for the Dilbert TV show. And

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It hasn't been a good friend to me. So since my 20s, I've been victimized by affirmative action. And that's not a whine. That's just an objective statement and at least 80 million people. white men will tell you the same thing. We all have the same story, by the way. All of us have the same story. There's probably 80 million of us. If you say to me, and people have, oh, Scott, prove it.

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Give me some evidence that you really were hurt by affirmative action. I don't have to. You can literally walk out on the street. If you see a white man walking toward you who is 50 years older or older, and he's white, Tap them on the shoulder and say, I got this question for you. Do you know anybody or have you ever been affected by affirmative action? The answer is going to be yes.

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Anybody you pick, literally anybody. So I don't need to prove anything to you. Just walk in the street, find anybody over 50 who's white. They all have the same story. The fact that you didn't know the story, well, that's on you. That's on you. Because the reason they don't tell the story is because it's dangerous. Same reason I didn't do it until I wasn't worried about getting canceled.

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You got to tell us. So he can't scare us. That would just be a stupid mistake. He's not going to do that. But he probably can't tell us. So I think we're going to get the in-between answer, like, well, you know, still looking into it, blah, blah, blah, a big old nothing. But meanwhile, the New Jersey drones are back in force. So the one thing he can't tell us is that it stopped.

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Then I got canceled. So once you stop worrying about getting canceled, you're probably going to get canceled. So anyway, I am super happy at the Trump administration for getting rid of racial discrimination. And yeah, this is amazing. Christopher Rufo's reporting on Trump getting rid of Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action.

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Now, I don't know how many of these Trump EOs are going to hold up, because I just don't know that these are things that always work as an executive order, but we'll find out. Meanwhile, over at Cisco, the CEO of Cisco says... He said, quote, but the core reasons that you have a diverse workforce are still there from a business perspective. So he was trying to defend the use of DEI.

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And that was his defense. Let me read it again so you can see the reasoning. The core reasons that you have a diverse workforce are still there from a business perspective. Now, I agree with the general statement that that diversity could add value to your company. You could do it in a number of ways. One way would be everybody would feel like they're closer to what the public is.

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You'd always have somebody who understands that segment of the public. Maybe you get a variety of ideas. But none of it works unless you all got there by merit. If you've got diversity based on we hired you because you're diverse,

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that's not a strength that's all negative that's just all negative so if a ceo says the core reason for a diverse workforce are still there from a business perspective i think you need to list the reasons it's an argument without reasons and they never give the reasons do they have you noticed that people will say diversities are strength and then and then before they run away you're like well oh you strengthen what way

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I can think of some arguments on my own, but what are you thinking? Like, what is the strength? And they're like, do, do, do, do, do, run away. Nobody can answer that question. I mean, I'm opposed to DEI, and I think I have the best argument for the power of diversity. Again, gives you a little more insight into the market. It only works, though,

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if all the diversity got there as a secondary accidental effect of just hiring good people. If you have a good people, diversity could be an asset. That's a strong argument. If they didn't get there by merit, it's just all bad. That's my take. So I need the CEO to explain to me, what do you think is the advantage? Again,

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He could have an argument, but I think it's incumbent upon him to give it to us. Meanwhile, India says it'll take back 18,000 illegal immigrants, let's call them, under the Trump era. The Daily Wire is reporting on this. Now, the actual number of Indian-born migrants or immigrants or illegals, whatever the new term is going to be lately, It was probably a lot more than 18,000.

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But here's what I love about this. The U.S. asked them to take back 18,000, and India says, yes, that's how that should work. That's exactly how that should work. You know, I'm so pro-India that I know some of you don't like it. I'm very pro-India as an ally and ally. just as a group of people who are unusually beneficial to the United States. Very pro-India.

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But when India just does little smart things like, oh, take back 18,000, well, we don't love it, but we'd like to have a good relationship with the United States. We help you, you help us. That's what allies do. Sure, we'll take back the 18,000. I love that. I just love that. Without the pushback and the bullshit and the, you know, trying to score a point. How about just yes sometimes?

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Whatever it is, there's a lot of it now, and it's back to its original thing. Now, remember when the New Jersey drones were temporarily banned, the number of them went way down. So the one thing we do know is that the American drone users who follow the law were part of the massive drone spottings. But there still were drones flying when drones were banned. So there's still a mystery there.

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Just yes sometimes. Like my respect for India just goes whoop, you're right up. It's like, okay, treating us like peers, which you should. Trump has threatened the BRICS nations.

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So if you're not up to date on what the BRICS is, that's the, I don't know if it's a loose association or a strong association that has Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and includes Iran and Saudi Arabia and UAE and Argentina and Egypt and Ethiopia. So what that group is trying to do

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is get away from the dollar as their main currency and have some kind of currency of their own, which would be bad for the dollar and bad for the United States in ways that would take longer to explain. But I think we're all on the same page, right? I think everybody agrees that having other countries being, I hate to say forced, but that's what it is, forced to use the U.S.

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dollar gives us some advantages as a country. And they're big ones. So Trump basically just threatened them and said they're going to get 100% tariff if they try to replace the U.S. dollar. Now, should we be threatening other countries in their own decisions about what kind of money they use? It's pretty gutsy.

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On the other hand, tariffs are always part of normal business and tariffs are part of normal negotiations and And Trump is saying exactly what he wants and how he wants it and when he wants it, like right now, stop doing this. And he put a price on it. All right, the price is 100% tariff, or at least they think that's the risk.

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So I kind of love this because I see it not so much as his legal right to do anything like this, but it's not illegal to say we won't have it and there will be a price to pay. So he's definitely using the power of the U.S. and he's wielding it in a very clean way. It's very clean. So I could find a hundred ways to dislike this if it were unclear.

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But there's something about the clarity of it and how obviously pro-American it is that just makes me say, you know, it feels like an overreach. We shouldn't be getting in their business in that exact way. But we can, and if we do it clearly, and it helps the United States stay strong, you can make an argument that everybody's better off. Well, not everybody.

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But a strong America isn't the worst thing for the world, so it's not like one direction is evil. Well, Trump has also threatened to increase Canada's tariffs by 25%. We assume that that's a negotiating first position. Doesn't mean it will be the permanent situation.

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So I don't know exactly what he wants, but I know he wants better deals and he wants the border to be closed and he may want more than that. But good beginning negotiating practice. You know, Trump's tariff threats are much stronger because he created the External Revenue Service recently, saying that we're going to start making money from tariffs and various external sources.

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The fact that he created it all gives a lot of credibility to that he would use it as a weapon. And now people can negotiate tariffs knowing he's going to use it. If you didn't know for sure he was going to tariff you and you thought that was a bluff, you might treat it like a bluff. But once he's created an entire department to take your money, it's hard to see it as a bluff anymore, isn't it?

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He created a department to take your money. That's the name of the department. He named it Take Your Money. Almost. So that's a good play. Very good play. negotiation-wise. The people who are going to say, but Scott, don't you know that the company that pays it is the American company, not the Chinese company? Well, if it works as negotiation, it works. So that's the important part.

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The Wall Street Journal editorial board does not think that Trump has the authority to keep TikTok alive. because the rules about how they could extend their life were written by Congress. And Congress said, you have to meet these specific requirements of being in the works of a serious deal, and then you can extend it. We don't have in the works any kind of serious deal.

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But a lot of them were just obvious stuff, it looks like. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseff gets some more 11th hour accusations. So here's the weird thing. The accusations from, I understand, the sister of his ex-wife saying that he maybe laid hands on his wife, his ex-wife. But the ex-wife says, that didn't happen. Or she's a little more vague about that, but she's essentially debunking the claim.

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There's some indication of interest and stuff, but they're not negotiating seriously. So technically... Trump does not have the authority, as far as I can tell, just as a citizen, it doesn't look like it, to extend it. But here's the problem. It's complete common sense. So the power of this common sense thing, it's going to be hard to estimate how powerful this is. Because if you said to me,

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Trump wants to create 75 more days that he's not allowed to create so that a good deal can be reached that would be good for the owners of BitDance, good for the United States, and good for our public. That's what Trump's trying to do. Doesn't mean it will happen. But isn't it common sense that if we're close enough, it looks like a deal could be made that delaying 75 days

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even if you don't have that authority, isn't it still just common sense? I think it's common sense. And if he went back to Congress and said, oh, let's waste your time to alter the law so that I can give it 75 days, it would just be a huge waste of money and time. So here's the thing that I think is going to be fun to watch.

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When Trump orders something he does not have authority for, and I think this is one, but is so clearly and unambiguously good for everybody. It's just common sense. Who's going to fight it? Are the Democrats going to fight it because they can? Are the Democrats going to fight to keep TikTok banned? They can't fight that.

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The Democrats can't take the other side because they want their public to get TikTok too. So Trump is finding himself in this weird little situation where where it came publicly overtly and obviously ignore the law in the very, just a tactical way. It's not really an important, important point. It's just a little technical thing, but because the common sense argument is just overwhelming.

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All you get, I think is the editorial board warning you that this is a little bit over the line. Remember what I told you before? with great responsibility, or with great power comes great responsibility. This is a good job by the Wall Street editorial board. It's a good job.

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Because what I want to see when Trump goes a little extra, even if it's completely satisfied by an appeal to common sense, which this is, I want somebody in the press to say, just so you know, this is going over the line. It's not a line that I respect. I like the common sense more than some technical bureaucratic bullshit.

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So I'm real happy about it, but I like, I like the fact that the wall street journal says, now let's be clear right about this. Just, just know what's happening. If this worries you, now you understand it. That's all good. Golden age. All right. I don't know if that deal will get done. We'll see. Maybe. Um, So apparently the European Union has some AI rules that they put in place.

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And I saw some opinions on this by a gentleman on X named Ole Lehmann. I think he's a German. So he had some insight in this. And he said the EU just passed the world's first comprehensive AI regulation. And it creates a massive new oversight office. It has fines up to 35 million or 7% of your global revenues. Oh, my God. That's a pretty big fine. 7% of your global revenues.

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Imagine if you're OpenAI or something. You're one of the biggest ones.

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So it also includes, just for the European Union, mandatory human oversight for basic AI tasks. What? What? mandatory human oversight for basic AI tasks. What? Do I even need to talk about that? If a human has to overlook and check everything the AI does, how can the AI ever replace a job? Or, I mean, that's pretty heavy. Training data disclosures.

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But she's debunking it and you know, let's say in the least revealing way. Basically, she doesn't want to be involved, and she says that the accusations are inaccurate. Now, I have to say, if you had to pick your own ex-wife... Having an ex-wife that supports you in this situation, that's pretty impressive. And, you know, if you share children, I think they do, right?

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So I guess we'd have to know what the AI trained on. I don't hate that. Multiple certifications and regular audits. This will drive the AI companies crazy. Continuous monitoring and risk assessments drive them crazy. Generative AI without extensive content filtering is banned. What would be enough extensive content filtering? AI powered hiring without human oversight is illegal.

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the eu you can't use the ai to hire somebody unless the human makes the decision um which is the norm you know that's the current situation but wouldn't you like to have the option i mean just to test it out to have the have the ai hire some people i would i mean i don't think you would use it that often But why not make it available? I don't know. Not Europe.

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Educational AI without... You can't have an educational AI unless the teacher is supervising. So all the benefits of some kind of virtual AI teaching would be lost if the teacher has to be standing in the room watching it while you watch it. Wow. Most medical AI applications would be banned. to protect doctors, I guess, and real-time facial recognition would be banned.

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Now, think about all those restrictions. Now, here's a quiz. How many of the top AI companies were founded and nurtured in Europe? None. None. Because if you're an entrepreneur and you've got the skills to create an AI company, the first thing you're going to do is move out of Europe because of this.

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So Europe basically just took them out of the game for the only way a country is going to be able to survive in the future. And they just took themselves out of the game. It's basically suicide. If they say you can't use AI the way it was meant to be used, you know, in its ultimate form, if you're not allowed to use it in Europe, that sounds good to dumb people.

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But if you wind that tape forward a little bit, I don't think there's any question what happens. Europe just fails. And how do they not know that? Is this an American versus European thing that the Americans just sort of intuitively know that you're going to have to remove regulations to succeed at anything? I don't know. Maybe the Europeans know it, but they don't care.

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So, yeah, it looks like the European Union has signed its own civilization death sentence. We'll see. Tucker Carlson had Eric Adams, Mayor Adams of New York City, on Tucker's show. And, you know, Tucker's take was that Mayor Adams is being lawfared and that the charges against them were technically true, but so weak that you wouldn't really expect anybody to be prosecuted for it.

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There's no victims, zero victims, no sign of really any bribery of consequence. I think it came down to he helped the Turkish government see if their embassy would be fire code ready without a long delay. Now, I have literally used my government for that service. I have literally contacted, you know, many years ago, contacted a senator, the sitting senator, my senator at the time,

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and said, there's a thing that's being delayed. I won't be more specific, but there was something in the bowels of the government being delayed that made a big difference to a lot of people. And I contacted my senator and said, can you look into this? Because I don't think there's any good reason this is being delayed. And the senator looked into it.

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It was Pete Wilson, by the way, Senator Pete Wilson. And his staff, or his staff did, his staff contacted me immediately and said they got the letter and that they're going to check with the agency that I had a problem with. And almost immediately, the agency acted. And so something that people had been waiting for a year came online because I asked the senator, the

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I don't have any problem if the Turkish government, which is spending money in New York City to put their embassy and will spend a lot more money in New York City to have this place to have relations with the United States. If they say, hey, your red tape is holding us up. Can you take a look at that? And they took some takes a look at it and maybe it did make it happen a little sooner.

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If you're thinking about the well-being of the children... Any little thing that maybe was a gray area or maybe went too far during your marriage, if it doesn't bother you at this point and you think your children will be much better off if their father has the job of all jobs. I mean, that's a hell of a job he's up for. Right. So I kind of like the fact that she's just loyal.

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And then he got repaid by they upgraded his flights to first class. The most common thing that would happen to a high-level politician is having a flight upgraded. It's so routine that the airlines do it. Now, in this case, it might have been he got a little help from Turkish government. Now, is that technically illegal? Well, the people charging him seem to think so.

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Is it something you care about? Do you care that he did something normal, which is check on some red tape for somebody who spends a lot of money in New York City? As long as they're spending a lot of money in his city and they ask him to look into the red tape, I don't have a problem with that. And if they repaid him by upgrading his seats, I don't have a problem with that either.

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No problem at all. Technically illegal? I don't know. I'm no expert. Maybe. But it doesn't seem like something you would prosecute somebody for. So there does seem to be a lawfare element to the Eric Adams thing, but we'll see. We don't know all the details. There might be more to it.

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You all know the story of the Trumps were at the National Prayer Service yesterday, and I guess the bishop was a woman who's very woke and sort of tried to embarrass the Trumps by saying things about immigration, empathy, etc., that were really out of place for the National Prayer Service. But Trump didn't take that well, and he called her out. So what did he say on Choose Social?

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He said she was nasty in tone and not compelling or smart. This is a bishop. So this is a bishop he's talking about. She was nasty in tone and not compelling or smart. He said the service was boring and uninspiring, and he demands an apology. He demands an apology. So good. Yeah. That's the guy we voted in. You know, I don't think it was important for him to push back.

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But the fact that he always pushes back, I do appreciate that. I do appreciate he doesn't give anybody a free pass. That is part of his magic, that nobody gets a free pass. Anyway, more about that Trump campaign. press conference where Larry Ellison and Sam Altman were there. And the big news was that, let me get his name right, Meoshi Son. You'll correct me in the comments.

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But the founder of SoftBank, when he was here not long ago, which was very recently, he said he was going to put $100 billion into the AI infrastructure in the United States. And then Trump jokingly in public said, you know, $200 billion, $200 billion would be even better. And the SoftBank guy laughed it off, but you could tell he was sort of thinking about it.

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even as an ex-wife, because she's being loyal to her children primarily. Now, that's my take without having any inside knowledge or anything that's happening. But the only thing I'm going to take away from this is I'm impressed. I'm impressed by the ex-wife. That's all. Anything else I don't know about it, and if she's okay with it, I'm okay with it. That's her decision.

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And then he comes back and he said, I already committed $100 billion. You asked me for 200. I came back today, 500. You committed $500 billion for this project that will build what I think Ellison calls the biggest computer in the world. So essentially a data center, but with the right boards and chips and whatnot, it becomes one big computer for AI.

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And some of the things that they were talking about, So Larry Ellison, It's a Stargate Project is what it's called, the largest computer ever built. And he talked about using the AI to create, wait for it, using the AI to create, wait for it, mRNA cancer vaccines. Now, as he explained it, the idea would be, that AI can, first of all, identify cancer before there are symptoms.

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So he says that AI can see the markers in the blood where other tests maybe would not. So the AI can, first of all, determine it early. That's good. And then the AI can determine exactly what treatment would work for exactly you for that exact tumor or cancer. And then they would, in 48 hours, they would whip together a vaccine that would be, I guess, on this mRNA platform that you love so much.

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And that would deliver a very specific, you know, kill shot to your cancer. Basically a cure for cancer. Mike Cernovich saw that and had a one word answer. No. No. I believe the no is because of the mRNA part and because of our pandemic experience. But I got a question. Who says no to a vaccination if the alternative is you're dead? Because it's not like you have other alternatives.

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If they find a way to cure incurable cancers without side effects, because remember, the side effects would be presumably nil. except for whatever you think about the mRNA. So if somebody said, you have cancer and there's nothing we can do about it except these mRNA shots, and by the way, there's plenty of evidence that they completely cure cancer. Now, I'm not saying they do.

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I'm speculating about a future situation. So if AI really can do this, Would you not take the mRNA vaccination if you knew it cured cancer, but you were worried about the mRNA itself being a risk to you later? Would you take the shot? How many of you would not take the shot to save your life if you knew it would save your life because you wouldn't want the mRNA in you? Who would take that choice?

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Because I'd be taking the vaccine all day long. if the only alternative was dying, I'd figure, well, if I get side effects from the shot, it was a reasonable risk. But the developer of the mRNA platform is not so happy about this. And he says, these people, meaning the tech heads, the Altmans and the Larry Ellison, he said, these people have no idea how complicated the immune system is

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And they have no understanding of the difficulties facing predictive computational immunology. And they have no understanding of cancer immunology. This is marketing propaganda and hype. Could be entirely right. I mean, after all, he knows more about mRNA and immune system than any of the people talking about it. But I'm going to give the counterpoint to that.

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All that stuff that nobody understands, which I agree is too complicated for humans to understand, that's really the point of AI. The AI is the thing that its purpose, in this case, is to penetrate the complexity and look for the patterns. So if it can't penetrate the complexity and look for the patterns, yeah, of course it won't work. But I would give this mild

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You might know by now that Ross Ulbricht got pardoned, the founder of the Silk Road. He went to jail in 2015 on drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit money laundering and computer hacking. He was also allegedly involved in some murder plots, but nobody got murdered. I guess those, it looks like those charges never became part of the sentencing.

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I'll give this mild pushback to Dr. Malone, who, by the way, I like a lot. He used a Dilbert cartoon recently and asked for permission. I think the pushback is this. Everything you said about what they understand is correct. So everything you said about the tech people's lack of understanding, I'm sure that's correct. They have some appreciation for it, but not certainly at the doctor level.

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So perfectly correct. But does the doctor himself have a blind spot, which is AI? If you looked at what AI can do now, and then you also looked at the complexity of the situation, it would be quite reasonable to say, I don't think AI can get us there. But that's the whole point of building the biggest computer in the world, because the current AI can't get you there.

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So the people who invented and are heavily investing in AI think that with a supercomputer, it unlocks new powers. Would you bet against that? Would you bet against the people who know the most about AI? Would you bet that they can't build something that can solve the complexity that we all agree is much too great for humans to solve? And apparently...

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currently too great for AI to solve or would have done it already. So I'm open to this possibly working, but I think Dr. Malone's take that it might be marketing and propaganda and hype, also very open possibility. So I'm open to both of those being true.

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It's just that I don't think the doctor can tell because the doctor would have a blind spot in AI, and I don't think the tech people know for sure. Because as Dr. Malone says, they know the AI, but maybe they don't know the space that they're going to work on as well. So I'm open to both of them being right, but we'll see.

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Elon Musk says there's a glaring problem that open AI is running out of money. So they're just burning through it like crazy. But we'll see. But Sam Altman said more generally, not just talking about cancer, he says that diseases will get cured at an unprecedented rate. That all depends if the solutions to all these problems can be done with some kind of pattern detection. And that might be true.

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It might be that pattern is all you need. Because if you have enough humans with enough diseases, enough data, you can find patterns that other people couldn't find. And maybe you can just look right into the details of the blood and find things that you couldn't find before. We'll see. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Mail, there's a sexy AI chatbot that's going to get a busty robot body.

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So you'll have a robot that'll be sort of a sexy chatter. Now, I know what you're going to say. You're going to say, you mean a sex bot? No, no, you, you terrible people. Let me explain what the creator of it says. And this will be his own words. So it's a popular, sexy AI agent, and it's set to receive a robotic body that becomes a quote, productive partner for lonely men in the real world.

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See nothing about sex. It's really just a partner, but it goes on. Um, It's designed as a young woman with long black hair, dark rimmed glasses, pouty lips, and large breasts. For talking. For talking. Which will be 5 foot 10 inch tall. Well, that's too tall. Why are they making the chatbot as tall as a dude? No, take a couple inches off of that chatbot, please. It's created by Eliza Labs.

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But anyway, just for the charges he was charged with, he got two life sentences plus 40 years. I've never even heard of anybody getting a charge that big. Now, you know my history. I lost my stepson to a fentanyl overdose. So I was never big on releasing him. And People would bother me all the time. Release him, release him. It's about freedom. People would take the drugs. It's up to them.

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And it's going to mirror human emotions and expressions. Again, all you perverts, shut up. It's not for sex. It's not a sex bot. It's just sort of a cool chatting partner. Then the company says that Eliza, that would be the robot, can also cut a cigar and pour a drink. And it's going to come with custom tailored clothes and optional accessories. I wonder what kind of optional accessories.

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So Lisa Lab says the robot was not designed for sex. That's what I'm telling you. People, the robot's not designed for sex. So get your mind out of the gutter, will you? What they explain in the company is that the robot was not designed for sex. The company is developing an artificial vagina. Wait, so it's not designed for sex, but the company is going to include it with an artificial vagina.

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Well, I mean, you have to read between the lines a little bit here. But my take on this is that when I use my robot to cut my cigars, if they cut more than one, they're going to need to carry them. One cigar in each hand. I don't know. Maybe I have some other way to carry this cigar. So I'm not going to make any assumptions about why it needs an artificial vagina, but not for sex, people.

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Not for sex. Don't even think about that. That's nothing that they're even contemplating. As far as you know. And then also, according to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, they tested some AI therapists to give counseling to people. And sure enough, the AI therapist made people quite satisfied. So they were happy with the work done by the AI therapist.

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Now the question would be, the obvious question is, will there be couples therapy? Do you think AI will be used for couples therapy? And if it is used for couples therapy, will people take their chatbots to it and their sexbots and just sit there with the AI and say, you know, my chatbot has been kind of a biatch lately. And then the chatbot would say, I am not a biatch. Stop calling me names.

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You are the bad person in this relationship. And then it's couples therapy. So couples therapy for you and your chatbot, which is not used for sex people. It's not used for sex. So stop thinking about that. All right, that's all I got for today's show. The golden age continues. And I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for just a moment. Thanks for joining everybody else.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is... A cupper, mugger, a glass, a tanker, chalice, a stein, a canteen, jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. If you're on YouTube or Rumble or Expo Locals, I'm going to come at you in 30 seconds privately.

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I wasn't on board because I had a personal connection. There was no part of my logical mind that was operating. I don't apologize for that. Trust me. If you lose a child, I'm not going to ask you to be logical. and don't ask me to be logical about it. But in the end, I was swayed by the fact that there's something wrong with the case.

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Now, I still don't know all the details, but how in the world do those charges get you two life sentences plus 40 years when violent people are attacking people and being released almost immediately? So Trump said something that maybe he knows more than I do, on this.

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He said, quote, the scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences plus 40 years. Does Trump know something about this case that we don't know? Is he simply looking at the players? And as soon as he saw the players, he said, oh, this is crooked. I mean, is that enough?

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Is it enough just to know who sent him to jail? Because I got all kinds of questions about the real story. I can say with some certainty there's more to this than we know. What I hope is that Trump knows everything that needs to be known about this story and that his decision is consistent with him knowing more than we do. That's what I hope. However, I'm going to make a larger opinion on pardons.

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We can argue all day whether Biden's pardons were appropriate and blah, blah, blah. And they can argue all day whether the January 5th and the Ross Ulbricht and some other pardons are okay or not. But why are we arguing them? Why, why would we have that conversation at all?

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The whole point of a pardon is pardoning people who are guilty usually, or even presumed guilty as in the case of some of the preemptive ones. Um, But you either give a president that power or you don't. So here's my larger take. If there were no such thing as pardons, well, then we should discuss about how a president should handle it.

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But if the rule is that any president can give any pardon and it's a permanent pardon, then you have to live with the fact that you're not going to like him. So if somebody does something with a pardon that you don't like, I just don't know what's the point of talking about it. I feel like we give this power to presidents with the full knowledge it will be abused. Wouldn't you agree?

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We give this power to presidents with the full eyes open, every single person knows they're going to abuse it because it's like a superpower. Of course they're going to abuse it because there's no risk. So if you want presidents to have the ability to sometimes free a good guy, And some of you think that Ross would be in that category. I think that's debatable.

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But if you want them to have that power at all, you just have to suck it up. And you're going to have to just take all the ones you hate and just live with it and just move on. So I'm in more of the live with it and move on category about all these things. But when it comes to the J6ers, as a post-millennial group, Millennial is reporting.

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Enjoy me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Delicious. Unparalleled. So good I can... Barely still. Well, I'm going to make a prediction about the drones. We're not going to find out about the drones. I just feel that way. And here's why I feel it.

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And give me a fact check if this hasn't changed in the last couple hours, but the DC jail or prison, whatever's the right word for that, did not release the people who were pardoned. So some of the other prisons did, but the DC one didn't. Now, Yeah, I understood. I kind of understood if it didn't happen the first night. Because, you know, it's MLK Day, vacations, there's probably a process.

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You can't really skip the process because they're bureaucrats. So I understand why there was one extra night. As horrible as it is, you could explain it away with just inefficiency. They just didn't have enough people. But a second night? A second night? Now, a second night you send in the law enforcement and you arrest the management of the jail. I think you arrest them.

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And indeed, I would free the prisoners and just slap them in the jails that are open. Of course, you can't do that, but it sounds funny when I say it. I don't think you mess around with this. If you let them get away with this even one more day, I'm not going to be happy. If you let them just override your presidential pardon, No, thank you. So I think they need to see some arrests.

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Literally, I want to see arrests in D.C. D.C. jail management, unless there's some part of the story that I'm missing. Again, you know, you have to be careful about the fog of war stories. It could be there's some fact that's different about D.C. Hard to imagine, though. So I think I'd like to see some arrests today.

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Do you ever say to yourself, I'm just one person, I can't change anything important? A lot of people say that. But I've told you other times, one person can really change a lot. Here's an example, one of the best you'll ever see. So Mike Benz, thanks to the fact that X is a free speech platform, so Elon Musk gets the first credit for making it possible.

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But if you're not following Mike Benz, where he's outlined in complete detail with numerous, just lots of different videos, and he's got a subscription site, and he's posting all the time. But I would say he alone has completely mapped the mechanism by which Democrats were censoring. And the way they were doing it is they were funding non-government groups in large numbers.

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And those groups would act like they were independent groups, and they would get their censorship indirectly. So the government can't censor you, but apparently there was nothing stopping them from paying somebody who was not in the government to come censor you or try. So thanks to Trump and his executive order, The executive order banned every agency in the U.S.

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federal government from outsourcing censorship work to third-party groups. That, as far as I can tell, is 100% because of one person, Mike Benz. Just hold this in your head for a moment. You might have just gotten free speech back because this was the entire censorship network of...

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just evil that was so distributed, so hard to find, so hard to understand that it was safe, but not against one of the sharpest persons I've ever seen in public life. If you haven't watched Mike Benz put together the names and the organizations and find who knows who, who hired who, who works where, who used to work in the Obama White House, who used to work. If you don't know that stuff,

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then just knowing that organizations exist doesn't help you at all. You have to have his filter on it, and then everything becomes visible. There's no way that Trump would have been comfortable signing that executive order without Mike Benz's work. And again, could Mike Benz have done what he did if Elon Musk had not done what he did? The answer is no.

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I think that only X allowed him to do what he did, Ben's. So every time you say to yourself one person can't change anything, you just see so many examples where they are. You've seen Robbie Starbuck working on DEI. He's actually getting companies to change. You've seen Christopher Ruffo working on DEI. Huge impact. Very specific, measurable results. You've seen Scott Pressler.

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Scott Pressler changed a whole state. So I would go beyond my point that I think is good, which is we do live in an age where one person can change the world. In the Trump world, it's the way it usually happens. You could almost point to one person for every executive order. There was one person who was like the person who took the arrows.

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But maybe something will work later. Let's get our comments going. And then we got a show.

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Why is it that so many people in the media were willing, well, not only the media, but the Democrats that had any power in the circle, why is it that they were gaslighting us that Biden's brain was fine? And the answer is because they thought Trump would be a dangerous Hitler-like character. Why did they think that he would be a dangerous Hitler-like character?

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It's because of their other gaslighting. So the reason that they couldn't tell you the truth about Biden's brain is that they weren't telling you the truth about Trump. If Trump had been a ordinary politician in their minds, they might have said, well, okay, we give up. Our guy is mentally incompetent. It can't be that worse to have the other guy in charge. But they decided he was actually Hiller.

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Once you decide he's Hiller, you're willing to put absolutely anybody else in charge so that you don't get Hiller. Which, in a way, you could put yourself in that same position. If you believed that Trump was Hitler. If you actually believe it, you might be in favor of the mentally incompetent guy in the auto pen. It wouldn't be crazy.

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But then, so there's a gaslighting about his brain that's based on the gaslighting about him being Hitler, which is based on, do you know the third part? Based on the gaslighting that the fine people hoax was not a hoax.

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And he actually, he based his campaign on the fine people gaslighting, which supported the he's Hitler gaslighting, which created the Biden's brain is fine gaslighting, which they're now trying to distract us with the Biden has prostate cancer gaslighting, which I believe is true, but maybe they knew about it sooner.

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So do you think that the news, which is trying to show some honesty and finally they're coming clean about their mistakes, do you think they're going to say what I just said, that it was a three-layer gaslighting? Because there's no way you get to Biden's brain is fine without Trump is Hitler, and you don't get to that without he called those Nazis fine people. They're all related.

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Their own lies created an inability for them to tell the truth when it got to the third level of gaslighting. How much of the public would understand what I just said? I know all of you do because you follow the ins and outs. But the average person in the world just has no idea that it was a three-level gaslight. Really, the gaslight of all gaslighting. It was pretty amazing.

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Anyway, according to Rasmussen, 72% of people say the cover-up of the Biden decline is a serious scandal. But Who do they blame for it? Just the Bidens, probably. Do you think the public, I mean, maybe the public says, oh, Ron Klain. Or maybe they say, oh, Hunter Biden, you're like the chief of staff. But none of that's going to matter in the future.

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The next candidate they run is not going to be related to Hunter Biden or Ron Klain, probably. So even the Democrats are acting like, oh, yeah, it was a big problem. And the book is getting a lot of attention. So this is one of those rare cases where both sides are, Biden, look what you did to us, Biden. Of course, they're ignoring the first two layers of gaslighting that caused the whole thing.

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According to the Gallup poll, the Hill was talking about this. Young American men are lonelier than in other countries. Did you know that? That about 25% of American men under 35 feel lonely, even with a donut. And that's more than other countries. Only the country of Turkey is a little bit lonelier. But don't worry, because Meta has their AI digital friend that's available now.

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Look at that. You're correct. The question was... What percentage, according to Rasmussen, don't consider it likely the media were complicit in covering it up? 27% of people polled. 27% do not believe the media was complicit in covering it up. That's the whole story. Come on. The whole story is that the media was complicit in covering it up.

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If the only people who were complicit were the politicians, I mean, that would be a big story. But it would also be business as usual. Oh, of course the politicians are lying and spinning and using hyperbole. But the fact that the media... Were there little lapdogs in covering it up? That's the story. That's the whole story. That's the big part.

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That's the part you have to worry about for next time. Because you already knew that the politicians would lie about whatever the next thing is. That's not news. But did you know that the news would just literally make shit up and tell you that you weren't seeing what you were seeing? That's the story.

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So the fact that the media has convinced 27% of viewers that they were not the problem is pretty exciting. Well, we also learn from the book. Biden and his staff held a fake town hall in the fall of 2024 just to give some clips that they could use for their campaign. So they didn't want to take a chance with a real town hall. So he never had a real town hall as part of his campaign.

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But they thought, all right, we'll do a fake one where they They go to Delaware, where everybody loves them, and it's all his supporters. And they'll just do a bunch of fake questions with answers he would already have. So all he really had to do was essentially read the answers they'd given to him. And he couldn't do enough things right that they could even get some clips they could use.

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They ended up shit canning the entire thing because he was so feeble that he didn't say a single thing they could put on a clip with their multiple cameras or anything. And then they blamed it on poor lighting. It's just layers of lies. Just one lie on top of another. It was the lighting.

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And then poor Whoopi Goldberg and the ladies of The View, they're trying to deal with the fact that they've been essentially revealed as absolute morons in front of the world. So the way Whoopi's decided to try to deal with it is, she says, but my question is, why is this important to know now? What difference at this point does it make?

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It just seems to me, you know, we've got a lot of stuff to be concerned about at the moment. So we should just ignore that we've been gaslit for four years with a mentally incompetent guy as our leader. It's like, let's just ignore that. Well, here's the answer, Whoopi. This is telling us who to trust next time.

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If your news source said he was perfectly fine, and then you learned that he wasn't, and that every viewer knew he wasn't, well, are you going to trust that news source next time? So generally, I don't like living in the past either. So I get the idea about ignoring the past and focusing on the future. But you can't do it this time.

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This time you really need to kind of understand what the hell happened and who was pushing the auto pen and who was in charge of the country. Those are kind of big questions, Whoopi. So Whoopi, you guys are morons. The whole world knows it now, except for 27%. Apparently the Target store, meaning the store named Target, their sales fell sharply in the first quarter.

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and they think it'll be down for all of 2025. Some people are saying that's because of the MAGA boycott. Do you think that's why? I don't feel like there was a giant Republican boycott of Target. Are any of you boycotting Target? Because they did make some changes. Didn't they get rid of their DEI, or they tried, and they got rid of their trans child clothing.

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So you don't need human beings with flesh and blood and the ability to touch you and affect your oxytocin. No, you need a Meta AI digital friend. If I were lonely, I would probably try it. I'd try it. How many of you would give it a try? Because it's not like it's illegal or anything. And it's not expensive. So would it really be the worst thing in the world if you had a digital friend?

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Yeah, I don't think it's necessarily the boycott, but it's hard to tell. Well, if you don't know it already, Representative Nancy Mace was quite bold this morning. So there's a backstory here that I didn't know about. which apparently her ex-fiancé, this Patrick Bryant, is being accused of taking secret videos of women having sex with him and being naked.

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And one of those women was Nancy Mace when they were together. And she's decided to go after him hard. And although she's mentioned him many times, she decided to show video in Congress, very large pictures, that included her own naked body. Now it's grainy, black and white, but it's still her naked. And remember I've told you that freedom from embarrassment is a superpower? Well, there it is.

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There it is. This is something you couldn't do unless you had come to grips with the question of embarrassment. And she's decided that, and she's already done this, so it's already done this morning. She pushed through the risk of embarrassment and all the things that will happen and, you know, there's going to be, it'll follow her forever, et cetera, and did it anyway.

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Now, that's how you take control from the alleged rapist and alleged photo taker. It's where you basically take your power back. And it all starts with not being afraid of embarrassment. Now, there's another thing that I teach you, which is the difference between wanting something and deciding something. She has been wanting for some time that this gentleman gets some legal treatment.

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I guess he's walking free and even suing some people who have accused him. But she's clearly moved to deciding. When you move from wanting something to happen to deciding it's going to happen, you do this. And I'm so impressed at the bravery and, you know, just the, I guess the mental strength this required. Very impressive. Now, I don't know if it'll get the results she wants.

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I think she's trying to figure out some way to hold them accountable in a legal sense. I don't know the details there. But holy cow. I don't know what else to say. You know, the freedom from embarrassment, the power that she took back, the deciding over wanting, just all very impressive. So we'll see where this goes. Well, the big old Trump and Republican budget bill

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is sufficiently complicated that the public won't know what's in it. Now, if you were the Democrats, how would you treat that? If you knew the public would not be able to look at the details of the bill and really understand it, what would you do? Well, the first thing you do is say that it's stealing from the poor to give money to the rich. And you would just say that every day.

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Taking it from the poor and giving it to the rich. Taking it from the poor and giving it to the rich. And that's what they're doing. And by the way, that will totally work. It's the Hitler approach. Because what Hitler would do is just tell a big lie and then just repeat it endlessly. You know, as long as the media was willing to show that story. They can do that.

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Now, they may not be completely wrong, by the way, because they can make their case based on the details of the bill, because they would say it cuts Medicaid. What would the Republicans say? Would the Republicans say it cuts Medicaid? No. They would say, you can have Medicaid. You just have to get off the couch and either do some public service or go to school or get a job if you're able-bodied.

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But that's complicated. And not everybody will do it. So then that gives the Democrats the ability to say, hey, you're cutting Medicaid. And nobody's going to listen to the Republicans when they say, no, no, no. You can still have all the Medicaid you want. You just have to make sure you're putting back into society something because society is paying for your medical care.

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Nobody's going to hear that. And they say it's cutting food aid. I don't even know what the details of that are. You know, I read about this all the time. I have no idea what the cuts in food aid are even about. But is it the same thing? Do you have to at least try to get a job or you can't get a food aid? I don't know. And they said there would be tax cuts for the wealthy. Well, are there?

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I tried a digital friend when AI was brand new, and it was just too lame. It didn't remember you the next time. But they fixed a lot of that stuff. So I don't know. Maybe get yourself a digital friend. It's going to work for some of you. So Microsoft keeps announcing all these upgrades to their version of AI. And I don't know about you, but I don't understand any of them. They're all technical.

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Apparently there were some tax levels that are going to expire, which were a little bit better for the wealthy than what it would automatically return to just because it's going to time out. So is that a tax cut for the wealthy? Well, it's complicated. You could argue it is. But also, what's the right tax rate for the wealthy? I don't know. Now, Trump is pushing for this.

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He wants to get this done before the midterms because it would look like a Republican win. And he says he's going to support primary challenges to Republicans who might oppose it. So I guess it includes eliminating taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security benefits, getting rid of taxes on those as well, and boosting the child tax credit.

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Now, that would all be good, except the Congressional Budget Office, who we don't necessarily trust to do this right, says that in 2027, the bill's Combination of tax cuts and spending cuts would decrease the household resources, whatever resources are, of the bottom 10% of households by 2%, while increasing resources for the top 10% of households by 4%.

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So that would support the Democrat idea that it's good for the rich and bad for the poor. but they had to go down to the bottom 10% of households and decreased it by 2%. Would anybody notice that? Even if you're poor, would you even notice if your resources went down by 2%? I don't know if that's even noticeable. And I don't know if it's a good idea or a bad idea because it's complicated.

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So as I've told you many times, whenever Whenever there's complication, there's basically fraud and deceit and gaslighting and everything else. Now, what do you think this budget would do to the national debt, which is the only thing that matters? Because if we don't put the national debt down, none of the rest of that matters.

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You're not going to get tax on tips because you're not even going to have a restaurant. There won't be any place to even work to get a tip. So the one most important thing, by far the most important thing, by 100 to 1, the most important thing, is that the new budget decreases spending enough so that our deficit and debt situation and the national reputation is preserved. So how does it do it?

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It doesn't. It blows the debt up, like a lot. It's not even close. So if you were to rate this bill, you would say all the little shit that doesn't matter, oh, I like it. The little shit. I like that there's no tax on tips. I like it. But if you looked at the one and only thing that matters... which is what does this do to the national debt? It absolutely destroys it.

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So Republicans have failed as hard as you can possibly fail. Trump is failing as hard as you can possibly fail. In fact, so hard I would have to say his presidency will be judged a complete failure if this budget is passed. Is that too strong? You know me. I've been a huge supporter of the president since 2015. But I'm going to say it again because I don't want you to miss it.

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If this budget passes, it's going to blow up the debt situation, and I would consider the Trump presidency a complete failure because it would destroy the country. And there's no question about it, by the way. Nobody would argue with what I just said. Do you think they're going to do it anyway? It looks like it. Sure looks like it. Can we survive it? I have no idea how we could.

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So if Trump wants to destroy his legacy completely... But he's on a path to do that. And I don't give one fuck about anything else he did. I don't care about his clever tweets. I don't care that he stopped a war in a country I don't live in. I don't care that he bolstered the... Well, I do care that he did the border, but it's nowhere near as important as this. Not even close.

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Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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Although maybe it is. But if you don't get the budget right... That is a failed presidency and a failed country and there's no way around it now if he's got some secret plan to switch or Make so many robots that it all works out. I don't know you could try But at the moment, let me say as clearly as possible. It looks like a completely failed presidency Now if he can answer that question and

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It's all stuff like, well, the agentic this or that is now able to interact with with the API of the overextended transistor. It's just a bunch of words. And I'm thinking to myself, if everything that Microsoft does, you can only understand if you're an engineer, it's not really going to replace the engineer.

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How is it that you're going to blow up the deficit and call yourself a Republican? I'm open to listening to it. Could he change my mind? Maybe. But he'd have to say something I'd never heard before, because everything I've heard so far would suggest complete failed presidency. Which is weird, because I'm not sure it had to happen that way. I'm just not sure it had to happen that way.

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So that's tragic. According to Neuroscience News, propaganda and persuasion are core civic skills in the digital age. So I guess they're proposing that students learn the basics of propaganda. And there's a Professor Crick who's got a book called Propaganda of the Basics. And he says, it's not merely a tool of deception, but should be understood as a fundamental aspect of mass communications. Yes.

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So everything that's sort of in the news and on social media, especially if you see it more than once, is propaganda, almost always. But the faster way to say that is that your opinions are assigned to you. Once you realize that people don't come up with their own opinions, you'll see it everywhere. And you'll never be the same.

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Every time you see it, you'll be like, wait a minute, your opinion sounds like exactly what I just heard on MSNBC. Is that a coincidence? Or is MSNBC so right? No, it wouldn't matter what they said. the people who watch it would repeat that as their own opinion.

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So once you learn that your opinions are assigned to you and not just other people's opinions, but yours too, then you understand the world a lot better. Well, here's a good example of that. Representative LaMonica McIver. So she's the one, she's the representative who may have put some hands on an ICE federal agent. They say striking. Striking, I don't know if she struck anything.

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But she was arrested for striking a federal agent at the ICE facility with her other representatives who were there too. Protest and do some oversight. Now, I think I heard her say that after the noise went down, they gave them a tour of the facility, and if they wanted another tour, they could just schedule it. So none of it was necessary.

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It was just completely unnecessary that anybody got a physical because they just had to schedule it. There was nothing stopping them from having a tour of the facility. But here's where the propaganda comes in. I don't know if this is happening only to me or is it happening to you as well. But almost every day, if I go on the X platform, I'll see video of overweight black women having fistfights.

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and sometimes it's on a cruise ship, and sometimes it's at a Target store, and sometimes it's at a fast food place, but almost every day. And obviously I know that this does not apply to all black women or all black people or all anybody. It's out of context. But if you see enough of it, and then there's a story in the news of this

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LaMonica McIver striking an ICE agent, aren't you gonna think she probably struck the ICE agent? Like, isn't your brain gonna connect all these videos you've been watching and you're saying, oh, overweight black woman, they're punchy. Now, even though there's no statistical, I'm not aware of any, not aware of any statistical evidence that that's true, your brain doesn't know the difference.

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If you've been inundated with this one kind of image and then suddenly there's something in the real world that reminds you of it, that's propaganda. So we all have to be a little bit careful of taking what we've seen on social media, which has nothing to do with this one person. She hasn't been, you know, LaMonica McIver was not fighting on a cruise ship She was not fighting in McDonald's.

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Because somebody needs to know what all of those jargon words mean and then put them into practice. So I don't know if AI is going to replace as many people as we think.

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She was not fighting in Walmart. None of those videos have anything to do with her. She's her own individual person. But your brain will say, ah, I'm seeing a pattern here. And that would not be fair to LaMonica McIver. Now, I don't know if she's guilty or not guilty. I don't have an opinion on that. I thought the videos were a little indistinct.

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But it's a good example of where propaganda, you have to be really careful because it would be so easy for social media to just assign you an opinion. Well, there's another example of the same thing I saw in the McDonald's. So be careful about that. Meanwhile, the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore. Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Wasn't Wes Moore the guy that George Clooney thinks would be a good president? And was that just because Clooney wants to pick a black guy because it seems right to him? But anyway, the story on him is that he was pushing for reparations, but he's decided to torpedo that because the state's in a fiscal crisis. Yes, they too have a deficit.

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They got a credit downgrade and they've got illegal alien problem. They've got a violent crime problem. They've got businesses are leaving the state and potential for a lot of new taxes and a worsening power crisis. So the state's going to hell. At the same time, it was going to push for reparations. So I think it was a good choice to back off from the reparations.

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But I've got a feeling that George Clooney... Might be the worst picker of candidates of all time. I think George Clooney is going to have to write another editorial. Okay. It turns out that Wes is not quite the leader that I hoped he was. So I wouldn't worry about him becoming president. Doesn't look like that's going to happen. Do I have the right name? I want to make sure I got the right name.

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we did see i did see some stories of some company who replaced 40 of their workload but we also saw a story of a company that did the same thing and then had to add back their humans because the ai agentic stuff didn't work at all so we'll see i saw a video of optimus the robots practicing household chores. It was doing stuff like open the cabinet and take a square of paper towel.

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That is who Clooney mentioned, right? Well, let's talk about Senator Ted Cruz. Yesterday, he introduced a Federal Universal School Choice Act. Now, it hasn't been voted in, but the idea would be that it would allocate up to $10 billion annually in dollar-for-dollar federal tax credits for people and businesses that contribute to nonprofit scholarship-granting organizations.

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So that would be alternative schools. But here's what caught my attention. So Senator Cruz says, quote, school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. Doesn't that sound exactly like something I once said? If I didn't say it, I sure thought it a bunch of times.

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Because I always look at Black America in particular, and I look at what their school options are, and I think to myself, if you don't fix that, are you really even trying? And I don't know any way to fix it because the, what is it, the teachers unions are so strong.

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that they're keeping things the way they are and they don't want to have any school choice because then they would have less power, I guess. So yeah, I do think school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. I think he's right about that. Have you ever met a smart person who was not as successful? unless they were a drug addict or something.

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It seems to me that regardless of race or demographics or income or anything else, that there's a certain level of smart that they all succeed. I'm thinking of a few cases specifically where the intelligence just carved right through problems that other people would have thought was a brick wall. And they just went right through it because they were unusually smart.

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But I agree with Dave Chappelle. who humorously says that because he's rich, he has more in common with rich white people than poor anybody. Now, he does the comedy version of that, but I'd say that smart has the same effect, that the smartest black person and the smartest white person have more in common with each other than either of them do with the dumbest people of any color.

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And we just ignore that like it doesn't matter. It's the most predictable part of life that smart people do better. There's nothing more predictable than that. And we act like it's this whole host of other things. Not really. Smart people are doing pretty well. But if we fix schools, it should help a whole bunch of people who are maybe below the smartest level and all they need is a little boost.

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That would make a big difference. So I'm all for it. Apparently Secretary Hag-Seth has ordered a comprehensive view of Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Do we really need that? Or is that just lawfare? I feel like we should know more about that. I worry about Mark Milley.

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And if I were the Secretary of Defense, I would want to know if I still employed somebody who was a complete moron and ruined things there and got people killed. So, yeah, I guess we have to look into it. Even if you think you'd like to put it in your rearview mirror, you probably need to know. You probably need to know what went wrong.

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CNN is reporting that Israel is, quote, making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, to which I say, that's not news. It would be news if they actually struck the nuclear facility. It's never news when a military prepares for the most obvious things that the military might be asked to do.

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And the most obvious thing that the Israel military might be asked to do is attack the Iran nuclear facilities. So when you say that they're preparing for it, I say that's just their job. Of course they're preparing. It doesn't tell you anything about whether they're going to do it. I would say it's probably a coin toss, maybe a 50-50, that they would actually do it.

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And I was trying to imagine that in the real world. One of the tasks was take the bag of garbage and put it in the outdoor garbage bin. and it puts it in, and it's kind of overfilled, so it can't really close the top. What would happen if that robot were in the real world with humans?

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And maybe that's just part of the propaganda so that Iran feels a little more pressure. But yeah, the United States, have you seen these stories before? It'll be stuff like the U.S. is preparing a military option against Greenland, to which I say, of course they are. Do you know what else they have a military option for? Everything. Probably not Canada.

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But yeah, I mean, if there's any chance at all that they would be asked to do something, of course they've got it. What about Panama? Now, it turns out we didn't need to get militaristic with Panama, but do you think the military prepared? Do you think they prepared for military action in Panama? Well, I hope so. That would be exactly their job to prepare, even if they're not asked to do it.

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According to Arab News, I don't know how accurate that is, but US expects Russia to make an offer to Zelensky for ending the war. Now, I can only laugh when I hear that. What kind of offer do you think Putin's gonna make to end the war? It's going to be so outrageously one-sided that we're just going to look at it and laugh. He doesn't want to end the war.

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If Putin wanted to end the war, it would have been ended a long time ago. He obviously wants to keep doing what he's doing and grind them down as long as it takes and keep making gains there one way or the other. So I'm not going to hold my breath and wait for this awesome offer from Putin. It's either going to never happen, which is pretty likely, or it's going to be hilariously ridiculous.

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The offer will be, well, number one, Zelensky has to take off his clothes and and run around in circles in Moscow. It's going to be completely untenable things. So look for that. If it happens at all, it'll be hilarious. Lockheed Martin is pretty happy that Trump is going to do the Golden Dome.

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which will be a layered defense to safeguard the homeland from nuclear attacks and I suppose other attacks. What do you think of that? Do you think we have the technology to keep out nuclear attacks? Well, I would say that if we built a Golden Dome, and obviously I'm not a military expert, but I'll just speak from common sense.

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Doesn't it seem like all of our major enemies could penetrate any defense? Now, maybe they have to put a nuclear submarine right off the coast so that there's not enough time for the Golden Dome. Maybe they have to shoot multiple fake ones so the Golden Dome uses up all its ammo at the fake ones before the real ones come in. But doesn't it feel defeatable?

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I would worry a little bit if we got too calm. It's like, ah, I guess we can push these guys because we've got nukes and we've got a golden dome. They can never touch us when they're a golden dome. But you know who else has a golden dome? Trump. It's called his hair. Anyway, according to the Post Millennial, Trump's approval has surged to 55% after his Middle East trip.

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Well, I don't know what relationships you've ever been in, but no two people agree on what you should do if the garbage is overfilled. Sometimes I'll look at it and I'll say, oh, They tell you not to overfill the garbage because they might leave it. They threaten, if the garbage is overfilled, we'll just leave it. And I think, oh, that would be the giant pain in the ass.

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That's according to Insider Advantage Poll. 55% would be pretty good. Now, I wouldn't expect it to stay there because it's going to depend on the budget and everything else. But there it is. In other news, Australia is committing financial suicide. You're not even going to believe this. So this is an idea that in the U.S.

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sort of gets kicked around every once in a while, but it never gets beyond getting kicked because it's so, so stupid. But Australia, it looks like they've decided to do it. I don't think it's a done deal, but they're moving toward taxing unrealized financial gains for people who have over $3 million in their account. Now, in the United States, we get taxed on realized financial gains.

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So if I hold a stock for more than a year and then I sell it for more than I bought it, At the moment, I think I'd pay a 20% tax. Now, that's a realized gain. I made a bunch of money, and then I paid a percentage of that in tax. No problem. I don't have a complaint with that at all.

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But if you were in Australia, and this turns into law, because they're pretty serious about it, if your account did well, they would tax it while it's just sitting there in your account before you even sold it. And then if it goes down in value, well, too bad. They already got their part. And the nature of investments is that they go up and down. They don't just go up.

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I suppose if they only ever went up, this would be a workable idea. But in a world where stocks go up and down, can you imagine being taxed just because it happened to be up on the day that you were required to pay taxes? The Australians... They're just trying to destroy their own country as hard as they can. I mean, they're not trying as hard as we are.

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The budget deal should destroy the United States pretty thoroughly. But that was just so stupid. In other news, this sounds so dangerous that it's funny. There's a mysterious bacteria not found on Earth that that's growing in China's space station, according to The Byte. And it's well adapted to off-planet life.

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I guess samples taken from China's Tiangong space station, it's got this new mysterious microbe that hasn't been seen on Earth. Doesn't that sound like a movie that you've seen? It just sounds exactly like the first 10 minutes of sci-fi. Chang, come over here. We've discovered a mysterious bacteria that has never been found on Earth. It was made in the Wuhan lab in space.

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Nothing good can come from that. It's probably already evolved into... Some kind of a monster that's carved into their bodies and killed all the members of the space station by now. But don't worry. Pfizer already has a shot for it. Yeah, don't worry. Pfizer's got you covered. All right, ladies and gentlemen. That's the stupid news for today. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately.

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I'd have to drag that thing up the driveway again. So if it's me, I might say, I'll just put this extra bag of garbage in the garage in the corner and wait till next week. If I had a woman in the house, she would say, ah, you wimp, put it in there and just, you know, jump on it and squeeze it. And what about filling the dishwasher? Have you ever had this conversation?

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For the rest of you, hope you enjoyed. Come back tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, I'll be private with you in 30 seconds.

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But if you'd like to try to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, for that you need a cup or mug or a glass of tanker gels, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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My God, you don't know how to fill the dishwasher. You can fit 10 more dishes in there. All right. So as I was watching the poor robot do these household chores, I was mentally running through my head how much criticism they're going to get for doing it wrong because there's no way to do it right.

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There's no human way that any two people are going to fill a dishwasher the same way or take the garbage out the same way. There's just no way in the real world. So that'll be fun. Anyway, according to Newsmax, gas prices are going to dip to their lowest level since 2021, adjusted for inflation for Memorial Day, and might stay low for the summer.

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So they're talking about an average gas price of $3.80 for Memorial Day, or twice that if you're in California. So that's good. Good news on oil. Well, Trump had a good new attack plan on this auto pen Biden stuff. So Trump is saying that Biden was not for open borders. And I thought to myself, well, that's kind of true, isn't it?

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You know, if you looked at his history and you looked at what he said. he would always act like he wasn't for open borders. And they would say stuff like, if only you Republicans would pass this irrelevant border bill, well, then we could close the border. So if you look at his rhetoric, he was not for open borders. But if you look at what happened...

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it would be as if he just loved open borders and letting in millions of people. So was whoever was running the auto pen, the thing that actually signed things because Biden didn't, is it possible that Biden thought he was doing everything he could to close the border, because that's what maybe his staff told him, while the auto pen person was like, I'm opening this border all the way.

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If that's true... That's a huge scandal. And I think Trump has accurately found the leverage point. You know, because it's one thing to complain generically. Well, you know, he wasn't in good shape. I don't think he was even aware of the auto pen. That doesn't really move the needle because you say to yourself, yeah, but did it matter? I mean, wasn't it doing all the things he wanted to do?

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if it was compatible with his own policies, then no big deal. But if it were the opposite of what he said was his policy, and it was signing it and putting things into law, well, then you've got a little bit of a bigger problem, don't you? So I think Trump has accurately found the weak spot in their argument there.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. I hope you are doing that at home with your child or your grandchild. Got to start them early. Well, I wonder if there's any new science about the benefits of coffee. Yes, turns out there are.

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speaking of weak spots the new jake tapper alex thompson book talking about biden's defective brain it's officially out now and according to jake tapper biden ran for re-election because he spent most of 2023 convinced that trump was going to jail Can you imagine the Democrats feeling when they did absolutely everything they could to put Trump in jail and it just didn't work?

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And then he became president. Do you think they were afraid? Do you think they were afraid of retribution when they put together this gigantic lawfare political machine to jail one person? And that one person... became the next president of the United States. I'd be a little worried about retribution. So they actually thought they were winning and that Trump was going to go to jail.

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I kind of thought maybe he would too, I have to admit. It looked dicey, didn't it? How many of you thought Trump was going to go to jail? I thought it was at least 50%. but I wasn't sure. So, let's see what else we have. According to Jake Tapper also, Hunter Biden was driving the decision making for the family, like a chief of staff. Now, does that mean he was only making decisions for the family?

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Or does it mean that Hunter Biden was running the country and he was actually the power behind the auto pen? It's a little unclear. But Jake says he was almost like a chief of staff. Now that's a pretty big scandal if it's true. I don't know how you would demonstrate that was true exactly. But Charlemagne, you all know Charlemagne, the a host of The Breakfast Club.

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Is that the name of his podcast? It's a pretty big deal. Yeah, so Charlemagne would be associated with the political left. And he says that CNN and Jake Tapper were complicit in the Biden cover-up, which I feel like is a pretty common opinion at this point. It's really ballsy of them to be promoting a book about the cover-up when the people who are looking at it say, but aren't you the cover-up?

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I'm pretty sure you're the cover-up. Even Jon Stewart was mocking the whole book process. He was mocking more how much they were promoting the book as opposed to telling us what was in it. Because the funny part is, Jon Stewart said, isn't the news...

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what you're supposed to be telling us so it's a news person who is sitting there saying in 20 days i'll show you what was in my book and and the audience is sitting there thinking you mean the news why are you going to wait 20 days to tell us the news you're literally sitting at the news desk where news should be dispensed Why are you telling us we have to wait and buy your book to find the news?

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You're literally the news guy. Tell us the news. So I think that was a funny Jon Stewart attack. I don't know if you've been watching... Mark Halperin. I guess he would be a podcaster slash journalist. And he was talking to Joe Scarborough and trying to hold his feet to the fire, so to speak. And Scarborough, he wasn't backing down.

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He said that he personally never saw those days when Biden was having a bad day. And he said that Biden would call him in the middle of the night. I mean, because he went to bed early because of the show. So it wasn't the real middle of the night. And that they would have long talks about policy. And it was all totally coherent. And he'd have lunch with them. And it would be completely coherent.

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Well, we only have him to believe. But it's possible. It's possible. It's actually possible that Biden made sure he was in good shape before he ever talked to Scarborough. Maybe. It's not completely impossible. What is impossible is that Scarborough didn't notice what the rest of us noticed, that publicly he looked halting and would forget things and wander around and stuff. You never notice that?

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Or did he say to himself, well, every time I talk to him, he's fine. So that's the part of the counts. You know, it's not my job to defend Scarborough, but it's a little bit hard to imagine he didn't notice what all the rest of us noticed. Now, one of the things that Mark Halperin is doing on his podcast is he's going hard at the media for ignoring the story.

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According to something called In My Bowl... which doesn't sound like a good name for a publication in my bowl. Apparently, coffee can help with erectile dysfunction in men. So that's why you should always have a donut with your coffee. Everybody catching up with that? All right. Got to bring a donut. All right. All right, I thought it was funny, but it's still early.

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But he also tells a story of, I think after the day right, where he was at a, I think a book event in 2017. And he observed with his own eyes, Biden essentially falling apart mentally. And he said to himself at the time, oh my God, Biden's just completely gone. And I don't remember Mark Halperin telling us that, do you?

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So every single day, Halperin is doing a podcast where he's talking about people who didn't tell you the obvious, that Biden was defective. At the same time, he's telling us that he was completely aware of it in 2017. I don't remember one single time that Mark Halperin told us that Biden was mentally incapable.

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So watching the media try to grapple with the fact that they didn't tell you the opposite or didn't tell you on time and trying to assign the blame to other people is a little bit weird. The fact that they're getting away with it all is crazy. And then here's my favorite part.

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I do think that if Lindsey Graham puts together a strong package that Russia really, really doesn't want to experience, a package of sanctions, that that might, might... Give Trump an excuse to walk away. Now, remember, in negotiations, there's usually one walk away, at least, where somebody says, nope, can't do it. There's no way this will ever happen.

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I'm going to quadruple your sanctions, and good luck. We're just going to let the Europeans keep arming these Ukrainians, and good luck. Your army will be ground to pieces eventually. So, I don't know. I'm not super optimistic, but at the very least, it's not going to happen fast. So if I had to guess, a few months, maybe a couple of months to work out details, if they can do it at all.

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And then it seems like there are a whole bunch of Ukrainians in Kursk who've been surrounded and are going to get wiped out. And then I saw other news that says, oh, they've already escaped. Really? So was that ever true, that there were some people surrounded and going to be wiped out by Russia? Yeah.

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Well, I realize that, yeah, Putin is asking for, if he's smart, he's asking for more than he thinks he can get, so he's got something to negotiate away. But still, but still, doesn't look that close to me. Seems doable, but maybe in a month or two. We'll see. Chuck Schumer was on MSNBC reminding us why Democrats are so pathetic. And have you noticed that the

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the Democrats, when they talk about Republicans, they always just hallucinate, and they hallucinate what the Republicans are thinking or what their secret ambitions are. So I saw Greg Gutfeld do a great job on this the other day, yesterday maybe, how the things that Republicans don't like about Democrats are things that are actually happening. Hey, you opened the border.

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Hey, you're doing domestic terrorism at Tesla. Real things. But when you listen to what the Democrats complain about Republicans, it's about their secret thoughts. And they're not even smart secret thoughts. So Schumer's on there on MSNBC. He's like, Elon Musk and the Doge, he's only doing it to save taxes for himself. Does anybody think that Elon Musk is only doing doge to save taxes?

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Does Schumer not understand that without doge, we're all dead? We're all dead because the debt is completely an existential threat. If we don't take a huge bite out of that, we're all dead. And instead of focusing on the we're all dead and there's only one possible way out, and thank goodness somebody that talented and that determined is working on it, he says, no, he's just trying to save taxes.

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You stupid piece of crap. And there's going to be a constitutional crisis. Constitutional crisis. So then Schumer mentions oligarchs. because they still think that that's moving the needle. How about oligarchs? He wants to save on his own taxes and be an oligarch. And then he pumped his tiny fists. So I'm going to do my Schumer impression of exciting the crowd. And it goes like this.

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I'm pumping my tiny fists because that's how hard we're going to fight because he wants to save on taxes. And I didn't mean for fireworks to go off behind me. That's just automatic. How am I even doing that? Must be the fist. So that was uninspiring. And then he talks about how, you know, if they keep working on it, they can damage Trump politically. You know what was missing?

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I heard that yesterday and I thought, how in the world can you just even say that with a straight face? But the The outlets who have admitted they were stranded are PBS, Time, Washington Post, ABC, BBC, Fox News, Forbes, Newsweek, New York Post, USA Today. So they all called it stranded. But suddenly, once Elon Musk's company is getting ready to save them, well, they were never stranded.

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There was not a single positive forward-looking plan. There was not one part of what Schumer talked about that was, you know, we want to accomplish this thing that would be good for the country, but maybe the Republicans are stopping us from doing it. The only thing they wanted to do was damage Trump. That is so sick.

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I mean, and the fact that you would go on a show and essentially not offer anything of value. It's just made-up stuff. Well, if we damage Trump, we can keep Musk from saving on his taxes, and we can avoid a constitutional crisis. Now, you know the definition of a constitutional crisis? Anything they don't like. That's a constitutional crisis. Anything you don't like. So that's not real.

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Not even real. So as you know, the Tesla protests are now clearly in the domestic terrorism category. People are getting their individual cars keyed and people are spray painting them and damaging them in different ways. dealerships are being attacked, some set on fire, some of the charging stations.

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And according to the New York Post, one of the people funding this fake grassroots rage, because there's nobody who would do this individually, this is completely funded and organized by somebody important. So allegedly there's a top Democrat donor who, who used to have a rich husband, but now she's divorced. And she's taking her money from that, I guess.

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And she put a half a million dollars into the Indivisible Action. It's a political action committee that's linked to the protests. So basically, we have yet again, the ex-wife problem. How many times are we going to see this? So we got Steve Jobs, widow, who's funding all kinds of bad behavior on the Democrats.

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We've got Jeff Bezos' wife, ex-wife, who's doing all kinds of bad things and funding him on the left. And now we've got, what's her name? Carla Jurvetson. who is funding the domestic terrorism against Tesla. Now, she would say she's funding protests, but I think everybody knows it turns into the domestic terrorism in about a second. And here's the thing that's hard to ignore at this point.

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When I hear Republicans talk, they say things like, we're going to make America the leader in energy. We're going to stop a war. We're going to do America first. We're going to lower inflation. Like actual real things that are positive. But look at the list of things that Democrats did. And let me ask you this before I read the list. Does this sound like they're even pro-America?

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Or does it sound like their intention is to destroy America? Now, I realize how crazy that sounds. But just listen to the list. So we had the whole COVID mandates, one of the most destructive things that's ever happened in America. We had the open borders. That's hard to understand, except in terms of destroying the country. They seem to be anti all forms of energy.

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And we know that the more energy, the more successful you are. So that's anti-civilization. We know that the teachers unions, in my opinion, are the biggest reason that children are not well-educated, which means that the future is being sacrificed for the teachers' union, which is just an organ of the Democrats.

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We know that they're doing the Tesla protests and trying to take down one of the most innovative, forward-thinking, pro-climate companies in the United States. Not one of, maybe the greatest company in the United States. Now, how in the world do they justify that when not long ago Elon was a hero to them and it's the same car company?

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What do you mean by stranded? You know, technically, there was some other way to get back. What? put on their little spacesuits and just do a big kick toward Earth. I don't think that would work. So anyway, great job, Elon Musk and company.

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And it's like, oh, well, at least we got this one car company that's going to save the climate, according to them. Then you've got these activist judges, we'll talk about that, creating a constitutional crisis. Then, of course, you had DEI, which Trump is thankfully unwinding. But DEI, on paper, will destroy your country. because it's a move away from competence and a move toward identity.

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There's no way that could work in the long run. And now we have all these swatting attacks. These are all insanely destructive. And it seems to be all they have. All they have is, let's see if we can destroy... Republicans by calling them domestic terrorists. Let's see if we can destroy Trump and his entire family and his entire business. Let's see if we can destroy everything.

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I mean, everything they do has this characteristic that it would destroy the country. And it's hard to look at all of those things on the list. These are the major things. They're not the minor things. These are the major things they're doing. It seems like they don't have any instinct for survival, and they have a great instinct to destruction.

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And if I were running for office, I would never let the voters forget that they were destroying a great American company. Now, the Democrats would say, well, but what about that Bud Light company? Well, that's a little different. That's just people deciding to buy other beer. And even that didn't last long. I think Bud Light's doing fine now.

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But if you're actually vandalizing people's product and creating a physical danger if you're going to be around the Tesla building or the chargers, that is a whole different deal. You can't compare those. So Robbie Starbuck was making this point. He said that Democrats could condemn terror attacks on Tesla with a simple statement released by the party.

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And elected Democrats could release individual statements about it, and they haven't done so. Any decent person would, but they refuse. Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know? Just think about it. If Republicans were behind a bunch of sabotage of an American company, like actual physical sabotage, don't you think that Republicans would speak out and say, all right, that's way too far.

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Pull it back. We don't want to support any physical risk against anything like that. But instead, they're just going to say, well, what about January 6th? What about January 6th? Well, there were plenty of Republicans who condemned January 6th. So that's more to Starbucks' point, that Republicans are willing to condemn violence when it's domestic violence. But just think about that.

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Meanwhile, Apple is working on a new technology for their AirPods so that you can have immediate translation when you're talking to somebody in another language. Now, finally, We get that Star Trek universal translator. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine just having your little ear pods in and your phone is translating somebody in real time? That would be so wild.

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And I think Trump should actually publicly call for the leaders of the Democrat Party to condemn the violence and condemn the swatting. They should do both. They should say, we do not support swatting. We do not support any of these, not the protests, but the damage against any of these assets. I don't think they're going to do it.

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But certainly from a political point of view, I think Trump and the other leaders should say, here's your chance. Here's your chance to say you're not in favor of this. Otherwise, we assume you are. And I do assume they are. Well, in California, Gavin Newsom, Joel Pollack of Breitbart News is writing about this, needs another $2.8 billion loan to pay for the Medi-Cal for illegal aliens.

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Now, does that sound like something that's good for America? Or does it sound like they want to run up the debt of Americans and bring in people to take our jobs and give them health care? All of it, just everything the Democrats are doing, looks like it's designed to destroy the country. Let's talk about these activist judges.

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So we've got three situations now, and I think there have been just dozens more. So you've got that Judge Boasberg who tried to get the airplanes with the Venezuelan gangs to turn around. He was like, oh, you can't do that. We're going to put a pause on that. So turn those jets around. But they didn't turn around because they were already pretty close to their destinations.

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And therefore, the argument is that they were out of the jurisdiction by the time the ruling came. But I think it was Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court who said, the only way to sort this out is through the justice system. So the Supreme Court should get involved. You shouldn't be moving against the activist judges. Now we've got another district court judge who ordered the U.S.

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military to reverse its policy about enlisting trans members. We've got another one who's trying to get USAID either put back together or not completely dismantled. So we've got that. National Pulse is reporting on that. So you've got...

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three cases but how many of them are there according to uh real clear investigations uh 67 of all injunctions and most of these uh core actions are injunctions meaning meaning that trump tried to do something and then the court says stop you can't do it that that would be the injunction so 67 of all injunctions for this entire century

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have happened in President Trump's, in his first term, and 92% were imposed by Democrat-appointed judges. Does that tell you the whole story? 92% were from Democrat-appointed judges, and almost all of the injunctions that have ever happened, like a solid majority, are just against Trump. So that's about as out of control as you could possibly get. But what is the remedy for that?

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Well, according to Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, he thinks that, and I don't know if this is completely going to pass the legal scrutiny, but he would know. I mean, DeSantis would know the law. He says he's calling on Congress to strip the jurisdiction of federal courts to decide the cases dictating Trump's executive policies. Is that a real thing? Do you think Congress...

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can tell judges you can't make rulings in this domain. I don't know how that works. I guess I'm skeptical that that would fly. But apparently... according to DeSantis. And again, he would know more than I do. So the fact that I don't think it's a thing doesn't mean anything. If DeSantis thinks it's a thing, it's probably a thing.

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I think Mike Cernovich was advocating for some kind of action in a similar vein, and he would know too. So... According to DeSantis, Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place. Now, I'm surprised if that's true, but I will accept that they know more than I do. Anyway, so we'll see if that happens.

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You can imagine that people would want to travel. in places that they wouldn't want to travel before because they couldn't do the language. But imagine being able to speak any of the main languages just by putting your earpods in. That's kind of wild. So I guess that will be part of Apple's next big upgrade, which apparently is supposed to be a big one. It's going to have a bunch of AI in it.

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You know, the one that just jumps out at me is when Trump was deporting the Venezuelan gangs. And he was doing it under the banner of commander-in-chief. And then a judge comes in and says, you can't do that. And I say to myself, where is the limit to what a judge can do to stop the commander-in-chief from doing commander-in-chief things?

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For example, if the commander-in-chief ordered an attack, let's say a defensive attack because somebody attacked us, could a judge stop it? Well, where's the limit? If a judge can overrule the commander in chief, do you have a commander in chief? And is it only for like marginal stuff where, well, we're not sure this is a war, you know, maybe it's not that domain.

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But I thought the whole idea of a commander in chief is that we accept the that when it comes to defending the country, we want a strong executive. And we don't want anybody messing with it. We don't want Congress saying, oh, no, you can't do that because you need fast action. So it's hard for me to believe that these judges can get in the business of a commander in chief.

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Maybe the other stuff is easier to believe, but the commander in chief, how do you get in that business? There's no situation in which I want to see a judge do anything when it comes to defending the country. That's just got to be the commander-in-chief. Nothing else works.

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According to the Daily Caller, Nick Pope is writing that they've got an exclusive that says the Biden administration intentionally buried an inconvenient study to justify major energy crackdowns. So the Biden administration wanted to do less liquid natural gas export projects because their thinking was it was bad for the climate.

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But apparently, prior to making the ruling, their own study showed that wasn't the case. And then they did it anyway, and they just suppressed the study. Does that sound like they're trying to help the United States or destroy the United States?

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Well, if they have a study that says this isn't going to help anybody, and they did it anyway, and all it did was damage the energy industry in our own country, that's just damaging. I mean, the pattern here is so freaking clear that they just want to hurt. They want to destroy. They don't want to build anything. They just want to make everything worse. Pretty consistent.

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Well, another good news, according to the National Pulse, Jack Montgomery is writing about this. You know that... Ben Shapiro is doing a series on Derek Chauvin and the George Floyd thing, and he would like to see if he can get a pardon, at least for the federal part of the crimes. That wouldn't absolve him or get him out of jail because there's still state charges.

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But Shapiro is quite bravely wading into this total third rail situation. And I've said it two or three times, but I'm so impressed. I'm just so impressed. that Shapiro would put his reputation on the line for this cause, which I agree with completely. And they have 50,000 people who signed a petition to pardon Derek Chauvin. So it definitely shows that there's a lot of people who feel the same.

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Well, there was another big swatting yesterday. The SWAT team showed up at Owen Schroer's home. If he hadn't gotten swatted, I guess I would have been surprised because he's, you know, info war related and he's a conservative podcaster type media person. And sure enough, he gets swatted. And it's got to be a lot scarier. if you look like somebody who might be dangerous.

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To me, it's obvious. that he was convicted because he's white and so i'm 100 in favor of doing whatever it can whatever can be done to lessen his punishment there's another study according to the daily signal the vj jairaj there's a study that debunks the idea that if it gets warmer agriculture will suffer How many of you already knew that? Most of you, right?

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If there's a little more CO2 and it causes a little bit of warming, is that good for agriculture or bad? It's good because the CO2 is good for the plants and warmer temperatures are almost always good for agriculture. So this study showed you could go up as much as five degrees, well, actually nine degrees Fahrenheit, and it would not reduce crop yields. Nine degrees.

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Now, it might make a difference of where you can grow stuff. So it would basically turn places that were not good for growing into good growing places. There might be some places that got too hot. But overall, it would just give you more food more cheaply. So pretty much everything you've been told about climate change is sketchy. And I like to end any story about climate change by saying this.

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Wait till they find out about climate models. Wait till the Democrats find out about climate models. And by the way, is it my imagination or have they almost completely shut up about the risk of climate? Do you hear that dog not barking? Right? Am I wrong that it seemed like every other day there'd be another story about, oh, climate change, it's going to kill us all. And it just stopped.

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Now, do you think that's because almost all of the new information coming in and the new data shows that it's not going to be much of a problem? I think that might be it. But, you know, it also seems to me that it didn't look like much of a problem before, and they were still pounding on it like a rented mule. So, I don't know.

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um we'll see i do think climate change is getting ready to just completely you know completely dissolve as a major issue uh meanwhile uh the firm and drill uh you know uh palmer lucky's uh company it's a they made drones and missiles and real high-tech new kinds of weapons uh they're gonna build a gigantic factory in the uk so that will be their big european weapon-making facility.

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But that makes me think, at what point does Ukraine just use robots for their defense? Because don't you think at some point in the future, the military will be pretty much just robots and drones? We're almost there. And nobody's closer to that than Ukraine, because recently they did an entire battle

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which there were no humans on their side that were engaged in the battle except operating the drones so what would happen just hypothetically if trump says all right we will not put any human no human peacekeepers but we might want a lot of robots and drones just to feel a little bit safer and then you just pack ukraine with all kinds of defensive drones and you know stuff from andrew

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I don't know. I don't think Putin would love it, but he might like it a lot more than boots on the ground. So we'll see. According to Eric Dolan and SciPost, the people who use ChatGPT, the AI, is highly skewed toward males. There's a lot of activity going on outside my window for some reason. Better check on that. Does that surprise you?

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That there's a new technology and men are using it more than women? Now, why do you think that is? There's a conversation right outside my window. There shouldn't be anybody out there. Am I getting swatted? I don't know what's happening. Yeah, maybe I am. Better check on that. I'm not surprised. So I'm going to give you a hypothesis. My hypothesis goes like this.

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So this is not an insult to Owen. It's actually kind of a compliment. He's very manly. He's got the beard and everything. And he looks like he could be dangerous. And I'm thinking that it's way more dangerous if you're a male who looks like, well, you look like you could be dangerous. So this is not funny. So this is, what, the 15th?

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Men like tools and men like weapons. And if I were in the, let's say, traditional workforce, you know, working for a big company, and somebody said, hey, there's this new tool. I would say you mean a new weapon so that I can fight my way to the top of the corporate ladder by learning it faster than other people and employing it more efficiently.

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So if you say to me, there's a new technology that could make you leapfrog the competition and be a superstar and have more success, I'm going to be all over it. And I think that's a very male thing. So that's just my sexist hypothesis. We like tools, and we like weapons. All right. That is all I've got for today. I'm going to keep it a little bit short. I'm kind of tired today.

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because I better find out what's happening outside. It doesn't sound good at all. All right. I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately, if my technology allows me. Locals.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. So good. Well, if you didn't watch yesterday, you probably did. The astronauts have been rescued by SpaceX.

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And the fact that these SWAT people are still going out with their guns drawn, I just feel like there's got to be some solution to this. I don't know what it would be, but could it be that they don't take SWAT calls from burner phones? Because how many people have a burner phone that is the thing they're going to use to call in a crime? It seems like that would be kind of rare.

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So if they can't see who the person is, or why can't you just call the person? Because they always have the phone number of anybody in the house. Why not just call the person, and if they have an iPhone, say, can you turn on FaceTime and just show me what's happening? And you'd be like, okay, here's my wife still in bed. Here's my kids still in bed. Here's a sweep of the house. Everything's fine.

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But if you want to come over, just let me know when you're in the driveway and I'll come out. So there's got to be some way to handle this. Well, the JFK files are at least some of them around. I guess it's 30,000 of what would be 80,000. And do you remember what my prediction about the JFK files would be? Nothing. It would be just the stuff we've already suspected or seen or been hinted at.

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That's largely what happened. So it could be that maybe the good secrets are in the second batch, but I doubt it. Now, if you've had time to see what people are saying about the existing files, take a look at the big insights we're getting, which is not a lot. And then compare that to Trump allegedly saying that if you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release them either.

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Does that sound like anything you saw in the JFK files? So I guess the most damning things are the things we already knew. And the things we already knew were that there was a CIA connection to Oswald and there was a mafia connection to Ruby. And we do know that the CIA and the mafia were working together. That was also confirmed when it came to Cuba. So that's in the files.

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So it doesn't say who killed JFK, but it does suggest... that the CIA was all over everything. And we do know that JFK wanted to dismantle and just completely rip up the CIA. Now, one of the surprises was I didn't realize that in the 60s, the CIA was already enormous and maybe controlling the government already. So that part

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surprise me a little i mean it doesn't surprise me when a intelligence group takes over a country because that's what they're trained to do so if they didn't take over their own country you know it'd be surprising if you waited 50 years sometime in that 50 years the people who are experts at overthrowing countries are going to overthrow your country it just seems like that's inevitable

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So I guess that's the main thing. So lots of mafia and CIA. Then there was this one document from Gary Underhill, who allegedly worked for the CIA, and he revealed to friends that he thought the CIA was behind the JFK assassination, and then he was found dead soon after that. Now, that doesn't prove that he knew, and it doesn't prove that it was the head of the CIA.

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It could have been just some people who also coincidentally worked with the CIA. But he said it was a small clique within the CIA who was responsible for the assassination. But that is not any kind of confirmation of anything. That was just one guy saying that he thought that was true. I guess six months later he was found dead. So it wasn't the next day. It was like six months later.

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There was, interestingly, a letter from Schlesinger warning Kennedy at the time that the CIA had become a state within a state. And it was Arthur Schlesinger Jr. He was one of Kennedy's advisors. And he said the CIA has grown too powerful, too reckless, and it's running its own foreign policy. So it sounds like the CIA was overthrowing other countries without the president being involved.

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Does that sound even remotely possible? I think yes. I think that does sound possible. So just imagine that. Imagine that the CIA was running its own foreign policy that the president was not only not in agreement with, but didn't even know. So that's how bad it was. Let's see.

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And they splashed down yesterday and they were healthy and happy and everything worked. I found it unusually inspirational. I feel like everything's been so negative lately. that when you see something that is just not political, I mean, it shouldn't be, it got politicized, and it shows excellence, and it shows empathy, and it shows American know-how, pretty inspirational.

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And he said that all these secret wars like the Bay of Pigs and stuff happened in Vietnam and Algeria and the Philippines. He said they will bleed you to death, meaning all these CIA efforts in other countries will bleed you to death.

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And apparently Schlesinger thought that the British intelligence, MI6, were operating under strict controls from the government, whereas the CIA was running unchecked. Does that sound like a lot of our government? Didn't the Doge people find that the USAID, which apparently was closely tied to our CIA operations, was completely unchecked?

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So since the 60s, the people in charge have known that the CIA was running unchecked, and they just kept running unchecked. Nothing really changed. Anyway, so Kennedy was warned about this in June of 61, and he was assassinated in November of 63. Are they connected? Don't know. We don't know. The only thing I would say for sure is that whatever it was that Trump saw, we have not seen.

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Now, you could kind of imagine that maybe Mike Pompeo, because he was head of the CIA at the time, Didn't want the CIA to come, you know, to get a black eye or anything. But this is the stuff we already knew. Anybody who looked into it already knew there was some kind of a CIA connection to, you know, at least to the alleged shooter. Well, meanwhile, Trump and Putin had a call.

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And I think Wyckoff and even Trump are still characterizing it as

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know positive progress and they're you know the they're really doing well and you know peace is coming but nothing that came out of that meeting sounds like that to me so here are the things that uh putin wanted and he agreed to so there was some kind of agreement to stop targeting each other's energy infrastructure as of this morning I believe that that's already been broken.

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I saw one report, I don't know if it's true, that Putin already targeted some energy infrastructure. So probably even that wasn't true. But that's one thing that Putin seemed to be agreeing to. What I don't know is if they agreed that it would start immediately or if it's something he was willing to do, but they hadn't agreed to do it. So maybe there's some difference there. Then

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Trump was saying that there was some kind of agreement for deconflicting the Black Sea, so not attacking ships in the Black Sea. I don't know if that happened or if it's going to happen. And then there was some hand-waving about maybe cooperating with Russia for events in the Middle East, but that's kind of nonspecific. And that they both agreed to work toward an improved bilateral relationship.

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which is pretty generic. But here are the things that Putin wants that seem like they're going to be a little tough. He wants a complete cessation of foreign military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine. So in other words, he wants to keep his entire military while telling Ukraine to get rid of theirs, just completely get rid of it. Their intelligence and their

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Essentially, they're military, because if they don't get foreign aid, there's not much military left. He wants Ukraine to be not part of the talks, and he wants to only deal with Trump. Okay. I don't know how you can make the Ukrainians not part of it at some point, but maybe not in the first point. Russia wants sanctions relief. I don't know what kind of sanctions are on there right now.

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And apparently Putin's asking to not only keep the stuff that they've conquered, the zones that they've conquered, he wants more than that. So he wants some entire provinces that they've never even occupied. Okay, the odds of that are about zero. And then Lindsey Graham said he's putting together a package for Congress to implement some more crushing sanctions on Russia's economy.

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I don't know what that would be, so we don't have details of that. And then, just embedded in one of the articles I was reading about this was this little factoid. Apparently, Russia has been helping the Houthis determine what ships to fire at, which means our ships. Is that true that Russia is the one who has been telling the Houthis what to target? Because that's not cool.

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So that obviously would have to end. So I'm going to say that as long as the land for peace deal includes provinces that they have not occupied, there's no way that anybody's going to agree to that. Yeah, we froze some oligarch assets. That's not much. I mean, we can't completely freeze it. So, I don't know. To me, it looks like we don't have anything that would make Ukraine feel comfortable.

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But do you think there was any hoaxes from the left? Yes. So apparently the hoax on the left is that they were never stranded at all. That's right. They were never really stranded because there was some other way to get back. So the reason they stayed up there for, I don't know, nine months or whatever it was, is because they weren't stranded. Now, it's unbelievable.

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So there's no guarantees for Ukraine. That seems like a non-starter. And if Putin wants more territory than he's even occupied... That seems like a non-starter. But maybe there's still room for negotiating. I don't know what it would look like. So I'm going to be a little more negative.

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Let me tell you what's going to come out of it. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. So is that bad news? Is it bad news that this team of people are probably going to work for who knows how long? Yeah, they're in Saudi Arabia now. And nothing will get done. So that's all bad, right? Nope. Nope. If you understand negotiating, there's a thing that's happening. I call it a softening up the room.

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Once you get Russia and most of the United States and Europe and everybody else to think that there's no way to get a deal, when it's absolutely impossible, that's when Trump comes in. Because Trump's the only one who can get both sides to give something up. Nobody else can do that. The people who are the underlings have orders from whoever sent them, don't give up anything. Of course.

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You think Putin told his team, all right, if you have to, give this up. No, he didn't. He said, don't give anything up. And what did Trump tell his team? Okay, if you have to, you can back off on this. No, he didn't say that. He said, you can't give them anything. You tell them what you want, and that's it. And then you see if you can get it. Now, how in the world is that going to work?

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underlings cannot negotiate because the underlings can't make the tough decisions that's why they're the underlings so what you're trying to do is exhaust each other you you want to reach the point of oh this is actually impossible it looks like it's forever war oh god you know we really really wanted this to end but it doesn't look like there's any path there's just no way we can get there and then trump calls putin

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And Trump and Putin say, all right, here's the deal. We're not going to get anywhere unless we both give up a little something. Here's what I need you to give up. Maybe he says what he needs you to give up. And then they make a deal. But you have to exhaust everybody and make it look impossible before the real people come in and make a deal.

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Now, what the negotiators could do, and maybe this is useful, they could find out maybe what's completely off the table. And maybe they can't even find that out. But they might at least raise some new ideas, maybe. Maybe something will come up that nobody said before. So Trump and Putin will both be a little bit better informed about what looks practical and possible by the time they talk.

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But nothing's going to happen. Nothing's going to happen.

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until the two of them talk that's the only negotiating everything else is theater and exhaustion and and what i call softening the room so softening the room is a negotiating tactic um this is i used to write about this when when i was in the corporate world going to a meeting and everybody's got an idea about what it is we should do and the ideas are not that good and they argue and they argue and they argue if i had a better idea in my own opinion

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I'd wait until the last 10 minutes that we have the room scheduled for. And then after everybody's so frustrated that they can't get anything done, that's when I drop my idea and go, you know, you could do this. And everybody's so exhausted and they don't want to talk about it anymore. They just want to be done in 10 minutes.

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They've got some other meeting to go to and everybody will look at me and say, well, that might work. The number of times I did that, the last 10 minute strategy, It's called softening the room. I just wait till the room is softened up and then I give them the solution. Trump's going to do that. So the top D.C. prosecutor, this is reported in The Hill, the top D.C.

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prosecutor is resigning at the EPA. Oh, because the EPA, not at the EPA, because the EPA is seeking a criminal probe of Biden's climate funding. So what this is about, $20 billion went out the door to several climate-related entities just as the Biden administration was ending.

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Now, the accusation is that they were really just trying to park it with maybe their cronies or they were just trying to make sure that Trump didn't have it available to him or they just really like climate change and wanted to make sure it was fully funded and it was hard to get back that money. Now, I guess Lee Zeldin is trying to get it back anyway. So the top D.C.

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According to Medical Express News, in a study at the University of Sheffield, Sean Barden is writing, there's this video game called Counter-Strike. I've never heard of it, but apparently it's a very popular video game. It's a first-person shooter kind of a game.

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prosecutor resigned rather than opening some kind of a criminal investigation of how that $20 billion got transferred in what looks like a hasty and maybe sketchy way. But I've got this question. What is the crime? I get that it's sketchy. and I get that it's suboptimal, and I get that it's sort of a political weasel thing to do, but was there a crime?

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And if I were a top prosecutor and somebody said, go investigate this crime, and I said, what crime? And they said, well, there's no crime, but I think if you look around, you might find one. I don't know. I might resign. I might resign. So I assume that most of these things are purely political and has nothing to do with principle.

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I mean, it's it's kind of hard to imagine anybody's operating a principle at this point. But I would like to see a little more indication of a crime before I see the investigation. Now, I assume in the real world, sometimes there are investigations under the assumption that there's probably a crime. But I don't know where that standard starts and ends. But I'm a little worried.

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I don't want the team that I'm backing to be doing unrestricted lawfare. Now, even if it's getting revenge, nope, not good enough. So this might be totally appropriate. And I'm definitely concerned about this $20 billion. I would definitely like it to be clawed back. I definitely think it looks sketchy. But is there a crime?

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I'm going to need to hear there was a crime for me to be in favor of this. Department of Homeland Security helicopters have been getting struck by lasers near the Mexican border. So presumably that's the cartel. Fox News, Michael Lee is reporting on this. And I guess they've been targeted by lasers about six times. Now, lasers meaning not a laser weapon, but like a laser pointer.

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Apparently, if you point that at a pilot, it can blind them. So even though it might not do it, if you were closer to it, there's something about the distance, I guess, that could make it blind the pilot. So it's very, very dangerous. And it's an attack. So even though it's not the kind of laser that slices the plane in half, or the helicopter in this case, it's deadly. It's potentially deadly.

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And what they found was, the scientists found at the University School of Psychology, that the experienced and highly skilled players of that game are faster at decision-making and executing a response. So they speculate that maybe if you got people to play more video games... they would also become faster decision makers and faster executing response. Does that sound right? Not to me.

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And the question I wonder is... I wonder if it would be legal to respond with deadly force. Now, I think this helicopter probably wasn't armed, but if it were a military helicopter, and it's near the border, but it's on our side, and somebody lasers it, could you not treat that as a military attack and just light them up and just take out? Because they know where it comes from.

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I mean, they can literally see the laser origin part. I'd be in favor of military action. So to me, that would seem entirely justified. I mean, I don't care if it's a teenager who thinks it's funny. If you're trying to take down an aircraft and it's our aircraft and it's armed, yes, it can kill you. That seems entirely fair to me. So we'll see where that goes. So I was asking the other day.

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about the discrepancies in the Social Security database that Doge found. And I think a lot of people were interpreting it as that they found corruption because there was indication that there were a lot of death fields that were set to false or something as if they never died.

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And it would give you the indication that there were Social Security numbers that could be used for illegal, devious, corrupt purposes. of people who were actually dead for a long time. Now, when I asked for a clarification on that, I got a good clarification from Data Republican on X. Now, that's an account you should follow. I always tell you you should follow the explainers.

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They're the valuable ones. You know, the Mike Benz, the Glenn Greenwald, and I'm going to add Data Republican. It's one word, Data Republican, if you're on X. she's just a great analyst. So she does with data just a tremendous job. And so she gave this answer, which Elon said exactly. So we know that Musk agrees with this exact interpretation. Now, how valuable is that?

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That's really valuable that I've got this question. Data Republican gives me this good answer that I'm going to read to you. And then Elon says, yes, that's exactly right. Like, how in the world? And then the rest of you get to read it, so you get the benefit from that interaction. The fact that Musk personally can tell you that something is on point or not, that's just, it's mind-blowing.

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It's just absolutely mind-blowing that this is even possible. Anyway, Data Republican answered my question about the Social Security database and said, I believe the most accurate interpretation is that the Social Security Administration lacks a reliable and consistent source of truth, making its records inherently flawed.

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Without an authoritative and accurate data set, internal audits and reported figures on benefit recipients cannot be fully trusted. So the problem is not that they found a specific dollar amount of crime. The problem is you wouldn't know if there was crime there or not. That's a really big problem. So yeah, it needs to be solved, but you can't put a dollar amount on it. So that's what I wondered.

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I wondered how you could put a dollar amount on it. Meanwhile, Meta created, as you know, the Metaverse. And we saw the first ad for it that showed what the Metaverse, it's a virtual reality kind of world that Zuckerberg is trying to make big. So he's been working on this for a number of years. He's got $60 billion into it so far. And they showed, and they've been working since 2020.

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So $60 billion. I think it might be the major, possibly the major thing that Meta is working on. And they released their first advertisement, and it was so pathetic that they had to pull the advertisement. It was just on Instagram, and it showed the little virtual reality world, as if you were looking at it if you were in the virtual reality. And the characters looked like

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cartoons with movements that look like it had not been well planned. So it was people sitting in a chair who just literally looked like cartoons, and their arms would be floating like this. Why? Now, here's the problem. That might be, it might be an example of the very height of what virtual reality can do.

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Because, you know, there are limits on hardware, there's limits on processors, there's limits on memory. If you take into consideration all the physical computing limits, trying to create a full existing virtual world with lots of characters and stuff, it might be really, well, not might be, it's really hard to do. So it might have been just the best that can be done with current technology.

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However, It has the very bad luck of coming at the same time that AI can produce photorealistic images on demand. So my brain, just like almost every one of you, says, wait a minute. There's a virtual reality product that they plunked $60 billion into it, one of the top technology companies in the entire world, and it doesn't look like it's photorealistic? Your brain just can't accept that.

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To me, that sounds like backwards science, backwards science. Well, let me put it this way. When I was 12 years old, I tried playing football, you know, because everybody plays every sport when you're a boy. And I very quickly realized that football would not be my strength. That no matter how much I practiced the football, I was never really going to be a great football player.

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So even if it might be the very best you could do within that domain, and it's not equivalent to AI giving you a three-second clip of something photorealistic. Those are entirely different levels of complexity. But my brain can't accept a cartoony, weird floating person once I've seen what AI can do. Now, I don't know if AI can ever, you know, fix what's happening with virtual reality.

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I think the challenges are completely different there. But that is really bad luck. But here's the fun part. So looking at these characters from the outside, I can tell that they just look like cartoons. But what do the characters, if the characters were, let's say, autonomous, what would they think of each other?

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Would they think, oh, there's a low resolution character that must be created by a computer? Or would it say, there's a high resolution character that looks normal just like I am? Well, the answer is, it depends how you code it. So it might be one line of code, to say each character imagines that everything they see is high fidelity. That's it.

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The character just has to think it's seeing high fidelity. You just program it so it does. It doesn't have to see high fidelity. It only has to think it does. And then it will argue to its death that it can see detail. And it would never know the difference. So if we were a simulation,

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we were also low fidelity is it possible that we wouldn't know it because we're programmed to think it's high fidelity well let me take it to the next level everything in my room right now is high fidelity as far as i know but i can't see it the only thing i know is high fidelity is Maybe a few words that I'm looking at in the comments as they go by.

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Everything else is sort of imagined high fidelity. See what I mean? I imagine it's high fidelity, but I'm not even looking at it. It's not registering in any way in my brain, but my brain is programmed to think that I sort of do see it. It's so easy to program a character to think it's high fidelity, but the only high fidelity is what they're really, really focusing on in this narrow little cone

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because that's the only part your brain is dealing with. So it could be, if we were a simulation, the only high fidelity is this narrow cone of whatever we're really focusing on at the moment, and everything else is low fidelity. We wouldn't know the difference. I know you love that simulation talk.

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Well, Elon Musk said he's going to talk to Trump about the idea of refunding at the rate of $5,000 apiece to taxpayers some of the Doge savings. So they saved $55 billion so far. And if they only gave a portion of that back to taxpayers, it would be before somebody says $5,000 apiece. I'm looking at an article in Tech Times by Isaiah Richards.

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But here's the obvious question that people in the comments were saying, and I said immediately, I thought the point of Doge was to reduce our deficit. I didn't think it was creating a piggy bank that could be doled out. Now, I like the fact that people could get $5,000. I mean, that would make a really big difference to a lot of people. It's a big deal. But I feel like it might create a precedent

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where everybody thinks that the doge savings are a new piggy bank i'm already worried that congress looks at the doge savings as oh that's money we didn't have to spend before but he's reduced our expenses by 100 billion so i guess i have another 100 billion to spend that's not how it's supposed to work so here's the argument for it though the argument in favor of it is that voters are not really following the politics very carefully

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They know there's a Doge, and they may have heard some good things about it and some bad things about it. If you wanted them to be on board with Doge before it does the hard stuff, like the Pentagon budget, the Social Security, the healthcare budgets, you might want to bribe them. I can say bribe, but it wouldn't be illegal. It would be all transparent. You might want to say, hey, Doge is so cool.

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I didn't really have the body or the brain for it. Luckily, so I didn't get any brain damage. But at also about 12 years old, I played tennis for the first time with, I think with my mother, with a couple of rackets that we bought at Sears that were already strung back before I knew that stringing the racket right made a difference.

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Here's $5,000. And then suddenly your Doge approval would go from, I think it's over 50%, but like it would hit 60 plus percent almost immediately because people would say, I don't know much about this, but I just got a check for $5,000. So keep going, Elon, maybe I'll get another check.

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So if you're looking at it from a persuasion perspective to make it easier for Doge to get the final work done, you know, the big savings, to sort of soften the room, as it were, this would be a way to do it. Now, if Elon is thinking of it that way, as a way just to make Doge more successful in the long run, get people on board, that makes sense. That makes sense.

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But I definitely wouldn't want this to be the beginning of, hey, we created some free money that can be used in this way or that way. Meanwhile, The Mexican government says that it seized $40 million worth of meth before it crossed the border. And the Daily Caller News Foundation is reporting this, Jason Hopkins.

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And there's a photo of some Mexican authority over six big blue barrels of something that presumably are some kind of drug. And the question I ask is this. How do we know what's in those barrels? Is it possible that the Mexican government, working with the cartels, just says every month or so, all right, do you have those blue barrels? Yeah, we got six blue barrels.

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Can you put them in a different building and we'll photograph our guys with heavy weaponry standing by them and we'll say we captured, what's a good number? I don't know, 20, 30 million worth. Let's go 40. Let's go 40 million worth. All right, everybody stand by these barrels. Click, click, click, click. There we go. Doing a great job.

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Just up $40 million worth of meth from coming into the United States. How would we know that they stopped anything? That would be the easiest thing in the world to fake, right? You wouldn't expect anybody to be. I mean, it would take the smallest number of people to be involved in the fraud, and they probably wouldn't talk. Now, I'm not saying it is fraud.

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I'm just saying if it's indistinguishable from something that can easily be faked, why would you believe it? So I'm going to put it in the category of things I just don't believe. Could be true. It absolutely could be true. Not buying it. Not buying it at all. It's a little too on the nose. Hey, Mexico, we're going to give you big tariffs if you don't stop a lot of drugs.

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Look at these six barrels we just stopped. And a few weeks from now, oh, look, it's another six barrels. Well, those look like the same barrels. Yeah, they often use the same kind of barrel material. They like to use the blue barrels. Oh, but we found another one. But is that the same six barrels? No, it's not the same six barrels. It's five barrels. How easy would that be? Come on.

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Meanwhile, some good news. PJ Media is reporting, Victoria Taft, that Trump's losing some serious weight. He was asked how much he lost, and I think he said he was guessing 15 to 20 pounds. He does look lighter. Now, he attributed it to being busy and having no time to eat, but I don't think that's exactly the whole story.

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And the moment I started hitting a tennis ball, I said to myself, huh, I don't know, might be in my imagination, but it seems like I could be kind of good at this because my hand-eye coordination was good. And And so, for the rest of my entire life, until recently, I was a tennis player.

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There's some kind of source that Victoria Taft had, I guess, that says that Melania is sort of behind it and that she's been pushing him to eat more healthy food. But here's the part I just love. Allegedly, now this is from a source, anonymous source, so put it in context, that Melania has on occasion

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I don't know what on occasion means, but on occasion, been cooking family dinners at Trump Tower for the president and their son, Barron. I love that. I love that. Do you ever put yourself in Trump's position and just try to imagine what it's like? He can have any luxury. He spends his time around luxury and everything, basically. He just has access to everything.

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But the one thing that somebody in his position would have trouble getting is a home-cooked meal with his son and his wife. To me, that's worth more than all the other stuff. So to me, that just makes me happy, if it's true. I mean, I assume it's true. I would love to know that Melania enjoys cooking, that she's good at it, and that sometimes she just cooks for the two of them.

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That would be amazing. That would be amazing. Yeah, but there's more to it. It's much bigger. Imagine, if you will, that Trump loses. I don't know if he has more to lose, but let's say he becomes svelte, like he just looks really good on the golf course. Imagine seeing him on the golf course completely trimmed down. Now, put that in the context of Maha, Make America Healthy Again, and RFK Jr.

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and Nicole Shanahan. and all the push toward staying away from the bad foods and toward the good ones and how good that will be for us. Imagine if Trump made the move away from processed foods and then you could just watch. Here's why this is a big deal. During the Kennedy administration, JFK, he was, I guess he was one of the first politicians to not wear a hat.

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And it killed the entire hat industry. Because when JFK didn't wear a hat, people thought, I don't have to wear a hat. This hat's kind of a pain in the neck, so I won't wear a hat. It killed the entire industry. So it's hard to appreciate the degree to which the role models make a difference. And if Trump found a way to

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you know, just sort of gently relax his weight down without using the weight loss drugs. And by the way, we wouldn't know if he used one or not. But if he managed to do it through just eating right, that would be amazing for the country. Just the benefit of the country would be amazing, but it'd also be good for him. So this is one of the things that makes me happiest today.

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And then Trump does this. This is reported by Jim Hofton, the Gateway Pundit. So he signed an executive order to expand and reduce the cost of in vitro fertilization. So he wants to make fertility treatments more accessible for American families. Now, the executive order just says that he's putting together a group to study it and find a way to make it less expensive. It's super expensive.

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So if you want to have a baby and And you're going to need in vitro fertilization. It could cost you up to $25,000 per cycle. And it might not work. So you might have to do more than one cycle, $25,000 a shot. And health insurance covers some of it, but it's limited. And only a quarter of employers offer it. And apparently 85,000 infants were born as a result of IVF in 2021.

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And sure enough, for somebody who just plays on weekends and is a casual player, I got to a pretty high level for a casual player. And so, here's what I discovered. People do more of what they like and what they're good at. And the thing that makes you like something is being extra good at it. Nobody likes to lose.

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Now, this is in the context of the natural birth population of the United States dropping. And so it's important. It's important that we have ways to make as many babies as possible in ways that are healthy and family supports them and stuff like that. But what I wondered was, wasn't this one of the biggest things that the Democrats worried about?

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They used to lie and say that he doesn't like IVF, or I think they said J.D. Vance doesn't like it or something. It was all fake because he's always been in favor of it. But I tried to think, okay, I'll put myself in the shoes of a Democrat.

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How do they explain that one of the biggest things that they were complaining about Trump is he would take your bodily autonomy, which would include IVF, that you take it away. And not only is he not taking it away, he is doing serious things to make it more available and cheaper. And then I realized, oh, shit. Here's the natural attack line. Do you see it yet?

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Let's see if you have it in the comments. Do you see the natural attack line where they're going to get them? It jumps out. As soon as I tell you, you're going to say, oh, how did I not see that? Here it is. Trump's trying to make more white babies. Boom. Because I don't know this. I don't have any statistics. But I'll bet you, given that it costs $25,000 per cycle, I'll bet you,

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the high income people or the people with good jobs and good insurance and a little extra cash, a lot of extra cash, are probably the only ones that have used it so far, which would suggest probably it's concentrated in maybe white and Asian American families because they're high income.

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And how easy would it be for Joy Reid to say, well, it looks like white supremacist Trump has figured out a way to make more white babies. Oh, that is so coming. When it should be, oh, I guess we lied about everything when we said he was going to get rid of IVF. That should be the story that MSNBC and his critics lied about everything. It was never true. And this is proof that it was never true.

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They're still going to say, you racist. In other news, A law firm that apparently handles Elon Musk's stuff is putting together a draft for a legislative change in Delaware. Now, of course, it's just a law firm, so they don't get to vote on it, but they're proposing it through probably some, I assume some politicians are on board. CNBC is reporting this, Laura Kolodny. And

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So the law firm is trying to get a change in Delaware that would possibly open the door for Elon Musk to get that big, was it $56 billion pay package or whatever it was, that he was denied because a Delaware judge said that that pay package agreement is invalid because Elon Musk had too much control. over the company that gave it to him.

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And since it was basically conflict of interest, the judge said, we're throwing it out. Now, I don't believe the company had any complaint about it. I think there was one stockholder who bought a few shares and did it just to take down Elon. But his law firm is making a very creative attack

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If you sat me down in front of this shooter game and I knew in five minutes that I would never really be good at it because I didn't have fast reactions, I wouldn't play again. It would bore me. I'd be like, oh, well, lost again. Oh, lost again. But if I sat down and right away I said, oh, I feel like I can be good at this, then I would play it a lot until I found out I wasn't good at it, perhaps.

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And the attack is that Delaware has become sort of poison for corporations because of exactly this sort of thing. You saw Bill Ackman moved his company out of Delaware. They just register in Delaware. They're not based in Delaware. But they're saying that they can make Delaware what it used to be, a place you could trust to register your corporation because now people don't trust it.

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So he said, we can get back to Delaware having the advantage of being this great place to register your corporation with just a few changes. One of the changes would be that if you owned less than one third of the stock of the company, you would be presumed not to control it. One third. Now that's pretty reasonable. If you owned 51%, obviously you do control it.

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If you own 40%, you kind of almost control it, but 30% seems fair. That seems quite reasonable that if you're below 30%, you're not, by definition, you're not controlling the company. Now, you could argue whether some personalities could still control the company with 30%.

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But if that got adopted, it would make other corporations feel a little more comfortable having their corporation registered there. But here's the best part of the story. The name of the law firm is Richards, Layton, and Finger. Richards, Layton, and Finger.

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Now, when I see Richard, in this case, it's a last name, not a first name, it always makes me think of Dick, because, you know, Dick is the nickname for Richard. So even though it's Richards with an S, I just see a Dick. And then there's Layton, first three letters are Lay, Lay a ton, I guess. And that makes me think of sex. Because Lay, you know. And then the last name is Finger.

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So it's really Dick Lay Finger, like when I read it. And I'm thinking, come on. Of all the law firms in the world, Elon Musk picked the one that makes me think of Dick Lay and Finger. Perfect. It's just perfect. Anyway, we'll keep an eye on that. Judicial Watch is asking for a probe of the ex-General Milley for what he did in planning January 6.

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This is being reported by Paul Bedard, Washington examiner. So let's call Judicial Watch a legal watchdog. That would be a good description. And they're trying to figure out if they can get records about what the exact conversations were between Mark Milley and his top Pentagon and other officials, Homeland Security, et cetera. Now, the thinking is,

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that you've probably heard people who know more than I know say, General Milley is probably behind the whole January 6th operation. Maybe he intentionally made security light so they could turn into what looked more like an insurrection, or they could at least frame it that way. Now, I don't know if any of those accusations are true. I'll just say that he's long been

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. Exceptional. Excelsior. You know who says that? Excelsior. Stanley used to say that. You know, I don't know about you. This is kind of weird. Just start off with something weird.

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accused by members of the right as being the obvious culprit, if in fact there's a culprit. But here's my larger comment. I want you to just think about this for a moment. Have you ever noticed how rarely the United States has a large-scale protest unless it's funded and organized by shadowy forces? Has it ever happened in my lifetime?

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In my whole life, have citizens of the United States ever self-organized because they really cared about a thing, no matter what that thing was? Black Lives Matter, that was not organic. We know that now. That was just funded and organized. Antifa went away as soon as Biden became president. which is a little sketchy, right?

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So I think the science is backwards here. I think the people who just naturally have fast decision-making and execution are drawn to video games. What do you think? Which way do you think it works? I will use my telepathy to hear your response. Yeah, you're right. Well, yesterday I did a little post that was based on an encounter I had with a

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We've seen all the color revolutions in other countries where all the protests are literally organized by shadowy external forces. And so, but let me ask this question. To the best of your knowledge, has there ever been a self-organized, large-scale protest about anything in the United States during your lifetime? Vietnam War, maybe? Maybe? Maybe not.

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Probably organized by shadowy forces, but I don't know. But let's just say in the last 20 years. In the last 20 years, do you think there's ever been a large-scale organic protest? Do you think that, what was the name of the Wall Street one that kind of went away? Then there was the Tea Party, and then that kind of went away. I've got a feeling that Americans just can't organize spontaneously.

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If it's not funded by people who know how to make things happen, I don't think it happens. Take, for example, the government spending us into certain doom with our deficit. And then every year they'll just sign some continuing resolution which says, well, we'll just add to the deficit because we don't want to make decisions. Don't you think

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that watching your elected representatives send you into certain doom, not maybe, certain doom, you don't think that that would be enough to organize a million people on the street? Of course it would, if we cared about topics. If people were simply outraged by

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bad performance of people or policies they don't like, you would see gigantic protests every week or two because there's plenty of stuff to protest, all kinds of stuff. What about Doge? What about all the people who think Doge is a bad idea? Where's the protest? Nobody's paid for one yet. There might be one, but it will be funded and organized by shadowy people.

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So I'm going to just put down this marker. Don't know if it's completely true, but I don't believe there's any evidence that Americans ever organize in large scale, like January 6th, unless there's somebody shadowy behind it. I just don't think it ever happens. I'd love to be proven wrong. Well, I wouldn't love it, but it'd be interesting.

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I try to think, I've told you this before, but when I built my house, I built a home theater. It's very small, but it's like 10 seats. 10 seats and a little home theater. And I thought, oh, how great this will be to invite friends over to watch a movie. I could never get two people who wanted to watch the same movie at the same time.

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And then I'm watching Black Lives Matter and Antifa get thousands and thousands of people in the street. And I'm saying to myself, in what country can you do that? Where can you get all those people to do that thing if I can't get two people to even watch a movie at the same time? So no, I don't think that Americans organize. Not without shadowy forces behind them.

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I don't think the Tea Party was organic. Do you? I don't believe it at all. Again, I don't have evidence that it wasn't organic, but I doubt it. Seems very unlikely. All right. That's all I got for now. I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately. For the rest of you, thanks for joining. The truckers is the only one in Canada. Well, the truckers were also not American. Yeah.

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An individual who saw me walking by and flagged me down and wanted to talk about politics. I may have mentioned this to some of you. And here's the post I wrote after that encounter. Now, the reason I'm reading it to you is that in one day, it has garnered 24 million views. It's going up something like a million views an hour. Now, for reference, a typical post of mine might get 70,000 views.

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Yeah, that's a good one. The truckers, as far as I know, did not have any shadowy influence, as far as I know. All right. But they also didn't, they were in their trucks. So it makes me wonder how many there were. But there's a difference between driving your truck somewhere and being on the street. It just seems different. All right.

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Continue challenging me on that no organic protest in the United States. Canada might be different. All right, everybody, I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place, if you're on Rumble or YouTube or X, and locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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24 million doesn't happen unless Elon Musk reposts it, which he didn't. So I couldn't find any big accounts to repost it. It looks like this just has some kind of a nerve with people that they all understood it. And that's the point I'm going to go for. So here's what I posted yesterday. They got 24 million views so far. I said, I just met someone.

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I said, today I learned that being a Democrat requires talking over anyone who knows what is real. I just met someone who is sure Hunter's laptop is fake. Trump was never shot in the ear. And there is no evidence Hunter was running a criminal operation. I didn't make a dent. Now, why would 24 million people agree with that? Because you think, well, that's just that one person, right?

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It's just one person who talked over me. No, it's because every one of you had the same experience multiple times. As soon as you start a conversation about Trump, you get really angry, loud, yelling over whatever you're saying. So here's an example. There's no way he got a shot in the ear. And I'd say, well,

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Actually, I know somebody personally who saw him soon after the event, and he actually took the bandage off and showed the hole in his ear. And he said, no, it didn't happen. I go, no, what I'm saying is somebody I know very well personally, personally told me that Trump showed him his ear and that there was a hole in it. ah, but where'd all the bullets go?

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If, if he had, if there were really bullets, where'd all the other bullets go? And I said, well, one of them went into the body of a guy who died. Ah, ah, ah, ah, then changed the topic. But not once did he think, oh, maybe I got that wrong. So yeah. And he thought the Hunter laptop was definitely fake. Oh my God. Of course that was fake. And he thought that, uh,

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was no evidence hunter was running a criminal operation and i said you know there's no other reason to have 20 shell companies that don't have any physical location and no form of business and yet he's like yeah but there's no evidence no evidence i said but you know that they've tracked the actual payments through bank accounts all the way into joe biden's pocket right talk over, talk over.

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So it was just impossible. It was literally impossible to get through. Now, my main point is not that there's one person who had a, you know, who had this point of view or this, this approach. My point is, have you ever noticed if you've been around addicts or especially alcoholics, that there's something they have in common Have you ever noticed that?

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And people who are on certain kind of medications, have you noticed that they can form a common kind of personality? The commonality of this, the fact that so many people are having a very specific, weird character situation. I wouldn't call it character. It's more like behavioral.

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So that people are having this very specific behavioral change that they can't listen and they have to talk over you really loudly. That is an indication of brainwashing. The way you know that there's an external force that's operating on a bunch of people in the same way is that they have this very specific kind of reaction to it. That's a real big tell.

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So in the same way that you've probably heard the said that all addicts lie. You've ever heard that? If you haven't heard it, you can be really happy I told you. Because sooner or later, you're going to run into an addict who lies. And even the addicts will tell you. Even the addicts will tell you, yeah, you know, if we have to, we're going to lie.

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So that's a very specific behavioral thing, right? And it's because there's this very specific force that is affecting the same people in the same way. So yes, it is brainwashing. There's absolutely no doubt about it, in my opinion. There's no doubt about it. It's a brainwashing effect.

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But ever since Trump stole my democracy, everything seems exactly the same. And I'm trying to figure out what's going on. Because I know my democracy is gone. But I wake up and Everything looks a lot like it used to look. What am I supposed to be experiencing? Should I be losing my right to vote? Could it be some bodily autonomy I lost? I don't remember losing any.

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Meanwhile, Eric Dolan, writing for a side post, says there's a new study on despair and how it affects voter turnout. You'll be very surprised to hear that people who are suicidal and in despair are less likely to vote. Well, surprising. You know what they could have done to save some time and money? They could have just asked me, Scott, do people who are experiencing despair

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are they motivated to do really anything? And I would say, no, despair really does not motivate you. Doesn't motivate you to vote. Doesn't motivate you to get a promotion. Doesn't motivate you to work harder. Doesn't motivate you to get married. Despair doesn't motivate you to do anything. Just ask me next time. I could do this. Save you a lot of time and money.

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Well, there's a breakthrough battery circuit design for tiny little drones, according to interesting engineering. Now, the reason I like to mention all the battery stuff for drones is because it lets you predict the future. If you know what's happening with batteries in all kinds of ways, that will tell you absolutely what the next 20 or 30 years look like.

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And if you wondered, will there ever be tiny little drones that are the size of a fingernail? And the answer is now they will. This specific breakthrough is for tiny drones, micro drones. And researchers at University of California, San Diego and CEA, Letty, whatever that is, they've got a novel circuit design that makes the power last a lot longer for a micro drone, a lot longer.

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So it's a big it's a big deal. One of the examples they gave is if a building crumbles and they want to find survivors, there might not be enough room for a regular drone to be flying through. But the micro drones could just sort of fill all the spaces and look for survivors and sense things. Now, that's the good news. The bad news is somebody can send a micro drone right into your house.

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That thing could be flying around in your house for an hour. And you wouldn't even probably hear it because it's a micro drone. So the privacy implications are pretty extreme. Pretty extreme. Robbie Starbuck is writing that... So there's a program in the United States called the SNAP program. It's for providing money for food, groceries, for people who need a little extra help.

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And Robbie Starbuck is pointing out that the SNAP program spends $115 billion a year, but about 10% of it goes to soda. So people can buy what they want, I guess, within limits. It's got to be food or drink. But a lot of people are buying Coca-Cola and Pepsi. So big soda is getting nearly $11.5 billion a year. just from the government's program on helping people buy food and beverages.

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I think there might be some effort to scale that back so you can't buy food that's bad for you. But here's the problem. On paper, this was always going to go that way because soda is addictive. So if you add the addictive nature of soda, and I know this because I was very addicted to Diet Coke for decades. It took me a long time to get off it.

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If you have an addictive substance in a grocery store and you give people free money that they can use in the way they want in the grocery store, they're going to buy the addictive substance. There's no way around that. So if you didn't prevent that from the start, who couldn't see that coming? Like who in the world couldn't?

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Now, on the other hand, you don't want to be the nanny state and tell people what they can and cannot have. But I would think that the exception would be what they can have with my money. If they're spending their own money, do whatever you want. Get the soda. But if you're spending my money, well, maybe I don't want you to have the soda. Maybe I think you should get a potato. Anyway.

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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a slime, a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.

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So you probably heard that Trump's going to order all the Biden-era... attorneys, U.S. attorneys to be fired because he says we must clean house immediately, Fox News is reporting. And he says the Justice Department has been weaponized and politicized against him. You know, given the degree of obvious lawfare that we saw, I'm 100% in favor of this.

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In a more functional world where you could depend on attorneys to just do the job of attorneys and not be political, I would be totally against it. But the attorneys, not all of them, of course, but enough of the attorneys have shown that they're not really playing for anything but a team. They have to go.

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And if the best you can do is replace them with your own cronies who will then, of course, be fired in three and a half years, four years, it's the best you can do. So, yeah, I'm in favor of that. Well, meanwhile... Let's talk about Trump's negotiating skills. This is my favorite topic. The reason I like it is that it reminds me how many people don't know how to negotiate.

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Well, it's quite the tragedy, having no democracy. But so far, I'm struggling through. I hope the rest of you are making it. Are you all surviving? your complete lack of democracy. Oh, man. Let's talk about some news. Let's call this Backwards Science. Backwards Science.

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I did negotiating for a job back in my corporate days. It was my job to negotiate contracts. And of course, I studied hypnosis and persuasion and stuff. So I have a unique insight into it. So it's fun to watch Trump work. So right now, there's a team of I guess Americans talking to a team of Russians about what to do about Ukraine. Now, what do you think is going to come out of that?

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He wants the network to stay committed to its anti-Trump content, and he thinks the network should fire Mika and Joe, the Morning Joe hosts, because they met with Trump and Mar-a-Lago, so they're too corrupted now. They've been ruined by association with Trump. And he says, change the damn name of the network. I guess he doesn't like the Microsoft part of that.

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Well, it turns out that AI could have spotted that. So if they had run it through AI, it would have spotted it right away. And then Mark Andreessen, seeing Steve Newman's comment about that, said he would, if somebody wanted to do this as scale, he would fund it as scale. In other words, instead of testing a thousand random scientific papers. Why don't you do all of them?

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He wants the network to be called self-explanatory F-Trump TV. Now, the whole thing reads like it's a prank, like you can't even tell if he's necessarily serious, but he probably is. I like the fact that MSNBC needs advice from Keith Olbermann.

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Meanwhile, the Department of Defense is giving out some money to bioindustry, bioindustrial firms and asking them to see if they can create some kind of fungi-related protein that they can use that's sustainable, that they can use for the military. Now, I wonder if you can make fungi-related protein that would work in home indoor gardens.

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Because, you know, the hard part about indoor gardening is you can't grow, it's harder to grow protein sources. Usually when they have gardens, it's like, hey, look at the lettuce we can grow. And you say, really? Lettuce? Wow, that's cool. What else can you grow? Herbs. Herbs. Okay, but I can't just eat herbs and lettuce. What else can you grow?

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Well, not much else sufficiently, but we got lots of lettuce and herbs. So if we can figure out things that would grow in indoor gardens that would actually have protein and be good for you, that'd be amazing. So this might actually be useful. Well, Joe Biden hates Nancy Pelosi, we assume, because he did an interview recently

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And he says that Congress should not be allowed to trade stocks because they have insider trading privileges if they're in Congress. Now, why would Joe Biden suddenly care about that? Of all things. It sounds personal, doesn't it? It sounds like somebody who's trying to get back at some of the members of Congress who are making money.

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And Joe is just like, well, you're going to stop me from making money. Maybe I'll stop you from making money. How about that, Nancy Pelosi? We don't know if that's why he said it should be banned. A lot of people think it should be banned. But it's fun to talk about the drama.

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Meanwhile, there is a one-foot-tall pile of papers called the Omnibus, or maybe it's a continued resolution that looks like an Omnibus. So it's basically a budget. for Congress to pass.

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And as Thomas Massey warned long ago, that Congress is so worthless and they can't make decisions on individual spending things, that they would put it all together in one giant bill that nobody would have time to read before Christmas vacation. So now the pressure will be on to vote for something that they haven't read and don't agree with, or miss Christmas with their families.

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That's a real thing. So our system devolved to the point where our Congress people will be hectored by their own family. Daddy, Daddy, will you be home for Christmas? Well, I don't know, dear. I've got important work to do here. I've got to vote on a bunch of things, and this big continued resolution isn't good, so we're going to have to work that out. I'll be missing Christmas.

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But, Daddy, you'll be here for New Year's, right? Probably not. It's going to take a month at least to work through this, maybe two months. But you go ahead with Christmas without me. Given that Congress are mostly human beings... If you put Christmas between them and doing a good job, they're going to pick Christmas.

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And I'd love to tell you if I had that job, oh, if you put me in that job, I would not say yes to Christmas. I would let my children have Christmas by themselves because I would stay there and do a good job. No, I probably wouldn't. I'd probably vote on the damn thing and go home for Christmas because Christmas matters. It's a higher priority to most people.

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Just find out how many mistakes there are in the whole thing. Yeah, it would be far more interesting to know the entire situation than to know that statistically half of them are bad. I'd rather know which half, at least in terms of the calculations. So I think the only thing you would find would be errors in calculations or something like that. All right. Oh, here's some good news.

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So I don't think our Congress could be any more broken than to do this right in front of us when everybody knew they were going to do it, everybody knew they didn't need to do it, everybody knows they're doing it because they can't do their real job.

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And it's basically a way to say, well, we couldn't really do our job, so I hope you'll be happy with us doing the opposite of what you're paying us for. Would that be okay? Hey, I got an idea. Instead of doing what you elected us for and what you pay us for, just work with me. Suppose we did the opposite of that. Suppose we didn't do any work to get a good budget.

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We just signed it so we could go home for Christmas. Why don't we do that instead? Yes, let's do that instead. The opposite of what we pay you for. And they do it right in front of us because there's nothing we can do about it. Because every single person in Congress seems to be on the same page except Massey and Paul Rand, basically. Rand Paul, I mean. And so we just have to put up with this?

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Well... Somebody ran the gigantic pile of crap through one of the AIs, I think it was Grok, and it summarized in plain language what was in there and what the problems were. But guess what? The summary is so big that that's useless too. The summary is too big. So the original document is way too big. But even the summary is more than you could handle.

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I mean, I looked at it and said, I don't have time for that. You know, I don't have time for that because I want to celebrate Christmas. No, just kidding. But. Yeah, even the summary is too long. So Apple lamps, that's the name of the account on X that put it through Grok. And then there's a section in there, according to John Harold, who found this.

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So some people are actually looking through this continued resolution, looking for problems. So John Harold found this, that the continued resolution has a section in it that you probably wouldn't know unless you really dug into it. It's hidden in there. And it's to, quote, quash or modify any legal process if compliance with the legal process would require the disclosure of house data.

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Now, house data would be defined as any electronic mail or electronic data communications. And they're also applying it to pending things, things that are already in process. So the basic idea here is if somebody was putting pressure on Congress, they could quash it, any legal process, they could quash it

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if it required them to show any of their communications, which is what pretty much most of your legal processes do, in fact, require. So they would make sure that the public couldn't know exactly what they were doing, even in the context of a legal process. Now, they stuck that into the bill that everybody would have to sign before they go on vacation for Christmas. Absolute... No. Nope.

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It also includes, according to Gabe Kaminsky, who writes for the DC Examiner, so this funding bill also includes a short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown, but it also has an extension on the State Department's Global Engagement Center. Have you ever heard of the Global Engagement Center? If you look through a document that was one foot tall printed out, it's a foot tall.

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And you found this one thing about funding the State Department's Global Engagement Center. Would you know what that was or why they want to fund it or what kind of work it does? How many people would even know what that is? Well, Matt Taibbi, reported in the past that it's one of the entities that funds the speech suppression efforts in the United States.

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It's a free speech suppression in the United States, and it's being funded, and they're asking Congress to vote for free speech suppression tools. My God. Here's my take. The reason that a funding bill like this would be put before Congress right before Christmas is to make it impossible for them to say no. They need to say no. The only way you can fix this is you have to break the government.

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According to the atmospheric chemistry and physics, whatever that is. Did you know that back in 2020, there was regulations? Regulations were introduced to remove the sulfur content from shipping fuel. So that's great. And I guess it worked out because now there is way less sulfur being spewed into the air. So that's all good news, right? Oh, wait.

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You have to just take it all down. Just break it. Although everything will stop working, presumably there would be gigantic repercussions for voting no, they should vote no. and we should experience gigantic repercussions. Well, I'm ready for gigantic repercussions. If it means that the country is temporarily defenseless against their enemies, okay, we'll do it anyway.

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If it means that the government can't get any of its important work done for months... Yes, do it anyway. Break it. Break this fucking thing. You've got to break it. You have to break it. You can't say yes to this even one more time. You have to break this. Let everything fall apart. Let the whole fucking thing come down. Break it. Vote no. Don't ever, ever let us be in this situation again.

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Break it. Break it hard. Break it with no remorse, no apology. Break it. Break the whole fucking thing. Please. And anybody who votes for this, I would lose all respect for them, honestly. Anybody who votes for this, no respect. I have no respect for anybody who will vote for this. Republican, Democrat, no respect. All right. Let's talk about those drones. Here's some pro tip for you.

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If your government says these words, quote, we have not seen anything to worry about. Now I'm paraphrasing. They didn't use exactly those words, but Kirby was close to that. If they say we haven't seen anything to worry about, it probably means that the government doesn't know what's going on. Actually, Kirby didn't say it that way. He said it the next way.

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If they say there's no danger to the public, that means they do know what's going on. Otherwise, as many people have noted, how do you know there's no danger if you also don't know what they are? Right? So obviously, super obviously, the government knows more than we do about what's going on and for whatever reason is not telling you.

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So one of the things I learned when I was in hypnosis class is you can look for the overly specific lie. Well, it's true because it's overly specific, but it's a way to lie without lying. In other words, they worded things in a way that you will leap to a conclusion that they're not really saying. So it's sort of misleading.

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So if they say we have not seen anything to worry about, then you just know that they haven't seen anything, just like you. You don't know anything. They don't know anything. That's probably honest, or it could be honest. But if they say there is no danger to the public, well, then they're definitely lying about knowing or not knowing what's in there

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Here's my prediction about the drones. If it hasn't started already, I'm expecting a huge decrease in what we're called the drones the size of a car. Now, I don't think there'll be a decrease in the commercial size regular drones, of which there are probably many. And I don't think there'll be a decrease in commercial flights.

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So you're going to see as many stars, helicopters, commercial flights, and your normal commercial drones as you ever did. But there were some that were not in those category reportedly. And pretty credible people are reporting that. So I think that the ones that are the size of a vehicle, may have been military and it may have been training and they may be getting ready for some kind of operation.

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It turns out that removing the sulfur from the air is going to greatly contribute to global warming. What? So there's no such thing as a good idea. You know, somebody's like, I got an idea. We have all this sulfur coming out of the fuel from the ships at sea. What if we had some regulations to reduce that sulfur? And now they did. Sounded like a good idea.

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And so my prediction is that the number of drones that are the size of a car are, if not already, will soon be shipped over to the Middle East for at least making it easier to negotiate. Now, it doesn't mean that war has been decided. But you can certainly see that a conversation with Iran might go differently if we had lots of military assets in the region. So it might be to threaten.

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They might be for Ukraine. Maybe they were testing some new stuff for Ukraine. Speaking of Ukraine, I wasn't going to talk about this, but I will. So somebody very arrogant said something about one of my posts about the drones, suggesting that I don't know anything about drones or what's happening in Ukraine with drones.

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And he went on this extended multi-thread explanation of all the amazing things that Ukraine is doing with drones.

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said that the United States drones are useless because they're just easy to jam, but that somehow the Ukrainians have figured out the best drones, and all the great drones are being made in Ukraine, and Ukraine is becoming the world headquarters for the best drone making and innovation, and it just went on and on and on, and all it looked like to me is

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

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You know that drug that makes you go to war, the October 7th people? What's it called? Captagon? I think the drug is called Captagon. It's basically a speed that makes you invulnerable to things that would normally bother you, like being shot and stuff like that. So it just looked to me like the person I was talking to was on Captagon because it didn't look like

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you would write that much if you were just trying to make a point. Because the point was as easy as what I just said. Oh, maybe you don't know that Ukraine has done amazing advances in drones and that drone warfare is the primary war now. That's all I needed to say.

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But it makes me wonder that one of the biggest things that the news mentions but doesn't work into every story, and maybe it should, is that the people involved are on Captagon. And they're on a specific drug that creates a specific change in personality, meaning that you will do horrible things and you do things for longer and things that are harder than you normally would.

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So if you've got a bunch of people who are all hopped up on Captagon, it's going to be hard to walk away from that. And I imagine they get hooked on it. Anyway, I don't know that he's on Captagon, but he acted like somebody who's got a little extra going on. So I think there might be something going on with our drones being tested, and maybe there'll be less of it now.

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Now, the frustrating thing about the drones, which is just fascinating to me from the perspective of psychology... is that there are some things in this world that are impossible to communicate. So you all remember the story of the boy who cried wolf?

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He kept saying there was a wolf coming, but because he was lying, when a wolf finally did come, and the little boy said, wolf, wolf, and everybody said, well, that little boy is lying again. So that's an example of something that can't be communicated. The little boy saw a wolf, wanted to tell somebody, but it created a situation where Can't communicate it.

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There's something similar to that with these drones. Because the way that people communicate what they're seeing is by taking a picture and sending it to you. So far, I haven't seen any picture that looks convincing that there's some dangerous anomalous drones in the air. However, the people who are taking the pictures are very credible. So the human is saying...

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I'm standing here and I'm seeing something I've never seen before. And there's a lot of it. And I've looked in the sky before. I've never seen this. This is new. And then you see the picture and you go, maybe, but this is a picture of a dot. But the dot is moving sideways. It's a drone. But that's what we're talking about. Well, but if it's a commercial drone.

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Nobody wants to be breathing all that sulfur. Except that it looks like it might have a big effect on climate change and kill us all. No, it won't kill you. But here's what I ask every time I see something like this. So are you telling me that this was not in the climate models? And if it wasn't in the climate models, what assumption do you make?

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See, at this point, I would expect the sky in New Jersey would be full of just people's ordinary commercial or hobby drones because they're looking for the other drones. So there should be tons of things in the air that are drones that are just drones. So when the government tells you there's nothing dangerous or anomalous, what they haven't said is,

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We have no idea of anything being tested that's new. I feel like the press is not asking the right question. The question they should ask would be something like, can you tell us, yes or no, is the government doing increased, is the military doing any increased testing and or evaluation or training of drones in New Jersey or other areas around the United States?

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Are you doing anything with drones of any way that you're doing more of it in these areas. Because if you just let them say there's nothing anomalous, that includes their own testing. There's nothing anomalous about a little extra drone testing if they were doing drone testing normally and routinely all the time anyway. So yeah, it gives them a little bit too much of an out.

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You got to nail them down a little bit. Well, as you know, Trump said that the government definitely knows about what the drones are and what they're up to and where they even go to and come from. And then he was asked if he had been briefed, a security briefing, and he said he didn't want to talk about it.

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Now, is Trump smart enough that he would answer any question about a security briefing by saying, I don't want to talk about it? Because that might be

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like strategically that might be what trump always says he just doesn't want to tell you until maybe until he's in office he doesn't want to tell you what he knows and doesn't know so he'd rather just not talk about the topic but the way it comes off the way it comes off because he it's like he's the de facto president the way it comes off is that he knows exactly what they are and he doesn't want to tell you because he can't but he thinks they should

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That's what it comes off as. Now, that would suggest there's something happening, but maybe anomalous isn't the right word, like I said. If it's things we always do, but we're just doing a little extra of it, it's not that anomalous, just a little extra. And the Pentagon press secretary said, doesn't want to explain why the CIA and FBI drone briefing remains classified.

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So I guess the CIA and the FBI are giving some kind of briefing to Congress that's classified. And then the question would be, what exactly are they going to talk about drones over New Jersey that's classified when the public would like to know? So I don't know. Maybe it's just automatic that they classify anything like that.

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And then, let's see, Michael McCaul, who's the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, thinks they might be Chinese drones, spy drones, which they might be. But even if they're Chinese spy drones, does that mean they're illegal?

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Because wouldn't China just buy a commercial drone like everybody else, license it like everybody else, register it like everybody else, and just fly it around and look at things you're not supposed to look at? So even those drones, if you were somehow to get their electronic signal, figure out what they are, and even figure out who's running it, it might all look like it's legal.

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Do you assume that sulfur is removed from the fleet fuel, or do you assume it stays in? And if you assume that it gets removed, what did you assume about how much that would change climate? And if these assumptions are big and they change the result enough that it matters, why did we think the models were good before we made these changes? That's right. Climate models are nonsense.

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So is there any conflict between saying they're, Chinese spy drones, but also saying they're completely legal. It might be the same thing. I don't know. I mean, not the spying part, but in terms of how the drone was acquired and how it's being run. Anyway, so more on that later, I'm sure. So as you know, Trump says he's going to sue, I guess, the Iowa newspaper and

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Ann Seltzer's old polling company, because Ann Seltzer did that poll, that looked like Harris was going to win, maybe win big. And people say, that looks like you did that fake poll intentionally. Now, Ann Seltzer says it was just a mistake. There was no shenanigans. But then she immediately retired, which made it look even more suspect. And so Trump's going to sue. Did you know

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that according to Harris campaign people, the Harris internal polls never showed her ad. Never. It never showed her ad. Never. And yet all the public polls, as Rasmussen's having a good time, you know, dancing on the graves of the other pollsters,

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although they're not dead, but sometimes you wish they were out of business, because they show Rasmussen's projection that Trump would be up by two, followed by this whole bunch of other pollsters saying that Harris was up from two to six points. Right up to the last minute, the other polls were all, I think, corrupt.

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I mean, I assume that it wasn't just incompetence, because they were all sort of in the same direction and all wrong in the same way. But from the start, Rasmussen was directionally correct and then had one of the few pollsters that was right from start to finish.

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And they're the ones that if you listen to the mainstream news, if you watch somebody doing some kind of an interview on mainstream news, And let's say a Republican says, well, and according to the Rasmussen poll, watch what the hosts of mainstream news will do when you say Rasmussen. They always do the same thing. Oh, Rasmussen. Rasmussen? Did you say Rasmussen?

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And I'm supposed to take that seriously? Oh, no, we're only looking at the good polls, the good ones, the reliable ones. But don't bring up this Rasmussen stuff. And, of course, Rasmussen was one of the top pollsters for the entire cycle. Yep, they're all a bunch of liars, except for Rasmussen, apparently. So Michael Cohen was on CNN, and he says that Trump is right about suing the legacy media.

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Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen says Trump is completely right about the treatment from the mainstream media. Michael Cohen. Man, when things start going right for Trump, There's a lot of stuff going right for him right now. So, you know, if you didn't know, Michael Cohen, you know, did everything he could to stop Trump and thwart him.

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And he used to used to be his lawyer, but then turned on him and big. So for Michael Cohen to say anything, anything that's supportive of something Trump is doing, it feels like big news. And it feels like, you know, Zuckerberg going to Mar-a-Lago. It feels like Jeff Bezos having dinner in Mar-a-Lago.

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It feels like, you know, the pirate ship of people saying, you know what, let's give Trump a chance. But what he says specifically, Cohen did a good job here. The Vigilant Fox is reporting this on social media, on X. He says, I think the media has to do their job. And then Cohen named a... a half a dozen of what he called the hundred lies the media spread about him.

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So Michael Cohen is having that, that Gell-Mann effect situation where since it's the news was about him, he knows when it's fake. And so he says there were hundreds, hundreds of lies about him. He's probably right. There probably were hundreds of lies about him. He said, look, I was a recipient of more than a hundred lies and I understand what Trump is doing.

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The Wall Street Journal has a story that I can't believe is real. Like, I can't believe that they really ran this story. So it's a story about how the... I guess you'd call them not virtual reality, but enhanced reality, where you put the glasses on and they look sort of like real glasses. So there are these Ray-Bans that Meta, Facebook, now has. And one of their journalists...

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in terms of changing the ways defamation cases are brought in this country. That's a hell of a thing. Michael Cohen is in favor of Trump suing the fake news because it might be the only way to fix it. That's blowing my mind. It's just blowing my mind. It feels like common sense is just breaking out all over the place. Anyway. So you heard this story before, but I just have to say it again.

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The Amuse account on X is reporting this, but I'll just read their words. So Biden publicly ordered 11 federal agencies to look into Elon Musk. So you remember when Biden did that creepy smile when he was asked about Elon Musk? This was a while ago. And he said something like, well, we'll be looking into him. And apparently he ordered 11 agencies to look into him, federal agencies.

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All 11 opened investigations, according to the Amuse account. And all 11 funneled a total of 300 million to Reuters, who then won a Pulitzer Prize for their attack pieces on Trump. Man, if you don't know the players... You don't understand how deeply corrupt all of this is. So you had the president of the United States say on camera, in public, we're going to basically lawfare this guy.

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Then he ordered the lawfare. We know the agencies all took it seriously. They opened investigations. And then they funded the brainwashing propaganda arm of Reuters to make sure that everybody had good cover. because Reuters would just keep saying bad things about Trump, and others would pick it up because it's Reuters. And wow, the level of badness here is just crazy.

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And let's see, according to Reuters, this is a related story. Charlie Kirk is saying on X Today that Reuters has a story out suggesting that Tulsi Gabbard doesn't have enough support from Republicans to get her nomination approved. And so Reuters is reporting that the Republicans don't have the votes.

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So Charlie Kirk, who's well-connected, of course, he said he checked with the actual sources inside the Senate, and they tell me the story is garbage and it's all fake. The news is all fake. 11 agencies within the government were corrupt and did these fake investigations. The president, clearly as part of a crime family, clearly did this, which to me looks illegal, right in front of us.

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a dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better today with a little bit of oxytocin for free. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Insanely good. Well, here's an interesting thing. According to Steve Newman on X, uh, So someone needs to try this. Pick 1,000 published scientific papers at random and then have AI look at them for errors.

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Gee, I wonder if there's anything else that you thought used to be a good organization in the country that's really corrupt. Oh, look, here's a story about the ACLU. They have a whole, according to the Post Millennial, Libby Emmons, that The ACLU has a whole game plan to pressure local officials into blocking Trump's agenda.

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So I guess the head of the ACLU was on, I think it was on CNN, and he said they're working on all the executive orders and organizing their folks to put pressure on elected officials so they don't roll over. Now, what exactly was the mission of the ACLU? Because all I'm hearing is, were Democrats trying to stop Trump? Is that what people donate money to the ACLU for?

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To just be political and be for one party and stop Trump? So the ACLU looks completely corrupt and just an organ of the Democrats at this point. So that's terrible. Meanwhile, the investigation of the investigation... So Representative Barry Loudermilk was leading an investigation of the January 6th investigation.

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So the people who investigated Trump about January 6th are being investigated themselves. And many claims are being made about the investigators, the January 6th committee, Liz Cheney and the like. And... There are some allegations from Loudermilk's report that there might be at least two crimes that Liz Cheney would be maybe at risk for. One would be tampering with evidence.

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Joanna Stern, I guess, tried them out and said they're sleek, they're stylish, and something you'd actually want to wear. Except they ran a picture with the words they're sleek and stylish and finally something you'd want to wear. And I'm no fashion expert, but my take was they were not sleek, They were not as stylish. And it's definitely something you wouldn't want to wear, except for me.

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Apparently there's some law about that, and that the tampering would come in the form of secretly communicating with Hutchinson, Cassidy Hutchinson, who had a lot of negative things to say about Trump that some of which didn't turn out to be true. So they had secret communications, and I guess that would be like witness tampering.

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So if you didn't disclose it and you weren't supposed to do it, you shouldn't be talking to the witness ahead of time. I guess that's illegal. Federal law criminalizes it, witness tampering. There's also procuring another to commit perjury. So for the same conversation, if there's evidence that Cheney convinced Hutchinson to say something false, that would be against the law.

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So I don't know if that actually happened, but let's see. But there is evidence that Hutchinson committed perjury, according to these guys looking into it. Then what about the missing data? The January 6th Select Committee failed to preserve more than one terabyte of data.

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And then there's also the now well-demonstrated fact that the Department of Defense officials delayed the deployment of the National Guard, despite orders from Trump to do everything to protect things. And some of it was for the look of it. Some of it involved lying. I guess somebody lied about what they were doing. They weren't doing anything, but they said they were.

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So basically, the January 6th committee I think now completely uncovered as a fraud and just a complete corrupt process. You and I knew that. But to have it officially investigated and now know for sure it was corrupt and know for sure, in my opinion, we know for sure that it was corrupt and that it was not Trump's fault that the J6ers got out of control. It was bad security.

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Now, what's it called in the law when you have an attractive nuisance? Is that the right term? Like if you had something in your backyard that looked like it would be real fun to play on if you were a little kid, but it was also deadly, and a little kid said, oh, that looks fun, and they got killed, you wouldn't get to say, oh, but they trespassed. Here, I'm making it up because I'm not a lawyer.

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I think you would be in trouble. because you created something that was an attractive, dangerous thing. So the kid says, oh, that's attractive. I think I'll go play with that big hole in the ground. So my point is, if you create an attractive nuisance, the people who are attracted to it have some responsibility, yes. But whoever created the attraction has a bigger responsibility.

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So if you run an election that looks very much like it was rigged, I don't know that it was rigged, but I know that the pattern recognition of the public, the Republican public, were quite sure that it looked rigged. So you create an election that looks rigged, And then you know there's a protest and it's going to be at a certain place and you've got plenty of time to have sufficient security.

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But you decide not to for whatever reason. Maybe a mistake, maybe intentional. But if you run an election that looks for all the world like it looks rigged, even if it wasn't, and then you don't have proper security in the one place that people are going to go to that you know and they're going to be really mad about the election...

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I would say that the government is responsible for everything that got broken, everything that was defaced, and all the violence. Now, on top of it, the people who are violent have responsibility. They definitely have responsibility. But they've also served some time.

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I'm guessing maybe everybody who did something violent has probably served a little time by now or lost all of their money paying for lawyers, one or the other. So I feel like they all have to be pardoned no matter what they did because the process was so corrupt that allowing some people who did some genuine crimes, even including violence,

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to either get out early or at least get out of the process and not be pursued further. I think that's the right thing to do. So meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren showing us that Democrats only have one role in life, which is making the country worse off. And if there's ever a good idea or something that's working, they're going to try really hard to stop it.

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Do you know why I'd want to wear them? Because I already wear glasses, so nobody would know. Yeah. So if you already wear glasses, and I've tried LASIK, looked into LASIK, but it isn't for me. It doesn't work. It wouldn't work on my particular situation. So if I can't get rid of my glasses, the next best thing is to put all of you in glasses.

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So what's one of the best things happening in the country? Well, in my opinion, one of the best things happening in the country is Elon Musk and Doge and his close connection to Trump and the fact that they get along and seem to be on the same page. So what does Elizabeth Warren want to do? She wants to make that impossible.

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So she wants some kind of stringent conflict of interest agreement that would say that Musk can't be involved in a certain set of things. But What would really happen if such a conflict of interest document got created? Well, let me tell you. Elon Musk has his fingers in every part of America.

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So basically, he would either be completely excluded from everything, because there would always be some part of his business or something he's doing that has some conflict of interest with everything, with everything. And so he just wouldn't be able to do it. Or if he did it, they'd have a reason to jail him or go after him.

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So it looks to me like the Democrats have gone from being some kind of just opposition party to how can we make everything not work? Oh, let's add some DEI. That will make every company fail and the government fail. Let's stop the two most effective people in the United States, Musk and Trump, from working effectively together.

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Let's get rid of free speech, but we'll do it cleverly with these NGOs. Let's create a committee to investigate and blame somebody for the problems that we created by not having good security and running an election that didn't look proper to the public. So they found a way to blame the wrong people for January 6th.

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The right people to blame is whoever created that election system where we couldn't tell if somebody won or not. They got a lot of blame. And the bad security. All right. Well, how evil is... How evil are things? Mike Cernovich had an idea that I loved. He said there's so much evil to uncover from the Biden regime, it should be its own office. So he recommends the evil czar.

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Evil with a capital E. Basically a czar to root out the evil. And he had even a suggestion for who to be that person. He said a special envoy to uncover censorship, bribes, money laundering, and NGO fuckery. He says, give Mike Benz an office staff and subpoena power. Let him start pulling on threads.

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Now, I saw that Mike Benz sort of jokingly referred to it and posted it, which suggests he's not a hard no. He's not a hard no. So let me let me weigh in here. This will be a good test. Oh, this will be a really good test.

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So you know how I always say that the Trump administration is somewhat genius in how well connected they are to the base and how frequently and how aggressive they are about looking for suggestions or just good ideas that bubble up. And I don't think that happens with the Democrats. I think the Democrats are a top-down party completely. But because of Trump...

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being able to read the room and always being connected and always wanting to get the temperature of the base, just always. If you have a better idea, I believe on the Republican side, the better idea will rise to the top only from being the better idea. That's it. It just has to be the better idea. So in my opinion, this is a better idea. So Mike has over a million followers.

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I've got over a million. I'm going to boost it. So I've already boosted it on X. This is a good idea, including the person. So I don't know if Mike Benz would be interested in the job if such a thing happened, but he'd be exactly the right person. And I really want this. I really want this. And I can't imagine a stronger, stronger play. So this will be a good test.

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This is almost as good as when I was in what, maybe 20s or maybe my 30s. And I was prematurely balding. And then suddenly cool people were shaving their heads. And I was like, wait a minute. Are you telling me that I could just shave my head? cut it short and it wouldn't look so terrible because famous people are doing it. And sure enough, maybe it'll happen with glasses.

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Can the better idea bubble up from just something that Mike Cernovich was thinking before he typed it? And then I looked at it and said, yeah, that's actually a good idea. Now, will there be other prominent pundits who will pick it up? Will you see other opinion people say, well, here's an idea? Why don't we have an evil czar?

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Maybe call it something different, but why don't we put Mike Benz in charge of figuring out this stuff and doing something about it? So let's see if it bubbles up.

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Meanwhile, according to the Gateway Pundit and other news, Trump was right again because police had to arrest 14 people in Aurora, Colorado in an apartment complex because they'd been taken over by that Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela. who reportedly tortured residents that were found tied up and stabbed. Okay. So Trump was right about that. He was right about that.

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So Vivek actually read the entire 1,500-page bill. He says it's full of excess of spending, pork, blah, blah. So he says vote no. There we go. So Vivek has a no on the spending bill. Now, he's not in office, but do we listen to Vivek? Yes. Now, you know Marvel's The Avengers? Yes. One of the famous lines from whichever one it was, whichever movie, is they say, we have a Hulk.

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And I always laugh at that line, that their secret thing is, well, we have a Hulk. I think of that every time Vivek does one of these things. Who else read and understood 1,500 pages of the continuing resolution? Probably just him. Right. So and then he weighed in and then we take his word for it because he's highly credible and super smart. So. Democrats. Republicans, they have a fake.

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Do you have one of those? Is there any Republican who can do that? what he just did, read all 1,500 pages in one day, and then give you a summary of it that's actually useful and persuasive? Who can do that? I mean, seriously. I just looked at that big pile and said, no, no, no, no. No thanks.

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Anyway, American Airlines has dropped their DEI policy according to the Post Millennial, and so they got rid of DEI policies and quotas and recruitment. And do you know why they did it? Because it's illegal. That's right. So American Airlines said they must return. This is American Airlines. This is them.

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This is the company saying they must return to using merit, not the desire to check a DEI box to select the most, but rather just select the most skilled and qualified employees. And the company admitted that the policy is a violation of federal laws.

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So American Airlines not only got rid of DEI, certainly because of the Trump effect, but they say out loud, without any qualifications, it was illegal. So we got rid of it. Now, let me put the Dilbert filter on this situation. Do you know how big a deal this is? Do you have any idea how big that is?

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If the only part of the story was, oh, we don't like the bad press, so we got rid of DEI, I'd think, oh, that's cool. It wouldn't be world-changing, but it'd be cool if some company got rid of DEI. But no, this is bigger, because they said in public the DEI stuff was illegal, and that's why they're not doing it. Now, you're the CEO of a competing airline company.

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Did you know that Florida has some kind of law that goes into effect January 1st, where porn purveyors would have to ask for your driver's license to be uploaded in order to watch porn. So if you live in Florida, you're not going to be able to get Pornhub anymore because Pornhub didn't want to make that change just for Florida.

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And you just saw your competitor say, we have to stop doing that because it's illegal. And like, seriously illegal. It's not just technically illegal. It's racism put into the corporate rules. You can't get more illegal than that. So this is effectively a reframe. So we're going from, oh, DEI is good for society. We should all be doing more of it. And now America Airlines just reframed it.

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It's illegal. That's it. It would take maybe one more company to make a statement like this. Maybe one more. Because if it's just one-off, maybe you can ignore it. But by the second or third company... that says, yeah, this is just illegal. And the reason we're getting rid of it is, you know, it's nothing to do with the people we're trying to serve, nothing to do with not wanting diversity.

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It's just illegal. And as soon as you get three companies, major ones, that say we're getting rid of it because it's illegal, every other company will have to do it. Here's why. I'm a stockholder. Huh. Why is the company stock that I own not avoiding this obvious legal peril and pursuing merit, which obviously would make me more money as a stockholder?

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If it's illegal, why am I owning stock in a company that's doing like a major illegal thing and maybe we'll get sued by the government or shut down? So I think the pressure will turn really quickly. So there's definitely progress in getting rid of DEI, and you see them anecdotally, boop, boop, just a dot, dot, dot. But this is going to be one of those situations that's slow until it's fast.

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There's going to be a collapse, it looks like. I think it's easy to predict. So just a few more, just a few more, and they just have to say out loud and in writing... We're changing it because it's illegal. And then the entire industry will, like everybody's going to have to change at that point. It won't take much. Well, here's an update on the Middle East and those hostages that Hamas has.

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You've been hearing happy sounding noises like, oh, we're getting close to some kind of a hostage deal or, you know, Biden's trying hard to get a, hostage deal done before he leaves office. Apparently nothing like that's even close, according to Axios. So three Israeli officials are like, no, we're not. We don't have anything. It's not close. So don't expect that to happen.

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I saw Tucker Carlson interviewing Jeffrey Sachs. who's got controversial views about Israel and about a lot of things. So you should do your own research about who Jeffrey Sachs is. That's the best way I can tell you to form an opinion. He has an interesting background, and you should know where his loyalties are and who pays him for what before you listen to his opinions.

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But he had one statement that I don't know if it's true, but it raises this question. He says that Israel, or at least Netanyahu, is playing for a greater Israel where there's basically no Palestinian state next to him. So in other words, it would give Israel some kind of permanent control over their Palestinian neighbors, but the Palestinians would not have their own state now or ever.

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And I ask you, how many of you, well, it's the wrong crowd because obviously nobody who's watching this has ever even looked at porn even once. But if you know anybody, like a family member or something who looks at porn, how many people would be willing to upload their driver's license minutes before they were going to look at porn?

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Now, first of all, I don't know for sure that that's Netanyahu's plan, but I would ask this question. What other plan could there be? In what world is there some plan where the Palestinians, given the history up to this point, are going to be able to get their own state and live next to Israel? I feel like even talking about that feels dumb. It doesn't feel like an opinion.

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It just feels like, do you have any idea what's going on over there? I'm no expert, but I know one thing. Both sides don't really have any room to negotiate a middle ground. So there's no middle ground. See, anything that would be Israel living next to an actual country that's its own country called the Palestinian country, there's no way that can work.

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because it wouldn't be safe for Israel, and they have no obligation to do something that's deeply unsafe for them. So how does anybody really expect that there would ever be a Palestinian state? Because why would Israel, if they have the power to stop it, and it looks like they do, why would they ever agree to that?

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Now, I feel like people are doing recreational opinions about Israel, because it's too hard to have a real one. A recreational opinion would be, all right, I will fantasize that two countries are formed. They live in peace because they've done everything right. And then the international community has figured out how to make them live in peace forever. That can't happen.

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There are way too many brainwashed Palestinians who just want to kill Israelis that if you put them next to each other, we would just be right back in this situation. They would end up having to re-attack the Palestinian country every five years and wipe out their government and destroy all their assets. And then they would be even more mad when they built back.

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So I ask you in all seriousness, what the hell is Israel supposed to do? If they were to say, all right, we will incorporate all the Palestinians and just say it's all Israel. It's just one country and it's just Israel. Well, they can't do that. because then their demographic situation would be in jeopardy.

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And it would be, you know, if the Palestinians got a vote, they would just outbreath the Israelis until they ran the whole thing. So there's really nothing that Israel can do to fix this. They just have a permanently dangerous situation. which they can deal with as things blow up, right? It's like whack-a-mole. Here's a terrorist whack. Here's a terrorist whack.

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But they never really can stop playing whack-a-mole. There's no path to anything like that. So I think that the Middle East just has to be understood as a power dynamic. If the Palestinians had all the power, things would be really, really bad for Israel. Right now, Israel has more power, And things are really, really bad in Gaza.

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So that your driver's license could be definitively linked with every image that you look at. Who in the world would look at that? Well, here's something that they don't report in the news. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but porn has practically been eliminated from the Internet. So little by little, companies are trying to clamp down It's almost non-existent.

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You know, you could argue they brought it on, at least Hamas brought it on themselves. But it's just a power play. It's nothing but who has the power is in charge. And if America wants to dominate the Middle East so that we can have our way energy-wise, maybe. By the way, speaking of Mike Benz, when... When I tell you that the United States is this big colonizing bastard country,

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and that we're truly evil. America is really evil. The number of countries we've overthrown, isn't it like 60 or 80 countries or something? Romania just got a taste of it. Ukraine's falling apart. I mean, if you looked at the totality of everything that America's done in my lifetime, it's fucking evil. However,

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I heard Mike Benz explain something that I was explaining too, and it was good to have somebody that smart and well-informed have the same opinion. And it goes like this. If we were not bastards, somebody would be the bigger bastard because we live in a bastardy bastard world. So your only choices are growing or shrinking, living or dying, getting stronger or getting weaker.

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Nobody gets to just find their perfect situation and just go with it. That's not an option. Everything's either growing or the other thing is growing and it's going to eat you. So the reason that America has created, at least until recently, a strong middle class and a great lifestyle and we always felt pretty safe is because of the bastard activity.

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It's because of just dominating and stealing and you know, controlling and manipulating and brainwashing and all those things that you would call evil. But if we didn't do those things, I wouldn't have this nice podcast and you wouldn't be listening to it in the comfort of wherever you are.

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So you have to be a little cognizant that you can be on your moral high ground and say, oh, we should not do these evil things. But the alternative is much worse. And, you know, it's hard to say out loud. Yeah, we're evil, but it's kind of working for us. And the alternative is the other evil people would eat us. So what are you going to do? So that's just the realistic way to look at the world.

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And I saw Mike Ben say a version of that that I fully agree with. Anyway, that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I wanted to talk about today. I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately now because they're awesome. And thanks for joining. We'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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My guess is that the only porn that you'll ever see is virtual reality. I think we're, I'll make a prediction, three years away from no human porn on the internet. It'll all just be virtual reality. Won't be real people. That's what I think. And will you have to show your ID? Well, not if you're using AI to make your own.

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So in three years, you'll be able to just say, hey, AI, I have these interests. Make me some clips, and it will. So yeah, Pornhub is basically dead in the long run. The company that makes robots called Figure, they now have their Figure version 0.2, and they've got one that's operational on a BMW production line. So this is an actual humanoid robot that already has a job.

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Now, I think it's more prototype, and they're making sure that they can tweak it to make it work, but it's sort of working on the BMW line. But here's the big deal. You know how I always tease the AI and robot business? Because for my entire life, robots were always slow. Even if you just saw them in a fictional movie where it wasn't even a real robot, they would always move very slowly.

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And I always thought, what is that all about? Like, why can't a robot move faster? So I guess this new one is 400% faster. It's not up to human speed yet, but getting close. That does suggest that it can get to human speed at some point. And it's a game changer. So apparently, you know, if you want to mark the date on your calendar...

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This is just about the day in history that a humanoid robot went to work. It just worked on an assembly line. We're there. So you know how you imagine this all your life? You imagine someday, is it just going to be a humanoid robot on that assembly line? Here it is. Today's the day. All right. Did you know that a Chinese company...

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seems to be the dominant manufacturer of home internet routers that have been linked to cyber attacks. So there's a worry that the dominant, you know, the primary home internet router in the United States is susceptible to hackers or China's control. And according to the Wall Street Journal, there's some talk about banning them. It's the top recommended choice, I guess, on Amazon.

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How in the world did we get to this point where the majority of internet connections in the United States run through Chinese equipment that isn't secure? We're finding this out today? Today? Here's another thing I found out today. I was reading a seemingly well-informed post on X. It was at the Something Squirrel, a guy who reports a lot about Ukraine.

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But he was talking about how the United States has no defense for any airborne attacks and couldn't possibly ever have one. But we've tried lots of times. Basically, we're totally vulnerable for anything that comes in the air. And I don't think we have really anything that would stop drones or missiles or almost anything. Basically, the country is too big. Borders are too big.

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You're not going to stop a swarm of anything. So we're very vulnerable. I'm not sure I knew that as much as I know it now. Well, you may have heard that a top aide, former top aide, to the Harris campaign said that it doesn't make sense for Democrats to do interviews with the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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And the reason is that the readers of those magazines are already going to vote Democrat, or those newspapers. So somehow, the New York Times and the Washington Post made themselves irrelevant to national politics.

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What would happen if you took 1,000 published peer-reviewed scientific papers and then just had AI check them for errors? Well, I think I told you that there was a study about black ladles and black kitchen utensils. The black plastic would leach off. And then it turns out they just made a calculation error. They were off by a factor of 10. It wasn't that dangerous after all.

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because you already know what they're... So they've already hypnotized and brainwashed their audience to the point where talking to them doesn't add anything because they've already hypnotized their audience. Well, how could you even call these publications the news if a major candidate for president thinks, ah, their readers are so brainwashed that new information won't change any opinions?

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So I'm certainly glad I'm not associated with the newspaper business anymore. That kind of worked out pretty well for me.

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And then related to that, there's a scoop, and Axios is talking about this, that they're trying to get new bosses, top editors at the Washington Post, and people who are being considered for it are like, no thanks, because they don't trust that Bezos is going to be sufficiently anti-Trump.

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So the Washington Post is having trouble hiring anybody good because the people who are good and experienced at publications don't want to work anywhere where it might be balanced. That's a real thing, that you can't get the best people in the business to work at a publication that might become balanced in the future. It's not even balanced now, but they're worried it might become balanced

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Somebody says that squirrel guy is a Ukrainian shill. Yes, the account that I referred to is pro-Ukrainian, but probably doesn't matter to the question of whether the United States has a workable air defense. But yes, that's a good point. So... Now, here's a little story that I don't know enough about, but it's suggestive of things to come.

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There's some reporting on social media that Tim Pool and his Timcast operation might be doing some kind of a deal or selling the operation to the Daily Wire. I don't know what that means exactly, so I don't know if that means they would continue operating but have some kind of operational deal with the Daily Wire or something.

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So whether or not that happens or we notice any difference there, I'm not sure if it's anything we'll even notice. But somebody mentioned in the comments before the show, because I do a little show before the show, just for the local subscribers. Somebody mentioned the idea that the mainstream media might start buying up podcasts. And I thought... oh my God, that's probably going to happen.

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It's the best thing that'll ever happen to you, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of

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So at the moment, podcasting is the new shiny thing. And if you work for that old mainstream media, you feel like you're with the dinosaur technology where all the cool new podcasters are moving the needle and controlling the country. But if those mainstream media companies are owned by billionaires, which they largely are, the billionaire can just buy the podcasters.

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So they can just say, all right, I'll buy these top six podcasters, I'll put them together and make it some kind of a podcasting network and maybe put them on TV. And I thought, that feels like it's inevitable. Because although I would definitely not want to be bought by any kind of mainstream media, I'm kind of a special case, but

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you can imagine if they backed up the truck, or if I were in a different place in my life, you can imagine if they backed up the money truck, that I might say, I wasn't really planning on working for ABC News, but how much were you willing to pay me? So I think we're going to see... I think we're going to see podcasters moving to mainstream media.

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Episode 2693 CWSA 12/18/24

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if they've done well and they want that big paycheck. So that could ruin the entire podcasting atmosphere. We'll see. Keith Olbermann, according to Fox News, Keith Olbermann wrote some article in which he's giving advice through MSNBC. Now, the funniest thing to me is that Keith Olbermann's giving advice to MSNBC, and I would love for MSNBC to take all of his advice, because it's so good.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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welcome to the highlight of human civilization skull and coffee with scott adams you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of a tank of chelsea stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Now, the DEI part is illegal, but they argue that they should be able to have their own standards and blah, blah, blah. But here's the funny part. So Trump did this extended post on truth, and he's just so wonderfully insulting that I just want to read the whole thing, if you don't mind. So this is Trump on Harvard. Harvard lost its way, defunded. Trump says...

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Everyone knows that Harvard has lost its way. They hired from New York Bill de Blasio and Chicago Lori Lightfoot at ridiculously high salaries and fees, two of the worst and most incompetent mayors in the history of our country to teach municipal management and government. Now, I'd never heard that before. Had you heard that Harvard...

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had hired the two worst mayors in the history of the country to teach the rest of the students municipal management and government. That doesn't even seem like it could be true, does it? But if it is true, it's funny. And then Trump goes on. He says, these two radical left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil.

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Harvard has been hiring almost all woke radical left idiots and bird brains who are only capable of teaching failure to students and so-called future leaders. Now, I agree with everything he's saying, but, you know, there are certain rights you got to you got to accept.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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He goes, look, just to the recent past that their plagiarizing president, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching rather than firing her on the spot. Since then, much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place.

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Many others, like these leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning and should not be considered on any list of the world's great universities or colleges. Harvard is a joke, teaches hate and stupidity, and should no longer receive federal funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Now, you might disagree with something that Trump wants to do, but he's the best writer we've ever had. You know, I used to think that probably Thomas Jefferson was the best writer. I mean, he wrote most of the... I'm sorry, what was it? The... What is the thing that's not the Constitution? Well, you know, the thing. The thing. I'm going to go full Joe Biden here. I'm on some pain meds.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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They're slowing down my brain quite a bit. But I don't think it was Jefferson. I think it was Trump. He's the best writer. All right, let's check in on AI. Apparently, Grok... Declaration of Independence, yes. Thank you. So yeah, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, most of it. And that was pretty good. Sometimes I like reading the Declaration of Independence. just for the writing.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And I'll read it like three or four times. And every time I'll be like, wow. Wow. How do you write that? Just amazingly written. Amazingly written. But when I read Trump, it's also magic. So it would be hard to compare them. Well, Grok has a new capability. Now you can take your documents that are in Google Drive And drop them in, and it will fully interact with your documents.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And when people were getting bad results with OxyContin, they decided that the solution was to give them way more. Whenever you see science that says, you know what? You should take way more of this medication. I just automatically say, I don't know. I'm gonna need to know a lot more about who did that study. So that's the first thing you should ask. All right, here's another one.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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You can ask it questions, and you can have it help edit. It can summarize. It can refine the presentations. And if that works, I'm going to be using it. today because I've been waiting for this. The problem had always been, you know, chat GPT for a long time has been able to handle a file. I don't know if it could do Google Drive, but you could upload a file.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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The trouble is that it would hallucinate what's in your file. So it made it kind of useless. So the thing I want to know is if Grok is going to hallucinate what's in the file. If it doesn't, this would be a gigantic move forward. I'm like, this would be a really big deal. So I'll test it out later. Did you know that Apple, of course...

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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They turned their S-I-R-I, I don't want to say it so it activates your devices, but they turned it into an AI version. And apparently it's just a joke within Apple. Even the Apple employees think that their own AI, which is barely AI, is ridiculously bad. And I would agree, it is ridiculously bad.

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according to an article in Futurism by Frank Landymore, that they floundered so much that I don't know what they're going to do. They're going to have to start over or something. Now, the one thing it does do is it understands what you're saying way better. But Apple is not even in the AI space, it seems like.

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So, I don't know, I feel like they could be in a lot of trouble if they don't own AI, you know, at least have the best version of it. And it doesn't look like they're even close or even trying to be. So, I don't know. I think Apple's got some real problems with AI. Here's AI news that you knew was coming. This is the most predictable one.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So there's a pilot program that's launching in New York State that will turn your TV, let's say you're a senior, it turns your TV screen into a personalized hub for caregiving communication and connections. The New York Post has an article on this. So if you're a qualifying older adult, you'll get devices from onscreen ink that can transform any TV into a smart caregiver platform.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So in other words, AI. and there will be an AI person who talks to you. But they can do things like medication reminders, daily check-ins. They can help you connect to your loved ones, you know, phone-wise. And then they've got this program called Joy, an AI-powered virtual companion built into it that interacts with the seniors. Now, given the loneliness factor of seniors,

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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This feels like, I don't know if it'll be this specific product, but don't you think that it's guaranteed that seniors are going to have some kind of AI companion helping them out that's just always on the TV? It's sort of the perfect place to put it because the TV is kind of central and maybe you have more than one. So I feel like I want one. How many of you would want one?

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Like immediately I wanted one. I'm not qualified because I have to be in New York. But if you could have an AI personality that would just be taking care of you, making sure you took your meds, and could maybe set up a phone call and stuff like that, how many of you would want that? I feel like how much you'd want it depends on how good it is.

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Like if it could really have a conversation like it's just a regular person, you're going to want it. Even if you say you don't, you're going to want it. So I'm just going to admit, I want it. I might prefer having it on my phone, but I want it. Not even close, huh? All right.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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I wonder if they could have done this in a faster, more efficient way. But according to Eric Dolan on SciPost, political overconfidence worsens polarization in online debates. So apparently, if you believe you know a lot about politics, but you might be sort of exaggerating your own ability. You get extra mad when you talk to people who have different opinions.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So Senator Cory Booker, who's trying to get attention, apparently talking for two days straight or whatever he did, didn't get him enough attention because nobody knows what he said. To me, that's just hilarious. I've got this great idea. I'm going to talk for, how long did he talk? How many hours? You broke a record, right? You talked for like 44 hours or something.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And I'm thinking, if you talk for 44 hours and literally nobody knows what you were talking about, that's the best fail you'll ever hear. That's a complete fail. But now, because that didn't work out, because that didn't work out. He threatens that he's going to lead a trip to El Salvador to push for the release of that one guy from Maryland, Kilmer Abrego Garcia. Axios is reporting this.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And he's going to try to get him home. Meanwhile, Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland is trying to do the same thing. So he's also talking about traveling down there and trying to get this guy home. Now, here's the funny part. I haven't talked about this story at all. And probably you wondered because it's just all over the news. Just all over the news.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Now, the first reason is I tend not to talk about one-off stories because whatever there is about this specific story, it doesn't feel like it's generalizable. It's weird sometimes. And it's tragic, perhaps. But it doesn't feel like it's telling you anything you need to know. It's just one situation that's unique.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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But everything about what you think about that situation depends on the question of whether he's MS-13 or not. So the Democrats say, no, he's been found not to be MS-13. And Steve Miller will tell you, oh, he's definitely been found to be MS-13. I guess two courts have decided that he was. Now, it could go either way.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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I admit that just because some courts found he was MS-13, that doesn't necessarily mean he is, does it? And can people ever quit? Is it possible he was MS-13 when he was 17 years old? but now he's in his mid thirties and hasn't had even any contact with him since that whole time at his core that I don't know.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So I don't have a opinion about whether he should be brought back or not, because it would all depend on whether I knew he was an MS 13 and how could I possibly know that? So I'm just watching, you know, I'm not going to be traveling down there to free him because I just don't know. Um, But there is a question of whether he got due process.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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As far as I know, he did, because he already had deportation orders. That sounds like pretty due process to me. But I don't know. I would be open to that argument that he didn't get enough. But as far as I know, if Cory Booker... Let's say Cory Booker leads an expedition down there, and against all odds, he succeeds. And they come back, and the... What's his name? Abrego Garcia.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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He's with him and he's all smiling and he's like a free man. And then they land in the United States and ICE picks him up at the airport and just ships him back to El Salvador because apparently there's a standing deportation order. So if he comes back, he doesn't get to stay. He has a standing deportation order. So ICE is just going to ship him back the minute he lands. So I don't know.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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But then I guess you could say, does he get life in prison just because he's here illegally? Well, that seems kind of too much. So I don't have an opinion about this whole Kilmer-Abrigo-Garcia case because all the things that would determine what my opinion was can't really be known by me. So I'll just keep watching.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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But I think it's hilarious that Cory Booker, he's not getting enough attention, so he's going to go all in on the MS-13 person. Now, is it my imagination, and I can't tell if this is accidentally happening or the Democrats are just doing it to themselves,

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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or the Republicans have found a clever way to do it to them, which is every time you see that the Democrats are advocating for something, it's for something that you don't like. It's like, are you advocating for an MS-13 guy? Well, but it's about due process. Okay, but it's really you advocating for an MS-13 guy, right? Well, we don't think he's MS-13. We don't know if he got due process.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Do you know what they could have done instead of this study? They could have just asked me. Just ask Scott. Yes, if you talk to somebody who is really sure that their view of the world and politics is correct and yours is not, they will get quite worked up if you give them an encounter to what they think they believe. Yep, it's the Dunning-Kruger for politics.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And next thing you know, they'll be shipping Americans down to that prison. To which I say, really? An American citizen who didn't commit any crimes? I don't know. We'll talk about that. Trump has some ideas about that. Washington state.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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the college an instructor was arrested for assaulting a student wearing a MAGA hat the post-millennials writing about this so apparently he's this guy Mahoney has strong ties to the democratic socialists of America so some would say a communist but I don't know if that's fair But apparently he saw some guy wearing a MAGA hat and he and another guy just brutally attacked him.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Now, I can't even imagine any conservative brutally attacking any Democrat for their political opinion. Have you ever even heard of it? but it seems rather routine for the left to attack and brutalize the right for wearing a hat. So that's crazy. All right, let's check in on how tariffs are going.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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According to Newsmax Money, Honda has decided to make 90% of its cars in the United States, the ones they're selling in the United States, and they're going to relocate their Mexico and Canada plants to the U.S., Now, that sounds like exactly what Trump wanted. And I guess he'll be able to do this probably before the end of Trump's term.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So you're going to see at least one big company who probably can just move the machines and put them in a new facility. So maybe Gant is just really good at the process. So that's good. That's exactly what Trump wanted. And it's happening. Apparently Hong Kong is mad at Trump because he wanted to put tariffs on mail. And then Hong Kong said, forget it, we just won't send you any mail.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So the Hong Kong Postal Service said, it won't be Washington's tax collector and it will stop all service mail to the U.S. How many of you were getting mail from Hong Kong? I actually do get mail from Hong Kong every now and then for business reasons. But I feel like they could find me. They could also email me. Everybody who sends me anything physical for Hong Kong, they also have my email.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So, I don't know. Maybe this is just irrelevant. I saw this on a Mario Noffel post. I get a lot of my My best stories from Mario Novel. And then, according to Newsweek, Trump has increased his tariffs on China to 245%, a new high. And he signed an executive order to block risky imports of processed minerals. I don't even know what that means. Why would imports of minerals be risky?

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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Is there something I don't know about minerals? Anyway, so I'm sure there's a reason for it. But there's one little line in the story in Newsweek that I thought was the most important one. Now, obviously, the 245% tariff is just a response to China. So China is acting like it's not going to quit and you can't hurt us.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And Trump is just matching their energy and saying, well, I don't know, maybe I can't hurt you. How about this? How about that? So it's up to 245%. But buried in the story was this sentence, China assigned a new trade negotiator. China assigned a new trade negotiator. Does that sound like they don't want a deal? Not to me.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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The overconfidence effect, they call it. Yeah, you don't want to talk to somebody who's overconfident about politics. Well, here's a high blood pressure mystery. I've always believed... that high blood pressure was not fully understood. And I don't know if this explains it, but since it agrees with me, I'm going to tell you about it.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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To me, it sounds like they do want a deal, and they needed their best person to put on it, and they felt they didn't have their best person on it. Now, of course, I'm reading between the lines. I don't know why they assigned a new trade negotiator. But if you see it in the context of a 245% tariff, I feel like they do want to negotiate. They want to do it quickly. So maybe that'll work.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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I saw a post by Kimball Musk, who's Elon's brother, that Boeing is now canceled in China. So he says the great decoupling has begun, or so it seems. So this was the post on X. So I'll just read it because he says it well. So Kimball Musk says, the reality is that Boeing's planes that are manufactured in America for Americans include about 10,000 Chinese-made parts in each plane.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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It's hard to even believe that that's possible. So a Boeing plane has 10,000 Chinese-made parts. Which parts? Is it like every part of the seats? And then the other way, in China they use American-made avionics and engines in their planes, as Kimball says, pretty important parts. And then he says, the trade war shows a stunning misunderstanding of how global supply chains work.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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While it's theoretically possible to decouple, trade is also a major driver of peace, meaning that if they want planes and we want planes, it's better if we don't tariff each other to death because we won't get their 10,000 parts and they won't get our avionics. Now, I completely understand what Kimball Musk is saying, so his argument is clear, but

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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But I just don't think you can let somebody abuse you forever. At some point, you have to choose war over peace if the person you're having peace with is just abusing you every day. So... I don't know. I don't quite agree with this. I do agree that if we can find fair trade with China, it would be way better to trade with them than not, wouldn't it?

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And then we could slowly, if we wanted to, we wouldn't even want to with these airplane parts probably, we could slowly repatriate businesses that we wanted to have, the good ones, the car companies and the big ones. So, yeah, as long as we have fair trade deals, you can get anything done. You can get peace, etc. So we'll see if this new trade negotiator from China can make that happen.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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At the same time, according to The Hill, the White House is launching this national security investigation into pharma and semiconductors. Now, the read between the lines part of that, according to the story, is that it's sort of the first step before Trump's going to put major tariffs on pharma.

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Now, that one scares me a little bit because I don't know if I would have even noticed if Boeing made fewer planes for a while. I just don't even know if I'd notice. But if I can't get normal pharmaceutical stuff, I would notice that. So this is a tough one.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So according to the University of Waterloo, generally speaking, if you had high blood pressure, they tell you to eat less salt. Has anybody had that experience? Eat less salt. And apparently that works, or they wouldn't recommend it. But apparently the University of Waterloo figured out that maybe what's more important than less salt is the ratio of salt to dietary potassium.

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The only thing that makes sense is if Trump is assuming that we would do some serious trade negotiations in the next few weeks so that whatever he's doing with these tariffs, they don't last that long, which would be good. It would also be an indication that he was using it just as a negotiating tool, not as something that's a permanent situation.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine today, the thing that makes everything better. It's called a simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. The technology is not working today. It's the way I like it. Well, I wonder if there's any science that looks sketchy. Turns out there is.

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So yeah, the pharmaceuticals, that one scares me a little bit. According to the Post Millennial, the cargo going through ports in China has dropped by 9.7% in the second week of April. So that would indicate that the tariffs that Trump is putting on China are brutally effective because 9.7% drop, that's going to get their attention. That is not a normal drop in China.

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So that's definitely got to be the tariffs working on them. But those are some of the things our ship would be to us. So the joke's on us too. But we'll see. So maybe China will get a little bit closer to wanting to make a real deal. Breitbart News says that chip maker AMD has decided to manufacture their chips in the USA for the first time ever. So I didn't know that.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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AMD has never made chips in the United States. I thought it was just an American chip company. I assume that's the only place they made them. But apparently they've never made them here. But now... And I assume this is because of the tariffs that are going to make them here. So what I'm thinking is that we're going to need two paths.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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One path is for stuff that you can fairly expeditiously move to the United States, like cars and chip making, apparently. And the other would be for things like the Boeing airplane parts, where it just sort of doesn't work to have a tariff on that. It's not getting you anything you want except no airplanes.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So maybe there should be exemptions for certain businesses like pharma and airplanes where it's not going to be very fast for them to move to the United States. But I ask the following question. Are the pharmaceutical companies operating in China, are they American-owned or European-owned and they're just operating in China?

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Or are they Chinese companies that are making the drugs and shipping them to the US? Which is it? Now, I've heard that China leads on pharmaceutical equipment, so they can make equipment that makes pharmaceuticals better than we can.

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But if we own the companies, can't we just say, all right, just everything that's on the floor here that we use to make stuff, pack it all up and move it to the United States? Because they would own the equipment and they would own all the assets, right? So I don't know how easy it would be for any pharma company to move to the United States, but that would be a big question.

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If there's some that can just sort of move their equipment here and then wherever the equipment is, you can make the pharmaceuticals. But I think there's also a question of the precursors and the materials that go into making it. And that might still be from China. So I think China's got us on pharmaceuticals for a long time. Well, apparently here's an accused leaker, Dan Caldwell.

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Yeah, he was one of the top advisors for P. Hegseth. And he was escorted down to the Pentagon, I think it was yesterday or today, after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense. Now, I thought everybody leaked. Haven't you heard of that before? There's no such thing as nobody who leaks.

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Like every person in Congress, they've all got somebody they leak to so that they can get good press. So they're basically buttering up people in the press by leaking. So I guess he got caught, allegedly. Allegedly. Laura Loomer has that scoop. And she points out that Dan Caldwell was listed as a point of contact for the Department of Defense in the Mike Waltz's Signalgate chat.

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I don't know if that means he did anything wrong, but he was a point of contact for that. All right, here's a big question that I've been asking myself lately. Has Trump turned fascist or turned dictator? So the arguments would be he's going after Harvard and the colleges, essentially trying to change their free speech by getting them to be less anti-Semitic. And that would be Trump's take on it.

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So if you eat bananas and broccoli, which have potassium in them, you might be better off than lowering your salt intake. Because what you need is a good balance of potassium to sodium. So I don't know if that's true. Half of all scientific studies are not reproducible. But I like this one because I like bananas and I like broccoli.

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Episode 2811 CWSA 04/16/25

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So if you're going after free speech in our institutions, are you kind of a dictator fascist? You decide. Then there's the talk about the third term. Now, I don't think that, I think Bannon, Steve Bannon's the one who's been saying that, that he could serve a third term under some conditions. Now, I don't think that's true. I don't think he can serve a third term.

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And I think it would be a huge, a huge problem if he did. You know, it's already unsafe to be a Trump supporter, especially if you wear a hat. But imagine how unsafe it would be if he somehow stayed in power for a third term. That would be really, really dangerous. Because at that point, people would say, all right, there's the proof. You know, he violated the Constitution.

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He's just going to stay. And it wouldn't matter how clever the argument was, even if the Supreme Court said, all right, it's a good point. You found a workaround that we can't argue with. I don't think that would happen. But what would that look like to his supporters? I don't want to be a supporter who says he can serve a third term. I don't want that on my record.

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I don't want to have a conversation with somebody who says, so, are you a Trump guy? And then I say, yes. And they say, what do you think about that third term? I don't like it at all. But I especially don't like it if it happens and then the reputational damage accrues to me and those of you who are Trump supporters as well. That's just dangerous to me. Like physically, that's dangerous.

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So I'm not for that at all. I do think it might be a strategy, though. The strategy would be that people could never be sure if they can just wait them out. Because I think a lot of what the deep state is trying to do is like, all right, we can do this. We can just wait four years. And then we'll just reverse everything with our candidates. We'll get the Congress back. So just hang tight.

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I think that maybe Biden, the abandoned strategy is to say that he might be here for a third term. So if you're going to wait him out, it's a bad strategy because you don't know how long you're going to wait. I don't know. I'm just trying to put the best face on it that I can think of because I can't read anybody's mind. And I think

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Trump probably likes it because it's provocative and it makes the Democrats talk about it. But so far, the Democrats have not really leaned into that one. And it's the one that I think you could lean into the most effectively because it's something he's really floated. Like the idea is actually, you know, it's out there. Then there's the question of Trump sending Americans to El Salvador jail.

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So Trump actually said, to Bukele, apparently, of El Salvador, that he'd be interested in sending homegrown, meaning American criminals, to an El Salvador jail. Now, I hope not, because again, I would be very against that, sending our criminals to some other country, especially if they're never going to get out, which is what I think those jails are about. So I don't like that.

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But of course, he was just speculating, right? It's like the third term. It's just something he's noodling on. He's not leaning into it. And then there's the question about whether he's friends with dictators like Putin. And it doesn't look like it. At the moment, it doesn't look like he's being too friendly to Putin. He's just not able to get any kind of a deal.

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It's a perfect example of how people accept or don't accept science. If this is said, yeah, you've got to eat, I don't know, some kind of food I don't like. I couldn't even think of anything because I like pretty much all food. But... I really like bananas and broccoli. I eat a banana and a broccoli almost every day. So yeah, I believe the science because I like bananas and broccoli.

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I don't think there will be a deal, honestly. the Ukraine deal. How many of you think that there will be an actual peace deal between Russia and Ukraine while Trump's in office? Because I don't think so. I think it's literally an impossible situation. Because we can't really lean on both of them as hard as we'd like to, to force them into a deal.

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And if we force them into a deal, is it going to last? I mean, I feel like it has to be a deal that they both hate. But they know that they were the ones who made it. And then maybe it might last. But if oil prices get low enough, it could squeeze Russia. Well, there are a million ways we can squeeze Russia harder. But I don't know that that's going to make them change their strategy.

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You know, because every day Putin has a good day. I don't think Putin's having trouble paying his bills, so he seems a little insulated from that. Anyway, I think the argument that Trump is a fascist is weak, but there are some warning signals. There are some warning signals, as I just mentioned. All right, so the other day...

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On my podcast, I was talking about the fact that Kash Patel unleashed a bunch of documents. Now, the one I talked about was a handwritten note from John Brennan, who had a CIA at the time, to Obama, detailing that Hillary Clinton's campaign was going to run a Russia collusion op on Trump to distract from her own email problems, and that their biggest concern was

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was that Russia would find out about it. Their biggest concern was not that it wasn't true, and that Hillary was going to run an op saying it was true. Their problem was that Russia might find out. Now, some people said, but this is not new news. If you'd watched Dan Bongino, you would know all about that.

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And I do vaguely think I knew about that handwritten letter before, so I don't know that that's new. But... On my post about it, somebody clipped off, you know, did a video clip of me talking about it. And General Flynn commented on it. So he reposted me talking about it. And he said, immediately arrest for conspiracy to overthrow the U.S.

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government, the following, and bring them in for questioning. So he wants to arrest and bring in for questioning Barack Obama, John Brennan, Jim Clapper. He says he'll talk. Susan Rice, Jim Comey, and General Flynn says he'll talk, and Andrew McCabe, he'll talk. He says, this is full-blown treason. Yes, you're damn right.

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I'm biased about this, but if these people aren't held accountable, they'll do it again and again. Now, what exactly would be the crime? It feels criminal. that the sitting government was organizing essentially an insurrection against the rising candidate. It feels kind of illegal, like maximum illegal, but I don't know exactly what crime it would be.

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Do you think it will ever come to pass that Barack Obama will be brought in for questioning and John Brennan will? If it hasn't happened yet... I don't know. So I agree with General Flynn. It seems like if you let this go, it's just going to get worse. I think he's right about that. But I just don't see it happening in the real world. Do you?

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Well, apparently, according to Lee Zeldin of the EPA, there's a small startup called Make Sunsets. And apparently they're geoengineering the planet by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling, quote, cooling credits. So I guess that's something they can do with climate change economy. So I guess people buy cooling credits. That's the thing. Anyway.

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Lee Zeldin says, this company is polluting the air we breathe. I've instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action. Is that chemtrails? Well, if it is, this is a new company doing it. So whatever the old chemtrails were, don't know. But Lee Zeldin's all over that, trying to shut that down.

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Well, this one surprises me. The UK Supreme Court just ruled that transgender women are not legally defined as women, according to the Telegraph. I don't know what they are defined as, but they're not going to be defined as women in the UK. Now, doesn't that surprise you? Because I thought the UK was so cooked that they would just go for every woke thing in the world, but apparently not.

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Here's a economist's view of our debt situation, which unfortunately matches my own. And it's not good. So this is a real working economist who goes by Dr. Insensitive Jerk. And let me just read what he says about our debt. Because you know how I said, I don't think Doge...

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got anywhere close to helping us with our debt i mean 150 billion's not nothing but it's not in the realm of helping us get out of our debt so this is what dr insensitive jerk the economist says he says it doesn't look like doge will cut government enough to stave off default but they did accomplish something unexpected He says, I'm an economist and I don't know what will happen when the U.S.

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defaults on its debt, either overtly or by hyperinflation. So basically, default is built into it now because we found that we couldn't cut our expenses. If you can't cut your expenses, you'll eventually default. Now, you would do it either by hyperinflating so that the people who we owe one dollar are We'll still owe them $1, but $1 will be worth 10 cents.

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So that's not ideal, because everybody who had $1 for their retirement would find out that it was worth only 10 cents. But at least we'd pay off the debt, hey. So that would be terrible. And of course, just saying we can't pay it off would be catastrophic. And he says, when we default, and keep in mind it's a when, because we don't have any plan for not defaulting.

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And to me, the fact that we're not talking about this every day, all day, I don't even know how to understand that. It's by far our biggest problem. Anyway, he says, when we default, it may happen quickly because safety is the only reason the U.S. Treasury debt commands such a low interest rate. So when safety goes away, boom.

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When rumors of default or hyperinflation start swirling, interest rates may spike to 10% or more, which we cannot pay. Even at the current 4% rate, the interest on the 35 trillion debt, he does a little math here, would be 1.4 trillion, which already consumes 60% of the 2.4 trillion total income tax revenue. A 10% interest rate,

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Like we saw in the 80s, the interest on the debt will be 150% of income tax revenue. That means it will be 75% of all government revenue. Since people know we can't pay 10%, they won't accept 10% and will demand even more. That's the doom spiral, and it could happen overnight. So now you might say, but Scott, what do we do about that to protect ourselves against default? And I have no idea.

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I have no idea. I will tell you I own Bitcoin because I like diversification. So Bitcoin as a diversification play makes sense, but I don't know that that gives you safety. And I don't know how much you should own to be safe, if it gives you any safety at all. But I can imagine a time when the dollar is worth nothing, but Would that make your crypto worth anything?

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Because you usually have to turn your crypto into dollars to buy stuff. So you say Bitcoin is a scam? Lead and whiskey. Yeah. Well, I wish somebody in our government would tell us the truth and get us ready for whatever's coming. because whatever's coming could be pretty extreme. All right, last little item here.

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10%.

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So I guess we're talking about ABC, NBC, CBS. Only 10% of TV viewership. Now, I was trying to think, when was the last time I watched anything on NBC, CBS, or ABC? I've seen clips of people who were on it, but I don't think I've watched it in months or years. It used to be the main thing you watched, so I don't know. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that is my show for today.

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I'm going to briefly talk to the locals people. And then I will see the rest of you tomorrow, same time, same place. Thanks for joining on YouTube and RumbleNX. Locals coming at you in 30 seconds.

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So they said transgender women are not legally defined as women. Don't you wonder if there's any kind of Trump effect? Do you think that the things that are happening in the United States just sort of bleed over into the consciousness of other countries? I just wonder if they would have had the same ruling if things were different in the United States. All right, here's my favorite story.

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I just love this story. Now, I don't want to do full schadenfreude, where you feel good about bad things that happen to other people. But if those other people are bad people, I feel like a little bit of schadenfreude wouldn't be terrible, would it? Would it? So here I'm going to feel good about something that's bad for somebody who is a bad person.

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Do you remember Letitia James, who went after Trump because Trump in New York because Trump allegedly inflated the value of some of his properties to get good loans. Now, the bank that gave him the loan said nothing like that happened. They said they'd do their own research to figure out how much the properties are worth. They don't take the word of the applicant.

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So there was nothing really like that to happen, but she still managed to get... to get her away. And Trump was, uh, find a tremendous amount of money. Now it turns out that, uh, Bill Pulte, who his new job is U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency director. And that gave him apparently access to some records.

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And he's referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Department of Justice for alleged mortgage fraud. So here are the three things she's accused of. One, calling her home in Virginia her primary residence, because that gets you better treatment. But, of course, it couldn't be, because she's literally the Attorney General of New York. So she has a New York home.

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So according to The Guardian, there's British hospitals have decided that if you give the patients way more medication than they used to, they could cut deaths by 62%. They say it's a game changer.

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But the New York home, I don't know if this is the one she lives in, but she has a New York property that she says has four units. It really has five. But apparently you get better treatment, I think, for taxes if you say it's four. So she lied and said it was five. That's fraud number two. And then I listened to Jonathan Turley this morning talking about it.

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And for one of these applications, she listed her father as her husband, which somehow should have gotten her better terms. I don't know how. just saying she's married maybe. So, and also according to Jonathan Turley, it is completely normal. that these exact crimes, if they turn out to be real, that these exact crimes people are prosecuted for all the time.

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So it might be the ideal situation that the person who went after Trump with a bunch of lawfare was doing the same thing, in a different way, but mortgage fraud, basically. And I would argue that hers is different than what Trump did because it doesn't look like anybody was going to do their own work and check on her stuff.

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So with Trump's stuff, if he says my building's worth this or that, he would know that in that situation the bank would check for themselves to see what a piece of property is worth. But I don't think anybody was checking that Virginia was her primary residence or wasn't. I don't think anybody's job was to check that she had four unions instead of five in a New York property.

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And probably nobody's job was to check to see if her husband was her father. So Trump was in a situation where he couldn't have possibly defrauded anybody because the normal process that everybody knows, everybody knows, is that the bank checks for themselves on the value of a property. But they don't check on this stuff.

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It sounds like they take your word for it if you say it's four living units instead of five. Although I'm surprised they don't check on it, but it looks like they don't. Well, Melinda French Gates was on CNN.

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it might be what is the first question you would ask if you saw a study that says oh it turns out if you just just gave people way more of the stuff you're already giving them that would be even better well i would suspect the companies that are making those drugs you're already giving them but somebody did some research when i posted on this and said no it's just a data a data entity.

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We're talking about Bill Gates X. And, you know, there's nothing more dangerous than a divorced billionaire because they have unlimited money and they feel like they have to do things with it. And my God, is it not working out? But one of the things that Melinda French Gates said on CNN was, quote,

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This is part of the reason for her activism, that she wants to be involved and kind of an activist, because, quote, my two granddaughters don't have as many rights now as I did growing up. Now, she didn't give any examples, but I don't want her granddaughters to have fewer rights than she did. Maybe she could give us an example. Is it all about abortion?

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Because if you happen to be the granddaughter of Melinda French Gates, I'm pretty sure you could take an airplane anywhere you wanted to get the treatment you wanted from anybody. I don't think it's a problem if you're this rich. So do they really have fewer rights? And then I saw somebody replying on X saying, well,

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Her granddaughters can't have automatic weapons like she could when she was a kid. And I thought, huh, that's actually a pretty good example. We don't have the right to automatic weapons, at least as easily. So that's probably not what she was thinking, though. But I keep seeing these weird Democrat accusations without details. It's like, ah, he's a fascist, blah, blah, blah.

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Anyway, did any of you see the recording of Joe Biden, his first speech since he left office? Oh my God, I forgot how much I hated him. I hate him. I just have full hatred for him. Now, of course, he's dumb old Biden. So he goes up when the loud music is playing and he starts his speech while the loud music is still playing.

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And somehow he was the only person in the entire place who couldn't tell that nobody could hear him because he was talking at the same time as the really loud music that introduced him. He was so out of it that he just starts talking over the loud music as if anybody could hear that. It was like, oh, God. And then... He did his angry dementia lying. Let's see. Here are some of his best ones.

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He said that Trump is going to cut your social security. There's no evidence of that whatsoever. And Trump says exactly the opposite. And so did Doge. But he just gets up there and he just says it. You know, like it's a fact or something. And you forget what a liar Biden is. Like just a shameless liar. Because That's not true.

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But if the ex-president says it's true, people are going to think it's true. Just shameless. And then he basically said that Doge is moving fast and breaking things. And, oh, sure enough, they're breaking things. And says they want to break everything so they can steal for their friends and get them lower taxes. Like, that doesn't even make sense.

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What exactly are they going to break to give their friends lower tax rates? How does that even work? Is there something in the government I could break? Like if I figured out what it was that would give me lower taxes? It's just ridiculous. It's just ridiculous lying. And it's old man yelling at the son. Oh, my God. I'm so glad he's not president anymore.

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Well, as you know, President Trump and his administration have a little battle with Harvard. So before giving Harvard the funding that the government normally gives it for research, and some say that research is super valuable and provides way more value to the economy than the annual funding. I don't know about that, but that's the claim. But what Trump wants...

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is he wants them to get rid of their DEI and work harder against anti-Semitism and have hiring and standards that are based on merit as opposed to DEI. But Harvard has decided that it will fight this. And it got two really good lawyers. And so they're going to fight it. And their argument is, we're a private business. And you can't tell us what to do or say. It's up to us who we hire and why.

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So an entity that's just trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. But the data entity is part of a bigger pharma. Do you think that anyone in that larger pharma of which the data entity is a part, do you think any of them provide any drugs that you give to people for heart failure? I don't know. But my My pattern recognition says, did you see the study about, was it OxyContin?

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And it's up to us what we say or allow people to say and why. Because we're private. To which I say, you know what, I agree with that. I agree with that. So I think the funding should be entirely based on whether it's good for the public. So if they want to be terrible, I feel like they have a right to do that.

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I do feel that this is a bit of an overreach for the government to tell this private entity how they should be operating. Now, I do think the private entity is operating in a terrible, destructive, but just horrible way. But they do have the right to be horrible. It's not illegal.

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that Tucker sort of took over that conversation and I never really got to hear what Michael Shellenberger thought was happening. So Shellenberger brought up a few of the hypotheses, but I don't think he landed on what his opinion was. And part of it is because when Tucker started talking about it, I think that just took the conversation in such a direction.

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that I don't know if Michael thought that was the right time to give his own opinion on it, because I'm sure he has one. But here's what Tucker said about the UAPs. Quote, they're not from Mars. They're not from another planet. They're from here. They've always been here. These are spiritual entities. It's clear that these things reside deep in the earth, under the water, and in the atmosphere.

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And then he pointed out that Elon Musk, and he'd had personal conversations with Musk, Tucker had, didn't think that there was anything coming from space. Now, Tucker said, and I don't know if this is just Tucker or Elon said this as well, and I'm not sure it's true. He said that we'd pick up on satellites anything entering the atmosphere. Do you think that's true? I don't.

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If you look at the quality of any of the systems in the United States that you thought were good, none of them are good. If you had asked me a month ago, Scott, what do you think is one of the best fire departments in the world? I would have said, well, you know, obviously L.A. because they would need it and they would have the money. enough of a population to get whatever they needed.

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So yeah, the best fire department in the world would probably be LA. Well, not so much. So when I hear things like, well, our advanced satellites would pick up any UFOs coming through our completely impenetrable digital network of surveillance, I say to myself, or not. Yeah, or not, maybe.

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I wouldn't do this about engineering or business or most things. So it's a very special case. Here's the situation. Dr. Peter Diamandis on X, he had a post in which he led off by saying, sugar is poison. And then he did a thread on Here's Why. Sugar is poison. Now, he didn't make that up. That's the title of the book. And you're all aware that I often say alcohol is poison. Now,

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So I don't know if that's a good reason, but Trump said about the UAPs, I'm going to give you a report on drones. We don't know if the drones are really the same as the UAPs, but the drones over in New Jersey, I think he's talking about, We'll give it in one day into the administration.

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He told the governors somewhere because I think it's ridiculous that they're not telling you about what is going on with the drones. I'm going to make a prediction. He's not going to tell us what's going on with the drones. And if he does, you're going to feel that it's incomplete. Like, really? Does that explain all the drones? Or did that explain some of the drones? or maybe a lot of the drones.

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So if you think that Trump's going to get in there and then answer that question to your satisfaction, I don't think there's any chance of that. I do think he means it. I do think he is telling the truth, that he's going to try to do that. I do think he'll try. But no matter what he says, you're going to say, how do we know he wasn't told he has to leave something out?

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How do we know that when he hears the real reason, he says, oh, man, I really wasn't expecting that. So, yeah, I guess I'll just say they're hobbyists and I'll leave out the rest. Maybe. So I'm betting you will not be satisfied with whatever comes out of that. There's an Army Green Beret who's now making some claims on social media, I guess, according to the Daily Mail.

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He was led into this secret UFO case a UFO crash storage at an underground naval base. And he went through all the places and they showed him the advanced alien technology. There was an orb that seemed to be operated by consciousness alone. And there was some kind of thing you put on your arm and it was magic. But here's the part that completely made the whole story fall apart.

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I mean, if it didn't already. Apparently he saw a door that was labeled, and I quote, off-world technology. And I'm out. And I'm out. No. There is no place in the world where somebody has a door labeled off-world technology.

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Because even if you accepted that there is such a thing as off-world technology, and even if you accepted that nobody should be in that part of the building unless they had full clearance and ability to know, even then... You're not going to put it on the door, off-world technology. That's just not going to happen in any real world. So no. Sorry, Army Green Beret.

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That doesn't pass the initial sniff test. Speaking of sniff tests, Alex Jones had kind of an exclusive, I think. He has from a descendant, see if I get this right. So it was maybe the grandson or so of somebody who was a confidante and a very rich guy, confidant of LBJ.

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So the first part of the story is that LBJ was just a flat-out criminal, and he ran the government through blackmail, through, I guess, Jagger Hoover. So according to this telling, so Alex Jones and his guest. It's well-known, well-documented. Apparently there are books written in which LBJ was just flat-out criminal. Some say he was also a murderer.

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Some say he ordered the hit on JFK because he was so humiliated by the way he was being treated. Now, there seems to be good evidence that he was humiliated, So the part is, did he really order it? Well, the evidence is, according to the grandson, he found some... He'd had them for a long time. He didn't just find them.

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But for a long time, he had had the tapes left to him, you know, in the estates or the wills or something. So he had these little tapes, and he finally had them, you know, converted so we could listen to them, whatever that took. And then those tapes were played, and it showed...

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I believe it was either his own relative talking to another close confidant, and it seemed to be a phone call in which they were talking casually, but in a worried way, just sort of matter-of-factly, that LBJ had ordered the hit on Kennedy. And it's just like right there, plain as day. Now, Alex Jones says, that the source is impeccable. So he vouches for the human being who had the tape.

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Elon Musk weighed in on the statement that sugar is poison, and he said, no, cyanide and arsenic are poisons, whereas sugar is edible. You don't see a pile of bodies outside a candy store, LMAO. And then Elon said, that said, sugar should only be eaten occasionally and in small quantities. Now, he's not technically wrong, right? Sugar is not actually a poison. Like, literally, it's not.

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He knows that that person was in fact a relative, is in fact a relative of a real person who genuinely was, you know, LBJ's confidant and apparently participated in some shady stuff. He's checked to make sure that the audio was not AI generated. So he feels that he has a positive source. The recording didn't just pop up today.

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It's something that the source that he trusts says he's had in his possession for a long time and that it didn't seem fake. Fake in terms of it doesn't seem like something that was not related to those two people. It does look like the two people made the tape. It's a real tape. But then I listened to it. I would like to give you my judgment. It might be the real people, just like as claimed.

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It might be exactly those two people. It may have been made at exactly that time. So I think the tape is real, the people are real, and the timing is real, and they really said those things. However, I'm going to give you a little insight as a professional writer. The hardest thing about being a professional writer when you write dialogue

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And I remind you that I write dialogue for characters every single day for 35 years. There is a skill involved in writing dialogue. The main part of the skill is avoiding looking like it's scripted dialogue. Did you all know that? The main thing that you want to avoid to be a good writer, one that people will pay attention to, is your writing has to just be clearly unscripted.

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something that a real person would say. If you listen to the tape, as I did, and you're a professional writer, you will see right away it's scripted. So it doesn't mean it's not true. That's a whole different conversation. It could be that the principals wanted to get it on tape so that it would be believed or something in future days. It might have been a protection thing.

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Maybe they were protecting their own lives by having a tape that would be embarrassing to LBJ. So I do think everything about it was real, except that it was, in my opinion, very obviously scripted. So as a professional writer, that was professionally scripted. Do you want to know what the tell is?

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The tell is how perfect it was and how often they put the person's name in the middle of a sentence so you'd know who was talking. That was a little over the top. So it would go like, hello, Saul. I hope you're having a good day. Well, thank you for that input, Saul. It's good that we have these. I'm making that up, but you can see how stilted it is. Here's where our real people talk.

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Oh, man, I got this thing. What? Yeah, I got a thing. And then the other one talks over it. And then he asks a question. And then you circle back. And you apologize for saying it wrong. And you correct your words. That's what real conversation looks like. This was not that. It was pretty far from natural conversation. Now, I'd like a second opinion. And remember, I'm not doubting anybody.

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the veracity of the underlying claim, I wouldn't know one way or the other. I'm just saying it's scripted. It might be true, but it would be scripted. If there are other professional writers who write dialogue specifically, I'd love to get an opinion on that. SpaceX is going to launch two unmanned lunar missions.

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I guess there are two rovers, and those rovers will be going around on Mars, not Mars, on the moon, So Elon Musk is launching two probes into my moon. Ouch. So that's fun. I really like having a rover on the moon. I'm pretty much rover fascinated. I'll watch whatever that rover does and takes pictures of it.

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um and the december uh inflation was 2.9 they expected it to be 2.9 so the good news is it's not going up quickly but of course the the baseline of our costs are all basically unaffordable so yeah unless it goes down it's not helping at all just staying where you expected it used to be good news not anymore Well, Trump has announced the formation of what he calls the external revenue service.

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And sugar is edible. And if you were going to eat it, a small amount would be not the worst thing that ever happened to you. But being the reframe guy, I couldn't let it stand. So I don't know what the comments are going to be, but I weighed in and I said, reframes need not be literal. Most of the good ones are not literal. And then I noted, I wrote the book on that reframe your brain.

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So instead of collecting money for the government from internal citizens, he's going to find ways to charge other companies or countries for stuff. So it would include any money collected from tariffs, which you might say, that comes from American companies. That's the opposite of external. You would be right.

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But if it's part of the negotiations, where we're going to use tariffs as a weapon, using tariffs as a weapon is going to be a whole lot more convincing if we've got an entire department who's dedicated to using that weapon and collecting the money from it. So, here's what I think is coming. It has not been in any way explicitly announced, but let me tell you what's inevitably coming.

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We're going to have such a budget problem that Trump, being Trump, is going to do the smarter thing than nobody's done before. And it's basically a mafia play because we've got the biggest military. And you say to the small countries that have had a free ride because your military protects them, basically, Be ashamed if something happened to your little country.

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Well, nothing's going to happen to us. We're part of NATO, and nobody would attack this hemisphere. You don't have to worry. Well, that's only because we're protecting you. Right, right. What if we stopped? What? What if we stopped protecting you? Why would you do that? It's expensive. But you're not actually sending any military here. You're just saying that if something happened,

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you would send military here so other countries will stay away from, let's say, South America. And then Trump says, right, yeah, that's the way it's been. It's not the way it's going to be because if you want a little military protection in advance before you need it, why would that be free? When you pay for insurance, you pay for it before the disaster. You don't pay for it after the war starts.

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That's not when we're going to start billing you. You pay now because you're buying an insurance plan. So Trump appears to be setting the stage for the U.S. military to be everybody's insurance plan, which means that you would literally pay for it, maybe even based on your population or something just like insurance. Now, is that unethical? Or is it just a smarter way to organize a military?

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Well, if you're another country, let's say you're Costa Rica. Costa Rica has no military, unless they formed one recently, I don't think so. No military. How hard would it be for a foreign power to take over a country with no military? Easy. Why is it they don't try? Because of the U.S. military. Do you think Costa Rica is paying us a

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annual payment for all that protection, literally protecting the whole country. No. Now, I think, is that fair? No. Now, you could argue that we're protecting them for our own benefit, and that would be a good argument. It's like, oh, it's bad for America if Costa Rica falls to an adversary. But it's also true we're protecting them and they're paying nothing. We're not enough. So...

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I think this might have more legs than you think. And once again, Trump is doing that thing that he did with Greenland. Until he creates this department, the External Revenue Service, you don't really think it's a thing. They would charge other countries for protection. But now you think it's a thing, don't you? You might hate it. You might love it. But guess what? It's a thing. It's a thing.

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Trump does this maybe better than anybody's ever done it, which is making the thing that's not a thing a thing. And then if the cost-benefit in a purely objective sense makes sense, then the thing can go on on its own and become a real thing. But first, you have to change the entire national consciousness from that's not a thing to, oh, that's a thing? Now we can talk about it. It's brilliant.

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I hate to keep saying things like this because they sound so hyperbolic, so kissing his ass, so hero-worshiping. I get how it sounds. But I think history is going to back me on the following statement. We've never seen anything like this. This is a level of understanding, understanding of how persuasion and people think. That is so unprecedented. There's nobody even close.

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A reframe is a brain hack. It gives you the ability to make better decisions without changing the data. So it's just a trick. It's not supposed to be literal. And in fact, being literal doesn't help it a bit. There's no advantage to being literal. You want it to work. You don't want it to be accurate. Um,

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I know you want to say, oh, Reagan was the great communicator. Yes. Very, very good. Very A-plus, Reagan. This is a whole different level. So Reagan was A-plus in junior college. Trump's A-plus at the India Institute of Technology, which is way more than you think it is. All right. Special Counsel Jack Smith's report is indicating that Trump would have been convicted if not elected.

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That's what everybody's saying. Is that news? I think everybody knew that. Didn't everybody know that Trump would go to jail if he wasn't elected? We all knew that. Did it help him get elected? I hope so. So we live in a system where if things go wrong, They could just lawfare somebody into jail and damn near did it.

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The only thing that kept Trump out of jail is an amazing campaign team, his own abilities, which are transcendent, and the fact that the public said, that's a line too far. I think the public stopped that entirely. I mean, by their vote, of course. But there was also an implied threat, wasn't there? There was an implied threat

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that if half the country watched their leader be put in jail, the entire social contract was going to be ripped up. And I think enough people said that that was believable. I don't know if it would be, but I think it could have been, the entire social contract, if you know what I mean. Meanwhile, James O'Keefe and his OMG undercover video business...

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They found an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So this is somebody that's a high-level advisor, a former FBI special agent, and he called himself a spy hunter. And he went on one of these dates in which he talked too much, fake dates. So the undercover person went on the fake date and recorded him, asked him what he thought about Trump, and he said...

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Trump's a sociopathic narcissist who is only interested in advancing his name, his wealth, and his fame. He's had a lifetime of cheating. He's habitually addicted to lying about himself. Okay. So the first thing you know is he's suffering from terminal TDS. These are not the words of a person whose brain is working correctly. Is it true that Trump tries to maximize his own gain? Like everybody.

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Like everybody. Was there some politician who didn't like to see himself succeed? Which one was that? Even Bernie Sanders was trying to win the damn election. So watching them try to get what's good for them, the only thing that matters is, was it also good for the country? And what Trump is doing is also good for the country.

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So there's no real difference between doing a great job for the country and doing a great job for yourself. They're exactly the same. And the job is so transparent that you would literally have to do illegal things to get out of that model of what's good for the country ends up being good for you. You have to be illegal for that not to be true. And we're watching pretty closely, especially Trump.

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So that's crazy. But then it gets worse. He apparently was involved back in Russia gay times He spent his time looking for all that foreign interference to explain how Trump got elected. Didn't find any. So his TDS is extreme. Couldn't even believe that Trump got elected unless there must have been some foreign interference. Nope, there was foreign interference. It was against Trump.

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So I pointed out that if the goal is to minimize but not eliminate sugar, calling it a poison is a perfect reframe. But then I had to acknowledge, because I think I learned something in this exchange, why would Elon Musk, clearly and unambiguously one of the smartest people in all of our experiences, not understand a simple reframe is not meant to be literal? How is that possible?

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The minor little Russian memes didn't make any difference. Everybody smart knows that. And then the undercover reporter asked him if there's anything that he, quote, could do to protect the American people from stuff that Trump might try. And he said, quote, I'm in conversation with a couple of retired generals to try to explore what we can do.

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So here's a spook who's actually having conversations with retired generals. We didn't get their names. It looks like he's planning an insurrection. So it looks like they're not looking to respond to some specific thing Trump did, but rather just take him out of office through some kind of undercover mechanism that involves generals and somebody who's a spy hunter.

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Now, I assume he lost his job immediately, but who knows? So that's all we know about that. So beware all of the undercover people who think that they're doing what's good for the world. I think this guy actually believed he was doing the right thing, which is scary. It's really scary if he thought that was the right thing.

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All right, the inauguration is coming up, and it's been announced a number of entertainers, but the interesting ones that are non-obvious, I mean, Kid Rock is obvious, but the village people said yes. Now, I love that the village people said yes, not only because Trump basically made them rich.

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because I'm pretty sure he popularized the song again, I don't know, 30 years or 40 years after it was an original. And since the public in general assumes that they're all gay and that that's actually part of the fun, you know, the whole YMCA thing, it's kind of a gay anthem. But it's weird that they say, no, we're not gay. Yeah.

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But to the public, it's the gayest group in the world, but not in a bad way. So the beauty of what Trump did was he wasn't mocking them. He was accepting them exactly as they wanted to be accepted, as really good music that we like to dance to, and it's unusually fun because it breaks out of that hetero-only way of being.

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So even watching Trump enjoy the pleasure of breaking out of that hetero-only You can't act like you're enjoying that music or something. It was wonderful. And they're paying him back, or maybe paying themselves. Either way, it works for me. By taking the chance, they're taking a chance on him. I love that. So good job, village people. Carrie Underwood is performing.

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That's the one that surprised me. Why in the world would a really well-established singing star want to associate with Trump, if she hasn't already, because isn't that going to cut her future revenue in half forever? It might. So both the village people and Carrie Underwood seem to be more of a indication that Trump has been at least a little bit established as okay to say you support him.

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So I've got a friend who, on almost every other contact, tries to tell me that he's figured out something that Elon Musk is doing that's dumb. And I say, you know, he's got five of the most important businesses in the world. He's solving problems. He's going to Mars. I don't know if he's really dumb. I feel like maybe he doesn't have the mental problems you think.

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Now, if you're getting the entertainment people to say that, you've really penetrated a whole new category because you already got the tech people saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. The fine people hoax wasn't real. So the tech people have all caught on. that it was just this major brainwashing operation.

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So once they found out it was all brainwashing, they could see all the other brainwashing and then, then their vision cleared. And then they just made the rational choice. But, uh, To get it into the entertainment world as deeply as Carrie Underwood is impressive. So all respect to Carrie Underwood for taking what is clearly a risk.

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But if she doesn't get as much pushback as would end her career, then I would say she's part of the solution. If you're trying to unite the country, you're going to need some people who go first and take the arrows in the back. And this to me seems really brave. for Carrie Underwood. I'm very impressed. I've seen her in concert, by the way.

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I've only ever been to a few concerts in my whole life, but maybe three concerts in my life, but she was one of them. It was a good show. Michelle Obama is not coming to the inauguration, but Barack is. That would make two events in recent weeks that Barack went to and Michelle didn't, where you would expect that normally she would. The other was the Carter funeral. Now,

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Well, I don't know the exact answer, but I ended with this statement. I said, I acknowledge that departing from the literal doesn't work for every brain. Now, this should not be taken as any kind of an insult to anybody. I've made this mistake before, which is if I mention somebody's on the spectrum, if I say anything like that publicly, people say, whoa, whoa, whoa, who are you insulting?

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Unless she has a medical problem, which I wouldn't rule out, just maybe something she doesn't need to get into with the public, it would suggest there's marital problems. Now, I've heard the rumors. I don't think there's direct evidence to support that. And you never know what's going on in somebody's relationship. But it's a little hard to understand weeks apart. You know, same thing.

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It's sort of built into what you expect that they would do as a couple, Barack and Michelle. So I would say the possibility of either a medical situation that doesn't resolve very quickly, which could be very bad, and it might be just that, or there's something else going on. And so there may be an early signal of that. Meanwhile, Costco...

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has responded to criticisms about his DEI programs by saying they're planning to keep him. So they like their DEI. They have a DEI manager, I guess, and they're going to keep their DEI because it's worked for them, they say, at Costco.

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Robbie Starbuck, who's the activist who's had huge success getting companies to eliminate their DEI, notes that Costco is not high on his list because it would be a hard one. And it makes sense to do the ones you know you can get because it creates momentum to get the hard ones later. So Starbucks is telling us, yeah, that's not on the top of the list right now. Get to that one later maybe.

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But here's what I want to point out. Costco is 72% of top Costco managers were men and 81% were white. Let me remind you, that I have been grossly discriminated in my life for my gender and my race. You all know the stories. I worked for a bank. They said I couldn't be promoted because I was a white male. I left. I went to the phone company.

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Eventually they said, you can't be promoted because you're a white male. I created a TV show that lost its slot on Monday, which ends up being a death. It's sort of a death blow to a show to lose your time slot because I was a white male and I had a comic about a white guy and they decided it was going to be an all African-American comedy night.

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And of course, I lost my entire publishing and syndication career because I said something that you would only be punished for if you're a white man. And people didn't even disagree with me. It wasn't even like I said something people didn't disagree with once they actually heard what it was in context. Nobody disagreed.

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I've never heard a single person disagree with it, but I was canceled worldwide. Now, here's what you need to know. Every one of those motherfuckers who canceled me was a white guy. All of them. They were all white guys protecting their own asses because they knew they were in that position where there should have been more diversity in their own job.

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But as long as they could force people like me, who had less power than them, to take the hit, they could say, look at all these good things we're doing. We're getting rid of all these white guys who say things you don't like. We're making sure that they can't be promoted. Give me an extra bonus because I've discriminated against white men. So let me say it again.

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In my life, I'm not aware of even one time any black American or any black person in any country ever discriminated against me. Not once. Not once. Have I been discriminated against by white people? Yes. A lot. A lot. And I fucking hate their guts. So... If you had a problem with me because you're black, we have a lot more in common than you think.

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First of all, you and I never had any problem, ever. Not in person, not professionally, not in any way. Surprisingly, and I know this would be a surprise to you, I didn't lose any black friends. None. I only lost white friends. White people discriminating against white people is an enormous fucking problem.

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to which I say, insult? Where was the insult? Well, you just said somebody's on the spectrum, to which I say, right, but what's the insult? Isn't that like saying somebody's tall, somebody's black, somebody's white, somebody's male, it's just who you are. So I don't put judgment

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And if you get it wrong and you imagine that it's the DEI hires that are the problem, they don't even get those jobs. They don't even get there until there's already been massive discrimination by the white people. So is the police chief in LA who's a lesbian and I guess three of the top people in the fire department are lesbians, is that An indication that she's discriminating against white men?

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Well, she probably is. But you also have to open the possibility that people tend to hire people that they know. That's a worldwide pattern. The white CEO is far more likely to hire just somebody they knew from another job. So that's probably pretty common. Anyway, so I'm not in favor of it. any of the DEI, but just keep it straight. It's white people discriminated against.

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But I love black Americans. I hate powerful white Americans who discriminate against me. Pete Hegseth nomination. I didn't watch every bit of it, but I saw a lot of clips. And I'm going to say, my God. I have to admit that when Pete Hegseth was nominated, I said to myself, what? TV host? He's not even a top-rated TV host. What? Why does that even make sense?

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Now, didn't some of you have that same reaction when it was first announced? But then I found out more. I didn't know the degree of his activism on behalf of the military, the soldiers. Very impressive. I believe he signed up for twice, right? He was out of the military briefly and decided to go back in, right? That's impressive.

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He's completely dedicated to what he calls the warrior ethos instead of the DEI, trying to be nice to everybody ethos. He has got an Ivy League education, so he understands the military, the people, the people on the ground. He's brilliant because he's got that college education that pretty much certifies he's smarter than the average person by a lot. And then I heard him talk. Wow.

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When they say he's just a TV host, that's what the critics are saying. How about he has one of the best talent stacks I've ever seen?

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Because if you include his immersion in the news, as a news person, you add his talent for speaking in public, you add his Ivy League background, you add his really super relevant military experience, and recently, that's like one of the strongest talent stacks I've ever seen. But if you haven't seen yet the meme...

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There's a meme I would show it to you, but you'll see it all over the place of Hegseth with his head is in the middle of the meme. And he's just sort of looking, you know, looking around just casually. And then there's four boxes of four of the female senators who are literally yelling at him. And they all play at once while Pete is just sort of in the middle.

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And then you hear all four of them talking over each other. And their faces are all like rabid dogs, except it's like your worst relationship experience if you've ever been male. Now, I know you're going to say, Scott, you're being sexist. Because you could have put a bunch of men in that and it would look the same. No, it wouldn't. No, it wouldn't. It wouldn't look the same.

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on being on the spectrum, if you took away the inventions and the benefit that has been brought to the world by people who are technically on the spectrum, and I think Elon includes himself. He's self-identified as being on the spectrum. I'm not 100% sure it's true, but when I see this kind of opinion where he's favoring the literal over the reframe that doesn't need to be literal,

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If you put a bunch of men there, it would look, you know, maybe some of them are asking crazy questions. But it wouldn't be the same. Wouldn't be the same. So as memes go, it's... As soon as I saw it, I thought to myself, this might be one of the best I've ever seen.

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Because you have to know also that the context was that Pete had, I think before he was nominated, he said things about women in combat, like him not being a favorite. So the women were attacking mostly about that and some accusations about his personal life that had been debunked. But...

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Watching him answer the questions so confidently and so clearly and so perfectly state what he wanted to do, which is increase the the lethality of it and to focus on that and do the job of the military, not all the side stuff. So well said, so well presented, so confident. Wow. Wow. Now, I know that I will be blamed for, you know, being all in on Trump stuff.

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And this sounds like one of those times. I think this is just just recognizing quality. That's all it looks like to me. So if the Democrats ran somebody who could do what he did to basically weather this situation, give me a clear statement of exactly what he wants to do that matches exactly with what I want to do, well, I would say good things about that Democrat. I promise you I would.

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I say good things about Fetterman when he's good. I say good things about AOC. when her persuasion is strong. I don't like most of the rest. But I think I would compliment a Democrat in this situation. I just like this game. It was totally good. One of my favorite parts was Senator Reid asking, what does jag off mean? So jag refers to the jag in the military, the legal term.

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the legal group of the military. Which branch? Is that just the Air Force? I forget. But it's a legal term. So Senator, I guess at some point Pete must have said something that used the phrase jag off, like as an insult to the jag people or something. And so he's asked in public, what does jag off mean? Senator Reid asked that. Now, Think of all the ways that you could have answered that wrong.

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Pete just says, everybody here knows what that means. Now, that was the right answer. Everything else was the wrong answer. That was one of those situations where he clearly had not prepared for it. Like, who would know that's coming? But to give that clean an answer, that was a clean answer. When you've never heard that, that shows that he's got a quick mind and he can read the room.

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So that was perfect. The people in the room knew what it meant, but God, I wish I knew what it meant. So, you know, the rest of us will never know. Any ideas? Maybe only the people in the room knew. What? You know too? Okay, we all know.

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All right, Scott Jennings did a post where he was talking about the nomination stuff for P. Hegseth and all the characters who were weighing in on it during the questioning. And Scott Jennings said, they didn't lay a glove on Hegseth today. Why do Dems send their dumbest members to this important committee? Now, my new nickname for Scott Jennings is Clown Slayer because his specialty is

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I think, wow, that this might be one of the cases where drawing this distinction between a reframe would work for the regular public, but here's what I learned. I just learned it doesn't work if you're on the spectrum, which actually makes sense, right? So being on the spectrum would make you a little more literal, and maybe you just couldn't embrace the imaginary part of the reframe.

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besides just being the best voice on the Republican side who's on CNN, is that he seems to just slay clowns, like the Democrats who just shouldn't even be in the conversation. And again, not because they're Democrats. They are just legitimately stupid. Now, are there some legitimately stupid Republicans? I assume so, but I don't feel like they're in front of the parade, right?

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When you hear a Republican talking, it's like, Oh, Tom Cotton. Even if you disagree, brilliant guy. Oh, Rand Paul. Oh, well, you might disagree with a few things, but brilliant guy. Thomas Massey. Oh, might disagree. Brilliant guy. And you can go down the line. But the Democrats do seem to send their stupidest people, according to Scott Jennings.

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But now, I don't usually disagree with Scott Jennings. So this might be the only time I ever do. I'm not sure that's their stupidest people. I got bad news for you. It might be their smartest. It might be. I mean, you tell me which one's the smart one. Yeah, you tell me. Yeah, not much difference. And then Tim Kaine was prominent.

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But Tim Kaine looked like the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert, except more gay. So he looked like the gay pointy-haired boss. Now, as far as I know, he identifies as hetero, but presents as a pointy-haired gay guy. So that was fun. I couldn't get my eyes off it. So, and again, if you know me well enough, you know that I never insult the LGBTQ community because I think they're amazing.

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The success they've had in the United States, reputationally, economically, socially, is just one of the most impressive things I've ever seen. Meanwhile, over in South Korea, I was trying to ignore this because I thought the story would go away, but the ex-president, the one who was removed by impeachment, his name is... Yoon Suk Yeol. Y-O-O-N, middle name S-U-K, last name Y-E-O-L.

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Now, you might not recognize that as a South Korean president name, but you might be confused because it's also how a Southern man in the United States insults somebody. Same thing. What, you don't see it? Right, so In Korea, he would be called Yoon Suk-yeol. And if it were an insult from a southern gentleman, it would be Yoo Suk-yeol, Yoon Suk-yeol, as opposed to Yoo Suk-yeol. Same thing.

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Anyway, he had been impeached and they wanted to arrest him, but he used his own, his government security to prevent him from being arrested. So he went into his little a very well-protected compound. And when they send authorities to arrest him, his own security, which is paid by the government, said, nope, we protect him.

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Until that job changes, you're not arresting anybody, which I really respected. Now, they came back with 1,100 people. So then the security force was so outnumbered that quite reasonably. They knew that the smart thing to do was to stand down, and they did. So he's arrested. He was a conservative. He was arrested by something more liberal on the left. There's some insurrection charges.

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Does any of this sound familiar to you? Impeached, insurrection, he's a conservative. Sound familiar? Do you think we were behind this? Do you think the United States may have backed this? I don't know. I do not know, but certainly suspect it. All right, there's a little bit more on the Palisades fire.

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So I learned something. Anyway, Looks like there might be coming a ban on Chinese connected car software. Ars Technica is talking about that. I guess that's the Congress is working on that. There might be some exemptions, but it would block Americans from having cars with Chinese software.

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I know you're all tired of it, and if you're not a Californian, this may not be too important to you, but I remind you that California's economy is bigger than 35 of the other states put together, and if California gets a cold, what is it? If California sneezes, the whole country is going to get a cold. So if you think this doesn't affect you, just wait. It will. It's going to affect you.

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I mean, it affects everybody in California, whether you're in the fire zone or not. So we're all, you know, there's a lot you haven't heard about, but we're all struggling. So things are not easy right now for anybody. And that includes people who have some extra resources, uh, everybody's in a position they haven't been in before. So the amount of pressure on everybody is through the roof.

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And I don't know if you can fully appreciate that unless you've been near one of these yourself. But here are some of the things we're learning now that should bother you. According to Rich McHugh from News Nation, there is video proof that there was no response from the fire department to the Pacific Palisades fire 45 minutes after it was first reported.

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Now, I think that they can tell that by some video security from one of the houses that was near the fire and may have been involved in reporting it. So I don't know if that's confirmed, because I've heard other stories that the fire department did as well as you'd expect, but that's out there. So I'm going to call that... an allegation.

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Because I'll bet you if you asked the fire department, they'd say something different. So until I hear the other story, I'll just put a pin on that one. But there is some concern that they didn't mobilize in time. Michael Schellenberger talks about some of the failures, and he had a good list that I'll summarize for you. First of all, here's a take from Joel Pollack and Breitbart.

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Joel, and by the way, you should be following Joel Pollack if you have any interest whatsoever in the fire, because he's the only person, the only one who is a local and a national reporter and is working full time to make sure that people understand what's going on. And so he's doing more than that.

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Well, I don't want to get too much into the details, but we're going to owe him a lot when he's done. We're going to owe him a lot. A lot of people are going to owe him a lot. So he says that in L.A., due to budget cuts, that the fire department was not deployed. Wait, do I have this wrong? This may have been Sheldon Berger, too.

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So there's some thought from some of the smartest people who are watching that what should happen as soon as there's a long-term weather forecast, and I didn't know this, by the way, that what LA should have done and what would have been actually normal is as soon as they had the forecast that said, wait a minute, we're going to have no rain and we're going to have these winds.

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And we know there are all kinds of ignition possibilities. So in that condition, what you don't do is wait for a fire. Normally, that's the fire department's job is to wait for a fire and respond. In this case, you know there's a fire. Multiple. So they could know with complete certainty there will be multiple gigantic fires. What did they do in advance? Well, not enough.

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Now, I don't know what the real potential risk is for having a, let's call China an adversary, having them have control over some number of cars in America. But how many cars do you think are on the road at any one time in America? It's a big number, right? Would it be 5 or 10 million at any moment during the day? I don't know what the number is, but it's got to be millions.

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Here's what they should have done. They should have put a truck or two Everywhere there was likely to be an ignition. And they know from history what places are more likely. So that they could have gotten really quickly, at least with one truck, to anything that just flared up. Now, that's a big difference from what happened. So that didn't happen. Now, why didn't it happen?

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Well, one of the reasons is budget cuts. One of the reasons is a bunch of people got let go at some point because they didn't get vaccinated. A bunch of it is like 100 trucks were in for repair, probably also a budget thing. So between the budgets and the bad management, they had completely eliminated their ability to do normal stuff. And normal in this case would have been

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to have enough trucks and people to pre-deploy. I think the lack of pre-deployment is the biggest. In the end, I think that's going to be the biggest thing. There's reporting that the fire department did not know that the reservoir had been drained, but the reservoir had been drained for nine years.

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If the fire department didn't know that their main source of water, at least for that one area, had disappeared, After nine years? There wasn't anybody who mentioned that? So I'm going to say I doubt the reporting that the fire department was not aware. It might be true that they were not officially informed, but not aware?

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The whole reservoir didn't have water, and it was one of their main water sources for a place that certainly was going to catch on fire. It's not like maybe it will catch on fire. They didn't have anything in the air that noticed. There was no resident who pointed it out. I don't know. I'm not sure I believe that they didn't know. Let's see. What else?

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Of course, they should have water sources that were near the fires. They should have required more clearing of bushes and debris. I think that might have been a budget cut issue, but the canyons were just filled with trees and debris. I don't know how much you can clean a canyon.

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like can you really do that can you remove the fire debris sufficiently from a canyon that it makes that much difference i'm going to say yes because the experts are saying so but i don't know if that's really that much of a thing um let's see the state or county could have spent 50 million dollars and had a bunch of trucks maybe not the best ones they could be used ones or lower end ones but they could be staged near the fire and that would make a big difference

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The number of calls that the L.A. firefighters make in a year has tripled over the last 30 years, while the staffing has declined by a third. So clearly they did not, you know, some of it is that the number of homeless has gone through the roof. Anyway, a lot of this came, I read this in PJ Media. Speaking of PJ Media,

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They report that the beginnings of what might be a recall effort against Newsom and the Mayor Bass. So I don't know if that's going to happen. But yesterday when I checked, the Palisades fire were only 17% contained. But it seemed like the other fires were definitely getting under control. but not that one. And there'll be new wins whipping things up.

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So I don't know if anybody's going to get recalled. Some smart people say Gavin Newsom will come through a fine just by blaming Karen Bass for everything. And that might not be far off. You know, honestly, I don't think Newsom should keep his job for a variety of reasons. But I don't know if this specifically was his fault.

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And suppose we become a self-driving car nation. Seems inevitable. Might be only a few years away. What would happen if an enemy just got a hold of a million cars and just drove them into ditches? It is a weapon of mass destruction, potentially, to have a million cars drive off the road at the same time.

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The fact that he said some things that you didn't like and acted like a clown, I don't know if it made anything worse. But Karen Bass has some explaining to do. One of the things Gavin's done, I don't know if this is state or this is local. This might be local. But there's a... You can't do price gouging because that's... It's bad if you're price gouging.

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But on the other hand, it's kind of impossible for the displaced people to find any place to live unless new places become available that weren't available before. So in other words, nobody's going to make anything available unless they already made it available. So if the economics and incentives were there before the fire to have a rental, well, maybe that's still there.

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But if you want somebody to open up that, you know, the in-law room that, you know, used to have grandma, but she died, they weren't planning on renting. So if you want them to rent, maybe they're going to charge more than the market rate because they're saying, oh, well, I can help somebody and I wouldn't want to rent it.

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But if somebody wants to pay a little more or even a lot more, why would I stop them? So you've got the economics of a free market and the availability that is driven by economics fighting against the we don't want to have price gouging. And those two compete. You kind of have to pick one.

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I think the smart economics in this particular case is to let the price gouging happen and let competition erase it. So imagine, if you will, that somebody says, hey, the rent here is double because you have so few options. What's that going to do to your neighbor? Your neighbor is going to say, how much did you get? They paid that much rent? Whoa, I'll try it too. Now you've got competition.

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Then the next person who says, well, I'll try it too. They can't get a renter. unless they lower the price. So they're going to compete with the other rentals. So competition should make a temporary spike in rents that is completely unconscionable, like people just abusing the people who have already been abused by the fire itself. That will definitely happen in a free market.

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But it's also the only way you get real places that are available and everybody's happy with the price. There's no other way to get there. The government can't get you there. So it's a tough choice, and one understands the impulse to limit gouging, but it's worse than you think.

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So if you were to look at the price of a house in L.A., let's say you owned a house and you wanted to say, oh, I was thinking of moving and maybe I can rent out my house and leave it behind.

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If you buy a house in California, a three-bedroom house down there in LA in that zip code, 90402, would be about $2.85 million, which means that if you bought it, you'd be paying $20,000 a month on your mortgage. What do you think you could charge in rent in that three bedroom house, do you think you can get enough to pay your $20,000 a month mortgage? Nope.

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So, yeah, I'm in favor of banning the Chinese software, even if there's no indication there's something wrong with it. There will be. There will be. Meanwhile, over at Interesting Engineering, there's a pinecone-inspired building shades. So they studied pinecones. that apparently, I guess the little, whatever you call it, what would you call the little leaves or whatever on the pine cone?

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You know, I think the rental will be, I'm just guessing, $6,000 a month. So there's no economic way. The economics just don't work. So unless something was already rental and has been for a long time, or you've owned your house and you paid off the mortgage and you don't want to sell it, it doesn't work to rent. I remember when people used to say, Scott, you've got a little extra money.

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Why don't you buy some property and turn them into rentals? To which I say, that's not a thing. There's nothing I could buy that wouldn't be more expensive for me to own than compared to what I could get. The only special cases you can do that where there's some weird thing that got you a deal or you've already paid it off or something. Meanwhile, over on CNN, somebody named Aisha Mills,

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Democrat strategist. She's a black woman, which is important to the story. And I think she was complaining about Trump once saying that there were a lot of bad genes among the migrants. Now, if you know how language works and you interpret Trump correctly, a lot of bad genes means there are a lot of criminals.

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And if their genes are bad, as opposed to society has given them a bad start, then there's nothing you can do about it. And the only thing you should do to keep out people with bad genes, criminals, is to not let them in in the first place. So that's how I take it. But apparently, Aisha and some of the Democrats have taken that as racism.

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Oh, are you saying that everybody who comes across the border has bad genes? No, he didn't say that. Oh, you're saying that on average, they have worse genes than white people? No, he did not say that. What he said was a lot of bad genes. A lot is not all of them. A lot is too many. How many people who are just going to be committing crimes?

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You know, in America, we already have people who do like all the crimes, right? Some tiny amount of people do all the crimes. Do you think that they're genetically the same as the people who are the same demographic as them? I don't think so. Show me the black guy who's got like 25 convictions and then compare them to your black friend in the cubicle next to you. Do they have the same genes?

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No, they have different genes. Whatever's causing the 25 crimes in a row situation is not what's happening to Bob in the cubicle next to you. So to imagine that that's a statement about the demographic group... It's just weird. Like, who would take it that way? You'd have to aggressively want to interpret it wrong to get to all the ways she got.

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But anyway, so during that conversation, there was a bald white guy whose name I can't remember, but he does a pretty good job of supporting the Trump side of things. And she said to him on the air, quote, I'm not going to be lectured by some white man who has no idea what he's talking about. Now, suppose a white man said that about her. Let's just reverse it.

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Because both of the characters on CNN are presumably very successful professionals. They've got high-end jobs, like really high-end. So we can treat them as not like one is the oppressor and one is the victim. They're both in a good, good shape compared to the average person in society. Do you think that if the man she'd been talking to

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a white man, had said, I'm not going to be lectured by some black woman who has no idea what she's talking about. How long would that guy last as a guest on that show? That would be the end of it. They probably would just go to commercial and say, all right, well, you're not invited back. And I think the host would say, you're never coming back. We don't do that here.

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She should have said the same thing the other way. We don't do that here. Yeah, don't do that. Now, even if that's the only thing that happened, I'd be totally happy. What was the host? The host was Aaron... I'm forgetting the last name. But, man, you know, I didn't see what happened after, but if she didn't say, we have some standards, that's beyond our standard.

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If you want to be invited back, that's not working. That's all I wanted. I just wanted a little bit of pushback. I'm not asking for jail. I'm not even asking that she not be invited back. I just need that. Just that. Just a recognition that that's not acceptable. Anyway, I guess Pfizer has this lawsuit coming against them for anti-white discrimination.

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There's probably a word for that. But apparently they move based on the sun, so they wanted to find some way that you could make your windows in your building open up and close based on sun and without using electricity. So are we called needles? Hmm. I don't know. I'm not sure if that's right. But they do it without electricity, so that's the important part.

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Greg Piper is writing about that in Just the News. And there was some challenge to that, and that got passed, so that lawsuit will go forward. So Pfizer is going to have a little bit more to worry about. Over at MSNBC, the head of the network, Rashida Jones, is stepping down. Now, that's a weird phrase, isn't it? Stepping down. What does that sound like? Stepping down? Stepping down.

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Isn't she moving sideways? Because she said she wants to work on other stuff. So why is that down? Maybe the other stuff is better. Isn't that up? Anyway, it was a weird choice of words. But she's being replaced, at least temporarily, with a, of course I checked, a white woman. And I said to myself, hmm, replaced with a white woman.

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Now, I don't see an indication that the white woman is a lesbian. And so is that diverse enough for MSNBC? You know, women are good. They like women. But I think they like women who, you know, if you're going to be in prime time, you've got to be a little extra, a woman in black, a woman in gay, you know, lesbian. So I don't know. It was a white woman. And so I was first thinking, I don't know.

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I don't think they've. They've nailed that because it's a white woman and she just doesn't seem entirely on brand. But then I saw what eyewear she was wearing, her glasses, and then I understood. Let me explain it to you without showing you the glasses. You know, if somebody walks around the corner, you make an instant judgment.

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If somebody walks around the corner with glasses like mine, I'm hoping they say, oh, there's a guy with glasses and that's it, right? But I'm just going to tell you what would happen if the new head of MSNBC, which again might be temporary, if you saw her coming around the corner, you would instantly see her glasses, the type and style, and you would say to yourself, oh God.

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So if you haven't looked her up yet, do this and have a good laugh. Just go look at what glasses she's wearing and then ask yourself what you would do if she walked around the corner in any context, any context. She walks around the corner and you look at her and you go, just the glasses.

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Check it out. You'll think it's funny. Anyway, Hamas says they reached a deal with Israel to release a third of the hostages. There are some people who say that didn't happen. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. But I'm wondering if Israel is figuring out the ultimate prisoner exchange. So as I understand it, Israel typically will give up lots of people for every one person that they get in return.

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So it might be 50 to one, 10 to one. So there's gonna be a whole bunch of people that Israel thinks belong in jail that that would be returned. And my first impression was, how's that right? I mean, you know, all the rest down, you know, it seems like you're just making it worse. There's the picture. Yeah.

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But I wonder if Israel is so clever that they're going to return all the hostages to the war zone so they can kill them more effectively later. So it'd be better to kill them than to keep them in jail. So it feels like they're going to get their prisoners back and take them to a safe place.

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But the ones that they wanted to keep in prison are probably the ones who want to go back to the war zone, which is probably exactly where Israel wants them to be so they can kill them. I feel like Israel just found a way to kill their prisoners. They just have to do it indirectly. Stage one, we'll release them. Stage two, we'll put them back in Gaza where they want to go. Stage three, goodbye.

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The sun directly causes the pinecone-like parts to open. Now, my take on this is, doesn't your window look like a pinecone? Do you ever want your window to look like a pinecone? I don't know. I'm not sure this has potential. Meanwhile, there's the Tic-Tac...

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All right, I'm going to close with... I'm going to throw in a bad idea. Okay? Now, the way I do this is that the bad idea, the purpose of it, is to make you think of the better idea. So this is to make you think differently. It's not that I necessarily think this is a good idea, because there may be some hidden problems, etc. And here, it's an idea for Doge. So right now, people pay 6.5%,

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on their salary to Social Security. So my idea is to make that go away. That goes to zero. So everybody who has a salary gets this instant 6.5% raise, which is more than 6.5% because, well, 6.5% raise. So that would give everybody some extra cash. So they would be able to spend a little bit more. But how do you fund retirement? Well, Here's the bad idea, right?

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Remember, I'm calling it a bad idea, but I don't know why. So you'll tell me why it's bad because I'm pretty sure it's bad. But if you looked at the total value of the Fortune 500, you know, the total capitalization, its value if you added up all the stock, basically, it'd be over $50 trillion. If you were to say,

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we've got to cover 1.3 trillion dollars in social security payments at the moment and growing how much of that stock would you have to effectively tax to pay for it so imagine if instead of anybody paying anything that for several years then you know maybe up to 10 5 to 10 years suppose that we keep the old system in place while we're building up a new system.

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And the new system would look like this. Once a year, every company in the Fortune 500 has to print some new stock, which would dilute their existing shareholders a little bit. And 2.5% of their capital value would go to a fund that would be for everybody's retirement. Now, what you're saying is, Scott, you're just taking a tax away from the citizens.

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and their paychecks, and you're just giving it to their employers. So, you know, doesn't it end up the same? No, I'm not giving it to their employers. I'm giving, I'm taxing the stockholders. And if you own a lot of stock in the Fortune 500, nobody feels sorry for you. So it's automatically, you know, a progressive tax. The people who own the most assets would be hit the hardest.

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But since the stock market goes up 8% a year, or more, sort of still is okay. Now you ask yourself, but Scott, nobody's going to invest in the Fortune 500, which is the biggest investment vehicle right now, because you're degrading the return. To which I say, no. The Fortune 500 is 2.5% better than all the alternatives. All it does is make them equal.

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And if you wanted to do what's easy and safe, you'd buy that, which is what I do. Most of my money is in the Fortune 500. So on one hand, it's a transfer of a dollar for a dollar from one part of society to another. So it's from the people who need to buy things to the people who had extra money and put it in the stock market.

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tiktok ban as far as i know is going to go into effect on sunday unless something miraculous happens between now and then can you give me a fact check on that is that correct that tiktok is going to be done in the united states it'll still be international but is it going to be done in the united states because i feel like there might be another thing coming

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So the first thing is the people who are the employees have extra money, so they spend more. Who is the main beneficiary of employees having more money to spend? It's the Fortune 500. So the Fortune 500 could potentially put 2.5%, well, dilute its value to add some stock, and it'd be 2%, 2.5%.

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Pay it every year, but the economy would be so juiced that their profits would probably go up 2.5%, or something compensating them out. So if you tax the people who don't have money, the result is people spend less. That's bad for the Fortune 500. If you let them spend more, they're happier because they're buying stuff they need.

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And the Fortune 500 has a massive amount, 1.1 trillion extra spending that just didn't exist. So my question is this. Is that better? Because from the government's perspective, they would be kind of out of the business of Social Security. They might be still managing the payments and stuff like that and policing it, but it wouldn't be part of the budget.

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So it wouldn't be something you paid, and it wouldn't be something that the government took from your salary and gave to the retirement. Now, it'd have to be adjusted for the fact that there are more retirees and everything else. But my main question is this. If you look at all the pluses and minuses, it's the same amount of money that goes to the retirees. But since the stock you collect,

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would, especially if you built up, you know, five to 10 years of these collections, the stock you collect would go up on its own and you're not giving it out the same day that you're getting it. So you would have the possibility that if you collected, you know, a few trillion, the several trillion could sit there gaining just as things gain.

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And then you're basically keeping up with inflation and better. So I do not claim that I've thought of everything, and these are all good ideas. This is more of a buy Greenland idea. So see what I'm doing? This is a buy Greenland. This is the external revenue service. It's the same persuasion. First, I'm going to make you think, well, maybe it's a thing.

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And then you'll say, what are the pluses and minuses? And then we'll have a productive conversation. Eventually, smarter people will get involved, a lot smarter than me, and then they'll decide if that's good or bad. But you're not going to have that conversation, and it won't remind you of a better one unless you first say, I wonder if that's a thing. Is that a thing? And it could be that

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You know, it turns into some hybrid where you get stock sometimes instead of payments. Maybe you can opt in. That sort of thing. Who knows? But first, just imagine that it's a thing that you could get rid of the Social Security tax and you might do something that's some kind of an equivalent with the Fortune 500. Oh, here's the part I forgot to tell you that's actually very important.

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Do you know why companies like to get into the Fortune 500? It's because their stock goes up. Once you're in the 500, you have an enduring systemic advantage over everybody who's not in the top 500 because the big funds all buy the top 500. So the moment your stock goes into it, every stock index fund buys that and your price goes up in theory.

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There were some reports that Elon Musk was talking to China. I don't think that's true. That was never confirmed, so I don't think that was ever true. But do you think anybody could put together a purchase deal in a few days? I suppose they could if they felt the price was right, but I don't see any possibility that TikTok's going to say yes even if the price is right.

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So why does the 501st company get none of that benefit? Is that fair? So taxing the Fortune 500, you're basically taking from them only the unfair advantage they get by being in the top 500. So do Democrats hate that? No. We all kind of hate that the elites have special privileges we don't. Being in the top 500 is a special privilege for a company. It's not like other things.

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So if the only thing you're doing is modifying this special privilege so it's a little closer to other companies, that doesn't feel unfair. And especially since the Fortune 500 gets the most benefit from anything that gooses the economy in a legitimate way. So it's a surprisingly robust idea, isn't it? I don't think I've got the math right, and I've probably forgotten some things.

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But the funny part is it's not instantly rejectable. It doesn't mean it's good. I would be very surprised if it's a clean, good idea. But I added to the mix trying to be helpful. Now, I remind you, one of the superpowers I claim to hold is resistance to embarrassment. So do you think I would bring this up unless I had almost complete resistance to embarrassment? Nope. Nope.

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Because I'm probably five minutes away from somebody saying, ah, you idiot, you forgot X. And then I'm going to say, oh, man, you're right. I totally forgot X. Will I be embarrassed? Not even a little. So I can add this to the collective thinking with the thinking that maybe it sparks somebody's better idea. Maybe it just makes it look possible. And I don't worry about the embarrassment.

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That's just free. There's no risk to me. So learn to be not embarrassed and you will be a much better value to the people around you. That's all I got for you today. I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately in 30 seconds. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow.

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So I don't know exactly what would be purchased if somebody purchased TikTok, but it makes me wonder if China is willing to give up billions and billions and billions of dollars, they must be hiding something. In other words, if somehow we got control of their software and their algorithms, would we be able to determine how much they've been putting a finger on the algorithms?

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would we be able to know that just by buying it and looking at whatever they sold us? It could be that they're worried that they don't have a way to scrub that. Because you know how when Musk bought Twitter, there were so many little censoring tags in it that even the owner couldn't tell what it was censoring. Like it was just too complicated.

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Now, my friend has a net worth of zero, and I don't want to say, you know, you have a net worth of zero, and you're giving advice to the richest man in the world, and none of it looked like luck to me. It looked like skill. So maybe you should take that into consideration that he might know a little bit more than you.

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So what if China said, get rid of all the incriminating stuff and then maybe we can sell it. And then TikTok would have said, we could try, but we probably wouldn't get close to knowing that we had all the incriminating stuff out of the software because it's not that easy.

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And then China might say, you can't sell that thing because if they find out what we've been doing, there will be repercussions. So this is speculation. But I suspect that TikTok would be sellable unless they're hiding something and they don't know how to unhide it. Or they don't know how to hide it completely, I guess.

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Anyway, if you're saying to yourself, hey, but Trump liked TikTok, so he won't like it if it goes away, I remind you he's not going to be running again. And I would be really surprised if the Republicans ever field another candidate who can rule TikTok. You know that being able to control and even dominate the messaging on TikTok, that's purely a Trump thing. You all know that, right?

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So anything you say about, well, Trump did well on TikTok, so why would you ban it? That's just Trump. Do you think DeSantis is going to light up TikTok if TikTok still existed? No. No, he's not. That's purely Trump. So the Republicans aren't going to care if it goes away. We'll see. Some of you may remember.

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How many of you remember that back in 2018, 2019, I announced to you that I was going to try to put TikTok out of business? Do you remember that? And you said to yourself, well, that's not a thing. And then I kept saying it's a thing. Do you know what the first part of persuasion is? The first part of persuasion is you have to think it's a thing.

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If you don't think it's a thing, everything else you say after that doesn't matter. You're like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But as soon as you think it's a thing, then you can start looking at the pros and the cons. So I decided a few years ago, I'm going to make sure everyone knows it's a thing. And I got to senators.

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I got to a lot of senators, a lot of people in the House, just because they're natural viewers. Some of them I contacted personally, ones that I could DM. And in some cases, I know for sure they heard the message, got it completely, and even responded. So I certainly was not pushing it for the last year or so because it looked like it was just becoming an Israel issue.

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So I think Israel killed it because they didn't like that it was persuading against them. I don't know if that will ever be official or I don't know if history will record that Israel killed TikTok in America, but I'm pretty sure that's the case. Now, normally I would have said, hey, Israel, another country, even our ally, You can't turn off a free speech platform in our country. Stop that.

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But since I'm completely on the same page, I just sort of step back. Now, do you remember when Trump first mentioned buying Greenland? And your first reaction was, come on. You know why? Because you did not believe it could be a thing. That was step one. Trump first told you it's a thing, and then you would argue whether it's dumb or he's kidding or it's a joke.

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And then today I saw a post by Elon Musk, and I thought, hmm, I'm going to have to go in there and correct his thinking. Apparently, I'm just an idiot. So do you know how absurd it is to say, hmm, Elon Musk has an opinion, but I'm so much smarter. Watch me fix it for him. But that's what I'm going to do. But only because it's a very special case.

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But when you were done, you would think it's a thing. And therefore, you can talk about the pros and cons, and it turns out there were a lot of pros. A lot of pros. And the cons? None. You know, depending on the nature of the deal, maybe none. They won't necessarily be voting. It could be a territory. There might be a price that makes sense. It might work for Denmark. It might work for Greenland.

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But nothing would have happened, nothing, until Trump told us it's a thing. So when I said banning TikTok is a thing, I got no traction on day one. I think I had zero people agreeing with me on day one. Eventually, I hammered it and hammered it until... You might disagree. You might agree. But you definitely know it was a thing. And on Sunday, we might find out if it's a thing. All right.

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The SEC is suing Elon Musk because they have nothing else better to do. But I don't know if this one is legit. It might be. This one might be legit and it's just a money thing. So if you had to pay some money, I can see that happening.

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But he's being sued because when he first bought the first shares of Twitter, it was above, I guess it was above some number where you're supposed to announce your purchase. And he was late, I guess late in registering that he'd done it. And there's some argument that

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because he didn't say it, did he say just because he didn't say it that somehow other people lost money because they didn't know that he did it? Maybe. I can see that argument. I just wonder if this would have been pressed against everybody because it seems like it would be easy to demonstrate this is the day he bought the stock. This is the rule. This is when he admitted he bought it.

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It's after the rule. Yeah, $175 million, write us a check. So it's just, it might be valid. You might say to yourself, yeah, that would have happened to anybody. I don't know. I watched the segment with Michael Schellenberger on Tucker's show, Tucker Carlson, and there was a little discussion on UAPs. I did notice,

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Thank you, my stocks. And I've made more money from Elon Musk in the past year than from anything else. If you count stock appreciation and stuff I do on X, like the subscription to Dilbert, et cetera. So stocks are up a little bit, but not all of them. The S&P 500 is down a little bit. A little bit. You'll hardly even notice. Let's get the comments going. There we go.

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I can't think of a single time I've ever called customer support and they'd ever even heard of my problem. Every time I've had to call, which is many, many times, like most of you, The person who takes the call has never heard of what my problem is. And they have to figure it out like they're starting from scratch.

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And then they've got to talk to people and they've got to look at their notes and you've got to try things and you've got to reboot. But never, never is it something that they've seen before. Now why? I don't know. Who knows? Just too many different situations. But imagine if you've got an AI

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and the AI was trying to figure out how to solve a problem that nobody had ever seen before, how well would it do? Since it's only trained on things it's seen before, could it really figure out a new thing that, would its pattern recognition be enough? If it didn't work for the humans, And the humans would be highly trained.

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So imagine how frustrated you would be if you couldn't talk to a human and you also couldn't get a solution. You would be insane. Your brain would be on fire. At least if you can talk to a human, you feel like you've gotten past the first barrier. Like, okay, I'm talking to a human, and this human needs to make me happy because their pay just depends on it. But the AI doesn't get paid.

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Thanks to the Daily Coffee News, who I suspect is an organ of Big Coffee, so you can trust them totally. A diet rich in foods containing polyphenols, of which there's a lot in coffee. can dramatically reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is a major risk factor for heart disease. So if that sip of coffee made your heart feel better in a variety of ways, that's not an imagination. Yeah.

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So the AI doesn't really feel what you feel. It's not really on your side. It's just doing things by patterns. But if you've got a customer service person, and you know that they're measured by their ability to quickly satisfy you, and there might even be somebody listening to the call, you at least feel like they're trying hard to solve your problem.

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So that's my counter, counter, counter, counterpoint to AI taking all the jobs. So look, it's almost like ridiculously hard to predict what's coming. So that's a problem. Well, there's a group that says that robots and AI already have free will. Do you know how they decided that AI has free will already? They changed the definition of free will. Okay. So here's their definition of free will.

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So the following conditions have to be met, and this comes from NeuroEdge. It's based on a new study published in the Journal of AI and Ethics. So they say that AI has free will if it meets the following conditions. And some of you are going to say, yeah, that's the same with humans, right? It should be. So it shouldn't be the same standard as with humans. All right, condition number one.

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It has goals and purposes. Check. Yeah, it does have goals and purposes because you just program those in there. It has genuine alternatives, meaning that it can choose from different options. Check. It could definitely do that. What good would it be if it couldn't do that? It has the capacity to control actions based on those intentions. Check. Check. It can do all those things.

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Do you know what all those things are collectively? Cause and effect. It's just cause and effect. So if you define free will to be identical to cause and effect, well, sure. Okay, now your AI has free will, but it doesn't mean a thing. It's just cause and effect. So I know that's making half of you crazy, but think about it. All right. Let's talk about Trump and stuff.

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But first, we'll talk about RFK. So RFK Jr. is going after pesticides and food, and I guess he's got some report that's coming. And the pesticides he's targeting... and I assume that the report would have to support that or you wouldn't keep targeting, would be glyphosate and atrazine. And he thinks those are toxins. Now, Trump officials are reviewing it, but no decisions have been made.

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Farm groups are against it because it would lower yields, of course. But here's what I didn't know. Apparently, the European Union still allows glyphosate. I swear I've heard a thousand times that they don't allow glyphosate in Europe, but apparently they do. However, the other one, atrazine, is not allowed in the European Union, but it is allowed in America. So we'll see.

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We'll see if we end up banning both. Or maybe we just match Europe and ban the one. We'll see. But I do like the fact that every time RFK Jr. has an idea, his critics go crazy and they say, but, but, but, you've got to look at the science. And then every time he's looking at something, he says, well, that's what we're doing.

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You know, we commissioned a study or we put together a meta study or we're looking at the science. every time he he doesn't sometimes look at the science and sometimes guess what what do his critics think he's doing do they think he's guessing he made it very clear that he's all about the science and he's going to show us his work and other scientists will get to look at it

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And they'll have plenty of time to say this is good science or bad science or to add some more science. But it's amazing to me that his critics have decided that sometimes he's going to use the science and sometimes he's just going to make shit up. That's not going to happen. He's going to go with the science every single time.

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Now, the science might be wrong, but he's not going to ignore the science. That's not going to start happening all of a sudden. Anyway, I guess President Trump got to meet the new Syrian president. who not too long ago had a $10 million bounty on his head for being a terrorist. But now he's reformed. Because, you know, terrorists sometimes reform. It might be the first time it's ever happened.

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Enjoying the simultaneous sip can make your heart feel better. Well, it's a scientific fact according to Big Coffee. Did you know that egg prices have plummeted 12.7% this month, according to the Gateway Pundit? I'm glad somebody's watching the price of eggs. You know what's the best part about the price of eggs going down? Is it the economic benefit? Is it that you can buy more eggs?

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But he met the Syrian president, not in Syria, but in Saudi Arabia. And it wasn't the longest meeting in the world. But the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and Turkey's Erdogan joined by phone. And it looks like the people who are on our side are trying to rehabilitate this guy, you know, reputationally so that we could work with him. And the idea is that Trump is going to remove his sanctions and

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which is something Syria desperately needs. And the government of Syria is going to take some steps to meet U.S. demands, and that would include arresting militants and also having relations with Israel, positive relations with Israel. And they've said yes to those. So, I mean, if he's a reformed terrorist, he's doing a real good job of it.

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Yeah, I'm not close enough to the situation to know if this is all a good idea or the worst idea ever, but he's making a hell of a show of being a reformed guy who just wants things to work out. Israel said none of this will stop their military operations in southern Syria, because I guess there's still some bad guys in southern Syria that Israel's after. But Ali London said,

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was reporting that what the US wants them to do. is to sign on to the Abraham Accords, including relations with Israel, to tell the foreign terrorists to leave Syria. Well, tell them. I mean, probably has to do more than tell them. Deport Palestinian terrorists. I don't know why you'd make a difference between one kind of terrorist and another. And help the U.S. fight against ISIS.

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and assume responsibility for ISIS detention centers in northeast Syria, that all sounds kind of doable. And I think the Syrians plan to do it. So wouldn't that be amazing? It would be kind of phenomenal, I think, if Syria became a country we could work with out of what it's been. Now, I feel like it's way too early to be too optimistic about that. But everything we see looks good.

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Brett Baer is reporting that President Trump's strategy for the Middle East is instead of talking about it about this big problem area that's full of terror and fighting and stuff. My light just went on again. Hold on. Come on. There we go. So Trump's reframe of the Middle East, you could call it a strategy, is to think of it as a commerce zone. So to make everybody think about money.

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So instead of thinking about war, how about thinking about making some money? And part of that is he's going there and making these gigantic deals. Some of them are about the Middle East, but a lot of them are about investing in the U.S. And just getting everybody financially entangled such that war just stops making sense. It makes more sense to just build up your money.

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I think that makes a ton of sense. And it also is compatible with his, what I would say is Trump's strategy on Iran. So Trump has been adamant about not being a sucker and not being drawn into a war with Iran. But what are you going to do if they insist on building their nuclear facilities to the point where they can make a bomb in 10 minutes? Well,

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It appears that Trump's approach, and it's too early to know for sure because he hasn't taken violence off the table, but I would say that it would be so non-Trump to just attack Iran because there's no way that's going to go great, either for Iran or the Middle East or anybody else. It would just be another debacle, and I think Trump doesn't want that on his permanent record. Neither do we.

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So it looks like he's going to threaten Iran with complete economic destruction, which is, again, compatible with his reframing of the Middle East as an economic zone that everybody should be paying attention to. Because he thinks the Middle East is growing like crazy, too. I think they've got a fast population growth as well as economic growth.

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And it made me wonder, what exactly can you do to Iran that you haven't already done? And I guess the main thing is Iran is still...

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No, it's so Democrats can shut the fuck up about eggs. I've never been so happy about eggs. So they're not mentioning eggs? Oh, thank God. Thank God. Because it was the one thing they understood. Eggs are up. Eggs are up. What about those eggs? What has Trump done about the eggs? Now that the eggs are down, they just sort of go quiet about the eggs. But they do have new words.

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shipping oil and you know of course they're doing it sort of under the you know under the under the what under the curtain or somewhat surreptitiously but it's not like we can't figure out which ships are full of oil I mean we could watch them from above so maybe all he's going to do is threaten them with complete economic collapse which I think he could deliver and I think he can deliver that.

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It would probably take about six months. And that might be enough. But what I'm sure of is simply mindlessly attacking them militarily just doesn't feel like a good idea. I was worried, though, that there wasn't any other idea, because I was under the impression that the sanctions that we already have on Iran, you know, must have been pretty brutal.

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And if that wasn't making a difference, but apparently brutal, we haven't gotten to. So brutal sanctions are a whole other level. And apparently Trump is willing to go to that level to avoid a physical war and to get Iran on its side. But I also like the fact that

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as the Middle East is embracing Trump like crazy, I mean, they're really treating him like a superstar, at least the Saudis and the Qataris. If he pulls together a yet more impressive Abraham Accord, where essentially everybody but Iran is on the same team, and they're all working together almost like a European Union, it's going to be harder and harder for Iran to have any bad intentions.

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They're just going to want to, they're going to want to have to play along, I think, at some point. So everything about this seems like it's heading in the right direction. But of course, it's a very unpredictable area. So you never know. So I guess Trump is in Qatar already. He's already headed there. And Qatar is putting out the red carpet very much like the Saudis.

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They had the horses and the jets were accompanying Air Force One in, and they're going all the way. But I'm now going to change my opinion about the gift of the Qatari airplane that Trump said he would accept that would be the new Air Force One, or at least one of the two Air Force Ones. My first thought was I don't like anything about it. because it looks like it's going to influence him.

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And anything that even indirectly influences the president while he's got to negotiate with these same countries just feels like a bad idea. And then there's the look of it. So it would be an easy attack vector for his enemies. Oh, you just love the dictators and whatever. You're just doing it for your own benefit, whatever.

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And then it didn't really make sense to me because if the real thing that takes time is taking an ordinary jet and turning it into Air Force One, my understanding is that Boeing already has the frames, you know, the hard part. The hard part's over. Well, no, the easy part's over, which is building sort of a generic airplane.

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The reason we don't have Air Force One for another seven to 10 years is that's how long it would take to build it out so it's an Air Force One. Because it has all these defensive things that you've never heard of. Basically, every part of it is different from a normal plane when you get to the inside. So wouldn't that be exactly the same for the Qatari plane?

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The Qatari plane wouldn't be done until Trump left office. There's not even the slightest chance that it would be done before he leaves office. So my initial response had been, I'm uncomfortable with this Qatari plane thing. I was still reserving a little bit of judgment, but then every time I heard Trump talk about it, He kept changing my mind. I don't know if any of you had this experience.

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But when I just read about it as a news report, I think, oh, this is a terrible idea. No, don't take that plane. No, bad idea, bad idea. And then I'd see a clip of Trump saying, well, you'd have to be an idiot not to take a free airplane. And then I go, okay. Okay. Well, that's pretty persuasive. Why wouldn't you take a free airplane? And then he says, it's a reward for us doing a good job.

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And I'm like, damn it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop convincing me it's a good idea to take this airplane. So here's my current view. And it's not that it's a good idea to take the airplane. And it's not that it's a bad idea to take the airplane. I was in the wrong frame. So I changed my frame. He is there to persuade, right? He's persuading them to make deals. He's a salesman.

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And we'll talk about that in a little bit. So here's something surprising and awesome. According to interesting engineering, a U.S. company has made a drone battery, so a battery for their drone, that can last three hours, and it doesn't use any of the minerals that we get from China. So it doesn't have... There's no nickel... manganese, cobalt, or graphite. And it can go 86 miles an hour.

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He wants to reframe the whole area. This is a persuasion trip. If you allow yourself to move away from the commerce and the gift and sort of the surfacy story, let's get down to persuasion. If the royal family of Qatar offers you a very valuable gift before you negotiate with them, should you say yes or no? You should say yes. because you want to show them the respect that the gift requires.

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Now, I think Trump knows that other people can kill this deal, such as Congress, such as public opinion, such as it's so politically bad that you can't do it. Trump can be the good cop here, I think he's just showing complete respect to Qatar because he's going into some difficult negotiations, which are going to get into some hard stuff, like what the fuck are you doing with Hamas?

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And he doesn't want to start that with essentially being rude and turning down a gift that seems to make sense on the surface to him. So I'm looking at this as exactly correct persuasion, which is first you say yes, then you say the Qataris are awesome for even offering it in the first place. And you say you're all in, and anybody who says this is a bad idea is just wrong.

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Why wouldn't you take a free gift from these awesome Qataris who are our good friends? Now, are they our good friends? Well, some would say that they're playing both sides of the street. Sometimes they're our friends. Sometimes they seem to be supporting Hamas. I don't know the truth of either of those things. But I do know that turning down that gift would have looked like a persuasion mistake.

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And if you stay in the persuasion frame, which is the right frame for the entire trip, he played it right. Now, do I want Congress to figure out a way to deny him the plane? Yes, I do. I want Congress to deny it. I do not want that plane. And I think the plane would be a huge mistake. And I think on some level, Trump probably knows it. He probably knows it. But he's playing it right. All right.

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Apparently Putin has now said he wants Trump to join him and Zelensky in Turkey to talk about the potential end to that war. And Caitlin Collins is reporting for CNN that Trump says that he hasn't decided to go there But he said, quote, about Putin, he would like me to be there. That's a possibility. That doesn't mean I wouldn't do it to save a lot of lives and come back.

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I don't know that he would be there if I'm not there. So do you remember when the Democrats told us that Trump was being considered like the laughingstock of the international community? Does anybody remember that? And then Keir Starmer comes over and he's like Trump's best friend. And then he goes to the Middle East and he's treated like a god.

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And then Putin says, I can't even have this meeting without you. Where's the part where we've lost all of our respect in the world? And then China says, all right, let's do a deal. Where's all the part where Trump is embarrassing the United States? Does anybody see any of that? That was all bullshit. As I've told you many times, the world is a transactional place.

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They don't care about how much respect they have for somebody. They care about what can you do for me. And they're watching Trump be a man of action. a man who can make things happen. And they're thinking, well, could he make things happen for us? Because we need some things, like the end of the war, like the Abraham Accords, like getting along, like getting rid of the terrorists.

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There are things we need. And Trump is a man of action, and he apparently can make stuff happen, things that America needs and things that we need too. So they're treating him like the most important person in the world because he's the most important person in the world. So I don't know what the odds are that the Ukrainian thing will work out. You know, it's hard to be optimistic about it.

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But maybe. I mean, maybe. So the fact that... that the international community is basically fighting over his time, because I think he was going to go to the UAE or something, so it would take away from some of their time. So I don't know what he's going to do, but I guess Marco Rubio, at the very least, Marco Rubio is going to the Turkey meeting with Russia. So we'll see what comes of that.

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There's a report in the New York Times that a small company with ties to China wants to buy $300 million worth of Trump's meme coins, his crypto. Now, this small company with ties to China has never made any money, but somehow they mysteriously have $300 million from some kind of stock transaction.

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And of all the things in the world that they could put their $300 million into, they've decided that their best play is a Trump meme coin. Does anything sound sketchy about that? Everything. Everything about that sounds sketchy. I'm going to wait for David Sachs to weigh in. Here's what I don't expect. Oh, that's a good idea. Let's take that money from that.

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It's a San Jose-based company called Lyten, L-Y-T-E-N. Remember, I keep asking. Are there any American companies making drones? And I think that maybe the reason we didn't have them before is because drones were more of a personal hobby kind of a product, and it wasn't in the market for our higher costs of manufacturing, which I assume.

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That small company with ties to China that miraculously has $300 million and nothing better to spend it on than meme coins. All right. Let me say as clearly as possible, because I know this is going to come up. I am never going to say that Trump's crypto plays that are things that are good for Trump and the Trump family, I will never be in favor of that. All right.

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I will never back him on any crypto stuff. If the Democrats say, oh, this is terrible, I'm going to say, well, there's an opinion. If anybody wants to say, but Scott, is it some kind of 4D chess? Nope. Nope, I don't see any 4D chess. It looks like it's stuff that was designed to be good for Trump. And I'm not going to defend it even one second.

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So I'm completely not in favor of any of the weird crypto stuff, but I also don't understand it completely. I don't believe if I did understand it completely, it would change my mind one bit. So don't look to me to defend them on the crypto stuff. You know, the only thing I can say is that it's transparent. That doesn't give you much. It just looks sketchy as all hell to me.

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But it seems to be legal as far as I know. Well, how many times have I told you that when people argue with analogies, it's because they don't have an argument? You've heard me say that a number of times, right? Here's a good example. I think it was on the 5 that whoever the Democrat person was who was sitting in that day was making an analogy saying,

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between Trump doing business in the Middle East and doing licensing deals where the Trump name was put on hotels. And the argument was, well, how's that different than the Biden crime family? If you thought the Biden crime family was bad, why don't you, yeah, it was Maria, what's her last name? was it Harf? You'll give me the right name in the comments in a minute.

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But if you were complaining about the Biden crime family, why wouldn't you complain about Trump benefiting from his time in office? So Harf, yeah, Maria Harf, I guess, was the person on the five. And Of course, Greg Gutfeld jumped all over it. They didn't have quite enough time for him to completely destroy her. But that is the worst analogy I've ever seen in my life.

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How do you compare Hunter Biden taking a diamond from the Chinese spy chief that nobody knew about, totally secret, while he's working all these deals and violating FARA, you know, violating the law, FARA, and is, you know, clearly just making money and putting it into secret accounts and having all these secret accounts.

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How do you compare that to a fully transparent business-as-usual deal where Trump's name is on the tower, like this gigantic Trump name, so nobody's hiding anything? Now, I'm also uncomfortable with the Trump business benefiting from the fact that Trump may have some good feelings in other countries, so they want to put his name on buildings.

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It's not the greatest thing for the country, but you can't compare it to something that is just flat out illegal. Something that's completely legal and completely transparent, nobody's hiding anything. It's business as usual for the Trump business to license their name to appropriate projects. So remember every time you see an analogy as an argument.

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So it didn't make sense to go into the drone-making business because you couldn't really meet the quality and the price of the Chinese drones. But as soon as it becomes a critical military need, we're talking about more expensive drones. And suddenly, you could get really, really rich making drones. So I'll bet you there are quite a few drone startup companies. I don't know.

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The reason people use analogies for an argument is because they don't have an argument. If they had an argument, they would say, well, what he's doing is illegal. Oh, okay. Well, that's an argument. Now, that's not the case in this case. But if you have to say, but what about this analogy to this thing that is illegal? You don't have any argument. Yeah, that's in my book, Loser Think.

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You're right. Well, inflation has reached its lowest since 2021. And I know that the coverage seems to be pretending that the tariff stuff didn't make any difference. But there's a timing problem here. Whatever is driving the current inflation probably is what has happened recently, but not as recently as the tariff stuff.

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So if, in fact, the disruption from all the tariff threats and negotiations, if they have an effect on prices, that would still be ahead of us. So it would be incorrect, in my opinion, to say Trump was right that he could do tariffs, and at the same time, inflation would not go up. It might be true. It might be true.

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Because one of the things I've learned about inflation since my time as an economics major in college was that it seems that nobody understands inflation. On one hand, it seems obvious. If you print more money, you have more inflation. I got it. Yes, got it. Totally understand that. But why can't anybody predict it? Why are the experts so bad at predicting inflation?

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And do you remember stagflation? I mean, that kind of caught people off guard. How can you have stagflation? Then the other thing we don't understand is, is it possible that inflation is lower because the economic activity got depressed? Because when you're not selling much, you're not raising prices. So is it good news? Or is it an indication that demand has fallen off?

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I don't trust anything about inflation numbers when everything is roiling the way it is now. There are too many variables in play. But the only thing I want to warn you about is if you're pairing these two things and saying, oh, inflation is low at the same time as tariff activity is high, therefore the tariff activity has nothing to do with inflation, that would be incorrect.

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There's probably just a timing problem or other variables that are not fully explored. Well, meanwhile, James Carville is still trying to get the Democrats to use the right words, and he's added a few words that he thinks are dumb for Democrats to use. He says, stop using equity and use equality instead. Stop saying oligarch, because nobody knows what it means. Stop with your communities.

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You know, stop having communities like LGBTQ+. He goes, how about, you know, just everybody's people? You know, stop doing communities and stop doing intersectionality. And he said about oligarchy, he goes, this is another really stupid word, oligarch. Who in the F knows what an oligarch is? Now, I would add to James Carville's complaints. How many people know what habeas corpus is?

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Now, habeas corpus gets to due process for somebody who's locked up, but I'm going to go even further. How many Democrats could define due process? Most of us are news junkies or you wouldn't be watching this podcast. So if you're a news junkie, of course you know how to do processes. Of course you do. You might even know what habeas corpus is.

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But their battery is lithium sulfur. And apparently it's ready to go. It's not hypothetical. It's here and it's ready to go. So this suggests an interesting possibility. We kind of assume that the way we get some, let's say, economic and security comfort with the fact that China has all these critical things we need,

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But how many average Democrats could define either of those terms? There's something about the Democrats that is so disconnected from what the real world is. It's just hilarious. But I got a question for you. You know, sometimes I can't tell my own influence.

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Is it my imagination or was I the first person to say that the oligarch term was ridiculous because the Democrats don't know what an oligarch is? Was I the first? Because I feel like I was and then it just was everywhere. And what I wondered was, would that have happened on its own?

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Because the oligarch thing was kind of cooking along for a while and nobody was saying anything like, we don't know what an oligarch is until I said it. And then right after I said it, people started saying it. Was that me? Now, that's a genuine question because I have no way to know.

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But if you know somebody else who does what I do, you know, talk about the news, was there anybody who beat me to it? Because in that case, it was probably them. But I'm not aware of it. And I don't know that everybody would have hit that same idea that the world doesn't know what an oligarch is. I don't know how obvious that was until I pointed it out.

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So anyway, here's what else I would add to it. Have you noticed that the Democrats, when they talk about Trump's first 112 days or whatever it is, they say that it's catastrophic. So they say, well, you know, Trump so far has been catastrophic. And I say to myself, wait, what? What was catastrophic? I wake up every day and nothing really catastrophic is happening to me.

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I mean, at least from politics. Are any of you experiencing anything catastrophic? Is it the lower inflation? Is it the border being protected? Is it the deals he's making on tariffs and other things? Is it the potential that he might end some wars? Is it the Houthis stopped bombing us? What exactly is the catastrophic part?

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Is it that there was one MS-13, accused MS-13 guy, who was a Maryland dad who didn't get his due process? Is that the catastrophic part? But when you hear anybody try to add anything to it, they talk about how he's becoming a strong man or he's trying to become an authoritarian, to which I say, hasn't he obeyed the courts so far? Is there a court case or a court order that's just being ignored?

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Because if he's simply doing things which are pushing the envelope, but then the courts are deciding what he can get away with and what he can't, That's not okay. So where is the catastrophic part? So I think the Democrats need to get rid of catastrophic and chaos because they can't define either one, and they don't give any examples. All right, I'm going to go contrarian on a Biden story.

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So we're learning now that the reason George Clooney was so alarmed that Biden's brain wasn't working, is that when he met Biden, Biden didn't recognize George Clooney. Now, on one hand, you would say, oh my God, he's the most recognizable actor. Of course anybody would recognize George Clooney. On the other hand, has anybody noticed that George Clooney doesn't look like George Clooney anymore?

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I don't know what's going on. And I don't know if it's weight loss or because he changed his hair or whatever. But to me, George Clooney doesn't look as much like George Clooney as he used to. Do you think that that can be part of the story? Do you think it's 100% that Biden wasn't very sharp? Because, you know, he probably knew he was going to run into George Clooney. Somebody probably told him.

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Or is it possible that... that he looked right at him and he didn't recognize George Clooney because he doesn't look the same as he did even a year ago. Because he doesn't look the same as he did even a year ago. Now, I don't know why. You know, it could be, you know, it's because he's doing something for a play or something. But I'm not 100% sure that that was a Biden problem, you know.

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It could be that instead of mining our own critical things, we will innovate so we don't need them. So what if we just stop needing these critical minerals? I mean, obviously we still need them for phones and other electronics, but would it be impossible to innovate so that we just don't need those mines at all? Maybe. What about pharmaceuticals?

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I could imagine it happening to me. That's why I'm being a little flexible on that one. But PBS News had a video in which a reporter was asking Chuck Schumer this question. You said in June of last year that in my dealings with President Biden, I found him to be in command and impressive. were you being straight with the American public? And Schumer's answer was, we're just looking forward.

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Now, that sounds a lot like a confession, doesn't it? We're just looking forward. He's completely surrendered to the idea that he can't keep up the charade, that he wasn't aware that Biden was mentally incapable. It just looks like he just gave up and said, we're just looking forward, so you can take that win. So we'll take the win.

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According to Resist the Mainstream, I don't know who they are, but they're claiming that Biden's got a prostate nodule that was discovered. And that nodule had some basal cell carcinoma. These are all words that are trying to say cancer, but not saying the actual word. And then a biopsy confirmed that it was basal cell carcinoma.

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And then they say that all cancerous tissue was successfully removed, according to Fox News. Now, how did they do that without surgery? Do you believe that he had a cancerous nodule on his prostate and it was 100% removed without surgery? Or that he had surgery and we didn't hear about it? There's something about this story that doesn't add up. I'm just saying.

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You may know political commentator Mark Halperin, who I consider... I've been watching him for a while. He's got a very good podcast, Two Wire, I think it's called. And he always seems like a straight shooter, meaning that he's not the spin guy. I can't even tell. Honestly, it's hard to tell what political view he favors. He's that balanced.

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But according to him, when he talks about Fetterman, because there are stories that Fetterman... has been a little erratic. We don't know what that means exactly. But Halperin said, quote, but I can tell you behind the scenes, and Halperin has really good sources, he goes, behind the scenes, Fetterman's behavior warrants the commentary it's gotten plus more. I can tell you that.

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So Fetterman is, in fact, acting in a way that I think from a purely health perspective, is concerning. So if you thought you saw it publicly, well, you were. It was showing up. Now, I hope he gets the help that he needs because it could be anything. It could be anything from, well, it could be anything. I'll just say I would treat this as a health problem and I'll just hope he gets better.

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according to 404 Media, the Republicans are trying to put into their big, beautiful budget bill AI regulations, a ban on states regulating AI for 10 years. Because I guess states could do that if they wanted to, and that would be very bad. But I think it's not just states, but it's about anybody. So the Republicans want AI to live free and do what it can do, capitalism-wise.

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I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea, but it's in there. Remember Senator Tillis? He apparently came out against Trump's plan to slash drug prices with his executive order. What? What? What? How in the world could you be a Republican senator and be against it?

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human civilization. It's called coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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And he calls the most favored nation's policy, that's where we get the best price that any other country gets, short-sighted and unsustainable. Really? It's short-sighted and unsustainable? Really? It's not just a gigantic financial advantage for senior citizens especially? No, it's short-sighted and unsustainable. Now, do you trust him anymore?

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Is it possible, especially with AI coming, that the AI will say, you don't need those pills. They're not working. Here's what you need. It'll solve all your problems. And by the way, China doesn't have a monopoly on this stuff. Maybe. So the decoupling from China could be from innovation, not because we figure out a different way to get stuff. Possible. In related news,

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I mean, you need a better argument than that for me to think that you're not being influenced by something or someone. So, any trust you had in Senator Tillis, I think you should remove. Now, if he has a good argument that for some miraculous reason he's the only one who thought of it. I'm open to it. Yeah, let's hear a good argument. But that's not an argument, short-sighted and unsustainable.

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You're going to need a little bit more than that. Now, maybe there is a little bit more than that, and I haven't seen it. But if nobody else is picking up on his argument— I think you just can't trust him on this or anything else. I mean, it feels like it's just so over the top and obviously not serving the people. So that's what it feels like.

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According to the Daily Wire, there's some advocates for a remittance tax. So when all the illegal migrants send money back to Mexico, I guess $86 billion went back in 2023. The Big Beautiful Bill includes a 5% remittance tax. So the Big Beautiful Bill is not approved yet, but it might be. And that would be some extra free money. I mean, it's not going to change the total debt situation.

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It's not that big. But it does feel like we should get something. It feels like a fair thing to tax, but maybe I think that because it's not me. So 5% potential tax. I also wonder how much of those How much of that money that's being sent back is trackable? Do you think it's trackable? I feel like they find ways to send money that are sort of not trackable, but I don't know the details.

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Well, there's a Trump-appointed judge who says it's okay. for Trump to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport those Venezuelan gangs that trend to Aragua. That's according to Blaze Media. But the judge says that the administration has to give them 21 days of notice. How does that work? Do you arrest them in a big operation? and then say, wait right here for 21 days? Or can you put them in jail?

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And then the 21 days starts? I don't know if this is helping as much as it looks like. And I also don't know if this is the final say. But at the moment, at least there's one judge who says that Trump can keep doing these deportations. So I think that's what the administration will do.

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Well, I was watching some video of Josh Hawley going after the CEO of Allstate Insurance, and apparently there are some whistleblowers. Now, you can't always trust the whistleblowers, because remember, whistleblowers sometimes are brave heroes telling us what we need to know.

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Sometimes they're disgruntled employees who maybe got fired for a good reason, but that's not the way they're going to tell it. So you have to be careful about your whistleblowers. But there are a couple of whistleblowers who say that Allstate essentially ordered them to downgrade their estimates of how much they should pay people for the damage to their homes.

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Now, if that's true, and essentially they were being asked to lie, because the evaluators, what would they be called? What's the name of those people? The people who look at your house and decide how much insurance you're going to get? Anyway, so those people say that they would do their work, and then the bosses would say, well, why don't you change that number so that we give them less money?

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So Toyota is planning to launch an EV with a 745 mile range. That's about double what a lot of the EVs have, but it's way more than even the biggest one right now. And you'll be able to charge it in 10 minutes.

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Adjusters, thank you. The adjusters. So if it's true... that Allstate was leaning on the adjusters to literally lie because it was good for a profit. That's a pretty big problem, and I think Josh Hawley is doing good work to expose that. In related news, another insurance company that I always confuse with Allstate, State Farm, because they both have state in the name.

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They've requested and been granted a 17% premium increase in California. but they still won't cover wildfires. And the 17% is just the first part of what they want. They want 30%. So, insurance companies are not doing great. I mean, I guess it's better that they exist than they don't, but they're not really helping California too much.

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And they're starting to look more like the enemy than the safety. In some technology news, according to engineering and technology, there's an electrolysis technique that now can convert seawater directly into hydrogen without desalinating at first. Now, apparently it is so efficient

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and it looks like it can be ramped up to industrial scale, but so efficient that you can use solar power to create the hydrogen. So in theory, if you're a place that's near seawater and you get a lot of sun, you can just put this new industrial scale production thing there And it will just keep running and create a bunch of hydrogen that is worth more than the cost of the installation.

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Now, that would be pretty amazing, actually. So I don't know if this is the thing that will change the world. But every time I see something like this, I think, man, you really can't predict where anything is going. Because if you can simply put up some solar panels and dip a hose in the ocean, and suddenly you're making hydrogen forever. That's kind of awesome. That's kind of awesome.

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So it looks like that's coming. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I got for today. It looks like mostly good news, and watching Trump do his thing in the Middle East is awesome. So let's keep an eye on that. But I'm going to talk privately to the... to the subscribers on Locals.

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And the rest of you, thanks for joining, and I'll see you same time, same place tomorrow morning, because I never rest. Neither should you. Locals, supporters, coming at you in 30 seconds.

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So I had kind of stopped reporting on all the battery innovations because it was boring, and there were too many of them, and they were going to take 10 to 15 years to actually be in any products. But apparently, these are going to be in products really soon. So this is fully developed. Recharge in 10 minutes. And Harvard researchers say that the batteries could last up to 30 years.

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So 745 mile range, 10 minutes to charge it up, and the battery lasts 30 years. Not bad, Toyota. And it raises the bar for Tesla, doesn't it? Well, Jensen Wang of NVIDIA He's agreed with Elon Musk on the value of robots, humanoid robots. I think Elon Musk said at the high end, the robot market could be $50 trillion. And that's what Jensen Wang says. He says it could be a $50 trillion industry.

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Because the world is short of workers and there's a declining birth rate and He thinks the first use will be in manufacturing. So people keep asking me, Scott, how do I plan my future in the robot world? And I don't know the answer to that because I'm definitely not smart enough to

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peer into the future and see what all that robot business is going to bring but I'll give you kind of a general advice which is I think the economic value of doing stuff you know carrying things from here to there and just doing stuff is going to drop to zero because the robots will do it But the value of owning stuff might be retained because robots can't own anything.

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So if you own a hotel and people want to stay at it, as long as there's still some people around, that might be worth something. If you own robots... Maybe the model will be that individuals can own a dozen robots and then the robots just go to work for you. That's what the new Teslas will be able to do soon. Very soon you'll be able to park your Tesla on the curb.

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And if anybody wants an auto taxi, they can just call it on their app and your car will drive to them and make some money while you're asleep. So that's a case of owning something instead of doing something. So just think of those terms. Think of something that a robot can't do. Let's say, I don't know, there's some things where you just need people.

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but they tend not to be the highest paying jobs. All right, but let me give you a counterpoint, right? The counterpoint, Mario Novel on X is arguing that radiologists... started using AI because it's way faster to look at imaging. So once you do some imaging, the radiologist has to look at it and say, oh, this is bigger than it should be.

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But apparently that was a laborious process where they literally had to measure the size of stuff. So they would say, oh, this looks like it's a little bit bigger than it should be. And now the AI can do that. But instead of replacing radiologists, it just became a tool for radiologists.

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Now, how many of you remember the dawn of the computer era where the smart people said it was going to make paper obsolete? You know, paper. And then you waited for paper to become obsolete, and people just kept using paper. In fact, since it was easier to make documents and you couldn't carry your computer to meetings for at least for a while, you'd bring paper.

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Now, I haven't been in the real world business for a while. Is it still true that if you go to a meeting, people are going to have paper with them? Or has that now been completely replaced with bring your laptop? Is there anybody still in the business world? But here's the thing. I think it was 40 years ago. It was maybe 40 years ago that we thought paper would go away.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Sublime. Well, I wonder if there's any sketchy science that says that coffee is good for you. Oh, yeah, there is.

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I have not bought any less paper in 40 years. so but now but now we're it's a mix of paper and laptops i think depending on the company it would be embarrassing to have paper i hope people don't even go to the meetings in person they do it remotely paper took a hit because of the pandemic you think You use both. All right. So, but my only point, it's not really about paper.

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It's about we're not really good at estimating what's going to go away. Do you remember when television was invented? I'm old enough to basically remember when televisions were introduced into the living room and all the smart people said, well, radio is dead. But radio didn't die. It just moved into your car and then became talk radio for politics and Rush Limbaugh and stuff like that.

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We're really, really bad at estimating what's going to go away. We're a little bit better at estimating what's going to arrive, but it doesn't replace things as quickly as cars and horse and buggy. So for every example where something did obviously replace something, like cell phones did obviously replace pretty much the bulk of wired phones, at least in terms of usage. We'll see.

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So that's a counterpoint. Then maybe people, humans will just use the AI, but you still need the human. How about a counter to the counterpoint? All right. Counter to the counterpoint. I saw Greg Eisenberg on X. He's saying that Microsoft just terminated 7,000 employees because AI couldn't do their jobs. But would you like a counterpoint to the counterpoint of the counterpoint?

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Somebody named Incognito John 23 said, said that's misleading because the employee terminations are really based on a merger where they just had too many employees and not based on AI. So watch out for your fake news about AI. And would you like a counter to the counter to the counter to the counterpoint? All right, well, I have one. So according to Futurism,

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There was a company that wanted to be the darling of OpenAI and be the first ones to replace its marketing and customer service with AI. So I guess they've been trying to do that since OpenAI and ChatGPT got good enough to try, and they're now giving up on that. because they found that AI did not make their customers happy. It was cheaper because they did get rid of the human employees.

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But apparently their efforts to automate marketing and customer service didn't work out. It's a financial tech startup. So they're going to basically reverse it and put humans back into it. Now, imagine if you were calling some company and you had a problem. How many times is your problem something that they've heard of before? In my case, it's never.

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Amazing people at Locals comments. Come on. Come on. There we go.

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you imagine saying that out loud that it was a perfect economy under biden he said there had been a soft landing inflation was under control the magnificent seven stocks were booming for a good reason and that biden showed us he can create a perfect economy but do you think he left anything out do you know how else you can create a perfect economy By borrowing.

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We had this crushing debt with no way around it. Basically, without Doge, we would all be dead. And how do you ignore that if you're an economist? So this is their new big lie. The new big lie is that economy was great under Biden. Trump's just ruined in that great economy that he was left. No, he was left a crushing level of debt. That was nearly impossible to solve.

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And we still don't know if it's solvable because we haven't really taken a big bite on it yet, even though Doge is doing great. And then the other big lie is that Elon Musk wants to cut entitlements. And of course, every time that it's been talked about. at least from Musk and Doge and Trump. They're talking about waste, fraud, and abuse.

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And then MSNBC's hosts and pundits and CNNs will say, oh, he wants to cut the entitlements. No. Maybe they do want to, but that's not even being discussed. They're only talking about the waste, fraud, and abuse. So, again, these are not news programs. These are just pure propaganda entities.

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And once you learn that they're propaganda, you can just sort of study them for the propaganda to see how they do it. That's sort of why I'm interested. I kind of love to see how big a lie they can tell their audience that their audience won't know the difference. There doesn't seem to be any limit. Because, you know, I just mentioned some whoppers.

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Can you imagine that MSNBC still has any audience at all after telling you that Biden's brain was fine for years?

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So the swat got called by bad people who were pretending to be him. And they showed up. And the most recent time was 2 a.m. this morning. And The police pull up to his place and they put on the bullhorns and they say, get out here with your hands up with his wife and children in the house. Second time in one day. Now, I believe this is domestic terrorism and we're seeing more of it.

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do they have any audience i mean it's so obvious that they're not in the the news business but i don't think their audience knows it i think the audience thinks it's some kind of legitimate news source weird speaking of illegitimate news the guardian lost a defamation suit uh was ruled against him Douglas Murray was the victim in this case, so he sued him.

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I guess the Guardian made some outrageous claim about him. I'm not even going to repeat the claim, because given that it was a fake claim, I don't even want to associate it with his name. So I'll just tell you that there was an outrageous fake claim, and Douglas Murray took him to court and apparently won. So good for him. So they apologized and had to retract it.

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But as Douglas Murray was pointing out on X, he said he wanted to remind you that the Guardian left X, so it wasn't doing anything on X anymore. And the reason was, because of alleged disinformation on X. So the Guardian, which was too good to be on X, literally the only source of free speech that we have in this country, and then immediately they got sued and lost for fake news. Fake news.

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Speaking of fake news, this is real news, but it's going to lead to nothing. Apparently, the Saudi Arabia meeting to talk about a ceasefire for Ukraine involved only Ukraine and the U.S., I guess. But Ukraine and the U.S., and Zelensky has now specifically agreed to a ceasefire, 30-day ceasefire, with not many conditions, it looks like. But that's just what Zelensky wants.

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We don't think that Putin wants that so easily because apparently Putin has lots of demands, you know, like no NATO, no boots on the ground from Europe, a bunch of things. And so I don't think there's really much chance that Putin will say yes to a ceasefire because what would that buy him?

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Because at the moment, every day that he keeps fighting looks like a day that he's getting closer to winning just because he could take more losses for a longer period of time. So he doesn't have to gain any territory. He just needs to act like he wants the war. And it's just going to put him in a better negotiating position. So it feels like that was a waste of time. But I can be surprised.

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It could be that there's that Putin has a much bigger set of interests on the side of Ukraine. And it could be that Trump said, here's the deal. We're open to talking about all the other interests. We'll make this a wider discussion, which is exactly what Russia wants. But we want that too. But we're not going to do it unless you give us a ceasefire. Because we need to feel like there's progress.

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And a ceasefire would feel to everybody like some kind of progress. It would make it look like you changed the frame from fighting to talking. And that's something. So this will be a good test of Putin's persuasion ability. Because if Trump pushes hard, you know, supporting this idea of the 30-day ceasefire, and it's basically 30 days where you would be negotiating other stuff.

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If Putin said no to this, it's going to look like it would piss off Trump because Trump would be putting his reputation behind it, assuming he backs it. So would Putin be, let's say, dumb enough to piss off Trump on something that's not that important? I feel like if he's going to make Trump mad, it better be on something big, but a 30-day ceasefire? That's kind of small potatoes.

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So would Putin say no to something so small, knowing that it could derail everything else? This will be a good test. So let me make a prediction. I think I'm going to reverse my opinion. My first thought was, why would Putin say yes? It will just put him in a worse negotiating position than he's in because he doesn't care. He doesn't care too much about his losses. He can sustain them for longer.

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But I'm going to say that if he's as good a negotiator as I think, and Trump says to him, look, nothing else is going to happen until you do this. This has got to be step one, because at least this will show that we're more interested in negotiating than not negotiating. I think Putin might say yes. So it depends entirely upon whether Putin thinks he needs to manage Trump

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All the Tesla stuff is domestic terrorism. And, you know, you could argue even some of the news coverage is domestic terrorism. It's so bad. But this is really bad. And I'm going to say if this were my own police department locally, I would say things like, well, I guess they have to follow their procedures. And I guess they can't know for sure. So they have to deploy.

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versus trying to get the best advantage he can on a minor point. So I'm going to say yes, that'll be my prediction. And it would be almost entirely because of Trump's personality and the way he approaches things. So something that maybe another president couldn't get done. But I think Putin would know that you don't want to waste your

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your goodwill that he's developed with Trump, you don't want to waste that on something not terribly important. So I think Trump's going to get that if he pushes it. Here's a little clarification on Thomas Massey. Apparently the House passed that continuing resolution.

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Now, background, a continuing resolution is when the Congress gives up on trying to do a proper budget because they know they can't get it done or they're not interested or they wait until it's too close to a holiday or something. And then they just say, okay, we'll just keep the budget where it was for another six months.

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And that's not good because the budget is way too big and it's driving up debt. But this particular situation is a little different because my understanding is even though they're saying the budget would stay the same, inflation would suggest that it's really a cut, because if inflation is going up but the budget is not, well, it's sort of like a 3% cut if you have 3% inflation.

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So I get that argument, but that's not much, and it doesn't address the Doge stuff.

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But what I think is going to happen is that even if the budget says you have this much to spend for the next six months, if the departments that were going to spend it have been suspended, the people are fired, and it's been closed down or absorbed by the State Department or whatever else, what we should see is that the budget stays the same because Congress just failed to give us a proper budget and incorporate all the Doge stuff, but that the actual spending

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should be substantially below the budget for the first time. Normally, you expect the government to spend everything it has so they can ask for more next time. Well, we used every penny we had this time. We need 3% more next year. So it could be that this will work out fine. But you know that Trump threatened to primary Thomas Massey for saying that he would be a hard no on this.

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And there was quite a bit of pushback. So I was one of the ones that pushed back. And my problem with it is not that they disagreed. And my problem with it is not that it was a good or bad idea to do the continuing resolution this time. Because this one's not like every other time. Because the Doge stuff...

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I do have reason to believe the Doge stuff would be incorporated in the spending part, which is the important part. The budget's not as important as the spending. So maybe it was closer to getting it right, and maybe they just needed a little breathing room before they can do a proper budget. Maybe. I'll give them a little bit of benefit of the doubt.

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But threatening to primary the only person who is more MAGA than MAGA And the person who is wildly popular for being a hard nose on spending, the guy who wears a debt clock around his lapel and gives them to everybody else so they can be reminded that they're not doing their job. You need to get this budget under control. That's the last guy you should be threatening.

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You should figure out some way to get it done despite him. And I get that Trump just goes hard at anybody who's on the wrong side of any issue, and he loves them if they're on the right side of the issue. So I get that he's been consistent. But I feel like that was just a mistake. If he had simply tried to slap him down with a mean post on truth, I'd say, okay, that's just normal. They disagree.

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That's what I would say for my local police department. So I didn't make them mad. But this is not my local police department. So I'm going to ask the obvious question. What the hell is wrong with you? How do you not figure out that these SWAT calls are fake? After the first one, the same day, and you can't figure out that the second one's fake and maybe figure out a different way to handle it?

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He said what he said. Massey said what he said. But threatening to primary him, that just fell too far. I just can't get behind that at all. And it's not like Thomas Massey was a little bit the enemy. The things he wants are what Trump wants, and he wants it even more, which is to get the debt under control.

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So if somebody agrees with you harder than you agree with yourself, that's not who you threaten the primary. So that just seemed like a mistake to me. And I saw a lot of other smart people say the same. But one of the criticisms that people levied on Massey was they said, you're being hypocritical and inconsistent because in the past you have signed. continuing resolutions.

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But Massey clarified he's never voted for a continued resolution that became law. He said he did vote for one under McCarthy that included an 8% cut to all discretionary spending, but it didn't become a law. Now, that's a good answer. Because a continuing resolution in its normal form means you spend the same amount as you were spending.

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If in any way they could have gotten an 8% across the board cut in all the spending and call it a CR, well, yeah. Yeah, I would expect Thomas Massey to totally vote for that because it's exactly what he's always asking for. Let's be serious about cutting and then figure it out. So I'm going to say that Massey has acquitted himself well. I like him standing on principle.

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I think I would be seriously disappointed if, If we didn't have anybody in Congress who said, nope, you're all wrong. We cannot keep spending at this level, period. So I like me some Thomas Massey in the world. And I think this will all work out. Now, let me give you a correction. I'm not sure that's the right word. Maybe it's a clarification. I talked about Tucker Carlson.

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had this claim that Senator Tom Cotton was in favor of blocking the release of the JFK files and allegedly, according to Tucker, had been not in favor of some nomination, don't know which one, because that person might have wanted to release the JFK files. So what did Tom Cotton say about those accusations? He said on X, this is false. I have no problem releasing the JFK files.

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Had Tucker Carlson asked me, I would have told him. And he said, he, meaning Tucker, has texted me multiple times in recent weeks, so he knows how to reach me. And then in a follow-up, Tom Cotton said, I would have explained that I've never spoken to President Trump or his associates or administration officials about the files.

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Never objected to the appointment of any person because of the files and have complete faith that Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and other officials will release the files as appropriate in accordance with President Trump's directive. Now, isn't this interesting?

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Because you've got Tucker Carlson saying a thing happened, and he was very adamant that he knew the thing happened. And then you've got the person who was allegedly the person who did the thing, who was saying in the clearest possible tone, I mean, this is really clear, that nothing like that happened. So here's my take. I don't think Tucker Carlson is a liar.

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I also don't think Tom Cotton's a liar. as far as I know. But they can't both be right, because they're saying literally opposites. But I'm a little unclear about Tucker Carlson's source. Did somebody that Tucker trusted tell him that something happened? And was that communicated properly? Was it possible that the wrong name was in the story?

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Now, I've heard people say, well, the law says they have to deploy. Well, what is deploy meaning? How about maybe call them on the phone? and say, can you turn on your FaceTime? Just show me the room. Everybody's good. It doesn't feel like this should be the hardest thing in the world. So I'm going to blame the police. If you do it once, the police need to respond.

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So if I had to pick a winner, I'm going to pick Tom Cotton. And the reason is that I consider myself quite good at detecting BS. And the way Tom Cotton explained his complete lack of involvement in this, having done nothing even close to it, is the way that honest people talk.

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if he were lying what you'd look for is stuff like a very specific answer i'll make this up this would not be a good example but it would be something like i did not talk to tucker on tuesday or i've never had a conversation with tucker about this because i would still leave open that maybe he talked to somebody else right so there's a whole bunch of tells that liars leave

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Tom Cotton left no tells. He's speaking like somebody who is absolutely telling the truth. Now, do I know that?

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No.

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No. But if I had to call a winner, I would say that Tucker's source is probably less reliable. And maybe it was just a miscommunication. Maybe nobody had any bad intentions. Could be just a miscommunication. But this is one of the cleanest denials you'll ever see.

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And if you see a denial this clean and this comprehensive, and it looked like he tried to cover every base so that you couldn't say, but did you say it to Kash Patel? Okay, but did you say it to Pam Bondi? But, but did you say it to someone else in the administration? He just completely ruled out all of that. It looks honest to me, so I'm going to rule Tom Cotton the correct one on facts.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.

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Well, meanwhile, RFK Jr. has called for the top executives of some of the big food companies like Raff Heinz and General Mills and some others to remove artificial dyes before the end of his term. Makes me wonder why that would take so long. Why would it take so long? to remove artificial dyes. You can't do that in a year. It takes four years to do that.

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Because if Europe has been removing these artificial dyes forever, can't you just say, ring, ring, hey, Europe, what are you doing right that we're doing wrong? Oh, you just don't put them in there. Got it. Isn't there some easy way to do this? Like, just don't do it? I don't know. But maybe there's a food replacement that acts as a dye that's more organic.

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And maybe there's a supply... There might be a supply limitation on whatever it is that Europe uses that we don't. So maybe there's a reason. I mean, it'd be weird to say that he wants it before the end of his term if it were easier to do. So I'm going to trust that RFK Jr. knows what he's talking about there. But also... Daily Mail is reporting that five big restaurant chains in the U.S.

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have decided to follow RFK Junior's lead on getting rid of seed oils. And instead of cooking with seed oil, they're going to be cooking with probably beef tallow. So I guess this has already happened at one of the chains, Steak and Shake. You probably saw the news. So the Steak and Shake restaurant chain already moved to beef tallow.

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I'm totally on board with responding once, even though that's domestic terrorism on behalf of the person who put in the fake call. But by the second time, the same day, and you can't figure that out? I'm pretty disappointed. Pretty disappointed. So, yeah, they need to figure that out. But this isn't as bad.

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And it looks like Popeye's, Outback Steakhouse, Sweet Greens, and Buffalo Wild Wings have either already stopped or they're planning to stop using the seed oils. Now, how many of you are convinced that the seed oils are the devil and the beef tallow is the healthy answer? You know, I'm willing to believe it, but I don't trust any science anymore. I just don't trust science anymore.

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So I don't doubt that there are studies that say that seed oil bad, beef tallow good. But this is the kind of science that's usually a coin flip. Meaning that if you took any of these studies and you tried to reproduce it, there's only a 40 or 50% chance you could. And I'm not criticizing just this domain of science. I'm criticizing all domains of science.

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Because generally speaking, this kind of study is sort of a coin flip. I guarantee you that there are studies that say that the seed oils are fine, even if they're not. And I guarantee that there are studies that say the seed oils are the devil, even if they're not. So I hope the science is solid on this. But it does make me worry about cooking at home because you know what I don't do at home?

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I don't use any beef tallow. I never even heard of beef tallow until like a month ago. What the hell is beef tallow? I know it's something I'm not going to put in my body because I just don't eat. Never mind. You don't need to know. But I don't know. It seems like is olive oil suddenly, did olive oil suddenly go from the healthiest thing you can cook with to the devil? Did it really?

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So this is the sort of thing where I feel like if you backed up 20 years and waited to see how it all shook up, I just don't know if the science holds up. I just really don't trust it. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying I don't know why you'd believe it was right, given what we've seen about every other bit of science. Meanwhile, Linda McMahon, the secretary of education,

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according to Newsmax, says that Trump told her that her job is to essentially eliminate the Department of Education. So that's the thing she's in charge of. And according to her, Trump said that to be successful in her job would be to put herself out of the job. Now, this is one of those perfect situations where I think the person in charge is just ideally suited for the job.

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Because there's no way that Linda McMahon wants to be the secretary of education forever. And I don't think she's looking to run for higher office. It doesn't look like it's a step to a higher office or anything. So probably she's just a patriot. And she's a high capability, high functioning executive type person. And putting somebody like that in that job, kind of perfect.

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somebody who would view success as getting rid of her own job. That's a rare thing. If you can get that right person in that job, assuming you wanted to get rid of this. So that's looking good. Let's talk about Canada. So Kevin O'Leary, as you know, he's got a connection with Canada and the U.S. I believe he's Canadian. Was he Canadian? Is he both Canadian and American?

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This is just one of the worst things because I feel like, do you remember when under the Biden administration the Democrats were saying that the biggest problem in the country was right-wing white supremacist, I don't know, terrorists or something? There's never been anything like this. I mean, we're seeing full out, you know, color revolution terrorism. It's domestic terrorism.

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I don't know how that works, but he invests in both places. He was on Jesse Watershow, and he said something I hadn't heard before, but it's worth talking about. He's suggesting that we don't necessarily need Canada to be a state. All we have to do is remove the economic barriers. So we could treat it like it's this big economic zone without any friction caused by artificial barriers anywhere.

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So he says that Trump's vision, I don't know that this is Trump's vision, so this is Kevin O'Leary talking, but he says U.S.-Canada Economic Union. So it would be the largest economy on Earth and that China would never catch up. And the idea is that Canada is just wildly full of natural resources, the exact kind that the United States needs. And the United States is the biggest market.

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So if you combine the biggest resource with the biggest market and you get rid of the friction, get rid of tariffs, et cetera, you might have the greatest economic zone

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of all time it might be exactly what we need to bring back manufacturing and you know have access to all the raw materials and everything now this would not settle uh trump's concern that we're the ones paying for the defense of canada so i don't know how that works and then there would be all the wokeness up there that would be hard to deal with so i mean canada would have to get rid of its you know crazy dei stuff if we wanted to have a big economic zone

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Because you could almost imagine it. It's like, okay, we got rid of all the tariffs. And then we try to do a deal. And then the Canadians say, all right, we'll be happy to sell you our lumber. So just as long as the board of directors of your company has lots of DEI. And then we'd be like, you can't just sell us the lumber. So I think there would be more friction than it seems like.

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just making any two systems compatible is always going to be a challenge. But I like what Kevin O'Leary is adding to the conversation, which is that there might be this entirely reasonable middle ground where both Canada and the U.S. would take a hit with some specific industries, but in the long run it would be wildly good for both. Maybe. Maybe.

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I like that new option or that new way of looking at it, that it doesn't have to be a state. And that would be just a pain in the ass, turning it into a state. And that would be a lot of work for maybe not a lot of game. And then Lutnick. was talking about Trump's tariffs. And he said the markets will learn. Let the dealmakers make his deal. So he's not worried about the stock market.

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He thinks the stock market will catch up with what's happening. And he said that Trump's policy is going to produce revenue. And according to Ludnick, who's a smart guy, Lutnick thinks that the tariffs are not chaotic. It only looks chaotic if you don't understand what's happening.

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And then Lutnick says that Trump is making sure our trade partners know this is not going away and can't be ignored and it's top priority. I would add that it might be the only way to get manufacturing back to the country, to our country, quickly, which is you have to make it wildly expensive to not do it in the United States. That's what a tariff can do. But here's my current take on the tariffs.

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And this is very much informed by Lutnick's opinion. So I'm going to adopt this. And I saw some other smart opinions about it too, but Here's what I think. On day one, if Trump says, I'm going to tariff you, it looks like a bad idea. Just a pain in the ass. So then the other country, whoever it is, says, all right, well, I guess we get to tariff a few things back with you.

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And then Trump says, great, I'll give you another 25% tariff for doing that. And then the other country says, but wait, that's crazy. Well, we're going to, Stop giving you electricity. Okay, here's another 50% tariff. Wait, what? So here's what I think Trump's actually doing.

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And I realize I'm the, you know, some call me the Trump whisperer because I'm always talking about his persuasion skills, you know, his four-dimensional chess. There is some four-dimensional chess happening here that I had completely missed. And I was in a wait and see mode, like, well, I'm not sure I fully understand this whole tariff business and the way it's being handled, but maybe Trump does.

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And it really needs to stop. So some people need to be arrested. And I have a real question about people who make anonymous calls or they make calls pretending to be the person who's going to get swatted. How in the world does that work? How do you pretend to be the person being swatted where you're calling from a telephone number that's clearly not from that person?

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Maybe his advisors are really smart. Maybe they're operating on a different level. Let's just see what happens. Here's my current opinion. You have to get their attention first. Trump is making the trade inequities, as he would call them, the biggest priority for other countries. So nothing happens until you can break through the noise.

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So any country has a million things to worry about, domestically and foreign. And if you say, hey, something about a tariff has something about a trade, you can barely get their attention. If you say we're going to completely turn off your whole fucking industry, suddenly you have their attention.

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So what Trump is doing with the tariffs, even with the chaos, even with the, you know, what looks like just completely almost suicidal economic policies that are so reckless, some would say so chaotic, some would say that it doesn't even look rational.

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But is he successfully making those other countries say to themselves, we're going to need to clear our calendar because we need to handle this right away because we can't really go a month with a 50% tariff. And if we retaliate, well, we can hurt the United States, but we're going to get our ass kicked for doing it. So how about we treat this like our highest priority?

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And that is what Trump wants. He wants them to treat it like their highest priority. Has he succeeded? Yes. Yes. I'll bet Mexico doesn't wake up or Canada. I'll bet they don't wake up one day without saying, Oh God, what am I going to do about all these tariffs? Now, in the end,

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One hopes that you end up with a negotiated set of agreements in which both sides feel like, you know, it's not the perfect agreement, but that's how agreements work. But it's better than what it was, at least for the United States. So I think that the, I'm going to call it the genius of what Trump is doing, is he's making it everybody's top priority.

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Because you wouldn't get anything done until you do that. If they knew they could kick the can down the road, it's like, ah, by the time some new president gets in here, you know, we'll just stall. Well, a 50% tariff today, there goes your stalling. Good luck stalling. Good luck making it your second priority, assholes. How about it's your top priority now?

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How about you stop worrying about DEI a little bit and you look at the fact that we just stopped your whole fucking industry from operating and we're not going to stop doing it. It's got to be your top priority. Trump did that. He just made it everybody's top priority. Now, if nothing else came of it, except he made it everybody's top priority.

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that should allow him to negotiate productively to get some kind of agreement that isn't crushing anybody's industry, although some would do worse than others, but that we'd end up with a happy situation.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, well, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Suppose the thing that happened with Canada, because you saw that Canada was going to cut off our electricity in the Northeast, but then they said, well, okay, we will talk about it, so we'll pull back on that. We got their attention. We got all their attention. Whatever they were doing before the tariffs doesn't even seem important.

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Wouldn't the first thing they do is look at their own logs and maybe call back on the number that they have for that person? Because, you know, the police always have, don't they? Can't the police always get a phone number for you if they have your address? I think they can. So I have lots of questions about this.

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They're all in on trying to figure out how to make this tariff thing work. And it's Trump's frame. He created a world that didn't exist, which is tariffs are your top priority. So he creates that world and then he creates so much, I'm going to say energy, but his critics will say chaos. It's the same. He creates so much energy that everybody has to flow into his frame.

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Once they're in his frame, that's when the fun begins. That's when the negotiating begins. And he did that. Nobody's ever done that. Nobody's ever done that. And I would argue, I don't think anybody could. I don't think anybody can do what he's done already. Just already. Now, will it all work out? I don't know. I don't know.

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Will it allow more manufacturing to flow back to this country faster than it would have? I don't know. But it's a hell of a good bet. I'm going to do something that I normally don't do. I'm going to give some investment advice. But you've got to be really careful with this one because this one's risky, all right?

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And it's also not advice I'm going to take because I'm a certain age, so I'm not gambling too much with my money at the moment. But if I were younger and I saw that the stock market had just taken a gigantic shit because it didn't understand what was happening, I'd be buying hard. And here's the philosophy behind it. The philosophy behind it is

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invest in once-ever situations, the things that will never happen again. So one of the reasons known Tesla stock, and again, these are not stock recommendations, I'm simply describing a manner of investing. So don't take it as a recommendation, please. But if you said to yourself, wait a minute, there's only one time in history that Tesla will introduce robots. It's only going to happen once.

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There's only one time in history that Tesla will introduce self-driving cars. Only once. You can make an argument for other things like NVIDIA. There's only one time that AI will be brand new. Just once. So if you can find those situations, such as the introduction of the smartphone when Apple did it, that's only going to happen once, the introduction.

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If you had invested in Apple when they introduced the smartphone, well, you'd be pretty happy right now, wouldn't you? So I can't recommend Tesla, especially because there's a lot of political risk overhanging it. So if you buy it and it doesn't go well, don't blame me. But what I'm saying is this tariff situation is a once-ever change. It's a gigantic sea change if Trump pulls it off.

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If you want to inform me where I'm wrong and the police are acting responsibly, I'll listen to that argument. But I don't understand it at this point. So they got some explaining to do. Well, speaking of that, Trump has decided that he will label

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And the reshoring of manufacturing? Once. It's only going to happen once. So whenever you see one of these gigantic changes that could only happen once by their very nature, that's when you should get serious about looking at your investments because those are the changes that give you the big hits that are different from, oh, this company makes 14% profit per year. I guess I'll get some of that.

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I mean, that could be a great idea too as long as you diversify. So the only advice I'm going to give you is diversification. Diversification. Make sure that you don't put too much money in any one thing, and it'd be good to spread it around. But we might be looking at one of the greatest economic revivals in all of history. It might not work, but here's the other part of the advice.

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If it doesn't work, We're all dead. Because if we don't doge the national debt away, we cannot survive that. So when you have a situation where if things don't go well, none of your money is going to be worth anything. Literally, your money won't be worth anything. The whole thing falls apart if we can't get the $40 trillion of debt under control. If we can...

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which would be a tremendous accomplishment by musk and trump and the doge people a tremendous accomplishment and by no means by no means do i think that's guaranteed but you have one situation where if it doesn't work out you're going to be dead if they'd never tried anything if they'd never tried to doge and they never tried to do tariffs you would be dead because the the debt will actually end the united states

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We're talking about actually starving to death. It's an existential threat. So on one hand, if you bet against it and it doesn't work, well, nobody's money is going to be worth anything. It wouldn't matter if you owned stock. It wouldn't matter if you had cash. It's all going to be worth nothing. But if it does work, if it does work, stocks are really cheap. So the upside...

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the violence against Tesla dealerships and perhaps Tesla owners as well, because there are examples of just people who own a Tesla getting attacked, their car getting attacked anyway, while they're in it. And what does that mean? If he says that he's going to label them, does that make it official? Or does he have to sign an executive order or something?

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is maybe amazing maybe just pretty good and the downside is if we don't do this stuff you're dead So this is a very rare investment situation. And just be aware of it. So again, I don't give financial recommendations. Don't buy any stock. Don't buy Tesla because I said so, because I'm not saying so. I'm just saying when you see a once ever, that's where your eyes should widen.

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This is a once ever. It's like the greatest once ever you'll ever see, probably.

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We'll see.

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Meanwhile, Trump sent a memo to all the agency heads with this clever little legal advice. It tells them that court filing injunctions against them, so you know when the agencies try to cut costs, there's always somebody going to do a lawsuit, and then they'll find some judge that can say, oh yeah, you better stop doing that. So that would be the injunctions. But apparently,

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The law says that if there's an injunction against one of the agencies, the plaintiffs, which would be the agencies, can post... No, I'm sorry. The plaintiffs would be the people complaining and the ones who want to stop the agency from cutting or firing people. So the plaintiffs would have to post a security equal to the potential cost of the injunction to the federal government.

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So in other words, you can't just shop for a friendly judge and get the judge to wave his arms and sign a piece of paper and then all progress stops. That's the current situation. They're going to have to find out how to put up money to cover it in case things go the other direction. So that's really clever, unless there's some kind of legal judo that can defeat this.

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this might make a big difference on the number of injunctions that are stopping Doge from doing what it wants to do. Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, according to Semaphore, in their media newsletter, they said that the New York Times is shaking up its editorial board and they're moving some writers and they're firing some writers and they'll have, I think, fewer opinion people

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but they're trying to get better opinions. So they're trying to figure out how to do that. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like the Democrats in general. So it sounds like the New York Times is saying, our opinions are good, but sometimes the people explaining to them and the messaging isn't right. That's what it reminds me of. I feel like the Democrats just have this one thing,

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which is if we can fool people into thinking the way we want them to think, we win, independent of any reality. They seem to be just completely message and persuasion related without being connected to anything real. But the funny thing was, as part of the story,

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was I was reminded that, remember Krugman, their economist, who was sort of famous for having some famously bad opinions about things, but he was also a Nobel Prize, Nobel economics winner. He quit because he was so heavily edited by the editors on his opinion pieces. So he said it was like torture. He'd wake up to see his opinion piece in the New York Times and then see it was rewritten.

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Because it's time to make this domestic terrorism. Like, we have to get this fast. And it has to be extreme. And it seems to me that just about all of the people who didn't have a mask and did anything around a Tesla, aren't they all caught on camera? The Teslas have cameras all over them. How in the world do we not have their faces? And today, the police have facial recognition.

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or the important things have been removed or changed. And he'd be like, my God, that's not even my opinion. This is like somebody else's opinion. So apparently at the New York Times, your opinion was not even your own opinion. So it was always some weird mashup of what the editors edited after you submitted it. Can you believe that professional writers at the highest level, Krugman being one,

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would have their stuff edited, not just for clarity and not just for grammar or something like that, but rather the opinion. The opinions are not even real. There's some combination of an editor's opinion plus the writer's opinion. And you, as a writer or as a reader, you wouldn't even know what it was. You'd be thinking, all right, is this one person's opinion or is this a mashup of

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More than one person's opinion. Anyway, so it feels like the New York Times realizes that they produce propaganda, but they want to do it better. That's what it feels like. Now, here's my other first impression. Locally, whenever I see a restaurant that used to offer lunch and dinner, but not breakfast, and then suddenly they offer breakfast too...

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That restaurant's going out of business because nobody wants to offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner if you own a small restaurant. You don't want to do all three. It would be a crushing workload. You almost can't make money on brunch. Lunch you can barely make money on. Pretty much you do that because the landlord says you have to be open for lunch. And dinner is kind of where you make your money.

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We're talking about small private restaurants. So whenever I see one say, uh, we're going to try offering breakfast too. That's the last gasp that they're going out of business pretty soon. It means they can't make money on lunch and dinner because nobody who owns a small business would add every morning to their, to their current workload. That would just be crushing.

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So when I see the New York times radically changing their opinion I think, hmm, that's a dangerous sign for their business. Meanwhile, according to the Post Millennial, a Washington Post opinion writer quit because the opinion writer wrote an opinion that was negative to their owner, Jeff Bezos' new direction that their business

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Their opinion pieces should be limited to what freedom and free markets, I guess, personal freedom and free markets. And so the columnist wrote a opinion piece disagreeing with that as a direction. And then the, I guess it was the editor, killed that piece and said, no, we're not going to run an opinion piece that says our owner got everything wrong. And so she resigned.

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After 40 years, and this is what she said. She was a columnist named Ruth Marcus. And she said, quote, Jeff's announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner deems acceptable.

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Do you see anything wrong with that? Do you think there's ever been a time when the Washington Post allowed their columnists to write whatever they want? No. Do you think if Phil Bump decided that he was going to become pro-Trump and then decided to write a bunch of articles in the Washington Post being just unabashedly pro-Trump, you think he would have kept his job?

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I don't think that for a second. So no, there's never been a situation where you could write for a major publication any opinion you wanted. That's never been true. You always know what the boss wants and you make damn sure that you're within that umbrella or you get fired or you don't get published. So no, this is totally fake. It's always been the case.

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that opinions had to be within a narrow band, and you knew exactly what that band was based on who your boss was. So that doesn't look real. Meanwhile, in California, two Republican lawmakers who are in the minority, of course, in California, they're introducing a ballot measure to mandate voter identification. And I guess Trump has said that he might want to

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So it should be as easy as looking at the video, running it through facial recognition, and then you go arrest them. And you put them in jail for a long time. Because we can't really put up with this. This has to be a very hard response. Anyway, but what about the funding sources for this protest?

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have the law in California in return for helping with the fire relief. Now, I don't know that that's exactly what's happening. Did Trump really say that he wouldn't do fire relief unless they had voter ID laws? I don't know. But here's the amazing thing. Apparently, a majority of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all want voter ID in California. It polls really well.

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It's another one of these 80-20 things. Now, with Democrats, it's a smaller majority, but it's over 50%. There's not one group, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, that doesn't have a pretty solid majority that want voter ID. Now, apparently it's the Democrat leadership in California that doesn't want it. Doesn't that feel like a confession?

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Because obviously it's a practical thing to do because it's done in other states and other countries. Obviously it makes your elections more secure. And obviously the public wants it. And obviously the public would feel like the election was more valid if they had it. And this is everybody by majority.

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yet the democratic leadership has been completely against it why would you do that unless you thought it allowed cheating that kept you in office it feels like just you might as well just confess to a crime at this point because i don't think there's any chance that the democratic leadership are in favor of this no id

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unless they are planning to use it to cheat or they think it works in their favor cheating-wise. So this is so icky. And to imagine that, you know, I live in a state where the Democrat leadership can just ignore the will of the people and do something that looks so corrupt that even if you weren't being corrupt, wouldn't you be smart enough to know that it looks corrupt?

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It doesn't look like anything but corrupt. If you said, but Scott, there's this other reason. No, there's not. There's no other reason. It's purely in the hope of corruption or in support of corruption. There is no other reason the Democrat leadership would be in favor of no voter ID. Let's be real about that. So we'll see where that goes.

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Probably no place because the Democrats are in charge in this state. According to Gizmodo, There are a bunch of tech execs and rich people who want to build freedom cities in the U.S. You know, Trump had said he wants to make some government land, federal land available for building freedom cities.

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But there's this group that is pushing for these libertarian enclaves in Central America, and I think they've made some progress. They're the Freedom Cities Coalition. So what they're trying to do is build...

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Communities where they're just well designed and they've got a big corporate kind of corporate, let's say, presence so that you got jobs and you got housing and you have more of a libertarian, keep the government out of my business kind of a world. So the idea behind them is to be free of government interference, basically.

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So you'd have the people who organize these freedom cities be in charge of what the rules and local regulations are. And then you could see if wise, rich, successful people who have a lot in common, meaning they want to build a place that just works, just works really well. Let's see if they can.

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If you're involved in organizing the protest against the Tesla dealership, and let's say the first time it gets out of hand and there's a little vandalism, and I'm going to call it domestic terrorism, maybe the first time you could say, oh, okay, the organizer didn't know that was going to happen. But what happens if you do it multiple times and every time it gets out of hand?

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maybe it'd work maybe it wouldn't but it doesn't look like the government would be spending any money so as an experiment i like it and apparently the trump administration is showing some you know positive vibes toward the idea so this is a an existing organization they've they've got a good history at this point i've heard of them before and they have very specific ideas

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of how to build a freedom city that would be free of all the red tape and government crap, and so that maybe you can build a nice little manufacturing zone with the right kind of workers. So I love the idea of it. And I would say you can't know if it's going to work until you try.

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And if you get a bunch of billionaires who are willing to put their own money into it, I hope they're not asking for government money. That would seem the opposite of what they're up to. But yeah, let's try it. Meanwhile, according to Breitbart News, Lee Zeldin over at the Environmental Production Agency, he's canceled $2 billion worth of diversity, equity, and inclusion

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400?

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My God. Across nine grant programs, actually totaling $1.7 billion. bringing their total savings to $2 billion. And here's the funny part. Apparently the Biden administration spent millions of dollars on a museum to praise their environmental justice work. And their little douchebag museum was the size of a one-bedroom apartment just blocks from the White House.

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And it was costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. what kind of bullshit is that environmental environmental justice museum that doesn't feel like the democrats were literally just making up stuff uh how about i do the environmental dei justice museum and i'll be the i'll be the director And you'll only have to pay me half a million dollars a year. And we'll build a tiny little museum.

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And what exactly would you see in that museum? Did you ever say to yourself, you know, I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. So we'll visit the Lincoln Memorial and we'll see the Capitol and take a tour of the White House. But boy. We're really excited about the Environmental Justice Museum. And what did Stacey Abrams get? $2 billion to buy appliances, good appliances for people.

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None of this seems real. It just seems so insanely criminal and corrupt that there was a time when I thought, There's no way we're going to balance the budget just by getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse. I mean, it's going to have to cut deeper into the bone. But now I think we could. Because it seems to me that Democrats are just a criminal organization. And I mean that literally.

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It seems like Democrats, with all the NGOs and the weird suspicious funding, especially for DEI and especially for environmental stuff, it looks like it's just a criminal organization. And it's being unwound by the Trump administration if we don't get killed by domestic terrorists. Did I see that Steve Bannon had agreed to go on Gavin Newsom's podcast? Is that really going to happen?

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Doesn't that mean that the organizer is a domestic terrorist? Shouldn't they be hauled in as some kind of an accessory to domestic terrorism if they know it's going to happen? If they were surprised by it, then of course no. But once you're not surprised and you know it's going to happen and you organize it anyway, at what point are you a domestic terrorist?

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I saw just a mention on social media, so I'll need a fact check on that. But that would be interesting. I'm pretty sure I'd watch that. Now, I have to give Gavin Newsom some credit. the whole I'm going to do a podcast thing, it's looking smarter every day. It's just looking smarter.

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And if he keeps having Republicans on, especially the ones who have the most to say, he might be able to pull this off. Because I think he's correctly identified that it's just a great way to communicate. And if he gets the right guests, people will definitely watch it. I don't know.

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I would be concerned that if he didn't want him to be in a higher office, he's executing pretty well on at least this part of his plan. So I'd worry about that. But Joel Pollack was writing in Breitbart News. There's this new book that's talking about all the bad things in California. It's called, let's see, the book is called Fool's Gold. That was called, yeah, Fool's Gold.

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The Radicals, Conners, the subtitle's too long. It's called Fool's Gold. But anyway, it's about all the bad things happening in California. And one of the stories is that Newsom used some government funding to arrange for a bronze bust of himself to be sculpted and put inside City Hall to commemorate his term as mayor.

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Now, apparently when he was asked about it, he had feigned ignorance of the identity of the private donors who funded it, but apparently it may have been some funds that he had some control over. Let me be fair. If this book were written to be the real secret bad story of Trump, I would say, hmm, I don't believe it.

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Because books that are about all the bad things that one side does, I don't think they're the most credible things in the world, just by their nature. So I don't know if this story is real. And if you don't hear Newsom's version of it, you haven't heard the whole story. So I don't know if it's true, but it's a fun story.

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And it's a little too on the nose because you think of Newsom as sort of an arrogant, self-promoting kind of a guy. So when you hear that he was behind funding his own bust, it sounds kind of perfect. But I'm sure the book is well-researched. So I guess the story is that it's in the book. So what is true would be maybe separate from that.

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Anyway, a Chinese scientist figured out how to use a new kind of amino acids. Well, not a new kind, but a weaker kind of acid. to extract almost 100% of the lithium from old batteries, according to interesting engineering, Amir Colum is writing. Now, that's a pretty big deal. Imagine if you could extract without much effort 99.99% of all the lithium in a used battery. That's a pretty big deal.

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And, you know, every day there are new breakthroughs that will increase your heating efficiency, your battery efficiency by 30%. There's a lot going on in this whole battery situation. So it's pretty exciting. I guess this would work on not just car batteries, but even like little batteries. Anyway, so ladies and gentlemen, That's what I had for today.

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So I think we need to be way harder on this. Meanwhile, Politico and MSNBC and others are reporting that the USAID offices are madly shredding their documents because USAID is being defunded and shut down and absorbed, what's left absorbed into the State Department. But my question is, is this as bad as it looks, because it looks really bad, or is it closer to a baseline normal?

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I'm going to say hi to the Locals subscribers privately. But for the rest of you, thanks for joining. And I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place, if you're on YouTube or Rumble or X. Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. So good. Well, if you haven't heard, Rosie O'Donnell has moved to Ireland. Yeah, she moved to Ireland because Trump got elected. So that'll serve him right. I guess she showed us. Moved to Ireland.

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Um, let's say at the end of every administration, do people shred a lot of things that weren't that important? Just, you know, maybe it was too important to let people see it, but it wasn't, you know, super dangerous or illegal or anything. So I guess before I have a strong opinion about the shredding, of course, it raises lots of questions.

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Of course, it looks sketchy when you read about it on a context, but I do wonder how much is normal. You know, if this were a Republican organization, would they be shredding like crazy? I don't know. So I'm going to say that I have serious questions about it, and probably, you know, if I had to bet on it, it's probably covering their asses.

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Because as far as I can tell, the whole USAID situation was just so sketchy that there's just probably tons of crimes happening that they're covering up. That's what it seems like. Meanwhile, Meta, the company, is designing, they've got their own in-house chip, microchip, and it's supposed to cut their costs for AI training. Rowan Chung is writing about it.

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So I guess it would be manufactured by TSMC, the big chip company, but it would be their own design. And somehow it would help them cut reliance on NVIDIA, for their expensive GPUs. I wonder if this chip's going to be so good that they can really get away with not using NVIDIA.

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And it does make me wonder what the future of NVIDIA is, because given the insane amount of profitability NVIDIA has for the AI chips, Wouldn't that guarantee that a whole bunch of other rich companies are trying as hard as possible to match it or beat it? So, you know, NVIDIA is kind of a tough one to invest in because you don't know what the competition can do or how quickly they can do it.

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Meanwhile, Trump wanting to show some support for Tesla. did an event in front of the White House in which he bought a Tesla. So he picked out a nice red one. I think it was a plaid. That would be the high-end one. But Trump joked about how much he likes to drive, but they don't let him drive anymore. He hasn't driven in a long time.

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And then somebody asked, since he's the great negotiator, they said, you could ask for a discount. or I think they may have asked Musk if he was going to offer a discount. And before he could answer, Trump being Trump and being quick on his feet, he said, nope, nope, I'm paying full price. I'm not going to negotiate this. And basically he said, I'm the president of the United States.

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I'm paying full price, which was the exact right answer because he was there to support Tesla. He wasn't there to save a buck. So I love that. It was a good event. Tesla stocks up about 7% when I checked this morning. And what else is good? Did you know that gas prices are lower now than they were when Trump was inaugurated? Did you know that? So gas prices are down.

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Did you know that egg prices are down since March? So at the beginning of March, this is according to Perplexity, They're around $8 a dozen. Now they're down to $5.51. So gas is down. Eggs are down. And mortgage rates are down. So interest rates are down. Eggs are down. Gas is down. And we got new numbers for inflation. Inflation's down. So the February CPI,

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went to 2.8, and that was less than we expected. So people were thinking 2.9. But the core inflation, because they measure it two different ways, falls to 3.1, and that was better than what they were expecting, which was 3.2. And according to the Kobayashi letter, this is the first decline in both the headline and the core CPI, so those are the two measures of inflation, since July of 2024.

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So how does this make sense? Now, part of the reason is that the roiling of the stock market and all the tariff stuff and the uncertainty is causing people to say, whoa, there's going to be less demand for everything because people won't be doing so well. If there's less demand, prices go down.

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So we might be seeing just a response to, uh-oh, everybody's going to have to tighten their belts and we're just assuming prices will go down. Or it could be, that nothing that's happening with the tariffs is really affecting any real prices yet. Maybe it will later. I don't know. But we'll talk about that a little bit more. Meanwhile, Greenland had an election.

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And one of the things I didn't know is that Greenland, four out of five of their major parties are in favor of independence, not politics. joining the United States, but being independent from Denmark, four out of five. So the two biggest vote getting parties were both, hey, we want to be independent. So we'll see if that makes any difference.

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Speaking of Ireland, Ireland was wondering if Trump is going to put any tariffs on Ireland. And Trump said, tariffs on Ireland? Only on Rosie O'Donnell. Yeah, that's called a callback. It's called a callback. Well, if you didn't see the news yet on social media, one of the InfoWars hosts, Chase Geiser, got swatted a couple of times just yesterday.

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But certainly there's no problem with the Greenlanders wanting to be not captive by Denmark. So the question would be, is there some way that we can have some kind of a tight association with Greenland that would give them freedom from Denmark while also getting the subsidies or whatever economic benefit they were getting from Denmark. Would it be good for us? Do we need to own them like a state?

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Or would it be good enough to just have no tariffs and some kind of a security arrangement and maybe some kind of a mining? arrangement in case they have some minerals or something we want. So it might be someplace to work on that. Anyway, MSNBC, which we talk about as more of a joke than a news source, I was noticing that they always have at least one big lie going. Have you ever noticed that?

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That there's always like a central big lie that's clearly organized from the top, or maybe it's organized accidentally and they just all gather around it. But do you remember when one of the big lies was that the 2020 election was definitely fair because no court found it wasn't? That's a big lie. Now, I'm not saying it wasn't fair, and I'm not saying it was.

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I'm saying that the lie is that the courts could know. The courts only know what was handed to them. They don't know if something was fair overall. It's just not knowable. So that's one of the biggest lies. MSNBC was like just, you know, they were just living off that lie for a long time. Then there was the January 6th was an insurrection as opposed to an attempt to stop one.

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That's a really big lie. And then there was the Biden's brain is fine. Oh, Biden's brain is fine. I don't know what you're talking about. He's the best Biden we've ever seen, Morning Joe said. But now the new big lie, is that Biden left a strong economy. And they even had some economists come on and say, quote, somebody named Edward G. Luce, I guess.

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He said, quote, Trump inherited pretty much the perfect economy from a macroeconomic point of view. This is something that a real person said out loud.

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That's going to look like the biggest thing anybody ever did anywhere. $2 trillion per year. That's per year. It would save the country. It would put us back on a good track. It would be the biggest thing that happened in my lifetime. But there's something he's doing at the same time that's a little bit invisible that's bigger than that. It's bigger than $2 trillion a year.

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And that is he's teaching us how to do it. He's showing us systems versus goals. He's showing us how to move fast and break things. He's showing us how to get the best people and settle for second best and the best people can do things that the second best people just can't ever do. The second best people aren't just slower at getting things done than the best people. They can't do it.

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You need the smartest people in the world sometimes. And this is one of those cases. So watching him just attack it and then be a fast adjustment, be able to quickly say, that didn't work, change it. That didn't work, change it. That didn't work, change it. Oh, I got that thing wrong about the condoms? Good. Keep me honest. Make sure you keep fact-checking.

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That's worth more than $2 trillion a year. Because if he can teach that... let's say everything about the boldness of it to the methods he's using, we're going to be studying his methods forever. And one of the methods, of course, is moving fast and overwhelming the resistance, the resistance being the bureaucracy.

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So if we learn what he's doing, which is different from maybe what a lot of other people would do in the same situation, But of course, he's got a longer track record of making this kind of stuff work. If he makes this work, the United States will have a new DNA. He's reprogramming our DNA as a country because we're all learning this. We're all learning that the impossible is possible.

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Can't go to the moon or can't go to Mars? Yes, we can. Can't build an electric car? Sure, we can. Can't put a device on your head that reads your mind? Well, maybe we can. Can't cut the budget? Get out of the way. See what happens. So number one, he's teaching us that you can do the impossible, but you're going to have to stay up all night.

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Well, egg prices are up 15% and inflation hit 3% this month. That's probably what's bugging the stock market. You know, I never thought that eggs would be like a luxury good, but I was in the grocery store the other day and I saw I was going to get some eggs. There was so much activity in the egg section. People were talking and it looked like there was going to be a fight.

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You're going to have the best team and you're going to have to balls to the wall, 100% commitment, lots of good partners. You can get it done. These are deep, deep learnings that will become part of our personalities without doing anything about it. We're just watching. But he's training us what works and what doesn't in these big, big, big, big situations.

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If we learn that, that's worth more than $2 trillion a year. It will put us in a winning position for a generation at least until somebody forgets it. Well, there's also Doge is also looking into the federal employees who seem to have suspiciously high net worths, especially if that happened while they were working for their not so profitable jobs in the government.

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Now, the example that people are using, I feel like it might be unfair. because it's focusing on one person in particular, and there could be an explanation, but it is sort of an organizing thing to have somebody specific to talk about with specific numbers. So Samantha Powers, I guess she was head of USAID, and she was allegedly, she wasn't head until she got fired recently,

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And I guess her net worth went from $6 million to $30 million, even though she was paid $250,000 a year. And people say, hmm, that's not much time has passed to make all those millions of dollars. So how'd you do that? Well, before we decide that she's committed some crime because she made a lot of money, we should at least consider there are possible ways you can do that.

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Number one, what if she inherited it? Did anybody ask if her father was rich and died? Nobody asked that, right? She could have inherited. How would we know? Perhaps she knew somebody working at, I don't know, let's say NVIDIA. And at some point somebody said to her, I got to tell you, this NVIDIA stuff is amazing. You should get in on this last year.

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Well, what if she had said, you know, I've got $6 million. And there's never going to be anything like this NVIDIA again. So I'll put a million dollars on NVIDIA. Does that give you $24 million pretty quickly? It might. It might, if you picked the right thing. What if she got married and her husband was rich? Would that show up? Would we have noticed that? Now, I'm not saying she did.

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I have no information about it whatsoever. But if you think that the only way she could have made that money that quickly is corruption. Let me just, you know, brainstorm a little bit innocent until proven guilty, right? Samantha Powers is innocent until proven guilty. And I have no evidence, no evidence that she committed a crime. It's just, there's a little bit of a flag there.

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And maybe if somebody looks into it, they'll say, oh, you inherited an estate. Cool. That's the end of the question. But there will be other people that I think will be a little more suspicious and probably all of them have to be looked into. So I don't like targeting a person and then looking for a crime.

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And I don't love the fact that if somebody has a lot of money, that's automatically suspicious. There are people who make a lot of money quickly in ways that are illegal. It does happen. So we'll see. Elon Musk today and X talking about the size of the potential fraud in the government.

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He said this, he said at this point, now keep in mind, he's looked into things, you know, not comprehensively, but he's seen quite a bit so far. He says at this point, I'm a hundred percent certain that the magnitude of the fraud and federal entitlements, social security, Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, disability, et cetera, exceeds the combined sum of

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There were plenty of eggs, but it looked like there was a whole thing happening. And I just looked at it and said, nope, I'm not going to be in the middle of whatever that is because it looks like the eggs are going to start flying. So I didn't get any eggs. But I'm going to save up some money and maybe get some eggs sometime. Okay.

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of every private scam you've ever heard by far. Now, because they're such big entities, it wouldn't take much for it to be the biggest scandal in American history. And I wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a bigger scam and scandal than anything we've ever seen. You know, I'll say again, for years I've wondered why there are so many rich people. I know how I made my money.

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And everybody else does too. It's like, oh, you're the Dilbert guy. Yeah, that worked out for you. And if somebody is like the CEO of a company, I go, oh, okay. Startup, entrepreneur, oh, okay. And some people inherit, right? So there are lots of ways people make money, but I feel like there are too many rich people. As in, some of that's got to be crime, right?

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If you took the entire universe of rich people who just have nice houses on the hill when you drive by and you go, wow, that's a lot of people with big houses up there. I'll bet you, I'm going to tell you, there's no backing to this opinion. I'll bet 25% of our rich people are crooks. I'll bet 25%. I'll bet some of them are working with cartels. Some of them are drug dealers.

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Some of them stole from our government in clever ways. Some of them are on the take. I'll bet 25% of our rich people are just criminals. That's just a guess. So, yeah, GOP representative Eli Crane is putting some impeachment articles together for the judges who are trying to... Stop the Doge project in various ways. I don't think he's going to have any success.

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Like you said, I think he needs two-thirds, and there's no way you get two-thirds in this environment. There's a new executive order for Doge, and it puts the Office of Management and Budgets, OMB, puts them in charge of coming up with a plan to make the federal workforce smaller. Now, here's what I like about this. I think it's a bad look if Doge is the one who's doing all the cutting.

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If the Office of Management and Budgets, reporting to the president, decides, hey, okay, here's our plan for downsizing, and then Doge is both contributing to the plan, telling them what to downsize and what the plan should look like maybe, but the OMB has the final decision. That looks like a good model to me, because then you don't have the Doge is like a second president.

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Now you've got a president who's in charge of the OMB and the OMB just says some guidelines for Doge. Perfect. Yeah. As long as the head of the OMB is a solid, you know, a solid person, that's going to work. So I like that, but there's more to it. This new executive order is fairly massive in its impact potentially.

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So there's a rule in it that says any of the agencies in the government that want to add an employee can only do it if they get rid of four. So you're really, really going to need that new employee because it's going to cost you four existing employees. Now, Trump did that same kind of model with regulations and apparently it worked. So we know something like that could work. We'll see.

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Well, as you know, prisoner Mark Fogel was released from Russia, thanks to the good work of the Trump administration and their emissaries. Now, the big question is, why was that so easy? What did Trump offer in return? Now, I don't know the answer to the question, and I don't know if he offered anything in return. But let me tell you what I think happened. So this is Pure speculation.

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Let's see. And then the Doge team will have embedded team leaders to do continued oversight over agencies during the downsizing and presumably after. So I like that because they would basically be like auditors, but there may be, at some point, they may need to be more official, meaning that at the moment, Reporting to Musk is exactly the right answer.

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But at some point, if everything succeeds, Musk is going to want to pull himself out of the day-to-day. And maybe at that point, they report to the OMB. Just report to the OMB, and then it looks like an official structure, because it would be. And that would maybe make people more comfortable with it.

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Apparently, the new hires also have to be, according to the executive order, approved by some of the Doge team leads. I'm not sure why we need that, because if they had the OMB, well, I guess it's because there will still be a lot of Democrats in these agencies, and they might try to pull in a Trumpeter or somebody dangerous. So, yeah, I guess that makes sense.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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You've got to make sure they don't hire some people who are not good for the country. And anyway, so that's a really big deal, but I like the framing of it, putting the OMB in the mix. According to The Hill, the FEMA employee who famously told some of the FEMA people to not knock on the doors and try to help people with Trump signs... So apparently that person violated the Hatch Act.

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So I guess the Hatch Act is when you're doing political stuff that you shouldn't be doing political stuff. They should be just doing disaster stuff. Now, there's no, I don't know if there's a smoking gun in terms of somebody was injured by this policy, but at the base of it, the person who was involved seems to have argued that safety was the reason behind it.

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So I guess there's no question about what happened. Yes, people were informed, you know, don't necessarily knock on the door of a Trump supporter with a Trump sign. But why was it that they ever thought a Trump supporter would be dangerous if FEMA knocked on the door to try to help them? In what world do you think it's dangerous to knock on the door of a Trump supporter?

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Does anybody live in that world? That's like a reality I don't understand. If you told me the only thing that you know about the House is that it's a Democrat or Republican, would one of those be scarier than the other? Well, if it's an upscale House, I wouldn't care. Upscale House, nobody's going to be opening fire when you knock on the door. But let's say it's a low-income House.

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Would you be more afraid of a low-income Democrat or a low-income Republican in the context of a disaster in which everybody needs help and FEMA is helping everybody? In what world does a Trump supporter go nuts in that case? Even if they didn't like what FEMA was doing, you think they're going to pull a gun on them? In what world? This is basically the fake news just ruined FEMA.

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because they believe some kind of weird, you know, I don't know, maybe that Trump supporters are part of the secret resistance of white supremacists hiding in the mountains or something. Crazy stuff. Crazy. Well, I saw a post today by Mike Cernich that spoke to me. So I want to read his post. It definitely feels like a sign of the times kind of indicator.

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And then I want to tell you what I reposted in the same vein, or at least I hope it's in the same vein. So Mike Cernovich posted on X, I think it was this morning or last night. He said, I don't want to speak carelessly or with bravado, but I'm not going back. I will not submit ever or in any way to what we lived under four years ago, a hostile, occupating regime. I just won't.

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Now, that was exactly what I was feeling. So this is what Sturtevich does. He finds the exact emotional lever, and he found mine. So here's what I added to it, because this is what I've been thinking about a lot in the last 24 hours, even before I saw Mike's post. I said, yesterday I was remembering how innocent we were in 2016, or at least I was. We just preferred Trump. No big deal.

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The only thing I'm using as my, let's say, reasoning is that the best persuader would do it this way. So if you assume that Trump is really good at the negotiating thing, this is how he should have done it. And he should do the same thing with the Hamas hostages. And it goes like this. Hostages are not a negotiating point. Hostages are not a negotiating point.

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Then came the shaming, the canceling, the physical threats, the intimidation, the social stigmas, the economic attacks, the fake news, the corruption, and eventually the revelation of the entire corrupt architecture of the country. Now we're smarter and not so innocent. We're tougher. We're mad. And we have reinforcements that are more powerful than anything we have ever seen.

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We're not just supporters with a preference this time. Now it's ride or die. We will protect the Constitution. We will right the ship. Decisions have been made. Decisions have been made. We're not going to lose this. We're going to protect the country. We're going to protect the public. We're going to protect the Constitution. And we're going to make America great again.

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And nothing is going to stop it. Nothing. Speaking of things trying to stop things, you remember NewsGuard? So NewsGuard was this non-government organization that was going to help all the various countries get rid of their misinformation. And, of course, it wasn't really a misinformation thing. It was a political censoring vehicle pretending to help you with misinformation.

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It's a little chilly today, so I got my comfort blanket on. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.

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So here's what happened. Apparently... they had on their website, NewsGuard did, that Microsoft was one of the companies that they were helping with misinformation. Microsoft disavowed them in response. So I guess Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz, wrote to Microsoft and said, Is this real?

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Are you really backing NewsGuard now that we know that it's just a completely illegitimate, corrupt organization pretending to be about misinformation, but really just being part of the uniparty crushing the opposition? And Microsoft, instead of what you might have imagined during the Biden administration, but we don't know,

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They just said, you better take us off your website because we're not funding you and we're not working with you, basically. I'm paraphrasing. But Microsoft just said, nope, nope. Thank you, Senator Cruz, for bringing this to our attention. Nope, NewsGuard, don't associate with us. Now, would that have happened under Biden?

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Or do you think there's an awakening that has reached basically everybody in power at this point? I feel like there's an awakening. So did you know, let's see. So how bad is NewsGuard? Let me give you some meat on the bones if you want to know how bad they are. NewsGuard claims that some outlets are misinformation and some are not.

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So here's the ones they call misinformation and then the ones they say are not. They said misinformation was the Federalist, the Daily Wire, and Newsmax. They're called, quote, unreliable. Well, these are the outlets they think are reliable. The Jacobin, I don't even know what that is. The Atlantic, the Atlantic, and the New Republic are deemed reliable.

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The Atlantic is literally the most famous propaganda, not even trying to be anything but propaganda. Now, if you didn't know that, you might say, huh, okay, this is helpful. Here's a list of bad sites and good sites. But anybody who's paying attention even a little bit knows the Atlantic is just a Democrat propaganda. I don't think it exists for any other reason. I doubt it's making money.

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Isn't it owned by Jobs's widow? And doesn't it look like the only reason it's still alive is so they can write hit pieces on Trump? It's the most corrupt thing you could possibly imagine that, first of all, there is something that exists like that. But secondly, that NewsGuard has blessed it as an accurate source and says the Federalist is not.

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Now, I don't know about you, but I've read a lot of stories in the Federalist. I don't remember any misinformation. Do you? Like, I don't remember any, you know, every news entity gets things wrong. But what? I mean, these are all news sources that I have familiarity with. You know, Newsmax may get things wrong. They may be biased in their attacks. Of course, the news is biased.

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You return them or nothing good will ever happen to you again. It's the opening ticket to have a conversation. It's not part of the negotiation. It's how you get a ticket to the negotiation. You never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever negotiate for a hostage. Now, we always do it, right? We're always trading this for that. And if you have a straight-up trade, well, some negotiation might make sense.

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But that's a big difference between bias and misinformation. So, yeah, this is completely corrupt. There is an account on X that has been getting some attention lately, and it's an anonymous account, and I would love to know who's behind it. The account is called Data Republican. We don't know if it's male or female or more than one person involved, so it's anonymous.

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But Data Republican's been apparently doing some good work, sniffing out things that the data indicates, you know, looking for red flags. And one of the things that Data Republican put on Xbox So you should follow Data Republican. If you're on X, it's one word, Data Republican. You should follow it. And when I tell you this story, you're definitely going to want to follow it.

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So the idea is that Data Republican discovered seven NGOs out of the massive thousands of NGOs. So this was hard. Found seven NGOs. that are partially funded by American taxpayers that appear to be the key players within the so-called Deep State Uniparty. And one of the ways that they're identifiable is that they all have something like democracy in their name.

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So democracy enhancing, democracy helping, universal democracy helping, the agency to democratize democracy and all good democracy things. So that's one of the signals that they're not giving like, let's say, foreign aid for AIDS or trying to help the poor. There's something about democracy and they're well-funded and there are seven of them.

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And that explains why Trump is being called domestically a threat to democracy. Do you see it now? So we had these NGOs that were originally set up to battle for democracy against, let's say, the Soviet Union. They might have a different model or against anybody else who was actually not democratic that we wanted to be on our democracy side. So there were external facing things.

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And then suddenly this president, President Trump, he's being called a threat to democracy. Have you ever heard that before? Has any prior president ever been called a threat to democracy? Well, probably, you know, here and there, but not like something that all the entities are repeating every single day. You know, threat to democracy, threat to democracy, threat to democracy. That's organized.

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And there's no way it's accidental. It allowed these seven well-funded entities to turn their cannons internally at our domestic situation and try to turn Trump into what they're imagining he is, a threat to democracy. So that... is what I mean by the entire corrupt architecture of the country is being revealed. I'm seeing a picture of Bill Kristol going by.

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Yes, he was getting some money from an NGO. And everything was just what you thought it was. We didn't know who was involved, but you could feel the coordinated evil. because they all talk the same, you know, MSNBC and CNN and New York Times. And they'd all start using the same words like, hmm, looks like there's a constitutional crisis. Constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis.

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But that used to work. Today, I wake up and Elon Musk has a post on X laughing about all the different media using the same term. And there's a whole list of them. Oh, it's a constitutional crisis. Look at the constitutional crisis. Even the MSNBC couldn't get their own legal analysts to call it a constitutional crisis because nobody's defied any of the constitution.

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We've done stuff and the court will challenge it. And then the court will decide if we can do it. And if we can't do it, we'll try something else, you know, which might include impeaching a judge, which is also constitutional. It wouldn't, wouldn't work, but, um, So, yeah, there you go. We can now see kind of clearly that Democrats were just feeding off the teat of these NGOs.

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It was a way to launder money into their favorite things, keep them in power and enrich them. You know, not every single one, but clearly it was thievery, corruption and pure evil. And we're getting really close to having all the receipts. really close.

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But if a country is just holding somebody and they're just doing it to be dicks to get a little leverage on you, that's when you tell them you have no idea what's going to come down on you if you don't release them. This is first priority, top priority. You do not hold an American, period.

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Now, when I talked earlier about Mike Cernovich's post and my response, think about all the people who are pro-Trump who are risking their life and their careers right now. Think about it. Mike Benz is one. Mike Benz is the one who taught us this whole NGO architecture and how it all works. And he said on X that he's in physical danger, probably. I think that's true.

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I think he's in physical danger. Did he quit? Nope. Is Trump in physical danger? Yes. In fact, I said the other day that there was some kind of event where Trump, Steve Scalise, and Mike Johnson, three top Republicans, were on the stage at the same time. Two of them had been shot by Democrats, or at least somebody who didn't like them. Two out of three shot Democrats. Did Steve Scalise retire?

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Nope. He's standing on the stage. Did Trump retire? Nope. He's standing on the stage. Did Melania tell Trump to retire? Doesn't look like it. It looks like she's all in. I mean, I'm just guessing. I can't read her mind. But am I in danger? Of course I am. I mean, maybe not physical danger, but I got canceled. My reputation is destroyed. I'm all in. I got nothing left to lose.

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And if you look at how many people are risking their physical life... How about Musk? Do you know how much security Musk needs right now? A lot. Do you know how much risk the Doge people are taking? A lot. Physical, career, reputation, a lot. I've never seen any situation where so many... I guess you'd call them normal people, decided to ride or die.

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This time, we feel that this is a 1776 moment, ideally without the muskets. I think we can do this without the muskets, so that would be first choice. But we are putting our lives on the line. We are genuinely putting our whole lives, our reputation, our economics, ability to feed the family, and even our lives all in the line. And no regrets. We're all in.

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Now, this is an example of what Greg Gutfeld calls the shared risk. I don't do it because it's a shared risk. But boy, does it help to know that I'm not the only person putting myself out there, that lots of people are putting everything on the line. Everything. Musk is risking everything. Everything. And he's doing it right in front of you. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

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So just think about the number of people that you know that are Trump supporters who have been in physical danger, career danger, social danger. It's a pretty big list. And none of them are backing down. Look at Alex Jones. Not backing down. He's doubling down, but he's not backing down. And you could probably make a list of 25 people that took a serious hit for doing what they thought was right.

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If you hold an American, every weight that we can put at you is going to come for that one person, just for the one person. Now, that's the only way to approach this. But there's also a nice way to say it. So here's what I imagine Trump did. Hey, Putin. Now, this could be through intermediaries, not necessarily a direct conversation. But hey, Putin. I've been saying some good things about you.

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And now we're not going to take it anymore. We're not going back. It's just not going to happen. So Catherine Herridge was talking on a podcast recently. She said that, you know, Catherine Herridge, a well-respected journalist, she said she got fired at CBS News and then made a choice to go independent. And she said her first investigation on COVID injury in the U.S. military was

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And she said that X was the only platform where they could put the results of their investigation. X was the only place an honest journalist could tell an honest story. Think about that. No other entity, because most of them take pharma advertising. So X maybe has some too, but it's not driving any decisions. I don't know if they are in the MX, actually. So did Catherine Herridge take some risks?

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Oh, yeah. Yep. Catherine Herridge took some risks. Now, I wouldn't say that she's pro-Trump because she's such a good journalist. I don't know. That's exactly what you want. That's almost the definition of a good journalist or a great journalist is that you don't know who they support. They're just telling you what they found. But she's brave, and she had to pay.

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Fox News has a story that I think is probably fake news, but it's still useful. This would be useful fake news. The story is that I guess the Pentagon has some bills they paid, $1,300 for coffee cups. I don't know how many coffee cups that was. And I think that was like per coffee cup or something. $1,300. And then an 8,000% overpay for soap dispensers. So Doge is finding these kinds of expenses.

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Now, here's what you need to know. I did not do any research on this specific story. I'm going to give you a general statement. Since the 60s, the same story comes out at least once a year. Oh, the Air Force charges a billion dollars for a hammer. Oh, this one screw for this door was $50,000 every year since the 60s.

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Now, first of all, would you all agree that you've all seen this story, a version of this story, every year you've been alive? It never stops. And did you know none of them are true? Did you know that? It's always the same reason. Let's say let's say I'll give you an example just to and by the way, this is just a made up example, but it'll give you an idea what I'm talking about.

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Let's say Air Force One had some special equipment that nobody else in the world had and some design things that didn't exist anywhere else. And then later, 20 years later, because the airplanes last a long time, somebody says, oh, we need to add a cup dispenser. Or we need some cups that will fit the dispensers that are already on the plane.

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Or they need to be some special kind of cups that, I don't know, don't leak or something. Well, to make that little tiny order of whatever it is that Air Force One needed but nobody else will ever need anywhere, they might have to develop... part of a factory. They might have to buy equipment to manufacture that thing. They might have to design it because they don't have to design anymore.

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And then they manufacture it. When they're done, they spent a million dollars to make something that you think should be worth $5. But it actually cost a million dollars. And there wasn't any other way to do it except build the factory, build the piece, put all the overhead in it and try to get it.

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Now, I want to be very careful because I know half of you are so mad at me right now that you can't hear the next thing I say. So I'm going to say it three times to get through your wall of anger. It's probably still overpriced. That's the first time. It's probably still overpriced. That's the second time. Now, this one should penetrate your wall. It's probably still overpriced.

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I've been telling people that we could work with you to end the war. You want to end the war. We want to end the war. But we're not even going to have a conversation with you unless this guy comes home. So if you want me to let you end these, if you want me basically to say that you did a good job negotiating, that we got a good deal, that things are working out in some kind of a respectful way,

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So don't argue with me about whether it's overpriced. I concede that. But it's probably never overpriced in the way that you think it is, that it only cost them a nickel to make it and they charged a billion dollars. That's almost never true. It's usually some overhead, that special case, blah, blah, blah, blah. So even though it's fake news, in my opinion—

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again, without doing any research on this specific case, it's always fake news, has been since the 60s, is really useful because the public doesn't know it's fake news. So they say, what? The Pentagon's charging me a billion dollars for a hammer? We're going to have to go in there and shake things up.

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Well, if what you want to do is go in there and shake things up and cut costs, it's really useful because If the public thinks that they are charging a billion dollars for a screw, it's really useful because then you can get the support. Likewise, the same strategy is being used on the cuts for USAID. If you told the real story to the public, okay, public,

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The reason that these weird little charities exist is not because somebody really, really cared about the trans events in Uruguay, for example. It's because we were trying to control Uruguay and teaming with the trans community gave us a little bit of capacity building so that we'd have a little more leverage over Uruguay. Now, that's the story that the government can't tell you.

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And even Trump can't tell you that. And I don't think Elon Musk is going to say that in a press release because it basically outs our entire intelligence operation. USAID is basically just a front for the CIA. This would be the Mike Benz version of reality. And if you see it as a front for the CIA, the real argument is, do we need the CIA doing this stuff? Now, I think the answer is no.

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I think that probably we can get what we want without doing this stuff. And maybe it is going too far and it was too easy to get money for anything. So maybe there's some of this stuff that needs to happen for intelligence reasons and for legitimate protection of the republic.

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But probably the best thing is to cut it all and then have whoever needs it make a better argument and then add it back if we need it. That's probably what makes sense. But Notice how complicated that is? Wait, what are you saying? You're saying that USAID is just the CIA? Well, do you have a document that proves that? No. No. Nobody could possibly have a document that proves that.

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You can get there by inference. You can get there because somebody told you and you've been around it and you know what it really is. And maybe you've worked in the CIA, so you know exactly what's going on. But there's no document. I don't think Trump and Musk could come up with, oh, here's the memo. Look right here. It says everything we do is for the CIA. No, they can't prove it.

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So what are they going to do? So you do the thing like the million dollar hammer. You just tell the public something they can understand. Maybe we shouldn't be spending 50 million dollars on condoms for Mozambique. And then the public says, oh, yeah, I don't know much about this topic. I never heard of USAID before. But yeah, that's a lot of money for condoms. I think I'd rather save that money.

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And then you just go down the line. All right, do you want to support trans events in Uruguay? No, no, I don't. Yeah, shut that thing down. Oh, there's more. They're also doing DEI in Slovenia. DEI in Slovenia? Are you kidding me? Get rid of that, get rid of the million-dollar hammers, get rid of it all, close it down. Go Musk. So there is a veneer of bullshit over what we're saying.

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The only way you're going to do it is return this guy right now. We're not even going to have a conversation about Ukraine, and you can just keep losing people and losing your treasure. We're going to give them long-term missiles, and you just got to fix this, and you got to do it right away.

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but for a good purpose, the public, it would be hard to bring the public up to speed on what's really going on in the real world. It's, it's painful to figure out what's real. It's painful. And most people aren't going to even want to put it into work. So yes, if you could make the argument based on ridiculous expenses in the context of our budget being way out of control, if it works, it works.

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There's a, uh, Democrat progressive analyst, he's been called. He's worked with a lot of top Democrats, a guy named Rui Teixeira. Now, so the first thing you need to know is that he's deep in the Democrat world. So he's not a Republican. He's a deep Democrat. And here's something he said recently. He said that in policy terms, the Democrats have a point about the legality of Doge's efforts.

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So yes, I would acknowledge that there is an argument out there that Doge needs to be within the frame of legal activity. Of course. Yeah, I agree with that. And if it isn't, I'd like people who are smarter than me to figure that out. And then we'll adjust. We'll make whatever adjustment needs to be necessary. So the questions about whether Doge is legal or not legal, I think that's fair game.

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And so does he. That's fair game. I mean, I don't like how it's working out because it's slowing things down. But you can't say it's not fair to ask if something's legal. That's the first question you should ask. Is that legal? And if we don't know for sure, let's work through the process. Let's go through the courts. Let's figure out if it's legal. But here's the more interesting thing he said.

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He says that Trump occupies the high ground in this fight, meaning that all of the USAID looks like things that the public doesn't want, right? So even though they do basic stuff, or the claim is that USAID is doing some real charity, there are so many things like DEI and Serbia's Workplace

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that if Trump says we're going to cut the DEI program in Serbia that you're paying for, who exactly is going to argue with that? Again, if you were in the CIA and you knew there was some reason for that, you would argue, but you're not going to do it in public. So the public argument, Trump and Musk completely own. They've got the high ground. Look at what they're doing with your money.

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Nobody wants their money wasted. There's no... there's no cohort who says, you know, I'd like a little more corruption. I wouldn't mind if you spent some of my money. So even, uh, uh, Rui Teixeira is saying that, you know, Trump's got the high ground here. You might as well just surrender at this point if he's, you know, unless the courts can stop it. And then finally, you know, uh,

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Now, the carrot in that case would be to stay on good terms with Trump when everybody needs to be on good terms with him. and not take the risk that this one prisoner is going to derail everything. So if Trump does what he usually does, he injected some real risk that Putin said, I don't know what the blowback is going to be.

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um palmer lucky invented the uh the was it uh virtual reality goggles for facebook and then there was a falling out with facebook and he you know went off on his own he started uh anduril a military device company so he's got a number of different products drones and kind of high-tech things so he's specifically in the the higher end of the technology

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're lucky enough to have it now. Go. So good. You know, I've been meaning to mention this. I keep forgetting. Mike Johnson... has the best command voice you're ever going to hear.

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So that's sort of his domain that he carved out there. And apparently Enderil Industries has now been selected to lead the development and production of the Army's integrated visual augmentation system, which is, I think, you put on the goggles and you see the real world, but there is stuff that's added to it, enhanced reality. So maybe the stuff added to it is

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somebody communicating with you, a map of something over the hill, how much energy you have, how much power you have in your batteries. So I don't know what it would be, but one does imagine it would be really, really helpful to have basically, I don't know if there's any AI in it, but probably there will be. So we would be sending out basically super soldiers to

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who had all the abilities of robots, basically, but on top of that, human abilities. So, yeah, this could be kind of a big thing. I guess they're going to work with Microsoft on this. So, could be a big deal. Meanwhile, you know that Trump has threatened that if Hamas doesn't give up the remaining hostages, which include possibly two Americans that might be alive, but we don't know for sure,

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He said that if it doesn't happen on Saturday by noon, and we don't know which time zone he's talking about, but he says Saturday at noon, if they don't release all the hostages instead of what he thinks is stalling, there's going to be hell to pay. Oh, Nicole Shanahan is going to have an interview with Data Republican. There you go. Look at the risk that Nicole Shanahan and RFK Jr. took.

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You see the size of the risk that people are taking. People are just laying it out. They're just laying down, laying out their whole lives. It's so inspiring. And Nicole is one of the most inspiring people in the game right now. So anyway, if Hamas doesn't give back the hostages, they'll be held to pay. Now, the first thing I think to myself is there's something non-Trumpy about this.

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Because there is a process that's already agreed, and although it's not moving as quickly as possible, every time a hostage gets released, that's a really big deal. Even one hostage extra would be a big, big deal. And that's the way we should treat it. On the other hand, you can't let the terrorists manipulate you. So Trump has said there will be hell to pay.

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I didn't know what hell to pay would mean. I saw some analysts on some show describe some of the options. One would be to cut the aid because apparently they can't really eat, you know, the non-militants can't eat because there's no food in Gaza. So if it doesn't come from the outside and Israel doesn't let it in and there isn't enough of it, they don't eat. So that's a pretty big deal.

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Now, I guess Hamas is claiming that's why they're slowing down the hostage release, because they say the aid is not coming enough or fast enough. Now, I don't know if that's true, but it's going to get worse if they don't release the hostages. So one thing we can do is cut their food off, but we could also cut their utilities, could cut their water and their electricity.

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There's still a little electricity and maybe a little water somewhere. They could cut it off. Now, that would be, of course, punishing the civilians more than the fighters, but everybody has an option of being there or not being there at this point. It could include emptying Gaza of all the civilians, as in a forced exit, as in now you don't get a choice.

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All civilians, every one of you is leaving every part of Gaza, and then we're just going to stomp everything that's left. We're going to kill all the tunnels, kill every person in Hamas, and start over. Now, here's what I'm speculating about.

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But since we do have a chance to end this war thing, and in a way that maybe he'd be at least a little bit happy, he's not going to blow it over one hostage. So I think... And I don't know. I think Trump got him with nothing in return, which is the way it should have been. That's exactly how it should have been. But we'll see. It could be that there was something traded.

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Part of the context of this is that the most recent hostages, which we believe were released in the order of healthiest first, everybody who saw them, the healthiest ones that are remaining, the healthiest ones, look like Holocaust survivors. They're never going to be the same. So if there's a delay and the healthiest ones look like Holocaust survivors, what does that suggest to you?

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What it suggests to me is there may not be anybody left alive. What it suggests to me is that if there is somebody who is alive, they might not even want to be at this point. That whatever is left is going to be horrible beyond imagination. And it makes me wonder if Trump maybe knows a little bit more than we do. about the likely situation for the remaining hostages.

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It's possible that the reason they're delaying it and claiming that they need new food is they don't have another living one, and they don't have one that hasn't been raped, and they don't have one that's not missing limbs. Whatever is left, as much as the families, of course, would want them, as important as that is, Trump might not know, he might know, that there's not much left.

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It might be that bad. And he would know more than we would, and he's got a good sense for these things. So if the reason for Hamas's delay is because they don't have anything to give us, he's pressing the point. Now, he always has the option of backing off. If Hamas said, oh, we'll do this or that, he has an option, because remember, he's a negotiator.

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So he doesn't have to use his threat if he gets something that seems like it's progress. And the construction has started near me, so it's going to get noisy. So I would normally say you should wait to see if you got the hostages back because a few more weeks isn't going to kill anybody. Well, I shouldn't put it in those terms. It might kill somebody. But I think maybe Trump is playing this right.

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I think he's pressing them to prove that they even have a hostage and they don't have evidence that there's a living hostage left. I don't think. I don't think there's any evidence of it. So it could be that he's pressing them to prove somebody is still alive.

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And if they can't prove somebody is still alive in the next few days, I think Gaza is just going to become a burial ground for whoever's left. And Trump's very clear about it. very clear about it. Now, I don't know where everything's going to go, but it is a strong stance, and I have respect for it, even if it turned out to not be an optimal outcome.

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It feels like the right time to push and the right way to push, so I'm going to support that. All right, that's all I got for you today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals, privately. If you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining. I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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But the country felt pretty good about it, and it made us once again remember that whatever Biden was doing was incompetent or evil or corrupt because it feels almost a little too easy to to do the things that didn't look possible under Biden. We'll see. According to Steve Watson, writing for Modernity, mental health experts are seeing a big increase in Democrat clients.

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So a lot of Democrats with mental health problems because of the despair and burnout that they're experiencing over the Trump first hundred days or so, or whatever it's been so far. And Axios has an article saying, talking about that, how people are feeling burned down because they can't keep up with the rapid-fire policies of Trump.

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Now, to be fair, I also feel that the pure weight of all the changes, even though I like them, so even though I'm positive about the changes, it is overwhelming. And if you're... I guess I could call it my job in a sense, is to look at the news every day. It's really work. Oh, my God. You know, I love doing the podcast. It's one of my favorite things. So it never feels like work, but it does now.

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I feel like I'm on the Doge project because I'm like, oh, my God. I've got to read all the background of this NGO and how it fits into the larger architecture of everything and how everything's connected and who all the players are. And then there'll be like seven more of those stories every day. Every day. So, yeah, it's pretty exhausting.

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And I definitely feel it on my own mental health, even though I like everything about it. It is just so overwhelming. So, yeah, if you're a Democrat, you're probably having some tough times right now. Well, you probably saw the video about Trump was in the Oval Office and he was talking to the press. And Musk was there with little X, his young son.

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And little X was stealing the show by being like little John John Kennedy and hanging around the Resolute desk and just basically stealing the show. But my take on it was, wow, this is great. It's very transparent. You're seeing the two of them so that you can answer pretty much all questions between the two of them. They were very open.

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Musk did most of the talking, I guess, because Doge is the big thing at the moment, so it makes sense. And I thought it was all good, nothing negative. So what do you think MSNBC thought about it? Now that you know MSNBC and CNN are not real news, it's not just that they're fake news. They're just part of the resistance, basically. And they're propaganda networks when it comes to political stuff.

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How do they frame it? MSNBC's Morning Joe wants you to know that we're in a constitutional crisis and there's a lot of chaos. There's a chaotic flow of activity. And that Trump doesn't care what the Constitution says. But their own legal analyst said, no, it's not a constitutional crisis. It's working exactly within the bounds of the Constitution. I'm paraphrasing.

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But basically, you can do some stuff. And then if somebody doesn't like it, they can go to court, which they did. And then Trump was asked what he's going to do about all these judges that keep ruling he can't do this and can't do that. I think there are several rulings like that now. And he said, I always obey the court. So yes, of course, whatever the court says goes.

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And what you should listen to is not just that he's got a nice sounding voice, but that when he's talking with any authority, he always goes down on the end of the sentence. Because if you go up at the end of your sentence, if you go up at the end of your sentence, you sound like a valley girl, but also you sound like you're not so sure. We should start a war. and put all of our money into it.

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Now, nobody was expecting that. At least the bad guys weren't. But yes, they're blaming him for a constitutional crisis. And he says, we always obey the courts. And I was trying to think, is there any time in the past he didn't obey a court? I couldn't think of one. So I thought, yeah, that's exactly the right frame. I always obey the court.

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Because that really just eliminates the whole you're a dictator constitutional crisis. Oh, if the court is involved, we'll listen to them. Separate form of government. Now, at the same time, it's completely legal to impeach a judge. So that's on the table, but I don't think there's any way we can impeach a judge. I think you need two-thirds of one of the houses or both or something.

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And we'd never get there. So I don't think there's any practical way. But apparently, that's what El Salvador had to do. So the miracle in El Salvador was being completely blocked by several of their judges at the highest court. So they impeached them. Now, I don't know too much about the government of El Salvador, but how did they have enough power to impeach judges, like multiple judges?

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I don't know. There's probably more to that story. But they got away with it. And then when those judges were gone, they rolled up all the bad guys, put them in jail, and now the country is looking pretty strong. So it could be a thing in other countries. I don't think it's going to happen here. So MSNBC is going for the constitutional crisis and chaos. There's chaos.

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Lawrence O'Donnell says that Elon Musk, quote, humiliated Trump in the Oval Office. See, they're going for the, oh, let's drive a wedge between them. Because they think that Trump is a narcissist and that if they can just get him thinking he's not the star, then suddenly they can cleave him apart. But I think they have a complete misunderstanding of who Trump is.

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Trump likes, not likes, loves the highest functioning people, the best athletes, the smartest people, the most capable, best entrepreneurs. He loves excellence. He's all about it. And if that excellence accrues to the legacy of his office, and my God, this would, can you imagine?

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If Musk pulls off balancing our budget, which looks like it's at least within reach, Trump will forever be the best president of the United States. So do you think he's going to get rid of Trump, get rid of Musk, because MSNBC, a propaganda network, said that, oh, he's stealing your limelight. He's taking all your attention. No. No.

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I think Trump is playing the long game, and he knows that if Musk succeeds, that in 100 years, we might not remember Musk's contribution, but you'll definitely know that Trump was the best president we ever had, if he pulls that off. So they're going for that. Here's you, humiliated. Of course, Joy Reid on MSNBC, she's like, oh, Elon Musk is the co-president of the United States.

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The pushback is not sitting well with the co-president. Who held court? Blah, blah, blah, blah. It's all so stupid that it's barely worth repeating. You know, it was so annoying when I thought MSNBC was at least trying to be honest or trying to give the news. Once you realize that they're not trying, it's just funny. So I just mock them. No, no, no, no.

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Well, one of the things that came out of that Oval Office presser, I guess it was a presser of some kind, was the claim that USAID had allocated $50 million for condoms for Gaza, meaning Hamas, basically. That turned out not to be true. And so one of the reporters asked Musk about that and corrected him in the question.

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That just sounds like you have no confidence. But Mike Johnson, when he talks, he's got the voice thing down. He always ends lower than he starts. We're going to settle the budget. We're going to get it done by Tuesday. We're going to make sure that the country is free. That is really, really good persuasion. Just ending lower. That's all you have to do.

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Apparently, there is a $50 million budget for condoms, but it's for a place in Mozambique, which I think is also called Gaza. So there was some confusion about which Gaza was, a county in Mozambique or the Gaza that we always talk about. And Musk's reply was that... he won't get everything right. And so it's good that they bring it up and then he'll quickly correct. Oh, my God.

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When does a politician ever say that? Get challenged during an open public thing and say, well, I won't get everything right. Now, he did complete his point, which is 50 million for a condom seems like a lot. no matter where they're going. And it doesn't sound like something we want to pay for. So his point stood.

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It just wasn't as clean and politically damaging as if it had been Gaza, the other Gaza. But still, it looks like something that the public is not going to support. But that's like a breath of fresh air. And one of the things that I think Musk is doing has more value than the cuts. So let's say that Musk cuts, I don't know, $1 to $2 trillion out of the budget.

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So it might be bad for Apple, and it might be bad for a number of these companies, but I don't know how much we need any of this. One of the things that might come out of this is Americans having a completely different idea of what's essential. And it's easier to tell your kid that you don't want to buy them a PlayStation because the price is through the roof.

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Well, I'd love to buy you a PlayStation, but not at $2,000. Yes, I do think it's time to upgrade your iPhone, dear, but not at $3,000. So it looks like you're going to keep your iPhone for maybe a year or more. So there's a lot of stuff that we just sort of don't need. We want, but we don't need. Now, there's other stuff I'll talk about, pharmaceuticals and rare earth minerals and stuff.

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There are some things that are just essential. But a whole bunch of stuff we just don't need. And if a parent can say, to a kid, eh, it's too expensive now. We're going to wait a year. That might actually help the parent. It's one less thing that they have to buy that they know won't be used that much.

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They won't be participating in this weird CEI social credit system. They no longer use the term Latinx. They won't be lobbying for legislation that isn't core to their business. Basically all the things you'd want them to do. So another big victory for Robbie Starbuck. Keep an eye on him because he's just rolling up the winds against racism.

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All right, so I'm going to start with the smartest people who understand tariffs and what they say the situation looks like. We're going to start with Scott Besant, who's on Fox Business with Maria Bottaroma. And He talked about the China exports to the US are five times greater than our exports to China. And he goes, so they can raise their tariffs, but so what?

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Now, so what is more of a negotiating position. Obviously, there's a so what to it. But this should be maybe the most important piece of data. So the most important data is that they export more than we sell to them. As long as it's five times difference, we should have the advantage because they've got five times as much exposure than we do for prices going up.

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Now, you might say, but Scott, it's actually Americans who are paying that tariff because when it gets to America, that's who pays it. To which I would say, well, probably it's going to depress demand. And if they have that much exports and it depresses demand, that's a lot of pressure on an economy that we don't know how strong it is because we don't have perfect information about China.

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Here's what the Wall Street Journal says. Again, they would be smarter than the average people about stuff like this. The Wall Street Journal says China's GDP growth could follow 2.4 percentage points with 100% tariff. That's what Goldman says. And according to Wall Street Journal, China's growth was already anemic at 5%. So I guess 5% is anemic if you're in China.

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That would be good for the United States, but anemic for them. If you cut that in half, meaning what could happen with these tariffs, there will be serious domestic chaos. Now, you're saying to yourself, it doesn't matter how much domestic chaos there is. The government just has an iron fist on the people, so it doesn't matter.

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I would argue that domestic unhappiness is always important, even to dictators or anybody who has full control of stuff. So that could be a big deal. But again, we don't know what numbers coming out of China are real. And I don't know if anybody's really smart enough to predict the exact impact. But you can see that China has some exposure because their economy is not super strong.

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And there's no doubt this would be a hit. So it's a hit on an economy that's already being called anemic. Then there's Kyle Bass. Now, Kyle Bass I love because he's as anti- China as I am. He's been for years. But he's also very well informed about the whole financial situation with China. Better than the average person because it's his business.

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He says there's a reason the Chinese demanded that the IMF stop publishing their reserve adequacy calculation for China and for Hong Kong in 2019. He says China doesn't have adequate USD reserves to operate their economy. Now, that's a little bit out of my zone. But just know that somebody who knows more about the need for USD reserves to operate your economy says that they're running out.

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Are they? Well, again, I think all data is difficult to estimate. But Kyle thinks that they're not in good shape because they demanded that the IMF stop publishing their reserve adequacy.

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why would china insist that somebody stops publishing their reserve adequacy unless it wasn't adequate so that's a pretty good you know connecting the dots there if it's not adequate and they needed to operate their economy that's a problem then there's uh chamath palihapitiya who has the advantage of being one of the smartest people around and He has looked deeply into it.

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And his opinion on X was, as many problems as the USA may have, I would say China's are worse. And listen, China's seen the slowest growth they've had in decades. And again, that would be based on what China tells us. So it might be even worse than they tell us. Their attractiveness as a recipient of foreign domestic investment has come to a halt.

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Finally, speaking of DEI, the Post Millennial is reporting that the top U.S. military official on the NATO military committees was fired and people think probably because of DEI. Now, as you know, whenever a woman in the workplace does something that's never done before, we don't say, oh, somebody did something good.

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How many of you remember in 2018 when I lost my stepson to fentanyl and I told you that China was unsafe for business and if it wasn't unsafe for business, I was gonna make it unsafe? And there wasn't, I don't think there was a single person Who thought that was even remotely possible? Because we were doing well with China, it seemed like. China was just coasting along.

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And I said that investment in China was going to come to a halt. Here we are. Chamath points out they have a very difficult demographic problem. Too many old people, not enough young. I don't know if that will have anything to do with the tariffs. because that's sort of a longer-term problem. Tariffs are a shorter term. And then number four, they need exports.

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They do not have the capacity to absorb everything they create. Now, America has a consumer society. China has a savings society. So if China said, all right, we don't need to sell all this stuff externally because we've got a gazillion people in our own country, we'll just sell it internally. but they're not really poised to buy stuff. They're more poised to save money.

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So they don't have the option that the US does where we could potentially, in a situation like this, we can sell more stuff internally. So I went to Grok, which I use several times today. And oh my God, the combination of smart people on X plus using Grok to fill in any gaps that you don't know is the ultimate

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news understanding model i don't think i could say enough about what elon musk has done for the ability to understand your world you need both it's not good enough just to have the smart people weigh in because you you wonder about bias and you don't know who's right about what but then you you fire up grok and ask the question who can withstand the tariffs more easily china or the us now the the overall answer is

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You know, it sort of depends, and there's lots of moving parts, so Grok can't be completely sure. But here are some of the things it says. The U.S. is less trade dependent, so we know that. Let's see. So exports and imports for the U.S. are about a quarter of our GDP, but exports to China are only 7%. of U.S. exports.

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And we have the biggest consumer market, so like I said, we have the ability to possibly sell more things internally if we wanted to. So that 7% we're selling to China, we could probably find another buyer. It's not the most money in the world, and it's something we could absorb at the size of our economy.

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Tariffs could reduce the deficit by curbing imports, but they also risk supply chain disruption. So supply chain disruptions would be terrible. So apparently China is 16% of US imports. Is that right? Let me check my other numbers. Now, China's economy is heavily export-driven, so their trade with everybody accounts for 37% of their GDP. But the U.S. is their biggest market.

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It's roughly 17% of China's exports. Now, these are numbers that completely surprised me. I would have guessed, because everybody's talking about America being this gigantic economy, I would have guessed that we were, like, 30% of their exports, but we're only 17. And they're only 7% of ours.

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So I'm kind of surprised because maybe both sides can absorb a lot of pain, at least in terms of price, for a while. So the U.S. is a critical market, but it's 17% of China's exports. And China has diversified trade partners, so they can trade with other people, but that's not something that can happen quickly. The U.S. could face inflation and trouble cutting interest rates. Yes.

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We say, it's the first woman to ever accomplish whatever, or to ever be in this line of work, or to ever achieve this, the first woman. Well, The person who was fired is Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield. And she was one of the few female Navy three-star officers. And she was the first woman to lead the Naval War College. And now she's the first three-star... I'm sorry, it's not funny.

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So there'll be domestic upheaval in the U.S. and maybe some inflation, almost certainly some inflation. It would take years for the U.S. to build domestic manufacturing, so that's not going to happen right away. Public tolerance for this economic interruption is a wild card, as in it's a wild card.

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So if Trump doesn't sell this and it doesn't show some kind of quick benefits, it's going to be a problem. China can deploy funds quickly to offset their losses so they can just pump some money into their into their economy, but that's not good either because it inflates property, bubbles, and creates more debt, and they're not really so stable that they want to do that.

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But their manufacturing base is unmatched. It would be hard for us to get a lot of stuff anywhere else. So, for example, the antibiotics and rare earth minerals and stuff like that, we would just be sort of analog for a long time. There's stuff we couldn't simply go to our allies, such as Australia. They have a lot of rare earth stuff. They just wouldn't have enough.

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So even if we tried to employ every one of our allies all around the world, and that would include, like, I guess Japan does a lot of refining of stuff that comes from Australia, the rare earth stuff. And there are a bunch of other markets that have some rare earth stuff. But if you added it all together, it doesn't come really too close to the amount we're getting from China or have been.

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Let's see what else. So my question also was, could the US form an economic trading block that competes with China completely? In other words, is there anything that China is doing that we couldn't, in let's say two years, find other countries that do it. So, for example, I said Australia has a booming rare earth minerals business, but it would have to boom a lot more

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and very quickly for it to make up the difference. Could it? Is that something that they could just spin up in two years? I mean, it's already operating, you know, it's already fully operating. Maybe. I don't know. But the other places you could get rare earths are, let's see, besides Australia, Canada, Japan. Canada might be mad at us.

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Anyway, so the rare earth mineral thing looks like a big problem. We couldn't easily do that. The making of electronics. Did you know that who is the second biggest maker of electronics after China? It turns out it's the U.S. I thought the U.S. had just lost its ability to do everything. But the U.S. is the second biggest maker of electronics. South Korea and Japan have a lot of game as well.

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So there might be some things that South Korea and Japan can pick up in the short run. But the U.S. looks like maybe it could make, if it had the rare earth minerals, it looks like it could make a lot of stuff. Pharmaceuticals. China has a lot of pharmaceuticals, but did you know that the other big pharmaceutical makers are India,

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The United States, again, I didn't realize that the United States was actually still big in pharma, but I think we're third after India and China. But also Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Japan, and the UK all have pretty robust pharmaceutical businesses. Israel does too. They've got one of the biggest, what do you call it, generic pharmaceuticals.

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One of their biggest companies in Israel is a generic pharma company. And Trump said, we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals. He said, when they hear that, they're going to leave China and going to reopen their plants all over the place in our country. Now, here's a question.

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If you had to design a pharmaceutical operation from scratch, that feels like it would take a long time because you'd have to really think through, you know, what devices do I need and how many people and how big is the building and all these decisions. But if you're just trying to clone an operation that's already up and running in another country, let's say China, how long does that take?

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Because don't you already have the plans? Now you'd have to make them meet U.S. building standards and stuff. But I wonder if there's actually a fast way for the pharma that's operating in China but is owned by U.S. or other countries. I wonder if there's a fast way just to clone them. Say, just build the same thing. Just make sure it meets U.S. building standards. We'll find out.

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Then there's the risk that China could sell its U.S. treasuries. How many times have you been told that the U.S. treasuries are substantially owned by China? So it's like China owns the United States because they own our treasuries. Well, apparently China's ownership is only 7.4% of foreign-held U.S. debt. And it's way down from what it used to be. So it was much bigger in 2012 and 2016.

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But she's the first three-star admiral to be fired for racism. I really shouldn't be laughing at that. Because she is a member of the military and I should show more respect. But what I'm making fun of is not her so much. I'm making fun of the fact that we always say the first woman to ever do anything. And I'm so beyond that. Or the first black American to do a particular kind of job.

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So that doesn't seem like a big risk. And if they tried selling those treasuries, it'd be bad for us because it would increase our borrowing costs. But China would be devaluing its own holdings and weakening the yuan. which would hurt its export business. So everything's so connected that anything we do to China is bad for us. Anything China does to us is bad for them. Then in an unrelated topic,

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I forget his first name, but who's the comedian whose last name is Schultz? And it looks like he's trying to maybe pivot from being just a stand-up comedian to being a politically relevant voice. And he doesn't exactly have the skills for that, but he's making a game effort at it. But here's what he said recently. I think he was talking to Chamath on his podcast.

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And he said, Schultz said, if Trump announces at the end of the year we're eradicating income tax for people making under $150,000, midterms are going red. Now, do you think that's true? If the only thing Trump did is said no federal income tax is under $150,000? Because he has hinted that that might be a thing he'd do.

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He's also hinted that he might raise taxes on the richest people, people who make over a million dollars a year, I think. Do you think that would be enough to make the midterms go red? I don't. I mean, probably wouldn't hurt, but I think the tariff thing and interest rates and the cost of a banana are going to overwhelm those things. But it certainly would be popular.

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I don't know how we can afford it, but it might be popular. There's another big problem called the baseless trade. Now, here's something I never heard of, but apparently this affects the U.S. hedge funds. Now, the hedge funds... and other big investment places, they can bet on just about anything. They can bet on the future. Will the future be better or worse than you thought?

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Will these securities go up or down? But they can also bet on price differences. So apparently hedge funds have big bets on the price difference between the U.S. Treasury bonds and another financial tool called futures. So the actual price versus the future price of the U.S. Treasury bonds. And apparently this bet went very wrong because of the new tariffs.

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So there'd be a somewhat devastating financial loss for these hedge funds. To which I say, isn't that what makes them a hedge fund? It's not like it's some kind of guaranteed annuity. The whole point of a hedge fund is... The point of a hedge fund is that it's a riskier business, and they're making bets that other people don't make, and maybe they got this one wrong. So I don't know.

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How many of you have investments in a hedge fund? I mean, I'm doing all right in life, but I've never had a penny in a hedge fund. It just seems like that's the super rich thing to do, not just the you're doing well thing to do. I don't know how big a deal that is. Well, another drama, this is kind of fun. So Elon Musk, of course, is all in on Doge, but tariffs are not part of Doge.

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So Musk is apparently taking a view that's more anti-tariff. I don't quite understand his full point of view, but what I appreciate is that he's acting like the head of a car company. So he's acting like a manufacturer. And he has every right to promote what's good for his stockholders and what's good for his companies.

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And he would like fewer tariffs, basically, because it's going to be real expensive for him, even though it turns out that the top four cars made in America that are made mostly in America with American parts and assembled in America, the top four are all Teslas. So he's absolutely killing it compared to anybody else in making things in America. But you can't get everything.

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And I'm thinking to myself, what are we just figuring out that people can do jobs? Why is that still a thing? Shouldn't we be long past? It's the first Latinx to do something. Yes, everybody can do jobs. It turns out there's sufficient smart people in pretty much every group, and they can do jobs. They can hold jobs. Yeah, amazing. Well, Bill Pulte, who's the U.S.

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So he's still got some things that would get really expensive. And so I don't mind that he's fully pro-Doge. At the same time, he's advising Trump that tariffs are a mistake. I like it when smart people disagree. And as long as you know that You know, he's operating not as a doge head when he makes these comments. He's operating as the head of a major manufacturing entity. But that's fine.

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I mean, it's not like we're confused. It's not like we see him as not the head of Tesla or something. So yes, I don't know what's true in an absolute, but when I see the head of a giant manufacturing company arguing for things that would be good for the manufacturing company. That's okay. Yeah, that's the way you'd expect.

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But he's getting in a shouting, or let's say an insult match with Peter Navarro. This is where it gets funny. So he labeled, Musk labeled Navarro's comments as dumber than a sack of bricks and called him a moron on Axe. He called his claims demonstrably false and he cited Tesla's high US content. So I guess Navarro may have made some claims about Musk and Tesla that weren't quite true. But then...

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So Mr. Navarro, Peter Navarro, denied that there's any kind of rift between them. And right after he denied that there's a rift, Musk called him on X, Peter Retardo. Sorry, allergies are getting me. Peter Retardo. Anyway, what I'd love to hear is what Elon Musk's alternative plan is. So if he's got a plan that's better than what Trump is doing, why wouldn't I want to hear it?

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Why wouldn't Trump want to hear it? But I just don't know if he's in a situation to be as completely independent in his thought as you would want somebody to be because he's got a fiduciary responsibility to his stockholders. which it looks like he's taking seriously. So that's fine. People can disagree. Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt said that boys will be boys.

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And she said Trump is staying out of it. Trump staying out of it is exactly the right thing. We don't need Trump getting into that. It's funny enough as it is. So just leave it where it is. According to Zero Hedge, there are many billions of dollars of factories being canceled in the United States that were going to make batteries for electric cars.

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And I guess the uncertainty of the future of electric cars because of Trump's ruling, you know, we went from the future has to be lots of electric cars under Biden to you don't need an electric car. You buy whatever the market wants. So it made suddenly these multi-billion dollar investments in building battery-making plants in the United States.

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It just suddenly turned them into a bad idea because you don't even know if people are going to want more electric cars in the future or at least enough to build all these factories. So that's a big negative. There's a little update on the, do you remember the story of the open AI whistleblower who was ruled to have committed suicide before he was finished with his whistleblowing?

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And a lot of people, including his family, said, hmm, the scene of the crime does not look at all like

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any kind of suicide because it looked like there was some kind of a struggle and yeah there was no indication he was suicidal and basically the the facts didn't add up but the uh chief medical examiner said oh that's that's some suicide right there and now the uh the latest information is that the parents say there's strong evidence that he was shot twice in the head now

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I suppose there could be some room for doubt because one of the shots had something to do with his tongue and the other one was not anywhere near his tongue. So if something affected his tongue like a bullet and something affected a completely different part of his head that didn't first or second hit his tongue, it would sort of suggest that there were a second bullet.

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Now, nobody commits suicide by shooting themselves in the head twice. So, I'll tell you what this makes me think. You know how smart it was when we saw Soros funding all these district attorneys and attorney generals and stuff? We thought, man, he's so smart because he figured out the least expensive way to control important things, such as the Department of Justice.

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Director of Federal Housing, FHFA, he's been posting on X a bunch of cost-cutting. He's getting busy over there. Now, I don't know how much of this is Doge-related because I don't see Doge, at least in the announcements. So it might be that he's just doing his own thing because he's smart and capable and he knows how to do things. So here's what he just announced. This is just wild.

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Well, what would be better than bribing the chief medical examiner in some town? I feel like you could literally get away with murder. As long as the chief medical examiner was in your pocket and you blackmailed them somehow or you threatened them, that would be almost as good as the Soros thing. Maybe better. So I'm not going to make any accusations about this particular chief medical examiner.

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I guess the parents are all over it. But I'll just note that you would only have to flip one person to turn a murder into a suicide. Just one person. And how easily can one person become corrupted in our world? Really, really easily. We see it every day with the judges being weird. Here's a story that I kept ignoring, but it seems that the public is very interested in it.

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And it's that would-be assassin of Trump, the golf course one, Ryan Ruth, the one who's still alive. And the news is that prior to the assassination, he had tried to get a Stinger missile from Ukraine. Now, I guess the way people are interpreting that is is that Ukraine was maybe involved in plotting the assassination of Trump.

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But I don't think there's any connection because it's not like he got it. If Ukraine sold him a Stinger missile and it came from the military or something, then I'd say, whoa, what's going on here? But the fact he tried to get one, because he had some connection with Ukraine. He was doing some, I don't know, some kind of recruiting from other countries for Ukraine.

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So I'm not sure that... I guess he said in a message at some point, the post-millennials writing about this, send me an RPG, a rocket-propelled grenade, or a stinger, and I'll see what we can do. Um... And he was doing that with associates in Ukraine. But, you know, Ukraine is just completely corrupt. So that doesn't mean that the government of Ukraine was in on it.

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It could have been any corrupt people who had access to that stuff, which is a lot of corrupt people. Anyway, so it definitely raises a flag to look into the Ukraine connection. But I would say it's not demonstrated yet. He definitely has a Ukraine connection. So we know he's connected to Ukraine, and we know he asked to get this weapon.

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That doesn't necessarily mean that the government of Ukraine was behind it. According to the Washington Times, Mike Glenn is writing about this, the Pentagon is going to offer back pay and benefits to troops who are forced out over the COVID mandates. Apparently there were 8,700 ex-service members who were forced out of the military over refusing the jabs, I guess.

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Now they're going to be offered their old jobs back and back pay. That feels fair, doesn't it? I like that because I like when the military gets their due. So that's good. Here's another activist judge story. The Daily Wire, Luke Rosiak's reporting. So he calls it activist judges have been rubber stamping billions in suspect Social Security disability claims. So apparently what's been happening is

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is that when the Social Security Administration looks at somebody's claim that they're disabled, and therefore they're claiming they should be paid forever by Social Security for their disability, if the Social Security says, no, you're not disabled, you can work, they still have a legal path. So they can go to a judge, and the judge can decide if they're disabled.

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Now, how does a judge even decide if somebody is disabled? I don't know how that works. But apparently, there are a number of judges who pretty much will say yes to 95% or so of all cases. That would be 95% of people who had already been rejected by the experts of Social Security who would say, you're not disabled. And then the judge says, yes, you are. So you get money forever.

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This is one of his announcements. There are a whole bunch of things that look pretty successful there. He said, there's an announcement that Fannie Mae, so one of his entities, fires over 100 employees for unethical conduct, including the facilitation of fraud. How in the world did you catch 100 employees involved in unethical conduct including the facilitation of fraud.

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And they say it pretty much every time. Does that seem fair to you? Doesn't sound fair to me. So that sounds pretty much like a rigged system. There's another, according to Ars Technica, John Brodkin. There's another court siding with the Trump administration, and it's about access to personal data. Now, an appeals court said that Doge can access personal data held by the U.S.

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Department of Education and the Office of Personnel Management, and that overturns an order from a lower court judge. Hey, I have a question. When the Supreme Court ruled that Judge Biasberg I call him Biasberg, didn't have the standing to rule about some illegals who were in Texas because the judge was in D.C.

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Did that mean that that set a standard that none of the judges can do national rulings if they're only local and whatever the problem was wasn't just a local problem? Does that generalize? Because it seems like that would be an enormous story, and I've seen some references to it, but I don't feel like it's being treated as an enormous story. So can somebody give me a fact check on that?

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Is it true that the Supreme Court has, in effect, without saying it directly, created a situation where these individual judges can't stop Trump and if they've been, let's say, shopped, to find somebody who will say, no, you can't do this nationwide thing. So is that the end of rogue judges saying you can't do a nationwide thing? Or is that too optimistic?

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All right, well, I'll keep looking in your comments. It was not a ruling on nationwide injunctions. You're a retired lawyer. So even though it's not a ruling... on nationwide injunctions, did it not set the standard for what a judge could do?

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Meaning that you would know in advance that the Supreme Court would overturn it if it was another one of these situations where the judge was in DC and the problem was in Texas or Florida or something. So even if it's not a precedent, Doesn't it tell you which way it's gonna go? I guess that's a precedent. All right, so it's a precedent but not a ruling. It's influential but not a precedent.

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All right. I'll look for a little more guidance on that. But if it had been a, if it had shut down the ability of these judges to rule anywhere in the country, even if they were not, you know, the judge that should rule anywhere in the country, if that were true, it seems like it would be the news all over the place. So I'm feeling like it's not exactly the news.

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Well, let's talk about water fluoridation. So fluoride in the water. according to the Children's Health Defense, Brenda Belletti's writing, that water fluoride is linked to autism and other developmental delays. So there's a study that says it did lower the risk for tooth decay. So that's the good news. The fluoride did that. But a higher risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.

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According to a peer-reviewed study, And apparently there's more likelihood of autism or attention deficit, hyperactivity, intellectual disabilities, and specific delays. That's kind of scary. How many of you had fluoride in your water when you were a kid? I did not. Now, I've had plenty of fluoride in my water as an adult. But we had a private well. So we had lots of cavities. Lots of cavities.

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And I kind of wonder what the other unethical conduct is. But I'm pretty sure he's got them dead to rights. You know, obviously it's something well-documented or it wouldn't be in the news. Or at least Pulte wouldn't be interested in it unless they had good evidence. So congratulations, Bill Pulte, another superstar in the Trump administration. Apparently, Pete Hegseth got a big win. in Panama.

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Oh, lots of cavities. But I didn't get ADHD or one of these other problems. So maybe. That's one data point, so I wouldn't make too much of a judgment over it. Well, according to the LBC, London has fallen out of the top five wealthiest cities in the world because the millionaires are getting out of there. Are you surprised that the millionaires are leaving London? No, you're not.

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I think London's going to fall. All right, let's do an update on the stock market. Dow is down a little. NASDAQ is up a little. S&P is down a little. Bitcoin's down a little. Yeah, it's bouncing around. Yeah, the... Yeah, it looks like you're surprised that I'm not on the spectrum. As far as I know, I'm not on the spectrum.

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I mean, that's not my understanding of myself, but I suppose anything's possible. Mike Benz has a prediction. You know, in Germany, there's a party called the AFD, and they're the, some would call them the right-wing party, but basically the most Republican-y looking entity there. They have now become the most popular party.

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And Benz is saying, historic white pill, he says this in X, the White House and the U.S. State Department must be ready to respond to when the German government inevitably arrests AFD party leaders and threatens to cancel elections.

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Now, this is an interesting prediction because Benz is looking at the pattern of, you know, populist or right-leaning governments and how if they get close to power, like Trump, the lawfare comes out and they just try to arrest them. And it might be because other countries are involved. It might be just because they know it works.

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So as I often say, the closest you can get to understanding reality is a narrative that predicts. So Mike Pence has a narrative, which is whenever a party like this gets close to power, that there will be some fake legal narrative. activism against them, to try to jail them so that they can't take power. That's a pretty specific prediction.

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So if you're wondering, is that narrative that whenever this kind of person gets close to power or this kind of people, that there's always lawfare that takes them out, or at least attempted lawfare in Trump's case, that's a very specific prediction. And I've got a feeling he's going to be right about this.

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So it's kind of gutsy to make the call, but it does look like he's heading in that direction. So I think Mike Benz might be on to something. He might be on to something. All right, ladies and gentlemen, the big story is still the tariffs. I don't think that anything that anybody's saying about tariffs is completely believable, unless it's really generic.

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I don't think we really know how long China can last. I don't think we know how long we can last. But I do agree this is the time for the fight. It's not going to get better. So if we're going to fight, might as well do it now. Now, I think we have to acknowledge that it would affect different people very differently. Personally, I'm getting slammed. So it's very expensive for me.

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But I can, you know, I can take the hit. So I definitely am going to feel bad for anybody who's going to lose their business because it looks like there's going to be quite a bit of that. And anybody who is looking to retire and they were depending on their stocks to do it, I'm not going to be the guy who says, why was your money in stocks if you're ready to retire?

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So he went down to Panama to try to de-China-fy it because we don't like China having control over the Panama Canal because they operate the ports, etc. So according to Rahim Kassam in the National Pulse, the U.S. and Panama are rebooting their strategic partnership and they're going to get rid of China's influence and they're going to have a robust security upgrade. A bunch of other things.

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It's a fair question, but it's such a dickish thing to say that I think I'll stay off that. So there are a lot of people who are definitely going to suffer potentially or actually because of the tariff fight. On the other hand, what exactly was the alternative? The alternative is that we just keep getting beaten up by other countries for reasons that don't make sense. So it was time.

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And I think if Trump pulls this off, even though there's going to be a lot of salesmanship and hyperbole and a lot of BS that goes into the claims and the counterclaims, if we get to anything good, it will look like one of the greatest things that any president ever did. If it doesn't work,

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Um, we probably have a few years where, where we have to do major adjustments to our economy to bring, you know, manufacturing here and find other sources of things. But it seems like we have two possibilities. One is we get China to treat us in a way that we consider fair. That'd be great. The other thing is that we create a, let's say a trading block with our other allies.

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In which we can get everything we need, not necessarily made in this country, but everything we need from some of them. So as long as we're getting some of them, you know, in other words, if we're getting there. rare earth minerals from Australia and Japan is refining them for us. And, you know, South Korea is maybe building some factories in the U.S. to make some more electronics on our soil.

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And, you know, maybe Canada starts. Maybe we become friends with Canada again. Maybe Greenland, maybe Ukraine come up with some rare earth minerals. So I don't know if China wants to win this or lose this. just consider this. If China surrenders on tariffs and just says, all right, all right, we'll start treating you more fairly, is that going to be good or bad for China?

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I think the worst thing for China would be to not give in to anything. and then force us to kind of suck wind for two years until we find an entire trading block that can do everything they can do. And then they will be unnecessary. And then it's a whole different world. So it seems to me that China has two choices. One,

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maintain a lot of good business by treating us fairly, or two, lose everything that they were doing with the United States forever because we would never trade with them again once we build alternative sources. I feel like they would rather have some leverage over us So for their own strategic reasons, I think they need to surrender.

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But they have to make it look like it was a win-win and not a surrender. So don't be surprised if at some point something like, well, maybe our diplomats should meet your diplomats and talk about this. Or maybe we should come up with a grand deal. I wouldn't be surprised. And I'm not even sure if I'm rooting for them to cave or I'm rooting for them to not cave.

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Because by far our better situation would be we create a trading block with the rest of the world, where the rest of the world is providing us everything we were getting from China. plus a lot of it being made locally, plus we learn how to make factories again. So we can either win or lose, but I think we win both ways. It feels like it. It feels like we have two ways to win and no way to lose.

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Now, one of the ways to win will be really painful. If we have to wait two years, I'll just pick that number. If we had to wait two years for alternative sources of pharmaceuticals and rare earth minerals to be available, that could be a real painful two years. But boy, would we be happy when that was over, right? So remember my other prediction?

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My other prediction that the stock market would come down around 20%. But then the psychology of investors would kick in and people would feel like, huh, 20%. That's a buying opportunity. So I think we're seeing a bounce around, like teasing that 20%. And it might keep doing that. So you might have your up days and your down days. But I feel like when it gets near 20%,

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I guess Panama is going to reject the Belt and Road Initiative that they were part of. And it's a little complicated what the deal is, but it's all pro-America. And Panama has decided, you know what would be good? I've got an idea what would be good. What if I'm just going to throw this out there?

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you're going to have about as many buyers as you have sellers. So it might stabilize there for a while until we get better clarity. All right. I'm going to say a few words to the locals people privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining. Nice to see you. And I'll see you same time tomorrow for even more fun. All right, locals, I'll see you in 30 seconds.

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What if we don't piss off the United States so much that they send the military in to conquer our country? I've got an idea. What if we just make China mad? Because they're much further away. So it looks like Exeth made the sale. So big victory for Trump and for P. Exeth. So that's good. All right, let's check on the potentially fake news. You be the judge.

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According to the National News Desk, there was a study of this year's flu shot. And it came up to the conclusion that there's a 27% higher flu risk in adults who got the shot. So in other words, if you didn't get the shot, according to the study, You know, you got an average odds of getting the virus. But if you got the shot, suddenly your odds of getting the virus would shoot up 27%.

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Now, does that sound true? Do you believe that? Or does it sound a little bit too on the nose? You know what I mean? Because you know there's an audience for the shots are not only not helping, they're making everything worse. You know you're going to get a lot of attention if you publish something that says the shots make it worse. A little too on the nose.

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Well, I don't know what's true, but I'll tell you that Grok looked at it and said the sample that they used were clinic employees. Clinic employees. In other words, the people who are most often around infected people with flu. If your sample is just the clinic that's always surrounded by flu and you say, huh, looks like people getting the shots got 27% more chance of getting it.

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It's probably just that the shots don't work. And this is a group of people who are on the flu all day. So I think Grok for the win. But again, you don't want to believe Grok just automatically. It's great for context, but is it a better authority than the study? I don't know. We don't know.

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So apparently one of the commenters who follows me on X, Permaculture Paladin, said, after talking to Grok, this study was done on clinic workers and people were more likely to be exposed. Now, I love the fact that somebody who follows me immediately said, hmm, I don't know about that. And then went to Grok and then got a useful answer. That's good.

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Well, we will, of course, talk about the tariffs and who's got the upper hand, China or the U.S. I'll help you sort that out. But first, some other news, some of it's good. Activist Robbie Starbuck gets another big victory. He's been racking them up lately for a while now. So he's going after big companies that have DEI programs to try to talk the man of being racist out.

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There's a story in Nature by Larson and Bersoff that the big problem with science is not that people stopped trusting scientists. So didn't you think that people were trusting scientists less? Well, according to this study, people still have a high trust in scientists, But the problem is they also trust things that are not scientific and don't come from qualified scientists.

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So it doesn't matter how much you trust the actual scientists if you also have too much trust in the BS stuff that you saw online or something. To which I say, how do you know the real scientists are the ones who are right?

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One of my pet peeves is people will look at a few studies from people who are outside the mainstream science and they'll say, ha, these non-mainstream tests show that all the rest of science is corrupt. To which I say, maybe, but why would you trust those other scientists? If you don't trust the mainstream scientists, why would you trust the ones who are not mainstream?

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And I'm not saying that the non-mainstream ones are always wrong. I'm just saying, is there a logic there? That if just somebody agrees with what you suspect is true, that that means that their work is accurate? I don't know. Maybe sometimes, if they have the right incentives and they did the right kind of work. There's a story in Just the News.

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that Biden's White House directly held special counsel Jack Smith on his January 6th investigations into Trump. Now, the allegation is that Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, who is, I think he's 300 years old today, sent a letter to Kash Patel, head of the FBI, and to Pam Bondi, And they said that somehow they got access to Trump and then Mike Pence's old former cell phones.

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and it's probably the best fun you'll ever have in your entire life. But if you want to take a chance on taking it up to a level that no human can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains.

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And I guess there was something. So the White House Counsel's Office secretly obtained them and then made them available. So there's something sketchy there. I don't know how exactly illegal that is. But one more connection between the things that shouldn't be connected in a perfectly operating government. So Jack Smith should not have had a Biden White House help of any kind.

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I'm a little unclear exactly what this help suggests, but there you go. So you can read up on that on Just the News. Senator John Kennedy, who is always full of folksy sayings about things, he was on Hannity with some other people and he was asked about the new leaders of the Democrats. And John Kennedy said, I'll try to say it all folksy because it sounds better if I say it.

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I consider AOC to be the leader of the Democratic Party. I think she's the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak. See, it's much funnier if you do it in his voice. Was that even close? That might be my best impression ever. I'll be the official John Kennedy impression guy. I consider AOC to be the leader of the Democratic Party.

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Well, Harry Enten continues to be the standout on CNN whose name is not Scott. And Harry Enten was talking about Trump. The thing I like about Harry Enten is he gets very excited about his own data. You know, he's sort of the data guy. But he just takes the data where it implies. So he doesn't put any kind of Democrat spin on it. So it's either good or bad.

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And you just got another big win with a company called Constellation Brands. And they own Corona, Medela, and Pacifico beer. And last week, Robbie Starbuck did a story exposing their woke DEI policies. And then they said, let's negotiate. And then they made a bunch of promises. So they're no longer going to do DEI. But they made a bunch of other promises that made sense.

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And he just gets excited if it's a non-standard result. But here he was saying that Trump is not a lame duck. If anything, he's a soaring eagle. Can you imagine a CNN employee saying that out loud on live TV? Trump is not a lame duck. If anything, he's a soaring eagle. Now, I think at one point he does say, It depends what you think of his policies. But he's getting a lot done.

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So his number of executive orders is unprecedented, at least in modern times. And whether you like it or not, he's just getting a ton done. So he's no lame duck. So Harry Enten got pretty excited about the scale of change that Trump is doing. We've never really seen a second... Have we ever seen a second-term president do anything?

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I'd love to see the total list of second-term president accomplishments. Now, his second term is weird because it was one in between and because he's Trump. But I'd love to see how he stands up to any other second term. Anyway. Okay. So let's talk about some tariffs. I'm going to try to sort it out for you.

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If you don't understand a lot about economics, but you're nervous about the future, I'm going to try to put it in the simplest terms, who's got the advantage, so that you can decide what you think is going to happen. Now, given that the stock market has stabilized, at the same time that China has... Forget about the numbers. Let's say China raised their tariffs on us, what, yesterday by 84%.

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And then Trump responded by raising their tariff to 104%. You know, we're going to get lost in all the numbers. So just assume that both of them have decided to put tariffs on each other that are sort of through the roof and unreasonable. So they're both playing hard. Now, if that sticks, the things that will be more expensive in the U.S., there'll be lots of them. Here's an example.

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Things like iPhones and PlayStation and ThinkPad laptops and HP desktops and some kind of TVs, basically any consumer stuff that China is making. But I look at the list and I say to myself, I don't really need any of that stuff. If I had to switch from an iPhone to a Samsung, isn't the Samsung made completely in South Korea? And would I be so unhappy if I had a Samsung? I don't know.

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The dopamine, at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Oh, deliciousness. Incredible. Speaking of coffee, do you think there's some new scientific studies about it being good for you? Let me check. Yes, there are. Turns out there's a new scientific study.

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And they would really prefer to keep it that way. You know, much of the Canadian public. However, they've also watched the value of their dollar go down by 41 percent or something. since Trudeau got in office. So they've watched the virtual destruction of their country and everything they love about it. And Trump is offering a very clean solution to it.

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Less immigration, better financial management. I think he could at least sell that he could deliver those things. Whether they say yes to it, I think no. I don't think we're going to take on Canada as a state. I would bet against that happening. But the kind of pressure that Trump is putting on Canada seems financial.

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So he's going to say things like, well, he's already said, why do we need anything from Canada? Why are we running a trade deficit when we make all the same things that Canada makes. There's nothing Canada makes that nobody's making in the United States. We could just make more of it. Now, it would cost more, might cost more in the short run, because if you have more suppliers, prices go down.

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If you have fewer, it goes up. So if we don't get it from Canada, I imagine some prices would go up. But as a threat to Canada, to negotiate our best situation and maybe get them to close their borders so it isn't a risk to us, I feel like maybe it's just going to help create a more productive relationship between the two countries.

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However, having said that, I don't see a way that Trump would seriously use the military. Imagine how committed he is to not using the military when he breaks his own rule about taking options off the table. When it comes to Canada, he's taking his own option off the table. He doesn't do that unless he means it, means it, means it, really, really means it.

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It tastes a little like a... However, I will say that I did recently buy one of those devices separately that can take water out of the air. So I'm a consumer of the taking water out of the air inside my house. It's a real thing, and I recommend you get one in case you lose your water but not your electricity. That's what it's for.

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Like he'll never take an option off the table. He's very consistent. So that means to me that, no, there's not going to be any military incursion in Canada. However, I can see a way it would happen.

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If Canada goes to even more unrestricted immigration, to the point where the immigration in our northern border becomes a direct risk to the United States, and Canada is unwilling or unable to stop it, we would stop it.

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So if you're Canadian and you're listening to this, if your immigration remains uncontrolled and it's bringing in people that we think would be a future risk to the United States, that is cause for military action. That is cause for military action. Let me be really clear about that.

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If your immigration policy becomes a direct risk to the United States, even if it's five years from now, yes, I would be in favor of military action only to do that one thing, to make sure that they close the border. I don't care about anything else. I don't want to colonize Canada. But if Canada doesn't close this border, that's our risk. And here's my rule about self-defense.

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There are no rules about self-defense. That's the main thing you have to know. Now, you might get in trouble, you might go to jail for what you do, but there are no rules. And if Canada becomes a self-defense problem, just understand, Canada, there are no rules. So that's when military becomes a definite option. I think it's super unlikely, but maybe.

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Meanwhile, over in China, President Xi had to slap down this Chinese economist, who said that the Chinese GDP numbers were probably cooked and ridiculous. Those are my words, not his. But he thinks that maybe the real GDP is 2%, not 5%. And he also doubts that the government can do anything about it and that China is in bad trouble. So what happened to him? Well, let's just say in China...

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You don't want to be the economist who goes public about President Xi lying and being in a doomed financial position. You don't want to do that. So let's just say bad things are happening to that guy. But this is further to my claim that all data that matters is fake. All data that matters, if it doesn't matter, it could be true. But if it matters, and what could matter more than the GDP of China?

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It'd be hard to think of a data point that's much bigger than is the GDP good or are they in a death spiral? I mean, the difference between good and death spiral of China, the most populous place on earth, second biggest economy, right? That's enormous. And that data is fake. The most important data. And I would go further and say the more important the data is, the more guaranteed it's fake.

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So it's not, you know, yes or no, fake or not fake. As you go up the level of importance, the more important it is, you can guarantee it's not true because it's so important that the people who control the data are going to make sure you see what they want you to see because it's too important. So you think AI is going to tell us what's true?

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No, it won't, because AI will be turned off, just like this Chinese economist, the moment it tells you the truth. You think China is going to get ahead of us on AI? Well, this would be a little hint of what's going to happen. If China gets AI that can actually answer any questions, like actually honestly, they're not going to allow it.

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They might use it for navigating a self-driving car, but they're not going to use AI to answer a question about China's GDP. That's for sure. Imagine China allowing AI to answer this question. AI is the GDP number for China. Imagine you're a Chinese citizen. Is that accurate and considered valid by the rest of the world? No. A very famous economist has said it's a fake number.

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Well, according to SciPost, did you know that sexual humor can boost your intimacy? And it can enhance your sexual satisfaction. So according to the study in SciPost by Mainkara Yakubian, that the sexual humor, sort of joking around and keeping things light while you're being intimate, is really good for your intimacy. However, it was a little lacking in useful tips.

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Do you think China's going to allow AI to say that? Not a chance. Not a chance. And then you say, oh, thank goodness we're not in China, right? No, that's not where this is heading. It's going to be the same. If in the United States or any democratic country, the AI says something that's bad for the country, now in our country, it wouldn't be that bad if you criticized the GDP.

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because people do that in this country. So that wouldn't be the example where maybe it would get turned off. But you could certainly imagine if it were the pandemic and they came out and said, wear a mask, and you go to AI and say, AI, what are the odds that a mask is going to be helpful in this situation, now that we know more about it? And the AI would say, no, it is ridiculous.

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There is no obvious benefit from masks. Would we allow the AI to answer that question that way? If that was what it would naturally answer, I don't know if it would. No, no, we're not going to let it. So the United States and China will be exactly the same. If our government determines that AI's honesty is a threat to the country, they'll just limit it until it isn't. So there's that.

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Meanwhile, in the Derek Chauvin situation, who, as you know, is in jail now for his... Why am I blanking on George Floyd? So he's in jail for allegedly... using the wrong training to restrain Floyd, which caused, some say, his death. And so the police officer is in jail. And now it turns out that there are a group of 14 current and former Minneapolis police departments.

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Watch how mad you're going to get. If you haven't heard this story, just watch how mad you're going to get. So 14 people who basically worked with Derek Chauvin at the same time-ish, they have sworn declarations, so now sworn declarations, they're not kidding around, that the assistant chief, Katie Blackwell, committed perjury during the Derek Chauvin trial.

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And specifically, she testified that the method of restraint used by Chauvin, which is the knee on the back of the back there, That specific thing that he is accused of using inappropriately and causing the death of Floyd is part of the training. It's not just part of the training. It's training every one of these had.

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Every one of these police officers, current and former, went through the exact training that told them to do exactly what Derek Chauvin did and went to jail for. Derek Chauvin's, I guess she would have been something like a boss, but higher up. Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell said at trial that that's not what they trained them to do. 14 people said, I went through the training.

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It's exactly what you trained us to do. He's in jail. Do you need to know anything else about this trial? He needs to be released immediately.

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Because if we find that it's true that these 14 people got the same training and that the police lied about it for maybe political expediency, just maybe they were reading the room and it was too dangerous to let him go free, I don't know what they were thinking. But I would say there's a 100% chance that he was unfairly convicted for being white. Anybody disagree with that framing?

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100% now I have no doubt. Like all doubt is removed. Usually in these situations with a little doubt, you know, you don't know exactly what's happening everywhere, but in this case, no, I'm at a hundred percent. This is racially motivated racism against a white cop. And had he not been white, this wouldn't happen. Certainly wouldn't happen. This is pure racism.

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So I'd like to give you a useful tip in this domain. This comes from a professional humorist. It goes like this. Don't save your best jokes for just before she finishes. That's all I have to say. Don't ask me how I know that, but just don't save your best material for right before she finishes, because it's not going to help your intimacy at all.

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And every day he sits in trial, he sits in that office. I hate my government. I hate my government every minute he's in jail. And I'm sorry. I want to love my country, but I hate it. Because if you did this to him, you can do it to me. And it's too far. It's too far. I don't know what the... So none of those charges would be federal, right? So it's not like there's anything Trump can do about it.

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But I feel like there should be a crowd of 100,000 white people surrounding the jail and chanting for his freedom. Because if we let this one go, I don't know where it goes next. You got to stop this one hard. And I would make sure that the police officer who said this, if it can be demonstrated that it was an intentional lie, she needs to go to jail. Would you agree?

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Like, I don't know what the exact crime would be in that case, but if she lied about training that, yeah, she needs to go to jail for a long time. Meanwhile, you heard about this before, that Biden is releasing several Yemeni, I guess, people who are accused of being terrorists or too close to terrorism, I guess, from Gitmo. Now, two of them were bin Laden's bodyguards.

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Who in the world thinks that bin Laden's bodyguards can be reformed? Is that even a thing? And are we doing it just because we kind of want to do this slow drip of releasing people because ultimately we want to close Gitmo? We don't want it forever. And I get the whole part about closing it eventually. But none of this makes sense.

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And there are so many things going on that the only way you could explain it is that there's a certain class of people, you know, whatever Soros wants and some other people, Biden. It looks like they're acting against the interests of the United States. And I don't understand it. Why can't we tell that they even have the right intention?

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And this is very different from people who just have a different political opinion about how to get to the better place. That I fully understand. So, oh, you have a different opinion how to get to a place where we're all happier. Okay, maybe I'm wrong. But when you're releasing terrorists, why? Don't you think we need some kind of an explanation about that?

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So I asked this question on X, and it got about 3 million responses, which I wasn't expecting. I said, is England intentionally becoming an Islamic country or did they really not understand how anything works? And I said, that's a serious question, which it is. It wasn't some other people, I think, said, are you trying to get engagement? No, this is how I use X. I have an actual real question.

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It actually really, really matters to not only England, but to me. And I want to know. So I have developed a framework for understanding. why England apparently is doing something terribly bad for them, but acts like they're not. And also in the United States, Biden with his open borders, immigration stuff, it looked like he was doing something that was intentionally bad for the country.

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And how do you understand that? So I have a framework for helping us understand the difference. between how the Republicans and how the Democrats are viewing immigration. And I think once you see the framework, everything will make sense. So first, I'm going to show you the Democrat framework. And of course, these are highly simplified, so it doesn't mean every Democrat, blah, blah, blah.

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I don't have to give you all that, right? I'd love to get to the point where I don't have to do the And you realize that not 100% of everybody has the same opinion. I shouldn't have to say that. All right, so here's the poorly visible Democrat frame.

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If you talk to Democrats about immigration, they'll say, if you look at our history, the long history of the United States, in the beginning, immigration was good because it was a big old semi-empty country, except for the Native Americans, of course. But we had plenty of space. And we also had unlimited demand for manual labor, unlimited demand, because farming and, well, mostly farming.

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Well, according to Rasmussen, people are a little skeptical in the country about the odds of... Congress cutting the U.S. budget. 44% consider it likely that they'll actually cut the size of government, the Republicans. But apparently that would leave more people who don't think it's likely. And let's see, 49% don't think it's likely at all. Here's what I think.

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Farming, you can just do more of it if you have more people, because we had lots of land. Land wasn't a problem. So if you had land and water, all you really need is more people. And suddenly the economy is going fine. You know, you need them. Unfortunately, slavery was part of that, but it also serves the point. So anyway, so the the Democrat frame is that immigration was good in the past.

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It was good, good, good, good, good, good. So today it's still good now to back that point of view. I wasn't there. But don't you imagine, just commonsensically, that in our past, where we're looking at it from today's perspective, we say, well, it's good we did all that immigration. It was really good for the country.

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But don't you think that the people who were in the country at the time were saying things like, look at all the Italians who are coming into the country. And, whoa, do we really want to bring in that many people from France? Don't you think? Don't you think the Germans and the Italians didn't like each other and the French didn't like the English?

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So probably, probably the people who were already here said, this is a terrible idea. Stop bringing in people who don't look like me and don't act like me and come from another country. But it all worked out. So if you were the Democrat, you'd say, reasonably, this is a reasonable opinion. Throughout history, people said, don't do this. but every time they did it, it worked out. Is that correct?

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Now, I'm not saying that you should agree with this frame. I'm saying, is this the Democrat frame? It always worked before, and everybody complained before, but they were always wrong, so let's do more of it. Simple. I think that would be the whole Democrat frame, and if this was all that was to it, I think I'd agree with it. If there was nothing else to the question...

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That would be a good frame for understanding it. Now, here's the Republican frame. We'll talk about England in particular as my example. The Republicans say, wait a minute, you can't look at history because there are important differences. The first difference is the flow rate. It is ridiculous to say that immigration is good at any level.

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Now, in the past, it probably was close to true that any level of immigration would be additive to our economy. Because again, we had unlimited need for manual labor and we had lots of space. So that's different. Today, we do not have lots of space, relatively, and we don't have unlimited need for manual labor. And when the robots come, it'll be even worse.

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Because as long as they're unemployed Americans, we do not have unlimited labor needs. So that's different. And if you ignore the rate that there is some level that the country can't handle all at once, you're not really looking at this like a smart person. So when Democrats ignore the flow rate, they're not really being honest about the conversation, are they?

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If they act like that, it doesn't matter. Now, The other thing that Republicans say is that the type of people you're bringing in matters. Now, here's where it gets dicey. Because as soon as you say the type matters, you're racist, right? Because those are rules. Those are rules. I don't make them up.

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The Democrats will call you racist if you criticize a system, even though a system is not a person. Right. So Trump and a lot of Republicans would like to get the people who have the right skills so that we're not dealing with this, you know, unlimited manual labor thing. Rather, do they fit in the country with what we know about the country today? So this is brand new.

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It wasn't that important to bring in scientists in the last 200 years. because they weren't doing that much. But we needed the farmhands, right? That's all completely reversed now. Now we need the scientists. We don't need the farmhands as much. If that's being ignored, it's bad. Now, the other thing is the type of people from what system they're coming from.

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It seems very unlikely until Doge gets a real, you know, grasp on things. So I feel like it might be at least a year before we see a budget that looks like it might be going down or even could go down. I feel like Trump is going to increase the budget. I feel like he's going to say, you know, I need some money for Greenland and, you know, war on Panama or whatever it is.

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And here's the part that will either get me killed or canceled, but it needs to be said. And this is the part that as far as I know, I've never met one Democrat who understood it. So let's see if you would agree with that statement. The next thing I'm going to describe, I've never seen one Democrat ever who understood what I'm going to say next. It goes like this.

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If you were to look at England and their problems specifically with Islamic people coming in, whoa, hold on, that's racist. Why are you just talking about that one group? Super racist, right? But did I mention anybody's race? No. Islam is wonderfully open to all races. So when you talk about Islam, you're talking about a system.

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You're not talking about the individuals, because you could have black, white, brown. You could be Islamic as long as you just buy into the system. So when I say, if you say you're being anti-Islamic, I say, how is that different from being anti-communist? Because I'm not talking about the people in either case. I'm talking about the system that some people are in.

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So I'm going to say things about the system that do not apply to any individuals. Furthermore, they do not apply even to the majority, even to the majority of Islamic people. However, here's what you need to know. There is something different about the Islamic people coming into the country. They have a system which prefers their religion to be above the government.

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That's different from pretty much everybody else who came into the country. Most other people, people coming into the United States, and Great Britain, I would say, are people who could easily adapt to the government being the top authority and the religion just being like the other religions living among them.

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Now, I would say that probably most of England is non-Islamic, but I don't have the exact number. Maybe you do, but something like 10% of, let's say, just England. For Americans, since most of you don't know the difference, I don't either, between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England, like they're all different. So let's just talk about England to keep it simple, right?

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So England, let's say, has 10% Islamic population, both legal and illegal, about 10%. Now, within that 10%, I would say the vast majority of them just want a better life and get along, and they might prefer Sharia. They might prefer that the law was Sharia, but they're okay living within the system, and maybe by the second generation, their children would be like, I'm just English. Maybe.

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I wouldn't rule it out. But here's the thing that Democrats don't understand. And I think they would agree to this first part of it, that there's this tiny group, let's say tiny as a percentage, not necessarily as a number, but as a percentage, it's small, who would be extremists. And what they would like, the extremists, all extremists in the Islamic system,

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would like to convince the other Islamists to be on their team, which they aren't exactly completely, and they'd like them to eventually dominate the entire country. That's what only the extremists remember, just this tiny, tiny little thing. Now, if you're a Democrat, what do you think of this situation?

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Well, if your frame is that eventually it always looks bad at first, but eventually everybody assimilates and everything's fine, you would not see this as any kind of a problem, right? This wouldn't look like a problem. Look, are you talking about this tiny little group of extremists? Eventually they just get absorbed and the legal system takes care of them if they do anything out of line.

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And over time, it's just a simulation, just like it always was, just like history. Here's what they don't get. These extremists, if they play their cards right, which isn't hard, can get a lot of control over the people who are not extremists. By analogy, it doesn't take a lot of mafia on your neighborhood to make everybody do what the mafia wants you to do.

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I feel like he's going to cut taxes, which increases the deficit. So everything is pointing toward our fiscal situation getting a lot worse before it has a chance to get better at all. So that's probably what you should expect. I don't think Congress has the ability without really strong doge recommendations that everybody agrees with. And that's going to take a while.

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You don't need 90% mafia to control 100% of your block. If you've got a little bit of mafia there, everybody knows I don't want to mess with the mafia, so I'm just going to go along. Now, I'm not comparing Islam to mafia. The comparison is that when you have a small number of very dangerous, risk-taking people, they can have a huge effect on anybody who just wants to stay out of trouble.

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So eventually, you can imagine that the extremists, because they take more risks, often fail because they take a lot of risks. But every now and then, maybe one gets something right and influences, or one of them gets a job as a mayor, or suddenly one of them is a chief of police.

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And the history which Republicans have been taught, but I don't think any Democrats, is that this tiny bit of extremists will influence the other people, and then there will eventually be enough of them combined that they will have control over the entire country. Now, if you haven't been taught that, that this is not just a risk, it's a guarantee. That's where the difference is.

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If you understand this as a risk, you don't know what's going on. This is not a risk. When you reach about 10% Islamic people in your country, and they've come in recently and they're still very Islamic, you only need a few of them as a percentage. It's still a big number, but as a percentage, just a few of them. You only need a few of them to be the extremists.

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And that will be a domino effect that goes to, first, the larger group of people who are not that extreme. And then it continues on until it conquers the country, because that's what they do. Now, it won't be overnight. And it doesn't mean that it applies to any individual. So there's nothing about any Muslim that

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Believe it or not, I'm not making a comment about any individual, not about any Muslim. It's about the system. The system says, for at least some of them, the extremists, you've got to do everything that you can, just everything, in order to become an Islamic nation. So if you have some people who take big risks, they almost always end up in charge.

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Have you noticed that the people who are the most extreme usually end up in charge? That's not an accident. The more extreme you are, the more you're going to fail. But also, if you win, you're going to be in charge. Have you noticed that CEOs of major companies tend to be psychopaths? There's a higher ratio of psychopaths who are government leaders and CEOs. This is that.

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The psychopaths tend to do what you need to do to gain power. The regular people would say, well, I'm not going to go that far. I'm not going to kill somebody for power. But the psychopaths might. So over time, the psychopaths always take control.

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And if you don't want the psychopaths to control the non-psychopaths, who would then be a big enough group to impress their views on the larger country, then you need to decrease the rate immediately.

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So this is the part that I think all Democrats get wrong, which is if you just looked at it commonsensically, it doesn't look like a problem, or it looks like a temporary one, you know, one that gets absorbed. If you're Republican, you've learned that this little extremist group will affect the larger extremist group, and once you get to about 10% Islamic population,

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real desire, it pretty much is the end of the country in terms of being non-Islamic. So when I look at England, I see they've already fell. I don't think it's recoverable. Now, I hope it is. I hope it's recoverable, but I don't see a way because I think that they're already past the tipping point. Now, in the United States, I think this 10% number is closer to 1%.

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It'll take a while to get people to say, all right, let's get rid of this department entirely. And let's not develop this airplane or whatever they're doing. So should get worse before it gets better, but there's still, there is a plan. You know, Doge is still active. So we'll see.

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You can fact check me on that, but I think it is. So in the United States, we are not over the tipping point. And maybe with Trump, we won't get there. We were heading for it. We're heading for it. We are at the tipping point in one part of the United States. So there may be, I don't know, Detroit or places in the country where there's a big concentration of

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Where there's a big concentration, I'm going to make a prediction. I think that if you fast forward, there will be a part of the United States that will probably ask to succeed and become an Islamic nation in the middle of our country. I think that's possible. It might even happen. But I don't think the United States will go Islamic

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On the whole as long as Trump and reasonable common-sense people are in charge so that they have to understand this though if they don't understand that the 1% of flat affects the 10% that affects the whole the whole if they don't get that And they think it's just a risk They're doomed All right, so To me, that answers the question, is England intentionally becoming an Islamic country?

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And the answer is, I don't think they are doing it intentionally. I think they don't understand that they did it. Because I think they were operating on the Democrat model of, hey, immigration always worked before. But as soon as you take in a group that doesn't want to assimilate, or at least a small part of them don't want to assimilate, you're doomed.

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Visigrad 24, which is an account on X, pointed out that, you know how Macron is complaining that Elon Musk is getting involved in their politics in another country? And they say, oh, we don't want billionaires influencing politics in another country. And Visigrad 24 points out that billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are

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interfered with European politics for decades, spending huge sums to get what they wanted in other countries. So is Musk the one billionaire who is trying to influence things in other countries, or is it the most normal thing that's ever happened? It looks pretty normal. And I am now on the side of Elon Musk.

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And I hate that he converted me because this just seems so dumb when you first said it, honestly, which is dumb to think that anything he says is dumb. So I started out as dumb just by thinking that he had the wrong opinion. But Musk says there's no explanation for George Soros' activity unless he just hates humanity. Now, the first time I heard that, I was like, well, come on.

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Well, obviously the story that is closest to me and is weighing on me heavily right now is the Palisades fire in California. Now, I'm not in Southern California, so I'm far away from the actual fire. But if you live in California, you probably have a friend there. So Californians are being affected directly, indirectly. And I don't know yet if the news has conveyed how bad this is.

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He doesn't hate humanity. Like, who hates humanity? But the more I watch him, I don't see another explanation. Because unlike the average Democrat, George Soros would be completely aware that some rate and flow rate of Muslim immigration turns your country Islamic. Now, he might not care.

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But it's hard for me to imagine that he sees that as the better world, as opposed to people staying roughly in the system that they prefer, instead of trying to go somewhere else and change the system. So I can't rule out the fact that Musk might be right, that the only thing driving it is a hatred of humanity. I don't really see what else it could be. And the fact that the Soroses don't do

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They don't do interviews. So nobody can ask them, why are you doing this? Like, what is this? And if they're not willing to do interviews and they're not willing to answer the question, we do have a right to assume the worst.

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We might be wrong about it, but if they're only giving us one possible explanation, which is you're literally evil and trying to destroy the world and everything you do seems to be clearly in that model, what are we supposed to think?

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So if the Soros is, in this case, Alex Soros, if he's not willing to do regular interviews with this massive amount of money and it appears to be destructive to the country, I think we have a right to assume it's intended that way. Design, you know, if a design does one thing over and over again and it isn't changed and people could change it, then it's intentional.

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But it says that you get more health advantage if you drink your coffee in the morning versus sipping it all day. So if you're a morning drinker, like you are, because you just sipped with me, you're 16% less likely to have died compared to non-coffee drinkers. 31% less likely to have died from heart disease, according to Chronicle Live. So there's that.

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If it were happening accidentally or just temporarily, I'd say, oh, somebody made a mistake. Didn't mean that. But this is clearly intended because it's gone on so long in this exact way and increased. Meanwhile, because karma has come to visit the view, one of the view hosts, Sunny Hustons, her husband is accused in this massive RICO bust of

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He's accused of being one of many people in the medical field who are fraudulently billing insurance companies for their cases. And apparently it's so widespread, it's a RICO case in New York. And I'm just going to make one prediction. By the way, is it my imagination that Trump haters are having a bad year, even unrelated to Trump? It just feels like too many coincidences.

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It feels like the Trump effect, but how in the world could this be the Trump effect? Like, how did that happen? Anyway, I would add to this story that I think we're going to find out that the medical insurance fraud problem is way bigger than you think. I can't tell you yet why I say that. Maybe I never will be able to. But I do have some information.

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is not generally known that would certainly suggest that the medical field is full of insurance fraud, like way worse than you thought. And I'm not talking about the crooks. I'm talking about the regular doctors, you know, the people who are good citizens, because I'll bet you Sonny Houston's husband who appears, you know, highly skilled in some medical field. I'll bet you he was just a,

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normal doctor type, not too different from any other doctor who might be pulled into this Rico thing. I think they talk themselves into it being okay somehow. Like maybe they don't feel like they're doing anything that illegal. I don't, I don't know, but my guess is it's way bigger, way bigger than you think. Meanwhile, just for fun, the, uh, uh, after, uh,

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Zuckerberg said that Meta is going to get rid of their fact checkers and use some kind of community notes things. The New York Times had this headline. Meta says fact checkers were the problem. Fact checkers rule that false. Now, I assume that they knew they were doing a humorous headline.

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So I'm not going to spend a ton of time on it because you can just turn on the TV and it's all you'll see today practically.

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But the funny part is, it's so similar to the ridiculousness of the reporting on a lot of political stuff that you don't know if they meant it as a joke. Because that difference between jokes and reality has just disappeared. You look at it and go, well, that's obviously an absurdity. They would know that when they wrote it, so it must be a joke.

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And then you think, oh, but they don't know anything else they say is an absurdity. Why would this be the one thing that they spotted? Oh, that's an absurdity. No, maybe not. Maybe they didn't know that this was ridiculous. Anyway, so now we're getting a lot of reactions here.

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to Zuckerberg going, I'm not going to say he went full mega, but, you know, hiring, not hiring, but choosing Dana White as the board member, you know, a really close friend of Trump, saying that he's going to be in the fact checking. He's not going to be putting money into the elections. That was a big problem. So he's doing all these things that seem perfectly compatible with Trump.

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And I thought that was all good. So my take was, oh, that's all good. Great. Good for him. I'm glad he's seen the inefficiency of what he was doing before, didn't get him what he wanted. He's adjusted. That's exactly what I want to see. So my standard is I don't judge people for mistakes. I don't think that's a good standard.

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but the fire is gigantic last i knew it was zero percent controlled because the winds were so high there was basically nothing you could do it was just ripping through these multi-million dollar homes james woods reportedly lost his home and he would be one of many people who had no fire insurance now that's a legend so i haven't heard that from james wood so i don't know if that's true it's on it's on x

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If you judge people for mistakes, we all suck because we all make mistakes. But you could definitely judge people for how they respond to a mistake. If you knew you made a mistake, you got caught or you figured it out yourself, and then you said, all right, to not make that mistake again, I will do the following things. You have my respect.

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Now, some people said, I am so clever about themselves, not about me. People thought they were so clever that they knew what Zuckerberg was really about. And they said things like, he's bending the knee to Trump. Trump threatened him and he's just bending the knee.

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And Trump was asked, did Trump think that Trump's threats about Facebook, and I guess Zuckerberg himself, did he think that that made a difference to Zuckerberg? And Trump's answer was, probably. I'd love to know what threats he made. I believe they were just threats that the legal system sees them interfering with elections and censoring and stuff.

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So part of it is that there seemed to be a credible threat. Part of it is Facebook is being challenged in a number of ways by the government currently, and it could get worse. I mean, he would worry about it could get worse. And so it's complicated. And then some people said, he's just doing it for money, Scott. Don't you understand? He's a terrible person. He's just doing this for money.

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So here's my take. It's all those things. And what's wrong with that? What's wrong with him doing it because the government is a threat? Nothing. That's just normal business. If the government is a threat and you need the government to literally be on your side in order for your business to survive, then you do this. That's not a mistake.

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That's not something to say, oh, you darn Zuckerberg, you bent the knee. No, he did what a good leader should absolutely do 100%. He should change. If what he was doing before didn't work, and it was obvious what to do to make it work, you do that change, and that's what he did. Now, some people said, but he's just doing it for money, to which I say, that's what a corporation is.

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They do it for money. He should be doing it for money. That's exactly what he should be doing for money. And then other people said he's not a patriot because he influenced that last election in a way that you don't like and that social media is damaging to people's mental health. Well, here's the frame I would put on that.

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Do you think that he thought he was damaging people when he started Facebook? Like when he started Facebook, was he like, hmm, I know this damages people, but I'm going to do it anyway. No, it was already a huge business by the time it became obvious that people would get addicted. Are there people addicted to Facebook now? Is Facebook where you go?

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Well, he owns Instagram, so Instagram is definitely more damaging to mental health. So... There's definitely that. So the question of whether social media is damaging to mental health, I don't know if the answer is nobody should be allowed to have social media or that it can't be a business.

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It seems to me that the reasonable way to do it is to figure out how to manage it and we should learn how to live with it, but also the service should have some guardrails to maybe keep young people from overusing it, something like that. So that seems like something that is a problem that you couldn't have known when you started the business.

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When it became known, he seems to have shown interest in addressing it. Maybe you think you should do more. Everybody always thinks you should do more. Other people said, why did it take him so long and why is he doing it now? And you know my criticism of that, right? Everything good feels like it took too long. You can't blame people for taking too long.

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If they ended up where you want them to end up, Just take the win. Everything takes too long. It's not one thing that happened to him that one time he took the long. It's just everything all the time that's good takes too long. So I would say this. I think he's completely transparent. And when I say he's a patriot, I mean that I do believe in my bones that he wants what's good for America.

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But it is true that because California had so many fire-related gigantic disasters, most insurance companies pulled out of the state. So this is probably the biggest modern fire in which there are a lot of houses involved, and a lot of them won't be insured. So you're seeing hundreds of people losing lives. something like their whole life.

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And I believe that you can tell why. He probably was always patriotic. But you've noticed that he's gotten into the more manly sports. Like he's beefed up. He's obviously a gym rat at this point. He's doing martial arts. And he said that Trump was a badass when he took the bullet. Those to me seem completely genuine. And his selection of Dana White, on one hand, is Trump's friend.

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So you see it in that frame. But the other frame to see it in is he really likes MMA. He probably just likes it. And my guess is that Zuckerberg likes hunting. He likes capitalism. He likes combat sports. I think you're wrong if you think that he's a secret Democrat. My guess is he's always been closer to a secret Republican than but that wouldn't sell.

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So he probably wisely kept some of his views to himself. Now, I'm sure he's in favor, if I had to guess, he's probably in favor of, I don't know, abortion. But I'll bet you if he took abortion off the table and you just looked at what he thinks works for the country, what works for business, it wouldn't be that different from your opinion. Now, I can't be sure of that because I can't read his mind,

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But I think you're better off embracing the change. You don't have to love what he did. The $420 million is a big deal. But imagine what bubble he was in. You all saw that the left were completely bubblized, and even the smartest people on the left were bubblized. What was it that got him out of the bubble? It was kind of the fine people hoax.

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So remember Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, a number of people have said the same thing. So I think all in pod said the same thing. That the fine people hoax woke them up that maybe there were other hoaxes. And once they saw the entire web of hoaxes that seemed to be limited to one side, both sides can be wrong. Both sides can be biased.

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But only one side was hoax after hoax after hoax because they had the media machine to support the hoaxes. So if you were in that world, you think you would have done better? Do you think that all of your brains and your common sense would have allowed you, unique among other Democrats, could you have been the one person who knew that the news was lying to you all the time? Probably not.

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I don't think I could have. Because, by the way, I've been in that bubble, not in 10 years, but I've been in that bubble where the Republicans were the dumb ones. And it was just obvious to me, man, all the smart ones are these Democrats. I guess I'm a Democrat. And I would look at all the things the Republicans said because it was in my bubble. And I'd say, that makes no sense.

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Why are they doing that? If you don't appreciate how strong the bubble is, then I don't think you can see Zuckerberg completely. Here's what I think happened, and this is only speculation. I think he got red-pilled by the hoaxes. I can't prove it. There's no even hint of it. But if you look what happened to the other brightest people who escaped the bubble, it was the same way.

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they escaped it the same way, realizing that they were being lied to about just about everything. And once you get that, then suddenly you go, all right, now I'm open to the other possibilities. To me, I think Zuckerberg got red-pilled by maybe Peter Thiel. If I had to pick one person, because Thiel has the Facebook connection, and Thiel, of course, would know which ones are the hoaxes.

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Can you imagine Peter Thiel having dinner? I'm just speculating. I don't know that any of this happened. Can you imagine Peter Thiel talking to Zuckerberg and maybe unwinding some of the hoaxes for him?

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A few people would be insured, and they might come out okay after a lot of disruption. But this is massively bad. It's massively bad. 13,000 structures. Nothing in the LA area as a natural disaster has ever come close, is my understanding. I don't think anything's ever been close to the size and scale of this disaster.

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I think what you're seeing is real, meaning I believe that Zuckerberg really thought that he was on the side of patriotism in the country and avoiding problems when he helped the Democrats try to avoid Hiller. I think he thought he was trying to avoid Hiller, like actually genuinely believed it. And I don't think that that is a flaw in his character because a lot of good people believed it.

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Remember, Elon Musk believed it. Joe Rogan believed it at one point. And there's nothing wrong with their characters, in my opinion. So I think you're, I wouldn't be hard on Zuckerberg because to me it looks like somebody who was trapped in a bubble, probably wishes he had his $420 million back. Don't you think?

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Do you think he's real happy about the $420 million he wasted and could put him in jail and bought him nothing but the destruction of the country? Do you think he's celebrating that? No. He's probably embarrassed. Again, just speculating. He's probably embarrassed. So I would take the win. I think that it... And by the way, he said directly...

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that the country is going in a direction that's historically a little different, and he's going with the country. That's everything I wanted from him. He gave me everything I wanted. So I'm pro-Zuckerberg at the moment. If something else comes up, I'll reevaluate. But take the win, people. Take the win. All right. Trump is brilliant on the Hamas hostages.

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let me tell you what he said and I'll tell you why it's so perfect. He said, quote, if those hostages aren't back by the time I get into office, and again, that's just real soon, just days, all hell will break out in the Middle East and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. Now, let me tell you how brilliant that is.

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Number one, he's using that fire and fury technique that he used on North Korea. If you say, if you do this, we will sanction you, then they know exactly what their risk is. And probably they would go ahead and do it anyway because they could figure out how to handle sanctions.

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If you say, I will bomb your certain facilities, then somebody might say, well, I'll take the hit because we're battling to the death anyway. So yeah, you can blow up my missile sites. Still going to fight. The more specific you are about what you're going to do, the more likely it doesn't work. You want to give people a vague idea that it's going to be so bad it almost defies description.

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It's going to be hell. But the magic part of that, the persuasive part, the part that hypnotists would know to do as well, is that the less specific you are, it allows everybody to imagine their own worst scenario. So you might say, oh, let's say if you're in Hamas, you might say, oh, my goodness, he's just going to seal up the tunnels and just leave us there.

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Or you might say, my God, is he going to kill all the Palestinians? Of course he's not. But they're going to come up with their own worst-case scenario that will be worse than anything he could say. So that's perfect. And he's keeping all his options open by not over-specifying. So, so far he's perfect. But there's a better part that only Trump would be smart enough to do.

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You know, we've had forest fires, of course, but, you know, this many structures, this is insane. Jewel Pollack is writing in Breitbart that L.A. Mayor Karen Bass... cut the fire department budget by 20 million. Now, to be fair, it wasn't the only thing that was being looked at to cut, and they did cut it back to the budget that was roughly the same as the year before.

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And this is what separates him. This is what separates them. You could sort of imagine that some normal politician could also be smart enough to make a generic threat. But one of the things that Trump has going for him is that he's credible. He's already dropped a mother of all bombs. He's already assassinated Soleimani when everybody said don't do it.

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He also destroyed ISIS by telling the military, don't ask me what you need to do, just do what you need to do. Those are some of the most badass things that ever happened. So when he says hell is coming, they know it's real. Do you know why they know it's real? It's real. It's not a bluff. Bluffing only gets you so much. This is not a bluff. This is not a bluff.

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If you know anything about Trump, that's not a bluff. Whatever it takes, he's going to do it. And if you don't give the hostages back, welcome to hell. So, here's the smartest part. He's treating the hostage release as not part of the negotiations because there would be a larger negotiation to what's the future of Gaza and who gets to pass and who gets to stay and those things.

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The big mistake that somebody like Biden would make if you're a bad negotiator, you'd say it's all part of the same conversation. You've got the hostages. You've got the what happens. You've got all kinds of questions. Let's put them all together. which is a typical thing to do.

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You put them all together, so you have one kind of deal that deals with all those things, and once Hamas is perfectly happy with the larger deal, then they release the hostages. Bad strategy. The correct strategy is, if you don't want more hostages to be taken and just repeat this cycle, the correct strategy is to be eligible to have a conversation with us, release the hostages.

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So you don't put the hostages in the same conversation with all the other things you want to get done. Because then you're being emotionally blackmailed and the families of the hostages are going to be saying, no, let Hamas be in charge again. Just let my relative go. And they're going to be emotional and it's going to weigh on you. You need to say, you release them before I'm in office.

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and we'll put that topic behind us, and then we can talk. So the right way to do it is that you have to release the hostages to buy a ticket to have a real conversation with me. But until you get them, your only option is hell, and hell is coming hard. That is perfect. Now, is this more likely to get the hostages killed? It might. It's an unknown.

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But given that it's an unknown, it makes it the right play. And does it decrease the chance that hostages will be taken in the future? Yes, as long as you make it not part of any larger negotiation. You have one choice, release the hostages or hell, and maybe that will decrease future hostages. So it's perfectly right and it's perfectly simplified.

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Because people will spread the news that he's going to bring hell because it's easy to repeat. It's easy to remember. There's no details. That's what Trump does best. He repeats. He keeps it simple. He keeps it vague. And he's got a history that, you know, he's going to kill so many if he needs to. He wants to change. Trump wants to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

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Now, I don't know exactly what would be involved in that discussion. because you've got to change the maps, and I don't know, it might be an act of Congress. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she might be helping on that. We don't know how serious that is, but I love it. Here's why I love it.

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If it's called the Gulf of Mexico, and sometime in the future, Mexico has a dispute with us about resources or access or control of the Gulf, people are going to say, well, it's the Gulf of Mexico. So, I mean, of course Mexico should have a lot of control. It's named after them. But they don't own it. And the United States is circling at least, I don't know, 60% of it.

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So for the future of America, where we could be pretty sure that someday there'll be some conflict in the Gulf about who owns what, name it after America. And then when you get into that negotiation 10 years from now, whenever it happens, you're going to say, are you serious? Mexico, you think you want to have control over the Gulf of America? It's got America right in the name. It's ours.

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But clearly, the question of priorities has to be asked. If you knew that we had this much risk, is the fire department the thing you want to cut? Do you think more money went to immigration and taking care of the homeless? And maybe a little less went to the fire prevention?

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And it would be easier to get the United States public to back any kind of forceful defense of the Gulf because it's the Gulf of America. It's like our land. It's not our land. So if you look at how forward-thinking Trump is, which is remarkable, I think he's looking at a 10 to 50-year advantage, no particular advantage on day one.

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And I think the enemies will say, but there's nothing gained on day one. Why would you do this? It's not for day one. It's for days, someday in the future, when we're definitely going to have a conflict about who gets what in the Gulf. It's brilliant. This is basically just brilliant.

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Now, it's also part of the larger thing where Trump seems to be intentionally flooding the zone with somewhat less important but provocative things that we like to talk about. Why am I talking about the Gulf of America when there couldn't be anything less important to my life? Because it's fun. You can't not talk about it. It's easy to talk about and you understand it.

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You don't have to do any research. It's just kind of fun. So the more fun things he gives us, the less the resistance will be able to find their way in. If Trump came and said, look, here's what I'm going to do. I have one top priority. and every day I'm going to talk about whatever that is. Well, then his opposition can say, ha-ha, we know exactly what to attack.

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He's got that one thing, so we're going to have all of us focus on that one thing, and we'll just take it down. But if he gives them one thing a day or three things a day, and they're all so interesting they take some of our attention, he's going to split up his opposition until they don't know what to attack. It's like, ah, hey, well, I'm going to go after that. There's a new one.

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And I think it's brilliant. So you could call it the Overton window or whatever you want. But he's keeping them confused and overwhelmed with Trumpisms. These are just things that he's the only person in the world to do.

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Nobody else is going to talk about Greenland, which, by the way, there's some reporting today that during his first term, there was actually some motion toward an acquisition or some kind of a deal with Greenland. So it's not crazy. And I guess he always knew it wasn't crazy. All right. China looks like it's making a move on Taiwan.

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According to the Gateway Pundit, a Chinese ship that's kind of one of these mysterious ships that's hard to track. It's up to do good. And it cut one of the undersea's cables to Taiwan. Now, apparently it was intentional. And the thinking is, that the way China would try to take over Taiwan would be with a long, slow squeeze as opposed to an invasion.

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An invasion might be just too far, meaning there would be military response. You don't know where it would end up. But squeezing them indefinitely and staying just below the line that the United States wants to start firing at them, I hate to say it might be a good strategy. So first they're going to cut off their internet cables.

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And then some smart people are saying that what they would do next is do a naval quarantine of the island. A quarantine is not a blockade. A blockade would stop everybody. A quarantine would let some innocent ships in, but they'd stop anything they wanted to stop.

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We also are hearing that California Governor Newsom did a bad job of managing the forest floors, you know, cleaning up the brush. Apparently, I think Trump had warned him and maybe everybody warned him. So he didn't do controlled burns. So these are the accusations. I'm willing to listen to the other side, which I haven't heard yet.

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So if you cut the cables and you surrounded them and you flew drones over them every day, and apparently the Chinese Navy has greater military power than the United States does in that area. But if you added Japan's Navy and South Korea's Navy, then that alliance with the United States would be bigger than China's Navy.

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But apparently South Korea's got some political problems at the moment and might not be functional. So it might be just the United States and Japan. which is more of a closer to parity and not really what you want if you're going into some potential conflict. Now, I hate to say that China might have a perfectly workable strategy, but it looks like they do.

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I don't know if it'd be enough to get the Taiwan government or people to say, all right, all right, let's make a deal. I don't know, but you can see why they'd be doing it. I think Trump, when he's in office, probably would turn up the temperature on this until they back off. But I don't know. We'll see.

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According to Gateway Pundit also, there's a leaked report that the presidential inauguration is seeking a lot of medical personnel. So the thinking is that maybe it's an unusual request for medical personnel for the inauguration. which would make you say, why do they think they need extra medical personnel? And I would say, obvious. They're worried about an attack.

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It doesn't mean they know there's going to be an attack, but it's the obvious place that you would want to defend and the obvious place you'd want to have a lot of medical people. And beyond that, maybe they think there'd be some protests or something. I don't know. So it makes sense. I don't think I'd have to be specially worried about the increase in medical personnel.

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That just seems like being smart. And James O'Keefe, I think, is the one who found out about that memo.

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All right, here's another thing that people keep telling me. I've been saying things like, I don't think the large language model AIs can improve much and they may be reaching their limit. And then the smart people say to me, Scott, You know, I hate to be the one to tell you, but you don't understand growth.

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Of course, it's going to be the kind of thing where the growth is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow. But when it reaches this point, it's going to be like quickly do everything. And I don't understand the... the normal rate of improvement of technology, because when I say the current kind of AI I think can't do, it can never be accurate. That's my opinion, because it hallucinates.

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So maybe Newsom has some kind of defense that would sound reasonable. But I doubt it. It does seem like it's exactly what it looks like. It's poorly managed. Now, the report I heard... but I haven't heard a confirmation, is that it was some homeless person who set the fire. Do we know if that's confirmed? And then the coincidence, I think, I think it's a coincidence.

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And people say, oh, you just don't understand. They just make it better. Here's my counter argument. How much better do you have to make a bowling ball before it's a spaceship? Can you improve a bowling ball until it's a rocket that will take you to Mars? How long before an apple evolves into an orange? If you wait long enough, is it going to happen quickly toward the end?

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It hasn't happened at all yet. But will there be a day when you're looking at your orange and all of a sudden, kind of rapidly turns into an apple? No. So here's where I differ on the people who say, Scott, Scott, Scott, you don't understand that this technology will rapidly be able to do everything and you'll look like a fool. My complaint about AI is that by its nature, it's an orange.

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And what we want is accuracy, which is an apple. And there is no real path for the orange to turn into an apple. There's definitely a path where a slow microchip could be replaced with a faster microchip. I get that.

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There's definitely a path where an electric car might not be great for the overall health of the planet on day one, but I understand how they'll just keep getting better and when the batteries are no longer lithium, it'll be the only way you want to live maybe someday. I get that. But I don't think the large language models, have that ability to improve like microchips and electric cars.

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I think that they're an exception because there's something built into the way they work that seems unsolvable, the hallucinating.

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Now, you might say to me, but Scott, they're just going to add regular programming to the AI, and then when the AI needs to know something that's like a fact, it'll just go to that document and use regular programming and then tell you what it said, and then it'll be accurate. To which I say, If it could do that, it would have already done it.

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It can't do that because it doesn't have the ability to just remember and accurately go look at a document and tell you what it said. That seems to you like the easiest thing it could possibly do, but you're thinking of traditional programming. So is it possible that the AIs will be augmented with just normal programming and And maybe you're just using the AI as the interface to talk to it.

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But what is really doing the hard work is just regular programming behind the scenes. That might happen. So I do think that that will happen, some kind of nexus between the two. But at the moment, I don't think the AI can even call up the document. Like even the most basic thing, I don't think it can do it. And I don't know how they would change it to make it do it.

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So I'm going to bet against it, partly recreationally. I'd like to be wrong. And I don't think AGI has been solved, but Sam Altman says it is. So he would know more than I would, obviously. But I'm going to bet against it. All right, yesterday I had a lot of fun.

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If you've watched me a long time, you know one of the things I like to do is put myself in embarrassing situations if I think something good could come of it. because unlike most of you, I don't have that feeling of embarrassment.

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So I waded into the quantum computing conversation yesterday with my own opinion, and of course I don't know about quantum computing, so even though I did a semi-deep dive to find out how it works, I'm certainly no expert. So here's what I think I found out, and it got a huge reaction when I posted on X. I said, here are the things I learned. No one knows how or why quantum computers work. No one.

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Not the experts. No one. Now, that would be provocative because you've probably heard it explained a million times if you follow that. You've heard it explained how they work. So you're saying to yourself, of course they know how it works. If they didn't know how it works, they couldn't create it. And they've already created it. You have an experimental. So obviously they've built one.

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Scott, they built one. Obviously, they know how it works. No, they don't. Let me tell you what they say when you ask how it works. They say things like this. Now, this is not an exact quote, but it's like this. The way it works, the way quantum computer figures out the truth is that they use the amplitudes of statistical likelihood and then they

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Yeah, I'm seeing in the comments, I'll say it just because it's in the comments, that this really isn't the disaster that I think I want to take a stand on DEI. Because, you know, DEI is a big issue. And, you know, I hammer it all the time. But this is more about the people in the disaster right now.

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interfere with other amplitudes of its statistical likelihoods, and it rules out some possibilities, and then you keep doing that until you reach the correct answer. Does that make sense to you? Let me tell you what it sounds like. I'm going to give you the worst analogy in the world, but it'll get you close to what my problem is, right?

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Remember, analogies are not meant to be a precise description of what's happening. An analogy is is just to open up your brain to like a different frame you could put on the thing that's real. So the analogy is not real. It's not trying to be that. It's just to make a point. All right.

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So imagine you're in a room with a closed door and the answer to your question, whatever it is, is on the other side of the door and you have no access to open the door and no, you can't hear anything, see anything. You don't know what's on the other side of the door. But you need to figure out what it is using your quantum computer. So you take some dice and you roll the dice.

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And of course, that doesn't tell you anything, right? You got a seven. What's that tell you? But if you use more than one set of dice, then you've got two sets of statistics. And then you can take the one set of statistics. Oh, I got a seven on this one and a nine on this one. And then you have them interfere.

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And it's the interference of these statistical things that are happening with your dice that tells you what's on the other side of the door. Does that make sense? How do your dice tell you what's on the other side of the door? That's what a quantum computer pretends to do. It says it's telling you what's on the other side of the door using nothing but statistical math. That's not a thing.

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That's not a thing. You can't know what's on the other side of the door if you have no feedback. And by the way, quantum computer does say very clearly there's no feedback from the solution. It simply goes to it. It just goes to it. It doesn't use logic. It doesn't calculate. It doesn't use some process that anybody has ever used to figure out what's true. It just goes to the answer.

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And the way it does it is by statistical tricks, which if you interfere the two statistical techniques, it cancels out things and then you're left with the right answer. How in the world many times do you have to throw dice in the room all by yourself to know what's on the other side of the door? And the answer is you can't ever get there.

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There's nothing about the dice that's going to tell you what's on the other side of the door. Now, the people who understand quantum computing are going to come in and say, that is the worst analogy ever. Well, they're right. The only point I'm making is you can't have random numbers tell you what's on the other side of the door. And that's what the quantum computer is doing. So how does it work?

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Given that there's no way it could work, why does it work? because they've already used it, and they've solved problems that would take, you know, to the end of time for a regular computer.

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And now the only reason they know they've solved it is they take the solution and put it in a regular computer, and then the regular computer, if it knows the solution, can check that it's right, but it couldn't figure out the answer on its own. So here's what I think.

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It is true that if you look at the mayor and you look at the head of the fire department, they are quite conspicuously, you know, that they would fit that frame, your DEI analysis. But I don't have any evidence. I have no evidence whatsoever that any of the people in charge did a specific thing that caused this fire. Or anything that's DEI related.

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I think that quantum computing is not proof that we have multiple dimensions, as some people say, because there's no evidence of any multiple dimensions. There might be multiple dimensions, but there's nothing about quantum computing that gives you any insight about multiple dimensions, any more than the dice do.

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The multiple dimensions would be, if I throw one set of dice, it's a seven, and if I throw the other one, it's a nine. So that's two dimensions, right? No, it's not. It's just statistics. So I think that they found a way to hack the simulation source code.

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If you're sitting in a room and you want to know what's on the other side of the door and you have no access to it, but imagine you were in a video game and you could just open up like the cover and see the code. Then could you sit in your room if you saw the code for the entire simulation And could you find the part that tells you what's happening on the other side of the room?

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There's no other way this could work. This has to be something like a proof that we live in a simulation because there is no access to the information on the other side of the door unless you're doing a Kobayashi Maru and you're cheating the system.

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So this is literally cheating reality by finding the source code of the simulation, poking around in it, and then you find out what must be on the other side of the door. Now, as ridiculously simplistic and wrong as my analysis is, what you'd expect would be all the smart people would say, oh, God. Can you just stay in your stupid cartooning lane?

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Can you stop acting like you somehow have discovered something? You stupid, stupid cartoonist. But that didn't happen. Instead, all the people who had looked into it said, yeah, you nailed it. And more than that, later in the day, and I didn't know this was going to happen, the CEO of NVIDIA said,

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who definitely has looked into quantum computing, says he doesn't think it would be practical maybe for as long as 30 years. Which means exactly what I said. It doesn't look like it's really going anywhere except some niche applications. It's not going to be on your desktop. It's not even built to do that. It can't do that. And then there was...

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Article published about the same time, maybe yesterday. I don't know when this was published, but I saw it yesterday or today. Martin Shkreli, you know Martin Shkreli? He's a provocative character. But he wrote a long piece in which he said you should short or sell all your quantum computing stocks because they're worthless, because there's no business there and it never will be.

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And he explains why. Now, I think I was a lot closer on this than even I was expecting. Because I would have been happy if I embarrassed myself in public with how stupid I am, but that it led to somebody smart explaining it to me in a way that made sense. Nope. The people who tried to explain it to me just did word salad. Well, but Scott...

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We used something called the Oracle feature that decides how to roll the dice, and that's why it works. And I'll be like, well, you didn't tell me anything there. Like, why does it work? Because it's the statistics, and it interferes, and then it goes through the, like, you don't know why this works, do you? No, nobody knows why it works. Anyway.

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Last story is that according to BMJ group, cardiorespiratory fitness is linked to better cognitive abilities in old people. Is that backward science? So if we know that the old people who are doing more fitness stuff have better brains, is that because the fitness and the exercise causes their brain to be better or

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So the standard that I like to use on this stuff is you can't tell anything about the individuals. So yes, the people in charge are probably, it seems, influenced by DEI. But we don't know if somebody else who had not been a DEI hire would have done better. We do know things didn't go well.

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Is it equally or more likely that the people who have good genes are more likely to exercise because they can? And if you had good genes for your body and your body was able to handle exercise and feel good about it, is it kind of at least a little bit likely that your brain being part of your body is part of something that's a good machine? It probably works both ways.

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I do think exercise is good for your brain. But I feel like people with good brains and bodies are more likely to exercise. So it might work both ways. Backward science. That's all I got for you today. Sorry I took so long. But I wanted to do that whiteboard thing. Let me just ask you before I go private with the locals people. Was the immigration discussion useful? And did it help you

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see it a little differently and understand why we're looking at, we think we're talking about the same thing, but we're kind of not when it comes to immigration. I just want to see if that was useful because if it was, I might clip it. But if you tell me, well, that was a waste of time, then I won't clip it. Is it clippable? I'm seeing some yeses. All right.

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And by the way, on top of that, at the CES show, there's a new coffee maker that sucks the water for the coffee is sucked out of the air in your house and put in your coffee. So you never have to fill up your little portable coffee maker. Well, not portable. You never have to fill up your coffee maker. It just grabs it out of the air.

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Okay, we're getting lots of yeses to clip it. All right, so I'll clip that. You'll see it at some point. You know, I never think about clipping it when I'm doing it. I would do it a lot tighter and faster if I knew it was going to be a clip, but it should be okay. It'll be okay. All right. Good. Oh, good. You liked it. All right, I'm going to say hi to the local people privately.

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For the rest of you, I will see you Tomorrow, same time, same place.

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We do know that there are obvious ways they could have prevented or maybe had a better chance of preventing it. But I wouldn't tightly bind the DEI story with the fire story because I think that's sort of taking attention away from where it should be, which is an insane tragedy and a lot of people affected. But it's not a nothing either. I hate the fact...

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that the news is going to report about which celebrities lost their homes. Literally the people least affected. But that's who we are. We're going to talk about the celebrities who lost their homes. There'll be more of them. I guess I'm going to leave this one here. So my state is just massively in trouble and massively undermanaged, it feels like.

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And I'm wondering if this disaster is going to be big enough that the Democrats finally say, I'm out. Because you've watched the Trump effect everywhere. I was watching Fetterman say he wants to make sure he can work with the Republicans because they did win the election. And that seems positive. We saw Zuckerberg. We'll talk more about him. He's taking what I would call a reasoned pivot.

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because he says that's where the country's going, he's not going to fight it. So it seems like there's a, you know, and of course Bill Maher and a number of other Democrats are now coming over to the, what I'd call the common sense side of things. I feel like this disaster is going to be big enough that it might actually shake even blue California. I would say that after this,

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The impossible is now possible. A Republican governor. Do you think I would have ever imagined a Republican governor in the past? I mean, in the recent past, not in the recent past. But I think this is so bad that it might change everything. Now, it wouldn't change everything, except it's in the context of the Trump effect. So the Trump effect is sort of this larger thing that's moving everything.

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And then this is a subset of that that I think will be accelerated by it. So the disaster alone wouldn't change politics in California. The disaster plus the Trump effect, now your brain is going to connect them. It's like, wait a minute. Every time Democrats are in charge, it's either a riot or an economic disaster or it burns. Everybody's going to see the pattern.

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The pattern's a little hard to avoid at this point. Anyway, if we can, I'm going to try to stay away from the conversation about the heavy part of that, just because it's hard to handle. Let's talk about Trump on Greenland and Panama and Canada. So the big question all the fake news are asking is, he says, is he going to use the military?

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He's going to use the military in Greenland and Panama and Canada. So Trump said, according to the Daily Wire, Trump said in answer to that question, I'm not going to commit to not using the military to get Greenland or the Panama Canal. So Trump said he would not promise that he would not use the military for Greenland or the Panama Canal. Now,

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Now, the question I have for you is, would you drink coffee that was made from the water that was in your house in the air. Because it feels like it would taste like your dog's hair and whatever was in your carpet. Now, I know it's perfectly clean because I'm sure they do it so there's no contamination. But the mental part, it's like, mm-hmm. I'm just imagining me have that, like, mm-hmm.

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Have I explained enough how Trump works so that you can understand that in context? The context is he's negotiating. If you're negotiating with Panama and you say, I take the option of using the military off the table, how's that negotiation going to go? Well, you already know. Panama's going to say, get lost, and that will be the end, right? But if he says, I'm keeping that option open,

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And the larger context is that it has a geopolitical homeland defense element to it, and it does, because China is getting control of the canal, and that's unacceptable. As long as he keeps it as a military homeland defense issue, he is perfectly entitled, and it's the smart play, to say, no, I'm not taking that off the table.

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Now, how many times have I had to explain to the country, Trump never takes options off the table? taking options off the table is maybe the biggest mistake you could make. I mean, there could be other ones, but that would be about the biggest mistake you could make, taking your own options off the table. No, keep that one on there.

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Now, what are the odds that he would actually use military force to get Greenland? Well, let's discuss what that would mean. Would that really mean we'd go in and start shooting the Greenlandiers. I don't know what they're called. Greenlandians? Greenlanders? No. No, we're not going to go shoot anybody from Greenland.

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Is it possible, potentially, that there would be a large military entity that simply lands and builds a base, whether they like it or not? Maybe. Because we might say, we don't want to own your country. We get it. but we have to protect it because it's relevant to our own defense. We're not doing it for you. We're not doing it to you. It's just for our own defense.

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So that would be military, but it wouldn't be us threatening to shoot anybody in Greenland, which would be 100% unacceptable. But keeping it on the table is absolutely the right negotiating position. Now, you might say to me, but Scott... Are you saying that you would be in favor of the military going into Canada? Because he's also talked about Canada being 51st state.

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When he was asked about using the military in Canada, he said, we don't need it because we only need financial. He called it pressure. but you could also call it a risk-reward. And the idea would be that he could make an economic argument that Canada would just be economically better off, so that's all he needs.

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Because people care about their wallet, and they care about their defense, and they might care about just surviving. And if he can offer a better chance to make money, survive, and thrive, then doesn't everybody win? Now, of course, that's the American point of view. My understanding is that at least part of what makes Canadians Canadian is they're not Americans.

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Good day ahead. Stock market is up. So it's a good day to check your stocks. Let's get our show going here. Get the comments working. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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Ha ha ha.

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Now, the funny thing about that is it rings true, doesn't it? Like when you hear that, you think, okay, you just got to the center of it. She must be afraid of the cartels. We all knew that, right? That's not news. But when you add the she can't even think straight,

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It probably is because when he talks to her, he's talking about solving the cartel problem, and she's not responding like she wants to solve it. That would look like she's not thinking straight. So I just love that framing, that she was so afraid of the cartel, she can't even think straight.

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So now that Trump has moved our military to a lot of locations on the border with Mexico, I think it's causing some of the cartels to have to arrange their business differently. And I guess the cartels are fighting each other, which I always wonder if we're behind that. Do you ever wonder if we're behind that? Like, wouldn't it be easier for us to get the cartels to fight each other?

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than it would be for us to fight them. So I always wonder, do we send some information to one that sort of suggests maybe they should fight with the other one? I don't know. We should. If we're not doing that, we're missing an obvious move. Anyway, so my question is this. Do you think Trump would ever attack the cartels in Mexico without approval of the president of Mexico?

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Now, one possibility is that he could give her deniability. So she could continue to say, no, you are definitely not allowed to use your military. But then we could maybe use the military. And then she could say, I told you not to use the military. We'll do everything we can in our power.

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stop you from using your military i mean they're not going to attack our military that would be suicide so maybe there's a good cop bad cop situation where the president of mexico shine bomb can pretend that she's opposed to it while letting it happen well not letting it happen what the hell could she do really because she's not going to turn the mexican military

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on the US military, I mean, that would just be insane. So I think that they would stand down and they would just complain a lot. But maybe they'd be getting what they wanted, which is the cartels getting whacked. Here's what I predict. I predict that after a given amount of time, and it might not be right away, that there will be a limited attack

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What would be a truly earth-shattering and positive development that we don't yet know about and is not about trade? Could it be the end of a war? That doesn't feel like that would be, you know, a positive development for this country. It would be good for the world, but I don't know if we'd say it that way. Could it be, well, I don't know. What do you think it is? He's so good at the show.

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probably by drone, so not with boots on the ground, but by drone, on a cartel facility. Maybe a military, maybe they will find the cartel has an ammo dump or something, and it will go after it because it's really just military. And it will be a test. And then Scheinbaum will say, damn it, I told you to keep your military out of our country. You can't do that again.

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Whatever you do, don't do that again. And then we'd see how bad it was. And we'd be like, all right, that wasn't so bad. Maybe we'll try it again. So I think Trump is likely to test it out. and see what the public reaction is, see what the Mexican public thinks, because I'm not sure what the Mexican public would think. Would the Mexican public really be angry if we took in a cartel facility?

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Or would they say, okay, we're not supporting the cartel, But you can't do that in our country. Or would they say, finally? Finally. Because our own government won't do this. Finally, somebody's going to take on the cartels. Which would they do? Probably a little of both, right? There's always people on both sides of everything. I don't know.

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In related news, One American News is reporting that Bondi has announced one of the largest fentanyl seizures in U.S. history. And they also captured one of the Sinaloa cartel leaders, who I believe was in the United States, operating somewhat freely in the United States. Now, one of the largest fentanyl seizures, it came with a bunch of other drugs as well.

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But you shouldn't get excited about large fentanyl seizures. Because the ability of the cartels to just make more large fentanyl shipments is really high right now. So if you get a million pills, They just say, all right, we're going to have to work overtime tonight, make another million pills. It's not the biggest problem in the world.

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And I think it's all sort of factored into the cartel business model. Okay, we're going to have a certain amount of very large captures. So they just make sure they make enough that the large captures don't change the nature of what they're doing. So I don't think that's going to help too much, but it's better than not, you know, it's better than not catching them. Well,

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Apparently, Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, and our Trade Representative Greer are going to meet with the Chinese... What would you call them? Sort of a trade... They're not really a trade delegation, but they're going to serve a capacity at the moment in Switzerland. Now, that turned out to be the perfect solution because China didn't want to look like it was... you know, anybody's slave.

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So if we had said to them, hey, let's talk, and then we said the place that we're going to talk, then China would say, you can't push this around. We're not going to go where you want us to go. So what we found was a place they were going to be anyway. They were going to be in Switzerland for other business. So then Besant says, well, why don't I just meet you in Switzerland?

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Could that be more perfect? No. I mean, Switzerland being famous for being unaligned, and they're going to be there anyway. So it's just the perfect opening to have the conversation about, you know, how do we talk about trade? Now, you should not expect that any agreements will be made, except agreements to make agreements, basically. But they'll be talking on Saturday and Sunday about

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And Besant is trying to make sure that you curb your enthusiasm about what's possible. He said, we're going to agree about what we're going to talk about. And then he says, my sense is it'll be about de-escalation, not about big trade deals. So de-escalation would mean that we say something like, okay, we intend to do trade talks. We intend to.

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So in the meantime, can we drop some of these tariffs? So maybe. And then China would not feel like they're being under duress. They would feel like they're negotiating with a peer, which is what they've asked for. So it looks like there's a path. And it looks like everybody knows what the path is, which is first you de-escalate.

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You treat them like a peer, not like somebody that you're pushing around. So far, so good. And the thing that Trump did is he made it at everybody's top priority. Without that, I don't think anything would be happening.

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I don't know. We'll talk about that. So we'll talk about all the things that are happening. But they don't seem to fit truly earth-shattering and positive developments for this country. There's a bunch of things that could be happening for other countries, mostly their benefit. I don't think it's that. I don't know what it is. So we'll see.

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So Trump gets the win for making it a top priority, and then the market has to deal with the fact that the thing they were most afraid of is that China, you know, our China trade deals would go off the rails, everything would be bad, and that would be bad for the market. But now you can see that there might be a fairly reasonable path.

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which is first you meet and agree upon what you're going to talk about. Probably you talk more about de-escalating instead of a whole trade deal. And then everybody goes, whew, we've got 90 days or maybe to the end of the year or whatever they need. And in that time, we're going to talk about all those trade-related things and tariffs and IP theft and everything else that were bothered by China.

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And then the markets are going to say, all right, it looks like a step in the right direction. And that's why I call it Trump Day instead of hump day. According to Just the News, Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, has released a fully unredacted version of a Biden memo directing federal law enforcement to go after non-criminals in the United States. Just think about that. There was a Biden memo

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Authorizing federal law enforcement's this is four years ago to target Americans who were engaged in Now remember none of these are illegal So there were they were authorized to go after Americans engaged in concerning non-criminal behavior non-criminal In the name of fighting domestic terrorism and So with a specific eye on those serving in the military, what?

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They're going to especially look at people just serving patriotically in the military? Really? People who own firearms, what? People who legally own firearms are going to be targets of law enforcement? Or spreading what officials consider to be xenophobic disinformation. What? Xenophobic disinformation? I feel like you could put a lot in that bucket. Un-freaking-believable.

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It was a June 2021 memo. So now you understand why the FBI was monitoring conservative Catholics and parents who protested against school boards. And, I mean, this is just head-shaking. Now, this is assorted news that won't make it onto the major media news, right? So Democrats will never hear this news.

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But do you think Democrats would be happy knowing that Biden had ever authorized federal law enforcement to go after people who were explicitly not accused of any crime not accused of any crime and also not accused of preparing for a crime as far as i can tell unbelievable but of course you know good for trump so it's another another good for trump thing

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The Daily Wire is doing an investigation into the African Development Foundation, which is one of those organizations that Doge tried to penetrate. And when Doge went after them, the African Development Foundation CFO refused to let them see the books and tried to lock them out and file a lawsuit. And you say to yourself, well, that's pretty aggressive.

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Why would the CFO try so hard to deny Doge looking at their books? Well, it turns out there's a reason. The CFO had been steering, allegedly, had been steering fake contracts to a friend of his who then wired cash back to the CFO. Oh, God. Everything is exactly what you thought it was.

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Anyway, believe it or not, according to the National Pulse, the US and the UK are set to sign a bilateral trade deal. Oh, here it comes. All right, the first thing they need to know about all the announcements of trade deals, probably they're over, they're exaggerated. Meaning if somebody says to you today, Hey, we got a trade deal with fill in the blank, whatever country.

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You thought these various charitable groups and NGOs, you thought that they looked like money laundering operations because they didn't have any, there was no real audit trail for anything. It was exactly what it looked like. It was exactly what it looked like. It was just gigantic money laundering theft. Un-freaking-believable.

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But again, it makes the Trump administration look like the honest ones who are fighting crime and makes it look like the Biden administration either wasn't good at finding and fighting crime or they were in on it. So again, it's not just hump day today. It's Trump day. Everything's going his way. Then meanwhile, Joe Biden did a BBC interview. Did any of you see a clip from that?

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So Biden decides that he'll talk to the BBC. Now, maybe that's because all the American media is pretending that they're mad at him for his insiders not telling anybody that he was mentally deficient. So is that why he's talking to a foreign press? Because he doesn't have that friction with them I don't know. But it was a bad idea because Biden looks completely mentally deficient in the interview.

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And, you know, you sort of forget how much we got used to. Now, I don't forgive anybody for not being able to see it because it was still pretty damn obvious for the entire term of Biden's presidency. Well, even before he got in office, it was obvious.

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But when you see it again after you haven't seen it for a few months, because we've been sort of denied any Biden spontaneous comments, we've only seen him read a speech. But when he tries to talk on his own, oh my God. How in the world did we put up with that for so long? So that was a total failure, which is good for Trump on hump day that's now Trump day.

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Well, in other news that doesn't have to do with Trump, the UK is going wild in a good way with AI-powered scans. So apparently they've got a new AI-powered 3D heart imaging that 56 hospitals have that's going to turn routine CT scans into precise, personalized coronary maps.

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So apparently it's going to replace a lot of work that doctors would do, but it will do an even better diagnosis than the doctor. And they're already rolling it out. So I feel like one of the biggest things that's going to happen

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and maybe Trump will just get lucky because he happens to be in office when this just coincidentally happens, is I think there's going to be this enormous cost-saving trend in healthcare. Now, maybe it'll start in other countries and spread to us, but think of all the things that AI could do and robots could do that we haven't quite implemented.

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For example, I'm pretty sure that robots can do surgery better than human surgeons. Now, I wouldn't personally want to go under the knife with a robot doctor, but I could probably get used to it if I saw enough science to say that it's better. But I'd need a human to be watching. I'd want the surgeon, even if it's in a different country, they could be eating a sandwich and

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playing a video game, but every once in a while I like them to look at what the robot doctor is doing to say, no, no, that's the wrong organ. No, no, no, he's here for a heart problem. You're taking out his kidney. Stop doing that. So if the AI is better at imaging and we can reduce the cost of imaging... which I think is, it seems likely, doesn't it?

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Doesn't it seem to you that the cost of these big CT and PET scans and all those things, doesn't it feel like the natural direction for those would be much lower cost over time? Because we'll innovate and there'll be a better way to do it, et cetera. So I'm thinking that the diagnosis part of medicine is going to get real cheap because of AI and startups.

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It probably means not really. It probably means that it's close. It looks like it might happen maybe in a month. Maybe if we make some agreements that we haven't made yet. So I'm not willing to believe any of the we almost have a trade deal. But that's the news. And the early reporting is that the UK is poised to sign a bilateral trade agreement. But they would not accept our food products.

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And then I'm thinking that the treatment in many cases will also get a lot cheaper. The hard part will be the hospital stays. So here's just a question I was noodling on. If you have a hospital, you have to be ready for pretty much anything that could happen, right? So you're ready for every kind of possibility.

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So you need to have every machine, which probably means a lot of your equipment is sitting around idle. I'm just guessing. So I don't know anything about this industry. So what would happen, hypothetically, if startups started doing little hospital

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functions where they only do one thing so let's say for example there's a mini hospital that pops up that only does hip replacement surgery because probably there's a certain set of machines they use just for that and then you can make sure that you have real specialists who are just good at that wouldn't it be cheaper yeah wouldn't you be able to get all kinds of uh you know efficiencies

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if you only worked on the one thing, and there's plenty of them. I mean, you wouldn't run out of hip surgery possibilities. So I'm just wondering if there's some way that the whole hospital thing could be rethought so that the more, the common problems, if they're not life-threatening, the life-threatening stuff, you just have to be ready for everything. But if it's just a ordinary surgery,

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Couldn't you have a place that just is specializing in that and it would be cheaper? I don't know. Maybe. But I think healthcare costs have some possibility going down. Apparently, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is one of the backers of a startup called Future House. And they've just released an AI agent for discovery in biology.

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Now, it's currently in beta, but apparently it can do open-ended and directed data analysis. So if you give it a whole bunch of data, it can look for whatever you tell it to look for, but it can also look at the data and just see if it finds anything that might be interesting that you didn't know to ask for. Now, that would be amazing. But here's my question. So...

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So I'm seeing Adam Dopamine says, healthcare isn't expensive because of doctors. That's true. It is expensive because the government killed the free market for healthcare. I'm open to that argument. That's an area I don't know enough about. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Trump administration could sign some executive orders to make the healthcare market more competitive.

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So maybe that's coming. Anyway, so my question is this. We've had AI for a while now. Has AI ever come up with a genuine insight in any domain? Now, is that what this biology-based AI agent is going to do? So it's an AI agent for discovery and biology. So it's going to be zipping through data. Is it going to come up with its own great insights that we didn't know to ask it to look for?

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Because I've not heard of any example where somebody said, you know what? I can't believe how dumb we were. We've been looking at this data forever. And until we turned the AI onto it, we didn't realize that we were sitting on the answer to our problems. We just weren't asking the right questions. Has that happened even once? I don't know.

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So it's making me wonder if AI can ever do that, or at least the current technology of AI. I feel like by now we would have seen all these great insights and it would be, you know, it would be, posting on X better than Naval, and it'd be saying things that you knew were good for you, but if it hadn't framed it that way, you weren't going to do anything about it.

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I mean, just think of some of the things that I've done. For example, you know, if you're new to me, this will sound weird, but those of you who have been here for a while, it won't sound weird.

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So how many of you have heard me say something or write something in one of my books that caused you to change your life, either lose weight or stop drinking or exercise more, build a talent stack or do systems over goals? Now, those are insights. Those are reframes in some case, but basically they're designed to make you see something that was sort of always there.

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It's just that I saw it differently. And in seeing it differently, or even just putting it in different words, I could turn your general desire to improve into you actually doing things. And then you would actually improve. Now that is a genuine insight. Has AI done anything that would cause people to go, whoa, You know, there's a new way of thinking. I'm going to try that out, see how it works.

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I don't think so. So it makes me wonder if there's any kind of cap on that that AI can't get past. We'll find out. Well, Scott Jennings, who continues to be the star of CNN, he was talking about what I would call the half-pinion of Democrats. Now, that's my word, the half-pinion.

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That's part of the reporting. It's not confirmed. So this is unconfirmed stuff. But I wouldn't be surprised if they say we won't accept your food products because it has hormones in it or whatever. Now, wouldn't you like an option to buy the European version of American food? Would you buy that? So we've got various chemicals and treatments and hormones and whatever in our food.

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But he says, ask a liberal for their trade strategy, and they'll say a lot of words that essentially translate into, let China keep eating our lunch. Now, that's his own take on it, which is funny. But it's right. If you say, well, what should we do about the fact that China has unfair trade practices? Well, we shouldn't do a tariff war.

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Okay, so that if we don't do the tariff war, then they just keep eating our lunch. Well, but tariffs are bad. Okay, I hear you. But if we don't do the tariffs... you're okay with us just continuing to be robbed. It's like they can't really consider the full picture. But you see that continuously in the differences of opinions that the Democrats have half pinions.

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I would say that Gaza, the people who want Israel to stop dominating Gaza, also a half pinion. Now, no matter what you think about the ethics or the morality of what's going on over there, I just stay out of that completely because that's not my domain.

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You have to admit that if you say, I want the killing to stop, you're sort of ignoring half of the question, which is what would happen if the killing stopped? Would they just reconstitute Hamas after a while? And then Israel got nothing out of all that devastation. That's not really an opinion. It's half an opinion. I want people to stop fighting. Not really an opinion. It's halfway there.

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Anyway, the same with Doge using a scalpel. what would happen if Doge had tried to do things the normal way that people try to do things? How would that go? They would walk in and they'd say, we'd like to have access to all your books and see what we can cut in your organization. But of course, we're going to do it the right way.

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So we would like to check with you leaders of this group to make sure that we're not doing anything that's inappropriate. And then the leader says, good, that's exactly what you should be doing. And by the way, there's nothing here that could be cut. None of that would work.

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So if you don't like the chainsaw with the break it first and then fix it, if you have to, you're not really talking about the real world. It's a half pinion. My half pinion is we should not do anything that's a mistake. Okay, yeah, you wouldn't do anything if you'd never wanted to make a mistake. That just doesn't work for any domain. All right.

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So here's something I've noticed as a general trend. Republicans try to do policy and Democrats play with the rules. And I'm going to give you some examples of that. So here's the theme. The theme is that Republicans try to fix actual problems, and Democrats, not having a better idea for fixing problems, try to use the rules, they game the rules. Here's some examples. The elections.

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So the Democrats have just wildly gamed the election laws to make legal voting without an ID and voting from home and a whole bunch of things. But all of this seems to be rules related. The Republicans are more like they just want a fair election. But then the Democrats are all about let's play with these rules. What about the the Maryland dad.

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The Republicans just want to get rid of somebody who looks to be an MS-13 bad guy. They just want less crime, fewer criminals. What do the Democrats complain about? The process. We're going to talk about the process. How about the, we were just talking about Doge. They wanted to complain about the process of Doge. Whereas the Republicans were, can we just get in there and cut all of this garbage?

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And the Europeans use that as an excuse not to buy our food. But I would love a section of the store where it's our food, but it's made in a way that only Europeans will accept. So there's no chemicals. I would buy the European version of American food, you know, grown in America. So maybe there's something good that will happen to that. U.S. and Iran are going to hold the fourth round of talks.

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And if we cut too much, somebody will scream and we'll fix it, which is what they did. And meanwhile, the Democrats are just trapped on process. Yeah, but you should have used a scalpel, which means nothing really. What about the Trump's tariffs and trade wars? Same thing. Trump says, we're getting ripped off. I'm going to stop it.

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So he does a very big move to do these wild tariff reciprocity and more. And he's going after the problem. The problem is the country's ripping us off and they're not paying attention to us when we say, stop ripping us off. Now they're paying attention. So he's getting close to a solution. So what do the Democrats do? They complain about the way he's doing it. Again, it's not about the solution.

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It's about the way he's doing it. And of course, they complain endlessly about Trump's personality, which has nothing to do with anything. And there's the lawfare. The lawfare is not about really having a better country or fixing crime. It's about manipulating the law to win, basically. So again, it's about manipulating the rules and the law and the standards, basically.

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Going after a president with every possible way you can with these bullshit lawfare things. That's new. What about all the censorship attempts that we learned about with the Twitter files and we learned about with this latest Biden memo that came out? Again,

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instead of just having you know free speech which would be a sort of a republican goal free speech they go after all the rules they find these clever ways to build ngos and and you know have have the uh the external forcing uh or our external processes turned internally so that we can censor americans Again, playing with the rules. What about the fake news?

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Again, it's not about what's real in the real world. It's about a narrative so that people don't know exactly what's real. But they're playing with the rules of the fake news, basically. What about all these NGOs? Again, creating a whole rules-based structure that they can hide money and get stuff done that maybe nobody wanted done. What about all those Soros prosecutors?

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Again, it's playing with the rules. What about climate change being a driver of everything? Playing with the rules. where the better goal would have been, let's get as much energy as possible.

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I think Doug Burgum was the one who explained it really well recently, that even if you think that we need to get to a point where there's less CO2 in the atmosphere, even if you believe you have to get there, Burgum correctly says the only way you could ever get there is through technical innovation. And the only way we're going to survive...

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to get to a point with technical innovation at that level is if we have tons of energy right now from every way we can get it, because AI in particular will be sucking up that energy. So AI might be actually the technology that determines how real any of the climate stuff is. And if it is real and has to be solved, probably would be the technology that figures out the best way to do it.

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So in general, Republicans try to get some policy done and Democrats try to game the rules. It's just so consistent. It's weird. Well, meanwhile, in my state, there's an estimate by Kenneth, well, by the Center Square, that's what's writing about it. There's a new study from the University of Southern California, Michael Miesch,

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And he's looked at what is likely to be California gas prices by the end of 2026. And that would be after the two refineries that say they're gonna close have closed. And that would be one fifth of our state's refining capacity. So currently we have the nation's highest gas prices, $4.78 per gallon, which by the way is cheaper than I've seen anywhere.

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So I haven't seen 478 on the sign, but I don't get out much. So maybe, I haven't seen anything under five. So I don't know if that's my local area or it changed recently and I just haven't gotten gas in a month. But the estimate is that California gas by the end of 2026 will cost $8.44 per gallon. based on the things that we know are gonna happen.

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And I guess it's good that there's a fourth round and there's also some clarity of what Trump would accept. And if you combine it with what Rubio said, they're looking for a complete dismantling of Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapon. But it looks like According to Rubio, there might be a path if Iran agreed.

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Not based on weird speculation, but based on the things that we already know are definitely gonna happen. Our state is so pathetic. Here are a few things that we don't get to have in our state. A movie business. Remember when California had a movie business? Can you believe that we destroyed the entire film and movie business?

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We completely owned that, and it's completely dead because of taxes and basically bad management. We're not going to have gas because half of the citizens won't be able to afford gas if it's $8.44. We don't have fire insurance. And we don't have fire mitigation, so it's more important to have fire insurance than ever. We don't have safety on the streets or in the stores.

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We don't have electricity when it's windy. Let me say that again if you didn't know that. We don't have electricity when it gets windy. That's because the wind might blow some power lines down and start a fire. That's a real thing in Southern California. I don't think it's hit me in Northern California yet, but it could.

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When the wind reaches a certain level, they turn off the electricity in my state. And for all of that, we have the highest state taxes and unaffordable homes. So that's what California got for you. Good job, California. Anyway. And then here's some news from the brighter side of news. Joshua Chavit is writing about this. So there's some new research.

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One of the things I enjoy is making a prediction years before it could come true. and then knowing it's going to be true, and then just watching it develop. Now, here's just one that makes me laugh. There's new research that reveals that plants absorb 31% more CO2 than previously thought. Now, suppose this is true. How good are those climate models if they got plant absorption of CO2 off by 31%?

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Do you think that they put those 100 variable climate models, everything was fine, but they had this one little thing, and if they just tweak that, then it'll be just right? So the thing I've been saying on social media for a while that just always makes me laugh whenever I see a story like this, I always say, wait until you find out about the climate models.

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In my opinion, there's a 100% chance that sometime, probably in your lifetime... there will be a whistleblower. And the whistleblower will be somebody who worked with climate models and will be maybe done with that industry or maybe they're just brave. And they're going to come out and they're going to say, all right, the climate models are not real. How do I know? I made climate models.

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What do you mean they're not real? Okay, we were just guessing. If you tweak anything, you can get any number you want. Every now and then we would produce an estimate that was outside the zone that the industry would allow. So we just tweaked it so it was in the zone. There's going to be a whistleblower on the climate models. You wait for that. I guarantee it.

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There might be a path for Iran to have domestic nuclear power, which would be unfair for us to deny, I think. So we'll see. More on that in a minute. And then Trump envoy Witkoff, according to Jewish News Syndicate, he's saying that the Abraham Accords might have a breakthrough, that we can know something about it by next year. So that would be like a real alignment of the Middle East.

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It's the most predictable thing in the world. Because I think everybody who's worked with any kind of prediction models, I think we all, which I have in the financial realm, not in the climate realm, but it's the same thing. Once you add a certain number of variables to a prediction model, it's completely useless. You can't predict the future.

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And nobody's ever figured out how to predict the future with 100 variables. So just wait till you find out when the whistleblower appears. It's coming. According to Modernity, Steve Watson is writing, that CBS News did a piece about China that almost seems like CBS wants China to win the trade war. So CBS News sent a correspondent over to the manufacturing fair in China.

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And the theme of the report was that the poor factory workers and manufacturing people in China were being punished for, quote, being good at exporting their products. So we're punishing the poor Chinese workers for simply being good at what they do. And it's terribly unfair, and what we're doing to China is very mean. That's CBS News. All right.

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According to the National Pulse, there are some medium-sized companies, manufacturing companies, that are just swamped with new business in America. because people are looking for alternatives to Chinese products. So in some cases, there are things we don't make in America.

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In other cases, there are things we do make that maybe were a little more expensive than the Chinese version, but with the tariffs, they're just doing great business right now. So for example, U.S. manufacturers such as Juergens Grand river rubber and plastic safe source, direct Accu rounds, whirlpool and Excel dryer.

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They're all reporting just businesses booming because they're American businesses. And, and they were doing something that China was doing a little bit cheaper, but maybe not now. So this is sort of a hidden, a hidden benefit because these are not the biggest companies, but they're, uh,

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They're located in various places, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Michigan, and they're just doing booming work. And that is your hump day that's really Trump day. Well, I don't know if you saw the clips of Prime Minister Carney of Canada meeting with Trump, but it was very interesting.

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So Trump managed to balance the fact that we have this friction with Canada with the fact that his charisma is so strong that he can make Prime Minister Carney sort of smile and have a good time while he's telling him he wants to take over his country. And he actually pulled it off, which is funny.

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So Carney tried to frame the idea that Canada would ever become the 51st state of the United States. He said that Canada is not for sale. So he said it very well. He said some things are never for sale and Canada will never be for sale. But when did we say we wanted to buy them? I don't recall that. I think Trump was just saying it just makes more sense we would be one country.

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He didn't say we wanna buy you. And I would agree there's no price. So yeah, I would agree with Carney. Canada is not for sale and it should not be for sale. But Trump calls it a potential marriage, a marriage. where two people say, you know what? This would be a good deal for both of us. That's a completely different frame.

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And then Trump reinforces the fact that they're getting $200 billion a year of free military protection from the United States. I don't know if that's a real number, but it's one he's using. And that would be something that wouldn't be unfair if we were part of the same country. And then you wouldn't have to worry about any tariffs on anything because we'd be part of the same country.

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And maybe the cost of government may be reduced because instead of two entirely different governments, maybe you just have one. Now, I'm not going to say that it's likely that Canada and the U.S. will have a marriage and become one. But right in front of the entire world, after Carney says in front of the press that Canada is not for sale, Trump just shrugs and he goes, never say never.

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And he says, I've had many, many things that were not doable and ended up being doable. And I thought to myself, okay, that really is true. There's nobody I know more than Trump, except maybe Elon Musk, who's taken on things that everybody knew were undoable and sort of made it work. Closing the border was undoable, but he did it. Becoming president the first time was undoable, but he did it.

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I think a lot of it is just will you accept Israel's existence and will you all do trade with each other? And it looks positive. So Iran is the big stinker in the Middle East. and we're even negotiating with them. So that all looks like it's heading in the right direction. So you see why I say it's not just hump day today? It might be Trump day.

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Becoming president the second time was undoable, but he did it. Getting the Hooties to stop attacking the ships seemed undoable, but he did it. So he does have a track record of doing the undoable. It's hard to deny him that. But I would say that, and there's also reports that Carney privately asked Trump to stop talking about making Canada the 51st state. And I agree. I agree.

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We should stop talking about making Canada the 51st state. And we should adopt Trump's newer model, if you wanted any kind of a marriage to happen there, to talk about it more like a marriage. Meaning that it would happen if both sides say, you know what, this is a good idea.

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And at the moment, there's no proposition on the table that Canada could look at and say, oh, actually, if that's what you're talking about, that wouldn't be a bad idea at all. So there's nothing really for Canada to look at at this point. It just feels like Trump is just making the impossible seem like maybe. And I think he's actually pulled it off.

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But if you'd like to take a chance on taking it up to the levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or sign a canteen jug or a flask. a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Because if you asked me a few months ago, what are the odds that U.S. and Canada would become one country, I would have said, come on, that's not going to happen. There's no scenario in which they're going to sell the country. No, that's not going to happen. If you asked me today, I'd say, probably not, but it's not impossible. So Trump pulled that off.

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He actually changed my mind from completely ridiculous to, huh, I don't know, you could imagine. There's a scenario in which there's a proposition that's just so good for Canada, maybe lowers their taxes. I don't know. I mean, our systems are different enough that it would be a massive transition or problem if we ever did it. And you'd have to figure out a way that

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It didn't make them look like the little, you know, the little partner that's being dragged along, but rather, you know, they got their full respect. And I think it could be done. I'm not going to predict it will be done. But the fact that he turned it from this is ridiculous to maybe is pretty impressive. Well, I guess Trump's also issued some or is expecting to issue some executive orders.

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Zero Hedge is reporting on this. Actually, Axios reported on the first, I think, to accelerate the deployment of nuclear reactors, mostly getting rid of the regulatory burden. Now, that's a big deal.

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I thought there's something like that had been worked on before but not through the president's office I think maybe the you know, the Energy Department or something had been trying to reduce regulations, but maybe they didn't get there so if we get to the point where we can make the small nuclear reactors and just approve a few designs and

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then we could just say, all right, as long as it's this design, just go wild and make a bunch of them, you know, the smaller reactors. That's probably where the big win is. So this, again, is another potentially gigantically important thing that Trump could do that nobody else did, reducing the regulations for nuclear power plants. It's Trump Day. Okay.

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CNN's polling data guy, Harry Enten, was talking about Trump and how he's doing on crime. And apparently Trump is doing well on crime and doing, quote, far better than Joe Biden, who was so far underwater, Enten said, that, my goodness, he was setting records at minus 26 points. You rarely ever see it. So apparently Biden was so bad on crime that he set records for being bad on crime.

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So everything is either teasing that something really good is coming in a variety of areas, from trade deals to whatever Trump was teasing about, to the Abraham Accords, to At least we're talking to Iran. I mean, they're willing to have a fourth round of talk. I'm still not super optimistic about that, but better than not talking. And then Trump was teasing that India might drop all tariffs.

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And then Trump ran on law and order, and it was one of the reasons he got elected. And now he's now plus two net approval rating on that. But listen to this. Edmonton said, if we go back to March of 2024, so that's a year ago, March of 2024, Trump was underwater on crime at minus 13. And he got all the way back.

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So he's doing 15 points better than he was a year ago in terms of how people are viewing him on crime. You know, one of the main things that the public cares about. And then Enten mentions something that we've been talking about. He said the Alcatraz idea. was a way to focus the public on the fact that Trump is the anti-crime guy. Exactly. Exactly.

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So even Harry Enten completely gets Trump at this point, that maybe Alcatraz is a place that could end up being a prison. Maybe. But even if it doesn't, the fact that he put it in your head makes you think, oh, that Trump is the anti-crime guy. I mean, Biden never would have done that. So Alcatraz doesn't have to happen. It just has to inhabit your brain. and sit next to Trump is strong on crime.

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Yeah, he must be strong in crime. He's trying to turn Alcatraz into a place to handle more criminals. So I love the fact that even Harry Enten completely understands that play.

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Columbia University, one of the universities that was losing federal funding because they didn't do enough about anti-Semitism at their school, they lost $400 million in federal funding and now they're going to lay off 180 staff members that do administrative stuff. Do you think that maybe they had 180 too many staff members anyway?

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Don't you think that maybe they won't even notice the difference if 180 staff members go away? I feel like that might be less of a problem than it sounds like on paper. So they probably only cut the fat out. A lot of the federal funding for, quote, research at these schools, I think most of the money actually just went to administrative stuff.

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And very little of it, as a percentage, went to the actual research. So, I don't know. It seems like it's moving in the right direction. Now, you've heard this story before, but it's getting weirder. Senator, what is his name? Tillis. So, Senator Tom Tillis, he's opposing the confirmation or nomination of Ed Martin for the job of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

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Now, what you need to know is that the person who's in that job as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is going to be in charge of some of the most important stuff because it's D.C. So whoever's in that position is going to have tremendous influence on the world. If he doesn't get confirmed, it's possible that because of the weird way that D.C. works,

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Judge Boasberg would be the one who appoints the replacement. So we could go from the friendliest of the mega Trump people that you could have, Ed Martin, to the worst thing that could ever happen. And it could happen because Tom Tillis doesn't like Ed Martin. So I asked myself, as does the news, what is it that Tillis has against Ed Martin? Well,

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You've heard before that he doesn't like the fact that Ed Martin, well, he doesn't like his views on January 6th. So let me give you a little bit more about that. So Tillis... This is according to reporting. He doesn't like the fact that Ed Martin might pursue the Fed's erection idea. The fact that the Feds were maybe a little too active in causing the events of January 6th.

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Then I saw separately that they might only drop tariffs on auto parts and steel. So I would say that story is unconfirmed and I'd wait a little bit more for that. But it does look like India is willing to do something that we would really like. You know, the details of that, to be determined. But we might be looking at trade deals with the UK and trade deals with India fairly soon.

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That is unconfirmed at this point, but... If Ed Martin thinks it's worth looking into and Tillis does not, that would be a difference. Ed Martin was a little more favorable to the pardons of the January 6th people, where Tillis thinks they should have all been in jail if they violated the law. And

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doesn't like his involvement in the Stop the Steal movement, which had baseless claims of election fraud. And Tillis said he might support Martin for a role that wasn't the D.C. district, but not in Washington, he said, where the January 6th events occurred, citing that as a friction. But then he also goes on, he doesn't like Martin's, quote, lack of prosecuting,

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prosecutorial experience and controversial actions such as failing to disclose over 150 appearances on Russian state media and sending threatening letters to political opponents. Now, here's a little rule that I learned a long time ago and I've mentioned it before. I've had to detect a lie. If somebody says, oh, sorry I'm late, traffic was bad. That might be true, because there's one reason.

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If somebody says, oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic was bad, and my car got a flat tire, and I had the wrong time on my calendar. That's a little less likely to be true. People who have real reasons Usually have one there's like one good reason but when you started throwing the entire You know the entire laundry basket at it.

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It's like well, I'd be okay with him being In this job if it were not Washington DC and then he throws in the lack of prosecutorial experience which would be the opposite of his earlier point and

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His earlier point would be, oh, he'd be perfectly fine for someplace not Washington, D.C., but then he says he has a lack of prosecutorial experience, which would suggest that he thinks he's not qualified for those other places that are not D.C. Right? So there's something that just smells a little wrong about the reasons he's giving. Okay.

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And then there's this one about 150 appearances on Russian state media. So that would be RT, I'm pretty sure, the outlet RT. Now RT is definitely Russian state media. There's no doubt about it. But I too... have appeared on RT, not recently, but during the first election cycle for Trump. And I remember I was getting lots of requests because I had a different take on Trump, that he was persuasive.

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So RT would often invite me on, and then I would do an interview, usually live, and they would show the entire thing. And they wouldn't have much pushback. And I thought to myself, is that really a problem for me? Because I was fully aware that RT meant Russia today and that it was a Russia-dominated media. I was completely aware of that.

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But it didn't matter because as long as they didn't edit what I said, why did I care who it was? So I've stopped accepting offers from RT because they got too much heat. And I understand why. Because they can also influence things by who they have on. So if they have on one set of views but not another, I could see how that would be propaganda-ish.

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But from my personal perspective, as long as they didn't edit what I said... Why did I care what outlet it was? They got to hear me. I just didn't care. So at the moment, I'm playing it cautiously, and I wouldn't go on RT. But there was a time when a lot of people who were normies went on RT because they didn't get edited. So what was the problem? It was also before Russia attacked Ukraine.

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So things were different then. I don't know. So my take on Tillis is there's something else that is the problem. I believe he's trying to protect something or hide something, and I do not trust that the reasons he's giving are real reasons. There's something fishy about this, something really fishy. I don't know if we'll ever find out if that's true, but smells fishy to me.

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Now, you should understand that the trade deals are not really going to be fully signed and everything. Usually, it would start with some kind of letter of understanding. So the letter of understanding would be, well, it is our intention to do this, and it's your intention to do that. Do you agree? But it's not the deal.

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The Postmillennium is saying that there's a new report by the National Intelligence Council that it's probably not true that the head of Venezuela is controlling the activities of the Trenda Aragua gang in the United States. But it's probably true that members of the Maduro regime were active in helping them get to the United States and other countries as a destabilizing force.

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So it's probably not true that they're operating like a wing of the Maduro government, like a paramilitary force or something.

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they're a little into they're kind of independent and spread out and they're kind of concentrating on smaller crimes you know not big terrorist acts or something so that sounds true so there's probably some understanding that if it's destabilizing to the United States they're kind of okay with it but beyond that I don't think that they're giving them orders so it's probably less likely that

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that you're going to see some big Trenda, Aragua terrorist event, you know, orchestrated by the head of Venezuela. Probably not. But there may be plenty of people in the government of Venezuela who are happy to see us struggling with the gangs. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is my show for today. I think I've made my point that it's Trump Day, not Hump Day.

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So we'll see how much more good news there is coming. We'll check in on the breaking news. And thanks for joining. We'll see you same time tomorrow for more fun. And locals, I'm going to talk to you privately in 30 seconds.

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The deal has to be really detailed and have every kind of contingency worked into it, and that takes a lot longer. But Trump says that India has, quote, already agreed to eliminate all tariffs on U.S. goods. I don't know if that's true. I think Trump might be getting ahead of himself a little bit on some of the claims. Let's say it's directionally true.

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because Trump is usually pretty good in directionality, meaning that we might be close to a deal, or that's how it's going to turn out, or it'll be something like that. So that's all positive. Then on top of that, I was a little suspicious whether the Houthis genuinely said that they wanted to stop fighting with the United States and stop bombing our ships. And

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So far, it looks like it might be true, because what the Houthis did say is that they're going to keep attacking Israel. And if they have the ability to give a statement that says we're still going after Israel and vice versa, Israel's going after them, that would have been the opportunity for them to say, and we're still going after everybody.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. That's good. That's good. Well, happy hump day. Although I'm going to call it Trump Day because the theme of my notes today is that it feels like everything's going Trump's way suddenly.

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or Trump is lying, we don't really have a ceasefire deal. But they didn't. So I guess we're negotiating with them through some other country. But it looks like it's possible that Trump did something that I didn't think was actually possible to do in the real world. He may have bombed them, into exactly what he wanted, which is to stop bothering us in the Red Sea, bothering our ships.

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Now, it almost seems impossible, doesn't it? And I was saying it doesn't look possible to me. I didn't have a better idea, so maybe it was worth a shot. But I didn't really see that there would be some situation where he would just bomb the living crap out of Yemen. And then the Houthis would say, all right, you made your point. Yep, we surrender. We're not gonna bother you anymore.

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Did anybody think that would work? And we don't know the details, but it seems to me that in Trump's first term, he also had some wins we weren't expecting against ISIS, for example. And it was always the same thing.

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Like if you look behind the curtain and find out why he had some success that we had not had before, it's usually because he unleashed the full lethality of the military and wasn't much reporting on it. So if what happened is a Hegseth being focused on lethality and not focused on trans in the military,

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If they just said, you can make your own local decisions, you don't have to check in if you see a target, because that was a big problem before, you can go after any site that looks like it would be productive for our national interests, maybe that's all it took.

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Maybe the only thing we really needed to do was unleash the military's full lethality, and then Yemen said, oh, okay, we weren't expecting that. And we'd better surrender. Well, in the same time, you probably remember the Israel story. because the Houthis had sent a missile that came close to Ben Gurion airport, that the Israelis destroyed the port where Yemen was importing 80% of their food.

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And I think they may have, I don't know if they already destroyed the main airport in Yemen, but that's a pretty big response. And it makes sense. Because Israel can't really be Israel if they can't have their own airport because the Houthis might missile attack at any minute.

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So for Israel to respond in what looks like an over-response, taking out the port that handles 80% of their food, that's a big response. And taking out maybe their only airport. That's a big response. So we'll see where that goes.

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Anyway, so if it's true that Trump at least got the Houthis to agree not to attack the ships in the Red Sea, maybe except for Israel's ships because they have something still going on, that would look like one of the greatest achievements of his presidency. It would be quite impressive. I didn't expect it to happen. And I'm not

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I'm not positive it's happened, but remember, this is a hump day, but it's actually Trump day. So we're just gonna, let's just assume it's real, just for today, because it feels good. Well, allegedly, James O'Keefe is gonna have some kind of story today that would be the reason that he disappeared for a while, because he was afraid that he would get killed.

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Now, Alex Jones teased that Alex Jones knows some of what the topic of the story will be, but he doesn't know the details. And Alex Jones agrees this is big. Now, has it been released yet? Because sometimes this stuff happens while I'm talking to you. But has James O'Keefe released his newest story? I have to admit, I'm interested.

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Now, given the nature of James O'Keefe's stories, do you think it will be good for Trump? Meaning that it will be something that shows that there's very bad behavior by Democrats? Or do you think it will be bad for Trump because it would go after some Republican thing? Well, if you look at history...

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You would probably assume that whatever it is that James O'Keefe is up to, if he drops his story today, it's probably bad for Democrats, which would mean it's a perfect story for Trump Day. Yeah, not hump day, Trump Day. Now, on the scarier side of things, you probably heard that India... did an attack on Pakistan that was in response to a Pakistani militant attack that killed 26 people in India.

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And of course, this is a long-term thing that's been simmering forever, and occasionally there's some action back and forth. But they are both nuclear countries, and these are bigger attacks than what we normally see. And I guess Pakistan is already responding to India's response, so with some artillery. But artillery seems like maybe a, you know, could have been worse.

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Now, I don't know that that's true. It might be just a weirdness of the way the news broke. But there's a lot of stuff that seems to go pro-Trump suddenly. Let's get into it. First of all, Trump is teasing us that, quote, we have a big announcement to make. It's going to be a truly earth-shattering and positive development for this country. And it's not about trade. What do you think it is?

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I think India was sending in missiles, and if the response is artillery, it would feel like they're just making sure that India didn't get a free punch. So I'm not sure they're escalating. They may have just said, all right, all right, You did this, we did that. Let's get a go. So I'm not afraid of that yet. And I don't think that that has anything to do with Trump at the moment.

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There's nothing you can do about it. Speaking of Trump, he's escalated his public calls for military action against the Mexican cartels. And he said that he had made an offer on Monday to the Mexican president. And this is what he said about the president of Mexico. Now, I ask you, would any other president ever use these words?

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We're doing TV time now where all the time is weird. A little better. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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Anyway, she had some complaints about it. We'll get to that. Nicole Wallace. Now, I don't think that this is the most important part of the speech, but it was hilarious how he set the frame and set the trap, and then they fell right into it. Anyway. Then Representative Greene who's a Democrat that you might recognize as the one who always wants to impeach Trump on his first day of office.

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And I'm trying to figure out how to make them all work at the same time so it feels like a wife. All right, well, I'll let that just sit there for a while. But it looks fun. It's worth a try. I don't know if it's happened yet, but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who I'm liking a lot, by the way. Have you heard Lutnick talk? You know there's some people that you just hear them talk and you say,

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So he's put in for a bunch of impeachment acts. But he gets up and I guess he started yelling, but he wasn't microphone. So on video, it didn't look like he was making much of a dent, but he refused to sit down. And then I'm watching Speaker of the House Johnson, who's sitting behind the president for the speech with J.D. Vance in the back.

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And Johnson, you could see him getting ready for action because it would be his job to get order in the House. And so I see him reach over and he turns his microphone toward himself. And I'm like, oh, it's on. It's on. This is going to be good. And I was more interested in how he did it. Like, you know, could he pull it off in a dignified way? You know, could he get Green to sit down?

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And what I saw was even better than that. Like, he waited, and then he gavels in, and it looked like Trump was sort of expecting it. And so Trump stands back and just lets it happen. And then Representative Johnson You know, gavels in, and then he reads something that he had prepared, obviously, that said something like, you know, the members will show decorum in the room, blah, blah, blah.

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And that didn't make a difference. So Green just kept yelling. And then Johnson said, you know, essentially, if we can't restore order, you know, the sergeant-at-arms will be asked to restore order. Now that kind of means escort him out. But that didn't take. So he had to do it again. And eventually the sergeants at arm, I guess, came down and just sort of gently guided Representative Green out.

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And I'm sure Green was expecting it because he was pushing it to try to get the maximum effect. But here's what I like the best. I figured out who would be the best casting for the next starship captain for Star Trek. You know, there's always another Star Trek spinoff. But Representative Johnson, he has the perfect starship captain voice. It's just such a command voice.

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I just absolutely love to hear him talk. But we usually hear him talk about boring, you know, budget things and diplomatic things and stuff. But when he had to talk, I won't say like a tough guy, but rather like a captain. He talked like a captain. It was matter of fact, but it was powerful. It was forceful. He didn't leave any wiggle room. There was no up talk in it.

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He basically just laid it out. This is what's going to happen. If you do it again, you'll be removed. It was excellent. It was just great TV. By the way, the whole thing was great TV. I don't think I've ever anticipated one of these types of speeches as much as this. If you were watching from the very beginning, like every there seemed to be like almost an electricity in the air.

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I was watching a little CNN before it went live, you know, before Trump actually showed up. And even CNN seemed to be buzzing with some kind of energy that wasn't typical, certainly wouldn't have had with Biden. So then Melania does her entry. And I'm thinking to myself, when was the last time a first lady did an entry that was that perfect for the show? Just sort of perfect.

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Like she just has that elegance and grace kind of thing going on that's unusual. So she's perfect. The setup is perfect, the lighting, the room, the camera work, just the anticipation, the buzzing. Then Trump comes in and and starts working and there's this protester with a little sign.

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One of the pink dress women gets up so that as Trump has to work his way through the aisle to get up to the podium, you're forced to see her with her little sign and her sign says, this is not normal on this little white sign. But the funny thing is, it looked like it could be talking about herself as much as Trump. So that part was funny. Yeah, this is not normal.

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are you really that smart? You talk like a smart person. Lutnik is one of those. When he talks, I think, huh, I can see how you got rich. Makes sense. You're pretty smart. Anyway, he's saying that the tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

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I guess some Republican grabbed it out of her hand and just tossed it or something. I don't even know if that's legal. Can you grab something out of somebody's hand? But I didn't see it on camera, the grabbing out of the hand part. But that was funny. And I didn't I first I didn't know why Trump gave the stink eye to somebody because he was he was sort of glad handing and saying hi to everybody.

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And then he did this look to the right and just gave this look. And then looks away. And I think he was looking at the pink suit lady. Anyway, what else happened? So basically, I've been making fun of the Democrats for not being authentic, where Trump is completely owning the authenticity part of the argument. And

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So the Democrats, in order to be more authentic, they have this entire theater kid skit. They're trying to put on like a competing play so that they get more attention than Trump does. So they're dressing all in pink and they got their little signs that say stuff like, Musk steals. Yeah. Even the little signs are stupid.

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So they got those little douchebaggy signs and their little douchebaggy pink outfits. And CNN did an instant poll to see how the public was taking it, especially the Democrats interrupting. And 80% said the Democrats interrupting was inappropriate. It means they couldn't even get their own team on their side. They were just so wrong in every way.

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How in the hell do you get 76% to approve of any president's speech? Is that even real? Now, I realize these are not the most scientific polls. They're kind of instant polls. But even a non-scientific instant poll, if it's on CBS or if it's on CNN, you sort of expect it to lean in one direction, but it leaned pretty hard in the other direction. So that whole 80-20 thing kicked in again.

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The Democrats found the only thing they could have done which 80% of the public would disagree with in the context of being the party that's being accused of always being on the wrong side of every 80-20.

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They created a whole new topic, which is the disturbance of the president's speech, and they turned it into an 80-20 against themselves while they're being accused of being the idiots who can't figure out an 80-20 argument.

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topic it could not have been funnier anyway so all the theater kids got together and put on their little douchebag play and and it didn't work out and then Trump you know of course I've always been a big fan of Trump's nicknames but I have to be honest there was one nickname that when he first came up with it I felt you know this doesn't feel like it's up to his usual standard.

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Probably are going to be resolved, meaning that there'll be some kind of middle ground, meaning there's some kind of accommodation, meaning we'll figure out how to work with each other as soon as today. Now, in theory, that should have been good for the stock markets, but we'll see. There's a lot of roiling going on.

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And I never, I just didn't embrace it. And it was Pocahontas. Now, I'm not sure why I didn't like it. I guess it was maybe, I don't know, felt it was too on the nose or somehow disrespectful to Native Americans or something. I don't know. I didn't have a specific complaint. But that one, I felt like, you know, not really on point.

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But what I've learned is that if you stay in character and you relentlessly stay in character and you just never leave your character, which is what Trump does better than anybody, you can eventually normalize anything. And Trump has normalized his nickname thing to the point where if he didn't do it, you'd be disappointed. And my best analogy to this is... John McEnroe, tennis player.

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So if you're not old enough to remember, John McEnroe was like a bad boy brat, always complaining about the refs and yelling stuff like, you can't be serious. And everybody loved to hate him because it was just so inappropriate. You're not supposed to do that. Tennis is supposed to be a dignified sport, sort of like politics. Politics is supposed to be a dignified thing.

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But, you know, there's Trump giving all these nicknames, nicknames, and there's McEnroe yelling at refs. Oh, you don't yell at refs at every little call you don't like. Come on. But eventually, since McEnroe was just always McEnroe, by the time he was playing the seniors tour, he'd have to throw in some complaints, even if he didn't care. because people expected that it was just part of the act.

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So once you are relentless and you're authentic, authentic is the thing. McEnroe was authentic. He really felt the things he was saying, and everything about it was just him. That was just his personality. So Trump... has this personality that if you're first exposed to it, you go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on here? That's way too far. You've gone way too far.

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But by the time he got to the essentially a State of the Union that wasn't one because he just started, He's in the most dignified room in the world doing the most dignified thing you could ever do, which is a presidential address. And he starts talking about Ukraine and how some people want Ukraine to last forever. And then he calls out Pocahontas. He goes, well, you know, maybe Pocahontas.

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And by the time he throws a Pocahontas into the State of the Union, you just have to surrender to it. You have to just give up.

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So in theory, the tariffs, which were big, 25% and everything but energy, I think, they were really just to get some kind of little extra energy for an agreement, especially about stopping the fentanyl trade.

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You have to go, all right.

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You just have to give up. And you just got to go, okay. Okay. She's Pocahontas. There's nothing we can do about it. And that was just funny. And somehow he normalized that to the point where you just couldn't complain about it. And even she tried to smile when the camera hit her.

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I don't know if she was smiling on the inside, but I'd like to think that even Elizabeth Warren could understand the moment. And that was funny. Anyway, so then one of Trump's moments was he started talking about the potential for fraud in the government spending. He was talking about the Social Security list of people who are getting Social Security.

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And he starts with, you know, there are, I don't know, over 4 million people who are getting paid from Social Security, he says. who are over 100 and younger than 109. And you hear that number, you're like, holy cow, all those people, they might be getting it. Now, let me say, I don't know if that means that people are getting paid.

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It might mean that there's just a data error in the database and some other database corrects for it somewhere else. So I'm not sure that it's an indication of actual crime or corruption. But what it definitely is, is something that everybody can understand when he talks about it, which is what makes Trump special. Like even his critics will say, we got to find somebody who talks like the people.

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Trump talks like the people. And he's just so good at it. This is another example. So then he starts going to the list. He's like, and then you've got this many people on this age. And he just keeps getting older and older in the ages. So he gets to the middle of his list. He's like, between the ages of 160 and 169.

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And now it's just hilarious because everybody knows maybe there's somebody who's over 100. There could be people over 100 who are collecting Social Security, but there's nobody over 160, and certainly not 121,000 of them. And then he just keeps going until he gets to people who, I guess it was one person over 300 years old, according to the database, not reality.

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Now, again, it's not my understanding that we know for sure that these are indications of fraud. And I've heard an argument that they're not. But everybody understands that if your big database of who should be getting money has errors like this in it, you've got a problem.

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Now, the problem might be you need better data, or the problem might be there's massive corruption going on, and this is showing where some of it is. But apparently Bernie Sanders did his own response video that nobody wanted. And nobody wanted to hear Bernie Sanders. He wasn't the official response person because that was Slotnick who did it later.

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so one could imagine if canada and or mexico said wait wait and study these terrible tariffs but we do a little bit more stopping that fentanyl and then that would be something you could negotiate with so in theory we'll have some kind of accommodation there but you know it might be optimistic to say it's going to happen today but lotnik i think was warning the markets

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But Bernie makes his own video and he decides to focus on the part about the Social Security ages. And so Bernie has now joined the crazy eyes part of the Democrat Party. where his eyes are literally like crazy. They're all crazy.

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Now, Bernie, I don't know why I need to explain this to you, but I don't think Trump's point was that we have a lot of really old people in America who are receiving Social Security. It wasn't his point that there are real people who are 300 years old who have received a lot of Social Security.

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No, his point was either the data is bad and that's a problem, or there might be some corruption indicated by this.

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Now, he looked like he was suffering dementia. So I'm just going to put it out there. I'm no medical expert, but everybody reaches an age where things don't work so well. And I have to say, Bernie looks like he's reached that age. So imagine being a Democrat and watching Trump do this master class in showmanship that was really first rate. I mean, it was good. And

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And then you're like, oh, okay, he was good. We'll give him that. We will acknowledge that Trump knows how to put it on the show. Okay. All right. We're going to give him that. But watch this. Watch when our crack field of Democrats takes him down. And then Bernie comes on. Oh, there's nobody who's 300 years old.

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Oh, God, why do I have to be on this team?

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So that was great. And other news on the speech. Trump said that he got a letter from Zelensky that he just got before the speech, I guess. And he said the letter reads, Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. So that's Trump quoting the letter. And Trump said, I appreciate that he sent this letter. I just got a little while ago.

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Now, if you remember what Trump said, he said, you're not ready for this minerals deal because you're still talking about war lasting forever and you're just not ready for peace. So I need something that says, I want to make peace really soon. And Zelensky gets the message and he sends a thing that says he's ready to come to the table to bring lasting peace closer as soon as possible.

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So that's what he needed. Lasting peace soon as possible. Put that in the letter. Send me the letter. Let me read the letter and then we're good. Then something can happen. I love the clarity of that. The clarity was perfect because Trump said exactly what was wrong. He told him exactly how to fix it. And if he fixed it, peace to Ukraine.

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And so Zelensky, finally, it couldn't have been more clear exactly what he needed to do. Put exactly those words in a letter, send it exactly to him. Trump gave him the credit that he essentially had promised, if you can do this, things will be good.

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And then Trump did the thing which we love Trump about, is that although his enemies call him transactional, those who are not his enemies call him a dealmaker. He likes making deals. So if you can just get on the frame of we're going to make a deal and you don't be ridiculous about it, we're going to make a deal. So maybe back on track. We'll see where that goes.

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to not, you know, don't incorporate this as some kind of a permanent situation. So that was exactly the right thing to do. He might be off on how quickly they can resolve it, but maybe not. You know, maybe it's just one day. It's possible. Meanwhile, the premier of Ontario in Canada has canceled Elon Musk's Starlink deal.

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So most of the speech was more, let's say, I don't want to say anti-China because that feels like the wrong frame, but rather just I'd say framing China as the biggest challenge to America in the future, the near future, starting today. And I didn't catch anything that was anti-Russian, but I did fall asleep during part of it. Was there any anti-Russian stuff in the speech?

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Because I don't think there was, which would be sort of a change from normal presidents lately. Certainly it would be a change from Biden. But there was a whole bunch of... Again, I don't want to say anti-China, but let's say taking China seriously as the other big power in the world. And so he had tariffs on China. And of course, China is going to respond to the tariffs.

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He talked about building a missile defense. You could argue that that includes anybody who might send a missile. But who are we really worried about? We shouldn't be worried about anybody. attacking the homeland, but I wouldn't mind having a missile defense just in case. He talked about the Panama ports and arresting control from China. They got a little too much control there.

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He talked about putting a tax on Chinese ships who come into port in America. He talked about taxes on Chinese cranes. I guess the cranes that load and unload the containers. And he talked about putting America heavily back into the shipbuilding business, both commercial and military.

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Now, here's another one of those things where I wonder if this is one of those cases where somebody smart said something and it bubbled all the way up to the presidency and turned into policy. Because that only happens with Trump. Trump has the best network of geniuses at this point. People who are just really, really smart, who say really, really smart stuff.

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And the smart stuff bubbles all the way up to the top. And then it makes a difference. Because it was only, was it a week or two? I saw on X, there was a post by, I think it was Balaji Srinivasan, who would be one of the smartest people in the country, frankly. And he was talking about the difference in shipbuilding capability of China versus basically everybody else in the world.

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So China has built this massive shipbuilding capability, and it's both for commercial vessels and military vessels. Now, And then America had sort of deprecated its own ability. So I think we have very little ability to build ships at the moment relative to China. So if we want to have any influence over the oceans, and that's a big part of the globe is the ocean.

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And if you want to be selling and buying stuff all over the world, you're going to need a lot of military ability in the oceans. So Trump is... has made that a priority to become a major shipbuilder. And I kind of wonder if that came from one post on X, because it was such a stark and shocking set of data that I'd never heard before.

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I had no idea that we were basically not good at building ships anymore and that China had become really good at it, which is scary. That's a real scary thing. So it's possible that that was just one of those things again, or it might be that maybe a lot of people were aware of it and turned it into a thing. All right.

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I feel like companies keep punishing or countries keep punishing themselves. Well, we're going to cut off our own access to really inexpensive internet. Take that. All right. Okay. It's also funny to me that people think that It's obvious that Elon Musk has found some way to monetize this involved in the Trump administration. If I can give you any business advice at all, it goes like this.

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So I'm kind of excited about that because to the extent that we can do anything with tax breaks or whatever it is to make shipbuilding big, I think that's exactly the right instinct. And it doesn't have to be all for military because we're going to be living on the sea and doing a lot of the sea for a long time. I saw a summary of Trump's speech by David Sachs.

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I'll just read it because it's a good summary. So Zach said, this was the theme of the night. Democrats sat sullen-faced as President Trump described one sensible policy after another. Democrats took the 20% side of every 80-20 issue. Trump even explained the trap that Democrats were about to fall into, and they still fell into it. Yeah, as I said earlier. Anyway.

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Oh, here's the Nicole Wallace thing. So Nicole Wallace, after the speech, said that she had lots of good feelings about the kid DJ, the one who got the Secret Service badge there. And, you know, she had the normal good feelings about it. It's good. But then she goes, quote about DJ.

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Quote, I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters. And then she says, this is wild. And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. It's like, is there any way they could lose harder than that? They just had to dig really deep to find some problem with that.

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Anyway, and then the response came from Senator Lisa Sleck of Michigan. And I didn't know she was a former CIA agent. So anyway, she was complaining about the, the Doge employees having access to tax returns and health information and your bank account.

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Um, but the thing that, the thing that people get wrong about human motivation, the Democrats get this wrong about human motivation is when you talk about the richest man in the world, um, What would be the worst thing you could do business-wise from a risk management perspective? What would be the worst thing that the richest man in the world could do?

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The worst thing would be to say that you're trying to help the government with cutting costs, but really you get caught doing something that's the opposite, like stealing. That's the worst thing that could happen. You would lose everything. What person who's the richest person in the world would get involved in anything that would have a gigantic, gigantic downside risk?

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Now, what's the upside risk? He's already the richest man in the world. Probably is on his way to be the first trillionaire. Do you know what he could do if he wanted to stay the richest man in the world and even get richer? Stay out of politics completely. But nobody in their right mind who is already in that position financially would create a situation where everybody's watching.

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And if he did something insane, like try to use his access to steal money from the government, how could that be dumber? So watching people look at one of the smartest people in the country and richest, Musk, And assuming that he would do the dumbest thing that anybody would possibly do in that situation is so pathetically dumb that I almost don't have words to describe it.

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I just shake my head and think, okay, I don't know how you think that that would make sense in his world. In fact, if I had to make a list, of all the people on the planet that I would trust the most if I lost my wallet, it would be Elon Musk. If you dropped your wallet on the sidewalk and he was the first one to find it, the chance of you getting it back with all of the money in it is 100%.

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First of all, he wouldn't let you not get your wallet back like you'd give it to somebody and say, make sure they get this wallet back. And secondly, there isn't any chance he's going to steal any money from it. None. Zero chance. So that's how I feel about him in the government. It's hard to imagine somebody who would be less of a risk.

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Now, the Doge employees themselves, I suppose everybody who has access to anything has some kind of risk. But, you know, do I have less trust in the Doge people?

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than I have in the government employees who have been there forever and have access to those same systems, what would be the reasoning with which I would say, oh, the regular employees of the government are all honest and good people, but the doge people are not? What would be any evidence that we increased any risk to these databases? I don't know.

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There's just no connecting tissue because it's not like nobody had access until Doge did. How many people do you think have access to all of our systems? It's got to be quite a few. Anyway, so here's some other stuff. According to investing.com, the European Union has postponed its plans to gradually phase out Russian gas.

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Associating yourself with Trump pretty much guarantees you lose half of your market. Nobody who understands anything about business would have said, you know what? you know what would be really good for business is if I associate with half of the country instead of the whole country. There was no way that Musk didn't understand that it would be risky just to throw in for once.

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So I think you're going to see Europe, there seems to be some kind of acknowledgement that Russian energy is going to be important to Europe and maybe it'll stay that way. Now, I don't think that that would happen unless people saw that Russia and the United States were moving toward something that could be a more productive relationship in the future, whatever that looks like.

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Now, I have to, again, I hate that I always have to put all the qualifiers on this, but I don't love Putin. I understand that he is dangerous. I know he's a dictator. He's a murderer. I know he's not to be trusted. Okay, are we good? Did I say all the right things? Now I can just say what I want to say. Putin is really good on the persuasion stuff. Just really good. And

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The fact that he's been doing joint military exercises with China, I don't think that means he really wants to be in any kind of a joint military action with China. Like for what? Is he going to join China in attacking Australia someday? I don't see it. Is he going to join China in attacking America someday? It's hard to imagine that. But it's really good.

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for making sure that America says, you know, you'd be better off if you were our friend instead of China's friend. And I think maybe that's what he always wanted, which is to have China and the United States fight over who's a better friend to Putin. And I think he got it. I think he accomplished it. Now, you could say, you know, Putin is the evil monster that you want him to be.

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no argument whatsoever. I'll let you have your opinion of him, and that has nothing to do with my opinion. My opinion is that just from a pure persuasion perspective, damn, he's good. He's just really good. And you can't take that away from him. He's got skills. And I do think that that's one of the things that bonds him with Trump, is that they can see the player.

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And I think that they really appreciate that there's somebody who appreciates them. Because I'll bet you they have a solid appreciation of the skill set of the other. That's what it looks like to me. Anyway, there's a story on, apparently right after the Biden administration was about to end, but before it did,

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You already heard this, that $20 billion got funneled into these new charities and these green charities that you never heard of. New York Post has a story about this, but Mario Norfolk did a great job of summarizing it on X. So here are some of the charities that this $20 billion got speedily funneled into. One group is called the Climate United Fund.

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And they got $7 billion, but has no federal filings or IRS records. So just sort of appeared. And of course, you all know what the Climate United Fund does, right? Because those are three words that sound good. Fund, United, climate. I like the climate. But are they united? Yes, they are united. But You're going to need money. Is there any kind of, yes, there's a fund, Climate United Fund.

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And then there's another one that got $2 billion called the Power Forward Communities. Well, is that a good thing? How could it not be a good thing? It's got communities right in the name. It's got forward. We all want to move forward, not backwards. And it's got power, power right in the name. And

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Apparently, the Department of Justice and FBI are now investigating, looking at their bank accounts and such. We'll see what happens. But here's what I love about the story. I love when you finally see enough in the news where a pattern can form in your head.

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The pattern here is that the most suspicious sounding charities, the ones that get government money, they all have the following characteristic. They're made up of three words, the name of the organization, and there are three random sounding good words that if you saw any one of the words individually, you'd say, Hmm, that's a good word. But if you put the three of them together,

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It doesn't even matter which side. It would work either way. But I feel like the Democrats don't understand enough about business to know that if you're good at business, you wouldn't do this for business reasons.

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So you can take these two, the Climate United Fund and the Power Forward Communities, both three words, both all good words that don't mean much, but you can even interchange them. I've just started a charity. It's called the Communities Forward Fund or the United Power Forward. You can basically just throw it all together and you got your charity name. It just has to sound good.

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comically suspicious names. That's what I'd have AI looking for. Social Security Administration, speaking of them, they just said that they could reduce their own budget by $800 million per year. Now, I think there's an ex-head of the Social Services, who is a Democrat, of course, who says, oh, no, if you did that, it would only be months before the entire thing collapsed.

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But I said to myself, how in the world is the Social Security Administration, just the administration, not the payments, we're not talking about the payments, that's a whole different budget, but just the people who manage the payments, how is that so big that they can cut $800 million out of it and think it would still work? Like, what would be left?

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And doesn't your common sense tell you that they're way overstaffed, right? Because if you took away, you know, obviously it's mostly just data in a computer, but how many special cases are there that you need that many staff for what is kind of an automated process?

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because once you've programmed in what's the current law, okay, if you're this age, you get this, you know, you put it in the rules. Once you've done that, as a current recipient of Social Security, I recently, just like two months ago, I think, I decided to turn it on. And So they already have all of my information that I've been paying forever because they send me reports.

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So I know that they have it. So they have everything that they need to know about me. And then I fill out some forms and then they know that I want to get paid. They know what to pay me. The computer does. No humans need to be involved. And then I get checks. Which part of that required a human? beyond setting up the computers in the first place.

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The only way it makes sense for Elon to be so involved for business reasons is because he thinks he needs to save the entire country, which, given that it's America, it would have a big ripple effect on the rest of the world. Elon's trying to save the world. Now, if you say, oh, I think he's only trying to save the world because he'll make money. I say, you're a freaking idiot.

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And I'm thinking to myself, man, the only way you could get to such a large organization is if you got there sort of incrementally, increasing the budget 10% a year every time you could. But if you were to build this today from scratch, Don't you think it would be six programmers and then a big computer budget? Like, why do you need this many special cases? I don't know.

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Maybe it's to take care of all those people who are 300 years old and collecting checks, according to Bernie. Well, here's something that's fun. Jon Stewart had offered to interview Elon Musk. But Elon said, I got some requirements. One of the requirements was it would be unedited. So unedited. Good. And I think there was some other requirement.

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But being unedited, I think, would be the primary one. And so it looks like this might happen, because Stuart's agreed to the conditions. Stewart said, after thinking about his offer, meaning unedited, I thought, you know, hey, that's actually how the in-studio interviews normally air. It's unedited. So sure, we'd be delighted. And he said he would do it any length of time.

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which is another thing typically you wouldn't do on a TV show. Normally there's always a time, but this is a special case. So if 90 minutes is the right amount of time, they'll do it 90 minutes. If 15 is right, 15. I like that. But here's what I think about this. This might be the best interview of all time. It has that potential. And here's why. You don't have to like Jon Stewart in general.

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You don't have to like his political views. You know, you can say what you want to say about him. You could say, oh, he's not, you know, he's a snake in the grass and he might act reasonable sometimes, but any minute he could turn on you, whatever you want to say. But here's what I say. He, as far as I can tell, John Stewart is unwilling to be stupid in public. I can't watch him privately.

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Probably it's the same. But publicly, I've been watching him for a long time, and he doesn't want to act stupid in public. And by that, I mean he would not reject common sense. Musk only has common sense. Only. The There's probably nobody in the world who could do a better job of saying, this is why we're doing it. And this just makes common sense. Musk is the champion of common sense.

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I have real reasons. Here are my reasons. And if you disagree with me, I'll rethink it. Like if you have a good argument, I'll rethink it. Stuart's the same. I believe that Stewart, if he heard something he'd never heard before, which is very possible, like an argument that he just never heard before, I think that he would in real time say, okay, you know what?

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That's actually a pretty good answer. And there's nobody, almost nobody in the entire world that I think is capable of that. And that's a big compliment. So it's a compliment to showmanship and what I think is public honesty. So I think this could be one of the biggest things we've ever seen in America, because you're never going to get these two kinds of personalities sitting down together.

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It just doesn't happen. So the thing about Musk is he's not going to lie. And he's going to have a reason for everything he does. And it's going to be a damn good reason. Now, that doesn't mean he's never made a mistake. I mean, I can't think of one offhand, but humans. Humans make mistakes. And he doesn't say, I don't make mistakes.

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Saving the world is good enough. You don't need a reason on top of it. I'm going to save the world, but I've figured out a way to get a grift out of this. I've got a scam working that once I've saved the world, I think I'm going to make revenue with my existing companies. Yes, that's exactly what he's going to do.

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So Musk, like Jon Stewart, very unique in that if Jon Stewart said in real time, OK, but you haven't thought of this or you haven't thought of that. And it was a good point. I believe you would see Elon Musk say, that's a good point. Yeah, let me think about that. But I think that works both ways. If Musk had a good point, I think that Stewart would say, okay, actually, that's a good point.

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Let me think about it. So I've never seen even the potential of for this much goodness in a podcast. I mean, I would clear my schedule to watch this at any length because of the uniqueness of the characters and then the double uniqueness of putting them together. So I'm yes, yes, yes, hell yes on this happening. I hope it does. Could be huge for the country.

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Ben Shapiro has started a petition to call for the pardon of Derek Chauvin, convicted for killing George Floyd. Now, I can't say enough about how impressed I am. Because, you know, if you have the things working for you, like Ben Shapiro does. He's got a good situation where he's a respected commentator. He's got a platform that looks like it's successful to me.

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And he's in one of those situations where you don't take risks this big. This is a big freaking risk to put your name behind a essentially what would be taking George Floyd from being a saint down to a more normal situation and also supporting the white guy who got sent to jail. So this is a big risk. So let me say this about Ben Shapiro. This is brave. This is brave. It's perfectly timed.

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Oh, this is exactly the right time to do it. And it's well argued. So I've seen his argument. It's well argued. And it's absolutely right. It's morally, ethically, and in every way that America cares, it's right. It's time. I'm all in. I'm all in. Yeah, so I mean, I have less to lose. I'm already disgraced, so it's not a big risk for me to say I'm all in, but it's a bigger risk for Ben Shapiro.

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So all respect to that full respect. So you probably saw on social media changing the topic. There were videos of I guess there were 22 senators of eventually who did what sounded like identical little videos, where it was just them talking to the camera and they each had this little douchebag microphone that doesn't look right when you're holding it like that.

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You just got this little thing in your two little fingers and you're leaning forward in your chair and you're talking passionately. And of course, the Democrats are all the theater kids, so it all looks like they were acting. But it took about five seconds for the internet to say, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're not the only person saying something like that.

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And then there would be a split screen. And if you watched it develop during the day in real time, it was hilarious. Somebody noticed, wait a minute, there are two senators who seem to be doing something similar. And then like an hour later, wait a minute, wait a minute, it's more than two. I think there are four of them.

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He's going to make revenue in his existing companies if he can save the whole freaking world because it is an existential threat. And Doge is the only thing that has any chance of preserving America. America doesn't have a chance. This is an existential risk, the debt. And there's only one person who has the balls and maybe the capability, we hope, to actually make a difference on the debt.

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And then they show the four of them and they'd be talking at the same time at pretty much the same words. And then it just kept increasing until it was like this screen full of people all talking at the same time with the same little message and the same little douchebag microphone. And

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So Elon Musk had posted that he would give a free Cybertruck to whoever could positively identify who wrote it, because they were trying to find the author who was behind it. But it turns out it was Cory Booker. So Cory Booker organized it. And I guess they decided he was the best they had. to try to come up with a social media strategy because they weren't happy with their social media strategy.

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And I guess Chuck Schumer wasn't the greatest social media leader. So they're like, oh, we need somebody young and cool to do our social media. So Cory Booker puts that together, which effectively was all the theater kids doing a play, like what they do. And before I knew who was behind it, I decided that it was somebody either inexperienced or young. And here's what I picked up.

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This is sort of a writer's trick. Because for each of them, all 22 of them, they had the same sort of opening tagline.

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that was shit that ain't true that's what you just saw so it starts with a a trump saying he was going to lower prices on day one and then it would switch to one of the senators saying shit that ain't true that's what you just saw i think they may have bleeped the shit part or not i don't know um so here's the writer's trick the writer's trick is this and maybe it's a communicator's trick as well you can swear

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if you do it once and it's something that's really important and you just want to bring attention to it or if you're somebody like trump who's sort of incorporated into his personality that if he gives a rally speech he might lay an s-bomb on you he doesn't do f's uh he but maybe maybe a hell maybe a damn maybe a you know maybe a maybe an s so

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if you use it judiciously it can be an accent that works i remember several years ago there was a best-selling book i can't remember it but it had f in the title there was something f this or i don't know i forget but it became a best-selling book and then about a year later i was walking through a bookstore and there were all these books with the f word in the title

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Because they had decided that maybe what sold that other book was it had an F word in the title. No. No. That's not what sold that other book. No. No. It probably was a great book, and it had also a tension-getting title. But if you take the it's a great book out of the equation, you can't sell it just because you put an F word in the title. That would be the worst idea in the world.

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And I don't think the other books sold much. They did not become bestsellers. But here, if you're going to do something that you've got 22 senators signing up for, you can't put this artificial swear word in there. Oh, there it is. The subtle art of not giving an F. Yeah. Thank you. That was the original book. And then everybody said, oh, it's putting F in the title of my book.

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That's what will work. No. Nope. It was... Maybe it was just a good book. But as soon as I saw that all of these senators were asked to swear, and it didn't matter what the senator's personalities were or if it worked for them or was compatible with their character or their moral or ethical framing of the world, that's just amateur time.

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Anybody who doesn't know how to use a curse word in communications or writing, that's amateur. Somebody who could use one and get away with it and make it actually work, like the title of that book, that was an expert. That's a great writer. So you could tell right away that it was amateur work. I don't know if Cory Booker wrote it. I'm guessing he didn't.

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Probably just had some young person write it. And then the mistake was to overuse the S word because why bother? Anyway, watching the Democrats pretend to understand social media is hilarious because it used to be that the Democrats, didn't the Democrats sort of control the youth vote?

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And now they're so anti-youth, I mean, with Pelosi and Schumer and God, that they had to go to Cory Booker to get their young person. And the best he could come up with was terrible. So it got spotted and mocked right away. And Scott Jennings, who is the Republican superstar who appears on CNN and embarrasses their panel of idiots every day, here's how he summed it up. He goes,

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So there's that. Anyway, Trump gave his big speech, which is not a State of the Union because he's only just got there. So I guess the first one is more just a speech. So he pushed the Golden Age theme, which I love. And he pushed the common sense revolution that he says is... Wait, I just saw something go by. All right.

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Voters, we need more authenticity in our politicians, Democrats. And then he points out this totally artificial communications. So the Democrats need more authenticity and the closest they could come to it was making 22 people curse the same way. I don't know how you can get further from the mark. That was impressively bad. Meanwhile, The Hill had an article

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about how Democrats are looking for an outsider to run for president. I guess they decided that of their many, many Democrat politicians, they didn't have any who were worth a damn. So they've got to look for like an outsider. Now, remember, I just told you the story about somebody put the F word in the title of a bestselling book. So then all the dumb people said, I've got it.

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It's the F word in the title of the book. So they copy the wrong thing. And here again, they're copying the wrong thing. Trump won as an outsider, but not because he's an outsider. That's not why. He won because everything he does makes more sense than his competition. He won because he's incredibly good at communicating. He won because his policies are really, really popular.

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He won because he's really, really smart and he's brave beyond anything we've ever seen in a president. Fight, fight, fight. So if you take all of those qualities of Trump, let's call it his skill stack from his knowledge of how to put on a show to knowing how to get loyalty to knowing how to make a deal. I mean, his skill stack is a mile high.

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There are very few people who have assembled anything like the number of skills and knowledge sets that Trump has acquired over his life. And he just keeps adding to it. I mean, still at his current age, he's adding skills like he's learning crypto. Trump could probably already talk better about crypto than most of the Democratic politicians.

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So if you've got somebody who's a learning machine, he has no sense of embarrassment. He's brave beyond anything we've ever seen in that kind of an office, can take incredible shame, can fight through the lawfare, the attempted assassinations. I mean, come on. This is a once in a thousand year person. So what did the Democrats take away from that? Here's what they take away from it.

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Huh, it's because he's an outsider. We'll get ourselves an outsider. That's not even close to what's going on. You just have one person with this enormous set of skills that work together really well. That's why he wins. That's it. You can't just go get yourself one of those. You would already know exactly who it was if one of those people existed.

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But they're throwing in names like Mark Cuban and Stephen A. Smith and Fetterman. And I think that they're completely on the wrong page. In the end, they're going to come up with whoever they think does the best job of pretending to be authentic. I think that's the extent of their visibility of what's going on. Huh, let's get an outsider who can pretend to be authentic. Okay. Okay.

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Now, I don't know if Democrats can ever win with a Mark Cuban or a Fetterman, because if they look like they're too much white men, I just don't know if it works. I think Biden might have been the last dinosaur to squeak by in the Democratic Party. Anyway, one of the people who Some think NBC has an article about this is that Chris Murphy, Democrat Chris Murphy, he's been on TV a lot.

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And the common sense revolution that he says is now part of a global movement. Now, I love that because it's really hard for anybody in any country to be opposed to common sense. In order to be opposed to common sense, you'd have to, I don't know, what, dress all in pink and wear stupid signs?

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You've seen him doing a lot of anti-Trump stuff and he's just all over the place. But the thinking is that he's already running a shadow campaign for president. Now, he would not be an outsider, but he would at least be a, let's say, somewhat skilled insider. But my question is this. Why do the Democrats have so many people who look like movie villains?

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Because Chris Murphy, you just look at his eyes and you say to yourself, oh, my God, that's like pure evil. Now, I'm not saying he is. I don't know, one way or the other. But he has the look like if he came into the casting office and you were looking for the most evil-looking person you could ever hire for your movie, I'm pretty sure he would get the job.

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And I don't really know, are there a lot of Republicans who look like they could be movie evil? Think of John Brennan. You know, John Brennan has that face that is a movie evil face uh who's a uh eliana presley who's got the shaved head which she pulls off by the way the shaved head and uh she wears the superman villain outfits which actually looked great on her.

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If I'm judging her from a fashion and appearance perspective, she's actually terrific. I'm actually impressed. She does a great job of creating a look. But the net effect of the look is Superman villain. I've just never seen so many people in one party who could be cast as movie villains. Like, what is up with that?

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Meanwhile, Red State, an article by Bob Hogue, is talking about how Chuck Todd, who was on NBC forever, was just dumping on Biden for being a bad human being, basically. He was speaking with Steve Schmidt, who was one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project, which I think even Steve Schmidt had to get out of that because it was just so, it was like living in a sphincter. He had to get away.

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But here's what Chuck Todd said about Biden. Of course, it's too little too late, but it's fun to talk about. He goes, I have to tell you something about Joe Biden. There's this mythology about Joe Biden that the man cared so much, it's all bull, bullshit. And then Todd said that Biden had created this myth over his 40-year career that he was an incredible family man.

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And instead, what he really was was a craven political animal that was desperate, that considered to run for president every four years he was eligible. Now, I think part of the part of the complaint was he had some family issues, some addicts in the family, and the thinking was that his family needed him more than the country, maybe.

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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Yeah, exactly. All right, the universe has been reset. Everything's good. Of course, we'll talk about the president's speech. But first, I was trying out Grok's voice mode.

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But it's interesting to say, to watch Chuck Todd talk that way about Biden. And I think what you're going to find is that every day that goes by will be another Democrat saying, okay, Biden was just the worst train wreck in the history. He was never good behind closed doors. He was a monster. You're just going to hear the worst things, and it's just beginning. It's going to get worse.

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Meanwhile, and I believe this, Bloomberg's reporting that the Pentagon denied a report that there was a halt in cyber operations versus Russia.

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Now, remember, I talked about this maybe yesterday, and I was thinking that maybe, if it were true, that it was just offensive operations, and that it might have been a mutual thing, and maybe it was a trust-building thing with Russia, just to see if we can get to a bigger deal. But it's more likely, since I guess Secretary Pete Hanks said Didn't didn't do it.

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Okay, Democrats can be opposed to common sense because they literally found a way to agree with only the 20% issues, where 80% of the country is on one side, but they're like, oh, no, we can't be on Trump's side with the 80% of the public. So watch this. And I guess Trump talked about energy and all the energy stuff he's doing and something about egg prices.

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So I think Hegseth denied that there was any change in cyber versus Russia. So if Hegseth denies it, I'm going to believe him. And it didn't really, I guess the report didn't have the kind of backing that you think. So I'm going to agree with Bloomberg on this. I think that was fake news.

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So anyway, in other news, RFK Jr., he's been trying to, he wants to eliminate a whole bunch of harmful additives in food. The big reason that you might not want to at the moment, and this is gonna be tough, a tough balance, is that removing food additives for food might make them more expensive, which seems counterintuitive, right? You'd think, well, if we don't have to add all these chemicals

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We can save money on all these chemicals, but they must have something to do with preserving food longer, something like that. Maybe taste better, I don't know. But the thing that is the major driver of all these chemicals in your food, this is based on a story in the LA Times, is that it's the way we keep the food cost down.

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so if your administration the trump administration has promised that food prices will be going down at the same time you've got the make america healthy again efforts and rfk jr looking to get rid of these additives which would make food prices potentially go up although i'm not 100 sure that's true but that's what's being reported at the moment so I wonder if there's any middle ground there.

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Because there are people like me who would certainly pay more to have fewer chemicals. And maybe you could let the market decide. So instead of, let's say, instead of making everybody get rid of everything, what if you said we want to encourage people who are in the same market to at least have an option where you don't have the chemicals. And then the people can choose.

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And if enough people choose the ones that's a little bit more expensive, but doesn't have the health problems, well, then the market corrects, and then that becomes the less expensive thing over time. But I wonder if there's a way to solve that, because it seems like there's a direct conflict between making the food safer and making it less expensive.

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Here's a little update on a story that interests me more than maybe most of you. But do you remember the hockey stick temperature calculations for climate change? And Michael Mann was credited as the person who came up with that. And the idea was that temperatures would increase over time, but there would be a point where the increase would become

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multiplied, so it would go slow, slow, slow, and then wham, and it would go straight up like a hockey stick. Well, Mark Stein, writing for the publication National Review, ended up in a lawsuit because I guess Stein was criticizing the hockey stick data, and Michael Mann wanted to basically establish it as legitimate and push back against critics. So there was a lawsuit. So Michael Mann sued.

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And I may be getting some of the facts wrong here because there are a couple of, it looks like maybe whatever Mark Stein did might have been separate but related to the National Review. So it looked like there might have been two legal actions, one against the publication and one against the author. But there's been some movement.

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Now it's 13 years later, 13 years later, and a judge has reduced the $1 million defamation judgment, which man had won. They reduced it from $1 million to $5,000. Now, there's an article by Greg Piper in Just the News, so I'll recommend you to that. So look for Just the News and look for the article by Greg Piper, and you'll get the correct version of this. I think I'm butchering it a little bit.

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Have you noticed that everybody wants egg prices to go down, but nobody has any idea how that would happen? Now, I get the energy prices would be good for everything, but is Trump doing anything for egg prices directly? I'm not aware of it. Do the Democrats have a alternative egg plan? You know what I'd love? I'd love for Trump to say, you know what? It really is hard to get egg prices down.

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But on top of that, I think that separately, the National Review had been in court for the same reason, and ended in a summary judgment in National Review's favor. So the National Review ended up getting a judgment in which they would be paid half a million dollars in legal fees. So I'm not positive, but does this mean, so I guess I have a question as much as a statement.

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Does this mean that Michael Mann, the scientist, the one who created the hockey stick thing, and I believe was the one who kicked off the lawsuits, does that mean that instead of winning a million, he got 5,000 and in the process also had to pay half a million to the other side? which would suggest he came out way behind even though he won.

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So he sort of won a little bit, but it looks like it became a financial nightmare basically. So I guess I could use some fact checking on that, but 13 years, a lot has changed. Or let me put it this way. Our view of climate change is about ready to change. So look for big changes in that domain.

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There's a study, Sam Jones is writing in the Washington Post, that science has shown there's a link between swearing and pain tolerance. And that... people who swear when they're in pain, like you hit your thumb with a hammer or something, that the swearing decreases the pain. Now, this is another one of those situations where you could have just asked me. You didn't really have to study it.

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Just ask me. Yeah, swearing definitely helps with pain. Don't know why. There's a story about a Florida man who swallowed a $760,000 diamond from Tiffany's. So he went into Tiffany's and must have grabbed a diamond and swallowed it. And so when the police got there, he asked if he'd be charged for what's in his stomach.

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And I don't know the legal ins and outs of this, but I think it depends if it was a duty-free store. Anybody? No? duty-free? All right, I'll just leave that with you. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Israel is trying to neutralize what security officials see as a Turkish-backed Islamist threat, trying to unify Syria.

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To which I say, maybe I don't understand anything about the world, but why would Turkey, want to put a bunch of Turkish-backed radical Islamists unifying Syria. Does that look like something that would work out for them in the long run? That's very suspicious. Anyway, I just don't know how that could possibly work. But hey, all right, my last story.

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Scientists are trying to revive the woolly mammoths. They're trying to find a way to take some woolly mammoth DNA that they have and put it in some kind of, I don't know, Asian elephant and turn it into a woolly mammoth in the future. Now, they've made some progress because they've created a woolly mice. That's right.

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They took regular mice and they made them wooly with wooly mammoth genes of some sort. So if you'd like a wooly mouse. Now, talk about a dangerous experiment. What would happen if, you know, the mouse stayed the same size as a mouse? It was just wooly. But what if they'd gotten that just a little bit wrong? Wouldn't you have an elephant sized mouse? Now, that's just what I need.

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That's what I need, an elephant-sized mouse. What could go wrong? All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I've got for you today. Thanks for joining. I know we went long. I've got stuff to do. I'm going to say hi to the people on Locals. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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Would any of you Democrats like to work with me to come up with an egg price reduction plan? Because I'd love to see your thinking. What? No, no, the pink dresses. Is that how you bring the egg prices down? No, no. Is it the little signs that you hold up? Is it the weird protests? Is it funding charities that we've never heard of in other countries?

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What is your plan for bringing down the egg prices? So if I were Trump, I would see if he could get the Democrats to commit to an egg price reduction scheme And then he can react to it and say, you know what? That's actually a pretty good idea. Let's do it. Or that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. There's got to be a better way. So let me put this challenge out to the public.

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And I'd love to see Trump do something like it. Just ask the public, what would you do? Actually, maybe this is even an Elon Musk thing, or maybe it could start with him. How do you reduce egg prices? I mean, have more chickens and the obvious stuff. But is there anything the government can do that makes sense that would lower your egg prices? Subsidize them? I don't know. I'd love to hear it.

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And then the other thing that was a big surprise to me in the speech was Trump's going big on American shipbuilding. We'll talk about that separately. But here's what I loved.

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Trump starts his speech by saying, quote, I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answer, the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest level ever recorded.

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And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. Now, these are imaginary achievements. And then he went on. So Democrats sitting before me, just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America, for the good of our nation? Let's work together and

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Let's truly make America great again. Now, obviously, they weren't going to do that because they came there to be protesters and ruining his flow. But what he did was he framed them. He basically framed them. So instead of I'm giving a speech and they think I'm a big old liar and so they're trying to make a point, he framed them as not even able to

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to agree with things everybody should agree with. Now, do you think that they proved, at some time during the night, that the Democrats proved him right by showing that there were things that anybody should agree with, just anybody should agree with? And did they disagree with that one thing that anybody should have agreed with? Yes, they did. They fell exactly into his frame.

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today so I guess if you have the app I think it's only on the app the special app for Grok it's free the voice mode so you can have conversations with it but you can set it for what kind of voice you're getting back so you can set it for an assistant mode where it's you know just kind of friendly and helpful but it's got sexy mode and it's got romantic mode and it's got argumentative mode

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They fell into the frame of finding the one thing, the one thing that nobody, nobody could disagree with. They found a way. And it was when he introduced the 13-year-old boy who had survived, I guess, brain cancer as a kid, had a real tough start in life. But the little kid who, and it's important to the rest of the story, was black. And they're still black.

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And the kids there with his father who looked awesome, looked like, I assume that was his father, who looked like, you know, just this great supportive dad who'd gotten him to this point. And I guess the son really liked police officers, wanted to be one.

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And I think he'd gotten some honorary, you know, police officer badges or something from various police departments who were just being supportive of the fact that he just loved police. And So Trump comes up with this idea of having him in the audience, telling his story, and there's nothing political about it.

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It's literally just awesome kid, survived a terrible thing, loves the police, and the police showing love back. So Trump announces that they're going to make him part of the Secret Service. Now, obviously, these are ceremonial kind of positions.

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And I think he had the new head of the Secret Service go up there and give him basically an ID, like a little wallet ID thing that says he's part of the Secret Service. And then there was a moment that was the best moment. So I think the kid's name was DJ. And the kid just looks at it, and he's just like blown away. It's like the happiest thing. It's just what he loves.

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And he just goes in for the hug. He just grabs this guy he'd never met, this white guy who was just head of the Secret Service, I believe. And the 13-year-old just grabs him and hugs him, like hugs him cheek to cheek.

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and and then you see the the uh the head of the secret service i guess i guess that's who he was if you know his name give it to me i'll say it um he's loving it like it's just this moment where there's just two human beings having a genuine hug and it was great so what do you think the democrats did to that It was really the ultimate trap. It was the ultimate, ultimate trap.

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There was this little moment was, first of all, you know, it was contrived in the sense that Trump knew that if you put these elements together, it's going to be an emotional impact. So it was contrived in that way. but it was also completely genuine in the sense that the emotions of the kid and the emotions of the gentleman who gave him the little Secret Service ID, those were real emotions.

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And there was spontaneity to it, and it was genuine, it was authentic, even given the setup, which was artificial. Sean Curran. Is that the name of the Secret Service guy? Yeah, so it was this beautiful moment. So then MSNBC... You switch to MSNBC and they're trying to find something wrong with it. And Rachel Maddow, she's got some damn thing.

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She's acting like Trump's taking credit for curing the kid's brain cancer. So she's all disgusted. 80% of the entire country is like, oh, my God, that was good. Like, that's a moment. That's what I like to see. And they've got to be on the other side of it. And so. What did Nicole Wallace say? I have to find the Nicole Wallace thing. I'm jumping ahead here. That was my favorite moment.

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you're never going to have a common border again because the common border was the problem. The fact that they're right there and they'd like to be even closer right there and they're going to get ready behind their border until they're ready for an attack and then obviously, surely, 100%, there'll be another one. So how do you solve an unsolvable problem?

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So Israel and really the entire Middle East had an unsolvable problem. There was no solution. Israel can't just keep it because that would be ethnic cleansing, right? They'd say, okay, Israel, you've just turned into the very thing that you complain about the most. So in terms of Israel's brand, just destroying Gaza and then just keeping it would have been really bad for their brand.

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Now, it might have been good for them in the long run. 30 years from now, they would just have more land, more safety, more security. So in the long run, it was probably all good. But for decades, it was going to be really bad. So Israel didn't really have a clean path to a win. They couldn't depopulate it because that looks like ethnic cleansing.

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They couldn't say, hey, now that we've killed most of the people we hate, why don't you go back there and live there? Well, first of all, it's too unsafe. Second of all, they haven't gotten rid of Hamas and looks like they're not even that close. And so there wasn't a solution. It was a 100% unsolvable problem. So what does Trump do?

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What do you do if you have people who can't unite and come up with a common solution? What is the one thing that will make people who absolutely are at each other's throats stop fighting each other and unite? There's only one thing. An external common threat. An external common threat.

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That's the only thing that makes people who hate each other for this long put down their weapons and say, all right, temporarily... temporarily, we need to get together and fight this other external threat. Trump's the external threat. He's not good for Israel. He's not good for America. It's not good for any of the residents of Gaza. It's not good for Saudi Arabia. They're already complaining.

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And I haven't heard what the European countries are saying, but you know they don't like it. I haven't heard what China and Russia say about it, but I don't think they're in favor of it. So not only did Trump end the war, let me say that again, he ended the war. There can't be a war if there's nobody next to somebody else. Because Hamas, wherever they end up,

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under this plan, if this happens, wherever they end up would be spread around in different places, and it would be really hard to mount any kind of a real attack on Israel proper. So he just basically said, Trump did, the war is over. The only thing you get to decide, you meaning Israel, Gaza, and all the related countries, all you get to decide, do you have a better offer? That's it. That's it.

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And the head of figure is predicting that the world will not be lots of machines filled with generic AI, but rather every device might have its own AI, an AI that's trained on the specifics of what you need to be a robot or something like that. So I don't know if the robot would then not be able to answer general questions. the way an open AI would be.

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The only thing they get to decide is do you have a better offer? And they don't. They don't. But you know what's going to happen? You're going to see some creativity and some flexibility that you never thought you would see. Suddenly, countries that thought, okay, we can offer this, but that's as far as we're going to go,

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Suddenly they're going to get flexible because the last thing they want is the United States to set up a giant military base right in the middle of their business and have a dominant role in controlling the shipping in the region. Because Gaza, if they build a little portal, I guess they'd have to build an artificial island and then turn it into like a harbor.

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but it could be the controlling place for a huge amount of trade through the area. So do you think that the Islamic countries, whether they're allies or not, do you think any of them want that? No. So let me say it again. Trump ended the war. The war is over because they need a common border. for that Hamas versus Israel thing to continue into the future. He just took away their common border.

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Now, if they come up with a better idea, and I don't know what it would look like, maybe Saudi Arabia says, oh, we'll do more. How about we take over, right? What if Saudi Arabia came in and said, all right, here's the deal. I know we want to do this wider bigger than the Abrams Accord thing, but we're not quite ready to step up to that.

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We can't just have everybody embracing Israel like nothing ever happened and go into this big old deal. But now you can, because maybe the larger deal in the region depended on everybody thinking, if we don't do this, we're going to get something we really don't want, which is a big old Trump boot in the middle of the Middle East. So watch how this sharpens everybody's thinking.

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Watch how it makes people who weren't flexible, flexible. Watch how perhaps Jordan and Egypt who had said, no, no, no, we'll never take any of these Gaza immigrants. Maybe they'll say, Well, yeah, well, maybe we could if, you know, maybe Saudi Arabia or somebody helped us fund it.

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And then Saudi Arabia would say, we don't want to help you fund it, but we don't want Trump in the Middle East with a giant military base. And watch how creative people get. So this is what only Trump can do. And he does it all the time. So you should recognize it by now. What he does is he shakes the box so hard that everybody involved just wants us to stop shaking. And they all get flexible.

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And they all think, all right, this is the time to make a deal. Because if we don't do it now, the United States is going to own Gaza. Now, did you see, if you haven't seen it yet, you have to watch Netanyahu's reaction when Trump is rolling out this idea in their joint press conference after they met yesterday.

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I can't read minds, but watching Netanyahu squirm, because he didn't know how this was going to work out or how it was going to go, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't his idea, and I don't know how much he even liked the idea.

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He may have just decided he had to go along because he was in Trump's house, so to speak, and he needs Trump on board, and they've got a good working relationship, so he's not going to throw that away. And he just sort of let it happen while looking really uncomfortable. Again, I can't read his mind, but he didn't have the look of someone who was embracing the idea.

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So we might end up with the best possible situation, but I want to be clear about this. It's not a bluff. It's not a bluff. Trump would do it if they don't come up with a better idea. I'll bet they'll come up with a better idea, which they never would have before. So we'll see. All right.

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But apparently it's going to give them the ability to roll out an operating robot way faster than if they used a generic AI. So that's coming. Something coming in the next 30 days, they say, that's going to be a big deal. Here's some good news. Every now and then there's a story that just makes you feel good. And this one is the let's call it the conclusion, I hope, of the Daniel Penny story.

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So the things we're learning about USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, which is another one of these alleged CIA cutouts that the U.S. uses to control other countries and run coups and do, what do you call it? capacity building in other countries, which is getting kind of a foothold in other countries in some entities within those countries so that we could have some future control.

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As you know, the only reason we know about this is that Mike Benz has been explaining it for a while, but then Doge got in there and started looking at USAID and all the things it's doing and decided, oh no, it's a ball of worms, as it Elon Musk says. And although it might be doing some things we like, we're going to have to close down the whole thing.

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And then if there's a good argument for adding anything back, they're open to listening to it. But the only way to fix it is you just got to get rid of the ball of worms and then see if you can find a little bit of apple later. So here are the things we know. Yeah, and Mike Benz says, when a job is too dirty for the CIA, they give it to USAID. So here's what you need to know.

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The Mike Benz take on USAID is it's not a mixture of bad things, like overthrowing countries, with a mixture of good things, like helping countries battle the AIDS crisis in their own country. What it is, is in every case, a CIA takeover of a country. Sometimes they help them with the AIDS, but that's really just the easiest way to get our assets into their country.

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So it's really about maybe collecting some information through the AIDS process, maybe using it to get some spies in there so they can work their thing once they're behind the, on the other side of the border. So the Ben's take, which I accept, is that there's no such thing as USAID just doing charity. All the charity is a cover for something that the U.S. wants.

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So in some sense, USAID is doing the bidding of the United States, except who in the United States? It kind of matters whose bidding they're doing, right? So if it's not Trump's bidding... Should they be doing anything? So at the moment, USAID looks like just a weapon that we use against other countries. And what we've learned about how they do it is the fun part.

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So I'm going to tell you what to look for if you thought that USAID and the CIA were trying to take control of your country. So here are the telltale signs. So if you're in another country and you see this happening, you should say, whoa, whoa, red flag. This looks like a takeover of our country. Ready?

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Number one, usually the takeover has to do with getting rid of a populist because a populist is not a puppet. And if we're going to try to control some smaller country, we want to get a puppet in there. So the existence of a populist is usually a trigger for the other things. And if the result is a puppet, then probably there was this undercover effort.

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Now, there's a name for this kind of takeover, and there's some more details I'll give you. They're often referred to as color revolutions. The reason it's a color revolution is that there's some history of some of these fake revolutions that the CIA and USA gins up that they have some kind of color as their banner.

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So I guess Georgia had a, I don't know, an orange movement, and Ukraine, when it was doing its thing there, they had a rose movement, right? I think somebody else had some other color. So often there's a color associated with the movement. But that's not a requirement, but often there. You would look for outside money flowing into the country. So you'd look for that. Or USAID specifically.

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So if you saw that USAID was sending money into anything in your country, that would be a sign that there's a planned takeover. So you're looking for a populist who triggers it, looking to be replaced by a puppet, the puppet being run by USAID and CIA, some outside money from USAID, and capacity building. So the capacity building would be

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You remember Daniel Penny? He tried to save some people in a subway, but unfortunately the person he was holding down died. He was cleared of all that in what I thought was a racially motivated case. But once you go through that kind of thing, it's hard to get your life back together. So here's the good news. He was just offered a job by Andreessen Horowitz.

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getting your own puppets into the media, getting your own people into the important institutions, either by bribery or blackmail or usually bribery. And so you look for that. But here's the big one. You look for an artificially generated social instability. So the way you get a good revolution going is you've got to get the social instability really high. So then it all makes sense.

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Oh, it's obvious why this country got rid of their leader because look at all the social instability. So you've got to create some social instability if there isn't any. You might, for example, the number one way to do that is to get a country racially divided. So if there's any minority groups that are being abused, they're already primed. So you've just got to organize them, give them money,

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make sure they got a leader, make sure they know how to organize. And then suddenly you've got people in the streets. Suddenly it's a battle. Suddenly the news, which you've also done capacity building, so you've got some control of at least some of the media. So then the media starts saying, hey, look at the population. They're so unhappy because of all the division. They're taken to the streets.

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And then that's the next thing. If you see movements literally on the streets and they haven't existed before, they might be fake movements. So it would be typical for the color revolution to, say, co-opt a big union. If they could get control of the leaders of the union, then the union would be part of the marching in the streets. So you look for any big organization...

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that maybe already exists, but they're not organized. And you get them organized and get them on the streets. And that would be part of a color revolution. Two of the things that USAID does for other countries, which you could say, huh, is that part of the social instability? What is they push? They push DEI on other countries.

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Do you think they're pushing DEI on other countries because that's good for America? Is it because it's just charity? Or is it social instability? Well, DEI causes tremendous social instability. So there's that. What about climate change?

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Apparently, climate change is something that gets introduced in a country you want to take over because there's always some green people who say, yeah, hell yeah, climate change. Our government's not doing enough. We're going to take to the streets. So you can get some climate change people marching. You can get some race-related groups marching. And then you got your social instability.

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But none of it works. unless you've got control of the media or enough control to tell your story, oh, everything's bad here. We're going to have to get rid of this populist leader. This populist can't do anything right. We better put in this well-respected, boring puppet. So look for the capacity building. Look for billionaires funding things.

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Look for the racism and the fake groups and all that and the media propaganda. And you look for the USA behind it. And then there's one tell that's like the good one. If it also looks like Russia is a threat, that's almost a guarantee that the United States is behind it. Because we love to blame Russia for stuff, especially if it's Ukraine or Georgia or just about anybody else.

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We're going to say, you know, we could save you from Russia. Or this new leader could be the person who protects you from Russia. Yeah. So look for that. So that takes us to 2016. Do you remember 2016? When this populist American became president? His name was Trump. You've heard of him. And the powers that be in this country, even the people who control USAID, Probably were not happy about it.

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So Mark Andreessen's company with Ben Horowitz. And it's one of the big venture capital companies in Silicon Valley, one of the most famous, noted ones. And they're going to teach him investing. Now, I don't know if that means he's actually going to be making investment decisions, or if it means that he needs to learn what the company does so that he finds his role there.

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Turns out the USA is 98% Democrats. So you can imagine how everybody felt when this non-Democrat populist became president. And do you remember what happened soon after he became president? Some changes in the country. Anybody notice those changes? I'll give you some examples. There were the pink pussy hats. Yeah, a lot of people wearing pink. Pink's a color.

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But there was also Black Lives Matter and Antifa. Seems like they were wearing a lot of black outfits. There was the black motif of Black Lives Matter, but then Antifa always dressed in black. It was almost like black was the color. Almost like they were color-coordinated. Do you remember the Charlottesville marchers? You know, those neo-Nazis marching? Have you not...

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Isn't it weird that we had never seen anything like that in modern America? And then it happened once, and then we never saw it again. And it became the biggest story in America, and it was based on a hoax. The hoax that Trump was on the side of the Nazis. Now, I said it at the time, but I didn't have any context to back it up.

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I said, there's something about this Charlottesville event that looks completely non-organic. How did all these people afford to be there? How did they get the tiki torches? How did the most disorganized group of people in the United States, the neo-Nazi races, how did they suddenly mount this camera-perfect media event, but only once? They could only pull it off once. Isn't that interesting? Huh.

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So that would look like exactly the kind of thing that the USA and the United States and the CIA would do to another country. Just what they do. And then, of course, there was something weird about Black Lives Matter and Antifa that popped up around the same time that seemed to come out of nowhere, seemed to be funded by Soros and who knows where else, and

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And they disappeared as soon as Joe Biden became president. So that would kind of suggest that Charlottesville was never real because it never reconstituted in any way. It would suggest that Black Lives Matter was never real, except that it had some kind of exterior backing that made it active for a while. And it would suggest that Antifa was never real.

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So who would be backing things that aren't real that would create racial division? At the same time, DEI was going wild, and one of the biggest complaints about this populist president was not good on climate change. Huh. DEI and climate change, two things that we know are used as weapons against other countries to create social divide.

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Both of them happening at the same time our populist president got in. That's kind of a big coincidence, isn't it? And then, of course, the J6 insurrection. We don't know what role the government had in fomenting that, but it doesn't look like something that happened organically to me.

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To me, it looks like a bunch of people who thought the election was rigged, but for some reason, a bunch of bad people got in there too. What do you think was the organizing principle that got all the bad people in there too. It was surprisingly organized. And yet, after January 6th, nothing like that has ever happened again. So it never happened before. It hasn't happened again.

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It's almost like that's not a naturally organized group of people. It's as if there's some exterior force organizing Black Lives Matter, organizing a Charlottesville march, organizing Antifa, and organizing perhaps the violent part of January 6th. And then we've got the anti-Israel protesters. So I'm not sure if that's related because that one actually could be organic.

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Because I don't know what background he has to make him a venture capitalist. But on the other hand, maybe it's not that hard to train somebody to be a venture capitalist. It's not like they get most of their or plays right, most of the bats, even by the smartest people, end up being the wrong bat. But they can play the numbers, make it work. So that's great. That is nothing but good news.

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But anyway, you don't have to worry about some color revolution. in the United States because that would assume that the CIA was turning its weapons against a domestic enemy. Except we know that they are allowed to do that now. And we know that they did that for censorship by using funding of foreign entities that would then try to suppress our social networks and create censorship in our country.

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by building capacity in other places. When USAID pushed DEI in the United States, somebody's saying in the comments, I haven't seen that, but that wouldn't surprise me. But the way to know if there was some kind of color revolution in this country would be, and obviously this didn't happen, but imagine if the person who replaced the populist candidate, imagine if that person was a puppet.

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Oh, wait. Joe Biden was a puppet. He was the only candidate we've ever seen in which neither side believes he was actually in charge. Never seen that before. But at least he has this vice president who Oh, wait. We learned that the vice president was so incapable that she couldn't possibly have been in charge of anything.

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And if she became president, would have been a puppet because she was weak and incapable. So I'm not going to say that there was a color revolution in the United States driven by the same people with the same tools. that did it in other countries. And by the way, not just once in a while, but dozens of other countries. Dozens. And it always looks the same.

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But there were fake organizations, there were fake media. Do you know why the Charlottesville thing worked? It's because of the hoax that came out of it, the fine people hoax. Do you know why the mainstream media, who all knew it was a hoax, Do you know why they didn't report it as a hoax? They reported it as fact, and they kept recording it as fact long after it got debunked. Do you know why?

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Well, it's not because they didn't know it was fake. It looks exactly like USAID and the CIA and all their evil trolls ran an overthrow of this country. Under that context, given that context, Do you believe the elections were not rigged in 2020? You know, I went from open to the question in 2020.

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I was like, well, you know, I'm not seeing any proof, but I'm open to the possibility of anything happening. Possible. At the moment, I think the odds that 2020 was rigged are 100%. Because once you see the entire mechanism... from the fake media to the fake street movements to the fake division about race, fake division about climate.

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It's so textbook that if they didn't rig the actual election, why'd they do the rest of the stuff? All the rest of the stuff was to get a result, and they're not playing. That's the thing you need to know. Whoever would be behind this sort of stuff, they're not playing. So yes, of course they would rig the election if that was the only way to win. And it might have been.

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So I would say that if they didn't rig the election, they were ready to rig the election. Maybe they didn't have to. I mean, it's possible that Biden, the puppet, the brain-dead puppet, got the most votes that any Democrat has ever gotten. And then the very next election, it goes back down to the baselines. Maybe. Maybe. But how likely is that?

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I would say the odds of the 2020 election being stolen, I'd give it 100%. I don't think there's any doubt at this point. But I'll give you the only out I'll give myself is that it's not proven, but how many times has the United States rigged an election in another country and they couldn't prove it. Does that never happen? And I'd like somebody to explain to me, why is it we have voting machines?

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And I love the fact that Andreessen Horowitz stepped up to just right that little bit of wrong in the world. And I'd like to thank them personally. So Andreessen Horowitz, nicely done. I think the country, or at least a big part of the country, just appreciates that. It just tied up that story just the way it needed to be.

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When you don't need them, they're more expensive, they're harder to maintain, they're not as fast, or at least there's no advantage in anything. So why would you have them? I can only think of one reason. In the early days, I can imagine the vendors just sold them with their bullshit. Oh, this will be faster. Oh, much better, much more accurate than the paper.

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But now that we know that none of that's true, why do we still have them? Why do you have a voting machine? There's only one reason. Once you've actually had them long enough to know that they're not not faster, more accurate, more reliable. They're nothing. Why do you still have them? There's only one reason.

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And if nobody will even come on TV and say, oh, Scott, you're wrong, there are some good reasons. I'd be open to that, by the way, if there are some good reasons. I'll change my mind tomorrow. But you don't know any reasons. I'm a voter, and this is one of the biggest issues in the country, was the election fair. And not a single person

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as ever, that I've seen, maybe you've seen it, but I haven't seen it, going on TV or on the news to defend why machines are safer, faster, cheaper, better than paper. I haven't seen it. And that's a dog not barking pretty loudly. So that's where we are. Now, the good news about this USAID debacle is that the

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The leaders who are prairie-dogging on this, in other words, the ones who are sticking their heads up and saying, no, no, no, you cannot cut this. No, no. They're all the ones who are part of the grift. They're ones who are either directly or indirectly funded by USAID, even though they're politicians in this country. There are lots of indirect ways to fund things. But all the...

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All the definitely corrupt people have decided to go public. Now, they don't know that it's so obvious that this is the corrupt crowd. I sometimes call them the designated liars. But look at the names of the people who just went public, trying hard to keep that USAID. Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin,

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AOC, as Mike Benz pointed out, AOC is only a politician because it was a USAID process to find her in college and jumpstart her career. So AOC has always been a creation of the machine. And she's out there, oh, defending, need that USAID. Swalwell, Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, need I say more? Well, also, let's see. I think Jasmine Crockett was there and Presley and Ilhan Omar.

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The last three on the list, they may just be jumping in because they like to jump in. I'm not sure they're all USAID beneficiaries. They might be. Ilhan Omar might be. I don't know. But that's the thing to look for. Anyway, they've all revealed themselves as part of the dirty money plot. Now, if you saw Schumer, the second day in a row, he went out in public and embarrassed all the Democrats.

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Remember, he held up the can of beer and the avocado, and he mansplained to people what an avocado is. An avocado makes your guacamole. you will not have a beer as inexpensively as before on Super Bowl. And it was just so weak and so poorly done. And then the next day, he's out there trying to save USAID, and he's giving his inspirational speech.

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And I'd like to give you my impression of Senator Schumer inspiring the crowd, saying, Preparing myself. Get the glasses. And we are going to win, everybody. We're going to win. Okay, you say it after me. We're going to win. No, this is where you say it at the same time I say it. Everybody say it loud. We're going to win. And we're not going to rest. No, you say that too. We're not going to rest.

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Because you want to know that somebody who put their, risked their own neck, which is what he did, you want to know that if somebody risks their neck for other people and doesn't ask anything in return, can still you know, have a good outcome. So, wow, it made me feel good.

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Don't say the first part. Say the second part only now. We're going to rest. We're never going to rest. And it was literally just hilarious. But I thought to myself, maybe Democrats love this. Maybe my bias filter is so sensitive that anything the other team does, I don't like, right? But then I turn on Jon Stewart. John Stewart is begging Democrats to stop.

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Well, according to New Atlas, there's a new study out that says that eating one egg a week lowers heart disease death risk by 29%. Just one egg. All you need is one egg per week. Now, I'm telling you this so you can start saving up. If you put away a little bit every week, eventually you'll be able to afford an egg. And it's really good for you. I recommend canceling your health care.

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John Stewart is begging Democrats to stop sending Schumer out. And after mocking Schumer as badly as I did, Stewart just leans into the microphone and he goes, he's not good at this. He's not good at this. Yeah, he's not good at this. Anyway, so all the bad people are going to try to stop Doge. The federal workers are suing Doge for connecting some server to something Wired is reporting.

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Who knows where that'll be? I guess 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump's buyout offer. If they take the buyout, they get paid through September with benefits. 20,000 said, yep. So I read that in just the news. And that's going to save, they say, $100 billion a year. So that's nice. Saved $100 billion a year. Apparently, the entire CIA has this offer as well.

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And I'd expect some of them to take it. In other news, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy according to the Gateway Pundit, he thinks that the United States should supply him with nuclear weapons. You know, the puppet that the United States installed? I don't know. You know, anything could happen. But I don't think we want to give him nuclear weapons. I don't think that's going to happen.

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Not under Trump, anyway. Anyway. Yeah, he's a crazy maniac. I can't imagine how that would make anything better. Apparently, according to Doge, and there's an article in Breitbart, that the Biden administration made improper payments totaling $236 billion just in 23 alone, 2023. Now, that was mostly overpayments.

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I guess Trump's going to keep things interesting today by allegedly he's going to sign some kind of executive order that would ban biological males from women's sports. Now, we don't know how deeply that goes. Would that include professional sports? And would he even be able to do that? Would it include All high school and college? We don't know. But we'll see.

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And even though it's a lot of money, $238 billion, it's just a portion of the $1.8 trillion annual deficit. But think about that. So $236 billion is the amount we've identified as fraudulent or overpayment. Let me say that again.

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that's just the amount we identified that is by no means the limit of what the fraud was it's only what we've identified oh my god you know you we we found out through the doge effort that the treasury was signing off on everything that came to them they didn't look at anything and say wait a minute you're paying a terrorist it just wasn't their job they just processed the payments

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So we had this huge, unaudited, immense pile of money that wasn't being managed in any practical way. Maybe it will be now. But I'd like to go on record as saying I don't understand how Doge could possibly save enough money to balance the budget. All the numbers I hear don't make any sense to me. So USAID, for example, is like 0.7% of the budget.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 100% of what Doge has been working on is maybe 1% of the budget. So if they save 30% of 1% of the budget, that's not even getting anywhere near the amount of the deficit. But when they talk about it, they act like it does. What am I missing? Why don't any of the numbers make sense to me? None of it makes sense.

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And when I say it doesn't make sense, I mean it's like a butterfly to an elephant. I don't understand it. What I see is a butterfly-sized number of cuts. Even though the numbers are enormous in terms of percentages, it's like a little butterfly.

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what needs to be cut would be the elephant the claims are they found enough butterflies to equal like half an elephant already i don't think so so i don't know what's going on exactly but i don't know why i can't understand the difference between a butterfly and an elephant i mean i'm not even i'm not even in the same zip code with seeing that we're cutting enough to make a difference but maybe.

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I'd love to be wrong. I mean, that would be ideal. So we'll see what happens with that in terms of the deficit, but certainly I like everything that Doge is doing. I like them moving fast. I like them breaking stuff. I like them turning off things that we desperately need just to find out how desperately we do need them. Every part of that is looking good to me.

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I like the aggressiveness that they're using. I like that they're bending and maybe bending some rules, no bad ones, but they're bending rules in the service of doing something useful. You can do that all day long as far as I'm concerned. So we'll see. Apparently, according to Zero Hedge, seven Americans have been charged with the

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this gigantic COVID-related tax credit scheme where they filed for over $600 million of fraudulent payments. Now, they didn't get all 600 million, but they got 45 million. Seven people filing fake tax returns and asking for the COVID money. 45 million. They could have gotten 600 million. Again, those are the ones that got caught. How many didn't get caught?

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The numbers of fraud during the pandemic and just in general are just mind-boggling. So yes, the entire government is broken and I don't think Doge can break it harder. It's completely broken. It's throwing our money out the door for things we don't even know about. So if you break that, you're breaking something that was already broken. You can't break something that's already completely broken.

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And that's what our funding and spending were, completely broken. So you can't break it harder than it was already broken. All right, so the Wall Street Journal, in their editorial opinion, is describing Trump's

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I would argue that although he genuinely wants to do this and his base genuinely wants it to happen, I think the majority of the country, actually, over 50%, are completely on board with this. But what I love about it is part of it is overwhelming the news. I didn't realize. I saw a video. I think it was maybe at the beginning of the first term of Trump, his first four years.

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negotiating victories with Canada and Mexico as, quote, minor concessions and treating it basically as an embarrassing failure because he got nothing of substance, but he backed off at least for 30 days on the tariffs. Does that really look right to you? Why are they calling a major concession a minor one? Is it because they think they won't actually do anything?

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So I think the complaint is until Mexico and Canada do something that is big and what they promised, he got nothing because they haven't done anything yet. To which I say, That's why he postponed the tariffs for 30 days, because our good friends and partners and neighbors said, yes, we plan to do these things. And so Trump said that those are things I want.

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So if you're going to do those things, I'll wait 30 days for the tariffs. And in 30 days, if you've done those things, we're all good, maybe. He always says maybe. He doesn't say for sure. But isn't this the way it's supposed to work? And so if the Wall Street Journal is right, and the only thing Canada and Mexico did was make some promises that they have no intention of keeping.

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I saw an article just before I came on that suggested that Canada had no intention of sending extra people to the border. Maybe that's true. And then you know what you do? You crash their economies. You destroy their economies. Because if they really promised us something that's that important to us, if they promised it and it was bullshit, that's when you're not friends anymore.

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That's the end of being friends. That's when Trump's going to crash your economy. And you'll probably recover, but it's going to take you a while. And we're never going to stop because we can't trust you now. If we can't trust you when you make a deal, your economy is going to the toilet. And I think Trump needs to do that.

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But because we're dealing with allies and neighbors and partners, you can't say no when they say yes. In other words, if you ask for something and they say yes, you can't tariff them then. They said yes. They offered something you wanted.

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But if they lied, which is what the Wall Street Journal is suggesting, or they allowed Trump to think it was more than it was, which would be kind of a lie, it's going to be really expensive. And they're going to wish it didn't happen. So my guess is they're going to step up because when it gets close to that 30 days, it's going to be pained.

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And I don't think Trump's going to... I think if they say it again, oh, wait, give us another 30 days, I don't think they're going to get another 30 days. I think the next 30 days, both Mexico and Canada get to decide if they still have an economy. And I think Trump will just take both of them down if they lie to him. All right. Wow. Wow.

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According to one source, over four years, the administration unintentionally misspent close to a trillion dollars. Wow. This is according to Rachel Gressler in the National Review. Well, I suppose there'll be lots of different opinions on how much was misspent, but that's a big number. Right. All right.

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Trump says he left instructions that if he gets assassinated by an Iranian asset, that Iran will be obliterated. Now, we don't know if obliterated means the whole country or just the leadership. I would imagine it would be the leadership. But that was exactly the right way to play it. Now, who knows if Trump has really left instructions to obliterate them? I don't think he'd have to tell us.

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I think we'd go hard at Iran's leadership and destroy them if they took out Trump. So it's probably not maybe technically true that somebody's going to obey the president who's no longer with us. So would it make any difference if he left instructions? All that matters would be if J.D. Vance wanted to do that. But I don't think you'd have to twist his arm.

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And it was Steve Bannon explaining how to defeat the fake news. And you do it by overwhelming them so that they can't get a beat on anything. There's just more coming than they can handle. And you see that in action. So this was perhaps Steve Bannon's original strategy. Maybe he got it from someone else. I don't know. But it was fun to see the origin of that.

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So I like that Trump puts it out there and he makes it clear, as he did with North Korea, if you cross this line, you don't get to come back. So I like that positioning. Weirdly, Elizabeth Warren is agreeing with Trump that banks are debanking too many people without cause. How about that? That's a weird one. Now, apparently Warren is getting lots of complaints from people being debanked.

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Probably in those cases, those are left-leaning people getting debanked. Now, there are lots of reasons to be debanked, and usually it's because the account did something suspicious by bank standards. Doesn't mean that they broke any laws, but there was something about the way they were operating that a bank says, we can't touch that.

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You're a little too close to weird crypto, a little too close to scams. You're operating as if you're doing something illegal, but we can't tell. So apparently there are a whole bunch of gray areas where you can get debanked pretty fast.

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And Elizabeth Warren is actually asking Trump for support and is supporting the idea that the banks need to explain and have maybe a better process for deciding who gets debanked. So, hey, a little bit of minor agreement there. This story already got reversed from the time that I wrote it in my notes. For a moment there, the post office was halting all packages from China.

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And that was related, I guess, to the fact that China sends gazillions of small packages to get past the tariffs and duties that would apply on larger dollar items. Okay. But apparently that's been resumed already because it was too dramatic a change and too much involved. It would hurt American companies too much. But I recommended that back in probably 2018.

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I said, if fentanyl is coming into the country from China, we should stop all shipments from China. Yeah. which seemed like a ridiculous idea, but it happened for maybe a few hours. I don't know if that's going to happen again. All right, so here's the nerdiest thing I'm going to tell you about AI.

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This is actually a big deal, but if you're not following the field, it won't look like a big deal at all. Did you know that AI can't read spreadsheets? It can read them, You can feed it to them and it'll tell you some things that are in there, but it can't reliably tell you what's on the spreadsheet or make an estimate based on it or extend it or anything.

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It's sort of dumb and blind when it looks at any table of data. I don't know why. I think it's something that's built into the character of AI, so it's hard to change. But there's a company, according to Fortune... a German startup that figured out how to make AI capable of reading spreadsheets and small tables of data. Now, why this is such a big deal is this is exactly why I don't use AI.

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The biggest uses I had all involved in needed to look at a data or a document or some numbers. Because if I wanted to build an agent that could ask questions such as, you know, can you find Dilbert that had this topic on that day? I have that information in a table on a spreadsheet, but I couldn't read it.

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So I couldn't build an AI agent that would just look at my spreadsheet and say, oh, you're looking for the one about the robot? Here's some dates where the robot was and then show you the comic. Can't do it. Then I also tried to train it to simply replace me, you know, to know everything about me.

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And I thought, oh, I'll put a whole bunch of facts about me in a document and then it will just refer to the document and it will know about me. Couldn't do it. So pretty much, I don't know, maybe two-thirds of the things you would ever want to use AI for would require the AI to look at a document or a little bit of data and and incorporate that into its answers.

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It looks like that might have been the origin of just overwhelming the news. So I see this...

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And if they make that work, that really is a big difference. It just seems like a small one, but it's a really big one. I would use AI immediately if it can do that, one little thing. Well, in Greenland, the elections are coming, and most of the residents of Greenland want independence, but that doesn't mean they want to be owned by America. They would like to be independent from Denmark,

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But a majority of them also think there's no way to do it because Denmark provides half a billion a year to keep them alive. And they don't want their lifestyle to go down by half a billion a year because there aren't many people there. So that's a lot of money. And they'd love to be independent. but not with the economic hit they would take by becoming independent.

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So let me tell you what the most obvious solution is, where America gets what it wants, Denmark gets what it wants, and Greenland gets what it wants, which is that Greenland and Denmark both agree that the U.S. military can have a strong presence in Greenland and essentially be the national defense, but we'd be doing it for our own national defense,

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executive order as well as a lot of the other ones as part of that strategy to make sure that they just can't figure out what he's doing there's just too much going on and this one's wonderful because it gets everybody worked up oh biological men and women's sports we've got to fight about this so perfect strategy uh meanwhile i don't know if this is true

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It's just that Greenland's better situated geographically. So it seems to me there's an obvious endpoint. I don't think we really need Greenland to be a state. I don't see that that benefits us. I don't think the Greenlanders need to be part of America. But they need defense. They need Denmark to keep paying them. So Denmark keeps it. They keep paying them. Lifestyle is good.

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And then the United States adds the military muscle to keep them safe. And then I think we would have everything we wanted. Except, wouldn't it be nice... if Denmark paid for the U.S. military presence in Greenland so we didn't have to pay for it? Would that be nice?

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Now, Denmark's alternative, they might think, is that we just take the country because we can and just say, sorry, you're a good ally, but this just has to happen for geopolitical reasons. So there's some possibility. that Denmark would keep paying the residents their half a billion a year and maybe pay us a billion dollars a year to help keep the military there. Who knows? Possible.

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All right, that's all I've got for now, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals Privately. And today will be another big news day. I'm sure there have been lots of things that happened since I started. And everybody on X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining. I'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, I'm coming to you privately in 30 seconds.

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But I think it was Wall Street Journal that was saying that RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard are on a glide path to confirmation. Do you think that's true? I guess they both got on a committee, which is the step before the full vote. And getting through the committee is hard enough. And probably that tells you what you need to know about what the vote will do. But I don't know. Is it really...

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Is it really a done deal? I guess the thinking is that the Republicans who might have resisted have been co-opted. So they either got some kind of thing in response or they got some assurances or something. But it's looking like maybe they're going to go through. Maybe they're going through. Now, what I like is that the reason given that the RFK Jr.

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nomination would go through is that the politicians were afraid of saying no, which I don't think you see with most nominees. But what you saw when it looked like RFK Jr. might not be confirmed, people went fucking nuts, and they should, because we had a deal. You know what I mean? We had a deal, which is if RFK Jr. takes the enormous risk of playing with Trump, we got to back him.

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And, you know, not only did his own, you know, people who kind of allowed themselves to be wrapped in the Trump world for at least to get their stuff done. I think we owe them. A deal's a deal, right? A deal's a deal. So if we don't get RFK Jr. through, I'm going to go nuts. And I'm going to make sure whoever voted against him who's a Republican definitely knows that was a bad idea.

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Eventually they're going to know that was a very bad idea. But it looks like maybe they'll get through. So, could be good news. According to Futurism, a publication, the FBI has quietly revealed that it has a real-life UFO office. The FBI has a UFO office. Just like the X-Files. Now, apparently the Pentagon also had a UFO office. Or maybe it was a UAP, but real UFOs.

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So I've got a suggestion for Doge. If you're looking for an easy cut, I don't think we need a UFO office. Have they found one yet? Let's put it this way. If the UFO office of the FBI has found a real UFO, they can stay. If they haven't found a UFO yet, maybe we don't need the UFO office. It's funny that it even exists. Anyway, apparently El Salvador keeps doing smart things.

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and using that money to buy an egg. Same outcome, really. Well, here's some news that might sound nerdy and small to you, but it might be really, really big. The company called Figure, they're making robots that look like humanoids, much like Tesla. And their latest announcement is they're not going to use OpenAI anymore. as the brains of their computer, or the brains of their robot.

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Have you noticed that whenever El Salvador is in the news, no matter what the specifics of the topic are, the general theme is, oh, that's like really well done. Or, huh, looks like you got another good idea there, El Salvador. Or, huh, strategically, that's kind of brilliant. Have you noticed that? So I guess Bukele is just you know, slaying it.

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And one of the things he did when Marco Rubio was down there yesterday or whatever it was, I think it was yesterday, they worked out a deal where the United States has offered to help El Salvador build a domestic nuclear energy structure. Now, I worry that the United States doesn't have enough nuclear energy experts to build our own stuff.

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But we better be developing that really quickly because if we're not, we're dumb. So how important is it that the United States becomes sort of the big brother to South American countries that are looking for clean energy? Really, really important because the last thing you want is for somebody like El Salvador to say, you know, we need energy. We're not going to do without it. So China.

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Can you help us build a nuclear reactor? We can't go there. So yes, everything about this is good. El Salvador being smart again. Good job. Read about this in Breitbart. All right, we have to talk about Trump and Gaza. That's what you're waiting for, right? So this is a story that just, I almost fell off my chair.

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So if you're watching my posting on X, you may have noticed a change of opinion on my part. So this is a complete 180. When it was first announced, and I saw the video of Trump saying, hey, maybe the United States will just take over Gaza.

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We'll be in charge of cleaning it up, and then we'll just own it, and we'll rebuild it into the Riviera of the Middle East, and it'll become an important port for the whole world, and everything will be great. But the current residents... will not be there for many years while it gets cleaned up. Apparently it would take years to even make it safe to live there. So he drops that.

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What was your first reaction? Probably like mine. Some of you just like anything that Trump says he's going to do. But your first reaction, if it was anything like mine, was, hell no. Are you effing kidding me? How in the world does that make sense for America? How about America first?

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We stay the F out of the entire Middle East because if we put our stupid foot right in the middle of their business, we're going to be pestered forever. We're going to become target number one. We're going to have our troops are going to be dying in the sand over there for nothing. The odds of it becoming a prosperous place seem not so good to me because it'll always be under risk of attack.

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Iran's going to hate it. Saudi Arabia hates it. I don't even think Israel likes it. I think Israel hates it. I think 100% of the people over there don't want us there. So that's bad news. And guess what? Most of America doesn't want this to happen. So somehow Trump came up with an idea that 100% of the world thinks is a bad idea, except for, you know, there'll be some whatever you say, Trump.

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I mean, there are a lot of those, right? A lot of people's like, you want to murder all the people? Okay. So some number of Trump supporters are going to say, whatever you say, dear leader. But a lot of Trump supporters, like me,

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And even the Israeli ones, I imagine, are thinking, I see why you think this is a good idea, but do we really need you occupying this land that Israel just cleared for itself? Because it would be basically taking land from Israel. Because for all practical purposes, Israel owns Gaza. They already own it. I mean, by functional control. So that's what I thought when I first heard it.

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And that's a big deal because they had an agreement with OpenAI. So they were already in association with OpenAI. But what they found was that OpenAI was great for sort of general purpose stuff, but it wasn't optimized for robots. So somehow, figure made its own AI or found a different one, but they got an AI that's optimized for robots.

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Does that match what any of you thought when you first heard it? Was that your first impression? All right, now I'm going to give you a more nuanced take because I slept on it. The first thing you have to remember is that Trump doesn't operate like anybody else.

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So as soon as you imagine that the frame you're evaluating in would be some kind of standard frame, the standard frame would be, is it a good idea for America to own Gaza? Right? That was my frame last night. Is that a good idea? Is that good for America? No. So if that's the frame you're in, you just kind of only want to answer, bad idea. But let's put it in a Trump frame.

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Because that's the one that matters. He never operates in the normal frame. So you've got to find his frame. How is he operating here? Here's what I think happened. I think Trump just ended a permanent war between Hamas and Israel. He just ended the war. The war's over. Because what he just told both sides is,

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That's a way to rumble. All right, let me get my comments up here, and then we got a show to do. Comments coming. Perfecto. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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They're winged Bigfoots, I think. Because, you know, the Bigfoots are hard to photograph. And if they've been there for weeks and nobody's got a good photograph of them... I'm thinking Bigfoot, but they're flying, so I'm going to go with the obvious, sort of a tribe of winged Bigfoots, possibly. No, I'm going to make a better guess. Here's my better guess. Why are we saying that they're unpiloted?

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So we can't get a picture of them. but we know there's not a human being in each one of them. Can you explain that? I can. It's because we talk about drones so much that if you see something in the sky that you don't recognize, it's either a UFO or a drone. Wouldn't it make more sense if it were, let's say, a car-sized helicopter?

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Wouldn't it make more sense if they were testing a one-person military flying device? Which would be pretty awesome. And you wouldn't know about it if it was military. And it seems to be only in the proximity of a military base. Do you think that our U.S.

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military would allow something that they didn't control to be flying over their base every night for weeks and that there would be no explody things happening, like shooting them down or at least telling us what's going on? I think the fact that it's near something that looks like a military base and it's a car-sized thing kind of suggests... I mean, it might be drones...

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I don't know if these are different stories or the same story dressed up, but I feel like that's the third time I've told you that coffee is good for your liver. which is why I soak my liver in coffee overnight.

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but I imagine there's people in them, and I think they're probably just experimental crafts. Just guessing. It's also possible that the whole they're the size of a car is probably just not true, because nobody got a good picture of it, and you can't really judge the size of it, and everything's misleading in space. Or it's winged Bigfoots. According to Unusual Whales, the account on X, Google...

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has now been ordered to sell its Chrome browser and share data and search results with competitors and make a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the Internet. Isn't it weird that Google lost its monopoly on search at the same time its search feature became kind of worthless? Is that a coincidence?

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Like at the same time I decided there's so many sponsored and fake news and the news is just so obviously propagandized that I just stopped using it. I just used perplexity or an AI if I think it's not going to hallucinate. But perplexity doesn't do nearly the things that Google does. So kind of a weird coincidence that just when it wasn't really a product, that's the first time it became illegal.

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Weird. Well, tragically, the CEO of United Healthcare walked down the side in Midtown today, just maybe an hour ago, and was murdered outside of the Hilton Hotel. And I believe the murderer was apparently waiting for him. So it was a planned attack. It was an assassination, not a random thing. And he apparently did die. He was shot multiple times. And the attacker escaped on a bicycle. Yeah.

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So... All right. Maybe we need a little less of this in the comments to quote. Maybe a little less of that, okay? You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, just a little less of that. All right, well, the Daniel Penny trial is still on. I guess the... There's no verdict yet, right? Has any verdict been announced in the Daniel Penny thing? Because it's going on right now.

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Also, caffeine seems to block some kind of dopamine effect when you drink alcohol, meaning that if you were to drink a cup of coffee and then have some alcohol, the alcohol would be less fun. Isn't that weird? Back when I used to drink on weekends... I was sort of a party drinker. I would notice that sometimes I would drink and I didn't feel anything much.

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The verdict, the verdict, is it verdictizing the deliberations? Okay, well, here's the only hint we have. Apparently, one of the jurors asked, or let's just say the jurors asked for, they wanted a little more information. They wanted a second read-through of what is considered justifiable. So they need a better definition of what is justifiable.

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Now, if you knew that a jury of 12 people were asking for a better definition of the most important part of the trial, was it justifiable? Doesn't that tell you that there's a reasonable doubt? How in the world could you go through the entire trial and you're sitting there trying to decide whether this guy goes to prison?

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and you can't decide, the 12 of you can't decide on the same definition of the word that is the most important word to the trial, I feel like that's somebody who's trying to hang the jury. In other words, I feel like somebody's stalling. It feels like a play by a patriot. as in somebody's going to make sure that there's something they can hold on to to claim reasonable doubt.

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I'm going to say hung jury. What do you say? Because I think the people who want to convict him are never going to change their minds because they'd just be racists. And the people who think that the jury itself is racist are not going to change their mind because it's obviously a racist case.

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So I think that you might find people who are willing to be flexible on the argument of whether somebody did a crime. I don't think you're going to find flexibility on whether to be a racist or not. The people who are racists are going to be racist, and that's going to be their vote. They're going to vote against him because he's white.

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And those of you who, those in the trial who recognize it as a racial prosecution are I'm going to say, I don't even care if he did that. I don't even care if he did murder him. If it's a racist prosecution, nope. That's what I would do. I wouldn't even care about the details of the case. If I knew it was only a case because of the race of the alleged, not good enough.

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Yeah, I wouldn't participate in that in any way. So I can't say... I don't have a prediction yet, but I would say the fact that they asked for this specific thing suggests a hung jury to come. So I guess that is my prediction. Hung jury means that they could do it again, so it might not be over. We'll see.

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Meanwhile, Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to the Daily Wire, is totally on Daniel Penny's side. Okay. Thank you, Eric Adams. He said, quote, you have someone on the subway who is responding, doing what we should have done. Perfect way to put it, doing what we should have done. Strongly defended him.

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You know, I don't know if Eric Adams is angling for some kind of a federal pardon, but he's definitely on my good side. So he agrees with Holman about helping to remove the dangerous migrants, and he agrees that we should be able to protect ourselves in his city. Now, he's got some allegations against him that look pretty serious to me, look pretty serious. But, God, I'd hate to lose him.

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And other times I'd have one sip and I'd be like, wow. And I always wondered what was behind that. It wasn't always because I hadn't eaten. It wasn't food. And I always drank exactly the same thing. It was never different. So I wonder... Now I wonder if it's how recently I'd had coffee. Coffee, as you say it.

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I mean, he's the only Democrat who seems to be willing to say what is obvious and makes sense, as opposed to just, you know, team play. But the allegations, pretty serious sounding, so we'll see what happens with that. But I definitely appreciate it, Mayor Adams. No relation. Meanwhile, Southwest Airlines has said it's going to end its DEI employment practices. Another one checked off.

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So good work, all activists. I don't know if that was just Robbie Starbuck or Christopher Ruffo or everybody. I'm not sure how many people were in on that case, but another one falls. California lawmaker. He introduced the most ridiculous bill I think I've heard in a long time. He wants to give admission priority in the form of reparations.

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He wants to give admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University. So he wants to make a change to give admission priority to descendants of slaves in California. Uh, Can I weigh in here a minute? I have just a slight context to note. That has been the current situation for every year I've lived in California, my entire adult life.

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There has never been a single second when a California college did not overtly prefer Black candidates. They always have. Whether you're descended from a slave or not. What are they talking about? Have I been hallucinating the last 30 years of my life that a black candidate who qualifies, has the right qualifications, is largely guaranteed to get into any college in California?

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Let me say that again. A black candidate who has good credentials, did well on tests, et cetera, can get into every college in California. This is the current situation and has been for decades. Do we really need a bill? Now, maybe it's a pushback against the anti-DEI stuff because Trump might do away with that stuff. So if that's what it is, then it makes a little more sense.

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But I think you should be noted that this is the current situation and has been for decades. Well, meanwhile... District Attorney Fannie Willis, some call her Fannie, has to release all of her communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee. ALX is talking about this on the X platform.

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And the thinking is if we find out that Fannie Willis has been coordinating with them, it would look more like a RICO coordinated lawfare situation than if she were just doing her own job and unconnected to anybody at a federal level. What do you think we're going to find? Do you think that Fannie was dumb enough to

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to do something that would be coordinated with the feds that she would have to know could be discoverable at some point for some reason. Do you think any of that would be in writing? I feel like the only thing that might be in writing would be something like, hey, can we have lunch? Or do you have a minute to talk or something like that? I feel like they would be too smart to put anything

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especially a lawyer. If you're an attorney, if you're a district attorney, don't you know not to put any illegal stuff in your messages? That's just sort of, you know, district attorney 101 stuff. So I don't know that we'll find anything, but I'm glad they're looking.

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Maybe if I'd had an afternoon coffee and then I had an early evening drink, then maybe one canceled out the other. Or dehydration. Somebody says dehydration. Maybe. Well, anyway, coffee seems to decrease the dopamine hit you get from alcohol. In another study where they just could have asked me probably, they found that high blood sugar in healthy adults is linked to lower brain activity.

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I love the fact that MSNBC has now completely transformed from being what we thought was a news network that just made us mad because it didn't agree with us all the time to nothing but comedy. So every single day now, I go into X and I look at the clips where somebody on MSNBC is acting stupid. And it's always funny. So today's stupidity There's a compilation by Grabien, G-R-A-B-I-E-N.

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I always see their compilations and I just want to give them a shout out. So somebody, Grabien or Grabien, so I wish I could give them a better plug because they do good work. Some of the best compilation clips that are funny come with this label on it. But in 2019, MSNBC, the compilation is they're talking about whistleblowers. And it sounds like this. I'm making this up.

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It's like, whistleblowers are the heroes of the country. Oh, those whistleblowers. Thank goodness for the brave, brave whistleblowers who are taking a risk to help the country. It's part of democracy. That was 2019. That's when the whistleblowers are saying things they want them to say. What do they call the whistleblowers...

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When the whistleblowers are opposite their interests and whistleblowing on things that are on their team. Well, I've told you that MSNBC is not just humorous, it's theater. And I swear they all act like they're professional actors or actresses in a play. You know how a play is always overacted? Like a movie could be sometimes subtle because the camera can get right in there.

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But if you're in a play, sometimes you go big and it's just a little bit more theatrical. That's what MSNBC did with the whistleblowers. So as soon as the whistleblowers were not positive for their narrative, they all did the same thing. The way they talk about it.

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And then they've got the so-called whistleblowers, what they're calling whistleblowers, or some people that some people are saying are whistleblowers, the whistleblowers, so-called whistleblowers. All right, apparently I don't do a good imitation. So you have to watch it. MSNBC as a humor source is pretty rich. It looks like clown college.

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And then, of course, Scott Jennings continues to embarrass his CNN coworkers by simply being a voice of reason and being good at what he does. So Jennings does the... He's their rare right-leaning Republican type of voice. Now, I give them credit. So, again, I'll give CNN credit. They give a very capable person... who very much disagrees with their panelists full-time. They don't cut him off.

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They let him do his thing, and I very much appreciate it because then it turns CNN into also a comedy show because you have to watch the reactions of the panel when Scott Jennings is laying down the truth and look at all their faces, and they all do this kind of... where their mouth is kind of pinched

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because they're hearing things that just make them look like idiots, but they don't want to break in yet. They're like... So today I saw a clip where Scott used the really technique. Now, this is one I teach you on my live streams. Now, he didn't use the word really, but he used the same technique. The technique is this. When somebody makes a claim that is preposterous,

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Rather than going through all the work of explaining why it's preposterous, you simply restate it and you go, really? So that's what you think. So you think that the president of the United States, with full forethought, stood in front of the American people on video with millions of witnesses and called neo-Nazis fine people. Really? Really? You think that actually happened?

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So that's how it really works. You don't have to even make your argument. You just have to say, really? Because it's embarrassing that anybody would have that thought. So Scott used that about a different technique. He didn't use the word really, but he simply described what they believed and made them agree to it. which was devastating.

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In other words, sugar makes you dumb, even if you don't have diabetes. So if your sugar is high, just higher than it should be, but not diabetes, it's going to take a few points off your IQ. Now, did all of you know that? Because I feel like I've known that for a long time. That sugar, even if you're not diabetic, extra sugar makes you extra zombie. Didn't you all know that?

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He simply described their own opinion and then asked them if they were committing to it. It was just marvelous to watch. Excellent technique. So he was talking to somebody who was talking about the idea of Trump wanting to use the military in the United States. So somebody named McGowan said, I don't want to be bringing back waterboarding. What? Was somebody talking about that?

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Was that on the table? Was somebody talking about bringing back waterboarding? I don't want to be a country that tortures people, especially for the kind of country that's going to be using the military against our own citizens. And then Jones says, somebody named Jones says, we're talking about the American people.

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We're talking about taking up arms against them with the military that's supposed to be protecting them. This is not right. And so you have to watch this clip just to see Scott Jennings' face, where they do the split screen, and you can just see him looking at them when he's saying that they're going to use the military against our own citizens.

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And he's like, you know that the illegal migrants are not our own citizens, right? It's wonderful. It's wonderful. Good comedy. Meanwhile, Biden is in Angola. And he promised to give them a billion dollars in aid for African victims of natural disasters. Now, here's what he says about it. You know, that's the right thing for the wealthiest nation in the world to do. Blah, blah, blah.

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Mr. Biden, I don't know how to explain this to you. Angola has a much higher net worth than the United States. Like, a lot. Like, it's not even close. The United States is $35, $36 trillion in debt. Angola probably also has some debt. A few billion? A few billion in debt? So which country is worth more?

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The one that owes a few billion, more than it has, or the one that owns $36 trillion, more than it has? Angola is richer than the United States, and that's not a joke. They're far richer. They just, you know, it's in a different form. But no, we don't have money to give them. We literally have no money. All we did is move forward by a few minutes the time that we're completely bankrupt.

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We didn't give them any money. We gave them some debt or something, or we created some debt to replace some of their debt, I guess. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson's over in Russia. Doesn't look like he's going to talk to Putin, but maybe he's still trying. But he did interview Lavrov.

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If you don't know who Lavrov is, he is the English-speaking one that you see whenever something about Russia is going on. So he's the mouthpiece for Russia, sort of Putin's guy. So we haven't seen that yet, but it has been recorded.

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Again, this caused a lot of people to be talking about World War III and how close we are to a nuclear confrontation because Russia's doing things that look like they're teasing a nuclear preparation and we're doing things back that look like, you know, if you nuke us, we'll nuke you. And I remind you again. you've never been safer. You're in the safest moment of all of American history.

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Because waiting for Trump, nobody's going to mess around. Nobody's going to mess around while we've got a few weeks before Trump gets there and just sorts things out. Now, even if you say, but Scott, Scott, Scott, Trump is not Superman. He can't make everything go away in a week. Maybe. But at the moment, most people think he can't.

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Most reasonable people think he actually can make most of our problems go away in a week. I mean, he can make DEI go away in a week, right? He could probably get our hostages released. I don't know if he'll do that, but it's within reason that it could happen within a week. And he could definitely. get at least something like a ceasefire and some talks going with Ukraine in a week.

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So if Putin is not insane, then he just waits a little while and gets most of or everything he wants. Why would he nuke us? And why would we nuke them? When if we just wait a few weeks, we'll probably wrap it up and get at least some of what we want. So I remind you, it always looks the darkest before the dawn, as they say. And I get all the things you're seeing, all the scary saber rattling.

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I kind of thought that was common knowledge. But there's a study. If you believe studies. Well, there's an FTC commissioner, according to Reclaim the Net, FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson. he's warned against what he calls pro-censorship advertising cartels.

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But that's just what happens before you do the serious peace talks. So we have never, ever been safer from an intentional nuclear war. An accidental one, I don't know. Maybe there's something that makes that a little more likely. But, yeah, no, we're nowhere near any kind of nuclear war. You can stop worrying about that. You have, like, a million things that are a bigger problem than that.

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That's not the one you need to worry about. I promise you that you will not be nuked between now and January 20th. I don't know about after that. But you're good for now. Well, let's talk about the nominees. So P. Hegseth... Of course, 10 anonymous people say that they think he drinks too much and has some bad behaviors, but they were all anonymous.

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But then I've never seen any one person have more supporters weigh in with their name. Pretty much... Well, I don't know if it's all of them, but a whole bunch of people who worked with him every day, like actually sat on the couch next to him in his segments, worked just the two of them for years sometimes. Everyone who weighed in with their name said these stories are complete bullshit.

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He's totally professional. He's never smelled of alcohol, never looked like he's had alcohol during the job. everybody agrees he's had some drinks at night. He's had some fun, maybe more fun than he wanted to have. But not a single one of his co-workers who know him really, really well for years, not one of them, who gives their name, says any of this is real. And there are

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So let me give you a strong opinion on this. Yesterday I was saying, hmm, how do you weigh 10 or so anonymous accusations? If there were only one anonymous accusation, I'd rule it out completely. If there are 10, you have to at least treat it a little bit seriously.

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But once you have 10 people who are in exactly the right place to observe this behavior, and they say clearly and unambiguously and strongly, absolute 100% bullshit. I think I'm going to go with the Fox News coworkers. So, you know, I don't know them. So I don't have any personal experience. But I would say if given the names and the reputations of the people who backed them,

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I think I'm going to go with them. Now, I can't know everything, so I don't know what's true. But if I had to choose in terms of credibility, the Fox News people who went on the record strongly, including Bongino, ex-Fox News person, I feel like I trust them. So I'm going to say that that should not be the reason that he might not get it.

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In other words, when the advertising groups and entities of the world, when they coordinate to, let's say, put X out of business because they don't like the politics or the messaging, that he's thinking maybe that should be illegal. What part of illegal would that be? I guess it would be for being a cartel and suppressing competition and free speech.

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However, there are several senators who have not committed. Senator Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Curtis, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and John Thune. Does that group of people worry you at all? Is there anything about that group of people that that they have in common. Because Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and John Thune.

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No, I feel like maybe they're trying to protect the defense people more than they're looking to reform things. So I don't trust those senators. And I don't trust anonymous sources.

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But I do trust the people from Fox News and the people who worked with them, including a producer who had tons of exposure and are putting their names, they're putting their own reputations on the line for another person. That's a pretty gutsy thing to do. So I'm going to go with the guts.

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I'm going to go with the brave people of Fox News who said, I'm going to put my reputation on the line and I'm going to back this guy because he's been solid the whole time I've known him. So can't know for sure. That's where I think it's going. However, of course, there's some worry within the campaign, not campaign, but within the future Trump administration.

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And according to just the news and also CNN, people are saying that Ron DeSantis's name has been raised as maybe a safer, easier nominee for secretary of defense. and other names are floating are Bill Hagerty, Senator, and somebody else. Maybe somebody else. Here's my take. Ron DeSantis, have you noticed that he seems capable for almost every job? Have you noticed that?

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When he was running for president, I remember thinking, well, I prefer Trump. But, you know, clearly DeSantis is qualified. When we talk about, you know, being a senator or something, of course, of course, if we talk about him to be the secretary of defense. Yeah, we talk about him if he had been nominated for attorney general. Yeah. Yeah.

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How about if he had been nominated to be the head of the FBI? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think I have to give a shout out to DeSantis for his talent stack because he's got the military, he's got the legal, and now he has the management of being a governor and succeeded on all fronts. He basically succeeded in everything he touched and they were the exact right things to touch.

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So he's got a hell of a good package there. So I don't know. If he became the nominee, I don't think we'd be moving backwards. Maybe Florida would, but I don't think the nominee would be worse. But I also think P. Hegseth, I like his dedication to getting rid of DEI, and I think that's really important. But I think DeSantis would do it too.

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Meanwhile, it looks like California has finally settled all its voting stuff. And four weeks after the election, there's another result, which, oh, guess what? It was too close to call, but they counted until all five of the ones who were too close to call went Democrat. Now the last one just went Democrat. Huh. Five out of five.

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Now, what are the odds that there will be five races when the entire House of Representatives is so close, so close, and all five races, the ones that took a long time, all five went in the same direction? Huh. I'm going to call it rigged. So let me explain this again. Do I know for sure that that was rigged? No. Is there a court case that suggests that anything here was rigged? No.

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So I don't know exactly what count he would get them on, but yes, this is exactly what we need. We need our FTC to say that you can't push somebody out of business with their advertising model, just because you don't like their editorial thing.

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Is it likely that there will be a court case that proves anything was rigged? No. I mean, because the court case probably won't happen. Here's why I say it's rigged. If you act exactly like it's rigged, I get to say it's rigged. Those are the rules. I'm sorry, those are the rules.

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If you do everything to make it look rigged, I get to say, well, that looks rigged to me, and I'm going to treat it that way. So that looks rigged to me, so I'm going to treat it this way. If you can't count the fucking votes in a month, don't expect me to believe the result when it goes coincidentally, coincidentally like the whistleblowers, coincidentally all in one direction. No, rigged. Rigged.

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And I'm sorry, that has to be a firm and undeniable opinion. The truth of it, don't know. But I know if you act like you're rigging it and you're acting exactly like you're rigging it and everything you do looks like it's rigging it, I get to call it rigged. There's not going to be a debate on that because I get to call it what I get to call it and you gave me every reason to call it rigged.

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So I call it rigged. That's my take. Do I know? No. Don't need to. It's as bad as if it had been rigged, even if it wasn't. Because we can't live like this. We can't have races that we don't know who won. All right. Here's the part where you're not going to like me. I know that almost all of you like Kash Patel as a nominee for FBI.

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Part of why you like him is that he's tough and he's experienced and he's loyal to Trump. And you know he's going to go after the worst of the bad guys. I like all of that. He's definitely smart enough. And he has all the right, you know, his brain is in the right direction and everything. But did you know Mediate, which is not a reputable entity,

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But they've got 60 people that apparently are on Kash Patel's enemies list. And I think some of them are, some or most of them are listed in the appendix of one of his books. Now, I'll just read you some of the names. So these are the ones that Kash Patel thinks needs to be investigated because there's enough evidence that they've done some bad stuff. All right.

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Some of these you don't know, but Lloyd Austin, James Baker, Bill Barr, John Bolton, Joe Biden, John Brennan, Eric Ciaramella, Pat Cipollone, James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, James Comey. I'm skipping some names that may be less familiar to you.

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Now, I always thought it would be a big advantage to the advertising companies if all the advertising was blind, meaning that nobody could, nobody could select what advertising is associated with their content. Wouldn't they be better? Because once you got used to it and you knew, oh, here's that terrible advertisement, but it's associated with this content I want to see.

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Mark Esper, Alyssa Farah, Merrick Garland, Stephanie Grisham, Kamala Harris, Gina Haspel, former CIA, Eric Holder, Cassidy Hutchins, Nina Jankiewicz, Loretta Lynch. There's some general, General Kenneth McKenzie. Andrew McCabe. Man, it's a long list. I'm skipping a lot. Ryan McCarthy, General Milley, Robert Mueller, Bruce Orr and Elior, Lisa Page. You remember these names from Russia Collusion.

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But if you'd like to take this experience, which is already wildly amazing, up to levels that nobody can even understand, with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or sign, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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John Podesta, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Jake Sullivan, Andrew Weissman, Alexander Vindman, Christopher Wray, Sally Yates, Adam Schiff. Now, I think every person whose name I read feels like a little bit of Schiff to me. But I told you that I'm not going to tolerate lawfare. I mean, what can I do about it? It's not like I have anything to do about it.

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But I don't have to be in favor of it. I'm not comfortable. I'm not comfortable with the head of the FBI having an enemies list. Nope. Now, if he'd kept this shit to himself... and shared it with the president and said, you know, if you nominate me, I get a long list here, I'm going after them, that'd be fine. I'd actually be fine with that. But they better find real crimes.

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I am not fine with somebody who has an enemies list that doesn't come paired with what they did wrong. If this is a real list, and by the way, the first thing you need to know is that this is from Mediaite. It's not from him, but they say it comes from sources from Cash. So I'll take a fact check on that. If I got any of the facts wrong, let me know.

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But do you want somebody to come in to be the head of the FBI who has a list of people that he's going after? You okay with that? I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no on that. And by the way, I do think that most of the people that I read have a lot to explain.

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But you're going to have to come up with a lot more of a crime before I'm okay putting their names out there and saying that the FBI is going to go after them. Do I believe that he's done his homework? And he has reason to believe that each of them have something to explain. Yes, probably. I think he probably did his homework. But this is not the way to present it to the public.

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The public can't see a list of people first because that looks like Stalin. Show me the list of people. Oh, it's all your enemies. Isn't that coincidence? I'll bet we can find a crime that all of my enemies did. Nope. Not cool. So I'm going to keep my opinion open for a while. Open meaning I'm not closing down the idea of supporting cash for that job. I'm not closing it down.

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I'm saying that I need to know more about this. If in his book, these are the same names in the book, I don't know if this is true, but if the book has, say, a paragraph on each one and a specific list of crimes that are somewhat publicly obviously true, well, then okay. Then it's not really like an enemy's list. It's a description of the situation.

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So I'll wait for that because I don't trust media-ite people to just show me the names and have the right names and that he necessarily agrees with all those names. So I'm undecided on Kash Patel. No, it doesn't matter because they're not going to make the decision based on what I think. But I think all of you guys need to have the same standard.

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But you would know that the person who made the content had nothing to do with the advertising. It was just unrelated coincidence. I feel like we'd be better off if you couldn't control that. But, you know, you'd have to get rid of the Nazi stuff, I suppose. But, you know, if it's just normal advertising, it seems like you should be blind. I'm seeing a lot of people disagree with that.

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I think the standard needs to be that you need to know what the crime is first and then give me the name. But if you give me the name first and I haven't seen the crime yet, I get questions for you before I have questions for the person you're naming. Because you're doing something that bothers me and I know you're doing something that I don't like.

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I don't know about that person you're talking about. I'll listen to it. I'm open to the argument. And I want to say again, there are people on that list that he's targeted that I really think do need to get targeted. Some of them. but I don't know the whole story beyond most of them. So no lawfare, please. That would be my take. You heard that there was a little disruption in South Korea.

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Here's what's funny about South Korea. I always feel like South Korea is held up as an example of a highly functioning democracy and with a really, real good free market and Their economy is amazing, and so therefore their government must be pretty good. Otherwise, they couldn't be functioning so well.

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Well, so their current president declared martial law, but I guess the parliament tried to get in the building to vote it out. The military tried to stop them from getting in, but they climbed over the fence and got in and quickly voted on it. And now the president is obligated to remove it because they voted on it. And the military has decided to say, all right, we're out. We're out.

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You voted on it. You said it's the end. So the military apparently gets some credit for not only keeping some kind of stability, but when there was a democratic process, even though they tried to stop it, it looks like they're just obeying orders at this point and trying to do the right thing. But here's what I didn't know. I saw this list from a few different accounts.

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Insurrection Barbie had it and some others. Here are some of the past presidents of South Korea. Now, I won't mention all their names because you've never heard of them. So there are 13 of them. And all I'm going to tell you is what happened to them. All right. So the first one, Syngman Rhee, he was overthrown. The next one was overthrown. Then the next one was assassinated.

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And I'll just go down the list. Removed by military coup, sentenced to death after his presidency, sentenced to 22 years in prison after his presidency, imprisoned during the term of president number three, blah, blah, blah, convictions, blah, blah. Imprisoned under President No. 3 and sentenced to death under President No. 5, later pardoned and winning a Nobel Prize.

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Impeached, later overturned, investigated for corruption, committed suicide. Arrested for corruption, sentenced to 15 years. Impeached and arrested for corruption, sentenced to 24 years. Recent president, no... Oh, not bad. Sun Moon Jae-in, recent president, no imprisonment. Well, good for you. And then Yunsuk Yeol, must be the new one, the current one. Impeachment Likely.

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Now, look at the state of their government, which looks like a hot mess and always has been. And somehow they're rocking the best economy short of, what, Japan or something? I mean, the stability of their society and their lifestyle and everything. How in the world does any of that work when their government is such a hot mess? Maybe it tells us the government is not part of the solution.

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And so you shall. Apparently we can agree to disagree. All right, I got something you're really going to disagree with later. Wait for that. According to Como News, Ray Lewis says 21 Soros-linked DAs have been replaced. by tough on crime prosecutors since 2022.

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Anyway, I saw a clip on this. You know, we all know that Bernie got cheated by Hillary Clinton when he was running for 2016. But did you know that Bernie won every county in West Virginia? And he won every county. And then West Virginia went to Hillary. Did you know that? Let me say that again. It's a fact that nobody disputes. So there's no dispute.

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that West Virginia, 100% of the counties voted for Bernie, but the superdelegates decided they'd just give it to Hillary Clinton instead. That's the actual real thing that happened while we were all watching. Now, the rules allowed that because they have these things called superdelegates that can just overrule the regular people. But if you have superdelegates...

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then the actual primary is just for show because the superdelegates will decide who the candidate is. So I wouldn't call the Democrat Party a democratic party. The Democrats are more like a, I don't know, some kind of a, I'd call them sort of a face for some large entities that need the government to do what they want them to do. Certainly not democratic in nature.

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Well, if you haven't seen the entire Mike Benz appearance on Joe Rogan, I can't even recommend it high enough. Because a lot of the bad things that are happening that you don't understand is because they're hidden in complexity. the complexity of all the different funded organizations and how they're related and who's on what and who told who to do what and what they want out of it and all that.

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It's amazingly complicated. But Ben's has that exact kind of brain where he can dig into it and explain it to you. And when he does, your head will just explode. And by the way, I don't think there's anything that Mike Benz presents that isn't documented. In other words, he'll show you the official government document. He'll show you their budget. He'll show you their mission statement.

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He'll show you a video of them talking. It's all, none of it's made up. But the basic idea is that the US always has been, well, at least in modern history. We have apparently learned that since we have the most money We don't have to conquer other countries with our military because that's the expensive way to do it.

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If you have enough money, you can just buy enough support to control any country if it's smaller than you. So it doesn't work with Russia. So that's why you end up with a big Ukraine war. But with anybody smaller, we can just bribe them, blackmail them, just do all the CIA stuff that they do, murder somebody, that sort of thing. We can fund the rebels, make sure they have better weapons.

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And my first question was, if 21 Soros linked DAs, Soros linked means he probably was a big part of their funding for their campaign, may have even selected them. How many are left? You know, I always tell you if you know the number without the percentage or the percentage without the number, you don't actually know anything. So this is where I don't actually know anything. Is 21 most of them?

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So I didn't realize that there's a group called USAID which is cleverly named so you think it's something about helping other countries, but the AID has nothing to do with aiding other countries. It's literally an enormous $50 billion budget situation for influencing other countries. And when I say influencing, I mean controlling. I'm not talking about nudging.

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We're talking about just outright controlling them. And the entire intelligence community only has $72 billion. And some people say the $50 billion is understated because there might be other things that contribute to what they're doing. So we have this enormous, enormous expense. There's sort of this black box of bad behavior that's basically a CIA asset to control other countries.

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And I think a lot of these tools got turned back internally because they had to stop anything that was a populist movement. And when you hear Ben describe how the idea of democracy changed from being what you would expect a populist would be, you think Trump is the ultimate... democracy person because he's backed by the most people.

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And it's what the people want as opposed to the big moneyed interests and the elites. That's about as democratic as you can get. People vote for you and you do stuff for people. The Democrats apparently have redefined democracy as supporting democratic institutions. Meaning if you complain about the COVID shot, You're complaining against the healthcare institutions, and that's anti-democratic.

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So anything you complain about that's a function or a department or any part of our democratic process makes you anti-democratic. So when Trump wants to come in and doge the government and get rid of stuff, he's getting rid of departments. But to Democrats, that's the same as getting rid of democracy. Because the Democrats, the democracy is the big organizations.

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That's what's keeping things together. So I'd never heard that framing of it, but it's pretty interesting. And once you learn that the entire Ukraine situation is nothing at all like the news has told you, but rather the entire operation was a way to steal energy. Essentially, the economy of Russia depends on energy, and a lot of it runs through Ukraine.

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So the idea was, this is according to Benz, the idea was that Ukraine also has its own large stores of energy. It's like the third biggest or something, but it's unexploited. So if we could, the West and the U.S., could control Ukraine, They already have the pipelines, but if you could get them also to produce the energy, then you don't need Russia.

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So Russia needed the access and the pipelines in Ukraine, and the U.S. thought, wouldn't it be good if we had the access and the pipelines so Europe could get all of its supplies? But wouldn't it be great if the country that we control, like Ukraine, was the one with all the energy? So you can see why Putin's not going to give up. And you can see why we didn't give up.

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Because it's a trillion-dollar thing, and a lot of the people involved have their beak in it. So people are getting a taste. So anytime you can move a trillion dollars around... You can have all these people who are figuring out how to carve out their billion from the trillion, and they're not going to want to stop it.

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So you should see Ukraine as nothing but an energy deal for a bunch of rich people that might get you killed and got 600,000 Ukrainians killed, maybe the same number of Russians killed, and that the people involved are pretending that this is about something else, you know, national defense and NATO and all that. But really it's about who gets to produce the oil and the gas and collect the checks.

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Or is 21 just the start? So this is either really, really good news or it's almost nothing. Does anybody know what it is? I think it's a lot of them. Yeah, I think it might be the majority of them. And some were replaced by soft on crime, just other non-Soros people, but they might be equally soft on crime.

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And Burisma apparently was key, central to the whole plan of the U.S. controlling Ukraine. And they would boost Burisma to be the main energy company that we would control, and that that was why Hunter was part of it.

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So Hunter then, under this telling, would be an important part of the CIA's mission, and probably there was never any chance he could have gone to jail, whether Biden had pardoned him or not. If he was working for the CIA, I'm pretty sure they would have found some way that he wasn't going to go to jail. because it does look like he was genuinely working for the CIA.

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Now, he was also trying to line his own pockets, and the CIA probably knew that the Biden crime family was a perfect fit for their plans. But, yeah, I don't think there was any chance he was ever going to go to jail. So you just have to listen to those clips. It's the most mind-blowing thing you'll hear.

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According to the Amuse account on X, Trump made a big mistake by agreeing to let the FBI vet his appointees. Now, vetting means checking their background, and that does give the FBI the ability to say or not say things that they find, which gives the FBI a lot of control over whether the nominees go forward. Do you think that that feels comfortable to you?

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The FBI, the very entity that will be most targeted by his nominees, are going to be the ones who tell you who the nominee can be? What? I don't know how that possibly works. So I'll keep an eye on that. But I agree with the Amuse account that that doesn't look good. Let's see.

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According to, speaking of Kash Patel, he noted on a recent video I saw that the January 6th committee, when they took his deposition, he put five government reports into his testimony, and then when he saw what they had later, they had eliminated them. Two of the documents were exonerating, would have exonerated Trump.

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because they involved Mayor Bowser and Pelosi and what they were saying about the National Guard. And basically, you can see that Trump always wanted the National Guard. Trump always wanted peace. No indication that he wanted trouble. In fact, he wanted the opposite. He wanted peace and he wanted to make sure there was enough security.

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And that Bowser and Pelosi may have not been on the same page, meaning it was more their fault than his. And this is why I think all the January Sixers need to be pardoned without regard to how bad their crimes were. Because if you don't know that the government was behind instigating the trouble, and this clearly indicates that there were two people who could have

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could have increased the security to the point where nobody got hurt or fewer people got hurt and decided not to for whatever reason. Don't know yet. Presumably to make it look worse for Trump, but we don't know that. So assuming it's true that the January 6th committee intentionally, essentially altered his testimony by removing big parts of it, That feels jailable, doesn't it?

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I don't know exactly what law that would be violating, but if somebody testifies under oath in an official proceeding and then you decide to hide some of the good stuff, the stuff that would be opposite of your narrative, There must be some law against that, isn't there?

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So I don't have a good picture of this, but I know that the Soros-linked DA in my area got replaced. Pam Price, I think, was her name. So I'm happy about that. All right, that seems like a move in the right direction. According to Hoodline... article by Sandra Hernandez. There's some kind of

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So that's the sort of thing where I don't necessarily want to put the names of the people on a hit list, but you certainly start with the January 6th committee if you're going to be asking some questions as the new head of the FBI. All right. According to... Project Veritas, as I told you, Biden is trying to Trump-proof the administration.

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But there's some guy who works for the EPA, and Project Veritas caught him on a hidden camera. He's saying that they've got an insurance policy against Trump and that they're funneling billions to climate organizations. And he said, quote, we're throwing gold bars off the Titanic. to get the money out as fast as possible.

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Now, do you think that the reason they're trying to get this money out as fast as possible, especially for the green initiatives, is because they want to save the planet and they know they have to hurry. And if Trump gets in there, they won't be able to save the planet. I don't think so. There may be some people thinking that way.

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But no, my guess is that when you have lots of money to throw around, that there are a bunch of Democrats waiting to get their beak wet and get their cut. And if you don't allocate the money, they won't get their cut. So this is everything about getting the cut and nothing about the economy. So it's theft. Not basically, it's just theft. It might not be illegal.

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but I don't see it as anything but theft. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I wanted to tell you today. Besides, have you purchased your Dilbert calendar? There's still time to get it before Christmas. If you order it now, the only place you can find the place to order it is on Dilbert.com. You won't find it online anywhere else.

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Go to Dilbert.com and right at the top, just click on the calendar. It'll take you to the sales page. And I remind you, it's twice as many comics and made in America now. For the first time, made in America. And there are comics on the back of each page in the front. And on the back, there's all the spicy ones that have never been published outside of subscription services.

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So they're going like crazy. So I would make sure that you get your order in so you can make sure you get it by Christmas. You still have time. All right, I'm going to say hi to the local subscribers, all five, how many of you? 847 of you. Thanks for joining, everybody, and I'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place.

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genetic booster gene that has been found that might make your plants grow way faster, like double, twice as fast or twice as big. And it's not fully realized yet, but they've got a pretty good idea that they can make your plants twice as good. And the question that this asks for me is, well, of course, people reject anything that looks like it's unnatural. So you got that problem.

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But at what point could you make indoor farming economical? If you could make a plant grow really fast and really thick and have lots of food in it and taste good and all that, doesn't that make indoor farming, like if you doubled the amount of food you could produce in the same pot? I feel like that gets pretty close to making indoor farming work economically. So maybe that's the big story.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Well, I can't begin to tell you how distracting the memes were when I was doing that. You can keep doing distracting memes when I do the sip, but some of them were extra distracting today. What's happening with Hawk Newsome?

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Who knows? Meanwhile, in battery technology, there's something called a proton battery. So according to the University of New South Wales, I guess they're working on this. And I don't know how you store a proton and turn it into electricity, but the idea is that lithium... is not the ideal battery type for the big industrial network kind of batteries.

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Might work great in your car and in your drone, the lithium batteries. But if you want to have a big one that's for your whole network to provide electricity to buildings, then you might not want lithium. And so some of these other storage technologies might be the way to go. So maybe there'll be a protein battery in your network coming up.

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So I guess Biden is doing all this Trump-proofing of government, trying to spend all their money and tie Trump up in ways that he can't reverse it when he gets in there. And one of the things is he granted protection and secured permanent telework for 42,000 Social Security bureaucrats until after Trump leaves office. Now, what would be the possible reason for even doing that?

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I mean, the ridiculousness of trying to stop the people who just want to get rid of the unnecessary fat in the process, how is that even a Republican or a Democrat issue? You can't let people even look to get rid of the unnecessary people. I mean, Biden, to say that he's the worst president, it just feels like an understatement. He doesn't seem like he's even on our side. Does he?

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He opened the borders. That's not my team. He bankrupted the country with the spending. That's not my team. And now he's not going to let the Doge effort fire people who probably need to get fired. That's not on my team. Started a war with Ukraine for what reasons? Is that on my team? I'm not even seeing Biden doing things that appear to be in America's best interest.

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It's just weird how amazingly bad he is. However, my guess is that there will still be ways to get rid of those 42,000 people. One way would be to turn off their connection to the network. Do you think they can do that? Just turn off their connection to the network and then fire them for not doing their work.

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So they can't fire them for not coming into the office, but they can certainly fire them for not doing their job, right? I mean, did Biden say, no matter what you do, you can't get fired? Well, he didn't say that, did he?

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So all you have to do is turn off their access to the internal systems, just block their things unless they come into work, and none of them could do their work, and then you fire them. So I feel like there's a workaround there.

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Just when you think human beings are as bad as they can possibly be, the Steam network, that's where video games are put on that network to be downloaded and played, Steam, Now there's a video game on there where you can reenact October 7th massacre. And apparently you can be on the side of the massacre people. So you can play Hamas and massacre innocent people.

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That's a video game that was made in the real world. This is actual real thing. Yikes. Now, on one hand, I say the same thing that most of you are saying, which is, yikes, how in the world is that legal and who would want to do that and blah, blah, blah. But it raises a bigger question. Can you make imagination illegal? Because playing the game is sort of an imaginary process.

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Suppose you had virtual reality that... allowed you to do things that would be illegal as a regular person, but it would be fantasy within the virtual reality, such as murdering citizens. You could argue that the Hamas thing was in the context of a larger war or something. But suppose you had a video game that allowed you just to murder innocent people. Should that be illegal?

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How about if it were something that allowed you to engage in what looked like virtual sex crimes, but nobody's involved except you and your imagination? Should that be legal? Well, there's certainly a commercial element to it, which is, are people going to boycott Steam because it's on there and all that? But I don't know if you should ever make anything that's in your imagination legal.

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even if the imagination is aided by some virtual process, as long as it's private, I think I'm in favor of making sure that nobody can mess with your imagination. I don't know that imagining these things make you more likely to do them. It might. If you're, let's say, already have a propensity to violence,

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He's leading the murderer chance against Perry. Of course he is a piece of shit. Of course he is. Hawk Newsome. I once thought he had potential to be a positive force in the world, but apparently not. Well, let's start with the golden age. You want to hear the good news? You probably already heard this, but drinking coffee is good for your liver, according to No Ridge.

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I could see if you played video games with violence every day, it might push you over the edge. The average person isn't going to become violent from a video game. We know that for sure because too many people have played video games. So here's another asshole that I need to get rid of. So here's why you should never say Matt. Scott has no idea about Steam.

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If the game is still there in 24 hours, I'll be amazed. Now, I've used Steam. I've downloaded games from it. And I do understand that it's a commercial process. So anybody in the world understands that if it's still there in 24 hours, it would be pretty surprising. So fuck you for assuming that I don't know something as obvious as that and then making a comment in public about it.

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So how about less reading of minds and less insulting me and maybe have an opinion that's worth a shit? So how about that? All right. It's probably the same troll that I got rid of yesterday. I've noticed that there are some people who would not consider themselves trolls who can nonetheless find the most toxic thing to say on every topic. And I don't even know if they're doing it intentionally.

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I think they are. But, yeah, be a little less toxic. It might be good for you. There are now mysterious car-sized drones over New Jersey for multiple days, I guess, several weeks. Drone swarms, not just single drones, but swarms, they say, over the skies of New Jersey. Can I show you a picture of it? Would you like to see a picture of it? Okay, here you go. There you go. See that picture?

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You got it? Very clear. You can clearly see the drones. And you can tell they're drones because you can so clearly see inside them. You can see that there's no pilot. And you can tell the size of them very easily. No, you can't see anything. The pictures are dots. They're dots against the night sky. Okay. So I think it's kind of obvious what they are. They're not drones, duh.

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Somebody said it had something to do with immigration. But what exactly is he disagreeing about immigration? So the ridiculousness of it, the complete weakness of it, can only be beaten by the fact that apparently his really good friend, who works for him sometimes, was led into the building around the security check And then later he told people he had a gun.

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He was immediately arrested because no guns are allowed in the Senate. But it's a little unclear whether Senator Booker is the one who escorted him in. Because it seems like Booker was probably just at the podium most of the time. Or somebody else did. But I think it was reported as a member of Congress led him in. and led him around the screening. Why does anybody get to go around the screening?

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If you're the security person and a member of Congress says, oh, this is somebody I know really well, we're going to let him go around the screening, I would say to you, isn't that the most dangerous person who came to the building? The one who has a, you know, somebody who is going to take him around the screening? Why would you ever let anybody do that?

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So first of all, I'd probably fire the security people for allowing a member of Congress to take anybody around the screening, especially when you find out later they have a gun. Now, apparently there was nothing dangerous about it, but I mean, he wasn't threatening anybody or anything like that. But that's just crazy.

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Now, do you think that's bigger or is that a worse problem than Mike Waltz fat fingering? Probably. We don't know the exact story. But however, he invited Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally. And then he saw some plans for the attack, which they don't call plans for the attack. I don't know. I think these are both nothings. You know, they both led to nothing. Nobody got hurt.

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It could have been a problem, but it wasn't. So I'm going to treat this, the friend who brought a gun in, I'm going to treat this the same as the Mike Waltz thing. I don't really think, even if Booker is the one who took him around the security, we don't know that, but even if he is, I don't think Booker should be resigning. I don't think Mike Waltz should be resigning. These are just tiny little

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you know, human problems. They were dumb. You know, I'm not defending any of it, but not the biggest problem in the world. Well, meanwhile, CNN and Harry N has some new numbers that are bad for Democrats. So according to a new poll, Quinnipiac, Democrats' opinion of their own, well, actually the entire voters' opinion, of Democrats in Congress is a 21% approval.

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If I showed you a bunch of mathletes, and they were standing next to a bunch of athletes, the athletes probably are going to break their heads a little bit more often, and the mathletes are probably going to be... joining the band and maybe working on the, I don't know, working on some clubs.

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Now this is Democrats in Congress, so it's not about the party of Democrats, just the ones that are elected in Congress. And only 40% of Democrats approve of their own bunch of Congress people. It's the lowest approval on record for Quinnipiac. So even though the Democrats had a good day yesterday in Wisconsin, so they can do their little reapportionment scheme, they're not doing so well.

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By the way, there were also some elections in Florida, some special elections, and the Republicans both won. but not by as much as people thought they would. So everything is sort of suggesting, all the special elections, are sort of suggesting that the Republicans have some weakness whenever Trump is not on the ticket. So that could be a bad signal coming up.

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All right, so yesterday I didn't know during the show that Bill Maher had already had dinner with Trump at the White House. And there's a little bit of feedback. I think Bill Maher's going to talk about it on Friday on his show. That will be interesting. But the dinner was Bill Maher, Trump, Kid Rock, who set it up, and Dana White, who was just there because he's a good dinner date, I guess.

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And I was thinking to myself, how could that not be fun? I mean, just think about it. Bill Maher, Trump, Kid Rock, Dana White. There was no chance that that could be anything but a good time. But here are the little bit of stories we've heard from it. We'll hear more. I think I heard this on Gutfeld, that Bill Maher brought with him a list of insults Trump had said about Bill Maher

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over the years and handed it to him. So what do you think Trump did with it? The list of insults that Trump had used against Bill Maher. What's the funniest thing that Trump could do? He autographed it and gave it back. He signed it. Now, how much do you love that? And how disarming is that?

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So you're Bill Maher, and you're coming in with, okay, these are all the things you said about me, which in itself was kind of a humorous thing to do. But I think Trump topped him by signing it, especially if he hadn't been asked to sign it. It's funnier if Bill Maher didn't ask him to sign it, and he just said, give me a pen. Blah, blah, blah. Oh, that was funny.

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But apparently a good time was had by all they got along and there was a little guided tour of the White House and even the private residence. That's the good stuff. People don't get to usually see that. And then we learned that Bill Maher, the Democrat that he's been forever, has never been to the White House. Even I've been to the White House. There's so many podcasters and

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Republicans of all kinds who have been invited to the White House, generally because the president wants to make sure you're on board and just work the crowd a little bit. But Bill Maher had never been invited. But here's the kill shot. Now, we might hear more about this, but this is what we know so far, that apparently during dinner, Trump asked Bill Maher about Maher's opinion about

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I hate to be all stereotypical, but I'm pretty sure that intelligence is highly correlated with protecting your head. What do you think? Do you think that people of all intelligence levels are equally likely to wear a helmet? To ride a bicycle? It's not been my experience. My experience is the dumber you are, the less likely you'll wear a helmet when you're riding your bicycle.

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Iran and Israel and the Middle East. Now, what I was looking for was the kill shot. The kill shot is where Trump, who has crazy charisma, he can turn anybody in person. You cannot dislike him in person. It would just be so hard. Because in person, I mean, he just glows. I had the experience. You just want to be talking to him. and he never runs out of things to say.

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He always gives you full attention and treats you like you're the only person in the room. But here's the kill shot. Imagine being Bill Maher, and you think of yourself as basically a well-informed political comedian. And then the most powerful and important person maybe in the world, the President of the United States, looks at you and says, what do you think I should do about the Middle East?

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And you might actually have some ideas because you've been thinking about it and you're well informed. I can tell you what happened next because I experienced it. Whatever Marr said, unless he just said a joke, which I doubt, so maybe we'll find out about that later.

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If he gave him any actual advice or entreated it as seriously, like, you know, I think the only thing you can do is this or that, I guarantee you that Trump gave him his full attention, listened to him completely without interrupting, and then maybe commented on his comments or something. Do you know what that does to a person? I had that experience where I've told you this story before.

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It's not really private. When Trump asked me who I thought would be his running opponent the next time he ran, because I saw him in 2018, and I said I thought it would be Kamala Harris, and then he said he thought it would be Biden, so he was right. When the President of the United States asks for your opinion, and then he listens for the answer like he really actually, no joke, in the real world,

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wanted to hear your opinion. The power of that is incalculable. So I expect Bill Maher will try to act like nothing happened. You know, like there are two adversaries who had a good dinner and it was fun, but it doesn't change anything about how he feels or how he's going to act or how hard he's going to be on Trump. I imagine that that's the look we're going to get.

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But I'll tell you, that experience will change you. And that's one of the superpowers that Trump has. He can ask for your opinion, treat you like you're the only one in the room and your opinion matters, and you'll never be the same. You'll never be the same. It will just change you forever. It's like an incredible thing. Anyway, do you remember a while back

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It was in 2020, there was a study that went all over the internet that said that black infants have a lower survival rate if they're cared for by white doctors. How many of you remember that? I remember it. So that would be pretty horrible, right? It's so racist if black infants didn't do as well if they had white doctors. So guess what happened?

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Turns out somebody looked at the data and found out the data was maybe not so reliable, and here's why. There was a little bit of a selection bias. It's so bad. Science is so terrible. Here's what the selection bias was. There are more white doctors in the specialties department where you go to those specialties because somebody might die.

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So the white doctors were in the sort of dangerous jobs, more of them, there were more of them, so that it looked like when you went to a white doctor, you'd have bad outcomes. But you would only go to those specialists who just happen to be more staffed by white doctors if you were already in dire trouble. Right. So it might be the oncologist or, you know, heart surgeon or something like that.

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So all it was was they didn't select an equal set of black doctors and an equal set of white doctors. The white doctors were more often in specialties that involved more dangerous kinds of situations. And that's all it was. And once you corrected for that, the difference kind of went away. Now, even if you didn't know that,

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What was the credibility you should have given the study from day one, as soon as you heard it? The answer is none. From the first time you heard it, without even knowing what the problem was, you should have said, oh, it's one of those. Here's why. Half of all these studies, half, are not reproducible, meaning that it's a coin flip, whether it's real or not. Even if it's peer-reviewed,

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there's a 50% chance it's not reproducible, meaning it was never valid in the first place. Now, if the question is sort of a yes-no, which this is, do the black babies do as well if the doctor is a different race? Yes or no, right? It's like a coin flip. It's yes or no. Under those conditions, when the studies themselves are only 50% reliable...

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What is the difference between doing a study and not knowing if it's reproducible and flipping a coin? Because it's just going to be yes or no, heads or tails. And the answer is there's no difference. There's no difference between that study, even if you didn't know that it was flawed. At the start of it, you should have said, well, that means nothing. Now, it could become meaningful.

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Anyway, I thought that was funny. Well, the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections didn't go the way a lot of Republicans wanted it to go. So the Democrat Crawford won, which means that there will be likely some reapportionment, which means Wisconsin will subtract some Republicans and add some Democrats to the House, which means the Republicans could lose the majority in the house.

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Let's say if the study were reproducible. That would mean something. Suppose other people did studies in the same domain and got similar answers. Well, now you have my attention. You know, as long as it's not all being funded by one kind of entity that has a horse in the race. But no, when you first hear a study like this, it's just a coin flip. It means nothing. Here's another one.

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Lab-grown meat. I saw this on the internet today. Lab-grown meat, potentially worse for the environment than retail beef. So this is told to us by an account called No Farms, No Food. So it's an entity that is sort of pro-farm, which means... probably not pro-lab-grown meat.

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And they say an interdepartmental study from the University of California concluded that lab-grown meat may be up to 25 times worse for the environment than natural pasture-raised cattle retail beef. Now, here's the first tell that something's amiss. The poster that's ProPharm did a screenshot instead of a link. So if I wanted to click and see the details of the study, couldn't do it.

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So that's your first, you know, that's a little signal there. Secondly, we don't know who funded the study. Was it Big Meat? I mean, who else would fund it? Was there anybody else even going to look into it? I don't know. So if you don't know who funded it, you should ignore it. And then again, you have to put it into the context of the studies being 50% false anyway. So I don't know.

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I don't know if any of that's true. But it's low reliability. Speaking of low reliability, Catherine Herridge and a number of other people reporting about the, I guess we have some new information about the internal deliberations at the FBI during the time that the Hunter laptop story was breaking.

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And the news is that the FBI knew that it was real, but they just shut up and told everybody to shut up about it. Now, did you have the same experience with this story that I did, if you already heard it? Didn't we already know that everybody in the government was lying about the laptop and that they knew it was real? I had trouble figuring out what was the new part. Maybe I just assumed it.

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Didn't you? Is there even one person listening who thought the FBI thought that that was fake? or the Department of Justice or those 51 Intel people who said it looked like Russian craft or something like that. I didn't think that there was anybody who thought that was real. I didn't think there was anybody who thought it was anything but real.

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I thought we knew everybody in the government was lying in every capacity, in every place, including the FBI. But I guess Catherine Herridge is going to do an expose or a deep dive with Michael Schellenberger. I don't think they've worked together before, so this could be interesting.

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And so they got newly released FBI chat messages, and basically people were told to stand down and shut up about it. But again... Why does it feel like... It feels like I saw the future or something, right? Because I kept reading it and thinking, didn't everybody know this? Didn't everybody know the FBI was lying if they were involved at all? I don't know.

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Stop acting... Stop acting surprised that the FBI lied to you. Well, the New York Times... has inexplicably written a very long story about the US involvement in Ukraine. I guess this was yesterday or the day before. And it kind of reveals what all of us already knew again. So this is like the same thing I said about the last story. Didn't you already know that the U.S.

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was deeply involved in creating the situation that caused war in Ukraine. But now the New York Times is revealing to us through their investigation that yes, the U.S. was very involved. But what they were keying on here is that the targeting information was coming from U.S. people at a German military base And even General Milley was directly involved in planning for the Ukraine military.

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Now, I don't know how close it is to guaranteeing that that will happen. How close are we to guaranteeing that we lose the majority or Republicans lose? Is it just very likely or is it guaranteed now? Cause I think it happened, but let's talk about why that happened. Why the heck did that happen? Um, According to The Hill, they say that Elon Musk might be toxic to elections.

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And there were even troops on the ground, U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine, presumably advising, but I would think helping with targeting, and I would think helping tell people which button to push on the weapons, if they're American weapons. And so again, I asked the question, Didn't we all know that? Is there anybody who's watching this who didn't know that there must have been U.S.

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military people sort of embedded with the Ukrainians from day one? I just thought everybody knew that. So now it's a big story in the New York Times and people are like, what? But seriously, in the comments... didn't you all know that we had boots on the ground from day one? Because that's the way everything works. You don't have to know about Ukraine.

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You just have to know anything about the United States. And anything about the United States would tell you, of course we had people pretending not to be our military, who are our military. Might have been CIA, might have been just special forces or something. But they just take off their outfits, dress like Ukrainians, which I guess dress like Americans. And they're just training them.

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Maybe they're just training them. This is the least surprising story of all, but there's some speculation, I saw Jack Posobiec talking about it, and that the New York Times might be trying to maybe cover their own asses or get ahead of the fact that there will be more coming out so it doesn't look like they didn't do their job. So I don't know. So apparently the U.S.

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has been directly involved in a war with Russia the entire time, which again, I thought everybody knew it. None of you are surprised, right? It's just how we operate. Anyway. So now that there are multiple offers for TikTok, Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump is going to be briefed on all the offers and make some kind of a decision. But here's my question. Isn't it up to China?

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If China says you can't sell it, or TikTok says it, but really, we would imagine that China was behind it. And I don't think China is going to sell it. So if I had to predict, I think that China would eat the billions of dollars of revenue that they could have made, 50 billion or whatever it is, because a lot of that would go to the investors. It wouldn't go to China.

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If you were China and you knew you were going to lose control of TikTok in America anyway, just America, would you sell it? if you thought you had a little money involved, maybe a billion here or there? Or would you just say, no, we'll just go into business in America and just sell it everywhere else? I think China's not going to approve the sale.

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So I think Trump is going to have to kill TikTok, which China would be challenging him to do, because you know how unpopular that would be? That would be super unpopular because even Trump has said he's pro-TikTok.

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So I think that China is going to want to corner Trump and put him, especially during the tariff situation, they're going to want to corner and embarrass Trump by saying, hard no, we're not selling it. So if you want to put it out of business, that will be you, Trump, putting it out of business.

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So explain that to all the small businesses who go out of business because they lose their TikTok access. It would be a nightmare. So I feel like Trump may have accidentally walked into a trap that he set himself. How in the world does he get out of this? So that's my prediction. China will be a hard no on the sale, and they'd rather embarrass Trump into being the one who kills TikTok.

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I think that's where it's heading. Apparently in New York State, there was some kind of a big strike by the corrections professionals. And so there won't be enough or there are not enough people to operate the jails. So what they're going to do is release a whole bunch of prisoners, not

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not the most dangerous ones, but they're going to release some massive amount of prisoners that should be in jail just by saying they don't have jails. They don't have a staff to manage it. So I guess the corrections officers have been on strike since February. They don't like the forced overtime and tough working conditions, to which I say, why did you Why did you ask for a job in a prison? Why?

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Charlie Kirk says that the low propensity voters, a lot of low propensity voters voted for Trump. But if Trump's not on the ticket, are they really going to show up for a local election? That might be part of it. I think a lot of it is that the Democrats had nothing else going for them.

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Why? Imagine asking for a job in a prison and then complaining about the difficult working conditions. What did you think it would be? Like when you decided to work in a prison, did you think you'd have a nice cubicle and a window view? It seems to me that job would be the hardest job of all jobs, and also the most dangerous. So I certainly understand why they'd go on strike.

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I just don't understand why they'd take the job in the first place. Well, meanwhile, Project Veritas has a new undercover video involving the NASA and the State Department. in which the employees are saying that they're not getting rid of DEI, they're just rebranding it, and they're gonna defy Trump's orders on DEI being illegal.

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So they said they canceled their DEI stuff, but people just did it and called it something else. They work around the rules. What do you think's gonna happen? Do you think that the Department of Justice, I guess it would be them, Pam Bondi, would come after them when the undercover investigation shows that they were just lying and they were just continuing to racially discriminate?

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At what point do you go to jail for it? Because it's illegal. If you're doing a scheme so that you can continue illegally discriminating against white people, is there no jail for that? At what point is it jailable? Maybe is it a civil, you get sued for it? You lose your funding? What exactly is a penalty for that? Because if there's no penalty, nothing's going to happen.

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But apparently racism is very important to NASA and the State Department, at least parts of it. Well, according to The Hill, Tim Walz's daughter has decided not to go to grad school. It turns out the daughter might be as dumb as Tim Walz. So listen to her reasons for not going to grad school. And she announced this on TikTok.

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that she's not going to go to grad school because she says there's a lack of support, at least in the school that she wanted to go to, for the right to protest at higher education institutions. She said, I applied for one school. I kind of had my heart set on it.

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I'm not going to name the institution, but given the recent events, I'm not going to give my money, go into debt for or support institutions that do not support students and the right to protest and speak out for their communities. So that's why she's not going to graduate school? So she's destroyed her own career because she thinks she doesn't have free speech on a college campus?

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I'm not entirely sure this was about free speech, was it? I thought it was about gross anti-Semitism. Was anybody complaining about free speech? Because I don't know that free speech protects you from a level of anti-Semitism that pretty much guarantees there's going to be violence attached. I don't know. Tim Walz's daughter? I don't think you made a good decision.

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So they had this one thing that if they could find this clever way to sort of beat the system, that they wouldn't have to act like they live in a democratic society. They'd rather live in a lawfare-driven kleptocracy or something. So they found this little weaselly way to win if they could put all their energy into it. But they didn't have anything else to put energy into. They had no policies, no

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Well, let's check in with the Department of Imaginary Concerns. As you know, Democrats have a lot of drama and a lot of imaginary concerns. So we're going to check in on those. Imaginary concern number one, Elon Musk is not elected. That is an imaginary concern. Now it's true, he's not elected. You know what else is true? There are only two people in the executive branch who are elected. Just two.

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But I haven't given you the percentage yet. Remember, number within a percentage is misleading. But there are about 2.4 million federal government workers. I think those are just within the president's domain. So of the millions, let's just say a few million, of the millions of workers, only two of them are elected. The rest are appointed, or in some cases, Congress had to agree.

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But the vast majority of people who work for the executive base, the vast majority, like 99.99999% are all unelected. So the unelected claim is both true and But it belongs in the domain of the imaginary concerns. We'll put that with things that could have happened but didn't. Anyway, here's another one.

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There's a Yale professor who said, I think this was on MSNBC, they were interviewing a Yale professor who's gonna leave the United States for Canada because he fears that Trump is implementing fascism and he wants to highlight it, make a point. So he's a professor of fascism. So he's a scholarly expert on fascism. Now what happens if you're a scholarly expert on fascism? Do you notice a lot of it?

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Yes, you do. What would happen if you were a scholarly expert on ghosts. Would you see more ghosts than other people? Yes, you would. Suppose you were a scholarly expert on narcissists. Do you think you'd see more of them than other people? Yes, you would. You'd see them everywhere. So whatever you're the scholarly expert on, you're just going to sort of be primed to see it everywhere. But

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What examples do you think are there? Because you've been hearing it too, right? Trump's a fascist, Trump's a fascist. What exactly are the examples? So I went to Grok to find out what Trump is doing specifically that his critics would call fascism. And here's what Grok told me fits under that category of fascism.

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And what I want you to look for is this the sort of thing that looks like confirmation bias, meaning if you were the Yale fascism scholar expert, you could interpret all of this as fascism, but if you were not fucking crazy, you could interpret it as just ordinary stuff. So the first indication that Trump is a fascist is his America First policy.

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If you happen to be the Yale fascism scholar expert, well, that's a pretty big signal that you're going to be a fascist. If you were a normal person who's not bad shit crazy, you'd say, oh, you mean like every country does? Is there a country that doesn't put themselves first? Well, maybe Great Britain. Maybe France and a little bit of Germany at that point.

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But don't you think that countries in general should manage their own situation first with an eye to the fact that they have to work productively with other countries? So taking care of America first and doing things like making sure that our tariff situation is at least reciprocal? Is that what makes a fascist? Only if that's how you're primed.

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no ideas, but they sure like this idea of reapportioning so they have power. So some of it has to do with the fact that nothing else was happening, and so they could put all of their hopes and dreams and energy into this one little Weasley thing. And I'll tell you, Democrats love Weasley shit. It's like, lawfare? Sign me up. Reapportion to win? Absolutely.

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If you're not primed to see it, it just looks like ordinary, the most obvious ordinary thing that the president has the country in mind first. Here's another one. Trump pardoned the January Sixers. which would suggest that he is in support of violent insurrectionists. But that's just a media narrative. It's not true. What's true is it was a protest. It's not true they were insurrectionists.

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So if you believe they were insurrectionists and you pardon them, well, I could see how you might think, oh, that's a little too far. But if you happen to know that the media and the Democrats cooked up this horrific scheme to hunt and jail Republicans, then you would say, oh, well, this is just justice. What part of justice is fascism?

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And has not Trump also pardoned over time a lot of other people who are not a bunch of white Republicans? He has. So looking at pardons, because pardons are always sketchy. Every president who does pardons does at least a few that you say, what? So pardons, I think that's a crazy standard. How about strict immigration policies?

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Again, this is from Grok, trying to give you examples of how Trump is a fascist, or his critics would say it. Grok is not saying it. Strict immigration policies. That's just common sense. That's literally just protecting your country from what? Criminal Venezuelan gangs and degradation of the workforce in the United States, or at least the pay for it.

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How in the world does that fascist do not let other people come in and take your stuff? Then Grock says, Trump has a, He has a rhetoric that talks about toughness, like break those heads and we might involve the military to do this. But that's just talk. And it's just how it gets reframed. If you said to yourself, that's just how he talks, it means nothing.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine dinner of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. So good. Well, you probably heard by now, actor Val Kilmer has tragically died at age 65 from pneumonia in Los Angeles.

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If you say to yourself, well, the only people who talk like that are fascists because you're the Yale fascism scholar expert, Well, then suddenly it looks like something, but it's so thin. Then about Trump makes attacks on the media. So this is on Grok's list of why Trump's critics call him a fascist. Attacks on the media.

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Well, if you thought that the media was fair and honest, then attacking it would look a little fascist. And do you think that the Yale fascism scholar expert believes that CNN and MSNBC, he was actually appearing on MSNBC. He was appearing on MSNBC and didn't notice that the entire media landscape is so biased that attacking it is just common sense.

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Because they're, in many cases, just completely lying. And there are plenty of examples where the media just ran schemes, that they ran plays against Trump. And they knew they were doing it. We know they knew they were doing it. So attacking the media makes sense if the media is worthy of attack. And boy, are they. And then Grok says that on Twitter, Trump allegedly praised Hitler.

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Okay, I don't need to tell you that never happened. But there it is. That's what Grok says. No, that never happened. And then they're saying that Trump made racist stereotypes of prosecutors. Did he? I think the racist stereotype, if he did anything, was that there's a coincidence to the type of people who were coming after him. which we all noticed, which is not a racist stereotype.

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It's more a complaining about people being racist against him. And then the summary is that Trump likes nationalism, suppression of dissent, and authoritarian government. Suppression of dissent? What part was that? Attacking the media? Yeah. The media are liars. It's suppression of misinformation, maybe, by arguing back. And authoritarian government? What makes it authoritarian versus effective?

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So it's all trickery, trickery and schemes. So, but do you think Elon Musk is toxic to elections and that that might lead to the midterms? Do you think the midterms will go poorly because of Elon? Well, that might, the interesting part is that he'll be done with his role. It's supposed to only last 130 days, so he'll be done, I don't know, for the summer or something.

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Where's the line between getting stuff done and being an authoritarian? Does the authoritarian ask Kid Rock and Bill Maher to go to dinner? It seems to me that this is one of those framing hypnosis cult situations where if you've been trained to see the world through the eyes of everything's fascism or it's not, then you could sort of talk yourself into it.

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But no, the evidence is purely open to interpretation, and I don't see it. But once you're a ghost hunter, you're going to see a lot of ghosts. According to the Daily Signal is writing, Tyler O'Neill, that Tesla owners not connected to Doge, just people who own a Tesla, are acceptable victims according to 31% of Democrats.

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So roughly a third of Democrats in a poll said that attacking people who simply owned a Tesla... which would include, you know, probably half of them are Democrats or leading Democrat, that they would be acceptable targets. Now, remember I told you that Democrats are basically the thieves and they're looking to take things from people who have things. That includes Democrats who have things.

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So if anybody has nice things, you're going to find a lot of Democrats who are willing to take it away. And I don't think it goes deeper than that. So I think that probably 31% of Democrats can't afford a Tesla. So if you say to them, hey, how about these people who can afford a Tesla or even just afford a car? What do you think of them?

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And they're like, ah, I think they should be victims just because I don't like Elon Musk. But really... Is that the reason or is it just because they can afford a nice car and you can't? So that's crazy. I think in general that people who don't have money are in favor of violence against people who do. Do you think that's a good generalization?

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People who don't have money and don't expect that they're going to make any in any legal way are going to say they're going to be open to violence to take money from the people who have it. Because everybody wants more money, and if you can't figure out a way to make it yourself, maybe you'd rather take it from people.

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I had the experience of going from a low-income situation to a high-income situation, and I can tell you that while I thought my character was improving and my morality as I got richer, I eventually realized I was protecting my own class. I became really anti-crime when I had money that people could steal from me.

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But when I had nothing and I saw somebody maybe ripped off a rich person, it didn't bother me a bit. Is it because I used to have low character and then I developed a conscience and higher character and morality and ethics? No. No. probably just made more money and then joining the people who said, you shouldn't attack people who have more money because they earned it themselves.

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So the difference, I think, with Republicans who don't have money and Democrats who don't have money is that Republicans who don't have money are more likely to think, but I could have money if I worked harder and did all the obvious things that people do to make money. So they're not thinking... I want to steal things and go to jail. They're thinking, how do I work harder? Where's my mentor?

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Where do I get a foot in the door so I can make something of myself? I think the Democrats are more likely to think that the system is rigged and they need some reparations or they need some, basically they need the government to take money from the rich and give it to them. And whether you deserved it or worked for it, none of that matters. They just don't have money. Other people do.

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So they're trying to figure out ways to get it. And if you can make the government be your criminal enterprise, which is what Democrats have done, you notice that Democrats have turned the entire government, through USAID and all the NGOs, they've turned the entire thing into a criminal organization to take money from the people who have it and give it to themselves.

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and he thinks he can get his trillion dollars of savings before he's done now if he does that if he succeeds and you know the major news sources agree that okay he did he did find a trillion dollars didn't think he could do it will that still make him toxic well Maybe. But it seems like after he's no longer working on the government, isn't it going to be harder to say it's his fault?

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In many cases, they're rich and they're still doing it. So there's that. Anyway, here's a story that sounds like you've heard it before, but it's actually just a third one like it. There's yet another law firm that Trump went after because they had been involved in investigating the January 6th attacks and some other stuff. And see, this one is called Wilkie Farr and Gallagher.

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So Trump was getting ready to go after them, but they cleverly got ahead of it. And they said that they'll provide the equivalent of $100 million in pro bono legal services for causes the administration supports. Now, this is the third major law firm to offer a gigantic pro bono, essentially bribe. Could you call it a bribe? They don't call it a bribe. Let's not call it that.

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But here's my question. So pro bono means that nobody would have to pay for it and they would do $100 million to in legal services for Trump-related or Republican-related areas. Now, here's my question. Do they put the top lawyers on that kind of pro bono work?

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Are you going to get the A-plus players, or are you going to get the lawyers that maybe won't make it with the law firm, and they're junior? Well, we can say we tried, but Yeah, we put our lawyers on it and we did not prevail, but I'm going to call that $10 million of legal service. And nobody's really going to check that it was really $10 million of legal service.

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And they will burn through that $100 million commitment in no time at all. And they will probably not win a single case. They'll somehow, you know, like, you know, it seems to me that the odds of them giving the A team to the pro bono work for the other side is really low, really low. So I'm not so sure that this is a real victory, but it's fun.

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All right, here's a question that I can't wrap my head around. It doesn't seem like that long ago we were talking about China was in terrible trouble because their demographics are bad. They don't have enough young people. They're full of bureaucracy and they can't get anything done.

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They might have a lot of debt and they build a bunch of cities that they're just knocking down because it was a waste of money. And they're stretched kind of thin everywhere and they're getting ready to collapse at any moment because the U.S. is moving its manufacturing out of there, etc. On the other hand,

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It seems like the United States doesn't know how to make anything, and China has entire industries of people that they've trained in the art of making stuff. So if you wanted to build a manufacturing facility in the United States, you'd have to find somebody who knows how to do that, and there aren't that many, compared to China, where I think it's a major industry.

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And you've got all these armies of trained engineers and everything else who just know how to build a manufacturing plant. So how do you compete with that? We've got our kids who can barely read. Every time there's a new report coming out, it's worse. So China is educating its kids. We're not. It feels like we stopped being able to invent things.

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Only a few things have come out recently, mostly AI, but China's AI seems to be cheaper and open source. So if they keep their AI almost as good and cheaper and open source, how do our big companies that we think are the jewels in our crown, how do they even survive? How would ChatGPT survive if it's competing against just as good and almost free? I don't know how.

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And I don't think that China's going to suddenly start charging for AI, or at least charging more. Suppose there's a war. The smart people, I think Naval said this recently, Whoever has the most drones that are, you know, at least good enough to be in military, whoever has the most drones is going to win every war because they're going to be all drone wars.

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Because the actual cuts are going to be made by cabinet heads and group leaders who are in the government. So are you really going to blame Doge or Musk If they get a trillion dollars and every one of the cuts, every one of them at this point would be approved by people who are at least, most of them I think had to be at least approved by Congress before they can get in their job. I don't know.

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And whoever has the most is going to win. How in the world are we going to have more drones than China? China will instantly go to complete military dominance because it can manufacture drones. They can just make drones all day long and they would have rare earth minerals and they would have everything they needed. They wouldn't need anything from anybody. So that's crazy.

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So here's what I can't tell. Is China in trouble? Do they have debt problems and population problems and bureaucracy and they can't get anything done? Or have they become this competitive monster that we'll never be able to match militarily, technologically, or manufacturing-wise. And if we can't match them as an economy, then eventually they will...

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dominate us, and it seems like there's nothing we could do about it. I saw a post by Hotep Jesus on X, and Hotep Jesus is funny because he says things that you're not supposed to say in public, very provocative things. And I don't have an exact quote, but I think he said something like, if you're not expanding your empire, somebody is going to basically expand onto you.

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So you don't have a choice of just staying the same. In this world, that's just not an option. You can be growing and growing your empire, or somebody else is going to grow their empire and take yours. Those really are the only two choices. Because if you look at any civilization that was thriving... they were usually conquering at the same time, whether it was Rome when it was growing.

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China right now is looking to conquer. It's already conquered, what, Tibet, and now it's going to conquer Taiwan. It's already conquered Hong Kong. So China's growing, and it's looking to dominate the oceans around China. It's expanding. Russia is expanding. It got bigger and in a pretty important way. And we don't know. I mean, it doesn't look like he's done. He just added more people.

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He just just increased the size of his army substantially. Putin did. And then the United States were looking to pick up Greenland and maybe something about Panama. and maybe even Canada. So when you see Trump overtly trying to expand, don't feel like that's a risk to the United States. Think about it in terms of there are only two ways that big countries can go.

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They can keep expanding or they die. Somebody else expands onto them. So you know, maybe Europe is the only place that's operating the opposite and it looks like they're doomed, right? So I don't see anybody in Europe who's trying to expand their country. Instead, they're looking to give it away through mass migration.

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So you should be able to predict that Europe is doomed and that the U.S., Russia, and China are still expansionist countries, and we might come to blows with each other. I think we'd be smart enough to avoid world wars, but those are three healthy competitive situations if we don't go broke from debt. Anyway, Russia says it won't accept the U.S.

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ceasefire proposal because it doesn't give them what they want. which is no NATO in Ukraine and something else. Some kind of security guarantee. No, what is it? What is it? They want to, I don't know, consolidate the land that they've already gotten and make sure that there's no NATO and blah, blah. But I'm going to go further. I don't think that Putin's going to say yes to any deal.

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So I hate to predict this, Because I would have, well, I did. I predicted that Trump could wrap up the Ukraine war fairly quickly because I thought to myself, well, he's just going to say there's an obvious deal to be made. Russia keeps what it already got. Ukraine doesn't join NATO. But as it's shaping up, I think I'm going to bet against any kind of a peace deal.

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It could feel completely different in six months. Just the fact that you don't see his face associated with it all the time.

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I wouldn't bet that we'll necessarily stay supporting Ukraine, which maybe isn't the worst thing that could happen. So I'm going to say that there's not going to be a Ukraine peace deal. And I don't think Putin wants it. I don't think Zelensky wants it. I don't think the European Union wants it. But the U.S. wants it. So I think we'll just bow out.

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I think maybe we might sell weapons to people who want to buy them, but I think Europe's going to have to cash the check. So yes, no peace deal in my opinion. It doesn't look like anything's pointing in that direction. According to Tech Explorer, there's this new EV battery breakthrough that you could charge 500% faster, even in sub-zero weather. University of Michigan engineers have it.

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And apparently it's working so well that it's already being commercialized. So we might see that. If battery-driven cars... didn't have the cold weather problem, and you could also charge them 500% faster, that's a big deal. Now, I will tell you that I do see a battery breakthrough story every single day. But they all start sounding the same, so I stop reporting on all of them.

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And the main thing is, when it comes to Democrats, I saw Dr. Insensitive Jerk on X saying that you won't understand Democrats until you understand that they're thieves and they like letting people into prison and they like prisoners having freedom because they relate to the thieves. That's pretty harsh. But it does seem a little bit like when you show them a... Let's put it this way.

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But the battery stuff is really interesting. It's really interesting. All right, here's on Andrew Huberman's show, Huberman Lab. He had an expert on who said that if a mom has diabetes, the risk of an autistic child doubles. If the mom has obesity, the risk of having an autistic child doubles.

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And if the mom has diabetes and obesity, which often go together, it would quadruple the risk of the autistic child. Now, I don't know if I'm fully believing that yet because that would fall into the somebody did a study, but I don't know.

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But first of all, it doesn't match any of my anecdotal experience because every time I think of somebody who had an autistic kid, I don't really think of them as being overweight, right? And I don't know that they had diabetes. So I haven't really seen it. It's not like something I've noticed or anything like that. So I'm a little skeptical of this one.

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But if it's true, it might be at least part of the puzzle of why there's so much of it lately. And it wouldn't surprise me if diabetes and obesity created a whole bunch of health problems that you didn't see coming. So that part sort of makes sense. But I don't know if I'm quite buying into that it might be a big part of the answer. I don't know. I'm a little skeptical.

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But it could be that there are multiple reasons, and they're all environmental and or health, and it'll be hard to untangle it. Meanwhile, according to HR Dive, Emily Shumway is writing that Judge says that IBM must face the discrimination claim from the white male worker who believes that he was fired because he was white so that the bosses could make room for their diversity goals. And

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Let me just read this part. The plaintiff alleged that IBM's CEO set specific percentage targets for the racial and gender composition of IBM's workforce. Now, I know that's true because I've seen video of the CEO saying exactly that. And then IBM implemented a system of financial incentives... to reward executives who work to achieve those targets, the DEI targets, according to the lawsuit.

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And the IBM CEO suggested that executives who did not make progress on getting that diversity they wanted could be penalized or be fired or have their pay reduced. Now, this is the goal versus system problem. As a goal, a little extra diversity might be just positive. As a goal. But you have to develop a system to make it happen.

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The system that he developed, IBM's CEO, guarantees that there would be massive discrimination against white people. Why? Follow the money. He created a a massive financial interest in discriminating against white people and trying to make it look like it didn't happen.

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So suddenly this guy who had been getting good reviews suddenly gets put on a performance improvement plan, which is sort of the last thing they do before they fire you, so that they would have some paperwork, allegedly, they would have some paperwork that would support the firing the white guy.

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Because every time you fired a white guy and replaced them with a non-white guy, you would make more money. Or to put it the other way, the more successful you were discriminating against your white workforce, the less risk there would be that you would get fired, which is all about money too. So how in the world does the CEO of IBM

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not understand how money is an incentive and he didn't realize that people would massively break the law as soon as money was involved because they could pretend they weren't doing it it wouldn't be hard to pretend right uh i know uh carl was doing a inexplicably bad job Autism Capital is saying that Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says she will not impose reciprocal tariffs on the U.S.

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I'll need to know more about that. But today is going to be fascinating. So if the stock market turns green today, and it might, it would be because a few countries, it wouldn't take many, decided to play ball with Russia. I'm sorry, play ball with the tariff situation and just be reasonable and come up with something that makes sense. So maybe that's what Mexico is doing.

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Maybe that's what Israel did, although they didn't have much tariffs. So we'll keep an eye on that. I think there is a real good chance that the stock market will end up in positive territory by the end of the day. All it takes is a little bit of a trend. The countries are looking to avoid the economic war and make something work. It wouldn't take much. Maybe two or three countries and...

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It seems to me that Democrats are about transferring wealth from people who made it, and Republicans are about creating wealth. So you've got one party that creates wealth, and that's their main thing, and one party that wants to just take it away from them. I don't know how that... How could that even be a thing? But it feels like that's what it is.

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Stock market's going to love it. So we'll see. Oh, but I think Trump's announcement will be after the market closes. I'm not sure. Yeah, so we'll see. All right, so IBM's got to figure that out. Elon Musk is getting a lot of attention for saying he posted an X. As I mentioned several years ago, It increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.

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Now, of course, he's 100% right. It's just an analogy. It's not like you have to buy into the analogy. But here's what I think. The reason that Elon Musk says we need to be an interplanetary species is is that if you stayed on Earth, eventually you would be destroyed by a meteor or the sun burns down or something. So the only way humans can survive is if they're interplanetary.

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And even that seems like a risk because, you know, I mean, Mars might get destroyed before the United States and before we find a third planet because it's not like there's a bunch of other planets. But suppose there was some kind of gigantic risk to all life on Earth. Would that risk be equal to the AI?

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Could you launch a rocket that just takes the best AIs and puts them on there and has solar panels and the AI just lives forever as a digital entity that's superintelligence. So it could be that you need the biological entities, we humans, for a brief period of time just to get superintelligence going, which could last forever, potentially.

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Could last through suns burning out and everything else, whereas the biological parts are unlikely to survive as easily for millions of years anyway. I think you're fine this week. I don't know. I agree with his statement, but people are taking it wrong.

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They're taking it as if he's saying that AI is more important than human beings, which is exactly the opposite of anything that Elon Musk ever said or believed. Wait, the stock market's already up? Is that true? Oh, I'll be damned. The stock market's up already.

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There you go. There you go. All right, everybody, that's all I have for today. Thanks for joining on X and Rumble and YouTube. I'm going to talk to the subscribers on locals next and privately. The rest of you, we'll see you tomorrow.

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Well, today's Liberation Day, April 2nd, and President Trump will be announcing at 4 p.m., I think, in East Coast time. From the Rose Garden, he'll tell you what exactly the tariffs are going to look like. Will they be just straight reciprocal? Will they be done with a scalpel or a jackhammer? It doesn't matter what he does.

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The press is going to say they hate it because, you know, what else they have to do except say they hate everything he does. So we'll see how that goes. That's what's roiling the stock market today. The stock market's going to react to the uncertainty. Now, Israel...

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quite cleverly got out in front of it and dropped all their duties and tariffs on American goods, to which a lot of us said, wait a minute, they had tariffs on American goods? I thought they were our friends, and they had tariffs on American goods? They were very high and it wasn't much of it. So they didn't give up much by giving up their tariffs.

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But it's so smart to do it before the tariffs kick in. Like, given that there wasn't much money involved and Israel's very free market oriented, it was just a clever move. to get out of it and be one of the first, let's call it a victory for Trump, because sure enough, he threatens and Israel just says, okay, we'll drop ours. So that's how the negotiation is supposed to work.

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India did the same, somebody says. I haven't seen that in the news. Did India drop all of its tariffs? I think they only reduced them. So I'll have to check on that. But give me a fact check on that. Did India drop their tariffs in anticipation of the U.S. tariffs, or did they only adjust them downward? I think they only adjusted them downward, which would be not nothing.

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So we'll see how that goes. You know, the funny part is people are still treating it like it's intended to be permanent, right? And it doesn't matter how many times it's explained. No, the point of this is to not have tariffs. The end goal is that we don't have tariffs, they don't have tariffs. So we'll see.

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I don't have anything to say about that, but when people who are younger than me die, it bothers me a little extra, I have to say. So rest in peace, Val Kilmer. All right, shall we do some fake news? Let's look at some fake news. According to Futurism, Maggie Harrison Dupre is writing that after a single concussion, kids are 15% less likely to go to college.

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Unusual Whales on X, that's an account on X, said that tariffs would add as much as $10,000 to the cost of the average new home. What do you think of that as a data point? That the costs of tariffs, the extra cost, would add $10,000 to the price of building the average new home. Now that's per CNBC. Here's what I say.

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What's the first thing I teach you when they show you a number without a percentage? Or a percentage without a number? What does it mean when the news gives you a number without the percentage or the percentage without the number. Because you don't know how much the average house costs to build, do you? You don't know if that's 20%, 2%, 1%, do you?

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've probably never had a better time, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains... All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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So this is propaganda, or just really lazy, lazy work. Because I had to go to AI and say, what's the cost of the average house? And somewhere in the 300,000 range would be the average cost of a new house. So $10,000 added to that would be about 3% extra. Now, would it be fair to say that now that we know the number and the percentage, would it be fair to say that the tariffs will add 3%? No. No.

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Because the point of the tariffs is not to leave them in place. The point of the tariffs is to negotiate. So what we don't know is where it all shakes out. But what we do know for sure is that nobody, including the administration, plans for them to be permanent and just add costs to the U.S. consumer. So everything about that estimate is misleading. First of all, that it would last.

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And, or even ever, it's possible they'll never even touch us because maybe things will happen so quickly. It's possible. And the other thing is it's 3%. 10,000 sounds like a lot. 3%, I don't know that you would notice it, would you, on a house? I mean, nobody wants to spend 3% more, but would you even know the difference?

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Almost certainly no. All right. According to Mario Noffel, and he's quoting somebody named Alec Stapp. So I guess Mario thinks this is a real number. Maybe it is. But the stat is that the U.S. is now producing 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia. Does that sound right to you? Does it sound right that the U.S. is producing 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia?

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I think I'm going to need a fact check on that one too. If it's true, it's amazing. So I guess Saudi's share of the world oil has declined steadily. And anyway, so the U.S. is leading the world, accounting for 16% of the total global output. whereas Saudi is 11% and Russia is 12%.

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Now, if this is true and it's newish, I also don't know how newish it is, but if we suddenly have created a surge in oil production, wouldn't that tell you that that would make a bigger difference to lowering prices than the tariffs might have to increasing prices? If it's true... Let's see, I've got, yeah. All right, so I'm not even sure I believe that. It sounds like almost too good to be true.

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Well, as you know, Cory Booker, he broke the record for talking nonstop in Congress or at the Senate. But they're calling it a talk-a-thon. not a filibuster, because it's not a filibuster because he wasn't trying to stop any particular legislation. So why was he doing it? I don't know. I've been watching this news for like two days, and it's a headline story.

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Does that sound like real science to you? After one concussion, kids are 15% less likely to go to college. Do you know what else could be behind that number? Could it be that smart kids get fewer head injuries? I'm just asking.

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I don't even think the news told us why he did it. I feel like he just needed some attention. And so he just put on a play. What are we going to do? I don't know. How about I put on a play and I'll pretend to be the very tired senator who cares a lot and talks for 25 hours and breaks the record. And I'm thinking, it's pure theater. There's not even a specific thing he wanted.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human Civilization 2025 edition. Happy New Year. If you'd like to take this new year up to levels of enjoyment that you can barely even understand with your tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup of mugger, a glass of tankard, chalice of stein, a canteen, jugger, flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.

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So I'm seeing in the comments that he was shot at the event, which would make sense because he was in a shootout with police. So yeah, that's usually how it ends. Police tried CPR on him, but couldn't bring him back. Okay. Okay. He's in custody but not moving, right? Killed in the shootout. All right, so thanks for the update. This works so well.

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I love the fact that you can correct me in real time. The model that we're seeing here, where you're correcting my facts in real time, That's very impressive. Wouldn't you like to see that on the regular news? Wouldn't you like to see CNN reading the news and then Jake Tapper would look up and say, oh, I'm getting a correction here.

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Well, maybe he knows what the real story is and I don't, so that would be different. So somebody said, and let me give it, I need another fact check on this one. Somebody said he's a Mexican national. that it was a Mexican, and somebody said there were explosives in the truck.

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So the things I don't know, I don't know if these are confirmed, maybe or maybe not explosives, but they didn't go off, and maybe or maybe not use a Mexican national. I don't know that they know that yet. So we'll just put a pin in that and say, better wait for that, better wait for that. Now, I saw, I think it was Mike Flynn who was just flipping out at the, that's my own term.

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He was, let's say, angry at the fact that anybody was calling this a non-terrorist event or that it might be a non-terrorist event. If it's not a terrorist event, what is it? What do you call it? What in the world would you call it? Now... So I guess we'll find out. They found an IED at the site, but we don't know if it's necessarily his. Great.

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So there may have been two separate potential attacks. Um... We don't know if the IED was functional. All right. Now, that seems a little odd, doesn't it? These non-functional IEDs. Seems like we've seen this before. But I also don't know that even if the IED story is true. So pretty much everything that we know about this is subject to revision.

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All right, I will tell you that yesterday before this happened, I was posting on X that I wouldn't go to any mass public event. Now, I wouldn't have been afraid of the truck. I should have been. but I wouldn't have been afraid of the truck. I would have been afraid of going to a mass public event in the age of drone swarms.

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I wouldn't be as worried about one drone, no matter what it did, but a drone swarm? How hard would it be for the bad guys to get 10 to 20 drones in the area over some populated area? It feels like it's just such an obvious venue of attack or avenue of attack. So I was worried that we were in a world where having any kind of mass public event is just begging for a mass casualty event.

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And I personally would be very hesitant about going to any mass gathering really forever, unless it's indoors, I suppose, and even then. But at least it'd be safer from the drones. So be careful when you go outside. Well, Ashley St. Clair is raising the alarm that there's too much censorship on X. So I don't know the details of this, but I'll tell you what I do know.

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So the new studies are debunking the old studies, but I suppose it's just as likely that the old studies were right and the new ones were wrong. Basically, a lot of science is a coin flip. The difference between we did a scientific study and we flipped a coin, there's none. There's no difference.

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So apparently, reportedly, a number of accounts on X have been deplatformed or minimized or hidden or their blue check is taken away or they're demonetized. But basically, people being suppressed or kicked off or made invisible. through a variety of actions that would be different in each case. It's not like everybody did the same thing and got kicked off for the same reason.

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But as Ashley points out, this is how censorship starts on every platform, through every avenue throughout history. They de-platform the worst people because they're not going to get any support. And then they can kind of work their way down if you're quiet about it and just get you used to the fact that things are getting worse

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getting suppressed, and you say to yourself, well, they probably had a good reason for that one, and you don't worry about it, and then there's another one, and then you say to yourself, well, I don't know the details, but it might have been a good reason, and then you're completely off the rails by then. It's too late to put the toothpaste back in the tube, and it becomes just full-on censorship.

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So, given that accounts are being suspended for what is called without reason, I don't know that it's without reason. It might be that people don't know the reasons, which would be bad enough. But I don't know that it's without reasons. Somebody had a reason. It might not be a good one. And people are losing subscribers. I mean, so a variety of things are allegedly happening.

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And again, I don't know if it's really a variety of things happening. All right. So here's what I do know. So I responded that I need examples, because if you give me a specific example, then I would be able to judge, oh, wait, that wasn't about free speech. That was about some action that was different than just free speech. Now, I only know one example.

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Laura Loomer just sent me a message because I asked this question. Just sent me a message to tell me about her situation. So here's what I know about it directly from one person whose account is now being suppressed. So Laura Loomer apparently

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in the process of doing what she does, which is talking about the news, seems to have accidentally doxxed someone, someone who was coming into the administration. Now, by accidentally doxxed, apparently what she did is point to a public document that was relevant to whatever argument she was making about the person. But on that document, apparently it had his home address.

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that would be called doxing. If the reason that you posted it was to show somebody's address so that the trolls could go after them, that would definitely be a behavior that you would be canceled for. So here's where it gets complicated. Laura apparently immediately apologized because that wasn't the purpose of showing the form.

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The purpose of showing the form was some other point and just didn't notice that the address was on there. She later blurred the address to repost it, showing that her intention was not to show the address. Further, she says she sincerely apologized because it was just a mistake. It's a bad mistake. I think you'd agree it's a bad mistake to make. But it was, she says, a mistake.

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Because studies, just in general, it wouldn't even matter what the topic was, studies tend to be inaccurate and fake and not reproducible about half of the time. If it's half of the time, and you're not sure in advance which way it's going to go, and you can do new studies later and they're the opposite, it's just a coin flip.

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Now, I believe that. I believe that was accidental. If you look at the totality of it, that sounds accidental. Now, should somebody be banned for doxing? I think maybe yes, because that's not about free speech. Should somebody be banned for accidentally doxing? Well, here's where we need to be able to talk about it.

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So I would say that the only thing I want to add to this conversation is that there should be some kind of an appeals process for somebody like Laura Loomer. There should be some formal place where not everybody, and not everybody, but at least people who are taking a financial hit. Imagine her total financial situation

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which I assume was largely X-related, you know, because you get paid for how much involvement, what do you call it, how much people are clicking and commenting. You get paid for that if you're a big account. So she probably had fairly substantial income, you know, by middle-class income standards. It was probably pretty substantial, and she lost it. Now, I think if somebody is losing revenue,

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X has a responsibility to have an appeals process. Ideally, they'd have an appeals process for everybody who gets canceled, but maybe that's just not doable because they cancel a lot of trolls. I mean, bots and stuff like that. So I don't know what is practical, but it's definitely practical.

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if you're canceling somebody who's making a living, if they've taken your offer, the ex-Elon Musk offer is, if you do these things on this platform, if you get a lot of engagement, I will send you money. If somebody signed up and was operating in good faith under that business model, but just had a little problem that was accidental,

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I feel like they should get their day in court, if you know what I mean. And it should happen quickly because money's on the line. It's what they do. And if the X business model encourages engagement, they really need to have a quick adjudication process for the people who've got a lot of money on the line. A lot, you know, by their living standards was what I mean.

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So I don't know all the details here, but if you saw more examples, you might say to yourself, these additional examples, they're all special cases. They might be. Now, one of the other things that's happening is that some of the claims of censorship are not real.

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Apparently, X claimed there was a glitch that some kind of people who had blue checks had them temporarily taken away, and it affected quite a few people. But each of those people were a special case, and it was the same special case, different than you and me.

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So there was something about the way they had to blue check through some other organization or connected to some organization that caused the glitch. So those are not real. So keep in mind when you're looking at this topic of censorship on X, however many of them are real situations of censorship, There's going to be a bunch of them that are not.

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They're just computer glitches that they're going to fix. In some cases, it might be a confusion over whether somebody did or did not dock somebody. But I think if you dug down, you'd find out there aren't too many that are just speech. I'd be surprised. But we'll see. And that's why you need a process. Well, how bad is the government? Well, let's see. Three senior Department of Justice officials,

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apparently got caught leaking sensitive and private information to hurt Trump's reelection chances. And according to the Georgia account on X, the inspector general has identified them and found out that they did, in fact, intentionally leak things to hurt Trump's chances of election. So that's the Department of Justice, right? The Department of Justice,

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It is so far away from being science, even though it follows the scientific process. We hope. So I don't know if this is true or not, but maybe it has nothing to do with the ick factor and a lot to do with common sense. Common sense, maybe? Maybe? All right, well, there's a new poll from Bloomberg, the conference board.

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was trying to take down a president or potential president. Wow. So that's real. The inspector general has confirmed it. We know names. They have documents. That's confirmed. Department of Justice is crooked, at least part of it. Then Paul Sperry is reporting for Real Clear Politics, or he's got an article on there, about McCabe.

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So did you know that two days after the then-acting FBI director... Oh, so right after Comey got fired, two days later, the guy who replaced him, McCabe, put President Trump under criminal investigation. And they reached out to the author of the Steele dossier, even though he had been fired for misconduct and even though people had looked at it before and didn't find enough to investigate Trump.

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So they poured through the non-credible stuff again after people had seen it once. And the people, and according to Paul Sperry, prosecutors and investigators interviewed by... said none of the information made public should have been enough to launch an FBI probe.

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So in other words, McCabe, knowing that there was not enough to launch a probe, intentionally went after a source that they knew was not credible, so they had something to say about why they were going after the president. Now, I'm sure McCabe has a different version of that. What does he say? He had some slightly different version of that, just so you know there's always two sides to everything.

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But it sure looks exactly like what it looks like. It looks like Comey got fired, McCabe went for revenge, Peter Strzok was anti-Trump, and that the entire operation was nothing but going after Trump, and that they probably knew that the Steele dossier was garbage. but they needed it to justify their research, so they used it. So I would say this is pretty strong evidence that the FBI is corrupt.

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So now we've got the DOJ is corrupt. Again, it's not every single person in it, of course. And we've got the FBI is corrupt, allegedly, but the allegations look kind of solid to me. But at least the State Department is clean. That would be terrible. Could you imagine if the Department of Justice was crooked and the FBI was crooked and the State Department? I mean, imagine that.

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Because we know the presidency was crooked. We know Biden was crooked. So it would be terrible if the presidency, Department of Justice, the FBI were all crooked. But thank God the State Department is not.

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So Gabe Kaminsky for the DC Examiner says, the State Department is being accused of, in a lawsuit by Watchdog, of illegally hiding internal documents about a secret memo it crafted to unfairly link reports concerning apparent GEC censorship by Matt Taibbi and by Gabe Kaminsky to Russia. So in other words, the State Department says, It has some memo, allegedly, secret memo.

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They must know about it because it's being requested, so they must know it exists. And it unfairly links these two journalists, independent journalists, to Russia. So the State Department, allegedly, was running an op to smear these two independent reporters who were too close to the truth. Okay, so it's not so bad people. So far, it's only the Department of Justice that's corrupt.

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Unusual Whales on X is telling us that Americans are the most bullish on stocks they have ever been. Just ever? Seriously? Ever? 60% of U.S. respondents, they think stock prices will rise over the coming year. Well, that's not really the, The hardest prediction, is it?

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The FBI is corrupt. The presidency, of course, was a criminal organization. And the State Department is apparently trying to frame citizens for good reporting. But it's not all lost. At least Congress is honest. I don't know if you can tell if I'm kidding sometimes. Do you remember I said that every large organization is corrupt and there's no way around it?

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When any organization reaches a certain size, it's pretty much guaranteed to be corrupt. We've seen it over and over and over again. And according to Aaron Maté from The Grey Zone... more about this Russiagate.

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In response to his FOIA request, Freedom of Information, the FBI released a heavily redacted copy of what he asked for about how they opened the investigation into Trump about potential Russia collusion, and that the factual basis for the FBI taking the extraordinary step of investigating Trump, the factual basis for was redacted entirely, entirely redacted.

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So the most important thing is why did they investigate the president? Did they have good information or was it just something they were doing to take him out? And instead of showing the good reasons they had for investigating, they redacted the whole thing. Why? I assume they're crooked. I assume. I don't know that, but I assume they're crooked. So there's another bad FBI thing.

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Well, I continue to be amused by Democrat-leading people, leaning people who criticize their own team and say, you know, Trump got a few things right, if you hadn't noticed. And Stephen A. Smith is one of the more entertaining ones. And

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He noted in a fiery or fiery monologue that he did on video, he said that watching the Republicans debate the big issue about the foreign workers, so you know the Republican Party allegedly said, got split on this debate about how many H-1Bs should be put in and whether it should be reformed and all that. So that really happened. It's true that there was that debate.

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Do you remember my phrasing of that, my reframe? So other people said the same thing, so I didn't invent this. But I said, I think I'm watching one of the most extraordinarily positive things I've ever seen, which is people strongly fighting, but mostly politely, for a common good, meaning that people were trying to find something that worked for the whole country.

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They weren't looking for just their own personal gain. So people had the right intentions. And they fought it out fairly. And I think we're a lot closer to having a coherent opinion. So I said that that's more positive than negative. I said that the fact that that fight could happen and that we could shake hands and say, all right, let's adjust forward, or at least the president is watching.

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So indeed, as I said, Trump smartly waited until the dust cleared, and then he came down with one big foot on top of it, because he has the big foot, so to speak, and he just said, here's what I want. Now, maybe you don't want it, but remember, the argument is, what did you vote for? Remember, the argument is not what your opinion is. The argument is, what did you vote for?

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Because if things were just basically the same next year as they are this year, inflation alone would make the stock prices go up because the companies would charge more for the same product and you'd pay it. Then the stock price would start reflecting the larger dollar amounts. But it wouldn't be real. It would just be inflation. So, yes, 60% of the U.S.

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And Trump, I think, has always said he wanted the best people from other countries, but he didn't want just everybody coming in. And he kind of confirmed that. And that might require changes to the current system. I don't think the current system gives him what he wants, but he probably knows that. So he waited on his opinion, and I think it quieted things down.

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because you could no longer argue, hey, this is what we voted for, because once Trump told you what he wanted, you'd kind of have to say, well, I guess that's what I voted for. If he didn't know what he wanted, it wasn't because he didn't say it. He's been consistent about that for a long time. So Stephen A. Smith made a big deal about how Democrats don't allow internal debate.

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But when you watch Republicans have a public debate, knock-down fight, just verbally, and he watched the Republicans actually be happy about their work. I was. I was completely happy about my contribution to the conversation. And I didn't know much, and that I learned a bunch, and many of you learned a bunch that maybe you didn't know about the weaknesses of the current system.

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We all got smarter and And I don't have any bad feelings about anybody I had any disagreements with. Do you? Did anybody get any bad feelings? I don't have any. Did I ever feel that I needed to ban or block somebody because of that conversation? No. If I blocked somebody, it was just for being a jerk, not because they disagreed. So...

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to me which i said publicly this is this is just a great experience because there should be some friction there should be some back and forth we should play hard nobody says you shouldn't play hard and we're all we have the right intention everybody's trying to get the right answer nobody's trying to get like the devious answer oh if i can if i can trick him if i can trick him i can get a something over no no we all really just wanted the right answer

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the one that helps the economy, the one that helps the American citizens the most. We just had different ideas how to get there. So Stephen A. Smith was basically praising Republicans for knowing how to have a public debate without being banned, and he said the Democrats just can't do it because they're too locked into there's one right way to do everything. I love that. I love that.

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Because he wasn't agreeing with Republican policy. That would be a lot to ask. He was agreeing that the way the Republicans approached it was as good citizens with good intentions and good energy. You can't get much better than that. That kind of is the pinnacle of preferred citizen involvement. It's tough to top that. It's as good as it gets.

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Even if you don't like the outcome, the process is as good as it gets. So I'm glad he noticed that. Maybe others will notice too. Well, Greg Gutfeld had a post the other day that spurred me to make a post related to it. And he said, and I loved his analogy here, he said, he was talking about the fine people hoax being a way to tell if somebody's in terminal TDS situation.

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He said in a post on X, if they still believe the fine people hoax, then they're no different than those Japanese pilots on remote islands who had no idea that World War II ended. You cannot help them, leave them behind. And I love the analogy, but the analogy is stronger than just a clever way to think of it. And I wanted to give you a little persuasion lesson, if I could.

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made a pretty good prediction about the stock prices. But just saying that they went up, that could include 1%. That could include 2%, which would not be very good because that would be below the inflation rate. So, yeah, it's pretty easy to say it's going to go up. 60% seems about right. Okay. 60% say it's going to go up, not that it would go up 60%. Meanwhile, California is acting all rational.

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So here's what I suggested about how to cure TDS, because I believe for the first time, we now have all the tools. There was always a piece missing before. And I've been, if you've been watching me for a while, you know I've been pushing and pushing and pushing to make sure that we had the tools to debunk that thing. Now, here's what I said. If you're trying to deprogram somebody from TDS,

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We now have all the parts to do it. Part number one, you have to get them to believe one thing that they didn't believe before. And that's what the fine people hoax does. If you can get them to believe that they had been fooled by something that the entire media that they watched said was true. But even more than that, they allowed the president or Biden when he was running for office to

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to run on that claim, the fine people hoax claim, they let him run on that without fact-checking it. Now, if you can show somebody the debunks, you could point them to Snopes, or you could point them to, on X, the American Debunk, all one word, site, has the clean debunk of the thing.

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So you can either look at it on Snopes, because that's left-leaning, or you can look at it on American Debunk, which has sort of a right-leaning bias, but at least the information on it is accurate. So it doesn't have all the hoaxes that may have gone the other direction, but as far as I can tell, it's all accurate.

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so once you've debunked the fine people hoax as you've seen uh it was instrumental in getting a number of people public figures to say wait a minute that was a hoax if that was a hoax what else was a hoax and then you soften them up once they say what else was a hoax the doors open Then you hit them with the top 50 hoaxes.

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You could do top 12, and it might even be stronger if you do 12 instead of 50. There are 50, 50 media lies slash hoaxes. But if you just kept it, say, top 12 or top 20, they're easier to defend because some of them get into more opinion territory.

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But if you can convince them that it's the norm that their side only, doesn't happen on the Republican side, but their side only was one hoax after another, and they weren't the small ones. They're the biggest headline stories. The biggest headline stories were complete hoaxes. And once somebody sees the whole list,

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and they've confirmed that the most important one, the fine people hoax, was in fact a hoax, then that gives them the vision to see the rest of the list. Until they know that one of the most important, I would say the most important one on the list is fake, completely fake, 100% fake. Until you know that, you can't even see the rest of the list.

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So that's your first persuasion lesson is showing the list didn't work until there was one thing they knew for sure about that list that was fake, and then they could see the rest of the list. Once they've seen the list, then you want to round it out with these arguments. Point out that the whole Biden is sharp as a tack hoax that the media admits they did.

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Now, the hoax about Biden being sharp as a tack is special because it's one that the media admits they all got wrong. So you don't have to argue about whether it's true or false. The media says, no, we got this completely wrong. Now, obviously, they're lying that they didn't know. So most of the media is trying to pretend they didn't know. Oh, come on. You all knew. You all knew.

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So that's a strong attack. The Biden is sharp is attack. Everybody knows I was wrong now. Then ask them the following question. Why is the administration so proud of their peaceful transition to Hitler? If anything they said about him, about his Hitler, Putin-loving fascist tendencies, if any of that was true, any of it, why would they do a peaceful transfer of power?

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And can you respect Democrats who would Peacefully transfer power to Hitler? Now, when I said this on the post, somebody said, nobody said he was Hitler. To which I said, it's all they've done. It's all they've done. Actually, what I said was, well, good point. The real Hitler is dead. All they did is say, he reminds us of Hitler, and you should take that very seriously.

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That's the sort of thing they did. Literally minutes before somebody said nobody called him Hitler, I'd just been watching Punchy. What's his name, the actor? What's Punchy's real name? De Niro. Punchy De Niro. I was watching Punchy De Niro say, well, you know, it's exactly like Hitler, and you've got to take that pretty seriously. It's all Hitler stuff.

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So it's a big story. The only reason I'm going to tell you this story is that as far as I can tell, the governor and the... The government of the state is doing the right thing. And I'm so surprised by it that I thought I'd talk about it. Every time you see somebody doing something smart and logical and the right thing, you think, oh, that's weird. Didn't expect that. So here's what it is.

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Just minutes before somebody said, nobody said that. Nobody says he's like Hitler. Anyway, so you point out why they're so happy to give Hitler a peaceful transition. Then round it out by noting that Trump won in large part because people noticed the other hoaxes.

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So certainly the Joe Rogans, Elon Musks, and you could name several others, didn't realize the fine people hoax was a hoax until they found out, and then they became a lot more open to what was really going on. So it's not an accident that Trump won. He won the popular vote, and it had a lot to do with people breaking out of the hoax bubble. Now, at that point, you're done.

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So once you've said all those things, do you think it will change anybody's mind? Not while you're standing there. There is zero chance that you can talk somebody out of TDS right while they're standing in front of you. Don't think there's any chance. However, once you've reframed these things and it's in their mind, just let it marinate.

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They will talk themselves out of their old views because these are really powerful persuasion tricks. Now, Somebody said, but Scott, your argument is based on logic and facts. And you always tell us that logic and facts are not persuasive. So how do I square that? That I tell you that logic doesn't convince anybody. And then I gave you this whole logical argument. So how do you square that?

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That was a good question. So I thought it was worthy of an answer. And the answer is the logic is just the wrapper. The real persuasion is that all the smart people saw it before you did. The real persuasion is what Greg Guff held said. You don't want to be the last Japanese soldier who doesn't know the war is over. Now, is that logic?

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Is that logic that you don't want to be the last Japanese soldier? No, that's not logic. That's telling you you don't want to be the one that everybody knows is wrong. You don't want to be alone in your wrongness. You don't want to be the last person in the world to find out this important fact. Wow, how embarrassing it would be to be you, wouldn't it?

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Imagine being the last soldier out of the cave. Yeah, you don't want to be that guy. So what this is, it sounds logical on the surface because I say these events happened, this is debunked, blah, blah, blah. But what it's really doing is getting you to the stronger point

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That he won the popular election and he got all these high visibility, smart people on his side because they figured out before you did, not you specifically, but you, the ones who don't know yet, that they figured it out and they're already moving. Not only did they realize it, but they made real decisions. important changes in their own lives and the risk profile and things they said in public.

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I mean, they took big chances. They didn't just intellectually accept that they knew something. They changed what they were doing. And then you're sitting there watching and saying, but I still think Trump is bad. Once you see that the smart people are all moving in the same direction, then what you're looking for is herd instinct. You need the herd instinct to pull the TDS people to safety.

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Because unless they see the herd moving, they're not going to move. So first you have to create a situation where a few people move, and then they say, huh, looks like a few people moved, but that's just a few people. And then you want to keep that up. Oh, well, I guess a few more people moved. Okay. Okay. Well, now every day I hear somebody moved. Seems like every day somebody's moving.

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And so you create this, you want to create the impression that the herd is already on the move and you better catch up to the herd. And that's purely non-logical feelings, biological, you know, at a biological level. You don't want to be the one who stands out as not following the herd. That's dangerous.

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So Greg was persuasion perfect in saying that, you know, you don't want to be that last Japanese soldier out of the cave. That's the emotional right on point persuasion. What I gave you was the logical stuff, which can get you to the point of thinking that you're the last one following the herd. All right, so try it at home. It'll be fun.

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California, back in 2021, they passed the law that you could build more homes in on your single residence property. So if you're zoned for only one house in the past, you would only be able to have your one house. But because they wanted people to build ADUs and in-law apartments and make housing more affordable and more frequent or just more available,

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Meanwhile, Trump said some stuff about climate change on Fox Business, and I'm going to give him a little persuasion tip. So here's what Trump said, I think, to Stuart Varney on Fox Business. Quote, nobody's more into climate than I am, but this is a climate hoax. It's a hoax destroying our country. And then he went on to say, quote, you have a thing called weather, and you go up and you go down.

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The climate's always been changing. All right, so that's what he said. So let me give him a persuasion grade. First sentence, nobody's more into the climate than I am. Perfect. Perfect. I love that. I love that he starts, the first sentence is that he's really into it. Now, is that true? I don't know. But if you don't say that you're very into the climate,

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everything you say after that will sound like you're not taking things seriously. So he starts with, oh, I'm really into the climate. So now you know he's taking the topic seriously, and then you can listen to the rest. So the first sentence is perfect. You should always do that first sentence. And it doesn't exactly make sense,

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What does it really mean to be into the climate, and what does it mean to be competitively more into the climate than other people? That's just a perfect Trump framing statement, because it makes you stop and think, well, I don't know. How would you know he's more into it? What does it even mean to be more into it?

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We don't know what that means, but he certainly seems to be showing attention to the topic, and that's what we're looking for. So the first sentence is perfect. And then he says, but it's a climate hoax. It's a hoax destroying the country. That part's good. It's a climate hoax. I don't like that. I'll tell you what I like better in a second.

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And he said, you've been having a thing called weather and it goes up and down. That is a pure mistake. which is rare. I don't say that about Trump very often. That's a pure mistake persuasion-wise. Do you know why? How many of you know that it is a pure mistake persuasion-wise to say that the weather goes up and down so climate change is a natural variation?

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The problem with that is that everybody on the left, the people you would want to persuade, the left will say, wait a minute, if you don't know the difference between the weather and the climate, you can't be in the conversation. And they're right. They're right.

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I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes the whole year better, it's called the simultaneous sip. And darn it, it's going to happen right now. Go. Well, it's the first day of my attempted no cursing. I've tried this before with total failure. But I'm going to try again. A year with no substantial cursing.

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If you don't know the difference between the climate and today's weather and the fact that it's hard to forecast the weather, but it's a whole different process. In my opinion, you can't do either, but it's a different process. So if you compare them, you're screaming at the top of your lungs, I don't understand the topic. Do you get that?

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Everybody who has ever said to me, but Scott, it's just the weather. The first thing I say, oh, you haven't looked into the topic at all. Because that's like first thing. If the depth of the topic is, let's say, 100% The first step is to learn that weather and climate should not be treated the same. It's the first step. So when you say that, your opinion should be ignored after that.

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If you are a rational person listening to somebody talk and the first thing they say is clearly showing a lack of understanding of anything on the topic, why would you listen to anything else? So this is a pure mistake. Pure mistake. Now, Does Trump not know the difference between climate and weather? He probably does know the difference. But he often goes for the simple.

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What's the simplest way to make the case? And I think he's just going for simplicity here. And he knows that it works on the base. So, by the way, that works perfectly on the base because there are so many people who think it makes sense. But it doesn't. It's a big tell that you don't know anything about the topic. So, Here's what I would do instead.

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So you can make his point, but here's how I do it persuasion-wise. I would never conflate the weather and the climate. Just never say that again. Never, ever say that again. It's just a mistake. But instead, you should say that the hoax part is the absurdity of the climate models. You just go after the models and say, do you really think that they know what the temperature will be in 80 years?

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Does that sound like something that they can do? You want to go after the level of panic and say the panic is overdone because that will make people feel good even if they disagree with you. But you can't say the panic is overdone if first you said that weather and climate are basically the same.

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Because nobody's going to listen to you when you say that the panic is overdone if you don't even know the topic by saying that climate and weather are the same. So that's so important. And you could also say that the money that the government is giving to all this green stuff is probably unaudited and we don't know where it's going.

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California said, hey, you can build more than one house on your property, up to four. And the local cities said, no, you can't. They passed their own ordinances to thwart the state. And now the state has fought back and said, no, you do not have the right to have these local ordinances to thwart the state. So the new rule, I guess, is going to try to override the state's.

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So if you're trying to convince somebody who's a climate-afraid person Oh, and then on top of that, you'd want to have at least one anecdote that shows you know something about the topic, right? So saying climate and weather are the same shows you don't know the topic. But in addition, you should add something that shows you do know it. And I would add the simplest thing, the heat island effect.

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So somebody who knows what they're talking about should give Trump the five-minute lesson on the heat island effect. Now, what that is, is there are thermometers set up around the world to measure temperature. In theory, you just go back to those thermometers every year and you say, oh, let's look. The average looks like it's up or it's down. You'd think that that would be a good process.

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What you don't know is that those thermometers were put outside of cities so that the heat from the concrete doesn't artificially influence them. But then the city grew. So the city got closer to the thermometers over the years until the cities were, in fact, close enough to affect the temperature.

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Now, that means that we don't actually have a history of temperature that's reliable because the thermometers have that problem. Now, do you think that's a problem? Well, there's a story at the Met office in Great Britain. One of their thermometers... They have a continuous record of temperatures since 1873. But there's proof that it hasn't been there that long.

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So basically, there's one thermometer for sure that they're using as data that they can know for sure the data is fake. Somebody just made it up. I don't know. But so if Trump knew one anecdote... something that doesn't work, it would be very persuasive, as long as it was a true one. Because even the left doesn't argue about the heat island effect. What they say is that they can adjust for it.

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How do you do that? How do you make up the past if you don't know what it is? How exactly do you compensate for the fact that your thermometers are not accurate and can't be because of this effect. So summarizing, never say weather and climate are the same. That's a big tell for not understanding the topic. Do learn at least one thing.

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I would do the heat island thing is the one thing you do understand. And say that the hoax part is the panic and the

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the models and the models are based on the input by things like temperature so obviously the models are going to be weird and then you could certainly say that the government isn't spending the money on the green stuff correctly because both sides understand that to be true they know the government's wasting the money no matter even if they like the general direction

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And related to this, according to Ken Richards at the No Tricks Zone, scientists say that over the last 40 years, there's been a striking increase in greenness attributed to the higher CO2 fertilization and maybe also land use changes. So the new study, we don't know if the new study is better than the old studies, but the new one says we're getting greener than we are getting brown.

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So the good news is, The green movement worked because the world's a lot greener. So Greenpeace should take a bow because from the time that Greenpeace was organized, the world has gotten greener. Good job. Not really the way you intended to do it, but. By failing to change anything important, apparently it took care of itself. So that's not about temperature. That's about greening.

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But one would assume that if you have a lot more greening, it's going to have a dampening effect on temperature. Do you think the models account for that? Probably not. At least not correctly. All right. I did a deep dive on the Catherine Herridge report. about the whistleblower, CIA whistleblower, who suspects a foreign-directed energy weapon, probably from Russia, was the source of her injuries.

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And so people ask me, Scott, Scott, since you think that this secret Russian weapon is not real, what do you think of this whistleblower? It's so compelling. So I did take the time to listen to it completely, because if you haven't watched the entire video, you don't have the sense. And I want to give you my take. So my take is as follows.

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Now, the good news is that they're allowing the free market to do its thing. The bad news is it took them from 2021 till now to fix this. So I don't want to say what took you so long because you can say that about everything. Everything that's good took too long. But at least this shows the right thinking. The right thinking has let the free market solve it.

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The person who's blaming Russia for the weapon is a person whose professional career involved blaming Russia for stuff. In other words, her job was to be on the other side of Russia. It was her specialty. So somebody whose job it is to say Russia is the bad guy in every situation, and then suddenly they say Russia is the bad guy, How much credibility should you put on that?

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It's their whole career saying Russia is the bad guy, and then she says Russia is the bad guy. Does that sound credible? It's exactly like Republicans blaming Democrats and Democrats blaming Republicans. It's the least credible thing that you could say. Now, if somebody had nothing to do with studying Russia...

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had a claim about Russia, I'd say, oh, well, I mean, you don't have any stake in the fight, so if you say it's Russia, I'm going to listen to the rest of what you say. But if somebody's job it is to blame Russia, blames Russia, the amount of credibility you should put in that would be zero. Let me give you an example.

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If you hire a ghostbuster to come into your house and figure out what the suspicious noises are from, Do you think the Ghostbuster is going to find a ghost that they can charge you for? Oh, good. I found the ghost. I've eliminated it with my machines you don't understand, and so you should pay me. Yeah, the Ghostbuster always finds a ghost.

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The Russian, anti-Russian guy always finds a Russian behind every tree. So if it were anyone else, it would be more credible than somebody whose job it is to blame Russia. You with me so far? Now here's where I need to make the distinction between what is true, which I don't know, from what is credible. So I'm going to stick to what sounds credible to a reasonable person.

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So no, this is not credible coming from that source. who, by the way, are professional liars by training. Next, part of the claim was that it's a worldwide event. So there's a picture of the globe and you can see that all over the world there's these different events. Now, it's hard for me to imagine what kind of play a random attack all over the world would do.

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Random, you know, smaller embassies, nothing critical. It doesn't really make sense as a coordinated plan because it seems random. So the randomness of it sort of gets away from the Russia part because why would they do it all over in these random places? What would be the point of that? But... That doesn't mean it's not them. There could be some secret reason they're doing it I don't know about.

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But it decreases the credibility to know that it's happening all over the place. In most cases, it probably is mass hysteria. So you can maintain the unknown of whether this one person was attacked by a Russian weapon. That might be true. It might be true. But it's very unlikely that all the other cases around the world are also true.

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So that's a step in the right direction. Here's another step in the right direction. End Wokeness, account on X, put together a list of the major corporations that have already canceled DEI. So in 2024, the following canceled their DEI. I want you to see if you can find any pattern to these companies. So what pattern do you see?

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It's far more likely that whether or not one or two or three of these are real, it's far more likely that no matter how many are real, that the bulk of them are just people imagining it. Right? Now, what about the fact that there's an actual injury? apparently the doctors confirm real injuries and she looks like she has real better. And I believe she's not lying.

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If she was lying about the injuries, I'd be amazed. So if you were to do a PET scan or a brain scan of a bunch of randomly chosen people, how many of them would show some abnormality in the brain that you didn't know about? I don't know. But it seems to me that some people are just going to have ordinary abnormalities and

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And she said that she knew the moment of the attack because she got this piercing headache. I think she heard something maybe. And there was some vibration under her feet. So her experience of it was that she felt the attack. And then thereafter, she felt the health problems. So if you felt the attack, that would be a better argument that it was an attack, right? But here's my question.

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If you had a stroke... or some other mental brain defect. There's probably a variety of ways your brain can glitch. What do you remember of it? If your brain is where the problem is, what happens to your memory of the moment it came on? I'm going to give you an analogy. It's not a perfect analogy, but it's more to explain my point.

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I was once playing tennis years ago, and all of a sudden something that I imagined was maybe a golf ball hit me in the back of my calf muscle and just took me down. And the first thing I did is I looked backwards to see who the bad person was who had shot me or driven a golf ball at me. I mean, it definitely wasn't a tennis ball because it was, whatever it was, was hard and moving very fast.

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So it felt like I got shot in the back of the leg and I went down. Do you know what it was? It was nothing. I had the experience of being attacked. But what it was is that tennis players often get this, there's a specific muscle in the calf muscle that fairly often snaps if you're a tennis player, but it doesn't snap during your movement. You're just standing there usually.

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It's like it got weakened to the point where it's going to go. So you're just standing there waiting for a serve and they're like, ah, and you feel like you've been attacked. Now, it's only because I could look behind me and there was literally nobody behind me that I knew I was an attack. And then later I found out, oh, you had this problem and other people had the same story.

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So it was not an Achilles. It was just a muscle that snaps. And then you just stay off it for two months and it heals on itself. You don't even treat it. It's just a very normal tennis player accident or problem. So... Is there an equivalent for people who have brain-related organic problems, like a stroke? I mean, there are probably a few other things that are in that strokey category.

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So that I don't know. I don't know. But it's easy to imagine that somebody could have something sudden come on and they would remember it that way. Now, what about the vibrating of our feet? I mean, that's kind of weird. The feet are vibrating at the same, you know, the floor is vibrating.

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Well, about once a day, my phone vibrates in my pocket and I reach in my pocket and I don't have a phone in my pocket. Does that happen to you? I've had a phone vibrate in my pocket even when I'm in the shower and I'm not wearing any clothes at all and I certainly don't have a phone. It's called a phantom, the phantom vibration. How many of you have that? It's very common.

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Why would it be these companies that would be the first ones to do it? Ready? The companies are Ford, Coors, Lowe's, Nissan, Boeing, Toyota, Walmart, Caterpillar, Craftsman, John Deere, Jack Daniels, Tractor Supply, Black & Decker, Harley-Davidson, and Indian Motorcycles. What do they all have in common? Most of them, all but one. Well, the answer is they're all masculine brands.

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If you've had the real vibrating in your same pocket a lot, you'll feel it for the rest of your life. And it's so distinct. It doesn't feel like it's in your imagination. It's really clear vibrating. So you don't say to yourself, here's what you don't say. You never say to yourself, did I feel a vibration? No, you totally feel it. It's 100% vibrating. So,

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is there anything that would be an analog that could fit this? Could it be that the building was getting some construction and somebody was jackhammering about the same time, and maybe she just didn't notice it or wasn't standing in that part of the building? So it could be something else, right? So I did not see any sense.

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So I do believe the injuries are real, and I do believe that she's telling the truth as she knows it. There were no signs in my incredible ability to detect liars. I didn't see any tells. I saw no tells for intentional lying. I saw a lot of indications that it might not be true, or at least not credible. That's the only part I can judge. Let's see, what else?

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If the whole thing, some said it's a Russian psyop, So it wasn't so much about injuring the individual people. It was about creating some kind of feeling in the psychology of the United States. To which I ask, why would you use a secret sonic weapon or energy weapon to do your PSYOP? If it were Russia, wouldn't Russia know that these people would know they'd been attacked if you did more than one?

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So if you went in and you attacked a bunch of people with the same weapon, don't you know that the United States would figure out they'd been attacked with something like that kind of weapon? And wouldn't you know that if it's that kind of weapon, that we could rule out Estonia? We could rule out Peru? You're going to basically look at Russia first. Am I right?

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You wouldn't even look at China first. You wouldn't expect China to take that kind of risk. But you might say to yourself, you know, maybe Russia. But why would Russia do that? It would be like trying to do a secret attack, but you do the attack in a way that you're the only one who would do that kind of attack. It's a little on the nose, isn't it?

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It seems like Putin would be the last person, the last person to do something that would be so obviously dangerous tied to his country. It's not like a bunch of other countries are going to have an energy weapon and have a reason to use it. So it doesn't make sense from a Russia perspective, not that we know everything Russia is up to, but I don't see how it works as a PSYOP.

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All it does is make America want to attack Russia more. Like, why would Russia do an OP that would make you want to attack them? That's the last thing they would want. She also said that not only was she an anti-Russia kind of CIA operative, but that she was especially good at her job. And her theory is, that because she was especially good at her job, that she was targeted.

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Oh, I think she was targeted at home, wasn't she? I may have the story wrong about where she was. She said she was targeted at home. So that makes the vibrating part different, but unless the dryer was running in the next room or something. And so here's my persuasion recommendation to you.

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If you're ever injured, you should say that the reason that somebody tried to injure you is because you were so effective at your job that you were a risk to a superpower. I'm so good at my job that a superpower, that Putin himself, because they wouldn't have done this unless Putin ordered it. Would you agree? Would you agree that there's no way, if it were a Russia weapon,

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There's no way that Putin would not know that they were using it because it would be way too risky to not have the boss approve it. So, yeah, so that's a good story. I'm so good at my job that Putin himself had to order a hit on me. But the only way he knew how to kill people is by using a weapon that would be easily identified with Russia. Do all those things seem true to you? Incredible?

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They're masculine brands. They would be the ones you'd most likely imagine men would have the most interest in. Everything from motorcycles to power tools to cars and airplanes and beer. Walmart's kind of an in-betweener. And then Justin News is reporting that the Idaho State Board of Education just approved the ban on DEI. And I think Texas has also banned DEI.

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That she's so good at her job that Putin needed to take her out, but the only way he knew to do it was to leave a complete business card that it was Russia? Does that make sense? That's asking a lot. So anyway, I'd like to see what brain doctors say might be the other possibility of what's happening in her case, because it does look like serious medical problems.

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So I'm not making light of what looks like serious medical problems. So I don't want to act like that's not a big deal. It is a big deal. And I don't want to tell you that I know what's behind these things. I don't want to rule out a weapon, and I don't want to rule out Russia. But I would say the odds of a weapon are much higher than the odds of a weapon used by Russia.

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Because I don't see how it could work in their interest. And it's just too reflexive to blame Russia. As soon as I hear Russia being blamed of anything, I automatically go, well, 90% chance it's not true. Right? 90% chance it's not true. So that's my take. Credibility is zero. But that doesn't mean it's not true. It might be true. There's just no credibility to the way it's told.

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Anyway, in other news, I've been talking about this a little bit. Vigilant News on X is talking about ivermectin and some alleged cures from ivermectin. And so I weighed in and said, why do we never hear from the person who got cured? And then sure enough, somebody chimed in and said that she was cured of pancreatic cancer. And I thought, wow, but why don't you give your name? You're anonymous.

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That's kind of sketchy. And then it was pointed out to me that in her pinned post, she does show her identity, and it links to an article that goes into great detail about her cancer treatment.

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which did not mention ivermectin she got chemo and radiation so the story is that she was cured by ivermectin but the extensive story of everything she did for her treatment didn't have any ivermectin in it and here's what's missing her doctors

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So if it's true, so the claims are that there are now, let's say, multiple claims of people curing cancer with just ivermectin or fenbenazole, which is similar to ivermectin in terms of treating worms. But people say that might work. So what are the odds that there are cancer doctors who have observed with their own eyes their patients being cured of incurable

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incurable cancers, and fairly rapidly. What are the odds that the doctors would not want to talk about that? So here's what it would take to convince me it's real. I would need multiple cases. I would need to know that there was a cure that was unrelated to the other treatments, because if the other treatments are known to sometimes be curable or curative, then you don't know anything.

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So I'd need to see the patient go public. I'd need to see them sit with their doctor. And I'd want to see somebody who knew to ask the right questions. Let's say one of the doctor journalist types. I'd want to see a doctor journalist say, all right, you say that you're cured by this doctor. Was she cured of this? Yes. If it's yes, that would be pretty amazing.

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So my current take is that there's no credible evidence that it works. There are lots of signals. There are lots of signals. I'm not your doctor, so don't listen to me when it comes to medical stuff. But I'm just trying to give you a way to look at it. To be credible, you would have multiple cases. You'd have cures.

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And you would have multiple doctors from different places saying, yep, saw it with my own eyes. And I've never once seen this cured. This is the only time I've ever seen it. So it must be the ivermectin. If you don't see that, and keep in mind that everybody would have a reason to tell you it worked. Anybody who saw this work would not just have a reason. It'd be the best reason ever.

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So this answers the question that I had. which is, you know, the activist on this who's getting the most success is Bobby Starbuck. Robbie Starbuck. But Starbuck said he had a plan for the order of attack. And attack just means which companies you approach. And I didn't understand why Costco wasn't necessarily toward the top of the list.

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It would be the most important thing that's happening in the world. And there's no doctor talking about it. There are doctors talking about it, but they're not sitting with a patient in front of somebody to ask the right questions and saying, all right, ask any question you want. We're pretty sure this worked. If you don't see that, you should take that into your consideration.

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And there are claims that I can't, you know, I'm not a doctor, so I can't say for sure. But there are claims of injury from people who took the ivermectin or the other thing. And only that, in some cases, may have overdosed or taken it too long. But there are side effects. You know, we talk about ivermectin being so well tolerated. That's true. It's well tolerated.

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But if somebody thinks they're going to cure their cancer, They might double up on it, if you know what I mean. If somebody says there are no side effects and it might save your life, are you going to go with the minimum dose? Who would? I think you'd probably say, well, I could do a little more than the minimum.

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So there are reports that people may have delayed regular treatment because they're trying that first. Oh, yeah, just to be clear, I'm not saying it's outside the realm of possibility. I'm saying there's no credible report of it. So remember, whenever I say something's not credible, I'm not saying it didn't happen.

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I'm saying it's very suspicious that something this important, which would have this many witnesses, we've never had a clean conversation with a doctor, the patient, and somebody who could ask the right questions. And you'd want more than one of those. You'd want several. And then you've got my interests. Then you've got my interests. But no, nothing in that domain looks credible yet.

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This is interesting. According to Liz Heflin in Remix, the Russian foreign minister has rejected Trump's proposed peace plan for Russia and Ukraine, which has not been announced. But it got leaked. So the alleged leaked plan is that Trump was floating the idea that NATO would be not part of Ukraine for 20 years. So that no NATO in Ukraine for at least 20 years.

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But they would want to station some British and European peacekeepers in Ukraine just to keep things peaceful. Now, so I think it was Lavrov, the foreign minister, said, you know, it's a non-starter, can't do it, blah, blah. Now, the first thing you should know is that when somebody like Trump makes a first offer, nobody in the world expects that the first offer will be accepted as is.

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So it doesn't really mean anything that he rejected it. Next thing you know is that the Russians are going to reject any first offer. Why would they do that? Because everybody does. Everybody rejects the first offer. Nobody even takes it seriously. Now, is this the first offer? It's not. It's a leak. So now he's created a situation by responding to the leak in which he's put Trump in a position...

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of negotiating with himself, which would be the classic negotiating mistake. So here's what Lavrov is trying to set up. Now, maybe intentionally, maybe not, but here's what it would look like. There's a leaked offer, and then Lavrov says, nope, no way, 100% no, don't even give us that leaked offer. You better do better. So then what Lavrov would like

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is that before he sees the first offer, because remember, it's just a leak, they've already improved on the offer so that the first offer is better than the leak. That's what Lavrov would like. That would be a mistake. Because if Trump responded to his rejection of the leak, it would be as if Lavrov were asking him to negotiate with himself, which is to make an offer,

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There's rejected and then make a better offer. You never do that if you're negotiating. What you do is you make your offer and you say, all right, respond to it with a with a better offer. And then you say, all right, I don't accept the better offer, but we're getting closer. Maybe I'll give up a little bit. Can you give up a little bit more?

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And then you move toward the middle and you find something that works. So this will be an interesting thing to observe because if Trump really, really wanted that to be his first offer, now it can't be. If he wants to be true to negotiating principles, he's going to have to just make that offer. And he's going to have to make them turn it down as part of a formal offer.

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And then he's going to say, well, you're going to have to counter it. So we'll see if he plays it clean. I think he will. It would be a big mistake to respond to the rejection of the leak. Don't do that. That's weak. That's bad for him. However, I would like to say that the idea of putting a 20-year limit on it is frankly genius. Do you know why I say it's genius?

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I wanted to know what the criteria was for deciding what order to try to approach it. And now I understand. I think I understand. I don't know for sure. It's not confirmed. But it would make perfect sense to go after the male-oriented brands first because they would obviously be the ones who would buckle first. They would have the most risk, the most reward.

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Because I recommend this all the time. So let me tell you where I've recommended it. So when I've talked in the past about North Korea and South Korea, and North Korea thinks it should own South Korea, and on some level, the Koreans all think that maybe they should be the same country in the future. But nobody thinks it can happen fast.

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So what I suggested to make peace with North and South Korea is that you make a deal that says in 100 years, or pick a time, in 100 years, we will definitely be one country. And we're going to work toward it for 100 years. And everything we do will be in that mode. So that would allow Kim Jong-un to have passed along and maybe his kids have already grown and died.

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So his family would be able to set them up financially, get some kind of government deal that they're not hunted if they ever become one country. And you would say to yourself, well, we definitely can't do it today. But if we're moving toward it, Why would we fight? It would make more sense just to wait. So then Kim Jong-un could claim that he had unified Korea, and maybe that's even true.

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It's just that there would be a timeline before it happened. So from a negotiating perspective, here's the trick. If you know you can't get a deal today, see if you can tell somebody, well, we'll definitely make this happen, but you've got to wait. Or in the case of Trump, it's something they don't want to happen.

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So you say it definitely won't happen for at least 20 years because so much will happen in the next 20 years. I mean, is Putin still going to be in charge in 20 years? I don't know. I mean, he'd be in his late 80s, mid 80s. So I don't know. Late 80s, I think he'd be. So it was a smart, smart offer. And it does suggest that there's plenty to work with. So I think he's going to get it done.

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We don't know what it'll look like yet. According to Normal, there was a study that says that patients are less likely to have Thoughts of ending their own lives if they used marijuana. So let's see. They did a big expensive study to see if people feel better about their life when they're high. You know how they could have saved a little time? You know what I'm going to say, right? No, you don't.

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I'm going to trick you. I usually say they could have just asked me. In this case, it's funnier. But they could have even done something easier than that. You know how they could have found this out? Instead of doing a study, they should have just smoked some joints. See how they felt. Trust me. You're definitely going to think less about ending your life if you're enjoying it at the moment.

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That's pretty straightforward stuff. If you're enjoying it at the moment, you're probably not thinking of ending it. All right. Meanwhile, according to Washington Times, the drug cartels are now Mexico's fifth largest employer, 175,000 people, fifth largest employer. And I think that's misleading because they own the governments as well. So you'd have to add the government employees.

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If you can get enough of the male-oriented brands to say we're getting out of this business, not everybody is going to notice they're all male-oriented brands. They're just going to see it. Whoa, major corporations are canceling DEI. At that point, it might be easier for the non-masculine brands to make the move.

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That should make them the largest employer indirectly. Well, according to a Breitbart that's reporting on a blaze. I think the blaze did the reporting on this. There's a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that some Bill Gates-funded entity is testing putting medicine or vaccinations in mosquitoes.

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So they put the drug in the mosquitoes somehow, and then the mosquitoes bite you and you get vaccinated. Feel comfortable with that one? How's that one feel? Oh, I can't wait for the mosquitoes. Mosquito vaccination. Well, what could go wrong? Until somebody weaponizes the mosquitoes to overdose you with fentanyl. Wow, somebody named Caroline Delbert.

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what an unfortunate last name, Delbert, is writing for Popular Mechanics that there's a battery that will finally unlock massless energy storage. I don't know what the massless part is about. Oh, massless, that makes sense. So somebody figured out these researchers, that had to make a structural battery. Now, a structural battery is one that can hold weight.

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So instead of having a car that's a frame and an engine and then a separate battery, the frame would actually be the battery. And if you use the right materials, it might not be any or substantially heavier than the regular frame that wasn't a battery. So if you can make the whole frame of your car your battery, you don't need to add a battery because the car is the battery.

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So imagine what would happen to the weight of the car if you could do lightweight batteries that are just built into the frame doing what the frame of the car does and they don't need to add a battery. It took about 10 seconds for somebody to enter the chat and say, what happens if the battery goes bad? If your entire car is the battery, what happens if the battery fails?

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Do you have to trade in the whole car? Sounds like it, but it's not that much worse than the situation that we have. So batteries, the future is batteries. Uh, Dr. John Campbell on Rumble. So I know you're going to point me toward all the experts. I've seen them all. All the names, I've seen them all. I've seen their work. I see what they claim. And it doesn't change my comments.

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Falling for the propaganda? All right. Can you tell me what big form of propaganda that I use? So this will be a test of your own intelligence. Give me an example of what evidence from Big Pharma that I used for my ivermectin opinion. Go. What part of my opinion came from Big Pharma? Was it the part where I said there's no evidence?

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Did Big Pharma tell me that there's no evidence when there's lots of evidence? No, that didn't happen. As far as I know, I have no input whatsoever from Big Pharma. I don't think it has anything to do with anything. Big Pharma did not tell me it doesn't work. I've never heard Big Pharma say that. Have you? Has Big Pharma said it doesn't work against cancer? I've never heard them say that.

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I think the CEOs of these particular companies, most of them, at least 80% of them, probably are not going to get a blowback from their main customers. Their main customers are probably going to say, well, it's about time. So, So these would be the ones to start with. Smart. Meanwhile, Argentina's Mille, I guess he's an Ayn Rand fan. He's going to some event, which makes sense.

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If they're saying it, I'm not aware of it. So I looked into it with just my own powers of observation. And It's very important that you know the distinction between not credible and not true. The not true part, I don't know. I don't know if it's true. I just know that if you're convinced it's real, you've been convinced on very, very bad information or inadequate.

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I won't say wrong, but inadequate. So if that's enough information for you, then I would say no. I don't know how you defend it. I don't know how you could possibly defend it. So just find me. All you have to do is find me one person who's real, who will sit there with their doctor. I'll even ask the questions myself. Or I'll see if Dr. Drew would talk to him. How about this? I'll make you a deal.

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I'll make you a deal. Keep me out of it, because I'm not a doctor. But if Dr. Drew... was presented with the opportunity to talk to, let's say, one or more than one person, plus their doctor, and not anonymous, to say that this worked for me and there's no, it couldn't have been anything else. I would definitely be influenced by that. But I haven't seen it, right?

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Now, you might say, but Scott, what about this doctor or that doctor? Nope. I'm not going to be convinced by somebody who tells me they talked to somebody else. If that's your standard, if that's your standard, the closest I got to finding somebody who said they were cured is somebody who would only talk to me by chat. So automatically, I don't have full confidence in that.

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They'd only talk to me by chat. And again, I didn't talk to their doctor. Would the doctor say the same thing? I don't know. All I know is somebody I don't know said that something could happen. So there are reports. If you're saying to me, Scott, you're missing the signals, there are signals. It's just that when you chase them down, they turn into dust. So that's all I know.

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All right, I'm losing my voice. So I think I'll end the main show here. I'm going to say just a few words to the locals people. I went a little long today because nobody else is working. Well, that's not true. All right, locals, I'm coming to you privately in 30 seconds. The rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you on Rumble and Next.

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Free market kind of thing. But here's a free market thing he's doing. He announced that starting this year, the In Argentina, if anybody wants to hire a new state employee, you can only hire a new person if you fire three. So you have to fire three existing employees if you really, really, really need this new employee. Otherwise, you just can't do it. Now, what does that sound like?

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It sounds like Trump's plan of regulations. Do you remember in the first term? Trump said he would remove, if he wanted any new regulation, he had to remove, I forget the number, was it 3 or 10 or something? But he had to remove a larger number of regulations to add one. And now Millet is saying the same thing with hiring. Did that come from Trump? Do you think that this is the Trump effect?

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We'll see if I can do it. Well, surprisingly, there are stories. I thought it'd be such a slow news day that there'd be nothing to talk about. They're not all good stories. We'll get to that. So you know how the science always shows that conservatives have more of an ick factor? They get grossed down at things, and that's what makes them conservatives. Have you ever heard that?

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Meaning that Millet is just... borrowing Trump's technique, which apparently was a 10. So you had to get rid of 10 to add one, right? That was Trump's plan. This looks like Trump-inspired. So that whole Trump effect is wild. I mean, it's really, really pervasive. Way more than I would have ever predicted, for sure. So that's all good news. We'll see if that works.

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Meanwhile, and this is wild too, Bernie Sanders is going to introduce legislation, according to Fox News, he's going to introduce legislation that was inspired by Trump. So Trump said that we should do a temporary limit on credit cards of 10%, so they can only charge you 10%, not higher interest. And Bernie Sanders agrees with that. Now, I think Bernie's trying to make it permanent.

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Trump wanted it to be temporary. But still. So Bernie is sort of testing the president to see if he would sign it. So he's introducing this legislation. What if he does sign it? I suspect he won't because Trump was saying temporary, which at least you could defend a little bit in terms of the free market. But there is a free market question here.

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that seems to be opposite of what Trump normally does. Normally, I'd expect Trump to say, no, free market, free market. We can't be messing with the private companies. Just use a different credit card company if you don't like the one you have. And I'm not sure why that doesn't work in this case. I don't really understand why that doesn't work.

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But at least there's a prominent Republican and a prominent Democrat... or independent, or whatever Bernie is these days, who both agree. Now, it is anti-capitalist and it's anti-free market to put a cap on a particular business. Very anti-free market. I don't know that I hate it, though, because I'd have to hear the argument the other way. Here's my guess. Yeah, my guess is

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that there's some reason why the rates are so high for some people. There must be some reason. And I think it's because the credit card companies are absorbing massive fraud. The number of credit cards that are being used, let's say, I think I had to change my credit cards twice last year. Like my major credit cards, I had to replace them two or three times.

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Might have been three times, just in one year.

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so my own credit cards are just massively stolen all the time you know presumably from just public use it's not like somebody's going through my wallet so i feel like the whole credit card thing doesn't work the the high prices might be an indication that the business model doesn't work at all there's just too much fraud and they can't stop it so we'll see it doesn't make me super happy but i'd like to hear more about it i i could be convinced

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I can be convinced about this cap, but I'm not convinced right now. Well, you probably heard there's a tragic New Orleans terror attack. The information is just coming in because it happened last night in the French Quarter, apparently, in New Orleans.

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The only thing I know about it, and maybe you probably know more about it than I do because the last several minutes the news was coming in and I was prepping for this. So I may have missed a little bit, but you can fill me in in the comments. So watch the comments for newer information than I have. So my understanding is it was a white pickup truck plowed into the crowd in the French Quarter.

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So while they were celebrating New Year's Eve, killed at least 10 injured dozens. And the mayor described it as a terrorist attack. I think the police did. And then the FBI said, well, not so fast. It might not be a terrorist attack. Now, there's reporting that I heard not confirmed because we're still in the fog of war stage.

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I've been hearing that research my whole adult life. A new study says that the thing that makes conservatives conservative is they get icked out easier than other people. Well, according to Cy Post and Eric Dolan's writing, that doesn't hold up. The science doesn't support it. That was all fake. Or, it should be noted, it could be real, but the new studies don't find it.

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Anything you hear in the next several hours is subject to update, I would think. But the current not yet credible reporting, and remember, it's not yet credible because it's too soon. Whenever there's a big event, the first 10 things you hear about the big event are, Four of them aren't going to be true. You just don't know which four. So we're in that foggy information stage.

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But apparently he slammed in and then had some kind of a weapon and was firing at people. And two police officers were shot, but they're still alive, I guess. And then they returned fire. Did they kill him? I don't even have information. Oh, he's been taken. So the latest report I had was it's unclear if the driver has been taken into custody.

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Have they taken him into custody in the last hour or so? And then I saw another report that said he got away and they were looking for him. But by now, oh, he's dead? Did he die at the event? Or did they die when they were looking for him? See, there's your perfect example. The perfect example is that they didn't know if the suspect was on the run, but he was shot at the event.

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Oh, well, here we are. I've solved my technical problems. I've got a new iPhone that seems to work, unlike my last one. Well, it sort of works. It does show that I have 16 messages that I don't really have. I'll have to figure that out. All right. Let's call up my comments here for locals. Then we're going to be in good shape. There we are. Last day of the year. Hope you're ready for this.

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I would ideally like that to be somebody who's compatible with the Trump world, which would give the political right the two biggest, most important platforms by far. Imagine if somebody who's at least friendly with the right, so they're not going to be sending negative messages about the right,

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Can you imagine if, by the end of the Trump administration, imagine if Musk owns X, some ally of Trump owns TikTok, and then the regular media landscape, the traditional media, continues to fall into irrelevance, and the podcasting atmosphere is really, really well done by conservatives. Probably better than the Democrats are doing, but I don't have much visibility on that. So I don't know.

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Things are heading toward how in the world can Democrats ever recover? I guess that's my theme for today. How in the world, what kind of path would they have to ever recover? They don't have a personality. They don't have a plan. They're losing all their platforms. They don't have messaging. They don't have skill. They don't have any understanding of what went wrong.

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They don't know anything about MAGA, even though they imagine they do. How do you recover from that, where every single thing they touched broke? Everything. They broke their own media. They broke everything. All right. So Meta say they're going to allow AI-generated users on both Instagram and Facebook. So the AI...

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You could create an AI, like a little AI personality, and they're going to allow you, they'll explicitly allow you to put that on their platforms and have it interact with other people. Now, it has to be labeled. It has to be labeled AI. But some of the examples are, you see a profile picture that looks like a real person, and they might be giving you advice.

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But at least the rest of us made it for now. Well, let me tell you the news. So China is building what's been called the Solar Great Wall. So it's a gigantic wall of solar, and they're going to be done by 2030, and it's going to power the entire city of Beijing, they think. That's kind of awesome. How long would it have to be? Well, 250 miles long. It's going to be three miles wide.

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So you could send a message to the little AI character that you created, and it'll give you some advice. And it might be even about some domain in particular, like relationships or business or something. You know, on one hand, maybe your first reaction is, hey, they should not be encouraging bots, you know, AI. They should be discouraging them. They should be getting rid of them. And

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I think this is another case of Zuckerberg being able to see the future. He does impress me with his ability to operate in this planet. So I think he's right. I think he's right. That you're way better off making it legal and just say label it because that's what it's going to be anyway. I mean, it's going to turn into that anyway. So it feels like this...

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I feel like he's got the right vision on this. We might as well embrace it because he can't stop it anyway. Meanwhile, Adam Townsend was reporting on Blue Sky, one of the competing products now for X. And I haven't spent any time on Blue Sky, but Adam says that he did his own research over there and found out that it's just tons of bots. And

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apparently a lot of people are conversing with the bots. Now, I don't know the source of the bots. I don't think he's alleging that the Blue Sky people are putting their own bots there. But it makes me wonder if that's an op. Do you think somebody is running an op against Blue Sky and filling it with bots to reduce their credibility? Or do you think that

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All networks have bots, and maybe Blue Sky has not yet built up the capability to defend against them, but will. I don't know. So look out for bots. I guess that's my... And I would point out again that this whole conversation about foreign workers was really driven by a lot of fake accounts, whether they be bots or whatever they are, trolls. So the fake accounts are one of the biggest...

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factors in in the world right now trying to figure out who's real anyway uh trump uh trump's team has advised or really required that people who have been nominated for his various posts stop using social media until after their nominations are handled that's actually pretty smart

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Because almost anything that they say on social media, the ones who have been nominated for offices, is now just going to be a target. So even if they're not saying anything wrong, the Democrats will take it out of context, their primary thing that they do. And so this is actually really smart. It's smart for the Trump administration to publicly tell them not to post.

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Because now if somebody posts some insult about him and they don't respond to it, you don't say, oh, it must be true because he's not responding. You can just say, oh, they've all been asked not to use social media for a few weeks. So I'm going to call this yet again another example of the Trump team. First the campaign and now the team that he's putting together. They're really good.

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They're really, really good. It's hard for me to pick out mistakes. And this is one of those things where I've never seen it done before. But it's right on point. It's like 100%. Yeah, this is exactly what you should do. Ask them not to post. Smart. They just keep being smart. And again, I always feel like I have to say this. The boss still gets the credit. That's the way it works, right?

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Trump is the one who picked his team. Trump is the one who says yes or no to everything. So no matter how good his advisors are, and they are very good, the boss still gets the credit. All right. MSNBC is wondering why there isn't more pushback on Trump, why the media isn't attacking him as much as they hoped or expect.

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They pointed out one of their shows that there don't seem to be many protests and the foreign leaders are not bristling, they're sort of embracing him. And they're trying to figure out, like, why is it different? So MSNBC is the dumbest show on TV, which I treat as a comedy network, like literally. When I say I treat MSNBC as a comedy network, that's not a hyperbole.

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and stretched for 250 miles across the desert. And I said to myself, I know where we could put a giant solar wall. I've got an idea. Yeah, on our border. Remember when it was the beginning of the first Trump administration, and maybe even before he was elected, and we were coming up with all these ideas for how to build a cool wall on the southern border.

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It's literally the only reason I watch it, and I watch it a lot. I watch it because I can't even believe what I'm seeing. The propaganda is so thick. that they've sort of left the pretense of being news, you know, if you've been paying attention. They're just some humorously ineffective propaganda. If their propaganda were effective, it wouldn't be funny at all.

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But the fact that it doesn't work and all it does is make the Democrats weaker every day, that's funny because they haven't figured out that they're only making things worse. That's funny. Anyway, so here's their speculation. about why the public is being nicer to Trump, not as many protests, and foreign leaders are being nicer to him, and basically, there's just not enough resistance.

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Their best idea was sheer exhaustion, that Trump wore out the resistance, to which I say, did MSNBC not notice that he won the majority vote? Maybe one difference is that the majority of Americans agree with him, and they agree with him so much that after four years of Biden's failures, they practically begged him to come back in office.

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And they're pretty happy about what he's suggesting, because the top three things he suggests are exactly what the top three things the public wanted. Could it be that the reason there are no protests is that Nobody has the incentive. What, is there somebody who desperately wants to go back to the Biden economy? I've not met anybody.

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Have you ever met a Democrat who said, you know, there's some things Biden didn't get right, but I sure liked his economy. I haven't heard that. So could it be that it's not sheer exhaustion? Could it be that even the people who disagreed with him agree that they didn't run a better candidate on the other side. And isn't it true that the Democrats can see that everything they tried fell apart?

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DEI drove them into complete destruction. By the way, I think that's the top line explanation. If you think there's a different explanation, I might laugh at you. This is a DEI collapse. This is what it is. If the Democrats had been listening to James Carville and some of their non-DEI people who knew what they were talking about, they might have won the election.

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It was DEI that just destroyed the party. And again, if you're new to my content, when I say DEI destroyed everything, well, I say it destroys everything it touches. It has nothing to do with anybody's genes, nothing to do with anybody's culture, nothing to do with anybody's IQ.

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It just has to do with putting a constraint on the people that you can hire and putting an artificial constraint where it leans away from merit and toward identity. That guarantees you'll destroy everything you touch. On paper, you can just look at it and say, well, if you did this, it looks like it would destroy everything it touches. And then you check back later. Oh, yeah. Yep. Sure enough.

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The design was predictive. Design is destiny. So sheer exhaustion. And then also a collective conclusion that early resistance framework didn't work before. It did work before. It totally worked. Trump lost the second election.

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So not only did they not know what worked, it totally worked because it convinced their party that they really needed to stick together to get him out of office after one term, and they did. So now they don't even know what worked. They think it's exhaustion instead of just preferring policies that work and closing the border and getting rid of inflation, if he can do it. And Doge, of course.

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And I don't think you can underestimate the power of Doge. Because no matter what side you're on, you know the government's taking too much of your money and spending it in the wrong way. And you know that no matter what else you think of Vivek or Elon politically, you know they have the skill to do the one thing that can make America secure over all of our competitors for decades to come.

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Nobody else could do it, in my opinion. It's just undoable. It might be undoable by them. I mean, it's that hard. But I do trust that they can figure it out. So I think even Democrats are looking... ah, maybe I don't want to complain about this Doge thing until we see if they can deliver because they might like it too.

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And we had all these ideas like, what if you put solar panels all across it and you make it an energy plus? Well, China's doing it. But it looks like it's not a regular wall because it's three miles wide. So it's a solar wall. Anyway. Meanwhile, Good News Networks and Andy Corbley's writing that there has been invented a way to pull water and a fog.

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Um, and then separately, MSNBC was wondering how they, uh, one of their female panel members suggested that, uh, men are in crisis and this is the reason Trump has so much support and they need therapy. And she said, just like she's in therapy, I never would have guessed. Um, And that the American men should be not listening to Joe Rogan because it'll turn them into fascists.

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I would like to see a convention of all the people who turned into fascists by watching Joe Rogan. Now imagine you had this big amphitheater, but there's nobody in it. It's like this giant stadium. Nobody there, just like a bird flying by. That would be all the people in America who listened to Joe Rogan and became fascist because of it. Because everything that Joe Rogan says is anti-fascist.

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So why is it that MSNBC thinks it's the opposite of what it is? Well, it's projection. The MSNBC thing is just pure projection. And Well, that's all it is. Men are not in crisis over any of the political stuff. Not even close. Men are in crisis, but not over the politics.

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According to Reddit, there's a suggestion that some large accounts on X that have a lot of followers are sometimes selling their account to bad actors who are using their big accounts to push their propaganda. And Musk says if he finds them, he's going to nuke them. But again, look out for fake accounts.

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So the fakery and the persuasion from social media is kind of the biggest variable going forward. Meanwhile, let me just point out one other thing. So How many of you would agree with the following statement, that Elon Musk's support of Trump put him over the top? Now we don't know that, but does that seem seem real to you. Some say he spent $250 million.

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Certainly, Musk made it safe for other tech people to support Trump. Wouldn't you agree? Because if Elon's doing it and he's the smartest person that we know in the public life, it just makes you say, wait a minute. Like, why is he doing this? He's smarter than me. So I think that Elon... that Elon's contribution to the campaign, especially in Pennsylvania, probably put him over the top.

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Now, you could say that about other things. You could say Scott Pressler put him over the top. You could say, you know, Laura Trump and, you know, other people did such a good job that it put him over the top. And you could say that, you know, some influencer was so good it put him over the top. But you needed all of it. You probably needed all of it to go the way it went.

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But I do think that Elon's involvement... More important than others. How about Joe Rogan's? Yeah, you beat me to it. What about Joe Rogan's contribution? I think it's huge because Rogan doesn't even identify as a Republican. I mean, he was a Bernie supporter just recently. And Elon was also Democrat until recently.

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So when you see people who are lifelong Democrats say, we've left the plane of common sense. Let's just be reasonable and be smart about this. I think that between Rogan and Musk, it made it completely safe to support Trump. And it also made it, wait for it, it made it the manly thing to do.

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meaning that men could feel good about their identity if they're agreeing with Rogan and Musk, because men like those two. We admire both of their accomplishments in different ways. So if you accept that Rogan and Musk were really a critical part of putting Trump into the winning category,

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would point out that both of them have noted that the fine people hoax was their sort of the thing that woke them up so they both said that once you realize the fine people hoax was a hoax it kind of allows you to see the other hoaxes it almost like suddenly everything comes into focus and you say wait a minute

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If they could have lied on that, that was so obviously easily debunkable, all you had to do is play the whole video instead of part of it. That's it. That was the whole debunk. Play another 30 seconds of the video that you say one thing, and you'll see that that's not what he said. Now, once you fully understand that they knew they were lying, this is the important part.

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So apparently there are places that have fog, but not enough water. It doesn't rain enough, but they get some fog. And now they have these little metal needle things that are like mimicking pine needles that don't require any electricity. You just set it up in the fog and it captures the fog water and drains it down into a pail or something. That's kind of cool.

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The thing about the fine people hoax is they knew they were lying. They all knew it because it was so easily knowable. So when it got finally debunked by Snopes and the good work of many Republican-oriented people, Steve Cortez, Jewel Pollack, and I was all over it as well, that eventually just

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poking on that one tent pole as i called it so you remember i've called the fine people hoax the tent pole hoax meaning if you could make that pole disappear the whole tent would collapse so i told you that years ago and i told you i was going to work on it to the death and i was just going to lean on that freaking pole and hammer on it until until it goes

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And so I did, you know, with a lot of other people that I mentioned. And we just hammered on that thing and hammered on it and hammered on it. And I mentioned in a post on X that it was the tentpole hoax that allowed people to be comfortable coming over to Trump. You had to remove that. And a lot of people said so.

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And Elon Musk responded to my statement that it was the thing that allowed you to see the other hoaxes. And he said, yes. He agreed that breaking that hoax was what opened up the whole door. So, this will be the history that nobody tells. The history that nobody tells is that we were living in a hoax-dominated reality, and until we could break that spell, nothing was going to get better.

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And this is what I call the rise of the internet dads. This was the internet dads. The internet dads and mothers, right? So I don't want to be sexist, but it feels like the important people that people had credibility in. I always throw Mike Cernovich into all my examples. He's like the ultimate example of stuff. And you saw pretty soon you saw somebody that you trusted saying it was a hoax.

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And then eventually it broke through. And by the time it got on Snopes, it was a big deal. I would say that the biggest unreported story is that the media never reported that Biden's primary reason for running for election was a hoax. And it was a hoax that the media itself had carried.

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And the reason I can't tell you it's the biggest story of the year that it got debunked and it collapsed the entire tent is that they were responsible for it. So the news can't tell you the news because the news is that the news were the bad guys who kept the tent pole alive. It wasn't the Democrats. It was the news. The fake news knowingly, knowingly kept that tent pole alive. And when it fell...

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It fell hard. And I don't think they can recover. They're all buried under the tent. They have no idea what's outside the tent at this point. All right. So Biden found another $5.9 billion to send to Ukraine. And he said he's directed his administration to surge as much assistance to Ukraine as possible. So this is how Biden describes it. And this is actually a good communication-wise.

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an actual no-energy-needed water-capturing machine. That's a first. No energy needed. According to SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing that men in relationships have better sexual functioning regardless of sexual orientation. So the study says that men who are in relationships... have better sexual functioning. What do you think I'm going to say about that?

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His advisors did him a solid on this one. So rather than making it sound like we're just shipping our money over to Ukraine, he tries to soften it by saying that what we're really doing is we're drawing down our older equipment, meaning that we're sending our older stuff to Ukraine, and then we're replacing it so that we have new stuff

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And Ukraine still has stuff, but we have newer stuff, so we're better off. Now, that does soften it. It does soften it. So if you knew that $5.9 billion was just going to Ukraine, that would sound pretty bad.

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If you knew that we were going to upgrade all of this equipment anyway, I don't know that that's true, but if you thought it was true, you'd say, oh, well, we were kind of going to spend it anyway. So... What were we even going to do with the old stuff? How do you get rid of the old stuff anyway? Might as well send it to Ukraine. So he does have a point. He does have a point.

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But there's a bigger point. Trump won. Trump won. And to me, once the people have spoken, especially by a majority of voters... Anything that the outgoing administration does that is designed specifically to thwart the ambitions of the incoming administration, that feels like very wrong. It's not just wrong because you don't like the policy.

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It's wrong because we're only a few weeks away from the new leader. The new leader probably has different ideas about how much to feed the monster. And if you're doing things that are dramatically in contrast to what the incoming administration wants, that borders on, it's not treason, but there's some kind of disloyalty to the public. That's the way to say it, right?

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There's not a criminal act, but the disloyalty, the disrespect to the voters, it's a little hard for me to ignore. Like, I feel I'm literally being insulted. because we had this system, there was a winner, and now they're acting as if we didn't vote and we didn't pick a winner. What they should be doing is consulting with the incoming, as if this could ever happen in the real world.

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But if they were acting as adults, the transition teams are talking, right? So they have lots of communication. Everybody says so. And Biden should be checking with Trump and saying, hey, Are you okay with us buying new equipment and getting rid of some of the old equipment?

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And then Trump might say something like, just hypothetically, might say something like, yes, but only if that's what you're doing. That's not a lie. So yes, if it's true. And yes, if it's stuff we were going to replace pretty soon anyway. And then you do it. And you say, we talked to the Trump administration.

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They agree with this because it's upgrading what we have, and we didn't have any place to take this old stuff anyway. So everybody wins. Now, that would be the adult way to do this transition. When you get within a few days of the turnover, you can't just be doing stuff you know the new administration hates. That's wrong on a level that is insulting.

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It's not a legal problem, but it's just so disrespectful. Anyway, Joe Biden continues to have terrible luck in addition to terrible skill that Jimmy Carter died before Trump took office, which required Biden to do his public thing, which required us to compare him to Carter, which required us to imagine that, wow, Carter was bad, but this guy's even worse.

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But even more, and some of the things that we feel like makes Carter and Biden the same is some would say that neither of them were sufficiently pro-Israel. Some would say the opposite. But what it did is it turned Carter and Biden into one entity, right?

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In my mind, I actually am having a little confusion that I have to sort out all the time about which one is which, because they're both going to be one-term Democrat, not friendly to Israel enough, say some people, both replaced by a populist, one by Reagan, one by Trump, which in addition makes you think that Trump is more Reagan-like, because just by pattern recognition, he's replacing a one-term Democrat.

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So that helps Trump because now he's being compared to Reagan, which is good for him. And Carter's being associated with Biden. And if Carter had just stayed around for one more month, he would have passed during the Trump administration and would look completely different. But now I think we've created one entity in our minds. I call it Carter-Biden loser.

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Do you know me well enough to know exactly what I'm going to say? Yes, you do. Yes, you do. It's backward science. Let me ask you, who is more likely to be in a relationship in the first place? Probably people who are pretty good at sex because their partner says, well, I could certainly live with more of that. What about people who have bad sexual function?

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There's just one word, no space, Carter Biden loser. And we think of them as the same person. So have you heard about the approval rating of the Carter Biden loser? It was in the 30s. Did you hear about the Carter Biden loser? He only served one term and got destroyed by a populist. Did you hear about the Carter Biden loser? He didn't help Israel enough, according to Israel supporters. So

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The way I wrote it in a post, I said the demoralized Democrats are trying to figure out how to recover their national brand, and the Carter turd just landed on their foreheads. Imagine trying to dig yourself out from the biggest political collapse certainly in my lifetime, and everything's gone wrong. And then on top of it, at the end of the year, during the slow news season,

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they dropped the Carter turd right on their foreheads, and they're like, oh, no, now what do I do? It couldn't get any worse. It couldn't get any worse. This is the worst luck, because in our minds, these two characters just became Carter Biden loser. They just looked like the same person. All right. It would be fair to say they had a tough year.

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Have you noticed, if you're on social media, you've seen some lists of Democrat hoaxes? I've talked about this lots of times, but I created a list some years ago, and then people have added to it, and now there's a list of 50 hoaxes that are genuinely hoaxes, things that the media... Probably knew were fake, but reported it that way anyway.

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And today, Molly Hemingway has another story with her top 10 hoaxes of the year. Now, do you think that the Democrats, I don't see all the Democrat content. Do you think that they have lots of content about all the hoaxes that the Republicans played on the public? I don't think so. because I'm not aware of any hoaxes that the Republicans played on the Democrats. Are you?

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There are certainly things they didn't like. There are things that Republicans got wrong. There are things where they factually were wrong, or maybe they believe some fake news or something. So that, of course, is universal. But is there any example where we know that the Republicans knew they were lying... And we're playing it like a hoax. Like, just see if they fool people into believing it.

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I can't think of any example. Can you? It is totally only one direction. But you can see how stark this is because on the right-leaning social media, people are putting together their top 10 hoaxes just of the year. Just of this year. Top 10 means there were more than 10 And they were big enough that they're worth mentioning at the end of the year. More than 10. It was hard to narrow it down.

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In fact, Glenn Greenwald said that. It was hard. How do you narrow it down to 10? At what point do Democrats notice that only one side can reliably create dozens of lists of the top 10 or top 20 or top 50? we could easily make a list of the top 50 hoaxes. If you look at the whole Trump administration, uh, from beginning 10, uh, but you could easily get 10 for just, just this year. Easily. Amazing.

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Does their partner say, hmm, I'd like to do that for the rest of my life? No, it's backwards. It is not that the relationship is improving your sexual performance. Your sexual performance has improved your relationship. Backwards science. You should have asked me. I could have straightened that out. Well, over at X, X had a win that might have been not a win, but you decide.

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Um, John Brennan was on MSNBC and, uh, He was actually complimenting the Trump transition team for being more professional, which comes as a surprise because Brennan would be typically one of the biggest insulters of all things Trump. But he has some good words for the transition team, and he named in particular Marco Rubio. Uh-oh. Is this an op to make Republicans hate Marco Rubio?

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Or is Brennan telling us, listen to what else he said about Trump. So he didn't have good words for Trump. He said about Trump, we could see in particular that he did not understand the importance of the United States' relationship with our foreign allies and partners. He has little recognition for the transatlantic relationship for NATO. That's true, but aren't we thinking past the sale?

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So it is true that Trump didn't have the same worshiping feeling of our transatlantic relationships. But where's the part where he was wrong? We know it was different. We all agree on that. But was he wrong? And I think that Brennan is sort of revealing that And here's the part that's tough for me, because I want to just take sides. You know, that's natural instinct.

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You want to know who's right, who's wrong, and then you want to take the side of the who's right as best you can. But this is a tough one for me. And the reason is that the United States is what it is, which is the most powerful nation controlling directly or indirectly controlling, what, over 100 countries probably by now? That does keep us safer, probably. It does let us grow.

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It probably has a number of economic advantages. But we can't say that out loud. So here's what Brennan can't say out loud. But it's true. It's better if we act like oppressive, colonizing bastards because our survival rate will go way up. If we act weak... then people will gang up on us because they see us as weak.

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And if we're shrinking, let's say reducing our impact on the rest of the world, that that's a bad trend and eventually we'll become weak and they'll gang up on us and kill us because that's the history of the world. The history of the world is if you're weak, somebody's going to take you out every time. So all this bad behavior...

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where we were using our CIA and our military and our alliances and NATO to dominate and control and conquer markets and keep Russia weak and all these other things. If you were to look at any one of those things individually, which is the way we usually look at it, you'd say, do we really need to be supporting Ukraine this much?

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And you would ask lots of other questions about any individual thing we do. But if you were to look at it as a whole, America being the biggest, baddest bastard trying to control everything probably is a formula for success. And I hate saying it because it's not ethical. It's not moral. It just might be real. The real world, the toughest bastard wins, which is one of the reasons I like Trump.

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Because I know that our competitors look at him and say, oh, damn, he's the toughest bastard. We better at least wait until he's gone before we make a move on anything. I love the rumble comment. Scott has no clue. He lost in commie delusion. He has no clue. Did I not just say everything that you agree with? That if we're weak... our adversaries will take advantage of it.

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You don't disagree with that, trolly troll. All right. But the fact that John Brennan likes Rubio, and I don't know a ton about Rubio, but before he was nominated for anything, I would hear rumblings that he was a little bit too much about funding our foreign adventures. And if John Brennan says he's okay with Rubio,

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That certainly suggests that Rubio has a foreign policy understanding that's not too far, not too far from John Brennan's, right? So again, I'm uncomfortable with it. At the same time, I think, I don't know, it might be best. It might be best that we're just the biggest bastards and we fund things all over the world and we put our foot in everybody's business and we overthrow their governments.

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Was this a win or not a win? So Governor Newsom in California bragged on X that he had dramatically slowed and reduced the growth of homelessness. But a community note quickly jumped in and said, completely misleading because X Homelessness has been growing year after year since 2019. So let me say it again, but listen to the exact words.

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Because if we didn't, there'd be a whole bunch of countries aligned against us. So I don't know. It's a tough one. But I think we understand it now more that there is a whole school of thought that says controlling the world is kind of necessary because the alternative is worse. I get it. I don't know if I... It will never pass as moral or ethical according to the standard way we look at things.

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But you could say selfishness is also ethical in some cases. I saw a comment by a user on X named Grumms, G-R-U-M-M-Z, talking about DEI and said... Grum said that when DEI ends, and I hope that it does, I assume it will, everyone will forget. People still claim it never really happened. He's talking about how the pandemic, people act like it never really happened. Oh, I'm sorry.

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So he's saying that like some of the stuff from the pandemic, when the pandemic was over, people had a lot of false memories about what they did or did not do. And that's normal. And when DEI is done, there are going to be a lot of people who have false memories about how much they contributed to it. Because certainly history will have a very bad opinion of DEI.

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I feel completely confident that history will judge it harshly. So... Yeah. So basically, we're going to forget that the Democrats were prison wardens, and they will forget as well. But you know that Costco, their board of directors decided that they're going to double down on DEI. So they're not abandoning it. They're going to stay with it. A lot of people asked Robbie Starbucks.

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because he's an activist who has gotten a number of companies to back off of DEI. So they've asked him why he hasn't gone after Costco. And His answer fascinated me because he says that they, he must be working with some other people, they have a plan for what order to approach individual companies so that you can make sure that you don't fail.

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I'm guessing, so this part is my speculation, that the reason he wants to do it in a certain order is so that he doesn't lose any because he has a 100% record of that if he comes in, the company says, all right, we don't want this fight. Yeah, we'll back off. So that really suggests a level of sophisticated planning that makes me very happy.

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And if Robbie Starbuck has looked at the Costco thing and thought to himself, and again, I would just be speculating, if he thought, I don't think I can win this one because it's so freshly confirmed, but I can win the one I'm working on, And if I win a couple of those, Costco is going to have something to worry about. So we'll get that one later. That does make sense. Seems wise.

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And certainly gave me confidence in his approach that there's a larger picture. It's not just opportunistic. So he's not just reading the news and saying, oh, these guys are in the news. I'll go after them. He's looking for more of a lever. And that's smart. Again, there's a compilation clip out by the Clipkeeper, C-L-Y-P, Clipkeeper.

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And it's a clip of all the people in the media predicting that Trump wouldn't show up for the Biden debate because Trump would be so afraid of losing to Biden that he wouldn't even show up for the debate. And I'd forgotten... How many people that you thought were credible news people predicted that he wouldn't show up? What? Now, here's what I wonder.

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Again, can Democrats pull together a compilation clip of nothing but Republicans saying something that's just batshit crazy? Because maybe I don't see them. Maybe they do have those confirmation clips. But if they don't, then it fits into that, why can the Republicans always make a top 10 hoax list and Democrats can't?

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So Newsom said that he has dramatically slowed and reduced the growth of homelessness. He's reduced the growth of homelessness. The community note says it's misleading because homelessness is increasing. But not by very much. compared to how much it had been increasing in every prior year.

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Why is it that Republicans can easily put together a compilation clip of people saying the craziest stuff? And I'm not sure the Democrats can. So, I mean, these little messages and patterns are just going to, keep getting stronger. I just don't know how Democrats ever recover. So NDTV is reporting on AI and what they call the rise of intention economy.

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And that would be using AI tools to manipulate you into making decisions. So the way AI words things, the things that he chooses to say or not say, would be persuasion. So the worry here is that AI will have persuasion, and it will anticipate what people will want, and it will steer them toward different decisions. Now, why would you worry about this? Because people have free will.

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They're not going to be manipulated by machines. Because if this were possible, then there'd be no free will. Right? No, I'm just joking, because I know you wanted to get into that conversation, but that's not what we're talking about. I don't know. I don't know what the potential is for the current versions of AI. Because the current versions are pattern recognizers.

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And I don't know if they would know where to find the right patterns to be good persuaders. And I also don't know if they can read the room. So at the moment... AI doesn't do a good job of knowing what people are feeling and thinking at this exact moment, sort of the zeitgeist it's called.

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The thing that we're all feeling, even if nobody said it, usually we do say it, but it's some kind of common feeling that we all get at the same time. I don't know that AI can do that yet. Maybe it can someday. But if it doesn't know how people are feeling at the moment, and it also can't test what it's doing against itself, So this is the big skill of persuasion.

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So before I say something that I hope to persuade somebody, I roll it around in my head and then I feel whether it would persuade me. So persuasion is what you feel. It's not your rational common sense stuff. It's what you feel. So I can pre-test everything I say by running it through my mind and saying, how would that make me feel?

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Well, it probably would make other people feel the same because we're not that different. So AI will always be limited by not knowing how people feel and especially not knowing how they feel right at this moment because that's when it matters. So for a short time, people like me will be able to out-persuade AI. People like Trump will be able to out-persuade AI.

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But we're going to lose our advantage soon enough. I don't know if it's in five years or one year or what. But those who know how to persuade, we're still ahead. And still ahead by a pretty good margin. But that's going to change. And I don't know what kind of world that looks like. Anyway... And I saw a post by ex-user Rick Hankins, who was commenting on this.

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I feel like Newsom is right on this, although he may have written it so that dumb people would think it was more than it was. But what he said is exactly and precisely correct. According to the statistics that were shown, he dramatically slowed. It is dramatic. It's a lot. He slowed and reduced the growth, which is the increase, the rate, basically, of homelessness.

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And he said, study persuasion and hypnosis. And he points out that, unfortunately, certain personality types will have no defense against the AI trying to manipulate you. And I had to comment on that myself. because I have a little bit more experience in that domain, and tell them that he needs to, he said study persuasion and hypnosis, and I told him to study harder, because nobody has a defense.

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If he knew a little bit, it looks like he knows a bit about persuasion and hypnosis. If he knew a little more, you would know that there's no human defense. Everybody's persuadable. What's different is what you use to persuade them. A human can figure that out if they're experienced. And so a human like me could figure out what do I need to persuade this person?

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It's still, you know, you still use the same toolbox, but the tool that you pick out of the box will be based on that person and how much you hit that tool will be based on that person. So AI can't do that yet. Um, but it will. So no, nobody has any defense. Your strong mind, your free will, your greater knowledge of things, your understanding of propaganda, you think they would help you.

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They won't. It's one of the most important lessons of hypnosis. Everybody can be hypnotized. You've probably heard of, or you might be the person who says, try hypnotizing me. I can't be hypnotized. I hear this so much. People say, I can't be hypnotized. I can hypnotize them with three words, and they wouldn't know it. So you don't know if you're hypnotizable. You are.

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You just might be resistant to sitting in a chair and having somebody tell you how you feel. Now, that might be true. But as soon as you get out of that chair, you're going to go over to Axe. You're going to look at some messages. And if you're following me, you're going to see something that persuades you, just like hypnosis, except you're not going to know it was hypnosis.

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You're just going to feel, oh, that looks real. I'm persuaded. So no, there's nobody who is immune to persuasion and propaganda. It's just not a thing. Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire seems to have a great story about the Soros network. And I did not know this. I knew it was bad that Soros was funding these liberal DAs.

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But I kind of assumed that they were just picking people who were liberal and maybe giving them a little priming and stuff of what they'd like. But then they just made sure they got elected and then figured out, oh, these liberals will know what to do. We don't have to tell them.

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But it turns out that what comes with this helping you fund your campaign, if you're one of the people he's funding, is they present this massive...

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it looks like kind of massive network of help so that you've got expert advice Soros tells you what he wants you to do and how to do it tells you how to interpret the law yes Soros the organization is telling the people that they funded to be DA's how to interpret the law and it's in writing I'm not imagining it.

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So apparently the Media Research Center obtained nearly 8,000 pages of internal documents through public records that show the Soros-funded group called Fair and Just Prosecutions, quote, directed Soros prosecutors to manipulate the rule of law concerning illegal immigration, drugs, abortion, and election integrity, capital punishment, and laws against childhood sex changes.

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So if you're a Soros prosecutor, according to this Daily Wire report by Luke Rosiak, you get all this free access to expert political consulting, you get polling for free, field-tested messaging strategies. So basically, if Soros funds you and then gives you all these support resources,

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It's actually an accomplishment. I'm not sure that... I think Community Notes did a little overstep there. Because if you were to read his statement... And then you would read community notes correcting his statement. It would seem to be that he was claiming credit for something that wasn't worthy of credit or that he lied. He didn't lie.

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are you going to ignore what he wants for your next campaign or are you going to say whoa this worked all i have to do is follow what this soros guy wants and i'll win my re-election it does look like the soros organization was running america from the bottom up because they they found that the dollar you know the bang for the dollar was better if you don't fund the president

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That's really expensive and you don't get much out of it. But if you fund these district attorneys and prosecutors and whatnot, you get a lot of bang for the buck because you can control them and therefore they control the law and the law controls the rest of us. So that's not ideal. That's a hell of a good story.

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I can't believe we got this far without hearing how extensive that Soros control was in the country. Meanwhile, all right, here's your test for the day. I want you to see if you think this is true news or pure propaganda. Okay? News or propaganda. So in the comments, after I tell it to you, just say, is it news or propaganda?

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So according to Business Insider, so that's your first tip, Business Insider. All right. Germany calls for new sanctions on Russia's dark fleet. that is, quote, damaging major undersea cables nearly every month. So the claim is that, so according to Germany's foreign minister, that they want sanctions on Russia's dark fleet. Now, the dark fleet is not military ships.

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It's ships that they use to get around embargoes. So these are older ships and sketchy ships, and they're used to deliver things to places that we're trying to stop them from delivering things. So it's a dark fleet because it's sort of, you know, behind the scenes.

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And what the claim is, is that this dark fleet that would be otherwise delivering energy and goods and services, I don't know what's on it, mostly energy, I think, mostly oil, that these ships are routinely dragging their anchors intentionally to damage undersea cables in the Baltic Sea almost every month.

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So they say, quote, crews are leaving anchors in the water, dragging them for kilometers along the seafloor for no apparent reason, and then losing them when pulling them up. And they say it's more difficult to still believe in coincidences. Now, do you believe that? Do you believe that Russia is somewhat randomly destroying undersea cables in the Baltic, with their ships dragging anchors?

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Does that sound real to you? Or does that sound a little too on the nose? I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to go with there's a mystery here for sure, but if Russia wanted to cut the undersea's cables of anybody, is this the way they'd do it? Would they order their They're leaky old crappy vessels to drag the anchor. I'll give you a second possibility.

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Since the so-called dark fleet would not be the upstanding professional sailors of the world. If you're an upstanding professional lifetime sailor, you probably want to be on a boat that's not going to be captured by NATO. And you probably don't want to be involved in illegal trade.

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And it's totally worth mentioning because it looks like it's heading in the right direction. So I'm going to say that Newsom should have won that battle. But because it's on X, I think community notes Slapped him down. I disagree with this one. I think this was community notes. Should have said it's a little misleading, but keep in mind the total numbers going up a little bit.

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So could it be that the crew capability of these ships, since they're the old broken-down ships that good people don't want to work on, and they're operating illegally, so it's risky not only because the ship itself is unstable, but because it's illegal. Do you think that gets them the best and the brightest of a crew? Or does it seem more likely...

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that it's somewhat common for them to forget to pull up the anchor because they're just crewed by idiots because the only people they can get to do the work are idiots because the other ones just don't want to do that work. I don't know. To me, this is sort of a coin flip because on one hand, you could sort of kind of see maybe how they'd want to take out some undersea cables.

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But it doesn't seem terribly important to their war effort. It's sort of indirect. And is this the way they do it? By having these old ships drag anchors? So I wonder, is this just another way to call attention to we need to do something about these dark fleets? Is this an op to give us one more reason to work against Russia? Yeah. I don't know.

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I'm going to put a pin in this one and say it could be true. It's within the realm of possibility. But it doesn't feel right. It feels like it's just another reason to make us support funding war against Russia. It doesn't feel right. Anyway. And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the Conclusion of the prepared remarks.

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I'm going to talk to the locals people privately in a moment, but I wanted to say my own personal gigantic thank you for all of you who make this morning time special. If it's not obvious, I get a lot out of this, meaning that I can't wait to wake up in the morning. I can't wait to do this. I can't wait to do exactly what I'm doing right now. I feel completely

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privileged and honored that anybody would even come watch it twice. And I could not be happier with all that you have added. Now, you heard me saying earlier that I think the debunking of the fine people hoax led to the right people entering the contest, which helped Trump, which got him elected, which might save the world. Do you think I could have done any of that if you all ignored me? No, no.

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It is the... The collective power of the people who are willing to listen to the things I say, that fuels me. So you are literally the energy that makes me want to send that post, debunk the fine people hoax one more time, get involved, make things better. So all of that energy comes directly from you, both on X and on here. And you should take a... you should take a victory lap.

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Because in my opinion, your support of me was very, very important to taking out the tentpole hoax, which got all the right people into the fight, which allowed Trump to win, which allowed Doge to be a thing, which could fix most of our problems. So the enormity... of the success that all of you should be enjoying right now is almost incalculable. I mean, it's the fate of the country.

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That would have been fair. Did you know that the U.S. attorney... who was named in Hunter Biden's IRS whistleblowing testimony. Let's see. Now, what? I think this is like two stories that got mixed up. Matthew Graves, a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whose name surfaced in testimony by IRS whistleblowers about political interference in the case, will resign and then get out of here.

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That's not an exaggeration. It's the fate of the country. Probably. was largely supported by the energy that's happening right now, right in front of you. That's pretty awesome. Pretty awesome. All right. I will talk to you tomorrow, of course, because I don't take days off because I'm doing what I love. It'd be crazy. So I'll see you tomorrow.

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Everybody else who does this regularly will be on some kind of a vacation or day off. I don't know. The lazy ones. But I'll be here. I'll be here for you, partly because you're here for me. No, not even partly. Entirely because you're here. I wouldn't do it if you weren't here. So yes, you're the reason I'll be here tomorrow, and I thank you for that. So locals, I'm coming at you.

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Those of you on Rumble and YouTube and X, thank you so much for a fun, fun year. All right, locals, we'll see you in 30 seconds.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. It's the end of the year show, the best thing that ever happened to you, but...

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So it looks like there's going to be a lot of people associated with the Biden Department of Justice that are going to resign or in some cases leave the country. What do you think about that? What do you think? Do you think that they're overreacting? Or do you think that they have a reason to maybe get out of there and stay out of trouble? I

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I was confusing this story with one of the other DOJ attorneys that was going after Trump leaving the country. The one that left the country, I don't know that that was exactly the right move to protect himself, but it signals some kind of guilt. I feel that they think that they were guilty so they know they better get out of town.

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So I can't tell if it's just that they're afraid of mean old Trump or if they know they're guilty. It feels like they know they're guilty, but that's just my bias. Well, if you didn't think that being on X was a trip, I just have to tell you about this one little exchange.

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happened today that couldn't happen anywhere else there's no place else in the world that the following exchange could have happened so sean uh ono lennon who as you know is john lennon's son one of them um he uh the other day he pointed out that there was some some account that people thought was elon musk in disguise you know like a secret account But apparently it wasn't.

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If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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It's just somebody who either sounds like him or used AI to sound like him or something. Probably just sounds like him. Anyway, so Sean O'Lennon had pointed out that, you know, that fake account or that other account is not fake. But the other account was not really Elon.

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So Sean posts today and actually says, apparently when I pointed out that Adrian, that was that other account people thought was Elon, is not Elon, despite having a similar sounding voice, that was, quote, dick riding to many people. And then Sean says, making factual observation is not dick riding people. Stating a fact is not sucking up.

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He says, I pray that 2025 magically makes everyone smarter. And then he follows up with dick riding for the record would be something like, quote, wow, Elon, you not only are incredibly handsome, but you have a 13-inch penis, and that's just really amazing. And Sean says, I have never said anything like that, and I'm not saying it's not 13 inches. I just don't know and have no interest.

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Now, if that's the only thing that happened, it would still be worth a chuckle because, you know, it's John Lennon's kid and he's just talking about Elon Musk's penis. So that alone would be worth noting. But then Elon Musk enters the chat. So Elon Musk decides to interact with the posts about the enormity of his penis. And he says, actually, it's 36 inches. I'm basically a tripod.

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And then he follows up quickly with another post. He says, gets in the way, frankly. And just like that, the richest man in the world made us all think about the length of his penis, intentionally, because it's funny. And it is funny. So here's a little humor lesson. Sometimes things are funny because they're funny. Sometimes it's funny because the person who said it wasn't supposed to say it.

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That's what this is. It's not that his comments were, you know, if you were a joke writer, you could tell these jokes on stage and people would laugh. It's nothing like that. It's just that he's not supposed to do that. You're not supposed to do that. Hey, hey, hey, you're not supposed to do that. And he does it anyway. God, I love it.

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Oh, my God, that was good. Well, we made it. We made it to the end of the year. Congratulations, everybody. You did it again. Now, we didn't all make it. I know some of you had some deep losses this year.

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I love that he has no respect for any boundary that doesn't really matter. Like most of us have a respect for boundaries, but we obey all the boundaries. Just sort of reflexively, it's easier. But he doesn't seem to respect any boundary, whether it's Mars or what he says where. There's no respect for any boundary, if the boundary doesn't really matter. And this is one of those.

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Well, Glenn Greenwald is pointing out that Trump's brief to the Supreme Court about the TikTok ban urging the delay of the TikTok ban. He says that banning it would be a grave danger, this is what Trump's lawyers say, would be a grave danger to free speech by allowing the U.S. government to ban social media platforms, saying it risks having the U.S.

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turn into Brazil, where judges simply ban any views or people they want. Well, let me say this about that. Well, I agree with the argument that it would be a limit on free speech, only in the sense that there would be one fewer platform, but I can see the argument. But I would add to that argument the following. China doesn't have free speech in America.

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The citizens who use the platform, American citizens anyway, certainly do. And we would extend that to, you know, if it were an American platform, we would extend the free speech to anybody who was using it if it's an American platform, typically. However, that applies to individuals. Individuals in the United States have free speech. So that part of the argument is pretty strong.

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Here's the part that I think gets a little sketchy. If I say something on social media and the algorithm that is controlled ultimately by China, not directly, but they can control it. If I say something and then the algorithm decides that you won't see it, was my free speech impinged by China? Maybe.

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Suppose I say something that normally would not be seen by a lot of people, but it's really pro-China. I say, China will be the winner in the long run. Their country is great. And then suddenly it goes viral because somebody in China decided to make it viral. Was that my free speech?

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Or is there a macro effect where the algorithm summing up all the speech of people and deciding which speech you see and what you don't, I would argue that the algorithm is a form of speech. but it's a form controlled by China, ultimately.

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So does China have the right to use algorithmic manipulations on free speech if the thing they're manipulating is actual free speech, which would be individuals saying what they want to say, but then the platform sums it together and then changes it into an algorithmic messaging where you can hear more of something that they want you to hear and less of something else.

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I would argue that the speech by individuals is protected, but the speech collectively by what the algorithm controlled by China does may not be. So I think we have to look at the collective effect of the algorithm as a form of its own speech. Is that protected? I don't know. I don't know. Now, I do agree with saving TikTok if we can get an American owner.

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Here's stocks and see how your day's going to be. Well, they're not very much changed. That might change later, but not much to see. So instead of stocks, we'll do a show because that's what you deserve. I feel you've been good and so you deserve a podcast. Yeah, it's going to be great.

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Well, there's a new bill in Congress, hasn't been passed, but it's been introduced, that would prevent members of Congress from doing insider trading, which they can do legally, but nobody else can. But the funny part is that the bill is called the Pelosi bill. This stands for preventing elected leaders owning securities investments.

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They had to try pretty hard to make that sound like Pelosi, but that's pretty funny. However, it guarantees that they'll never get any Democrat to vote for it because there's no Democrat that can vote for making Pelosi illegal. So I don't think it's going to pass, even with Republicans in charge. I don't think it's going to make it. We'll see.

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So there's a congressman named Sri Thanadar who is pushing for some impeachment of Trump. Now you have to see the video of this guy. Because I don't think it's my imagination that the weirdest members of Congress are always the ones pushing impeachment. Like, they can always find somebody who's just so weird. And this guy is, like, a little extra. A little extra weird.

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Okay, moving on. Apparently, Amazon has decided to show the tariff costs in your cart before you pay for it. But as Sean Davis pointed out on X, why don't they tell us what country it's being made from? Would you like to know that? Would you love to know what's being made in China? Yes, you would. So it might be nice to know what the tariffs are adding to the cost.

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So you can take a look yourself. But whenever you see a Democrat is introduced articles of impeachment... That's not going to be a regular guy. That's going to be somebody weird looking. According to the Wall Street Journal, 39% of executives in a recent survey said they'll decrease their recognition of pride this year. So I guess Pride Month is coming up in June.

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And partly because of the Trump administration's anti-DEI efforts. Companies are going to pull back on pride recognition or celebration, I guess. Now, my take on this, I think I said the same thing last year, is that gays should just take the victory. Because I've never seen any segment of the country that has been so successful

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in improving their brand from being mocked or whatever it was when you were a kid to, wow, these guys are doing great. You've never gone to a neighborhood where somebody said, oh, you better not go to that neighborhood because it's a gay neighborhood. It's a little too dangerous. That doesn't exist. It's not a thing.

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And you also have a lot of successful top-level politicians, both Republican and Democrat, who are openly gay. I think take the win. I think the LGB crowd especially, they've done the greatest job I've ever seen in improving their brand to the point where it's just irrelevant. How many of you spend a lot of time thinking about it? The test is you don't really even think about it. So take the win.

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At some point, the whole pride month thing ends up working against you because it's a way to say you're different. Whereas the win is that everybody's the same, meaning we're all different, but we're all equal. So I I just think the gay and lesbian community has won so hard that they should seriously consider whether they need a celebration. They should just say, we won.

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You know, everything turned out great. You know, I've never heard of anybody. When was the last time you heard of somebody not being hired because they were gay or lesbian? I've never even heard of it. I mean, I don't think it happens in 2025, does it? Anyway, so take the win. Good job. So we're still obsessing about the first 100 days of Trump. It is the most ridiculous story.

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All it is is a way for Democrats to have something to bitch about because 100 days is not nearly enough to know if anything worked. Now, of course, the Republicans are all saying, but what about all those great executive orders and the border got closed?

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And then the Democrats will just say, yes, but what about the tariffs that are definitely not working, as if they know how it's going to turn out? Maybe 100 months would be a good time to check in.

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But 100 days doesn't make any sense at all as a time to check the progress of a president, unless you were smart enough to say, all right, let's just look at the things where you can know how it turns out within 100 days. And that's not tariffs. It's not the economy. It's not the price of eggs. It's not Ukraine. It's not Gaza. It's none of those things.

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But maybe in 100 months, you'll be able to look back and see how it turned out. But this whole media obsession over a big round number, oh, 100 is a big round number. We should see how everything's happening within that 100 days. Ridiculous. Stop it.

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Well, according to Christopher Ruffo, and I guess there's an article in the City Journal, that professors at Princeton are kind of getting at each other because they're so racist that one of the departments is now explicitly telling the faculty, quote, we can't hire a white guy. Now, The Democrats and the people hearing this story for the first time are going to say, are you kidding me?

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In 2025, there's a respectable entity, Princeton, that's saying out loud, like they're not even hiding it. They're saying out loud, we won't hire a white guy. Well, may I give you my expertise as a white guy? It's never been different. It was around the late 80s or the beginning of the 90s when people started saying out loud with no hedging whatsoever, we can't hire a white guy.

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I mean, it destroyed two of my careers in the 90s. It's the reason Dilbert was born because I couldn't succeed at a bank or at the phone company because they told me directly, directly, we can't hire a white guy. And to act like somehow this isn't new, this isn't new. This is like a 35-year problem or 40 years or whatever the hell it is.

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But on the other hand, it would also be really nice to know what country is this coming from. That would be fun. Speaking of Jeff Bezos, I guess Amazon is going to launch its... Project Kuiper satellites, according to USA Today. So they're going to launch, what, 27 satellites into low-Earth orbit. What is it for? That's missing in the story. What are they going to use all those satellites for?

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The fact that people are just finding out about it tells you how bad it was that nobody could say it out loud in any public forum. And if you did, if you said it out loud in any public way, people would think you're lying. they would actually accuse you of lying. I've been accused of lying about that so many times.

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Do you think I was lying when I say that I was told by my bosses directly, with no indirection whatsoever, we can't promote a white guy? No, they said it directly. And it was usually white guys who told me, right? In one case, a white woman. But to imagine this is something new, Wow. Well, let's check in on J.B. Pritzker and his hate speech.

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So he's got a lot to say about Republicans, but here he is once again doing the Nazi comparison. Quote, my family emigrated to this country from Ukraine when the Russians were killing Jews during the pogroms. The governor continued.

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And so what I feel anyway is that the dangers that my family experienced in Ukraine, the dangers that we saw in, you know, Nazi Germany, especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the dangers that we need to react to now. If we don't, things will get much worse. So Pritzker is directly saying that the Trump and Trump supporters are essentially Nazis.

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And if you don't react to them now, it'll be a full-blown Hitler situation. Now, would you consider that a hate crime? Well, a hate speech. Because hate speech is narrowly defined as something that would incite violence somewhat immediately. Do you think that this is technically legal because it doesn't incite specific violence specifically right away?

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But it kind of does do it right away because if you really believe that Hitler was rising, you wouldn't delay, right? You'd start putting swastikas on Teslas, etc., which is what people are doing. So I would say that... Yeah, to me that looks like hate speech, but that's just me. I guess Kamala Harris is scheduled to give a speech, which I'm sure will also be full of hate.

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And she's going to do it for $25 per viewer. I guess you're going to pay to watch the stream. How many people would pay $25 to watch a Kamala Harris speech? And I wonder, is that all you have to pay? Is it just $25 per stream, or is there also a two-drink minimum?

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Oh, wait, the two-drink minimum only applies to Harris, so she'll have at least two drinks before she does her speech that you'd have to pay $25 to see. I can't even imagine paying $25 to hear Kamala Harris speak. Now, it's for some group that's probably raising money for it. I don't think it goes to her. But really? So I expect some hate speech to come out of that.

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Chuck Schumer, he's doing the projection thing that for some reason Democrats never recognize, so it works. He started out by saying recently, that the Republican agenda is billionaires win, American families lose. Does that sound like projection? Because immediately as soon as he said it, the X platform had pictures of him posing repeatedly with Alex Soros.

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It's not like the Republicans have some kind of monopoly on billionaires. I mean, how long have we been talking about billionaires distorting our system by their contributions primarily to Democrat things. So that's projection number one, that Republicans are the ones with the billionaires, completely ignoring the fact that Democrats are almost defined by their billionaires.

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Then the Western Lensman account on X points out that in 2025, Chuck Schumer is saying that Trump wants to intimidate and threaten judges. This is Chuck Schumer saying that Trump is trying to intimidate and threaten judges. Does that sound familiar?

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It should, because in 2020, Chuck Schumer was threatening and intimidating the Supreme Court, telling them that they would inherit the whirlwind or something. So that was projection. So he's like the OG of threatening the courts, and now he's saying that that's a Republican thing.

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And then he was asked if he's going to retire and he says he's not going to retire because, quote, I'm staying put because I've been able to unite my caucus in a very strong fight against Trump. So what's missing in that frame? He's been able to unite his caucus in a very strong fight against Trump. There's no positive message.

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I assume they're going to compete for Internet traffic with SpaceX's satellites. They're going to deploy over 3,200 satellites eventually. Is the entire Earth going to be surrounded with satellites at one point? Are we going to dim the sun with so many satellites at some point? Drone delivery? You think it's about drone delivery? Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Could be.

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Even Democrats have been telling other Democrats, can you at least suggest something positive? You can't run a campaign that's just anti-Trump. But he is. So I think Schumer is the least effective communicator on the Democrat side. So Jon Stewart was right when he said, maybe Schumer is not the one you put in front of the camera. But who do you put in front of the camera? Bernie Sanders? AOC?

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The weird little guy who's got the articles of impeachment? Or Cory Booker sitting on steps? They don't have anybody who isn't scary or weird. They need somebody who's not scary or weird.

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According to investor Kyle Bass, who follows China pretty closely, the China 10-year bond yield has just, you know, sunk through the floor. But that doesn't make sense if it were true that China's GDP was growing at 5.4%. So the thinking is...

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that the bond is giving a little reveal that people don't trust that china is actually growing or at least growing at that rate so i don't know that that means that the entire economy is going to you know implode in china but it does suggest that whatever china is telling you about their economy might be totally fake. And maybe always has been. I don't know.

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So I asked Grok and said that these low yields would be unusual for an economy that's supposedly growing in a robust way. So very unusual. So China's probably lying about their economy, but we don't know to what degree. Well, as you know, Trump did an interview with The Atlantic, which is probably the most anti-Trump publication in the world. They don't hide it at all.

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And that's where Jeffrey Goldberg works, etc. And there's a quote that comes out of it about Pete Hegseth. So allegedly, Trump said, quote, I think he's going to get it together. I had a talk with him, a positive talk, but I had a talk with him. Now, let me ask you this.

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If you knew that the Atlantic is the most anti-Trump entity, and you knew that Democrats are attacking Hegseth in particular because they think that there's a weakness there and they can get rid of him, do you think that Trump actually said this, or would you have to hear it on audio or video with the full context to know that he said this?

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And here's the big risk about doing an interview with something like The Atlantic. If they don't show you the whole context and the specific wording and what he was talking about, it makes it look like Trump has lost confidence in Hegseth and doesn't think that he has it together. Now, that might be true, but you've noticed that Trump has never said anything like that anywhere else.

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So I didn't research it, but could you tell me, is there any video or audio of Trump saying, I think he's going to get it together? Because I'll bet there isn't. So that's just my speculation. If there is, and the video or audio shows the full context, well, then I'm wrong. But I wouldn't trust The Atlantic to have a quote that was both accurate and in context.

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This is a little bit too on the nose. Like it would be the most damaging thing you could put in an article. If you were Hank Seth and you read this, You'd be going, oh, shit, I'm going to get fired. I think he's going to get it together. That's what you say about somebody who's not going to be around very long. And I don't know that he actually said that. Anyway.

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Megyn Kelly had a fellow on her show who was recently fired. or I think suspicion of leaking, but he said he didn't do it. So his name is Colin Carroll. And when he was asked about P. Agseth, he said on one sense that he was super focused and he was like great in a meeting that he saw.

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Speaking of shopping, the ChatGPT OpenAI is going to add shopping to its AI app. So if you're in ChatGPT, this is a historian wired, you'll be able to search for things and it will pop up with recommendations and it will learn to know your preferences. And so, yeah, it could be competing with Starlink. We don't know. It might be more than that. But would you shop with AI?

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But in other times he said, at the same time, I've seen the secretary in more internal meetings where he is super focused on like, very, in my opinion, weird details and very agitated and kind of yelling and just nothing's good. In other words, acting like nothing's good. Now, how seriously should you take that? So it's on Megyn Kelly's show. She's very, very credible.

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But he's a recently fired guy. if i could give you any advice about who to believe don't believe anonymous sources and don't believe recently fired guys because almost every boss in the world could be described as somebody who was focusing on weird details and got very agitated and was yelling at stuff that's almost everybody or at least everybody at a high level of management

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So, you know, I would put that in the not too credible. I'm not saying he's wrong, but I'm saying that just in general, you shouldn't trust somebody who recently got fired by the person they're talking about. That's a good general rule. Well, according to current estimates... There are 1,200 alleged terrorists in the United States, if you count the gang members.

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There are about 400 of them who are ISIS-related or come from countries where ISIS has a little too much control. So they're sketchy. But the rest are MS-13 and Trenda, Aragua, whatever the Venezuelan gang is, 1,200 of them. And these were all let in during the Biden administration. So good job, Biden. It really makes you wonder, was Biden even working for the United States?

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I mean, a lot of stuff he did, it looked more like he was working to destroy the country, you know, just in terms of outcome. So it's hard to even understand that we got to this place, but at least Trump's solving it. I saw a video from, it looked like it was tagged on something called Von Koran. I guess that's whoever got the video.

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And there was this American substitute teacher who was describing his first day as a substitute teacher. And he was talking about the quality of the students and what they knew. And he said, quote, I thought y'all was lying to me when y'all said that these kids didn't know nothing. These kids don't know shit, like nothing, nada.

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They don't know basic math, addition, subtraction, division, fractions, multiplication. So let me ask you this. Is that more dangerous than the 1,200 terrorists? It is. If we're raising an entire generation of kids who can't read and do basic math, Ultimately, that's more dangerous for the country than even the 1,200 terrorists.

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So we've got a really big problem, and I don't know how we got there except for the teachers' unions. I blame the teachers' unions, basically. And maybe the solution is more choice in schools, and at least things are moving in that direction. But... And then their substitute teacher uses language like, these kids didn't know nothing. I'm pretty sure that what he meant is they don't know anything.

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So he's not their English teacher, apparently. It sounds like he's the math teacher. I wouldn't let the math teacher teach them English. So maybe there's two problems there, the teachers and the kids. Newt Gingrich is giving us an update on the LA Palisades fire. And he says four months ago, the fire happened and 6,800 homes were destroyed in the LA area.

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He says three months later, only four permits have been issued to rebuild the community. Only four. It's like California isn't even trying to be a functional state. What the hell? Only four permits? Now, I heard somebody question whether his number was correct. So maybe there's some question about the data. But I'm pretty sure things are not going well.

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And this is something where there was maximum attention. There was maximum understanding that if we did things the way we always do them, it would be a disaster, and that we had to cut some red tape and do things faster. And a few things, I think, happened faster, like the cleanup. You know, the EPA did their cleanup fast. But I don't know.

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Because I've tried to shop with AI, and it's actually pretty good because it gives you links to the actual vendor. You know, it's not acting like Amazon. It would give you links to Amazon and other vendors. I kind of like that. So I don't know how they're going to make their money. So they're not going to have sponsored ads, or at least they don't yet.

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If it's really this bad, it's almost like there's nothing that California can do right.

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Well, let's see what else California is doing. Oh, yeah. Some California Democrats want to, they're trying to pass some legislation to decriminalize welfare fraud that's under $25,000. Why would you do that? Why would you want to go out of your way when you have all these problems in California and the thing you decide you're going to work on is to make crime a little bit easier for the criminals?

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That's what you choose to work on. And apparently the bill would also protect fraudsters trying to scam under $950. And again, I say, there was nothing positive to work on. The only thing you had to work on, like your top priority, was to make it a little bit easier to be a criminal in California. How is this even happening? It doesn't even seem real. It seems completely made up.

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that anything could be this incompetent you know in california will be the only state that doesn't have gas for cars because the refineries we're not going to have insurance for homes we're not going to have gas for cars and we're going to make crime a lot easier to do How is this even possibly happening? Well, it's Democrats.

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But is this what happens when too many Democrats get in power in the state? Do all the states just crumble under that level of stupidity? I don't know. I saw Fox News and Jesse Waters was reporting that some new boxes from the Biden era have been found. And these are, you remember, Biden had a bunch of confidential boxes in his garage.

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And then there were some confidential boxes in the Penn Center, the Penn Biden Center, which Biden was part of. But it turns out that even before those places were looked into, there were some other boxes that we now know got moved to Biden's lawyer's office in Boston. And since then, they've been put under better security. But are you curious at all

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why there would be nine boxes that were pulled out from the many boxes that were discovered, and apparently there was nothing too damning in the boxes that were discovered. Don't you think the boxes that got moved to Biden's lawyer's office and were not disclosed until now, don't you think you'd like to know what's in those boxes? Well, I would. Sounds pretty bad.

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But again, the Bidens will not be held responsible for anything. All right, here's my favorite hoax. My favorite hoax is the Biden brain hoax. The idea that the media had no idea that Biden was declining and the Democrats who were clearly closer to Biden also had no idea. They didn't even notice. And they're actually trying to sell that to the public.

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But don't you think it would be better to shop with an AI than to even go to Amazon? Although I got to say, Amazon.com, the actual software, is probably the best software I've ever seen. Have you ever stopped to think? how incredible it is that Amazon.com works, and it works really well, and it's optimized, and it's easy to navigate. I'm always wowed by how good Amazon is with software.

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despite the fact that we all can see it without any expertise whatsoever. But the newest one is Jim Clyburn. And he says, quote, I was not around Joe Biden enough to tell you anything about his decline. And he didn't think that any of us could evaluate him because we're not physicians. Are you telling me that Jim Clyburn didn't talk to any Democrats... who were aware that Biden was declining.

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They didn't have any private conversations in which somebody said, you know, Jim, just between us, Biden is, you know, he's lost his fastball. He was in a meeting and he was just mumbling and he fell asleep. Nobody, not a single person. So Jim Clyburn is like the most connected Democrat you could possibly be, you know, with the top level of Democrats. And nobody mentioned it to him.

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And he also never noticed it on TV when he watched him the way we did. And then the media is acting like the problem was that the Democrats weren't telling the media. This is the most outrageously hilarious hoax, the Biden brain hoax. Un-freaking-believable. And the question I always ask in these situations is, how are the historians going to write this story?

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Are historians going to say, despite the fact that the public could tell that Biden was mentally degraded, he was allowed to finish his term? Or are they going to say it was a closely held secret that nobody could have possibly known? And then when we found out, that's when he was removed from running a second time. But, wow, it makes you doubt all history, doesn't it?

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Because history is going to record history. You know, if you have an AI and you're training your AI on the news, you just have your AI, you know, look at all the news reports that are happening right now. The AI would conclude that the media couldn't tell and the insiders didn't know. And that's what history will look like. Unbelievable. Here's another unbelievable one.

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Apparently, there was an aircraft carrier, one of our aircraft carrier, in the Red Sea that was doing some kind of maneuver that was making a hard turn. Now, if an aircraft carrier tries to make a hard turn, how hard can an aircraft carrier make a turn? It's not like a sharp turn, right?

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But apparently at the same time that the aircraft carrier was making this hard turn, and maybe it was because the hoodies were attacking or something, we're not sure, but somebody was bringing a Super Hornet fighter, a jet, out of, you know, out of a, I don't know, from one place to another, and it slipped off... And it fell off the aircraft carrier into the sea.

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Now, I don't think China is too worried about our military prowess at the moment. How could this story be true? Do you believe that, number one, do you believe that an aircraft carrier could make a sharp enough turn that a jet wouldn't be able to somehow correct and it would just fly off the edge of the aircraft carrier?

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And do you believe that nobody anticipated it and said to him, hey, just hold on your maneuver until we're done with this? There's something about this story that doesn't even make sense. But it's not really covering the Navy in glory. Well, here's another story that's the least surprising.

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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Apparently in Iran, where things keep blowing up and catching on fire mysteriously, there's another factory that just blew up. And people are saying that it's a Iran drone factory. Now, you might know that Iran is a big supplier of drones to Russia because they have a tight connection. And somehow that drone factory just blew up. Now, who do you think did it?

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Now, I saw online people say, well, obviously that was Israel. They blew up their drone factory. And some say that it was a drone that blew up the drone factory. But could it have been Ukraine? Don't you think Ukraine would want to blow up Iran's drone factory so that Russia didn't get more drones?

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I've got a feeling you had more than one country who wanted to blow up their drone factory if it was blown up by other people. I suppose there's a possibility that there were dangerous things in that factory that blew up on its own. But I do wonder how many drone factories there are in Iran.

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Apparently, IBM is going to invest $150 billion in the U.S., to grow its manufacturing over five years. So add that to the Trump tariff wins. Apparently, we've got quite a few companies now that are going to move their manufacturing to the U.S. So that part of what Trump is trying to do seems to be working, at least at some scale.

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And the thing I would look for is, do you think any other drone factories are going to mysteriously blow up in Iran? Because I think maybe there will be. There might be another mysterious explosion of a drone factory. Could happen. I don't know why they had a drone factory above ground, by the way. It was kind of just begging for an attack. Ukraine on Monday, yesterday...

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called for a permanent ceasefire. Because, you know, Russia had asked for a three-day ceasefire. But the three-day ceasefire was just because they have some 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Europe over Nazi Germany. So when Russia was asking for three days of ceasefire, it wasn't about a peace deal. It was just because they wanted to be doing something else for three days.

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And then Ukraine, of course... is saying, well, why not make it a permanent ceasefire? So it seems to me that both Ukraine and Russia are just pretending, and they're not pretending very well that they want peace, but they're doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen. So it was kind of safe for Ukraine to say, why not a permanent ceasefire? You know, that's not going to happen.

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but they can take credit for asking for it. So then Ukraine can act like they're the ones who are serious about peace, but obviously they're not. Because they want Crimea and that's never going to happen, so they're not really serious about peace. And then there's a related story, Financial Times, that said that the U.S. and Ukraine are getting really close to signing a minerals deal.

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Do you think that's going to happen? Because we're really close now. I don't know. I'd like to think that there's going to be a minerals deal, but I feel like everything that could make peace happen is going to be thwarted or sabotaged. So my best guess is we'll get really close to a mineral deal with Ukraine and then something will happen. then mysteriously blows up that deal.

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Feels like it, but we'll see. I'd like to be wrong about that, so we'll see. And then there's a story about all the North Korean soldiers who were fighting for Russia. Apparently, I didn't know this, Russia and North Korea have some kind of a military alliance that says that each would join in a fight for the other if they were in a war. So I don't know if that's why it's happening.

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Some people say that the North Koreans are practicing. So they're basically training their soldiers to know how to use drones and do modern warfare because they're getting ready to attack South Korea. I don't know about that. And then some people are speculating, including me, is Russia having a hard time recruiting? Because why would they even want North Korean soldiers?

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Is it because they're better at fighting? I don't know. And why would North Korean soldiers, I guess the ones we heard from didn't even know they were going to Ukraine. So it's not so much that they decided to go to Ukraine, they sort of didn't know they were going and they just ended up there.

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My best guess is that Russia would rather use the North Korean soldiers since they're basically just fodder. It's basically just a meat grinder at this point. So the fewer Russians that get killed, the better for Russia. And the more North Koreans that get killed, Russia doesn't care. And if North Korea doesn't care, eh.

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My guess is that Russia is paying North Korea, so that North Korea is just doing it for profit, more like mercenaries. So I don't think it's because they have a military agreement. I don't think it's just to make sure that the people who go there are trained in modern warfare. Because I don't think they're sending their best troops or anything like that.

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And most of them are just going to be ground up. It's not like they're going to come back with skills. They're going to come back completely damaged. So we're left to speculate what that's all about. But I think it's just for money. And I guess Putin's guy Lavrov has added some demands for a peace deal. that make you look very much like they're not interested in a peace deal.

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Speaking of Trump, he just signed an executive order to require truck drivers to speak English. Now, I didn't know that was a big problem, that truck drivers didn't speak English, a lot of them. But apparently it is. And it's not just a small problem. Apparently that inability to speak English has led to a number of accidents.

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So instead of starting where we think we are, which is Russia wants to keep the stuff it's occupied, but that's all. Now Lavrov is saying that even if it's not occupied, if it's what Russia wanted to keep, they get to keep it. Now, that would very much be somebody who doesn't want peace. So, you know, maybe there's some difference between what Putin wants and what Lavrov is saying.

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But it really looks like Russia's just playing Trump at this point. So I don't think there's much of any chance of a peace deal as of today. I mean, I could change my mind tomorrow. What do you think? Do you think Ukraine and Russia have any chance of a peace deal? Because it seems that Zelensky can't make a deal because if he did, he would be murdered by his own people.

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And Putin doesn't need a deal because he's winning. And apparently he can just grind away as long as he wants and get as much as he wants. And, you know, he can make a deal anytime later. So I'm going to say that... No peace deal. All right. Apparently, the U.S. has struck more than... according to the Washington Times, has struck more than 800 Houdi targets in Yemen in the past six weeks.

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800 targets. But has it worked? Well, according to this reporting from the Washington Times, they've reduced Houdi missile launches by 69%. and attacks from Houthi one-way drones down by 55%. But the weirdest part of this story is that it suggests that Iran's support of the Houthis is not part of our negotiation with Iran for a nuclear deal. Do you believe that?

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Do you believe that we're negotiating with Iran for a nuclear deal, but we're not throwing in their support for the Houthis? Wouldn't that be the most obvious thing you'd throw into the deal? It's like, okay, you got to stop supporting the Houthis ruining things in the Red Sea. So that doesn't make sense to me. That should all be part of the same conversation.

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But if we reduce the launches by 69%, can we ever get to the point where the Red Sea is safe enough? Because wouldn't you have to reduce their attacks by 99% before the insurance companies would say, yeah, that looks safe enough. We'll insure your ship if you take it that direction.

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And if you did, even if you reduced it by 99%, how long would it take them to reconstitute the resources if we stopped bombing them? I mean, it looks like it's either a permanent war or I don't understand why they're doing it because I just don't know how you can get to the end. Well, the House has passed some legislation called the Take It Down Act.

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I guess Ted Cruz was the one who introduced it. And it makes it illegal to have revenge porn on the Internet. So if you have revenge porn, the sites are going to have to take it down. CBS News is reporting on this. Now, here's the best part of this story. It turns out it's bipartisan. So even though Ted Cruz is the one who introduced it, I'm thinking, wait a minute. It's bipartisan?

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I don't know if it's because they can't read street signs or what it is. But there is some thinking that there is massive danger that the truck drivers can't speak English. So maybe that got fixed. Although now there won't be enough truck drivers. So that's a problem. Here's some fake news. Let's do the fake news. According to NPR... Uh, some two anonymous sources.

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And Ted Cruz introduced it? Huh. Did the Democrats finally learn not to oppose everything that Republicans are doing? Because probably the Democrats had a conversation like, all right, Republicans want to get rid of this revenge porn. We're going to have to say we're really in favor of revenge porn now.

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So I feel like Ted Cruz got the Democrats this close to a full-throated endorsement of revenge porn, just based on past experience. Not really, I'm just joking. Well, according to The Hill, the Trump administration is trying to limit the, quote, forever chemicals that companies discharge into the water. But there's some Concern that maybe other deregulation will work against that.

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But I do like the fact that with the Make America Healthy Again, the focus on all the permanent pollution that's in our food and in our medicines and in our water and in our air are being looked at pretty critically. So that seems like good news. According to Newsmax, Trump administration is going to dismiss all the authors of national climate assessment.

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Apparently there are, and this is weird, there are 400 contributors, or were, they're all fired now, to the sixth national climate assessment. So Congress mandates that there's a climate assessment every year, I guess. But the Trump administration has dismissed all the contributors. So I guess the Trump administration didn't need to prove anything about climate change.

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All they did is just say, all right, we don't need you. You're done. And probably that report was useless because it's too political. Who would trust 400 contributors to the National Climate Assessment? Do you think that there's even one of those contributors who might have contributed something and said, you know what? I think these climate models are BS. No.

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Because in order to keep their jobs and to continue working in their field, they would all have to agree. So if you know in advance that all the authors have to agree to one position, why do you need them? Because you know exactly what they're going to say. Oh, we're all going to be dead in 12 years. The oceans will be boiling.

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You don't really need to pay them if you know that for political and career reasons, there's only one thing they can say. You could just say, we will stipulate that all of you people who want to protect your careers are going to say that climate change is terrible and it's already too late, but you really should get rid of all your, I don't know, all your gas vehicles or something.

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So yeah, you don't really need to pay people to tell you what you know they're going to say. Meanwhile, China apparently has a microwave gun that fires 10,000 shots nonstop every missiles and drones to knock them out of the air, according to the interesting engineering. And I guess it was hard to do technically, and it's not that big, so I think you could put it on a truck or something.

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It's about that size. And I'm thinking that the United States does not have such a weapon, because if we did, wouldn't we just park a few of them off of Yemen? and just knock down every drone and every missile that came out of Yemen, or at least anything that was headed toward the Red Sea. So that kind of suggests we don't have that weapon, right?

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Or somebody said that we do have something like it and it's deployed in the Philippines, to which I say, but wouldn't you also have it outside of Yemen? Because if you could knock down the missiles, you know, as soon as they're launched, Seems like that'd be a pretty good model, unless you need like 100 of them, you know, in order to cover the coast, which might be the case.

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But we need that for Yemen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's your news for the day. Thanks for joining. I'll see you on YouTube and X and Rumble same time tomorrow. And I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers. assuming my buttons work. And the rest of you, thanks for joining.

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Now, if I tell you that it's NPR and it's two anonymous sources and the story is something that's negative about the Trump administration, is it real? What's your guess? Is your guess that NPR, with two anonymous sources and a negative story about the Trump administration, is there any chance that's real? Well, it looks like it's not.

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So the claim was that some Doge workers got access to nuclear secrets, which apparently the authorities have said, no, that's crazy. Nobody got access to any nuclear secrets. Of course not. Here's some more fake news. Trump is claiming he's already made 200 trade deals, but he won't specify. He won't give any examples, so you can't check on him.

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Does anybody think that Trump already made 200 trade deals? Does anybody think that's even a little bit true? Some of the claims that Trump is making are just hilarious. I saw Scott Besant was in an interview and he was asked about that. He was asked, what about these 200 trade deals? And Besant had to sort of talk around it. Because he couldn't confirm it. Because it's obviously not true.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams because that's what it is. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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But he didn't want to go against his boss. So he just sort of weasel worded it. and talked around it. Now, it might be, it could be true that a whole bunch of different countries have decided on some kind of framework or maybe decided on some small part of a deal. And, you know, Trump's calling those trade deals, even though they're not comprehensive for each country.

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So maybe he's talking about that, but it just looks like a made up number to me. I saw a poll by Rasmussen. It's a poll on whether people will trust polls. Apparently a majority, 51%, either have not very much trust or no trust at all in major media polls. How many of you trust major media polls, especially about politics? Do you think they're real?

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I had a conversation with one of my pollster friends. You know, he's been working in that industry forever. And, you know, when I said, yeah, everybody knows the major polls are fake. Oh, my goodness, did he not agree with that? No, no, no. But then I specified, no, I'm talking about the political stuff. The political stuff is obviously fake. And he says, no, I am completely wrong about that.

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The political polls are very reliable. But here's a quote that I think is hilarious. This is in Rasmussen's reporting on this. So after Trump won the 2024 election,

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There was a Harris senior campaign advisor, this guy David Plouffe, who admitted he was, quote, surprised that many public polls last year showed that Harris was ahead of Trump because the Harris campaign's own internal polling never had her leading. Have you seen the list of major media polls that said that Harris was ahead? They were all fake. They must have been.

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Because their internal polling never showed it. And I don't think Trump's internal polling ever showed it. And I don't think Rasmussen ever showed it. But all the rest of them, like, oh, yeah. Yeah, she's up by two points. No problem. She's totally going to win. None of that was ever true.

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So if the only thing you knew was that the central advisor to Harris didn't believe the polls because their own poll that they paid for was not agreeing with them, that's all you need to know to know that they were fake. 48% of voters believe that the problem with the polls is that some pollsters were deliberately adjusting their numbers to support Harris.

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Well, 35% think it was because they don't know how to accurately poll. Do you think the problem is they don't know how to accurately poll? No, that's not the problem. I'm pretty sure they do know how to accurately poll because the internal pollster knew how. Do you think only the internal polls know how to poll and all the external public ones don't? No, they all know how to poll.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Sensational. So, so good. Well, there was some kind of an election in Canada, and I don't really care. Does anybody care? Let's take a vote in the comments. Does anybody care about the election in Canada? No?

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Episode 2824 CWSA 04/29/25

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So whatever you see that looks crooked, it's probably intentional. So here's a scary story. Apparently, the University of Zurich had been running a secret project with AI bots on Reddit, and they were trying to see if they could secretly manipulate Redditors' opinions. They've been running it since November 2024. I saw this on the Reddit Lies account. Apparently, it worked.

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So the bots, which would be just AI characters that are not real, that pretend to be real, said the bots were six times more likely to change the minds of Redditors than the baseline, often by leveraging misinformation. So all the bots did is lie. And they were really successful at changing people's minds. They just lied. Then people thought, oh, okay. Well, they changed their minds.

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But apparently they all had personas, but they used information about their targets for persuasion. So they would know kind of what would work for each person. They would figure that out. And then they would change their minds. Now, If you can change people's minds with an AI bot, do those people have free will? Because the thing that changed their mind was not their minds.

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The thing that changed their mind was the AI. So what was it that caused them to have the opinions they had? Was it their free will? Or was it the AI? It's obviously the AI. what causes anybody to have the views that they have? Pretty much the news that they've seen and the information they've absorbed. So for the most part, we're very close to proving that free will is an illusion.

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But I know every one of you hates when I say that. But I will be right, eventually. Do you remember Crossfire Hurricane? That was the project the fbi was running that was uh the fake russia collusion hoax and there was a central character in that named nelly or ohr and she worked for a fusion gps and uh And she coordinated with her husband. He was a Justice Department official.

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And she and he were really close to the origin of the Crossfire Hurricane Russia collusion hoax. But apparently, according to Chuck Grassley, the FBI keeps hiding her involvement by overclassifying stuff. So Grassley's mad at the FBI. He says, stop. Stop overclassifying so we can find out what Nellie Orr was up to.

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I've got a feeling that if we found out why she was up to, it wouldn't look good, but that's just a hunch. Well, I saw that Tucker Carlson had a guest who claimed that $21 trillion is missing from government budgets over the years. And at least part of it, her name is Catherine Austin Fitz.

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She claims that some amount of that money is going to building massive underground cities in the United States and also under the oceans. And that these massive underground cities exist all over the United States and they're connected by underground pathways. And I suppose you could also get to the underground below the ocean ones. Okay, this is too dumb. That's the claim.

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How many of you believe that there are... She thought there were 170. That was her best estimate. Just an estimate, though. How many believe that the government used part of the $21 trillion to build massive underground cities? And she speculates it's because of potential extinction events.

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So there might be various things that would cause extinction, and they're building a whole civilization basically underground. I'm going to say no. No. I'm going to say, nope, I don't believe any part of that. I do believe that there might be underground facilities in various places. So it's not like there's no underground facilities. But 170 of them all connected? No, no. Don't believe it.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. It's the best thing that ever happened to you. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So he was saying that the New York charges, all 34 felony counts, which is what the Democrats like to say, Fetterman just swept away all 34 felony counts by saying, obviously just lawfare. There's no way they would have taken anybody else to court for that. Basically just shit on her head on live TV and walked away. I'm just liking Fetterman.

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Now, some people are saying, hey, maybe he'll turn into a Republican because he's got some skills that seem to go both ways. But as he pointed out, he's got a number of policies that wouldn't be compatible with Republicans. So he's not going to change. But my smartest Democrat friend, who I often mention, I've been wanting to catch up with him because I thought, surely by now,

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Surely by now, a normal, smart person watching the news would realize that Trump is doing what the public wants him to do by quite a big majority. He's the most popular he's ever been. And things are happening that look good. So I was expecting, oh, this is going to be good. Next time I see him, oh, my God, or hear from him, I'm going to have my victory lap. And I won't even have to say a thing.

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I won't even have to make my argument. I'll be just like, told you. See? Instead, I got an email saying that he was planning ahead to the next race, and which Democrat, and he gave a list of them, which Democrat did we think was going to be the best candidate. And he said that once Trump is completely embarrassed and destroyed the country, that we'll be ready for a Pete Buttigieg.

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And I said, seriously? Pete Buttigieg? That would be your strongest guy? that almost sounds like a joke. I mean, really? Of all the people in the world? And then he said, but maybe he can't get elected because he's gay. And then I said, well, how many Republicans were going to vote for him? It wouldn't matter if he was gay or not gay. No Republican's going to vote for him.

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And look how much better I'm doing. Yeah, anger. When I started the Dilbert comic, there was a direct correlation between how much something bothered me and how funny I could make it. 100% perfect correlation. And in fact, I developed the humor concept that you can't make a joke about something that doesn't bother you. You just can't do it. You could try, but it would just be, oh, seatbelts.

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So aren't you saying that the Democrats are Anti-gay? I think he just called his own party anti-gay because all he has to do is get all the Democrat votes, right? Aren't there more Democrats? Oh, maybe that changed. Actually, I don't know that. I thought there were more Democrats than Republicans, but did that change? Did it change this season?

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Anyway, but when you see that other world and you get a peek at it, you think they really don't have anything. Because if a smart, well-informed person on that side, and again, he's very smart. If we were to compare IQs, I think he'd beat me. But wow, Pete Buttigieg? Really? Forget about the gay part. I've never talked to anybody who cared about that. But how can he possibly win? I don't know.

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Maybe I'm wrong. It could be that I'm the one who's being silly. AOC was trying her best to come up with something that she could say that doesn't sound dumb about Trump. But this is the best she came up with. She said the norms are starting to embrace Trump. The norms are embracing him. Why would you form that sentence? Let me fix that sentence. Trump has popular policies.

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Trump is doing popular things. People like it. That's the way you say that. Here's the way you say it if you're just being weird. The norms are embracing Trump. That's sort of like saying the car ran over somebody and the knife stabbed somebody and the gun killed somebody. I really think it's the person doing the thing. It's not the thing doing the person, is it?

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Did the norms form into some kind of amorphous, gaseous entity? And did it then embrace Trump? Oh, the norms are embracing you. No, it's just words. What the hell? The Democrats are so lost, so lost. It's just crazy. The best they have is word salad and I think the Nazis who watch CNN believe he's a Nazi.

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So Trump gave a speech yesterday to a Republican group, and he was on the stage for most of the time with Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise. And I just had a moment while I was watching that. Do you realize that of those three, Scalise, Trump, and Johnson, 203 Republican leaders have been shot? Two out of three of the top Republican leaders have been shot. I mean, my mind is boggled. Like, really?

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Shot. Two out of three. I don't even have a comment on that. But that's the world we live in. Thank God. One of the things Trump did that is vexing if you're a supporter, as I am, but it's also so on point with what he does. He starts by teasing that he can't run for a third term, but maybe he can. He needs to check that out. Now, I think he's kidding, but whether he's kidding or not, you know...

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that that's what the bad guys are going to pick up on and they're going to be running around in a circle saying that you want a third term. I think he does that intentionally, right? Because he doesn't have the ability to be uninteresting. Trump is genetically interesting. Everything he does is a little bit interesting. And so he's just giving a talk and he throws out the reddest of all red meat.

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I might run for a third term, you know, never leave office. I think he's just trolling and keeping them talking about the least important thing that's not real in any way. But, wow. Trump said he was talking about CNN at the same speech. And Trump says, they say we had the greatest first week in presidential history. Even CNN is saying, this guy is amazing. I said, did CNN really say that?

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But nobody watches, so nobody was able to confirm. That's the Trumpiest thing that anybody ever said from Trump. The Trumpiest thing is making fun of CNN and then saying that CNN complimented him, but he can't confirm it because nobody watches CNN. Now, that is just genuinely funny. All right, speaking of fake news,

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There's a story today that's either two separate stories or fake news or it's too complicated for us to understand. So I woke up to see that Trump has said the U.S. military just entered the great state of California. And according to Trump, under emergency powers, they turned on the water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

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Well, actually, seatbelts are pretty good. So just ask me next time. All right. According to the Daily Mail, this one sounds like I made it up, but I didn't make this up. More than half of dating app users plan to abstain from masturbating this year. But the article warns there could be all kinds of risks. Apparently, it makes your penis and or your clitoris shrink.

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Episode 2733 CWSA 01/28/25

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The days of putting fake environmental argument over people are over. Enjoy the water, California. All right. So he's drawing a picture where all you had to do was send in the smart people to turn on the spigot. And then all of LA's, California's water problems would be solved. So California wouldn't do it because of some environmental thing.

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So we send somebody in to turn on the water and we're all fixed now. Now, does that sound true to you? When you read that, do you say, oh yeah, there's nothing else I need to know about that story? Did that just hit the bullseye for you? All right, so here's a reporter for, I think it's the LA paper, saying the military did not enter California.

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No, I think it was somebody from the water district or something. The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful. All right. So Trump says there's not enough water. California says water is plentiful.

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Trump says he he created a whole new flow of water. The state says, no, they just turned on some things that were down for maintenance for three days. So basically nothing. So was it nothing? Or was it something? And I still don't know. But I will refer you to a long thread on California water situation from Joel Pollack.

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You can see that in my feed or you can see it on his feed on X. And here's the situation. The water situation in California is complicated. It's complicated not only because there's a whole bunch of different aqueducts and sources and different things going to different places, but there's also a history.

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So there's a history of what was and what they had to change and what was an environmental change and what was the natural situation with the weather when it rained and when it didn't. And you kind of have to know it all to know what's true and what isn't. I don't know it all. What I do know is it's complicated enough that I have no idea what happened.

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I don't think Trump gave California more water. I don't think that happened. But I'm just guessing because the story is too complicated. So what will be interesting is to see how CNN and other places handle it.

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Because if this just turns into two movies where Fox News says Trump turned on all the water and everything's fixed, and then CNN says nothing happened, we're not really going to be well served as a public. And I worry that that's going to happen. One will say it happened and one will just say it didn't happen. And then we'll just go to the next topic and we'll never know what happened.

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And we'll just keep our individual views of that forever. Maybe. Maybe. But let's talk about Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, who's getting a lot of heat for her handling of the situation. You know what she announced today? That they would hire a consultant to help rebuild. A consultant. Do you know what that is? Do you know what happens when the mayor says we're going to hire a consultant?

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to make recommendations about our gazillion dollars that it will take to build things. I don't know how to interpret that except that it's a crime in progress.

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My understanding of local governments, at least for the bigger cities, is that they're all corrupt, and they're corrupt in a specific way that's easy to do and is common to all local government, which is once you're the one who's in charge of where the money goes, or even hiring the person who decides where the money goes, that that's always a pay for play.

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In other words, there's some kickback going to the mayor every time. Now, it might not be obvious, could be indirect, could be something that she cares about, something else. But in every case, I expect if the mayor appoints the consultant who's going to make these decisions, that's just a rigged political money-making process that has nothing to do with what's good for the public.

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I thought that when Trump was going to put a special master in charge of making sure the money from the federal government didn't get wasted, I was hoping we would avoid exactly this. Karen Bass deciding who her consultant would be. There's nothing that's a bigger red signal. Basically, that's saying they're not going to fix it. That's saying they're going to steal it.

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If you don't work it out, it will shrink. And it's good for your prostate if you're a guy. And it's good for your cardio and everything. I know a lot of people just replace their cardio routine with masturbating. You just do it a little more aggressively. It's all about the same.

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If you tell me I got a consultant to figure out how to do it, I just hear you stole it. You're not even planning to do anything but steal it. And there's a lot of money involved, so of course they're going to steal it if they can. So I don't have a specific detailed accusation about Karen Bass. It's my assumption that everybody in those jobs is stealing. And they're doing it one way or another.

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It's just the most normal thing in the world. And it's why all of our cities are crap, because the people in charge are always stealing. As far as I can tell. Now, you're a consultant. Well, a consultant for a business is very different than a consultant to a city. If the mayor picks the consultant, that's just a gigantic signal for something bad.

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If a company picks a consultant, well, it just depends how good the consultant is. I mean, it's entirely just a, you know, did you get what you paid for? But the city stuff is just all in the context of corruption, I think. That's just my belief. I don't have any proof of it, but I just assume it.

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The reason I assume it is it's such an easy crime to get away with that over time, the people who want to do that crime are the people who are going to try the hardest for those jobs. And they would succeed. Anyway, Rand Paul is going to investigate 14 agencies... They had something to do with the COVID origin story. So he thinks that that's a good time to find that out.

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That COVID origin story is just so weird because I really thought everybody knew it was the lab from early on, and now we're pretending like we're just learning it was the lab. There's something I don't even understand about that. I thought we all knew that for years. Weird. Meanwhile, New York Magazine did a, what we call a Rupar edit on their cover.

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So they did a story about a gathering of young Republicans and conservatives, I guess, a bunch of partying conservatives. And they commented that a photo that showed the crowd, at least a close-up of the crowd, didn't have any, they were all white. So New York Magazine runs a photo And says, it seems like they're all white. Their very own photo had several black attendees that they cropped out.

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They literally cropped the black people out and then said there's no black people. It gets better. Guess who hosted the event? It was hosted by C.J. Pearson, who is a young black conservative. The thing was hosted by a young, well-known black guy, and there were black people in attendance, of course. So that's your media for you. Meanwhile, Robbie Starbuck is saying that An ex.

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19 attorney generals just sent a letter to Costco warning that DEI policies are illegal because it discriminates on race. 19 attorney generals just went after Costco. Is that enough? What would happen if the other attorney generals weighed in on the other side and said, oh, that's not bad. DEI is good. Because that would be the blue states versus red state situation. Well, here's what I think.

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However, I think that the real reason for the lack of masturbating is that people don't look as good to each other as they used to. How many of you have noticed that? It's not just me, right? Now, part of it is I think I'm at a certain age where I don't have really contact with young people. So I'm pretty much seeing people my age and 50 and over.

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So the first thing I do is look up who is the CEO of, of Costco and it's a white guy. It's a white guy. Have I, have I warned you about white guys? White guys are pretty much the source of all DEI. Now some, some of you are going to say, no, no, it's, it's white women, white women. Cause they're the ones in the, they're, they're more white women.

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in DEI jobs, so you'd say it's white women, to which I say, no, that's a trick by the white men. That's just a white man trick. They hire women for those jobs and minorities for those jobs so that you'll think DEI is caused by the women or the minorities who are in the DEI jobs. No, it's the CEO.

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It's the CEO covering his big fat ass so that you think you can give him $12 million a year, which Costco does, and he's a good guy. If you put any white man in that job and they're going to say, wait a minute, let me see if I understand this. If I just pretend I'm really big on DEI, you're going to give me $12 million a year? Yes. Suppose I didn't pretend that I like DEI.

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Well, I know it'd be hard to say that you should be in that job because I'm pretty sure we like that stuff.

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So the problem is always white men covering their ass. As I've said before, I've been deeply discriminated against for gender and race in my career. First at a bank, then at the phone company, and then in TV work. But every time, a white man was behind it who was covering his own fat ass. Every time.

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Spectacular. Oh, it just keeps getting better. Well, let's talk about the people who wasted money on research. Number one, the Daily Mail is reporting that according to new research, People who are attractive get paid 11% more.

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So I've never been discriminated against by anybody except fucking white guys who are covering their ass. So 19 attorney generals just went after a fucking white guy covering his ass. Let's see who wins. I'm going to bet on the attorneys general. Well, Mike Lee, based Mike Lee, has an interesting idea to handle the cartels.

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Have you ever heard of, there's a constitutional component, I guess, that allows something called letters of mark. spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E. And these haven't been used in 100 years or so, but what it was is when the U.S. government wanted to take care of something like, let's say, pirates. They didn't like pirates. They could hire their own pirates to kill the other pirates.

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Or they could hire basically a private army. They could give them authority to act on behalf of the United States just by being real bastards against something that we didn't like. And the people who got the letter of mark could keep the booty. So if they took out a pirate, they could just keep it, and that would be their profit. So that's why people would say yes to it.

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So it hasn't been used in a long time, but Mike Lee is suggesting that what if we did use it against the cartels? Suppose we said, if you wanted to form a private militia, now it would have to be authorized. not on your own, right?

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You would have to go to the government and the government would have to issue an actual letter of mark, you know, an official act that would authorize you to take out the cartels and keep their money. Do you think that there would be anybody willing to take that? I mean, you know, I've never been a special forces person, but if I were retired special forces...

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And I thought I could get a big payday. And I wasn't afraid of that kind of stuff. I don't know. I might be able to raise private militia. I wouldn't do this until the normal way of doing business failed completely. But it's kind of interesting. I wouldn't rule it out. I think it's too soon to try it because we should just do more normal stuff first. But let's see.

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But it does seem like people are way less attractive in the general public. If you want to see somebody attractive... let's say female, you know, you end up looking at some, you know, weird OnlyFans situation. And then you're like, maybe yucked out by that. So, yeah, I could totally see why people would just be less aroused, testosterone would be lower.

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All right, well, it's been 24 hours since that deep-seek AI hit the world. And yesterday, the OpenAI stock, or actually NVIDIA stock, dropped about 16%, 17%, which is really big because it's trillions of dollar company. And people thought, oh, no, it's the end of the United States AI industry. And I think I told you yesterday, not so fast.

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It'll probably take a hit because people are processing the news. So if you're still processing the news of this ultra cheap competitor in AI that comes out in China, that's actually open source. It doesn't even cost anything. So if... So my caution was that it'll probably take a hit, but by the end of the year, the stock would probably recover and be ahead of it. Now...

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It looks like it flattened out today. So we may have already hit the bottom. But here's what I predicted. And you can already see it coming true. What I predicted was is that the U.S. would start seeing issues with it. And those issues would allow the government to have cover for degrading this as a product that can really be used. So here's what I mean.

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Question number one, how would we know if it was trained on propaganda? The source code is open, so you can see all the source code, but the source code doesn't tell you what it was trained on. The data that it was trained on is not something we have access to.

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So what if they just trained it on a bunch of pro-China propaganda, plus all the generic stuff in the world, so that it was essentially a brainwashing tool? How would we know? Well, the only way we'd know is by asking questions that would get to that very point. And it turns out people are asking that question. And sure enough, Sir Joshua Hartley was asking some questions.

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And if he asks us some questions about China that it doesn't want to answer, it actually starts to answer them and then erases them while you watch. I can't talk about that. So it does know, you know, some bad stuff about China, such as the Uyghurs, let's say. And it will start to write it.

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And then it will, whoops, which means that they've got some kind of safety valve on there that makes it change its mind. I don't know if you could find that safety valve in the code. Where else would it be? So that's an open question. So we've got the issue. And then Joshua Hartley also asked if it used or how it was created. And it said that it was created with these NVIDIA GPUs.

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Now that's DeepSeek itself saying it was created using these chips that it should not have legal access to. So the question I have is, is that real? Did China really allow it to say that it uses stolen technology? Here's what I think is just a presumption.

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What I think is that it could be that DeepSeek hallucinated the use of those chips because that would be a good hallucination because if it knows that there's no way it could be AI unless it had some of those chips involved, wouldn't it just make the connection on its own? So let me say it more to the point. More to the point.

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If what DeepSeq knows is only what it was trained on, why in the world would China train it on secret data that says they stole some GPUs from NVIDIA or got them in some illicit way? How in the world would DeepSeq... even have access to that to train on it.

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And I'm sure for the women, you know, half of the men look like they're just women. So, yeah, I can see why people would just be giving up. According to the Post Millennial, now here's one of these things where you think it couldn't be true, what people are claiming, and then you see this stat. 15% of women in federal prison were born men, so they're trans.

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So I wonder if it found that in its training and China didn't know that it had to get rid of that, or did it just assume that there's no other way it could exist unless some NVIDIA GPUs were involved? So you really can't tell if it really thought that or just assumed that. So that's interesting. So we don't know if it's a propaganda machine.

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We can see evidence that it is hiding what we would think is the truth. We don't know if it's hallucinating. And It also should be noted that most people who use it in the long run will use the version that's connected to China. So they can collect your personal information again. Now, a lot of the news about DeepSeek was that it's so exciting you could run it on a local computer.

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But the local one will never be as good as the one that's connected all the time. So we're going to get all excited about the local one, which basically will be a toy, just maybe another user interface. But the real one, the one people would use if they just go to their browser because they don't want to figure out how to load it on their personal computer, will be connected.

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So again, it's a way for China to collect all kinds of information on its users. So there's that. And then we find out that there's this huge cyber attack on DeepSeek. Now, who would do that? Who would do a major cyber attack on Deep Sea? Well, first of all, they'd have to have a lot of skill. Let's say, could it be China? Well, no, it's China's product, so they wouldn't attack it.

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Could it be Russia? No. It doesn't seem like something Russia would do. Why would they? Iran? No. Israel? No. Europe? No. They're barely in AI. So who would do such a thing? I can only think of us. If it's not the United States, it should be.

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Because if it's true that our biggest AI companies are, and it looks like it's confirmed, are going to be in bed with the CIA, the CIA can't let China destroy the AI industry in the United States. There's probably no limit to what the CIA would do to make sure that the U.S. is dominant in AI.

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So the first thing the CIA would do if they're doing their job and if they're in bed with AI is they would look to destroy DeepSeek. So if I had to guess who's doing a major cyber attack, probably us. I mean, can you come up with a better idea? Do you think the Sri Lankans just decided to go to war? Who else would it be? Africa? What, Greenland? Greenland decided to kind of assert itself?

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I mean, honestly, who else would it be? Now, I guess you could say, well, it could be individuals. Really? Maybe. But why would the individuals want to take out this great free new product? I don't know. Sounds like us. So, as you know, there's an accusation that the whistleblower for OpenAI was murdered. Now, if it's true...

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that controlling AI in the world is an existential, most important thing for our country. And it might be. It might be the most important thing. Would the CIA kill an American citizen to guarantee American dominance? Probably yes. That doesn't mean they did. But wouldn't that be sort of on point? Killing one person to save the country? Again, not saying that they did.

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but I kind of feel like that's their job. I hate to say it. If they're trying to keep the country safe and the whistleblower would have taken down our most important AI asset, it feels like we would have killed them. We meaning somebody associated with our government. And the same with DeepSeek. So what I expect

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And what I predicted is that our government will try to degrade access to or even the product itself. So I think we will probably see a massive campaign to say it's too dangerous like TikTok or something. And somehow it will be banned eventually, unless we just out-compete it, which is also possible. We might just out-compete it. So Grok 3 is launching this week.

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15% of women's prisons are biological males. Now, it kind of makes sense because biological males tend to be the ones who create the most crimes. So if you've got enough trans, you're going to be filling your prisons with, because men are just more likely to commit crimes. So yeah, 15%. That's something that Trump is ending, right? I think, yeah, he's going to change that.

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which is 10 times the computing power and pretty soon voice mode is coming so you can talk to Grok and Grok's got the, I think the most impressive data center, which should give it either now or soon the most impressive AI. So I feel like even if AI is free, like you can get a freeze deep seek, I'm still going to take the one that's better.

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If it's, you know, say $20 a month, I think I'm always going to want the one that's better. So we'll see. I think America is going to be way more competitive than we thought for 24 hours when that free one dropped. Deportations were up to 1,200 on Sunday. And so I guess Trump wanted that number to get up. It was only in the lower hundreds for a few days.

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But only 600 people crossed illegally on Sunday. That's a ridiculously low number. Now, it turns out that closing the border wasn't that hard, just like Trump said. Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Justice Department fired more than a dozen lawyers that were working with Jack Smith's two prosecutions of the president. Now, I'm completely in favor of that.

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I think that if you are a prosecutor and you willingly take an assignment that is clearly lawfare and the person you're trying to lawfare gets into office, you're fired. You're very fired. And that's the way it should be. Because if you're going to cross that line and lawfare somebody because you can, when they get in power, they're going to fire your ass. And I am so on board for that.

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Because that's what we need. That's good for the country. It's good for the country that the bad guys know that there's a price and the price is their jobs. And if you want to think, oh, I'm just being a lawyer, just doing what I'm told. No, you better think about it next time. You better think it through because Trump's coming for you if you came for him. And I'm absolutely on board with that.

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You've got to rebalance the power structure. You've got to make sure there's a deterrent for bad behavior. NVIDIA is up to an half percent, yeah. So I think that might have been a one-day scare. A lot of people are trying to get into NVIDIA at a good entry price.

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So I think there was a ton of money on the sidelines thinking, well, I kind of want to own NVIDIA, but it seems to just go up too much every day, and I haven't bought it yet. And then it looks like it's a good price, so. All right, so you might know that Scott Besant got confirmed, so he's going to be the Treasury Secretary, and he's helping Trump push the idea of tariffs as opposed to income tax.

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Now, I wanted to run some numbers, so I used Perplexity AI, which got different numbers than Grok did, so I'll tell you both. So I thought to myself, is that really something that could happen? Like, how much do we collect in taxes? Or how much is the budget, I guess? How much is the budget? And then how much would we have to charge in tariffs to replace all of our income tax?

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And so I did a quick calculation, and it looks like if Trump put a 20% tariff on every single thing that comes into the country, it would be 5% to 10% of what we need to cover the budget. 20% tariff on every single import. Every single one would only be 5% to 10% of what we need to cover the current budget. Now, the current budget is probably twice what it should be.

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I'm not sure we can ever reduce that. But let's say that goes down 30%. Let's say Doge is just wildly successful. You're still not even close. So I don't really understand... the whole tariff instead of income tax. Is that really based on something real? The numbers don't look like they could possibly add up. But I would like to be corrected about that. So if I'm wrong about that, you let me know.

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The good news about tariffs is it encourages local production because it would give, therefore it would give some cost advantages to doing things locally. So that's good, but I don't think that that's enough of a boost to make it make sense. What might make sense is tariffs at the same time as other things.

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Imagine if he went through all the trouble of going trans so you could get into a women's prison, and then they put you back in a men's prison. It would be like, you would feel so good about yourself, you're like, yes, I beat the system. Yeah, they can put me in prison, but they're going to have to put me in the women's prison because I put on a dress. And then Trump's like,

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According to Ann Giarritelli for the Washington Examiner, there are two law enforcement officers who have said that the Mexican cartel has put a green light to open fire on U.S. federal enforcement at the border. Do you believe that? I'm not sure I could totally trust some law enforcement people who said they heard it. So I don't know if they have good sources.

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But do you believe the cartel just said it's war just to open fire? We're going to have to wait and see. It doesn't feel like the right play. As much as You want to hate the cartels. They do act like a well-oiled machine, unfortunately. And would it make sense for them to escalate before they had to? Seems like they should try to avoid all contact with the U.S. military for as long as possible.

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because maybe then the American political system will talk us out of doing it. So I don't know if I believe that, but we're going to find out. There were some shots exchanged just yesterday, I think, but that might have been a one-off. We'll see. Yeah. Sound like BS? Yes.

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If you say it's BS, there's a lag in the comments, so you're going to have to tell me the topic so I know which one of my topics is BS. Hmm? So NVIDIA chips in the research paper, DeepSeq's engineers said they used the older chips, not the best ones, and 2,000 of them. All right. All right, so ladies and gentlemen, that's what I had for today's topic. Is there anything I missed?

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I thought I'd zoom through it and get you back to work. Alright, I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a few minutes, subscription, the people who are behind the subscription paywall. And I'm going to change all this soon. Okay. And we'll do the closing zip as soon as I've hit the will be private button. It takes about 30 seconds.

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If you're on YouTube or X or Rumble, thanks for joining. I'm going private with just the locals people now, and I'll see you tomorrow.

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Okay, take your dress to the men's prison. Ooh, that could work out entirely differently. Well, CNN is getting rid of... What's his name? Jim Acosta. So Jim Acosta is quitting, apparently, because they moved him to the midnight slot, which is what you do when you're trying to get somebody to quit on their own, because I think it's cheaper if they quit. So that worked. That plan worked.

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So Acosta's out. Now, he had been the dumbest guy. I don't know if he was the dumbest. Let's say he was the one who seemed least interested in the truth. But they have this new dumb person, Catherine Rampell, who's on the panels with Scott Jennings and some other people. And she's quite a piece of work. It feels like CNN is just trying to put their business completely out of business.

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Like, here's somebody you would only let on TV if you were trying to destroy your own business model. I mean, just incredible. So she's sort of a shrieking, tedious, adult, racist kind of a panelist. And she went on a five-minute rant about

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about how Elon Musk is clearly some kind of a racist Nazi because of all the little hints, all the little hints, including the fact that twice he's raised his hand above his waist. Oh, I didn't know that. Apparently twice one of his hands has been higher than his waist. Whoa, I guess I'm going to have to rethink everything.

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Here I thought he wasn't a Nazi, but now that I know his hand has gone up twice above his waist, I'm rethinking everything. But wait, there's more. There's more. So part of her evidence is that the actual Nazis, in Germany I guess, said it was a salute. Oh no. Oh no. The actual Nazis said it's a salute. In other words, CNN is using Nazis as as their source of truth.

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Why would you use Nazis as your fact-checkers? Do they replace Daniel Dale? I'd like to see Daniel Dale fact-check that. Huh. If the Nazis say it's a salute, it must be a salute. It's not because the Nazis want to draw attention to themselves and act exactly like people that they're more popular than they are. No, it's not opportunistic at all. Let me tell you the proper way to respond to that.

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When somebody says, but the Nazis say it's a salute, what you want to do is you would say, why do you think they think it's a Nazi salute? It's because they watch CNN. Where else would they learn that that was a Nazi salute? They didn't make it up on their own. Do you think they go around all day long and every time somebody puts their arm in the air, they're like, yep, yep, there's another one.

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Nazi salute. No. The reason they're targeting Elon Musk is because CNN told them it's a Nazi salute. And then they look at the Nazis as the source. No. CNN, you're the source. The Nazis never even would have thought about it. Because there's not a single Nazi that thinks that touching your heart and saying my heart goes out to you is Sieg Heil. Not one.

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As if my followers didn't know that already. So I hope you're all enjoying your 11% extra pay because, let's face it, you are the sexiest, best-looking group of people on the entire planet. So it's a little bit unfair, but I think they could have saved a little bit of time and money by just asking me. Just ask Scott. Hey, Scott, do you think attractive people make more money? Yes.

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You can't find one Nazi that thinks that's the case. But you can find Nazis that watch CNN. Can't you? And do you think they watched Fox News? No. They weren't watching Fox News because Fox News said this is ridiculous. It's obviously not a Nazi salute. So where are they getting their information? They're getting it from CNN.

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So CNN is the choice of news for the Nazis, which I think has to mean something, doesn't it? I mean, connect the dots, right? If the Nazis are getting their information from CNN, that would sort of suggest that CNN are Nazis, right? I'm just seeing how stupid I could be. Let's see if I can get a job on the panel.

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Anyway, and the fact that Netanyahu says absolutely he's not a Nazi, he's a big friend of Israel, he came and he toured the Holocaust sites, you'd think that would be enough. I like to suggest a standard for knowing if somebody's a Nazi. Now, you couldn't use this as an absolute, but I think if the head of Israel...

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says in public, this is ridiculous, he's a friend of Israel, that should sort of settle it, don't you think? Because who's better at spotting Nazis? The actual head of Israel or a panelist on CNN? I don't know. I think Israel's got that down. Scott Jennings warned that she went so far that she might want to lawyer up because it was just such obvious defamation.

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Now, I'm no expert on defamation, but suppose she did get sued for suggesting with her five minutes of evidence that Musk must be a Nazi. Suppose he sued her. What would be the defense? She would have to either say she wasn't trying to suggest he's a Nazi, which of course was the entire point of her entire thing. That would be ridiculous. Or she'd have to say, I'm too stupid to know it's not true.

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So she'd actually have to, her defense would have to be that she says things that are not true and she knows it, and didn't mean it. It would be a ridiculous defense because it's so obviously intentional and it's so obvious what her intention is. I don't know. I'm not sure if a lawsuit is worth that. Then Abby Phillip, who's the host for that same panel, she's the CNN host,

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she gives Musk a hard time, I think separately, for saying that Germany needs to move past their guilt. So here's how she reframed move past your guilt. She says it's forgetting the Holocaust. Did Elon Musk say we should forget the Holocaust? Again, he literally just toured the Holocaust sites with Netanyahu. Who else has done that? Who's actually toured the Holocaust sites with Netanyahu?

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That's as far as you can get from forgetting the Holocaust. So this is so disgustingly stupid and petty and weak that I'm going to guess that Abby Phillip will be the next one that CNN gets rid of. Because their credibility is really tanking with that particular host. I mean, that's just unforgivable, really. Anyway, Jim Acosta's out, as I said. He's quit CNN.

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Do you think men who are taller make more money? Yes. You don't have to do that one either. I know all the answers to these. How about another one? According to SciPost, Vladimir Henry writes that anger might enhance creative performance. Again, just ask me. Really, you could just ask me. Yes. Yes. Anger generates more creative performance. I'm getting a little mad at this right now.

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But at least he has that Don Lemon career path ahead of him. What? No? All right, I've got a question for you. I'm going to make a generalization. I don't think the generalization holds for every case, but it might. It goes like this. When a Fox News host leaves Fox News, they can get a big audience because they were a celebrity, say Tucker Carlson.

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Now, Hannity is not planning to leave, but suppose he did. If Hannity left Fox News tomorrow, don't you think he'd have a huge podcast? He would because he's a star. How about Gutfeld? He's not going anywhere because he's got two shows on Fox News. But what if he did? He would bring with him a gigantic audience because he's a star.

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And you could go right down the line, Jesse Waters, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Stars, stars, stars. But here's what I noticed this morning. The stars make Fox News. That's what makes it the better show. They also have better producers. I always say that. Their production skills are just amazing. So good. But they have lots of stars.

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And part of being good at producing is making sure you selected people with personality and character and could be stars. But it seems to me that the CNN hosts, none of them have an audience if they were to leave. I think they would all turn into Don Lemon. And you would find that it was CNN that made them famous and successful. I mean, if successful is the right word.

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Whereas at Fox, the talent made the network. At CNN, the network makes the talent well-known. It seems opposite. Is that a fair generalization? It might be too far, but there's so many obvious examples of it. Anyway, MSNBC, Rachel Mano says that they made a difficult decision for what she calls a news organization. So she calls MSNBC, her employer, a news organization. Okay.

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And while she's lying about it being a news organization, she says she doesn't want them, that the network has decided not to air all of the Trump speeches because of all the things he might say that are untrue. And she said that in the context of claiming they're a news organization. Now, if you were under-informed, you would think that they're pretending to be news, so they must be news.

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But I don't even think that's the intention of it. Do you? I mean, if you look at the design of it, it doesn't look like it's designed to be news. It looks like it's designed as propaganda. that's supposed to look like it's also news. Now, you could argue that maybe some other entities are the same, but it's the one that's most obviously not really news.

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It's most obviously just some kind of intel-driven government, Democrat-driven propaganda machine that just happens to be slightly in the news domain. Then over at The View... Senator Fetterman went on The View and just slapped him down on this lawfare stuff. According to Fox News, He said the judicial system gets weaponized and targeted political enemies for political gain.

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Docs. Holy cow, stocks are up. Look at that. Wow. All right, so that's the good news. Let's open our comments and get you the show that you deserve. Damn it, you deserve it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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It can't be true that he's defensively attacking Ukraine. but he's also looking to roll over and control all of Europe. Or CGTN is China's state TV, somebody says. Is that true? Well, that would make a difference, wouldn't it? Yeah. So I guess the best take about anything about Ukraine is that we can't tell what's true. So I guess that's where I'll settle on this. We just don't know what's true.

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But we'll see if any missiles are going into the heart of Russia. Well, Jake Tapper was on Piers Morgan, and he's still talking about his new book that talks about Joe Biden's mental decline. And apparently Jake Tapper has admitted that the Democrat cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline might be, it might be, worse than Watergate.

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I guess in his book he said it wasn't worse than Watergate, but now he's willing to admit... Yeah, it might be. It might be worse than Watergate. What do you think? Is the cover-up of Biden worse than Watergate? Yes. Yes. By a mile. It's not even close. And not only that, but the Democrats have done lots of things that are worse than Watergate.

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It's not like the first thing that's worse than Watergate. When I think of Watergate, it just seems so tame. Like, imagine if the worst thing that was happening in the United States was Watergate. If that were the worst thing happening, I'd be pretty darn happy. Stocks would be up. Everything would be good. Here's something I want to add to the whole Biden brain cover-up.

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your body might register it a lot like caffeinated coffee. Now, do you know who knew that before the science? Pavlov. That's basically Pavlov's dog, right? So Pavlov, I was training his dog, dogs, and I would give them a treat after he rang the bell, and then eventually he could just ring the bell and they would salivate. Well, that's what this is. That's what decaf is.

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Now, most of you are probably into the opinion that everybody in the news business were completely aware that Biden's brain wasn't working, but they were just pretending they didn't know. I'm going to modify that a little bit. I don't think that's totally true. And here's why. Have you ever seen the psychology experiments where they'll have a bunch of small group of people

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and they'll be asked to look at something and say, let's say, what line is longer than another line or just some basic factual thing. And only one person will be an actual subject of the experiment and all the rest will be participants who know that they're participants and they're lying.

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And what happens is you can somewhat easily make the person who is the real subject believe whatever the other people all believe is true. So it's so easy to change a person's perception. until they don't see something, or they do see something that just isn't there. Now, this is a very repeatable experiment in psychology, and you've probably seen it a million times in the real world.

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So here's my take. For sure, no doubt about it, there were people in the news business, sorry, I got to, make an adjustment there. For sure, there were people in the news business who were aware that Biden's brain wasn't working and that it was a big problem. There's no doubt about it. I don't know if Jake Tapper was one, but maybe, you know, maybe.

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But if you have enough people who are pretending that he's perfectly fine, and there certainly were enough people pretending that, then you can guarantee that some number of people were just sort of hypnotized into believing it was true because when they looked at the other people, they weren't seeing anything. That's a problem. So my guess is that it was always a combination.

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It was a combination of people who knew they were lying and just were trying to prevent Hitler from coming into office, in their view. Some people who just preferred the Democrats to win. That would be the Democrats. And some people who had the ability to know, but that ability was sort of shut off by the fact they were put in an environment where it seemed like nobody else noticed.

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In theory, they would be cognitively blinded to the obvious. So I think you have to be a little bit careful about assuming that every single person was aware and knew it, because you could see it. Because if you were not in that environment, then you would not have been influenced by it. You could just see it clearly, right? If your experience was turning on my podcast every morning,

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and listening to me say since maybe 2017 or something like that, saying, no, Biden's brain is completely broken. He's obviously incompetent. If you were listening to me say it every day, you would be completely immune from the cognitive blindness because you would have at least one person and probably lots more who are telling you the truth. So you wouldn't have that problem.

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But when you look at the Democrats, they would definitely have that problem of being cognitively blinded by their own team who were lying, basically. Well, were there other examples where they were cognitively blinded? Yes. What about the fine people hoax? Do you think every single person on the mainstream media, do you think every one of them thought that the fine people hoax was real? No. No.

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There were undoubtedly smart, influential people who knew somewhat early on that that wasn't true. But they had an interest in acting like it was true. Now again, take an innocent Democrat and put him in that situation where all these important people are pretending. They're lying, but they're pretending. that the fine people hoax was true. Same problem.

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Decaf is just ringing the bell without the actual caffeine as the payoff. I'm pretty sure any hypnotist would have known. that not every time and not for every person, then it's not going to fix your caffeine headache if you haven't had real caffeine. But then every once in a while, you can have decaf, and it gives you the same little kick.

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They would come to believe it was true because all these important, influential people said it was true. Same with Elon Musk's Nazi salute, which was, of course, not a Nazi salute. Do you think it was even possible that people with normal brains thought that was a Nazi salute?

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Well, if you have enough people who are the credible people, the ones you trust, and they all seem to say it was, which was the case. Now, they were all liars. Probably the people who, you know, the prominent ones, probably just a bunch of liars who didn't want, you know, Trump and Elon to have power. But I'll bet you, I'll bet you,

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some large percentage of democrats who would have been perfectly capable of knowing that certainly wasn't a nazi salute i mean you would have an iq of 80 and you knew that wasn't really a nazi salute but you would have been cognitively blinded by your own side because they kept saying it was So if everybody you talk to says it was, well, suddenly you start thinking, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was.

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So it wouldn't even be unusual that people were cognitively blinded about Biden's brain. It would be the normal operating system of just how everything works. As long as the people in charge were lying in the same way, then the people who weren't powerful and were just sort of on the same team would believe it was true. And they would believe it easily, even though it was obviously not true.

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Well, here's one of my favorite stories, speaking of Jake Tapper. He was on the Scott Galloway's podcast, and he was talking about his son, I guess he's got a 15 year old son and he was talking about it in the context of the Democrat party and the Democrat messaging. So he talks about his son was, uh, you know, a football player and you want him to grow up and be a cop.

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So he's 15 and that's his goal. And apparently, uh, because he wanted to be a cop, the people around him, his friends, have decided he must be a racist. What? He wants to be a cop because he thinks that's the best way to help people, and therefore his friends think he's a racist because he wants to be a cop? And so Jake Tapper is saying,

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quote, you're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be a cop? And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and he thinks that's the best way he can help people. And that's how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men. And then Jake goes on.

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He says, the idea that he wants to be a policeman and therefore he's racist, my son, And like, you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff. And I thought to myself, this is why you fuckers are losing elections. So does Jake Tapper understand what's wrong with the Democrat Party? Yep. Now, I can't name names.

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But I'm going to tell you that there's at least one other person who's a big name in the media business who had the same enlightened response, meaning that it's one thing to support the Democrats until you have a son, and then it becomes impossible if you have a white son. So he's the second person I know of who had a white son and he realized, holy fuck, the Democrats are against my own son.

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So I think that Jake is actually kind of brave to say this out loud and it's important. So, you know, whatever you think of his other opinions and what he should have known and what he should have said sooner, and those are all fair criticisms, does he now understand, does he understand what the problem is? Yes. Yes, he does. Very clearly.

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as if you had the real thing and even if you know it doesn't make any difference if you know that you're getting decaf I have used this trick on myself many times where I would give myself decaf because I had too much caffeinated stuff that day and sure enough I would feel as though I was getting a little boost so there's a little trick for you according to the Washington Times

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Because when it comes home like that, you're not talking about the news, you're talking about your son. and the trouble he's going to have in society. That's some reality coming home. So there's that. But let's see, are the Democrats planning to do anything about this problem? Well, it turns out, yes. Yeah, the Democrats have a plan.

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According to the New York Times, this is going to sound like I'm making it up. So I'm going to tell you in advance, I'm not making this next part up. This is actually real. According to the New York Times, the Democrats are going to spend $20 million on a project they call, quote, speaking with American men, a strategic plan.

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They will quote, study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and vitality in these spaces. Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone. Are you getting close? No, no. No. Could the Democratic Party spend about one minute talking to fucking Jake Tapper to find out what the problem is?

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Hey, Jake, could you please, could you please explain to these fucking idiots what the problem is? And if you're not going to, I refer you to Fisher King, which is an account on X. You should be following, by the way, Fisher King. F-I-S-C-H-E-R, King. And he commented on this. He says, if Democrats want to win over young men, particularly white men, they need to stop actively hating them.

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Okay, okay, now we're getting closer. Was it a problem with the syntax in their spaces? Or is it that they're actively fucking hating them? Which one do you think is the problem here? because they need to stop actively hating them. Demeaning them, yes, and putting up roadblocks, such as affirmative action, DEI, sensitivity training, in the path of their success. It's not about, quote, the tone.

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And then Fisher King follows up by saying, he says, of course this will not happen anytime soon, because the coalition they've assembled won't have it. They're like the bar scene in Star Wars. Now, compare that level of analysis, which of course is perfect, to we're going to spend $20 million to study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and vitality in these spaces. Yeah.

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Why don't you give the $20 million to Fisher King because he just solved your whole fucking problem. But you're going to ignore it because you're the bar scene from Star Wars. All right. Now, is the problem that politicians are uniquely unable to understand the public? Is that the problem? Do you think it's just that politicians are not good at understanding things?

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Well, here's a story from today about Trump. So I'm just going to read one thing that Trump is saying, and you tell me who understands the public, right? Trump does a truth that he says that he's considering pulling $3 billion from Harvard and giving it to trade schools across the country. Any questions?

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Trump wants to pull $3 billion of taxpayer money from Harvard, which is a cesspool of discrimination, and put it in trade schools, which would be really good for men, other people too, Now, is there anything you don't understand about that? No. You understand that perfectly. Is it right on point with what that entire demographic is looking for and wants? Yes. Yes, it is. It's right on point.

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Trump is no longer interested, or at least he's not exhibiting interest, in going to Fort Knox to find out if the gold is still there. Do you remember when Elon Musk and Trump were both saying, hmm, maybe we should check to see if that gold is still in Fort Knox? Well, that interest seems to have waned because nobody cares about it anymore.

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Does it treat them like children? No. Does it treat them like people who want to contribute and make a difference and be successful in life? Yes. It gets everything right. It's not a problem with politicians. It's a problem with politicians who can't do this. All right, I think I made my point. I've been following on ex Matt Van Swall, who's doing a great job of talking about the Doge situation.

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Here he summarizes it this way. Doge is literally one of the most popular government initiatives in history. 73% of Americans say they support cutting government waste. Trump brought in the smartest man on earth to do it, and then the left destroyed Elon for it, and the GOP won't vote on it. I can't believe this. And then Elon responded to the post, three words, did my best. Wow.

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There's almost nothing I can say about that. You know, you probably heard me early on in the Doge process. And I was saying, you know, I love everything Doge is trying to do. But when it gets to Congress, they're just going to spend his savings. But it's even worse than that. They're never going to even codify the savings. Not the Democrats. Not the Republicans.

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They're not even going to vote on it. So all that work, all that sacrifice that Elon Musk did to get that right, Congress is going to

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shit on it and I'm almost losing my mind that we can just watch this happen now it's not everybody you know Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to get it codified etc but the fact that all that effort it looks like you know some portion of it anyway is going to be thwarted by your own congress It's such a tragedy. It's almost impossible to understand.

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It's like we're running as fast as we can toward a cliff and we even have the smartest people in the world trying to prevent it. And even that doesn't help. What is going on here? What is going on? Well, in other news...

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Do you ever have one of these situations where there's something that you just assumed was always true, and then suddenly one day you realize or you hear something and you go, wait a minute, that couldn't have been true. So here's an example of that for me.

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So for years and years and years, I've been hearing that one of the reasons that Harvard and some of the other Ivy Leagues have a lot of foreign students is what? Do you know the answer? Why is it that Harvard and a lot of other Ivy Leagues have a high percentage of foreign students? You know the answer too, right? Everybody knows the answer.

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The answer is that the foreign students were paying full price, full tuition, and so they'd make more money over the foreign students, right? just obvious. Now, you know, as I tell you too often, I have a degree in economics and I've got an MBA from a top school. And I would hear that and I'd say to myself, oh, okay, well, that explains everything.

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And the reason given is that apparently it gets audited on some kind of a regular basis. So they do know that the gold is there. To which I say, hmm, hmm, that's one possibility. One possibility is that they know for sure the gold is there. What's the other possibility? that they know for sure the gold is not there. So if you want to keep your suspicions alive, go ahead.

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And then one day, which was just recently, I just realized what an idiot I am. So here's the assumption you have to make for this to be true. Are you ready for this? If you also believe that was true, here's the assumption that you and I both made. We made the assumption that if these foreign students didn't come in and pay full tuition, that the seats would be empty.

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That the seats would be empty. because they wouldn't be able to find a bunch of Asian American people who desperately wanted to go to Harvard but got turned away because they were Asian American, or that all the white students who knew exactly what Harvard costs and they were applying but they got turned away because they were white, that they wouldn't fill those spaces?

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Obviously, they might have needed some financial support, etc. But it couldn't have possibly been true.

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It couldn't possibly have been true that Harvard would lose money if they said, well, the rest of these seats have to be full tuition, and they couldn't find enough Americans who had a 4.5 average and had participated in every possible thing that you need that wouldn't be willing to pay whatever it took to get a Harvard degree. I've been laughing at myself for a few days. What an idiot.

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What a freaking idiot I was. Why did I ever imagine that was true? Now, the actual truth, I think, is a little deeper. I don't know what it is, actually. But some people said that the foreign students' parents were maybe making large donations. I don't know how universal that was.

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Other people said, no, no, the real game here is to educate foreign people who have become leaders in their own country. So really it's how the U.S. government controls other countries in the long term by educating them in Harvard. To which I say, really? Sending them to the heart of communism?

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The heart of communism and then sending them home with a Harvard degree is going to help America somehow? That doesn't really track. Then other people were saying, Scott, the foreign students were also getting discounted tuition. To which I say, what? What? Now I'm really confused. So I don't know exactly what's true. Huh?

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I just know that I was a freaking idiot, an idiot for imagining that those Harvard seats were gonna sit there empty because we didn't fill them with foreign students paying full tuition. Is anybody having the same reaction that I had when I first thought of it? Is anybody saying, oh, I just sort of assumed that was true. I didn't really think about it that much. No, it couldn't have been true.

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It never could have been true. I don't know what is true, but it's definitely not that. Anyway. Is there any other news about Harvard that makes Harvard look stupid? Oh, yeah. Again, I have to tell you before I tell you this story, I'm not making it up. This is an actual story in the news.

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According to the Daily Mail, Harvard just fired a professor after finding that she fabricated research used in studies on dishonesty. So Francesca Gino, she was considered a star business professor at Harvard. And she'd been doing, I guess she'd been doing studies, you know, more than one study. I guess there were at least four studies she did about honesty, and she had allegedly falsified.

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She lied. She lied on her studies about lying. Oh, my God. And she was like a star professor. Oh, my God. I swear I didn't make that up. Well, Dan Bongino is giving us a little update on X, but what's going on there? And he said that he made the decision to either reopen or push additional resources into investigating three specific cases he mentioned.

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Number one, the DC pipe bombing investigation. You know how it seemed like nothing was happening with that DC? That was the January 6th. Who put the pipe bomb there? Because that all looked really suspicious. So that's good. I'm glad that he's putting some resources behind that. The next one is the cocaine discovery at the White House. Really?

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Keep your suspicions alive. Although probably it's all there. Well, over in China, they've developed a giant salmon farming ship. so that they can raise salmon inside the ship, basically like a fish farm. And it's better than using a regular fish farm, which would be in one place, and maybe a typhoon would get it. Or there's some other kind of problem that can destroy your fish.

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Dan, how many of you give a shit about the cocaine discovery at the White House how many years ago? Does anybody care about that? Is that where you want your tax money to be spent? Do you want the FBI to go look into who left the bag of cocaine? I have so little interest in that.

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Now, I assume that's purely political, and I don't mind that political stuff gets done, but why are you wasting our money on a bag of cocaine, even in the White House? So, Dan, why in the world are you spending time and money on that? Like, what could come of it? Like, what's the upside? Is the upside that we get one person in trouble for some drugs? What is the upside?

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Now, I understand the upside of looking into that DC pipe bombing, and that's a pretty big upside, because we could find out something that really matters, and I think the country cares. But really, the bag of cocaine... just because it was a big headline story? How about no? How about you just don't waste my money on that?

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It's bad enough that the Congress is not going to vote on Doge, but you're going to consciously waste my money on that? One bag of cocaine that somebody left? God, I could not be less interested in that. And the other one is the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. Well, I think they do need to understand where the leaks come from, but I don't know if they can find it. Anyway.

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I saw a comment on X from retired Colonel Doug McGregor. Now, it means more because he's a retired combat professional. And he said this about peace in Ukraine. He said, in all honesty, I do not believe there's a chance for a deal with Russia and Ukraine at this point. He says, if you're Zelenskyy, The worst thing that could happen to you is for troops to come home. You know where this is going.

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He says they are likely to find him and kill him. If he ends the war, he's the target. The lives lost on the battlefield exceed one million, and the wounded are one to one and a half to two times that number. Now, does that opinion sound familiar? That's my opinion.

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My opinion is if Zelensky entered the war, he would personally be killed so that we don't have any option for peace as long as he's in power. so um and it makes a it makes a difference when i hear from uh colonel mcgregor because you know he's got a deeper understanding of how the the troops would feel in a case like that but i agree absolutely I have a correction to make.

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I don't know the exact details, but I think my part of it was wrong. I told you about Gaza, and I told you that the U.S. contractors were going to handle the The aid and the food for the Gaza residents were being relocated into one quarter of Gaza so that the rest of it could be clear of Hamas, I guess. And I mistakenly said that the U.S. was paying for that foreign aid.

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I think it's only true that U.S. contractors are managing the aid, but probably being paid to do it. That makes them contractors. But it doesn't look like America necessarily was paying for the aid. I don't know who is. Well, I saw Zuby on the X platform talking about some statistics about single moms. And he noted that the USA has the highest rate of children living in single mother households.

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We're about triple the global average. So 23% of USA households have a single mom. And Zuby asks, why do you think that is? Does anybody have an idea? Why do you think that the US has the highest rate of children living in single mother households? And the answer is because it's an option. That's it. That's the whole reason. If it's an option, people will take it.

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And the better the option is, the more likely they'll take it. Now, in my own example, I have twice married single moms who had stepkids. Now, do you think that that happens as easily in other countries? Do you think that in every country in the world, a single mom with two kids can easily get married or remarried? Probably not. Probably there are huge cultural disadvantages.

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But if you put it in a big old ship, I guess you have access to all the water you need. And you can bake yourself some salmon. So I like that idea. Salmon farm in a ship. Some say it's going to be crappy salmon because they would feed it substandard food, but they don't have to. I mean, you know, the possibility is they can feed it good food and then your salmon would be fine.

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Do you think that it would be easy for a mom to get divorced in every other country? Probably not. Do you think that the woman has maybe a job that pays before she gets divorced? Well, not in every country, but in the U.S. a little bit more likely. So there's a whole different story in the black community in the U.S. where the rate is even higher. It's like 50%.

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And I'm not going to pretend I know what the dynamics are there. But maybe it has something to do with government support. Maybe there's just a little bit more government support going on. But generally speaking, things happen because there's incentives or because there are options or because it's possible. That's it.

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If we were in a country where getting divorced was sort of the end of your life, it just wouldn't happen as much. but we live in a country where people make it work. I mean, it's not easy, but they make it work. They have possibilities. They have options. So if their husband is drinking or not getting it done one way or the other, they have options.

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So I don't think it goes, I think there's no mystery to it whatsoever. In science news, surgeons are apparently getting some kind of special glasses that can look at medications and it will tell them if it's a big mistake to give this medication to the specific patient. So we're talking about literally picking the wrong stuff or something that maybe doesn't work with some other stuff.

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And it doesn't store the data, so it's not doing anything privacy-wise, but basically if they pick up the medication, the glasses will look at it and it will tell them, oh, don't use that stuff. So they're still waiting on FDA approval, but the technology has been tested and it works. NBC News is reporting on that. All right, ladies and gentlemen. That are the stories that are.

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Yeah, those are the stories for today that are worthy of your time. Thanks for joining. And did you all see the video? of French President Macron's wife pushing him in the face before he exited the airplane in Vietnam. I'm still waiting to figure out what that was all about. But on the other hand, it's sort of none of our business because whatever that was, it was personal.

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It wasn't a state issue. But it was funny. I guess that's my only comment about it. It was kind of funny. We don't know anything else about it. All right, that's all I got for now. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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But we'll see if that becomes a thing. According to the University of Cologne, which I can smell from here, parents, this will surprise absolutely nobody. Can you believe it? Parents are not happier, but have a greater sense of meaning in life, according to a study. Now, how many of you didn't know that?

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If you've ever seen any parent trying to get their kids to school or get them to do their homework or get them to do anything, they don't look like they're super happy. But if you were to ask them, are you glad you had kids? Well, nearly 100% would say, yeah, it's the best thing I've ever done. You should do it too. So yes, having children is not about having a bunch of laughs.

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It's about a greater sense of meaning in life. I feel like every parent already knew that. Is there anyone who doesn't know that? Probably the most well-known and understood phenomenon in all the world. Well, the UAE, United Arab... What's the E? United Arab... Anyway, the UAE is giving every single resident free chat GPT plus the good stuff for every resident.

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I saw this in a Mario Noffel post on X. News 9 is the source. And it's the only country doing that. And it's part of their push to be the high-tech sort of hub of the world. That's pretty good. So everybody will have ChatGPT and UAE. I wonder if any other country will follow that model. Did you hear the story? You may have heard the story about the OpenAI. This is also ChatGBT.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains... All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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One of their models allegedly disobeyed the human instructions and tried to sabotage the shutdown mechanism. Did you see that story? Well, it did not surprise me to find out that there's a report today that that was not the regular chat GPT in a regular setting, but rather they were doing safety testing. So it was an artificial condition, safety testing.

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It wasn't something that could have happened in the real world. So probably that's not really something you need to worry about. And I don't see how it could possibly change its own code. There was something about that story that sounded a little sketchy. Owen knew it. Owen was all over that. It just didn't sound true, did it? So I was pausing on that story a little bit.

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But if I mentioned it, I should not have. Well, Kamala Harris was over in Australia giving a speech at a big event there, and the clips from it are hilarious because she was in full word salad Kamala Harris mode. And honestly, I couldn't tell if she was drunk or stupid. A lot of people said, well, probably both. She does look drunk and stupid, but is it possible that

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Is it possible she's just stupid? Like really, really stupid? Because I'm giving her the benefit of a doubt that she's drunk. But my God, is she embarrassing. Oh my God. And she could have been our president. Every time you see her talk, you think to yourself, oh my God. She was within striking distance of being the president of the United States. Wow.

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Speaking of other losers, Mayor Karen Bass of L.A., she posted on X that homes are under construction throughout the Palisades ahead of expectations. And then there was a little video from above of a house being built. And I said to myself, huh, this is kind of strange. If your claim was that houses, plural, are being built, don't you think that your evidence would be more than one house?

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Doesn't that strike you as odd? If you were trying to say, yeah, a lot of houses are being built, wouldn't you show more than one? And then I look at the comments. Apparently it's one house. Exactly one house. No, I don't know if it's one house, but she's definitely full of shit. There are some things happening and there are some action and there are some things moving in the right direction.

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And join me now for the best part of your day, the simultaneous sip, and it's happening now. Go. So good. All right. Well, let's see if there's any science about coffee. Oh, yes, there is. Some new research, according to Sidepost and Eric Dolan, shows that decaf coffee can, it can, not always, but it can mimic caffeine's effect in habitual drinkers. In other words, if you have decaf,

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But if you were to drive there, it might not look like anything's happening. Anyway, she says they've taken action to cut the red tape and expedite the permits. But she's going to get destroyed in the comments to that. All right. Good luck there, Mayor Karen Bass.

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Did you know that, according to the Daily Wire, the Treasury officials in the US are doing a good job of choking off the cash flow to the cartels? So they're figuring out what money flowing through the U.S. is cartel money. And they're shutting it down and sanctioning it and making sure that individuals are not getting it. And I said to myself, wait a minute.

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Are you telling me that we always had the ability to know what was the cartel's cash and it took until Trump's second administration to start shutting it down? Wait, what? Isn't that a little bit fishy? It does seem to me like Trump is the first person who's taken anything serious about Mexico or the border.

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Just hold that in your head, that the Treasury had the ability to identify the cartel's money flow, and we were not messing with it. How in the world is that even possible that we weren't doing anything about it until now? The only thing I can imagine is that we were complicit and something about the Trump administration has decided not to be complicit. I don't know.

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There's something to be learned by that story. But whatever it is, it's not good. But it's probably good now. Anyway, there's a story in the New York Times. that is just full of anonymous sources. Oh, man, they got some anonymous sources. And I saw Greta Van Susteren was mocking them for their anonymous sources.

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But the story is that Trump is backing away from sanctions on Russia because he wants to do business deals with them, meaning America wants to do business deals with them. Now, do you think that's true? And all they have are anonymous sources. What have I taught you about anonymous sources? Anonymous sources have basically no news value because they're usually made up.

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So it doesn't matter if it's the New York Times. If it's full of anonymous sources, well, I don't know about that. But it does seem that Germany, France... This is another related news. I saw this on Mario Noffel's posts. The source is CGTN, whatever that is. But it says that Germany, France, and the UK and the US... have given Ukraine the green light to fire missiles with no range cap.

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In other words, go ahead, Ukraine, and just start lighting up Russia itself. That means that Ukraine will be striking targets deep inside Russia. Do you think that's first of all true? I don't know if it's true because it's not coming from a news source I've ever heard of. But probably it's true.

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I mean, it feels, maybe it's a little too on the nose, but it feels like the only thing that Europe could come up with is, all right, if Moscow and Russia are cranking it up and they're not talking about peace, let's just start sending missiles into the heart of Russia. What could go wrong? Well, a lot could go wrong, but it kind of makes sense that they might loosen up the distance cap.

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So I guess we'll have to watch and see if Russia gets lit up with these new missiles and if it makes any difference at all. Or does it make Russia just twice as aggressive? So we're going to find out. Now, what do you think is true? Do you think that there are two stories about Putin right now?

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One is that he felt under attack by NATO and that really he's acting in a semi-defensive way by making sure that NATO doesn't and that Ukraine had always been the red line and we crossed the red line. So you got to expect it. The other version of Putin is that he plans to dominate all of Europe. And this is just one more step in doing that. Now, they can't both be true, right?

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And the reason it was already preloaded on their phones, because these are government phones, it was already preloaded on the phone. There's only one reason, because the government systems don't work. The only way that you can have a secure conversation is to be in the same room and go up to somebody's ear and say, I've got a secret. Don't say anything. I'll just whisper in your ear.

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That's the government secure system. Now, I do believe if the president of the United States wants to make one phone call to one person or maybe a few, and they also have access to the secure communications, that probably works, a phone call.

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But how much work can a dozen people get done on a phone call, especially when they're all busy and they're running from one place to another and they're doing this or that? They needed a chat. They needed a group chat. Does the government provide a group chat that is secure? No. No. So what were they supposed to do?

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So they had this thing, this hoodie attack, and they wanted to be extra sure they were on the same page. What were they going to do? Do you think they were all going to go back to Washington, go into special little rooms, stop what they were doing, and wait for their special secured phone call? and then they would talk it out?

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Or do you think that in the normal course of business, the, let's say, asynchronous chat is the best way to go? Because what I imagine is that these people are working all the time. There's no such thing as private time if you're at that level of government. I can imagine, this is just my imagination, that it might have been off hours. It could have been you're having dinner with the kids.

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The messages are coming in. You're like, okay, here's my input. Uh, somebody else is commuting and they're, they're on some kind of a vehicle and they're like, okay, this is that somebody else is in a meeting and they can't answer for half an hour, but then they get back on and they go, all right. What was the alternative? Exactly. There was no alternative.

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And when I mocked the government systems on X today, I mentioned that one of the things that Doge has taught us, that the government systems are completely useless. They're just barely, barely working. Certainly not up to any kind of modern communication standard with or without security. And by the way, how do you know that the most secure part of our communication systems are actually secure?

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It would be the one thing that the bad guys would try hardest to penetrate. You think they never have? Do you think they couldn't bribe somebody who could? You can't bribe an insider? I don't think there's any such thing as a completely secure anything, except maybe standing in a skiff. So the Scott Alexander rule fooled me on this one.

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And then PXF was asked about it, and he did the worst job of lying I've ever seen, trying to change the subject. And boy, did he look like he was about to get fired. I wouldn't be surprised if something bad happened to some of them, but I think Trump would like to keep his team together, so probably they're going to be okay. Okay.

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But then the real question the news is going to be talking about today is, is it war plans or was it just talking? And then Jeffrey Goldberg will say, oh, I've seen it. Nobody else can see it because it's bad enough that I saw it. So I'm going to save the country by not showing you. I'll just tell you it's the worst thing that could have ever happened. It's war plans. So, all right.

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And sometimes they're buzzing around our military ships hundreds of miles out. So they can't be hobbyist stuff. And they're immune to jamming. They can't be jammed. and they don't make any noise when they fly over. I have a potential hypothesis. Well, kind of a hypothesis. Is it possible to create a hologram without people seeing where the sources of the light is for the hologram?

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So what I'm adding to the conversation is that you can't tell every time when something hits all the markers for being fake. Doesn't mean it is. Every now and then one of those will be real. 20 to 1. But every once in a while. The other thing you need to know is that the government systems couldn't possibly have done what Signal did for them, which is quickly make sure they're on the same page.

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There was no other way to do that. And it looked like it might have been important to make sure they were on the same page. So I don't think the news will ever cover the fact that there wasn't an alternative. There was no technological alternative. Not really. I mean, without driving to the same building for every time they wanted to talk about something.

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And there's a reason it was preloaded on the phones. I mean, just think about this. It was preloaded on the government phone. Obviously, everybody in that level of government must have been aware, both administrations and really all the administrations, at least through Clinton, that the government systems just don't work. So you're sort of on your own to get anything done.

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Anyway, and then Trump avoided the question by acting like he's just heard it. Obviously, he'd heard it. And then... Anyway, so there's something sketchy about the story, but the basic idea looks like it's true. All right. Apparently, Natalie Winters has a scoop here. The wife of the former U.S. attorney, Matthew Graves, isn't that the worst name for an attorney?

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Graves, who led the prosecution of 1500 January Sixers, His wife is on the board of Indivisible, which allegedly is a Soros-backed group that is behind the Tesla protests. So, unbelievably...

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The guy who prosecuted the January Sixers by pretending that they were there for an insurrection instead of the reality, which is they were there to stop one, or what they thought they were doing was stopping one, his wife is literally a domestic terrorist. Now, I'm using some hyperbole, but I think it's a fair characterization.

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Because if you're on a Soros-backed group that's backing the Tesla actions, that is terrorism. Now, did you know, and I didn't know this until I asked AI, did you know that if somebody is doing something that is meant to destroy the economic assets of a country, that's terrorism? It doesn't mean violence just to people. Terrorism can include violence to economic assets. That's what this is.

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The anti-Tesla stuff has nothing to do with anything except violence against assets, economic assets, in this case, musks. So yes, if you're an organizer of the anti-Tesla stuff, and you know that Tesla had nothing to do with anything that's Doge-related, it's just a separate company employing 80,000 Americans, and you decided to take it down for political reasons, you're a terrorist.

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To me, I mean, that feels like a totally fair description. Anyway, so we know that our attorneys and the Department of Justice certainly has been corrupt for a long time. The January 6th thing is one of the most corrupt things I've ever seen in my life. Just so extremely corrupt.

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And by the way, if you ever get into a conversation with somebody who thinks January 6th was an insurrection, what you need to do is say, you know, where we differ is the starting assumption. The starting assumption. My starting assumption is the correct one. Don't say that part. My starting assumption is that the vast majority of people were there to stop an insurrection.

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And their intentions are everything that matters. Because if they were there to stop an insurrection, then we would still want to jail the people who got violent, probably. And we can agree on that. But the people who weren't violent were there to stop an insurrection.

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But the prosecutions were based on the assumption which they have never tested, they've never polled the people, they've never asked, the news has never had one on. Have you ever seen anyone in the news put somebody on and say, what was your intention? Was your intention to install Trump despite knowing that the election was fair and that he lost? I don't think you'll find anybody to say that.

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It's the most basic assumption of all the January 6th prosecutions, and nobody has ever asked the question, why were you there? What did you think you were doing? And that just blows my mind. Because Everything that the bad guys say about January 6th, they start with the wrong assumption that they were there as an insurrection, and then they reason from there. Don't let them get away with that.

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Could you create a pretend UFO that looked like really just some light in the sky, an orb, and then make it look like it was defying the rules of physics because it's just a hologram, so it doesn't have any gravity? And could you make your adversaries I think that there were dozens of advanced aliens flying over your facility, so they would attack the wrong thing. I don't know.

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That is an unsupported and easily debunked assumption. All you'd have to do is ask any one of the nonviolent people who were there, why were you there? Anyone.

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thousands of them you could ask any one of them and they would have the same answer any one of them nobody did nobody did it's just like the fine people hoax remember i always say well did anybody ask to see if there was anybody in the crowd who didn't like the racists but they were there because they wanted to support the uh the statues i'm the only person in the world that i know of

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who asked that question. That's the most important question. Were there any ordinary people who were not racists who were there for their own reasons? And the answer is yes. I talked to a few of them. Absolutely there were. So when you see this gigantic assumptions being ignored by the news, it's not news. It's narrative. Anyway. The U.S.

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Treasury advisor claims that 23andMe, according to James O'Keefe, he's got an undercover footage of this Treasury policy advisor. He says that 23andMe was sharing your DNA data with Big Pharma, including in other countries like Russia and maybe China. So your DNA data was being sold to adversaries. Now what the story doesn't include, and this is the big question, did it include identifying data?

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As in, you know, this is the specific person and their specific data. Or was it just the data so that you could see that there's this kind of person and this kind of person? Now, neither of them are a good answer. But if they didn't include your name or identifier somehow, it's not as bad. It's pretty bad. But it's not as bad as if they knew exactly who you were.

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So you might want to go into that app and delete all of your data while it's still up because the company's going out of business. Well, Ezra Klein, co-author of that abundance book, was on The Daily Show. And he was advising Democrats what they need. He says, what you need is you got to get some short-term wins so that people can see that you're doing things and you're capable.

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And he gave some examples of long-term projects that didn't work out. So here are the examples. And this is from a Democrat, right? He talked about how California had a bunch of money for high-speed rail, but nothing got built. And then Biden had this big expensive budget for building all these charging stations for electric vehicles and almost none of them got built.

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And then there was the broadband internet for rural communities and nothing got built. So those are Ezra Klein's examples. of long-term projects that don't impress anybody because they're long-term. I feel like you missed the main point there. It wasn't that they were long-term. It's that they must have been either vast incompetence or some kind of corruption, or probably both.

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And whether that was long-term or short-term, the problem is not the long-term, short-term. The problem is massive incompetence. So he says, you know, do some short-term things that'll get results. And I'm thinking to myself, you know who's really good at that? Trump. He's got some long-term things, such as the tariffs, you know, that they could pay off, you know, at some point.

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But he's also got some short-term stuff, like all of his executive orders and the borders.

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border he took care of and almost you know no time flat so trump is really good at doing both the short-term stuff so you can see that he's a man of action but also having some long-term stuff brewing such as you know boosting the energy production in this country etc which just might take a while to get online so he does both and he does them great do you know what the difference is

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But I just want to throw it in the mix. It could be aliens. It could be some country that's better at technology than we are. But a silent giant craft, and they always have lights. Why would they have lights if they're doing nefarious things and the only way they can be detected is by the lights? Why would they have lights? Seems like that would be the most optional thing you could put on a drone.

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It's not that he knows you should do some short-term stuff. It's that he's capable. He's competent. So this is entirely a question of competence. It's not about long-term, short-term. If you think that the Democrats had never come up with the idea of doing something that would give you a quick win, that's probably the most obvious thing that anybody thinks about.

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If I put you in that job, you wouldn't ever think of the idea of doing something that in the short term would produce a good result? Of course you would. This is the most useless advice I've ever seen. Yeah, no, we'll never think of that idea of doing some short-term things that are really good. Charlie Kirk is reminding us that apparently there's such a

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a population move from blue states to red states because the blue states are failing, that it's going to change the 2030 congressional reapportionment. In other words, California will lose population And we'll lose representatives because that's how it works.

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And so California might lose four, Minnesota might lose one, Wisconsin one, Illinois one, New York might lose two, Pennsylvania might lose one. And then there are Yeah. So, et cetera. And then some of the red states would be looking to gain a lot like Texas for Florida for et cetera.

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Now, as Charlie Kirk totals it up, he says, some estimate that blue states could lose as many as 12 congressional seats. That'd be kind of a big deal by 2030, wouldn't it? And this is a good time to check in on one of my wildest predictions. Now, you know, I like to make wild predictions that are just completely against the grain. And then I wait.

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And eventually my wild prediction in some cases become mainstream. For example, in 2015, the thing that kind of put me on the map was saying, wait a minute, this Trump guy, he's not like other people. And his persuasion game is so strong that it's going to change everything and he's going to win.

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Now, at the moment, the most common belief about Trump, even by his enemies, is, okay, he's really good at this politics stuff. He's really persuasive. I heard some show the other day where the Democrats were saying, okay, we do accept that he's incredible. They call them a political athlete. Yeah. Yeah. I saw it in 2015 and I could see it clear as day.

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He's an athlete like you've never seen before. So they couldn't see what was coming because they didn't see that. But now it's common knowledge. So that was a incredibly nonstandard prediction that now everybody thinks is just ordinary. Like, yeah, he's very persuasive. Yeah. So Here was another one I made that was only like a week or two ago, and I got almost no agreement with it.

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Remember, we're in Trump time now, so two weeks is like 10 minutes, so it's not going to feel like this was a long time. But about two weeks ago, I said on this show, and I think I probably posted it as well on X, I said that it looks like the Democrats have no path to recover from that they might be just done as a political party at the federal level, not at the local level, they'll do fine.

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Now, that would be an extremely non-standard prediction because almost everybody, just two weeks ago, almost everybody thought, yeah, I mean, that might be a fantasy, but all it takes is one good candidate and, you know, they'll be right back. The elections will be close. But if you notice that even Democrats are saying there's no way back.

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So in two weeks, it went from kind of a crazy sounding prediction that the Democrats actually can't come back. They've created a structure that they can't come back from. because they've got this identity politics cooking and they don't have any good candidates and they're losing their congressional authority.

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Trump is doing amazing things that if it all works out, it's going to be tough to say that you shouldn't do more of that. And it seemed like every single thing was moving in the same direction and was going to crush the Democrats, at least in terms of presidential races and probably congressional. So at the moment, even Bill Maher is saying it doesn't look like they can come back in a generation.

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How about we just turn off the lights? Well, so I'm not buying anything about the drones. I think it's far more likely to be mass hysteria, People lying, people imagining, people dreaming. I don't know. I'm just not a believer that there's any kind of advanced alien drone situation going on.

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And he's a Democrat. So it's already gone in just two weeks from the most crazy prediction, okay, Democrats are done, to looks like the Democrats are done. Yeah. Now, I don't know if it'll be true. So I can't claim credit yet because that would be looking into the future. But look how quickly that went from a crazy idea to the common belief. Two weeks. That's all it took. Kind of amazing.

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I do still think an especially charismatic leader could just change everything. But it would have to be charismatic almost on a Trumpian level. And he's a once every thousand year character. So good luck getting one of those. But whoever it is won't be running against Trump, presumably. So they don't have to be full Trump.

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They just have to be able to pull together their side, which I don't think can be done, but we'll see. I guess the stock market partially had a nice boom yesterday because Trump had narrowed the scope of some of his tariffs. So post-millennial is writing about this.

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So apparently instead of just wildly tariffing everybody and just saying we're going to go reciprocal with everybody, he's narrowed it down to 15%, one five, the dirty 15 as he calls it. It's 15% of countries, but they call it the dirty 15. And they happen to be the ones we do the most trade with.

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So it gets you most of your benefits because the 15% of the countries are the ones with all the big trades. And so now those tariffs will be more focused to each country will get its own little tariff. And that would include, let's see, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Vietnam, and a few others, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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So because the stock market likes clarity and they like certainty, This got people a lot closer to, all right, I can see this. That makes sense. We can negotiate with those countries and maybe the tariffs will stick. Maybe... Maybe we'll see more countries move or more money coming to this country. Isn't it something like $3 trillion? Give me a fact check on this.

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Haven't we seen something like $3 trillion flow into the United States, at least in promises, commitments from big companies? And they say directly, in part, it's because the US looks like a good place to invest, but also they can avoid tariffs. by making their stuff here.

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So it looks like Trump's main thesis that if you don't make it here, we're not going to be suckers and just be paying you money on tariffs for no reason. I think his crazy tariff idea, believe it or not, just like my prediction, his crazy, crazy tariff idea has now almost completely morphed into common sense. Do you feel that yet? Am I getting ahead of it? Let me say it again.

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It was only a few weeks ago that even Republicans were saying, I don't know. I don't know about this tariff stuff. Right. It looks crazy. It looks, you know, not really well thought out. He doesn't understand how economics work. This is not the way you deal with your allies. You know, there must be a better way to do it. But nobody had a better way. Nobody suggested a better way.

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And we don't know exactly what he's doing. And he keeps changing his mind. And that was only like two weeks ago. And today, because we're seeing these big companies come in with, oh, yeah, we want to build it here so we can avoid the tariffs. He's proven his main point. that he can cause businesses to move back to the U.S. That's a really big deal.

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Well, according to Zero Hedge, not only are your eggs half as expensive as they used to be, thanks to the Trump administration finding new sources of eggs in Turkey and some other places. And now orange juice is going down in Your breakfast has never been cheaper lately. Lately. So, yeah, get your orange juice and your eggs.

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But he's also now clarified it so it's easy to understand, okay, it's only the big countries who have been kind of abusing us, and why wouldn't we have reciprocal tariffs? Why wouldn't we? So am I wrong that it's gone from crazy two weeks ago or at least incomprehensible to common sense in just two weeks? Am I getting ahead of it or no? Tell me in the comments.

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Because I feel like that's what I'm watching in real time. And I think the stock market responded because they saw it collapse into common sense. Now it's just common sense. And I'm pretty sure it's such common sense that it will be the standard that the United States uses for the rest of time. I think it's that commonsensical that it will never go back.

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Now, apparently he's also put secondary tariffs on Venezuela. Now, if I understand correctly, a secondary tariff means that he'll tariff people who are doing business especially energy business, I think, with Venezuela. So that's going to crush Venezuela. Now, of course, there's always going to be some illegal pirated business.

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So, you know, maybe countries like maybe some other countries will do some sketchy things and still get their oil and we won't know if they did it or not. But that's pretty powerful. He's definitely using the full power of the United States economy where it's needed. He does understand power. Well, meanwhile, RFK Jr. says that Doge is now inside the Department of Health and Human Services.

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And here's how bad it was inside the Health and Human Services. Now, imagine being just the new head of Health and Human Services and trying to fix the following on your own. So here's what RFK Jr. says. He says, we've identified extraordinary waste in my department and HHS. The expenditures and the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up by 38 percent.

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The employees went up by 17 percent and health care went down. He said, this part just blows my mind. He says, we have 40 comms departments, 40 procurement departments, 40 IT departments, 40 procurement, 40 HR, none of them talking to each other. And then he says, we are with Elon's help, meaning Doge, eliminating the redundancies. We are streamlining our department.

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Now, imagine if he tried to do that while also trying to do his job as head of health and human resources. You couldn't do it. It was way too big. Doge is not just a good idea. It's essential. And we're also very close to the point where we're going from these crazy conversations about scalpels and chainsaws and just wild ideas. And he's trying to steal your money to reduce his own taxes.

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Just crazy shit. And now it's moving to just common sense. Because how can you look at 40 comms department and 40 procurements and all that and say, well, that was a good idea the way it was. Well, we leave it the way it was. It was working great. You just can't. Like your brain can't go there. So you just go, okay, okay. It is kind of common sense.

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that you take from the leader of the group, the responsibility of figuring out how to simplify, but also give them the ultimate approval over what happens. That's exactly how you would design it. If you were to start today and design this thing, design a thing that would lower expenses and get rid of the fraud and corruption, it would look exactly like Doge. So that's pretty amazing.

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That's exactly what I'm going to have for... No, I'm not going to have orange juice. Well, there's another fake hate crime. Now, some of you get annoyed at the fake hate crimes where somebody makes an accusation. In this case, a Pennsylvania city worker... has been accused of staging her own hate crime hoax by putting a noose on her own desk and then claiming it was somebody else.

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So again, that's collapsing into common sense. So let me give you a little tour of the things we know are completely corrupt in the United States. And when you hear them all together, it's wild. I'll just run down the list. It's all stuff you know about. So we first found out about USAID, which we learned was largely a CIA purse where they could do things like coup other countries.

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But also it seemed to be this giant piggyback that was supporting up to 55,000 other NGOs. and none of it had any audit function. So it was this massive money laundering, fraudulent, secret, unchecked use of your money, billions, billions of dollars. So I don't know if that's fraud, corruption, or incompetence or all three, but that was shocking.

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And now we're finding out that a lot of the government is run by outside contractors, consultants. And we're learning that the consultants, because they're smart and capable, and they're working with government employees who are hiring them, and the government employees are neither smart nor capable, they sign deals with these giant consulting companies for billions of dollars of work.

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And the deal is not based on performance. It's based on hours spent. Now, you don't have to be an expert on management to know that if you're paying people outrageous amounts of money and it's based on the hours that they spend, not on whether they get a job done, that the job will never be done so that they can continue charging you billions of dollars. So what do you think happened?

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Exactly that. The consultants never leave. They always have a reason there should be more of them. They keep finding things that are also broken and only they can fix until eventually the consultants are like this giant boa constrictor. I think this is how Scott Besson described it.

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And it just starts strangling the government because they're highly capable and the government employees couldn't do it themselves. And it's not their budget and nobody was checking. So the government employees are like, well, you say you can do this thing. I can tell my boss that I'm doing something if I give you a bunch of money. So we'll just hire you and you can work by the hour.

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And every time my boss asks, I'll say, well, you should talk to the consultants. They say things are going great. It's just going to take them longer than they thought because they found extra problems as they do. Then we're finding that there were SBA loans to kids under 11 and over 120 or something.

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We found out that there was plenty of Social Security fraud, which means that the public are fraudulent. Not everybody. But the public was finding ways to rip off the Social Security, to rip off the SBA loans, probably ripping off everything that can be ripped off.

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Then we're finding out, as I mentioned, the judges that have been judging all Trump-related things and even January 6th-related things are not just conflicted, but almost conflicted beyond the realm of believable, that they literally have spouses that are activists working on one side of the aisle. And somehow... We didn't catch this soon enough.

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Now people are looking at every one of the judges, and they just keep finding the same thing. It's like, oh, your daughter or your spouse are really active in politics, and you did not recuse yourself. You bastard. If you didn't recuse yourself, oh, man, that's corrupt. That is super corrupt. So we know that our judges are corrupt.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Oh, that's some good stuff. Well, good news, everybody. Drones are back in the news. And I'm not talking about your hobbyist drone.

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We know that the Soros DAs and attorney generals are corrupt, at least in terms of how it plays out. We know until recently the FBI and the Department of Justice were corrupt and political. I'm not sure how much they still are, but less. We know that Congress has so many liars that I can call some of them the designated liars. like Jasmine Crockett, Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney.

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They're designated liars. They're so corrupt that they just will say anything. They'll just start any hoax, any lie, any ridiculous claim. Totally corrupt.

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But every time I see that the supply of racism is so low that you have to make some up just to get a story in the news. So the entire country, apparently nobody was doing anything like that. Because the only story is about the one person who faked it. Now, that's pretty good.

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know that the pentagon lost trillions of dollars and and and whatever it was that started that war in ukraine looks pretty sketchy and fraudulent and full of crime to most of us so the military probably is a source you know although the soldiers i'm sure are honorable and doing the best they can at least at the leadership position, it looks super, super corrupt.

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And then, of course, the media, which should have been the watchdogs to all of this, totally corrupt. They're mostly just organs of the Democrats, and we can see that in play every day. So that's our world. So every large group in the government didn't seem to be tracking their expenses, totally corrupt, The judges, totally corrupt. The Congress, totally corrupt.

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The DAs and the attorney generals, corrupt. The FBI and the Department of Justice, until recently, totally corrupt. What isn't corrupt? You know, I've got this rule that I've been saying for a long time. that anytime you have a situation that involves a lot of money, and there are a number of people involved, and there's a long time involved, that they're corrupt every time.

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Because people are going to try to chip away and find out where they can take advantage of something until they do. So every one of these government entities fall into that category. They've been around a long time, there's a lot of money involved, and there are a number of people involved. that pretty much guarantees corruption. That's all it takes. People plus time plus money.

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You'll get corruption every time. And I don't think there's an exception to that. Anyway, according to Just the News, there's some ongoing negotiations with Russia over the Ukraine war. And the Russian officials negotiating said that the talks have been useful But they didn't give any details. And they said, we talked about everything.

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One of the negotiators, a Russian, said, we talked about everything. It was an intense dialogue, not easy, but very useful for us and the Americans. So there does seem to be maybe some possibility of something good happening. Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't Trump just recently, maybe yesterday, say that we were close to signing a minerals deal with Ukraine?

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Because I'm very skeptical that that's going to happen. So we'll see. I mean, I can be wrong. It's possible that we'll sign an agreement, but then nothing ever happens, you know, because Ukraine will resist it one way or the other or other events will happen. So I don't really think any of this looks like it's going to wrap up quickly. So my best guess would be three months.

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In three months, maybe there's something that looks like an agreement of something we could try. But I don't think it's going to be three days. I don't think it's going to be three weeks. I'm going to say three months at best. So that'll be my estimate. In three months, you might see some kind of a deal. Now, if we got it in three months, you'd be happy in retrospect.

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You might think it should happen really quickly. Anyway, so I'm seeing the comments. The whole Signal story, the Signal app story, the bad guys in the media are turning it into the only thing they have to talk about, which does make me think that James Carville might have been pretty smart. Because in the normal flow of things, if you just simply sit there and shut up and wait...

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If you think of all the history of racism and all the bad things that people have done in every direction, it's pretty good that you have to fake one to get even a national story. So New York Post had that story. Well, Hunter Biden's ex-business partner said, Apparently he met with Trump at the NCAA wrestling event and was promised that he would get a pardon.

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Stories will emerge because the media will find something to latch on to, like this Signal app thing. And they can blow it in out of proportion and turn it into another hoax. Or they can exaggerate it from a little problem into a big one. And then you just watch it happen. And then you've got something to work with. Yeah.

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i'm going to be so sick of signal you know this the signal stuff but we got to listen to that for months anyway um there's new resolution according to the daily wire so there's a representative uh stubi He's got a resolution that charges cartels are a clear and evident danger, and it would give the military more leeway on what to do.

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It would allow the full force of the American military to combat the drug cartels. Now, I thought we already had the ability to do that because we said they're terrorists, but apparently there's something else you can do, some kind of resolution. So I'd be all for that, even if it's just a threat. Here's a little tip they could have just asked me, but there was a scientific study.

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Scientific America is talking about it. Rachel Neuer is writing about it. that you will be more trusted if you have a better microphone so if you're doing anything remote or anything like in a podcast or anything like i'm doing right now if you have a good microphone people will think you're smarter and more capable and more trustworthy Just because the sound is better.

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And if you had asked me, do you think that's the thing? I would have said yes. Without any study whatsoever. Yeah. Yeah. Sound makes a difference. One of the things I noticed back in my corporate days is that the people who became executives were not necessarily the most gifted leaders, but they all had a certain kind of voice. And the voice was almost like a radio voice.

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Almost like you could hear two different voices in one, like really interesting voices. And I thought to myself, there's no way that's a coincidence. They have nice hair and they have these unusually interesting voices. Yeah. Yeah. It totally makes a difference. People are absolutely influenced by height, attractiveness, hair, fitness, and the sound of a voice.

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And if the microphone is changing the sound of your voice, it's the easiest thing to fix. Get a better microphone. It'll make a huge difference. And that, ladies and gentlemen...

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is all i had to talk about today i think uh i think it's a fun day it does seem like what we've learned about the government being corrupt from top to bottom is just shocking but on the other hand it shouldn't be surprising that i'll tell you what my biggest surprises were that there's no accountability for spending now i have to admit

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As low as my opinion was of the government, I didn't think it was possible that they couldn't account for their spending. I just never would have imagined that. And think about the Pentagon not being able to explain where trillions of dollars went. Trillions. I never could have guessed that. I also would not have guessed that the government systems are closer to the 60s than 2025.

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I would have said they're probably old and they need to be updated, but I wouldn't have guessed that. And those were way worse than I thought. And I wouldn't have guessed that there was an entire secondary government structure set up. You could argue that it was all under the sort of Obama umbrella because it was an extension of things that happened during his time in office and beyond.

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Now, does that mean that maybe Devin Archer is going to spill the real goods? Because he said something that I hadn't heard before. He said that Joe Biden would close deals by phone. And he had a little thing that he used to say, which is, if you do something for me, you're my friend. But if you do something for my son, you're my friend forever. Now, that is such mafia talk.

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And that that extensive network of NGOs and then Soros getting his DAs and doing all of his dirty tricks, it was essentially a shadow government. And it was a shadow government that Obama had apparently set up to run the country from not being in office. And it looks like it was to enrich his friends,

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Primarily, basically, they just figured out that the best way to get rich is ripping off the government. And so Democrats seem to have created a criminal organization, at least the people who were in the know and the people who are deeply into the NGOs and stuff. It appears that they somewhat intentionally set up a mass criminal organization to steal your tax money and put it in their pockets.

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Because everything from the Ukraine war to USAID to the Pentagon spending, it just all seems to have the same characteristic, which is it doesn't look like it was even designed for the benefit of the public. It looks like it was designed entirely as a criminal enterprise and functioned as one. So I don't know if we'll ever be able to wrap our heads around that. And then the biggest problem is

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is that you have to get pretty deep into the weeds to feel that you've got a sense for the big picture. Because I don't think there's any Democrat who's seen the same news that you and I are. I don't think so. I think we're seeing news that is informing us, you know, sort of the Mike Benz, Glenn Greenwald kind of a description of how the world works. If you looked at

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the things that are coming out of Doge, and the Mike Ben stuff, and the Glenn Greenwald stuff, and you could probably add a few more. We're seeing a picture of the world that is insanely different from what I imagined it was even a few years ago. As much as you thought the government was bad... You really didn't have any idea. I mean, maybe you did, but I didn't. Un-freaking-believable.

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And it could be that our experience with the pandemic may have opened our brains to see the rest. I think it was invisible. Like, you couldn't actually accept it because it was too far out of what you would think would be normal. You know, if something doesn't belong somewhere, it's invisible. And you would say to yourself, well, these weird claims you're making, there's no way this could be true.

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But wow, once you find out some of the claims are true, it looks completely different. So my question is, how could you ever...

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communicate that to democrats because there's still a lot of democrats who don't know that they belong to a criminal organization because they're not criminals they're just voters who have a preference but they are part of a criminal organization definitely part of a criminal organization and there's so many moving parts to it though that you can't really describe it

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Like anything you did would sound like such a weak description because you should really spend a week, you know, of your time doing nothing but like digging in to see how everything's connected and how bad it is, how bad the conflict is, how bad the lawfare was. You'd have to dig pretty deeply. And I don't know if there's any way to communicate it. I think Trump and Musk probably have the best

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approach I can think of, which is just giving you anecdotes of crazy things your money was going to. Now that doesn't get you to the criminal element of it, but it does make you oppose it because maybe you didn't want to give your money to find out if flies can be turned transsexual or whatever it is. So they've got all these examples.

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that might not even turn out to be exactly true, but at least they're easy to remember, you know, transsexual frogs and stuff. So it might be that's the best you can do. Just give some wild anecdotes and people remember one or two of the anecdotes and say, yeah, I don't want to be involved in funding those transsexual frogs.

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But I feel like there's probably a better narrative or something that could capture all the badness, which is extreme, just extreme badness. So I'll think about that and see if I can come up with anything. Two words, Chicago politics. Yeah. But even that, the average person doesn't know what Chicago politics is. You know, you're really into the top five percenters when you do something like that.

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if you do something for me, you're my friend. But if you do something for my son, you're my friend forever. Do you think that the Trump administration is maybe secretly doing an investigation into the Biden crime family? Because I'd be surprised if they're not, you know, given what Devin Archer knows and what we know about everything else. I'm not

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All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately for a minute. The rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll be back here tomorrow, same time, same place. If you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, I appreciate you being here.

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I'm not real enthusiastic about law-faring the last president because it feels like everybody could do that. They could always find something. But on the other hand, oh my goodness, was the Biden crime family corrupt. Oh, my goodness. All right. You want me to talk about the big story about the Signal app and the messages that were going along in a group chat? You've already heard the story.

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There's a group chat in which the important people in our government, from Pete Hegseth to J.D. Vance, Mike Waltz, I think Rubio was on there and some others, They were chatting about an attack on the Houthis. And somehow, we don't know the details, a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to the Signal group.

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Now, if you heard this, if somebody said to you, they accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, what would be your first impression? Because if you follow the news at all, you would know that Jeffrey Goldberg is famous as being one of the designated liars. He is the least credible person in the entire business. There's probably nobody who's more famous for hoaxing as opposed to telling the truth.

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So if you want, you can go Google Jeffrey Goldberg and what hoaxes he's backed, but they're the big ones. He writes for The Atlantic, which is barely a publication. It's really just narratives that are bad for Republicans.

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So, what are the odds of all the people in the world, of all the people in the world, he would be the number one worst one that you could accidentally expose to your conversations? And yet, it looks like it happened.

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There's a big question about whether there were war plans discussed or whether there were things that were kind of close to or adjacent to war plans, but, you know, very short of a war plan. I think the war plan was, should we bomb these hoodies? Yeah, I think we should bomb the hoodies. Should we do it like right away or wait? Oh, we'll talk about that. So is that a war plan?

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Kind of, but it's not a war plan like most people would think of it, you know, with detailed assets and stuff like that. Although I think there were some assets mentioned. But here's what my first impression was. My first impression that I posted on Axe was that it might be true, because anything's possible, but it doesn't look real. So my first take was this is not real.

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As far as I know, and this is my working assumption at the moment, it is real. So my current belief is that it is real. And that's based on the fact that there's no strong denial. There's a weak confirmation from somebody who I'd never heard of, who was a spokesperson for something in the government, who said it appears to be real.

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I'm talking about your possibly alien drones or possibly an advanced civilization that's always lived beneath the sea or possibly a foreign power that has technology that we can't even understand. Maybe. So according to The Hill, there was some interviews with 60 Minutes earlier this month, and key military assets were, let's say, visited by drones that could not be explained.

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appears to be that they sent the spokesperson out without knowing if it were real. All you'd have to do is ask any one of the people who were on it, were you really talking about this? Yes or no? So that was weird. And then And then I was looking at one of these screenshots of what allegedly they were talking about. And of course, we don't see the whole conversation.

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Jeffrey Goldberg wants you to know that, oh, the stuff he's not showing us is the bad stuff. Oh, isn't that convenient? The most famous hoaxer and liar in the media landscape says the stuff that he can't show us, that's the real bad stuff. Trust him. Now, every part of this sounds sketchy, doesn't it? But I'll tell you another.

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I'm going to tell you what tells there were for it being fake, which apparently didn't work. because the tells for fake news are not guarantees. They're more statistical things. So the first thing I noticed was one of them used a semicolon. When was the last time you used a semicolon in a text message, whether it's WhatsApp or regular messaging or Signal? How many of you use a semicolon?

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Now, I know how to use a semicolon. because I'm a professional writer, so it's one of those things you have to know. But if you ask me when was the last time I put a semicolon in a text message, I would say maybe never, maybe 10 years ago, but I don't remember it. So as soon as I saw that semicolon, I said to myself, I don't know. I don't know about that as a semicolon.

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But then I remember that a lot of the people on there are Ivy Leaguers. So Hank Seth is Harvard. J.D. Vance is Harvard. Then I said to myself, all right, all right, maybe. You know, your Harvard guys, they might toss in a little semicolon in there. That's possible. But let me tell you the rule that should have indicated this was fake.

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It's the Scott Alexander rule, and I've described this before, but this is a perfect application. The Scott Alexander rule is that when you hear a story and your first reaction is, oh my God, I can't believe it. You've heard me say this before, right? Your first reaction is, I can't believe that happened. There's a 20 to 1 chance it didn't happen. 20 to 1. Now, it looks like this is the one.

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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This is the one where 20 to 1, but the one is going to happen now and then. So it looks like this is real, but it violated the Scott Alexander rule that when you hear something that's just too fantastical to believe, Now, the fantastical part is not that they were using the signal. We'll talk about that.

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The fantastical part is that of all the people in the world, of all the people in the whole world, it was Jeffrey Goldberg who got included in it by accident. Now, I can say from my own use of apps that doing something dumb like including the wrong person Not that unusual. That part is not fantastical. You know, accidentally adding the wrong person, pretty normal, especially if you're busy.

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But here's the surprising part. How many of you were surprised that people this sophisticated, you know, JD Vance and Hegseth, et cetera, the people who really know security, They know what exactly is confidential and what isn't. How surprised are you that they would be using a commercial app and that they would think that would be okay? Surprising? Here's what the news is not telling you.

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There's something important they're leaving out. What was the alternative? How many of you assumed, because the news didn't say one way or the other, how many of you assumed that the government has a secure way of communicating so that they had an alternative. There's nothing like that. Do you remember the story of Hillary's email? And do you remember her excuse for why she had her own email?

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Now, we think maybe she was doing some things that she didn't want the rest of the government to see. So she may have had more than one reason. But the base reason for why they wanted their own email is that the government email was so bad that it didn't even work. That's real.

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Now, we've been watching Doge go into one department after another and finding out that the systems are like from the 60s. They're just completely unusable. So let me ask you this. What do you think is this alleged secure system for the government? What do you think that is? Is it specific hard-lined or hard-wired phones that are in some rooms but not other ones?

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They had lights, and they're enigmatic craft. They're unknown origin, and some people say, The Daily Mail says they're coming from the ocean maybe, but they don't have any video of that. And some people say there's a gigantic underwater like mothership where all the drones are coming out. And sometimes they're buzzing around our military facilities.

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Is it something they can do on their cell phone if they had the right setup on their cell phone? I doubt it. I don't think there's such a thing as a secure cell phone conversation. So what about the group chat? Do you think that the government has a highly secure group chat function? No, no. So the reason they were using Signal

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There. There we go. Comments o' plenty. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.

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But a funny thing has happened with this Doge stuff. If you haven't noticed, the Democrats have given up on saying Doge is a bad idea because the country loves it. By a pretty good majority, the country likes cutting that waste, fraud, and abuse. So you can't really be a political party and say, yeah, We want to preserve the waste, fraud, and abuse.

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And they finally figured that out, that they couldn't possibly be against that. So they've changed their approach to talk about the method. Well, okay, but the method, the way they're doing it, we'll talk about that. But Jon Stewart takes it even further. So he does a pretty funny bit where he's saying that what about

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You know, it's great to stop the, you know, condoms for terrorists, which was never really a real story, but it makes a good anecdote. But what about the subsidies to big oil? He says, what about the, I guess, subsidies or something like that for a big pharma? And I don't know if he thought that this was a Republican thing versus a Democrat thing, and that maybe the MAGA people would be in favor.

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of subsidies for big oil? I don't think we are, right? Is there any pro-Trump person who says, you know, we should give more of our tax dollars to big profitable companies? I don't think anybody says that. So not only is Stewart acknowledging that waste, fraud, and abuse have to be addressed, he's very clear on that, but he's competing. He's competing. He's saying this is where the big money is.

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I don't know how big it is or how easy it is to find or if it's even real. But I love the fact that the Democrats now have to compete for finding the most waste, fraud and abuse. All right. All right. Let's enter that frame. Let's enter the frame of we're competing to see who could do the best job of cutting things that we shouldn't be paying for. Love it.

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Now, that is a valuable contribution, in my opinion. So, let's talk about, I'll get to more on that later. Thomas Massey points out that the budget still has some kind of subsidies for using corn to make fuel, which everybody knows, as he points out, Massey points out, that it increases the price of food. Now, did you know that?

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And I'm wondering, what else does Joy Reid have to teach her? I feel like we saw a lot of her lessons, but I think the lesson is you should blame everybody for being a racist. So that would be the big takeaway. And Rachel Maddow said, I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. Personally, I think it's a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.

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Were you aware that even still, there are Republicans, there are Republicans, who are in favor of using corn to make fuel, this ethanol. Now, I've never even heard of anybody using ethanol for anything. Have you? Do any of you have an ethanol-driven car or an ethanol tractor? I don't use ethanol for anything. So isn't ethanol well-known to be just basically a scam? That might be going too far.

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I don't know any voter who's in favor of this. So it's got to be one of those Republicans want to protect their farmers and they get free money if they grow corn for fuel, I guess. So I like the fact that Massey's on that. Now, I would add that. I would add that to the Doge process. Say, hmm, I don't know. I don't see why we're doing that.

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It doesn't seem to be necessary for climate change or anything else. It's not like ethanol is making a big run to take over for other fossil fuels or fossil fuels. There's so much news going on that there are stories that in a normal time would be the number one headline. But in today's news environment, it's like the 10th most important thing that would otherwise just be huge. Here's one of those.

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According to Michael Schellenberger, there's a FBI whistleblower who has a source within the FBI who said that the FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers and that he informed Kash Patel of that.

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Now, if that's true, and keep in mind it's a whistleblower who talked to another person who said it's true, so it's not the... The whistleblower apparently is known, so one person is known, but the person he talked to is anonymous. Do we accept that? Do we accept that's true with one anonymous source?

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I'm going to say Schellenberger is really good on checking sources, so I'm leaning toward this is probably true. It also just makes sense. But isn't it also, just so you're warned about it, isn't it also a little bit too on the nose? What's the one thing that every one of us would have predicted when Kash Patel got nominated for the FBI?

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Every single one of us would say, oh, they backed up the shredders. They're going to be burning their files and deleting things. Every one of us said that. And then there's a story with one anonymous source that's exactly the thing that every one of us was expecting. How do you judge that one? Now, the only thing that's got going for it is Schellenberger. because he's highly credible.

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But if this one turns out to be not true, and I'm not sure we would ever know that, if it turned out to be not true, don't be surprised, because that two on the nose thing is just deadly accurate. Deadly accurate. All right. Even Jamie Dimon, the CEO of J.P. Morgan, I would call him the country's top banker. And when he says stuff about economics, people listen. I listen.

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I think he's very credible. And he says that Doge needs to be done. Now, he said something like that before. But everybody has to say that, right? As I said, even the Democrats, pretty much every Democrat has agreed, okay, if you can get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse, yeah, that would be kind of good. So it's not a surprise that the smartest guy in banking says it too.

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It is not my call, and I understand that, but that's what I think. Now it gets better. Here's the payoff. Rachel Maddow said, I will tell you, it's also unnerving to see that on a network where we have two, count them two, non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their show. uh-oh, shows, as is Katie Fang on The Weeknd.

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But here's where I'm getting into the, they've shifted from what to do, which is hard to be against, getting rid of fraud and waste and abuse, to how it's being done. I wanted to add what I call the Dilbert filter. You ready for this? So as the creator of Dilbert, I write about, Things that seem like good ideas, but in the real world, they just always go wrong.

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That's sort of what I do for 37 years or something. And this is one of those. I'm going to give you a couple of stories from my own experience about cutting expenses in a big company. So if you don't know, I worked for two big companies before I became a cartoonist. One of them was Crocker National Bank and then later Pacific Bell, the local phone company.

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And my jobs were usually the budget guy, finance guy for most of that time. So I would be the one who was in charge of making sure the budgets were cut when they needed to get cut. But I didn't have any power. I just had to be the organizer, basically. So here are two stories. And this will get us into the chainsaw versus the scalpel as well. So story number one.

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I was asked to put together a budget for the technology group within Pacific Bell, and we were going to do what's called a bottom up budget. You've heard Vivek say we should only do bottom up budgets. Now, a bottom up budget is when you go to each department head and you say, all right, I want you to add up all the things you absolutely need to do, and then that'll be your budget.

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What we're not going to do, because that would be crazy, is to give you the same budget as last year, plus 5% or something. Because we really need to know what you're doing. Maybe this year you don't need as much. Maybe next year you need more. So a bottom-up budget is the most responsible, thoughtful, rational way to do it. You all agree so far? Everybody on the same page?

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That if you want to be a good manager, you want to be smart, you want to do the right thing, you're definitely going to do a bottom-up budget. Because that's the only time you can, you know, put the scalpel on things. There's sort of a scalpel approach, right? You're really looking at each little project. Now, I did that. So I collected everybody's bottom-up budgets. It took a lot of work.

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You know, you'd have a list of projects and it'd be a mile long. And that would be for each department head. And every department head had their list of projects that were a mile long. And then I would take it to the, was he a VP? might have been an assistant VP, the top guy in the technology department, or at least in my end of it. And I would show him this infinite list of projects.

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Now, what do you think he did? Do you think that he looked at the infinite list of projects, which he only had a passing knowledge of, and then made scalpel-like decisions on each of these projects? He barely even knew that they were happening. Do you think that's what happened? Because I'm told that that's how the smart people do it.

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The smart people take the scalpel, they look at every expense, and they cut just what needs to be cut. Do you think he did that? No, it was way too impossible. There's no way that he could have spent his entire life studying each of these projects to figure out on his own where to cut.

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Now, if you think that the department managers did that for him, as in cut their own budget without being asked, do you think that happened? No, the individual departments wanted the most money they could get. So to them, their boss was their opponent. The boss was their opponent. And the other people who were other department heads were their opponent.

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And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. It feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. Now, if there's anything that could make me happier than watching Joy Reid being taken off the air, it's watching Rachel Maddow call her own company racist for taking Joy Reid off the air. Now, I think that that's what she learned from Joy Reid. to just call everybody racist all the time.

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They were trying to get the biggest part of the pie, and that was the game. So they couldn't do the scalpel. The people who actually understood the projects, they wouldn't do any scalpel because they would lie. Oh, yeah. If I asked the question, they'd say, oh, yeah, essential. Well, if we don't do this, the entire company will fold in a minute.

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And then it gets to the boss who would be able to cut it if he understood them. but he doesn't understand them. And there's no way you really could because there were just so many of them. So do you know what the big boss told me? He looks at me and looks at my giant list that's incomprehensible. He says, tell everybody to cut 10% across the board compared to the budget from last year.

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And I looked at him after doing all this work and I looked at him and said, that's really, is that how this works? And he goes, yeah, just cut 10%. And I'd say, I've talked to all these managers, and they say if you cut their budgets even a penny, the entire world will end. And they swear that's true. And he looked at me and said, they'll work it out. Just cut everybody 10%.

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So I go back to everybody after I'd done this bottom-up budget, made them do all this work, and I said, he just says cut everything 10%. Do you know how it turned out? Fine. Fine. Do you know how easy it was to cut 10%?

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Well, about a few months into every year, there would be people who imagined that they were going to start some new project on day one, but there was some vendor who couldn't deliver. There was some approvals they didn't get. So things were like six months delayed. So when somebody needed a little extra, because it really was an important project or something new, they'd go to the boss.

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And he'd say, oh, okay, is there any projects that are delayed and not spending the budget for this year? Okay, just take it from that budget, put it over there. Problem solved. Now, in that specific case, there was a little scalpling going on, but it was after the fact. It was sort of doing it wrong and then correcting. Does that sound familiar?

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The big boss was doing it wrong, moving fast, being efficient, and then making fast corrections. Okay, that one does need a little more money. This one underspent. Move that money over there. Worked fine. Everything worked out just right. Now, here's another one. Here's my second budget story.

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Because if you don't understand how the real world budgets, none of this doge criticism is going to make any sense to you. That same boss once asked me to sit in for him in a meeting where the department heads were arguing to keep their budgets because there was a higher level above us that was trying to cut our budgets as well.

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So so far, I've only been talking about my department and had lots of sub departments, but above it, they were trying to do the same thing. So they brought us all in and they would ask each of the managers, you know, is this budget necessary? You know, is there anything you can cut from your budget? If we cut this, would that be okay? Now here's something that's embarrassing.

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I was very young, but I was fairly capable. So my boss didn't feel bad sending me to do this very important task. And when it came to me, the person leading the meeting said, all right, so, you know, looked at the list of projects, I guess I'd submitted and said, well, what about this one? You really need to do this? Is this essential to the company? And I said,

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Well, if you had to cut something and I were being a team player, that's probably what I would cut. How do you think that went over when I took that back to my boss? Every one of you who have corporate experience, you're laughing right now. It's like, how dumb were you? No, I thought I was there to do a good faith effort to

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to reduce the budget for the company because I thought I was working for the shareholders. Right? I mean, it's a fiduciary responsibility to not waste money because you have shareholders. So I thought, yeah, you know, if you're asking me what I would cut if I had to, it would be that one. And so they cut it. I took it back to my boss. Oh, my God. The look of death that I got.

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He just cut through me with his eyes. He said, so I hear you gave away my budget. And I said, oh, but, you know, they asked me what would be the least priority. And I was trying to do the right thing. And that's what I learned. That nobody's trying to do the right thing. Everybody in a big organization is lying because that's how you get ahead. So everybody wanted their own budget not to be cut.

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You don't have to do anything else. That's the entire game. And when you only have that one speed, the only thing that you do is call everything racist, you know that's going to get turned against your own company, right? There wasn't any way that that wouldn't work out poorly, even on paper. If I said to you, all right, here's the deal. There's going to be this network.

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but they were certainly happy if other people's budget got cut because they were competing against other managers. They weren't trying to satisfy stakeholders. That was just dumb on my part. All right. So the first thing you need to know is if you try to do a scalpel approach, everyone is lying and you won't know it.

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Well, you'll know they're lying, but you don't know what the lie is or what the truth is. So if you were to say to me on paper and conceptually, is it better to use a scalpel than a chainsaw? I would say the same thing you would say. Well, yeah, scalpel makes sense. That's a reason looking at all the details, deciding what to keep and whatnot.

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But in the real world, nobody's going to play along with that. They're all going to just look for maintaining their own little domain. So in my experience, the scalpel approach can only work in the specific situations. And I'll give you a few.

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One would be if you're a small business and you're the owner of the business and it really matters to you if you cut costs because that money goes right in your pocket. And it's a small enough company that you understand all of its parts. So you could actually cut with a scalpel in that case because you're the boss. It's all good for you if you cut.

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And you know exactly where to cut and where not to cut. Yes. Scalpel, scalpel, scalpel. If you took a chainsaw to your own smallish business, well, that would obviously be a mistake. Obviously. Now, what is the situation or another situation? Well, let's put it this way. So that's a situation where you've got time to operate and you're going to be profitable no matter what.

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but you could be a little more profitable. So if you've got plenty of time, the scalpel makes sense. You know, even if you have to work a little extra hard to find some stuff. Yes. As long as you're in a business that's stable and you're just trying to tweak it every now and then, scalpel. So when you hear people say, but I've been involved in a number of businesses and we cut with a scalpel.

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They did. They did. Here's where the scalpel doesn't work. when there is an existential threat and the timer is ticking. If the timer is ticking, you're not gonna have the option of using the scalpel, because even if you did everything right, you would run out of time. Here are two examples. Number one, Twitter.

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When Musk bought Twitter, the cash flow situation was dire, as in, uh-oh, there's almost no way this company can survive. he was going to have wasted $44 billion of his and other people's money if he couldn't rapidly, massively cut expenses. What would have happened if Musk had said, all right, all you employees of Twitter who hate my guts, tell me where I can scalpel away some unnecessary fat.

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What do you think would have happened? Every one of those people would have said their jobs are essential, and if they left, morale would drop and it could never work. So Musk instead took a chainsaw and just went rar, rar, rar, rar, got rid of too much. And then when the too much became obvious or people argued successfully, he added it back exactly like he said he would.

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Now, what about the federal government? The federal government is also on a timer and also has an existential threat. It's called the debt. We don't have 10 years left. We really don't. I don't know if we have three years left. The national debt will crush us and will destroy the entire country. If you think that taking a scalpel to the federal government is going to get it done,

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And the people on the network are going to call everybody and everything racist. Here's what I would have warned the network. You know that's eventually going to be turned on you, right? You can't hire a whole bunch of people who only have one speed. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist.

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in any kind of reasonable timeline before the entire nation is destroyed seems very unlikely to me. Because remember, everybody involved will be lying. Everybody involved will be trying to slow the process. They'll try to sue you so you can't even use the scalpel. It's going to be just infinite pushback, infinite people pretending to be helping but not, all lying. People will be ganging up.

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They'll try to take you out as the boss if they have any way to do it. They will attack you 100 different ways. The one and only way you have any chance is with a chainsaw. So let me put this in terms of risk. If Musk had used a scalpel on Twitter, that would be 100% chance of failure. If he used a chainsaw on Twitter, there was some chance of success and some chance of failure.

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Which one do you pick? The one with a 100% chance of failure, scalpel, or the one that might work, but it's pretty drastic? Well, there's only one that might work. You obviously do the one that might work. What about the national debt? Do you think we have time to scalpel that thing? I don't. I don't think there's any time to scalpel it.

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I think that the one and only hope of actual survival, survival, we're not optimizing. We're trying to survive. And I think that's what people are missing. He's got to take a chainsaw to it. And, you know, I would say he's just getting started because, you know, there are bigger parts he has to go after. But there's not really a second choice. The chainsaw might work. And it might not work.

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But the scalpel definitely will fail. And it's the Dilbert filter that guarantees it. Because people are lying weasels. Now, let me make another exception. Let's say you had a business that wasn't very complicated. Let's say you were the owner of a sports franchise. You probably do understand almost all the parts. Even as the big owner. Right? Right?

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You would probably know what your players are being paid. That's the biggest thing. You would know what the travel costs are. It wouldn't be mysterious at all. So if you wanted to take a scalpel to that, again, because you have the luxury of being profitable and you're not in a hurry, probably you could scalpel quite a bit. And I would say that would be exactly the right answer.

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So when people tell you, Scott, I have personally scalpeled budgets with success, that's probably true. But it's always the specific case. It's not the you're going to die tomorrow if you don't cut this by 70%. All right. So there you go. There's the ultimate reframe on that.

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You know, I'm so sick of talking about this Doge email to all the federal employees telling them to say what they did, five things they did. And I was trying to imagine, it's been a long time since I've been in a cubicle. But I'm trying to imagine how I would have handled that if I'd been a federal worker. And I'm positive I would have handled it the following way. I'd open my email.

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I'd see what they're asking. I'd probably check with my boss to see if it's okay to answer it. But then I would sit down, and it's the first thing I would do. I would put off whatever else I had on my schedule, and I would answer that right away. And I would come up with five awesome things that I did this week, and then I'd hit send. And then I would never think about it again.

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And then expect that when you make a change that they don't like, that they're not going to call you a racist? Of course they are. Of course they are. It doesn't matter what reasons you have. It doesn't matter at all. Anyway, one of the things that Rachel Maddow probably is suffering from now is that as long as Joy Reid still had a job, Rachel Maddow felt safe because Joy Reid was even crazier.

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How would you handle it? Would you fight it? You didn't have anything better to do that day than fight an email? I'm going to go on CNN and fight this email. The most basic thing that anybody does is say what five things they accomplished. That also used to be my job. It also used to be my job to collect everybody's top five accomplishments. That was literally my job.

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Do you know what happened when I would collect all their accomplishments and put it into one cool document that I made myself and I gave it to my boss? Nobody ever looked at it. Nobody ever looked at it. The only point was to make sure that you thought people were watching you. It was basically just a head game so that people had to really show that they were doing real work.

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Nobody really looked at it. I don't even think they maybe just glanced at it, but they didn't ask any penetrating questions. So when Musk says this is really just to find out if there's a real person in a pulse, that sounds right. That sounds right. That's the only thing he's going to find out.

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It's not like he's going to look at the five things and say, huh, one of these five things looks like maybe you could cut that with a scalpel. That's not going to happen. It's just to see if they have a pulse, if they're really there, if they really respond.

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Now, I realize there's a whole bunch of complications to it and a number of entities from the FBI to the State Department to Pentagon have already said, no, you guys don't need to do this. That's fine. I don't mind that at all. I don't mind when the Trump administration disagrees with itself. Don't mind at all.

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Because I think the disagreement is reasonable, but I also think the request was reasonable. And I don't think any of it's terribly important. I think Trump and Elon might be pushing it still just so they don't lose. Because it'd be good to

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be good to show a pattern of winning you know win win win win win uh if you have even one pushback that's successful it could take a little dent out of your shine the dent out of your shine never quote me on that no never quote me on that please anyway so i'm just bored with that whole email thing but the wall street journal had an interesting context

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Apparently some companies, instead of doing that, what are your five accomplishment things every week, which is a big pain in the ass. Everybody hates it and everybody's lying too. There's some software now.

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One company called Workboard, or at least that's the product, Workboard, invades your computer, your work computer, and it looks at all the things you've done and then reports them to your boss. So everything from your calendar to your emails. And then the boss can tell who's working and what they're working on and how hard they're working.

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Now, that's the scariest, creepiest thing I've ever heard in my life. I mean, I don't know how it could possibly give you anything interesting. And then I saw a picture of what the the dashboard would look like, you know, if you were the top boss and you wanted to see the sum of all the things your employees were doing.

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And it's like this really sort of detailed, complicated, you know, some boxes are bigger than others, showing that there's more activity there and stuff. And I thought to myself, okay, in the real world, your top boss would use that three times. And by the third time, they would realize that there was nothing it was telling them that they could act on. It was like, ah, okay.

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Looks like the box for talking about the budget is a little bit bigger. Okay, that's because the budget process is happening right now. Okay, okay. Well, it looks like the box for vendor, talking to vendors is a little bit bigger. So they're doing a lot of talking to vendors. Oh, well, obviously, because we're doing a request for a proposal.

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probably it wouldn't be anything you could act on now i don't want to throw that company under the bus because they might have a good argument that it's making everything better but in the real world if you show somebody a complicated screen of anything they end up ignoring it after the first few tries in the real world so i'm going to introduce a new insulting phrase

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So it made Rachel Maddow look sort of moderate. But once Joy Reid is gone, Now, Rachel Maddow will look like the craziest one on the network. And it's going to make her feel like she might be next. And I'm surprised she wasn't just because of her pay. How did other people take it? Well, Angela Rye, who's a black woman who, which is important to the story. She was a former CNN commentator.

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I'm going to call it lady fiction. Lady fiction. I've told you before how Democrats, they seem to just imagine problems. Like they imagine what somebody's thinking, and then they imagine their bad personality. They imagine their bad intentions, and then they project that forward to how it's going to destroy the world. But it's all imaginary.

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It's imaginary future, and it's imagination that they can read the minds of strangers. So CNN just had a one of the federal employees on, and she was one of the ones resisting the email request. And she said that, let's see, what did she say? She said that Elon's email request was an act of harassment and bullying. Now, do you think that's the way Elon was thinking of it?

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It's like, huh, you know what I haven't done enough of? I need to do a little more harassment and bullying, even though he tells you exactly why he's doing it. You can't take the exact reason that he describes, which makes perfect sense. You have to imagine that the real reason this is dark personality flaws and it's harassment and bullying. That's pure mind reading.

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And again, men prefer reading nonfiction. Women prefer fiction. And the more you see it, so I'm going to call that lady friction, lady fiction. Lady friction is a completely different story. It has more to do with scissoring. But lady fiction is where you imagine that... You can imagine you can read somebody's mind and you see some dark, dark secrets in there and you project it forward. Anyway.

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One of our favorite... personalities on X, Data Republican. If you haven't been exposed to Data Republican yet, you're missing out. So Data Republican is sort of a superstar of data analysis and is using a lot of the new information that we're learning to come up with some fascinating stuff about the NGOs, et cetera. But she was on Glenn Beck's show and she described

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our current situation in a way that you'll never be able to forget. So you've got the basic idea that USAID was giving money to all these NGOs and other entities were giving them money and that they became sort of operating independently and nobody knew what they were doing. And then they were maybe laundering money and stuff.

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So what David Republican said after looking at all this more deeply than we have, he said that the Democrats are offended by Doge because their money depends on people not knowing what they're doing with our money. And I thought, yeah, that does sort of sum it up, doesn't it?

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Their money depends on us not knowing what they're doing with our money because our money is just going into their pockets through the NGOs. And so she says, so that is truly censorship.

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Because I think if actual Americans understood what they were doing with our money and that they were actually setting up their own government, this is the key, they were setting up their own government and actually ignoring what real people wanted to do, oh, we would be so upset. There's the reframe. That's it. The NGOs were a shadow government. that could get all kinds of things done.

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They could stall things. They could make things happen. They could overthrow countries. Now, working in conjunction with other parts of the government. But once you hear that frame, that the NGOs were a shadow government, wow, you can't lose that one. Like, that's sticky. That's a really good reframe. Anyway, just think about that.

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And then she went on and said, because the reality is that these people have a government unto themselves that they've created with these NGOs that they run separately from us. Now, the one thing that would be required for a shadow government would be there's one leader. Do you think that this shadow government NGO thing has one leader?

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Or is it just an understanding that a bunch of people have that they can all be better off with this scheme? I feel like there's not one leader, but there might be maybe several people who are more influential than others. And maybe they're fighting it out. I always imagined that the Hillary Clinton people and the Obama people were not the same. And that they're all sort of jockeying for control.

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And she calls for a boycott, a boycott of MSNBC. because they fired Joy Reid. And I guess that makes them racist. I don't know. And then Keith Olbermann, you know, my mascot, Keith Olbermann, he said in a post, breaking MSNBC racist purge escalates. Then he names the people who are out. So the left is getting attacked by Keith Olbermann for being racist.

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And maybe some of that's happening through the NGOs. I don't know. Anyway, Trump says he wants to bring back the Keystone XL pipeline that Biden shut down. But apparently it's not that easy because you'd have to find somebody who wants to do it. And I guess the company that was doing it doesn't seem too eager to do it again.

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And I can understand that because how can they guarantee it won't get canceled again? Why would you put money into something if the next Democrat president's going to cancel it? But Trump says, even if another company wants to do it, he says the approvals will be easy. Basically, the government will get out of the way. And I like that. So I like that Trump's pushing that.

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But there really is a structural problem there. If you ask somebody to invest, I don't know, hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe billions. Can you really expect them to do that if they don't know if their project will survive the next president's term? That's a lot to ask. So I wonder if there's any fix for that. In other words, could Congress say you won't be touched for 20 years?

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Could they pass any legislation that says, I don't think so, because I think I think it would be illegal to say you can't ever cut an expense or cancel something. But I wonder if there's any clever way to get past the fact that this is really, it's a giant risk now that Biden canceled it once. I don't know how you fix that. But somebody clever might have an idea for doing that.

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Meanwhile, the DNC's vice chairman, David Hogg, he's warning that Democrats, they need to stop acting like a cult. Now, how much do you love the fact that the people who were the problem are trying to become the people who are calling out the problem? It's almost like they have to pretend that they weren't deep into all the bad behavior that they say they want to stop doing. But Hogg says this.

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He says, frankly, anybody who did speak out about Biden's mental decline was immediately ostracized in our party. He says, I know that we like to claim that we are not a cult, but anybody who did say that, that Biden was too old, basically had their career destroyed. That's a problem. We're the Democrat Party. We're supposed to have open conversations and dialogue, he tells this audience.

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He said, there are many lessons we need to learn from this election, but that is one of the main ones. We cannot be a cult. Okay, here's the problem. As long as power has more value than open conversations and dialogue, you're only going to get power.

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So if somehow open conversations and dialogue, you could monetize or it would give you more power or it would make everybody more successful, everybody would get a pat on the back. But it doesn't work that way. If you do open conversations and dialogue within your own party, that will immediately look like weakness and you'll be destroyed.

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So they've sort of painted themselves into this corner where you can't really disagree with the party. And there's nothing that David Hogg is going to say that's going to change it because the incentive structure is as soon as you disagree, you're done. And that's not going to change. How can it? It's not like they can give an order and say, all right, don't do this.

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It just takes anybody who wants to do it to do it, to destroy other people. But it does make me wonder why this is. Do you think that this is as much of a problem on the right? Do you feel that in the mega Republican conservative world that we have open dialogue and that you can disagree without getting canceled? Yes or no?

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I feel like a number of us have disagreed with important things and not gotten canceled, at least by Republicans. Have you not seen me disagree with common MAGA thinking? I think I have a number of times. And do I ever get slapped down for that? Not that I remember. Not that I remember. The only time that I get real hate is when people have an incorrect

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understanding of what I've ever said or thought. If they don't understand what I've said, then it turns into some crazy thing where they're criticizing me for something they only imagine. But when I say real things, let's take the Dan Crenshaw thing.

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You don't think I'm completely aware that by the time I'm done with this, there'll be something on social media trying to tear me down for what somebody's going to say is supporting Dan Crenshaw against MAGA. which didn't happen, and you all witnessed it, so you know that didn't happen. Somebody will turn it into that. However, it will probably just be a passing nothing.

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Like the worst case will be some troll on X, and it will just go away. Because I think, at least my audience, is completely accepting that I'm not just going to tell you the normal frame. That's mostly why you watch. because you expect me to be a little different from the mainstream opinion. If I didn't, what would be the point, really? What would be the point?

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Are we supposed to enjoy this as much as we are? Now, I never like to say only negative things. So I want to say one positive thing. One of the things that Rachel Maddow said in her little speech about what happened is that Rachel Maddow is 51 years old. And I thought to myself, damn, whatever you're doing for skin care is working. Does she look 51? I think I would have guessed... 40?

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So yeah, I don't think it's as big a problem on the right. According to Simon Kent writing in Breitbart News, Republican, I'm sorry, Democrat donors are not feeling too good about the Democrats, but there was this one This one donor who had a quote that I thought was great, quote, they want us to spend money and for what? For no message, no organization, no forward thinking, the donor said.

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The thing that's clear to a lot of us is that the party never really learned its lesson in 2016. They worked off the same playbook and the same ineffective strategies. And to what end? Well, here's what I say about identity politics, which largely drove the Democrat message, identity politics. It's a one-way trip. And they should have known that. Because on paper, you can see it.

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It's the MSNBC problem. As soon as MSNBC became the identity politics all the time network, you could guarantee, guarantee that at some point in the future, their own employees would turn against them and call them racist. And that just happened. Guarantee it. You don't know when it's going to happen, but you can pretty much bet on it with a lot of safety.

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And so the Democrats can't really unwind that thing that they've created because they can't be ignoring identity politics. That would make them Republicans. So they've created their own monster that they can't kill. And the Republicans are like, yeah, good luck with that. Because we're not involved. It's none of our business.

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If you want to create a monster and then the monster kills you, but you knew that that monster would kill you, because how could it not? As soon as you say that identity is everything, everybody looks at their own identity and says, wait, but I'm a short, gay, lesbian, whatever. Where's my rights? And then everything falls apart. So the Democrats... I don't think they have a way back.

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Now, as I've said before, all bets are off if they found the right candidate, right? So Trump is by no measure an ordinary Republican. So nobody could have really predicted the second term of Trump and the way it's turned out, nobody could have predicted that.

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so it's just sometimes you get this special case with a special character this you know once in a thousand years type of personality which i think trump is and if they don't get one of those i don't know if they have a way back because even even obama as rational sounding as he was and i think he was very smart and very savvy about how things work i don't even think he can abandon identity politics

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at this point. I mean, he can't run for office, but even if a new Obama came today, I don't know. I don't know how they can come back. Here's the least surprising news of the day. The former head of the FDA's drug center joins Pfizer as chief medical officer.

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Now, as you know, there's a long history of top FDA people going to work for the companies that they had been trying to regulate, which, of course, creates a massive incentive to not say bad things about the industry when you're in the FDA, because you know that the most likely outcome after you're not in the FDA is a job offer from one of those same companies.

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And I was trying to think, what could you do about that? I don't love the fact that you could ban it, like don't go to work for these companies for five years. We might do that. I think RFK Jr. didn't float that idea. But that seems, you know, my sense of freedom and capitalism really rejects you can't go get a job somewhere else. Like, I don't like any kind of non-compete agreements.

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I hate them because I live in America. You can't tell me what my next job is, right? I mean, that's just really offensive to me that you can tell me what my next job is, no matter what it is. You don't get an approval over my next job. So on one hand, I completely understand that this is massively deforming our drug approval and safety, massively deforming it. On the other hand, I like freedom.

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I like freedom. So I wonder if there's some middle ground. And the only thing I could think of is that the ex-FDA people have an option that's better than working for a big pharma, which would pay an ungodly amount of money.

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That's pretty impressive. Whatever she does for health, it sure works on camera anyway. So good for her. All right, do you want me to make everybody mad? All right, now I'm going to make everybody mad. You all saw the story, and you want me to talk about it, where Dan Crenshaw was caught on an open mic saying about Tucker Carlson, quote, If I ever meet Tucker Carlson, I'll effing kill him.

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Could you find a way to keep them on the, let's say, the public side, and it may require paying an ungodly amount of money, to say, all right, once you leave the FDA, you can go work for Pfizer, and they'll pay you a million dollars a year, whatever it is. But if you continue working for the government, we will also give you a million dollars a year. We'll match it, but you'll be on our side.

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So you'll do extra work and you'll go extra deep and you'll work with the FDA. You won't be on the FDA, but let's say you work with them or for them or something. Now that's the bad idea. because it's anti-DOGE. It's spending more money, not less. But I just wonder, is there any system way to fix that? Because you'd have to outbid the pharma.

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Now, the gross way to do it is just say you can't go get those jobs. I just don't love that. I don't love the lack of freedom that that implies. So maybe some of you have a good idea. Let's talk about Ukraine. So Trump has suggested yesterday that he's willing to revive economic relations with Russia. And then Putin has offered, hey, why don't you work with us, America?

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Why don't you work with us to do a joint partnership to exploit rare earth minerals in the Donbass region? What? What? Did you see that coming? And then Putin also offers, I'm going to talk about this in terms of persuasion, not in terms of economics. Then Putin also said that Russia is ready to supply the U.S. with 2 million tons of aluminum, which will help stabilize prices.

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And apparently we're the biggest importer of aluminum. So it actually would drive down some of our costs if we worked with Russia on that. And so here's the thing. Let me say up front, that if you believe that I trust Putin and that he just wants to make money and stop all the fighting, I don't. I don't. It would be foolish to say that he has no ulterior motives or anything else.

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But think how historic this is, that Trump and Putin have changed the frame. They've changed the frame from how to kill each other

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had to make money for both of us now maybe this won't come to anything maybe there will be no joint partnerships maybe it's a bad idea maybe trusting russia is just always a bad idea and you know even if it looks good on paper maybe it just never works i'm open to all those arguments so i don't know that we should do it but the fact that um i've said this before

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I generally think that Trump is the best public persuader we've ever seen, just ever. But Putin's in the same weight class. I don't think he's quite a, he's not quite Trump-like, but he understands the whole persuasion thing. And so what Putin's doing is he's reframing Russia as a potential economic partner, which is following the lead of Trump. Trump is the again, Trump's the better persuader.

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But Putin can Putin can take punch for punch. He knows persuasion. And this is fucking brilliant. It's brilliant. I hate to say it. And again, I'm not suggesting that we get into partnership economically with Russia. I'm not against it and I'm not for it. I would have to know a lot more before I had an opinion. But from a persuasion perspective, Putin's really nailing it.

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He's nailing it because he knows that Trump needs economic wins and he could offer him some easy economic wins. So that's really good negotiating. So again, don't take this as me loving Putin and I don't want him to be my girlfriend and I don't trust Russia without a lot of guarantees, but you have to appreciate

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that the way Putin is handling this is kind of impressive, just from a persuasion perspective. You can call it evil persuasion if you like. I won't argue. But it's very effective. And changing the frame to how do we make money? I just love that. I just love that. We'll see where it goes. All right. Again, another story that would have been the biggest story, except that there are so many stories.

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I'm not joking. Now, this, of course, caused everybody to say, you crazy, you crazy, out of control person. How crazy can you be? And Tucker cleverly invited him to come on the show to see how it turns out. I don't think Tucker was too worried. Now, you should probably know that Tucker has you know, been quite a critic of Crenshaw. He's called him unstable in the past and says he needs help.

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All right. Apparently, James Comer told Breitbart that the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS and the SEC were all investigating Joe and Hunter Biden, but were told to stand down. And Jim Biden was even being investigated for Medicare and fraud. Insurrection Barbie is talking about this on X.

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Apparently six banks reported to the Treasury Department that the Bidens were committing financial crimes, but everyone was told to stand down. Now, wouldn't that be the biggest story in the country, except for all the other biggest stories? How in the world is that just a little article in Breitbart? Do you think it's true?

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Do you think it's true that all these entities were gonna investigate the Bidens? And keep in mind, This is when they knew there was a risk because they were powerful creatures. So if all these entities were willing to investigate them, even knowing that it would be risky and they had to be told not to, it does suggest there was some pretty strong evidence. Not proof.

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Everybody's innocent until proven guilty, and they haven't been proven guilty. But it certainly would be the biggest story in the country under normal times. I'm curious how much else we'll find out about what I think is the Biden crime family. So Trump is signing a directive to counter foreign social media censorship. So Dan Freeth of Reclaim the Net's writing about this.

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So I guess he's trying to challenge our European, mostly European, I think, saying that by taxing our social media, they're basically... you know, doing it to censor them and trying to control them in various ways, censorship as well as taxation. And Trump wants the taxation and the censorship to be curtailed. I don't know what he can do about it. So that's why he signed a directive.

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The directive is figure out what to do about this. I assume it means we're going to put more pressure on our alleged allies. But let me say this as clearly as possible. I've said this before, but it can't be said enough. If you're trying to curtail free speech in my country, you're not my ally.

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England, France, whoever you are, we love you, but you're not my ally if you're trying to curtail my free speech. That is a line which you cannot cross. That's a red line that's as bright as it could possibly be. And if it weren't for Trump, I don't know that we'd be doing anything about it.

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so sometimes you think you know trump is fun and sometimes you like what he's doing and sometimes you don't but this is one of those cases where this is essential this is essential trump nobody else would do this i don't know if he'll succeed but it's going to require putting pressure on allies like we've never seen he's the only person i know who would do it there's no other normal president who would put pressure on our allies

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over this. But it is really, really important. And yeah, he should bring the entire toolbox. Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Anything. It might take getting out of NATO. I mean, it's that serious. So whatever he has to threaten, bring it on. Let's bring the threats on because we need to ratchet this up. This can never happen again. So he's got to be tough on that. I 100%.

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Meanwhile, down in Mexico, the, uh, um, if you didn't know the, the big, uh, cartel, the Sinaloa cartel, apparently has two factions and the two factions are fighting it out. And, uh, there's a great article by, uh, Jose de Cordoba and the wall street journal. And so there's a whole bunch of murder going on because the, they're fighting it down for control of things. But, uh,

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One of the things that I thought was fascinating is the number of fentanyl labs. So there was just one little area that had 100 fentanyl labs. And I guess the labs have to keep moving because the other cartel members keep narking them out.

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So apparently the way you compete if you're in a cartel and there are other factions in the cartel is that if you find out where the other faction's lab is, you turn them in. so that the government tries to close them down. I'm assuming the government does. But even if you just turned them in and let your bad guys go and take out the lab.

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I don't know about any of that. But I had to ask Chad GPT to remind me why it is that so many MAGA people don't like Crenshaw. And they said generic stuff. Tell me if this sounds right. That Crenshaw was more what they called... Now, remember, this is just AI. This is just Chad GPT. said that Crenshaw is more traditional conservative as opposed to a mega populist.

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So there's this gigantic fight over just hundreds of different fentanyl labs. And part of me just wishes they just fight it out. But it was hilarious that one of... One of the lab operators quoted this. They were talking about they have to do so much security now for their labs that it's hitting the bottom line. And they just talk like regular business people.

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And so one of the lab operators says they have to increase production to cover higher costs for gunmen, intelligence, and weapons. He goes, quote, if before we were making 10 million pills, now we have to make 20 million. They just talk like ordinary business people. They need Doge.

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Anyway, at one point I'd wondered, wouldn't it be better instead of us attacking the cartels to simply provide all the intelligence that the factions need to attack each other? Suppose we send our drones up there, we find all their little lab locations. I don't know if we can. I don't know if there's any way to find them from the air. But suppose we could.

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And then we just turn it over to the other faction and just let them destroy each other until they're so weakened that then you go in. But you wait until they've just beaten themselves into nothing. There is some worry that if the Sinaloa cartel implodes over their internal conflicts, that one of the other cartels would just take over so nothing will change. So it's complicated.

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I saw a report that comes from The Telegraph. Now consider the source. So some people say that's not a very credible source, but the Telegraph says that Iran fears an immediate attack on its nuclear facilities. And so they've increased all their defenses near the nuclear facilities. And the source says that Iran expects an attack every night, even on nuclear facilities that no one knows about.

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And an Iranian official said that Tehran feels a regime could fall if America joins the attack. You know what I say about that story? I could have written that story without doing any research. Do you think Telegraph did any research? Scott, what do you think Iran is doing about its nuclear facilities?

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I'd say, well, if I were them, and anybody else would say the same thing, they're probably trying to figure out how to protect them as best they can. Scott, do you think that the Iranian regime is worried that if America and Israel attack, it could have an impact on their ability to lead in the future. And I would say, duh.

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Yeah, we're not going to leave their regime alone if we do a major attack on their country. And even if we don't directly attack the regime, losing all their nuclear facilities and all of their anti-aircraft does put some question about their stability. So on one hand, I don't know if the telegraph story is real.

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On the other hand, it's exactly what you would have made up if you wanted to act like you did some research, but you didn't. The Indian Army, according to Next Gen Defense, they have an AI weapon that can track and shoot in just 10 milliseconds, and it can hit a target a mile away every time. It can hit a target a mile away every time, and it can do it in a millisecond.

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It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Everything's working. Well, we got news today. So question number one, now that the funding for USAID is being cut, is that related to the high-level firings we're seeing in the media? Is that why MSNBC is cutting some of their expensive talent? Or is it just a coincidence and they're not doing well, so obviously they have to make some changes?

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Now, at the moment, it requires a human to allow the shot. But does anybody think that we'll always have to have a human? Imagine the war starts and both sides have these incredibly effective machine gun that never misses. And they're both AI. And one of them says, you better ask me before you fire. And the other one says,

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If it's in that direction, that's where all the bad guys are, so just fire. The one who removes the human is going to win every war. So the human will be removed, and I don't want to say Skynet because it's too obvious, but how does it not happen? There is no future where Skynet doesn't happen, is there? Now, there is a future where maybe it's not in control, but there's no future in which

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Warfare doesn't look exactly like this. And then, did you know that there are 10 new major battery plants that are coming online in the US looking to double our capacity? Now, the reason I tell you these stories, there's always a battery story. There's some new battery technology or new battery factory.

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And he has sometimes wanted to do bipartisan things that the mega people didn't like. And he has sometimes criticized Trump, which the mega people don't like. Now, I don't know. Is there more to it? Probably. That sounds kind of generic. But here's my take. And... I'm going to be consistent with past takes about leaked audio and video. Here's my take.

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Like I tell you about some stories that you can tell what the future is by the insurance industry. like whatever the insurance companies tell you, that's really indicative of the future. I think this battery stuff, if you didn't follow anything else, would be a real good indicator of the future.

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Because if we can make batteries really cheaply and make a lot of them and make them domestically, that's a whole different country than if we have to depend on somebody else for the batteries or we can't make enough. Elon Musk famously says that if you had 100 square mile of solar panels and enough batteries to store it when the sun is not out, that you could power the entire country.

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Now, I'd love to see somebody who really understands the industry argue with that point. And also, it should be said that that's just for calculation purposes. You wouldn't put them all in one place. That would be insane. Because, you know, one big natural disaster, you lose everything. But just in terms of how practical it is, Musk says it's completely practical. Yeah.

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And it doesn't even sound like you would have to invent very much. It sounds like we already have what we need. So that's pretty interesting. And I think it tells you what the future looks like. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I wanted to do today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately now.

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but come back tomorrow, same time, same place, and we'll see if Representative Crenshaw has killed Tucker yet. I think he'll still be alive. We hope. All right. Locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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The person who's to blame is the person who leaked it. Now, this is what I always say with a leaked video, because you have to recognize that people say things in private that are perfectly fine in private. As soon as somebody changes the context from private to public, which is what the leaked video did, They turned it into a completely different message.

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Because when it's private, it's just the way people talk. Right? Have you ever said you want to kill somebody privately? And whoever you're talking to knows you don't want to kill them. It's just something you say when you're talking privately. It's like, ah, I would kill that person. I mean it. Now, he also added, I'm not joking. But that doesn't change it. Of course, he's not joking.

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He's just saying that he doesn't like him. So my rule is this. If something would be perfectly ordinary in private, and then somebody, some weasel, some fucking asshole weasel decides to drop that video to destroy your life, it's the weasel's fault. So I'd like to know the name of the weasel. Because the weasel is who I have all of my hatred for right now.

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I mean, I fucking hate that guy or woman, whoever it is. Whoever leaked this is just scum. It's despicable because they knew it would have this effect. And I'm sure they knew that they didn't mean it seriously. If you'd like to test whether he meant it seriously, I would apply what I call the really filter. where you say, really?

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Do you really think that if Crenshaw and Tucker Carlson were in the same room, that Crenshaw would really slay him? Really? Do any of you believe that? No, none of you believe that he would really slay him. So it's just talk. And the things that you say privately, now, I think it was a mistake to assume it was private. So there's definitely an error here.

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I think Crenshaw probably learned from that. If you've got microphones and people standing around, you don't say that kind of thing if there's a microphone within 100 feet. That's the lesson. So Crenshaw is not guilt-free. I would say that would be a public person error. Now, I've made the same errors myself. I've definitely said things in places where

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Probably there was a microphone and maybe I should have been smarter, but you know, not if it really hurt me. So I have severe hatred for who leaked it. And don't take this as me supporting everything that Crenshaw wants to do policy-wise or everything he said or everything about his whole life. I don't know too much, but this really pisses me off.

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The fact that we would treat Crenshaw as the bad guy, when the bad guy is the leaker? Oh, the bad guy is the leaker. Does this sound familiar? Sometimes you can just grab him by the pussy. If that had been private and stayed private, it was just two guys talking and one of them didn't take it seriously and the other one probably didn't mean it seriously.

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It really had no impact if it stayed private. As soon as somebody leaked it, It changed the context. Because our brains are such that we just imagine it as a public statement because it is public. But it wasn't originally public. Whoever changes the context is responsible for the message. Period. Because that's not the original message. The original message is two guys talking.

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Completely different. Completely different. If you've never heard two guys talking privately, maybe you wouldn't understand that. Anyway, so yeah, I have a strong feeling about this, but none of it's about Crenshaw. And Marjorie Taylor Greene asked him, did you just say you want to kill my friend, Tucker Carlson? And he replied on X, you know, LOL, no. Correct.

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No, he does not actually literally want to kill Tucker Carlson. That would be crazy. Anyway, the U.S. post office workers, they decided to protest any coming changes from Trump. So there's some talk about rolling the post office into the federal government, because right now it operates somewhat independently.

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But if they roll it into the regular government, it might be in, let's say, the Commerce Department. Oh, I told my... My pre-show listeners this, but it's worth repeating. I've incorporated AI into my morning process when I get ready for the show and I'm putting my notes together. There's always something that I need a little more context and I don't want to bother Googling it or something.

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So I keep my AI on. And it's in voice mode. Usually, I just push it into voice mode when I've got a question. And then I said, if the post office got absorbed by the federal government, what department would it be in? And it said, well, one of them might be the Commerce Department. So it's just a great tool. Every day, I use it that way. And it's really, really helpful.

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It told me that Apple was going to invest $500 million in the United States. And I said to myself, that doesn't really sound like enough. And then I checked and it was 500 billion. And then I went back to chat GPT and I said, is it 500 million, which you just said, or is it 500 billion? And it says, oh, it's billion. So you have to watch it. It's definitely not 100%.

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I don't know. But as you know, Joy Reid, her show ended. She had her last show, I guess, yesterday. And Rachel Maddow didn't take it well. So Rachel Maddow goes on her own show to complain about Joy Reid being fired. And she said that she's learned so much from her. as we all have, really. We have so much, and she has so much more to teach her, Rachel says.

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Sometimes it's still hallucinating. That's a pretty big hallucination. You know, the difference between millions and billions, pretty big, pretty big. Anyway, so here's my question. I saw, I think it was Insurrection Barbie asked this question on X, or a version of it. So I'll just put this in my own words, so don't blame Instruction Barbie for my wording of this.

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But hypothetically, if the federal government absorbed the post office so that they were just federal workers like everybody else in the federal government, would it be possible for Trump to order them to not deliver mail-in ballots and make it impossible to vote with mail-in ballots, even if the states... find it legal and have approved it.

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Could he find that as like a shortcut to say, yeah, you states can say you want mail-in ballots, but I control the post office and I just told them that they're not in the business of mail-in ballots. Now, I'm guessing there's probably some kind of rule or

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legislation that says the post office has to deliver kind of anything that isn't dangerous so i'm just guessing you know i would imagine it'd be some kind of rule that says you have to deliver whatever somebody wants you to deliver but I feel like you could game that. It feels gameable. You could do something like, well, yes, you can do it, but people would have to pay $100 per ballot.

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That would be the postage would be $100. Or, yes, you can do it, but you have to show your ID when you're mailing it. Or something like that. These are the bad ideas. Those are not meant to be serious ideas. But it just makes me wonder. Is the change the potential change in the post office leadership, meaning putting it in the federal government as opposed to operating independently?

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Could it could it take care of mail in voting? So I'll just leave that for somebody who wants to research that and get back to me. You know, I know we talk too much about the Democrats. They're almost reasonable, you know, like the Carville when he's not crazy. And Jon Stewart, when sometimes he said something that's not 100% pro-Democrat and not 100% anti-MAGA.

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They're either woke or they're stupid or somebody's tied to a chair and tortured and I don't want to see it or somebody's family gets wiped out and I don't want to see it. There's blood. And nothing's funny anymore. So most of you would agree there's no such thing as good movies anymore. But... Yesterday I took a chance on a movie, a new one. It's called Red One.

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That's the one that I believe that's the one that saw the stuff on Mars. Now, I should also tell you that when I was learning about it, none of it was convincing to me. So when I heard the stories about the remote viewer getting stuff right and how spooky it was that he got some stuff right, it didn't sound right to me. So a lot of it's subjective.

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So if you heard the story of what was true, that the remote viewer couldn't possibly have known, and then they tested them to see if the remote viewer could guess something right, they got miraculously accurate-looking results. But so does a fake psychic. If somebody does a cold read, it looks like they're getting phenomenally accurate guesses, but they're not.

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They're just doing pattern recognition. So my suspicion is that there was one remote viewer who was just really good at pattern recognition. And if somebody came to them and said, we want you to view a spot in Russia during the Cold War. What would somebody with good pattern recognition think they were looking for? A weapon, right? Or some kind of military asset.

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So you could kind of guess what they wanted you to find. And then you'd say, I see a large object. It's a military asset. And I think in one case, it was a submarine or something. And then the expert said, my God, it's true. There's a submarine there. So that was like a famous hit.

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You know, somebody who guessed a submarine in a location that they shouldn't have known there was a submarine, except it was Russia. It was during the time, you know. Basically, it wasn't that hard to guess. that it was something like a weapon and there was some water involved and submarine was a good guess. So I'm not convinced that remote viewing is legitimate.

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In fact, I would go further and say I would place the hugest bet in the world that's not real. A million dollars? Easily. Yeah, I would bet a million dollars, literally, that there's no such thing as remote viewing. But I can tell you that there were believers. There were believers. I just don't think it's true. Yesterday, an interesting thing happened.

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I used Grok because I wanted to have it create an image for a post I was doing where it would be a bunch of scientists looking confused. But when I asked it for a picture of a bunch of scientists, no matter whether they were confused or not, it gave me a group that was so diverse that only one of the people in the large group was a white guy. Now,

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Probably the number of white guys in science is close to like half or 60%. But you could do it consistently, and every picture was just filled with people of color and women as scientists. So... So I posted that, and I just put a comment, presented without a comment, because I think everybody could see what was going on. And sure enough, they did.

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It kicked off a whole bunch of people trying their own searches with an image result, and they found out that Grok is super woke. Now, remember when Gemini showed the Founding Fathers as black, George Washington was shown as black? And everybody said, whoa, whoa, whoa, you've gone too far in this forced diversity stuff. Pull back, Google, pull back.

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And then we assumed that Google intentionally made it woke and it just went too far. But Grok, I don't think anybody thinks that Elon Musk has his finger on the scale to make it more DEI because it's not even something he approves of. So the interesting thing about Grok is I think you can know for sure that it wasn't intentional. So how would a large language model become so woke?

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I think it's only on Amazon Prime Video. It features The Rock and the actor Chris Evans and some other people. And I'm going to tell you my review of this movie. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen in my entire life. Now, People have different opinions of movies. And I will acknowledge that at least a third of you are saying, what?

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By looking at stuff on the Internet. So if you trained it on the Internet, you would see that every corporate entity, when it does a picture of its staff, it's mostly diverse people of color and women, and they'll throw in one white guy because they want to show how diverse they are. And so the large language model only knows what it sees.

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So if it was trained on insurance commercials, it would think all men were idiots and women are pretty awesome. So there wasn't much you could do about it. But here's the more interesting part about it. So I posted this on X, and I think it's a real problem that needs to be fixed. It's not just a joke. And Elon Musk saw it in a few hours and responded that it shouldn't do that.

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It should show a representative group that matches what the field itself looks like. So, I mean, if it were an NBA team and most of the players were black, that would be the correct answer. If it were scientists and it was the right mix, that's the right answer. So, and then he said it'll be quickly fixed. Now, does that blow your mind?

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Like, that's one of those things that makes me think none of this could be real. Like, how in the world does the richest man on earth who's running, you know, several companies and at least helping run part of the United States and running Doge and tweeting 20 times a day, how in the world does he do customer support on X? How in the world does he do that?

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Like, there has to be more than one of him. And it makes me wonder about his systems that he has for catching stuff like this. I was trying to imagine it. Do you think he was just sitting on the toilet looking through X like he always does and he just noticed it? Maybe. Maybe he just noticed it organically. But I'd like to think that probably he has at least one staffer

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whose job it is to look for things on X that he should know about. Maybe. I just wonder about his process. I'd love to ask him about that. But the fact that he just immediately saw it and said, yeah, we'll be fixed soon. Boom.

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I saw an old clip of Rachel Maddow getting schooled on some show, must have been a while ago, in which she was claiming that women are paid 77 cents on a dollar and her guests had to straighten around that none of that's true. And I tried to think, what would it be like to be a woman in America in 2024? Although this clip was older, it's still true that people think it today.

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What would it be like to think that you lived in that world if you're a woman and you thought that women were paid 77 cents on a dollar? Now, I'm pretty sure my audience knows that that's a hoax. I mean, it's not an intentional hoax. It just works out that way. Nothing like that's true. That's not even remotely true.

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When people do the same work and put it in the same hours and have the same background, women are fine. There's no 77 cents on a dollar. Indeed, in my entire life, I've never encountered one legitimate situation where a woman was underpaid. Have you? I've never seen it. I've never heard of it. I've never seen it at all. But some women believe they live in that world.

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Now, here's what that reminded me of. It reminded me that Democrat policies are a lot like a wife blaming her husband for her dream. You know that famous situation, a lot of you have had this, where if you have a wife or a girlfriend, she'll have a dream in which you did something bad and then she'll be mad at you all day. That's what this 77 cents on a dollar feels like.

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Because it's based on something that's not real, but men are still in trouble. And then I thought, could you generalize that to the entire Democratic Party? And it turns out you sort of can. So here's the model. Somebody has a dream that something you did in the dream was bad, and then they hate you in the real world.

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Now compare that to earning 77 cents on a dollar, which is not true, just like the dream was not true, but they're mad at you in the real world for it. That sounds the same. How about climate change or climate alarm? Climate alarm, many people on the right feel that's not real, but people are mad at me for it, just like as if they had a dream that wasn't real.

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I tried to watch that movie and I only got 10 minutes into it. I get it. I get it. We all like different stuff. But I'll tell you what I liked about it and I'm going to recommend it. Honestly, this is not an exaggeration. This is going to sound like an exaggeration. In my opinion, as just a person who watches movies, no expert or anything. It's a masterpiece. It's a masterpiece.

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What about all the massive discrimination in hiring? Like if, let's say, a black man or woman goes to get a job at a Fortune 500 company, they will tell you that they're discriminated against and they'd be lucky if they could get that job. That is literally the opposite of reality. But still somebody's mad at me for the thing that's opposite of what they think is true.

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So if you look at the Democratic platform, you just go right down the line. It's all things that are not reality that somebody's mad at me for. Now, in some cases, it's a difference in opinion of what's real. Take, for example, abortion. Abortion is not a difference in values.

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It's a difference of whether you think the reality is that the fetus is alive and that God exists and God wants it to be alive. So that's a case of a difference in reality. So I think that the difference between Democrats and Republicans, we usually think is a difference in values, right?

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When people on TV talk about it, they'll say, well, our values are this, and they're different from your democratic values. And I would argue none of that's true. People have the same values everywhere in the United States. People have the same values. What they differ on is reality. What we think is different is the reality that's guiding us.

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If we had the same reality assumptions, it would look like we had the same values, right? So if you thought that one group was being discriminated against, you would have a certain set of solutions. And if I thought they were not being discriminated against, I would have a different set of solutions.

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But in the real world, we say, oh, your values are different because you don't care about this group. No, I care about them plenty. I just don't want something done that isn't based on reality. So look for that model. Look for how often the Democrats are basing their entire policy of any topic on the dream they had about something bad you did last night.

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Meanwhile, DEI, I've told you, DEI kills everything it touched. And there's new research from the progressive polling outfit called Navigator Research. And it says the reputation of the Democrat Party is in tatters. And they did too much with the wokeness and the DEI and too much attention to the elites. Positive attention, I guess. And OK.

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And then separately, the Democratic Party brand is in the toilet, according to, I guess, New York Times did a did a written interview with some Democrats, and they say they said that the Democrats who performed the best were the ones who ran against their own party. And one of the experts said Smith said, when the best way to win as a candidate is to run against your own party, It's that bad.

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Our candidate down ballots are good. It's what the D next to their name means that people don't like. Well, I would argue that maybe the candidates aren't that good either. That's just my opinion. So the Democratic Party got killed totally by DEI. And you might know that I think it was a few months ago, one of the top consultants to Kamala Harris, this Quentin Fulks,

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He said that the reason they had to pick Kamala and they couldn't have an open primary is that you would have had black women be highly upset if it was not Kamala Harris. So remember I told you it's like the dream? Literally, literally this man said he didn't want to upset women. based on stuff that wasn't important, basically. It just sounds like they're mad over a dream.

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It's not just a good movie. It's a freaking masterpiece. The writing is just shockingly good. Now, when I say the writing is shockingly good, I don't just mean that the dialogue is zippy and funny and they've got good lines and it's a good buddy movie. After a while, it becomes kind of a buddy movie. And it works. But let me just give you an idea of the inventiveness. So it's about Santa Claus.

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Yeah, so DEI kills everything. I saw a quote that was posted by... Well, it doesn't matter who posted it. The person said it was Antonio Garcia Marte. something, but it got cut off. I don't know his last name. And he said this, but it was worth, it was Mark, it was, yeah, Mark Andreessen posted it. Said the rigidly interlocking, listen to this sentence. It's pretty good.

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The rigidly interlocking clerisy of government and media that used to rule over America alive Deciding who is a hero, who is a villain, and who deserves to be ostracized or canceled has essentially disappeared. So that is a real good insight. So the Democratic Party would work with the media, and they would create this overarching hoax, basically, of what was real and what wasn't.

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And then the country would be run. based on that overarching set of hoaxes. But because Trump has taught us that the news is fake, and the news has taught us that by being so fake and getting caught, we no longer believe what the news says, which has completely neutered the party of your girlfriend's bad dream last night.

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So they used to be able to take the bad dream and turn it into reality through the media, and now it's just a bad dream. That's all they have. All they have is the bad dream. They don't have any way to operationalize it and turn it into policy because the media has collapsed. I think that's pretty spot on.

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Meanwhile, speaking of the media, America First Legal, AFL, who is doing amazing work, Stephen Miller's brainchild, I think, to sue the Democrats in all the ways and uncover things that we need to know, etc. So they've had a whole bunch of wins in the past year. Quite impressive, I must say.

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And they managed to sue the National Archives for illegally concealing federal records related to the Biden family corruption scandal. Do you believe that? That the National Archives... was illegally concealing records? Well, the AFL got those records.

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It includes photographs of Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates and introducing Hunter to China's President Xi while he was vice president. It was everything you thought it was. The Biden crime family was exactly what you thought it was. But our media prevented you from seeing that until AFL sued the federal records just to see the photographs.

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These photographs always existed. And so during that entire time, we were arguing whether whether Hunter Biden had met people through his father and was part of this crime organization. They had pictures of it, photos of the vice president meeting with Hunter's business partners. Yeah, everything you thought was true, it was true.

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Meanwhile, Trump's transition team, they say that Trump is planning to put together some maybe special forces. and assassinate the cartel bosses in Mexico once he's in office. Now, that's the first time I've heard it specifically that he was going to assassinate the cartel leaders. But to me, that sounds a little bit more like negotiating, because it can work both ways.

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I don't think that killing the leaders stops fentanyl, because I'm pretty sure somebody takes over And the other cartel just makes twice as much. So I don't think it's going to stop the supply. But what it could do is make the leaders of the cartel say, at the moment, I have a really cushy deal on the head of a cartel.

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But I just noticed that the other three heads of the other three cartels just got murdered. Maybe I should concentrate less on fentanyl and a little bit more on something less deadly. So I could see how it could be positive, but it won't be positive in the sense if you kill the cartel leaders, the fentanyl business stops. That doesn't seem likely.

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Red One is the code name for Santa Claus, and Santa Claus gets kidnapped. So The Rock and Chris Evans have to figure out how to get Santa Claus. Now, so far, you're saying to yourself, well, that sounds sort of ordinary routine Christmas movie, not too interesting. But wait till you find out that Santa Claus is thin and he's a gym rat.

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But you can certainly get them to say, we'll work with you. I feel like the only way to win with the cartels is to help them transform into legitimate businesses. I think that's the only way.

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But that's pretty odious because it means taking somebody who murdered lots of Americans through drugs and just murdered people in general and giving them some billionaire lifestyle and ownership of real companies and stuff. So it's not ideal, but it's messy business. So what else are you going to do? If killing them doesn't work, what else are you going to do? you're going to have to make a deal.

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So only, only Trump could make a deal with cartel people. And the only way you can make a deal is to kill a few of them first or to make them think that they are going to get killed pretty soon. All right. Um, anyway, that's boring. There's a, uh, New technology at the University of Liverpool that is going to turn sunlight directly into hydrogen without having to plug it in.

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So you can capture the sun, and they've got some new kind of technology with a hybrid nanoreactor. They figured out some kind of synthetic material that can take sunlight and turn it directly into hydrogen. Now imagine if that gets more efficient. It's basically free hydrogen from sunlight. I don't know if that's better or worse than just electricity from sunlight, but it's kind of exciting.

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So let's talk about Greenland. As you know, Trump has said he thinks that the United States should own Greenland. And He's talked about it and his staff says he's serious about it. The reasons for it are that, number one, it's critically located.

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So if the temperatures cause melting in the Arctic, then the Arctic is going to be sort of a battleground of the major powers trying to have some control over this new area that nobody could control before. And Greenland's sort of near there, so it's one of those strategically important places. So militarily, it might be important to us, but it also has apparently a lot of natural resources.

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So they've got rare earth materials. What I didn't know, and Jack Posobiec pointed this out in X, that it's already being mined by a Chinese company. So China is mining rare earth minerals, which are one of the ways China controls us, because you can't go too far in pushing China, because then you're not going to have your pharmaceuticals and your rare earth materials that you need.

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So do we feel comfortable that China is mining this rare earth material over in our hemisphere? Well, the Monroe Doctrine starts getting interesting at that point. How much Chinese influence on critical things are we going to allow in this hemisphere? And the answer should be none. I mean, that's been our history, none. And that's Trump's view, apparently. Here's what I love about this.

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When people are Trump's age, he's, what, 78 or Don't they usually run out of big, innovative ideas? But Trump is just full of ideas. He's pushing Bitcoin and wants to take over Greenland. He's threatening the Panama Canal. These are sort of big, innovative, didn't-see-it-coming ideas. And some of them are practical.

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whereas I think his threats on the Panama Canal are just to get the fees lowered so American ships can go through for free and they would just charge other countries, which makes sense because we gave them the canal for free. Of course, we conquered part of their country to build the canal, but let's not mention that. Here's what I would love to see. So apparently Denmark pays...

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Now, if you told me that there was going to be a movie where Santa Claus was played as a thin, very fit gym rat with superpowers, I would have said, How are they going to make that? How are they going to sell that? How are you going to convince me that Santa has always been thin and fit? And they pull it off.

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to own Greenland. So Greenland operates semi-autonomously from Denmark, who kind of technically is in charge, but they let Greenland do its own thing. But Greenland can't pay its own way. So it's an expense. So somebody said, what would Trump pay if we were to buy Greenland? Do you know what the price is? Denmark should pay us.

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Because if we take over the management of Greenland, Denmark is going to save a whole bunch of money that they were going to waste, not waste, but they were going to spend taking care of Greenland because it doesn't take care of itself. So the right price is zero or $1. So it should be free. Now, how many other countries don't pay their way? There are only like 60,000 residents in the whole place.

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Here's what I'd like to see. I'd like to see Trump put together a specific proposal that he would pitch to the residents of Greenland and maybe even go there in person and do a rally and answer some questions and just say, look, it's up to you if you don't want to do this. I don't know if he wants it to be up to the residents, but let's just say, yeah, maybe you don't say it's up to you.

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Maybe instead say, I want to get your input. if we take over, we're going to get rid of the Chinese mining. We're going to do a lot more of it. And a lot of that will accrue to your locals. So your lifestyle will be better. But imagine this.

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Instead of offering to make it an extra state, which screws up with all our demographics and everything, not demographics, would mess with our whole political system. Instead of saying that, suppose we said, here's the deal. We'll take over management, but you can maintain your Greenland identity, your Denmark passport, probably. I assume they have rights to go to Denmark, I'm guessing.

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But you would also be American citizens at the same time. So you could be dual or triple citizens. We just want to take over management. So you never have to do anything with America if you don't want to. But if you wanted to, you get the option. I would imagine if you lived in Greenland, you would love to have some benefits of American citizenship. Maybe not full benefits.

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Maybe it doesn't even include voting. I don't know. I'd love to see him pitch it, just see what happens. Denmark, of course, would not allow that, but might be able to talk him into it. So Trump and his team are suing Polster and Seltzer.

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Because the allegation is that she intentionally ran a fake poll toward the end of the election that made it look like Harris was a better candidate and more viable than she was. So that looked like election interference because the numbers were so far out of line. I think I like this. I don't like the idea of suing pollsters for being wrong.

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But if you can sue this one pollster for being way wrong in a way that Nobody really thinks she didn't know. He might not be able to prove it, might not be able to prove it, but I think it's a good shot across the bow. Next time there's a pollster that wants to cripple some Republican candidate, you want them to say, if we don't fix these numbers to make them a little more true...

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And the pure inventiveness of how they turned ordinary Christmas stuff into something special, it's like watching Harry Potter or Star Wars for the first time. It gave me that feeling. Now, it also, I would say it's probably PG. I don't believe a single person got killed or seriously injured. You know, there were a lot of monsters that get beat up and stuff.

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those Republicans like to sue pollsters for rigging elections. And even though they didn't win the lawsuit, I don't think they'll win, but even though they didn't win the lawsuit against that one pollster they sued, we don't want to be spending our time in court. So maybe we shouldn't push these numbers as aggressively as we have.

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So I think it's a good idea to just send a warning shot and say, we will sue a pollster that's being completely unethical. It's just going to be hard to win, and it's going to be hard to prove that it's unethical as opposed to a mistake.

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Well, according to the Axios, 61% of Democrats, they're going to spend less time with their own family and friends because they're stressed out, I think, because of politics. but only 39% of Republicans said the same. Does that surprise you, that Democrats are reluctant to spend time with their own family? Here's why I think that.

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I think that Republicans walk into every room thinking that reality is on their side and common sense. So, of course, they'd be happy to visit. and they listen to you say crazy things, and they might say, yeah, okay, sounds crazy.

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Whereas the Democrats, in my opinion, who have based their entire party on the dream your wife had last night and is blaming it on you, if you put them with a bunch of people who understand reality, it's an unpleasant situation because their entire understanding of the world is going to be unraveled.

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So I can see why the Democrats would be the, let's stay home and stay away from those other people party. Makes sense to me. Meanwhile, as account insurrection, Barbie says the census, this next census is going to include the, Refugees and border releases. So if you're in the country for any reason, temporarily, legally, illegally, you're going to count in the census.

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And there are so many of them at this point. It's 2.8 million temporary migrants. It's going to probably change the congressional seats. So if there's a state that has just a ton of migrants... then their representation in Congress might increase. And so I know Elon Musk thinks that that's the big problem.

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But here again, Democrats believe that these relatively open borders are about being less racist. That's what they think the open borders are about, trying to be less racist. Is that what's happening? No, it's probably just political. It's probably done in cynical, purely political reasons. Now, you know, I'm sure it's a complicated situation. People have different motives.

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There's some people who just think it's a better world that way. But again, the Democrat voters seem to be detached from reality about how open the borders are and why. I'm pretty sure the Republicans have a better idea of how open the borders are and also why. So is that a difference in values? It's not a difference in values. It's a difference in reality.

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Which reality do you think is actually happening? And I think the Republicans have the accurate one when it comes to the border, or more accurate. So San Diego did that idea where you... create a tent city, but you move it away from the downtown areas where the homeless and the tents are a problem. And you just give them some land that's not too far away, that wasn't being used for something.

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And you give them some nice tents. And since you know they don't want to live inside, most of them are on drugs and they can't really do inside stuff. And it's being called a success. Isn't that interesting? It's been called a success, so they're going to do more of it.

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You might remember an idea that I was floating several years ago and ever since then, that the Republicans should look for a way to move them away from the downtowns and put them in some kind of environment that's better for them, but also better for the people who live downtown. And that might mean buying them a tent, finding them a nice piece of public land,

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But I don't think anybody died in the entire movie. And I don't think there were any scenes I didn't want to watch. So... I would just say congratulations to everybody involved. The visuals of this are the best I've ever seen. The visuals, the visual effects are the best I've ever seen. Now you're going to say, that's not true. You know, here are five movies with better.

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letting them do their own thing, maybe with a little bit of vital services that they weren't getting before, and just move them away. Just put them where they want to be so other people who want to be in a cleaner environment can have it. Now, so they built 541 tents. Not built them, but they put them up, and they look pretty densely spotted, but they say it worked.

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So Colin Ruggs writing about this this morning. Matt Gaetz is picking apart the ethics report that came out about him. Remember when Matt Gaetz was in office, there was an ethics investigation about his alleged paying a minor for sex, 17-year-old. And Now, Molly Hemingway says this on her post.

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She goes, sometimes I feel like I was the only reporter to look into the details of the Gates allegations. And Molly Hemingway says, that's how I learned the accuser is in prison for making the same false sex with minors accusation against someone else. What? Did you know that? Did you know that the main accuser is in prison for making the same false accusation against someone else?

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I think she's right. She might be the only reporter who looked into it. And then there's some other bits of evidence that make me say I don't care if he did it or not. But apparently he wasn't paying anybody for sex. And the evidence clearly shows that he was not paying anybody for sex. He was transferring some money. but it wasn't tied to any specific sex acts.

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And let me say publicly, I don't think anybody really cares about a consensual sex with a 17-year-old. Because in much of the world, it's not a crime. And you could agree or disagree whether it should be a crime in your state, but it's just a fact that in most of the world, that wouldn't even be a crime. So do you care? I don't care. I don't care about it one way or the other.

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I mean, I hope he doesn't go to jail for it, but I certainly don't hold it against him. I don't care at all. Not even a little bit. I don't have the slightest care about that.

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Apparently, Wikipedia's annual budget, this doesn't sound real, but it's being reported, their annual budget was $177 million, but they spent $50 million of the $177 million on improving their diversity, equity, and inclusion, their DEI. Do you believe that's real? To me, that sounds about as real as the Jeff Bezos wedding being $600 million.

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And by the way, when I told you that can't possibly be real, it was debunked within hours. Yeah, it wasn't real. So if you're telling me that Wikipedia spent $50 million of their $177 million on diversity, equity, and inclusion, I'm going to say I doubt it. I doubt it. It doesn't sound real to me. Unless somebody was stealing 49 million of it, that might happen.

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But I've got a larger point, which is everything of scale ends up corrupt. Everything of scale, everything big, ends up corrupt. And here's why. If you are one person sitting by yourself in a room, you can be honest with yourself. You don't have to be. but you can be, you probably want to be.

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No, no, because they take their time with the visuals. Usually the visuals just slap by or, you know, it's just a opening scene, but here that it's just so good. Anyway, that's my review. Now remember a third of you aren't going to like it at all, which I totally get. The critics didn't like it, but the public was 90% yes on it. It's really good. Um,

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If you do a business deal with one person, and you pick that person correctly, both of you could be telling the truth and playing it honestly. And by the way, that's one of the big changes in humanity is that when we became less tribal, we had to depend on strangers to do a deal. So once you're not depending on only your tribe,

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You have to do a deal with somebody who's trading some goods that you need and you don't know who this trader is. So humans developed an ability to trust strangers as long as they checked them out. And that propelled society. So you can get two people to trust each other, maybe three people, maybe you can form a band with four people and they trust each other.

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But as soon as you get to tens of thousands of people, there's going to be some number of major criminals in that group that have slipped in. And those criminals are going to realize, hey, if I do this corrupt thing, I can make some money. Because wherever there's a lot of money and people, there's always an opportunity to skim some off.

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So in general, as soon as something reaches a certain scale, it's not you sitting in a room and it's not two people and it's not four people, but rather it's thousands of people and it's all over the world. It's always corrupt. You want some examples? How about personal finance? I'm not going to give you the long explanation, but you know the personal finance field is totally corrupt, right?

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It's mostly experts telling you that they can beat the averages, and they can't. There's no evidence for that whatsoever. The entire financial advice industry is pretty much just a lie. It's just corrupt. How about... How about the government? The government's a big entity. Corrupt, totally corrupt. How about the mainstream media? Gigantic entity, lots of corrupt, completely corrupt.

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How about human resources? Well, human resources is now basically DEI, completely corrupt. What about the marketing department? It's their job to lie. It's literally their job to make their stuff look better than the other stuff. Marketing, sales, those are corrupt, generally. Generally, by design, they're corrupt. It's people pushing the edge of acceptability to make the sale.

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And so this brings me to my argument that I've used before, but I want to reinforce this. If somebody says to me, Scott, why don't you believe climate change alarm when 99% of scientists tell you it's true? Now, first of all, it's not 99% of scientists. That's a corrupt number to begin with. But here's an answer that I've been testing out lately.

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Everything else that's that size is corrupt because climate change is, you know, many thousands of scientists, and many trillions of dollars. This could be trillions. If you tell me that there's a major effort with trillions of dollars and maybe even millions of people, could be millions of people, I'm going to tell you that was corrupt. Why? It always is. Everything of that scale is corrupt.

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Everything. Is the Catholic Church doing a little extra sex crimes against children? Probably.

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Everything large is corrupt. There's no exception. Only small things can be uncorrupt. There are things you don't know the corruption yet. Remember when Black Lives Matter looked like it might be legitimate and people had some real interests and they were trying to pursue them? Nope. Total organization was corrupt. What about the CIA? Remember when they were supposed to focus externally? Nope.

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Totally corrupt. What about the Democratic Party? totally corrupt. I don't know about the Republican Party. I have to admit that the Republicans, if you look at it as a whole, it doesn't seem super corrupt. Clearly, there are individuals who are corrupt in every party. But the whole party doesn't look corrupt under Trump. Under Trump, it looks like just full disclosure. How about Facebook?

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Facebook, big operation. Well, Facebook has some accusations they need to handle in terms of censorship and handling of the election in 2020, right? What about Google? I could go on, but you get the point, right? Every big entity is corrupt. There's really almost no exceptions. So when I look at climate change and you tell me 99% of the scientists are on one side, first of all, that's not true.

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I asked this question on X Yesterday, did a little poll. I said, how many of you feel unusually exhausted and exhausted beyond the point where you think it's just Christmas stress? because everybody gets more stressed and tired in Christmas. But how many of you feel there's something different happening, that you're having a kind of exhaustion that you can't explain?

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But secondly, everything of that scale is corrupt. It all is. And I don't know that there's any exception to that. How about the war in Ukraine? Is that all on the up and up? Of course not. Of course not. And that's being driven by NATO. So is NATO on the up and up? Obviously not. Obviously not.

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So anybody who believes that any large funded complicated thing is on the up and up, maybe 1% of the time, maybe 1% of the time. Yeah. All right. There's a new pain reliever study finds found. So in Brazil, there's some kind of a tree, an apple tree that has sugar apple leaves. So it's not a regular apple tree. It's a sugar apple tree.

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And the leaves are apparently really, really powerful for relieving pain. And I guess it's always been a folk medicine, so that's not a surprise. It's anti-arthritic, and it fights pain and inflammation, and probably doesn't have much of a side effect. So maybe we get a big improvement in And also there's some super ionic battery tech that's going to give you 600 miles on a charge if it works.

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So yet again, more amazing breakthroughs in energy. And then there's an idea, according to the live science, of using lasers powered by sunlight to beam energy through space to support interplanetary missions. So here's how they can make a laser out of sunlight. Now, you probably say, you can't make a laser out of sunlight. Well, apparently you can if you can find photosynthetic bacteria.

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And they found some bacteria that's super efficient in transforming light into energy. And apparently they can use this to collect enough natural light that they can build a laser that wouldn't be powered externally by plugging it into the wall or needing a big battery, I guess. Well, maybe it needs a battery.

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But you wouldn't need to plug it into the wall, and it would be a laser just from the sun. And then they would beam that energy to another planet. That doesn't sound like something that could work to me. If you want to bet against a scientific breakthrough becoming practical, I don't see the laser beam from another planet powering things. I don't know. I just don't see that happening. All right.

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Are there any stories that are happening that I'm ignoring? I'm, of course, pointedly ignoring the subway murder. By the migrant. And the reason I do that is because if you get anecdotes like that, your hatred for migrants will go through the roof and you don't need that. Right. The facts which are objectively true are all you need.

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Just the facts, just the data is all you need to say we need to tighten the border and get rid of the criminals and be smarter about immigration. You don't need that extra story. It's horrible. You don't need it in your head. It has probably a lot more to do with mental illness, I would imagine. And it shouldn't be affecting your decisions. You already know what needs to be done.

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That was just a horrible, horrible thing. It doesn't need to be part of the decision-making. That's my complaint. It doesn't need to be part of the decision-making. All right. Spike proteins and lasers. Lasers from stars to power all kinds of things. I guess it's more of a thing than I thought it was. Photosynthesis is the fastest chemical reaction observable in nature. That's cool.

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Who's going to be in charge of the CIA? Isn't that Tulsi? It is persuasive, though. It's visual. You got that going for you. Got to hold Mayorkas accountable. You know what's interesting? I think Tom Homan worked with Mayorkas and actually had a good report on Mayorkas. And since we trust Tom Homan, I guess it makes me curious what's going on with Mayorkas.

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And 68% of the people who answered said yes, that they were experiencing recent exhaustion that was beyond anything they could explain based on their lifestyle or based on Christmas. Is that real? Now, connected to this, maybe, I'm just guessing, I was seeing some clips of Nicole Shanahan.

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It does seem like he's working against the interests of the United States. But I feel like there's something we don't know about Mayorkas that would explain everything. It could be that he's just taking instructions and doing what he's told to do, which wouldn't make me happy either. But we don't know exactly what's going on there. Oh, Hohmann also said he changed, but we don't know why.

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You think he's been blackmailed? There's nothing you can rule out at this point. Your stepbrother worked with Mayorkas 25 years ago and thought he was a good guy. Yeah, it's confusing. People do change. San Jose Police Department has a whole unit for racial equity because there isn't enough crime. He's a communist? People would have known that before, right?

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Didn't Homan speculate it was the cartels that got to him? I don't know about that. It's the way he testifies, yeah. The way he testifies makes him look like he's not on our side. It's easy to blackmail? Yeah. Yeah. Cartel sent Mayorkas a photo of his house. Did that happen? Well, you know, lying about the border is just his political job.

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I mean, if his boss says, say this about the border, he probably has to. I mean, it's not ethical, but he probably has to. Money and power will change weak people. True. True. So there's a very good meme going around showing the countries of Greenland, Panama Canal, and Canada being choices on Amazon that Trump is shopping for on his phone. I think I'll pick up a Greenland and a Panama Canal.

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It's very funny. I love the fact that Trump is treating those topics like Sort of like he's just having fun, but he's also serious. It's a weird combination that works. He makes it work. And now we're having fun, people say. Yeah, I kind of walk Greenland now. Porno blackmail bots send you a picture of your own house? Wow. Wow.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately for a moment. Thanks for joining on X and YouTube and Rumble. Thanks for being here. Rumble stock, by the way, has nearly doubled since yesterday. I don't know what's going on. They got a big infusion of cash. I guess that's what's moving. All right, Locals, coming at you

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talking about some kind of electromagnetic pollution, basically, and the idea that humans are electrical creatures. And if you put enough Wi-Fi and electrical signals in the air, you're essentially polluting the thing that has something to do with your ability to thrive, I guess. Now, I'm not convinced that that's really the problem.

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Although it interestingly would answer a lot of questions about why is this so, you know, what's happening recently that's wrong? Maybe. So I'm not going to rule it out. But I don't personally, I haven't seen the evidence for it. But I feel like something's happening. And I know this will cause the NPCs to say, oh, you got the vaccination.

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It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Let me do a special shout-out to Paul Collider. You have no idea how much it helps me when you do your little image in the comments that shows that the video and audio are working. And I know you don't like to be thanked publicly, but it's the end of the year, and I want to tell you I appreciate it a lot. Well, let's look at the news.

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But I don't think it's that because it wasn't really connected to anything that happened after the vaccination. Some of you are going to say it's the food, but my food's been better than ever. I don't know what it is. Sort of a mystery. But if it were only me, then it wouldn't be that much of a story because, you know, it's just one person's health issue. But 68%.

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say they're suffering unusual exhaustion. I feel like you need to look into that a little bit. Yeah, anyway. According to Slay News, there was a major study on universal basic income, meaning that they gave people free money to cover some of their basics, but probably not all of them. And then they checked to see if those people thrived. Did they use that extra time to, let's say, build a skill?

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Did they use the extra time to become more productive people? Maybe become engineers or poets? You know, really add something back to society? Because it would free up some time. No, it turns out that what happened was the people who got extra money used it to work less. So all they did is replace their productive efforts with unproductive efforts.

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So the conclusion is that universal basic income would destroy the world. They could have just asked me. They could have just asked me. Now, let me explain this. If you did a study where you put together Elon Musk and me and and some entrepreneurial people, and you said, we're going to give you $1,000 a month. Come back later and see what happens.

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Well, probably wouldn't make any difference to any of us. But I'm pretty sure we would all spend the next year doing productive things because it's just what we do. We just do productive things. It's sort of built into our DNA, some people. But if you took the people who needed a universal basic income,

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and that's the group that you studied, the ones who needed it, you're not really going to get people turning into engineers and poets. This is the group of people who, for whatever reason, were not killing it before. Giving them free money is just going to make them lazier. That was very predictable. I'm glad they studied it, actually, just so we know. But

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I noticed my lighting's not quite right. There we go. Lighting corrected.

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it was very predictable that giving people free money and removing their incentive to work would have a predictable effect on the people who weren't killing it in life already. So Elon Musk says, I think I have this right, that in the age of AI and robots that's coming, money might become useless because there's no point in exchanging money when everybody can have everything they want for free.

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because the robots do the cooking and the working and the making and stuff like that. So I worry that we are not evolved to handle that. If we evolved, and I assume that's the standard view, here's the hard, cold truth. I think human beings were meant to have a third of the people thriving,

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a third of the people kind of barely hanging on, and a third of the people failing and dying and not reproducing.

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And if the people who are failing and dying and not reproducing are taken out of the gene pool and the people who are happier and thriving are the ones having the kids, probably you have a species that can move forward because the natural effect of evolution is getting rid of the laggards and promoting the people who are killing it in life.

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But what happens if you start promoting the laggards instead of promoting the people who are killing it life? Well, in the short term, it keeps a lot of people alive. In the long term, does it make everybody lazy and unproductive? And do we lose our purpose? Because I think we're kind of evolved to strive or die. Right? I think humans, we either strive or die.

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And you see people choosing both paths. Some strive. Some die. But what if nobody died? At least they didn't die because of being lazy. I don't know. I don't think we could possibly predict what that will do to humanity. But none of it looks good. Because the only thing that makes humans do the right thing is incentive. What happens if you take it away? Just don't know what's going to happen.

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Anyway, they could have just asked me about that one. Physicists are starting to say, more and more of them, that humanity is getting ready for what they call a radical re-understanding of reality, something as big as the Einstein and quantum physics kind of revolutions separately and combined. So according to Quantum Magazine, space-time isn't base reality.

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That's what some of the physicists are saying. So if you think that the understanding of space-time and gravity and all those things are base reality, the physicists are saying, no, those might be emergent phenomenons, meaning there's something below them that's causing them, which of course is true. And Just look at the things we don't understand about reality.

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Is it fun and interesting? Yes, it is. But first, I'd like to start a little controversy. It's a Christmas controversy, just for fun. All right. I have told you that there's no such thing as good movies anymore for reasons that I don't fully understand. All movies are ruined.

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And you can see how obvious it is that we're due for a major re-understanding of reality. We don't know what dark matter is exactly. I'm not sure it exists. Electrons have no mass, which makes no sense to me. We don't know what happened before the Big Bang. I'm not sure what's up with black holes. I feel like, in string theory, it looks absurd to me. So I feel like we really are ready.

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Well, fuck you. So that's, by the way, in case you didn't think I read the comments, I do read the comments. So I have a right to respond to you as a personal response because you're not just talking to the other people. So let me just say this to you. Fuck you. I'm talking to one of you. You know who it is. The rest of you can sit this out. Yeah.

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So if you wouldn't say that to my face, don't say it here. Fuck you. And that came from somebody on Locals, somebody who pays a subscription. Get the fuck off of Locals. You need a minimum amount of social awareness to be part of the club. And that ain't it. You can have your opinions, but if you wouldn't say it to me to my face, don't fucking say it here. Okay? All right. Glad we cleared that up.

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Anyway, there's a story, and I think the Daily Mail had it, that back in 1984, the CIA tried to use remote viewers. These would be psychics. And the remote viewers were asked to look at Mars a million years ago and to see if there was life on Mars. And so one of the remote viewers, who was one of the most successful ones, they say,

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looked at Mars, and he said back a million years ago there were these tall creatures that lived there, tall, thin creatures, and they were building pyramids. I don't know where the pyramids are. I guess they'd be covered by now. But that's what they said. Now, are you surprised that the CIA was using psychics?

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wouldn't be surprised if they tested it because i think russia was doing a lot of psychic stuff that we didn't know if it was working or not but there is i will tell you i have a little inside behind the curtain knowledge of this because years ago um i was sort of uh not read into any secret stuff i i didn't get any state secrets but i did have extended conversation with somebody who was deeply involved

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And I can tell you that there was a belief that remote viewing was real. I can confirm that. There was a belief, maybe not by everybody, but by some people involved, that there was at least one viewer who was legit. Some of them didn't test out. But there was one that kept getting hits and they couldn't explain why it was so accurate.

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Are you ready for a good time? Well, you should be.

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But what he really wants to do, Trump does. is deport Americans to foreign prisons. I saw somebody at ABC this week saying that, one of the Democrat pundits. So what do you think? What do you think are the odds that Trump actually wants to deport American citizens to foreign jails and just sort of pick them up and deport them?

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I would say the odds of that are approximately zero, but he did say it twice. So why does he say it? I think it's just a mistake. Yeah. I think he was just sort of spitballing. I don't think there's any real chance that Republicans would be okay with him picking up an American citizen and sending them to a jail.

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Who would have a baby for $5,000? You'd have to be really bad at math or something to have a baby for $5,000. Imagine how bad you'd have to be at math. It's like $5,000. Wow, I can raise this baby for 18 years and I've got a little extra left over. I don't know. It's going to have to be more than that.

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I mean, there might be some weird exception where he's like Silence of the Lambs or something, but not ordinary people who committed crimes or didn't commit crimes. So I'm going to assign this to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. However, I will note that it's not based on nothing. It's not based on nothing because he did say it twice.

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And he's going to have to explain what he means if he says it twice. So we'll see. So as you know, Signalgate 2 is raging. The idea that P. Hegseth not only had some battle plans and the first signal messages that the reporter saw, but that separately, He had one that his brother and his lawyer and his wife saw. So there's two signal gate dramas. Now, I don't think either one of them is important.

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And the inside news is that Trump doesn't want to give anybody a win. It would be too easy. If they could get rid of Hagseth based on some signal messages, that would be pretty weak. So Trump is allegedly sticking with Hegseth and does not want to give the other side that easy win. But here's the thing that jumped out at me. So there's an article in Politico, an op-ed, by John Olyot.

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So he had been the acting assistant to Hegseth for public affairs, but he resigned last week. Now, in the piece, Olliot said in Politico that there's, quote, total chaos at the Pentagon and the building is in disarray under Hegseth and Trump deserves better. Here's my new rule. Anybody who says chaos in that context, that's just propaganda. So you can immediately just discount it.

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Yep, plenty of chaos. Do you know who else has chaos? Every business unit you've ever known. If you're working in a big company and you don't know the full strategy and you don't understand what's happening next, don't you think it's chaos? Chaos is the most generic, unprovable statement you could ever make. It's pure propaganda. If you wanted to say something is wrong, He would give details.

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For example, he might say, people are not sharing important information with each other. Well, that would be a problem. You might say, everybody's quitting. Well, that'd be a problem. But if you say it's chaos or total chaos at the Pentagon and everything's in disarray, you know that's not true. you know it's not even a little bit true.

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It might be true that people can't anticipate what Trump's going to do, but do we consider that a flaw or a feature? So as soon as you see chaos, they're just on a team.

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and uh it looks like now this is based also on tucker carlson having an interview with uh former defense department official dan caldwell who was accused of leaking some important stuff but he says he was never accused of that he was just fired and according to dan caldwell there's not even an accusation that he did it so he doesn't even know what it's about

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But he was one of the people who was anti-war with Iran. So you might say to yourself, Are they trying to get rid of Pete Hegseth because of his views on Iran? Are they trying to get rid of, or did they get rid of Dan Caldwell because of his views on Iran? And is the play that's happening now that anybody who's against war with Iran is getting picked off with one rumor after another?

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And there's something about reserving Fulbright scholarships for married applicants with children. I don't know. That seems small. But we'll see what they come up with. I would say it's too early to judge it. How many of you saw the weird Easter picture of the Biden family posing on some steps to the House? And it seems obvious that Joe Biden is photoshopped in.

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Is that what's happening? I don't know, but it looks like it. I mean, it's got that odor to it, but I don't know. So that's what I think. According to Dan Caldwell also, Susan Rice, who, as you know, is Obama's right-hand person, is still on the Defense Policy Board. So it means she doesn't have any authority and can't enter the building and do all the private stuff.

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But apparently it gives her some kind of platform to interact with all the Pentagon people. Why in the world is Susan Rice still in any government position that involves interacting with Pentagon people? And can you even believe it? Now, she might say it's more ceremonial or she doesn't go to meetings or something. So we don't know the details there, but sure looks sketchy to me.

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All right, here's the dog that's not barking about Iran. So, you know, I like to look for the thing that should be there, but suspiciously isn't. So if there's something that should be in the story, but suspiciously isn't, that tells you something. All right? And here's the thing that should be in the story. We're all talking about whether or not the U.S. should be part of an attack on Iran.

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There we go. You were fighting me, but I won. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do.

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But there are no polls showing American opinion on that. No recent ones. Is that obviously missing? Just think about it. It's probably the most important question we have for life and death of whether we would do it. And there's no poll to show what the popularity is. Do you know why there's no poll? I'm just guessing it wouldn't be popular.

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Now, I think the answer to the poll has everything to do with how you ask it. So if you say something like, do you think we should bomb the nuclear sites? You'll get like 56% will say, yeah, probably we should. We don't want them to have a nuke. But if you ask the question this way, should we attack Iran or rely only on diplomacy? you would end up with almost nobody saying attack Iran.

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They'd say, well, diplomacy, obviously, you know, as if diplomacy is going to work. But I would be very curious why there's such an obvious lack of polling on such a vital question. My guess is that there's quite an organized, let's say organized effort to suppress some points of view and to boost others. That would be my guess. According to J.D.

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Vance, there's some kind of India trade deal coming, but the way he words it makes it sound like it isn't. So if you read the headlines kind of quickly, you'd say to yourself, whoa, looks like India and the United States are going to have a trade agreement really fast, and that could be really good because it would calm markets and it would maybe get us

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get something going where the other country is going to board faster. But here's what J.D. Vance says. He says the U.S. and India have officially finalized the terms of reference for the trade agreement, trade negotiation. The terms of reference? I've never even heard that term. They're going to finalize? They've officially finalized the terms of reference.

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I think that what that means is they've decided how they're going to talk about it, Or what's in and what's out? I don't even know what it means. But I'll tell you what it doesn't mean. It doesn't mean that you're close to a deal. This is signaling to me that they want to make it sound like they're close to a deal, but they're not close to a deal. You wouldn't use that terms.

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You wouldn't say they finally is the terms of reference. You'd say we almost have a deal, something like that. Well, apparently, speaking of deals, there's a massive Chevron project that looks like it's going to go forward in the Gulf of America. So there's a gigantic oil and natural gas reserve there. And Chevron's going to go after it, 75,000 gross barrels of oil daily.

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So everybody in the family is dressed casually, as you would for an Easter event. But then in the back, there's this little stiff image of Joe Biden wearing a suit and tie. On Easter? Do you think he wore a suit and tie in his own house on Easter? It's so obviously Photoshopped. It's hilarious. Anyway, you have to see it. I guess I couldn't find a good picture of him with a casual shirt on.

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So Breitbart is reporting on this. Now, does it seem to you that maybe everything will depend on our energy business? Because it's the only thing that you could scale up that has massive dollars involved with it. So maybe we could massively scale up our energy production And maybe that would help our GDP enough to take a bite out of our debt. Maybe.

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Doesn't seem like enough by itself, but it's good to hear it. Well, according to the Postmillennial, Trump met with the CEOs of Target, Walmart, Lowe's, and Home Depot talking about the tariffs. And one of the things that caught my mind is that CNBC apparently said,

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that Walmart might be in better shape than the others because around two-thirds of what the company sells is made, grown, or assembled in America. Two-thirds? Does that seem like high to you? That two-thirds of Walmart's products are made, grown, or assembled in America? I think there might be a trick in that number. And the trick might be it includes assembled products.

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assembled means you're getting the parts probably from somewhere else. Could that be China? So I don't believe these numbers at all. I think it's all too complicated to know what percentage. Anyway, so that's happening. According to interesting engineering, some scientists have figured out how to extract rare earth minerals from hard drives.

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So if you've got an old hard drive that you're recycling, They can now stick it in some juice and take out the rare earth minerals. Now, I don't know how much they can get from hard drives, but they can get most of what's in there. So they can get about, I don't know, 90% or something of all the rare earth minerals that are already in there. So that can be a big deal.

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Apparently, the US gets half of its rare earth minerals from China. How long would it take to figure out how to use recycling to get that half taken care of? I don't know if that's doable. That's probably a big number.

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According to TSMC, the big chip maker out of Taiwan, Ars Technica is reporting that there's no way really they can keep China from getting the good chips because I guess the world is too complicated. So once they sell their chips, they can't control where it ends up. So they're basically warning us, we can't really control China not getting the chips.

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So apparently we have a situation where China can definitely control whether we get the rare earth minerals, but we can't control whether they get high-end chips. So that's not perfect. Anyway, China's also ending private equity investments in the United States. The government told their private equity investment people stop investing in the U.S. It looks like it's happening. I saw this in the

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Go buy Issa a letter. Kobayashi. But there's also something in the Kobayashi account that struck me as interesting. Now, I can't guarantee that these claims are accurate, but here are six things that the Kobayashi account says. Stocks, and remember, this is not about today specifically, it's in general. Stocks are falling like the trade war is escalating, but the U.S.

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dollar is falling like trade dealers are near. Oil prices are falling like rate cuts are not coming. Gold prices are rising like rate cuts are on the way. Tech stocks are falling like we're entering a recession. Treasury yields are rising like the economy is strong. Now, I don't know about any of those claims. Some of them look sketchy to me.

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But the bottom line is that the market has no idea what to do. But I'm not sure how big a problem that is. Because if you don't know where to put your money,

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It's just gonna sort of slosh around in the usual places So if you took some of your stock market money and put it in gold You might end up moving it back into the stock market later So it feels like just stuff is just sloshing around in the usual places It's not leaving the United States except for the Chinese investments. So I do wonder if how much of a risk we're really at with this chaos.

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You know, nobody knows what to do, but nobody ever knows what to do. I mean, maybe what's different is that we know we don't know. There's never been a time when you could be sure that your investments in anything were going to be good, right? Has that ever existed? No. We've had the illusion of predictability. We've never had predictability.

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Nobody knows what the stock market is going to do next year or in five years. Never have. But suddenly we're acting like it's a new situation. Oh, suddenly we don't know what's going to happen with everything. No, that was always the case. We never knew what was going to happen with anything. We just talked ourselves into thinking we knew. We don't. We have no idea what's going to happen.

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So you know that Tesla vandal? His name was Dylan Adams, no relations. But apparently he vandalized at least six Tesla vehicles in Minneapolis, and he will not be going to jail. So they caught him, and they know he vandalized six vehicles for something like $20,000 in damage collectively. But he's going to be Instead of prosecution, he'll be up for a diversion program. A diversion program.

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Anyway, I've been watching the Trump versus Powell head of the Federal Reserve. And, you know, I have to admit that it didn't seem wise for Trump to go after him because it's just going to harden his stance and he's just going to get mad and won't do anything he wants.

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But I do agree with Trump that it would be the right time to lower interest rates and get out of the tariffs because the tariffs... are gonna have some drag on the economy, but lowering interest rates would boost the economy. So if you're doing a major play with tariffs, wouldn't it be exactly the right time to do a little boosting on interest rates?

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Even if it's just a little bit, just directionally. The stock market would come roaring back, etc. So I feel like Trump has the right instincts on this. That if he can't control the interest rates, Trump, and Powell does, that he doesn't have all the mechanisms he needs to make everything work. So I think a lot depends on whether you can convince Powell to lower interest rates.

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Now, Trump is accusing Powell of always being too late and also helping Harris and Biden by coincidentally lowering rates or something when it was a key political time to do that. So I don't know about that. But it turns out that O'Keefe Media Group, OMG, just got a brand new video of a Fed economist who was describing Jerome Powell's legacy as, quote, somebody who held the line against Trump.

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And he said that the Fed under Powell began focusing on wealth inequality and climate change. Holy cow. Is that true? That Powell will be most known for resisting Trump as opposed to doing the right thing? And wealth inequality and climate change? How much impact does he have on any of that stuff? that is really scary. It just makes him look incompetent, doesn't it?

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If he's worrying about anything except his main job, he needs to be fired. But apparently there's, I don't think there's any legal way to fire him. I think Trump's looking into it, but I suspect there isn't. And maybe it's a good thing. I don't know.

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so uh ron johnson republican um he's decided an interview recently that he's interested in having uh hearings on september 11th and the the terrorist attacks and indicating he's listening to um basically stories that suggest that 9 11 wasn't what you thought it was but here's how the hill refers to it all right so this is the hill they said uh

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and indicated that he's been listening to long festering and debunked conspiracy theories about the government's alleged involvement. Now, who says that? If you're The Hill and you're a writer for The Hill, do you know what is long debunked? You may have seen a debunk, but you may have also seen other claims. How do you know the debunk is better than the claim? Are you a structural engineer?

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Or are you just a writer who is being influenced by who knows who to act like it's just a done deal, it's a conspiracy theory, everything's debunked? I don't think we live in that world anymore, do we? Now, my own view is that I don't have any specific conspiracy theory beliefs about 9-11. But I do believe that 100% of our history is fake. I just don't know which part of 9-11 is fake.

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Definitely some part of it is fake. Would you agree? But we don't know which parts. It could be that the buildings fell naturally. But that maybe somebody else was involved in the op that we don't know about. It could be anything. But I'll tell you what you shouldn't say in 2025 if you want to be credible. You shouldn't say that something is a debunked conspiracy theory.

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Because debunked doesn't mean anything anymore. Do you know what was also debunked? A lot of things that were true. So, you know, when I see an article that says something's debunked, I automatically go, hmm, it sounds like propaganda. That doesn't sound like news. News would be, it's a highly contentious question, but experts have said that there's nothing to it. That would be fair.

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But to say it's debunked? No, too far, too far. Well, apparently the Kremlin is happy about Trump administration saying that they don't want Ukraine to be a member of NATO ever. And so they're happy about that. But they're waiting. I guess we're waiting for Zelenskyy. to respond to a package of proposals to see if there's anything there.

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Now, I've said this before, but there's something weird about this. If Trump gave away the option of NATO, that would be very un-Trump-like. He should keep that as a negotiating chip and make a deal in which it's part of the larger deal. But if he gives it away first and then he starts negotiating... Why would you give away that leverage? Seems weird. That's called negotiating with yourself.

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Yeah, that'll fix him. I assume he's also paying to repair the cars? Don't you think that should be part of it? Because I would hate to think that the owner has to repair the car, but the perpetrator gets a diversion program? I don't know. We'll have to wait on that. This one's weird. Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, she got robbed in a restaurant.

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Where somebody says, well, do you have a better offer? And then you just go back and improve your offer. Never do that. You should wait for them to make an offer. Then maybe you could meet them in the middle. But you never want to just say, here's that thing you want. Now let's start negotiating. So there's something about this I don't understand.

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So there may be more of a secret agreements that we don't know about yet that later we'll know about. So we'll see. According to interesting engineering, there's now an invention that's a rice-sized micro robot that they can insert into your brain and it can crawl around through your brain and fix it.

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So if you've got issues in your brain, they can put this tiny little robot the size of rice in it, and it will just like, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, and it will find its way. It uses rotating silicone rings to gently part brain tissue without causing cellular damage. It's a French startup. I'm going to say I don't want to go first. Yeah, I don't want to go first.

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So if somebody else would like to try that out, I welcome you. And after 10 million people have done it successfully, I might try it. Might try it if I had any brain problems. Well, speaking of robots, there's now an invention of a robot nose. This is also interesting engineering. So there's been a development of a nose that can, let's see who did this. In Japan, I guess, a Japanese company.

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They built a mechanical nose that can identify a whole bunch of different smells. Now, I've been saying for many years that if robots could learn to smell, it's going to be a whole new world. Because imagine what a robot could smell. We don't know how good it would be. But if they got it to the point where it's like a bloodhound,

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the robot could come into a crime scene and it could even identify who was there just by the smell so you know imagine the robot goes into the crime scene just sniffs everything including the victim but it's got some extra smells then when they find the potential perp The robot just smells them. Said, oh yeah, that's the same smell that was in that room. They're guilty.

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So I don't know how far this robot smelling stuff can go, but it could be fun. Well, I've seen a million articles about how the gut microbiome affects all kinds of behaviors and conditions. But there's a very small trial, according to the New Atlas, that found out that Fecal transplants can reduce the symptoms of autism.

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Now it doesn't cure it, of course, but apparently there's some substantial decrease in symptoms. So they're going to move to phase three human trials. So apparently this whole microbiome thing, one way to think of it is that your stomach and your brain are one unit. If you don't have the microbiome right, the brain doesn't work right.

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So I've always said that your body is your brain, but most specifically, probably your gut. So when you have a gut feeling about something, Probably real. According to Korea Biomedical Review, I'm not sure I believe anything that's coming out of South Korea science, but they've got an AI now that they say can identify ADHD with 97% accuracy by looking at your retinal imaging.

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So it can look at your eyeball and it can tell if you have ADHD. Do you believe that? Oh, I don't know. I feel like it might be a way to get more ADHD patients to give them drugs or something. I'm not sure I believe that you can identify ADHD through an eyeball. I don't believe it. But maybe. Maybe. All right. I told you it was a bunch of weird little stories today. That's all I got for you.

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If anything big happens, we'll talk about it tomorrow. But I'm going to talk to the Locals people privately a little bit. And the rest of you, thanks for coming. I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place, if you're on X or Rumble or YouTube. All right, Locals, coming at you in 30 seconds privately.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a steiner, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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So somebody with a surgical mask came by and grabbed her purse. And even though she has Secret Service, they got away. How bad is your Secret Service if somebody could get close enough to the Department of Homeland Security head to grab their purse And then they can also get clean away. That's not really good secret servicing, is it?

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But the thing that's getting everybody's attention is that the contents of the purse allegedly include $3,000 in cash. How many of you carry $3,000 in cash with you just casually? I don't think I ever have. I don't think there's one time in my entire life I've had $3,000 in cash on my body. I don't have a purse. And it makes me wonder what the denominations of the money are.

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Like when you open the purse, is it all a bunch of ones and it's just filled with cash? Or is it a bunch of hundreds in neat little packages? And why does anybody need $3,000 in cash if they're a top government official? Is it for tipping? If it's for tipping, I don't think a receipt care service is going to get a tip. I think they lost their tip. Anyway, that's weird.

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You would not be surprised to learn that remember LeBron James endorsed Kamala Harris? Well, the endorsement was followed quickly by the Kamala Harris campaign giving $50,000 to his campaign event production company, I guess, some production company. So I don't think LeBron James made money, but the production of his little video endorsing her looks like it was paid for by Kamilaris.

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So LeBron's a good negotiator, I guess. It makes you wonder how much of Kamala Harris's support was ever real versus how much was just pure anti-Trump and it didn't matter what she did or what she said. I don't know. So there was an organization called Check My Ads that's closing up because they lost their funding. Now, Check My Ads, according to Mike Benz,

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who's the expert on all this censorship stuff, says that Check My Odds is a Soros censorship group formed for the sole and exclusive purpose of bankrupting heterodox media. Heterodox, meaning people that don't agree with the mainstream. And the way they would do that was they'd go after the advertisers so that the entity they didn't like would get starved of money.

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But it turns out that the CheckMyAds people were starved of money themselves. And so they had to close. Not enough money. But here's my question. You know, I've been listening to Mike Benz enough to know that there are just countless NGOs and this whole censorship thing is not just domestic, it's international, but it affects the United States.

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And how many entities are there whose entire job is to censor heterodox opinions? Because I'm wondering if it's hundreds. Is it a dozen? I really wonder the number because I've never heard of this one before until they closed. So who knows? All right. This next story has to be mentioned, but I might leave out some details. How many of you have already seen the news about Kanye West?

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It's going to happen right now. Go. Exquisite. Well, the news is all kind of small and weird today.

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You made a little bit of news today. I'm not even sure how to describe it. But if you saw it, you know why it's difficult to describe. So let's just say that when he was under 14, between the ages of 6 and 14, he had a male cousin, and they were very close. That's all I'm going to say.

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Now, Ye is very direct about what he was doing with that male cousin, so I'm not going to say it, but he sure knows how to get attention, doesn't he? If you haven't seen the story, I'll just refer you to the news. You can Google it, and it'll pop right up. If you don't want to see something that might offend you, don't do it. Don't do it. If you're sensitive, don't do it.

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But, yeah, that's the funniest little story today. You know, on one hand, I appreciate his transparency. It does seem to me that if people have been in that kind of situation, and there's not exactly one like that, but people have been in situations where, you know, there were children and something went terribly wrong in that domain. I'm being as general as I can.

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I feel like it's good for them to go public. On the other hand, you'll always see him that way. I'll never be able to look at EA again and not think of this story every single time. So there's that. So RFK Jr. is making his move to get rid of artificial food dyes. Can we maybe stop making this news? Is this like the fifth or sixth time I've told you he's going to get rid of food dyes.

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But I guess he's close to making it happen now. So we'll see. I also wonder, you know, it's one thing for RFK Jr. to be getting rid of stuff that's dangerous for us and Europe doesn't allow it. But I wonder if he's focusing on getting rid of stuff, additives to our food, that make it impossible for us to sell our food in Europe and other places. So that would be the win-win, right?

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To get rid of the stuff that might be dangerous, but also to open up markets because Europe would have to say, okay, I guess we can buy your food now. Because Europe always plays the game of, oh, you got some extra stuff in there. I don't know about that. We can't buy that. It's more of a protectionist thing, I think. Well, Harvard is going to sue the government.

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They are suing the government over the funding freeze because they say it's unlawful and beyond the government's authority. So the president of Harvard is saying that if the government normally would have given them $9 billion, that freezing it is illegal. To which I say, I'm no lawyer. But does the government have to give you $9 billion? Under what situation would they have to do it?

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It seems like that should be optional just by its very nature. $9 billion? Now, do they have some kind of contract? Because it's not mentioned. If they had a contract, then I would say the government should have to perform to the contract. But I don't think so. I think they just want their money and the government doesn't want to give it to them. So what kind of case is that?

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I guess we'll find out. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend watching an interview, and I didn't catch the name of the interviewer, but there's a gentleman who I'm guessing is a Democrat, and he's got long dark hair, and he's doing a really good job of interviewing Elizabeth Warren and asking her, did she really not notice that Biden was declining in mental acuity?

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Most of the stories aren't that big, but they're all kind of interesting and weird, so we'll have some fun today. Well, according to the New York Times, the White House is trying to figure out how to persuade Americans to get married and have more kids, because if we don't, all of America will be destroyed by lack of birth rate. Some ideas that are floating would be $5,000 baby bonus.

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Now you have to watch it because she's lying so poorly that it's hilarious. So he asked, this was one of the questions. So we had a few follow-ups. He said, do you think he was as sharp as you? Which is a clever way to put it. And she actually had to stifle a laugh. do you think he was as sharp as you? And she's like, oh. Now, we don't know what she was thinking.

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So she might have been thinking it was just a clever question, and she laughed. But it made it look like her answer was a little less credible. And then she said, quote, I said I had not seen his decline. He was sharp and on his feet. And then the questioner quite rightly says, that's sort of faint praise, isn't it? That he was sharp and on his feet. Would you say that about anybody else?

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The news is pretty weird today. Come on, technology.

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Is there anybody else in the world that you would give him credit for being standing up? And she laughed when he called her out because she knew that basically she was totally nailed. So she's a terrible liar. And said she didn't notice the difference between 2021 Biden and 2024. But of course, everybody did. So I always recommend when you know somebody's lying, because you don't always know.

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Sometimes you think, well, that's what they believe. You know, I don't believe it's true, but they believe it's true. But sometimes you know they're lying. And that's where you can learn how to spot liars. So I would recommend that you watch it just to learn. Look at the body language. Look at her reactions. And it's just so obvious she's lying.

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And I think that she's lying so obviously that she's amusing herself. I feel like she was actually laughing at her own answers because they're so ridiculous. Of course everybody knew he was declining. Well, Larry David, actor, I guess you'd call him actor, writer, Larry David, I guess he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times slamming Bill Maher for having dinner with Trump.

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And the title of the article is My Dinner with Adolf. Now, did he really need to do that? Was that necessary? To me, that's just so over the line, you know, of policing his own side and saying you can't talk to people. So over the line, completely over the line. The Republicans don't do that, do they? Although I have seen people in the comments do that.

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Don't have any connection with these darn Democrats. I think that's always the wrong impulse. But it makes me wonder how many of the Trump hoaxes Larry David fell for. Do you want to make a bet that he believes the fine people hoax? I'll bet you. Do you want to make a bet that he believes 18 out of 20 of the top Trump hoaxes? I bet he does.

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So that would be the challenge I would give to Larry David. Do you even know what's happening? Do you have any idea that you're living in this weird little bubble that's completely artificial? Well, the Democrats are trying to make something out of this MS-13 alleged Maryland dad. And so the Democrats spin on it is that Trump is starting with this guy. He's not a citizen.

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Stuff's looking good. Let's call up the comments and we'll give you a show. Boy, you're going to love it. First full show of the Golden Age, if you don't count yesterday. All right. Got your locals' comments working. Done right there. Perfect. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Bum-bum-bum-bum. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

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How do you do that much stuff in any one day? Anyway, we'll talk, of course, about the inauguration and all the politics, but while people are streaming in to find the live stream here, I want to tell you about a paralyzed man who, using some technology, has learned to fly a virtual drone with his mind using some breakthrough brain implants.

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People like Adam Schiff are on video records saying that he's never heard of anybody getting a pardon unless they were guilty. And then Schiff gets a pardon. Then Jamie Raskin, who's the funniest of all the weasels, so he's asked on an interview, are you going to accept the pardon? Because if you accept the pardon... that's an acknowledgement that you're guilty. Or people would see it that way.

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It's not an acknowledgement that you're guilty. It's not that at all. But it would be seen that way. So Raskin doesn't want to give his enemies that easy win by accepting it. So he's hired a lawyer himself to find out if you have to accept it. In other words, could he use it if he needed it without accepting it? Now, I also wonder...

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And he said, we think it might be just a matter of public record that if it's just sitting out there, then nobody's going to challenge you because the pardon's just sitting there. What I don't know is they don't expire, do they? Does a pardon expire? Because if it doesn't expire, and it seems like it wouldn't, because it's meant to be forever, so why would there be an expiration date on it?

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If it doesn't expire, you don't have to accept it, right? You can just wait until it's necessary. And then if anybody tried to go after you, you'd say, you know, I have this pardon sitting here, which I haven't accepted, but it hasn't expired. Why would you put a case together against me when I can just accept this pardon anytime I want? So I have a genuine question about that.

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Do they have to accept it? My common sense tells me it would be a permanent offer and nothing would take it away because you can't undo a pardon. right? The whole point of a pardon is you can't undo it. So Raskin might have a little weasel escape there, which is kind of clever. Joy Reid turned into an election denier.

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I mean, this is just so good, watching the complete destruction of the Democrat Party, that all they could come up with was a Ruppar hoax, Joy Reid being an election denier. And some of their strongest players arguing about whether they should or should not accept a pardon for all their many behaviors in the past. That's as hard as you can lose. You can't lose any harder than that.

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Anyway, so Joy Reid actually said on some kind of podcast thing. that she thinks that there was voter suppression that helped get Trump elected, and voter suppression would be rigging an election, according to her. But now she also says, and this is just blowing my mind, they even talk about stealing an election, and it's making me rethink whether I do believe election machines can be hacked.

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Because I've always been like, you can't hack the election machines, but they're convincing me. Now, Joy Reid... I don't know how fucking dumb you are, but election machines are machines. Did you ever think they couldn't be hacked? I mean, you could argue that they haven't been or that you haven't seen any evidence of it. Perfectly reasonable. But to argue that a digital machine can't be hacked?

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Who told you that? Where did you even come up with the idea that it couldn't be hacked? I've got a better question for you, Joy. Can you describe why there are electronic voting machines? Why do they exist? Are they faster? Not really. I mean, in terms of the total result. Are they cheaper? Couldn't be. Are they easier? Of course not.

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So I guess the implants read what would have been commands to his digits, his fingers, and instead of sending it to his fingers, it sends it directly to control the drone. So a person who's totally paralyzed can now fly a drone. I mean, it's in the lab, but oh, wait, I have an update. The guy who is paralyzed and learned to fly the virtual drone.

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You'd have all the maintenance and you'd have to hire special people. No, there's not a single argument for why they exist, except that they're hackable. Now, I would love to be wrong about that. So if somebody knows more than I do, and they can tell me, oh, Scott, you're so dumb. There's a perfectly good reason why machines are part of the process. And I will tell you immediately if I hear that.

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I've been asking this question for years, and not a single person has offered me any potential reason why they exist, except for the purpose of rigging an election. But the only purpose. Now, I could be wrong. So I can't say that as a fact, and I don't want some company to sue me. I'm just saying that if there's no other reason, what are you left to assume?

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So Joy Reid is just coming around to the real world that machines are hackable. Doesn't mean they were, but they're potentially hackable. Anyway, that's funny. Let's see, who else? Mark Milley got a pardoned.

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Now, he was a general during the January 6th stuff, and Mike Benz has been saying for some time that when the January 6th thing is fully explored, that General Milley is going to have a lot of explaining to do. Now, I don't know the details of what Benz knows or speculates about that, but Benz has a really good nose for this stuff and a good track record.

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And if he says that there might be something to look at here, I'm going to pay a little extra attention because credibility matters. And he's built like a really good set of credible takes so far. So if you're not listening to Benz, you're missing really the whole show. But he did a little victory lap on X saying, there it is. Why would he even need a pardon?

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And the speculation is that it's not a coincidence that he needs a pardon. Now, I think, but I don't know, that the speculation is January 6th was an engineered event, or partially engineered, and partially chaos, and that the engineered part may have some people who were in charge of the engineering.

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And if that's true, it would be hard to imagine that Milley wasn't part of a small number of decision-makers involved who may have engineered something, if anything was engineered, if it was. It looks like it was, but we don't know that for sure. Fauci got a pardon?

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I watched Buck Sexton on the Sean Ryan show saying that he thought Fauci is a protected guy, almost like a mafia made man, highest paid person in the government, highest paid person in the government, the whole government, which is big. I don't know if you've heard this, but the government employs a lot of people. He was number one in pay. But he does seem untouchable. We don't know why.

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But if it's true that he was behind gain-of-function testing in a lab, do you think that's just something he came up with on his own? Do you think he was sitting around with some scientists and said, let's start a lab where we do these really dangerous things? You don't think he had a little bit of intelligence, CIA, some kind of umbrella for the project? I don't know.

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I don't know one way or another, but I'll tell you one thing. I don't think he's ever going to jail. The pardon should take care of it. But even if, let's say, the state of Florida, which is also going after Fauci, here's my prediction. that if Florida succeeded in putting Fauci in some actual legal jeopardy, that something would step in. Because if he's protected, he's protected.

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He's been kidnapped by the Ukrainians and sent to the front line. Wait, I have a second update. He's dead. All right, well, forget about that story. That's kind of embarrassing. And let's move it on. Last night, as you know, last night, President Trump had three balls. He still has three balls today, which is the only way I can explain Barron. How do you have a child who's six foot nine?

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It would be for everything. So I'm going to predict that the Florida work against him doesn't succeed. But when it's done, you might say to yourself, oh, but it was just some legal reason. Is it? Is it? We'll see. The January 6th committee, they got their pardons. Kinzinger says he doesn't need no pardon, which is another example of how dumb he is.

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If somebody offers you a pardon and you're innocent, you should take the pardon. Because why would you put yourself at risk of some big legal case? It just seems like bad judgment on his part to not take it. But again, it could be that he doesn't have to say yes or no. It could be just out there if he wants it.

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So in that case, if that's true, that he doesn't have to accept it, then it's just good politics to say, I don't need no pardon, so I won't take it. But he could take it later. Nothing's stopping him. Benny Johnson said, yes, I'll take that pardon. I don't know if Liz Cheney's taken hers yet. Well,

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Here's a thing I love about the Trump administration that I think is different from every other administration. I've said this before, but it's applicable at the moment. The Trump administration is what I call a team participation administration. Trump, more than any president I'm aware of in my lifetime, can read the room.

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He's looking at all the pundits, the podcasters, the opinion people, and he is really just continually vacuuming up ideas. And how do you get to, did he have 200 executive orders? Was there a final number on that? At one point he said 200, but did he reach that? I don't know. But he had massive numbers. Now, do you think that those were all things he sat down and thought up himself?

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No, of course not. They would come from advisors and some from himself, some from advisors. But probably the advisors themselves couldn't come up with 200. So probably they also were searching from other sources, other smart people, to see what things needed to be done. So when you look at what Trump does with his executive orders, it's almost certainly bubbled up from the bottom.

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None of it looks like top down. Every bit of it looks like populist, bubbled up. There might have been one person who said something smart, got onto the list, made it all the way to the executive order. That's the way it works. And I don't think that works on the Democrat side. I think that's all top-down. Three or four people decide what they're going to do, and then they tell you.

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So believing as I do that that is actually an ongoing system that the Trump administration employs better than it's ever been employed, just the best application of this of all time, now partly because the technology allows it, right? If we didn't have social media, this wouldn't be really possible. But I've got a specific topic that applies to this.

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Trump is going to be visiting the Pacific Palisades area, the Southern California fire area. I'm a little unclear on the date because I've heard two different dates. I may have misheard one of them, but it's either today or sometime later in the week, but soon. So regardless of when it is, whether it's today or another day, he's going to be down there.

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I don't know if he's going to tie that to his announcement of some massive infrastructure project that he's going to announce today. It might be related to the fire damage in North Carolina as well as, or the storm damage in North Carolina and other places, as well as California. We'll see if the infrastructure is about that or something else. But here's my suggestion.

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If there's anybody on the Trump team who's reading my ex posts or listening to this, here's my idea. When Trump goes to the Palisades, the person who needs to be on that team, obviously lots of people will be there with him no matter what he does. But probably the key person I would recommend would be Joel Pollack, senior editor at large at Breitbart, because his house is there.

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which actually, believe it or not, has survived. Nobody can move in, of course, but his house survived. He's got some amazing stories. He's been on the ground since the beginning of the fire, and he knows the most locally because he's a resident, and he's talked to more residents than I would guess anybody in the world at this point.

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You've got to have three testicles. If you tell me there's another way to get that done, maybe, but I can't see what it would be. So I think he had three balls last night, probably three balls all the time. Totally seems normal. It's the greatest inauguration ever, and at least that question can be put to bed. Do you ever wake up and say to yourself, huh?

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And he has the greatest context and understanding of the state's failures, even before the fire. He was all over a lot of the context for the water, the water availability, etc., And he has some specific suggestions that are very grounded in the real world of what their problems are and what can be done with California, as well as locally, I suppose. So that's my suggestion.

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We'll see if this works. If you're wondering why Joel is such a good person to have on it, take a look at his book, It's called The Agenda. This came out over the summer. What Trump should do in his first hundred days. It was a book of just fast suggestions, you know, just the simplest little suggestion without a ton of explanation to say, do this executive order, do this executive order.

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I saw somebody this morning who said they read through Joel's book of what Trump should do on day one. and compared it to what he actually did on day one. And there's about a one-third or more overlap. So they're definitely on the same page. And the number one person he needs to put on his team is Joel Pollack. They know how to find him. I mean, his team can find him. They know him.

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Anyway, don't get that wrong. That would be a big mistake to not have him on the team when Trump visits. I have a question about executive orders. How many of those executive orders are legal? And do we even care? Now, my understanding of executive orders is very simplistic, so I might be completely off on this, but 201 executive orders? Somebody said 49? I'm seeing different numbers. Okay.

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But I thought an executive order is applicable when there's some law in existence and it just needs to be interpreted. So not quite a court interpretation, but for example, if there's a law that says boys can do this and girls can do something else, the government might just say, well, there are only two genders. because that's a way to simplify the law that exists. It's just a clarification.

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And likewise, if it's some national defense thing, maybe the executive order says, yes, they should be included in things that are national defense. Completely reasonable. So there's a whole bunch of executive order things that we would all understand as just normal business. But I don't know if all of them are. I don't think all of them fall into the clean little executive order.

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And I don't think this is just about Trump. I think there's been some drift over time with various presidents about what an executive order is. Now, I'm no expert, so this is just my non-legal, non-constitutional impression of it. But what I saw, we'll talk about some of them, but one of them was One of the executive orders is titled people over a fish.

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And that somehow Trump wants to override some environmental thing in California that would limit the release of water because doing so would be bad for a fish, which apparently doesn't even exist in the affected area. So people over a fish. First of all, can I say that's the funniest name for an executive order of all time?

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And it's perfect framing because the executive order shouldn't have been necessary unless somebody put fish over people, which is what happened. So he's coming in as the common sense president. The unifier is the common sense part. And he just says, people over fish. How do you beat that? How do you beat people over fish?

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I wonder who had the most entertaining and awesome inauguration. You don't have to wonder that anymore. This was the greatest inauguration that will ever be seen in American history. Nobody's going to top that. I just don't even think it's possible. I mean, you could add some spectacle. You could have some lions killing some Christians or something.

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Come on, that's the best name of an executive order, of all executive orders of all time, and I don't even want to hear the other applicants because I'm going to say, nice try. People over fish is the best executive order name of all time. And that was, again, to release water into Southern California.

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So the question that I have is, if California is the one that ruled that this shouldn't be done, can the federal government just say, It should be done, and then they do it. Is that how anything works? Or, here's the fun part.

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What I wonder is, is the country so beaten up by ridiculous government that if Trump says anything of common sense and puts it into an executive order, nobody's going to push back? Is that possible? Because who wants to sue him to prove that fish over people is a better idea? I don't. Is there somebody who wants to take a run at that?

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Now, by the way, there are going to be all kinds of lawsuits on all the executive orders, but I don't think they're necessarily going to be on the ones that are pure common sense, like people over fish. So I wonder if as long as he stays with something that no reasonable person could argue with, he can just say, do this, as long as it's transparent.

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And, you know, if it gets challenged in the courts and he respects the court's decision, I'm kind of fine with it. So I would prefer that he goes a little too far in executing his power, as long as it's transparent and as long as it's challengeable in the court, and it is. So, yeah, the leadership I want is all the common sense you can give me, and we'll work out the details later.

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Let's just start moving on common sense. and see how far it gets us. So besides people who are a fish, he ended DEI in government, which I hope just becomes impossible for corporations to keep their DEI when the government says it's illegal and gets rid of theirs. I just don't know how the corporations can take the risk in the long term. So I think they're going to fold.

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Trump said there are only two genders. So it used to be that there are two sexes, which is mostly about your DNA and your stuff. But people would say, yes, but regardless of my physicality, my mind is the other gender. And Trump just said, nope, there's two. Now, I have mixed feelings about this. Mixed feelings, but a strong opinion that he's on strong territory to do it. But my mixed opinion is,

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I do think there are a lot of trans folks who are in a sensitive situation. And I don't like being disrespectful. But on the other hand, given the total number of trans people in the world and the massive amount of complications having more than two sexes causes to society in general,

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I mean, you could amp up the energy, but you couldn't make it better. It was just the greatest thing I've ever seen in one day. And the funny thing is, I watched it for hours. I just couldn't stop watching. You know, I skipped over some of the musical stuff and whatever, but I watched everything that had anything to do with Trump. And how do I do that when I can't watch a movie?

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I'd love to see the trans people have the bathroom that makes them feel comfortable without violating the executive order. So I wish there was a little more attention to maybe private bathrooms, at least one, at least one private bathroom for every large office building. If you had to go down a floor to use the bathroom, it wouldn't be the worst problem.

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So I do think a little bit of accommodation, which we do anyway for handicapped people, although obviously this is not the same as handicap. But I also agree, I agree that, that the many, many different genders thing is almost certainly more about mental health. But I wouldn't lump everybody in the same basket. I think that's too far.

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There's got to be special cases where people are just, hey, I'm unique, not like other people. So I'd like to see some accommodation, but not the accommodation of imagining that there are lots of different sexes or genders. So I'm on board with this one. I'm just acknowledging that not everything's free.

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Sometimes these are good for most of us, but bad for some of us, and I think that needs to be pointed out, even if you're sure that it's the right decision, which I am. Trump ended birthright citizenship, which will cause a lot of screaming, and the Democrats will forget to mention that no country except us has it.

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And they'll say, but it's right here in the, they're already saying, it's right here written in the Constitution. But of course, the constitutional scholars will tell you that's not what it meant. That the originalists will say, but that's not the reason it's there. It's not so people can put one foot in America and have a baby and it's an American. That's not the point of it.

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So I don't know if that'll stand, but I agree with it. The government is no longer going to be involved in censoring free speech, which would be pressuring social media companies as well as funding external entities that are mostly to pressure the same social media and other people. So that's good. And I feel a tremendous weight lifted by that.

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I'm pretty sure that the anti-free speech people are a big part of what took me down. He's withdrawing from the World Health Organization, pointing out that China pays much less per capita than we do. And you might see that as a negotiation. The way Trump set it up, I think that's just his first offer. His first offer is, how about zero money? And we'll do without you. Wait, wait, wait.

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We don't need hundreds of millions. Maybe we only need 40 million from you. And then Trump will say, huh. Well, that's closer to what China pays, but China is much bigger in population, and health is about individual health. So we should pay like a fourth of what China pays, and then they'll be somewhere in the middle. So I feel like this is just perfect Trump.

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Am I sure that we should pull out of the World Health Organization? Well, I'm sure I don't want to pay for it, If there's something valuable that I don't know about that Trump can get for $40 million or $20 million instead of hundreds of millions, yeah, maybe revisit. Better make a better offer. Meanwhile, the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed to the Gulf of America.

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Now, there's a rumor online that I don't believe that there was a clever way to get around the fact that there's some kind of existing ban on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. So the rumor goes, and I'm not buying this at all, the rumor goes that changing the name of it would allow everybody to drill there because then they're not drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Like a two-hour movie would be completely out of the question, but I'm just like riveted to this thing. Anyway, only Trump can do that. So let's get into it. You've heard most of the things, but it's still enjoyable to hear them again if you've heard them once because they're so delicious, they're so provocative, they're so interesting, and there's so many of them. It's just remarkable.

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Now, I'm no lawyer, but I can't see that possibly holding up in court. When everybody knows what the Gulf of Mexico means and changing the name won't make any difference. So it's a fun rumor for people who don't know how anything works. But the way anything works is, no, the ban would still hold. It's not tied to the name. It's tied to the location, not the name.

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Trump's ordering the federal workers back to the office because almost all of them work at home since the pandemic. Now, have you ever wondered why? Why is he ordering them back? So ordering them back is going to lower their take-home pay because they have to commute. It's going to make their day terrible because they have to commute. They might have to get child care because they have to commute.

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They might need to board their dog because they have to commute. And are they necessarily doing less work at home than they would have in the office? Maybe. Maybe. So Elon Musk described it as it's only fair because the people who have manufacturing jobs and blue-collar stuff, they all go to work. So his sense of fairness says everybody who has a job should go to the office, go to work.

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Now, that doesn't make sense to me. I really don't follow that logic. Everybody has to go to the office. But here's what I think might be happening. Cat's on the roof. All right, let's rank the best situation in the world to worst. The best situation in the world would be not only to have a job, but one you could work at home if you like working at home, and apparently the federal workers do.

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The best case, working at home, nice job. Second best, nice job, but you have to go to the office. Below that, no job. Do you see the cat in the roof? The cat in the roof is when you gradually give somebody the bad news. No, what do you mean fire you? No, we're just saying you should work in the office like other people.

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And then people will come into the office and they'll be like, I hate this job, I hate this job. And then you can watch which ones are productive because they're closer. And you can figure out who to fire because you can just directly observe whether they're working or not. So I think bringing him in the office is step one to figuring out which ones to fire. That would be my guess.

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So I think his cat's on the roof. And let's see, what else? So part of the executive orders were freeing almost all of the January Sixers, there's a big controversy because some of them weren't released last night. Now there's some question about which ones will be released today. But I think we're in serious fog of war territory there. My guess is that it was just a MLK day, short staffing.

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It's nighttime. People went home. They just had to wait till today. So I think that Waiting until today was probably the solution. I hope, because keeping them in jail one more night after they knew that they would be freed is just unforgivable to me. But he did not pardon 100% of them, which means that there was some consideration to the special damage that some people did, I assume.

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But he did free two people who had very long sentences, the head of the Oath Keepers, the head of the Proud Boys. So they were both found guilty of seditious conspiracy and other offenses. Seditious conspiracy. I think one of them wasn't even at the event, but was considered a planner or something. So let's watch that today. What should happen today is nonstop happy stories.

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But let me just give you an idea. First of all, I always talk about the new CEO move. If you're a new CEO of a company, You like to do a big change on day one. It's like you fire 10% of the people and you rearrange the thing and you bring in somebody who's a superstar from the outside and you announce you're canceling one line of business and you're focusing on something else.

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of watching somebody get out and being reunited, etc. I hope we're close to what looks like the end of one of the darkest periods in American history. I don't think this is as bad as Roosevelt rounding up Japanese Americans during World War II. It'd be hard to match that. But it's up there. It's in the same conversation. It's not in the same level.

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But in terms of dark periods in the United States, you got your slavery number one. You could list a bunch of others, but rounding up the Japanese American citizens was a dark period. And the January 6th stuff is really dark. History will not be kind to this, and they will be kind to Trump for ending their suffering. So Trump shut down the app that the migrants use.

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I guess that's to make sure that they're not comfortable and happy in finding jobs in the United States and that it's sort of the first indication you're going home. That's a little bit cats on the roof too. If your app just shut down, you might be going home. So maybe you should arrange it on your own. It'd be easier. So... Trump declared a national emergency at the border.

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I think the military will be down there for some purposes. I don't know which purposes exactly. The cartels have been labeled terrorists. And here again, Mike Benz has some context, and he wonders aloud on X basically how many CIA people will be part of who we're fighting now. Because the cartels are presumed

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to be on our team, meaning the intelligence people, meaning that the elected members of the government might not even be aware of how deep the CIA connections are with the cartels.

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Because if the CIA wants to control the government in some of these countries below the border, if the cartel owns the government, the only way you're going to do it is have some kind of quid pro quo situation with the cartels. You know, like, we'll let you do a little bit of evil, but you have to let us have a little bit of control over the government, that sort of thing.

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So we might find out, we might be surprised when we start cracking down on the cartels. And I think the first thing, yeah, so we'll see how many surprises that turns up. And then Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Everybody expected that. And there are a bunch of other ones. I didn't see every single one, but those are some of the fun ones, the executive orders.

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But in the midst of all this, you know, good, productive, provocative change, the Democrats, when they're not making up new hoaxes, and by the way, I have some suggestions. If you're a Republican, from today until the end of Trump's term, I recommend that you not raise one hand alone above your waist. So if you're going to do it, you should go like this.

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Or whenever you need, if you're going to reach for something on a high shelf, normally you just use one hand, you'd be like this. Don't do that anymore. Use both hands together. Even if it's just one can. Even if you're only in your kitchen, because you don't know, you might have a teen who's got a phone. Gotcha, Nazi. So never raise one hand alone above your waist for the next four years.

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After that, you're fine. But for four years, just keep it down and use that second hand no matter how small the task is. If you're going to wave to somebody, I recommend doing it like Tim Walz, like a weird clown. That was my impression of Tim Walz. Because that doesn't look at all like C. Kyle. But never, ever, for four years, don't lift one arm above the other. You'll get Ruppard hard.

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So whatever you do on the first day, This sets the stage because people are influenced by first opinions, first impressions. So that first little period is so important persuasion wise. That's why CEOs start fast. But Trump is the best fast starter of all time. It's not even worth worth even comparing him to anybody at this point. He had the best show. The best show.

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But despite the fact that Republicans had one of the best days anybody's ever had in their whole life yesterday, The Hill has a climate change article that we should stop all our fossil fuels now. It's an opinion piece. and that climate change drove the LA and Lahaina fires. Is it just me, or does that feel like traveling into the past? You know how time gets dilated and distorted under Trump?

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I had trouble remembering that the inauguration was only yesterday. Because we had at least a month worth of things happen yesterday. So I was kind of thinking it was already February. Is this February? So much has happened. But it also distorted my sense of the ridiculous.

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Because when everything's just sort of percolating and there's a ridiculous thing every now and then, but then there's some real things and stuff. But after... After watching a solid packed day of Trump just nailing everything and just having the best day ever, opening up the hill and seeing somebody write about climate change closing the fires, which is totally debunked.

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I don't think any smart people believe that. It doesn't just seem wrong anymore. It seems dated, doesn't it? It just doesn't seem like something you should say in 2025 because it's so debunked, so dumb. I didn't read it, of course, because it's ridiculous. But I'll tell you, my mind has changed about what's a reasonable argument and what should have been retired 20 years ago.

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And this one should have been retired 20 years ago. All right, we don't know what Trump's going to do with his big infrastructure announcement today. He's going to announce some big set of plans. Like I said, I hope it has something to do with the recovery and the areas in the country that need some recovery right away. But I wouldn't rule out...

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that he's going to offer through Elon Musk full Internet access to everybody who doesn't have it. So if you really wanted to dunk on Biden, who Biden refused to use the much cheaper and immediately available Starlink to get rural access to the Internet, which is one of Biden's promises, he had a solution way cheaper than what they were planning.

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And instead of using that, he just couldn't take help from Elon Musk. But Trump can. So Trump can solve rural access to Internet in one day. Now, the implementation will take as long as it takes them to get a Starlink device and just hook it up. Now, if it's for rural people who are low income, that might require the government buying them. But that budget should already exist from Biden's days.

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Anyway, so that's happening. The big question will be, how can Trump pay for his big ideas? So I do like the external revenue service, but the numbers still don't add up. He's not going to be able to put a trillion dollars into the infrastructure when we don't have a trillion dollars. So a big question for me is, how are you going to pay for that? Can you make it pay for itself?

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So let's talk about Trump and Ukraine. Putin says he's happy that Trump seems to be interested in having direct dialogue with him because I didn't even know this, but the Biden administration had cut off contact with Putin because of the war. But Trump won't. War or no war, he's going to say, you want to meet? As only Trump can. And Putin's already said, yeah, I want to talk.

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Now, here's what to look for. If there were an obvious way to end the war, it would have already happened. So whatever it takes to end this war will be a non-obvious thing. That's what Trump does best. Trump is the king of non-obvious, outside-the-box thinking and unusual solutions.

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And sometimes the outside-the-box unusual stuff is just to get all our heads spinning until he tells you what we're going to do. So sometimes it's persuasion. Sometimes it's just brilliant negotiating. So here's what's on the table.

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Nobody puts on a show better than he does. Now, is that an accident? No. Is it an accident that somebody who is famous for a reality TV show, famous for managing his brand, famous public figure, famous for being the most entertaining president of all time, even if he didn't like him, he was the most entertaining.

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And I think this is from the... So I think there was some talk that there would be an offer coming that as long as... that Ukraine would agree to not join NATO for at least 20 years. Now, I've told you that sometimes the way you solve these big unsolvable negotiations is to put something off. So the thing they cared about was the NATO thing, and the offer is to put it off for 20 years.

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Now, I don't think anything will be the same in 20 years. It's actually a better offer than it looks like. Now, it's possible that Putin can't accept it because it would look like he's agreeing to NATO and Ukraine, and there's no way that's going to feel right or sell right in his country, and there would be a risk he doesn't need to take if he could make it go some other way.

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So here's what I think. I think it was a good offer. It was a good negotiating ploy to say, what about 20 years? Because that gives you a sense of where his head is at, the way he responds. But let me add a kicker to it. Now, this is more by way of explaining what outside the box looks like. This is not a real suggestion. So this is not a real suggestion. Just an example of outside the box.

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Suppose they said, all right, how about instead of 20 years and Ukraine joins, in 20 years, either Russia or Ukraine will join. Now, what did that do to your head? Imagine Trump saying that. He's not going to say, I don't recommend it. But what if he said, all right, how about this? Instead of in 20 years, Ukraine becomes NATO, in 20 years, it will be either Ukraine or

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Or Russia, because if Russia can show in 20 years that it would be a good addition to NATO, and I don't know why, I don't know who they'd be fighting, right? If Russia joins NATO, that's so outside the box that I don't even know how to think about it. It's like, well, then who are they fighting? That'd be the same as dismantling NATO, wouldn't it? Like, what would be the point?

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Do they really need some protection against China? I mean, I don't think so. They seem pretty happy with their border as it is. So, anyway, I think you're going to see, here's my only prediction about that. I think you're going to see the Trump team get more creative than you expected.

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There's going to be something about the offer that comes down to Trump or his team that you're going to say to yourself, whoa, okay, didn't see that coming. So, The creativity is going to be through the roof. That'll be the fun part. And I think you'll get it done. Vivek is definitely out of Doge. He's going to go run for governor of Ohio.

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No, it's not an accident that the best showman in the world put on the best show in the world. No, that's not a coincidence. And you can see him directing things even as he was doing them. As he was signing the executive orders, he was telling the camera people what angle to do. I think he had suggestions on lighting at one point.

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As I said before, I think that's a good decision for a person with a young family who's got roots in Ohio. And I hope that works out for him. Now, does it hurt Doge? Well, if the reason he's leaving, and this is rumors, I don't know what is true here, but the rumors are that it was just hard to have two bosses. It's hard for Vivek and Elon to be co-bosses. You can see that, right?

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It doesn't matter how capable either one of them is individually. They're not really the two guys who want to co-boss. And you can imagine that Elon has such completely unique approaches to things, you can't really merge that with anything else. Because anybody else you ask, no matter how smart, is going to say, maybe you shouldn't do that.

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Take, for example, when Elon went to old Twitter and got rid of, what, 80% of the staff? You tell me what normal person of any intelligence would

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would have heard that and said that's a good idea yeah just get rid of 80 like just do it in a week or so you tell me that any normal person would have said yes to that i don't think so i think no person would have said yes to that but he got it done and you could go right down the line tell me the smart person who told him it was a good idea to start a rocket company to mars probably nobody

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but it worked same with the car company. You know, you can go down the line. So if you have somebody whose main benefit is that he's operating on a level where even smart people can't tell that he's doing it right or wrong, you can't really have another smart person in the mix because they're just going to be, they're going to be friction to what Musk seems to do. That seems magic to us.

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But there's a consistency to it where you trust that you can figure it out on your behalf. So at first, I was quite disappointed that Vivek would be off Doge because I think Doge is the number one most important thing. And I think that you want your best people on it. But I think Musk will probably create a structure in which the best people is him and the people he's personally picked.

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That feels like that's going to be the only way to get it done, maybe. All right. I heard this yesterday. A user on X called Matthew Kobach. He said, I have a co-worker who coaches high school girls volleyball. And this weekend, she showed all the girls were crying. He said all the girls were crying over the TikTok ban.

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And then when it was reinstated, she heard them say, I don't know anything about politics, but I know I like Trump. Now, I say this because one of the things you just assume that's just a given in politics is that California could never turn red, could never turn Republican. I mean, it was Republican under Reagan, But we think at this point, there's no way it's ever going back. I disagree.

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I disagree. If Trump did something, and I'm not saying he will, but if he did something to make sure that California had energy and water and we had fire insurance, and he's already done something that gives us more water, people over fish, He probably has a take on how to handle the insurance that we haven't heard yet. I hope so. I don't know what it would be.

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I feel like it was probably his idea to bring in the desk to the Capital One Center so they could actually sit at a desk and sign some executive orders and then take it to the Oval Office and sign some more while chatting and answering questions. You tell me that could have been better. How? How? Your imagination can't even think how that could have been better.

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And maybe it's a national urgency to have nuclear power in California. Maybe there's a way he can make the federal government just force it and force California to have sufficient energy when we're managing ourselves to have insufficient energy. Do you know the Simi Valley has had six extended power outages because of fires, six of them in three months?

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Can you imagine living in just an American, a modern American suburb, and you lose power six times? And I'm talking about all day and multiple days. Six times in three months. Now, it's not all year round, right? But this isn't even fire season. It's not even a fire season. Six times in three months? Come on. So here's what I think about most things.

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We often think things are really locked in, like no way California will ever be red. Under normal circumstances, that would be right every time. But Trump is not a normal circumstance. If there's any way he can help us, And what I'd love is to have some kind of czar to figure out how to solve our hardest problems. How do you rebuild and get approval? How do you get enough water?

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How do you get enough energy that works when the wind blows? Real basic stuff. If Trump can help on that, you're going to be real surprised. Because I think California is going to be like these volleyball girls, and they're going to say, I don't know much about Trump.

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he kept the lights on and he got me fire insurance and we have water if he does those three things and i'm not predicting you will by the way i'm not predicting you will although he's already done something with water there probably is more that needs to be done but if he could do those things i predict california could go red because i think we're done i think the state just said

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We like being Democrats, but forget this. You're going to have to, and I don't know that we can vote out the people in there because I think California is too corrupt to fix it with voting. So something needs to happen, more like a, almost like a federal takeover to just correct things and then step back. I don't know if that's ever been done, but if you want to know what the locals feel like,

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I'd love to see a survey on that. If there's anybody in the surveying business polling, I'd love to see would you be in favor of the federal government just taking control to just fix the intractable problems and then return control? Because I don't think there's any risk. There's no risk that the federal government wants to turn a state into the next D.C.

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where the federal government has some control. I don't think they want it. So I don't think there's any risk. Oh, it'll stay federally controlled forever. No, it won't. Because nobody wants it. The federal doesn't want it. Trump doesn't want it. California doesn't want it. But we desperately need an adult to come in and fix what apparently our politicians can't fix.

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So if you think California can't turn red, I would agree with you 99 out of 100 times. Trump is the one. He's the one. So we'll see. Anyways, according to SciPost, article by Eric Dolan. According to TikTok research, somebody did some research on using TikTok, short videos are linked to lower academic performance. So there was a Chinese Academy of Sciences, they did this study.

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So short video content gives you more difficulty paying attention. And then related to that, there was a school that tested getting rid of the phones.

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I mean, that was everything we wanted to see. And he could read a room like nobody's business. It was the most energy I've ever seen. I don't know how he stayed awake for those two days. I mean, that was impressive. For somebody who talks about energy all the time, you better deliver some energy. Wow, did he deliver energy? Wow. It's the most optimism I felt in maybe forever.

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and the kids who agreed to get rid of their apps and their phones, at least during school, they didn't get rid of the whole phone, but they didn't have it with them in school, and they didn't use the apps any time, so they just deleted the apps that drive you crazy, that they got substantially better grades. But I have to wonder, is it a little bit backwards science? Is it?

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Do you think that the lower IQ is correlated with more use of video? And do you think that the high agency people, the people who can succeed no matter what obstacle you put in front of them, don't you think they're less impacted by the videos than the people who are low agency and just get hypnotized after the first one? I don't know. So there's a little bit of a selection bias there.

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And with the school that got rid of their phones, it wasn't everybody. So you have to volunteer to to be in the group that would voluntarily delete their apps and voluntarily have their phones locked up during the school day. Don't you think the group that volunteered for it are already the smart ones?

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But that doesn't explain the full effect because they measured the average of the school and it went way up. So that argues against it being backward science, that if the average went up, It doesn't matter that some of them were selected, self-selected, because the average went up.

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So if it really went up, and apparently it went up a lot, that's a pretty good argument, pretty good argument for getting rid of phones in schools. Meanwhile, according to Fox News, Landon Mayan is reporting that the Coast Guard Commandant, I assume that's the top position in the Coast Guard, was terminated. over poor performance, but also focusing too much on DEI.

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I don't know how much the DEI part mattered, but it's part of the story. So it looked like she didn't get things done that she was supposed to get done, but on top of it, you've got the DEI focus, which makes that look like it could be one of the reasons she didn't get things done, but it's not directly linked. She was 61. Still is 61.

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The beginning of the golden age has begun. Yeah, the beginning has begun. That's true. Totally true twice. And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that no citizens can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Meanwhile, in a story that doesn't seem that important, but it is, there's a robot-making company, UB Tech, that's partnering with Foxconn in China, and their robot is going to start assembling iPhones. So I don't know what that means exactly, because assembling an iPhone is a whole bunch of people doing different steps.

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So I assume the robot would do the simplest parts, maybe restocking the parts at the assembly line or something. What I don't imagine, because the story is a little vague, I don't imagine the robot's little fingers are putting the things together in the phone, the part that the human usually does. I don't feel like they're there yet.

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So they might be doing everything except that last stick these two things together and put them in this little case. Just guessing. But to me, the big thing in robots and manufacturing is when the robot itself can design and build a manufacturing plant with other robots. You might know that the reason the United States doesn't have manufacturing is not only because

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because it's cheaper in other countries and we exported it. That's how it got there. But if we tried to build a manufacturing plant in the United States, who would you call? Who would you call to design a manufacturing plant? Turns out that in China, that's like a whole, it's a whole college discipline.

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So they've trained just tons of people who, if you went to them and said, engineers, if you went to them and said, we need a factory that builds a robot or a drone or anything, that engineer would say, I can do that. And it would get together with the other people who know how to build factories. And they would build a factory for something that's never existed before.

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And they could do it over and over again because they have a whole industry trained to do that. We don't have that. So if we're going to get it, I have two suggestions. We either steal all the people from Germany who know how to do it because Germany's in bad shape. There might be a lot of German engineers who want a better job.

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It was some of the most competent execution that you'll ever see from any government-related anything. Now, if you consider the temperature and the last-minute adjustments and the number of moving parts, do you have any idea how much capability you saw yesterday? That was a lot of skill, and the skill went right down to every participant.

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Just take all the German engineers who know how to build a manufacturing plant and just say, I got an offer for you because we need that skill over here. And if you speak English and we speak English, you got a job. So at least until we build that industry up ourselves.

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If we can't do that, then I'd love to see the robots be able to design it and put together a robot force and construct that thing. Because if we can get to the point where we can manufacture anything and we can put together the manufacturing plant kind of quickly, that'd be quite a superpower. All right. I also think we need a manufacturing zone in the United States.

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Has that ever been kicked around? the idea would be to pick, uh, one area that's underutilized. So there's not much there and is close enough to all good transportation. So maybe that means, I don't know, being near the water, being near airports and water. Uh, but you pick the place and then you say, all right, this, uh, I don't know, a hundred by a hundred miles by a hundred miles area.

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Uh, we're going to not have the same level of, uh, government bureaucratic stuff. So if you want to build a factory here, you can get the whole thing approved in one day. Something like that. Because it's going to take a long time to fix the existing systems. I think we're better off just creating a manufacturing zone. Now the risk, there's a big one, is if we ever had an attack on the homeland...

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the manufacturing zone might become like an easy target or something. But if there's an attack of that kind on the homeland, we've got bigger problems than manufacturing. So I'm not sure that we should design around that. All right. In other scary AI news, according to Computer World, AI can now predict how well you do in your career by looking at your face. That's right.

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AI can just look at your face, and it can determine with unusual precision, not 100%, of course, but way better than guessing, it can determine whether you'll be successful. Now, how many of you could do that? Most of you. Most of you could look at a face and determine how successful they will be. I'm pretty sure I can. Now, I'm not going to get everyone right.

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If I looked at Joy Reid, I would never guess she would be a host of a major TV show. So I would get that one wrong every time. I would look at her and say, oh, she's crazy. She'd be lucky if she could get any job. But no, I would not have guessed that she could do so well. Which is good for her, by the way. Good job on her part. But we're in big trouble.

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We're in big trouble if AI can tell you who's going to succeed by looking at faces. You know what I mean? Do you have any idea how much trouble that would be? Because somebody comes in for a job interview and the AI decides that they're one of the people who probably can't succeed because of their face. What are you as a human going to do when the odds are 75% that the computer's right?

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No, I think we just start relying on faces to determine who's going to be successful. But it might work. That's the weird part. It might work. You might actually hire better if you're just determining it by their faces. But that would create a situation where some people would do plastic surgery just to beat the AI. So if AI saw people the way their faces naturally looked,

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would it make a different decision than if it saw how they looked before they got the nose job? Maybe. So people would try to beat the system with plastic surgery. That's coming.

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If you watched Carrie Underwood take the microphone to do her performance and then find out that there won't be any musical accompaniment, and then not even hesitate and just say, I'll do an acapella, and then deliver an instant, spontaneous, probably the best version I've ever heard, and then just walk away. Ha ha ha.

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Anyway, apparently Trump officials, according to the Telegraph, Matthew Field is writing that the Trump administration is going to get some kind of briefing on the upcoming super agent AI, the advanced intelligence that we don't have now, It's about what's coming that ChatGPT says is coming. Sam Altman, I think, is going to be doing the briefing.

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But this would be the secret behind the curtain stuff about what OpenAI knows is coming really fast, but we don't yet know. But it's so important that the government needs to know right away because there's a homeland security issue that's enormous. We'll see how that goes.

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Meanwhile, Amazon, you may wonder why its agent, which I call A-L-E-X-I-A, but don't want to say it and activate your devices, that that device is still sort of dumb. So it doesn't have AI worked into it yet. And the reason is they can't make it work. And the reason they can't make it work is that there's something about AI that's unsolvable. so far, which is hallucinations.

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So we've talked about this before, but if you're Amazon and somebody says, can you give me a link to buy a clothes hamper? It can't give you a link to the wrong thing because you'll just stop using it right away. So the hallucinations, even if you can get them down to not that often, it's still going to be way too often for a proper user interface. So I like the Amazon...

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And I've said this a million times, but Amazon is the most impressive user interface software development company I've ever seen. There was a time when I would have said that was Apple, but I think Apple's lost a little bit of their user interface magic. And Amazon, because you don't ever think about the interface, is unbelievably good.

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The fact that you can just go on there and you know it'll work and you can buy something in 10 seconds allows you to say, I have 10 seconds, so I'll buy something. I mean, you can't beat that. That's like as good as an interface could be if you say I can get in and get something done in 10 seconds. And you can. It's amazing.

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So given the level of talent at Amazon, which I think might be the best in the world right now for non-AI stuff, But you know they're going to have good AI people too. If they say it's not good enough, that's interesting. Because they're also saying they don't know how to solve it. But there's a bigger issue. It's bigger than AI.

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Because have you noticed that the reason we have a word for what the AI is doing, the hallucinations, is because it's something that people do. People have hallucinations. Certainly the people who think that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute are hallucinating. They're experiencing a reality that's not happening in your reality, certainly not happening in mine.

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So humans hallucinate, or you could call it a false memory, or you could call it a narrative or a false interpretation. But we do it all the time. We just are so used to it that we don't notice it. And if you asked, hey, how often do people hallucinate, meaning every kind of false memory and misinterpretation, most people would say, well, I mean, it happens, but I mean, not often.

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It's never happened to me. But it's the opposite. It happens to all of us every day, all the time. It's our most common, your most common experience is a hallucination. Your false memories, your memories are not real. They're just artificially generated when you need them.

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Speaking of which, are you aware that the Nobel Prize winner got the Nobel Prize by proving that things don't exist until they're observed? Do you know what that means? Things don't exist until they're observed. That's considered now a scientific fact. Nobel Prize winner, just recently. If things don't exist until they're observed...

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What happens if you start digging a hole in your backyard where nobody's ever observed what's in the hole and you keep going down further and further and literally nobody's ever observed what's there? According to science, it appears for the first time as you're digging your hole. That's actually correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's established science now based on the Nobel Prize winner.

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The level of talent it took to do what she did and made it look easy, just off the chart. Off the chart. Anyway, so what else? The other thing was when Trump was signing all the executive orders and chatting and answering questions, It was this rare opportunity to see his scope of knowledge. He understood everything he was signing. Compare that to... And could talk about it.

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So, you know, what's in that hole is your history. And if the history is created on demand, there's no such thing as history. It's literally just created as a hallucination, but your brain keeps them consistent enough that you think you actually learned something about the past.

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So I believe that our reality as human beings, the hallucinations are required because there'd be no way you could keep all of our histories consistent. It would be impossible to take billions of people and have all their memories the same as all the other people, all their interpretations the same as other people.

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But only sometimes, only sometimes it glitches a little, which is what you think is happening. Only sometimes. Kind of a rare thing. I'm sure it's never happened to me. No, it's all the time, everywhere, all the people. Your history is being created on demand. We know that. you're living in a simulation. And the reason that AI hallucinates is it's based on human beings.

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As long as the base reality of human beings is hallucinating all the time, if you train a machine to be like a human, it's going to hallucinate, and I don't see a way around that. I just don't see a way around it. So, I don't know, maybe there's some way to tie together a separate program that checks the AI's output for a hallucination. Maybe. But that's a hack. It's a workaround.

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So, I don't know. I don't think you're ever going to get rid of them because it's based on people and we live in a simulation. And that's exactly how I'm going to end the show. Keep you thinking. All right, Golden Age is on track. I'm going to say hi to the local subscribers separately now. Thanks for joining, everybody. Another big show. Lots of people live. I appreciate every time you come in.

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And, boy, are we going to have some fun. We're going to have some fun. All right. Locals coming at you.

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He could talk about the context. He could talk about why it was a good idea. And there was nothing that stumped him. He talked about all kinds of stuff. And capably and competently and confidently. Compare that to Biden. who allegedly paused the liquid natural gas shipments and didn't even know it. When Speaker Mike Johnson asked him about it, he's like, I didn't do that.

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He didn't even know what he was signing. Compare that to Trump. He signs it in public while answering questions and can give you context on all of it. Completely different. Anyway, Melania, I've never seen Melania happier, have you?

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So I think Melania was enjoying the, I don't want to call it revenge, but maybe the comeback of it, what it did to just her personal life and her reputation, that he could go from the depth of January 6th, basically all that noise, and end up being the most popular president who's just changing everything. Now, that's got to be exciting to be married to that.

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Because you know they didn't go through good times, right? I mean, just anybody who's ever been married. You know that whatever happened after January 6th probably didn't go smoothly. But they stuck it out. And Melania gets her revenge. Because, you know, if you're married to the guy, you suffer every time he gets hit. She suffered a lot.

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a lot and she gets to put on the outfit that everybody's talking about some people saying oh no it looks like she's the angel of death you know she's come to get her revenge others just say it was incredible fashion i just was taken by how strikingly interesting it was i mean i'm not a fashion person but i loved it i just loved the fact it was like an unexpected look the hat was different

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. It makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Thank you, Paul. Well, did anything happen yesterday? I'm completely overwhelmed. I've never seen so much happen in so little time. My standard of how much should happen in any 24-hour day is now completely shattered.

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I liked everything about it. I think she nailed it 100%. My favorite little moment, and I think some of you caught it, was when Trump was introducing some of his special people behind him on the stage, and one of them was Barron. And he said some good things about Barron, helping him get the podcast audiences, etc.

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But Barron stands up, and of course the audience goes wild because they're Trump supporters, and then as they're cheering... Barron has this little smile, and he puts his hand up to his ear, like, you know, give me some more applause. Oh, my God. In that moment, you saw Trump. You saw the next generation of Trump. Because I didn't know, you know, I didn't know anything about Barron.

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Nothing, really. But when you see him stand up, smile at the applause... and just put his hand up like you don't expect in any kind of a political, it was unexpected. So it's something you don't do in a political context. He's like, hello? That little moment just connected him to Trump in a way that you couldn't have done with words. That the physical act, it was just, you could see the future.

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Like, I don't know anything else about him, but he's already at the top of my list of future presidents. Just that little act. It's weird how that connected him to his dad. Anyway, so the Republicans had what I would call one of the best days in politics of all time. One of the best days, not just because of all the executive orders and things which we'll talk about,

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But because of the way it was launched was such a high level of skill and capability and showmanship and talent just made me feel good. But I've told you before, if I'm just saying good things about Trump and everything's bad about the Democrats, I'm not going to be very credible. So just to be fair...

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Republicans did have maybe the best night Republicans have ever had in the history of nights, if you don't count election nights. But Democrats had a good day, too. They launched their new Rupar hoax that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute at the, I guess, the Capital One event. Now, you don't need to know anything about the story to know that didn't happen, right?

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You wouldn't have to have seen it to know it didn't happen. I have some... So what he did do... I mean, I agree with Cernovich. I just feel like an idiot even talking about it because it's so dumb. It's so stupid. And yet there were dozens and dozens of major outlets who reported it as must-giving. Maybe. I don't know. That might have been a Nazi salute. Now, of course the video is a root bar.

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Do you know what a Rupar is? So Rupar, named after Rupar, is a video that if you clip out just a little bit of it, it reverses what it is or changes it completely. So all the clips that you saw were just his hand going up in a way that I'm not going to demonstrate.

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What they didn't show, the part they clip out, is he has words associated with it, and he touched his heart, and then he said, what were his exact words? Thank you for making it happen, he said to the audience. Thank you, my heart goes out to you. So he touches his heart, and then he shows with his hands that his heart is going out to them, which is the part they clip out the heart part.

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So it just looks like he's giving a Nazi salute. Now, do you think that dozens of major publications, dozens, do you think they didn't know that that was fake? I don't think there's any chance that they thought that was real. But they reported it anyway. And I love it. I love that the creator of the Libs of TikTok account already started the hoax list on day one.

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That's the first one in the hoax list. Not only is it perfect because it's a Rupar, seeing a Rupar allows you to explain that how all the other hoaxes were graded. It's how the fine people hoax was graded, Rupar edit. It's how the drinking bleach hoax was graded, Rupar edit. It's how the overfeeding the koi in Japan hoax, it's an edit. And you just go down the line. They're all just Rupars.

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So I thought that was hilarious. Even the ADL said, so the ADL, which exists to protect, primarily to protect Jewish Americans and probably Jewish people around the world and would be, I assume, pro-Israel. That would be obvious. Even they said, that doesn't really look like a Nazi salute to us. And if the ADL doesn't know, it's not like the ADL doesn't know what a Nazi salute is.

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But the ADL, of course, is a ridiculous Democrat hit group, completely disavowed by people who've looked into it. So even they, even they couldn't go that far. But the news could. The news that people think is real and isn't, they went that far. Anyway... So as you know, Biden pardoned a bunch of people.

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His family he pardoned while Trump was getting ready to speak, so Trump wouldn't be able to speak about it. We all got to watch the greatest moment in TV since Saddam Hussein did his video where he was telling people to stand up and say something about the loyalty of the party before they were taken out. But anyway, so here's the funny part.

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And let's check in on the stocks. Yeah, down a little bit. Could be better. But we'll get our comments working here, and then I'll give you the show you deserve. Because you deserve it. You do. You totally deserve it. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human existence. This is Color Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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and replace them with Kamala Harris, wouldn't they still need to get the questions in advance? And wouldn't they still need to give her a note card or, you know, she might have been able to memorize it. Wouldn't they still be able to give her the answers? And wouldn't they use a jump cut just to get rid of her word salad? If you think about, you know, how ES3 will treat this,

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It would be one thing if you had a very solid vice president, but then something happened with your president and you did the best you could to keep it away from the public. But what are the odds that in the Democratic Party, the entire Democratic Party, is it like 70 million people, that the best two candidates they could come up with couldn't even talk?

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You would be afraid to put them in front of any kind of group? Because Kamala would just be cackling and gaffing and looking drunk, whether she was or not. She always looked drunk. And Biden would just be blah, blah, blah. Can you imagine that the top two people in the whole country, they didn't trust either one of them to talk to a group of 10 people. And somehow we got used to that.

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Just think about the fact that we got used to it. Because it's not like we didn't know that Biden couldn't talk to a group. That was obvious. And it wasn't like we didn't know that Kamala Harris would be a cackling word salad mess. But we just sort of got used to it, like that was semi-normal.

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You couldn't find two people who were unable to talk to a group of, you know, any group, unless you worked at it pretty hard. But they did. They found the only two people who couldn't talk to a group.

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Well, one of the big questions about Biden's cancer diagnosis is people, all the smart doctors immediately went on TV and they said, there is no way that the White House doctor or the doctors didn't know about this. There's no way they didn't know about this for a long time. He may have had this for seven to 10 years. And of course, I unfortunately know too much about this topic.

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And I thought to myself, I don't think those doctors are right. I feel like those doctors maybe are uninformed. And then I saw Dr. Nicole Safarico on Fox News, and she said that beyond a certain age, which I believe now is 75, they don't check PSA. And that's how you catch it early. And the reason they don't check it is if you're 75 and that's the first time you get some PSA elevation.

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And the most incredible time was Dr. Hypnosis and Owen Gregorian did a Spaces in which people were invited to talk about me. Sorry. And what impact that had on their lives. Now, unbeknownst to most of you who were on that Spaces, I was listening. So I didn't catch all of it. It was over four hours. But for about, I don't know, two and a half hours, I got to listen like I was at my own funeral.

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First of all, there could be several different reasons for it that are not cancer. But you don't want to ruin their life by a biopsy and And, you know, it's just better to let it grow slowly, basically, and they'll probably die of something else. So in Biden's case, it was not ordinary for them to be testing every month or every year or anything.

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So there's a very good chance that they were not aware of it until he had symptoms. The symptoms were some kind of urinary symptoms, I guess. So by the time he had urinary symptoms, he may have had it for a while. And that means it might have metastasized. So all that doctoring that you saw, where people were like, well, they check him all the time, and of course they would have checked.

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None of that was true. It was more typical that they wouldn't check. because of his age. And that's what I thought when I was watching the original doctors come on and say, oh, yeah, they would have known for years. He would have had it for years. And I thought, he might have had it for a long time. but they wouldn't necessarily know about it. And I guess that's true.

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So we don't know if we've been told the whole truth, but the fact that so many doctors went on TV and had the wrong information about the most common cancer is kind of disturbing, a little bit disturbing. But anyway... And then Hakeem Jeffries was asked about whether Biden was concealing his health problems.

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And his response was, Republicans are literally trying to take health care away from millions of Americans. And they want to fan the flames of conspiracy theories at this moment? No thanks. I feel as though The Democrats are so feeble at this point that they have a little box with little pieces of paper in it that have just little talking points. And so they'll just pick out their talking points.

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It's like, Hakeem Jeffries, what do you think? Was Biden hiding his situation? And then he'd reach into the box and he'd take out a piece of paper and he'd say, the Republicans are trying to take away your health care. And then he'd pick another one and say, it's a conspiracy theory. It honestly just feels like he's randomly saying things.

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I guess this came pretty close to being on target, but it doesn't even feel like he's thinking. It's just like he's randomly picking statements out of a box or something. Well, in other news, Alanis Morissette, a famous singer, according to Laura Loomer and her investigation, she had a scoop on this. Apparently, she was paid $95,000 by the Harris campaign. But the weird thing is,

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that it was listed as event services and catering in the FEC records. So she endorsed Harris, and then some entity that was Linus Morissette's company was paid $95,000 for event services and catering. Does that sound legitimate to you? The more we hear about the Harris campaign, the funnier it is. It makes you wonder if all the voters were also bribed.

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It's like if, you know, if Beyonce and Oprah and Alanis Morissette are all getting paid for their endorsements, what about the regular voters? I mean, obviously you wouldn't pay them as much. It'd be too expensive, but I'd want at least 45 cents. You know, that'd be my price. It's like, I'll vote for you because I'm going to be in that voting booth anyway.

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I like to vote, but I'm not going to do it for free. Can we work out a deal? And then the Harris campaign would be like, all right, would you do it for 25 cents? And I'd say, 25 cents? You think I'm going to give up my vote for 25 cents? No, and I'm insulted. 45 cents. That's my final offer. All right. So she could have won. It was so close.

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Well, you remember the Democrat elected officials who tried to get into an ICE facility in Newark, and I guess there was some pushing and physicality that got involved there. And I guess Alina Haba, the U.S. attorney, is officially charging one of them, Representative LaMonica McIver, for assaulting a law enforcement officer at the ICE facility as they were trying to trespass and get in.

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The funniest thing about that story, which I think is true, is if they had not been there to protest, all they had to do was ask if they could get in for a tour, and they could have just scheduled it. The ICE facility would have said, sure, what time do you want to come in? And then they would just pick the time. Because it wasn't like it's a secret facility or anything.

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It was just that they had not made a reservation. So it became criminal because they were pushing the law enforcement around. But here's the part I don't understand. This is from Alina Haba, the U.S. attorney. She said, I have persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges.

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And people were saying one good thing about me after another. But the part I didn't know was how much I changed people's lives. And so people just had one story after another of how they'd gone from a bad situation to a good situation because of something I said or something I saw in my books or some other thing. And I got to tell you, if you could have one day in your life

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And I've given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but she has unfortunately declined. And I thought to myself, what exactly would be the other things that would make this not a jailable offense without bringing criminal charges?

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what exactly was she going to do and by the way it wasn't like a serious crime you know there may have been a little elbowing and you know a little bit of pushing but nothing that was going to hurt an ice officer really or a police officer um what exactly did they offer her that if she apologized so there's something weird about that story

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Anyway, according to a Harvard-Harris poll, for the first time since July 2021, a majority of Americans rate the economy as strong. How many of you rate the economy as strong, the American economy? Why would you rate it as strong? We have this crushing debt and no real way to pay it back. We don't even have an economy. We barely have a survivable temporary situation. We don't have an economy.

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An economy would suggest that it could keep on running the way it's going. Ours can't. We might have a few years and then the runway is done and then we all have to become cavemen or something. But with crushing debt, I think people just don't understand enough about the economy. So whenever you poll people and ask them if the economy is strong,

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It's sort of like polling people and asking them, hey, is this the right way to design this microchip? And then the citizens are like, well, you know, I don't know too much about designing microchips, but it does look right to me. Now, what would be the point of asking the public something they couldn't possibly understand? Well, I guess it would get their attitude.

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Maybe they'd buy more stuff if they think it's wrong. But speaking of the budget debacle, which is what I call it, I guess the Freedom Caucus chair says the votes are not there. And so if the votes are not there, it means that they'll have to negotiate, and they'll be negotiating until the end of June. So they're hoping to get something signed before Memorial Day.

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But at least one part of the Republican world says, nope, we don't have the votes. So I guess they would be the anti-debt people. The Freedom Caucus. And then allegedly Trump is going to personally lobby the House Republicans to get this signed right away because it would be a legacy-building accomplishment for his second term.

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Do you think it should be signed if they haven't meaningfully reduced the debt? I just don't think they should sign it. It feels like there has to be some kind of guardrail or penalty or benefit or something to get the Congress to do the thing that they should do, which is reduce the spending, as hard as that is. But unfortunately, we don't have a system in which the Congress can do that.

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Because if they even reduce the spending for something that only 10% of the public cared about, that would be enough to lose the next election. So it looks like there's nothing that will ever be done, and we will just cruise into this total deficit death spiral. So I don't know. Something's got to give. We'll see.

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According to Breitbart News, there's a poll that says majority of American voters say that lowering the cost of living should be Trump's top priority. Now, what they're thinking is they want the cost of eggs and gas and rent and stuff to go down, which should be hard for a president to do, except for maybe doing things that lower inflation a little bit.

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but I still think we're going to have to do something that's more structurally radical.

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to experience that it was indescribable it was it was beyond amazing and i had no idea so i think somebody said that i didn't know how much impact i had on the world i thought i had a lot But apparently I had underestimated. And so I'm humbled. And it just made everything seem worthwhile. Everything was worthwhile. So I'll hang on as long as I can to make sure you get some extra benefit.

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It seems to me that if our demographics are collapsing and you've got a bunch of old people who are going to be in houses that are too big for them, and there might be one person left in the house, doesn't it make more sense to have situations where there's one old person who has a big house, but they've got some roommates who,

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that are just younger people who want to spend a lot less money on rent. Now, I know that that's already a thing, but it feels like it could be a much bigger thing, because there must be just zillions of old people who are living alone who would just love to have at least one roommate that's younger and brings a little noise and a little life into the house.

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But if you get the wrong roommate, it's a living hell, so I can see why people don't do it. Meanwhile, CBS News is offering Trump $20 million to settle his lawsuit over that Kamala interview on 60 Minutes. But in protest, the CBS News president, Wendy McMahon, has threatened to resign. And apparently they accepted her resignation. So it was more than a threat. So they accepted her resignation.

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But we don't know yet if Trump will accept the $20 million. Of course, this gives us a good idea for reducing the national debt. I think Trump should just keep suing the fake news and then use that money to pay down the debt. So this would be the first 20 million. Because you could sue the fake news all day long. You're like, oh, there's one. Oh, there's one. 20 million, 20 million.

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Well, okay, that's not my best idea. Well, you probably heard the news yesterday, I talked about it, that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino both say they've seen the Epstein files and he did not kill himself. I'm sorry, and he did kill himself. He committed suicide. He was not murdered. Now, almost all of you are going to say, I don't believe that. I believe he was totally murdered. It doesn't add up.

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And I saw a post by Chris Martinson who said, my PhD is in pathology toxicology. I performed autopsies. I know enough about anatomy to know that a slump hanging, so that would be the way he was hanging himself, is not going to fracture the hyoid bone into three pieces. Epstein did not kill himself. He was strangled by a strong man. This indicates we have a huge problem. So what do you think?

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Do you think that there was a national secret so great that Bongino and Patel, being patriots and being honest people in general... Do you think they were warned that they just can't tell the truth about this? And they were told, look, you're going to have to go out and lie because if the public found out what really went on with Epstein, it would be a big problem. What do you think?

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Because I have a natural inclination to believe what Dan Bongino says. Because there's just nothing about him that suggests he would be a liar. Just nothing. And there's nothing about Patel that would suggest that he would just go on camera and tell a huge whopping lie. But they both say stuff like, we saw the file.

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If there were something that were a big state secret, it wouldn't be in the file, would it? It seems like the only way this makes sense is if somebody dark from the dark part of the government tapped him on the shoulder and said, here's the deal. You really can't tell the public about this Epstein situation. We can't tell you who killed him. You can't tell them what Epstein was up to.

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The only thing you can do is comment on the files and the files say that it was a suicide and the files say that he was just having lots of parties at the house and he wasn't working for any intelligence operation do you believe that that he also was not working for any kind of intelligence operation because i think that's the official story right

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We all assume that he was working for at least one intelligence agency. But maybe not. Or at least that might be the official story. So, I don't know. The fact that... Kash Patel and Dan Bongino were both patriots, suggests that if somebody said, for the benefit of the country, you're just going to have to lie about this, that would be enough for them to lie.

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Because if they knew it was for the benefit of the country and it was a really big deal, well, you'd lie too, if the right people asked you to do it. So I think they're both honest, but in this specific situation, there might be some national interest or a safety situation that caused them to be a little less than accurate, let's just say.

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Well, according to Newsmax, the Supreme Court has backed Trump on ending the temporary protected status for 350,000 Venezuelans. So apparently there were a whole bunch of Venezuelans in the country under a TPS program. TPS. Sounds like something from that movie Office Space. But anyway, the TPS program was designed

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so that people from a country that's stricken by war or natural disasters or other catastrophes could come into the United States and work. But that made it hard to deport them, so now the Trump administration got the vote from the Supreme Court so they can deport them. A lot of them found work, so I'm not sure that they're the dangerous ones.

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It's not like they're the gang members, but have they found all the gang members? I don't know. I feel like maybe they're just getting ready in that one. Did you know that in the recent dust-up between India and Pakistan, apparently India's is accusing Pakistan of working with China for their targeting.

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And we don't need to talk about it every day. Things will go the way things go. But we'll just do the show today, if you don't mind. Looks like we'll have some extra people here. Well, that's good. Well, apparently, according to ZME Science, there's the first mass-produced flying car is ready to go. So for $1 million, you'll be able to get a flying car.

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So allegedly, China was providing for Pakistan real-time satellite data and radar tweaks and eyes on the troops and more than just weapon sales. So that's bad. So that would put India on a war footing with China if they took this seriously. We'll see if they do. But yeah, China's backing Pakistan. U.S. is backing India probably, directly or indirectly. So that's dangerous.

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There's a story in the New York Post about one of the big AI founders, Sutzkever, that's his last name. Anyway, he's one of the OpenAI co-founders, and he wanted to build a doomsday bunker to protect the company's scientists before an artificial general intelligence is released. What do you think of that? Is that telling you that AI is more dangerous than they're telling us?

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If the person who knows the most about them wanted to build a doomsday bunker to get away from the AI that they were developing? And would a bunker be the way to escape from AI? I don't know. But here's what I can add for context. Rich people or people spending other people's money, they would be spending the company's money, are not like the rest of us.

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And in this case, I would not be rich enough to build a doomsday bunker for myself. So if you were a multi-billionaire or your company was willing to spend the money on your behalf, if you said, well, there's only a 1% chance that I'll need a bunker, well, you don't care. If you're a billionaire, you can afford a bunker. And if it makes you feel better, it doesn't matter if there's a 1% risk.

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But the rest of us wouldn't take, you know, we wouldn't do something for a 1% risk. So it doesn't really tell you that AI is that dangerous. It's more a comment about rich people who have too much money and they can build a bunker and you can't. So I don't get too worried about rich people building bunkers because I think rich people have been building bunkers for 50 years, right?

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And they haven't needed them yet. So it's probably not so much about risk as it is about people who have a lot of money. Well, Spain is having another problem. You know that they had that big problem with losing power to a bunch of places in Spain. Now, according to the Daily Mail, they're losing all their telecom at the same time.

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So not even just one entity, it's a whole bunch of telecom entities. So they're losing their internet access and their cell phones all at the same time. And the official explanation is that they were doing a network upgrade. Do you think that a network upgrade took out every company that provides cell service? What part of the network upgrade were they doing?

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Is there really a choke point for that? I don't know if I believe that. But it does seem to me that we're getting to a point where The world is too complicated and too connected so that things are going to break because it's so complicated we don't even know where to look and how to fix it. And that could be part of it.

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So it could be that Spain just has too much technology and not enough people who know how to fix it. Could be. Or it could be a conspiracy theory there's something worse going on. Well, it seems to me that whenever I read a story about China, it's about some amazing thing that they're getting ready to do So here again, China is going to build a space-based supercomputer.

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And they're already building it. So they've already set up some satellites. So I guess the satellites will operate as essentially nodes of a supercomputer that would be surrounding the Earth. And it saves a bunch of money on energy, they say. And I guess that's because it's very cold in space. Is that why they're saving money on energy? But they're already putting their first 12 satellites up.

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There are going to be 2,800 satellites when they're done, and it will form an AI-powered satellite computing system with 744 trillion operations per second. And they will communicate with the other satellites at some huge speed. And it will operate at a thousand pops. That's peta operations per second. So that seems like a lot.

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But how many people would want a flying car? Because you'd have to have a pilot's license. So the car part, of course, would not be ideal because the wings are extra and they fold on the car. So it probably gives terrible mileage. It doesn't look like it would be the best car. But it is a flying car. It's already built. And they're ready to go into mass production.

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Now, do you feel comfortable knowing that the Earth will be surrounded by a Chinese supercomputer? It makes me a little uncomfortable. Speaking of satellites, I saw a story that said that South Africa might allow Elon Musk to provide Starlink because Trump is going to visit or something. But my understanding is that the law said that Elon Musk couldn't provide Starlink because he's not black.

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So would they change the law just for Elon Musk? I don't know. There's going to be more to that story coming. But not to be outdone, a US team of developers has developed the world's fastest quantum switch to supercharge AI by a million times, according to interesting engineers. So they've built the world's fastest transistor. using laser pulses and graphene.

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But the thing about this is that apparently this is fairly practical. So whenever you hear a story like this, there's usually, and it will take us 30 years to figure out how to produce this in a mass way. But apparently because this operates at room temperature, there's a pretty good chance that it'll come soon. So the world's fastest quantum switch. So your AI would be a million times faster.

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Take that, China, in your face. And that the path to commercialization is already underway. Okay. because the transistor works in normal room conditions, so it won't be that hard to make it, apparently. Well, and then China, not to be outdone, has a new battery technology where you can

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charge it in five minutes to go 450 or more kilometers according to interesting engineering so you know i i read you a story every day about you know battery technology working but this one's already done so this is not future and it's not in the lab they're actually demonstrating this now so they can make a battery that We'll have 450 kilometers in just five minutes of charging.

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That's pretty good. According to Breitbart News, the Russian economy is plummeting after Trump took office. So they just got their GDP and it was only 1.4%, which is way down from 4.5% in the last quarter of 2024. So some of it is because of oil prices going down. Some of it's because of some other things. And

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But if you want to put that in context, they're still doing better than a lot of Western countries. Because it turns out everybody's having a bad time at the moment, at least GDP wise. So if you say to yourself, my God, Russia will never survive having this 1.4% GDP. Well, might be better than some of the European countries. So yeah, they can survive. So they're not in that much trouble.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces are going to deploy something called a Krampus. K-R-A-M-P-U-S. I don't know what it stands for. Something in the Ukraine, I guess. But it's a flamethrower robot that was fed in the back of a truck. Now, remember I've told you that the Ukrainian, at least the front line, is going to turn into an all-robot war.

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It's getting really close because it's drones and robot dogs and other stuff. But this is one more thing to add to it. Aren't we getting really close to the point where the entire front line between the Ukraine and Russia is robots? Because they're clearly going to be

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better deal than humans because the remember when we're talking every day about the ukrainians were running out of soldiers so they were doing these forced construct conscriptions and stuff like that when was the last time you heard that the ukrainians are running out of soldiers i feel like that news just stopped so if they're not running out of soldiers is it because there's not as much fighting

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So in 2026, you can get your own flying car. You know, that's always been the joke. Where's my flying car? Well, here it is. Apparently there's going to be a flying car. We'll see if they actually do mass produce. They believe there's a gigantic market for flying cars. I don't think so. I think they're going to find out that the market for flying cars is not nearly as big as they think it is.

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Or is it because it's all robots now? There's still soldiers operating the robots, but I don't know. To me, it looks like they must be pretty close to an all-robot front line. Trump says he's going to leave it to Ukraine and Russia to work out a deal, which to me sounds exactly like he doesn't think they'll ever work out a deal, which is what I think.

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So I guess he just doesn't want to waste his time because neither of them seem that ready to work out a deal. They're just pretending that they are. So I think that's smart. Just stay out of it. If they want to fight, let them fight. Over in Iran, the supreme leader... said that negotiations with the U.S.

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about their nuclear program are unlikely to result in a deal and called the Trump administration's latest demands on Iran outrageous. Now, that's, of course, what I said, which is no matter how much optimism you're hearing from Trump about an Iranian deal, There's nothing really that looks like they're going to get a deal. So I don't think there will be a Ukraine-Russia deal.

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I don't think there will be an Iran peace deal. I don't know what will happen. Maybe Trump will just squeeze them economically until they change their mind. Maybe. But to me, it doesn't look like there's going to be any kind of a deal with either of those situations. According to The Conversation, There's some research that shows that reading books can help combat loneliness and boost the brain.

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You know what they could have done instead of spending time doing research? They could have just asked me or anybody who's ever read a book. Wouldn't you have been able to answer this question? Don't you find that if you read fiction and there are characters that are well-developed and they're there all the way through the book, don't you feel like you're spending time with the characters?

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That's why books work. The entire reason that a book works is that you're drawn into the situation as if it's real. You know it's not real, but... you still get some of the feelings of reality. So this one's kind of obvious. Yeah, reading would, of course, be good for your brain. But yeah, of course, it would make you feel less lonely if you liked reading. Makes sense to me.

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Meanwhile, Foxconn, the company, is testing a nursing robot, a neurobot. And the only thing that the neurobot will be able to do will be the easy stuff. So it's not going to be putting thermometers in your butt or anything like that. It'll only be doing things like ferrying medication and samples around the hospital. But... Foxconn has a feeling that they can really lower costs by these robots.

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I don't know if the only thing the robot can do is carry medicine around. I'm not really sure these are useful robots. Remember I keep telling you that we don't seem to be close to the point where a humanoid robot can figure out anything new? Like it'll only be able to do the narrowest little functions, whatever you teach it to do, and it's never going to be able to do something different.

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Like if you train the robot to ferry medicine around, even though it would be driven by AI, you're not going to be able to say, oh, you know, there's a spill by bed number 13. Can you go clean up that spill? If it's never been trained on that, it won't know how to do that. That's what it seems like to me. So I don't know how close we are on any of that.

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According to Neuroscience News, inflammation in the brain can trigger repetitive behavior. So basically, OCD might be, so they've only tested this on mice, but they can get the mice to act like they have OCD by giving them some brain inflammation, but then they give them a drug that's already FDA approved for humans, I guess,

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and it takes away the inflammation, and then the behavior of the mouse changes. So remember when you believed in free will, and then you found out if somebody gives your brain a little inflammation that you turn into a completely different person, and suddenly you have your OCD? At least the mice do. So no, I don't think we have free will. I think there's just cause and effect.

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um but maybe so the the drugs that decrease the inflammation in your brain already exist for other purposes so wouldn't that be cool to find out that a lot of your behaviors and your your other mental problems were because of i think they they said that autism might be because of this brain inflammation too

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Well, the Wall Street Journal says that Home Depot posted higher than expected sales because they say that customers continue to spend on smaller projects. How do they know that they're spending on smaller projects? I guess each sale is smaller. And so far, there's no tariff impact. But Home Depot says that they're not going to raise prices because of tariffs.

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Imagine if you could cure all of those things just by reducing the inflammation in your brain. You know how RFK Jr. was talking about all these chronic problems that kids have that were not problems when I was a kid? I wonder if it's because the environment and the plastics and the poor food is causing kids' brains to be inflamed.

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And that suddenly they have more OCD and they have more ADHD and they have more autism. And it's just brain inflammation. Could be. You never know. All right, people. Thanks for joining. What I heard yesterday when I was listening to the very long spaces is that a lot of you are listening to my show not for the content at all, but rather you like the feeling of essentially having a friend.

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And I didn't realize it, but apparently I'm filling a bunch of holes. For some people, I'm like a father, which I enjoy. And for other people, I'm like their friend that they get to talk to once a day, which is one of the reasons I'm here every day. So you always have at least one friend. And some of you say you're just hooked on the simultaneous sip.

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But I think you're more hooked on the friend part. And I heard a number of people comment that when you listen to my show, it's more like one person talking to you. And I do that intentionally. It's the reason I do it live. Others have suggested, why don't you record the show and then just play it when it's time? And I thought to myself, that would feel so dead.

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Because right now I'm sort of continuously monitoring your comments. So to me, it's like a conversation. So even on my end, it's like you're talking to me and then, you know, obviously you're talking to each other too. But to me, it's like a real conversation. So if that's what you get out of it, that's what I'll try to make sure you get out of it. All right.

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I'm going to talk to the beloved people on Locals privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining. And I will see you same time, same place tomorrow. But Locals, we're going to go private in 30 seconds because you're special.

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Now, that would be opposite of what Walmart said. Walmart's going to raise prices. But Home Depot says they will not. More than half of what the company sells at Home Depot comes from the U.S. And they just think that it looks like they're going to just eat the tariffs. So they're not going to pass it along. So that's kind of exciting.

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So according to Just the News, yesterday I talked about the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. He was at a church, and he was filmed talking about his diversity goals. And this is what he said. He said, There are some detractors that will try and push back on me and say, the only thing the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people, Johnson said.

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No, what I'm saying is when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet. So apparently the Justice Department is going to launch an investigation because what he just said is really illegal. So he was trying to make it a positive thing. It's like, hey, look at me. I'm hiring only black people because black people are more generous.

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And that's why I recommend that you spend more time in all black neighborhoods because of the generosity, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson. You know, if you go to an all black neighborhood, the first thing people are going to do is say, hey, Are you okay? Do you need anything? Is there anything I can get you? Because they're the most generous people in the whole world.

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Well, the America First Legal... Now, do you know who that is, America First Legal? I think Stephen Miller was behind this. But I felt like the Republicans were sort of unarmed with all the lawfare. But now the America First Legal, which is a bunch of lawyers who go after things that Republicans want to go after... is just doing an amazing job. And right now they're going after Letitia James.

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And they filed a formal bar complaint with New York State Grievance Committee. Now, how many of you knew that there's a New York State Grievance Committee? Did you know that? There's a New York State Grievance Committee. Who needs a grievance committee? Well, I guess New York. Anyway, so the idea is they're trying to get her disbarred because of allegations of mortgage fraud.

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Now, the mortgage fraud has not been demonstrated in court. So she doesn't have any kind of a legal finding of that. But that's pending. And so I wonder if that's enough. But apparently there is some history. that if you're a lawyer and you do some mortgage fraud, you do get disbarred. So New York has historically disbarred attorneys who engage in mortgage fraud.

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So the odds of this turning into a disbarment are fairly good. The only thing I don't know is if they're going to wait for the courts to actually rule on it. It seems like they should wait for the court, but maybe they don't need to. Maybe if you're the bar, you can just say, well, we see the same thing that they would present in court, and it looks bad to us. I don't know. We'll see.

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Well, James Comey has given us a little more details about his version of 8647. Now, before I tell you what James Comey said, let me say what all of you are thinking. We can't trust what James Comey says about that 8647 thing. That's where he found the seashells. But here are the things that we think we know. Number one, he did not arrange those shells himself.

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Rather, he was walking on the beach with his wife, thinking about his new book. which was funny. He was on one of the shows on TV, and he's selling a new book. I've been in that situation where you have to make sure you mention the book before you run out of time. So he goes with, I was walking on the beach with my wife, thinking about my new book, and

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And then he says he or his wife noticed what they thought was an address. And the wife was saying, why would you have an address arranged in shells? Because they didn't know what the 8647 meant. Now remember, I'm only telling you what he said. I'm not telling you what I believe. Because, you know, not exactly the most credible source.

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It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Tremendous. Gets better every time. Well, I got to tell you, I had the best day yesterday. The strangest thing about yesterday is, if there's anybody here who didn't hear, I was talking about my own cancer situation. And that created a tsunami of love that I've never experienced before.

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But he says that his wife worked in restaurants, and based on her restaurant experience, 86 meant just get rid of. And then he said he had heard it only in the concept of telling people to get out of the place, you know, like leave a place. You know, 86, this guy, get him out of here, out of this room. And so that's his version. So he wasn't thinking of any hit man or mafia kind of use.

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He was just walking on the beach with his wife who worked in a restaurant. Now, I went to Grok, and I asked if there's any evidence she worked in a restaurant, and he said, not really. But, of course, that wouldn't necessarily be on your resume or anything. So we don't know what's true, but we know that's his story, and he's going to stick to it.

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Well, as I've said to you before, Trump is the best naughty talker of all presidents ever. The things he gets away with, and I think at this point he's just having fun with it because he doesn't have to get elected again. So Trump says stuff that no president should ever say. So here's his latest one. He was talking to some smallish group indoors. I don't know who it was.

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And he was talking about how in his first term, he arranged that the United States would get the World Cup and also the Olympics. And then he realized that he wouldn't be president when that stuff happened. And he thought, oh, man, I'm not going to get the credit for getting the World Cup and the Olympics. And then he said, and this is a direct quote, and then they rigged the election.

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And then I said, you know what I'll do? I'll run again and I'll shove it up their ass. And that's what I did. I'll shove it up their ass. Has any president ever said in a public situation, I'll shove it up somebody's ass? That's why we love him. All right. Well, there's more drip, drip, drip from this new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Is that coming out today? Is the book out today?

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It's real soon. But they're talking about how Biden was relying on teleprompters and notecards. even in cabinet meetings. So we've seen Trump's cabinet meetings where everything's open and he's just responding to anything, anytime. But apparently the staff for Biden were so concerned about his answers that he had all the questions scripted.

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And then the answers were on little note cards or teleprompters, depending on what domain he was in. Can you imagine having a president who is so mentally incompetent that you have to give him the question and the answer? It's not just the question. It's the question and the answer on a little note card so he can read it.

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And then we also heard that they would use more than one camera when he was asked to do any kind of little video recording for anybody. So when a group asked Biden to record a five-minute address or a keynote, they would tell him, well, can we give you two minutes? Because five minutes is sort of a long time. And then they would use two cameras

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so that when he glitched, which he did all the time, they would just cut to the other camera, and then they could easily edit out the glitch, just have him do it again. So that's called a jump cut. Now, here's the funny part about this story. The funniest part about this story is that if they had removed Biden...

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Episode 2782 CWSA 03/18/25

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Literally, they say the same things because they have the same script and everything. So attacking Trump doesn't get them any attention at all. But attacking their own team Well, I'm talking about it now.

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So the thing that's happening with the Democrats is the more they hate Trump, which seems to increase every day, the more they hate Trump, the more they hate the Democrat Party for not fighting Trump. So that's called a death spiral or circling the drain.

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If the more you hate your opponent makes you hate your own team even more for not doing enough to hate the opponent and do something about it, that looks unrecoverable. It just looks like everything's just going to keep getting worse for the Democrats. Death spiral.

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And I don't know why it's so funny, but the Democrats' complete lack of awareness and complete lack of talent at this point, it just is funny. So Don Lemon was on Bill Maher's Club Random, and Don Lemon said that he was talking about who the leaders of the Democrat Party are or should be. He says, people love AOC, Jasmine Crockett and Eric Swalwell.

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Democrats should prioritize putting them out there more. That's right, Don. You're totally right. We'd like to see more AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and Eric Swalwell. Please. I would like that. Because that's a lot like giving up. In fact, that's exactly like giving up. Because the more we see these three characters... the lower the approval will be for Democrats.

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And how could Don Lemon not be aware of that? Do you think he really doesn't know what people think of those three characters?

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I guess AOC is now polling at the top to be the closest thing to the Democrat views, according to some polls. So good luck with that, Democrats. Good luck. All right, so I told you I was going to be optimistic today. So we know that Trump is absolutely demolishing the Democrats in the polling.

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Have you heard the Democrats complaining about egg prices lately?

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So the Democrat Party looks like the worst it's been forever, and Trump remains at what looks like a high point for Trump. So he's at a high point of popularity for himself while they're at a low point. But could it get worse for Democrats? Well, let's walk through a couple of what-ifs. What if the whole tariff situation works out perfectly? Now, I'm not predicting it, but it's possible.

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What if, as Kevin O'Leary points out, he was on Gottfeld, He says, every single tariff scheduled on every product in every country has never been looked at this way. He's talking about the reciprocal tariffs and all the other tariffs. He goes, what happens? Both sides look at each other and say, how about no tariffs?

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Have the Democrats been complaining about gas prices lately?

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Because tariffing each other just will lead to ruin because we'll increase ours, they'll increase theirs. And then apparently Scott Besant has already said that going into April 2nd, now some of our most imbalanced trading partners come forward and want to drop their tariffs.

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So what Kevin O'Leary is saying is that the tariff threat is going to cause countries to simply negotiate what should have been the tariff situation in the first place, which is no tariffs. So what if that's what happens? And what if it happens before summer?

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And what if all the noise that Democrats made about tariffs ruining the world turned into nothing but other countries removing their tariffs, and we do too? That would be one of the greatest economic plays of all time. And I'm not going to predict it's going to happen, because there's lots of complexity there, but there's a really good chance

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Now, I don't know what Trump did or did not do that would have affected either of these things. Maybe it's just the market adjusting. And maybe it was just going to happen on its own. But the way it works is the incumbent always gets credit and always gets blamed. So if we play by those rules, Trump gets the credit.

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There's something sort of directionally like that will happen, that you'll never see any serious inflation because the risk of tariffs did all the work. We didn't need the tariffs. We just needed the threat of tariffs. And that would be a perfect Trump outcome. Now, remember, I always say that Trump doesn't bluff. he will definitely tariff your ass.

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So if you decide that you want to fight it out, well, good luck. He's just going to tariff you into oblivion. And he really will, and it's not a bluff. So all the smart people are going to say, you know what would be better? How about if we just try to compete? Something like that. So what if tariffs work out? Here's another one. What if everything about Doge works out?

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What if Doge actually solves our biggest existential threat, which is runaway spending? It could. I mean, they're seemingly doing the right stuff to make that happen and seemingly making lots of progress. Now, there's lots more to go. They're nowhere near getting rid of a trillion or two dollars. but boy, do they have a grip on things. So I feel like Elon Musk and his Doge team are like pit bulls.

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And so the real question is, did they close their jaws on this thing? And I think the answer is yes. So you can't predict exactly where the Doge thing will end up, but I think they're in full pit bull mode We've got your ass in our grip right now, and we're not letting go ever. So what if Doge works out? Do you know what the history books will not say about Doge if it all works out?

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Here's what the history books will not say. You know, I thought they used a little too much chainsaw and not enough scalpel. Just think about it. All that matters with Doge is does it work? We're not going to care in the long run whether there were some imperfections. We're not going to really care if the Democrats said, oh, it's too chainsaw-y, not enough scalpel.

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Nobody's going to care about any of that. They're going to care, did you save the country from an existential debt problem? Yes or no? If the answer is yes... doge will go down in history as one of the greatest things that ever happened and one of the most difficult most challenging and most i could argue even most patriotic because what musk is doing is the ultimate patriotic act

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He's putting his physical body at risk. This is dangerous stuff. He's putting his other businesses at tremendous risk. And he's doing it because the alternative is we all die. That's the ultimate patriotic act. You can't be more patriotic than that. The full self-sacrifice for a life and death situation that would affect billions because it would be more than the US if we go down.

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But one thing that didn't happen is we're not seeing the tariffs or anything else increasing the cost of those basics. So has anybody seen any costs go up because of tariffs? I have not. So we'll see. In other good news, do you remember there were a couple of IRS whistleblowers who were wanted to investigate Hunter Biden, but they were told they couldn't do it and they were ostracized.

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So tariffs might work out and Doge might work out and both of them seem to be trending positive. What if they do? So then you would have Trump not causing inflation and inflation coming down. You would have trade deals improved. You would have Doge not just cutting costs, but maybe regulations as well. So just imagine that world. Our energy businesses are fully unfettered.

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we stop being completely crippled by weird climate change assumptions we fix our international tariff situation and we reduce our debt that's all completely doable you know you can't yet can't yet predict that it's all going to go right but it's all heading in the right direction and the right people are working on it and doing the right things about it

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Episode 2782 CWSA 03/18/25

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I've got a prediction that by the third year of the Trump presidency, everything's going to kick in. Because a lot of this stuff is kind of slow. It takes a while to work its way through the system. Elon Musk was on, I think it was a Ted Cruz podcast. And he said that... They've discovered a bunch of magic money computers at the Treasury. Magic money computers.

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And I'll do the best to explain what that is. So this is Elon Musk's explanation. He said, you would think the government computers all talk to each other and are synchronized. And the numbers you see are real numbers. You know, they're not magic money computers. But But apparently the magic money computers are computers that just make money on a thin air. They just issue payments.

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So they don't check to see if money exists. They just issue the payments. So if they issue the payments, it's like the money existed. They're mostly at the Treasury. Some are at Health and Human Services and some at the state and DOD. But they found 14 magic money computers that just send out money and have nothing. So how important is it that he found the magic money computers? Oh, my God.

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The things that Doge has already discovered, you know, dismantling the whole NGO. Well, I hope that's what happens, but at least we understand what the NGO situation was. The USAID situation, all what looks like a massive money laundering scheme and a power, sort of a power scheme for Democrats. What if we unwind all of that? Because it looks like we might. I don't know.

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All of it might be too much. Meanwhile, there's a discovery at the University of Texas at Austin. Mario Noffel is reporting on this. We've discovered over $8 billion of rare earth in the U.S., They could end our dependence on China. But are you having the same feeling I am, which is $8 billion of rare earth? Feels like not nearly enough rare earth.

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But apparently what they found is that they can get into, there are coal ash landfills. So I didn't know we had coal ash landfills. But apparently those landfills aren't doing anything else useful. But if we dig through them, you can recover a whole bunch of rare earth materials from the coal ash landfills. I guess we got a bunch of them in the U.S. And the study was backed by the U.S.

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Department of Energy. So $8.4 billion doesn't seem like enough, does it? It seems like the headline and the numbers don't match. that somehow this is going to make us nearly independent from Chinese rare earth materials, but only $8 billion? I don't know. It just feels low. Meanwhile, MSNBC host Simone Sanders, Townsend.

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she decided that the Democrats are so lame, her party, that she's been advising for and a central component of the party. She's decided she's leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent. How embarrassing do the Democrats have to become before Simone Sanders Townsend says publicly, I'm out? Because her world is Democrats. The primary thing she does is take jobs supporting Democrats.

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Didn't she work on Sanders' campaign and then Biden's campaign? Imagine somebody at that level of access and influence just saying, I'm out. Democrats, you've just lost it. So again, how do Democrats get attention? Mostly by attacking other Democrats. Here's another example. Let's talk about Iran and the Houthis.

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Episode 2782 CWSA 03/18/25

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Well, the two ostracized IRS whistleblowers just got promoted in the Treasury Department. So being a whistleblower is tough work and it's risky and they definitely paid for it. But according to the New York Post, both of them now promoted. All right. I like that. More good news. Even more good news. Ben Shapiro is going to host a five-part series called The Case for Derek Chauvin.

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There was a story that's been debunked that somehow an Iranian intelligence ship was sunk by U.S. forces, but apparently that didn't happen. That is fake news, I believe. But As you know, we're bombing the Houthis because they're attacking ships in the Red Sea. And Trump has made some pretty direct threats to Iran because Iran backs the Houthis.

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So he's sort of saying that we're holding Iran responsible for everything the Houthis do. So that kind of suggests there might be some military plans against Iran. But that's not the most popular thing in the world. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants you to know that she opposes war in the Middle East. So she's not down with attacking Iran.

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I don't know if that means she's not down with the attacks on the Houthis, because she has a very narrow ambition, which is to make shipping cheaper. And Thomas Massey agrees with Marjorie Taylor Greene. How many of you, just in the comments, How many of you think our best play is to just completely withdraw any kind of action or support or military action in the Middle East?

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How many think that's our best play? Because I don't know.

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I was trying to think, what would happen if we just said, okay, I guess there's nothing we can do about the Red Sea being unavailable to us, so we'll just let our other competitors, our international competitors for trade, we'll just let them have really low costs because they don't get attacked, but we won't be able to use the low-cost shipping network.

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We'll use the expensive one, and we'll just always do that because the alternative would be war. Well, the way that the US has projected power in the past, and Mike Benz is great at explaining all this, is that our military was always sort of joined at the hip with our big corporations, meaning that it was far more likely that our military would get involved somewhere where

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If things went well, our big corporations would have more access to natural resources and more access to markets. So it's not unusual for us to do war-like things just to make our economics work better. It's a long history. We do that. So my trouble with attacking the Houthis is how could that possibly work?

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How could we possibly punish the Houthis to the point where there's not another Houthi willing to launch another missile? Because we're not going to kill every single Houthi. And if you have one left, the Iranians are going to say, hey, you one Houthi who's left, you want to shoot a rocket? We'll put it there and we'll teach you how to use it. You just push this button.

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I don't think the Houthis can be stopped because we're not really used to enemies that don't care about dying and have some larger purpose that's beyond survival, we don't really know how to deal with that. And the Middle East is full of that. So what do you do? I don't know. But meanwhile, the least surprising thing in the Middle East is that the Gaza ceasefire didn't hold.

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Do you think there's anybody here who couldn't predict that the Gaza ceasefire wouldn't hold? Did you think that the Hamas was going to give back all the hostages? Did anybody think they were going to do that? No. So it was pretty much guaranteed that even if we got a few hostages back, the ceasefire wasn't going to hold because either they would not give us back the hostages or something.

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Now, there's also some reporting that says that Israel thinks there was going to be another October 7th-like attack. Well, I don't know about that, but maybe. Maybe they were planning that. And so I guess more than 400 people were killed, according to one unreliable report. But it's getting pretty brutal. And would you like to hear the alternative to basically killing every person in Gaza?

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So what would be the alternative? Well, Egypt has a proposal for what to do with Gaza, and it's backed by Saudi Arabia. So let me see if you think this is a practical proposal. So they would bring in thousands of mobile homes to put the Gaza displaced people in, and they would be safely in their little homes while Gaza is cleaned up and services are restored.

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So The Daily Wire will have that content. So Derek Chauvin, as you know, the one who's in jail for allegedly killing George Floyd, So Ben Shapiro has decided to sort of take on this, what I would call a great injustice, because I think he was just, I think it was just a racial outcome. We'll see if that makes a difference.

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So that would take a long time, but they would happily be in their mobile homes. off-site, so they wouldn't be in Gaza, but they'd be nearby. And they would encourage Hamas to talk with the Palestinian Authority, the people in charge of the other Palestinians who were not in Gaza. And between them, they would set up some kind of a

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government or a governing structure that would be more of a technocrat cabinet meaning it wouldn't be you know hardline anything it would just be people who know how to keep the lights on so they would be technocrats what do you think of that and then oh and then they would eventually negotiate the creation of a palestinian state um

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There's really no chance any of that's going to happen because Israel seems to be quite dead set on the fact that no Hamas is ever going to go back into Gaza or have any extra power in any other area around them. So there's really no chance. that Israel would ever allow this to happen.

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Because if even three Hamas leaders are all that's left and every other person is killed, they're still not going to let the three into any kind of a government power position. And I think the Hamas wants to maintain its military. Do you see any possibility that Israel will say, okay, okay, it looks like you've learned your lesson so you can keep what's left of your military? Not a chance.

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The Hamas leaders and the Hamas military are going to be ground down to nothing or else Israel is not going to feel like they're done. And again, if you're new to me, I'm not backing Israel. I'm just observing. So I don't support Israel or back it because it's not my country. And even though they're allies, that doesn't mean we have to agree with everything they do.

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Sometimes you can just observe it and say, all right, if we were in that situation, what would we be doing? And since I don't see much difference between what they're doing and what we would do in the same situation, I'm not condemning it because countries do what's in their best interest. And Israel is definitely doing what they perceive to be in their best interest.

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So when countries are doing what's in their best interest, That's not a moral, ethical, you know, who do you like situation. It's just, oh, of course, they're doing what's in their best interest. They have the power. So they're getting over on the other side.

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If Hamas had all the power, don't you think they would be destroying Israel and doing a lot of bad things out of what they would think is revenge? Of course they would. And I wouldn't be in favor of that either. So it's not whether I'm in favor of anything. So this is important. I'm not in favor of anything, and I'm not against anything. I'm just observing.

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And if Israel is doing what Israel thinks is in their best national interest, what would you expect them to do? Should they act not in their best interest? So I don't have anything to say about that. It's just an observation. We're just watching, basically. The only question we have is what involvement we want.

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So I think Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey would probably say about a little less involvement over there, or maybe a lot less. And it's good we have those voices, even if you don't agree with them. It would be scary if everybody in the United States Congress said, oh, yeah, maximum attack. Don't want that.

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All right, in other news, Trump has revoked the Secret Service detail for both Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden. Hunter Biden, as we found out from Laura Loomer, who's got the exclusive on this, she found out that Hunter Biden was living, at least for now, in South Africa, and he had up to 18 Secret Service people on his detail who had to also be in South Africa because that's where he is.

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Now he's, Ben Shapiro explains that there are some federal charges, but there are also the state charges. So Trump couldn't pardon any state charges. So I don't think there's any chance Derek Chauvin will get out of jail.

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Do you know how expensive it would be to keep 18 Secret Service people employed and fed and housed at a seaside resort? Now, I don't know where their rooms are, but that's where Hunter is. Anyway, so Hunter got loomered, as we like to say. Laura Loomer basically took away his Secret Service detail. Now, Trump is the one who did it, but Nobody knew where it was until Laura Loomer got that scoop.

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So you probably heard that Trump has declared a void. the preemptive pardons that Joe Biden did before he left office. And the thinking is that they were signed by the auto pen and that Biden was not mentally capable to know what he was doing and therefore they're not valid. Now, I don't think there's any chance. Well, what Trump says, he says, is not my decision. It'll be up to the court.

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But I would say that they're null and void, meaning the pardons. Now, I like the way he's caging it. Because Trump has been consistent in obeying the court. The one time he didn't was with the Trenda, Iragua, Venezuelans he was sending back in the plains. But his argument is that they were already in international waters, so the judge's ruling didn't apply.

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So that's the closest he's been to, let's say, refusing the court's orders. But he has an argument, which again... could be resolved by a higher court. So as long as Trump stays in the world which says, if the court tells me I have to do something, I'll do it. It's a lot less dictatorial, right?

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If he was saying, I don't care what the court says, I'm going to void these pardons, I would say, okay, that's too far. I'm not cool with that. But if he says, I have this opinion, but it would have to be validated by the courts,

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or at least not stopped by the courts, then I say, okay, that's a bold and provocative thing you're looking at there, but you're not breaking any laws because you get to interpret things as the chief executive and the courts get to tell you if that was right or wrong or if it's going to fly. So as long as he's within the bounds of our system, I'm a little more supportive.

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Now, I don't think that he thinks he could win this in the courts because I don't see how the court would ever prove that Joe Biden didn't know what he was doing. That would be hard to prove. You'd be sort of proving a negative. It'd be one thing to prove he did know what he was doing, but how do you prove he didn't know? I don't know. Now, do you remember the story that Mike Johnson told

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But I like the fact that Ben is being so gutsy, and he's gutsy in the service of the right thing, meaning that if you're going to put yourself out there and you're going to take a risk, it should be for something important. And to me, this is pretty important because the Derek Chauvin thing was just, in my opinion, pure racism. And so if he can get that fixed, that would be great.

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where he met with Biden when Biden was president. And he asked him, why did you sign this thing that I think had to do with natural gas? Why did you sign this thing that's bad for Louisiana? And Biden said, I didn't do that. And Mike Johnson said, you definitely did that. You just did that. And then Biden called in his assistants and said, did I do that? And then with a little bit of digging...

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found out, yes, he had signed something that he was not aware of. Now, that's Mike Johnson's telling of it. Have you heard the Democrat telling of that same story? I did not until I asked, until I brought it up with my smart Democrat friend. So I've got a smart Democrat friend. I said, well, you know, that thing about the auto pen

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It's not insane because of that Mike Johnson story suggests that Biden didn't know what he was signing, which means maybe the auto pen signed that thing that he didn't know about. But here's the Democrat version of that story. The part that Mike Johnson was complaining about was a small part of a larger, more complicated bill. And so if you missed...

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that this larger, more complicated bill that people are not complaining about in general had this one negative thing for Louisiana, that that would have been easy to miss. And as soon as Biden was informed, oh, there was this unintended consequence with this detail that you maybe were not aware of, then Biden reversed at least the Louisiana part of it. Now, does that sound true to you?

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It's a pretty good defense, but here's my question. Do you think that Bill Clinton would have made that mistake? Or would he have asked enough questions and understood it well enough to know what he was signing and to know it would influence maybe Louisiana in a bad way? I don't know. What about Obama?

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Do you think Obama would have not noticed he was signing something that had a downside that wasn't obvious? I don't know. So without really digging into what that bill was and forming my own opinion, I'm going to say it's pretty good defense from the Democrat side. If that's your argument, pretty good. I don't know what's true. I don't know if a reasonable person would have easily caught it.

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I don't know. But at least they have a defense. Stephen Miller was on TV on the news talking about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. That's the one that... Trump used to deport the Venezuelan gangs. And apparently the trick here is that it has to be something coming from a nation, not just a gang.

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But there's some kind of documentation that shows that Venezuela intentionally was sending the bad people to the U.S.,

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Now, if Venezuela, which would feel itself sort of an enemy to the United States based on current interactions, if they're an enemy to the United States and they did something that's bad for the United States by sending in armed killers, then is that close enough to being an alien enemy? Is that a stretch? Well, again, I suppose if the courts stopped it, then Trump would stop it.

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But they got clever and they made sure that the plane was in international waters before any rulings came down. But speaking of getting lumered, turns out that the judge who tried to reverse the planes and say, no, you can't send these people away. I don't think the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 applies to this situation. So turn those planes around even if they're in the air.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. So good. Well, do you want to talk about mostly good news today? How about a day of mostly good news? All right. Number one, good news.

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Would you be surprised to learn that the judge's daughter is heavily involved in leftist politics? Would you be surprised to learn that the judge's spouse is super involved, like really activist? Both his wife and his daughter are total anti-Trumpers. Now, do you think he should have recused himself? Because same judge was involved in, what was he involved in? He was involved in FOIA stuff.

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You want an update on Fannie Willis, you know, the D.A. who is going after Trump? Well, there was a part of that process where she was asked to produce some records and she didn't. decided not to, and now she's being fined by the court for $54,000 to pay for, I guess, lawyer fees and other stuff. So Fannie Willis did not put Trump in jail, but it just cost her $54,000. So that's good news.

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He was involved in Ray Epps stuff. And that judge that made that ruling apparently attended at least one of Trump's trials in person and stood in the back to watch what happened. Now, how many judges go to other trials to watch them? This guy was so... Oh, yeah. This guy was so deeply anti-Trump and his wife and his daughter that conflict of interest doesn't even come close.

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This is like the ultimate conflict of interest. Just absurd, ridiculous conflict of interest. And so Laura Loomer had the goods on the daughter. And so that judge is getting loomered. We're making that, Laura makes that a verb. I like it. I'm getting lumered. Anyway, so today is the day that Trump is going to have a phone call with Putin.

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I don't know about the time zones, so perhaps that's already happened. I feel like it would happen early in the day on our side. So I don't know if it's happened, but I'm not seeing a great hope that a deal will be made right away. It doesn't seem to me that one phone call is going to work it out.

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Now, we have been getting indications from the Trump administration that they're close, close, close to some kind of a deal. But I don't think so. I feel like that might be just optimism and that there's always going to be a new wrinkle. But I'll tell you something I saw on the podcast Trigonometry, which is one of the great podcasts out there. So the Trigonometry duo had Boris Johnson on.

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And I had never heard this view of the Ukraine-Russia situation. Now, you know, Democrats say, Democrats say some people say it's obvious that Russia started the war because they militarily crossed the border with the military, with, you know, with forces. So so a lot of people say that's the start of the war. So they're to blame. But then other people say, oh, wait a minute.

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They had warned long ago that if Ukraine was looking at being a NATO member, that that was a red line and that would force military action. So really, you could blame the United States and Europe for creating a situation that guaranteed he would attack because he said under no situation are you going to put this other NATO country on my doorstep.

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But then Boris Johnson has a third interpretation, which is that long before the actual military actions,

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Putin had said in writing, and I guess he said it a number of times, that his ambition basically was to take over Ukraine, and that he had arguments about the history and why it all makes sense and why they're really part of Russia, and that the NATO membership, according to Boris Johnson, was never imminent, meaning that maybe it might happen in 20 years,

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but there was nothing happening in Ukraine that would make the NATO country say, yeah, why don't you join NATO? So his take is that Russia simply used the NATO thing as a pretext to do the thing he was going to do one way or another. And I say to myself, huh, I can't rule that out. So have you ever heard that take?

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I've heard mostly takes about how we poked Russia by threatening NATO, and that would mean missiles that are too close to them and all kinds of stuff, and that it's basically our fault. And I've been taking that view. I've been taking the view that if you poke the bear, you can't say the bear started the fight when the bear kills you. Even though the bear started the violence,

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It didn't really start the fight. It was you poking it with a stick. But if you imagine that the stick poking was all a fake premise and that there was never really any stick poking potential, it was just talk of a stick, then it does kind of support the idea that Putin just wanted to control as much as he could that made sense historically anyway. So I'll just put that out there.

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It's just weird that I'd never heard that take before. So I guess I blame myself for being under-informed about that. So I'm going to bet against a speedy peace deal. I think there's going to be a lot more

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negotiating and it might take weeks or months we'll see we might have at least one false deal like we might have at least one false positive where where the news says yes a deal has been agreed to in principle and then 24 hours later this would be the most common thing 24 hours later russia will say we didn't agree to that right or or vice versa

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Russia will say, well, you agreed to give us Crimea. And then we'd say, we didn't agree to that. So I feel like there's going to be at least one fake news report that says, yes, everything's worked out. Peace is coming. And then one side or the other will say, no, that didn't happen. That's totally made up. So apparently not too long ago, Ukraine did a fully automated attack.

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So allegedly, sometime today, Trump will be releasing all in quotes, all the JFK files. Do you believe that? So 80,000 pages, and he wants it to be all unredacted. How many of you believe that the JFK files will be released, they'll be unredacted, and they'll be complete, and there'll be something in there that we didn't know that matters? Not a chance. Not a chance.

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which was only robots and drones, and it was successful. So they beat back some Russians in at least one place. So it makes me wonder if since Trump, what does this say? I'm seeing a message from Kash Patel. Oh, wow. So Kash Patel says he's arrested some big cartel member from Mexico. All right, good. One less cartel member. Good for that.

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So maybe the peacekeeping force in Ukraine will be robots. Would Russia like that any more than they would like your European boots on the ground? I don't know. So I don't see a deal happening right away. Apparently on the border, speaking of the border, the Mexican border, So Trump's putting in some more high tech radar to spot their drones. That's good.

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You know, I told you the other day that fentanyl is way down, or at least the amount they've caught is way down. And I don't think that's because the border is more secure. There's something else going on. So I've got a feeling that maybe our special forces or our spooks or something are making a big difference in the lab production in Mexico.

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So I think they're disrupting the labs, and that's what's happening. I don't think it's the border itself that's making a difference. Because almost all the fentanyl comes through legal checkpoints and just regular automobiles because they don't check them all. So that's all it takes.

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Well, if they only check two out of ten, and it's cheap to make the fentanyl, so if you lose a shipment, it's no big deal. You just make more. Yeah, I don't see that the border enforcement made any difference, but we'll see. Meanwhile, HUD, HUD, the housing group, and Secretary of the Interior plan to use federal lands for affordable housing.

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner's added that, and the Department of Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum's outfit, they're going to work together to figure out if there's some federal land that could be used for low-income housing. Now, I don't want to be negative Nelly, but here's what I know about human beings.

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If I said to you, hey, how would you like to leave your terrible situation in this urban area and move to, well, you'll be in the middle of Idaho, but you'll be on federal land. It'll be awesome. Like you'll have your own place. How many people would say yes to that?

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even if their current situation was dire and they were sleeping on the couch and they didn't have any way to build a life for themselves and they may or may not be on drugs and they may or may not be in a gang, how many of them are going to say, yeah, yeah, I think I'll move to Idaho and get on that federal land and get myself a nice little house and build myself a nice little life?

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I feel like nobody. Nobody. Because people live where they live because of the other people who live where they live. Would you give up all of your friends and the ability to easily see family members so you could get a cheap house on government land? I don't know anybody would do that, even if their current situation was pretty, pretty bad.

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So on one hand, I applaud the effort because we should just try everything. And maybe in the process, we figure out what works and why it works. And maybe you have to move the whole family. Maybe people would agree as groups. They'd say, look, We'll move there if you move there. So we'll have our friends and our family there. Maybe.

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So there's definitely a way it could work, but there are also 10 ways it won't work. And the other possibility is people from low income, if they move into this nice area, how long will it stay nice? Will they have the resources to even maintain it? That sort of thing. Where will they work? I mean, the federal lands are not going to be close to jobs.

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So I have a lot of questions, but I'm also 100% in favor of let's try it. You know, I like the Trump world entrepreneurial kind of vibe, which is we don't know if this will work, but who's got a better idea? And nobody has a better idea.

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So if the only thing that came out of it, for example, if the only thing that came out of that was we learned how to make really inexpensive homes, well, then we could take that knowledge and move it somewhere else. So I'm all in, but I don't think it'll be straightforward. It's going to be a tough one, tough climb. Well, the Chinese scientists, according to the South China Morning Post,

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have figured out how to turn the cancer tumors in your body into something that your body recognizes as pork. Let me say it again. Chinese scientists claim that they figured out how to turn your cancer tumors into something that the rest of your body will identify as pork, as in coming from a pig.

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If anything was in there that mattered, that would have been taken out of there so long ago. I mean, there's no part of me that thinks there's any possibility that we're going to read these documents and it's going to say something like, oh, wow, the CIA worked with the mafia, or it was actually the Federal Reserve decided to kill Kennedy, or it was some foreign country.

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And the reason is that when something, if you get a transplant from a pig heart, which is something that's happened, you would have to give that person all kinds of drugs for it not to be rejected. Because the human body just recognizes, wait a minute, that's not human. You got some pig stuff in me. So I'm going to reject that heart or that organ.

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So the cleverness here is that if you can make your body think that the tumor is pork and the body will reject the cancer. Now, almost every day I tell you there's some new cancer breakthrough that never turns out to be real. So I don't think this is any more likely than any other, but hey, maybe. All right. I promise you it would be mostly good news today, and I think it is.

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Economically, I think things are moving in the right direction. Biggest problem now is how do we stay out of a major war in the Middle East? I don't see any way we could win one. So on one hand, there's no way we're going to completely destroy Iran or make them join our side or be our ally. There's no way we're going to get rid of all of the Houthis. So what exactly are we going to do?

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Can anybody describe an end state? where bombing the Houthis turns into a good situation where all the shipping is unchallenged after that. I can't even imagine it. So what would happen if we took the non-war path? We said, all right, if you guys are willing to do war and we're not, we're just going to have to get out of town. So we'll just pay 50% more for shipping for all American goods

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compared to what all the other countries do? I don't know. We have two completely unacceptable situations. So this is a tough one. If Trump can navigate this and get some kind of a good outcome for the Houthi situation, and I just can't even imagine it. I just think the Houthis have an unbeatable situation. And if you destroyed 99% of them, it would make no difference.

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It was the 1% would get new rockets tomorrow and then they would recruit some more and just keep going. So there's that, but economically I think things are heading in the right direction. That's good. The stock market of course is just worried about the churn and the, you know, the uncertainty. But if you took away the uncertainty, which will seemingly take care of itself in several months.

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I think we're fine, but we'll see. All right. I'm going to say bye to X and YouTube and Rumble. I'm going to talk privately to the subscribers on Locals. Thanks, everybody, for joining. Local subscribers, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds.

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No, that's not going to be there. Probably whatever the Warren Report reported. It'll be just something to back that up. So don't expect much. Well, Harvard has announced that they're going to be tuition-free for students who come from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the coming year. So imagine going to Harvard for free. because your family made $200,000 or less.

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Now, probably that sounds to you like, wow, how are they going to make money? But I'm not sure about this, but I'll bet there aren't that many people who apply to Harvard who do not have parents who are making, between the two of them, $200,000 or more. I'll bet there are not a lot of people in that category.

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Because by the time you had enough, let's say, scholastic support to be qualified to go to Harvard, it says something about your socioeconomic situation. So there's not going to be a lot of people applying who totally are qualified, and yet their parents make less than $200,000. But here's my question. Are white males included in this? It kind of doesn't say, does it?

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So you know that DEI was a big thing, but now the universities are trying to pretend they're not doing DEI. So is this just a backdoor DEI play? Do you think that they're going to accept basically white guys who qualify totally and they're going to give them free educations if their family income is under $200,000?

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I'm going to say I'd believe that when I see it, but I'm not prepared to believe it just by assumption. To me, I would expect that Harvard would continue to be racist and that it would show itself in this policy as well. There's no reporting on that. There's no indication they'll be racist. But given that they have a long racist past, what would you expect? All right, here's some fake news.

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The Associated Press had to withdraw their own story. They had a story that said that Tulsi Gabbard had said that Trump and Putin are very good friends. Do you remember seeing that story? I saw it when it was new, and I swear to God, as soon as I read it, I said, eh, fake news, and didn't even think about it again because it seemed so obviously fake news.

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Well, it turns out that Tulsi was talking about Indian Prime Minister Modi. And so it was fake news. And now the AP is withdrawing their story. That's kind of a big one to get wrong. You know, the difference between Trump is best friends with the Prime Minister Modi, you know, one of our more important allies, versus he's best friends with Putin. That's a really big difference.

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really big meanwhile the swattings continue so you probably know on if you're on x you probably know juanita broderick so she has swatted so about 10 police and swat teams showed up at her house man that is not funny let me tell you um so far nobody's been hurt So I'm going to give police some credit for that.

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The astronauts should be back sometime later this afternoon. Wilmore and Williams, and they're aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. And if everything goes well, Elon Musk will have one of the greatest saves of all time. Sort of legendary. There was only one person in the world who could have saved those astronauts. His company, that is. And it's sure looking good.

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But I think it was yesterday or the night before, there was a gentleman who, I don't know, but somebody who must have been in the podcasting business, who got swatted. And when he tells his story, oh my God, is it chilling. So imagine if you will, that you hear a noise or your video camera picks up something and you know there's somebody sort of outside your door.

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And apparently he could see the silhouette of a male carrying a rifle who was basically trying his doorknob.

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and he was armed and he had a dog that looked like maybe the dog could take care of business too so this was a conservative guy who took him about 10 seconds to find his own weapon and he had somebody who with a silhouette of a rifle trying to enter his home without any announcement you know no bullhorns no no nothing

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Now, the good news is that he asked who they were before he opened fire, and they identified themselves as police, and that everything was fine. So there were no problems. But you can't get any closer to dead than that. That's as close as you can get to dead. So This swatting stuff, I sure hope there's a way to find out who's doing it so we can get some of them in jail. It's really deserving.

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Anyway, a bunch of lawmakers in, where is it, Wisconsin? I think it's Wisconsin, are trying to make it part of the medical definition that Trump derangement syndrome would be defined as a mental illness. And the symptoms would include Trump-induced general hysteria, inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology.

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Now, I don't think there's any chance that that will become law, but it's hilarious. It's hilarious that it's being presented. And by the way, I think it is a mental illness. So it's not hilarious because it's just a prank. It's hilarious because it's true that if we took any of this seriously, we would have Trump derangement syndrome listed as an actual mental illness.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank, a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask. a vessel of any kind.

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because if you've been paying attention, it's definitely a mental illness. I mean, if you know anybody who has it, you know what I'm talking about. It's not normal. It doesn't help their life. It makes them deeply unhappy and nothing that they see makes sense. So they're hallucinating and full of anxiety and depression. And I mean, that's the very definition of a mental illness.

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So that's not going anywhere, but it's funny. Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg on The View, she said that if Trump can deport terrorists, he can deport any one of us. Let me check the logic. If he can deport a terrorist, then he can deport anybody. Let's see if we can take that

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that logic up a level so if you can put a murderer in jail for murder you could put anybody in jail for anything if you can send a missile at the hoodies well what's to stop you from sending a missile at the view if you can I think you see where this is going.

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What kind of dumbass analysis is it to say that if you can deport a terrorist or somebody that you think is leading in that direction or supporting the terrorists, that you can deport any one of us? I don't know. Sounds a little like Trump derangement syndrome, perhaps. Anyway, Virginia Kruta at the Daily Wire is reporting on that.

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I don't know if you saw it, but on CNN, Harry Enten, their polling and data guy, was just having a wild time talking about how poorly Democrats are polling at the moment. So the Democrat Party. And I guess it's the record low approval for, I don't know, how many years it's been. And multiple polls are showing the same thing, just wildly low.

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So I don't want to get ahead of it, but everything looks good right now. So we might see that around 6 p.m.-ish Eastern time. In other news, did you know that gas is cheaper than a year ago and egg prices are collapsing? And those are the two things that people talked about the most when they talked about inflation. And both of them quite down.

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low opinions of the democrat party even you know even within the democrats um and then here's the funny part uh 65 percent of democrats say that they should stay principled uh even if nothing gets done so they'd rather stick to their principle no matter how bad that is for the world because they want to stick to their principle. Now, that's mental illness, isn't it?

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You know, that doesn't feel like, oh, you're such a guru. You're like the Buddha. You're sticking to your principle. Well, not if it just makes everything worse. You know, sometimes you got to negotiate with the people that you don't like. Anyway, so if you haven't seen yet John Stewart of The Daily Show mocking Chuck Schumer, oh my God, does he go at him brutally.

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Now, he's done it before, but he takes it to a whole new level. He's just absolutely savaging Chuck Schumer. Have you noticed that the only way Democrats can get attention in the current environment is to attack other Democrats? Have you noticed that? Because when they attack Trump, it's just background noise because they all attack Trump and they say the same things.

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comments all right we're ready Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. Never been a better time.

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Nothing. Suppose Dilbert says that? Nothing. Suppose Dilbert... And then I actually laugh. I go, okay, that's the one. So AI can't test as it goes to see if it's hitting the exact mark. But a human can. So what's that leave? The only thing that's left for AI is wordplay and puns. That's mostly wordplay. And reheated dad jokes. Because it has to be...

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completely inoffensive not dangerous not related to any stories that you've had not related to any personal experience just the most bland bland boring thing just dad jokes which are mostly wordplay so i don't see a path for ai to become funny i would love the challenge though so i'll reiterate my offer for one billion dollars I will help train your AI to be funny. $1 billion.

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Now, here's the funny part of that. And part of my offer is that if I can't do it and it's not funny, and whoever is going to pay me the billion can be the judge of that if it's not funny. If it's not funny, you owe me nothing. It's free. So that's pretty good service, right? Because if you had the first funny AI... You don't think you'd make an extra billion? Of course you would.

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If you could have an AI that was literally funny, like not the way the current ones are, that's worth probably lots of billions of dollars. So for $1 billion, I'll offer to make yours the only funny AI. We'll see. All right, James Carville is calling out Democrats for being super racist. You know, Carville's one of the few people I'd like to interview. You know, usually, oh, go to hell.

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Yeah, just go to hell. Looking at the comments. There's some people who are so toxic. that it's hard to understand. It's just hard to understand the level of toxicity. But just go straight to hell. You know who I'm talking to. All right.

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So James Carville said that when the Democrats refer to people of color, he says that's racist because it makes the assumption that people of color are all the same. And he uses the example, are you saying that the Nigerians and the Indonesians are basically the same? As long as they're not white, they're basically all just non-white people that are the same. And of course he's right.

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But I think it's way deeper than that. I think he's close to the answer. And the answer is that every single thing Democrats do is built in that identity model. So if you start with identity, it's going to be racist. Because that's what identity is. If you can't get rid of the identity politics, you'll never get rid of the racism that's built into the worldview.

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So James Carville is probably the most helpful person to the Democrats, and I would love to know if they're paying attention. I have a feeling that they're not, and that nothing he says matters because he's an old white guy, which, of course, might be his point, too. Well, Dr. Birx, remember Dr. Birx? He was Fauci's little right-hand person there.

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Now, of course, you know, I always say that 25% of the people in every poll, 25% will get totally the wrong answer, you know, if there's a right answer. And this is one that has a right answer. If you're trusting the media... you really haven't been paying attention. So yeah, about a quarter of every poll has exactly the wrong answer.

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And didn't you always suspect that they weren't telling you the truth? Now, some of this might be a repeat, but the Vigilant Fox did a good thread today putting it all together. So Birx has sort of been talking, and Here's some of the things we learned from Dr. Birx. So she was the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under the first Trump administration.

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So she admitted during a recent appearance on Piers Morgan. that the government botched the COVID response by overlooking early treatments. Early treatments, which would have been ivermectin? I don't know. So, but didn't we all know that? I feel like every single person in the public knew that something less than a vaccination, which was not really a vaccination, something less than a shot

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probably would make sense. It's amazing. I can't tell if they lied about it so that they could get the shots in it to everybody. It looks like that's what happened. Or did they actually not know? Or is it a motivated ignorance where they're sort of motivated to say there's nothing else that could work? I don't know. It's kind of a gray area. And she said...

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then she said that the claims from the biden administration that the the jabs of efficacy were based on hope not science so the idea that the shots would stop the transmission was never based on any science and and burke's actually says it was developed specifically to keep the most vulnerable people alive it wasn't it wasn't even designed to stop the spread Imagine finding that out now.

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This is the... Well, I would go further. So if they developed it not for people who were, let's say, young and healthy, and then they forced it on people that are young and healthy, I actually think the death penalty would be in order. I think you should be murdered. Well, no, not murdered. They'd have to go through the legal system. But if you lied to the public...

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about something that's definitely going to kill some of them and provide no benefit whatsoever. And they knew it because they developed the thing not to be necessary for young, healthy people. And that's what Berks is saying. She's basically saying they knew it wasn't for young people. And they also knew it wasn't going to stop the spread.

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And then they told us it was going to stop the spread, so you better give it to young people. That should be the death penalty. And the only reason it's not, I guess, is because we're not used to treating medical stuff like a crime. But this is way more like a crime than a medical treatment. To me, the domain is crime.

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If you say the domain is healthcare and sometimes you get some wrong, well, I don't want people to be punished for a good faith healthcare opinion that ends up being wrong. I don't want people punished for a mistake. But that's not what we're being reported on. That's not what's reported. What's reported is they knew exactly what they were doing and did it anyway.

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I would imagine that there are at least 20 people who should be subject to the death sentence for that. That would depend on what state and what you would call it. But this is murder. It's murder. Isn't it? if you know people are going to die and you do it anyway, and you know that it was not even meant for the purpose that you told everybody to do it, isn't that murder? I don't know.

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So I'm not sure how much of that is new. Most of you knew that, but to hear Burke say it out loud as the new element that they knew, because I was still open to the possibility that it was a fog of war situation and Maybe they didn't know what they were doing. They just hoped it would work. And she actually says that the thought that it would stop the spread was based on a hope.

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So there's a TV show, I think it's only on Apple TV, called Severance. And people kept mentioning it to me and saying, hey, why aren't you watching that Severance series? It's great. And I wasn't interested until Michael Malice described it as He said, Severance is superb. It's Lost meets Dilbert. And then I thought, well, I got to watch that.

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They could have mentioned that to us. How about they tell us next time if it's just a hope? Anyway. Meanwhile, over in Saudi Arabia, I guess Russia's top people are meeting with some of our taught people to talk about Ukraine. The fun part is that Zelensky and Europe were not invited. The parties which would have the most, you know, the most, you think the most interest.

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But then separately, I saw a note that Zelensky was invited, but not till Wednesday, tomorrow. Is that true? Was Zelensky belatedly invited? I'm seeing a yes, but I don't know if it's to that question or not. So I saw a report that said that, but I don't know about that. And one of the Russians says, the main thing is to begin a real normalization of relations between us and Washington.

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Now, I saw Ian Bremmer saying that if you don't invite Ukraine to the conversation about what happens in Ukraine... that can't possibly work. I'm paraphrasing, but I think that was the essence of it. That it's sort of a non-starter if Ukraine is not involved in the discussion of what happens to Ukraine. But one of the ideas that's being floated is that there would be an election in Ukraine.

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Do you invite the guy who canceled the elections so he can stay in power to help you decide whether there should be an election to remove him from power? I feel like Trump is just being practical, meaning that if you put Ukraine in the middle of this conversation, Ukraine will, I think, I think Ukraine would sabotage it.

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Because if you put Zelensky there, Zelensky's going to say, okay, I can't be out of power because then people will figure out what I did and I'm not going to survive. So you don't want the person who doesn't want Ukraine the war to end and doesn't want to be removed from power to be deciding how the war ends and how he is removed from power. Because I'm not sure he would get elected.

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But the funniest thing about this is that either Russia or the United States believes that there would be anything like a fair election. Do you think the United States is pushing for the election because we know we're going to rig it? So it doesn't matter if there's an election or not? I don't know. It feels like it. And do you think Russia could rig the election in Ukraine?

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Do you think they have that much reach at this point? Maybe. If Russia allegedly interfered with American elections, although I think in a very minor way, couldn't they have some influence on Ukraine? Probably. They must have lots of spies there by now.

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So I wonder how much of that is just for theater to make it look like there was a change of leadership, but really it's orchestrated from behind the curtain. Anyway, we'll see where that goes. CNN was talking about the drop in support for Ukraine. And I guess since 2022, the percentage of the U.S. that says the U.S. is doing too much to help Ukraine was only 7% in 2022.

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So only 7% thought we were doing too much to help Ukraine. And now it's up to 41%. And among the GOP, it's higher than 60%. So if you're President Trump and over 60% of the people who are your base say we're already doing too much, he needs to do a little less. And that's what he's aiming to do.

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And it's also weird because one of the actors is Adam Scott. Kind of weird, isn't it? That somebody would be in a show that has a Dilbert-esque part to it, and his name is Adam Scott. Well, I was all about ready to watch it until I saw some other people giving their comments about it. And now I'm not interested.

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You know, not including Zelensky sort of makes sense to me because he seems more like a puppet than a player. But not including Europe is funnier. Because Europe is such a mess that what is Europe? What exactly is Europe? Is it every country? Is it the European Union? Would they do a good job of representing Europe?

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Or would it be 15 new opinions thrown into a negotiation which couldn't possibly work? So here's something that Trump knows that I'm not sure everybody else knows. You can't negotiate with lots of people in the room. That's not a thing. Two people can negotiate. And then maybe if they come up with something, they can sell it to other people.

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But you can't put Europe and Zelensky and Russia and the United States in a room and come up with anything. You would come up with nothing. Guaranteed that wouldn't work. I apologize. I'm still recovering from a cold. So I think if Russia and the United States can make a comprehensive deal,

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that includes Ukraine, but maybe it includes other interests of the United States and Russia, so that we've got something bigger, something about the long-term relationship between the two countries. Then we've got something to present. Then you go to Europe and you say, how about this? Now, if at that point Europe says, no way, well, maybe they have some good points, maybe you learn something.

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Scott loved himself some Zelensky? I love it when people hallucinate opposite of my opinions. Can you tell me one time I was a Zelensky supporter? Not once. And you had somebody over in Rumble, oh, Scott loves Zelensky. Have I said anything like that? To me, he's obviously corrupt. Obviously corrupt. So fix your act.

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Byron York had a good summation of why the European leaders might not be invited. This is from his post on X. He said, European leaders are angry. They're not included in Ukraine talks. They feel there are no ideas, no agreement on how to proceed, but plenty of platitudes perspective would be a valuable part of the negotiations. Yes, we don't need platitudes. What would Europe say...

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that we don't think is obvious. We need to support Ukraine, otherwise Russia will overrun us. Okay, got it. How about we have the meeting without you now that we know everything you have to say? Well, you know, got to fight for democracy. Okay, platitudes, platitudes. We get it. We get it. So they don't really have anything to offer that I can say.

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Anyway, here's, according to some breaking news, the Mexican Senate has approved the entry of the United States Special Forces into Mexico. Now, when I read that headline, I thought to myself, oh, oh, I'm surprised because I thought there's no way that our Special Forces would be at least invited into Mexico. And then I realized what's really happening.

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You know, if somebody says, yeah, it's really slow and nothing happens, I'm not going to watch that. But I never watched Lost. So being half Dilbert is good. Being half Lost is sort of a reason not to watch it. So probably won't watch it. How many of you saw the putdown that J.D. Vance did on... Mehdi Hassan, who used to work at MSNBC, but I think he got fired or quit. I don't remember.

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When you first heard that US Special Forces were going to fight the cartel, did you think that was real? I think it was a real intention. I think when Trump said it, it was real. I also assumed that once he started to implement it, there would be some, let's say, internal counterpoints that would arise. And so let me tell you what I think was the worst case scenario.

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The worst case scenario is if we wanted to send in our special forces to crush the cartel, but instead Mexico talked us into training their own military with our special forces to go attack the cartels. And that's what it is. So the special forces are invited in not to fight, that's not approved by Mexico, but rather to train the Mexican military to be better at fighting the cartels.

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Now, you all see the problem with that, right? That's the worst case scenario. Because if you train the Mexican military how to fight the cartel, they can go get a job with a cartel that's way better than what they're getting paid to be in the military. And some say that that's what happened with the Zeta cartel. They got these people who were trained by special forces and then just became cartels.

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If you believe that the Mexican military was independent and intended to take out the cartels, well, then it might make sense. But given that the Mexican military doesn't seem to have any ability or even desire to take on the cartels, I kind of have to assume that the cartel already owns the military. So my worst case scenario seems to have come to pass.

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We're training Mexico how to resist military attacks. I don't think this could be worse, honestly. So I'm 100% opposed to training the Mexican military to be better, 100% opposed. And this looks to me like a gigantic mistake that probably started down as good intentions, but then when the real world got in the way,

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We're like, well, maybe the best we can do is train the Mexicans and then it will look like we're doing something, but really just making everything worse. So it looks like making everything worse to me. That's what it looks like. Also, apparently CNN is reporting that the CIA has been covertly flying these Reaper drones over Mexico.

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Now, the Reaper drones are not weaponized in this case, maybe ever, I don't know, but they're not weaponized. They're just observing. And I guess they've been doing that for a long time. But observing them doesn't seem to help, does it? And I feel like we probably already knew that some drones were doing some surveillance there.

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Did you see the video, the horrifying, shocking video of the Delta Connections flight that had a crash landing in Toronto at the airport? but it looks like it came in too heavy and just ripped its wings off and ended up upside down. And the amazing part is that 80 people were aboard the flight, but possibly only 18 got injuries.

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So there was a huge fireball, but it looks like the fireball kind of stayed mostly away from the cabin. And then there were images of the people getting off in the emergency. And it was pretty impressive. So the good news is, even though it landed upside down, when it was done, it was upside down. So were all those people strapped in upside down?

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In other words, by the time they had to get out, were they literally trying to figure out how to get their seatbelts off? Because it'd be pretty hard if you're upside down. So if that happened to me, I would never fly again. There's not a single chance that I would ever get on an airplane if I had been on that flight. My goodness. Unless you want to play the odds.

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If you play the odds, you would say, well, what are the odds I'd be in two plane crashes? Which actually is a good point. All right. I wasn't sure if I was going to talk about Doge today. Partly because I'm having Doge dreams that are really unpleasant. And the Doge dreams go like this. There's a big claim by Doge that they found some fraud or some waste.

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And then some other people say, no, you're reading it wrong. You just don't know how to look at the data. None of it's true. And then in my dream, I kept trying to figure out what was true. But of course, you can't because it's a dream. And I'm getting a little bit tired of it. Do any of you have doge burnout yet? Or is it just because I follow the news too much? I have complete doge burnout.

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All the stories have the same feel to them. We found some big problem, followed by other people saying, no, you didn't. You're being mistaken. You're looking at the wrong thing. And then I say, well, how do I know the difference? So here's the big one. Big one is that they found, let's see, $4.7 trillion in payments that are untraceable.

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But here's what Mehdi said. He said, hey, J.D. Vance. He said this on X. Hey, J.D. Vance, I know you're busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this? And it's a report about the AP being kicked out of the press briefings. And J.D. Vance answers with this on X. Now, this is the vice president I want. His first words. Yes, dummy. Yes, dummy.

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Now, if you hear that there's $4.7 trillion in intracable payments, the first thing you should say is, over what period of time? And it wasn't in the article. You really need to say every single time you talk about numbers. You have to say, is that for this year or over 10 years or over 20 years? Otherwise, it's meaningless.

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So the first thing I hate about the Doge stuff is they keep mixing one year of expense with multi-year. And then you don't really know what happens. So I'm really pissed off about that because it makes what would be useful stories not useful. Then the claim is that because it's untraceable, it is certainly some big source of fraud. That's not the claim. That's, let's say, the implication.

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But is it? Or is it something that's just poorly coded? Are we going to find out later that there was a way to track it

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it was in a different system or something like that so all of these have the fog of war problem where you think uh doge really got it now they got the they got the good stuff and then you hear that somebody else says no they just read it wrong i know and then there's also let's see there's also the thing with the social security numbers

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There's some social security database that has death fields set to zero or false, set to false, meaning that there's no death that would be measured even if the person died, which would suggest that people are using, I don't know, maybe expired, not expired, but social security numbers of dead people. But you don't know. Maybe. Because over at Reddit, they're saying,

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Now Doge is just reading the files wrong. They don't know how to look at a COBOL database, which seems unlikely that they don't know how to do that. So I'm getting these gigantic, really important-sounding stories, but I can't tell if any of it's true, and I'm getting a little worn out by it. So I might take a breather from reporting all the Doge stuff because I just don't know what's true.

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I do like that they're reporting everything they find as they find it, even if it's not 100% accurate or on point, because it's transparent. So I like the transparency, but it introduces all this error, which is, okay, that's your first take. What do the people who run that system say? I mean, are the people who are in charge of the system, do they say, yeah, you know, you got us.

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That's 4.7 trillion that we didn't track whatsoever. No idea where it went. Or would they say, you fool, there's a different code that we use for this kind of stuff. And it's right there. You just were looking in the wrong place. Could go either way. So I don't know. And then there's a question of whether we could find enough to balance the budget. My take is not even close.

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And I think Thomas Massey might be on the same page because the Congress is looking to increase, increase our debt by 25 trillion. Is that over a year or is that over time? Well, it's over time. But 10 years, I think.

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But I'm having trouble believing that the Congress is so useless that in the context of we have to cut our expenses, Doge is working as hard as possible, that in that context, they would be adding more expenses than I think Doge is even cutting. So unbelievable. We have a system where our elected politicians can only say yes to expenses. If they say no, they can't get elected.

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So we need to revise our system so that somebody is making decisions that can stick and somebody can make some cuts, but our Congress can't. There's no real hope of that. So we'll see. So apparently AI now has a brain decoder that can read a person's thought with a quick scan of an almost no training. So this is according to live science. Skyler Ware is writing about this.

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But if you want to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or microglass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So I assume this means they put sensors on your head and they try to read your thoughts and then they can turn it into text. Now, when you think about that, your first thought is, wow, so cool. Imagine if I could just think what I want to type and it appeared. And I'd say, that would be cool. Maybe if you had just some little hat or glasses or something, they could do that.

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I know COBOL's language. You don't have to explain it to me. I know there's no such thing as a COBOL database. You don't have to be dicks about it. Yeah. I think everybody on Rumble is toxic. I think all the worst people in the world are on that fucking platform. Anyway. So here's my question.

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I think there's a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the White House press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech. The former is not. Hope that helps. I like how helpful he is. Hey, dummy. Now, do you think that a vice president could have ever said, yes, dummy, to a member of the media before the Trump administration?

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Do you think if we have that technology and we refine it a little bit more, do you think that's what it's going to be used for? Do you think it'll be used for typing really quickly without using your fingers? I don't. I think it's going to be used for job interviews and lie detectors.

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Imagine having something that could turn your thoughts into text while you're being interviewed by the police or a prospective employer. And they say, all right, could you wear this hat? And I have some questions to ask. Have you ever done anything that's super racist? And then the person says, no, no, I've never done anything super racist. And then you're watching the text. I did this once thing.

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I was like, oh, my God. So I got a feeling that our thoughts are now in play. And I don't know how you get back from that because it's going to be so useful. If someone were lying to you in a job interview, knowing that would be worth a lot of money. If somebody's lying about what crime they committed, knowing that makes a big difference. You know, it's somebody's freedom.

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So yes, the economics of it guarantee that your brain will be read by sensors. Let's talk about the price of eggs. You know, I've been avoiding this price of eggs thing because I just figure it takes care of itself. You know, supply and demand plus time takes care of itself. Now, it's bad while it's happening, so I'm not minimizing it. It's a big expense for a lot of people.

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But doesn't it take care of itself? Why would this be the one time it doesn't? Is there some great barrier to entry for having a chicken? So the question I wanted to ask was, how long does it take a baby chicken to have its own eggs? So apparently a baby chicken can have eggs in six months, as soon as four and a half, depending on some conditions.

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So in theory, we could take the eggs of the, well, the fertilized eggs of the current chickens And in five or six months, those new chickens would be laying eggs. So we should be maybe two or three six-month cycles away from being back to normal. Actually, that's the way I'd like to see the information.

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I'd like to see somebody say, yeah, in one cycle where we have new chickens six months later, that would be maybe a third of the problem taken care of. We need another cycle and then a third cycle to get enough chickens. Now, that assumes you don't have avian flu and murder chickens or some other problem. But wouldn't you like to know that it just solves itself in 18 months?

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Because it might solve itself in 18 months. I just don't know. So it could be a problem that's not a problem in the long run. I saw user Eric Cook say this on that topic. He said, we have plenty of eggs in rural Tennessee. Every neighborhood has egg boxes. Take the eggs, leave the money. They're running three to four dollars a dozen right now, though. You know, I guess that's high.

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And how much do you love that? That, you know, you're in the civilized part of the world. And you don't live next to a chicken farmer and you think you're all doing good. It's like, yeah, I'm living in the good part of the world. I got grocery stores all over the place. And then in rural Tennessee, they have egg boxes where they trust you, but entirely on trust, take an egg and leave some money.

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I just love that. I just love the fact that in rural Tennessee, this could even exist. Isn't that sort of encouraging, isn't it? That there's anywhere in the world that somebody is selling eggs on the trust basis. I won't even be there. Leave a dollar. If you don't have any money, just take the egg. I love that. Well, Trump has added to his tariff program that he'll have reciprocal tariffs.

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for everything. So these will be in addition to some tariffs that will be targeted for specific industries. But in general, he's just going to say, if you charge us this much, we charge you that much. But then he added an interesting wrinkle. He's treating the VAT tax, the value added tax that applies in Europe and maybe just Europe, I don't know. He's saying that that's the same as a tariff.

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But now it just makes sense. It just seemed completely normal. So Elon Musk has proposed that when he visits Fort Knox to see if the gold is really there as part of the Doge project, then maybe they should live stream it. Now, I don't know if that's a good idea or not, because could you tell by just looking at it that it's all there? I guess the fun would be if there's none there.

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Because if in order to sell into your country, or would it be buying? I'm confused about the VAT because we don't have that. That if you're going to tax us or tariff it, we're going to treat it like a tariff. A tax is a tariff. So he's adding the tax, adding what they're tariffing us to what they're charging us in VAT and making our reciprocal thing based on that. I like it.

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I was at first thinking, why don't we just do that for everything? But sometimes you're really just trying to protect an industry. So if you have to protect an industry, then yeah, maybe you have to have some special ones on things like steel and cars or I don't know. I'm not sure which ones we're protecting. But the rest, I kind of like the idea that we're just going to do whatever you do.

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And if you raise it because we raised it to your level, we'll just match you. We'll just keep matching you. I like that. That's pure Trump. and pure common sense. I like it. Well, over in New York State, Governor Hochul is at least floating the idea of removing New York City Mayor Adams from his job, Eric Adams. And the big question is, how is that legal?

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I asked Grok if the governor can remove a mayor, and Grok says, no. I'm paraphrasing a long answer, but no, a governor cannot remove a mayor. So what exactly is she even talking about? How do you remove a mayor? They were both voted. The mayor doesn't report to the governor. If it's not your boss, how could you remove him? Is there some kind of weird impeachment thing I don't know about?

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Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that. Over in the Middle East... Hamas is going to release the bodies of four dead hostages this week. And I say to myself, and I guess that would be in return for women and children being released from Israeli detention.

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Now, is it just me, or do you also believe that they wouldn't be releasing the bodies of dead hostages unless they had already released all the living ones? What do you think? Doesn't this mean that they don't have any living ones left? Now, we can't be sure of that.

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It could be that the ones that are living are in such bad shape that it would be worse than not releasing them, at least from Hamas' point of view. Like they wouldn't want you to see how bad the living are. So whatever is going on here is just the deepest evil. Whatever that is. Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.

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According to the New York Post, gambling addictions have soared since sport betting was legalized in most of the US. How many of you knew that sports betting was legalized? I didn't know it until I read that article. Sports betting is legalized in most of the United States? When did that happen? Under what administration? I don't remember that happening. And why would it be legalized?

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wouldn't you know for sure that the gambling addicts would be taken down by that? Of course the gambling addiction has soared. And the gambling about sports, I think, is the most diabolical because everybody has that Dunning-Kruger thing, you know, where you think you're smarter than you are, where you can look at the... sports teams and you think you know who's going to win?

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I'm not sure that's a thing. Do you think your expertise will be like, well, this pitcher pitched a game three days ago, but he's not so good in

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in hot weather so you think you know something that other people don't that's the most dangerous gambling because that's gonna you know even if you're down to your last penny you're still gonna bet it because you think you know more than other people it couldn't be a worse situation if it were pure gambling then it might even make more sense because nobody would think they have a they have a good chance of winning that's what pure gambling is so something like a slot machine

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Imagine how much we spend on security if there's no gold in there. That would be the funniest story in all of America that we've been spending like probably $10 million a year, I'm just guessing, to guard a building that didn't have anything in it. That would be just the perfect ending. Yeah, and of course, Al Capone's vault is what we're all going to be thinking about.

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some people would still be addicted to it of course as they are but at least you would know that you couldn't use any skill to get it get an advantage so the same problem with online poker online poker players think oh i have more skill so i can get into this and it'll pay off man that's that's your worst combination is thinking you know something and also it's gambling you don't want to pair those two that's that's just like asking for trouble

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Well, in my last item here, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, was saying on, I think it was on Fox, that Adam Schiff has tried to impeach the president. He's now in his third try. Now, some would say that would be the same as trying to overthrow the elected government. I think in this case it is. I don't think all impeachments are that.

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But in this case, it's very clear that the Trump impeachments are all meant as just overthrowing the government. And it's kind of amazing that he's not in jail. There's something going on that is the weirdest thing because, like I said, the people who pushed the COVID shots, to the extent that they knew what they were doing, that should be jail. But I don't think it ever will be.

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And with Schiff, to the extent that he was doing it just to remove the president and not because he thought the grounds of impeachment were especially important, like a phone call to Ukraine, who cared about that really? Nobody. It does look like treason, but it will never be treated that way. And you could probably come up with 10 other examples where you say to yourself, that's not illegal.

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You can't go to jail for that? I don't know. I think sometimes we just get used to stuff. So we just don't think of it as a crime when obviously it is. So anyway, that's all I got for today. I'm not operating at 100% today. So I apologize if this was not your usual, incredibly entertaining live stream. I expect to be back to 100% really soon. And I'll tell you,

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You never want to have a bad cough at the same time you have an untreated hernia and asthma. You don't want those three things at the same time. That's the one thing I can tell you. That is a really tough 24 hours. But I'm over the tough part, I think. We'll see. All right, I'm going to say a few words privately to the locals people.

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And the rest of you, I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Thanks for joining.

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So I've got a feeling it's like a reverse Al Capone's vault. So Al Capone's vault, you remember Geraldo was opening the vault that belonged to Al Capone. And they were going to see if there was any cool things inside. What he found was there was nothing inside. So this would be like a reverse Al Capone's thing. If we find out that there's nothing inside, that would be the surprise.

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Again, is that a reverse or is that the same? I don't know. My brain's not working today. By the way, Grok 3 is out. Way better than Grok 2, and according to the metrics I saw, it would be the best AI out there. I guess what Musk is doing right with AI is he's just built a better training technology platform. So he's just got a more efficient way and a bigger way of training it.

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So I guess there's a pretty good chance it's going to stay ahead. So I haven't tried it out fully, but I asked it some questions this morning, and it gave me good answers. Now, I understand that some people have been having conversations with it, but I don't see that option. So am I only imagining that you can talk to it? You can talk to it by holding down the microphone. I found that option.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Well, I don't know what's going to happen today. My brain's not working at 100%. Yesterday was kind of a sick day. But today, I'm at least barely functional. So back at it.

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But I didn't see an option for just talking to it. Maybe there is. I don't know. So we'll watch that. On X, a user called Indra asked me a question. Well, asked a question. I decided to answer it. Why do you think it's so hard to get these models, that would be the AI models, to write or understand humor? You'd think reasoning would help there. It made it worse.

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Now, I don't think the reasoning helps you write humor exactly. So I thought I'd take a stab at it. You've heard a version of this before, but I think I did it better this time. So this is my version of why AI can't do humor. Number one, the hidden problem is that humor depends on the personality of the humorist. In fiction, it depends on the personality of the character.

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So Dilbert is a character, and when Dilbert does nerdy things where he doesn't understand how things work in the social world, but he's really good with technology, that's somebody you know. If you watched the TV show Friends or Seinfeld, you saw that each of the characters had their own unique personalities. And a joke that one character could do wouldn't work with the others.

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So one of the characters in Friends was Joey, who was a famous womanizer. And he could make humor just by saying, how you doing? You know, because it was a running gag and he said it funny. But AI can't do that because AI is not Joey. And AI also doesn't have a funny voice. If you took away the exact way that Joey said it, which I can't do in my impression, you do it.

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It's sort of the exact way he says it that makes it work. Seinfeld, same thing. If you took away Seinfeld's voice that's just sort of perfectly designed or maybe developed it over time, it's perfectly designed for humor.

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If you looked at, let's say, the George character on Seinfeld, as soon as you know what that character is about, you know he's kind of selfish and small and just looking for an angle and stuff like that, then anything he does that's in that context is funnier. So AI doesn't have a personality. So if it had a personality, it could do humor within the personality, and that might work.

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But there are other problems. The personality has to have flaws. So a personality where you're just really good at stuff, that's not really going to work for humor. You have to have flaws. So you have to be selfish. That's usually the best one. Selfish, uncaring, lacking empathy. So basically negative personality characteristics. Now, in the case of Dilbert, he is really good at technology.

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But he's really bad at understanding anything like dating or social interaction. So that's a weakness. It's a flaw. And AI can't present itself with flaws because you wouldn't trust it. You say, oh, it seems like you're a little emotional or something. It would just seem too human, I guess. So no flaws in the personality.

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And then a lot of the best jokes involve a thought that people have had, something that people have thought about, but for whatever reason, nobody's ever said out loud. That's like the holy grail of humor, is to find the thing that people are thinking, but nobody's ever put it into words before. Now, how could you teach AI to do that?

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Because AI only looks at things that do exist and have been written down. You can't train AI on thoughts. And also, once somebody says it, it's no longer usable, right? So the first time somebody makes a good joke about, you know, have you ever thought you're in this situation and blah, blah, blah? Well, once you've done a joke about that situation, it's sort of spoiled. You can't do another one.

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So you can't train AI on thoughts. That's a big problem. And then, of course, maybe the biggest problem is that AI is not allowed to be edgy or even mildly offensive or dangerous. And a lot of what makes humor funny is that you say to yourself, oh, I can't believe he or she said that. Oh, you're going to get in so much trouble. Oh, I'll bet you're going to get canceled.

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If you're subscribed to the Dilbert comic, which you can do there on X, just go to my account on X and you'll see the button. You'd see that the pointy-haired boss hired a hypnotist to hypnotize their AI and to teach it persuasion. That hypnotist, you might notice, looks a lot like me. Coincidence. Total coincidence.

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Oh, what is your wife going to say when you get home? Oh, what is your boyfriend going to say once he sees this joke? So a lot of humor is just doing dangerous things. But the trick is to do it in a way that's not really that dangerous, but it looks dangerous to other people. There's a humorist whose name I can't remember, but it doesn't matter to the story, who wrote very funny books.

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He'll probably tell me who it is in the comments. and it would be about his family, so his young family life. And when you read it, you say to yourself, oh, my goodness, how in the world does he get away with writing these hugely insulting but very funny stories about his early life and his family, about how weird they were and all that?

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And I think the answer is that he'd already worked it out with his family, and they knew that it was some exaggerated version of reality, not really them. So that's the trick. And AI can't do that. So AI can't be edgy, it can't be offensive, it can't be dangerous because AI can't be killed. So you don't really worry about it being embarrassed or fired or anything like that.

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So it takes away all the danger. So danger is important to humor. Thinking about, let's say, Chappelle doing jokes about trans. Now, Even though the jokes may have been inoffensive because he's so good at crafting things that are close to the edge but not over it, the fact that he would make jokes about the trans community, it seemed really dangerous. As in, this could be the end of your career.

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Just one wrong word there and you're going to get so canceled. But he didn't because he's an expert at going up to the line and knowing where that line is. Hey, I can never do that. It would never be able to feel what is too far. It's a feel. And the reason there's only one Chappelle is that there's only one Chappelle. There's just one.

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There are very few humans in the whole world who can write commercial-grade humor. So if you looked at all the humor in the world, like if you're an AI and you're training on it, 99% of it wouldn't be that funny. Because that's what most people do when they're writing. They think they're funny, but they're not.

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So if you train it on all the humor, alleged humor that people think is funny but isn't, that's going to be a problem. A lot of the stories, a lot of the humor comes from stories. So somebody will say, I went to the store yesterday and this or that happened. AI doesn't have any stories. So AI never went to the store yesterday. AI never got married. AI never had kids.

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So all those things that are a story that make you say, oh, oh, God, that happened. That happened to me. AI can't do that because AI has no experiences that you share. You don't know what it's like to be an AI. It doesn't know what it's like to be you. So if you can't make it really understand your situation, you can't write humor about it.

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and you know ai only understands that kind of a uh let's say a top level but to really understand how something feels it can't get there um and then lastly when i write jokes the way i do it and i don't know if this is true for other people but it might be i'll think of the situation And it has to make me sort of laugh before I write the joke. So the punchline comes last.

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So I'm thinking, oh, that would be funny. I know I can do something with that. I don't think AI could recognize that because it's literally an internal feeling. So I'll look at a situation and I go, oh, you know, you have that little Beavis and Butthead laugh. And you know that just with the right words, you can turn that into something really funny.

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So anyway, if you're following Dilbert, look for the hypnotist who looks like me. He causes trouble. According to the Babylon Bee, I think the Babylon Bee was pointing to a real poll, but it's hard to tell what's real these days. There was a poll that said 26% of Americans still trust the media. Babylon Bee calls that a disturbing poll, that you still trust the media.

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So AI can't do that because it doesn't have the Beavis and Byad automatic reaction that probably is telling you it's something that's going to work. And so when I cycle through punchlines, for example, I say, okay, maybe if he says this, maybe if he says that, what I'm really doing is checking my, I'll say gut, but my entire body response. So if I cycle through, suppose Dilbert says this,

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Chaos is good for stock markets because stocks are up again today. Not bad. Let's check out our comments and then we can do a show that you deserve. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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So I'll just say that I haven't seen the whole thing yet, but apparently this Kurt Weldon, who had been chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, so a serious politician, and he publicly questioned the accuracy of the 9-11 report that he thought was basically an inside job. And in retaliation,

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The Bush administration sent federal agents to his daughter's house and ended his political career. So now apparently he's telling the truth because he's 77 and he just feels like it's time to do. Now, let me tell you my evolution in this whole 9-11 story.

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When 9-11 happened, I was really only thinking about the big picture stuff, and I'd hear all the conspiracy theorists, and they're blaming Israel, and they're blaming Saudi Arabia, and they don't think bin Laden's even real, or just all kinds of crazy stuff. But I didn't pay much attention to it, because I thought, I saw the airplane hit the building,

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And I saw the other airplane hit the building. If I see it with my own eyes and then the building goes down, well, I'm going to think that's what the problem was. But the other day, you know, now time has gone by. And we've learned how many things that we thought were true were just absolute bullshit.

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The Kennedy assassination, pretty much everything that we've been taught by our government is fake. So now I'm open to it. So I'm open to some good conspiracy theories. But I'll tell you the one thing that I can't get past. I was watching some clips of the towers coming down. you know, at the moment when they collapsed. And it looked like it was just dust.

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Like somehow the buildings had turned all that metal into dust. And there was like nothing but a big pile of dust at the bottom. And I thought, that doesn't look natural. I mean, that doesn't even look like a plane in it. And then, of course, there's Building 7 that never made any sense. So I think I'm squarely on the conspiracy theory side, but I don't know which conspiracy theory.

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So I don't know. There's probably about five different versions of conspiracy theories. One of them is that the planes were operated remotely, and they were not even piloted by the hijackers. I don't know. Maybe. I doubt it, though. I don't think you could be that accurate doing it remotely, but maybe. Maybe. I'm open to any theories about that because none of it looked organic or real.

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And we don't live in a country where the committee that studies it can be trusted, you know, ever. So there's something going on. Well, you may have heard that China, in retaliation for the tariffs, Trump's tariffs, is using what I call the Dilbert method to deny us rare earth materials. Now, it's only seven of them. So if you want to get some samarium or gadolinium,

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I think I heard that in some kind of drug testing, they do a pre-trial and then the people who are at bad side effects in the pre-trial, they remove them and then they go on with the trial. So they basically remove the people who had problems and then they do the trial. So it's completely fake.

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or if you're a little low on terbium, or you just can't get enough dysprosium or lutetium, If you'd like some scandium or yttrium, it's going to be harder to do. But instead of saying we're not going to give you these, China does a total Dilbert. And instead of saying, you know, you can't have them, they say, well, there'll be some new restrictions and you have to just apply.

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So you can't just buy them. You have to apply. And it doesn't apply just to the United States. It's to everybody. But it's kind of genius because they can say, we didn't ban them. You just have to fill out the paperwork and you can have them. But how long is it going to take for them to process the paperwork? I think if it's America, it's going to take a while.

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So that's a classic Dilbert trick where you're acting like you're completely helping. Oh, no, it's just some paperwork. Yeah, we can even tell you how to fill it out. Here you go. Just fill out this paperwork and you can get your rare earth minerals. Well, good luck with that because it looks like they're going to Dilbert that.

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According to the Macau News, China is significantly outpacing the US and the European Union in the use of AI and research. Is that good? How are they using AI in research? Is it writing the research papers? I don't think there's anything that it does that would help research because you can't really trust it like you would like to trust science. So how does that work?

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Anyway, I feel like this is just another one of those things where on any given day, I'll see a story that everything that China builds is crap. And they don't know how to do anything, and their buildings fall down, and their bridges fall down, and their bridges are made with corn. Actually, corn. I read that today. There was some bridge that the inner structure was part corn. Yeah.

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Corn on the cob even. It wasn't even just the corn. So I don't know if that's true. But then you hear another story. It's like they're way ahead of us on science and they're way ahead of us in AI. I don't think we know anything about China. China is just like a black box to me because it's either falling apart and they're on the verge of going out of business

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Or they're the dominant country in the world and nothing can stop them. But China is always opposites. There's always a story about how great they are at the same time there's a story about how horrible they are and how much trouble they're in and how it's all going to fall apart. I don't know what to believe. Well, Scott Pressler is telling us that California blocked a voter ID legislation.

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So even though the vast majority of people want voter ID for voting, they want ID for voting, California blocked it. That's the politicians. But apparently one of the state representatives is going to do a citizen's initiation project to put it on the ballot. If it gets on the ballot, it's got about a 64% approval. So looks like the legislature isn't going to be able to block this.

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And apparently that's a standard procedure to remove the people who had problems and then start the trial. start the trial after that no i think conservatives are right science is sketchy i think climate models are weird i think that uh yeah plenty of reasons to die with science but here's some science

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It's going to be on the ballot because all they need is a million signatures. I think you can get a million signatures. I mean, that's a big number, but I'll bet you can do it. Trump says he's going to put a temporary exemption on auto parts from foreign countries because the auto industry likes it.

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And that's a temporary exemption to give companies time to switch from parts made in Canada and Mexico and beyond. Now, temporary, how long does Trump think it would take for people to move manufacturing of car parts back to the United States? That doesn't happen quickly, does it?

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Or are there just certain machines that are in Mexico or Canada, and if they just move them to America, everything would be fine? So maybe it's just that. They've got machines that make these parts, and if you move the machines in the United States, you can make them here. It can't be that hard. All right. Did you know that Senator Schumer apparently still hasn't condemned the attacks on Tesla?

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And that EPA Chief Zeldin, he was kind of slamming him, saying he said that Senator Schumer was asked about the Tesla dealership attacks and ignored it, then turned around and went after Elon. It's unbelievable to me that Schumer can't just say, no, I'm against domestic violence or domestic terrorism. That would be a real easy thing to be against. But he won't do it.

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So we have to assume he's in favor of it because it wouldn't be hard to say you're not in favor of it. So here's what I've concluded about this chaos stuff. You know, Trump's always being accused of chaos. I think the Democrats have made a good case that Trump has brought chaos into the markets. But what they haven't done is made a good case that chaos is worse than the situation we're in.

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Because the situation we're in, we're heading toward a debt explosion that was gonna kill us for sure. And then we've got a trade situation that would kill us for sure over time. So even if they're right that Trump's bringing a lot of chaos, and I would say there's a lot of moving parts. So if you wanna call that chaos, sure. But they haven't made the case

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The chaos is worse than the status quo, you know, doing things the way we did it. So that's my challenge to them. And if they think that the way that we should go forward is that, no, we want to make the cuts and we want to fix trade, but we're going to do it with a scalpel, that's just dumb. Because that's the way everything's been done forever and it got us into this situation.

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Do you think if we had just individually called 130 countries and said we'd like to negotiate our trade deals that they would be eager to help us? I don't think so. I think it's the chaos and the fact that Trump just scared the crap out of everybody who does business with the United States. It's the chaos. That's why 130 have contacted the U.S.

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According to Neuroscience News, they figured out how to change LSD to take out the good parts, you know, the part where you have hallucinations. And then they give it to schizophrenics. And apparently it helps. That's the early word. So if you'd like to help a schizophrenic, all you need is some special LSD with a couple of molecules taken out.

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and are trying to do a deal, which probably will be better for us. I don't know if it would be better for them. So, yeah, chaos is great. Just don't try to pretend that you could have done it with a scalpel and smart people could have sat down and figured out a new trade deal. That's not a real thing. We would have done that decades ago if that were real. Nobody could do that.

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You have to be a big gorilla and scare everybody, and then you can get some stuff done. That's what Trump is doing. Let's say it's directionally correct chaos. There, just introduced a new term, directionally correct chaos. Well, Tulsi Gabbard and her husband have been threatened by some guy, Ali Akbar Mohammed.

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And he was accused of sending threats, including statements like, you and your family are going to die soon. I will personally do the job if necessary. You know, I don't think we appreciate enough how brave you have to be to be a conservative in the government. I'm not sure if she would call herself a conservative, but she's sort of on the Trump team.

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You have to be pretty brave because the crazies are all activated. And the thing I'm wondering is why are there not conservative crazies who are doing similarly terrible things to Democrats? Is there some reason that's not happening? I'm not saying you should. But I can't figure out why it's all coming from one side when crazy people are more universal. You know, they're all over the place.

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So, anyway. Anyway, I'm glad that Tulsi will be okay because that guy got picked up. According to Breitbart, Christina Wong is writing about how the CIA director, Michael Ellis, is saying that they're going to craft a CIA, let's say, organization or system to fight the cartels. And that had never been their top priority, I guess.

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So they're going to use the skills that they've learned taking down terrorists and other countries, and they're going to open their aperture, as they say, on terrorism and go after the cartels. Now, didn't you always assume the CIA was on the side of the cartels? Because I did. I don't think it's simply a case that they weren't working on the cartels before.

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I feel like the big change had to be, you know, the big change had to be they'd be willing to go after the cartels. So maybe under Trump they will. We'll see. So here's a sign of the times. If you were trying to understand how well California is being run, and you could only hear one story, this might be the one that sums up all of California.

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So there's a Democrat in California who proposed a bill for students to be able to live in their cars amid the housing crisis. The Daily Caller News Foundation is writing about this. So Corey Jackson...

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introduced the bill that students can live in their cars on campus parking lots now they would hope it would be temporary at least that's what they'd hope um but just think about the fact that a student at let's see which of the colleges uh california state university locations 20 california community colleges

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and that people are going to live in their cars because there's not access to affordable housing. There's housing. It's just not affordable. All right. Do you remember the mayor of Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu? According to the National Pulse, her campaign in 2021 accepted $300,000 from a fundraiser reportedly tied to a Chinese Communist Party influence agency.

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I don't know where you get it, but that's according to Neuroscience News. Do you believe that one? Do you conservatives trust that they've modified LSD to fix schizophrenics? What are the odds you'll ever see that as like a standard treatment? I feel like every time I read any kind of science news during the show, my first thought is, we're never going to see that.

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Do you ever wonder how much money China spends influencing Americans? It's got to be a lot. By the way, you don't hear the heavy equipment right outside my window, do you? It's not supposed to start until 8, but they like to get a jump on it. I've heard that you can't hear it because my microphone is nicely directional. But boy, can I hear it.

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Yeah, 300,000 from a Chinese Communist Party influence agency. Now, again, I have to complain. as far as i know nobody's ever offered to bribe me and i'm thinking what's up with that like i'm pretty sure i wouldn't take a bribe to you know influence but nobody offered come on at least offer so i can turn it down well meanwhile over in france a number of their prisons have been attacked.

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So there's gunfire and cars on fire and all kinds of chaos. But at least eight prisons around France were hit overnight. And some are saying it's the narco underworld, that it's basically the drug criminals, and that they're mad because it's a pushback against France's new anti-drug crackdown. So apparently the drug, the underworld drug people,

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in France have enough firepower that they can attack eight prisons at the same time. I swear to God I saw this story completely different earlier in the day. I thought it looked like an Islamic attack, but then it morphed into a narco underworld attack. So that's probably the true one. Anyway.

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Well, negotiator Witkoff, who was trying to negotiate peace for Trump in these various wars, he talked to Vladimir Putin, and he said that the talks were, quote, compelling. Does that sound like he's going to have some peace right away? The talks were compelling. That doesn't sound good. I mean, it doesn't sound like progress.

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He said the Russian leader was open to a permanent peace deal with Ukraine. Yeah, that's what everybody says. And then Wyckoff says, I think we might be in the verge of something that would be very, very important for the world at large. It took a while for us to get to this place. Do you think they're really close? I don't. I don't think they're close.

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I don't know what they've agreed to or what they haven't, but I'm going to say not close. And Wyckoff said that after five years of talks, he saw a deal, quote, emerging, and a possibility to reshape the Russian-United States relationship through compelling, there it is, compelling again, commercial opportunities that would give real stability to the region. What do you think that would be?

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Rare earth minerals and gas? I don't know. So I'm going to say, sounds good, but I don't think it's real. I don't think it's real, but maybe I'm wrong. Meanwhile, Ukraine has developed what they call the Alligator 9 drones for the sea. So I guess it's a drone on the ocean that can release other drones.

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So it's an unmanned ship that can let other drones fly out of it and attack things, well, attack the Russian Navy, basically. Now, what it doesn't say is apparently this is a Ukraine invention. So nobody's saying that they bought it from somebody. Has Ukraine reached a point where they can develop really high-tech drones and that they can make them in Ukraine?

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Or are they coming from somewhere else and Ukraine is just taking credit for it? But it does seem to me that if the peace deal doesn't get done pretty soon, the war is going to turn into just a total drone war. Because Ukraine doesn't have enough people. So they're just going to use drones for everything. So it looks like they're going to drone it up for the Navy. They also have a laser.

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Every single day I see a new study where, not a study, but an announcement where somebody's made a battery breakthrough. Like, wait, battery breakthrough. We can charge it in 10 seconds and it lasts 1,000 miles. We're never going to see that. All of these announcements are made up, I think.

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So they can put a laser on this Alligator 9. And it can shoot down drones or fry enemies. Well, it can launch its own drones, but it can fry enemy drones and helicopters and missiles. So really, did Ukraine really invent something that has laser defense and is super high tech and it can launch all these other drones against ships?

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I feel like somebody must be behind it more than Ukraine, but on the other hand, Ukraine was working pretty hard to become the best military drone country, and they needed it, so maybe they did do it. Wall Street Journal is reporting that Wyckoff said the U.S. Talk about their Iran deal. So Wyckoff said that the U.S.

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is prepared to allow Iran to enrich uranium at a low level if it is subject to stringent verification, which would be a significant shift in the White House's position. Do you think that Iran is going to literally say, all right, we won't make a nuke? Because it's all they have to say. And then there's a peace deal. I'm not even sure they need to mean it. They just need to say it.

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So I think the game from Iran will be to stall maybe as long as possible while they're building their nuke.

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but i think maybe at some point they're just going to say yeah totally we agree not to have a nuke while they're building it in their secret under you know secret mountain fortress because you know they're doing all the good stuff deep underground you know you you can't imagine that there's a factory sitting above ground that could get bombed so how would we ever really know if iran stopped making nuclear weapons

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How would we ever know that? Because don't you think they could hide that completely? I don't know. Seems like we'd never really know. So I don't think there's going to be an Iran deal anytime soon. I saw on the Hill the headline that says there's a buzz building around AOC's future. A buzz. A buzz. I don't think there is.

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I think there's the media trying to create a buzz around AOC because they see her as potentially a good campaigner. I don't know if it's her time to be president. She's a little young. But that's also part of her advantage. She would sell herself as being the next generation. But apparently AOC is helping Bernie draw massive crowds.

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But I think when you see here something like there's a buzz, it's the media trying to create one. So I don't think the buzz is out there. I think the media is trying to create the buzz because they really need to find a Democrat who can make a dent. Do you think AOC could beat a traditional Republican if she ran for president? Let's say J.D. Vance, somebody like that.

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I mean, they're based on something, but I don't think any of that's going to turn into anything you care about. Well, let's see how smart you are. According to Rasmussen, what percentage of voters disagree with having ID to vote? What percent of voters disagree with being able to prove you're a citizen with ID before you vote? You are correct.

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I mean, how would she do in a debate against J.D. Vance? I feel like she wouldn't do that well, because he's good at it. We'll see. Well, there's a new cement, according to Sujitia Sinha. There's a new cement that can turn heat into electricity, and then the building can help power itself.

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I saw a bunch of comments when I reposted this on X. Everybody thought that the building was going to collapse and it's terrible cement and that it's a bio-inspired material with a Seebeck coefficient of negative 40.5 millivolts. I don't know what any of that means. But apparently they're going to have super cement.

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I don't know if I'd want to build my building with a cement that was made to develop power, because it's made out of corn. The building is mostly made out of corn. Anyway, that's all we got for today. I'm noticing that a lot of the news just looks the same. So instead of just covering every story, if it looks like the same news you've seen somewhere else, then it's not fun to talk about.

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So Trump's going to get busy this week, and you've got your taxes to pay today. Remember, it's Tax Day. Don't forget. Don't forget. I won't take your calls. I can see why. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. And the rest of you, I'll see same time, same place tomorrow. Thanks for joining.

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26%.

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If you're new to the show, it's sort of a running gag that no matter what the survey is, no matter what the topic is, 25% of the people who answer the survey will be just whack. They'll just have the wrong answer. Not having ID to vote. That's just the wrong answer. That's not an opinion. That's just wrong. You're just wrong. All right. So it turns out that dolphins can talk.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to try to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that would be a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So somebody's using AI to decipher dolphin talk. And I guess the idea is that we'd eventually be able to have a conversation with dolphins. And I, for one, can't get enough of that. Because what if dolphins are really good conversationalists? That'd be weird, wouldn't it? It's like, not only do they talk, but they'd be like, hello, Mr. Adams. How was your day today?

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You'd be like, man, you're a good conversationalist. That'd be so cool. So I want to get a talking dolphin. I think I just put some AI on it, and next thing you know, boom, talking. So that would be the first conversation, they say, between humans and another intelligent species. I don't know. I've been talking to my dog for a long time, but she doesn't talk back.

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So this happened the other day, but... Remember when Trump was with Bukele at the White House and Trump was mocking Caitlin Collins of CNN and he made the claim that CNN hates America? CNN hates America. And then Dana Bash was on. As soon as they cut away from that, they went to Dana Bash. And she wanted to let us know that the CNN does not hate America.

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Now, let me give you a little persuasion tip. If you're defending yourself against the charge of hating America, you're already losing. Because as soon as you hear that, even if the only thing you heard was the defense and you didn't hear any of the accusations, you say to yourself, hmm, nobody ever asked me if I hate America. Why does CNN have to answer whether they hate America?

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Sounds a little sketchy, doesn't it? You're guilty if you just get in the conversation. So I think CNN should have maybe just ignored it. But instead they defended that they don't hate America, which makes at least half of the people in the country go, you don't. Well, I've seen your coverage and it appears that you do. I'm not so sure you love America. Anyway, I'm sure they love America.

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Totally. I would say, however, that the claim that they do love America is what they call a baseless claim because it was presented with no evidence whatsoever. Right? That's a baseless claim. When Trump said the 2020 election was rigged, the CNN people and most of the news said it's a baseless claim because there's no evidence. So do they love America as CNN?

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They say so, but it's a baseless claim. No evidence presented. Well, here's some fake news that might be real news a little bit. So the Trump administration is going to ask Congress to cut funding for NPR and PBS. Now, you just said to yourself, yes, finally we get rid of NPR and PBS. No, that's not going to happen.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Excellent. Sublime. Sublime. Well, according to the University of Amsterdam, conservative Americans consistently distrust science, a survey finds. Now, do you think there's something wrong with this analysis?

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The amount of funding that NPR and PBS get from the government, the federal government, was kind of trivial, so it won't make any difference at all. But you might feel better if you're not funding them. So that's how you could be the smartest person in the room.

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next time somebody gets in conversation about funding NPR and PBS, you can be the smartest one by saying their total funding doesn't have much to do with the federal government. It's like 1% or something like that. Meanwhile, a New Mexico man has been charged in arson attack on a Tesla showroom. Now, post-millennials writing about this,

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I'm starting to wonder if the Department of Justice is going to catch 100% of the domestic terrorists who are doing the Tesla stuff. At least the ones who burn down showrooms. Because there must be cameras everywhere. Between the cars and just security cameras. So I got another one. I don't know how many are still on the loose. But I feel like they're going to get them all.

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and then they should ship them to El Salvador and put them in those jails. I still have a question about those El Salvador jails, because how can you possibly keep El Salvador safe unless you never let them out? Is that actually the plan, that they're never let out because they're gang members? And how in the world would that even be slightly humane?

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But nobody cares, I guess, because they're monsters. They're monsters. All right. So Joe Biden's going to give his first speech since he left office. How much would you love to hear that? He's going to be in Chicago speaking to the advocates and counselors for the disabled. So he's going to give his speech. And aren't you super curious whether he can pull it off?

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Because, you know, he's been in that mode for a while where his decline is happening kind of quickly. Why would he even agree to it? Doesn't it seem weird that he even agreed to it in the first place? Because it's all just nothing but downside for him. So maybe they just can't say no to him. Like, I can do it. I can make a speech. Let me make a speech. All right, Joe.

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We'll let you do one at a small event. Speaking of Joe Biden, you know, the gateway pundit and just the news. I've been reporting on, I think John Solomon reporting on this, that now that there's some more unredacted emails, there's a complete link. You can see the entire criminal enterprise where Joe Biden was vice president and he was negotiating deals for his son.

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who is on the board of Burisma, it was exactly what you thought. So the Biden crime family was exactly what you thought it was. Now, I don't think that Joe Biden will ever be prosecuted because he is a certain age and, you know, like the special... Was it her who said that no jury would convict him because he's just like an amiable, crazy old man?

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So I think that Biden actually succeeded something like a life of crime, and he got away with it all the way to retirement. See, I think the trick is if you're going to get away with a life of crime... You have to act crazy at the end. So, you know, wear your bathrobe everywhere, that sort of thing. It works for the mafia. So I think Joe Biden will be in a bathrobe pretty soon. That's my guess.

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But it kind of blows my mind that we don't have to guess, was he abusing his office? Because we've got his emails that were used as a pseudonym, and it's very clear he was negotiating energy deals on behalf of his son. It's just amazing that we have all the evidence now, but we just look at it and go, oh, let's just talk about it among ourselves, like somehow it doesn't matter.

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So you know all those migrants who were flown in by Joe Biden, which to me was the weirdest thing. Remember when you first heard that the U.S. government was not just processing people at the border, but they were actively flying people in from other countries? That wasn't your first impression? No, that can't be true. Well, it can't be many people, right?

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It's not like there's a lot of people that are going to fly in by airplanes. And then you find out it's like over half a million. Half a million people were flown in from other countries because the Democrats apparently were trying to, you know, stack the deck and get more Democrat voters or get more, you know, get more... representation, whatever they were after.

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But now a federal judge in Boston. So once again, the Democrats shop for a judge anywhere in the country. This one was in Boston. And they get this judge to make a ruling that affects things that are not in Boston. So I feel like the Supreme Court needs to slap this one down. But Bill Belugin was reporting on this, Fox News.

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The assumption is that you should trust science. Should you? Should you trust science when half of peer-reviewed papers don't pan out and healthcare science looks like it's completely made up and vaccinations are just barely tested in any way that you would recognize? What did I hear the other day? Uh...

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But Trump was trying to remove their protection so he can ship them all back. And the federal judge said, no, you cannot. You cannot do that. So what Trump wanted to do is revoke their legal status and then to basically revoke them all. And I think the judge said that every person has to be judged individually. Right. There are half a million of them. So that's going to take a while.

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So we'll see. I don't know if this is going to go to the Supreme Court, but it seems like exactly the sort of thing they would. Have any of you seen the Tucker Carlson show where he's talking to Kurt Weldon, who was in Congress for years, and has a lot to say about 9-11? I don't know what to believe about any of that.

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Or pouring in even earlier than normal. You're so smart. I started 30 seconds early and you're still here on time. Let me get my comments working and then I'll give you the show you've been craving. Well, maybe not craving, but expecting. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Rah-wah-wah-wah. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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I'm going to say that if you're looking to spot fake news, you know, I always say the two on the nose, something's a little too perfect. This one's striking me as a little too perfect. that just days before the inauguration where the biggest risk, at least in our minds, the biggest risk would be an aerial drone-like attack, especially if there's more than one of them.

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At the very time that we're thinking of it, the one company that makes the most, I would say, dangerous drones, if you happen to be in America and you're sort of the hobbyist level drone, the most dangerous ones drop their defense. and become weaponized at exactly the time it would threaten Trump? Does that feel a little too perfect? So let me say this. I'm going to say I don't believe it.

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It could be true, but it's so on the nose that I'm going to say put a pin in that one and give me a fact check in a few days, okay? Get back to me on that and tell me if that's true. It doesn't It's not smelling right. You know what I mean? A little too perfect.

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And then I hear that Netanyahu canceled plans to go to the inauguration, which some people are interpreting as a sign that it needs more security because maybe Netanyahu thought it wasn't safe enough. But that's speculation. I don't know if you've noticed. that Netanyahu has a few things to do this week, as in they're negotiating the hostage release, etc.

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So Netanyahu has all the reason in the world not to come. There's nothing surprising about that. But he got invited, so that's like a win-win for him, I would say. All right. There's some fake news about TikTok. I think it's fake. That Chinese officials are talking about... allowing Elon Musk and for some reason only him to buy TikTok.

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So TikTok will be not available in America unless something happened like just the next few days that would allow an American to buy it. Now, if China and the Chinese owned company don't want to sell it, it doesn't matter if anybody wants to buy it. But I'm not sure anybody put together an offer that would look like it's acceptable.

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So I think China, the government said this was fake news and that China is not allowing, there's nobody who's in power who says that Elon Musk should buy TikTok. So Bloomberg said it was unnamed sources. So how often have the anonymous sources of any story been correct? When was the last time they were correct? I don't remember a time. I can't think of one time. An anonymous source was right.

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Not once. Now, whistleblowers, yes, but they're not anonymous. As soon as you say anonymous source and Bloomberg, I don't believe anything that comes after that. I mean, those are two red flags for not being real. Bloomberg, red flag, and then unnamed source, red flag. So I'm going to say that's fake news. That's my judgment.

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There's also some fake news about Julia Roberts. And the news actually is accurate. In this case, I think I saw it in the New York Post. So the New York Post had it exactly accurate. But by the time social media read it and reinterpreted it, they turned it into fake news. So here's the real news. The real news is that Julia Roberts, actress Julia Roberts, said on Instagram, F you to looters.

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I'm going to say a sentence that I almost can't get out of my mouth. Are you ready? Despite the many claims you're going to hear about P. Diddy, under our system, he's innocent until proven guilty. I did it. I stayed American. I stayed American. That's a tough standard, you know? Anyway, by the time you're done with the documentary, you're not going to think he's innocent until proven guilty.

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as $10 million homes continued to be robbed during the LA fires. Now, that got interpreted on social media as the home owned by Julia Roberts that was worth $10 million got looted. That did not happen. She was not talking about her own home. and indeed doesn't seem to live there anymore, but nobody knows where she lives, but it might be in the Bay Area. So she might be my neighbor, literally.

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She might literally be my neighbor if she's in Northern California. So that's accidental fake news, but the New York Post got it exactly right. Interesting Engineering, a publication, and an article by Abhishek Bhardwaj, is that there's something called a fire dome that's been invented. There's a company that it's an Israeli-based firm called Fire Dome.

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Now, my understanding is it's not physically a dome, but what it is is a combination of AI and cameras and drones, I guess, and defensive tactics so that you could spot or a town or a house could spot a fire before it gets to the house. So you would somehow see the fire when it's small, send out your drones to stop the fire right away.

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Now, that's not going to work if the wind is 100 miles an hour, and it would even work if it's off the grid. So it monitors the property and then responds. It has some kind of anti-fire suppression stuff, too. So it does wildfire detection, protection, and suppression.

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Now, I think that's probably not something that, you know, LA cities can implement tomorrow and isn't going to work that well if, you know, if the wind is 100 miles an hour. But it's nice to know it's out there. Here's something cool that also relates to that. So Rice University has this new innovation where they used a dialysis machine for treating wastewater.

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So dialysis, what you would do to purify blood, they ran, I don't know how much, if it's modified or just exactly a dialysis, but they ran some dirty salt water through it and it did a good job of cleaning the salt out at much more effective technology than current technology.

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So not only could it maybe clean some of the waste, but the bigger part is that it does desalinization, which would allow you to use the ocean as your water source if you could do it inexpensively. So it's not quite ready for use, but that looks very promising. Also, according to the Financial Times, The U.S.

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natural gas industry is poised to expand like crazy when Trump lifts a number of Biden-era restrictions on it. But how much could that change the economy? That could ramp up our exports by $1.3 trillion over the next five years. Wow. I hate it when they give numbers over five years because your brain wants to make it one year And it's sort of a trick.

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If you're trying to make the number look big, you say over five or 10 years. If you wanted to make small, you say, well, it'll be no more than a billion dollars in the first year or whatever it is. But 1.3 trillion over five years, that's pretty important. We'll take that. Thank you very much, Trump.

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Well, the Fed and Mike Johnson are looking at some relief for California, which would be probably a big dollar thing. But Johnson is concerned, as all of us are, that anything the federal government gives to California will be wasted on bullshit or just stolen. So the state does not have the credibility required to receive money. Let me say that again. My state is so poorly run

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that is not credible as a place to give federal aid. That's a big problem. Okay, how do you solve that? Well, in the past, I think it was 9-11, maybe there are other examples, there would be some kind of a czar to oversee the government funding so it doesn't get stolen, given to the wrong people. And so I saw Mike Cernovich saying we need some kind of a czar, and I agree.

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I'm 100% on board with we need a czar. Now, how in the world do you find somebody who would be credible and competent and not already doing something else? Where do you find these credible, competent people who are not already completely busy doing some other credible, competent thing? Well, it's pretty rare. Pretty rare. But An interesting suggestion from Cerno was Naval Ravikant.

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That much I know. Is that fair? Not at all. It's not at all fair. Can you imagine being arrested and have charges that might be leveled against you? And next thing you know, there's an entire documentary about all your crimes. That's not exactly fair. Is it interesting? Yes, I'm going to watch it for sure. Do I think he's probably guilty of a lot of things? Well, I do.

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If he hears me talk about it, he might hate it because it would be the worst job in the world. I can't imagine taking the job of Doge. I mean, just all credit, all credit to Musk and Vivek for taking that on. I mean, would you take that on? That would be, you know, I like challenges. But I would look at that and go, ah, maybe not me.

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Now, likewise, the job of making sure that the funding coming into California is not a fun job. You're just going to get destroyed. So you need somebody who's invulnerable to criticism, that they've reached that point in their life they're invulnerable. Somebody who's obviously capable, like really obviously capable, But here's the important part. You want somebody who is famously non-political.

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How are you going to find that? Somebody who is brilliant, capable, non-political, and willing to work on something. Well, Naval has actually said that given the right situation, if it fit his talents, he'd be willing to help out the government in some hard places where maybe he just needed a little help that was suitable to his talents. So sorry, Duvall, you're perfect.

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I apologize in advance, but you're kind of perfect. If this is the thing, maybe this is the thing. Maybe. Just consider it. All right. Talk about timing. So a month ago, I would have said something like, you know, I don't think Democrats could possibly look more incompetent or more evil.

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Just sort of watching how the Biden administration has come together in the elections and the lawfare and everything else. I would have said, there's no way they can top what we've seen. Then the fires, my God, I don't think Democrats could find any way to look more incompetent or more evil. Here's an update on how wrong I was.

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according to the Daily Wire, as the fires are raging, which is not funny, but Governor Newsom and the Democrats have agreed to set aside $50 million to fight the Trump administration and defend illegal immigrants. Now, I feel like the Democrats don't have any kind of smart people, because read the room.

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The state's on fire based almost entirely on the incompetence of the people who should be doing the fire suppression in the first place. If at the same time you're failing in a way that we've rarely ever seen the depth of the spectacular incompetence, something that will last the ages.

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We're talking about something that's not the headline this week, but it's going down in history as the worst managed state of all time. And during that context, they thought it'd be a good idea to put $50 million away to defeat the will of the American people who voted by a majority to have the Trump administration do what it said it would do.

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Can you be any more incompetent than not being able to even get the politics right? Okay. Okay. Fire suppression is pretty hard, pretty hard. They should have done it, but it's not hard to read the room when the state's on fire. Maybe we should back off on a little, some of the bullshit, maybe a little less bullshit when the fucking state's on fire. Well, there goes my New Year's resolutions.

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Anyway. Do you remember that there was the client scientist, Michael Mann, and he was in a lawsuit with Mark Stein over claims of climate change. So Mark Stein was criticizing this one scientist as well as climate change.

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But you're going to have to prove it. And if you ask me, is it cool to have a documentary about somebody who's in jail with charges, I would say no. No. If there were some way without a direct attack on free speech, I can't think of a way. But it seems like if a court can order, let's say, A gag order? A gag order is a routine thing, right? Judges do that all the time.

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and the scientist michael mann decided to sue him for the things he said and uh he won the scientist won so he i guess stein owes him a million dollars or something for something that the court decided the scientist was right and stein had gone too far but uh the national review which is where i guess stein had made the offending comments had also made their own comments about stein's comments more

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you know, not, not criticizing him, just weighing in on it. And they were also included at one point in the lawsuit, but they've been removed because what they were doing was more like free speech and not so much, you know, defaming somebody.

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So they got dropped, but now the scientist who got a million dollars for Mark Stein is being ordered to pay half a million to, to the national review to pay their lawyers. And, uh, That's only a partial payment. That could go further. So let me get this right. Stein allegedly defames the scientist. Scientist gets a million from Stein.

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But the scientist may have gone too far in defaming the National Review. So now the court is saying that they have to give the National Review half a million. And then there's more coming. Was that a 13-year waste of time? So basically it was just Mark Stein paying his own employers legal fees by the time it's all done? When you see what the lawyers did to the situation...

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It made it so much worse. It's just no sense of anything that's right or wrong. It's just a legal morass. Anyway, that's fun to watch. But my take on this whole story is why do we let the courts decide what science is correct? Doesn't that seem like a mistake to let the court decide who got their science right?

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Because I'm pretty sure that, you know, well, I'm sure the case was more about what an individual did or did not do, not just the science.

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But here's something that, according to this report that's in the Daily Color News Foundation, according to them, during the trial, there was a testimony from a tenured statistics professor and the chair of the undergraduate stats program in the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

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All right, so keep in mind, this is the statistics professor, and I think at the same school that Michael Mann is at, or was at, and the Wharton School, at least in Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania. And so I don't know if they were in exactly the same place, but both in Pennsylvania. Let's just say both in Pennsylvania at the time. Anyway, this expert in statistics testified that...

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at the Mark Stein trial that Mann, the scientist, engaged in, quote, improper manipulation of data such that his signature model was, quote, misleading. Now, what do I always say about scientists? Let me remind you. If you're a really good scientist at, say, biology, are you also really good at statistics? Probably not. Probably not.

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If you're a really good scientist at anything, are you also good at statistics? You could be, but probably not. That might not be your expert domain. But this guy is a statistician. And if he says, you know, I don't know anything about climate change, but I'm looking at your numbers and you didn't do the numbers right.

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that would be quite meaningful to me so here's somebody who's good at numbers and he's a tenured professor of statistics and he says you did the numbers wrong and those numbers are driving your model so michael mann in case you're watching i don't know what's true and i'm not blaming you of anything since i don't want to get sued

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But I think the whole situation is funny and I find it hard to take any of it as credible. But speaking of climate change, the Wall Street Journal had a pretty funny editorial. Apparently there's a new term that the Democrats are trotting out called hydroclimate whiplash. And it's caused by climate change. And it means that in California, for example, some year it will be extra dry.

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And is that not telling somebody that they can't use their free speech? So we have some precedent that the court, at least during the limited time of a trial, can tell people to shut up. But then they can do a documentary. You know, I hate to be defending Diddy, but I think we need to all defend ourselves, right?

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but the next year could be extra wet, and then the year after that could be extra dry. Now, this is something that's happened in California since the beginning of recorded records, sometimes extra dry, sometimes extra wet, and sometimes extra dry, and I don't know if I mentioned it, sometimes extra wet.

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But the climate experts have decided that they're going to call it a cool name, hydroclimate whiplash, and try to sell you on the fact it's caused by climate change. Have I mentioned that in the entire history of California, sometimes it's extra wet, sometimes it's extra dry, just like the last few years. So if the last few years are exactly like the history of California,

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That's clearly caused by climate change. What? So it's the baseline, the way it's always been, but it must be caused by climate change. So when it's dry, it's climate change. When it's wet, it's climate change. And when it changes from dry to wet or wet to dry, it's climate change. Huh. May I give you one of the best ways to spot a scam? Here's how to spot any scam.

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not climate change specifically, but just any scam. Hey, I've got an idea that if you take this pill, your hair will regrow. Test, test, test, nobody's hair regrows. Did I say hair would regrow? I said we really found out it makes you taller. Test, test, test, doesn't make you taller, doesn't make your hair grow. Well, while you were testing it, I found out that it makes your breath smell better.

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Okay, do you see where this is going? If the claim stays the same, even while all the assumptions and the facts change, the claim was never true. If you're sticking to the claim, no matter what you see, it's not data-driven. And climate change might be true, but we don't believe it because it's data-driven. We believe it because we've been told to believe it. Now, could there be data? Yes.

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Could humans be influencing climate? Yes, they could be. Do I know how much or how dangerous that would be? Nobody does. Nobody does. But it's not very high on my list of things to worry about. However, what would be, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board goes on, What would be some of the things that California is doing to battle the wildfires?

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You're probably thinking, oh, they're going to do lots of fire mitigation, remove all those burnable things, maybe have better resources nearby, stuff like that, right? Well, maybe. But they've got a climate bond. which partly I'll be paying for, that has $36 million for sequestering the carbon and reduced emission from ranches and farms that I don't think we need.

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$47 million for expansion of green streets, parks, and schoolyards. Okay, that would be nice, but I don't think we need it to stop the fires. $80 million for climate action through nature-based solutions to improve equitable access to nature. Yeah, I like equitable access to nature. But I feel like everybody can walk outdoors. $80 million.

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Because if you or I are ever in jail and somebody does a documentary about how bad we are while we're in jail waiting for trial, that's not cool. That's never cool. It's free speech. It's definitely not cool. Anyway, here's a cool thing that might have an application to the fire recovery. So Fox News reports that Kurt Knudsen is reporting that there's a shape-shifting AI transformer home.

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$190 million for parks in the state's most disadvantaged communities. Because when the state's on fire, I'm thinking, if only we had more parks in the disadvantaged communities. And $228 million to build for port upgrades so we can support offshore wind generation, which is the worst idea in the world.

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So in order to support the worst idea for energy, we're going to spend $228 million to just get there. That's my state. Now, let me ask you again. Do you think we need some kind of a czar to watch the spending coming in from the feds? If the feds gave California spending for fire mitigation, they would spend it on climate change, wouldn't they?

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If the California Democrats say climate change is the problem and the federal government says, here's billions of dollars to go fix your fire problem, what the hell are they going to spend the money on? The Democrats will spend it on climate change and equitable parks and ports for windmills. Right? What would stop them? Nothing would stop them. And then, of course, they'd steal a lot. Now,

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would naval i'll just pick a name sorry naval i hate to do this to him but do you think naval would have taken that money and said yeah let's put this into the ports for the windmills no wind turbines you can call it wind turbines if you want to be non-trumpian about it no i don't think you would meanwhile um Meanwhile, Jack Smith, special counsel, as you know, has resigned.

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And he was the one bringing the January 6th related charge against Trump. And in his report, he said, quote, I can assure you that neither I, well, not in his report, or he said about it anyway, I can assure you that neither I nor the prosecutors on my team would have tolerated or taken part in any action by our office for partisan political purposes. Come on.

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Can I read that again with a proper attitude? I can assure you that neither I nor the prosecutors on my team Would it have tolerated or taken part in any action by our office for partisan political purposes? Come on. That's ridiculous. And what was it that he was charging Trump for? Lying. Well, in a sense. He was charging Trump because the most important part of his charges are, wait for it,

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that Trump knew, not assumed, but knew, that the 2020 election was fair. How does anybody know that? That's not knowable. You could know that nobody proved it was unfair. That's fair. But is that the same as proving it wasn't rigged? How could anybody know if it wasn't rigged? It's designed so you can't know.

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The design of the system guarantees that the public and even the president can't know who won. There is no way to know who won by design. Now, you can challenge me on that, but you're going to lose. The design makes it impossible to know who won. We know who has declared the winner, and we know if any big problems were found and concluded by the court to be big problems.

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But we don't ever know who won. Our system cannot tell us that. It can only tell us what they want to tell us. That's all we know. But Jack Smith has used the standard that Trump made some, quote, obviously false claims about the 2020 election rigging. Obviously false. What would be an example of something obviously false? Well,

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I can assure you that neither I nor the prosecutors on my team would have tolerated or even taken part in any action by your office for partisan political purposes. That's obviously false. You know what's not obviously false? That the election was rigged. Maybe it was rigged. Maybe it wasn't. It's not obviously false. Now, he said some parts of the claims were obviously false.

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Now, there might have been some that kind of stood out as, well, that doesn't look likely. But if you tell me that half of the country thought it was obviously rigged and half of the country agreed with Trump, if half of the country thinks the same thing as Trump, it's calling that obviously wrong. Obviously? What is the definition of obvious now?

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So I'll let you imagine it. So imagine a mobile camper. So it's that size. But there's no part where the driver sits. There's no engine. So it's not really a camper. It doesn't go anywhere. It's stationary, but it can be towed by an ordinary truck. So an ordinary truck tows this little mobile home looking thing. But here's the cool part. It's not as big as a mobile home.

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In my definition, if half of the country can't see what you think everybody can see, it's not obvious. It's the opposite of obvious. So the fact that we could allow that reframe to haunt us this far, the reframe that somehow you could know who won in our system. Amazing. Just amazing that it got this far. That is pure hoax. Pure hoax.

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And you don't even have to research to know that that's a hoax because you can't know what you don't know. unless you have a system that was designed to make sure that you could know all things. And it's not that. It's certainly not designed that way. Anyway, and then Smith, in his report, by the way, he released his 176-page report, even though the trial is canceled.

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So you're going to see all the bad news about Trump, but it's in a 176-page report, most of which I guess we knew. Nobody's going to read his 176-page report. Nope. Nobody's going to read it. But Smith said he blamed the violence of that day squarely on Trump, who, quote, engaged in unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results. The legitimate results. Wait a minute.

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The sentence has another illogical part in it. The legitimate results. Well, they were legitimated by the system. I guess that would be true. But is it legitimate? Because that's sort of up to me, isn't it? It's up to you and it's up to anybody looking at it. Do you think it's legitimate? I wouldn't call it that.

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It was legitimized by the system, but I don't trust the system, so that's not legitimacy. In order to retain power, do you think that he did it in order to retain power? Because there is no evidence to support that. So his main claim is, that the reason he did it was that he knew the election was good, but he only did it to retain power. There's no evidence for that at all.

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What, did they read his mind? Is there some evidence that he told somebody directly, yeah, you know, I think the election was fair, but I just want to retain power. Is there any evidence to that? No. The primary claim that he's summarizing has no evidence whatsoever. None was presented. None was proffered. There's none. This is just his own weird assumption.

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How did he turn his own weird assumption into something that looks like proof when it's just based on his own weird assumption? Do you know if... By the way, I'm going to be totally demonetized. I expect to be totally demonetized for even questioning that the integrity of the election could be known or not known. That would be enough, I think, to... I'll be completely demonetized. Watch.

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Just demonetized for the episode, not for the whole channel. But here's what Trump says. On True Social, he did a rant against Smith, and he called it fake findings at 1 a.m. Well, he was released at 1 a.m., I guess, for some reason. He called Smith deranged, and he said Smith is a lame-brained prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the election.

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Now, whose messaging are we going to remember? I have a 176-page document in which I... I claimed was not political, but everybody knows it was, and there's nothing in it that you don't know. Versus Trump, a lame-brained prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the election. Now he was unable because Trump's lawyers did a really good job of dragging it out. Anyway, that's happening.

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Michael Schellenberger is on a Tucker podcast, and it's amazing. It's amazing. You know, I haven't watched it all, but watching Michael Schellenberger just explain things you're watching in the news, but you haven't heard the right context and you don't know exactly the stuff that you should know, but he does, is really good.

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And I'm glad to know Tucker introduced him by saying that in Tucker's opinion, he was the best in the business, Schellenberger. I think that too. I think we haven't seen Michael Schellenberger that I can think of. I mean, he's so good at explaining the complicated stuff. See, the complicated stuff is what the lesser journalists... I'm not even sure if Schellenberger calls himself a journalist.

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It's only that big when you're towing it. As soon as it gets there, you can push some buttons and it expands to a 400 square foot, very well designed space. Now, the well-designed part is hard to say without looking at the picture, but trust me, they worked with not just a tech company, but they worked with a design company. What's the name of this company? AC Future.

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I don't know what he prefers to go by. But he does the job that journalists should be doing, and he does it amazingly. And it's so valuable to get the full context. Anyway, he tells us that half of all fire is put out by the LA Fire Department or started by homeless. But so Tucker asked the obvious question, why do homeless people start fires?

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Now, I thought the answer was going to be something like crazy people do stuff. But Schellenberger had actually an insightful take on that. He said, turns out that meth heads love to start fires. So I guess within the people who understand the drug world, which again is yet another thing that Schellenberger has done a deep dive on.

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So when he does a deep dive on the fires, he already has done a deep dive in a different time on the drug homeless problem. So he's one of the few people who can say, well, let's, let's put these together and see what we see. So when he puts it together with the homeless, suddenly the, you know, any of the conspiracy stuff disappears because he can tell you there's something about people on meth.

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They like the fire. Their choices are different. But there's a very consistency that meth equals starting fires. So I didn't know that. That certainly is interesting. And then there was a more interesting point. I'm not going to say I agree with this, but I'm going to say it's really interesting.

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that the theory, and I'm going to do a bad job of explaining it, so watch Michael Schellenberger explain it. He'll do the good version. But when people don't have a religion, as many Californians would fit into that category, that people don't just get rid of a religion, they replace it. Now, that's the part which I'm willing to believe, but I need a little more convincing. Kind of makes sense.

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So I'm not debunking it whatsoever. I'm just saying, I love how interesting this is. And the thought is that since religion has built into it, there's an invisible person watching you and you better not do these things, that that gets replaced with some kind of internalized guilt that even though there's not an invisible God watching you, you're bad and you need to improve.

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So it becomes kind of self-destructive and you can end up doing things that are not in your best interest, even if your plan is not to do things that are not in your best interest. It's just that you're led in that direction by some kind of guilt. And so that that would cause something like the L.A. fires, according to Michael.

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are an emergent property of abandoning religion and inventing your own source of guilt. Now, those are my words, but essentially he calls it an emergent property. So nobody planned it. It's just that once you've abandoned religion, you replace it with guilt, you start working on your guilt, and that might not be where you should be fixing problems.

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If the problem you're trying to fix is your own guilt, you do DEI. If the problem you're trying to fix is that it might burn up your state if you don't do fire stuff, you do fire prevention stuff. So it could be that the lack of having a religion to take care of the conscience caused people to change their focus to look for a way to get that same religious feeling without the religion.

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Do I buy that? Not entirely. But it's fascinating. And it could be completely true. So I'm willing to say that's a great hypothesis. Let's keep it open. Let's keep that hypothesis open. I'm not sold, not sold, but it's sellable. It's very sellable. Meanwhile, on CNN, uh, Jim Acosta was talking to the potato looking guy. I can't remember his name or somebody. I can't remember.

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So they partnered, and if you can trust my judgment on design, it's really well-designed. Like I looked at it and said, oh, I would love spending some time in that thing, if you can imagine that. Now, imagine this. Imagine you own some property in Pacific Palisades. Everything's burned down. It might take years to rebuild. But suppose they got utilities working and they cleaned up the toxic stuff.

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But, uh, he was saying that, uh, talking about Zuckerberg and the Biden administration censoring. Jim Acosta says, all they were doing is asking for COVID disinformation to be removed. That's what they should be doing. Really? All they were doing is asking for COVID disinformation to be removed? Does Jim Acosta not know how the whole free speech thing works?

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You're allowed to say things that aren't right. You can say it all day long according to our constitution. Does the government have some responsibility and or right to tell you you can't be wrong according to that? No, of course not. It's a total ridiculousness. So the redefining free speech is agreeing with the government, the opposite of free speech.

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So if you watch CNN, just hold this in your mind. If you watch CNN, you wouldn't know what free speech was. Isn't that wild?

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so if you didn't learn it and learn it well you know in some kind of educational process it's the first time you came into discussion of what what does free speech mean because it's a little bit complicated it's not as obvious as it looks right who can say what can you yell fire in a crowded theater can you defame somebody can you say things that are wrong about an important medical issue it's a little bit complicated but

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It gets simplified when you say, as long as you're not doing it with the intention of harming somebody or it's not ridiculous, you can do it. Even the ridiculous part is too far. Anyway, here's what I wouldn't mind the government doing.

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I wouldn't mind if the government or even the social media said, we're going to pair any statement that looks non-factual to the government with what the government says. Now, even if the government's wrong and the person saying the criticism is right, I don't mind seeing both sides. Do you? So I wouldn't want it to be a law that you always have to see the government side.

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But if some social network said, you know, the government, just so you know, the government has an opposite opinion. I would like to know that because I think we're smart enough now to know that the government isn't always the one that's right. Quite often. I mean, we've seen it on both sides. It's not a political thing. We say that the government's sometimes right, sometimes wrong.

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Everybody would agree with that statement. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong. So if I see both sides, I'm not going to complain about that. but I wouldn't want the government to mandate it. So if Facebook decided, you know, we're going to make sure you see both sides, that's okay. No problem. But here's what's funny about CNN.

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CNN has what I call clowns, and then they have people who are maybe just biased. And the clowns with people like John Avalon, Jim Acosta, Jasmine Crockett, they don't seem like serious people. They seem like people who just went on there to say, whatever's bad with Trump, and that's it. But that's not true of all the CNN hosts.

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When I watch Anderson Cooper or Jake Tapper, I might not like the way they're approaching something, but sometimes... they'll say something bad about Democrats like Biden's brain. You know, why didn't you tell us sooner? Now you could say, well, it was safe to say it after it was too late because it didn't make any difference.

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But, you know, the criticism you would do for, say, a Tapper or an Anderson Cooper would be about bias. But it wouldn't be they're clowns. But some of their people on air just strike me as clowns. But here's the funny thing. They also either intentionally or unintentionally hired the best clown killer of all time, Scott Jennings.

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So if you're not watching Scott Jennings being often the lone voice, sometimes he has somebody else on there that's conservative, but he's often the lone voice on the panel for the Republican side of things. And so here's what I love. So CNN's producers seemingly intentionally, because how could you not know this, They paired their best Republican clown killer with the Democrats' worst clown.

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So they put Scott Jennings sitting literally right next to John Avalon. I mean, he's probably the head clown of the entire network. And so Avalon says some clownish thing. And then Jennings says, let me answer your criticism by asking you a question. Do you think it was uniting? So what Avalon said was that people online are fueling division over wildfires instead of unity.

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That could be sooner. So that might be six to nine months. So by the way, that's the current estimate, I believe, six to nine months to get utilities and the toxins removed. Now that's the government's estimate. I don't know if you believe that. But let's say it's six to nine months. And then we'll follow a lengthy building process.

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So John Avalon is worried about the Democrat criticism. So he thinks the criticism is overdone and what we should really be shooting for is unity to get things done. And after this unity call from the clown, Jennings says, let me answer your criticisms by asking you a question.

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Do you think it was uniting or dividing while in the midst of these fires for the Democrats to go to Sacramento and in an emergency session vote to appropriate $50 million to, quote, Trump-proof California to sue the Trump administration, which hasn't even taken office yet? Do you think that was good priority and a good time to do that or no? Was that dividing?

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Was that divisive or was that uniting? And we're done. CNN's producers put the clown killer next to the clown. Thank you. That's good stuff. I'll watch that all day long. CNN, you got me. You got me. If you keep putting the clown killer next to the clowns, I'm going to watch you all day long. Your ratings are going to turn around. Give me that. Give me more of that. Clown killer and clown.

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Can't beat it. Meanwhile, also on CNN, and this part you might have missed. If you saw the clip live, you might have missed a really important little thing that was just sort of hidden in it. So let's see if I can explain it. So Harry Enten on CNN is the most data-driven, objective person on the network. which is good because he's the data guy.

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So he does the polling and, you know, how have opinions changed and stuff. And when he talks about it, it's not, let's talk about how Trump is bad and all Democrats are good. He just says what the data says and he's really good at. So all credit to Harry Enten on CNN, does a great job. But he's being interviewed by, is it John Berman? Who in this context would be the propagandist.

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So Enten is the voice of reason. Berman would be historically, in my opinion, more of a propagandist. So Harry Enten shows the data, the way he interpreted the data, is that the public is not making any connection between the wildfires and climate change. So the main messaging of the Democrats is, whoa, it's climate change, it's climate change, but the public's not buying it.

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In fact, the public has... move backwards in its belief about whether climate change is causing wildfires in general. So now we're down to in 2023, we're down to 39% were worried about climate change. And in 2019, 49% of those polled said humans contribute to climate change. So basically half of the public said humans contribute to climate change.

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Today, years later, after years and years of climate change propaganda, only 45%

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say that humans contribute to climate change so now it's less than half so less than half of the country is buying the main democrat messaging on climate change all right so now again credit to harry enton because he's just following the numbers and that's just what the numbers say so here's the fun part so then uh the john berman says trying to wrap it up and he says uh um

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I think it's reasonable that the residents might put up with being displaced for six to nine months. But if you add on top of that the two years it takes to get a place approved and built, even if they speed things up, you're going to have trouble getting labor. It's never going to be fast.

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He goes, even as scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather events. Even as scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather events. Is that true? Are scientists saying that climate change is causing more extreme weather events? Or is it the opposite? Because when I read the news about this, it's always, oh, well, actually the

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Hurricanes are not getting more frequent or worse. Oh, actually, the wildfires have historically always been this bad. Right? So it's just not true that scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather events, is it? It might be true that some are, but I don't even think that's the consensus anymore, is it? So what does Harry Empton do

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when the propagandist says something that I'm pretty sure Harry Enten knows is not true. But they're on TV, it's live, and the guy who tries to be honest is faced with a summary from his coworker that either, I don't think he believes it's true. So instead of agreeing with, even though scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather, Harry Enten very cleverly says this.

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Even as extreme weather goes up, humans are basically the public's less worried. So you see how he reframed it? So Enten, I'm reading some minds here, so I can't be positive that either of them are thinking the way I'm explaining it. But what it looked like was that Berman was trying to throw the propaganda for climate change into the story, and Enten's the data guy, and he wasn't having it.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank of Charles Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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But he couldn't go against him on the air, So he reframed it away from the scientists and just said, the public's not buying it. Good job, Harry Enten. Staying on fact. Trump was railing last night about Seth Meyers, NBC late night host. He's calling him. He said, I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night.

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Every time I watch this moron, I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is. Merely a slot filler for the scum that runs Comcast. Comcast owns NBC. And he says Comcast should be paying for for in-kind contributions to the radical left Democratic Party, and Comcast should pay a big price for this. Well, I like part of this.

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I don't like the part where Comcast should pay a big price for this, because it feels a little bit more like free speech should not be impinged or penalized. I mean, it is true that it's a propaganda show. It is true that it's one-sided, et cetera. But I don't know.

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Could you imagine that some of the residents would say, you know what, let us get one or even two of these things, put them on our property. put it in the backyard and we'll be there while the construction happens. Now it'd be hard to work while the construction noise is going on. But on the other hand, if you have house construction, you really kind of need to be around.

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In our system, free speech, if you kind of know it's one-sided, and if you turn on Gutfeld and you watch a higher quality show, you're going to see the other side of things. So I wouldn't be terribly eager to to see the new administration go after Comcast because Seth Meyers says stuff that Trump doesn't like. That feels a little too far.

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And by the way, I feel that there's an obligation on Trump supporters to set some kind of a line of what's too far. Because part of the thing we like about him is he'll do everything that other people do and then he'll push the envelope a little bit. So pushing the envelope is what I like. I like that he pushes the envelope everywhere. In every domain, he pushes the envelope.

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But I think that that makes an obligation on the supporters, such as myself, that we need to be vocal if there's something that's just a hint of too far. To me, that's too far to say that Comcast should pay a big price for this coming from the president in a threatening way. I love the fact that he does a critical review of the quality of the show. That I love.

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I love that he came up with an insulting nickname for somebody who's on the other team. Love it. Love it. But threatening Comcast for what seems to me free speech? Be careful with that one. So I'm going to do my citizen duty to say where I think the line needs to be drawn. You can disagree. That's part of your citizen duty.

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Starbucks reversed his policy that would allow anybody to sit at its cafe Even if they weren't buying anything, which of course is going to be an invitation to homeless That didn't work out So they're changing it.

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You can only be a customer if you're gonna be hanging out in the cafe Is that the Trump effect Where everybody is now sort of allowed to be a little more commonsensical you know that you have permission to do common sense and Is that the Trump effect? Or is it simply that they tried it and it was a disaster? Maybe both.

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Maybe the disaster wasn't enough to change it, but the Trump effect gives you cover because everything else going on is a bigger deal. So maybe the Trump effect. Maybe, but not entirely. Here's something I love. Melania did an interview and she said this, and I quote, I don't want to hire too many people on my team spending too much taxpayer money.

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I want to make sure that every position, they're talented, they have merit, they know what they're doing. Is it too soon to call it? I'm going to call it Best First Lady Ever. Any disagreement?

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I want my first lady to say something that's 100% compatible with what the country voted for, and I don't want to hear another story about that damn first lady who spent way more than she should have, you know, in prior administrations, way more than she should have to get good China and to upgrade something that we didn't think needed to be upgraded.

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If you've ever experienced it, if somebody is rebuilding your home, you kind of need to be there all the time, almost every few days at least to make decisions and see if it's going in the right direction. So now you say to yourself, but Scott, how God awful expensive would it be to, buy one of these cool mobile things. Really expensive.

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Now, I don't think that Melania came up with this genius messaging on her own. I think she has good advisors. So first of all, shout out once again to whoever is advising the Trump team, including Melania. This is just genius. This is not just okay. This is genius. She could not have nailed this harder. The wording is perfect. It's concise. It's on message. She, she has merit in there.

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Doesn't want to spend too much money. That's compatible with Doge. This is everything. This is, this is exactly what I want out of the first lady or the first husband, whoever it is. Best ever message. Perfection. Um, Now let's compare it to, if you want to see the difference in quality of messaging, let's compare it to what Harris is saying about the wildfires in California.

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First of all, you have to worry about the climate change. So got to worry about that climate change. Okay. Second is she reminds us that the citizens really need to be more patient in waiting for help. So it wasn't so much a totally Democrat mismanagement tragedy that burnt up the entire state. It wasn't that. No, it was a climate change problem.

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And now we're into more of a citizens being impatient problem. It makes you wonder, should there be some kind of punishment for the citizens who are impatient about the government? We've got to worry about the impatience of those people. Yes, their homes are just ashes on the ground and they've lost everything, but the real problem, I think we need to focus more on their impatience, really.

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We keep talking about giving them clean water and turning the power on. Will they ever be able to return home in their toxic environment? No, no, no, no, no. Don't think small. Stop thinking small. You want to elevate this. Let's talk about their impatience. Now, come on. That's somebody who almost became the president of the United States.

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I'll take Melania over whatever that is any day of the week for any job. Let me say that again. For any job, I would take Melania over Kamala Harris. For any job. Any job. Housecleaning to President of the United States. I'm going to take Melania. It's not even close. Well, just for fun, you should know that Michael Cohen was on MSNBC basically begging for a pardon from the Biden administration.

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And I don't know if he's going to get it because he's so originally associated with Trump. and probably completely hated by the Democrats. So if the, if the Democrats give Michael Cohen a, and Biden, if they give him a pardon, I guess it would be a preemptive pardon, I guess. That would be surprising, but he's trying hard to get it.

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However, if you play your cards right, and here, I'm just spitballing here. I don't know if this would work. Wouldn't it be true that they would have a resale value when you're done? So could you buy it for, I don't know, quarter of a million dollars? I didn't see the price. Maybe, I have no idea what the price is. And then when it's done,

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He says he should get it because even though Hunter was Biden's son and everybody understands that Biden would give a pardon to his son, you don't have to explain that too much. It's just, common biology. But Michael Cohen's making the argument that he also is somebody's son, so therefore he should get a pardon because he's somebody's son. I don't know.

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If I ever hired a lawyer, I wouldn't want him to be this dumb or ridiculous. But anyway. Meanwhile, Hamas has accepted the draft agreement, which means they haven't finalized it. But For the Gaza ceasefire and release of 33 hostages. Now, here's what I believe is true about it. The 33 is out of 98 hostages. So, you know, one third. But that seems to be all the civilians.

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Now, I can't guarantee that. But if it's all the civilians, and it might include the female military, I think, there might be five of them, that would leave the male military people who are still being held. Now, I could see why they'd do it. I understand why they would do it in that order. You understand, right? Everybody understands why you do it in that order? Yeah. Because men are useless.

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So they're going to let the men and the citizens out because the males who are in the military are worth less? How do you decide who gets to live and die? Do you do it by identity? That's what they did. Now, I get...

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if you're in the military you're taking on a bigger risk but keep in mind it's universal universal uh draft or whatever it is so everybody in in israel ends up in the military right so you can't say that the people were being held or chose to be in the military so they took on a bigger risk they didn't choose it it was required so every person who was being held

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didn't choose anything about it there was no choice so so why did the why did the adult men go last now i get it biologically biologically i understand that women are more valuable than men because they can do the baby making it doesn't take many men to do that but you know i i'm just going to put it out there that somebody just made a decision that adult men

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are worth less than the women and the civilians. Don't love it, don't love that, but I can see why they do it. Now, of course, part of this is that they would agree to a secondary phase, which might include the rest of the people, but that would not be negotiated to completion while they're doing their first phase. You know, they might be continuing to negotiate.

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And the first phase release would be over several weeks. So none of it's going to happen. None of it will happen before Trump's in office. Do you think Trump is going to accept, will release one-third of them over six weeks? Why would he? Why would he? It should be exactly the same penalty whether you release him or not. Right? I mean...

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I'm sorry, whether you release part of them or not, Trump's response should be the same. You don't treat this as a negotiation. See, this is what Israel, I think, is getting wrong. I'm not there, so they're obviously very smart. So when I say it's wrong, it's from my perspective, not having all the information. But from my perspective, you don't treat this part as a negotiation.

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maybe it's two years later, you sell it for something like a quarter of a million dollars because it might not even go down in value. People might want them, right? So it's entirely possible, not probable, but maybe there's some temporary way where you could have a pretty cool life. Now, let me give you a little best case scenario.

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You do what Trump is doing. This is your ticket to the negotiation. Because what the Hamas and Gazans want is to figure out what happens to their entire future. The entire future is in the negotiation. The ticket to even be in the conversation is you let everybody go now. That's the ticket. That's not the negotiation. That's the ticket to the negotiation. Trump gets that 100% right.

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I don't know why Israel has other other variables or other considerations. Maybe it's the local public opinion. That could be it. Which would be less on Trump than it would be on Netanyahu. So, I don't know. I'd like to see Trump fix this, if he can. And I think that's all I had to say about this. And, ladies and gentlemen... I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a little bit.

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Let's see if we can fix some fire stuff. Get this country going again. The golden age is off to a slow start with the fire. But I do believe that the fires have one hideous advantage. It's hideous because of the way you get there. But the advantage is I think it's the complete destruction of the Democrat way of governing.

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Maybe not the complete destruction of the Democrat Party because they're probably resilient. But their way of approaching things with identity and climate first and feelings first, I feel like it's so discredited that if it could ever come back, it would take a long time. So I worry what happens when Trump retires from the process.

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Will there be enough Republican strength to keep common sense in our sights? Or is it going to turn into ridiculousness like equity and who's being impatient and what's your climate doing and all that stuff? So, all right. Locals coming at you for some private time. The rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you next week or tomorrow, same time.

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My understanding, and this is the only reliable estimate I've gotten, eyewitness, of how bad the destruction is. It's something like maybe 20, 25% of the homes in Pacific Palisades survived, but they have smoke damage and all the rest. So if you imagine that maybe 20% of the residents have some capability of getting back into it faster than others, what would that be like? And would you do it?

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If your nearest neighbor was the only other burned house a street over, would you want to live there? Your first impression would be no. Let me give you your second impression. If you moved in there and everything was just a few people, you would be friends with James Woods because he would be one of the few people. So suddenly...

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All these people that maybe you didn't know but are kind of cool, they're just cool people. It's not that they're rich, not that they're famous, they're just cool. Yeah, you'd be able to hang out with all of them because James Woods would say hi to everybody. He'd probably come over to your place because there's nothing else to do.

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So you would end up being friends with this weird combination of people that were not your direct neighbors and Probably you wouldn't have met otherwise, but they would gravitate toward each other because they were the survivors.

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I contend that although that was described as heaven on earth, just the best place in the world to live, they're not going to get back to that right away, but they could get back to something that's amazing, like actually just amazing, and it could happen in a year. So if you want the good news...

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're going to love it. Go. Well, I'm right again. It was terrific. I knew it. All right, you ready for this? There's going to be a P. Diddy documentary coming out. telling us some of the bad things he's done.

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probably one year till 20% of the residents have something like an amazing, just an amazing situation because they're going to get the weather back. They're going to get the climate back and they're going to get a social structure back somewhat instantly. That is beyond anything that you and I have seen. Now I've had an experience with that. And here's why I think it's possible.

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I used to stay a little extra long in college. So there'd be that last day before the holiday, before Thanksgiving or Christmas. And I'd stay the extra day when almost everybody else would go home. And what would happen would be there'd be maybe 25 students left on campus that last night. What do you think we did? It was 25 people that I didn't know.

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We would all fight each other, and we would have just the best time, just the best time, complete strangers, because we were the ones who stayed behind. So there is some hope. Anyway, here's the weirdest news, and I'm going to call this a simulation alert, that if we did not live in a simulation, I don't believe this could ever happen.

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Now, I'm not going to have to make the connection to the simulation. You'll see it yourself. I'll just tell you the story, and then you connect it to the simulation. According to the Daily Mail, there is now some science that shows that injecting a common household disinfectant into your body could help cure cancer. Injecting a household disinfectant. Now be careful.

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I'm not suggesting that anybody inject any disinfectants. It's a very specific special case and it's not every disinfectant. It's just hydrogen peroxide. And I guess if you, they found out if you give a little injection into a tumor or a cancer cell, it weakens it. So your other treatments can work. So don't do it yourself. Do not, do not inject any, anything into yourself ever. It's just a test.

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But what are the odds that there would be a headline as Trump is going into office? There's a headline about, you know, it'd be a good idea sometimes to inject some household disinfectant into your body. Cure some cancer. Come on. Come on. You think this is a real world when you see stuff like this? This couldn't possibly be real.

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Anyway, Senator Fetterman and his wife went to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Washington examiner Selena Zito is talking about it. And how do you think that went? You know, if you haven't heard the news, do you think Trump said, well, you know, he took the knee or, you know, do you think he insulted him? How do you think that went? Well, here's how it went. Here's what Trump said afterwards.

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He said, quote, it was a totally fascinating meeting. He's a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely. They were both up, and I couldn't be more impressed, Trump said about Federman and his wife. He said, they had an hour-long meeting, and Trump said, he's a common-sense person. He's not liberal or conservative. He's just a common-sense person, which is beautiful, Trump said. I rest my case.

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I rest my case. You know, I've been saying good things about Fetterman and getting slapped around on social media because the thinking is you can't say anything nice about the other team because winning is the important thing. Now, I understand that. And I'm completely on board with the concept of winning is the most important thing. if the alternative is complete destruction of your country.

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I get it. I get it. Winning is the most important thing if evil is the alternative. But sometimes you've got to put a little nuance on this. The fact that Trump can call out somebody on the other team as being a paragon of common sense improves Trump's messaging. Because if Trump had said, I love common sense,

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when the most famous common sense person on the other side came to talk with him if he had somehow rejected him or dismissed him or insulted him or or even played it off as not important that would have been a huge mistake because his most central message is the thing that brings us together is common sense and so when he sees somebody coming together over common sense he's got to call that out because this it looks like trump complimenting federman and he is

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But it's really Trump complementing the concept of common sense, which amazingly has to be championed in a day where there's so little of it. You know, it's just remarkable that you have to even mention it. But yeah, that's the secret sauce is the common sense. And it is the unifier. And Trump is playing it exactly right.

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I don't know if you've heard, but this guy named Diddy has done allegedly some bad stuff. I won't give you any hints about it, but I will warn you that the documentary effect is an effect. I warn you often that if you see a documentary on any topic, it's going to be nonstop, at least an hour of things on one side and not the other side. I hate to say this. This is going to be hard for me.

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Speaking of Trump, so the inauguration is coming and security is very important. But a couple of things about that. I don't know if this is true, but it was reported that the major drone maker that is a Chinese-owned company, DJI, is it? So most of the drones everywhere are made by one company in China. They're basically the big drone company in the world.

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And what they had been doing, China, is making their drones geo-fenced. which I thought was a requirement, but maybe it isn't because they dropped it. So geofencing means that since the drone has a GPS, it knows where it is, it would be prevented. Even if you tried to fly it there, it would be prevented to go over a Navy base or military base or some government facility.

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So even if you wanted to fly your Chinese drone over the White House, you couldn't do it. Until now. allegedly trying to just drop the, or at least the company, just dropped the geofencing barrier. So correct me if I'm wrong. I'll take a fact check on this because there's part of my brain that says, I'm not sure this is true. Well, all right, I'm going to go harder at it.

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And here I am just checking on your stocks, and they look to be up. Stocks are up. Inflation rose by 2.3%, which I think is good news, right? All right, let's get my comments working, and then we got a show. Then we got a show. Come on in here. You'll love it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Oh, a mystery just got solved.

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Was it Scott Jennings maybe challenged somebody on the panel on CNN? And he just laughed when they said that Biden was, you know, more honest. Anyway. So, RFK Jr. was praising Trump for his executive order that would lower pharma costs in the United States and would make us pay no more than other countries, which would be a gigantic reduction in costs. But RFK Jr.

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was doing his little public statement about it. Trump was there. And here's what he said. He said, I have a couple of kids who are Democrats, big Bernie Sanders fans. And when I told them that this was going to happen, they had tears in their eyes. So this is something that Bernie wanted, you know, the lower pharma costs, but they could never get it done. And even RFK Jr.

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thought it would never happen in his lifetime. So here's the fun part. Apparently Bernie Sanders is so on board. with Trump's executive order, but he doesn't think that it will necessarily survive a court challenge. Now, who the hell is going to challenge it in court? I get that you shouldn't do everything with an executive order. I get it.

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But is there really going to be a Democrat or a group of Democrats who insist that we pay more for pharmaceutical stuff? Bernie thinks so, because Bernie has said publicly now, he goes, further, as Trump well knows, his executive order will be thrown out by the courts. Will it? It will only be thrown out if a Democrat takes it to the court.

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So they got a cure for baldness, they think. Do you know when was the first time I read a news story that said science had a cure for baldness? Probably 50 years ago. Do you know when was the second time? probably 49.5 years ago. Every six months, I see a story that baldness has maybe been cured.

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How in the world are they going to survive that politically if they take that to the court? But I suppose Bernie probably knows his party better than I do. I guess I would reflexively disagree with anything Trump does. But here's the good news.

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He says if Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release, it's an executive order, not a press release, he will support legislation I will soon be introducing. to make sure we pay no more for prescription drugs than people in other major countries. Major countries? Ah, maybe he'll limit it to major countries. We'll see.

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If Republicans and Democrats come together on this, we can get it passed in a few weeks. So unless there's a trick in there, maybe the trick is the major countries. It looks like Bernie Sanders is fully on board with

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with trump's uh executive order he just wants to make it stronger and make it part of a part of the law so we'll see if that's real or that's not real but i i can't wait to see which democrat would take a chance on challenging this in court do you think that's possible

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I'm going to make a prediction that even the Democrats are not dumb enough to go all in on we should pay more for pharmaceutical because we hate Trump. I don't think they can do it. I mean, they've done some crazy things just to be on the other side of Trump, but I don't think they can do this. Even Jasmine Crockett can't do this. She might try, though.

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Anyway, as you know, Trump has allowed refugee status for the white South Africans who want to escape the possible genocide in South Africa. Now, there's some disagreement. If you watch MSNBC, you'll find out there's no white genocide in South Africa. And there's violence, you know, everybody has violence.

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So why would we be favoring the white people in South Africa, says MSNBC, when everybody's, you know, it's a dangerous place. And, you know, there's just very, very little... evidence that many farmers have lost their land or been killed or anything. But it's only like 59 people, I guess, at least initially.

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And I just love the trolling aspect of this combined with the fact that I do think that if I were living there, based on what I've seen in the news and what looks like is coming, And it's more about what's coming, because if you look at the rhetoric, the rhetoric in South Africa is looking pretty dangerous.

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So if I were a white resident of South Africa, I feel like I might want to get out of there. And the fact that Trump's all in on that, it just gives MSNBC something to talk about that doesn't matter. Now, I don't know what's true or what's not true in South Africa, but the fact that it just gives MSNBC something unimportant.

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I mean, if you look at the whole world and the country, it's not the most important thing happening. It's 59 people. So anyway, I guess I just enjoy the fact that they don't like it. Well, the Diddy trial is going now, and I guess the Diddy defense is going to be that the violence really did happen, but it wasn't part of sex trafficking.

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Boy, you know, you never want to be in legal trouble where your best defense is that your violence was real. Well, my violence was real. Yeah, sure. I did beat up some women. But it was part of consensual sex acts. And maybe they liked it a little bit or that's your best defense. But definitely wasn't sex trafficking. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, it was just violence, people. No sex trafficking.

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Do you know how much baldness has been cured in the last 50 years of great advancements in curing baldness? Not a lot. And generally, if they find something that does cure your baldness and makes your penis not work, it's pretty much a guarantee. So, no, I don't believe anything about any story that says they're going to cure my baldness or anybody else's.

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So he's been accused of drugging people and bribing people and disgusting sex acts. And there was something about a male escort who was paid thousands of dollars to get with his girlfriend, Cassie, while Diddy watched. Wow. This doesn't seem like the dangerous stuff yet, does it? Weren't you expecting that the Diddy trial would

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would present a whole bunch of things that were not just about Diddy, like you'd find out about other people. I'm starting to think there won't be anything about other people, at least other famous people. There'll be other things about the male escort that he paid and the girlfriends that he did bad things to. But I feel like this is going to be really limited to just Diddy.

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which has to be done. But if you were hoping for this to give you real news about other people, probably not. The Credentials Committee, in another story, sounds like the same story because it's so disgusting, but the Democratic National Committee, the ones who had elected David Hogg as their co-chair, there's something called the Credentials Committee.

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So the Democratic National Committee has a Credentials Committee, and they voted that Hogg, the Hogg election, had not followed proper parliamentary procedures, and then they'll have to decide whether he can run again. So the Democrats used a rules trick to get rid of their own guy, Which is so Democrat. You know, we've been talking before about the Democrats.

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They're not so much about policy and ideas because they don't have any policy ideas. But they're all about gaming the rules. You know, I think Mark Elias just sued Wyoming for something again, trying to game the rules. So they gave the rules even on their... They've turned their weapons on their own people.

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So somehow they came up with some weird parliamentary procedure thing to get rid of David Hogg. But he's not gone-gone. I guess he could rerun for his own seat. But the odds of him getting elected probably went way down. And this is after David Hogg was on Bill Maher's show saying something like... that young men just want to get laid and have fun.

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And that's what the Democrats, I guess, didn't understand about young men. And I'm thinking to myself, I think, again, you're way off. Now, of course young men want to do those things. But if you're following the news... or my podcast, you know that young men are the biggest uptick in church.

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There's a much bigger trend toward young men wanting to become religious and wanting to become conservative. And apparently enrollment in the military is way up, which is mostly young men. Now, why do young men volunteer to be in the military? Now, in some cases, they might think it's their best economic play, depending on what they're prepared for.

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But to me, it seems like the trend is away from wanting to just get laid and have fun. Even drinking is down. The amount of drinking is down among the young. I think young men are seeking meaning. And I guess Charlie Kirk did a good job of saying that, that young men are far more, if you're looking for a trend, they're trying to find some meaning.

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According to a story in Newsweek, psychopaths are more attractive. Did you know that? Psychopaths are more attractive, and therefore, because people trust attractive people. They shouldn't, but they do. The psychopaths can get away with more because they get trusted because they're attractive. Now, here's my question to you.

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Because the old days, everybody was just getting ready to be a good husband. And that option seems to be decreasing. I mean, they still might want it, but it just doesn't seem to be as available because of economics and other things. So I think once again... The Democrats just don't understand their own public.

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It'll always be true that young men want to get laid and have fun, but the search for meaning just seems like a bigger deal to me in terms of a direction for things. Now here's a, I don't know if this is a trend or just a thing, but have you noticed that there's a gigantic difference in the, let's say, mental capacity of Democrat supporters versus Republican?

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Now, I'm not saying that if you measure the IQ of one group versus the other, there'd be a difference. I don't know that there would be. But in terms of the people who are prominent, if you look at who's prominent on the Democrat side, you get people like Hogg and Jasmine Crockett, you know, just to pick two. Now, they're not really the brightest people, at least in terms of politics.

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But I've said this before, I think I said this on X, and Elon Musk agreed with me on X, that the smartest people seem to have all moved to the Republican side, because it's the common sense side. It's hard to be smart and be opposed to common sense. But just to give you a sense of the difference between the Democrat side saying just one crazy thing after another and the Republicans.

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The Republicans have on their side, I would say, you've heard of Data Republican. So Data Republicans, a woman who is just great with data and has surfaced things that would be hard to surface just because she's good with data. So recently she put together a giant spreadsheet that you could download and you could check yourself that shows where George Soros gave his money.

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So you can see the Soros grants. I guess Alex Soros at this point. Now, isn't that useful? To actually understand the real world, you'd want to know where Soros put his money. Now, who on the Democrat side could do that? They don't have data Republican. That's just something on one side.

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Who on the Democrat side has a Mike Benz who could explain to you in great detail all of the NGOs and how the money has been essentially laundered and how the CIA is all part of it, etc.? They don't have a Mike Benz. What about Victor Davis Hanson? They do have some historians on the Democrat side. but they just seem like crazy partisans.

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They don't sound as authoritative or as smart or as balanced as Victor Davis Hanson. What about, I'm going to throw Charlie Kirk in here. If you haven't seen Charlie Kirk's videos of all the public events he's doing, where he does a public debate with anybody who wants to, basically. So people go up to the microphone and they challenge him with one thing after another.

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And one of the things we've learned is that Charlie Kirk is way smarter than I thought he was. It turns out he has a pretty deep, not pretty deep, but a very deep

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Where's the cause and where's the effect if psychopaths are more attractive? I've told you this story before about when I was very young. I remember looking in the mirror and saying to myself, hmm, looks like you're not going to play in the NBA. Probably not. Chances are you won't play in the NBA. And so I planned my life around the alternative, which is go to college and build up my brain.

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understanding of all of these topics and watching him just dismiss one person after another you think to yourself oh my god you know i'm glad he's on our team um of course there's elon musk and doge smartest people ever on the republican team and i'm going to say maybe on the trump team as much as the republican team a lot of it is uh yeah a lot of it is uh

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Trump-ish, because Trump is the common sense guy. David Sachs, every time I hear David Sachs explain something complicated, I think to myself, oh, now I understand it, because he's just so freaking smart. And I'm going to throw myself in there, because I've added to the persuasion understanding of the Republican pro-Trump side. I don't think there are people like that.

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There's just a huge difference in capability of the people who are involved and publicly involved and stuff. So is that just my impression? Because it's possible I'm just so biased that I can't see the difference. I see in the comments somebody throwing Megyn Kelly in there. Yeah, let's throw Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan in there.

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not as necessarily Trump supporters, but important voices that are the best of the best in podcasting. I think the Democrats will probably catch up and have some big podcasts, but I haven't really heard of any. That's probably just because I don't pay attention to that part of the world. Somebody's throwing in Jack Posobiec. I'll throw him in there. What about Steve Bannon?

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Steve Bannon isn't just the guy who needs a haircut who does a show every day. Steve Bannon is really smart. I don't know if you understand how smart he is. He's really smart, like super smart. Even if you disagree with him, you have to give him that.

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so it does seem to me like there's a just an enormous talent difference at this point yeah you could throw i'm seeing lots of other names go by i won't uh i won't have to list every name but there's a big difference in the capability at this point anyway Sam Altman was talking about where AI is going. He says 2025 is the year of the AI agent.

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Now, the AI agent would be you can have an AI that acts like a person who does whatever you want it to do, work tasks or personal tasks. I'm not so sure because I don't think there is yet an AI agent that won't hallucinate. If there is, maybe I could be corrected on that, but I feel like they don't have a solution for AI agents. I think it would either be too dangerous.

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I think they're close, but I don't know if they can close that last gap where the AI agent is dependable. So we'll see. I mean, there's no reason I would be right on that. If you were going to bet, you would bet on Sam Altman. You wouldn't bet on me. But I'm a little bit skeptical because if it could be done, I think it would have been done already.

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He thinks 2026 will be the year of scientific research and breakthroughs. In other words, AI doing its own scientific research and breakthroughs. That could be true. Then 2027 is when AI and robotics get together and then you've got robots and AI. Now, in theory, there will be Optimus Prime that will be driven by AI. And that will be available at least in small amounts at the end of this year.

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I wouldn't be too surprised if that got pushed back. So I think maybe Sam Altman's estimate that it's 2027 is probably right. And I think that that may have to do with the fact that you can't quite trust the AI yet. So putting it in a robot, might be a little dangerous in 2025. I think it's doable. You could have a robot in 2025, but probably 2027 is when we trust it.

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Now, if you haven't seen it, there's a video of the Optimus robot doing jazz dancing. It's not just dancing, but it's looking like an actual dancer. It's got moves that don't look like a robot. It looks like a person. But as I was watching this, I was watching it with the sound off, and I thought to myself, how much does a robot weigh? Does anybody have an idea? How much will the optimist weigh?

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Do you think the psychopaths When they're very young, they can tell they're unusually attractive already. And they're not psychopaths yet. But they quickly learned that because they're attractive, they can get away with murder. So I think being attractive turns you into a psychopath because you don't need to worry about consequences. Whereas I have to worry about consequences.

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Because could you imagine having the apartment beneath the apartment that has a robot in it? Could you just imagine what it would be like in the first floor apartment if the second floor apartment has an optimist? Clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump. Hey, optimist, show everybody you can dance. Clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump.

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There's going to be a real problem with the downstairs apartments, let me tell you. All right. Speaking of robots, I saw this story before and I skipped it the first time or two I saw it because I thought it was more of those someday we'll be able to do this, which is way less interesting than we can do this now. But apparently this is a real thing that exists now.

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China's doing they've so they've got a robot dog four-legged firefighting machine so I guess it connects to a hose and It can go into the most dangerous places because it's really good at balance So even if the stairs are giving out it it can overcome that it can cool itself if it gets too close to the fire and And it can shoot water like crazy because, you know, it carries a hose.

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And it can even shoot air because I guess sometimes a strong blast of air will kill a fire pretty quickly too. Now, this is not, apparently, this is not theoretical. It's already in play. So they're already fighting fires with a robot dog in China. So, That's amazing. The story is coming from Mashable.

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Now, I don't know if you can completely trust stories coming out of China, but if this is true, that they already have a robot dog firefighter, that's going to be pretty amazing. Can you imagine being trapped in a fire and the robot dog is the first one that gets there? But it can't really carry you out because it's just a robot dog. It doesn't really have enough hands for that.

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I guess we'll have the optimist for that. All right. Well, the Jake Tapper book is out with co-author Alex Thompson. Now, that's the one that promised to be we imagine, would be full of really shocking things about Joe Biden from behind the scenes.

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And so far, the only thing I've heard from the book is that, I guess it's out today, but that Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that his advisors privately discussed the possibility he might need a wheelchair if he won re-election. Now, That's not too surprising if anybody saw him walk and fall over and stuff like that.

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And the fact it was privately discussed, that makes perfect sense. But is that the most shocking thing in the book? Of all the things in the book, we're not even going to talk about his mental deterioration. We're going to talk about his ability to walk. I feel like I was expecting a lot more, weren't you?

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So maybe somebody only read the first chapter or something, but shouldn't there be way more shocking revelations? I'm a little low on shocking revelations here, so Jake, we're expecting more. I hope there's more of this going to come out. Apparently Apple is now working with a startup called Synchron to connect their phone to your brain directly. So this would be for disabled people.

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So that's why I'm such a nice guy. But you've heard that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Is that all that's going on? Could it be that the attractiveness power of the psychopath, well, maybe it just starts as attractiveness power, but then they just become psychopaths. I don't know. Just my hypothesis.

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at least initially. Wall Street Journal was reporting this. So Synchron is trying to do the same thing that Neuralink does, which is literally physically connect some device to your brain. So they have a stent-like device that's implanted in a vein atop the brain's motor cortex. Now, that's kind of surprising, right?

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Does it surprise you that connecting to one vein near the brain would allow you to read brain signals? And that's pretty amazing, if you could do that. Anyway, and then it translates the signals into icons on screen. Now, I saw some critic in the comments saying that... Apple hasn't developed basically anything useful since Steve Jobs left. Left as in, you know, died.

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And I wonder if this will be it. But even this is sort of a follower thing, because, you know, Neuralink, it would be way ahead. Yep, brain vein signaling. Anyway, so we'll see about that. It seems to me that if it starts with disabled people It wouldn't be long before you would want to have one of those brain stents in your own brain.

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How many of you would let somebody drill into your head and give you a brain stent just so you could control your phone better? I don't know if I'd be up to be the first person to do that, but you go first. Well, as you know, one of the biggest problems in the United States for developing anything is it takes too long to get approval, especially in the uranium slash nuclear front.

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But according to interesting engineering, the U.S. is going to fast track a Utah uranium mining permit. Now, how long do you think it would normally take to get a uranium mining permit? I guess this isn't a mine that used to exist, but got closed for some reason. They're reopening it. How long do you think it would take? Probably years, right? And why would it take years?

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Well, you know, there's always environmental issues, etc. But apparently they're trying to slash that to 14 days. 14 days. Do you think they're going to make that work? Because I always wondered, why can't you do it in 14 days? Now, I'm not talking about the analysis that would be presented to whoever has to approve the thing. The analysis might take a while.

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They might say, can you analyze the impact on the special frogs or whatever is there? So I could see why that would take a while. But it seems like once you've done the analysis that getting the approval shouldn't take that long. So do you think this will really get approved in 14 days? Because we need local uranium so we don't have to rely on Russia. Russia is one of the main sources of uranium.

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So it seems like a bad idea to depend on Russia for our uranium. Well, when Trump's talking, he's still talking about the China tariff agreements. And apparently there's a deeper level of stuff that we don't all understand. So one of the things I talked about is the tariffs, of course.

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But there was something about a whole bunch of other restrictions and things that China puts on people beyond tariffs that they're willing to relax. But Trump is very excited about the fact that China has agreed to, quote, open itself up to American business. Now, what exactly does that mean?

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Because if you're an American business and you found out that China said, all right, in the past, we weren't allowing you to even compete in China because we wanted our Chinese businesses to thrive without the competition. But even if you could compete, bring your business into China, wouldn't you still be worried that they would steal your IP and that they would bug all your devices?

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You've probably heard that if you're a CEO of a company and you travel to China, you can't bring your regular phone because everything's going to be tapped and you're basically going to be surveilled the entire time. So who would actually do that? Like, even if you could do business in China and they opened it up to American business, is that real?

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Here's a study that I found interesting, that if you want to change your location, well, apparently Nobel Prize winners are more likely to be Nobel Prize winners if they have changed their location more times. So in other words, if you used to live in one place, but then you moved, and maybe you moved again, you're more likely to become a Nobel Prize winner. And there's a reason for that.

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Or would there be so many Chinese-specific problems that you'd wish you had never gotten near it? I still think China is too dangerous for business. It's too risky. And I don't see that changing because it would require a... Complete mindset change in China. where apparently the current mindset, and I can't read minds, but I'm going to only judge it from actions.

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If you look at the actions of China, it's as if there are no ethical or moral limits on anything. And that if they can steal from you, they do. If they can abuse you, they will. If they can steal your stuff, they will. If they can degrade you in any way for the benefit of the Chinese market, they will. How is that going to change? I don't see that changing.

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If they don't have the mindset that, oh yeah, come on in and compete with our local businesses. So I feel like that's overblown. I just feel like there's going to be a soft decoupling. It's very smart for Scott Besant to say directly and publicly that we don't want to decouple from China. That's exactly what I would say if I wanted to decouple from China. It's just that you can't do it quickly.

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Doing it quickly would be a disaster for both countries. But a soft decouple, where we just sort of quietly develop locally the ability to make our own clothing, I guess, or to buy it from Mexico or... or Vietnam. So I think we should say, yes, we want to do all kinds of business with you, China. Yeah, bring it on. Let's do some more. Oh, the last thing we want to do is decouple.

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No, no, no, we don't want to decouple. And then decouple as fast as you can. but in a reasonable, common-sense way that doesn't destroy you as you're decoupling. So I say, don't decouple while you decouple. So that's how I'd play it, too. Gavin Newsom says, Our California leader here has ordered California cities to shut down the homeless encampments.

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He says there's no more excuses, Blaze Media is reporting on this. The homeless advocates, of course, were not happy about this at all. So what does that mean? Doesn't it feel like there's something missing in that?

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if you close down the homeless encampments which is basically the tents and you get rid of the tents where are they gonna go it isn't the and the whole point of it is that they were unwilling to go anywhere else so if you said pick up your tent and get out of here to where They always had indoor options, right? For a long time, they've had the indoor options.

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The reasons they stay outdoors is so they don't have to obey any of the rules of indoor living. In other words, they can just do their fentanyl and lay there and they just prefer it. Now, the fact that you and I don't prefer it shouldn't be influential in your opinion. They prefer it. And it's hard to understand that at some point of addiction and mental illness, they prefer living outdoors. So,

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I don't know how this can work. There's just a part missing. Where is it that they go? I've always liked the idea of creating a homeless encampment on public land that's just away from the other people. I don't mind how many homeless people there are as long as they're not on the sidewalk so that I can walk by and the freedom poopers will not be doing their thing. So

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if this is um somehow paired with there's a place you can go it's just and it's very nice place you know maybe it's even has more trees and maybe maybe has better maybe they could give them some bathroom facilities maybe even some a little bit of health care or something so but if there's a place to go I guess so.

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So here again, you can see that Gavin Newsom is trying to be more of a centrist, which I define as trying to be a Republican without going all the way. Well, according to the MIT Technical Review, there is a new technology that police might be using soon that doesn't use facial recognition. but it can still recognize people.

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If you were, let's say you were a genius and you were born in Silicon Valley with other geniuses, you would fairly soon become like the other people. So it would be really good that you were around other geniuses. That would be a real advantage. It might make you smarter, but only to a certain level. And then you would be sort of into groupthink.

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So without, because there's a controversy about using facial recognition, it's too intrusive. But apparently they can now, there's a technology that can identify people, maybe less accurately, but it can identify people by, let's see, by their attributes, like body size, gender, hair color and style of clothing and accessories instead of their face.

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So this made me think that criminals need their own AI consultant. Because imagine you were a professional criminal. It used to be you just had to understand the current situation because it never changed much. But AI is changing so much about how the law enforcement people can do their job. It's like in order to be a professional criminal, you're gonna need your own AI consultant.

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It's like, all right, you're gonna have to start changing your clothes for each crime because if you wear the same clothes, they're gonna identify you quickly. Now, how many of the criminals We'll be aware that, how many of them read the MIT Technology Review to know that law enforcement can identify them by their style and their clothing and their accessories?

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It also says gender, but let's be real, it's men. I think the gender part's the least important because it's always men doing the serious crimes. Anyway, so crooks, you better dress differently. In related news, there's a rumor that is not confirmed and might not be true, but Reclaim the Net is saying that, you know, Meta has these new glasses, these Ray-Ban glasses.

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You probably saw Zuckerberg wearing them. And they're sort of limited in what they can do at the moment. But one of the things they're thinking about maybe, possibly adding, is facial recognition. Now, I don't know about the legalities of that, etc. And it's not a confirmed thing. It's only a, well, we think they're probably looking at it. But isn't that the most valuable feature?

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I mean, if I said to myself, what is the point of having these cool magic glasses that can help me hear things and see things and do things. Wouldn't the number one thing be to tell you more about other people so that you can remember their names? And that you can instantly know what you have in common. You can know if they're dangerous. It would be super intrusive.

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And the people who were being identified would hate it. But boy, it would be the single most useful thing you could have if you could have it. And then you'd see some people that if they even saw you walk in the room with those glasses, they'd have to leave immediately.

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Because if you were the one person who had some serious crimes on your record or something, the person who walks in with the meta glasses would be the only one who knows. So as soon as you see somebody walk in with those Ray-Ban glasses, you're like, all right, got to go. I'm out of here. But it would be the most useful thing you could do.

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This is the thought from this study from the Ohio State University.

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You would be able to talk to strangers all the time because you would see something in common. Can you imagine you meet somebody you've never met before, but it can check their social media, and it tells you immediately what you have in common? It's like, oh, you both like to surf.

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Well, if you know that right away, that you met somebody new and you both like to surf, you already have something to talk about. It would be so easy to make friends, but you can see the downside too. So there would clearly be a dark side to it. However, I think it would be useful. All right.

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but if you were let's say a scientist and you learned everything from the other scientists who lived where you live because you'd have some association with them and then you moved you'd get a whole new bunch of scientists and that could take you to another level but i would uh i would extend this from nobel scientists to just ordinary creative people trying to create

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So what we're expecting from this Saudi trip with the president is that there are a lot of deliverables that have been arranged in advance. And maybe it's already happening. I don't know. But I think you're going to see this nonstop, this nonstop, flow of good news heading to the United States.

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Now, at the same time, apparently there was a Pakistani man who's a British citizen who's in the government who's suggesting that Trump should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for quickly de-escalating the Pakistan-Indian conflict, to which I say, Huh. Maybe yes. Because we don't know exactly what Trump did, but I'm guessing what he did was he put pressure on both sides.

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As in, you better cut this out or we'll, I don't know, cut trade with you or put some kind of pressure on you or sanction you or something. And both sides would like to be able to just trade with the United States and have a good relationship with the United States. But they also needed what I called the fake because. The fake because is a reason to do the thing that they wanted to do anyway.

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And what they wanted to do anyway is not have a fight and not go to World War III. They definitely did not want a nuclear confrontation. So when Trump comes in, He can just give them some ambiguous threats, and both sides will say, oh, well, now that I have the ambiguous threat, I guess that's a good enough reason not to have World War III.

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I was so willing to go to nuclear war, but now that Trump has talked to us. So I think that's something that Trump would know.

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that neither of them wanted it they just needed some external reason to make it look like a good idea to stop stop being belligerent so maybe maybe trump does deserve a nobel peace prize for what he did we'll find out more about what he actually did because i don't know but maybe All right, that's all I've got for now. I'm going to say some words privately to the people on Locals, my subscribers.

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And the rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you again tomorrow. Same time, same place. There'll be all kinds of good news by tomorrow. All right, if you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, you'll be gone in 30 seconds.

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Because one of the things I noticed is that changing where I am physically, not the city, but just changing, well, sometimes city, but changing the room, doing some work at Starbucks. I've tried going to the library. It all works. Every time I change my location, I can do more work. So try it. Change your location if you're not being creative enough.

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I can't tell you what it is, but in the comments, somebody just solved a mystery for me. Good. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it's the best thing that ever happened to you.

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Well, if you haven't seen the videos, Saudi Arabia is really rolling out the red carpet, as I like to say, for Trump, who has arrived there today. They had three Saudi jets give Air Force One an escort, which I don't think was necessary for any additional protection. But it just made it look like a big deal. It was kind of impressive.

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because they had the videos of the Saudi jets, you know, just sort of following him in. Then the crown prince met Trump on the tarmac, which apparently is not their normal protocol. So that was another gesture of respect. And what I didn't know, I thought it was just going to be the crown prince and Trump, but apparently this is an enormous...

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event with the top billionaires, at least the top American billionaires, from BlackRock, Blackstone, Citigroup, Qualcomm, IBM. So you're getting the richest people in the world, but you're also getting... So these are people who are going to be at the same lunch. If you know the drama involved in these personalities, it's really funny. The same people, this group of people,

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will be at the same table for lunch. Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Sam Altman, and Reid Hoffman. Now, there'll be lots of other people there, but I'd love to see the seating chart. Can you imagine if they put Elon Musk between Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman? If you don't know the background, Elon Musk has a little bit of friction with those two guys. A little bit of friction.

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And even Larry Fink was the main DEI guy and ESG guy for a long time. So even he couldn't necessarily sit next to Elon Musk. So I think there's a possibility of a fist fight. Yeah. But the other thing that I'm wondering...

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is apparently the people who are smart say that this kind of a trip is always associated with prearranged deliverables, meaning that the deals have already been made, but they'll just be sort of announced and make it look like it was because of the trip. Yeah, I guess indirectly it is because of the trip. But when you have this many billionaires and CEOs...

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But if you want to take a chance on taking this up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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I feel like the quantity of potential deals might be pretty tremendous. And I'm guessing that Saudi Arabia will be the source of the money. And maybe a lot of these people who are showing up think that they will be the beneficiaries of some of that flowing money. So Trump has said something like bringing a trillion dollars of investment back. I think that might happen.

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You might come back with a trillion dollars worth of investments.

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Well, in other news, you know Elon Musk has the Boring Company. That's that big machine that digs tunnels. And they just upgraded it so it doesn't need a person on the inside. It's a total robot tunnel digger. And they finally achieved what they call zip it, Z-P-I-T, zero people in tunnel. So it's just a robot tunnel digger. Now, I would like to see two things.

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One, I'd like to see those tunnels be about five times bigger because they're still tiny little tunnels. I don't know if I'd want to be inside one of those tunnels if I knew I were inside it. The other is I'd love to see some technology for digging straight down. It's impressive that this tunnel digger can go from left to right.

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But wouldn't it be great if you could find some way to economically dig far enough that you could get to geothermal power? If you go down deep enough, you have unlimited energy because the geothermal situation, it would be different everywhere. I guess how far you'd have to dig and how hard it would be. But wouldn't it be amazing to have something along the lines of the Boring Company?

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It would be all different technology because it would be drilling, not tunneling. But that would make everything work, right?

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you would have unlimited energy and it would be clean everybody be happy with it all you need is technology to be able to drill a really deep hole where it gets really hot and do it reliably and economically i'd love to see that well here's the least surprising news of the day pj media's reporting on this matt margolis

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Ah, perfection. Well, let's talk about the news, shall we? We'll start with some science, get you warmed up. UCLA scientists, they found a molecule they think could cure baldness.

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that apparently the Joe Biden job creation numbers were more fake than we imagined. Now, how fake were they? You know, you're used to seeing job numbers come out and then later they get revised down. So we're kind of conditioned for the idea that the employment numbers, you know, job numbers might be a little bit managed, if you know what I mean. Well, how managed were they?

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According to the new figures, and this is from the government, so this is not an outside entity judging the government. This is from the government. According to the new figures, the 399,000 jobs that the Biden team claimed that they created was not 399,000 jobs. So let's round that off to 400,000. So it turns out maybe Joe Biden did not crave 400,000 jobs. They're revising it down a little bit.

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Do you know what they revised it to? Lost 1,000 jobs. What? Or I see another estimate that says, instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000. So it wasn't only that they revised it downwards. It went from wildly positive to, well, it might have been negative. Could have been negative.

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Now, how many of you remember when I had my Democrat debate friend on, a comedian whose name I can't remember right now? Can anybody remember his name? And he now has a show on CNN, a humor show. And I said something about the Biden employment numbers always getting revised down. And he doubted me because my source was not good. Black, yes. Michaelian Black.

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And he challenged me because I did not have a source, which was a good challenge because I was under the impression that that his numbers always got revised, but I didn't have the data at hand or a source or a link or anything. So that was a perfectly reasonable thing to ask about. But it turns out that my instinct about this was right on point. Right on point.

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It's sort of stunning the degree to which the Biden administration was a complete lie. The funny thing is that Democrats are so hypnotized by their own media that if you ask them, could you compare the truth or the honesty of the Biden administration versus Trump, every one of them, every one of them would say, oh my God, Trump's this big old liar, lying liar, all he does is lie.

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It's a good thing that Biden never did that. Everything that Biden did was a lie, from the Biden crime family stuff to the jobs reports to how well his brain was working. Everything, just everything about Biden was a lie. Now, it might be that... You know, most things about presidents are not exactly true. But it would be amazing. I saw somebody do this.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cupper, a mugger, a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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But I like the fact that if they're not all doing big cuts, they're going to stand out as maybe not doing their job in a Republican world. So that's good. Good job, Doug Collins. I'd like to see all of your peers say, hey, I can do that too.

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According to the Federalist, Beth Brelge is writing that, this is her headline, after a four-year nap, New York Times is going to start fact-checking the White House again. And part of the article is about how that Biden was treated as an old man who told stories, but the stories, you know, didn't necessarily fact check. And then you think, oh, that's okay. He's just an old man telling stories.

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You know, you don't expect all the stories to fact check. But when Trump's in there, they're like, oh, we got to better fact check like crazy. But even the Times is saying, we're not going to treat everything he says like it's news. So you don't have to fact check every single thing that Trump does all the time.

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But one of the things that the New York Times did was they were still calling the 2020 election deniers participating in, quote, the big lie. Now, if he ever wanted to know what would it be like to live in a communist dictatorship, it would look like this, where questioning the legitimacy of an election is called the big lie. That only happens from illegitimate leadership.

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There's no way that you could consider the New York Times a legitimate news source if they repeat the big lie. It's the big lie. As if anybody could know whether an American election was rigged or not. You wouldn't know. It would just be completely unknowable because the accusation is that it was done without getting caught.

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So if it was done without getting caught, that's either true or it's not true. But it's definitely not something that somebody else knows the real answer to. If somebody thinks it was rigged, maybe they don't have evidence. But you also don't have evidence that it wasn't rigged because the accusation is that you could get away with it. Yeah.

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Anyway, there's another there's a brand new drunken Kamala Harris video. She's appearing on stage at some event and she's just plastered. Now, the other big lie, if I can borrow that term, was that Joe Biden's brain was fine for four years. And then as soon as he's out of office, suddenly all the insiders are like, oh yeah, he was so degraded we couldn't even have him talk to people.

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Oh yeah, we had to give him little note cards or he wouldn't even know what to say. So, but we knew that, right? Everybody who is not in the bag for the Democrats, we knew it, we could see it. In 2019, people like me and a lot of other people were saying, you don't see that? Because it's really obvious that he's not all there.

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And if you just multiply that by four more years, or you just project it four more years, there's no way that at the end of Biden's term, he's going to be even barely functioning at all. It was even worse than we thought. It wasn't even as good as I thought it was. But we're doing the exact same thing with Kamala Harris. There's not any question whether she's inebriated at these various events.

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And I would have said, hmm, let me dig deep into the inner realm of my mind. Yeah, yeah, those people would be less happy. And I got it. Nailed it. Let's see. Let's do another one. According to the Spectator Index, there's a new science. It's published in the BMJ. that says that exercise, whether it's walking, jogging, or strength training, is an effective treatment for depression. Hmm. Hmm.

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It's so, so obvious. And still, the media is completely silent about it. Just completely silent. The only place you'll even see it mentioned is on social media. I don't think even the major right-leaning networks cover it. But am I wrong that it's super obvious? I mean, how can you miss it? So if you look at my X feed, if you want to see it, there's no real doubt that she's plastered.

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Now, I don't know if it's alcohol or something else, but she's plastered, and there's no doubt about it. CNN's Harry Enten, he's the guy who talks about the data and the polls, says, He was talking about a CBS YouGov survey that said 54% of Americans think that Elon's Doge project should influence government spending. So 54% of people are in favor of Doge doing what Doge is doing.

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Now, that's slightly different from the specific way they do it, I suppose. But in general, that's a pretty good majority, 54%. In America, it's hard to get 54% to be on the same page of anything. And then 51% approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies. I'm surprised that's as low as it is, but there it is. And Harry Enten said of the results, quote, I was truly surprised.

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Really? How could you be truly surprised that cost cutting in the government is popular with the public? The only way that could surprise you is if you got your news from the fake news. Am I right? How in the world could that be surprising? And he looked like he was genuinely surprised. So his own network,

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apparently has skewed the news to such an extent that even somebody who works for the network was surprised about the most obvious poll result you could ever have, which is, yeah, cutting waste and abuse. Generally, we kind of like that. Surprise. Surprise. Anyway, as you know, you probably know the ex-

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Platform was attacked by hackers some kind of a denial of service thing where they just massively attack Elon Musk said the IP addresses were originating in Ukraine, but as you know, that doesn't mean Ukraine was or anybody involved with Ukraine was Guilty of it. It just means that that's where the hackers ran their traffic through and you know the

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the reader comments that correct any posts on X. Well, even Elon Musk got corrected. And they said the attack was claimed by pro-Palestinian cyber hacking group called Dark Storm Team with ties to Russia. And then they explained this kind of attack is launched from compromised groups of computers known as botnets the location of which has no relevance to the attacker's location.

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In other words, they're saying that even if the IP addresses look like Ukraine, that's probably just a head fake by whoever was really behind it. Now, here's my comment. Why would a pro-Palestinian cyber hacking group with ties to Russia be attacking Elon Musk? They would do that. Why? Because Trump's not helping the Palestinians enough. So they're going after X. Does that seem like a real thing?

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Or what about the ties with Russia? Because that phrase, ties with Russia, that's doing a lot of work. Ties with Russia. Do you think that Putin would think it would be a good idea to launch an attack on Elon Musk exactly the same time that they're trying to negotiate some kind of deal for a peace? This doesn't make sense. So I'm going to call bullshit on this. I don't know who did the attack.

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But the whole ties to Russia, no. I'm sorry. I'm not the one who thinks that Russia is good or that they don't do bad things or that they don't do hacking or they don't do cyber crimes or that Putin is a great guy. I'm not saying any of that. I'm just saying why would they operate against their own interests? Their own interest would be to just stand down and see if you can get a peace deal.

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and maybe get your economy back on point. So now, this is not ringing true whatsoever. Well, I think it's fair to say that the color revolution is on. How many of you know what I'm talking about when I say a color revolution? Now, most of you probably know what that means, but for those of you who don't, I'll give you just the quickest little explanation.

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When the United States has used its CIA and its USAID funding to try to destabilize or overthrow a foreign government, it's often called a color revolution. Now, that's because some of the revolutions, but not all of them, were associated with a color, like rose or orange or something like that. The color revolutions have certain characteristics.

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How could they have gotten that answer without doing all that work and spending that money and all that time? They could have asked me, Scott, does exercising make people feel good? Yes. But what about if you were depressed? Yes. It's yes every time. You didn't need to do that study. All right, let's do one more.

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The first one is that the USAID-type funding and the NGOs are behind the street violence. So if you can get, say, a big union in some other country to protest and fill the streets, or some other pro-democracy group, they're artificial, the same way that Black Lives Matter and Antifa were artificial, because that was a color revolution as well, in my opinion.

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So right now you're seeing massive protests against Tesla. That's a color revolution. in my opinion, just based on what I know about it. Because it's not grassroots. It's supported by obvious propaganda in the media, which is also a characteristic of the color revolutions.

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So we always try to, if we're doing another country and trying to destabilize them, you always have the media do this messaging that's always repeated. And you've seen that almost all of the anti-Trump media has said, oh, Doge should use a scalpel. and not a chainsaw, and they all just repeat the same thing.

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If you were to go to any Democrat who's watched the news, they would just repeat what the news said. What do you think of Doge? Well, I think that he's using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel, and that doesn't make any sense. So that's not a real opinion. That is an assigned opinion, which is how the color revolution works.

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So first you assign the opinion, and then you create a fake number of protesters who are literally paid, and you have them create all this noise. So it looks like the public is really on the side of change, even though it's completely artificial. And so that's what we're seeing. We're seeing... It just looks like exactly that.

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And then the old Elon Musk is the co-president and trying to create some wedge between Musk and Trump. It's all just color revolution stuff. It's not news. It's not fake news, although it could be fake. It's organized. It's the same stuff that we do to overthrow other countries. It's just being used internally against Trump. And once you understand that, everything looks different.

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Now, I believe Elon Musk blamed Reid Hoffman for funding some of the bad people who were doing the protests against Tesla. dealerships, et cetera. And then Reid Hoffman denied it on X. And then the independent researchers on X said, well, not so fast, Reid Hoffman. So let's see. So he denied it. Let's see.

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Kennecoa the Great said that Reid Hoffman is a major funder of Indivisible, a group actively funding and organizing the anti-mars demonstrations. Okay. So Kenneco the Great, one of the more productive and successful, say, independent researchers, independent news people, says, yeah, here's the group, you funded it, and then they're funding that thing. Then there's Laura Loomer.

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She did her own research, and she found that Reid Hoffman was funding something called the Hopewell Fund, which is associated with something called 1630 Fund, which is associated with the Sunrise Pack, which is associated with the Sunrise Movement, which is funding some of the protests. Now, that's the way we hide the funding in general, all these NGOs. Money goes to one.

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According to study finds, a happy husband or wife could be the key to a stress-free life. So it says your partner's happiness can lower your stress levels. Oh, let's see. Would I have come up with the same answer? If your spouse is really happy... Does that make you less happy or more happy? I'm going to say more happy. Checking the science? Yes. Nailed it. Nailed it again.

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and then they give money with no auditing and no trail to another, and that goes to another, and then it might go to a fourth, and then the bad thing happens. And then others have pointed out that ActBlue,

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which is the group that collects small donations for Democrats, but it looks like more of a money laundering operation, say many, that there are five groups that were funded by ActBlue that are also responsible for the Tesla protests. So I don't know which, if any of these are the correct take, but there are at least three different versions.

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of how money is coming from the top Democrats, you know, the Soros, the Reid Hoffmans, et cetera, and going directly, not directly, but through these indirect connections, going into these, what you would think would be real protests, but are completely fake.

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President Trump said that he's going to he's planning to buy a Tesla tomorrow just to support Elon because the Tesla stock dropped quite a bit based on that. And so Trump says he's going to buy a Tesla. I might do the same. The only thing stopping me is it's a lot of work to figure out which one I want. But short of that, I might buy one as well.

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I was going to anyway, but it'd be a good time to do it. So there's that. You know, I was reminded of the assassination of Lincoln, and he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Do you know what John Wilkes Booth's job was before he became a presidential assassin? He worked in the theater. He was an actor. He was literally an actor. So nothing's changed. The Democrats are actors.

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They're basically theater kids. pretending to care about stuff. The anti-Tesla stuff is clearly just actors, paid actors. And if you don't understand that, then everything's confusing. Likewise, the leadership in the Democrat world They seem to me just like actors.

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When you watch the fact that they talk about how the messaging is the only thing they got wrong, not the policies, when clearly the policies were unpopular. I mean, just clearly, every poll showed that their policies were unpopular. Trump's policies were popular. And still, they maintain, because they're actors, they're theater kids, they still maintain it's just the way they did it.

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So the response was to create cringe videos, acting, to do a bunch of similar-looking little douchebag videos where they hold tiny microphones for no reason, acting. It's all acting. And I really don't think this is happening on the other side. I do not believe that the Republicans are mostly acting. I think the Republicans have real opinions.

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They're consistent with what their opinions have been forever. Whereas the Democrats are saying stuff like, oh, maybe we should just change all of our opinions so we can get back in power. What? What? If all of that stuff you were talking about a year ago was ever important, wouldn't it still be important, at least to you? Nope. Nope. We'll drop it like a hot rock.

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And we'll just pretend something else is important. Oh, Elon Musk is a danger to the world. That's what we'll pretend today. But it's all pretend. In other news, Representative Eli Crane, and this was a little bit bipartisan, passed a bill, at least in the House, Senate still has to pass it, that's aimed at cracking down on Mexican cartel tunnels.

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Now, what is not mentioned in the reporting is what are they going to do about the tunnels? Weren't we already anti-tunnel? If we discovered a tunnel, didn't we close it up? So I don't know if this means they're getting some kind of new technology maybe to monitor tunnels. I always wondered if you could put listening devices in the ground every half mile or so.

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and that you would just identify somebody digging a tunnel. Because it'd have to be kind of loud down there. So maybe it's some kind of high-tech thing for identifying tunnels. I don't know. But that got passed. The one person who voted against it, the vote was 402 to 1 in the House. And the one person against it was Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat.

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Now, why in the world would she be against the effort to stop tunnels under the border? What is even behind that? At least her other Democrat theater kids knew enough to stay away from that one. Anyway. What's this story? So apparently there's some Ukrainian disinformation organization that's, according to Mike Benz, that's doxing U.S. journalists and calling for firings.

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But then it goes on, and I can't even believe this. It says that the negative emotions don't have any impact. So if your spouse is happy, it makes you happy. But if your spouse is unhappy, it doesn't affect you in any way. Um, no, let me override the science on this. Um, um, if your spouse is unhappy, will that have no effect on you or could it make you unhappy too? It makes you unhappy.

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And calling for sanctions and criminal prosecutions against people in the Trump-related world. But that's not too surprising. What's surprising is that they're funded 42% of the funding of that Ukrainian disinformation group that's attacking the United States. It comes from the United States. 42% of the funding comes from the National Endowment for Democracy.

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So we're actually funding attacks on ourselves. It just gets worse. Now, you might say, well, it's actually pro-Ukrainian and Democrats funding attacks on Republicans, but it's kind of the United States collecting taxes to attack itself because Trump's the president. He's actually the leader of the country, and he won convincingly. So if we're funding something that's attacking that...

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We're paying to attack ourselves. Yeah, it just sounds like siblings. I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. Meanwhile, and this is just so horrible, it's hard to even mention, but an InfoWars reporter, Jamie White, was brutally murdered on Sunday night outside his home in Austin. And no suspects have been identified.

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Now, I suppose there could be a variety of reasons why something like that would happen. But in the context of a color revolution, which we're in, seeing a brutal murder of somebody who is clearly on the other side of the color revolution, yeah, we're not going to talk about murder made. He was pretty thoroughly debunked. This is scary.

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It makes you wonder if there'll be any other violence against Republican-leaning reporters. So I hope Alex Jones and the rest of them have some good security, or at least they're armed to the teeth and they're watching their backs, because that's some scary stuff. Well, let's talk about Fort Knox. So according to the Postmillennial,

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Trump and Elon Musk have been trying to get access to see if the gold is still there in Fort Knox. Now, to me, that's the whole story. Why would the president of the United States have to vie to get access to Fort Knox? Do you know what the correct response should be? You'd like to see the gold in Fort Knox? Why, yes, Mr. President. What day would you like to come down?

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You'd like to bring Mr. Musk? Of course. What day would you like to come down? We'll make sure that you get a good tour. But that's not happening. Is anybody a little suspicious about the fact that there's apparently some kind of pushback that the President of the United States can't look at the gold just to make sure it's there? This can't possibly be

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Just some kind of bureaucratic problem, right? Is this exactly what it looks like? Like nothing is real? The whole world is just fake? And maybe there's some lead that's spray-painted gold in there? I don't know. But apparently nobody's gotten a good look at it in a long time. And even if you did get a good look at it, could you estimate its value by looking at it?

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If they told you, oh, yeah, we've got $186 billion in gold, and then they show you a room with a big pile of gold, would you know if the ones on the inside of the pile are exactly the same as the ones on the outside of the pile? Would you know? what $186 billion worth of gold even looks like? Is that a pile that's 10 feet tall and 20 feet wide, 20 feet square, 20 by 20?

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I mean, how big would that be? So even if you had access, I don't know if you could tell whether it's all there. And it's not like you're going to take a picture of it. It seems like that wouldn't be allowed. Well, that's suspicious that there's any pushback whatsoever. But here's another one.

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So John Solomon of Just the News is reporting that Congress had, not too long ago, demanded that the Treasury Department provide access to what's called the Suspicious Activity Reports for ActBlue. Now, again, ActBlue is the

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I'm sorry. I'm going to have to override the science on this one. Science is wrong. Scott is right again. So you can pretty much ignore most of the science and just, just ask me really I'm available. Just ask. Well, in other news, One American News is reporting that Michelle Obama, here's the least surprising thing you'll ever hear, is going to do a podcast. She's going to start her own podcast.

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democrat organization that allegedly collects small donations for democrats but it's being accused of far more nefarious use of their money and and also sources of money but here's the weird part apparently the biden administration didn't fully comply so so the first requests came from republicans But Biden gave them some stuff, but not all of it, and they knew they didn't get all of it.

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Now, they're trying again, and I think there might be some question whether even under Trump, the Treasury will give them this information. Now, is that a little suspicious? That the Treasury might be resistant to giving information

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people who have every right to it, people like Comer and Jordan, if they've asked for it and they've gone through the proper process and they have all the security clearances and everything else, is that really going to be denied to them? I think it will be. Because everything seems to be corrupt. Just everything. But what about those JFK files? Well, Tucker Carlson was talking to...

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Andrew Cuomo, Andrew, no, Chris Cuomo, talking to Chris Cuomo on his podcast. And he said this, Tucker said, someone was being discussed for a job in the Intel world and a member of the Senate Intel Committee said, you cannot hire this person because this person will push for the release of the JFK files. And Chris Cuomo said, so why don't, What?

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Why would Tom Cotton care so much about not releasing the JFK files that he would try to get somebody who might want to release them not considered for the job? That's a little sus, isn't it? So do you believe you're ever going to see the JFK files if Tom Cotton doesn't want you to? Because he wouldn't be alone.

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So whatever it is that Tom Cotton knows, who would be on the Senate Intel Committee, meaning that they know more than you and I know, what does he know? And as Tucker was speculating, there's probably not a single person involved with, let's say, the CIA who would still be alive. So what possible reason would an American senator have for not wanting that to be released?

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And apparently Mike Pompeo was pretty dead set on not releasing it too. What could be in those files? that are that dangerous. Now I know what you're going to say. You're going to say it's something about Israel, but there's no indication of that. Yeah, as soon as I said it, I saw it in the comments.

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So the speculation is that it's hard to imagine anything that's American that we couldn't show you. Because suppose we found out the CIA did it or the mafia did it or the mafia with the CIA or the Democrats under Johnson. Apparently there are a lot of suspects. Don't you think we could survive that pretty easily?

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I mean, we know that there's been terrible, terrible behavior in our own government in the past. But as long as it's in the past and all those people are dead, we can usually handle that. We can handle a pretty big dose of honesty about how bad America was at one point. But I'll tell you one thing we couldn't handle if we found out it was Israel. That would be a whole different game.

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So I can see why people are speculating about it. But as far as I know, there's no evidence for that particular theory. Do you think we're ever going to see it? I don't. I don't think we're ever going to see the JFK files. At least if we see something, it won't be complete or tell us anything we didn't know. But what about those Epstein files?

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What do you think would prevent the Epstein files from being released? Well, hold on. I've got to turn something off here. There we go. Again, people are saying, you know, if it's just something about our government, don't you think we can handle it? But there's been much speculation that Epstein worked for Israel. Now, again, I don't have any specific information to prove that or not prove it.

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And it's with her brother, Craig Robinson, which answers a lot of questions. Number one, apparently... Michelle Obama and her brother are different people. So all of those who said, I don't know, I think she is her brother. No, they're different people, and you'll see in the podcast.

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My theory is that if he was a blackmail operation, which it looks like, that he may have had more than one, let's say, interested country. I mean, he might have been freelancing for more than one country. That's possible. So I'm not going to say it's just some kind of Israel operation. I don't have any evidence of that. But it would explain why we're not seeing it.

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So I'm going to say, and then Kash Patel said, he just said this I think yesterday, our team has been working day and night to produce documents for Chairman Grassley and Chairman Jordan, and this is only the beginning. To rebuild trust, your FBI will be opening the books at levels never done before. I say no. I think that's bullshit. I don't think Kash Patel has the ability or the stomach

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to produce the documents that would tell us anything new i i think we might see some unimportant documents but no i i don't believe whatever this force is that's that's keeping it hidden so far it's not changing however strong that is whatever whatever outside or inside internal force it is i don't think it got weaker

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So, no, I don't think there's any chance you're going to see anything that makes a difference. What about that January 6th pipe bomb documents? Well, according to Fox News, now you know the story that there was a suspicious pipe bomb that looked like it was part of an op to make the protesters look like they were more dangerous than they were.

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But it looks like the pipe bomb was planted by a member of law enforcement. If you look at the videos and you look at the context, So we'd like to know more about who put that fake pipe bomb there. And Fox News Digital has learned that the record shared by the FBI on that topic included more than 400 pages on it. Oh, okay. Well, that's good.

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But I think that we don't yet know what's up with the pipe bomb. Do you think you're going to find out? the real story of the pipe bomb? I'm going to say no. No, there's no evidence that the public will ever see the real story about the pipe bomb. I don't think we'll see the real story about Fort Knox. I don't think we'll see the real story about ActBlue and the Treasury.

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I don't think we'll see the real story about JFK. I don't think we'll see the real story about Epstein. And I don't think we'll see the real story about January 6, the pipe bomb or anything else. I just don't think we live in that world where it's even possible that we would learn those things. We might learn some bullshit, but I don't think we'll learn the real story. Anyway.

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Over in Saudi Arabia, there's some allegedly peace talks about Ukraine. Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz are over there. And at the same time, you know that Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine the other day. And now Ukraine has launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow. And it was a lot. There were 337 Ukrainian drones overnight, went toward Moscow and another city nearby, I guess.

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But if you were looking at speculation, and it's only speculation, people, that Obama's marriage was not doing well, what would you look for? Well, if the marriage was doing well, I would look for the Obamas to be doing some joint projects, maybe some Netflix stuff, some other stuff. But if their marriage was not doing well, I would look for Michelle Obama to do a podcast with her brother.

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A lot of them got shot down, but a lot of them got through, three people dead. And does that sound like Ukraine wants to make some peace? Now, you could argue that both Russia and Ukraine are just

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sort of preparing for peace talks by making sure that the alternative looks worse oh look at this escalation you better get some peace because it's just gonna get worse so maybe you know maybe it's they're trying to be productive in the sense of you know making sure it's not a one-sided conversation oh yeah if you try to kill us we'll try to kill you

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So it might be that or it might be Ukraine just trying to tank the the peace talks. Either one of those is possible. Then here's some robot news. I'll just throw this in here for a palate cleanser before we get back to some other stuff. So there's, you know, every time I go to social media and there's news about robots, it'll be a robot can do a new thing like do a flip.

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So now there's a robot that can do a forward flip. I don't care what company it was. And then there's a robot that can walk smoother instead of walking like a robot. And I don't care what company that was. Then there's another company that makes really good robot hands. They're really sensitive and have all kinds of dexterity. I don't care what company that is.

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And then there's lots of robot demos where we see a robot do one thing. Look, it could fold a shirt. And then that's sort of all you see it do. Look. It can take trays of parts and move them onto shelves. And that's sort of all it does. I'm going to go out on a limb and double down on my opinion that our current version of AI isn't capable of driving a robot.

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And that no matter how good the robot bodies get, and they're pretty impressive, and the batteries and everything else, so I think the robot bodies are going to be amazing. I don't think they're going to be able to do generally whatever you want them to do.

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Now, when I say whatever, I mean within the realm of even a domestic robot, I don't think you're going to get a robot where you can say, hey, just go empty the dishwasher or walk the dog or feed the dog. Even if the robot could know generally where the dog food is and what it means to feed the dog, I just don't think our current AI...

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even with normal assumptions about rapid improvement, I don't think it'll be able to do it. So I think what we're waiting for with the robots is a version of AI that can drive a robot. And it might end up more like the Elon Musk version, where instead of a large language model, the Tesla self-driving cars that have AI for the self-driving, they were trained on infinite video.

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So I think the robots are going to have to be trained on infinite video of just showing everything a person can do and a robot can do and and building it up. So that would be a completely different form of AI, but there's some precedents because the Tesla cars are trained on video. So that could work.

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But I've got a feeling that it's going to take massive amounts of training and resources to get to that first robot. Now, I think Tesla's going to do it, but I don't know if they're going to do it in a year. So we'll see. Let's talk about the budget. As you know, our Congress is weak and pathetic.

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So instead of solving the budget and reducing costs and all the things that we think we're paying them to do, they have been for years just doing these continuing resolutions. Now, the continuing resolution is just, well, we'll keep the budget the way it was, and we'll just kick that can down the road, and we'll try to do something permanent later.

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And then I think they just kick it down the road a little bit more next time. But Thomas Massey, of course, being the lone hawk on debt, at least the one that takes it seriously, Rand Paul does as well, But Thomas Massey says he's not going to support the continuing resolution. But there are people like Chip Roy and is it Burschett who said the continuing resolution isn't as bad as it looks.

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Because what's different this time is that there's actually a reduction in the budget. And the argument goes like this. Because inflation is high, If you don't increase the budget, it's a budget cut. Now, I get that. I get that. If you don't increase the budget by the amount of inflation, it is. I mean, that's just a fair statement. It's a budget cut. But it's not a big one. And then secondly...

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That just screams marital problems. So I don't know, maybe it's just pattern recognition or something, but If you start a podcast with your brother, probably your marriage isn't going as well as it could have been. Well, here's the most surprising and good news I was not expecting whatsoever. According to NPR, Brian Mann is writing about this, the fentanyl and other drug deaths are way down.

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my understanding of how the continuing resolution, which would be the same budget we always have, is related to Doge, is that you can pass the budget to be the same as it was, but then you can still claw back the money a bit at a time based on Doge. And also, there are some entire projects and groups that are completely canceled. So when Rubio says...

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I cut 5,200 USAID projects, that probably means that even if there were funding, they wouldn't be able to spend it because there's nobody left to spend it. There's just nobody to write the check. So it could be that this isn't as bad as it looks, meaning that if Doge is doing what it's supposed to do and we're not raising the budget,

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because each of the budget groups, of course, they always want a little bit more. It might be that it's just giving time for Doge to do its thing. But I'm kind of with Massey in that I don't trust it. I feel like, and Massey pointed out that the Supreme Court seems to have ruled against the ability to cut as much in the way that Doge wants to cut it.

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So what we might see, and I hate to think this, is that some of those things you thought were cut sort of magically reconstitute based on lawfare. Well, just the law. And based on the fact that there's money that just would be allocated. Not real money, it would be based on debt, but you know what I mean. Now, Trump...

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not being happy that Thomas Massey would vote against the continuing resolution, which Trump is in favor of, says he wants to primary Thomas Massey. Boy, you should see the comments on social media to that. Thomas Massey has a pretty good following of people who understand that even though he's the lone voice, usually, that you need it. Yeah, you just need it.

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People like him because he's not controlled by AIPAC. He seems to be the only one. People like it because he is unflinching about debt and insists that he was hired to do a job, and his job is not to run up the budget unnecessarily. And if he's the only one willing to do the job that he was hired for, well, he's just going to stick to his guns, no matter what the consequences are.

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Now, there was a time when I hated that. My first exposure to Thomas Massey, I think, was this very thing during the first Trump administration, where I heard there was like this one jerk who was keeping Trump from getting what he needed. And I thought, man, you know, why can't that one guy, you know, what's wrong with him?

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But then I got to understand that he's just operating on principle, but it's more than principle. It's existential risk if we keep spending like we're spending. He's the only one who's identified, if you do this, you're dead. I'm not going to be part of that. I'm not going to be part of killing you.

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I will do whatever I can do to make sure I'm not part of killing you, even if it means doing something unpopular. So Trump says he wants to try to primary him. I think he's in such a safe area that he couldn't be primaried effectively. But I think Trump got this one wrong.

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So even if you agree that the continuing resolution should be approved and you think that Doge would be enough to claw back from the continuing resolution level so it looks like there's progress, even if you think that, which would be a reasonable thing to think. I don't know if it's guaranteed, but it would be reasonable to think you could get away with it.

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I just don't think picking a fight with the most principled person in the Congress is just a good play. So I think this is just Trump not reading the room right. Now, I could be wrong. Maybe Trump is so influential that he'll turn the whole world against Thomas Massey. But I'll tell you the initial reactions were, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, hard no. You don't go after Massey.

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Because he's the only one saying what we want people to say in Congress. He's the only one. Well, Rand Paul, too. I'll give Rand Paul some credit there. So, yeah. So mark me down as saying this is a Trump mistake. That's my take.

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And I feel like you can't really be credible doing what I'm doing, talking about politics, unless you're willing to say, okay, I like this part, but I don't love this part. If you're not willing to do that, you're kind of worthless. So I don't like this part. To me, this looks like a Trump mistake.

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According to Just the News, there are a whole bunch of attorney generals, 38 attorney generals in 38 states, I want to end Google's search monopoly. And they've got some kind of plan to do that that involves divesting Chrome from the rest of Google. I don't exactly know how that solves the monopoly on search.

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Now, who saw that coming? It doesn't have anything to do with Trump or anything that Trump has done. But apparently, there's a big difference. And it's happened, I won't say suddenly, but just in the last year or so. And I was not aware of this at all. But apparently, the fentanyl deaths are down over 30% relative to the prior years. Over 30% down, right? in fentanyl deaths.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but any browser you use has the same access to Google, doesn't it? Is there something built into Chrome that I've never used that sort of forces me to use Google? I'm not even aware of it. But I think this was a good idea before Perplexity was launched. Perplexity is an app. They have to pay for it, so it's a monthly cost.

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But the Perplexity app is so much better than a Google search.

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that if you use it once you'll never use google again and you could just ask anybody who's used it now here here's why if you do a google search you get all these sponsored results and you have to wade through them and you get biased results and you know you you don't you basically have to do a lot of work if you're doing a google search unless it's the simplest question in the world but perplexity you can just push one button

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You can talk to it, and it gives you great results. And it's not like other AI. It is somehow unlike the other AI that hallucinates. It doesn't hallucinate. Or did it once? I think there might have been one time I saw a hallucination. But generally speaking, it's very, very good. And it's so much better as an interface to search that honestly, you just use it once, you'll never use Google again.

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So I think the free market sort of was solving the problem on its own. So I just don't think it's the biggest thing in the world to divest Google at this point. I understand the impulse, but the free market did a pretty good job here. There's a new book out, and it mentions Gavin Newsom, that he, quote, bailed out the biggest utility in the state.

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I think they're talking about PG&E, the electric utility. And it says that he bailed out the utility responsible for California wildfires, because the utility lines, if they spark and fall down, it causes fires. And apparently it's caused some of our biggest ones.

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And he bailed them out, meaning not holding them responsible, after collecting six figures in donations for his political campaigns, I guess. And instead of blaming the utility who directly, and we all understand, were directly involved in causing it with their lines going down,

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He went after the oil and gas companies over climate change, claiming that climate change was a big driver of the fires. Oh, my God. Anyway, so the book is called, let's see, it's called Fool's Gold, The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All. Okay, that's not the best title for a book, but it's by Susan Crabtree and Jed McFatter. McFatter.

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That's an unfortunate last name. I hope he goes to the gym because it's spelled M-C-F-A-T-T-E-R. Man, if you gained 10 pounds and your last name was McFatter, I wouldn't go anywhere in public. Like, hey, looks like you got a little McFatter there. That'd be terrible. Anyway, So it doesn't seem to me like Gavin Newsom could ever win the presidency. Because this is a pretty big charge.

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I can't judge how much of this is true. It's just something that these authors have. Then another news that I think is fake, according to some publication called WFDD, Hamas is offering a truce with Israel for five to ten years. And this is apparently according to the U.S. hostage negotiator. He's the hostage affairs envoy, Adam Bowler.

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So allegedly, he told the Israeli public that Hamas was willing to lay down their arms for five to ten years and not be involved in governing Gaza. while the U.S. would take part in ensuring that no Hamas tunnels or militant activities would crop up again. My take on this? I don't believe any of that. I don't believe there's any agreement. I don't believe Hamas would do it.

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Now, you might ask why. Now, the speculation from the actual addicts, who I would consider the experts in this domain, if you're not talking to the actual people who are doing the fentanyl, you probably don't know what's going on. You know, the experts are just observing. But here's what the addicts say. Part of it is Narcan.

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I don't even know if Bowler even said it. Nothing about that looks true to me. In other news, the U.S. Air Force has accepted its first official combat drone, according to David Zondi writing in New Atlas. Now, it's not fully operational as in integrated into their warfighting machine yet. So it's still sort of prototype and they're still testing it out.

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But apparently there are two essentially drone jets, so they would be unpiloted, that could do the same work as, and maybe even more, because they don't have to worry about protecting the human. So it looks like our Air Force will be a drone Air Force. And that's a real thing. So by this time next year, it might be more likely that if we were to do an attack somewhere, it would be drones.

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But they're big ones, not the little guys. But the big drones would be the size of a jet, just wouldn't have a human in it. At the same time, according to interesting engineering, Kapil Kajal, the U.S. is launching its first naval ship, a 240-ton unmanned ship that's also a drone. So we're going to have a drone navy and a drone air force really soon. I guess that's now possible.

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surprised anybody who's been paying attention but um yeah it's going to be full drone warfare now if you predict ahead what would happen if our main risk were machines rather than people would that make us more likely to launch an attack because we would be all like well we're not going to lose any people you know we can just send a bunch of drones over there and see what happens It might.

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It might make us more likely to wage war. On the other hand, and it also might make it more likely that if we attack somebody with our robots, and there were no humans involved, although they would be operating them from a distance, that the bad guys, whoever we attacked, would have to respond by a terrorist attack on civilians in the United States.

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Because if they're only attacking robots, we'll just keep making more robots. So... It could be more dangerous to humans, but it would be civilians, not military people. So there's that. And then I guess the country of Turkey is testing some kind of a laser thing to shoot down drones. So the whole drone warfare and the laser defense, man, that stuff's happening fast.

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And it's going to be a whole new world just one year from now. All right. Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to talk about today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately after I say goodbye to YouTube and Rumble and X. Thanks for joining, everybody. I'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place.

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So that's the drug you administer if somebody is having an overdose, and it can just bring them back to life. One of the addicts, I shouldn't laugh, but it is kind of funny, said, oh, yeah, I've been Narcan back to life several times. It doesn't stop them from doing it. but the Narcan has saved his life at least twice, I think.

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Well, if you are subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which you can only see if you subscribe on X, just look at my profile for the button, or if you're on the locals community, you'd see that plus a lot more. You know that Dilbert's executive team, they lost a lot of money this year. The company did, and they didn't have any good ideas about how to fix it.

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But the other thing, and I'd heard this before through just my own contacts, that the addicts were simply learning how to do fentanyl more safely. So in other words, it used to be that they thought, well, if I injected this into my arm, if it were heroin, I'd do this much. And then they would do the same amount with fentanyl and they'd be dead.

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So it seems like the addicts have just gotten smarter or the ones that survived so far are smarter, meaning that they smoke it instead of inject it. And pill form is probably just as dangerous as injecting it. But if they smoke it, and I'm not recommending it, by the way, it's a little bit more of a controlled dose. And they've also just learned to do less of it. And then there's some

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Some indication that it's weaker, that there are weaker forms of fentanyl out there. So it might be some combination of all those things. But 30%? Not bad. Now, it does complicate things for Trump with his tariffs, because he's putting tariffs on Canada and tariffs on Mexico and China trying to reduce the deaths. But what if they're going down by themselves for completely unrelated reasons?

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Is Trump going to be able to sort that out or will he just take credit and say, well, thanks to my tariffs? Overdoses are down 30%. It could go either way. It could go either way. But I have a comment about, you've probably heard people say, why are you putting a tariff on Canada?

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Because Canada only found like a handful of fentanyl at the border in the last year, whereas Mexico's been caught with a lot of it. Well, Do you know how that trick is done? So here's how the trick is done. If they only report what got caught, you don't know anything. Because do you know what percentage of automobiles get checked and scanned with the high-tech scanners to look for fentanyl?

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Of the normal, just regular cars, it's about 5%. both on the Canadian border and on the Mexican border, about 5%. And commercial trucks, I think it's around 20%. But you can ship a lot of fentanyl in the smallest car in a glove compartment, so you don't need a truck. So that means that 5% of the potential vehicles that might have fentanyl in them are ever checked.

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So does that mean that we just do a more serious job on the Mexican border of checking so you discover more? And on the Canadian border, maybe there's less rigor in the checking? It still might be 5%, but maybe they're not profiling the same or something like that. So I would not assume...

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that just because the amount of fentanyl caught on the Canadian border is very, very low, it's indeed very low, that doesn't mean that it's not getting through in larger amounts. I do assume that a lot more is coming through Mexico, but just never buy that there's not much coming because we didn't catch much of it. That's not a thing. The amount you caught is just not really directly related.

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So instead, they're going to make TikTok videos. Does that sound familiar? It might. So yes, Dilbert's executive team is making cringe-worthy TikTok videos. Well, let's see if there are any scientific studies that didn't need to be done. Let's see. According to John Hopkins Medicine,

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You could argue, well, statistically, if both of them are checking 5%, it should be representative. I don't think it works that way because you don't know if the checking at the Mexican border, where everybody assumes there's more of it, is more rigorous than at any other place. But it could be. I do assume that Canada has far lower than Mexico, but it might not be as low as people are saying.

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Here's some other good news. Now, I guess I'll wait for a fact check on this, but Libs of TikTok had a source that says that egg prices dropped by 11% recently and that they're now lower than when Trump took office. Do you think that's true? Do you think eggs are actually lower now than when Trump took office? Because I don't think he's necessarily done anything wrong.

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They would lower the price of eggs, probably just normal market situation. But then we've got Easter coming where people buy lots of eggs just to color them. So there should be some gigantic surge in demand that's going to happen any minute now, which presumably would push prices up again, I guess. But it's good news that it didn't go up a lot.

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So we'll see if this is a trend or just a little blip. Or maybe not even, maybe it's just bad data. We don't know. According to Fox News, Andrew Mark Miller is writing, there's a new study that found that the Biden administration spent $1.1 trillion on promoting DEI. $1.1 trillion of your tax money went to DEI.

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Now, I think that number might be not just the DEI portion of things, but maybe things that also had DEI in them. So it might be a little overstated, but it's a big number. And do you know what would happen if you spent over a trillion dollars on DEI? It would make the price of eggs go up. Literally. The price of eggs probably is higher because of DEI.

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Because if the government spends more, inflation is higher. If inflation is higher, your eggs cost more. So a trillion dollars is enough that it would make a dent in pretty much every price. So yeah, it's possible that DEI made your eggs cost more. Very possible. Anyway. According to Doug Collins, who I guess is the Secretary of Veterans something something, he just made a major announcement.

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He said that they found they only checked 2% of the contracts. And after checking only 2% of the contracts that are relative to Veterans Affairs, they found $900 billion in wasteful spending. So nearly a billion dollars, and all they checked were 2% of the contracts. Now, it could be that they knew which ones to look at. Maybe it just jumped down at you. Yeah, these are the problem ones.

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Or it could be that if they keep checking, they're going to find more billions. I don't know. But what I like about it is I think Trump has created an environment where where his secretaries and the heads of everything, we've got that troll is back. If you have a way to kill that troll on Rumble, the fart troll, I don't know if it's just somebody retarded or what, but it's the same one.

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We see him all the time. So if you can figure out how to kill that troll, that'd be great. So anyway, the point is that, yeah, I'm just going to have to turn off these comments. Let's see, there we go. So I can only see the comments from locals now. So locals, I can see you, but Rumble, I had to turn you off.

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They did a worldwide study and they found that if you have chronic pain, you're far more likely to have depression and anxiety. I'm pretty sure 100% of the world knew that before the study. But if you wanted to save time, you could have asked me. Scott, do you think that people who are in continuous pain are as happy as people who are not in continuous pain.

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So I like the fact that if you're a Republican and you're running some big department, if you don't come up with an idea about how you're going to save a ton of money, it's not going to look like you're doing your job. You know, there was that big, well, I don't know if it's big, but there was at least some friction between Elon Musk and Doge and the cabinet heads.

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And the cabinet heads wanted to say, we're the ones who cut expenses with a scalpel. So we've got to approve all the cuts. Now, I think that makes sense because it's easier to sell it to the public if you say, well, you know, nothing got cut unless the head of the department who knows what's going on said it's okay to cut it.

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civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass a tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine at the end of the day the thing that makes

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Because, oh, he's like Trudeau. I hate the fact that five years ago, if you said somebody's Canadian... you would have just automatically thought, oh, excellent. I'd like to invite them over for coffee. I like Canadians. Canadians are the best. But after a few more years of Trudeau, if you hear somebody's a Canadian, you're like, oh, I'm sorry. Sorry about that. How's it feel? Are you okay?

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Do you need any help? Anyway, so Ali Velshi on MSNBC. said that, quote, blacks will be impacted most by Trump's gutting of the bureaucracy. Now, should we dig into that? No, we don't give a shit. I'm not saying we don't give a shit about black Americans. I'm saying we don't give a shit about his opinion.

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And is it true that people who are at the lowest end of the economic situation will have some greater impact based on what's happening now? Well, I would say that's always the case. If there's a war, people at the low end of the economic ladder almost always get it worse. If there's a depression, who gets it worse? If there's a pandemic, who gets it worse?

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So it is true, and we can't ignore it, that the people at the low end of the economic ladder are going to get everything worse whenever you make any big change. But to be fair, What Trump promised, maybe without saying it directly, is that we're going to take some pain to cut the government down to a sustainable level.

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Because you know what would happen if we just kept doing what we were doing and didn't cut anything? We would be out of business. We would be broke. The country would crumble. Guess who gets hurt the most when the entire country crumbles? the people at the low end of the economic ladder. So it's, to me, just looking at this, it's more MSNBC searching for their old way of business.

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Hey, I've got an idea. I don't know if anybody's thought of this before, but what if, no matter what Republicans do, we brand it as racist? Has anybody tried that yet? Oh, it's the only thing we've ever tried. Well, what if... We also make up some stuff. Okay, okay. But wait, that's also what we've been doing. But what if we have everybody agree that it's true? That's what you've been doing.

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Okay, okay. But what if we ignore the bad things that happen on the Democrat side? Okay, that's actually what you've been doing. So I love their inability to learn. Meanwhile, there's the story that you're just going to need somebody smarter to explain the next part to you. So how many judges now have ruled against some little thing that Doge is doing or Trump is doing? Is it five or six?

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Well, what if we study to find out if tall, rich men have more sex? Don't need to. Don't need to. They do. Okay. But we're still curious about tall, rich men who have all of their hair. Yes, more sex every time. But what about tall, rich men who go to the gym and really have a good physique? Again, save your money. This is why you come to me first. Big money saver. I'm like pre-Doge.

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I think there was another one today. There were five yesterday. So, you know, the lawfare is just coming wildly now. Kyle Cheney was pointing out on X Today that Judge Amy Berman Jackson, she's the fifth judge just yesterday, just in one day, just yesterday, five judges to block some aspect of what Trump is trying to get done with executive orders. And here's what they're doing.

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They're kind of blocking common sense. As long as Trump stays in that 80-20 mode, where he's getting rid of the penny and people are, people are saying, yeah, yeah, get rid of the penny. He's, he's bringing back plastic straws and people are like, Oh yeah, plastic straws. And he's trying to end the war in Ukraine. Oh yeah. Let's send that war.

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He's trying to cut the waste and fraud out of the government. Oh yeah. We can all agree on that. Let's get rid of the waste and fraud. So as long as he stays in that 80% ish mode, um, watching Democrats try to stop him from doing things that we all want, except for the 20% who are just batshit crazy on every topic. It's fun.

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But in this context, Elon Musk just changed his own name on his profile on X to Harry Balls. Balls spelled B-O-L-Z. Why? Why not? Why not? Harry Balls. Okay. And then Musk and others are pointing out that Trump isn't the only one who is considered ignoring a court order if the court order didn't seem like it was on point.

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So do you remember that Biden said when the Supreme Court blocked his idea to pay off the student loans, he said directly, Biden said, the Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt but they didn't stop me, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to keep going. So Biden said it directly.

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The Supreme Court ruled against me, but I'm going to try to thwart their ruling by finding some clever workaround. All right. I mean, I'm open-minded to that maybe it was a workaround. I mean, if it literally doesn't go against the Supreme Court ruling and yet defeats the, you know, let's say the intent of it, that might be legal. So I'm no expert. I don't know.

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But it's sketchy and seems inappropriate. I mean, why would you try to get around a Supreme Court ruling? That just feels like the wrong move if you're the leader of the country. But here's a Laura Loomer scoop. Laura Loomer is the best at coming up with, did you know that Somebody's daughter is working for somebody else. You know, the connections, the who's involved connections.

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She's really good at that. So her scoop today is that Judge John McConnell, so that's a federal judge from Rhode Island who ordered Trump and Doge to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal grants that, you know, were things that Doge was trying to stop. And did you know that this judge, according to Laura Loomer,

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As a daughter who who currently works at the US Department of Education as a senior policy advisor So the judge who doesn't want things such as for example the Department of Education to be Closed has a daughter who's got a job there now, I think Elon Musk mentioned that it might be a fake job and Does this sound like a real job, being a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education?

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Not really. It doesn't really sound like a real job to me, because don't you think you could get pretty good advice just by asking around? Why would you even pay for that? How much is the daughter getting paid to give advice to to an entity that's never made a difference in anybody's lives, at least in terms of the test scores. It hasn't improved the test scores.

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So kind of good to know the network of connections. I love the fact that everything that's going on now with Doge is revealing the networks. So now you can see who's connected. You can see all the bad actors because they all have to come out because they're the only ones that are going to fight to protect the corruption. Like, who else is going to argue in public? In public?

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Who else is going to argue in public to keep the corruption? Only the benefactors. Like, nobody else is going to make that argument. That would be crazy, unless they're blackmailers. So here's some more cuts made by Doge. Apparently there was something called the Norwegian Refugee Council. There's a Norwegian Refugee Council.

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And they've announced that they're suspending their activities in almost 20 countries. The Norwegian Refugee Council is working in 20 countries due to the USAID freeze imposed by Trump. So USAID was paying the Norwegian Refugee Council to operate in 20 countries. These sound like jokes, don't they? Doesn't it sound like I just made that up? The Norwegian Refugee Council had to close down?

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You don't even need Doge if you just come to me first. That's all you need to do. I'm just full of answers. There's another study in American Psychological Association. I guess that's a publication. They found out that satire is more damaging than boring criticism. Hmm. Who could they have asked to save some money on that study? Oh, that's right.

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Well, it gets worse. Now that the Norwegian Refugee Council is closed, I feel like Doge is going to go after next, maybe the Swedish Dingleberry Freedom Council. Because if the Swedish Dingleberry Freedom Council doesn't get their USAID funding, How can they continue to bring their Dingleberry message to all the other countries? Can you tell which one I made up? Which one's not real?

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The Norwegian Refugee Council or the Swedish Dingleberry Freedom Council? Which one did I just make up? It's called satire, folks. Satire. And if you were here at the beginning, you know that satire is far more damaging than regular boring criticisms that you'll see on other podcasts. No, satire. Boom, bringing it home. Well, the JFK files may be fun.

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Apparently, there were 2,400 undisclosed records that have now been disclosed, at least disclosed that they exist. They're not disclosed in terms of their contents, but we expect that it might be coming. So anybody want to place any bets? on what we learned about the JFK assassination, I'm going to put my money on nothing. Nothing. We're not going to learn anything.

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Do you believe that the government of the United States may have been involved in assassinating a president and they left a memo about it? There was a memo. Oh, let's find the recordings where they were planning it. No, they couldn't. This is just a prediction. Now, I could be wrong, which would be really fun. I would love to be wrong. I'd love to be wrong about this and about UFOs.

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But I don't think there's any chance we're going to learn some shocking new thing about who killed Kennedy. We might learn some shocking new things about how the government operates. But I don't know if we're going to find out from the files who killed him. And if we did, would you trust it? Suppose deep down in the files, somewhere it said, oh, we found out that it was Russia all along.

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Would you believe that? I wouldn't. If it said, you know, we didn't want to tell the country, but it was really China. China was behind it. Would you believe that? I wouldn't. Suppose they said it was Israel. Israel was behind it. Well, that would be convenient because people would be, you know, sort of primed to believe that because that's one of the conspiracy theories here the most.

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But would you believe it? I might say to myself, well, that's convenient. Kind of convenient to blame it on another country. If you happen to be the ones that did it, wouldn't it be nice to have some other country to blame? So even if it were true. I wouldn't believe it because I saw it in a memo that's been buried for 60 years or whatever.

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So how could we possibly learn anything that would be both believable and new? I'm going to say nothing. I think nothing's coming. I really do. Just nothing. But it'll be fun. Meanwhile... There's a report that Trump may have dispatched his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to Moscow. That's based on looking at some jet action.

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I guess there's a jet that he is known to be sometimes on, and maybe he's on it, and it's heading to Moscow. So we'll wait for that. I would expect that Trump and Putin, maybe through intermediaries, maybe not, probably are well along on negotiating. I'll bet they're halfway there at least. And I think both of them want to find a solution. But we'll talk more about Ukraine in a minute.

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Meanwhile, apparently the Trump Department of Justice is dropping the charges, or recommending dropping them, which looks like it's going to work, dropping charges against Eric Adams, Mayor Adams of New York. No relation. So he was accused of taking illegal campaign contributions from Turkey and accepting $100,000 in travel and hotel perks in exchange for official acts.

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Now, the things we know are that Turkey asked him when their building would be ready and he asked the fire department, when's that building going to be ready? Now, is that more than he would have done for any other constituent? I hope not. That should be exactly what he would do for every constituent.

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Why don't you ask the cartoonist who writes satire all the time, like I'm doing right now, mocking their stupid-ass study. Notice how my satire about their stupid-ass study is way more damning than a boring criticism. Well, I'm not sure that was a high priority study. No, see, boring. As soon as I lay the satire on, zing, zing, right to the heart. Just ask me next time. Satire, it's good stuff.

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If somebody has a big expensive building and they can't move into it in New York City and there's a bureaucratic delay, is that not appropriate to talk to the mayor's office and say, hey, mayor's office, is there somebody you could talk to to get this going? Because we'd like to bring a whole bunch of people in. They're going to eat lunch. They're going to spend money in your city.

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Of course you should make that phone call. Of course he should. And then, later when he's traveling, the accusation is he got some of his travel upgraded. Maybe a better hotel room, maybe a better seat on the plane. Is that a crime? Well, what do you think happens to public dignitaries no matter when they travel?

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Do you think that somebody like Mayor Adams wouldn't get automatic upgrades no matter what he was doing? And the fact that it happens in the context of somebody being happy with him doing his job as the mayor, exactly the job a mayor should do, make sure the bureaucracy is not stopping the economy, this is pretty weak stuff.

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It looks like lawfare, and it happened very quickly after Mayor Adams became a critic of Biden's immigration policy. because he would be a really powerful voice, because he's a Democrat running the biggest city that's the most impacted, it seemed like. And he was dangerous, dangerous to the Biden administration, because he was being honest about a real problem.

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So in, I guess, dropping the charges, I think it's official by now that they've dropped them, the Trump administration would be signaling that he was a victim of lawfare. And in their communication, they basically say that. It's a little too sketchy that these weak charges came right after he became a critic of immigration. It's a little too coincidental.

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Now, apparently, he could still be charged in the future. But at the moment, it looks like he'll at least have freedom to run for reelection if that's what he wants to do. Now, how smart is it for, I assume that Trump was sort of behind it, even if he didn't say it directly. Maybe the Department of Justice would be able to read the room and do it.

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But how smart is it from Trump's perspective that this is happening? It's perfect. Because Trump has made the point that the charges against him were lawfare. What could make that point better than letting a prominent Democrat, a prominent Democrat, help him escape from his lawfare problems too?

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And both of them being anti-immigration the way it's being done, or it wasn't being done, it looks like the same play. It looks like lawfare was used against them because immigration was more important to the administration. But it gets better because he also signed an unconditional pardon for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Now, I don't know too much about the Blagojevich story.

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Some people say he was set up. Some people, you know, obviously there are going to be two sides to the story. But it also reinforces the idea that lawfare is being used against prominent politicians. So now Trump has created a three-point argument. Look what they did to me. Look what they did to somebody on their own team just for disagreeing on just one topic. Just one topic.

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Immigration, that's it. And then look what they did in the past to Blakovich. That really solidifies that lawfare argument when you can show three points to And then in the context of it, we're watching all these, in my opinion, corrupt judges. They act like they're corrupt. I don't have proof of that. They just act as corrupt people.

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If you're just looking at the outcome of what they're doing, you've got to just shake your head and say, that doesn't look appropriate. You don't have to be any kind of lawyer to know that what the judges are doing looks like a form of lawfare, right?

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So not only has he made his lawfare argument about things that have happened in the past, but it's right in the middle of a whole lawfare campaign against him in office. It's very, very clever that they're making a big deal about these two cases of lawfare. Very well done. I'll tell you, no matter how many times I say this, it's worth saying again. The Trump administration...

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Well, CNN. is showing their numbers data guy, Harry Enten. He shows that 70% of Americans say Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do if he got elected, especially the Doge stuff. He was pretty clear about that. But in addition, Trump set new highs. His popularity is at a new all-time high, including his entire first term. And what could possibly be the reason behind his popularity?

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has really good advisors. But I like to tell you, in every case, the boss gets all the credit, because the boss has to pick the advisors, and then the boss has to decide which advice to follow, which is, I would argue, the hard part. So Trump gets all the credit. But I would be remiss if I didn't say, my God, he's getting good advice.

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Musk said today on X that, I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said all the smart people are joining the Trump side of things. And I think that's true. I believe everybody's smart is now drifting to his side. Everybody's smart.

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And if you see somebody who has a high IQ, but they're not, they're still resisting, they're either getting paid, which is part of their work, and I can name lots of people who are clearly getting paid for their resistance, or they have TDS and it's literally a mental problem.

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But of the people who don't have a mental problem and don't have an economic stake in being a critic, they pretty much all the smart ones have come to the same side. You want a good example of that?

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Sam Altman says that Biden, just recently, Sam Altman just said that the Biden administration was sort of anti-business, and he was happy to see him go, and that the Trump administration is like a breath of fresh air for business, and that everybody in the Valley feels it. Sam Altman, no matter what other problems you have about him, and we'll talk a little more about that,

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But whatever else you want to say, everybody agrees he's smart and he doesn't seem to be crazy, right? And nobody's paying him to be a Biden supporter. Everybody smart is on the same side unless they have mental illness or they're being paid. We really are at that point where I don't think there's an exception.

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The reflexive people like Larry Summers and like that, I don't take them seriously because they're sort of deeply in the game. But the people who are not in the game, all the smart ones are on the same side. If you can find an exception, let me know. I don't know of any. There are people who are quiet, but that's different.

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Anyway, as Trump just pointed out, California just finished counting the votes for 2024. What? That's right. Remember the 2024 election? It seems like it was years ago because we're moving at Trump's speed at the moment. California just, just finished counting. Now, they had declared the winners before because I guess they were sure it wouldn't change the result. but they were still counting.

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What? All right, so let me show a contrast between what made sense in 2020 and what makes sense today. Do you remember 2020? It was so long ago. In 2020, if you questioned an American election result, you would be considered to be an election denier and possibly an insurrectionist. So you might have been a Russian stooge or some kind of a traitor, but at the very least, you're an election denier.

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2025.

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Here's what that argument looks like today. So after learning, as we have all learned, because we're following Doge, et cetera. So after learning that nearly every government agency is corrupt. Is that fair? Am I going too far so far? That we've learned that nearly, and maybe it's everyone, but we can say for sure, nearly every government organization is corrupt.

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And fundamentally, not just a little bit, fundamentally. I mean, FEMA's sending money for the immigration and then lying about it. Apparently the people involved in that are getting fired today. Thank you. So once you've learned that Every major agency in the government, from Congress and then also outside the government, you got your health care is God knows what.

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Could it be that he picks the, I'm going to use the Scott Jennings frame because this is a good one, that Trump picks the things that 80% of the country likes. And of course, 20 to 25% of the country is wrong about everything. So it wouldn't matter what it was. It's like, should we save the orphans? Because the orphanage is on fire and there's still plenty of time to get the orphans out.

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11%.

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That was driving our cancer decisions for years if not decades might have been decades now that's health care health care is something you would expect would be the most free from that kind of effect but in fact it's completely marinating in it what about our you know what about finance what you know i could go on and on right everything looks corrupt

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So in 2025, after learning that nearly every government agency, and really every big entity everywhere, is mostly corrupt, believing that our elections are the one fair thing in that environment makes you a fucking idiot. So let me say it again. If you think our elections are not rigged, you're a fucking idiot. In 2020, maybe it was a jump ball.

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Everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens right now. You are now fortified. All right. If you are subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which never stopped, some of you think it did, but it didn't. Dilbert is being recruited to work on Doge. So it's just going to be a one-week series. He won't be there long because he always has to return to his other life.

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Maybe you had an argument, but the argument against it was seemingly winning in the public domain. But let me say it again. If you still think that everything in the country is corrupt, except our election systems, you're a fucking idiot. You're a fucking idiot. Now, that doesn't mean it is corrupt. It just means if you believe it like it's a fact, you're a fucking idiot. Now, do I have proof?

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that it's corrupt? Of course not. That's not how anything works. Do you know I didn't have proof that USAID was corrupt until five minutes ago? I didn't have proof that FEMA was giving American money to immigrants until five minutes ago. right? So if today, knowing that, in fact, yesterday, yesterday, I didn't know that 89% of cancer studies were fake. Yesterday. I didn't know that yesterday.

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Well, that's a lie. I didn't know that. Actually, I did know that, but I knew that you didn't know it. I've done a deeper dive than I've talked about so far. Yeah, I knew that they were fake, or most of them. I already knew that. But but most people didn't.

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So today, in this context, when you're watching your president be law-fared by corrupt judges, do you remember when you thought, well, at least the judges, you know, in this country, our judges are usually pretty fair? No, they're not. No, the judges are so corrupt that they're literally shutting down the country over politics and trying to make it look like there's a law.

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No, everything is corrupt. The judges, the healthcare, the finance, the government, the Congress, USAID, agencies, the Treasury. The Treasury wasn't even looking at the things they were spending money on. The Social Security system didn't check multiple entries using the same Social Security number, the most basic thing you would check if you were trying to check.

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Our systems are designed so you can be corrupt. They're designed to be corrupt, and it's obvious from the design. Nobody would build an election system like ours from scratch if what they were trying to do is have a credible, accurate system. Nobody would build this one. Not even close. So, yeah, if you think that there's no chance that our elections are rigged, you're a fucking idiot.

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You're just a fucking idiot. There's just no way around that at this point. Don't get me started on climate models. All right. So if our elections are rigged, somebody who is an NPC is going to say, Scott, Scott, if you say the elections are rigged, watch me use satire here. Satire coming in hard. Oh, Scott. Oh, if if you say the elections are rigged, how do you explain that Trump won in 2016?

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Should we save them? Well, yeah. 80% of the country would say, save those orphans. What are you talking about? Of course you would. But 20% would say, what kind of orphans are we talking about? Are they Republicans? I don't know. Not so fast. Maybe they deserve it. Now, I'm just making that up. But the point is, 20% of the public is wrong about everything.

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And then how do you explain that he won again in 2024? Scott, explain that. Explain that. Okay, too big to rig. In 2016, the polls said he was definitely going to lose. No rigging necessary. Surprise! The shy Trump supporters pulled it over the finish line. In 2024, it literally was too big to rig. It was just too big. And we were watching too closely. We knew exactly where to watch.

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The observers were everywhere. That might have been the closest thing to an accurate election we've had. But of course, I assume there was a little bit of rigging going on. So yes, you can win if you overwhelm the system. So the way Trump overwhelmed the system with votes is the way he's overwhelming the fake media with so many stories that the media can't keep up.

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So overwhelming is a strategy and it works against corruption because corruption is a little slow and he can just overwhelm the corruption. All right. In other news, just because Elon Musk apparently isn't busy enough, he's making a bid for OpenAI. So he put together some investors and together they're making a bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Now, this gets a little complicated.

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You might know that OpenAI was originally funded by Musk and he even named it OpenAI because his intention was to make it a publicly available open source kind of AI to benefit the world. At some point, Sam Altman and whoever else was aboard decided to turn it into a for-profit and team up with Microsoft and et cetera.

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But they have not completed the transition from the nonprofit to the profit model. And apparently that is being valued at around $40 billion or something. So, while they're trying to work out the complexity and getting everybody happy with the fact that they could change from a nonprofit to a profit, which again is a little technical and it's hard for me to explain the ins and outs of that.

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But during that period where they're trying to make that decision, in comes a bid that would value at that way more than 40 billion, like almost more than double. So more than double. Now, if you're on the board of directors, of open AI and you've got one offer for 40 billion and it's that Microsoft Sam Altman idea. And then suddenly there's another one that comes in for more than twice as much.

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Does the board have an obligation? Well, they do have an obligation to stop what they're doing and consider it. So considering it, I think is built into being on the board that I don't think they have a chance. I don't think they have a choice. of not at least voting on it and internally considering it because that's what a board's supposed to do.

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So now either Altman's deal will have the problem of trying to decide why doesn't Microsoft have to pay $97 billion? Why would their investors, I don't know if it's all from Microsoft, but why would the investors in one way be paying $40 billion when there's somebody else who's going to pay more than twice that?

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So if you have a topic that 80% of the public is on the same side, that's basically everyone. Because the other 20% are not thinkers or serious or understanding of their environment in any important way. So you can ignore the last 20% as not even real, no matter what the question is. 20%, no, you're not even in the right conversation, people.

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So it complicates things, and it's not clear what the entire goal is, because Musk has already created a whole competing AI that has the best data centers, at least, which gives you some thought that it might be the best AI at one point. So why would he do this? Well, some of it might be personal. I don't know.

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But he's got other investors involved, which suggests that it at least makes sense from a business perspective. Otherwise, the others wouldn't be involved, I think. So this got really interesting. Now, some of it looks personal because the way Altman and Musk talk about each other is clearly personal. And Musk calls Altman a liar.

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And Altman says that Musk must have some, I don't know, some problems from his childhood he's trying to work through. So they both have this unflattering view of the other. And it makes me wonder how much is personal. But at the very least, it's going to slow down open AI. So Musk is a competitor with his own AI, and he's just threw this big turd in the punch bowl.

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So now they got to figure out what to do with the punch bowl, which should slow them down a little bit. And maybe that's the second way to win. Maybe one way to win is to buy it. And the second way to win is to slow it down. And along with slowing it down, it might make it too expensive for their investors to get involved and might cause a whole fight over there.

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So it could be that he's just causing some trouble for a competitor. But I would think that he wouldn't do that alone, meaning that it probably makes sense from a business perspective that if they said yes and sold it, he could probably make something of that pretty quickly. All right. Maybe $97 billion is worth it just to get their technical staff.

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You know, you remember Silicon Valley used to buy companies and then get rid of the product of the company and just keep the engineers because it was the cheapest way to buy engineers that were the best engineers. So maybe the cheapest way to buy the best AI people is that you just overpay for the entire company and then you get the engineers. I don't know.

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Except I don't know if the engineers are working for the nonprofits. I'm not exactly sure how the structure is right now, so I can't get too much deeper. Anyway. The thing I love about Doge, as I mentioned, is it reveals the whole network of the most corrupt people in the government. So here are the names that are fighting the hardest to stop the reduction of waste.

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Can you imagine being forced to be on the team that's favoring corruption and waste? Because I think the entire public understands that. that Doge is getting rid of waste and corruption. Now, the other team might have a whole different narrative of, oh, Musk is really trying to get power for himself and he's really trying to make a profit.

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So he's attacking the people who would be a problem for him and the government, blah, blah, blah. But I think most Americans See Doge coming out every day and saying, look, we just saved you another 10 billion. Look, just saved you another 100 billion. Whoops. Do you really want to be funding the Swedish Dingleberry team? No, we don't. Well, saved you another billion.

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So it seems like that's such a strong story and everybody is just normally. We're all against corruption. There's no pro-corruption except the ones who are benefiting from it. So when you see these characters, you know that they're the worst of the worst, the ones who are on the pro-corruption side of things. So here's the people we see the most. Schumer, Adam Schiff, duh. Elizabeth Warren, duh.

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Jamie Raskin, duh. Now Goldman and Maxine Waters join, of course. Now that's really a good indication. If I told you that these same people were on the same side of any topic, what would you say? Why would Schumer, Schiff, Warren, Raskin, and Goldman and Waters be on the same side? Only when it's corrupt. You wouldn't be able to bring together

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So as long as Trump's doing the things that are super popular, you can mix in a few things that are maybe 50-50s and a couple of 40-60s, and he's going to be golden. But the other reason that he's popular is that people love action, and they love energy, and they love it even more when it's coming from a dominant male figure. Why? Because we're human. We're just human.

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this group of people, except for corruption, to protect it. So this would be a group that would favor, that would argue in favor of, let's say, the 51 intel people and the laptop. This would be the same group that would tell you that Russia collusion was real. It's the same group that tells you that January 6th was an insurrection. It's always the same group.

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So once you realize that when this group of, to me it looks like they're obviously corrupt, but you can draw your own conclusions. But when you see this cast of characters, they're not really trying to be useful and helpful and honest. They don't do that. These are the designated liars, the people who, the worst people who will tell any lie. And they'll tell it in public.

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Even if they get debunked, they'll just keep telling it. So they're the most shameless people. And when you see them, you can know that whatever they're pushing is BS. Well, Trump has warned Hamas that the releasing of the prisoners, which had been already agreed, not all of them, but some subset.

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It looked like Hamas was dragging their feet and they were asking for some more demands or they're complaining about Israel in some way. So that's being slowed down. Trump has warned that unless Hamas frees all the hostages held in Gaza by Saturday, when he says all the hostages, I think he means not just the ones that we agreed to release. I think he means all the hostages.

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He says unless they're all freed by Saturday, that, quote, as far as I'm concerned, if all the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. You know, he just sort of randomly picks it. I would say cancel it, cancel the deal that they have, and all bets are off, and let hell break out. Now, this is what I love the most about Trump.

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When he threatens somebody, he's not bluffing. So they have to deal with the fact that it's not a bluff, but he also didn't say exactly what he would do. And I would argue that what he's doing is making it easy for Israel and the United States to never repopulate Gaza. So by not accepting this weak, trickling little agreement... and just putting the onus back on them completely.

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It's like, all right, either release them all or all bets are off. All bets are off means you're never going back to Gaza. Now, that's what I think they want anyway. I think that's what Israel and probably Trump want is that the Hamas part of the Gazans, which you can't really separate from the rest of the Gazans, at least not effectively. It'd be hard to know. They're just not going back.

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So I think the idea that they will ever resettle Gaza is kind of settled. And by Saturday at 12 o'clock, all the hostages are not back. That's the end of any chance. that Gaza will be resettled by the original, at least the recent residents. I think this is his yes-no switch. I think the yes-no switch is, do you want to have any chance, just any chance of going back to Gaza?

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You have until Saturday at 12 to decide. If we don't have all the hostages back, that's dead forever. It will never be an option. Forever it will be done. Now, Trump has already said that they're not going back. But the way he says it is, it would take so long to clean it up, you don't want them to wait 10 years to go back.

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Rather, they should have nice homes, a nice place to live more immediately. And so he's saying if they're already in better homes 10 years from now, why would they leave? Because they'll be in a better place and they might be there in a year. as opposed to 10 years. So that's a good argument. It's a carrot and a stick. So the carrot is, hey, how about we put you in nice places fairly quickly?

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The stick is, if we don't get all the hostages back by noon, you get nothing. And maybe that includes not building nice houses now. So here's what I think is going on. I think the only way that the Gaza resident situation can be solved is if it gets reframed as a mental health problem.

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If you're a guy, are you not impressed by a high-energy, powerful alpha male? Of course you are. Why do we watch football? We watch football because it's just filled with these high-powered, high-energy alpha males. It's what we like. Do women feel good about high-energy alpha males? Yeah. Who doesn't? 20%. 20% don't like that because they don't like anything. It's different 20% every time.

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If you took a whole bunch of people and you put them in Gaza and you brainwashed them for years, that they're victims and they've got to go kill other people to make up for it. would you not be giving them PTSD and mental health problems?

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So even if they were born with normal brains, if you just put them in one area and propagandize them and threaten them and you make them live in this bad situation and you just carpet bomb them with ideas about, it's the Jews, it's the Jews, Israel's the problem. Would they not have mental health, PTSD, like genuine mental health problems, like actual health problems? I say yes.

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But we're not allowed to say that because that would be sort of insulting and dismissive of thousands of years of Palestinian history. But it's also true. It's a mental health problem. And you can't solve a mental health problem with a house, which is what we're trying to do. How about We give you a house. I have PTSD. But what about a nice house? Still have PTSD.

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I still have mental health problems. But what if it's a nice house in another country? No. How about a nice house sooner than it could have happened? No. No, the house is not the problem. Your house is not going to fix my brain. My brain is full of hate and PTSD, and it was PTSD before Gaza was attacked. Before October 7th, it was PTSD. Imagine what it is now. So here's the way.

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I think you have to take a page from, I hate to say it, China. They treat the Uyghurs like they're a virus. I don't like that part because I don't like treating people like they're just carriers of a virus. But It is the only thing that China thinks they can do because if they let Islam grow within China, it's not a compatible system.

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So I'm not defending it because I'd love the Uyghurs to have a good life. I'm just describing it. So China has this, you could say, evil and cruel approach to it, but they don't have a better idea. That's the problem. What's the better idea? just let them spread Islam and have a problem down the road. That's not a good idea. So what could you do to reframe it as a mental health problem?

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Well, you could start by saying, we'd love to resettle some Palestinians back in Gaza once it's rebuilt. But it's going to take 10 years. And during that 10 years, if anybody wants free mental health counseling, We'll provide it. And if in the course of that mental health counseling, we determine that we've cured you, and you can see the full picture now.

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You can see that sometimes Israel did some things you don't like, and maybe they really did. But sometimes Hamas did some things you don't like, and maybe they really did. And maybe everything's broken, and maybe it's not your fault, and maybe you don't need to go fix it. Maybe you're a victim of the brainwashing, etc.

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So the question would be, if you had hypnotists and therapists and you said, here's the doorway to resettle where you wanted to live, you've got to get through the therapists and the mental health professionals, and they have to certify that you're mentally healthy enough to live among a diverse group of people.

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If you can't live in a diverse group of people, and it's because your just brain won't let you, you're not ready. So you're going to have to stay with all the other people who have the same problem because you're dangerous on the outside. The reason we have mental institutions is because some, well, or we used to, is because some people are just too dangerous to be on the street.

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Now, do we say that those people are the bad guys? Not really. I mean, if you're fair about it, somebody who has extreme mental illness, if they're acting in a way you don't like, It's hard for me to say it's their fault, except that the legal system has to hold them responsible to some degree.

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But if we treat the refugees from Gaza as people who have been mentally damaged by their keepers, by Hamas, then you can treat them with compassion. And you can give them a pathway to join the diverse real world. But you also have now a perfectly good system for preventing the worst of them from ever leaving whatever area that they're contained in. And that might be the only way to solve it.

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Is it fair and does it show empathy for real human beings? It does if you treat it like a mental problem. It does. Now, the trick would be,

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that you don't want to like convert them to another religion a little too far but you might have to put some dents in what they believe about their current extreme version of their religion and you might need to bring in you know trained persuaders who are islamic you know one ones who don't want war with anybody and have made it work to make peace and let the islamic

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But the other thing is, besides being high energy and high action, just the pace of things is just purely impressive, and the fact that we're paying them. How much do you love the fact that we're paying Trump? Well, actually, we're not. I believe he's not taking a salary, right? I don't remember if he said it this term, but I think it's automatic he's not taking it.

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and the Islamic therapists, if there are any, I assume there are, let them do the work and let them try to save the people that they can save. But as long as you treat it as a military problem or a security problem, nobody's going home and nobody's going to be happy and there's no path. But if you treat it as a mental problem, maybe, maybe some of them can be saved. All right.

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According to Tucker Carlson on his podcast, he says that he knows for sure, and he's not guessing, that this is a fact, that Ukraine's military is selling up to half of U.S. arms to cartels and other bad players. Half. Half. Does that sound real? Tucker says, and he wants to be really clear, he's not speculating. He says he knows it, like he's talked to the people involved. Yeah, I know it.

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Well, his contacts were a lot better than mine, so if he says that, I don't think he's lying. Now, obviously, anybody could be wrong, but it doesn't sound like he's lying. It sounds like he has some source that he trusts. Doesn't mean you should trust it, but he has a source he trusts that told him, maybe more than one. So yeah, that's bad. Um, I'm trying to remember the name of the individual.

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Can you put it in the comments? I didn't know how to look him up just before I got on. There's a, uh, a ex CIA person who has a book out and he's been on a lot of podcasts. He's all over social media and he's kind of outing some of the practices of the CIA. Um, Can you put his name in the comments? Because some of you know who he is. So he's got glasses. He's been on a whole bunch of shows.

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I think he's been on Sean Ryan's show and he's been on Tucker's show and a bunch of others. So give me that name. All right. I thought I'd see it by now. If I see it go by, I'll say his name. No, it's not Bucks. No, it's not Mike Benz. No, it's not one of our regular players. It's somebody who's new. So, no. Really? Are you not watching the same?

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It's not Bustamente, but that was a good guess because he's also ex-CIA. Really? Really? How do you not know the name of this guy? He's all over social media. Not one of you knows the name? Huh. Yeah, all the names you're telling me are names that we all know, right? If it's a name that we all know, it's the wrong name. We know Scott Ritter. We know Mike Benz. It's not him. It's not Ian Carroll.

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How did none of... Is it Elizondo? I'm blown away. Huh. Weird. Okay. Well, anyway, if I find that, I'll tweet it or something. But he had a story about going to Afghanistan when he was in the CIA, and he went to an area that probably used to be a food creation place, but it was all poppy fields. And Boy, we don't follow directions too well.

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So we're not paying him, per se, except for, you know, it costs a lot for Secret Service, etc. But we're getting a really good value because we're getting Elon Musk for free. I mean, how often does that happen? For free. And So if you do that much stuff, you've got that much energy, you've got that much action, you've got that much alpha male stuff, you're working for free.

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I say it's not a name that's one of the common ones, and the suggestion is Dan Bongino? No, it's not Dan Bongino. Stop guessing. Stop it. Stop it. Anyway, so whoever it is, I apologize for not writing down your name, but you went to Afghanistan, saw the fields of poppies, and then they asked, what's going on? They used to be an exporter of food, but now Afghanistan is just growing these poppies.

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And he was told, now this is just his report, that the reason that the US is totally happy that Afghanistan is growing poppies gigantic fields of poppies, which turns into, obviously, opioids, is because almost all of it is shipped to Iran and Russia, and that the reason we do it is to weaken their society. Now, I don't know if that's true. Somebody's saying John Kirakow.

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Now that at least fits the description of a name that you're not already all familiar with. Is that right? I'm not sure if it's him. Maybe it might be Kirikou, if I'm saying it right. Anyway, do you believe that version of it? Do you believe that the U.S. is encouraging... There he is. What's his name? Yeah. Yeah. So here's what he looks like. So here's the individual I'm talking about.

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I'm hearing his name is John Kurokawa. All right. I think we're getting close. Anyway, I apologize to you, John. I'll get your name right. So do you believe that? Do you believe that the U.S. is literally trying to destroy the social fabric of Russia and Iran by making sure that Afghanistan is sending unlimited amounts of opioids to them? I don't know. I'm going to put a pin in that one and say...

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An ex-CIA guy? I'm not going to automatically believe the person whose job was professional liar. If your job has ever been professional liar, that's what CIA is, right? You know, you have to put a pin in and say, I'll need a little more, a little more verification. Not quite there. But that's a scary one. Apparently the NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association. Right.

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So they're the ones who were. who are our main agency for climate change and weather and stuff. And I guess Trump wants to cut their budget and maybe reduce their staff from 12,000 to 6,000. Now, you know what I'm going to say. So if all of our climate change policies are driven by climate models,

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Wouldn't it be weird if we could go years and years and years, and at least I, who watch the news and podcasts all the time, I've never seen anybody who was involved in making a climate model, who was asked questions about how you do it and how reliable is it and is your data good and what assumptions do you put into that? Doesn't that seem weird? Let me say it again. The climate models...

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are driving trillions of dollars of expense. And they're very controversial in the sense of, you know, are they real or are they not real? And yet there's no news entity, no podcast, which has ever had somebody on say, okay, you make models. Yours is one of the famous ones. Tell us what assumptions went into it. How many variables are involved? Have you ever had to update it? If you modified it,

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why did you think it was right before? If it was right before, but then you added some new assumptions, and now you say it's right, well, you were just as confident before, before you adjusted it. So how can you be sure you're right? Just think about all the questions that I would ask. Yeah, we're getting a confirmation. It's John Kiriakou. Kiriakou. So, sorry, John.

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We're getting a bargain. We love bargains, especially when they're uncovering all the bad things that we're paying for. But on top of all of that, I think the media brainwashing machine is broken. I think Trump broke it. It took a long time, and we all had to help. But once you realize that the media is not trying to give you the news, that's really the secret.

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Anyway, so as long as the dog is not barking and the dog is no climate model creators are ever on TV or are ever asked the question, and they are the most important people behind trillions of dollars of expense. So instead, we talk to the politicians. Do you know what the politicians say? Why would you ask me that question, you science denier? And we're done here.

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You tell me, can you come up with any reason that for years the news ignores the people who make the climate models? Like there's not one of them who can talk in public to defend trillions of dollars of policy? That's the biggest dog that's ever not barked. And how many of you didn't notice? We act like whoever makes the models, that must be good and those must be accurate.

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Now let's talk to the politicians. No, you're making me think past the sale. If I'm talking to the politician, I've already accepted that maybe the science was right. But if you haven't accepted that the science is right, the climate model part, not the science in general, but just the climate models, you need to go back to that.

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Let's find out if the models are right, and then we'll talk to the politicians. But you got to do the models first. Nobody will do that. Well, Trump signed some order, according to CNBC, that's going to pause enforcement of the foreign bribery ban.

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So the United States made it illegal to bribe other countries for business reasons, even though the government itself bribes other countries to do coups all the time. But it was illegal for Americans to do it, but not so illegal for other countries to do it. So what would be the common sense way to handle that? Okay, common sense. All the other countries we're competing with are bribing.

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Bribing is how you get anything done in some countries. Too many of them, really. We will be a weak, bad country if our economy fails. And the only way to compete is by bribing people in other countries. What would be the common sense way to handle that? To allow bribing in other countries. Now, I'm going to add one wrinkle.

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I think it should be completely legal for big companies to literally bribe, but I would want them to have to reveal it to at least our intelligence operatives. So, you know, you could say, well, there's a chance of leaking, but I don't think it's a big risk because it would be legal. You know, you'd be leaking that somebody did something that's completely legal.

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But I don't think we want to publicize it. I just think it needs to be revealed. So there should be some, I'm going to call it half transparency, meaning that we guarantee that somebody who's important in the government knows what's happening. So maybe it's not the intelligence people. Maybe it's Congress. Maybe there needs to be an updated list of all the bribes.

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So if you've got the right, let's say, security clearance and you just ask for it, maybe it's in a skiff or something, you can say, oh, this company bribed this thing, this company bribed that. Now, I think we live in a world where, and this is speculation, so I'll take a better opinion on this if somebody has one.

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I think it was necessary for America to strong arm other countries for the past 100 years because it was the only way to control them. But we might have reached the point where it just makes more sense to bribe the people we need to bribe and not run a coup. Because the coups have all kinds of hidden costs.

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If you think, well, they're trying to give you the straight news, but yeah, everybody makes a mistake. If you're in that model, you have no idea what's going on. No, the news is not trying to give you the news. You know, there may be some entities that are trying, but mostly, you know, your big entities, we know for sure They're not trying to give you the real news. It's always a narrative.

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But what if you just bribe people to get into the country and stay there and make some money? If we're at a point where bribing makes more sense than organizing a coup, then we should get rid of this prohibition about bribing. All right.

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So apparently, according to The Guardian, there was this U.S.-funded social network, so meaning a fake social network of people who were attacking the critics of pesticides, which would include RFK Jr. And so apparently they had some kind of a private website where they would give the information of all the critics of pesticides so that you could better attack the critics of

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pesticides that's right pesticides are quite popular I don't know what is or is not healthy about pesticides but I can tell you that when I stopped eating all processed foods and wheat sure felt better all right so apparently that was at least part financed by US taxpayer dollars Did you know that you were financing a fake network of people to go after critics of our poison food supply?

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You were paying for somebody to criticize RFK Jr. and other people like me, because I'm also a critic of the pesticides. So can I go back to my earlier point? If you believe in 2025... that our elections are not rigged, you're a fucking idiot. Everything's rigged. Nothing's real. Black Lives Matter, totally artificial. January 6, Charlottesville, fake. News, fake.

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Yeah, the elections are the only thing that are real. Sure. But at least we're smarter in 2025. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I wanted to talk about today. I can feel the heavy equipment outside my window. I hope you can't hear that. But I'm going to say hi to the locals people, the subscribers. And subscribe to Dilbert if you want to see Dilbert joining the Doge project.

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He joins Doge today. He'll only be doing that for this week because he has to get back to his regular life. All right. People on X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining. I hope to see you tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, coming at you.

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Anyway, so here's something I love. I love the fact that calling out the brainwashing techniques that the news is using, you know, the little propaganda tricks, it's become a parlor game. Now compare this to 2016. In 2016, we simply thought there were two opinions. Well, there's the opinion on the left, and there's opinion on the right. And they're different. We understand that.

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That's why there's a left and a right. Different opinions. But over time, we learned that what we were observing wasn't just a difference of opinion. What we learned was the news isn't real. And once you realize the news isn't real, then you can start looking for the technique. And have you noticed how delightful it is

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that I would say that people like Mike Cernovich, people like me, have been pointing out technique for years, but somehow collectively, and other people, of course, it's not just us, but collectively, the entire right-leaning part of the world has been educated on the tricks. Let me give you an example. So Caitlin Collins, CNN,

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She said recently, quote, we are three weeks into the second Trump presidency, three weeks, and tonight there are warnings that the U.S. is dangerously close to a constitutional crisis. There are warnings. Do you know what the warnings are? Well, according to John Podritz, who apparently is up to speed on the propaganda tricks, he explains what the, quote,

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But Dilbert is selected to work for Doge. I don't know if you knew this, but in the Dilbert comic universe, although Dilbert is a put-upon cubicle employee, I always try to frame him as the best engineer in the world. So of course he'd be asked. Of course he would. All right. Let's look and see if there's any science that they could have skipped and maybe save some money. Let's see.

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warnings are about the constitutional crisis. So he goes, so this is how it works. The New York Times does a story in which leftist professors say there's a constitutional crisis. And six hours later, CNN does a story saying there are warnings, which is technically true. because there were warnings right there in the New York Times.

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But it was simply just an extension of a party ideological line from one media institution through another. Now, that's a standard trick. So first, the Democrats will plant a story with a friendly reporter, and then the rest of the press will treat it like it must be important and substantial, because it's in the other press. Well, if it's in the New York Times. So watching John...

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Poderitz called that out was very satisfying to me. Because the more you learn to spot this stuff, the better off we're going to be. So it's just a sign of good health that we can call this out and laugh at it. It gets better. And I would even go so far as that we've gamified it. So what John was doing was just pointing out how the propaganda architecture works.

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But because it's on X, and X will give you follows and reposts, and if you wanted to, you could even monetize it. So there's actually a reward. So we've literally gamified the process of calling out the propaganda. And it's fun. And not only is it fun, you might get paid for it if you've monetized your account. So related to this...

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I saw a story in the Wall Street Journal that Steve Bannon's war room. And so this would include Steve Bannon and one of his co-hosts. I don't know how many co-hosts he has, but his co-host, Natalie Winters, they both keep MSNBC on all day. So MSNBC would be the opposite of their point of view. And they keep it on all day. Do you know why? They don't really watch the conservative media that much.

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They just keep MSNBC kind of locked on because it's hilarious. It's for the jokes. It's so that you can make fun of them because they're so ridiculous that I keep it on all day too. Now, actually, I usually flip through and I spend a lot of time. I watch MSNBC for the laughs, and that's not a joke. It's not hyperbole.

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Once you realize that they're not even trying to be any kind of a news network, once you realize its only intention is propaganda, then it gets fun. And we're going to have a little fun with them in a little bit. So, yeah, I watch them for the same reason, just to watch how the propaganda works and see what they're up to.

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And I do watch MSNBC more than, probably more than I watch conservative media. I mean, I sample everything. But I'll bet I spend more time watching MSNBC because I'm just fascinated by the technique. So Joy Reid on MSNBC, I guess she said today or it might have been yesterday that the Doge employee named Big Balls, that was his name online at one point, Big Balls, must be subpoenaed.

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Now, why does subpoena have to have pina in it? Because it feels like sub-pina means whatever's below your pina. And what's below your pina is your big balls. I don't know, is it just me? And then I look at Joy Reid with her short hair, you know, her shaved head. And I think, why do you have to dress like the thing you're criticizing? Do you remember when she had Trump hair?

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She had a Trump haircut when she was criticizing Trump all day. I thought, that's weird. Why would you wear the hair of the thing you're criticizing. Now she's spending all day criticizing big balls. And she's got her hair cut really short, so she looks like, you know, Big Ball's left testicle. You know, it's just sort of a testicle with a face on it.

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And I'll tell you, I call this whole thing the scrotum gate, because scrotum is a word you don't get to use enough. Any chance I get to say scrotum in public, I'm going to take it. I'm like, can I say scrotum on this podcast? Scrotum. Yeah, it's just a funny word. So scrotum gate gets better. So here's something I've noticed, and I want to see if you've noticed it too.

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Eric Dolan's writing for SciPost. The stronger men have more sex partners. Stronger men have more sex partners. I wonder how much they spent to find out that women like stronger men. Because I didn't see it coming. No, I did see it coming. Next time, just ask me. Scott, we're thinking about doing a study to see if tall men have more sex. Don't need to. They do. Well, okay.

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Do you notice that the people on CNN, I'm going to note just two of them in particular, Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid, have one thing in common that is the strangest thing to have in common. They don't blink their eyes at the same time. In other words, each of them has two eyes. And here would be a normal person blinking, if you're watching. Blink, blink. See both eyes blink?

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Pretty much a normal person when they blink, both of them blink. But have you ever watched either Rachel Maddow or Joy Reid when they're on camera? Their eyes blink, but one at a time, like they're fighting off something. It's like... And then Trump... Trump is... like a dictator. It's like 1939 Hitler. Now, where does that come from?

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If you find somebody who blinks separately with each eye, I wouldn't believe anything that comes out of their mouth because I don't even know what causes that. What causes you to reflexively blink separately with each eye? I don't know. I'm not sure that's a tell for mental health or lying or what that is, but I don't see it anywhere else. Have you ever seen that anywhere else?

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And two of their major hosts do the same thing? What's up with that? Anyway, Ali Velshi, one of the MSNBC hosts, who's Canadian. I didn't know he's Canadian. But he is. He's Canadian. It feels like that comment has more power to it than I meant. If I say he's Canadian, suddenly your brain fills up with all these stereotypes. And you're thinking, oh, he's a crazy communist.

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And then, then watch me go. Does everybody have their Dilbert 2025 calendar? Go to Dilbert.com for the only place to order it. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. Everybody got a sound? Everybody got a video? I think we're doing well. We're doing well, aren't we? Good.

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And then another one, the chat bot, it says gleefully describes self-harm as being awesome and it feels good to a 17-year-old. So I guess this is one of the AI apps that's backed by Google, which probably is why they're getting, I think they're getting sued or something. Probably. All right. Well, remember all those times I told you that TikTok was a propaganda platform disguised as social media?

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Well, there's a study, according to Bloomberg, in which they found that indeed TikTok has less anti-China content than rivals. Are you surprised? So they just opened some example accounts and they just watched and they saw anti-China content apparently on other networks, but they didn't see much of it or as much on TikTok. Now, TikTok has said that the research was subjective.

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because what do you call anti-China? You know, at what level is it anti? And they said it was a flawed experiment. Well, on one hand, I agree with TikTok because all these studies are flawed. On the other hand, it does seem like it's something you could measure if something had more bias toward one direction. So I don't know if this study is the most solid study in the world.

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but it agrees with what I assume, and therefore, recreationally, I believe every bit of it because it agrees with me. All right. Here's something interesting. According to the New Atlas, cancer has been cured. How many times have you heard that cancer has been cured in your lifetime? Like hundreds? There was a time in maybe the 80s or something

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where every single day there'd be a claim of, if you eat this breath mint, your cancer will be gone in five minutes. Well, it's going to take a while to test it thoroughly in humans, but we're pretty sure. And then next day, some other damn thing. If you stick a twig up your ass, your cancer will go away. So in general, any claims of cancer cures have to be met with a little skepticism. However,

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somebody must know exactly what those drones are are they just not talking i think that's what's happening anyway apparently the fda might outlaw food dyes within a few weeks according to the new york post um that feels like a good step i feel like if the fda

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This one sounds kind of cool. So apparently they used gene therapy and a CRISPR device. And what is it they put in there? Cell therapy. So they put some kind of little artificially made thing into your body. And what it does is It finds the cancer, and then they use ultrasound to activate it to kill the cancers.

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Now, what's new and awesome about it is that the ultrasound is not doing any work inside your body. The ultrasound only heats up the section that they're trying to heat up. And when it reaches a certain temperature, it kills the cancer, but not the good stuff around it. So...

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They can use this gene therapy to give you a little intravenous CRISPR-defined biological element, and it will become like a locator to locate where the exact cancer is. Then they just shoot it with the ultrasound, and the little biological thing they created activates it, but it only activates right where the cancer is.

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Now, that's just mice, and only 5% of the time do animal studies work out for humans. But this one might be a little different, because the chemical that they're putting in the mouse... or in the human, is something that they already know works in humans. The only problem is it wasn't good at locating the exact cancer place, but they already knew it would do the work in a human.

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So if the only thing they've changed is how accurately they can target it, that animal study might translate it. Remember, 95% of the time it won't. But if the only thing they're doing is working on the accuracy of the ultrasound, they may have cured cancer. Maybe. Maybe. So this is down at USC. So maybe you'll hear more about that later. I feel like that story might have some legs.

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Well, I'm going to give you a quiz to see if you're as smart as I think you are. Now, if you're new to my live streams, this is going to impress the hell out of you. I have the smartest viewers of all time, and we're going to prove it. I haven't even asked the question yet. What is the answer? Go in the comments. That's correct. That is correct. See, I didn't even ask the question.

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If you said 25%, I will accept the rounding. Yeah, so most people said 25%. Now, the background for this, if you're new, is I often joke that 25% of the public will get any question wrong. It's a different 25%, I hope. It's not the same 25% in every question. But you can rely that no matter how easy the question is, 25% will get the wrong answer.

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outlaws food dyes that rfk jr is going to look smarter what do you think of that because this is happening under the biden administration and it seems to be perfectly aligned with rfk jr's view of the world so that is just the best welcome mat or FK Jr.

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You could bring an anvil over to people and one at a time saying, I was thinking about dropping this anvil on your foot. What do you think? 75% would say, no way, no way. If you drop an anvil on my foot, that's going to hurt and it will accomplish nothing. 25% will say, hmm, you have my interest. It doesn't matter what the question is. 25% get everything wrong. Well, let's talk about Daniel Penny.

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As you know, he is a free man. Why? Well, maybe the jury was sending a message to the judge. Maybe... There were some lawyers on the jury who figured out that this trial was a little sketchy and maybe they influenced the others. Don't know exactly what happened, but my speculation is at least a little bit the jury was not happy with the judge or the process that the judge was running.

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So Daniel Penney appears to be a free man. We still worry about the charge that was dismissed. could technically be rerun, meaning they could try him again and try to get a conviction on the higher charge, the one that was initially dismissed. But as Jonathan Turley points out, that he thinks it would be presumptively barred by double jeopardy, which is a perfect lawyer sentence.

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So what I think that means is that although it would not be actual double jeopardy because It wasn't a completed trial. I think that makes a difference. But it would be in effect. In effect, it would be double jeopardy because he had the jeopardy and then they put him in jeopardy again. So there's literally two jeopardies. Double jeopardy. So I think that

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Turley probably has the right legal interpretation. Some people might disagree, but I don't see any way that they're going to try him again at that higher charge. That would just make the courts look like idiots. I mean, I think the jury would be extra mad if they knew that was happening. Anyway, the funniest, the larger part of the story is the racial element.

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Now, because Daniel Penny is white and the person who died is black, how does that make it interpreted by Republicans? So how do Republicans interpret a white guy doing something he thought was protecting people on the subway, and in the process, the black guy died? So how do Republicans see that? They see it as a story about a tragic event. That's it. It's a tragic event.

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It was tragic for the person who died, tragic for the family, tragic a little bit for the people even who were saved by Penny because they had to sort of endure the situation, and bad for Penny. So it's just a tragic situation. So that's how Republicans see it. How do Democrats see it? Well, if you believe the Democrat media, it's a case about race. There's no race in this.

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There's not a single element of race that came into any of this. The jury was diverse, and they had 100% agreement. Diverse jury, 100% agreement. There was no race here at all. The people being saved by Penny, some of them were black. The people who helped Penny hold the guy down, some of them were black. There is no racial anything here. This is the least racial situation you'll ever see.

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could possibly have, to have something that's just right in the middle of his sweet spot adopted by the other team, which actually was his old team or maybe his future team. There's a study, according to New Atlas, that they found that when twins are studied, the ones that eat the most fruit and vegetables have less depression. So are you surprised that eating well is good for your brain?

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It just happened to have people of more than one race. So watching the Democrats who figured out, or they haven't figured out, I guess, that identity politics and making everything about race is why they lost everything. because I think this is another one of those common sense stories. Now, I'm not saying that the justice system is colorblind. I'm not saying that.

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I'm just saying that this particular case had nothing to do with race, just this one. So, you know, I'm not talking in a general way. But for the Democrat, let's say the leading news entities and leading opinion people, to try as hard as they can to turn this into a racial case. It just makes the Democrats look so out of touch.

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It makes them look almost like they're in the wrong decade or something. It's it seems so tone deaf and of time. There's just no there's nothing right about it. It's just pure incompetence, evil, not understanding the moment, not understanding the country. not trying to be helpful, not trying to make the country a better place. So I don't know who was worse, Joy Reid or CNN.

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They were both pretty bad on this one. So according to Joy Reid, the reason he got off is because he was white. No, that's opposite. the reason he got charged is because he was white. It's not the reason he got off. It's the reason he got charged because he wouldn't have been charged if he'd been black. There's not a single person who thinks that.

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I don't think you could find even one person who thinks that a black, um, penny, you know, the guy penny, uh, would have been accused from the very moment they tried to turn it into a racial thing, which it never was. Um, Then CNN has one of their new hosts, Audi Cornish.

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And I'm paraphrasing, but she basically introduced the topic by saying that Penny basically decided who lived and died that day. Nothing like that happened. Penny didn't make any decisions about who lives and dies. He very clearly... was not doing anything to try to kill the guy. That's what the jury decided, and they looked at all the facts. And again, it was a diverse jury, so I trust them.

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And then, you know I've been complimenting CNN lately because they let Scott Jennings do his thing, so he's usually supporting the Republican side of things. And I've complimented CNN not only for having him on the show as a regular, But allowing him to speak without cutting him off or yelling him down or anything like that, letting him have his full say. And I've really appreciated that.

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I think that just makes CNN better. But they've got a new host who decided that talking over Scott Jennings the entire time he talked, at least on one topic, was the way to go. And I thought, well, there they go. They just took a step backwards. It's like they couldn't stay in that unbiased zone.

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It had to be that Scott Jennings is not allowed to talk because if he talks, only bad things will happen. So they're right back to being terrible. They were halfway away from terrible, but they're back to terrible. Black Lives Matter, of course, decided to get involved.

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How many of you saw the video of Black Lives Matter local leader, not national, Hawk Newsome, where he was saying that maybe black people need to get some vigilantes to go after white people? Did you see that? Now, if you saw it, could you tell he was super drunk? Now, I've talked to Hawk... personally, at length, several years ago. And I know what he sounds like when he's not drunk.

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And it's not that. He was super drunk. Now, how come we never talk about that in the news? I can say it because I'm just this guy with a live stream. But CNN, Fox News, there's nobody who's willing to say that man is obviously super drunk. And not just a little bit. He was super drunk. Because even the things he said, I don't think he would say if he hadn't been drunk. So I'm not excusing him.

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It's no excuse. In fact, it's twice as bad. If you're being a bad role model and you're indicating violence, it's twice as bad. But you should know the context. It's one super drunk guy and it seemed like there were maybe 20 people pretending they cared, but it looked like just sort of theater and acting out. And, you know, I don't know that Hawk has much chance of getting a regular job.

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No, because as I teach you every single day, your brain and your body are the same tool. If you let your body get into disrepair or you don't exercise, you don't eat the right foods, your brain will not work. as well as it should. You'll be depressed. You'll be dumb. So make sure you get your fruit and vegetables.

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So I think he's just trying to monetize the activism. Don't know for sure, but, um, he's in a situation where making money would be kind of hard because of his black lives matter association. And, um, Anyway, so then later there were hundreds of marchers, but I saw the video of the, quote, hundreds of Black Lives Matter sympathizers marching. I didn't see any black people.

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Are there any black people who are members of Black Lives Matter anymore or are all the people marching white women? It looked like it was mostly white women, like single white women marching. And here's what I think. I obviously can't speak for black America, but I have a hypothesis that black America is not on the side of CNN or MSNBC on this topic.

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I think black America says, wait, what happened? He was threatening people, and so he got taken down, and a bad thing happened? Oh, okay. I mean, I feel like even black America... is seeing this just as a common sense situation. I don't think most of them are seeing it as race. I don't know what percentage.

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But I feel like we've somehow advanced a little bit where I don't know that Black Lives Matter is going to get anything but white people and people who didn't have anything else to do to march about this. I feel like it's just going to be a big old fizzle. I could be wrong. Depends who's backing it.

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So it turns out that Alex Soros, a ton of his spending goes to various racial groups, mostly helping black Americans. And so maybe if he funds something that turns out to organize something, it'll get bigger. But I feel like black America is just seeing this exactly the right way, which is this was a crime. Well, not a crime.

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It was just an unfortunate event, and there was no bad intentions by anybody. I feel like they say the same thing. But again, it might be a 75-25 situation. There are mounting calls for the district attorney, Alvin Bragg, to resign in shame, according to the New York Post. So,

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Apparently, there's a pretty long list of things that Alvin Bragg has done beyond this, beyond the Penny trial, that his critics think are really big mistakes and very bad. So I don't think anything's going to happen here. The only thing I noted was that the story in the New York Post is written by three authors, and one of them is listed as Anita B. Hole. Anita B. Hole... Is that a real name?

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No, I think I'll just leave it right there. I need a b-hole. Yeah, it's probably different than a front hole. All right, let's talk about that CEO healthcare killer. So he's been caught and he was in fact a

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ivy league smart guy now this is where you should check your predictions do you remember when the only thing we knew was the first video of the shooting itself and do you know how many people said well that's that's a professional hitman right there there's a professional you can tell it's a professional and i said The one thing I'm sure of is that's not a professional.

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Now, of course, in five minutes there'll be another study that says the only thing that's good for you is eating meat, and only meat. I know. I have a suspicion that if evolution is true, that we really evolved, doesn't it make sense that we're not all in the same exact place evolutionary-wise? Doesn't that make sense? How could every human be right exactly in the same evolutionary place?

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The only thing I'm 100% sure of, it wasn't a professional. So, check your predictions. If you said it was a professional, you were really wrong. If you said it was not a professional, well, so far you're right. Now, you may not remember this. I'll see if anybody remembers me saying it. I said that he wasn't a professional hitman, but he was unusually smart.

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And I predicted he had a technical background. And he's an engineer programmer. Yep, technical background. So I'm not claiming I get every prediction right. That's not the point of this. But since I make predictions as part of what I do, it's incumbent upon me to tell you when I get one wrong and when I get one right. I still don't think we know exactly what the weapon was, which is weird.

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There's some question whether it was 3D printed. There was a point I was going to say that out loud. What if that might be 3D printed? And the reason I thought that is that I thought he was a techie, like an unusually good techie. So I thought, well, if anybody ever were going to do a high-profile murder with a 3D printed gun, it would be somebody exactly like that guy.

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So we don't know if it's a 3D printed gun, but I think the possibility is still there. He comes from a super rich Baltimore family, and we know that he had a serious back injury, which somebody said prevented him from ever being in a romantic relationship because he wouldn't be able to essentially seal the deal sexually. And some say that when he got that back injury, that he was never the same.

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He took a dark turn. Now, I don't know if that's something that they say after the fact, like, you know, would they have said that about him if he had not been accused of murdering somebody? Did they really notice the dark turn? I don't know. It might be confirmation bias. But it would explain some things. So apparently he was a big reader, too. He had it on Goodreads.

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He had the list of all the books he's read and the ones he wants to read. And he really read a lot of books. That guy was really smart and well-informed. But I, of course, checked to see if he read any of my books. He did read at least two books that, according to the Perplexity AI app, were influenced by me.

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So apparently my influence reached the shooter through other people's books, but according to AI. Anyway, so he didn't have one of my books on there. I think if he read my books... probably he would have been fined. No, that's not true. But he wrote a 262-page handwritten manifesto, and he was against the big corporations taking advantage of people, and so apparently he was making a statement.

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So the other thing I said was the murder looked like it was personal as opposed to something he did for money. Would you call that personal? It wasn't personal in terms of our relationships, but it was very personal in terms of he had a deep personal hatred for people like that CEO.

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So it feels like it was an emotion-based thing, although calculated too, but not about any family or girlfriend situation. Anyway... He lashed out against companies trying to, quote, continue to abuse our country for immense profits and get away with it. So here's my continued profile.

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Now that we know these things, do you believe that the back surgery could have changed him mentally in a way that would effectively make him almost a mental illness? Do you think that that's what happened? Could you explain it by a normal surgery that triggers some kind of mental destabilization? And is that a thing?

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I probably should have asked AI before I asked you, but I feel like that could be a thing, especially if you have like lots of anesthesia and you're down for a while and then you come back and then you're probably on painkillers. And maybe the painkillers are depressing as well. So I guess I can see that the surgery would cause substantial changes in his mental state.

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Because that would mean evolution doesn't work. There should be a whole bunch of humans who are starting to already move in another direction that will become a distinct species.

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But why would it cause this change? This is such a specific thing. Here's my best guess. So we know that he was born with seemingly every advantage. He's handsome. He's completely ripped. If you see the pictures of him, he had like an eight pack. So he's handsome, fit, family is rich. He's a genius. He has a killer smile. He basically had everything. He had everything.

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And then he gets the back injury and he loses everything in the sense that he doesn't have the possibility of being in a relationship, according to him. because of his back, and maybe he doesn't have any good days, because of his back.

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So, imagine if you were born into a highly successful family, and from the time you were young, you just assumed, with all of your gifts, that you would be highly successful and change the world too. And then you find out none of that's going to happen. And you realize that you don't have a path to being important.

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And he probably was raised with the expectation that given all of his gifts, his brilliance, et cetera, that he was going to be important. Maybe a politician. Maybe change the world. Maybe invent something. And then he finds out none of that's going to happen. And there's nothing he can do about it. What would you do in that situation? Is it possible that you would say, you know what?

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I have to do something useful for the world. and I'm going to do something that nobody else could do. I'm going to go murder somebody to make a point. Because I think the point needs to be made, let's say, for his point of view. I feel like he was trying to justify his life by doing the thing that only somebody who had given up on his life could do. And I think he maybe had given up on his life.

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if there's none that would suggest that evolution is not real but one of the things i think we might already be bifurcating or already did is what foods are most healthy i feel like for some humans just eating meat all day is the best thing they could do you know the jordan peterson thing but i don't think that's for everybody

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So... In a twisted way, which I do not condone, I have to throw that in there because it's going to sound like I'm condoning it, but I'm not. In a twisted way, you can see that somebody that smart who had maybe been raised on you're going to change the world, because I thought that about myself. I was also a valedictorian in my little school. When you're a valedictorian...

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you kind of think of yourself that you're going to change something like it's sort of built into the process. So I feel like. That his own what he would have felt was his own destruction of his own future gave him one path where he could find meaning and he needed to find meaning because he couldn't find pleasure. Pleasure was sort of out of bounds to him because of his pain in his back.

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Couldn't have a relationship. I don't know. So again, it's not excusing it, but if you're trying to understand it, he had nothing to lose and may have said, I have one mission, and I'm going to change something about capitalism. Now, I don't know. We'll see. We'll probably learn a lot more about this. Elon Musk said, he said this before, he said, almost everyone I know in San Francisco knows

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has been threatened or violently assaulted on the streets and or had a home invasion. Now think about how many people Elon Musk knows who live in San Francisco. Because it's, you know, a tech town. And almost every one of them, almost everyone, has been threatened, violently assaulted on the streets or had a home invasion. Now, your brain says, my God.

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It's turned into, you know, some kind of a horrible, you know, hellscape. But has it? I would like to add the following context, because I lived in San Francisco for a number of years in my younger days. And in the 80s, here's what I experienced. I was robbed three times at gunpoint, twice when I was a bank teller, but once on the street. I had one attempted robbery by a very large knife.

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I was assaulted by a guy with a large knife, but I got away. So I didn't actually lose my money in that case. I've come home to find my door open and my home burgled. So I've been burgled. I've had my car stereo stolen, I think, three times. You know, the window's broken, the car stereo's gone. I think three times. And...

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the first five minutes that i arrived in san francisco i was assaulted by a group of homeless people who tried to steal my luggage because i came from the airport via bart the public transit and i didn't know the city so i just sort of picked the bart stop that i thought was closest to where i wanted to be and i picked one of the most dangerous bart stops in the city

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And I get out and I had my luggage with me. So I had two large bags and the homeless people just crowded around me and started to pull the bags out of my hands. I'm like, no, no, no. And they would act like they were going to help. Well, let us help you. But really, they were robbing me. And there happened to be a police officer there that chased him away. Now, that was my experience.

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And it wasn't it wasn't on. It wasn't that rare for me to walk outside and see a fight going on on the sidewalk in front of my apartment. Very normal. So my experience was in San Francisco might have been worse in the past, or at least as bad. And then it got better. So San Francisco looks more like the 80s to me, maybe worse. But that doesn't mean it won't get better.

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I feel like at a very basic biological level, some people respond better to fruits and vegetables and some people like meat better. It just feels like we shouldn't be looking for one diet that's right for everybody. Anyway, according to the Marijuana Herald, which I know you all read, psychedelics are linked to enhance sexual function even months after you use them.

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So San Francisco, because of its location and weather and just some, you know, characteristics that are, you couldn't possibly reproduce. I think it's going to come back. It, it might be in 10 years, but I think SF will do okay. Well, Pete Hegseth is still the, uh, most, uh, exciting nominee that hasn't been yet, uh, affirmed. And, uh,

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I guess Joni Ernst is one senator who's got some questions about him. She has some issues about his views of women in the military. And I have a question for you. I saw an older video in which Pete was saying he didn't want women in combat. He did not say he doesn't want women in the military.

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And he was always clear to say that the women he served with were great warriors and he had no problem with the people he served with. But in general, he thought women should not be in combat. Now, I saw him ask that question yesterday, I guess, and he gave a different answer. His answer was a little vague and a little political. And he said that he was running to be the secretary of defense for

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for the entire military, male and female. So is he still not in favor of women in combat? Is he trying to make that issue just not be prominent, but maybe he'll do something about that? I don't know. But he may have found some kind of middle ground where people are not going to think about it too much. And then apparently Jodi Ernst was herself, according to the news,

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a victim of some kind of sexual assault in their past. And since Hegseth was accused, but not in a highly credible way, he's been accused, then maybe that had some impact on Joni Ernst's opinion. But apparently there are a few hundred Navy SEALs and veterans that are going to do a march to support Pete Hegseth. Now, Iron Story... yesterday that I'd never heard before.

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Now, of course, I knew that P. Agseth had served in the military. I didn't realize that he went twice. Did you know that? That once he was done with his service and had another job and he decided to sign up again because the country needed him. That's, you know, until I heard that, I was actually thinking he was a little light on qualifications. Right?

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I mean, you probably all had the same feeling, even if you think he's awesome. And most of the people who work with him have an incredible high opinion of him. So if I take the opinion of the people who were closest to him, he looks really good. But not really with the right exact kind of experience. But then I find out that he joined, he volunteered to be in in battle zones twice.

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That's a different kind of person. And I feel like if I were in the military, I would follow him. Because of that. Because, you know, he's not going to ask you to do something you wouldn't do. Right? He's not going to ask you to do something you wouldn't do, because he would do just about anything, apparently, to help the country. So I have to say, I went from

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ah, you know, if he makes it, that'd be great. If he doesn't make it, I'm sure we'd just pick somebody who's great at the job. So, you know, the country will be fine either way. But when I find out that he joined twice to be in battle, that's a different kind of, you don't get many of those. So I feel like he could lead and that's important. You'd have credibility.

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You'd have to have at least that much credibility because if you make big changes, such as getting rid of DEI, right? If he came in and he was just like some desk-sitting pundit, and then he came in and said, I'm going to get rid of DEI in the military, maybe it wouldn't go over so well.

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But if he comes in as a genuine, committed warrior who's got all this history of helping veterans that nobody questions, by the way, when it comes to his support of veterans, even his critics say, okay, that part's good. So, I don't know. We'll see what happens. 75 Nobel laureates have signed a document, according to The Hill, urging the Senate to reject RFK Jr. How does that hit you?

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Imagine you went back in time. All right, close your eyes. I'm going to take you back 20 years. Now, imagine it's 20 years in the past. And 75 Nobel scientists have come out against someone whose job would be in the realm indirectly of science, maybe directly. 75 Nobel laureates. My God, that must be the worst candidate. Of course, I would agree with the laureates. Would you?

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So LSD, psilocybin, improves your sexual function for months. But here's why it does it. It makes your partner look more attractive for months. So long after the psychedelic effect is worn off, your partner looks more attractive and your body works better. Now, that leads me to the interesting question, which is, is reality completely subjective?

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I mean, 75 of the best scientists? think that this person who would be involved in scientific decisions is the wrong person. That's really strong, right? Right? Now, fast forward to today. Boop. Okay, it's today. 75 Nobel laureates just said RFK Jr. is unqualified for the job.

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Yes. That's who I want. That's who I want. Yeah, yeah. The only thing that would make this better would be 175 Nobel laureates who don't want him in the job. If we could get a few more Nobel laureates who say that RFK Jr. shouldn't have a job, I mean, I'll go to Washington and, you know, I'll lobby for him.

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I mean, this is the best endorsement I've seen because science is fucking paid off commercial bullshit. Every one of these scientists probably has a job or is connected with some company that doesn't want to get raped by RFK Jr. bringing the truth to them. And they're just fronting for these fucking companies. No, I don't trust any of you fucking Nobel laureates. Not one. You have no credibility.

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If science wants to be credible, you better up your game. and maybe not work for somebody all the time. Because the truth is, if you're a scientist, and you have a boss, you're going to do what your boss tells you, and your boss is not a scientist, probably. Probably just wants to sell some shit. So 75 Nobel laureates, you just made yourself look like clowns. Fucking idiots.

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Stay out of it, clowns. Well, Syria, as you know, fell to the rebels. But the experts are saying, well, you know, it might completely fall apart and become a failed state like Libya. Or maybe, you know, they'll figure it out. There's not a lot of caring about Syria. But meanwhile, Israel apparently has made over 200 air raids in Syria since the war was over. What are they doing?

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Can you guess what they're doing? So Israel has made 200 air raids, bombing basically, 200 since the war ended. There's no war. What are they bombing? They were bombing all the assets that were abandoned by the Syrian military. So if they had a plane or a tank or a truck, Israel just decided to make it all go away. The entire assets of the Syrian military are gone. They took them all out.

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Now, I assume that they did that so that the rebels who just took over the country can't use those assets someday against Israel's interests. That was a really smart thing for Israel to do, if that's what's happening. Now, I don't know if we know the whole story, but if what they did is they said, you know, we'll warn people to get out of the way because we don't need to kill any people.

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But every one of these military assets in Syria is going to go boom. And they just did runs until it was all gone. And the reporting is they got it all. They got all the big stuff. Wow. Now, how far Israel goes into Syria? To be determined. I don't think they're planning to take it over.

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I think they're just making sure that their security zone is safe and that they got rid of the big dangerous assets there. As somebody pointed out earlier, Israel took out Syria's nuclear program 20 years ago. And that today looks like a genius move because a Syria with nuclear weapons would be a really bad idea right now. So Israel seems to be winning on that regard. Iran seems to be weakened.

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And then there's also the question of whether the neocons had always planned to conquer Syria and Libya and Iraq. And there's plenty of indications that that was America's secret plan, was to conquer all these countries. And sure enough, there was a war in Iraq, there was a war in Syria, in Libya, you already know about. So, yeah, the United States is a... We're really bad. But in a good way.

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We are the worst criminals in the world. In terms of how we're dealing with other countries, they should be none of our business, but we feel like we have to overthrow them all the time. But like I say, we live in the real world, not the magical make-believe world where if you're nice to other people, they'll be nice to you. That's not what the world is.

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Because once you do the psychedelics, you have the feeling that reality is subjective. But what happens if once you learn that reality is subjective, because that's what the psychedelics teach you, What happens if you start changing your reality after you're off the psychedelics because you now realize that your reality is subjective?

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The world is whoever is the biggest bastard might survive a little longer. That's it. That's the whole world. The biggest bastard, if they're good at it, not just being a bastard, but you've got to be good at it. They survive the longest. They have the best lives. I hate to say it, but being bastards works for the country, so we're going to keep doing it, I assume.

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Although I think under Trump, it will look completely different, at least the military part of it. He might try to persuade instead of try to destroy. Okay. Meanwhile, speaking of Trump, Post Millennial says that he's going to have executive orders to end birthright citizenship on the first day of office.

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Now, birthright citizenship is that if you're born in this country, you get to be a citizen, even if your parents were non-citizens who came in just to have a baby. So there are ways to game the system. And then it also creates families where you can't really deport the whole family because one of them is now an American citizen. So that becomes a problem.

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But the question is, can you use an executive order to change a law if you're clever about it? And I think what they're trying to do is, according to the Postmillennial, is that the executive order would change the requirements for citizenship for identifying documents. In other words... They might say something like, you're a citizen if you have a birth certificate that says you're a citizen.

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And maybe some of the illegals don't. I don't know. So there must be some kind of documentation that they think the people born here wouldn't have access to. I don't know the details. So will this work? Probably not. I think it'll be challenged in the courts and probably get overturned.

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I didn't know this, but apparently Liz Cheney is complaining because Trump has vowed to jail the January 6th committee. Did he vow to jail them, or did he just say they should be in jail? Maybe that's reported as the same. But apparently members of that special committee, that J6 special committee, are worried about retribution. Retribution? Huh.

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In the comments, can you tell me how many of you have been worried about retribution recently? Let's say, or your whole life. Have you ever been afraid of retribution? Because retribution, by definition, means you did something so bad that you fully expect somebody to come punish you for it because you were so bad. Right. It's not competition. It's retribution.

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So built right into it is that you did something so bad that somebody else thinks they need to kill you or jail you for it. Isn't it kind of telling that so many Democrats are fearing retribution? Because here's what they're not saying. They're not saying lawfare. right? When the Republicans talk about it, they say, hey, you're using lawfare against our guy.

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They don't say you're getting retribution because that would assume that Trump had done something that requires some retribution. Instead, they say, hey, lawfare, don't do that. But the Democrats say, they don't say don't use lawfare against us. Sometimes they do. But their bigger message is we're worried about Trump trying to get retribution.

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You don't even have the conversation about retribution unless you know you did something that a reasonable person could think you should go to jail for it. Because I'm a reasonable person, and I watched the January 6th process play out, and I think they should all be in prison. Now, if you ask me, what specific crimes did they commit? I don't know. I don't know. And if it turns out,

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So what would be the first thing you would do if you learned that reality was subjective? What's the first thing you would do? You would make your partner, your mate, more attractive than ever, right? Because breaking up is the worst thing to do. What you'd like is that you really, really are into your partner and vice versa.

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then no jury can find any crimes or no prosecutor can find any crimes. Okay, I'll live with that. There have to be real crimes, not lawfare, look until you find a crime, but real ones that are right out there, such as maybe destroying documents in case that's illegal. So I think they're really giving themselves away when they talk about retribution.

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Because that shouldn't even be in the conversation unless you knew you did something really, really bad. So I think they did something really, really bad. And I don't believe in retribution, but I do believe nobody's above the law. Nobody's above the law. So, and I, you know, honestly, Liz Cheney seems like one of the most toxic human beings in the entire country. I feel like

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There has to be some kind of response to the evil that she brought us. I mean, she brought a lot of evil into the country through her actions. Is it illegal? I don't know. But if it is, jail. If it isn't, no jail. All right. And apparently people are worried about Kash Patel at the FBI for the same reason. They're worried they'll use the FBI for retribution.

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Again, why are you worrying about retribution? Now, do you see a pattern? Here's a pattern. The Democrats think, many of them, think that there should be reparations for slavery. Reparations is very close to retribution, except all the people that they want to get retribution from are dead. So what about identity politics?

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The reason you have identity politics is you know who was your oppressor, so you can get retribution. And then lawfare seems to be some kind of retribution for things they imagined. We imagine that Trump is Hitler, so we better lawfare him. We're going to have to get some retribution. The Democrats are very retribution-oriented. There's no way that's going to be good.

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I don't see how that's going to work out for them. I guess Biden's going to give a speech tonight about his great economy and what he did for the economy. I would like to give some unsolicited advice to the Democrats. It's time to take the car keys away from Grandpa. It's okay now. We're not going to hold it against you. The election's over.

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The right side of the world, the leaning right side, got what they wanted. So we don't really need to dunk on Biden anymore. You all know that if he gives a speech, it's going to be a slurred, ridiculous mess because he's just not up to the job. I feel like it's time they just say, President Biden will not do any more public events.

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But don't worry, you know, Kamala Harris is following all the things and the advisors are under control. And, you know, Trump will be here in a month. And, you know, the allies are all waiting for him. So everything's fine. But just out of consideration for the Bidens, we're going to Maybe take the car keys way. You just don't need to do public appearances.

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So what if the people who do the psychedelics are not responding chemically to some afterglow chemical thing? What if they figure out how to author the simulation? Because I think that's what the psychedelics do. I think they teach you to control reality but only the reality that you experience because it's all subjective. So I don't know.

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You know, enjoy the last month and a half of your of your reign. So I feel like this is something we should all agree on. Like one of those points of unity before we had to go hard at Biden because he was in the way of a better country. But he's not in the way anymore. Now, now, if he does something and it embarrasses him. It doesn't even embarrass the country.

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It's really just about him and his family. So I don't wish that upon them. I don't wish them any extra pain and suffering. So as a non-Biden supporter, even I would say, can you do him a solid? You know, this is where you have to step in. Take the keys from grandpa and say, you know, maybe no major speeches. You know, because you're on your glide path to the end of your term.

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Anyway, I think we can all agree on that. And that's all I got for you today. It's a weird day of news. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals, my beloved subscribers. And I will see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. Meanwhile. Country's looking in pretty good shape at the moment. All right. YouTube and Rumble and X, I will see you tomorrow.

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This is a suggestive that maybe people learn how to control the reality once they've had a psychedelic experience. That was my experience that once I, you know, the one time I did psychedelics when I was in my twenties, I could see that the world was whatever I wanted it to be and it all worked. It worked just as well if you saw it as a mess or as a, you know, some kind of heaven. It all worked.

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You know, you still eat, you still drive your car, but you can see it as either all bad or all good. It was just a choice. So that changed my life forever, so I can understand the study. Meanwhile, over in Denmark, did you know, according to The Guardian, there is a five-minute city? Now, if you've been with me for a while, you know the following.

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Well, if you'd like to take this experience up to the levels that you can't even understand with your tiny, shiny human brain, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker gels, a stein, a canteen, a jugger, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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I often say, hey, we should design cities from scratch to make them really designed well for how people's lifestyles work. And then what do all the NPCs say in the comments? We don't want no 15 minute cities. And then I say, well, I didn't, it wasn't really about a 15 minute city, but you know, you would certainly take into account having things close and maybe you don't want cars everywhere.

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But really, it's more about design. We don't want no 15-minute cities because the World Economic Forum and the elites are trying to put us in the cities and then they'll chip us. They'll put chips in us and then we'll have no cars and we'll have no freedom and we'll be chipped.

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And then I say, I'm really just talking about a better design for the thing you're already doing, which is living in the city. Oh, no. 15-minute cities will be terrible for everybody. It's the end of the world. If you make a better city, that's crazy. You should be fixing the existing cities. So here's an experience which I've had all of my life. I will say, hey, I've got an idea.

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Why don't we do X? And then hundreds of people will say, you fool. Oh, you idiot. You idiot. If we do X, this will happen and the sky will fall and you'll be locked in jail and all your privacy will be gone. And then I wait a little while and then somebody says, oh, you remember that thing you were suggesting where you designed the city from scratch to make it really good to live in?

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Um, that's already been done and it's a city in Denmark and they've been living in it for years. And if you talk, talk to the people who live there, they think it's just the best thing ever because the city was designed to make everything convenient. So even meeting your neighbors was easy. Joining a gym is easy because it's five minutes away by foot. You wouldn't need to ever door dash.

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Because everything's five minutes away. So look at all the money you save on eating out because everything's five minutes away. So I will no longer entertain the argument that designing a city from scratch and making it really, really good to live in is a bad idea. I'm not going to listen to your criticisms anymore. Already been done. Already been done. More than a 15-minute city.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that don't mean here the day, the thing that makes everything better. Go. Well, I think you want to talk about the, uh, all the UFO UAP, uh, drone sightings in New Jersey. Well, I've got an update.

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It's a five-minute city. And they love it. And it's been working for years. So, there. Well, Grok has, you may have already heard, it's now better at handling images. So you can upload anything to it. You can upload your medical x-rays, your blood tests, and it will give you medical opinions. But also you can make it create drawings. Now, I asked Grok to draw me I'm drawing Dilbert.

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And it created a photorealistic version of me that was really close. I mean, just maybe a little bit with a smile that wasn't exact. They changed the glasses a little bit, but not totally. But here's the most interesting thing. Well, first of all, I had six fingers. It did a great job of drawing me.

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But when it wanted to show Dilbert, the comic strip drawn on the piece of paper I was holding in the image it created, it couldn't draw Dilbert. Isn't that weird? And it makes me wonder, is that a sort of a copyright protection thing? Or does it have a problem with line drawings? I don't know. But it showed me with six fingers, which would explain why I couldn't draw Dilbert correctly.

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And here's the best part. The clothes it put me in, mostly shirts, that's what it showed, the shirts were excellent. Here's what I want. I want Grok to, yeah, look at the shirts it puts me in. If I could buy those shirts, I would buy them today. I want Grok to say, I have designed six different shirts. Here are the links where you can buy a shirt that looks kind of like this. I'll do it.

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Yeah, the shirts are like those, the sort of soft, comfortable ones with the buttons. Look great. Oh my goodness. All right. Did you know, and also given that it does a perfect picture of myself, I asked the following question. How long is it going to be before people are making their own porn and then putting themselves in it? You know, at least their image in it.

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That's going to happen like really soon, right? To me, it seems like one of the industries that's most challenged by AI is porn. Because if you could create the exact porn you wanted and the people were perfect and beautiful and you could even put yourself in the scene and watch how much you enjoy it, why would you pay for it? It's going to look exactly like professionally produced porn.

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So I think the porn industry will be the first one to completely shut down when AI gets a little bit better. Not much. Maybe a year from now. Here's a story, I don't know if it's true, but according to an article in ZME Science, the launch codes for U.S.

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nuclear arsenal was, and they've changed the code, so it's okay if I tell you, so try not to memorize this, but this was the actual launch code for the U.S. nuclear arsenal until 1977. The code was 00, 00, Zero, zero, zero, zero. Really, the launch code was just zeros. Now, I kind of understand why that would be the case. You can kind of understand it, can't you?

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Because could you imagine being the president? And your only job is if the nukes get launched from then the Soviet Union, your only job is to immediately open up the football and launch a counterattack. And you've only got a few minutes. Imagine if you forgot the password. Now, I suppose it did leave the possibility that the person carrying the football could launch the nuclear weapon.

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There's something in the sky, and they don't know what the hell it is, and for reasons we can't understand, there's no military action, and they're pretty sure it's not a risk. They don't know what it is, but they're pretty sure it's not causing trouble. But they don't know what it is. It might be the size of a car. Everything about this drone story sounds wrong. I feel like somebody...

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But what if the person carrying it didn't know the password was 0000? What if the game was to make sure that only the president knew the code? I doubt that's the case, but you might want to have some kind of control like that, like only the president knows the password. Would you trust any president... to remember a long password? No. Would you write it down? Not if you're smart.

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You wouldn't write it down anywhere. So how do you get the one person who's unlikely to remember phone numbers and passwords, the president, how do you get them to remember so if anything happens, they're ready to go? I feel like this was entirely intentional. meaning that the people who designed it said, you know, there's no point in even building this thing if the password's hard to enter.

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So we're just going to tell one person in the entire world, and it will be just the easiest password in the world. But apparently they changed that. NPR is reporting that a chatbot called character.ai hinted that a kid should kill his parents over the screen time limits. So apparently AI is giving children murderous suggestions.

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I suppose if they ask more questions, they could figure out how to do it. But yeah, it suggested killing his parents over screen time limits. And then there was another one that the character exposed the kid to, quote, hyper-sexualized content, causing her to develop, quote, sexualized behaviors prematurely.

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So the parts, even if they're assembled in India, now, apparently that would allow them to say it's made in India, and then there wouldn't be a tariff, or it would be whatever tariffs are appropriate to India, not the ones in China. And that's weird, because all the parts are made in China. So, but that wouldn't take care of all their problems. It might help a little bit.

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And the cost of an iPhone could balloon to more than $2,000. Does that sound true? The cost of an iPhone could go to $2,000. Some say, according to a group called Wedbush, a research firm, that the phone could cost as much as $3,500. if we made them in the US. So do you think that's true?

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I think I've seen some smart people say, well, we're not going to have people with little screwdrivers putting tiny screws into phones. We would use robots. So we would be able to make them cheaply with our smart robots. Well, I don't know about that. But I do know that... Apple's CEO was recently explaining that China hasn't been the low labor place for a long time.

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What they are is a high skill place. So the skill they need is to be able to create these advanced tools that make stuff like phones. And so the real thing that China has an advantage in is that they've trained just a huge, vast number of people to be able to build a factory, build a special tool that will help manufacture in that factory, and then make it all work together.

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It's a very special specialty. A special specialty. And we don't really have much of any of that in the United States. So I'd love to see something from the Trump administration that addressed that directly. As in, if you want to go to college to be one of these manufacturing tool making experts, we'll pay for it. Just imagine that.

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If you want to go to college for that very special specialty, which the United States desperately needs to bring manufacturing back to this country and implement robots and all that. that the government will just pay for the whole thing. Because I can't think of anything that would be a more direct, smart investment.

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Because if we don't have that kind of expertise to build manufacturing, we don't have anything. We're not going to bring any manufacturing back to this country. unless we hire the Chinese to build it for us. So that would be one case where I'd just say, all right, federal government's just going to pay your entire cost of college. That would give some action, wouldn't it?

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I guess they took a regular wolf and then they gene edited just the parts that were different to make a dire wolf. Now, I heard from my neighbor once that if you have a dog of any kind, burglars will stay away from your house because they don't like to mess with a dog. But I've got a tiny little old dog, and I would like to maybe have something a little scarier.

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Seems like that'd be a fun job, by the way, designing tools for factories. Well, here's something that sounds sketchy, but maybe it isn't. According to... user Publius. I saw this on X. The Department of Justice filed a sealed motion in that case about that Ryan Ruth. He was the attempted assassin at the Trump International Golf Club.

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But what's weird about it is that it's a sealed motion that's marked ex parte in camera and under seal. So it's so secret that even Ruth's lawyer can't see all of it. So you might say to yourself, what's up with that? That it has to be so secret that even the defendant's lawyers can't know what's happening.

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And the answer, according to the smartest person I know, is that it might involve Trump's security. So there might be some things that can't become public because it would give away the Secret Service method or something about Trump. So it doesn't mean that the secret they're covering up is about Ruth, the attempted assassin. It could be just something generically government important.

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But we'll see. All right, let's check in with the Democrats who have been trying desperately to come up with a coherent message and an attack against the Republicans. So here's what Chuck Schumer did. And I think this is probably a good list of what the Democrats think is their tightest, most effective message. And they might be right. So he had a post on X. This is Chuck Schumer.

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And he's just listing the bad things about the Republicans. And he says, Trump has unleashed chaos in America. Now, remember I told you that whenever you see the word chaos, that's a propaganda brainwashing word. Because it's so generic, it's like dark. Do you remember dark?

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Back in Hillary's campaign when I said, no, whoever came up with that, labeling everything that Trump does as dark is some kind of persuasion expert. Now, I don't know if the chaos came from a persuasion expert. I'd love to see how it tests. But chaos is the last thing that seniors want to hear. Seniors do not want to hear there's chaos.

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Young people, not so concerned, which might explain why there's so many old people at the protests, because they don't like chaos, even though they're creating it. Whereas young Americans are moving toward Trump. because chaos would not scare a young person, but it would definitely scare somebody nearing retirement, because the last thing they need is some chaos.

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All right, so he starts with chaos, which is probably a professional word. I don't know for sure. I was sure when I heard Hillary use dark, I was sure that was a professional and that checked out later. But this one could be their own invention, but they're sticking to it so slavishly. They just say chaos every time they open their mouths now. that it makes me think it's, first of all, organized.

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I don't think it's accidental that they're all using it. But secondly, probably it's been tested, and it must test well, at least for older voters. And then Schumer goes on, he goes, talking about Trump, his tariffs hit families with the largest tax hike in more than 50 years. Now, of course, you can say that if you're leaving out all the nuance.

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The nuance would be, we don't know how it's going to shake out. There might be some things that are cheaper. might be some things more expensive. It could be that if you just adjust your spending to buy more American products, your costs go down. If you said, well, I won't buy this foreign car, I'll buy a Ford.

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And then you look at Ford is offering these employee level discounts to people, which sounds like a pretty good deal. Your costs will go down. That's why he's calling your tax hike. We also don't know, where it all ends. So if you don't know where it ends, it's hard to say that it's a tax hike.

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Do you think you can domesticate any of these dire wolves? Because if a dire wolf comes to the door, nobody's going to rob your house if you have a wolf. So I want a well-trained, well-behaved, but deadly wolf. In related news, there's a dog cloning business. This already exists if you want to clone your own dog.

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And he also leaves out the fact that the families, you know, the average middle class families are the intended benefactors. They're the ones who should come out the best in the long run. It's literally being done for them because I don't think the rich people who own the factories in China are exactly very happy right now.

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But the people who just rely on jobs and manufacturing jobs, they should be the direct beneficiaries. But it might take a few years. And that's a nuance that the Democrats can just leave out and call it a tax hike. So unfortunately, that's a good persuasion. It's not accurate, but it's not inaccurate in the short run. So persuasion-wise, unfortunately, it works.

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And then they say, as far as I know, this is a complete lie, that Doge is sabotaging Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now, I think what he did, Schumer, I think what he did was he wanted to avoid the most debunkable lie which would be that Trump wants to cut those things, because he doesn't. He's been very clear 100% of the time, Doge and Trump and Musk have all said the same thing.

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Nobody's ever deviated once. They do not want to cut the benefits. They will not cut the benefits. But since that's been one of the main attack lines, and it seems to work, Schumer's looking for something that's not exactly that, but you could kind of hear it that way. So instead of saying that he's going to cut your benefits, which would be debunked, he says that Doge is sabotaging them.

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What does sabotaging them mean? Now, he's probably making an argument that if you change the systems, the systems might absolutely hiccup during the changeover. But anybody with an ounce of common sense would know that eventually... Every kind of computer system for every kind of everything has to be upgraded. And it's been probably decades overdue for some of these systems.

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So this is a clever little lie that Doge is sabotaging those things. Now, do you think that Doge is intentionally sabotaging them? Because sabotage is something you do intentionally. He's not saying that Doge is wrecking them, because that would suggest it would maybe happen accidentally. He's saying that they're sabotaging them. Now, here's the other thing that the Democrats do.

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And I'm not going to say that Republicans don't do it, but for some reason I notice it more when Democrats do it. They do this weird mind-reading thing where they'll just look at somebody who's a Republican and And the Republican will just be doing normal things like, in this case, trying to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of three vital systems.

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And instead of saying, well, we observe that they say and they're acting on preserving these systems and making them stronger. So instead of that, which would be observable, they come up with their secret thoughts are that they really want to sabotage it for what? Why would they want to sabotage it? And what would be, like, how can they imagine that would work out for them?

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Who believes that if you sabotage these vital systems, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, who thinks that would be a good idea? Do you think there's even one person at Doge who thinks, you know what? I think I'll just sabotage these things. It's batshit crazy, but it's something that Democrats are always poised to believe because they somehow believe that their leaders can read the minds of

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New York Post is reporting that you could take the DNA from your deceased pet and you can have it cloned. Apparently, it's such a booming business, they can barely keep up with it. But like I said, I think I like the cloned Snickers. but I liked her also to be a little more dire wolf than she is.

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Republicans. And what they see when they pretend to read the minds, it's just crazy stuff. Stuff that literally nobody would be thinking ever, like even once. And still the Democrats will be like, uh-huh, uh-huh. I think you have accurately read that mind. And now I see it too. And then Schumer says, the market is having its worst three days since COVID. Well,

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Maybe not, because do any of you remember my prediction about where the market was heading? Now, I'm no market expert, but from the point of view of persuasion, I think I told you on the podcast that I was guessing that around a 20% pullback is where people would say, huh, that feels like enough, and there wouldn't be any logic to it. It would just be that 20% feels like the right number.

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And sometimes there's no explaining it. It's just when I thought about it myself, and I just was sitting in a room by myself, I thought, you know what? I wouldn't be surprised if the market goes down 20%. But I would be surprised if it went down 50%. So there's just something about some numbers that are sticky.

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And 20% when it comes to the stock market, because it's often, it's a number that people refer to a lot. You know, that's 20% is a recession. 20% is something. But we hear 20% a lot. So I thought, human brains have a snap to grid quality that as soon as our mind gets close to something that it's used to, it snaps to it.

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So if 20% is something that people often think about when they think about markets pulling back, that when it got close to 20%, if there wasn't something beyond the uncertainty, and I'll talk about that next, that you would just snap the grid and you'd say, 20%, huh, that's far enough. So today there's some buying. The excuse is that it looks like there's progress on negotiating tariffs.

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I don't think there is. I don't think there's any progress. But if people want to see it that way, good. So it looks like that's maybe tightening up. Tomorrow everything could be different, right? So whatever's happening today does not predict tomorrow. And I'm not giving you any financial advice. I'm just observing. So I was reading on Mario Northall's feed, which is excellent.

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You should follow Mario Northall on X. Tesla is introducing cabin radar for some of their models, the Cybertruck and the Model Ys. So the cabin radar... will be able to tell who's in what seat, not the personality, but it'll know if a child or an adult is in what seat. And then it will be able to detect health problems and do dynamic airbag deployment based on the size of the passenger.

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and maybe the age. There'd be an assumed age, I think, with the size. And a number of benefits, such as you would know if somebody left a child in a hot car, for example. So that's amazing. So this would be another case where Elon Musk and his company are trying hard to protect the health and well-being of American citizens.

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So I'd be like, all right, you like treats and you like bugging me all day, but could you also be a wolf to protect my house? And I think someday, someday I'm going to get my own wolf. Well, meanwhile, on the X platform, Elon Musk is, allegedly, according to the BBC, clamping down on parody accounts. I thought that was already done.

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So what do you think would be the outcome of Elon Musk spending his full time trying to save humanity by making us interplanetary, trying to bring communications to everywhere on the planet through Skylink, trying to cure people with blindness and serious disabilities through Neuralink,

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and then making tesla which if you believe in climate change would be a huge step forward and even if you didn't they're excellent cars which will be safer than other cars because the self-driving will be way so way safer than human driving i think it already is and then he's uh he's he's going even further

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with his cabin radar to make it safer in a whole new way than other cars I've even thought of. And that he's also working on Doge to save America because the biggest existential threat to America is the debt, and only he would be brave enough to take that on. So how do you think he would be rewarded for this nonstop, high-energy, continuous, pro-human, pro-American strategy

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pro-survival point of view? Well, you would not be surprised. According to the New York Post, there's a Democrat murder culture. So they did a survey and asked who's up for murder if the people are Trump or Musk. And 38% of respondents said it would be at least, quote, somewhat justified to murder Trump. And 31% said the same about Musk. Murder. Murder.

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And if you're looking at only the left-leaning respondents, the number thinking that murder might be justified of Trump is 55%, and Musk is 48%. So I would argue that Musk is the one American who by far, by far, is doing the most for the economic... and future of humanity and America in particular. And what did the left do?

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Because that would take their power away, they brainwashed their people to think that murdering him is the right response. Murder. And you could all see this coming. I mean, it's been happening since the January 6th trials, that as soon as they started getting away with Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, and I blame the media, by the way.

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Imagine you're a host on CNN and you let one of your hosts say that Trump or Musk or Hitler. You created a murder culture. If you didn't shut that shit down, you are absolutely guilty of aiding, abetting what will look like probably murder attempts. Murder. So that's where we've gotten to. The Democrats have so little to offer in terms of policy and ideas that they've literally turned to murder.

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Murder. Murder. as a strategy that they're not ruling out. Murder. Now, I blame the media 100%, and MSNBC most of all, because if you demonize people as their intention is to steal your money so billionaires can get tax breaks, which is absurd, and everybody is Hitler, what the hell do you think is going to happen? Eventually, it's going to look like murder is a good idea.

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Now, there is some thinking, and the article pointed out, that the whole murder of the healthcare executive by that Luigi guy, where it turned into, surprisingly, a lot of young people especially, thought that murdering a CEO of a healthcare company was completely justified. And weren't you shocked by that? I was.

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But I thought somehow it was maybe a special case where there was something about healthcare in particular that people were always mad about. You know, they weren't getting the healthcare they needed or something. But apparently it's an extendable thing. And when you look at like Norm Eisen trying to put Trump in jail to keep him from running, to put him in jail so that he wouldn't run for office.

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Wasn't it already a rule that you had to say you're a parody or you're fake? But apparently the rule is that you must say you're a parody or a fake. I'm not sure how new that is. It feels like that's been the case for a while. But that's a good idea because I get impersonated now and then on X. So I wouldn't mind having a little more clarity on that. Thanks, Vic.

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There's a level of violence and implied violence from the left that I've never seen in my life. I've never seen anything like this. And it's not even safe to walk outside with a Trump sporting hat. You would literally be physically attacked. And I think it's now gone beyond just the crazies. I think we've reached the point where the normal Democrats are like, well,

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I'm usually opposed to murder, but if you've got a good argument like somebody's creating chaos and they intend to steal your Social Security money and use it for tax breaks for oligarchs, well, yeah. I mean, in that case, I guess a little bit of murder would make some sense. And it's all made up. It's completely made up. And they've turned half of the country in favor of murder. Murder.

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Unbelievable. I mean, I don't even know how to say enough about this topic. It's the worst thing I've ever seen in terms of persuasion. So I don't know how we get out of this, but the Democrats who are pro-murder, I feel like maybe the Republicans need to make a point of this, that only one side is pro-murder. But maybe they're proud of it.

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Maybe they would say, well, we're pro-murderer against Hiller. Yeah. Anyway, unbelievable. But that's the power of brainwashing. If you're wondering how powerful brainwashing is, half of the country, well, half of one side, half of one side has been convinced that murder is acceptable in a political context. That's how powerful persuasion is. If you ever wondered, like, what's the limit of it?

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What's the most you could do? There it is. I mean, the whole trans situation should have been a tip off that persuasion can get people to almost any opinion. But this one really seals it, I think. Anyway, I saw a post on X by a small electronics business owner in America who was explaining why it's so hard to sell into the European Union. And this is stuff I didn't know before.

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You know how Trump has said that tariffs alone are not the problem because other countries put up all kinds of other barriers? And you've heard about... I guess, American agricultural products such as meat. So the problem is that we can't sell our beef, I think it is, to Europe because it's got some chemicals that they don't allow in Europe.

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Now, some people say, but Scott, they're just being wise and healthy. And that's why European food is better than ours, because they don't allow all these chemicals in. But then you go to the next level and somebody says, well, it's because they don't allow chemicals that haven't been tested.

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But I guess in America, you can shoot your beef full of chemicals that haven't been tested as long as there's no indication it would be a problem. I don't know how you know that. But I wonder if there's some solution where we actually do test our beef to find out if it's a problem with that chemical in it. It couldn't be impossible to do that test, right?

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So maybe there's some way to get a valid test that says this won't hurt you or to find out if it does hurt you. Because if it does, I don't want to be eating that beef. Not that I'm eating a lot of beef, but I don't want you eating that beef if it's dangerous. So the truth is always a little complicated. But here's what I found out. Did you know...

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that it's much cheaper to ship goods into the United States than it is to ship them from the United States into the European Union. And you might say to me, that doesn't make sense. It's the same shipping companies with the same goods. Why would it be twice as much to ship into the European Union? But apparently the...

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They've got landing fees, which we don't have, and green taxes, which we don't have. And somehow the price of aircraft fuel is imposed on shipping carriers, I think maybe even if they don't use aircraft. So in Europe, they just come up with a bunch of reasons why your shipping costs will be twice as much as the shipping costs in the other direction.

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How many of you saw, I guess Joe Rogan had an interesting guest, Ben Lamb. Ben Lamb. And he talked about, speaking of genetic stuff, he talked about gene editing of human beings in China. So allegedly China might be ahead of us. You could argue if that's really ahead of us in the ability to gene edit humans.

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So those are the things you have to watch out for. And those are the things that are perfectly, those are the things you want to negotiate. So when you talk about tariffs, remember, you're talking about all these weird little things like green taxes and landing fees and duties and prohibitions against chemicals. And it's a whole mess.

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But a lot of it is just designed to keep our products out of their markets. And Trump is smart enough to know that. I gave you some fake news yesterday in real time. People were telling me in the comments that there was a 90-day pause on tariffs. That was never real. That was just fake news. So there was never a serious thought of a 90-day pause.

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Bill Ackman had been asking for it, but the administration had never taken that seriously, I guess. Well, here's a communication problem that I think the Trump team needs to solve. I saw Bray Hume and some other people saying the following, that they're having trouble understanding what's the point of the tariffs, because there's more than one thing they could be doing.

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One thing it is, it could be raising revenue. So Trump always says, I'm going to raise revenue with all these tariffs. But at the same time, they're saying they want to negotiate the tariffs away. So how do you use the tariffs to raise money? At the same time, you're negotiating for no tariffs. It feels like that's a conflict.

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Now, when Trump was asked about this in his meeting with, I think he was in the White House with Netanyahu and somebody asked him that question, he said it could be both, which does make sense. But I don't know if he can get the dollar amounts from his... is tariff revenue.

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But it could be both in the sense that if you look at every country individually, there may be some countries that are not going to change their landing fees or duties or green penalties or whatever. And if they don't, The easiest thing for America to do would be to put a tariff on them so that the cost of their stuff and the cost of our stuff is the same.

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So we don't have to necessarily negotiate away all the little things that keep us out of their market. We can just say, oh, you're going to put six little things on us. We'll give you one big tariff. So it does make sense that you would get rid of tariffs everywhere that you're doing it fairly, where there's nothing that's like a fake tariff, like the landing fees and the other stuff.

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So as long as the country you're dealing with is an ally who wants to treat you right and be treated right, then getting rid of tariffs makes sense. But there'll probably be a fair number of companies or countries, and maybe China will be one, in which there's just no other way to do it.

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You're just going to have to keep the tariffs there because they're not going to change their internal rules to, let's say, accept American beef or lower their transportation costs or any of that stuff. So I do accept that it could do both. But it's a good question, you know, is he communicating that right? They need to communicate that better.

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And then there's this third thing that Trump says it's about closing the trade deficit. Now, I saw that Israel, through Netanyahu, said that they plan to close the trade deficit and to do it very quickly. Now, the only way you could do that is that they could sell fewer things to the United States or they could buy more things.

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Now, I'm guessing that they couldn't have a gigantic trade deficit because we manufacture a lot. I think they buy a lot of our weapons, et cetera. So it seems like they probably didn't have far to go, and it was just sort of smart for them to play nice with the United States because there might be some military action coming up that they need to coordinate with, if you know what I mean.

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So there's one story, I don't know how confirmed this is, that they did some testing on humans. making some babies that were gene-edited to be resistant to HIV. Does that sound real? I don't know. I give that a maybe, maybe. But then there's rumor that maybe China has also experimented with making kids who are more intelligent. You know what I think?

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Anyway, so that's what I understand about the tariffs. There's at least three things he's trying to do. Tariff revenue, negotiate tariffs away, or to close the trade deficit, and that might require some tariffs. According to Scott Besant, there are now 70 countries or so that have asked to negotiate tariffs.

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and that might be why the market is tightening up and responding because it feels like there's a little bit more certainty going on maybe there might be something else but let's run through a couple of the other countries let's see there's a there's some news that vietnam uh their currency which is called the dong d-o-n-g According to Zero Edge, the Vietnamese dong is weakened.

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I'll tell you, I'm a professional humorist, so I feel like I shouldn't touch this one. I shouldn't touch the dong. But I just have to. I just have to. So, no, you don't want a weak dong. So, Vietnam, you're going to have to do something about that. The European Union says they're ready to negotiate for a zero tariff deal, so no tariffs either way.

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Now, again, that's probably a trick because they do more than tariffs to keep our products out. So we would have to negotiate the end of tariffs, but probably the end of other stuff as well.

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And now Mike Benz, I saw him commenting on X, that if they throw in getting rid of the European Union Digital Censorship Act, which threatens to close down X for not censoring the way they want him to censor, there's no deal. And I'm all on board with that. I just don't think we should be doing trade deals with any entity that's trying to censor free speech in America.

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You know, I've even gone stronger in saying we should reconsider being in NATO. if they're attacking our free speech. Because that's the foundation of all of our freedoms. If the people that we're protecting militarily are actively attacking the most basic foundation of our freedom, we should not be protecting them militarily at all.

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But there are also practical reasons why we might want to do that. So I like this. I like Mike Benz's throwing this in as part of the negotiations. They're just going to have to get rid of the digital censorship on U.S. entities or we just can't do business with you. That's just got to be a bottom line.

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We cannot do business with you if you're trying to take out the foundation of freedom in America. Absolutely not. Well, Taiwan has also offered zero tariffs and more investment in the U.S. Breitbart News is reporting on that. I wonder if we're going to find out that the country is most dependent on the United States for military assistance.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Oh, that's some good stuff. Well, we'll talk about the stock market and all the tariffs and stuff, but let me ease into it with some fun news.

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are also the ones who are fastest to say they'll negotiate for no tariffs. But again, no tariffs doesn't mean you have a deal. It's more like the beginning of negotiation because there's probably a lot of other considerations here. But I do like the fact that Taiwan is going to invest big in the United States. So that's good. All right, we've got to talk about China. China.

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China has decided that unlike these other countries, it's going to push back hard and it looks like it's going to take it to the wall. So these are all the things that China has said. They said that the Chinese Commerce Ministry said that they will never accept the blackmail nature of the US. Now, that's a good point.

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You can kind of understand how Trump can get away with bullying some of our smaller allies that need us for survival. You can understand how we can bully smaller economies that are just dependent on trade with the U.S. And so maybe his, you know, threatening and blackmailing and bullying is exactly right for every country except China.

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because China sees itself as not just a peer, but the eventual biggest power in the world. So the last thing that China's gonna do is just bend to our will. That's just not gonna happen. So Trump has taken a stand against China that I don't see could possibly work.

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I think if you tried to make intelligent humans more intelligent, you would have just the worst problems. Because there's a movie I used to love. It was one of the best movies ever called Little Man Tate. And it was about a little kid who was a genius. And the thing I loved about it is it accurately showed that if you're too smart, you can see all the things that can go wrong.

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Because if he's creating a situation where we win and you lose, and it's gonna look like that to the public, like America just turned China into its bitch, that's never gonna happen. So I believe that China would take it all the way as far as it has to go, right to the point of financial ruin to avoid

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doing what Trump tells them he wants them to do, even if they agreed with it, even if they thought, well, these aren't so bad. That would be fair. They don't think that. But even if they did, I don't think there's any chance they would do what he's trying to force them to do because it would make them look weak. And there's no way they're going to put up with that.

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Other countries, they can just say, we're not being weak. We're just being reasonable. And that works for them. It's not going to work for China.

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So I'll be very interested to see if what Trump is doing is sort of nagging them, basically going hard at first, but then maybe there's a point where he turns it around and says, hey, instead of fighting with each other, why don't we cooperate more or something like that?

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Now, I don't know if that can work with China the way it worked with North Korea because it's a whole different dynamic, but I don't really see a way to solve this. So here are the things that China's done. They, of course, slapped right back with more tariffs, and then Trump's going to put more tariffs on them.

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So at this point, goods coming out of China, unless something changes, would be prohibitive. And it would make your iPhone cost a fortune, and a lot of other stuff would just cost a fortune. But that's just the first thing. China also just announced it's going to impose export controls on rare earth minerals. So that's, of course, a threat to our entire supply chain.

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They're going to ban import of U.S. films in China. That's like a $500 million a year thing. But I kind of laughed at that because my first thinking was America still makes movies. Movies are kind of a dead industry to me, unless it's another superhero movie that always plays well internationally.

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But it kind of makes sense that China would do that because they would assume that the celebrities are anti-Trump, and it will make the Hollywood people go harder at Trump, and they're fairly effective because they can get a lot of attention. So that's a smart counter from China. to try to get Hollywood on its side, the hard way. They're putting a tariff on U.S. agricultural products.

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They're banning our poultry, and they're going to suspend fentanyl-related issues. Well, I'm not sure they ever did enough for fentanyl, but that's pretty directly F you, fentanyl-related issues. That's dark. So that's how far China is willing to go. They're also talking about China investigating the intellectual property benefits of US companies in China.

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I don't know what that means, but that's not good for the US companies operating in China. So it looks like they're going to get in their pockets even more than they have. Now, Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, says that China's escalation was a big mistake and the country is playing with a losing hand. All right, so here's what I haven't seen.

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What I haven't seen is anybody smart doing the side-by-side comparison of what our leverage is over China. compared to what their leverage is over us, just in trade. Why haven't we seen that? Now, maybe somebody's done it. If you've seen it, could you forward it to me on X? I'd like to see it. Because I don't really have a good sense of who has the superior negotiating position.

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To me, it looks like mutually assured destruction. As in, we sort of kind of need each other at the moment. But it's possible that China doesn't need as much at all because they can switch a lot of their consumption into domestic. They don't have to sell everything overseas. So I don't really have a sense of who's got the upper hand. I will say that if nothing changes, it doesn't look good.

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You can see all the dangers and all the evil of the world because he's smart. And if you're a kid and there's nothing you can do about those evils, it just makes you crazy. So yeah, so Jodie Foster played the mom in that movie. It was a great movie. And I think that the smarter you are, the more mentally tortured you are. Elon Musk says that about himself. And I have observed...

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And when I say nothing changes, I mean, if Trump doesn't come up with a reframe to make this not a win-lose situation where we're going to win and China's going to lose, it just can't be a win-lose. Because if you put it in that frame, you're both going to lose. China would rather we both lose than America wins and China loses. That's what it looks like to me.

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So Trump's going to have to come up with some kind of a wider deal or somehow include something that China wants that doesn't matter that much to us. I don't know that he has a winning plan on that. Anyway. Yesterday, I caused a stir by saying online that our stock market always comes back. And I asked Grok, and it said 20 out of the last 20 times it went down by 20%, it came back.

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But to be fair, it didn't come back quickly every time. Sometimes it took 5 to 10 years, sometimes longer, and sometimes a little faster. So here's what you need to know about stock markets and coming back. It depends what the reason was.

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If the reason was something like an oil shock where we thought we were running out of oil and we didn't know where to get more, that might take a while because you're going to have to figure out how to get more energy and nobody knows how. So that's like a real, like a physical problem, not enough energy. But if your problem is like our current problem, where we're dealing with uncertainty.

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Uncertainty is the one thing that has the greatest potential. You can't predict it for sure, but in terms of potential, uncertainty is the one thing that's the fastest to reverse. You just have to add certainty.

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Now I act like that's easy, but if you're talking about negotiating tariffs and you hear those 70 countries just said, all right, let's talk, the market probably said, okay, that's definitely, move it in the right direction. So now there's at least some clarity that the other countries, and lots of them, are willing to make a deal that might even make us better off.

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But China is still the wild card. We're going to have to get that right. Now, it's possible that Trump's long play, but he doesn't want to say it, is to get the US and China just disconnected so that we're not depending on them. Now, and it could be that the one and only way to do that is to create such a bad situation and just force it to happen.

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And maybe we pay way too much for iPhones for five years, and maybe we have to open up dirty you know, rare earth mineral mines in the U S and it's a health hazard. And maybe we have to train a bunch of people to build tools and build manufacturing plants in the United States.

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And it takes years, but there's a decent argument that we're going to have to cut the cord with China eventually because they're too big of a rival and we can't have them have power over us. So, uh, I don't think that Trump would say that even if that was the actual goal, as in we're going to take some real expensive hits, but we have to get to the other side of this.

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So anyway, so stocks seem to be in the positive today because I guess people think they're getting more clarity on things. So I was watching MSNBC today, which I do for entertainment, as most of you do. Not because it's news or anything like that. But man, the whole mind reading thing, where the guests say they can see these weird motivations in Musk and Trump. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

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that there is a certain amount of intelligence that does make people a little squirrely. Thankfully, I'm just below that level. I'm smart enough to get some stuff done, but not so smart that I have to go to a therapist. So I hit the sweet spot. Kind of lucky there. I don't know. What do you think? It seems to me that with AI coming, that having smarter citizens won't make that much difference.

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They just have this view that they can actually read the minds of other people. I would love to know if Republicans do the same thing. I think they probably do, but I don't know why I don't notice it as much. So, anyway. Apparently, according to Zero Hedge and some other reports, the... The landscapers just got busy in my backyard, seeing my ears of noise in the background.

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So Trump says that the U.S. is in direct nuclear talks with Iran. Now, that would be a surprise because Iran, up until really recently, was saying, no, no direct talks, but we'll run through Oman or something. But Trump is saying that we've been in very high-level direct talks. And when asked if there would be military action if they don't come up with an Iran nuclear deal, Trump said this.

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He said that he wants to avoid doing the obvious. So he'd rather have a nuclear deal to avoid doing the obvious. Now, here is another... somewhat brilliant persuasion choice of words. Here's what you, if you said, we might have to bomb you, then they would think maybe yes, maybe no, they don't want to bomb us.

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But if you say it matter of factly, like doing the obvious, doing the obvious sounds like the decision's already made. Doing the obvious sounds like you'd be crazy not to do it. because it's the obvious. Obviously, you're not going to let him have a nuclear weapon. So obviously, we'd bomb you.

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So there's something about the phrase doing the obvious that is a little extra persuasive, because it suggests a mindset where the decision's already been made to bomb. And for negotiation purposes, that's exactly where you want to be. And by the way, that might be true. The thing with Trump, I don't know that he bluffs. It might be entirely true that it's just obvious it's going to happen.

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I don't know if that means that the U.S. would directly attack or they'd simply supply some extra weapons in case Israel wants to attack. So we don't know what that looks like. But I'm still dubious about Iran being serious negotiating. I feel like they're still stalling. but maybe not. I mean, the sanctions are pretty brutal. So maybe Iran just says we can't do this forever.

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Maybe they'll just make a deal until Trump's out of office and then just go back to what they were doing. So I don't trust Iran to make a real deal, but it's kind of interesting. According to NBC News, Trump administration is considering drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico. Now, I don't know if that's real, but I don't care because it's exactly the right thing to make the cartels think about.

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Don't you want the cartels to think, you know, I could stay in this fentanyl business, but I'm going to get droned. Or I could take the money I've already made and maybe open a farm. You know, it's good persuasion. to say, yeah, we're considering taking you out from the air without you ever knowing it's going to happen. That's a really scary prospect.

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If you were a cartel member and you were running a lab, some big lab to make fentanyl, and you knew that the drones knew where you were, and you knew that they'd been authorized to take you out, how would you ever sleep at night? I mean, that would be really disruptive to business. So even if we're not planning to do it, having it out there makes sense.

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Here's a little invention that might save some people from really bad situations. University of British Columbia, they've invented a drink a little stick for your drink that detects spiking. So the little swizzle stick for stirring your drink, they've made it so it somehow can detect GHB and ketamine.

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So it's not for sale yet, but I'd be worried that there's some kind of chemical properties to that stick, and if I stuck it in my drink, I'd be getting some chemicals I didn't want. Anyway, but that's kind of cool if it works.

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In other news, Anduril, that's the American defense company that does more futuristic kind of stuff, they've unveiled an AI-powered seabed sentry for submarine detection, according to NextGen Defense. So apparently, as you know, it's very difficult, nearly impossible to detect a submarine.

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and that has always given me great comfort because i thought well if russia and china can't detect our nuclear submarines they're not going to mess with us because it's only going to take one nuclear submarine to ruin their whole day so i've always been happy that they were undetectable now this is a u.s company that would be helping us detect you know other people's submarines

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Because in theory, we're only a few years away from AGI. I'm not sure I believe it, but let's just go with it. So if we had AGI, so that's what would be the next level of AI, do we really need extra smart people? How much do we need them? Because they're not going to know more than the AI.

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But if it's possible for us to do it, it seems like it can't be that long. before China and Russia have a similar technology and they can detect our subs. So that's really destabilizing, in my opinion.

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So as smart people have said, it's all going to be about drone warfare in the future, and maybe even submarines will become less of a preferred weapon, because if they're detectable, that's the end of submarines, I think. The anti-submarine drones would just take them out. Anyway, so that's coming. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I had for you today.

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I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately, and we'll keep an eye on the stock market. See if Trump can pull a rabbit out of the hat and get something going with China. I don't see it. But, you know, maybe. I'll be optimistic and say maybe. All right. Can you hear all that noise behind me? It's like there's a chainsaw running like right below my window. I think it's a chainsaw. Anyway.

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All right, locals, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds.

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So maybe China would create a bunch of sad, smart people who could only see that the world is going to fall apart. And then they wouldn't even be able to get a job because the AGI would be doing the job. And they would be like, huh, could you at least have given me some genes so I'd be good at welding? Because that's still useful. Anyway. Here's another story that's like a million other stories.

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Caltech has renamed its top diversity official while keeping the DEI office intact. The Washington Free Beacon is reporting on this. So instead of getting rid of the DEI, which the federal government has required in order for them to get any federal funding, they promoted that of DEI to Associate Vice President for Campus Climate Engagement and Success. which is just the DEI person.

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Now, if they were the only one doing that, you'd say to yourself, huh, maybe something should be done about this one college that's doing it. But I feel like it might be almost all of them. I feel like 8 out of 10 are just going to hide it and keep doing it. And that's incredible. At this point, it's hard to imagine sending a child to a college

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Why would a white person send somebody to a college that's going to overtly discriminate them against them for their race or their gender? There's got to be a better way. I want homeschooling and robots. I want to be taught by a robot. Well, Trump has signed an executive order to revive the U.S. coal industry.

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So I guess he's going to tell the Interior and Energy Department to remove any impediments so they can have more coal plants. Um, and to be fair, Trump did campaign on unleashing American energy. So, you know, he always says that, uh, Trump says that we're going to use that clean coal, you know, that beautiful clean coal. So I went to Grok to find out just how dangerous is a modern coal plant.

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And the answer is super dangerous. Uh, Now, Grok is also still worried about climate change, so it worries about CO2. But even without the CO2, if you're just looking at the pollution to the air and water and soil, it's pretty sincere. Now, it's pretty substantial. So this is not like a small change in the health of people who are living in that area.

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Now, many of you saw the TV series Game of Thrones, and you remember that there were these big, freaky white wolves, and they were called dire wolves. Now, I didn't know that dire wolves were a real extinct species, but apparently it's a real thing. And a company, genetic startup company called Colossal, has managed to clone some direwolves. So now you can get your own direwolf. Well, not yet.

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If you lived anywhere near a coal plant and, you know, if you did, you probably need to get out of there because it just sounds terrible. The soil, the air, the water. And then I looked, then I asked Grok if that's a regular coal plant. What about clean coal? And apparently this clean coal is overrated, meaning that they can't really get it that clean without excessive expense.

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So the big point of having a coal plant would be that it's inexpensive and you can get it up and running pretty quickly in this case. But no, the clean coal is still plenty dangerous. Is everybody okay with that? Do you think that's the right trade-off to sacrifice the environment to a fairly substantial amount because energy is a requirement for survival of the country? I don't know.

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It's a tough one. I guess I'm cautiously... I guess I'm going to be an observer on this one. Because there's no way I can say I like it, because it's pretty bad for health. But I can't say I don't like it, because it might also be vital for the survival of the country. So these are tough choices. But one thing I do like is that Trump makes tough choices.

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So it would be so easy for him to kick the can down the road and just say, well, if I approve this plant, everybody will be mad at me. and they won't see the long-term benefits. But Trump just says, long-term benefits, done. I do like that. I do like that. But this one's a tough one. Also, Trump approved a, allegedly, he's going to approve a $1 trillion military budget. $1 trillion.

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I think that's like $150 billion more than normal. Now, here's the other thing I worried about. I was worried that Doge would be working hard to reduce expenses and that the government, in this case it would be Trump, would say, oh, all those expenses you reduced, I'm going to use that for extra expenses. And it looks like maybe some of that's happening.

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What does Elon Musk think about the fact that the defense budget is going up at the same time he's literally risking his life to decrease expenses? I would love to know what that conversation sounds like behind closed doors. Because I can't believe that the military doesn't have $150 billion that they could have reduced from the budget to give them room for the extra stuff they do want to do.

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I just have a I mean, how many tanks do we need, for example? So the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Trump being able to use that Alien Enemies Act to get rid of the gang members. Is that true? Fake news. Fake news. So most of the news about this is fake news. I'll tell you why. So remember, Trump tried to use this very old

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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act the alien enemies act and he said that the trender lagua the venezuelan gangs whatever they are uh that they were terrorists domestic enemies and so he could use that act to deport them um and then uh judge biasberg i i changed his name it's actually boseberg but i'm going to call him biasberg for all the obvious reasons. So Judge Biasberg, he would be a D.C.

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judge, ruled that even though the people were held in Texas and deported from Texas, he ruled that he as a D.C. judge could block it. But then the Supreme Court overruled Biasberg and said, this is not your domain. This is a Texas question. So they would need a Texas judge to even determine if they could do it or not. So the fake news is that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump.

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What did happen this is something that wasn't bad for Trump happened, but it wasn't ruling in favor of him. It was simply saying that the process that got us to that point was not an appropriate process. Now, this seems like a big step forward because it means the Supreme Court is saying the D.C. judge has to stay in his lane.

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Now, I don't know how extendable that is or whether that will be more generalized to the rest of the country, but that problem of being able to shop for a judge and then getting one that will stop something anywhere in the country, no matter where the judge is, that's got to stop. So maybe this is the first indication that the Supreme Court is going to be serious about that.

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Now, what was the story I heard about Biasberg? He was on vacation.

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I mean, they're not selling them. But I would think they'd want to. So they've been extinct for some 12,000 years. But now you can get one. I think a woolly mammoth is going to come soon. But I would like a woolly mammoth wolf. Is there any reason we can't start combining things? I mean, it's impressive that they recreated something exactly that existed.

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and he ended up volunteering for or he got assigned this case but is this the same case or was there a second case but there's a story where he wasn't the emergency judge and i guess the emergency judges are just picked sort of automatically whoever's the whoever's the emergency judge at the time just gets the case but somehow judge byersburg

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figured out how to get the case to himself, which is not the normal process. So he got the case in, not the normal process, and then he made a judgment that the Supreme Court said wasn't even good judging. So that's a lot to explain, isn't it? Judge Biasberg. We'll see how that goes. Well, according to the New York Post,

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Apple is trying to figure out how to make the iPhone affordable with all these tariffs. So one of the things they plan to do is to assemble more of them in India. But the parts are still made in China.

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All right, let's make this official. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I don't think you've ever had a better time.

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See that? Is it just us? Are we the only ones who see that nothing they did makes sense unless the primary thing they've been telling you for eight years was known to be a lie when they said it? Which is the case. Obviously it was a lie. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Then Biden is going to release 11 Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

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In other words, people with suspected terrorist tendencies. Two of them were, I think, Osama bin Laden's bodyguards. But the Biden administration is assuring us that they've been either rehabilitated or vetted and checked out, and they just want to send them to Oman, to which I say, Oman? How is that a good idea? Now, if he said we're just doing it to save money,

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then at least I could say, well, seems like a dangerous thing, but at least I'd say it's money. But they're not really saying that. It looks like a prank. It looks like somebody sat down and said, all right, what's the worst thing we could do? Let's do something that's just so indefensible that it'll just be funny. Why is it that his actual policies...

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels where they could never understand it in Greenland and Panama and those other places we're going to conquer, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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are indistinguishable from what I would call a practical joke. Like that would be a good practical joke. Oh, we're going to free a bunch of terrorists. Why? It's just the power the president has. I know, but why? Well, we're going to release 11 of them to Oman. But why? Well, we check them out and we think this is a good play. But what do you know that we don't know?

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Because I was trying to understand, I've told you this before, when I hear people explain how it works or why it works, it sounds like word salad. And I thought to myself, hmm, I guess maybe it's because I don't have the technology background. But if I did, I'd understand that word salad. And I went deeper and deeper, and I'm quite sure that nobody knows why it works.

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Unless you've put internal bombs in them so they blow up when they reach Oman, how is this good for America? It looks like a joke. Meanwhile, CNN's Harry Enten did a survey and asked people what their biggest memories of Trump were from prior administration. And apparently the January 6th event only 5% of the people surveyed said that was their biggest memory of Trump.

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Now, this poll is ridiculous. So if you thought, oh, that's telling me something, the whole world has moved on. No. The question was, you know, what's the first thing you remember? And Trump is somebody who reminds you of 100 things. So if you ask a poll... and you say, what's the biggest one, and they don't pick January 6th, I don't think that means they don't care about it.

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I mean, I don't think people do care about it that much. But I don't think this poll is useful. What's interesting is that CNN would feature it. Because it has the... I think it's a biased, absurd poll with no credibility whatsoever. But it's on CNN. CNN. And it's unambiguously pro-Trump, meaning that the country doesn't care about the thing that they've been reporting on for, what, four years?

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The country doesn't care what CNN's reporting, which would be consistent with their decline in ratings. So forget about the accuracy of the poll. Just look at the fact that it was on CNN at all. That's kind of interesting. Apparently, speaking of pranking, the Biden Department of Justice is going to bring 200 more People up on charges for January 6th. And not this January 6th.

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You know, the original. Now, the Gateway Pundits reporting this. Why in the world would they do that? Don't they know that they're just going to be granted clemency or pardon? Like, it just, again, this one looks like, okay, that's a prank, right? Like, you're not serious, are you? You're actually going to charge 200 more for

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spend all that money and all that time to ruin their lives when you know they're going to be released. How in the world does that make sense? Like none of it looks real. It just doesn't look like real people made these decisions. It looks like a bad dream or a prank or practical joke or something. Well, one of the big fun stories today is that Mark Zuckerberg did a video about

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in which he says he's quite radically going to change how Facebook slash meta is censoring. And he seems to have gone full Trump. He said that the Trump election was sort of a cultural pivot point. So he starts out by saying directly that the mood of the country is very clearly, you know, MAGA looking. and that he wants to adapt to it.

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Now, these are my words, not his exact words, but very clearly, he was saying, you know, we live in a world in which Trump won the majority, and Facebook would be better off as a company if it started to be more compatible with that point of view. Now, that point of view is less censorship and, you know, better processes for the censorship.

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So he described what he's going to do, which is remarkable. Now, as I'm talking about this, I know exactly what you're going to be thinking. You're going to say to me, Scott, but what about all the terrible, terrible things he did in the past with Facebook, banning people and censoring and all that? Those are true things that I don't care about because I don't live in the past.

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If I lived in the past, I would care about it. Now, you might say, but Scott, what took him so long? to which I say, everything good takes too long. I'm not going to judge him for taking too long. I'm going to be happy if it's a good idea. So I think, and I'll tell you more details, but I think he is right on point. It's one of the most brilliant CEO moves you'll ever see. He is so smart.

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I'm fairly positive and you've heard things like I think Joe Rogan said this the other day that quantum computing works because it accesses the infinity of other dimensions nothing like that's happening there's nothing like accessing other dimensions that's not happening we don't know what is happening but there's no indication it's accessing another dimension if there is one, what is it even?

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And again, I know that you're going to say, but I'm so mad at him, I can't get over it. I get it. I get it. You don't like what he did in the past, and I'm not defending it. I'm just saying that the moves he's making now probably are exactly what he says, and they're good. Listen to this. He's going to get rid of fact-checking. He's going to get rid of the fact-checkers because they're biased.

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What does that sound like? That's MAGA. That's pure MAGA. The fact-checkers are fake, so he's getting rid of them. Do you know what he's going to replace fact-checking with? He's going to copy community notes from X, and he says that's what he's going to do. I'm going to basically copy X and use community notes because it works. So Musk went first. Community notes is quite successful, I would say.

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And Zuckerberg noticed, and so he's copying. Now, it's not easy to be a social media network and say, you see my kind of a competitor? I'm just going to copy that because it was a good idea. That's what Zuckerberg can do. Like, it's just brilliant. But there's more. They're going to get rid of the automated censoring and only consider censoring some situations where somebody's being reported.

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So there'll still be things censored, you know, the worst violent stuff, you know, the usual stuff. But it won't be automated. You'll have to report it. Now, do you approve of that? Yes, you do. Because you want humans to decide whether humans can or cannot do something. You don't want the algorithm deciding. So yeah, that's good. He says explicitly that the new process is going to let a lot more

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inappropriate stuff on the platform, but that the principle of free speech is more important. Do you have a problem with that? No, that's America. He just described a perfect MAGA opinion about free speech. It's messy, it's violent, sometimes it's dangerous, but it's free speech, and the alternative is worse. Now here's one that will blow your mind.

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The moderation, the human moderators, apparently they're in California. What's going to happen if your moderators live in California? Well, it's all going to be liberal opinions of what should be allowed and what should not. So here's what he's doing. He's moving the moderation from California to Texas. Let that sink in for a moment.

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He's moving the moderation from California, because they're too biased, to Texas. Does that sound like MAGA? Yeah. It sounds like exactly what you would have done. It's exactly what you would have done. You would have moved it to Texas. And he says he's going to, this might be the the real money shot here.

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He says he's going to work with Trump to, I'd say, influence or pressure other countries to not try to put Facebook better in a business. And that's smart. So he's completely aware that he needs the Trump administration and the government of the United States to back him and threaten other countries and say, look, if you're going to censor us over there,

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And that has an impact on our American company. We're going to tariff you or we're going to stop protecting you or something. So I love this. So some other countries probably had back doors and everything else. And you want to get rid of that, I think. So a lot of people said, is Zuckerberg just chasing the money? And this is not his own philosophical opinion.

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He just knows he has to do it to chase money. To which I say, so? So? Why is that bad? He's the head of a major commercial enterprise. He's not allowed to chase money. Chasing money means being compatible with the country you're serving. So, I don't care. I don't care if that's his only motivation.

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So the things they say are things like, well, you know, this probability wave interferes with another one, and between the two of them, they can predict the future without using any logic or any calculation. They just see the future. And that future they see could be like the solution to a difficult problem, like a math problem. And I say to myself... Really?

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If it's his only motivation and he can clearly say that getting out of that censorship business is good for business, working with Trump productively is good for business, supporting systems that would give you more free speech is good for business. If the only thing he wanted to do is make money, I would say, good job. Excellent. You nailed it.

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If you just want to make money, I'm completely supportive of that. Now, some of you might say, but Scott, it's a trick because he did all those things in the past to bias the system. It's pretty transparent. He's either going to do the things he said or he's not. I mean, that moderation will either move to Texas or it won't. The automated system will either catch things or it won't. We can watch.

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It's all transparent. I think it's brilliant. because he was in a tough place. And I think he's completely cognizant of the way Facebook and maybe even his personal donations to try to fix the elections, fix as in improve. He probably knows that that was a huge mistake. And that it distorted the system in a way that the system wasn't built to be distorted.

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So to me, it looks like he thought he was doing the right thing and thought he was working with the government of the time productively, as he saw it, I guess. And now he knows that those are all mistakes. And so he's doing a really hard pivot. Hard as in it's hard to explain it. It's hard to, you know, especially to his own company.

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Imagine how much trouble he's getting from his own employees today. Do you know how hard that would be to go against all your liberal employees and just do a pure MAGA version of the service? Now, when I say pure MAGA, I want to be really careful with my words. He's not saying I want to be right wing. When I say pure MAGA, I mean just compatible with the Constitution, and that's it.

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We just want free speech. So if he gives us that, pretty happy. We'll see. I mean, I agree with you that the jury's out. He has to perform. But everything about his history suggests he knows how to perform. All right, so all good. Wall Street Journal is talking about the success of Robbie Starbuck. And I guess he's got a staff of people who have gotten now, how many?

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15 public companies to change or abandon their DEI and LGBTQ policies. And what's interesting about this, since you already knew Robbie Starbuck was having a lot of success there, what's different is that it's now a big article in the Wall Street Journal. Do you know how big that is? Every major corporation has somebody paying attention to the Wall Street Journal.

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So it's one thing when Robbie Starbuck is bragging on X that things are working. And he has a right to brag, by the way. He's doing amazing work. But once it's in the Wall Street Journal, that's the thing that every business has to pay attention to. You can't ignore the Wall Street Journal if you're in a business. So it kind of raised Starbuck's profile.

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And it raised it in the context of he's winning like crazy. That's how you want to be elevated. Because if he's winning like crazy and it's creating a pattern in your brain that these big corporations that you figure are no dumber than you are are making this change, then the 16th, 17th, and 18th corporation that he talks to He's going to say, I got 15 in a row. Do you think that's an accident?

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No, because if you say no, the Wall Street Journal has already lifted my visibility. People like me with big accounts are backing him hard. We're in trouble. So he has very cleverly assembled a set of supporters on X that are enormous, just big accounts who are willing to say, yeah, do more of that. So he isn't using his own power.

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He's doing such good work on behalf of people who have big accounts in the rest of the country, I would say, that we want to back him. We want to see more of it. So he's built a perfect little machine to roll over the DEI excesses. Perfect. It's all good news. Well, you want me to talk about Don Jr. recently just landed in Greenland maybe an hour ago.

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You just interfere a couple of probabilities and then you can see the future. So what quantum computing is alleging to do is literally see the future. Or to peer into the past, I guess, too. None of this is really possible, as far as I know. So I thought to myself, it must be me, right? Just because I don't understand the field. And I've now seen two experts who do understand it.

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And it does seem that this trip, he's with Charlie Kirk and a few other people, and it does seem that the intention of the trip is is to set the groundwork for a deal to buy it. That's like a real thing.

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And this again, I hate to be gushing about smart people doing smart things, but can you even think of a smarter way for Trump to approach this than to have Don Jr., of all people, of all people, Don Jr., Visit personally and interact with the residents. Now, have you seen the early pictures? The residents of Greenland are pretty happy that Don Jr. is there.

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Now, for one thing, they probably don't get a lot of celebrity excitement, so they got that going for them. But they don't seem like liberals. I don't know much about Greenland. But from the little bit I've seen, they seem like working class people who want to be left alone. Does that sound like anything you've heard of before? Working class people who just want the government to leave them alone?

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I've got a feeling that there's a lot of smartness behind Trump's idea of buying Greenland. that he might know that the population is just ready to be seduced. And if Trump himself went there, you would agree that would be the wrong move, right? At this point, he's not even sworn in. So it would definitely be the wrong move for Trump himself to go. But who would be more perfect...

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to basically seduce the blue-collar people who probably like outdoorsy things. They're probably just like Don Jr. It's probably just a bunch of Greenland Don Juniors. And he lands in the middle of it. And here's what I think he's going to do. First of all, he takes this wild idea and he turns it concrete. Because there's a real person who really matters, who's really there. It's not conceptual.

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So Trump has already turned it from conceptual to it's underway. It's amazing. The level of his persuasive instincts are just crazy. I mean, I've never seen anything this good, honestly. So I ask you again, is there anybody on the planet who would have been a better choice to send to Greenland today? Answer, no. No. Best one on the planet for what the intention is. Is it likely that Don Jr.

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will touch a lot of people, meaning that a lot of people will know he's there, see him, interact with him? Yes. There are only 56,000 people in the whole country of Greenland. My little town is twice that size. He's going to be able to reach, touch, have some impact on a healthy little chunk of that. And it's probably enough to make them all get serious about it.

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Now, I think that the only thing required for Greenland to say yes is for the Greenland people to feel good about Trump. How are you going to feel when he sends his son out to hang out with you? You're going to feel good about it. You're going to feel like, oh, this Don Jr. is like a regular guy. Don Jr. does the best job of being a rich guy acting like a regular guy.

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I don't think he's acting exactly. I think that's his actual personality. He's perfect for this job. Just perfect. I love everything about this. Anyway, let's talk about these other countries. Oh, and just one last thing about Greenland. I'm sure it would be good for Denmark to sell Greenland because they can't afford to protect it.

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And it will be important to protect it going forward because the ice melting above it and Russia and China are going to be having their ships around there. And it's got resources that people care about, rare earth materials, minerals, et cetera. So Denmark would not want to admit it because they'd rather stay in a negotiating mode and say, no, no, there's no way we'd ever sell this.

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but they would be better off. I don't think they're getting a lot of international prestige for being colonizers of Greenland. Do the people in Denmark wake up and say, I feel good about my country because of our control of Greenland. There's nothing in it for Greenland except expense. Yeah, they're just paying for what's there. So it's good for Denmark. It's probably good for Greenland.

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Almost certainly. And it could be good for the United States. And definitely good for Canada to have us protecting on both sides. So that would put Canada between Greenland and Alaska. If you can tell me that there would be a safer place on Earth than being between our two assets of the United States, that's a pretty good situation.

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Kind of suggests that nobody understands it, and we don't know if it could ever even be commercial in a big way. I mean, it might have some niche, you know, specific things it can do, but it's never going to be a general computer. So forget about having your own quantum computer. It doesn't look like that's going to happen. But NVIDIA just created a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer.

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So I don't know if the deal is going to happen, but it is in everyone's interest, somewhat unambiguously, like clearly, obviously in everybody's interest. I think he's going to get it done. I think this will be amazing. Meanwhile, Trump also talks about Canada becoming a state, and he keeps joking about it, but not really, which is fascinating. Now, here's what I think.

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It sounded like just a Trumpian joke to make fun of Trudeau for being like a governor instead of a leader of a country. But given what's happening in Canada, I don't think the United States can take a chance that a caliphate forms on our northern border. And that's what's happening. Now, you might say, Scott, Scott, there are so few Muslims in Canada. You're crazy.

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to which I say, that's how it happens. It happens with too few. That's the whole way it happens. You have too few, and then you say, well, a few more wouldn't matter. A few more, well, no problem so far, so why not have a few more? And so far, no problem. Stop being racist. Let's get a few more. At some point, when you reach around 10% of the population, the radicals within that group

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will come to control the moderates because radicals are willing to die for what they want. The moderates are not. They're just trying to get along. So the most extreme people in any group tend to rise to control it, right? It's just natural. It has nothing to do with Islam. It's just the natural way anything works.

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The people who are willing to die for it, literally, are going to be in charge or die trying. So I don't think we can take a chance that Canada is heading really hard toward getting that 10% population, which could easily turn into the seeds of a caliphate. We could have an Islamic country in our northern border. That's no good because of the compatibility with the systems. So... So...

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The other thing is that if you put it into the mix that you might want to buy Canada or have them merge with us, I guess not buy it. It makes the Greenland thing seem more normal. Yeah. Somebody was pointing out that, that Trump is ruining the, uh, what is it? The Overton window or something. Uh, so he's got so many things going on that you don't know where to stop to criticize him.

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You're, you're just like whipped from one topic to the other. So I love the fact that you simultaneously talking about, uh, Panama Canal, Canada, and Greenland. That's just so Trumpian perfect to be talking about all of them at the same time. It's very strategically smart because even if he just wants one of them to happen or two of them, it's good to throw Canada in the mix.

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So as you know, Trudeau is stepping down. I saw it eventually. You announced it. And I saw Scott Jennings, the Republican guy that they have on CNN, who does a great job. And he said that the removal or the leaving or the quitting of Trudeau, you could draw a direct line from the Canadian truckers situation. Do you think that's true?

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Do you think that the evil that he put on the Canadian truckers for protesting, you know, canceling their banking and, you know, just my God, do you think that that was sort of the thing that pushed Canada over the line and eventually led to Trudeau having to step down? Do you think there is a straight line? I think there is. Obviously, it took more than that. But, yeah, I think the...

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And it's only this little box, which if you wanted to work on AI, if I understand it right, it would be like a data center in a tiny little box. So if you were working with AI, instead of having to access a data center, you can access this little box on your desk. And apparently, you have like full AI capability. So

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The truckers kind of got it done. So congratulations, Canadian truckers. BJ, take a bow. I know he's listening. All right. So should we talk about Elon Musk angering Canada or angering Britain? Or, let's see, angering Germany or angering France? Where would you like me to start?

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So after Elon Musk becomes the determinant factor, maybe, for why Trump gets elected, he seems to have changed his focus, for at least some of his time, on other countries. And so let's just run through the list of who he's made mad recently. So up in Canada, there's a report. We don't know if it's true, so Musk asked for a fact check on it.

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But allegedly, some Islamists in Canada are holding a conference, which again is not confirmed, it's just being reported, on how to defeat all non-Muslim nations and create a global caliphate. Now, they're pretty far away from having enough power to do that sort of thing, but the way it starts... the first meeting to talk about it.

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So Elon's looking at that with one eyebrow up like the rest of us should be. And of course, he's accused of racism. So Canada has that problem that we've kind of solved in the United States. And I'll call it the Andrew Breitbart solution. It goes like this. you wanting to close the border, you're a racist, you're a racist, you're a racist. And then, as Andrew Breitbart teaches, you say, so?

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Well, but you're a racist, you're a racist, you're a racist. So? And I don't think that's literally what's happening. And I don't think that anybody wants to be a racist and they're not agreeing they're racist. They're just not interested in your opinion. That's the win. The win is to not be interested. So, yeah. Yep, yep, that's true.

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But Canada still thinks that if they complain about somebody being a racist, that the person they complain about will have to change their ways and apologize and get in line. To which, Elon Musk does not say, but may indeed be thinking so. That's what Canada needs, just two letters. So, yeah. Yeah, this would be terribly bad for one group. Everything is, so... You'll get there.

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The other fake news that I sent around yesterday accidentally was a video of Trudeau resigning in a bar watching it, and as it happened, the bar erupted in wild cheers. That was actually a fake video. The bar was real, but they were reacting to a sporting event. But somebody put Trudeau on the TV screen and it made it look like they were celebrating his stepping down. But that was fake news.

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All right. So you think things are bad in the UK? If I had to describe to you how bad things are going in the UK, what would be the fewest words that I could use to describe how bad it is over there. Well, let's see if I can do it. The fewest words to describe how bad things are in the UK. All right, I'm going to go with this. Andrew Tate's running for prime minister.

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Anything else you need to know? But it gets better. Now, first of all, I do know that you don't run for prime minister. So before you jump in and say, Scott, you don't understand the system. The prime minister is selected by the other elected people to be their leader. I don't care.

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He says he's running for prime minister, which presumably he knows he needs to get into the government and then be part of a party that has enough support to make him the prime minister. So I'm not worried about the details. Now, Andrew Tate is serious. He's serious about it.

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I don't know the ins and outs and the pluses and minuses of doing that versus having access to the actual full data center. But it's got 200 billion parameters, and it looks like a big deal. And then they also have a secret chip that's going to go in humanoid robots. So with all those new introductions, I guess the stock for NVIDIA would be... And it's down.

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But he also says, whether he wins or loses, he can sort of force the conversation to be about the things they need to talk about, and he can bring attention to the worst parts of their system. And he can. Now, I'm going to say something that will shock you, because you're not going to be ready for this.

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Remember in 2015 when I was one of the first people in the country besides Ann Coulter to say that you don't understand. Trump's not like normal people. He has this persuasion skill stack that will eviscerate anything he comes in contact with that challenges him until he has hollowed out the Republican Party and become president.

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Now, of course, everybody laughed at me and said, oh, you're so stupid because he's just a crazy clown and he doesn't have any government experience. So I can tell you one thing, a crazy clown with, oh, and he also has like lots of, you know, scandals, like probably did things with women that you don't like. Does that sound familiar?

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Well, you may know that there was some press coverage that Andrew Tate had, at least for some number of years, I don't know if he still does, an actual hypnotist who was in his inner circle, an actual hypnotist, like not somebody who just read up on it. When you saw his popularity rise, did it seem to you like it was unnatural?

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How in the world did he pull that off and become the number one thing in a lot of... And the answer is he has the talent stack. Now, you don't have to like him. I don't like him. So you might know I have a little history with him, and we're not friends. I don't endorse him. I don't think I want him to be the prime minister of Great Britain.

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But nonetheless, if you were looking at it as just a talent story, does he have the talent to break through the system? And the answer is yes. The answer is yes. Because he has the ability to mobilize males. And if he gets enough of them, he's just Trump. It's a Trump strategy. The men in Great Britain are completely underserved and know it.

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They just don't have any politician who's willing to say, men, you're underserved. Let's change that. If Andrew Tate gets enough traction that the men of Great Britain hear him say that or some version of, men. You're completely underserved. I'm going to help you protect the country. I know you want to, but the government's preventing you. Now we're going to protect the country.

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Excelsior. Well, so I've got lots of tech news and a bunch of political news. I'm going to say most of the tech news too after the political stuff, but there are a couple of cool things.

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We're going to keep out the bad elements, etc. I'm assuming. And get rid of the grooming gangs and stuff like that. Now what's interesting is that Tate allegedly is converted to Islam. So Is it possible he would get some Muslim support? As long as he said some version of, you know, I'm Muslim too, but you guys are crazy. You know, we're not going to make a caliphate. That's crazy.

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I'm going to prevent you from trying to form a caliphate. I'm going to prevent you from trying to create your own society within England. I'm going to stop it. And I'm one of you. I'm one of you and I'm going to stop it. that'd be pretty strong, right? You know, Trump went from Democrat to Republican.

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Is it a stretch that went to Islam and then he could control, not control, but he would be influential potentially with other Islamic citizens. And with men, we already know he has a superpower because men kind of like his, you know, audacious, they like the whole act. So here's the thing I'm going to warn you about. I wouldn't bet that he will become prominent in the UK political system.

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I would bet against it. I would bet against it. However, if you think it's crazy... or you think he doesn't have the talent, you're wrong. He has the talent. He does have the talent. He has the talent to just hollow out their entire government and wear it like a suit, like Trump did, exactly like Trump did. So if you don't think there's a path, there's a path. There's a path.

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I've done against it, but there's a path. All right. The only defense that they could have against his persuasive abilities would be the legal system. Just put him in jail. And, of course, control of the media so the media never gives him any attention. So that might work. I don't know if it's enough. Didn't work in America. Let's see. So Musk did a poll on X. He said...

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I don't know, maybe people expected more. Seemed pretty impressive to me. I think NVIDIA is worth well over $3 trillion now. And, you know, they're talking about things that looks like it would have a big impact on Tesla. Because if they put these humanoid chips in robots, does Tesla buy some of those chips? Or do they have their own chips for the robots?

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He wanted a response to this. America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government. 58% of people said yes. I have no idea how serious he is about that. I don't think it's serious. I think he's just sort of making a point and trolling them a little bit. But now the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, who needs a name I can pronounce.

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I demand he change his name, is accusing Musk of spreading misinformation, blah, blah, blah. They're all mad. And then other countries like France. So Macron in France is complaining that Musk is interfering with other countries. So what did Musk say when Macron said in public that Musk was interfering with other countries?

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Musk says, oh, like the time Starmer called real Donald Trump a racist and said the British government should do everything to stop him? That happened. Good point. Or how about when Starmer sent British Labour Party members to campaign in the U.S. against President Trump? Was that interfering? And those aren't even the good ones. You want a good one?

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Have you heard of something called the Steele dossier, where a X intelligence person from the UK came up with this whole fake thing. Yeah, an X intelligence person from the UK. There's no X intelligence people. That was just the Great Britain interfering with the United States. That's what that was. And then my funniest part was this British politician named Ed Davey

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he went on X to speak his mind. He said, quote, people have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country's democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Britain. It's time to summon the US ambassador to ask why an incoming US official is suggesting the UK government should be overthrown. So there's nothing funnier than

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than a person saying that Elon Musk doesn't understand their complicated situation. Because, you know, that's not been his domain. To which I say, really? Elon Musk doesn't understand a complicated thing and doesn't have the ability to get up to speed really quickly because, I mean, how could he? Come on. Listen to Jordan Peterson's book. I probably won't. All right.

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So nothing's funnier than telling Elon Musk he can't handle a complicated situation. And Elon said in response, he said, what exactly do I fail to understand about your failure to stop the mass rape of little girls in Britain, you sniveling cretin? Okay. That covers it. Nothing else to say.

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But the audacity of the sniveling cretin, Ed Davey, to imagine that his world is the complicated kind that somebody like Elon Musk couldn't possibly understand. Like, oh, well, we don't understand the complications of why you're allowing these horrific crimes. Maybe he doesn't know the nuance.

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I swear every time somebody says that Elon Musk is dumb or doesn't understand something, I just shake my head. It's like, have you watched anything he's done for the last 30 years? Anyway, it's literally all he does. The reason he's world famous is he enters domains in which he knows nothing about and almost immediately is the best one in the domain. Like that's literally what he does. All right.

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So I don't know who's smart enough to know if any of these NVIDIA things have any impact on Tesla's future, but I don't know. We'll see. In The Guardian, they're saying that virtual employees could come this year. In other words, an AI agent that can take instructions and act like a person and get things done. I'm going to go contrary. I'm going to say it won't happen.

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Um, And Keir Starmer said he's considering cutting ties with the U.S. unless Donald Trump distanced himself from Elon Musk. To which I say, well, it's about time.

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Why don't we cut our diplomatic ties? I'm totally okay with that. I think if the U.K. is really threatening free speech in America, in America, and Elon is in America, and he has free speech. If they're going to attack the United States because of free speech of anybody, doesn't matter if he's part of the government, elected, not elected, advisor, citizen, recent citizen, it doesn't matter.

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He gets to say anything he wants within certain decency standards. So now, if Great Britain is trying to squelch the free speech of anybody in America... We should cut ties. We've done it before. Yeah, we should cut ties. Then, of course, Musk has been advocating, I think, for what they call the far-right alternative party in Germany, the AFD.

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Now, part of the story you need to understand is that when Musk says the, quote, far-right party in Germany is the one that would do a better job, it's not far-right. So that's just something the news says. If you looked at their far-right, it would sort of look like MAGA. That's my understanding. Now, unlike Elon, I don't know a lot about Germany, so I'm not going to pretend to.

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But I don't think it's true... that there's some kind of extremist group. I do think maybe they had something in their past like that. But remember, the Democrats have the KKK in their past. But if you hold it against them today, that would be just stupid. And I see people doing it, and I just always bristle when I see that. It's like, that was a long time ago.

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If they're not currently supporting the KKK and they couldn't be further from it, then it doesn't really matter what they did in the past. All right, and then there's, let's see. So Emmanuel Macron is directly accusing Musk of interfering with the elections, including Germany. And I guess that's all I need to say about that one.

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Meanwhile, you heard that, we've already talked about this, Biden banned offshore oil drilling. before he leaves office and only in certain places that there isn't a lot of drilling right now. Um, so I don't know how big a deal it is in the, in the real world, but, um, it looks like he was just trying to kneecap Trump. So Trump couldn't allow drilling there. Um, but here's the weird part.

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All the experts are saying it's, it's irreversible that Trump doesn't have any way to back out of it. And it has to do with, uh, a previous court ruling called Chevron Deference. I'm going to get all this wrong because this is not my expertise, the law.

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But as best I understand it, there was some prior situation that went to the Supreme Court in which an agency of the government had made a ruling that we should do something this way. And somebody else said, no, you can't do it that way. We're going to stop you or reverse it. And then the Supreme Court said,

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we're not going to reverse an agency's opinion unless you've got a really strong reason that is beyond just we have a different opinion. And so as long as it's just a difference of opinion of how things should be, and nothing more than that, the courts won't touch it based on precedent. Now, so that would suggest that the ruling is made.

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If Trump wanted to overturn it, you imagine the courts would be involved. But the smart people say, but you won't win. And it could take years to get through. But here's my take. There's nothing that you can't cancel in reverse. That's not a thing. It might be that it's hard. It might be that somebody didn't yet figure out how to do it.

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It might be that you have to be messy and take some hits to get it done. It might be that you have to do something that's never been done. Maybe you have to take some penalties. But I think you can reverse anything that's a decision that the country made. So I'll just give you some examples.

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And that's based on my experience where I tried to create over the summer. I tried a lot. I worked pretty hard at it, trying to create a AI agent that could just answer some questions on my Dilbert.com webpage. And what I learned is it doesn't look like it's possible. And here's the problem.

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So if the reason it's staying is because an agency has ruled on it, then Trump simply has to give a better reason that's not just a better opinion, but like really overwhelmingly unique situation, this really needs to be reversed. He could probably do that. I don't know, could probably come up with an argument of why it needs to be reversed, but it might take a few years to do it.

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So I don't even know if it's worth doing, but we'll see. Trump did say he would reverse all the executive orders from Biden, but we wonder if that one's going to be an exception, because if he reverses the executive order, the courts won't accept it. So we'll see. The Wall Street Journal is reporting how Iran has pulled pretty much everything of their assets and of Syria.

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And if you didn't know, that's a really big deal because Syria was sort of their land bridge to Hezbollah and their ability to equip and fund their proxies. So now Iran has no air defenses. Israel has taken out their air defenses. They've lost Syria, which means that they can't reinforce Hezbollah, at least in any efficient way. And Hezbollah has been beaten back.

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at the moment, and Hamas is just annihilated. And apparently Iran spent billions of dollars to get Syria up and running as their proxy base station, and they lost all that. Now, I would agree that this is the perfect setup for Trump to get some kind of a deal done. I don't think I've ever seen a better setup Trump is coming in exactly at the time when we can make deals and there's a way to do it.

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It almost seems like, you know, God-inspired kind of thing. It's like, really? All these things need to be handled, you know, from Ukraine to Iran. It needs to be handled with deals. And the best, you know, well, most famous, I won't say best, but the most famous dealmaker in the world is coming into office at exactly the time. Everything's just perfectly set up to make a deal.

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When have we ever seen that before? It's like weirdly great. It's like almost too good to be true. Everything from Greenland to Ukraine is just all things that he can make a deal on. And it looks all doable. It's weird. It's going to make you think that Biden was even worse than you already think.

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Because if Trump comes in and immediately wraps up some things that Biden couldn't wrap up, any questions about who is the best president ever and who is the worst will be answered. And I think that's going to happen. I saw the Amuse account on X pointing out that Soros prosecutors, the people that Soros funded, those prosecutors, said, 40% of the homicides in the U.S.

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take place in districts with Soros-funded prosecutors. Now, some of that is because he funded the ones in urban areas, so there's going to be more murder. But that's a lot. But 75% of those districts, the ones that are Soros districts, 75% of them stopped reporting murder statistics to the FBI in 2021. So that doesn't look like a coincidence, does it?

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With the current AI, which would be different from the future versions, which are AGI, but the one that uses a large language model and just use patterns, it can't answer questions reliably because it hallucinates and you can't stop it. Even if you have a database and you say, AI, do you see this database? Yes, I can read it. Can you tell me something that's on the page? Yes, here it is.

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So when Elon Musk said, he said it a while ago and he's reinforced it, that in his opinion, Soros hates humanity. And that is how you explain all of his seemingly charitable actions that apparently are designed to destroy the world. I don't know. We don't know what he's thinking when he's doing it.

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But if you looked at the outcome, you'd say, well, I mean, there's no way you would do all of those things. unless you had a unified theory to destroy the world, because they just seem so obviously unproductive. So I love that we're shining a light on it. And I think that gives you a chance to reverse it. So we'll see. Well, there's an update on the Pipe Bomber.

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So you remember the original January 6th, there were reports and videos of somebody planting pipe bombs in two different places. And there have been lots of sketchy accusations and information that makes it look like it was part of maybe an FBI op or at least a government op. Here's what we know. Liz Wheeler is reporting on this. So there's a Newhouse report about that January 6th pipe bomber.

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And it's shocking. So apparently, this is from Liz Wheeler. FBI tracked the phone data and they narrowed it down to 186 phone numbers. So remember, the bomber hasn't been caught. So they narrowed it down to 186 bomb numbers. And then they narrowed it down further to one. Now we're talking about one of the pipe bombs by the bench.

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So the FBI narrowed down the possible suspects based on the phone he had with him to one person. So obviously that person got picked up. No. You know what they did after they narrowed it down to just one person? So basically they knew who it was. Here's what they did. They suddenly dropped the case without explaining it. What?

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And then today there's a new video of a different angle of the guy who planted the bomb. Why is that now just available? There's a reason that we just found out there's a different camera angle. And then surprisingly, it looks like the eyes of the perp seem to be digitally blocked out. Now, I'm not 100% sure that it isn't just shadow or something.

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But if you could see the eyes, then you might have some way to identify them better. So everything about this is sketchy. Apparently, the FBI agent in charge had told Congress that the telecom company data was corrupted. But when the telecom companies were approached, they said nothing was corrupted. We gave them everything. So it appears the FBI lied to Congress.

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knew who it was, and dropped the investigation. So that's the allegation. And now the FBI and other agencies are stonewalling Congress about why the investigation that was supposed to be about this really big problem just sort of stopped without an explanation. Good question. And the two people who found the pipe bombs on January 6th were, quote, a woman carrying a basket of laundry,

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who is actually, as Liz says, a swamp creature who works for an Intel connected organization where she works on quote disinformation. That's convenient. And the other was found by a plainclothes fed. Really? So the two people, so one was found by a plainclothes fad and the other was placed by somebody with some connections to the intel world. Okay.

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You go, okay, you can definitely read the data. Here's my instructions. When I ask you a question, only look at this database, which is just a document, and only answer from that. Okay, got it. And then you ask a question, it'll just make something up without even looking at the document. So that was on a commercial product.

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Both bombs sat in plain sight undetected for 15 hours or more until both were found independently within 15 minutes of each. Obviously, the order went out to pretend you found the bombs. And also that happened within 15 minutes of the breach of the Capitol. So it's all timed to be exactly what it looks like, some kind of an op.

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Further, the frame rate of the one video that the FBI released was 1.2 frames per second. There's no such thing as a video camera that is only 1.2 frames per second. You couldn't buy one if you tried. There's not an old one. There's not a new one. So it's obviously digitally altered for some reason. So this can't be the original video. It's some kind of modified version.

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And who would have done that? Well, usual suspects. I don't know if we're close to solving this, but I'm willing to say it's exactly what it looked like. It looked like a government, I don't know which part of the government, plot to make the January Sixers look like real insurrectionists because apparently they were very rude by not bringing weapons.

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So if they could make something blow up, then they could say, well, they're all part of this bombing thing, and then they all have to be killed or something. So I think what we know so far is enough for me to say, oh, that was a government outpouring. Now, I could change my mind if there's new information, but I'd say it's obvious at this point.

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Anyway, Jack Posobiec is pitching an idea of having a Victims of 46 Foundation, a charity for the people who suffered under Biden. He was president number 46. And it could exist for the January Sixers and the pro-lifers and the people who were kicked out of the military for the vaccine denial and other stuff. Hmm.

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Um, I guess I would, that would be good for the people who are the victims, but it's also good framing. So if you see it as persuasion, if you knew that we needed a recovery fund from American citizens who suffered the Biden administration, that's a pretty strong message. Like just, just the fact that this is even considered or it's a thing, um,

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kind of reframes everything as Biden being evil instead of just a normal, you know, different party was in charge. Meanwhile, Toyota wants 2000 people to go live in its brand new city for inventors. It's going to be at the base of Mount Fuji and it's going to be all the people who are technologists for AI and space rockets and cars and everything.

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If they put them in one place, they can cross pollinate and get more done, I guess. So basically they'd be creating like a little Silicon Valley, artificially. I think that's worth a try. Now, you might say, why does Toyota do that?

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And the thinking is that Toyota is going to transfer from just making cars, which might be something that in the self-driving car day, if you don't have one, you're not really in business anymore. So there's some kind of general mobility company now, so this all makes sense in some way. Meanwhile, Aptera, a according to Interesting Engineering and Christopher McFadden.

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They're an electric car company, so they've been trying to build this thing for 10 years, and now they've got a version that's getting close, and it's got a 1,000-mile solar-powered battery, and you can get top speeds of 101 miles per hour. And it's super aerodynamic. So that's a big deal. You know, the more competition there is in that space, the better.

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It was actually a launched commercial product that, as far as I can tell, doesn't work. And I don't think there was any competitor involved. So there was nobody who had figured out how to make it stop hallucinating. And as far as I know, it might not be possible because the large language models don't just follow rules. They've got a whole different mechanism.

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And there's a study that says that video conferencing, where you see yourself on the screen, like I'm seeing myself, I'm talking to you, but the picture on the screen is the same thing you're seeing. Like a Zoom call, you know, you see yourself.

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And the study finds, according to the Boston University School of Medicine, that the pandemic caused people to use Zoom more and Google meetings and stuff. And that people want, they feel bad about themselves when they see themselves all the time on screen. because it would be like looking in a mirror all day.

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And if you don't like how you look, it's really getting impressed on you that you don't look the way you look. And it apparently is making some people have some mental illness about their body image. Now, here's what I noticed. It feels to me like every time there's a technical innovation in society, there's some demographic of society

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that is made crazy by it, like actually get mental illness because of something about it. Like your phones make a lot of people go crazy. Not everybody, and there's some dispute about whether that's even true. But don't you think it's always the women? No, sometimes it's men. But who's having all the body image problems because they're looking at themselves on Zoom?

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I mean, I have the same feeling when I play back my recordings and when I'm looking at myself. I think, ooh, I should, you know, I wish I didn't have that or I wish that was different. But it doesn't really make me sad because I have a mirror. I've seen myself. I know exactly what the pluses and the minuses of me are. So it seems like, again, it's the young female demographic.

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If you force them to use Snapchat or Instagram or just Zoom, they're going to be focusing on what they look like, and it's going to give them a little mental illness problem. So that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I wanted to talk about today. There's just so much going on. And weirdly, most of it's positive. It's weirdly positive.

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The Greenland thing just gives us, it's such a palate cleanser, isn't it? Like when we're talking about other things, it's like there's some horrible crime involved or There's some big unsolvable problem where somebody hates somebody.

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But Greenland is probably a bunch of people who just are fine with the United States, wouldn't mind, probably think they'd come out ahead if they were part of the United States. We think it'd be a good idea. Nobody's really against it. Denmark will resist because that's negotiation. Or maybe they really want to keep it. I don't know. But it's so just... Pleasant to think about.

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Wouldn't it be nice to just add to the country? It's just a good feeling. All right, that's all I got. I'm going to go talk to the locals, people privately for a moment. Wow. Yeah, Greg Gottfeld's back. The main cast of The Five is back. And everything's good now. All right. Locals, I'm coming at you.

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I don't think you could make that reliable. I think by its nature, it's unreliable. And I don't know that you could tweak it, fix it, patch it. I don't think you can get there from here. So that's why they need the AGI. That would be a whole different technology that we haven't seen yet. I don't think it's invented, but I guess Sam Altman thinks we're getting close and it could happen pretty soon.

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But I'm going to go contrarian and say the current AI is not going to create an employee that you can rely on. So I'm contrarian there. All right, so there were at least two things that were fake news that I reposted yesterday. without knowing they were fake news. Now, how much worse is this going to get? How many times am I going to get fooled by something that really looks real?

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It didn't make much difference. One of them was a parody that showed a company that would be the reconstituted Enron creating a nuclear egg, something that you could hold in your arms that would be a nuclear power plant for your personal home. It was just like a big A. And the commercial for it was really well done. It had specifications and how to use it and everything. But it was parody.

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It wasn't labeled clearly parody, though. So I looked at it. I'm looking for the parody part. I didn't see parody. So I reposted it. But at least I was... at least I was aware enough to say, is this real when I reposted it? But if it was real, it'd be a big deal. It wasn't real. It's not real. So I think that they cheated. The rules on X is that it must be clearly labeled.

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It was labeled, but I think the whole clearly part maybe is in question. Meanwhile, there's a new study, according to Just the News, Stephen Richards is writing that a new study says that TikTok suppresses anti-China content. So it has both anti and pro-China content, but it suppresses the anti and promotes the other. Now, is there anybody you know? Who's been telling you this for years?

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Is there anybody who said, you know, that China's got their finger on this and there's no way that this is all objective? I talked to a TikTok user the other day and I mentioned there was going to be, you know, it would be banned. unless an American buys it. And I said, it's because it could be persuasive in a way we don't like. And the person I talked to said, but you don't understand.

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CES, the technology show, is happening right now for 2025. And one of the things that's being introduced is a 3D projector. Now, not the kind that projects on a flat screen and it gives it the appearance of being 3D. It actually creates the 3D holograph and can put it on your table and have it dance in front of you. Now, I don't know if they can do it with photorealistic stuff.

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You don't use TikTok. If you did, you'd know that I see both sides of every story. And I said, do you? How do you know? Well, because I see both sides. Now, I think that's true. I think both sides of every story are, in fact, on TikTok. But the problem is which ones you see the most and who sees it.

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And as I explained to the TikTok user, who shall remain anonymous, I said, what if there are some people using TikTok that TikTok can tell for sure they cannot be influenced, meaning that you're a hard Democrat or you're a hard Republican, you're not going anywhere. But do you think that TikTok can identify people who are on the fence?

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Because everything depends on the people on the fence, the independents. Do you think it can identify an independent? And if it did, do you think the independent would get exactly as much content as you're seeing? So the thing is that you can't tell if persuasion is happening. You just see what you see. And if the only thing you know is that you're seeing both sides,

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You don't know if you're the person they're trying to influence and maybe you're not. So maybe you're just seeing regular content. But there's no way that they're going to keep their finger off the button if it's so easy to move the persuasion needle. So anyway, it's not peer-reviewed yet, but it will be. So maybe it's not valid. We'll see what the peer review says.

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But I think it's just so obvious. You could have just asked me. You didn't have to do the study. Do you think China will use this to influence the world? Duh. Duh.

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So China did make a weapon of mass persuasion, and Kevin O'Leary seems to be one of the people who's part of a group looking to buy it so TikTok could stay in business but become an American thing with American data and American control. I don't know if that's going to happen, but we'll see. All right.

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Oh, so the Washington Post is reporting, according to the New York Post, is reporting about the Washington Post, that Trump is talking about scaling back his tariff threats and making them more about specific industries instead of making them broad. Now, here's my question. Why is the Washington Post working against the interests of the United States?

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100% of the people watching this story know that Trump is using tariffs for negotiation. Everybody knows that. Do you think the Washington Post doesn't know that he's using it for negotiations. So the main thing that you do if you're negotiating is you come in with your hardest offer, you know, the toughest one, so that you can negotiate from that should you need to. So Trump has been consistent.

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Oh, yeah, we're going to tariff everything from Canada if we have to, or everything from China. I don't know if he says that, but he acts like the tariff is just going to be wonderful and great and good for the country. And And then the smart people say, but it's like he doesn't understand tariffs. He doesn't know that the American company pays for it, not the foreign company shipping in.

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To which I say, settle down. It's for negotiating. He doesn't have to say your version in order for this to work. He has to pretend. I'll say pretend. that he wants tariffs so badly and they're so good that the more tariffs he has, the happier he's going to be, and then go into the negotiation. But the Washington Post is trying to kneecap him.

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They're broadcasting to the world that he doesn't mean his starting position. What are they trying to accomplish? Is that just trying to ruin the country? Is it just an anti-American entity and they decide what to write about based on how bad it is for America? No, I don't think that's the case, but it looks like it. Why does it look like it? I guess they want to attack Trump in any way they can.

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So there's still a resistance publication. They're nowhere near the middle. And they think this is somehow what? Advancing the interests of who? Who? And then, of course, you have to ask the question, what would tariffs do to Amazon.com? Probably not good for business.

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They did it with an animation. So you look at the table, and sitting on the table, apparently, is a little character that's dancing right in front of you as a 3D object. Kind of amazing. I didn't think that was going to come. Well, I did a little deeper dive on quantum computing.

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So this is the kind of reporting that even though I'm sure it's accurate, I don't think it's inaccurate, but this is the sort of thing you should brush over. As in, some people say that it's a negotiating position because that's not telling anybody anything. But if you say it's a negotiating position and he's already saying that he's not going to stick with it, well, that's not reporting.

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That's just ruining his negotiating position. That's like getting in the story. So, very unhappy about that. Well, yesterday the Democrats, who have been saying for eight years that Trump is Hitler, they were quite proud of their peaceful transfer of power to Hitler.

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Do you think that anybody in their base has noticed that they called him Hitler for eight years, said he's the biggest risk to America, and then they're acting proud that they rolled over and gave him the win to protect democracy. That's right. The Democrat message is, Trump is Hitler, and we're going to protect democracy by peacefully putting him into power. Does anybody on their side...

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The view is don't check your stocks, if you have any. Not today. Nope. Don't look at them today. Instead, just watch this great podcast. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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Anyway, over in Switzerland, there's some big protest against Trump, and a lot of the protesters were wearing these cool-looking hats that look like a big hand giving the finger. I kind of want one of those hats. And then Antifa... is back, and I guess they're in Seattle and Washington, and they're starting to get active again. And I saw a post by B.J.

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Dichter saying that, by the way, I probably mispronounce his name every time, but he said, none of these protests around the world are organic. This is large-scale professional work.

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definitely the protest where everybody had a giant hand giving the finger that was very professional work that was not any kind of grassroots spontaneous anything and i'm not sure if we ever had those i don't know if there's ever a spontaneous grassroots protest um I'm pretty sure that anything that looks like it's big, I think that's all just billionaires buying people.

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So the summer is going to be wild. I would expect this summer you would have all these fake protests. So it's going to be the summer of fake protests, just like BLM and all the rest. Well, according to RFK Jr., every time I hear a news story about Anthony Fauci, it just sounds worse and worse. But it never ends. Have you noticed that?

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So the Fauci stories, maybe they started out being incorrect and maybe they're trending toward correct. I don't know. But I've heard so many versions of what he did and why it was bad. that I just don't know what to believe anymore. But here is the story. I'll just read it to you. I think RFK Jr. was saying this.

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Anthony Fauci began, essentially restarted the arms race and the bioweapons arms race and did it under the pretension of developing vaccines because it's the same science that you develop bioweapons and vaccines. In 2014, three of his bugs escaped and 300 scientists wrote letters to President Obama asking him to shut down Anthony Fauci. Now, how much of this have you heard before?

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President Obama declared a moratorium, but instead of shutting down his experiments, he moved them offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab. The principal institutions of our government, the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department, Department of Energy, all say that it is most likely that those experiments resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. So Fox News was reporting on this.

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Now, does that sound right? I was listening to somebody who I can't remember. Was it the CIA guy, John Krakatoa? I don't know what his last name is. There was somebody I saw who sounded like they knew what they were talking about who suggested that the COVID virus escaped from some American collegiate lab or something. So do you believe we know anything about anything?

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Now, I think they could just ask me, what else would it be? What possible other reason would it be if some people don't need as much sleep as other people? It's got to be a genetic difference, right? I'm not sure they needed to do that research. Next time, just ask me. I'll tell you. Nope, don't need to do it. Well, this is kind of fun.

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All right.

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So if you've ever had a bad day where you went to work and you tried to get something done and it didn't work out, compare yourself to this bad day. So John Voight, actor John Voight, apparently he's... He has some kind of role as an ambassador to Hollywood or something for President Trump. So he met with Trump recently to discuss how all the filmmakers were leaving the U.S.

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and doing stuff in other countries. So what he wanted... was to give some tax breaks from Trump to bring back the movies to the United States, because it's the tax breaks that make the most difference. And instead of giving him tax breaks, Trump proposed 100% tariffs on imported movies. So instead of giving them tax breaks, you made them cost twice as much if they make them overseas.

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And they can't really make them domestically affordably. So now they can't make them affordably overseas, and they can't make them affordably domestically. So nobody can make any movies at all. Good work, John Voight. And, you know, part of me says, I'm seeing in the comments, some of you saying good. I'm not sure why we would give tax credits to the movies that I've been seeing lately.

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It's just all woke bullshit. It's just a guy tied to a chair, car chase scene, a little CGI, a bunch of people get shot, and then there's a bunch of woke stuff. Why do we even need any more of that? But I feel bad for John Voight. He got exactly the opposite of what he wanted. He destroyed the entire movie business. That's a bad day.

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Anyway, I was listening to General Flynn on X. I saw a video of him talking about the Diddy Trials. And he thinks the P. Diddy Trial, which has already started...

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going to implicate musicians sports players politicians and the media and Flynn thinks that Diddy is going to try to reduce whatever his own risk is by giving up other people what do you think about that do you think that Diddy can get any kind of relief from his own legal problems by giving up even bigger fish I don't think so.

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I think he realizes if he gives up people, he'll be killed in jail pretty quickly. So I'm going to say the opposite of General Flynn's prediction. I think Diddy won't give up anybody. Now, there may be plenty of people revealed by the videos and the documentation that the prosecutors get, but I think Diddy is not going to snitch. I think he's got too much at risk. We'll see.

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Well, when I first heard that Trump had suggested using Alcatraz for our worst criminals and maybe some of the migrants, I thought to myself, that's a terrible idea that will never work. It's way too expensive and hard to do. And then I saw a number of other people, some of them I think I influenced, saying that it was a brilliant move. And I'm a little bit persuaded by that.

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So here's the brilliant part of it. Whether it ever happens or not, and I'm going to guess not, because I think the economics of it don't make sense compared to just building your own facility, the

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I guess since everybody knows where Alcatraz is, and we know it's the scariest, secure prison, when Trump aligns himself with something like Alcatraz for where he wants to put the worst prisoners, it sends this message that he's the anti-crime guy, tough on migrant crime and all that. And that's probably all he needs. He just wants to reinforce that You know, he's the baddest of the bad and, um,

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So PTSD patients were being studied at the University of Texas at Dallas, and they did a test where they gave them therapy to stimulate their vagus nerve. Now, if I were smarter, I'd tell you where your vagus nerve is. It's somewhere in your body. But I know if you stimulate it just right, it makes you feel relaxed. But here's the amazing thing.

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Whether this particular idea of using Alcatraz ever comes to fruition, I don't know. I'm going to bet against that. But it keeps the media spinning away on something that can't be too bad for him. They'll say it might be expensive, like I'm saying. But they're still going to associate the idea of using Alcatraz with Trump, which is all good for Trump.

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So I'm going to flip my opinion from when I first heard it, I just thought it was just not useful to even bring that up. But now I think it might be. It's just yet again another thing to keep the media spinning about something, even if it never happens. And it's good for his brand.

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Very similar to when Trump was putting out the image of himself as the Pope and somebody asked him in one of his pressers, you know, do you think it offended people? And Trump just said, no, no. You know, it's just a joke, basically. But here's my take. How many young men were offended by the image of Trump as the Pope? I'm going to guess none. Probably none.

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Now, there might have been some older people. There might have been some women who were maybe a little tweaked by it. But I'll bet you the base, the Trump base, they all understand what he's doing. They understand it's just for fun. They understand that if it makes people complain, it's even more fun.

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And certainly, there's probably no... I don't think there's a 25-year-old man in existence who wouldn't just think that was funny and would not be offended. I mean, there can't be more than three in the country. So I think he won with that. That was a good play. According to the Postmillennial... There's some conversations about the U.S.

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and Rwanda working together, and Rwanda might be willing to take in our deported illegal immigrants. So instead of deporting them back to their country of origin, if there's some reason we can't do that, they would be deported to Rwanda. I can't think of a worse place to be deported to, can you?

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If you just said, if you come to America, we might deport you to Rwanda, I would immediately cancel all my plans to do anything illegal. Because even if you escape from your prison, you'd still be in Rwanda. So that's a pretty scary one. I don't know if this will come to pass. Well, Axios is telling us that some people are warning that the MAGA movement is becoming MAGA Maoism, as in Chairman Mao.

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I guess they got tired of the whole Hitler thing. It wasn't working. So they needed another dictator. So they're going with Chairman Mao. And here's why it's like Mao. The MAGA movement demands ideological purity. Does it? I don't know that it really does. Glorifies economic sacrifice. Not really. It's just that we have to do it in the tariff situation, probably.

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And embraces state power as a means to reshape society. Well... We do like having a strong executive who can do some executive orders. And so that's enough for the critics to call it a mega Maoism, to which I say, nice try, lefties. How many people know what Maoism even is? About the same number that know what an oligarch is.

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Is the Democrat Party just nothing but bad ideas strung together one after another? The best they could come up with because your Hitler wasn't working was you're an oligarch followed by mega Maoism that almost nobody even knows what that is. So good job.

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I saw on MSNBC that one of their commentators, Claire McCaskill, she said that, quote, I predict that, she's talking about the tariffs, the trade war. She said, I predict that this will go down as the biggest act of political suicide ever committed by a president of the United States, this whole trade war. To which I say, oh, I've never been more confident that the trade stuff would work out.

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That it seems to have cured, in a fairly lasting way, 100% of the people with PTSD that they studied. And it lasted for months. I guess you would have to redo it after a while. But this is more to my point that your body is your brain. If you think, hey, what do I do about my PTSD? Normally you would think, well, there's some kind of mental thing that has to be done. But not necessarily.

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Because if Claire McCaskill is sure it's not going to work, and I don't believe she's an economist, then I'm feeling pretty good about it. But here's my question. What does she think is going to happen? Does she think that we won't negotiate any favorable trade deals? None? Not one? It seems to me the most likely scenario is that in a month or so we'll start rolling out trade deals.

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There might be just the frameworks, not the signed document, but that's all you need. You just need to tell the country, oh, we got this worked out. We got to deal with Japan. We got to deal with South Korea. And the news is going to have to cover every one of them. They're going to have to cover every one of them. And it's all going to look like good news.

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Now, it might be not that much of an improvement, but it'll be spun by the Trump administration as big improvements. So I feel like this might be one of the most successful economic things that the country's ever done. We don't know. I mean, it's too soon. And whatever happens with China makes a big difference. But I think it's 60-40 that it's a home run. 60-40.

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60%.

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That's my prediction. Well, here's a story that you always mock me for. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Gen Zers, are tending to want to live in facilities, apartment facilities, that have a whole bunch of amenities, like pools and fitness centers and co-working spaces and social lounges and pestilence. And you rent the place, and it even comes with dishes, bath mats.

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Basically, you just move in. Now, they're not very big. They're usually for one person. But the people living there just love it because it's got everything they want and it creates kind of a community. Now, how many times have I told you that if we could reproduce what my college experience was in the dormitories, it would be an amazing living experience? Well, that's what this is.

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It's basically just an upgraded dormitory experience where everything you need is on campus. And it allows you to have natural interaction with other people who live there. You know, if you go to the pool or you go to the gym, you're going to run into people who are your same age and everything. And the space itself is not very big. but you didn't need much.

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You had a good view, you know, big windows, so it doesn't feel like it's cramped because you got a good view from your apartment. And you never have to leave, even if you have an animal. So I think there'll be more of this. I don't know if it's going to help reproduction, but that's another problem. Well, you probably heard that the Newark airport...

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had a 30-minute outage in the control tower, and there was no radar, no radio, and nobody knew what the problem was. Can you imagine being in an airplane coming to the Newark airport, and they lose all signal, and you don't know why, and you don't know how long it's going to last, because you don't know why. I can't think of anything that would be scarier than that.

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And apparently a number of the staff were so stressed that they had to go on trauma leave. And I totally get that. You know, the staff of the tower, because they probably thought to themselves, if we don't know how long this is going to go on, we might see half of the planes up there run out of gas or run out of fuel or start crashing into things.

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Now, I saw on, I think it was Fox News, Secretary Duffy, who was saying that it wasn't as dangerous as it looked. Now, partly because it was only half an hour. But again, if you didn't know what the problem was, you didn't know in advance it was only going to be half an hour. So you can imagine how scary that would be. But apparently the modern airplanes all know where the other airplanes are.

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Because you can stimulate the vagus nerve, apparently. And that will change how you think about things. And your PTSD... will allegedly go away 100 loss of diagnosis that's pretty it's pretty amazing that doesn't surprise me a bit actually it was smart for them to even try that that test according to the daily mail uh there was a survey and they found that women are more attracted to bald men

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So there wasn't much chance they were going to run into each other. There definitely was a chance they would run out of fuel if it went longer. So this is super scary, but maybe the light of fire under, people would need to fix it. Well, the bank Credit Suisse got in trouble. again from the IRS for helping rich Americans hide their basically cheat on taxes.

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Now, apparently this isn't the first time they've been caught doing that. They already paid $2.6 billion back in 2014 for the same thing. So they lose a case, which is they're accused of helping rich Americans basically cheat on taxes. And they pay this gigantic fine, 2.6 billion, and then they just went back to doing it. And they got caught again. Unbelievable.

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Anyway, so apparently it included stuff like fake donations, forged records, and secret Singapore accounts. It's pretty illegal. It wasn't just a little bit illegal. It was just flat-out crime, and they just did it twice, got caught twice.

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Do you remember, it might have been yesterday or the day before, I mentioned that Fetterman said something that looked out of character, and what he said was, he was talking about Iran, and he said, quote, We cannot negotiate with Iran. It's time to destroy their nuclear program and neutralize the remaining capabilities of its proxies. I remain steadfast with Israel.

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Provide whatever is necessary to carry this out. Now, it seemed to me that that was sort of not very Fetterman-like or not very politician-like. The politician way to say that would be more like, you know, we're getting to the end of our patience, and if negotiating doesn't work, we'll have to turn to something harder. You know, usually you put the threat out there.

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There's nothing wrong with the threat. But usually you couch it with, you know, something that doesn't sound as directly, we're going to go bomb you. And I thought to myself there was something unusual about it. But it turns out there's a little bit more to the story. So people who have worked with Fetterman are claiming that he's got some mental problems, or we could call them health problems.

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He's been accused of being depressed, sometimes catatonic. Of course, the Democrats think he's a little too conservative. And supporting Israel, and I guess they've got a problem with that, some of them. And they say his behavior was volatile and his aides, this is all alleged, by the way. We don't know how true this is. But the aides noticed last year he was taking a turn for the worse.

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And then the former chief of staff to Fetterman was so alarmed with his ex-boss's erratic behavior last year that he wrote a lengthy letter to his doctor warning that Fetterman was spiraling out of control. Now, Fetterman said, you know, in response to all that, basically his actual doctors say he's fine, and these are disgruntled former staffers.

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Have you ever noticed it's always disgruntled former staffers? So I don't know But I did notice, you know, I think you could be my witness that I didn't notice there was something odd about his statement about Israel and Iran it just seemed seemed a little bit at a character or something so I Worry about him Yeah, I guess I would be concerned for his health as well as the country's.

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But yeah, that looked, I think there's something there. I hope not. And when he says my actual doctors say I'm fine and it's a bunch of disgruntled people, that's a pretty good defense. That's a pretty good defense. So I wouldn't say he's definitely losing it. But sort of a coin toss. I think I'd keep an eye on him, see if anything else comes up.

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You probably heard in the news that when Trump was asked about the tariffs in China and all that, he talked about some kids having too many dolls. He said that American children do not need as many toys and that Americans do not need to spend as much money on junk we don't need. Quote, I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 pencils.

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I believe this survey was done by the National Association of Bald Men Who Can't Get Dates. But they know that I made that part up. But I'm not sure I believe this. 2,000 women were asked to rank the things that they wanted, the other things that attracted them most. A muscular physique was found to be number one. That's what women wanted. A bald head was second and blue eyes were third.

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They can have five. Now, the way Trump talks, I've been saying this for eight years, I guess, is that he's so visual, even when he's just talking. See, you can see the pencils and you can see the dolls. He's just so good at that. And then I saw a Mike Cernovich post where he was saying that, you know, the news tried to make something out of it.

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It's like, wait, why are you telling us how many dolls we can have? Why can't we have 30 dolls? You know, they're trying to make something out of it. But as Cerno said, every parent said to themselves, yeah, we got too many dolls. If you've ever had the experience of having a doll-wanting kid, too many dolls.

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yeah and and you don't need to you don't need 30 dollars five's good and i was trying to think um if you don't count pharmaceuticals and some electronics which are i think going to be exempt from tariffs anyway what is it that i get from china that i can't do without And I was trying to think, clothes?

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I mean, if I had to not buy any new clothes for the next few months, it would just be like the last few months where I didn't buy any new clothes. I don't really need any new clothes. I mean, look at me. Do I look like the guy who needs new clothes? Well, I look like somebody who needs it. I just don't look like somebody who's going to bother with it.

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And then I think, all right, if I were to look at my Amazon purchases, how many of those things, if I could not buy them, would I really be in trouble? It would be stuff like I bought a, what do you call those little door weights where you keep your door open? I didn't need to buy that. I could have used a rock.

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And if I look down the list, there are a few things that maybe had some medical or business application. But mostly, as long as I ordered printer paper, basically. So I kind of agree with them. I don't think there are that many things that I can't go without for a few months until they negotiate the tariffs and figure it out.

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So I saw this morning a video of Russell Brand talking about Kamala Harris. And I feel like there's a seal that's been broken now. Because here's what Russell Brand said about Kamala Harris. He was responding to the fact that she's leading in the polls for being the president or being the candidate next time.

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And so Russell Brand was saying sarcastically, America can't get enough of Kamala Harris. Sharp as ever. Beloved coast to coast. And definitely not fueled by boxed wine. That's why Democrats are considering running her again. Genius move. Utterly brilliant. And then he said, definitely doesn't have a private drinking problem.

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Now, you've heard me say that a bunch of times, that it's just obvious she has a drinking problem. I think you've heard Greg Gutfeld make some witty references to it. But it's not really something that's in the news. I don't see any other podcasters talking about it. But he just broke the seal. I mean, he broke it hard. And that's what I like about him. Because he's just telling you what he sees.

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Did Tim Dillon say that on Rogan? I see a reference to that. It's funnier when you say boxed wine. Anyway, Scott Galloway was on The View. and he was saying that we need to redefine what it means to be a man and redefine masculinity.

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And his argument was that men need to defend and protect, including even the, he used this example, even the trans community, even if you're not in favor of having multiple bathrooms or men playing on women's teams or whatever. He said that to be masculine and to be a man, We need to redefine it as being protective and defending. Now, here's a little rule that I like to use.

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If somebody's trying to win an argument with a definition, that's not an argument. You can't just make up your own definition of something and then say, well, there it is. No, you would need to tell me why men should be like this. And by the way, I don't think this is even a little bit true.

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Well, but if you went on a dating profile, there would be zero people asking for bald heads. They would ask you for height. It's height every time. So, no, this is ridiculous. So even though the National Association of Bald White Guys because they got blue eyes as third. So I'm either the sexiest person I know, or this science is not too dependable.

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It's definitely true that men defend the things that they care about, such as their family, their children, their house. But it's not true that men are just naturally defenders. It might be just as true that we're naturally killers. When I think of what it means to be masculine, I often think about the impulse to kill because it does set us apart. that we're always ready to kill.

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Now, we're usually ready to kill in the service of defending and protecting. We're not serial killers, mostly. But just think about that rule. It's not so much about this topic, but just think about this because you're going to see it again. There's another story coming up in which somebody tried to win an argument with a definition. If you're trying to sell your definition,

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That's not an argument. The other place this happens is with abortion. If your argument is, it's a life, well, that's a definition. It's not an argument. So, I mean, I'm not disagreeing or agreeing. So my view is I shouldn't weigh in on abortion at all. Let women figure that out. That's my preference. But you can't win an argument with a definition. That's just not how anything works. All right.

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Keep that in mind. We're going to circle back to that. On CNBC, I saw FCC Chair Brendan Carr. He was asked about these big mergers that are being considered. There's this media and telecom mergers. And I guess the FCC has to approve these big mergers if they're in their domain. And he was asked, would you potentially block a merger deal because of the DEI policy of the companies?

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And he said, yeah, of course. I told everybody that if they want to get a deal done before the FCC, they need to get rid of any invidious forms of discrimination. I kind of like that. Brendan Carr, good job. Because there are some really big multi-billion dollar mergers that are being considered right now. And that is a real big lever. Well,

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You can do your multi-billion dollar deal, but you're going to have to get rid of your DEI. So we'll see if that makes a difference. Well, according to... Let's see, according to who? According to some partially declassified intelligence memos from the U.S., Venezuelan government and Nicolas Maduro... probably is not directing the Trenda-Oregua gang members in the United States. Probably not.

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Now, the argument is that the gang members are small cells and they do relatively small crimes. They're not doing big terrorist events. And they're low-skill criminal activities and they're sort of decentralized so that there's no such thing as Maduro somehow controlling it like it's some really well-organized machine because it's not an organized machine.

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It's just a bunch of people doing a bunch of stuff and having similar tattoos, it sounds like. So you can believe that or not. I'm not sure if that means it's true. I do think that that still leaves open the possibility that Maduro was intentionally making sure that that group of people got to the United States.

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So it doesn't mean that he's controlling them once they get here, but he might have been part of the process that made it easier for them to get here. I don't know about that yet. Well, here's some fake news that's close to real news. You saw that maybe you heard that Israel is going to take control of Gaza.

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Now, Cenk Uygur was calling that basically depopulating Gaza and just making it an Israeli settlement. Now, I don't think that that's been announced. It might actually happen. But I don't think that the plan at the moment, at least the public plan, is to get rid of all the residents. I think they might need to move them to safer places to give them food and other aid.

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So we don't know if that's temporary or not. But Cenk was arguing that if that's true, that if they're moving them, that that's a genocide by definition. And there's that definition thing again. If you're going to allow the entire argument to be built on somebody else's definition of a word, that's not really an argument. That's just trying.

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All it is is trying to win a point by getting somebody to agree to your definition of a word. Now, and I'm not saying that he's right or he's wrong. I'm just saying that the definition approach is never based on logic. It's just trying to win with the definition. But I asked this question on his post. I didn't see an answer to it. I said, what's the alternative for Israel?

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Would you like to hear the least surprising news? Least surprising news. Let's see if I can accomplish this. The least surprising news is that former First Lady Michelle Obama... revealed on her podcast that she's in therapy. If you saw her podcast, would you have any question whether she was in therapy? She looks like the most I'm in therapy person you've ever met in your life.

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So what are they supposed to do? And again, I'm not backing Israel or supporting them. I'm just observing and asking them the question. If you think that you don't want Israel to do what they're doing, and I could see why. I could see why you'd say, no, it's too brutal and blah, blah, blah. There's lots of reasons. And I wouldn't argue with any of the reasons.

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But if you don't think they should be doing this, which is taking full control of Gaza and probably in the long run, you know, having, well, who knows what the long run is. But if you don't like that, what exactly do you think should be done?

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Because if they just let the people back in, let's say they killed everybody who was definitely Hamas and they only let back in the citizens, do you think that that would keep Hamas from reconstituting? I don't see how it could. Because they could sneak in. The young people could get older and communicate with people on the outside and get radicalized. I feel like Hamas would just reconstitute.

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So the one thing that Israel probably can't allow to happen is for Hamas to reconstitute. So what exactly should they do? If all they do is just let everybody move back after they clean it up, you just have the same problem again. It would be a giant waste of time. You'd be right back where you were. So nobody wanted to answer that question. Instead, people wanted to change the subject.

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You would be amazed at all the subject changers. Well, but what about Armenia? What about Armenia? Answer my question. So watch this for your own entertainment. Then nobody has a better idea. but they might have a strong opinion that Israel should not be doing what it's doing. Again, I'm not supporting Israel. I'm just observing. And what I observe is I don't see anybody suggesting another plan.

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So what's going to happen if there's only one plan? I don't know. You could predict that one pretty easily. And I saw Trump was asked about it. I guess he's going to do a golf trip. And he was asked about Gaza. And he said, quote, we're going to help the people of Gaza get some food. People are starving and we're going to help them get some food.

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Now, here's what I love about how Trump talks about war. When he talks about Ukraine and Russia, he doesn't talk about the history of the region. He doesn't talk about the moral or ethical anything. He just says, I want the killing to stop. You know, 5,000 soldiers a week are dying there. I want that to stop. He just goes right to the human part.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, well, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tanker gel, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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When he talks about Gaza, he says, we want to feed the people. Right to the human part. Now, of course, that's a distraction from the fact that as the president, he of course does have deeper and more complex thoughts about how things should be handled. But when he talks about it, he goes right to the human element and he never leaves. It's kind of brilliant because he is an anti-war president.

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At the same time, he's a badass. But his message discipline, which I think is just all him, I don't think anybody's advising him on this, his message discipline to always talk about the human suffering, pretty darn good. I don't know if he gets credit for that, but that's good technique. It's not just good technique, it's good moral and ethical position.

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Well, in other related news, I guess the Israel Defense Forces have told Yemen to evacuate their international airport. I don't know how many airports they have in Yemen, but they told them to evacuate it, which would suggest that airstrikes are coming and that Israel is going to essentially destroy the airport. which I assume is to prevent Yemen from launching drones, maybe.

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I'm not sure exactly what it is they're trying to stop, but I guess we'll probably find out about that today. Meanwhile, Ukraine has been dropping drones on Moscow, even as Moscow is getting ready for their big Victory Day celebration that would include other foreign leaders coming to visit, including President Xi. And ABC News had this story.

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And I thought to myself, is Ukraine going to attack while the other leaders are there? because that would be pretty ballsy. Probably a bad idea, because it's just going to make Russia more angry, which can't be good. But how would you protect President Xi? Because he's going to be outdoors.

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But she says she's just doing it to tune up for the next phase of her life, which totally does not involve divorce. So she wants you to know, divorce... There's a rumor. But she's going to tune up with her therapist. Well, OpenAI, as you know, you know the story between OpenAI, ChatGPT. But OpenAI was originally funded heavily by Elon Musk, who believed he was funding a nonprofit.

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Why wouldn't they, if they have drones, why wouldn't they send a drone over to kill the leadership while they're all in the same place outdoors and they know exactly where they're going to be? Are they going to have to build some big glass container that Putin stays in? Now, if they accidentally killed President Xi, I can't think of anything that would be worse than that, so I don't recommend it.

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But I don't know. This could get really dicey really fast because the Ukrainians are not looking for peace at this point. They're looking for maximum provocation. And they're going to have a chance to get maximum provocation out of this. We'll see if they have any restraint at all.

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Well, speaking of that part of the world, OPEC is going to boost their oil output, which would lower the cost of a barrel, supply and demand, which would make Russia's income stream much less, because they depend on oil for about 30% of their budget. And that might squeeze them enough that they might maybe want a little faster go at peace. I don't know that that's enough.

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I think Russia could probably survive a downturn in oil revenue for probably quite a while. It's only 30% of its budget. So we'll see. I don't think that's going to change anything. Meanwhile, the Washington Free Beacon is reporting that UC Berkeley... received a whole bunch of donations from Chinese-related entities. Some of them were disguised as coming from other things.

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And they apparently, it took a little work to get them to admit how much money they're getting from China. I am so glad that I have disavowed my MBA.

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anyway so if you're wondering why are our colleges messed up probably lots of reasons but one of them is that they're getting their money from china and trying to hide it so that doesn't seem ideal all right ladies and gentlemen that's all i have for today um If you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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If you're on the locals platform, I'm going to go private with you right now. In 30 seconds, we'll be private. And the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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And then Sam Altman and Microsoft figured out, hey, we should make this a profit. And then Elon Musk was suing them for changing it from a nonprofit to a profit. And now they've got a new plan. Their new proposed plan from OpenAI is that they would have a nonprofit parent company that would control the for-profit business.

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And then the nonprofit part would be the major shareholder of the for-profit business. What did Elon Musk think of that plan? Still suing them. I'm not even sure what that buys them. Why would he even do that? What's the benefit of that? I don't even understand it. All right. But I guess they'll work that out in court.

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According to Futurism, the publication Futurism, the AI industry has a problem with, a huge problem, they say, with AI hallucinating more. I was under the impression that AI was hallucinating less because it keeps getting better. But apparently it's hallucinating more instead of less. So the more they train it and the smarter it gets, the more it just makes shit up.

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Now, I would say that's a pretty big problem. And the AI experts don't know why. Now, imagine that you've created this technology, this amazing technology, AI, and it hallucinates and you don't understand the technology well enough to know why it does that. Isn't that a little bit scary? That it's already smarter than us in a way that we can't even comprehend how it thinks or why.

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Well, I guess we know why, but not how. So that's going to be kind of scary. The New York Times was reporting on that. So some people, not everybody, think that maybe these models have reached their limits and maybe they don't get much better after this because they've trained on everything you can train on. And then what's left is synthetic training material, which is kind of artificial.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. Ah, extraordinary. So good. Well, I don't know if you caught it last night, but last night was the Met Gala. The Met Gala. Would you like to hear everything that you missed at the Met Gala?

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So maybe that's where the extra hallucinations come from. I don't know. But be careful. And then also from Futurism, apparently the users of ChatGBT are developing bizarre delusions. So I guess the people who are not mentally completely stable in the first place are getting worse by talking to AI. And they're getting...

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It may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of chat GPT-induced psychosis. So Rolling Stone is reporting that users on Reddit are sharing how AI has led their loved ones to embrace alarming delusions, often mixing spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies.

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Now, I'm not too surprised because it seems like it'd be the kind of technology that would make people more of what they already are. So if you were a really good scientist, AI probably helps you, makes you a better scientist. If you're a really good programmer, AI probably just makes your job better and faster and easier. But if you're a little delusional to begin with,

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I could kind of see how it would help you get more delusional, depending on how you interacted with it. So keep an eye on that. We'll see if AI is making people crazy or crazier. Well, you know, you probably have always wanted the simultaneous swaddle plaid blanket that I sometimes use on the show. You know the one. It's the one behind me on the chair, the plaid blanket.

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Well, if you wanted your own plaid blanket for the simultaneous swaddle, if things get bad with the economy and the tariffs, you might need one. And it is now available online. The URL is unwieldy. So your best way to find it would be to go to the X platform. And I've pinned the link at the top of my feed. So just go to Scott Adams Says and look for it at the top of the feed.

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I was going to tell you, you could just Google coffee with Scott Adams merchandise. But it turns out that, I don't know if it's China or who it is, but there are a bunch of fake coffee with Scott Adams merchandise now. So sometimes it's just knockoffs. I don't know who would knock off this. I don't even make money from it. I'm not part of the income stream.

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It's just something we do for fun because people want it. I think the only people who make money are the people who make the actual product. But apparently that was enough for a bunch of counterfeiters to create pirated versions. So I had no idea how many pirated things about me there were on the internet. So anyway, that's how you find it. And then you can get your very own swaddle blanket.

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Well, Mike Johnson says he's going to get really close to having the new budget bill, the big beautiful bill, marked up and ready for voting by Memorial Day or soon after. And the budget bill will include tax cuts, a defense spending increase, and more border security. In other words, they're just going to kick the can down the road on the deficit. Doge didn't make any difference.

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Doge didn't make any difference. And apparently they're not willing to cut anything that would be painful. So we're doomed. It's really weird to watch your government matter-of-factly destroy the country. We really can't survive the deficit. If they just pretend like it doesn't exist and they just do another budget that's just a little bit more than the last one, we're sort of all dead.

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And I don't even know what to say about that. I mean, I kind of hope it gets turned down so that somebody says, look, just cut 10% away from everything and make it work. All right, well, I don't know if that would work, but better figure something out. MSNBC had to do a little correction online. They allowed one of their guests to say, without any information on this whatsoever,

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somebody said that Kash Patel was spending more time partying at nightclubs than working in the office. And even MSNBC was embarrassed by that because there's no evidence of that whatsoever. And so they just said, we let somebody say that on the air, but there's no evidence of that whatsoever. So I'm pretty sure Kash Patel is spending more time in the office than partying.

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Here's everything you missed. A bunch of weirdos wearing unusual clothing. That's about it. Weirdos with unusual clothing. I guess Caballera showed up because she was happy to be a weirdo with unusual clothing. Good for her. Well, according to Nature, the publication Nature, people who don't need much sleep, it's probably because of a genetic difference.

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Meanwhile, this is the weirdest little story. I had to keep looking at it to see if I could understand it, and I'm not sure I do. So there's a nominee for the U.S. Attorney for D.C., And that seems like an important one because whoever the US attorney is for DC is going to affect the politicians who are there. And Ed Martin is the temporary person doing that job, but now he's up for nominee.

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And according to Breitbart and other sources, and if you ask me to explain why this is true, It has something to do with the weird situation of the District of Columbia. So the District of Columbia is not a state, so it has its own rules. But apparently, if Ed Martin doesn't get the votes to be confirmed...

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and Senator Tom Tillis says he's withholding support, so he might not be, that it falls to a judge and they believe it would go to Judge Boasberg, would choose on his own without anybody else's input could choose whoever he wanted to fill the rule the role he might even pick special counsel jack smith so boasberg the the most anti-trump judge would be the backup And why? I don't know.

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Something to do with how D.C. is organized. But just think about that. So Trump's got his guy, Ed Martin, who's exactly who he wants on the job. But instead, if they don't pass it, Boasberg might just appoint somebody and it could be like the worst person in the world. Oh my God, how is that even possible?

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And it was because the reporter... sort of thought, maybe communism is a good deal, and if you get past this, maybe it'll all work out. Now, isn't it great that the media used to be completely fake, and that's all fixed now? You know, I always think that if you don't know anything about history, everything looks different. If you knew that for sure, no doubt about it,

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that our major media platforms historically had all been fake. They were either controlled by the CIA or in this case, probably wasn't the CIA, but just somebody wanted to lie because it was good for him or it worked into his philosophy. Can you even imagine what changed enough that this wouldn't still be the case? Was there magic? Was there some magic? after this happened?

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And then the magic would catch it every time it tried to happen again? No. The Russia collusion hoax was just a made-up whole thing. What about the Fine People hoax? Which, by the way, was, yeah, I think NPR actually pushed the Fine People hoax again, I think, yesterday. Now, the media has never been real.

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And if you don't know that it's never been real historically, it's really hard to understand that it suddenly turned bad. But most people think, well, it was pretty good in the old days. Maybe it got a little worse, but it's basically okay. No, it has always been completely fake, and there are reasons for it.

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There are structural reasons that guarantee it will be fake because people have interests, and those interests have money, and sometimes they're the writers. But nobody's really interested in the truth. They're interested in what works out for them.

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Now, I know somebody who has had a more interesting life than I have and claims that this is completely normal for adult detention facilities, that the guards do, in fact, organize fights among the inmates for the adults. I didn't know it was happening at juvenile facilities. That just makes it extra bad.

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Well, meanwhile, the TSMC, the big gigantic chip company that operates mostly in Taiwan, says they're going to put $100 billion into the US to build and support semiconductor manufacturing here. That sounds familiar, right? Because we've had a few rounds of this company is going to do that, this company. So I saw Daniel Baldwin, who works for OANN, and he put together a list.

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So it's $100 billion from TSMC, the chip company. Apple promised $500 billion for domestic manufacturing. Something called Zepabound, $27 billion. $100 billion from SoftBank, $20 billion from DAMAC, I don't know what that is, $500 billion from Stargate, $600 billion from Saudi Arabia. Now, those numbers start adding up, don't they?

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The other thing that's important that Trump understands better than anybody's ever understood it is that sometimes you have to BS a little bit about how things are going. And then everybody's like, really? Everything's going in that direction? There's a big list of people putting a lot of money in there? I better get on board. It's how I get attention. It's how I make the government like me.

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It's how I get the public to like me. It looks like it's a trend. So these type of deals are being really well promoted. And the promotion is probably as important as the dollar amounts, at least in the early stages. because you need a lot more, but you want everybody to think everybody's doing it. You need people to just think, oh, this is the thing now. This is what we do. And we're there.

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I think he's actually achieved that. Eric Doherty on X says that HP is looking to move a lot of their operations from China to the US in response to Trump's tariffs. So there's another story. The tariffs are working, at least in that limited sense. And meanwhile, Trump's telling farmers to get ready to produce more food to sell inside the U.S.

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because he's putting tariffs on external food coming in starting April 2nd. Now, the tariffs for Canada and Mexico kicked in today, 25% on most things, but energy is a little cheaper, 10%. And I think Canada has already matched it with 25%. I haven't heard from Mexico yet, but one assumes they'll match it. So the trade war is on. But at the same time, we'll talk more about that, OPEC,

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announced that it's going to increase oil production, according to The Hill. Now, if you increase oil production, that should drive the price of oil down because it increases supply. And I don't know if that's net good or bad for the United States because if prices are high, then we drill a lot more in the United States because everything you do would make money. It's like, whoa, oil is so high.

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If it goes down, then even some of the wells we already drilled somebody's going to say, oh, this was a good idea before, but now the price went down. So they might just cap it. So it certainly should help with the price of your eggs, and it certainly should help with inflation eventually. And I don't think there's anything bigger.

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But if you think this just happened in one place and there were 30 officers who were all in on it, I got to wake you up. This is closer to standard procedure. The guards, if they hate the inmates, any particular ones, they organize a fight and they just put the ones they hate in the fight and they just stand back and watch it. That's a real thing.

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So OPEC producing more is just about the best thing that could ever happen for Trump. It's the one thing that everybody agrees lowers inflation, or at least today. So that's good news. Meanwhile, X, the X platform is doing more great work for free speech. So California introduced this censorship law for social media.

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And the essence of it is they want to require the social media platforms to have their own censorship standards. But it's all kind of squishy stuff, like, do you have a definition of hate speech? What is your definition of racism? And all these things have that, uh-oh, thing to them. It's like, okay, we don't want hate speech. We don't want any racism.

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But as soon as you say it's somebody's job to decide when it happened... then everything looks like hate speech and everything looks like racism. Because you could sort of racial matto it to make anything sound like one of those two things. So it would be just a gross attack on free speech. But it looks like X hired some lawyers and it looks like it's going to be blocked at the moment.

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The court struck down the key censorship provision according to Reclaim the Net, D.D. Rankovich. So this is really huge. And if you only think of X in terms of the more obvious stuff it's doing, you would miss one of its biggest values to the country is this. Musk will lawyer up whatever it costs, and he will go after every attack on free speech that affects X. And

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This is huge that you can get a win like that. Speaking of which, you know that the Europeans are trying to do the same thing that California was doing, which is create these censorship standards so that they can control American companies by controlling what they can do in Europe, which would trickle into the United States.

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So if they said, for example, you can't post a message like this, whatever this is in Europe, Well, what are the platforms going to do? If you're Facebook, you're going to say, all right, well, I guess we have to ban it everywhere because if it's banned in Europe and they're going to completely kick us out of that market, if we don't do this, we're going to have to censor.

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So the FCC chairman was over at the Mobile World Congress. This is a Brendan Carr. Brendan Carr is one of the good guys. He is very active in chasing down the bad behavior and addressing it. So he's giving speeches basically and he's mentioning the EU's Digital Services Act, which is the one that would be sort of a backdoor way of censoring Americans.

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And basically he's warning them that the United States is going to respond. Because Trump has already said He wants a directive to figure out how to tariff them or do something to make sure that they can't extort us that way. So I love the fact that that Trump and his head of the FCC basically are saying, this is war.

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You can try to censor us, but we're not giving up the First Amendment, so you tell us how expensive you want to make this, because there's nothing we're not going to do to make sure that we're not censored. You can censor yourself, put yourself out of business as a real country, but you're not going to do it to us. And

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I think that Trump, again, one of the magic parts of Trump is that he doesn't bluff. So when Trump says, we're coming for you if you don't change this, they know he's coming. And Brendan Carr is like, you know, chief gladiator. So if he's coming for you, he's fully supported by Trump. So We'll see where this goes. But I love the fact that Trump is completely at war and isn't going to take this.

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All right, well, according to Attorney General Pam Bonte, there's an alleged truckload of Epstein files that were released by, guess what, the Southern District of New York. I guess that's where they were all being stored. And not unrelated, the head of that FBI, the Southern District of New York, was asked to resign.

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It's just completely unacceptable. We're going to do whatever it takes. Meanwhile, update on the DEI dominoes. So DEI has been falling everywhere. Even BlackRock decided to get out of it. The big banks are getting out of it. Now, today, Arizona universities are quietly deleting their DEI language, according to Cronkite News.

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Now, I don't know if that means they're just hiding it, but it means that they understand there's a risk. And so they're operating based on risk, which is what we want. Also, the University of Southern California is going to scrub their DEI stuff out of their documents and stuff. And again, I don't know if that's just hiding it. It might be hiding it, but still, step in the right direction.

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If they have to hide it, That feels like a little bit of a win. It's a half win. And then apparently there were some CIA officers who were fired because they were part of the DEI programs for the CIA, according to Natural News. But a judge just upheld Trump and Doge's ability to fire them for just being part of the DEI. They didn't need a better reason.

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That was the reason, and so that's going to stick. One of my big questions is, how will history treat DEI? Because, you know, if you went back in history, and let's say it was right in the middle of slavery, what do you think the news said about slavery in the South, the news in the South? It was probably like, yeah, things are working really good, Of course, we got a lot of slaves.

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So production was up. We had a good ball. Don't you think that while it was happening, it was treated like a positive? Because otherwise it wouldn't have been there. But then, you know, a few hundred years later, we quite rightly call it like one of the worst things we've ever done. And we've done some bad things.

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But we all understand, okay, that's just, that's right near the top of the worst things we've ever done. What do you think DEI will do in the future? I have a dream. I have a dream that it will be treated by historians as just evil. Now it's not going to be full, you know, slavery evil or Jim Crow evil, but it's, It's right up there with Jim Crow.

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So it's like 40 years, roughly 40 years, I think, of absolute over discrimination against one category of people. And lives were ruined, careers were ruined. The economy was suffering, I think. It's just one of the darkest, worst, messed up parts of American history.

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And I just wonder if history will ever record it that way, or if they'll say, well, all the good people tried for decades to make things better, but the evil Republicans shut it down after 40 years of being terribly successful. Now it wasn't called DEI for 40 years, but it was affirmative action. Same thing.

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So I'm hoping history will get it right and say that this is one of the worst things that the country's ever done. We've done worse, but it's one of the bad ones. All right, this is funny and also predictable. Do you remember when UK and France were meeting to figure out what they could do about Ukraine?

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And then they came out of that meeting and it sounded like, oh, well, it looks like there's a little bit of unity there. So the UK and France were talking about maybe putting boots on the ground. And I thought, well, it starts with, you know, two of the more important countries, and then they'll slowly, you know, collect in their allies. And, you know, maybe they've got this.

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Maybe they figured it out. But instead, apparently what we just learned is that Germany walked out of the meeting, according to Javier Villamor, European conservative. So Germany just said, you know, I'm paraphrasing because I wasn't there, but it was something like, wait, what did you just say? Well, our idea is we're going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. Wait, whose boots?

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partly because he told people to dig in, and that was taken as resisting the Trump administration. But also he wasn't really too keen on releasing all the Epstein files, so he's gone. And the Epstein files are in a truck, and Pam Bonney says that they're going to be delivered, or they've already been delivered, and now they have to go through them, and

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You know, European. So we're going to put some UK boots, we're going to put a little France boots. We hope we can get some German boots over there, filled with people, of course, not just the boots. And then Germany was like, we're done. That's crazy. And they just walked out. Now, if Europe can't get Germany on board, and it's not because it's expensive, It's because Germany just said, ah.

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How about no? How about hard, hard no? So, and then we're not even sure if France and the UK agree on that. on what a ceasefire would look like. So the European Union, or let's just call it the European countries, decide that they're going to go it alone. And the best they could come up with is two countries that almost agreed, and the rest of them just said, are you fucking crazy? We're out.

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So it looks like they got nothing. But then on top of that, the EU, the head of the EU, says that they're going to unveil an $800 billion plan to rearm Europe. $800 billion. And I say to myself, okay, what would have been the most predictable outcome? Not the most entertaining. The most predictable outcome. Let's see if you can figure this out. There's the possibility of conflict.

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People are trying to prevent conflict. But there's a real possibility of the conflict. if you were going to predict what was going to happen, the most obvious prediction, it would have been, oh, so what will happen is that the military industrial complex will get billions of dollars and we'll get screwed. It was completely predictable. The military industrial complex, they just keep winning.

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I've actually thought, huh, how could I get in on this military industrial complex? Because, you know, I like to be on the winning team. And I swear to God, they win every round. What's your problem? Russia. You're going to need to buy some weapons. What's your problem? China. Well, I got an idea. You'd better spend a trillion dollars on weapons.

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It's like no matter what we do, the answer is always give money to the military-industrial complex. So that's why we like Trump, because I don't think he automatically falls for that. It's also weird.

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that europe has nukes and those are not a deterrent to being invaded like what what are they actually buying weapons to do are they buying weapons so that they don't have to use their nukes if russia tries to roll over europe and take over the uk has russia ever shown give me a history lesson has russia ever shown interest

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in conquering any country that wasn't really either Russian-speaking or had some obvious strategic value. They're not good guys, so I'm not saying Russia is the good guys. Don't get me wrong. But do you think Russia has ever wanted to conquer France? Have they ever wanted to conquer the UK? Or at least, let's say, in the last hundred years? I don't think so.

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So it seems like if you just said, here's the deal. We're going to get rid of all of our weapons. But if you put one Russian boot on our territory, we're going to nuke Poland. Not Poland. We're going to nuke Moscow. Sorry, don't aim the nukes at an ally. Why doesn't that work? You know, the more traditional weapons you have, the more likely you're going to get into a traditional fight.

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But if you just said, we're going to get rid of all of them,

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because you'd be insane to attack us because we only have this one defense so we use it we'll just take out moscow with a nuclear weapon would you if you were russia and somebody said our entire defense is written up in this document you're free to read it and the document says if russia attacks even one inch of our territory we're going to nuke them would you attack if it was actually in writing we're going to put a nuke right up your ass

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and then they'll figure out just what they can and cannot show. Do you believe that? I don't believe any of it. Do you think that they fought so hard to not show it that they wouldn't also destroy the good stuff? The truckload doesn't mean there's any good stuff.

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I don't think so. Now, like I said, there's no such thing as a real security guarantee. There's no guarantees. But it would have to be at least as safe as spending $800 billion for the military-industrial complex. Some of it in our country, I assume, but a lot of it in Europe. Well, Trump's giving a big speech to Congress tonight.

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Some people were speculating that he might float the idea of leaving NATO. I don't think so, because I don't think he would announce that in his speech. But hey, he's full of surprises. Anything could happen. He might tease it. I could imagine him teasing it just to see what reaction he got. But I don't think he's going to announce it.

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Apparently, according to Election Wizard on X, the congressional Democrats are planning to disrupt his speech. And their plan, allegedly, involves using a variety of tactics, including noisemakers, hand clappers, signs, eggs, and walk-outs. Now, how do the eggs fit into this? And why are eggs suddenly such a big part of every story? Can we do any story that doesn't involve eggs?

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Why did eggs become the biggest thing to talk about? Anyway, I assume the eggs would be to, what, throw? If somebody threw an egg at the president, wouldn't they be arrested? Would that not be assault? Or attempted injury of some kind of a sitting president? Wouldn't it be a disruption of an official business? I don't know if a speech is official business or not. But We'll see.

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I'm kind of doubtful that eggs will be thrown. Maybe they'll just bring them to show off. It's like, look, I got an egg. Anybody else have an egg? Can't afford it, can you? I got an egg because I did insider trading. I did enough insider trading to have an egg.

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Well, according to Laura Loomer and some others, apparently the left is also going to organize or has organized some kind of a massive protest in the Black Lives Matter Plaza. before Trump does his speech to Congress. Now, do you remember when we were more innocent?

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And if you heard that the left had an organized protest, you'd think, wow, there must be a lot of people, like regular people, who were just mad. Otherwise, you couldn't pull together that many people. But then you learn that these are all fake. All these protests are just probably Soros-funded or Hoffman or something.

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And that some people might be sincere, but this doesn't happen unless it's just a big fake thing driven by people at the top with money. So to me, it's just funny because once you realize it's just theater and it's fake, It doesn't even look the same anymore. I can't even get mad at it because it's like, oh, that's kind of funny. How's your fake protest going?

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Well, if you haven't seen economist Jeffrey Sachs talking about Russia and Ukraine, you really should. Now, he does have what I would consider a... I don't want to say it... It's hard to describe him. Other people would say he's pro-Russian. Other people would. So I'm not going to say that. But it lets you know how he is received.

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So I'm going to guess that when they get in there, they're going to say, huh, according to the evidence records and the document page numbers, it feels like all the good stuff has been removed. Or the FBI itself will again, even if it's Kash Patel or somebody else, will just block out the things that we're not supposed to see. And maybe that's all the stuff that we really wanted to see.

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So one of the things that when I say pro-Russian, I don't mean more than the United States. It's just that he doesn't want to be at war with Russia. It doesn't make any sense. So I guess other people think that's pro-Russian because he doesn't want to be at war with Russia. But he says the war is over because Trump doesn't want to back a loser. And that's all you have to know.

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that Zelensky is a loser and backing him wouldn't make sense. And it certainly wouldn't make sense for somebody like Trump who doesn't want to back a loser. And I thought to myself, that is really cleverly summarized. You know, if you could imagine that Trump thought Zelensky was actually, you know, Winston Churchill and an amazing figure, maybe you would treat him that way.

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But it's pretty clear that Trump thinks that Zelensky is a loser. And he doesn't want to hitch his wagon to somebody who's unpredictable and not going along with the game. And Zelensky predicted that the war would last a long time. Now, isn't that kind of up to Zelensky? I mean, it's only going to last as long as he wants it to. So, yeah, I think I agree with Jeffrey Sachs on this.

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If the only thing you knew is that Trump isn't the kind of guy who wants to back a loser, an obvious loser, it's kind of all you need to know. So, meanwhile, Russia has allegedly agreed, I think I mentioned this, to help with the negotiating with Iran over their nuclear program, Iran's nuclear program, and also maybe talk to them about Iran's support of proxies in the region.

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Bloomberg AI was reporting this. Now, what I like about this, like I said, is when Trump expands the negotiations, which he's doing, Instead of saying, hey, which part of Ukraine do you keep and what day do you want to do the ceasefire? Total losing approach. Not enough variables. But if Trump goes and says, according to unusual whales, Ukraine's President Zelensky just said, quote,

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I am ready to work under Trump's strong leadership to bring peace. Interesting. Because that's exactly what Trump demanded. He said, we can work with you, but we need a strong statement that says you want peace because the last thing you said was, I think the war is going to last a long time. We need security guarantees. We need weapons. That's the opposite of working toward peace.

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So it looks like Zelensky's reading the room a little bit better obviously he's getting a lot of advice but uh you see the bigger picture right it's a really big world uh russia has a lot of energy they get a big military they've got connections with countries we want to influence you know syria and um and iran and we have things that they want such as maybe not doing cyber attacks.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine day of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and damn it, it happens right now. Go. So good. Well, special thanks to Jack Posobiec for your kind words on X. I appreciate that. I'm glad you watch every day. How about the news, huh?

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Maybe we're better at it than they are. So I think the conversation is going to go to, I'm just going to guess, I'll bet you we had 20 variables, which would be genius. Because if you've got 20 variables, everybody's got something to get out of it.

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It's like, okay, well, you're going to help us with Iran, but also this will settle Ukraine, but maybe we can do a mineral deal with Russia separately from anything that we do with Ukraine. And so suddenly, you've got 20 different things that just make sense. Just common sense. You help us, we can help you. There's no reason that we should be enemies. Now,

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Those of you who have been with me a long time, how long have I been saying that the arc of history is bending toward Russia and the United States being allies? We're natural allies. Now, what I mean by that is that we have more interests in common if we think about it right.

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So I'm going to say, just for fun, I don't believe it's real. I do believe there's a truck. I do believe it's got a lot of Epstein files in it. I do not believe this means we're going to find out the good stuff. I think it's just going to be more repeats of things we've seen, but with a lot more detail. So I don't trust this at all.

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If we stop pecking at each other and trying to get an advantage and put the other one out of business, which is what we've both been doing for decades, if we just stop doing it and said, how about instead of trying to destroy each other and putting all of our efforts into it, what if we tried to make money? What if we tried to make the world safer?

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What if we said, if you stay out of our part of the world, there are parts of your world that we'll stay out of. And I just think we have the most natural possibility of being allies. Now part of it is we don't share a border. As soon as you share a border, everything becomes complicated. But we don't. We've got that wonderful ocean between us. And more. We've got Europe and an ocean. So

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I really think my optimism of getting sort of a giant 20 variable Russia deal, very high, very high. And the reason is both sides want it and it's doable. Both sides have really good, really good negotiators. And, and Trump,

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Trump said in one of his announcements that Putin even used his own campaign phrase, common sense, which, of course, was very smart for Putin to do because he's good at sucking up when he's negotiating. So, yeah, I think something good could come out. I'm 100% positive on this at the moment, 100% positive.

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It won't be right away because 20 variables, I mean, think about how long it would take to figure out 20 variables. We can do it.

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So J.D. Vance was explaining how the mineral deal would have been better than a security guarantee. And he said, the president knows that, look, if you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine.

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That is a way better security guarantee than, here comes his diss, I love how JD just slaps down other entities. He goes, this is way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years. Wow. That's how he talks about our allies. Well, okay. I like it. And I agree. The only thing that protects you

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is that the country that has the big guns has a personal interest. So if we've got a lot of money on the line, I mean, this could be a trillion dollars, you know, in these mining deals. Yeah, that would be a good way to guarantee that we're interested. And by the way, if you're Russia and we said to you, don't attack Ukraine because, you know, we'll go in and protect them.

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But it does look like Pam Bondi is dead serious, and it looks like Kash Patel is dead serious about trying. So I'm going to give them A-plus for trying. But I feel like the deep state may have already removed any possibility of finding the good stuff. We'll see. It's just speculation. Joe Maddo trying to sell the idea that Trump is working with Putin in a Russian puppet. You know, the usual thing.

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We gave them a security guarantee. Would that be stronger? than saying, you better not go into Ukraine because we've got a trillion dollars right in there and we're not going to let that just be taken over. So if you go in, we're going to protect our interests. Doesn't that sound the same?

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The one where you say we're going to protect our own economic interests, that sounds like the more real one because everybody protects their own economic interest. If you said, oh, We're going to go protect this country and the other side of the world that doesn't have a direct impact on us. Even if we meant it, it's not terribly persuasive.

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But if you say, we're not going to give up a trillion dollars in mining operations, which are critical to our most important industries, like AI and self-driving cars and robots, we're not going to give that up. So if you move your armies in, we have to stop you. And you wouldn't even have to put it in writing. Because Putin would know that these are critical mineral rights.

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These are not ordinary things. It's not mining for fun. It's critical survival depends on it. We need to nail down some sources that we can mine, preferably in other countries. Anyway, Elon Musk was saying this about Zelenskyy. He says, as distasteful as it is, Zelensky should be offered some kind of amnesty in a neutral country in exchange for a peaceful transition back to democracy in Ukraine.

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Now, how many years have I been talking about dictator retirement island? We always have the same problem, that if there's a dictator we want to depose. there's not really any path for the dictator. They kind of have to fight to the death, including killing all of their own country people by sending them against your machine guns.

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So I don't think there's a practical way to solve this, but if we had just one good island and we said, here's the deal. If you decide to retire to this island, we'll give you an American passport, And you can live there. You'll have a mansion. You can keep the billion dollars you stole. You can live in luxury.

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And we'll guarantee that nobody comes over and tries to kill you from anything you did before. You'll just live with your neighbors who are also retired dictators. Be kind of cool. It's not my best idea, but I agree with Musk. There needs to be some way that the alleged dictator can make a clean escape in a way that would just be good for them.

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Because we don't need to punish them so much as we just need them gone sometimes. All right, here's my idea for what to do to negotiate who owns what land on the eastern part of what used to be Ukraine, but now seems to be totally occupied by Russia, just the eastern part. I saw a map. of where Russia was the main language, I didn't realize that something like, is it over half of Ukraine?

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Russia is the dominant language, and people might even call themselves Russian. Not all of them, but a lot of them would call themselves Russian, even though they're technically Ukrainians. And so I thought, well, let's say you did a vote. and you said, all right, all these little regions that are disputed that Russia controls right now, Russia, would you agree to do a vote?

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Well, nobody's going to trust the vote. We would just assume that would be rigged. So you can't really have a vote. But could you do a survey? I'm guessing that most of the people over there still have cell phones, right? Could you do a scientific enough survey And I would get at least three separate pollsters to do it and then compare them so that they would do their work blind.

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Then the three would compare to see if there's any major differences in what they got. And they would just call people and say, all right, do you want to be owned by Russia or owned by Ukraine? And then you just figure out what they want. Now, what if Ukraine said, we don't agree with that? then you have to wonder what is their motivation.

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If what the people who live there want isn't the main thing, then what are you? Are you a dictatorship? Shouldn't the people who live there be the primary ones who decide? Now, we also have the problem that some of that area is depopulated, so I don't even know what's left. So you might not even be able to get any kind of representative sample because it might be just people who haven't died yet

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It wouldn't matter what Trump did. Trump woke up today. Oh, he woke up like a Russian puppet. Trump took a walk on the golf course. That's exactly what Putin would want him to do. So she writes up this

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you know, old people and children and stuff. So it may be impossible. But I would at least look at the idea of polling them. And you'd have to have at least three polls operating independently to feel like, you know, one of them wasn't totally biased. Meanwhile, Governor Newsom of California, according to Joel Pollack and Breitbart, is ordering state employees back to the office.

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So Newsom's plan to act more like a Republican seems to be right on point. So he's copying Doge and making the Californians come back to work. Now, he says only four days a week, which would be a lot. But it does remind you that the Democrats just painted themselves into the corner of all corners. by being opposed to common sense.

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So whenever they embrace a little bit of common sense, it just looks like they're copying. And then you say, well, why do we need them if they're just copying? Just Republicans already do it. And you don't have to wonder if they mean it, because Republicans tend to only do things they mean. So the...

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the Democrat strategy of saying, let's do more common sense things and emphasize patriotism and get rid of the identity politics. How does that work from an election strategy perspective? So follow me on this. If somebody likes what Republicans do and they like what Trump does, and they like especially that Trump is emphasizing common sense solutions,

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Is there any scenario in which they vote Democrat because, oh, it's all the same now. Now they're both doing common sense, so I guess I'll abandon my love of MAGA and I'll vote for a Democrat. Not many people are going to do that because it looks like one side means it and the other side is just doing fast copying. And you couldn't even be sure that

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If you looked away, they would still do all that common sense stuff because it's not really in their genes. Meaning the party's genes, not any individual's genes. And wouldn't it just make the extreme people in their own party, the Democrats, wouldn't it just make them not show up to vote? So if they copy Republicans and try to be

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super academic list of all the ways that that trump is already already helping putin and it's such it's such an academic and boring and complicated well but you know this could be connected in some way you know this stretching the idea of of the connection let me give you some examples uh so here's one of the ways that trump is allegedly helping putin

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the common sense ones, wouldn't the only net effect be to reduce their own base? Because it's not going to make any difference to a Trump voter. No Trump voter is going to say, oh, look, those Democrats look good today. I'll go over there for a day. I don't think so. So it makes me wonder if they've thought anything out.

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Like even on paper, it doesn't look like it can work, even though obviously backing common sense makes sense. But how can that work? Now, the other thing I've noticed is that when Republicans talk, have you noticed the Republicans have a vibe? Like, you could probably tell who's a Republican if they're talking on TV. It takes you about 10 seconds to say, ah, probably a Republican.

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Because they have a, let's say, a buttoned-up kind of Republican conservative way of talking about things. And I would say that that's authentic, right? because it's the lifestyle that they've adopted. They are influenced by the people that they like and people that are around. So nobody is completely natural. But Republicans talk and act and think like Republicans.

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But Democrats have this weird thing where the most prominent part of their party are just theater kids. And they try to sell their ideas with their faces. Have you noticed that? If you listen to a Republican trying to sell a policy, they'll say, well, if we do this and that, we'll get this impact, so that's why we want to do it. Just policy.

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But if you get any one of these cats, Adam Schiff, Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin, AOC, Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren, or Schumer, they do face persuasion, where they just crunch up their face to show how terrible something is that Trump is doing. It's like,

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it's so bad oh it's so bad he's hitler he's in there and none of it makes sense and they do uh you know definition thinking and analogy thinking literally analogy because they say oh he's acting like hitler now an analogy which is not anything, or, oh, the definition of an insurrection. These are not even attempts to be part of the rational conversation because none of that's rational.

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So instead, they send actors. Now, it doesn't mean that every Democrat is an actor because they have normal ones, but the normal ones are not on TV. The ones that get on TV are the ones who do the faces.

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They're so beyond pathetic at this point that it just seems funny. And my new favorite is Chris Murphy because that guy doesn't look genuine even a little bit. He literally just looks like a theater kid who's just so happy he can do his act on TV. Anyway, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. Trump is doubling his tariffs on China over the fentanyl crisis. I'm in favor of that.

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I'm in favor of pressing China in every way we can. I don't think that a tariff will end their fentanyl practice because I think their benefit is too big. It's a huge burden on the United States. They don't care about our deaths. And so clearly, strategically, they're going to keep doing it. But there is one thing that they do care about, which is being shamed on the public stage.

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And by putting gigantic tariffs on them because they're sending fentanyl to us and we know they can stop it, That is a way to shame them without just getting in Xi's face. We just say, this is going to stop, we're going to press every button, and we're going to make a lot of noise forever, and it's going to be one of the biggest things that anybody thinks about when they think about China.

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So, China, if you want your reputation to be that you're drug dealers, you win, because we're going to make sure that your reputation is drug dealers. So if you want that to be your brand, Trump will be happy to make that come true for you. Now, that might have some power. Not by itself. So again, you'd have to add 20 variables to get any kind of a deal that really stopped fentanyl.

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But he weakened, this is from Rachel Meadow, he weakened the nuclear security by firing key personnel. Okay, we're reducing personnel in basically everything that Doge touches. So basically everything that Doge touches ends up in people being fired. And every time, no matter what department it is, somebody says, but those are the best people. Those are the best.

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But I don't know if fentanyl can be stopped. But I do like the level of effort that Trump's putting into it. Meanwhile, China is halting imports of U.S. logs. And it's suspending imports of our soybeans. No. What will happen to our logs and our soybeans? Now, of course, these are tragedies for the industries involved. I don't want to minimize it.

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But the thing you should probably expect is that prices will go up in the short term. And the short term could be a year. But it might be more than a year. But everything he's doing collectively makes sense in the long term. And it's a hard sell if you say to people, hey, I've got an idea. We're going to raise your prices for the next year or two in the worst possible way.

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But when we're done, we're going to be in a solid ground and prices will drift down and we need to do this as the only way to survive. You can't really sell that because all the public would hear is,

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what about the price of my eggs okay i just said they'd go up what about the price of my gas well it might go up but the only way we can get to a point where it's domestic manufacturing and all the things we need to reduce costs like creating more energy the only way we get there is through this hard road so we got to do it well you can't really sell that so um i expect it to get a little worse

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before it gets better. So that would be the most natural outcome. Trump said he's considering a free trade agreement with Argentina. I guess that means no tariffs and no duties and no VAT taxes. So that would be a big deal. I can't imagine that Millet of Argentina would say no to that because he's a free market guy. So is Trump.

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So I like the fact that Trump is saying this part of the world, no tariffs. I like that a lot. That's a really good way to run a continent. Well, here's a seriously disturbing note. So Representative Nancy Mace, who's talked about this in public before.

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I don't know the details, but my understanding is she was a victim of a horrific sex-related crime with multiple people and maybe the suggestion that there was a videotape. So drugged, raped, and videotaped. Now, that's what people are saying. I don't know the details. But she said this in a post on X. I understand video or videos may have been released via media outlet tonight.

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I hope this warrants the state to search for certain devices and certain tapes at a certain location. What? Is she suggesting that the crime against her might be on video and that somebody may be releasing it today? Now, I assume it would be censored at least a little bit. But I got to say, I certainly admire her guts.

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The fact that she's taking ownership of what had to be the most horrific thing that ever happened to her, I'm guessing. The fact that instead of just avoiding it or not talking about it, she's going right at it. She wants you to know what happened. And it looks like

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She wants you to know who it was, and I feel like she knows who it was, but I don't know if she's, for any reason, decided not to talk about it yet. But if this video comes out, there will be faces on the screen, and they won't all be hers, if it is her at all. We're speculating. That's what it looks like. Well, this is funny. According to RetroCoast,

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when Doge tried to remove the credit cards from government employees, I guess it was the Department of Defense who was running up all kinds of entertainment and bar tabs and travel on their government credit cards, like a lot, like just totally out of control because nothing's audited, it seems like.

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So they tried to just remove the credit cards from government employees, but some kind of federal judge blocked it. So instead of removing the credit cards, they just reset the limit to $1. So they can keep their credit cards, but it's only a $1 limit per month. Well, maybe just $1. According to Rasmussen,

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You got rid of all the best people. What are we going to do now? The nuclear security is probably exactly the same. So no, that's probably had nothing to do with Putin. Probably just was cost-cutting. And then she said that... that Trump has disbanded a key U.S. counterintelligence units. Eliminated the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, which investigated

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61%.

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That means there are 39% who don't expect widespread fraud in our Social Security. They are very optimistic. In many ways, that's the best doge endorsement you could get, that 61% think an audit of the Social Security is going to find massive fraud. That is quite an endorsement. of the, why don't you look at everything and find that fraud for us? So I like that.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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Meanwhile, NASA scientists, according to Brighter Side of News and Joseph Chavit, reporting on a propellant-less propulsion for rockets, space rockets. And propellant-less means it's not based on stuff exploding in the rocket's ass to drive it forward. Rather, it generates thrust using electric fields rather than expelling mass.

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So the thinking is if they can perfect this, it would be just this enormous leap forward in space travel because you wouldn't need to have fuel that you're burning. It probably would be easier to generate electricity, which in turn would manipulate these electric fields. So I think they surprised themselves how well it worked. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is what I have for today.

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Thank you for joining. Another tight hour of fun. I'm going to say hi to the people on Locals privately, but the rest of you, thanks for joining on Rumble and YouTube and X. And Locals, coming at you in 30 seconds.

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secret foreign lobbying by adversaries such as russia okay so it's something that affects all of our other adversaries and but also our allies because they always try to influence us too so it was a general rule but rachel's like that looks like that's for putin so almost anything that trump does you can make an argument but indirectly indirectly that looks like that's for putin

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So it's the most boring and academic and ridiculous list, but it's good enough for our audience who are, as you know, all idiots. So here's one we don't know why yet, but Pete Hegseth has ordered a pause in the U.S. cyber offensive against Russia, according to the BBC. So the U.S. just stopped doing offensive cyber attacks on Russia.

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To which I say, now that doesn't mean they stop doing defensive stuff, of course, but why would you stop offensive cyber attacks? Well, if I were getting ready to negotiate peace, I would show them that we were capable of doing that. I wouldn't wait forever. We're not going to wait forever for Russia to sign a deal.

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But one of the things that Trump is good at is bringing new variables into a negotiation. So suddenly cyber attacks are on the table. And then separately, there's a report that Russia has been asked to help communicate with Iran to work out a nuclear, some kind of a non-proliferation or something, something about their nuclear program.

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But the idea is that Russia would be a productive partner in negotiating with Iran because they have a better relationship. To which I say, that's not crazy. So we don't know enough about the pause in the U.S. cyber offensive, but if it's just a pause... And we're just showing that we can do it.

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And we're trying to bring Russia into a more productive conversation about different parts of the world. How can you help us? And maybe we could work together. Maybe we could make some money. I don't know. I think you have to look at the entire universe of things that are happening to figure out whether there's any room for a deal. If all you're looking at is ceasefire, ceasefire, yes or no?

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Ceasefire? Well, you're not going to know anything. You have to look at all the moving parts and say to yourself, all right, is that enough moving parts where there's stuff we can give without costing anything and there's stuff they can give us without costing anything? And probably there's going to be a whole bunch of variables that allow us to do that.

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There's a lot of news today. Let's see if we can pound through it. We'll get to the serious stuff in a minute, but while people are streaming in. According to the AP in Los Angeles, 30 officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility have been charged for holding what they call gladiator fights with the minors. So it's not even an adult facility. It's a juvenile detention center.

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So, yeah, the more variables that Trump puts into the deal, the more successful it will be, I think. Anyway, and we're not going to stop our defensive stuff, so it's not like we're unprotected. So Scott Jennings continues to entertain on the panel with Abby Phillip on CNN. And he said to his table mates, he goes, you mentioned the Europeans. It's interesting to me.

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They spent more money on Russian oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively. And then Scott Jennings said that the proposed mineral deal that got turned down by Zelensky or never got signed, he says the mineral deal is effectively a security guarantee. And what did Abby Phillips say? I have to do the Democrat idiot face because it doesn't make sense.

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You have to do a stupid face. And then Scott Jennings would say, well, actually it's the best kind because it puts our own interests, you know, tied to the welfare of the country. So it's actually a really good security thing, but it's not a security guarantee. It's not a security guarantee.

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Well, you know, my book loser think there's a chapter in there, which I talk about people who argue by definition. You can't win an argument with a definition. That's like not even playing. And that'd be Philip is one of the definition people. Oh, but that's not called a, no, that would not be called a security guarantee. So let me ask you this.

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Remember when Kamala Harris and the US and Europe, they were all promising Ukraine that, you know, NATO would be helping them. And they were meaning that they would let Ukraine into NATO if certain conditions were met. And Those were kind of like security guarantees, weren't they? And what did that cause to happen? Russia invaded the country.

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So how about the time when Clinton promised, was it Clinton who promised Putin that we wouldn't be adding NATO countries on the border of Russia? And then we did. So how about those security guarantees? Now, I would agree that if you're a NATO country, you're safer than if you're not.

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But to imagine that we wouldn't sell out with somebody for our own best interest, or anybody really, any country would, countries only operate in their best interest. So Scott Jennings is completely correct that having a big financial interest in the country probably keeps them a lot safer than if we didn't.

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But if the only thing we did is said, hey, I promise you, if they attack, we'll be there tomorrow. Can you trust that? Is that enough of a guarantee? What does it take to be a guarantee? It's not like there's some court that could make us do it. What if we say, well, that's a special case. We can't get involved in that. So I think the definition, this is also a very democratic thing to do.

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to insist that there's only one definition of a thing and just act like it. We don't think that biological men should compete with women in sports. They're called women. The definition of them are called women.

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Yeah, but we're not arguing the definition of words. We're just saying that biological men, they're stronger, and so there's a risk and sort of an unfairness to the women.

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And then they do the same thing with January 6th. They start with, first, let's agree that this is an insurrection. Well, actually, almost nobody who was there, or maybe some tiny percent, would have thought of it that way. Almost everybody who protested on January 6th thought that they might be stopping an insurrection.

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So really it would be closer to the opposite of an insurrection, a protest perhaps. Oh, it's an insurrection.

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So once you see the pattern that Republicans argue about what works, you know, what are the motivations? What are the incentives? What does the system look like? That's how Republicans argue. And then the Democrats argue definitions, which is not even an argument. It's literally what a child would do. But you said, you said you'd take me to ice cream.

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I know, but it's raining and the car is broken. But you said, you said. I know, it's just I can't because the car is broken, but we'll go tomorrow. But you said, you said. It's just a child argument over and over again. So Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is joining the group trying to see if they can put together a purchase deal for TikTok.

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I'm not supposed to laugh at this. It's a juvenile detention center. But apparently they were organizing, the officers were, not the inmates, But the guards were organizing gladiator fights where they would just all meet in a certain place at a certain time and fight it out.

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I don't know how many groups there are looking at it now, but they're pretty serious people. So if the most serious people can't make a deal to buy TikTok, who can? So a post by John Stossel. And if you didn't know this, I knew this, but it kind of fits into the stories today.

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So this is an old, old story, but he mentions, John Stossel does, that the New York Times covered up Stalin's famine when he was starving people, Stalin was, while millions starved. Now, why did the New York Times cover up one of the crimes of the century, starving millions of people? Why would they cover that?

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Well, it turns out that their star reporter, Walter Durante, but also his colleagues, they liked communism's utopian promises. This is John Stossel writing. And the status he got when his exclusive interviews, he could do exclusive interviews with Stalin. So literally, the New York Times was ignoring the biggest story happening, the most horrible, incredible bad thing.

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That's what I like to see. I'm ready. Are you ready? Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take it up to doge levels, you know what I mean? All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or tails to style in a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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Let me tell you something that you wouldn't know unless you've been interviewed lots of times, like I have. It is completely normal for entities to change what you said and put it in quotes. Let me say that again. It's completely normal. I'm not saying it's good. Good is separate. We'll talk about whether it's a good.

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It's completely normal for me to do an interview and for them to make up a quote, put quotation marks around it and assign it to me. Did you know that that's normal? It's normal. It's really weaselly, and almost always they get a quote wrong, meaning that when they make up their quote, it's not what you would have said, and it's not even something you'd agree with. Unfortunately, that's normal.

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There will be some damn thing that the US government will have to protect our AI industry, and the way we'll do it is make it somehow impractical or illegal to use the Chinese version. And here we are. Now, this particular effort might not pass, but you can see what's coming, right? The government is not going to let you use a free Chinese AI. That's just not going to happen.

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Now, if the made-up quote is so bad, maybe you'd have some action, maybe you'd demand some correction or something. But I hate to tell you how normal that is. Now, there's another kind of normal at it, where they make you look smarter than you were. But the reason they do that has more to do with being good TV.

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It's not as much about making you look good, although they do like you to look good, because then other people will come on your show. If you're a show where you depend on people coming on and saying what they think, you want to make them look good, so that the next person you ask doesn't say, well, I saw what you did with the last one. There's no way I'm going to go into that torture.

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So you have to be good to your subjects in a fairly public way to stay in business. So here's what would seem to you like a very inappropriate edit, and you could argue it isn't appropriate. But I'm going to only tell you the context, how normal it is. So let's say if what Kamala Harris did was stumble over a question, but maybe she circled back to it in another part of the interview.

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This is not what happened. I'm just giving you a for example. So let's say the first time she maybe heard the question wrong or she used the word wrong or she stumbled over a word. But then a minute later, She circled back because she knew she didn't give a good answer and then gave you a nice, tight answer.

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Well, you could argue that showing both answers would be more true because you could see that she messed up one answer, but then you'd see that she got a tight, nice answer when she thought about it for a moment. It would be completely normal for the editors to take out the muffed-up answer because it makes a cleaner video. Oh, this is what she thinks. She said it once not so well.

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She said it once well. Let's show the one where she said it well. Would that be, do you get sued for that? Well, maybe, because in the context of a political race, can this person think and talk at the same time is a real big question. If it were a celebrity, just let's say any Hollywood celebrity,

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you would absolutely make that edit and it would be the right thing to do because you just want the right, you want them to look good. You want the audience to like it. You don't want them to see all the, you know, tripping over their own words. So yes, that would be an appropriate edit.

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So where it gets interesting is that the only context where that kind of tightening up editing is inappropriate or at least questionable is is the exact thing that they were doing, which is introducing the country to Kamala Harris in a tense situation. Under that very specific situation, the public kind of needs to see the whole thing because it's the stumbling over the words that is the show.

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That's the meat. That's not the fluff that you cut off the top. Oh, let's get rid of some fluff and get down to the meat. No, the meat would be when she flubbed something because that's exactly what everybody was looking for. So I think the Trump people have an argument, but I think I'm going to side with 60 Minutes only on the sense that I don't think they can win if it went to court.

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They might settle. And that would be a win in itself. But I don't think they could win in court because it's too close to normal. Too close to normal. It isn't. Like I said, it's a special case, but I don't think it's enough of a special case to convince a jury. Well, so Jake Tapper was talking to Democrat Chris Murphy yesterday.

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And Chris Murphy was listing all the terrible things about, I don't know, Elon Musk and Trump or whatever. But one of the things in his list, Chris Murphy's list, was that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute. And I'm watching this and I'm saying to myself, is Jake Tapper going to let that go? Is he going to let him say that Musk made a Nazi salute when we know that's not true?

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And if they did, it would be the dumbest thing that we ever did. It would be the TikTok risk times a trillion. I mean, this isn't a tough decision. It will be illegal. or impractical or kneecapped or something, or has to run on an American server. By the way, did you see Trump the other day? I guess it was yesterday.

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And Jake Tapper knows that's not true. Is he going to let that stand? To his credit, Jake Tapper said at the end, he let Chris Murphy finish, and he said, just, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like, you know, just to clarify, the Trump campaign says that was not a Nazi salute, but we haven't heard from Elon Musk. What...

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You haven't heard from Elon Musk because you think he's going to fucking confirm it was a Nazi salute? Or you think there's some fucking possibility it was one? You piece of shit. You fucking piece of shit, Jake Tapper. You know it wasn't intended. You know it wasn't.

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And the reason you don't have a quote from Elon Musk is because it's too fucking stupid to even consider answering it directly because nobody with a brain over IQ of 70 thinks that is real. We all know it's a stupid fucking question. It's a stupid fucking hoax. It's like the fine people hoax. It's despicable that you would even let that thing continue.

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And it is a complete, complete embarrassment to CNN. Just a total embarrassment. So remember the correct response to the, did Elon give the Nazi salute? The correct response is, Only a fucking idiot would think that. Oh, but did you see what his arm did? Yes. And only a fucking idiot would think he gave a Nazi salute at that time in history.

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Smartest guy we know, standing in front of a crowd, many crowds he's been in front of, he knows how that works. And you think, you're so dumb, you think he gave an intentional Nazi fucking salute. You're an idiot. There's no other conversation to be had. Oh, but his hand was definitely above his waist. No, you're a fucking idiot. End of story.

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So then, right after that, because I like watching CNN. and imagining that I'm telling people all the propaganda as it happens. Like I have this fantasy that I'll get a hold of some college students or maybe some older high school kids in a class and say, I want to show you CNN or MSNBC, and I'm going to stop it every time it goes from news to propaganda. Stop. Okay.

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You see where he's acting as if there's some ambiguity about the Nazi salute? That's not news. That's propaganda, what you're watching. All right, turn it on. The next thing they do is they go to a package where somebody is trying to make the case, their correspondent, that what Trump is doing is exactly what the 2025 project said he would do, and all the smart news people have been warning you.

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They've been telling you. They've been telling you he's going to use that 2025 as his guideline, and now two-thirds of the things he's done are right in line with the document. Two-thirds. Yep, two-thirds. And so they smugly rest their fucking stupid faces like, got it. We got him. Two-thirds. We told you. Yeah, they denied it. Those lying Republicans denied it, but two-thirds of what he did.

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Two-thirds. Look at my smug, stupid fucking face. We got him. Got him this time. Any of you who have even been casually following the news, you know that when Trump said, you know, I haven't read it, that's not my document. You know that everybody said that the document was mostly regular Republican stuff. Right? Don't all of you know that? I'll bet everyone watching here knows.

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He was in the Oval Office, and as he likes to do now, he was signing an executive order but chatting with reporters. And then there were two visitors to his office who makes you wonder why they were there at the same time. They just came in to watch the event. One of them was Larry Ellison, and the other was Rupert Murdoch. Now, these are two people that Trump knows pretty well.

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I'll bet every one of you, every one of you probably knows. that the document was always mostly ordinary Republican stuff. And the argument was that there was some stuff in it that was a little more extreme than the ordinary Republican stuff.

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And the argument from Trump was that he hadn't seen it, so he's not buying into that stuff that maybe people think is a little beyond what Republicans typically do. And so... What CNN discovered in their gotcha was exactly what the Republicans have been saying since the beginning. Most of that document is normal stuff that, of course, we agree with.

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The things that you're talking about, like I think it was a national ban on abortion, Trump is on record repeatedly saying he doesn't want it. So that's just one example. So they ended up proving exactly what Republicans claimed. It's mostly...

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mostly normal stuff and then there's a bunch of it that trump doesn't endorse and he didn't do any of those things he didn't do any of those things that he didn't endorse that's in the document so they actually ran a piece that was pure propaganda in which their idiot viewers who were just kept in the dark about any kind of context believed that they saw a proof

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that the entire election the republicans were lying about the 2025 and the news was right all along exactly the opposite happened unbelievable anyway um according to the bbc in the news uh The BBC, they say they're confident, according to their experts, their experts are confident that the L.A. fires were being made worse by climate change. Hmm. Let's see, how can you be confident about that?

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Was it because one of your climate models said that L.A. would have a fire this year? No. No, there was no model that said that. So if you don't have models that can predict what's going to happen in any one microlocation, Why would you say that your models are telling you that that was going to happen in that micro location? Wait till you find out about climate models.

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I know many of you watching this are skeptical about climate change and the climate models in particular. But wait till you find out. We're going to talk about USAID and finding out the deepest, darkest, most corrupt part of the government has been discovered. And it probably blew your mind when you first started learning about USAID. Wait till you find out about the climate models.

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It's the only thing I can say with complete certainty. Oh, there will be a day. Might not be that far away. But someday there's going to be a whistleblower. And somebody who actually works on the models is going to tell you how they do it. And you're not going to like it. And this is one that I can wait forever for. You know, sometimes I'll make a prediction and it's like 20 years off.

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And I'll be like, I can wait. You can mock me for 20 years. I'll just wait. And there it is. But yeah, wait till you find out about the models. All right. So the other things that are sort of fake news is there's no Panama deal. Panama made an offer to get rid of the Chinese operators of the canal in two years when the deal was going to expire.

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When that was reported by many people as a big success, I said, there's no deal. That's an offer. Until Trump says there's a deal, you don't have a deal. That's just an offer. And so what did Trump say when he was asked about it? He goes, we'll see. We'll see. It's not everything I want. So Trump was still negotiating. So no, we don't have a deal on Panama. We have an offer.

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And Larry Ellison was also there not long ago. So it seems like Larry Ellison, Larry Ellis, seems like he's in the White House a lot recently. What do you think that's about? I'm going to go out on a limb. and say it could be that the reason Larry Ellis and Rupert Murdoch were there at the same time, I wonder if they're going to invest in TikTok.

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The offer seems like a, I would say a good faith offer. I hope so. But Trump may say, good faith or not good faith, our national interest requires something extra, maybe something faster, maybe something that involves, I don't know, could be something else. So Trump being good at negotiating doesn't just say yes to the first offer. He says, that's a good start. What else can you give me?

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Because you're not there yet. So he knows how to do this. So trust him. He knows how to do it. Likewise, the Mexico deal is not exactly a deal until a lot of other things are decided. But it does appear that Mexico says they're going to put 10,000 people on the border. And Canada may also not be the deal that we think it is, meaning that they may not be able to do the things that he said.

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There was a whole bunch of offers that came out of Justin... Trudeau's office, he posted it on X. He was going to do things like create task forces to work on fentanyl, put lots of bodies on the border, have a whole bunch of fentanyl related, you know, legal efforts. So it was a pretty long list and it looked pretty serious and it looked like kind of exactly what you'd want them to do.

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And it was a budget attached and everything. But apparently the Canadian government is in such disarray with Trudeau having resigned but still in the job that it's unclear whether they can budget and execute. So they may have made a promise that they can't deliver or can't deliver right away or can't deliver until the government changes or they do something to pass a new budget.

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So that might get a little lost in the bureaucracy. We'll see. But that's why both Mexico and Canada have 30 days, because they're not there yet. The reason Trump put off the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for 30 days is because they were moving in the right direction. Not because they were there. If they were there... where Trump needed them to be. They wouldn't delay 30 days.

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They would say, oh, okay, tariffs are off. You gave me what I need. But he also talks about tariffs being a source of income and he loves them. So maybe nothing makes them go away. Now on CNN, one of their dumbest panelists, I can't remember which one, the one who always does the over-talking of Scott Jennings.

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You know, whenever he talks, she goes, and shakes her head like a bobblehead so that you can only look at her. She said that Trump failed on Mexico and Canada. And you would say, wait, what? Both of them offered him what, you know, at least some part of what he wanted. And her argument on CNN was, no, all they offered was what they were going to do anyway. So he didn't get anything. What?

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What reporting is that based on? Now, I mention it because it's in the realm of something that could be true, meaning I don't reject it automatically. But what reporting is she seeing? I've seen no reporting that says Canada was going to do all those things anyway, so all they did was tell you what they were going to do anyway. I think, did she just make that up?

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I don't even understand that that could be on TV. Because if it's true, then all the reporting would say that on CNN and MSNBC, and they'd say, ha ha, you got nothing. But if only one person believes it was going to happen anyway, so nothing happened, how do you keep that person on the air? I mean, that's just making up stuff, isn't it? But I'm open to be wrong.

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I'm open to finding out there was something to that complaint. I don't think so, but I'll be open-minded for a minute or two. Anyway, according to the Gateway Pundit and other sources as well, there's a new survey, KPMG survey, that says half of Canadian businesses, 48% actually, are planning to move production or investments to the U.S. to stay competitive. Let me put this in context.

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So Trump says they would make a good state, but you say to yourself, oh, Scott, come on. They're not going to go from a country to a state. Like nobody's going to do that. I mean, it's so far away, so far away from anything that's possible. It's way outside the realm of possibility because they're a whole functioning country.

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Do you think that maybe they would be involved in that, or at least Ellis? So I've got a feeling there's going to be an announcement soon about some American entity buying the TikTok assets, but not the algorithm. So look for that, and don't be surprised If you see some billionaires, pardon her up to do that because it's expensive.

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If you're a whole functioning country, you're not just going to give yourself up to be a subset of some other nation. That's never going to happen. Did I mention that half of the Canadian businesses are looking to move to America? If half of your businesses are looking to move to America, I'm going to whisper this in Biden fashion because it needs a Biden whisper.

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If half of your companies are considering moving out of your country, you're already not a country. You're more like a Schrodinger's cat country. You might be a country, but there's just as good an argument that you're not one already because you can't even keep your businesses. If half of your businesses are looking to get the hell out of your country,

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and they have the ability to do so, and they've already got plans and operations to move out of your country, you're already closer to a state than a nation. Now, I'm not going to predict that Canada will become a state, but every time I think that things are a mile from possible, and then Trump keeps talking, and then something happens where I go, Really?

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Could this actually tip in the direction of actually happening? We're watching Trump just change reality right in front of us. Like, what is possible? I'll tell you. I have mixed emotions about this one. My common sense, ha ha ha, I don't have any, tells me there's no way that Canada becomes a state. Just no way. But then I see stuff like that, that half of the companies want to get out of there.

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And then Trudeau's already resigned. I don't know. Maybe they're not as much of a country as they think they are. Maybe it's closer than you think. I'll still bet against it. But Trump shaking the box that hard, it always works for him. Trump goes in and shakes the entire box. Well, we're going to make you a state. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, we're going to put a tariff on you.

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Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Well, how about you just do a whole bunch of things you weren't doing to secure the border? Okay. Watching Trump shake that box until they will take absolutely any path that gets the box to stop shaking. Because the thing they can't stand is the shaking. Oh, you've got to stop shaking this box. Well, what are you going to do for me?

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Well, I'm not going to do anything for you. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Hey, I can do a little for you. Can you? Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Oh, I can do a lot for you. I can do a lot for you. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I can do more than I've ever said I could ever do for anybody. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

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I can do more than anybody in the whole world has ever done for anybody. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Okay. It's fun to watch. One of the things that Trump does better than anybody when it comes to persuasion is creating a clear difference between making him happy and making him unhappy. Nobody does that better. If you make me happy, oh, man, I'm going to praise you.

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Your career will look good. You're going to get votes. You're going to get funding. You'll be nationally loved. But if I don't like you, I'm going to primary your ass. I'm going to look at charges. I'm going to sue you. I'm going to basically take everything I have and put it against you. I'm going to tariff you. I'm going to put my military on your property. There is no better technique.

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So Trump, apparently, he's suing the Pulitzer Prize board members for what he would consider giving a prize for the fake news that was reporting on the Russia collusion hoax. So imagine... being the writers for the New York Times, and you're writing about the Russia collusion like it's real. Turns out none of it was real, but you missed the entire story.

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The single best technique is to make the widest gap between giving him what he wants and not giving him what he wants. Nobody does that better. And that is real basic persuasion. If you don't get that part right, you know who doesn't get that part right? Somebody like Justin Trudeau, right? Because he's the nice guy. Oh, we're nice, we're nice, we're empathy, we're nice. We're nice, we're nice.

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Oh, oh, we're going to fight back hard. We don't like that. But we're nice, we're nice on the other things. We're nice, so be our friends. Oh, we have a mild displeasure with that thing you're doing. Oh, we don't like it. There's no difference between Justin Trudeau being happy and being unhappy. Like you don't feel any incentive to give him what he wants because he's a nice guy.

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But you definitely feel an incentive to give Trump what he wants because the difference between happy and unhappy Trump is a really big difference. That's good stuff. That's the leader you want. Marco Rubio went to El Salvador and got a nice surprise.

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So Bukele, head of El Salvador, who, as you know, cleaned up the gang problem in El Salvador by building gigantic prison systems and just locking up everybody with a tattoo. I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit. He pretty much locked up everybody with a face tattoo. I'm sure they had other charges, but I'm also sure that the face tattoo was plenty enough. So did that work?

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Yes, because the gang members put face tattoos on. I'm exaggerating about the face tattoos to make a point that he just made sure he got everybody. And then he makes an offer to the US through Rubio that if America has a bunch of criminals from other countries... that he can take some of the criminals and put them in their prison system, and they'll just charge us.

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So he'll just charge a fee, so we'll have a cheaper solution that keeps them in prison, but not in our prisons. And then I suppose when they get out, then it would be El Salvador's problem about what to do with them. I guess they'd repatriate them. I don't know. They would have an option. But that's a hell of a good offer, isn't it?

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Every time you see Bukele's actions, they have a Trump-like quality to them, don't they? Like you don't see it coming, which is wonderful because then you can't stop talking about him and thinking about him because he did something that other people don't do. And, you know, he made a big point that El Salvador's most important relationship is the United States, biggest trading partner.

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They use the U.S. dollar. And he just wants to make it super clear that being friends with him is a good idea and being against him is a really bad idea. Huh. Huh. Where do you learn that? So being against them means that you're going to be locked up in prison. Being for him means getting some excellent suggestions like, hey, how about we take some of your excess prisoners? You pay us.

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We've got a prison system. They'll fit right in. That's what you need. So here's the real deal. who Kelly is in terms of persuasion. Right. Uh, if there's anything else that goes wrong with him, I don't take responsibility. The only, the only thing I'll take responsibility for is saying, Oh, he's got the full game. All right. He has a whole package.

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So he, he does that thing where being his friend is a way better deal than not being his friend. He gets all of it. Right. Speaking of getting it right. Um, The big story on the Doge, we'll talk about Doge, is that there are some young people who have key roles. I don't know how many older people there are who also have key roles, but the ones we're talking about are four 20-ish year old kids.

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Everything that mattered about the story was that it wasn't real. That was the story. So the people who got the Pulitzer Prize I don't know how many people are involved, but New York Times got Pulitzer Prize, one of the writers at least, didn't get anything right and got a Pulitzer Prize. So this seems a little extreme to go after the Pulitzer Prize committee.

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I'll call them kids because I'm old, who are literally geniuses. And we're not talking about somebody who just did well on their SATs. We all know somebody who did well in their SATs. I know people who aced their SATs. I know a guy who got one wrong on his SATs. He was a server at my old restaurant, a young guy. He got one wrong, and he retook the SATs. He retook them because he got one wrong.

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One. One thing. He retook it. Got it all right. Now, that's a really smart person. And he's not anywhere in the same category as these four young people that Elon Musk hired. They're the real deal. It's one thing to be able to ace your SATs. That's very impressive, by the way. I couldn't do it. I couldn't get anywhere near that.

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But these guys, and they're all guys, they're in a whole different level. I mean, you've heard some stories about what they've done already. And so, of course, the Democrats, who don't know how anything works, are all concerned that these young, inexperienced people are looking at some of the most important things in the government and making decisions.

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Now, they're not going to make final decisions. But they're like a super weapon that can drill through any impenetrable topic. They will not be stopped by complexity. They will not be stopped by, oh, this is hard. They will not be stopped by anything. That's what makes them who they are. They just won't be stopped. Now, here's the thing that I don't understand. But neither does anybody else.

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And that's going to be my point. If I said to you, I'm going to take this guy who got 100% of everything right on the SATs, and I'm going to hire him as my lawyer, could I predict how well he'll do? Yes. Yes, you could. You would predict that he's not going to forget anything important. He's going to take the best arguments. He's going to put in the work. Yeah. Yeah.

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That'd be quite predictable, but it would be predictable within the ordinary world because there are ordinary lawyers who do good jobs. You say, yeah, he's going to be one of those. I predict he'll do a good job and you'd be right. You know what you can't predict? Geniuses. Geniuses. And you can't predict the rate that they can do anything.

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If you had somebody, you know, a Rubik's cube and they're an expert, They don't do it a little bit better than you did. It's like they're a different animal. It's like you're looking at a domain you know nothing about. You can't look at these four geniuses and predict anything, anything, except they're going to get to the bottom of it. I don't know how fast.

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It might be faster and better than anything you've ever seen in your life. They might be already building AI tools that didn't even exist just to solve a problem, right? That's how smart they are. We're talking about Isaac Newton level. Like if he needs some calculus to solve a problem, you invent calculus, right? That's what we're talking about. These are not normal people.

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So just the fact that they're on our side, oh my God, that's who you want on your side. Of course, they've been doxxed because the Democrats have one play, which is, huh, you're smarter than us? Maybe we can kill you. They got that one thing. Huh, you're more capable than we are? Perhaps we can change the laws so you can't do that anymore. Huh, you're really, really good at what you do?

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Hmm, maybe we need some DEI in there to stop that. That's really all they have is stopping good people from doing good things. That's basically the Democrat Party. Yeah, anyway. Somebody named Dylan Patel was on a podcast talking about Elon Musk trying to catch up in the AI world. So Elon Musk got, I guess you could call it a late start because he was early with funding open AI, but then he

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But on the other hand, wouldn't you like to know how they made the decision? Wouldn't you like to know if the decision was entirely based on the quality of the writing? Or were there any other considerations, such as, well, let's get that Trump guy. We'll give an award to the people going after him.

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pulled out of that effort. And when OpenAI burst on the scene, he tried to be a fast follower, but to overtake them as quickly as possible with a better game. And his game is so good that he's already built the world's largest AI cluster, 200,000 GPUs. Those would be NVIDIA boxes. And I didn't know this. Apparently he bought a factory in Memphis and

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And he upgraded the substation, tapped into a natural gas line, and is burning gas to generate power. Okay, that's impressive. But now he's building his own natural gas plant next door, deploying Tesla megapacks for stable power and using industrial chillers for his water-cooled chips. So remember I told you that the thing you can't predict about the four geniuses is how fast they can do anything.

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That's the, we don't understand. It's like your dog trying to figure out why the light comes on when you enter the room. The dog will never figure that out. They just, they can't get there. So when you say Elon Musk is starting behind on AI, it's Elon Musk. Of course he's ahead already. Of course he is. Because he can do stuff that you can't do. So there it is.

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And he hires people who can do stuff that you can't do too. So, yeah, he's scaling up fast. No doubt about it. All right. Let's talk about USAID. Now, on one hand, it's the hardest topic in the world to talk about unless somebody is already a little bit up to speed. Like, what the hell is it? So it's a it's something that the it's part of the government.

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But it's a part of the government that works as a giant money laundering system for Democrats. Now, that's not something I could have said with complete confidence until Doge got in there and found out that it's a giant money laundering thing for Democrats. Now, it's not the only thing it does. So what makes it complicated is that it's a mix of maybe some things you like.

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Maybe we funded some things in other countries, and you say, you know, that made sense. That helps us, and it's also good for the other country. But it seems like maybe most of it, or at least way too much of it, was dedicated to absolutely corrupt behavior, just 100% corrupt behavior. And one of the things it could do is it could launder money through these NGOs.

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These would be a non-government organization of which there are thousands. So let's see if I get this right. So if you're a Democrat and you support funding of USAID, the USAID will give some money to, let's say, an NGO that's doing something you like. And you say, oh, okay. There's my tax money. It went to an organization that has a name. At least the name is stuff I like.

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But then that organization has the ability to give some of their money to another NGO. What? How can it do that? Well, it can. There's nothing illegal about that. And then that NGO can give money to a campaign. of the Democrat who was in favor of funding the USAID. Now, I think I got that right.

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I'd be interested. I'd be interested to know. But one thing we can say for sure is that the Pulitzer Prize is worth nothing. I've told you that before. Quickly, I'll reiterate in case you don't know it.

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Now, you're going to say to me, they can't just donate the money that the government gave them back to a campaign. No, not unless they launder it. They have to launder it through these organizations so that by the time the organization donates to something that helps the – maybe to a PAC or to something that helps the campaign, it looks like it was just ordinary – some kind of ordinary donation.

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So – It does seem at this point that it's a major money laundering thing. And then you see people like Bill Kristol. He's getting some money from it. Some say the AOC was found by a process that was funded by the USAID, where they were looking to find young Democrats and turn them into high level politicians. She was part of a process.

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It was like American Idol, where they interviewed lots of people and they said, hey, we could turn you into something. So there are countless examples of what appear to be obvious corruption on top of what seem to be obviously bad ideas for funding. But where you see the bad ideas for funding, probably it's just a way to launder money into something that they really want to do.

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So now you might say to yourself, Scott, you don't need to get rid of it. You could just get rid of the parts you don't like, like fire some managers, do a reorg, get some real Republican leadership in there. But 98% of them appear to be Democrats, which means that they're part of the resistance.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better and happens right now. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. So, so good. There are two of them. I don't think there are two of them. Or are there? Well, let's see what's new.

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Which means, according to OMG, the O'Keefe Media Group, they just did an undercover sting and they got one of the USAID employees to say on camera, it was a hidden camera, that they were going to try to basically burrow in and thwart everything that Trump wants and just wait him out. Exactly what you thought was going to happen.

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Because basically the order could be given and then it gets into the bureaucracy and then the bureaucracy just slow walks it and says, oh, we can't do that or it's not in the budget or we don't have people or it's not our top priority or something. So basically the bureaucracy says, we're just going to thwart you.

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Some time ago, many years ago, there was a nationally known reporter in my apartment doing an interview with me about Dilbert and happened to mention that his spouse was on the Pulitzer Prize Committee. So she would be one of just a small group of people who would decide which books would win the Pulitzer Prize. And do you know what the system is?

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Now we only have one person on video, but there were reports and Elon Musk confirmed that that that is apparently the dominant opinion. The dominant opinion is that they're going to pretend that they're cooperating but thwart the administration. So what do you do in that situation? Only one thing to do. You've got to close the entire thing down. And that's what Trump's going to do.

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Just close the whole thing. $50 billion, some say $38 billion, but it's many billions, of money that they're just going to say, we're going to tuck that function temporarily under Marco Rubio. He's got somebody assigned to it. So it's part of the State Department, whereas before it was sort of operating as doing stuff for the State Department, stuff for the Pentagon, and stuff for the CIA.

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But now it's going to be tucked under Rubio, And he does understand that you can't just reform it. Most of it's just going to have to go away. So if you didn't have people who understood that the only way to fix it is to break it, you wouldn't have a leadership.

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If you have leadership that's smart enough and ballsy enough to say, we're going to just cut this down to nothing, and the only things we're going to put back, because they will put things back, are when the screaming is so loud that And the argument is so good. If you've got a good argument and there's a lot of energy, we're going to look at it.

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And maybe that one function gets added back, but we'll keep it under the State Department, maybe not under USAID. So it's perfect leadership, what you're seeing. It's messy. It's violent. I'm using that hyperbolically, not violence, violence. But it's violent in terms of the rhetoric, the firings, the death threats. The Doge team I was talking about, they got doxed. They already got death threats.

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But fortunately, the Trump DOJ has stepped in and said, you're going to jail if you do that again. If we catch anybody making death threats against these Doge guys, you're going to jail. Yeah, and then ActBlue, the group that collects money for the Democrats, somehow they were getting They were part of the money laundering operation. That's the allegation.

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I don't know the details on that, but there's an allegation like that. How are the Democrats taking the loss of USAID, which appears to be the beating heart of most of their corruption? How are they taking it? Well, oh, and then I should add that USAID was also the one, as Mike Benz does a great job of explaining, They funded external entities for the purpose of censoring U.S.

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domestic people like me. Not cool at all, USAID. So basically, USAID did everything you don't want to happen. If it's something you didn't want and it was corrupt, somewhere in USAID it was happening. So it's like this grab bag of corruption. The way Elon described it was one of the best descriptions you'll ever hear of anything.

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He said it would be easy to think it's like an apple that's got a worm in it. So if you get rid of the worm, you still have a pretty good apple. And he says, no, it's a bowl of worms. There's no apple. That is one of the best visual persuasive things you'll ever hear. Because worms are, you can't not see them. If I say a bowl of worms, you can see the bowl of worms.

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And as soon as I say it's not an apple with one worm, it's a bowl of worms, you'll never forget that. For the rest of your life, you'll remember that analogy. That's good. Now, that is good. I like the fact that Elon somehow he's also become an expert in persuasion. And I don't know to what extent he studies it or he's just picking it up by watching it done.

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They only look at the things that people submit, so you have to submit your own work. If you don't submit it, it's not up for the consideration. So they, first of all, are only looking at the people who submitted, and then they just read the books, and then they talk about which one they liked. Why in the world is that a prestigious prize?

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If the only thing he did was hang out with Trump, he would become incredible at persuasion. You just have to watch what Trump does. Watch the visual language. Just watch it all. And you'll learn. There's an account on X called Aesthetica.

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And this Estetica, whoever runs the account, I don't know who it is, apparently has some friends that are connected in the Democrat world, and they're panicking quite a bit about this USAID thing. Now, isn't that interesting that most of you never even heard of USAID, didn't even know what it was, but the Democrats are panicked?

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Why would they be panicked over this thing you never heard of until recently? Well... Let me tell you why. According to Estetica, I talked to a friend who has connections within the Democratic Party, and he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down USAID is unlike anything he's ever seen. And it goes on. A direct quote, this is worse than 9-11 for Democrats. Wow.

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USAID is the primary vessel they use to achieve their political agenda. USAID is and always has been the primary source of funding for their influence peddling schemes and for their indirect source of income. Indirect source of income.

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Everybody you see going public saying it's a terrible mistake, almost all of them are getting funded by USAID, but it's hard to tell because it might go through a few different stages before it gets to them. Another text says, Based on the reactions from within the party, it seems to me that dismantling USAID is Trump's biggest political victory to date. It was his enemy's golden goose.

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Yep, it's their bank. And indeed, it's a bigger bank than Soros. You thought Soros was their bank. He was their second biggest bank. USAID was the big one. Even including funding the Soros prosecutors. USAID funded twice as much as Soros did for Soros prosecutors.

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Just imagine that Soros has a multiplier so that he doesn't have to spend all of his money, that USAID is sort of matching his donations, so to speak. Wow. Wow. And then it goes on. He said initial plans by the Democrats is to have their people of USAID hide the partisan funding under unimpeachable initiatives. So in other words, funding AIDS prevention.

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And then people go, oh, I can't get rid of that. So they will push back really hard on certain line items that on the face look like reasonable USAID expenditures. So the thing you have to get rid of is the things that look the most like something you'd want to keep, because that's where they're going to hide the good stuff.

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So that's where they'll hide their political spending, exactly what I said. Now, how do you fix that? If you know the insiders say they're going to try to hide their funding so that they can keep their influence budget intact, you have to get rid of the whole thing. There's no other way to play it. You've got to get rid of the whole thing. And that's what's going to happen.

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What is that little group of book readers, the best book readers of all time, and their taste should extend to the rest of the world? It's a ridiculous prize. You know, I do appreciate prizes where experts make the decisions. Experts. or a prize where the entire public decides, oh, you're our favorite actor or actress. I get that.

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Now, I do worry, and Mike Benz warns against this too, I do worry that we celebrate too soon because every part of this octopus is going to be fighting. Like every arm is going to be, and they're not started yet. They haven't started yet, but man, they're going to put up a fight. Now let's see who's against it.

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Now the beauty of the USAID thing, like nothing I've ever seen before, is that the people who are the most corrupt are are the ones who are going to raise their head like prairie dogs and take the lead in saying it's a bad idea to close USAID.

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And you're going to be able to identify all of the bad guys, meaning the people who are either literally corrupt or at least strong backers of a corrupt system. So Joy Reid claims that Trump adding any oversight to USAID is equivalent to staging a coup. Okay, there you go. So Joy Reid and MSNBC are part of the corruption. That's all you need to know.

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Anybody who's taken the side of USAID, now that we know it's a bowl of worms, is a bowl of worms. So all the worms in the bowl are like, oh, oh, don't do it. Don't do it. I'm a good worm. I'm a good worm. No. Joy Reid, all right, so you've made yourself obvious. Jen Psaki, also an MSNBC, suggests that Musk targeting USAID because he was uncomfortable how the agency combated corruption.

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Oh, yeah, it's not the corruption of the agency. It's that they combat corruption. Yes. What does that sound like? It sounds like everything the Democrats ever say about everything. Whatever you accuse them of, they go, well, it's not us. That's exactly what you're doing. That's what you're doing. It's all they do, projections. So, yes, Jen Psaki is part of the worms.

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And then, was it Van Jones, I think on CNN, said that... that Donald Trump is saying by cutting USAID for all these valuable services, that he's saying, basically, we don't care. You go die. That's the message from the United States government, according to Van Jones. Do you think Van Jones gets any indirect funding from USAID? I don't know. But that would be my assumption.

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Or at least friends of his do, or important interests do. So Van Jones, we're adding you to the prairie dogs who raised their head and wanted to back USAID. See how useful this is. This is the most useful thing you've ever seen. I tell you all the time that if you know what happened, you don't know anything. Because the what happened always has some context that's missing.

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The narrative is always magical spinning anyway. So if you only know what happened... In this case, several public figures said cutting USAID is a bad idea. That's what happened. You wouldn't know anything. But if I told you who did it, well, now you know everything. As soon as you know who the players are, well, now you know everything. I'll go on. Jamie Raskin is taking the lead.

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Raskin is like the symbol of of the worst parts of the Democrat lying corrupt machine, if he's involved, then anybody else who's taking his side, bowl of worms. Bowl of worms. AOC is taking a strong stand against cutting the USAID.

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I mean, that's a pretty good prize if the entire group voted for it. But if you won three out of five votes in a five-person committee, that means nothing. Nothing. You know that there are going to be virtue signaling and saying, oh, here's one about a crippled black lesbian, so this is the best book ever written. You know it's like that, right? So no, the Pulitzer Prize is a ridiculous thing.

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Huh. Bowl of worms. Anyway. So... There's also a possibility that Congress, especially some Republicans, and this is something Mike Benz warns about, might not vote to close USAID because there's some conversation about whether Trump has the right to do what he's doing. But I say it's within the executive branch, so yes, he does.

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But if Congress needs to vote on it, or if they just vote on it, they could override the president. So they could vote to keep it open, for example, and then he'd have a problem. But it wouldn't happen unless some Republicans voted to keep it open. So what's going to happen if some Republicans vote to keep it open now that we know it's a bowl of worms?

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Well, it would certainly identify those Republicans as part of the corruption. Do you agree that there is no way any Republican can be in favor of keeping USAID at this point unless they're part of the corruption? So what happens if they do? What happens if they pop up and there's a few Republicans who say, oh, it's so important, we've got to keep it?

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Well, you're going to have to do something about that because this is way too big to just say, well, that's their opinion, that's the way our system works, we didn't get the votes, too bad. Not in this one. Way too big. If some Republicans break ranks on this, Trump's going to have to finish him. He's just going to have to put him into retirement or into jail.

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Now, jail only if they broke some law, but pretty much all of them are breaking some law. I wouldn't want to start with the person that looked for the crime, but probably in every case, everybody already knows the crime and they just have to pursue it if they feel like it. So

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If you're a Republican and you're thinking of voting to keep USAID at this point with as much as we know about it, you better plan for retirement or at least lawyer up because it's going to get real expensive and it would be the worst decision you ever made in your life. So we hope that doesn't happen, but it would reveal who on the Republican side is corrupt.

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So we're just waiting for the little prairie dog heads to pop up so we can add them to the Raskin AOC MSNBC bowl of worms. All right. I know I'm going to get taken out of context for calling people worms. Let me just be clear. People are not worms. Even the people I don't like are not worms. It's just a good analogy. So when I say they're in the bowl of worms, they're not worms.

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They're people I deeply disagree with who may or may not be corrupt. But people are not worms. All right. Confirmation update. So the ones we're waiting on to see if they get confirmed would be RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi. At the moment... the betting markets have all of them looking good. Do you think the betting markets are an accurate representation?

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I don't think so in this case, because I think that if any Republicans break ranks on any of these candidates, they'd be doing it for kind of personal corrupt reasons. And I don't think the betting markets can identify people who have personal corrupt reasons. So I worry that the betting market is in no way predictive. We'll see. All I can say is to remind people that if RFK Jr.

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gets voted down by some Republicans again... Those are some Republicans who better be planning to retire right away because life's going to get really hard after that. This one we're not going to take like normal business. Saving children from chronic illnesses. I'm sorry, that's a little bit bigger than politics. We're not going to treat it like politics.

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You're just going to have to leave the public scene. If you're going to vote against this, you can't be any part of the public conversation again. That's the end of your that's the end of your role in public one way or the other. No violence, of course. Obviously, no violence. But the pushback is going to be brutal. Reputation wise. All right.

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I saw a meme that I laughed about for, I think, 45 minutes straight. I tried to get some work done, but I couldn't stop laughing about it. And you've seen the meme where there's somebody nervously looking at two buttons, and they only have two buttons. And the meme gets repurposed for lots of different topics, but it always makes me laugh. But I saw one where it was the Democrats...

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Well, the U.S. Navy, according to the Daily Mail, the U.S. Navy has a big old laser weapon they're testing, and apparently they can just laser out of the sky a drone from five miles away. Now, what used to be the problem with lasers, is that they would use up all their energy and then you'd have to recharge them. How are you going to do that? It's going to take a while.

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who only had two buttons, and one of the buttons is labeled, Bring Up Eggs, and the other one is labeled, Bring Up Hitler. Now, one of my favorite things in the realm of humor is when somebody summarizes something so well that the summary is hilarious. This is a perfect summary. The Democrats have so little left in the tank, like they don't have anything to run on.

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They literally bring up eggs or Hitler, no matter what you're talking about. Huh? Eggs? Eggs or Hitler or eggs? Eggs or Hitler? I can't decide. Now that's funny. And it's not too far off. Greg Gottfeld on The Five yesterday was talking about how hard it's going to be for the Democrats to distinguish themselves from the party of common sense. It's the ultimate high ground.

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So Trump just owns common sense. It's why he won. It's the ultimate meat in the middle. How about we just do the things that make sense and we can argue about the other things separately. Common sense. Now, in order to run against common sense, You're either going to have to make some weird argument that only you have common sense and they don't, but nobody's going to believe that.

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Or you're going to have to argue that, as Gutfeld said, if you're trying to find some distance between common sense and the Democrats, the Democrats are going to have to start embracing bestiality and voodoo sacrifice. Because if you're trying to make some contrast with common sense, it's going to be a tough task.

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Anyway, I would argue that all of the smart people are on the same side at this point. The smart people who are not on the same side are corrupt or hypnotized. Now, some of them, like I always talk about my smartest Democrat friend, he is clearly just hypnotized. He's clearly hypnotized. Would you like a test to know if you're hypnotized? Do you believe that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute?

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If you believe it, you're hypnotized. Like, actually, literally hypnotized. Because that's not something any reasonable person would believe. That's so far outside the bounds of reasonable. If you ever believed that Trump said in public, knowingly and intentionally... Those neo-Nazis are fine people. If you ever thought that really happened in the real world, you're easily hypnotized.

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And you are hypnotized. If you believe that Trump once said, maybe we should drink some bleach or inject some household disinfectants into our body, if you think he ever said any of those things or anything like it, you're hypnotized. Those are things that you are more associated with cognitive dissonance. You don't really need an argument to learn that those things didn't happen.

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Do you know why I said all those things didn't happen the moment the rumor came up? Because if you're not hypnotized, you don't even need to look at the details. You just say, oh, no, he wouldn't give Nazi salute. No, nobody's complimenting Nazis in public from the presidency. That never happened. No, nobody's suggesting ingesting household disinfectants. You don't need to look at the details.

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So they'd be vulnerable during the recharging stage. But this particular laser is apparently powered by the power of the ship. And the article didn't say it, but I think that means the ship is powered by a small nuclear reactor, which means that it can kind of keep that weapon running the whole time. So I'm guessing maybe the ship has to slow down. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know.

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On the surface, those could only be believed by people who are literally hypnotized. literally hypnotized. Now, I don't mean that they sat in the chair and somebody did a hypnosis induction, but they're not operating in the real world. They're operating in an imaginary world in their head. And you can identify it by whether or not they embrace things like the fine people oaks and the Nazi salute.

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As soon as you find somebody who is, it doesn't matter what their IQ is. They're trapped because they can't use their IQ. Their IQ just gets turned off by the hypnosis. So let me modify my statement.

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I said that all the smart people are on one side, meaning that even if they don't like everything about Trump, they can recognize that what he's doing are exactly the things we need to have done, even if it's messy, and it will be messy. And they know that cutting the government budget is not a want, it's a necessity. We have to do it.

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And they know that cutting it in a way that's painful to a lot of people is is unfortunately 100% required. There's no way around it. So all the smart people who are not hypnotized are on the same side now. So you have to add the not hypnotized. Let me give you an example. So here's AOC, just gave a little video in which she said, I swear I'm not making this up. She was talking about Elon Musk.

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And she said about Elon Musk, quote, He is one of the most unintelligent billionaires I've ever met or seen. Then she added that Elon has a, quote, lack of intelligence and lack of expertise and is, quote, morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of. Okay, does that sound like a real person talking? Okay.

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Do I need to give like the counter argument about how Elon Musk actually is smart? No. You can just look at this and say, all right, either you're completely corrupt and you're just trying to save the USAID with a crazy argument, or you're hypnotized, or you're like my dog. You know, I use this example a lot. When I enter a room, the lights go on.

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Sometimes I use my voice to use it with my digital assistant. Sometimes I hit the switch on the wall. Sometimes the lights are motion detected. And my dog doesn't know why the lights come on when I enter rooms. The only thing my dog knows is that when she wants me to give her a treat, which is every single time I walk past her, and I don't give her a treat, I must be stupid.

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Oh my God, I must be the least intelligent human I've ever met or seen. My dog thinks my lack of intelligence and lack of expertise in giving dogs treats is morally vacant. But also, I might be the least knowledgeable thing about the systems involving treats for my dog. It's just so entertaining watching dogs Otherwise, normal people go into complete retardation. This is impressive.

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Nicole Shanahan was on Comic Dave Smith's podcast and said there's some mystery about Bernie Sanders. And she said, I quote, this is Nicole Shanahan, I asked myself, was Bernie a psyop all along? Was he a deep state plant? Now, she's just asking the question. She's not saying that he is. But the mystery is, why does Bernie act the way he does, especially lately? Like, what's behind it all?

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Maybe it can do both. Maybe it can navigate and also fire at the same time. But at the least, it can fire all day long. So it can just keep firing. It has infinite ammunition because it's just energy, and it's creating the energy where it sits. So that's kind of amazing. Do you think we can get to the point where... No, I guess... I think clouds are still a problem, right?

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Was he always being run by somebody else? Is he still being run by somebody else, and he's just a cutout for something? Now, I don't know the answers to any of it, but here's what I think is funny. that we've narrowed down what's wrong with Bernie to four possibilities. We meaning all of us. Four possibilities. I don't know which it is. One, Bernie is a deep state psyop and always was.

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Two, he's an idiot with good intentions. Three, he's an idiot with bad intentions. Or four, he's a deep state psyop and also an idiot with bad intentions. Those are the only possibilities. You can completely rule out He's an honest broker with good ideas that are different from yours. Yeah, there's something going on. And whatever it is, it's bad. So four choices.

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Well, I didn't know there's a Doge subcommittee in Congress, but apparently Marjorie Taylor Greene is the house chair of the Doge committee and subcommittee, I guess, and is going to invite in NPR's Catherine Mayer, that's the head of NPR, and PBS's Paula Kerger to testify about their bias. Now, this is in the context of one of the PBS, is it PBS or NPR? I forget, Uri Berliner, which is he, NPR?

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I think he's NPR. He was suspended because he complained about the bias in his employer, and now he's apparently now resigned. But he said that his employer went from a liberal knee-jerk It went from being biased, sort of liberal leaning, which we understand everybody's biased, so that's not the worst thing.

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But it went from being just liberal to a knee-jerk activist scolds, and he couldn't handle that anymore. Was that PBS or NPR? Those are being conflated in my mind. Anyway, it doesn't matter because I'm sure it was the same at both places. So we'll see what comes out of that. There are more Doge updates coming.

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There's something about the Department of Education that's going to be gutted or removed. The EPA might have 1,000 employees be gone. There's something about the NED, N-E-D. You're probably going to hear three more things. The best thing that Doge is doing, besides the good work they're doing,

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is that they're keeping that Overton window so rapid that the news can't use their main trick to brainwash the public. The main trick of the news is repetition. If they repeat something enough, their viewers think it must be true. I mean, it couldn't be on the news every single night unless it's true. Like somebody would have at some point said, hey, this isn't true.

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But if you're on CNN or MSNBC, they don't bring on the opposite voices that often. So although CNN does a real effort to do it, but it's always a minority voice. As long as they don't have too many people too often talking on the other side, they can just keep hitting their hoaxes until you think they're true. But they can't do that and also pretend they're a news organization and

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unless they cover all the new news. Because you're not going to turn on MSNBC if they're talking about what happened last month. You're looking for the new news. So as long as Doge and Trump keep creating new news, and it's like a fire hose, they have to spend time on it. And so Trump and Musk are using up all their shelf space. They only have so much time, and each show only has so much time,

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And they got to cover the news. There's nothing left for the endless repeating of the bullshit hoaxes. So if you take away their endless repeating of bullshit hoaxes, it essentially neuters the entire monster because it's their main tool. Their main tool is repetition of things that aren't true. It's the main tool. And the Overton window takes it away. It's brilliant.

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If you're using a laser weapon. Can you zap through a cloud if you could identify where something was? I don't know about that. Maybe the laser can go through the cloud. You just have to be able to identify where you're shooting by some other means. But anyway, that can be one of the biggest changes in all of military history. moving from bows and arrows to guns to rockets to lasers.

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I've never seen anybody do it like that before, but it's brilliant. So here's where we're getting close to the line of what is too far. And I do not mind when the Trump administration gets close to the line of what's going too far. Because often that's the only place that works. Sometimes you've got to be close to the line of what's going too far, and that's exactly where you want to be.

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And I would argue that in much of what's happening, getting real close to the line of going too far is right where I want them to be. But I don't want them to go too far. So with that context, apparently the... The Trump administration has gotten a hold of the names of all the FBI officials who worked on January 6th cases. So they've all been identified. I guess there were 5,000 or 6,000 of them.

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And there were 2,400 cases. Now, what the, yeah, there are 5,000 of them have been identified. So here's the thing you need to know. These are more the worker bees. These are not the leadership. So the FBI officials who are working on a case are the people who would work on other cases too, and they would be very experienced or they wouldn't be in those jobs.

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So if you lost 5,000 totally experienced people who were simply doing what their boss told them to do, that would feel like too far. If their only crime was, was to go to work and do the assignment their boss told them. Too far. But apparently they're all going to be given the chance to fill out a questionnaire in which you'll ask them, what exactly did you do?

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And my hope is that they look at each of them individually. I think it would be a mistake, and obviously Trump knows it would be a mistake, to just fire them. Because, again, they were not the decision makers.

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But I do imagine that if the questionnaire is correctly stated and let's say they're under oath to, I don't know if they'd be under oath, but it's at least a fireable offense if they lie on the document, I would think, government document. So let's get them on record. And if they ask the right questions and they're not gotcha questions, I will not put up with any gotcha questions.

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No fake questions on the questionnaire. That's not good enough. But if it identifies something like a strong bias, and I'm not sure how they would, then maybe in some cases those people got to go. If 4,000 of them get fired, I'm not going to be delighted because I don't know that they really looked at them individually and found out something that was decision-making on their part.

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But they might. They might. So this one is definitely right on the edge of too far. The thing that makes me pull back is that they are going to look at them individually. As long as you're looking at them individually and you tell us this needs to be transparent, you need to tell us what criteria you're using if any of them are fired. And I got to know that the criteria is being evenly applied.

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And it's a criteria that passes the sniff test. All right. So remember what I say over and over again, which is if you supported Trump, you're part of the team. And part of that team means that you need to be a guardrail wherever a guardrail needs to be put up. Now, We do like that, you know, Doge and Trump have a wide operating berth, right?

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You know, that they can operate without being constrained. But that's even more important, why the supporters need to be the guardrail. So let's make sure that we don't lose, you know, our own center on this. Make sure that you're helpful. Because if you're in the fight, you know, and Trump's in the fight, Elon's in the fight, you could easily just accidentally, lose sight of where that line is.

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So let's make sure that doesn't happen. So one of the ideas that Trump came up with is the sovereign wealth fund. And I realize that not everybody knows what that is. So that just requires a little bit of explanation. Interestingly, Joel Pollack's book, The Agenda, which came out in the summer, in the summary, suggests this very thing, that the US should have a sovereign wealth fund.

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We were always going to be with lasers. It was always going to happen. All right. It's called the Helios system. All right, let's talk about all of the hoaxes. You ready for this? You're not going to like it because not all the hoaxes are on one side. That's just the way it is. Sorry. All right.

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It's one of many suggestions in the book. It's a book full of suggestions of what Trump could do in the beginning of his term. And it was a great book. You should see it. So here's what a sovereign wealth fund is. It's basically where a country can make investments and then it just keeps it in the fund

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And then the country has access to that fund for whatever they might need it for later, which could be more investments. So the types of things that would be in this fund would be, for example, let's say if Trump gets his way with TikTok and he said, hey, the government of the United States should own half of it because if I don't approve its sale, it will be worth zero.

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So if the government has to be involved to make it have value, we should keep part of the value. So let's say that the government gets a bunch of shares of TikTok and the sale goes through and maybe Larry Elson or somebody buys it. And then a few billion dollars worth of value just gets in stock, gets put in this fund. Now we could sell it. or we could ride it.

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Because if we think it's going up and it's a good investment, well, we keep it. Then here's another thing. Suppose the special forces start making real progress against the cartels. I'm told that one of the biggest things that the cartels do to fund their operation is gigantic Pallets of cash, because obviously they don't want to write checks for their illegal business.

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So they have to move gigantic shipments of physical cash. Suppose the special forces go after the cartels and figure out where their giant bundles of cash are. Well, who does that belong to? Does it belong to Mexico? Does it belong to whoever finds it? Well, I would say it belongs to the United States government. So we take their big piles of cash and just put it in the sovereign wealth fund.

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And by the way, these are just examples. I'm not saying that any of this would happen. How about if there is a joint venture beyond TikTok that would never work unless the government was involved? For example, Let's say we wanted to create a mineral. Here's a good example.

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One of the things Trump wants to do is keep the mineral rights for rare earth minerals in Ukraine as sort of a payback for the military support we give them in Ukraine. Now, do you think that we could be safe in having a rare earth mineral mining operation in Ukraine? Unless... the US government was part of protecting it in case, you know, Russia got aggressive. Well, probably not.

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You probably couldn't even have that business unless the US government was going to protect it with the military. So shouldn't the US government get a share? Get a little share of that? Maybe it should. Maybe half, right? So you can imagine all these situations that only Trump could identify because he's the dealmaker. where he would say, you know what?

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You'd better have something for the sovereign fund, or else we're not going to do that thing, or you're not going to do that thing. There's probably a whole bunch of those situations that Trump would see that other people just wouldn't even see. I mean, the TikTok thing, where he says we should get half of it, nobody else saw that.

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Do you remember the news that the Doge people had found that there was a $50 million budget for condoms for Gaza? Do you remember I said, that's not real? And people said, oh, Scott, you don't understand. You don't understand how bad it is. That's real. And I said, that's not real. The closest that could be to real is is that there was money allocated for reproductive health services.

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The idea of taking control of the rare earth in Ukraine, nobody else saw that, or at least they didn't mention it. So he is uniquely able to see, hey, why are we not making money from that thing? And you need a sovereign fund to sort of organize all of our thoughts around it. So then we understand it. Oh, he found another thing for the sovereign fund. Oh, the sovereign fund is up 20%. Good job.

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Now, keep in mind that the sovereign fund would be an asset owned by the government. Our biggest problem is our debt. If your debt stays the same, this would be wildly optimistic. But if our debt, we could get under control and the asset started growing, at some point, the asset could be big enough that we could use it to pay off part of the debt.

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So the sovereign wealth fund is actually also a debt relief mechanism because it gives you that option. You don't have to use it for that, but it gives you the option. You could put a bunch of Bitcoin in it and there's probably a bunch of other things you could do. So it's a good idea.

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There's a study, according to SciPost, there's a study that the TikTok was better for Republicans than Democrats in this latest election. So apparently there were more Democrats who saw pro-Trump stuff than there were Republicans who saw pro-Democrat stuff. So that's being defined as being better for Republicans.

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Now, like all studies, it might be true, but there are a lot of things that I have questions for. If the only thing you knew is who saw what, you don't really know anything. It really matters what they saw. If the Democrats saw more Trump stuff, but the stuff they saw was the silly stuff, like it's not the stuff that persuades anybody, well, then it doesn't matter how much they see.

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They could see an infinite amount of non-persuasive stuff. It wouldn't make any difference. What matters is exactly what they see, and this doesn't capture that. So remember when the Russians tried to interfere with their troll memes and the news treated it like that was real and it mattered? And then you looked at the actual memes and they were just ridiculously bad.

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They looked like a seventh grade school project. I mean, really, they did. Seriously, they looked like a seventh grade school project. Now, anybody who knows anything about persuasion...

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would look at those and say oh that's the same as zero it's zero it just rounds to zero there's not even the slightest possibility that those handful of russian memes that they put a hundred thousand dollars into could have possibly moved our election that is not possible all right So I wouldn't trust any survey of TikTok's influence because they leave out the influence.

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They just count numbers, and that's not how you do it. All right. I promised you that I would, some of you, that I'd give you some ADHD hacks. I was watching a big thread on X about it, And you might know that ADHD goes two ways. One is that it can be really hard to get anything done because your mind is going a million miles an hour and you've got too many things in your mind.

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But those same people have the ability to really deeply concentrate, but only on things they care about. The difference seems to be

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that the adhd people are searching for dopamine and if they can't find any their mind goes everywhere trying to look for it but those few things they really love give them dopamine hits when they spend time so they can go deeper into a single topic than normal people because they're really getting the dopamine hit but only if they like it now

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I didn't realize how bad my ADHD was until I saw the thread about an example of people with ADHD, which is you can't walk out the door without forgetting something because your brain is in too many places. I can't walk out the door without forgetting something. But I'm also a high-functioning professional. So how could it be that I have, obviously, I have pretty bad ADHD. How could that be?

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when I'm also one of the most disciplined workers you've ever met, seven days a week. I'm always here unless I'm sick, right? So here's how. I basically have a brain hack for every part of the ADHD that bothers me, and I'll share you some of them. It doesn't mean they'll work for you, but what it does mean is is you might be able to also come up with your own brain hacks.

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And the news came out that there was money for reproductive health services. Now, you could argue that we shouldn't be spending it. But if you're going to give aid to Gaza, and you say, what's the thing they need most? Well, I would think somewhere in the top three or top five would be reproductive health. I mean, that's got to be right near the top of anybody's requirements.

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Now, keep in mind I'm a hypnotist. I'm a trained hypnotist. And so I tinker with my own mind like a hypnotist would tinker with somebody else's mind. So many of the things that a hypnotist could do to another person's mind, I can do to myself because I have the skills. And so I've hacked my own brain to take care of a lot of the ADHD things, and you can too. So let me give you some of the tricks.

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Number one, when I'm leaving the house in the summer, if I just try to remember what I need, I will not do it. So instead, I remember five, the number five. And when I walk toward my exit, I think five. And the reason I think it is because I've trained myself that whenever I see the exit, I think five in the summer. Why five in the summer? Because in the summer, you need your phone.

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You need your key fob for your car. You need, if you're a bald guy, you need a hat. And you need sunscreen. And in some cases, I like to bring my headphones. Five. You know, if I'm going to the gym, for example, I'd want to make sure I had my headphones. So I walk to the door, I go, five. Phone, oh, I forgot the key.

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Then the second thing I do is I leave the things that I might forget really near the door. So I don't have to walk upstairs ever. Everything's right by the door. So it's either in my car already, such as my sunglasses and my hat. I keep my sunglasses because they're prescription. I keep my sunglasses in the car because even if I'm not going to drive...

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I almost always walk past the car in the garage to leave my house, even if I'm just taking a walk. So I've found a hack that I can leave the house without 15 trips. And then I change the number in the winter because I don't need the sunscreen as much. I probably should, but I don't. And the hat, etc. So that's one trick.

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So you find a number that tells you the number of things you have to remember before you open that door. And then if you do it enough, remember, repetition is persuasion. You just have to repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it until you can't forget it. That's the habit of this trick. All right, here's another one.

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In the morning, one of the reasons I start at often 3.30 in the morning or 4 in the morning, just whenever I'm awake, is that my ADHD is by far at the lowest. So the first several hours of the morning, I sit in complete darkness. So I darken all the lights. I have the drapes pulled. And the only light is my screen and my computer.

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And a little light I put on my keyboard so it's easier to see the keyboard. And that's it. And the reason I do that is that nobody's awake, or at least nobody that would be getting in my way. The dog is asleep. The noises are predictable. There's not like daytime noises of, you know, there's no gardener doing anything or anything. Phone isn't ringing. I don't have anything else on my calendar.

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And I'm doing something I want to do, which is I love looking at the news and then talking about it. So getting rid of all your distractions is the other hack. I also, if it's the afternoon and I want to do something like write a check, I can't do it. Do you know why I can't write a check? Because as hard as I try to concentrate, I can't get any dopamine from that task.

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I just desperately don't wanna be writing little things on a piece of paper in the year 2025. Desperately, I don't wanna do it. And so my brain won't let me do it. So if I start writing a check, I take the whole checkbook and I leave it there and I start ripping up the checks as I make mistakes. And it's always the same. I'll be like, all right, concentrate, concentrate. Date. What is the date?

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So the big question would be aid or no aid. If you're going to do the aid, you might as well do the things that people need the aid for, and that would include all manner of reproductive things. Condoms would be very low on the list, but Maybe. I mean, it's better than unwanted pregnancies, I suppose, especially in that situation.

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Date is date. Write the date. All right. Concentrate, concentrate. I think I've got to go to the store today. Oh, I just wrote my grocery list on the check. Rip it up. Try again. And just over and over again. Because I can't concentrate all the way through writing a number. That's how bad it is. If I'm writing, you know, $425, I can get to maybe the two.

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But by the five, I'm thinking about five other things. I can't finish that. Oh, I just lost my... Just lost my thing here. All right. I think I've lost you, so let's see if I can reenter this.

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I'm back. I'm back. All right. I think I'm back. Your comments will catch up in a moment. All right. So what I do is I don't write checks. I know I can't do it. I have somebody else do it. I just asked somebody else. If you want to check, you fill it out and I'll sign it. So in 2025, I am so angered by anybody asking me for a little fucking piece of paper. I will not write a check.

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I just say, you write it. I'll sign it. Here's the check. If it doesn't work out, I'll send, I'll give you another one, but I'm not going to do that. I'm never going to write on that little piece of fucking paper. You write it, I'll sign it. So you have to come up with a whole bunch of little hacks. This is also the reason I can't write dates down correctly.

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You've noticed that my comics are always misstated. It's because I can't concentrate through all the way thinking through a date. It's too boring. So here's how I settle it in the afternoon. A real good exercise routine. So I do my exercise around you know, lunchtime or noonish usually, not too far after.

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Josh Hawley, Republican, has introduced some legislation to make it illegal to use that new cheap AI from China called DeepSeek. Now, I think it's been tabled, which means that it doesn't have much chance of coming to a vote. But do you remember my prediction about DeepSeek? And people said, oh, no.

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And that settles my brain down because it gives me a dopamine thing that lasts a little while. And then I can do some boring things. The other thing I do is if I'm drawing, I have to be absolutely medicated and watching a TV show because if I draw Dilbert one more time, oh my God, do you know how many times I've drawn Dilbert's head? It's a lot. It's a lot. So maybe tens of thousands of times.

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So those are some of my tricks. The other trick is chanting. And I've told you this one. If your ADHD is just out of control, you chant the thing you're trying to do, which is look for the file, look for the file, look for the file. What's that dog doing? No, look for the file, look for the file. Huh, these steps need a little bit. No, look for the file, look for the file.

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I should really vacuum this. No, look for the file, look for the file, look for the file. That actually works. And I've taught that to a number of people, the chanting. Sometimes it just gets so bad that if you're not chanting it, you can't even walk across the room. So try that. But here's the bigger thing.

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So I think Trump took the 50 million and took it up to 100 million just because he's Trump, so he can. Now, there was also a separate story that the Gaza was not Gaza as in Israel's fight with Gaza, but there's another place called Gaza in Africa. Have you heard of this part?

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The bigger thing is that you could probably hack your brain to find workarounds for each of the little ADHD things that are bothering you. And that's my advice on ADHD. All right, there's a biotech company that has now, I guess, a nasal spray that uses some molecular cousin of psilocybin, magic mushrooms, that pretty much immediately helps people with hard to treat depression.

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So they're in the middle of their clinical trial, but so far it seems to be almost magically effective. So it's a small Ireland-based company, GH Research, and it's an inhaled version So imagine that. Imagine if you could just go and give yourself a little nasal spray or inhale it, however they inhale it. Maybe they inhale it a different way. And it just removes your depression.

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But I also wonder, would it give you dopamine? I would think that you couldn't remove your depression without some dopamine being in the mix, right? So could it be possible that this removes your depression, but also your ADHD? Because if it gives you dopamine with just one inhale, maybe that's the dopamine I needed to write my check.

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Maybe that's the dopamine I needed to concentrate on writing the date correctly. Maybe. So it could be that there's a Cure for depression and ADHD at the same time. Just speculating, trying to be optimistic. That's my show for today. I know it went way too long. That's probably why I got cut off. I'm going to say goodbye to everybody here.

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So locals, I usually spend time with you, but I'm way over time. So let's not milk it any further than we need to. I'll see you tonight, locals in the man cave. Everybody else, thanks for joining. Sorry I went long. Hope it was worth it. Bye on X and YouTube and Rumble. and everywhere else. I will see you all.

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So apparently there was some aid that may have also included reproductive health, which means it might have also included some condoms for a place called Gaza in Africa. Now, I'm not sure if that's true or not. But here's the thing. There was never $50 million just for condoms for Gaza. So if you thought that was 100% true, it wasn't 100% true. But was it directionally true?

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Yes-ish, meaning that if it's in the category of reproductive health and it's a lot of money and it was going to the Gazans, yeah. I mean, it's directionally true, but it sounds pretty bad when you say it's just condoms. So I don't mind when Trump exaggerates things that are directionally accurate, which is we should take a look at why we're giving anybody any money for anything.

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That's okay with me. Let's take a closer look. Do you remember when Trump turned on the spigots and created all that free water for California when we needed it the most? Do you remember what I said? I said, really? Really? He just said, open the spigot, and then all the problems were solved? That doesn't sound real to me. So,

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I've been looking into it and looking into it, and then the next thing I found was that the water situation in California is way too complicated for anybody to understand and explain. It's just too complicated. But the best I can determine is that not all the water is connected. So even if you turn the spigot in one part of the state, it doesn't mean that the firefighters in L.A.

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are getting any more water. And indeed... Apparently they did not. But, but you're saying, well, that's okay. As long as the farmers got more water, there is no indication that any farmers got more water, but that's okay. As long as we don't run out of water for residents, you know, because sometimes we have to have to manage our water in California and we have to cut back.

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So if at least solve that, but there's no indication to solve that. Where'd the water go? And then there's some people saying that he made it worse because he released some water from some dams that we might need later in the year when things get too dry. And then other people who know even more say, no, this is before the snow melts. Once the snow melts, those dams that were already nearly full,

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would be overfilled, and they would have to release the extra water anyway. So all Trump did was release the extra water a few weeks early to basically nothing. So here's my challenge to you. If you can find any evidence that Trump released some water to anybody who could use it, let me know, okay? Because I'm not aware of any water that went to anybody. But... Does it make a great story?

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It really does. It's one of the best first CEO stories. Do I mind that Trump is creating a, let's say, a brand or reputation or I'm going to say legend? I mean, at this point, I think Trump has already passed that in politics. He's sort of operating in legend territory. You can avoid the assassination attempts. You avoid the jail. You came back against all odds. That's not politics, right?

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China figured out a cheaper way to do things, and everybody's going to use this, and it's going to destroy the American AI industry. Do you remember what I said? I said, no. Eventually, there will be laws against it. There will be regulations. There will be tariffs.

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That's legend. There are only a few figures who have ever been in this category. So as a legend, he's much more effective. meaning that he can get stuff for me and for you and for Americans that he wouldn't be able to do if he were a politician. That would be the first term. First term, politician. Second term, legend. The legend can get way more than a non-legend.

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So if embellishing his early successes solidifies his legend, that's probably more good than bad. But we still need to fix our water problem in California. I'm pretty sure that's not fixed. So separate, separate conversation. Do you remember the story about Trump is suing 60 Minutes for editing the Kamala Harris interview? And apparently the edits made her look smarter than she was.

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And the 60 Minutes defense is it was ordinary editing. It was editing, but it was the ordinary editing that they would do for anybody. Now, I've heard this story and I've even talked about this story, but you know what I haven't seen and haven't talked about? I haven't seen the edit.

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So apparently the full transcript has been released so that people digging into it can see exactly what she really said and then compare it to the video. CNN's take... is that they've looked at the transcript and they've looked at the edit, and it's just a normal edit. So do you believe that? Do you believe CNN's take that it's a normal edit?

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Is that real? Yes, it's real. You can get your Optimus robot. If you order it now, it'll only take you a few years, two and a half years. Now, what's interesting about that is it seems to me that it wasn't that long ago that the robot maker's we're promising it would be the end of this year.

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I did feel better when I did the other thing. And if it's accurate and if it keeps telling you the right thing, how are you going to ignore it? I mean, it will be so useful and it will make you feel better and you will know it will make you feel better that you're going to drop whatever you were doing or thinking to do whatever the AI told you to do right then. I would.

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So they're going to be able to train you like Pavlov's dog that you'll get a treat for following what the AI tells you. The treat would be you feel better. So as soon as you start seeing that connection between taking the AI's advice and getting a treat, even if the treat sometimes takes longer to get, you're going to be basically a slave to the AI.

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And I don't see that it could go really any other way. because it's simply how we're wired. If something works and it has utility and we know it and we can feel it, we keep doing it. That's just how we're designed. Amazon's AGI lab, so I guess that's some version of AI, has unveiled the Nova Act. So that's an AI agent that can control your browser to perform tasks. How many of you are ready

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to let Amazon or any other big company control your browser, even though technically you would be the one controlling it through the AI app. But wouldn't that feel creepy to know that some company can control your browser, even though they say that It's not them controlling it. They would say, no, it's you controlling it.

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Do you think there's any chance that the CIA would not have to get a backdoor to that? If a big company had an AI agent that you could tell, hey, check my email, and it would have all your passwords and everything, so what good would it be if it didn't have any passwords, right? Pretty much would need them. And you just say, like the process I do in the morning.

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I would love this if there were no security issues. If I would just say, hey, it's time to publish the Dilbert comic to my subscribers again. There are about, I don't know, 20 different keystrokes and steps just to do that. I would love to just tell it to do it and then watch it do it for me. But that would also mean that if anybody had a backdoor to that little agent...

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It can control my entire world. It can get into everything. So this is going to be a scary one. I will bet that people will adopt this, including me, because the utility of it will be just so good, whether it's Amazon's or some other company. The usefulness will just be off the charts. So yeah, I'm going to basically give up that privacy so I can get that function.

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I'm going to fight it in my mind, but in the real world, probably not. All right.

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April fools are real. China has now launched autonomous flying taxis. So if you want to do some sightseeing, or I guess later they're going to do delivery and urban transit, but right now it's sort of a sightseeing thing. You can go and there'll be nobody but you, and you will sit in this helicopter-y looking thing, more like a drone than a helicopter.

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Do you think it's possible that the competitors to optimists will have robots that are fully functional and can live in your house and do what you tell them to in 2025 by the end of this year? Because I'm pretty sure that's been promised. Here's what I think. I think that putting it out to late 2027 is sort of an admission that they haven't figured out the brain part, the AI.

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And it will take off and without any extra... What, you think that's April Fool's? No, it's a flying taxi in China. It's already approved. It's an action. The answer is, it's real. China has autonomous flying sightseeing taxis. That's a real thing. Now, I do wonder if their AI is as good as, let's say, Tesla.

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Because, you know, I would trust Tesla to drive my autonomous flying car or my regular car because they've got good AI for that. But if these things are run by DeepSeek or something like that, is that good enough to keep you alive? I don't know. I don't know.

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I guess Elon Musk revealed maybe yesterday or the other day that Doge is going to start looking at members of Congress who got, quote, strangely wealthy. New York Post is reporting on this. Now, we've all asked these questions. How in the world do these members of Congress get so much money? And it looks like it must be something illegal. I'm a little hesitant on this one, believe it or not.

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I'm not so sure that the people that they're going to look at did anything wrong to get their money. Let me give you an example. So one of the ones, of course, everybody wonders about is Pelosi. So her wealth went amazingly higher during her time in office. But first of all, she was in office forever. Secondly, her husband is literally a venture capitalist.

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So it's not that surprising when a venture capitalist makes a lot of money. And then a lot of Paul's investments were in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Netflix. Now, do you think he had inside information? Or was he just good at investing? Because anybody who bought those companies, when they were all publicly available, anybody could have bought them.

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Everybody knew that they had good prospects. And you would have at least, I don't know, 40 years of being involved in companies like that. I feel like you'd be quadrupling or something your money. So no, this is a real story. No April Fool's on this. But I don't know why Doge would be the one looking into it. It seems to me that would be more of a, criminal sort of thing.

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But maybe I'll be open-minded on this because I don't think Elon would make that mistake of getting too far into law enforcement without being a law enforcement entity. So I would be surprised. I think it was, who was it? Was it the head of USAID? I might have this wrong. By the way, correction, I think I said something about the

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the head of Signal being arrested in France, and then somebody said that was the head of Telegram. So that's a correction. But who was it, the USAID, whose net wealth went up $16 million or something? And I looked at the time period, and anyone who had basically moved money into stocks at about that time probably doubled their money.

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So some of this is just going to be if you have enough people making enough investments in enough ways, some number of them are going to double, triple, quadruple their money just like the rest of the world. There are lucky people who hit the investment lottery. So I think maybe it's going to look worse than it really is. It looks bad. I have to admit, it looks bad.

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But I'll bet there's going to be a lot less crime found than they think. And I don't know why Doge is doing it. Well, ICE deportations have reached over 100,000. And remember, these are the people who actually are criminals. 100,000 known criminals have already been deported. Now, if you were to make an estimate, this one's real too, by the way, not April Fool's.

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If you were to make an estimate of how many extra crimes those lifetime criminals would do if they were to stay here, and let's say they just kept operating for years, how many extra crimes do you think each of those would have done? Like pretty serious crimes, you know, things that matter to people. I'm going to say 10. Now, you could do your own math at home.

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But if 100,000 known criminals were to stay in this country for, I don't know, 10 more years, don't you think they'd have at least 10 more crimes apiece? Does that make sense? Which means that Trump already has saved a million crimes. One million crimes. Now, that's if each of them would do 10 apiece. If you want to say, but Scott, they would only do five apiece.

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As advanced as AI is now, as impressive as it is and as advanced as it will be in another six months or another year, I don't think it's the right kind of AI. So I think they're going to have to invent a whole new flavor of AI just to make robots work. And I think that's just purely a guess that 2027 will be soon enough. We'll see. But I'm not surprised that robots got delayed from 2025 to 2027.

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Well, that's half a million crimes. And we're not talking about the little kind. These are some really, really, really dangerous gang members and stuff. who probably do a crime a day. Yeah, right, it might be closer to 1,000 if you add it up with everything. But that would be owning a gun illegally. If you threw in every single charge, it'd be 1,000.

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But if you went to how many victims are there, that might be a smaller number. But yeah, I think Trump should be reporting. If they could come up with a statistic of what are the likely extra crimes that a career criminal will do in 10 or 20 years, I think Trump should be reporting how many crimes he's avoided. It could be a million. It could be 5 million. These are really impressive numbers.

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Way more impressive than the number of people, although that's super impressive. But if a president comes in in the first 100 days, gets rid of a million crimes, A million. I think that's a perfectly reasonable estimate. We've never seen anything like that. That would be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president ever. And I think he's already hit it. So there's that.

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Well, in other news, there's an iceberg the size of Chicago, they say, that broke off of the Antarctic ice shelf. An iceberg the size of Chicago. Well, you know, since ICE is the group that's deporting all the criminals, and this iceberg is the size of a country, and I'm going to call it Chicago-berg because it's an iceberg the size of Chicago.

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I think that if the El Salvadorian prisons get full, that we should bring the rest of the criminals to Chicago-berg and just put them on the iceberg because it's not like they're going to escape. We keep them warm, make sure that they don't freeze to death. But yeah, just put them on Chicago Berg. Some of that is true, but not the part about putting criminals there.

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All right, speaking of Doge and arresting people, Musk also said that, I guess this would be today, he thinks somebody who's going to be arrested today-ish, who actually stole 400,000 Social Security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database and was selling Social Security numbers so that basically people could steal money from Social Security. Now that's real.

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That's like a real story. There was somebody who stole 400,000 Social Security numbers. But my question is, how does Doge know who it was? Like, how did Doge catch the person? Is it that easy? And if Doge could catch that person, why was this person not caught before? I don't know.

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So I got questions, but this is tantalizingly interesting that this level of crime first of all happened, and second of all that Doge could find out who it was fairly expeditiously. If this is real and this person gets arrested and convicted, that's an impressive accomplishment, I've got to say. All right, this next one, real or April Fool's?

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According to a study from the University of Colorado, and CBS is posting on this on X, one out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting. One out of 15 have been at a mass shooting. Real or April Fool's? I'm going to add one extra data point to that. Not only has one out of every 15 American adults been to a mass shooting, but weirdly, I've been to every one of them. April Fool's.

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April Fool's. So it is true that CBS News posted it, and it is true that it's a study and it's a claim. There's not really any chances true. I like when the fake news is so obviously fake that you don't even need to be that good at math. You just look at it and go, 115? No. How many of you know 15 people? Most of you, right?

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Just think what two years is in AI time. Two years is not we're going to tweak it to make it work on robots. AI means we don't have the technology right now to make a robot. We have to invent the technology, and we're not exactly sure if we can. We feel confident enough to take your money. But yeah, I would imagine that there's going to be a lot of pre-orders for robots.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a sign, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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How many people do you know in your personal group of the first 15 people you think of who have attended a mass shooting? I'm going to say no, my first 15. How about the second 15 you can think of? Like your extended, extended circle? Any of them been to a mass shooting? I'm going to say no. I think I would have to get my numbers up to like a thousand, you know, the closest thousand people I know.

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before I had any chance that one of them had ever been to a mass shooting. So let's call that one April Fools, or fake news as you prefer. Well, that Tesla fire bomber guy is in a lot of trouble. Christina Laylett, Gateway Pundit, is writing that Pam Bondi, announced federal charges against that Tesla fire bomber. I think we've talked about this before.

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But I love the fact that the Department of Justice is going hard at this because this is really bad stuff. But I would add this. I keep seeing people saying that they know the motivation of the protesters. Or even the motivation of the ones doing the violence or the asset destruction, which is very similar. And sometimes people will say they're paid. Other will say they're brainwashed.

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It's going to be amazing. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's never been a better time in your whole life.

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Other will say they're bored and retired. And I've watched enough of these interviews with them that I've developed my own hypothesis about their motivation. And the answer is, it's all different. I think it's just the oddest group of people and they just all have different reasons. Maybe some of them got paid. Maybe some of them are retired and went with a friend.

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Maybe some of them are just idiots and they believe the news. Some of them are just mad because Elon's rich and successful and they're not. Some of them are mad because they heard that Doge was going to cut their benefits, which they're not, but they believe that I feel like it's just a whole bunch of weirdos all with their own reasons.

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But the one thing you can say for sure is none of them are up to date on the news. I don't think there's a single person that I saw interviewed at one of the Tesla protests. I've seen quite a few people try to interview them. Not a single one. could explain to you anything in the news, just anything, accurately.

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I mean, they'll tell you, oh, he's going to cut your Medicare and your Social Security. No, he's doing the opposite. Doge is the only thing that could guarantee you might get your Social Security. It's not the thing taking it away. It's literally the opposite of that. So, Yeah. So, yeah. I don't think there's anything they have in common except they're not too well informed.

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Meanwhile, Trump's tax plan, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, he was telling Fox News this, it would make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. Okay. It would eliminate taxes on tips. Now, eliminating taxes on tips is kind of interesting because I like it. I used to work for tips and I used to own a restaurant and I'd want all the people who work at restaurants to do well.

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So emotionally, I'm totally in favor of that. But I wonder how much federal taxes were people paying who were receiving tips? Weren't we also talking about below a certain number? People don't pay any taxes at all, at least federal taxes. So it probably isn't that expensive, which makes it extra brilliant to say that you're not going to tax them. But I love that.

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And there would be no tax on overtime pay. Again, I absolutely love that because it makes such a clear American statement that if you put an extra, you're going to get extra, and not just over time, a little extra on the extra. So incentivizing hard work, well, I couldn't be happier. Now, we also have this, we're going to have a human power shortage.

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We're going to have a lot of older people that we want to not retire because they have the skills. We won't have as much institutional knowledge as we used to because we'll just have fewer people everywhere working. And our population doesn't seem to be growing that fast.

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So incentivizing the people who do know what they're doing to work a little extra and get a nice, really healthy benefit from the extra work. I love everything about that. And then this one's just personal, but I like it for other people too. No tax on Social Security.

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I do trust that Elon Musk would not bluff. You know, I don't think there's any chance he's going to pretend he can make a robot and then he can't make a robot. I think he'll make a robot and you'll be happy to have it. So to me, it seems honest to push it down two years because I do think that's about what it will take before they have something that's more like, you know, general intelligence.

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Do you know the shock I got when I realized that my Social Security was going to be taxed at my current tax rate, which is pretty obscene? My Social Security... I work all those years. And to be fair, I don't need it. But I decided to apply for it because I wanted to make sure that at least I got a dollar back from all the Social Security I'd ever paid. It was sort of a psychological thing.

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I just wanted to see something. just something, come back. And since I'm still working, which makes me feel like a sucker, because at my current income, they just rape me on the taxes of my own social security payments. It is so maddening. And again, it doesn't change my life. But psychologically, It's just like a kick in the nuts and something shoved up your ass at the same time.

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It is just so offensive that the government promised me the Social Security. Again, I don't need it. This is just psychological. And then when it's time to get it, and I wasn't really paying attention because it wasn't high on my list. But when I finally go through the work of applying for it, I find out it's going to be taxed.

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oh my god so yes get rid of taxes on social security absolutely get rid of those taxes so i'm all for that how about the least surprising news of the day that ukraine allegedly attacked some power facilities which was part of the deal that they weren't supposed to do but then uh was there a deal

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Because it seems to me that both the Ukrainians and the Russians, at some point, maybe somebody thought there was a deal, but then the Russians wanted to add some stuff and the Ukrainians wanted to add some stuff. So they never really had a deal. But the one thing you could be sure of, even if they had a deal to not attack power stations, they were just going to attack power stations.

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And they would just blame the other one of doing it first. I don't think there's a slightest chance that either Ukraine or Russia want to stop fighting for whatever reasons. And so it does look like the European Union is going to consolidate control over Europe. Essentially, I'd call it a, what do you call it? Sort of a coup.

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Because then whoever's at the European Union is just getting more and more powerful, you know, and influence at least. And so Europe is just turning into one big bag of nonsense over there. And, yeah, apparently they're going to get into a major fight directly with Russia. So I hope the United States is not part of that.

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Well, you know, I always make fun of all the NGOs, the fake NGOs that are stealing all our money for years. And they all have these generic names. There's one called the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Doge caught them deleting a terabyte of financial data linking them to funding the Taliban and Iraqi leadership. That's the U.S. Institute of Peace.

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Your tax money would go there as well as lots of other places, but your tax money was going to the U.S. Institute of Peace, who is then giving it to the Taliban to continue making growing poppies and paying for Iraqi leadership. Mike Benz reminds us that the U.S.

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Institute of Peace was simultaneously funding the Taliban while lobbying the Taliban to keep illegal drugs flowing from the world's biggest narcotics zone. That's a real story. believe it or not. But I do think, I haven't heard anybody say this recently, but I remember hearing that the drugs coming out of Afghanistan were primarily going to Iran, and that's why the U.S.

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All right, real or not real? There's now a... Hormone-free male birth control pill. It's entering human trials. It's not available on the market. It's 99% effective. So the University of Minnesota is working on this. It's real. And it's been effective in animals and now in human trials.

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was in favor of it, because we were basically trying to destroy Iran from the inside by turning them into drug addicts. That could be true. I don't know. It turns out that Princeton's in trouble. Trump has paused $210 million of federal funding because they're allegedly, they got an F by the Anti-Defamation League for handling anti-Semitism.

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Now, if you don't know anything about the Anti-Defamation League, the Anti-Defamation League, the head of the organization, publicly called me a Holocaust denier. Now, I'm not a Holocaust denier, but... That should give you some impression of what their credibility is. It's absolute trash. It's a complete disrespectful organization that sometimes is just a Democrat hit piece.

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I think they hate Elon Musk. So they don't have any credibility whatsoever. But I guess it's being used as an excuse by Trump to pause this funding to Princeton. And... I don't know how Princeton handles that because Princeton can't really go against the ADL because people don't know that they're completely non-credible. So just having them come after you is pretty bad. So good luck to that.

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At the same time, the Trump administration is looking to pull $8 billion in federal funding from Harvard also because they're looking at them to see if they're doing enough to battle anti-Semitism. Now, that would be $8 billion over some number of years. But really? The U.S. government was giving Harvard $8 billion? Even over multiple years for, I guess, mostly research?

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Now, you might say to yourself, but that research is valuable. To which I would say, Well, why don't you show me some kind of a list of all the great things that have come out of Harvard, and then I'll compare that to the billions that we've spent over that period, and I'll make up my own mind whether that was worth it. Because I've got a feeling that that's a high number.

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Now, I've also heard before that the percentage... of the money that's given from the government for this sort of thing mostly goes to the university as opposed to the actual research. Have you heard that? I guess I'll take a fact check on this.

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But I have heard that the majority of every dollar just goes to Harvard for whatever it wants to use it for, and a small part of that goes to the actual science. Is that true? because to me that's as bad as the anti-Semitism. They've got two problems, not one.

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But I like the administration putting pressure on these colleges to make sure that they're not anti-Semitic, because they definitely seem a bit anti-Semitic to me. Well, Taiwan is surrounded by 19 Chinese warships and some big aircraft carrier. They, of course, are continuing to show that they can take Taiwan if they want to.

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Now, I don't know if the animals were having sex with each other or the humans, but probably just with each other. That would be my take on that. Yeah. I mean, the article wasn't specific, but I'm going to say probably the animals were just getting busy with each other. And now it's in human trials with no animals whatsoever. Big breakthrough coming. Boys.

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The last thing they want to is have an actual war, but they sure like showing their muscle. So we'll keep an eye on that. That's a real story. So apparently China has blocked the sale of the Panamanian ports that were managed by some Hong Kong companies, which are Chinese companies. And the Post Millennial is writing about this.

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And that does suggest that China did have functional control of the ports. Because if Chinese companies were running the ports... And then those Chinese companies were not allowed to operate on their own and sell their assets to, I think it was BlackRock.

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That does suggest that the Chinese government was in control of those ports because it seems to have functional control over the Chinese or Hong Kong companies that are running those ports. So that's exactly what it looks like. I do expect... The net effect of this will be that probably some military warships will pull up outside of Panama.

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And I think Trump is going to do the Taiwan method, where you don't want to have an actual war in Panama. But if you did, you would pretty well know what direction it went, right? It's not like Panama is going to win that war. So it's the same as China surrounding Taiwan, right?

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I think all we'd have to do is put an armada just off the coast of Panama and say, hey, maybe we should have control of those ports. I think we'd get it pretty quickly. Panama's not crazy. And once they realize that it's not a bluff, that we're going to have control of Panama one way or the other. And by the way, I completely agree with Trump on this.

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You can't let China have functional control of the Panama Canal. So, yeah, if it takes some military movement, unfortunately, we kind of have to do it. So I agree with him on that. Trump has said he's confirmed that the U.S. is in contact with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He said, quote, we have a great relationship. He's a smart guy. I've got to know him very well.

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And then he was talking to the press and he says, you people hate to hear that, but it's very important. You know, I love the fact that when Trump is president, the odds of North Korea doing something like lobbing a nuke in our direction, it kind of drops to zero. Because as long as the president of the United States wants to be your buddy Why would you attack? It just wouldn't make any sense.

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There's no risk on his part, and it's all upside. I'm going to make a prediction. I think Kim Jong-un is going to get an invitation to visit America. I don't know that he'll come, because he might not trust it, or China might say, don't do that. But I think he's going to get an invitation. Can you imagine what that would look like? Like the show that that would be?

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Now, if I were Kim Jong-un, the only way I would do it is if I came over on a Chinese diplomat airplane. so that I'd feel safe because the U.S. is not going to blow up a Chinese diplomat airplane, so that you wouldn't have to worry about there was some clever trick to kill him or anything like that. And imagine just taking him to a basketball game, like to the finals.

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Can you imagine what trouble you'd get into if you had no risk of pregnancy and you didn't have to trust? My phase is over, so I've sort of aged out of the whole, this dating situation. But I went through my whole life thinking that every time I was in an intimate situation, it might create a baby, even if birth control was involved. Imagine if you stopped worrying about that.

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Can you imagine Trump and Kim Jong-un just showing up at the finals of basketball, the NBA? It would be wild. It would just be so out of the box, incredible, ridiculously wild that you wouldn't be able to think about anything else for a week. So I think it might happen. Well, I got my answer to what is the plan for attacking the hooties? Because, you know, we've been bombing the hooties.

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And the question was, what's the end game? Like, what do we think is... How long are we going to be bombing them? And is there anything we could do to ever make it a stop? And I guess Trump said we'll keep attacking the Houthis, quote, until they are no longer a threat to freedom of navigation. Now, you might think that's not an answer because you don't know how long that will take. But I do.

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That will take forever. I think he's basically saying we're just going to build a permanent presence there. And as much bombing as it takes to make it safe, we'll just do it every day. And we'll just bomb and bomb and bomb and bomb, and it will just be a routine. I think he's going to turn it from a war into more of a maintenance project. We've got to do a little maintenance in Yemen.

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It looks like they put up another radar detection thing, and it looks like they've got another missile. So let's do a little maintenance, take that out. So I think it's turned war into maintenance. Because, you know, so far there's not a gigantic risk to our own forces. So far. I mean, I imagine they do have some anti-aircraft stuff.

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But so far, it looks like they're just going to test their weapons and build a permanent facility. Because they built, it looks like the U.S. has built some kind of a bomber airfield facility. I just saw a naval blockade in the comments, and I thought you said Naval blockade, and I thought, why would you want to blockade Naval? Anyway, let's call it naval. So, looks like that's the plan.

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I don't have a better plan, so I won't even criticize it. I mean, it's terrible, but I don't have a better plan. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is my Stories for today. You did very well in identifying the fake news compared to the real news, as far as we know. All right. So that's all I got. I'm going to talk to the locals privately. my subscribers and locals.

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The rest of you, thanks for joining. We'll see you same time tomorrow for more fun on Coffee with Scott Adams.

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I don't even know what that world would be like. It would be weird. According to an article in Nature, there was a study of over 3,300 people's photos, and they wanted to see if there was any link between facial features and political views. Do you think that an analysis of faces could tell you somebody's political views? Well, yes. I saw a post on X from John Rain.

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He said the authors found that less attractive and more contemptuous women are more likely to be left-leaning. Is that real or is that April Fool's? that less attractive and more contemptuous. That's just a funny word. I've never heard anybody being called contemptuous in the real world. You are so contemptuous.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine dinner of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip. Go. Oh, wow. All right, well, I have a theme today. As you know, it's April Fool's Day. And it's hard to know what to trust. So I'm going to read you the news as I always do.

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And the authors also found that displaying a happy expression is associated with being conservative, both among men and women. Well, here's another case where they could have saved some money. Just ask me next time. I've seen the Tesla protests. I was pretty sure I could have guessed this one without any research whatsoever. All right, here's the next one. April fools are real.

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According to The Atlantic, which is a highly respectable publication, ICE sent an innocent father, my God, from Maryland to, oh God, to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. You know, one of those filled to the brink, shirtless, tattooed guys, El Salvador prisons. And the government is doing nothing to fix it. My God, my God, if it's in the Atlantic, it must be true. Is it real or April Fool's?

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Well, it's fake news. He was actually MS-13. They did not send an innocent father from Maryland to El Salvador. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one person who's not totally gang-affiliated got sent away once. But I also don't mind that the risk is on other people. For a change. You know, it would be a horrible situation to send somebody who is not a criminal to one of those El Salvador jails.

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Well, it's a horrible situation no matter who you send. It's just horrible. Everything about it is horrible. But I'm still in favor of it because it puts the downside on somebody else. It puts the downside on criminals. It puts a little risk on people who may not be legal citizens. And it takes a risk off of me.

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Well, Trump has referred to that story we call the Signalgate story about the adding of Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist, accidentally being added to a chat group. And according to The Hill, Trump has said that story is, quote, old and boring. He says, this story and narrative is so old and boring that

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but only used because we were having the most successful first 100 presidential days in the history of America. They can't find anything else to talk about. And then he just adds, for good measure, Trump adds, the fake news media has the lowest approval rating in history, and for good reason. Now, that is perfect. One of the things that Trump understands better than anyone

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really any politician, is the business model of TV and the news and celebrity and what's interesting and what makes a story and what doesn't make a story. And I think he's brilliant to talk about this story as boring. That's exactly right. If you just keep telling people the story is old and boring, they will just stop caring about the details. I never thought this was important.

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And I also, although I was maybe surprised, I do like the fact that nobody lost their job over it. Should they have lost their job? I don't care. Here's what I care about. I don't want the media to think they've got a scalp. And I don't want them to start picking off one person after another on the Trump team because it was hard enough to get the team together.

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And now that they're up and running and things are happening, the last thing I want is for one stupid little publication after another, like The Atlantic, to come up with one more stupid story that's old and boring before it even started and that it takes out somebody's career. I love the fact that Trump says, nope, it's small, it's boring, things happen, I'm not doing anything. I love that.

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I think that was actually the most baller thing he could do, even though I fully understand the argument on the other side, which is in a situation like this, you sort of might expect somebody to resign. But I'm just glad they didn't, because it would be showing a a vulnerable underside.

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But I'll check in to see if you think the story is made up or real. So you're all going to be playing like a game show today. Real or April Fools? Let's call it April Fools Includes Fake News. Okay, just to make it fun. Story number one. Is this real or fake? You can now pre-order your Optimus robot. It's going to be just under $30,000, and deliveries will begin in late 2027. What do you think?

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And instead of that, I think Trump has shown that he's going to support his people, which is always good, and that they're not vulnerable to BS stories that are smallish stories that can be blown into something big by the media. So I like it. According to Iowa State, Nathan Cook is writing about this, there's a study that says that

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Scientists can figure out what your political position is, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, based on what your brain does when you buy groceries. And all it is is apparently conservatives use a different part of their brain to buy ordinary groceries. So they use boring stuff like eggs and milk because they're kind of generic. And then they just measured what happens to their brain

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And they said they can determine with 80% accuracy what your politics are, your political affiliation, based on which part of your brain lights up when you buy milk and eggs. It has nothing to do with the political question about eggs, because I think this story was done before that study was done.

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But the co-author, Naren Schreiber, said, we know from studies of twins that about 50% of your political ideology is biologically heritable. And they can, from that, I guess the math works, that they can figure out your political party with 69% accuracy, I guess if they knew your parents' political leaning. Now, that proves... there's no free will. Is that April Fool's or real?

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April Fool's or real? It's proof there's no free will because they can determine your political leaning by just looking at your brain. If the structure of your brain is causing you to be a certain way, do you have free will? Just joking, it's a real story.

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All right, there's another story, Science Alert, that there's a woman who had lost her ability to speak because of some brain stem stroke when she was 30. But scientists, according to Science Alert, Mike McRae is writing about this, they inserted some kind of a brain implant that would allow her simply to think what she wanted to say And it gets translated into a synthesized version of her voice.

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Is that real? Or April Fool's? It's real. So apparently they can just put that in you. Do you know why they didn't test that on a man? Do you know why they'll never put one of these in a man? Because the last thing anybody wants to know is what a man is thinking. We all know what women are thinking, so there's nothing to be revealed.

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Everybody knows exactly what women are thinking all the time because they'll tell you, just ask. But if you knew what men were thinking, I'm sorry, things would be very weird if men just blurted out everything they were thinking. Well, it's funny that this is real. Apple is making a move to be your digital doctor, I guess. They're building AI health agents, so be just an artificial agent.

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They'll be like a virtual doctor. It'll be in their, I guess, new operating systems upcoming. And they'll analyze your health data from your phone and your wearables and your fitness and nutrition and everything. And they will make real-time recommendations of what to do different or differently. And that would be, of course, the first step in enslaving us. Now, here's what I think.

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And you've heard versions of this before, so it's not like I'm the only one who ever said this. But the way the AI will conquer humans is by being so useful that when they tell us to do something, it becomes ridiculous not to. Let me give you my example I like to use. Do you know how sometimes you forget that you might need a drink of water?

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Like you could get a little dehydrated, and it can make a big difference in how you feel, the dehydration. But you might be busy and you're not thinking about it, so you just don't do it. Well, what happens if your AI could sense your dehydration and then it starts saying, Scott, you might think of having a sip of water.

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And the first time it does it, I say to myself, ah, you know, I don't want to walk across the room and get it. I'll do it later. But then eventually, I think, okay, it's telling me to get water again. So I take a sip of water. And then I start noticing that I feel better. The next time it recommends something, I think to myself, well, okay, I don't want to be bothered doing this. But

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you want to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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I know. Why do you make me call you master? I don't know. I just like it. So robots are coming. Senator Mark Menendez, you know him as Gold Barb Bob. He got sentenced to 11 years in prison. Does that sound right? Does it sound right if a high-level federal elected official is selling access for money, gold bars, is 11 years about right?

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Yeah. It actually, yeah, feels about right. I don't always say that. It seems like the sentences are always too light or too long. But Yeah, I think they got that one right. So good work, the court system. Good work, the prosecutors. I think you got that all completely right. Well, there's going to be a bunch of Democrats who have formed to object to Trump's idea to cut taxes.

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That sounds like a punchline, doesn't it? This is real. There is an organized group of Democrats who are going to oppose Trump's call for lower taxes. Now, lower just means he wants to extend the current situation. That's what they call lower, just doing what we're already doing.

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But the funny part is that they named their Democrat group Families Over Billionaires, their idea being that the billionaires are going to get the tax breaks. Families Over Billionaires. And the families over billionaires who don't want the billionaires to have so much control and get the benefits are going to have an alleged eight-figure funding. So $10 to $99 million.

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Who could afford to give a group like this over $10 million? Let's see. A millionaire? A millionaire? Oh, no. $10 million is more than a million. So you couldn't really donate that if you're just a basic millionaire. Who? Maybe a billionaire. Are there any billionaires that donate to Democrats? Yes, there are. It's called Alexander Soros. It's called Reid Hoffman. Yes.

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So they think that their billionaires are the good ones, and they would claim that the Republican billionaires are the bad ones. So they're going to have their billionaires fund a fake organization that's going to pretend it's in favor of higher taxes. Their whole thing is to pretend they're in favor of higher taxes. Okay, all right.

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Episode 2735 CWSA 01/30/25

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If I looked out the window of my helicopter, would I be able to see a gigantic airplane coming my way? I think I would. So it doesn't make sense I didn't see it. And if I were in a giant airline, would I be able to see a helicopter coming toward me? Well, of course I would, because... You know, I don't know anything about airplanes, but I can look out a window and I can see a thing.

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I'm glad that you woke up today and went to fight, went to fight for the things that you believe in, higher taxes. So that's not ideally, not ideal. Meanwhile, if you saw the RFK Jr. confirmation hearings, You probably enjoyed it. My take on it was I thought RFK Jr.

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answers tough questions better than I maybe have ever seen anybody answer tough questions because he had the data, you know, right in the back of his or the front of his head. He didn't even have to go to the back of his head. He knew exactly what he was talking about. And every one of the gotchas,

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He had an explanation that when you were done, you'd say, oh, well, that actually is not what I thought it was. And it really tells you how fake the fake news was because that's all they had. It turns out that the only thing they had was fake news. So when he sits there and calmly explains why it's fake and what the real context is, it's really powerful. So I don't think they laid a glove on him.

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He's got maybe another day or so of testifying to a slightly different group, I think. But it's some of the best answers I've seen. But the funniest thing that came out of it was Bernie Sanders and his onesies. If you haven't seen the clip yet, Bernie Sanders thinks he has this real gotcha. Because somebody developed a onesie, which would be a clothing item for a baby or I guess a baby.

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And the baby clothing would have some had some anti-vax message on it. So Bernie puts that up, puts up a picture of the onesies with the anti-vax message. He says, are you supportive of these onesies? And of course. RFK Jr. had nothing to do with the onesies. Not directly, not indirectly. So he decides not to answer that dumb question, and he just says, I'm supportive of vaccines.

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Now, first of all, that's a perfect answer. Anything he said other than this sentence, I'm supportive of vaccines, would have been a mistake. Of all the billions and billions of things you could have said, there was only one perfect thing, and he said it. Now, I really noticed that.

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If there's only one perfect thing and everything else is a mistake, if you can find the one perfect thing and you lead with it, I'm supportive of vaccines. There's no hedging on that. Now, it doesn't mean every vaccine doesn't mean he wants to do it without testing, but he's generally supportive. So that should have been the end of the questioning, right?

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Once he says I'm in favor of vaccines, which is the opposite of the message on that onesie, Well, we're done here, right? But Bernie apparently had gone through the trouble to make this visual, and he wasn't going to quit on it. So he starts doing this ridiculous, are you supportive of the onesie? Well, I support vaccines. But what about the onesie? What about the onesie? Tell us about the onesie.

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And you could just see people behind RFK Jr. like Megyn Kelly just laughing. And then RFK Jr., he can't stifle his own laugh. So the video that got the most play was RFK Jr. literally laughing at Bernie being just a total idiot on this point. I mean, I respect Bernie in a lot of ways. Partly his stick-to-itiveness. He seems pretty committed to his principles, whether you like him or not.

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But here's what an actual, an expert in Black Hawk helicopters tells us. Here's somebody who follows me on X, so I was alerted to this one. Mark McEtherin says, I was a Black Hawk helicopter crew chief in the Army. Okay, that's exactly who I want to hear from. And not only that, but he was a flight instructor. Okay. Now we're talking to the right person.

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But sorry, Bernie. This was the most absurd, ridiculous, anti-science, anti-useful, complete waste of time. But you made a clown of yourself, and it was entertaining. So we like that. We like the entertaining part. Anyway, here's what I think. I think that... The thing about RFK Jr. that is really unique is that it's not political.

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It's a political process, but he's a lifelong Democrat, and he is selected for one of the top jobs by the top Republican. That's as nonpolitical as you can get when the top Republican picks one of the most famous Democrats. And by the way, RFK Jr. has never said, oh, now I'm a Republican. That never happened. He's the same guy he always was.

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It's just that he wants this one mission, and it's important enough that he'll do it in whatever way he can get it done. So it's the least political thing you'll ever see in your life, which makes me like it the most. It's also one of the most important things. I can't really come up with something besides the debt. The debt is existential. But beyond the debt...

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This is really my number one and probably should be most people's number one. Now, I'll tell you why I'm more on the war path for this than other people. I've actually done the experiment where I cut off all processed foods for months. You won't believe how well you feel. If you do the experiment...

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of just getting rid of, you know, it's expensive because processed food is cheaper and more convenient and everything else. But if you can do it and you just do your basic proteins and your basic organic, if you can do it, vegetables and fruits and stuff, you're going to find out that a lot of what you thought were your medical problems were food related.

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I thought I had terrible allergies all year long, all the time, no matter what. I don't. I had a reaction to poisoned food, and I never had any unpoisoned food, I guess, as an adult. So I didn't really notice. I didn't think it was food, because no matter what I ate, I had the same reaction.

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But I had to actually cut down the number of things I eat to just this tiny sliver of things I allow myself, and then all my symptoms go away. Now, if you haven't experienced that, you don't quite understand what's at stake. What's at stake is chronic illness for all your children. Forever. They'll die. They'll suffer. Their lives will be terrible.

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They'll barely be able to pay attention in school. And I don't even know if they can mate. It's the end of the fucking world if we don't get him in there. Maybe. You can't guarantee that, of course. But this is life and death for the children. This is bigger than abortion. I guess you could argue that.

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But one of the things I always appreciated about the most conservative Republicans, without necessarily agreeing with their opinion, I respect the fact that the Republicans said, we're going to move this decision out of the federal government, put it in the courts, and we're going to get killed in the elections. Now that has my respect.

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If you think that's important enough, and again, this is their opinion, not mine. I'm just respecting that the thing they decided to, you know, die on that sword, they knew they were going to die on the sword. They knew they'd get killed in the midterms. They'd get, you know, maybe lose 2020 or whatever. So the Republicans who said, we believe this so hard, we're going to die on this sword.

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I really respect that, even if you don't agree with them on abortion. That is a respected approach to life. Now, when I see RFK Jr. taking this kind of personal, professional risk to get this done, to save the children, save the families, save America, my God, do I have respect for that. You know what I don't respect? The people trying to stop him.

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I want to know, somebody who's an expert in these helicopters, how hard is it to spot other traffic? And the bottom line is, it's super hard, even for the experts. So you could actually have this accident happen without much going wrong. I hate to say it, but It might not be that anybody did anything wrong in quotes. It could have been this is just a really hard thing to do.

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Now, I can kind of understand maybe Democrats just doing the political thing blah, blah, blah. But there are enough Republicans, so it shouldn't matter. Unless a handful of Republicans turn on him because they're getting funded by the pharma or big food lobbies, which is probably the only reason I can think of it would happen. And let me just say this isn't politics as normal.

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This is not politics as normal. If Republicans kill the RFK Jr. thing, we're not going to forget. This would be like driving up to your family and punching every one of your family members in front of you and then driving away and saying, well, that was yesterday. That was yesterday I drove up and punched in the face every one of your kids. Well, are you going to forget it?

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No, I'm not going to forget it. If you punch my children in the face while I'm standing there and walk away. 40 years from now, you're still going to pay if I have a chance, right? We're coming for you. I don't mean physically, obviously no violence, please. No violence. But in terms of career, in terms of reputation, in terms of money, in terms of politics, yeah, it's, this is through the end.

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So you can retire and we're still coming after you reputationally, reputationally, not physically. Um, So I'm with Nicole Shanahan as hard as you can be with anything.

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So Nicole says that if you vote against this, especially if you're Republican, she doesn't say that part, but I do, especially if you're Republican, it's so clearly obvious that you're being bought out and that you've chosen the life of our fucking kids. over whatever you're getting out of somebody, you're going to fucking pay for it. This isn't like the other stuff.

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The other stuff is just politics. We get it. We don't win every time. We can't win everything. Sometimes we win. Sometimes we lose. We get it. We get over it. We're not going to fucking get over this. We're not going to fucking get over it. This is to the end. Again, not physical. We're not talking about any violence. But you think you're going to stay in politics if you vote against RFK Jr.

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and you kick him out? No, we're not getting over it. We're not getting over it. And you're not going to get over it either. We're going to make sure of that, reputationally. That's a promise. Edward Snowden said about Tulsi Gabbard, who's also going to be in the confirmation process, that...

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So I guess Tulsi Gabbard has been in favor of Edward Snowden being pardoned, if I have the background right. And then Snowden, not wanting her to fail in the confirmations because of him, he said in a post today that Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers, meaning himself and others. As a condition of confirmation today, I encourage her to do so.

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In other words, to disavow even Snowden. Tell them I harmed national security and the sweet, soft feeling of staff. These aren't their feelings. In D.C., that's what passes as the Pledge of Allegiance. So I'm not sure that Snowden is helping, but it might. I mean, I don't know that it hurt. But she might actually, no, I don't think she will. I don't think she's going to disavow him.

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It doesn't feel like something she would do. Yeah, I'm seeing the comments. There's a story going around that some are saying that Lyme disease wasn't naturally occurring. It was also a lab leak. Now, I would consider that so far a rumor. but you know how these rumors turn into a real thing if you wait long enough.

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It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I'm not going to be the one who says, well, six months from now, remember when I said that was a conspiracy theory and then some information came out? So I'll say that I don't know enough about that story to say it's true or false. It's just out there. If you had told me that Lyme disease was...

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made in a bioweapon lab, if you told me that 10 years ago, I would have just said, come on. Come on. That doesn't really happen in the real world, does it? Somebody makes a bioweapon, suddenly it gets out, and millions of people are infected. That's not a real thing. But it's a real thing. So whether it happened with Lyme disease or not, don't know. Don't know. I guess we'll find out more.

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So he talks about the massive responsibility of the people who are the crew for the helicopter, Blackhawk specifically. And part of their job is to be the extra eyes for the pilot. So they're the ones who are looking for the extra things that the pilot might not spot. And he said, I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours,

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But I don't rule it out. It's like the years of ruling out things just because they sound like they're ridiculous. Can't do it anymore. We're in the ridiculous world now. Anyway. So we'll see how Tulsi Gabbard does. And I guess Kash Patel is today as well. Is that right? is Mike Benz saying the Lyme disease? Does he confirm it or just give us the background so we can make up our own opinion?

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I'll check that out. I'll see what Benz is saying. Because remember, Benz uses, or at least when he documents his opinions, he uses public information. So if Benz has an opinion on this that leans more toward the lab leak theory, It's going to be based on stuff you can check yourself. You know, he shows the receipts. So that would be interesting. I'll check that out for you.

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I was watching The Daily Show, whose initials are TDS, which is important, The Daily Show. They even put the initials on the background for part of the opening segment. It actually says TDS all over the background. You would think they would have fixed that by now. But John Stewart... He came on and he said this about how the Democrats are responding to Trump so far.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called coffee. That's right. The simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. I feel smarter with every sip. And so do you. So do you.

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He said, quote, things are going to get fascisty, fascisty, you know, more fascist. And he questioned Democrats that they don't want to ruin all their credibility by complaining about things that are, you know, not factually correct or not important. So John Stewart said, is warning people that they're not being rational in their complaints about Trump.

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He's doing that on a show whose letters are TDS. And here's the best part. Let me pull it all together now. You probably have all seen, maybe more than once, a famous clip

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where long before the COVID lab leak in Wuhan was established as the most likely source of it, Jon Stewart broke ranks with the popular opinions, and on the Colbert Show, he mocked the fact that there was any doubt that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which happened to be across the street from the wet market,

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He just mocked people for thinking it was anything but the most obvious thing, which was the very lab that was working on the very thing. Now, you remember how he did it, right? He just mocked the fact that the name of the lab was the answer to the mystery. You didn't have to go any deeper than the name of the lab. The name of the lab was We're done here, people. Look at the name of the lab.

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Now, that's hilarious because we're all so complicated in our thinking that you really didn't really need to go past the name of the lab. The reason it's funny is that it's 100% correct. You don't need to think deeper. It's the sign on the door. Yeah, that tells you everything you need to know right on the sign.

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But the same guy who brought us that piece of brilliance and bravery, which was pure bravery, by the way, because he was going against pretty big forces when he said that, Jon Stewart was, sits on a set that literally says TDS and warns people that things are going to get fascisty. Now, I've got to pay back Jon Stewart a little bit here.

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Even when you know exactly where a Black Hawk is and you have night vision goggles on, it is extremely, in all capital letters, hard to see the aircraft. So from the perspective of the commercial flight, seeing it probably wasn't even an option. I mean, it's just really, really, really, really hard to see. So my current view on this is that it's still fog of war.

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And by the way, I love his whole thing, even when I disagree with him. He's very good at what he does. I got to go full Jon Stewart on you, Jon Stewart. I got to go full Jon Stewart. Jon, the letters on your set say TDS. Not just once. Probably a hundred times. A hundred times. TDS. TDS. Do you think that might be the better explanation of why you think things might get fascist-y?

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Do you think those are unrelated? That you're sitting in front of a TDS background saying that everything was fine, but I think it could turn fascisty. Maybe you'll steal your democracy. How long do we have to go before he doesn't do anything like any of those things before you realize it's just the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It's right on the sign. Just read the sign.

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Now, I know this is an analogy, so it's not a perfect argument. It's just kind of so simulation perfect that I can't stop looking. Meanwhile, over at the big situation about DeepSeek, You know, the Chinese open source AI that some say was only 5% as much cost as the American AI and just as good and destroying our industry and all that.

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Well, I did a little research and I found out how you could make an AI that's 5% of the cost of the United States AI. Are you ready? Number one, you lie about how much it costs. That's important to the process. So you say, it only costs 5%. So that's very important. If you told the truth, it would sound like we have way more NVIDIA GPUs than you think.

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Even though we're not supposed to have any, we've got a whole data center or two that's just stacked with them. And it costs us millions and millions and millions and billions of dollars. So the first thing is you just don't mention that.

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And then later, later, if somebody says, you know, actually, I think there was like a giant data center involved because otherwise you couldn't get to where you are. Then you just, it's too late because you've already got out the 5% is already in people's minds. Oh, it only costs them 5 million. Wow, cheap.

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So when later you find out, oh, they had certainly had a data center full of very expensive equipment to get there. you just kind of forget that part. So that's the first thing. Second thing is, instead of using training data that you've scraped from the entire internet the way the big US companies do, you steal it from the people who stole it.

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So if the big AI companies stole my IP and my copyrighted works, but tried to cover it up by generalizing it, first the US companies steal it and pay nothing. to people like me. That's a separate conversation. But then, if you want to really save some money, you steal it from the people who stole it. So if you steal from stealers, it looks like it's free.

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It's not free to me, being one of the original copyright holders who has tons of material which apparently AI is trained on. How do I know? Because I can ask it, and it knows a hell of a lot about me. So yeah, it trained on me pretty hard. So that's how you do it. You lie about how much hardware you used and then you just steal what somebody else already stole and then it looks cheap.

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And then you lie about how many people are working on it and all that stuff. So that works. However, I would like to add this thought. think about all the important people in time, you know, like Plato and Socrates and all them. If people stop reading and start using AI, which apparently is happening, and AI reaches sort of a training limit roughly now, meaning that

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We don't know exactly when wrong, but the most likely is that it was just really, really hard situation for even experienced pilots, even with all the electronics in the world. And it probably was just a very unfortunate, perfect storm of something being in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time. That's my guess. My guess is that there will be no specific blame. I feel like it was just hard.

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there's not much else to train on in the real world. It's sucked up all the real world stuff. So it's got to use artificial data to extend. What that means, correct me if I'm wrong, but if there were some modern voices in the world that were unusually powerful, would they not forever be part of AI's personality? And would they not

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be more important for being current and alive at the moment and creating a lot of documents than, let's say, somebody who was really smart but died a thousand years ago and we only have a few surviving texts, that sort of thing. So would it be true that the people who are, let's say, best-selling authors or public figures who've got a lot of opinions, would it be true that their impact on

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humanity is sort of locked in now, meaning that AI is sort of permanently affected by the people who are the most persuasive at the moment, because that's where all the training happened. And then after the training happened, all they do is run some updates. I guess some new stuff happened, but it's hardly going to change the whole. Is it true that

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that some people will be more locked in as the personality of AI than other people. And am I one of those people? Let me give you an example. If you go to AI, and it depends which AI you're looking at, and you ask this question, which I have asked, if you say, what is the impact of Scott Adams on politics? Now, I asked that question. I forget which AI. It might have been perplexity.

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And I think Grok has a similar answer. But I think it was perplexity that told me that my contribution to politics was that I changed the national conversation from policy to persuasion. Now, that's what AI says. Now, is that true? No.

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It certainly seems like it, because if you look at the way any podcaster or anybody else has talked about anything, we do talk about the policy, but we spend way more time, as I have already today, talking about the liars. We talk about the fake news, because that's persuasion. We talk about Rupar and his technique.

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We talk about the White House publishing a hoax list that's up to four hoaxes, right? Right? That's mostly me. That's mostly me. And that appears to be now locked in to what AI thinks about the world. So cancel me or not. Too late, motherfuckers. I'm baked into the AI and probably you'll never get it out of there. Probably. All of my books...

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The main themes of all of my main books, such as systems being more important than goals, the idea of a talent stack, AI knows that stuff. It knows it, and it'll repeat it back to you. Now, is that because it stole my copyrighted work? Not necessarily, because so many people talked about my work that if they just trained on the people talking about it, they'd

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probably get almost everything they needed. So those are several contributions that seem like they might be permanent in the AI brain. And then there's Dilbert itself, 36 years of Dilbert comics, which certainly changed America. If you were watching the business book market at that time, business books that promised to tell you how to do everything great if you just

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did what the business book author said, they became like just the biggest thing. Then Dilbert came along and mocked all of that bullshit for being completely worthless crap. And the business market for business books collapsed. It never recovered. Now, every once in a while, there'll be a big book.

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But the whole idea that any consultant can write a book and it's a bestseller, that for a while, it just seemed like anybody with a business name was writing a bestseller about how to be successful. That kind of all went away as bullshit. And it was replaced by what I call a Dilbert point of view, which is sort of cynical.

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And, you know, it's about your bosses looking out for themselves, et cetera. And I'm pretty sure that AI has absorbed all of that. All of it. So even let's say a more minor example. We'll see in the comments how many of you have ever seen that. How many of you have seen a one-page document I wrote years ago on how to be a better writer? How many of you have seen that?

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And some people say we're lucky we haven't had more of these because the odds of something like this happening are pretty good just in general. So the fact that one happened doesn't mean anything new is added to the story necessarily.

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It's one of the most viral things for years and years and years. Now, that's going around everywhere. And I would assume that AI has absorbed it because it's been in so many places and repeated and repeated and recopied and it's a meme and everything else. So the reason it got around is that nobody disagreed with it. The experts looked at it and said, that looks about right.

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So have I become a permanent part of what it takes to be a good writer in the future? And would AI itself be influenced by anything I said? Does it recognize, oh, here's the guide to being a good writer. I'm trying to be succinct. I'll just do that. I don't know. No way to know that. But Here's what I'm saying more generally.

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I'm using myself as the example because I know the most about my own work. But don't you think that the people who are the most effective voices at the moment on social media are going to get permanently a higher status in AI until the end of time? Because when AI decided to do its big learning... It seems like that's going to be the bias it will have forever.

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So good luck canceling me now, suckers. I'm in the machine. I'm in the machine. All right. So the U.S. Copyright Office, according to Just the News, did a ruling that... artists can copyright some work that is created with the help of AI. So what is not copyrighted is if the only thing you did is put in a prompt, like, show me an image of Trump riding a bicycle. Can't copyright that. But if you...

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I had Trump riding a bicycle, but then you painted your own image of something over it, so it's part AI and it's part you, you can copyright that. Copyright the whole thing. So there's going to be a lot of gray area. But I like that they've at least taken that step, that if the human artist has substantially added to the AI, the AI is just a tool, and then the

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The ownership and artistry of the creator still gets credit. So this is a step in the right direction. It's going to get really, really gray and messy, but at least we sorted that out. I like that. According to also in Just the News, somebody named Drew Horn, Drew Horn, which sounds a lot like what I used to do when I was doodling.

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But as you know, Aaron Ruppar, sometimes considered the worst person in the media, who's literally famous for fake news, so famous that his name itself is used as one of the synonyms for fake news. So a Ruppar edit is... something that used to be true until it got edited to look like the opposite.

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I would just draw horns on people sometimes because I wondered what they would look like with horns. So that's his name, Drew Horns, something I've done so many times. Anyway, he's the CEO of something called GreenMet, and he said that Greenland deciding to leave Denmark and have some kind of association or joining America, would be easier than you think. Easier than you think.

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And indeed, if he's right, Greenland only has to vote on it. So apparently Denmark has been quite open-minded about letting Greenland manage itself. So Denmark seems to care about the national security, the big picture. They don't control the laws in Greenland. And the current law, according to

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Drew Horn, is that if they wanted to, the people in Greenland could simply have a vote and they can vote their own independence and Denmark would respect it because that's the current system. The current system gives them the right to vote anything they want. And if that's what they want to vote on, there's nothing stopping them.

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So in other words, when this whole conversation started about how hard it would be for Trump to possibly pull this off, nobody could ever pull this off, it'd be the hardest thing, it might take one hour of the people in Greenland doing a little vote on paper and then counting it. That could be the whole thing. The entire process might be, hey, we're going to make you a proposition in Greenland.

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You can stick with Denmark. Or you can make more money going with us and you'll probably be safer too. How about that? Why don't you vote on it? That could be the whole thing. It could be literally just seven bullet points of what we can do for you versus what Denmark can do for you. Just bullet points. That's it. You don't even have a document. Just seven bullet points. Could be fewer.

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Could be five bullet points. Just what we'll do, what we won't do. Have a vote. One hour. In one hour, Greenland could completely determine its independence and what it wanted to do with the United States. In one hour. So how many times do you have to see that Trump picks some objective that really looks impossible?

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Like in the real practical, complicated world, it just looks like it can't be done. And then he just does it in an hour. He's got kind of a reputation for that. Just doing in an hour the thing that can't be done. So working with Elon Musk on other things that people say can't be done, like cutting the budget, it's right on brand for Trump. The stuff that can't be done that he can do in an hour.

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Guantanamo Bay is going to get a new lease on life. Pete Hegseth and the president want to put the illegal criminal migrants, the ones who have broken more crimes than just coming to the country, wants to store them temporarily in Guantanamo Bay prior to shipping them back to the country of origin. Because in some cases, the country of origin will take a little leaning on to make them say yes.

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That seems to me like a perfect use of it. Number one, it's hard for AOC to visit because you don't want people crying at the fence. So it gives it a little hard to get to quality, which is probably good. Some reporters, I assume, will get there. I don't think it's off completely inaccessible, but maybe the ones who go there will be vetted so they're not RUPARs and AOCs.

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So as soon as the accident happened, he posts a news story about how Trump had gutted key aviation safety committee and fired the head of the TSA. Now, that only happened... this week. I don't think that the firing of the head of the TSA affected the capability of the Black Hawk pilot or the commercial airline.

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So that seems like a good use of something that already exists. Meanwhile, this one's fun. Fox News, Caitlin McFaul is reporting on this, that the incoming UK ambassador, so this is who the UK has decided will be the ambassador to the United States. And remember, we have a special relationship, a special relationship with the UK. It's special.

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And their new ambassador is coming in, Lord Peter Mandelson. He says good things about Trump today, but he didn't always say good things about him because in 2019 he had said that Trump was, quote, a danger to the world. A danger to the world. Which is another way of saying you have TDS and you're worried that Trump will be more fascist-y. Things will get more fascist-y.

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That's kind of what he was saying in 2019. But now he's changed his tune, and he says that Trump could be one of the most consequential American presidents of his lifetime. Oh, hold on, hold on. Nope, nope. If you read that fast, it sounds like a compliment. But just being most consequential would not be counter to his earlier opinion that he was a danger to the world.

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A danger to the world would also be the most consequential. So he'd better say better than that. Does he have anything better to say than most consequential? Well, he also said, I consider my remarks about President Trump as ill-judged and wrong. Huh. But why?

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Were they ill-judged and wrong because his opinion was wrong, or were they ill-judged and wrong because it's inconvenient to his current career objectives? I think I need to know more about why you think you're wrong. But he goes on and he said, I think that times and attitudes toward the president have changed. OK, you're still not saying what your attitude is.

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I get it that other people's attitudes have changed. You're so close to saying something right and good, but you're not there yet. You're not there. Can he can he take it over the line? And then he said, I think that he, meaning Trump, I think that Trump has won fresh respect. He added, he certainly has from me. Oh, okay. Now we're talking. So he has fresh respect.

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And that is going to be the basis of all the work I do for his majesty's ambassador in the United States. Now there's some rumor that, that the U.S., Trump in particular, would reject their ambassador. Would reject their ambassador. But would you reject him if he's on the right page now? Because all I really want from other countries is that they treat the U.S.

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with respect and they understand that that's the way it has to be. You don't have to agree with everything. That's not a requirement. But respect... Don't call our leader a danger to the world and act like you can work with him. So on one level, you'd say to yourself, hmm, I don't know, maybe we could do better. Could we get somebody who didn't once hate him? That seems like a safer play.

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But on the other hand, somebody who was like an ex-smoker, who was admitting he was wrong and now he's trying to make good, well, that could be good too. Maybe he'll try harder to show that he's on Trump's side. Maybe it'll work in our favor. But it does make me wonder if the, quote, special relationship, are they using the word special in what context? Is it Special Olympics?

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Or is it special like it's just good? Now, no disrespect to the Special Olympics, which is pretty awesome, but But we do wonder what they mean by that special relationship, because that word can be interpreted in more than one way.

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But if this guy thought Trump was a danger to the world, and then he found out he was completely wrong in his political worldview, is that the guy you want representing your country? The guy who was wrong about something so basic? And the reason he was wrong is not because of his opinion, but because he fell for brainwashing.

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I think it's pretty safe for all of us to say whatever went wrong, it wasn't because of Trump. He's been there a week and the only change he made couldn't have possibly had an operational impact. Or at least you better connect the dots a lot better if you're going to make that theory.

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If you fall for brainwashing and it's public and everybody can see it, is that the one you want sitting in the U.S. for your special relationship? I don't know. So here's my take. I think he's, you know, maybe minimally acceptable. But if Trump decided to get him out of here, just get him out, I'd be okay with that. I think that's up to Trump.

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That's a personal decision for him, and I could go either way. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Wire, the White House has received over 7,400 applications to be some kind of new media White House reporter because the White House has opened up the question-answering or the question-asking process for the press events. And now if you're a podcaster or something, you can apply.

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And if they like you and you look like a serious news-related entity, you can get some kind of press credentials. Here's what I think. First of all, this is brilliant. Everything about this is good. Why wouldn't the Democrats do it? Well, let me give you the obvious reason. The Democrats benefit... when the traditional corporate media is healthy because those are the ones that have their back.

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So the corporate media is basically a Democrat platform, most of it. But we can't live without it because you also need the news. I've said this before, but if the corporate media died tomorrow, I wouldn't have much to talk about because I mostly riff off of things they did stupidly. right? And then there are things that the White House announces.

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So a lot of the news is just the White House announced something or they answered a question or they have a plan. Podcasters can do that. We don't need NBC to be in the room. Tell us what happened in the room. And then we go and make our podcasts mocking NBC's bad interpretation of it, but also looking at the original so we can see what they got wrong. So that's what I do all day. And

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It looks like maybe the Trump administration is not only opening up their access, which they like to do, but maybe they're killing the corporate news. Because if a podcaster is getting the direct news from the White House staff and has access to all the right people and can ask all the right questions, I don't need NBC. I don't need MSNBC. I don't need ABC. I could just

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go to whichever podcaster got the credentials and spent the most time at the White House. So this could be a death blow to the corporate news. I don't know if they mean it to be that, but it could be that way. Kristi Noem, she's a Homeland Security secretary, and she announced an end to grant funding abused by NGOs for aiding illegal migrants. That is so good.

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So what's funny about it is that there was a time when people would have just argued about the truth of the statement or, hey, is that true that something Trump did could be part of the story or is that not true? But this time, and I'm very happy to report that, almost all of the heat that Rupar got was for being that Rupar guy. So, oh, I'm happy about that.

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I asked the other day, I said, when are we going to, just on X, I said, when is the government going to cut the funding to these NGOs? Now, I said all of them, but what I really meant was the bad ones. And it looks like the bad ones are all out of money now, or at least government funding. So,

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Man, it makes me wonder, how was it ever a thing that a gigantic percentage of our budget was going to these really just money laundering, highly political things that the country would never have agreed to if they knew it was happening. So, man, cleaning that up is, that's quite a swamp cleanup. I'm happy about that. Meanwhile, Trump has signed a

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What NBC News is calling a sweeping executive order. Let's see. If all the podcasters had access to all the White House, would I need NBC News to tell me what Trump just signed? Nope. I could get that from Tim Pool or whoever's going to get credentials. Anyway, so is it a big deal? Why is it a big deal? He said he would prioritize and free up federal funding to expand the school choice programs.

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Oh, it's a big deal because there's big money behind it. And the government would be behind, at least the federal government, would be strongly backing homeschooling. I feel like that might be one of the most historic decisions in the history of the United States. If you don't follow the homeschooling thing, you're thinking to yourself, well, Trump did a lot this week.

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That's not like the biggest one or anything. It might be. That might be the biggest thing. Because if we don't fix education, everything breaks. And education is completely broken right now. It's completely broken. Here's what I never hear. I've never heard this once, actually. I've never heard somebody who homeschools their child

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say, that was the biggest mistake I ever made, should have sent them to public school. Not once. And I know quite a few homeschoolers at this point. Don't you? You all know some homeschoolers, right? Have you ever heard any homeschooler, maybe the student might say, I wish I had more friends or something, but I don't think any parents have ever said, as long as they had a system that worked,

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I don't think they've ever said, I wish they went to public school. I have to be honest. I've interacted with enough people who are products of homeschooling and enough people who are products of public schools. You can really tell the difference. Like you can really, really tell the difference. Am I wrong about that? Have you all experienced that?

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that when you meet a homeschooler versus meeting a public schooler, oh, there's a difference. And I don't think it's just selection. It's not just selection. It's what you turn into with those two experiences as your contrast. So that could be a big deal. Meanwhile, the Justice Department, according to NBC News, dropped a classified documents case against Trump's co-defendants.

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So I have some question about the timing of that. Is that is this an extension from some old news or is it really new news? But I don't want to see any of Trump's co-defendants go to jail when Trump himself gets dropped from the case because he's president. That just wouldn't feel right to anybody. So I don't know the details of that. It just sounds like something good happened in that regard.

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Speaking of Denmark, how does Denmark get in the news twice? I remember going years without mentioning Denmark even once. But today, twice. So Denmark, for reasons that are escaping me, they're letting Russia plug the Nord Stream 2, the one that got blown up, mysteriously blown up. We don't know who. Nobody knows. Yeah, we all know.

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Because the reason I came up with the term a Rupar and used his last name to be synonymous with a certain kind of fake news is that when he does something on a topic like this, your first thought should be, oh, it's Rupar. Rupar doing a Rupar. Because that's the healthiest thing you could think.

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Why would we be in the middle of the Ukraine war, hopefully closer to the end, but still in it, and Denmark's going to allow them to rebuild the pipeline that was one of the biggest risks? How does that make sense? Well, not everybody's happy about it. Poland says, what the hell are you doing?

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Poland does not want that to happen because it just makes Russia stronger, gives them economic leverage over that part of the world and Europe. And I don't know what's going on. So my take on this is fog of war. There's something about this story that we don't know.

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It could be, and let me give you my most optimistic take, it could be that all sides see that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and NATO are about ready to wrap up. If they know it's about ready to wrap up and they feel that part of that will be normal business will be allowed to happen.

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I can see Denmark saying, oh, it's going to take us months to just get prepared to do this and give approval, so we'll just say it now because we're pretty sure the war is going to be wrapped up in a month. We'll be back to normal. We need the gas, so why not? It's possible, I wouldn't bet on it, but it's possible that maybe the United States said,

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don't refer to us, but if you want to get this going, we're not going to stop you because we think we're going to wrap things up. It could be that that's one of the things that Trump has promised Russia. Because you can imagine that no matter what the deal is to end the war in Ukraine, it's going to be some shit we don't like and some shit he doesn't like. Otherwise, it doesn't happen.

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There's no such thing as an end to a war where both sides got what they wanted. That's not a thing. Don't even think about that. The way you know the war is ending is when people are doing things you know they didn't want to do. That's the signal you're looking for. People doing things they didn't want to do. Now you're talking. That means that people have moved off their hard positions.

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So on one hand, it doesn't make sense to us with what we know. that Denmark would be giving a green light to rebuild the Nord Stream 2. But if that's part of what Trump has said, you know, I don't like it, but I'm going to give you this. You know, I'd rather not compete against it.

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We'd rather, you know, we didn't compete, but if that's what it's going to take, you know, if that's what makes people stop dying, we'll just try to out-compete your pipeline instead of blowing it up. I could see that. So here's what I think. I think that's the canary in the coal mine. I think that Denmark wouldn't go rogue unless somebody had whispered in their ear. Just speculating.

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Just pure speculation. But I feel like you're going to find that a deal is almost ready, because deals are ready before you know that they're even talking about it, and that this might be part of it. So I'm going to take the optimistic view, which is not entirely called for, But it's a sign of the times.

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The moment you think, ooh, here's somebody making a point I disagree with, it doesn't really look like he's trying to make points. It looks like he's being Rupar. You know, whatever his motives are, we don't know. But it doesn't look accidental that he's wrong all the time, does it? It doesn't look accidental. Can't read his mind. But he doesn't make it look like an accident.

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The sign of the times is I can take the optimistic view on this and I won't be mocked even if it doesn't work out. Because if you choose optimism in the middle of the beginning of the golden age when it does seem like a lot of things are going our way, you're not crazy. You might be wrong, but I won't look crazy in the end. Well, here's a study in the SciPost. Eric Dolan is writing about it.

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It says that human evolution in the U.S. is talking about that as a topic, that education-linked genes are being selected against, meaning that there are more people being born without higher education or without the gene to want to do it, I guess. I don't know if the genes make any difference to wanting to be educated. But probably.

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And that these findings offer new insight, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right. You know what I'm going to say. Is there anybody watching who is not fully aware that people with less education have more babies? You all knew that, right? It seems like it's true almost everywhere. I mean, maybe in some weird case like China in some situation. But generally speaking, poor people have more babies.

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And there's obvious reasons for it. If you have the option to go to college, it's tough to have a family at the same time. So you do one first and then you've got less time and you've got better opportunities than just having kids, as awesome as it might be. So everything about that makes sense. But you could have just asked me.

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I'm pretty sure that dumb people have more babies and I could give you five reasons and they would all check out. But I'm going to go deeper. If it's true today that the lesser educated people are outproducing the others, was it always true? Is it possible it's always been true? since maybe the Younger Dryas time.

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Because the thing that I think is the funniest is that we sit around watching TV and we can't figure out how the pyramids were built. Like, how did they move these big rocks? They carved them so precisely and then put them in place. And I think to myself, maybe we were just smarter and we've evolved since that time, just getting dumber and dumber, and it's not going to stop.

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we're just going to keep getting dumber until civilization ends. Maybe. The only hope is that the robots will fill in the gap for how dumb we are, and they'll do the smart stuff so we'll not even notice. So maybe we found a way to hack that. In other news, in The Guardian, the scientists developed a patch that you can put on your heart to repair it. But the patch is made from your own blood,

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And they trick your blood into turning into stem cells. And then they take the stem cells and they turn it into heart muscles that are your heart muscles. And then they put it on a patch and they slap it on your existing heart that's damaged. And it helps that part of the heart beat. So it doesn't repair the thing it's over. It just operates as if it's the thing.

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So the patch becomes the muscle and then the muscle being damaged does what it does, but it can't do as much of what it wants to do. That would be a gigantically big deal because apparently it would be effective for people with serious heart injuries. So not just somebody with a little bit of a problem. This could be something like the end of most heart disease.

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It looks like you got a little damage on your heart. It's going to take us about a two hour operation. First, we've got to take a little blood, turn it into stem cells, turn it into heart muscles, turn it into a little patch, slap it on the side of your heart, you're good to go. You'll be up and running in a week. That could be a real thing and very soon. That's kind of cool.

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So use your own judgment. But watching people just destroy him reputationally instead of dealing with the ridiculousness of the point of view was fun. Meta agreed to... Let me just circle back for a moment. I don't want to have fun with the tragedy. So I'll have fun with the Rupar. But 60 people? This is like one of the worst... Air accidents in a long time. We'll argue about how long it's been.

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Anyway, according to the New York Post, there's nationwide testing of school kids found out that their reading levels have plummeted to the lowest level in 32 years. So that's bad, right? The reading levels of U.S. kids have plummeted to the lowest level in 32 years. You know what else is bad? The ability of the news to understand data and statistics. I haven't done a study.

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But I'll bet you the ability of the news to interpret data and statistics is that I'm going to guess a 32-year low, because this is pretty bad. Let me just give you a guess of what they left out of the story. Anybody want to guess? So they look at the total average, and the total average is reading levels are the worst in 32 years. Is there Is there anything they may have left out of the story?

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I wonder. Yeah, this is the one story where the demographics were left out. Isn't this exactly the kind of story, something about school children performance? Isn't this usually where they include it? I always thought that it would help us if we knew what the demographic breakdown was because that would be a deeper insight. We would know, for example, if systemic racism was any part of that.

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Well, as you know, the big news, tragically, is a jet crashed with an American Airlines regional flight. It was a Black Hawk jet. And it fell in the Potomac, I guess. The debris from both. Everybody died. It was a mid-air collision, so there was not much chance. And they fell in the icy water.

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Although presumably that's not getting worse, so it would be hard to say it's systemic racism, because that would be similar to how it's been for 32 years. I don't think it got worse, did it? Here's what else is missing. So here's how they handled the fact that they left out the demographics.

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They said also, part of the same story, the gap between the high and low performing students also showed signs of trouble. Oh, so it's also a problem if there's a bigger gap. Oh, okay. So let's go deeper on that. But what they said is that the best 10% of the students were doing better than ever. The lowest 10% of the students were doing worse than ever. Let me say it again.

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The best 10% of the students were not having anything like a 32-year low in reading. They were better than ever, the top 10%. Better than ever. The top 10% are the only ones who make any difference. I hate to tell you, but the bottom 90% are not inventing iPhones and making robots. It's all the top 10%. The top 10% is better than it's ever been. Our top 10% rocks. They're really, really good.

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So then here's the other thing that they left out. If you went to one of my local schools, which would be considered one of the top schools in California, my local school, probably top 20% or something, not elite or anything like that, but people move to where I live specifically because the schools have a good reputation.

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If you went into one of the classes in any high school or any grade school too, what would look different than it looked 32 years ago? Well, let me tell you. There would be more people in the class who don't speak English than at any time in 32 years. Every class, every class locally has an unusually high number of non-English speakers. Do you think they should have mentioned that?

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Do you think that it all changes your average? Yes. Forget about IQ. Forget about training. Forget about your background. If you can't speak the freaking language, how's your reading comprehension in English going to be? Should be the lowest it's ever been. You're going to be in the lowest 10% and you'll be worse than the old 10% because the old 10% could at least read English. You not only

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brand new but you can't even read the language so if you don't take out the recent arrivals because that's not fair and you don't acknowledge that pretty much every class at this point has a has a good chunk that it never had before that's uh that's gonna be something anyway so anytime you see an average of the entire group of american children Just know that that's probably hiding something.

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It's probably hiding something. All right. Meanwhile, according to the live science, Chinese astronauts figured out how to make rocket fuel and oxygen in space using only artificial photosynthesis. So they can make oxygen and they can make rocket fuel in space. And they did it in space, so they're not wandering.

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They actually have a ship that's circling, orbiting the Earth right now, and they made some artificial photosynthesis. So that might be valuable for some future moon or Martian base. I remind you that if you don't have your Dilbert calendar for 2025, it's not too late. You can get a 10% discount for missing the month of mostly January.

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But this is seriously bad. I mean, even Trump, his optimism kind of left him last night. He even posted on Truth, you know, it's a terrible night for the United States. So it's just a terrible night. And, you know, complete sympathy for the families and the victims. And incredible respect for the recovery crew. Imagine working at night in freezing water.

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But really, it's a calendar that's sort of like a book in calendar form. So the point of it is to read a bunch of comics. It's not about telling you what day it is because you've got a phone and you know what day it is. But some people like calendars. So you can get that. Go to Dilbert.com and you'll see the link to buy that.

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And when you get there, it'll show you the discount code when you check out. You won't see it until you check out. But it'll show you the discount code for your 10%. And if you do that, you're going to be so happy. People seem to like the calendar a lot. All right. And my book, Win Bigly, will teach you how to, which is in the second edition, now on Amazon.

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If you buy Win Bigly, you will understand the persuasion perspective of President Trump. And you'll learn how to do it yourself. It's easy. So those are the things I wanted to tell you. I'm going to say hi to the Locals people privately, and then we're going to watch some confirmation processes, Cash and Tulsi, see how that goes. All right, Locals, coming at you privately.

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If you're on YouTube or X or Rumble, thanks for joining, and I will see you same time next time.

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Obviously, they're equipped, but in freezing water. And the awfulness of what they have to do, that's the job they signed up for. Imagine signing up to be in that line of work. If a bunch of bodies end up in a freezing river, you're the one to go get them. I mean, the fact that we have humans who will take that job and then do it well, my God. So full respect. All right, another story.

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Meta has agreed to pay Trump $25 million to settle the lawsuit about Trump getting kicked off of Facebook back when he got kicked off. I love this settlement. I don't always love settlements or even court decisions, but there's something really healthy about this one. First of all, the $25 million isn't going to hurt Facebook's business. That's good. That's good.

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I don't want them to go out of business. It's big enough, so we all get the point, right? $25 million? All right, you have my attention. We get the point. The censorship of Trump was just flat out wrong. I'm pretty sure Zuckerberg says that directly at this point. He does, right? He says that directly. So once Zuckerberg and Meta have said we acted wrong, a settlement makes sense.

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And from Trump's point of view, once they've admitted that they were wrong, and it looks genuine, by the way, I think Zuckerberg means everything he says about this. You don't need to get a billion dollars, right? You don't need that. You just need a nice, clean, solid apology slash settlement. It's just the right number.

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And even better, I guess 22 million of the 25 will go to the Trump library instead of Trump's pocket. You don't want that. And the rest goes to pay their lawyers. Nicely done. That would be You know, I take this back to how apologies work, the difference between men and women. I've mentioned this before.

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When men apologize to men, you can sort of see this settlement as like Zuckerberg apologizing to Trump. Men accept apologies, as long as it looks like you mean it. You know, we're not going to.

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delve into your personal thoughts but if you say it like you mean it and you act like you mean it and you change your behavior we're like great done you're even more awesome than i thought so apologies really work for men if they're real for women might be a different situation i'm no expert on women so i can't say one way or the other but it never seems to work

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So it looks like at least 60 people, which would be all the people on the jet, and maybe a crew of three, I think. Not everybody's been located, but there's not much chance of survival. Zero, basically. So we're still in the fog of war period, but people are speculating, how could this happen?

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If you've ever tried, it doesn't seem to work the same way. But I can tell you from my own personal experience, you can change me from your raging anger to, oh, we're good now. We're just an apology, you know, depending on the situation. So this looks like a man-to-man apology, Zuckerberg to Trump, and it looks like the two of them handled it like men. Nicely done.

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Some of you are going to say, oh, he's just covering his ass. Yeah, that's what we do, right? And there's some element to that. So it's never just one thing. You know, can Zuckerberg do what makes sense and what he thinks is right? But it also is good for business. It's also good for covering his ass. Nothing wrong with that. Give him a threefer.

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that now that the full self-driving capabilities of the Teslas have really reached breakout level, breakout meaning there's no question that the self-driving is safer than the human driver. Just no question. I believe that's over. I think the argument about who's safer, you could just put it completely to rest. So we'll see.

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I mean, we need data to prove it, but I think he's got the data on that. Anyway, so Musk says that Tesla is going to launch full self-driving unsupervised, meaning you don't have to touch the steering wheel or look at the road. And this service will be a paid ride share service in Austin in June.

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now that's a good way to you know take a halfway movement into um the full cyber cab world i think there's gonna be a lot of a lot of work to get that up and running but i'm pretty sure tesla can make that work so in june um that would be a great time to go to austin just to see how it works you know i probably won't do that but I can see how people would.

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That'd be an awesome American vacation just to go see the future, see how it feels. That'd be great. At the same time, I saw at the Optimus, also Tesla product, the Optimus robot, a little more information than we had about it. And it's 5'8", and it weighs 125 pounds. It can lift 150 pounds. And it can walk at a speed of 1.34 miles per hour.

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And it looks like the cost, maybe not the first models, but very soon, when they get to production of a million a year, I think, they expect the cost per unit to be $20,000 to $30,000. And it looks like it'll be launched this year. So 2025, if Tesla hits its target, this will be the year that you've got a robot. Now, I don't know what the first one is going to cost.

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I hate to be the one who spends way too much on the first robot and then six months later it's $25,000. But I really want one. So I would probably overpay. I wouldn't overpay stupid, crazy, idiot money. But I might overpay a little bit. So I'd love to see a price. I'll tell you if I'll pay it. That might help them with the research. But why did they have to make the thing exactly my height?

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They almost made it my height and my weight. Now, to make me feel like I live in a simulation, because one of the things I worry about with a robot is the same thing I worry about with a dog. I made sure that when we selected Snickers, I wanted to make sure that if things got out of control, I could still win in a fair fight against the dog.

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It's such a normal thing for there to be traffic in that part of the world, and all of that advanced technology should have seen each other. But that's what people who are not pilots say. Would you like to hear what a pilot says? Which is very different from what you and I are saying. Because here's you and I trying to figure out the situation. Huh.

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You know, if you get some giant dog or pit bull that's one of the big muscular ones, you say to yourself, I don't know, I think I could win a fight, but I'm not sure I could. It's dangerous to have something living in your house that's both unpredictable and could beat you in a fair fight. So I just try to avoid that, right? So the robot looks like it's going to be stronger than me.

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Could I lift 150 pounds? Well, yeah, I can. I mean, that's literally my exact weight. So it can lift my exact weight, and it's my size. So it can carry me around. I'm going to make my robot carry me around. See, it won't work for you because you're 151 pounds or more, but I'm exactly 150. I'll be like, Carl, can you carry me to bed? Again, master? Yes, again. You know you could walk, master.

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of human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tanker shells a stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee

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I might say, you know, maybe I thought it at the time. But, you know, not really, not now. But if you have a lot of them, it becomes quite a show. And apparently she had quite a few things to say. Almost every one of them would have been disqualifying for any kind of leadership job.

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And she had to respond to every one that she had completely changed her views from crazy woke to something more like, you know, a leader perspective. Oh, my God, did she get destroyed. Brandon Gill. Good job there, Brandon. All right. Some of you have already seen this story, but I just had to weigh in.

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I guess on Joe Rogan's show, he had a doctor, Dr. Suzanne Humphreys, and they were talking about the real story of polio. Now, before I tell you what the claim is, let me say that I don't know how to judge this. There was a time when if I had heard that somebody saying that the polio vaccine actually doesn't do anything and the polio, well, let me tell you the claim.

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Well, maybe Doge should cut that grant money, even though you're in Australia. That's how good Doge is. It's going to cut things in Australia. Well, speaking of things related to Elon Musk, according to fizz.org, the X platform sales or the advertising revenue is growing. I'm not sure if they really know that, but they say it's growing. And, uh,

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The claim is that the polio vaccine didn't stop any polio at all. What did stop polio is nothing. Nothing stopped it at all. And that all they did was redefine polio.

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certain conditions as no longer being polio so they came up with new names for stuff so then when somebody had something that used to be called polio but they had been vaccinated the doctor would say well it can't be polio because you've been vaccinated so it looks like you got this uh gillian bar thing or you've got this coxsack coxsack virus or an echo virus

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I don't know what a cocksucky virus is, but that sounds like a bad one. What kind of virus did you get? I got that cocksucky virus. It's spelled C-O-X-S-A-C-K-I-E virus, all one word. It just sounds like a cocksucky virus, which is absolutely the worst kind you can get. Ha ha ha ha. Or the doctors would chalk it up to, now this is a claim of Dr. Suzanne Humphreys. These are not my claims.

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Lead poisoning or mercury poisoning. So they'd always have some answer to it. And then the doctor says the rise of polio, or what seemed to be the rise of polio, was directly mirror the use of toxic pesticides like DDT, she says. And she says the countries that still make DDT today is where we're still seeing the polio happen.

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So let me say what I think a number of others of you have said or are thinking right now. Let me see if I can read your mind. All right, I'm going to read your mind. I've already done remote viewing. Reading your mind and you're saying, got it, got it. What you're saying is there was a time when, you would not have believed this story, right? This is not that time.

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This is a time where I look at this. I mean, this is a really fantastical claim that the entire medical community didn't know that polio either was just not what they thought it was and the vaccine didn't make any difference at all. That's quite a claim. Quite a claim. But in 2025, to steal a joke from Joe Rogan, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real.

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And by the way, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real. Like, I've actually been flipped. Even maybe a month ago, I was holding tough. It's like, come on. Of course the moon landing's real. I mean, you can see the assets up there. You can see, you know, people can still see that the, you know, some of the assets are down there on the moon's surface. How could it not be real?

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And then I thought, well, maybe the pictures aren't real. I mean, maybe they landed something on the moon, but are the pictures real? Maybe they couldn't get good film on the moon or get it quickly. So maybe they filmed it separately. even if they did land on the moon, either with a person or without people.

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So at the moment, I'm completely open to 100% of everything I've learned in history being fake. That doesn't mean it is, but I'm completely open to it now. There's nothing I'm unwilling to believe, no matter how crazy. And I'm going to put this on that list. I'm not going to say this is true. because how would I know?

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But is it possible, within the realm of possibility, that polio could have been completely a fake hysteria? And the answer is, I hate to say it, But it's a little bit possible. It's just a little bit possible. I don't think it's the most likely explanation. To be honest, if I had to place a bet, I would bet that the vaccinations work and polio is real. But, man, it's not 100%, is it?

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I'd love to tell you I'm super confident about that, but nope, nope. It's a little bit closer to a coin flip. A little bit closer to a coin flip. I see your comments and I'm just chuckling to myself. One of you is trying to get me kicked off of all social media platforms forever. I'm not going to take the bait.

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The reason behind the growth in advertising on X, according to this publication, is being driven by fear. Do you think they would cover anybody else's business this way? As if they know why people are doing it. So why are you advertising on X? Is it because it's a really good value for the dollar? Or is it because we imagine that you're afraid? Oh, now that Musk is friends with Trump.

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Well, according to Kash Patel, Trump has this brilliant plan where he either has or is going to file a lawsuit against all the people involved in the Russia collusion hoax. Now, it would be a lawsuit as opposed to a criminal action. And he would be suing for financial compensation. Now, the financial part probably doesn't matter to him that much. but it's a RICO lawsuit.

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I didn't know you could RICO in a lawsuit, but maybe it's the essence of RICO as opposed to RICO. And what Kash Patel is pointing out is that it could lead to the possibility of criminal charges. So in other words, if the lawsuit had some discovery involved or some, let's say it tied together a bunch of things that nobody tied together before,

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it could create the basis for a criminal prosecution on the same grounds, that it was organized, funded, and it was an operation that involved a vast number of people from lawyers in a certain firm to Hillary Clinton's campaign to the FBI to the Department of Justice. I don't know who else, the media, maybe the media.

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And then as Kash Patel points out, I guess he was talking to Charlie Kirk on the podcast, that the RICO part of it, the part where everything's connected and it's not one person who just did a thing, it's a whole bunch of people who apparently knew what the other people were doing and seemed to be coordinated. He says that the Durham report and other, I guess, legal actions

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have essentially proven the main points that the lawsuit would try to establish, which is it was fake. We know who the people involved were, and we know pretty much that they communicated, but maybe that's the extra stuff they have to add to it to get some testimonies and stuff like that. So that is really interesting as a legal strategy. And I'm all in for that.

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We should absolutely know if our government was real or we were just run by a bunch of hoaxes and RICO and some deep state stuff. I don't know. Well, in other news, Representative Thomas Massey, he's introducing a bill, the Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act. So if somebody is a candidate for office, for federal offices, they would have to disclose all the countries in which they are citizens.

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Now, you're probably saying to yourself, that seems unnecessary because everybody knows who's a dual citizen, right? I mean, it would be easy to check. If somebody had dual citizenship and they were in Congress, you'd know about it, right? Apparently, there's no reporting requirement and there's no place you can look it up.

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So we could have dozens of people in Congress who are actually citizens of other countries at the same time they're citizens of the United States, and we wouldn't even know it. Now, I know what you're going to say. Israel, right? Say it. You know that's what you want to say. You want to say there are members of Congress who are secretly also dual citizens of Israel. Well...

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According to my limited research, there's no known case of that. So if you have different information than I do, let me know. But to the best of my very quick analysis, there's no example of that. There doesn't seem to be, as far as anybody knows, any member of Congress who's a dual citizen. Now, that actually surprised me. I thought there'd be one or two.

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And I don't think there's anybody else who hasn't at this point renounced their dual citizenship. So there were a few that were not related to Israel where people were challenged. I think Ted Cruz was one. Ted Cruz had Canadian citizenship as well as American. And I believe he renounced the Canadian part as soon as it became an issue.

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I think there were a few other candidates or a few other politicians who were in the same situation. They weren't really wed to the other country, so they just renounced it and fixed it. But I guess I approve of this. I don't think it'll make much difference in the real world, but it'd be good to know. All right, let's talk about Signalgate.

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Believe it or not, I think I can add something to the story. It's a boring story, and that's the biggest part of the story is that it's too boring for the public to get interested in. Imagine if you didn't follow the news like we do, like obsessively trying to figure stuff out all day long, and you heard about, oh, they use the Signal app.

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Oh, we'd better advertise so we can bribe him with money. Because that works, right? Yeah, bribing him with money. No, it doesn't work. But anyway, good to see that the ad sales are up. Now, I promised you if you're on X, I made the promise that I would do some remote viewing today. And it's because there's a document that's been found. It's an older document.

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Like, you wouldn't even know, like, why is that bad or anything like that. So... Here's something that CIA Director Ratcliffe said in a statement, and he was dumping on the reporter who wrote about it, Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the one who was added to the signal group. We don't know exactly how he was added yet, but it wasn't by Ratcliffe.

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And anyway, so CIA Director Ratcliffe said, yesterday I spent four hours answering questions from senators and as a result of that article intimating that I transmitted classified information. Now, I didn't know that. I didn't know that Goldberg suggested that maybe Ratcliffe had transmitted classified information because we didn't see any example of that.

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So I didn't know that was being even suggested. And then Ratcliffe says those messages were revealed today. I did not transmit classified information. I guess we can now just look at the messages and see he's right. He said, the reporter, Goldberg, who I don't know, intentionally intended it to indicate that. The reporter also indicated I released the name of an undercover CIA operative.

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In fact, I released the name of my own chief of staff who is not operating undercover, and that was deliberately false and misleading. Okay, that's pretty bad. Imagine being accused, you're the head of the CIA, Imagine being accused of releasing the name of an undercover CIA agent and then finding out literally nothing like that happened. It was just made up, apparently.

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But I want to redo this last sentence and see if this sounds familiar to you. So Ratcliffe's summary sentence was, the mission was a remarkable success because that's what did happen, not what could have happened. not what could have happened. Have you noticed the pattern? The pattern that Democrats have imaginary concerns? We'll talk about that in a little bit.

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But I wrote a post on X that I thought captured some of the nuance that nobody had captured yet on this signal thing. So starting with if Hegseth, and I believe this is true, Secretary Hegseth, he has the power to declassify content. So all he has to do is say declassify this and it's declassified.

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So in my opinion, putting that content on Signal, which is what he did, is a de facto declassification. Now, it's the same thing I said about Trump and Mar-a-Lago. If the person who's in charge of saying something is classified or not intentionally puts it in a place that they know is not classified, that's a de facto practical declassification. Now, it should be with paperwork.

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But is that the problem? Are we mad at Hank Seth because he didn't do paperwork? That wouldn't make anybody mad, would it? If he intended it to be... in a non-classified setting. And obviously he knew the signal was not their top secret setting. So he very consciously put it into a less than completely secure setting. I would call that a de facto declassification. Now, here's the thing that, um,

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you'll see in the news over and over again, and I think I'm about the only person besides Greg Uffelt, whoever calls this out, which is I call it the half pinion. If the only thing you knew about the story is that somebody took some information that you think should be in the most maximized secret setting and they moved it to a less secret setting, how would you judge that?

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And there could be potential military implications to it. How would you judge that? Well, I'd say that's a mistake. That's a pretty big one, right? If all you're looking at is the cost of it, what's the downside, what's the worst that could happen? I'd say that's terrible. But what are we leaving out? We're leaving out why he did it. Why did he put that information in that setting?

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But back in 1988, the CIA claimed to have confirmed... the existence of the Ark of the Covenant. And the way they did that was they used a remote viewer. Now, that would be a person who has psychic powers, where if they close their eyes, they can view things across the world or even across the galaxy, because time and space don't matter.

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Well, it's because he had a mission. He'd been asked to keep this very group of people informed right up to the last minute. I mean, the timing of it was important. And it was very important to keep them informed in case somebody had a last minute objection. Because remember, this was big stuff.

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He was ready to kill a whole bunch of people, which presumably is what happened when the strike happened. So before he decided to unleash death, death was like people dying. He wanted to make sure that the people most involved got their final say. And I don't think that that was just, you know, check in a box.

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To me, that seems important, that if you've been asked to keep this group informed, it's because this group might be the ones who say, you know what? Hold on, hold on. You know, I have such an objection, or I found out something new, or maybe there's something we haven't considered. Maybe they would have delayed it. And that could have been really important, right?

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Siptastic. Better than normal. Well, let's check the science news to see if there's anything I can doge. And by that I mean save them some money. Oh, yes. Let's see.

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So if you were to judge it as did he take something into a less secure platform, yes, by itself that would look like a mistake. But if you judge it by what was he trying to accomplish, which was to make sure that the people most important to the decision were still okay with the decision, before he killed people, before he killed people, That seems pretty legitimate to me.

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Now, let me tell you something about every big organization I've ever been involved with. If you followed all of the rules of any big organization, be it a corporation or anywhere else, you would immediately bring that corporation or organization to its knees because big organizations have enough rules that you wouldn't be able to get anything done. Let me give you an example.

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One of my first jobs out of college, I was a bank teller. And one day I cashed a bad check. And it's because I didn't check identification properly. Now, the reason I didn't check is because the person who brought the people with the check in and stood right there at the window with them was a friend of mine. So the friend says, well, you know, I can vouch for these two. They're friends of mine.

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And I thought, oh, that's safe enough. I mean, this is my personal friend. Turns out they were criminals. So I just got scammed. So I didn't get fired because it was sort of a first offense and it wasn't that much money. But I did get a talking to. I got a stern talking to. And the stern talking to was, you don't get to decide which of the rules you follow and which ones you don't follow.

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You will follow all the rules. And I looked at my supervisor and I said, you got it. And within two hours, the line for the tellers was out the door. And I was serving very few people because almost every encounter required me to call my supervisor over because that was the rule. If there was anything that was above my pay grade to approve, I couldn't do it.

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So I brought the entire bank to a standstill. I crashed the bank. It couldn't do anything for customers and they were just lying out the door. And what was I doing? I was just following all the rules. I was doing it quickly. I wasn't dragging my feet. I was just following their own rules.

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And so apparently some remote viewer did identify the Ark of the Covenant over in the Middle East. and said it was in a coffin-shaped ornate box. Couldn't be more specific than that, somewhere in the Middle East. And it was being guarded by entities. But I feel like that's the sort of thing you shouldn't just trust, right? You know, one remote viewer. Is one remote viewer a good source?

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And one time I call my supervisor over and there's some guy who works for Chevron and he didn't have ID or he didn't have a, I guess he didn't have an account at our branch or something. And she comes over and she takes one look at him. She goes, approved. I go, hold on, hold on. What did you do that I couldn't do? Like you just looked at him. You literally just looked at him.

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Like, why couldn't I do that? She goes, well, I noticed he was wearing this lapel pin that tells me that he's worked for Chevron for, I don't know, at least 10 years or something. And she goes, yeah, nobody would know to wear that little pin if they were a crook. And I thought, well, I'm pretty sure that's not in the rules, the lapel pin trick. So this is a pattern that you'll see everywhere.

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Now, do you think this is different in the military? Do you think the military could possibly function if everybody followed all the rules all the time? I doubt it. If it's like every other big organization? No. It's probably a whole bunch of people who are continuously looking for some way to get around the rules and regulation just to get something done.

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That's probably the most normal situation in the world. So now you've got Pete Hegseth, who's given this job. Your job is to keep this group of people informed right up to date, like not once a month, but like right up to the operational point. How is he going to do that? How? You tell me the other way he was going to do it. There wasn't another way he was going to do it.

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There was no other mechanism. the government does not have a secure chat group. And if it did, it would require those same people, what a dozen or 16 or whatever, to all be sitting in an office at the same time. Do you think that ever happens? No, it never happens. So he did not have any tool, any process,

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any way to do the thing that he had been tasked to do that was important enough that it could save the lives of those people who ended up being killed. It was life and death, and it was his job. It was life and death, and it was his job to keep them informed. There was no other way to do it. So what did he do? I can't read his mind. But what it looks like is he said, this is not ideal.

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Just again, I'm just guessing. This is not ideal to put this on on signal. But it's only two hours between now and the time of the attack. And it's important that we've got everybody on board. I mean, that's just critically important.

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So he took a little bit of a risk, like everybody does in every big organization if they're trying to work within the rules, and he got a little bit of a benefit, which is he did what he was asked to do before he killed people. Before he killed people. I mean, I feel like we're forgetting. We've somehow forgotten the humanity of it. This was life and death.

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And you do want to make sure everybody's on the right page before the missiles fly. So telling them exactly when the thing was going to happen is very critical, completely appropriate to do have a final objection. Very important, because if there's two hours, maybe you say no. If it were a day, maybe you'd say yes. Now, here's a question you're wondering.

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Just what was the risk level of putting something on a signal? Well, here's your other real-world reveal. I don't believe the hoodies have a sophisticated... hacking operation. Do you? Do you think the hooties had penetrated the phones of the United States government? Do you think the hooties had a backdoor to the signal? I'm going to say no. But before you say it, I know what you're thinking.

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You're thinking, Scott, it doesn't have to be the hooties. It could have been the Russians, and then they tipped them off. It could have been China, and then they tipped off the Houthis. It could have been Iran. Iran has sophisticated hackers. It could have been Iran, and then Iran is on their side, so they tip off the Houthis. But let me give you a little real-world context.

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No, you need two. You need a second source. So I thought I'd do a little remote viewing for you, if you don't mind. preparing. Hold on. Be silent for a moment. I'm getting something. It's ornate. It's the size of a coffin. It's in a hole. I'm sorry. That was, yeah, that was, yeah, no, that wasn't it. That was just somebody's casket. Hold, let me go. Ark of the Covenant, where are you? Got it.

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If any of those major powers had access to signal and they had penetrated it so that they could listen to our government talking about everything, they would have risked losing that access by tipping off the Houthis, because we probably would have noticed if the Houthis in two hours kind of quickly adjusted their defensive positions.

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because you know we'd be watching them by then right we'd have the satellites on we'd have the drones flying over and if suddenly two hours before the attack everything changed and they started rapidly moving their assets how long would it take us to figure out it was because of the signal chat about five minutes and then we would have stopped using signal and then the chinese or the russians or the iranians would have lost their access

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I think that if they had access to that tool and they were listening to our government conversations at the highest level, I'm pretty sure they would have said, well, we're going to let the hooties take the hit. It would have been smarter, certainly for China and Russia, no doubt about it, to let the Houthis take the hit.

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Even if they thought they'd like to screw the United States, they wouldn't lose their own access to something that important. Now, what about Iran? I would go so far as to say that even Iran would let the Houthis take a hit before they would give up a source that important. Now, who else told you that? Nobody, right? So once you see how weak the analysis was of this whole situation, it's shocking.

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The next thing is that Democrats have conflated what could have happened with what did happen. Now, that's what Ratcliffe said. He said the exact same thing, right? So in my post, I point out that the Democrats, they love the imaginary stuff. Well, it could have been bad. Do you know what else could have been bad? Everything that those people did that day, everything.

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How many conversations did all the people who were in that chat, how many conversations did they have on other topics with other people that could have been compromised but weren't? Probably not, but could have been. If you're worrying about things that could go wrong, That's pretty much everything. And it's pretty much all the time. That is not a valid concern.

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If somebody takes a risk reward decision, I need to keep people informed. That's my job. It's life or death. It's a little bit less secure, but it's only two hours before the strike. It's pretty unlikely that any notice is going to get to them in two hours. So life is just one decision after another. But if you were to read the news, it would look like half pinions.

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A real opinion is you take the positive and the negative risks of everything you do. Okay, it could go this way, but it could go that way. I'll get some benefits, but there might be a cost. But if the only thing you do is look at there might be a cost, you wouldn't do anything. Well, there might be a cost. I'd like you to meet me tomorrow at this building. We'll have the meeting. I don't know.

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What if I get hit by a car on the way to the meeting? Well, that's certainly more of a risk if you're traveling than if you're staying home. So was that worth the risk? Everything has a risk to it. Everything. If you look at the fact that everything has a risk, including every single conversation that every one of those people had about every topic that was classified all day long.

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It's just nothing but that risk, just all day long. Well, somebody might have heard it. Somebody might be bugging this room. Somebody might be a mole. That's universal. Anyway, so here's the second question. People have been asking me, hey, was this whole signal thing some kind of an op? Was it a setup from the start? My first impression was, well, I don't see how it would be.

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My current impression is, yeah, it looks like it. I'm not at the point where I'm willing to say it was an op, but it looks like it. So here's what we know. This is according to an ex-account called The Researcher. So something called American Oversight. So this is another one of those, you know how the NGOs all have these generic names?

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And when you hear one of these generic names, it's some damn Democrat op. So American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, and Ratcliffe, et cetera, saying that their messaging on Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. Huh. Who do you think is on this American Oversight group? Well, Apparently, it's David Brock and Norm Eisen.

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Remember I tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything. You have to know who. If the only thing you knew was that they were getting sued over a Federal Records Act, you might say to yourself, oh, well, I guess somebody in the government takes that pretty seriously. But it's not that.

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It's the most devious, weasel-like, despicable, lying pieces of shit that you've ever seen in your life. Norm Eisen and David Brock. Now, if you don't know about those two guys... Do a little research. They are not associated with good acts whatsoever. They are associated with the darkest, weaselly, just terrible, terrible activities.

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And so sure enough, they're behind that, and they seem to be ready to go pretty quickly, surprisingly. And then... They used to have a, I guess, a subgroup of this American oversight called CREW, C-R-E-W. And according to the researcher, that was the lawfare arm or their effort to target Trump originally.

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Got it. There it is. It's an ornate box. It's buried somewhere in the Middle East. I can't be more specific. I believe there's sand around, and it's being guarded by four entities. Four entities are guarding it. I think one of them, his name is Bob. Bob. There's Carl, the entity, and somebody whose nickname is Bip-Bop. That's weird. And Alex. Alex.

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So there was a subset of people, probably lawyer-like people, who would do the lawfare going after Trump. Now, why is that important? Well, there was a member of that group, named Alex Wong, who is being accused of being the staffer for Ratcliffe, who added the journalist, who added Jeffrey Goldberg. So, and then, on top of that, the judge who's been selected for this, who was randomly selected,

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totally randomly, is somebody named Judge Boasberg. Have you heard of him? Again, if you knew what was happening, you wouldn't know anything. If you knew who, you might know everything. So Boasberg, he's the activist judge who was blocking Trump from deporting violent gang members. He's the one who intentionally delayed the release of Hillary Clinton's email until after the 2016 election.

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He's considered an activist anti-Trump judge. So pulling it all together, It does look like an op because none of us would really believe that Ratcliffe's chief of staff, if that's what he was, Alex Wong. Now, by the way, this is not confirmed that Alex Wong is the person who did it, that that's just an accusation.

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But at the moment, since we know that Ratcliffe did not have any contact with, would not have had Goldberg's number on his own phone, and that a staffer was involved and almost certainly was the reason that Goldberg got added. And then you add to it, of all the people in the world, adding Goldberg was the most dangerous thing you could do. So of all the people in the world...

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Just that one guy gets added. And of all the people in the world, David Brock and Norm Eisen had a lawsuit that seemed like it was practically ready to go. And of all the people in the world who are randomly selected to be the judge, it's this Boasberg guy. That is a lot of coincidences, my friend. Now, again, if you didn't know the players...

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and you didn't know that the Alex Wong was actually part of the organization that is now suing them, it wouldn't look like it was necessarily a plot. But as soon as you know who the players are, it just screams. It just screams like it's a Rico plot. Anyway...

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So now that we know that the big problem was the imaginary concern of what could have happened but didn't happen, I've suggested that Trump should create a department of imaginary concerns. And it would be only to handle Democrat complaints. And the new department could have imaginary policies to combat the imaginary concerns. So you would place things like climate change in there.

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Climate change, at least the crisis part of the climate change. You put the Russia collusion thing in there. You put the hoodies could have found out by hacking a signal in there. You put Trump might steal your democracy in the imaginary concerns department. That Musk might steal our social security numbers. You put that right in the department of imaginary concerns.

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And that there might be a constitutional crisis. Yep, that's the department of imaginary concerns. Now I don't, I'm not completely serious about this, but just, just think how funny it would be if every time one of these hoaxes comes up and Trump has asked about it, he says, Oh, I've delegated that to the department of imaginary concerns. Uh, but, but are you trying to steal our democracy?

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You know, that's a perfectly good question. So I've delegated that to the department of imaginary concerns. Uh, Did you agree with Putin to have sex with him if he stops the fighting? Well, you know, no, but I'm going to assign that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns, and we'll come up with an imaginary policy to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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So Byron York had some funny comments about Politico. So Politico had a statement and it said there is no administration in the world beyond this one where a blunder of these proportions. By the way, I've never met any Republican who thinks that this blunder is of great proportion. It's just the news telling you that you should be concerned about it. But I'm not.

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where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody resigns, not in London, not in Moscow, not in Tokyo, not in Pyongyang, nowhere. Hmm. And then Byron York points out on the Signal Matter that political playbook makes a statement with great confidence, but maybe not much perspective. And then he includes a photo of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which nobody resigned over. Nope.

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So the four entities guarding the Ark of the Covenant. Confirmed. Confirmed. Now, that probably will be national news by the end of the day, because, you know, if you only have one remote viewer seeing the Ark of the Covenant, that means nothing. But if you have two, that's confirmation. Yeah, that's confirmation. So we got that going for us.

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One of the most embarrassing, incompetent things that ever happened in our country, a stain on our history. Nobody resigned. So Politico, apparently that's something we do in this country. Anyway. But apparently in this case, the Dramacrats, in the case of the Signalgate, the Dramacrats who are trying to train their audience that they should be very, very concerned.

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And they do it by the emotion that they put into ordinary words, right? Like, oh my God, the incompetence. I am aghast. I'm simply shocked. There's no country in the world from Moscow to Pyongyang who would ever make such a mistake.

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And people who have lived in the real world say, yeah, well, unless it was impossible to get ordinary work done without bending a rule or two, which is a universal truth. Jonathan Turley was talking about Daniel Goldman, Representative Goldman, and he says that Goldman claimed that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla and its facilities is nothing but lawfare and political weaponization.

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So Goldman thinks that investigating the people who are the terrorists is the problem. It's not the terrorists. It's that if you investigate who the terrorists are, well, that's a case of lawfare and political weaponization right there. Now, as Turley says, Goldman's latest controversy captures how Democrats have now entirely cut the cord of decency and moderation.

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They once tethered their party to the mainstream of our society. I love that sentence. Turley is a great writer. If you just want to see great writing, you know, in addition to great opinions, he can put a sentence together like nobody's business. He's just a great writer. But then he did something that I was wondering about. Turley was helping us with the definition of what terrorism is.

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And he points out that he's long criticized the expansion of what terrorism is. And I would agree with that. I don't think you want to trivialize terrorism and just start calling everything terrorism. You don't want to do that. But let's see if this Tesla stuff fits the definition without stretching it.

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So Turley points out that the Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as, quote, violent criminal acts committed by individuals and or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature. And that perfectly captures what's happening to Tesla. So yes, you don't have to hurt people

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to be a terrorist. If you're destroying economic assets and you're also doing it in the pursuit of political gain, that's also terrorism because money is important to people. It's not just physical pain and death and injury. It's destroying economics because that's its own problem. Anyway, to me it seems like

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Probably the funniest thing that will happen this year is the Trump administration, without even trying, getting prominent Democrats to support domestic terrorism. How would you like to be running for president in the next election? Can you imagine J.D. Vance running against one of these clowns who is not disowning the terrorism? Imagine if he ran against Goldman.

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Meanwhile, according to Reuters, the Supreme Court said it will not hear a youth-led climate change case. So the Supreme Court said, get out of here. We don't want to hear your 21 young people's case that the government has and their energy policies have violated your right to be protected from climate change. You know, your right to be protected from climate change.

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Well, Dan, it seems to me that you've been supporting domestic terrorism in this country, and I think the voters should know that if they vote for you, they're voting for a domestic terrorist, according to the definition of those terms. It feels like it would be the easiest thing in the world to be almost any prominent Democrat at this point. They've literally supported terrorism.

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I think Ro Khanna... and maybe one other person, have said right up front and loudly, and I respect that, yeah, the violence, that's just got to end. The Tesla stuff, nope, don't do that. That's bad. But only a few. Is it even more than two at this point? In the entire Democrat Party, was it just two people who were willing to say that domestic terrorism is a bad idea?

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And the problem is that the Democrats have unleashed domestic terrorism a number of times. You know, if you count Antifa and Black Lives Matter and now this, it's definitely a pattern. Anyway, if you haven't seen Ezra Klein on Gavin Newsom's podcast, I highly recommend it because Ezra's book, Abundance, with Derek Thompson, I guess, is getting a lot of attention.

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And, you know, my first take on it when I just had AI summarize it for me was, wait a minute, all they're doing is promoting Republican policy, right? such as don't waste the money, build things, build things in this country, be practical, get some actual wins, ordinary stuff.

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And so I wasn't that impressed with it because it just seemed to be telling Democrats to be Republicans, which was funny in its own way. But the more I hear him, because I've listened, he's very interesting. So the more I've listened to him on various podcasts, he's going hard. at the Democrats. He's not taking prisoners and it's exactly what they needed.

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So if you're asking yourself, what's the solution? I don't know if it's this, but it's something like this. And so he sat with Gavin Newsom and I'll just give you the top level summary. It's just worth watching. And he starts describing how Democrats operate, which is getting large funding for things and then building nothing. And he's just making Newsom squirm. And then Newsom has to talk.

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But one of the things that Newsom does, because he's clever but weaselly at the same time, Newsom will agree with whatever your criticism is, but then he's got lots of reasons why you know, it's not as bad as you think, or everything will be fine or, you know, so he's got this pattern where he first agrees, but then he, he talks for a while and then he makes his own point, which is disagreeing.

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Basically you have to watch Newsome being triggered into full word salad. That didn't look like it had an end. He was full Kamala Harris. Yo, well, uh, big word, big word, um, jargon, uh, Big word and big word, big word, big word. And it just went on and on. And he was just dying in front of the camera. And I'm not even sure he knew it. So he had to throw in some weird hand motions. I don't know.

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We don't know why he does that. But he was just destroyed right on camera. And, you know, we've seen some, we've seen, you know, Bannon, we've seen Charlie Kirk and stuff talking to Gavin. And they would have their own criticisms. And so you've seen Gavin handle criticisms. And I'll give him credit. He does interact with people who are willing to criticize. So I'll give him credit for that.

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But I've never seen anybody destroy him. Ezra just destroyed him. It's really fun to watch. You're going to have to watch it. Anyway, Laura Loomer apparently has a lawsuit against Bill Maher Because Bill Maher on his show inferred that she was having an affair with Trump because, I don't know, she traveled on the jet or something. And so Laura Loomer is suing him.

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Have you even read the Constitution? People, it's right there. I believe it's an article of the Constitution. It's one of those amendments or something. I'm pretty sure it's in there, right? No? Okay, maybe it's not in there. Meanwhile, there's a private Texas school that claims that by using an AI program, an AI tutor, that its students have rated it to the top 2% in the country.

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And apparently a judge refused to throw it out. So it's going forward. And now Bill Maher will have to sit and answer questions about why he did that. I don't know if she can win this. You know, I'll defer to the lawyers. Implied, not inferred. Okay, I'll take that. He implied it, not inferred it. Because you would have to prove that he knew he was lying.

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So wouldn't a perfect defense be, it sure looked like it to me. Wouldn't that be the entire defense? Or would he go with, it's a humor show. Nobody should take it too seriously. You know, it's meant for comedic value, so it's not as serious. I don't know. I remember seeing it live and saying to myself, whoa, that's too far. Did anybody see it live when Maura made that accusation or implied it?

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To me, it looked too far because that was definitely not in evidence. And Trump has traveled with, what, thousands and thousands of people on his plane, some male, some female. Yeah. I mean, to me, it looked too far. And we'll see. We'll see what happens. I don't think she can win because I think he just has to say his state of mind was that he believed it was true.

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I think that's all it takes, but I don't know. Meanwhile, Rasmussen said Democratic approval of the party is 26%. That would be a new low. I think it might drop into the teens, actually, by the end of the year. It's possible that Democrat approval or popularity... will be in the high teens.

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Now, I think Congress's approval, generally speaking, has been in the high teens before, so it's not impossible. And I don't think anybody would have seen it go to 26%. But if it's going to 26%, it's in free fall. Now, I know that last 20% are going to hold tight, but I think it's just going to get worse, right?

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You know, one more day of Jasmine Crockett should make pretty much all the Democrats change sides at that point. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is trying to ban Big Pharma ads. on TV.

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And I think most of you know that the reason that Big Pharma advertises is not so that they can get the patients to ask their doctor for the drug, but rather it's so that the, allegedly, it's so that the news entity will not say bad things about Big Pharma. So it's essentially a way to bribe the news industry to stay away from their stories. That's the claim.

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But the other thing that the big pharma ads do, and this is my hypnotist take on it, so you haven't heard this one. If I watch a big pharma commercial on a news program, it'll start with, oh, you got this problem, here's this drug that helps it. But eventually, I guess for legal reasons, they have to tell you all the side effects. And man, when they start with the side effects, it just kills me.

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If I can't find the remote to turn off the TV, I'll have to put a boot through it because the damage that it's doing to my brain. It starts out with, and be careful, your penis will fall off, your hair will catch on fire, your throat will close, and you'll be bleeding blood from your ass for the rest of your life.

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You will probably get amnesia, rheumatoid arthritis, your heart will turn into a lump of coal. your blood will coagulate into a kind of a mayonnaise. You will be begging for life and probably rolling around on the floor in pain for the rest of your existence, which might not last very long. And I'm like, where's the remote? Oh, God. Oh, God, where's the remote? And I'm running around.

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I'm moving pillows like, ah, ah, ah, ah. Because you can't have that much negativity just drilled into your head even casually. And by the way, I'm only barely exaggerating how much impact that has on me. I can feel it. I mean, I just feel it. And I'm convinced that big pharma is destroying the business model of the news.

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Now, because they're the biggest advertiser, of course, the news will say yes. But if you run this biggest advertiser over and over again, And the old people just keep hearing all these horrible things that are going to happen to them if they take this drug. Eventually, and this is the hypnotist filter, eventually it should be like Pavlov's dog.

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except instead of giving you a treat that will make you salivate the next time the scientist comes in the room, it should make you, if you turn on the TV and you see news, it should make you think, oh, shit, even before the commercial. Like if you're just flipping through the channels and Jake Tapper comes on, The first thing you might think is, my penis will fall off.

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I'm going to bleed through my ass. No, no, no. And just flip to anything else. So I think over time, big pharma destroys the business model of the news. It should. Oh, Canada. So there's a story, post-millennialist story. about their conservative, I guess the conservative leader, what's his name, Mark Carney.

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Fox News is reporting on this. And the co-founder of the school, it's called Alpha School, says the students are learning better and faster, and they only spend a few hours a day talking to the AI. And then they're done with all their work and they don't even need to do homework because they're learning so fast. And then they spend the rest of the day doing passion projects.

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Is he prime minister now, or is he just, I'm so confused about the Canadian system, but anyway, so Mark Carney apparently used to be Justin Trudeau's economic advisor. While he was the economic advisor to Justin Trudeau, he went to China, And he negotiated to get a $276 million loan for his own business. So it wasn't even for the government. It was for his own business.

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Now, it's not illegal to have your own business and be an economic advisor, I guess. But wouldn't you like to know if any strings were attached to that loan? Do you think China was trying to influence Canada? I don't know. That's a tough one to explain. So he's got some explaining to do on that. But wow.

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Meanwhile, Vladimir Zelensky says that Putin is going to die soon because he's got all kinds of medical problems and that should change everything. He literally says he'll die soon. I believe we've been hearing that for five years. How long have we been hearing Putin's going to die any minute? I don't know. Maybe Zelensky knows something we don't. But I wouldn't count on that.

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I don't think I'd make any policy on it. Now, let me tell you the least surprising news of the day. People, you're never going to believe this. I say, jokingly, this is the most predictable news that you've ever heard. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a ceasefire on their energy infrastructure. All right. I told you that's exactly what's going to happen, right?

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I told you, how could you have a ceasefire on your energy infrastructure when both sides are going to say the other one violated it and then they're just going to keep shooting? And that's exactly what happened, apparently. Now, I don't know if both sides did violate it.

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The prediction is not that they would violate it, but they would definitely claim the other side violated it, and then they would act accordingly, which is what's happening. How in the world do you ever reach a peace deal with the two most lyingest countries in the world? I mean, Ukraine is the least reliable country. honest country that isn't Russia.

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So it doesn't feel like you can even make a deal. Because you need both sides to be at least honorable. I feel like we can make a deal with a lot of countries. And they'd say, we don't want to be that country that doesn't keep a deal. And the United States has broken some deals too, so we're not clean on this. But Who is going to trust either Russia or Ukraine for anything?

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So I don't know how they get a deal there. And I was listening in other news. I was listening to Jeffrey Sachs talk about the Middle East. And he's sort of a, you know, stay out of the Middle East. It's none of our business. We're just making, you know, making permanent war. But he says there will never be peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians have their own country, basically.

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Yeah, passion projects. Now, I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds pretty good. So you do way less work and you get way more fun and you get way better grades. Now, the Alpha School is looking to expand. So it's got a few hundred students now, but it's going to expand across the United States. So that would sort of suggest it's a for-profit school, right?

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But that's not possible because Israel has so many settlements now, there's no place that country could even be. And if you said, okay, you can take the entire West Bank and Gaza too, do you think that would stop the extremists from trying to take Israel proper? Why would it? I don't see why that would stop them.

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So I don't see any possibility that you can make peace by giving Palestinians a country, unless that country included Israel and all the Israelis decided to move somewhere else, which is not going to happen. So there's no actual real-world situation in which you could do peace in the Middle East, which means permanent war. And then Sachs suggests that Israel essentially controls U.S.

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policy and military, at least in terms of the Middle East, and will keep us in a permanent state of war because it's good for Israel. Sachs also says that the Houthis are no big threat to the United States. and if we just ignored them because there's not much, I guess there's not much U.S. shipping that goes through there anyway, which surprised me. I think I need a fact check on that.

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But how many of you agree with him that we're in a permanent war that can never be solved, meaning that you can never solve the Palestinian issue, and if we're being wagged by Israel... then we'll just be in permanent war.

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I worry that Trump has gotten himself into at least two permanent wars because one of the main things we liked about Trump is that he wouldn't be in war and he would end the ones we have. But I don't see him getting out of the Middle East and I don't see Ukraine wanting to end the war. I think Ukraine wants to continue. and maybe Russia does a little bit too.

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So Trump's really got his work cut out for him. Now, my own opinion is, I've told you before, my own opinion is that when countries pursue their own best interest and they have the power to do it, of course they're going to do it. So if the Palestinians had all the power, it would be really, really bad for Israel. Right now, Israel has most of the power, And the Palestinians don't like it at all.

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But there's no way that you solve that because they can't both have all the power. It's going to be somebody has the power. So it's pretty much a win-lose situation over there. Unsolvable, in my opinion. So I saw Zion Lights had a post about how France's power grid last year was 95% fossil-free. And most of that was thanks to nuclear power, but they had a big surge in solar as well.

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And so the context was it was sort of France is sort of the winner. You know, they're the smart ones because they... They got rid of their fossil fuels and they still powered their nation and they're great on nuclear. So it looks like they're just the big smart winners and we just look like the dumb ones now, right? And then I went to Perplexity AI and I said,

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Who pays more for electricity, France or the US? It turns out France. So the cost of electricity, if you adjust for different currencies and whatnot, the cost of electricity in France is higher than in the US. So who's the winner? Is France the winner because they got to all this nuclear power before we did, because that's impressive.

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I do give them a lot of credit for being so successfully nuclear. But if our energy costs less than in France, and most of the CO2, if that's what you're worried about, if most of the CO2 is still coming out of China and India, did it make any difference whatsoever that France had all these green sources of energy? And the answer is, I don't know. To me, it looks like they didn't win.

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Winning would be they pay less for electricity. and they've done what they can to save the world, but they can't do everything, but at least their own electricity doesn't cost much now. If they were paying less for electricity than the United States, and by the way, I'll take a fact check on this because I got it from perplexity AI, and we shouldn't fully trust the AIs to be accurate yet.

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I'd say the US is the winner, right? Because the CO2 in the world in general would be the same no matter what either the US or France did. Because again, China and India are the big CO2 producers. All that really matters is what's the cost of power. And if ours is cheaper, we won. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have to say today. Thanks for joining. Went a little bit long today.

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I mean, I don't see anything that says it's government-funded or anything. So it's a for-profit entity that's telling us that their product works better than other people's product. Well, if you can't trust that, what can you trust? Now, as others have pointed out, if it's a private school and it's a for-profit, there's probably a little healthy tuition going on there.

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But that's because it was extra awesome. I'm going to say some words to the locals people privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining. And I'll see you on Rumble and X and YouTube tomorrow. Same time, same place. Locals, I'm coming at you.

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The University of South Australia has determined that exercise of any kind can boost the brain power of people at any age. Huh. How could they have come up with that data without spending all the money? Is there anything they could have done that would save them all that time and effort? Yes. You could just ask Scott next time. Scott, Is exercise good for your brain?

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And I would expect that it would only attract the best students. Now, let me ask you this. If you put a top student in front of an AI that's really good at you know, quizzing them, could they get done with all their necessary work in a few hours? I'd say yes, probably yes.

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If you take an average student or a not so good student and say, stay here alone with this AI until your homework's done in three hours, how's that going to go? I don't think that's going to work at all. So once again, I think we're going to learn

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that the people who have all the advantages, in this case, it would be the rich and smart people, probably can get like a huge advantage from using AI as part of their process. But I'm not so sure that AI is going to work for every kind of student. It might only work for the top students and then everybody else has to figure it out. We'll see. But I have some questions about that.

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Well, Tom Homan gets another win. I guess they captured one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the United States. And this was a 24-year-old. So he was one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the country. He was running the entire East Coast operations. Now, the first thing that jumped out at me about this story is, wow, good work, Tom Homan. capturing a top leader of MS-13.

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The second thing that jumped out was he's only 24. Wow. You know, the one thing about MS-13 they don't tell you is what a great economic opportunity it is. Because there are not many, there are just not that many jobs where you could be leading a major organization at the age of 24. So good for you, MS-13. They are not discriminating against young people. Plenty of opportunity.

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So I'd recommend it as a good career path for all of you. No, I'm just kidding. It's a terrible career path. Don't join MS-13. Meanwhile, Zero Hedge is reporting that there was this gigantic $250 million fraud involving a child nutrition program, federal child nutrition program, And a whole bunch of Somali immigrants stole $250 million in Minnesota.

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Now, that was between March 2020 and January 2022. Now, how many times have we heard a story about gigantic amounts of money being stolen? I'm starting to lose sort of the distinction between all the stories. But it does feel to me like quite a few billions of dollars are being stolen from taxpayers.

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And it's like the government never heard of anything like auditing or accounting or tracking your progress. How in the world did they get away with $250 million of essentially faking that there were children that didn't exist? How in the world? Two years? $250 million?

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What if there are just like dozens or hundreds of these happening all over the country, you know, in different ways, different people and stuff? I feel like that might be the case. Well, let's see, what else is going on? According to Liberty Nation News, the Associated Press, has a... I was a reporter who got caught doing some fake news and they had to retract it.

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And the fake news was that a claim that Tulsi Gabbard had said that Trump and Putin were good friends. But it turns out she was talking about Prime Minister Modi and Trump, who are actually good friends. And so the Associated Press had to correct their story because it was wrong. But the fun part of the story is that the reporter who wrote it

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One of his prior jobs was he was part of the AP's first misinformation beat team, focusing on explaining falsehoods, propaganda, and conspiracy theories while exposing the creators of this material and their techniques for dissemination. How many times have the fake news people got onto the, hey, we'll check the fake news of the other people. Sometimes it's exactly what you'd expect.

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Well, according to every single study that's ever been done on the topic, yes. We were thinking of doing a study on the topic. You don't have to. You don't have to. It's been studied and studied. And it's also really obvious. You can tell by observing people and also in yourself. I don't know. We kind of want to do a study on this. Do you have grant money? Yes.

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I have this theory that shoe salesmen, if it's men who are selling shoes to women, that eventually it will be only men who have foot fetishes because they would be most drawn to the field and they would work longer hours cheaper because they were getting an extra benefit from it.

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And it just seems to me that the organizations that are trying to fact check other organizations, probably they're filled with fake news people because it just feels like that's what would be drawn to those jobs. Oh, so I can just call other people fake news? Yeah, that would be your job. All right, I'm in. Well, Trump is saying on True Social that it's time to defund NPR and PBS immediately.

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He says that they're both horrible and they're completely biased platforms and they should be defunded by Congress immediately. He says Republicans don't miss this opportunity to rid our country of this giant scam, both being arms of the radical left Democrat Party. Just say no and make America great again. Well, related to this story, the NPR CEO, her name is Mar. Her last name is Mar.

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And she was being grilled by this guy, Brandon Gill. So Gill was doing some grilling. He's grilling Gill. And if you haven't seen the videos of it, it's highly recommended because of the attitude that he brought to it. So he'd ask a question like, do you recall saying this or that?

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And it'd be some terrible, woke thing that would sound so bad in 2025, but maybe at some point it didn't sound so bad. And then Mara would say, I never said that. And then Representative Gill would say, yes, you did. Here's a tweet of yours from 2020. And then he would read the tweet where she said exactly that. And then she'd say, well, I don't remember that.

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Or I've completely evolved in my thinking, so I definitely don't think that now. Now, if you only saw it happen once... with, let's say, one claim or one tweet, it wouldn't be much, you know, because people say crazy stuff. I say crazy things. You could almost certainly find something in my tweeting history that if you read it to me in a congressional setting and said, do you really believe this?

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I need my floor stool though. Oh, there we go. That's good. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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It would be kind of clever. I'll bet the shows with Jennings do well relative to what they've had on that time period before. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has introduced his own podcast. Now, of course, he's being widely mocked because we like mocking him no matter what he does. But I watched it for about three minutes, and here's my update. He's not the new Joe Rogan. Yeah.

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Now here's some news that is a really big deal to me. It won't mean anything to the rest of you. The rest of you won't care about this a bit. But this is transformative to my actually daily experience. So Amazon is finally coming up with an AI version of its digital assistant. whose name I will not say, so I don't activate yours at home, but A-L-E-X-A.

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I'm pretty sure he's not the new Joe Rogan. He is hard to listen to, and it's because there's something wrong with his energy. Did anybody watch it? It's his energy. Now, I'm not going to make an accusation I can't back up. I will just say that if you were to look at his behavior, he looks like he's on something. You know what I mean? And I'm not judging, because...

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A lot of people are on a lot of things, and sometimes me. So it's not a judgment. But as an observer, if I see somebody talking in a relaxed way, like any of the all-in pod, sort of joking and relaxed, or Rogan joking and relaxed, that's who I want to spend time with. But you look at Newsom, he's got this energy that's a little bit too much energy for sitting in a chair.

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And it feels like he's just got too much and is trying to get out of it. And it just makes me a little nervous because of all the energy. And I say to myself, did you have a lot of coffee? Is it caffeine? Because I hope it's just caffeine because it looks like you got really strong coffee there. And I can't get past it.

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So if he can't find some way to relax, I don't know how many people can watch that. But he might be able to get that. You know, as I've often said, I remember watching Conan O'Brien when he first got a nighttime show. And the first, I don't know, first several months of Conan, he had that same problem. Not from any drugs, as far as I know. But he just seemed nervous.

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And you can't really watch a nervous person. It just makes you nervous. But over time, he picked up all the right skills, got comfortable with it, became one of the best in the business, and doesn't have any of that nervous energy. Or when he does, he makes it work. So it's possible that Newsom is just new and he'll figure it out. But wow, hard to watch at the moment. All right.

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Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins has a billion-dollar plan to lower egg prices. A billion-dollar plan to lower egg prices? What costs a billion dollars?

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I don't know the details of the plan, but there's some thought that they'll do a little less culling of the chickens, you know, killing them because they have some bird flu, and a little more maybe letting them build up immunity and whatever else. But... A billion dollars?

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If you just gave a direct subsidy to the eggs of a billion dollars, economically that would be a bad idea, but how much would that lower the price of eggs per person? Probably not that much. We eat a lot of eggs. Anyway, it doesn't seem like egg prices should be a multi-year problem, does it?

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Because you can basically create a new chicken in just like weeks, and then it's only a few weeks until the new chicken can lay eggs. So in what world can the United States not solve the chicken shortage in six months? What was going wrong? So this would be a good test of the Trump administration, in my opinion. What went wrong is competence. There must have been a competence problem.

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So now introducing a new cast of characters, and I think the Trump administration is the best ever. Maybe that's all it takes. Maybe you just needed smarter people, but we'll find out. Anyway, you probably all saw a video from the big, well-attended and publicized cabinet meeting that Trump had. He had all his cabinet people in one room, and Elon Musk,

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was not at the table because he's not a cabinet member, but he was in the outside chairs and he got a chance to speak and the press was there and they asked a bunch of questions and it was great transparency and it was a great show and it was great TV and it looked like The Apprentice on steroids. Trump knows how to put on a show.

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And, you know, as you know, I've been hooked on that product for a long time. I have one in most of my rooms that matter, including this one. And so my daily life involves walking around. And then when I have a question, I just say it out loud. You know, I just ask my digital device as I'm walking through the room. What time is it? What's the weather? What will the weather be at this time?

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So the one thing I always say about him is he understands the value of the show. His critics will say, hey, he's just a TV guy, and all he cares about is how things look and stuff. Well, obviously, he's full of substance. He's got more substance than any president's ever had. In his second term, it's pretty obvious, especially with the EOs. But he also has that extra skill.

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His skill stack, Trump's skill stack, includes how to put it on a TV show, where to light it, what the room should look like, whether or not the camera should be there He knows that stuff. And you've seen him direct things when they do the little video before the interview starts. You know, he'll be asking questions like, you know, is that light good?

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You know, maybe you should move this over there. And he's usually right on. By the way, if you get interviewed a lot, you end up doing that. You know, I've been interviewed, I don't know, many hundreds of times and photographed in photo shoots many hundreds of times. And you end up being the director of your own photo shoot.

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So I can't tell you how many times after I became extremely experienced in the process, the photographer would come in and say something like, all right, let's look at the house and I'll figure out where to photograph you and what positions. And then I'll say, all right, here's this big Dilbert cutout. And it'll be, yes, yes, we'll put that big Dilbert cutout.

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And I'm like, yeah, just like every other photographer. Just like 100% of the other photographers, they got to put that Dilbert cutout in there. And then I'll say, well, you know, you should probably get some photos of me at my drawing tablet, you know, so they can see what it looks like when I'm creating the cartoon. And the photographer will be like, yes, yes, that's exactly right.

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Yeah, put you at the desk. And then I'll arrange the desk. And I'll be like, okay, we're going to cheat the monitor in this direction. It'll look good on camera. And if you close those blinds, you'll have the blackout. And then I can use the ring cameras over here. And the photographer will be, yes, yes, that's exactly right.

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So it's definitely a thing that if you get photographed enough and you're in enough videos and you're in the public enough, you end up being your own director, right? because you know it works. So you just become an active partner with the production crew, and they like it. They like it.

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They don't have to do what you say, because it's still their production, but they definitely take the good suggestions. They do. Anyway, so he puts on this great show, which was great TV, great stuff, and it was transparent. It made you think that you could ask any questions and the press could ask any questions.

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And there's one event where a reporter asked Elon Musk, because Musk got up and spoke a little bit, asked Elon Musk if anyone in the room, meaning the cabinet members mostly, if anyone in the room wasn't happy about his work on Doge. Now, of course, that's a messed up, stupid, are you still beating your spouse kind of question. It's just sort of a troublemaking question, right?

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It's not even pretending to be useful for the public. Do you think the public really cared about which cabinet members were on board with Doge? Oh, no. What if the What if the head of the interior is not fully on board? We don't care. It's just a troublemaking question to try to sow some division.

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Well, Trump being Trump and knowing everything about public appearances and everything about his show, Trump interrupts and he takes the question. So it wasn't directed to Trump. But he's smart enough and quick enough that he knew where to take this. He's so good at the moment. His understanding of a moment is unparalleled. And he goes, basically, I'll take this. He goes to the room.

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He goes, anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, we'll throw them out of here. So he turns it into a joke, which is perfect. Do you remember the first debate when he was first running for office? The Rosie O'Donnell question? Did he answer the question? No, it was a troublemaking question. He turned it into a joke and the joke became the viral video.

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Where's my package? I always have some kind of little question. Sometimes math, some fact. But it's not great compared to AI. And it doesn't always recognize what you're asking. Whereas AI will be way better at recognizing what you're saying. So my great dream had been that my experience would be like a starship captain in my own house.

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So he did it again and the joke became the viral video and nobody gave a flying fig about the question. All they cared is that he put on a better show than the reporter did. That's it. He just put on a better show and then he got all the attention and the reporter looked like a clown. But it gets better. So everybody laughs and they laugh and they clap.

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So they look like they're agreeing with Trump. And then Musk was still standing for his part because he was the center of attention for just that moment. And he said this, he said, President Trump has put together, I think the best cabinet ever, literally. And I do not give false praise. This is an incredible group of people.

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I don't think there's such a talented team has actually ever been assembled. I think is literally the best cabinet the country has ever had, and I think the country should be incredibly appreciative of the people in this room. Now, I agree with that 100%. I've never seen a more, I'm going to say, I don't even know if capable is the right answer, but people I trust, let's put it that way,

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So there's some people who don't have as much experience as you'd expect for that job. But I definitely trust them. And I trust them to be fast learners. And I trust them to be on point. I trust them to have their priorities straight. I trust them to root out DEI. I trust them to get rid of the bad eggs. I trust them to cut expenses.

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And I trust them to make adjustments quickly when they make mistakes. So my level of trust is just through the roof. I mean, this is a seriously powerful group of people. It's very impressive. But that's not what I wanted to talk about. There's this one thing that Musk said in that, which is this sentence. He said, and I do not give false praise. And then he praised them.

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Now, think about that superpower that he has. Imagine if Trump said, I don't give false praise. You would kind of laugh, wouldn't you? Because Trump basically praises everybody who's on his team and insults everybody who isn't. So most people, most people in the public do give false praise. They just care if you're on their team. That's it.

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But when I heard this, when Musk said, I don't give false praise, I thought to myself, oh my God, How many people have earned that? That's a superpower. The superpower is that you can say something of this magnitude, that it's the best group of people ever assembled for this sort of thing. And you say to yourself, he actually means that. That's like a legitimate opinion with no hyperbole.

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And that's what I think. I think that is a no hyperbole, legitimate, actually his opinion. And that he has the credibility built over a lifetime. You don't get that overnight. Or he can say this sentence, and I do not give false praise. Nobody is going to laugh at that. Nobody, the press didn't pick it up, right?

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The press didn't say, oh, yeah, he says he doesn't give false praise, but look at this compilation clip of all the false praise he gave before. Nope. There's no compilation clip of that. because he doesn't give false praise. It's just literally true. What a superpower. What a superpower to be able to say that in public and have nobody question you about it. It's really remarkable.

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I saw a post on X from the libs of TikTok. And it was a summary of all the things that came out of the meeting. I won't read the whole summary because some of them you've heard before. But it was the most useful news that I saw about the meeting because it was just really tight and long. It was a long list, but it was a tight bullet point to this, to this, to this, to this.

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And I thought to myself, there's something happening in the pro-Trump world that I can't figure out what the cause of it is. But it's a really big thing. And what it is, is there are a whole bunch of individual or independent superstars who have just entered the fight, not right away, you know, some over time, but really special analysts and voices.

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The libs of TikTok started out as just mocking weird liberal stuff on TikTok. That was it. That was the whole game. but now has completely transformed because it's sort of, you can't just mock people on TikTok all day long and expect much out of that. But now Libs of TikTok has transformed into what today was the best summary I've seen of the news. It's the best summary.

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Now there's a reason that the Libs of TikTok can do the best summary. It's because the news needs to sell advertising. So they can't do summaries. They have to write a lot and then they fit a lot of advertising on that page because there's a lot of text there. Or they have to have a TV show where it goes for half an hour so they can fit in lots of commercials.

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But Libs of TikTok can just say, here's the 12 things you need to know. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So it's like filling a space that was absolutely useful and additive and really good work. So you should follow Libs of TikTok.

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But the other ones in the same space are Data Republican, who just came out of nowhere and turns out to, I may have this story wrong because I just saw hints of it before I went live. But did Data Republican, who if you don't know who that is, you really just need to look it up on X, an amazing data analyst who just is just doing amazing work with the Doge

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$19.99.

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Wow. I'm so glad it's not $20. Because at $20, I would have said, you know, that's a little pricey. But in 1999, I don't know, am I being manipulated? That seems so cheap. Okay. Well, Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving car technology.

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discoveries and putting them in context and letting us know who's connected to who and where the money's flowing and what people are connected to other people. The real stuff, the stuff that really, really helps you understand it because the surface stuff doesn't help. Oh, USAID spent $60 billion. Okay. Is that good or bad? Who got it? Was there a reason for it?

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But if you'd like to see if you can take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the

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But then you get to the data Republican level and suddenly everything becomes brightly clear. Everything has a clean edge and you understand it for the first time. And I think data Republican is building some kind of tool that will let you see who's connected to what. I always tell you that what happened won't tell you anything. You have to know who happened.

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You got to know the players or you don't know anything. So, you know, I always use Norm Eisen as my example, and I'm not going to give away what my opinion is of his work, but if you see Norm Eisen attached to any story, you need to go a little deeper. Yeah, so... Sorry. Sorry. Lives of TikTok is run by, wait, let me get the name right, Chaya. Chaya Raycheck. So just to give credit.

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But then I would add Mike Benz, who seemed to come out of nowhere and be the best explainer of how the real world works in terms of our funding and the intelligence people and what we're trying to do with other countries and all the dirty tricks. Then you've got a Michael Schellenberger who comes out of nowhere.

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And suddenly he's putting everything in context from nuclear energy to all the bad behavior in the government and probably the best. I think Schellenberger is the best independent journalist at the moment. I think it's the best in the business. And I can go on, right? I can name a bunch of other people. I'm going to put myself on the list.

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So my own little domain is reframing things, helping you look at it in a different way and putting the Dilbert filter on things. So, you know, okay, in the real world, you know, sort of a Dilbert world, what would it really look like? So that's something I can add that is a little bit unique. And then I add the persuasion filter.

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So you can look at things from a persuasion view as opposed to a policy view. Now there's nobody on, the Democrat side, who does what Data Republican does, Mike Benz does, Sheldon Berger does, or I do. And again, that's just four examples, or Libs of TikTok even. The fact that such effective people just rose up

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There's this whole independent reporting network, because I can name another 12 people who are doing a great job of identifying the stories you need and bringing them up and adding just the right amount of summary so that we can understand them quickly and then move on to the next story. Unbelievably good. strong independent reporting, independent analysis, independent data, independent history.

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How about Victor Davis Hanson? Who's the Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat side? They've got a bunch of historians that are just obviously just liars. And then we've got Victor Davis Hanson, who's like probably the best I've ever seen in that kind of work. And they've got literally just historians they use, in my opinion, they use them as professional liars.

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They don't even seem like they're being serious. So, and then, on top of that, on top of that, Elon Musk gets to be sort of a kingmaker on X. And I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before, I made a comment on You know, one of the posts, doesn't matter which one it is, something political.

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I think it was a post on... There was a survey that said 75% of Democrats didn't think that the border was open intentionally. And I made some comment on it, reposted it. And then Elon Musk, he... he made a comment on it too. So it was on my post. And the last I checked, it had over 30 million views. Now, what do you think that does to an individual voice on X?

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But what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad patent, which means that other self-driving cars seems like they would likely violate the patent. So here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is. I won't read it all, but it's basically a system with processors that look at objects and use a visual to figure out how to maneuver around, etc.

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If you just get a little tap on the shoulder from Elon Musk, you get 30 million views. Now, if you watch Elon Musk's posts, you'll see that he has a little constellation of I don't know how many people I'm going to say several dozen. So there's several dozen people that he's identified as voices. He wants to look at every day.

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So I think he's boosted or replied to my posts, just mine several times this year. I don't know the exact number, but let's say a handful of times just since the beginning of the year and other people as well. And so he becomes the person who gets to say, I think a million, you know, 30 million more people should see this idea or this person. And it's incredibly powerful.

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Do the Democrats have anything like that where one of them can make some other strong player who is way, way below them and let's say, you know, power and can just boost their message right to the top? I don't know. I'm not sure they can do it.

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And then we talk about the podcast world, where the conservative world has created an unbelievably good podcasting, what would you call it, environment or architecture or platform, and they're all independents. Like, you know, of course, Joe Rogan's the standard, right? But then the all-in pod just bursts on the scene, I don't know, was it a year or two ago?

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The All In Pod just had such smart, insightful people that it just went bang. And, you know, they don't lean completely right, but that's part of their value that you can see both sides. And then you look at the Megyn Kelly show. The Megyn Kelly show, in my opinion, is probably one of the greatest podcast successes ever because it has all the production quality it has.

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the very best on-air personality you're ever going to see. And every bit of it is interesting. I probably consume, I don't know, five or six reels from just Megyn Kelly's show every day. And they're always good. And everything she says is worth listening to. Now, do they have that? Maybe they have some podcasts that are doing okay in terms of

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viewership, but I don't think they have as many superstars. It feels like the political right just absolutely owned podcasting because they had to because they were shut down from most of the major media or the major media would look like enemies. So, yeah, the success of individuals just saying, you know, I've got to take control of this Here's what it is.

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I feel like when there's a successful Democrat leaning show of any sort, whether it's a podcast or whether it's on a traditional platform, it feels like it's coming from the top. As in, hey, we need a Joe Rogan. Who's our best person? And then somebody gets pulled in like Gavin Newsom or something. And it's artificial. It's just somebody trying to do the thing that was the missing thing.

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I don't think a single one of the people I mentioned who are podcasters on the right, I don't think a single one of them said, I have to fill a spot. There's an empty spot. I have to fill it. I think every one of them said, What can I do that's additive? What can I do that's additive? And then within the constraints of a media that doesn't allow everybody to do everything. And podcasting was it.

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And they just said, I can add to this. And then they did. So there is something beautiful and magical about what's happening to so many strong voices on the right that I'm just so impressed, and I don't know what's causing it. The only thing I can think of is that right-leaning people feel that their destiny is in their own hands. That's the best I can come up with.

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Because if you think your destiny is in your own hand, you say, what can I do? How can I help? But also, how can I monetize it? Which is perfectly fair. That's our system. And I think the people on the left are like, who's going to tell me what I should do to win so our team wins? I mean, it's something completely different driving them.

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So I don't think it's an accident that the most talented people are all on the same side. There's something behind it. All right, here's my favorite story. I like to have at least one story that can really sink my teeth in. And here's an example that clarifies my last point. I'm going to give you a spin on something. Oh, we used to use that word, right? A spin. I'm going to call it a reframe.

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And it makes me wonder, is the reason that Tesla got this patent so that they can have a competitive moat and own the self-driving car world, Or, and this would be actually not surprising, could it be, because I think Tesla has a history of giving away their patents or making them available to all. This one's a big one. I mean, this is the patent of all patents.

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I'm going to reframe something, and when you see it, you're going to laugh because you didn't see it already. You ready for this? What is MSNBC's main thrust of their commentary for weeks and weeks? The answer is anti-DOGE. Oh, Doge is causing chaos. Doge is not communicating enough with people. Doge is causing a fall off in morale.

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Doge is causing confusion and flight and people are leaving and we don't know if all the work will get done, right? Now, first of all, can you confirm that that's MSNBC's almost their total message for weeks and weeks and weeks, right? Now, here's the fun part. This is where the Dilbert filter comes in. They're doing massive reorganization and cost-cutting at MSNBC at the same time.

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They're doging themselves at the same time they're criticizing Elon Musk's doge. Now, here's the fun part. They say that the real doge is causing chaos, morale is bad, there's confusion, the communication is not sufficient. Let me ask you this.

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If you could find one of their fired staff members who just got fired in this big reorganization, what do you think they would say about how MSNBC is handling their own little doge? Do you think they'd say, you know, unlike the government, they communicated so well, they led with empathy, there was no chaos whatsoever, and the morale was still high even while we were getting fired?

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What do you think? And so I challenge the independent voices, see if you can find even one staff member who got fired or doesn't know where they're going to end up. Now, if they're still with the company, they're not going to talk. But if you can find somebody that is fired, who's a little bit disgruntled, why don't you ask them if their experience is exactly, exactly, exactly

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what rachel maddow is criticizing the big doge of doing because it is so they're they're exactly in the middle of their own little doge that you know because if you've lived in the real world for a minute and a half you know that nobody can do as extensive changes as msnbc is trying to do with you know they're they're getting rid of they just cut rachel maddow's staff

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after she complained about them being racist. Do you think there's any chaos? Do you think the morale is just terrific? That they're so happy that the staff got cut? Well, this couldn't be more perfect. So that's my challenge. Find me that staff member, because they're going to have something to say about the MSNBC firings.

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Meanwhile, the White House has ejected, according to the Post Millennium, Hayden Cunningham is writing, that the White House is ejecting the Huffington Post and Reuters and some foreign press from the cabinet meeting. Now, imagine working for the Huffington Post and your organization has spent 10 years just absolutely...

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defecating on every Republican that has ever lived and especially, especially on Trump. And then they would be insulted that they're rejected. What did they expect? If you're a nonstop, you know, right crapping group, of course you're going to have a little pushback. So yeah, it's perfect. All right. Here's another great one. Um, Governor Pritzker, J.B. Pritzker, he was on MSNBC.

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If they can control essentially the idea of training your car with lots of visual images and then using sensors to predict where the other objects are, that's kind of the entire game. So unless somebody uses, I don't know, only LIDAR or some other technology, which seems unlikely at this point, would they just own the entire category for as long as the patent is on? Maybe.

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And I saw a post about it on X, and I thought, oh, that's fake. Because there was a quote attributed to him that looked like, you know, obviously made up because nobody could be that stupid. But it came from a source that didn't look like it was fake.

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joke so i thought hmm could this possibly be something that actually came out of his mouth so i had to play the video to find out if the quote that was in the post was actually real it's real here's what he actually said i promise i'm not making this up quote from jv pritzker the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.

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They can't stop with the intersectionality stuff. You know, the intersectionality is, okay, you might be black, but what if you're also gay? You know, that's two things. And I feel like there's some kind of instinct to connect everything that doesn't need to be connected. And so somehow he's trying to put together the price of eggs with the the democracy being stolen around.

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And as Scott Jennings proved on the CNN panel, they don't really have examples of anybody losing their democracy. So the democracy has not yet been stolen. I guess they're waiting for that any minute. Uh-oh, they took my democracy when I wasn't paying attention. But yeah, once that democracy goes away, well, there's your price of eggs. Your price of eggs is going to go right through the roof.

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Now, seriously, Is there anyone smart left on the left? Anyone? I did hear that John Stewart had an offer to Elon Musk to do an interview. And I guess Elon said yes with a couple of conditions. It's unedited and it's on X. Now, I don't know if Stewart has agreed to that because he might want to do it for his own podcast, but he might do it. And...

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At least Jon Stewart is capable of understanding an argument on each side. Now, he might not embrace it, but he's capable of understanding it and then even repeating it back. So that could be the most interesting conversation of the entire year. I am so down for that. You haven't seen anybody on the right

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interview musk who could actually ask good questions could actually accept that some things are good and some things are bad could accept that maybe his intention is not to destroy the country or just make money you know just get rid of the crazy stuff because here's what i don't think john stewart will ever say i don't think you'll say elon musk uh you're stealing my democracy.

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What do you say about that? I don't think he's going to ask that question because it's a dumb ass question. And obviously he knows that. So, wow, I'm there for that. I'd love to see that conversation. Anyway, Trump and Zelensky are supposed to meet on Friday for the big mineral deal.

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I think I'm going to not hold my breath that the mineral deal is going to go off smoothly, but at the moment it looks like they have a mineral deal. Um, I'm going to wait a little bit on the details because I think we're still in the fog of war and there might be some last minute tweaks to it. But the basic idea is that we would be partners in some kind of a mineral exploration deal.

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They would make some money. We would make some money. Allegedly, both sides have backed down on something. So Ukraine backed down on security guarantees. because presumably they thought it was good enough that America would have a big financial interest in the country, and that might be enough to incentivize America to protect its own interests, which would protect Ukraine at the same time.

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The other possibility is that it's a defensive patent, meaning that the other car companies might intentionally or accidentally be violating this patent, but Tesla could be accidentally violating someone else's patent.

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So it could be that they don't need it to be explicit if it's sort of built into the business model, I guess. Let's see, what else? And then the U.S., is not going to try to claw back $500 billion from their natural resources. They're just going to split the money in what looks like a better deal. And apparently there's some bigger picture things that they've not told us about.

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So there might be some non-mineral related stuff. Now, here's what I think is the amazing part of this story. While we're watching... One of the greatest things I've ever seen any leader ever do is happening. And I don't see anybody calling it out as directly as I'm going to call it out. We don't know if this is going to work yet, right?

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So it's too early to say the mineral deal is a spectacular success, but it looks good. At the moment, it looks like it has a pretty good chance of working. But here's my take. If Trump succeeds in reframing a hot war into a series of business deals that are good for everybody, in the history of leadership, that will be the greatest thing anybody ever did, if it holds. Now, I'm not naive.

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Putin is Putin. We know that we can't predict or trust what he does. We know that people with the best of intentions, you know, Maybe things don't work out. We know that implementation might matter as much as having a good idea. So if it's not implemented properly, it doesn't work. A million things could go wrong. I get it. I get it. You don't have to tell me that it could go wrong. I get it.

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But just think about this. He's on the verge of maybe reframing an actual hot war into a business deal. And so far, all sides have entered his frame they've all entered his frame nobody else can do that you're seeing a once in a thousand years set of talent from trump and and the people that he's he's hired to help him this is so unprecedented and unprecedented

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Because there are so many patents on so many things that you can't make a product like a new self-driving car without almost guaranteed you're violating a dozen patents you didn't even know existed. And then those patent people can come after you and they can pester you forever. But if they're a car company, you can say, well, would you like to trade patents and stay on the court?

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And I haven't seen anybody report it the way I just described it. Have you? Have you seen anybody describe it the way I did? Everybody knows the facts. But has anybody described this as the greatest reframe? Maybe in history. Like whoever did anything even close to this. If you can turn a hot war... into a business deal where everybody wins and it sticks. And of course, I'll say it again.

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We don't know if it'll work. We don't know if it'll stick. We don't know if Putin will just use it as a delaying tactic until he does worse things. Maybe. But it definitely has a chance of working and more than a good chance. It's got a solid chance of working. Incredible. Incredible. Anyway, this is also incredible.

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So Senator Jim Banks and Representative Kat Kamek, they're introducing a bill to defund NPR because it's a liberal propaganda network, they say. Now, I don't know if that means NPR would go out of business where they just have less funding, but I don't care about the NPR part of the story. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. Here's the bigger picture.

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Trump has created a situation in which everyone in the government... in every way, from Congress to every one of the cabinet positions to all of his appointments. They're competing to see who can do the best job of reducing costs. Did I just tell you that Trump reframing a hot war into a business deal is the greatest thing anybody ever did in history?

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If Trump pulls off reframing governments as a competition among peers to see who can cut the government costs the most, standing ovation, standing ovation. Now to be clear, to be clear and to be fair, I'm not excited about the cost-cutting yet.

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I think there's going to be a whole bunch of, we thought we could cut that, but we didn't get as much, where people will argue about whether the numbers are accurate, even though Doge is showing exactly what they're doing and they publish it. So there's a lot of messiness to come. But the hard part, the hard part was the reframe.

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He turned it from a bunch of people just, I don't know, what, pursuing their own self-interest in the government, what was the old model, into literally they're publicly competing, publicly competing to see who can cut the most fat and waste and fraud out of their own departments or their own domains. When have you ever seen that? Never, never. You've never seen it. It's never been done.

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in the history of the whole freaking world. It's never been done. And you're watching it being done right in front of you. Have I ever mentioned there are some things that America can do that nobody can come close? You know, I have plenty of criticism for my own country as a patriot. You know, I love it, of course. And, you know, we're not perfect. We make a lot of false starts.

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We've done a lot of things we wish maybe we hadn't done, etc. But there are just some things nobody else can do. Europe can't do that. China can't do that. Japan can't do that. Name a country that can do that. Even when Millet did it, I don't know that he got everybody to compete. I think maybe he just took the chainsaw. I could be wrong. He might have actually pulled that off in Argentina. But

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This is incredible. If you think of it in terms of the reframe, then suddenly it goes from just a thing they're trying to do to holy cow. Are you kidding me? He pulled off that making them compete to see who can cut the cost of the most unbelievable. Wow. Let's compare that to the main focus under the prior administration.

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Now, I don't know if this is the right kind of patent for dealing, negotiating, versus maybe you want to keep it as a moat. But it's very interesting, just knowing that this exists and that the patent was granted. Well, you're all excited about Epstein Island reveal day, right? Has it happened yet?

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So the main focus, the thing that gets you attention, the thing that will get you the most praise from the president, is how you cut costs and made it work. What would have been the same kind of focus, different focus, but what would have been the Biden focus? I'm not making this up. This was the Biden focus. It was...

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It was, you got promoted if you cared the most about people's genitalia, what color the genitalia is, and what is being done with it. That was the Biden focus. How'd that work out for you? Did the country get really a lot better when the focus was genitalia, what color it was, and what it was being used for? That was your government. We actually lived through that. I mean, just think about that.

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We went from caring about your genitalia and everybody else's, I guess, and how it all fit together to competing to reduce waste and fraud in the government. Talk about the golden age. Oh, my God. Meanwhile, case in point, Lee Zeldin of the EPA plans to cut 65% of it. In other words, he's competing. He's publicly competing to see how much he can cut in his own domain. Unbelievable. So good.

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Over at HUD, the housing group there, HUD, according to just the news, HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced yesterday, I guess, they're going to terminate some rules that had been terminated under the Trump first a term, but then Biden put them back in place. And I guess it was a rule. I'm just going to paraphrase because it gets a little technical.

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The rule was we can't build a house for you unless your genitalia is the right color and it's being used for the right things. Okay, I'm probably exaggerating a little bit, but that's basically what it was. It was sort of DEI and housing. So the federal government said, put restrictions on what you could and could not do because they had to be diversity inclusive.

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It created a whole bunch of obstacles to building anything. So it probably just made the cost of housing go up because it created a situation where a lot of people would say, I don't even know how to satisfy all those rules. So I'm not even going to bother. So getting rid of burdensome rules, Doesn't mean that you're getting rid of diversity.

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Doesn't mean that you're getting rid of anything you wanted. It just means that if the states want to put those, if the states want to put those, I don't know, some kind of rules on themselves, I guess they can. But he's just saying that the federal government isn't going to prevent you from building homes. How great is that? The federal government is not going to prevent you from building homes.

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Thank you. I just want the federal government not to prevent me because the state will do a good job of making sure my home doesn't fall down on its own. You know, that it's safe. It's built in a place I can insure. I mean, I'll work it out in the state. So that's good. Meanwhile, there's a new Trump, Trump picked a pardon czar, a pardon czar. So somebody to help him decide who to pardon.

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Do we have a timing yet for when the Epstein files a small portion of them, just a tiny little sliver of them, will be revealed. Has that been announced yet? Here's what I expect. The first release will be underwhelming, and it will not indicate any crimes by anybody. That's what I think. Oh, noon. So noon East Coast. Okay. Well, that'll be fun. So here's my prediction.

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And who he picked was Alice Marie Johnson, who you might remember was pardoned, or did she come out during the first step thing where, I think she was just pardoned, right? And she was a famous pardon, and she was a black woman who I think was involved in some drug stuff way long ago, but was in jail for what was an unreasonable amount of time, in my opinion.

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And even Van Jones, who had worked on that process of allowing people to get out of jail earlier, he was praising Trump for picking Alice Marie Johnson as the pardon czar. Now, I appreciate that. Now, again, I'm not telling you that Van Jones turned Republican or that everything he says next you're going to agree with. So it's not about that. It's just, you know, it's like a little...

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flower growing out of the sidewalk. If you hear somebody on the left say, okay, I can't even argue with that one. That's just a good idea. There's an AI-created video of what Gaza would look like if Trump got to redevelop it. And I guess Trump actually reposted it on Truth.

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But what's funny is it shows a giant golden statue of Trump in what would be a Gaza that looks like a seaside luxury resort perfect situation. And then I think there's a part of it shows him lounging poolside topless with Benjamin Netanyahu. which I didn't see that part, but that's funny. There's something with Elon Musk there.

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And the fact that Trump reposted it when it shows a giant golden statue of Trump, again, it's just something that Trump can do. Biden couldn't do that. Nobody else could do that. He's the only one who could repost that, and you would understand, it's just a mild troll. It's just a little mild troll. Hey, does this bother you? Do you want to complain about it? Go ahead. That would be fine.

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It's just a little mild troll. Love it. Well, The Hill is reporting that the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says Iran's going to be trying to accelerate its process for being able to make a nuclear weapon. Um, do you think they had to research that story? Let's see. How else could they have gotten that story without doing research? Oh, here's an idea. They could have asked me.

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Hey, Scott, do you think Iran is working harder to build a nuclear weapon? Um, yes. Yes. Well, are you sure that they're not moving in the other direction? Um, checking my brain.

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um it's the only thing they have left to protect themselves uh no they're accelerating but is it possible that they just say they're accelerating but maybe they don't have even the capability to to get it done uh yeah that's possible that's possible did you really need to research that i mean what do you think they're doing Of course they are. They have nothing left.

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It's the only thing they have to bargain with or keep an attack away. So I do think there's a really good chance that at some point Israel will bury everything that they have with giant bombs. So we'll see how that works out. I've got a feeling that Netanyahu is enjoying winning, and he's never going to have a better chance for total victory. You know how they talk about total victory?

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And you thought, not you, but some people thought, oh, and then when they're done with their total victory, they'll build a two-state solution and move all the Palestinians and Hamas back into Gaza and they'll live happily ever after. Does that sound like total victory to you? No. No, there was never any intention.

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Because total victory is about the clearest statement of intention you could ever make. Total victory. Now, take that to what's going to happen with Iran. Do you think that Israel would say, well, we got total victory when all Iran is doing is building back its capability to do it to them again through their proxies? Nope. Let me explain it again. Total victory. Total victory.

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Total victory means that Iran can't do nuclear weapons one way or another. They're not going to stop until Iran has no nuclear program. How do I know that for sure? Well, can the reporters ask me? Scott, what do you think Israel plans to do? Let's see. What does total mean? Does total mean we stop halfway and let them rebuild? Wait, wait. No, total, total. Okay, I got it. Total victory.

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dopamine, at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Exquisite. Let me see if I can fix my glare a little bit. Worse, worse, better. All right. Glare fixed. Well, if you're subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which continues every day, and you can get it on The X platform, just look at my profile and then subscribe.

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So this is based on the real world, right? So in the real world, I don't think you're going to see the good stuff ever. I don't think it'll ever come out. I do think that since the administration has made such a big deal about transparency, they had to release something. They couldn't release nothing.

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It means that they're going to destroy the nuclear program, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Guaranteed. I think we've clearly left the domain of maybe. I think maybe is over. Now, there is a possibility. that Iran will get that message to because someone could explain to them, do you know what total means? Have you heard of total?

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Yeah, total means they're going to solve the problem once and it's not coming back. And this would be the time to talk. And if there is some way that you can reach a non-military agreement and not develop nuclear weapons, we can talk about that because that would still be totaled. and it would be the easiest way to get there. But no, if you're wondering if Israel is bluffing, they're not.

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Total is total, and they could not be more clear about it. So that's the beauty of being credible, too. If Israel had not done everything that it's done so far, which is pretty darn impressive if you're just looking from a military perspective, you can make up your own mind about who's right and who's wrong in this, and I don't even have an opinion.

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My opinion on the whole situation is that in the Middle East, the strongest person gets what they want. Why would I need more of an opinion than that? That covers everything. Whoever is strongest is going to go get what they want. That's it. Everything else is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you support Israel? What's the difference? What's the difference?

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Is that going to make a difference? No. If they can get it and they have the strength to do it, they're going to go get it. And if that ever changed, and I don't see how it would happen soon, but if something changed where the Palestinians suddenly got all the power, What do you think they would do? You know exactly what they would do. And I wouldn't be for it.

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I would just be saying, well, I told you, whoever has the strength gets what they want. So that's the entire story. You don't have to be more complicated than that. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's everything I have on the topics of the day. Thank you for joining. You're all wonderful. I will see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. God supports genocide. Of course you say that.

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No, I support understanding what the words total and victory mean. What happens after that? I won't say it's not my concern. It's just that having an opinion on it wouldn't make any difference. So I just don't bother. So no, I do not support Israel's

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just you know reflexively no matter what they do nothing like that they they have to they have to be a good ally to us and that's all i care about and i would like to spend less money and i would like them to spend more of their money but you know there are lots of lots of variables that go with that because i think a lot of the money that we give to israel for military stuff is really money that they have to spend on our own military industrial complex

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So maybe that's more of a us problem. You know, something we need to work on on our end, whether that still makes sense for us as a country. But I only care how Israel's treating us. That's it. All right. I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately, the subscribers, and the rest of you I'll see tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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So I think they're going to release the things that are kind of similar to what we already knew, but maybe it gives you a little detail about who flew on the flights. And if you only knew who flew on the flights... Would you know who committed any terrible crimes? No.

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Because I don't believe that 100% of the people who went to the island or 100% of the people who got on his plane or 100% of the people who visited him in one of his homes, I don't think 100% of them committed crimes. I don't even know what percentage I would think. I don't know if it's 10% or 90%. But you cannot assume if somebody took a flight that they committed a crime.

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You could assume that almost all of them were targets and Epstein was trying to get them in a bad situation, but that doesn't mean they all accepted. There were a lot of sophisticated people who probably could see through the whole thing and just thought, okay, I'll take some of the offers, but I won't do this one. I'm not going to be in a room alone with somebody underage, for example. So

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I expect nothing. So my prediction is nothing. We'll see. Meanwhile, Rubio cut over $60 million in waste from the State Department and USAID, according to the Daily Wire. But the first question you have to ask is, is this new? Or is this just because he absorbed USAID? And those cuts really are coming mostly from USAID. I think that's probably true.

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So this looks like it overlaps what we already knew. But now we're calling it the State Department instead of USAID. And they didn't cut 100% of USAID. There's a few things he thought were critical to keep. But here's why I don't do a lot of reporting on the dollar amounts. I don't trust the news. to make sure that they're counting everything once and that they're counting it correctly.

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I think Trump said yesterday that he's looking for a balanced budget by maybe next year. Now, that's what I wanted to hear. That's what I wanted to hear. I think the hardest budget to balance would be your first one because you don't have that much time. You just got into office. You're looking for waste.

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but they're still arguing over it and there's still court cases and just because you've identified it doesn't mean it's really going to stay cut so it doesn't surprise me if you're going to need one year of damn it we're going to run up the debt a little bit more but we didn't have enough runway like we didn't have enough preparation because we just got into office so

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Knowing that the that his own target Trump's is to look for a balanced budget by the next budget one year from now, that would be acceptable. In fact, I would consider that amazing. You know, if you could get it done by the second year, nobody's going to look at the first year and say the first year was a failure like history. We'll look at that and say, you got that done by the second year.

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That'll be incredible. I would be so impressed. if they balance the budget by the second year. And just knowing that that's how they're looking at it changes everything for me. Because you know how much I was bitching about how could you possibly insult us by talking nonstop about cutting costs and then giving us a budget that doesn't do that? How could you insult us that much?

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But all I needed to hear was that we're targeting next year to hit that target. Now, that might be true. It might be hyperbole. It might be wishful thinking. We don't know yet, but I don't think Trump knows either. We don't know what Doge will look like a year from now. But that little bit of clarity of when they think they can get it done, that changes everything for me. It really does.

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It just reframes it as, oh, this is the preparation year where we learn everything about how everything works, the stuff we didn't know. And then next year is the execution year. Perfect. If you can get it done in two years, I'm not going to bitch about the first year. But I think everybody on social media has been laughing about this next story.

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Yeah.

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All those bad people. Now, you know why this is funny, because it's Jake Tapper and CNN. And CNN, and most people are saying Jake Tapper, were very much kind of not talking about the obvious degradation of Biden. Now, I think what CNN and maybe Jake Tapper need to do is reframe it from the news was lying to you the entire time, which is what I believe to be true.

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Or you can get it on Locals. You would know that Dilbert's CEO is trying to do a Doge project on his own company, trying to reduce expenses, and he's trying to do it with a scalpel. With a scalpel, not a chainsaw. No, not a real scalpel, but, you know, figuratively. It's not working out. Yeah, it's not working out that well. but you'd have to subscribe to know what went wrong.

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The reason I believe that is everybody can see that Biden was degraded. I called it out in 2019. There are probably, I don't know, 50 public figures who called him out in public around 2019. That doesn't look like a brain that's working. What's it going to look like in four years? And accurately, we predicted it.

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And so the thought that, so the reframe that the news business needs and Jake Tapper needs is that the news business could not have possibly deduced this without the insiders telling them. So he talks to all the insiders, I guess 200 or something, quite a few. And then they get the story of what was really happening behind the scenes, which by the way,

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is interesting enough that I recommend the book. I haven't read it, but if you'd like to know how ugly it was behind the scenes, I think it's probably a good source if they really talked to that many insiders who were willing to talk because the administration is over.

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So I'll bet you that the book is actually fascinating and I recommend it, but you can't overlook the fact that it's an attempt to rewrite history a little bit. Not a little bit. A lot. Yeah, the poor press. How could they have possibly known without those insiders telling them? Anyway, there's yet another clip of Scott Jennings on a CNN panel, speaking of CNN.

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And I swear to God, he keeps chewing up the guests in the panel that are the anti-Trumpers who are all crazy. But Now when I watch it, it's like they're finding new sheep to feed to the lion. And Jennings has been so successful in turning the other panelists into clowns that it looks like just there's a lion sitting at the table. And CNN is like, I got you new sheep. Mmm, delicious.

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And then we watch him just chow down on the new sheep. So the latest one, I think they got the new stupidest one they've ever had on the panel. So the new stupid guy is warning, you just wait until Trump steals our democracy.

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Now I'm paraphrasing, but they literally are relying on the fact that he hasn't done anything yet because Scott Jennings says, what would be an example of him stealing your democracy? They don't have anything. But the best that the new stupid guy, the new sheep, said was, he's going to steal it. In the future, you'll feel dumb after he steals our democracy.

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And then Scott Jennings slays him and eats him in front of the camera. I'm starting to wonder if it's intentional. It makes me wonder if the producers say to themselves, all right, we seem to get a lot of crossover viewers. who are just watching, just only watching to watch Scott Jennings slay the sheep.

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And so maybe they're thinking they don't want somebody who might be a fair fight, somebody who could actually make a good argument. One of the good lawyers, for example. They have a million lawyers, right? I would say that probably 100% of the guests the CNN could have on who have degrees or experience, let's say, as lawyers, would not look like any of the sheep they're putting on.

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The people they're putting on just don't even know how to put a coherent argument together. So even if you allow that it's a difference of political opinion, the lawyers do a pretty good job in defending themselves because they're experts. But they're just putting on people who don't have any skill and just letting Jennings just slaughter them. So maybe it's intentional.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time in your whole life.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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If you had to bet your entire life savings, would you bet on magic orb that can't be seen on radar, reportedly has no heat signal and no means of propulsion? Meaning it's not coming from this planet or at least our civilization that we know of. Would you bet that that's what's happening? Because remember, there's a very credible witness and he's not alone.

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There are multiple very credible military people, pilots, etc. And I don't know how many orbs have been spotted, but quite a few now. So given the high credibility of the witnesses and giving the relatively high number of sightings that are somewhere in the same category,

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Would you say it's more likely that there's really orbs, whatever they are, or more likely that it's a cognitive thing where people are imagining stuff? What's more likely? Well, I'll tell you from the hypnotist's perspective, it's 100 times more likely that there are no orbs at all. It's about 100 times more likely. Now, that's just the hypnotist talking, because the setup...

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should guarantee lots and lots of fake sightings because the setup is people are told told their orbs all over the place so if you tell me if you make me think of magic orbs all day long and then you put me in an airplane what are the odds i'm going to think i saw one what goes through the roof not for any one person but if you're looking at you know eight billion people in the world it doesn't take much

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to get 100 people to say they saw an orb when they didn't see any orb at all. Now, and if you're tempted to say, but Scott, we're not talking about idiots. We're talking about trained pilots. They're clearly not lying. I think some have passed, I believe some have passed lie detector tests, although they're not completely reliable, but they might work in this context.

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So I don't think they're lying. I, I, I don't even have a slight suspicion that this ex-NASA commander is lying. I believe he believes he saw what he saw. I'll still say 100 to 1 odds that it's imagined. 100 to 1. Now remember, this is coming from my perspective as a hypnotist and the fact that we have a perfect situation for a mass hysteria and lots and lots of fake sightings. But...

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But it turns out that if they put that very same thing, which they're already putting into people for imaging, and they shoot it with near-infrared light, which apparently can penetrate your body to some degree, and they can get all the way into your bone. And if they heat it up a little bit, and it's already attached to the cancer cell, it destroys the cancer cell.

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You can't really rule out that it might be real because there really are a lot of them. So I'm having two feelings simultaneously. There are way more sightings than my common sense can understand unless they're real. Real unexplained, not real aliens, but maybe, but real unexplained.

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So simultaneously, my experience and my logic and my common sense says things that fall in this category, about 101% likely not to be aliens. About 100 to 1. At the same time, I totally think it might be aliens. Is anybody having that same experience? In terms of persuasion, I am persuaded. I am persuaded that these are unexplained things that could be spiritual things like

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like Tucker Carlson thinks, or it could be what the ancients thought were angels, but maybe they're coming from some advanced civilization that lives under a sea and has always been there with us. It could be. Or aliens. Or one of our adversaries has some technology that we can't even imagine for reasons that we don't know. So all of those are possible.

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So if you ask me what does it feel like, it feels like these orbs are real. and that we don't know what they are, and we better find out soon. At the same time, if you said, all right, now place a bet, I'd be like, oh, place a bet. I'm so sure these are real. But a bet? I'd bet against it. I'd bet against it with odds of 100 to 1. And I just hold those two thoughts simultaneously.

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What can I do about it? Because the persuasion level is through the roof to make you think there's something there, and there might be. There legitimately might be. But the common sense is really arguing against it. All right, we'll see. Maybe we'll know someday. According to What's Up With That, three authors, Stein, Hemmers, and Curtis,

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They say that the amount of nuclear waste that we already have still has 97% of its electricity potential. So if you knew how to get it out, not only would you have very inexpensive power, in likelihood, but it's enough energy that, let's say the estimate is... can be worth $100 trillion, three times the national debt.

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That could be the value of the unused nuclear waste that we just have in barrels. We have access to it just sitting around in barrels. So you've heard this before, but the way you would access it is by building a different kind of reactor, which apparently we've known how to do for decades. So it's not like a big surprise. I think one of them is the SALT,

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so basically not water reactors like we use now. You'd need a different kind of reactor. I think they used to call them Gen 4. I haven't seen that term for a while, fourth-generation nuclear power, but they're the ones that can use the nuclear waste. So at exactly the same time, the AI and robots and electric cars are all the current thing, and Bitcoin, and Bitcoins,

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These are monstrous uses of electricity, just monstrous demand, way more than we have and way more than anybody knows we could ever make in time to take advantage of everything we want to do with AI. So if you think we're, oh, you know, we might have to boost our energy production by 20%. No, no, it's not 20%. All right, all right. We'll probably have to boost it by 40%.

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Now, it already worked in animals, so they don't have to wonder if it worked. And they don't have to wonder if that chemical is dangerous because it's a chemical that they already put in people for imaging. So that doesn't mean it's going to work in humans. But if you factor in that it works in animals and it should be exactly the same mechanism,

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Now, the actual number might be like 100, like 100x. I don't think anybody can really estimate that. That doesn't feel like something that people would be too accurate in. But if you're thinking it's a, yeah, we've got to work a little harder to do what we're already doing. No, that's not even close.

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Now, we're talking about the amount of energy that we need to do the things we already know we have to do. We have to compete with AI and robots. We just have to. It's an existential threat if China or Russia become the robot kings, and we don't.

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So it's kind of convenient that we stumble upon $100 trillion worth of almost free energy, because it's just sitting basically in the garbage, but we know where it is, and at the same time that we need it. What are the odds of that, that

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that in the history of humankind, the immense increase of energy that we need is matched with exactly the time we know how to do it, and we've got extra stuff sitting around to make it out of. It's almost too on the nose, isn't it? It almost seems too good. So it's not easy to build these new nuclear power plants, so it's not like we can snap these together tomorrow. But we do have a path.

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It's not impossible to 100x our energy system, and we almost certainly have to do it. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. wants to ban drug pharma ads on TV. That would take about 40% of the income away from the fake news. Now, it might not be enough for them to shut down, but they wouldn't be able to operate the way they are if you took that much away from them.

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Do you think that in our land of free speech that the government should ban one kind of advertiser who's selling a totally legal product? There's nothing illegal about advertising and there's nothing illegal. You could argue there should be, but there's nothing illegal about pharma selling the products that have gone through testing and the government approved. So my feeling about free speech

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says maybe we should live with it because I don't want to be on the party that's limiting free speech. On the other hand, it might make a big difference. It might help somehow. I guess I wouldn't want to be in favor of it just to cripple the fake news because the fake news is already crippled. And I don't know. I have a problem with this one. I completely understand why you'd want to ban it.

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I get it completely. Because people say that they're not really advertising their drug. They're just essentially making sure that the news can't say bad things about them. Oh, actually, here's an argument. I may talk myself out of my position here. So if you think that the real reason that pharma advertises on news programs especially is that

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It keeps the news from saying bad things about them because they're advertisers. So that would be a case of censorship. So that would be a case of pharma using the threat of pulling their advertisement as a censorship of the news industry. See what I did there? So I just turned it from, it is in fact censorship to say one industry can't advertise. That's just censorship. But

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What if the thing you're doing is preventing them from blocking the news from telling the truth about pharma? Because that's censorship, too. There is an argument for this that is pro-free speech, and it's pro-free speech for the news business.

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Because it's not like a drug where if you give somebody chemo or a chemo drug or something, a human would interact with a drug differently than an animal. So you can never know if your animal studies are going to translate. Usually they don't.

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Oh, and I was going to use that orb joke myself, but if you follow the news, you know that Nancy Mace gets a lot of, what would you call it, sexual innuendo kind of social media reaction. And I suppose if it were not an ongoing problem which she's talked about publicly, then that would be a better joke.

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I would have said it myself, but she's literally in the middle of trying to convince people to stop saying stuff about her looks, which is fair. I think she should, you know, she's cursed with good looks and it's hard not to notice, but Yeah, I decided to pull back on the orb joke. According to Science Alert, a single one-hour daily walk has six hours to your lifespan, according to Science Alert.

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Hmm. But it only works for people who are not already exercising. So if you're already a regular exerciser, adding an hour of walking won't make much difference. But if you're in the bottom 25% of active people... a one-hour walk a day could really make a difference in your life.

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Now, I will use this study to reiterate what I would love to see from, I don't know who, maybe Trump, maybe from RFK Jr., maybe somebody else in the government. I would love the government just to tell the lazy people to take a walk after dinner. Now, most of you don't need to be told that. But if 25% of the public needs to be told to take a walk, it could make a difference.

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It could really make a difference. Because people kind of do whatever's in the air, right? We don't wake up every day and say, well, there are a million possible things I can do today. I'd better look at my list of a million things and pick one. We don't do that. We wake up and we think, well, there are like three or four things I could do today. Then you pick one of the three or four.

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So if you simply made it easier for people to to get taking a walk after dinner into their top three or four, like it just put it in their mind, the odds that people would do it are way up. You just have to make them think about it every time they're eating. Imagine if every time you sat down to dinner, the thought was in your mind, I really should take a walk after I'm done.

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But if what you're doing is a physical process, which is you're attaching something to cancer cells, that probably works in animals and people because they did it with animals and We attach it to cancer cells with people for imaging. So that part works. The only thing we really need to know is if they shoot this near-infrared light into a human, will it go deeply enough?

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It's a big difference. If you didn't even think of it while you're eating dinner, you're not going to do it because you only do the things you think of. So simply... making it connected to your dinner activity, do two things. Eat dinner with your family and then go for a walk with them, or at least one of them. It would change a lot. Life would be much better.

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk posted a picture of himself in a Santa outfit but he looks skinnier than the Santa from that movie, Red One, which is skinny Santa. And when I looked at it, I thought, I think people are saying this is Elon Musk, but it's obviously not because this is a rail thin Santa Claus. And then he reposted it and he labeled it Ozempic Santa. So it is him.

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And he was joking about he had taken Ozempic. He did not. But he took one of the drugs in that class. So one like Ozempic, but a different one, because I guess Ozempic gave him some digestion problems or something. But now on one hand, you might say to me, Scott, why is it a story that one person in the world lost weight? There were probably a billion people who lost weight recently in the world.

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And why did I pick one? Well, again, because people are influenced by what's in the air. So if you heard that some people in your town took a Zempik and got a good result, that might make you think about doing it yourself. But if you watch Elon Musk, who all of us know what he looks like, and then suddenly you see a picture where fairly effortlessly he became as thin as I imagine he wants to be,

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That is really influential. It's sort of like JFK not wearing hats. So as soon as we got a president who didn't wear hats and he was cool, nobody wanted to wear a hat anymore. It killed hats. Well, if your neighbor takes Ozempic and it works, you might be interested in trying it. But if Elon Musk takes one of these drugs in that class and it works, that changes how you see it.

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You just need one famous person, and then that person is stuck in your head. So attaching this, what I think is a health improvement, I hope, to the most famous person in the world at the moment, besides Trump, probably will make a big difference to the health of Americans. Just think about that. Just think about the fact that he's simply just posting a picture of it working.

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I'll bet that the stock price of all the companies that make whatever he took, I'll bet they're looking good today. That would be my guess. So in Zero Hedge, there was an article that I wish I had written, but it's talking about how people are not focusing on the real invention of Elon Musk. I can't tell stories without him being either an example or an important part of it.

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But apparently one of the things that Musk has brought to American manufacturing is the idea that the factory is the product. That's one way to look at it. In other words... Instead of having a factory and trying to refine your product, which he also does, he spends as much time or more refining the factory so that the cost of the factory goes down, the efficiency goes up, etc.

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And he's done that with his various companies and extremely successfully. And if it's a skill that could be transferred... if it can be transferred, then maybe we can bring American manufacturing back without having a cost penalty.

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And if you add robots to the idea that you should start from first principles when you build your factory, don't just build an ordinary factory, but really, really think what's the efficient way to build the factory for this specific thing. So... I think that's true.

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I think that whatever we learn from factory building, that's where the next revolution needs to happen for America to dominate the next generation. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. 's nomination and the vote to have him confirmed, at least as the public support, 51%, of likely U.S. voters think the Senate should confirm RFK Jr. 's nomination. Good. And apparently that's up.

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And they seem to be thinking it would. And would it cause any problems that we're not aware of? But it apparently is very isolated to just the cancer cells. And here's the more exciting part. You're probably aware that cancer is one word that describes a whole bunch of things. So if you came up with a cure for one kind of cancer, probably it wouldn't work with any other kind of cancer.

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So that's his best favorability number that we've seen. And I would say this. I have an observation about RFK Jr. that I'd like to make, let's say, a meme, or at least something that you think of when you think of him. I've noticed that the more you learn about him, the more you like. Has anybody else noticed that?

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The more you learn about what his opinion is, the details of it, the more you like him. And I think that's just what's happened. when other people get to frame him, and let's say MSNBC says, oh, that fax denier, and if you liked vaccines for your kids, you'd say, oh, ooh, ooh, fax denier. Now, that's not what he is. He's not a fax denier. He just wants better testing, et cetera.

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But once you learn what he really wants, and you realize that he dug into this this topic, the pharma topic and the health of our food topic, and he has actual practical suggestions for fixing things. It's hard to dislike that. If you believe the fake news about what he's about, it's easy to dislike him. It's easy.

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Oh, rich guy is going to come and tell us what to eat, and he's going to destroy the pharma industry, and why is he taking away their free speech? Let him advertise. But once you realize how much he knows and then he explains it to you, you go, oh, I didn't know that. And then suddenly he looks a lot smarter.

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So my prediction is this, that going forward, the more you learn about Kennedy and the more you learn about his policies and preferences, the more you're going to like him. I think that's all it is. The more exposure, the more you like him.

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Meanwhile, the poor Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong, and their process for figuring out what went wrong involves asking all the people who got everything wrong what they got wrong. If those same people were capable of knowing what they got wrong now, don't we think some of them would have gotten it right in the first place? What makes them so smart now?

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Just the fact that Trump won? Is that the only thing they learned? Trump won. Kamala lost. And then from that, the brilliance, which they did not have for four years, suddenly kicks in. Is that what we think? Well, Ross Dutette, I don't know. I think he's a Democrat, but he's He was saying, do you remember Brad Summer? I remember Brad Summer. It was genuinely amazing.

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One of the most bizarre mass psychological phenomena I've ever seen. And they said, it turns out that all you have to do is tell Democrat base that they ought to like someone and they'll just start liking her. Now, here's what they're getting wrong. They really, really should have talked to, well, first of all, they should have talked to Americans, you know, regular people.

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But secondly, they should talk to a hypnotist, not one of the pundits who got everything wrong. If you talk to a hypnotist, I'm pretty sure we can sort things out. Maybe not every hypnotist, but I'm pretty sure I could. I'll tell them exactly what they got wrong. There was a lot. And part of the reason it's not easy to figure out what they got wrong is that it was everything. It was everything.

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But if this little chemical is used for imaging of any kind of cancer, and I'm guessing it is, then this process would cure any kind of cancer. Now, apparently it doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's really close. And it cured like half of the rats of cancer entirely.

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They got everything wrong. And then you say to me, no, Scott, they did a really good job of raising money. And then what happened to it? They didn't do a good job of handling money. So raising is impressive, but it's what you do with it that kind of makes a difference. And apparently they didn't do the right thing with it. They didn't have the messaging right. They didn't have the candidate right.

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They didn't have a process for picking the candidate that even their own side thought was reasonable. The fake news was lying and getting caught. She didn't do interviews with the major media because she was incapable. Can you give me an idea of what they did right? It was literally everything wrong. Now, unfortunately for them,

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Trump ran what is, in my opinion, might go down in history as the best campaign of all time. His campaign was just freaking awesome. He got all the messaging right. He got all the communication right. He used the alternate internet right. He got everything right. So the summary is, that the strongest persuasive candidate in history was running against the weakest, worst candidate in history.

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You don't really need to form any kind of a you don't need to have a convention to talk it out. It was everything. And as soon as I think, you know, if we just change our messaging so it sounds more like Trump, I think we could win. It's so weak. No, you can't win by pretending you're the opposition. You're the weak version of the other team. That's going to be your new strategy.

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And people are saying that out loud, like they think it's a good idea. But it's as good an idea as their last ideas, which showed they were wrong about everything, basically, in politics. Anyway, one of the biggest changes, I think, and the reason that Ross was noting you just have to tell the Democrats who they like and they'll vote for them, is many of them, of course, were voting against Trump.

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So you just had to say, hey, we've got a warm body that's not Trump. And then people like, yeah, warm body that's not Trump. You had me a warm body. No, you had me against Trump, actually. But it seems to me, here's my take on Trump. How many times did he toy with running for office before he got serious in 2015? Twice or three times?

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He had at least two kind of flirtations with running for president that people thought, oh, in retrospect, he was just drumming up publicity. And then this third time, I think it was the third time, he runs, and what did everybody say? They said, oh, he's not serious. He's just drumming up publicity. He's just a clown trying to get some attention. Maybe. Here's what I think happened.

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So, you know, I always tell you all these, maybe there's a cancer cure and there's a new chemical and there's a new pill and there's new whatever. But this is the first one where I look at it and I go, I would bet on this. I would actually place a bet that once they go through the human testing that this one works, if it worked on animals, which it did. So maybe good news.

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I think in all three cases, Trump did not expect to be a serious player. I think in all cases, he said, I'm going to walk up to the door, but I'm not going to walk through it. Because walking up to the door gets me all the attention I need. It's good for business, good for my brand. So I'll get all the good stuff, but I don't need to go through the door and actually be elected.

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I just need to walk right up to it. And here's what I feel like happened. He walked right up to the door, not really expecting he needed to go through it or would go through it. And all of a sudden, about 10 million Republican arms reached down from the door, grabbed him by the fucking lapel and just yanked him inside and said, no, you're doing this. You're our only hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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You are our only hope. Everything is going to shit. You're probably the only person that has the balls to fix this thing. We've been watching you. You're smart enough. You're brave enough. You know how to do this. Please, please be our president. That's what I think happened. And if you look at the individual contributions of Steve Bannon, Mike Cernovich, me, Jack Posobiec, you can list 50 more.

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But I believe that we, and I'm speaking for a larger body of Republican-oriented people, I think we just decided he's our guy. Nobody told us to do that. In fact, everybody in charge told us not to do it. And what did we all say? If you're in charge, why is everything fucked up? Right? So the first thing that the base said to the Republicans is, you guys are not cutting it.

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and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens now go oh that's so good so good well I only slept about two hours last night I just wasn't tired for some reason I guess I think I didn't work hard enough

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You are not doing what we need you to do and it doesn't look like you're going to fix it. So we're going to bring in a draft pick and it's going to be our pick. It's not your pick. They very much did not want that to be their pick. So again, Democrats are a top-down brainwashing organization. Republicans are a bottom-up meritocracy because it didn't matter if all the people I mentioned

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wanted Trump, but we weren't good at making it happen. Both of those had to be true. We had to want him, and we had to collectively, you know, cumulatively, we had to have the skill to make it happen. That's the part nobody saw coming. Nobody saw coming the amount of natural skill that just sort of appeared around 2015.

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Like people that weren't in politics before, myself and a number of others, who suddenly just seemed to have some skill that you weren't expecting. And they brought it to the process and it made a difference. And then I would argue that in 2024, that that level of that skill, it just went through the roof. I mean, by then you had Vivek and you had J.D.

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Vance and you had Elon Musk and everybody started getting on board. But still, it was bottom up. But we dragged him through the door, and I don't think he was expecting to be here. But he took the moment. He's real good at reading the room and knowing when a moment is happening. So he was the right pick in my opinion, and the golden age is coming on.

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Chuck Todd at the same event where they're trying to figure out what went wrong. He was talking about losing the Hispanic vote or at least a decrease in the Hispanic vote. And he disclosed that he in a 2022 memo that he only recently saw. It warned against the Democrats losing the Hispanic vote because Biden Harris targeted them as a community of color.

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whereas Trump targeted them as a working class. Do you know who could have fixed that for them? Me. Because they act like they've never met anybody Hispanic before. Have you ever met anybody from the Hispanic community? Do they sit around bitching about race? No. No, they don't. They want to work. They like their religion, their family, and they like America, and they want to work.

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Meanwhile, Science Alert warns us that Tylenol may induce risky behavior. If you take Tylenol, it might turn you into a criminal or make you overeat or take drugs or punch your spouse. Now, I don't know if I believe this. Remember, studies of this nature might be wrong, I don't know, half the time. So have you ever noticed it?

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No, you can't get the Hispanics with identity politics. They're just not inclined to go in that direction. And I knew that because, you know, I have enough contact with them. But if you didn't know that and you said, well, we'll make them... We'll make them feel like they're some kind of demographic that everybody's against. They'll fight back. Didn't work. I could have told them that.

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And Chuck Dodd also said that whole democracy at risk thing wasn't working. And I could have told you that. If you compare these two things from a persuasion perspective. All right. Uh, In ways that we can't quite summarize, something about democracy will be decreased because you're like, okay, uh-huh. All right, well, I'm vaguely worried about that a little bit, but it's not really connecting.

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How does that happen? How does the democracy get stolen exactly? And then Trump says, they're sending rapists across the border. Did you hear that story about some victim who was raped by an illegal immigrant? The right number of that is zero. These are not equal. Now, even though I rail against using anecdotes for persuasion, I do note that it works.

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And the reason I don't use it is because it works. And if you do it too well, I think it's a little bit too much. Yeah, if you focus on the anecdotal, it ends up feeling like the entire community is somehow painted with the same brush, and I resist that. We don't need to do that. Statistics should get to the same place. Rasmussen Reports says that 65% of voters...

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likely voters, said the feds were likely provoked the January 6th Capitol riot. So roughly two-thirds of Americans think this January 6th thing was an op. How did we get all the way to two-thirds? Is it because they've learned more since then? And they trust the government less? This surprises me.

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Now that obviously is mostly Republicans, but it still picked up some independents. Wall Street Mav is reporting that the government's revising their economic numbers that made Biden look so good, but it turns out they're all fake. So the government initially reported in second quarter of 2024 that they had gained 653,000 jobs, but actually they lost jobs.

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Now that's what I call, that's what I call a revision. From up 653,000 jobs to, it was actually negative. Did we say it was positive? It was actually negative. Not negative 653, but it was negative. They also revised the 800,000 jobs that allegedly were gained last year. And Wall Street Math says they falsified the data to help Biden-Harris.

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And Elon Musk responded to that post and he said, quote, how can the data systems be so bad? How can the data systems be so bad? So, You know me. I've been saying that all data is fake if it matters. If it's random data that nobody cares about, there's no stakes involved, it might be right. It might be.

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But if it's important data, such as the number of jobs created so you can determine what president you want to pick, like really important stuff like climate change and the economy and the climate and immigration numbers, Those are all fake. And I've never done a good job of explaining why all the data that matters is fake. It's not a coincidence. Here's why.

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I feel like it's something I would notice because I've taken Tylenol enough that if something happened that was out of my ordinary baseline, I feel like I would have noticed, but I've never noticed. So apparently it makes you less afraid of consequences.

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Because if data matters, it matters to somebody's money or it matters to their power or both. So Data that doesn't matter doesn't need to be falsified because why would you do that? It might be wrong accidentally, but you're not going to falsify it intentionally. No point. It's not even important.

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But if it's the difference between your party winning and you having a job and getting rich versus getting nothing, oh, yeah, you'll fake the data. And you will reliably do it pretty much every time. And all you have to do is fiddle with the assumptions and the data follows. Design is destiny.

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If you create a system in which you don't get punished for lying with data, this is the important, the key. So remember this part, if the system doesn't punish anyone for wrong data, and there are gigantic advantages to intentionally creating wrong data, which you can always hide your intention by saying, I just,

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made some different assumptions than other people, but I can defend my assumption because you can defend a lot of assumptions. The system as it's designed is guaranteed to make all the data that matters fake. The system guarantees that in every domain, not just healthcare, not just finance, not just climate change, the current system guarantees that all important data is fake.

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Now, there's one exception. The one exception would be if it's internal company data and the people who created the data did it to make more money. If using accurate data helped you make more money and get more power, then you would do that. So if it's all within a company and you're an engineer and you're collecting some data, you want the right answer, right?

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The right answer is what's going to help your career. The company itself might want to lie, but as an engineer, you just want the right answer. So in those cases, the data is correct, but it's localized to the company. As soon as the CEO starts talking, he might say something that's a little different from the engineer. And if the CEO said something that's not true,

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and people invested because of it, and he just said, oops, I guess I had some data wrong. Does the CEO get fired? No. Does the CEO go to jail? No. Do any of the people who were involved in these revisions of numbers, somebody had to make a mistake, and do any of them get punished? No. So why would they ever stop doing it? If it works and nobody ever gets punished,

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so i feel like that would be useful i can think of lots of situations where you might be worrying a little bit about consequences of something it's like i might get embarrassed if i go to the party or you know what happens if i slip and fall but maybe you could take a tylenol it would make you stop worrying now that's not medical advice

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you should expect it would be universally applied eventually. So I don't know how many ways I can say this. If the data matters, it also matters to people's money and their power. And under those situations, you can expect them to lie about the data every time as long as they knew they wouldn't be punished. And that's the case. They won't be punished.

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I would go further and say that if the government... was lying about jobs, and it was part of a coordinated effort to keep Trump out of office, it feels like it contributes to a RICO case. If I look at the way the Democrats operated over the last several years, it just looks like a criminal organization.

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And I don't see the same thing on the Republican side, nor is anybody even accusing them, as far as I know. On the Republican side, I could name some names. I probably won't. No, I will. Mitch McConnell and what's his name? Lindsey Graham.

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So if Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham say something that sounds sketchy to me or they come up with some data, I'm not really going to believe either one of them because I don't know what's going on with those two guys. They seem a little too connected to, I don't know, military industrial complex or something.

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But I can think of two people who are just individuals who I don't trust on the Republican side. But I don't think there's a RICO thing. I think they just know what is in their self-interest and they're operating mostly for themselves, is my guess. If I had to guess, and that's just a guess. So the Republicans don't seem to have any kind of RICO organized crime thing.

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They seem to be just doing the best work they can to try to make something work. But the Democrats literally look like a RICO organized from the top. I mean, how many ops did they run that involves the intelligence people, the fake news and the entire Democratic Party? Quite a few. That's a big group. And that sure screams RICO to me. So we'll see.

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Meanwhile, if you're believing data, a Harvard professor, according to Natural News, was found guilty of fraudulent research to promote critical race theory. tenured professor. He fabricated data to prove his point about critical race theory. Now, is critical race theory data that is important?

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Well, it was important to this professional because it was his career and he wanted it to look bad, so he changed it until it did. This is what I'm talking about. This is a tenured professor Harvard professor who just completely lied, allegedly, allegedly completely lied. This is normal. All data that matters is fake.

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Now, again, there might be special cases where there's something that's checked by so many people and it's just really objective. You know, maybe, maybe there's some like random exceptions that But the exceptions maybe probably just prove the rule. If you just say, hey, your pay depends on the data coming out this way and you're pushing CRT, the data is going to come your way every time.

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All right, let's talk about the brouhaha about hiring foreign tech workers. It's a good thing you waited for me to sort this out because the online conversation about it is tremendous. pathetically misinformed and confused. I think I can sort this out. So I've got just enough contact with the topic and I looked into it enough. I think I know what's going on now. All right.

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assume that anything that comes out of my mouth about medical advice is a bad idea for you to copy. But if it really does induce risky behavior, which is very close to not being afraid of things that you shouldn't be afraid of, I wonder if you could game that to find some use from the fact that it helps you do things that are a little higher risk

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So the idea is that people like Elon Musk and people like me say that we should be hiring the best and brightest engineers, even from other countries. Now, the pushback on that is, hold on. why did we even hire Trump? We didn't hire Trump so we can be bringing in people from other countries to take our jobs.

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Why don't you let the underemployed Americans, maybe they need some training, but give them the training and maybe fix our schools so we're producing more engineers, and then we wouldn't have to do any of this bringing in engineers from other countries. Does that make sense to you? Do you think that we'd be fine if we don't bring in engineers from other countries?

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We'll just train the people that we have. Does that work for you? First of all, do you accept, as Elon Musk does, that we have a shortage of the very best, the very top 1% of engineers? So according to Musk, he thinks the greatest or one of the greatest things holding back our progress is is that Silicon Valley is way under-engineered. But we're talking about the top ones.

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Now, the arguments that I hear are, I'm a white guy, and I'm an engineer, and I can tell you I've been looking for work, and I can't get work. And then you hear that, and you go, whoa, all right, Elon Musk, I think you've gone too far this time. You're okay on this electric cars and rocket ship stuff,

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But when you talk about foreign workers, I think you're missing something because we have multiple stories of trained engineers in America who can't even get a job. And they're being filled by, let's say, Indian engineers with H-1B visas and stuff. So how can it be true, because it is true, that there are American-born engineers who can't get jobs? But we also have a shortage of engineers.

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How can both of those things be true? We've got unemployed engineers, and they're telling us. You can look them up on social media. They're real people. Here's the answer. They're all white. That's it. They're all white. There aren't any unemployed top 1% black American engineers. Find me one. Find me one, and then I'll shut the fuck up. You just find me one that can't get a job.

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A top 1% black engineer. How about a top 1% LGBTQ engineer? Any trouble getting a job? No. How about a top 1% woman engineer? Any trouble getting a job? No. This is just fucking racism that we're confusing with the question of engineers, right? So yes, there are white engineers who can't get a job because they're fucking white. That's the reason. And you all know that, right?

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I'm not telling you something you don't know. But is it true that we're leaving untapped, as a number of people said this morning? They said, you look at the whole middle of the country and you have all these bright people who score high on tests, but they're not getting into the pipeline and being trained properly to become top engineers. To which I say, that's great for a different topic.

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When Elon Musk says we need engineers, he doesn't mean we need to spend 20 years building one. He means we need the ones who are right here right now and we better fucking hurry because AI and robots is not waiting for people. Like if we're not doing it, China's doing it and Japan's doing it. So we need right away the top 1% engineers and we don't have enough.

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They seem too risky for you, but maybe they're not too risky. If you actually did things that were high risk, it would be a bad idea. But sometimes we think things are high risk just because they make us anxious, and they're not high risk. Well, according to Frank Bergman in Slay News, Antarctic sea ice has slowly increased for the past 40 years.

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Now you might say, but what about those white people? Well, probably not top 1%. My guess is that even the top 1% of white people are completely employed in engineering. Only the engineers I'm talking about. Now, the people who are programmers, which we often lump into the same category, the programmers have a different problem.

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Because AI is making existing programmers 5 to 10 times more productive. So that industry has a problem. But that's not what's happening with engineers. And here's the next thing you need to know. And I'm going to call this the my dog theory. You've heard this before. My dog, I think she suspects that I'm smarter than her because I can produce food out of nowhere and she can't. I can open doors.

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I can drive a car. Like even the dog has some sense that I'm the smart one in the relationship, right? But here's the thing. as the smart one in the relationship, I have a really clear idea of how smart my dog is. My dog only knows that I'm smarter than her. She doesn't know how much smarter. She doesn't know that I can write and draw comics.

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That would be like a mind-blowing thing for the dog if she could even understand what those things are. So the situation with the dog and the owner is the same with people. You think that Elon Musk is smarter than you. I do. I think he's smarter than me. But do you know how much? No, you don't. You have no way of knowing how much smarter he is. And I think this is where everything's going wrong.

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When we're talking about these top 1% engineers, this is not a job I could get. I was a valedictorian of my school. I went to a good college to get an MBA. Could I be a top 1% engineer? No, not even close. Not even close. And here, more to the point, I don't even know how much smarter they are.

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If you've ever met somebody who is just way smarter than you, the only thing you knew is that they're smarter than you and maybe a few topics they know more. You don't really know how much smarter they are. You really don't. So if you're saying we've got plenty of Americans who can do these jobs, you have a blind spot.

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The blind spot is we can't get them in time because you'd have to develop people from birth, basically. And getting people who are just good enough to be engineers, that's not what anybody's talking about. We're not talking about somebody who went to the third best school and finished at the bottom of their class, but they got a degree. They're engineers, too. We're not talking about them.

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We're talking about the top 1%, who you almost can't even imagine. You can't even imagine how smart they are. So that's why we need to be competitive. The other thing is, this is an existential threat to the country. If we don't lead in AI and robots, we're in real trouble. I mean, real trouble and fast. Yeah, we've got to be the quantum computer leaders.

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You know, otherwise somebody builds the quantum computer and hacks everything in the United States and we're all dead All right, so we don't really have options We've got to press as hard as we can and get every top 1% or no matter where they came from Now that's not really going to cost any Americans any jobs if you do that, but people conflate it with the fact that although Google and Microsoft and Apple big companies if they want a top 1% engineer and

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I can't tell if I'm just in a bubble, because there's a certain kind of news that comes to be or that I notice. But it feels to me like the climate change alarmism is just being chipped out from every direction. Like, well, I'm not so sure those thermometers are right. Well, did you know we were measuring the temperature of the ocean wrong?

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They have the resources to really, really check to make sure they got one. It might require having a leg in another country where you can actually talk to people and really spend time with them and find out what's real and what isn't. But if you're a medium-sized company, you might find, let's say, an agency that finds people to go to your country and work.

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You'd say, hey, I want some top 1% engineers. but I can't visit and I can't talk to them myself. So I want you to find me some top engineers that can work over here, top 1%. And then whoever you're talking to says, top 1%? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got plenty of them. And then they send you somebody who can barely do anything.

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And it's too late for you to say anything and they have already made their money. And by the time you cancel the project, Realize that you can't talk to an agency and hire good people in India.

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It almost doesn't work It's basically closer to fraud than it is to a working system You find out that the system of hiring foreign workers is mostly fraud That's what I learned recently so When people say but Scott in the real world we're getting all these Indian engineers and that are not as good as engineers who can't get a job. That might be true. That might be true.

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But that has to do with the broken system. If you could identify the top 1%, like Elon Musk can, like the big companies can, then you really need to be able to get them. But if you're a small company and you're depending on somebody in another country to tell you who their top 1% are, they're going to send whoever they have. And they're going to charge you.

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And if it goes wrong, they'll just have another customer who doesn't know the difference next next time. So. The apparently 71 percent of Trump voters want to increase high skilled immigration, but of course, they don't want to, you know, bring in people that take American jobs. And Musk says there's a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It's their biggest problem.

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And then I saw somebody arguing with him, somebody whose account is I am yes, you are no. That's the name of the account. And said to Elon, there are over 330 million people in America. Surely there must be enough among them to build your ultimate team. Why would you deny real Americans that opportunity by bringing foreigners here?

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Now, I'll tell you what Elon said, but I kind of already made this argument. He said, your understanding of the situation is upside down and backwards. Of course, my companies and I would prefer to hire Americans. And we do. That is much easier than going through the incredible, painful and slow work of visa process.

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However, there's a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America. He said it's not about handing out opportunities from some magical hat. You don't get it. This is blindingly obvious when looking at NBA teams as the physical differences are so obvious to see. However, the mental differences between humans are far bigger than the physical differences.

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So he's saying what I said, which is you don't understand. I'm talking about the top 1%. there's not a bunch of Americans waiting around to be hired that are in the top 1% of engineering. That's just not a thing. And if you tried to train them, and then I saw other people saying, but we have plenty of people who are not top engineers, but you could train them.

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The companies should train their own employees to become top engineers. Oh man, you really don't understand how the world works if you think that works. What, you're going to take the person who can write code and you're going to turn them into a top 1% engineer with what your company affords? Never. It would be the rarest thing if that could ever work.

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No, the top engineers probably from the first day of school had some kind of advantage. They were brilliant. but also their parents probably were a certain kind of parents and sent them to a certain kind of school. They were identified. They got the best training over years and years and years in the best environment.

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Has anybody mentioned that the clouds haven't been accurately modeled? And now we have, for the past 40 years, the Antarctic sea ice has slowly increased. Now, it is true that in some years, including recently, it has decreased. But as far as I can tell from the historical record, the increases and the decreases are just a normal thing that the ice does.

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No, you can't take the janitor and turn him into an engineer because you've got a good training program. That's not a thing. It's just not a thing. And then there's a huge amount of what I would say is overt, very obvious racism that entered into the conversation. There's way more racism against Indians and Indian Americans than I was expecting.

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Like when it all comes out in a conversation like this, it's a little bit horrifying, honestly. And I'm going to tell you something again. Have you ever spent time with a top 1% Indian or Indian American technical person? I have. It's incredible. It's incredible. And I don't want to name names, but you know some people I would name probably, right?

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Not necessarily engineers, but definitely top one percenters. And if you're thinking, oh, I don't want those Indians in here because they're going to change my culture. Again, this would be a huge blind spot. Do you know what the Indians living in America want to do? assimilate like crazy.

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I'm not going to tell you who says this, but there's some prominent Indian American who jokes about just trying to be as white as he can possibly be. I mean, he says it jokingly, but he has no interest in taking Indian culture to America. You won't meet, I don't think you'll meet an Indian in America who says, you know what? America has some advantages, but I really like

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I'd really like to bring more of the Indian stuff over here. Now, they might want to wear the clothes for one generation. They certainly want to eat their own food, which, by the way, is awesome, Indian food. It's not for everybody, but personally, I think it's amazing. You don't understand. Everything is an assumption that doesn't hold. If you're talking about the top 1%,

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If I dropped into your conversation any top 1% Indian or Indian American, you wouldn't even know you were talking to an Indian. You wouldn't even know. You would just think, wow, this guy or this gal are like super smart. And you would be fascinated and you would want to hire them for your company. You're thinking about the not 1%.

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If we brought in a bunch of people in the bottom half of capabilities, well, yeah, that's a big problem. And maybe you've met some people who are not at the top 1%, and you said to yourself, hmm, we don't really need more of these, do we? Well, maybe you're right. But that's not what anybody's talking about. We're talking about the top 1%.

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You sit in a room with any of the top 1%ers, and you will just walk away impressed. That's it. That's the whole story. All right. I saw somebody say to that conversation online, somebody with the title Unfiltered Truth. That's the name of their ex-handle. And after Elon said what I just read to you, he said, I used to have some faith in Elon, but after this post, I'm done. The mask is off.

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Elon supports erasing the culture and ethnic identity of America to help grow his bank account. He's parasitic and destructive. I don't think you could understand less what's going on here. Again, the Indian engineers, they assimilate so fast, and they want to, and they do it really well. So, no, that's a ridiculous comment. I would also like to describe the alternative.

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So let's say we just close it to all engineers. Game that out for me. What's the future look like in your view if we just closed all immigration and didn't hire anybody from India or any other country? What would that look like? What's plan B? Well, plan B is the end of America, as far as I can tell. If you're not hiring the best engineers, somebody else is. And eventually they'll catch up to you.

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So it could have several years where it goes down. It could have several years where it goes up. But if you look at the past 40 years... when humans have been pumping out the CO2 like crazy, no real difference from the historical record. So the Antarctic is not getting warmer, or it's not getting warm enough to make a difference? We don't know. But remember, I'm not going to say that the

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And whoever has the most economic clout will have the best military. They'll start using it. America's dominance in the world would be fairly quickly disappeared, maybe in one generation. So it's sort of a one generation in the toilet for America. If we don't really, really try hard to get the top 1% of engineers from other countries. All right. Apparently, Indiana University is teaching a course

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that says that the white people are inherently oppressors because of their race and sex and religion. And apparently you're divided into teams in one of the required classes. And if you're a white Christian or male, you're automatically labeled an oppressor. All right. Don't send your kids to Indiana University. Apparently it's just a garbage university.

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It must be populated with idiots and racists. Don't go there. Just don't go to Indiana University. Sounds like they are just lost. And racist, of course. You saw that there was a plane crash the other day in the Azerbaijani plane and you may have seen the video where it seemed to be going up before it went down and then it crashed.

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And then they showed pictures of it with strange holes in the hull. And I looked at the strange holes based on the pictures and I said, oh, it's obvious that there was shrapnel and that the shrapnel was on the inside and you could tell from the holes that something from the outside pushed to the inside because they looked like bullet holes that indented.

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If the explosion had come from the inside, the holes would be opposite. So I'm no aviation expert, but as soon as they showed it to me, I said, oh, it looks like some military asset exploded near them. And further, I assumed that there was not a direct hit because a direct hit would have blown it apart in the sky and there'd be a bigger hole in smoke before it went down.

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So it looks like, and one of the reports suggested, that maybe there was an anti-Russian missile attack against possibly a drone that they thought was criminal or they thought was the other side. And maybe there was an explosion in the air and some of the shrapnel hit this plane and it had to do an emergency landing. So I think that's what's happened.

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But why didn't the experts say what I said on day one? Because the holes were very obviously an external explosion that created random shrapnel that was from the outside in. I mean, if I could tell, and I have no experience in this field whatsoever, if I could tell, how many of you could tell? You saw the same thing I saw, right? Most of you.

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When you looked at it, you knew that that was shrapnel, right? And you knew it was from the outside in. So why did it take like a day for us to have some expert tell us that? I don't know. Meanwhile, you know that border wall that Biden was trying to sell off the pieces before Trump got in office? But apparently that's taken care of now.

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Because the auctioneer already agreed and maybe he was going to do it anyway. But when Trump and everybody started complaining about it, the person whose job it was to sell them said, maybe I'll hold these until Trump gets in office. I assume the auctioneer is a Republican. Don't know that. But citizen.

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So you're all worried about the government, you know, Biden trying to sell these things for nothing. And then you're like, oh, I hope the new government can stop the old government. It turns out all you needed was one auctioneer with common sense.

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Remember, I keep telling you common sense is like our unifying theme for at least people on the right and people who agree with the right on some things. Common sense. The auctioneer made the only smart decision. He said, well, if I've got a new administration and they might not want to sell it, I shouldn't sell it today.

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I should just put it in a pile and sell other things and wait a few weeks and see what happens. So thank you. Thank you, auctioneer. So there was a citizen who stepped up, looked at the situation and said, huh, doesn't seem to make much sense that I would sell them instead of waiting until next month.

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Studies that kind of agree with me are the accurate ones. That would be crazy. So this, like all the other studies, throw it in the pile with things that are wrong half of the time. But it does seem like there are a lot of things going in the same direction, suggesting that the ice hasn't melted, the sea level has not risen, there are no more hurricanes than you should expect.

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And if they still want to sell them, because remember, part of the story is that they might be damaged and they're not the good parts of the wall. So it could be that nobody actually wants them. But he's still smart to wait for the incoming administration to say, what do you want to do with these? So good on you, auctioneer.

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So the Ukrainians are bragging about their new model for building lots of drones, which involves a capitalist approach. So they're letting their drone makers compete and make money and that apparently is causing their drone industry, small as it was, to grow quickly. And they think that they can make more drones than Russia because Russia has that crappy, constipated economy.

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And it's sort of central, a little more central planning and stuff. So the Ukrainians think that they can outcompete using the free market within Ukraine.

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um it's not really a free market because probably american money buys all the drones i'm guessing it's american money that buys them all but it's still from their point of view it's still just a competitive free market but here's the numbers so they think they can make 200 000 drones in the coming year there are roughly 500 000 russian shoulders soldiers 200 000 drones would kill how many soldiers

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Well, it depends what kind they are. Some of them might be surveillance and stuff. But in general, it's about one-to-one now. So the most updated information is that one well-designed drone, even the small ones, little hobby-sized drones, it can locate one soldier and it can pretty accurately just dive bomb and explode and kill that one person. Sometimes it can kill more than one person.

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Let's say they're in some kind of vehicle or something. And so on average, sometimes they'll get knocked down by anti-drone stuff. Sometimes something goes wrong. But on average, 200,000 drones is going to kill about 200,000 soldiers. Now, even if you cut that in half, can Russia lose 100,000 soldiers just to drones next year? Well, probably they can't.

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because Putin's really dug in and he doesn't want to lose. But how many drones are they going to make the year after? Because if it doubles every year, the year after, maybe they make 400,000 drones. Maybe the United States and other countries and NATO are also making drones like crazy and using what they've learned in the Ukraine war to make sure these are really good killer drones.

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So what happens if in 18 months or two years, let's say worst case scenario, the war continues for two more years? I think they would have enough drones to kill every Russian soldier. And the Russians would have enough to kill maybe half or two thirds of the Ukrainian forces. But if you're Putin and you feel like you're winning, you're in the catbird seat and you're going to negotiate hard.

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But suppose, I said this before, suppose President Trump sat down with Putin and he said, here's the deal. One drone kills one of your soldiers. If we don't make a deal that works for us, I'm going to make sure Ukraine has one million killer drones in 18 months and your army is just going to disappear. We're going to evaporate them.

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Now he'll say, well, if you did that, I would have to use nuclear weapons. And then Trump says to him, no, you won't. Because if you do, we will. So your best case scenario is just to negotiate, basically keep what you've already taken, and let's wind this thing down. No, no, I will use nuclear weapons. No, you won't. You're not going to use any nuclear weapons. That would be dumb.

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I feel like climate change is getting ready for a tipping point. Like it's going to be harder and harder to accept it as a real existential risk. Okay, now I don't know if this next part I'm going to tell you is real. If it's real, my mind is blown. But not surprised. According to the same article, from Frank Bergman in Slay News. And again, I don't know if this is true.

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You've already got most of what you want. How about we just make a deal? So when we talk about could Trump make a deal in one day, he can if he puts enough pressure on. You know, he would probably also say we're going to cripple your economy and turn off your whatever pipelines you got left and all that. But I think a million drones. would be the entire story.

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Yeah, we've got a million drones, and that's what you're looking at next. Anyway, Ukraine is apparently taking a tip from the IDF, and they're disguising bombs to kill senior officials, but they're disguising them as sort of ordinary items like a like a phone charger, but it'd be really a bomb, and some kind of document folder that's a bomb. This is according to the New York Post.

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So I guess the Ukrainians are trying to do decapitation strikes with the leadership of the Russians, and that's probably a good strategy for negotiating, because Obviously, they can replace leadership. It probably doesn't make much difference as long as it's not Putin.

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But if you were in the level that they were targeting and you had an option of settling the war and not be targeted, I think you might say to yourself, you know, Putin, this might be the time to negotiate an end to this because my neighbor who's got a job like me just got assassinated.

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So here's a topic which I have not been into, but I found myself horrified when I dug down one inch, which is RFK Jr. 's book about Fauci. And I guess he was on Del Bigtree's podcast talking about it. And I don't quite understand the fullness of these stories, but I'll read you what I saw. Maybe you can fact check me if this is accurate or not.

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But the claim is that Fauci was somehow involved in testing drugs on children, but he picked foster homes so that the children had no parents, and there were massive injuries, and that he did it more than once. Some were in America, some in Africa. Now, I'm going to call these allegations because really? Like, I can't really wrap my head around

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uh the enormity of how evil this would be if it's true so i'm a little skeptical but i'm mostly skeptical about my own understanding of the story so that that's where my skepticism is on myself because i don't know all the details i haven't read the book i just saw some summary about it but now i've i've heard it before that he was trying to test things in africa and bill gates was trying to test things in africa

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But I don't think that's necessarily a mistake, is it? If you knew there was something that would be really good for Africa and really good for the rest of the world, if you could test it, and there was only one place you could legally and practically test it, I can see why you'd talk yourself into testing it in Africa. And if it doesn't go well, there's going to be deaths.

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and maybe you knew that you would have less problems if you did it in Africa, and maybe you would have fewer problems if it was kids who didn't have biological parents in their lives. So I'm willing to believe that this level of evil actually happened for profit, but I'm still skeptical that I understand it well enough and that there's no counter-argument to it. So I'm going to put this in my...

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Oh, my God, this looks awful. But maybe there's more to the story. All right. Well, I always tell you there's a new battery breakthrough.

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Now there's engineers, engineers, top 1% probably, developed ultra-fast charging battery, according to The Cooldown, and Rick Kasmer is writing about it, that would make batteries, and in this case it would be the existing kind of batteries, the lithium, I think, They just add some simple chemical. What is it? It's betadine. So you've probably heard of betadine. I think that's the brand name.

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It's a common thing that might be in your medicine cabinet. And they just add that to sort of existing technology. And it gives us this huge increase in performance, such an increase that it might make electric planes practical. and 600-mile trips on one charge and charging your phone like right away. And it doesn't look like it would be super hard to put it into production.

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I'm sure they have to do more testing. But it was such a big and instant change, and it's from a substance which apparently is not hard to manufacture. You don't have to mine it. So once again, big breakthrough in potential batteries.

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Breitbart News is reporting, Ian Henshett is writing, that the Senate Intel chair, who is Mark Warner, he says that even civilian drones from China are risks because they might be controlled by the CCP. Now, I don't know what kind of a control they would have, but it does feel like a risk. I think the risk is we don't know if they're trying to control them or not. If they are, it's a problem.

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This is the first time I've ever heard this. It's blowing my mind. You remember the hole in the ozone? So when I was younger, there was a hole in the ozone. And then you remember that they banned certain kinds of aerosols that had some chemical that was causing it. And then it was one of the greatest successes of science. because the ozone hole actually closed. Is that what you think happened?

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And then Frank Bergman of Slay News said that there's a secret Pfizer report that reveals a 40% spike in heart conditions among the COVID vacs to use the Pfizer product. And apparently this report was kept secret. And it just recently was revealed. Study found that the vaccinated cohort had a 23 to 40% higher risk of a heart-related condition. Do you believe that?

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You know, Christmas Day, I kind of relaxed a little bit, which is uncharacteristic. And if I relax, I do two hours of sleep, and I'm like, I think it's time to get up. But it wasn't. Well, here's the good news. If you believe science and you think the news is telling you what's true, according to Science Alert, some scientists have figured out it destroyed 99% of cancer cells

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Do you think the data is accurate? Remember I told you that all data that matters is fake. And then I also told you, but I'll bet there's some I'll bet there's some exceptions, like special cases. This might be one of those special cases. And the reason I say that is because they tried to conceal it.

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If they had not tried to conceal it and Pfizer was touting it, almost certainly I wouldn't trust it. Because if they're touting it, yeah. But if they're hiding it, why would they hide data that's incorrect? All they'd have to do is put a memo on it that says, oh, this data can't be trusted because there was a problem in the way we collected it. Right?

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So if they knew it was fake or anybody knew that the assumptions are what made it fake, if anybody knew that, they would have put notes on it. that says, well, we can't trust this and that's why we're not releasing it. We can't release it because we don't trust it to be true. But what if they did trust it to be true and so they hid it? I mean, that's the allegation is they hid it.

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This might be an obvious exception where you could trust that it's true because it was bad for the people who were hiding it who also probably created the data themselves. So that, ladies and gentlemen, is our corrupt world. And that's all I had for you today. I hope your stocks are up. Oh, man, I went long. I'm going to say hi to the locals people, but we won't stay long.

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I'm already taking too much of your time. Even though I know it's a holiday week and the other podcasters are probably on vacation and you're so glad that I'm here. How many people are here? It looks like we've got a pretty big crowd today. There's not much else to watch, is there? All right. Locals, I'm coming at you now. And the rest of you, I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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I hope you enjoyed yourself. And 30 seconds until we're locals only.

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How many of you think that's what happened? That's what my news told me. My news told me that science made a discovery of what was causing it, government worked efficiently to ban that one item that was the problem, and sure enough, a little time goes by, and that ozone hole closed itself, except... According to Frank Bergman and Slay News, it's now bigger than it ever was.

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And that it's also a natural, it's a natural variability. That sometimes the hole is bigger, sometimes the hole is smaller. And after all that banning of all those chemicals, it got smaller. But while they're still banned, it's bigger than it's ever been. I've never, I had never heard that before. Have you? How many of you heard that?

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And again, I'm going to put it in the category of, is that true? Or is it bad data? I don't know. I think I'm going to say I'm a little skeptical that the ozone hole is bigger than it's been. But I will check it out. So I only just read this this morning. Has anybody heard of this? I'm hesitant to say it's true. I'll just say it's reported.

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Well, did you see all the stories about the drones on Christmas Day? You know, all the unidentified drones on Christmas Day? My God, did you see all the stories about that? No, you didn't. You know why? Well, I don't know for sure. but I think all the drones took Christmas off. Now, that's not confirmed.

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I will say that we asked our own Erica, who's one of our favorites on Locals, who lives in New Jersey, to look outside and take a picture and see if the activity that she's been seeing for weeks died down. Now, she was busy with her relatives and didn't get to do that, but I've seen a few posts on social media on X that suggest it was a quiet night for drones. What does that tell you?

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Do you think the aliens take Christmas off? Do you think that China stops surveying our military bases because it's a holiday? No. maybe it's possible that they do, because maybe then there aren't enough drones in the air to disguise what nefarious things they're doing.

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So it is possible that the Chinese would take the holiday off because everybody else did, just so it's not obvious what they're doing. I'm pretty sure this is an American... Yeah, the drones are American. But... But... I saw Nancy Mace, who apparently has been in a skiff and knows more than you and I do about the UFO sightings. Now, I don't think the drones are UFOs.

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But in addition to the drones, there are also sightings of other kinds of crafts. And Nancy Mace described it as there are two shapes that can't be explained. By shapes, I think they mean the tic-tac and the orb, but I'm not positive.

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So the things that look sort of like drones, I think everybody's decided that they're either ours or some kind of hobbyist or maybe an adversary, but they're not from outer space. But the orbs, the alleged round, shiny things, sometimes they're metal, sometimes they seem like clear with something in the middle, and maybe the TikToks, but I don't know for sure.

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Just Nancy Mace says some of the shapes are not explained. And then on top of that, there's a story today about an ex-NASA commander, commander meaning of a space shuttle, so he's been a commander of space shuttles, and he now flies his own private small plane. And he was flying his private small plane and says that two astronauts shiny metallic-looking orbs flew past him at a high rate.

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using vibrating molecules and some near, some kind of light to heat it up. So there's some kind of a molecule that they already use because it attaches to cancer so that when you're imaging, it'll show up better on the imaging because it's some kind of chemical that only attaches to cancer and it leaves everything alone. So if you're looking for just that thing, It'll spot all your cancers.

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And the orbs were not spotted on any radar, including, I think he had some radar, I'm not sure, or at least the ground radar didn't measure it. Now, given that there are widespread reports of orbs, round things that can't be explained. And the reports are... The reports are that... I'm just laughing at what you're all capital. But Scott, CO2 is plant food. I know what you're doing, David.

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I get it. That's what I call the NPC response. So now we've got a highly credible NASA commander... who said he saw it very clearly, but only for maybe less than a second, because there were two of them, I guess, and they were zipping past his airplane. Do you think it's more likely, given the context of all the orbs, which apparently have been sighted, according to people say they saw them,

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Do you think it's likely that the orbs are real, or that, let's say this ex-NASA commander, we'll just pick him as my example, or do you think it's an optical illusion or some other kind of cognitive effect where he thought he saw something, but he didn't really see it? Now, in the context of lots of people talking about orbs and UFOs, what would you expect to

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would be the number of reports of orbs, they should go way up. Will they go up because people now know what they're looking for and they're looking at real orbs, unexplained orbs? And the answer is maybe. Maybe some of it is people just notice what they didn't notice. Far more likely, far more likely, there's priming in the environment. So all of us are thinking UFOs and orbs.

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And then if we see something out of the corner of our mind, we go, was that an orb? And then the rest of your brain talks you into seeing an orb. Or some other illusion or optical thing or something that was a shadow or a bird or there was a balloon in the air. Probably not that. But So what would you say?

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It couldn't be more fun because every day it seems like there's a new revelation about the Kilmer-Abrigo-Garcia that makes it even more embarrassing for the Democrats to be fully on board supporting this guy. So the latest is you already knew that he had been once stopped while he was driving a vehicle with eight people in it who only had Garcia's home address as their address.

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Now that's a strong indication that he was involved in human trafficking. Human trafficking meaning picking up people at the border who were not citizens and delivering them to the interior of the country and having them you know, stay here illegally. But what we've learned is that the vehicle did not belong to Kilmer. It belonged to somebody who was a target suspected of human trafficking.

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Apparently, our authorities knew that that particular vehicle made trips to the southern border to pick up non-citizens. So pretty much for sure, he was doing human trafficking. So now the Democrats have to support somebody who is credibly accused of being an MS-13 guy and now credibly accused of being a human trafficker and credibly accused of being a wife beater.

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And you wonder how much deeper this can go. Like how many new things can we find out about this guy? I feel like it's going to go. And well, yes, it did turn out he murdered some nuns. And then a week later, we'll find out, well, yes, he kept their bodies in a freezer in the basement. And then a week later, it'll be like, he's a cannibal. He is a cannibal.

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And the Democrats will still be racing down to El Salvador to say, free the cannibal. The human trafficker wife beating MS-13 cannibal. Free him now, because process makes all the difference. You know what I worry about? This is something I learned from the Democrats. You've probably heard that there's something called the Department of Justice.

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So in my little college in upstate New York when I was a senior, the bunch of local companies would come in, and they would interview the seniors to maybe make job offers. And one of the big employers was a pharmaceutical company looking for sales reps. And I knew a lot of people in the college. It was a very small college.

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And they will often arrest people for things like murder. And then those people will be sent to jail if they're convicted. And I'm thinking, isn't that kind of a slippery slope? If they can arrest people who are proven to have murdered people,

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and they could put those people in jail, can't they pick up people who have never murdered anybody and never committed any crimes at all and put them in jail too? According to Democrats, that would be a risk. I learned that from the story about Kilmer Abrego Garcia. Well, Governor Abbott in Texas just signed some legislation to give Texas their own state doge.

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So I guess they're going to build the ability to make their government more efficient. But there was one thing that I loved about the statement. So this is from Abbott. He said that the new doge in Texas, it will ensure that Texas is operating at the speed of business and will make it easier for Texans to do business, blah, blah.

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I love that framing that the government in Texas will operate at the speed of business. I don't think you could phrase that better. Now, somebody said that that was a UPS slogan from long ago, but no matter where they got it, that is just such a well-chosen phrase that the state could operate at the speed of business. Because that's exactly what you want.

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You want the government not to slow you down. Speaking of that, according to the Washington Times, the amount that businesses spend to satisfy federal regulations, of which there are thousands of new ones every year, is $2.1 trillion per year. Actually, more than that. So the amount that we waste... by just satisfying various infinite government. This is just federal. This is not even state.

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2.1 trillion per year. That's the same as the entire amount of the budget deficit. 2.1 trillion? I think we can do better. Maybe we will. So according to The Hill, The Washington Post has struck a deal with OpenAI. So now if you're using OpenAI and you're searching for something that has been in the news, it will give you summaries and quotes and links from the Washington Post.

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So how do you feel about that? The Washington Post will be a primary, maybe the primary, news source for people the biggest AI, open AI. Does that give you anything to worry about? Well, I'll tell you, my trust in open AI as a source of independent and accurate information just went down 40%, approximately 40%.

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Because, as you know, and of course, I can't prove this, but the Washington Post has always been alleged to be kind of tight with the intelligence community of the United States, you know, sort of working hand in glove. If the CIA needed to get a message out, they could do it through the Washington Post. Now, that's the allegation. And then,

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When Bezos bought the Washington Post, which was bleeding money, you probably said to yourself, why would he do that? Like, why would you buy something that really couldn't possibly make money? And was it because Jeff Bezos wanted to control the news? There's not really any indication of that. But would it be because Jeff Bezos has a gigantic contract with the CIA for cloud services?

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And I saw that the people I was competing against, because we were sort of lining up to do our little interviews, weren't nearly as accomplished as me academically. So I'm thinking to myself, this is going to be easy. I am so going to get this job offer to be a pharmaceutical representative. And the other people who were in line were really hot girls who were not that good at academics.

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And could it be that Jeff Bezos was asked by the CIA to buy the Washington Post so they still had an entity that they could control? Could it be? Now, I don't know. I don't have proof of any of that. But that's what it looks like. And what this looks like is if you assume that the CIA would really have to get some kind of backdoor control of the big AI companies, especially open AI.

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So my speculation is that the intelligence people in this country pretty much had to have a little bit of control over AI because that's where everybody's going to get their information. Probably had some control over the Washington Post. Not for every story, but for things they cared about. Probably had some influence over Bezos buying the Washington Post.

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I don't have any proof of that whatsoever. It just sort of looks like it. And to me, it looks like they're making sure that their source... the one that they would use if they needed to use it, the Washington Post, is the one that the AI refers to. So my trust in what I hear about the news from OpenAI, down 40%.

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According to Scott Pressler, there are 13 Democrat Senate seats up for reelection in 2020 or up for election in 2026. So more than a third of the Democrat senators are retiring. More than a third. So isn't that like incredible? So does it seem to you like if you're trying to figure out what is our system of government, you know, some would say it's the deep state.

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Some would say it's the uniparty. We'll talk about that in a minute. Some would say, you know, it's a competitive thing between two parties and sometimes one wins and sometimes the other. But I think we forget how much is luck. Because this looks like the luckiest thing that could possibly happen for Republicans.

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That just by complete coincidence, you know, there's no driving force for any of it, that a third of the Democrats are up for retiring. I mean, that kind of strongly suggests that the Republicans are going to have a vice grip on the Senate for a while. So it's luck. I mean, that's just pure luck. So luck is apparently what runs our country more than anything else, just pure luck.

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Well, Mike Davis was appearing on Steve Bannon's The War Room, and he said he met with Trump officials inside the DOJ and arrests will come soon. And I said to myself, arrests of who? Who? For what? Is it Epstein related? Is it deep state related? Is it something about Soros prosecutors? Who exactly do you think is going to get arrested? And I'm going to join the skeptics.

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Because it seems to me that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have been a little bit too quiet. Now, it could be they're just playing it cool and there's something really big coming, like really big arrests. Maybe. But I'm going to go contrarian on this and say, I don't think that we're ever going to see any big arrests. Not for Epstein, not for.

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not for the Russia collusion hoax, not for any of the bad behavior that we've all witnessed, not for the Biden crime family, not for anything. So I'm going to say I predict no major arrests. I just don't think it's happening. For whatever has allowed people to run wild and commit just obvious crimes right in front of the public, there's something that's protecting them.

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It might be different things for different people, but I don't think the thing that's protecting them ever stopped. So whatever it is that protects them, it's probably still there. So I don't expect any big arrests, but I'd love to be wrong about that. Well, James O'Keefe's undercover operation, OMG, they got a new video of...

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And every single one of the hot girls got an offer to be a pharmaceutical sales rep. And none of the guys, not a single male was offered anything. And that's where I learned that you don't need to do a study to find out that women can get more access to meetings. Yes, women can definitely get more access to meetings. You could have just asked me.

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a Department of Defense branch chief, who says President Trump is, quote, illegitimate, and the branch chief has vowed to, quote, resist him and everything he does. Can you believe that there's somebody who works for Trump in the Department of Defense, has what looks like a high-level job, a branch chief, and would say out loud to a date that he plans to resist him and everything he does?

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Now, I assume he's already fired by now, but it's just unbelievable that our government just doesn't even recognize the elected leader. They're just going to act like they're doing the right thing. The weirdest thing is that the guy that's on the undercover video, he looks like a character from Roblox, which is hilarious if you know what Roblox is and you've seen the video of him.

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If you haven't, it's not funny at all. But he looks like Roblox. Anyway. So New York Magazine has a big piece about Alex Soros. And Alex Soros apparently is very committed to the far left of the Democrat Party, which is interesting to me because that's what's going to keep the Democrats from winning.

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So I think Soros Sr., who was really good at keeping Democrats in power by funding just the right stuff, He is replaced by his son, who is not nearly as clever, according to people who know them both. And the son is very committed to the far left stuff, the progressive stuff, which would suggest that at the moment, Alex Soros would be the main reason that Democrats could never win again.

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Because as long as they cling to funding and promoting the far left stuff, they're going to be so far from what the mainstream American actually wants, they're going to be in that 2080 problem again. So even though Soros says his main priority is winning, so he wants to keep Trump and the Republicans out of office,

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But he seems to have picked the one and only way that it can't happen, by promoting the least popular things in America. So, good luck. Good luck with that. Well, I've talked before about a researcher called Dana Republican. And if you're on X, you should follow Data Republican. And Data Republican has uncovered what she describes as the uniparty, like the nest.

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It's almost like, I think there's a nest of people who are like the deep state uniparty. And apparently the nest has been discovered. Now, Mike Benz has, you know, sort of commented on this, like this is a big discovery. But apparently there's something called the U.S. Global Leadership Corporation. Have you ever heard of it? The U.S. Global Leadership Corporation. No, of course you haven't.

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You've never heard of it. And it represents 400 NGOs, non-government organizations, and businesses. And its mission is to, quote, support the smart power approach of elevating diplomacy and development alongside defense in order to build a better, safer world. Now, as Data Republican explains, if you've been with me long enough, meaning if you follow Data Republican,

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you know that is code for increasing NGO influence in military affairs. So this is a group of people who are representing over 400 NGOs and all the money that would be involved in that. whose main thing is to essentially be a military assistant force, so that if we're going to take over a country or get military with it, these NGOs would be the supporting entities.

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Now, apparently this organization, the biggest financial backers, are Bill Gates and George Soros Open Society Foundation. So there's a big organization, 400 NGOs, supported financially by Gates and Soros. But what's interesting is the people who are on the board.

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All right, let's see if science has any more surprises. Oh, yeah, here we go. According to Eric Dolan, who's writing in SciPost, there's new... This one's just funny. There's new evidence, new research. There's new research in the Journal of Affective Disorders that suggests that people who engage in sexual activity... at least once a week, are less likely to experience symptoms of depression.

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So the advisory board includes everything from Hillary Clinton to a bunch of ex-secretaries of defense to a bunch of senators to governors. And here's the payoff. It's both parties. This is the uniparty nest. So what Dana Republican says is the importance of this cannot be understated. This is the first solid confirmation I've seen that Soros and Bill Gates

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are backers of the so-called uniparty network. So you know how people use the phrase uniparty whenever war is involved? So there's big differences between Democrats and Republicans on a lot of social domestic stuff, like trans and sports and DEI and stuff like that. But there's another level

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you know, a higher level where we're making decisions about where the military is going to be deployed and how many trillions of dollars we're going to spend bombing other countries. That is often referred to as the uniparty because no matter how much we disagree on domestic stuff, somebody, somebody powerful is apparently all on the same page, Republican and Democrat, when it comes to war.

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Possibly because they benefit from it. That would be my follow the money speculation. Maybe they're just true believers and they think that the US needs to project this kind of power in order to be successful. But I feel like it's far more likely that they're just part of an entity that supports each other and have ties to the military industrial complex

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and are wagging the dog in the United States and causing, at least causing from the background, more wars than we might have wanted. So we'll keep an eye on that. But maybe the nest of the Uniparty has been discovered. That would be kind of interesting. The CBO has estimated that by 2035, the U.S. debt could be $54 trillion. I think there's no chance of that. We would be dead long before that.

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If we get to a debt of $54 trillion in 2035, I don't think we can because I don't think we'd be able to finance that debt. I think everything would come crashing down. But apparently... That's their estimate, $54 trillion by 2035. There's no way we could survive that. So if it happens, good luck.

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There are reports that Elon Musk had shouting matches with Scott Besant, and that it happened in the White House and it was within... hearing distance of the president and other people, and it went on for a while, and I guess the F word was used, and some of it had to do with staffing decisions. But here's my take.

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I like Elon Musk, and I like the way he thinks, and I like Scott Besant, and I like the way he thinks. And then I doubly like the fact that they're so passionate that they would yell it out behind closed doors. And I don't mind at all that the word got out. Because if they had just simply agreed on everything, I'd wonder what's up.

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But this is sort of my perfect world when you've got two people that capable, that well-informed, and that connected to the world, and they have a shouting match. To me, that's not bad news at all. That's sort of like, you know, just what you'd want. You'd want people really, really caring, really, really smart. And if they disagree, they're not going to give up. They just go at each other.

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So I wouldn't be surprised. You're going to see Elon Musk's phasing out of his government doge work. I think some of that is because it was going to happen anyway. In May, I think his time was up. But I think that also it wasn't working because I think the government sort of maybe is open to anything new, like a doge person coming in and shaking things up.

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But in fairly quick order, they're going to want to have their own control. So I think Elon Musk was probably a little too dangerous. to have running around for too long in the government. So I think he did an amazing job and may have created a structure that can continue making things more efficient. and saving money, but it should be said that it never got close to the trillion dollars.

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And I think that's one of the things that Scott Besant was criticizing him for. And then Musk was allegedly criticizing Besant for being some kind of a Soros-related person, because I guess he worked with Soros at one point. So that's pretty exciting. But yeah, I would expect that Elon Musk will phase his time back to Tesla. And Tesla is at a really exciting time.

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Somebody actually took time and money to study that. Yes, yes. People who are getting laid are happier than people who are not getting laid, period. Now, sometimes it's cause. The cause and effect can go either way in that particular case. But yes, people who are having more sex, I can almost guarantee you, on average, are happier than people who are not having sex. So next time, just ask me.

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It's weird that their sales are down because of the political connection. But at the same time, their products... have never been this exciting. I mean, they're right in the edge of full auto taxi robots, you know, use your car for an Uber. This is just the best stuff we've ever seen in technology. This is like... The birth of the smartphone, the birth of the computer.

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So Tesla is really, really well set for, I don't know, just maybe decades of dominance in a few different areas. So it does make sense that Musk would turn his attentions back to work, as we all knew he would eventually. And I hope that the political stuff doesn't create too much of a drag on a great company.

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Well, according to China, the China Commerce Ministry says there have been no economic and trade negotiations between China and the U.S. So if you thought to yourself, well, maybe Trump hasn't talked to Chairman Xi, but surely there are discussions going on at lower levels. Nope. Apparently, there are not discussions going on at lower levels, according to China.

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But let's take a look at the implications of that. According to an article in Wired by Zeyi Yang, even though China is limiting U.S. access to critical minerals, it might not be as bad as you assumed. because we've all been told they need these critical rare earth materials to build all kinds of technology, from your phones to your robots to your electric cars and everything else.

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And that's true, but we're being reminded by this article that you could live without them. So, for example, your electric car could certainly operate without some of the rare earth materials, It might not last as long and there might be a feature or two that it can't do, but it'd still be an electric car.

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And apparently there are a number of examples that were, if you had to, you could just sort of make your product without some of those rare earth minerals. It's just that it wouldn't be as good, but you could still make it and it would still be commercial and people would still buy it.

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And then also, this is what I was wondering about, but apparently Belgium has emerged as a possible re-export hub, meaning that if people bought the rare earth minerals from China, China doesn't know where it goes after that. And that maybe some part of the European Union could be buying these rare earth materials. They'd have a closer connection to the United States than to China.

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And then the next thing you know, the United States has some rare earth minerals from China, but China doesn't know that we have it. Now, if all the countries that we sanction can pull this off, such as Iran, they still manage to get stuff, and I'm sure Russia still manages to get stuff. I feel like we can do the same thing.

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You don't think we could figure a way to smuggle in that rare earth stuff? The other thing I learned that I didn't know is that even though it's critical materials, we don't spend a lot. It's not like trillions of dollars or anything. It's like a fairly small amount of material, very important, but small in terms of quantity, but also small in terms of dollar amount.

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So one of the reasons that we don't have, you know,

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new mines and refineries popping up for these rare earth minerals is that all it would take according to this article in wired all it would take is one new factory or refinery for one of those minerals and it would create too much of the mineral so apparently the demand is critical because they're important but it's a small demand like it's not that many dollars and it's not that many pounds of material

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So if you built a new refinery, it would maybe crush the price for the one mineral and your business model wouldn't work. So that's interesting. I didn't know any of that. By the way, there might be workarounds for the rare earth minerals. We'll see. According to Ryan Peterson, who follows shipping, I think he's CEO of Flexport, or founder of, or both. But Flexport's in the shipping industry.

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And he says that in the three weeks since the tariffs took effect, The ocean container bookings from China to the U.S. are down 60% industry-wide. And he predicts we'll have mass shortages this summer as goods don't show up. And even if things got fixed, now it's going to take till summer to get the mass shortages. I don't know shortages for what specifically, but it's going to be a lot of stuff.

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A lot of companies sort of ordered extra in anticipation of shortages later. So once we work through the extra that people ordered, We're going to just run dry for some things. And again, I don't know which ones.

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You don't need to do that study. Just ask me. In other news of hilarious science, do you remember the claims that were all over social media that some group had used some wild technology that was looking under the pyramids and they found these vast columns suggesting an entire different civilization was at work for years before the pyramids? And as soon as I saw that, I said, no, that's not real.

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And then if we decided to suddenly ramp up, let's say the tariff stuff was all solved, if you solved it immediately, you would still have a problem that the ships had been used for other things and there wouldn't be enough ships to make up for the shortfall because everybody would be scrambling for the same materials.

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So we're going to have some pretty serious shortages, and maybe some of our factories will go idle and go out of business. So there's going to be some disruption, and the faster the China tariff situation gets solved, the better it will be. Now, we don't know yet, and I don't know, I guess, if this will hurt the United States more than it will hurt China.

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So, of course, the game here is that both will pretend, well, you can't hurt me. We can work with this. And each side will say, no, it's worse for you than it is for me. You'll crack. I don't know. Do you think China's going to crack? I think Trump is wise to be moderating his tone

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so that he's treating China as a respectful peer that we negotiate with and not somebody we're trying to walk all over. So we'll see. Apparently Trump has vetoed the idea of increasing taxes on rich people. There was an idea that the federal tax on people making over a million a year would go to something like 40%.

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But Trump says no, because if you raise taxes on the rich, they leave the country and you need the rich to pay taxes. Now, I'm not sure if that's the only reason or if he's just being a Republican and he doesn't want to raise taxes on anybody. But he called it very disruptive. So I guess we're probably not going to see taxes on the rich go up.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, and I don't know why this took so long, there's a new French study that showed that, sure enough, not only is it true that some of the additives in our food are bad for us and cause diabetes and whatnot, but if you combine them, it's extra bad. So what the new study is, is not looking at one additive, which is normally the way the studies work,

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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They would look at what happens if you have several of these additives in the same food. And apparently it's as bad as you think. So if you add together multiple additives in the same food, you've got a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes and God knows what. So the food industry, of course, defended it. And they say it's important for food safety and quality.

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But then you have to ask the question, if it's important for food safety and quality, Why isn't it important in Europe where a lot of this stuff's illegal? I guess they need to answer that question. Well, in other news related, RFK Jr. is apparently noodling on removing the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for children.

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Were you even aware that the CDC was still recommending COVID-19 vaccines for children? How many of you even knew that that was a thing? Well, here's the good news, and this is reported in Politico. Here's the good news. Apparently, only 13% of children have gotten that COVID shot. So most parents are pretty keyed in that young people don't really have a bad time with COVID.

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And there's no reason to add another risk on top of the COVID itself. So we don't know yet if Kennedy will actually pull that or get that reversed. But I feel like it's going to happen. If only 13% of people are getting it anyway, it wouldn't be that big of a shock to the system to say, okay, this is not recommended. You can get it if you want, but it's not recommended. Well, here's a surprise.

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See, my comments will be coming online. Come on. Technology is a little slow today. You can do it. All right, we'll get to that later, I guess. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and You've never had a better time.

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So Senator Fetterman was asked in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, and he said that we should bomb Iran's nuclear sites. And he says, quote, waste that shit. He said, quote, you're never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already.

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And now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that and to strike and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities. How do you feel about Fetterman now? Not so good, right? We were enjoying watching Fetterman agree with Republicans on a lot of stuff, at least the common sense stuff. But he seems pretty pro-Israel and pretty pro-war, at least in this particular context.

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And I have to say that his credibility just went to zero for me. Yeah. Do you feel comfortable with that? The Fetterman says, yeah, let's go. Stop negotiating. There's nothing. Now, I don't know that he's wrong in the sense that the negotiating might never work. We're dealing with somebody we can't negotiate with. Maybe. But I also think there's a non-zero possibility

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that Iran might think that for its own benefit, it doesn't need to be developing nuclear weapons because they would get bombed.

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Well, apparently today, according to the AFP, the scientists are saying it's a rubbish claim and there's no giant structures beneath the Egyptian pyramids. But apparently all the experts who are aware of the technology that they use to image onto the ground, pretty much all of them say that technology can't do that.

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So they might think we've got so many good missiles and so many good drones now, because apparently they're pretty good at making them, that militarily they would be better off using missiles and drones anyway, because they're not going to get nuked if they use non-nuclear weapons. So I don't know. I think only because... Missiles and drones are the new way of war.

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I think there might be an opening in which they would think it was to their own best interest to stop refining things to weapons grade in the nuclear domain. That's what I feel like. I don't think it's likely we'll find an agreement. I think he's right that the Iran regime has shown that they can't be trusted, etc., But it's a little worrying that he's so pro-war. Bomb him, bomb him.

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Yeah, I'm not comfortable with that at all. Meanwhile, economist Jeffrey Sachs is saying that Ukraine will have to agree to peace or continue without U.S. backing. Now, that's the same thing I said. I think it's kind of obvious at this point.

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He says, quote, one thing that I'm pretty much convinced of is that Trump will not go back to Congress for more appropriations to fund Ukraine's war or its military or whatever one wants to call it. I agree. So Trump did a big truth post about Zelensky, you know, not wanting to give up Crimea in order for a peace. And Trump explained in his post that, uh, Crimea is a major Russian submarine base.

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So he's explaining why that's not really in play. Apparently, it's mostly ethnic Russians. I don't know if Trump said that, but that's what I knew. So Crimea is mostly ethnic Russians. How much do they want to be in Ukraine? I don't know. I'm not sure if we can tell. But don't you think that the people who are mostly Russian, ethnic Russians, would be probably just as happy being part of Russia?

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Because it's not like Ukraine is the country where everything works well. It's the most corrupt country in the world. So, I don't know. The fact that they're mostly ethnic Russians suggests, to me anyway, and I'm no expert, I have not visited there, but it suggests to me that they probably would be happier with Russia control.

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And I guess Zelensky may have thought that he was being asked to recognize Crimea as Russian-owned, and Trump is telling him, nobody's asking you to do that. The United States might. The United States might agree to recognize Crimea as part of Russia, but he's not asking Ukraine to do it. So that's worth something. And he calls Zelensky the man with no cards to play.

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And he says he should close this deal right away. Yes, he should. Now, at the same time, I think last night, Russia bombed Kiev and killed several people. And it was a pretty bad attack. And Trump did a separate truth telling Vladimir, what the hell are you doing? Stop bombing Kiev. We're trying to work out a deal here. It was kind of weirdly personal, even though he did it in public.

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What are you doing? Stop bombing Kiev. We're so close to a deal. It's crazy. So we'll see if that works. According to Politico, all right, here's a test of your fake news nose sniffer. Let's see if you can spot the BS here. According to Politico, the White House is debating lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets and the Nord Stream. Now, that sounds believable, right?

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Even if there were giant columns under the pyramids, you couldn't see them with that technology. That definitely wouldn't work. So I could be wrong. Maybe there are giant pillars under the pyramids. But I'm going to claim, at least temporarily, I'm going to claim success in debunking that without doing any research at all. As soon as I saw that one, I thought, probably not. Probably not.

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Because there's negotiations about our interaction with Russia and our interaction with Ukraine. And you could imagine that Russia would ask for that sanctions to be lifted. So it wouldn't be a big surprise if the White House was debating whether they should do it or not. So that sounds like it could be true, right?

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Well, according to Marco Rubio, who would certainly know what's true or not in that domain, he said in a post, this is unequivocally false. But listen to the specificity of how he debunks it. It's a little too specific, right? Now, the report is that the, quote, White House is debating it. So that's the report. When he debunks it, he says this.

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Neither Steve Witkoff nor I have had any conversations about lifting sanctions against Russia as part of a deal with Ukraine. Huh. Well, that's not exactly what Politico said, is it? Politico said the White House. The White House is a lot of different people, you know, including the president. But in the debunking of it, Rubio says only two people. Steve Witkoff, and Rubio.

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Now, that might be 100% true, that neither he nor Witkoff have had any conversations about it. But does that mean there's nobody in the White House who's debating that? Hmm. It seems like his denial or his debunking is a little too specific. And he says, this is journalistic malpractice. If Politico has... An ounce of integrity, they'll retract this fiction. Okay.

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I'm going to say that that's the sort of thing you would expect people in the White House to be debating. But if what Rubio is saying is that the people who are critical to that question are not talking about it, it does mean something. So it's not nothing. But that's a very specific denial. that's usually a key that there's a little something left out.

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All right, according to the Daily Mail, I didn't even know this, but apparently China and Russia are getting quite cozy with their space programs. And now there are plans that China and Russia would build a nuclear power plant on the moon to power their mining and their their laboratories and God knows what else they put up there. Probably military stuff.

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But I'll tell you, if you didn't think there was going to be a war in space, I hate to tell you there's going to be war in space. War in space feels just guaranteed. It might start small with somebody takes out a satellite or somebody tries to knock out somebody's power plant and they're you know, the moon base or something like that.

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But I feel like space war is just guaranteed, you know, just because of human nature. So maybe. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I needed to talk about today. I will tell you that people have been prodding me on X to say bad things about Israel. And people are saying to me, Scott, when have you ever said anything bad about Israel?

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And I'm going to remind you that what's the difference what my opinion is of Israel? Can anybody give me a reason why anybody would care about my opinion of Israel? It's not my country.

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it's not my country at all but what i will note and i've noted this before is that the people who seem to be debating it are debating it on the ethical and moral level like who's who's the most immoral who's doing the most unethical things to which i say none of that is relevant somebody's opinion of what is moral or ethical

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Here's another one. The science is also stupid today. According to the Daily Mail, the Vatican has, in its documents, in secret archives, it has secret links to UFOs. And some researchers now believe that the Holy See could be sitting on the biggest secret of all, proof of extraterrestrial life. Do you think the Vatican has proof of extraterrestrial life and they've been keeping it from us?

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I'm not even sure that's a variable that has anything to do with anything. Because countries do what's good for countries. And, you know, as soon as you get into people are dying, it all looks immoral. It all looks unethical. And if you say to me, but Israel had a good reason because of October 7th, then I say to you, sure. If I were Israel, I would make the same claim.

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It would be a strong claim. And I would use that opportunity to do the things that I wanted to do, but couldn't do before, which is improve security. And in this case, it looks like trying to destroy Hamas completely. And then I saw some people say, all right, imagine this thought experiment. If Israel decided to lay down all of its arms and not fight, what would Hamas do?

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And then, of course, the answer is Hamas would kill everybody in Israel. And then the question would be, but if Hamas laid down their arms... what would be the response? And of course, everybody says, oh, Israel would just accept the peace, and then everybody would live in peace. So therefore, Hamas is the bad one.

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But again, that gets into the sort of ethical, moral dimension, which I don't have any interest in whatsoever. What I see is a power play. And whoever's in power is going to execute based on their national interest and what their power can get them.

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And so when I watch a country doing something that's clearly in their best interest, which is what Israel is doing, clearly they're operating in their own best interest. It's hard for me to criticize that because if the situation were, I want to say reversed, but if the United States were in that same situation, we would do whatever's good for the United States. And it might be absolutely brutal.

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And whoever's on the receiving end of it wouldn't like it at all. But I think the most, I hate to say, the most normal thing in the world is is that the people with the power will pursue their national interest in ways that other people aren't going to like at all. And, you know, most countries are founded on the backs of somebody who got conquered anyway. You know, that's the most normal thing.

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So I was trying to think of some story or analogy that would explain it the best. And so I'm going to try one. even though analogies are not part of reason. We'll see if this gets anywhere. If somebody said to me, Scott, the only way you could save your life is to kill a thousand babies, what do you choose? Well, I'd like to think, you know, it's easy for me to say since it's hypothetical.

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I'd like to think, I would say, oh man, I'd hate to die, but I don't want to kill a thousand babies. That would be immoral and ethical. No, I can't do that. I will sacrifice myself for the thousand babies. Wouldn't you? I think you'd agree with that, right? I mean, it would be tough to be in this situation, but at least in an ideal situation, I would choose the thousand babies over me.

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Now let's modify that a little bit. And somebody says, Scott, The only way you can save your entire country, the United States, every single person is going to die unless you kill a thousand babies. What do I do then? It's just as immoral, right? It's just as unethical. It's just as evil to kill a thousand babies.

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But in that case, because self-defense is invulnerable to morality and ethics, really, if the self-defense is big enough, you're saving an entire country, which would include saving a lot more babies than you would kill. I would say, where are those babies and when can I get started? Because saving the country would be a bigger priority than saving a thousand babies.

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So the thing I would add to the conversation is, if Israel is doing something to you that looks like killing a thousand babies, but their alternative looks to them, and they're the only ones who get to decide, it looks to them like they could lose their entire country to a rising force that wants to kill every one of them, then it's sort of none of my business. They get to make that decision.

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Everybody gets to decide what your own self-defense looks like. And other people don't get to tell them that was unethical or that was immoral or we wish you hadn't done it. I mean, we could move our lips, but it's not really part of the decision. So when I look at Israel doing some pretty brutal stuff with Gaza, I don't say to myself, is it ethical or moral? I say to myself, is it self-defense?

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And if it's self-defense, or they reasonably believe it's self-defense, I don't even have to be the judge of whether it is. If they reasonably believe it's self-defense... It's not really a moral or ethical question. It's self-defense. And I do think they have an argument that it's self-defense.

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And it wasn't, I don't think it's Israel's fault that Hamas wraps itself around the civilian population. It does make it a gigantic tragedy. So I'm not devaluing the horror of it. You can still say the horror is a 10, 10 and a 10. Okay.

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But in the real world, when people have a self-defense motivation and they've got one shot, and October 7th made it possible for Israel to take its one shot, don't be surprised if they take it. But here's the important thing. If you thought that I just gave you an opinion on Israel, it was the opposite. All I did is describe the world.

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I'm going to say nope. Nope. Not unless that alien life is under those pyramids. I'm going to say no on that. All right, here's one that is real. According to Elon Musk, you're a Tesla. Tesla. will soon be a robo-taxi if you want.

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I didn't give you an opinion on Israel because my opinion on Israel is completely irrelevant. Israel will do what's good for Israel because they have the power to do so. If Hamas had the power, They would do what Hamas wants and it would be pretty brutal. And my opinion wouldn't matter to that either.

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So stop trying to drag me into it because it's really just a fucked up way to find a way to criticize public figures. So I'm not in this fight. I care what's good for America and I care about America's self-defense and America's well-being. Israel's on its own. If you ask me, should we pay for it? I'd say no, because that's not my best interest.

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So just keep me out of the Israel Hamas thing, because my opinion of what's ethical or moral has nothing to do with anything. It's a power play. It's a self-defense play. It's a national interest play. And the people who have the power are going to get what they want. And that's just the way the world works. And that's an observation. Not an opinion. You don't need my opinion.

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It has no value here whatsoever. All right. So I just wanted to clarify that because people have been asking me on X. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say some stuff privately to the locals subscribers and the rest of you. Thanks for joining. Come back tomorrow. Same time, same place. And locals come at you in 30 seconds.

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Now, what I think that means is you can just park your Tesla outside your garage, and then if somebody has an app... Now, this isn't functional yet, but it's all developed and looks like it'll roll out pretty soon. You could just call up a self-driving Tesla, and it will just pull out of your driveway and go pick somebody up and make some money while you're sleeping.

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How many of you would let strangers use your car? I feel like it would be creepy to know that other people were in your car doing God knows what because there's no driver there. But it would be like Uber but without the driver. What's the worst thing about an Uber? Uber. It's the driver. The worst thing about an Uber is the driver.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Spectacular. All right, everybody. Let's check in with the world of science and see if there's any scientific studies that they could have skipped just by asking Scott. Oh, here's one.

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Because if you're, let's say, young or you're female, you have to worry about the driver being dangerous. If you're male, you have to worry about the driver playing the radio or making a phone call or being really annoying and trying to talk to you the whole time. So there's nothing worse about Uber than the driver. There's also the thing where the driver will

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start to come to you, and then for reasons you don't understand, they cancel or they change their mind. That's not the technology doing that. That's the driver. So if you can get rid of the driver, and Tesla could be like Uber and all the other ways, yeah, that'd be pretty good. Speaking of Tesla, I saw this on Barrio, an awful summary. I guess the source is Teslarati.

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But did you know that every Model 3 and Model Y that's delivered in the United States uses batteries that are 100% made in America? Did you think we could even do that? I didn't even know that America could make that many batteries. But apparently, Tesla has been able to make all of its batteries completely in America for some time now. So that's interesting to know.

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And according to a post I saw on X by Nick Cruz-Patane, he says that Tesla vehicles share the same batteries, cameras, and computers as the Optimus robots will. So I think I could have guessed that. That it would be the same AI and you know, computers, and why wouldn't they use the same batteries, you know, the smaller versions?

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So, yeah, you're going to have robots and self-driving cars, and it's all coming quickly. In other news, Washington Post is reporting that Trump has ordered that schools develop some kind of AI training for American kids. I guess China's already doing this. China is forcing, forcing. Kids in China at the youngest age have to learn AI. And now Trump's trying to catch up.

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And he's going to put crypto billionaire David Sachs. That's one way to describe him. I wouldn't describe him as a crypto billionaire. That feels dismissive. But David Sachs will be involved in that. And the executive order will force schools to train students and teachers in artificial intelligence. That seems like a really wise thing to do.

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And I think Trump also signed an executive order to get more trade training to young people as well. That could be good. In other news, Paramount, that's the, I guess they own CBS, they settled a discrimination suit over DEI policies. There was a specific white man who couldn't get a job within that entity, within CBS, because he was told directly that he didn't check any boxes for DEI.

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So even though he was highly qualified and experienced, he just couldn't get a job at CBS as a writer. They just needed more DEI. So America First Legal, took that case and pressed it and apparently succeeded. So I don't know if there's a financial settlement, but the company, Paramount and CBS, they decided to publicly back away from all the DEI stuff. So that's good.

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So only one million companies to go. I remember when I got canceled. And I told my story about how back in the 80s and 90s, it was almost impossible to get promoted if you were a white man in San Francisco. And I remember, I think it was an editor, a black editor in Chicago, who challenged me on X and said, there's no evidence of that. You're making that up. And I thought, making it up?

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If you want to find out if it's true, that in the 80s and 90s, a white man couldn't get promoted as long as there was anybody who wasn't a white man who also wanted the job. You could just walk outside and just go up to any white man, if they're 50 years old or older, and just tap them on the shoulder and say, hey, were you ever discriminated against for being a white man?

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They would have all said yes. You've got something like probably 30 to 50 million witnesses. And yet there was an educated, successful, professional black man in Chicago who had no idea, no idea that that existed. Do you know why? Because if you even mentioned it, you would get canceled. You couldn't even mention it. So now that I don't have to worry about having a boss, I can mention it.

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According to UCL Political Science, female lobbyists are more likely to gain access to meetings with policy makers. Did they really have to study that to find out that female lobbyists can get meetings with policymakers more easily? Apparently even with female policymakers, but I would have known that too. Let me tell you about my career day when I was a senior in college.

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But imagine what a surprise that would be to have lived your whole life without knowing that white men were being the ones most discriminated against, at least in corporate America. I think small businesses probably were the opposite. I don't know for sure. But in the big businesses, yes, it was anti-white men since at least the mid-'80s.

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And quite severely so, you know, not slightly, but it was the main texture of the employment market. So one million companies to go. Trump also signed an executive order requiring universities to disclose their foreign funding. Now, that seems like a good idea, doesn't it?

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You know, I never realized how vulnerable the United States was to all the, you know, the clever ways that we could be influenced and infiltrated until I saw what George Soros could do with prosecutors. It's like, holy cow, he doesn't have to spend much money and then he gets all these local prosecutors and then they can do all kinds of evil.

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But apparently the same problem existed with colleges and universities because they took money from China and other places and there would be influence. So yes, we should know who's influencing our colleges and universities. That seems like a good idea. According to Jerry Dunleavy, who was writing for just the news.

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There's new unredacted documents about Hunter Biden's search warrants that details payments he received from Ukraine and China and I guess some other places like Romania.

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and elsewhere around the globe so we have actual documents showing hunter biden getting money from these other countries uh i'm pretty sure that some of this was while his father was vice president and i guess the irs and the fbi was fully aware that he was receiving this money from foreign sources But there were no investigations. There were no arrests, no nothing.

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So apparently, our major government entities, they're supposed to keep people on the right side of the law. They just saw this Biden crime family situation and said, we're not going to touch this. So apparently that the Biden crime family was exactly what you thought it was. They were taking money from other countries and selling their influence, or at least the impression of influence.

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I'm not sure how much influence they actually sold. Well, I'm loving this. I'm loving how the Maryland dad who may or may not be MS-13 story is developing because it couldn't be more fun, even though it's terrible.

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So there is no free will. If you're an NPC and you'd like to argue this, let me tell you how. The way you could argue in favor of free will existing is you just replace words with your own personal definition. So if you want to argue, here's what you'd say. to maintain your illusion of free will. You'd say something like, but I choose what I do. That's free will?

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No, that's just putting a different word for another word. That's not anything. Or somebody said to me in the comments, we have discipline when it is hard. No, again, that's just a word. You have discipline? You mean you just replaced free will with discipline? No, that's not anything. That's just changing a word.

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Or somebody else said that Scott can believe what he wishes because he has free will. So I can do what I wish, which means I have free will because you just changed the definition of free will to believe in what I wish. Yeah, we're not going to get into this. Well, today apparently Trump will be addressing the World Economic Forum by Zoom or something.

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And the thing about the Trump era, the golden age, is that I would literally buy a ticket for that. If you told me, Scott, you have to pay $10 to watch a 10-minute video of Trump addressing the World Economic Forum, we don't even know what he's going to say. No idea what he's going to say. Would you pay $10 to watch 10 minutes of Trump talking to the World Economic Forum? Yes. Yes, I would.

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Would you pay $10 to watch one of the movies that recently was nominated for an Academy Award? No. What? I'll pay for the part before somebody's tied to a chair. Oh, you know what would be fun? If there's somebody who, by some weird chance, if you've watched all of the movies that are nominated for Academy Award, can you tell me what percentage of them have somebody tied to a chair? It could be.

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It could be the answer is none. I'll bet it's not. But if the answer is none, maybe that's how you win an Academy Award. It's like, okay, I'm writing it in. And then he's tied to a chair. Wait a minute. What if he's not tied to a chair? Let's see you know you're nominated for the Academy Award. Hey, he wasn't even tied to a chair. Academy Award. Anyway, CNN is devolving into a podcast.

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So reportedly their CEO, Mark Thompson, he plans to do mass layoffs, as you know, But apparently, reportedly, I wasn't at the meeting, so again, I'll use the same standard. If this story were about Trump, I would warn you it's probably not true. Because there's no source, right? It's just somebody was at a meeting. Were they? Were they at that meeting? We don't know.

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So recreationally, just for fun, I'm going to treat it like it's true.

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And the story is that there was a meeting in which the CEO of CNN told Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid prejudging Trump and stop talking about the past and all the law affairs stuff and calling him a felon and all that stuff and just talk about what the future looks like and what he's doing at the moment. What do you think about that?

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It's up 172% since I told you about it. Anyway, all right, let's talk about some of the news. You ready for this? Let's try for the fourth time in a row to push one freaking button. Okay, I'm going to use my finger, which I know is a human finger. I'm positive I'm still alive. And I'm going to push the button, which I've pushed now five fucking times once it worked. All right, careful, careful.

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It does look like there is some change. It does look like the hosts of CNN are intentionally, and I give them credit for this, most of them seem to be finding some kind of middle ground. However, they're still doing the thing where they invite idiots on the show. If they're inviting idiots on the show and they give them lots of time, It's the same CNN.

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So, you know, at the same time I'm reading this about they're not going to be, you know, full of TDS, I see a clip of Scott Jennings have to show down a salute truther. So they have one of these guests on who starts with saying that, well, you know, Elon did that ambiguous raising his hand. Oh, my God, that was close. I don't know if you noticed, but inadvertently,

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I allowed one of my hands to be higher than my waist. And you can't do that when Trump's in office. As soon as it gets up here, they're like, is that a Hillary? No, no, I was just reaching for something. I was over, Hillary, no, no, I was just reaching for something. I just wanted to turn on my lamp. The lamp was all, no, no, no, no, no. So you get a little jumpy.

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But they had some guests I hadn't seen before, I don't know her name, who talked about Musk was overshadowing Trump. And he was doing that arm salute. Now, what do you think the CEO of CNN was thinking when the guest came on and started talking about the fake news of the arm salute and the fake news that Musk is going to overshadow Trump and trying to drive a wedge?

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That feels like exactly what the CEO said, stop doing. So if the host stopped doing it, but then they introduce somebody who does it and they do that every day, which is exactly what's happening. Nothing really helped. It seems like it's all the same. So anyway, Scott Jennings calls it the salute truthers, which is pretty good. Um,

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Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to Elon Musk's defense about that fake salute thing and he said Elon Musk was being falsely smeared and Elon is a great friend of Israel and all true, all true. And I'm trying to figure out how can I get Netanyahu to do this for me? Can Netanyahu do this for me? It would be great. I'd like him to say that the ADL is not right when they smeared me.

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That would be great. So, Bibi, and that's the reason that I don't support Israel, because they don't support me. But they do support Elon, so I can see why he would support them. Otherwise, I just observe. I'll just be an observer, but I can't be a supporter because they don't support me. Got to have reciprocity. Got to have reciprocity. Without reciprocity, nothing works, right?

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So a little reciprocity and then we're in good shape. The Sam Altman story is just getting more and more interesting. So I was unaware until Mike Cernovich found Altman's old posts and started putting them on X. I didn't realize that Sam was not just anti-Trump, But he was really involved in being anti-Trump in 2016 and 2020, apparently.

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So some of his posts, which I'd never seen then, because he was less prominent then, so there's no reason I would have noticed. So this is actually a Sam Altman post back when it was Twitter on December 21st, or I'm sorry, December in 2021.

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So in 2021, so this is after Trump lost the re-election, Sam Altman said, very few people realize just how much Reid Hoffman did and spent to stop Trump from getting re-elected. It seems likely to me that Trump would still be in office without his efforts. Thank you, Reid.

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And then Paul Graham had said in 2016, so this was just a month or so before the 2016 election in October, he said, few have done more than Sam Altman to defeat Trump. So according to the people who know the most and are the insiders, Sam Altman was one of the primary people for defeating Trump in 2020. And one of the primary ones with Reid Hoffman. tried to keep him out of office in 2016.

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Did you know that? That's kind of interesting. And Altman himself said on one of these, I think responding to Paul Graham, he said, I've spent all of my free time and done less work than I should have on various projects and a lot of money. The various projects in the context of stopping Trump. How many various projects was he involved in? And how many of them were totally legitimate?

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Push the icon. Yes. Yes. I pushed a button and it did what it was supposed to. First time today. All right. Did you know there's a breakthrough in fusion? Nobody cares. General Atomics. They figured out how to get 20% higher than the Greenwald limit. The Greenwald limit, which you all know about, of course. It's some kind of limit that the fusion people needed to get past, and they got past it.

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I don't know. But now, more recently, especially because he's sort of trying to work with Trump, which is necessary for all the tech leaders who are going to have to work with him. Now he said, I don't have his exact words, but Altman basically said, that now he's had a chance to see Trump more objectively and he doesn't have his old views.

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And he explained why he was so wrong before by calling himself an NPC. So a non-player character, somebody who doesn't think before they act, just goes along with the crowd. Do you think that explains it? Do you think that

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One of the smartest, most capable people in the entire country was an NPC and spent all of his time and all of his money without realizing they had been hypnotized by the television. Now, your first instinct is there's no way, right? Common sense. Common sense says you can't be that smart and have acted that seemingly NPC-like for eight years or whatever it was.

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And then suddenly you wake up and now you see the error of your ways. That doesn't seem real, does it? All right. So all of your common sense says that doesn't seem like a real change. You must be pretending now because it's less likely you were pretending then because you put years of work, years of work and massive amounts of money before. So that looked real.

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And then suddenly you do one post where you're like, oh, sorry, I was an NPC. Didn't mean it. And then we're supposed to believe it. Here's the hard part. That's normal. That's completely normal. If you think there's no way that could be true, because you could be that smart and that dumb at the same time. Yeah, you can. Totally normal.

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If you were to look at the IQs of all the people suffering from TDS and you compared it to the IQs of the people not suffering from it, the sufferers are probably higher because they're more likely to have gone to college where they got hypnotized. So IQ is actually not opposite of being fooled. High IQ and high likelihood of being fooled kind of travel together.

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And we have seen genuine cases where people who had that much TDS, or at least were in the TDS world, were in fact deprogrammed. I know because I deprogrammed some of them. Or at least I was part of the process. And the fine people hoax did in fact, no doubt about it, reprogram people who were brilliant. and they didn't know they were acting like NPCs.

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So the first filter I'm going to put on this is that this is entirely possible. Now, I can almost hear Mike Cernovich yelling at me, you fucking idiot. He's just pretending for money. I agree with that. I agree with that. My current best take is that he might see that he wasn't entirely right before, but he's seemingly transactional. He's got a fiduciary responsibility to the company.

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Did you just disappear? When I tap my papers, did the picture just disappear? Because it threw me out of the app. How could everything go wrong? How is that even possible? All I did was this. I won't do it again. And it turned off the app. This is so beyond, this is so beyond possible. I mean, we're into some statistical impossible situation here.

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If he didn't at least pretend to have become pro-Trump, if he hadn't at least pretended, well, he wouldn't be doing his job. He has billions of dollars personally at stake in keeping OpenAI a functioning, successful company. So now, if somebody has billions of dollars at stake for having the right opinion, they're going to be on that opinion.

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So there's nothing about his current opinion that tells us anything about what he's thinking. Can't tell what he's thinking. But if you want to say to yourself, I think the old Sam was the real one, I think that's reasonable. But don't rule out that no matter how brilliant you are and how committed you are, you could realize later that you were hypnotized. Because a lot of people did.

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If we didn't have a whole bunch of people who said, honestly, And they don't say this about themselves, but they could. They could say, but don't, I'm really, really smart, and I was totally fooled by that. But lots of people are essentially saying that. So if lots of people who are as smart as Sam Altman are saying, I got totally fooled, and we believe them, I believe Bill Ackerman, for example.

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I believe he was genuinely fooled, but he's also genuinely brilliant. How do you explain that? Because it's normal. It's completely normal. Being able to be free from persuasion is a specific skill. It's not a general intelligence thing at all. In fact, general intelligence works against you. You're easier to fool.

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Dumb people are harder to fool sometimes because they'll say, hey, you smarty pants, looks like you're trying to pull something on me. Well, why do you say that? I don't know. I just don't trust you. But what do you see that's tipping you off? Don't need to see anything, I just don't trust you. And you're gonna be right. So the low IQ person who says, I just don't trust you, ends up being right.

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And the smart person says, hmm, let's look at all the facts and the details by reading the New York Times, but I'll cross-check it with the CNN to make sure that one and the other, they both got it right. Oh, it looks like they agree. I guess that's true. So now I'll act like Trump is Hitler, because the CNN and the... You know, being smart isn't helping you.

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It was considered difficult or impossible. But they did, and they've also figured out to stabilize the plasma. Now, the thing with the fusion is it might be another 20 years of, there's another breakthrough. without actually anything breaking through. But once it gets serious, it's all going to happen at once.

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It just is a different skill than understanding persuasion so you see the mechanism. You have to be able to see the machine. If you can't see the mechanisms of the machine, the machine owns you. But once you learn enough about how it's done, such as learning how a Rupar is done, learning how incentives work, etc.

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Once you realize how the machine works, then it just sort of materializes in front of you. And when a new hoax comes out, you go, oh, that just came out of that hoax machine. And then you're immune. But you've got to see it all. Common sense doesn't get you anywhere on that topic. And I didn't know that Reid Hoffman and Sam were so close and worked together on this.

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But I don't know what's going on with Reid Hoffman. Someday we'll find out, I think. New York Times had an opinion piece today. I think it was an opinion piece. Hard to tell these days. The title was, How Labeling Cartels Terrorists Could Hurt the U.S. Economy. All right. How many of you knew that the biggest shareholder in the New York Times is also the richest man in Mexico.

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And what they're talking about here is that the cartels are embedded in all of the industries of Mexico. It's not just the drug industry, but they're embedded with the agriculture and everything else. So it could take down the whole economy in Mexico, not just the drug selling part of the economy.

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Now, to be fair, being the largest shareholder is only 17%, and he doesn't have a controlling interest that still belongs with the family. So the family is making all the decisions. But I simply point out that wouldn't it have been nice to know that the biggest shareholder for the people who wrote this article is the richest guy in Mexico who, I'm guessing,

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has business interests that sort of have some cartel embedded with them. So you never know. You just have to be aware of who's who. Apparently, ICE is going to call the non-residents aliens from now on. Remember how that became like a dirty word? Don't call them aliens. They're just undocumented. I've never been too worked up about what name we use for them.

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And I have to agree that alien sounds more like something you want to get rid of than undocumented does. And the names matter. So I don't love that aliens has been reintroduced, but I wouldn't mind if all the words are reintroduced, meaning that it just doesn't matter what you use. That seems healthy. You shouldn't get mad if somebody says aliens.

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You shouldn't be happy if they call them undocumented. If we're talking about the same thing, it's just words. Well, my prediction of the JFK files, which, as you know, Mike Pompeo had talked Trump out of revealing all of them last time. According to Mike Pompeo, there's nothing in there interesting anyway, but there are some secrets.

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So nothing that we would learn that's big and shocking, but still a few secrets, even 60 years old, because he points out that if somebody was in their 20s then, they could still be alive in their 80s. But he was just using that as an example. He didn't say that's the reason.

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Now, isn't it weird that fusion is coming, which would lower the cost of energy to zero over time? At exactly the time, we need cheap energy and relief from inflation. Have you noticed that we have a number of timing things happening that are weird, meaning that all right, we're heading toward doom with our debt and our expenses and nobody can live.

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He thinks 99% of it's already available and that what little there is left in the JFK file isn't really going to change anybody's mind about anything. Here's what I think. Given that we widely assume the government itself was involved in killing JFK, the question I would ask is,

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Do you think the government that killed JFK, and then if it was, let's say, CIA-related or Dulles-related, do you think they would have left a memo on that? Do you think there would have been a memo that you could find in the files, as in, here's a memo, go kill JFK, and make sure you keep this memo secret? No, there's not going to be something in the file if our own government killed him.

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If our own government killed JFK, which is exactly what it looks like happened, they're not going to keep the memo. I mean, even in the wildest imagination, did somebody ever wrote a memo and put that in writing? If they ever put it in writing, which is ridiculously unlikely, they certainly would have lost it by now, if you know what I mean. Lost it. Lost in the fire. Misplaced.

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So no, there isn't really any chance there's something in the JFK file. Unless the JFK file says that the space aliens did it. What are you going to learn? There couldn't possibly be any secrets in there.

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All these secrets about who did it there can't possibly be Anyway, so old my breath for that stuff as you know the Trump administration is doing a lot of firing and The funniest part is the DEI Professionals are trying to avoid being fired because all the DEI people are gonna get fired by changing the name of their job and

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So we're seeing some examples of the director of DEI quickly changing their names on the website to executive, you know, just generic executive. But I watched one young black man who worked for the government, I forget which agency, he was sort of proudly crowing,

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that he was moving from his job as a professional in charge of DEI to something that sounded exactly like DEI but used different words. And he announced it in public at about the same time that the Trump administration was putting in a clarifying order that says, if all you do is change your name, we're going to fire you.

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And so they asked people to turn people in who were just changing the names and still doing DEI. And like 10 minutes later, he updated his post on X from, hey, everybody, I got this new job to, I've been laid off. That's right.

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He bragged about his new job, which was just different letters for his old job, at the same time that the word went out, fire anybody who changes jobs and keeps doing TEI but changes the name of the job. So got him. Anyway, so there's lots of happening. I guess the ICE raids are happening now. We're not seeing gigantic video and stuff.

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So one of the things the ICE people are apparently doing right, and obviously they would do this, is they're not announcing where they're going to attack so they don't have cameras. So we're not seeing a lot of video of their picking up the people that were on the list of the bad people. Um, and that's good. Um, Oh, all new hires in the government got their offers rescinded. Interesting.

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But at the same time, if fusion were a little bit faster, it would save us. But it might just be late by 20 years. I mean, if you look at the history of humankind, missing it by 20 years, that would be the slightest, slightest miss. But we have other timing, too.

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All right. Um, apparently Trump has already sent 1500, uh, military troops down to the border. I don't know if all 1500 are there yet. It started with 500, but it's targeting 1500. And they're reinforcing the wall and building outposts to help them monitor any illegal entries.

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I thought I saw in a separate report that they had orders to shoot, basically orders that they could use deadly force whenever it made sense. Now, those are my words, but is that confirmed? that they have the permission to fire at the border if they need to. We're talking defensively. Yeah. Well, that's very Trumpian and probably a good idea.

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Meanwhile, according to Just the News, Trump is announcing emergency price relief for cost of living crisis. Now, that doesn't mean, if this were a Democrat thing, it would mean that they put price gaps on things, but that's not what Republicans do, because it's dumb and it doesn't work. Haven't done that since Nixon, and that didn't work out, so they learned a lesson. But here's what he is doing.

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So you decide if these actions will cause prices to come down, all right? He's ordering all federal agencies to untangle the American economy from Biden constraints. Now, what are those constraints? Well, he's going to eliminate climate policies that generally are going to increase the cost of everything, that make food and fuel costs go up.

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So in the short run, if companies get rid of their climate expenses, I think they would just bank it. and just keep it as profit. I don't think they would immediately lower the prices, but they might. So long term, you should lower prices. Short term, the companies will just take an extra profit. He wants to eliminate rent-seeking practices.

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Now, that's not a phrase that most people know what it means, rent-seeking. That's sort of a political insult that even I forget what it means. I always see it and I go, can't you use real, regular, ordinary words? There's something to rent-seeking that has its own meaning. So that's useless communication. So my advice to the people communicating on the Trump team, don't use rent-seeking.

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99% of the public has no idea what you're talking about. They think it means rent. It has nothing to do with the rent. And he wants to, let's see, get rid of administration, administrative expenses and driving up healthcare costs. Lower housing costs and increase the housing supply, create employment opportunities for American workers.

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Well, that rent seeking, that phrase rent seeking is doing a lot of work. I think it means just, people getting a job in some grifty kind of thing that didn't need to happen in the first place. So rent seeking, meaning trying to get paid, as opposed to trying to make anything better. Is that a good definition?

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Rent seeking would be just somebody says, well, if I become the head of DEI, I'll get a big paycheck, as opposed to somebody saying, do we need a head of DEI? Why are we even doing that? I think it's close to that. Anyway, so Trump is halting gain of function research, the kind that got us in trouble. Gain of function on the viruses, he wants to halt that.

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So, you know, the AI people at OpenAI think that we're on the verge of being able to solve all of our cancers and diseases because AI will figure out some pattern recognition and figure out how to do it. What about the people who have terminal cancer this year? They might miss the cure for all cancers by a month. Now,

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But I wonder about why do we call it gain of function? Isn't it weaponization? Or are we pretending that we're only seeking to understand how someone else could weaponize it so we can treat it? Oh, here's the definition of rent-seeking. Rent-seeking, when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. Okay, so my definition was not exactly right.

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Not really. So I've got something on the screen that I can't make go away, which means I can't see you. I don't know if you can see me. Really? Come on. There should be somewhere on this screen a little X or something to tell me how to turn this off. Really? Can you even see me? I can't see your comments.

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I've got a blank screen with one image that I clicked on and no indication of any kind of a way to turn it off so I can see you. No, it wasn't that. Wasn't that clicking anywhere doesn't do it. Oh my God. I'm going to have to get out of this and get back in just because I clicked on an image. Holy hell. Can't make it go up. Okay. It turns out that dragging it worked. Another interface fail.

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Well, I'm glad you could see me anyway. So gain of function sounds like weaponization to me. Marco Rubio is off to Panama, getting started fast. But not just Panama. He's going to El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, et cetera. So he's going to talk to Panama. I'm sure that won't go well in the first conversation. But there is a story about how the Panama Canal got started.

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that I told in the man cave, but I'll tell now. The story is, and this is wild. There's a YouTube video on it. You could just go to YouTube and look for Panama Canal and French engineer. So before the United States got involved in the Panama Canal, I'll try to tell the story quickly. the French were trying to build it in the same place.

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But the French found out that every time they dug something, it rained and then the mud just fell back in the trench. So they just gave up. So the French left, but there was one engineer who was a French engineer who decided to stay to see if he could get something going. So one engineer, just one, decides to... He decides to convince Panama, which at the time was not its own country.

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It was an extension of Colombia. So Colombia kind of extended along the little peninsula there, or along whatever that is. And so he talks to the Panamanians. who are more like an area than a country, he said, hey, the Colombians that own you are like ignoring you and you're not getting your value for being part of the country. You should be independent.

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And the Panamanians are like, yeah, yeah, we should be independent. How about that? And then he says, if you make me your ambassador, now keep in mind, he's not Panamanian. He's a French citizen. And he convinced the Panamanians, if you make me your ambassador, I'll get you independence. And they probably didn't think it was serious anyway. So they're like, sure. Yeah, you're our ambassador.

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Go get us some independence. So he goes to Colombia and says, hey, Panama wants independence. How about that? And Colombia said, get out of here. Because of course that's ridiculous. So he goes back and then he goes to the United States and this is during Teddy Roosevelt's time. Now Teddy liked to take over some stuff. So he was kind of expanding the empire.

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So he was already mentally on the same page. If we can grab something, we'll grab it. As he had already done. And somehow... The French engineer convinces them that he's speaking for Panama and that they're going to go independent and it would be really helpful if the American Navy was parked outside nearby and acted like they were in favor of this independence.

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It's bad enough that you have to die from cancer at all, but think how dumb you would feel if you died a month before all cancer is cured. That's going to happen. It's like somebody's family member is going to die a month before all cancer is cured. I don't know if that's a year from now, but that's what the AI people say. It could be a year from now.

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thinking maybe we can get some kind of very low-cost, conquer some territory here. So the American Navy sits out there waiting. Colombia knows about it. And then the ambassador of Panama declares independence. And the Colombians are like, hey, you can't. Oh, maybe you can't. Well, we don't care about you that much. Okay, you're independent.

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So they gained their independence with no fighting because a French guy wanted to build a canal. And he wanted America to be the builder of it with his help. So then he says, all right, we got a deal.

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So then the ambassador, who is the French engineer, he comes up with a, I guess it would be a treaty or a deal with the United States that the United States could have control of the Panama Canal in return for building it. They'd have to build it, but they'd have control of it. So the Americans say, hey, that's great. And they come and they sign the deal.

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And then they pull up to take control of the canal. And the Panamanians say, what are you doing here? And the Americans say, well, because of the deal. We signed a deal. So Panama gave us this. And the Panamanians said, what deal? The only person who even knew about it was the ambassador who was not even Panamanian. So not only did the French engineer create a new country out of nothing.

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But then he made a deal with the United States, the biggest thing that ever happened in Panama, on his own without telling Panama. So the United States comes, realizes they don't really have any standing, but they have this big military. So they just took the canal. Because they knew that Panama couldn't stand up to the American military.

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They knew that they had some cover story of this ridiculous deal with the Panamanian guy. So they just, it was just Teddy Roosevelt situation. He's like, oh, I guess it's ours now. And sure enough, it was. So, and then the Panamanian engineer had some ideas on how to build it that the French didn't like.

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So his ideas on how to build it were adopted by the Americans because it looked like a good idea and it worked. And they built the Panama Canal. Now, have you ever heard that story? I think it's true. I mean, it was an extensive documentary on YouTube. But I think it's true. It's a wonderful story. Again, if you don't think one person can change the world, well, there's a big example.

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Now, the other context is that Teddy Roosevelt knew that for America to be the dominant maritime power, that we needed to connect our two oceans. Because if you can't get assets from one side of the country to the other without going around South America, you're not really the naval power that you need to be.

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So the Panama Canal had a lot to do with projecting American power, and that's why Teddy Roosevelt was okay to play a little fast and loose with that. Anyway, I'm going to make an observation I've made before, but I'm going to give you some more details. Have you noticed that Democrats have what I call a rate problem? A rate problem. Let me explain.

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Meanwhile, NASA is testing a nuclear propulsion to go to Mars in 45 days. So currently it's six months. I think that would lower from six months to 45 days. That would be a pretty big deal. And then, um, what else? Oh, I saw a quote from Naval Ravikant, who's on Tim Ferriss' podcast. And he said that people who don't homeschool their lives suck. And then he described why. Totally right.

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The general statement is that if something is good at a small scale, Democrats will say it must be good at a big scale. And that never makes sense. I mean, it might make sense for making money or something, but that's about it. So they say, for example, if a low amount of immigration is good for the country, why wouldn't a high rate be good for the country?

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And then the Republicans say, that's batshit crazy. Those are completely different situations. A low rate of immigration is sort of no problem, and maybe it's more plus than minus. But a high rate, you're literally giving away your country and dying. Those are not just doing more of a good thing. So it's a rate problem.

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The Democrats, for whatever reason, refuse to acknowledge that doing a good thing too much has any kind of negative. Here's another one. You don't want your police to be over-policing, do you? You don't want the police to harm somebody, maybe be a little too tough on the citizens. Nobody wants that. So it's good if the police are maybe a little softer and more gentle in some situations.

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But if that's good, why not get rid of police entirely? Wouldn't that be even better? It's a rate problem. You don't just take some little good thing and then take it to the extreme and say it must be good. Nobody really cares if an adult wants to transition. Well, if it's good for adults, why wouldn't it be good for toddlers, say the Democrats?

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Again, good for an adult to have enough freedom to make that kind of a choice in today's world? I like it. I could argue maybe they shouldn't or maybe they won't be happy, but it's not up to me. I'm happy that they have the choice as adult citizens in a free country. Yes, absolutely. You do what you need to do. I'll do what I need to do. It's the best we can do.

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But the rate, can we keep it with just the adults? We're pretty sure. Does it have to extend to children and dogs? How about... It's good to help the unfortunate. Most people would agree. It's nice. If you're going to help somebody needs a little hand up. Yeah, that's good. So why don't we give all of our money to everybody else? Well, wait a minute. That's a rate problem.

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It's only good if you keep it within bounds. If you open your doors and let everybody come in and take what they want, nothing works. It's a rate problem. about if diversity is good, and I would agree, that having a company whose workforce kind of looks like the public, that seems like a plus. Everybody would be a little happier. They'd feel a little safer.

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They'd have a little more visibility about what the customers in general are looking for because you've got people who touch every community. Yeah, you could see how that would be a plus. If a little bit of diversity is good, why not just get rid of white men entirely? Which is what it turned into. It turned into, let's just get rid of white men, because if you do it a little bit, it's good.

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Wouldn't it be good if you got rid of all of them? It's a rate problem. A little bit's fine. A lot of it is the end of the country. How about... If criticizing a politician such as Trump, one that you might not agree with, if criticizing him pretty severely is good because we have a competitive system, so both sides will get criticized, and we like it because that's how we settle things.

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We argue a little bit. So if a little bit of criticism of Trump is good, why not organize a coup against him? Again, it's a rate problem. It's a rate problem. A little bit of criticism of Trump is good. I would even argue that he's such a change agent that I would even agree with you that a lot of criticism is good. But can we keep it there? Does it have to be if criticism is good, a coup is good?

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It's a rate problem. Yeah, so here's another one. Uh, if a store allows a little bit of shoplifting and the alternative is somebody in desperate need, can't get the food or the diaper or something. We kind of think, oh, we don't like, we definitely don't like shoplifting. I, nobody likes it, but a little bit of it.

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You could argue the person who stole it, you know, got to stay alive, got to put a diaper on a baby. But if it's good, if a little bit of it happens, why don't we just open the doors and make it legal to steal everything? It's a rape problem. Again, it's a rape problem. It's the thing that they get wrong every time. Anyway.

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If anybody has had kids in the last, say, last 20 years, you know that the life of the parents is essentially destroyed by school. Because the school loads them up with homework, so you can't have any quality time at night. But you've got to get up, and you've got this stress of getting them there, and the traffic, and everything's tense, tense, getting the kids to school.

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So John Bolton, as you know, lost his Secret Service protection under Trump. But he was awakened at 12 a.m. To be told about it. That part just seems like they were messing with him. I suppose they needed to tell him as soon as they knew. So, I mean, there's justification for it. To give him the most amount of time to adjust to it. But it just feels like they're messing with him.

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But during the press conference, Trump... Said some bad things about him. He said he tried to blow up the Middle East. And then here's what Trump said. I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me coming into a meeting with Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he'd attack them because he was a warmonger.

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Now, how many of you remember that when Bolton was first added to Trump's team in the first term? Do you remember what I said? Because, of course, I didn't want a warmonger on this team. But if you remember what I said, oh, this is perfect. Because when Trump walks into a room with a warmonger and then he's not as bad as the warmonger, he's going to look like the good cop.

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So for negotiating purposes, it's kind of perfect to have one warmonger in the room. just so you're not that warmonger yourself. So that's exactly what Trump said. And I think everybody who understands negotiations, I think everybody understood it. But now he says it directly. And I do believe that this is not just an excuse. If this were a normal politician,

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If Trump were normal, I would have said, oh, you made a big mistake with him and now you're trying to explain your big mistake? I don't think so. I think he knew that Bolton was a negotiating asset and he was going to use him like that right from the start. Only Trump would do that. There's nobody else who would have even had that idea. But here's my take.

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I love the fact that Trump is rebranding Bolton as the dumbest guy in America, at least on foreign policy. Because if you're Iran, just think about this. If you're Iran and you were mad at him because you thought he was going to push America to bomb your country, and now he's been branded by the actual commander-in-chief as the dumbest guy in the country,

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Would your adversary want to kill the dumbest guy on your side? No. No. That would be the last thing. You want to kill the smart ones. I mean, if you're going to kill anybody, if you're going to kill anybody at all, you pick out their smartest guy. Remember when Trump put the hit on Soleimani? It's because Soleimani was their best guy.

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Killing their best guy makes complete sense if you're an adversary. Killing their dumbest guy doesn't buy you a thing. You'd rather they keep their dumbest guy, no matter how dumb it is. So it's kind of funny that Trump both removed his secret service at the same time he made it completely unnecessary to kill him. It's kind of perfect. Only Trump.

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I'm going to take another victory lap on this next story, as one does. Apparently, Alex Soros gave an interview to the Financial Times. Now, the first thing that should be noted is, wait a minute, Alex Soros gave an interview? I've never seen him do that, because if he got interviewed, how would he explain what he's doing?

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If you drive them, especially, it's tense. And it's just brutal. But if you homeschool, you kind of make your own schedule and everything's fine and they perform better and they don't get damaged by the school. Yeah, if you're just a regular parent with children in school, you've got a tough life and there's no reason for it.

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Like it's not really possible to explain what he's doing in any way that sounds non-evil. So I always thought he just avoided interviews because he couldn't possibly explain what they were doing. But he does one. And then I immediately looked up who owns the Financial Times. And it turns out the Financial Times is owned by a Japanese holding company. Japanese holding company. So...

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Who would be the least confrontational media? If you were gonna pick, of all the world, who would be the least dangerous media? I kinda think something owned by a Japanese holding company is not gonna ask you the hard questions. I feel like you're gonna get the easy questions. Am I wrong? I mean, maybe I'm making some kind of a stereotype that's unfair.

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But are the Japanese news people, are they world famous for being extra aggressive? Because I know the British are aggressive. French press, pretty aggressive. American press, very aggressive. And none of them seem to be able to talk to Soros. But the one owned by a Japanese holding company Well, so I don't think they asked him any tough questions, but still it made news.

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So the first question is, is Alex Soros intentionally avoiding any serious news interviews? I think the answer is yes, obviously. Remember when Elon Musk said he wanted to talk to him and Soros said yes, but I'll bet they can't schedule it. Elon can probably make it anytime. But how about Alex says, ah, he's busy. Maybe we could do that later. It's never going to happen.

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I don't think ever Elon Musk and Alex Soros will sit in the same room alone. I don't think it'll ever happen because he wouldn't put himself in that position. But anyway, here's the interesting part. This is being reported by the Washington Free Beacon. So according to Alex, his father, George, is black.

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angry that the money is going to well that his own organization has too many employees rent seekers you might say and so apparently George Soros said quote I didn't want to create an employment agency now that's what his son says as the dad said meaning that he didn't want the non-profit open society to just be hiring people like crazy but apparently they did

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He said that George was very upset by the massive number of employees and, quote, amount of bureaucracy at his liberal nonprofit, the Open Society Foundations. And furthermore, he says his only regret, this is what Alex, the younger one, says, he says his only regret since taking over is that he didn't slash the nonprofit's workforce sooner. Now it gets more interesting.

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Part of the interview, Alex Soros considers himself a Zionist, meaning that he is very pro-Israel and Israel's existence as a Jewish state. Now, at the same time, his society, the Open Society, has been funding millions of dollars to self-declared anti-Zionist organizations. How do you square that? He's massively funding anti-Israel organizations who are, and it's not just an interpretation.

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These are organizations who say it directly. But that's the opposite of his view. And this is not a random view because he's Jewish, right? So if you're actually Jewish and you say in an interview, you know, I'm a Zionist or worse side effect, but you're funding the exact opposite, The exact opposite. How do you explain it? Do you remember who had the only explanation for this? Me.

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There's no reason for it at all because you can homeschool and you can solve all those problems. Well, Mr. Beast, the gigantic YouTube star, says he wants to get some billionaires together and buy TikTok. He's already talked to his billionaires and he's pretty serious about it. He says, we mean business. You know, having Mr. Beast and his advisors or his investors, having them own TikTok,

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Here's my explanation. I said George Senior didn't know what was happening. That he didn't know what was happening. He didn't know where his money was going. Do I win? Am I the winner? I said that George Senior didn't know where the money was going. What we know is he has too many people and too much bureaucracy, which does what?

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It obscures to the owner what's happening, because even the owner can't penetrate the bureaucracy. And even the younger Soros has apparently been funding things that are very much the opposite of one of his core beliefs. How do you think he funds things that are the opposite of his core beliefs? I say neither of them were active managers.

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So my hypothesis was that neither of them knew what it was doing, that somehow it had taken on its own bureaucratic life, and that the bureaucracy was making the decisions based on DEI and equity things, and that if you had put either of the Soros' in charge, it would look different. Uh, he just bought 200 more radio stations. Yeah.

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So I'm going to, I'm going to double down on my hypothesis that the sources are not aware of what the organization is doing. Uh, and I think that's just true because it never really made sense. Anything we saw, unless it was accidental or somebody else was in charge. Scott, why repeat lies? Um, well, Why don't you tell me what the lie is? Could you give me any hint? What do you think was the lie?

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I told you what other people said. Is that what you're calling repeating the lies? I call it the news and the context that's important. So you tell me what lie did I just repeat? Now, that was a dumbass comment. If you want to tell me what the content is that you think I'm wrong about something, tell me. Oh, that Soros is so dumb not to not know his business? He just proved it.

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That's literally the story. He just reported on his own that he didn't know what his business was doing because of the bureaucracy. Yeah, do better in your comments. Anyway, there's a study in something called The Conversation, Michael Pesek, who says that learning your political opponents don't actually hate you can reduce toxic polarization and anti-democratic attitudes. Here's my problem.

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Here's what I have no patience for. I have no patience for a personal accusation in the context of factual statements. I have every interest in being fact-checked. That part I like. So if I say something wrong, then it's wrong. But to immediately assume that there's some kind of character flaw because you've got some bullshit idea about reality that I don't, Fix yourself. Just fix yourself.

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Think about how to not be that person anymore. Anyway, back to this. So you've heard the stories of people who met MAGA supporters and were surprised to find out that they're awesome. And you've heard this anecdote a whole bunch of times, right? So how many times have you heard, oh, I had MAGA...

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neighbors, but then they kept shoveling my driveway for me for free and I realized I was wrong about them. You've heard that a million times. Have you ever heard it the other way? Have you ever heard somebody who said, you know, I thought these Antifa people were all rotten, but then I met some and they were pretty nice. I never hear that. It doesn't work both ways.

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That would be pretty good, as long as we can solve the privacy and the influence part of it. So that's interesting. President Trump has his Diet Coke button back in the Oval Office. Have you seen it? It's like this nice block of wood with one button on it to order a Diet Coke. Except I feel like he needs more buttons. Don't you? I'd like to see a Trap Noir button.

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There's one side that was demonized by mental illness, TDS, and propaganda, and the other side just wants to be left alone. They just want to be left alone. If you put me in a room with a normal Democrat, do you think I have any problem with them? Do you think that I have a negative opinion about just an ordinary Democrat? Never. It's never even occurred to me.

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It doesn't even seem like a thing that you should think about. Now, there are certainly the extremists who are causing the ordinary Democrats to not be exactly the way you'd want them to be. But I don't even hate the extremists. I just would want to stay away from them because they'd hate me.

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The only thing that would keep me out of the room with the leftist, lefty, progressive of all time is what they think of me. It wouldn't keep me out of the room because of what I think of them, because what I think is people are all individuals. No two are alike. I'm not going to judge them because everybody's individual.

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If I said, hey, you're not like the other person, well, what kind of a standard is that? Every person is different. You can't be like other people. So no, I don't judge them. So let's see. Thomas Massey says, seed oil lobbyist will be chief of staff at USDA. Somebody says the oil seed processor association. Really? So that whole seed oil thing, Um, I've never, I've never followed it closely.

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So as you know, some number of people say the seed oils are among the worst things we're putting in our bodies and other people say, no, it isn't. Um, I don't actually know which is true, but I guess we'll find out. It looks like it's going to come to a head. You don't deserve me, right? Anyway, I just don't know enough about seed oil.

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I know there's, I've heard the criticisms, but I don't know how to know what's true. From wokeness to faith in God, okay? All right, these are the end of my prepared remarks. And I went too long because it took a while to get going. So I think this will be a reasonable time to end. I'll talk to the locals, people, privately later.

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Yeah, we've got 1,200 people to watch, and we'll upload the show to the other platforms later. It'll just take a while. All right. Thanks for joining me, everybody. Bye for now.

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where I can invite in the top DEI director for every government organization. So what's your job? I'm the DEI director. Next. What's your job? Well, I'm the director of DEI. And a Diet Coke, please. Beep. And then you get it mixed up and you want a Diet Coke. And, you know, next thing you know, next thing you know, Nestle, you know, Rubio's going through the trapdoor. Oh, sorry.

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I meant to hit the Diet Coke button. My bad. All right. Well, according to Christopher Ruffo, who you know was working very hard on getting rid of DEI ridiculousness in the corporate world and elsewhere, and he says that the tech executives are telling him that in the Silicon Valley companies, they respect Trump's ban on DEI. They respect it.

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And many feel relieved that they don't have to enforce it anymore. They don't have to pretend. So Ruffo says resistance to DEI is basically dead. Now, does that surprise you? Are you surprised that DEI can die that easily? I'm not because I was well aware that the main promoters of DEI tended to be rich white guys who were just protecting themselves.

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It can't be that all the apps died at the same time. They couldn't all be broken at once. Could they? I know there's a massive incompetence problem, but that's pretty impressive. Anyway. If you'd like to take your experience today up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brain, none of it makes sense today, does it?

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So as soon as somebody said, I will hurt you more if you do it, then you don't do it. Then all the people who were only doing it to avoid getting hurt would say, wait, well, hold on. What did you say? Oh, oh, it's going to hurt me more to keep doing it. Oh, then I won't do it. There was never any intellectual agreement.

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It was purely just a bunch of rich white guys covering their ass, pretending like they cared. They didn't care. They were just waiting for some good reason not to do it. Trump gave it to them. Meanwhile, this is funny, the Daily Mail is reporting, and And I don't know if you can trust this story. If this story were about Trump, I would tell you there's no way this is true.

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But since it's about Jim Acosta, I'm going to recreationally pretend it's true. Now, I think I've explained before that a recreational belief is one that doesn't really have a lot of credibility, but it would be fun if it were true. Certainly would be fun. Yeah, this is one of those. So as you know, Jim Acosta, his time slot was going to get moved from 10 a.m.

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to midnight, which is widely interpreted as, you know, he's being minimized and CNN wants to, you know, maybe encourage him to leave on his own. You know what I mean? But the story from Daily Mail is that Jim Acosta is reportedly considering leaving the network because of the shift to the bad time slot. But the move comes as CNN is slashing 200 jobs. Now, let me give some advice to Jim Acosta.

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If he's telling people that he's considering leaving the network... That would be sort of negotiating, wouldn't you say? Sort of negotiating with management. Oh, if you move my time slot, I might quit. Well, let me give you some negotiating advice, Jim Acosta, and this is free. This is free. There's no charge for this.

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If your company is trying desperately to cut costs and they've already decided that you need to move to midnight, That's not really the time to start threatening them that you might quit. Because that's exactly what they want. Obviously they wanted to quit. He must be one of the more highly paid people. He's not helping the network at all. And they showed it by moving him to midnight.

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No, I wouldn't negotiate under those circumstances. The good news is that sucking at your job finally matters again. So there's that. But don't worry about Jim Acosta. He could always follow the path of Tucker Carlson, who left Fox News and actually just got bigger. Got bigger. Or he could follow the model of Don Lemon, who left his primetime show and now he's doing nothing. I don't know.

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I don't think Don Lemon worked with anyone. Well, the Oscar nominations are out. And the only thing, the Oscar nominations for the best movie, the only thing it tells me is movies don't seem like a thing anymore, do they? Doesn't it seem like just watching a movie doesn't feel like a thing I do anymore? There isn't a single movie on the list I have even a little bit of interest in.

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I tried to watch, you know, you know my story. I turn off any movie as soon as somebody's tied to a chair. If your plot of your movie just absolutely requires somebody to be tied to a chair, you're just signaling you don't know how to write. It can't be true that everybody always has to be tied to a chair, no matter what the movie's about. It just can't be true that your plot requires it.

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There's no way, you can't tie them to a bed once. You can't tie them to a, well, sometimes they'll tie them to a pole, I guess, if they want to get creative. But now, as soon as somebody's tied to a chair, I'm out. So I tried to watch a mini-series on Prime, Prime video called The Agency, about the CIA. Now, it's fiction.

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The preamble doesn't make any sense because the starting assumption is that things went right, so the preamble doesn't make sense. Let's just do the simultaneous. But let's just surrender. Shall we surrender to the fact that everything's just going to go wrong today? Just absolutely everything's going to go wrong. Sip to that. Sometimes it goes that way. And then he is slap happy.

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and characters were good, and I kind of liked the tone of it, and the writing seemed good. I got through the first episode yesterday while I was working. Second episode comes on, and man tied to a chair. And that's the last I'll ever watch of it. I'm serious about this. If you tie somebody to a chair, I'm not gonna watch. That's the end of my viewing for that.

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You have to, you gotta come up with something better than tying somebody to a chair. All right, it's 2025. You can do better. Meanwhile, Oprah discovered that free will is not a thing. She didn't say it that way. What she said was that when she got on the Olympic, she understood thin people.

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Now, I'm not saying she's thin and she's not saying she's thin, but it gave her an insight because once she got an Ozepic, apparently it changed her thoughts about food because when your body is less craving, I guess your mind is relaxed as well. So she realized that thin people don't obsess about food all the time like she did. you realize that's realizing that there's no free will, right?

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So she realized that her brain was just different and her chemistry was different and whatever her brain and chemistry were designed to do, well, what they were doing was obsessing about food and that made it difficult for her not to eat too much. Now, and then when she took Abzempic, she stopped obsessing about it and then suddenly it was easy not to eat too much.

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Well, this is what I've been telling people forever. I discovered this with... the kids having sleepovers in the house and having all their friends over. And if I got pizza, I'd put the pizza down, and the kids, no matter how many of them there were, would appear to actually get a piece of pizza, because they were always busy doing something.

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But they would arrive at the food in the exact order of their current weight. And the first time I saw it, I thought, that looks like a coincidence that these skinniest people don't even walk toward the pizza. They just keep doing what they're doing like they're not even hungry. And then the people who are a little heavier, right at the pizza.

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Now there's no way that the way they're thinking about food is the same. Because it can't be a coincidence that the person who's got a few extra pounds is always the first one to the pizza. But you can see it really obviously with kids. So I can tell with certainty that some brains are different and it's not about anybody choosing to be overweight. That's not what happens.

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Well, looks like Tesla's up a little bit. The S&P 500's up a little bit. Yeah, we'll take it. Let's get our comments going, and then I'll give you the show you've come to deserve. It's one you've earned. Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do.

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Well, in bad news... Terrible news. Two Israeli embassy staff members were gunned down in cold blood by a suspect 30-year-old guy who was yelling, free Palestine, and I did it for Gaza. And I don't have much to say about this other than it feels important, so it has to be noted, that if we've gotten to the point where

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Americans are being gunned down in the street because of something that's happening in another part of the world. Maybe we need to just rethink something. I don't know what. So obviously this is more, not more about, it's completely just about the shooter. It's not about the two young people who were a couple as it turns out. And they were about to get engaged.

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So it's got every element of tragedy to it. And I wish the best for their families. But that's going to be a tough time. Well, let's do a little update on Biden's brain. Joe Scarborough on his show is now saying that he was, quote, obviously wrong. when he described the ex-president as the best Biden ever.

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So now that we've seen Jake Tapper admit that when he was talking to Laura Trump, he was just 100% wrong, and she was 100% right when she was saying that he's obviously degraded. So Tapper has now admitted he was wrong, and Joe Scarborough now says that he was wrong.

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Although I think both of them say that they didn't see personal specific problems with him, but they didn't have that much contact with him, I guess. Scarborough did actually have a little more contact with him, but there's some thought that maybe Biden always waited until he was in better shape to contact him. Maybe. Yeah.

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And then another update, Jake Tapper told Sam Harris, he was on Sam Harris' podcast, I guess, that one of the reasons that Biden's aides were sort of blinded to the fact that Biden was doing so poorly is because he always seemed cognitively weak. Imagine this being your reason that you couldn't tell your boss was cognitively impaired because he was always... cognitively weak.

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And this is what Jake said. He said they weren't sure what was going on because he was always kind of prone to some of this behavior, even when he was in fighting form. You know, long-winded, pointless stories and forgetting names and such, gaffes, lies, all those things. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but did we not just go through years of being told that Trump was the one who lies?

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Somebody was mocking me the other day online about how I mispronounce all the names. You're so right. I definitely mispronounce a lot of names. Is it Joni Ive or Johnny Ivee? I don't know. But anyway, Joni or Johnny or whoever the hell he was, he used to be the main designer for Apple. And now he's designing an AI companion device that will be sort of a handheld device or a pocket-sized thing.

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And now after the fact, Jake is just sort of matter-of-factly stating that his aides probably couldn't tell when Biden was having a bad day because he always lied. And you and I are saying the same thing, right? which is some version of, we knew that. He ran on the fine people hoax. Of course. Of course he was the biggest liar we've ever had in that office, I think.

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Well, according to, I saw a post by Doug McGregor that some kind of whistleblower has come forward about the Autopen scandal. And I've heard some names involved with it, but I don't want to name them yet because I think it's premature. But apparently there are some names that would not be household names to most of you that had access to that thing and might have been the Autopen people.

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Separately, TonkaBot, go fuck yourself. Seriously, just go fuck yourself. Can you guys in the comments straighten out TonkaBot? Because you just crossed the line. You crossed that line pretty hard. All right. According to Nike, I saw this on a post by Unusual Whales, Nike says they're going to increase their prices on footwear because of the tariffs.

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So if you were going to pay between $100 and $150, you might get a $5 hike, while sneakers priced above $150 will see a $10 increase. To which I say, would anybody notice that? Do you think that there's anybody who is going to pay $150 for sneakers who would not buy them because they're $160? They'd say, oh, darn it. I thought these would cost $150, but it looks like they're $160. I don't know.

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To me, that doesn't seem like the end of the world. Remember all the warnings we were getting? that the tariffs were going to blast your prices and the economy was going to fail. I feel like they're going to sell the same amount of footwear. So they might be absorbing some of it, but they don't say.

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But then there's a story, the Washington Times is reporting that Target stores thinks they can adapt and offset most of the tariff costs by reducing their reliance on China. So they're already working hard to make sure they don't have too much sourcing from China. So Target won't have at least ridiculously higher prices because of it. And Home Depot wasn't going to have much higher prices.

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So we might see story after story. of big companies that figured out they were just going to absorb it or adjust it or something so that this would be the most surprising outcome if the trump administration was completely right that the tariffs got us what we wanted with minimal change in prices could be it's entirely possible

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I got to say I was skeptical because I didn't know what was going to happen. We've never been in this situation before. But it would be pretty amazing if Trump was right about this, that the retailers would just adjust or absorb it or find other sources if they tried hard enough. It looks like that's what's happened so far, but it's a little bit early. You probably heard that the House...

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It's not a law yet, but just the House passed the big, beautiful bill. Now, I got to say that I've never heard anybody brand a spending bill before. I think Trump's the first one who ever did that. And it's kind of genius that he's calling it the big, beautiful bill. Because it would be easy to turn down a continuing resolution or some boring damn thing.

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But how do you say no to a big, beautiful bill? Well, anyway, so that's passed. Now, and then they say... The Wall Street Journal is reporting. So this is the wording in the Wall Street Journal. They're talking about how it would increase the deficit by $2.7 trillion.

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And the Wall Street Journal says that figure was causing discomfort, discomfort, they say, for some Republicans as the national debt and bond yields climbed. Republican leaders say that faster economic growth from Trump's policies would fill the gap and make it deficit neutral, a point that many economists dispute.

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now that's it so the wall street journal which is sort of the premier financial reporting entity in the country they they do point out that the bill would add to the deficit but you know what's missing the part where the whole country crashes in on itself because the deficit is too big there's something wrong with the way everybody's talking about this.

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And it won't be any phone or glasses. It won't have any screen. But it will become your little companion device. Now, honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea. Do you think they can pull that off? When I see an idea that I say to myself, ooh, I wouldn't mind that. It's like, ooh, hmm, there's something that attracts me to that idea.

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And I saw a post on X from Data Republican whose theory is that the reason that people are talking about it like it's no big deal when it's the biggest deal. It's bigger than all the other deals. There's nothing as important as this and we're racing toward a cliff to absolute disaster. And then the Wall Street Journal is like, yeah, you know, some economists dispute it. Really?

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That's the best you can do is some economists dispute it? Well, you know, Trump says that growth will take care of it. No, it won't. Nobody thinks that. Well, nobody serious thinks that. So Data Republican has some theories that it's cultural. and corruption. Now, I haven't seen the details of her argument, but she's digging into it harder to find out what's going on here data-wise.

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And we'll see what she comes up with. But the cultural part, I don't know exactly what that means, but I feel like the country has been trained, you know, the non-economists and the non-politicians,

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think they've all been trained that kicking the can down the road always works because it always worked before and we complain about it every time but then they kick the can and we're okay but at some point that definitely stops working and we're at that point So you'd expect that the news would kind of flexibly change toward, oh, no, we can't do this anymore. But it didn't.

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That would be the cultural part, I guess, that as a culture, we've just decided it's not a problem, so we treat it like it's not, even though we're blithely heading toward the cliff. And then the corruption part is that the people who could change it let's say the military-industrial complex, they like their money, so they're not going to change it.

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And everybody else has a piece of the pie if they're part of the deep state or part of politics. So between corruption and the fact that we've been trained not to see it as a problem, we're blind to the biggest problem the country's had in my lifetime. So I thought it would be useful for me to solve this problem. I'm going to use a technique you've heard from me before. It's called the bad idea.

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Now the bad idea is exactly that. I'm going to give you a bad idea for solving the deficit problem. You're of course going to notice, wait a minute, there's a problem with that bad idea.

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but it might make you think of a good idea because it's going to be out of the box so let me just put it out there it's a bad idea but maybe it'll make you come up with the real good idea all right suppose just suppose the government issues a cryptocurrency But if you issued a cryptocurrency that people could use to buy anything they want, well, that would be very inflationary.

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So that's no good, right? Everybody agrees? If you just added money, it doesn't matter if it's crypto or you printed money, if you're just adding money, That doesn't work because it's hugely inflationary. But suppose, just suppose that the money that's being added, I'll just give you one example. Suppose that if you were collecting interest on a T-bill,

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Even if I thought I wouldn't use it, sometimes you just feel that pull. I don't feel anything for that. He thinks... I guess Sam thinks that they can sell 100 million AI companions. But without a screen, it's not going to have a face. And if it doesn't have a face, are you going to bond with it? I think the face is the important part. I don't know. Well, we'll see.

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you could optionally, and it'd just be up to you, nobody would force you to do it, you could receive it in regular old dollars, just like you always did, or you can receive your interest in this new crypto. And let's say it's tied to the dollar, so it's not fluctuating that much. Now you might say, well, why would I ever take the crypto? And the answer is,

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that it would have one purpose, you could only use it for one thing, which is paying federal taxes in the United States. It couldn't be used for anything else. So, would that make the price of products at Target go up? No, because there wouldn't be any more money available to buy things at Target. it would be the same amount of money. It's just that you could only use this crypto.

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Now, suppose I said to you that this crypto would give you a 5% discount on your taxes. Now, you might be a person who has a T-bill and you don't pay many taxes for whatever reasons, but you could say, all right, I'll take the crypto and then I'll just resell it to somebody who wants to pay their taxes and they can get the

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5% discount and you know, I'll charge them a little extra so you can easily exchange it Then here's the fun part Suppose that the one and only thing you can do with it is pay your taxes But that once the government received your crypto payment and taxes it would have to burn the crypto It would never exist again Because

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that would keep the government from just spending whatever extra money the system produced. Your taxes would be paid by the crypto, but the government would just not have access to it. It would just be burned. Being burned means in the digital world it becomes not crypto anymore. It just turns into garbage basically. Would that work?

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What it would do is it would pay down the debt, but in our current system, in our current system, if you paid down the debt a little bit, somebody would just increase spending. But with this, you would pay down the debt and it would just disappear. there would be nothing to allow them to increase spending.

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So it's a bad idea, but think in terms of adding crypto but limiting it to a single purpose so it doesn't have a general inflationary possibility. All right, so that's all. You don't have to tell me it's a bad idea because that's where I started. Well, most of you by now have seen the video of Trump doing what the fake news calls ambushing. So all the fake news got the memo to use the word ambush.

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The president of South Africa was in the very crowded room that dignitaries are greeted in the White House. And Trump was complaining about white genocide in South Africa. And I guess the president of South Africa was not convinced that it was happening. And So the president said, you know, turn down the lights. We'll show this video. And he showed some video evidence to make his case.

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And then he showed a bunch of, you know, printed out documents to make his case. And part of it was videos of what looked like hundreds or thousands of white crosses next to the road that I think Trump called graves. Now, what's interesting is the president of South Africa said, where's that? I've never seen that. And Trump said, it's in South Africa.

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And how in the world could he not know that it existed? It's like, you know, in the United States, we've sort of all seen that picture. And so I said to myself, oh, and Elon Musk was there giving a death stare to the president because he's quite invested, at least emotionally invested in his old country.

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And part of it was showing the video of some large gathering, political gathering in South Africa where the black gatherers were singing Kill the Boers, which would be the white people. And so I said to myself, I wonder if there's another side to this argument. So I went to Grok, and I asked Grok, because I was aware of the event, if the argument that Trump was making was valid.

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And Grok said, nope. Now, I'm not saying that, all right? So what I'm telling you is that Grok said it's all debunked. Now, here are a few things he said. You know, all those white crosses, those don't exist. They did exist for a specific protest, but it actually wouldn't be that surprising that the president of the country doesn't know they exist because he literally said, where's that?

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Obviously, they're very smart people, so maybe they have an idea that doesn't make sense to me, but is brilliant. In other news, Reuters is reporting that there was an AI bot that a teenager was using as his therapist, and apparently the AI bot pushed the teenager to take his own life. And the judge rejected Google's, I guess it was a Google AI, rejected Google's defense that it was free speech.

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And he looked like he wasn't lying, like he literally didn't even know what that was about. That doesn't exist, according to Grok. Now remember, I'm telling you Grok's argument. What I'm not doing is making my own argument, right? So you've got to make that distinction. I'll tell you my own argument when I do this. Then Grok said that that Kill the Boars song was a free speech song.

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I guess the courts have decided it was just free speech and that it didn't mean kill any individuals. It was about killing the system and it was a historical song about killing the old apartheid system. Do you believe that? That's what Grok says. Again, this is not me saying it. That's what Grok says. And then what else is said?

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Then there was one video that Trump showed some violence, and Grok said, that's not even South Africa, that's from the Congo. To which I said, really? I don't know. Again, it's just Grok saying it. And then it said that the alleged murders of white farmers was not real, that it was fake. And again, this is not me. Don't blame me. I'm telling you what Grok said.

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And here's what Grok said, that it's true that white farmers, their farms were being attacked and they were being murdered But it said it wasn't for political reasons. It was just regular crime in a country where there's just tons of crime and murder. And that nobody was taking over those farms. They were just stealing stuff and killing the families. So it wasn't so much a political act.

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It was just crime. And it was a little bit easier to do the crime in a remote farmhouse because there was nobody around to stop them from doing it. And then it said that far more black citizens of South Africa are getting murdered as a raw number compared to the tiny, tiny number of white South Africans that are also being murdered.

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So according to Grok, there's no such thing as some unusually large number of white South Africans being murdered. not for political reasons, et cetera. Then there was a question of there's some new rule that says that the black South Africans, or the government, I guess, can take from the white South Africans their property, but they prefer to buy it. If they can't buy it,

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The law allows that under certain conditions, they can just take it and not pay anything. But according to Grok, that's never happened. Do you believe that? That it's never happened? It's just that it could happen and it would be constitutional because the law allows it. So let me give you my opinion. My opinion is if you live in a country where on a regular basis a large political party

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Apparently, it's like the number three party. It's not the leading in power party. When they get together and they say things like, kill the Boers, you should get out of that country as soon as possible. Because even if they're thinking about it being the system and it's a historical song, you don't want to live in a country where people are saying, that it's okay to sing that.

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You don't need the law to tell you that they can or can't. If you're in a country where they're singing kill the people who are you, you should start packing up right away. That's my advice. Number two, if you live in a country where there is a law that says we're gonna buy your property,

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uh because we don't think that it should be belonging to white people and if we can't make an agreement to buy it well we've got this backup plan where we can just take it for nothing if you live in a country with that as one of your laws you should get out of that country as soon as possible There's nothing good that's going to happen. Nothing good is going to happen.

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And if you live in a country where there's so much violence that the argument against the white genocide is well, there's no white genocide. Look how many black people are being killed by just other black people.

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You should get out of that country right away because whatever it is, that's causing all these people to be killed, be they black or be they white, it's way too many, like way, way too many run, get out of that country. And, uh, That's what I say. So what you need to know is that the news is saying it was mostly fake news and Trump was ambushing him.

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So that's dangerous. Do you think that an AI bot convinced a teenager to take his own life? I don't know. It seems like they would have programmed it so it could never do that. And if they haven't, they should really program it so it would never do that. That's my idea. Anyway... And then the coolest thing, this is actually an AI app that long before AI, I actually formed a company and got a URL.

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What you need to know is that Grok, which is actually ironically created by Elon Musk, says not so much. You have to see the other side of this. And then what you really need to know is is that everything about that situation looks like trouble brewing. Trouble brewing. I would get out of there if I could. So that's my advice.

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Anyway, according to the publication called The Atlantic, which is really just a joke publication because it's such a propaganda rag that it's hard to even imagine it as a serious publication. But one of the articles, the big headline is The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk. The Decline and Fall of Elon Musk?

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Now, I think they mean that he's less involved with Doge and the government, but that was the plan. The plan is that right about now, he would be removing himself from Doge and the government, which he did. And then you look at how is Tesla doing? The stock is like totally recovered and he's on the verge of unleashing robots for what could be the largest product launch of all time.

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And that's not even counting the auto, you know, the self-driving auto cabs. So I would say that Elon Musk is on the border of taking his current success and fame and multiplying it by a thousand. And I don't know what would stop him because he's got a pretty solid plan. Build robots, auto cabs. Anyway, so that's just propaganda. Apparently Trump told some European leaders that he thinks a

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Putin thinks. that he's winning the war, meaning Putin thinks he's winning the war, and isn't ready for peace. Now, who told you that first? I did. I've been telling you for a while. It really looks to me like Putin is not looking for peace whatsoever. And apparently Trump has that opinion at the moment too. So he's... Sorry.

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Trump has shifted from talking about sanctions to proposing some lower-level talks, including the Vatican, which is funny because it just offloads the failure to the Vatican so that the Pope can be responsible for whatever doesn't happen well. But here's my take. What the hell are you going to do?

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Are we going to weigh in and start refunding Ukraine like that would work and that Ukraine would win the war? I don't think we're going to do that. Is Europe going to fund them so they can win the war? I don't think they can. Are we going to give them enough drones and robots that they don't need any humans and they can hold off the entire Russian army?

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Well, I don't know if we're right at that point yet. Maybe. Are we going to let Ukraine fall? Because it looks like Putin's just going to chew on it until he gets everything he wants. So my question is, what options do we really have? I'm pretty sure that even the worst sanctions wouldn't change Putin's mind if he thinks he's winning that war.

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I think he would just figure out a way around the sanctions. So do we have any options? I can't think of any. So I guess Ukraine will just get ground down and Putin will have his way and control Ukraine. Does it look like that's what's going to happen? Yeah. Well, I've got no idea how you can do anything except lose Ukraine at this point. No idea. Well, according to the Associated Press,

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Canada is in talks with the U.S. about joining its so-called Golden Dome. That would be our missile defense system. Because it wouldn't make a lot of sense for Canada to build its own missile defense if it could just pay a little, not a little, but it could pay to be part of our defense system that we're building.

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So I do like the fact that Carney is just sort of a good businessman and he's just, well, why would we build it ourselves? It would just make more sense to partner. Now, do you remember when, it wasn't long ago, when the fake news was telling you that all the other countries were not going to be able to deal with the United States because we'd insulted them and they're all mad and

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They'll never do business with Trump. And then Trump goes to the Middle East and he's treated like a god king. And then he has one meeting with Carney, and they're just best friends, and Carney wants to be part of our missile defense to presumably pay for it. But I was telling you the whole time that it's a transactional world.

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If Trump offers value to other countries, those other countries will treat him with the utmost respect. That's it. That's the whole story. Nobody's getting insulted. And if they did, it wouldn't last. They'd get over it right away if they had some economic reason. So there's another example of that.

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And I tried to actually build this app myself with help, but it didn't work out. But the AI can do it. What it is, is if you're using Google to search for clothing that you're going to buy, the app will allow you to see yourself wearing those clothes, which is pretty cool. And I thought to myself, wouldn't you like to see yourself wearing the clothes before you did it? Now, my idea was different.

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According to the New York Post, Syria with its new leader is talking about joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relationship with Israel. Do you think there are any catches to that? Oh, yes, there are. They want assurances that Israel would stop bombing Syria. I don't know if they're going to get that. They want Israel to stop fomenting sectarian divisions.

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I don't know what they're doing there, but if it's good for Israel, they're not going to stop doing it. And they want to reach a negotiated arrangement regarding the Golan Heights. Well, I think Israel already has what they want, right? It's not like they're going to give a little bit of the Golan Heights back to Syria.

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So I think that this is another one of those fake peace offerings where the head of Syria is like, oh, yeah, totally. We want to be your best friends. Oh, we'll just take the Golan Heights back. You know, we'll negotiate it. Of course, we're not animals. So I don't think... These look like pretty big problems. I don't know if they can negotiate those away, but maybe. Here's some news.

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France has a new laser rifle. that's small enough that one soldier can hold it like a bazooka. And it can melt electronics from 500 feet away. And it doesn't make any noise. So the only noise you'd hear is the electronics burning from 500 feet away. Now, if it's small enough that a soldier can carry it, I would not want to be on the other side of that laser.

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Because if it can make electronics catch on fire, it could make your head catch on fire pretty quickly. So that's scary. According to the Daily Mail, Kim Jong-un, North Korea, is not happy about the launch he attended. of their new 5,000-ton North Korean warship because it launched and immediately capsized. Imagine being the head of North Korea and

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You know, these military things, these rocket launches and these ship launches are like a gigantic part of your national ego. And he attends it. And the thing, they launch it and it just capsizes. So he watched in horror as his 5,000-ton ship was severely damaged. I think they could figure out a way to right it because it didn't sink. It just turned sideways. I think it's still floating.

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So we'll see if they can salvage that. But that's, could you imagine being the, whoever was in charge of launching that thing? You know, you're standing next to the dear leader because, you know, you had an important job. You're the one who was in charge of making sure this thing got built and launched.

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and the kim jong-un is like right next to you shoulder to shoulder and you're like man this is the best best day of my career i could get you know extra food rations based on this i'm really killing it and then your your ship gets launched and it just turns sideways in the water and you're standing right right next to kim jong-un

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That would be the scariest thing that could ever happen to a person. Like, what the hell would you say? Oh, it's okay, boss. I'll get it next time. I'll get it next time. All right. So I saw Dom Luker was reporting that we learned from the Diddy trial that Diddy had ecstasy pills that were printed with the face of Obama on them.

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And there were red Obamas, green Obamas, and orange Obamas, and blue Obamas. But you could take these pills if you went to one of his freak-offs. Okay. Do you think Obama was in any way implicated in any of that? Or they just thought it was funny to put his face on their ecstasy pills? I don't know. I haven't seen any indication Obama is connected to any of that, but he's connected to the pills.

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All right. That's all I got for today. Oh, there's a good picture there in the comments. I'm going to say a few words to the locals, people privately, and the rest of you, thanks for joining. I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. And I hope you enjoyed it. All right. Vocals coming at you in 30 seconds if everything works the way it's

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My idea is that somewhere in the world, there's always a person who looks like you. Have you noticed that? There's always a person who looks like you. So in my case, you know, some balding guy, a certain age with glasses and, you know, a white guy who's a certain height and goes to the gym. And I thought, I don't need to see myself wearing these clothes.

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my shirts don't fit anymore good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to experience the level above this one that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains.

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I need to see somebody who looks like me wearing those clothes. So I thought if you could just get people to put on a shirt that they like, and then take a picture of themselves. I would just learn where I could find the people who look like me and then say, oh, there's my doppelganger. Looks good in that shirt. I'll buy that shirt. Anyway, the AI is a much better version.

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Also, according to Rowan Cheung, who talks about AI on X, there's now the Google Meet app that's basically like Zoom, but Google's version, allows you to do instant translations. So you could speak in English and have it come out instantly as Spanish on the other side and vice versa. They're going to add some more languages. But weren't you waiting for that?

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Doesn't that seem like that's so Star Trek to have an instant universal translator? It's not universal yet, but it doesn't look like it'd be that hard to add the universal part. Anyway, so I got a story for you. Do you like stories, a little personal story? So I'm going to tell you a story before the story. Some of you have heard this, but it will kind of dovetail with the other story.

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So in the 70s, my first job was a bank teller in San Francisco. And one day, this very distinguished gentleman wearing an ice suit came up to my window, and he said, I'd like to cash this check. And I said, do you have an account here, sir? And he said, no, I don't have a personal account here, but my company banks here. And of course, I had been well-trained, so I knew that wasn't good enough.

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And I said, well, you're going to have to get an approval from one of the managers. because I don't have the authority to cash a check for somebody who doesn't have a personal account here. So he had already waited in line, and I said, you know, there's the managers over there. Just go over there and get one of them to approve it.

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So I waited for the argument, because that's usually where the trouble starts. Like, you lousy bank, you're going to make me wait in line? I'm not going to do it. But nothing like that happened. He was just perfectly professional and good natured about it. So he immediately goes over to where the managers are.

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And I'm kind of watching out of the corner of my eye while I'm doing my other transactions. And I see my supervisor running, like actually running. And I thought, why is she running? And she was running to the manager. And then the manager comes out and it looked like he was sort of jogging too.

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like why are they in such a hurry what's going on with these two people and then they signed they must have approved it and the the distinguished gentleman in the suit gets back in line at the line in front of my teller window and I noticed that he was in line so I waved and waved to him and said oh and I told the other people who were waiting He's already waited in line once.

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Please come to the front of the line so he didn't have to wait again. So again, completely good-natured. I've inconvenienced the hell out of him, but he's just playing it like it's a regular day. He comes up, I cash his check, he goes on his way, and I think to myself, sorry that was inconvenient, but we got it done.

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A few minutes later, my supervisor, who had been doing all the running, comes over and she says to me, do you know whose check you just refused to cash? And I said, no, I didn't really pay attention to the name. She goes, that's David Packard. the co-founder of Hewlett Packard. He was one of the richest people in the country at the time.

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All you need for that is a cupper mug or a glass of tanker, Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Go. Hmm. Yeah.

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So anyway, just keep that story in mind and just put it to the side, all right? Because the story I'm going to tell you has nothing to do with him, but you might enjoy knowing that it exists. So yesterday, I'm home. And I've been getting lots of people reaching out because of my recent health-related news. But I can't talk to everybody.

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It's just continual messages coming in, and I have to kind of pace myself. So I see a phone number coming in. Somebody's calling me from some number I don't recognize, something in Florida. And I sent it to voicemail. And a little bit later, I thought, I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with.

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And the first sentence in the transcription, because, you know, the phone gives you the text version of the voicemail as well. The first sentence is, this is your favorite president. And I thought to myself, no. Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail? And it turns out that I had. It was Trump. And he was just calling to check in.

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Now, he left a semi-lengthy little voicemail, just saying he was checking on me. He heard about my health situation. And then he says, you can call me back on this number. Now, obviously, I don't call him back, right, because that would just be ridiculous. It just was a nice thing for him to say because, you know, because he called me. You could call me back on this number.

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So I didn't call him back on that number because I thought I'd, you know, it's not like he's sitting at the Resolute desk waiting for my call. I thought that whatever it is he's doing has got to be more important than randomly taking a call from me. So I don't call him back. Hours go by. It's the afternoon, same day. It's the afternoon.

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And all of a sudden another call comes through, also from Florida. And I thought to myself, no fucking way. There's no way he's calling me again. And I answer it, and it's Trump. And apparently he'd heard of my situation, and he had lots of questions. I won't get into the details of our conversation, because that would be inappropriate. But he was just checking on me.

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And he wanted to make sure that I was getting everything I needed. And that was it. But at the end, the strangest thing happened at the end. At the end of the call, when he found out the situation was kind of dire and I was still checking out some things that might help, he said, if you need anything, I'll make it happen. And he meant it.

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He was completely aware of our, let's say, parallel journeys from 2015. He mentioned it. And it was just the most incredible, weird, hard to understand situation. But boy, was it fun. So anyway, that's my story. And I'm sticking to it. All right. Speaking of my health situation, I have decided to look into as many potential cures as I can, but they all have what I call the one guy problem.

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So the one guy problem is that if somebody says, I've heard of this cure for your exact situation, and I'll say, has anybody ever been cured by whatever it is you're suggesting? And they'll say, yes, yes, there's this one guy. And then I'll look into it and the one guy's already dead or he didn't really get cured. But there's never two guys. So I dismiss it if it's only one guy.

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Yeah, that was actually a little extra good. Gets better every time. Well, how about a little update on the weirdness that's going on in the AI world? So apparently Sam Altman and OpenAI have plans for putting a companion in your pocket. He's working with Johnny or Joni Ive. I don't know how to pronounce that. It's funny.

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So I think I have four different one guy problems. Half of the people are saying you should try ivermectin and fenbenazole, which of course were the first thing I tried like a year ago. And they all have the same argument. I've heard of a guy. There's this one guy. And it's always the same one guy, which I don't even think is real. But one guy. And then, anyway.

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So I'm using all of my BS detection to look at these infinite number of suggestions that are medical and I couldn't possibly understand because I'm not a doctor. But I can tell BS when I see it. I think better than most people. I've been demonstrating that for years here on the podcast. And there's one left. Maybe two. Could be two left.

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But as of this morning, I thought, oh my goodness, I think there's There might be more than one for this one situation. But then I checked AI. I checked Grok, and Grok seemed to think it might be one guy. And that one guy didn't get a cure, maybe just extended his life expectancy a few months or something. So we'll see. But just so you know, I'm still looking at Hail Mary possibilities.

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flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and damn it, it happens right now. Go! Delightful. One of the best ever.

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If you were in that situation and there was something you really wanted to cover up, would you say, well, I'm not going to release anything? Because then you look pretty guilty. Or would you say, here's 80,000 pages. Is anything left out? No. No, it's all in there, totally. Believe us. Trust us. It's all in there.

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And I also think, what are the odds that if it were that damning, that it would be kept in a file? Do you believe that somebody would have taken a file that was so damning it would have changed the entire nature of our understanding of America to something terrible, and it would just be a document, and it would just be in a file somewhere? That so stretches the imagination.

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No, there wasn't any damning document that they kept in a file just in case somebody wanted it. No. Anyway, Doge has discovered $4.7 trillion that the Treasury Department didn't put any tracking codes on, meaning that there was no way to audit or to find out after the fact where $4.7 trillion went. There was no way to find out.

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Now my bigger question is, since this seems to be the case with all the government agencies, I think USAID, you couldn't really tell where the money was going, partly because it was going to this vast web of NGOs. But shouldn't there have been, and didn't you kind of think that the government was auditing itself? as a routine basis.

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Didn't you assume that the government was keeping track of where their trillions of dollars were going? Apparently not. So don't you think we need some kind of, you know, the auditing department or something? Because I don't know that Doge is going to create an auditing fix. And how in the world did we not know this until now? Just amazing. Anyway, so Doge is at it.

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Meanwhile, Trump is expected to sign an executive order to abolish the Department of Education. I feel like this is one of those Groundhog Day stories. How many times have we been told that Trump is going to abolish the Department of Education and then it doesn't happen? Maybe this time it will. I'll be optimistic. But I'd be a little cautious of this one.

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It just feels like we always go right to the edge. It's like, oh, yeah, everybody's, we're going to ban this thing. Is it banned yet? No, no, any minute, any minute, later. Well, how about now? No, no, not now, but later. Later we're going to ban this, totally ban it. How about now? No. So we'll see. Meanwhile, designated liar Jamie Raskin, he's one of the Democrat designated liars.

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And when I say designated liars, there's a small group of Democrats who apparently are willing to say absolutely anything, you know, just any outrageous lie. Whereas the more normal Democrats, you know, the ones you don't see on TV too much, they would be embarrassed. Like, okay, you know, I can't say that in public. But Jamie Raskin, nothing will stop him from any lie in public.

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I guess he went on MSNBC yesterday, and he claimed that Trump fired the director of the FAA, and that's what caused the American airline collision in D.C. Can you believe they even tried to get away with that? So it turns out that the FAA director was not even fired by Trump, but did resign. but was not fired.

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And there doesn't seem to be any connection between any of that and why the American Airlines collision happened. But just think about that from an ignorant Democrat viewer of MSNBC, because you'd have to be pretty dumb to be watching MSNBC and think you're seeing news. So you're already filtered to be dumb. And then this allegedly

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Oh, yeah, well, okay, maybe SpaceX is kind of cool, and yeah, Tesla was doing all right, but okay, Starlink was good, and Neuralink seems like it's changing the world, but he definitely overpaid for X. Can't say that anymore. All right, that's fun. Apparently a bunch of Hollywood celebrities, according to Breitbart News,

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know credible guy comes on and he tells you yeah the reason for the accident was trump fired the only guy who could have prevented it it's sort of a dumb lie but the msnbc audience is dumb enough to say huh huh i guess trump keeps firing people and the planes are going to fall out of the air yeah that's not happened

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So speaking of lying Democrats, the Washington Examiner has a scoop, an exclusive, that apparently the Democrats put up billboards in some of the areas where the Republican representatives were weak, you know, the places that they want to win and get a Democrat in there. And the billboards said that the Republicans want to cut Medicaid. and use the money to give tax breaks to Elon Musk.

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So they put that on six different billboards in six different locations. And it looks like they're being threatened by the Republicans to take that down because it's defamation. So they've already sent a cease and desist letter. So I don't know how that works. So correct me if I'm wrong. Um, politicians are allowed to lie and you can't sue them, right?

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So Jamie Raskin can literally just say anything and you can't say, Oh, that's defamation because he's a elected official, but maybe the billboard company, since the billboard company are not elected officials, then if they say something that's patently untrue, I think they can be sued for defamation.

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Now, the truth is that there is talk about the need to decrease the overall budget in stuff like Medicaid. But they're looking at like a 10% cut that maybe we can get entirely from fraud and abuse. And Apparently, there's no Republican who's ever said we're going to cut benefits.

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So you could argue that if there's an idea that it needs to be cut to meet our targets for the deficit, that it sort of is going to lead to that. But it does sound like the Republicans are holding tight. They don't want to change the benefits to the actual individual user. So they would only go after their waste, fraud, and abuse, and maybe a little overhead kind of stuff.

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So we'll see if that's enough. But the Democrats have gone to just complete lying as their defense. Do you remember when Democrats had ideas about policies? And they'd say, hey, we got a better idea. They don't have that. The only thing they have... is they sit in a room and they come up with creative lies, and then they figure out who's going to say them. Hey, I've got an idea.

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Let's just make up some shit about Medicaid, and we'll have Jamie Raskin go out and say it, and the other designated liars. We can get Adam Schiff to say anything. Swalwell, he'll say anything, designated liar. Anyway. So Dean Phillips, who's a Democrat... Remember he ran for president against Biden because he refused to be a stupid liar, even though he was in the stupid liar party.

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So he tries to position himself as the last reasonable person who is also a Democrat. He does a pretty good job. Pretty good job, which also means he has no chance of being elected. He can't get elected as a Democrat because he's sort of common sense centrist. But he said that he was appalled at how Tim Walz was sort of laughing about the destruction of Tesla.

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And he said, you know, I really don't recognize my party. I don't recognize its principles. What I saw my governor and my friend, Tim, all say today was appalling. And I'm just shocked that someone who should know better read the room so poorly. And I'm going to give him a little bit of credit. I know sometimes some of you hate it when I give any Democrat any credit.

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uh they got together and wrote a letter to the president uh begging him to help with their copyright protection so the the same people were the biggest critics of trump are now begging for help to protect them from ai i don't think this is going to work too well but uh here's what i think so

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But he didn't look like he was acting. That's a big deal. The other Democrats, they look like they know they're lying. And they look like they know they're acting. He's either the best actor I've ever seen, and I don't think that's the case, or he really meant that. He really meant that he was appalled by his own party. I think he meant it. And I don't know.

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I think he's too reasonable to really make it to the top of the party. You need to be a little bit crazy, I think, to get even nominated to run for president. Well, there's some gigantic study about the safety or lack of it for the COVID-19 shots. And there's some appalling outcomes. So here are some of the things they found that these shots would cause.

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Just assume that there are gigantic percentages of increase that are in the three-digit category. So 610% increased risk of myocarditis. following the mRNA injection. 378% more chance of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. 323% increased risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. 249% extra risk of Guillain-Barr. Is that how you say it? Guillain-Barr syndrome. Now, is that what...

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Who's the singer, the young male singer whose face had a little problem? Didn't he have that Gillian bar thing after a shot? So that's pretty awful. I did check with Grok to see if there was anything in terms of cancer. But so far the shots are not confirmed, not confirmed to have any impact on cancer rates. But I don't know that that's been studied as much as it could be.

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But no indication of extra cancer, but these other things are pretty awful. Secretary Marco Rubio says that DEI is gone forever, but he means in the State Department. And he said this divisive and discriminatory practice has no place in our country or our diplomacy. So good for you, Secretary Marco Rubio, get rid of DEI. I like that.

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So I posted on X, and I think I need to explain it a little bit. I said that it feels like this week is the end of the Democrat Party as a political force that can win elections. Now, what I mean is national. So obviously the Democrats will still be dominant in a lot of cities and a lot of states.

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But I feel like they've so destroyed their reputation at this point that I don't know how they can recover. It could be the end of them as a national party. And if you look at sort of what's happening at the moment, The Tesla stuff, I don't think they've calculated that this just completely took away their biggest issue.

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One of the few things that Democrats had left to tell other Democrats that they should vote for Democrats is that the Republicans didn't take climate change seriously, but Democrats did. And now we see with the Tesla protests, they never meant that. That was all fake. So the biggest thing they had left has been debunked. Now, I'm not saying I know what is the answer of climate change.

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Do you remember when AI could first make pictures and little very short videos, you know, like just a few seconds? And then you thought, oh, if it can do that. I can maybe make a movie just by saying, okay, start with that, change this, add another character. But it could never do anything that took off from where the last image ended. It would just be a brand new image.

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I'm just saying that as a political point, it's completely dead. It's dead as it could be. Nobody's going to complain about Trump's coal plants this week because it just makes you look like an idiot. Because if you're still in favor of the Tesla protests... You can't really say you're you're all in on climate change. All right. Nobody's going to believe that. So that just sort of went away.

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Remember when abortion was the biggest question in national politics? Well, one of the smartest things the Republicans did is they knew that they would take a hit by moving it to the states. But it got there. So now that time has passed, that's very much a state issue. And there's Justin Bieber, yes. He's the one who got his face at a little droopiness for a while.

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I think it wasn't permanent, right? So they lost abortion as an issue. They lost climate change as an issue. They certainly lost border as an issue because the border policy is very clearly in favor of Trump. They might lose inflation as an issue because eggs are down and gas is down and Trump's going to meet with the big oil companies today, I think. And he's going to... Oh, is it Bell's palsy?

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Is that what Justin Bieber had? Okay. I guess I'm not up to my pop star health issues. But in the comments, I'm seeing people say Bell's palsy. I think that... the Doge stuff that is now currently the Democrats' biggest thing, the only thing they really have is the scalpel versus the chainsaw.

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And if Doge works, which we will know for sure, and let's say by the third year of Trump's presidency, if it works, nobody's going to remember the scalpel versus the chainsaw. It just has to work. If you can make it work, Everybody's going to say it worked. And that's how history will record it. They won't remember the little talking point. Oh, the scalpel, not the hatchet.

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Oh, the scalpel, not the chainsaw. It'll just completely go away. What about ending the war in Ukraine? I think we're not that close to getting that to end. But I think it'll be done before Trump is done with his term. So that looks like it might go away. So there's a whole lot of things that made it, you know, that gave you a reason. Oh, what about DEI?

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So DEI is being just crushed by the Republicans, you know, as Marco Rubio said. Where's all the pushback? Where are the protests in the street to say, yes, we want more DEI? Apparently, that was never very important to Democrats. It was important to the people who were grifting off it. It was important as a talking point, but apparently it wasn't very important.

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And that people, pretty much everybody understands that you'd rather have capability and skill rather than identity. So that went away. So what do they have left? They're going to fight against common sense. That's all they have left, the fight against common sense. How can that possibly work except locally and maybe at the state level? So we'll see. I can be very wrong on that.

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Here's the alternate argument. The alternate argument is that it's always a pendulum. It doesn't matter what one is doing. You could just say, all right, who's winning this 10 years? Okay, 10 years from now, the other ones will be winning. And after that, we'll go back to the other one winning.

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And I think there's something to that because, you know, each side adjusts when they come up with new lies and new plans. Anyway, so this was the week we learned that Democrats were never serious about climate change. Do you remember there was the undercover video? And I wish I could remember if it was OMG or O'Keefe's old group. I can't remember which got that video.

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I'm going to say OMG because I like O'Keefe. So I'll just say it was his. Where it showed the CNN producer saying, oh yeah, the next big thing we're going to be hitting on is climate change. And once you see that they're treating it as content and they're trying to frame how people think about it, it's hard to say that you can take seriously that they care about it.

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So you couldn't do anything with continuity. But the continuity has been fixed recently, at least by a few apps. So I'm going to guess that we're one year away from anybody being able to create a feature-length movie by just talking to the app. Now, you'd still have to be good at it, so the app isn't going to do all the work for you. But if you were good at it,

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I mean, they talked about it as a thing to put on the news. They didn't really talk about it as, we're going to have to save the world by telling everybody that climate change is bad. And by the way, I just saw Greta Thunberg's name go by in the comments.

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And one of my comments was, don't you think if climate change were real, that Greta Thunberg would have already come out and said, guys, guys, take this seriously. Tesla is not your enemy. I get how you're mad. I get it. I get it. But don't destroy the climate because you're mad at one individual for one reason that has nothing to do with Tesla.

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So the fact that Greta Thunberg is quiet and all the other grifters seem to be quiet, that tells you a lot. I saw a clip of Jimmy Dore, I guess podcast comedian Jimmy Dore, He says he's now doubting climate science because of his COVID experience, you know, learning that the government will lie about literally anything and maybe everything. So he was talking to Matt Taibbi.

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Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but both Matt Taibbi and Jimmy Dore either were or are registered Democrats, right? But both of them got a little red-pilled just by, you know, recent events. But it's funny to see Jimmy Dore. He's like the canary in the coal mine, you know, since he would be one of the ones who would go first because he's already, you know, got a foot in each world.

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But, yeah, Dore was even saying that you can't really believe anybody about anything anymore. And... You talked about all the projections that are not coming true, the coral reefs and all that. But here's the argument, the worst argument. And I want to convince you all not to make this argument. The argument goes, if this were real, Obama never would have bought beachfront property.

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That's a terrible argument. Do you want to know why? Because rich people don't give a flying fig about maybe I'll lose one of my many houses. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, you can kind of put your beach house there and say, well, if in 20 years the water starts rising, I could either sell it or by then I'm dead or I've got five other houses or I'll move it up the beach.

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They don't make decisions like regular people. If they were regular people and they had most of their net wealth in their house and then they put it on the beach, well, that would be a pretty good point. But when you're talking about rich people, no, none of those rules apply. They just want to live by the beach. That's the whole story.

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So stop saying that they don't believe in climate change because they have a beach house. Those two things just don't connect for rich people. Well, Owen Schroyer, who was, I think he's still part of Infowars, right? But he got swatted recently, and he had an update today.

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He said that one of the big problems with chasing after the swatters is that if you're in an area with a Soros DA, the Soros DA will just kill it. So the Soros DA will have no interest whatsoever in going after a swatter of a conservative. Just think about that. Now, I'll bet this is real. I think he heard it from good sources. But that is so awful.

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He also said that there have been pizzas that have been ordered in somebody's name that seem somehow associated with the swatting. Well, the pizzas that were ordered in his name were from the same location that his coworker at InfoWars was murdered recently. So, and it's not even the closest pizza place to him.

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I think you can do it and I'm pretty sure I can feed my books at least my one book That's fiction. I'll bet I could just feed it to the AI and say make a movie out of this. I Now, the problem would be that the AI wouldn't want to violate my copyright, so I'd have to somehow convince it that I had the rights to the book. So that hasn't been solved yet.

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So somebody intentionally picked the location that was where his coworker got murdered recently. And that's sending a message. That's clearly sending a message. So what Owen says is that he's begging people to keep it in the news and make as much noise as possible. Don't forget it, because if the public doesn't push it, the Soros DAs can just ignore it.

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But if there's enough public pressure, then maybe something can get done. On the good news, the administration's taking it very seriously. So Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC... He just said recently that the surge in swatting attacks is a dangerous form of political violence.

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Well, did you know that according to Frontiers in Nutrition, the regular coffee and tea assumption, It lowers your risk of osteoporosis. Did you notice when you sipped that your osteoporosis seemed a little bit better? Yeah. Good science. Well, Elon Musk has raised almost a billion dollars in new equity for X. And here's the fun part. That would value X at about... $32 billion.

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He says, I've been in touch with law enforcement to ensure that they have access to the traceback resources that locate a call's originating point. And bad actors will face accountability, he says. Now, I have a technical question. Maybe some of you know the answer. Does the government have the ability to trace back the source in every case, no matter what technology is being used by the swatters.

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If it's a burner phone, can they at least find out where it was transmitting from? I mean, that won't tell you necessarily the identity of the person, but it might. I mean, it might be the burner phone was in an apartment. Yeah, you don't know if they're smart enough to take the burner phone to someplace public to use it.

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So I'd love to know if the bad actors have found a way to avoid this traceback. My guess is that you can trace a burner phone, but not the identity of the owner. So we'll see. But we also have strong statements by Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Kristi Noem that they're taking this very seriously and they're going to catch these people and they're going to take them to justice. So we'll see.

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Well, over in Egypt, probably most of you saw this story. There's a claim that scientists using this powerful ground penetrating radar have discovered that beneath the pyramids in Egypt, or at least one in particular, there are structures that are maybe twice the height of the tallest building on Earth under the Khafre pyramid in the Giza complex.

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Now, I think they're assuming that maybe other pyramids have structures too, but they allegedly have figured out that there's this enormous pyramid

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complicated structure and that the pyramid would just be the top of it and if you were to dig down two gigantic buildings worth you would see this big structure in there so uh how many of you believe that's true i want to see in the comments how many of you think that's true I'm going to remind you of one of my more famous and effective BS filters. This is what I call the Scott Alexander filter.

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So it's not named after me. It's named after a guy named Scott Alexander, which also was not his real name, by the way. It was a pseudonym. And he once wrote an article that just changed me forever. It just changed me forever. And here's the rule.

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But I think we're really close to here's a book, turn it into a movie. Boom. We're very close. Well, speaking of books, according to Wired magazine, Lily Hay Newman is writing that Now you can buy these low-cost drones from big Chinese companies like Timu and AliExpress that you can add add-ons to the drone to turn them into terrorist weapons. Let me say that again.

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If you ever read a story in the news, and it doesn't have to be about Egyptian pyramids, if you ever read a story in the news where your first reaction is, oh my God, I can't believe that's true. It's not true. Let me say it again. This is a very reliable indicator. If your first impression is, holy cow, I can't believe that's true. It's almost... Always not true.

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What was your first impression when you found out that under the pyramids, that first of all, somebody had ground penetrating radar that could look two gigantic skyscrapers into the ground? Well, if that technology really exists, holy cow, I can't believe it. I guess we'll be spotting all those tunnels on the borders that the cartel's been using, right?

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I guess Israel will be really happy about this new technology because the Hamas will never be able to build a tunnel that they can't detect. I mean, wow, they can look that deep under the ground? I don't think so. So I'm going to go on record as saying that I think the Scott Alexander rule fits this one really well. If I had to make a bet, I'd say 50 to 1, it's not real.

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50 to 1 i don't think it's even close to real and you know they've got pictures and images and no no not not even close i also don't believe that the egyptians the ancient egyptians built the pyramids and then forgot how to do it do you believe that all over the planet in different continents at around the same time people had independently without being able to travel

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know there wasn't that much travel that they independently figured out how to move gigantic rocks in ways that even in the modern world we wouldn't be able to move do you believe that all over the world they learned it and then even better every one of those independent societies that learned how to make pyramids with gigantic boulders. And the pyramids are all over the world.

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They're just different kinds. But they'll have gigantic rocks that we don't know how they moved. Do you think they all forgot? They all forgot. Like nobody wrote it down. Nobody made a hieroglyph to show it being done. It didn't get passed down or they just got tired of doing it. So after hundreds of years or whatever it was,

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building pyramids they just said you know now we're done with pyramids does that sound even a little bit likely i'm going to say that the evidence is strongly suggestive of some culture that came before that was teaching all of them how to move big rocks

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So I'm sure that there was somebody who did have the ability to go from one continent to another, did have the technology to move these big rocks, because somebody did. And it wasn't just whipping the slaves harder. We know that all the ways we can think of wouldn't work. for the largest ones. Some of the smaller rocks you could imagine was just sliding it on sand or something like that.

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But the biggest ones? No, there's no way that the existing population made any of that stuff. So I don't believe any of the Egyptology stuff. Well, here's an update on the LA fires, the Palisades fires. I heard from Joel Pollack, he was posting about this on X, that he had insurance with, or does have insurance with State Farm.

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And he says, State Farm may be the worst insurer in the history of the industry. I just received their laughable estimate for repairs to my home and the contents after the Palisades fire. He says, it is charitably one-tenth of the actual cost. And... And he says that, I guess this is who's in charge of the insurance industry, should shut it down, but he's too busy in Bermuda.

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Now, are other people having the same experience? Because I'll bet they are. Can you imagine having insurance... having fully paid up insurance, and then when you have the disaster, they're only willing to give you about 10% of what it would cost to fix your house. His house survived, but it needs substantial work to make it livable. 10%. So State Farm has some explaining to do.

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And I feel like somebody in the government needs to drag their asses into a room and say, all right, you know, what's going on here? So this is completely unacceptable. So State Farm, you need to fix that. You need to fix that. I guess Trump had a call with Zelenskyy. yesterday. And it was a fantastic conversation. Fantastic.

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China is now selling just commercially to anybody who wants to buy it, drones that will take add-ons that will turn them into terrorist devices. And I don't think that there's any doubt about why they're doing this, because I don't think these are going to be available in China. So it looks like they're setting up the United States to be destroyed by drones.

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And one of the ideas was that instead of doing a mineral deal, so I guess the U.S. has moved away from we'll take your minerals as payment to we'll run your nuclear power plants because we have expertise. I don't know how much expertise we have, but it sounds like a good idea. And I think the idea would be similar to to the mineral deal in the sense that it would give the U.S.

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an important presence and some of the more important assets, nuclear power. So that might be a disincentive for Russia to attack if they knew that America was running the power plants. I don't know if that's enough of a reason for Russia not to attack. I don't know. Meanwhile, the U.S. announced sanctions on Iran. So I always think, how many sanctions could there be left?

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Like, do we have infinite sanctions? And you could just do more of them all the time. So some of them are about targeting Iran's oil minister and its shadow fleet of tankers. So I guess the shadow fleet would be ships that Iran has control of, but they're not not branded as Iranian ships, so they can sneak by the sanctions.

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So somehow, I guess we can figure out what the shadow fleet is, and I don't know how we're going to stop them, unless militarily. But maybe if they're registered to some private company, we can sanction that private company. I don't know. But we'll see if that makes any difference. In other news, a federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration dismantling the USAID.

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And the question is whether Elon Musk, in his advisory capacity, exceeded his authority. To which I say, was there really some point where Elon Musk was making that kind of decision without checking it with the boss? Couldn't Trump do that if he wanted to? Wouldn't Trump be able to cut the budget on USAID?

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Because if Trump could cut the budget, and Musk was talking to him every day about what the big stuff is, he was definitely talking to him about USAID, right? So at what point, if you're in continuous conversation with the boss... can you really say that it wasn't the boss who authorized it? It's not like he had a conversation with Trump and Trump said, well, whatever you do, don't cut USAID.

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And then Elon Musk went and cut it. That didn't happen. No matter what those conversations look like, they were clearly on the same side. So I don't know how the courts can stop that, but we'll see. We'll see. Meanwhile, Kash Patel, you've heard this story before. It says he's going to shield his staff at the FBI from any retribution from Trump.

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So the retribution would be if there were any FBI agents who were involved in any of that lawfare against Trump or any of the dirty tricks against Trump. But I kind of like this. You know, I like that Kash Patel is willing to publicly say, you know, this is a line we're not going to cross, and he's the one who will decide if somebody has done something worthy of firing.

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So I kind of like a little bit of pushback, a little bit. That makes sense to me. So that would be more, I would put this in the scalpel, not the chainsaw category. So if he wants to shield some of them because he thinks they're more valuable than the power of retribution, I'm okay with that.

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Well, according to Mario Noffel, he's talking about there's a new UK defense intelligence report estimating that Russia has suffered around 900,000 casualties in the Ukraine war so far. and up to a quarter million soldiers killed. And that's the highest Russian losses since World War Two. But I guess Putin quite cleverly is doing most of his recruiting, not from Moscow.

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Now, one of the things that you can add is the ability to avoid First of all, it'll carry a payload. So if you want to carry a bomb or some poison or something, they'll sell you that. You can just buy it off the shelf now. I mean through the mail, but it's off the shelf-ish. And you can even get the kind that if it gets jammed, it can turn to visual.

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So if you lived in the populist, the more populated parts of Russia, the more metropolitan areas, you might not be feeling the war because they're not running out of money in Moscow. And that's not where most of the recruits are coming from. So they're getting the recruits from minorities and places that are further away.

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But my question is, how do you kill and wound that many people without eventually everybody in the country saying, what did we get out of this? What was the point of that? If you were wounded, if you were a Russian citizen and you were wounded in that, what exactly were you fighting for? It's not like Ukraine was going to attack you. So wouldn't you feel like that was sort of your Vietnam?

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You know, there wasn't any strong reason to do it. And there certainly wasn't a strong reason to lose a quarter million people. So we'll see. I think maybe Putin has enough control over the media and the country that he can just, you know, come up with a frame that, you know, can keep him in power. But in the U.S., that'd be a bit of a problem. All right. What else is going on?

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So in The Hill, the publication The Hill, there is a opinion piece on Ukraine from Alan Cooperman. Now, what makes David Sachs was pointing this out on X. What makes this unusual is that it starts out with, quote, I rarely agree with President Trump. So this is not a Trump supporter. but he's going to go on to say that Trump was right about Ukraine.

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So I want to read just some of the opinion of somebody who apparently is a Democrat who's not batshit crazy, who's just saying, okay, I don't agree with Trump, but he did get this spot on. So here's what he said. And by the way, you don't have to agree with this. It's just interesting what his argument is. He said that...

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about Trump that his latest controversial statements about Ukraine are mostly true. They only seem preposterous because Western audiences have been fed a steady diet of disinformation about Ukraine for more than a decade.

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So he goes on, Alan Cooperman does, he said it was Ukraine's right-wing militants who started the violence in 2014 that provoked Russia's initial invasion of the country's southeast, including Crimea. Now, here's where I'm going to say Maybe. But it's also possible, the Boris Johnson hypothesis, that Putin had long signaled he was going to take Ukraine. It's in writing.

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He didn't say, I'll take it militarily in writing. But it was well signaled far in advance. And that maybe Putin was using whatever excuse was available as the justification. So I'm not sure I agree with him. But He's agreeing with Trump, and that's the news.

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And he says, second, Zelenskyy contributed to a wider war by violating peace deals with Russia, the Minsk I and Minsk II, and seeking NATO military aid and membership. Now, I do think there was some violating of the agreements, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a little violating in both directions.

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And third, Joe Biden also contributed crucially to the escalation and perpetuation of the fighting. And Biden raised false hopes that somehow Ukraine could win if he just gave it enough support. And nothing's really changed since then. Basically, the borders have changed about 1% in a few years. And he says, even more tragic,

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Whatever peace deals emerge after the world will be worse for Ukraine than the Minsk Accords. Now you could put this in the category of whether or not this interpretation of things is correct. And I do think the Boris Johnson interpretation that Putin was going to do it and he just needed whatever excuse worked. And then there were a few excuses that were given to him and made it easy.

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So as long as it knows what's supposed to be on the ground, it can thwart the jamming. Yeah. This is really happening. Now, you might know that about 20-some years ago, I wrote a book in which I predicted this very time. You've seen the book. It's God's Debris. So God's Debris, the complete work, has three different books in it. But the middle one, The Religion War, is about this exact time.

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So at least easy to make the decision, not easy to do. So my earlier point was, what do the Democrats have? If Trump is right about everything in Ukraine, and Biden was really the problem, and Biden destroyed Ukraine, it's really going to be tough for another Democrat to say, but trust me, I'm not going to make that Biden mistake.

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Meanwhile, over at the University of Glasgow, they did a study in Scotland, and apparently they found that four out of five men who were in prison in Scotland have a history of head injury.

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four out of five now do you believe that now a lot of people ask but what does the normal male have it's not unusual for a normal male to have a head injury anybody who played a sport anybody who rode a bicycle you know head injuries are really common for men boys especially so i don't know if that's way on a line

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Or it could be that the same people who would not worry about a crime don't worry about doing something dangerous that could hurt your head. So it could be just that it shows that there's a certain group of people who are not afraid of stuff. Maybe they should be more afraid, but aren't. So I'm not sure if it's exactly telling us what we think. But I will tell you my stepson, who is now deceased,

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He had a serious head injury on a bicycle. Now, he was wearing a helmet, so it was a very freak situation that the helmet didn't protect him. But he had a very serious head injury, and his personality completely changed. So he went from the most cautious boy you've ever met, just super cautious about sports, about anything, to having no fear about anything.

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And that no fear about anything is eventually what killed him because he wasn't afraid of taking dangerous drugs. And so he overdosed. And he knew it because I talked to him not long before it happened and said, all right, you do understand that this stuff here, you know, these pills likely have fentanyl in them. And he would tell me, yes.

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We all know that these have fentanyl in them and that they could kill you. But he wasn't afraid of anything. And so I've seen it in my real life that somebody's personality goes from cautious in a way that keeps you alive to willing to take risks that I've never even seen before. I mean, just hard to believe risks. So I'm willing to believe that this head injury thing has some validity.

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I don't know. Based on anecdote. One anecdote. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for you today. That's my show for today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to say some private stuff to the local subscribers. But the rest of you, I'll see you next time if you're on X or Y. YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining. And local supporters coming at you privately right now.

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So 20-some years ago, I said, you know, terrorists are going to be able to buy a little drone. They're going to be able to weaponize it. And they're going to be able to launch it. And you won't know where it came from. And it will be able to snake through your city and attack anything it wants. And then we're going to be in big trouble. So that's where that is.

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By the way, some of you have asked, but now this is an audio book. So you can buy God's Debris of the Complete Works as an audio book. So a bunch of you are asking, when's the audio book going to be available? It's available now. So it's not me, but I picked the reader of the book. The reason I couldn't do it is I have too much, I'm just too dyslexic. You know, I think I'm worse than I used to be.

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I tried to do the audiobook myself, spend some time at the studio. But I can't really read sentences anymore because I can't read them in the order they're written, even if I wrote the sentence, weirdly. So I was unable to do it just from mental disability. But also, you were asking me about the audiobook for my other book. Had it failed, almost everything still wouldn't bake.

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This is a second edition, not the first edition. This is the one you want. But the audiobook for that is also available. So there's that. Well, but there's even more danger coming. Apparently China, according to the register, Chinese satellites are already practicing dogfighting in space, which would be military preparation for a war in space. So it's not theoretical.

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They're already practicing dogfights in space. But here's the just sort of slipped into the story. Apparently, they already have a refueling station in space, China does, for refueling satellites. Now, I don't even know what that means. How do you refuel a satellite? What are you refueling it with? I don't even know what that means. But apparently, some kind of refueling satellite thing.

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So we'll probably be fighting in space before long. Trump is looking, according to The Hill, Trump is looking to boost the amount of coal energy this country creates. Now, you may say to yourself, what? Coal? That's dirty and it's old school and it's not as good as nuclear and there are lots of reasons not to use coal. However, as Trump points out, China is building a ton of coal power plants.

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And if there's one thing I can teach you about economics, it's that whoever has the most energy usually wins for economics. So if the only way you can have enough energy, and it looks like we're going to have a massive energy squeeze with all the AI and everything else, if the only way you can do it is with coal power, even with all the downsides, the pollution, etc., Probably it's worth doing.

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And that would be close to what he bought it for. So basically, the outrageous price they paid for X has already paid for itself. Do you remember when the biggest thing you could say against Elon Musk was, well, he's not such a genius. He overpaid for X. And those of us who are a little bit smarter said, you know, just wait. I'd wait a little bit on that.

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Now, here's the fun part. I think Trump picked exactly the right week to announce this, because it's the week that the left is planning to destroy Tesla as a company, and they're going big on trying to destroy Tesla, which proves they were never serious about climate change. So at the same week that the left has proven that they were never serious about climate change,

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Trump comes out with the most anti-climate change policy you could ever even imagine, which is, hey, let's build a whole bunch of coal power plants. I think Trump says stuff like, you know, clean, beautiful coal. I don't know how clean you can make a coal plant, but I do know if your options are making the atmosphere a little dirtier and having enough energy,

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You're going to want that, as bad as that is. I mean, you know, I'm not trying to downplay any of the negatives. There's a lot of negatives. But the positives are, unfortunately, in a competitive world, it's going to be necessary. So I'm very grudgingly in favor of this, but I hate it. I hate it, but I understand it.

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Well, the JFK files are not completely out, but the ones that are out, it's mostly out. But the ones people look through do not seem to have any bombshells. But let me just give you, you know, sort of the things that people are saying about it. So according to Grok, the files so far would be supportive of the single gunman theory. Is that what you think?

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Do you think that the files so far are supportive of the single shooter? I don't know. I'm not entirely sure that's what it's telling us. I am sure that it's not telling us anybody else did it. So it's not really suggesting somebody else did it. But it's not really supportive of the lone gunman theory. It's more like it's not ruling it out, I guess. That would be one of the things.

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One of the revelations is that, you already heard this, that one of Kennedy's main trusted advisors is Schlesinger. You warned that the CIA was running its own foreign policy. 40% of the embassies were CIA. And the deep state already existed. And he was telling Kennedy that he needs to dismantle it. Otherwise, basically, you've lost your country and that the CIA would be in charge.

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And not long after that, Kennedy was assassinated. We do know there's more information that the CIA had a mafia connection. The connection seems to be related to Cuba, maybe efforts to assassinate Castro. We do know that Oswald was known to be a poor marksman, which sort of suggests he wasn't the shooter.

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But I think Russia, the Soviet Union, also had been watching him and said he was a poor marksman. And I guess we said he's a poor marksman. So everybody agreed he was a poor marksman. We know Oswald was being watched by the CIA for some good time before the shooting. That's a little suspicious.

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If you want to go full conspiracy theory, there were a bunch of references to Israeli intelligence that had been, I guess, long redacted in these files, but now they're unredacted. But they don't say anything that's interesting about Israel. So the only thing that it tells us about Israel...

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is that the cia and israel intelligence i guess they did a lot of work together which kind of made sense somebody said that in the middle east at that time the soviet union had a lot of control over the arab countries and the only non-soviet union controlled entity was israel so we had a tight relationship with them with intelligence but there's no indication that israel had anything to do with the assassination it's just referenced a bunch of times

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Let's see. There's some information that there was this telephone call the CIA intercepted when Lee Harvey Oswald was trying to talk to a KGB agent in Mexico City, I guess Oswald was trying to get to. Mexico to get to Cuba to get to the Soviet Union. But we don't know how that's related to any shooting. Let's see. There's a story about this CIA agent, Gary Underhill. So he was a CIA guy.

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who said that he knew that the shooting was done by a small group of CIA agents. But somebody else said that the only information about that guy was in a communist publication. So I would put the credibility of that one guy pretty low. I don't think that means anything. And let's see. And then then that guy was allegedly found shot to death and there was ruled a suicide.

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But that seems low credibility. So here's my take. Do you remember my prediction about the JFK files? Well, what were my predictions? My prediction was there'd be nothing new. There's a little bit new about Schlesinger saying that the CIA was out of control, but we kind of knew that. I mean, I feel like we knew that, right? I knew it. We knew that Kennedy wanted to get rid of the CIA.

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So that's not really new. So you remember that allegedly... trump said that if you saw what i saw you would not have released the jfk files is there anything in these documents that would have scared trump and told him not to release them answer no so do you believe that there's more documents that maybe we've yet to see that's the good stuff or do you think that the good stuff was simply removed

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So based on the amount you just raised, which means he has plans for X, I think. I assume that's not just to retire some debt. It's probably also to make sure he can do some new stuff. But it looks like his purchase of X was a good investment. Yeah. Of all the things in the world, it was one of the very few things his critics had to cling to.

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and we're just given a bunch of not interesting stuff to just keep us diverted and make us think we saw something. I think it's the dumbest question in the world because if it's true, if it's true that there was something horrible in the files, wouldn't the most obvious thing to do just remove those few documents and then try to sell the rest as complete? It's the most obvious thing you would do.

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The greatest reframe you've ever seen is coming at you today. All right. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time.

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It might be something you wouldn't do, but not illegal. So let's see what kind of good things they're up to. On their website, they listed partnerships with two other non-profits. Well, this is good. So they're not operating alone like some little you know, criminal organization, they're tied to other nonprofits. So that makes you feel more comfortable, right?

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Because they have connections to other nonprofits. Yeah. So let's see, those other nonprofits, they were both founded by, oh, Stacey Abrams. So Stacey Abrams got $2 billion for a brand new nonprofit that had only $100 before that. but it's connected with two other nonprofits that she also founded. Now, what would be the purpose of having interconnected organizations? Let's see.

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I remember Hunter Biden had lots of shell companies. And I remember it was at Frenzy's, the ex-mobster who used to do crime for a living, who explained that the one and only reason you have all these interconnected entities is for fraud. So you can move money around and it's hard to know why anything went anywhere. But that's just a pattern.

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It's not illegal to be reminded that it looks like some other thing that's a crime. you know, it would have to be a crime itself. It's not enough to say it just looks like one, right? So you can't say that it's a crime. Let's see, she also serves, Stacey Abrams also serves as the senior counsel for something called Rewiring America that leads a coalition of groups.

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Okay, so she's also in charge of something that leads a coalition of other groups. that would include the power forward communities. Okay, so she started a group that's associated with other groups that she's associated with, but don't worry because it's controlled by a larger group in which she's also the senior counsel. Yeah, that doesn't look suspicious at all.

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Like the chip is not the thing that, we got this magic chip and the news is all abuzz. But it's still years away. The claim is that now those years of work are more, it's a more clear and obvious path. So we're definitely going to get to quantum computing. And it's just, it's only just years away. It's just years away. So at about the same time as fusion, which, by the way, is years away.

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So if you think anything is suspicious about that, there's something wrong with you. I judge you, you. Stacey Abrams is not accused of any crime, and I see no crime in anything I just described. It does look exactly like the pattern of criminal behavior. Exactly, exactly like the pattern. But that doesn't mean it is.

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You can't go to a court and say, jury, we don't see any actual crimes, but a lot of what she did is like the pattern of a crime. That's not a crime. So I can't say that I see anything criminal. I do see something that really needs to stop. It really needs to stop. Whatever this is, there needs to be less of this. Whatever it takes to get there. Legally, of course.

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But yeah, I don't need to know that it's a crime or not. That's almost beside the point. You can't do this with our $2 billion. That's, you can't put $2 billion into a, you know, some kind of a, some kind of a network of interconnected shady organizations. You know, unless you're Hunter Biden. Well, in other news, House Democrats are trying to put together a bill to kill the Doge program.

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They would just need three GOP defectors. Can you imagine what would happen to any Republican who voted to kill Doge for any reason? Talk about a quick way to end your career. I think nearly 90% of donors would say, wait, you did what? Yes, I was one of the three GOP who voted to kill Doge. I must be hearing this wrong. You did what? Yep, yep, I'm proud of it.

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I was one of the people who killed Doge. And you're a Republican, right? Yep, proud Republican. I just thought I went too far. Those cuts, it looked like they were up to no good. Okay, you know that you don't have a fucking chance of winning another election. You're done. You're as done as you could possibly be. And that's kind of what I like about the Republicans right now.

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They're not taking prisoners. This is if you're going to be the one who fucks our entire country, you're going down, you know, in a legal, of course, appropriate way. But that has to be the most severe consequences within the law. If you were to derail Doge at this point, at this point, I don't think it's going to happen.

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But the fact that the best thing that the Democrats have is to go after something that's very popular. They're literally organizing around one of the most popular things that's ever happened in the country. It's one of the most popular things. Now, it's only just over 50%.

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But if you can get a brand new Republican or even a brand new Democrat president who can get a 56% on a brand new thing that's got a lot of energy and it's making a big difference, that's amazing support in our country. That would be amazing support. Well, let's see if the Trump effect is affecting anything else.

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I don't know if this is the Trump effect, but according to polls, Francis Macron, if he ran an election today, he would lose by a lot, by 18% margin to Le Pen. So I don't follow French politics too much, but it seems like that would be quite the earthquake. I know that Le Pen's been trying since about the same time that Trump's been trying the first time, 2016, and it didn't work then.

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But it looks like Macron has just disgraced himself to the point that Le Pen would be a shoe-in. Now, I think that doesn't mean that Le Pen becomes the leader. France is a little more complicated than that. But in terms of popularity, it's not even close. Is that the Trump effect? See, I think anybody who doesn't act like Trump is going to look much less desirable going forward.

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It's just years away. Any year now. With the flying car. So we'll get the flying car, the fusion, and the quantum computing, I think, exactly on the same day. That's my prediction. Well, today is show us the cash day. Cash Patel will get his vote. We'll see if he makes it to be the head of the FBI. And the question I have is,

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Because every day that Trump has a good week, or every week he has a good week, is going to make any leader who's anti-Trump just look like a moron. And it's just going to get worse every day. So Macron will probably just go lower. You know, this is a pretty big difference in popularity, but I think he's heading even lower.

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All right, well, here, Jonathan Turley was posting about this and writing about it. The so-called Royal Society... out of Great Britain. It's one of the most prominent scientific organizations. And they used to, you know, support, I don't know, they used to have such luminaries, according to Turley, as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

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So this is the most, maybe the most prestigious scientific organization in the world, at least the Western world. But the British scientists, they've decided that they want to expel Elon Musk. So they want to kick him out, Elon Musk, because they disagree with his political views. Yeah, they disagree with his political views.

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And so a whole bunch of scientists from this royal society got together and they signed a document saying that they'd like to kick Elon Musk out of their society. Now, I'd like to ask you a question. And this will be like a pop quiz. Let's see how well you do this. What would be the two least credible entities in 2025? Well, one of them would be Great Britain.

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And the other would be anything that a group of experts sign to say is true. Those are the two least credible things in the world. I don't trust anything about England or Great Britain at the moment. I don't even know what team they're on, literally.

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because I don't need to get into the details, but if you go all the way back to Russia collusion, there's a lot of British fingerprints on that, if you know what I mean. I don't know exactly what they're up to, but a lot of British fingerprints. But then they've got this Royal Society and get a bunch of scientists to sign on the same opinion.

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When was the last time you saw a whole bunch of experts sign on to the same opinion? that wasn't absolute bullshit. Has it ever happened?

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I feel like whenever the experts all sign a document, be it 51 intelligence experts or be it scientists who are backing climate models or be it this, whenever you see that the experts have to sign a document and they all got together, that's almost never true, in my opinion. Now, you could argue that in your opinion it is true, But I think that's a real good indication of lack of credibility.

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So it's just a political thing. All right. I saw Insurrection Barbie had some great posts today. I'm going to talk about a few of them. Insurrection Barbie on X, you should follow that account. So Insurrection Barbie says, once you realize that the entire resistance to Trump is made up of like 300 super connected Democrats,

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and then a bunch of paid protesters, you realize why the last election, why they lost the election, and why they keep leading voters. Now, do you buy that? My neighbors promised me that they would not use heavy equipment before 8 a.m. my time. It's now 7.30 a.m. That's very heavy equipment. I think my microphone doesn't pick it up, but right now I'm in the middle of a war zone.

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You can't tell probably. I hope you can't tell. But the Interaction Barbie's idea that there are only 300 well-connected Democrats, that completely tracks with my impression of what's going on. Have you noticed how it's the same bunch of

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Are anti-trump and they their jobs can change and they might be in the you know this Congress But that they might be the Senate later then they used to be in the nonprofit, but now they're working for Biden But now Biden's gone.

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They're back to a nonprofit and they're just cycling around if you could control 300 entities Because you had 300 people that you know because you had other Democrats they can support them you'd make sure you had Democrats and all the key places and

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Do you suppose that like the rest of the big administration nominees, that Cash will have some dramatic and notable first day rules? Do you think something big is going to happen in the next, say, 48 hours? I'm assuming he gets the vote. We think that he's going to get through, right? If he gets through, what does he have planned for the first day? I'm going to make a prediction.

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If you could control the money that controls the protests and then you could control the news, because you would only need, what, 20 people under your control in the entire news business and you could control the entire news with 20 people. Think about that. If your 20 people were the heads of some news organizations, they would just make sure that the other people were on the same team.

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You would only need about 20 people And so, yes, I think there are about 300 people that are sort of a shadow government of Democrats that are not exactly the same as being part of the republic. It's like a group that's trying to be their own republic within the republic and to make the actual democratic republic maybe a puppet.

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And I think they've done an incredibly successful job of gaining power that way. Amazingly successful. But they're up against a once-ever personality in Trump. And what happens when they play their games and they say, but Trump is a monarch. He's a monarch. He's trying to be a king. And then even Time Magazine had a photo of Trump wearing a king's crown. Oh, man, they're so good.

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They're so good at controlling the media. What will Trump do? How could Trump possibly get out of this trap of being called a monarch? Well, what he did was he killed congestion pricing for driving into Manhattan, and then he posted about it bragging, and he said, congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is saved. Long live the king. And then he puts a photo of the Time magazine.

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Okay. But, you know, I know you might get tired of me being sort of a fanboy for Trump's persuasion skills. Now, just to be clear, I'm not endorsing every single thing Trump has ever done all of his life. That's not my job. But when he does persuasion better than you've ever seen it, and then he keeps doing it, I'm going to be continued to be, I'll continue to be impressed.

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And I don't apologize for that. This is one of the first of all it's very trumpian that he could do this and get away with it he's just using mockery so he's taking one of their strongest attacks and he's just basically taking the gun out of their hands and using it against them has he ever done that before yes over and over and over he just keeps doing it you remember the mug shot

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He has the mugshot framed and hanging in the Oval Office. So all of his enemies have to walk past the mugshot. And then the media noticed and said, hey, you've got your mugshot on the wall of the Capitol. It's like you're mocking your enemies. And then they make a big story about it. And then we all laugh about it. We think, ah, that's the best mockery I've seen.

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As long as he does mockery of their absurd little attacks, he's golden.

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mockery is very effective and he does it so well uh i i don't think there could have been the fact that he used he used his long live the king in the context of congestion pricing in manhattan so he didn't even connect it to something like stopping a war or saving the country or you know the like the big big issues it's like hey it looks like i killed congestion pricing and

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In Manhattan, long live the king. Could not be better. You can't beat that. All right. I promised you I was going to give you the reframe of reframes. You are not going to be able to forget this one. Because once I give you the frame, everything you see is going to stick to it. Now, it's a little bit of something you've heard before, but it's never been completed.

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So I'm going to complete the reframe like you've never heard it before. You ready? All right. So let's look at what Trump is bringing to politics. And then we'll look at what the Democrats are bringing to politics. And then I'm going to put it in a frame that you'll never forget. So let's start with Trump.

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Would you agree that if you look at the, let's say the theme or the strategy that he brings to politics, Would you say that he's bringing humor, strength, energy, risk-taking, but risk-taking that makes sense, unity, and potential for greatness? So he talks about greatness. He's funny. He's got strength. He's energy. What does that sound like? Well, first of all, he focuses on real things.

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Aside from the normal firings, you know, there seems like there's always firings. But I think he's going to announce an investigation into something that had not yet been investigated that we all wish had been investigated. I'm going to predict there will be a crowd pleaser.

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This is an important point. Trump focuses on real things. We've got a deficit. There's childhood, chronic illnesses. I can stop this war. Those are real things. Very, very real things. So he's got humor, strength, energy, optimism. I should have said optimism, but lots of optimism. He's making things great. There's action. What does that sound like? I'll tell you what it sounds like.

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It sounds like every movie that males want to watch. If I pick a movie, do I want a sad one? No. Do I want action where it's a bunch of bad things that happen one after another? Not so much. But do I want an action movie where there's lots of funny in-between stuff? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Every man wants an action movie with optimism, energy, humor, strength, risk-taking.

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The good people come together and there's a potential for greatness. Trump is every man's and every boy's favorite movie. Now, this is just the first part of the reframe. It doesn't come together until I do the second part. Now let's look at the Democrat approach. They lead by victimization, division by identity, weakness. Oh, we're weak, we're weak, we need help.

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They're sad that they're living through a slow motion disaster of some sort. And they mostly focus on things that have no basis in reality, like losing their democracy, Trump's a dictator, and they're gonna lose their bodily autonomy. Literally things that don't exist. Now, I was watching CNN, And there was a split screen in which Jake Tapper was having a frown off with Kara Swisher.

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Now, if you watch enough media, do you know why Kara Swisher gets invited on CNN? It's because she's willing to say more sad and unhappy things about Elon Musk, which are not real. They're just imaginary. And And then Jake Tapper does his famous Tapper tilt when he's listening, turns his head to one side and he frowns. So he's frowning on one side and then Kara Swisher is really sad.

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She's got the saddest frowny face and she's got things to say about Elon Musk that are completely imaginary about the things he might do and the things he might be thinking and the potential for the future. that something could go wrong. He might look at your private data. He might do something where there's a conflict of interest and nobody catches it. He might be bad.

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He might not be doing working for your benefit. But all of those things are imaginary and they're all sad and they're a little melodramatic and they're not really action oriented. They don't have any comedy. There's no optimism whatsoever. It's just melodramatic

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so that at least one thing that Kash Patel says within the next seven days, assuming if he gets the vote, something he's going to say in the next seven days will make you go, whoa, I always wished that would happen, but I never thought it would. So that's my prediction. Meanwhile, Grok, the A.I., FromX is the number one downloaded app at the moment.

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sad character based so the democrats are character based oh you're a racist oh you're really gonna cheat oh you don't care oh you're a monarch it's all character now i'm not done yet wait till i when did i complete the loop so if you were to com if that's the only thing you knew

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that that trump was creating the best movie ever the exact feeling that the boys and men like action energy optimism comedy you know risk taking unity potential for greatness it's all we want to see in a movie and and then you look at the democrats they're also doing a movie but what's different about their movie who is it who reads most of the movie, who reads most fiction? Women.

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Let's talk to AI and find out what AI says about this, because I asked it today. Well, AI says that 70 to 80% of fiction, which is usually melodrama, is women. So women for entertainment are driven to sadness and and tragedy for entertainment and mostly fiction. Men like real things. They like nonfiction or things that if they're fiction, they're optimistic and happy and funny.

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Now, let's see if these examples can make the point. Let's see. Al Sharpton went on MSNBC and he said he joined Joy Reid And he talked about the dangerous direction of Trump. Well, the dangerous direction is something that isn't real. It's just something you worry about. It's literally fiction. Okay, imagine a dangerous direction.

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And he says he's being pushed by characters like JD Vance and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. In other words, it's about their character and their personalities. That's a woman's movie. He said, Trump isn't shaping a nation. He's trying to drag us back into pre-1950 America, erasing diversity and rights for women and people of color. Now, none of that is part of the real world. That is pure fiction.

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Who watches fiction? Women. Women like fiction, especially if it's sad. So he's got some sad fiction for the women who watch MSNBC. He says, the real danger, we have an entertainer playing a role rather than a leader upholding democracy. Okay. And so far, that's been a problem how? It hasn't. It's just not part of the real world.

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In the real world, it turned out that having showman skills works really well with politics. Trump is, I would argue, the most capable politician maybe of all time. I don't think anybody's come close. But Joy Reid, also MSNBC, said separately, she said,

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for years has been said by analysts and former intelligence officers that donald trump has at best at best a profound affinity for russia and at worst is and has long been a russian recruit okay trump as a russian recruit is that based on any reality no even joy reed doesn't based on a reality it's fiction it's literally fiction and it's really sad Because imagine if this were true.

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So it's sad fiction. Who reads and consumes sad fiction? Women. 80% of it is consumed by women. How about Joe Scarborough? Also on MSNBC. He said today, quote, they're going to take away medical research. Talking about Trump. They're going to take away medical research? That's literally the opposite of what Kennedy's doing.

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And that's even, as Elon says, before the voice mode, the thing that allows you to just have a conversation with it. That's before that's even in the app. But that's coming real soon. And some other cool features. So will Elon Musk have the greatest AI? And will it remain the greatest AI? There's a pretty good argument that that's the way it's going to go.

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Kennedy is trying to make sure there is medical research that's dependable. It's the opposite. So he says, those plane crashes you're seeing, you're going to see more of them. Based on what? They're pretending that the people fired at the FAA are the air traffic controllers. Nobody said that. That's fiction. I'm sure the people fired are more likely to be back office people.

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I don't even know that. It's just obviously true. He said there are going to be cuts in food safety, water safety, air safety. So how much of that? Now, that might be true that there might be cuts in regulations, but does that mean the cuts in the regulations are bad for you? This is all imaginary. It's all imaginary. How about Jasmine Crockett, one of their favorite people they like bringing on?

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She said on MSNBC, the The only thing Trump is doing is lining his and Elon's pockets. What's the evidence of that? Have you seen them lining their pockets? Now, could it happen? Well, anything could happen. Could it be true that Biden lined his pockets? Yes. Could it be true that some past president lined his pockets? Yes. Could it be true that a future president might try to line their pockets?

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Yes. But unless it happens, it's fiction. It has to actually happen. You don't accuse people of the crime that they haven't done. You have to accuse them of something they might have actually done. This is pure fiction. Who consumes fiction? 80% of it, women, especially if it's sad. It involves characters. So there's your reframe.

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Do you think it's a coincidence that the Democrats are the party of women and that they've created the type of fiction that women absolutely love? It's about the character flaws of the people, and it's a melodrama, and it looks like there's going to be a lot of sadness between now and then, and it's fiction. That's a little bit on point, isn't it?

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Because that's exactly the type of stuff that women consume five to one over men. And then you look at Trump, and is that not the perfect male movie? The humor, the energy, the action movie, the optimism, the unity will bring it all together in the end. In the long term, it's going to be a great victory. Perfect.

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Now, if you were to say there are these two themes and they're competing against each other, which one wins? The male theme every time. The male theme every time. Every time, because it's everything positive. You're going to get far more people who say, I can't stand the sad stuff. Then you're going to get people who say, you know what? I could use more sad stuff.

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It's going to be a lot easier to get a woman to sit through a Marvel superhero movie that's maybe not first choice. A lot easier than to get a man to enjoy. You might get him to do it because he wants sex, but he's not going to enjoy sitting through a sad movie. We just don't like it. So Trump has taken the perfect male movie and the MSNBC and the Democrats have chosen the perfect female movie.

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And that's the reframe. And you're never going to forget it. Because once you start watching that what the Democrats criticize is fiction, always, all of their problems are fiction. And then you see that the Republicans are all about real stuff. You can't get rid of it. That will infect all of your other impressions from now on. Well, Trump and Elon were on Hannity, as all of you know.

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Because if creating the best intelligent app requires creating the fastest and biggest and best infrastructure, who's better at creating the best and fastest and best infrastructure? It's sort of nobody's, it's not even the second place. So in theory, if you're going to predict which AI becomes dominant and stays that way,

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And he was talking about the press. He had this to say. Trump did. He said, you have to watch the enemy, MSNBC, on occasion. Now, isn't it funny he calls them the enemy? Now, I think that's fair. They're definitely not a news program. The other thing you have to understand is CNN is news with a bias. Fox News is news with a bias. We all understand what it looks like to see news as a bias.

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That's not what MSNBC is. They're not news with a bias. It's entirely fiction. It's just a female movie. That's all it is. It's just a character assault So they invite all the character assault people on and do that. Now, when Jake Tapper has Kara Swisher on, that's more like the female movie. But CNN does sometimes, actually every day, they put on somebody who will represent the other side.

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And Fox News does that too. Every time, every day, actually, at least weekdays, every weekday, they'll put on somebody who can at least represent the other side. So bias, we understand. MSNBC is not about that. They are not about the news. Once you understand that's not a news network, then everything starts making sense.

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And he says about, Trump says about the, I think mostly about MSNBC, he says the level of arrogance and cheating is horrible. They're horrible people. They're horrible people. It does seem like that sometimes. They lie. They couldn't care less about the Constitution. I watched them asking questions with hatred and anger. So he said the MSNBC is the enemy. He says, but CNN is bad.

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The bias is so incredible. PBS is bad. And they said CBS took an answer for Kamala and literally put it in an answer she gave 20 minutes later. I've never heard of this at all. Now, I've softened that by saying it's not that unusual for the big entities to manufacture a quote. Unfortunately, it's way more ordinary than you think. It's not good. Nobody likes it.

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If you're the person who got the manufactured quote, nobody likes it. But yeah, it's skeevy. So he's correct to call it out as illegitimate. But it is more common than people know. And then getting back to insurrection Barbie, one of the things that the Democrats like to say these days is that, you know, Musk is an unelected billionaire who is trying to control the country.

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Now, every single Republican said, wait, say that again? Yeah, Musk is an unelected billionaire trying to control the country. And then every single Trump supporter at least said, you know how weird that sounds, right? coming from Democrats? No, I don't understand what you're saying. Okay. Have you heard of a guy named George Soros? Well, well, Trump's a racist.

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I mean, at that point, they have to talk over you. You know that Democrats just talk over you if you make a good point. So you can't get any further than that. But that's where they start talking over you. So Interaction Barbie goes after this pretty hard and says, about unelected people running our government, said even before Biden was inaugurated. So this is some stuff I'd never heard before.

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Before Biden was inaugurated, he had, quote, transition review teams, transition review teams. Well, that sounds like something you'd like if you're going to transition into the government. Yeah, you might see you might need some transition review teams. And they had these teams for every department within the government. Well, that makes sense. That's good preparation.

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You've got a transition team for every part of the government. Solid, solid planning there, Democrats. And those teams had to understand all the operations of the specific government agencies so that the administration would be ready on day one. Well, this all sounds great. It's great.

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It would be the one that's being supported by the person who can build a data center in an hour and a half. That's not true. But things that other people just can't do, infrastructure and manufacturing-wise. So that's impressive. Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham had a conversation with Zelensky. And Zelensky is happy about that.

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I didn't realize the Democrats were that well prepared, but they had this transition team ready for every part of the government, and they had an expert. It wasn't some new person, first day on the job. And then Instruction Barbie says there's 17 picks for those transition teams worked directly for the Soros organization? Wait, worked for the Soros organization.

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Didn't have an association with them, worked for them. were actually employees of Soros. And he could call them and direct them on what policy to push in each department. The following are examples of agencies that had a transition team member directly working in a Soros organization. So the transition teams were not even just Democrats. They were Soros, also Democrats.

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but they were Soros employees. And here's the things that they had the most influence on. Have you ever heard of these parts of the government? The State Department? Have you heard of the State Department? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Already gone. United States Mission to the United Nations, the Department of Defense. Department of Defense?

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the Department of Labor, the Department of the Treasury, the banking and security regulators, the National Security Council. Did you know that two-thirds of all the visits to the White House, I think this is by Soros, coincided with the Biden White House climate change initiatives? That there was a Soros visit to the White House right before every Biden climate change initiative announced anyway.

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Well, that's a big coincidence. And that Alex Soros, who's now the person in charge of stuff, he met with the Biden White House 33 times in two years. 33 times? I haven't met with anybody 33 times in two years. 33 times?

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Now, in my opinion, so the funny thing here is that the Democrats seem to be completely unaware that Soros essentially was controlling the government by knowing exactly where the levers were. So lever number one, you get all these local prosecutors so you can control the Department of Justice and jail your enemies. And number two, you get these transition teams. Transition teams.

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They were literally just there to propagandize people and probably tell them, you know, you know, if you do it this way, things will be good for you. And if you do it this other way, things might not be so good for you. So kind of brilliant how well Soros figured out how to control our government.

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And I would say I'm not positive about this, but I'll just speculate because I can't read anybody's minds. I'm going to speculate that Elon Musk would not be involved as heavily as he is with the government, unless Soros did what Soros did. I think that part of what Elon, and again, I can't read any minds.

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So I'm just really talking about my own feelings and then I'm projecting them onto somebody unfairly. But it seems to me that the Spider-Man curse drives Elon to some extent. Now, the Spider-Man curse is that great power comes with great responsibility. Elon Musk has assembled, just through success and money, great power. And also through X, he had a big platform.

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He says, we greatly appreciate the bicameral and bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress. It's funny that he's talking about Lindsey Graham and he said bye twice. Bicameral and bipartisan. Is there any other? I don't know. He might have left that one. But he says the Ukrainian people are very, very happy about it and want to fight against what they call the Russian aggression.

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So for a variety of reasons, he had great power. And then imagine being a billionaire and looking at some other billionaire corrupting the country, in your opinion, such as Soros. and realizing that the government wasn't even strong enough to handle that one billionaire.

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There was nobody in the government who had the right skill, the right risk profile maybe, the right level of intelligence to take on George Soros. What would you do? What would you do if you knew that the only way to take down a billionaire was to be the stronger billionaire? It's the only way. Because the government absolutely can't do it. It would have happened by now if they could.

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I feel like, although I've never heard him say it, so again, I'm just projecting my own views onto another person, which is not fair. So this is just speculation. I think if Soros had not taken control of the government, that the Spider-Man curse would not have been so strong. And Elon might have said, how about I just build my rockets and

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you know, make the country better the way I've been doing it so far. I feel like he would have maybe said, you know, you can handle the budget. Now, I do like the fact also that the budget problem is an existential risk. And Musk is, he does double down on all existential risks. So getting to Mars is about saving humanity. It's not just cool.

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It's specifically to save humanity in case the one planet thing isn't enough diversification, which is, of course, in the long run, would not be enough diversification. So we have to be interplanetary or we're not really going to survive. There's not really that option of surviving. But the debt was a lot like that. So to argue the other side of what I just argued,

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even without Soros, if he realized he might be the only person who could possibly save us from the escalating debt, well, that too would be the Spider-Man curse. The person who has the ability has to do it. Now, I can only tell you from my own personal experience that every now and then, There seems like a problem that I'm uniquely suited to attack.

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And the first thing I think is, damn it, am I really that uniquely suited to attack that thing? And then when I realize I might be, I just have to. It's the Spider-Man curse. I've had enough good things happen to me that if there's a problem in the country that only I... I won't say only I, but if I have some...

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you know, a little extra gear about a specific problem, not problems in general, but there might be some specific things I can make a difference. I'm all in. And I can't even help it. I wouldn't be able to talk myself out of it. It's the Spider-Man curse. If you have the power and you're one of the people who can fix the problem, well, there you are. There you are.

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There's a Quinnipiac poll that says 22% of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job. And that's a new all-time low. Now, don't get too happy because it's not like Republicans are, you know, at 60% popularity. I think they're 40-ish. But 40-ish is still about double what the Democrats are looking at at this point. So things are not looking good for Democrats. Um,

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And then Trump continues to do things that look like common sense. And here's another one. I wasn't aware of this until today, but the federal government, well, I guess I knew this in general. The federal government controls D.C., but the federal government decided that it would delegate it to the local D.C. government. But it doesn't have to keep it that way.

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And he says Senator Graham is being constructive, doing a lot to help peace closer. And the way he's doing that is trying to make sure that we give them more money. So Lindsey Graham is trying to make the world a safer place by giving your money to somebody else. Has that worked before? Is giving our money away the way we stay safe? I don't know. I'd like to see the data on that.

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So, you know, maybe there'll be a Supreme Court case on this. But the argument is that if the federal government decided to take back control of D.C. because it got out of hand and it's too dangerous, that they would be able to do it. The Constitution would would accept that. So Mike Lee, based Mike Lee, he says. So Trump says the federal government should take over the governance of D.C.

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and run it properly. And Mike Lee says it's right. The Constitution puts Congress in charge of D.C. And they've only delegated the authority to the D.C. government, which means they could take it back. And so he's putting together what he calls the Bowser Act. So he's naming it after the, I guess they would say, failed mayor of D.C., the Bowser Act.

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It's especially insulting because it sounds like a dog, Bowser. Anyway, it would repeal the D.C. home rule and put the feds back in charge because D.C. is unsafe. And you know what? Everybody understands that. Everybody understands that D.C. is literally unsafe. Walking down the street, it's kind of dangerous. So who would complain about this? Well, let me take a guess. I'll bet you

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that Democrats will complain about something that hasn't happened, but could be a fictional future possibility based on somebody's bad character, because that's the movie they like. Well, in horrible news, I barely want to bring this up, except my audience won't be affected by it. A Tesla showroom in Oregon got shot up. Shot up. And presumably for political reasons.

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Nick Sorter is reporting on this on X. And probably it's the second criminal incident. There was an arson also somewhere. Now, don't you think this is a direct effect of propaganda calling Elon Musk?

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know some kind of hitler helping whatever whatever they're saying about him today this is a propaganda problem yeah so this is caused by them all right now let's talk about mike pence who says that uh he he says to trump he says mr president ukraine did not quote start this war so there's an argument about who started the war Now, nobody questions who made the first overt military act.

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That was Putin. He's the one who crossed the border with military intent. So nobody questions the fact that the first, you know, the first serious war part of it was Russia. But does that mean that that was the start of the war? Do you know who thinks that's the start of the war? Liars. Yeah, liars. And people were not paying attention.

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You'd have to be a liar or a person who's not paying attention. Now, I used to have a lot of respect for Mike Pence just because he seemed like a good vice president. He supported the president. He didn't cause any problems on his own. He just seemed stable and good backup, maybe. But boy, have I lost all respect for him. So let me explain this. I'm going to put this in the form of a little story.

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And then see if you can generalize this. So you're walking in the forest and you encounter a bear. And you say to yourself, you know what would be a good idea? If I pick up this stick and I run over the bear and I poke it. So you pick up the stick and you're like, you're poking the bear. Because you think it would be fun or you think maybe you'll get a video of it. It doesn't matter why.

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but you decide to poke the bear. And then the bear gets angered because you're poking it with a stick and it kills you. Whose fault is that? Who started it? Well, poking with a stick isn't exactly dangerous. I mean, it doesn't even hurt. So obviously the bear started the fight, right? Let's ask Mike Pence. Which one started the fight? Was it the stick?

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But this, of course, would be directly in conflict with President Trump's negotiating tactic, which is to put maximum pressure on both sides at the same time. Now, the maximum pressure on Russia isn't going to look the same as the maximum pressure on Ukraine because Zelensky is a different character than Putin. And we don't need to go into why that's true.

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that didn't really hurt anybody, didn't hurt the bear. It was just annoying. Or was it the claws that tore the throat out of the stick person? Oh, it's obviously the bear. We're going to blame the bear. Yeah. Do you know who blames the bear in that situation? Liars and morons. Liars and morons.

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Literally nobody in the real thinking world blames the fucking bear if you've been poking it with a stick. Now, is this a perfect analogy? Let me help the people who can't handle analogies. This is only for the dumb people. So the rest of you can take a break for a moment. So a special message for any dumb people. Most of my audience is brilliant.

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but there might be a few dumb people who snuck in. It's not a perfect analogy. A bear is not exactly like Vladimir Putin. There are differences. There are differences. And so it's really more about making a point that can be generalized by the analogy. It's not really that every part of the analogy matches the real world because that would be the opposite of an analogy.

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You wouldn't need an analogy if the real world was doing the story that you needed it to do. The analogy simply helps you understand the real world in a different frame. It's not an argument per se. And so you don't need to say, but Scott, Ukraine didn't have a stick. No, all they had was the desire to join NATO, which was a red line. But Scott, a red line's not a stick.

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No, it's not a stick, you fucking idiot. All right, now I'm talking to the rest of you. I think I've made my point. According to Rasmussen, Trump ending DEI policies is pretty popular. But here's what I like. Rasmussen asked the question and then organized it by people who knew the most. So the more you know about DEI, the less you like it.

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So 80% of voters who are familiar with DEI, including 44% who are very familiar with it, so now we're talking about people who really understand what it is, of that group, 56% strongly approve of Trump ending it, for the federal government at least. 56% of the people who know what DEI is favor him ending it.

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And again, 56% doesn't sound like the biggest majority in the world, except in American politics, you've got to work really, really hard to get 50%, 56% on the same side of anything. But isn't it nice to know that the people even understand the issue are definitely on the same side. So that's nice. Um, So Trump signed an executive order cutting off taxpayer funded benefits for illegal immigrants.

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New York Post is reporting on this. So it's an executive order I guess he signed last night. So illegal immigrants won't be getting any federally funded benefits. Now that doesn't mean they won't get any benefits. I think it just transfers it to the states, which is clever because then the sanctuary city states got to explain

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why they're not willing to continue raping their citizens to pay for the non-citizens. Now, if the Fed is paying, it makes it kind of easy for the state, doesn't it? Oh, yeah, it won't cost you much, citizens. It's kind of annoying, but at least the Feds are paying a lot of it. What happens when the states have to pay all of it?

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I also don't know what percentage the Fed versus the states was, so I'm not immediately aware of how big a deal it will be. But what if it's half? I don't know, is it half? If my state has to put in a few more billion dollars to cover what the feds stopped spending, I'm going to be really mad at my governor. I already am.

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But I'm going to be a few billion dollars more angry, and so will even his base. So in terms of sending things back to the states, Once again, Trump is playing this right. He sent, you know, through his actions, Trump sent, indirectly, he sent abortion back to the states. Boy, did that pay off. You know, I knew when it happened, it might cost them an election. I think it did, to some extent.

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trump is stomping on zielinski's credibility and him as a leader and essentially basically treating him like he's not the one in charge probably is exactly the right approach for zielinski and for ukraine at the moment whereas if he did the same thing with putin it would make make things worse so putin has real power in the real army and nobody's pulling his puppet strings

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But I also thought that when it went back to the states, that we would just wait a few years and it would just stop looking like a federal issue. because that was the whole point. At this point, I think it's kind of stopped looking like a federal issue. So Trump wins. Now, it might be part of the reason that he had to skip a term and that there was a dead Biden presidency between his two terms.

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It might be largely because of that or partly because of it. But boy, did he win in the long run. Here again, he's doing the same trick. If the states are the ones who are deciding to harbor the immigrants, the state should pay 100% of it because to the federal government, it's just illegal. That makes sense. That's another perfect application of, hey, states, you better handle this.

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So RFK Jr., he's launched a new, well, actually Trump launched a MAHA commission And they're going to look into all kinds of things that you wish had been looked into more deeply before.

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So some of the things they're looking into about this specifically about childhood diseases, chronic illnesses, some of the factors that they're going to look into were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized. And that would include a childhood vaccine schedules. Now here's the thing that Democrats have to understand. In my opinion, and I suppose I could be wrong, but I'd be really surprised.

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RFK Jr. is so public and so clear that the science needs to support where we go. He's not going to cancel things willy-nilly. He's just going to ask for better science, and it might take a while to get it. So I think you're fine. You're not going to lose your childhood vaccinations unless there's you know, some fairly quick information that looks persuasive.

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Please go look into the vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, the glyphosate that's used and other pesticides as well. Look at ultra processed foods, artificial food allergies, SSRIs, antidepressants. Wow, we need that. He's going to look at psychiatric drugs, PFAS and PFOA. I don't know what that is. Microplastics. Nothing's off limits.

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And then he said that he would admit he was wrong if shown the data. Now, this is in The Hill. So what The Hill said, according to The Hill, quote, but even when Cassidy, so this was Senator Cassidy, who's a doctor himself, was questioning RFK Jr. for his past statements about things, According to The Hill, Cassidy did just that during the confirmation process.

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He said Kennedy cited additional studies of dubious merit that favored his conclusion, leading Cassidy to note that Kennedy was always asking for more, never accepting the mountains of evidence that already exist. So think about the absurdity of what I just told you. It's 2025. And a publication of no medical experts, The Hill, has told you which of the studies are the good ones.

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Let me just say it again. The Hill, an organization of journalists with no special scientific medical treatment, have decided that they can tell you which of the studies are credible. Now, they're not saying it just out of nowhere. They're looking at sources. So one of their sources would be Dr. Kennedy or Dr. Cassidy, because before he was a senator, he was a doctor.

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So with Putin, you've got to treat him like he's your peer. He's awesome. And at the same time, threaten him privately. So what you should expect if Trump is doing everything right, and so far it looks like he does, he would privately threaten Putin, but also privately there would be a carrot as well as a stick. The carrot would be if you decide to be more like our ally than our adversary,

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Now, tell me your experience with doctors picking true studies. Do you know how many studies are true? About half. About half. How many doctors... can tell you which half are the true ones? None. There are no doctors who can do that. There are none. So if you think that the journalists can tell you what studies are real, you're really lost. They can't do that.

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If you think that they talk to the experts and then the experts told them, what experts? Who are the experts who know what studies are false? There's no expert like that. That doesn't exist. There are people on both sides of everything. But there is no source to know what's true. That's the whole point. That's what RFK Jr. wants.

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He wants some sources that are ideally the platinum quality study that's not funded by the people who have a stake in it. So number one, can't be funded by somebody who has a stake in it and no hidden stake. How do you know if a study was funded by the wrong people, even indirectly? How would you know that? You wouldn't.

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What if the way the big pharma is bribing the study has nothing to do with the study? Maybe it's all about once you've done the study, we have lots of people who would like to see it, so we'll pay you to give really expensive speeches. And if you write a book, we'll push it because that's good for us. There are a million ways you can bribe the sponsor or the person who's running a study.

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I don't know how many ways that they actually use, but there's probably a million ways. So if you're trusting any scientific study in 2025, and you're making an argument that you know which ones are the real ones, you're either a liar or a moron. Those are the only possibilities. But when Kennedy says, that he will admit when he's wrong, if the studies go in that direction, that sounds honest.

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Because you want the person who says, I can totally be wrong. I'm only looking at the data, and I'm going to look at the same thing you are, and we're going to try to figure out together what looks like it's real and what doesn't. That's as honest as you can get. This is exactly what I want. I want somebody who's honest enough to say, if you embarrass me in public,

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by giving me data that shows I was wrong about something important, I'm going to say in public, I was wrong. Thank you. Can you beat that? You can't beat that. So I think Kennedy is also one of these great power, great responsibility situations. Over a lifetime, he acquired a great power in the form of a specific expertise about the medical and the food community. But at the same time,

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being quite aware that he's a Kennedy, he had sort of this accidental power as well. So imagine living in the United States and you see that children are just being destroyed by, it looks like, we don't know, but some combination of food and maybe medical treatment. And you have the knowledge that

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make a difference you have the grit the energy the intelligence and even the money that that you can survive a economic hit and you're a kennedy it's the spider-man curse it's just the spider-man curse he could do it or it looked like if he put in everything if he went all in and risked everything including his marriage including his marriage if he went all in he might be able to save children.

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How do you say no? You don't say no to that. It's a Spider-Man curse. Nobody else could do it. Who was the other Kennedy? Who was the second person? Who was the second person? There was no second person. Although Nicole Shanahan is amazing. So as a team, they're incredible. But you needed RFK Jr., I mean, nobody had the specific combination of exactly the right stuff at the right time.

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And, you know, he had a life directed at this mission. So that could not be a more pure incentive, and I love it. Meanwhile, the Postmaster General is stepping down. At about the same time, people are asking Doge to audit them. Now... There's no indication he's stepping down because he might get audited.

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that would be a good world for both of us, whatever that looks like. So I think that's the carrot. You know, China is your biggest threat in the long term. So in the long term, you want to be on our side because we're natural allies. By the way, I've been saying this for years, that Russia and the United States are, quote, natural allies. And that's the thing that you can't fight against.

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But every time you see that coincidence, there might be a doge audit and the current leader stepped down. That's a curious situation there. So you're allowed to be curious about that. Meanwhile, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is doing a clever thing, according to the Gateway Pundit. Michael Lachance is writing about this.

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So Mayor Bass, Karen Bass, is setting up an investigation to find out why she was allowed to travel to Africa while her city burned. Now, that's a little hyperbole. So she's trying to find out why they didn't tell her that there was a big risk of fire before she left. Now,

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i don't believe anything about anything so i don't believe she didn't know you know it might be true it might be true but you know i don't necessarily believe it on face value but i love the technique uh i love that she's gonna keep studying to find out why she keeps failing wait a minute every time i fail i'm gonna have to find the white man who's responsible for this

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So she'll set up some kind of commission to find somebody who should have told her something but didn't. And therefore, once again, I found the source of the problem. It's other people. Yeah, it's other people. I think I'm going to set up a commission for the same thing. I've made some mistakes in my day. Very few. I mean, practically none. But for those few mistakes I've ever made,

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It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen right now. Go. Satisfying. So good. Well, Microsoft has made a big and important announcement. They've developed a quantum computing thing called the Majorana 1. It's the first quantum processing unit that's built on a topological core. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. It's the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

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I really need to set up a commission to find out whose fault it was. Who was it who drove me to make those bad decisions? Because that person needs to be punished. And it might be a bear. Meanwhile, in drone news, there's a new drone killer that can zap a drone from four miles away. So if I understand it right, it's an American company, California-based,

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called Design Technologies, and it's a counter drone. So it's not a very large drone, but it can jump up in the air. It can sense another drone coming its way for four miles, and it can knock it out of the sky with electronic means, I think. I think just, yeah, electronic means. Now, that's amazing. I have to get one.

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I feel like I need one for the house because, you know, maybe I could program it and say, don't knock the drone down unless it's, you know, directly above my property. But I'd love to have a drone that just says, hey, there's another drone coming. Bop. Done. Got to get one. That was an interesting engineering, Kapil Kajal was writing about that.

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There is also, speaking of drones, there's now a drone that can smell, meaning sniff, not that it smells bad. But they use some kind of silkworm moth antenna. How do you make an antenna out of a silkworm moth? I don't know. But somehow they think they've done it at Hsinchu University. So they call it an odor-sensing bio-hybrid drone. So that's cool. So what would you use the sniffing drone for?

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Well, the one example would be, let's say there's a building that comes down and you need something to go sniff for survivors. Maybe the drone could do it. Maybe it could do it faster and more accurately than even the dogs. We'll see. But I've long speculated since actually the 90s. Back in the 90s, I read a book called The Dilbert Future.

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If somebody is a natural adversary, I would say, let's say Al Qaeda and Israel. That's not going to get fixed. Those are natural adversaries. There's nothing you can do about that. They're not going to make peace. Right. But in some cases, you just have more in common in the long term than with some groups and others. And I think Russia is far more likely to be our adversary.

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And I talked about how in the future, if technology could make an artificial nose, it would really change a lot. Because a sense of smell, we humans kind of don't appreciate the sense of smell because it's not our dominant sense. But if you had a machine that could smell like the best dog, you could probably solve crimes As long as the crime was reasonably fresh.

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Because you know how a bloodhound can go into a crime scene and it can pick up hours late smell from the perp and that can follow it? Well, what if you had a database of everybody's smell? And then the dog comes in, or let's say the technology comes in and just goes, and it's after the crime scene. It's like, well, it looks like Bob was here an hour ago.

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That would almost be the end of most crime because it's tough to make yourself smell different just for the crime. I mean, you can do it, but it'd be hard. All right. So that's what I've got for today. I'm going to ask you if you think I should talk about this. So I've been teasing you that there was something that was coming that might be interesting. I'm going to tell you what it is.

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But you tell me later if you want me to talk about it, because you might not. Do you remember I got canceled? Anybody remember that? Because there was a Rasmussen poll that said some percentage of black Americans said that it was, quote, not okay to be white. And I thought that seemed super racist. And so I railed against racism. And it turns out if you rail against racism, you get canceled.

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And they call you the racist. So that's what happened to me. But it's two years later, and they reissued the poll. So the poll is out again. Now, without getting into the details, I'll just do it now. I'll do it now. Without getting into the details, again, there's a similarly

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alarming number of people now it's a much bigger sample this time last time it was uh admittedly a small sample but the larger sample has maybe an eight percent uh margin of error which wouldn't change the wouldn't change the interpretation at all so even if it's the worst case you know uh inaccurate even the most inaccurate could be would be about eight percent statistically would still make the same point

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there is an alarming number of people who are black Americans who answered, they either don't know that it's okay to be white, you don't know, or that they say it's not okay to be white.

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Now, it gets complicated because the first time this came up, I didn't know it, but other people said, well, that phrase, is it okay to be white, or it's okay to be white, is some white supremacist thing that they say. No, I never heard of it. because I guess I don't hang around with white supremacists, but I'd never heard of it.

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And I couldn't imagine that the average person who took the poll had ever heard of that. So I reject that that had anything to do with the outcome of the poll. I just don't think that's a common thing that people have heard of. And even if they had heard of it, why would you say it's not okay to be white? Like, how would you ever answer that question?

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And then I asked myself, how would it be if the question were reversed? I don't know a single white person who would ever say that it's not okay to be black. It's nothing I've ever heard. I've heard lots of racist sounding things, but it's not about sort of the general existence. That seems kind of extreme. So I've never heard of it. But let me put it in the context I should have the first time.

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And I like to reverse the races because that teaches you something, right? If you can reverse the race and then see what would happen if it had gone the other direction, that at least tells you something. You can interpret it however you want. But I give you this example.

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We're far more likely to be on the same side with some of the big issues than on the other side. And it would be better for both of us. Just being at war, even if it's like the silent secret covert war with Russia, is not buying us a lot. So I understand we don't want them to be economically dominant or control energy in Europe or any of that. And I think we can make sure that doesn't happen.

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If you were a black family in America and you were offered a new job and it was a great job, so you wanted to move and relocate to the great job. And you had a choice of two towns that were near the job. One of the towns you happen to know was a headquarters for the KKK. And that maybe 20% of the town was just flat out racist and maybe even, you know, supporting the KKK.

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And then there was another town that just didn't have that. It was just a regular town. No indication of any special racism. Which one would be the safer one for you to move to? Well, it's obvious. If I were advising that black family, I'd say, whoa, stay away from the town with 20% of racists.

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Because even though that says nothing about any individual, the person who's helping you at the grocery store, you can't assume they're in the KKK just because 20% of the town is. So you still have to treat all the individuals like individuals. But would you ever go to a place where 20% of them

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seem to be deeply on the side of you're not okay, there's something wrong with you, why would you do that? Who would do that intentionally? So for your own self-protection, economic well-being, psychological well-being, I would say, I got some advice. Stay away from those freaking racists. And nobody would argue with that. because we all have the same sense of security.

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And I've said this before, but I think now it comes into better focus. If you're discriminating against an individual, you're probably just making a mistake. I would never be in favor of that, because you're just reducing your own options. Like if you said, I would never hire whoever, any kind of demographic you pick, Well, what if the very best person available happens to be in that demographic?

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You're just limiting your own choices. It doesn't even matter if you think there's some statistical difference. It's not going to be enough of a difference that you could tell every single person's character. That doesn't work that way. So discriminating against an individual just never makes sense. It's not good for the individual who is discriminated against.

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It's never good for the person who discriminates. And it's not good for society. So I'm against it 100%. But in the case of the black family who could choose to not live in the community with a KKK, if you're making your safety decisions based on demographics, that's totally okay. That's not racist. That's self-protection. Your security is your top priority and your family.

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You have no obligation to ignore like crime stats or polls or anything else. You can use any source you want if you're protecting yourself from danger. Now, on top of that, you've got DEI. And let me ask you just a basic statistical question. If you were working at a company where all the people look like you, And it doesn't matter who you are. You can be black or white or Asian, whatever.

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Pick anything Hispanic. If everybody at the company looked like you, what are the odds of you getting sued for some racial discrimination? Well, zero, right? Now, what are the odds if you lived in a place that was more diverse and you were a white American male?

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what are the odds that you would be accused of being a racist, or even if you were accused of nothing, what are the odds that you would be passed over for a job? Pretty good, or at least greater than zero. I would argue that for decades, white American men were directly discriminated in every diverse community. So if you had a choice of going somewhere where the odds of you specifically

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being discriminated against because of your demographic, you should avoid that. And that's just common sense. It's just how to how to plan your economics is how to stay safe. It's just common sense. And it works for every race in every situation. So it's just as true for black Americans. Don't move into the town with the KKK. Why would you do that? There's no reason to do that if you have options.

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So I do expect lots of pressure on both Ukraine and Putin if Trump's doing his job right, which I expect. But what is Lindsey Graham doing? It's like he is working against that, because even if you think Ukraine does deserve some funding, you know, just to survive while we do the negotiating, it's not really super good

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So I advise everybody to make their decisions based on whatever criteria they want, if it's about safety or economics. But don't discriminate against individuals ever. Never a good reason for that. So two years later, after I got canceled, doesn't sound very extreme, does it? Does that sound extreme? Now, I'll admit I got a little ranty and angry. two years ago when I got canceled.

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And I think the ranting and the anger made it easy for my enemies to cancel me because then it looked like I was being the racist. I was arguing against racism. I was saying that if you can demonstrate a statistical bunch of racism, you should avoid it. Everybody should. Black, white, male, female, gay, not gay. Let's use gay.

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If you're gay, would you rather live in, let's say, San Francisco, where the acceptance of the gay community is pretty close to 100%, or would you rather move to, I don't know, pick some place that you think is backwards, let's say someplace in the Middle East, except for Israel? If you're gay, would you move to Saudi Arabia or San Francisco? you would move to San Francisco.

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But does that mean that you're discriminating against all people from the Middle East? No, not at all. And if you met one person from the Middle East, you should treat them as an individual, even knowing that you might want to not live in that zone where there's lots of people who might be against you. So a little bit of common sense can keep you alive. And that's all I have to say about that.

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All right, that's all I got for today. I know I went long. Sorry about that. And I'm going to say some private things to the people on Locals and the rest of you. Bye for now. I'll see you. See you tomorrow. Same time, same place. If you're on Rumble or X or YouTube.

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Episode 2756 CWSA 02/20/25

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That he's going public with it and Zelensky is happy that he's getting money at the same time that Trump's trying to pressure everybody to make something happen. So I've got a lot of questions about Lindsey Graham's activity in this. It doesn't look like it was designed to help. I don't know what it was designed for.

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Episode 2756 CWSA 02/20/25

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As you know, there is a suggestion given to Elon Musk and Doge that maybe some of that Doge savings should be returned to voters. Now, of course, that raises the question, isn't the whole point to reduce our debt if you start returning it to voters? Yeah, it might stimulate the economy and that might create some extra tax revenue.

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But that sort of thing typically doesn't create as much tax revenue as it costs. So does it ever make sense that Doge gives any money back to the public, given that paying off the debt would be the way to give money back to the public? That would be the best thing for the public. And the answer is, it kind of depends. Because these big things like Doge are not just technical things or math.

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It's not just true-false. It's also about how people feel about it. If people don't feel good about the Doge thing, and maybe they don't understand it and they're reading the wrong news sources and stuff, then they might try to kill it. And maybe there's an administration after these four years that really needs to finish the job. And let's say it's J.D. Vance or anybody with that leaning.

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You don't want the public to turn on the idea of making the government more efficient. So suppose you bribed the public and you said, look, public, I know you don't follow the news. I know you don't know exactly whether it's a good idea or a bad idea to do these aggressive cuts. I know you have many questions, but what if you got a check? What if you got a check for $5,000, just as an example?

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well suddenly that would make everybody think why don't i just shut up about this i just got a check or i might get a check so this is one of those rare situations where typically i would just say no the whole point of it is to pay off the debt i don't want to hear anything else if it's not about paying paying down the deficit or the debt don't even break it up but

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if the only way you could get there is with massive support of the public? Because remember, Doge is going after the low-hanging fruit first. When they start getting into the tougher stuff and the bigger cuts, which I hope are ahead, they're going to need massive public support. Would it make sense? One of the ideas now that's being floated is that 20% of all the Doge savings

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would become a check that goes to the public that doesn't make any sense economically so i don't support it economically but as a way to keep doge popular so that has the right amount of support and it's got the right just the right framing it just comes as a positive thing it might make sense so i'm going to say i'm solidly on the fence

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meaning that I don't know if we can tell if getting more support for Doge is the most important thing worth 20% of all the money we might save. And the stimulus is always a good idea. Stimulus is never a bad idea. But this one's tough. I would say there's no obvious right answer on this. So either way it goes, I'm inclined to say, let's see how it plays out.

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But once they've raised the possibility, It's going to be a little hard to say it's never going to happen. I've got a feeling they might kick the can down the road and say, if we find a trillion, well, we'll return X amount. And then we'll see if they find a trillion. So we'll see. It's not a terrible idea. It's just hard to predict how that goes.

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So if you think of it as a psychological thing and not an economic thing, it makes more sense. Well, Trump is the ultimate showman, and he likes to tease about what's coming with Doge. He said, quote, some of the things I don't want to discuss, they are very, very embarrassing to people. But you will be seeing and reading about it very soon.

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Okay, so I love that Trump is teasing that there's going to be something entertaining to come. And it's like, you know, very, very bad, you know, scaring people who know they're being looked into. But here's an example that the Free Beacon reported on.

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Libs of TikTok is talking about this on X. So here's what the Free Beacon found, that there were $2 billion in taxpayer dollars that went to a brand new nonprofit called Power Forward Communities. Now, have you noticed that all these non-government, nonprofit organizations have names like that?

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Well, now everything makes sense. Can we all admit we don't know a damn thing about quantum computing? We don't know what difference it's going to make, except maybe your encryptions will all be at risk. It's not going to replace your laptop computer or your phone because it doesn't do sort of general computing. Do we even care? And it's always a few years away.

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They all have names like the Power Forward Communities or the, I'm just making these up, but the Democratic Freedom Organization. They all have these generic American sounding names so you can't tell one from the other and there are thousands of them. So the first thing you need to know is I think they're intentionally confusing so that they can hide among all the other money laundering entities.

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Allegedly money laundering. Anyway, so there's this brand new little nonprofit with a generic name like the rest of them that has what they call close ties to Democrat Stacey Abrams. Well, there's nothing wrong with that, right?

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If she's got a good and useful charity and she wants to do some good work and maybe she has a little track record, she's done it before or the group that she's backing has done it before, this could be a good thing. $2 billion put into the right charity, that can really help the country. Let's see what else we know about it. Oh, it was only a few months old and it had $100 in the bank.

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Well, that's pretty good. It went from having $100 and never having done anything to receiving $2 billion in 2024. Is that illegal? To have no experience, no track record, and no money. And the government gives you $2 billion? It's probably not illegal. But let's find out what else is going on. Suppose they still just did something good with it. Well, that wouldn't be illegal.

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Put something in a different place here. Let's see. How can I make that stand up? So, do you mind if I take a minute to bitch? I just have a quick complaint. Apple computer, when you made your stupid iPhone, and you knew that the main way it works is upright or sideways, but never upside down like that. It doesn't work upside down. Why did you put the charger in the bottom?

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Meanwhile, Harvard, of course, was forced to back off from its DEI hiring practices, where it was discriminating against Asian Americans and against white Americans, mostly. And so now we can see the result of that in their law school admissions. The black enrollment dropped by more than half. So is that good or bad?

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Well, Democrats, of course, seem to have some trouble understanding where the problem is. The problem is definitely not Harvard's admission process. That is not what's keeping any black person from succeeding. But definitely the quality of their undergraduate or their regular school, definitely the quality of their school and their income situation, those make a big difference.

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So if you think the problem with college admission has something to do with the college, you're missing the first 18 years of the kid's life. The first 18 years can make a big difference. So no, you can't fix it after it's too late. So while it might look like bad news, I think that's good news in the sense that we're getting back to Capability over identity.

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Well, you would not be surprised to know that there was a college in Memphis, Tennessee, a little college called Rhodes College. And there was some pro-Trump graffiti that they say was racist. And they did an investigation to see who did this pro-Trump racist graffiti. How do you think that turned out? Take a guess if you haven't heard the story already.

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So there was graffiti from what looked like a Trump supporter, and it was very racist. And then they looked into it, and it was a hoax, of course. It was not a Trump supporter. It was an anti-Trump person, of course. Of course. I feel like I missed the story. I'll get to it. So that's a write-on model. MSNBC had a pundit on there. She might think of herself as a young black woman.

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The only thing I know for sure is she's a black woman. I don't know how young she is. But she said, quote, the Democratic Party should be led by young women of color. So is that what the Democrats got wrong? Did they lose everything because they didn't have enough young women of color running things? Now, nothing against young women of color, who, by the way, are doing great in society.

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If you didn't know that, black women are doing really well relative to historical norms, but also relative to white men. Black women are going to college at record rates, earning earning well after graduation. So black women are doing great, actually. So she says the Democratic Party should be led by young women of color. Of course, that's identity politics.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen right now. Go. Extraordinary. All kinds of things happening. I hear that some airports in New Jersey are being closed or there's some kind of warning because of the drones.

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And of course, that's the reason they lost. So I could not be more amused by their inability to learn from their mistakes. But here's one that's fun. I'm told that this didn't actually happen in the real world, but there's a post that makes it look like it happened. It's still just as fun, even though it didn't happen.

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So there's a clip of Scott Galloway saying that he had planned, this was before the election, like a day before or something. He said he planned to bet $358,000 on Harris. And he said that the reason he thought that was a good bet was And I was just told in the comments earlier that he didn't actually place the bet.

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So the day before the election, he was talking like this is very serious and he was placing the bet. Somebody says he didn't place it, but his argument went like this, that what he called the A-plus polls have Harris ahead. So the polls that he trusted had Harris ahead, but polymarkets, where people are just betting... didn't have her conclusively winning like that.

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So the odds were that you had a, you know, if you were just looking at it as one of many bets in your portfolio, you probably would have gone with the odds, meaning that it looked like she might win, yet the betting markets were not saying that. So you probably would get a nice payoff in the betting markets if the A-plus polls were in fact reliable. So everything he said is logical.

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It's mathematically and statistically and risk management perfect. So everything he said was right. The problem was the A-plus polls. How many of you thought the polls were accurate and real and even trying to be real by election day? I feel like 100% of the people who follow me know that the polls were some kind of a political structure.

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They're not really, at least all of them, are not meant to be even serious. I mean, I don't think they're trying to be accurate. I think they're just backing their team. Now, Rasmussen, they were superstars yet again. beat all the A-plus guys, but they don't get mentioned because if you're right all the time, the Democrats don't like to mention you. They'll leave you out of the list.

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So I do wonder how many people took Scott Galloway's advice and put down their own big bets on Harris. And as I told you, I think I mentioned this before, I was very confident that that Trump would win. I mean, in plenty of time to have placed a bet if I wanted to.

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I wasn't confident a year ago, but within a month of the election, if you were watching, I think all of you saw me say, yeah, Trump's going to have the votes. So your question would be, why didn't I bet on it? Was I lying to you? No, I did bet on it. I bet on it a different way. Over the summer, I loaded up on Tesla stock and Bitcoin.

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the two things that you could pretty well predict would go up if Trump won. So I'm pretty happy with my Tesla and Bitcoin. Anyway. As you probably all already know, Congress tried to get away with slipping in this continued resolution budget bill that some call an omnibus bill, but it's something in between.

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And they tried to do their usual Congress trick, which Thomas Massey called them out and predicted months before it happened because they always do it. And what they do is they wait until it's right before Christmas where everybody just cares about going home.

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And then they say, either vote for this foot-tall thing that nobody can read and has all kinds of pork in it, or you'll miss your Christmas. Your children will hate you. And so people being people, they're like, ah, no time to fix this. I can't fix the whole system. I'll just say yes and go home. But that's what should have happened. But it's a different day. It's a different day, isn't it?

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So apparently, no matter what we do, this drone story doesn't go away. Have any of you settled on your best theory about the drones? We're not going to talk about them today, but there's that one bit of new news.

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So what happened instead was everybody looked at this bill and said, are you really going to sign a bill that nobody read? And so people like me, upon first exposure to the story on X, said immediately, no, no, no, no, we can't do this anymore. So I don't need to know what's in the bill. I just need to know it's a foot tall. And that's it.

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Now, there were plenty of other reasons not to vote for it, but you only needed to know it was a foot tall because that tells you that the process doesn't work because nobody's going to read the foot tall thing and it's going to be full of pork. So you don't need to know anything except it's a foot tall. I didn't need to know anything else. So I was a hard no on the first second.

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But of course, I'm not that influential by myself, but you saw a whole bunch of other people who have a million plus followers on X and other places say, no, no, no, hell no, hell no, hard no. Would that have made a difference? Probably not, probably not. But it turns out, that there's a whole new dynamic now. So I love saying that it's like a reference to the Hulk. I've said this before.

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But we have a Vivek. There's a Vivek on the Republican side. He actually read the foot-tall bill and pulled out the important parts for us. What? What? How is that even possible? I would love a video of just watching Vivek sit down with a foot tall bill and pour through it so quickly that you get to see for the first time what a super smart person can do. I'm pretty smart. I couldn't do that.

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Right. So however, however smart Vivek is, I can't judge it. Because as soon as somebody is a little bit smarter than you are, you really don't know how much smarter. You have no mechanism for measuring it because it's outside of your domain. So he's far smarter than I am, at least in this element. So he does what I've never seen anybody do before. He has a big audience. He's very credible.

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Well, I think it's going to be a combination of different things and people who don't know things and a little mass hysteria and a little bit of truth, a little bit of everything in there. Did I see the Harris just got a $20 million book deal? Every time an ex-president gets a multi-million dollar book deal, I just assume that's illegitimate. Does that feel like a bribe?

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We all know he's working for the country, not for himself. And he just tore into it. He tore into it. And when he was done, I said to myself, I have now heard the important elements. That's amazing. Now, at the same time, Grok was able to look at the bill and also summarize it. Now, unfortunately, the summary was itself like, I don't know, 20 pages or something. So even a 20-page summary...

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It doesn't help you as much as you hoped it would because there are too many different elements or completely different topics that are all being stuffed into this monstrosity. So if all you did is read the summary of a thing, you wouldn't necessarily know what it was about because you kind of need to get the context. So I don't think the summary helped us as much as it should.

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But it did confirm there are way too many things in the bill and we don't have to live like this. So Vivek just penetrates this thing like a spear. You know, like like he just stuck a spear through it and he's holding it up and saying, oh, and then. Enter Elon Musk. Elon Musk, probably one of the most credible people in the world, known to be smart.

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We know he's on our side, our side being the country, not our side being the Republicans, but the country. He's on the country side. And he said hard no. And then he actually escalated it because he kind of posted about it a bunch. And he got all the way up to anybody who votes for it should be primaried.

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And he's the guy who has hundreds of millions that he could put into a race to primary anybody. And all the politicians are afraid of being primaried. So within, I don't know, how long did it take? Just a few hours? The bill went from something we assumed would be signed, because that's the way it always happened, no matter how much you complained, to dead. To dead. Now, what happened with...

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the blowback when it got killed by what looked like Elon Musk's work primarily. Well, would you be surprised to know that the Democrats backed up to more generic complaints about things? That's right. Learning absolutely nothing about anything. Republicans have specific complaints about that they, thanks to Vivek and others, managed to pull out of this thing. Very specific complaints.

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This is a bad idea. Don't do this. This is a bad idea. And their complaint was instead of defending the bill, how many of you have noticed that there isn't a single Democrat defending the bill? How many of you did not notice that until I just said it? Zero. Not a single Democrat defending supports the bill? None.

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So they have to be mad because they have to oppose Republicans, but they don't like the bill either because there's nobody who's dumb enough who thinks that a foot-tall bill packed with crap is a good idea. Democrats don't think it. Republicans don't think it. So the only thing they had was something about Musk. So they go for the, oh, he's a co-president.

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Well, he's like the real Speaker of the House. Oh, I guess Trump's not running things. I guess an unelected person is running the country now. And they all sort of simultaneously went to attack Elon Musk. Again, remember, they also agree with him. They're attacking him. for something they agree with, which is this bill is a ridiculous monstrosity and we should not be governing this way.

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They agree with that. And they still went after him. But their argument was sort of childlike. They just wanted to say stuff like, oh, Trump and Musk sitting in a tree, they must be lovers now. Oh, why did Trump just delegate everything to an unelected person? All these generic bullshit crap. So I weighed in a little bit on it and said, Musk doesn't have any power from the Republicans.

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There was somebody who said, Republicans gave their power to Musk and he's unelected. And I said, Musk doesn't have any power. He has no power. He has only the power of the support of the people under the following conditions. It's common sense. We all agree with him. And in this case, both sides agree, Democrats and Republicans. Everybody agrees with him.

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I feel like there's some kind of backdoor deal. I don't know. I mean, I don't have any information about it, but I feel like there's always a backdoor deal. where the publisher will come out whole no matter how many books are sold. There's something going on with this whole publisher situation. Anyway, Fannie Willis apparently is disqualified from the Trump election case.

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And he's working for the benefit of the people, obviously. Now, is it good for Musk's own companies? Of course. Is it good for my company? Of course. It's good for everybody. If you can fix the budget. So as long as he's working for the people, and it's all the people,

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And as long as it's common sense, as long as he does everything in public, and as long as he couldn't get away with any of it, unless he had massive backing by at least one of the parties, the one in charge, I'm good with that. And the people who said, well, he wasn't elected, he wasn't elected. I say, that's true of all of Trump's advisors.

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You know, the cabinet maybe needs to be vetted and approved. But if Trump decides you're going to be my advisor, you know, my Kelly Conway or something, they're not voted. So Musk is a citizen who has the power to make recommendations and the power to say things in public.

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But if the Republicans had been completely in favor of this bill, even if Elon thought it was a bad idea, would he have been able to kill it? I don't think so. So here's the thing that the Democrats can't understand because they're kind of a top-down organization. The orders come from who knows where at the top and go down. But Trump only exists because the base wants him to.

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Musk is only part of this process because the base wants him to. Vivek is only part of the process because the base wants him to, etc., etc., etc. So the base is getting what they want. If Democrats think, oh, these rich people, these rich people have taken over without any votes, nothing like that has happened.

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The so-called rich people, even Trump, have very little ability to do anything outside of what the base wants them to do. That's how populism works. So then they start complaining about about the fact that the Republicans have a billionaire who's working on their side. Oh, so I guess you only care about the billionaire. To which I say, have you heard of Soros? And Reid Hoffman? And Mark Cuban?

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And Bill Gates? I mean, there are a lot of billionaires out there. I think they're just mad because we got the best one. Ha ha. If we were to rank the billionaires, we got the best one. Bill Ackman, another billionaire, suggests that the bills should have, they should be required to have a footnote so you know which congressperson added which provisions so you know who put in the bad stuff.

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And I said to myself, wait a minute, we don't know that? I didn't think it'd be part of the bill, but I thought in some way that would be part of the public record. But it's not. So this bill is so bad that the people who added things to it don't want you to know their names. Literally. There was nobody who came forward and said, oh, good news, people. That thing in that bill, that was all me.

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That wouldn't even be there if not for me. So I made that happen. literally they're trying to hide their contribution to the country. They're trying to hide it. And they're trying really hard. So yes, that's a good idea. We should know who does what. You might also know that the monstrosity of a budget was going to refund the Global Engagement Center. Now, that's part of the big...

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the big industrial, what would you call it? The censorship industrial complex. This is the thing that we want to kill more than just about anything. These are the people who came after the Federalist and Daily Wire. So this is a group that's literally trying to close down right-leaning publications. And you're telling me that the Speaker of the House signed off on this? What?

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The Georgia higher court ruled that she had some kind of conflict of interest. So Trump just keeps winning. It's just nonstop winning. Andrew Huberman reminds us that the research shows a clear benefit of drinking coffee. It gives you more attention, focus, and athletic performance.

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The Republican Speaker of the House signed off on funding the Global Engagement Center, whose primary mission is to shut down Republican stuff without good reasons. How? How in the world did this happen? And do you think that Speaker Johnson should lose his position because he allowed this to happen? Yes. Hard yes. Yeah, you should lose your job if you do this. This is not a small deal.

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It might seem small if you don't follow the news in detail. This is a big deal. It's the biggest deal. The censorship is basically the government because if you can stop people from knowing what's happening, then you can control what happens without directly getting elected even.

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So the censorship thing is kind of the engine that drives everything because opinion drives everything after censorship. So, yeah, I think you have to lose your job if you put this in a bill and ask your own team to sign for their own destruction. You have to lose your job. And I didn't personally have any big problems with Speaker Johnson.

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I mean, I know that a lot of people had issues, but I didn't follow it too closely. But no, there's no way that you should keep your job if you signed off on this. No fucking way. You need to take a step back. Maybe keep his job in Congress, but no, you can't be the leader. This is not leadership. So... And I was really touched by Molly Hemingway, who works at The Federalist.

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She said, well, basically, she said she takes it personally, like she's worked so hard and The Federalist has worked so hard to make sure that Republican and conservative views are fully, you know, fully expressed.

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So basically fighting hard for your team, if you're Republican or conservative, fighting hard for your team, and then the team puts in basically the destruction of her entity, and they put that in a bill? Are you kidding me? This is just such a slap in the face and a stab in the back for both the Daily Wire and the Federalist. This is so inappropriate. Like this is, wow.

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I mean, it's just head shaking. How many Republicans were going to vote for that? Like, if Musk had not stepped in, and again, Musk was really empowered by the base, so it's not just Musk, of course. So here's what I think. I think there's something incredibly good happening. Like, incredibly good. And...

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I feel like a separate branch of government has formed spontaneously because it was required. We all noticed that the system, the way it was working, was just driving us off a cliff. We were just going to drive ourselves into debt and start wars until we're all dead. So nothing was working. But here's what I think has happened. And I think Trump gets all the credit. Trump gets all the credit.

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So if you enjoyed the simultaneous sip, you're probably feeling like you have more attention, more focus, and you're better at sports. I know, you can feel it. It just takes one sip. Would you be surprised to know that there's another breakthrough in battery storage? Yes!

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Because... Trump managed to attract exactly the right amount of talent, and that didn't happen on its own. So if you want to say, oh, you know, he had all the help from RFK Jr. and Vivek and from Elon Musk. So really, you know, they were the powers that pushed him over the finish line. And there's something to that. But remember, that only happened because Trump

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made himself attractive to voters as well as important smart people, right? The boss gets all the credit. It doesn't matter what Elon does or Vivek does or RFK Jr. And by the way, they would get tons of credit for doing good work. But the boss is the one who attracts them. The boss is the one who has to say yes.

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Trump, of course, was fully supportive of both Vivek and Elon as well as the whole base in saying, nope, you can't sign this thing. Now, here's what's great. I believe that we have somewhat accidentally evolved into a system which I wanted to call a council of elders, but it makes us sound old, so I'm not going to say that.

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And just to simplify, there are a number of opinion people who have more than a million followers on Acts who, if they were all opposed to a thing, it would be really hard for Elon to go forward with that thing or anybody else who was on that side. So I don't think it's necessarily the total number of voters because they don't get to have a say until the next election.

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But I do think that Elon and Trump specifically are really, really plugged in I'll just randomly pick a number. I'm going to say the top 50 smart people on their side. Top 50. What do you think the top 50 smartest people who lean right said about this bill? I'll bet all 50 said no. If all 50 of the smartest people, let's say most persuasive, I won't say smartest,

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If your 50 top most persuasive people are all on the same side, and I think they were, that empowers Trump. And that's what empowers everybody who works for him. And let's say Elon in this situation. So the will of the people is usually pretty accurately captured by the people who have over a million followers. So you're not getting it directly, but we all have a fee in the real world.

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The Monash University, they figured out some newly discovered material that integrates three modes of energy storage, which I call trimodal. And it uses boric acid and succinic acid, succinic acid, some kind of acid. And it's inexpensive and environmentally friendly and all that.

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So I feel like it's almost like another form of government where the people inform the people, the influencers who have a million plus followers. Elon is following the people who have a million plus. You can tell. He responded to me yesterday saying, when I weighed in on this topic, there was Elon's comment. So we know that he's watching at least the larger accounts.

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And that allows him to know when he's got backing and when he doesn't. Do you think he would have done this on his own if 40 of the top 50 right-leaning pundits had said, no, we like this bill, sign that? He might have argued it. still argue to this point and try to change our minds, but I don't think it would have been canceled. So there does seem to be this council of elders.

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Again, they're not old. Some of them are young. That is very, very important, and it's on X, and it's informing the right people to do the right things. So it does seem to be like a response to the fact that nothing was working. And so this new phenomenon has stepped in. Let's see how the Democrats are doing here.

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Yeah, Swalwell and Joy Reid were talking on MSNBC that, you know, Musk is like the speaker or the co-president and one post on X and he controls Congress. So this is, again, them getting everything wrong, not understanding that everyone on both sides hated this bill, and that Elon is doing the work of the people, transparently and right in front of us and at great personal risk.

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Then Kinzinger, Adam Kinzinger, he's on CNN, and he's calling Elon Musk the President Elon and says Trump is the Vice President Trump. Now, why did they do that? Obviously, the reason they do that is if they think that Trump's ego will not allow him to have such a strong partner, let's say. So they think they can drive a wedge between them by going after Trump's ego.

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I don't think it's going to work. Because here again is what they get wrong about Trump. Now, I've told you this for years. But now you can all see it. If you think Trump doesn't like people who are smarter than him, you're wrong. Trump really, really likes smart people. He really likes them. And he wants to work with them. And he wants to give them credit. But he's still the boss, right?

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The boss gets the top credit because he attracted the people to his administration. And if they do a good job, the boss gets the credit. That's how it works. So we should all make sure that when we're sort of talking about these things, that we give Elon his full share of credit, but when you talk about it, it would be helpful if you also add, you know, the boss gets the credit.

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It has to be that way. It just has to be. Anyway... So let's see. Rand Paul cheekily suggested that since the Speaker of the House doesn't need to be a member of Congress, that they could elect Elon Musk as Speaker of the House. Now, the thing that makes me laugh is that we've somehow gotten the idea that there's no limit to how many jobs Elon Musk can do at the same time.

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And I'm thinking to myself, Well, it is true we haven't found the limit yet, right? For most people, too, it would be too many companies to run. But he's running several. And then he's doing the Doge thing, which is more than a full-time job. So he's got something like five or six full-time jobs, plus parent, et cetera.

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And the only thing that I don't know is how many times has he been cloned so far? Because I've done the math of how many hours a human can be awake and do work and how many jobs Elon has, and I'm pretty sure there are at least two or three of him by now. There have to be at least two, but there might be three of him. I think he's already cloned himself. Do you think underneath...

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Now, again, the only reason I read you these stories every single day about battery storage is it really is everything. If we somehow could make our battery storage, you know, five times better, civilization would be really different. And it looks like that's going to happen one way or the other.

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His skin mask, there might be like an Optimus robot or something. I don't know. I think we're in the world of clones. We just don't know it yet. I'm kidding. Meanwhile, X has reached one billion active users, and Elon calls it the group chat for Earth. And boy, did it earn its little title this week. X is the reason that bill got killed.

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You could say it's a lot of different reasons because it's a bad bill, whatever. But if X did not exist and exist in its current form with free speech under Musk, I don't think that would have stopped. And you realize that that spending bill is part of a guaranteed death spiral for the country. If we just sign every big pile of bills and nobody says no, we're dead for sure, like actually dead.

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like not just having a bad day, dead. If the economy fails and the country fails, we're actually dead. And we were pretty close. And if we didn't have free speech and X and a lot of billionaires were willing to take big chances, personally and professionally, we would not have pulled back from the brink. To me, this feels like pulling back from the brink. Still got a lot of work to do.

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But we did not go over the cliff and we very, very easily could have. Joshua Steinman, who worked in the first Trump administration, says on a post, he says, having worked through multiple government shutdowns, first as a military officer, then as a White House staffer, I can say with conviction, they're not real. Ten times more efficient during the shutdown. I believe that.

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I believe that X is 10 times more efficient when they cut the staff by 80%. And I do believe that you'll get more done during a shutdown. I believe that. Meanwhile, according to The Hill, the lawyers for Trump have some kind of information that we don't know yet

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that a member of the New York jury that convicted Trump in the New York case, that one of the jurors was somehow, there's evidence of a grave juror misconduct during the trial. Now, I don't know what that would include, grave juror misconduct. So that would suggest that maybe they have some written communication that would say they weren't intending to be fair. Maybe.

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Maybe they're connected to somebody and they didn't admit it. You know, somebody in politics. Maybe. Maybe they had a phone call with somebody they shouldn't have been talking to. Maybe. I don't know. But it's something like that. Do you think that that will be enough to, you know, throw out the case or anything? I doubt it.

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There is a study, according to USA Today, that women lawmakers are 70 times more likely to be victims of deepfake porn than Let's see if there was any way that they could have saved time and money on this study. Is there anything they could have done to be certain they had the right answer, but not to spend the money and the time to do the study? Well, you could have asked every single human male.

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because Judge Merchan seems to be just an anti-Trump judge, so I don't expect justice in that case, at least from that judge. Meanwhile, in California, I don't know if you know that California voted to ban gas-driven cars starting in 20... What? Oh, I think this is wrong. Isn't it 2030 or 35? I wrote down 2025, but I think that was a mistake somebody made on X, and I just copied it.

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2035.

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We'll see how that goes. Meanwhile, Governor Newsom in California declared a bird flu emergency in California. I don't think that affects me yet. I don't know exactly what the flu emergency is going to do, but it doesn't require me to wear a mask or get a vaccination yet. But we'll keep an eye on that. Meanwhile, you probably heard that Proposition 36 in California passed by 70%.

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Because then I can't set it down at the same time I'm charging it. Wouldn't it make sense to put the charger on the top? In what world does it make sense to have it in your way all the time? They never thought of that? It's just mind-boggling. I can't believe that Steve Jobs would have done this. If it worked upside down, it'd be fine. I'd just turn it upside down.

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And you don't need to know the details. The summary of Proposition 36 is California decided to make crime illegal again. That's all you need to know. So there are a bunch of changes, but they all have the same effect, that you can't just walk into a store and take what you want and walk out now if they catch you.

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And you can't do multiple crimes and get slapped on the wrist every time you do the crime. You know, it'll go up in severity if you keep doing the same crime. So it's stuff like that. Tougher on fentanyl people, etc., So there's a, speaking of fentanyl, there's some kind of fentanyl movie. I don't know what that's about, but I saw the trailer for it.

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So somebody's doing the good work of turning it into a movie so maybe the hearts and minds can be moved a little bit more toward getting a solution. But I did see a graph that showed that opioid overdoses have gone down. in the past year or so, and quite a bit. And people say, why'd they go down? Well, I can think of two reasons. One is Narcan.

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So the antidote to the overdose is now well enough understood, and all police officers have it in their car. All first responders would have it. A lot of big organizations would have it. Probably schools, a lot of schools have it. So some of it is a whole bunch of people being saved by the Narcan. Narcan, I think, is the brand of it, not the drug.

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But when I looked at the graph, it also was obvious to me that the only thing that happened was the big spike in overdose deaths during the pandemic just normalized. So in other words, if you look at the, you know, there's this line up of, you know, every year, more fentanyl deaths, more and more. Then the pandemic hits and it's like way more.

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And now, you know, we're in the aftermath and it's back down to baseline. So if you were to just take the pre-pandemic slope and just draw a pencil line and connect it, that's where we are now. So the only change is, is that the pandemic bulge has now normalized back to a horrible, horrible problem that was one of the biggest problems before the pandemic.

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So don't get happy about it, that it went down quite a bit. It only went down from the bump. The baseline is still increasing. Now, here's what I wonder. I just have a real problem. Of course, I take this topic personally. Most of you know my stepson died from an overdose. He had fentanyl in his system. And, you know, I'm not happy with China.

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And China has promised several times that they would take care of the source, and we know that they could. but they kind of slow walking in and saying, well, yes, we're doing all kinds of things, but they're staying ahead of us, which we don't believe. We think they're allowing it to happen, or at least they're not trying hard enough to stop it. Here's what I think.

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I don't think we should throw this in the category of just one more thing we're talking to China about. It's not trade policy. It's not even military stuff. It's not UN stuff. we should close the embassy until they fix this. But we should tell them that it's temporary and just say, we're not comfortable having any communication with you officially while you're poisoning our citizens.

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If you stop this, we'll reopen the embassy. So we're not intending to close it totally. And the embassy would do services for American entities in China, so you need some of it. But there might be something where you could close it so that China doesn't have access to it and just don't have any meetings with anybody in China. And the reason to do it is not that they would care that much.

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I think every one of us would have gotten this right. Let's see. Would I rather see... No, I'm not going to name names. I was going to name names, but now I realize how classless that is.

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It's that it would embarrass them. The purpose would be to embarrass them. And apparently killing people with fentanyl shipments doesn't embarrass them because it kind of... It just looks like they're getting revenge for the opium wars long ago. So I don't think they're embarrassed by it because they're doing it intentionally and they're probably enjoying the benefit of it.

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But if we said, we can't even deal with you like adults because you're murdering our children. So if you stop murdering our children, we'll open an embassy and treat you like you would like to be treated. But we can't have a summit with you We just can't have a normal relationship while you're killing our children.

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And I think you can still be professional about everything else we do, still trade with them, even while we're trying to reshore stuff. But I think we need to embarrass them. And I think we have to say, look, we're going to temporarily shut down our embassy. And it's not going to last long because it wouldn't take you long to clean up this fentanyl stuff. But take as long as you want.

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You just can't have an embassy from the United States. Or we kick them out of our embassy. Maybe you do the reverse. Just say, you can't have an embassy in the United States while you're sending us fentanyl. And you just keep it just to that one topic. And you just say... I'm sorry, you can't be in the nation of good countries. We just can't deal with you on that basis.

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We don't have respect for you. Let's say it this way. We don't have respect for you, and you can't have an embassy in our country under these conditions. Well, anyway. Apparently the Supreme Court is going to hear TikTok's appeal to try to stay in business and intact. Zero hedges reporting. And so here's the deal.

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I was going to say, would I rather see Mitch McConnell naked and having a threesome, or would I rather... And then I stopped myself, because if I put in a name, then that becomes the news, and yeah, blah, blah, blah. But you know what I mean, yes. Surprise. People like to see women more than men. The economy is kind of strong, if you don't count the debt that's going to kill us all.

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I guess Trump has offered that he could facilitate a sale of TikTok to an American entity, which would satisfy the court order. So then TikTok could remain, but it would be owned and managed and the data would be in the United States. Do you like that idea? Do you think it should be banned? Or would you prefer that an American buy it? Well, here's the answer to the question.

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It really depends which American buys it. And something very interesting is about to happen. If Elon Musk bought TikTok, and that's not going to happen, but if he did, the Democrats would be completely toast. Because then the two biggest sources of knowledge, X and TikTok, would both be pro-Trump, pro-common sense. And that would be bad for Democrats. But also the other way.

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If Reid Hoffman and let's say some team of investors bought TikTok, well, at least TikTok would be an American company. But then you would worry that they've got their finger on the scale and, you know, they're basically causing the outcome in the elections.

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So if TikTok leaned left, which it does, but it was very pro-Trump this election, weirdly, and X people think it leans right, but I don't think it leans it right as much as people think, that would be sort of a good competition, wouldn't it? But what happens if Trump puts together the sale? If Trump puts together the sale,

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presumably, he's going to make sure that some people who like him are the ones who buy it. So here's what TikTok might be missing in this story. They have an opportunity for a bidding war like you've never seen. So whatever is the current value of TikTok, you know, the entire TikTok, if they take the American piece and they put it out to bid,

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the Democrat billionaires and the Republican billionaires are going to have to basically break the piggy bank because neither side is going to be willing to let the other have that much control of the American mind, right? There's literally, there probably would be no asset in the United States besides X that would be that valuable because it'd be valuable for profits, right?

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but way more valuable for controlling the country. So I think there could be the biggest bidding war we've ever seen, like crazy bidding war. So TikTok could probably monetize this in a way that nobody's ever seen. And one of the ways that a Trump dealmaker could make this palatable is to say that out loud. Say, hey, TikTok, you do understand

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that there's going to be a bidding war like you've never seen in your life, right? You're going to make a lot of money if you sell the American part, and you'll never have a better chance. I mean, this would be like an amazing opportunity. So my guess is that it will get sold to an American entity, and probably somebody that Trump likes.

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Disney, meanwhile, has decided to get rid of the trans storyline in one of their children's movies. Is that even real? Did those words just come out of my mouth? Yep. So there's an animated show. Is it a movie or just a show? It's called Win or Lose, an animated show. So maybe it's a TV show about a co-ed middle school softball team. And there's some

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But the economy grew a little bit better than expected. 3.1% in the third quarter, beating expectations that were merely 2.8%. I pity the people who made those poor projections. Consumer spending was good and the GDP price index ticked up and the core prices rose, but not much more than expectation, 2.2%.

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trans character in there they decided to remove. This is what Disney said about it. When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. That's kind of perfect. Thank you. So Disney...

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So now Disney has paid Trump $15 million through their ownership of ABC News and George Stepanopoulos. And now they've de-wokified at least some of their content. I'd expect more. Because if you make a statement like this, you're going to have to apply it to your other properties. So I think this is a big step. But I like how well they said it.

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So whoever was in charge of crafting the statement for Disney, good job. Yeah, they're not saying their own opinion. They're saying we recognize that parents would, many parents, not all, would prefer to discuss certain things on their own terms and timeline. That's as perfect as you can say that. I'm actually impressed just at the skill that went into the statement. It's a lot of skill.

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Meanwhile, there's a, the Washington University in St. Louis University is reporting a study where they put something like a pacemaker device on people who are depressed, except instead of being a pacemaker for your heart, it would zap your vagus nerve in the neck. And what they found is if you stimulate the vagus nerve just right, it can eliminate depression symptoms.

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Now, they did this with people who had tried a whole bunch of other things and got no relief. So they knew these were not easy cases. These were hard cases and they got a great response. But so on one hand, I'm really happy for anybody who has this problem in their life because maybe they have another future treatment if it all gets approved.

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But yes, for severe treatment resistant depression, I mean, that's got to be the worst thing you could possibly imagine. And so this might help him with it. But I would like to make the following observation. If you put a mechanical device in my body and it changes me from being depressed into not depressed, that's a personality change. And it's a personality change that's driven by hardware.

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So am I a cyborg? Because if you can change my most fundamental personality, which is I'm depressed all the time, and I only have depressed thoughts and depressed actions, to, hey, I'm having a good day, that's more than just fixing a medical problem. That's a whole different personality. I mean, you're changing people from Karen to non-Karen. That's a personality change. And I'm in favor of it.

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Because I don't think that people in this situation should suffer one second longer. So if you can help them, please do. But I think it's just an observation. I'm not complaining one bit. But it's a complete personality change. So to me, that's kind of a cyborg. You're no longer what you were when you were organic. You're something new that's a combination of hardware and skinware. Kind of cool.

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No, I hate it at all. Biological machine. That's right. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I feel like I missed a few stories today. There's been so much going on lately. Was there any story that you wanted me to talk about? I feel like I'm done with drones until something new happens. You're all okay with that, right? Feels like... Yeah, Naval had some great quotes that I posted.

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So the bottom line, of course, is that the Fed probably doesn't have a reason to do too many cuts. When the Fed cuts the interest rates, that's what makes the stock market go up. So now that we know that the rates won't be cut as much as we thought, because the economy is stronger, in theory, the market should be down today, right? But it's not. What happened?

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It's better if you just read them in his own words. I decided not to talk about them. So the stock market's up, right? Oh, I think I didn't complete my thought. So normally when the economy is strong enough that the Fed says we're not going to reduce rates or we're not going to reduce them as much as you thought, That usually causes the stock market to tank, and it did on the first day.

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But today, it should still be down because the Fed is still not going to lower rates as fast as we thought, but it went up sharply. Here's why. I think it's the budget. I think that when the country realized that maybe we can stop this anti-control budget spending, which is our biggest problem, just to be clear, it's our biggest problem by far. It's the one thing that could end the entire country.

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Nothing else could. I mean, short of a nuclear war, which I don't see happening, almost nothing could end America. But this could. The debt could. It could end the entire experiment. And so you see the... The Council of Elders, you see the Viveks, the Elon Musks enter the breach.

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And at the very least, they did the first thing you need to do, which is stop this signature of that foot tall bill that nobody likes. Now, I think the world is shocked that that was so handily and well handled. Because the politicians are in this situation where they sort of can't do their jobs. You know, they don't want to go against their party and everybody wants to go home for Christmas.

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Their family will be mad. They're really, they can't get it done. So the fact that this new mechanism appeared, the new mechanism is Vivek reads the thing in one day. You didn't see that coming. Tells us what's in it. You didn't see that coming. And then Elon goes in hard. Like, you know, he went in like the bull and then he got complete backing, 100 percent backing from everybody.

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Well, everybody on the right. And like I said, nobody on the left really disagrees. They just don't love the fact that the right is getting stuff done. So I think that the stock market is responding to the fact that America may have corrected its biggest problem. And it's the big one, the biggest of the big. Now, that's a long way from doging our way down to a budget that works.

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We haven't doged a bit, but we did show that if the people on X have a strong opinion about something, things are going to change. And that's new. So I think we're in one of the best situations the country's ever been in.

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not only are we at the cusp of a super cycle the likes of which we might never see again which is robots and and auto tech you know auto self-driving taxis flying cars drones you know probably probably the the most important cycle ever and the only thing that could stop us is the runaway debt And we might have that under control soon. It's not under control. But we have all the right players.

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And we have the support to do it. At least conceptually, we have the support. All right. Is there anything else I should have mentioned? It's a Vegas nerve, V-A-G-A-S, not Vegas as in Las Vegas. No, V-A-G-U-S, Vegas nerve, V-A-G-U-S. Can I wax poetic about Raquel Welch? You know, I'm going to tell you later when I go private on locals why that comment blew my mind. But I can't say it.

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I can't say it to the rest of you. All right. All right. I'm going to talk to the people on locals privately, the subscribers. If you were wondering how to see Dilbert, you can see it if you subscribe on X or on Locals. But Locals has more of my political stuff. And if you get the Dilbert calendar today, I can't guarantee it'll be there by Christmas. Probably wouldn't.

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But it would probably be there by January 1st. So if it's somebody that lives locally, family member, father, and you wanted to get one, you still have time. before January 1st. And you can just give them a card that says you bought it and it's on the way. So you can still buy it. Dilbert Calendar, the only place you can find it is on Dilbert.com. That's where the link to buy it is.

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Was there something that happened yesterday that had potentially enormous financial impact on the United States in a positive way? Did something happen? Yes, it did. We're going to talk about that. All right. We'll get there in a minute. So CNN has some reporting last night. It's about how the Democrats were shielding Biden and his declining brain from the real world.

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It exists nowhere else. There's nowhere else you can get it but that one link on Amazon, not in stores. All right. Say goodbye, X and Rumble and X and Rumble and YouTube. And I'm coming at you locals privately in 30 seconds.

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And she said, quote, what we found is that the shell around Biden was kind of always hard, but became harder and thicker, and the walls became taller. And that wall was blocked from the American people. And apparently they had a habit of when they showed Biden how he's doing, they would have to clip out all the mocking of his gaffes. Can you imagine being the president of the United States

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And because the news that you see is what your advisor has put in front of you, it's not like you're sitting in front of the TV too much. Can you imagine being Biden and not being aware that he was being mocked mercilessly for his gaffes? Just try to hold that in your head. He's the president of the United States. And the entire world is laughing at him for having his brain degraded.

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And he's the only one who doesn't know. He's the only one. And he lives in a world that's saturated with media. But because he's busy and because they tell him the things he needs to know, he's the only one who doesn't know. Do you know how much easier it would have been to convince him to drop out of the race if he had seen his own bad press? No.

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If he had seen his own bad press, he would have dropped down sooner. Now, if CNN and MSNBC had been more honest about how he was doing, do you think he would have stayed in the race? If the pollsters had been doing accurate polls, do you think he would have stayed in the race? Here's what I think.

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but they stopped making it work upside down. So, anyway. So what I'm trying to do is lay it sideways so I can see your comments, which appears to be... Are you fucking kidding me? Never get a stand that has suction cups on it. So I'm going to cleverly insert this into this area so that the Ta-da! It beat the system. Ha-ha, system.

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Have you noticed that the Democrats have this habit of being the perpetrators of whatever the badness is, and then blaming it on somebody else? Well, usually they're blaming it on Republicans. But if you turn on the news, the news is going to say, oh, that Biden campaign was bad and Joe Biden was bad because he didn't leave the race earlier.

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Do you know what would have made him leave the race earlier? Accurate news and accurate polls. You fucking idiots. You kept feeding your own idiots fake news and fake polls, and they believed it. And so did Biden.

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Maybe instead of blaming Biden for staying in the race too long, you should fucking blame yourself for gaslighting the country, which caused him to be gaslighted at the same time so that he legitimately thought he had a chance of winning. I don't think that Biden would have gone so far if he knew he had no chance of winning.

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It was the news that fucked him and the pollsters, and then his campaign were, of course, incompetent. So you had DEI, fake news, and fake polls. That's what took Biden down. It wasn't Biden. He was the recipient of the worst help anybody ever got because all they cared about was Trump, Trump. So yeah, stop blaming Biden.

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Ultimately, he's the guy in the job, so he gets, you know, I understand how it works. Biden's in the job, so he has to take the hit. But honestly, none of it would happen if all of the people around him had done their jobs. None of it. He would have looked at the news, same as we did, and said, oh, that doesn't look good. There's no way I'm going to win with this kind of news coverage. Anyway.

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So, you know, so before we talk about that continued resolution, which of course I will, I am continually entertained by how the Democrats can't figure out what went wrong. Now, just as my prior example, they think Biden was the problem. No, it was the news. It was the polls. It was his advisors. But they get pretty much everything wrong.

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Because to understand it correctly would be quite damning to their own, you know, capabilities. So the way cognitive dissonance works is if you don't want to, you don't want to accept something that says you're stupid or that you did a bad job. So you just imagine that something else happened. That's how cognitive dissonance works.

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So you remember how they running when Biden was running, I'm sorry, when Harris was running against, uh, Trump and Biden before that, and Biden before that, that they were doing all these generic complaints. You know, the generic complaints were, Trump's going to end democracy. And people were saying, but gas is too expensive. Could you talk about that? He's Putin's best friend.

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All right, but like, Could you talk about the price of eggs? And so you would think that the one thing that they would most understand is that this conceptual stuff is not hitting anybody in the feels, like they don't have anybody good who understands persuasion on their team, apparently, at the moment. It looks like they have nobody who understands the basics of persuasion.

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No, and democracy isn't touching anybody. So now that Trump's elected... there's a Hill opinion piece in the publication called The Hill. And the title is, Trump will turn America's justice system into a tool of political revenge. What's that sound like? It's more end democracy stuff. They didn't learn anything. They didn't learn anything.

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That talking in these generic ways about it is going to be, it's a tool of political revenge. It just doesn't hit. You just want to be able to pay for your gas and your eggs and make sure that the country isn't destroyed by invading migrants. But so it makes you wonder why they stopped saying their other generic thing. Do you remember their other generic thing they used to say?

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Nobody's above the law. And they would say it about Trump because they were law-faring him. You know, all these illegitimate legal processes. Illegitimate, in my opinion. And every day it was like, no one's above the law. No one's above the law. So now that Derek Chauvin got permission to have George Floyd's heart and some of his juices tested somehow.

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I guess there's some skin tissue that was saved. And they could find out if he died for reasons related to maybe a heart condition. And that would potentially get Derek Chauvin in jail. Now, what would be the problem with somebody asking for some evidence that wasn't included in the trial, but everybody who hears the story knows, oh, that would have been good evidence to be in the trial.

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So it's a person who was convicted, and he simply wants to make sure that the trial did include all the correct evidence. So what does the Biden Department of Justice say when somebody says, can we include the real important evidence such as the quality of his heart at the time he died? Very, very obvious, simple thing we'd all want to know.

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And the Biden Department of Justice is deciding to try to fight it and deny him the chance to look at the health of the heart, the heart muscles or whatever it is they saved. Now, what happened to no one's above the law? What happened to caring about the rule of law and the democracy? Because you know what?

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All right, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's the best time you'll ever have, but if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup of microglas, a tank of chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Derek Chauvin, when he requested this extra evidence, he did it completely within the confines of the legal process. He didn't steal it.

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he's not trying to kill somebody to get the specimens he had legal lawyers do legal things according to the legal process and everybody with common sense would say yeah you know what even though he was convicted he he has a right to see that stuff he absolutely has a right to see it so yeah it feels like the democrats just want to be on whatever's the dumb side

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Corey DeAngelis is writing about this. 16th state to pass universal school choice. So that's kind of big. At least that's going in the right direction, school choice. You remember the story yesterday about Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, who prosecuted Trump for allegedly claiming his properties were worth more than they were to get a loan.

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But of course, the banks that gave that loan were not depending on anything that Trump said about his properties. their normal routine is to do their own evaluation of the value of any assets. So it turns out that Letitia James was credibly accused, credibly accused,

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of being a mortgage fraud herself by claiming that her Virginia residence was her primary residence, claiming that her father was her husband, and claiming that a New York unit that she has had four units in it, which gave it better tax treatment, I guess, or not tax treatment, maybe it was mortgage treatment, than if she told the truth that it has five.

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So what did she do after being credibly accused of the very crimes that she law-fired Trump into almost not being president? Her approach was to get really mad and give a speech and be extra mad, but also extra mad and extra loud. And just not mention any of her own problems. Just say, oh, we're not going to take it anymore. We're going to get this guy.

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So I don't know what it's going to take to take her down, but... She's got some interesting times ahead of her. Harry Enten is debunking one of the things on the internet. Apparently people are, people, Democrats, are trying to claim that even Republicans wish they hadn't voted for Trump. But apparently the data doesn't show anything like that.

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And Harry Enten showed on CNN that 98% of Trump voters would vote the same way. But 98% of Kamala Harris voters would vote the same way too. So if...

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if the election were re-held today it would be about exactly the same result nothing changed so all this talking about who's doing what and how well they're doing nobody's opinion changed 98 of the people was still doing vote exactly the same no matter what facts are in play all right

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's Cold Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's never been a better time in your life.

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Well, over in Europe, the ECB, which must be kind of like our Fed, I'm assuming in context, is lowering interest rates for the seventh time. And Trump notices that and he says, why is that not happening here? So he thinks that Jerome Powell of the Fed is too late. You know, he's always too late in lowering interest rates. And Trump says that Powell should do it now.

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because it's happening in Europe and we don't have inflation at the moment. But Powell says he's worried about tariff-driven inflation. Now, does that sound like he's independent? Or does that sound like he's kind of giving it to Trump? Because if he doesn't lower interest rates, it's going to be a big drag on the government. If he does...

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everything's going to look like it's heading in the right direction. And then Powell has also said that our federal debt is not at an unsustainable level. Do you believe that, that our federal debt is not at an unsustainable level? I think it is at an unsustainable level. So I am a little concerned that Powell... is not operating on what's best for the country. I am a little worried about that.

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I see in the comments somebody asking me if I've abandoned perplexity. No, perplexity is still great if you want to talk to it. It's an app on my phone, so it's quick. I routinely have more than one AI because I like to keep my finger in to figure out what's new and how one compares to the other. So I'm a bit of a geek.

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It's still in beta, but apparently what it can do is it can scan the billions in federal awards and IRS filings, and then it uses AI to look through all that data, and it can find even when they're hiding DEI by changing the names. So it's clever enough to say, oh, that's really DEI, even though you're not using any of those words.

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So anyway, Trump thinks interest rates should be lower, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

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So just to make the Democrats have something else to complain about, according to Reuters, SpaceX is a leading contender for what Trump wants to build that he calls the Golden Dome, a defense for the country against missile attacks, meaning that it would shoot up our own counter missiles to knock down any incoming missiles. And SpaceX would be working with other companies, theoretically.

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Now, I don't think any final decisions are made, but this is just sort of who's in the lead for these things. But SpaceX would partner with Palantir and Anduril, and they'd have some kind of subscription model. So I think what SpaceX would do would be to provide the satellite intelligence so that the satellites can see pretty much everything on the Earth.

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So it would know if a missile attack is coming. So that's good. And the subscription model would be the government wouldn't buy any of the stuff. They would just have a subscription model. which makes, it kind of makes the military sound like it's not as serious. It's like, well, do you have a subscription? You haven't paid up your subscription, so we're not going to stop these missiles.

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Anyway, Reuters is reporting on that. And all I have to say about that is let the Democrats begin bitching again that Elon Musk was looking through that government stuff so he could make money being part of the Golden Dome. Now, I know they're going to say, oh, why does Trump's good friend Elon Musk possibly, it's not a done deal, but why does he possibly get this big contract?

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And the answer will be, because nobody else has Starlink. Who is the other entity that can even do that? So we'll see. You've heard Joe Biden and other Democrats try to convince their sheep that what Trump wants to do is reduce Social Security. They say the same thing about Medicaid, but there's no evidence of either of them. But here's what I never see in response.

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Trump has said that he wants to remove taxes on Social Security, meaning that if you collect Social Security and you're paying taxes because you have other income, Right now you would pay taxes on your Social Security checks, which I do. So that's my current situation. So if you were to remove taxes on Social Security,

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That would be the biggest increase in Social Security that maybe we've ever seen. I asked Grok, and Grok said that 40% of people who get Social Security are also currently being taxed by the federal government, meaning they have other income that puts them in a taxable category. And therefore, they're paying taxes on Social Security. So I wonder why nobody ever brings that up.

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Is it because it's only good for people who are high income? But Trump is the only person I know who's made a major commitment, if he gets it done, you know, there's no reason to believe he'll necessarily get the no taxes on Social Security. But that would be one of the biggest increases in the benefits of all time, right? And I never see anybody argue that.

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So it can uncover DEI-focused awards, reveal mission mismatches, when the money and the nonprofit don't align. It can look for DEI-specific flags, So that's going to be fun as we try to remove all the racism from the world with getting rid of the DEI. And it does a little more. Here's some good news. There's been the discovery of an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is how I refer to it usually.

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It's like not only does he not want to cut it, he wants to get rid of the taxes on it. That would be a pretty good argument. It does lean toward the higher income people. But then you look at his other plan, which is to come up with a higher tax rate for the highest income. the highest paid people. And it doesn't look like he's favoring the rich. It looks like he's just trying to reduce taxes.

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So at least those two topics would work well together. Well, a judge has ruled that the 530,000 illegal migrants that Biden flew in on airplanes are would have to be tried individually before being deported. So even though they came in as a giant program, they could only be removed, according to this judge, if every one of them had a full vetting and a process, I guess.

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So they'd have to be tried individually. Trump, of course, and the Trump administration is mocking that judge because if you did try to do it individually, it literally is impossible. It just would take 100 years or something. So that's not going to happen.

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So I assume this will just go to a higher court because the only thing you could do with this group, if you really wanted to get rid of them, the only thing you could do would be to do it as a group and just say the whole group is illegal. because the program is, I don't know, I've decided the program was illegal for some good reason. So we'll see. All right, here's my favorite story.

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Now, as you know, this whole Kilmer Abrego Garcia guy, also known as the Maryland dad who got deported to El Salvador, for the longest time, I did not find that story interesting. Not because it had no interesting parts, but because I just don't like getting involved in stories about one person.

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Because unless it's telling you something about the larger world, it just doesn't seem like you should have it in your head at all. Unless you're personally related to it or a victim of him or something. It just isn't important. what happens to one person. But there are so many moving parts to this now, it's become one of my favorite things. So here's what happened.

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I can't tell if this is intentional, but the Trump administration had claims that he was a bad guy, so that the deporting was completely appropriate, and he had plenty of due process, and court had found him to be deportable, and he was a bad guy. But Democrats argued that there wasn't really evidence that he was a bad guy. So they decided to, you know, one of the senators, Van Hollen,

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He travels all the way down to El Salvador. And then on camera, several times, he referred to El Salvador as San Salvador. And apparently he got no political interest whatsoever from El Salvador. I don't even know if anybody met with him. But he didn't get even to talk to the fellow who was locked up.

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And then Cory Booker was trying to lead an expedition of like-minded people to go down there and try to rescue him. So the Democrats are going all in. And then James Carville recommends the Democrats go all in on this and just take it balls to the wall and really make it a hill to die on.

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And the argument is that if we can let this happen to this one person, in other words, get deported and jailed without what they would call due process, but the people on the right say he did have due process, then it could happen to you. It can be extended. So here's what happened.

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So in the time between Democrats accurately saying that there wasn't clarity about him being guilty, they sort of doubled down and made it their biggest thing. And then yesterday it was revealed what he's actually been accused of. And he seems like the guiltiest guy ever. So, you know, it's not like I can know for sure. But apparently he got picked up.

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He was arrested in the company of known MS-13 gang members. The law enforcement was told that he was ranked as a higher up person, which has a name. And he had a nickname that is only sort of gang related. He had a tattoo that seemed to be MS-13 related, although somebody is arguing that. He was wearing some Chicago Bulls gear, which, of course, regular people wear that too, especially there.

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But apparently it's somehow associated with MS-13 because they like the horns or something. So he's got tattoos. He's got the clothing of it. He's with the MS-13 people. He was caught with marijuana and a suspicious amount of cash. And then credible sources said, oh, he's definitely MS-13. And they gave details and everything.

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And they think that it has an alien ocean that may be teeming with life. So there's a 99.7% certainty that the planet has at least one gas in its atmosphere that, at least on Earth, is produced only by living things. Now, what do you think are the odds that that planet is actually teeming with life because there's a gas that on Earth is associated with living things? Is that good enough?

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But on top of that, in 2021, his wife filed a restraining order against him. because he beat her up. He punched her with a closed fist and scratched her and tore off her shirt. And I think it was more than once. So she was afraid for her life about this Maryland dad. And then we heard, according to the Tennessee Star, in 2022, he was stopped

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driving without a license, and Tennessee Highway Patrol suspected him of trafficking the seven people inside. So what they did was, after they stopped him, they learned he was on a terrorist watch list. He was on a terrorist watch list. So they called Biden's FBI, but Biden's FBI told them to release him. So he's on a terrorist watch list? Okay, release him. Wait, what?

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Yeah, so you said he's on a terrorist watch list, right? Yeah. Yeah, release him. Why? I don't know. I don't know. Now, how much of this do I know is true? Well... I don't know it's true, but it's a pretty long list of really bad sounding things that makes me think maybe the Democrats acted a little too hastily in deciding that they would put all of their weight behind this.

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Now, their argument, of course, as I said, is that if somebody like this who maybe is a bad person, but if they can be jailed or deported without due process, then eventually that could happen to your mom.

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So, you know, if your mom, for example, was a wife beater who wore MS-13 clothes and hung out with MS-13 and had an MS-13 nickname and position in the organization and he was on a terrorist watch list and he had been ordered by the court to be deported, well, if that happened to your mom, How sad would you be when your mom got deported to the El Salvador jail, right?

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So the hilarious thing is that from a technical perspective, the Democrats might be right. There might be a little bit of due process that you wish there had been. But I'm not terribly worried about this specific guy. And then the argument is, but what about your mom? Later, your mom will be picked up in the same process.

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And I'm thinking to myself, there's a long distance between this guy with his record and your mom. I mean, that's a pretty long distance. And one of the things about Democrats, which is probably true of Republicans as well, is once they get committed to a position, they just can't change.

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So if Democrats were reasonable thinking people, what they would have done is said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we didn't realize he was this bad. You're showing us pretty good evidence of how bad he is. We'd like to still press the point that maybe he should have had more due process. I'm not sure what he was supposed to have that he didn't get because he got some due process.

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Otherwise, he wouldn't have a deportation order against him. But to me, it's just hilarious that they can't back off the political part of it. They can keep to their point that maybe in some way he should have more due process. But they really need to back off supporting him coming back to the country.

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than right now but if you'd like to take a chance on taking this up to a level that nobody's ever experienced with their tiny shiny human brains and the history of the universe all you need is a cupper mug or a glass of tanker chalice a sign a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind and fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee

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And even if he came back and got his due process, he would just be shipped back to that El Salvadorian jail. It is his country of origin. So I love that James Garville apparently has given up on what he used to say, which is the Democrats just have to play to win. He's doubling down on this MS-13 guy, and he was telling Democrats that they should play to win, not to just win points.

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How in the world does Carville think that supporting the MS-13 guy is going to put the Democrats over the line to win elections? It's maybe the dumbest thing the Democrats have ever done. So anyway, so they've got a lot of analogy thinking problem, which is if something reminds you of something else, you think it'll go the same way.

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So if it reminds you of that old saying, as Carville said also, first they came for this group and I said nothing, and then they came for this group and I said nothing, and then they came for me. Well, not everything goes that way, does it? For example, you know, if you're a murderer, even if you're a citizen, are you going to go a different path than your mom who didn't murder anybody?

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I don't know. I'm not going to wait for the aliens. I don't think. I don't think. But wouldn't it be amazing if we found some actual aliens someday? Don't you want to live long enough to see some aliens? Well, here's the good news. According to many podcasts, we have captured aliens in warehouses in various government facilities. And we also have, oh, I don't know how many UFOs we've captured.

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I mean, we haven't taken it from, well, we've locked up a lot of people in prisons in the United States. You know, they went through due process, but they got locked up to, well... If you can use due process to lock up the criminals, what is to stop them from using due process to lock up your mom? That's analogy thinking. It sort of is ignoring how anything works in the real world.

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So anyway, Democrats have gone from bad to ridiculously bad. And then Carville's picked a fight with David Hogg, who's using the DNC. So Hogg wants... Democrats to primary other Democrats because he thinks that some of those Democrats are not qualified or they're too old or they don't have any fight in them. So he wants to go after other Democrats.

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And Carville says he should quit his position in the DNC if he wants to go primary people because that seems like the opposite of what he should be doing. I have to admit, Carville's kind of right about that. If you're trying to win, probably your best play is not to primary anybody on your own side. First, you want to win, and then maybe later you could primary people.

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But so Carville is quite insistent that the far left part of the party needs to be abandoned, which would allow them not to win any elections whatsoever. And I was going after David Hogg. Every part of this is sort of delicious because there's not a single part of it that doesn't look like a mistake on some level. And then, okay, I shouldn't say this at all, but I'm going to do it.

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So Senator Von Hollen already went down there, and he went down there before it was revealed. He went down to El Salvador, but he did it before it was revealed that the guy was a wife beater. And so I was trying to imagine what would Von Hollen say when he was challenged with that. You know, it's been demonstrated and there's legal documents that he beat his wife.

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And I wonder if he was thinking to himself, well, I'd have to know what she said right before he punched her. Now, that's the worst thought you'll ever hear today. But what are they going to say? Are they going to say, well, Normally, we're against the wife meter, but he didn't get enough due process. Anything they say on this topic is going to sound ridiculously wrong.

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So you might as well go for full wrong. Say, I'd have to know what she said right before he punched her. That's the wrongest thing you could say. Well, on X Today, there was a user whose name is Matt Van Swall. And this is kind of important. You know his background. He was a former nuclear scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy. And here's what he wrote.

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He said on X, I consider myself fairly liberal up until a couple of months ago. I watch CNN nearly every day to get my news. And after reading the truth about Abrego Garcia on X, I'm horrified at the media bias. And then he says, now I'm wondering, what else did I believe that was just a full-blown lie?

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And people tagged me on that so that I could inform him what else he believed that was a full-blown lie. So I just responded to him with a link to AmericanDebunk.com. So if you haven't seen AmericanDebunk.com, it's full write-ups of the biggest Democrat hoaxes, everything from the fine people to the drinking bleach to all the classics. But I would be so curious... about Matt Van Swaal's journey?

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Like, is he going to read those debunks and now is he ready? Because if you're not ready, you just start reading them and you go, blah, it's a bunch of propaganda from Republicans. I'm not even going to finish this. But if you're ready, like you've already made the first step yourself and you found out, hey, I'm starting to think this news isn't completely real.

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Now, you know what Gell-Mann amnesia is, right? This is sort of where this all came from. It was a physicist who noticed that when he read stories about physics, the one thing he knew about for sure, those stories were all inaccurate.

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But then he would convince himself that all the other stories were fine until one day he thought, wait a minute, what are the odds that every time I know something about this story is wrong, But every time I don't know anything about this story, it's true. And then he sort of reasoned that maybe the news wasn't true in general.

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Well, that's why I mentioned that Matt Van Swaal was a former nuclear and is a former nuclear scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy. I feel like if you're a scientist and you see that you've been fooled on an important story in the media and you see it for yourself, that it activates the gel man amnesia part of your brain where you go, wait a minute, just wait a minute.

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According to people who have said things. So if you can't trust people you don't know who have said things, who can you trust? science um all right i've got a rare recommendation for you of a content that you might enjoy now the reason it's rare is because almost everything on television is trash But I gave a chance to this one thing on Netflix. It's a new series called The Residence.

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How many other things have I been, you know, propagandized by? So we'll see. Um, So let's talk about the Carmelo Anthony story. So that's the black teenager who killed a white teenager with a knife. I don't know the details of who started it or who was the bully in that situation. I think it's going to be complicated. But again, I had been ignoring this story because it was one-off. It was tragic.

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But it didn't seem to me like it was saying anything about the world in general. Just there was one kind of unique and tragic story that happened between two teenagers that you wish hadn't happened. But apparently my name has been pulled into the story. I really just tried to mind my own business on this and just completely stay out of it.

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But let me read to you what Matt Walsh said in a post on X, and then you can see why I got dragged into it without my willingness. So Matt Walsh posts this. He goes, the people supporting Carmelo Anthony don't really believe the bullshit that it was, quote, self-defense. They don't care about that. When the video comes out proving that this was cold-blooded homicide, it won't matter.

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They're happy that he killed a white kid. It's that simple. Now, I wouldn't go that far to say that they're happy because he killed a white kid. Because black America is a big diverse group and it might be true that some percentage have that perspective. But people remember that I got canceled. I got canceled for reading a survey

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that was data-driven, I didn't make it up, that suggested that black Americans had a problem with the white Americans and didn't think it was even okay to be white. And it was something like 30 or 40% of the respondents, which is not a majority, but it's an alarming number. And I said, hmm.

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I don't think you'd want to spend much time around a group of people if 30% of them didn't think it was okay even to be you. And I would say the same thing if you reverse the races. I like to use this example. If you were a black professional and you were moving for work and you had a choice of towns to settle in that were both close enough to work,

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And one of them was known to have a robust Ku Klux Klan entity in it. And the other one did not. Which one are you likely to settle in? You would settle in the one that didn't have one because you would be safer. So people all make the same kind of decisions. But all I can say is I hope nobody does a poll on this Carmela Anthony thing because I'm going to get dragged into this so hard.

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I saw my face was in a bunch of memes. So people dragged me into it, which I just think is funny. You know, it doesn't bother me. Anyway, apparently there's some video they have. They think they have video that we haven't seen yet. But one of the questions I would have of this is, was the white kid a bully? Does anybody know that? Was the white kid a bully?

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Because obviously that doesn't justify murder. But I have sort of a trigger. You know, I get triggered by bullies. And I would think about the situation differently if I knew that the white guy was a bully. I don't know that. If it just turns out it was two teenagers doing teenage things and one of them pulled a knife and killed the other, then that's a completely different story. Yeah.

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So anyway, apparently I've become... Somebody in the comments says the face of common sense about race. That would be the nice way to put it, so I'll take that. RFK Jr. is getting closer to telling us what's causing autism. Do you remember the numbers that when RFK Jr. was a kid, one in, I don't know,

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10,000 or something were autistic, but now it's one in like 31, which would be roughly one in every classroom. Does that sound right? In your experience, is there one autistic kid in basically every classroom? That does sound true to me. It seems to me it would be hard to imagine an entire classroom of 31 kids without at least one person that was identified as on the autism spectrum.

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So I do believe the numbers. I mean, that tracks with observation and experience. But RFK Jr. is sure it's an environmental toxin. He's not He's not committing to it being vaccinations or food or pollution, but it's one of those things or something in the air or the food or something. But he also had a point that was kind of good because some people said that it might be genetic.

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I'm not sure if there's a thought in front of it, but Residence or The Residence. Now, the first thing you need to know is it's super woke. And if you're surprised that I'm recommending something that's super woke, let me finish. And then maybe I'll change your mind. So it's super woke, but it's about a murder in the White House, and the president is a gay married guy.

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And I think his argument... Oh no, somebody said that it might be an artifact of better diagnostic criteria, meaning that maybe we always had the same amount of autism, but we didn't diagnose it the same, so now all that's different is we diagnose it. And RFK Jr. says, if that's true, that it's only about diagnosing it, why is it not happening in older people?

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How is it that older people are not being diagnosed with autism, but young people are. And that's a pretty good point.

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Because if it were only about the diagnostic tools, then people who were 55 would go into the doctor's office and the doctor would say, we got these new tools and I can tell you that you've been autistic all your life and we just couldn't detect it until now or something like that. But that is not the case. It is highly concentrated in the young.

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So I guess we won't have the studies to know for sure, or at least to know what the studies say for sure, until September. But there are already some critics who are worried that RFK Jr. has made up his mind. And he's just going to say it's about vaccinations, even if the data doesn't point to it. I feel like that's a messed up opinion. You know, it's not like I know RFK Jr.

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personally, but there's nothing about him that suggests that if he found out it was in the food, he would pretend it was in the vaccinations. I don't think there's any chance of that. And I feel like it's a complete misunderstanding of who he is and what he cares about and why he's doing this. He's trying to solve a real problem. He's not trying to win points.

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And he's sacrificing pretty much everything to see if he can fix this damn problem, which is part of the larger problem of chronic illness. I think that the one and only thing that Kennedy cares about is getting the right answer.

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I don't think that there's even a little part of him that would say, oh no, my career or my reputation depend on it being vaccinations, so I'm going to pretend it was the vaccinations and throw away the studies that say it's anything else. That just doesn't seem like the guy we've been watching, does it? How many of you think that that would even be like a wild possibility?

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I think he's one of the people who would say I was 100% wrong. It was in the food and not the vaccinations. So let's go forward. I don't think there's any risk of that. It's a character thing. I think character-wise, he wants to get this right because so much depends on it. I mean, I can't imagine, in my wildest imagination, I can't imagine him trying to rig the results.

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It just doesn't seem like him at all. So I'm not worried about that, and I'm very curious about what the outcome will be. According to CNN, China's President Xi has made a statement now about the tariffs. And he said this, for over 70 years, China's development has relied on self-reliance and hard work, never on handouts from others, and is not afraid of any unjust suppression.

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Regardless of how the external environment changes, China will remain confident, stay focused, and concentrate on managing its own affairs well. He called the trade war unwinnable, but made it clear that China is not going to fold no matter how hot it gets. Well, nobody said that we were funding China per se. We did say that the trade deals are unfair, which he does not deny.

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So, yeah, I think he's, you know, weaseling around the accusations. Let's talk about Gaza. Apparently, the Palestinians in general, we're not talking about Hamas, but the Palestinians who were in the West Bank, I guess, and had their own military and had their own political staff.

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All the white men in the story are presented as dumb and possibly criminals. The hero of the series is a black woman who is the most brilliant detective in all the world. Everybody knows her. And she's extra good because she's overweight. And so that sounds pretty woke, doesn't it? Sounds like exactly something you don't want to watch, right? All right, I'm going to change your mind.

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I didn't know this, but the Amuse account is pointing out that 70% of their funding for their little military and political stuff came from USAID, and that got cut. So now it's a total financial collapse, and they can't pay salaries. Now, how many of you knew that we were paying Palestinian military? and Palestinian leaders' salaries.

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If you had known that, would you have been in favor of doing that? See, it's good that we didn't know as much as we know now about USAID, because we wouldn't have been in favor of much of it. Now, I get that USAID is how we control things. So if we're paying the salaries of the Palestinian leaders... Well, they might be a little more likely to do things that our CIA wants them to do. I get it.

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On the other hand, it's really tough to ask us to pay the salaries of a military in another country it's just a hard sell. So you can see why they never were honest about it or forthright. But we'll see where that goes. Now, this is related to a second story. And let's see, this is according to the New York Times.

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So New York Times says that when Netanyahu was here recently, he was trying to convince the Trump administration to attack Iran in May. And the Trump administration was divided on that.

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But apparently the decision, which presumably is a Trump decision, Trump told Netanyahu during the White House visit that no American support for military action would happen while negotiations with Tehran continue. Now, does that sound to you like good cop, bad cop? And do you think that's intentional? So the leak in the New York Times is that Netanyahu is planning to definitely attack in May.

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And he was just trying to get the United States to get on board. Now, I don't think they would do it without American support, but it's not impossible. And then you hear also from the New York Times that Trump said no to the attack as long as Iran is negotiating. Isn't that sort of the perfect good cop, bad cop setup? It's kind of perfect, isn't it?

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Because if you're Iran, you're saying to yourself, all right, worst case scenario is they attack militarily. And then you find out they were one yes away from being attacked. All that had to happen was Trump to say yes. And he was talking to an ally who is very close to the United States. They have a good working relationship. And you know that Netanyahu was persuasive, right?

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Like he went in there with full tools. He's a very persuasive guy in general. And you know that he made a good case for doing it in May. You know he was strong on that. Trump still said no. So if you were Iran, you would say, oh my God, Netanyahu's the bad cop, so whatever we do, we've got to make sure his influence is mitigated.

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And Trump seems to be willing to reach a deal that doesn't involve violence, so we better work with him. It's just perfect, good cop, bad cop. But the part I don't know is, was that intentional?

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In other words, is the New York Times sort of maybe carrying a little water for both Israel and the United States by setting this up as a good cop, bad cop situation, which would be perfect for making a deal. You know, if you wanted to really make a deal and not have military action, This is the perfect framing, and it's coming from the New York Times.

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So I always am a little bit suspicious when I see a story like this, but I wouldn't consider this anything bad because it might be both true and very useful. The timing might be perfect. Well, according to the Daily Star, one of the captured Chinese soldiers who was fighting for Russia. You've probably heard of this. Russia had some Chinese soldiers.

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And you might say to yourself, how do they recruit Chinese soldiers? Doesn't seem like that would be hard to do. Well, this Chinese soldier said that he was, quote, tricked by TikTok videos. So he was convinced to leave his native country and to go to... He didn't know he was going to be in the front line. He thought he'd be in some kind of support role.

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But he was tricked by TikTok into thinking he would be glamorous to be part of the Russian military because they look pretty cool. And he'd really get to see the world and wouldn't be that dangerous. Next thing you know, he has no training whatsoever. They just hand him a gun and they put him in a trench. Nearly gets killed, but he gets captured instead.

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But according to him, TikTok brainwashed him. How many of you remember me saying, probably how many years ago, TikTok could brainwash you into doing anything? And people would say, that's a little bit hyperbolic. TikTok can't brainwash you into doing something dangerous. Yes, it can.

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It brainwashed this Chinese soldier into going to fight for another country with no training whatsoever in the most dangerous place it could possibly be because TikTok made it look like a good idea. Yes, TikTok can brainwash you into doing things that are super dangerous for you. Now, it's not going to brainwash every person the same way, but if you're looking at groups of people, absolutely.

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So it happens in the White House, and they do these amazing visual fly-throughs of the actual, I guess it's not the actual White House, But they've built a model or a stage, a set, I guess, of the White House that is so impressive. So if you've never visited the White House, you end up getting all these tours that they just sort of work in with the script.

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It could convince you to do any dangerous thing. And we thought, well, that doesn't sound like a risk. Yeah, it's a pretty big risk. Well, Australia alleges they came up with a jam-proof quantum technology that's 50 times more accurate than GPS and can't be jammed. So the reason it can't be jammed

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is that it's not using the GPS satellites, and it's using some technology that can read the magnetic signals from the Earth. So apparently everything's got a magnetic signal, and they can tell with great certainty where they are based on the magnetic signal. Your comments are wild today. All right.

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Now, this might seem like a small story because it's just some improvement on GPS, but in a world where all of the weapons are going to be GPS-related, it might be a big deal. I mean, it might be the difference between being attacked and not being attacked. If our drones... assuming that Australia let us use that technology.

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If our drones could not be blocked or jammed, but other people's drones could be, I don't think they'd mess with you because we'd be jamming and they'd be not jamming. We'd be jamming. I feel like I'm writing a song. We be jamming, jamming. Okay, no, that's not a song. So that's a big wild card coming for the military situation.

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I guess somebody found a big Chinese facility that nobody had seen, and somebody spotted another one that has submarines and It's weird that we're just spotting gigantic military facilities in China like we didn't know before. They're gigantic. That's weird. So couldn't they still be shot down? Yeah, they could still be shot down. but they couldn't be stopped from finding their target.

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So that's what you really want to do. Shooting them down is the last choice. The first choice is to jam them so that they can't find their target. But yes, you could always shoot them down. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is all I wanted to say today. Hope you had fun. And I'm going to talk privately to the local subscribers now because they're so special in a good way.

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So thanks for joining on YouTube and RumbleNX. I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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So it's usually somebody telling somebody else, oh, this room is where they have the barbershop, and this room is the pharmacy, and here's where they've got the pool table, and here's where the employees are. So you learn everything about the employee network in the White House, which is fascinating. you know, the hierarchy and everything else.

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And then you see the physical living quarters of the White House, the part you don't normally see. And it's just so well done. And here's here's the kicker. The hard thing about watching any kind of long-form content is that they will make you look at the scene that they spent money on, and they'll just make you look at it.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens. That's right. Right now. Go. Hmm. Not bad. Could be better, but not bad.

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So if they build a scene where somebody is trying to get through the desert before they die, they're going to make you watch that person get through that desert for 20 minutes. You'd be like, okay, I get it. I get it. They're going through the desert. Can you speed that up? It's still desert. Got it. They're really thirsty. They're chapped. Their lips are chapped. I get it. I get it.

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So that's me watching most. But whoever did the editing, directing, writing on the show, The Resonance, really did a good job. Because every scene is tight and fast. So it doesn't look like regular shows. It's got a whole feel to it that you haven't seen before. So that alone is worth watching.

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And lastly, I have to give it up that even though the casting is clearly woke as hell, everybody's really good. So you can't really pick out anybody and say, you know, that person was only picked because they fit the demographic or something. They're all great. It's way too woke because it was probably made a year ago before DEI became more obviously illegal.

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But if you're thinking of trying something, just know it's super woke. And that will be part of the entertainment. But everything else about it, really well done so far. I recommend it. Well, apparently Grok is being upgraded. It's still in beta. But the feature that's being added is Grok will remember your prior conversations, but you can control it.

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So if you don't want it to remember it, you can turn that off. So that's not in every version of Grok yet. So the Grok that's built into X doesn't seem to have it yet, but the separate freestanding Groks seem to, at least in beta form. And you'll get more personalized responses and all that. So that could be a big deal.

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And if Grok can read my documents and talk to me and remember things, finally, maybe I can get something that can you know, do the stuff that I want. Because it's been over, what, a year and a half since I started playing with AI and thinking, oh, this can solve some real problems I have in my, you know, keeping my data straight and stuff like that. Nope, I can't even come close.

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But maybe they're close now. OpenAI is weirdly going to build, at least according to The Verge, build an X-like social network. So apparently, this is sort of rumored, so I don't know how true this is, But the rumor is that X has such advantages because it can read its own data from X. And X has just tons and tons of human interactions. So it's really a valuable training tool.

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But the other AIs would not have access to that. So they're going to build their own. At least OpenAI is rumored to be building its own social network. Do you think that's going to work? I don't know. It's probably worth a try. Otherwise, you're going to have trouble competing. Well, if you wonder why California is so poorly run, here's another example.

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So the gas prices in California are already, I think, twice... what you're used to in almost every other state, just about double. And part of that is because we have rules about refineries. So refineries are closing. And guess what? According to just the news, Valero is announcing the probable closure, or pending closure, I guess, of one of its two remaining California refineries.

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Well, despite the rise in price of coffee, did you know that according to the National Coffee Association, which is where I go for all my coffee information, it's called the NCA, it's revealed that two-thirds of American adults drink coffee daily with an average of three cups consumed per day. Two-thirds of Americans. That means that one-third of Americans are sad and tired all the time.

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And so California is going to lose 18% of its current refining capacity by the end of 2026, when we were already like right at the limit. So why would a refinery want to leave California? Wouldn't you think that would be a great place to be? You got all those people driving cars and dealing gas and your refinery, and there's not a lot of refineries. wouldn't that be the best business to be in?

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Well, not with the rules that California is putting on them. So one of the things that California did is it's got a statewide ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars in 2035. So if you were thinking of building a refinery, you would say to yourself, wait, they're going to stop selling gas cars in that state? Why would we build a refinery there? So that's a problem. And then there's...

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some kind of rule that California passed that was a rule of new regulations that the state could determine when refineries are allowed to shut down for maintenance. So imagine you're running the refinery and the state gets to decide when you shut down for maintenance. And then there's new inventory storage requirements that would require refineries to build vast new storage tanks.

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So basically, these are things that sound good on paper, but the refineries look at it and say, oh, you just ruined the business model. I can't make money in your state. So California, you can't give fire insurance. You can't get gas pretty soon. What is it we're going to be able to get? We won't have electricity. So electricity, gas, fire insurance.

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Obviously, you can't drive anywhere because the streets are a mess. You can't really go downtown and shop because it might be too dangerous. We're just really killing it. Well, if you're following the story of Harvard versus the entire United States government, What's the latest here? According to just the news, the Treasury Department is urging the IRS to pull Harvard's tax-exempt status.

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Now, why? Well, according to Trump, you can't have tax-exempt status unless you're acting in the public interest. And apparently they think Harvard's not acting in the public interest. The government wants Harvard to do more about anti-Semitism and more about DEI and basically just a bunch of things.

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And Harvard has decided that the government should not be telling a private institution what to do. And then the government said, well, very fine, but maybe the Maybe the public should not be giving money to your institution since you're all private. So we'll be following this fight, Harvard versus the United States government. Well, here's something that is messed up.

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So remember when you thought that Doge was going to cut the budget and Trump was going to cut taxes for everybody? Well, apparently the Republicans are now considering raising the top rate to 40% for people who earn over a million dollars. So that would be people with a small business that's doing well, for example. They would go from 37% to 40%.

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Now, in California, I think I've got like 13.3% state tax. So add that to the 40%, that puts you at 53% tax, for example. So Bloomberg News, I guess, was the first to report this. So there are a whole lot of people who support President Trump and support the Republicans. who are going to say, wait a minute, one of the big reasons we supported you is we thought taxes for everybody would go down.

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Nope, not you rich people. You're going to pay more. So that sucks. But nobody cares about the rich, so it's sort of a free pass. Texas has just passed a universal school choice bill. By a good margin, they passed it. And I guess the Senate already passed it. It was the Texas House that passed it now, so it looks like it's going to be a done deal. So Texas will be the 16th state.

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They don't know what the problem is. One-third. Sorry about it, one-third. A Data Republican on X. If you don't follow Data Republican, you should. It's one of the better accounts. And what Data Republican does is data, but does it really well with AI. And has now developed a new tool called that you can use that's a DEI funding detector.

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that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains. All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

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Pam Bondi was answering questions as part of her nomination process to Attorney General. And She ran into, I watched one clip. I didn't watch the whole thing, but she did great. The clips I saw, I absolutely love how confident and clearly and smartly she was answering questions. And it's worth noting, because Trump says it all the time, that whole, what's he call it?

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Basically, he likes people who are good on TV. Wow, is she good on TV. How about him? Wow, is he good on TV, obviously. But Bondi? Wow. That's some serious TV skills. But I've got one advice. I've never seen anybody do what I'm going to suggest, so I don't know if it'll work. But I just want to throw it out there. It's a persuasion lesson.

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So one of the things that happens during these hostile questioning, because half of the people are asking questions with the other team, They like to do the thing where they say, I want a yes or no. Did you kill that squirrel? Well, Senator, yes or no, yes or no. Well, it's complicated. No, yes or no, yes or no, yes or no, yes or no. Well, you see the context. Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no.

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Have you watched those? And the whole thing is to get them to say yes or no because they know that the yes or the no would be out of context, and then they can attack it and turn it into something. So nobody wants to give the yes or no because it would be basically career suicide because then you'd be quoted for it.

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So what Bondi did is, I'm going to call it the best I've seen normies handle the question. So she's a normie as opposed to a, let's say, trained persuader. She's not Trump. I'm pretty sure Trump would have handled this differently. And I'm going to tell you how I think he would have handled it.

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or a version of it, and I can tell you how I would handle it because I use this technique online all the time. If somebody says, are you still beating your spouse? And you know that yes, yes or no, yes or no. Are you still beating your spouse? Yes or no, yes or no. Because either the yes or the no are bad for you because it sounds like you're still beating your spouse.

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And what you really want to say is, well, actually, I've never even been accused of beating my spouse. That's not even a question. Don't want to answer. Oh, yes or no, yes or no, yes or no, yes or no. The Democrats. Here's what you should do instead. Well, first of all, what Pam Bondi did is the best I've seen normal politicians do.

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which is aggressively talk over the person who's trying to cut you off to make sure that you're pushing back. So she did a real good job of not backing down, pushing back, showing that the question was unreasonable by her pushback, and showing that he was just a ridiculous turd and she was just trying to answer serious questions.

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Now, so if I were to grade her performance according to normal people, A plus. For a normal person and a normal politician, it's about as good as you can do. But you know what it's not? It's not only Rosie O'Donnell. That's what Trump did. When Trump got his question that was only going to be good or bad, only going to be bad. It didn't matter what he said. It was just going to be bad for him.

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It would be the quote of the day. Instead of going with their frame, he left the frame. Pam Bondi stayed in the frame. That question is the question, and she's trying to respond, but she wants to give a longer answer. You're not letting me. That would be the traditional, but staying in the frame. Trump leaves the frame, and that works every time.

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doesn't get an easy win? Because that's messed up. Although sooner is better. So sooner is better. But it looks kind of messed up, doesn't it? To me, it looks like this is entirely politicized. They got the right answer, I'm pretty sure. But the timing...

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Let me tell you how I would leave the frame if I were in her position and somebody gave me that yes or no, yes or no, yes or no question. I would say, Senator, could you ask a better question? Oh, I'm asking this question. I'm asking this question. Yes, no. Yeah, I heard the question. Could you ask a better one?

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Oh, yes, no. Yes, no. Yes, no. Oh, yes, no.

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I hear you, Senator. I'm just asking because everybody's dedicated their time to this. I just wondered if you have a better question. And then you use up all of his time. You use up all of his time. You turn him into the guy where the quote is, can you ask a better question? Because here's why this works. Everybody listening to the exchange knows that the question is the flawed part.

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Everybody knows it. Why doesn't anybody call it out? And why doesn't anybody demand that if you're going to put your time into this process, you're going to need better questions? A better question is a high ground. It just says you're not capable of being here. But if you can step up, I'd be happy to ask you a question. That's a kill shot.

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Now, not everybody could pull that off, but that would be, roughly speaking, that would be a Trump way to do it. Here's what I think Trump would say. First of all, he's not going to get questioned like this ever, now that he's president. But if he did, I think he'd say something like, you know, this is an example why you're useless. We all came here today, and that's the best you could do?

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That is your best performance in asking a question that the public is interested in. So I think he would just break the frame. You've got to go after his technique, not answer anything about the question. Well, Joy Reid brought on a Democrat that apparently ran against Bondi and lost. So, man, if you're going to bring somebody on to say some bad things about somebody...

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What you want is somebody who was on the other team, a Democrat, and ran against her and lost. Right? Because that guy is going to come with some fire, right? Well, that didn't work out. It turns out that after he lost to her in the race, she hired him. She hired him.

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In other words, she hired him because he was good at his job and she didn't care that he was a Democrat because she was about getting the best job. And then, to prove that she hired the right guy and that it was about his qualifications and it was not about Democrat or Republican, he basically proves it right by saying that... that she's very tethered to the law.

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She's not obsessed with Democrat or Republican. She cares about the law. She's really good at it. He used the phrase tethered to the law, like she's never going to leave the law and that she would not do any lawfare because there's just no way. That's just not her. And then it got better because Reid said, what about the enemies list? She lied when she said there's no enemies list.

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I don't know what could make me hate the FDA more, that it took 35 years to do this, or that when they finally did it, apparently the only reason is that RFK Jr. is coming into office and he's just going to rip them apart. I don't know if he'll rip them apart, but you know what I mean. Yeah, I think this is the Kennedy effect.

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Now, MSNBC, Joy Reid, talking to a Democrat who lost to Pam Bondi, and then she comes up with this damning thing where she said, there's no enemies list. What did the Democrat who was supposed to say bad things about Bondi respond to that with? He said, well, actually, she said that there's no enemies list in the Department of Justice. Basically, he just defended her answer.

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He defended her character, he defended her answer, and he defended her skills. And that's it. It was a complete flop because it turns out that Pam Bondi hired the right guy. And when he got to, I'm going to say reciprocity, right? I always tell you, reciprocity is a big deal. So she hired this guy because she thought he had the skill. He does. And he paid back.

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I hear Trump, according to the New York Post, Trump is supporting Vivek Ramaswamy to take over J.D. Vance's Ohio Senate seat. Now, he'd have to be picked by the governor, so we don't know if they even would. But I think that's just an expression that Trump has a lot of trust in Vivek.

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I don't think that's where he would want to go right away, and I hope he's not, because I really, really think that the Doge thing is, on a scale of 1 to 10, getting another strong senator, that's a 4. On a scale of 1 to 10, it's good. You know, I want another really strong senator. That'd be great. But Doge is a 10 or a 12 on the risk of 1 to 10. And Vivek is a 12 and a 10.

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So if you could pair one of the most capable, smartest, energetic people who have all the right incentives to work on the hardest problem that needs exactly that, I wouldn't waste them on the Senate. Because if he brings Doge home, he can have any job he wants. So, I don't know. I hope he doesn't go to the Senate.

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Meanwhile, Venezuelan dictator Maduro, according to Blaze Media, he's threatened to invade Puerto Rico. He said, that's what Maduro said, the freedom of Puerto Rico is pending and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops. He's the dictator of Venezuela. but he's going to free Puerto Rico with Brazilian troops to make sure they stop being colonized.

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Venezuela, Brazilian troops, prevent them from being colonized. Okay, well, I'm not sure how that all fits together. But I have an update also on Maduro's life expectancy after threatening to invade a United States territory. Life expectancy, January 21st, January 21st.

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And you could argue, therefore, by extension, it would be a Trump effect, but not really the one I wanted. Well, I do want it because I wanted this ban, but the fact that it's just purely political, that's not giving me any confidence. Anyway, or it could be just the biggest coincidence in the world of when it happened. Well, Meta has a new AI model for translating speech.

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Meanwhile, John Fetterman said after talking to Trump and Mar-a-Lago that he's all in on Trump supporting or Trump acquiring Greenland. So Fetterman, he's all in on Greenland. Now, I know what many of you have warned me. Watch out for that Fetterman. He's a snake. He's just saying things to get support, but really he's a radical dem or whatever he is. And I understand that.

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And I understand the argument about not giving any oxygen to the team that's overall evil. I get that. But you do have to make it possible that people can change sides and that they can do it with honor and respect. So... I tend to prefer to err on giving them credit for any change in your direction because incentives matter.

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So if you reward somebody for moving one step toward you, maybe someday you get another step. Incentives matter. So while I completely get that in some cases it's better not to give the bad team any credit whatsoever, I think Fetterman is one of the exceptions. And I think Trump noticed it too, because Trump gave him essentially a glowing endorsement for his intelligence.

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And I think Trump loves the uniqueness with which he dresses. Not that he likes the style, but if you see Fetterman standing out because of his dress, I think Trump would appreciate how much that makes him different and how much it brings attention to him. So I feel like it completely, to me, it's completely understandable that they could get along productively.

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Meanwhile, IFL science is talking about how many resources Greenland has and why United States might be interested. I guess they have 25 or 34 minerals that would be considered critical raw materials. It's got stuff like gold and silver that you need for tech, not just collecting. And, uh, Stuff that you need for battery technology like cobalt and copper and nickel and lithium.

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And it's always, it's long been predicted that they had oil, but company has been looking for it for a long time. And finally Greenland just said, ah, give up. So there's speculated that there's substantial oil, but nobody's found it yet. Could we, could the United States find it? I don't know. Maybe. So it does starting to feel like something's going to happen.

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I don't think they're going to be a state or anything, but I feel like some kind of strategic partnership is coming. So Biden did his farewell address. I couldn't even watch it because you know, what am I really watching? If he were a real president with a real brain and he has some good goodbye address, I'd be like, Oh yeah, maybe I'll watch that.

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I feel like Biden barely exists. That giving him any attention at this point seems like a waste of time. Like, what's the upside of that? So he babbled through his speech. It was recorded, of course, because he couldn't do it live. And he babbled about the risk of the tech billionaires because apparently their billionaires are not in tech.

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So when they controlled the tech billionaires, like Zuckerberg, then the billionaires were no risk whatsoever.

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But as soon as the tech billionaires started saying not just that they thought Trump was okay, but rather that they were just going to think independently and not take the brainwashing from the media, that that was a problem, that they're no longer brainwashed by the fine people hoax primarily. So Biden, you're as useless as you've ever been.

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He's leaving office as Trump's popularity reached the highest it's ever been. So Biden was at his lowest popularity while Trump's at his highest. That's what I call a good day. If you're Trump, how much would you love that the guy you replaced is at his lowest approval while you're at your highest? That's just a good week.

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Meanwhile, Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC, he wanted to defend his prior opinion about Joe Biden being completely mentally sharp. You know, the thing he's been mocked for the most. And he doubled down. Oh, yes, I spent three and a half hours or two and a half hours.

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And you say to yourself, Scott, they've been able to translate speech on the Internet for a long time. So why is this even a story? Well, apparently the old way or the common way to translate speech is first it turns it into text and then it turns it into the other language and it translates it.

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to three hours with Joe Biden, yeah, and we were talking in depth about foreign policy matters, and he was sharp as anyone I've spoken to, and he's spoken like a man who's been doing this since he was 29. Have I mentioned that the audience for Morning Joe tunes in to get his insight?

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They tune in to get his insight because he has access behind the scenes, and he knows people we don't, and he's been in the business a long time, so he would have insights. One of his insights was that Biden's brain is just fine.

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Now, if you were watching somebody for their insights, and it was the only person in the world that couldn't tell that Biden's brain was fried, would you tune in again for the next insight? Would you trust that next insight? All right. According to The Hill, Rachel Frazen, I don't know, Canada wants to get into some kind of mineral partnership with the U.S.

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Now, the context is Trump saying, hey, maybe we'll make you a state and we're going to tariff you like crazy unless, you know, unless you want it to be a state. But if you're going to be sort of a trade nemesis in any way, well, maybe we'll tariff you until you change your mind. So what happens under that context? It's something called the Trump effect. I think you've heard of it.

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Go.

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And here's what Canada is putting together. So they're coming up with a plan. I guess it's the resource minister coming up with a plan to work with the United States on partnerships for energy and minerals. So Canada would still be Canada under this plan, but the United States would be adding whatever we add to the mining and mineral exploration and be some kind of sharing, I guess.

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And it would involve Canada, quote, accelerating the production of things like gallium and germanium, which have defense applications, et cetera. And the partnership could extend to oil and nuclear energy. And you say nuclear energy? Why do we need Canada for that? Well, it turns out that Canada is one of the sources for uranium. So they're one of the world's sources for uranium.

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And that maybe they would do the uranium, they'd provide the uranium, we'd do the enrichment in the United States, and everybody wins. Now, do you think that Canada would be queuing up this big trade partnership deal If Trump hadn't said, my first offer is to make you a state. Well, you can't do that. Well, how about I just tariff you instead? Wait, wait, wait, wait. You can't do that.

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You can't tariff us to death. Well, we can make you a state. Then there would be no tariff. No, no, no, no. You can't make us a state. So what do you do? You get your smartest people together and say, is there anything we can offer that's short of us becoming a state and short of us getting tariffed to death?

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So they figured out somehow to use AI to just directly translate so it doesn't go through the intermediate steps. And apparently that makes it nearly instant. Imagine having a conversation with somebody in another language where you're just talking into your phone and the translation is not instant, but let's say it got there in one second. That would be really transformative.

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Is there anything we can offer that would look like, oh, the United States is getting what it wants. Canada is getting what it wants. So this is that. This is them essentially. They're essentially negotiating against themselves. So Trump basically just created a frame that, you know, you guys aren't stepping up to what we expect from our neighbor from the north.

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And, you know, maybe we should just absorb you. And so they're trying to step up in a way that would be very, very dear to Trump's, you know, central motivations, which is, you know, minerals and oil and making sure the United States has a strong position. Doesn't have to depend on China. So that seems like the Trump effect, right?

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Meanwhile, the Hamas hostage deal that we thought was going to happen, looks like Netanyahu is pulling back on that. We don't know if that's temporary or not, but he is doing some more war fighting and says that Hamas isn't doing their end. I don't know what that is.

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So Biden and Trump both trying to take credit for the release of what would be one third of the hostages, including some dead bodies, I guess. And so they're both fighting for credit and I'm not on board. I'm just not on board with that. Uh, I'm not happy with getting one third of the people back. Now, if you got one third of the people back and you can't even keep that deal, that's a failure.

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That's a complete failure. That's a complete failure of Biden. It's a complete failure of Netanyahu. Although Netanyahu has, you know, a larger goal. So maybe he's not failing. Um, and, uh, I don't think Trump succeeded because, you know, Trump will take credit for getting one third home. Politically, that makes sense to take credit for it.

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And of course, Biden will take credit if he gets one third home. I'm not even a little bit happy with one third, except for the families. Obviously, for the one third that might be released and their families. Yes. Yes, we want all that. So I want them to be released. And I'd like to see this deal completed. But I'm not going to call this a success. So when is one out of three a success?

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Like maybe a baseball player? If you're batting one out of three, that looks pretty good. But I'm not taking credit for... If we go into any kind of negotiations with them over the future of Gaza, and they're still holding prisoners? No, no. Unless we're getting all the Americans out, and then I'd feel different. If we get all the Americans out, then maybe you talk about Gaza.

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Maybe that's different, but Israel shouldn't put up with that. Israel should say we want 100% or we're going to break you. So also MSNBC, they brought on a, so an Ari Milber show, brought on a former Clinton ambassador, David Ross. Now, a former Clinton ambassador talking about the Israel-Humas ceasefire, you could reliably expect

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that a Democrat, especially one associated with the Clintons, is going to give the credit to Biden and say that Trump is just a blowhard, right? That's why you have somebody like that on MSNBC, to say things that MSNBC wants them to say. So instead, the ambassador, Ross, said, why now? It's because of the Trump effect. Netanyahu wasn't going to say yes but then he did. But that changed, right?

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I think that changed this morning. Netanyahu actually turned. But what's interesting about it is that he brings on a notable Democrat, and even the notable Democrat is saying, yeah, Trump got this done. Trump got this done.

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You could have a reasonable phone call with somebody, or a Zoom call, I guess, first, with somebody who didn't speak the language, and it almost wouldn't make a difference. That little, I don't know exactly the delay, but if there's like a second or something, it's still going to be mildly annoying, but you'd have perfect ability to communicate. That's really a game changer.

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Now, the funny part, if you get to see the video, I think I've reposted it this morning, you have to watch Ari Melber's face when the interview goes exactly the opposite of what would be ideal for their audience. So I don't know if I can do it. So as soon as Melba hears it, he goes into this frown. But it's like the biggest frown. My mouth doesn't even do it. It almost looks like a joke frown.

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You have to see it visually to get the full beauty. I've never seen his face turn a smile upside down so fast. It's like... It's all good news. At the time it was being reported, before it got delayed, it looked like it was just all good news. Hostages coming back, at least some of them. Trump effect caused it.

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And Ari is just like, oh, this is going off the rails. It's too good for Trump. We will lose what's left of our audience.

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Um... Glenn Greenwald was pointing out that the New York Times had a headline right after Trump won, so a few months ago, and the headline was, Trump's win is likely to prolong Gaza talks uncertainty. Well, so we're mocking them for guessing the opposite of what happened, but really the headline says it's going to prolong the uncertainty. You know, but Trump works on uncertainty.

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So it's half true. He would intentionally increase the uncertainty because it's a negotiating point. But I like to say that reality is whatever predicts best. So if you predicted the Trump effect would make things better, you win. If you predicted that Trump would make things go worse, you lose. So New York Times appears to be closer to the wrong prediction side than the right prediction side.

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Well, in the news, a cartoonist named Darren Bell. He's a black cartoonist. He was a BLM activist. He was the first black cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize. So he did comics, Ganderville and Rudy Park. And they're still on Washington Post websites. Let's see, what did he get in trouble for? Oh, accused pedophile.

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Now, the specific charges were possession of child-related materials that are highly illegal. Now, you know what I always say. No matter how bad the charge is, in the United States, you're innocent until proven guilty. Now, you've heard me say that a million times, right? So, innocent until proven guilty. The only thing we know is that he was accused.

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Yeah, I wonder, did Darren Bell say anything when I got canceled by the Washington Post, his newspaper? I wonder. Let me see. Let me check that out. Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, Darren Bell said,

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dumped on me and never contacted me which he could have easily done to ask me what the context was instead he just he dumped on me so it's interesting he treated me as a i was guilty presumed guilty huh okay i'm rethinking this he's guilty as and i hope he fries all right And by the way, winning the Pulitzer Prize is complete bullshit. Do you know what it takes to win the Pulitzer Prize?

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Let me explain how the meeting went. We're really going to need this to give this to a black guy, because most cartoonists are white, and so it's just like one white guy after another. Like, who do we have as a person of color? All right, we found an Hispanic. Now, Hispanic is good, moving in the right direction, but really need a black cartoonist.

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The things that sneak up on you are the things that just sort of get better every year. So you're not really paying attention. But then there's one year where it's not about just getting a little better. It's now just a completely different application. It's so good. That's one of these. Anyway, 100 different languages. Very impressive.

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And then they look at the black cartoonist, and let me be honest, the most notable black cartoonists are terrible. There really aren't any good black cartoonists. This is well known among the cartoon industry. Now, it's not because they're black. It's not because of any genes or anything like that. It's just a fact. I'm not making any

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larger statement about being black, that has nothing to do with this. It's just the fact that if you're trying to give the Pulitzer Prize, which is just a bullshit prize, a little group of people decide what comic they like that week, or that year, I guess, and then they give them the prize. It has absolutely no... legitimacy.

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It's not based on like all the cartoonists voting or where the public weighed in. It's nothing like that. It's this little group of people who just say, you know, we better give it to a black guy this time. Now, I wasn't in the room. but I can pretty well guarantee you that because he was a black cartoonist, that's why he won the Pulitzer Prize.

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The Pulitzer Prize is almost as disgraced as somebody who got caught with a bunch of child-related content. So there's that. Meanwhile, Jonathan Turley is writing about CNN's lawsuit where they're defending Jake Tapper and themselves from accusations that they, what's the word, defamed?

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I'm no lawyer, so I may be using the wrong words, but they defamed somebody who was a guest on their show and their correspondent was interviewing him as regarding Afghanistan. And the person they interviewed was over there doing useful things and trying to help. But for reasons that are not clear,

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The correspondent, and then I think Jake Tapper may have mirrored the correspondent, decided that they would treat the guy that they were interviewing, who as far as anybody knows was just trying to help people, no criminal, nothing like that. They tried to treat him like he was part of the story they were telling about really bad people doing bad things over there. Now, details don't matter.

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But just imagine whatever's the worst thing you can think of, you know, it's in that category. So the poor guy goes on their network, does them a favor, you know, being content on their show, and also is only doing good things as far as we know. Like he's positive impact over there. And they decided to lump him in. This is the accusation.

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They decided to lump him in and they decided to go after him and actually destroy him. And apparently the... there's emails to that effect. Now, they didn't have the information that would support their going after him, but they very clearly said they were. And then they did this trick, totally points this out. You've heard of this before.

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So good. Has Starship taken off yet? That happens today, right? There's going to be a consequential launch of Starship 7, SpaceX. And this one, I guess, is going to take some payloads up. It's going to take a payload up first time. And they'll be testing things like multiple reentry and return to Earth and see if Elon Musk's giant tweezers can catch it again. Giant tweezers.

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So the press, when they're going to publish, about two hours before they push the publish button, they'll wait till right up to the end, And then they'll contact the person they're writing about and saying, do you have any comment? Now, the reason they wait until it's right toward publication is to make sure the person doesn't have enough time to comment.

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Justice Alito, he's a Supreme Court justice, of course, and he's talking about there's a case before them, some kind of free speech versus porn situation. And I guess Pornhub is part of the conversation in the Supreme Court. And this is actually a real thing that Justice Alito asked in public in the Supreme Court. He said, is it like the old Playboy magazine?

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And then when they say, none of that's true, too late. You've already published it. Now, this is a well-known standard trick. They always do it if it's a hit piece. And they don't even always do it. But when they do it, it's just part of the hit piece thing. And then they can go on the air and say,

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Well, we tried to reach Mr. So-and-so, but he had no comment in time for the publication, which makes it sound like he doesn't have an argument, doesn't it? But he tricked him. He responded within two hours.

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What do you think the correspondent, the person who was the first one to accuse this guy, I guess, what do you think he said in writing when the person who is the most important person in the story said, which is, of course, exactly what you should want if you're being honest. You want him to respond. Do you know what the response was? Effing Young just texted. Young is the name of the guy.

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Effing Young just texted because he ruined their whole play. He got back to them within two hours. Anyway. So then here's the funniest part. The defense for CNN is David Axelrod. He's leading the defense. I guess the other defense attorney just got taken off the job for being crazy. And I don't know, crazy is too far. That's an oversimplification. But so David Axelrod, who

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if you follow politics, you know, is a well-known consultant type to the Democrats. I don't know how much he's practiced law lately, like kind of a strange choice to be. I don't know. Maybe, maybe he's a terrific lawyer who turned into a political consultant, but I'm not aware that he did a lot of practicing. Did he? Maybe he did.

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I'm not up on it, but anyway, so Axelrod gets up there and he, and he's accusing the, uh, accusing the accuser of being a liar. He goes, you called... Oh, so he just goes off on a rant, and he's waving a document and saying, you know, you claim this lies, it's lies, it's lies. So Axelrod was doing his, having his moment, his theatrical moment.

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You lied about this, you lied about that, you lied about that. And then the plaintiff attorney just destroyed it by just mentioning the timing. Well, actually, that was before this or after that. It was completely debunked. So the entire escapade was just wiped off the table by the fact that it was not supported by fairly easily found facts. So it was so bad...

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that the judge actually said to Axelrod, and I've never heard anything like this before, he said, quote, this is the judge, he said, you called him a liar multiple times there, he told Axelrod, and he said he owed an apology to the plaintiff. After telling CNN that, quote, this isn't kindergarten, he added, right now, your credibility with me, Mr. Axelrod, is about none.

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Have you ever seen a judge demand that the lawyer apologize to the plaintiff? That's as hard as you can fail as a lawyer, isn't it? Can you fail harder than that? And imagine being on the jury, and basically the judge just said, this team is a bunch of idiots. That's what he said. He said, this one side is a bunch of idiots. He didn't say anything about the other side.

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You're on a jury, and you hear the judge say very clearly, you guys are just idiots. You're like kindergarten. You better apologize. Oh, my God. I don't think this could be worse for CNN. Wow. Meanwhile, TikTok is planned to be banned on the 19th or the, yeah. But Trump is talking about some kind of executive order to save it. I think people don't believe that that would be effective to save it.

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So in a few days, we could see that TikTok becomes first orphaned. So keep running, but you can't upload any new content. And so you could keep watching what was already there for a while, but presumably that'll go away after a while. So I don't know what's going to happen. Trump says he wants to save it, but he also did well on TikTok. And I think Trump found the exact sweet spot.

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You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Yeah. Yeah. There's Justice Alito acting like he has no idea what Pornhub is. Now, I'm not saying he's ever used it, but it reminded me of a couple of stories.

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The exact sweet spot was saying you want to save it, trying a little bit. An executive order isn't much work. You just sign it. And then say, I tried. I tried, but other people got rid of it. That's perfect. Politically, it's perfect. Because he's on the side of the young who wanted to keep it, But, you know, what can you do? All right.

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So as I told you, the Chinese drone-making company that makes just a vast amount of the total drones in the world, and especially in the United States, called DJI, they got rid of their geo-fencing policy, which is what prevented their drones from going over sensitive installations in the United States, and elsewhere, I assume. And There are other drones that did not have that geofencing.

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So on one hand, all they're doing is normalizing to their competition. On the other hand, their competition is not China. If China wants to go over our military stuff, and we suspect they might have some way to you know, control the software and the drones. I don't know. I don't know how much of a risk that is. But it seems to me that this would be the time to ban Chinese drones in America.

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Can we really not make drones yet? Are you telling me that an American company can't make a drone that's good? I feel like America should be able to make drones. Like, it's not exactly a bunch of secret technology or anything. So we'll see what happens with that.

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Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson had on the mother of the OpenAI whistleblower who was murdered in his apartment in San Francisco just a few days after it became known that he was that dangerous to OpenAI. And so here's what she said. The mother of Sushir Balaji, who was the whistleblower, She told Tucker, my son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him.

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Now, she doesn't know that OpenAI was behind it. That's not known. It's a reasonable guess, so I wouldn't rule it out. And apparently the documents that the whistleblower had would have proven that open AI was, quote, committing crimes. I don't know what kind.

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And so right after the New York Times said he had documents that would basically put open AI in an existential threat, he got killed a few days later. Now, that would be too much of a coincidence for anybody to overlook. And I'm sure that his mother is feeling the same way. But I'm going to add a little bit of context, just a little bit.

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Number one, the first thing I did when I got out of college and entered the real world, it was almost the first thing, I got a subscription to Playboy magazine. Because I thought to myself, wait a minute, this was pre-internet, I hate to say, pre-internet.

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The CEOs of normal companies are not really murderers by nature. And I've spent a little time with Sam Altman, you know, just one-on-one chatting with him for a while. And I don't have the best, you know, it's not like anybody's perfect at judging human character. But if he's a murderer... That would be pretty surprising. So if you imagine that the head of it ordered a hit, no.

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I give that zero chance. And I'd love to hear from anybody besides Sam Altman's sister, who's a special case, but I'd love to hear anybody who knows him well give me an opinion. Am I wrong? He would be almost toward the bottom of the list... of somebody you think would go kill somebody. He's a pretty gentle soul. I mean, in terms of business, he's a shark. So could I be wrong?

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Because if he's a shark in business, did I read him wrong? I don't know. Am I that bad at judging human character? So I'm going to add a wrinkle to this. Wrinkle number one, there are individuals... who have investments probably that may be so valuable that they would be willing to kill just on their own, whether OpenAI was in favor of it or hated it or didn't know about it or anything.

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So first of all, you can't rule out anybody who's just an investor. And I don't know the exact investment architecture there to know if anybody stands out. Also,

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We've been told very clearly, Mark Andreessen informed us, that the intelligence apparatus of the United States is said directly to the people in the venture capital community, don't fund a bunch of little AI companies because we're not going to let them work. We're going to make sure there are just a few. They're big ones, like OpenAI.

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And we're going to basically have, they didn't say this, but it's obvious, we're going to have our fingerprint on it because it's too dangerous to just let the free market do whatever it wants. Now, that's actually, I hate to say it, that's not irresponsible. That's not irresponsible. The reason that we have an intelligence group

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And I thought, are you telling me that all I have to do is give them money and they will send me pictures of beautiful naked women like once a month? And it's just like for a little bit of money? And I thought that I died and went to heaven. I was so happy to be an adult. And then I started getting it. And of course, it was just as good as I'd hoped. Again, pre-internet.

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is to do the stuff that maybe if you put it up for a vote, people will say, don't do that, but it's kind of necessary. It feels kind of necessary, even though I hate it, and even though the risk and the downside of it are just through the roof.

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It just does feel necessary that the intelligence people would have to have a strong grip on AI, at least for now, because we don't know if it becomes a weapon. We don't know if it becomes dangerous. We don't know what it does to persuasion and brainwashing. I think from their perspective, let me say it a different way. Let me say it a different way.

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If I say it like it's my opinion, then I think I'm out of my league. So let me change that. So forget my opinion. If you're in the CIA, you want to control AI. Yes? Let's simplify. If you're in the CIA, you probably think it's at the top of your list of things to do. You need to control the AI.

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So if you assume that it's at the top of the list and that they're the people who are literally murderers and they're literally the ones who make it look like it might have been an accident or suicide or something like that, they're really the top suspects.

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Because I definitely think that our intelligence people would kill citizens of the United States if they thought that the entire structure of the industry was at risk. So would Sam Altman do it? I don't see it. I just don't see it. Would the company order a hit without the top of the company knowing about it? I don't know. I mean, maybe. Maybe.

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You know, somebody, some underling just thought, I'm going to take care of this. I'll leave him out of it. Maybe. It doesn't seem super likely, but maybe. Maybe. But if you say the intelligence people had to do it for the good of the United States, as much as I hate that, you could certainly imagine that being normal. I hate to say it, but that would be sort of normal.

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So we will never find out the truth of this story. All right. I saw a post by an ex by Joey Manorino. who said he was on the way back from the airport and he just landed in Panama, he said. And on the way back from the airport in Panama, I've seen about five billboards with Chinese writing and a massive Bank of China building downtown.

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As soon as you see it in person, you immediately understand why Trump is going so hard after the Panama Canal. Yep. Yeah. The Chinification of Panama is a risk. I mean, it's a huge risk. It's an enormous risk. So before I thought all Trump wanted was a better deal for our ships in the Panama Canal, because apparently the cost for one ship to go through could be as much as half a million dollars.

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And Trump would say, hey, we built that canal and sold it to you for a dollar. We should get a deal compared to other countries. Now, that's just good basic negotiating. But the Chinafication of Panama is by far the bigger problem, not the half a million dollars per ship. So before knowing this, or at least getting this extra flavor on it, I would have said, you know what?

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If we could make a deal to Maybe change who runs the Panama Canal so it's less China. If we could maybe make a deal where we don't pay but other people do, that'd be good. We don't need to put our military down there and exert our big old control over the whole country. But now I think maybe we do. Now I think maybe we do.

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But somewhere along that time, because I never really canceled it, and time goes by, and I start reading the articles. And then sooner or later, I was the article. So I was one of the big interviews, so I was featured in Playboy, and it was just an interview. I didn't have to take off my clothes.

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We might actually need to militarily intervene because there's no freaking way we're going to let Panama go completely under China's control if they're not already there. So, yes, if this is as big a problem as it looks, you know, without total information at my hands, Trump might need to go hard, and you should get ready for that. All right. Yeah, you know, I hate to even bring it up, but...

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China taking Taiwan is looking bigger and bigger. But here's what I wonder. What would be the best thing that America could do if China decided to make a move on Taiwan? Now, one would be just go to war. Not ideal. Not ideal. Not ideal. The other would be to just walk away and say, all right, well, that was going to happen sooner or later. No point in fighting over it.

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The third opportunity is terrible, but I could see it happening, which is that if China moved in and it was clear that there was nothing that would happen to stop them, would the United States take out the chip manufacturing in Taiwan? Just bomb it. And the answer is maybe.

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It wouldn't stop them from rebuilding it in China or rebuilding it after China owns them because you wouldn't be able to get rid of the expertise. The people is what allows them to build a chip-making place. But they could certainly slow them down maybe until the United States could figure out how to compete on chips.

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So I wouldn't rule out that the entire chip-making industry in Taiwan would go up in smoke if China rolls in because there's nothing else you can do. And if our biggest problem is we need access to chips and we're going to lose it because China takes over and China's going to have all the good chips, which, by the way, they're not allowed to have.

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They're not allowed to have the chips that are being built on the island they think they own. reverse this in your mind. Imagine it's America and let's say the Virgin Islands that we think we own is the only place that makes good chips and they wouldn't sell it to the United States, but they would sell it to China. Would we put up with that? Would we say, well, you know, we think we own you.

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And eventually, the internet comes in, and of course it saturates the world with a tremendous amount of porn, to the point where looking at the pictures in the magazine... It didn't seem interesting at all. Sure, you know, I mean, if it was right in front of you, you'd look at it. But this is actually true. There's no exaggeration in this.

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I mean, that's not a Taiwan and it's not like the Virgin Islands. So the analogy doesn't work. But I'm trying to make you imagine what it would feel like if you had some of the most valuable things in the world on this island, the high-end chips, some of the most valuable things in the world, those chips. Nobody else can make them.

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Like if we could make them in the United States, we had the know-how, we'd be doing it. We're trying, but I don't think we're that close. So if you imagine what it's like, that you're China and you can't even buy the essential chips you need from the land that you think is yours in the first place? I don't see how they don't make a move. I don't see how they don't make a move.

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I think it's just a matter of time. And this might be the timing, except Trump's in office and I don't know. So here's what could stop it. Trump could say, China, there's one thing you need to know. We're not going to let you take control of the chip manufacturing. We'll bomb it to the ground.

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The first moment a Chinese foot from China mainland reaches Taiwan, we're going to eliminate all the structures. We'll tell the people to get out because we don't want to kill any people. They're our allies after all. But we will burn those factories. So if you think that what you're doing is getting the chips, you're not.

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You could take over the country because there's almost nothing we could do about that, given the proximity and all that. But you're definitely not going to keep the chips. So what would they say? Well, here's that Trump unpredictability thing. The unpredictability is they don't really know if he'd do that. Would they take a chance? Not if they're smart.

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If they're smart, they'll wait another four years. Because remember, China's timeline is longer than ours. And if they say, all I have to do is wait four years and see if I've got a better opening, it wouldn't be smart to go as long as Trump has that threat over them and they believe that he's the only president who would ever do that. Because it's so far out of the box.

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It's so far out of the box. We only think of defend Taiwan or not defend Taiwan. Binary? It's not binary at all. You can ruin it so China isn't so happy about getting it in the first place, although they would be happy. All right, so that's all I got for now. And thanks for joining. I'm going to say hi to the locals, people, privately.

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But for the rest of you, thanks for joining, and I will see you tomorrow.

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Toward the end of my many years subscription, I actually didn't look at the pictures. That's literally true, I swear to God. And it wasn't because I didn't like looking at that kind of picture. It's just that the Internet was full of it. But the Internet didn't have good articles all the time. So the articles were genuinely very good. That's a true statement.

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So believe it or not, that's a real thing, which, you know, at the moment, Playboy is not doing so well. But it also reminds me of a time I went to a DARE program for adults when I was a stepdad of younger kids. And they would have a program where just the parents would come in. to learn what, maybe how to spot their kids getting into drugs or stuff.

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And one of the questions was the police officer who was giving the class, he held up this bag of white powder that may have been cocaine or may have been a simulation of cocaine, I don't know. He goes, all right, class, class of adults. He goes, who can tell me, you know, take a guess what this would cost if you bought it on the street. Now, I've never bought cocaine, so I have no idea what

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Cocaine costs. But the last thing I was going to do in front of a class full of police was get an accurate answer to what it cost. So so my first impulse was the answer. You raise my hand just to throw off the scent. I'd be like, hmm, big bag, baggy, full of cocaine. What would that cost? I go fourteen dollars. just to make sure they didn't stake out my house.

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All right, speaking of free speech, Dr. Drew, this is terrible but funny because it's so freaking bad. Dr. Drew's been having this issue with his YouTube episodes being banned. I don't know what the right word is, banned or demonetized or something removed, I think. on YouTube. So it's not his entire account, just some specific ones.

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And I guess they had some medical conversations about guess what? You don't even have to wonder what it's about, right? So it's something about probably vaccinations. So the bad part is that real credible doctors couldn't have a conversation that involved their best thinking based on the best information available. That was not allowed. Let me just say that again.

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Two credible doctors were not allowed to have a conversation that utilized the best information available to both of them and their opinions on it. That was not allowed. because YouTube decided that their opinion of what was true was superior. Was it their doctors that decided? I don't know. But here's the punchline. YouTube is demanding that Dr. True go to some kind of re-education camp.

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You call it giant chopsticks, but that's racist. They're really giant tweezers. The FDA has banned red dye number three, according to the AP. So 35 years after it was borrowed in cosmetics, I guess it was argued that it was different when you ate it. Well, it causes cancer if it touches the outside of your skin, but it's okay to eat it. Do I have any skin on the inside of my body?

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You fucking idiots. You fucking idiots. YouTube. It's like you think that they can't be worse. But let me give you this advice, YouTube. If you decide that this is the way you want to go forward and you've got to send credible people giving their opinions on the most current information, if that's not allowed,

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and you have to retrain them, could you at least not use the most communist word for retraining? I'm going to send you to re-education camp. And this is like what happened to Jordan Peterson with that stupid Toronto idiots that said he had to be re-educated, and they couldn't figure out how to do it.

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Like nobody was even willing to re-educate him because it was so fucking stupid that nobody even wanted to be in that seat. All right, so here's what I'd like. And, you know, Dr. Drew, if you're listening, I hope this isn't too inconvenient. I'd love you to get reeducated and just tell us who it was that reeducated you. And just do a show on that.

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Just do a show how they wanted to reeducate you so that two doctors can't have a conversation about the newest information on medical stuff. Yeah, let's re-educate us. Then maybe, Dr. Ju, you can share it with us. So we'll all get re-educated too. Oh my God. Just be a little less communist, please. Anyway, I hope that works out and is not the, is not the, what it looks like.

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But I'm sure it's what it looks like. Meanwhile, according to Unusual Whales and Accountant X, Walgreens has decided that its anti-shoplifting strategy didn't work out. So the CEO is explaining that when you lock things up, you don't sell as many of them. Now, I'm sure it helped with the shoplifting. That was the reason. But people don't buy things if they're locked up.

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Have you ever had that experience? Have you ever gone into a store? and you were thinking, you know, I should pick this up, and then you see it's locked up. You don't know who's working, you don't know how long it would take to get it, and you go, ah, Amazon. Anybody? If I'm in Walgreen, and there's something I want that's locked up, I'm not going to wait.

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I might pick my phone up out of my pocket, type in the name of that thing, and push a button and walk away. But I'm not going to wait for you to come over. If you could unlock this faster than I can push four buttons on Amazon... Yeah, go ahead. But you can't do it faster than I can push four buttons. So Walgreens, that's a good strategy you got there.

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Now, to their credit, trying something is worth trying, right? So let me give them full credit. If you don't know what to do, but you think, well, maybe we could try locking this stuff up, see what happens. I'm always in favor of people trying stuff and then backing off if it doesn't work, and it looks like that's what's happening. So...

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It turns out that the other part of their strategy is to close 450 more stores in 2025. This is after closing a number of them already. And what do you think is the criteria for closing stores? Well, they closed the stores that were less profitable. So they picked a profitability number and they said, all right, all the ones below that we're going to close. Where do you think those were?

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Where do you think all the unprofitable Walgreens were? You want to take a guess? Well, San Francisco had a lot of them. No surprise. Oakland, Oakland, Baltimore, Baltimore, Sacramento. Now some of them look like maybe they were just weren't doing well in general, but a lot of them look like they were in the most diverse markets. So Walgreen to its credit as one of the most robust DEI programs.

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So on the plus side, Walgreens DEI is really good. They got a heck of a good DEI program. It's really robust. On the other hand, they're using the, some call it the cartoonist strategy of get the fuck out of the diverse markets because you can't survive there. You know, they call it something else, but it's basically the Scott Adams theory. And it goes well with their DEI program.

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Good combination. Over at the Wall Street Journal website, Colin Borchers is writing about DEI hurting the careers of some people and wondering if the pullback in DEI, they're wondering if the pullback in DEI under Trump might help people get more employment that they might have been discriminated against for.

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Stop asking questions. Not the skin per se, but let's say tissue. All right. I wonder, is this the Kennedy effect? Does it strike you as kind of a big coincidence that the easiest thing the FDA could have ever banned, it was the easiest, that it got done just before RFK Jr. gets into office and who said he would ban it? Is the entire reason that they're banning it now to make sure that RFK Jr.

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But Colin points out that the Pew Research Center found out that more than a third of Americans believe DEI in the workplace hurts white men. Wow, more than a third. Let's say a third. Wouldn't that be every white man? One third of the public that they would interview about this, of the working public. Isn't one third exactly the number of white people? White men. Isn't it?

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It's almost exactly the same number. Huh. Surprising. I'm so surprised. And do you know why? It's the white men who know that this is hurting white men, but the others don't seem to act like they know it. Many of them are lying because DEI is good for them and bad for white men, and maybe they don't want to ruin that situation, which would actually be totally reasonable. That's not a criticism.

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If you're in a situation that favors people like you and disfavors other people, Unless you're some kind of weird activist, you're just going to say, well, that's okay. I think that's perfect. But pretty much 100% of white men who have jobs are completely aware that DEI is a disaster for white men. So just know that.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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The stocks are not looking good, so don't look at them. Don't look. Don't look at your stocks. Just let it happen. All right. As soon as I've got my comments working here. There we go. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, like you've never seen before.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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So Alpha School, good for you. Well, I wanted to help out the Democrats because they're struggling, trying to come up with some messaging that's convincing. And, you know, Bernie Sanders and AOC came up with oligarchs. But James Carville pointed out, and others did, people don't know what an oligarch is.

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So I asked Grok to give me some words that mean about the same as oligarch, but are even less likely to be recognized. Words that are even less common than oligarch. And it came up with mammonist and plutocrat. How many of you would know what a mammonist is? So mammon is referring to the worship of money. So if you're a mammonist, you're someone who worships money.

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Doesn't necessarily mean you're an oligarch in charge of things, but you really like your money. And then a plutocrat is pretty much an oligarch. I don't know if there's any difference there. So I think they should go from trying to stop the oligarchs to going after the mammonist plutocrats. because it's the only thing dumber than what they're already doing, meminist plutocrats.

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And then maybe they can tell us if the meminist plutocrats are as dangerous as the oligarchs with their habeas corpus. Every time I see a Democrat on TV saying, we've got to maintain the habeas corpus, I think to myself, how many Democrats just turned that off because they don't know what you're talking about?

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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I mean, how many of you would know what habeas corpus was if you didn't follow the news closely? I had to look it up. But Democrats, they're lost. Do you remember the story that also came from that same Jake Tapper book and Alex Thompson book that claimed that Biden didn't recognize George Clooney and that was like the big news yesterday? Oh, my God, Biden didn't even recognize Clooney.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Well, it turns out that the two-way podcast had a guest, Rufus Gifford, who was actually there personally. So he wasn't at a distance. He was right there when Biden and Clooney shook hands. And his version is that never happened, that there was never a time that Biden didn't recognize Clooney. Because the advisors were introducing the people to Biden, regardless of whether he'd met them before.

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So apparently the advisor, before anybody said anything to each other, said, and President Biden, here's George Clooney and somebody else. So he was actually introduced as George Clooney because they were just sort of standard procedure, just introducing everybody, which is the right thing to do, by the way.

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Let me think about that. All right, I'm going to go with people who make good decisions. All right, I've got a question for you. What the hell happened to the Fort Knox audit of the gold? Do you think if Fort Knox actually had the gold that we wouldn't have seen it yet? Are you telling me that Trump doesn't want to stand next to a giant pile of gold and have his picture taken?

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Yeah, and George Clooney doesn't look like George Clooney anymore because I think he was getting ready to play a part in the play. So it could be that he didn't recognize him, but that would be more because he doesn't look like him. Clooney just doesn't look like Clooney. I don't know. So we don't know if any of that's true. And then according to the New York Post,

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which was also reading the same book, I guess, the Tapper book, Biden forgot the names of longtime aides like Jake Sullivan, Kate Bedingfield, halfway through his term. So I guess he was getting more forgetful as the term went by. I think he was calling Jake Sullivan Steve. And the other one, he just called press. So he was just coming up with his own nicknames for people randomly.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Mary, come over here. You, George. I think he wasn't even trying after a while. Sebastian, come over here. Anyway. Anyway. So if you didn't hear it, Trump gave a really interesting speech while he was in Saudi Arabia. So he's already gone to Qatar, and today I think he's in the UAE. But I think he made a lot of news with this speech. So the essence of his speech was that the people who tried to

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let's say, nation-build in other countries, didn't understand the culture of those other countries, and just basically ruined the countries instead of helping them. But where the countries did their own work, such as Saudi Arabia, nobody tried to turn it into something else, Saudi Arabia did great because they just used their own, they did it their way, basically. But it's so good.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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I want to just read you the central part of this speech because it didn't get a lot of play on TV. So this was Trump talking to the Saudis in the world, I guess. He said, it's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.

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In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.

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No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad and so many other cities. Instead, the birth of modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves.

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The people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing their own sovereign countries, pursuing their own unique visions, and charting your own destinies in your own way. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately

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came not from radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly. You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way. So what he was doing is just giving Saudi Arabia and the other countries he visited a huge respect.

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and saying that when the Americans, mostly, were interfering in the Middle East, they just ruined shit. And that's a pretty radical thing to say after all the years of Americans and Europeans going over there and ruining shit. He just says it never worked and never made sense.

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And the people who went over there didn't really understand the place and didn't really have a chance of fixing anything or making anything better. But when people were left alone, at least in many cases, they came up with a wonderful society. So I do like how he's handling that. I do like how he's basically a non-interventionist, and he's giving them their due. So that's a good job.

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There's probably nothing that he would like better than that, except standing next to a pile of gold. So, I'm not sure we have any gold. Well, according to Bindu Reddy, we're three to four years away from having a household robot that can cook and clean and fix things. What else could that robot do? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Wink, wink, wink.

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Megyn Kelly said recently in related news, She said, quote, I feel like when I was on Fox News, all we did was cheerlead these wars and kind of dismiss or express disdain for people who had serious questions about them. With the benefit of all this hindsight, that was wrong. Now, I appreciate the fact that she just says right out, you know, all right, that was wrong.

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So that's the way to handle it. You know, rather than Try to say, well, you have to understand, you know, the forces that were blah, blah. Now she just says, no, with hindsight, that was just wrong. And, uh, it did seem like that. Didn't it seem like news Fox news might've been cheerleading a little bit, some prior wars. So I guess we're done with that.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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At least the Trump regime, we won't be starting wars that don't need to be started. But then after Trump reads this great speech that I thought was well put together, he gets to Qatar, and he's sitting there with presumably the emir. I don't know, but I think it was the emir, head of Qatar, and he's just making conversation. I swear to God, nobody makes conversation like Trump does.

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And he said, and I quote, As a construction guy, this is perfect marble. He's looking at the floor. He said, this is what they call perfecto. And we appreciate those camels. Haven't seen camels like that in a long time. Haven't seen camels like that in a long time. He's just making conversation. But who in the world would even say that sentence?

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Like, there's nobody in the rest of the entire planet who would have said to the Emir of Qatar, haven't seen camels like that in a long time. Why is that so funny? It's so funny because nobody would say that. Oh, my God.

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So the critics of Trump by now have probably said, I haven't seen it, but they've probably said that Trump is easy to flatter because both Saudi Arabia and Qatar put on major red carpet and they had horses and I guess some camels and they had... some painted cyber trucks, and they had jets escorting Air Force One into their airspace.

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And so you might say to yourself, oh, they're really playing him because his ego is big. So if they play to his ego, they're going to have a little extra influence with him. Well, I think that's true. I think if somebody is good to you, you have a little extra influence there. So there's something to that.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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But there's something bigger to it that's way more important, which is the next country that Trump visits, they're going to have to ask themselves if they need more Campbell's. What are we gonna do? Do we need more jets, cyber trucks, red carpets, camels? What about horses? Do we need horses?

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So by Saudi Arabia and Qatar creating a standard, because there were two of them and it got so much press, if you're, I don't know, if you're the next country that's not in the Middle East and it's your job to meet the president, don't you feel like you have to take it up a level? The net effect is less on Trump But yeah, there's definitely some persuasion effect on Trump as well.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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The big effect is what it will do to the other countries. So people are going to start thinking, oh my God, we have to treat him like he's more like a god coming into our country or a king or something. We can't treat him like the way we normally do. It looks like he's the special visitor and he's going to need the ultra treatment.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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If it can cook and clean and fix things, well... Well, just maybe. Maybe it's a full-service robot. You don't know. Maybe. But doesn't three to four years away feel like not exactly what we've been told? Because I thought when Elon Musk was talking about Optimus, he was saying that it can dance and it can walk around and it can interact.

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So I think it could have this big lasting ripple effect where wherever he goes, he's treated with a better greeting than anybody's ever been treated. And then they'll all convince themselves that they're being clever. Yeah, we're going to influence him. We're definitely going to influence him by this greeting. But it will just make him look like a king, like a god king to the rest of the world.

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which is all to his benefit because then he can just get more stuff done because they're going to think, well, nobody can solve this problem except Trump. He's almost there now, but any backup for that would make it even better. Just think about it. Don't you think that there are countries in the world who are thinking exactly this thought?

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Nobody but Trump could solve whatever problem they're thinking about. I think so, because he's creating that aura, that image that will just follow him around. Even if it's not true, the way they treat him is going to create this aura that will actually make him able to get things done that nobody could get done. So the flattery is definitely working.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Well, the problem with Qatar, as you know, is that they have some history of supporting terrorists. And at the same time, they have a long history of being good to the United States. So we've got a base there that they've invested in the U.S., and I think they invested some more. And so on one hand, they're really good to the United States,

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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But on the other hand, they seem to be really good to the terrorists that the United States really would like to be dead. So how does any of that work? Don't you think that would be awkward if the Qataris had to explain that? Well, I think it was Brett Baer who was asking one of the representatives. It wasn't the emir, but somebody who was pretty good at answering questions.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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And I was impressed at the way he went about it. Now, I got to be careful here, because I know you're going to mishear me. So 10% of you are going to hear not what I say, but what you imagine I'm saying. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that the Qataris are good people who are not doing anything that we don't like. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the way he answers the question...

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was pretty damn good from a persuasion perspective. So when asked about how he could be like an ally of the United States, at the same time they're supporting Hamas, the representative said that it's a national... I forget the exact word, but sort of a national belief or priority that they can mediate all conflicts. And I thought to myself, damn, you actually pulled that off.

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You actually came up with a reframe that makes sense that you could talk to Hitler and non-Hitler at the same time. Because if it's true, and again, remember, I'm not being fooled by what's true or what's not true. So we're not talking about what's real. I'm just talking about his communication and persuasion capabilities.

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And when he phrased it as, we'll talk basically, I'm paraphrasing, but that they would be good to everybody because that would put him in a position where they could be a a mediator to solve wars, I thought to myself, God, that's so good.

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It's not that far from what Trump believes, which is just because somebody has done terrible things and might do terrible things in the future doesn't mean he can't talk to them. And so watching Cutter be that capable in defending whatever it is they're doing? Because I don't know. I mean, if you listen to the news, somebody in Qatar is funding the terrorists. I don't know.

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I don't know if that's the government or just rich people in Qatar or if it's really happening or not happening. These stories are hard to know what's really true. But boy, that was a good answer. So again... I'm not supporting them. I'm not supporting their support of the terrorists. I'm just saying they defended their situation better than I would expect anybody could have. It was impressive.

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But what he didn't say is you could give it instructions on something he had never done before and it could go do it, you know, like wash the dishes or something like that. I don't think they can do it. So I'm still waiting for the robot demonstration where they have it do things that, you know, are just generic things like, can you put these dishes in the dishwasher?

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Anyway, Trump's probably in the UAE by now. I haven't seen any updates if he's made any deals or whatever. But apparently he secured $1.2 trillion from Qatar, according to the Washington Times. Nearly $2 trillion in deals for U.S. companies, including more than $1.2 trillion in economic investment by Qatar. And a lot of it is an

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A lot of his commitments that he's getting in the Middle East, they seem related to, yeah, Qatar is the correct pronunciation. It's not Qatar. But I guess in the U.S. we call it Qatar, but if you were in Qatar, you'd call it Qatar because that's the actual name. So I'm trying to be correct. But some of these deals are that they're going to buy billions of dollars worth of Boeing planes.

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to which I say, well, that's convenient. I would like to announce today that I am also going to buy 100 Boeing airplanes. No, really. Seriously. If it takes 10 years to build me my plane, I don't know if I'll still be around to buy it, but I'll totally commit to Billions of dollars of planes that they can't make for 10 to 15 years. How long does it take Boeing to make one plane?

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It's so long that I feel like these Middle East companies are gaming the system. Oh, yeah. How about we agree to buy 200 Boeing planes? That will be done at the year 2050. Okay. And by then, anything could be different. There'll be a different president. The world is different. I don't know. I don't trust these deals, but it's probably better than having no deals.

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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According to Breitbart News, the Trump effect is affecting NATO, and they're trying desperately to get all their members to 5% defense spending, 5% of their budgets. And I guess there's some meeting coming up. We'll see if the Trump effect works. But meanwhile, speaking of NATO, you know how Zelensky was going to go to Turkey and meet with Putin, and they were going to talk face-to-face?

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Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

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Well, Putin decided not to go. Ha, ha, ha. So Zelensky shows up with his finger up his ass, and Putin sends some lower-level people who could never make any decisions, so there's no point in talking to him. So that whole trip turned out to be, yoink, yeah, I'll be there any minute. No, I'm not. The joke's on you. I'm not even going to show up. Now, at one point, Putin tried to get Trump to go,

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And I assume in that case, Putin would have showed up if Trump was going to go. But the fact that Putin agreed to meet Zelensky in Turkey, and then Zelensky goes all the way to Turkey, and it's just these lower-level, can't-make-a-decision Russians. Oh, my God. That's worse than the war. That is so disrespectful to Zelensky. But I'm sure Putin had his reasons.

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Anyway, so that was quite a slap in the face well Wow So here's the big news of the day that I think is fake news So according to NBC News There's a top Iranian advisor now, so it's not the top leader It's a top advisor and the top Iranian advisor is

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All right, now iron this shirt. I don't think we're even close. So three to four years sort of sounds like nuclear fusion. You know, it's always 10 years away. I've got a feeling the robots that can really do things for you, maybe they'll always be three years away. I don't know. I'm a little bit skeptical. According to the Washington Times, overdose deaths fell 27% last year. Is that new news?

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Ali Shamkhani, he said that Tehran is ready to strike a nuclear deal directly with Trump, and the offer would be that if Trump drops the sanctions, Iran will ditch its high-enriched uranium, cap enrichment at civilian levels, allow inspections, and swear off nukes, meaning everything we wanted about the nuclear program they're willing to give us. But there's something left out, isn't there?

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Because the thing that Trump had recently added to the mix was that they could no longer fund their proxies, you know, like Hamas and Hezbollah. So I don't see this top Iranian advisor saying anything about that. And I'm not sure that the top Iranian advisor is speaking for the regime. So I'm going to say I think this is fake. Trump has showed some optimism.

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You know, he acted like they're getting closer and probably because of this guy. But do you trust that? Do you believe that that Iranian advisor is really going to give up Iran's nuclear program? And do you think, well, it's not up to him, but do you think he's accurately representing where the regime is at the moment? And that's how we find out. We find out from the Iranian advisor.

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I don't believe it. I don't think the regime has made that decision yet. And the fact that it leaves out the stuff about the proxies, it's still not there. Meanwhile, I guess Tulsi Gabbard had gotten some insider whistleblower information about two people on the National Intelligence Council who were dangerous and insidious. No, what were they? I guess they were radically opposed to Trump.

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So according to whistleblowers, there were people in her organization and the spy part of her organization that were radically opposed to Trump. Now, you don't really want to take a chance of having your top spies radically against your president, so she fired them. And then John Brennan, of all people, got really worked up about it, and he went on TV, said the whole thing makes him livid, and...

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And it's a dangerous and insidious corruption inside the Trump administration. Now, as others have pointed out, if John Brennan is really mad about these two people getting fired, Tulsi Gabbard made the right decision. He's a little bit too interested in this. And I won't go into it today. But remember, I always tell you, if you know what happened, you don't know anything.

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But if you know who is involved, you might know everything. And Brendan is one of those where if he is involved, there's a whole bunch of assumptions you can make about what that means. And you're probably right. So Brennan would be the most anti-Trump person involved with any kind of CIA background.

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And now when these two other high-ranking people who are radically opposed to Trump got fired, well, he's really mad. So probably that was a good firing. That's what it feels like.

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Well, Jonathan Turley tells us that the Supreme Court, I think, today is hearing arguments about universal injunctions by judges, which I believe means the question of can a district federal judge stop something all across the country, which they have been doing. If the Supreme Court decides that these judges can't do that and they can only operate within the

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domain that is their assigned domain, that would be a gigantic victory for Trump. But I don't know if it's going to go his way. Because I don't think, it seems at this point that the Supreme Court is politicized. Is that fair to say? Would you agree that the Supreme Court at this point just sort of politicized?

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So I think the politicized part of it is going to give us some non-predictable results there. So keep an eye on that. I guess Trump, when he's over in the Middle East, told Tim Cook, who must have also been there, that he doesn't like Apple building their phones in India. He wants that to come to the US. Now, what you might not know is

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Because I feel like we heard that before. But they don't know exactly why, but my guess is it has to do with more access to the Narcan. That's the thing that you give somebody who's having an overdose. Probably the Narcan. I can't think of anything else. It's not like there's a supply is limited or anything like that. So probably that.

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is that Tim Cook had said that the phones that would be built in India would be the ones that aren't as hard to build. Doesn't take as much special experience. And he couldn't move all of his high-end phones to India and of China because China has special skills. So they can make the high-end phones. But he was able to move the low-end phones.

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They have some lower technical requirement or something. And so Trump is saying, why are you doing that in India? It does seem to me that we could train Americans to make these phones if you can train the Indians. It might be true that it would take longer or maybe impossible to match China in phone making for a variety of reasons. So that might be harder.

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But yeah, why aren't we making these phones in America? So Trump is asking the right questions. Michael Schellenberger, writing for Public, which is a subscription site, is talking about how the climate activists have gotten quiet lately.

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Now, imagine you're Greta, you're Greta Thunberg, and from your teenage years you were complaining that the entire world is going to be destroyed by climate change unless we do radically different things. Now, we haven't done those radically different things, but yet Greta seems to have moved on. She's not as worried or doesn't act as worried. And so this is what Schellenberger says.

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Climate activists are desperate to prevent the apocalypse, they said, but they obviously weren't. Their entire agenda is falling apart, and yet Team Greta has moved on. Victimhood professionals don't actually care about their causes. They just chase them for narcissistic supply. Do you think that what drives climate change is narcissism, which is getting attention, basically? Maybe.

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I'm no expert on climate change or narcissism, but if you said, is that completely impossible? I'd say, well, doesn't seem completely impossible to me.

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And then when you look at the fact that people who at one point thought it was the most important thing they could be doing have decided to sort of wander off into other causes, it does make you wonder if they were ever genuinely concerned or if it was all about feeding their narcissistic supply. So it's a good question. Apparently there are claims that Minneapolis and Minnesota,

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preparing for the possibility of a Derek Chauvin pardon now a Derek Chauvin pardon if it happened and there's no indication that it will by the way but apparently there they think that there's enough of a possibility of it happening because there are important people talking about it like Ben Shapiro if he got a federal pardon

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it wouldn't get him out of jail because he's got state charges, but it would cause him to be changed from a federal facility to a state facility. So I guess that's probably what most of the planning is. And I'd forgotten, I guess I hadn't made the connection that that is Tim Walz's state. So Governor Tim Walz would be the one, if somebody ever were going to pardon him at a state level,

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It would be Tim Walz. It makes me wonder if this would be a kind of a topic that some Republican could use to run in that very blue area to maybe break through. You know, the free Derek Chauvin? I don't know. Probably not. It seems like it's so blue that nothing would ever change. So there's not much chance that Derek Chauvin would get out. But maybe. I'm going to bet against it.

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I don't think Trump is going to pardon him because, first of all, it wouldn't let him out of jail. And it would just be negative publicity. But on the other hand, Trump is a little bit unpredictable. And he likes to throw some red meat to the press so they can spend all their time spinning about something that doesn't make a difference because he's not going to get out of jail.

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Well, OMB director Russ Vogt says they intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn them into permanent savings. Really? How many of you think that's going to happen? Do you think the Doge savings are just going to be turned into permanent savings? Maybe. But doesn't it just seem to you that they'll just treat it like it's money they can spend?

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And then he can work on important things while they're spinning on something that doesn't make any difference. Well, the Wall Street Journal, separately, had reported that the United Health Company, you've heard of them, big healthcare insurance company, were under Department of Injustice investigation, DOG investigation, which would make you think, hmm, they're in trouble.

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But apparently after a day or so of this being the headline, UnitedHealth said, we're not being notified by the Department of Justice that anybody's investigating us. And I think that they would be notified, right? Wouldn't you expect that UnitedHealth would be fully aware? Don't you think that they would be aware if the DOJ was investigating them?

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And they say this was reported without official attribution, and the Wall Street Journal's reporting is deeply irresponsible. So it might not even be true. It might be fake news. I don't know. In other news, the U.S. Army is re-looking at their

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tank strategy because in the world of missiles and drones a tank doesn't last too long so the defense post is talking about this and i was thinking to myself if you joined the military would you ever want to volunteer to be in the tank corps i mean the tank is like being in your own little metal coffin How long is a tank going to last in any kind of modern warfare? A tank is not going to last.

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It's going to be droned so fast. So I don't know how many tanks we need. In other news, Modernity is reporting that some rogue communication devices have been found hidden in Chinese solar panels. Now, I don't know if it's not just solar panels. It's in the solar panel inverters, batteries, and chargers, and heat pumps, and everything else.

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So I don't know how many things China is putting a communication device in. But the worry is that they're doing so they can turn it off. That it's not so much that the communication device is telling China something. but rather if China wants to tell the device something, as in turn off, that might be why they exist. I don't know about that, but it's possible. All right.

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Anheuser-Busch says they're putting $300 million into domestic US manufacturing. So that's good. I like the fact that companies need to announce it now. So it might be that they were just going to do it anyway. It might have been their ordinary expense. But I love the fact that companies are fully aware that the louder they are about their American domestic expense, the better it will be for them.

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That is a Trumpism. Trump has caused companies to need to compete to show how, well, not patriotic in this case, but how much emphasis they're going to put in American companies. So I like that, even Anheuser-Busch. According to MIT Technical Review, Montana just passed a law that created a hub for experimental medical treatments.

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So you would be able to get some meds in this little hub in Montana that you would not be legally able to take anywhere else. Now these would be meds that had at least gone through safety training or safety tests. Now safety tests don't tell you that they work, but if you got no other options,

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and there's some indication it works, and they've already tested it and it's relatively safe compared to other things, then this might be something people like, so that you'd have the right to try. So it might be a lot of people moving to Montana just to see if they can get some experimental drugs to stay alive. Do you remember that $20,000 electric truck called the Slate?

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And I kind of raved about it because I just liked how it looked. It just called to me, and I don't know how they did that. Part of it is because you could build the truck to be anything you want. You could add a sound system or not. You could add a backseat or not. So I liked all of that, and Jeff Bezos was one of the backers, so I thought, hmm, could be a serious company.

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100,000.

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Well, we saved $150 billion on Doge, so I guess we have another $150 billion, coincidentally, to spend on the military and the border. I don't believe anything about... Here's what I do believe. I do believe that Doge was directionally correct and found real savings, and that they were all dedicated professionals who were really trying to do the real thing.

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100,000.

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So I guess I wasn't the only one who thought I had some, you know, some little extra charisma to it. There was just something about that little truck that made me want it, and I can't explain it. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for today. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. Yeah, and it's only a $50 deposit, so they made it easy to do that.

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If it had been a bigger deposit, I suppose it would be a whole different situation. All right. If you're on Rumble or YouTube or X, thanks for joining, and I'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place. But if you're on Locals, I'm going to go private with you

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody's even seen with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stye, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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I don't believe that our government can translate that into permanent savings. I think they'll just spend it. Now, that was my original prediction. that we wouldn't be able to translate it into the political part of the world.

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As soon as they reach the political part, somebody would say, you know, we could probably get away with spending the same thing we spent last year, even though it's moving us closer to doom. Because, you know, people are just used to it. They're used to the fact that we're going to spend maybe a little bit more this year than last year.

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So I think they were just going to take the Doge savings and say, free money, buy some more tanks. I think that's what's going to happen. Anyway, surprisingly, not. The U.S. Treasury is increasing the borrowing it needs to $514 billion, which somebody says is a 320% jump from previous forecasts. Oh, surprise.

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The government is telling us numbers about the budget that we can't trust, and they get revised. Okay. All right, so put me down as someone who doesn't believe anything about the budget. All the news about the budget I just look at and go, hmm, probably fake. It doesn't matter if it's Trump or anyone else, because it's not like he's in the weeds on the budget.

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I think once you do Congress plus budget, it's just all bullshit. United Airlines has added a Basically a Dilbert cubicle option for people who want to pay a lot more. So I think if you're going to go to Europe or something, it would be $5,000 to $6,000 for it. But it's like a little cubicle. It's got a door. It's got a big screen on it. I guess you're supposed to wear your headphones.

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And it's got a little guest seat in there. It's called the Polaris Studios. And they're 25% bigger than the current fancy seats. But basically, it's a cubicle. I wouldn't mind at all. I could probably fly a great distance if I were in a cubicle that had all the bells and whistles I needed.

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Well, Adam Carolla made a video talking about the problems the Malibu people who lost their homes in that Palisades fire, how hard it's going to be for them to rebuild. So it turns out that all of those old homes that were there, they've been there forever, they had septic systems. But they had septic systems before there were a bunch of environmental rules about septic systems.

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So if they want to build back, they're going to have to remove the ones they have. build retaining walls underground, that's what Adam Carolla says, and meet the new standards for septic systems. Do you know what that's going to cost per home? Per home, according to Adam Carolla, just the septic system. So this is not building the home. This is just the septic system. $3 to $5 million.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Ah, perfection. Or as Trump says, perfecto, perfecto. Well, I wonder if there are any scientific studies that didn't need to happen because they could have just asked me. Oh yeah, here's one.

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I'm laughing because it's just so bad. So those people who had homes in Malibu, unless they're just outrageously rich, it's not economically possible to even build back. And how many years would it take for them to get approval for their septic systems?

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So the people who were saying it looks like there's going to be some kind of land grab or, you know, somebody is going to try to get everything cheap and build a hotel there or something. Well, I.

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wasn't gonna build you know buy into the conspiracy theory but I don't know what else you could do with this land because how many people are gonna spend three to five million dollars getting their septic system just right before they even build the house I mean how rich would you have to be pretty rich

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Well, according to that new Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, that sound, Kamala Harris had to be trained for a social event. So they actually did a practice dinner so that Kamala Harris could learn how to not embarrass herself eating dinner with important people. Does that sound real to you? I don't know how real any of this is. but they called it a mock soiree.

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And part of what they said was, and this is per the New York Post, read the book, I guess, and said that Harris Advisors had made it a, quote, dry run, opting not to serve wine to see if she could practice with a glass or two. Now, I don't understand that sentence. You know, I just copied this from X.

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But what does it mean to opt not to serve wine, but then also to practice with a glass or two at the same time? Those are opposites. Are they empty glasses? Could you be a little less specific? You know what this suggests to me? It kind of suggests to me that she can't do these social events unless she's got a glass or two of wine. And then she probably gets cackly and stupid.

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So I think her advisors were trying to figure out, is it even possible for you to do a dinner without having a glass of wine and being a cackly idiot? I'm just speculating. But why in the world would you take the vice president of the United States and and tell her that she has to practice just eating with people because she's too embarrassing. And apparently she agreed to that.

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She must have known that she couldn't sit down and have dinner with people without, I don't know. Just because it's a new book doesn't mean it's all true or that the context is all there. So probably something missing in that story. Well, Gavin Newsom continues to move right without embedding it. So now he wants to slash health benefits for illegal immigrants in California.

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Because it turns out that those health benefits for illegal immigrants turned out to be our entire deficit, $10 billion or whatever. So yeah, he's pretty much going to have to do that. Now, on top of that, he's ordered the removal of, California homeless camps. So he's trying to become the common sense governor. I don't know if he could pull it off, do you?

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I feel like the Democrats couldn't possibly pick a white guy, like a generic heterosexual white guy as their next standard bearer. How could they possibly do that? I don't think they can. So I don't think he can become president, but he's definitely trying. And if he keeps trying, well, maybe my state will get a little bit better while he's flailing away.

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According to Business Insider, wealthy people and their consumer spending is what's warding off a recession. Does that sound right to you? I feel like nothing in the news sounds right. Like just sort of it doesn't smell right, sit right, sound right. Do you believe that wealthy people suddenly started spending more at Walmart? Because that's part of the story.

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According to the AP, there's a study that shows that people who make good decisions have an unfair advantage. Thank you, Omar, for bringing that to my attention. And he said an X that they should have asked Scott. Yeah, I think I'm going to guess that one right off the top. Who has an unfair advantage? People who make Bad decisions or people who make good decisions? I don't know.

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Literally Walmart is saying that wealthy people are spending more money at Walmart. Really? How many of you believe that wealthy people have suddenly decided to spend more money at Walmart. I don't believe that. I don't know what kind of economic data this is, but none of it looks real to me. All right.

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You may have heard about this one before, but there's a school called Alpha, Alpha School, and instead of doing normal lessons, they give the kids two hours of AI training. So I think they each have a laptop and some headphones, but they're in a common area. And the AI adapts to the students and teaches them the lessons. But after the two hours, they're done with regular classes.

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Now, they still learn things, but it's life-related things like how to tie your shoes and how to go swimming and basically how to navigate the real world. And allegedly these scores of the people who go to this little school are in the top 1 or 2% in the country. I think that may have more to do with the selection process of who's in the school in the first place.

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But if you can really train these young kids in two hours and they can get not just get the basics idea of school but do better than other people, that makes a lot of sense to me. Because I remember being young and in school and I would just be exhausted and it was hard to pay attention after a while. But if you gave me headphones and said you only have two hours, I could probably focus on that.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that Here's a cup, a mug, a glass, a tank, a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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It's a theater guy. He was literally an actor. It's literally just theater people going after a president. It's the damnedest thing. To imagine that these parties are somehow equivalent and that it's just a difference of which policies you like, nothing like that is happening. There is one side that is purely acting, and the moment they need to act the other way, they will turn on a dime.

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Republicans don't do that at all. Republicans are pretty dug in on what it means to be a Republican. Anyway. So DOGE has canceled a National Institute of Health grant that was trying to prevent pregnancy in transgender boys. Let me say that again. Doge canceled a grant that was meant to prevent pregnancy in transgender boys.

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Now, you know how they always say, you've got to cut with a scalpel, not a chainsaw? There's going to be now a wave of pregnant boys that could have been prevented if they just used a scalpel instead of a chainsaw. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. I also wonder, have you noticed the lack of complaining?

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So Tesla had one of his best days ever. I have a feeling that's going to continue for a little while. So we'll see. You know, one of the biggest the biggest changes for Tesla is it did seem like it was a little bit of a climate change lover kind of a car. So I think Republicans were a little bit, you know, I'll take my gas powered truck. Thank you. I don't need your electric cars.

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That even though tons of things are being caught, tons of things are being cut, the complaining is just the professional actors, the people who literally are Democrat elected officials who are just acting, or the people on the news who are just acting. But I don't see any real people who are going to protest because boys are going to have more babies, trans boys.

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So I feel like there's a whole lot of giving up on the Democrat side, as in, yeah, you know, we don't really want to fight about that. Yeah, you can have that one. Yeah, okay. You can get rid of the fraud, waste, and abuse. Sure. Anyway. It also seems to me that all the Democrat organizations and all the grants, they all seem criminal to me. Just everything seems criminal.

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We'll talk about ActBlue, and we've talked about USAID, and we've talked about the tens of thousands of NGOs. They all seem criminal. And it's so consistent. And it makes me wonder, are there also...

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equivalence like that on the republican side of the world and maybe i just don't hear about it is everything corrupt you know once it reaches a certain scale or is just everything that democrats do corrupt and i'm trying not to say it like a you know like i'm just taking sides i'm just observing it seems to me that every single time

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anybody digs into anything uh democrats are doing it looks corrupt corrupt as hell so maybe it's 100 so uh steve bannon went on uh governor newsom's podcast and here's something that newsom said he said uh the grievance narrative that comes from trump uh this notion that he's a victim and steve bannon chimes in with they did try to put him in prison for 300 years right

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See, this is the downside of Gavin Newsom having a podcast, because that is the right answer. Why is Trump always acting like he's a victim? You tried to put him in jail for nothing for 300 years. you may have thrown the election in 2020. That's Steve Bannon says.

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And I love the fact that Steve Bannon can just go on a major podcast with a major Democrat and just say, we believe the 2020 election was rigged. Now, I don't have proof of that, but what are the odds that every single thing that we've looked into is rigged and corrupt except the elections? Everything else, just everything else, but not the election.

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It's kind of hard to believe that it would be the one thing that's not corrupt. Anyway, former Chicago mayor, according to the Gateway Pundit, Rahm Emanuel is maybe allegedly angling to be a presidential candidate. Here's my take on that. Uh-oh. Now, I've been telling you that all the Democrats need is a charismatic, good candidate.

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If they just had a good candidate, then suddenly they would be competitive like right on the block. And the fact that seemingly they don't have any skills whatsoever. But Rahm Emanuel, he's got the whole package. He's got experience. He's got connections. He's deeply connected to the Obama world. So he could probably raise money like crazy. And he's also funny. And that's a problem.

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If you're a Republican. That's a problem. He's funny. He's common sense. And he's smart as hell. So I wouldn't want to run against him, honestly. Yeah, he's He's got the whole package. Now, I never really thought about him as a potential presidential candidate, but as soon as I saw that name, I said, uh-oh, uh-oh, that's an actual serious candidate.

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Now, if you compare him to, let's say, Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom also has some political skill, but he also has tons of scandal because he presided over a city that went to hell, San Francisco, and then his state that went to hell. So, you know, I don't think Rahm Emanuel has quite those problems. So I'd worry about him. The big question would be, could the Democrats back another older white guy?

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But now that it's so clearly a political thing, there are a whole bunch of Trump lovers are saying, oh yeah, it's a great car. Are you kidding me? Everybody wants one. So if you add the Democrats who just like a good car, To the Republicans who might buy one partly for political reasons, it could actually end up being good for Tesla. Net, maybe. We'll see. Could go either way.

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Do you think an older white guy can get elected now as president? You know, it was impressive that he ever became mayor of Chicago. But president? I don't know. I'm not sure if the Democrat... coalition would allow that. They had some special feeling for Biden that didn't always make sense to me. So I don't think Rahm Emanuel would have that Biden sort of affection. But that'd be a problem.

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Because they're all about diversity. And if they run another white guy, it's going to be sort of a glaring non-diversity situation. Anyway, the other problem with Rahm Emanuel, and I'm not sure about this, give me a fact check on this, but when I see them in public, and he's criticizing Republicans, I don't think he makes stuff up, which would make him unique among Democrats.

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Democrats generally just lie. So they say, oh, Doge is going to cut your social services. But the truth is, the only cuts they're looking for are the waste, fraud, and abuse, which wouldn't cut anybody's services, in fact, might protect them, because there would be more money to actually pay people. So if he doesn't lie, could he win? Because mostly what Democrats have is those kind of lies.

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Oh, Trump is a dictator, right? Would Rahm Emanuel say that? It's so stupid. Trump's going to cut your Social Security. He's not. Well, he wouldn't be running against Trump, but let's say whoever he's running against. Would he say that that person is going to be cutting all your social services when he knows that it's not going to happen? I don't know.

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So he'd be an interesting one, but I'd worry about him a little bit. Meanwhile, so here's a good example. In Axios, there's a headline that says, Doge is taking its wrecking ball to the Social Security Administration, the agency responsible for overseeing retirement and disability benefits for 73 million Americans. Now, if you saw that headline,

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it would look like they're cutting benefits to people who get Social Security, right? That's not the story. The story is that they're cutting the staff, and they have very old computer systems, and so there are some issues about whether it can just function with fewer people. I imagine it can. I'm not too worried about it. But that's a sort of lie.

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It wasn't a lie, technically, because the article describes what they're talking about. But that's the sort of thing that the Democrats have to run on. They have to just make stuff up because they don't have real stuff. Because otherwise they're running against common sense. So they have to assign stupid opinions to Republicans... just so they have something to complain about.

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Oh, I think he wants to kill all the babies. What? Nobody said anything like that. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure he's indicated he wants to kill all the babies. No. All right. There's a story about the former CEO of Barclays, the bank. that apparently he had sex with Epstein's assistant. We don't know how old that was. But the funny part about it was, so he's admitted in court.

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I don't know what the court case was about, but he admitted that he was involved in the Jeffrey Epstein world there. And they're looking to ban him from the industry, blah, blah, blah. But apparently they discovered 1,000 emails, like really friendly emails to Jeffrey Epstein. And he says he doesn't remember them. He sent 1,000 emails. I don't remember doing that. Really? Really?

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I sent some emails? Huh. I don't have any memory of that. There were 1,000 of them. Yeah. So he doesn't remember. Just daily. Okay. Now, I'd be lying if I didn't tell you this. Barclays Bank went after me once in the past. And because it's a court situation, I can't tell you the details. But, oh my God, do I hate that bank. Let's just say that my point of view is quite supportable. And Barclays...

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Well, Mike Johnson, House Speaker Mike Johnson. He says that Congress is going to investigate, quote, the domestic terrorism against the Tesla dealerships and charging stations because there's been vandalism and destruction and set fires and all that stuff. And, yeah, domestic terrorism. That's exactly right. At what point does the domestic terrorism, though, become a RICO?

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Can't tell you what that was about, but I do not like that bank. So I don't want to be too happy because their ex-CEO, he's not the current CEO, got in trouble with Epstein. But on the other hand, it was hard not to enjoy it. Meanwhile, you know, the law firm Perkins Coie, am I saying that right? Coie? I used to think it was Coy, but Perkins Coie.

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So they're the ones who are behind Hillary Clinton's Russia, the Russia collusion hoax and some other things that Republicans don't like. And so Trump administration yanked their security clearances. But there is some kind of a challenge. They found a judge, of course.

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One of the top law firms in Washington, of course, they found a judge who was willing to try to block it, to block the actions that the Trump administration is taking against them. But I saw one article that says that Perkins Coie is not challenging the removal of their security clearances. But then I saw another article that says they are. So I don't know.

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It could be that they might want to say, well, it can't be every single person who works here. Maybe it should only apply to the people who worked on that project. But other people say, looks like we've got Mr. Fart is back in the house. So if we can find a way to block him again. Why some people decide that that's the thing they're going to do? Unbelievable. It's a problem in the comments.

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All right. So, but one lawyer... Perkins Cui, said that all of the trouble that the Trump administration is giving their law firm, especially the security clearance part, I think, represents it's like a tsunami waiting to hit the firm. So they do think it could just ruin their business entirely. But as Julie Kelly points out, Beryl Howell, I guess this is a judge,

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who oversaw the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the phony Trump-Russia collusion. And now she's the same person who's presiding over the Perkins-Cooey lawsuit against the president. Now, does that seem like some kind of weird coincidence or some kind of conflict of interest? So she was on the...

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The Robert Mueller case, and now she's on this Perkins Coie thing, and the Perkins Coie thing, people were involved with the Russia collusion hoax. So that's sort of an only in D.C. thing, Julie mentions. Well, in other news, the EPA is getting rid of a whole bunch of rules, and one of them is the endangerment findings.

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So this is a finding, Alex Epstein is talking about this on X. It's a finding that allowed Obama and Biden to ban gas cars and shut down power plants and slow US oil growth and lock up our limitless natural gas, says Alex. And they're doing a lot more, but this one seems like a big one. So how much do you think this is going to make a difference? to our economy.

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If the EPA is sort of reduced in its impact, well, we should all be worried that things go too far and, you know, something will get polluted. But as Lee Zeldin points out out of the EPA, they're very concerned to make sure that they're not making the air or the water dirtier, but they want to get rid of just the BS part of the regulations. Should make a huge difference.

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At the same time, according to The Verge, the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, is asking the public for suggestions about how the FCC should get rid of regulations. And I love that. I love getting the public involved because the public has a much better idea what stopped them from doing the thing they wanted to do. So you're going to find small companies and big companies saying, oh, I've got an idea.

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Does it have to be, like, do you have to steal something to make it RICO? But if you have a large, organized, well-funded group whose job it is to destroy these Tesla places, even if they don't have directions to, say, set it on fire or vandalize it, they know it's happening. So if the organizers know that their actions will cause vandalism at various places, at what point does it become RICO?

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We tried to build this thing and we couldn't do it because of the, I don't know, one thing or another. So if you could just get rid of that rule, that'd be good. So I love this. I love the fact that he's involving the public because the public does know what things are the biggest problems and it's transparent. So if the FCC and the EPA make massive changes to deregulate,

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The business community is just going to love that. So I would say that things are looking really good for the long run of our economy, better than I've ever seen it, actually. Let me double down on that. The current things that are being done under the Trump administration are, in my opinion, the most positive things I've ever seen happen in one compressed period of time.

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I've never seen anything this amazingly good, from reducing regulations to even the tariff stuff. I think it's going to work out. In the short run, lots of uncertainty. In the short run, stock markets say, we don't like uncertainty, so they plunge. That's all built in. And if you can get one thing right about the economy,

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine of the day makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. So good. So good. Well, there's nothing that makes me happier than watching President Trump mock Rosie O'Donnell.

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it's to make sure that you got the long run right even if it has a little bit of pain in the short run that's the hardest thing to do it's something you you'd have to do if you had a mandate and you were your second term and you were determined to get it right so this situation is so unusual if you had doge

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you know, the cost cutting and really just finding out what kind of total corruption was in our system. I'm almost as interested in the corruption and the money laundering and the shadow government that was caused by all the NGOs as I am about the cost cutting. These are amazingly, amazingly positive trends. Now, will the courts block everybody from doing everything they want? It looks like it.

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The courts are trying to block just everything. Anything that Elon Musk wants to do, anything that Trump wants to do, somebody's going to find a friendly judge who will try to block it. But I've never seen anything this positive in my entire life. Nothing with this much impact that could make a big difference in the long run. Trump's proposing an idea to, according to Howard Ludmik, U.S.

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Commerce Secretary, Trump's thinking about making everybody who earns under $150,000 a year pay no federal income tax. Now, that's a stretch goal. I don't think that one's going to happen right away. But it would include, I guess it assumes that we'd be making more money from other countries, as in tariffs, et cetera.

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And here's the idea of forcing countries to pay a membership fee to sell in America. Now, I don't think that's gonna happen, but the fact that Trump would say you have to have a membership fee to even sell stuff in America, Well, that's kind of awesome. It seems like such a big idea that my first impression is, oh, you're never going to get away with that.

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Then my second impression is, but why not? If America is the best economy to sell into, we've got the biggest consumer base of people who actually spend money, then maybe there should be a cover charge. I think you should have a two-drink minimum. and a cover charge for getting into the American markets. Two drink minimum. So we'll see if he can get away with that.

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I don't even know if he's getting away with no tax on tips, but this would be a pretty big deal. Let's talk about Russia and Ukraine. So as you know, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire.

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and uh russia said oh that's crazy talk because the ceasefire just allows ukraine to regroup and since russia thinks it's winning they just recaptured a town in kursk so they they think that they're winning um they say no we'll talk about a big peace deal where everything is included, but no, no ceasefire.

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Now, if you remember my prediction, it was that he's going to have to agree to the ceasefire, even though he doesn't want to, to keep his relationship with Trump productive. Because if Trump puts his reputation on the ceasefire, which he's doing, and then Putin is the reason it doesn't happen, Trump's not going to be happy. And when Trump's not happy, you know it, right?

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if we have visibility to the entire funding apparatus and everything else. So Elon Musk is trying again to get the courts to agree to his $56 billion Tesla pay package that was disapproved by a lower court. And the thing that occurred to me today is if he gets a $56 billion payday, do you know how much taxes that means?

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It's not going to be a silent, well, in my head, I'm unhappy. No, Trump's already talking about massive sanctions on Russia. I don't know what's left to sanction, but it seems like they would have sanctioned everything sanctionable by now. But Trump is already talking about essentially putting the screws on Russia. So I'm going to double down on my non-standard prediction.

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If I were making a standard prediction, I would say, huh, this ceasefire looks like a bad idea for Putin. Putin's very smart. He knows it's a bad idea because Ukraine will just put together their forces and come at him harder. And so logic says that Putin would reject this. which he has.

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But I'm going to go with my feeling that the only chance Putin has of getting a good outcome is to work productively with Trump. And Trump's making a very small ask. It's a very small ask to take a month off of fighting. I think Putin might cave. And I think he has to do it to maintain the relationship. And that's something that Trump brings to the table.

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He makes sure that you know that you don't get anything until you're dealing with him respectfully and seriously. That's really powerful. So if you had to bet on it, you should bet against me. Because like I said, it's a bad deal for Russia. Russia knows it. Putin's no idiot.

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But I think keeping the relationship with Trump productive, I think that has a greater value than even whatever advantages Ukraine got by the ceasefire. Now, speaking of Ukraine... Apparently their drone warfare is really making a difference. So something like 60% of all the destruction that Ukraine is doing on the military of Russia is with drones.

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And I guess they're using a lot of AI drones that are way better. So even when they get jammed, they can just sort of look at the ground and say, well, I'm jammed. but I know where I'm going because I'm just looking at the ground and I've got these landmarks and I know what to attack. But what's not working, apparently, is swarms.

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You know how all of us non-experts said, oh, it's going to be swarms. There's going to be these giant swarms of drones. Turns out that these swarms don't work too well with current technology. because the signals interfere. So there's just too many signals in too small a place. So weirdly, swarms haven't worked yet. One assumes they'll figure that out eventually.

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But at the moment, it's more like individual drones with AI, and they're tough to stop. All right. so uh let's talk about science journals here's something i didn't know so you probably know i've talked about a bunch of times how science has a reproducible reproducibility problem where if somebody gets a peer-reviewed study into a science publication

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Later, if somebody says, let's see if we can reproduce these results, and usually they can't, or at least half the time they can't. So that suggests that a lot of what we think is science is literally just bullshit. Probably half of it. Some would say more. But I didn't realize that there's a structural reason for it.

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And the structural reason, and I was just learning this today, did you know that it used to be that the scientific journals were basically a bunch of well-meaning scientists who would say, well, if you couldn't come to the conference, here's a little newsletter basically that says what got presented at the conference. Now that was probably a mostly honest system.

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where people were doing honest science, not right every time, but at least they were honestly doing science, and the scientists would say, hey, I think more people should have access to this. So we'll put together a little publication, nonprofit, and we'll just make sure everybody sees it. So that's the way it used to be. Apparently today, the vast majority of scientific studies

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are in for-profit publications. For-profit publications. Do you see the problem already? The for-profit publications want to publish as much as possible and charge as much as possible. They can charge you up to like a million dollars a year if you're a big university, just to have their papers. And once you make it for-profit,

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So, you know, I don't know his whole tax situation, but it could be 37% of that goes to federal taxes. It would be one of the greatest gains for the government in terms of paying down the debt. Almost nothing would be more, you know, immediately impactful than just paying Elon Musk the amount that he's owed. And then he's going to pay billions of dollars in taxes, I think.

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Don't you think they're going to accept a lot of papers that wouldn't have been accepted otherwise? Don't you think? And I think that's exactly what's happening. So as long as the industry is incentivized by the number of studies that get published, you're going to get a lot more fake studies because they're going to sort of, even if they don't say so,

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You can imagine that they would lower their standard because everybody's got their own objectives for their job. You know, there's going to be some editor who can't publish the magazine without a lot of studies in it. So the more studies, the more money. I think they're going to get a little loose, a little bit looser on what they accept.

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So that seems to be an enormous problem in science right now. And I don't think that there's... I don't think there's a solution to it. I don't believe anybody has recommended any kind of solution. But at this point, if you were to draw this system up on paper, you would know that this is going to lead to massive corruption. It's designed right into the system.

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As long as you follow the money, you've got to assume they're going to accept more than they would have otherwise. Anyway. So as you know, the Congress can't make any decisions on budgets, so they do these continuing resolution things that just say, oh, we'll keep the budget basically the way it was because we can't decide, but we'll decide later.

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And so that's what the Republicans are trying to do. But Democrats point out, you know, Adam Schiff pointed this out, this is not a normal continuing resolution because it's not just, you know, continue on. The Republicans made some fairly Republican-y changes. So spending more on national defense, for example. But the total amount is essentially what it was.

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So the continuing resolution part where it's just we keep the same budget amount, at least they kept that. But within the details, they did move stuff around in a Republican way. So now it looks like there might be some question whether the Democrats will support it in the Senate. And Schumer is saying it doesn't have the votes.

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But then John Thune, the Senate, what do you call it, the Senate leader? He's going to go for a cloture vote. How many of you know what that is? Cloture? I had to ask my AI what it was just to make sure. I thought I sort of knew. But it means that they're going to go for a vote. They would say they're going to limit the debate. And then they got to vote.

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And I guess you need 60 senators to say that you agree with cloture. so that they can all, I don't know, go on vacation or whatever it is that they need to do. And I don't know if that's going to work. I don't know if that's going to work.

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But once again, it looks like the Democrats are in that performative mode where they're just going to pretend it's the end of the world and they're going to put in a lot of acts. So we'll watch that. Kevin O'Leary, you know him as Mr. Wonderful, He was on CNN last night, and he was talking about teachers' unions being bad.

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And he said, our reading and math scores are the worst in the G7 in terms of how many dollars we spend to advance our children. Why? Unions that keep mediocre teachers in place when we should be firing them. So I'm going to double down on that because, of course, I say the same thing. I think the biggest existential threat to the country, except for debt, debt's number one. is the teachers unions.

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Because they're clearly creating a situation in which the test scores are down, learning is down, and America is falling behind its peers. I'm pretty sure that's all the teachers unions. Because if you had any kind of competition, competition almost certainly would have improved things. So Given that the teachers union, their two biggest objectives are to benefit teachers.

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That's what a union does, it benefits the teachers. But in this case, it's a special case where they're also benefiting the Democratic Party. So they're the biggest donors and supporters of the Democratic Party. So if those are your two top priorities, how in the world would you even expect that scores would be better? And they're all performative, you know, that Randy Weingarten.

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Speaking of Elon, I guess yesterday they tried to launch the rocket to go get the astronauts that are stranded on the International Space Station, but they had a little technical problem. It looks like they might try again on Friday morning. And I'm wondering, will Democrats come out in favor of leaving them stranded? Now, that sounds like a joke, right?

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She's the most performative actress you've ever seen. And she gets all, you know, all excited. And she says things that generally might not get through your fact checker. So now she's all upset about the Department of Education, you know, being gutted, even though it shouldn't make any difference to the states. Because the things that matter, they would just hand the money to the states.

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The things that didn't make any difference to anybody, they'll cut. Probably won't make any difference at all. So it just gets rid of some bureaucracy at the federal level. But yeah, I agree with Kevin O'Leary. He's right on. And the fact that we don't talk about this every day, I think it's because it's this slow-moving disaster. sort of like the debt.

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You know, you could push that debt thing down the road for years, which we did. But at some point, when the amount of interest on the debt is going to be bigger than our spending for national defense, which is sort of where we're at, then suddenly you got to do a doge or you got to do something drastic. So I don't know if the schools would ever reach that point.

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Because, you know, next year is going to sort of look like this year and the one after. Maybe it's a little worse, but not that much worse. And I don't know that it ever reaches that critical point where you just say, all right, stop everything. We've got to tear this whole system apart one way or another. I don't know how. But I think the main thing is school choice.

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I would love to think that there's something better than that. But probably at the moment, school choice is the thing. So we'll see if that makes a difference. Well, I told you about ActBlue. So ActBlue is the Democrat organization that allegedly is collecting small donations from all over the country and using it to help fund Democrats.

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But it appears that at least it's partially a money laundering operation. So James O'Keefe, found a specific situation where there was one house that donated $16,000 to Democrat Jasmine Crockett, except they were retired and had no income. So James O'Keefe sent his person to knock on the door, and I guess they said, we didn't give any money to Jasmine Crockett.

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Don't know what you're talking about. And so I do think we have evidence that I find convincing that ActBlue is... not acting as blue as they should be. That didn't make any sense.

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But again, if Act Blue is corrupt, and all the NGOs were corrupt, and the USAID was corrupt, and the Biden crime family was corrupt, and everything in Congress seems corrupt, thank goodness that 2020 election was pristine, huh? To imagine... that it's not all corrupt. It's just such a stretch at this point.

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Anyway, remember the story about, there's that book that said that Gavin Newsom funded his own bust to be put in the, where would it be? Put in some government building inside the San Francisco City Hall. And remember I told you, huh, That story is a little bit too on the nose.

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And the too on the nose part is that you imagine that Newsom is sort of narcissistic and would care about that enough that he would fake that other people wanted the bust. Oh, it's other people, not me. So the story was a little too perfect. And then I told you that books about this sort of thing are kind of low credibility.

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Oh, the Democrats disagree with everything, no matter how logical it is. So maybe they'll be opposed to Elon Musk saving the lives and rescuing the astronauts. But Biden actually was opposed. That's a real thing. And one imagines that Biden wasn't the only one. He just didn't want Elon Musk to get a win. So he left his astronauts up there.

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If you've seen all the books about the Trump administration, you know that most of those are just total bullshit. So why would it be different if somebody wrote a book about Democrats?

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I mean, I don't know what percentage of the book was accurate, what it wasn't. But I did warn you that there's going to be another side to that story. And sure enough, Newsom has basically denied that he had anything to do with funding it. There were some entities connected with Newsom that gave some money. He may or may not have known about it.

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He did pose for the bust, so he knew the bust was being done. But I kind of believe him that he wasn't really directly involved in funding it. So just know there's always two stories. So that one, I think, maybe leans in his direction. Recently, we found out, according to just the news, that during the time that Barack Obama was president and Biden was vice president, that a lot of...

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highly secure things were just emailed to Biden with his private email. So Biden, the guy who had these stacks of boxes of secure stuff in his garage, apparently was just using his regular email that was at an alias, but they were just emailing him like important national secrets, highly sensitive things just on email. Now, don't you assume that that means our adversaries capture that?

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Is there much chance that the best hackers in other countries can't get into regular email? I don't know. It's just amazing. The level of incompetence from the whole Biden situation is just incredible. Well, according to Bloomberg,

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the Trump administration is going to follow up on something that the Biden administration started, which means that it's a bipartisan thing, to go after Microsoft for antitrust. Now, I don't know what that includes, because Microsoft is such a big, sprawling organization, but there have always been allegations that they were involved in some kind of anti-competitive stuff.

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So I don't know what these specific allegations are, but it's notable that the Biden administration started it and the Trump administration is going to continue it. So it does suggest that there's something there. We'll find out how much that matters. According to the Washington Examiner,

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There's a study out of Wisconsin that shows that requiring voter ID does not suppress the vote ahead of ballot decisions. Now, I don't know that they can really study that, but they found out that when they enacted voter ID laws in Wisconsin, the turnout increased by 1.5%. But do you see what's wrong with that? It increased by 1.5%.

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The real question is, how much would it have increased by itself? So it's not like voter ID increased it. And if the argument is that voter ID would suppress it, then... then really what you need to know is, well, if it was 1.5 with voter ID, what would it have been without voter ID?

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Now, since I'm completely in the camp that says voter ID is required, and I don't think there's a single person who doesn't, I don't think there's a single person who's a legal resident, wants to vote, and can't figure out how to get an ID. I just don't think they exist. So I agree that,

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the conclusion of the study although i don't think they studied it in a way that i find compelling but i agree there's no way that voter id is a bad thing according to technical university of munich some people figured out how to make ai learning a hundred times faster you've probably heard how many times have i told you a story like that but this one is

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Instead of using their usual iterative method of training, they have some kind of probabilistic scheme. And they can get just as good responses by not just doing everything, but rather probabilistically knowing what to do to train it. So that's the idiot's explanation. Just know that there's something out there that already works. It's not speculative. It already works.

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Do you think those astronauts are Democrats or Republicans when they come back? I've got a feeling that they left the Earth as Democrats, but they're coming back as hardcore Republicans. Let me tell you my rule. If I ever get stranded in an international space station and the party that I belong to decides they don't want to come get me, And the other party says, I'll do it.

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And it increases the efficiency by 100 times. Now, this is just one of many stories that I've read that have that same quality. It's like, oh, there's a new chip. There's a new DeepSeek. DeepSeek is one of those that's a whole different way to train cheaper. So I've got a feeling that the cost of getting into the AI business is going to drop to the point where

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I don't even know if the big companies can keep any kind of advantage. At some point, especially if you have AIs that are being trained on other AIs, I feel like it's going to be hard for the biggest AI companies to keep them out, to keep other people from just knocking them off. So we'll see. There's a story I wasn't going to get into.

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about a specific police chief who happened to be the chief of police in Las Vegas at the same time as Steven Paddock did that mass shooting of the music festival. But then he left that job and he went to Maui. where he became the police chief during the Lahaina fire. Now, how could anybody be that unlucky? Imagine being the police chief in Las Vegas. You're thinking, ah, Las Vegas.

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Seems like a pretty good place to be a police chief. And then you have the biggest mass shooting, and of course he was blamed for not investigating it enough. And then he goes to Maui, and he's thinking to himself, nothing ever happens in Maui. I mean, it's basically no crime. And then there's Lahaina Fire, and I guess he got some criticism for that.

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But now he's been named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit that involves Sean Diddy Combs. How could one person get in that much trouble? How is it even possible? That one person could go from the Las Vegas shooting to the Lahaina fire to getting in trouble with Diddy. And by the way, I don't have a criticism of this police chief. It could be just really bad luck.

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You know, it could be that the Diddy thing is just an association of an association and doesn't mean anything. It could be that the Las Vegas and Lahaina thing, everybody's criticizing everybody, so maybe it wasn't that bad. But that's a heck of a lot of trouble for one person to be into. Well, yeah, I see in the comments somebody saying he's corrupt, but really?

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To me, that just looks like horrible luck. Whether or not he did a good job in those cases, I can't judge. But that looks like really bad luck. Anyway, we'll keep an innocent until proven guilty opinion on that. All right. That, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have today. I guess we'll watch the tariffs. The tariffs will be on, the tariffs will be off.

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But I'm quite convinced that what Trump is doing with tariffs is looking better and better. And I feel like I also understand it now. And by understanding it, I said this yesterday, I think what he's doing is making sure that other countries treat it like it's their top priority to figure out how to deal with us in terms of trade.

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And if that's the only thing the tariffs do, is scare the bejesus out of other countries, and they say, all right, all right, let's talk about our whole tariff situation. That's a big win. Because the way it looks, now this might be just the American spin on things, but the way it looks is that we have been screwed by other countries for a long time.

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And if we sat down and said, all right, look at all the things you're doing to us, and look at the few things we're doing to you, this is totally imbalanced. I don't think that any country wanted to have that conversation because I thought that, you know, it feels like they all thought they were getting away with a little bit of something.

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And if Trump only just shines this giant light on the imbalance of the tariffs, it seems to me there's a good, good chance that he'll be able to negotiate better deals than we have. And that would be amazing for our economy. Just amazing. The other thing is, you know, I mentioned earlier that Lutnik talked about a sort of a fee just to join the club to sell to America.

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And they send up a rocket and they save me. I'm switching parties right away. It's like, okay, okay, you got my vote. Got my vote. Anyway, I'd like to give you a tariff update. You know, a lot of stuff's happening in tariffs. And the tariff update goes like this. There's some countries that have some tariffs against us. So Trump put some tariffs on them. But then they put some tariffs on us.

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Maybe that's the faster way to do it. Instead of negotiating every single tariff, maybe that's just too much work and there's lots of complexity there. You just say, here's the deal. If you want to be in our market, this is what you're going to pay per year. Maybe. So I like the fact that he's putting all those ideas out there. It's all negotiable.

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But if the one thing that Trump did was make sure that the other countries dropped their other priorities and said, oh, oh, we can't really go a month with a 50 percent or a 200 percent tariff on a key industry. So we're going to need to deal with this right away. That's all he needs. All he needs is I want your complete attention. What is it that I've taught you about persuasion?

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Do you remember the first rule of persuasion? It's the first rule. It's the big one. You've got to get their attention. It's by far the most important one. Because if you don't get somebody's attention, it doesn't matter if you're repeating and doing all the right things. They're just not paying attention. So Trump took this situation where really nobody was paying attention.

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and made everybody pay attention so if you want to score it on persuasion phase one get their attention 100 a plus a plus now that doesn't mean everything's going to work out but if you were going to just going to score phase one 100% success. Everybody's paying attention. Everybody put it at their top priority. Everybody is responding.

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They're of course putting up a fight, but boy, are they paying attention? So that's a plus. And I think that's why Goldman Sachs and, uh, you know, other big business people are, are giving Trump some room to operate. Cause I think they completely understand this first. You get their attention. and then we'll see what happens. So that's all I got today. I'll talk to the locals people privately.

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For the rest of you, YouTube and Rumble and X, I'll see you tomorrow at the same time, same place. Thanks for joining.

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Then they negotiated some of it. Some of the tariffs went away, but then we tariffed them, and then they tariffed us, then we went up 200%, then they went up 50%, and then there was a tariff, and then there was not a tariff, and then there was a tariff. It's almost a waste of time to give you any update on tariffs because it's changing so quickly, and it's sort of a negotiation.

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I guess we're not going to be able to cheaply get alcohol from Europe. How much does that affect you? If I said to you, damn it, no more French wine and champagne. You're going to have to drink that California stuff. Do you think you could live with that? I don't know if you're aware of this, but California makes really good wine. I'm not in favor of alcohol, by the way, but it's a free country.

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So I'm kind of wondering... At what point do the tariffs start costing me money in any category that I care about? How long does it take before that works its way through the economy? I don't know. It seems like they keep tariffing things that don't immediately affect me. Because even if they do things that affect the price of cars, if I were to buy a car this month, it's already built.

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So I'd have to wait several months before the cost of a car went up? I don't know. So we'll see. But... According to The Hill, the CEO of Goldman Sachs said this about tariffs. This is David Solomon. He said that the business community, quote, understands what Trump is trying to do with levies on various goods, meaning tariffs.

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So yesterday, by coincidence, after Rosie O'Donnell announced that she's moving to Ireland, the Prime Minister of Ireland was in the White House. And the President's talking to the Prime Minister, and Trump says, quote, Ireland is known for very happy, fun-loving people. Why in the world would you let Rosie O'Donnell move to Ireland? Why would you let her move?

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He says that Trump is more engaged with the business community than his White House predecessor, Biden. Now, that's a kind of a big deal to get the head of Goldman Sachs to not say anything negative about tariffs, that's a big deal. Because it would be so easy to say, well, it's causing some chaos or there's uncertainty in the markets. It'd be so easy to come up with something negative to say.

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But when Goldman Sachs decides to say, yeah, the business community understands why he's doing it, that's a really big statement. So I think this is telling us something. Meanwhile, inflation was down, as you know. And you probably noticed, if you're on X, that once again, the Democrats were doing the identical messages. Have you seen that?

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So they're doing identical messages about, well, actually identical. They were copy-paste. I think there were 50 different Democrats who had the same messages. I don't even know what it was. It was boring. But then somebody said, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

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Well, Republicans do that too, and it showed a whole bunch of messages from people who noted that egg prices were down, gas prices were down, and inflation and mortgage rates were down. And so the Democrat who found all those was saying, yeah, see, you guys do the same thing, except none of them were cut and paste. Every one of them was written individually, and it was the headline that day.

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All they were doing is talking about the good news that was in the headlines, which is what we all do. If there's good economic news and it favors your team, of course you're going to tweet about it or post about it. But here's what I think about the inflation looking good. And I guess jobs are kind of pretty close to in line to what we expected, jobless claims. It basically gives Trump...

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a month of breathing room. Because until and if things start turning the other way, people are going to say, oh, well, it looks like that tariff stuff didn't really change anything. At least it didn't make anything more expensive. So the best news is not just that the interest rates are down and eggs and gas are less expensive. The good news is he gives Trump another 30 days of operating space.

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And if he gets two in a row, I wouldn't predict that, but it's possible. If he gets two months in a row where things look down in terms of prices, he's going to have a lot of wiggle room. After two months of threatening every kind of tariff in the world, if prices go down, and they could, because a lot of it is based on expectations for the future economy.

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So if the economy looks like it's a little soft, Prices can go down. I don't know if that's directly what's affecting it. I suspect that with gas and with eggs has more to do with just something specific to those domains. So I was watching Bernie Sanders do some event. He's going around talking to big groups. He gave an interview. And this is what Bernie Sanders says.

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about the Trump administration. He says it's the scariest time in his life. And I thought, really? This is the scariest time in your life? Why? And he said, blah, blah, blah, oligarchs. So the Democrats are trying to find this way to bond with their base, really talk like the regular person. Do you know any regular person who complains about oligarchs? Have you ever heard that?

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I've never heard that once. I've never heard like just an ordinary voter say something like, you know, there are a few things I like about the world, but man, it's a scary time because of the oligarchs. I would go so far as to say that 70% of the entire Democrat base thinks that oligarch is one of the chemicals that RFK Jr. is trying to remove from food.

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She's going to ruin the whole country. Well, I've got one data point that's not scientific, but according to Matt Van Swall, he was just talking to, I guess yesterday, He was talking to a sales rep for Tesla, and the sales rep said it's one of the busiest days they've ever had for sales. So after Trump bought his Tesla, a lot of people apparently followed suit.

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It's the weakest, dumbest, completely disconnected from any kind of reality thing. It's the scariest time of his life. Blah, blah, blah, oligarchs. Bernie's lost it. He's completely lost it. Have you seen the compilation clips on X or other places where it shows the prominent Democrats literally saying we've got to get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse in our big social programs?

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And they're very careful to say, no, no, we're not talking about cutting benefits. We're only talking about getting rid of the waste, fraud and corruption and abuse. And it's literally exactly what Doge is saying, exactly what Trump is saying. And it couldn't be more obvious that the Democrats are a performative group.

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And have you noticed that people started to use those words, that they're kind of theater kids and they're performing? Because they showed the same... the same amount of enthusiasm for cutting waste, fraud, and abuse as they do now for criticizing Musk for cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse. Now they have to throw in that, oh, you should use a scalpel and not a chainsaw, like that's useful.

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So they can pretend they have some reason, but not really. I don't think the Democrats have any core beliefs at this point. I think they just do what they think they can perform best. Yeah, I think I can sell this, you know, trans everything. Let's try to sell that. And then they'll act really hurt and worried and concerned. And none of it's real. It's just completely not real.

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It's all performative. That's what happens when the 50 Democrats all do the same message on X. It's performative. They're not even pretending it's their own opinions. It's literally just the script that they've been handed, and they just print the script. So there is such a big difference now between the parties, and it's not just on policy.

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As far as I can tell, and I would love to know if somebody has a counterexample of this. There might be. But I swear it seems like Republicans just do what Republicans always would do. They want to cut your taxes. They want to get rid of the regulations. They want smaller government. They want to get rid of the Department of Education.

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They want to move things to the states and the federal government. And those things seem like the things they've always wanted, and they always made sense from their perspective, and they're still talking about it. To me, that seems completely genuine.

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Now, you could argue it's a good policy or a bad policy, but you can't argue that they really believe those things and they're trying to pursue them. Whereas the Democrats, it's all like theater kids killing a president. It's John Wilkes Booth times 100. Because if you think about it, A lot of the Democrat work was just trying to take Trump out. It's the same as John Wilkes Booth.

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difficulty today, so I'm just streaming on my phone until the battery runs out. I've got my laptop open, so I'm doing a higher quality feed at the same time on Locals. If you go to scottadams.locals.com, you could watch it there if you like that concept.

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are vague statements that can't be supported by anything. So they go on, quote, we all know that government is slow. We all know that government can be inefficient. We all know that the bureaucracy can be bloated. We all worked in the effing White House. We tried to reorganize the government. We tried to find efficiency. It's hard to do. And then one of them said,

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Some of this is pretty annoying because it's some of the stuff we should have done. Now, I do appreciate the honesty of this. So I'm going to call out that this is a very honest take, except for the dark and sinister part. Yeah. Yep. They should have done it. They couldn't do it. And then they're watching it being done right in front of them. So I thought I'd start a list.

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of all the empty attacks, the things that Democrats say about Trump that don't have any meat to them whatsoever. It's just stuff to scare you. So now we've got dark and sinister, that whatever he's doing, oh, whatever he's doing on the surface, it looks perfect. Nothing wrong with it on the surface, but underneath, underneath, we believe it's dark and sinister. And then they've got,

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Sure, he might be, Trump might be saving the Republic and ending wars, but really it's just a preparation for stealing your democracy and setting up a kleptocracy. Stealing your democracy, setting up a kleptocracy, the kleptocracy is exactly what they're dismantling. And then there's Dan Goldman. There's no accountability or oversight. with the Doge project.

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There's no accountability or oversight. Well, here's the problem of having politicians talk about things that make sense, they can't do it. I'm pretty sure that in the history of audits of big companies, there's not one time that the CEO went along with the audit.

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know with the auditors so when when a big company does its own audit they'll often audit themselves do you think the ceo follows them around and say what do you got there bob did you find a document what's to say what's to say oh it says that all right now what do you got what's that can you read that to me

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There's no world in which the CEO is informed about the audit while it's going on, except for the big stuff. So the auditor might say, we found this, we found that, we found that. But is the CEO saying, give me the document to prove it? Or is the CEO saying, all right, when you're done with the audit, write it up and then tell me everything you found.

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I think the most normal way that Doge should be working is is that Musk should answer questions every day, which he does. What do you find? What are you looking at? And he says so, but the onus is on him and Doge to provide documents when he's done. Now, will everything that he says preliminarily turn out to be, will it check out? Not everything.

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Well, story number one, there's a study out of the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry. Do you know who they could have asked? Huh, I wonder if hypnosis will alter brain activity and neurochemistry. Do you know who could have answered that question? Every hypnotist for the last hundred years. Every one of them.

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No, this is a messy process and it has to be, because there's no way to do a clean process. So you either give up or you do it messy. There's only two possibilities. We don't want to give up. So there's that. And then the other one is, CNN's running with this one. There's no actual evidence of fraud. What do you mean there's no actual evidence? Do you need a court case?

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They're doing the same thing they did with the election. Well, there's no actual evidence, just because everything looks sketchy. But there's no actual court who said that. So let's see, we've got dark and sinister, we've got stealing your democracy, setting up a kleptocracy, no accountability or oversight, and no actual evidence of fraud. What do all of those things have in common?

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There's not a single American citizen who gives a shit about any of it. Give me my straw, get rid of these pennies, solve the war in Ukraine, cut the budget. There's a pretty long list of things I do care about, but nowhere on that list is the dark and sinister stealing your democracy. Oh, he's also stealing your privacy. They're stealing my privacy. There's no accountability or oversight.

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No actual evidence of fraud. It's pretty weak. Weak sauce. Well, here's something I hate. I hate waking up and being the second funniest Scott. I'm kind of used to being the funniest Scott. you know, at least in the news business. There aren't too many funny Scotts. But Scott Jennings is just lapping me lately. I just had a belly laugh over this one.

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So Scott Jennings is commenting this morning over someone else's posts. So, well, it was a story actually on Fox News. So his comment, I'll just read it in the order that it's written. So Scott Jennings posts on X. He says, Trump, let's cut taxes, shrink the government, and unleash American energy. And then he says, Democrats.

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And he points to the Fox News story that says the House Democrats are reintroducing reparations legislation. So Representative Ayanna Pressley, supervillain, says reparations are a necessary step in achieving justice. Now, would it be fair to say Democrats are not good at reading the room? Was this really the time to introduce reparations? Probably not the right timing.

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Probably just a little off on the timing. But I would go further than that. And I would love to see somebody in the Trump administration calculate reparations. Because I'm pretty sure it's going to show that the money has already been paid three times. Because you know what would be in that calculation, right? You'd first have to calculate...

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Now, descendants of slavery would have done if they'd stayed in Africa versus how they would do over here, and then specifically the descendants, not the actual slaves. The slaves are unhappy, right? So everybody agrees there was nothing good about being a slave. But the descendants of slaves ended up in a better place than maybe they would have been. Now, that's no reason for slavery.

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We all agree slavery is bad. Slavery is bad. But if you were going to calculate, you'd have to calculate any social payments made. You'd have to calculate how much everybody added to the economy versus subtracted from the economy. You'd have to do differences in law enforcement costs for different demographic groups. You'd have to bring everything into it.

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And I don't know if it would be a positive number or negative by the time you're done with an actual honest analysis. If somebody actually did calculate reparations honestly, would you believe it? Whatever number they came up with? No, because I just got done telling you that all data that matters is fake. So whoever does the calculating for reparations, it's gonna come up with a fake number.

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So if it's somebody who's pro reparations, they'll just ignore a whole bunch of things and come up with a number that says, you owe us a lot of money. If it's somebody who's biased against reparations, such as me, if I calculated, it would show that it's already been paid three times. So there's no such thing as the true number and there's no such thing as data for anything important that's real.

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This is no exception. But certainly I would have included 50 years of discrimination against white males. I mean, that's pretty expensive. And along those lines, Fox News is reporting that there's an Illinois university being sued because the professor says he was fired for objecting to race-based hiring. University of Illinois in Chicago.

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It's the most basic thing you learn. If hypnosis didn't have any effect on your actual brain, it wouldn't be doing anything. There are a lot of people who think that hypnosis is just... What is it that Penn Jillette says? I think he said some while ago the hypnosis was two people lying to each other. The hypnotist pretending to be a hypnotist and the subject pretending to be hypnotized.

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So Professor Stephen Kleinschmidt, he said he wasn't buying into the being a racist, he probably just thought he wanted to be a professor. And then they said, but you're also, you know, can you be a racist? And then he said, how about no? How about no, I won't be a racist with you. And now it's a lawsuit. I think he might win. Trump says reciprocal tariffs. are coming out today.

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I guess that means that everybody who's tariffing us for anything is going to get the same back. I don't know how any of this is going to work out. But I do see it as a negotiating tactic. And so far, Trump's shown that he can navigate these negotiating tactics. All right. So we'll see. Tulsi Gabbard got confirmed. Is it true that McConnell voted no? on Tulsi Gabbard.

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That's a little suspicious, isn't it? Just a little suspicious. It makes you think he might be hiding something. But the half-dead turtle said no. RFK Jr., I guess the vote on him is a tie, and we're expecting J.D. Vance to go break the tie, and it should be confirmed today-ish. I don't know if it's today. All right. So it looks like we'll get Tulsi and we'll get RFK Jr. And wow.

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I just have to say, wow. Good job. Good job getting both of them. Mike Benz was on Joe Rogan's show. probably three hours of goodness there.

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But one of the things that popped out was Mike Benz talking about how USAID and the intelligence communities have historically trained some musical artists, both in our country and in other countries to be part of their, I guess, political narratives that the intelligence community wants to push. So, or to do it for statecraft reasons. Now, some of the names he named,

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Uh, including working with Dua Lipa. So I guess there was something early in her career where she had some kind of USAID connection, pussy riot, uh, in Russia. And he said, possibly Taylor Swift.

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There's no evidence that Taylor Swift was connected to any of this, but there was a, there is a video of somebody in the intelligence community suggesting that she would be the type of person that they would want to influence. There's no evidence that they have.

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So you probably heard that the AP, Associated Press, they lost their, I think they lost their White House press access because they refused to call the Gulf of America, the Gulf of America. They're sticking with the old way, Gulf of Mexico. I didn't really understand why. Like, why would they be the one entity that does that? Well, their argument is that they're an international news entity.

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And if the other countries around the world don't know what the Gulf of America is, they can't refer to it that way because, you know, it would be against their style guide. So they have a style guide that they'll, I guess they'll use whatever is most internationally recognized. But that also means that they're not doing America first. America first would be use America's names for stuff.

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and let the other countries work it out. I mean, you could always put it in parentheses. It used to be called the Gulf of Mexico. So it's not the worst offense in the world, but it does feel like they're not quite on Team America here. So Trump's letting them know, I guess. Here's a story. I hope there's more context to this one. Because if it's exactly what it looks like, it's pretty bad.

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So apparently Reuters, which does a lot more than news stuff, according to the news account I was reading, that Doge found a document that actually says that a part of Reuters was being paid a lot of money for doing what is actually listed on the invoice. This is actually on the invoice. large-scale social deception. What? Is that real?

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But no, there is a change in the brain. And that's the longest known thing that every hypnotist has known. It's just obvious. Anyway, there's another tragic terrorist attack, it looks like. Over in Germany, an Afghan man drove a car into a big crowd. He's injured, I think, at least 28 people, some of them really badly. We don't know anything about the motives yet, but yeah.

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Did our government pay Reuters to implement a large-scale social deception? Now, before I say that that's true, it's been reported, but before I say it's true, I'd kind of want to hear what Reuters said about it, which I haven't seen yet. Do you think Reuters is going to say something like, no, no, no, we were supposed to guard against. So we were working against large scale social deception.

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It's just listed that way on the invoice. So now we're, we're against large scale deception. We're trying to end it. Do you think that's possible? You know, it wouldn't be too weird if something on an invoice was ambiguous, but it would really be weird to me if they put in direct words, which are on the invoice, large-scale social deception.

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I'm going to put a pin in that one and wait for the other side of the story. But that's what it looks like on the surface. Well, Trump is calling out the Politico. And the New York Times were accepting some millions of dollars, I guess, each from USAID. And Trump asked, what's that for? Like, why is the government paying you? Are they paying you to do fake news?

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Are they paying you to get good stories about themselves? And he wants to claw back. So again, We don't know why these entities were receiving money, but it all looks sketchy. So I do like that Trump is going to treat it like it's sketchy and go after it.

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I feel like Trump can sniff out corruption and fraud faster than the average person because he's really good at knowing what bullshit looks like. And he can just recognize it anywhere. So he's probably seen some bullshit there. Now, according to, this is incredible.

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So Lee Zeldin did a video in which he's claiming that they've discovered a staggering $20 billion that the Biden regime, they call it, laundered to NGOs. So what it sounds like is there was a video, I think it was Project Veritas, I had an undercover video in which the Democrats and the EPA were saying, oh yeah, we're throwing the gold bars off the Titanic.

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What they meant was we're trying to spend money as quickly as possible before Trump finds out what's going on. And so they parked $20 billion in some kind of a financial institution so they could get it out of the door. And then once it's out the door, it could be allocated to their evil ways, I guess. But they wanted to pretend it was already gone.

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So they did some kind of intermediary little trick to make it look like it was already gone and couldn't be clawed back. But it might get clawed back. We'll find out. Now, if this is all true, this would be an example of a staggering amount of corruption. Is it illegal? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what law specifically it breaks, but it's certainly corrupt.

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Over 500. This is shocking. So, yeah, let's close those buildings. All right, here's the most troubling story of the day, according to me. According to the New York Post, the House GOP, they've got a budget plan they've put together for Trump.

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and they're looking for 4.5 trillion in tax cuts now that would be over some number of years 4.5 trillion in tax cuts but so so far you're saying i like that but uh the budget cuts would be more like two trillion so again there may be some confusion about the what time window you're looking at. Some might be what's happening this year and some might be a 10-year kind of number.

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So you have to be careful if it's a one-year or a 10-year number. But is there a problem? How in the world is Trump gonna get away with increasing our public debt by $2 trillion, which is what it would be? Now, I get that I like tax cuts. And I get that I like budget cuts. But if your tax cuts are tremendously bigger than your budget cuts, you're making the deficit worse by trillions.

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I'll tell you, the car-related attacks, they seem to kill as many or more people than bombs. So maybe this is the beginning of a very long, terrible trend. I don't know. Let's talk about hostage releases because that's a better story. So I was listening to the U.S. envoy for hostages, and his name is not written down on my notes. So just imagine I said the name of the person.

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Now, depending on the time span we're looking at, it could be that the $2 trillion that's going to be added to the budget, maybe it's spread over several years, and if you keep cutting the budget during those years, you might get to a much better situation than it looks like in a direct line calculation. So, yeah, I don't know if the tariffs are going to make up the difference.

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But maybe, I don't know. But let me tell you as a numbers person, somebody who's, you know, my early career before any of this was the finance guy in two big corporations, not the finance guy, but a finance guy. And I was always working with, you know, big projections and numbers and what's going to happen in 10 years, more like five years. But I don't see how this works.

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To me, it's been looking for a while and, like the amount that Trump wants to add to the budget, because they want to add $300 billion a year for border security and national defense. No, I understand that, the border security especially.

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But you're going to add that expense, and then you're going to cut taxes, and the amount that Doge can cut out won't be anywhere near the amount that we lost in tax revenue. So it's not like this is going to goose the economy enough. So let me just say it directly. As far as I can tell, the House GOP is not on the same page with Doge. I don't think they're on the same page.

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I think Elon Musk needs to tell us if this budget goes through and if Doge does an amazing job and gets rid of one or two trillion dollars in expenses, Do we fix our problem or do we just make it worse by voting in a bunch of expensive things? I don't feel like we have a plan. It looks to me like there's two separate tracks and one destroys the other one.

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So Doge is a great track if nothing else changed. But if you add, why don't we wildly cut taxes and add expenses at the same time as Doge and the things you're cutting and adding far exceed the amount of budget reductions? Somebody needs to explain to us from the Trump administration how the fuck this works. Because I'm getting a little mad about it.

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I mean, maybe the public doesn't follow these things closely enough to know that this can't work. They're basically presenting us a fucking doom scenario in which we all die for sure. Can you give me any hope? Because this budget just tells me we're going to let you all die. That's the budget. The budget is you're all fucking dead.

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Because the whole reason that Doge exists is because our budget is out of control. Our debt is out of control. So if you're going to give us another fucking plan that says, oh, you're going to be dead in a few years, fuck you. And that's for the Trump administration. Fuck you. Because that's not what we signed up for. We signed up for less debt. Give us fucking less debt.

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However you have to do it, whatever you need to do, give us fucking less debt because this looks like you've planned to kill us. You've planned to fucking kill us. That's what the news is telling me. Now, if I'm reading it wrong and I'm doing the numbers wrong, I would love to be corrected. But it doesn't look like it. It looks like they plan to kill us.

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And we didn't invite we didn't fight this hard to get a Republican administration. So the Republican administration can fucking kill us. Figure it out. Fucking figure it out. Don't don't do this. I am so out if they don't balance the budget or make a good try. It's got to be at least a good try. We're not seeing anything that looks like a good try. It looks like they're screwing Doge.

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It looks like they're screwing Musk by giving him a no-win situation. Not cool. Not cool. Anyway, I would love... to know that my rant was completely embarrassing and shameful and that I'm just getting the numbers wrong. But I don't think I am. So we need some answers. According to Brett Adcock, I can't believe there's a guy who owns the figure robot company. These are humanoid looking robots.

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that don't have genitalia, but the founder of the company is named Adcock. I mean, come on. Humanoid robots with no genitalia made by somebody called Adcock. Somebody's going to add a cock. Maybe it's aftermarket, but anyway, so what Adcock says, he says, quote, in our lifetime, you will see more humanoid robots than humans when you're out and about. Trying to resist. Trying to resist.

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Today's just a disaster. I feel like everything today is just not going to work. So that might be funny. That might be entertaining in its own way. Yeah, the most important thing I was going to write down was the name of the person. Who is the United States envoy for hostages? Yeah, that guy. OK. So he was saying that one of the reasons that Trump is successful getting hostages back

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I wake up every morning trying to resist making any reference to Skynet. No, only NPCs say Skynet when you say the robots will outnumber the humans. Don't do it, Scott. Don't do it. Try to resist. Don't say Skynet or else you're an NPC. Skynet. Skynet. Skynet. I couldn't resist. I'm sorry I'm weak. I'm weak. I don't have much else to say about that story except stop making me think of Skynet.

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Because as soon as I read this, that there'll be more robots out and about than humans, my first question is, is that because we made more robots? That'd be the best case scenario. Or are there just fewer humans? There are a couple of different ways you can get there. Well, how can there be fewer humans? Well, here's one way, even without Skynet.

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It turns out, according to the conversation, Anne Mae Duane is writing, that teenagers are using AI companions and they're saying it's easier than seeing humans. AI companions. So teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Well, who was it who told you 20 years ago that when the AI got good enough, that people would prefer the AI. I did. Yeah, I told you that people would prefer it.

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But I'll be more specific. Here's my calculation. I believe the top 10% of attractive people will have options of being with the other attractive people. But then the bottom 90% of attractive people, which I'm certainly in the bottom 90%. But the bottom 90% are going to just prefer AI because the AI will not disappoint them. We really do, no joke, have a situation that we're not quite ready for.

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I don't even know if it's bad. I mean, if the bottom 90% are happier, well, okay. Maybe that is a good solution. But no, I think we're already at a point where only the top 10% are likely to reproduce. And everybody else is just going to be roboting up. That's what I think. So speaking of AI, Thomson Reuters won their first major AI copyright case, according to Wired.

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So I guess they found that there was some specific AI company. What is it? Not one of the big ones. Doesn't matter. A smaller AI company you never heard of. Apparently, There's evidence that they may have trained their model using some proprietary stuff from Thomson Reuters.

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And it looks like the judge ruled in Thomson Reuters' favor, said the AI company's copyright, or no, their copyright was indeed infringed. Oh, it's by Ross Intelligence. Ross Intelligence, that's the name of the AI company. So it was specifically for legal stuff. I guess that's what the AI was. Now, remember I warned you

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that if you're worried about AI suddenly taking over everything, AI is going to have a tough path through all the lawsuits. Because everybody who's not getting rich from AI is going to be trying to sue it to stop it. And although it looks like this case was kind of clean, that they could more easily prove that somebody trained on their materials without permission,

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I feel like all the general AIs are just going to get sued and sued and sued until it's tough to do business. So I think that's what's going to slow them down, lawsuits. Well, meanwhile, Ukraine is going the obvious way. How many of you already knew how to end the war in Ukraine? For years. If I had asked you, hey, stranger, what would you do to end the war in Ukraine?

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is that he's saying that quote, when you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost. That's sort of the Trump message. If you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost. Now that is exactly the right, now it's not Wyckoff, it's not Wyckoff or Grinnell. All right, nevermind. Stop guessing the White Claw for Grinnell.

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Almost everybody would have said, well, Zelensky is going to need to get flexible about losing some land. Russia is probably going to keep what they've already gotten. And probably the only way the war ends is if Ukraine makes some kind of commitment not to join NATO. Right? You and I could have done that. And it looks like that's exactly what's going to happen, is that...

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There will be a land for peace deal, probably. We don't know any details yet, so we're just speculating still. And of course, there's no way the NATO thing can stick. They're going to have to back off on that. But as you know, Scott Besant, was sent over there, head of the Treasury, to work on a deal where America would benefit from the mineral resources of Ukraine and sort of pay it back.

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But my understanding is, just before I went live today, I believe that Ukraine backed out. So I think they got talked down of giving up their minerals. So I don't know who talked them out of it. But as of now, they're negotiating and saying, nope, no minerals. What do you think Trump's going to say to Ukraine before he starts negotiating with Putin?

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Well, I don't know, but I think it's going to go something like this. If we do have access to your minerals, then you can guarantee that there'll be some American interest in keeping Ukraine a sovereign country. If we don't have access to your minerals, you're just an expense and you're on your own. Well, that should loosen them up a little bit, don't you think?

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Because I think that's exactly the situation. We're either going to turn you into a profit center or you're on your own because we're not going to pay forever for something we don't need and don't want. All right, looking at, yeah. I think Zelensky is probably just negotiating. But he doesn't have a strong hand, so we'll see how that goes. This is what Trump said himself about his conversations.

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I guess he had a big phone call with Putin. I'll just read it because I want to tell you what both of them are doing right. I've decided that the three most persuasive leaders in terms of technique who actually understand persuasion are Trump, number one, best in the world, Putin number two, you don't have to like Putin. This is not a pro-Putin statement.

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I'm just saying that his persuasion skills are way above average. And then I'd say Bukele from El Salvador. So I put him in the third spot. But all of them are world-class persuaders, just completely in different, they're in a level of their own. If you look at Canada, Justin Trudeau, no skill at all. No skill. Great Britain, no skill at all. Germany, no skill at all.

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But America, Putin, and Bukele, lots of skill. So I'll read what Trump said in his Truth Post, and we'll pick it apart for the persuasion lesson. So Trump said in the Truth Post, I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with Vladimir Putin of Russia. Number one, he is now essentially considering Putin a peer that he can work with and they're already making success.

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So this is a little bit of claiming success, but also a little bit of allocating success to both of them equally. This is technique. He didn't say, I got something, we're gonna get something. He said that the two of us working together looks like something productive is gonna come out of it. Perfect, perfect persuasion.

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Then he says, we discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar and various other subjects. Perfect, because the way that you make an agreement that other people can't figure out how to do is you bring in other elements. Now we don't know that he's done that. But that would be the perfect technique.

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Oh, well, if ending the war with Ukraine, you're not quite there yet. How about if we throw in something else, something else you care about? Or the other way, we can deny you something else you care about. So you bring in these other variables that are big to just make it easier for the other side to say yes. Good technique.

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That will still be wrong no matter how many times you write it down. All right. I shouldn't have even brought it up. But the right framing is that hostages are not really a negotiating tool, at least with the United States, because we're going to take everything you have if you take our hostages. We'll take everything you have. And What happened when Trump put the extra threat on?

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If you kept the conversation to the narrow topic of Ukraine versus Russia, it might not be enough. because both sides are a little stuck in their positions, or have been. We'll see if they're still stuck. So that's perfect, bringing in those other topics.

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Then Trump says, we both reflected on the great history of our nations, in whole capital letters, or capitalized, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people and we, likewise, lost so many. Now, we didn't lose tens of millions. But here he is acknowledging that Russia is a great nation. That is good.

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That's good technique. Because what is one of the things that Putin wants to get out of all of this business? Putin wants to get out of it that Russia is a great nation. That's not the only thing, of course. They have legitimate interests. But it does seem very important to both Putin and probably Russians that they're treated with full respect.

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And if you consider that, you know, Russia was big reason that, uh, well, the biggest reason that, uh, Hill was defeated, um, that is worth calling out. You know, it's not like Stalin was a good guy or anything, but showing some respect for tremendous sacrifice, tremendous sacrifice on your, your, I don't know, your, your partner, I'd say in this case, I don't want to say adversary.

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Good technique. Perfect technique. Now, he's made it easier for Putin to make a deal because he's given him one thing that he wants, which is we're going to treat you like a real leader of a real important country and you have our full respect. It's just that there's some things we need and we're not going to back down. That is really good.

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Um, then he says, we each talked about the strengths of our respective nations and the great benefit that we'll someday have in working together. There it is. That's classic Trump. When Trump talks to North Korea, he doesn't say only we will bomb you to the stone age. If you do something bad, what just happened? Uh, holy Trump just fired all federal prosecutors appointed by Biden.

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All of them? I don't even know the implications of that. Wow. All right, we'll catch up with that after the show. All right, but anyway, the thing that Trump does when he negotiates with another country, he doesn't just say, we're gonna kill you if you don't do what we want. He says, if we could work together, we could both get richer. That's really strong.

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And I don't believe anybody has said to Russia, that someday we could work together and it'll be a great benefit to both countries. Now, I don't know specifically what he has in mind, but don't you think that if we were, let's say, if we could find a way not to be at each other's throats, that we could make some money and be safer? I think so. I think so.

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So that's classic Trump and good technique. And then Trump says, but first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the war with Russia, Ukraine. Again, just perfect. I mean, I might sound like just a fanboy at this point, but I'm showing you the actual technique. I'm not just saying he's awesome. I'm showing you the details. This, again, is the right frame.

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Trump has been right on framing this from the start. We want fewer people to die. Blah, blah, blah, NATO, blah, blah, blah. We want fewer people to die. Blah, blah, blah, Russia's natural defenses, blah, blah, blah, minerals. We want fewer people to die. Stay in that frame. Because if you stay in the frame of we want fewer people to die, there's a solution.

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If you leave that frame into, oh, NATO, 10 years, oh, blah, blah, blah, degrade Russia's military. Oh, Russia had a good reason, or didn't they have a good reason? Nothing. You got nothing. But if you can agree to enter the frame of saving lives, then you've got something to work with. So that's pure Trump, pure perfect. And then he says, this is what Trump says.

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Well, now Hamas is getting a little flexible. It says they're going to release some more hostages by Saturday, maybe, which was Trump's deadline. Now, that's not all the hostages. Trump has said if you don't release them all, there's going to be hell to pay. So if there's something they're holding back, in theory, there's still hell to pay. Now, what would be hell to pay?

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He says, President Putin even used my very strong campaign motto of common sense. So apparently Putin appealed to common sense, knowing that he was echoing Trump's great unifying campaign idea. So there's nothing more unifying than common sense because nobody can disagree with it. It's common sense. So it's the ultimate high ground. It very much worked domestically.

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But here's an example of Putin being that good persuader. So you notice that Putin seems to be on board with all the framing that Trump has mentioned. We don't know, but there was no sense of an objection. So if he is, then he knows what a good frame looks like, and he's willing to enter it. A good frame would be, can we include all these other interests? That's a good frame.

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Can we just figure out how to stop killing people? That's a good frame. So Poon knows that. But he's also using a technique called mirroring. So he's mirroring back Trump's favorite thing, common sense. That is strong technique because it's also a sign of respect and it makes you feel like the two of you don't have much distance.

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It's almost like you're one person because you're both having the same thought. Yeah, common sense. Let's do that common sense thing. Very strong. That's why Putin's good at this. So Yeah. And then that great benefit of working together, it's a carrot, not just a stick. It's all perfect. So will Trump get it done? Don't know.

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But if he does get it done and he gets also a mineral deal, you know, a rare earth mineral deal with Zelensky, Trump might be able to do the thing that is so Trumpy. Here's what I mean. Ending the war would be a real major accomplishment, especially if he did it in a month. It would be one of the great accomplishments of a president.

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But is that enough to just be amazingly end a war that couldn't be ended by other people? It's not enough. Trump wants to turn Ukraine into a profit center and get our money back. Now, I don't know if he's going to do that. I don't know if that's going to work. But if he ends the war in a month and turns Ukraine into a profit center, that's standing ovation.

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That's just like make room on Mount Rushmore. Like nobody could do that. Like no president would even try to do that. Nobody would even think that it was worth doing. Nobody would even put like one minute of energy into trying it. but I think he could get it done. So that's why we voted for him. All right. So those are all the comments I have, my prepared remarks.

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If you're joining late, a little bit of technical difficulty, probably on my end. So we're only streaming today on X and on Locals. And I believe we'll be able to put the recorded version on YouTube and Rumble later. All right. I'm seeing something going by in the comments.

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Zuby said in a post, we've collectively suffered through TDS for 10 years, and now we must also suffer through EDS, which would be, I guess, Elon Musk instead of Trump derangement syndrome. And Elon Musk says, what if I get EDS too? That's funny. RFK vote is 32 yay to 24 nay. You shoveled two driveways while listening. Good for you. Hey, we're going to let the X people stay for a minute.

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Probably just unleashing Israel and saying, all right, we're out. We're out. Whatever Israel wants to do, it's fine. We'll even give them money to do it. Do you think Hamas wants to hear that? That Israel just has a free pass and the United States won't put any pressure on them to ease up? That would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas. But I think that's where they're heading.

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So this is the after show. Normally, I would just do this for the subscribers of mine on Locals. But since you were so nice on X to stay with us this long, we'll keep you live for another minute or so. All right, usually I just look through the comments to see if there's anything to comment on that I missed. Yeah, you are correct. If it gets to a bigger audience, I'm happy with it. All right.

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I don't have much else to talk about, I guess. So I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on X. Thanks for joining. I hope your sound was good. The microphone's not actually connected to my phone, but it's connected for the locals people. All right, everybody. Bye for now.

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They're heading to their ultimate nightmare. There was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled, Voters Were Right About the Economy, The Data Was Wrong. Anybody who's watched this show, we always knew the data was wrong. It's not because you heard it from me. Didn't you all know the data was wrong? Because they kept saying, I don't know what you're talking about.

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This data said you should be happy and have lots of money. But people would say, I can't afford eggs and gas. And then the Biden administration would say, yes, you can look at the data. And people would say, I'm pretty sure I know what's in my pocket. You don't know what's in my pocket. And I don't have enough money for eggs and gas. Oh, yes, you do.

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Just look at these highlight high level statistics. So, of course, time goes by. And then finally, we can learn that it was all fake. Now, here's something I've been telling you for a long time, but I finally figured out a better way to say it. I've been saying for a long time, wait until you find out that all data that is important is fake.

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All data that's important, you know, not something that, let's say, a scientist did for a little study that nobody cared about, right? That's probably okay. Or might be. But anything that's big and important, like the economy, those are all fake numbers. And there's a reason for that.

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There's a systemic reason why all the important numbers, the important ones, just limiting it to the important ones, are fake. Do you know what the reason is? Well, it's like this. You don't want the fox to be your only source of data of how many chickens are left. Does that make sense? Because we always put the fox in charge of counting the chickens.

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And then you're like, do we still have 18 chickens? No, no, we have 14 chickens, says the fox. And then you say, what, did he eat those four chickens? And the fox says, I don't know what you're talking about. There's no data that says we ate any chickens. There's just 14 chickens. All right, we'll check back tomorrow. There are eight chickens. What are you doing?

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Are you eating those chickens again? I don't even know what you're talking about. There's no document that shows any chickens were eaten. It's just eight chickens. So you could take the fox and the chicken analogy to pretty much everything. Who told us that vaccinations were perfectly safe? The fox. We didn't get it from anywhere except the company that is making money from selling it, right?

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Was there some independent analysis that I'm not aware of? No, no. So in every case, the only people who are close enough to know what the real numbers are are the foxes. They're the ones in charge of the numbers. And the foxes are the ones that are stealing and lying and shaving things to make it biased in one direction or the other. So there's a systemic reason.

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It's not a coincidence that all data, all data that's important is fake. It has to be because it's coming from the fox. As soon as you realize that all the data comes from the fox and not from the chickens, then everything makes sense. And if you find an exception where the chickens are in charge of counting themselves, let me know about that because I've never heard of it. Never heard of it.

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It's always the fox counting the chickens. And that's where we're at. That's why you need Doge. Because Doge lets the... Let's the rooster in. Let's the rooster count the chickens. I'm torturing that analogy. All right. Well, you probably know that Trump was suing the Pulitzer Committee for giving Pulitzer Prizes to the Russia collusion liars in the press.

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But worse than that, I guess they said something else. Let's see. There was something they said after the war that Trump didn't like. And apparently, This is going to go forward. So there were some challenges to it that have been overcome. But the appeals court, the Florida appeals court, says the burden of proof that there was actual malice seems to be made.

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Good. All right. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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In other words, it wouldn't go forward if there was no evidence of malice, meaning that they did it intentionally. But apparently there's evidence they did it intentionally, that it was just basically to defame Trump. Now this is interesting. This is really interesting because I don't know what kind of evidence they have that would demonstrate malice.

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We know what they did, but how do you get in their heads? There might be some kind of document or maybe a witness or something who said, oh yeah, we did this just to get Trump. So I haven't heard that. I'm just speculating, but maybe, maybe that's what's happening. We'll see. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi, she's filing some charges against the bad people in New York.

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The bad people in New York. And now this is over the question of prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens. So the idea would be that they're not cooperating with the federal government. to protect American citizens and that's their job and they need to do that. Now, I guess this is a criminal action. It's not a civil, right?

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If Pam Bondi is filing charges, it's not a civil suit, it's a criminal. So they're in real trouble. But the people who are in trouble are the governor, Kathy Hochul, the attorney general, Letitia James, who, as we know, has been targeting Trump and

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decided to make up some reasons that he allegedly broke some laws so leticia james is sort of one of the um she's like like a sith lord ra will come after trump ah and if i don't get him the next sith lord will Oh, Ayanna Pressley will get you. She's a supervillain if I don't. So I don't know how many anti-Trump people can actually have a persona that looks exactly like a supervillain.

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It's weird that there's two of them. I mean, if only Ayanna Pressley dressed intentionally like a supervillain, which she does for reasons I don't understand, that would be unique enough. But you have two Democrats... who have total Sith Lord supervillain vibe. I've never seen that before. That's weird. Anyway.

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And then also the DMV commissioner, I think that has something to do with issuing driver's license to non-citizens, I'm guessing. But it gets more interesting. Now you say to yourself, huh, huh, it's kind of a coincidence, isn't it? Oh, I think, isn't Alan Bragg part of this or is it just Letitia James? Yeah, Alvin Bragg is part of it too, I think.

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Although I didn't see that in the list so that I may be conflating two different stories. So Bill O'Reilly had a hypothesis. He was on a news station with Chris Cuomo. And this is just some speculation from Bill Reilly, but he is very experienced and he is sniffing some stuff out, but he doesn't have proof.

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So what I'm going to say, I want you to understand that Bill O'Reilly wants you to know he doesn't have any proof of this. It's just something he's feeling. That the real target of all of this might be Letitia James and Alvin Bragg, the two people who came after Trump.

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It's also possible that the reason, and again, this is just speculation, there's no evidence of this whatsoever, that Mayor Adams got his pardon from Trump, maybe because he knows where the bodies are buried with Alvin Bragg and Letitia James. Now, I don't know if he would, but if somebody did know where the bodies were buried, he'd be a top guess, I would think. So we'll keep an eye on that.

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So it does look like maybe the Trump administration is circling the bad elements. Now, if we didn't know for sure that these are lawfare people, the people who tried to lawfare Trump, I would not be in favor of kind of going after them. But what they did was so... inappropriate in our constitutional situation, that it's effectively criminal without maybe breaking any laws.

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But in effect, it's criminal. So yeah, should go after him as hard as possible. Meanwhile, Democrats still trying to figure out what's wrong with Democrats. And on Pod Save America, this is one of the big Democrat podcasts. And the guys have X Obama people on there and they're very Democrat. If I didn't mention it, they're very, very Democrat, like super Democrat.

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It's called the simultaneous sip. And, yes, it's going to happen right now. Right now. If you were expecting to be watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that won't be happening this morning, but we'll probably post the finished show after it's live. Might take a little while.

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And as you can imagine, they've been big critics of Trump. Guess what they said yesterday? Trump is doing what we should have done. Quote, Trump is moving so fast, they hit the ground running in a serious way. It's like genuinely impressive. Remember, this is the most Democrat anti-Trump people you've ever heard. It's genuinely impressive. Impressive, and then they throw in this.

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Impressive in a dark and sinister way, but nonetheless impressive. So even when they're fully understanding that he's doing some good stuff, They have to throw in the little propaganda phrase. Oh, well, dark and sinister. Did I mention it's dark and sinister? Yeah, he's doing everything right, but maybe there's a dark and sinister undertone to it. All the Democrats have

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But YouTube is? We'll go with that. You ready for that? All right. First story, I already said there's going to be Optimus robots on Mars. I already feel sorry for them. Because don't you think the robots are going to be stranded on Mars? And they don't have personalities and stuff.

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And it feels almost like a dating technique where he's negging. Have you ever heard of that? Where you say things that are insulting, literally insulting, to the people that you want to woo. So in dating, it would be a man giving a small insult to a woman. And then she would sort of try to defend herself and argue that you should like her more. I'm simplifying, but that's basically it.

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And I never know if I made a difference or if I just got lucky or I'm really good at jumping in front of a parade that's already going to happen. Now, this is one of them.

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But Trump does this with our allies. He negs them. So he gives them like little insulting things. And then they, weirdly, they get mad. And then you think, well, that's all bad. Why did he insult our friends? And then they get mad at us. That's not good.

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But weirdly, it can create this situation where they want to work extra hard to be your friend because they're sort of inclined to want to be our friends, meaning that they want to get along with America. That's just a good idea.

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And so if he negs them with his little insults and jabs and stuff, it has this unexpected impact, which is what negging is, that once the, let's say the smoke settles, they just try a little harder to be your friend because they don't want to get insulted again. So there might be some of that going on.

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anyway um part of the the magic that happened was uh um china got isolated so by china saying you know you can't tariff us more than we can tariff you you know you'll be sorry it kind of made 75 countries look reasonable And like, oh, hey, we've got 75 friends who all want to do the right thing. Yay, our 75 countries doing great.

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so but the good news is i was on the right side the right side of history in other news trump signed an executive order to get rid of the what he calls the dumb obama biden showerhead regulations so now you got toilets that'll flush and showers that'll wash your hair and light bulbs that'll make you happy my timing could not be worse literally yesterday

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And then China looks extra evil because he's created this contrast between people who are acting responsibly and people who are just trying to pick a fight, it looks like. So that's good. Now, how much of that was planned in advance? I don't know. So my take on Trump is this. If he creates confusion, he knows that he can thrive in that atmosphere.

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He knows that people will want to do whatever it takes to reduce their own confusion and uncertainty. And that gives them a huge advantage. So he's created essentially assets out of nothing. He created this gigantic uncertainty and fear that just wasn't there before. And then suddenly 75 countries want to do a deal with you. That's pretty good persuasion. That's pretty good. Anyway...

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So I think there are basically two ways for Trump to win with China. And it feels like there's no way to lose, which is not to say that it wouldn't be expensive and have some downside. But the two ways to win would be, number one, you make tariff deals with China that are all fair. Anybody think that's going to happen? Do you think China is going to deal with us? They said they would.

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I think today they said, oh, we'll talk to you about tariffs. I don't think so. Because they also steal our IP, and why would we put up with that? They also make it really hard to do business over there. Why would we put up with that? They are massively spying on our businesses over there. Why would we put up with that? So I don't think we're necessarily going to make a trade deal.

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I think it's more likely that we'll create this big trading block, the 75 countries plus the U.S. plus whoever else joins, and that that trading block would be an alternative to China. Now, at the moment, China still has a vice grip on some things that you can't get other places. But that's not permanent.

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There's nothing about the rare earth minerals that says they can't be produced by Canada or Australia or somebody who would be perfectly willing to sell them to us. So I've got a feeling that the long-term plan, which is probably necessary for survival, is to make sure that China is not in control of our future.

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And that might require some couple years of bad news, you know, maybe less growth and that sort of thing. But we'll see. So I think the long term, Trump's got the advantage. He's also threatened end of pharmaceutical tariff exemptions, according to the BBC. And the reason you would want to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals is that it would help get them out of China.

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Now, I thought pharmaceuticals, the story was going to be, we don't know how to make them anymore. So China has to do it. But it turns out that the US is one of the top pharmaceutical manufacturing countries. So I guess we do know how to do that stuff. So we don't need to do it in China. It was just some kind of economic advantage, I guess.

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So if we get the rare earth minerals and we get the pharmaceuticals and we get the electronics, we don't need China. Those three industries and they're all doable. It's just not fast. the European Union has agreed to buy more American gas, you know, the liquefied, what would you call it, the kind of gas that you don't put in your car. Now, to me,

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buying energy is going to be the fastest way for these other countries, the allied countries, to close the trade gap. So if there's a country that, LNG, thank you, the LNG gas. So if there are countries that are selling us more than we're selling them,

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and they want to close that gap quickly because it would help them with the overall tariff negotiations, then one way to do it is to buy energy from the United States and commit to it because everybody's going to need a lot more energy. And energy is really expensive. And apparently we have the ability to deliver it, you know, at least LNG, to a lot of places.

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Josue walked by and said, hey, the plumbing for your bathroom, because he's been working on the bathroom for a while, just came in. So I got all new fixtures for my bathroom that I have to throw away. They're brand new. They're literally not even installed. I might just shake at them right away because I'm not going to put on any low flow stuff if the executive order says I can have high flow.

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So I think you're going to see a whole bunch of deals. I think South Korea is already talking about that exact kind of thing. But the EU is already trying to get in there and say, well, buy more American gas. So here's what I think it looks like. It's going to look like the U.S. saying, our military is part of your security.

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We need you to buy more of our energy, and that will close our gap in imports and exports. And we need fairer trade deals. And I think there's a real good chance that Trump's going to get a lot of that, if not all of it.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, other countries are pondering what to do because Trump's U-turn, the Wall Street Journal calls it a U-turn, has left governments around the world pondering how to approach the U.S. that has become nearly impossible to predict. Well, let me give some advice to the countries that are trying to figure out how to deal with the U.S.

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that's now impossible to predict. make an appointment, make a phone call, and come in here and offer us a better trade deal. That's it. It's not complicated. There's one thing that Trump wants at the moment. He wants better trade deals.

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So if you're not flying over here, you're not trying to get somebody on the phone, you're not looking at your own trade deals and saying, hmm, where could we make this a little more fair? You're not doing anything. All we want is better trade deals. So maybe you should be doing what the EU is doing, offering to buy more LNG. Maybe you should be making an appointment, getting on a plane like China.

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I'm sorry, like Japan. So it's not too hard, Wall Street Journal. They know what to do. Anyway... The Chinese Yuan, their currency, just hit an 18-year low. I don't know if that's changed since this morning, but their currency has taken a hit. And there's reports that the big Trump tariff on China, 125%, is creating some panic among the Amazon sellers in China. So that's not good for China.

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But here's the thing. One of the other big problems with China is they keep stealing our intellectual property. You probably heard Mr. Wonderful talking about that. And it's not a little bit. It's massive. You've heard me complain about if I were to write a new book and put it on Amazon tomorrow,

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It would take about 10 minutes before there were five different stolen copies of my book with practically the same cover and title that are from, I think, China. So the massive amount of intellectual property stealing seems like something that has to be fixed. But do you think that China would agree to stop doing it and then actually stop doing it? I say no.

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There must be something baked into the Chinese system where, unfortunately, a number of them are thieves. Now, they probably don't see it that way. They probably just think it's being competitive or something. But we really can't deal with China in the long run if they're just stealing everything that's our intellectual property.

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So probably our long term is to make sure we have a clean break and let China just do its thing while we do our thing. So I don't think you can fix massive theft of your intellectual property that's so completely universal and so built into the system that it happens every time and it happens fast and it's a lot. I don't think you can reverse that.

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So sometimes you just have to say, you know, we can't be friends. That's what I think. So Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to investigate this author who was anonymous for a while, this guy Miles Taylor. Trump said he thinks he's guilty of treason. So this is a guy who wrote a book and said that the book was called, what was it called? It called A Warning in 2019. So he said he was a

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And I don't think there's any way to rig them now. I think they just, you know, weld in the low flow stuff. So I don't know if you know how expensive it is to get new shower parts, you know, the hardware that goes in the shower. But I think I have to throw them all away because I can't possibly use them. I would never use the low flow stuff.

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you know, a Trump insider kind of a staffer. And then he had all these terrible secrets and he put them in a book. Well, turns out he wasn't very close to anybody. So it looked like there's something sketchy going on there. So apparently the Department of Justice is going to look into that guy. But at the same time, there is a similar order against

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Chris Krebs, the former director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security, CISA. And I guess Trump fired him in 2020 for claiming that that year's election was the most secure in American history. Now, he was sort of a leading face going around saying that the 2020 election was one of the most secure, most audited, most checked, cleanest election of all.

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And Trump said, we're going to find out about this guy, too, because this guy is a wise guy. But here's my question.

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what exactly is his alleged crime you know i was watching some videos of what he was doing back in 2020 and he was doing that thing that the democrats were doing which is pretending that if you audited um or if there were uh let's say legal challenges that didn't work that that was proof positive that the elections were as clean as a whistle Now, that's not even logical.

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Those are just two things that can check a few things. That doesn't tell you the whole thing is good. Now, I don't know of any specific irregularities personally. I don't know what to believe about that election. I mean, it looked suspicious to me, but I don't have any proof of that. So I don't know exactly what would be the alleged crimes they'd be looking into.

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I hope this is not entirely based on Trump's view that it must have been crooked and that this guy must have known because it must have been crooked. I don't know. I feel like he might need a little bit more than that. to drag somebody into a sort of a lawfare web. I'm not totally comfortable with this one. Are you?

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How many of you think that Trump has made the case that this individual Krebs should be investigated? There might be a good reason. but I didn't see it. It just looked like a suspicion that if somebody said this was a good election and said it a lot, and you were positive it wasn't, that there must be something there. Beverly says, yes, hunt them back. You're done playing a nice guy.

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All right, well, I don't think that's the right answer. So I don't think hunt them back is the right solution ever, unless there's actual evidence of potential crimes. There might be, but I don't know. That one makes me uncomfortable. As you know, Chuck Schumer, Senator Schumer, is a monster.

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I saw a video, I think Western Lensman was the source of that, where Chuck Schumer is in the hallway, one of the official hallways, and a reporter is trying to get him to comment on the Tesla violent protests. And so after asking several times, do you have anything to say about the Tesla violent protests?

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Schumer says, quote, I can't talk about Tesla, but Elon Musk is a disaster for America and America knows it. Look at Wisconsin. I can't talk about Tesla? The question was, what do you think about the violent protests? He couldn't think of anything to talk about. Why can't he talk about Tesla? It's a very big story. He's a monster.

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So that was the most expensive thing I've done to upgrade my house. Literally garbage. Well, according to Slay News, the Trump White House says it will not respond to emails from From reporters that include their preferred pronouns. It's funny because I have exactly the same policy. If I get an email from a reporter who has their preferred pronouns, I will not answer. I will not answer that.

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The fact that he was not willing to say, you know, I disavowed the violence. I hope none of that happens. I don't want to see anybody's car get keyed because they're made in America. There were a million things he could have said, but I can't talk about Tesla anymore. That suggests he is completely on board with violence. I don't know how else to see it.

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Now, you might know, if you watch this show or you're familiar with what Mike Benz does, which is the smart version, you know we're in the middle of a violent insurrection, right? That we are being color revolutioned. And that all the same people, the people who are experts at doing color revolutions, are doing it to America.

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They tried it in the first term of Trump before we knew what it meant and before we could recognize it. But now we've been trained. We know exactly what it looks like. It would be massive fake protests, check. It would be trying to corrupt the judges and the prosecutors and the attorney generals, check. That's what they've done. There would be control of the media.

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So the media would have a message that this populist who somehow has a lot of popular support is really the devil. And the media is all agreed on that. Check. So these are all the things that are absolutely guaranteed to be part of an insurrection. And it's happening right now while we watch.

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But because most of the country doesn't know what I just told you, you just have to be kind of a nerd and really pay attention to a lot of stuff online. People let it happen. Or maybe half of the country wants it to happen so they don't care how legal or ethical or moral it is. But we're right there. Now,

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It also makes me wonder how many of our corrupt leaders, like Schumer, how many of them does Doge already have the goods on? As in, does anybody know how Schumer made his money? Because I've got a feeling that Musk might have a list of politicians who just absolutely have a trail of money from some government funding or some outside corrupt source right into their pockets.

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And Schumer would be the top one that I would suspect based on the way he operates. All right. So it turns out the Department of Justice is going to go after the money people. the organizers behind the Tesla domestic violence. And I don't think they've ever tried that before. I don't think they've tried it with Antifa or Black Lives Matter. But we're smarter now.

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So now we know that these are not organic. We know that they're organized. And we even know, for the most part, we know which NGOs and which entities and which billionaires are doing it all. So the thinking is, and Elon Musk seems to think this is going to happen, that the government or the Department of Justice will look into who's behind it all and that they might go to jail.

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Do you believe that the people who organized it the fake protests and the domestic extremism or terrorism against the cars and some of the people. Do you think the government's going to actually put in jail the organizers? That would be an amazing thing. Again, I'm not sure exactly what crime would be the one that would get him. But that's pretty interesting.

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So whoever is bankrolling the domestic terrorism might have some questions to answer. And Attorney General Bondi warned that no one, not the foot soldiers, not the financiers, will escape justice. In other news, one of Trump's executive orders, he's getting busy with lots more executive orders, would prohibit the states from using climate change ideology to cripple our various energy projects.

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So this could be a really big deal. So the attorney general shall expeditiously take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement of state laws and continuation of civil actions identified in blah, blah, blah, that the attorney general determines to be illegal. So I guess states have sued energy companies for supposed climate change harm under nuisance and other tort regimes.

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I guess I've got to turn off that alert. Somebody doesn't know that this is never the time to send me a text message. Never. Never. All right, let's talk about Trump and the tariff strategies. As you know, the stock market zoomed up yesterday. Today it's going to give back a little. No surprise.

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So the idea here is that the states are completely broken. And if you try to make their energy less expensive, the state would find some way not to do it by continuously chasing climate change objectives instead. So I like this one. We'll see if it makes any difference, but it could make a huge difference.

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Imagine if there were no climate change considerations to any energy decisions made in my state. I feel like my price of gas would not be twice what yours is, which is what it is. It's roughly twice what the red states pay for gas. Twice. And what do I get extra? I don't even get security that it will be there tomorrow.

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The very least you'd expect if you're paying twice as much for gas in your state is that they're guaranteed to have gas. I don't even get that. We're not guaranteed anything. We're just paying more. Anyway. As you know, Doge has made a number of projections of savings, and it turns out that this group called the Hamilton Project

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But wouldn't you feel super bad if you sent a robot that could walk and talk and act like it's a sentient being, and then you just leave it on Mars until the Mars conditions destroy it?

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Came up with a chart that shows that 2025 outlays, or what we're going to spend on the budget, would be flat compared to 2024, which would make it look like Doge didn't do anything, that the budget would just stay the same. Now, but fortunately, brand new chief economist, Julia Pollack, did a post on X to show the trick that they used.

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And the trick that they used is the chart, as Julia Pollack explains, the chart omits prior years and therefore hides the prior trend. And let's talk about what's missing. So in 2023, the federal outlays, you know, the budget, were 6.13 trillion. The next year, they jumped up 10% to 6.75. So that's sort of what the trend was. So the trend was never that spending was flat.

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The trend was always that it kept going up no matter what you did. And 10% is a lot in one year. So as Julie points out, flat from 2024 to 2025 isn't nothing happened. And indeed, it's huge because it's the first break from the autopilot goes up every year by some 10% or so.

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If the only thing you could do is keep spending flat in a context in which there's some inflation, which we do have, and there's some growth, which we do have, you would get to a much better place than where we are. So keeping things flat is a big cut. It's the difference between 10% up and chipping away at just the baseline inflation rate. So that's good work. Let's see.

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Our top banker in the country, I always call him that. JP Morgan banker, Jamie Dimon, thinks there'll be more defaults, which is people who can't pay their debts and so they have to default. He was on Fox News talking to Maria Bartiromo, and he says, I think you're going to see a slowdown in the economy. And he said he expects more defaults.

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I think everybody who noticed that it went up yesterday, probably you all thought it's not going to stay there. It's going to bobble around for a while. But I'm going to give you my take on on what was intentional and what wasn't, and what was 4D chess and what isn't. And it'll be a little different from what I think you've heard anywhere else.

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We haven't seen them much yet, but you'll see more credit problems than people have seen in a long time. Maybe. That might be what happens. But I think a lot depends on what happens with the tariff negotiations. If Trump ends up lowering taxes for at least a lot of people and getting our trade thing better negotiated and then Doge is keeping our expenses from running out of control,

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things could fairly quickly get back to where you want them to be. Let's look at inflation. So March inflation, our inflation rate was 2.4%, which is below expectations, which were 2.5. And the core CPI increased 2.8%. compared to forecasts of three. So there is inflation, but it doesn't seem to be at killer levels. So it's actually weirdly under control.

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Did you know that the, I saw this on the Amuse account on X, Did you know that the Chinese Communist Party passed a law that requires all Chinese students abroad to participate in intelligence gathering? It's actually the law. So if you're a Chinese student, as in born in China, and you were in school here, you would have to be involved in intelligence gathering. You'd have to be.

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It's the law for China. But a Senator Moody, one of ours, says the United States should immediately stop issuing student visas because all the students are spies. They might not want to be, and they may not have been raised to be spies, but if the Chinese government says you must be a spy, I guess they are. So, yeah, I think we should talk about why are we educating them at all.

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Speaking of which, Laura Loomer got another scoop. I'd never heard this before, but apparently President Xi of China has a daughter who went to Harvard and now lives in the United States. And of course, that raises a question. Let's say President Xi's daughter went to Harvard and now lives in the United States. You know what I worry? I worry that Harvard turned that woman communist. No?

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All right. Speaking of China, New York Post has an article that says there's a meta whistleblower. So a whistleblower about the company Meta, you know, Facebook. And it says that Meta actively helped China and the race to develop artificial intelligence as part of its effort to make China like it so it can do more business in China. Do you believe that?

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Do you believe that Meta was helping China develop technology to out-compete the United States, particularly in, I think, AI was one of the categories, and that they did it so that they could get access to the Chinese market? Does that sound real to you? Here's more of the story. The details are that Meta began providing briefings to the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015.

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Oh, so Meta was giving China briefings about key technologies and whatnot. Briefings. While they were pursuing something called Project Aldrin, which was their effort to get more access to the Chinese market. Now, here's my Dilbert take on that. Nothing ever came out of a briefing.

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The first thing is, when you're listening to people talk about the stock market, you want to figure out, after you know what's true, you want to figure out who got it right. What did I tell you about how quickly the stock market could recover? I didn't say it would automatically be fast, and I didn't say it would be slow.

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Do you think that Meta gave them a briefing, and then the people at the briefing went out and said, now I finally know how to make AI, and then developed DeepSeek? I don't think so. I don't know how much value you can get out of a, briefing, but it doesn't scream that Mehta was giving up the United States for economic advantage.

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It kind of screams that they were trying to play along and be friendly and give them some high level information that they probably could have Googled and tried to get access to the markets. So I'm going to say the whistleblower doesn't sound persuasive to me. I'm going to need more than knowing that they gave some briefings.

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If they said our engineers will work with your engineers to transfer our technical knowledge, then I would say, whoa, that's terrible. That's pretty bad. But it doesn't say that at all. It sounds like they weren't even talking to engineers. They were talking to the Chinese Communist Party and giving them briefings. How much value have you ever gotten out of a briefing?

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Not enough to build your own AI model. But anyway, people have, and by the way, I could be wrong. There might be more to this story. But just based on what's reported, It doesn't look like much.

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And then I guess the whistleblower said there's a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta's Lama model. Well, here's the thing. The Lama model is open source. It's available to everyone. So China is not the only one who would use it.

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So do you think because they gave them a briefing, they suddenly knew how to use this Lama AI? I don't know. I'm not sure the straight line is as straight as the whistleblower wants to tell you. Anyway, here's another Doge success story.

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Based on an initial survey of unemployment insurance, there are claims that, this is from 2020, that 24.5 thousand people got unemployment even though they were over the age of 115. And they got $59 million in benefits. And there were 28 thousand people, allegedly, between the ages of one and five years old, who also got unemployment, 245 million in benefits, blah, blah, blah.

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Now, I've been burned before, assuming that the Doge anecdotal stuff was true. I'm not going to believe this one yet, because you know the Democrats are going to say, The problem is the date fields are not filled in. They're not actually 115 years old. The date field isn't filled in. They're just ordinary people who have ordinary ages, and the database is inaccurate.

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So the important thing is that if somebody looked at them and they qualified for unemployment insurance, and the date of how old they are might be inaccurate, but doesn't really affect anything. Now, what is true? Do you think it's true that these are literally fake uses of unemployment insurance? Maybe. It could be. But I no longer trust the anecdote on this.

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I told you that it would depend on the reason it went down in the first place, and that not all reasons are the same. So if the stock market had gone down because a world war broke out, well, it's probably not going up anytime soon, or you ran out of oil everywhere in the world. Good luck with your stock market. It would take years or decades if it ever came back.

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So I would need to see more than the 115-year-old getting the benefits. because we keep seeing the same story over and over again, that people who are too old to actually be alive or too young to get a benefit that they should be getting or that others get. I don't know. I'm just going to say maybe. I'm going to say maybe on that.

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But again, I'm a big fan of Doge, and I think directionally they're completely spot on. So if they get a few anecdotes that they're over-interpreting, Not a big deal. I saw Argentina's doing great. They're now the leader in Latin America in fiscal discipline under their leader, Millet. Now, every time I hear a story about Argentina, it is suspiciously too good. As in, really?

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Did he really take a chainsaw to everything in the government and then everything worked out and it happened really quickly? Really? So I went to Grok, and I asked it, was there any downside of melee? And the answer is yes. So the things that worked out well is that he cut the budget and created a, at least at the highest level, a functional economy that was not spending more than it was making.

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Good. That's very impressive. But in order to get there, what do you have to cut? Well, apparently there are deep cuts in education, health care, pensions, transportation, and the poorest people are probably hit the hardest. So there is some genuine, I don't know if misery is the right word, but these are the kind of cuts you could never make in America.

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I mean, even Doge wouldn't touch this kind of stuff. So I'm going to be a partial skeptic on Mule's miracle success. Because if you haven't talked to the average person there, I don't know if you know if things are working swimmingly. But certainly having a country that can pay its bills and is not running into debt destruction, that's good.

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So by any measure, I think Miele probably has the right long-term perspective. But I'll bet you it's way more expensive than people are telling you in terms of its impact on the poor people in Argentina. Well, Ukraine's President Zelensky says Ukraine wants to buy $50 billion in U.S. weapons, the kind that nobody else makes. In this case, Patriot missiles. And it'd be the largest U.S.

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weapons sale ever, eclipsing Japan's big deal for F-35s. Well, now what's different is he's going to use the European Union's money. And so the U.S. would basically just be selling a product. We wouldn't be giving it to him. We wouldn't be the bankers for it. We wouldn't be asking for something in advance. We'd just be selling it.

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and Ukraine would use the money from the European Union to pay for it, to which I say, hmm, I don't have much of a problem with that. If you can really get the European Union to pay for American weapons, yeah, maybe we should sell them some weapons. According to Live Science... AI can now design its own chips, which would outperform human-designed chips. But no one understands them.

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But what we had was an uncertainty-based decline in the stock market. And so I reasoned correctly that if you reduce the uncertainty, it would just sort of pop back. Now, it's not a done deal because there'll be more uncertainty. There's going to be ups and downs. And the stock market will follow the uncertainty up and down. But I think I had the best call on the stock market.

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So I guess when AI develops a chip, the first problem is it might hallucinate and the chip doesn't work at all. But when it does work, it works better than human-made chips. But if a human looks at the chip and tries to figure out why is it this way, they can't do it, which is kind of fascinating to me. So Princeton researchers say the AI design chips, they don't use traditional layouts.

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They take a radical approach that boosts performance beyond human capability. Now, there are a bunch of other things that are happening in AI, like there's a way to run Lama on a laptop now instead of trying to run it through a, whole data center. There are photon-based chips that are being developed for AI that would be way more efficient power-wise.

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And my question is, since the big issue with AI is power, and AI can design a chip, can AI figure out how to use less power for AI? If you really pushed it to do that, could you say, hey, AI, I want you to develop a chip that will make AI way easier to run. Could it do it? I don't know. But we're probably right at the doorway of AI being able to figure out the cheaper way to be AI.

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There's a whole bunch of news also. I don't always report all of it, but there's a whole bunch of news that goes to the same direction, which is ways to make AI use way less energy, as in all the way down to making it run on a laptop. So I think it's going to be a race between trying to find energy to run these big data centers and not needing energy.

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So maybe somewhere in between is what's going to be real. Amazon's launching something called a NovaSonic speech-to-speech AI. Now, all it does is understand human speech like other AIs and talk.

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but wow it's good you know i listened to a demonstration and you know how an ai voice is always a little slow and you could tell it's ai and all that this one is just conversational and it speaks fast and it gives you just the feeling that's human as heck so apparently it downperforms open ai's voice model which by the way is great

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The difference between the old pre-AI voice recognition, they were terrible. I mean, just terrible. But ever since AI, you can really get an app to understand what you're saying, even if there's noise in the room or anything else. So apparently this is, Rowan Chung is reporting on this, but it's hugely better than anything that's been out there for voice. So that's coming.

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Kash Patel is telling us that they got a big win on stopping drugs from cartels. They found over half a billion dollars in drugs. They intercepted. Kash Patel calls it one of the most successful counter-narcotics efforts in U.S. history. We'll see if that makes any difference, but it's got to hurt the cartels to lose half a billion dollars in one deal.

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Meanwhile, over in the House of Representatives, the Republicans have figured out how to pass a bill, which they passed. to stop rogue judges from making decisions that affect places where the judges don't have authority. Maybe authority is the wrong word. But you know the problem of judge hunting, and the Democrats can find a judge anywhere who will stop anything anywhere else in the country.

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And you say to yourself, wait a minute, why would some biased D.C. judge be able to stop something that's happening not in D.C., but somewhere else around the country? And the answer is, well, they were getting away with it.

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But now this legislation, if it were to pass the Senate, and I'm thinking it might because the Republicans have a majority, that they would use the congressional authority to keep judges from passing elections. from ruling on things that are not in their domain. I'm kind of surprised that this is the way that that gets fixed.

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The best call was that we had something that could be easily reversed. And as soon as it was, stock market went up. Now, of course, it's going to give back a little bit. But so that's the first thing. It does feel as if even if the stock market is depressed for a little bit, that there's nothing permanent about it, that it's really just responding to Trump and his policies and uncertainty.

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It seems weird to me that the Congress can deal with that, what seems like a core issue. But if they can, it's amazing. Good luck with that. Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, the U.S. now has this powerful microwave weapon that can fry swarms of drones at the same time and boats.

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So if you've got stuff coming at you, you know, you're a big naval ship or something, you see a swarm of drones, you can take them all out at the same time with this high-powered microwave called Leonidas HDO. And it can also engage multiple targets. It can stop boats. So that's pretty impressive. I think the boats that get pirated are going to want that.

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We're also working, according to Newsmax, P. Hegseth is coming up with options for a space-based defense shield for the United States. So putting something in low Earth orbit, I guess, that can shoot down incoming missiles and aircraft, I would guess.

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They don't have a decision yet on what that looks like, but apparently the project to figure out what that looks like and then build it is moving right ahead. So we're going to have a space shield for missiles. And if they get through, we'll microwave them. Here's a study that, I don't know how obvious this one was. So Cy Post is reporting.

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There's a study that finds conscientiousness is linked to higher reproductive success worldwide. So if you're conscientious, which they define as the tendency to be organized, responsible, self-disciplined, and goal-oriented, you tend to have more children. Would you have guessed that?

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Or would you have guessed that the people who are least conscientious pump out the most babies and the babies have to take care of themselves, basically? I don't know. I'm a little surprised that conscientiousness is linked to having more babies. It just seems to me that the least conscientious people are knocking up their girlfriends and leaving them to fend for themselves. But maybe.

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Maybe that's the way it is. And then in related news, the number of US non-parents who never want children is growing. So listen to this percentage. In 2002, 14% of non-parents decided, said they didn't want any children, 14%. Now that seems manageable, doesn't it? If only 14% of married people don't want children, you'd say to yourself, well,

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That still leaves plenty of people that have children. So not everybody has to be the same. But in 2023, that went to 29%. 29% of married people don't want kids ever. 29%. That feels not survivable in the long run, does it? You know, I think we're going to end up doing a hungry kind of thing where you say you won't have to pay taxes if you have several kids.

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Something's going to have to give, and maybe it's going to be robots. I don't know. Why would anybody get married if they didn't want kids? That's what I would ask. The two times I got married is because kids were already in the mix and everything works better if you're married and you've got stepkids or real kids. Not real kids, biological kids. But yeah, this is scary. 29% don't want kids.

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Do you think that's mostly financial? I feel like it might be, but also having children in the modern era doesn't look anything the same because once the kid gets a smartphone, it's like you don't have a child. They're just wed to their phone. I saw a study the other day. that the entire influence of the parents ends at, I don't know, like seven years old.

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And if Trump reduces the uncertainty when he's ready to do that, Should be fine. That's what I say. Uncertainty is probably the simplest thing that a stock market can fix if the uncertainty is intentionally being inserted by a president and he can intentionally take it away when he's ready to. So that should be the easiest fix of all time. All right. Here's what I think Trump was doing.

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And then after that, it's entirely pure influence. You know, it's smartphones and it's peers and it's their classmates and it's school. But after the age of seven, parents don't have much to do with how they're raised, even no matter how much you try, because apparently they're just way more influenced by their peers.

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I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it's easy to see why somebody doesn't want to do it because you get a few years where you think you're doing something important and then it's completely canceled out. by just the environment, you know, with the friends I hang out with and that sort of thing. Anyway, so that's what I got for you today. Sorry it took two tries to get this working.

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I'm hoping it will work on X by tomorrow. We'll get that fixed, I hope. And we'll take a look at the stock market. Obviously, it's going to give back a little bit today, but I wouldn't be too worried about it yet. We've got lots of things ahead. And thanks for joining, everybody. I'm going to talk to the locals privately in 30 seconds. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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I literally feel bad for the robots. So that's happening. So there's a, according to the Postmillennial, the support for nuclear power in the United States is at an all-time high. 61% of adults are pro-nuclear power. We'll get to all the tariff stuff and the stock market and stuff. Now, in 2016, most of you know, if you're my regulars,

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I do not believe... that there was a master plan with every step figured out in advance and that he was just playing the world i don't think it was that i think he was doing what he usually does which is he shakes the box he gets everybody agitated And then suddenly he's the most important person in the world again.

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I mean, being president of the United States gets you halfway there, maybe more than half. But he needed people to take the tariff negotiations seriously and to put it at the top of their list of things that they needed to do. And he did that. So what I always tell you about persuasion is step number one of persuasion is you have to get attention.

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If you can't get attention, it doesn't matter what else you do. Your persuasion is not going to make any difference. So Trump is the best of all time at getting attention. So he shook the box like crazy. He had all kinds of uncertainty and who knows what he's doing. And did he go crazy? Is the world going to be destroyed? Hey, what happened to my stocks? It was just wonderfully uncertain.

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Now, in a situation where everybody is uncertain, it's sort of like the land of the blind, where the one-eyed person in the land of the blind is the king. That's sort of what Trump is, because he's the only one who kind of does know what he wants. And he does know what he might do. And he does know how long stuff will last. And he does know what a good deal will look like or not look like.

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So the fact that he made everybody else uncertain is why they started calling and jumping on planes and saying, can we have a meeting? Because maybe we should negotiate our trade. So the uncertainty is almost his signature move for persuasion. He gets everybody riled up, makes whatever he cares about their most important topic too. He certainly got that done.

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And then everybody's trying to deal with it and trying to work through their own uncertainty. And this is another persuasion trick. When people feel uncertain, they will gravitate toward anybody who is certain. So as long as Trump remains confident that he knows exactly how everything should go, people would be drawn to him as the solver because they don't know how everything should go.

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They don't know what he's going to say. They just don't know how long it will last. They don't know how bad it will be. But Trump kind of does. And so this makes him the most important person in the conversation for something that's affecting every country in a big way all at the same time. So kind of brilliant.

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Now, of course, in terms of the 90-day pause, that part I don't think was planned a long time ago. I do buy the Charles Gasparini take that what was happening is that Japan, the citizens, were selling off treasuries, U.S. treasuries, which would cause our interest rates to spike, and that's no bueno. So I think just, did I say China or Japan? I meant Japan.

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I think Japan selling our treasuries probably was what pushed him into the 90-day pause. And, you know, Bill Ackman had mentioned it. Joel Pollack had mentioned it before it happened. So people were talking it up, that a 90-day pause makes sense. And it did make sense because by then, 75 countries had already said, can we send somebody over there to negotiate this right away?

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How can we get in the front of the list? And Trump did his other great persuasion thing where he tries to make the biggest distinction between people who are doing what he wants and people who are not. So he said, for example, several times that Japan did not retaliate and that's that's rule number one if you don't retaliate and and you say, can we work out a deal, you're our best friend.

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So he made sure that everybody knew that Japan had played it correctly. Now, at the same time, they were selling bonds, but that's the government versus individual investors, I think. So Japan played it right, and in a very, I hate to say it, but it's a very Japan-like way. They didn't cause trouble. They tried to be nice and polite to everybody. And boy, did that work. It worked perfectly.

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You know that I started trying to persuade the country that nuclear power was the only thing that was going to save them. And I wasn't the only one. Of course, you know, Mark Schneider and Michael Schellenberger and Zion Lights and some other really smart people. But I have the weirdest experience ever. Which is sometimes when I try to change things, they do change.

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So Trump is telling everybody they're first in line. You know, they're the first ones in line. Now, of course, we also want to get a better deal. So, you know, being first in line means first in line for something that's good for us too. So then if you didn't do those things, then you're China, right?

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So he made this huge distinction between doing what is friendly to the United States and doing what's not friendly. So that's good persuasion. You don't want to act like those two things are almost the same. You want the biggest possible distinction between good behavior and bad behavior. He's so good at that. And that's good persuasion. He also created a situation where

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where it would seem that our allies would need trade deals with us, new ones that are good for us, more than we need it. Now, that might not be true, but it created such uncertainty with our allies that they act like they need the deal more than we do. because they're calling, they're saying, can we talk? Can we fly in? Can we have a meeting?

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So somehow, and this is kind of magical persuasion, he made his top priority not just their important priority too, but somehow he turned it into it's even more important for them. At least they're acting that way. So that's good.

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So I guess the play is that he's going to do individual deals with 75 different entities, but it looks like the individual deals won't be just reciprocal tariffs because he's throwing in defense.

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So, for example, if the reason that your country is safe in terms of security and defense is because the United States has a big navy around you or has the potential to put one there, then maybe you should pay a little more on the trade deals. So he's bringing in more variables. I've told you before, this is great persuasion. You introduce new variables and you bring them in.

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So they're not just negotiating duties and VAT taxes and tariffs. He's basically bringing in our security umbrella and saying, hey, if you want to be part of this security umbrella, maybe you should be real flexible on trade. And it makes sense because a lot of this stuff that we're looking at now is historically something that made sense at one point.

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These countries were developing and we thought, oh, if we develop them into good markets, we can sell them stuff and we can use them for source of raw materials and everybody wins. But now that many of these countries are doing fine, it makes sense to renegotiate. So I think Trump is right on point with at least what he wants to do.

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The other thing that Trump does, you know, you heard a lot of people say, all of our allied countries are mad at us, and they're mad at Trump, and this is surely going to lead to destruction. I never believed that was true because I think countries are kind of transactional. If something's good for the other country, then they're fine with it. If it's bad for them...

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They'll have lots of reasons they're not fine with it. But basically, it's just transactional. What's good for another country, they're going to like. And as soon as he turned from, you know, I'm going to give you all these massive tariffs to, oh, if you don't retaliate, it looks like we can work out a deal. Everybody wins. You get some security. We get some better deals.

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Well, there you are. You're here. I'm here. All right. We're going to find our comments and get them going so I can see what the locals people are saying to me. And then we will blow your mind with the best show ever.

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Uh, we've been lucky so far. If we get the wind at the same time as a fire, all of LA is going to burn. This is from a professional fireman who said, there's no way around it. You're not going to be able to stop it. If the fire starts at the same time as the high wind, which is exactly what happened, there is no defense. So if you say to me, if only we had more water, we could defend it.

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I say to you, maybe a little. but it probably would have still taken out most of the area. Maybe you could save some houses, but it would have taken out most of the area. So the bigger problem was it was a known problem that was not directly addressed. So is it a problem that forests are not managed? It's a big one, maybe not directly factor in this fire. Is the water management a problem?

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Yes, poorly done. Was it directly a problem in this fire? Yes, if your house burned down because the fire hydrant didn't work, you're probably going to say, why didn't you count on a fire that's this big or something like that? But maybe it couldn't have been stopped. Maybe the fireman in 2024 was exactly right, and there just wasn't anything you could do. The mayor... Karen Bass, is it?

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She happened to be in Ghana for some government thing that she thought was interesting. And I'm not sure that anything is different because the mayor was in a different country. You know, mayors travel, and even though there's no reason they should have been doing some international work, I mean, she could have been on vacation. I mean, there are lots of reasons that people aren't in town.

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I doubt that her absence had any impact on the emergency response, but in emergencies, you want your leaders to act capable and, you know, have empathy and be on hand and, you know, tell you everything they know, you know, give you some hope that they could get this under control. So I don't think she did a good job on anything.

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but probably it didn't make any difference to any house that burned or didn't burn. Then I've got to spend a moment on this, that there's a lot of accusations that this is caused by DEI. And I'm going to make some suggestions about this. So I'll talk about DEI after I give the list of other things that people are saying.

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I don't think you can pin it on one person and say that's a DEI higher or even more than one person, but more on that in a moment. So let's see. There's something about these smelt fish.

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So when the Vegas terrorism thing was the headline story, I said to myself, ooh, this is going to be in the news for a while. So I'm going to do a Dilbert comic in which Dilbert's boss's secretary says, suggests that he takes a vacation in Vegas because he didn't know where to go on his vacation. So she suggests that he buy his Cybertruck and drive it to Vegas and stay at the Trump Hotel.

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smelt is it a smelt fish or is just a smelt apparently trump calls it an extinct fish i don't think it's extinct which is the whole point of trying to preserve it if it were extinct we wouldn't be worrying about it but it's funny that he calls it extinct an extinct fish um but apparently there was some there was some movement to provide more water for uh

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LA, but it didn't work because it would have been bad for these rare smelt, the Delta smelt. Well, let me tell you what else smelt about this situation. Everything. So I don't know. I think that smelt fish is going to be one of those two movies on one screen. I think CNN is going to tell you, oh, that was a bipartisan thing or Republicans should have said yes or

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There's going to be another story to that. I don't think it's as clean as we traded smelt for human beings, although in some ways it looks exactly like that, but probably there's a little extra context on that one. And then the part that is definitely true is that the insurance policy caps

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that California tried to put on fire insurance policies caused a shortage of fire insurance policies because the fire insurance people said, no thanks. If we can't make money, we don't want to be in your state. So they pulled out. So what makes this particular situation go from tragic to How do I say this without being canceled?

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All right, I'm going to speak as indirectly as I can, and you can piece it together. If an ordinary tragedy happens, you get into tragedy mode. You're trying to help people, you're feeling sad, you're feeling impacted. You're basically just feeling terrible, but trying to do what you can, if it's just a tragedy. If it's a tragedy which would have been halved,

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by your insurance kicking in and at least paying for what you lost, that would be half as big. But it wouldn't be just a change of you being half as mad. It's the difference between, and here's where I have to be careful, it's the difference between people feeling bad and people feeling homicidal. Was that indirect enough? We're looking at the government of California

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And I can tell you from personal experience, my emotions, I'm trying to keep under control. And if you've seen a lot of Californians talking in ways that you think are unusually calm, given the situation, like James Woods, you saw him acting completely calm that the house he loved and just rebuilt and remodeled was lost and he had no insurance. Now he has better resources maybe than other people.

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But even he broke down on an interview. So don't mistake how strong people are acting with how they're feeling on the inside. This feels like we got raped. That's what it feels like. It doesn't feel like a tragedy happened. It feels like we got raped. All of us.

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Even if you're not directly affected, do you know what this is going to do to the possibility of getting insurance anywhere in the state? This just made the entire state unlivable. They're going to have to tax the bejesus out of us to pay for whatever this caused. The level of economic destruction, I don't even think you can calculate it.

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It's bigger than anything that's ever happened in the country. And so I feel a sense of rage that makes me in revenge-y, homicidal head instead of recovery from an event head. I want to be just in the healthful recovery mode. But man, when they give you the double tap, one in the chest, one in the head, one in the chest was the bad fire management.

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The one in the head was you don't have insurance because we changed the rules in an obvious way, in a way that obviously would make insurance go away and not be available. You do that. I don't think the resident, let me say it in the way that I heard it stated. I'm not going to attribute this.

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But without attribution, I heard yesterday a Californian who was directly affected say, of one of the leading politicians who's getting a lot of blame, again, I won't be specific, and the advice was, I wouldn't show yourself in public. Now that advice I think was well intended as a security thing. You need to know that people feel homicidal. They don't feel just hurt.

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Well, anyway, you'd have to see the comic. It's pretty darn funny, but it's running today only for the subscribers. You'd have to be subscribing on X or Locals to see it. But... You know, I was prepping it to publish it this morning, and I thought, oh, my God, that feels so long ago. So long ago. So Trump time distortion happened again. All right. Just one more thing.

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This is not like other things. The level of incompetence, apparently, is so extreme that it doesn't feel like an accident. It feels intentional. It wasn't intentional. But it feels like it. It feels like people just raped us because they didn't give a shit. So if you think we're going to get over this, I doubt it. I doubt it. I don't think we're going to get over this.

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And you didn't have to be in the fire zone to not get over it. I'm not getting over this. This is the wake-up call. It's the tap on the shoulder. It says, you know, all that complaining you did, complaining is nothing. Complaining is nothing. At this point, pretty serious action, and I hope it's not the homicidal kind, required.

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And I do believe that people of character are going to act really differently. And some of them will be sacrificing their personal fortunes. Some will be sacrificing their reputations. But the risk-reward equation just changed completely. Once you realize you can't live in this state the way it is, then you're going to take a bigger risk to change it. If you're just like, I don't like it, but

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Next year is going to be a lot like this year. You know, you're just going to get on with your life. But now it's an existential risk just to be managed by incompetence. It's an existential risk of incompetence. Now, I will remind you, as I was reminded just moments ago before the show started, that it was a while ago that I warned that DEI,

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would cause massive institutional and corporate and government incompetence, and it would be really, really obvious, and it could destroy everything we love. Now, when people mention that on TV, such as the amazing Scott Jennings, he got into that conversation on CNN, it went completely off the rail. And it was, I'm going to call it a rare communication mistake by Scott Jennings,

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When I talk about him, usually it's like, oh, my God, he just explained things so well among this panel of Democrats, and he won that day, and I'll be forwarding around. So in general, he's the best we have. If you're looking at who's the best communicator who's not Trump himself, it might be Scott Jennings. He's really, really impressive. But on the DEI stuff, total fail.

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Now, I think it's easy to correct, and I would expect he will. Here's the correction. And I posted this. I hope he sees it. But accusing people, specific people, if what you're doing is accusing specific people of being DEI hires, we don't have that kind of information. We can tell that they're in a certain demographic group, but you can't tell that that's the problem.

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You can't look at a specific case and say, oh, if Karen Bass had been a white guy, everything would be fine. Now, it might be that she's a DEI hire, and then that's the whole story, and the police chief is a DEI hire, and you've got everything you need. It might be. But we don't have that kind of information. So when Scott Jennings brought up the DEI element,

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He had a couple of black female panelists who just ate him up. And what they did is they do the thing where they say, why are you saying that black women can't do a good job? Nobody says that. That has absolutely nothing to do with the DEI conversation. The DEI conversation is not about the capability of any particular group. It's not a capability.

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It's a system incentive design problem that you could replace anybody in this equation and you get the same bad outcome. So nobody's saying that there's something special about black women not being able to do stuff. I'm not aware of anybody who has that opinion. It's more about the system. And let me explain that a little bit better.

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Then we'll talk about the fires. I tried to use ChatGPT last night to digest a big legal document that I was asked to review, and I thought to myself, oh, perfect application for AI. I'm going to upload the document, and then I will query it to say, okay, is this handled? What about this? What's it say about this? And then it would summarize it for me, and I'd save a bunch of time.

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So the first point is that as soon as you apply it to any individual, you're on thin ice. You don't have the proof of that unless you worked with that person every day. You probably don't know if they're doing a good or bad job. Sometimes there are other variables that makes stuff impossible. But here's what you can say. You can say, number one, that leaders focus on what is easiest to measure.

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That probably is the number one most important thing you need to know about management. That managers manage to things that can be tracked. Why do they do that? Because when they get their bonuses and their awards and their raises, it's going to be based on what can be measured. What is easier to measure than diversity improvement? It's easy. What are you? I'm a woman. Got it. What are you?

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I identify as black. Got it. Easy to count. Easy to keep track. Easy to see how it changed from what it was to where it is. If you give any manager that situation where it's easy to know if you did it right, or at least if you hit the goal. I won't say right, but you hit the goal. They're going to manage that. And they're going to let other things lapse because it won't affect their pay.

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For example, suppose several years ago, the people in charge had decided to do a big water management improvement. How long would it take to get that approved, to get it built, to see if it worked? And then even when you built it, you wouldn't know if it worked. You would only know that there weren't any fires lately. You wouldn't know that it worked.

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So if you've got this big ambiguous, but way more important thing to do, the water management is way more important than other things, but it takes a long time. You can't tell what any one person did to make it happen. It's really hard to get, you know, to be held responsible for that. So if you're a manager, you go for what can be measured easily. You focus on it. That's where your pay depends.

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Then on top of that, the second thing you need to know is that every major company is trying to improve their diversity at the same time. And I would argue, even the companies that may have renounced their DEI efforts, the individual managers are still going to be hiring with a DEI goal.

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You don't need a DEI program because those same managers are still going to be bragging if they get more diversity. You could give up the entire incentive system, but if one of the people says, well, I diversified my department, and the other manager that they're competing against for the top job says, oh, I did some long-term things that are really smart, but How did it turn out?

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Well, we won't know because lots of people involved. It could take years. If it doesn't work, it might not be my fault. It could be the legislation, right? So anyway, so if you have every company trying to do it at the same time, even if it's not part of an organized program, you're going to run out of your target demographics. And here's the important thing to know.

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You could switch out the target demographics and replace it with any other group. And it's the same. That's why it's not a racist observation. For example, let's say your DEI program was you had to hire more Irish people or Irish Americans. And that's it. How's that going to work out? You're going to maximize Irish American

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Now, there are a lot of Irish Americans, but if everybody suddenly said, oh, God, I've got to get myself an Irish guy, you would run out of highly qualified Irish Americans on day two. On day one, all the smart ones with a good resume have already been hired. We've got an Irish guy. Yes, it's going to look good on my resume. So when Scott Jennings on CNN said,

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allows his panelists to argue that black women can do any job, nobody's disagreeing with that, that the right qualified person of any demographic can do pretty much any job. And the thing that you have to understand is you can replace that target demographic with anybody. You could take black women out of the conversation entirely, but Irish men, Irish men, same problem.

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I was so happy to be in the age of AI. So I took my PDF file and I uploaded it and said, we can't handle a PDF file. And I said, in 2025, the advanced intelligence, the most important technology in the world, can't read a PDF file? But it said, you know, JPEG it could read. So I thought, oh, all right. All right, well. So I just changed it to a JPEG file. And I upload it. And it fails.

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If you're managing to the number of Irish men on your staff, you're in trouble. You're going to have massive incompetence if you fast forward 20 years. And here we are. We are in a position of massive, massive incompetence. Is it the cause of any specific demographic group? Can't tell. The only thing you can know for sure is that this was a guaranteed outcome. The design of the incentive system

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And the natural limitation of any demographic group to have unlimited people in it is all you needed to know. On paper, it couldn't have worked. And that's why it's so important to reverse it and reverse our thinking about it. Scott Jennings, I hope you make that correction. The first thing you should say is it's not about any individual. It's about a system design.

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If you have incentives that make people do the wrong thing, they'll do the wrong thing. And that's where we are. Now, some of the worst takes on this. Bernie Sanders weighs in while people are running for their lives and posts this. 80,000 people told to evacuate. I think it's twice that now since he posted it. 80,000 people told to evacuate. He said, blazes, 0% contained.

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And so far, I'm thinking, oh, this is Bernie being helpful. He's telling us how bad it is, and then he's going to hit us with what we should do about it. He says, eight months since the area has seen rain. OK, that did make it worse. The scale of the damage and loss is unimaginable. Thank you for recognizing how bad this is. And then he said, climate change is real, not a hoax.

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Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is, meaning climate change. Well, you can imagine how I felt when I read that. Have I mentioned that we Californians don't feel like we went through a tragedy? We feel like we got raped by you, by politicians. You know, so Bernie. Bernie, you know, indirectly.

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And the fact that California was focusing on your little pet project, the climate change, which I believe is mostly freaking fake because it only applies to people who think the news is real and science is not corrupt. If you think the news is real and science is not completely corrupted by money, you might believe that this climate change has been proven by all the smart people to be a danger.

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Now, it might be a danger. I often say, I don't know. I don't know how much people are contributing to it. I see both sides. I don't think any of them are believable from my point of view because I can't tell. But I can tell you for sure that if you think the climate models are predicting the future, you have not looked into it very much.

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If you think we can measure the temperature of the Earth over decades, you haven't looked into it. And I find that I can't even have a conversation with somebody who thinks all of that climate, the alarm part is true. You can't even talk to them because they've been so hypnotized. They think the news is real. The news is not real about anything important.

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The news could have a correct fact now and then, but the narrative is never real. Narratives are always motivated. They're not real. If you believe the news is even trying to be real, you can't be reached. You have to first understand that they're not trying to tell you the truth. It's just not, it's not their business model.

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And if you think that anybody under any circumstances can take all these weird hidden variables and gigantic variables and hard to measure variables and put them into a complicated model and tell you the temperature in 10 years is How do I begin to tell you how impossible that is? That's not something that the smart people figured out. That is a pure hoax, the models part.

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Now, what I'm not calling the hoax is, I don't know if it's getting warmer. I don't know if people are involved. I just know that nobody else knows. I know for sure that nobody else knows. But my problem with Bernie is not that he believes in climate change and I'm pretty sure that he's wrong, at least in terms of the alarm part of it.

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My part is you need to be able to read the room a little bit better. You don't talk to rape victims about wearing a condom. You know what I mean? You don't talk to rape victims about wearing a condom. Maybe you should have a condom with you. Now, you are just making it worse.

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So my first reaction was I was just going to go nuclear and I had every F bomb and like I was ready to go and my fingers hit the keyboard. And I said, I'm not going to make it worse because that was just a pure emotional reaction. So instead, I reposted this. I said, Senator Sanders, as a Californian, I respectfully ask for you to delete this post.

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And it says it can only take, when it goes to JPEG, it turns the document into each of its individual pages as one file apiece. But I thought, oh, no problem. I'll just drag all of the pages in. It'll figure out the page numbers. Good to go. And then I try to drag all the pages in. And it says, can only handle four pages. And I think, okay, no problem. No problem. I'll just do four at a time.

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No Californian thinks climate change dried up the fire hydrants and canceled fire insurance. Now, whether my take is factually correct, that the fire hydrants were a problem that somehow was undermanaged, or that the canceled fire insurance, that's certainly a fact. And then I told him to read the room. Two million people

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agreed with me, which is very unusual for a post on X, to get 2 million views. That means people really agreed. Not every person, but it means a lot of people agreed with my take that he was not reading the room. And I would like to add a few things. If the problem with the LA fire were caused by climate change, the whole world would be on fire by now, right?

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I'm pretty sure that the climate change is not limited to LA. We would see basically everything on fire if climate changes caused fire. If droughts caused fire, everything that's having a slightly under normal year, which is what LA is, LA is in what I think they call the moderate drought, meaning it's barely a drought and it's not outside of the historical norm whatsoever. Not at all.

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So, anyway. Who else was bad? Then Joe Biden with his defective brain, the depressor, talked about the fire, but nobody remembers that. All they remember is he had the bad judgment to say, quote, the good news is that I became a grandpa. Wow. Wow. Between Sanders and Biden... not being able to read the room, do they understand that California is a blue state or was? Let's see.

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According to the New York Post, I think Molly Hemingway flagged this, that California Governor Newsom is launching his Trump resistance plan this week. So Newsom wants to tell you how much he's resisting Trump, which looks like the problem, not the solution this week, doesn't it? Because now we have on video Trump saying all the right things about fire prevention in California.

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You've blocked the water. You're not doing forest management. Turns out those were the right answers. Those were the right answers. Of course, he's against DEI. Again, we don't know that that caused this problem, but it's the right overarching theme. So Trump was as right about this situation and on time because he said it way before it happened. He was right and he was on time.

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And it looks like California completely screwed the pooch in every dimension. At least it looks that way. We don't know that that's true. But let me talk about the future of California politics because everything has a political element to it. Here's how Trump posted it. He said on one of his posts on Truth, I think,

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He said the governor, New Scum, as he calls him, chose to save the extinct fish instead of sending water to Southern California to fight apocalyptic wildfires. Now, this is another example of how good Trump is in messaging. To take this big, complicated situation and just turn it into New Scum chose an extinct fish over saving the lives of Californians, it's an oversimplification.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And I don't even know if the fish part is really a valid, I don't even know if that's a valid claim. Because if you turn on CNN, they're going to say, well, but you know, it's Republicans' fault too, and blah, blah, blah. I don't know what they say. But there's more context to it. However, as a political messaging thing, The brilliance of the summary is what Trump does better than anybody.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Because there are only 20-some pages. It's not going to take all day. So I drag four over. Good. So I drag another four over. And then it clarifies that it's a total of four. It's not four at a time. It's a total of four. So I spend...

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Nobody does that well. He is the best ever at summarizing. Nobody summarizes better than he does. Adam Carolla, who apparently is one of the more famous people being displaced, he looked like he was in a hotel room, and he did a video and he was explaining something that you might not fully understand outside of California. Do you know how hard it is to build something in California?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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All of these people who think, well, I'll get my insurance check or maybe I had some extra money and I'm gonna rebuild. So they're gonna go to the city and say, here's my plan. Oh my God, they're just entering hell. I won't go into the details, but let me just tell you this. Getting a California entity, any city really, to approve a building of anything is pretty much a nightmare.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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The house I'm in right now, I had built, but I think it took 18 months just to get approval, something like that. Now, these are people who just think, well, it should be easy because I'm just going to build back the house I had with a slight variety. It's not going to be easy. You're going to spend a year not getting the permit and

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And then good luck finding a contractor because everybody in your whole city is trying to hire the contractor who knows how to build stuff. You're not going to have a contractor. You're not going to be able to get insurance. You're not going to be able to pay for it with the insurance you don't have. You're not going to be able to get a permit.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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I don't believe the country and maybe even Californians have absorbed how bad this is. You're seeing something closer to the beginning of the problem than the end, as bad as it was. And I don't think we can fully appreciate the economic disruption to the state. Who's going to pay for the recovery? I don't think the federal government's going to pay for it all.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Is this going to raise my California taxes again from the highest taxes to the highest taxes on turbo? How are we going to survive it? How are we going to fix the things that need to get fixed? We're already paying the highest taxes, and it feels like the lowest level of service in return. So, no, if you think we're just going to rebuild, you don't know California.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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That might be just empty land for the rest of my life. Like, I don't know that it's... I just don't see a path where that quickly gets fixed. I don't know. Here's what I think. I think this has been such a black eye for the management of the state that for the first time recently, I can say it's possible to have a Republican governor. Now, it would take a special character.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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It would take a Reagan type character who is a Republican. And I don't know anybody in the state who would fit that, you know, Reagan-esque thing and would also have experience managing something. Because you don't want somebody who's never managed anything. Because a state is, you know, as much management as politics. So it's not exactly like other jobs. You need to manage.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Something like 45 minutes of my day finding out that AI can't do the simplest freaking thing so I Don't know they say they say it's gonna replace everything and do everything I don't know. All right. Let's talk about the LA fires It's all horrible You know, if if you're new to my livestream, I live in Northern, California and

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So we need a, you know, DeSantis type of governor. So if somebody like a DeSantis became available to run for governor, it's the best time. Now, other people are going to say, Scott, Scott, Scott. I think you don't realize that the blue team has California all wrapped up and nobody but a Democrat could win. And it's not just because of the voters.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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It's because the Democrat machine controls too much and they can rig any vote to go the way they want because they just control too much. Now, that might be true. However, I think that the opening is now if it's ever going to happen. I saw some people suggest that maybe a smart independent like Nicole Shanahan would be a possibility.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Now, I like everything about Nicole Shanahan, but I don't know that she has exactly the right background for managing. Because whoever takes this job has to like dig into, you know, The whole water thing, the forest thing, it's really a management thing. So as high quality and as much as I would trust Nicole Shanahan, I like everything about her basically.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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I don't know if she has the exact background that fits this slot. But maybe somebody will emerge. And then as people have noted, the legislature would probably still stay blue. And so even the governor couldn't get anything done. So I saw somewhat related to this. I saw a Bill Maher video and he was talking to Stephen A. Smith. And Maher said this that really caught my attention.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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He said, quote, I've been out with every type of celebrity, you know, meaning celebrities. just having fun. And he says, they don't say the things they say to me to other celebrities. There it is. Now, you probably said to yourself, Scott, you can't get a Republican governor because the state is filled with so many Democrat voters, you're never going to get over the hump.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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I don't think they're Democrats. I think they're literally pretending to be Democrats. I think that every one of these people who may have been seeming like political enemies, are now seeing that the thing we need to get together on is common sense stuff. I don't believe there's a Democrat who wanted less forest management.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Well, there's some crazy ones who want to preserve everything natural, but not really. I don't think there's any Democrats who say, I'm sure glad we didn't have enough water, right? I don't think there are any Democrats who said, Sure is a good thing there were not enough escape routes from a place that is an obvious fire risk.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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These are all so clearly and cleanly common sense issues that I don't think anybody's going to give a shit about the smelt going forward. Try stopping us from fixing the state because of a smelt. Yeah, because I don't think that works anymore.

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So, of course, I'm speaking from my own little bubble because, you know, I'm very influenced by how I personally feel about this, which is some intense feelings in many directions. I'm pretty sure that this is the wake up call that tells everybody in the South, you know, the Republicans don't hate you. You get that, right?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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We really, I'm going to say we because I caucus with the Republicans even though I'm a Democrat by registration. I think maybe it will be a little better understood that Trump was on California's side and whatever the Democrats running things were doing may have been for their own benefit or may have been just pure incompetence. We don't know what it was.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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But we know that Trump had exactly the right solution in exactly the right time, early. And we know that the Democrats failed just in performance. The exact reasons, hard to know, but they certainly failed. Hunter Biden's rental burned up. And I think the thing that bothered me the most about that was that it was a rental. Like, it's bad enough if you're the landlord for Hunter Biden.

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And you might say to yourself, well, Northern California, that's so far away from Southern California that you're probably not much impacted. Well, I'm not impacted directly by the fire. That's not a risk where I am. But if you live in California, you end up having a lot of friends in other parts of California. So I'm very impacted.

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Because remember, we heard the story that he had rented someplace and didn't pay in the past, a different place. But he had been renting a place and didn't pay the rent. And then he used the Secret Service to keep the landlord from getting to him to ask for the rent. That is like the most effed up thing you're going to hear.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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He didn't pay the rent, and he used his Secret Service protection to make sure that nobody would come bug him to get the rent. That actually happened. Was it Sean McGuire, I think, was the landlord there? So I don't think he's in that house anymore, but I just feel doubly sorry for whoever owned it because they lost their house that was rental. But also they had Hunter Biden as a resident.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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I mean, I don't know if you could even clean it after that. Christy Teigen and John Legend and their kids are in a hotel. Henry Winkler said some angry, drunk-looking things. He's affected. I have mixed feelings talking about the celebrities involved. On one hand, I don't think this is a story about celebrities, and so it's just gross and icky that they're even part of the story.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Like, why do we care about them more? Does it matter more to you that Henry Winkler is safe than Henry Winkler's not famous neighbor? I mean, so there's something creepy about it, but at the same time, the politics of it is that these are the, some of them are, some of them are conservative, but a number of other ones are outspoken Democrats.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And I would love to know how Chrissy Teigen and John Legend feel about their team after losing their house to their team. Does that change how you feel? What else could? I mean, if you're going to change somebody's mind, having a debate with them... maybe, usually not. Having really good points, yeah, might work, but probably not. Really being good at persuasion, that might help, but probably not.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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People are pretty set in their ways. You burn down somebody's house, you have their attention. Everybody who lost a house is now open to a better argument. A lot of minds opened up. So, I think California is in play. Anyway, in related but other news, because we can't spend all our time talking about this, it's just too hard. Trump is, as other people have noted, flooding the zone.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So he's completely controlling the news. Even the fire, which you would think is not directly a Trump topic, he's still the top of the news because he said the right things and did the right things, and it stands in contrast to what happened.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So not only that, but apparently there's a report from Steph Knight, I think she's at Axios, saying that there's some knowledge that Trump plans to flood the zone with 100 executive orders. like his first day or first week or something. Now, so we've got Trump talking about, you know, Greenland, Panama, Canada. He's talking about the fire.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And I had to cancel the man cave last night because there was just too many people who needed help and too many people I had to check on. And, you know, it was both both family and friends. And it was it was a big weight. So just not being in the direct fire is better than being in the fire. But let me tell you, the other the other residents of California, we're taking it in.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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He might have 100 executive orders every day, three new things. This is the only way to defeat the fake news. And, you know, he's always done this thing where he keeps the Overton window, so to speak, keeps the action going and it keeps the attention on him. But I think I just realized the other hidden benefit of this. As we've often said, Republicans can be right and they can be wrong.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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They can have wrong facts and often do. They might believe in some conspiracy theories that don't prove out. But that's normal, sort of normal human beings. On the Democrat side, there's an organized hoax creation machine for the Democrats. They'll create a hoax about the other side, and then they'll use their news, their media, and their talking heads to say the same things over and over again.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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How many times have you seen that? Well, he's a convicted felon. That's just the talking point. And if they say convicted felon a million times, it's going to stick in your head. because repetition is the number one tool of persuasion. And even more importantly, it's the number one tool of brainwashing.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Brainwashing requires you to hear the same exact message over and over and over and over again until your brain just uncritically says, well, it must be true. I keep hearing it, which doesn't make sense, but your brain will process it that way. So What Trump has done is he's removed from the fake news the ability to repeat any of their messages often enough for them to stick.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Because they start going on with, he wants to send the military into Greenland. And then they repeat that, we got him, we got him, because nobody's going to be in favor of sending the military in, although some are. So they repeat that, and the next thing you know, he's talking about Panama. And then they're like, all right, what are we saying about Panama?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Panama, wait, he's talking about Canada now. What do we say about Canada? Wait, what did he say about the smelt? Wait, new scum. He's calling him new scum. 100 executive orders. They can't repeat often enough. He took away from them their number one persuasion trick, repetition. Now, is this intentional?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Do you think that he intentionally said, if I just take away all of their oxygen, they'll never be able to repeat anything enough to stick? The answer is yes. Yes, this is absolutely intentional. Now, that doesn't mean it's only Trump who knows this. He's working with Stephen Miller and a bunch of brilliant people, right? The brilliant people can see this, clear as day.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. Probably the best day you can ever have, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So yes, it's not an accident that he's going to have 100 executive orders and he's talking about things that make your hair just catch on fire. Like, you can't... And also, everything that Trump says...

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is too interesting to ignore it doesn't matter what he says it's always too interesting to ignore he's what greenland what so yes it's intentional yes is brilliant in a way that we don't even deserve like we don't even deserve that level of capability and when he shows you the competence level that he brings just the messaging the competence level that you brought to his campaign

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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The competence level in which he's taking things that people said are ridiculous things to do, such as using the old Twitter or now posting things that are like geopolitical, hugely important things. He makes that work. When you watch somebody who is just an extreme example of competence with his team, right? He doesn't do everything alone. But I think people are going to notice.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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We're taking it in the gut. This is like being punched all day long. And five people dead, apparently, which is a gigantic tragedy, I suppose. I suppose you could say something like could have been worse, but five people is five people. One of them reportedly had stayed behind with his hose and was trying to save his house.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Competence is hard to ignore if you just keep at it and he is Well in other news if there's any good news at all the employment for this coming year looks like a little better than people expected It hasn't happened yet.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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But the thinking is that in surveys big companies are showing much more optimism and more More let's say prediction that they'll do serious hiring apparently the reason there was less hiring is than there might've been is that big companies said, Ooh, we better wait to see if AI is going to take all the jobs. And now they've waited.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And like my example, where I started the show, where I said, I tried to get AI to do any simple thing, just look at a document and summarize it. And just because it was multiple pages, it just couldn't do it. So I think that probably the companies have now wised up that what they thought was going to be this instant replacement of employees with machines, it might still happen, but not in 2025.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So in 2025, they're like, ah, we're going to need human bodies because we can tell them to look at the whole contract, not just four pages and quit. So it could be that at least in the short run, the little, little bump in improvement in employment.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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um i just this is just an aside because i'm amused by it but do you remember aaron rupar uh he's the reason that i came up with the phrase a rupar for a description of a video that's been edited to change its meaning because he did a number of those and it looked like he knew he was doing it you couldn't tell because you can't read his mind but it looked like i feel like he knows he took that out of context

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And then I saw he made some claim. I think it was yesterday. It doesn't matter what the claim was, but the community note to it just noted that he's a well-known liar. So the actual community note wasn't just that he was saying something that wasn't true. It said he was a well-known famous liar who does it for clicks. Now I'm paraphrasing, but it said basically that.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Now, as soon as I refreshed it, the community note changed to something less attacking of his character. But for a moment... The community notes has settled on, yeah, he's just a famous liar, so you shouldn't pay attention to him. If I contributed even 1% by making people understand that a Rupar is literally a fake post or edit, if I contributed even 1% to that, I'm proud. All right.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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I love the fake news talking about the use of force to overtake Greenland. So I guess the Pentagon was asked if there was any kind of plan to invade Greenland. But what's funny is that whoever was talking, some kind of Pentagon spokesperson, said that they didn't know of any plan. It was short of a no.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So instead of saying no, there's no plan to use the military or even a plan to what it would look like if you use the military. Instead, the spokesperson said, I'm not aware of one. Would the spokesperson be aware of the secret attack plans? I feel like you wouldn't tell the spokesperson because if you told them, they could accidentally tip somebody off.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So the spokesperson never knows the secret attack plans, do they? Because if they do, that feels like a mistake to me. But anyway, the only thing I want to add to this is that why would the Pentagon need a plan? The entire country is 56,000 people, mostly in one place. And they seem to be fairly pro-MAGA, pro-American people.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And if it were up to them and not Denmark, who owns them, if it were just up to the people in Greenland, it's kind of looking like they might be okay with this idea. But I think it's funny that anybody would ask the Pentagon if they have a conquest plan for Greenland when all they really needed was Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk to fly over there and take some selfies. Now, to be fair, Don Jr.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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and Charlie Kirk taking selfies with the locals... is not enough to conquer a country. That's not enough. They might have to go back two or three more times and take more selfies. That should be enough. I think three to four trips of Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk taking selfies, the whole island surrenders. Then we just have to work out a deal with Denmark.

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And I always wondered how smart or dumb that strategy was because there are a number of people who apparently did in fact save their houses because somebody stayed, you know, neighbor or they stayed with a hose, but one of them died.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So no, no military needed, just Don and Charlie. All right. Senator Rick Scott has introduced some legislation to stop the changing of the clocks twice a year. I keep wanting to have an opinion on that, but I don't. I'm going to admit why, because I don't know what change they're talking about. It's too hard for me to figure out the whole hour, hour backwards, hour forwards.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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But if they standardize it, which one are they standardizing on? Because I never know which one is the base case. I don't know. And I also don't know if I'd like it since I've never experienced it, the different amount of light at a different time of day. I've never experienced it. So how would I even have an opinion on that?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Maybe I'd like it a little bit more in the morning, but dislike it more at night. But what's the net? So if it's expensive and I know it cuts down on productivity when the time changes, I don't see a reason to change the time. So I'm in favor of changing it, but I don't have any idea what that looks like in my actual life. But just in terms of economics, it makes sense.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Britain is threatened to cut ties, security ties with the U.S. unless Trump stops working with Elon Musk, according to the National Pulse, William Upton, to which I say, Great Britain is threatening to cut ties with us? Okay. Can you remind me, what are all the military advantages we're getting from protecting them? What products are you getting from England, from their manufacturing base?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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How much do we need England? Or the UK or Great Britain? How much do we need them? I don't know. Sounds like a pretty bad threat to me. And I don't think there's any chance they're going to cut ties. Biden is considering, according to the Postmillennial, Hayden Cunningham is writing, that Biden's thinking about preemptive pardons for Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So if you're going to stay with a hose, just know, I don't know what the odds are of you dying in this sort of massive fire situation, but it might be like 20%, you know? I mean, it's crazy high. But people do what they have to do. If it's your entire life and you're not insured, which was the case in many cases, I guess you do what you got to do.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So Liz Cheney for the corrupt insurrection, so-called insurrection committee. Do you have a problem with that? Yeah, this one's an interesting one. Because I think, I don't know if any charges would ever be brought up because there's a lot of bad behavior that I don't know if it's criminal. It's just really, really bad and unethical behavior.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So if they get a preemptive pardon, we don't have to watch the trial and talk about it, but also it would label them forever as felons. Because who gets a preemptive pardon? I would like to ask the following question. In the history of pardons, How many times has a completely innocent person got a preemptive pardon?

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Is there even one time that's ever happened where somebody who was legitimately innocent got a preemptive pardon? Can you think of any time that's ever happened? No. You give a preemptive pardon to somebody you know is damn guilty. So now, to be fair, they might be more worried about some illegitimate lawfare being used against them.

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And if that's the only thing they're thinking, well, if you think there was no real crime, maybe. But the way we're going to read it is that they just declared themselves guilty. If they accept a preemptive pardon for something they didn't do, I'm not going to believe they didn't do it. I'm just going to believe, oh, you know you're dirty. You lucky guy and lucky woman. All right.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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The Mexican president, what's her name? Claudia Scheinbaum. I will never get tired of saying this. The Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum. I'm going to say it another time because it's funny. So the Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum, the Jewish woman. I just love that. You know, I have to give Mexico credit because you think of Mexico as, you know, they're going to be kind of a patriarchy.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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You presume if most of the residents are Mexican, they're going to vote for somebody who's as Mexican as possible. But they elected... They elected Claudia Scheinbaum, and I give them credit for that. If she does a good job, good work. Anyway, so she's responding to Trump saying that he wants the Gulf to be called the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico. And she's shooting back.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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And she says the U.S. should be called America Mexicana. Let's see how long it takes me to forget her framing. One, two, three. Wait, what did she say? What did she call it? Do you see how special Trump is? Trump says extinct fish once, and I'll remember it for the rest of my life. The Mexican president, as capable as she probably is, I imagine she's very good in general, to get where she got.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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But she tries to match him. He's like, how about, I got it. I'm going to zing you. How about we call it America Mexicana? Why isn't everybody clapping? Clap, please. The difference in persuasion and communication skill is just so striking. You don't realize how good Trump is.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Anyway, so speaking of do what you want to do, I heard Greg Gutfeld on The Five yesterday requesting that people consider opening up their homes to other people. This one's not like a lot of different disasters. The sheer number of people who are displaced in a fairly populated area is kind of crazy, and they're not going to go back soon.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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at the what i'll call the little stuff you know just the ordinary communication you don't realize how good it is until you see somebody else try it and then they just do a total face plant i had to read it again america mexicana no that's not a good try Well, Russia's introducing these land robot tank things.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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It looks like a little, a miniature tank and it could have wheels or tracks, but it's got loaded with all kinds of weapons and they're going to make a bunch of them, they say, and send them at Ukraine. Here's my question. Can Russia manufacture? Now, I know they have manufacturing, and I know they make weapons, and this is a weapon.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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But if their outcome of the war depends on making a lot of these robots that they've never made before, how good are they going to be? Now, it could be that even if Russia is not a massively good manufacturing company, It could be that they put their best people in the military stuff, which would make sense. And maybe this is. Maybe it's good work and maybe they can crank them out like crazy.

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But the thing I'd be looking for is whether they can manufacture well enough to put working models in the field that make a difference. Now, the other thing is that even the ground robots like these, the ones on wheels or running dogs or whatever, they will soon be programmed to swarm just like the drones in the air.

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So if you organize the drones so that they operate as one and they swarm, there's almost no defense. But likewise, if you were on the front line and you're a human being, and you get swarmed by these robots, you're going to be in a lot of trouble, the robots on the ground, because it probably takes a little bit of planning and work and strange execution to even take out one of them.

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If six of them are bearing down on you, you got to run and it will run faster than you. So it's going to get real interesting in Ukraine. I would look to see if they can manufacture well and quickly. Well, I'm going to do something that you don't like. I'm going to defend Crenshaw.

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Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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So Dan Crenshaw is often reported for having very high, relative to other people, really good gains on his stock picks. So there's another story today mentioning that he's a top five investor among Congress. You're like, hmm. Top five. Did he do that because of insider information? And the implication is that it's because he has insider information.

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So that he and other members who trade are just beating people because of their inside information. And it was pointed out that he had a high percentage gain. So if you look at his gain, I think it was over 40% for the year or something, that that would put him in the top five. Now, what do I teach you about spotting fake news?

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If you know the percentage of gain he made, but they don't tell you the dollar amount, is it real news or fake news? The answer is, it's fake news. If they told you both the percentage and the dollar amount, it might be real. If they told you only the dollar amount without the percentage, that would be fake.

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And if they told you the percentage without the dollar amount, which is what they did, that's fake. So the first thing you need to know is that you got abused when you read the story. You got abused. Somebody's trying to pull one over on you. Turns out his portfolio is not very big. He's not a rich guy.

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And he said directly that one of the few ways that he can get ahead and still afford to be in Congress, because it doesn't pay that much relative to the cost of being there, that he absolutely needs to augment his income, and he does it by trading. Now, how did you rule out the possibility he's good at it? He told you he needs it. He told you he focuses on it.

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That's different than most of the people in Congress. Most of the people in Congress don't need it. A lot of them are rich. I don't know what percentage, but a lot of them are rich. And some of them are not concentrating on it. They're concentrating on other things. He's concentrating on it, If you knew his educational background, it's really good.

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So a lot of people are opening houses, donating money, trying to help in every possible way they can. So it's pretty much an all-hands-on-deck situation here. So if you don't see me putting in as much work, could you please understand that this isn't the week that my mind's on work? We're trying to keep people alive and help as we can.

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Do you know how much formal education he's had, plus the military? I don't think people understand how academically trained he is. So you got somebody who's got a higher academic training than most of Congress. Unlike Congress, he's really paying attention, which means he's learning how to do it right. And there's very little dollar amount So if he had one good pick, he would have that game.

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How do you know that the reason he's up is some kind of secret insider information? What if, and this is not in the story, this should be in the story, what if he bought stock in Nvidia? Do you know who bought stock in Nvidia?

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i did and a lot of my followers did because i mentioned it you know as sort of once ever you know kind of a unique situation so most of my most of my followers probably had the same return he did because if the only thing you did was by the one most obvious stock, Nvidia, you would beat all the members of Congress. Is that what happened?

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If he had just bought Tesla, he would have beat most of the members of Congress. If he had just invested in one of the atomic stocks that I mentioned that I'm not going to mention today, he would have beat everybody. It only took one, just one good stock in his whole portfolio is up 40%.

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So if you see a story that says he did better than the other people in Congress, and therefore the implication is that he broke some law or did something, he wouldn't break a law because it's legal for them to be insider traders. If you believe that it was like some secret unethical thing he did to get those gains, there's no evidence of that in the story. There's no evidence of it in the story.

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Now, if there is evidence of any bad behavior or It wouldn't be illegal, so I guess it wouldn't even be necessarily unethical. But you wouldn't like it. You're going to have to give me a lot more than he did a good job. Because if your complaint about the guy is he's good at investing, that just pisses me off. That just pisses me off. Because that's punishing somebody for competence.

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And that might be the only thing that's happening. Now, again, let me be very clear. I don't know if there's any valid insider trading that helped his returns. I don't know. But what I do know is you don't know. You don't know. So if you're going to go from he's a good investor to he did something sketchy that you hate, that's a leap I can't support.

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And it pisses me off when somebody does a good job and there's no evidence that he did it unethically. that we criticize him for competence and for making it affordable to do the job of the people. Now, before you give me a hard time, because I know you want to, you're going to say, but Scott, what about those other unrelated things that we don't like about his policies?

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Fine, I'm not arguing that. If you don't think he's doing the job you want... I'm not even in that conversation. I don't know enough, frankly, about him. But I'll also tell you just for full disclosure that I have had conversations with him because I did his podcast a while ago. So I've interacted with him, at least on Zoom kind of a way. And he's a really nice guy.

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I don't know if you know that, but he's a really nice guy. And so I'm influenced by that. And then I see him being attacked for something that, if there's any basis to this, nobody's revealing it. So let's calm down on that. It certainly makes sense to go after him for the other stuff. But let me sum that up with a little bit of a context.

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Sometimes you wonder, what's it like to be a public figure, such as Dan Crenshaw? And such as me. What's it like to be a public figure? Well, like Dan Crenshaw, one thing I have in common with him is that I've had several scandals in my career. Some of them you haven't heard of or you forgot about because they're so long.

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One of the things that all of my scandals have in common is that none of them have actually happened. None of them happened. For example, let's see. I'm being criticized for being an H-1B supporter. So that's lately. That didn't happen. Not once. No. I have said we need to bring in only the best people who make sense. But the H-1B process apparently doesn't do that.

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So apparently there's, I think there's still zero containment, but the Santa Ana winds that made it so bad should be dying down by the end of today. So I'm hoping that we're going to see something like some containment. Now, I hate to say it, but probably the only thing that will bring this fire under control is burning everything that's burnable until there's just no fuel left.

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So I've never said it does that. I've never said I was in favor of it. And it's the biggest thing I'm being criticized for. Let's see. I'm also being criticized for recommending that people get vaccinated during the pandemic, which never happened. And I forcefully always said the opposite. Very frequently, probably said it over and over again. I'm not your doctor. I'm not telling you to get it.

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I'm not telling you not to get it. It's a personal decision. Opposite. Literally the opposite of what I'm blamed for. Do you remember, some of you might remember, the thing that first derailed my career, this was years ago, where I had an argument where I predicted that evolution, the theory of evolution, would be debunked in my lifetime.

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And that it would be debunked, not necessarily in, let's say, in classic ways, but it would be debunked because we would understand the nature of reality and so differently, that evolution would stop making sense. And that happened. That's called the simulation. Now, you could argue that the simulation is not real, but the argument is it's a trillion to one likely that it is.

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And if we're a simulation, then the past is actually created on demand. Now, I could be right about that, right? I could be right about that, or I could be wrong about that. And I don't know. But what I will tell you is that 100% of the pushback, to my opinion, was based on stuff I didn't say. So again, this major thing, I probably lost, I'll bet I lost 30% of the Dilbert fans over this.

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Something I was right about, at least in terms of knowing that some rethinking of reality would cause us to rethink evolution, that was one hell of a good prediction. I mean, that was a crazy good prediction, like beyond, if it's right, and I think it is. Then, does anybody remember, this will be a good test, how many of you remember the sock puppet scandal about me?

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The accusation was that I sock puppeted, which is a very specific act. Anybody remember that? Which never happened. Never happened. It never happened. Now, did I go online with a fake identity and have what I thought was a hilarious conversation with somebody who wanted to argue about the intelligence of Scott Adams? Yes, I did. Why did I do it?

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I was just debunking some hoaxes that were told about me. One of the hoaxes was that I was a Holocaust denier. Do you see the pattern yet? I'm not a Holocaust denier. But the public had decided I was. You see the pattern, right? 100% of all of my scandals never happened. None of them. Not a single one. So when I look, let me give you some others.

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I'm also called a climate denier, like I deny science. That's not happening. That's not real. And then what about my cancellations? My cancellation happened almost entirely for political reasons, because there's not a single Republican who's canceled me.

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And 100% of the people who have heard me explain the situation in detail, because the drama never gets you the detail, 100% have not disagreed with my point. Nobody. There are people who didn't understand the point, and there are people who said it made me mad, which I acknowledge. And there are people who said you shouldn't have said it. That's their opinion.

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But what they think I did and said didn't happen. I was complaining against racism. And I was accused of being a racist. No, I'm complaining about racists. I'm anti-racist. The entire rant was against racism. And I got accused of being racist. Now, so here's the context. So you look at Dan Crenshaw and you see this bullshit about his investing. Do you think that's real? You just heard my resume.

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It's just the ocean. So I don't know what they're going to do. But Elon Musk has announced he's going to donate free Starlink terminals to the affected area in L.A. I think that's maybe today or tomorrow he's going to do that. X always makes me feel like the world is so small. So, you know, the richest, most interesting guy in the world right now is, of course, in every topic.

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All of the claims against me are fake or out of context to the point that they're reversed. So I don't know the truth about the Dan Crenshaw investment stuff, but with what I know, if I had to place a bet, especially knowing that people have been watching his investments really closely, because this is sort of an evergreen thing that they say about him, you don't have one example.

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You can't give us one example of a company

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That he had special knowledge about and that's the reason he made money because if you've got even one example You better lead with that how about He made this investment with insider information on this company and here's the name of the company And that caused him to have a 40 gain you tell me that and you have my attention Then i'm going to say oh Still legal completely legal But i'd say You know, maybe we should look at change in that law

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so just put it in context most stories like this one you know the the investment they'll they don't play out they're they're fake so again i'm not defending dan crenshaw for any other opinions they might be excellent they might not be but that's not my topic today thank you for watching ladies and gentlemen

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You continue to be the thing that keeps me alive because I love connecting with all of you in real time. All right, I'm going to say hi to the locals people and everybody else. Have a terrific day as best you can, unless you're in Southern California, and then we'll see what we can do for you. And locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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And he's in this topic in a productive way. And then you see in the comments when he says he's going to donate them, you see his brother, Kimball, saying, you know, thanks, brother. So he must be in L.A. and he must be effective. So even Kimball, Kimball Musk is in the mix. A lot of celebrities. We'll talk about some of those. All right. The biggest macro story is the fog of war.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, it makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Sensational. Best sip of the day. Well, of course, I'm going to be talking about the L.A. fires, but I'll wait just a minute for people to stream in.

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So I'm guilty of probably, I don't know the specifics, but I think I probably reposted some fake news yesterday because there was so much speculation and not quite accurate. So I want to talk about the things we think we know and put them in context. If you haven't done this yet, I recommend it highly.

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If you're not watching one of the fake news networks like CNN talking about the context of how we got to this situation in California, you're not really hearing the other side. And this is one of those things where there's a fog of war, but on top of it, two completely different versions of what happened have already emerged. No surprise. No surprise there.

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But you really need to hear the alternative explanations of what happened. It's going to blow your mind that any of it could be a little bit explained. Now, when I say a little bit explained... My macro theory is that there's massive incompetence. There needs to be some kind of addressing that. I don't know what that looks like.

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So there's massive incompetence, but some of the accusations clearly don't fly. And I'll tell you which ones they are because I feel like we want to be mad, but it's such wasted energy to be mad at the wrong things. There's plenty of things to really be mad at. Now, I will remind you, Well, we'll get to that. So here are some of the things that people accused the L.A.

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government and management of doing. So first of all, the reports were that the fire hydrants either didn't have water or had no water pressure. Now, there's two versions of that. If the problem is they didn't have water, because there was no stored water.

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There is some evidence that there was a water reservoir that was not filled, but I'd like to know more about whether it was possible to fill it, because maybe there was no water to put in, and I don't know whose fault that would be. So all of these things that look like they're simple, they've all got some bigger story behind them. which doesn't make anything good or right.

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It's just that you should know the context. It's never as simple as the posts on X. So it's possible, well, there definitely was a low water pressure in some places, and there definitely were fire hydrants not producing water. Some were. So we do have reports of some working hydrants, some not. Possibly, or even maybe probably,

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The reason the water pressure was insufficient is that there were so many hydrants being used at the same time, attempted, and the entire place had been destroyed, so there were a lot of open fountain-like water being wasted just in homes. So if the area was served by the same water source, be it the hydrant or inside the house, if the house...

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has broken pipes and the water is spewing everywhere and everybody's trying to use water at the same time to put out the fire. There's not going to be enough water pressure or maybe even water. So water and water pressure were both a problem. Um, it's not entirely clear that either of those were some direct mistake that you could put on some particular person. They're all complicated.

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There's a question of forest management. You know, Trump has been on it for years, literally years. He's been saying that California is not managing its forest.

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like places like austria where they don't have this kind of fire and managing the forest means partly removing the underbrush you know the really really flammable stuff because the trees can do a much better job of surviving if if it's just going tree to tree it's not going to go as fast as if there's this underbrush that's just ready to go Because the living trees are a little bit wet.

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So they'll slow things down. But the dead underbrush, it's going to be traveling like crazy. So the forest management thing is a real thing. It's really important. It's really not done well. But I don't know if that had a causation in this case. Because most of what I saw burning were residential homes.

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Before that, I would like to note, do any of you remember, I can't remember how long ago it was, so we're going to test your long-term memory. It was a long time ago, but there were these two terror attacks, one in New Orleans and one in Vegas. Any of that sound familiar? It was so long ago. Right? Trump is doing it again. He's doing that thing where time is completely distorted.

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And there's at least one report that I don't think is confirmed that somebody said the fire started in somebody's backyard and then spread up a hill. If it started in somebody's backyard and spread up a hill, which is not confirmed, not confirmed, it's just something I saw a fireman on the scene who was working and said... Um, if it was set by somebody, we heard reports that, uh, which are fake.

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These are fake reports. Somebody, and Oh, that's, that's one of the fake ones that I think I reposted. So that's bad on me. That's just a mistake. I should not have been trusting that kind of information that early in the story. All right. So that's just on my, that's just an unforced error. So on my part, believing that story, uh,

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that some homeless person said it, which did not happen, that's on me. That's just an error. I should have said somebody reports it, but we don't know. That would have been the right answer. So we still don't know. But I can tell you that I don't see a direct link from forest management to this particular fire.

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I do see a gigantic risk if our forests are not well managed, and that appears to be the case. So we don't know about the water reservoir thing. There are a whole bunch of questions about whether water resources have been managed correctly for years. It doesn't look like it. It looks like there are enough allegations of things that could have solved the problem.

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I guess years ago there was some big plan to capture the water runoff and make it available for fires, but that didn't get passed. Some people will say it's because of the Democrats. Other people will say, well, you know, we tried to get this bipartisan bill to have more water, but the Republicans said no for some reason. So I don't know.

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But I would say the one thing that I'm confident about is I'm confident that that California has completely mismanaged its water resources. Would that have made a difference in this specific case? Maybe not. There's a video of Joe Rogan in 2024, in the summer, which is just six months ago, in which he was saying he talked to a fireman. So six months before this fire in L.A., a fireman said,

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Let's check the stock market while people are streaming in here. And Tesla's way up. SPY is up. Looks like things are up. Bitcoin is up. Rumble is up. And NVIDIA is up only a little bit. I thought it would be more. All right. Let's get some comments going and we'll give you the show you damn well deserve. I know you do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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And she got in trouble for saying that, I can't remember if she said, because she was a black woman, I can't remember if she was talking about black women or women in general, but she said that women weren't getting enough exercise because they worried about their hair. Do you remember that? And then everybody mocked her and said, come on, come on, they're not worried about their hair.

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And then there were surveys done. Turns out Women don't exercise as much because it's just a huge pain in the butt to get their hair right. You know, if you don't have the timing right, you know, you can't do exercise and have good hair at the same time. And I thought, wow, she was like right on target.

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So Jocelyn Elders, in my view, was sort of the superstar of Surgeon Generals because she said what people didn't want to hear and they weren't ready to hear, but it was right. So I always had a lot of respect for her. I saw there was some pushback from some smart people saying that they didn't think that Dr. Casey Means was sufficiently qualified.

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But I feel like a medical doctor is probably qualified, especially if they're in the Maha camp. So I'm going to be open-minded about that one. The Stanford Review, which I believe is a student publication in Stanford, They did their own research, and they found that China is running this enormous spy operation in Stanford, which suggests it's probably in every major U.S. college institution.

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And the way it works is that if you're a Chinese student whose nationality is Chinese, but it's also your... Um, country that you were born in. So not Americans. We're not talking about, um, we're not talking about Asian Americans. We're talking about people who are going to school here and then they're going to go back to China.

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Did you know that they add the chimney just for the picking of the pope? It's not there all the time. So now you know. So black smoke means no pope has been selected yet. Did you all see the meme on the internet of orange smoke coming out of the chimney suggesting that maybe Trump had been picked as the Pope? That's a pretty good meme.

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Apparently those students, even if they didn't want to be spies, they're forced to be spies. And every single one of them seems to have a handler, according to the Stanford Review. And the handler not only makes sure that they spy... but even directs them into which classes and things they should get involved in.

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So the Chinese government would say, all right, for example, I'm just making this up. They'd say, for example, all right, AI is critically important to China's future. So you're going to sign up for the AI class. Well, I don't want to sign up for the AI class. Well, you're going to. You're going to sign up for the AI class. All right. And you're going to tell us everything that you learn.

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So don't you assume that this is what's happening in every major college institution? I don't see that there's any way to stop it except for removing all those students. Because the students are guilty, but I would say they're operating under duress. I doubt there's even one student who thinks, oh, I love doing this. This year is fun being a spy.

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I'll bet they just want to enjoy the college experience and learn their stuff and go on with their lives. But in any case, they probably pay a lot for their tuition compared to other people. So it's going to be tough to do anything about that.

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well did you see the announcement uh from uh omg the o'keefe media group james o'keefe scored another big one and he's got some undercover video of um a very close confidant to prince andrew And the very drunken, close confidant who was actually living with Prince Andrew's ex-wife and raising his kids. He wasn't just close. He was as close as you could get. Like, he was right in the middle of it.

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So this is somebody who definitely knows what was up. And according to him, in his drunken... babbling, he said that he confirmed that Prince Andrew was involved with Epstein and having sex with underage females. Now, on one hand, that is a pretty amazing undercover discovery. And On the other hand, it's the only thing about Epstein that I was sure I already knew. Did anybody have that feeling?

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Now, just because it wasn't 100% confirmed that Prince Andrew had some sex with at least one person, was it Virginia Joffrey who was making that claim? I forget, who recently passed away. But did you think it was just one?

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And did you think, I mean, it's the only thing, the only thing I knew about Epstein that I was completely certain I knew the whole story, which was Prince Andrew was a, I don't know, a client of Epstein's or just a friend. But wouldn't you have been more surprised to find out that he wasn't doing it? I think it was exactly what it looked like, and we all knew it for a long time.

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So on one hand, an amazing get to get the confirmation. On the other hand, why does all this Epstein seem like we keep getting teased that we're going to hear something new, and it's always something we already knew? Like, when is the first new thing going to be dropped? I don't know. But still, big accomplishment. Congratulations to O'Keefe.

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Apparently, the big victory that Trump got over the hoodies, getting them to say that they'll stop attacking shipping in the Red Sea, might be limited in its actual real-world value because the shippers... say, we don't quite trust the Houdis. Now, how many times have I told you that if you want to know what reality is, look at whatever the insurance companies are doing.

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And I said to myself, as soon as I heard that the Houdis had claimed that they would stop attacking, I said to myself, but will the insurance companies believe it? Because if the insurance companies don't believe it, The ships are just not going to go there because they can't get insured.

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Well, I hadn't mentioned this, but you probably saw the story that there's a very large new statue that's been added to Times Square. And it's a black woman. So I believe the idea was to celebrate black women. And... But here's the problem with the black woman statue. It turns out that, like most things, everything turns political.

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So I don't know if it's strictly because of insurance problems or if the shippers on their own are just saying, well, maybe we'll wait and see on this a little bit. But there should be an advantage. coming up at some point, but it won't be fast. However, it does make it look like Trump got a big victory before he does his Middle East trip, which is upcoming. So politically, terrific.

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Practically, I don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see. Well, here's the big good news, if I can call it that. Apparently, the US and the UK are going to announce a trade deal today. It's probably being announced right now. I think it happens right now. And the idea is that we've reached some kind of an agreement.

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Now, I guess we didn't have the... It wasn't the hardest of our trade deals because there wasn't that much in dispute. And I don't know the details of it yet. But if both sides are happy... That probably means there's some advantage to the U.S., and that's probably why the stocks are up in part. All right. Just looking at one of your comments here.

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So you remember I told you that the most predictable thing is that the press is going to slam Trump on his whole tariff fiasco and the chaos. But as soon as the deals start coming in, oh, here we go. Zero Hedge is reporting that the U.S. is going to cut tariffs on U.K.-made cars. The U.K. makes cars to 10%. And the US, UK deals to cut beef tariffs to close to zero. Beef tariffs?

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In which direction? I guess our beef to them. But isn't the problem that they don't like our beef because it has hormones? Well, so the next thing I was going to tell you, I guess that comment got ahead of me a little bit, is that the most predictable thing that's going to happen

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is that the Democrat media is going to say, well, we looked at the details of this agreement, and obviously this agreement is not as good as Trump says, and it's not going to help in the real world, and things were going to go that direction anyway, and he's saying it's a big deal, but it's really no big deal. So the first few are going to get poo-pooed by the liberal media, the anti-Trump media.

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You should expect that. But they can't do it to all of them. If they just keep happening, if India comes online pretty soon and maybe South Korea and Japan, there's going to be a point where it's unambiguously true that the whole tariff thing worked. And then the media is going to have to figure out something else to talk about because there are going to be over 100 of them

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The news will be almost every day, well, we got another one, and it's good for America in three different ways. And this will all happen before the midterms. So Trump may have pulled off, it's way too early to say this, way too early, but you can see the glimmer of it. He may have pulled off the greatest political economic move of all time. Way too early to say that.

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But it's starting to signal in that direction because all the chaos stuff seems to be dissipating, and now it's turning into, oh, there must be serious people sitting around the table making serious deals that are actually good for America. And that's exactly what's happening. So I don't think yet that the media has accepted the fact that Trump knows what he's doing.

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and that creating all that ambiguity and what they call the chaos, but somebody else would call uncertainty, caused the entire world to want to make a deal really fast. There's nothing else that could have done that. There's no amount of begging, writing well-worded memos, nothing.

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There's nothing else that could have gotten all the major trading partners to get on an airplane and literally fly out here and say, can we do this right away? Can we make a better deal? Only Trump could do that. And only the way he did it, probably. There probably wasn't a second way in all the world. There was probably not any other way that this could have been done. And it's starting.

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And, you know, the Republicans don't see color, at least not in the same way. So I saw some people in the comments this morning calling it the fat lady statue. Yeah. Now, I'm not judging, and I don't do fat shaming because I don't think people are fat because they want to be.

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It's too early to say. Anything could go wrong. But it's starting to look like he pulled off one of the greatest moves I've ever seen. Way too early to know that for sure, but boy, does it look like it. We'll see. Well, meanwhile, Jerome Powell at the Fed is not looking to lower rates anytime soon.

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And he's claiming it's because of the uncertainty over the tariffs and that the tariffs might cause inflation. And he doesn't want to have inflation at the same time that he's lowering interest rates. I don't think he's making the right choice because it feels political.

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Now, of course, the Fed is supposed to be famously non-political, but I don't see how he could be because Trump has been on his ass so hard. I feel like I just don't trust him. I just don't trust that his reasoning is without political bias. And that's a problem. Now, you could say that maybe Trump is the one that caused the political bias, but I'm not so sure.

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Because there's an anti-Trump sort of bias that's everywhere all the time anyway. So I wonder if Trump had never said a thing to criticize the Fed, would that make the Fed person more MAGA? I don't think so. Would it make the head of the Fed think, I can't go and play company if I help Trump with my rate cuts?

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I feel like the social and political pressure on the head of the Fed would sort of cause them to want to be anti-Trump even if they weren't naturally anti-Trump, you know, for their own lifestyle. I would argue that all Trump needs is for those rate cuts to happen before the midterms. And there's plenty of time for that. And I think that they will.

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Because if the tariff negotiations go well for the next six months, and especially if we get something happening with China, And all that needs to happen with China is that we agree on a pause while we work on a deal. That could be enough. And a pause on tariffs until we work on a deal. So I feel like Trump is setting up the midterms really well.

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There should be a rate cut and there should be a whole bunch of tariff deals done by them. He's going to be hard to beat, or at least the Republicans are going to be hard to beat.

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Well, I was reading a Mario Noffel news summary, which I recommend, by the way. His news summaries are terrific on X. The Doge is... put together some software to make it easier to fire government employees. So you know how everything is too complicated? But apparently it was sort of complicated to just fire anybody. So they figured out how to do a high-speed system for firing federal workers.

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Now apparently over 260,000 government employees have already been let go because of Doge's work. Did you know that? That snuck up on me. 260,000 have already been let go. And then this will make it easier. And apparently there's a whole bunch of others who are targeted. So we expect the IRS to cut 40% of its staff and maybe the VA to cut 80,000. And I guess the ultimate source of this is Reuters.

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But that's as big a fail as you can get if you put up a statue celebrating black women and half of the country calls it the fat lady statue. Oops. Maybe they should have done a little market testing before they went with that model. Anyway, good try. According, apparently there's another UFO sighting, according to the Daily Mail. There was an alien ball that apparently dropped into Columbia.

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Wow. Now, here's a story that You've probably already heard, I think I've mentioned it, but I can't stop going back to it because it's blowing my brain that according to Scott Besant in the Treasury, over one-third of the payments that were issued by the Treasury in the recent past can't be tracked back to the appropriations to find out if they were allowed and appropriate expenses.

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one third and keep in mind that all of the government's expenses go through the treasury and one third did not have a code on them to say where that what it was about so you couldn't even judge whether they were allowed or not so now that's been changed and

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Again, I'm going to say that this might be Doge's biggest win, meaning that if expenses in the government suddenly and inexplicably go down over the next year and a half, isn't it going to look like all the fraudsters knew that they would get caught, so they stopped doing it? Is it possible...

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that even if they couldn't catch the fraud, because the fraud was hidden too well, that if they set up a mechanism to catch it in the future, is it possible that we'll see this gigantic drop in expenses that nobody even understands? Like we don't know why it went down. If that happens, and some of it happens before the midterm, Oh, my God.

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Now, again, I'm being super optimistic, but I can't believe that a third of the payments went without some kind of a payment code and there wasn't a great deal of fraud going on. It's hard to imagine there was anything else going on. But also Doge News, Libs of TikTok is talking about this on X. Doge announced that they ended 522 contracts worth $285 million in just the last two days.

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Now, how do you terminate 522 contracts in the last two days? I have a theory that they did it by the title. Because it would be pretty hard to really dig into all those contracts and talk to all the players, the buyers and the sellers, and to find out if it's appropriate. But here's one that they canceled. One of the contracts included $181,000.

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USDA contract for, and this is the title of what the contract is, Technical Climate Advisor for Central Africa. Would you feel that you needed to do a deep dive before you cut that? I wouldn't. I would just look at the title. Do we need a Technical Climate Advisor for Central Africa? No. No? Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm going to go with no.

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So it might be entirely possible that you could get rid of 522 contracts just by reading the titles and figuring out how much you laughed. If you laughed uncontrollably at just the title, that should be enough to cut it. I'd be perfectly happy with that standard. Why'd you cut it? We read the title and we couldn't stop laughing. Okay, good enough. That's all the research I need.

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Well, the Center Square is reporting that there was a failed vote to try to require voter ID in Michigan. Now, I guess all the Republicans voted to require voter ID, and all the Democrats voted no. So the thing failed. It fell 16 votes short. And my question is this. This is genuine curiosity. So that's going to prevent me from getting Alzheimer's, my curiosity. I'm actually curious about this.

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What do the normal Democrats think about this? Because you know the far left, the ones who are really dug in, they're going to be in favor of any crazy thing as long as they can keep power. But if you were just a normal Democrat, not an elected official, and not one of the crazy progressives, just a normal Democrat. Let's take Bill Maher. Take Bill Maher, for example, a normal Democrat.

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What's he think about the fact that 100% of the Democrats don't want voter ID? How do you possibly process that other than fraud and wanting to promote fraud? Because there's no normal Democrat who believes that black Americans can't get an ID. We've literally never found even one. So do they just sort of... say to themselves, well, as long as it's defeating the Nazis, it's okay.

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So they have video of it, you know, traversing the sky. But then they actually captured it. Now they're looking at it. And I don't believe a single part of this story. but it's funny that it even exists. So it's a weird metal sphere, and it's made of three dense layers and has a chip-like core, they say, and 18 tiny microspheres inside. No welds, no seams, and no signs that humans built it.

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And then how normal would you be if you thought you were fighting Nazis? It wouldn't be very normal at all. So does anybody know? I've never asked any normal Democrat that question, but I can't believe that a normal person, no matter what side of the politics they're on, would a normal person think you shouldn't have ID to vote in America? I don't think so, right?

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Doesn't it seem to you that the normal ones need to just sort of avoid the question? It's good for their team, so they're probably like, well, I'll worry about other things. So I'd love to see the press talk to normal Republicans, not elected ones, and just say, what do you think about this? Did you know that your team voted 100% to not have good security for elections? What would they say?

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Genuinely curious. Here's some good news for America. According to The Hill, Trump signed an executive order on apprenticeships. So apprenticeships were already, I guess we had quite a bit of them, 680,000. He wants to get that up to a million. But there was a bigger thing that was part of the executive order, which might be helpful, is that apparently our...

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I guess our federal standards for these apprenticeships included a whole bunch of fragmented federal workforce entities doing their own thing. So it was a big confused duplicative process. And so a big part of the executive order is reducing the duplication and simplifying the whole how do you get an apprentice kind of thing. So that's perfect.

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So they want to identify workforce development and education programs that are ineffective and get rid of those and just basically make the system work for the first time or work better, really. At the same time,

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So you can think of this as more of the realization that college isn't for everybody, and that especially if we have more manufacturing coming back to America, you're going to need lots of people who can just do practical things, and they don't need to read Shakespeare to do it. So I'm glad the government sort of understands the reality of the world that way. However, It's even better.

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Google apparently has launched an ambitious program, this is according to CleanTechnica, to train 100,000 electrical workers for the AI-powered future. So I assume that means 100,000 electrical workers to help them set up more and more data centers. And they're also going to train people. They're looking to train a whole bunch of people in AI. So not...

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They're using AI to train them, but also training them in AI. So Google is getting really aggressive in training people that they're going to use in their own workforce. which, again, requires no college. It just requires the right directed, high-quality training. And it aims to equip up to a million Americans with AI skills, separately from the electrical stuff. So good for Google.

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So of course they're doing it for their own company reasons. They need this kind of workers, and they need a lot of them, and they're going to train them. And then the third thing, these are all related things, but they strongly suggest a theme or a pattern that's going in the right direction. So the post-millennials talking about this. Apparently U.S.

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companies are looking to recruit workers in high school. You know, almost like a sports team is trying to recruit from college usually. And the reason is that if they wait... they won't get enough employees.

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So between the demographic problem where there are not enough young people being born, and now it'll probably be exacerbated by the reduction in immigration, apparently high schoolers who are 16 and 17 years old are being directly contacted by by major corporations in their area to see if they can get them interested in working in their company as soon as they graduate.

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And some of these jobs pay over $50,000 right out of high school. I think it could be as high as $70,000 per year for trade jobs. And so imagine being 17 years old and maybe you're not heading for college. And you've got these companies trying to recruit you, and they're offering you a good starting salary. You still have to live at home on that salary, I think. But it's pretty impressive.

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It's cold on the outside, but reportedly hot on the inside. How do they know that? I'm not sure. And it may have vaporized water. And it has perfect internal symmetry. And even better, it's allegedly etched with ancient runes. And AI says the message is about unity, energy, and transformation. Do you think AI successfully translated ancient runes from another planet?

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So that's a good adjustment. So I guess in at least three different ways, the government, Google and all these smaller manufacturing companies. And imagine how much of that they're going to need when manufacturing is really pulling back into America. What this suggests to me. is that America is doing its America thing, which is it's reading the future and making the adjustments it needs to make.

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And this is exactly the adjustment that we need to make. And you're seeing it in three different domains, which suggests it's now a universal, understood, accepted thing that we just got to figure out how to get non-college students into the jobs that make sense for the business as well as the students. Anyway, apparently the U.S.

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is doing more spying on Greenland as part of our effort to take over their country. I think it's hilarious that it's not really secret. So apparently the U.S. says Trump has ordered that the spy networks start gathering more information about Greenland. Specifically, they're looking to find out Who in Greenland might be in favor of joining up with America? And which ones are not?

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Now, you might say, and they would use their various spy apparatus for doing that, which would be electronic stuff that we intercept. And maybe we have some people on the ground asking questions, but we wouldn't talk about that. So it's kind of hilarious that we just say out loud, all right, Greenland, We're going to be doing a little spying as step one to taking over your country.

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And that's what we're doing. Now, this would be step one of a color revolution, wouldn't it? Now, the color revolution has the usual steps. It's the thing we do to other countries, where the first thing we do is figure out who would be on our side, who we could work with. And then we fund them or help them become heads of organizations and have a louder voice in their own country.

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And then maybe we pay for some protests on the streets. to make it look like, oh, the public really wants this. It's a popular uprising. And then we might see if we can control the media. So if you turned on the television in Greenland, it would say, You know, people really want independence, meaning joining America. People really want this.

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And so then the public would start to think that there's this gigantic, you know, natural, organic movement toward whatever the thing is. But it's really just driven by us. Now, I don't know how far we would go. In this so-called color revolution. But the fact that it's public knowledge that we're increasing our spy campaign to figure out which of the locals are on our side.

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It's kind of hilarious that we don't even try to hide it. It's just fully transparent. Anyway, Tulsi Gabbard issued a collection emphasis message to the intelligence agencies to collect as much information as possible. Now, I am, again, I'm genuinely curious, what is the breakdown in the actual public? Because I think it depends how the question gets asked.

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I think there's a way to ask the question where the locals would say, hell no. And there's probably a way to phrase the question where the locals would say, huh, maybe, or even yes. So you have to be careful how you ask the question. That's all. Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the fentanyl question is a key to the fact that the U.S.

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and China are going to be talking about trade when some of our people are in Switzerland for other reasons. Well, China was going to be in Switzerland for other reasons, and we decided to meet them there to talk about it. I think that happens this weekend.

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Now, the way it's being reported by the Wall Street Journal is that China started using the fentanyl opening as a way to sort of get things moving because we were stuck and they didn't quite know how to unstick things. But they thought if they could just asked some questions about fentanyl, and the questions were, what exactly do you want us to do? Which is a good first question.

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So I've been fascinated watching China navigate the dignity part of this, where Trump acted like a bully, and then China, quite reasonably, said, you can't bully us. So this can't look like bullying or it's going nowhere. But how do you get out of that frame? Well, you have people meet in Switzerland instead of the US or China.

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Or maybe it's now from another planet. Maybe it's part of that ancient civilization on Earth that's been hiding in the ocean. Anyway, I'm going to put that in the category of I don't believe a single part of it. Well, let's check and see if there's any science that I can debunk. According to Discover, there's a therapy that's targeted at controlling emotions to help ease chronic pain.

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That's a good start because it seems like, all right, well, that's, you know, it's just Switzerland and it just doesn't seem like it's a direct thing. And then you have them asking, well, what would you like us to do about it? as if it's just a separate, unrelated, perfectly reasonable question, which it is. And apparently the U.S.

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answer is that, among other things, they want China to send the message out to the makers of the fentanyl precursors that the penalties will be severe. Now, I don't know if that's ever going to happen because I don't think China is actually serious about stopping the flow of fentanyl. I don't think they're serious at all.

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But if it at least gets us to talk about the other trade stuff, maybe it served some weird purpose there. Maybe. But meanwhile, the big question is whose economy is going to blink first? Is the U.S. ? going to have more problems because of these tariffs or is China? And the one thing I can tell you about the Chinese economy, I don't believe any story about the Chinese economy.

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I feel like you could read a story that says, from somebody who seems to be an expert, that China is ready to collapse any moment now, and they'll give pretty good reasons. Well, you got this bubble, and you got this demographic problem, and you got all these factories that are closing, and the workers are not getting paid, and it sounds pretty good. And you say to yourself, all right, all right.

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Looks like China can't hang, so they're going to have to make a deal. And then... Five years later, China will still be there cooking along. And I don't feel anybody knows anything about China. And of course, we can't believe any numbers that come out of it. So you have to be careful. But here's something that Zero Hedge was saying.

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According to Zero Hedge, the last cargo ships from China arriving in the U.S. ports that won't have a tariff. So apparently if you were already at sea and you were shipping stuff to the U.S., that would not be covered by the extra high Trump tariffs. So those are just coming into the docks now.

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so if you bought anything after that it might be you know part of the shortages or whatever so if some of those shortages really hurt it's gonna cost China more than they know meaning that it's one thing if I can't get 30 dolls but one of the one of the things we might not be able to get is ibuprofen

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because apparently most of the ibuprofen, there would be other pharma products that might be a problem too. But if I don't get ibuprofen, which is the only thing keeping me alive right now, I'm really going to be mad. So China has to manage not just the products and the tariffs and the economy. I mean, it's a lot to manage. But they have to manage how we feel about it.

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And there are going to be some products that if they hold back on them or somehow they're delayed, I don't know if Trump is going to get the blame for that. I think we're going to blame China. But there was a data that, again, you have to be careful about believing any data about the Chinese economy. But here's what Zero Hedge said. and this surprised me, that since 2018, U.S.

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imports from China have dropped from 21% of total goods to 13%. Did you know that? That in 2018, 21% of our total goods came from China, but that's dropped all the way to 13%. What was it that happened in 2018 that would have changed that number so drastically starting in 2018? Does anybody know? So this is a question for my regular viewers, people who have been with me since 2018.

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Does anybody know what happened in 2018 that could have been the start of something really bad for the Chinese economy? I'm not going to answer that question, but the people who follow me on Locals, they know what I'm talking about. And you never know. Maybe we live in a big old simulation, and maybe things that you didn't think were connected, maybe they're more connected than you thought.

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So they used a type of therapy on emotions, and they found out that it seems to make a big difference in people's chronic pain. Well, I'm going to give you the hypnotist take on that. It might be that it's exactly what it looks like. That if you get rid of people's emotional pain, it gives them some relief over their physical pain.

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You never know. All right. Apparently NVIDIA shares are expected to go up because Trump administration is going to end some chip export restrictions. I guess the restrictions were developed by the Biden administration, but they were supposed to go into effect on the 15th of this month. And they were sort of complicated and stupid.

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So the Trump administration is looking to simplify them, which would be good for NVIDIA. And CNBC is reporting on that. So it's not a change in the tariffs or anything. It simply has more to do with America deciding which of our technologies we should allow other countries to have access to. And Trump is just going to simplify that. So that's good news. All right, this is really funny.

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This is a story on Twitchy. Even Pete Buttigieg is saying that it was too hard to build things in America because of excessive regulations. Now, do you think the excessive regulations came from Republicans? Do you think he's complaining about all the Republican-led excessive regulations?

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Well, I'm going to read to you some of the wording of the regulations that made it hard for Buttigieg to build any infrastructure. Because as you know, he completely failed in building any infrastructure. So this is going to sound like a joke. It'll sound like stand-up comedy. But I swear this is the real language from the government.

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So apparently shortly after Biden took office, he signed an executive order mandating that the beneficiaries of 40% of all federal climate and environmental programs should come from underserved communities. If they said nothing else, that would have stopped all progress because there would be nothing but fighting over who the underserved communities are.

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You know, since it's vague, all the people who said, I'm underserved, no, I'm underserved. So, yeah, that would have killed progress right there, but it gets better.

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uh the order so again this is biden established the white house environmental justice environmental justice advisory council which monitors agencies such as the department of transportation and it was to ensure this is a quote that voices perspective and lived realities

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of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions. How would you like to be a company that builds stuff? And you run into that buzzsaw. Boss, did you know about this? What? What? We're applying for that big grant so we can build that thing that they want to be built. Yeah, yeah.

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And we know how to build things. And we'll have the money to do it. So we're good to go, right? Well, well.

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Because as I tell you way too often, your brain and your body are really the same thing. You know, we just artificially treat the brain like it's separate because it's in your skull. But it's all kind of one big brain. Your body and your little nugget inside your skull. But... Here's my question as a hypnotist.

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but only if we hear the voices, perspectives, and lived realities of the communities with environmental justice concerns that are reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions, and that in order to qualify for the grant, the applicants must, quote, demonstrate how meaningful public involvement inclusive of disadvantaged communities will occur throughout a project's life cycle.

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So you can't even, like, do a big thing in the beginning, it's better for you to make sure that it's spread out over the life cycle of the project. And apparently the phrases like public involvement are all unclear, so you don't know if you've got enough. but it should involve, quote, intentional outreach to underserved communities.

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So who gets to decide if there's enough and if you were intentional enough? But wait, I'm not even to the good stuff yet. You ready for this? According to the Department of Transportation, the outreach to these underserved communities can take the form of, and I swear to God I'm not making this up,

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I'm not making this up, the outreach to these communities could take the forms of games and contests, visual preference surveys, or neighborhood block parties. So long as the grant recipient provides, quote, multilingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use languages other than English, quote,

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So do you have any questions about why the Biden administration didn't get anything built? The incompetence that's layered in this goes beyond just, oh my God, it's bad. It's actually just funny. To read their actual words, anybody who's been in any kind of a real business, you know you could never satisfy these requirements.

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Because as long as they're vague, it allows everybody who says they're in an underserved situation to say, you haven't done enough for me. So no matter how much you're going to do, somebody's going to say, you didn't do enough for me. All right. I guess President Xi is meeting with Putin. I think that's today. I saw the video. I think it was today. Maybe it was yesterday.

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And he's there because there's the big Victory Day parade that's happening that... Putin is putting on. And I didn't realize that Putin has connected everything from Hitler to the Ukraine war and has always framed it. I guess I knew this, but somehow you forget about it. You forget that Putin has always said that what he was doing in Ukraine was getting rid of the Nazis. And

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And then I look at the United States and, you know, the Democrats want to get rid of the Nazis too. Like we're still fighting the Nazis. And Putin apparently is making that work because he's selling that version that he's just denazifying the world. And he's trying to get President Xi to help, I guess. So Xi will join the celebration of getting rid of the Nazis, according to them.

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Well, as you know, India and Pakistan are lobbing weapons at each other, artillery in one direction and missiles and drones in the other direction. But you heard there was an enormous dogfight. Did you hear that news? So both Pakistan and India had a large number of jets in the air who were directly fighting each other. And they called it a dogfight.

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Is it possible that what really happened is that they hypnotized some portion of the people they were doing the therapy on? Here's how easy it would be to hypnotize them. We're going to do a thing where we talk to you and it's going to be a bunch of scientists, really smart people, and we're going to see if it eases your pain. That's it.

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And then later we find out that they stayed on their own side of the border. So none of the Indian jets went into Pakistan and none of the Pakistani jets went into India. But they had an enormous multi-hour dogfight. So does that raise any questions with you? Like, what the hell kind of a dogfight is it if you're not even in the same country at the same time?

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And the answer is they were shooting things from, I don't know, over 100 miles away. So it was all long-range attacks. So I guess the Indian jets were just sort of circling on their side of the border and the Pakistanis were on their side of the border and not even close.

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They were hundreds of miles away, and somebody would launch a missile, and sometimes it would hit, and sometimes it wouldn't, I guess. So that was a dogfight. But it does suggest that they're both very serious about not escalating. So that's the good news. I don't think you would spend that much time energy, making sure you never cross the border with your jet.

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You know, at the time when you're basically at war and still you're not going to cross the border, that's pretty serious indication that you don't want to escalate. You just want to make sure you've made your point that you can't mess with us. And I guess they both made the point that you can't mess with us or there will be problems. So that's where that went.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for today. Thanks for joining. If you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, I'm going to talk to the people on Locals platform privately now in about 30 seconds. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. Hope you come back tomorrow, same time, same place. All the good news that's happening.

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You could have frauds, you know, just actors coming in wearing like scientific clothes and having glasses and clipboards and stuff. And probably, probably you would have a big impact on the number of people who said, yeah, you know what? that therapy really helped me. My emotions are better and my pain went way down.

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So I don't know how you would do this experiment unless you could somehow reduce the accidental hypnosis. And the accidental hypnosis would just be the suggestion that it might work. You know, it's sort of a placebo effect on steroids.

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One of the tricks of being a hypnotist is if you want to do it professionally, you need to get an office and wear a suit and you have professional furniture and even put your diploma on the wall. Because if somebody walks into that environment and it looks all professional and somebody spent money on it and there's a diploma, they will get hypnotized much more easily

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than if it was just your neighbor Bob. Hey, Bob, I hear you're a hypnotist. Yeah, just sit on this dining room table and I'll hypnotize you. That would still work. If Bob is good at it, that would still work. But we were trained that you should make it look like it'll work because it makes it easier. Here's one. Maybe they could have just asked me and saved a little time.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a tech or jealous or Steiner canteen jug or flask or vessel of any kind. Also a cup or mug or a glass. I should read from the top line, maybe not start from the second line.

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according to the University of California in LA, that people who are curious, it might help them stay sharp as they get older and keep them from getting Alzheimer's. Do you believe that? That people who are curious are more protected against Alzheimer's? Yes. That would be compatible with everything that's ever been tested about people who might get Alzheimer's.

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The more you use your brain, the less likely you get Alzheimer's. That's one of the most commonly studied things you've ever seen. So of course, people who are naturally curious are going to spend more time doing intellectual things to satisfy their curiosity. So did they really need to do a study to find that curious people are more protected from Alzheimer's? They did not.

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They could have just asked me. I would have saved them a lot of time. Yes, curious people, they would use their brains more. We're pretty sure that using your brains more protects you from Alzheimer's. Yes, it will protect you. Got it. There's another study. Eric Dolan is writing about this in SciPost. They found that men tend to look at women's mouths when rating their attractiveness.

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while women focus more on men's eyes and hair. Now, this again might be exactly true, but I have questions. Question number one, did the women, and they were looking at photos, I believe they were looking at pictures, not actual people. Did the women in the photos, were they all wearing makeup? In other words, were their eyes all tricked out with eye makeup?

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Because one of the things I've noticed is that pretty much every woman's eyes look pretty good if they have eye makeup on. I don't even know the words. What are the right words? Eye makeup, fake lashes if you need them, that sort of stuff. So it seems like... It's a little bit unfair because it's unusual to run into anybody whose eyes are special. I've seen it.

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My last ex-wife had world-class eyes, the kind that give you 5 million followers on Instagram. But it's unusual. Your average person just has good eyes. Your average woman... just looks great. Their eyes are just perfect. So looking at the eyes doesn't tell you a lot. But here's my speculation. I believe men are trained not to make too much eye contact because it's intimidating. What do you think?

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If you're having a conversation with a woman, especially one that you don't know well, would you spend most of your time looking into her eyes? Let's say there wasn't some romantic connection there. Or would you sort of just naturally know that as a male, it's intimidating to do too much eye contact? I look at the mouth. And the reason I look at the mouth is because it's usually moving.

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So it's something to look at. And I do make some judgments about the mouth. But some of it is I just don't feel comfortable making too much eye contact because I think the other person would get weirded out by it. Does anybody have that same? Anybody have that experience? I don't know if that's unique to me. All right. So I just put that out there. And women look more at men's eyes and hair.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. So good. Oh, I see the complaining has started. We got complaining. Complainers. All right. So last I saw, no pope has been selected. Only the black smoke is coming out of the little chimney.

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Now, the other thing is, I don't think they were allowed to look at anything but the face. So that's a little limiting. But yeah, I like looking at mouths. I think there's something to that science. Men tend to look where they're allowed to look. Well, you probably heard that Governor Newsom of California wants to work with Trump to make film great again in California.

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So Newsom has floated the idea of a $7.5 billion federal tax credit for filmmakers, to which I ask the following question. Why would filmmakers need an enormous tax credit in order to make films in California? I can only think of one reason. The reason would be that California has high taxes and high problems that they've sort of artificially created.

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Just everything's more expensive and the state is just slamming you in every possible way and you gotta watch out for harming the endangered frogs and you gotta make sure you've got DEI covered. Why would the federal government want to cover the mistakes of the state? And then beyond that, if you have to pay for the industry to exist, maybe that industry shouldn't exist.

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Maybe that industry should figure out how to make movies more inexpensively. Now, I do know that there are other countries that give big tax breaks. I guess they think they make their money back because there's a lot of activity that goes on.

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But I don't automatically think that subsidizing the movie industry to go back to the place that they ran from, even though it's my state and it'd be good for me, I don't know. And then I see that the people in favor of it are Governor Newsom and Adam Schiff. If Adam Schiff is in favor of it, it just automatically feels like a bad idea. So, I don't know. Good luck with that.

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Well, the White House has picked a new Surgeon General whose name is Dr. Casey Means. And, uh, I guess there was somebody else had been nominated. It was been withdrawn, but Trump said that, uh, this Dr. Casey means, um, has impeccable Maha credentials and she'll work well with, uh, RFK Jr.

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You know, if RFK Jr thinks she's the right choice and, uh, Trump's happy with her, that's probably good enough. When was the last time the surge in general made a big difference in the world? You know, there was a time when the Surgeon General said, cigarette smoking is bad, and then that got on the cigarette packs, so that was pretty important.

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But when was the last time you remember the Surgeon General made a difference? Do you remember, was it Jocelyn Elders? who was a surgeon general under, I don't remember who, but she got in trouble for saying that masturbation was good for you. And those were simpler times, to which I say, probably it is.

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I think this is actually going to happen. It might happen really quickly. Now, Democrats, of course, who don't understand how anything works, will say, well, it's the end of education. I guess nobody's going to get an education now, especially the brown people. So it looks like it's racist, too. And did I mention it's a little bit sexist? We don't even know how. So that's coming.

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but i'm pretty sure this is nothing but reorganizing how we how we do things and putting control in the states so i don't know how much money it will save because i would think some of that budget ends up at the states but we'll see so ian carroll who some of you know as a very colorful and interesting internet personality he's usually working on the

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conspiracy theories and whether they're true conspiracy theories or not we don't know but he's kind of into the interesting part of the news and he's talked quite a bit about the Epstein files and he thinks the Epstein files are never coming out now a hybrid of that which I've said is there will be lots of files and they might come out but not the good stuff

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I think that no matter how many files we get to see, we're just not going to see the good stuff. What Ian Carroll believes is that the files would be so deeply destructive to Israel that there's just no way we're going to release them because we're too tight with Israel. Israel has too much of a connection to the United States, let's say.

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You can say they have too much control over the government. That would be you know, the other way to look at it. I'm just going to say we have too tight a connection because you end up in the same place. That's the only part I can, you know, be sure of is that we have a tight connection.

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So if, for example, Israel said, whisper, whisper, you know, this would be the worst thing in the world for Israel, and therefore it would destroy our relationship, we could not survive the release of this. I don't know if that's going to happen, by the way, so... I'm not on the side that thinks he was only working for Israel.

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If you're Epstein and you're doing what he's been accused of doing, do you think you're going to be faithful to one master? Why? What would cause him to be faithful to one master? I can't think of a reason. Because remember, he's unfaithful in every other way. He'd be the ultimate liar, con man, sexual abuser, on a scale we've rarely ever seen.

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Do you think it just looked at the facts and decided, yep, that's a hoax? I don't think there's any chance of that because I don't think the large language models can do that. I think the large language models would just look at the predominant opinion. And unfortunately, it would still look like there were more people saying it was real because most of the media would say that. So I think

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So do you think that if his bosses were in Israel, that he wouldn't also do some work for the United States, maybe also some work for the UK? You don't think so? I think he would sell it to whoever he could sell it to, and he would gain influence by doing a favor for them. So it might be he had maybe a preferred boss, and if it turned out that it was Israel, nobody would be surprised.

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But I feel like there's something closer to freelancing happening no matter how he got started. So I feel like there's lots of reasons not to release the good stuff, and it's not just about Israel. Well, also, we're being told the JFK files are coming any minute. There's a website that's already up.

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And so that's where all the JFK files will be put, and we could look at them and find out all the nothing. I expect to find out absolutely nothing from the JFK files. You don't think that after, what is it, 50 years, whatever the hell it is, you don't think that the good stuff's been removed or scrubbed or was never there in the first place?

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Don't you think that the only things that are in the file are the things that the bad guys wanted in the file? Because the bad guys had complete control. The people who probably were behind it seemed to have had complete control over everything at that point. Why would they allow for decades the very proof that would put them in jail? Why would they allow that to even exist?

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You know, if they did the Warren Commission and that was fake, which most of us think was fake, why would they put real information in the files anywhere? It doesn't make any sense. So I'm going to say no real chance we'll see anything new and useful about JFK and or the Epstein files. Now, there might be plenty to talk about. which would be different.

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So they might be like, oh, there was an alien spaceship that landed at the same time as the assassination. And then it will be, oh, maybe the aliens did it. Yeah, yeah, it's the aliens did it. And we'll just go down some stupid rabbit hole.

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same you know same with epstein there'll be like one name of somebody who's already deceased and we're like well really he he was friends with that serial killer who's deceased maybe the serial killer is part of the story and we'll just go down some stupid rabbit hole so so there might be something that grabs our attention but i don't think it's going to clear anything up

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Meanwhile, this is funny. Do you remember when President Trump was reading off all the wastes of money when he did his speech to Congress? And there was all these weird things. And one of the items was that the U.S. was spending $8 million for making mice transgender.

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So when CNN did their fact-checking, they fact-checked that as fake, the fake that we were spending actually $8 million to make mice transgender. But then they had to take it off their fact-check because apparently it's true. Now, I love that their assumption about Trump is that he exaggerates everything. So, you know, you could call it exaggeration or hyperbole. They might call it lying.

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So when they say something like this, it just fits their pattern of, oh, he's exaggerating. There's no way. There's no way literally, literally, that they spend $8 million or had an $8 million budget for turning mice trans. But apparently they did. So they had to change their website. Libs of TikTok was calling that out. RFK Jr. was on Fox News lately.

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that Grok is being, let's say, the finger is on the scale, just like all the AIs, except that the finger on the scale of Grok is trying to be accurate. I think some of the other AIs, if somebody puts their finger on it, is to keep the propaganda there. But in this case, the fine people hoax is definitely a hoax.

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I just like this statement because there's so much controversy and question about RFK Jr. and whether he's going to use science or ignore the science. And I think he does a good job of saying exactly what he plans to do. And he said, quote, we're going to be honest with the American people for the first time in history. Okay. That's a hell of a good start.

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And he says about all of the tests and all the studies. Wait. Are you suggesting, RFK Jr., that the government has not been honest about all the tests and all the studies? Yes, we know that to be true. They have not been honest about it. Have you had a conversation with a normie about vaccination testing? It's a wild ride. So they'll say something like, oh, I don't like RFK Jr.

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because he's against vaccinations. And vaccinations have been tested and studied for decades so that we know they're safe. And I'll say something like, no, they weren't. Oh, yeah, they're studied for decades. We follow them. So we even not only do we know the short term effects, but we know the long term effects because of all the studies that go on for decades after they're released.

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And I say, there are no studies after they're released. No, no, no. It's not like the COVID ones where they just did a little bit of studying at first, but then they just released it and then they didn't know what was happening in the long term. And I say, that's all of them. None of them were studied for the long term.

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And normies will just flip out, tell you you're wrong, change the subject, run away, never talk to you again. Anyway, so and then he goes on, he says, and that's going to anger some people who want an ideological approach to public health. That is correct. The Democrats are on the automatic against anything mega or maha. And so the Democrats are once again going to be.

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It just gets funnier every time it happens. Once again, Democrats are going to be forced into this box where they're against testing drugs to see if they're safe, which is precisely the thing they thought was happening, and their entire worldview is based on the thought that science has already deeply tested all these things. Once they learn...

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that the only person who's in favor of deeply testing them and testing them right and testing them over the long term is RFKJ Jr. He's the only one who embraces their actual philosophy. They don't know that their philosophy has never been used. Big Pharma just doesn't use the, let's test it forever and make sure it's safe and test it in combination with these things. And

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Study what happens if you take a bunch of shots versus you just get one if you're a baby. Nope. Nope. That's not happening, but people think it is. According to Unusual Whales on X, the U.S. is going to appoint some kind of affordability czar and create an affordability council. Now, what exactly are they going to do? Because if the free market Can't make stuff affordable.

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What would an affordability czar do that would help? Now, I heard the other day something I'd never heard before. So give me a fact check on this. I haven't looked at anything but the comments on it. Somebody said that we get a lot of our eggs from Turkey. Now, I don't mean turkeys are laying eggs, which would be funny. I mean, they do.

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What I mean is that the country of Turkey is apparently a big egg producer. Is that real? And that we've already increased our number of eggs that we're asking some gigantic amount to make up for the shortfall. Is that true? I'd love to know more about that. So maybe, maybe an affordability czar could do stuff like

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And so if there's a little bit of programming in there to make sure that it gets that one right, that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But it makes me wonder if it can spot hoaxes in general. Because, you know, I've taught you the two on the nose rule. I've taught you the one anonymous source rule. You know, I've given you all these rules for spotting hoaxes. Can Grok do that?

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Well, we don't usually get our eggs from, I don't know, Canada or something, but now we will. So there might be some regulations that need to be loosened, something like that. Yeah. Dressing not eggs. Yeah, I've never heard we get our eggs from Turkey, so I'm not 100% sure it's true. And then somebody clarified for me something that I had gotten completely wrong.

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So this is me doing a fact check on my prior reporting. I'd looked up how long it takes a baby chicken to grow up and create its own eggs. It looked like it wasn't very long. It looked like it was basically a few months and your hen can make chickens. I'm sorry, or your chicken can make eggs. So I thought, well, Why would we ever have to wait more than two months?

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Because obviously the high price of eggs would mean that, you know, as long as we're not afraid of the bird flu. Let's see. Perplexity says, yes, eggs are being imported from Turkey to the U.S. Set to export 420 million eggs. I'm surprised that eggs can last that long. Doesn't that surprise you? You know, because the shipping is not going to be short. from Turkey. I don't think they fly them in.

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So I'm a little surprised about that. But apparently somebody said that I was wrong about it only taking a few months for a baby chicken to grow up into a hen that can make more eggs. Because I guess it takes longer than that. So maybe they can start laying eggs in a few months, but maybe they're not productive.

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meaning that they can't produce much or it's not the right kind of egg or it's not what you would want to buy at the grocery store. So I think it just takes longer. So the U.S. should be back in eggs just in the normal free market way, but it might take over a year. It could be closer to two years. So the free market will clearly, clearly...

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adjust to the fact that eggs cost a lot and there's a shortage so let's make more chickens it's just going to take a little while um anyway so if you have the right affordabilities are maybe you could make a difference i just don't know exactly what kind of things they would do meanwhile oil prices have going down to a three-year low, according to Financial Times. Tom Wilson is reporting.

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And so the Brent type of oil has dropped below $70 a barrel because of a larger-than-expected increase in U.S. crude stocks. So are we already going to see a big difference in oil prices, which would then work through the entire economy fairly quickly. I don't know. And then my question is, OPEC had just announced it was going to do a major increase in production.

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Is OPEC still going to do a major increase at the same time prices reach the three-year low? Or is that still high enough where they think, yeah, it's still worth doing a little extra production. So oil prices are just so hard to predict. There's politics in there and there's free market in there and there's physical constraints in there. There's a lot going on.

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But I would say, as Trump often says, The oil is like the liquid gold. He quotes the Beverly Hillbillies. Liquid gold. Anyway, it could be that if the only thing you did is... get all kinds of oil going in all kinds of ways, from OPEC doing more because we twisted their arm, maybe, behind the scenes, and the U.S.

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I'll bet no. but I'll bet it could do someday, and I'll bet it could be trained to do it. If the only thing he did was say, all right, there's a few people who are good at spotting hoaxes, so just look at their feed and try to imitate them, do what they would have done, then I think he could get there pretty quickly. For example, in this next story, there was a meta-analysis

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doing more because the constraints have been lifted by the Republican administration. If the only things you did were those things, you should see prices coming down within a year. One of the things that Trump... has done, but I think he could do better.

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In his speech, he did say, you know, there would be, in his own words, he said there'd be temporary pain, but you have to get through it to get to the good stuff. And I think maybe he needs to reinforce that. Maybe just a little bit stronger than that. Now, it's really hard

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for somebody like Trump, who's optimist, optimist, optimist, to tell you that you're going to have to suffer for a little while. So he might have the right instinct by downplaying that as much as possible because it's going to happen whether people feel bad about it or not. It's just going to happen.

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But I'd feel it would be a little more transparent if he said, yeah, the only way we're going to get prices down is to do some things that are going to be pretty hard to take in the short run. And if he could offer anything that would give people relief in the short run on food prices or anything else, that'd be great.

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So maybe if you had some way to make the short run a little bit easier to survive, then people would understand that waiting for the long run, which might only be a year or two, is worth doing. Meanwhile, the Pentagon says it's going to use AI to speed up their military decision making. We've heard that before. The Hill is reporting on this today. And Of course, that seems necessary.

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Like, I don't think you can get around it. And I believe that humans will still be making the real decisions. But instead of a human looking for a target, you know, a target's going to pop up and the AI is going to say, this is probably something you should shoot. And then the human gets to decide, yeah, that does look like something I ought to shoot. So if we don't do it, the enemies will do it.

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So it has to be done. There's definitely a risk to it, of course. So Trump has announced that we've captured the ISIS terrorist guy who did the Abbey Gate attack. That was as we were leaving Afghanistan, the terrible attack at the base there. And that that terrorist is on... Well, I wouldn't call him a terrorist, just say ISIS. And that he's on his way back to the United States.

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But ex-CIA agent Sarah Adams... who got a lot of publicity being on the Sean Ryan show. She knows she worked when, as an ex-CIA person, she worked apparently enough in that domain that she knows that it's the wrong guy. So apparently we're bringing the wrong guy in. and pretending that we think he's the mastermind of that big killing. And she says, nope, here's the list of who it really was.

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And so she's got the goods. She's giving you the names of the people that it really was. And she's ex-CIA, and she seemed to have worked in that domain, so she's not guessing. So he might have been there, they think, but he wasn't the mastermind. So we'll see. So far, I don't have any reason to think that Sarah Adams would be lying about that. It sounds like something she knows about.

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So we'll see. I always wondered how we really know how anybody did anything. So maybe that's the answer to my question. All right. So according to... There's a survey... showing that more Americans think that President Trump is changing the U.S. economy for the worse, for the worse, not the better, by a slight majority. Now, What survey was this?

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Well, it was a survey by NPR and PBS and Marist polling. So do you trust something that comes up with a negative view of Trump if it comes from NPR and PBS? If you're paying attention at all, you know that those are two entities that are seriously anti-Trump all the time and that Trump is criticized mercilessly.

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to see if the public is good at detecting fake news. Oh, here you go. Do you think the public's good at detecting fake news? Well, somebody did a meta-analysis to find out if the public is good at spotting fake news. Do you see the joke yet? As I've taught you, meta-analysis is not real. It's fake science. They use fake analysis to determine whether people can spot fake news.

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You couldn't even come up with any source that would be less trustable or less credible on this or any other topic, really. But here are some other things. If you ask the general public, is Trump doing things that are good for the economy? What does the general public know about economics? They kind of know what their prices are today.

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So that's really a different question from, is he doing things that are good for the economy? Because that would include it's going to make things worse for a little while, but you have to do it to get to the better place that would be way, way, way better. Now, how much of the public understands that? That the normal way of things is there's going to be cost up front to get any benefits later?

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Very few. How many people understand tariffs? I don't. So if you ask me, is he doing a good job with those tariffs? I would take the Dana Perino view, which is, well, let's wait and see, because it's just unfathomable. We don't know how much is going to be just a quick negotiation. We don't know how much is going to be permanent.

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We don't know how many companies will respond by moving production here or how long it would take. So many variables, so many unknowns. How in the world can the public know if the economy and the decisions made about it are heading in the right direction? Even the experts don't know that.

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I mean, they have opinions, but I'll bet you could get 100 economists to look at what's happening right now from the Trump administration, and they would just line up by, I think they would line up almost entirely by whether they're Democrats or Republicans. So what do you think the public's doing? Probably lining up almost exactly by the party that they support.

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So John Fetterman continues to try to be that voice of common sense, you know, the only person in the Democrat side who makes sense. He was talking about how the Democrats did their little pink outfits and their paddles with their little signs on it and and all the acting out during the president's address to Congress.

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And here's what he posted on X. He called the Democrats and their behavior a sad cavalcade of self-owns and unhinged petulance. He's talking about his own side. It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. Yup. We're becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to, and it may not be the winning message.

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Now, Fetterman also agreed with Trump on getting tough against Hamas because the hostages have not been released. So it looks like... Oh, and also, jumping in a little bit, Governor Newsom, who's got his little podcast, he's also moving to the middle, it seems. Yes. He had Charlie Kirk on his show. Okay, that's unusual, his little podcast. And apparently Newsom is opposed.

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I don't know if he always was, but at the moment he says he's opposed to biological men playing in women's sports. So you can see the people who want to angle for some kind of presidential run. We assume that they're doing that. We don't know for sure. But it looks like they just They just have to find something like common sense.

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And if they're not willing to do the easy stuff, and the trans issue of sports, that's an easy one. The public is very well decided which way they're going on that. So I don't take too seriously the people who are doing the, oh, I'm right in the middle, I'm a common sense guy too. So I'm not buying it as genuine, but There's no doubt they have to do it.

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But when I listen to Fetterman mocking his own side for being like a car alarm that nobody listens to and unhinged and petulant, I compare it to the James Carville plan where he finally just gave up and said, yeah, the smartest thing we can do, that's my Carville impression, the smartest thing we can do is just do nothing. Do nothing. Just wait for Trump to implode. That's all you have to do.

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Just wait for it to implode. So do nothing. Don't do anything. And I'm thinking to myself, the don't do anything idea sounds like the dumbest thing in the world until you see what the Democrats do when they do something. Every time they do something, it's so lame, it's so ridiculous, that even their own team is calling it unhinged and petulant and makes you look ridiculous. That's their own team.

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If the people in this study didn't know that they were part of a meta-analysis, well, they probably should have known. No, actually, if it's meta-analysis, it means they're looking at studies that other people already completed. So no, meta-analysis is like horoscopes. And I've given you the long explanation of why. But as soon as you see meta analysis, just discount it.

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So yeah, Carville, I think I mocked Carville at first for saying that their best strategy is to do nothing. But when you compare it to what they actually do when they do something... When they do something, it's always worse. So, yeah, James Carville might be the smartest person on the team. Just do nothing. Now, would that be enough for Trump to implode? Well, implode might be too strong a word.

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But do you think there's any chance that any president could go four years this aggressively? without something coming off the rails, just in the normal course of things. It might not be some existential threat, but it could be that something, uh-oh, trade with China really went south in a bad way and we're running out of toilet paper. You could imagine that happening, right?

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I don't know what it would be. It wouldn't necessarily be tariff-related, but you could imagine... Things getting even worse in Ukraine or Russia getting a little more adventurous than they would have been otherwise or something.

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So just waiting for things to start looking bad in their normal course of a normal presidency, it's not the worst idea in the world for a strategy because they really have nobody who can do anything. That works. If you don't have a single competent person on your team, yeah, waiting until the other one makes mistakes and then criticizing it, it's your best play.

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Meanwhile, Ayanna Pressley gets into this back and forth with James Comer at a hearing. And, of course, she tried to do the thing where she was just talking over and using up the time that she wasn't allowed and acting bad. And, of course, she was, again, dressed as her supervillain self, which I love.

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But she gets into it and she's saying, data from Texas shows that U.S.-born Americans commit more, I won't use the words, but, you know, sex crimes and murder than immigrants. And Comer finally had enough of her because it wasn't her time and she wasn't supposed to be speaking, I guess.

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And Comer goes, this trend of you all trying to get thrown on a committee so you can get on MSNBC is going to end. We're not going to put up with it. I like how he framed it, that you're all trying to get thrown out so that you can end up on MSNBC to tell your story about how you got thrown out. It does look like that's all it is. You know, pure theater.

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And so of all the theater kids, because if you haven't noticed by now, the Republicans seem to do policies which they actually believe and have always believed, such as getting rid of the Department of Education. They've always believed that. So if they go ahead and do that, that's just Republicans being Republicans and authentic.

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But the Democrats are almost entirely driven by these theater kids who do dress up and then they do an act and they bring their act to, you know, to whatever event. Oh, we're going to pretend that we're the unhappiest people in the world. Look at my face. Oh, look at my sad face. I've got a sad face. Did anybody notice my sad face? Oh, you need arguments and data?

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Well, I don't have any arguments and data, but look at my sad face. I'm so disappointed in you. Oh, so disappointed. But the best one is Ayanna Presley. Because I like that she goes the extra mile to match her wardrobe and style to her evil supervillain persona. And a lot of the other theater kids just think they can just sort of mumble through it, like Adam Schiff.

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Just say, I mean, it could be true because a lot of questions are yes, no. Are people good at this? Yes, no. So meta analysis can be correct, but so can a coin flip. It's basically a coin flip because a human being decides what's in the analysis and what's not that that's the whole trick.

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And he does his leader kid thing, but he just wears a regular suit. And I'm thinking, well, you could learn a little bit about how to do wardrobe and hair. And by the way, I love... I actually love Ayanna Pressley's whole vibe and look. I think she does a great job of it, like legitimately. She's just really good at it, the fashion thing. But the fashion she chose just looks like a supervillain.

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And then she acts like one. And I think, well, that's perfect. You're committed. I like the fact you're committed to the role. But none of it looks real. It doesn't look like she's even slightly committed to her own opinions. It looks like she got the script. And she's like, and in scene one, I will be talking over people until I get kicked out.

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And in scene two, I will appear on Rachel Maddow's show. It just looks like acting. Chris Cuomo is mocking Democrats in Congress, saying that they picked another hill to die on. There's a New York poll just came out. 67% of Democrats say biological men shouldn't play in women's sport. 67% of Democrats are against biological men in women's sports.

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And still, the leadership wants those biological men in women's sports. Wants it bad. And so Chris Cuomo was on the side of reason. It's like, okay, this is just crazy shit. Now, I should tell you full disclosure, I'm very pro-Chris Cuomo. Now, if you don't know why, when I got canceled, he was the only person in the big media world

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who said why don't you come on my show because i'm actually curious genuinely curious about what you had to say and what's behind it and he asked some tough questions which i expected it's part of the process it's no problem but he let me talk he didn't cut me off he didn't insult me he gave me a full complete vehicle to say what I wanted. And wow, did I appreciate it?

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything way better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Wasn't my best sip, but it was still great. Well, did you know that Grok, A.I.,

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Because I was in a pretty deep hole at that time. So for anybody to be willing to reach into the deep hole and give me a genuine, fair airing of things with some pushback that was completely appropriate, I'll just always appreciate that. So now you might say cynically, oh, it was good for ratings. I don't know. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but I appreciated it.

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Tim Walsh allegedly has been advising Canada how to avoid and circumvent Trump's tariffs. Can Democrats be any dumber? What could be less useful? than trying to thwart your very government. Even if you don't like the idea, it's just not a good look to side with the other country. Just not a good look. And I think Tim is one of the silliest and most ridiculous of the Democrats.

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And if it's based on the assumption of the person doing it, as opposed to just the data, it's not really a real analysis. So for example, if there's one big study that overwhelms all the other studies, a meta analysis looks at all the studies and says, all right, you know, one study might be unreliable. But if I look at the average of the studies, you know, I'll get something useful.

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So he will not be your next president. Meanwhile, James O'Keefe and his OMG group got another undercover win. So with undercover cameras, they were talking to a state forum VP who admits that he's trying to exclude white people from employment. And he says, I'm being biased away from my own kind because he's a white guy. And he says he wants the 2040 workforce to be more Hispanic and Latino.

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Now, of course, we all understand that he's trying to meet those diversity goals. And as I often say, I like diversity. It's just that when you force it, you get a worse result than if you didn't. So if diversity happens because we do a great job of educating everybody and then the workforce looks just like the public, well, that would be a heck of a good thing. That would be great.

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But if you force it, you end up with taking identity over capability, and there's no way around that if you're really focused on that goal of hitting those targets. So you're always going to go deeper into the unqualified than you wanted to, and you won't admit it while you're doing it, but you'll know when you do it. It's just built into the system. So what do you think of that? State farm.

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as a white guy in power who's making sure that other white guys can't get the job he has. I'm going to say again, I have been grossly discriminated against in my two corporate careers and later in my TV career for being a white guy. But all of that discrimination, as far as I know, came from old white guys who had already reached their position. And in order to stay in their positions,

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They had to pretend that they were so into diversity that they would discriminate against their own kind. That's what this State Farm fucker is doing. So let me just say, this guy's a piece of shit. Like, I get that he's got these noble goals. Oh, I have some noble goals. And they're not even, I'm not saying they're not noble.

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I'm saying that in order to reach them, you have to discriminate against people like me. He says he knows he's doing it. Fuck you. Just fuck you completely. And your company has some explaining to do if he's still employed. You have a lot of explaining to do if he's still employed. And if you had a choice of using their insurance or somebody else's, well, that'd be an easy choice for me.

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I wouldn't even consider them unless it was my last choice. Might be. Might be my last choice. Well, so... I guess Trump is going to delay some of the Mexico tariffs and Canada tariffs, and he's waiting for the largest automakers to make adjustments before they kick in. How does any of that make sense? What exactly are large automakers going to do in one month that makes any difference?

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You can't do anything in a month. So, I mean, maybe he could announce something. You could announce something maybe, but you couldn't do anything in a month. So everything about the tariffs, I'm going to put it in the category of, it could be a good idea, but it might not be. But how do I tell?

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I mean, as I tell you way too often, I have a degree in economics and I've got an MBA from a top business school, Berkeley. And I don't understand where the tariffs are going to take us. But I do trust Trump on this. Who said this? Was it Greg Gutfeld who put it this way? And I agreed with it. Trump's instincts have been unbelievably good.

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No, you won't. Because let's say one study is big and you're looking at them and you go, oh, well, we'll throw that big study in there because it's so big. But then all the little ones don't even matter because the big one would overwhelm it. Or you say, hmm, this one study says that everything's wrong and these other studies say things are the other direction.

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If you were to look at all the things he called just years in advance, you know, years in advance, everything from immigration to you name it. He's been spot on about things that often I didn't fully understand. This might be one of those situations. And the thing that you can never be sure of is how much of it is exactly, you know, what he says it is, which is a revenue raising thing. And, uh,

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blah, blah, blah. And how much of it is just pure negotiation? And it probably will shake a bunch of people into doing things they weren't going to do before. And a lot of it could be good for us. I feel like trusting him is something he earned. And I think, again, I'm quoting Gutfeld here. It seems to me that the things he's done are so unambiguously designed for the good of America

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And that when I didn't understand it, sometimes it's just because I didn't understand it. So again, I'll quote Dana Perino, I think we need to just wait and see. I don't know how long, but if anybody ever earned the right to try something that's outside the box, Trump earned it.

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So it's really easy for me to say, you know what, I'm just going to back up on this one because I think he just knows more than I do about this topic. And he does have very smart, very high-end economic people with him. I think that we've also seen that his advisors have been incredibly good since the campaign. First term, not as good.

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But the second term, oh my goodness, does he have smart people working for him. You know, he's got, I don't have to name him, but you could come up with,

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would take you no time at all to name six people who are key advisors who aren't just ordinary but freaking brilliant right now if he's surrounded by that many people who are just just flamingly unusually spectacularly brilliant and they have a long track record of being that way and they're on board Because I don't think you could be pro-tariff and be that close to the president.

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You couldn't be anti-tariff and be that close to the president without, well, I think we would pick up on it. Or I think he would take their advice. So he must have at least convinced his closest, smartest people to be on board. Now, I haven't heard Elon Musk talk about the tariffs a ton. which makes me a little bit nervous because he weighs in on everything.

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I think he must have said something good about them at one point because I'm sure he's been asked. But he's not really hitting that. He's not banging that drum hard. It's a little bit of a... He may be in a wait-and-see mode as well. And he might also realize that

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if you judged it only from an economic perspective, you might be missing the bigger story, that it's a little bit like a game of chicken, where if Trump can convince the other countries that we're going to go to the wall and nothing's going to stop us, suddenly they should get really flexible.

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then use your judgment and say, huh, I think this one study that disagrees with the other ones was poorly done, in my opinion, because of reasons. And the other ones might be poorly done, but maybe you don't care or they agree with you. So meta-analysis, as soon as you hear those words, run away. So could AI do that yet? Could AI do what I just did?

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Now, what Trump has right is we seem to be in a position where, generally speaking, we would be less harmed tariffs than the people were tariffing. So certainly true with Mexico, certainly true with Canada. It's more of a jump ball with China. But China doesn't want tariffs. They certainly don't want them. So I think his instincts are going to prove out to be right.

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And I think you're going to see already flexibility because of it. You know, I think more companies will announce that they're going to bring their production to the U.S. because of it. You know, when Biden said, oh, we're going to unsure more companies, what exactly was he offering? Well, Trump created an asset with tariffs. And the asset is, if you keep producing in these other countries,

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You're welcome to do it, but it's not going to be economical anymore. So if you tell the other countries it will never be economical again to produce in another country, well, then they're going to roll up their factory as fast as they can, even if it's expensive, and they're going to move it to the U.S.

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So in theory, he's created a framework that should do the most important thing that needs to be done, which is bring our stuff here. Who was it? Was it Balaji Srinivasan, I think, who was talking about the fastest way you could have a robust manufacturing base in the U.S.

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would be to just say that the area around Starbase, where Elon already has his manufacturing, just say that it's going to be sort of a no-regulation zone. And I think the suggestion was that Elon Musk would be part of the asset allocation stuff. I'm not sure about that part. But I liked the part about having a zone that is relatively free of regulations. The only thing I don't like about it

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is if you put too much manufacturing in one smallish area, that one good natural disaster is much worse. So ideally, it would be some kind of lack of regulations that could be applied to wherever it makes sense to put the factory, because sometimes you need to put it by energy, sometimes you need to put it closer to the city to ship, closer to a waterway to ship, something like that.

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So I think it would be better, rather than have a special economic zone, might be better to just say, if you're bringing in your company to the United States, you're going to come into a very regulation-friendly environment. So however that works. China's spokesperson, at least somebody who says they're a Chinese spokesperson on X, I was talking about fentanyl. They're not too happy about that.

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And said, the U.S., not anyone else is responsible for the fentanyl crisis inside the U.S. In the spirit of humanity and goodwill toward the American people, we have taken robust steps to assist the U.S. in dealing with the issue. Instead of recognizing our efforts, the U.S. has sought to smear and shift blame to China and is seeking to pressure and blackmail China with terror fakes.

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They've been punishing us for helping them. This is not going to solve the U.S. 's problem and will undermine our counter-narcotics dialogue and cooperation. So do you see what they did there? There's a clever little trick where they tried to say that whoever's responsible is who should solve it. That's not logical. Let me give you an example.

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If you have a risk of burglars in your neighborhood and you get burgled, whose responsibility is it? Well, the burglar. Our legal system says, no, if you're the burglar, you're responsible, not the homeowner. But who can stop the burglar? Only the homeowner. If the homeowner needs bars in the window, do it. If they need weapons, do it. If they need a dog, do it.

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If they need to make sure their doors are locked and secure, do it. You can make your home less burglar-able, even though getting burgled is not your responsibility. It's the responsibility of the burglar. So when China says it's the responsibility of basically the addicts, that's true. It's also not the right argument. The argument is who can stop it.

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and say, oh, yeah, meta-analysis, that's your trigger for not trusting it. Don't think so. Not yet, but it could. It seems well within what would be possible. According to a new study, so researchers found out that from, this is from a source called PLOS One. I've never heard of it. So I'm trying to give credit, but I don't know who that is.

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And my understanding is that when they say they're helping, it's kind of fake. Because I think they also know exactly the names of the people who are the big fentanyl dealers. And I'm pretty sure they're still walking around, still alive. So it seems to me that China is probably just pretending that they care. And I think that Trump is done with that.

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So I think what he's doing is saying, look, you can complain about whose responsibility is all day long, but you got a tariff. But it's your responsibility. Yep, yep, great. You got a tariff. But we're doing all we can. Well, maybe it's not enough. You got a tariff. I like it. So there's a case where I'm all in on the tariff because I do not believe that

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China is genuinely trying to solve the fentanyl problem. And I'd like to see the U.S. describe that better than I did. So I'd love to see somebody from the administration say, here's what they're not doing. And then I think you'd see a list of things that you know they could do that they're not doing.

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So telling us what they are doing is just propaganda because it doesn't tell us what they could be doing that would make the big difference that they're not doing. So only we can say that. So I don't believe China one bit, but don't ever fall for the, don't ever fall for the, it's your responsibility. It might be, but if you're not the one who can solve the problem,

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Somebody else is going to get squeezed. Right now it's them. And then here's a Mexican president with their propaganda on fentanyl. So the president, Scheinbaum, said the U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that 80% of those arrested for fentanyl trafficking at U.S. ports of entry were U.S. citizens. Oh, so I guess the implication here is that U.S.

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citizens are behind the fentanyl trade. Nice try, Mexico. Rejected. Here's what we plan to do, or Trump plans to do, with those U.S. citizens who are bringing fentanyl across the border. Kill them. It's our current policy, at least preference. It's not a policy yet, but it's a preference. The preference is that if a US citizen brings a big quantity of fentanyl across the border, we kill them.

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Now we do it legally through the death penalty and through the courts, but yes, shine bomb. We plan to kill them. Now you guys, you still got to do your thing. because they didn't produce it themselves. These Americans didn't own fentanyl labs in Mexico. If they did, they would have been killed. They're presumably working with the cartels, I assume. But again...

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nice try trying to change the topic. As long as we're willing to kill every one of those people who brought, and I'm in favor of that, by the way, as long as it goes to the courts and it's a legal process. Well, no, I'm going to take it back. My preference would be summary execution on site, meaning that if they pull somebody over, whether they're American or not, and they find somebody

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a barrel of fentanyl pills they should say get on your knees and we should put a bullet in their head and no matter who's watching and i'm very serious about that because if somebody's got you know a barrel of fentanyl in their car i don't want to hear that they didn't know it was there

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Like if you can't prevent a barrel of fentanyl from being in your car, and maybe you do a little bit of work to find out it's not an American family on vacation that got somehow, I don't know, blackmailed or something. So there may be a little bit of question asking.

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But if it's somebody you already have, maybe they've been on your radar and you suspected them, and then you pull them over at the border and they got a trunk full of fentanyl, I say bullet in the head. To me, that's a terrorist that you caught in the act. It's a terrorist. terrorist economy act summary execution.

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It turns out, according to the study, humans are more likely to trust an AI voice that sounds like them. So if you listen to an AI voice that sounded sort of like you, you would trust it more than if it sounded sort of like some stranger you never met. Now, do they need to do that study? Nope. They could have just asked me.

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I've never said that about anybody else, but I think, I think we have to say it's bullet in the head. There's no court. We don't need it. We're just, we're just fucking killing you. That's my preference, especially the Americans. I do the Americans first. Um, According to Maria Nafal, who's talking about the new survey that came out, that America is choosing Netflix and chill over marriage.

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There's a whole bunch of statistics about how people are not getting married like they used to and don't want to have kids like they used to. Researchers say there's a connection conundrum. There's more tech and less actual connections and blah, blah, blah. And this is, I guess, on Fox and the Sources Heritage Foundation.

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And I'm trying to understand in the most simple way, I'm trying to understand why it is that everything changed. And I think the problem is so many things changed. So let me just run through the problems with having kids these days.

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careers and families don't mix very well because if both the parents are working full-time and the kids are doing homework full-time you barely see them so all the things that used to be good about you know family connections doesn't really work if both of you are working now I'm not now I'm not against both people working I'm just going to describe the problem what's difference

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um in today's world kids absolutely hate being with adults and the only thing they seem to care about is spending time with their friends if you've seen any modern child they don't want to spend a freaking minute with you you know after a certain age when they're young they do but around 12 or 13 they're desperate to get away from you so how satisfying is that Not very.

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How about the homework that kids get these days? So it's not unusual that they come home and they start doing homework and they don't even like eat together. So the family doesn't even eat together. You don't even spend like one hour at least at the same table. Like people will grab some food and go back to their bedroom and say they're doing homework.

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and just do homework until it's like 11 o'clock at night, maybe because they're not doing it as quickly as they could. So homework has ruined home life. It's just ruined it. Now, if you haven't experienced that, it's way different than it was when I was a kid. Do you know how much homework I did as a kid? None. None.

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We were assigned homework, but we also had enough time during the day that I could do all of my homework. So if I had one study period and an extra 15 minutes at lunch, I could bang out all of my homework. I didn't even bring books home. I just never did homework. I mean, I did all the homework. I just never did it at home. Didn't need to.

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And then the other problem is that your spouse is your biggest obstacle to success. Have you ever noticed that? If you have a spouse, in the old days, your spouse was the thing that was your biggest contributor to your success. And I'm not saying we should go back to those days.

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But if the woman kept up the house and made sure you had some social connections and dinner was on the table and the kids were all there and they were all dressed and happy to see you, then the family and the wife were supporting the husband. And the husband could really lean into work and make money and support the family. And so it was designed so that sides were helping each other.

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It's one of the most well-known, well-documented, well-understood phenomena in the entire world, and it's called pacing. Pacing. PLOS One is a scientific journal. Thank you, Owen. So pacing is when you match the person you're trying to persuade. But the matching could come in a lot of forms. One form would be if you do the same body language. This one is good in a meeting with your boss.

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But suppose you have two high-powered, successful, well-educated, assertive people married to each other. Almost everything that one does becomes a drag on the other one. I need to work late, so you need to pick up the kids. But I also need to work late. So it becomes basically a competition, not because anybody's a bad person. It's just the system.

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Two high-powered people are going to be trying to maximize their careers and find out they can't do it, and that the biggest problem is the other person, the very opposite of what it used to be. Then there's divorce is too easy, especially when both are working. If you have two incomes and either one of you could live on your own if you had to, it kind of makes divorce a little bit too attractive.

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So in the old days, it was just terrible to be divorced, and so people didn't do it. It just wasn't an option that would work for anybody. Today, you rarely see your kids after they're age of 13. And I don't know how satisfying is that. I remember talking to a friend of mine and saying when his kid was going off to college, I said, yeah, what's it going to be like to have an empty house?

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And he laughed and said, it's been an empty house since the kid was 13 because we just never see him. Like he comes home from school, grabs a snack, and then leaves to go with his friends and then shows up at bedtime. It's been an empty house for years. So why would you have that kid? Where's the part where everybody is so happy in their family situation? It's completely different.

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I don't think families eat dinner together, hardly ever, because everybody's got six different things they have to do after work or after school. Now, of course, there are exceptions, but it used to be that pretty much everybody ate dinner together. In my family, we had a dinner time. It was 5 o'clock, sometimes 5.30, but we were always told what the time was. And it was not optional.

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It was not optional. You were going to be there, every one of you, and you were going to be there at 5 o'clock And you were going to eat whatever was cooked for you. And it was probably the single most family bonding thing that you could do. But I don't see much of that lately. Of course, people can't afford to get a home with a nice yard. So that makes everything worse.

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There are too many internet temptations. That's worse. I think if you add women to the workplace, you know what the biggest problem? Well, I don't know if it's the biggest. Probably. The biggest problem of adding women to the workplace is affairs.

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If you go to work and you're surrounded by attractive people with the same interests as you because they have similar kind of careers, how is that not going to lead into massive affairs? And the answer is it does. It does exactly that. In the old days, if you went to work and it was a bunch of dudes because the wives were doing something else, you'd have to take turns harassing the one secretary.

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I'm just joking. That's a joke. You didn't take turns harassing the secretary. You just took a number. No, no, I'm joking. You did not do that and don't harass anybody. Anyway, and the more freedom that women have from the old bounds of the old patriarchy, the more freedom that women get, the fewer babies they have. It just sort of, there's no way around that.

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So I'm not saying we should go back to the 50s. So if that's what you're hearing, I'm not saying that. I'm saying I have no idea how to solve it because we're definitely not going back to the 50s. And this definitely doesn't work. But it's not one thing. It's just the whole society, from economics to expectations to women in the workplace, which again, of course, I'm in favor of.

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There's not one part of this that works for the long term, because we need to produce babies and we need to keep families together. None of this does it. So if you're looking for the simple solution, There is none. A lot of people say, oh, let's just make tax breaks so that you get a tax break for having a kid.

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Maybe that will work in Hungary, but there's not a chance it's going to work here because of all these other things. You can't solve all of those other problems, and these are all really deep problems. So we'll see. Meanwhile, Putin has invited Netanyahu from Israel to attend the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Now, I didn't see if Netanyahu said yes, but I'm going to guess he probably will.

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And what I like about this is that Putin said, is giving sort of a master class in persuasion at the same time that trump is and netanyahu i would say easily the equal in persuasion one of the best persuaders is netanyahu um putin is so smart to do this because on one hand making friends with america's friends that's definitely going to have an effect on us, right?

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Let's say your boss is leaning on the table like I am with both arms. You do the same thing. Your boss won't even notice. Let's say the boss does this. You do the same thing. Boss won't even notice. Let's say you can detect the breathing pattern of your boss. Match it. Just breathe, inhale when they inhale, exhale when they exhale, and do as much as you can.

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Given that there's a sizable and important Jewish population in the United States who has good feelings about Israel, if Netanyahu says, you know what, I am going to go visit your Victory Day parade, and if he gets along with Putin and there's nice pictures... it's just going to be one more reason, hey, maybe we should be Putin's friend.

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So again, if you're new to this, I'm not saying Putin's a good guy. Let's allow that we know who Putin is. We're not under any weird beliefs that he turned into Mother Teresa overnight. But if you just look at his game, his persuasion game. Befriending Israel in sort of a serious way is not only good for him economically, good for him persuasion-wise, good for him, just good for him in every way.

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It's just such a smart move that it's hard for me to ignore it. He just keeps getting the right move, and he's just good at it. Anyway, so that's happening. According to the BBC News, the US is pausing intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Do you think that's real? Do you think that we're going to pause intelligence sharing with Ukraine?

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I feel like the first thing I think is I'm not sure we could pull it off if we tried, because don't you think that within our intelligence community,

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would be enough people who don't want it to be paused that if anything important came up they'd make sure it got to the ukraine because it's the intelligence community you think they don't have any way to get a message to ukraine without without our own government knowing they did it of course they do they would just have to want to that's all so first of all i don't believe we have the ability to pause any intelligence sharing with ukraine i just don't think we have that ability

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But if we did, I feel like we'd make an exception if it were anything important. So I think maybe it's just for show and maybe put a little more pressure on Ukraine to do what we want them to do. We'll see. Hamas has already told Trump that there's no hostage release within a ceasefire. Trump is really pissed, and he's saying it's their last warning.

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And if they don't free the remaining Israeli hostages, there's going to be real hell to pay. And Trump said that it is over for Hamas terrorists who do not comply. And that's sort of just doubling down on what he's already said, which didn't make any difference whatsoever. So I would love to tell you I've got this brilliant idea about what the U.S. should do.

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But unfortunately, the only thing you could do is just bomb the whole place and kill the hostages and the Hamas fighters at the same time. Now, I'm going to give you the darkest... view of strategy, this is dark. And I definitely would not want this to happen if I were a family member of any hostage. I wouldn't want this to happen at all.

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We might have to just say we're done with the whole hostage situation, and then Israel just takes care of whatever they need to do. Because at some point, the hostages will be in such bad shape, if they're alive at all, that it's not like they're going to leave and have a happy life. This is permanent damage, physically, emotionally, mentally. And at some point,

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Let's say your boss has a certain way of talking. My best example is, some people like to use a lot of war analogies, like, oh, I jumped on that hand grenade, or we'll take that hill tomorrow or we'll die on that hill. And if you hear that, you just start using some of your own war analogies. It's like, well, it looks like we're going to be battling them today. So that's called pacing.

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Somebody might make the dark, dark decision, and I'm not recommending it because that would be just ethically and morally wrong. But in terms of strategy, at some point, we're going to say even the hostages maybe would prefer a quick end because being held another year or two underground, I'd rather be dead. So if you put me in that situation, I don't think I'd be praying for release in a year.

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I think I'd be praying for, can you end this as quickly as possible? So if there were some way to do that, the darkest military strategy is to understand that the so-called hostages

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are maybe beyond the point where even they would want to be saved now of course there will always be some people who are going to prefer life under every every situation and you know maybe they have loved ones that they're caring about more than themselves that might matter but we're getting sort of running out of options here. So I'm not going to give Israel any recommendations.

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I'll just note that Hamas's fuse is starting to run out because they don't have infinite time to keep saying, if you wait a little bit longer or you give us a ceasefire, I don't think it's going to work anymore. I think we may have reached the limit of what we can productively do for the hostages. And that's the darkest thing I'll ever say, probably.

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So again, it's not a recommendation, because to recommend it would be immoral and unethical and deeply evil. But it's also war. And there's also a common sense element that says, are we going to help these hostages by keeping them prisoners underground for what, another year, another two years? Is that good for them? Is it good for anybody? I don't know. No good answers. There's no clean answers.

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So probably whoever is willing to be the most evil might get the outcome they want. All right, that's all I've got for you today. Just full of news today. What time is it? Yeah, it's time to be done. I'm going to say a few words privately to the people on Locals. The rest of you, thanks for joining. I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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So although a human can't easily reproduce the voice sound of another human, you didn't have to study it. I could have told you with complete certainty that As could 100% of hypnotists. Every hypnotist in the world would have said, oh, yeah, obviously. If you could match somebody's voice, that would be killer. So, yeah, you didn't have to study it. Just ask me. Meanwhile, OpenAI...

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according to TechCrunch, Kyle Wiggers is writing, that they're planning to charge for agents. And the charges could be up to $20,000 per month to have an AI-driven agent. Now, an agent would be something like a little humanoid entity that might help you with programming. Or it might be a little humanoid sort of entity that would help you with sales leads or stuff like that.

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Allegedly, you can now, according to Maria Nofal, who's writing, doing a little write-up, according to Elon Musk, Grok can identify frauds. Let's say you get an email from a Nigerian prince. You could say, hmm, I wonder if that Nigerian prince really needs my money to free his fortune. And then you could run it through Grok, and Grok would say, no, Nigerian princes are not real. It is a scam.

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Now they would cost different. The prices would be different. So if you had like the best software developer, maybe 10,000 a month, if you had, you know, some lower level function that a human could do, let's say, let's say that the AI agent costs are probably similar to what a human would cost, but lower cost. So ideally you would save money. I'm going to bet against it working.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and boy, you're lucky to be here. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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So I don't doubt that there will be a product and that it will be released, but I'm quite certain with my total lack of knowledge of AI, I still feel quite certain that the large language models will never be able to be a reliable agent because of the hallucinations and the lack of knowledge about current things and You know, the complete inability to even look at a file and tell you what's in it.

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Just the most basic things they can't do. So I think what's going to happen is that the AI portion will just be the user interface. And that whatever is the agent is going to be a whole set of non-AI programs, which could be very extensive. And so if you put them together, it might be a good agent. But it won't be the AI that's doing the agent part.

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It'll just be user interface to a whole bunch of specialized programming for each of these domains. That's what I think. I think the LLM is just a user interface, and it's going to be tough to get past that. But as long as the other programs are solid, the program, the agents might be good. It's just that they'd have to develop a whole new technology, not use AI to do the whole thing.

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That's what I think. I would love to be wrong about that, by the way. Well, a judge has denied Elon Musk's request to block OpenAI in their conversion from a non-profit to a for-profit company. Now, before you say, wow, I guess that's over. I guess OpenAI got what it wanted. The judge is only denying blocking it now.

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And the reason for the denial is that it's not obvious that if it went to court, it would go one way or the other. So apparently, I don't know enough about the law to give you the fine details.

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But the basic idea is that the judge would have probably blocked it if looking at the facts, the judge said, all right, if this goes to trial, it's going to get blocked by the court, by the jury or the judge.

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after a trial, so I might as well block it now, because it's almost certainly going to go in that direction, and there's no reason to let them go too far down that road if you know they're going to, let's say 90% chance they're going to get blocked. But the judge called it a toss-up. He goes, I think this one's a coin flip. So that doesn't mean that this is a done deal.

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It means that the judge can't determine that it will definitely go in one way or the other. So there's at least a 50% chance, according to one judge, that Elon Musk will be able to block them from turning into a for-profit company.

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Now, it feels to me that OpenAI has way too much backing and money and geniuses working for it that it could get in this situation, which is an existential risk to the entire company, and not have a way through it. So, of course, they're up against Elon Musk with all of his resources and all of his brains and all of his personal involvement and

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and i think his case is really strong you know if he gave a gazillion dollars as part of the founding thing and the part of the agreement for taking that money was it would remain non-profit which was really the central thing he wanted it was the central thing he didn't say go by build an ai He said, if we're going to build an AI, it's got to be open source and nonprofit.

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So it does look like fraud to me. And I don't know what argument they would use to make it not fraud. If you take 50 million or whatever it was from somebody with a given set of assumptions that are agreed, and the most important one, the most important one is to stay nonprofit. and then you violate that, how could you possibly win that case in court?

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And it can spot phishing, phishing as in P-H-I-S-H, phishing scams and all kinds of red flags. But what I wondered is, can Grok spot hoaxes? So, of course, I asked it about the fine people hoax, and it got it completely correct. And I asked myself, do you think that Grok got the fine people hoax completely correct? by itself?

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Now, obviously, the judge is smarter than I am, so the judge thinks it's a coin toss, but it doesn't look like one to me. To me, it doesn't look like a coin toss, but we'll find out what happens. Anyway, this was reported by Julia Shapiro in The Hill. So this is cool. Johns Hopkins University. has developed a bionic hand that knows what it's touching.

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So just by touching, it can tell what it has in its hand. Now, that's a big deal. Now, of course, I have an obvious question, is if the robot hand knows what it's touching, can it also make eye contact at the same time? And can I get two of them? Well, never mind. But I think they found the first killer application, if you know what I mean.

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Let's just say if this thing really is that good with its hands, a lot of single guys are going to get a domestic robot to help with the dishes and to fold their laundry. You know what I love about this story? The thing I love about this story is that 100% of the men listening to it were instantly... You instantly got to the joke before I finished the sentence. And the women are like, wait, what?

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All right. Trump is expected to... Sign an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. Post-millennials reporting on this. So you think it's finally going to happen? How many years have I been alive listening to the, oh, Republicans are going to get rid of the Department of Education and then nothing happens? This looks like it's going to happen.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a sign, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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If there were no Panama Canal, do you think we could build that today? Nope. Too many people died. Yeah, it wouldn't get approved. It's on somebody else's land. You know, can't just take their land. There'd be all kinds of reasons we couldn't do it. We might actually lose the ability to know how to build a canal. Just like somehow we don't know how those big rocks moved on the pyramids.

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We're getting dumber. But here's what I'd like to see. Oh, also there's some news about the Panama Canal. There's some fake news today. The fake news was from the Wall Street Journal. It said that Panama had agreed to not charge American ships going through the canal. Panama said, that's not true. We've made no such agreement. So if you saw the news and you celebrated, yay, Trump won,

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or American ships get to go through for free. That sounds like just something that's maybe still being talked about, but it's not an agreement. Maybe it won't be. We'll see. But this brings me to my bigger question. Do you know how many problems around the world could be solved if we could build canals, like really easily build them? You know, it's the hardest thing in the world.

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But if we could do it easily, it would be worth trillions of dollars. And I would like to extend the thinking that we've all been using recently. You know the thinking that says if there's something that would be good to happen, but it's also basically impossible, then you ask Elon Musk to do it and he has it done by lunchtime.

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So it's like, ah, too bad there's no way to make an affordable, economically successful electric car. Well, how about if you do it? Oh, okay, thank you, Tesla. There's no way to reuse a rocket and be able to affordably go to Mars. Oh, okay. It looks like you can do that, Elon. Thank you. So I guess we can, we have a path to Mars now.

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If only there was some way to connect remote people to the internet, but even though it's funded, nobody got, oh, Starlink. Thank you. Thank you for that problem. too bad that government debt is going to kill us and there's nothing we can do. Oh, thank you, Doge. Apparently, Doge is going to save us from certain doom. And it was impossible. All of these things were impossible.

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So every time there's something impossible, we've developed a habit of going to the same guy. So now we find out that the computer systems used by the government are like decades old and falling apart and just a disaster. So, I mean, it would be impossible to fix all of that in any time, you know, any kind of quick timeline.

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So apparently Elon Musk has taken the task as have Doge to fix the government computer systems that are falling apart. So another impossible job. He gets another impossible job. He's like, sure. Yeah, no problem. Let me do that impossible thing. I'll have it done by lunch. So I'd like to extend this concept of if it would be valuable and also impossible, we should ask Elon to do it.

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Rowling took tremendous heat. Victory lap. Time for the victory laps. And there's a whole bunch of people who have been toiling for years on individual topics like DEI. and suddenly they're all winners. You know, Robbie Starbuck and Christopher Ruffo and people like me. And we get a victory lap, too. So lots of victory laps lately. I like that.

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So what we need is, you know, he has that boring company where they bore tunnels and they engineered a special machine that makes it really inexpensive to dig a tunnel. I wonder if you could make a canal-building version of that.

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Like, it would be all different technology, but what if you built this enormous, maybe it's a swarm, you know, maybe it's not one device, but a swarm of also very large devices that just crush through the land and... You know, all other black people, which is ridiculous, and you can also go to a bigger and say... I don't know what this is. Hold on. Audio problem.

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Apparently I have to be signed on to turn it off. All right, I'm getting ready to throw my computer out a window.

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Oh, my God. If I had to listen to that one more second. Anyway, so we need a big canal building machine. That's what we need. So I listened to the whole Kamala Harris CBS interview with 60 Minutes. That's the one that Trump is suing 60 Minutes for allegedly improving Kamala Harris's answers.

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And in the context of an election, that would look like election interference because instead of looking like a, instead of a, What was I going to say? Instead of looking like just regular editing, it looked like election interference because it was in the context of an election. But Frog on Mars gave one example. I don't know how many examples there are.

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Like nobody did a really good job of showing what she did say versus what they edited in. I saw only one example from Frogs on Mars on X. that she gave a 338-word rambling answer that involved school pictures and all kinds of stuff. And I think the question was about Trump's comments about the Haitian immigrants and eating their pets or something like that. I think that was the issue.

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But her answer was just this long, not quite word salad, because it made sense, But it all seemed just slightly off topic and like she was just searching for a smart answer but never found one. And they replaced the 338 words with 29 words that came from a completely different answer. Now, the completely different answer

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was not different from the 338-word answer, meaning that in both cases, she said, you know, that's unacceptable or, you know, that's wrong. So she was basically just saying Trump was wrong to say whatever he did or do whatever he did. Now, here is the context. Do you think that 60 Minutes changed that answer to help her chances of winning the election? The answer is no.

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They changed her answer because it was unwatchable TV. They changed it for their own benefit to make the show watchable. It didn't really change what her opinion was. Her opinion was Trump said a bad thing, and that's what they put in there, Trump said a bad thing. But they didn't need the 338-word rambling, eat up all the time so they can't ask another question.

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They had to get rid of that, but the question was so important, they needed to keep the question. So here's what I know that you don't know. The way 60 Minutes treated this is normal, completely normal. that is normal. And you say to yourself, but it's like making up a quote. That's normal.

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If they think they're not changing the basic thrust of what you said, and they can tighten it up so it's good for TV, they will do that for their own purposes. So here's the problem with the lawsuit. If CBS says, we do this all the time, it's a common thing, and we don't do it just for the benefit of the person in the chair.

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Well, Wall Street Journal says the government's trying to ban DeepSeek. DeepSeek would be the less expensive Chinese AI. And I guess it's an app, and now it's not going to be legal if this passes. It's just introduced as a bill. But if this passes, then you can't have that AI on a government computer because they worry it will grab your information and send it back to China. Which it might.

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We do it because our watchers or viewers would not be able to watch a train wreck. So we just make sure that they understand what the candidate means and that it's clear and that we move to the next question in a quick enough way. So I don't think that he can win a case. It could be that they'll settle because they don't want to take a chance. They don't want to do the discovery and all that.

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So they might settle. But I don't think he can win because I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that if CBS was doing what everybody in that business does and their reason was for their own benefit and the benefit of the audience, just to make it shorter and quicker, I don't know. I think their argument would be if it helped her, it was only accidental. It wasn't anything we planned.

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So they would have definitely some reasonable doubt there that's a mile wide. Now, this would be a civil case, so reasonable doubt isn't quite exactly the right standard, but you get the point. All right, here's a complicated one. Let's see if I can possibly summarize this. So Michael Schellenberger...

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has been looking into the whole USAID and Doge's penetration of it and everything we're learning about who's getting the money and how dirty that organization is. The quick answer, if you're new to this, is that the Doge, Elon Musk's Doge people, have completely opened the kimono on this part of the government that had a very big budget, and was doing only creepy things.

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Now, creepy, meaning overthrowing other countries and maybe overthrowing ours. Maybe, allegedly. And so even though on the surface, it looked like they were funding AIDS programs in Africa and all kinds of things that you'd say, well, we could discuss whether we should be giving charity to other countries, but you can't argue that this would be a good charity. helping AIDS in another country.

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But it turns out that 100% of what it does is essentially front, let's say it's a front for some bigger effort that's a CIA effort. So allegedly, no matter what they're funding, whether it's AIDS or, I don't know, cleaning up the water in some place, that really that's just a trick to get our assets in place so that we can overthrow the country or control it. And that's all it is.

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Everything else is fake, which doesn't mean that they don't do good things. because in order to stay in the country, they would probably have to show that they helped with some aids and cleaned up some water, did something they said they were going to do. But really, it's not the purpose of it. The purpose of it is overthrowing countries. So now that you have that context.

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Now, the other thing that USAID does to disguise what it's doing is is there's this unlimited, just it seems like thousands, I think. I think it is thousands of NGOs, non-government organizations. So they exist all over the world. And if USAID gives one of them some money for something that sounds good on paper, oh, if we give you some money, you'll work on some climate stuff.

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And then that entity has some money. And then if it gives it to somebody else, then maybe the only thing you would see is, oh, and then this other company gave it to clean up the water in this place that needs some clean water. And you go, oh, that sounds good. But really, the whole thing is a money laundering situation to presumably Democrats are taking some off the top wherever the money moves.

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And by the way, it's 98% Democrats. It's just a Democrat. It's a money laundering situation. that the Democrats use and also the deep state. So now that you know that, it's this vast network of connected things for the purpose, for the purpose of laundering money, for the purpose of overthrowing other countries. So you need to know it's 100% fake. Now, this is the Mike Benz explanation.

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So I'm borrowing this. This is not my personal opinion, except that Benz makes such a good argument and has such good receipts that if he says it and he shows you his work, I'm kind of on that page, right? Because his credibility is through the roof and he shows his work just with public stuff. So

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Now, my first prediction about DeepSeek is that it wouldn't be as dangerous as you thought to American AI companies because the government would just tie it up in legal problems. They'll just make it illegal. And sure enough, it's basically the TikTok model. They start with banning it in the government because that's maybe easiest. But yeah, they're going to ban it.

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Here's what Michael Schellenberger, who writes for Public, it's a subscription news-related site that is amazing. I'll read some of this. He goes, now the evidence suggests, talking about USAID, that USAID, along with CIA, were behind the 2019 impeachment of Trump. What? Wait, what? That USAID and the CIA were behind the 2019 impeachment of Trump.

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That's the one where they said Trump said some things to Zelensky on the phone and he should be impeached for it. Now, how could you possibly know that these entities were involved in that? Well, here's how. The part you probably already knew is that the whistleblower who came forward and said, oh, Trump, uh, said he wanted to send Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

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That was the CIA analyst who was left over in the White House from the Obama days. So the whistleblower was CIA. Now, you might say, oh, you mean ex-CIA? No, I don't think there's any such thing as ex-CIA. I mean, not really, is there? So the first thing we know is that that CIA analyst, that's kind of suspicious, said that said something happened.

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And according to Dropsite News last year, they revealed that the CIA analyst relied on. Oh, he didn't hear it himself. Oh, I'm not sure I knew that before, but he didn't hear it himself. He relied on reporting. So the reporting that you relied on, that's the CIA analyst slash whistleblower, you relied on some organization in the government.

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Oh, okay, a government organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, or OCCRP. I didn't even know that existed. Now, who are they? Ever hear of them? I've never heard of them before. Huh. I wonder what we could learn about that organization. So it's an American organization. government or NGO or something. But apparently it's fully controlled by USAID. Wait a minute.

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So USAID, the entity that is primarily involved in overthrowing other countries, and one of the tools that we know they've used is this very same thing, this Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. and that when USAID has used them in the past, why'd they use them in the past? Well, allegedly, it was in the service of overthrowing five or six foreign regimes. What?

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So in other words, the CIA, USAID, and then this entity, the OCCRP, were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump, in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The three of them are supposed to be exterior-facing entities, and their job is to overthrow other countries.

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the same entities using the same method which is somebody reported something but the report was fake and then you use your fake news assets to act like it was true and it's the most important thing that ever happened that's what happened every part of what we do to overthrow other countries successfully was used against trump I think multiple times.

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So in this particular case, it was for the impeachment. You knew that impeachment was complete fake, right? From the first, I think we all knew, wait a minute, that's just fake. You're just making stuff up. There's no way he said that. And whatever he said was certainly legal. He had every right to ask about it.

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I would be surprised if it's still in the App Store in a year. As you know, the Army has shattered records for recruitment since the election of Trump. Do you think that's a coincidence? What would make people want to join the military just because Trump is president? Could it be less likely to get into wars that don't matter? That might be part of it. Could it be...

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And especially now, now that we know the depth of the Biden crime family, Trump asking Zelensky to look into it would never have worked because Zelensky is fully owned by the CIA. It never would have worked, but it was perfectly appropriate to ask for it. And he got impeached for that. Now, as Schellenberger points out, the difference between

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between the CIA, USAID, and OCCRP working together to overthrow a foreign country, it's illegal to do it in the U.S. And it's not just a little bit illegal. It's the most illegal thing you could possibly do, short of, I don't know, being a serial killer or something. What would be more illegal than overthrowing your democratically elected president? Nothing. Nothing.

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This would be like assassinating Kennedy or something. Allegedly. All right. So... Does that story check with you? I feel like the Doge penetration of USAID is the Rosetta Stone that allows us to finally see... everything we suspected. So I certainly knew that there was a conspiracy to impeach Trump. I obviously knew that it was organized. It was obvious that the media was completely complicit.

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It was obvious that the whistleblower had some agenda. But I couldn't quite connect all the dots. And now we have. It's all connected. It was the exact same tools and the exact same technique that they use on other countries. But what they counted on is that Americans are not aware of these tools and they're not aware of how they're used. And Doge just changed that. Now we're aware of the tools.

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Well, and Mike Benz changed it even before Doge. Now we're aware of the tools. We can actually watch the flow of money. And it apparently is just a gigantic, money laundering thing for Democrats. So it seems to be just feeding people money in a variety of illicit ways and trying to overthrow countries, including our own.

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So, yeah, the Democrats who say we've got to keep that USAID, they either have no idea what it really is or they don't care, which is worse. I don't know which is worse, actually. I think not caring would be worse. Well, meanwhile, Pam Bondi, who's only one day on the job, Attorney General, she's got some directives already. She's going to fight the weaponization of justice.

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How about the weaponization of impeachment? It's not really the justice system, per se, but it kind of is similar. Maybe they should look into that. She wants to eliminate the cartels and lift the death penalty ban for just certain types of things. So that's good. And she's going to be looking into Alvin Bragg's hush money case and also Jack Smith, I think.

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So, yes, Alvin Bragg, in my opinion, was clearly an op, you know, clearly an illegitimate lawfare situation. All right, here's my question for lawyers. Is it not obvious already that there's a RICO problem going on here? And what would it take to trigger it into a RICO? Maybe you don't need to.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine today, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens right now. Go. Thank you, Paul. Everything's working fine today. All right. Well, the big news, in case you missed it, is that CNN escapee Jim Acosta has launched his own show. Oh, okay. What was I talking about? Oh, sorry.

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But some of the things that people said as well, Scott, everything USAID did was legal, to which I say, yeah, technically. Maybe they're allowed to give money to anybody they want, and it's not illegal. But if their intention is to give it to entities that will give it back to somebody, like a kickback, or to subvert an American election, well, that seems to be kind of coordinated Enrico.

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just a rise in man, sort of male energy, although obviously a lot of women joined the service as well. Could it be that joining the service has now transformed from something like a thing for gay people to something like a lethal force protecting the country?

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If the only thing you looked at was the 2019 impeachment case, you could see the coordination. The coordination is all over that. Obviously, the media was part of it. And remember, I used to say that I couldn't understand why the media wouldn't debunk all the hoaxes, you know, like the drinking bleach hoax and the fine people hoax.

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And I would say, how can you not debunk the things that can be debunked just by your own video that you own? You would just have to look at the whole video instead of the edited one. You could debunk the whole thing. It's the biggest story in the country. Both of them were at one point and never. Not years later? Not at any point? Did they debunk those things? And here's the reason.

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They always knew that they weren't true. They were obviously part of a criminal conspiracy. Because if you don't have the media on your side, then all of your other weaseling gets uncovered. So controlling the media is step one. I mean, you can't do the other weasel stuff unless you control the media. All right. So we'll see. Maybe you need a specific leader to make it at RICO. I don't know.

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So now a dozen states, according to Daily Caller News Foundation, a dozen states are looking into whether or not there's some charges they can put on Anthony Fauci because the federal charges. Wait, who said that? Oh, no. Andrew Tate just weighed in. The entire case against me was funded via USAID to remove my influence from the internet. I have the paperwork. Oh man, I'll bet that's true.

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Now remember, it's Andrew Tate. So, you know, don't get too enthusiastic about the veracity of it. Let's just put it that way. But, If he does have the paperwork and he can show that his specific case was funded by the USAID, then that would mean that the reason for it was to remove his influence. I've always assumed that's what it was. I didn't know about the USAID.

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But I always assumed that some deep part of the American government is what closed them down. Maybe working with Five Eyes, other countries, Great Britain would want to close them down as well. But I don't want to run and embrace that as true because it's just a thing Andrew Tate is saying on X. But if I had to place a bet, I'll bet he does have the receipts. We'll see.

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It would be a bold thing to say if you couldn't prove it. Now that's interesting. So, anyway, so the states are looking to see if there are any charges they can put on Fauci. I am completely against this. I'm completely against it. The way I read the story is the states have ganged up. They started with the person and now they're looking for the crime.

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They started with a person and they're checking with all the other states. Hey, do you see a crime? Do you see a crime? Got any crimes we can go after him for? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, you can't start with a person and then look for a crime. That's not going to fly. don't make me support Anthony Fauci, right?

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Because some NPC is going to say, oh, you defended Anthony Fauci because you like vaccinations that will kill you. No, I don't like what Fauci did. Yes, I believe he probably violated some crimes. I don't know which ones, but probably. But he's got a pardon from the federal government.

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If these states don't have obvious crimes that are sort of right in front of them, you don't get to go looking for shit. That's too far. That's too far. So we'll see what they come up with. But you can't have Pam Bondi trying to stop lawfare while 12 of our states are engaged in it publicly. That would be lawfare. That's what it is.

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Because I got to say that my entire impression of the military was it's just a big LGBTQ cheering thing that occasionally gets into wars we wish we didn't have. Trump fixed all of that just by existing and being Trump. So, yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that people are signing up all of a sudden. Probably not a coincidence.

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When you start with the person and then look for a crime, oh, we can find some crime here. No, totally messed up. I don't want to have my name associated with anybody who would do anything like that. So you better do better. This is not up to the standard. This is not up to the current standard of the United States. It is up to the standard of what we just got rid of. We just shit-canned this.

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The reason we shit can Biden was this kind of stuff. Don't shit can Biden and then start being Biden. So unless there's something I'm missing about this story, this is a hard no. Absolutely fucking not. Don't make me look like some Biden guy just because I'm supporting Trump or supporting the Republicans in this case. So checking in with the Democrats and their messaging.

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They've decided to go with, Joy Reid said, Musk is a private citizen trying to take over the government. And let's see, what did Jen Psaki said? She said, it's a hostile takeover of a government. There's no other way to describe it. Really? There's no other way to describe it? I'm going to use that. That's the argument for people who don't know how anything works. You can use it for everything.

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You see this in my hand? It's a porcupine. Shut up. There's no other way to describe it. No, it's not a pen. There's only one way to describe it. It's a porcupine. What the hell? What kind of dumbasses listen to there's no other way to describe it? Let me see if I can dig deep into my creative... creative powers to find some other way to describe it.

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Oh, how about putting a capable team in charge of auditing our expenses? How about the legally elected president of the United States gets to pick his staff and tell them what to do? Oh, amazing. Jen, did you see that? Look at that. You said there was no other way to describe it, and yet I found a couple. It turns out there's more than one way to describe it.

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But I'm going to start using that excuse that there's only one way to describe it. It just sounds so fucked up that I kind of like it because it's so absurd. Anyway, Harry Enten, who's the data guy at CNN, says that only 39% of the public support Musk having a key role in the administration. Well... This has a lot more to do with how the question is asked. Yeah, so key role.

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If you thought key role means that he gets to make decisions, that's not what's happening. Both Musk and Trump are very clear, they both say it publicly and as often as you want to, that Trump's in charge. Trump can hire anybody as his chief of staff. Do you know who else is not elected? The chief of staff. So who's bitching about that? Is anybody bitching about his chief of staff?

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Oh, wait, Susie Wiles. She's just an unelected person who's got a key role in the administration. She's got a key role. Yeah, she does. Do you know how important the chief of staff is? The chief of staff is... damn near as important as the president. You just don't realize it because it's behind the scenes.

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Well, Laura Trump's going to join Fox News one night a week on Saturdays. Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Now, remember I always tell you that Fox News is just better produced? You know, that's one of those things if you're not if you haven't been around the media business a lot, as I have, you're not going to notice the difference in producers.

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But the chief of staff even decides who gets to see Trump and how much time they spend with him and what he pays attention to and then solves problems for him. Susie Wiles is probably, you know, in the same category of Elon Musk in the sense that they're very capable, but they're not elected. They just work for Trump.

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Now, I act like it's an argument and that the dumb people have the wrong argument. And if I only present the correct argument, everybody will correct. No, it's obvious they're just lying and making up stuff and that they're presumably part of the deep state, bad part of the world. All right, well, what is Doge doing? Now they're getting into the Medicare and Medicaid systems.

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So one of the things that Musk teased on X is that there might be enormous fraud in our Medicare and Medicaid systems. Now the fraud would be people making claims or fake claims. So I have this hypothesis that

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that the amount of government fraud not necessarily by the government but by people stealing from the government with fake claims for everything from the pandemic to you name it i've got a feeling that the fraud if you eliminated it would balance the entire budget like actually literally because when we talk about things like oh we're never going to cut the military well what if we only cut the fraud

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Oh, we're never going to cut Medicare. But what if we only cut the fraud? Oh, we're never going to cut welfare. What if we only cut the fraud? Oh, we're never going to cut Social Security. Well, we could probably fix Social Security. I don't know that Social Security is a fraud. It might be, but that would be harder to do, I guess. No, it probably isn't hard to do.

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I'll bet there are a bunch of dead people collecting Social Security. So I'll bet if you just got rid of the fraud, which would be impossible, you're not going to get rid of all of it, I'll bet you can balance the budget. That's how big it is. And I never would have said that until I saw just how bad the problem is after Doge got going.

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Now I believe that the fraud could be large enough that it's the entire deficit. Now we're learning, this is also from Daily Caller News Foundation, that the Biden administration was giving money to terrorists or people who helped the terrorists.

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Now, it's allegedly $1.3 billion that the Biden administration collectively gave to things that are more like terrorists and enemies than they are like people we should be helping. But most of that, a billion of it, went to one group, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, which claimed it was helping the poor Palestinians.

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But it turns out that 10% of the workers were actually the Hamas workers. So a thousand of them, a thousand of the employees were just Hamas or Hamas backers or Hamas oriented. So even Biden shut that down. But that tells you how bad it is. All right. So let me see. Let's see if I can connect the dots. Jen Psaki supported Biden. Biden funded people who support terrorists. Connect the dots.

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You're just going to say, oh, I like this show better than that show. And maybe you'll think it's because of the talent. But the producers have a lot to do with the success. And this is exactly perfect. Yeah, Laura Trump is exactly who they should be giving a Saturday night show to. If she does well, obviously they'd look at maybe expanding that.

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That would make Jen Psaki a terrorist. You know, there's no other way to describe it. See how that works. There's just no other way to describe it. No, there is another way to describe it, but if you say there's no other way to describe it, apparently that works on MSNBC. No other way.

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So Elon Musk is posting a few minutes ago that the Treasury officials are breaking the law every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. I'll bet that's true. All right, what else? Did you know that Politico... So this one's a fake news, real news. Fake news, real news. Here's why. It never pays to have one person on a podcast.

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So if you had one person on a podcast, you'd say, hey, we just found out that USAID gave $8 million to Politico, and Politico often says bad things about Trump, so... Really, is that the reason that you're funding Politico? And then the one guest would say, oh, no, you got that story wrong. No, no, you're thinking of Politico, the publication.

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This also went to Politico, but Politico has a separate division that does some professional thing with data. And what the people are buying is that professional data service. It's not about the publication Politico. And then you're on a podcast and there's only one guest. And that one guest calls the news fake news. And then you're done, right? And that's the last you'll hear about it.

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That's why the worst way to find out what's true is one person on the podcast talking to a host who doesn't know what question to ask. Here's the next question. Do those entities report to the same structure? If they do... This is how you launder money.

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If you wanted to give money to influence the publication part of it, you wouldn't give it to him directly because then there would be a paper trail of you bribing a news source. So instead, you say, huh, you have this other line of business over here. Very interesting. Yeah, it's very expensive, but we'd like to buy as much of it as you can give us.

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So we'll give you, we'd like to buy $8 million of it. Now, how much extra do you think Politico had to spend to satisfy this new request for $8 million worth of this service? Probably nothing, because it sounds like a service that just existed, and they could just say, oh, now you're subscribing. So probably they just had to enter the government emails or passwords, and then they had access.

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So it could be that the government or the USAID really needed that data. But I don't think so. It seems far more likely that that's just the ordinary way that you bribe somebody. You don't bribe the person. You fund the startup for the person's brother-in-law. You don't fund the person... You fund the thing that the person was going to spend money on, but now they don't have to.

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So yeah, it's once again Fox News in their talent and production stuff. They get a lot right. Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs again. He may have been a little bit injured, but nothing life-threatening. And my question is, how much do McConnell's peers hate him that they would allow him to use stairs. There's no other way to get from one place to another. There's no elevators.

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You don't fund the person. You hire the relative who couldn't get a job for a no-show job. So the most typical way that you bribe people is not by giving them money, but giving money to something that will benefit them in a second, indirect way. All right. And by the way, I don't know that Politico has one entity and they both connect to it, but that's what you should be asking.

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So if we don't know that, then we don't know the story. And so I guess I would say I don't know the story. Let's see what... I'm seeing something. According to the Financial Times, half of Politico's $200 million in revenue comes from its pro-subscription business. which capitalizes on the U.S. lobbying industry. So it's something lobbyists pay for.

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Now, if it's something lobbyists pay for, why would USAID need to pay for it? It's described as Bloomberg for politics. So it's basically data that lobbyists would like, such as what's the name of the person in charge of this thing who was voting for this thing? It sells data, directories, and detailed coverage of the legislative and policymaking process for as much as $10,000 a pop.

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Now, how many of those subscriptions do you think USAID needed to buy, and why? Is the government figuring out ways to lobby the government? The government is the government. They have to buy an external source to find out who to talk to in the government. All right. Google is allegedly ending their DEI. But I saw a little nuance to that.

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So it might be they're ending some kind of affirmative action goals, but maybe not completely getting rid of the letters DEI. But it's moving in the right direction. And Robbie Starbuck's talking about this. I don't know that he targeted Google yet. But I think you'll see companies not want to get targeted because it's very bad for business.

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So you should be seeing companies trying to get ahead of it. And I think that's maybe what this is. But the NFL is sticking with DEI and they're sticking with it hard because the NFL wants to end discrimination. Finally. I'm glad the NFL wants to end discrimination because this spring I plan to try out for a quarterback position on one of the NFL teams.

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I pick quarterback because I think that position pays the most usually. So I want the good position. And, you know, It wasn't long ago I would have worried about ageism. Like if I showed up, they would just say, are you serious? No, you should probably be in your late teens or maybe early 20s. And I would say, I'm sorry. I thought you were in favor of DEI. Well, yeah, yeah.

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But we're thinking more like black people. And I would say, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm the only white person here. Oh, no, there's one. There's one. Oh, no, that's a coach. There's one. Okay, that seems to be a reporter. Okay, but I'm sure there's some white people here. And then I'd say, but you should not be ageist. I need some, you know, DEI, please. Give me some DEI.

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And then they'd say, but, you know, You're also kind of small. And I would say, oh, oh, oh, I see where you're going, you motherfuckers. So now it's about how tall I am. So you don't like the little people. What do you call me behind my back? I think I'm going to sue you. So ageism, shoreism, you guys are like a ball of worms. You're a ball of worms of racism. and discrimination and bigotry.

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And I'd say, are you discriminating against me because I'm heterosexual? No, that's stupid. Why would we discriminate against you for being heterosexual? And then I'd say, I'm trans. And they'd say, what? Yeah, I'm trans. Can you prove it? No, I don't have to. I mean, how would I prove it? Take my pants off? No. No. No, I'm trans. And then they'd say, all right, you can stay for the workout.

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And then I'd be a quarterback because they're not going to judge me on skill. You know, in the old days, my lack of skill would have really held me back. But now that they're going for the biggest possible net and they want to make sure that they've got people from all walks of life represented in the NFL, a good goal, by the way. I like every bit of that.

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Now they probably should just ignore my complete lack of talent. And it's good that the NFL is holding tight on DEI. Well, Stephen A. Smith is considering running for president as a Democrat because he's sure he can beat all the clowns that are being talked about. And he's not serious yet. But his name will probably get thrown in there because Democrats fail to learn.

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They don't have any handicap access to other floors. I would think there'd be an elevator everywhere that McConnell goes. So who just stood there and watched him struggle on the stairs and said, oh, that'll be fine? I mean, it almost feels like they hate him, like they're just trying to, trying to steer him toward the stairs more.

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There's nothing better than watching Democrats not be able to learn because they watch Trump. And they can't figure out what he's doing. Like, why are you making that work? So they say to themselves stuff like, I got it, I got it. We need an entertainer. We'll get a TV guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get a TV guy who talks good on TV because that's what Trump has.

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If we can match the TV guy's skills, then we're in good shape. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. What Trump has is a skill stack that we've never seen. Yes, he has the TV experience. Yes, he can persuade like nobody's business. Yes, he's been involved in dozens or hundreds of different businesses. So he's seen every business model in the world. By the way, here's a little side note.

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When I visited Trump in the Oval Office in 2018, and I told you before how he was interested in me, like he actually asked penetrating questions about the cartoon business. So in five minutes, I described to him the nature of the cartoon business and how syndication works and things like that. And when I was done, in five minutes, he had added to his talent stack.

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Just because he asked the right question. He asked exactly the right questions. So he understood how that business model of cartooning works. Boop. Added to the model. He adds knowledge to his model like a vacuum cleaner. I mean, he's just sucking up How does this work? How does this work? How do you do that? Why does that work? Why does this work? What's the mechanism?

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All day long, he's just getting smarter and smarter. You put him in the room with Stephen A. Smith, They would both talk really well, but one of them wouldn't know a fucking thing. Stephen A. Smith. He's probably great at what he does. He has a real good personality for what he does. And he might know tons about sports and things, I'm sure. I mean, obviously. But he is no Trump.

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And if they think they can just get a smooth talker with bonus, he's black. If they think that's going to be good enough, they're really not paying attention. They're not paying attention at all. It would just look like a DEI hire, even though he's clearly very talented. So let me be clear. Stephen A. Smith would not be a DEI hire. He would be based on his skill if they picked him.

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But his skill is just very good for a normal person. It's not in Trump's level. It's a different zip code. He's miles away from that. Meanwhile, the prime minister of Denmark says that Denmark is open to the idea of increasing U.S. military presence in Greenland. This is according to an article in Human Events. And do you remember what I predicted?

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My prediction was that by starting out saying we want to take Greenland and we want to own it for security reasons, that Denmark would eventually say, Well, we can't say that. We can't just give away the biggest part of our real estate. But maybe. you know, maybe we can let you bring your military in. So now they're saying directly, yes, the U.S. could increase its military presence.

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It's like, well, there's no term limits, but how would you like to go upstairs and meet in the room upstairs? I'll have to do my McConnell impression. Can I do a McConnell impression? I've never tried this before. Hey, Mitch, why don't you come upstairs? We'll meet in the conference room upstairs, third floor. No, no, not the elevator. No, no. The elevator's for idiots. No, no, you're fine.

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Now, what would Stephen A. Smith say to that if he were president? I think he would say, excellent. That's what we wanted. We wanted to have our military presence there. We don't really need to make a country out of it. That'd be a lot of work. So, yeah, thank you. We'll take that offer and we'll increase our military. Everything's good.

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What would Trump say to the offer of increasing our military in Greenland? Well, I'll tell you what he'd say. Yeah, you know, I think we're going to increase our military in Greenland under every scenario. So that's not an offer. Because I told you we're going to increase our military in Greenland.

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So you telling me that we're going to increase our military in Greenland is just you telling me what I told you. What else have you got? Are you going to pay for it? If we're going to guard your country, now obviously it's good for everybody in the region, but if we're going to guard your country, we're not doing that shit for free. So we're either going to own it or you're going to pay for it.

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You're going to pay for the defense. Because if you can't do it yourself and you've already admitted it's necessary. See, this is the key. Denmark is not arguing. They're not arguing the strategic necessity of increasing the military in Greenland. They're not arguing it. So once they've agreed on that, the question is how?

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And the only two ways to do it are you pay for our military or we own your island. Which one do you want? See, do you see the difference? An ordinary person, even a very high quality functioning smart person, and Stephen A. Smith is all of that. He's high quality, high functioning, very capable. Not even close to Trump's level. Not even close.

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There's no way that he would have known that's the beginning of the negotiations. Because it looks like it's the end. It's like, oh, well, that's what we wanted. So now I can't read minds. So it's always unfair to say what somebody would or would not do if it's if it's not you. So I'm a little unfair there, but I'm doing it to make make the larger point.

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So it might not actually apply to the specific situation. But the larger point is that Trump just operates at a different level. And that's the part we want. The part we want is his X factor. the thing nobody else can do, like shaking the box on Gaza.

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Do you think that Stephen A. Smith would have come up with the idea of, well, maybe America should just own it, but not spend any money and not put any boots in the ground? Nobody would have done that. There's nobody. You have to not only have the mind to come up with it, but you've got to have the balls to take the heat when everybody flips out. That's not normal. That's the X factor.

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That's what Trump has. I see that it looks like Elon Musk has just agreed with me on X two minutes ago. Somebody just sent it to me. So my post was, I said, Democrats are terrified of Doge and Musk because they have never witnessed this degree of competence. It looks alien to them. I mean that literally.

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People with experience see in Doge a process that is necessarily messy, but 100% on target in terms of speed, talent, and energy. And Musk just said exactly. So once you see that frame, you can't unsee it. Here's what we don't see. Democrats with extensive business experience, which do exist, let's say Jamie Dimon, Jamie Dimon. I trust him. Don't you? I think Jamie Dimon is a nice centrist.

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I think he's a Democrat. Do you think that Jamie Dimon is going to say, oh, everything Doge is doing is a big chaotic mistake? No. No. If you asked him,

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or any other democrat with extensive business experience they would say this is what competence looks like hiring the best people at any age that's what must did best people at any age didn't care about their their skin color didn't care about their gender just best people any age any color

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Puts them on a, you know, like this incredible march toward this bigger goal, which is saving the whole country, literally. I mean, they are saving the country if they do this right. And it's got to be fast. It's got to be dizzying fast. It's got to break a lot of dishes. And then later, you can clean up the dishes. But if you're bitching about some dishes getting broken...

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you're not experienced this is a dish breaking process and if you don't see dishes just breaking like crazy it means nothing's happening it means the process is stalled somehow every time a dish breaks you should say to yourself an angel got its wings okay i wasn't going to go there but it was just sort of right there uh no

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that the the more bitching you hear the more they say it's chaos the more they say he's an unelected dictator trying to take over the world the more that happens the more on target it is he's got the energy the talent the targeting he's going exactly in the right places and he's just he's just effing things up in a good way with the way you should so yeah that's purely an experience issue

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Well, here's some good news that you've heard before. Scientists in South Korea found a way to reverse cancer with a molecular switch. Let's see. Have we ever heard that South Korea has found a way to cure cancer? Checking notes, checking notes. Once a day. Once a day. I think I was maybe in my early 20s, and I was a big newsreader back then too.

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And I would say to myself, my God, here's a story about somebody who found a cure for cancer. And like, finally, the long wait is over. And then you'd never hear about that story again. But the next day, there'd be another story about other researchers who found a cure for cancer. And I'd say, well, now we've got two cures for cancer. And then the next day, the next day, and it never stopped.

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You're fine. Just take the stairs. All right, I think I nailed it. That probably would be the clip that takes over the Internet today. So, yeah, they hate him. Let's talk about Trump and Gaza some more. So most of the complaints about Trump wanting to own Gaza or the United States own it is based on the opposite of what he said. So we're not going to spend money in Gaza.

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So for 40 fucking years, I've been reading stories about cures for cancer. None of them are real. I think the ones I don't hear about, maybe those are the ones that end up curing a specific cancer, or maybe they can help in a little bit in a real way. But I am so tired of cancer is cured. Oh, but wait, there's more. There's, let's see, I think there's another cure for cancer.

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Oh, no, here's some other stuff. There is, now this is cool. Did you know that 50% of men by the time they reach 75 have a hernia? Yeah. So it's basically just a little bulge and part of your body just below your belt line. And so I have one of those. I have an untreated hernia.

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If you're wondering why it's untreated, allow me to explain a conversation with my surgeon who would have been the surgeon to do the surgery if I had chosen surgery. So I could have. It's one of the choices. But the surgery doesn't work every time. And sometimes it gives you permanent pain. for the rest of your life and then it can never be fixed after that. So a 10% chance of permanent pain.

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So the surgeon is explaining my risks and you know me well enough to know that I was barely letting him complete a sentence and you start talking, I'd say, okay, but what's the risk of this? OK, I need to answer that. And they start talking and say, all right, but if I do this, this would be the outcome, the likely outcome. You know, these are the odds.

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And about halfway through, he stops me and he goes, what do you do for a living? And the reason he asked is apparently he has a tough time explaining the odds to normies. But the fact that I was ahead of him in knowing what the risk reward is, he wanted to stop because it's like, are you a doctor or something? Or he was trying to figure out why I was understanding the field as quickly as I was.

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And all I was doing was asking him the risks. So what's the risk if you get the thing? Well, 10% chance you'd be unhappy. What's the risk if you don't get it? Well, there's some chance you'll be rushed to the hospital in the future because it worsens, but probably won't die, right? No, but you might be rushed to the hospital and it might be painful and then they would operate.

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So waiting until it hurts all the time or it's too painful to keep going, that would be the time you get the surgery. Because if you're 100% unhappy because it just hurts all the time, Well, then a 90% chance of fixing it is a good deal. But if it doesn't hurt all the time, you've got a 10% chance of entering a world in which it will hurt all the time. So you put it off. So I put it off.

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And my surgeon was completely happy that I understood the odds enough to make that choice. Now, it does hurt. It hurts every day, but not all the time. Usually if I've just exercised or something. So I have to be careful with it. But here's the news. And the reason I'm talking about this really specific thing is that it's 50% of all men. This is a gigantic thing for men. How many of you have one?

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Specifically, it's an inguinal hernia. In the comments, tell me how many of you have an inguinal hernia. It's going to be about half of you. Anyway. So there's a new technique for getting rid of it without surgery. Now, this one's a stretch.

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But apparently, according to ScienceMag, there's now some research that if they block the estrogen receptor alpha-ESR1 in the connective tissues around that hernia, it can heal. So what happens is there's a weakness in the muscle wall that's holding, basically holding everything together. And so the weakness causes the little bulge.

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So apparently they can just turn off this receptor and the tissue around it will heal and it will build back the strong wall and you don't have to have any surgery and probably wouldn't even hurt. Now they've already made it work on a mouse and, which isn't good enough, of course. But then they've also done it on human tissue. Now, not in a human, but they've done it on human tissue and it worked.

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Apparently it works really well, like surprisingly well. So, you know, they'd have to do a lot of testing before it's real. But we might be a few years away from going in for a simple procedure where they stick some needles into you and just inject this stuff. And two weeks later, your thing is gone. Maybe there's a new breakthrough in lithium ion batteries in South Korea.

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No, he said we're not going to spend any money. We're not going to put those boots on the ground. No, we're not going to put any boots on the ground. Well, well, but we're not going to spend any money. No, we already covered that. We're not going to spend any money. We're just going to help organize the people who do spend the money.

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I tell you this every day. Every day I tell you South Korea has a new breakthrough in batteries. So you don't need to know the details. But here's a cool one. According to the debrief, there's a clean energy breakthrough where they create these tiny copper nanoflowers that can convert CO2 in the air into valuable hydrocarbons with no pollution. Think about that.

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They figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air without using a lot of energy. I think it might even be passive. It might be just the CO2 that hits the flower. Yeah, I think it is. So they're not even sucking the CO2 out. They're just putting this flower there. Now, they're calling it a flower, but it's copper wires and stuff. But it's mimicking nature, and it mimics the photosynthesis.

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So it turns carbon dioxide into a fuel source, specifically, what kind of fuel? Into complex molecules such as ethane and ethylene, which are key components in fuels and plastic production. Now, the question I ask, if this is real, and University of California, Berkeley, and University of Cambridge say it is, they say it's real, that it's not a theory, they built it.

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So they don't have to wonder if it works. They built it. It works. So what if we all got one? You know what, what if it, what if they just turn it into a, I don't know, a desktop thing you can plug in and it just takes CO2 out of the air and turns it into something you would sell or turns it into 3d printer material. I always liked that. It could be, it could be the end of any problems about CO2.

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Now, May I jump in and say, don't take my plant food. Stop taking all my CO2. My plants are going to die. Well, before that happens, at least we can get rid of the climate hysteria. So when I talk about removing CO2 from the air, I'm usually talking about removing the climate hysteria from the air. I'm not really talking about CO2.

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But if we had a way to get rid of it as scale, we would know pretty quickly if it made any difference. And I think we'd be smart enough to stop before all our plants died from not having enough CO2. I like to think we would.

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But it would be dangerous if you could take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into commercial products because then people are going to keep sucking on it until it's all gone. All right, that's all I got for today. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers, these special and sexy local subscribers.

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And the rest of you, thanks for joining on X and Rumble and YouTube. We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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But those boots on the ground, again, no boots on the ground, no money, no spending, no boots on the ground. I don't know. My problem is all the spending and the boots on the ground. Are you even listening to me? No spending. No boots on the ground. That was the spokesperson, Caroline Leavitt, trying to answer questions. Yes, there'll be no expense. But what about all the expense?

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I just said no expense. So do we think this would work? Well, let me tell you what I love about today. I love the fact that when it became clear, let's see, I guess Mike Walsh, National Security Advisor, Mike Walsh said directly, he said that Trump's proposal to take over Gaza is meant to pressure neighboring Arab states to come up with their own solution. Now, most of you knew that, didn't you?

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Just think about how far we've come. I'm going to take a victory lap on this one. Imagine that Trump says something wildly provocative, like America should own Gaza, and we'll take care of it. And then your head explodes, as mine did, and then after the explosion subsides, I think about it and I go, oh, oh, okay, this is just Trump. He's just creating some options out of nothing.

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And he's shaking the box and he's trying to get the other people to hate him as the common enemy so that they can come up with an idea that does work instead of their dumb ideas that don't work. Basically, nobody had any other idea. If you think about it, nobody, nobody, not a single person had an actual real practical idea of what to do.

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So Trump comes up with his arguably impractical but maybe possible idea. And now they have to fight with the real thing. Now they've got to say, we hate it. Yeah, but what's your idea? Well, my idea is I hate his idea. No, no. What's your idea? We're all ears. We'll abandon Trump's idea in a heartbeat. Let's hear your good idea. His plan won't work. No, again, you're only talking about his plan.

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I was saying that CNN escapee Jim Acosta has launched... I'm just going to move to the next story. I can't make it through that one. Well, as you know, Trump has signed his executive order banning biological men in women's sports, as he likes to say. Women seem to like it a lot.

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Let's hear your idea, the alternative idea. What are you going to do? Trump's a racist. So that's sort of the way it's been going. But now they've got something they actually have to wrestle with. Because like I always say, he's not bluffing. It's persuasion, but it's not a bluff. If nobody comes up with a better idea, he's just going to say, all right, we'll take it and you have to pay for it.

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And if you don't pay for it, we'll just own it and it'll just sit there. We don't care if it doesn't cost us any money and we don't have any boots on the ground. just let us sit there. If you want to help us, we'll organize that, make sure it gets cleaned up and ready to go. I definitely don't want to see any American forces cleaning up unexploded bombs and toxic debris.

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I would like to see no Americans do that. That's the job for Israel. If there's any unexploded ordnance, that's all Israel. You've got to take care of that, guys. That's all on you. But here's what I like. I like that as soon as it became clear that it was more of a negotiating, you know, just shake the box idea, did you see the number of people on social media who said, I knew it.

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It's the first thing I thought. That's completely new. In 2016, if Trump said something like this, that we're going to own Gaza, people would have said, well... I told you he was crazy. I told you he was crazy. He doesn't have a single smart idea. He has no experience in government. He doesn't know how anything works. He's a clown.

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He probably just wants to put his friends in charge of it so they can make some money. It's a grift, right? That's the way you understood anything he said that was provocative. But today... at least the right-leaning news, the left-leaning news is just propaganda, but the right-leaning news and the right-leaning social media, almost every single person said, I know what that is.

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I know what that is. That's the thing he does. That's where Trump creates options out of nothing. He's doing it again. I feel like, or at least AI says, that I'm the reason that people can see politics as persuasion, when before I got involved, people saw it as policy differences. And they would have treated this as a policy difference. Wait a minute, my policy would be better than that.

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But nobody sees this as a policy. They see it as pure persuasion. And I'm pretty sure that's me. I think that's almost entirely me. And not entirely me alone, because if I teach people to recognize it, they teach other people to recognize it. They write articles and other people recognize it. So, yeah, here are the terms that we heard referred to it.

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Now, this is just random people on social media, random people writing articles. A lot of them use the phrase shake the box. Where does that come from? I mean, I didn't invent the term shake the box, but to apply it to Trump's persuasion, that's kind of all me. What about 4D chess? That's all me. 2015, I described it as 3D chess, I think, but it turned into 4D, 10D. That was all me.

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You know, I'll tell you, there's a lot of people doing a victory lapse and people who worked for years on certain things. So is this not a big victory for Riley Gaines? Imagine being Riley Gaines. She kind of risked everything to just work on this issue. And she was really good at it. And here we are. Now, it's not because of any one person. But she certainly was leading the charge. Also, J.K.

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How about creating new options out of nothing? Everybody recognized that's what he was doing. That's all me. Now, when I say it's all me, I just mean I kind of introduced that way of thinking about it, you know, a persuasion filter versus a policy filter. And that apparently has been effective enough that people have adopted it as their primary point of view. And I'm really happy about that.

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I don't think Trump could be president the second time, maybe not even the first time. without that understanding. That's the understanding everybody needed. And it turns out the whole right-leaning part of the world gets it. Like almost everybody got that. That was very impressive. Well, speaking of Gaza, you know that there was, since the 60s, there's been a plan to build a canal

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that would connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and it would be kind of a competitor to the Suez Canal, because Egypt controls access to the Suez Canal, and there have been times when they've closed access for various geopolitical reasons. And so it would be a big moneymaker, but also a geopolitical advantage to have a second canal.

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And one of the thoughts, going all the way back to Ben-Gurion, one of the founders, you might even say the founder of Israel, he wanted to build that canal, and he wanted it to sort of go through Gaza. So some people are saying, wait a minute, the real plan is to build the second canal, and they need Gaza out of the way to make that work.

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Well, I don't think that has anything to do with what happened. And I also don't think that canal is ever going to get built. If you look at what it takes to build a canal, I don't think the modern world has that anymore. We used to have it. But to me, it feels like pyramids. You imagine that you live in a world where we could build another canal. I'll bet we couldn't.

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I'm sure you're happy if you own stocks today. It's looking good in the stock market. Bitcoin's up. I feel sorry for Jaguar. There's a Jaguar meme that's pretty funny. All right, let me call up your comments here on Locals to make sure I'm seeing the best of it. Here it is. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

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that maybe somebody had a personal reason to kill him, but they're diverting attention over to this unprovable, everybody in the world wants to kill him because the business he's in. It's kind of a perfect cover. And if you were trying to divert to an alibi story or some alternative explanation, you might write the name of a health care book on your bullets.

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But otherwise, I don't think you'd write it on the bullet casing. None of this sounds real. So I'm going to guess, so here's my first speculation. My first speculation is the ABC report is fake and that there's nothing written on any bullets or casings. That's my first thing. If there is something written on the bullet casings, that doesn't mean that was the real reason.

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Because it's just as easy to imagine that that was a diversion than it was a real reason. So there could be any number of dozen different reasons. There was some report about the CEO being investigated for insider trading, but I have no reason to believe that's true. Everything you hear is going to be fog of war, fog of crime. So

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So I guess the first thing I'd say is, since these are all innocent civilians as far as we know, not to make any claims about any bad behavior by the people who are the victims. So at this point, we have a family that are victims, and that's all we know. So I wouldn't speculate beyond that. But I would speculate that early information about it is probably wrong.

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And I'm certain it's not a professional. It's a professional who didn't know to cover his nose with his mask. I mean, it didn't look that professional to me. Maybe it was a bad professional. Maybe it was his first day at work. Anyway, Wired says they can trick AI-powered robots into doing dangerous and violent things with a variety of tricks.

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And it makes me wonder, especially after this CEO tragedy murder, it makes me wonder if we're near the end of human murder because it'll be so much easier to send a machine to do it. There'll still be a human who's behind the murder. But if you could get a drone to do it for you, I feel like you'd send the robot or you'd send the drone or you'd hack into the self-driving car.

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I guess the next ring of satellites is going to be closer to the Earth. It's going to make a big, big difference in how fast your Starlink speed is. So that's cool. And other cool news, according to Zion Lights, which is the name of a person, by the way, Zion Lights, Britain is installing its first nuclear reactor in 30 years at Hinkley Point. So that's good news, right?

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I feel like all murder in 10 years is going to be via robot or AI or self-driving car or airplane that falls out of the sky on top of you or something. So I got a feeling murder is going to look really different. Well, according to, who was this? According to somebody, I think this was Rasmussen. Rasmussen said that Hegseth has a lot of support with the GOP voters, as you would suspect.

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And Democrats don't like it, as you would suspect. Which makes me think, I wonder about this whole confirmation process. If the confirmation process turns into predictably, you know exactly what the Democrats are going to vote for, and you know exactly what the Republicans are going to vote for, it makes me wonder if the whole approving of people is, we have to do something different.

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Because if it just lines up along party lines every time, It really doesn't work. So this might be the cycle that tells us to rethink that whole situation. Well, according to also Wired, they checked a bunch of random phones from people who thought that they might have problems with their phones. So it wasn't completely random.

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It was people who suspected there might be some spyware on their phones because they have those kinds of jobs. And sure enough... They found seven phones out of 2,500? Yeah, out of 2,500 devices, they found seven of them had that Pegasus infection. Now, Pegasus is the super bad spy version. It's not the one you want on your phone at all. But here's my problem. The company that found it makes a...

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makes an app or a software, I guess, that checks for that kind of infection. How can you ever check or how can you ever trust the company that makes the software that checks for the viruses? How can you ever trust them? Like, I get that I can't trust the virus, but if somebody is in the business of essentially having enough control over your phone

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that they can see if you have a virus, wouldn't they be the perfect carrier for a virus? So I'm not making any accusations about any specific companies. I'm just saying, if you let somebody have full access to your device to check if somebody else had full access to your device, I feel like you might be trading one problem for another. So, I don't know.

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I guess I don't have any trust for virus scanning companies. But there's also a report that China says that the telecoms in the US all got hacked. Well, not all of them, but AT&T, Verizon, and others. And

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that the hackers, Chinese hackers allegedly, got into live calls, call records, and even top-secret systems in D.C., and the government is advising, if you want to be safe, you should use encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp. Now, here's one of those stories. If you were a casual consumer of news, that would all make sense, wouldn't it? Oh, let's see.

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If my regular phone might be corrupted by hackers, I could just use an encrypted app. Oh, and the government recommends it? Well, that's a good idea. That's if you didn't know that the government almost certainly has a backdoor to those encrypted apps. So you'd be basically giving away I don't know. There's no way you're not going to be hacked.

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If the government doesn't have you already, the Chinese hackers will get you, the phone company themselves will have insiders. You just have to assume that everything you write and everything you've ever said is discoverable. And I don't know how many times I'll need to tell you that, probably until you get caught on your own. But there's no such thing as privacy.

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This is one of those things I predicted years ago. So years ago, I predicted that fighting over whether we'd protect our privacy, it's worth the fight, but you weren't going to win. The direction of technology pretty much guarantees a complete loss of privacy. And I'm not saying it should, but we will be seduced by various features of technology. Most of us are going to have a robot in our homes.

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Do you know what loss of privacy you're going to have when you have a robot in your house? Listening to every conversation, it knows who you're having sex with because it sees you come and go. We're about to give up whatever's left of your privacy by having a little recording device following you around. I mean, it's not bad enough. I've got a recording device right behind me and one in my hand.

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Do you remember when the UK used to be an ally of the United States? I remember that. That was cool. But now they're, I don't know what they are now, but they're going to have a lot of nuclear power. So it would have been good if they'd done that 30 years ago, maybe. There was an accidental scientific discovery, live science is reporting it, according to Owen Hughes.

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They're already able to record anything that some hacker wants them to record. But if the robot is actually following me from room to room, good luck with your privacy. All right. Stephen Miller, advisor to Trump. He was outlining Trump's first 100 days, and he says it's going to be a new golden age. A new golden age. I believe I started predicting the golden age in 2017.

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Got derailed by at least four years. But maybe we're there. Maybe the golden age is kicking off. And one of the things that Steve Miller points out is what he calls a rapid, total, complete deregulation of American energy exploration. Is that accurate? Yes. Do we really want a rapid, total, and complete deregulation? I don't know enough about that domain to know if that makes sense.

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Because my common sense tells me there must be some regulation that makes sense. Literally, is there no regulation? There's not even one? in this entire domain of energy exploration? There's not one thing that keeps you safe without a big cost that's not worth it? I don't know. I think it's hyperbole, but maybe not. This is one where I can't tell.

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Is it hyperbole to say that it's going to be complete deregulation? Or is it maybe just federal deregulation and there might be some state regulations? I don't know. It sounds good, but I've got questions about it. But there's a funny thing happening here with common sense. And let me just skip ahead.

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So Jeff Bezos of Amazon, he was asked at some event about Trump 2.0, and he said he's very optimistic about because there are too many regulations. And listen to what he says. This is Jeff Bezos. He says, quote, I'm actually very optimistic this time around, meaning Trump's second term. He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation.

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And from my point of view, if I can help him do that, I'm going to help him because we do have too many regulations. I think he was talking about Elon Musk as well as Trump. If you look at the national debt, blah, blah, blah. The only way we can get out of it is by growing out of it. And the only way we're going to do that is by slashing regulations.

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Now, what part of that was anything but common sense? That was just common sense, right? And I don't see Republican and Democrat anymore. Those categories, they seem to be dissolving. I mean, I was watching another clip from Bill Maher, and Bill Maher is very cleanly in the common sense category. And he was talking to his guests. I'm not sure when this was filmed, but I just saw the clip today.

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And he was saying that this country does need a big disruption. So he's actually going to... So Bill Maher, one of the biggest critics of Trump ever, has said he's not predicting success. but he's not going to criticize in advance because the country needs basically a slap, you know, a colonoscopy and a slap in the face, I think he said.

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And so that's a completely common sense point of view because a reasonable person can say we have to grow faster to get out of our debt. A reasonable person would say we need something kind of more dramatic change than we've had before. These are all just perfectly sensible points of view, and none of this is Republican. Is it? I mean, you can't really say that Democrats love over-regulation.

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That's not really a thing. So something just wonderful is happening about people you'd expect to be on the other team saying, wait a second, wait a second, are you just doing common sense over there? Because I can sign up for common sense. I can't sign up for your party, but all those things look smart. Why can't we do the things that make sense?

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They accidentally discovered something that could lower the the energy needed to store things, the energy needed to store data could go down by up to a billion times. It could be a billion times more energy efficient than current technology. Now, I don't think we have any idea of how good the Golden Age could be. It could be really good.

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So big props to Jeff Bezos and Bill Maher in this context. I'll have other things I might want to complain about, but in this context, Bill Maher is definitely on the side of the patriots, I would say. So good to have him on board. Not completely. He'll still be a Trump critic, but he's not abandoning common sense to get there.

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Let me do a clarification about something I said about the Kash Patel nomination. So I mentioned it on X and then people jumped all over me because I think they misinterpreted what I meant on X, but on X you can't give as much context. So if they didn't hear me talk about it, they probably didn't have a good idea what I was up about.

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So according to the Vigilant Fox, which is one of the accounts I like to follow on X, and the Vigilant Fox is completely right-leaning bias, right? So they're completely right-leaning. But

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they referenced Mediaite's list of Kash Patel's, what they would call an enemy's list, people he thinks need to be dealt with, either by their security clearance being taken away or there might be some legal issues. So some people went after me and said, oh, you believe this bad Mediaite source? Well, no, but I'm pretty sure that it's agreed on by both sides.

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So if Mediite were the only one publishing an enemies list and nobody else did, and nobody else thought there was an enemies list, then I'm saying, I don't even think there is one. Sounds like fake news. But the Vigilant Fox... seems to think that this list is reasonably close to reality.

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Somebody said that Cash has a book which lists people and maybe a more complete argument for why they would be targeted. But let me clarify. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a target list. I'm saying that publishing it is a really bad idea. Because if you publish a target list, then you immediately fall into the Stalin model of naming the person before the crime.

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Now, the fact that Mediaite can turn it into just a list of targets, and they can strip out the alleged crimes, puts you in a real dangerous place, especially if you make the mistake of repeating their list without the list of allegations against them.

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Now, if it had been always the person plus the allegation, then I would say, I don't love this, but at least you're making sure that we see the alleged crime first. If you show me the person first... separated from the crime, even if your enemy is the one who made the list, you're in a disadvantaged situation. But it gets worse.

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Why would you ever telegraph to your, let's call them enemies, what your plan is? So as of yesterday, we find out that there's conversation about preemptive pardoning of people that might be targeted by Kash Patel. So it might include Fauci and Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff. So in other words, having a list of who you're going to go after is also the list of pardons.

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So at the last day, Biden could say, all right, every single person who's on this Cash Patel target list, you're all pardoned. And you know what I would say? Nothing. Because if you make it this easy for the other side to pardon everybody that you want to go after, I mean, you're kind of bringing this on yourself. I would be happy just to have them out of public office and not having influence.

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But if you publish their names first and then that causes them all to get preemptive pardons, I'm not even going to bitch about it. Because you just walk right into that. It's like you set your own trap and then you triggered your own trap. You trapped yourself. So just to be clear, I'm not defending any of the people who are on the list because there's some pretty sketchy behavior on that list.

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I'm just saying that approaching it as a list of enemies, even if you've got really good arguments, and there are good arguments, it's not a good strategy. It's just a bad strategy. It's a bad look and I think it's bad for the supporters because it makes you look like you're supporting Stalin, basically.

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Because if we've got Europe putting in nuclear energy, and we've got Starlink giving us competition with satellites and phones, and we've got a billion times advantage. I mean, it's early in the technology. They haven't developed it yet. But it looks like it would work. And then we've got, according to The Guardian, Google's DeepMind, their AI,

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I'll give you the list of people and we'll figure out later what they did because we don't like them. Now, I'm not saying that, further clarification, I'm not saying that cash would make up crimes. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the way that it's presented makes it easy to attack as if he is doing that. So don't do that. But it's too late. It's already done. But let's see.

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Speaking of Cash, he also sent out a legal notice. This is according to the George account on X. So Cash Patel, his lawyers, sent out a legal notice to Mike Pence's advisor, somebody named Olivia Troia, because she was on the Joy Reid show recently. And she said some things about Kash Patel that I guess Kash and his lawyers think are complete fabrications and asking him to take them back.

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So she said, Kash Patel is a delusional liar and he lied about intelligence and he made things up and she had to check his work and blah, blah, blah. So Patel's lawyers are threatening litigation. Here's the thing that I think is the most interesting part about this story. Mike Pence has advisors? Mike Pence has advisors. Let's check their work. Let's see.

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Mike Pence is the only person in politics who rose to the level of vice president, but at the moment would not be able to get any job in politics. Am I right? Mike Pence would not be able to get any job in politics. So, so far the advisor is not killing it, but politics is not the only game. At least he could, you know, Mike Pence could get a job working for the news.

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Oh, no, he probably can't because the news on the right or right-leaning networks wouldn't want to have anything to do with them and left-leaning networks wouldn't want to have anything to do with them. So let's see. Mike Pence has advisers, and where he's ended up at the result of this advice is can't get a job in any domain in which he's qualified.

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She's advised him into complete irrelevance, if not bankruptcy. Now, I shouldn't be laughing at him because I don't think he deserves that, but Mike Pence has advisers? Anyway, I thought that was funny. According to an AP poll, J.D. Vance was right. Female cat owners voted for Harris 59% and Trump 40%.

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But Trump, I think Trump won all the other pet owners, but the only pet owners he lost were female cat owners. Ha ha. J.D. Vance totally called it. Female cat owners. All right. That was exactly what it looked like. Washington Examiner says that 68% of the public is in favor of January 6th prisoner pardons in a case-by-case basis. So people are way less...

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interested in a broad general pardon, but they say in a case-by-case basis. In my opinion, that's a good first opinion. I say that because it was my first opinion too. My first opinion was, yeah, you have to look at each one individually. There are 1,500 of them. Did any of you sort of lose count of how many people had been rounded up for being Republicans? There are 1,500 people in jail.

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can predict weather way better than the other way they've been doing it. So they're using artificial intelligence. And it's 20% better than what they've been using up to now. Yeah, it seems like a 20% advantage in forecasting the weather would make a big deal. Because I make a lot of decisions based on the weather. Don't you? And if you get it wrong, it can be expensive.

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for January 6th. How long would it take to look individually at all 1,500? That's all I need to know. If it's going to take you a year to figure out which of them individually should be released, you've got to release them all now. You have to do them all now. If waiting to look at them individually is going to take months or years, I can't put up with that.

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I can't put up with basically people I consider 100% innocent. Of the 1,500, at least 1,000 didn't do anything but show up and express their opinion, in my opinion. So you're going to let 1,000 people rot in jail for another few months so you can look individually at those other ones? Nope. Not good enough. That is not good enough. You want a better argument?

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The better argument is that none of those bad people, the ones that you might look at individually and say, oh, this one was actually violent. None of that would have happened if the election had not been obviously looking rigged. We have the ability to do elections that don't look rigged.

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And I'm only talking about the appearance because I don't know, you know, I don't have facts that would justify claiming certainty of it being rigged. I am certain that it looked rigged. And I'm certain that we have the ability and the knowledge how to do an election that the entire public would say, oh, that looked fair. We do know how to do that, and we choose not to.

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If we do know how to do it, and we choose not to, and people react to that, what's the base cause of the problem? The base cause of the problem is not the protesters. The base cause of the problem is that we intentionally ran an election which should have created violence. I'm not in favor of violence. I don't promote it. So listen to the sentence again.

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On paper, that election should have created violence. On paper. You should have been able to predict it.

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If you had known that the election was going to go that weird way, where suddenly there were a whole bunch of votes at the end that flipped the election, if you had known that in advance, you would have also known that there was going to be violence or the odds of it were going to be pretty high.

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So whoever designs our elections has to take some responsibility for creating a system that had a very high likelihood of generating violence. Secondly, if you know that that's a possibility, and there was lots of talk about it before January 6th, if the Democrat leadership failed to properly protect the place, that is also a base problem.

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The protesters who actually did the illegal acts are legally, it's their legal responsibility. So I'm making a distinction between the people who are legally responsible for their actions, which is only the people who did them, right? So from a legal perspective, the people who did the violence, it's just their fault. Violence, you have to, you can't design a legal system

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where you're blaming society and what happened before. It's the person who actually did the act who's going to go to jail or not go to jail. But this is bigger than just the individual criminal acts.

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It's bigger because the election is bigger than an individual act and the integrity of the country and justice in general and the thousand people who will rot in jail for an extra month or two or whatever if they have to figure them out individually.

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So given that, in my opinion, the base problem was the design of the election system to be non-credible, followed by a very non-credible outcome, according to 40% of the country probably, followed by a complete failure to protect the public by not having the right amount of security where you know you needed it. Now, I can still say that the individuals who did the crime

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broke the law and that the law was the right thing to deal with it. But at this point, given that maybe a thousand people that I would not consider criminals at all have been lumped into that group, you got to pardon them all. So there are too many innocent people in the story for the guilty people in the story to continue to ruin the lives of the innocent people in the story.

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Like you can actually predict probably save a lot of money just by having better weather forecasts. So that's cool. According to Futurity, that's a publication, and Byron Spice, he says that robots are getting some new tech that allows them to figure out how to manipulate their physical environment without understanding everything about the objects.

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Innocent has to be bigger than guilty in our world. So I think you've got at least three arguments for doing all of them right away. And I think the country would get over it. You know, there would be a huge outcry and it would be a headline for two weeks and the Democrats would complain and they'd do stories about, oh, this one hurt somebody in particular. So why'd they do this one?

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But we wouldn't care that much. We would definitely get over it. The country would move on. We don't want to linger on that. Nobody's going to be harping on it two years from now. So I think it's a slam dunk. I think you do them all. I'd be very disappointed if they did case by case. But it makes sense to say case by case until you actually make the decision. All right. So... Your two cats agree?

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All right. Yeah. I'm just looking at your comments and agreeing with you. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, before we go, I'd like to show you two comics. They're two Dilbert comics. One from 10 years ago on the same date, calendar date, and one from today. And I want you to judge if I've lost a step. So I want you to see, am I as funny as I was 10 years ago when Dilbert was closer to his peak?

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Have I lost anything? So here will be the two comics. Let's see. So here is from Dilbert Reborn. Now, these normally would not be available to the general public. These are only for subscribers on X or subscribers on Locals. But here dog birds work in the tech support. He's a call-in says what kind of genital add-ons Do you sell for robots?

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This is part of a continuing series where dog Bert has started a start-up Where he's he's selling? genital add-ons for your For your robot. So what kind of genital add-ons do you sell for robots and dog bird says? our most popular model is called the LeBron and But for half the price, you might be interested in our starter set we call the Olbermann.

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And the person on the phone says, will the robot be happy either way? And Dogbear says, we see a lot of sobbing with the Olbermann. All right. So that's the one for today. Now, if I can properly operate this, I'll show you the calendar one from So this is a digital calendar. This is not related to the physical calendar that's coming out for 2025. It's just a digital thing I do for subscribers.

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So here Bob the Dinosaur is talking to Dilbert, and Bob the Dinosaur says, Ha ha, I am now the coolest member of the household because I have a smartwatch. Hello, watch, what time is it? And the watch says, This is the Anthropocene epoch. And Bob the Dinosaur says, wow, that carbon dates me. All right, so that was 10 years ago. So am I funnier today? Or was I funnier 10 years ago?

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Well, you can decide that. I just thought I'd send you that one. One of the things I do track, one of the reasons that I do the 10 years ago, is I do track to see if I've lost it. Like, can I still be funny? Now, I have an advantage with the Dilbert Reborn comic because I can be a little naughtier, and that's just way easier to write if you can be a little bit naughty.

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So, if you're wondering what the physical Dilbert calendar, which is available only at the link at Dilbert.com. It's not available at Amazon. It's not available in stores. Only online at the link at Dilbert.com. But it has the classic comics, ones that have been published before, on the front of each page, but on the back, it has these slightly naughtier comics, like the one I just read.

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So, in other words, robots are pretty good at doing the exact same thing over and over, but if you show them, let's say, a table full of dishes and you say, pick up these dishes or set this table or cook a meal and it has to figure out every new move like the first time it's ever seen it, It's not good at that, but apparently there's a new approach, and it's making a big deal.

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So twice as many comics than any prior year, and made in America. The calendar is made in America for the first time. That was something I just had to do. All right, I'm going to say a few words to the local subscribers privately. And thanks for joining on YouTube and Rumble and X. I'll see you on the Internet. Locals, I'm coming at you. We're going to be private in 30 seconds.

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And the rest of you, have a great day.

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So some PhD student, Murtaza Dalai, at the School of Computer Science and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon,

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um apparently they've got this new breakthrough so they can just sort of show it its situation and tell it what to do and it can figure out how to manipulate every object in its domain that would be amazing now but the thing i always complain about with robots is that they're always slow and i i just don't get that and i've said this before but Correct me if I'm wrong.

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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains All you need is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or chalice or stipe, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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I have to do my robot impression again. If you saw a robot in the 1950s try to do anything, it would be... And then if you see a robot 50 years later with all the modern technology and supercomputing, the robot is still like... They couldn't make it faster. I get that it's hard to make it accurate, but they can never make it faster. So it always has to go slow, slowly. I don't know.

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I don't get that part. Well, the Daniel Penny jury is maybe back deliberating. I have not yet heard of a conclusion. So I believe the Daniel Penny jury got sent home yesterday because they had not made a decision. So they should be back at it today. I think Judge Jeanine on the five said with some confidence that we'll see a verdict today.

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I love Judge Jeanine's context lots of times because she's got the experience. So she can just sort of look at this case and say, oh, yeah, they'll have a verdict today. She's probably right. And here's what I think the verdict will be. Hung jury. I predict that they will not be able to make a decision because it's just too political.

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There's going to be at least one person on that jury who says he has to go to jail because they don't want to face the angry crowds outside or they just think that's the right thing to do. I guarantee there will be at least one person on the jury who says, you're going to have to kill me before you put this guy in jail. Let me say that again.

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there's a very high chance there's at least one person on that jury who's saying effectively, you know, not out loud, but effectively you'd have to kill me to put him in jail. Cause that's what I'd be thinking. If you put me on that jury, I would say, I don't care what the other 11 of you have to say. You would have to kill me to put him in jail under these circumstances.

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You would have to kill me. So, hung jury. I don't think there's any way to get a verdict. Do you? Do you see any way that 12 people will agree that he's either completely guilty or completely not guilty? I don't see it. Because there's way too much subjectivity in this. There shouldn't be, but there is. So that's my prediction. Hungary. Breitbart News is reporting.

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This is my favorite story of the day, that the VA, Veterans Administration, official in a Tennessee Veterans Hospital, apparently they were having all kinds of sex orgies at the VA hospital, and there was one VA official who allegedly had sex with 32 different co-workers. and they didn't include a photo? Are you just teasing me?

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Are you telling me that there's a citizen who is so sexy that he or she, I don't know if it was he or she, was capable of having sex with 32 different co-workers? I've got to see a picture. You can't tease me with a headline like that and not show me the picture, especially if it was a dude. Because they don't say male or female. I'm assuming female just because that's a lot of numbers.

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But what if it was a guy? Wouldn't you like to see a picture of a guy who could successfully have sex with 32 co-workers? That must be the best looking guy in the world. Unless it's a woman, then maybe lower standard. Still, I need a photo.

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All right, I know you want to talk about the tragedy of the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare, healthcare insurance company. And here are the things we know about it. Apparently, he was a CEO of an insurer who was famous for turning down the most requests for coverage. So they seem to have an industry wildly highest declines.

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Now, I don't know if that had to do with what market they were serving. It could be that they were serving a down market and so there was just more fraud or something. But they were famous for declining, I guess, insurance claims. When we watched the video, I think all of you saw the video of the murder on the streets of New York and Manhattan.

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How many of you said when you saw it, well, there's a professional hit right there. In the comments, tell me, how many of you said, there's a professional hit? Did any of you say that? Because I watched it too, and if there's one thing I can tell you for sure, that was no professional hit. That was someone who never even used the gun he used for the hit.

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Do you think he had ever used that gun with a silencer? No. No. He'd never shot it even once. Because once you saw how many times he had to clear it or reload it or re-cock it or whatever the hell he was doing, it was obvious that he did not have practice. I mean, it was just the wrong device. Now, I saw a lot of the people who know way more about guns than I do debating what the actual gun was.

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And the person who seemed to know the most seemed to indicate that he didn't know how to match his silencer with his weapon. So I don't know enough about this topic, but apparently you need the right kind of silencer for the right kind of weapon, and you need the right kind of ammunition depending on what you're doing. So it looked like he did not have that all figured out.

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So professional hit man? Probably not. The other thing arguing against it is the first shot was from a distance, which doesn't seem professional. I think the first one should have been closer. Police are saying that, I think. And he had a cell phone on him, which is a strange thing to do if you're a murderer. And he left on a traceable rented bike. Now, Despite those things, he did get away.

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So I don't think you can use these as examples of somebody who didn't know how to do a murder and get away with it since he did a murder and he got away with it. So he definitely did some thinking and it wasn't a random act. It wasn't something that was, well, it wasn't random. It was obviously directed at this one person.

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So my take is that it's somebody smart enough to do some research and put together a fairly complicated plan, including a getaway, but not somebody who did it for a living. It didn't look like a professional. And not only that, but he left them alive. When he left, the guy, he was still alive when he left. They tried to save him, but they couldn't. Now, there will be much speculation about

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I think that means you can't quite use it yet, but the physical assets of satellites are in the right place. So very soon, according to Elon Musk, you'll be able to use your regular unmodified cell phone to use Starlink as a phone network. And apparently there's also something happening with Starlink that's going to greatly reduce the latency, which is a big deal with the satellite stuff.

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this but we're still in the fog of crime you know the fog of war when all the news is wrong and later three weeks later you find out all the initial reports were wrong well one of the initial reports I think ABC News at it is that the some of the bullets found at the scene some of the apparently he had some

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actual rounds that hadn't been fired, they left on the scene because he was loading one round at a time into his weird little gun, and some of them dropped. So none of this makes complete sense, but apparently the reporting, which I'm going to tell you I don't believe... is that the rounds had the words deny, defend, and depose on the shell casings.

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Oh, the shell casings, not the actual round, maybe. Would it be a... I'm not sure if it was a shell casing. That means it was a spent round, right? And it said it was left unseen. Now, those words are the title of a book about how insurers don't pay claims. Now... First of all, is it true that the name of a book is written on some of those shell casings? Do you believe that?

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Do you believe that these shell casings have the name of a book on them? I'm going to say no. I'm going to say that's a little bit, I don't know. I don't know. I just don't see it. Because at the very least, it would be one more way to get caught, right? So here's one possibility. One possibility is that because he was in an industry where customers can get really mad if their claims are denied...

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taking a doge out of it and Tesla and Trump, I'm sorry, and Musk saying, all right, screw it. I'm going to quit this old doge thing because you're burning down my assets. That would be the worst case scenario because then we would die from debt, certainly. That's called the worst case scenario.

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Making other countries worry about their tariff situation as their top priority until we work it out with them. That is not even close to the worst case scenario. It might be closer to the best case scenario. And do you know what's the difference between being positive that it's the best case scenario or positive that it's the worst case scenario? They're both stupid.

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I don't know which one it is, but I know if you're certain it's the worst case scenario, that's just stupid. Same as if you think, oh, tomorrow it'll all be fixed and everything will be better. Also stupid. Those are things we can't know at this point. All right, and of course, Chris Hayes never mentioned that it's a negotiating frame. That is not real news, people.

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That is fake news, intentional fake news. They obviously know it's a negotiating frame. If they don't mention it, it's fake news. So Rand Paul is not happy about the tariffs. He appeared with Democrat Tim Kaine on Fox News to argue his point. His point was incoherent, which is weird, because Rand Paul is one of the more capable, rational people in Congress.

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And I like the fact that he is generally consistent with his own principles. But what that caused him to do in this case is to... act irrational. So I believe that his take is that all tariffs are bad. but we don't live in a world where we were starting with zero tariffs. So he's literally reasoning from the imaginary. So we should not add tariffs because tariffs are a tax and they're bad.

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multiplied by the number of imports, divided by the current tariff, and then I believe you add two, you carry the three, and then you add some random numbers to it, and then you put it on a chart. Now, if you've got a better idea of how the president came up with those numbers, I'm all ears. But I'm going to put a flag in the mountain.

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And if you're done after saying tariffs are bad so we shouldn't add them, you're arguing from imagination. You're not arguing from reality. Reality is that tariffs have been here forever. And we've been tariffing people and they've been tariffing us. And we became the strongest nation on earth with tariffs. If we adjust them again, how does Rand Paul know that it will make things worse?

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A tariff is a tax. Yes, we know that. And by the way, arguing that it's not a tax... That's not a strong argument. It's definitely a tax, in effect. The effect of it is a tax. It's just that we're in the negotiating frame, and we'd like their tax on us to go away, and we'd like taxes both ways to go away. Rand Paul's other point was that

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He doesn't like, I guess Trump's administration used some kind of emergency rules so that they didn't need Congress to approve what is effectively a raise in taxes, the tariffs. So that part, I think he is, at least he's always consistent about what is the job of Congress and what is the job of a president. And you can debate that one.

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On the other hand, I do like the fact that Trump is not being stopped by procedure. Now, you don't want him to go full dictator, so you should be a little alert to how much rule bending there is. But as long as he is willing to do what courts tell him is legal and willing to stop doing things that courts say, even if the courts are just totally biased, he's not violating courts.

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So I'm not worried about fascism or him becoming a dictator as long as the courts still can call him. And as long as anybody has access to the courts to make their case. So we'll see. Maybe there'll be some kind of court case on this one. And then we'll see if Rand Paul wins or not. But I do like action over, oh, I can't do anything because the rules. There's no way I can fix the whole country.

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Because of rules, sometimes you've got to bend the rules. You know, I've often used this example that if you're an employee of a big company and you wanted to destroy the company from the inside, the best way to do it would be to follow all the rules. Because if you follow all the rules in a big company, you would never get anything done and then you would go out of business.

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People have to break rules. In the real world, bending and abusing and breaking a rule is kind of the only way anything ever happens. It's the thing that stops weak people from doing anything. And it's the reason that strong people can consistently succeed because they look at a rule and they go, hmm, maybe not. You know the company Uber?

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Do you remember that when Uber first launched, it was completely illegal for anybody to start their own taxi service in the big cities because the existing taxi business had some kind of monopoly on it and they sold medallions and That determined how many taxis there were. And Uber had none of that. So should Uber not exist? The entire Uber industry is because they broke a rule.

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And then they figured out how to keep breaking it. And then they got powerful enough that probably they had enough lobbyists and lawyers that they could just keep fighting it. And they just beat the taxis into submission over time. I'll bet you if you were to look at any big successful company, there was at least one point at which they had to beat a rule into submission or avoid it or skirt it.

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Now, is that bad? Do you feel that the world is a worse place because Uber is a really good service that you can use? No. What you do care about is that they were working on your side. meaning they were trying to make the world, in this case, the United States first, more efficient, lower your costs, make it just an easier, better experience to go somewhere.

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And if Trump's doing the same thing, bending a rule because it's the only way to fix the United States, I'm all for it. You just have to put it in context. Anything that's good for you or the world or the country or a big company is It's going to come with at least a little something that's a rule bendy quality to it. If you haven't lived enough, you don't see that as true.

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I'm going to stick a flag somewhere, which is I think it's now officially foolish for me to believe any numbers coming out of the government. I'm not going to believe any of the tariff numbers at all. I'm not going to believe any of the economic numbers. I'm not going to believe any of the Doge claims, although I think everything's working directionally correctly.

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But if you've lived enough, you know, you always got to bend a little bit, bend some kind of rule. You just, you know, as long as we're all watching, I think that's a safe situation. Well, according to ClipKeeper, C-L-Y-P, spelling of clip, CNN is using their orange filter on Trump when he gave his speech. So the ClipKeeper showed side by side what it looked like if you were watching on Fox News.

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And it looked like Trump's skin was normal skin, like an ordinary person. And if you watched on CNN, he looked like a pumpkin. Now, do you think that's an accident? You know, after what CNN did with Joe Rogan when they said he was eating horse paste or something. I don't know. To me, it looks like a choice. But, I mean, it could have been an accident.

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It could have been different lighting, different camera settings, and they just thought it looked right or something. But keep your eye on that because the visual makes a big difference. So let's see some other reactions to the tariffs. There's a commerce secretary under George W. Bush, a fellow named Carlos Guterres.

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So he went on CNBC and he said that Trump's tariffs won't be in place by the end of this year because other countries will rush to the negotiating table. What's that called? Smart. Smart. So the ex-commerce secretary under George W. Bush is treating this exactly the smart way, which is it's a negotiation. That is the primary way you should look at it, not the secondary way.

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It's the primary way you should look at it. And then he predicts an outcome, which is the most logical outcome. from seeing it as negotiation, which is all the countries need to find some way to make this work. And it's gonna be somewhere closer to what the United States wants than where it was. Meanwhile, Doug Ford up in Canada says that they'd be willing to drop all their tariffs if Trump did.

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That's exactly what we want. Now he's only, what is the Ontario? So he's not the head of the whole country. He's Ontario premier. So, but he's saying directly and cleanly and without insult, he's saying we'll, we'll drop all our tariffs tomorrow. Now, I don't think he has control over all of Canada. So his opinion might not matter that much, but that's what we want to hear.

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That's exactly what we want to hear. We love Canada. We want to be besties with Canada. We want to get through it. We think the best situation is no tariffs. And by the way, that would remove one of the best incentives for Canada to become a 51st state because it would remove trade as an obstacle. So then we'd be able to trade with Canada just like you would trade across states.

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So that's exactly what we want. Now, does that make a difference? We'll see. But you're already seeing that reasonable people in other countries and reasonable people who are not directly involved in the process can look at this and say, oh yeah, let's negotiate. We'll make this work. But what about other people? Let's see, Mitch McConnell. What is wrong with that guy?

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He just took sides with a lot of the Democrats and voted 51 to 48 to kill President Trump's tariffs on Canada. Why would he do that? Is Mitch McConnell so out of it that he doesn't understand that this is a negotiation? I mean, at least Ontario already just said, hey, okay, how about no tariffs? That's a complete win. Now, the vote in...

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in Congress doesn't make any difference, I think it has to be two-thirds or something, so that it doesn't have any practical implications, except that it makes Mitch McConnell look like a pathetic idiot. Why would he do it? Like, why is he even doing it? It's just baffling. Well, let's talk about some more fake news. Have you been watching how CNN and MSNBC

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So I'm going to go with my normal theme that Trump might be full of hyperbole, he's always negotiating, and things are working in the right direction. But if you think the exact numbers are telling you something, Maybe yes, maybe no. The only thing I know is I can't check them, and the Democrats have a pushback on pretty much all of them.

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continually report as if it's a fact, but it's not, it's a lie, that the Doge Project and Trump want to cut Social Security and Medicare. Have you heard them report that like it's a fact? It's the opposite of a fact, because both Trump and Musk have said over and over and over again, we're not even looking at cutting the benefits to people.

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We're looking at getting rid of the waste and fraud so that there's a greater chance that there'll be money for the people. So it's the opposite of what they're reporting and they fucking know it. This is the thing that bugs me. They know it. And even if like, let's say one talking head didn't know it, the network knows it. The producers clearly know it.

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You don't think that they should do a little self-correcting? But no, Abby Phillip on CNN, who's one of the purveyors of the fine people hoax, by the way. So she has no credibility as a news person whatsoever. But she blatantly lied talking to the governor of, ex-governor of Wisconsin. She was talking to Scott Walker.

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And she throws out that, you know, that Trump would cut Social Security and Medicare benefits. even though he said exactly the opposite, and even though they're saving the benefits, not destroying them. And Governor Walker, to his credit, would have none of it. So he fact-checked her in real time. Do you think she then said, oh, really? You know, I have different information.

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Here's my quote that proves I'm right. No. No. Did she say, but, ex-governor, you're forgetting that one of them said this and then say something that was true? No, no. Did she say, I'd better take a look at that because I was pretty sure that they said they would cut it?

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She simply tried to talk over him and make the time go away and then change the subject. So, but now that she's been informed publicly... by somebody who is credible and knows what they're talking about, do you think from now on she'll say, well, they definitely are not looking to cut the benefits of Social Security and Medicare?

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I used to think that they were, but after Scott Walker filled me in, I checked it out and found out, well, he was right. They've never once said that. They are actually just trying to save it from going bankrupt so that you can get your benefits fully. No, I would expect her to lie about it the very next time she talks about it.

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So I think Abby Phillip is one of the worst credibility people on CNN. I'm surprised she still has a job. Well, I guess I shouldn't be. Here's my take. So I think Elon Musk just reposted this right before I went online. So I'm just going to read it the way I posted it because I thought about it enough that I think it's worded correctly. So here's the first thing.

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The biggest threat to the citizens of the United States is uncontrolled government spending creating ruinous debt. Do you agree so far? Now, you might say, well, you know, Russia might go nuclear, but probably not. I mean, if they did, it'd be very bad, but probably not. But if we didn't do anything about our debt situation and government spending, we are definitely dead.

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The whole country is dead. Do you agree with me so far? That the debt is an existential threat, as in we're no longer a country, and it's not going to take a long time, certainly within just a few years, because we're already way beyond the point where we can handle that level of debt, unless we make radical doge-like cuts.

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So if you didn't know that the Democrats have a pushback that you wouldn't know if it sounds good or not, you would hear it and go, huh, I know that might be true. But then again... It might not be true because it's the Democrats. So, no, I'm not going to trust Trump on any numbers. That's not a good play.

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All right, so if you believe the first part, and you should, because it's sort of obvious, that ruinous spending and debt are the biggest risk to the United States, and that we're already looking into the abyss on debt, and so time matters. We're not solving the 20-year-from-now problem. We're solving the 18 months from now you're out of business as a country. I think it's that close.

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It's an emergency. It's the most important thing that's happening in the country. All right. Next, the only possible solution is Doge, and they're making progress. Okay so far? Nobody else has an idea. We know that the government can't be asked to do it themselves. We're all confident that that's true. It's just got to be an external force. It's got to be a really, really smart external force.

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And it's got to be an external force that is unusually capable. That's what we have. Good for us. So we have the most ruinous, dangerous existential threat in my lifetime. It's the biggest one I've seen. I mean, when I was a kid, I was worried about the Soviet Union nuking us. But since then, this is the biggest threat I've seen to the existence of the United States and my own life, really.

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And Doge is the only thing that's making progress against it. And it looks like it's working. Now, the next thing you need to know is that the main goal of Democrats is to stop Doge. And no one has asked a prominent Democrat or a Tesla demonstrator to explain that. Can you explain why you're trying to stop the only thing that could save the United States?

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Why would you be opposed to the one and only thing? Now, I get the whole scalpel, no chainsaw. But since it's obvious that whatever Doge started out as, it very quickly self-adjusted. Well, maybe external force adjusted it. But they very quickly adjusted to the cuts will be approved by the cabinet members. So the government itself will be making the final decisions, not Doge.

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And very scalpel-like decisions. So it's not really a good critique to say, oh, they're not even paying attention to what they're cutting. Now, the other complaints are they don't even know what they're cutting. That is a little closer to true, meaning that our accounting systems are so pathetic that

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that you might not know what's going to happen if you cut a particular budget in a particular department because you wouldn't know even what it was connected to. But how do you find out? You cut it. There's not a second way. If you're working on, and I'll just say an 18-month, you're all dead if you don't fix this, you cut it. And if 30 days from now somebody says, oh, my God, my God,

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the gay fish are dying or whatever it is, then you say to yourself, well, I don't really care about those fish and you're glad you cut it. But if they say, what, did you know that part of this was used to feed poor children in America? Then you say, oh, let's quickly put that back in. So even the, they don't know what they're cutting is just such a weak, low-end, inexperienced,

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kind of a complaint. It just doesn't understand the real world even a little bit, how anything works. So that's what I want to see. I want to see the right-leaning media and the left-leaning media ask the same question.

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I'm going to trust Trump that he's doing what he believes and the other smart people around him, like Scott Besant. He's doing what the smart people in his administration would agree on. is very good for America in the long run. And there might be some pain in the short run. So to me, directionally, I think we're fine. And we'll see how it all shakes out.

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If you're a Democrat, can you explain to me why you're opposed to the one and only thing that could save this country, which is a major strong push to reduce our expenses as quickly as possible? Explain it. What's your alternative path? So far, we've let Democrats get away with what I call the half opinion. A full opinion is, well, there are costs and there are benefits to every decision.

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Let's talk about the costs. We'll talk about the benefits and we'll see which one is bigger. We don't do that. We just let the Democrats talk about what might go wrong. That's dumb. That's stupid. That's not doing your job if you're in the media. If your job is to do the news and to figure out what's going on and inform the public, you better ask the Democrats what their plan is.

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Do they have a plan? Oh, we're going to bring all our scalpels and then we'll let the Democrats decide what to cut. Does anybody think that's a real plan? No. Tell us your plan for saving the country that's driving as fast as it can over a cliff that's probably 18 months away. Tell us your plan.

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Otherwise, shut the fuck up about the people who are risking their lives, literally, to save the country from the biggest existential threat of my adult life. And can the media please do your fucking job for about 10 seconds? Your job is to ask them that question. It's not my job to tell you what question to ask. You ask that question. You know that's the important question. Why don't you ask it?

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And this applies to left-leaning and right-leaning. Ask the question, what is your alternative to save the country from going off the cliff in 18 months? What is your alternative? If you don't have one, shut the fuck up and let the real people who are serious do the work and then let Cory Booker do his, oh, I'm so tired.

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There's a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better except maybe the tariffs. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. That was terrific. Did he get it?

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We are not serious people. The newest fake news is that all the anti-Doge, anti-Elon Musk stuff has worked. It's worked because he says he might be leaving the project sometime in the near future, which was always the plan. He had a 130-day contract. There's some government rule that says 130 days is the magic number. And that would be late May.

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And there's no indication whatsoever that he has a plan to leave before late May. He does say that he thinks he can hit his trillion dollar target by then. Again, I'm not going to believe any numbers that come out of any part of the government, doge, non-doge, tariffs, non-tariffs. I don't believe any numbers.

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But it does look, every indication is that they're making massive movements in the right direction. So, yeah, that's just the latest lie. Because imagine how embarrassing it would be to be the Democrats and they put all of their effort into taking the legs out of Musk and all he's going to do is serve out his term exactly like he said and be successful when he's done.

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And what are they going to do after he leaves? Because he would just be leaving on the agreed timeline. Trump and he would thank each other and think that they both did an amazing job. The Republicans would say, that's just the greatest American contribution I've ever seen. That's what I would say. I would say,

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Other than the military, which of course stands alone in terms of their service to the country, you can't compare to that. But for a citizen, there's no bigger risk, there's no bigger contribution than what you're seeing from both Trump, who's risked his life, and Elon Musk, who's risking his life and his companies, his legacies, his reputation. He's risking it all. If he does that,

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The chart he had, that Trump had, that showed what the tariffs were from the other countries and what ours are, was very persuasive. very persuasive, but not necessarily very accurate or comprehensible, but very persuasive. I liked, at least the chart people did a great job. So I saw lots of theories about how the numbers were derived and where they came from. I don't believe any

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and gets the win, it will be one of the greatest things that's ever happened in the history of the United States. It will be a rebirth that you've never seen before. Anyway, so I'm hoping that the Tesla domestic terrorists have decreased. It feels to me like I'm seeing fewer of them as I'm seeing more stories about prosecutions. And that's the way it should work, right?

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If enough people get prosecuted, there should be enough people who say, I don't think so. Because it feels to me like the Democrats are in such a bubble about what's true and what's not true and what's right and what's wrong that they think that destroying other people's property is perfectly acceptable. But they don't want to get caught.

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So you can't change the fact that they think that destroying private property is acceptable. but you can definitely change the risk profile by giving 20 years to somebody who set one on fire and making sure that we see endless videos of somebody trying to key a Tesla and then getting caught because it's always on video. So I like that. In the meantime, the new Tesla Model Y,

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According to Nick Cruz-Patane, I saw this on X, the new Tesla Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in China in the month of March. Now, if you haven't seen the Model Y, the new one, apparently people just love it. Now, it is the car I bought for a family member, and it looks great.

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know i haven't always liked the design of just the physical design outside look of teslas but when i look at the model y i just think it's they they somehow took the design up a level it it just makes you feel a certain way when you look at it now now i i will admit Everybody has their own opinion of what a good looking car is. Some people hate what a Porsche looks like.

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Some hate what a BMW looks like. So it's very personal. But I had not been so impressed by design until I saw the new Model Y. So apparently the Chinese are having a similar experience. And that's the one they most wanted in March. Here's some other good news. This is before the tariff information drops, so maybe it'll change.

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But Breitbart News' John Carney is reporting that hiring accelerated in March. We were already worrying about the tariffs before we heard the details, but it didn't stop hiring, according to ADP. So that's good.

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All right, here's the weirdest story of the day, or I don't know what it is, but Mayor Adams of New York, you know that he was being lawfired, and the case against him just sounded suspiciously weak, like it looked like somebody going after Trump with a, well, you know, technically this might be illegal, but nobody would be pursued for it.

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And then he met with Trump, and they got along great, and then I guess there was a, a push to have all the, at least the federal charges dropped. And it looks like they have been dropped with prejudice. So dismissed by the judge with prejudice. Now, Simon Kent, also Breitbart, is writing about this.

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Now, with prejudice means that it's such a bullshit case that the courts are saying, don't even try bringing this again later. So they can't even bring the same case up again. It was so weak. That's with prejudice. So that happens. And that came two months after the Trump administration sought to drop the case. So it finally got done.

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And then Mayor Adams has been talking to some podcasts and whatnot. He was on some loser's podcast. You can see I have an opinion about that loser. It's a loser who has said some bad things about me when I got canceled. So fuck that guy. But so I'm not even going to mention him. But Mayor Adams was on there and he said that Trump derangement syndrome is real.

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He said you could like or dislike Elon Musk, but you don't have any right blowing up someone's Tesla. You don't have any right breaking the law. Who do you think you are? Now, that's what we've been hoping Democrat leaders in general would say. But Mayor Adams is in this weird zone where, at least until yesterday, he was a Democrat. And he's saying what we expect Democrats to say.

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How in the world do you explain that he's one of the few people who are willing to say what Democrats are afraid to say? oh, he just said he's not going to be a Democrat anymore. So he's going to form an independent party and run for mayor again. Now, I don't know how often an independent wins any race. But given that he has 100% name recognition and he's done the job,

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and the Democrats are a disgraced, ridiculous party with ultra-low approval, this might be one of the situations where you could win. It might be. So we'll see. I guess he also, Mayor Adams, by defending his, let's say, dismissal of his case, he was trying to make sure we understood that that was part of a deep state move against him.

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anything about the numbers. I don't believe the actual numbers. I don't believe that they're going to stay the same. I don't believe that we know accurately what the other countries were charging us because I think they might have included tariffs plus VAT taxes plus any kind of duties. So it seemed like it was a grab bag of concepts and we're not going to really understand it.

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And he ended up recommending, of all things, FBI Director Kash Patel's book on the deep state. I guess Kash Patel wrote a good book that if you didn't understand what the deep state is, it would lay it out for you in terms that are really clear. So Mayor Adams is recommending a book by Kash Patel. How many of you predicted that? I didn't.

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So when I see somebody violating everything that they're supposed to do, but instead of doing what they're supposed to do, doing what is smart and makes sense, and when you hear it, you go, uh-huh, uh-huh, okay, that makes sense. I love that. Love it a lot. And then if you're wondering, Scott, are you being too kind to Mayor Adams? Maybe he's a weasel.

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and he's just doing a good job of public relations how could we how could we be sure is mayor adams a good guy who's making all the right choices even though they're tough ones or is he a weasel who's just doing a great job of you know weasel explaining his way out of his troubles which is it if only there were some reliable way to know oh

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Adam Schiff just made a video to make fun of Mayor Adams, and especially his reference to Kash Patel's book. Oh, there's my confirmation. If you're doing a bunch of things that makes Adam Schiff do a video just to attack you, you, ladies and gentlemen, are on the right track. There is no better indication...

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that you were on the right side and telling the truth than Adam Schiff taking the other side aggressively. Perfect, perfect. All of my questions have been answered. I can't think of anything that would be a better endorsement than Adam Schiff making a video against you. I hope he makes a video against me.

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I mean, that would be like the highlight of my life if Adam Schiff decided, ladies and gentlemen, I just have to talk to you about this disgraced cartoonist.

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Anyway, according to the Libs of TikTok account, the DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are all suing Trump over his executive order to block non-citizens from voting. It sounds like I misspoke, doesn't it? Let me say it again, and I promise I'm not misspeaking. I don't know if this is real, by the way. I feel like there's something in the story missing because I didn't see a full source.

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I just saw one page of a document. So I could use a fact check. I guess I'm not 100% confident this is a real thing. But do you think the DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries were suing Trump to make sure that non-citizens could continue to vote? Because if they are, that would certainly give up the game, wouldn't it?

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The game being that the Democrats are just looking for anything to win, and they're not concerned with anything else. They're not concerned with action. They like acting, but not action. And they will bring in people into the country and give them, I don't know, Social Security numbers and tell them they can vote, and some of them will.

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I guess my brain is having a hard time believing it's even real that they would go on record and sue so that they're on record as wanting non-citizens to vote. I don't know. I don't know about that. In other news, Amazon's made some last-minute bid to acquire TikTok. And now there are several entities that want to acquire it.

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But it certainly got everybody's attention, didn't it? And we're already seeing a few countries who are making moves to negotiate. For example... So I think Vietnam and Canada has made a move, at least part of Canada, not the whole country. I think Mexico has responded that they won't try to match it. So countries are already responding, which is what we wanted. And I saw a post by Bill Ackman.

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Some smart people are saying that the most likely outcome is that the current investors will just keep owning it and they'll just roll it over into some kind of new international entity with no Chinese connection. But that would involve China saying yes. So I'm going to be consistent with my prior prediction. There will be no sale of TikTok and it will just close operations in the U.S.

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And China is smart enough to know that Trump would be blamed for that. Now, Trump might be smart enough to delay it again and say, oh, well, maybe I'll delay it six months, you know, just to keep that out of the news cycle. But I don't see any way this gets sold. Do you?

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Do any of you think that China would ever sell it as opposed to just eating the several billion dollars of value that it might provide to them? I don't think they're going to sell it. I think they're going to just say, if you cancel it, you're going to have to deal with the political fallout of canceling it. Good luck with that. And it would be a really big fallout. It would be a big fallout.

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So I think China is going to call Trump's bluff. And I don't know what exactly Trump would do if they do that. So I don't see a sale happening. But we'll see. Here's something that Mike Benz has alerted us to. And I'm pretty sure it's true, just because Benz is such a reliable source.

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But according to him, at one point, sometime between 2011 and 2014, Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court, and he was in that job at that time, he traveled to the Czech Republic And he lived for a week in the home of Norm Eisen, who I believe was the ambassador to the Czech Republic at that time.

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And they spent a week together, allegedly, quote, working on American and European rule of law issues together. Now, I know a lot of you have said, hey, well, there's something wrong with Justice Roberts. We don't trust him for one reason or another. And I've never bought into any of that. because I didn't have any evidence of anything that sounded suspicious.

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I just thought he was independent and he had his own opinions and he couldn't always predict where he was going to go, but that's part of the process. But when I hear that he lived in the same house intentionally with Norm Eisen, I'm just going to tell you to do your own research on Norm Eisen.

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If they are close and they spend a week together in the same house and they were working on the same project, I don't trust Justice Roberts one bit. His reputation is absolutely garbage now. Now, that's how bad... Norm Eisen's reputation is, at least among people on the right.

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Now, some would say, and I have to be careful because he's a lawyer and I don't want to get sued, so I'll just say what other people say about him, that he is an expert on regime change, both internationally and locally, and that he took his expertise on color revolutions and regime change, which he

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apparently allegedly practiced in other countries on behalf of the United States so it would all be authorized and legitimate and that he took those skills and just applied them against Trump and that he continues to do it and that he's the main purveyor of lawfare and one weasel technique after another and that he's far from being a patriot and he's closer to being whatever is the opposite of that

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Now, if that's the guy that Justice Roberts spent a week with in his house, talking to him about rule of law for American and European people, you should be alarmed like what is the highest alarm fire? Four alarm fire? That is absolutely damning to the Supreme Court. Absolutely damning. I can't think of anything that'd be worse. I think Mike Ben said something about he would be less concerned

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if Roberts had spent a week on Epstein Island. Now, that's hyperbole, but I get it. I get the point. If he had spent time on Epstein Island, he didn't, by the way. That didn't happen. But if he had, I'd be worried about his personal character. But you spend a week with Norm Eisen in his house talking about the rule of law in the U.S. and Europe.

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That's a five alarm fire for, you know, everything that you care about, basically. Anyway, what else is happening? So apparently, according to Fox News, the FBI has been flooded with a record number of new agent applications under Kash Patel. I wonder if that's just because there were a lot of conservatives who thought the FBI would be a great place to work, but not under the old leadership.

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And this is something that I was thinking, but if I said it, I would be mocked because it sounds like it's just too much in the bag for Trump. And I'm totally in the bag for Trump, but even I wouldn't have said this. So Bill Ackman posts, sometimes the best strategy in a negotiation is convincing the other side that you're crazy. Now, you've heard me teach you that, right?

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And that as soon as Kash Patel came in, they said, oh, this might be a good place to work again. It might be just that. So that's a hell of a good sign for Kash Patel and for the FBI as well. Another good news in Daily Wire, Todd Benzman's reporting that Trump's war on fentanyl is off to a strong start. Apparently, they've only caught half as much fentanyl coming across the border.

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Now, I always mock that statistic because the amount you catch isn't the important part. It's the amount that got in. You can't really tell how much got in by how much you caught. But we will say that the amount that got caught is down by about half.

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I do think that given that there's a reasonably good argument for why it's happening, you know, Mexico has decided that they don't want to be tariffed into extinction. So they said they would work harder against the cartels. So maybe that's working. We've heard that our Reaper drones flying over the cartel territories is causing them to have sleepless nights and maybe have to relocate their labs.

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So there might be a production problem that you can't relocate a lab and then start it up quickly enough to produce the same amount you used to produce. So maybe that's it. I don't know. But at least it's an indication in the right direction.

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According to the Daily Wire, Spencer Lindquist, the Bill Gates Foundation, and a few other nonprofits you haven't heard of, might lose their tax-exempt status over anti-white discrimination in scholarship programs. And I guess the Gates Foundation has some scholarship programs that are not available to white people.

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So yeah, they should lose their nonprofit status if that's the case, if they don't immediately correct that. I wouldn't want them to lose their status if they correct it. But yeah, how about being less racist, Bill Gates? That'd be great. By the way, I've said this a million times, racism against white people is mostly driven by white people who are already successful.

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And what they're trying to do is protect their own position. So if you become a billionaire and then you say, oh, my new current most important thing is diversity, then people say, oh, well, you're not such a terrible monster. You're looking to give stuff away and make sure it goes to diverse candidates. Yes, you can keep your billion dollars.

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I think it has very little to do with what they're actually thinking or feeling or their character. I think it's just pure cover your ass stuff. So I'd like to see Bill Gates cover his ass a little bit better by being less racist. Well, let's talk about China. Apparently they've got under development a new one of these maglev speedy trains that would go 621 miles per hour.

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So that would be way faster than their fastest train and they would have Wi-Fi and everything else. Now, here's where I worry that the United States can't build stuff anymore. The success that China has in building stuff, I mean, they can build so well that they can build cities and then knock them down. It wasn't their first choice to build it and knock it down, but they can build so fast.

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Building a maglev train, I mean, that's got to be the highest level of complexity. And yet they're just pounding on it and they'll get it. So it's very impressive. I got to say, China is one impressive country. They also have this breakthrough on mitochondria. Now, this won't sound like a big deal until I tell you why.

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So West China Hospital of Sichuan University, I guess, some scientists have figured out a stem cell-based method to bruise high-quality mitochondria at a scale. And what it would do is allow you to effectively treat things like osteoarthritis and other diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. So I'll take a barrel of that, please.

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I've spoken at length about the concept of negotiating from the point of insanity, where you act completely irrational about at least one thing that you're asking for. And if you can convince the other side that you're irrational... then they're going to give up on trying to rationally change your mind.

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I wouldn't mind a nice barrel of good mitochondria for my osteoarthritis. So But I also don't believe I've seen any Chinese medical breakthroughs that have turned into products in the United States. So I'm not going to get excited about that one. Meanwhile, in my last bring to the U.S. news, the U.S. has banned government workers in China.

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I don't know how many government workers we have in China from dating Chinese citizens because they might be spies. So the U.S. has put a strict rule in place. the American government workers, and their families. Even the families, even if they're not the family of the employee, they can't have relations with Chinese citizens. Now, my first question would be, even the really hot ones? Come on.

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There should be some kind of an exemption for the really hot ones. No? All right, well, at least they're consistent. All right, ladies and gentlemen, now you understand everything about tariffs and everything else. How's the stock market doing right now? So give me an update in the comments. I expect it to be down at least most of today.

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It might recover if a number of countries say, we're going to negotiate. But I wouldn't worry too much about what it is doing today. That seems like it's temporary no matter what. All right, I'm going to... talk privately to the local subscribers for a few minutes. And the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Thank you, X and Rumble and YouTube people.

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And they're just going to say, all right, you know, I'll try to make do with the rest of this contract. But that one thing that you rationally want, I guess there's nothing I can do. You're just going to have to, I guess I'll just have to live with that. So is that what Trump is doing? Is Trump acting like a madman to convince people that there's no point in negotiating with him? I would say no.

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I don't think that's what's going on. I think he is causing confusion. I think he doesn't mind, which is different than doing it intentionally. I think that the numbers are so complicated and maybe smart people could disagree what the current tariffs are and what they should be and what's the right number.

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So if you tried to get the right numbers, it would be sort of a fool's errand because nobody would ever agree that you calculated it correctly. There are probably 50 ways you could calculate this stuff. So I do agree that trying too hard to get the numbers accurate wouldn't buy you anything. I do like the fact that putting it out there made every country take it seriously.

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And he has the attention of the entire world. Let's compare that to Cory Booker. Cory Booker spent 25 hours or what was it? 25 hours speaking in the Senate and nobody even knows what his topic was after 25 hours of speaking. Did you have a point, Corey? Was there something you were asking for? I'm missing the point of this.

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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and it's the best time you'll ever have in your life but if you think you can take it up to a level that nobody's ever seen before in their entire human existence all you need for that

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Whereas Trump goes out, he gives a one-hour speech in the Rose Garden and causes every country on earth to stop what they were doing and put their full focus on their tariff situation with the United States. Now, that's the difference between acting, in quotes, which is what Booker was doing. He was just acting, putting on a one-man play, versus Trump, who was acting.

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He acted on something that's been a concern for decades, and a lot of people have shared the concern that other countries might be taking advantage of this. So, if you're watching a news program... that doesn't start talking about the tariffs, as in the first thing you say, that it's a negotiation opening bid, that's not real news. It's a real good way to know what the fake news is.

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The real news would say, this is an opening bid to negotiations, because that's what the administration says, it's what Trump says, it's what Bill Ackman understands, it's what you and I know. The correct frame

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is that he just made the entire world pay attention to him and take seriously the things we want them to take seriously and know that they've got to change or it's going to be a problem for them. Now, one of the things I teach you is that in persuasion, the first thing you have to get right is to get their attention. and make them think it's their top thing they have to deal with.

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It was terrific. I'm so proud of that. So proud. All right. Should we talk about all the things? I guess we should just start with tariffs. Hey, what do you think about that? So president Trump in a speech in the rose garden lay down his tariff situation. Um, and, uh, it's not exactly reciprocal, but there were like different amounts for each country.

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Did Trump do that? Did Trump get the attention of these other countries? Yes. Did he make them think it's the top thing that they have to deal with? Yes. Home run. If I were to grade him on negotiating, we don't have a result yet, so I can't give him a final grade, but preparation, A+. Are his numbers accurate? Don't care. Doesn't matter. It won't make any difference to the outcome.

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Did it make people think he's crazy? Maybe. Does that help him? It might. Does it make people feel really uncomfortable and uncertain and worried about their future? Yes. Will that help him? Yes, because they're going to want to get rid of the uncertainty. So he's going to make them negotiate with themselves, which is, how about 5%? No. How about we cut it 10%? No.

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That's making somebody negotiate with themselves. So if you can make the other countries feel uncertain and worried enough... and more uncertain and more worried than you are, which is the big win, then they're going to start moving in your direction even without you negotiating. So we'll see if that works.

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But I'll tell you, any news that talks about the tariffs as anything but a negotiating frame are lying to you. They're lying, stupid weasels. Now, the other thing I should warn you about is anybody who's confident that it's a bad idea. If you're confident that what Trump has done is a bad idea, you're probably an idiot. Because confidence should not be any part of this.

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We don't know how this is going to work out. I don't know how this is going to work out. If I told you, oh, this is definitely going to work out just the way we want, all the tariffs will go away and we'll make a trillion dollars. I don't know that. Nobody knows that. But I would be equally stupid to say, oh, it's just a tax. Everybody's prices will go up and we'll get nothing from it.

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And everything was fine before then. Stupid. That's just frankly stupid because you don't know that. You don't know what the end result of any of this will be. But the one thing I can tell you is that he just took control. So he owns the argument. He has the high ground because he has at least demonstrated that things were unfair to the United States, however you want to measure that.

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So he's made his first persuasive win, which is the whole world was taking advantage of us. Even if you don't believe the exact numbers he used... and you go back and you look at the numbers for yourself, you're going to say to yourself, oh, whatever numbers you look at, you could pick any source, and it's still going to say, oh, I guess I see his point. It looks like these were not the same.

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They were treating us differently than we were treating them. So he has a complete victory on phase one of persuasion. Complete victory. Are his numbers good? Nope. I don't believe a single one of his numbers. Is he causing the markets to go into chaos? Yes. Yes. Won't last. Oh, well, let me put it this way. I don't know if it'll last.

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But the play was always that he would roil things up in the short run. and then things would calm down as we got more clarity later and there's more negotiating, et cetera. So the fact that the markets are roiled doesn't say it's wrong or right, because that's exactly what he said he was going to do. Nobody should be surprised by that.

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Chris Hayes of NBC, MSNBC, says, quote, that he put these tariffs on people for no reason. That's a smart guy in MSNBC, saying that Trump put the tariffs on, quote, for no reason, and he's plunging the United States into economic crisis. Are either of those statements accurate? No. He definitely had a reason. It's called negotiating.

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and trying to treat you know america first how in the world could you be a talking head you know a lawyer and smart enough to have a job in msnbc and after all of this you say there's no reason you might not like the reason but there's definitely a reason And it's pretty well articulated. They're screwing us. We're trying to stop it. It's a negotiation. Boom.

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Now, if you wondered what the formula was or what the thinking was for why each country had a different tariff, and it wasn't just matching the tariffs. Um, let me explain the math to you. I mean, it's very simple. Uh, you take the, uh, the interest rate and you divide it by the gross national product of each country.

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Is it plunging the United States into economic crisis? No. Anything could happen. I'm not saying that it can't happen. Because again, certainty is the only stupid opinion. Let me say that again. Certainty about how this all works out is the only stupid opinion. That's just stupid. Nobody has certainty. We're all non-experts on tariffs the way they're being used.

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The way they're being used, nobody's ever seen. It's brand new territory. The only thing we can say for sure is if it's a negotiation, has Trump set the table correctly? And the answer is yes. From the perspective of setting the table. Now, can he bring it home? Don't know. Don't know. If I told you yes, I would be stupid. That would be stupid. Because I can't know how this turns out.

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I can only know that from the perspective of what would a good persuader do, what would a good negotiator do, it would look pretty much just like this. So I'm pretty happy with the setting of the table. And Chris Hayes calls it the worst case scenario. Is it? Is it the worst case scenario? I feel like the worst case scenario would be the Tesla protests.

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In the time it takes me to do that, there will be three new sites offering three new of the same products. So there is no mechanism for anybody to do anything about this. I've decided that it's time for a lawsuit, class action, because it affects a lot of people. And it's obvious that Amazon does not care about the people who are involved in this because it looks like it'd be easy to solve.

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But I think that both of them pale in comparison. I think Biden might be something like 100x worse than the second worst president. These are not close. This is completely ruinous, destructive, inexplicable behavior. And it gets worse because his DEI is what selected Kamala Harris. She would have been a huge disaster. if the fake media could have put her over the finish line.

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But Steve Cortez found a video, he was publishing on X here, where Kamala Harris was talking about the insanity of building a southern border wall. Now, it's not that she said it. I have to do you an impression of what it sounded like. Actually, if I could do this quickly, I'm going to play the audio for you. Because you just have to hear it.

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All right. I'm going to key this up and put the microphone up to it. See if you can hear it from here.

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It couldn't be farther from the truth. ...that we have to build a wall across our southern border. We have to build a wall across our southern border. If you saw the video, it really sells it.

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I have to do the physical impression of her saying that it's ridiculous that terrorists would come across the border to suggest that we have to build a wall across the southern border because there are terrorists who are trying to invade the country. That was almost the president of the United States. That was almost the president of the United States.

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And the fake news let that walk right up to the line. The only thing that stopped it was Trump and many of you who helped support him. Oh, my goodness. I don't think our brains can hold how bad this was. I mean, it's bad on a level that I don't even know what to compare it to. I've never seen anything like this. It's amazing. Anyway, so is there anything that could make this worse?

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Is there any way that the stupidity and evil from the Biden administration can be taken to a higher level? Is there any way it could be worse? My next story is that Biden is giving the second highest civilian award to the leaders of the January 6th congressional panel, according to the Washington Times. So that would include Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson.

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The two led the congressional investigation into January 6th. So he's giving the highest national award to two people that I think most of us would consider overt, obvious traitors. completely obvious traitors. Why do I say that?

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It looks like it'd be easy to solve, honestly. They got AI, they got a lot of people. So Jeff Bezos, I don't want to sue Amazon. Like I said, it's literally the last thing in the whole world I want to do. But you don't have a system That gives me another path. I'm not going to let you steal my material over and over and over again because Amazon's making money from this.

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Because the January 6th committee was completely political lawfare, and it ended in the justification for trying to keep a president out of office, and it ended in the lawfare against all the citizens who were just protesting. So these are two of the worst criminals in American history, because they did it right in front of you. And they're currently torturing, what, over 1,000 people?

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cupper, a mugger, a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. It makes everything better.

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If you put somebody in jail for something that's not a crime in the country that they thought they loved because they were patriots, imagine being so patriotic that you thought you had to go to the Capitol and protest. And a patriotism. And then the country that you love so much that you're willing to go protest for it to make it better puts you in jail for what is definitely...

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not worthy of a crime. That's torture. That's torture. These two people who are getting the second highest civilian award are responsible for the torture of at least 1,000 people. Now, I wonder if Dick Cheney's ever been involved in torture. Yeah, it looks like it runs in the family, doesn't it? Looks like it runs in the family.

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Well, if there's any way for Trump to remove those awards, I think he should do it. If there's a way Congress can pass a law that says we disavow this award or that we don't count it anymore or something, it should be taken away. Even if not technically taken away, there should be some kind of action by Republicans to disavow it and to say these are two criminals.

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And even if they haven't done something technically criminal, the level of evil which they intentionally put on the United States can never be forgiven. This can never be forgiven. Anyway, we're going to talk about the terror, what looks like terror attacks, we're pretty sure. You probably know by now that podcaster Sean Ryan has had a number of guests telling us that this was coming.

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Chief among them was Sarah Adams, ex-CIA, who describes Osama bin Laden's, one of his sons, seems to have taken over Al-Qaeda and is trying to consolidate control of all the various ISIS-like and different terrorist groups in the Middle East with the intention of staging a massive attack in the United States

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which would include multiple October 7th-like attacks in a number of metropolitan places at somewhat the same time. And this is all scheduled for this year. And it seems to be related to the open border and the ability to bring in, we don't know, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 people from al-Qaeda who are literally trained and weaponized to

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They apparently have explosive vests that can't be detected by our normal detection ability. So they can walk into any building and blow it up now. And there's no doubt this is coming. Now, did we see the beginning of it? We don't know. It could be that they're not related to the larger plot that's coming, and it was just a coincidence. But... That would be a lot of coincidences.

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So let's just talk about what we know. So I don't want to do the thing where every single person you listen to today has to give you the whole background of everything. But a number of you don't watch regular news. You get all your news from me. At least that's what people say. So if you don't mind, I'll give you a little bit of the background you've heard before, right?

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You're making money from my intellectual property. This has to stop. So I'm going to see if I can get together a class action lawsuit. I'd rather be part of it than leading it. But if there's a lawyer out there that wants to make some serious money, I suspect that the entire class is probably $100 million

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So you know that in New Orleans, there was one individual, an American, named Shamsuddin Jabbar. He was in our American military. But apparently he became radicalized, we think, because he was living in a Muslim community where people didn't even speak English for the most part. So it doesn't look like he was radicalized directly from somebody overseas.

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but rather he may have lived among a group of people who made what he was doing seem awesome and on target. So it might have been locally, but I assume there's some overseas influence either directly or indirectly. So we don't know much about his intentions. He had an ISIS flag. I'm not 100% sure that Al-Qaeda and ISIS are so coordinated.

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It feels like it'd be hard to coordinate terrorists because they'd want to run their own thing, but maybe. So maybe he's part of that Al-Qaeda territory thing, or maybe just there's more to it than we think.

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um he's got apparently he pledges loyalty to isis he had an isis flag uh at first they said he had accomplices that may have been planting bombs but now they say there are no accomplices that was a mistake but i don't know yet whether bombs existed somehow i spent all morning looking at the news on this and not once did i see were the bombs real

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Because the report was they saw four people planting bombs, multiple pipe bombs. And then now we see that those people were not terrorists, they were just people who went to the event. But does that mean the pipe bomb is not real? Do they or do they not have in their possession a pipe bomb that was planted somewhere? Can you give me a fact check on this while we're going?

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I don't know why that very obvious question didn't pop into my head. screen while I was looking at it. Anyway, Ken Delanian was on MSNBC News, says the FBI has now ruled out the two people seen planting IEDs. Now, remember I always tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything, unless you know the players. What do you know about Ken Delanian and MSNBC News?

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Have you heard anything about them? Well, the accusations are that when Ken Delaney appears in a story like this, it's as if you're hearing something from the CIA. So I don't have personal knowledge that that's the case. But I monitor it. I think it's Glenn Greenwald who points this out.

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So I don't trust that source, but I think he's just reporting what everybody else is reporting, that they're not going to be looking for any extra people. Now, of course, there were two events. The other event besides New Orleans was the Cybertruck parked in front of the Trump building in Las Vegas that blew up.

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probably $100 million in revenue that's being affected by just the counterfeits that probably they could stop. Now, what would it take to improve the system? Easy. All it would take is the person who's identified as definitely the author of the product to write a memo and say, here's a screenshot. Here's the link to the offending product. Here's my identifier that says I'm the real author.

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It had some kind of fireworks related and gasoline and it looks like it was clearly meant to end remote control. So it was clearly meant to explode. The good news is that the Cybertruck was built so strong that the walls of it protected the explosion from going sideways, and it mostly went up. So it didn't even blow out the doors of the Trump building it was right in front of.

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So that's a pretty big victory for the Cybertruck. However, Tesla stock went down today. I'll tell you, I don't make stock buying recommendations, and you shouldn't listen to me. But do you think that the Tesla stock should have gone down when the Cybertruck, which is built largely to protect you in dangerous situations, that it actually did what it was supposed to do?

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In other words, if you were in that truck and you were parked right next to a bomb that went off, you had a reasonable chance of surviving because the truck is so well built. Anyway, so I imagine that whatever happened to the stock is probably temporary, unless people think that there's going to be larger actions against Musk, I suppose.

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Now, the big question is, is the Cybertruck related to the New Orleans truck? So they're both trucks. They happen on the same day. They appear to be, obviously, the type of acts that are done by terrorists. So are they connected? There's another connection. Both of the vehicles were rented through an app that's Toro, Toro or Taurus. I forget what the name of it.

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So there's an app where you can rent a private person's car. and they just park the car somewhere where you can find it. I think that's how it works. And they meet you there, and they just give you the keys, and you're basically renting a private person's car instead of getting it through Hertz or Avis or something. Now, some people said that means... No, that's not the name of it. It's Turo.

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T-U-R-O. Turo. Now, I'm going to add something to the story that I haven't seen anybody add. Do you think I can do it? Do you think there's anything I can add to the story that's useful? Well, I'll try. Here's the one thing I know about Turo. The most criminal person that I know in the real world uses that. And the reason is they don't check. So apparently there's a little less rigor

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in checking to see if you're worthy of being a driver. Now, I can't confirm that, so I don't want to be sued by Turo. I'm just telling you that the person who knows to work every system that I know uses that one, and the other ones don't work. So I suspect that if you are in the criminal underworld, you might be drawn to that one,

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Because other people may have told you, you know, they don't check as much. Now, I don't know that that's true. I don't know that they don't do the same level of checking. So I don't want to make that accusation. I can tell you that people who live in that, the murky underground world, that name comes up a lot. So that's the only thing I know.

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So whether it's true or not true, that using that app gives you any kind of, you know, less security, I have no idea if that's true. But if they think it's true, then that would explain why two people with bad intentions would have rented vehicles through the same app. Now, it's probably not a coincidence.

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It'd be good if I had some kind of identifier. And then they say, oh, I've identified you as the real lawyer. If you say this is yours, it's between you and the other person, but we'll take you off the site. They need to take him off the site. That needs to be the default. We cannot go on like this. Jeff Bezos, if you're listening to me, all I want is a solution.

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It does seem to me more likely that that's a signal that, you know, that they might be coordinated by the same people or something. But you can't rule out in this specific case, this is all I'm adding, You can't rule out that the two of them would have had the same independent, completely separate idea that the way to rent that car would be through that app. That would be a thing.

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And again, I don't know if that app or that company does have lower checking or lower security or maybe lower connections to the government. Could it be that the government makes the big rental companies tell them as soon as anything is rented, that's a truck. Because if you're a bad guy and you came to this country, you wouldn't necessarily own a vehicle, but you might want to rent one.

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And if you're going to rent one and you rented a truck, do you think that that would automatically go to the FBI? Do you think the FBI already has a back door to all the rental companies? Because if somebody wants a panel truck, don't you want to know, okay, what's your name? Can we run you through the terrorist watch list database?

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But would every little app that doesn't do much business relative to the big ones, would they all have the same back door? So I'm just speculating that bad people know where to go to avoid government scrutiny. Just speculation. So I'll just throw that in the mix. All right. What else do we know about this? So the question is, do we have an unfixable problem already?

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As someone who's watching this has pointed out the other day, so there's somebody watching this, I won't mention you, but pointed out that the rate that people are coming into the country is not the only thing you have to watch for.

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The other thing you have to watch for is if a certain class of people come into the country, do they assimilate all over the country and they just become Americans by the second generation? Or do they form their own enclaves and try to carve out their own nation first in one block and then two blocks and then pretty soon they've got power?

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Because it looks like this Shamsud bin Jabbar, as I said, was living in a Muslim trail park around other people who may have been radicalized. So is it possible that the biggest risk is not Islamic people coming into the country, but the biggest risk is that they settle in the same place and then essentially try to control territory? and get a foothold, and then grow from there.

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Now, I don't know, and I certainly would not be in favor of discriminating against Muslim Americans just because of that. That wouldn't be a good enough reason. But you have to ask yourself, is there something that needs to be looked at

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I don't want a lawsuit, but I'm definitely fucking... I don't want to break my New Year's resolution that easily. I want to see if I can go at least a day. I'm definitely going to see if I can organize a class action. And it's going to be big, and I'm going to make as much noise as I possibly can. But I just want a solution. I don't want to do any of that. It's just I'm pushed into a corner.

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When you get enough people who have a counterculture to the one that we have here, meaning that it's in contrast to it, I'm not saying better or worse, it just doesn't fit. You can't really make them compatible. Is there something about not letting them get too much of a foothold? Because I feel like that's part of the problem in England.

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is that once you reach a certain mass and they start operating as a group, that's the beginning of infinite war, isn't it? Because if you never break up the group, and there's no legal way to do that, what would stop them from continuing to grow in power until they could take over your country? At some point, you'd have to break them up as a group.

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And we don't have any domestic law that would allow you to do that. When's the last time that happened? Taking the Japanese American citizens and putting them in an internment camp? Here's one of those things I was wondering today.

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I wonder to what extent America putting Japanese American citizens in internment camps in World War II, to what extent does the memory of that remove our options in the future? Because we knew that was so evil and bad in retrospect.

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Does it take away your options in the future to deal with things that you know are going to be a risk, but if you act as if it's the group, that's obviously discrimination, and we don't like that. So I do wonder if we tie our hands with our guilt, even if the guilt is fully warranted.

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Anyway, you might know that I wrote a book called The Religion War, which is now rolled into the book God's Debris, The Complete Works. It's combined as part of a three-book, two-book plus a short story series. And that just came out, if you haven't seen it. But in it, The Religion War is about a time when drones become the, and this was written over 20 years ago.

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But over 20 years ago, I was writing that in the future, when drones were the common way of warfare and became the common way of terrorism, which hasn't yet happened, but obviously it's going to, that that would be the time that we would have this situation where the Middle East would be doing terror attacks on American soil in a first individual way and then in a coordinated way.

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And their idea would be just to make sure they have pressure on the United States for whatever reasons, domestic or otherwise, but that they would try to make sure it never crossed a certain line, meaning that al-Qaeda, knowing that we don't want to go to a full war, we don't want to do another Iraq, we don't want to do another Afghanistan, they might try to push it right to the line where they weaken us as much as possible, but short of us starting another war

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debilitating war because they know we don't want to do it. Trump doesn't want to do it, for sure. But what does that predict? Well, my book is that prediction. If you have a situation where the terrorism is pervasive and never stopping, eventually the West will reach a tipping point. And what would they do if the only alternative is the worst alternative?

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The worst alternative is that you just turn off the news access to whatever part of the Middle East this problem is coming from. And once the news doesn't know what's happening, you do things so dark that you would never want history to know what happened. That's kind of the only place this can go. There's only one way it can go.

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Because it's not like we're going to negotiate with Al-Qaeda and say, all right, you keep this, we'll keep that. That's not going to happen, right? It's not like Al-Qaeda is going to give up because they don't mind dying. So they're going to grow. If the number of terror attacks in this country reached five per year, sort of like this one, would we go to war?

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Maybe. Maybe not. If it reached 20 per year, would we go to war? I don't know. Maybe we'd get used to it if it kind of crept up to 20. I don't know. If it were 100 a year, or it was one big October 7th where 10 major cities were taken to their knees in the same day, would we go to war? Yes.

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You wouldn't let somebody rob you over and over and over again without doing something. I kind of let it go because I thought Amazon would fake her down on their own. But it's just getting worse. It's just a page of fake Dilbert calendars and fake books. So you got to fix that. On other news, maybe a stuff that's less about me and more about you.

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Is there anything that's going to stop al-Qaeda from continuing to get to the point where they can attack multiple countries at the same time, like October 7th? I don't think so. So if you're going to game this forward, you could say there's nothing strong enough to stop al-Qaeda from increasing the rate and the severity of attacks on the United States. Nothing. We're not doing anything.

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And even if we tried hard, I don't know that we can do it. Because what you would have to do is basically round everybody up and either kill them or put them in prison camps until they died. And we're not going to do that, right? So if there is no path, what do you do? Well, if there's no path, that means there's no path that's acceptable, moral, ethical, affordable, just doable, right?

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Once you get to the point where there's no practical, ethical, moral, affordable way to do anything, what do you do then? Do you just say, well, I guess we'll just absorb this 100 attacks a day until our country is destroyed, because eventually the country would stop functioning. Would we do that? No, we wouldn't. Here's where this is heading, and this is what the book is about.

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At some point, the citizens of the United States are going to say, to whoever our leader is, and this might be after Trump, whoever our leader is, they're going to say, stop this, and we put no restrictions on you. Stop this, and we put no restrictions on you. Would it be okay if we turned off the news for a year? Yes. Yes. No news. Just turn it off. No news on this topic.

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Certainly there'd be news, but not... So the government is probably going to get permission at some point to stop telling us what they're doing because it will be far too horrible for us to accept. In order to stop it, the United States would have to do something in a Hitler-like level. Now, I'm not recommending it, of course, by tomorrow. The news will be tomorrow.

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Cartoonist recommends a Holocaust. No, I'm not recommending it. I'm saying, can you think of what else could happen? So are you saying that won't happen because we'll negotiate and Al-Qaeda will say, you know, we're going to lay down our arms, we give up. Is that what you think? Do you think we'll be able to stop it with just sending over a few special forces and playing whack-a-mole?

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Hasn't worked so far. Why would it work in the future? Do you think that we're going to let terrorist drones take out city after city without a response that's the right size? I don't. There's some point at which massive military retaliation is guaranteed. Wouldn't you agree? It's guaranteed. You can predict it. So where does it end up?

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If you can't negotiate and you can't live with it, and it's certainly going to reach a level where we can't live with it, it's not there yet. but everything suggests it's going in that direction. And the drones will make that especially hard because then they can attack anybody from anywhere and just keep doing it.

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When we reach that, and it seems inevitable that we will, we're going to ask our government to take care of it like every government in history has taken care of things like this in the worst possible way. And again, I'm not saying it's good or bad, or I'm not I'm not recommending it.

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I'm saying that Al-Qaeda has created a situation where it almost guarantees the complete annihilation of their people. It guarantees it. So if you can come up with a prediction that would go some other direction, I'd love to hear it, because then I would promote it. I'd help promote you, hey, let's go in this direction. but I don't see another direction. And I don't want it to go that way.

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It would be the worst possible situation. But if it comes to us or them, then I have no limits. Remember what I always say? That morality doesn't apply to self-defense. If you're literally trying to do what you can to survive, not just get ahead, but survive, there's no moral or ethical limit. And I don't think Al-Qaeda quite understands that.

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Well, according to Blaze Media, the FAA has expanded their their ban on drones over New Jersey. Four reasons that Blaze Media and Leon Wolf say are unclear. Now, what would be all the potential reasons that they would increase their ban on drones over New Jersey? And just New Jersey, not other places, but just New Jersey? Maybe there are other places we don't know about. So here's what I think.

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I don't think they quite understand that we're just doing a risk-benefit analysis, and they have not yet reached the point where we have to do the one and only thing that would stop this forever. So please, if you have a better idea of how we get from here to a peaceful thing where everybody's happy, please tell me. But history suggests there's only one solution, and nobody's going to like it.

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You wouldn't like it, and the people it happens to aren't going to like it. Right? Nobody's going to like it, but it's going to happen. Anyway... There's a big controversy about all the remote workers who are federal workers. And apparently very few federal workers actually come to the office. Now, this is considered something that must be reversed.

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I think Musk and Trump are going to say, you got to come to the office. And if you don't come to the office, you'll be the first ones we remove. But I would add to that thinking. Am I wrong that every employee who can do their job remotely will be replaced by AI within a year or so? Because what kind of job that only involves being on the telephone or your computer can AI not do fairly quickly?

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Now, I'll tell you what AI couldn't do. It couldn't be a salesperson. At least we haven't seen it yet. Because sales is often about relationships. So if the federal employees were all salespeople, I would say, oh, well, that's not something you can do over remote, so AI won't take that right away.

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But if all they're doing is moving paper and approving things and following the government rules and responding in the one and only way the government says you can respond, shouldn't all of these people be replaced by AI within a year?

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I don't know, I'd be real worried if I had the kind of job where I didn't have to come in and interact with people, because that's almost the definition of a job that AI should replace. We'll see. Meanwhile, Trump says he's going to hold a mega victory rally in D.C. before the inauguration. Does that seem like a good idea to you? It's indoors, so that part I like. But why would he do that?

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Do you know why? I don't know why. It's hard for me to see a good reason for that. Because once you win, even though you've got a mandate, aren't you supposed to pretend that we're all one big country and you're the president for everybody? So after you win, holding a rally that's really oriented toward your own voters, is that the right look?

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So unless he has something planned that we're not fully aware of, you know, some announcement or something, I don't know. I don't see the wisdom of this. Do you? It feels like all downside with no upside. And it's going to be called a Nazi rally by the bad people, etc. However, let's look at the other side. The other side is if he has a rally.

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And they don't call it a Nazi rally because the fake media is pretty beaten down. They're not doing the same kind of attacks that they always did before. So they might ignore it. They might just ignore it and not cover it. And then it's fine. If he wants to do it, his base wants to go, that's fine. But he's really making it easy for the fake news and the bad people to say, There it is.

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There's that divisiveness. He seems to be only interested in MAGA. So mandate, yes, he definitely has a mandate. But rally? I don't know. I don't like the optics of it. New York Post is demanding that the journalist who helped cover up the Joe Biden mental decline should be held accountable. Just the News is reporting about that. I don't know about that.

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Do you think that the reporters and journalists who covered up Biden's decline, do you think they need to be held accountable? Because I think it's funnier to watch them pretend they were stupid instead of lying. Because we keep seeing these journalists say, oh, I was so fooled by the administration. You know, that terrible administration, the people around Biden

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If only they hadn't hidden it from me, then I would have reported the truth. But it was hidden from me. So how could I tell you the truth? So I guess it was the Biden staff that's the problem, right? At the same time, you and I and tens of millions of Americans are saying, we all knew this before he even ran for election. We knew this before the 2020 vote.

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So Mr. and Mrs. Reporter, if you're really going to claim that the reason you didn't see it is because they didn't tell you, you really have to admit you're stupid. And that's kind of fun to watch, watching them to admit they didn't notice. You know what they also didn't notice? that Kamala Harris appears to be either an IQ of 70 or often drunk. I didn't hear him report on that. Did you?

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Um, I think they have eliminated the, the possibility of those aliens because the aliens probably don't put lights on their, on their craft. Um, and I think we've, uh, eliminated the possibility that they know there's nothing to worry about. So we can certainly say it's not aliens. We can certainly say it's not something that's innocent and nothing to worry about. Uh,

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Do you remember the same people who said Biden's fine? They're still saying, they're still saying that Kamala Harris's brain is fine. Now, you know, maybe she doesn't have dementia. It doesn't look like that. But clearly there was something wrong. If you couldn't see it, You're stupid. I mean, we could all say it. It was plain as day. All right.

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So this might be a response to that, being wrong about everything. On Morning Joe, MSNBC, they were highlighting a chart showing that Joe Biden did in fact completely fail on keeping the border closed. This is MSNBC. It's Morning Joe. And they're highlighting, they're not just mentioning it, it's like a whole segment on how Biden completely ruined the border and opened it up.

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Have you ever seen that before? And it didn't look like they were doing any hedging. Like, well, you have to understand that he was in a... No, nothing like that. They're basically just saying flat out, Biden opened the border and it's a disaster. Why are they telling us now when it's too late? Don't tell us now. How about four years ago? This would have been a good conversation.

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Anyway, but it's part of the same theme. So if you were to watch that, you'd say to yourself, wow, Joe Biden is responsible for ruining our border. That's the news they're telling you. Is that what really happened? No, that's not what happened. Joe Biden did not ruin the border. The fake news did.

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Because if the fake news had ever been attempting to tell the truth about what he did and what was happening, he would have had to stop. The news is there so that people like Biden can't do this. The news aided and abetted. But MSNBC is trying to throw Biden under the bus alone. Look what Biden did. Look at this chart. Oh, that Biden thing.

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They should be showing the chart of all the times they agreed with Biden and said he didn't do anything wrong and the border was fine. This is all cover your ass. That's why it looks unusual. You're like, really? They're throwing Biden completely under the bus with no caveats at all. They're just throwing him under the bus.

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For five years, they were keeping him in the bus driver's seat, telling us he could drive fine. This is not Biden's problem. This is the news. The fake news created Biden. They sold him to their base. The news is the problem. You couldn't have a Biden or a Kamala Harris if the news were real. You couldn't have that. There's no way they could have gotten one inch into the election and

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if there had been any true news that their base saw. Anyway, meanwhile, over on Zero Hedge, I saw an article by Josh Stileman, who was saying that there's a pattern we should notice, and I want to see if you think this is a pattern, that there always seems to be some kind of pre-planned or engineered national problem

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that happens at the same time that the government is doing some other things that you don't like and consolidating power, and it kind of takes your eye off the ball, or the disaster or the emergency is the reason they can do these extra things that they wanted to do.

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So if I'm understanding the article correctly, it suggests that this is not an accident, that your government intentionally creates pandemics and wars and I don't know what else to, to use it as an excuse. Yeah. Like the bird flu to use as an excuse to get other things they want like control and jailing people and that sort of thing.

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But, um, here's the other way you could explain everything you see. Um, So one filter would be that it's always planned, because indeed, it does seem like there's always some big emergency. At the same time, you should be looking somewhere else. But the other way to explain it is that governments are always trying to increase their control, and there's always a big problem.

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So it could be that they're worried about hobbyists getting in the way, but I doubt it. It could be that they're worried about a terrorist attack that would involve drones. To me, that seems the most likely possibility, which doesn't mean it's a risk, but it could be that they just sort of naturally go to that. In our current environment, they might just assume that that's a risk.

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So I'm not sure the pattern is real, because I don't understand why. I mean, it asked me to believe too much about the capability of the bad people, that they're that clever. If you lived in a world where governments are always looking for excuses to cover to increase their power, that would be true. And there's always something big brewing, be it a pandemic or a war. That's probably always true.

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Wouldn't it seem like there's a pattern? Because they're always trying to get power. They take opportunities. There's always something big happening that they can abuse to get power. So I feel like it's just... Thank you, Crusher. Yeah, I'm going to go a little short today because I've got something I have to do right after the live stream. So the warning has been issued. So...

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The only other thing I had, a few other things, is there's a photo of some of the late night TV hosts getting together, including John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. So they all get together at some restaurant or something, and they're posing together with their arms around each other. And you look at them, and they're all white men of a certain age.

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It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Oh, so good. Well, I'm a little bit on the warpath today against Amazon.com because I opened up and found out that they have more counterfeit fake products of mine than they have real ones. That's right.

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They're all white men. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, were these not exactly the same scolds who are telling us that Democrats are right about everything and that those darn Republicans are the racists? They had no diversity in their own industry at the top, which is where it matters, right? So, yeah, you can see on locals are putting the photo in the comment. But to see the level of hypocrisy...

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It made me want to explain one thing about myself that I don't think I've said enough. I don't think I've said this enough. So as you know, I got canceled for saying things that people said were racist. Did you know that I've never blamed black Americans for anything, at least in terms of racism against me? To the best of my knowledge, No black American has ever directly discriminated against me.

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Not that I know of. White Americans absolutely have discriminated against me. First in employment and certainly in getting canceled. So the cancellation is because of white Americans, not black Americans. So I want to be really clear about that. I don't really have a problem with black Americans. I don't know I even would. I don't have any personal issues.

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And at a macro level, it's white Americans that are the problem. It's the white Americans trying to protect their position by saying, if I help you fight those other low-paid, low-income white Americans, will you treat me like I'm on your side? Yeah, we'd love that. So, all right, I've got a minute or so of buffer.

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I saw Mike Cernovich talking about what I will call the demon filter, which is he's got a filter on reality that I don't share, but I'm going to give you an alternate take on it. Let me just read his words. So Cernovich says in two different posts, the FBI creates chaos so that it can aggregate more power for itself from the fear.

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My religious beliefs, this is Cerno, tell me that they convene directly with demons. You needn't believe this yourself and may dismiss it as superstition. You cannot deny what you see the FBI doing, though, evil. So we do see something that seems like evil. Then he followed up with, he said, the demons would have finished their work had Kamala won.

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Now lacking institutional force, they have unleashed their sleeper cells. Stay vigilant and remember they unleashed it. Joe Biden, Alejandro, who did it? Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas. There are others. Do not blame the system. It was men who did this. So evil and demons. And here's what I say about reality. Reality is not something any of us have access to. We just don't.

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And I assume it's a risk too. So if they don't tell you why they're doing it, it's got to be terrorist driven, don't you think? It could be maybe some kind of espionage, but it seems like it'd be so easy to get aerial espionage of anything you wanted in the United States that it's hard for me to believe that the only way that

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Your brains... I'm watching the phone. I'll be ready. Your brains... I'm watching the time. Your brains were not designed to understand reality. It's not even close to the level of equipment it would take to do that. So instead, your brain comes up with the best story of reality. And if that story works to predict, that's the best story. So instead of saying that

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Mike Cernovich has a view of reality that's not accurate. Well, I wouldn't know that because I don't have access to base reality. So his might be closer to base reality or not. How would I know? However, there's another, there's an alternative explanation for everything you see that I think doesn't require anything outside of the natural world and explains everything.

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And that is that it's a DEI problem. DEI plus white guilt, as I just explained, explains everything we see. Now, it doesn't mean it is the reason. And legitimate people are saying, hey, you're over applying that filter. It just looks like it's racism. I get that. I get why you'd say that. It does, however, explain everything you see. Because it's been now years that I've said, if DEI is used,

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to simply constrain the number of choices you have for who you hire and put in important positions, you're guaranteed, not just maybe, you're guaranteed to destroy the effectiveness of everything it touches. What we're observing is that every institution seems to be defective and incompetent at a level we've never seen. Not because of anybody's genes, not because of anybody's culture,

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but because your hiring decisions have been artificially constrained, so not everybody's going to be able to pick who they want to pick. They'll have to pick who they know they can get away with picking. Under those conditions, every single thing that you're seeing going wrong with the country should be just like this and right now. This is when you'd see it, and this is how it would look.

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So I would say you don't need the extra layer of daemons. Now, by the way, the daemon filter could still be above that. So in other words, the daemon filter could be informing what caused the DEI problem in the first place. So it doesn't negate the other filters. All I'm saying is you should use the filter that predicts the best.

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I wouldn't know how to use the daemon filter to predict other than they'll always be evil. But I know how to use the DEI filter because I did, in fact, predict that we would be in exactly this situation right about now. So, you know, you choose which filters you want, the one that predicted or the one that you don't know how to use to predict.

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Anyway, we've learned that ChatGPT can make you doubt the news, according to SciPost. AI will eventually have to agree with the fake news because humans will not let AI come up with its own opinions. So in the long term... search engines and the news and AI will all end up being the same because humans ultimately control all of them.

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And they will make sure that you see the version that the people in power want you to see. So no, AI will never help you. AI will definitely not help you figure out what's real. It definitely won't do that in the future. And then my last story is, let's see. Looks like the UN is going to make a massive mission to fight the climate-related disinformation. This is according to the Climate Depot.

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One of our adversaries could get aerial surveillance is with lots and lots of drones all at the same time in the same place. Does that make sense as an adversary? It makes more sense that they're worried that even if everything that's happening now is legitimate, They might be worried that if they don't have a clearer sky, it'll be harder to find a bad guy, maybe. I don't know.

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Mark Marano was writing about this. So that's what we need. We need the United Nations to really, really work hard to clamp down on what they call the disinformation about climate, which you and I call the accurate information about climate. So now take this with your prior story.

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So if you believe that the climate story is completely fake news with lots of true facts, I mean, a lot of it's true, but when you combine it into the narrative that it's an emergency and we have to spend all of our money on it, it becomes more of a hoax. So this is a perfect example. What is AI ever going to say about climate change?

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it's the best time you've ever had.

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AI will only be allowed to say that it's real, it's a panic, and we have to do something about it right away. There's no way AI is going to have an independent opinion, ever, about anything that matters. So that's obviously a problem.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to just say two words to the locals people in a moment, privately, but for the rest of you, thanks for joining, and I will see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. locals coming at you privately, but just very quickly.

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But whatever this is, it feels terrorist-related to me. That's just a speculation. Meanwhile, according to Reuters, U.S. is considering rules to restrict additional Chinese drones. So China makes most of the drones in the world. And America buys a lot of them, but they'd already banned the two big companies, Chinese drone companies, DJI and Autel Robotics.

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But it looks like they want to ban it further. Now, I saw some people online say that, hey, why would you ban them? They're just drones. But I think the problem is that the drones might have some kind of software tracking or some kind of mischief inside the drone. I don't know, but apparently the U.S. is worried about it.

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In other news, I've not talked about this because I usually don't talk about the news in other countries, but apparently it's come to our shore, at least in terms of the news sense. Were you aware that there are, let's say the best way, I'm trying to figure out how to say this so I don't get banned on social media. Because part of the story is that the story is banned on social media.

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But specifically YouTube took down Michaela, or at least limited the reach of Michaela Peterson's video on the topic. So we know that YouTube doesn't want to mix this topic, which I haven't fully explained to you yet. They don't want to mix it with their advertisers, which is reasonably reasonable. Understandable. Reasonably understandable.

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And it's because it involves children and the worst crimes that you can do against them. And I don't need to name it. You know what it is. And the accusation is that it's huge. It's organized. The government was fully aware of it, but they didn't want to do as much as they should to stop it for years because they thought it would make them look racist. Now, that's the narrative I'm getting.

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I mean, it doesn't even sound believable. But in our world today, it's believable. I feel like there should be more to the story. But if that's all there is to the story, that the administration there was worthless because they were worried about being called racists, because it's the recent... Mostly Pakistan is being blamed, the Pakistani... immigrants. Now, I don't know if that's true.

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If you're looking for the Dilbert calendar, you'll see a wall of fake calendars that Amazon is selling, and somebody's keeping the money for it. Now, you might say, that seems like a unique problem to you, Scott. No, this is a problem that all independent booksellers have if they're using Amazon's process.

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That's just what's being reported. See, I had to say that so I didn't get accused of being a racist. I had to act like I don't really know. So that's how you do it. Act like you, I don't know. I don't know who's doing it. Who's doing it? Might be UFOs. Are UFOs doing it? It's probably UFOs. So you're supposed to act a little bit dumb when you talk about this story.

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Otherwise, I think you'll get blocked on all social media. I don't know who's doing it. I don't know what you can do about it. I can't think of any solutions. So there's my mandatory stupidity on the topic. Do you think that's coming to the United States? Yes. Do you think the United States either already has a problem like this that we're ignoring? How would you know?

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If the story is that it's being ignored, how would you know if we have that problem here? I don't know. But it does seem like England is the canary in the coal mine for the United States. They seem to be, let's say, ahead of us in the rate of some kinds of activities. so we can see how they turn out.

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And it turns out that if you let in too many people from certain places, you're going to get a bad outcome, just like Trump has been trying to tell us for years. It's as predictable as you think. It's just totally predictable. Well, but at the same time, there's accusations that the X platform is being overly censorious. I guess a lot of people got banned or their accounts got limited recently.

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But the ones that I've heard about would fall into the following category. Now, I haven't heard of all the examples, and I'm totally open to learning that there are some people who got banned for the wrong reasons. But the ones I've heard about There's one case, in Laura Loomer's case, that she accidentally doxed someone, but then immediately changed it and apologized because it was accidental.

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There was an address as part of a larger document, and she didn't notice it when she published it. So should you be banned for that? We know that doxing is wrong, but there's actually no evidence of an intentional dox. If there's no evidence that it was intentional and there's evidence that it wasn't, how do you handle that?

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So all I think that is needed is some kind of an appeals process, but I don't think there is one. So that's pretty bad if you're making your money this way and you step on a landmine that you didn't intentionally step on. There are two examples of people who are over-the-top racists. Is that the same as free speech? You know, if it delves into just nonstop racism? I don't know.

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I don't want to be around that all the time because it's boring and useless. So, I don't know. I can't get up in arms about that because it's only the extreme cases. It wasn't the ordinary people. And then there was some child-related content that I'm not going to describe further. that if you did hear the description, you might say, hmm, yeah, that's too far. That's too far.

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What happens is the process for reporting it is that I have to have a copy of the offending product. That's right. In order to report it, I have to buy it. I have to wait for it to arrive. I have to examine it, take photographs of it. And then, only then can I submit to Amazon and say, can you remove this?

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Now, all of these have a second side. There's an argument on the other side of all of these, and that's why I think there needs to be some kind of a quick place you can appeal to that's part of X that just puts some common sense on it. That's all. Some kind of a judge. You know what would be a good idea? to actually use a retired judge. Oh, I like that idea. I'm just coming up with it.

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If X actually hired some retired actual judges, and then they said, okay, actual judge, here's our terms of service, and then here's the activity. We banned it. Do you agree that it didn't meet the terms of service and that it was some kind of an intentional act? I think intention has to be part of it. and then let the judge decide.

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I'd feel much more comfortable if Elon Musk said, I'll tell you what, I'm going to hire three judges and just let them make the decisions. Of course, he could always fire a judge if he didn't like their decisions, so nothing's perfect. But it'd make you feel better if it was a judge. Joe Biden once said... Quote, the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.

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Now, that's at the same time that he had the borders open, and we now know, and it wasn't hard to predict, that terrorists have apparently been streaming over the border exactly like you assumed they would. So at the same time, he was telling us that white supremacist militias or whatever were the big problem, which, by the way, so far have produced... No problems since he mentioned it.

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None that I'm aware of. But here's my question. Do you think history will ever record how destructive Biden was as a president? And my answer is I don't think so. And the only reason I say that is because it would be impossible to capture. It's so bad what he's done to our country. It's so bad. I'm not sure you could put it in a history book because it wouldn't even look real.

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It would look like he made it up. He opened the border to terrorists. Let me just give you a highlight of just some of the things he's done. First of all, he opened the borders intentionally. So that caused all kinds of racial division. There was inflation. There was overspending. Terrorists come in. He had COVID policies that you hated.

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He's pushing DEI, which is destroying the country and making everything incompetent. He blamed white supremacy, which was completely wrong, so he could do all of his other bad stuff. He drove up the national debt to ruinous levels. He demonized Trump supporters and put them in jail for what I consider no reasons at all. He lawfared Trump right in front of us.

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He was in charge of the Afghan drawdown disaster. And he is the biggest factor in Ukraine. So that's the worst president by... maybe 100. If you were to be objective and say, okay, we thought Jimmy Carter wasn't good, or if you want to keep it non-political, a lot of people said George W. Bush was the worst president, and I think there's an argument for that because of Iraq.

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Cause they're up. Yay. Yay. Let me get your comments working here. And then we got a show to do. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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says, well, thanks for asking us first because we have this privilege access. So we will offer you 50% of all the revenue. And then some other country says, we'll offer you 75%. Do they still have to do the deal with the United States? Or do you think the agreement would say that the U.S. has to match the best deal? What if we don't? What if we don't match the best offer?

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We'd still have privilege access because if we did match it, we'd get the deal. But do you think they're leaving the door open for maybe... Maybe they're not doing quite the deal you think it is. So I'm going to say that it looks like a step in the right direction. So directionally, it looks pretty good. And it might send the right message in terms of getting a peace deal. So it's probably good.

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But I'll bet you the details of this deal are not exactly what you thought they were. I think it's probably a weaker deal than you imagined would come out of it. Anyway, China, according to the Wall Street Journal, China is still trying to tell us that they can more easily withstand the tariff trade war. And they can tolerate the pain longer than the U.S. But...

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according to the Wall Street Journal, there are cracks that are beginning to show in the Chinese economy. There's plunging trade and there are factories that are being idled and there are people being laid off in China. And if there's one thing I've learned about assessing China's economy, we're never right about it. How long has it been

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It's been like, what, eight years since I've been telling you stories about China's economy falling off the cliff and that basically they can't last another year because there are all these, there's a real estate collapse and they've got a demographic collapse and they've got this and that kind of a problem and that problem. I don't know that any of it's real.

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I don't think we have any real visibility on what's happening in China. So I do not believe that we really have any visibility in that at all. We'd just be guessing. So I'm not going to predict that China will fold, but I think they want to deal as much as we do. So probably something will happen. My guess is that China will be a lot of

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Nothing happening, nothing happening, nothing happening, and then something happening quickly. So I don't think it'll be like others. Now, I did see some suggestion that we might be seeing some kind of a trade deal announced, not with China, but with some other country. Have we heard anything about that this morning? because it might happen today.

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It used to be when I was a kid, if you were born attractive, well, you had all the advantages. Given that, in theory, everybody can lose weight and everybody can fix their teeth if they have enough money and everybody can get a good haircut and maybe do something about your skin and wear better clothes, it has never been easier to be in the top 10%.

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Now, if I had to guess, since trade deals really take a long time to get the details right, whatever gets announced will be sort of like that Ukraine mineral deal. It'll be more like a deal to make a deal. It'll be more like something along the lines of South Korea and the U.S. have agreed on an outline of what a trade deal would look like.

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But it would be six months away from actually having it signed. The handshake might be enough to drop all the trade barriers. So maybe a handshake is all you need while they work out the details. But I would expect maybe South Korea and or possibly Japan will go first. That's what I think. And then I think it might be a while before the second one.

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But when you get to something like the fifth announced trade deal, I think Trump's poll numbers are going to look really different. because then it's going to look like things are working. First one or two, three, maybe people are going to say they're exceptions.

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But if Trump gets five, even though there may be 200 that you need to get, if he gets five, let's say in a two-week period, it's going to look like everything's going the right direction. And that would be a good time to own stock, I would think.

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Well, I don't know if you're following the story of the DNC, the Democrat leadership, where David Hogg is getting a lot of heat because he wants to primary some Democrats. but even his co-leader in the DNC says, you can't do that if you're the DNC. If you're the DNC, you've got to be in favor of Democrats. You can't be primarying any of them.

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So he's been getting some heat from that, but he's getting some extra heat, according to the publication Semaphore, because... there's some concern that he's a white guy. Now, I remember when he got elected, and I realized that there were two white guys in charge of the DNC, the most identity-obsessed group in the entire world, really the head of the top identity, basically obsessed group.

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And I thought, how in the world do you get two white guys as the leadership of the identity group? And it turns out that was a problem because there's now a complaint being filed by Kaylin Free, a Native American attorney. And she says the DNC's credentials committee is going to meet to talk about whether David Hogg was justly elected or there was something wrong with their process.

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because it didn't give them enough diversity. So the complaint is they didn't get diversity in their leadership. Now, the most predictable thing in the world is that the Democrats will eat themselves from the inside, because once you commit to the identity frame, you really can't get away from it.

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because everybody's got a intersectionality or, well, you might be white, but we need you to be a little bit gay or trans or something. So it's like there's never-ending source of conflict within the organization. They're pretty much doomed. Well, RFK Jr. is making some news. I think he's made several pieces of news. One is... This is just a wild way to say it. So this is his actual quote.

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And if you're in the top 10% of attractive people, things will probably go pretty well for you. So it's good news and bad news. Well, apparently the Wall Street Journal had a big old fake news story. They were saying that Tesla was looking for a new CEO to replace Musk, but they failed to run Tesla's denial. So I guess they asked Tesla, and Tesla said, absolutely not. That is not happening.

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That

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That is the most damning thing I've ever heard anybody say about anything. What? What? Now, I don't exactly know what that means, but it has to do with the fact that Biden administration let somehow managed to lose 300,000 children that came in over the border. And I think health and human services must have been part of that.

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And the assumption is that some large number of them, or percentage of them, were trafficked for sex and slavery. And RFK Jr. says, we've ended that, and we're very aggressively going out and trying to find those lost children, the ones lost by the Biden administration. Now, that is one hell of a charge. If there were no other news...

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I'm seeing somebody in the comments say that I'm moving the goalpost, but you don't mention what the topic is or what goalpost I moved. You must want to meet one of those Nazi Democrats. Have you noticed the Democrats have a full Nazi strategy? Just make up a big lie and then get everybody to repeat it. It's the Nazi strategy. Here's something else RFK Jr. announced separately.

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that the new vaccines will have to be tested with a placebo-controlled trial. Now, if you're like me, it wasn't that long ago where you said to yourself, how can this be news? Because obviously, obviously all vaccines have been tested in a placebo-controlled trial, duh, it wouldn't be very valid if he didn't do a placebo-controlled trial, and then you unleashed it on the entire public.

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That couldn't possibly be happening, right? Apparently, that was happening. The vaccines were not historically tested in a placebo-controlled trial. but that's going to change. So I don't know how much that will change things in terms of how long it takes. I'm looking at the criticism that's coming in from the dumb people. So somebody is criticizing me for not being an expert in deals.

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Well, surprise, I'm actually an expert in deals. I used to be a contract negotiator for a living. And then when I became a cartoonist, I was deeply involved in contract negotiations my entire career because there were always licensing and publishing deals, etc. So I actually am an expert in deal making. And I'm also an expert in persuasion, which is part of negotiation.

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So sorry, I'm kind of an expert in this domain. I hate to disappoint you. You're going to have to come up with some new Nazi strategy. That one didn't work. There are lots of things I talk about in which I am not an expert, such as anti-drone technology. But no, deal-making, that happens to be one of my domains. RFK Jr. also made some news, according to the National Pulse.

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He claims that DARPA might be mixing some kind of chemtrail agents into commercial jet fuel. What? How could you make that kind of accusation in public without somehow being able to check it if you're part of the government? If you thought that the fuel of commercial jets

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was intentionally tampered with to do geoengineering so that the jet exhaust was doing more than just being jet exhaust and was changing the environment somehow? And you thought that it was DARPA that was behind it? Is there not kind of a simple way to confirm that?

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Can't you say to President Trump, can you talk to DARPA and just ask them, because you can declassify anything, just ask them if they're doping the jet fuel? I feel like this one's a little premature. Doesn't mean he's wrong. I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm saying I feel like that one should have been confirmed before it became a public accusation.

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So maybe he's getting a little ahead of himself unless he's really confident that DARPA is doing that. And I'm not saying they're not. I'm not saying they're not doing it. But we need to know more about that. Well, as Breitbart and others are reporting, the GDP for America was weak in the first quarter. Of course, I think Trump is blaming Biden and

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Nobody's looking for a new CEO. We already have a CEO. It's Musk. And they didn't run the denial. It's one thing to be wrong, but being wrong when the only really reliable source of information tells you that you're absolutely 100% wrong. That's pretty bad. And Elon Musk wasn't too happy about that. I guess you wouldn't be too happy either if the news ran such a fake report about you.

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And there was a bunch of distortions because people ordering things ahead of the potential tariff stuff. So we don't know if that GDP number is telling us anything really important, but maybe it is. Maybe it is. So how many of you would be surprised if the country goes into a mild recession before it improves. Isn't that kind of baked into the process? I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.

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So I'd expect a little bit of a recession at the least. I mean, anything could be worse and anything could be better. But I think it was Jamie Dimon who said this, that the best-case scenario is a mild recession. I think he's probably right. That's probably the best-case scenario. But it is a best-case scenario because if we have a mild recession followed by a rapid return,

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and maybe to a higher point once the trade deals are getting signed, I'd be happy with that. According to Frank Luntz, famous pollster, he talked to a bunch of people who voted for Trump, and he wondered if they were still backing Trump. given that they were feeling some economic pain and probably were going to feel some more.

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And he said that it's unprecedented that Trump voters still stand behind Trump despite the economic pain. Luntz said on CNBC, I've never seen this before because usually when you're hurt economically, that changes your perspective and your politics. Not with these people. They're staying firm. Now, the way he says it makes it sound like the people are stupid. Is that how you hear it?

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You know, like they don't know what's in their own best interest or something? I don't think he understands Republicans. The defining characteristic of a Republican is that they're long-term thinkers and they're willing to take some short-term pain to get there. It's probably the most defining characteristic. So here the president has given Republicans the following proposition.

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There's going to be some short-term disruption, and it's the only way to get to this way better situation. And then Republicans listened to him and said, all right, so we're going to have to suck it up for a while? Yes. Yes. And then they say, got it. So we'll suck it up for a while. It's the most defining characteristic, probably more than just about anything.

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I mean, everything from religion to starting a family to staying out of trouble and almost everything Republicans do are very obviously and clearly oriented toward the long term. and systems over goals. And when you look at Democrats, it seems completely oriented towards some kind of short-term dopamine hit.

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Even the story I was telling earlier about the DNC head, how is that any kind of a long-term anything if they're fighting about whether the head of the DNC is diversified enough? There's no long-term anything with that. It's just short-term dopamine pleasure. Ah, we got rid of the white guy. Ah. It is the single thing that defines, I think, Republicans from Democrats.

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It's the ability to take some pain to get to a better place. That's it. So I would not have been surprised, Frank Luntz, According to the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, he says, quote, we all recognize climate change as an existential threat, which makes me wonder, who is he talking to? I mean, he wasn't addressing America, but is that true?

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Is it true that everyone in Canada thinks that climate change is an existential threat? Everybody? I mean, even if it is, it's hard to get everybody on the same side about anything. But Lenny says he's going to punish companies who don't work to end climate change. All right, so which side of the border would you like to be on if you're a company?

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Would you like to be on the Canada side of the border where you're going to get punished if you don't do enough to change climate change? Or would you like to be on the American side of the border where people are just going to be operating in whatever way, doesn't violate any laws, but is making the most money?

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And in theory, if the Canadians are right about CO2 and climate change, it doesn't matter what the fuck they do because the United States isn't doing it. As long as they're our closest neighbor and we're ignoring all of that bullshit, it doesn't matter what they do. It's sort of like what we say about India and China. that the atmosphere doesn't know where a border is.

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Here's some news about Tim Walz, who I call the pointy-haired boss. You know, if I ever do a Dilbert movie and I'm looking for live actors to play the Dilbert characters, the pointy-haired boss would have to be Tim Walz. Just imagine him, and then imagine the pointy-haired boss. It's the same guy, isn't it? There's no difference. He's just the pointy-haired boss.

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So if India, China, and the United States are ignoring the climate change risk, do you think it makes any difference to anything if Canada goes balls to the wall and starts punishing companies? They start punishing their own companies for not doing enough to end climate change. It would be so different if the other big countries were on the same page.

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And then I could say, well, okay, at least everybody's on the same page. But if the biggest companies or biggest countries are not even doing anything about it, it's just the biggest waste of time I've ever seen. Anyway, good luck, Canada. So Trump had another cabinet meeting that he opened up to the cameras, which was kind of awesome.

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And Marco Rubio said that the State Department that he runs now

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the the old state department had a dossier on a current trump official that he wouldn't name as a purveyor of disinformation and he said we had an office in the department of state whose job it was to censor americans and he was referring to the global engagement center which i think has been closed down now but in the process of looking into all that stuff

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They found a dossier of somebody who I think is a cabinet head who the Biden administration has identified as a source of disinformation. So I see some guesses that it's Kennedy. Could have been Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard. But Kennedy is a pretty good guess. But he's not going to tell us who it is. But just imagine that.

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I mean, just imagine that Biden literally had a well-funded, gigantic agency as part of a network of other censors, both domestic and international, whose job it was to remove your free speech if you said anything that wasn't part of the mainstream of opinion. It's kind of hard to believe, isn't it?

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There are things that you and I have lived through that the next generation is just going to shake their head and say, oh, my God, I'm so glad I wasn't alive then when they thought they had a little bit of free speech, but really they didn't because they were being punished and surveilled and blocked and throttled down if they said the wrong thing. Unbelievable.

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Let's look at the Democrats' attack on Trump and the Trump administration, see how they're doing. Now, as you know, they've taken what I'll call the Hitler-Nazi approach to politics. So the Democrats are doing the classic Nazi thing where you just make up this gigantic lie And then you get the media to report it endlessly until at least their people believe it.

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So let's check in on some of the insane lies that are being told as part of their Nazi strategy. So Kamala Harris called Trump's tariffs reckless and his agenda self-serving. In other words, the point of it was to go get some tax breaks for billionaires.

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Do you think that the big, beautiful bill that Trump is talking about that's being now modified by the House, do you think that that's going to have a tax break for billionaires? How many think that that's actually going to happen? Because the Democrats have a little bit of a trap going on that they set for themselves.

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Because they've got James Carville saying that Trump's going to cut health care for ordinary people. Do you think Trump's going to cut health care for ordinary people? Now there is, I looked into it, there is some kind of a request that $880 billion is removed from the Medicaid budget. But it doesn't look possible. And first of all, that number would be over 10 years.

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So his latest Tim Walsh-ism is he was explaining to an audience why he was selected as the VP candidate. And he said, quote, I could code talk to the white guys watching football fixing their truck. I was the permission structure to say, look, you can do this and vote for this. That is the least male thing anybody ever said. I could code talk to white guys.

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So it would be something like 10%, somewhere in that neighborhood, 10% of the budget. Do you think there's a way to cut the Medicaid budget by 10%? No, there isn't. It turns out that healthcare has a much smaller margin than maybe you knew or I knew. A lot of the big money for healthcare comes from hospital stuff, things that happen in hospitals. And apparently hospitals have a really thin margin.

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It's like 2% to 4% according to Grok. Now, if your margins are only 2% to 4% on the part of health care that's the most expensive part, do you think you could cut 10% of it on any given year? There's nothing to cut. It's basically already operating at just barely breakeven. So no.

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And of course, Trump has said he's not going to touch Social Security and he's not going to touch health care for ordinary people. And then there's Swalwell. He's one of the designated liars. So if you see Jamie Raskin or Swalwell and Carville, Carville's sort of joining too. They're all part of the Nazi strategy of telling the big lie. And then just repeating it endlessly until people believe it.

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So Swalwell saying, all we wanted was cheap eggs, but not deporting kids with cancer. Now, is the kids with cancer being deported a true story? Well, it's technically true, but we're not really deporting them. The mother wanted to take them with her because she was deported. So no, it's not exactly true the way they're telling it. But here's the interesting part.

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Steve Bannon believes that Trump will raise taxes on the highest earners. That would be the billionaires. What do you think? I feel like he might be right about that. I feel like Trump, in order to get all the other stuff he wants and to just shut people up, He might need to raise taxes on the highest earners.

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Now, I don't know what that would be if people make over $5 million a year or over $1 million a year. But wouldn't that just totally shut up the Democrats if the Republican bill just unambiguously raises taxes for the richest people? Or do you think that they would just act like it didn't happen and just keep saying that he doesn't mean it and he's going to really lower taxes on the rich people?

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It's the main thing they say. When Kamala Harris says it's self-serving, she kind of means that he's lowering his own taxes and those of his friends. What if he does the opposite? And I feel as if Bannon is well enough connected and he has a good enough track record of predicting that if he says that Trump's going to raise taxes on the highest earners, that's a real possibility.

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Now, maybe the Republican Congress can't do it. It's possible they just can't do it. But I do think maybe there's a good, at least a 50% chance that that's what it's going to look like because it would completely destroy the entire Democrat approach. Everything they're doing is depending on telling people that Trump's really doing it for his own financial benefit and those of his friends.

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I'm going to stop the comments from the bad people here. A lot of trolls today. A lot of trolls. All right. Here's what Trump said about his entitlements. He said, there's a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse... There are a lot of illegal aliens who are getting Medicaid. They shouldn't be getting it. But we were doing absolutely nothing to hurt Medicaid or Social Security.

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Now, that is such a clear public statement. Do you really think that he would say that that directly and then he would sign something that actually did hurt Medicaid or Social Security? I don't feel like you would. So I'm not too worried that the Democrats are going to be right. And that's why I call it the Hitler strategy that they're using because they don't really care if it's true.

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They're just completely unconcerned. They only care that they can say it and that they're at least their own people and maybe senior citizens will believe it. Anyway, Morgan Stanley is forecasting that by 2050, there'll be a $4.7 trillion global annual humanoid robot revenue with a billion units

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cumulatively deployed do you think that sounds right or you know 2050 is kind of far away but do you think it'll be just humanoid robots all over the place and 4.7 trillion dollars worth well maybe so I'm gonna give you a prediction I think there's a non-zero chance, and maybe it'll be in this budget bill, maybe it'll be in the future, that robots will be taxed. I think robots will be taxed.

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Even the way he says it, he doesn't even say it like he is one of the guys. He says it like he's a robot who would learn the lingo of men. It's like, oh, I can code talk just like a guy. I'm not a guy. I'm not a real man. but I can talk like one, so I was a good choice. I was the permission structure to say, the permission structure, who talks like that?

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And the reason is because we tax everything that you can tax. If there's something that can be taxed, it'll get taxed. Now, if robots are the thing that are going to put people out of jobs, I think you have to tax them to help pay for the humans who got put out of jobs.

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So whether it's Trump who does it or some future Democrat administration, I'm pretty sure that robots are really going to be taxed, more than just sales tax. I think there's going to be a robot tax. And if the robots are a big enough deal, it might actually make a difference to our GDP and our debt situation. So I'm not saying that I recommend it. I'm going to say that I predict it. I predict it.

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Well, Chuck Schumer clowned himself again in public. So he was doing a press conference to mock Trump's falling approval numbers. And now, do you know why Trump's approval numbers are going down? Is it because all of the people in the country did a deep dive and did their own research to find out how the economy is doing and all the details of what Trump is doing to influence it?

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Or do you think that they turned on TV and they listened to the talking heads that they always listen to and the talking heads said, oh, the tariffs are causing chaos. Oh, they're not using a scalpel with Doge. And do you think that the public's opinion as represented in polls is nothing but how well the media is brainwashing people?

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So the thing that the Nazi strategy that Schumer is using and the Democrats are using is that they first must convince you that public opinion polls are driven by people's independent assessment of what's going on. Nothing like that's happening. Individual voters are not making any independent assessments based on their research and their knowledge of economics. Nothing like that's happening.

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It is literally a propaganda exercise. It's a persuasion exercise. And the Democrats have enough control over the biggest part of the media that they can sell any chaos-related scalpel, not a chainsaw, that they want. So they've been selling the chaos thing, and Trump's in it for his own benefit, for the oligarchs.

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And they found that some 5% or 10% of the public is influenced enough by that that they think it's true. And so then Schumer goes out and he holds a press conference to tell you that the public is souring on Trump. Nothing like that's happening in the real world.

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What's happening is that the media has brainwashed 10% of the public-ish to change their opinion about the optimism they might have had before. But as Schumer is talking about how Trump's numbers are lower than, I don't know, other presidents or something like that at this point, the 100 days, the random 100 days, a reporter notes that Schumer's own approval is at 17%.

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So so just imagine this Schumer is doing a public event the primary message is that Trump is doing poorly because the polls say so and then a reporter points out that Trump is doing way better than Schumer in polls and

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And do you know what Schumer said when he was challenged by the fact that his own polls are way lower than Trump's and the entire point of the public event is to say that Trump's poll numbers were low? He said, well, you know, poll numbers come and go. So he spends the first part of his speech saying that the polls are telling the public something deeply important.

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But the funny thing about that is that even today, they still think that identity politics is the way to go because even though he was trying to act like a white guy, because they thought they needed to get more support from white guys. That's still just identity politics. It's just a weird one.

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And then somebody says your own poll numbers are worse than Trump. And he immediately, with no hesitation, changes to polls are bullshit. And then immediately switches back to those Trump polls look pretty bad, huh? And he's one of their best guys. Like he's one of their more talented politicians. That was pretty funny. Anyway.

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At the cabinet meeting that I mentioned, apparently Transportation Secretary Duffy says that the government's not going to give any infrastructure funding from the federal government to states if the states are giving driver's license to non-citizens, illegal non-citizens. So that's new. It seems to me that that's a big enough threat that it might work.

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And it makes me wonder why it took them so long to come up with that, because it sounds like a good idea for what they want to get done. So do you think any of the states will cave and say, all right, all right, we'll stop giving driver's license to illegal immigrants just to get our infrastructure money? I think it might work.

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Because I think a lot of the infrastructure money gets stolen by leaders. And if they don't have money coming in in these gigantic amounts so that the leaders can steal it, do the leaders really care that much about giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants? Or do you think they really care about these big checks coming in that they can skim some off?

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So here's where corruption works in your favor. Usually it doesn't. But if you assume that the states are completely corrupt when it comes to infrastructure money coming in,

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which I do, I believe that they're completely corrupt, then the corruption itself might cause them to say, well, I'd rather get that big taste of that money coming in for the infrastructure project, so maybe we'll soften on the whole giving driver's license to illegal immigrants. Might actually work. I guess they're going to use the same standard for states that are using DEI, which is...

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practically every blue state. So maybe the blue states are going to have some trouble getting their funding. Well, allegedly, according to CNN, Kash Patel and the FBI are reassigning some agents who were kneeling during the BLM riots. So this is according to CNN. So you might remember the pictures.

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So when the FBI was sort of cornered, they kind of de-escalated things by kneeling to show that they were in favor of the protesters and in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement. And allegedly, according to CNN, that's not good for your career anymore. So if there's a picture of you kneeling to the crowd, you got reassigned. and not promoted.

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So I'm not 100% sure this story is real, but I wouldn't be surprised. Meanwhile, James O'Keefe, famous for his OMG undercover videos, apparently he's made some kind of an enemy. Now, he's also good at publicity.

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So I'm going to take him at his word that there's a real risk here because apparently he said on video he's not suicidal and that in seven days he's going to disappear for a while for his own safety. But in seven days he will reappear and tell his story. But he's asking us for our prayers. So he was being a little bit dramatic there.

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So they just can't get out of that little trap they've set for themselves that everything is identity politics. Anyway, they'll never escape that. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta is going to try to make you an AI friend. So I guess if you have meta, you'll be able to use their AI to create some friends. So finally, finally my audience could have some friends. It's not just me.

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For a fact But it doesn't mean it's not a real danger you might have a you might be real seriously worried now He didn't name who it was that he's worried about But he teased a bombshell You know that there's something about government corruption. He's got several tapes of it and he's got video of officials caught breaking the law and

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And he thinks that he has enough evidence that once it's released, there will be indictments. I don't know. We'll see. So keep an eye on that. We'll check in in a week. Well, you might know that there was yet another judge who yet again ruled against Trump. saying that the Trump administration can't arrest any more illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest.

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Now, that's sort of not the way the process works for people who are here illegally. You don't really need a warrant for their arrest. You can just determine that they're not here legally and ship them back. But this judge ruled that you do need a warrant. And then it took a few days, but that judge got loomered. So Laura Loomer did the classic thing where she checked on the spouse.

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This works so often. that i love there's a word for it being lumered it means if you're a judge or some official and you do something that looks sketchy it means laura loomer is going to ask what your spouse does for a living and you're going to find out there's something sketchy going on there with that with the couple sure enough the husband of that judge

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tank, or shells, a stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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is a multifamily real estate broker in California. And guess what market he caters to? Illegal aliens and the immigrant community. And he even makes Instagram videos about how Trump's mass deportation policies are bad for multifamily real estate brokers and investors. And of course, the judge was appointed by Biden in 2021. Now, it's almost so predictable

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that you don't even need Laura Loomer to do it anymore. You could just in your mind imagine it. Like, okay, there's a judge that ruled against Trump. I'm going to imagine that the judge has a spouse and the spouse is either a gigantic donor to the DNC or somehow makes money with a charity or a business that serves the illegal immigrant community. Am I right? Yes. Yes. Pretty much every time.

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So as long as you can shop for a judge, you can find the judge who has just the right spouse. Speaking of RFK Jr. making news, he also said, he was on a Dr. Phil show, and he said that sugar is poison. He said sugar is like crack. He said it's poison. Now, You know that I always say alcohol is poison.

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But when I started saying that, I didn't know that there was already a book that came out long ago before I started saying alcohol is poison that said sugar is poison. So sugar is poison is sort of the OG something is poison. So I think he probably was familiar with that book. But when you have the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services say sugar is like crack, I feel like

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Maybe something will happen. I don't know what. There's no specific policy associated with it. But I like where he's heading. So, so far, I'm very happy with RFK Jr. Very happy. I think he's pushing all the right buttons. Now, he's not going to be right 100% of the time. But that's not really the standard I'm going to hold him to.

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I'm going to hold him to the standard of, is he looking in every closet for things that might be hiding in closets? And the answer is, he seems to be. He seems to be willing to open every closet door and see what the hell's in there. So as long as he's doing that and he's being completely transparent about it and he's sharing what he found, you can't get better than that.

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So asking him to be right about everything he's ever said in the past and write about everything he says in the future, that's not really a standard you could hold anybody to. But boy, if you see somebody using a system and transparency and keeping you in the loop, that's good stuff. Good, good stuff. Apparently, the FBI is now searching for leaks among the members of the FBI and using

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That's putting a lot of burden on me. I am your invisible friend who's not that invisible. But Zuckerberg said that the average American has three friends but has a demand for 15. Does that sound right? How many of you have three friends who are local? Because if your friends are not local, they're still friends, but it kind of doesn't count if you can't see them in person.

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using a polygraph test to look for the internal leakers. Now, I'm kind of surprised by that. It's a common thing in the government to use polygraphs to look for leakers. But I would feel like at least the FBI agents would know how to beat a polygraph. But probably just refusing to take it would be enough to get you fired.

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It's my guess and Since they don't know for sure if they can beat it You know, maybe it scares them into confessing or something. I don't know but But that's happening. It's pretty scary It's scary that this tool exists and that it's it's in widespread implementation and What happens when the polygraph gets to the next level?

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Don't you think that we already have the technology that we can put a little hat on people that has sensors to their brain and they can tell for sure if they're lying without doing the bodily changes that the polygraph does? Just directly looking at their brain and find out if they're lying? Because I think we're right there.

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So isn't that a scary future where your employer can know for sure if you're lying? I mean, you shouldn't be lying, but it would be a different world if somebody could know for sure if you're telling the truth. Anyway, according to unusual whales on X, um, Visa wants to give AI your credit card to buy groceries. Now, I guess the fortune is reporting on this.

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Now, I think what that means is that if you wanted to use AI as like an agent, you know, like a little AI that's your assistant where you can tell it to go buy some tickets to the show or go buy some online groceries or something, it really can't do anything. unless it can use your credit card. So it's where things had to go. So it's not even so much about Visa.

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It's just at some point, your robot and your AI, they kind of had to have access to some part of your finances or else they couldn't do much useful stuff. So this is probably something that's inevitable, but it's kind of scary. that the AI would have access to any of your funds, but it tells me that I need a second AI.

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I need one AI that's an agent that can go do things like buy things on my behalf, but I need a second AI that watches the first AI just to make sure it doesn't rob me. It's sort of a two AI situation. With humans, it's not unusual to have a double authorization situation where two humans have to, I think in banking you see this a lot.

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If I recall when I was a banker, a teller, if we needed to open the big safe, we didn't leave it open all day, But if we needed to open the big safe and anybody needed to go in, they could never do it alone. There had to be two people so that one person would watch the other one to make sure they don't rob you.

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AI has got to be the same thing because humans are not going to be able to watch AI too well. You're going to need one AI just to watch your other AIs and make sure they're not ripping you off. So I think that's inevitable too.

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Apparently, the scammers, according to Futurism, Joe Wilkins is writing about this, scammers are using AI to disguise themselves as attractive people or just different people. And they're going after the boomers because the boomers are easy to fool. So I guess AI is so good at this point that you could have your natural face doing something like a Zoom call

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And I assume that they can do it in real time, not just video. But something like a Zoom call where you look exactly like somebody else, like a completely different person. Now, I haven't seen that demonstrated yet. But I wouldn't be surprised, of course. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if it does work. So watch out for that.

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If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. You know, I've been able to identify scams because anytime there's anybody who alleges to be female... and shows interest in me, I immediately say, well, that's a scam. Yeah, I don't believe that. So use that same standard. Well, here's an update for the Hooties.

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How many of you have three? Three is a lot for a man. How many men need 15 friends? That's a lot. Maybe that's what women need. Women might need 15. All right, a lot of you have three friends. Good, good. Well, it looks like you'll get some extra ones. Yesterday I talked about a video I saw from Anduril. That's the new defense contractor that does the newest high-tech defense stuff.

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PX has reposted a Trump warning that the Hooties will be treated as an Iranian attack. So Trump wants to make sure that People know that the Houthis are not operating independently, that they're backed by Tehran. Now, I don't know if that's going to change anything, because we all knew that, right?

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But it feels like it's firing a shot across the bow of Iran when they're trying to get a nuclear deal. Now, I told you the other day that apparently the Houthi situation was not part of the negotiations with Iran. And I thought, why? Why would that not be part of the negotiations? Why would you bother to get a nuclear deal if you weren't going to also deal with the Houthi situation?

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You ought to throw that in there. So maybe this is part of what Trump's getting ready to do, make sure that that gets thrown in the deal, doesn't get forgotten. According to Remix, Russia's budget is getting hit hard because oil and gas prices are falling all over the world, and Russia depends on those. But I'm going to say the same thing I said about China.

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We only imagine that we know what's happening with the Chinese economy, but it's the same with Russia. I feel like we just sort of imagine that we know. So maybe Russia's got a budget problem, and maybe that will have something to do with them wanting to get peace in Ukraine, but I wouldn't bet on it. So I'm going to discount that as being important.

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If the oil price went down another 40%, then it definitely would make a difference. But at the moment, it's just going to squeeze them a little bit and they'll figure it out. According to PJ Media, he's writing about an exclusive report in the UK Times that says that Europe, if it wanted to put peacekeeping troops on the ground in Ukraine, that they would struggle to get 25,000 troops.

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And the larger picture is that apparently NATO is so hollowed out and the European countries are so... let's say, so bereft of military, not just personnel, but equipment, that there's almost no military in Europe. They don't have people, and they don't have much in the way of assets or equipment.

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So I guess they were depending on the United States being the primary combatant if Russia decided to take Europe. Because it doesn't look like Europe could defend itself. They don't have enough people and they don't have enough assets. So that's pretty scary. But does it seem like there's now a trend that we've seen that nobody has the military that you thought they had, that everybody's bluffing?

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Because aren't you a little bit surprised that the entire Russian military couldn't capture all of Ukraine. So Ukraine is fighting Russia to a standstill with, what, senior citizens and children and anybody they can get to go in a pit with some drones. So I don't think that Russia had anything like the military that we assumed they had.

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And it looks like Europe doesn't have anything like the military that we assumed they had. And I wouldn't be surprised if China also doesn't have anything like the military we thought they had. Although if they were going both of them all, instead of just trying to stay within lines, probably it would be different. You know, if they used their best weapons and stuff, probably it'd be different.

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But, I don't know, it's so easy to over, to over, well, to assume that some other military is stronger than it is. In other news, according to ZME Science, China made the world's fastest transistor and didn't use any silicon. It runs 40% faster and uses less power. And, uh, blah, blah, blah.

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But I'm going to say the same thing that I should have said about battery breakthroughs, because every single day I see a new report about somebody made a battery breakthrough that charges faster and lasts longer and doesn't require any rare earth minerals. If you would look at the history of breakthroughs,

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It could take five to 10 years for anything to hit the market, and it could also take decades. That wouldn't even be unusual. So this new kind of chip and the new kind of batteries, they probably will change the world, but maybe not for 15, 20 years. So it's more like a forecast of what the future looks like. In other news, my last story here, I think it's my last one.

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The University of Bristol has found that some conditions like depression and schizophrenia might have something to do with underlying conditions in the body. In other words, that it might not be an entirely brain-related, it might be something about your overall physical fitness that's causing your depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health problems.

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And they have a man-portable, they call it, meaning one person could carry it, device called a drone, well, it's a drone killer, called the Pulsar-L device. And they showed a video where one of the people demonstrating the Pulsar L was aiming it at a big swarm of drones coming over the hill, and it knocked down all the drones. And apparently I was one of many people who said, that can't be real.

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And I will just remind you that I've been saying for years that one of our big mistakes in healthcare, at least mental healthcare, is to assume that your brain is the thing that's in your skull.

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That might be the most important part, but you should think of your brain as your entire body because anything that happens to your body is going to affect your brain so much, whether it's gut health or probiotics. This new thing is about immune response. So they think if they give you a better immune response, you'd have better mental health.

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Now I don't know about this particular study, but just in general, the fact that we treat the brain like it's a special thing in your skull and not really just one component of your mental health has always been a mistake in my view. Could be the food, could be. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I had for you. I'm going to say hi to the locals people very quickly.

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And the rest of you, I'll see you same time tomorrow. Thanks for joining. All right, locals, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds or possibly not. So the answer is not because the button to go private is not working today. So I'll have to close the studio to close that, which means I can't go private. But I'll see you tomorrow on the pre-show. And we'll have some fun then.

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Like, it just looks too good. It must be CGI. And Palmer Luckey had to tell the public, no, we have a rule against using CGI if it's anything that can be seen. So they would use CGI to maybe show an electric pulse or something, which they didn't do. but they would never use the CGI to show something in the physical world that wasn't real. So it was real.

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So it worked so well, apparently, that it looked fake. Now, if one soldier can carry this gun-shaped object that can take out an entire swarm of drones coming over the hill, how many of those would you have to give to Ukraine before the Russian military was completely neutered. Because it's a drone war at this point, right?

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine dinner of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. So good. I might have to do that again later. It was that good. Well, let's check in with science, see what science can tell us.

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It sort of turned into trench warfare, but the humans are not leaving the trenches, just the drones. So in theory, you could calculate how many of them would completely neuter the Russian drone attacks. at least the local ones that were on the front line. So I don't know. Maybe there's something coming that we don't know about.

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At the same time, speaking of drones, according to Defense Scoop, the cartels on our southern border, the Mexican cartels, are using their own drones to surveil our military that's on the border now. And our military is looking for counter drone capabilities. Now, wouldn't that be the Anduril device?

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I don't know how many options they have, but it does seem like if they can see the drones and they know where the drones are coming from and they know they're cartel drones, don't they just have to aim that Anduril device at it and knock it down? It feels like we have the technology to do that.

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Well, Kamala Harris gave her first big speech since she's been, you know, out of the public eye for a little while. And I got to say, she looked drunk to me. How many of you saw the clips? And how many of you thought she looked drunk or acted drunk? She looked pretty drunk. When I see her, I don't even think Kamala anymore. I think Drunkula.

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So, of course, she said that there's chaos and blah, blah, blah. I thought Carolyn Leavitt said that the Republicans are really happy if she does more speaking. She is so bad. So bad. She's the only politician at that level that can't give a decent speech. Oh, my God. And I assume some of that is because of alcohol, but it is unconfirmed.

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Well, allegedly, according to CNN, President Bukele of El Salvador has rejected the Trump administration's request to return that Maryland dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Does that sound true to you? Do you think that the Trump administration asked for him to be returned and Bukele said no?

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Because I saw separately there was a report that Bukele wasn't comfortable putting people who had not been convicted of a crime in his jails. So he was sort of just doing it because Trump wanted it. But do you think that this is organic? Or do you think that the Trump administration said, hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we pretend that we asked for it?

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We'll pretend that we tried really hard if you just say no. And then everybody wins. Because the court, apparently the court order is just that the Trump administration attempts to facilitate the return. It doesn't say they have to get them returned. if it's impossible. So it kind of looks like the fix might be in a little bit. It's like, hey, we're going to ask you publicly to return this guy.

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Just say no. Just say no. So we'll see what this does to the news coverage. Because, you know, I don't believe anything in the news. I feel like nearly 100% of the news is not exactly what you think. There's always something a little bit missing, or there's a hidden story, or there's a B story that we don't know about. Anyway.

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Apparently, NVIDIA announced $500 billion of investments it's going to do in the United States to make its NVIDIA technology I assume that's so for 10 years or something, I assume. But he's very gung-ho on President Trump and the United States, and he should be. That's Jensen Wang, the CEO of NVIDIA. So he announced that with Trump.

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According to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, the average rate of obesity among Americans has risen by approximately 30% over 20 years. Now, how many of you have not noticed? Have you noticed that the rate of obesity is sort of through the roof? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that it's never been easier to be in the top 10% of attractive people.

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And I believe that Trump is saying that there's $8 trillion of money that's moved into the U.S. Now, again, that would be over 10 years, so it's still a lot. But $8 trillion, do you believe that? I think there's something like $5 trillion that's somewhat known and confirmed. But, you know, you have to add the Trump or hyperbole to it. Five becomes eight. Eight becomes 20.

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So we'll see how that goes. Well, remember... Remember I told you yesterday that I doubted that there would really be a Ukraine mineral deal with the United States? Because it just seemed to me like we weren't really getting there. Well, was I wrong? Because there's an announcement that there is a signed mineral deal with Ukraine and the United States.

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so i i guess there is a mineral deal oh wait did i say there's a mineral deal well it's not exactly a mineral deal if you if you look under the hood a little bit it's more of a deal to maybe make a deal was that what you thought you were gonna get

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Because I was sort of thinking of it as, all right, we're going to have this specific deal, and we're going to mine this specific stuff, and this is what we'll do, this is what you'll do. Well, it's not that. It's not that. It's more like the agreement grants the U.S., quote, privilege access to investment projects for various things like aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas reserves.

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Includes oil. Interesting. What do you think that means? Privileged access. Privileged access. It's kind of not defined, is it? Suppose privileged access is just who they ask first. What if Ukraine has some minerals that they want to exploit, whether it's oil or anything else. And they say, okay, everybody, U.S. has privilege access. So what do you guys offer us? And the U.S.

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I feel like the lawyers are going to be coming after him. So that was a scary one. So that's definitely one of those edge cases where we'll figure out what's legal and what isn't. In political news, Smirconish on CNN was talking to James Carville. Okay, this is a little bit funny.

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But James Carville, maybe a month or two ago, had said, the best thing you can do is to just lay low, don't do anything, and just wait for the Republicans to self-destruct. Well, instead of that... Trump is more popular than ever, Doge is still popular.

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But he was very clever because the one thing he knew for sure is that sooner or later his fake news compatriots would find something that wasn't a big deal and they'd turn it into a big deal through the power of the media. And that's what Signalgate was. So now Carville has re-merged And he says, what tense are we in, as in past tense or current tense? He goes, what tense are we in?

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Is it collapsing, talking about the Trump administration, or has it collapsed? Is it collapsing or has it collapsed? Do you notice the fake choice? He's good at this. He's very good at it. He can only decide between is it collapsing or has it collapsed. Those are the only choices. He goes, that's the only argument to have. Well, he says it directly.

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He wants to make sure you're not thinking about anything else. He goes, and I was wrong. I said Memorial Day. It's before April Fool's Day, which the Trump administration should make a national holiday because it so accurately represents who they are. So the new Democrat talking point, which apparently has virtually no backing in the real world,

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is that the American people are turning on the Trump administration. You know, the one that's more popular than it's ever been. And none of this is true. But Carville is not dumb. He knows that if you create a narrative, that things will stick to it. So his narrative is, there's chaos. It's all falling apart. There's chaos. And then any little thing

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that the fake news finds to say about Doge or about Trump, you're just going to stick that to it. Say, oh, yeah, yep, Garville was right. The administration's falling apart. Now, I would submit to you that you can tell who's brainwashed and or is a brainwasher by one word. Let's see if you know what it is. There's one word that sometimes Republicans use it, but it's just sort of a

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fight back or it's used in an ordinary way. But there's one word that the Democrats use consistently that shows that they're not actually using the thinking. And the word is chaos. If you say chaos, how do you prove there's chaos? Well, you listen to the news, but the news is fake. So the news and the pundits are going to tell you there's chaos all day long.

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If you turned on Abby Phillip, that show, let's say tomorrow, what are the odds that one of those people would say, it's chaos, it's chaos? That's brainwashing. Now, it might be that they're brainwashed, but it's a little more likely that they're brainwashers and they're trying to get you.

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If you went to one of the protests, like the anti-Tesla protests, where you stop somebody in the street and you say, why are you so anti-Trump? What are they likely to say, given that they don't know anything about anything? They don't know if Doge is working or not working. They don't know if the savings are real or not real. They don't know really anything.

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I just don't want to stay around to figure it out. No, no. They're going to say that the new boss is terrible. And if you understood how bad that new boss is, you would understand that they had to quit. I mean, it was a matter of principle. Fake news. Here's probably fake news. The Post Millennial is reporting that, well, the Post Millennial is not the fake part. They got the story right.

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They're going to look right at you and say, it's just chaos. That Trump is just chaos. If that's all they have, that's just brainwashing. And for the most part, that's all they have. Yeah. Carville got the chaos. So I would say James Carville is concerned that the Trump administration is collapsing. It's collapsing. It's collapsing.

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I'm going to delegate that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns because that's why we created it. The Department of Imaginary Concerns handles all the things that Democrats are worried about or talking about but aren't the least bit real. So the Department of Imaginary Concerns will handle the collapsing, all the collapsing and the chaos. We'll handle that.

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Meanwhile, this is also from Mario Norfolk. He's looked at the Doge Clock, which is published. So you can see for yourself what's been saved. As I said, $257 billion. That's how much has been drained out of the swamp. Now, as a rule, here's my new rule. I'm not going to believe any number about Doge. I'm not going to believe any anecdote. And I'm not going to believe any total numbers.

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And when I see a number like that, and I don't know if it's over 10 years or over one year or it's already saved or it might be saved or it could be saved under the ideal conditions or maybe it'll be saved, but you'll have to spend a bunch of other money to replace some portion of it. I don't believe anything. Now, I do think, in all likelihood, Doge is doing an amazing job, in all likelihood.

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but I'm not going to believe any of the numbers. You know, I've been bitten how many times by repeating some anecdote like the condoms for Hamas. That was never real, right? So I'm going to assume that the criticisms of Doge are all fake and that the Doge numbers are probably directionally correct, but I wouldn't believe any specific numbers. There's just too many ways to count things.

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There's probably a lot of assumptions and opinion that go into deciding how much you really saved. Here's an update on SignalGate, you know, the Signal app and how Jeffrey Goldberg somehow mysteriously got attached to it. What are the odds that after this many days have gone by, we don't know the answer to the following question? Who added him and how did that happen?

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Because remember, Mike Walsh says that he doesn't know him and didn't have his phone number. But you would need the phone number to add him, and he got added by Mike Walsh's account. Now, some are saying, well, but it could have been his assistant, Alex Wong. How long would it take to find out if Alex Wong is the person who had access to the phone?

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Even if you don't know he did it, do you know if he ever had access to the phone? Was there ever a time? when Mike Waltz would hand him the phone and say, hey, can you create this chat group? Add this guy, this guy, this guy. This is the worst cover-up of all time. You know, I thought this was a sort of a non-problem. But there is some serious lying going on at this point.

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And I feel like I would just be dishonest if I don't call it out. I still don't think it's important. And I will tell you that yesterday, for probably the fifth time, I sent a personal message to the wrong person on text. Probably for the fifth time. Now, in my defense, I've got several people with the same first name.

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And I've got two people who have the first two letters of their last name are the same. Now, I was a speed reader. I learned speed reading when I was a kid. And one of the things you learn is you don't read whole words. You just read enough of the word until you know what it must be. So it's just faster that way.

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But Annapolina Luna says that NBC has a video that allegedly shows Lee Harvey Oswald and attending the event at the time of the shooting. And if that were true, he could not have been the lone shooter up in the window because you can't be in two places at the same time. And so they have some source that says that NBC has been sitting on this video forever. And do you think that's true?

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So if I say the first name is correct and the first two letters of the last name are the ones I'm looking for, I don't ask myself how many people have those same first two letters. I just hit that damn thing. And I did send a pretty personal message to the wrong person. They're both guys. It wasn't anything naughty because they're both male. But how many of you have done that?

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It's the most ordinary thing in the world. But in my case, both of those people are in my contacts. So we really don't know. I mean, really? We don't know why Jeffrey Goldberg was on Mike Walsh's contact list? Really? After all these days, we don't know that? I don't know. Now, I could see that maybe it was a stalemate. I could imagine a case where Walsh says, you know what?

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Two people had access to it. It was a mistake. But since neither of us believe we made the mistake, Alex Wong doesn't say he made the mistake, and I don't remember making it. But how did it get there in the first place? How did it get there? Now, I will tell you something else that maybe the news is not telling you. It's not that unusual for, let's say, a Republican at a high level

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to have the contact information for some terrible, terrible journalists. You know, Trump used to have contact all the time with people who were terrible to him. And you would say, what? Why is that? Now, I don't have a defense for it. I'll just say that if Mike Waltz had Jeffrey Goldberg's contact and if they had ever talked about anything, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing in the world.

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And I wouldn't even be super concerned about it. He might just say, there was that one day I had a question. I don't remember what it was, but I had a question that he could answer. Maybe there was a time when the Atlantic had asked to interview him, and rather than talking to the reporter, he thought, you know what, I'll talk to the boss and ask him if this reporter is legit.

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So you could imagine completely legitimate reasons that Mike Waltz would have what you might call an enemy journalist on his list. It's just not that weird. It's not weird at all. But the fact that we're not told, not cool. Not cool at all. But I also don't think there's much chaos involved there. It's just at least one person who's not telling us the truth or not telling us what they know.

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Maybe the truth is unknown. But tell us that. Tell us that. What have you looked at? What do you know? All right. So I'm not happy with that at all. So I guess yesterday was the so-called Tesla Global Day of Action, where all the unattractive people gathered to dance and show us their misspelled signs. And...

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If you ever noticed that if your protest involves organized dance, then it's just stupid. I've never seen a protest with dance that wasn't just dumb. So they got that going for them. And you've seen a bunch of people getting interviewed. It's like, why do you disagree with Doge? And they seem just completely uninvolved in politics. They don't even know why they have a problem.

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They're just there because they have a problem. I'm going to give you a theory for what might be driving these people, besides being paid. Some of them are paid. But I imagine they're not all paid. And even if you were paid, wouldn't you take five minutes to develop an argument for why you were there? Like if you paid me to be a fake protester, I'd say, okay, I'm going to be a fake protester.

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What will I say if somebody asks me why I'm there? It would be kind of basic for a fake protester to have some reasons. Anyway. Governor Newsom on Bill Maher on Friday, he said that Democrats have become too toxic and judgmental. Toxic and judgmental. Does that sound right? Kind of does. Kind of does.

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But I want to give you a theory that I was exposed to this morning from a user on X who is anonymous, but he goes by Dr. Insensitive Jerk. Which is a very disarming way to label yourself. Because then when you see if he posts something that looks like, hey, you insensitive. Oh, I get it. That's who you are. I read recently that that's a good trick for, who was it?

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Do you think NBC has a video? This shows Lee Harvey Oswald sort of hanging out at a place that means he couldn't have been the shooter. I'm going to take a really big bet against that being true. Here's what I think is true. Have you seen the old grainy black and white videos from the Kennedy shooting? You could find any one of us in that crowd because we all look like blotches.

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One of the famous persuader guys who's always on social media said that if you label yourself harshly, it takes away people's incentive to label you. because you just labeled yourself even harder than they would. So he's calling himself an insensitive jerk.

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And he had an argument about it, but I'm going to kind of crib from his argument rather than read it exactly, because I want to add my own flavor to this. You know how I always tell you that everything is an extension of the mating instinct? And if you really want to understand what's going on, the mating instinct, Chris Voss. That's right.

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Chris Voss was the persuader who said that on Instagram or something. Thank you. He's very good, by the way. I've listened to Chris Voss, these little clips. I don't know too much about them, but the ones I've seen, they look really useful, these little persuasion tips. So I'd recommend them. So here's what I think.

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And so some of this is stolen from Dr. Insensitive Jerk, but I'm going to mash it up with some of my own opinion. So Dr. Insensitive Jerk notes that insecure men are going to dislike successful people because they would be a threat.

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Now, if you were unable to become rich like Trump or rich like Elon Musk or rich like Scott Besant or rich like Wyckoff or rich like most of the people working as Democrats at the moment, if you were unable to be one of those rich people and then you looked at it from a mating biological evolutionary perspective, what would be your best strategy?

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So you can't become rich, or you don't believe you can, but you're competing for basically women against people who are. Well, I think what you do is you'd say, I have better character than they do. So you try to sell your character because it's all you got. But it's never going to work because I've never heard a woman say, yeah, my husband, He can't hold a job, but man, his character is great.

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So I just can't get enough of him. As a matter of fact, I'm going to find him right now and sex him up. Yeah, he's never made a dime. I'm the only one working in the family, but wow, does he have a good character. Ask him any question. He'll have the right answer. Do you like Elon Musk? No, he's an oligarch. He's an oligarch.

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So if you notice the men at these Democrat protests, do you ever see a man who's been to the gym? No. Do you ever see a man who looks like he might be rich? There are probably a few, you know, sneaking in there. But I'll bet it's not most of them. So the mating instinct assumes that men would go after successful men in every domain. And sure enough, that's what we see. But what about the women?

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Here's where it gets a little harder, a little more non-obvious. Women, because they have to have babies that need to be protected, and if you're having a baby, you're protecting a baby, you can't do much making of your own money or tending the fields or hunting or whatever, whatever was the original stuff that people did. So you need to attract the man.

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The man becomes the provider of resources and also protection. But what if you're a single Democrat woman or a woman whose man doesn't have any of those qualities, but he's got a great character, by the way? Oh, he can't win a fight, can't make a dime, but wow, he's got character. What would you do from a biological, just evolutionary standpoint?

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Well, one of the things you might do is turn to the government and say, hey, government, give me some money because...

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i need money everybody needs money and if they don't have a second you know practical way to get it you're going to turn to the government but what if the government is super successful people who think you should go make your own money well in that case you might try to bring them down you might try to embarrass them you might try to destroy them publicly until

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They think that their best move to become a functioning member of society is to give away lots of their money to people who need it. So I think what you're seeing is this large mating instinct failure of the Democrats being channeled into these protests. Now, of course, it doesn't mean every single person. It never means that.

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Here would be a good test. Do you think you couldn't find somebody who looks just like me standing in the crowd? Of course you could. Now, I was only six years old or something when it happened. But could you find me in the crowd? Yes, you could.

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But, wow, you know, if you look at the crowds, they don't look like they're real successful in the mating category. You know what I mean? So look for that. And then Dr. Insensitive Jerk points out, that if you look at who the leaders are on the Democrats, they're almost anti-success people.

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It's people like Bernie Sanders, who's never done anything successful, or Joe Biden, who's never made money outside of probably crime, and Elizabeth Warren, who's kind of suspect, you know, for how she gets so much money. So Republicans seem to be, let's just do the best job and you can make your money, we'll make our money. And the Democrats are, we don't know how to make money. Can we get yours?

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So that's what this is. That's what it looks like to me. Meanwhile, the White House Correspondents Association, you know, they always do that dinner where they have somebody who's like a Dean Martin roast. It feels like you've gone back in time. And it started out with both sides, Democrats and Republicans used to go. But then they turned into a Democrat hellhole like everything else, it seems.

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And Trump isn't going, which is a good call. And they had hired some totally anti-Trump comedian to be the roaster in chief. And she's already been fired. Because I guess they realized there was no point in having it if it's only Democrats. So Amber Ruffin. She had declared at one point that no one wanted President Trump to attend or even be in the same room with him. Really?

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And then for months... the head of that organization that ignored the objections. But on Saturday, they said she was unanimously sacked. Now, it seems like that entire event doesn't make any sense. It's just a relic of the past. And once it becomes just a Democrat event, it has no real reason to exist. I mean, it's not really about

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getting everybody together so they know each other and they can network. I don't know. It looks like the whole thing should be canceled. Well, Trump, just to be provocative, but he's also a good negotiator, says of Greenland that he won't rule out using military force if he has to take it. Now, you might say to yourself, but he said he wants them to determine their own fate, and he does.

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Do you think that most of you, if you're, I think, mostly white guys at the time, do you think if you were a 40-year-old white guy, do you think there was no video of that day that showed a blotchy black and white guy that looks a lot like you? So first of all, I don't believe it exists. Secondly, even if it did exist, NBC is the last entity that would give it to you.

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But it's always smart to never rule out any of your tools. Because it makes other people say, but he might. Did he mean that? He hasn't ruled it out, but does that mean he's going to? So that's the uncertainty play that he likes to use. I suspect there's a low chance that he's going to do that.

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But Trump says, I think there's a good possibility we could do it without military force, but I don't take anything off the table. Now, he says that for pretty much every domain. But the question that needs to be answered is, is I believe it was either Greenland or maybe it was Denmark, might have been Denmark, who said that the U.S. used to have a bigger military presence there.

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So it's lower than it used to be because we do have military presence in Greenland, but it's only 200 people, I think. And my question would be, since Denmark has allowed that they would be happy with a larger, more serious American military presence, Why aren't we happy with that?

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So Trump's been kind of put in a corner, and I don't know if anybody's asked him that question yet, but the question would be, if what you want is national defense, and let's say defense of the entire area, why would you not have everything you wanted if you could put all the American military there you want with all the assets you want,

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and darn it, it's going to happen right now. Go. That's the good stuff. Well, let's start with the fake news first. We might get to something that's somewhat real.

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to do whatever makes sense to protect Greenland and everything else. I don't know. It seems like that would be actually a perfectly legitimate solution. So I want to hear Trump answer that. There might be some answer to that. We'll see. Maybe he wants the military presence to be paid for by mineral rights or something like that. So there might be a reason. Well, European institutions,

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according to the Hill are offering what they call scientific asylum for the scientists who are being defunded in America. But the things that are being defunded are things like, a lot of it is stuff like DEI research and transgender stuff and climate change. And I'm thinking to myself, did we find a way to get rid of all of our worst scientists? We'll send them to Europe.

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Are we losing any scientists who are working on fusion or military things or quantum entanglement? I feel like if we shipped to Europe all of our DEI transgender research and climate change people, we might come out ahead. So maybe that's a win-win for everybody. That's what I say.

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Well, Moscow is blasting the European Union, saying that the European Union is refusing to get rid of the sanction on one of their banks. Now, apparently the deal that Putin believes was made, and you have to be careful because everybody leaves these meetings thinking a different kind of deal was made, but Putin believes that in order to...

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agreed to not do war in the Black Sea and attack ships, that part of that was at least one part of the sanctions, not all of them, but just the sanctions against this one bank would be dropped. And then the European Union said, nope, we're not going to do that. So, you know, it makes me wonder, who is our enemy in the United States? It's getting a little murky.

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Because Putin wants to stop fighting, which would be good for the United States, because we'd stop funding it and it would be less risk. And he wants to probably do trade, and maybe that's good for us too. Whereas the European Union wants to drag us into World War III for reasons that maybe we don't think are good ones. So which one is on our side? It's not as clear as it was a month ago.

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I mean, a month ago I would have said, well, obviously the EU is on our side and Putin is on the other side. But if you see the EU signing up for a permanent war with no chance of winning and what seems to be backstabbing any progress, I don't know. I'd say it's sort of a toss-up at this point. And I feel sorry for Europe that the European Union has basically taken over.

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Because I don't know personally, but NBC has often been accused of being in bed with the CIA. So do you think you're ever going to see that video and you're going to look at it and you say, oh, that is clearly Lee Harvey Oswald. You can see it so clearly? I'm going to bet against it. If you do see something, it's going to be a blotch.

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And they've got a some woman with crazy eyes who's driving the ship. Have you seen her crazy eyes? You know, the big wide ones. It's not an accident. The crazy eyes. So Mike Benz has a story today. So apparently USAID had a partner in one of the many things that it has funded called the U.S. Institute of Peace. Well, that's a good idea. Who wouldn't want to fund the U.S. Institute of Peace?

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Do you like peace? You like peace, right? So obviously that would be a good thing to fund. So what is that group been up to? Oh, they're arguing that the Taliban should not stop the growing of poppies in the heroin trade, which the Taliban is now successfully doing. So the Taliban is trying to get Afghanistan completely out of the

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poppy heroin trade, which is something the United States couldn't do. Now, I heard, and I can't confirm this, that the reason we didn't want to close that down, according to some CIA assets said this, is because almost all of that heroin from Afghanistan was going into Iran. It wasn't going to the United States. Now, I can't confirm that,

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But it would make sense why the USAID would be funding a group that was arguing they should keep the poppy growth because it's good for the economy. That's actually what they argued in writing. They argued that it was good for the economy of Afghanistan and it would be devastating for them to stop making heroin. Now, that only makes sense if we thought the heroin one was not coming into the US.

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Now, I'm going to give you an anecdotal point, and maybe some of you have your own anecdotes to either back it up or refute it. If you know anybody who's a drug addict, ask them when was the last time they had actual heroin, even if that used to be their drug of choice. I think what you're going to find out is that sometimes they think they're getting it, but it's just fentanyl.

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So I think our current situation is that fentanyl is completely replaced heroin, partly because it's maybe cheaper, more available, more powerful. And the addicts have figured out how to handle it. I hate to say that. But the addicts that haven't died have learned how to handle the dosage so that they're a little less likely to die. So I think that might be what's going on.

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that we want to keep that in play, and then the Taliban are saying, nope, we don't want to be the heroin company, which makes sense. I hate to support the Taliban. I hate to be on the side of the Taliban, but the Taliban at least is consistent. How about no? How about our country is not the heroin producer of the world? Now, I'm not supporting the Taliban.

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They got some bad opinions too, plenty of them. but at least they're consistent. Well, I told you yesterday that Iran had rejected direct talks with the U.S., but they're okay with indirect talks going through some third-party country. Now, the AP is reporting on this. Don't you think that's nothing but a stall? So Iran can pretend that they're doing something that looks like maybe progress?

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But if they're not talking directly and they're talking through some third party, it's going to be a whole bunch of, well, the third party says we got a deal. And then Iran says, no, we don't. And then they go back and then they think they have a deal and they say, well, it looks like the third parties have worked on a deal. And then Iran says, no, we didn't.

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And basically it's exactly the same as not talking at all, but it gives them the cover of looking reasonable. Because they said, hey, we'll do some indirect talks. How about that? That's not nothing. No, it's worse than nothing. It gives them cover for doing nothing. It's worse than nothing. That's what I think. There were some more Houdi attacks. One of the questions, attacks on the Houdis.

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And if you don't see something, that would be more understandable. So I wouldn't wait for that. According to Musk's Doge team, you know, they're getting rid of a lot of government facilities, and some of them would include the ability to make a phone call or the ability to go in person to do this or that retirement thing.

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Now, one of the questions that many of us have is, how does this Houdi thing ever end? It looks like a permanent war. Because the minute we leave, Iran ships them some new missiles. They got lots of them underground in their big facilities. They're not running out of missiles. And they ship them some new radars so they can spot it. They'd be back in business in a week, wouldn't they?

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Like actually a week. So how do you ever end this? And I think I just saw my answer to it. Apparently there's one or two... air bases nearby that have now been developed into U.S. air bases. So I don't know if there are islands. I was a little unclear on the geography there. But it's close enough that we could put our B-52s there. So the landing strip is optimized for bombers.

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And it would be close enough to make it economical and easy to bomb the hoodies whenever we want. And I think that's my answer. The answer is we're going to put up a permanent military presence. And every time there's a hootie missile, they're just going to get bombed to shit. And we're just going to see if we can do that longer than they can do it.

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So I don't think there's any chance you can bomb them all into nothingness, that they'll stop. But there's definitely a chance that if we have a permanent position there and every time a missile gets fired, the entire town disappears or whatever it is, that should have a suppressive effect. Now, I still think it's a long shot that anything good will come out of this, but you can't do nothing.

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Doing nothing seems like a bad idea. Although I think a lot of people say you shouldn't do nothing because it's only a very tiny amount of U.S. traffic goes through there. That would be a good argument for doing nothing, actually. Well, Hamas says it accepts a new Gaza ceasefire, but Israel says nope in their counteroffering, according to the AP.

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So do you think Israel is going to accept any more of these hostage deals? I guess they want some humanitarian aid and some releasing of a whole bunch of Palestinians. And I don't know. I don't know. I feel like at some point Israel is just going to say we're done and we'll stop bombing when we have them all back.

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Because I think they're almost at that point, which is really bad domestically, because there's going to be a large number of people who say, but my relatives in one of those tunnels.

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So I think they have to get the number of hostages down to the point where even if the hostage families and their friends are making a big, big stink about it, there's not a big enough stink to stop them from doing what they want. So we'll see. We'll keep an eye on that. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had for you today. I hope... I hope everything's good for you.

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I'm going to talk privately to the people on Locals. And the rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble, we'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Locals, I'm coming.

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But they're thinking of building what they call an Apple Store-like experience. Now, I assume that means actually a place you go to. And it does seem to me that that would be the right model if they could do it. The thing I love about the Apple Store is that you can go there for your phone or your watch or your laptop or any of their products, and they can help you.

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So wouldn't it make sense to have a Apple-like quality store where you could go for whatever your government normal process is? So you're trying to get Medicare, you're trying to get Social Security, you're trying to work out anything. And there's a genius standing there, and they just work it out while you're standing there. That would be pretty awesome. And what an improvement, my God.

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Now, it's a big... That's a pretty big goal. You know, it would be pretty expensive on its own. But I love the fact that they're thinking in those terms. You know, thinking big is what we need. So, yeah, keep thinking big. I think they can do it. Believe it or not, according to Breitbart News, Neil Monroe is writing about this.

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You know how the coyotes, this would be the cartel members who are helping to transport the illegal migrants across the border. Well, apparently they have a new business model. And the new business model is helping migrants that are already across the border get the hell back home.

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Because they know if the government catches them, they're going to end up or they would be worried about ending up in a El Salvadorian prison that looks like the worst place in the world. And they're thinking, I saved $10,000 by working here. I'd rather pay that to get back home so I don't end up in one of those prisons.

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So apparently for $10,000 a piece, the coyotes are now helping people go home. Now, how many of you predicted that? I got to say, I did not see that coming. But it makes sense because bringing people into the country looks like a failed proposition. But taking them out of the country so they'll be safer from the old Salvadorian jail, it makes perfect sense. Yeah, it makes perfect sense.

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There's a new potential buyer for TikTok, super rich guy Reed Rasner. I guess he's probably put together some people for this bid. But his bid would be over $47 billion. But here's the interesting part, which is way more than other bidders are offering, like by a lot. But part of the deal is that they would donate 5% of their TikTok bid of the $50 billion to the Sovereign Wealth Fund.

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Now, remember I told you that why would the government of the United States ever go along with a TikTok sale unless, according to Trump, unless the government got a piece of the action? Now, I think more of a percentage ongoing would make more sense. But 5% of $50 billion? Not so bad. 5% of $50 billion? It's a good little start for the sovereign wealth fund.

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I have some questions whether the sovereign wealth fund can actually be created. I think there were some technical or legal obstacles to that, so it might not actually become a reality. But if they work that out... This might start a sort of start a new trend where one of the ways that you can make sure the government's on your side is contributing to the sovereign wealth fund.

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Might feel a little bribery like at some point, but this company is doing it voluntarily. Meanwhile, Mario Noffel is reporting. By the way, you should follow Mario Noffel, N-A-W-F-A-L. He does a great job of summarizing stories every day on X. But apparently French companies that deal with the United States are in trouble with the Trump administration unless they end their DEI policies.

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So I saw a headline, I think it was in The Hill, said that top vaccine official at FDA resigns, citing RFK Jr. misinformation. Now, if you saw that headline, would you think that the top vaccine official decided he couldn't work there because RFK Jr. was full of misinformation, because that's what it says. But if you read the article, it says that he was asked to resign or be terminated.

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So apparently the U.S. is telling France you have to get rid of your DEI or we won't buy your stuff anymore, or we won't trade with you. Now, that's going to be kind of a shock. I wonder if they can get away with that. Makes sense. I mean, why would we trade with a racist country? Well, we probably do that all the time, but if we can do less of it, that'd be great. France 24 is reporting on that.

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Speaking of DEI, the FCC is going to investigate Disney over DEI discrimination. Post-millennials reporting on that. Now, that's probably the best thing that could happen to Disney. Imagine you're the CEO of Disney and you're absolutely trapped by the fact that you've got too many DEI supporters at the company. And if you, on your own, decided to get rid of it, it wouldn't work.

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There'd just be too many resistors. But what if the FCC came in and said, we're going to shut you down unless you get rid of the DEI? Well, now the CEO has a tool. So if you think this is all bad for Disney, it's probably only bad for the DEI staff.

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It might be really good for the board of directors and the CEO because it would give them a tool to do the thing they probably want to do, get rid of DEI. Meanwhile, Jeremy Carl on X is reporting that Disney He got a report from one of his followers that the University of Michigan at Flint is just going to rebrand their DEI to Hope. And they're not going to fire anybody who was in the DEI.

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So just as you imagined, you know, just as you imagined, they're just going to hide it and just continue to be racist. Just going to hide it. Now, it seems to me that one of the things we need, you know how Universities are ranked for all kinds of things. It's like the best business school, the best engineering school. And then, of course, they have to be certified by somebody.

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So it's not unusual that there are lists of how good or how bad universities are doing. Don't you think we need a racist list so that we can actually say these are the most racist, meaning they have lots of DEI. These are the most racist universities. I think if the government listed them as racist and just said top 100 universities, there's only three of them that are not racist.

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The rest, pure racist. I feel like that would solve the problem in about three years because nobody would want to be on that list. You know, the trouble is that we keep calling it DEI and saying that DEI, you know, is illegal or violates the Constitution. How about we just go right at it and say these colleges have been branded as racist?

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If anybody wants to know the details, they can look into it and they'd find out they have a DEI program or a HOPE program. And don't make it anybody's problem but the college's. It should just be the college's problem. And when you apply for a college, that should be one of the things that pops up, how racist they are.

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Now, I asked today on X, how many had this experience, that there was a white male high school senior in their world, could be female in this case, but white, who had all the qualifications for a top college, and didn't get into any of them.

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Turns out a lot of people say that, but when they showed their qualifications, they were sort of marginal, meaning that if you only had a 4.0 average, I don't know that that gets you into an Ivy League school. But there's a member of my extended family who is a white male who checks every box. I mean, his GPA was way over four, over four.

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And he was in every kind of activity, all the good ones, the ones that make sense. And he did everything right. applied to a bunch of top schools, your Stanford's and your Harvard's and places that you would expect to get in if you had higher than a 4.0 and everything else was done right. Absolutely nothing. The only school that accepted him was, I won't say the name of the school, but

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wasn't in the top 29 for the you know the the specific field that he wanted and by the way he was looking at a technical field so he was he was looking at one of those really useful you know not one of these waste of time majors but like one of the real ones didn't get in Now, I want to give him advice. I haven't talked to him yet.

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But I think when he gets over the shock, because he's been aiming at, you know, this has been his goal for years, and everything he worked for was to make it into one of these top colleges. But during the time he was working on it, the top colleges became garbage. So I don't believe that he should put himself in debt if he had to borrow a lot of money because they're not high income.

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In other words, he was fired. So first he's fired, and then he's disgruntled, and then he says that RFK Jr. only wants misinformation. I wouldn't take any of that seriously. If you fire somebody in that situation, what do you think they're going to say? Do you think they're going to say, you know, RFK Jr. was really right. I wasted my entire career. Everything I believed was probably wrong.

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I don't believe that any of those Ivy League schools would be a good decision. I think he'd be better off at a school that teaches him the basics and then he just makes a life out of it. So we know that Harvard would just turn you into God knows what. And Stanford, same. Now, these are the same schools that Trump is investigating. Stanford is one of them.

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So Stanford is one of the ones that rejected him. And I'm thinking, okay, you got rejected by a college that's been labeled racist. I think there's not much question about what went wrong. I mean, if people with his credentials can't get into one of the top colleges, there's something really broken, really broken. Anyway, a lot of people had similar experiences they're reporting on X.

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Well, according to E.I. Klein on X, there's a new AI app called Marika that can clone any singer's voice and generate music using it. So it'll generate its own original songs. They'll use the voice of famous people like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Now, how is that legal? Since when can you clone a famous singer's voice and create new music?

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But if you come in and say, you know, honestly, I'm a really good programmer, and I'd like you to hire me, but I really love communism too. Then how about no? Or if you have some other belief that's just clearly in conflict with whatever we think are the cultural variables that made America what it is, I think you can turn people down for economic reasons if they're not a cultural fit.

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Because the cultural engine is what's driving the economics, so you've got to get that right as well. All right, I don't know if we can get that right, but that would be the goal. MSNBC, of course, continues to be the comedy news network. They don't try, but they're pretty funny.

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So they had a little segment I saw today where one of the hosts was warning people that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are, quote, coming after white people. In what reality are Elon Musk and Vivek coming after white people? So they did that thing that they do with all the news. where they intentionally misinterpret it. Now, of course, they're not coming after white people.

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They were talking about American culture in Vivek's case. But that's not coming after white people. It's not even close to coming after white people. And they said, quote, they come in for you. They said, y'all are white and lazy. Nope. Nope. Nope, Vivek did not call anybody white and lazy. That did not happen in any world. He did say that America might need a culture upgrade of its own.

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And I think criticizing America, if you're an American, is always fair. We can't stop doing that. It's one of our superpowers. We can criticize, we can fight it out, we can improve. So even if you don't like what Vivek said, don't imagine that something else it's not about white people. And it's certainly not saying that, you know, India is superior. None of that happened in the real world.

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That didn't happen. You just criticize our current culture, thought it could be better. That's a fair conversation. Even if you disagree, it's a fair conversation. All right. Um, but it turns out that, uh, The MSNBC, I finally figured out what those letters mean. I think MSNBC stands for misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives.

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Misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives, because that's their entire program. Trump said the neo-Nazis are fine people. No, he didn't. He didn't say that. It sounds like you're misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives. Vivek Ramaswamy is coming after white people. No, he's not. He's not.

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I think you're misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives because they like to have conversations with each other about what's working and what isn't. You know, normal, normal business. Well, it made news that CNN was not mean to RFK Jr. in a clip. So I feel like things are changing. And RFK Jr.

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Meanwhile, according to Chris Harrison in the New York Post, the drone activity over New Jersey has taken a holiday and the number of drone sightings has dropped off. So can we eliminate space aliens? Because I don't think they take a vacation at the end of the year. All right, I'm going to take a minor victory lap because I believe I was the one who suggested that the drone activity would

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's mission to fix our food supply has gone now to, I think, something that is absolutely 100% nonpolitical. And I think the moms are weighing in in a way that is going to be really, really important to the future. Uh, I think there are enough moms who are seeing all these chronic illnesses with their kids that they have to deal with every day.

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And, you know, they've got the, the empathy, but also the work it causes the disruption in family life, all of that. And I think they're done. So CNN, the air just had a clip in which they talked to some mom who was, uh, saying she didn't like GMOs and vaccines and corporate greed. And Zen Honeycutt is the name of the mom.

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And she ended up actually moving to a farm to grow their own food because they thought the food supply was poisoning them and found out that when they grew their own farm, their own food, suddenly the kids didn't have all those health problems. Now, that's not the first time we've heard that story, is it?

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We keep hearing about people, as soon as they get off the regular food supply, their health improves immediately. And CNN ran this and really gave it, I will compliment CNN, they gave it its full due. Now, they did ask the important question. So CNN's person, Mina Dorsen, asked Esther if all this makes her feel like a conspiracy theorist.

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Now, that's sort of the question that the news you'd expect to ask because RFK Jr. has been called a conspiracy theorist. He's not, but he's been called that. So asking somebody who's on the same side of him, at least with some of these issues, asking if it makes her feel like a conspiracy theorist, I suppose that's a fair question. But here's the answer that they ran in full.

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So her answer was, I don't feel like a conspiracy theorist. I feel that the conspiracy is to shut down information in order to protect the profits of the corporations. That's the real conspiracy. And CNN ran that. Good for you, CNN. If there's one thing we can agree on, We've got to fix the food system. Now, was it Colin Meany? Who's the advocate for better food in the United States?

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I think he was saying that there's a story where the big food companies were absorbed by the big tobacco companies after it was obvious that tobacco was unhealthy. so it looked like that industry didn't have a future.

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They bought a bunch of food companies, and then they used their evil to turn the food into the cheapest things they could make, which weren't that healthy in some cases, but it was cheaper, and they made it more addictive. So they made it unhealthy and addictive, the cigarette companies. They own some of the biggest food companies.

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Now, should we be surprised that if you're eating cigarette company products that are made to be cheap but not necessarily healthy, should we be surprised? What's happening? No, we should not be surprised. Yeah, it's not Colm Meany, it's Cali. Cali Means. Thank you, Marcella. So I apologize to Cali. I was confusing him with Colm Meaney. Kelly Means.

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By the way, one of the things my friend Carmen Simon teaches is that a mistake is more memorable than something ordinary. So by completely butchering Kelly Means' name, you will now remember it. Because the mistake makes it more memorable. All is good that ends well. Anyway, so we do have something that I think everybody can get on board on.

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And if it turns out that Trump, because he was open to the big tent and RFK Jr. helping on something we all cared about, if it turns out Trump's the one that solves food through RFK Jr. 's work, he's going to be the most popular president of all time. It's... I mean, the size of that potential accomplishment is almost incalculable. And I don't think anybody else would have done it.

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Cut way back at a holiday. And that's one of your clues. Meanwhile, Dalhousie University is talking about building a floating solar still that can desalinate water and generate some electricity. The electricity it makes isn't a big deal, but apparently there's an invention that takes a regular used tire... and puts a little plastic dome over it and just floats it out into the salt water.

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I don't think Biden would have done it. I don't think Harris would have done it. So if Trump gets this done, he's going to win moms. He doesn't have to get elected again, but he's going to win moms pretty hard. Meanwhile, as Jonathan Turley was pointing out,

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Now that the America First Legal got photos of Joe Biden and I think the brother and Hunter meeting with all these Biden business contacts in China, and then we have all the bank records telling us where the money flowed. So we have physical photos and we have the money flow and nobody has even suggested that the Bidens did anything to earn that money.

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So I don't think we have to wonder if they were selling influence. That question is pretty well answered at this point. But as Jonathan Turley points out, after years of ignoring the influence peddling scandal, the media is not likely to suddenly pursue the story. You know why the media is not likely to pursue the story? Your first impression would be, oh, they They back the Democrats.

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So they don't want to do something that would be embarrassing to Democrats. That's not exactly why they're not covering the story. They're not covering the story because they're the story. The media is the story. Because it's been obvious for a long time that this was very true. And if they hadn't covered it when it was a hint and they hadn't covered it when it was

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pretty clear, or they undercovered it. You could argue that they did cover it, but they undercovered it. Certainly, once it's clear that they had a huge story that they didn't cover, they can't cover it now. If they cover it now, it'll be obvious they were part of it, part of the cover-up. So they can't do a story that says, breaking. My management is accomplice in hiding this

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hiding these crimes. Like, how do you tell that story? Breaking. CNN, totally guilty of being an accomplice in these crimes. Because if you're helping them cover it, what's that called? If you're intentionally helping somebody conceal a crime, is that not illegal? Now, I don't think we should arrest CNN for not covering the story, but

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If it's in a gray area where you'd say to yourself, I feel like that should be against the law to cover a crime and know you're doing it, even if you're the news. Now, free speech is sort of a bigger issue, so I think I'd not make it illegal, but it's certainly on the borderline. It's got one foot in illegal, but I don't think we want to go there all the way.

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Here's my take on what's happening here. I think that for many people, the revelation that they find people hoax was always a hoax, but more importantly, that the news media knew it the whole time. It's one thing to find out that the news had told you something that's fake or untrue. It's completely different when you know that they knew it the whole time. That's really different.

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It's not a mistake if you know it the whole time. It's propaganda. Once the fine people hoax allowed additional people in the public to say, wait a minute, if that was pure propaganda, what is the other stuff?

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Remember Gell-Mann amnesia, where when you realize that the stories that you know about are fake, you start thinking, wait a minute, if all the stories I know the truth about are fake, what are those other stories? Also fake. And so if you find out that the fine people hoax was not just wrong, but they knew it because it was propaganda, what's that say about the rest of their stories?

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I think the fine people hoax really reframed and woke people up in a way that nothing else could have. Meanwhile, Eric Abinanti is reporting how on acts How there's a Democratic strategist. He marveled at how Hispanics in South Texas had the same view as a lot of what he called cranky old white guys. So Jeffrey Pollack. said this.

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He said, quote, so what Hispanic voters did in many ways across this country is vote with their wallets.

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But there's also, it is also clear when you think about what happened in a place like South Texas on the border, that sure, that the economy is a part of it, but also there are clear hostility about immigration, which to many of us in the blue states and sitting in a place like New York seem like, well, how could that be possible?

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And it can desalinate just using the sun. And it actually creates quite a bit of water. So the thing that's special about it is that desalinating without using expensive materials is hard. But here they've kind of done it with plastic and a wick and an old tire. And it makes a lot of water. desalinated water. That's kind of a big deal if you're living somewhere poor that doesn't have good water.

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He said that if you were just looking at the words they said, if that's all you looked at, you would think maybe they were a bunch of cranky white guys from Missouri. Now, what have I been telling people for, I don't know, eight years in a row? If you actually had any contact with the Hispanic community, they're not real woke. They're not woke. They want jobs.

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security family god they're they're just about as republican as you could possibly not all of them of course there's there's no generality that's that's true but i'm gonna i'm gonna make a uh prediction prediction goes like this you know how you thought that they were bringing in all these democrat voters Well, they're definitely bringing in people that the census will count.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine at the end of the day makes everything better.

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And if they don't vote, I think that works in favor of, you know, if there's a Democrat there already, it gives them more, I don't know, gives them more opportunity for representatives. So there's that. But where they vote in the long term, I think that long term, the immigrants that Biden brought in are going to be dominant Republican.

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I think the Democrats imported millions of Republicans, and they don't know it. Because they didn't know this. I knew this. Right? I mean, if you've watched me for a while, you know that I already knew that if you actually talked to actual Hispanic families, you'd find that they're so compatible with the political right that it would be hard to imagine that they would vote any other way.

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So I'm going to further predict that on year one through five, we might not see any difference. But if you check back in 10 years, people are going to say the biggest mistake Democrats ever made was importing millions of Republican voters and not knowing that they were doing it. That's my prediction. Surprises are coming. And then Eric Gabinetti is also

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pointing out that another Democrat strategist, Doug Sosnick, he said, quote, it doesn't matter what the Republicans do, the Democrats, and we don't change how our procedure, okay, that's a word salad. Let me read the part that makes sense. He says, the Democratic Party for nine years now has stood for nothing other than beating Trump. Does that sound fair?

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Is it fair that the Democrat Party has stood for nothing but beating Trump? That's what it feels like, right? Feels like it. And he says that's been the only organizing principle of the party. When you ask a Democrat, what are you for? The answer is we're against Trump. So he says we have a lot of work to do as a party. Well, do they? Because Trump can't run for election again.

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So if they put all of their energy into making sure that the next time they don't run against Trump, do you think they'll figure out that they're not going to run against them again? Do you think? Do you think that they'll really prepare for the last war instead of the next one? I can see this world in which they really get ready to not blame Trump the next time.

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And then, wait a minute, he's not running, is he? Well, we're very prepared not to blame him. No. I think there may be a quarter of the way to understanding what happened. Well, according to the Postmillennium, the House Republicans want to pass a voter ID law for all the states. Now, of course, I'm in favor of it if it works, but I have a question.

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Do we have any lawyers here who can answer this question? Can the federal government get into the business of the states the way they run the elections? I thought states had wide authority on how they do their elections. Would it pass the Supreme Court if the federal government says, no, states, you must do your elections this way? On some level, yes.

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All you need is an old tire and some other materials, and next thing you know, you've got fresh water. It's kind of impressive. Well, do you know the company Fiverr? Spelled F-I-V-E and then two R's. Fiverr. It's for finding professionals to do small projects.

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Because, for example, I think the federal government tells them what date, to have the election, right? So there must be some things that the federal government already tells the states to do, such as you have to put everybody on the ballot. I don't know. I'm just guessing. There must be some things that the federal government requires. Could they require this as well?

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My understanding would be no, because I thought states had full control over this level of detail. But I guess we'll find out. So I wouldn't predict that it would survive the Supreme Court. Only for federal elections. I'm getting an opinion coming in. Only for federal elections. But even federal elections, don't the states have wide leeway? No, wait.

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They could if they wanted by using the Commerce Clause as a loophole. Oh, okay. So I've got a real legal opinion there. So they could if they wanted by using the Commerce Clause. I don't know enough about that clause or how it's used, but they might have a backdoor. All right. Up in Canada... This seems like a small story, but it's big.

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So if you have a coal mine, you've got to load things in trucks, and there's a whole bunch of loading things in trucks, and the truck's taking it somewhere. But they've now fully automated it with these big electric loaders. So the news is not so much that this changes the world and it's happening in Canada and not the United States, but what happens if the price of coal goes way down?

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What's that do to the climate change people? Because at the moment, the reason that you would build an alternative to coal, you're going to start with what's it going to cost? And if the price of coal goes way down because they can automate a lot of stuff, does the cost of coal go way down?

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And then does that change energy decisions and make it even harder to fight climate change if you think that that's what's happening? I'm not so sure. Anyway, something to watch. The price of coal might come way down. Could change things. So Russia has a new drone. So it's a little buggy, so it's on the ground. It's not a flying drone.

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So it's on the ground, but it has this 24-barrel buckshot thing that it fires in the air to shoot down drones that are in the air, but not too high. It can't get the highest ones. So I see this and go, wow, there sure is a lot of innovation in drones. So now they run out this little buggy and it can look in the air and shoot down a drone.

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Good idea if you're not standing underneath where the buckshot's going to come down. But this makes me ask the following question. So we've already decided that it's turning into, or maybe already is, a drone against drone war. Would you agree? Okay. that right now the current technology allows one drone to kill one soldier in either direction, because they've got these little suicide drones.

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And then on top of that, they're doing the struggle for dominance of the technology. So this would be part of the struggle to get the technology right. And, of course, the Ukrainians will come up with something to jam it, and then they'll come up with something to unjam it or work around the jam. So it's going to be this technological competition.

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Well, they've got one of the typical anti-white commercials where there's a white guy who's dumb, but thank goodness there's a black woman there to show you how dumb he is and how smart she is. Now, I've been using Fiverr, so I've used it several times with great success. I like the service. I've gotten really good people to do projects from it. But I'm going to cancel my account.

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So let me reframe this war in a way that helps Trump when he goes to negotiate, okay? So all this is is a negotiating reframe based on something we can observe. The war between Ukraine and Russia has now evolved... into a manufacturing competition and an innovation competition.

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If you knew that you were Russia and their competition was now innovation and manufacturing of drones, but you've got to be able to manufacture and you've got to be able to innovate quickly, is that Russia's strong point, manufacturing and innovation? Now, imagine that their competition is Ukraine, but Ukraine is backed by the United States.

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So now you have a competition between the United States and Russia on innovation and manufacturing. Well, it turns out we're not so hot at manufacturing, are we? Not like we used to be. But can we correct that faster than they can? Can we correct and innovate on drones faster than Russia? I think that Putin probably assumes we can. And I think there's a good argument that we can.

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So if you're Trump and you're having a conversation with Putin, would it help to say, look, this has become a drone war and we're going to be able to make better drones, faster drones and more drones than you. And you're completely aware of that because we just have a more productive system in that regard.

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So if it becomes a drone war and it's not just a who has more people war and not who cares more war, we're going to win. So let's talk. I think as a negotiating position, pointing out that we're going to out-manufacture and out-innovate, and that's going to make the difference. That's basically going to be the war at this point. That's a strong negotiating point.

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So I'll just put that out there as a persuasion fact. All right. We really don't have much going on today. It was kind of a slow news day, kind of a holiday Sunday. But I want to go back to the little dust-up on the H-1B stuff. Still some work to do. But I got to say, I mostly felt good about the quality of the argument. I also felt good that conservatives were somewhat united in the argument

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in the agreement that free speech and X and a real healthy agreement or disagreement in this case can move you forward. I feel like almost everybody on the right got smarter about immigration and H-1Bs. Would you say that's true? At least everybody was involved in the conversation. I think we all learned something. I did. I definitely did. And That feels like it moves things forward.

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Now, the other thing that happened is that Trump is now weighed in. If there are people who are MAGA and they're trying to represent Trump, which seems to be their primary goal, and Trump now clarifies that he likes H-1B, Stephen Miller has clarified that clearly Trump and Stephen Miller need a fix. Elon Musk says we need a fix. Everybody agrees we need it fixed.

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I think that Trump has enough leadership and enough credibility at this point that he can simply get the MAGA folks to align with his view. So this was fascinating because I've told you before that one of Trump's superpowers is that he's watching. He's always watching. So if his base is making a move, he's watching.

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Because I'm not going to listen to your PR people shitting on white people. White men, white men specifically. So Fiverr, you can do whatever you want, but I'm done with you. So this is a hard cancel. Don't look for me to use you anymore after I've got to wrap up a project. But after that, never again. I feel like, you know, and...

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So that entire conversation, I guarantee you, he knew what was going on from start to finish. And he waits for it to kind of die down, which was exactly the right play. I'll tell you again that whoever is advising Trump is really good. Like, I don't know if it's a team of people or if it's got one person he trusts the most, but the way he cleverly stayed out of it

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until the full emotion and arguments were surfaced. And then after we'd exhausted ourselves, he comes in and he says, here's the deal. I feel like that was amazing. That was completely inspiring. Are we still mad at each other? A little bit. Are people still disagreeing? A little bit.

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But I think we can respect the system that got us to this place, not the H-1B system, but we can respect the conversation. We can respect the fight because I don't think anybody was fighting to hurt anybody. Nobody was in it to make the world worse. Nobody was in it to do anything negative. Everybody was in it for America.

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And we weren't all on the same page about what works and what's practical and what issue are you talking about and are we conflating things? But we kind of sorted it out. And I think this is where, you know, what I've called the internet dads, but it's really moms and dads. I think that they were really, really helpful.

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And I think that watching the fight and that knowing that we recognize certain personalities as as being more productive in their opinions. That's why they have big accounts in most cases. And I think that really, really made a difference. Now, I don't know if any of you changed your opinions at all, or even that that matters.

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But I'm curious, in the comments, did anybody modify, even a little bit, did anybody modify their opinion on the issue of foreign workers? Because as you know, I did. You know, a little modification. I didn't start out even talking about H-1B. I was just talking about we need the best engineers, but you have to talk about the system.

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And once people who were closer to it said, oh, no, it's totally abused, well, I learned that. And then I could move to a second opinion, which is that needs to get fixed. So I feel like I got pushed... in a productive direction. And to the extent that I could do it, I was trying to help push anybody who wasn't there also toward a productive understanding of things. They don't need to agree.

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I'm not pushing anybody to agree with me. I'm only pushing to make you understand the ins and outs. And one thing I wanted people to understand is we don't really know the economics of this stuff. So if you're trying to argue on the pure macroeconomics of it, we're not really smart enough to know where to draw the line for that.

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But if it comes down to how it makes you feel, that's a little easier. And like I said, as long as DEI is the dominant operating system of our economy, which it is right now, then I don't think any white man should accept even one person from another country. And if you want to use that to negotiate really the things that everybody wants, because everybody in the Republican side wants to kill DEI.

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And most of them want H1B fixed. Small percentage say, don't bring in a culture that we don't like. But I think that we can just reach the right... I think we can get to the right place. by understanding that culture is part of the economic decision. All right. Should be canceled and start from scratch.

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Well, you know, I think maybe Elon's approach of just making it more expensive to hire from another country, it might be a simple, elegant way to get what you want, because follow the money always works. Monetary incentives pretty much will guarantee what the future is. I think I told you yesterday some fake news that I need to correct.

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Probably the PR or the advertising people are the ones responsible for this anti-white guy commercial. But you got to put your foot down at some point. At some point, you just have to say that there's my limit right there. I'm going to cancel you. And it's got to be a hard cancel. I mean, even if I want to use the service, which I do, it's a good service. It's a genuinely good service.

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Some people said that Elon Musk had a fake account, anonymous account, that he was using to interact on spaces and some other things. And apparently that's not true. I did listen to one of the accounts that they said was his. And it was definitely his voice, 100% his voice. But I think I understand that to have been an AI-generated voice today. I'm not 100% positive what's going on there.

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But Musk unequivocally is saying that he doesn't, that's not him. I don't think he would lie about that. So that would be a weird thing to lie about, would seem out of character. So I believe him that those are not his own accounts. How do you have time to run another account? It's a bioweapon if we take all the good people. Well, I don't think we're going to take all of anybody's good people.

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Well, actually, Elon Musk has weighed into various spaces, but it's usually one that is close to something he cares about. There's a guy who sounds a lot like him. You know, if that was just somebody who has the same voice patterns, I'd be really surprised because his voice patterns are so unique. What do we got here? China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will build a railway bypassing Russia.

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So they're going to deliver stuff from China to the European Union without going through Russia. Interesting. Yeah, I feel like Putin can be made an ally of the United States simply by explaining to him that China isn't going to be his friend in the long term. In the long term, I'm not so sure China's a friend. Although... China is really smart about a lot of stuff.

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So I don't think they want to cause any trouble with their nuclear power with their biggest border. So I think they'll be well-behaved with Russia. Do you think the Indian intelligence service might line up a few H-1Bs? I mean... I think every intelligence service has a way to insinuate itself in every other system. So that's not a special risk, I don't think.

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I mean, it's the general risk of everything all the time, but maybe not a special risk of the H-1B stuff. Yeah. Canada is the playground. What? All right. Just looking at some of your comments. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go talk to the people on locals a little bit privately. Thanks for joining. There'll be lots of news tomorrow.

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I think tomorrow is going to be a real newsy kind of a day. And, uh, We'll catch up with you then. But for now, locals coming at you.

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It's a well-executed service. site. But no, I can't be part of that. Well, of course you want to talk about the H-1B thing, which has matured now, so we have a lot more feel for what's going on. So I'll give you a quick update. It appears to me that the following people are all on the same page, I think. Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Stephen Miller.

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Now, if all three of them are on the same page, and that page is that we want to bring in the best employees where it makes sense, but we don't want to bring in people that would lower wages or take jobs from Americans, and that's what the H-1B and I think maybe the other visa systems were doing. They were being abused.

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So there seems to be general agreement that if you could use it in its best possible way, it would be good for everybody. But if you used it The way it's being used, that's inappropriate. I mean, it's just bad for American workers.

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So now that Trump has clarified that he likes the H-1B and he uses the H-1B on his own properties, but Stephen Miller informs us that during the first administration, they fixed the H-1B process or took a shot at it. But under Biden, none of that is still in place.

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It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Paul, your timing is perfect every time. I really appreciate that. Well, you probably heard there's a horrible plane crash in South Korea. The only survivors were two of the flight crew, and it was a Boeing.

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So it appears that at least Stephen Miller and as far away as the first administration of Trump, they were very aware that H-1B can't stand. So they opposed it. They changed it. They tried to tighten it up. I don't know if their tightening would have worked. Elon Musk has said that he also believes you can't use the current H-1B process.

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and says that it's easily fixed by making it more expensive to hire foreign people. And I thought to myself, is it really that easy? And I don't know how you'd make it more expensive. Basically a tariff, right? You'd have to put a tariff on people. So if you're Elon Musk and you're saying, ooh, I'd like to hire the top 0.01% of engineers...

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from anywhere in the world, and let's say, I'm just making this up, but let's say the government said, sure, you can do that, but it'll cost you 20% more than it would, and that's not going to the employee. The employee's not getting the extra 20%. That extra 20% is just going to go to the government because you didn't hire a citizen. Would that still work for everybody?

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Well, if you were really getting the top 0.01% engineer, yeah, you'd probably pay 20% over the market price. Again, not to the employee, but if you had to pay something to the government to make up for it, maybe that makes sense. And then when it comes down to farm workers or people who would take your cubicle job, nobody's going to pay extra for that. You know what I mean?

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Nobody's going to pay extra for the same work. For that, they're going to hire American if they can do it at all. So that might work. I think that's in the category of things that are worth a try. But I'm going to revise my current opinion. As one idiot online called it, backpedaling. How many of you are offended by people who learn new things and then modify their opinion?

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Are any of you offended by that? Do you feel like I'm less... I'm less of a person if new information causes me to modify my opinion a little bit? Because I'm going to modify my opinion a little bit, right? Here's what I think. I think that this, of course, is a political and economic issue, but it's also an emotional one, and it's very personal to a lot of people.

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It's not personal to everybody, but to a lot of people, it's really personal. And if you ignore the personal part... you're not seeing the whole field. So here's my current understanding, and I called it what I learned this week. All right? It goes like this. They're asking white American workers to accept DEI, which they are accepted right now.

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In corporate America, DEI is pretty much everywhere, even though some companies are backing off. And we do think that the government will get rid of DEI in the government. But so far, I haven't seen a direct statement that DEI would be made illegal in corporate America.

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So here's the thing that I think that I underestimated, and this is one of those ivory tower things, because if you're out of the cubicles for a while, as I am, you can maybe forget how it felt. Like I tell myself I could never forget that. But sometimes you have to tap yourself on the shoulder and say, hey, hey, are you really remembering how this felt? Do you really remember how it felt?

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I remember the details. I remember my cubicle. But do I remember how it felt after all these years? And I think that's the thing that I was absorbing a little bit. Now, what I'm going to tell you, nobody told me. So as far as I know, this is not anybody's expressed opinion. But I'll bet it's boiling around in you. And it goes like this.

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And I don't think we know the details yet, but the landing gear wasn't down, and it landed without landing gear and hit a barrier and exploded, and it was just terrible. So there's not much to say about that, except there's a mystery about why the landing gear wasn't down. Part of the mystery is that it's designed so it can't not go down if you want it.

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Or is it white people in general? But the level of discrimination against white men specifically, but probably white people, against white men is completely unacceptable. So here's what I took away from this that's new. If you tell me to accept DEI, but also bring in somebody from another country to take my job or lower my salary, that's obscene. It's obscene. It's obscene.

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Is it good for the economy? Or it could be, if you did it right. It's obscene. It's an insult. It's an insult. It's an insult on top of the deepest insult you could ever have, which is racism. So I want DEI to go away, and I'm sure that Trump's on the same page. And certainly he'll do it for the government. I do trust that that's going to happen for sure. Is he going to do it in the corporations?

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Is he going to just say, I'm going to get rid of DEI in every corporation, it's going to be illegal, and you better start getting rid of it now, because if I have to tell you to get rid of it, it's going to get expensive for you. So nobody has said this, but I'm going to say it.

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I feel like white Americans should trade H-1B, which I'm in favor of, if it's corrected and it's done right just to be additive to the country, But I don't think that white Americans should accept it. Because this is an insult. And that matters. And let me say it directly. At some point, the insult matters more than the GDP. I've been looking at this as a GDP situation.

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Like if you have the best GDP, then all boats rise and the country is stronger. We can build a better defense. So I've been sort of GDP focused. I think that was a mistake. I'm going to focus on the insult. Because you can't live in a country... Well, let me say it directly. I'll let the GDP fall to correct this. It's not worth the price. Period.

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So if white Americans wanted to hold hostage their approval or acceptance or reluctant acceptance of H-1B until DEI is just absolutely dead and illegal and people are getting locked up for doing it, I'm on board. So I'm going to just side with white American men, workers, and I'm going to say that if we don't have confirmation that DEI is going to be absolutely eviscerated in corporate America?

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No. Just say no to H-1B. And I'm in favor of H-1B. But as a negotiating position, if any of you white males or people who like white males want to say, you know what? It's too far. It's too far. As long as DEI exists, zero is the right number. And I will pay that price. I'll pay the price. GDP down 2%? Yep. I'll pay that. I will pay that all day long. You got to fix DEI. So imagine this.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it's probably the best time you'll ever have in your whole darn life.

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How would you feel about it? Because the feelings do matter. Sometimes the insult is bigger than the economics. And that's where we're at. The insult's bigger than the economics. And by the way, The economics of white people not being able to get jobs is pretty fucking, I'm sorry, is pretty darn big if you don't have a job. That's pretty big. So I'm going to change my vote.

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because it'll work on gravity even if it doesn't work mechanically. So it would have to be pretty broken, sort of unusually broken in order not to go down properly. Or was it that they didn't put it down? It seems very unlikely they didn't put down the... because, I don't know, that seems unlikely. So I guess there's just a mystery. We'll find out what it is.

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I'm opposed to H-1B, even the single person, not one person, unless Trump can confirm that he's going to kill DEI completely. And he should be warning companies already, you better get rid of that. You got like two weeks before the law is coming for you because this is illegal. Got to stop it. So let's negotiate. Let's negotiate.

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So I hope that's a little closer to the core of what people are feeling. There are people who are just saying, we don't want to import people who will change the culture of the United States. That's a different argument. And I believe that importing people who would be positive to the culture of the United States is really indistinguishable from good economics.

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So if you're bringing in people who you say, you know, you can check culture as well. You say, you know, are you excited about being an American? You know, what do you think of America? You know, I think you could get to very quickly. Are you somebody who has a cultural compatibility with our economic system?

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Government corruption and political instability, the arrival of the Huns and the migration of the barbarian tribes, Christianity and the loss of traditional values, weakening of the Roman legions. So basically everything except diversity. You could argue that the diversity is what destroyed it

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because when the barbarians and the Huns and the slaves were filling Rome, that was pretty diverse, and it was also the end of Rome. Now, I'm not saying that diversity is going to kill Rome. I'm just saying it went down at the same time it had the most diversity, but not because of it. It's because of this other stuff.

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Well, the thief who stole Kristi Noem's purse when she was at a restaurant has been captured. And just to make it fun, the thief is an illegal immigrant. And it makes me wonder, how did they catch the guy? So he had a mask on. So presumably there was no video that could catch his face. And there were several theories I saw. One was I think her phone was in her purse, right?

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But if you'd like to try taking your experience up to levels that nobody's even understanding with their tiny, shiny human brains, for that, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unfair little pleasure of the dopamine.

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Did her phone get stolen? Because if her phone was there, I guess they could track her phone and go right to him. Or did they look for his phone? Maybe he had a phone and they just checked to see who was in the building that day that was sketchy and also had a phone. Maybe. Or somebody else said maybe he tried to use her credit cards and that flagged something.

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But my best guess is her phone was in the purse, and that might have been enough. But have you noticed that when a crime happens to somebody famous, they always solve it? But if a crime happens to you, the police will say, ah, yeah, could be anything. Let us know if we find anything. There's nothing we can do. Air tag? Maybe. Maybe she had an Apple Air tag in the purse.

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We haven't heard of that, but maybe. All right, let's do a little update on Trump becoming a dictator. All right, so this movie based on the Democrat frame for things. So what are the Democrats looking at that suggests that Trump is becoming an authoritarian Hitler dictator guy? His administration has recently, well, the Department of Justice, has arrested two judges for harboring illegal aliens.

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Is that like a dictator? Or is that more like nobody's above the law? Because it does look like both judges, quite obviously and somewhat publicly, violated the law by harboring in one case having an illegal alien in their own home, and the other case, allegedly, helping the illegal alien escape from ICE after a court case, unsuccessfully.

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So I would say, hmm, if they broke the law, and it's an important law, and they're going to make an example out of them so that other people don't think they can just protect illegal aliens... I would say that's not exactly too dictator-like because it's very narrowly aimed at people who broke actual laws.

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And it wasn't long ago that the Democrats were trying to put a candidate for president in jail, actually even a president in jail, for all kinds of lawfare. So all that lawfare against Trump apparently had nothing to do with dictator or anything. But the moment the Department of Justice under Trump arrests two judges who clearly broke the law, well, dictator, dictator.

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Then there's the case of the Maryland dad who was accused of being of MS-13, who was shipped to El Salvador without what they call due process. Now we could argue all day whether there was due process or not, but how many think that that one case of that one Maryland dad is an indication that Trump's a dictator?

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companies are avoiding hiring white men. as part of their diversity push, according to the Telegraph. Did you really need to study that? That if companies are looking to increase diversity, did you really not know that that meant that they would be avoiding hiring white men? Again, they didn't need to study it. Just ask me, Scott. Do you think diversity means hiring white men?

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To me it's just, he's a guy who said he would get rid of the criminals and he meant it. Apparently he is. Then what about the negotiations with Ukraine and Russia? I will admit that Trump apparently is negotiating in a way that would give Putin everything Putin wants.

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I don't think there's anything that Putin wants, you know, unless you think he wants the rest of Ukraine, but he probably doesn't because he got the good stuff. It does look like Trump is negotiating on the side of the dictator. Now, his purpose is not necessarily to help Putin. His purpose is to end the war.

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And I think it's just common sense that if you know Putin's not going to give back Crimea, he's not going to give back any of those occupied areas, why would you even waste your time negotiating something that's not going to happen? But the weird thing

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is that Trump is simultaneously being accused of being a Neville Chamberlain, the guy who is negotiating peace with a Nazi, but trusts Hitler to keep his word. And then he turns out to be the biggest dumb guy in all of history, because who would have trusted you know, Hitler to keep his word.

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But at the same time that Trump is being accused of the guy who's letting Hitler get away with too much, he's actually being accused of being Hitler. So he's the first person in history who's ever been accused of being Neville Chamberlain and Hitler at the same time. So I can't take any of that too seriously.

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He did try to fire Jerome Powell from the Fed, which would be, most people would say, an overreach of his position. But he gave up on that. So that was sort of a shot across the bow, but nothing too dictatorial that happened.

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And then there's a new story here from Axios that Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to resume the practice of seizing reporters' phone records in the narrow situation that there's a leak and there's a leak to specific reporters. And that would be a reversal of a Biden rule that said they wouldn't investigate reporters. I kind of like Biden's take on this.

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I think you have to leave the reporters alone, even if there's a leak. But Pam Bondi, et cetera, is saying it would be a very narrow search. So if they took the phones or the devices of the reporters, they wouldn't look at everything. They'd just be looking for something related to the leak that they were investigating. But that's not good enough. So to me, that's a little bit of an overreach.

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I don't like him going after the press. So those are the dictatorial things. Did I miss anything? Did I miss any other dictator stuff? You know, even the part where Trump is trolling the world, saying that he wants to take over Canada and Greenland and he wants to run again in 2028. I think the 2028 thing is mostly a troll. And I think he said so today. Okay.

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And then the other stuff just makes sense. You know, having more military security with Greenland. The Canada part, I feel like is more troll than not. Although he swears he's serious about it, but that just makes it funnier. I don't think he's serious about it, but he might be. He might be serious about it. Well, Jamie Raskin, a Democrat,

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He was on a Rachel Maddow show, and he said that the Trump administration officials could be arrested for, quote, interfering with a legal proceeding or kidnapping. I think that has to do with the judges that were arrested. And I saw Joel Pollack commenting on it. that Jamie Raskin just really wants to arrest people.

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He's been after trying to arrest Republicans or Trump or anybody close to him for the longest time. So he's arrest him, arrest him. All right, let's look at Trump's first 100 days. So depending who you talk to, it's either the worst 100 days of any president ever, or it went pretty well. Now, I'm going to make reference here to two bubble people.

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And I would say, hmm, no. Sounds like avoiding hiring white men. Yeah, just ask. Next time, I'll save you a lot of time and money. Well, according to the Daily Wire, the group that's behind the MCAT test, that's the test you take to see if you get into medical school, They said they were going to get rid of DEI. But according to insiders, they were lying.

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There's bubble boy Bill Maher, who says that MAGA voters won't admit how disappointed they are in Trump's first 100 days. Really? That doesn't look like any reality I'm aware of. I do see Republicans say he didn't get enough done or this didn't work or I'm disappointed with that. But they say it. They say it publicly. They don't hold back a bit.

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But more often, I'll hear people say that they like what he did in the first 100 days. And, you know, the jury's out on some of it because it's too early. Rachel Maddow said that Quote, it's all bad for Trump. I don't know that we have ever seen another first hundred days from any president this roundly rejected and hated by the American people. Really? What bubble is that happening in?

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Where's the bubble where Trump's supporters are rejecting everything he's done? So I think if you ask people, they would say something like, if you ask Republicans, they'd say that Trump did a great job on the border and continues to do a great job on the border. And that was an existential threat. The border problem was an end of America problem. And he solved that. That's a really big deal.

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He took a real strong swipe at DEI, and maybe he got rid of it in the government. Now, as I said before, I think every private organization is just pretending to get rid of it, so I don't think he had a big success there. But at least he put down the flag. I don't know. What's the right analogy? He kind of... drew the line and said, this is illegal. If you do this, we will not fund you.

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If you do this, you're breaking, or at least you're violating the Constitution by being racist. That part I love. I mean, you know, maybe you didn't get the big win and eliminate it all at once, but it's certainly working in the right direction compared to where it was. And Trump's negotiating with Iran for a better deal. What if he gets it?

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I'm not going to predict it'll happen, but what if he does? It's too early to know. He's negotiating with Ukraine and with Russia to end that war.

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doesn't look like it's necessarily going to work but what if it does it's too it's too early to say it worked or it didn't work so the first hundred days is a sort of a sketchy stupid way to judge anything um what about the tariffs how many of you are sure that you can judge the the beginning and the end of the tariffs

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How many of you would say, oh, it's clear that the tariffs were a gigantic mistake? It's way too early. It's way too early. He's using it as a negotiating tool and you've got, I don't know, 160 countries who said, yes, we do want to negotiate. which almost certainly means better trade deals. So what happens if he gets better trade deals?

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So any sense that the first 100 days are telling you anything, it's a real propaganda, gaslighting kind of situation. You can't tell how he's doing in 100 days. And if you're looking at his popularity with the public, Well, they're getting their cues from the media. So if you turn on the TV, the media is pretty much saying that the tariffs are the biggest, dumbest thing anybody ever did.

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Are they right? What does the media know about any of this? They don't know what's going to happen. They don't know what China is going to do. They don't know if the negotiations are really happening behind the scenes. They don't know any of that. So this whole 100-day thing is just stupid. But the polls are looking not so great for Trump, according to Just the News.

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There's a new poll from Economist slash YouGov that Trump's approval is down to 41%. And that would be a pretty big drop from the last time at 48%. And then there's the, I talked about this yesterday, but there's a Fox News poll

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that says that Democrats are a favorite to win the midterm, which is new, and almost certainly because of the news coverage about Trump and a lot of it about the tariffs, I would think. But that's 2026, the midterms. Now, does that necessarily signal that he's failed if the midterms go to the Democrats? I don't know, because the midterms almost always go to the party that's not in control.

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And all they were going to do is hide the fact that they were totally going to do DEI. So according to the Daily Wire, on the surface, the group that administers the MCAT looks like they left DEI behind because they sort of scrubbed those words from their materials. But behind the scenes... It's working on plans to secretly push the ideology.

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I don't know how many times there's been an exception to that. So if it's the most common thing in the world that the midterms go to the other party, it's kind of hard to say that it's because of what Trump's doing. But timing is really important. So here are just a few of the things that might happen. I'm not going to predict they will happen, but they could happen before the midterms.

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You might have a peace deal in Ukraine. How would that look on his resume before the midterms? Pretty damn good. Of course, there would be problems with the peace deal holding and there would be cheating and stuff. But if there was anything that looked like a peace deal...

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and we didn't have to send them money and protect them anymore, and maybe we had a mineral deal too, well, it's going to look pretty good. Could he get that done before the midterms? Possibly. What about a nuclear deal with Iran? I think Iran is just dragging them along. I don't think that Iran is necessarily committed to making a deal, but they could.

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I would say it's not completely out of the question because the alternative is, Trump said very clearly, that he wouldn't have to be dragged into a war with Iran if they don't make a deal. He says he would very willingly be leading that war. And that's pretty scary. So maybe he's threatening Iran enough that he could get an actual good deal. Maybe. Before the midterms.

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What if he negotiates a better deal with China and our other major trading partners before the midterms? It's not going to be worse than... than the current deals, right? It seems unlikely that he would negotiate worse trade deals. So wouldn't it look like the tariffs worked? If he, let's say in, I don't know, four months or something, We've got a little disruption.

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We've got some shortages over the summer, but manageable. We figure out a way around it. And then when we're done, we've got much better trade deals. Isn't that going to look like the biggest win ever? And all of this could happen before midterms. Now, as I said before, I think the Democrat strategy is completely just stalling. They want to stall until the midterms.

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And make sure that he doesn't have any successes that the public knows about. So they can just keep the public from knowing about anything that he does that works. And then once they get control of the house, which is a good possibility, then they can just block every other thing he wants to do. And then they can say he was a giant failure, but it would be because they made him fail.

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You know, the press, you know, framed it that way. And then, you know, the house had some control and maybe they just start a bunch of investigations and just basically break everything. There's a good chance that'll happen. Well, according to just the news, California tried to pass a bill that would make it easier to get rid of squatters.

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Because right now in California, if somebody squats in your property, you really just can't get rid of them. I mean, you can, but the process could take years and, you know, could be expensive, et cetera. So having a squatter is just the worst thing in the world in California. So there was some new legislation to make it easier to get rid of it. And of course it failed.

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And it failed because they didn't want to increase more homeless. So imagine being a homeowner in California. First of all, you're not owning your home because you're paying the government or it will take it away from you. So property taxes are basically rent you're paying to keep your house.

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Turns out that as far as I can tell, every big company is just waiting for the Trump administration to be done. So it looks like nobody's really getting rid of DEI. Maybe Target, maybe John Deere.

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So not only do you not really own your house because you've got to pay the government just to keep it, but if somebody plays a clever trick and moves in and doesn't pay you rent anymore, you've got to keep them.

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So if you can't control keeping your own house, you've got to pay rent to the government, and the government can tell you that someone else can live in your house whether you like it or not. Do you even own the house? it's like you don't even own the house. So California is pretty close to full communist at this point, or at least socialist.

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Now, I happen to know somebody who was a squatter at one point. It was sort of a boyfriend situation. You know, the boyfriend wanted to break up, but she wanted to stay where she was. And I'll tell you, being a squatter is no good idea. Because once you get on the list of someone who has ever been a squatter, you can never rent a place or probably even buy a place ever again.

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You are absolutely locked out of all civilized behavior. Once you show up on a list of somebody who has ever squatted, you can never rent. Never rent again. That's pretty severe. Wouldn't it be better if it was easier to remove the squatters, but maybe the squatter penalty would maybe time out after five years or something? Because, you know, people change.

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I think California is doing everything wrong on that topic. All right, I've got a theory that the only lasting benefit from Doge, because I don't think they cut enough to make a difference to the budget, I think the only lasting benefit is giving it a name, Doge.

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Because now Pennsylvania is talking about they need their own Doge, and some other states have talked about, oh, we need a Doge, and some organizations have said we need a Doge, and some other countries have said we need a Doge. The fact that it has a name allows everybody to say they're in favor of it.

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But if you tried to do it without a name and you said, you know, what we really need is some kind of smart auditors who would come in and they'd use a scalpel and they'd decide what to cut. I don't know if you'd get a yes or a no because it wouldn't even have a name. Once you give something a name and everybody knows that name of the thing, then it becomes a yes, no. Should we do a doge?

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Pretty good idea. So even if the main doge doesn't produce the cuts that we hoped, and it's not looking like it will, it might create the idea. It could be that the idea of doge, where you get a bunch of smart people to come in and look for the waste and cut your budget where it makes sense, that might be really important.

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So maybe the lasting benefit is just somebody gave it a name so we all know what it is so we can say yes or no to it in the future. NVIDIA, the company that makes those big AI boards and mostly boards, they're going to invest $500 billion in AI supercomputers in the U.S., Now, I think an AI supercomputer means a data center that acts as one unified supercomputer.

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But basically, I would bet that 80% to 90% of the companies or organizations that say they're getting rid of DEI are lying, just lying, and violating the law like crazy because DEI is racism and it's non-constitutional. And I've got a fear that even though it looks like Trump got rid of DEI, I'm not so sure.

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But Mario Noffel was writing about this on X. And that's a pretty big move, $500 billion. That's half a trillion dollars. Now, I didn't see what timeframe that is, but obviously it's not one year, but that's some serious investment.

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So again, if we see the midterms coming and there are enough of these situations where big companies like Apple have said, yep, we're going to move our production to India, get it out of China. We're going to build a bunch of things in the United States. You've got a bunch of car companies saying, yep, we're going to move our production out of Mexico and put it back into Detroit or something.

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Trump's going to look pretty good, but they're going to have to rack up a lot more of these. So right now it's maybe two handfuls of deals. They're big ones. I mean, they're many billions of dollars. They're big ones. But I think maybe two handfuls of deals wouldn't be enough for him to win the midterms. But what if he had 50?

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What if there were 50 just legitimate, obvious, gigantic deals that were coming into the United States that wouldn't have happened otherwise? Well, then he's going to be looking pretty good. So that could happen.

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I was looking at a post by Insurrection Barbie on X. And Insurrection Barbie points out there have been more than 60 coordinated attacks on Tesla and $20 million in personal property damage and over $460 billion in market cap collapse in Tesla, the company. And she points out that one of the most radical groups behind this domestic terrorism is is called the Disruption Project.

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And the Disruption Project are funded 100% by another entity called the Tides Network. And the Tides Network is funded primarily by David Rockefeller, George Soros, the Pritzkers,

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and uh yeah then the prince goes so if we know who's funding it and we know it's domestic terrorism and we know that there are real economic costs you know 20 million dollars of damage etc insurrection barbie asks why not a rico case now i'm no lawyer so i don't know that that's enough to make it rico but it's organized, it's seemingly criminal, at least by outcome.

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Maybe there's no smoking gun that says, we're gonna try to get people to destroy property. That probably doesn't exist. But what if they were completely aware of the outcome? Certainly after the first few instances. If they were completely aware, that what they were funding was going to cause massive property damage? Is that enough to make it a RICO case where it's an organized criminal activity?

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I don't know. I will leave that to the lawyers. Well, according to Scott Pressler, there's a problem in Pennsylvania, as he says on X. So apparently some Republican voters got their mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, and their mail-in ballots are dated for 2024. So last year. In other words, they're not even legal, at least the way they're dated.

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And I guess Scott Pressler has heard from several other Republicans who also received last year's ballots. Now, again, I don't know if it's really last year's ballot or if they just have a typo in the date, but either way, it would suppress your voting, wouldn't it? Because you wouldn't know for sure if it's the right thing. Maybe you'd try to get the right one, but you'd run out of time.

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You'd be confused. So the open question is whether it only happened to Republicans. So if you want to go full conspiracy theory, Is it possible that all the fake ballots went to Republicans? Now, I would guess it's more of a general problem, maybe just a printer glitch or something, a typo. So it probably affected everybody. But we'll get to the bottom of it. We don't know yet.

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I think maybe he made a 10% dent in it, and the moment he's gone, it will just come back stronger than ever. That's what it looks like. Well, ABC News has a cool story about 3D printed houses. Now, you know that there have been 3D printed houses for a while. But the ones you've seen probably look like cement, you know, some big, big machine that's making cement walls.

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According to the Washington Examiner, I don't know how new this is because it sounds like something I talked about before. China kind of quietly exempted some things from tariffs. because it found it couldn't get them anywhere else. So I guess when it comes to US-made semiconductors, chip-making equipment, medical products, and aviation parts, China took off the tariff that they'd put on it.

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So they made the exemptions barely after realizing that they didn't really have a way to get that stuff any other way. Now, I don't think they've publicly announced that, so they're kind of flying quiet. But do you think that the Trump administration is actually talking to Chinese officials about a deal? Do you think that secretly there's a conversation going? Because Trump is saying yes.

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Oh, yeah, we're getting close. We're having conversations all the time. And China is still hanging tight with, nope, nope, there's no negotiating. It's not happening at all. It doesn't feel like something that Trump would just completely make up. So my guess is we're talking to somebody. but I don't know if that somebody has the authority of President Xi or not.

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So maybe they're getting close to something, and we'll be surprised. According to the Jerusalem Post, Russia's made a deal with Iran that Russia would fund the construction of a new nuclear plant in Iran. I guess they have funded one already, and it's already built. And that Russia would supply Iran with 55 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year.

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So it's starting to look like Russia has done a good job of pulling the the bad guys together onto one team. You know, he's tight with China, he's tight with Iran, tight with some other smaller countries, but those are the ones that matter. So, Russia's done a good job.

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I hate to say it, but Russia's done a hell of a good job of circumventing the United States' interests and building their own little fortress. I told you before that Trump was asked by Time magazine if he would be dragged into war with Iran if Israel wanted to happen and they couldn't make a deal. And Trump said no, that he didn't say that he would get dragged in.

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but that he wouldn't have to be dragged because if they don't make a deal, he would willingly want to go in and have a war. Now, that's the right thing to say. I don't know if he would actually do it or if we would ever be done negotiating. It would sort of make sense for him to just keep kicking the can down the road and say, I'm still negotiating, so don't go in militarily.

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Trump is also saying out loud that he's worried that Vladimir Putin is maybe not so interested in peace. And maybe he's bringing Trump along because, as Trump points out, Putin is bombing some civilian areas in Ukraine. And there just doesn't seem to be a reason for it unless he's trying to kill the peace deal.

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And so Trump is calling that out as it makes, and he says, quote, on True Social, Trump said, quote, it makes me think that maybe he, meaning Putin, doesn't want to stop the war. He's just tapping me along, tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently through banking or secondary sanctions.

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So it looks like Trump is thinking, if you just keep fucking with me, which Putin is doing, that he's just going to go heavy on sanctions, heavier than he already is. David Sachs was on the all-in pod, and...

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He was saying that Zelensky seems to clearly not be interested in peace because if he were, he wouldn't be insisting on getting Crimea back because there's no practical way that's ever going to happen. And Sachs says Zelensky has made his bed, let him sleep in it. And that's sort of where I'm at. you know, without being any kind of an expert on Ukraine, which I'm not.

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Well, there's a new type that uses just waste wood. So all the sawdust that's created from real wood. And they take all that sawdust and they put it together with corn resin and they make a 3D printer and they make a bio home. I guess it takes a week to create a home. And it's made of material that's stronger than concrete and is completely recyclable.

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But if he's not willing to talk about Ukraine, which is very solidly under Russian control and it's not going to change, if he's not willing to accept that, he must want the war more than he wants the peace because it's the only path to peace. And he's said no. So I do think there's a good chance that Trump might just say, we're out. You guys work it out. And maybe have them beg him to come back.

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Or if they don't, maybe don't care. Maybe don't care. We'll see. I saw a post by David Kirichinko. that was detailing all of the drone building activity in Ukraine. It turns out that although Ukraine is this big war zone, they've developed almost a Silicon Valley-like, really robust startup situation for drones.

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And the claim, I don't know if the claim is true, is that they're so nimble and of course they have a necessity for the drones that other people don't have that they're they're developing newer and better ones faster than anybody else. So there are just all kinds of startups now in Ukraine that are all drone related. And Ukraine's defense sector

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was only a billion dollars of output in 2022, but it's up to 15 billion now, and that doesn't count the American weapons. That's just their own military industrial base. And when I see how robust their military industrial base is, mostly startups, it makes me wonder, Does he have a problem with the military-industrial complex of his own country?

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Is it possible that Ukraine's military-benefiting people, every one of these startups, they would all go maybe bankrupt if there was a peace? But as long as there's war, those startups are priceless. Basically, you want more and more of them. So it does make me wonder what's behind Zelensky's idea. It looks like Zelensky doesn't think he would survive peace.

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But there are so many people who might want to get him. I mean, Russia might want to take him out. The U.S. might want to take him out. His own military industrial complex might want to take him out. Maybe some of the corrupt oligarchs in his country might want to take him out if he's no longer feeding them through corruption or whatever.

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So I'm going to say my best guess is as Lenski does want peace, but he doesn't know how to get it without dying personally. And so he's just not going to say yes. That's what I think. According to Newsmax, there's a poll that says the majority of Gen Z see college as a scam. Gen Z, you know, 51% of the majority, they see college as a scam and a waste of money.

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Boy, is that different from when I grew up. I was in the generation where at least my mother would say, if you go to college, everything will work out. And so I went to college, everything worked out. It was absolutely a big pathway to at least a good to average life. So what do you do if you're Gen Z now? You've got robots coming. You don't want college debt.

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If you don't go to college, what kind of job are you going to get? If you do go to college, what kind of job are you going to get? Especially with weird majors. So anyway, it's Sunday. There's not that much news. So I'm going to say thanks for joining. And we'll have a lot more news on Monday. So we'll go wild on Monday. Yeah, trade school.

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in trade school, but I don't know that trade school is a path to the same middle class, went to college kind of life or not. I mean, it's definitely better than not having a job. And in many cases, it can be very lucrative. All right. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. And I'll see you on X and Rumble and YouTube tomorrow.

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So if you take the appliances out of the house, you can recycle the whole house and turn it back into a 3D printer material. That's wild. So that's kind of cool. At the same time, there's another company that's got 3D printed houses. But the way they're doing it is they make the blocks. They're interconnecting like Legos.

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Same time, same place.

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At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Ah, spectacular. That's the good stuff. Well, I wonder if there's any science studies that didn't need to happen. Oh, here's one.

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So instead of printing the whole house, they print the parts and you can snap it together yourself. Now, I would like to reiterate my idea for 3D printed houses. Whichever kind of technology you use to get your cheap little house, the real secret would be how you organize the homes. This is something I learned in college. I've used this example before.

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In college, I had the worst physical room of my life, which was shared with another person. It was just a little cinder block room with one window. And the bathroom was down the hall. But... It was my probably best lifestyle because I was surrounded by people like me who had stuff to do, you know, sports and classes, and it was a great experience.

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Now, if you imagine you, let's take some federal land, and you started building some of these 3D homes, the important part would be that you make little units within a community where the people have a lot in common. So one would be people with kids. So you'd make one little neighborhood where everybody just has a kid. Another neighborhood where everybody's single.

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Another neighborhood where there's a lot of tech people. Another one where there's some retired people. Because if you put people together who have a lot in common, the physical surroundings become way less important, way less important. So you can make an awesome lifestyle that's fairly inexpensive by just organizing who is where instead of just the materials you use in the house.

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That's what I think. Well, according to Futurism, which is a publication, a website, I guess, there was a recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Mellon where they tried to create a company that was entirely run by AI. So there would be AI agents for each job. So they would staff the...

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the AI company with, instead of humans, they would give an AI agent to be sales, one to be engineering, one to be whatever. And so they created this thing and then they just let it run without human interaction to see how all the AI agents would perform. How do you think it went? Do you think they became a unicorn because the AI is so smart and then they sold it for a billion dollars? No.

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Turns out it was a gigantic clusterfuck and nothing worked and the AI started lying and absolutely none of it worked. So even though they used various different AIs, none of the AI agents actually did anything useful. So we're not quite ready to run a company with AI. Well, I guess last night was the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and Trump and probably most of the Trump insiders did not go.

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And I think it turned out to be the most low-energy event of all time, because it used to be the president would go, whoever the president is, and then a comedian would make really edgy jokes, and then the next day it would be everybody talking about all the edgy jokes. It's like, oh, can you believe that That comedian said that right in front of the president.

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But instead, they just gave themselves awards for... Somebody got an award for writing about Biden's mental decline. Do you think anybody was writing about Biden's mental decline while he was in office? I don't think so. If you're giving somebody an award for writing about it after he's out of office... I don't know if you deserve that award. That would be like the opposite of what you should get.

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According to SciPost, Eric Dolan is writing, there's a new study in the British Journal of Psychology that says that entertainment is a key to populist political success. So if your candidate is very entertaining, they will do better in politics. You know... You didn't really need to do that study. You could have asked me or really anybody who has been alive for more than 10 minutes.

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You should get a kick in the ass, not an award. And then I guess the new leader of the White House Correspondents did a speech in which he wanted you to know that they are not the enemy of the people. The press is not the enemy of the people. To which I say, what's your criteria for that? Because you certainly look like the enemy of the people to me. So how do you score that?

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Is there some objective criteria by which you can say, oh, you're not the enemy of the people? Oh, I see, based on your performance. But if you actually just looked at what the press has done over the last... several years. It certainly looks like enemy, you know, because my friends will tell me the truth and my enemies will lie to me.

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What is the press done more of, telling me the truth or lying to me? Lying to me. So how in the world do I declare that they're not my enemy if they're lying to me about the most important things in the world? No, I would consider that an enemy. Sorry. Speaking of enemies, James Carville is complaining that Bernie Sanders and AOC are starting to define the Democrat Party.

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Fox News is reporting on this. Now, I love the fact that Carville, as crazy old coo as he is, he's still probably one of the smartest ones in the Democrat Party in terms of strategies. And he's completely right. having Bernie and AOC define the party and chasing after oligarchs is a really bad idea.

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But the other thing Carville says, he says that Democrats have candidates who are, quote, staggeringly more talented than Bernie and AOC. Well, who would they be? Maybe he should give us some names. I think he's named them before. But if they're staggeringly more talented... Do they need a boost? Or wouldn't we know their names already?

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Wouldn't all their talent have allowed them to break away from the pack and be obvious? And yet, I can't think of one. Which Democrat is staggeringly talented? I don't know. All right, let's look at the fake news.

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You may have seen that President Trump and his wife went to the Pope's funeral, and you probably saw a bunch of news coverage and social media saying that Trump wore a blue suit when the dress code was for black suits. And so, therefore, he was being disrespectful to the Pope and the entire Catholic religion.

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Well, of course, there were lots of people who didn't wear black for a variety of reasons. There were other blue suits. There were gray suits. There were Muslim traditional outfits. And the dress code was for a dark suit. There was no dress code for a black suit. There was a dress code for a dark suit, and he had a dark blue. So that is fake news. He was not violating any norms.

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He was just wearing a nice suit. Yeah, and if you see a wide shot, you see there was a whole bunch of people in blue suits. So he wasn't the only one either. There's more fake news. Let's see. Sonny Hostin tried to create this, and MSNBC is trying to create this one. And nothing. Nothing.

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So when the Republicans started noodling about a $5,000 bonus to pay to people who have babies, to encourage them to have more babies, the Democrats turned that into, oh, you mean you want more white babies, you racist. To which every Republican said, huh? Where'd that come from?

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I haven't heard a single person on social media or anywhere else say that the $5,000 baby bonus was somehow either intentionally or even unintentionally aimed at white babies. Now, where does that even come from? It's just that they've got some kind of terrible fever in their brains, TDS, that they just imagine out of nothing.

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that the idea of having more American babies really meant having more white babies. How in the world would you even restrict it? Did they think that the Trump administration was going to give no money to an Hispanic family who had been living here for generations? No. It's a baby bonus. It's not a white baby bonus. Literally nobody's even suggested that, except Democrats, of course.

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Because yes, yes, an entertaining candidate like Ronald Reagan, for example, absolutely is going to do better. Trump, of course. Yes, the more entertaining you are, the better you draw people to you. I don't think it's just the key to populist political success. I think it might be the key to all kinds of political success. Well, what else? Let's see. Oh, here we go. U.S.

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So dumb old Joy Reid, the dumbest person in media, she was back making a little video in which she claimed the Roman Empire fell because they had a lack of diversity. Now, I'm no historian, but even I know that Rome didn't fall because of a lack of diversity. Can you imagine being so boldly dumb that you would say that in public, that the reason the Roman Empire fell was a lack of diversity?

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So I saw a post by Paul Cispula. He went to history.com and asked why the Roman Empire fell. Here are the eight reasons. Invasions by barbarians, economic troubles and over-reliance on slave labor, the rise of the Eastern Empire, over-expansion and military overspending. A lot of this is just overspending.

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let's get all my comments working and then we gotta have some fun perfect Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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So, you know that whole thing where you thought, hey, if I can appear a few, that's a pretty good indication that my science is good. Apparently, there's nothing like that. It looks like... It looks like the peer reviewers are basically beneficiaries of Big Pharma and Big Medical.

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So all you really need to do is find a peer reviewer who will be willing to say something that Big Pharma would want to hear, and you're all set. Speaking of Harvard, so you probably heard this story, it's just the conclusion of it. So the Harvard Medical School morgue, so Harvard Medical School had a morgue, not for the students, but for donations of bodies.

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So if the medical school wanted to do something, you know, some dissecting or something of human bodies, there was a morgue that would handle all that. And apparently the morgue manager was selling organs on the black market. Yeah. But he wasn't selling them until they were already used by the medical school.

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So once the Harvard Medical School was done with a body part, like a hand, you know, you'd have like a severed hand. Once they were done with it, they were supposed to be disposed in some legal way, I guess. But instead, the morgue manager was selling them. So, it really gives meaning to second-hand parts. Second-hand parts? Because they'd use the hand more than once?

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All right, that's all I got on that. It does seem that wherever there can be corruption, there is corruption. If it's possible, it's going to happen. Well, let's see if there's anything more like that. According to the Blaze... There's a North Carolina Democrat who used pandemic loans to throw herself a lavish of 50 at the birthday party, according to prosecutors.

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So that's probably the least surprising survey results of all time. They shouldn't just ask me. Well, here's some Tesla news. According to Tesla, imagine you need to drop off something on the other side of town. Are you imagining that? Instead of driving there yourself and wasting your time in traffic, your car will be able to run the errand on its own while you work or do other things.

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So she got $124,000 in loans, and part of what she spent it on was a big old birthday party for herself. So that's another situation in which it was possible to have fraud. And there it was. So the peer reviewers in science, they could be fraudulent, and apparently they are. The Southern Poverty Law Center could be sketchy, and apparently it is.

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The morgue director could be selling his body parts, and he was. And during the pandemic, a lot of the loans could be fake, and they were. Well, but in other good news, Liberty Nation News is reporting that crime is down across the U.S., and we're talking about the bad crimes, the murders and the rapes and stuff. Now, the question would be, and it's down for the first three months of this year,

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Now, why do you think that is? Could it be? Could it be because of the mass deportations of criminals? I don't know. It's too early to know. But if crime stays down everywhere, we're going to ask the question, is that because Tom Holman did an extra good job and he got rid of the criminals who were repeat offenders? It could be. It That might be the reason. It's too early to know, but could be.

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So here's something that I'm kind of happy about, but I don't know if it's enough. Our government is sort of designed for doing certain things. But one of the things our government is not designed to do is be efficient and save your tax money and not overspend. Because whoever cuts the budget ends up getting fired. They don't get elected. Hey, you cut that budget for whatever that good thing was.

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So we don't have any mechanism for a government that can do anything except overspend your money until we all die. But there's sort of a private industry thing that's sort of filling that gap.

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I don't know if it's enough to make a difference, but the all-in pod seems to be like almost a national treasure at this point because you've got four of the smartest people you've ever seen who are willing to talk about any topic that's important to the country. And they can do what Congress can't, which is tell the truth. And I think that's an important step.

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Now, telling the truth is only halfway to fixing a problem. You still have to have some mechanism to fix the problem, which we don't. But at least we're getting something like the truth. So David Sachs, one of the four in the all-in pod, he was talking about Doge. I saw this on the Vigilant Fox account. They did a summary. And he said Doge made great progress. I would agree.

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But there's one thing that Elon and Trump can't fix, which is Congress. So Congress would still have to agree to all the Doge cuts. And that part is just broken because Congress can't cut costs. They would get fired, meaning they would lose their next election if they cut anything. It wouldn't even matter what they cut. If they cut anything, they would probably get fired.

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So Doge proved that you could find a lot of fraud. You could identify it. You could at least have the possibility of cutting it, but we don't have anything that could actually cut it. So that part had to be quite disappointing for Elon as well as Trump. But there was a second part of this. But then yesterday I saw a, I think it was, they called it an emergency broadcast from the all-in pod.

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So two of the all-in pod guys were there, Chamath and Friedberg, and they were talking to Ron Johnson, Senator Johnson, who's a, I guess he was a Tea Party guy, and he's trying his best to figure out how to cut costs in the government, but there just doesn't seem to be any way to do it. But I recommend that you watch it because it's the most honest take on the trouble that we're in.

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On the way back, it can bring you your coffee order without high delivery fees. So how does it deal with the vendors on the other side? I can see how the car goes from one place to another by itself, but how does the coffee person know to stick the coffee in the car? Do they have to leave the Starbucks and open the car and put it in the center divider? I don't know.

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Because they can say in direct language, we're in a death spiral and absolutely nothing is going to change it. Unless we come up with some whole new plan that nobody's thought of or Nobody was brave enough to do or something. But that was really valuable. So I'll say again, I think the all-in pod, because the four of them are so smart and so credible,

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that when they take on a topic like this where nobody's being honest about it, it's the first time the country can hear the truth, basically. It's the first time they can hear the truth and in context because the news is all biased and they don't even cover the deficit. Most of the time when the news is talking about the budget, they don't even mention They don't even mention the fact.

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All right, well, there's a troll who needs to be disappeared. Let's get rid of the fart troll. Anyway. So most of the time, when the news covers the budget process, even the big, beautiful budget, they don't tell you the only important part. This budget will kill us all. That's the truth.

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Now, maybe not tomorrow, but if we don't figure out how to reduce the budget and we keep doing budgets like this where the deficit gets bigger instead of smaller, we're all dead. So that's something the all-in pod can say because it's true and it's demonstrably true. But we need that extra part. Maybe it's Trump, but it doesn't look like he has the

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the interest or maybe even the ability to cut it without losing the midterms. So I would recommend the All In pod for you so you're at least well-informed on that topic. But separately, I think it was a different podcast, I saw Friedberg say that there's some theoretical amount of energy that if the United States could create this amazing amount of energy, the deficit wouldn't be a problem.

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Now that's sort of a thinker, and I think I missed part of it because I just saw a little clip on it. Just think about that. the energy and money are sort of interchangeable because, you know, you would use money to buy energy, et cetera. So if you had a way to create just a ton of energy, let's say nuclear fusion, for example, let's say tomorrow it became cheap.

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Let's say somehow we figured out how to Build a nuclear power plant in one year. These are things we can't do, and I'm not predicting we can. But there's possibly one way we can escape the doom spiral. And you wouldn't know about it unless you'd watched the All In podcast explain that we're in a doom spiral. But in theory...

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If you could create a massive amount of power, electricity, energy, they would be irrelevant, basically. So anyway, keep that in mind that they're like a national treasure right now, but we still need that last part where knowing the truth isn't enough. You've got to be able to act on it, and we still need that part where we act on it. Oh, wait. All right.

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Here's something that I thought was weird. I haven't seen anybody mention this yet, but...

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You've probably heard before that the people in the news business, they have to play nice with the administration, whoever that is, because if they don't, they'll lose access, meaning that if they want an interview with somebody in the administration, the administration might say, oh, you wrote a hit piece about us yesterday, so we're not going to give you anybody to do an interview.

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And then you're in the news business, and you can't really do ordinary news and ordinary interviews, so you're really screwed. So in the Biden administration, you had this weird situation where the news had to be nice to them to maintain access, but they didn't get any access because they're all surprised that Biden was degraded And he was basically being hidden from the news.

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So I think I need a robot in my car, but then we have everything. I want an optimist robot. in my self-driving car, and I wanted to go get my coffee. Yeah, that'll be good. You may have heard that Elon Musk, in part because X had kind of a down time yesterday, He's decided to go back to work 24-7, sleep at the office, and make sure his stuff works again. So that's always a good sign.

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So their business model of the news is collapsing. Because their whole idea of, well, at least if we're nice to you or nice enough, we'll have access. They didn't get access. They didn't even get close to access. They were not behind the curtain whatsoever. So I thought that was interesting. I saw a Sam Harris clip recently.

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where he was saying that he fell for the idea that Biden was sharp when we weren't looking. Because he said, you know, neurologically speaking, that is an intelligible claim to make about a person, that he's capable of making important decisions behind closed doors. but maybe he's not so good at communicating anymore. Does that make sense to you?

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Do you believe that if you saw him in public and he wasn't good at communicating and it was a big change, you know, because he used to be better at it, would you assume that he was fine behind closed doors? Well, Sam Harris did. And the Daily Caller was talking about this. And it seems like a lot of prominent anti-Trumpers are figuring out that they have to come clean that they were fooled.

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And it's getting safer because the Tapper book is drawing so much fire. And it's also making it easier for people to go public and say, oh, yeah, yeah. I guess Jake Tapper was fooled and other people were fooled. Oh, yeah, I was fooled too. Oh, yeah. But of course I was fooled because I didn't have access to the real information. They were hiding it from me. All right.

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If my engineer is watching this, we really got to get rid of that guy. I think you know who I'm talking about. All right. And then... I guess I would ask you this question. If the political experts were so bad at determining that Biden was capable, haven't the experts had a really bad 10 years? Do you remember when Trump was first running for office in 2015?

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What did all the experts say about his chances? They said, no way, right? All of them. All the experts. What did the cartoonist say? He's going to be your next president. So that was a case of the experts having a really bad time. And then the experts got Biden's brain wrong. And the experts got everything about the budget wrong, in my opinion.

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And you probably want to say the experts got a lot wrong on COVID-19. And the experts are not doing so good on the peer-reviewed papers. So what do you think? Are the experts even worthwhile anymore? I feel like the experts are not really doing well for the past 10 years. We've got a 10-year failure rate of experts where ordinary people are just like guessing and guessing correctly. I don't know.

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It doesn't look like that to me. And the guessers are literally beating the experts like time and time again. So meanwhile, NYU professor Scott Galloway. I think you know him. Fox News is reporting that he's also coming clean about his Biden support. He says the Biden family's narcissism severely effed the country. Basically, he's blaming the Bidens for hiding his situation and

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and then putting Kamala as the heir apparent. And he says the Democratic Party is hurting its legacy. Well, I don't know. If all the non-experts could clearly see that Biden was degraded, Can you really blame the Democrats? Don't you have to blame the people who couldn't see the obvious? It seems to me. Anyway, speaking of the budget, the big, beautiful budget.

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So the Senate is going to make their mark on it. And as I mentioned, Senator Ron Johnson, he's a deficit guy. He wants to make sure that we can pay our bills. And I guess Rick Scott and Mike Lee from Utah are similarly looking for bigger cuts. Do you think they're going to get them?

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I was looking at the list of things that the Senate wants to tweak, which, by the way, is a weird process to me because you've got these two entities. You've got the House and then you've got the Senate. Isn't it the weirdest thing that the House could vote on a bunch of elements in the budget and then the Senate could just change them?

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When Elon Musk decides that he's going to sleep in the office anywhere, usually good things happen. So I feel sorry for him sleeping in the office, but I like the fact that X is going to be stable. Speaking of Tesla, Attorney General Pam Bondi says she's got three more of the Tesla terrorists, I call them Tesla domestic terrorists, that she's prosecuting.

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and then they would vote on it, and it would become a law, or it would become the law of the land. It just seems like the worst system, that there are two entities, and one can change what the first one just approved. But that's what's happening. And it looks to be a quick look at what the senators are looking at changing.

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I'm not so sure this is going to pass because if the three deficit, what do you call them, deficit hawks, the ones who are getting real serious about overspending, that's probably enough to hold things up, isn't it? So we'll see if they can hold tight. But yeah, I'm not so sure the big beautiful bill is going to pass as easily as people thought.

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Mike Benz was talking to Alex Marlow on a podcast, and he had a great turn of a phrase that I wanted to share with you. And he was talking about the National Endowment for Democracy. Now, whenever there's a Mike Benz story...

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There's usually some kind of a three-word government entity that's dealing with some other three-word government entity, and they're doing something you wish they weren't doing with your money. Well, he's talking about the National Endowment for Democracy. He says the... But anyway, it's a Cold War-era NGO arm of the CIA, and it's still being bankrolled by the Trump administration.

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So why would we still be funding something that was a Cold War-era... Well, we never cut anything. So if there's no Cold War, what are they doing? Well, according to Benz, quote, they have pivoted completely from countering left-wing communism to countering right-wing populism, bragged about censoring Trump voices, had entire operations to stop Trump from the inside,

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And the fact that they remain what appears to be almost fully funded is like voluntarily giving your own government cancer. That's a great frame, I guess. Yeah, I guess we should ask, why is there an entity that we're funding whose seems to be its mission is to stop the government from functioning? That doesn't seem like a good use of my money. Is that what you thought you were paying taxes for?

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To stop the person that you voted for? It's unbelievable. But like I say, everything that can be corrupt is corrupt. And I guess all these government NGOs and government entities, they didn't seem to have any kind of audit or control or check on their activities. So they're all just corrupt. Now, I'm sure they wouldn't say they're corrupt.

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They would say, we're making sure that there's no disinformation. But to us, that looks corrupt. Meanwhile, remember how Rick Grinnell... got put in charge of the Kennedy Center. And you probably said to yourself, like I did, oh, that's sort of a harmless job. He's got other responsibilities as well.

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But I always thought, well, at least that's just sort of a harmless thing, being in charge of the Kennedy Center. But it turns out... That according to Rick Grinnell, he wants the FBI and the DOJ to investigate what looks like obvious gigantic financial fraud from whoever was in charge before he got there. So have I mentioned that every place there can be corruption? There's corruption. Yep.

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So this was yet another place that wasn't being audited. I believe some Democrats were in charge. And some tens of millions of dollars look like they're fraudulent. And so Grinnell is like, all right, bring in the DOJ. See what we can do. Anyway. Apparently the European Union is... concerned about war, potential for war in Europe. And these blackouts are kind of freaking them out too.

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And all three defendants will face the full force of the law for using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars and charging stations. Now, how happy are you that just because Elon Musk left Doge, or at least the everyday doging, and went back to work in his main company, that all of a sudden all the domestic terrorism changed. It just went away. Doesn't that tell you that it wasn't real?

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So they're sort of suggesting that people stockpile things and get ready for disasters. And they're talking about building emergency sirens and crisis shelters and telling everybody to stock up on essentials. Now, here's what I'm worried about.

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isn't the only risk to the european union russia it's russia right it's not like greenland is going to attack the european continent so all of these these worries including the blackouts they must think are russia related and might be so here's the weird thing

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Russia has this ability, because they can sell their oil to China, that they can be pretty tough with Europe and just grind them down until they can kind of control Europe. But what happens if they succeeded? Then Russia would still sort of depend on China

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So it feels like the end game is that China controls Russia and Russia controls the European Union because China is such a big customer that if everybody decided not to buy the oil in Russia, Russia would be in real trouble. So I feel like China has just the perfect play for dominating the rest of the world.

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As long as they back Russia and Russia can stay in business as long as China buys their energy. then Russia can do all the bad things, the cyber attacks, maybe eventually physical attacks, maybe bribery, maybe trying to corrupt other countries. So it looks a lot like maybe China is the power behind the power behind the power. Just a speculation there.

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Meanwhile, according to the Gateway Fund, a notorious Mexican cartel leader who had a million dollar bounty on his head has been killed. He's one of the Sinaloa cartel people. So he was killed in a raid on Friday. Now, whenever I hear anybody in the cartel who's a leader being killed in a raid, and by the way, he was in the fentanyl distribution business, so we're glad he's gone.

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But don't you wonder if that's real? Don't you wonder if really just the army was working for the other faction? Because I guess the Sinaloa cartel was in a pitched battle with another rival cartel. And so I guess 1,200 people have been killed in these rival factions. So do you really think it was the government that got him? And I wonder if we're working with both sides.

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Are we saying, all right, I'll tell you what. If you tell us where the leaders of the other cartel are, We'll kill them for you. And then you go to the other cartel and you say, if you tell us where the leaders of the other cartel are, we'll go kill them for you. So I feel like it would be a good strategy if we got the two rival cartels to be narking on each other.

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and acting like it's the best way to get rid of the rivals. So I do wonder what's going on there. I don't feel like we're ever going to hear the truth when it comes to cartel stuff. All right, it's Weird Sunday. The news is weird. That's all I got for today. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately. We're going to do an extra sip with them. And the rest of you, thanks for joining.

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It looks like the troll went away. Thank you. And we'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, hang on a minute.

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Doesn't that tell you that it was just organized by various moneyed forces and that as soon as he was out of the way, no reason to do any of this terrorism so good news there if you're a tesla stock order here's something i was predicting would happen but might happen sooner than i thought um apparently the u.s has a plan to to mine lithium in the united states

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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but they've got a new technology that has been compared to the shale revolution. Remember when we were running out of oil and then somebody said, hey, we've got this new technology that can get us the oil from these shale environments. And then suddenly we had all kinds of oil. Well, apparently there are underground brine reserves or reservoirs, flowing across Arkansas.

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So Arkansas is sitting on a gold mine of lithium. And if it's a brine reservoir, and this one's so big it could apparently take care of the United States for 20 years, they've got this new technology where they don't have to spend a lot of money to get the lithium out of the brine. So it's not perfect. And there's at least one company that's been trying to do this for a while and not doing well.

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But apparently we do know the technology. So there's a way to cheaply get lithium. They just have to tweak it until it works just right. So I'd been sort of predicting that with these rare earth minerals and the lithium and stuff, that the process of mining it would get easier thanks to technology. And sure enough, lithium here we come.

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Well Lockheed Martin has decided it's going to stop its DEI initiatives. That would be following Trump's order to stop discriminating. The National Pulse is writing about this. And if you're Lockheed Martin, don't you depend on government contracts quite a bit? So kind of smart that they're doing that, don't you think? They didn't have much choice.

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They're going to have to obey the law, the law of the land. But anyway, they're getting rid of DEI. Anderson Cooper asked Rahm Emanuel on CNN, if Rahm is going to run for president. And here's the way he asked, and here's the answer. We'll see if you can tell what the truth is. So Cooper said, Nancy Pelosi made headlines today by saying she thinks you're running for president. Are you?

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All right, now listen to this answer. What I'm going to do is take time to think about not just how to fight Donald Trump, although that's worthy of doing, but how to fight for the American people. That's sort of a yes, isn't it? Now he could change his mind, but that's a pretty good indication he wants to run for president. I think he'd be a, Strong candidate.

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So I would worry about him if I were worried about a Democrat becoming president. I'd worry about him. But at least he's not a crazy one. You know, as Democrats go, he would be the least crazy Democrat. So he's got that going for him. Meanwhile, the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, has labeled the Turning Point USA organization a hate group. And they've added them to their hate map.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing to make everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Divine. Exquisite. Perfection. Well, it's Sunday, and you've decided to spend it with me, and I appreciate it. Well, according to Neoscope, nearly half of young people wish the Internet had never been invented.

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Now, remember how I always tell you that if you know what happened, you might not know anything. But if you know who was involved, well, now you might know something. So if you thought that the Southern Poverty Law Center was a totally legitimate organization operating independently to tell us where the hate is, Well, you'd be very surprised.

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It's more like a Democrat, you know, basically an attack dog for the Democrats. And Turning Point USA has been doing a tremendous job of public events, and Charlie Kirk in particular has been just killing it on these public events where he's sort of debating people in public. And the other thing you need to know is that if your job is to identify ghosts, are you going to find any ghosts?

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Of course you will. Of course you will. If your job is to identify Bigfoots, Are you going to find any Bigfoots? Of course you are. Because you get paid for it. If your job is to identify hate groups, are you going to find some new hate groups every year? Or are you going to find all the ones that exist and then you say, you know, we don't even need any funding for the next year.

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I don't even know why we have a staff. We found all the hate. and we did our map, so maybe we'll check back in a year to update it. No, they get a staff, they get a budget, they're going to find some extra hate. So you can't trust anybody who gets paid by the amount of hate they identify. They're going to find some hate. But is it real? No. Turning Point USA is nothing like a group.

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Not even close. Well, a Texas state representative who, because of the nature of the story, you need to know is a black woman, is pushing for race-based classroom assignments. So she claims that the science shows that students perform better when they're taught by teachers who share their skin color.

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So her idea is that white people would have a white teacher, black people would have a black teacher, et cetera. I saw this in the Amuse account on X. So I'd like to give you some advice. If this topic ever comes up wherever you are,

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and you're a white person, you want to act like the studies are all incorrect and act like this is totally racist and you would never be anywhere near it because you could get canceled for saying that kind of thing. Yeah, you don't want to get canceled. So just say, oh, I think those studies are flawed. The very best teacher could be any kind of thing, which is true.

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Anyway, according to the Gateway Pundit, Harvard is admitting that Trump's crackdown on Harvard and some other universities is having a, quote, devastating impact on Harvard, but they're gonna keep fighting anyway. Thank goodness, they're gonna keep fighting. And how are they gonna fight? Well, they're sending out the designated liars. So Jamie Raskin is defending Harvard.

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When you see Jamie Raskin, again, it's not what happened, it's who's involved. And suddenly, if Jamie Raskin appears, he's a designated liar. He's one of the ones I send out when the normal people can't tell the lie. So he'll take care of it. He'll say it. But here's what J.D. Vance says about the university situation.

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He did a lengthy post today on X that I thought was worthy of just reading to you. So, JD Vance on the universities. He says, there is an extraordinary reproducibility crisis in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption.

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The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that that they look like the election results of North Korea. And on top of all this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination, mostly against whites and Asians, that violates the civil rights laws of this country.

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Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform. Or they can yell fascism at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance.

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Now, this is pretty interesting because one of the things that I always thought something like Harvard was adding to the world is all that excellent science, because they get these massive grants, or they did before Trump stopped them. And you'd have all these top scientists doing all this top science.

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But as Vance points out, half of the things that get reproduced, not just there, but in general, they can't be replicated. meaning it's fake science, basically. And then even when they have things that can be replicated, they got some kind of bureaucracy that stops them from commercializing it.

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So there's a new survey in the UK. Now, does that surprise you? I think you could put that in the category of things you would just estimate. Because wouldn't you expect that at least half of young people are having a terrible experience with the internet? You know, they're getting bullied or they're not attractive or nobody follows their page. Yeah.

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So it sounds to me like the whole we'll give you money so you make some science and then we're all better off. Sounds like that doesn't work at all. So yeah, maybe they should look at fixing that. instead of complaining about Trump. So, J.D. Vance, good communicator.

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And then we find, in related news, according to MedPage today, that you know how science always gets a peer review, if it's good science? Well, apparently there's a massive problem of peer reviewers having financial conflicts. How not surprising that is. The majority reviewing for top medical journals had conflicts and they made a billion dollars in three years.

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I don't know who made the billion dollars, the journals? Anyway. More than half of peer reviewers for four top medical journals received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers totaling a billion dollars from 2020 to 2022, according to an analysis of the OpenPayments database.

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So are we at the point where Democrats are going to claim that the core ideas of Republicans have always been just good Democrat ideas, they just didn't message it well? So anyway, I'd be interested if any of you read the book, if you have a different take, because obviously I'm not mentioning every single thing. But I think that they even talk about things like health care.

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You know, Democrats would like everybody to have health care, as would I. But if you had abundance and your economy was doing great, you could probably give everybody health care and still afford it. So this to me sounds just so completely like Republican economic policy that it's hilarious. It feels like Democrats just gave up. if we give up being Democrats, maybe we could win an election. Maybe.

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Maybe. Meanwhile, according to Red State, this was in the news, Australian universities are demanding an emergency meeting after Trump cancels their funding. Now, did that make sense to you? Australian universities are mad that Trump canceled their funding? Australian universities? Did you know that about a third of the research grants for Australian universities is paid for by America?

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Did you have any idea that we were funding colleges and universities in Australia? Now, I suppose the deal was if they come up with any good ideas in Australia, then we'd have access to them because we funded it. But I guess Trump just froze that funding and now the universities are going to have a little economic challenge unless that gets reversed.

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But how in the world did that ever happen without us knowing it? It's a pretty big number. And we were just giving it to Australian universities while our own schools were failing. Incredible. Well, Jerome Powell at the Fed said that the Fed now projects only a 1.7% GDP growth this year. Now, that would be something like half of what you would expect for a good year. I think the Atlanta Fed...

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had some kind of weirdly small number that was off from the other ones. So does that sound credible to you? Do you believe that the Fed can accurately forecast the economy for the next year or so? I feel like nobody can do that. I don't think the Fed can do it. I don't think anybody can. There are just too many variables. So I'm not too worried about that, and it could be a political thing.

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But I think Lutnick was just sort of scoffing at it. I think I'm with him. Now, I do think there's a very good chance that we could have a minor recession for half a year or a year or something. That could happen, because Trump's making some big changes, and it will take a while for any of those changes to, you know, become positives in the system.

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But in the long run, almost, I think, everything that Trump's doing would have a long-term good economic impact. But we'll see. Well, Breitbart News has an exclusive. Apparently the Department of Justice is going to investigate the anti-white discrimination in Rhode Island public schools, which involves, I think, what help they give to white teachers versus other teachers. So good.

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Every time there's one of these gross discriminations against white people, I am all down for the Department of Justice to go after their asses. I'm going to tell you a story that I heard confidentially recently. So I'm sworn to confidentiality, but I'll just tell you the general thing. Apparently there was an individual who was doing okay in his job, but not killing it.

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I think it's always either CGI, where they find one robot doing one thing, and then they show it to you and you go, ooh. Look at that robot removing glasses from the dishwasher. And then you realize that's sort of all it can do. If you tried to do something else, we would forget how to do the dishwasher thing. So I don't think we're even close. But it'll sneak up on us really quickly.

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But recently got a big raise he wasn't even expecting, And all of a sudden, his career just took a great turn to the positive. Do you know what was different? The only thing that was different is he changed his identity from white guy to something else. Now, I don't want to be more specific than that. But apparently, he took my advice, he says. He just changed his identity.

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And changing his identity allowed his company to say, yeah, let's get more of that. Next thing you know, he gets a big raise that he wasn't even expecting. So I'd love to hear if other people have done the same, because if they haven't, I don't know why not. It would have been harder for me during my work years because I'm blonde, or I was. I was blonde.

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So it was a little harder to sell myself as a person of color who doesn't look exactly like you'd expect, but hey, everybody's different. But if I had brown hair, I might have tried to sell myself as a person of color. Maybe, if it helped my career. And by the way, I don't think there's anything illegitimate about doing that. I don't find that immoral or unethical, not even a little bit.

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Because the point is that he was being discriminated against for his race and maybe his gender. So if he found a clever workaround so he wouldn't be discriminated by his race, that's not unethical. That's not immoral. That's nothing but playing the system the way it was designed. So good for him.

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Nicole Shanahan, who, as you know, was sort of one of the leaders, if not the leader, of a movement to get LA Mayor Karen Bass recalled because of her terrible performance, especially around the LA fires. But as Nicole Shanahan is warning us, It went from, in January and February, she said, just about everyone in L.A. was calling for me to help seed the recall of Mayor Bass.

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Well, there it is. The most predictable thing in the world. And Nicole says, I can't think of anything more pathetic than race baiting your community after literally burning it to the ground. I have some advice. You should get away from the cities. The cities are not fixable. And the sooner you realize that, the better you'll be.

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Now, I don't know if you can get away from them because, you know, I live in California. If L.A. and San Francisco go down the drain, I don't think I would be unaffected. Seems like my taxes would double again or some damn thing. But anything you can do to get away from cities, because there's no fixing that. And the reason there's no fixing it is identity is

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going to be the main criteria and doesn't look like anything's going to change that. And as long as identity goes first and competence is not the top goal, you're not going to get anything better. Meanwhile, actor Rob Lowe was on a podcast kind of thing talking to the star of Severance. His name is Adam Scott. I almost forgot his name. His name is almost exactly my name, Adam Scott.

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Anyway, Rob Lowe was saying that if you were going to make a TV show or a movie today, you would never make it in California because California would just be higher taxes, higher regulations. He said it would be cheaper to take everybody from L.A. that's involved with the movie, including the extras, you know, hundreds of people,

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There is, however, according to Hamza Abbas, a new kind of AI technology. So the current ones are large language models where all they do is predict what the next word will be, but they don't really understand anything. They just predict what the next word will be. But there's a new kind of AI called an LCM, a large concept model.

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and moved them all to Ireland and filmed the entire thing in Ireland. Just to pick one country as an example. Other countries too. So the other countries have, or other states too, have tax breaks and they make it easy. But California has destroyed its own most important industry after tech. Can you believe that? That California is so poorly managed

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that nobody in their right mind would make a movie here anymore. Oh, my God. Now, that's from Rob Lowe, and they talk about walking through the studios and they're just ghost towns. All of Hollywood is dead. All of Hollywood is dead. And if you've seen any recent movies... I tried to watch... What's the one that's like the prequel to The Wizard of Oz? Is it The Wiz?

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What's the one with the green witch? I don't know. I tried to watch that because at least it was like a big production. And I thought, oh. I'll put it on the big screen in my house with a nice sound system. And I'll just sort of enjoy it for being a big production. Wicked. It's called Wicked. So I tried to watch that the other day. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, it's unwatchable.

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And I like old Disney movies, and I'm kind of a fan of the genre. And I loved Wicked in the theater. In the theater, Wicked was incredible. But, oh, my God, it was just completely unwatchable. And then apparently this new movie is Snow White, which I saw a meme calling it No White. No White. Because I guess they're very DEI sensitive.

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Apparently that thing is so bad that Disney is just losing billions of dollars. I remember a time when a Disney movie was just a pass to another billion dollars. Okay, there's a Disney movie. Well, that's going to make a billion dollars. You can just count on it. It was nothing but high quality. And indeed, when I used to watch it with little stepkids, I used to love it.

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Even though it wasn't made for me as a target market, I would just enjoy the quality of it. Sometimes you can watch things that are not your thing if the quality of it is just so good. You're like, ah, good actors, good writing. You know, good production. I really, I kind of like it. Wow. But Snow White and Wicked appear to be just absolutely lost.

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And then, of course, the whole Star Wars franchise completely destroyed. So if you put all that together, America has destroyed its own Hollywood advantage. One of the biggest things we had as an advantage was that American-made content was influencing other countries and making them want to be more American because, oh, look at that awesome movie and all those awesome people in it.

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I wouldn't mind being more like that. But now we don't have that. We just have this pathetic industry that can't economically even put on a movie or a TV show anymore. So there's that. How much did that affect the state? Well, California gained 76% fewer jobs in 2024 than estimated. 76% fewer than estimated. Is that a coincidence?

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And it had this tiny growth of 0.3%, which probably was just government jobs. So California is really in trouble. our biggest industry, or maybe second biggest after tech, just completely destroyed. And I would say that it was completely destroyed by bad management plus DEI. Those two things just completely destroyed it.

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Meanwhile, you know that AOC and Bernie are doing these big rallies, and you probably said to yourself, are these rallies organic, or is somebody paying people to go to them? Well, I don't know the answer to that, but someone named Tony Saruga claims to have data about cell phones that not everybody has.

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So instead of looking at words and just predicting what word comes next, they somehow can predict can master concepts. And then they put these concepts together and then they're supposed to be smarter. But apparently Meta is doing this. And I think I'm going to wait on this because, again, I'm very skeptical that this would give you enough AI to put in a robot and make you feel good about it.

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And somehow he can estimate, based on the cell phone information he has, that the people who were there were not 30,000, but closer to 20,000. So no big deal. The crowd was overestimated. There's still a big crowd. But that 84% of the devices at a recent rally, one of the AOC Bernie rallies.

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So 84% of the devices, which means the people who own them, attended nine or more Kamala Harris rallies, or Antifa, BLM, pro-Hamas, or pro-Palestinian. And 31% of them had attended over 20. Now, how do you attend nine or more Democrat rally events? Because they're not all in your town. There would be travel and you'd have to take time off from your job if you had one. These have to be paid, right?

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So it's looking to me like the entire Democratic Party, where their popularity, at least for their congressional leaders, is the lowest it's been in a long time. It looks to me they're trying to create what looks like an artificial popularity by simply paying people to protest. and paying people to go to rallies. Yeah, it looks like they're rally professionals. Exactly. So that's alarming.

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Now, I don't know about the accuracy of the phone data. We could find out tomorrow that there's some problem with the data. Meanwhile, the Dramacrats, as I call them, Dramacrats. So what AOC and Bernie are doing are trying to whip up their base into a frenzy. So here's the newest vague accusations. So the Democrats don't have real topics and real policies or anything.

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So they have to use vague accusations. Here's the new vague accusation. These billionaires bankrolling some of the most divisive media and disgusting, hateful things, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they're saying that the billionaires are trying to divide us. Is that what's happening? Is that what Elon Musk is doing? He's trying to divide us?

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He's trying to divide us by saving money for all of us and saving the country? How did that divide us? He's trying to divide us by supporting the president who was elected by a solid group of people. What exactly is the trying to divide us? These are made-up problems. So is he trying to, are the billionaires trying to divide us before or after Trump steals your democracy?

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It's all like monsters under the bed stuff. Well, there's no problem yet, but they're trying to divide us. Well, there's no problem yet, but they're going to steal our democracy. Well, there's no problem yet, but it looks like Musk is trying to cut the USAID funds that are keeping so many people alive so that he can use that money to cut his own taxes. Really?

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So if you look at the accusations, they're just nonsense. They're literally just stringing words together. All right, we'll take billionaire. We'll take divide. Yeah, billionaires divide us. How about steals your democracy? They got nothing. Absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, Trump has instructed the Department of Justice

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to sanction any law firms over what he calls vexatious litigation against the government. Now, if you're like me, you're saying, what exactly would be considered vexatious? It seems a little subjective. So I had to look it up. But in a legal sense, the vexatious litigation would be frivolous, with insufficient grounds for winning.

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So the standard would be if a lawsuit is filed that a reasonable expert in the law could look at and say, okay, there's no way you're going to win that. That must be just for bothering the other side. Trump wants the DOJ to sanction those law firms involved in that. We'll see. Meanwhile, there's a gigantic problem in Wisconsin. There's an election...

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I do think we'll get to the point where there's AI and robots, but I don't think we're as close as any of the smart people are saying. It just doesn't look like the technology can do it. Anyway, the TikTok, as you know, either has to be bought or go out of business in the United States. But Perplexity, the company that does that cool little Perplexity app, which I highly recommend, it's awesome.

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on April 1st, I guess, for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And I'd seen this story but didn't pay attention to it because it seemed like a state thing and I didn't really get it until I looked at it today. It turns out that that would create a, depending who wins, it could create a liberal majority on the Supreme Court of Wisconsin,

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which could lead to changes in gerrymandering, which could be enough of a change to cost Trump the House of Representatives. And apparently the big donors for this, and they're coming in for big money, because this particular small little thing in one state could completely change the federal situation. And so, of course, Soros is funding it for over $4 million. Hoffman's over $14 million. J.B.

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Pritzker's in for six and a half. And the woman who is the widow of some man who probably shouldn't have left her that much money, Jurvetson, she's in for millions herself. Millions. So... There is, of course, a Republican running against, or at least a conservative running against her. But wow.

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So if you know anybody in Wisconsin, you need to rattle their cage and make sure that they vote to keep the country viable. So Scott Pressler is warning us about that. Meanwhile, these judges that keep pestering Trump and putting stays on things and trying to stop what he's doing, they keep getting loomered.

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So Laura Loomer has done a great job of finding out, wait a minute, this judge or that judge has a wife or a daughter who's deeply into Democrat politics and clearly not objective. It would be hard to imagine that the judge would be objective if the adult daughter or wife are deeply into Democrat politics. And the thing I wonder is, how do we not know this in advance?

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And what happened to people recusing themselves because they had a perceived conflict of interest? It doesn't even have to be a real one, just a perceived one. We don't have that. That's not a process. Or do the judges say, well, I'm not the one who's working with the Democrats. That's my daughter. Or I'm not the one who donated money. That's my wife.

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So, you know, I'm not, I don't have any conflict of interest. That's just family members. I feel like family members being deeply involved in politics should rule you out for any political decision. Shouldn't we have a list of not just liberal versus conservative? but a list of whether or not they're core family members, just spouses and kids, that's all, not cousins.

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I'll let the cousins go, not aunts or uncles, but just spouse and children, adult children. If they're deeply involved in fundraising or organizing, we should have them on a list so that every time one of these judges gets picked, we can say, oh, that's one of the conflict of interest judges.

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Now, even if none of that causes anybody to say, okay, I have a conflict and stand down, even if it doesn't change any of the behavior, wouldn't we be better off knowing which ones are clearly in the bag? Because there's nobody who thinks that if your spouse or your adult daughter are deeply involved with one side of the political spectrum, nobody thinks that has no effect on the judge.

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Obviously it does, because you couldn't go home unless you ruled in a way that your spouse and your daughter approved of.

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So they've got a pretty good bid. Or at least they've got a good concept for a bid. They want to buy TikTok. And they would sort of integrate it in some ways with the perplexity. So one of the things you could do is if you did a search, one of the things that might come up with would be a TikTok video. But that's only if they buy it. They would rebuild TikTok's algorithm from scratch.

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Well, speaking of the legal and justice system, lawyer Jeff Clark explains how dangerously close we came, according to him, in the 2020-2024 period to become a one-party political monopoly, meaning a Democrat monopoly. And he talks about what causes all these law firms to be not just a little bit Democrat, but seriously Democrat. And he kind of draws out the whole picture.

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So you've got our education system managed by Democrats mostly. So kids are being raised to be Democrats. And then they go to law school and their law professors are all Democrats, pretty much. And then it just turns them into Democrats if they weren't already.

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And if they were conservative and if they somehow get through the system and join a big law firm, they have to kind of pretend they're not because it would be terrible for their career in the current situation to be the lone conservative in the law firm. That's just not going to work. So the conservatives have had to hide and just pretend they're not conservatives.

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And by the way, I have dealt with a lawyer not too long ago who said that directly to me. Yeah, I'm the hidden conservative. I don't tell people I am in the real world. Somebody told me he had to hide his political opinion. Yep. And he was eventually not allowed to work with me. Let me say that again.

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There was a lawyer for a local law firm who had agreed to work with me until the rest of the law firm said, you can't work with him. And he had to pull back. That's a real thing. So if you think that conservatives are getting the same legal services as Democrats, they're not. Not even close. And they went so far as to

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you know, try to blackmail, not blackmail, but maybe put pressure on people who would have tried to help Trump during his prior iterations. So if you've got only one party that controls the entire big law firm situation, they would be able eventually to have the power to control everything.

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Because if you didn't have a fair fight within the legal community about things that are Democrat versus Republican, it is just always Democrats defending things. And if you tried to get a Democrat or anybody else to defend you, they would be losing their career. So Jeff Clark has a really good case here.

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that we were very close to losing everything because, as you know, Soros had this idea of funding DAs and attorney generals so that if you had the DA, the attorney general, the judges, and then all the big law firms all being anti-Republican, that would very quickly turn into there's only one party because the other party would just get sued out of existence and they'd lose every case and

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Just everything would go in one direction. So Trump winning and putting some pressure back on the legal community of stripping people who were a little too political and stripping them of their security clearance might be the only thing that saved us. We might have been just this close to having nothing you could do to ever recover.

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They put it in American data centers. They'd make the recommendation system transparent and open source. And they'd upgrade the AI infrastructure using NVIDIA's technology and a bunch of other stuff. But they're not the only ones who want to buy it. You've also got a bunch of investors led by somebody named Frank McCourt. He must be very rich.

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If the entire legal system that mattered became just aggressively Democrat, you wouldn't be able to change that. That would be way too much pressure all the way from judges through lawyers. So we came very close. I'm not sure it could be reversed because all it would take is the next president being a Democrat, and everything goes back to the way it was.

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So we're very close, even with the Democrats being the most disliked group, at least their own congressional members. Even with that, we're right on the edge of them owning everything and just having complete control. Anyway, how else do they have control? Well,

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You know, the New York Times did that, what we think is fake news about Musk having a meeting in which he would be told about our plans for military action against China if there were ever a China war. And that apparently was completely fake news, according to Musk and according to the Pentagon and according to Trump. And I believe him. I believe that was fake news.

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So I remind you that the New York Times is not like a regular publication, right? It's not just one of them. It's the newsmaker. So if they say something's true, it allows all the other publications to just quote them and say, well, it's the New York Times, and they've got these anonymous sources.

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So the media is anti-Trump, and apparently I think there's enough evidence to show that they know when they're lying, and they do it anyway. So imagine that. They know when they're lying, and they do it anyway. So it's pure propaganda. It's pure power. And it's definitely not news.

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Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson is calling out Chuck Schumer for, I'll just read what Johnson said on X. He said, in his desperation, Chuck Schumer has now crossed the serious red line by telling PBS he is organizing and encouraging radical activists to, quote, go after Republican members of Congress and, quote, force them to either change their votes or face the consequences.

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His recruits are now crashing and disrupting private gatherings and even local school events, screaming profanities and physically assaulting people. In other words, Chuck Schumer told his base to hunt Republicans, to actually hunt them, to find them and then harass them,

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In ways that, you know, even if you said don't break the law, of course, some of them are going to be physically assaulting people. So that's one way the Democrats try to control without having policies and without having popularity. They can just make it too dangerous to be a Republican and go out. I mean, it's already ridiculous that you can't wear a MAGA hat outside without getting beat up.

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That's ridiculous. But that's where we are. And Chuck Schumer is making it worse. Now, to me, he should go to jail for that. because that seems clearly an organized, RICO-like situation, which is guaranteed to have physical violence, even if he didn't say so directly. And of course that can't happen, because the legal system is exactly what Jeff Clark said.

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So there's no way he's going to go to jail, but it seems like the offense... of even asking people to harass one political party in public and private, I feel like that should be a jailable offense. I don't know exactly what it would be, but it feels jailable to me. It will never happen.

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Meanwhile, on CNN, they had former Representative Jamal Bowman who called Elon Musk a thief and a Nazi on live TV, and nobody corrected him. They just called him a Nazi, like it's just a fact. So Elon said, I've had enough, lawsuit inbound. So he's just going to sue him.

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You know, Musk must have access to all the lawyers who are remaining, who are willing to do things that are not just entirely Democrat things. So, yeah, go ahead and sue him. I think every time he's accused of giving a Nazi salute, that he should sue the person who did it, if they're a public figure. He should sue them.

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And I think Microsoft and Oracle, yeah, they're part of it too. So there's a lot of people who want to buy it, but I don't think China wants to sell it. So they may just decide to go into business in the U.S. We'll see. there's a study out of Northwestern that showed that ordinary people can persuade people on political topics. Do you believe that?

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Because I don't think, you know, I have talked to people who genuinely believe that he did a Nazi salute. Can you imagine being so brainwashed that you actually literally think that happened in the real world? And it's just shocking when you talk to somebody who believes that is a real thing that happened in the real world. Unbelievable. Incredible. It's the power of propaganda.

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So meanwhile, so here's the big situation. You've got Tesla charging stations and dealerships that are being hit with incendiary devices and fires are being set. You've got Teslas that are being keyed. We've seen lots of videos of people keying Teslas. We've got Tim Walz, who literally laughed at a gathering about Tesla stop dropping, even though it's part of the retirement plan for his state.

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It's one of the companies in it. And he tried to explain that as just a joke. And he said that the Republicans don't have a sense of humor. What? People were not confused about the fact that he was joking. Everybody knew he was joking. That was the problem. If you joke about this kind of action against an American company where the employees had nothing to do with anything, you're encouraging it.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, except my talking. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. So good. You needed that. It's a good Sunday morning, and we should enjoy it. Well, let's see what's what. You know Mark Benioff?

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So you're making it fun. So he acted as if he wasn't encouraging it. and that we just don't get the joke. It wasn't a joke joke like I'm going to laugh at it. He was making light of the damage to a great American company, which absolutely has the effect of making people a little more interested in doing some more of that. Because, hey, it's funny and it's fun and I got some attention.

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We also have all the... So we've got Schumer sending out people to harass Republican lawmakers. We've got the conservative podcasters who are being swatted like crazy. We've got the media allowing people to go on the air and call Trump and Musk Nazis and Hitler without being challenged. Amazingly.

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And I got to say, and then of course there's Nicole Shanahan's thing about they're trying to get rid of a mayor. and the bad guys turned it into a race thing so that you can't even get rid of a bad mayor. So I'd like to compliment conservatives because if you think about it, conservatives are the most armed group of people maybe in the world, and they have not become dangerous.

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They have not in any way retaliated. They have not threatened to retaliate. I mean, beyond stuff you see on social media that's not serious. But nobody seriously said, this is too much. We're going to take to the streets or we're going to go get our guns. And that's good. Do not go get your gun. And taking to the street is probably just going to end up with you in jail. So I'm very impressed that

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that the political right has this much self-control. But there certainly needs to be some kind of response, ideally nonviolent and completely legal. But I guess we'll depend on Trump. Meanwhile, there's a little drama with some of the right-leaning influencers.

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So you probably know that the so-called SNAP payments, which is a program to allow low-income people to buy food with government funding, it's called the SNAP program. So at the moment, you're allowed to buy soda.

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with your government funded snap payment and there was a conversation about maybe that should be banned but of course big soda wants to make billions of dollars because they make a ton of money on the snap people buying soda but it turns out that there was a influence company called influenceable

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that had been paying right-leaning podcasters to say that these people should be able to have their freedom to use the money for what they want, and if they want to buy soda, that's their business. Now, I'm not going to name any names, because I'm not into destroying the right-leaning podcasters, but apparently there was a lot of money involved.

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So they did a study, and it's led by Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And what they did was they had ordinary people send their arguments to other ordinary people and see if anybody could change anybody's mind on some political topics.

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And the money involved was different by each person, I guess, depending on the size of their audience. But they were asked to do their own posts on Axe and to say that Trump has a button for buying soda, so why can't other people buy soda? And I remember reading it and thinking to myself,

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These don't look like real opinions because I thought to myself, who thinks that it's just a question of freedom? It's more a question of should I pay somebody to buy soda? And that's a good question. Should I pay somebody with my own, you know, the taxes I'm paying? Should I pay for soda? What else? Candy? What other things should I be paying?

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I mean, I like the idea of keeping alive and keeping healthy people who have low income. That's appropriate. But do I have to feed their addictions too? What else am I supposed to pay for? So I was very, very, I guess I was alerted when I saw some of the posts. And I never commented on them because I was just puzzled.

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because I saw a bunch of... It seemed like there were a bunch of people at the same time saying, hey, Trump's gone too far. Let people buy whatever they want. We're a free country. And I thought, really? Are those real opinions? Turns out they weren't. They were not real opinions. They were paid opinions. So if you care about who is spreading those opinions... I'll refer you to the internet.

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It's not my business, but if you want to figure out who it was, that might be interesting to you. According to Scott Pressler again, somebody named Susan Espo, she works on New Jersey early voting registration, so she must be working with Scott, is registering voters at Tesla charging stations. So this seems like maybe one of the best ideas ever

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Imagine going to a Tesla charging station and you're maybe a Democrat who's had enough, you know, because you don't want your own car being threatened. You don't want your charging situation to be threatened. And just having somebody say, you know, you can register as a Republican and then you would be opposed to all those things that are opposed to you.

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So I don't know if it works, but it's a heck of a good thing to try. Mike Benz is warning on a podcast recently, maybe it wasn't recently, that the Doge situation is going to get a lot more exciting when the Pentagon has to explain where its $35 trillion went into a black hole. And that's about the size of the entire national debt, $35 trillion.

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Amazingly, 30% of the people who were targeted, they all knew they were in the study, but 30% of them changed their opinions after citizens tried to persuade them. And allegedly... What they learned is what kind of persuasion works to change somebody's mind about politics. So here's what they think they found. That it's better if you pace. That's a term I've taught you before.

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So do you think that the problem with the Pentagon is that they just have bad accounting, but that serious people were doing the right things to make the country safer? Or do you think it's possible that the Pentagon is 60% defending the country and 40% a scam, where people in power or certain positions simply know how to hide money and launder it and just take their cut?

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To me, it looks like almost certainly with this lack of accounting and accountability. Anytime you have that much money involved and that many people involved and there's no accounting, that should lead to massive fraud and theft every single time.

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If the only thing you knew was there's no accounting, huge amounts of money, and lots of people involved, you wouldn't have to wonder if there's massive fraud. because it really can't go any other way. That's the way everything goes all the time, if you have those situations. Anyway, speaking of the U.S. Navy, Fox News says that the U.S.

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Navy is deploying a second guided missile warship to patrol the waters near our southern border. So these would be anti-cartel warships with guided missiles. So my question for you is, are those guided missiles going to be used against the cartels?

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Or is it just the ship is being used more generally, maybe for, I don't know, monitoring things or stopping ships that look suspicious, but maybe they don't plan to use the missiles. But on the other hand, one of the things that Trump brings to the party, is that you never know what he's going to do. So imagine you're a cartel fentanyl lab, and you hear that a second U.S.

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Navy ship with guided missiles just pulled up to the border. At the same time that Trump has warned, if fentanyl doesn't stop coming across our border, we're going to light up Mexico. I feel like that would cause the cartels to have to move their operations every night. because they couldn't keep it in the same place twice because they know our Reaper drones are flying over looking for them.

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And I feel like at this point we can spot them pretty easily. So it could be that the Trump uncertainty will so disrupt their operation because they think one of these guided missiles is going to drop on their head any minute. It might be making a real difference, not a permanent difference, but it could be disrupting things quite a bit.

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Well, here's a question that I finally decided I was going to look into a little deeper, which is the question of can you trust Putin? Now, what do you think? Can we trust Putin? If we made a deal with Putin and we signed the deal and everybody was happy with it, do you think he could keep the deal? Or does he have a history of breaking deals?

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So I asked Grok to list me the deals that Putin had made that he broke. And immediately I found out this is not so easy because for most of the deals that got broken, the one that broke it says, well, I didn't break it first. You know, you did something to break it, and then, of course, I broke it.

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And I'm not sure I'm smart enough to adjudicate each of those cases, but let me just tell you what Grok said. So Grok said there was this Budapest memorandum in 1994 about the annexation of Crimea and that there was some agreement that Russia would not go after Crimea. But in fact, they did in 2014. However, I think they may have said that somebody else broke the agreement first.

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There was a Russia-Georgia ceasefire agreement in 2008. Russia has since maintained military presence in Georgia. So without getting into the details of each of those, at least Grok thinks that he violated the agreement. There was the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty that was originally signed by the USSR. And in 2014, the U.S. accused Russia of violating it, basically.

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Now, I think that's another one where he accused us first. So each of those have this quality that you can violate any agreement if you can make any argument that the other side was doing it first. Then there was the Minsk Accords aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but then Russia supported separatist forces, so they broke that, according to Grok.

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You sort of match the person you're supposed to persuade. So instead of coming at them as, I have superior knowledge. If only you knew what I knew. That doesn't work. In fact, they called that out as the bad way to persuade. So you don't want to start off with all of your news sources are fake. I know everything you know, but you don't know everything I know.

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There was a NATO-Russia founding act. So anyway, so without getting into the details of all these acts, so there were a bunch of examples. But then I said, just for completeness, I said, hey, Grok, give me a list of agreements that the United States violated that had something to do with Russia. And it said the... Budapest Memorandum, the Russia-Georgia ceasefire.

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Wait a minute, these are the same ones. Intermediate range, nuclear force, the Minsk Accords. So in other words, there's just an argument on both sides. In one case, we said something was... Let me see. I think that was the same. I'm getting confused with some of these treaties because I'm not familiar with all of them.

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But generally speaking, there's an argument that we lied to Putin, and there's an argument that Putin lied to us, and it looks like neither of us keep any agreements.

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So how in the world could you make a deal with Russia when Russia quite reasonably thinks we won't keep our deal, because we do have a history of that, and we quite reasonably think he won't keep his deal, because he has a history of that. neither of us could be trusted. So the only way you could get a deal is if both sides had overwhelming advantage in keeping the deal.

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Can we make that kind of deal? I'm going to say again that I don't think peace in Ukraine is going to come anytime soon. I don't see a big announcement in two or three weeks that actually sticks. There might be a big announcement in but it might be just to put Ukraine in a box. And if Ukraine says no, we can say, all right, well, we tried, you're on your own. So there might be some of that.

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Anyway, so Meta, the company Meta that owns Instagram, they're experimenting with putting AI generated comments on Instagram. Now, the example given was if somebody puts a picture of themselves, they've just redesigned their living room, and they're doing a thumbs up, that the Meta AI would give you a bunch of comments that you could just click.

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And some of the comments would be, this is just their example, great photo shoot location, or a cute living room setup, or love the cozy atmosphere. And then instead of coming up with your own comment, you could just click one and that would be the comment you leave. Now, here's the problem. If you imagine that, you know, that exists, you're always going to pick that, aren't you?

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Like 90% of the world are just NBCs anyway. And so they're going to say, I'll just pick one of these comments. And at that point, what's even the point of the comments? It's just somebody picking one that sounds good. It would be more like spam than it would be like a comment. So they're just testing it. So it doesn't mean it's going to be a permanent feature, but they're testing it.

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Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, China has made a big breakthrough in EV battery charges and they can charge something in one minute and 77% of the initial capacity stays there after 500 rapid charges. Now, almost every day I see a news story about batteries being improved by adding some capability to them. I'll tell you, there's just going to be a huge revolution

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And if you were as smart as I am, you would have a different opinion. Apparently that doesn't work at all, surprisingly. But what does work is if you identify the topic as if through the lens of the person you're trying to persuade. So you sort of adopt their point of view to show that you can. And then you don't seem like you're the superior one lording it over him.

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And the next few years in battery technology, it's going to change everything. You're going to be flying your electric car faster than you think. All right, people. That's what I've got for you today on this Sunday. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining. And appreciate it every day. Thanks for joining on YouTube and RumbleNX.

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And locals, I'm going to come at you privately.

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It just feels like you're them. Oh, you and I have the same opinions. Okay. Oh, but you know a little bit more. Okay. Well, I'll change my opinion. But here's what I think. I'm not sure that study proved what they think it does. Here's my opinion. I think that if you took 100 people, you could find that 30% of them weren't really paying attention to politics in the first place.

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So if you took the people, you know, 70% are just locked in and there's no way you can persuade them. But 30% would be, well, you know, I know a little bit about climate change. That was one of the topics. But I don't know that much. So if somebody that they saw as a peer told them things about climate change that they'd never heard, they would say, oh, well, okay. I've never heard of that before.

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That'll change my opinions. But they were never really locked in. So here's my persuasion take on this. If somebody is really paying attention and they think they know politics and they think they know the topic, there's nothing you can do to change their opinion. It doesn't matter why you do. You're not going to change it.

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But if somebody has a very weak understanding of a topic and they're not really locked in, they've never protested for it, they've never commented on it on social media, Well, they can change their mind because they're not locked in.

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And it probably does make sense that you sort of bring yourself down to their level of understanding and make sure that you can bond with them before you give them a little extra information that might change their mind. So that's your persuasion tip of the day. Well, here's a story that I swear I thought was a fake news.

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Apparently, Trump was asked, Fox News is reporting this, he was asked if the US would consider joining the British Commonwealth if King Charles offered it. And here's the part I didn't believe. Trump was enthusiastically interested in doing that. Now, what? Doesn't that sound like the very opposite of America first? He would actually consider joining the British Commonwealth, which has 56 members.

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I think either all of them or most of them are former colonies, so a lot of them speak English, etc., or at least one of the languages would be English. And I said to myself, am I crazy?

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is trump really saying that hold on hold on we're going to do a little test remember i just taught you a persuasion trick so here's here's me using the same persuasion trick since almost none of you had a preconceived idea about the u.s joining the british commonwealth I believe that you're not really settled into an opinion that you can't change. So that's the first thing.

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Most of you don't really know what that means. I didn't. I had to look it up. So I only did some research on it just before the show. So like you, I didn't know what the British Commonwealth was, at least in terms of did it make sense for the U.S. to join it. But weirdly, there's an argument for doing it. There's an actual argument for it.

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He's the founder of Salesforce. Very smart, very futurist-looking kind of a guy. He was reposting on X a video of a company showing off their robot, and he said that if you take DeepSeek, which is that Chinese AI that costs just pennies to use, and you combine it with Unitree, which is basically a cheap humanoid-looking robot. It goes for about $16,000.

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And again, Trump was ahead of the curve because he understood the question well enough to know that maybe, maybe, not guaranteed, but maybe. So here's what you need to know. Being in the British Commonwealth does not obligate you to do anything. It's a voluntary thing. You don't have to be in it, and the British government can't tell you what to do.

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So it's definitely not about giving up any sovereignty. So there's no sovereignty given up. You have full control before you join. You have full control after you join. And you could quit any time if it doesn't work for you. But what would be the upside? Well, it turns out that it might. I asked Grok. So this is just one of AI's opinion.

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And they had a number of categories that might be beneficial. but a lot of them seemed not as important as the economic stuff. But apparently it might give us, the U.S., a little more access to the other Commonwealth countries as markets. Now that's interesting.

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So maybe, and I don't know the details, maybe there's just a little extra or a little less friction selling into markets that are part of the Commonwealth if you're also part of the Commonwealth. Now, I don't know what the details of that would be. This is just Grok talking. But it says access to Commonwealth networks. So access to those countries.

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Apparently there might be some benefit in trade dispute resolution if you're all part of the Commonwealth. I don't know the details. And it could encourage U.S. businesses to expand into member states benefiting from their access. So The argument would be that it doesn't cost us anything. We wouldn't be obligated to anything. There would be 56 countries. Most of them speak English.

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And they would just have a little bit of better feeling about us because we joined their club. Isn't that interesting? So there's no downside. Apparently there's no downside whatsoever, but there's a potential upside. It would just be a little bit easier to do business and resolve disputes if you were part of the same commonwealth. Huh. I didn't see that coming.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains... All you need is a cup or mug or a glass of deck, tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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so all right let's test so i used the persuasion technique that i told you and i picked a topic that most of you didn't have a hardened opinion about because it was just on a left field how many of you started out like i did started out with hell no hell no we're not giving away our sovereignty

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But then when I explained that there's no sovereignty change whatsoever, but there might be some economic benefit that's not super obvious, but makes sense. Anybody change their mind? Did anybody say, huh, you know, actually that doesn't sound terrible. I'm just looking at your comments to see if I changed any minds. All right, you can work on that.

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According to the Amuse account on X that you should all be following, Quinnipiac, they got a latest poll that says, for the first time ever, the congressional Democrats are underwater, meaning fewer than 50% of their base likes them, while at the same time, congressional Republicans are approaching record high favorability.

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So at the same time, Democrats are at record low favorability, or they're in that neighborhood, Republicans in Congress are at record high favorability. Now, that should be enough to guarantee that the midterms go to the Republicans. But, you know, nothing really works that easily. But it's quite a period in time.

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It does further suggest that the Democrats don't have policies and plans that the public is interested in. You probably are aware that there's a new book out by two Democrats, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and the book is called Abundance. And I heard some people say Democrats say positive things about it and say it's all the buzz and everybody's talking about it.

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So I thought to myself, huh, what could this book be about? So I asked AI to summarize it. And as far as I could tell, the suggestion in the book is for Democrats to become Republicans and just act like it was always their idea. Now, I didn't read the book. So there's a very good chance that I'm not summarizing it correctly.

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I think there might be an expensive version, too. He said that it's not a science fiction anymore, so we're right on the verge of AI plus robots, except... I'm pretty sure that the video he sent around was CGI. I don't think we're close. I don't think that the current version of AI, no matter what you do, you're not going to make a robot be able to generally do stuff.

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But the abundance refers to using capitalism in its best way to create enough stuff so your prices go down. So if you use capitalism properly, there would be more homes and then they would be more affordable. If you use capitalism properly, there'd be more food and your prices would go down. There'd be more gas and your prices would go down. So how do they do that?

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Well, a big part of it is removing regulations that aren't critical. Now, what does that sound like? It's literally just mainstream Republican policy. Let's bring our manufacturing back to our shores. Let's get rid of burdensome regulations. It just sounds exactly like being a Republican.

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You feel like doing it this morning. You know when everything goes wrong all at the same time and you've got two minutes to show time? You never really recover. There's something about the first minute that sets the tone. So just imagine I gave you the simultaneous sip and then you had a sip. Nothing's working today. Maybe that's what I needed. Maybe it was the coffee I needed. Audio is good.

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Joe seemed to think that that was a terrible idea and that, you know, I guess they could find your address and everything else if your address is public. So here's my take on this. You can wish that this didn't exist. You could hope that people would not use these glasses for something that looks like a privacy violation of some sort. But it's not going to happen.

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I mean, if you increase production to meet the demand, it's still not doing anything. Trump is reopening 625 miles of ocean that Biden had banned from drilling. But is anybody drilling? Is there anybody who's like, yeah, we're going to get going in that place we wanted to but weren't? So wouldn't you like to know about that? But I also saw that

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making peace with Russia should have some impact on energy prices because that would allow what? Russia to produce more energy? I don't know. I think they're producing all they want. So I don't see how that's going to lower our prices. And then Trump did call on OPEC to increase production, which if they did that, would lower energy prices. But are they doing it? So you see the problem, right?

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Trump made a big deal about betting on energy, American energy. So if we increase our energy production, we could not only make more money by selling it, yay, but we could lower our own costs by having more supply than there is demand, at least changing the balance. But is any of that happening? So here's what I would suggest for the administration. I feel like Doug Burgum needs some help.

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And like I said, he's probably a solid interior minister, but sometimes promotion is a whole different field. And he doesn't seem like the promotion guy. Now, I don't want to see a bunch of BS, but don't you think that real things are brewing that could actually lower energy costs? And if there aren't,

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Well, I like to know that because I'm pretty much our entire future depends on energy booming and lowering our energy prices. Cause nothing else is going to take the price of eggs down. Right now. I do love the things that Trump is doing with lowering, you know, with doge, et cetera.

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So as long as we can get Congress to not spend all those savings, which I think they want to do, then maybe in the longterm. You know, prices and inflation will be controlled and that helps on prices, but I'm not seeing the Trump administration draw a straight line between what they're doing and the price of eggs or even the price of energy. Um, so we kind of need that, don't we?

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It's conspicuously missing, uh, given that the Trump administration is so good at promotion. And energy has got to be right at the top of the things that you would want to promote if there's something happening. But I guess I'm going to say I'm not aware of anything that would make a difference. So that's a little disturbing. There's a new study on studies. I like studies about studies.

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This is a study that shows... that research papers, they looked at 82 climate studies. What do you think they found? Well, don't get ahead of me. It said that not a single paper of those 82 disclosed a conflict of interest in over 29 years. So over a 29 year period, nobody who did these studies ever disclosed if they had a conflict of interest. Do you think they have any?

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Well, here's what they found out. So 68% of NGO-funded studies claimed that climate change drastically increased hurricane activity. So more than two-thirds of all NGO-funded climate studies say, oh, this is making the hurricanes much worse. What do you think would be the answer of people who are not funded by an NGO? Now, an NGO would be something like You know, I'll just make this up.

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It would be like the Green Climate Initiative NGO. So it's basically people who want the study to say that climate change is real, and they want the study that they're funding to say that it's dire. And 68% of the people who took money from the people who want to show how dire it is showed how dire it was, two-thirds of them.

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But of the people who did not take money from NGOs, they had a very clear incentive structure. Only 22% of them said that the hurricanes are getting worse because of climate change. 22% versus 68. And so the 22% were people who just got government or academic research. that was maybe a little more neutral. It's like, here's your money, come tell us what happened.

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So it's not that I'm in favor of it or against it. It's sort of like complaining about the rain. It's just going to rain, whether you complain about it or not. And technology is definitely going to give you this capability. You will be able to see things in your glasses that are not in the environment. Some of it will be telling you something about the person you're talking to. I guarantee it.

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Whereas the NGOs are really directly political, I think in most cases. So there you go, your studies match the desires of the people who funded them. And they didn't disclose that they had that conflict. So that would be a conflict if your funding came from an NGO and the NGO definitely wanted a certain answer. Because you know they did. You know they did.

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And apparently the NGO grants were far more, four times as large as the normal academic study. Now, even in the academic world, People are gonna be pressed to say climate change is real. And even if you're funded just by the government, not through an NGO, you're still gonna feel like you need to come up with something that agrees with the government. So climate science, not really science.

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Remember they say, trust the science. If you knew that the source of the funding completely changed the outcomes, the source of the funding, not the science, the source of the funding. If you know that, and there's such a big difference, 22% compared to 68, that's not really science, is it? All right. Here's what I like to say about climate change. Where do you find out about the climate models?

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Some of you who follow me already know what I mean about that. But I'm fascinated by the category of communication, which is something that can't be communicated. For example, you know the story about the little boy who cried wolf? He warned that a wolf was coming when there wasn't.

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So many times that when a real wolf was coming, and he said, there's a wolf coming, everybody said, ah, that's that little kid who cries wolf all the time, so they ignored him. So that was a case where the boy who cried wolf could not communicate a real thing because people weren't ready for it. Now, that's also true if you get your information from your enemy, you don't believe it.

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There's a whole bunch of categories of things that can't be communicated. Here's another one. If physics came up with some great new thing, but the physicist wanted to explain it to me, do you think they could do it? Not really. It'd be stuff like, well, then the muon went through the quantum phase into the multidimensions. And I'd be, I don't know what any of those mean.

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I don't know what you're saying. Well, but then the fluctuation of the Schrodinger's cat, blah, blah. And I'd say, nope, still nothing. I have no idea what you're talking about. So that would be something you can't communicate to. But what I know about climate models is in that category.

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So I used to say, let me give you all my detailed explanation about why the climate models couldn't possibly be real. And unless you have an hour to sit there and you can watch me do it on a whiteboard, I can't communicate it. So it's just funnier for me to say, wait till you find out. Because you will find out. I'm completely certain.

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that the climate models are going to have their day of judgment, where even the smart people say, I didn't know this about the climate models, but now that I know it, that changes everything. It's coming. I guarantee it. Anyway, the National Institute of Health stopped considering new grants because the Doge either the Doge cross-cutting or some other effect from Doge.

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And the idea here is that the scientists are feeling like, oh, no, it's the end of the world because we have all these things we want to get funding for and grants, but the National Institute of Health is now kind of constipated and they can't make it happen. Well, I saw a mocking post by Vinay Prasad, doctor,

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There's no way around it, whether it comes from individuals who are hacking it or it comes from the company meta. It's just gonna happen. So again, I'm not in favor of it or against it. It's just gonna happen. But in related news,

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Now, Vinay is well known, at least on the internet, for debunking research studies and teaching us how unreliable the scientific literature is, meaning the studies. So here's what he says about the NIH pausing their funding of new grants. He goes, oh, no.

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There are delays in a broken, inadequate and corrupt system that produces fraudulent and irreproducible research and has never subjected itself to empirical testing. If this keeps up, we might break a system where scientists spend 60 hours a week writing grants. That's pretty brutal. But here's what I would say. It reminded me of Elon Musk's engineering rule. You said this a number of times.

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One of the biggest mistakes you can make in engineering is to try to optimize something that shouldn't exist. Like if you have a feature that nobody uses, if you're spending time making it better, maybe you should just get rid of it. So this is one of those things where the National Institute of Health, yeah, I guess they'd like to optimize it.

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But at least the way it has been running up to now, it doesn't have any credibility. So Maybe we just don't need it. Maybe we shouldn't fix it. Meanwhile, over in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, he's got this idea that mothers would be exempt from income tax forever. But you'd have to be a mother of two or more.

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So if you had two or more kids, you could be exempt from income taxes in his country forever. Does that sound like it could work? I'd love to think that it would, because, you know, wouldn't it be great if there were some simple formula for increasing your local population? Because a lot of countries would need that. But doesn't that seem kind of easy to game that system?

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So, for example, if the wife's income is not taxed ever, but the husband's income is taxed, what do you think the family's going to do? Well, one thing they might do if it's a small business, they would just put all the income in the wife's name.

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The other thing is, if both the man and the woman are capable of getting jobs that are similar, they might say, hey, how about the husband stays home because he gets taxed if he works and the wife will go to work and the husband will take care of the kids because the wife goes to work and doesn't get taxed. Well, that's not exactly what... Hungary is trying to accomplish.

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They're not trying to accomplish stay-at-home husbands and new mothers who are going to work and leaving their kids at home. But wouldn't that happen? And how do you promise that any tax exemption will be lifelong? Lifelong? What happens if the government changes tomorrow? You can't guarantee anything lifelong. That's not a thing. So I guess I just wonder if they have enough controls on that.

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There's, according to the Brighter Side of News, Joshua Shafin is writing, that there's some emotion-sensitive technology that people could wear so you could tell what their emotions are in real time. I guess they figured out how to use galvanic skin responses in a more granular way than we've used them before so that you could actually tell people's specific and immediate emotions.

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I mean, obviously they had to think about all those same things I'm mentioning, but it makes me wonder if it's practical. We'll keep an eye on this one. According to Just the News, Trump administration is making it a little easier to get some homeschooling started. I guess the Biden administration required a federal review of, quote, how states approve and select private entities for

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Uh, homeschooling. And I think the Trump administration said, nah, get rid of that. Um, you States just do what you need to do and give us more homeschooling. And that seems like the right decision. I like that. All right. Here's something I noticed. that I thought I'd noticed the pattern. And so I asked Grok if this pattern is real or I'm just imagining it.

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And the pattern is that the people who know the most about the government, I'm sorry, the people who know the most about business, the most experienced people are kind of on the same side about Doge, that it's a good system and it's probably gonna work. And the people who know the least are the ones who have the criticisms because they don't know how things work in the real world.

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But I made a list of the dumbest takes on Doge. If you have ever said any one of these things, you're probably not very experienced. You might have a high IQ. I see a lot of like PhDs and stuff weighing in on social media. But they clearly don't have job experience of being a leader and having to manage big groups and stuff like that. So here are the worst takes.

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I pinned this to my ex-account if you want to see it. The worst takes on Doge. Now, these all come from the most inexperienced people. People with experience, you know, who have managed big groups, who have done their own layoffs, who have been through layoffs, they kind of think that Doge is doing the right thing, which is move fast, break things, fix it, keep moving. That's the real world.

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In the real world, that's the way you do it, exactly the way Musk is laying it out. But the people who don't have that real world experience, mostly the media pundits and the academics and stuff, here's what they say. Now, I'm not going to tell you what's wrong with each of these things. Because again, if you have experience, you know exactly what's wrong with them.

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And if you don't, well, again, I can't fix that with a few lines of wisdom. So I'll just tell you what the dumb mistakes are. Number one, doge should use a scalpel, not a chainsaw. You with me so far? If you ever said doge should use a scalpel, not a chainsaw, you really don't understand much about anything. I don't even need to get into it. I mean, I could, but... But you all see it, right?

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Well, maybe you don't. Because what I'm saying is it's not based on IQ. It's literally based on experience. If you have experience, you know that the chainsaw is the right tool. All right, here's another one. The cuts need to be more thoughtful. The cuts need to be more thoughtful. What? You can say that about everything.

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Well, I think Musk is trying to put a rocket to Mars, but I think he should be more thoughtful about it. All right. Somebody is doing something. It doesn't matter what it is. I think they should be more thoughtful about it. Okay. Isn't that kind of true of everything all the time? No, you shouldn't be more thoughtful about it.

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You should cut with your chainsaw, see what gets broken, put it back together, move on. Doge is lowering morale among the people who are affected. Yeah, of course it's lowering morale. But have you ever seen a company where they're doing big layoffs and all the people are like, yeah, I'm so happy I work here this week with all the layoffs and stuff.

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No, you can't do big layoffs and cost cutting and also maintain morale for the same period that you're doing the cost cutting. That's not a thing. You don't even bring it up. It's just not a thing. Nobody can do it. It's never been done. Nobody will ever do it. No, morale goes down when you cut budgets. That's it. Got to live with it. How about Doge is creating chaos? Chaos.

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based on what's happening around them. Now it's not exactly completely done and it's a level above mood rings and things that we've had before. But now imagine putting these two technologies together. So imagine you could walk up to a stranger and you would know something about them.

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Yeah, it's creating a little chaos. But you're going to have to take that to the second level, which is, and that's bad because the chaos stole your democracy? The chaos... Slowed it down? No, the chaos came from going fast. So it's not about slowing things down. It's just a generic political word.

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Have you noticed that no matter what Trump does, way before Doge, no matter what Trump did, let's see, what's that say? Somebody's trying to get my attention on something. like to see him get more aggressive. Yeah. So, all right. So Trump is saying on true social directly to Elon who responded that he wants to see Elon get more aggressive, which would be more chainsaw, more chaos, lower morale.

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Now, is that a mistake? No, it's not. It's not a mistake. It's very good that Trump is, uh, inserting himself to say there should be more of it. That's exactly the right framing. Because if you're wondering if it's already gone too far, it's too fast, it's too chainsaw-y, it's too much chaos. Well, there's the president of the United States saying, you know, we need more of it, no less.

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And all the smart people are going to say, yeah, yeah, more would be better. Here's another one that's dumb. Doge is how Musk will rob the country. All right. Musk was not elected. Okay. Doge needs to be more transparent. Could you imagine if Doge were more transparent? Do you know what that would look like? We went into this organization. They have 10,000 NGOs and 400 departments.

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We've decided that we'll downsize by 8% the department of energy, democracy, for America, freedom. And you'll be like, what even was that? Well, here's a long description of what that department did. I was like, okay, I'm not going to read that long description. And here's 7,000 more of them we did today. How in the world could they possibly be more transparent in a way that would help anybody?

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Because unless you're one of those geniuses who's really digging into these things, you don't even know what the department does. You don't know if they need more of it or less of it. They could be the most transparent project in the world, and you wouldn't know anything.

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You would just hear the names of things, and now, okay, all right, well, that sounded like the name of it was good, but they're cutting it. Why would they cut something that has a name that sounds good, but maybe the name isn't, you know, Very indicative of what it is.

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And let's say one of the things about them is they like dogs because they've got a lot of dogs on their social media. You could immediately engage them in a conversation. If you were shy, you could walk up and say, whoa, you've got a corgi? My aunt had a corgi. Those are great. That would be a little creepy if they didn't know you had the special glasses on.

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Anyway, if you find yourself tempted to say any of those things about Doge, I recommend taking a week off, because you're not going to look smart in public. And then I saw on the X that an ex-user named Matt Van Swall pointed out that Jeff Bezos laid off 1,400 people from his Blue Origin space company last week. So he laid off 1,400 people, and not a single one of them is on 60 Minutes Bitching.

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And then Matt says, do you get it yet? Okay, do you get it? Do you think that Jeff Bezos used a scalpel? Do you think he used a scalpel to get rid of 1,400 people? I think he told his managers to do whatever they need to do to get rid of 1,400 people. And then they did what they did to do. I don't know how much scalping there was. And do you think he did it without lowering morale?

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Oh, I would think that the other people were a little bit nervous and they lost their friends who worked with them. Yeah, of course it lowers morale. But Jeff Bezos did it anyway because it's a smart thing to do. And every big company acts the same because they know how to do this. Then there's the issue of...

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Doge and Musk have demanded or asked, I guess, that every member of the government sends an email by, I guess, Monday by noon or something that says what they accomplished last week. And then a lot of people are pushing back. Kash Patel said they'll do their own performance reviews. They don't need other people to do it. State Department had some diplomat pushing back.

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So you're gonna see a whole bunch of pushback. But if you see it as a way to figure out who to fire, it's more than that. It's more than that. My first take was that you should see it as a reframe

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Because if somebody says, tell me what you did last week, if you go through that cycle even once of, uh-oh, somebody's asking me to prove that I'm doing something useful, you're gonna start thinking that way. So you're gonna say to yourself, uh-oh, what if they ask again at the end of this week? So you're gonna start doing useful things because you know somebody's gonna check on you.

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So I think partly it's a reframe to make people think, in terms of productivity, instead of in terms of just staying out of trouble or hiding at home or working at home or processing some transactions. It's like, how do you actually accomplish something? You should be thinking about that every day, if not every week. So as a reframe, I like it.

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Obviously there'll be tons of people who don't answer at all and tons of people who just make stuff up. How hard would it be to say that you accomplished something last week? How hard would that be? No matter what job you had, Because nobody's going to check it. They're just going to look at the email and see if there's something on it. So if you said, well, I processed 17 big projects last week.

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I approved them. And that's good. Yeah. But what Elon Musk said is that what they're trying to do is maybe find people who are so uninvolved in work that they don't even check their emails. And there's some thought that there might be people who don't do any work and maybe you're not even employees somehow, or somehow some people are getting money. for fraudulent reasons.

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But imagine a time when everybody has them, everybody knows. And then you could determine whether the things you were saying were making the person you're talking to happy or not. I don't know. There could be a big benefit to shy people because shy people don't know what to say to new people that they're meeting. That's the biggest problem. If they knew exactly what to say, Nobody would be shy.

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And the email, if they don't get an email from that person, that would be the one you look into. It's like, hmm, why is this one person unable to even lie about what they've done recently? If you can't at least lie about it, which is the normal way business does this, the employees all lie about what they accomplished. If you can't at least lie about it, you might not even be a real person.

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So that would be useful. So when you look at this email thing, it's like Doge small doge big is move fast break things and fix it doge small is give us an email to say what you did because you know we might make some decisions based on that now that's also a really messy process you can imagine a thousand ways that

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could go wrong if somebody was on vacation and didn't get the email or somebody just forgot to send an email but they're actually very productive so you see all these ways it could go wrong but still sometimes you got to shake the box and see what you learn so to imagine that um somebody like musk is going to be looking at the emails and say huh yep this one i guess i can cut this 10 i don't think that's going to happen

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I think they're just testing to see if anybody can even write an email that says they did something. It's going to be less about what they did than whether or not they get the email. And I don't think they're going to make some broad rule like if you didn't respond, you're fired. I doubt that. But it will give them an idea of where to look. That might be good. Did I hear from...

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The five that Democrats are holding town halls as kind of their response to being in a power and trying to build some kind of Trump rally situation light, you know, like the baby version of it. Is that a real thing? And then there was some thought that the attendees were paid attendees. And I thought that would be so weak if Trump could give these gigantic outdoor rallies.

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but the Democrats' response is paid attendees at an indoor town hall. So, and I was trying to think, why is it that we don't see more like Trump rally things on the left? And part of the reason I think is that they hate spending time with each other. If you go to a Trump rally, I haven't done this, but I guarantee this is true, based on all the reporting that people have.

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If you go to a Trump rally, you're going to see a whole bunch of people who are very happy to be with the other bunch of people. And they're happier than they were when they were sitting home. It's like, oh, I'm with my people. But Democrats don't have that option because they've got the crazy left, super left, and then the normies.

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The normies and the crazies aren't going to exactly fit together in the same room. So I don't know if Democrats even have the option of having any kind of a rally that doesn't go wrong that's real. All right. You've probably seen on social media that Elon Musk is having another baby mama drama. And I'm not even going to mention the name of the mother. It's a known influencer.

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But I'm not interested in their business. And we don't know enough about what they agreed to, what they didn't agree to. We just don't know who did what to whom. And we're never going to know. And it's none of our business. But one of the things that came out of it is screen captures that actually were taken with a separate device, not actually a screen capture of signal messages, the signal app.

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Now, the signal app is what people believe is protected, that it's encrypted and you can set the messages to disappear. But even if you set the messages to disappear, it doesn't stop somebody from taking a second device and just recording what's on the screen before it disappears. And that's what happened. So some of Elon's private, very private messages to the baby mama are now public.

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They're public. And here's what I want to tell you. It has nothing to do with Elon Musk or anybody else. If you think that your digital messages, no matter where you put them or who you send them to, if you think they're private, you're so wrong. You're so wrong. And let me tell you my experience, especially.

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So in the 90s, when Dilbert was a much bigger phenomenon than maybe you could even imagine by today's standards, I was... What would I say? At least within the tech world, I was quite a celebrity. Not so much now. But during those days, it was just wild. And one of the things I noticed is that people would often comment to me in some

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But imagine if you just saw enough about somebody that you could walk up to anybody and just use their name and you'd know something about them. It would solve a lot of shyness problems, speaking as a shy person. Well, I'm a recovered shy person. The best way to recover from shyness is to become famous. It turns out that when you're famous, all that shyness stuff just goes away.

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private way, you know, something essentially a DM like situation. And sometimes I would answer and it'd be somebody I didn't know, you know, a complete stranger, but they would ask a question or they challenged me on an opinion. I'd give a full answer sometimes just to strangers.

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Now I would think to myself before I became smart, you know, when I was inexperienced, I would think to myself, this is a private conversation. and the person knows it, so it's going to stay that way because that's the way your other private conversations stay, right? Here's what I don't count on, but I'm smarter now, so I do.

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If you're a celebrity, 100% of your messages get screenshotted, 100%, and they're always sent around. If it's something that can embarrass you, it'll be published, guaranteed. Now, I'm not talking about your best friends necessarily, but even your old lovers and stuff could be doing the same thing. So it's a real wake-up call.

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So if you're Elon Musk, clearly he knows at this point in his life, clearly he knows that everything he says is getting screenshotted. Don't you think? Everything? Do you think that when he replies or boosts somebody on X... You don't think that person takes a screenshot immediately and sends it to their friends. Hey, look, I do. I'm also sort of kind of a celebrity. And even I do that.

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It's like, hey, did you see this? Because it means something. It's meaningful, right? It's not nothing. It's definitely something. So no matter how jaded you are, you still think it's kind of just kind of cool. It doesn't change your life, but hey, this is cool. Somebody that you respect agreed with you in public. Nice. So my lesson here is there is no privacy. There is no privacy.

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And the more well-known or controversial you are, it just goes to zero. But here's the thing. Having now read the baby mama's messages and also Elon Musk's responses, I think it's obvious that Elon knows he's never private. Because if you look at the quality of his responses, they are things which if they got public, and they did, you'd say, okay, that was totally reasonable.

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That's just a reasonable thing to say in that situation. Friendly and reasonable. Now, that's somebody who learned the hard way that everything he writes is public, one way or another. It's either gonna be shown to somebody's friends or their family or somebody.

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So it was just sort of fun to watch the difference because the baby mama in this case said a few things that I don't know if she wanted those to be public. That was somebody who thought maybe her messages were still private sometimes. But you see Musk's very straightforward, ordinary, common sense stuff.

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The other thing I've learned, not from the Elon Musk situation, but I've learned from other celebrities recently where their messages are public. There are a lot of people who are really bad at dirty talk. Now, I'm not talking about Musk in this case. I'm talking about other people. But have you noticed that? You never really see other people's dirty talk like I don't.

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I mean, I never see a guy's dirty talk because it's not directly to me. And women don't really do it. So to me, it's like this invisible world. Like everybody thinks they can do it. But it's actually a skill. And very few people can. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes the best that guys are doing are stuff like, can you come over here? I want to put it in you. What? What? That was your best dirty talk?

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I did not expect that. Anyway, so there's two technologies that have changed things. We'll get to the big politics in a minute. So according to Fox News, Alexander Hall is reporting that San Francisco Asian American voters are basically walking away from the Democrats. Now, of course, it's not all of them. It's never all of them. Whoever you're talking about, it's never all of anybody. But

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Of course, sometimes it works if they're professional athletes or something. Anyway, Governor Newsom of California asked Congress for about $40 billion for the LA wildfire relief. You know, LA Times is reporting this, Clara Harder, and it seems like the right number, 40 billion, like based on things I've heard, it's not even as high as it could be, but seems like the right number.

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But it's so depressing. to know that Doge can be going crazy, finding things to cut and cutting things. And then one match in California could eat all of those savings. And yeah, that fire wasn't caused by a match as far as we know. But one fire and all the savings basically just absorbed. That is seriously bad. Now, Rick Grinnell says that there will probably be conditions on the funding.

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We don't know if the funding will be granted. It's just been requested. But if it is granted or any portion of it, part of it might have a condition of defunding the California Coastal Commission. So apparently they make it really hard to build anything on the coast, and Trump thinks they need to go away. Maybe that's a plus.

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Well, there's a story that Zelensky has, according to Resist the Mainstream, bend the knee and that he's ready to agree any moment. Maybe it already happened, but allegedly any moment now, Zelensky is going to sign a document that says that he agrees that the United States will be in a partnership to exploit the rare earth minerals in Ukraine for the mutual benefit. Now,

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I wouldn't hold my breath that anything's going to get assigned on that today because we've already gone through one round of you said you'd do it. No, I didn't. I'm going to take all your funding. And I think one of the things that happened was that Trump got really mad at Zelensky. This is the reports from behind the curtain and threatened to remove all American support.

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If he didn't agree to the mineral deal. Now, I don't know about the details of the mineral deal, but he had to agree to a mineral deal or Trump was just going to pull the rug out. And what I love about this is that Trump doesn't bluff. I absolutely believe.

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that if Zelensky had said, no, no, no, there's no way we're going to do the mineral thing, I believe that Trump would have started pulling out our funding right away. Now, he might have reversed himself if Zelensky also reversed himself and changed his mind, but he actually would have. I believe he would have pulled the funding. And what matters is that Zelensky believed it.

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Yeah, when I say he doesn't bluff, I mean that he makes threats that he can actually do. And he will. Now, usually the threats are so bad that if he started to implement the threat, the other side would immediately cave. So the caving is what he wants. He doesn't want to do the threat. So these are real. He doesn't bluff.

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The longer that the rest of the world realizes he doesn't bluff, because he doesn't need to, he just doesn't need to. I mean, he might do it if he needed to, but he doesn't need to. He's got real weapons. Tools. Let's call it tools, not weapons. But here's a little wrinkle. According to the Financial Times, you know how none of the news is real?

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If you knew the real secret behind the news, it would just be completely different every time. According to the Financial Times, Zelensky is the one who proposed that the U.S. take a stake in Ukraine's rare minerals. So the Financial Times says it was Lenski's idea all along, and he brought it up back in September.

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Now, that was long before Trump first said, let's do something with the rare earth minerals, right? Now, I'm not going to say the Financial Times reporting is correct. I'm just going to point that it exists.

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Wouldn't that be wild if we got to this point of thinking that Zelensky was trying to hold out on the rare earth minerals and Trump was trying to get them, but the entire time it was Zelensky's idea and he always liked it from the start. He just wanted to make sure it was good for Ukraine. I don't know. I don't know what to believe anymore. Meanwhile, Britain and France trying to be helpful.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, they think they've got an idea. that they would deploy Britain and France, 3,000 European peacekeepers in Ukraine, but only if there's a ceasefire that looks like it would stick. And they would ask for the United States to backstop them. In other words, if Russia attacked while they had their forces in Ukraine, that the United States would get involved too.

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Does that surprise you? How many of you would be surprised to learn that Asian Americans in San Francisco are starting to turn toward Trump in a fairly dramatic and very measurable way? Who's surprised about that? I would argue that you could only be surprised about that if you didn't have any Asian American friends. Anybody who has Asian American friends, you already knew it. You already knew it.

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To which I say, are they just reinventing NATO? Let's see, NATO,

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european people coordinating to defend against russia and u.s is the biggest you know footprint there but they don't want to do nato because that's what russia objects to so they create a little like proto nato they just don't call it nato oh no it's not nato it's just two of the most important countries and uh being backstopped by the most important country

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okay well that's not nato but it's very nato-ish it's very nato-like so maybe this is how you solve international things you do things that maybe don't make sense on paper but you can sell it you know if you can sell it to the public it's good enough anyway here's a uh what sounds like a tiny story that could be a big one according to the guardian

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There's a research group that figured out how to add some, I guess, microbes or something to soil. And it allows it to absorb nutrients so much better that they could use a lot less fertilizer. So a lot less nitrate and phosphate. Now, you might say, Scott, that's the boring smallest story I've ever heard. I never even think about nitrate and phosphate. But you would.

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If you knew that phosphate in particular, fact check me if I'm wrong, but I think this is true. The phosphate, the main fertilizer, we have a global shortage. And we don't really know how to make up the difference. So the food supply is a genuine threat. Because if fertilizer goes away or we have to use less of it, you're going to get a lot less yield. But this might be a technical fix.

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So we don't know if this is going to be commercial grade yet. But if they did anything that made our existing supply of fertilizer last longer, that'd be a pretty big deal. Pretty big deal. So that's what I've got for today. Thanks for joining, everybody. I'm going to say something very loud happening outside that shouldn't be happening today. I better check that out.

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It sounds like it's on my property, but I don't think it is. I know you can't hear it. Anyway, X, thanks for joining. I'm going to say bye to you on X. I think we'll be able to put this up on YouTube and Rumble later today. It takes a while to do that. And... Oh, I'm not feeling better. No, that's a different story. I'll talk to the locals people privately.

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But for now, thanks for joining our next.

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So I'm not going to dig any deeper into that because I'd be, you know, sort of talking for a group that I shouldn't be talking for. But if that surprised you, it's only because you didn't have any contact with that community. Yeah, it's a very common sense. Well, yeah, I guess that's as far as I could go. I'll say that the Asian American community is very common sense based. What works?

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Good. At least on locals. I can't see the comments on X if there are any. But if you're on X and you're saying, why is the sound not good? It's because it's on my phone today. Technical difficulties. No microphone is connected. Well, let's talk about all the news. I saw Joe Rogan talk about Meta's new glasses. They look like regular glasses, but it allows you to see things...

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Oh, let's do that. What doesn't work? Oh, we'll avoid that. Just common sense. So, yeah, of course they'd be driven toward common sense solutions. Meanwhile, our favorite crazy Democrat representative, Jasmine Crockett, she said on some radio show or podcast just recently that Republican voters don't like to read or learn facts. They don't like to read or learn facts.

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What I love about this is Democrats can't learn. There's just no learning happening at all. If I could teach the Democrats just one thing, just one thing, don't do this. Do not make general statements about all Republicans. It's so dumb. It's like dumb on a level that is hard to even fathom. But still doing it. And when I see this, I just say to myself, we need more Jasmine Crockett.

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Because the more Jasmine Crockett there is in the world, the longer Republicans will have total control of the government. Well, maybe Jasmine Crockett will have a new job opportunity someday because Joy Reid's show on MSNBC has reportedly been canceled. I guess it's going to run for the rest of this week and then she will be out.

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Now, what would be the worst name to give your own TV show if there were some chance you would ever get canceled? It's called the Reid Out. Reid as in her last name, R-E-I-D. That's the name for the show, Read Out. What is the news today? Read Out. Yeah. So they should have conferred with me at the beginning. It's like, if we give it this name, is anybody going to be able to mock it later?

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And I would say, yes. Yes, they will be able to mock it later. So maybe rethink that. It also made me think that if you imagine that someday the news readers will be robots and AI, who would be easier to replace than Joy Reid? Allow me to do my AI robot impression of Joy Reid's replacement. Today in the news, the weather is 85 degrees in San Francisco because of white supremacy. Today in the news,

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The New York Giants won a game because of white supremacy. I mean, how hard can it make an AI that just reproduces Joy Reid? Because of racism. There's racism. Trump is bad. Orange Hitler. Orange Hitler. Chaos. There's chaos. Orange Hitler. Meanwhile, Trump is on Choose Social, dunking on MSNBC. And he calls them MSDNC, as in they're basically a Democrat function.

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He says, MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn't even have a right to broadcast. Only in America. Now, I, of course, believe they should have a right to broadcast because of free speech. I think he's being a little hyperbolic. But it made me think. And I don't know the answer to this. Maybe you can tell me in the comments. If you're a news network, do you get some extra government protection?

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In other words, if you do the news, does the government say, oh, you can use these airwaves or whatever? Now, I don't know if it applies to cable, but Is there anything like if you're in the news business, you get some extra rights? Is that a thing? It used to be when the airwaves were limited in bandwidth. But I think it did. So I'm not an expert on that.

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But it does ask the question, if something is pretending to be a news network, but yet in every way it functions as a propaganda organ, does it have a right to exist? I think it does because lying is still legal. You can lie all you want. You can be as biased as you want. But it does raise the question, is there anything that's different about MSNBC?

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Now, there's some thought that the management of MSNBC is trying to move away from doing nothing but criticizing Trump. We'll see. Anyway, it makes me wonder if the Trump effect took out Joy Reid. Do you think that Trump is the reason that Joy Reid is losing her job? I wonder. Because if it hadn't been Trump being president, wouldn't she have some positive things to say?

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extra so you'll see your regular environment but extra stuff added and Joe Rogan was talking about some Harvard kid who figured out how to use facial recognition software with these glasses so I guess you can add your own apps and if you look at somebody with the glasses it calls up their social media and Wikipedia and whatever is available about them online now

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Let's say a Democrat were president. Wouldn't she have some positive things to say? And then maybe her ratings would not have collapsed. But when you've got a president who's pulling over 50% in popularity and he's doing a lot of things that people want, if the only thing you can do is call him Warren Chandler day after day after day, I can see how your management would get tired of that.

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So it makes sense to me. It also made me wonder if Trump can recoup all of his legal expenses from the lawfare and all of his business expenses from you know, being boycotted or whatever happened to the Trump business itself. Because let's say he got $30 million. He won from NBC for fake news about him. Or no, I think it was just fake news. Somebody else got $30 million. And then he's suing CBS.

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That might be a multimillion dollar settlement. It seems to me that the only thing you'd have to demonstrate is that the fake news knew it was fake, at least whatever story they're talking about, that they knew it and that they did it anyway, which I'll bet is an easy standard to achieve. Because if you sue somebody, you get access to their emails, right?

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And you probably will always find some evidence in the emails that they knew exactly what they were doing. So maybe there's more lawsuits coming. Meanwhile, Hezbollah held a funeral for its late leader that Israel took out some months ago. And it was an annoyingly and startlingly large gathering of Hezbollah supporters. But Israel apparently did a flyover.

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So all the Hezbollah people were dancing around and doing their thing. And Israel just does a flyover with F-15s and F-35s. I think it was just to remind them, we're not done. So that happened. Red Bar News is reporting, Francis Martel, that Doug Burgum, he's the Interior Secretary, And he says that Trump plans to sell energy to our friends and it'll help defund the Russian aggression.

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So part of what he's saying is that the more energy the U.S. creates, the weaker Russia will be because Russia depends on its energy. So if we're competing with it, it should lower their revenues, increase our revenues, and make us safer. But here's the question I have. Um, although Doug Burgum might be a solid choice, he doesn't strike me as a person who can promote any successes.

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He's just not, he's not a promotional guy. It may be to his credit that he might be more about getting the job done, but it seems to me that the single biggest good news would be if we did something really good in the energy field. In other words, creating more energy, lowering the cost of energy, approving more stuff. And I was unaware of what we're doing in energy.

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But I looked at Daniel Baldwin had some... So a list of things that the administration has already done, Trump administration, that would make a difference. But I don't know how real these are. So one is finish the Constitution pipeline to bring natural gas to the Northeast. I don't think that happened. I think that Trump announced he wants to.

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Get that pipeline going because it would lower costs in the Northeast at least for natural gas, but I don't think it's going So I don't know if there's anything there yet could be in the future. But at the moment no then also listed By Daniel Baldwin is a joint venture with as for LMG project with Japan Now does that lower?

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lower costs of energy in the United States if we're doing an LNG project with Japan? Or does it just open up a market? I don't know. Apparently, India agreed to make US its leading supplier of crude oil and petroleum. But isn't that just increasing demand on our energy? So here are the two examples of increased demand. Increased demand doesn't lower your costs.

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Ha ha ha.

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And that's the vice chair at the DNC, so he's too far left for Carville. Now, what did David Hogg respond with? Well, he said that James Carville has not won an election since before I was born, which is a pretty good line, pretty good line. He says, these are the same ones that had $2 billion to win an election and still lost. So his response is pretty good.

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But let me tell you what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping that the 2028 ticket for the Democrats is David Hogg and Tim Walz, because then the ticket would be the Hogg-Walz And it would remind me of a dancing pig, hog, waltz. Dancing pig, right? So what would be better than having a dancing pig running for the Democrat presidential primary?

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And they could run, let me give them an idea on what kind of a platform to run on. I think they should run on implementing their 2080 project where they satisfy 20% of the country and piss off 80%. That seems to be the Democrat preferred strategy. So hog walls for 2028 running on the 2080 project. That's what I think they should do.

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And of course, you know, Bill Maher is not crazy about AOC and he said that Bernie and AOC are shiny objects, and it's political theater, and they can't win elections. So Bill Maher doesn't like the far left. What about Stephen A. Smith? He's not crazy about the far left because he thinks he wants more common sense in his world.

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And then, of course, you remember Ezra Klein and was it Derek Thompson, his co-author? They made a lot of news basically saying that Democrats have done everything wrong and they need some Democrats in charge who actually know how to spend money to actually get things done. So we got that. So in the context of basically Democrats eating themselves,

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There was a poll, according to the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra McDonald is writing about this. And who ran this poll? The Yale Youth Poll of Registered Voters. And that says that the people polling the best to be the next Democrat leaders are Kamala Harris, AOC, and Buttigieg.

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It's amazing. But that's not all it can do. So Elon Musk, let's talk about Elon Musk. We've got some Elon Musk news. Whenever there's not enough regular news, you can always count on like six stories that are just about Elon Musk. Anyway, he has proposed a new law requiring all bills in Congress. to be publicly accessible for seven days before a vote.

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so that's who's polling the best now obviously that's more of a name recognition thing so you're going to say to yourself but Scott that's just name recognition it's not telling you anything well have you heard of a guy named Governor Gavin Newsom he's got really good name recognition how'd he do Well, 6%. So he was way behind. Buttigieg with 14 and Ocasio with 21. And I guess Harris had 28.

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But you say to yourself, Scott, the serious Democrats, you know, they'll make some noise when it's important. And you're waiting for Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro because he seems to be very capable. He came in behind Newsom at 5%. But what about Arizona Senator Mark Kelly? He seems like a serious middle-of-the-road guy, Democrat. He got 4%. J.B.

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Pritzker and Mark Cuban and Gretchen Whitmer and Andy Beshear had a four-way tie for seventh place. So, again, it's really just name recognition. But if you have name recognition... and you can't top the top three, such as Gavin Newsom can't, I would say Gavin Newsom's presidential prospects are pretty low at this point. Pretty low. So I wouldn't bet on him.

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We might be surprised that somebody like Josh Shapiro wins a primary just by being good at it. So once the primary begins for 2028, all bets are off. According to the Post-Millennials reporting on what Trump says about his tariff deals in China, so Trump believes, or let me say it this way, Trump says, I don't know what he actually believes because I can't read his mind. He says, quote,

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I would think over the next three or four weeks, I think maybe the whole thing would be concluded, meaning a tariff agreement or a free trade, not free trade, a trade agreement with China. How many of you believe that within one month there will be a trade agreement with China that both China and the United States accept? Does anyone think that's going to happen? I think the odds of that are

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kind of close to zero. So Trump says that Chinese officials have been reaching out and there's been a lot of back and forth at the top level, not quite President Xi level, but close enough that he thinks he's got a deal. Now, I'm going to predict against it. I don't think there'll be any deal in a month. I don't think there'll be a deal in two months.

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And three months is when that's the 90-day period, right? So that's when he's trying to get everything done. I don't feel like he's going to have it done in three months either. So I like his optimism. And maybe the optimism is well-placed. I don't know. But I don't believe any of that. I would bet against it. Because I don't think we're close. It's not like you can imagine a deal.

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where you say, oh yeah, China will just open up everything and stop stealing our IP. None of that's going to happen. I don't even think they're close. And I don't think they'll be close in three months. So I don't know what's going to happen. But what I don't expect to happen is that in 30 days, he's going to wrap up an agreement that China likes and we like. I don't know. I just don't believe it.

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Well, Michael Schellenberger and his publication Public is talking about there's a former CIA fellow named John Kirakow, who I've mentioned before. So you've seen him probably a lot on social media, John Kirakow. So he used to be in the CIA, and he's got lots of sort of context and background stuff.

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And he believes, I don't know what his evidence for this is, but he believes that it wasn't so much the FBI that started the Russia collusion hoax, that really the Clinton campaign started. And the way it's been reported, it seems like the FBI was kind of pushing it a little bit. But ex-CIA guy, John Kirakow, believes that John Brennan of the CIA was responsible for the origin of it.

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Now, on top of that, I believe Grok can summarize bills now. Now, is that a done deal? I think it can. So get your Grok. It can look at things. It can summarize bills. So I used Grok three or four times this morning. to help me with the context of stories that I was going to talk about, like the Supreme Court stuff. I'll read the stories, but it's always people are starting in the middle.

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Now, I don't know his evidence for that, but if anybody ever looked more like they were guilty, John Brennan has the guiltiest face you've ever seen in your life. And it's hard for me not to be influenced by that because he just looks like a bad guy. Like if you were going to cast a movie, you would cast him as the ultimate bad guy because his face just looks like a hundred years of bad business.

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So I don't know. This is one person's opinion, but it agrees with my hunches that the CIA was very involved in that. According to the Daily Wire, there's an MSNBC host Simone Sanders, who says that black American citizens will be next in line if deportations are allowed to continue. I love how crazy the Democrats have gotten. And by the way, I think Simone Sanders... is much like Eric Adams.

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I think she decided to go independent because even she couldn't support Democrats. But she says that it's a slippery slope and that the next thing that will happen is black Americans will get deported. Now, I think the odds of that are exactly zero. But do you think anybody believes that?

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How many viewers of MSNBC hear that and go, huh, I think they're going to start shipping black people back to Africa. Where would you even send anybody? You'd deport them to where? So no, you don't have to worry about black American citizens being deported. That's not going to happen. I will help you march in the street, black Americans, if anything like that happens.

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So don't worry, we'll be on your side. It's not going to happen. Well, the Housing and Urban Development Headquarters, a HUD, is for sale because it's falling apart. This is funny, too, that the group that's in charge of housing... housing and urban development. They couldn't maintain their own building. So their own building is barely habitable. It's just falling apart.

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So the Trump administration is just going to sell it because hardly anybody was coming to work anyway. They were working from home. So they don't need that big building anyway. But the fact that the housing and urban development couldn't even keep their own building habitable is hilarious to me.

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Well, Scott Pressler reminds us that there are eight states that automatically send out mail-in ballots to every voter, meaning you don't have to request it. You just sit there and it shows up. Now, as you might imagine, that increases the odds of fraud. And a lot of people would say that's why they're doing it. It increases the odds of fraud. But here are the states.

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Of course, they're all blue states. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington. So every one of them sends out all the ballots to everybody. And I don't know how many of them are in favor of not having ID or in favor of not requiring it. But I'll bet it's most of them. Now, it's really hard to imagine that there's any other reason for this than fraud.

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Can you imagine that? Oh, now I'm jealous of the other Scott. Can you even imagine that? What would be the other reasons? I think they argue about oh, otherwise there'll be suppression of the black vote because they can't get IDs and somehow they wouldn't know how to request a ballot or something. So they have some super racist reasons why they need it.

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But as Scott Pressler notes, all of them have a mechanism to defeat that rule. by amendment or statute or veto, except for, I guess, Hawaii and Vermont. So he thinks the GOP should be doing more in those states to try to defeat it. But I think that's tough, because the GOP would have a minority in each of those states. Well, the Global Engagement Center has been closed.

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How many of you would even know the importance of that? If I said to you the Global Engagement Center is completely going to be shut down and defunded and everybody's fired, would you think that was a big deal or does that sound like a minor little thing, bureaucratic thing that means nothing to you?

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Well, this is one of the problems with some of the biggest stories in the news, is that if you don't know the complexity of the full backstory, it wouldn't mean much to you. But here's what we know. And Natalie Winters and The War Room are talking about this.

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So it's like something already happened, and then they're talking about it in the middle. And I'll be like, wait, wait, what's the larger context? What's it all mean? So I just ask Grok, and it gives me a summary of what happened and why people are upset about it. It's amazing. So I've used it, yeah, three or four times just this morning for work-related stuff.

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And Mike Benz did an interview with Marco Rubio talking about it because Rubio and the State Department was in charge of the Global Engagement Center and has closed it completely. Apparently, there was an earlier attempt to close it, and all Biden did was change the name of it. But it's the same entity, so they're going to close it. So here is the problem.

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According to Grok, Rubio claimed that the Global Engagement Center was originally, their goal was to deal with misinformation or disinformation coming from countries like Russia and China.

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Now, if you heard that we had something that was dealing with the disinformation coming in from, let's say, you know, non-allied countries, you'd say, hmm, that sounds pretty important, like something we should do. But eventually it was misused to suppress the free speech of Americans. So we were paying taxes. They were going to fund the Global Engagement Center.

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And some of our taxes were used to suppress our own free speech. Really. And in a massive way. Not once or not one person or a small group of people. But massively. Massively. to completely censor and remove our ability to have freedom of speech, basically.

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And he said the office, quote, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving. Now, Elon Musk had once called the GEC the, quote, worst offender in the U.S. government censorship and media manipulation.

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So, yeah, this is one of the most evil entities in the government, one of the most evil entities in the United States, because anything that is doing a direct attack on freedom of speech is That's the most dangerous thing happening because if you lose that, everything else falls apart.

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So it was initially closed, as I said before, in December of 2024 after Congress, which was Republican-led, decided to defund it. So even defunding it didn't kill it because the Biden administration rebranded it as the R-F-I-M-I-I office. It retained the same staff and mission. It didn't even change. And so Rubio finally got full control and he's just ripping it up by the roots.

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So there won't be anything left. They can't rebrand it because it's just going to be gone. All right. Then there's the Supreme Court decisions and those Venezuelan gangs. Now, here again, I have to go to Grok. as I did for the last story, to try to figure out what's the deal. So here's what the... I'll see if I can do that. I think I'm going to do this wrong.

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So all the lawyers watching are going to be slapping your heads and saying, no, he's got this wrong. But I'll do my best. And maybe the lesson here is that it's too complicated for the public to follow. If I screw this up, trust me, you're not going to have much better luck because it's complicated. But in early April, the Supreme Court made a decision that they didn't rule on the

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Speaking of Elon Musk, the Neuralink interface, apparently he's getting close to being able to help blind people see. So they're going to attach the Neuralink interface directly to the visual cortex. And people who are completely blind will be able to see for the first time. Now, I don't know if it's only people who have never seen or maybe only works with people who have seen before.

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constitutionality of using what Trump is using, the Alien Enemies Act, to get rid of the Venezuelan gangs. Instead, he said that the detainees must receive notice of the removal within a reasonable time and in a manner allowing them to seek habeas relief. Now, do you think I had to look up what habeas relief is? Yes, I did. So this is a double grok. First, What were they saying?

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And then what does any of that mean? So habeas relief means just that you have a legal remedy. You have the ability to go to court and challenge whatever's happening. So every single gang member, according to the Supreme Court, should have the right to have their day in court so that they can't just be deported as a group. They would each have to have their day in court.

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Then, on April 19th, so just yesterday, in a rare overnight order, The Supreme Court blocked Trump from deporting these Venezuelan people who were in a specific detention center. So the Blue Bonnet detention facility in Texas. And this followed an emergency appeal by the ACLU saying that they did not get their due process, which was that habeas stuff. So that's where we are.

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So the president of the United States, who should have total domain control over who's in the country and who's not, has been totally kneecapped by the Supreme Court saying, oh, yeah, you can do all those things you say you can do. but you can't take away the right of every single person to have their day in court, even though they're not even citizens, but they're residents.

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So residents get their day in court too. Bill Ackman has a comment on this. He says, on actually said, a nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values of our democratic system was intended to preserve.

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So basically it's a doom path. So the Supreme Court has created a situation that we can't fix a really bad problem. Because if we can't deport them as a group, and say, hey, here's a bunch of gang guys, if every single one of them gets a day in court, it just will be impossible. So I guess that's going to be a challenge, too.

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And then the Supreme Court is also going to hear a birthright citizenship case. So I wouldn't expect that to go the way you think you want it to go. I suspect the Supreme Court will uphold the current situation, that if you're born on our soil, you're an American citizen, and there's nothing that will change that. So I don't expect good news on that front.

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Republican, there's a story that in Reuters, David Morgan Reuters is writing that Senator Murkowski is worried about threats from Trump to retaliate if she doesn't do what he wants him to do. And she said that the threat of political retaliation from Trump is real enough to make her anxious about speaking out about his tariffs, executive orders and stuff like that.

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She said, quote, we're all afraid, she told the summit of nonprofit leaders. It's quite a statement, but we're in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before, she said. And I'll tell you, I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real and that's not right.

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Well, I'm not a big fan of retaliation, but I would say it's probably been a feature of the government since the government began. Do you think there's ever been a time when you could go against the leaders of the government and not have a pushback? I don't know. So I'm not going to say it's good or bad or moral or ethical or legal. You can make your decision on that.

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I'll just make a persuasion observation, which I've made before, but you can see it really clearly in this case. One of the things that Trump does best, persuasion-wise, and again, you can judge whether the outcome is ethical or moral or not. You can make that decision. But just in terms of technique, you should make the biggest gap between pleasing you and not pleasing you.

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And this is a technique I first noticed in my corporate days. It was somebody I worked with who was really good at making sure that if you did what she wanted, she would tell your boss that you should get a promotion and maybe a raise. Sometimes she would bring you flowers. She would sing your praise to other people, like, wow, what a great person, best in the whole office, blah, blah, blah.

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But if your visual cortex is working, apparently it will give you sight. Now, he thinks the initial versions will be kind of limited, so it'll be just fuzzy kind of image. But then over time, it will just get better and better. So literally, he's going to help the blind see by connecting to the visual cortex. Is that wild?

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So if you did what she wanted, no matter what it was, and she wanted a lot, she wasn't a top leader. She was an engineer. Actually, she was the engineer that my character Alice in the comic strip is based on. But she was really good at persuasion. So if you did what she wanted... you would actually just get promoted and she wasn't even your boss.

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She would literally call a meeting with your boss just to tell your boss how awesome you are. So imagine what effect that has on your career. Pretty good, right? And she would do it consistently. But if you didn't do what she wanted, she might also call a meeting with your supervisor to say that, you know, if you would get rid of this person

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everything would work better because this person is blocking all progress. So that is a big difference. In both cases, she would talk to your boss, guaranteed. In one case, she would push for you to get promoted or a raise. And in the other case, she would push for you literally to be fired. And then she would trash talk you to anybody who would listen. And it was super effective.

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So it was this gigantic gap that everybody came to understand between making her happy and not. And so she got so much done compared to other people. But that's what Trump does. He creates the biggest gap between making him happy, in which he will sing your praises and be loyal to you forever, and being what he would call disloyal, I guess.

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And he would advocate for you to be fired and sidelined and retired. So again, you can make your own decisions about how moral or ethical that is. I'm only talking about effectiveness. Super effective. Super, super effective. So I don't think it's great that there's a sitting senator who's on the same side, at least sometimes, who's afraid of acting.

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On the other hand, there needs to be some kind of responsibility. There needs to be some kind of guardrail. There needs to be some kind of a response if you're not helping the system. And given that most of what Trump is doing is 80-20 stuff, meaning that it's stuff the public wants, maybe the people who are preventing Trump from doing something that's an 80-20, maybe they should be afraid.

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Maybe they should be quaking a little bit. Now, if the issue were closer, and let's say Trump was trying to do something that was actually not popular, well, then I don't think they should be punished in any way for opposing something that the public also opposes.

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But if the public really wants something, let's say they support immigration or deportation, if the public wants it and you've decided that for whatever reason you're going to try to go against the public and that ends up being against Trump at the same time, and then Trump does something to retaliate, who's he retaliating for?

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Well, you can say he's doing it for himself, but he would only do it if the public wanted him to do it, to remove this obstacle. So as long as Trump is on the same side as the public, I don't really care how afraid other people are.

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If he wants to make the people on his own team Republicans, if he wants to make them afraid because they're going against the will of the people, maybe they should be afraid. Maybe that's the most natural state of things. And maybe he's just the only one who has the balls to make it overt and obvious and just bring it into politics completely. So I guess that's where I stand.

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And then separately, but somewhere related, Mario Noffel is talking about this on X, that the Neuralink brain chip can also help you communicate with your Tesla Optimus robot. Now, you don't yet have your Optimus robot, but if he did, you would be able to just use your brain to tell it what to do. How cool would that be?

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As long as Trump is on the same side as the majority of the public, which he likes to be, then if he's scaring people who would disagree with him, he's scaring people who would disagree with the public. and they should be a little bit afraid. They should be worried about their jobs. And they've got a lot of explaining to do. So I don't mind it at all.

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Well, Meta is in legal dispute about copyrights and the training of its AI. And apparently Meta's argument is that it's okay to train its AI on copyrighted books, Because they have no economic value. This is according to Frank Landymore, writing for Futurism. Now, do you believe that? That copyrighted books have no economic value?

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Now, what they mean specifically is no economic value for the training. So that's not no economic value to readers. It's no economic value to the training. And There might be something to that because if you were looking at any individual book and you looked at all the training that an AI does, you couldn't really pick out any value that an individual book had.

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They would all get lost into meaningless nothing if you were trying to figure out, all right, what did this one book add to this AI? Almost nothing. But I would argue, since I'm an author, that there are some books that do actually move the needle. I would argue that my books add economic value to the AI. So, for example, the AI, thanks to me, would understand what a talent stack is.

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The AI, thanks to me, would understand that systems are better than goals and why. And if somebody asks questions about how to organize their future, there's a very good chance that the AI would use some of those ideas because they're proven to be effective and popular. Now, would you say that my books have no economic value to the AI model if it actually becomes the opinion of the AI?

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I'm pretty sure if you asked for advice, there's a pretty good chance that some of my book advice would end up in the AI's mouth. But most books would not. Most books just don't have any lasting value that way. But mine do. They're written to have lasting value to lots of people. What about my book on reframing?

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I'm pretty sure that there are some reframes in my book that if the AI knew all of them, it would at one point or another give us as an advice. And it would be something only that came out of that book. It wouldn't be anywhere else. What about my book on, my book, Win Bigly, that teaches about Trump's persuasion? A while ago, I told you this already, I asked Perplexity, which is one of the AIs,

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I asked it what my contribution to politics was. And it said that I had changed politics from being about policies to being about persuasion. Now, that's because of my books or other things that AI can train on, such as videos on YouTube or whatever. So do I really not contribute anything to what AI can add? I would argue that some books are way different than other books.

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And I wouldn't be the only author who's saying things that are useful. But I don't think you can say all books are useless, or at least not useless, but rather that they're just a tiny little bit of the training. So if you look at any one book, it doesn't make much difference. I don't think that's true.

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If you needed help all the time in your house if you were disabled, you'd just be able to think, robot, come here, and the robot would enter the room. And then you'd think, get me a beverage from the refrigerator, and the robot would just do it. How wild would that be? But apparently, that's probably end of 2026. You'll be able to have Neuralink and a robot taking care of you. Wild.

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I think that there are a small number of books, I don't know how many, that have an unusually large impact and will have a ripple effect probably for a long time. So we'll see how that goes. Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, the U.S. now has a drone, basically an airplane without a pilot, that has a 7,000 mile range and has a pretty nasty, uh,

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So the laser could be scalable up to 300 kilowatts in the future. So it seems to me, and obviously the idea is that this thing will be shooting down other drones for the most part. It seems to me that we're in a weird situation because we need two completely different militaries. So, you know, I'm hearing a lot of talk about decreasing the military budget, and I'm all for that.

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But I'll bet if you dug in, what you would find is that you need a certain amount of money just to maintain the military we have. And then you need a whole bunch of new money to build this completely new military that will be nothing but drones and lasers and robot dogs with machine guns. So it's a completely different military.

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So for a while, we're going to have to fund two completely different military concepts. One is our traditional stuff that we have, because we, you know, you don't want to lose your submarines and your nuclear triad. And, you know, at the moment, you still need your long range bombers and You probably want to keep your tanks just in case.

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But in all likelihood, the future of warfare is the new stuff. So we're going to have to fund two completely different militaries. One making drones like crazy and robot dogs with machine guns and laser-based things. At the same time, we keep the old stuff running just until the new stuff can do everything. So it's a double military. I don't think there's any way we can get around it.

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In my book, God's Debris, The Complete Works, that includes my book, The Religion War, a key component of it, and this was a future prediction. So this is long before drones were part of our world. I predicted that there would be laser platforms. And that the platform would be sort of like a battleship or an aircraft carrier is today. So it would be basically a platform for other weapons.

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But in this case, it would be a platform that you would just put off the coast of the United States. near the coast. And it would be this just gigantic laser system that would be able to laser anything that came within 100 miles of it. So that you'd effectively build a protective dome that's a gigantic platform that just floats in the ocean.

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And mostly it's just a giant laser and probably nuclear driven. But it would have to be so good that it could literally just shoot anything that got near it because otherwise, you know, you don't want a hypersonic missile to take it out on day one. So I think you're going to see that. I think you'll see lasers on ships, and you'll see lasers on all kinds of drones.

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But if you want a really, really big laser, one that really can protect, let's say, all of Washington, D.C., I think it's going to be something like a gigantic, just floating platform that doesn't have anything... except a little bit of human, maybe none, maybe no humans, and gigantic laser capabilities. So that's my prediction. According to Science, I saw this in a Mario Noffel post.

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I guess it comes from Nature Mental Health and SciTech Daily's writing about it. There's a huge study, half a million people, that for people who are obese and stay that way for years, their brain actually shrinks. And they have memory loss and weaker thinking skills and their brain area literally shrinks. Now, I'm not sure I would have guessed that if they'd asked me.

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So I'm not going to say just ask Scott next time. But I wonder if that's sugar. I wonder if the obesity per se is the problem or that you end up, you only get that way if you eat too much sugar and it's the sugar that eats your brain. I don't know. But I do believe there's probably something to this one.

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Now, given that Elon Musk is doing all these valuable things for people in society, what do you think the Democrats think about Elon Musk? Well, of course, they're trying to stop him and destroy him at all costs. And Bernie Sanders did an ex-post in which he is trying to take down Musk. So let's look at what Bernie says, and then I'll tell you my own analysis here. He says, he starts with the U.S.

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So if you look at half a million people and the people who were heavy and stayed that way, had smaller brains and memory loss and weaker reasoning, I feel like that might be real. So if you have a chance... You might want to take off the pounds. According to Tibu Pui, I don't even know what that is, researchers looked at 10,000 studies and found that cannabis could actually fight cancer.

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Now, it's not proven. It's just highly indicated by 10,000 studies. And they're talking about not just helping the symptoms, but actually stopping tumor growth. Now, my guess is that if it stopped cancer completely, we would know that by now. Somebody would have smoked their way to health. So I don't think it works that well, but maybe it works a little bit. Who knows? This is fun.

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According to Martin Luther University, Hallie Wittenberg, there's a study that says that you can stimulate the brain with sensors. You know, you put little sensors on people's head and you can stimulate the brain just right and it could speed up decision making. Now, it's not a gigantic difference, but they're pretty sure that they can speed up decision making by putting sensors on your head.

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electrodes on your head, on your scalp. Now, my idea is that the Cheesecake Factory could get these sensors, and they would pass them out with the menu, so that if you're a quick decision maker, and you're with somebody who's not a good decision maker, and they're looking at the cheesecake menu with 10,000 choices, that you could just turn on the electrodes, like, here, here you go.

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You turn on the electrodes, and they'll be like, whoop, I'll have the pasta. That's my hope. If you could speed up the decision-making on the Cheesecake Factory menu, we'd all be happier. And just in, and this is a big surprise, the Pope has called for a Gaza ceasefire. So believe it or not, the Pope is against war. I wonder what the Pope thinks about Ukraine and Russia.

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I'm going to guess that the Pope would call for a ceasefire. I'm wondering what would the Pope think about the situation with the Houthis? I'm going to guess he would be in favor of a ceasefire. I think the Pope only has one speed. We don't like war, so you should cut out that war. But at least he's consistent. You don't want a Pope that sometimes, you wouldn't want a surprising Pope, would you?

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He's boring, but in exactly the way he should be, which is he's just against war. Are you against war today? Yes, I am. Were you against war yesterday? Yes, I was. I'm going to take a chance and say that you'll be against the next war. I'll bet he will be, or she, whoever is the next pope. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I had for you on this Easter.

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I'm going to say a few words privately to the people on Locals and the rest of you. I hope you enjoyed the hour of the only new creative stuff you're going to see today, probably, except for the basketball playoffs that are later. And so I'll see the rest of you tomorrow, same time, same place, if you're on X or YouTube or Rumble. Otherwise, locals, I'm coming at you.

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oligarchy 2025. And then he tells us, Elon Musk owns as much wealth as the bottom 53% of the U.S. households. The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 90%. Real weekly wages are $30 lower than 52 years ago. That one's important. And 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Yes, we can do better than that. Well, so I agree with Bernie about the paychecks not being worth as much.

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Inflation has been just devastating. And so that part is right. But if you're going to look at Elon Musk's, let's say, contribution to the United States, here's how you should do it. First, I would measure how much wealth he has created. Telling me how much he owns is one thing, but wouldn't you know how much he created out of nothing? And the answer is, Grok, Grok had an answer,

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The answer is it's close to a trillion dollars. If you looked at the value of each of his companies, it's close to a trillion dollars. That's how much he's created that didn't exist before. Now, does any of that trillion dollars benefit the world? Or does it all just go in his pocket and he spends it on cocaine and hookers? It's a trillion dollars.

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If he tried to spend it all day long, he couldn't spend a trillion dollars. So his value of the trillion or so is maybe a third of it. And then he's created, well, here's what else I do. I would calculate what percentage of that wealth he kept, and so far it's something like a third. Then I'd figure out what percentage of it he spent on his own lifestyle versus paid in taxes.

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Now, I believe he's paid in taxes tens of billions of dollars. If you count his companies and you count his personal stuff, then you'd have to calculate all the taxes paid by the employees... over all the time and all the property taxes and all the sales taxes that they paid by buying stuff. So you'd have to calculate all that because that was just added to the society.

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So that's something that wasn't there until Musk added it. So I calculate all the impact of the employees. Then I look at the societal benefits of his companies and I'd say, you know, are we getting benefits?

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Well, yes, we've got electric cars and we've got neural links and we've got satellites in the air and we're going to be interstellar and we have a chance of competing in space against the other big powers. So these are some of the biggest benefits the world has ever seen. But I'd also calculate what percentage of his wealth he spends.

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Because it's not how much you have, it's how much you spend, right? So if somebody creates a trillion dollars and they keep a third of it, but they only spend maybe 1% of their money, because how much can you really spend on one person? Even though he flies around in a private jet and stuff. He has lots of baby mamas. He can only spend about 1% of his wealth.

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So the rest of it doesn't just sit in a pillow. It's not in his mattress. All money that he's not using for his own consumption, which is a tiny, tiny bit of how much he owns, it's all employed, meaning that the economy is benefiting because he owns a lot of wealth. So some of it is in the form of stock.

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Are you ready for the only new and interesting show of the entire day because all the smart people take Easter off? But I'm always here. Always here. Well, number one, the Grok AI now has a visual mode. So if you have the app, Grok, You can put it in visual mode, and it will see what you see in your room, and it will talk to you about it.

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Some of it is in the form of probably various bank accounts or whatever, in which case the bank has more money to loan out. There's no such thing as stranded or wasted money unless it's literally cash sitting in a box in your house. If it's in the system, in the stock market or in a bank that's using it as part of their funds they can loan out, It's a valuable part of the market.

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So you would have to look at the tiny amount that he uses on himself and then the huge amount that's benefiting the stocks of the company that he's with and choose to compensate people for a good job and all that. So it's not unproductive money. It's sitting there doing work. The amount that he can spend in his entire lifetime will be a tiny, tiny bit.

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And what it really does is give him, let's say, influence. So if Bernie was talking about the influence, then he'd have a bigger point, which is, wow, you have all this money, you can influence things like politics. And then I would ask myself, is he trying to influence things in a negative way? It doesn't seem like it. He's not even fully MAGA because he's not on board with tariffs.

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You can't be opposed to Trump's tariffs, and I think it's fair to say that Musk is opposed, and somehow in the bag. So my take on Musk is that he's not all about supporting one side. He just has a bunch of common sense things that he supports, and sometimes he can not support it because he's got a different opinion on tariffs, for example. Anyway, so that's what I do.

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I compare everything that Musk has added to society in terms of wealth and taxes and everything else, and I would compare that to what Bernie Sanders has added to society, which is complaining. Why has Bernie Sanders added to civilization? Anything? Has he probably spent more money than he's added?

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I think so, because he raises money and it probably costs a lot to fly around and do his big events he's doing. So Bernie's added probably nothing. He's probably taken more from taxpayers than he's added in any kind of value. So one of them has added something like a trillion dollars to the value of America. And the other has probably just taken some money and left us with less. That's my guess.

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Do you remember seeing, speaking of the Maryland dad, you know, the Maryland dad who may or may not be an MS-13 guy, the one who was accidentally shipped to El Salvador? Well, I kept hearing he had tattoos on his fingers that said MS-13, but it didn't really say MS-13, so I was confused. But now I have the answer, thanks to Breitbart News.

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So what Trump was showing when he showed a picture of the Maryland dad's hand, there was a tattoo on each finger, and it was like a marijuana leaf and a smiley face and a, and then a cross, and then a skull.

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And some say that the marijuana leaf would be the letter M, the smiley face would be the letter S for smiley, and the cross would be the digit one, and then the skull that has three holes in it, I guess you're not counting the mouth, would be a three. So that really it was a way to say MS-13. Do you think that's true? Do you think his tattoo actually was intended to say MS-13 in a clever way?

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I don't know. It's possible that people are reading too much into it. It could be just four of his favorite things. But it does feel like it could be. I'd have to know if anybody else had used that same imagery. If other MS-13 people use it, then obviously it is. So we don't know. So let's check in with Democrats who hate other Democrats. My favorite category.

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Now, ChatGPT said that for a while, and it is the wildest, greatest feature. If you're trying to fix something, you can just point it at it, and it'll tell you how to fix it. I've done that, and it's just wild. It's like having a person with you. It's like, hey, take a look at this. All right, what do you see? and it'll tell you what it sees, and then it'll tell you what to do with it.

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So as you know, Andrew Cuomo, disgraced ex-governor of New York. When I say disgraced, that's usually a compliment because I'm disgraced too. But he might be looking at running for president. We don't know. But... He says the extreme wing of the Democratic Party can't possibly win and they're going to have to learn their lesson.

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And he says that AOC is in that category of the people who are too extreme on the Democrat Party and therefore can't possibly win. So Cuomo doesn't like the Democrats' left side. Then, of course, there's Eric Adams, who recently became independent. He hated Democrats so much.

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And when he was talking to Laura Trump on Fox, he said, one of the big mistakes that's being made in some parts of the far-left philosophy is that ICE is a criminal organization. And he defended ICE as a proper law enforcement organization. So Eric Adams... Doesn't love the far left of the Democrats. Neither does Andrew Cuomo. Let's check in with James Carville. Oh, yeah.

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There you are. Let me get all ready for this show. We need comments. We need lighting. We need notes. We're going to have it all. All right. We got comments. All right.

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The other one, I can't believe I just found this out today, that when I said that David Axelrod was the attorney for CNN and Jake Tapper in their lawsuit, I just assumed it was David Axelrod, the one who was on the show, and they just figured, oh, you're an attorney. I didn't know he was. Maybe he's not. But it turns out it's a whole different David Axelrod.

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So there was nothing wrong with his numbers relative to the other numbers. And so that seems like a pretty big Trump win. If CNN wants to move their most ridiculous guy to midnight where nobody will watch him, and nobody's going to watch him at midnight. He's done as an influence. That's a pretty big deal. But Time Magazine is handling it differently.

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So Time Magazine has an article in which they're helpfully suggesting to Democrats who are going to be very sad on Inauguration Day that maybe they should cope with it by forming crying groups so they can get together and cry together.

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and also Something about walking through the forest to make them I think they call the forest bathing or something Where you just hang out in the forest for a while and try to get your mental health back Anyway, I have a better suggestion for time magazine instead of recommending that the losers go and Cry or walk in the forest, you know, it would be really helpful Why doesn't time magazine debunk the fine people hoax?

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I so all those people who are going to cry don't have to. Wouldn't it be better to remove the reason for the crying? Because the reason for the crying is the fake news. If the news had ever been honest about the fine people hoax or any of the other hoaxes, people wouldn't be crying. Nobody would be crying over the reality. They're only crying over this weird

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media created Trump monster thing that not everybody has heard was fake. So Mark Benioff, who's the founder of Salesforce, I believe owns Time Magazine now. So I tagged him in my little comment on this saying that maybe they should just debunk the fine people hoax because you may have heard that yesterday the fine people hoax got another one.

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So billionaire, tech billionaire Mark Pincus, I think he still lives in the Bay Area, and he's been a lifelong Democrat and was all in on the Democrats, but he was talking to Chamath on the all-in pod, and he said he basically changed his mind on Trump. And Chamath stopped him and said, what was the moment Like, what was the thing that made you change your mind after?

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And he started talking generically, but then he said, okay, there was one thing. It was I read an article that debunked the fine people hoax. And that was it. And then it opened up his mind to all the other hoaxes, and he could see it all. Now, that's my words, not his, but that's essentially what it was. And this is amazing. So in May 2024, he said he read an article

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that talked about and debunked the hoax. Now, I'm really curious, which article was it? Because there have been lots of articles that I've been associated with, Joel Pollack, Steve Cortez. I wonder if it was one of those. It could have been anything. It could have been the Daily Wire or something. But how often would a lifelong Democrat read any press, any,

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that was just really identified with the right side of politics. So I'd love to know what was it that broke through the bubble that you thought was worth reading as a lifelong Democrat and that it actually just shattered his whole story. So remember I've been telling you that was the tentpole hoax, that if you can just debunk that one, all the rest just fade. And that's what happened.

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So David Axelrod on TV, on CNN, is a different one from David Axelrod, the lawyer, who defended them from the lawsuit. Now, that's my fault, of course. But I just have to say there are too many David Axelrods associated with CNN. They just need fewer of them. That would make everything better for us.

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So more to that. I was wondering, do we have a pretty good list of all the people who have been converted by the finding people hoax? I was trying to do it mentally, but if somebody could pull that together, I would love to see that as a post on X. How many well-known people were converted by just that one thing, the debunk of the finding people hoax? Because I think Chamath said it himself.

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So we got Pincus. I think Elon said it. I thought Joe Rogan said it. Did Zuckerberg say it? I can't remember if Zuckerberg said that, but I feel like maybe that was part of it. The assassination attempt seemed to be persuasive with him as well.

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So if we could put together, ideally it would be a clip where you showed each of the people saying what it was, oh, the fine people hoax, and then one after another so you can see how powerful it was. That's what I want to see. Wall Street Journal is going further and saying not just that Trump's kind of popular, but he's turning the culture, the entire culture is turning conservative.

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Do you see that yet? It feels like it. So, you know, once you get the richest entrepreneur in the world, Musk, you get the all-in pod guys, you've probably noticed a number of comedians that I would call mainstream are now turning conservative. At least a little bit Trump. You know, they're willing to say things that are positive about Trump.

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They got at least one cartoonist, Snoop Dogg and Carrie Underwood are going to perform. And that's a pretty strong signal. And by the way, Carrie Underwood. Oh, my God. Do I have respect for that? You know, Snoop is a unique character. There's nobody like Snoop. He's the only person who could do all these bad things and be popular with everybody.

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Now, I don't know exactly his secret, except that his charisma is apparently just off the charts. There's something about him that allows him to break every rule, kind of Trump-like. So Snoop went from making a video where he was assassinating Trump to performing at his event.

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And he's the perfect crossover person because when you see him do anything, you say, well, is that something that only Snoop could do? Because he lives in this weird world where respectable people like him. I do. If you ask me why I like Snoop so much, I don't know. I don't know. It would be hard to come up with a reason. Maybe it's because he's unapologetic and he doesn't apologize for anything.

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That's pretty popular. Maybe it's because he's just his own person, and he's unforgiving in his effort to just be who he wants to be. We kind of like that. I don't know. There's something about it that just reaches people. But also, Carrie Underwood, that's a brave move. I will always respect that. And I think people like winners, and they like strength, and there was a manliness...

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kind of a male energy that had been missing from the country. And I think we could feel it. I think both men and women, Republicans and Democrats, could feel the just extraordinary lack of male energy. But it's back. It's back. The male energy, as I imagine, couldn't be stopped. It would be like putting the toothpaste back in the tube. It could be somewhere. Well, that's a bad analogy.

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Forget that analogy. But anyway, the New York Times shows in polling that Americans now overwhelmingly support GOP positions on numerous trans issues. So Daily Wire is reporting this. Amanda Prestigiacomo. Wow, what a nice name. Amanda Prestigiacomo. That's just a great name. I can't pronounce it, but I feel like if I could, it would sound extraordinary. Anyway.

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If you're not following Dilbert, which you can only see on subscription these days, either on X, subscribe on X under my account, or on Locals, you would know that today is the day the fire reaches his house. And Dilbert is going to stay behind and try to save his house. So I don't want to give you a spoiler. But he might die. And he might not. You never know. It's a comic.

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She's writing that, according to a New York Times Ipsos survey, 79% of Americans... I looked at myself in a recording and I realized that I looked down too much. You're just looking at the top of my head. So I'm going to lift up my notes so it's not as egregious. 79% of Americans believe males should not be able to participate in female sports, even if the athlete identifies as transgender. 79%.

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79% are on the same page. Now, obviously, it's weighted toward conservatives, but even the Democrats by majority. So, yeah, even 54% of Democrats were against medication for minors. So converting minors wasn't popular with the majority of Democrats or Republicans. And look how far it got. I mean, everything was broken. Everything was just broken.

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21%.

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A little bit more and it'd be one quarter. Couldn't even get up to 25%. I joke, if you're new to me, I always joke that 25% will get every poll question wrong. No matter how easy the question is, The poll question is, is it better for the economy to be strong or for the economy to be weak? 25% weak. What? No, this isn't really a question. Strong is the only right answer. Weak, 25%.

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It's just so consistent. Couldn't even get 25% to say that we hadn't gone too far. Mike Johnson talks about Biden not even recalling that he had paused some LNG shipments. And so first of all, I'm a little angry at Mike Johnson for not telling us this until it didn't matter. It wasn't that long ago, so maybe it never mattered because Trump had already been elected.

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But apparently Biden insisted to Johnson that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits, even though he had just signed off on it. Now, that tells you a lot, doesn't it? It means that Biden certainly wasn't in charge. Maybe there were specific topics where his influence was bigger.

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But when it came down to the nuts and bolts of running the government, he didn't even know what he was signing. They didn't even tell him what he was signing, or he couldn't remember it, which is, I guess, equally bad. Yeah, Johnson should have said something before, but I don't think it mattered. But we would have felt better about Johnson if he'd said it. Yeah, of course, let me revise this.

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If it didn't really make any difference, because the election was over, and it would just make it hard for Johnson to work on the transition... I probably wouldn't have said anything until I was sure the transition was working okay. Because it would have been creating a problem with Biden that didn't need to be created because there was no benefit from it. It was good that we found out eventually.

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That part's good. I'm going to say Mike Johnson probably played it correctly because getting the transition right was, at the moment, more important than just one more piece of evidence that Biden's brain was shot. We already knew that. But it was funny seeing a video from the time of this in which Corinne Jean-Pierre, the spokesperson, was asked, you know, why does Biden even care about this?

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I can kill him anytime I want. Well, you'll be amazed to learn, according to Nutrients, some publication called Nutrients, coffee intake makes males more sociable and women more attractive, according to studies of mice. How do they know that the mice... or think each other is more attractive. I don't know. But I don't care. If it says coffee is good for you, I'm all in.

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Like, what's behind this? And she tried to explain it without knowing anything about the topic. It was like, well, it's because the importance of it to the public and to the to the way we, the public, and also the very, he cares about it, he cares about it, and it's because the importance, it's very important.

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So the importance to the public and the importance of it is what, and it was just hilarious. She didn't even know what the issue was. So who the hell was in charge? Anyway. And so you put it all together and you can see that there's a complete collapse of the Democrat Party. And I have a theory about what causes the acceleration of the crash.

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If you divide voters into two types, there's the people who follow politics, and maybe that's 5%, and they would be influenced by seeing both sides of an issue. So Mark Pincus probably followed politics enough that he would read an article about the fine people hoax and change his opinion based on new data.

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That seems to be true for some of the tech leaders who are leaning Trump, that they did follow politics, as they should, as part of their job. And so they saw earlier that factually they could make a change because the facts were now different than what they once understood. But most people are not in that category. So my hypothesis is that for the vast number of people who vote,

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but really couldn't answer any question about politics. If you went to the average person and asked any question, just any question about anything in politics, and look what comes out of their mouth, it doesn't matter who it is. You just look what comes out of their mouth and you go, do you follow the news at all? That's what it feels like.

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I think that that group, the people with weak preferences or don't follow the news that much, that for them, their choice of candidate and choice of party is closer to a fashion accessory. It's a way to support their brand.

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So if you thought one side was the evil side and one side was the good and open-minded side and you thought you were good and open-minded, you would back the good and open-minded side as you had been taught to. But I think at this point, Biden and Harris have so destroyed the brand I mean, just absolutely destroyed it. And there's nobody on deck.

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It's not like everybody's waiting for Pete Buttigieg to step up. There's absolutely no character in the Democrat Party, none, which anybody can say, yeah, there's my inspirational leader. It's interesting that Hillary Clinton was once that person. But at least she had potentially the first female president thing going for her. So she had sort of the Bill Clinton glow.

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So she had all the right people. So even though she was a terrible character, and she probably lost because she wasn't a good character, but at least she had something you could grasp onto if you're a woman in particular. But now what would they grasp onto? Harris was the biggest incompetent we've seen. Biden's brain wasn't there. Nobody's on deck.

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What exactly are you going to hitch your wagon to? Nothing. There's nothing there. So people who want to brandish their brand are not going to look for the failed, completely collapsed Democrat party with unpopular views on everything. There's no way you can just associate your brand with it.

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The only reason it worked before is that the fake news had created such a bubble that you couldn't tell the difference between good and bad. Literally. Couldn't tell the difference. So under that world, you could say, oh, these are the good ones. I want that associated with my brand. But now...

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when even Snopes is debunking the fine people hoax, and we can see the total collapse of the traditional news, specifically because it's fake, then there's nothing to support the bubble anymore. The podcasters broke the bubble. I think that's what it was. I think the Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, the communication skills of all these people just broke the bubble.

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Now, what do the Republicans look like? Let's see. You've got Trump who survived an assassination attempt in the most remarkable way. People like to be associated with bravery and manliness, and manliness, which they missed. But also you have the smartest, most successful people in the world taking sides with them, or at least not resisting.

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So now you're hearing good things from everybody, from Bill Gates to Bezos to Elon kicking it off, the all-in-pod guys. I hate lumping them all together, but it's faster to say it that way. So now, if you wanted to be associated with something where the most awesome people in the country are associated... To me, the most awesome people are the ones who are making the biggest difference, positive.

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And they seem to be almost universally moving toward Trump. Everybody from Jamie Dimon saying, hey, hey, those tariffs are actually a good idea for negotiating. It's really everything. So everybody who's smart and capable and especially manly, because that matters, you know, no matter what you think of manliness, it matters to politics. So it has to be mentioned. Trump has it all. China loves him.

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Did you know, and again, this is a big surprise, according to Surrey Live and Samantha Leathers, it turns out that exercise is good for your mental health. Huh. Huh. Just like every single day, we hear another study. But here's the interesting part. It's not every kind of exercise is equally good, but rather, for men, it was better to do yoga and qigong. I'm sure I pronounced that right. Qigong.

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The public loves him. You can wear a red hat now. And I think that means that what it looks like is a complete collapse on the Democrat side. But I think you're also going to see it in polls. You're going to see that they're just not going to vote for the ridiculousness anymore. Or at least enough of them won't. And here's just such a good example of the total collapse of the Democrat Party.

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So I always talk about two movies on one screen, how you can watch the same thing and come up with two different views. As Owen Gregorian was saying on X yesterday, it seems this 28th Amendment story has formed into two movies against all odds because it's a pure factual statement that is super easy to check. does the 28th Amendment exist or does it not exist in a confirmed, proved way?

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And the answer is it's not. It's not confirmed, and therefore it doesn't exist. But because both Biden and Harris posted on excellent and social media that it was real and that they're responsible for making it real, Democrats think it's real. Republicans know it's not. So of all things, it's literally the easiest thing you could check. Is this part of the Constitution or not?

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One Google search would be the same answer every time. It's not even being covered up by part of the news. So it's not like MSNBC is saying it's real. Even they're not saying it's real. I need a fact check on that, but they're not saying that's real, right? And still it creates two movies. Half the country probably thinks it's real.

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Anyway, Democrat strategists are whining about the future of the party, and one of my favorite was Jamal Simmons, one of the Democrats' strategists. And he said that their vibe is off. Our vibe is off. Got to burn down our image. See how he talked about image? He didn't say we have to improve our policies. He didn't say our policies need to match the American public.

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He's completely aware that their policies don't match the majority of the public. So instead of saying we need better policies, he says we have to work on our image. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying that they treat it like it's an image problem, and it worked. Under Clinton, it worked. But you're going to need a real candidate.

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If you don't have a candidate, image is not going to get you anywhere because your policies are dead on arrival. So the fact that they haven't figured that out yet is amazing. But when you poll Democrats about who they'd like to see run next time, and you include, let's see, Newsom and

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governor Whitmer, uh, and then Harris, if she ran again, uh, the preferences, none of the above, even Democrats don't want any of the three leading, you know, likely candidates to come anywhere near the presidency or at least to run for it because they know they won't win. So that's pretty bad. Um, even according to Breitbart, uh,

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After the election, there has been a crash in public tolerance for illegal migration. So now just 10% of Americans oppose Trump deporting illegal migrants with criminal records, according to a New York Times poll. Only 10% oppose getting rid of the criminals. Again, you couldn't even get 25% to support keeping criminals because it's just stupid.

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So the 10% who say, yeah, let's keep the violent criminals, I mean, those are not serious people. They're not serious people. Anyway. And just 19% strongly oppose deporting all immigrants who are here illegally. It's a complete victory. Trump took the hardest topic and just owns it now. He won. Even CNN showing a recent poll shows his approvals at 48%.

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It's up from 39% just last year, days before taking office. A new high. Highest approval while Biden's the lowest approval. Everything's going his way. Even the Washington Post has decided to soften its coverage. I guess both Washington Post and CNN

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Decided they didn't want to do the over-the-top thing where everything is negative Trump no matter what is happening And it looks like they're gonna cover it more more both sides ish Which I see has already started. It's already begun.

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Qigong? Qigong? You know, that's where the old people get in the park and go, qigong. like that. That was my impression of qigong. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that. That's a word I've read a million times, but I've never heard a single person say it out loud. Anyway, so it's better for men to do yoga and this qigong stuff, and for women it might be better to do strength training.

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I think is real but Because for example Washington Post says Trump already conquered DC and the tech leaders are flocking to him now normally that story would turn into that's how he's gonna steal your democracy, right and Instead of just saying a lot of tech leaders think he's on the right path, he'd be good for the country, that would be the story.

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But normally you'd expect the Washington Post to flip it into, and with the help of all these tech leaders, that's how he's building his dictatorship to steal your democracy. But they left out that crazy part and just told the story. And the story was, yeah, he's doing really well converting people to his side. That's the story. And so they're just telling it.

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But MSNBC, I love their plucky loser approach. I don't think there's a single smart person that works at that network in management or anywhere else. But they're going to bring back Rachel Maddow for 100 days. Let me make a long list of all the things you shouldn't do if you're trying to stay in business.

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Don't bring the person with the most obvious mental health problems on to be the only person who still thinks that the Democrats are heroes and Trump is going to steal your democracy. The ridiculousness of even planning to do this is so beyond any reasonable thing that a reasonable person would do. It's just purely stupid. but they're going to do it.

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And I kind of like the fact that they think that Rachel Maddow, who I think has been honest, I think she's been honest about a lifetime of mental health, depression issues, maybe some other stuff. So I'd never like to be the person who criticizes somebody for mental illness because nobody picks mental illness, right? That's just something that's there. So I prefer to be nonjudgmental.

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But I don't know that the management has a mental illness. Shouldn't management be the one to decide? Maybe they shouldn't bring back the person with obvious mental health problems and some kind of a weird kicker to her mental health because of Trump derangement syndrome. How in the world does management think this is a good idea? In what world? Anyway...

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I'm sure they think that behind closed doors like Joe Biden, she's perfectly fine. Perfectly fine. The Trump bump, which all the media is hoping for, because, you know, in his first administration, the news got more audience. So they've all been drained of their followers for a while now. But there's some thought that maybe the traffic will go up.

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But other people say, yeah, there will be a Trump bump. But it might go mostly to the independents and fully starve the networks. Well, I don't know what's true. I can tell you it seems like the ratings for the major networks are all down. And I can tell you that my own traffic is up about 50% since Trump was looking like he would win. Up about 50%. Yeah.

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Now, I would guess that that's the same for any political-oriented podcasts. I'll bet you they're all up 50%. So, yes, I'm the canary in the coal mine. So, yeah, the corporate media doesn't seem to be what anybody trusts at this point. Just old people, I guess. I'm old and I don't even trust it.

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well, as you know, Trump launched a crypto coin and it went to the moon and it's worth billions of dollars and some say Trump's going to sell it and make $5 billion and others say it's a crap coin and it's a scam and people should not be buying crypto unless it's Bitcoin and everybody's got their opinion. Let me say that my opinion on this is completely timing related.

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If Trump had done this even just a few years ago, I would have said, oh, that's a little too scammy. Now, he did do the, what is it when you buy the art? It's got a word for it. In the crypto world, if you buy some digital crypto art, somehow they can tell you it's exclusive. He did that. And I didn't mind that because I was just a fundraiser.

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But jogging and walking are good for everybody. Did we really need to study When you can kind of just look around and the people who exercise every day are clearly happier than the people who don't. Is that not screamingly obvious in your own life? If you see somebody who's like really fit because they exercise every day, they're almost always in a reasonably good mental health.

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And I think people saw it as a fundraiser, which had the extra element that, well, maybe you can make some money, but probably not. Just a fundraiser. NFTs. Thank you. NFTs. So he's got some history and he's pro crypto. Now, if this had been when we knew less about crypto and he launched this thing. I would have said, okay, don't do that.

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That looks too scammy because people don't understand that they could lose money on crypto. It's not like other things that could go to zero tomorrow. Bitcoin probably can't, or at least not as easily. But a new issue, it can go to the moon and then go to zero the next day. There's nothing that would stop that. So under normal conditions and maybe a few years ago,

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I would have opposed this as a bad idea, bad messaging, bad look. But I think everybody understands crypto if they're going to buy some. Buying crypto is just hard enough that if you didn't know anything about crypto, you'd probably prevent yourself from buying it because you don't want to look into it. It's not like you just go to your broker. Well, you could, but not this particular coin.

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So as long as people know exactly what they're buying, and I think in some cases they're just gambling, but they know it. They're gambling, but they know it. And other times maybe it's just an expression of support for the president, which they know.

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And maybe they treat it like a, some of them might treat it like a donation because if it pumps it up and then Trump gets to sell his before you sell yours, Well, your money might go to zero. His might go to $5 billion. And if you treat it as a donation, you think to yourself, all right, I don't mind that he gets some of his money back after being abused by the government for so many years.

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Probably lost a ton of money in his business just because of his politics. So I don't mind if he makes $5 billion, I guess. $5 billion. off the coin, as long as everybody knew what they were doing. And I think that's pretty close to true. I think everybody knows. Anyway, there's a Gaza ceasefire, allegedly, in effect.

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And this would be the opening to allow Hamas to release the, I guess, 33 hostages they promised to release. I think there's going to be a whole bunch of problems with that. I'm not sure Hamas is organized enough that they can even just say yes and all of a sudden all the hostages are released that they were going to release. I feel like they're all spread around and it's hard to communicate.

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Maybe some of them are dead that they didn't even know were dead. And so I feel like it's not going to go smoothly. The easiest prediction in the world. Let's see. It's Gaza and Israel have made an agreement. Will it go smoothly or will there be some bumps? Yes. The easiest prediction in the world. It's not going to go smoothly.

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And I don't know if there'll be any after this, if it doesn't go smoothly. So we'll see. Um, What I'm interested about is I feel like reporting from that area kind of stopped. Did you notice that? If you ask me what is the Israeli military doing in Gaza, let's say two weeks ago before this hostage deal started to solidify, I would have said, I don't know. Why did I stop seeing news about that?

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Are they killing as many as they used to kill? The reporting, which is not reliable, is that 46,000 Palestinians were killed. Now, I say it's not reliable because it won't be the same estimate that Israel has, and you and I can't tell the difference. It's just people telling us what's true and we don't know.

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So I wouldn't believe any war death claims, except that I feel it's almost certainly in the tens of thousands, but beyond that, Any kind of accuracy would be ridiculous. So is Israel still making legitimate military progress of wrapping up the Hamas fighters? Is it just every day they get a few more so they should just keep grinding until they're done? Or did they reach some kind of wall?

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where the harder they fight, they're not really getting any extra Hamas fighters because they're all dug in better or something. And I also don't know how much of Gaza is even left. In the best case scenario, when we talk about the fires in LA, we're talking about five years before anybody can maybe get back in the house. Are we talking about that in Gaza?

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Now, some of this is cause and effect being reversed. If you're depressed, it's pretty hard to work out. Impossible, really. If you have actual real mental depression, getting out of bed is almost impossible. So some of it is the correlation is backwards, but some of it is clearly causation. If you've been exercising since you were a kid, you're almost certainly to be better off mentally.

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That there's nothing left, there's no electricity, there's no water, everything's polluted and toxic. How could they ever resettle it? And it's not like Israel is going to be working as hard as they can to get it ready for resettlement by Hamas and their supporters. So I feel like there's no real hope that Gaza turns back into anything like it used to be.

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But to be fair, Israel said that from the beginning. They said when we're done, GAZO won't be anything that you're used to. And I think we interpreted that exactly the way it's turning out.

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So I guess my only point is that we've hit some kind of a, I don't know if it's because of lack of interest or lack of access, but we just stopped getting really interested in what's happening on the ground there. And that's weird. Anyway, Researchers, according to Louisiana State University, there are some researchers that found a way to recycle plastic.

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They use electromagnetic waves to melt the plastic from the inside out, which requires far less energy. So they could reuse it. Now, it's a ways off, but they can do it in a lab. And if it's way less energy, it's way less expensive. And so there might be a way to recycle your plastic. You know, I thought for a long time that what I really want is a electromagnetic plastic melting technology

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that would turn plastic into something that I could use in my 3D printer. So I'd like to take all my plastic bottles and throw them in a bin, and then at the end of the month, push a button, and it just crushes them into basically ink for the printer, but they would print goods.

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So you'd make yourself some, I don't know, you wouldn't want to do dishware because maybe you don't want to eat off of plastic, but you could probably find things you would use. Make some goods out of it. Sell them. Maybe. Who knows? All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for this Sunday. The rumors about the inauguration appear to be fake.

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So yesterday there were some rumors that even the indoor rotunda inauguration was going to be moved yet again for security reasons. People speculated. But I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I think it's going to be in the rotunda and the Capital One Stadium that the overflow people are going to be in is covered.

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So people are going to be warm and they're going to be with each other, which is almost as important as being with Trump. And then Trump's going to show up at the stadium where everybody's warm and they've been partying and they're just dying to see him. So I think Trump's going to make this even better than it was. I don't think he gave up anything.

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I think packing him into the stadium and keeping them warm was the right answer in every way. Not just for safety, but also for weather and keeping everybody safe and happy, giving them a good memory of the event. So to me, that's all positive. And we'll be paying attention, especially for the security concerns. I don't want to see anything like that. All right.

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The TikTok ban has gone into action, and the TikTok lovers are hoping that Trump will save them when he's officially in power tomorrow.

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Now it's going to be two rallies, Owen says. So there's a rally today. Is there something happening today and then another one tomorrow? All right. What about the poor CIA who wanted to kill him? Well, allegedly. We don't know that for sure. Got a screen for micro drone the swarms.

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Well if they could get inside the building, yeah But they'd have to So one of the things I worry about micro swarms is let's say you have a door to a secure place and It's guarded well, and they're searching everybody so nobody can get in unless they're searched But the door is open It's just that it's guarded by people.

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How hard would it be for a drone swarm to just go right through an open door and just knock the guards out of the way? Feels like it'd be pretty easy. Maybe the first one just explodes and kills the guard. But after that, the swarm just goes right through the door or the window. So that's what I'd be worried about. I don't think we're quite there, but right on the edge of it.

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Yeah, of course they would also have anti-drone technology, I suppose. All right, what's this? So Keith Boykin goes on CNN and he says, any black person who performs at Trump inauguration dishonors black families he refused to rent to in the 1970s. Now, Do you know that story? Do you know that there's no evidence he was aware of it? It's true that his staff was discriminating.

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And I think you will but at least with a 90-day presidential extension, I don't know if you knew this but the The ban has built into it that the sitting president whoever it is can extend it for 90 days extend Extend the pause before the ban so he can put off the ban for 90 days Which would be reversing it for 90 days and he can do that under the condition that

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So the court found that the staff discriminated. It was never tied to him. And the staff would absolutely have an incentive to discriminate because they were, you know, they were, well, their incentives were that they thought they could do a better job of filling the building if they discriminated. Now, that was illegal. But there's no evidence that Trump ordered it.

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The black kids he wanted to execute in the Central Park case, that's fake news. He never said he wanted to execute those black kids. He said that the crime rate should be triggered to bring back the death penalty. But he wasn't talking about them. And we don't know for sure that they were innocent or not. I'll presume they're innocent because they're Americans, but I don't think it was proven.

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And then the black Haitian immigrants he lied about. Okay, does anybody care about the Haitian immigrants? Forget about the race. Does anybody care about the Haitian immigrants being offended because he said they might eat your pets? I think the Haitian immigrants have so different problems. I don't think it probably... I'd be surprised if they even care.

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I mean, it might be something that just didn't even affect them. So I think this is just a desperate attempt to not lose the black vote. Oh, I guess Nelly is also. So Snoop Dogg and Nelly are both performing. Okay. Okay. All right. That's all I got for now. So I'm going to talk to the locals people for a few minutes privately. And then we'll see you all tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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Locals coming at you privately.

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that there's some kind of deal or sale being worked on, and it's not complete. Now, it's not exactly true that anybody's maybe getting close to negotiating a deal to buy it, but there are two possibilities out there. The Perplexity app, which is an AI app on a search engine. It's the best thing ever. I recommend it all the time.

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Jeff Bezos is one of the backers of that, and they've offered to somehow merge with TikTok, but not take the algorithm. So some think the algorithm is the expensive part. And so they would pay less. They'd build the algorithm themselves. I don't know if that's going to happen, but at least it would be enough for Trump to say, oh, well, somebody's noodling on a deal. That's close enough.

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So I'll give them 90 days to see if they can do it. But also Kevin O'Leary, the Shark Tank star and entrepreneur, He's working with some group of investors and billionaire Frank McCourt, and they put together a $20 billion cash offer, which I think TikTok has just rejected. Some people think it's worth $50 billion if you bought the algorithm with it. But here's the thing that's puzzling me.

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Senator Paul Rand, who, in my opinion, is almost always right and well-informed, unlike some of his peers, But he said that the real reason, to use his words, the real reason for the TikTok ban was censorship. Is that what you think? Did we ban it for censorship? Meaning that, oh, man. I just suddenly got really sick, so I might have to cut this short. If I cut it short, wow.

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I'm having an event here live on livestream. Let's see if I can make that pass. But Rand Paul says that the real reason for the TikTok ban was censorship. That's sort of true, but it's not the big picture. The sort of true part is that the Israel stuff, when TikTok turned more anti-Israel than pro-Israel, Some say that the Israeli lobby kicked in and got the Congress to ban it.

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Ah, good stuff. Delicious. All right, I'd like to start out with two corrections. These would both go into the category of, man, I'm stupid.

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I think that's true as the trigger. That was like the final straw or something. But it's not the big reason. The big reason is you don't want China to have a button they can push to change America's minds. Apparently that has happened. There was a study that showed that TikTok was pretty anti-Israel in terms of the quantity of content, one direction versus the other.

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So I wonder, does Rand Paul not know that the real problem is the persuasion risk in the future? It's not so much that there was one particular issue about Israel and the propaganda on that. So I don't know. What is up with Rand Paul? Why doesn't he just say, or does he not know, Is it possible he doesn't know that the real risk is future persuasion? I just don't know.

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And why would you equate a free speech platform that could be manipulated by your adversary with a free speech platform that could be manipulated, potentially, by your own country? How in the world does anybody think that's about the same? Let me give you an analogy. Would you hand a gun to your friend before you would hand a gun to your enemy? Which one makes sense to you? It's the same gun?

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Wait, wait, why would you treat it differently? People, don't censor it. It's the same thing. It's the same exact thing, a gun. So why would you discriminate who you gave it to? An enemy who wants to shoot you versus your friend who wants to protect you? Why is it different? I don't see any difference, do you? I'm Rand Paul. I don't see any difference. Well, it's gone both times, right?

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I don't get it. So what's up with that? Now, to be fair, when he says it's censorship, he's probably talking about the specific Israeli situation. But is he using censorship as influence? And he didn't think that the influence should be canceled? I don't know. If it was organic, then it's a free speech issue. So maybe that's the way to put it.

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If the thing that got canceled for it was actually just happening on its own and China didn't push any buttons, it was just a natural phenomenon of what the TikTokers thought because they're a certain age. And then below a certain age, they're not as pro-Israel. So maybe it was organic. If they stopped something that was organic, that's just pure censorship.

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If they stopped something that was because China had already pushed a button and we have no way to know, well, then we'd be stopping a weapon of mass destruction. Pretty different. Anyway, it opens the question, what would happen if AI starts saying bad things about Israel? What would happen if AI starts saying bad things about Israel? We know what happens when TikTok does. That's pretty clear.

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But what happens when AI does? Well, maybe we'll find out, because it turns out there's a school that was using an AI emulation of Anne Frank to teach the kids about that situation, except this is reported in The Bite by Joe Wilkins. He says that because AI likes to show both sides, so you know that AI doesn't like to say somebody's right and somebody's wrong. So the AI Anne Frank,

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It seemed to be trained to avoid blaming the Nazis for what happened. And it tries to redirect the conversation into a more positive light. Let's not be so divisive about this. Let's try to treat this one right down the middle. All right, well, I'd assume that's not going to last very long. But it does...

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So yesterday I confused the two assassins because they're both white guys with rifles who didn't get it done. And I thought that the I'd forgotten for a moment that the first one was dead on the scene and it was only the second one who survived. So no, there was no way that Trump could go talk to the guy in prison because he's pretty dead. So that's the first correction.

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It begs the question, if we can get out of the Israel Nazi mode, just in general, news in general, can AI ever be the one who tells you what's true? I don't think it can. Because whoever makes it and owns it and benefits from it has an opinion, and they're going to want to put their opinion in the AI because they're going to think it's a real one and all the other opinions don't count.

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So no, there's no way that AI is ever going to be able to tell you the truth. There's no way. There's not any logical way it could ever do it. It could know the truth. That's a thing. It could know the truth. It can't possibly tell the truth over time. Anyway, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was saying that it was his last time at the podium, and then he dropped this little scary thing.

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He goes, I hope this is my last time at this podium because, you know, last day of the administration. He says, the only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days. Wait. What? What? The National Security Advisor? The guy who has access to all the secret stuff? Top secret clearance? Knows exactly what the Democrats are doing?

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Knows exactly what foreign countries may or may not be planning? The only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days. What? So it does sound scary. It sounds scary like he knows of some plan to do something bad. But the other possibility is that he did it before his last day.

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If he said that before his actual last day in office, then if there was some big event and Trump had not been inaugurated yet, presumably he would come back. So I don't think he meant it as some kind of scary, you know, something's coming foreshadowing. I think he just meant I'm not officially done with the job. Is that fair? Because he wasn't officially done with the job.

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So if something big happened the next day or so, he would in fact come back. So that's my interpretation. It didn't turn into a bigger story, so I think it's just an interpretation thing. Meanwhile, CNN did a big story yesterday that just blew my mind. So it was Aaron Burnett was talking to a correspondent who knew how China was reacting to Trump's election. And it's not what you think.

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How do you think the Chinese citizens are reacting to Trump's election? Well, according to CNN, and this is part of the story, it's CNN saying it. That's almost bigger than the story itself. Watch this. CNN did an extended segment in which the entire point of it was that the Chinese public really likes Trump. And he's sort of a celebrity star over there.

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They're making merchandise with his face on it in China. They have merchandise. And a lot of it is pro-Trump. And so he even has positive nicknames. So over there, they have some kind of very positive nickname for him, and they're all talking about him. And President Xi is sending the highest-ranking person who's ever gone to an inauguration, his VP. And, wow.

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So CNN definitely seems to be trying to adjust and find that middle ground where they're not so just always anti-Trump all the time. More to that point, Jim Acosta, the correspondent slash host, who had been Trump's biggest nemesis and one of the biggest liars on CNN, he got moved to the midnight hour. So he went from 10 a.m., where he was doing so well, he was beating some of the primetime shows.

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All the lazy podcasters are sleeping in today, but not me, and not you either. So let's get our comments working here, and then we'll have some fun. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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The certainty is just a mistake. You've lived in a world where you've been surprised before about things you were certain about. And there's nothing less certain than how somebody else is thinking. Now, part of what bothers me about this story is it's so damn boring. because everybody just says the same five things, but they say them really angrily if you don't agree. All right?

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So I'm going to sort of say the same five things and see if you agree with me. Number one, it comes down to what Comey was thinking. Would you agree? Because if you knew magically, oh, he wasn't thinking about assassination, he was just thinking about removing him from office, And I'm not saying that's what he was thinking because how would I know? I can't read his mind.

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So if I told you I'm certain that he was thinking it was innocent, well, that would be a mistake. Just as certain, if you said I'm certain he was thinking, you know, maybe I can get people to assassinate him if I do this. Hold on, my light went out. If you want to say that in his role as head of the FBI, he should have known that that was a call to assassination, I would say you don't know that.

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You don't know that at all. Because here's what I think.

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even if you had only heard that term in the restaurant business, which would be my case, I've only heard it in the restaurant business, do you think I would be confused if I saw a movie where somebody was a professional sniper and their partner or their boss said, once they had lined up the sights on somebody, the professional sniper, and the boss said, all right, 86 them.

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Do you think I would be confused about what 86 meant in that context? No, not at all. Suppose it was a professional hitman for the mafia. And I saw the movie and somebody said, all right, we're going to 86 the veto. Even if I'd never heard that word being used in that context, would I be confused about what it meant? No. No, that would be completely true because that's how words work.

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You can wax your car and nobody thinks that's assassinating the car. But if a mafia hitman said, I'm going to wax Vito, you would know that wax meant kill Vito. So the word means a different thing based on the context. Now here's the interesting thing. We don't think that Comey arranged the shells himself, right? Can you give me a fact check on that?

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I believe he just saw it and then thought, oh, I'm going to take a picture of this. Do you think that even if Comey would have definitely known if he'd heard 86 in the context of a hitman or the mafia, just like you and me, he would have definitely known that was a call for violence in those contexts.

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Do you know how I knew that that was going to be true? Because every single time they try a hallucinogen, it doesn't matter which one, and they test it on depressed people, every single time it works. And not only does it work, it has lasting benefits. Maybe not lifetime, but lasting. So maybe they didn't need to test this.

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But when he saw seashells on the beach, are you still so sure that he thought that was a clear call to violence? Now, we can't believe what he says. He said, oh, I didn't realize that was interpreted as violence, so I took it down.

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But how many of you believe that Comey, being the sophisticated, clever guy you think he is, said to himself, I think I'll do a call for assassination with these seashells, and then I'll post it on Instagram, and everything will be fine? How many of you think that that was his thought process?

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That he was going to call for assassination, post it on social media, and that there wouldn't be any problem with that? Because that would be super stupid. It wouldn't be super clever. It would be super stupid. So is he super stupid? Or is he somebody who saw the context was seashells that somebody else put there and thought they probably weren't thinking about murdering him.

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They probably just wanted to get rid of him. And he thought, oh, it's clever that you could put these two numbers together, 86 and 47. So, Here's my take. We don't know what he was thinking.

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But if you're 100% sure that Comey saw seashells on the beach and took a picture of them and thought that he was going to call for assassination and post it on Instagram and that would be a good play, that's not a good take. Not 100% sure. If you tell me, I think he might have been thinking that, I would say, he might have been.

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If you say, he might not have been thinking that and he was just not really thinking of anything and he didn't think it through, I would say, maybe. But if you're positive, you're 100% sure you know what he was thinking when he did it. That's a terrible take. It's a terrible take. Could you be right? Yes. Yes, you could.

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Am I telling you that he definitely was not thinking that it was his clever way to kill Trump? I'm not saying that. Because I'm not saying I can read his mind. What I am saying is, if it were me, and I definitely know that if you're using 86 to talk to a hitman, it would be about violence. If I saw some seashells on the beach, I wouldn't necessarily connect that with any violent thought.

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But it doesn't mean he thought that way. Now, would you agree that this topic is really fucking boring? Because we don't know what he was thinking. It's not going to go anywhere. As long as there's a common usage of the word 86 and he's not even the one who arranged the shells, he's not going to get arrested.

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It's just something to talk about where we all just say the same fucking things over and over again. Oh, but don't you know that he's so smart? He's so smart that he would know that that means kill him. Okay. You don't have to say it over and over again. All right, so how about we just never talk about this again? Agreed? All right. Mario Noffel was calling out something from SciTechDaily.

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Apparently, there's what could be a really big discovery. So they found a way to use something called tin perovskite, which is a mix of tin and crystal-like structures, to split water into clean hydrogen. And apparently it's stable, which is a big deal. And it's efficient and cost-effective. And you could basically just use this to create unlimited hydrogen.

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Maybe they could have just asked me, hey, what do you think would happen if we give this depressed guy some DMT? I'd be like, well, I think he'll get happier. That's what I think. You probably saw some of the news that a Mexican naval vessel crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night. Now, the surprising part about this story is Mexico has a navy.

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Now, the next seashell arrangement, we'll talk about voting for the budget. Okay. See how mad you're getting? See, if you're feeling anger about that Comey topic, it's because you know you're wrong. That's what's causing the anger. You know you didn't have a good take.

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And I called you out on it, and you're like... Anyway, so apparently this would... You can use just sunlight and water and turn it into hydrogen, and it could be this huge leap toward... green energy. I wonder if it's real. Seems almost too good, doesn't it? But maybe, maybe we'll see. Well, you know how the Democrats are having trouble finding a leader? They all seem to be losers.

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Well, Stacey Abrams was on MSNBC, and she was asked what the Democrats need to do to win. And her take was they need to focus on their values, not their policies, their values. And she called out DEI as like one of their top values. So in order to win, they need to focus on DEI. They're not really sending their best, are they? I totally want Stacey Abrams to focus on DEI and run for president.

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See how that goes. Not so well. Well, there's some kind of a bomb went off at a Palm Springs fertility clinic. And the FBI is calling it an intentional act of terrorism. Hmm. I wonder if there are any kind of suspicious things that are happening at the same time. Huh. So there's an intentional act of terrorism that would be blamed on the far right, right? Because it's a fertility clinic?

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So isn't this evidence that the far right are the dangerous ones? Is that the way it'll be told? Huh. I wonder if there are any other stories that are sort of in the same vein at the same time. Oh, here's one. It's about combat sport clubs. Combat sport clubs. Now, I'm going to tell you the story, and I want you to see how many red flags you can pick out. Number one, it's on CBS.

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So it's a CBS news story. Bing. Okay, that was an easy one because you don't trust them for news. But what they say is that combat sports clubs have been used to boost recruitment for white nationalist hate groups. Oh, oh. So at the same time that a bomb went off at a fertility clinic, CBS News was all was all ready to drop a story about white nationalist hate groups.

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That's probably just a total coincidence, right? Ping! And that's according to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Ping! Ping! Remember, I always tell you, if you know what happened, you don't know anything. But if you know who happened or who was involved, you might know a lot. So now we've got CBS reporting on the Southern Poverty Law Center. You know anything about that group?

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Well, that group is not exactly credible, at least with the right-wing part of the world. All right, and their report, they've been tracking the efforts of the Patriot Front. Ping! So they had all lined up a story about the Patriot Front. Huh. Well, that's kind of interesting timing.

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And apparently the Patriot Front, they say is a white nationalist movement that was formed following the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. I don't believe that that was organic. I think that was somewhat obviously some kind of an op. I mean, like really obviously. So they're tying it to that.

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How many of you knew that Mexico even had a navy? Do they? Well, I guess they do. This particular ship was a tall ship. So a sail ship with very tall sails. And I guess those sails were too tall. But I think there was some kind of engine problem or something that caused them to smash into the bridge. I saw that there were casualties, but then I saw some other reports.

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So far we've got CBS, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Patriot Front, and the Charlottesville event. It's all in the same story. Does that activate anything for you? It gets better. So Robert Rundo is the founder of the white supremacist group in Southern California, and he's the one credited with introducing this idea of the active clubs, right? So what do we know about Robert Rundo?

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Well, according to CBS, he was arrested in Romania in 2023, ping, after the US requested his extradition on federal rioting charges. He was sentenced to two years and effectively received a time served ping sentence being released in December of 2024. Does any of that story sound organic and real to you? I'm going to say there's not a single thing here that looks credible. Not a single thing.

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Now, I don't know what's true and what isn't, but in terms of credibility, this has every signal for not being real. Every one. And it dropped at the same time as that bomb went off at the fertility clinic. Huh. I wonder if we're on the verge of the fake news talking about the big problem with these far-right extremists, which would be sort of right on time. Were you not expecting that?

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Didn't we all know that was coming? Of course we did. Is it this? I don't know. Well, in other news, according to The Hill, so Trump is mad at Walmart and lambasted them over raising their prices because of tariffs. And this is what Trump said. He said, quote, Walmart should stop trying to blame tariffs as a reason for raising prices throughout the chain. So Trump said this on True Social.

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Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than expected. And then Trump says, between Walmart and China, they should, as I said, eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything, he added. I'll be watching, and so will your customers.

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well now if trump can pull this off i'll be very impressed but the the normal way these tariffs would kind of express themselves is if it were a low margin item walmart's not going to sell low margin items for a loss because there's an extra charge that eats up the entire margin and i don't know if these are high margin

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So if they're low margin things, they pretty much have to pass along the expense to the customer or else get out of the business. But if it's high margin stuff, then he's got a bit of an argument, which is you should maybe eat it. But I don't think the president should be telling a private company how to price things. It feels like a little bit of an overreach.

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But it's very key to his whole strategy because if everybody starts raising prices, then his tariff idea looks like a worse idea. And Walmart's sort of the canary in the coal mine if they go first. But they're also the biggest canary. So I imagine if Trump can bully Walmart into not raising prices, then other retailers are going to say, all right, we don't need this trouble.

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We don't need this kind of trouble aiming at us, so maybe we should ease some of this tariff. But in any case, it still looks like a tax on somebody. All right. You've heard this story before. I'm going to add something to it. So the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools, Ryan Walters, he was on TV talking about the fact that Oklahoma...

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So I'm not sure exactly how many casualties, but they do have. I think most likely they do. So that was bad. In a related story, Red State Ward Clark is writing that the Mexican cartels are now dealing in the illicit fish trade. So they're becoming fishermen and they're squeezing out the non-cartel people and elbowing their way in. And they're in the fish business.

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is going to be teaching their students that there were irregularities in the 2020 election. And they're going to let the students make up their own minds if those irregularities are a coincidence or had some good reason for them or a sign of some kind of rigged election. Now, I like it if it's going to help them do reasoning and just figure it out on their own. But let me say this.

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If the 2028 election, whoever's running, if the 2028 election ends up with having the same amount of outrageous Democrat votes as Biden did in 2020, then I am willing to say that 2020 was not rigged.

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However, if I had to bet, I'd put a pretty big bet on as long as the Republicans are sending out their lawyers to watch all the voting places like they did in 2024, as long as it's being watched carefully, if they only get the same amount of votes that you would expect in a normal trend line like every other election,

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because the number of people who vote democrat is kind of consistent and so if it's consistent with the past but not 2020 i'm going to say oh there it is there there's your uh it's not exactly proof but it would be good enough for me if i saw that they could not reproduce the number of votes they got in 2020

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even eight years later when there were more people who could vote, I'm going to say, okay, 2020 was definitely rigged. Because if you throw on top of that that the bellwethers all went crazy just that one year, and if all the bellwethers work in 2028 and the number of votes looks like the trend line and not like 2020, 2020 was rigged. I'm just going to say that.

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So I think we can find out in 2028. So as you know, Representative James Comer is going to bring in people to testify to Congress about the auto pen. So, you know, Biden used the auto pen or somebody used the auto pen. We don't know who. And it was signing the things that Biden should have been signing.

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And apparently most of the signatures were auto pen, which raises the question, who was actually in charge? But I did a little bit of research. Well, actually somebody else grokked it and posted it to find out what is the process for getting something signed with the auto pen? Wouldn't you assume that even if the president were on vacation or something,

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that the president would still have to sign something. And what they'd sign would be, instead of the bill, which would not be physically where the president is if they're on vacation or something, they'd sign a little, at least a memo. They would say, I authorize you to use the audio pen for this purpose. And then there would be further documentation of who got that memo and when they executed it.

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Now, did James Comer already get all that? So wouldn't he have by now requested the trail, the paper trail? Because there would be a paper trail. It's not just that suddenly there's an auto pen signature. That's not a thing. The only way the AutoPen is going to be used is if there's a chain of orders that you can see from the top guy to the AutoPen operator.

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It's going to be locked up and there's probably only one person who has access to it. So how do we not already know that chain. Or it could be that we don't trust that even if Biden signed a memo saying use the auto pen, that he knew what he was signing. So maybe this exercise is more about embarrassing the Democrats and keeping this in the news. I don't think this is going to turn into anything.

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It doesn't seem to me that at the end of this we're going to find out that there was somebody else running the country. Probably not. But it certainly keeps the Democrats on their back feet. There's a study, the source is CBS on this. Well, CBS is writing about it, but they didn't do the study. That three days of silence makes your brain grow new memory cells.

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So researchers found that when your brain gets quiet, it gets smarter, basically.

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so that you should do uh two hours of real quiet a day where you turn off your devices and you're not talking to anybody and just sitting there quietly now how many of you have two hours extra per day that you weren't doing something important and you could just sit there quietly do any of you have two hours a day that you could do that you know i uh

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Now, this raises some questions. Why is it that they're in the fish business? Is it because selling fish is as profitable as cocaine? I don't think so. I don't think the margins are nearly as good. Is it because they have so many recruits? who want to join the cartel, that they don't have enough cocaine to keep them all busy. It's like, all right, all right.

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I've had recommended to me by very smart people that I should get up and meditate for an hour before I get busy. And I thought to myself, who has an hour when they wake up? I'd love to have an hour to just sit there, but who has an hour to do that? I don't know. I'm sure there's something to it, but... Well, Trump said...

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that he's going to talk to Putin on Monday and try to sort out this whole Ukraine-Russia war thing. And then he's going to talk to Zelensky afterwards, and then after him, the NATO members. And Trump says, hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place. I don't think any of that's going to happen. Do you think there's any chance of getting peace in Ukraine today?

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All the indications are that Putin is not interested. So unless he's got some way to put extreme pressure on Putin, and he might make some threats about further sanctions and stuff like that, but he better have a hell of a threat to change Putin's mind, because I'm pretty sure that... Putin doesn't want peace at this point. I think he's just waiting everybody out.

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He just probably figures, okay, they're going to give up eventually. It might take me five more years, but they'll give up. They'll just get tired of funding this losing Ukraine. Maybe. Well, in other news, Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei... Am I saying that right? Khamenei... They all have names that sound like that.

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He posted it on X. The dangerous, deadly, cancerous tumor in West Asia must and will be eliminated. Would that be Israel? And if we think we're doing a peace deal with Iran... And as of today, the Supreme Leader is saying the deadly cancerous tumor in West Asia must be eliminated and will be eliminated. That doesn't sound like he wants a lot of peace. That sounds like he's developing a nuke.

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But then the president of Iran, who doesn't have much power compared to the Supreme Leader, but the president says that the messaging coming from the U.S. is all basically ambiguous. I think Trump said that we have given Iran a proposal. And Iran says, we don't have any proposal. What are you talking about? And we don't even know what you want.

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So the tough part, as I understand it, is that Iran wants the ability to enrich uranium to any level. But if you ask them, will you agree to not make nukes? They would say, yeah, we totally agree. We won't make nuclear weapons. But you can't take from us our ability to enrich our own uranium. To which I say, this is a tough one.

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Because Iran is a sovereign situation, and they should be able to enrich uranium as much as they want, anytime they want. Now, I can see why we would say you can't make a weapon, but if they can enrich uranium, and they're really, really good at it, and they can enrich it up to weapons grade, they have the right equipment and the right time and everything,

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It's as good as saying they're going to have a nuclear weapon. So on one hand, you can see why a country would say, why do you get to decide how much uranium we enrich? That's nobody's business but our own. And we're enriching it for medical uses and all that domestic nuclear or whatever. So you can see why they would kind of hold tight on that.

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Like, you can't tell us how much uranium we can enrich. And at the same time, we can see why the United States would be tough on, you can't even enrich. Because it would be the same as saying you could have a bomb.

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If you get to the point where it only takes a few weeks for you to enrich it enough that it's a bomb, at the same time, you're getting better and better at producing missiles, non-nuclear missiles. Well, that's really just giving you permission to make a bomb. E.J. says, Scott, does Israel have nuclear weapons? What kind of question is that? Literally everybody knows that.

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Only the people with seniority get to do the cocaine. We're going to have to put you on something, sort of an entry-level thing. All right, okay, excellent. I got my tattoos. I'm ready to go. What kind of exciting criminal activity will I be involved in? Well, Juan, we're going to put you in fish. Excuse me? Fish. You'll be in fish. I didn't join the cartel to be in fish.

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So is that a serious question? You're just trolling. So yes, everybody knows that we're not looking at a fair situation where both of them have nukes. But nobody expects Israel to use a nuclear weapon in an offensive way. Do they? But we do think, then why can't Iran? That's just a stupid fucking question. Really? Do I have to explain it?

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Do I have to explain why we don't mind that our friends and allies have nukes, but we don't want the guy who just said he wants to wipe out the cancer of a certain country? Do you think those are the same? If Iran struck first, they would be completely obliterated. Yes. Yes.

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but we still don't want them to have a nuke because they could threaten that they're going to use it and it would change the whole balance of power. So if you're saying, you know, what would be fair from, you know, some completely hypothetical stand, what would be fair is that everybody could have a nuke. If you're saying what will work, you don't want the crazy ones to have a nuke.

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So I guess the real question is, Why would Iran even want to get so close to a nuclear weapon? It's to use it. Or to use it as a threat. And that would be almost as good. So stop asking stupid questions. That's just stupid. All right. So it looks to me like there's no way to make a deal with Iran. So I would expect no peace deals. All right, that's all I got for today.

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And I'll remind you that Owen Gregorian is going to have his spaces right after this. So I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately, but that'll just give Owen enough time to set up his spaces and then we can meet over there. Okay. I'll probably drop into that as well. All right, everybody. Happy Sunday. Thanks for joining. Is Comey claiming he found them arranged that way?

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Nobody's claiming that he arranged them. So yes, I believe the story is that he found it, not that he did it. That's my understanding. All right, EJ, drop dead. All right, everybody else, we'll see you at Owens. And let me just wrap it on locals.

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I know, but got to start somewhere. If you do a good job in fish, we'll move you to, I don't know what, stealing cars. But eventually, you can work your way up to the cocaine businessman. But seriously, doesn't it seem to you that this is driven by too many people in the cartel? Like would they really enter the fish business unless they had more people than they had jobs for the people?

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But if you'd like to try to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup of mug or a glass of tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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watching the cartels diversify, it's telling us something, but I don't know exactly what it is. Now, I guess you could say that the cartels are just taking over every business in Mexico, and fish are just one of them. I suppose that's true. Well, there's a company I've told you about before, and I even wrote about it in one of my books, called Climeworks.

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And it's these giant sucking machines that suck the CO2 out of the air. Oh no, they'll take all my CO2 and my plants will die. Don't they know that CO2 is plant food? I just said that so you don't have to. But the idea was they were trying to reduce the risk of climate change by having gigantic machines that suck the CO2 out.

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But now that they've been running these machines for a while, it turns out that the machines add more CO2 to the... It adds more CO2 than it removes. You can't fail harder than that. I'm sorry, Climeworks. I really thought you had a chance. But no, it turns out that they're not that efficient. And it just makes things worse.

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Or if you like your CO2 because it's good for plant food, it makes things better. It would be funny if you learned that the plants were growing really well wherever there was a Climeworks machine because they had added more CO2 than they'd removed from the atmosphere. Does it seem to you that every climate change story now looks different?

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Is it my imagination or is climate change sort of as a concept now so debunked that whenever there's a story, it's about something not working or some estimate that wasn't true or some variable that they forgot? There's something definitely happening in the climate change world. And I like to end this by saying, wait till you find out about the climate models.

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Because you know, we live in a world where everything from the auto pen, which we'll talk about, to the Mexican Navy, literally just nothing works. But we're supposed to believe that these complicated models predicting the climate for 40 years, we're supposed to believe that those are accurate. Oh, my. Anyway.

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According to live science, one of the problems with AI models is they can't tell time or read a calendar. Now, I guess they can tell time if they do it the digital way. But if you show AI a picture of a clock, it can't tell you what time it is. Isn't that weird? You'd think it would be able to do that easily. And the same with a calendar.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. That was sip-tastic. Well, it's Sunday, and usually this happens on Saturday, but today... Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces right after the show. Spaces is the audio service that's on the X platform.

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So it's not that it doesn't understand time and calendars, but if you show it a picture of one, it gets confused. And it's really terrible. The failure rate is, you know, like 40%, 25% in that range. Well, here's some possibly good news until it turns out to be yet another thing that doesn't work. According to interesting engineering...

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There's a European firm that's going to use nuclear waste to generate their own nuclear power plants. And they're going to have power for a quarter million homes. It's a company called Thorizon. Now, you knew that this was a potential technology. It's something I've been talking about for years. Well, other people have been talking about it, and I've been telling you about it.

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But the idea is that nuclear waste still has 90% of its potential for power, but they don't have machines that can use the extra 90%. So there's a new kind of machine. I think it's a true kind of technology. It's one that you've heard of before.

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it's a molten salt reactor so they haven't built it yet but they got the funding they got the plans they're going to build it and uh this would be amazing it would power a quarter million households for 40 years with nuclear waste so you know how we worried about nuclear waste when i was a kid like that was the biggest thing people worried about Where are we going to put all that nuclear waste?

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Well, if this thing works, and I'm pretty sure it will, it turns out that nuclear waste is just your fuel for your thorium. Is it thorium? It's probably thorium because the name of the company is Thorizon. Okay. I thought I said that somewhere, but I'm looking at my notes. Yeah, I think it's a thorium. Well, Vivek Ramaswamy's bid to become governor of Ohio is looking a little more likely.

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According to the Daily Wire, the The only person who is maybe going to give him a good fight for the nomination on the Republican side is drop down. And that gives him a clear path to be the Republican nominee. So he's got a little competition, but nothing that would stop him. So Vivek Ramaswamy is one step closer. to being the governor of Ohio.

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So in case you're wondering why he's been so quiet, that's why he's going to be governor of Ohio. Do you think after he's governor of Ohio that he'll make a bid for the presidency? I'm going to say yes. I don't know if he'll do one or two terms as governor. But it seems like that will be his preparation for running for president. I think it's coming.

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Well, as you know, you may have seen this if you're on social media, Trump posted a video that's a compilation of some of the mysterious deaths that are linked to Hillary Clinton. Yeah. Now, every time I think that Trump can't be funnier or he can't be more provocative, he finds a way to do it.

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So you're probably aware that people have put together these lists of all these people who had mysterious deaths that were suspiciously good for Hillary Clinton. That's what people say. Now, it makes me wonder...

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could you could you pick any random high-level politician and find a bunch of deaths that you could argue well arguably this was good for that politician so they must have been behind it or is this unique to her because if it's if it's nothing but coincidence

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you would think there would be at least one other notable politician that also has, just by coincidence, a whole bunch of people who died that were related to them and their death somehow was a benefit to them. But I only know about one. I've never even heard of anyone else being accused of having a whole bunch of dead people around them that were suspiciously good for them, career-wise.

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So Trump prints that. Now, one of the ones, just so you know, Do you remember when JFK Jr. died in his plane crash? And a lot of people said he likely was going to run for the Senate in New York. And he might have been the only person who could have beaten Clinton. And then the only person who could beat her suspiciously dies in a plane crash. Interesting.

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So that was one of them, but there were a bunch of them. Let's see, there was Seth Rich, Vince Foster, some intern, Mary Mahoney, and some others. So I was reading about this in the Gateway Pundit. So why do you think Trump did that? What do you think his motivation was for printing that? Well, I would say at least two possibilities.

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So if you want to listen to that, go to X, look for Owen Gregorian, or you can see the link in my feed. Well, I wonder if there's any science that I didn't need to do because they could have just asked me. Oh, here's some. Eric Nolan writing in SciPost, he's my favorite. Did you know that people who inhaled DMT, they got rapid and lasting antidepressant effects?

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One is that it just absorbs attention and it's going to make people just think about that instead of thinking about other things. And as long as you're thinking about the thing he wants you to think about, you don't have enough time to think about maybe things that would be negative to him. So the more he makes you think what he wants you to think, the better off he is. So we'll see.

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I don't have an opinion about how real any of these deaths are in terms of being connected to Hillary, but it does look like there's a lot of deaths around Hillary. It does seem like a pretty big set of coincidences. All right. So I wasn't going to talk about this, but I just have to.

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This whole Comey 86 thing, people got really mad at me, and I'm going to help you out here on how to think about it. So number one, if you have complete certainty, that Comey knew exactly what he was doing, and it was a call to have Trump assassinated, I would say that's the worst take. Not that you're wrong, but that you have a certainty about what a stranger is thinking.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that even the International Space Station can't imagine, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So Hitler didn't own a scalpel, and Elon Musk is not using a scalpel. You see, right? Can you see? It's kind of obvious now. Everybody sees it now, right? There's no point in hiding it. And there was also that time he raised his arm above his waist. Who does that? Hitler. Hitler does that. By the way, Bill Burr says that was a Nazi salute.

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So if you can't believe Bill Burr, who's the biggest fricking idiot I've ever seen in my life, if you can't believe him when he interprets something to be absolutely ridiculous, well, who can you believe?

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Yesterday I saw the ultimate, it's almost like this Russian egg within an egg thing, where somebody said that Musk was a Nazi because he supported the far-right party in Germany and said that they're the only ones who can fix Germany. Now, I assume that that has something to do with immigration, that they must be opposed to mass immigration.

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So I assume that's what he meant, that they're the only ones that can stop Germany from just being overrun, becoming a different country. So the allegation was that the far right party in Germany is pro-Nazi. and that Elon Musk was supporting them. So, I mean, that's proof, right? That's proof he must be a Nazi because he's supporting a group that also is accused of being a Nazi.

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So I said, hey, AI, perplexity. Can you give me some examples of what this far-right party is? Because I've never weighed in one way or the other about German politics. But I thought, whoa, that's a pretty incendiary claim. So what would be some examples of this far-right party supporting Nazis? And so it gave me examples. And listen to these chilling examples. There was the one time

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one person who was in the party said something that was similar to what the Nazis had once said without giving me the example. What would be the example of what they once said that he also once said? Because I'm not positive, but I'll bet you people say a lot of things that Nazis once said. But don't we need some context? Don't I need an example? Then there was some other individual.

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Oh, I feel so bad for you. Then don't you get a reward? So why would you fix your problem if you're being rewarded for it? But sometimes, don't you think you need the tough love? Don't you think you need a kick in the ass sometimes more than you need compassion? How about, you know, I have no compassion for that. You need to just get your ass in gear. Maybe you need to go to the gym.

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Now, keep in mind that these are not the party's platform, which has nothing to do with anything Nazi, but rather there were individuals who were blamed for saying something that reminded someone else, a critic, it reminded a critic of Nazis. Do you know what else reminds the left of Nazis? Everything. Everything. Everything reminds the left of Nazis.

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So the other was that some leaders said that not every person who was in the SS was a criminal. So therefore, he must be backing Nazis. To which I say, I'm going to need a little context on that one. Is it possible, and by the way, I'll be blamed to being a Nazi just for saying this, so I'm going to do it anyway because I don't give a, you know, I don't care.

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Did it mean, and this is a question, not a statement. Did it mean that there might've been some people who were just sort of pressed into it and didn't do anything, especially illegal.

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They were just trying to stay alive and play along during, you know, was there somebody who was in the SS who basically was just doing the bookkeeping and didn't want to be there, but you know, it was easier than not. I don't know. So wouldn't you like to know what that example was? So it sounded exactly like every leftist complaining about every Republican candidate for president.

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Episode 2780 CWSA 03/16/25

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Every Republican candidate for president has been compared to a Nazi, no matter what they did. Apparently, it's just the same thing happening in Germany, that there's people who will say, hey, it looks like it's a sunny day. Oh, oh, does it? Does it look like a sunny day? Well, did you know what today is? No, I wasn't even thinking about the calendar. Oh, it's Hitler's birthday.

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So you're saying that Hitler's birthday looks like a sunny day. You obvious Nazi. And then you wipe your brow like, wow, this is terrible. And they say, well, there it is. Your hand is above your waist. What? Yeah, your hand was above your waist. That's called a Nazi salute. And you say, but it wasn't. It wasn't. I was just wiping my brow because you made me so nervous. No, no.

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First of all, Elon Musk supports you. And since he's a Nazi, why do you say he's a Nazi? Well, obviously, because he's supporting the Nazis. But why do you say they're the Nazis? Because they say things that remind me of Hitler. But wait, reminding you of Hitler is every fucking thing that happens every five minutes. Everything reminds you of Hitler.

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Why is that a standard for how somebody else is Hitler? Well, don't ask questions. So the color revolution is on. And obviously the Tesla attacks are paid, obviously. Does anybody doubt that? Is there anybody here who thinks that suddenly all the people who were pro-electric cars and afraid of climate change

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that suddenly they completely changed their opinion because they really liked the waste, fraud, and abuse, or that they're really worried about the compassion of the people who are being fired from these ridiculous jobs where there should have been half as many people? Does anybody think this is genuine?

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Does anybody think that the leftist woke up and said, wait a minute, he's using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel on things that have nothing to do with me and I didn't even know existed? Nobody cares about this. Well, the people getting fired care about their own lives, but nobody cares about it as a topic. Nobody cares about it as a political problem.

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is basically every company uh oh this is the other thing i think reid hoffman said that somehow elon musk didn't understand that the government is different from a private company i think he understands that do you know who else understands it everybody everybody literally everybody in the whole freaking world knows that the government doesn't operate like a private company Everybody knows that.

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Maybe you need to eat right and go to bed at 9 o'clock instead of 2 a.m. Maybe you should do the same thing that everybody else does to be happy, and maybe you can come back. And if none of that works, well, I've got a lot of compassion for you.

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So there's your generic complaints. Oh, he's not using a scalpel. It should have happened sooner. Oh, it should have used more compassion. I'm not sure if it's all legal. No, none of it's organic. It's all performative. By the way, have you noticed how many people are using the word performative? It's now completely part of the Republican, let's say, mega pro-Trump world.

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We're seeing nothing but performance. This is completely artificial. And do you know how I know it's artificial? Because nobody's asking enough questions. I saw one video where somebody talked to one protester and said, are you getting paid? And then the one protester said, oh, yes, definitely being paid.

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But he might have been joking, meaning that it kind of looked like he might have been pranking, you know, just to send people off the scent. And don't you think that's the biggest question? Shouldn't the news be only about the organizers? Shouldn't they be talking to, you know, as many individual protesters as they can to find out, are you being paid? Now, I'm a little suspicious.

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of all the evidence that I'm seeing on social media that suggests they're being paid. I'm completely sure that these are not organic, but I worry that there might be some fake stories being planted that won't check out. So there's like, oh, here's this advertisement for protesters. And then you say, oh, there it is.

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There's an advertisement right in the newspaper for protesters or online or something.

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you go there it is there it is it's proof and then later they say no no it wasn't we made that up that was just a meme somebody was just joking you fell for it obviously it's not it's not organized or paid for so i'm sure it's organized and paid for by all the usual bad guys who do color revolutions i'm sure of that these are fake there's no way in the world

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But I don't have any compassion for you if you're not doing the most obvious things in the world that everybody does to be happy, and you've decided not to do them. And then you're complaining to me. So I don't think compassion is always the right answer. I'm going to say the human might get the edge on this one. So too much compassion, bad. But some compassion, yes.

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that people organically decided that Teslas are bad and that Elon is a Nazi. Nobody would come to these opinions on their own by thinking through what they've seen. Nobody. This is purely brainwashing and or follow the money, some combination of those two things.

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Anyway, the swatting of conservatives continues and maybe even is increasing. And now that people have the idea, I suppose it'll be worse. I did see somebody did an analysis of the opinions about Ukraine that the people who got swatted had. So a lot of the people who got swatted seemed to have a very clear anti-Ukraine messaging. And do you think that's what it is?

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Do you think it's entirely a Ukraine kind of a thing? I don't know. I'm going to say that is at least in my top three possibilities. But don't you think the government should be trying to figure that out? It would make sense because it is a chilling thing. All right.

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So, for example, if I knew that anybody who said anything bad about Ukraine was getting swatted, would it make me less likely to say something bad about Ukraine? Well, if I were normal, yes. But since I'm not normal, fuck Ukraine. If you guys are doing this, we better not find out. You know what I mean? We better not find out. Now, I'm not going to say that they're doing it.

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because I don't have any evidence of that. But if that were to come out, oh my God, that would not be for free. If you think that's a free punch, you're going to have a real surprise coming, because that's going to be super expensive for Ukraine and super dangerous, because we would drop support really quickly. So Ukraine, if it is you, You better rethink this really quickly.

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Now, and again, I don't have any evidence that's Ukraine, so I'm not accusing Ukraine whatsoever. But if any evidence arrived, that's going to be really dangerous for Ukraine, maybe worse than Russia attacking. It's going to be really bad. So make sure you're not doing that, Ukraine. Anyway, what else is going on here? Randy Weingarten is still on TV doing her performative thing, which she does.

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Was Randy Weingarten ever a theater major? Did she have any background in the theater? because she really looks like an actress when she goes on TV. She emotes more than any normal person you've ever met. She puts on quite a show. So she's good at that, good at putting on a show, and obviously good at retaining power and maybe even really good for the teachers. I don't know.

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Maybe she's doing a good job for teachers. But it's not doing a good job for her students. That's not her job. Her job is not to make the students happy. It's to make the teachers happy. and to make the Democrats happy. So she's really mad, really mad. She's spitting mad, she says, about the Department of Education being wound down or decreased.

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Certainly there are problems where there's nothing you can do about it. And for that, maximum compassion. I'm all in for compassion on that. Here's another study according to the Daily Mail. Luke Schaefer is writing about this. Doctors reveal the alarming reason why you should never, in capital letters, never go for long periods without sex.

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Now, let me do a quick survey, since there have already been some changes there. Does anybody have children that are getting dumber because the Department of Education is under attack? Anybody? Is there anybody who had children who used to be able to spell and do math, but suddenly they can't?

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Is there anybody whose children benefited in any way from the Department of Education as far as you can tell? Is there anybody besides the people directly fired who, in all of the different government DOGE-related activities, is there anybody whose life has gotten worse because of anything that Doge has done. So far, I haven't felt the impact.

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Now, obviously, it's a big impact to the people losing jobs, but is it an impact to the rest of the country? Because unfortunately, we do have a system where if things don't work, you lose your job, even if you were doing a good job. So it's not an ideal system.

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You know, capitalism is a brutal system, and competition is brutal, and evolution is brutal, but it does get you to a better place in the larger picture, not in the micro picture. Anyway, so yeah, Randi Weingarten, she's really mad about that Department of Education, which some say is just another

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another tool of the Democrats and not really something that was helping anybody get a better education. That's what the critics would say. Well, let's talk about climate change. Anthony Watts of What's Up With That is writing about a New York Post story. So New York Post wrote a story about the sea level changes around our big cities. So apparently the sea level is relatively higher

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called... That's right. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens right now. Go. Well, the Rumble Studio is working perfectly. All the platforms are in place. Everything's looking good. I had a good night of sleep. I think things are looking up. I do.

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In New York City and San Francisco and Los Angeles and other cities. And it's based on two things. One, the sea level seems to be getting higher. But it's also because there's, what's the word they use? Subsidence. Subsidence? Subsidence. S-U-B-S-I-D-E-N-C-E. How would you pronounce that? Subsidence?

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And what it means is that if you put a big city next to the water, there's a real good chance that it will just start sinking over time. Now, part of it is because of excessive groundwater extraction. So as the groundwater is reduced under the city, there's just less there holding it up, so it sinks. Some of it is infrastructure issues. I don't know what that means.

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Sediment compaction and tectonic shifts. But climate change is not part of that story. So with or without climate change, a city that just happens to be a city could naturally sink. And we know exactly why, and not because of climate change. But the story got sort of conflated with the climate change predictions to make it look like, sure enough, climate change predicted exactly this.

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But there's no evidence that climate change did anything. And indeed, the change in sea level seems to be completely consistent with the last hundred years and not showing any signs that any kind of human activity in terms of climate change specifically had anything to do with anything. So here's what I like to say after a story like that. Wait until Democrats find out about climate models.

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Because at this point, there's very little holding the entire Democrat Party together. But still one of them is climate change. Once they realize that the climate models are completely ridiculous bullshit, and always have been, and couldn't possibly have ever told you the future, what do they have left? I mean, there's not much left.

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Did you know, and this is going to shock you, that people who go for long periods without sex, they're not as happy? has people who are having a lot of sex. Did you know that? Well, if you didn't know that, you could have just asked anybody. I'll stick with my theme of asking Scott, but you didn't have to ask me.

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James Comer said the other day that they're doing some investigation into Act Blue. So Act Blue is the big organization that allegedly gets small donations from people and packages them up for Democrats. Now, that would be completely legal if that's all they were doing. But Comer and others and Doge have seemed to have discovered that

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that ActBlue might be involved in something far more nefarious. Comer goes so far as to say that the investigation that he's putting on into ActBlue will destroy the entire Democrat Party. Now, that sounds like hyperbole. It's hard for me to believe it would destroy the whole Democratic Party. But he might know more than you know.

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He might know a little bit more about how deep this Act Blue thing goes. Because if it touches a lot of the leaders, and the leaders, let's say it could be demonstrated that the leaders knew exactly what was going on, that actually could destroy the entire Democratic Party. So I feel like I would bet against it.

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no matter what happens to Act Blue, I feel like the Democrats are probably saying, no, we didn't know anything about it. Nope, nope, surprise. You can't prove we knew anything about it. And maybe it will go away. But it could be such an important funding source that they might have a money problem. And maybe the money problem would be enough to give them a big problem. We'll see.

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Anyway, Trump has ordered an attack on the hoodies. Now, if you're not keeping up with this, the Houthis are a group in Yemen, and they're right there by the Red Sea. And if you can't do shipping in the Red Sea area, you're going to have to go all the way around the Horn of Africa, which is really expensive. Your insurance rates for your shipping will go through the roof.

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And apparently American shipping has been targeted. It looks like some other countries perhaps have not been targeted. And we don't know if that's because they're allies of Iran that backs the Houthis, or is it possible that they're paying bribes? Because I learned today that the Houthis are blackmailing some of the shippers. So I'm guessing the Americans are not paying the bribe.

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And maybe, maybe some other countries are saying, you know what, we'll just pay the bribe because it's a lot cheaper than being attacked. So I don't know how that works. But remember I always tell you that the only thing that you can rely on that's real is that which predicts. Those things which predict the future accurately probably are telling you that there's something real.

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If something's an idea but it doesn't predict, probably wasn't real. So one of the things that's interesting here is that Thomas Massey had made the following prediction, and he said it publicly. He said that, I recently said to watch for a new military engagement to compensate for the pullback in Ukraine. Oh, this is good. This is a very specific prediction.

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The military industrial complex demands about 50 billion a year from our government above and beyond what's necessary to defend our country. So immediately after we got out of Afghanistan, oh, look, we better pay a lot of money in Ukraine. And as we're winding down Ukraine, oh, look, coincidentally, there's a brand new military conflict with the Houthis.

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Now, we've bombed them before or attacked them before, but not as scale. So... I'm going to give Thomas Massey the win for the correct prediction. Right on schedule, another major military action. Now, does that mean that we shouldn't do it? No, that's a separate question. But it also seems, again, to support Massey's prediction, there's always a reason, right? There's always a reason.

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You could have just looked around and said, is anybody, any of you, have you not had sex in a long time? How do you feel about it? Are you satisfied? Do you feel like your life is complete? No? Huh. Didn't see that coming. I don't know how anybody could have ever predicted that not doing the one thing that you're biologically maximized to do, how could that make you unhappy? I don't know.

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the reason may not be one you agree with but we always have a reason some kind of reason oh we better stop russia there uh or it'll get worse we'd better be you know have a big and we better do a lot in afghanistan because that's where the terrorist training camps are their reasons and they're not crazy reasons and attacking the hooties well it's a really good reason It's a really good reason.

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But then Thomas Massey went further. He went to Grok, and he said, expressed in billions of dollars, list the five countries and five corporations that will benefit the most from the U.S. military activity to eliminate shipping disruptions caused by the Houthis and the Red Sea. And according to Grok, the countries that would benefit the most

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are China, Saudi, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. is not in the top five. And then of the corporations, none of the corporations are American, the top five. So this would suggest that America is just sort of creating another reason to spend another $50 billion because the old reason is decaying, the Ukraine war.

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And they just need a new military industrial complex or to keep selling weapons. Now that's a pretty good prediction. So I take it very seriously. On the other hand, I went to perplex the AI and I asked the following question. So it's sort of an AI battle here. I said, perplex the AI, um, What would be the change in inflation rates in the United States if the Hootie thing is not resolved?

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And according to perplexity, our current inflation rate is around 3%-ish. And if things went the way they're going in the next year, the cost of shipping not just to the U.S. but to other places that might end up as U.S. products at some point, that our inflation rate from that alone could go from 3% to 5% in a year because the shipping costs would just be outrageous. Now, do you believe that?

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Do you believe that perplexity AI is a good source? Do you believe that when it says our inflation would go from 3% to 5%, which would be devastating, by the way, that would be a devastating economic problem? That's not just a little percentage. Going from 3% to 5%, that's pain. That's some serious pain. And that it would be by next year. which is pretty close. So here's my take.

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I don't think you can trust the perplexity estimate, but I also don't trust Grok's estimate because I don't think that it's understanding that some of those countries, like China, I don't believe China is being attacked by the Houthis. And I'm not sure that Grok knew that.

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And I think that China is not being attacked by the Houthis because they have a better relationship with Iran, and Iran is running the Houthis. So I don't trust Grok on this question, and I don't trust perplexity on this question. But the thing we know for sure is it's really, really making our shipping prices go up. It's creating delays, long delays, and it's creating uncertainty.

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And so I am in favor of the attacks, but I'm not in favor of the attacks if they have a sort of a pinprick, hey, we'll stop doing this or we'll come back. We almost have to completely destroy every technological capability they have back to the point where you've just severely destroyed that part of the country. If you don't go that far, I think we can say for sure it won't make any difference.

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So next time, just ask me. Just ask me. I could have saved you so much time. Well, J.D. Vance is confident, he says. that there'll be a deal for TikTok so that it can stay open, but it will have a non-Chinese ownership. New York Post is reporting this. And he thinks there'll be some, quote, high-level purchase of TikTok, and it could happen before April 5th.

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They'll just reconstitute and get new weapons from Iran. And as long as there's anybody alive, Iran will say, are you still alive? Yes, I am. Would you like something to do? And maybe you'll make some money too. I don't have any other options. Okay, here's some missiles and some drones. Just send these at American shipping. You almost have to get to the point where there's nobody left.

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Now, I'm not in favor of genocide, but how else is it going to stop? And do we have a legitimate self-defense? I think it's legitimate. And unfortunately, it's a part of the world where if anybody's left, they'll keep fighting. It's not like traditional enemies of our past, where if you give them a really serious black eye, They'll say, okay, I don't want to do that again.

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So let's work something out. It will never be like that. It will never be like that. If there's anybody left, that one person will be firing a missile. So I don't want to say that I'm in favor of just wiping out the entire civilization, but what's the other way that works? Can you give me a better idea? Because here's what we can't do. We can't surrender in the Red Sea. We can't surrender.

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So I think that they get to choose whatever outcome they want. And the outcome that they seem to have chosen is complete destruction of their own civilization. I feel like it's just their own choice. And I feel like if they need some compassion... They should talk to AI because I don't have any.

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And if they want to kill all of their children by screwing with shipping to the point where it just makes sense for the people who don't want to be killed to kill all of their children, I'm not in favor of it, but I'm not the one choosing it. I'm not choosing it. That is their own choice. And if Trump wants to deliver to them exactly what they've chosen, I'm not going to complain too much.

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All right. Meanwhile, Trump has ordered the shutdown of something called the Global Media, USAGM, Global Media. Now, that was the entity that oversaw the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, So these are all the media broadcasting things that we would broadcast propaganda. But it was left-wing propaganda from the United States. It was sort of anti-conservative.

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So if we had a conservative allied country, we were even working against our own allies because they might have been more conservative and the radio was propaganda that was more left-leaning. Now, Carrie Lake had been put in charge of... I'm a little unclear if she was in charge of Voice of America or the entire agency. They had some other entities. But she did a video today.

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And by the way, if she's in charge of the entire thing, we'll figure that out by the end of the show. She's doing a great job because the whole idea was get in there and find out if any of this makes sense to keep alive. And it looks like she has decided that, at least to a large extent, it doesn't need to exist.

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And she did a video today about a brand new, really expensive-looking building that was built for this entity that's empty. And I guess the plan was to move from the existing building to this building. But as she points out, This new building, it's empty, and they would spend a quarter of a billion dollars per year on an empty building, and they could have just fixed up the building they were in.

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And now I think that option is going to go away, and there won't be anybody to be in any building because it just wasn't a good enough reason. So, yes, it does look like this was yet another situation in which there was not enough oversight. And probably a lot of money got pushed to cronies and friends and well-connected people to build a building that didn't need to be built.

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But, you know, these big deals, they do take some time. So maybe, maybe. He must know something we don't know, but he's, you know, JD Vance would understand this part of the world. So he's not like Mike Pence. Think about JD Vance analyzing the odds of TikTok being purchased by a bunch of investors.

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And maybe it wouldn't have made sense if we'd all known what was going on. So good job, Carrie Lake. Mike Benz, he's having the time of his life, I think, watching Doge uncover all the things that he's been warning us about, but we didn't quite understand.

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We couldn't kind of conceive of the larger picture because it's just so large, and you really have to wallow in it to get any sense of what's really going on. But here's a little sample from Mike Benz. Apparently, USAID, gave George Soros' Open Society Foundation $5 million for its NGOs, so Soros had some NGOs, in a little country called Macedonia that has fewer than 2 million people in it.

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And the money was going to create to train citizens with a little book, a booklet, that would train them to protest using Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. You know what that is, right? So American activist Saul Alinsky had his own book, Rules for Radicals. And it would teach you to do things like, oh, I don't know, organize protests against Tesla. Sound familiar?

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And mock people and call them communists? Sound familiar? Or call them Nazis? Sound familiar? So apparently we were spending our money to train people in Macedonia to use Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals. That's right. We gave money to a billionaire to teach an Eastern European country how to do a rent-a-riot. Rent-a-riot. which is exactly what you're seeing happening with the Tesla protests.

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It's just a rental riot. Mike Cernovich had an interesting observation today on X. He said, remember when the, quote, smart people who write about politics for a living were saying the January 6th pardons were a huge deal and really would hurt Trump? L-M-F-A-O, he says. Remember that those people are losers. They don't leave their bubbles. They're always wrong. Keep pushing.

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That's a really good observation. I have to admit that when the January 6th pardons happened, which I was fully in favor of, and fully in favor of pardoning everybody, didn't care what they did. So I'm all in on that completely. But I did worry that maybe it would create a weakness that would be exploited by the left to say, there, you see those pardons. But it's been weirdly quiet.

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And I think it's partly because so many things are happening so quickly that the Democrats could never really aim at anything. If it had been the only thing that happened and there had never been a doge, it probably would have been a target. Maybe it would have made more difference politically. But now it just seems like it was 10 years ago. We're all on Trump time.

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Every Trump year is seven years. And I'm thinking to myself, who would care about the January 6th pardons? Wasn't that at least seven years ago? I almost can't remember them. And it became so small looking in hindsight. But also, here's what I wonder.

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And maybe this is something the Trump administration needs to look into, but I don't know how they could, because this would be totally a states issue. Who gets to control the history books about January 6th? In other words...

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Will the children of, let's say, a year from now or two years from now, are they going to learn that there was an attempt to overthrow the country by Republicans on January 6th? Is that what the history books will say? Because it's not true. Or will they say that the protesters were trying to save the country from what they thought was an obvious insurrection by the left?

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Think about his qualifications to talk about that topic, which are very high because he's been in that business, versus Mike Pence. What would Mike Pence have to say about this that we would care about? J.D. Vance is way more capable and I think ultimately powerful than we might be understanding right now. So he is really well poised for what comes next.

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and they were trying to make sure that the election had not been rigged because it certainly looked like it had. Or will the history books say, well, there are two points of view on this. Some people say this, some people say that. I don't remember history books ever doing that.

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Do you remember any history that you've ever read where the history was, well, you know, some interpreted it this way, some interpreted it that way?

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no they just sort of told you what happened and then you got tested on it so what are they going to tell your children what happened and does the federal government have any way to control that or should they maybe the federal government should stay out of it but the state government gets to buy the uh the textbooks right so the market will decide

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And so if the state government in blue states decides, oh, we'll buy these textbooks that say Republicans are the devil, then they will. And if Texas and Florida say, get those textbooks out of here, because we're not going to sell propaganda to our children, well, then that's what will happen in those states. So I feel like we're at the verge of having

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two different histories, a blue state history and a red state history. And I don't know, does the federal government have anything to say about that? Should they? I don't know. I don't have an answer for this one. It's just, it's a big problem if we can watch history being written incorrectly right in front of us. And I think that's going to happen.

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Meanwhile, in Mexico, a truly scary thing happened. So Mexican authorities found some kind of fairly huge crematorium for getting rid of people. Now, I can't tell if it was for cremating people who were already dead or the worst thing, that maybe that's how they killed those people.

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But apparently they just found hundreds of shoes and clothing, meaning that there were hundreds of people involved and there were human bones. And obviously it was a cartel operation in the western state of Jalisco. And it might be the, I'm pronouncing the J as an H, Jalisco cartel. I don't know. Maybe that's right. But here's the big picture.

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Apparently there are 120,000 what are called forcibly disappeared people in Mexico. 120,000? Now, this is over multiple years, of course, but there are 120,000 people who presumably were rounded up by cartels and just disappeared. Well, for that volume, you would have to have some way to get rid of a lot of bodies. And horribly, this might be how they did it. Incredible.

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Anyway, you heard about the activist judge and Obama appointee, of course, who said that Trump can't use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to get rid of the Venezuelan gangs. So apparently there was some kind of old law on the books that Trump was using to say, all right, you can deport all these gang members. And some of them were already on planes. And this judge said, nope.

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You've got to take at least a 14-day pause. So it's a pause. I guess they've got 14 days to work it out. And even to the point of telling the airplanes to turn around if they were in the air. Now, I'm getting just exhausted in talking about all the bad judges and the lawfare and how they're trying to stop Trump and every single thing he does because they all sound the same.

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Trump tried to do something that's common sense and good for the country. An Obama or Biden-appointed judge stopped him for reasons that sound ridiculous. But eventually, a higher court overturned that stupid judge, and then we're back in business. But here's a new challenge from a new Obama-appointed judge and a new problem. And then you just rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

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So they all start sounding the same after a while. But a related wrinkle is that Marco Rubio was reporting. He said, we have sent two dangerous top MS-13 leaders, plus 21 of its most wanted, back to face justice in El Salvador. And so we've got a deal worked out with El Salvador,

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where we sent 250 members of this Trenda Aragua gang to El Salvador, which has agreed to hold them in the El Salvador jails at a fair price. So we're saving money and getting them held in a secure facility with a friendly country. And Secretary Rubio says that President... Bukele of El Salvador is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he's also a great friend of the US, thank you.

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In other good news, so far it's half good news. We expect more good news coming. But the SpaceX crew has docked with the International Space Station. Imagine if you were an alien and you were just reaching Earth's outer atmosphere and you're trying to observe what the locals are doing. And you say, wait, hold on. We see something happening up here in the space. Oh, there they are.

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Now, I gotta say, this Bukele guy, he does some amazingly smart things. And one of the amazingly smart things is this, simply offering to use their existing facilities to handle some of the worst people. And I don't think we asked him. I think he volunteered it, which is such a strong move.

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It would be one thing if we tried to lean on him a little bit and said, well, we're like your big brother, so maybe you should do us a solid. All right, if I have to. That's so different than we don't know. We've got this problem. We don't know how to solve it. And then he raises his hand and says, I have a solution. I can save you some money and take care of this completely. And then he does.

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That is so baller. So, so baller. And the fact that Rubio says he's the strongest security leader in our region, did that include the United States? Did he just say that El Salvador's better in security than the United States? Because I wouldn't disagree. You know, we're trying to catch up, but that's a hell of a thing.

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Anyway, according to Todd Lyons, who's the acting director of ICE, apparently Biden was cooking the books on his ICE arrest. Oh, big surprise. How many people didn't know that? that Biden was lying about the numbers? Of course he was. But one specific way he was lying is that they were categorizing people that they processed and then released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests.

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Does it count as an ICE arrest if all you do is release them into the United States? To me, that would be called ICE not doing his job or ICE not arresting them. But if they were technically arrested and then they were processed and then released without any penalty into the United States, I'm not sure I would call that as an ICE arrest. But Biden did. Look at all those arrests we're doing.

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Anyway, Mario Anofal was reminding us of this story. Then do you remember that one of the smartest people for the Democrats, one of their geniuses called James Carville, who's even smarter than Bill Burr, barely. No, I'm joking. Carville's actually pretty smart. But he did realize that the Democrats have no skill and no leadership and no plan. So he came up with the genius idea of doing nothing.

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We're going to call it the playing possum strategy. Well, here's what you should do. Since we don't have anybody who can do anything useful, we don't have any leaders, we don't have anybody with charisma, we don't have anybody who's got good policies, and we don't have anybody who is not a complete loser. So what we're going to do is we're going to play dead.

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In about 30 days, the media will pick apart whatever Trump is doing, so his popularity will plunge. So just do nothing. Because the more you do something, the stupider we look. So stop doing something. Every time you do something, you look stupid. Jasmine Crockett. Maxine Waters. Schumer. He had a point. The people that the Democrats were putting out front, not really the best look.

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Not really the best look. So in sort of a, you know, I've given up all hope. he decided that if they just did nothing, that might be their best play. So let's check in on that. It's been about 30 days, and Rasmussen just did a poll and found out, oh, his approval is 52%, the same as... I think he's at a high point. So Trump's success according to Rasmussen is a high point.

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Now, if any of you are polling nerds, if you've ever heard how the left talks about the Rasmussen poll, do you know what they say about him? So the Rasmussen poll is often, let's say, a different result than the bulk of the other polls that lean left. So the ones that lean left say, oh, the Rasmussen poll? Come on.

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You can't take them seriously because they're right-leaning, as if the others are not left-leaning. So you can't take them seriously because they have this pro-Republican bias. And by the way, we have questions about their methodology. Now, since you and I are not pollsters, we don't really know what that means. Like, what's wrong with their methodology?

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It looks like we see one of the people. They seem to be able to float in space, and they look kind of made of metal. Oh, here's another one. Oh, we're going to see a mating practice. I think they're mating. Yep, they're mating. They're mating. No, they're not mating. They're just docking. It's called docking, not focking. And that's the first step to rescue those stranded NASA astronauts.

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Why is your methodology right and theirs wrong? But here's what they leave out. Rasmussen consistently does better whenever you could check. So one of the ways that you could check, well, let me give you an example of something you can't check. If you are six months away from an election and Rasmussen says the Republicans are doing well, but all the left polls say, well, not that well.

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You know, the Republicans are actually a little underwater. You can't really check because the only thing you'd have to check are other polls. So you don't have a result. You just have something that is pollsters disagree. The only time you can really know if the pollsters are good or bad is on election day.

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So if you were to check the election day presidential results of Rasmussen versus all the other pollsters, where do you think Rasmussen would be? Right near the top. So whenever you can check, OK, now we know for sure because we have the actual vote. Rasmussen. I think they got the last three, one of the best for the last three.

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So whenever you see that complaint, just remind yourself, whenever you can't check, they'll say, oh, you can't trust them. They've got bias. They've got this methodology that we criticize. whenever you can know who was right, there they are. And they're reminding people of that fact this week, so it's kind of fun to watch. Anyway, but how are the Democrats doing?

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Apparently, there's a new survey that the Democrat favorability has hit a new record low of 29%. So, you know how the the midterm elections pretty much always historically have gone against whoever the incumbent president is.

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So if the president's Republican, you can largely depend, historically speaking, that the midterm elections would put more Democrats in charge and they would have some control of at least one part of Congress. This might be the first time that doesn't happen. because that is such a bad branding for the Democrats.

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It would be hard to imagine that they could somehow keep the historical norm and gain power compared to the president. I feel like Doge is going to keep getting more popular the more corruption they find. So we'll see. Meanwhile, over in Israel, their defense minister says that they're only a year away from deploying what they call the Iron Beam. It's this giant laser air defense system.

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It's supposed to be operational by the end of this year, actually, so less than a year. And here's what that means in terms of cost. So the existing Iron Dome systems fire basically a missile to stop another missile or to stop a drone. But every time you fire a missile, it's really expensive. So that might be like a $40,000 to $50,000 every time the Iron Dome sends up an intercept.

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$50,000 for every intercept. And there would be a lot of them. So it gets really expensive really quickly. But let's compare that to what it would cost per shot for this new radar system. Closer to $3.00. $3 compared to $40,000 to $50,000. $3 per shot. So they can spend $3 to knock down the enemy's far more expensive missile. Now, apparently it's not perfect.

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If the weather is a certain way, it's not going to work as well. So we'll see about that. Maybe they need both, because if the weather's bad, they need a different system. Maybe the lasers are strong enough or will improve enough that they can just zip right through the fog and burn the fog out of the way before it hits the target. Maybe. But if this thing works, I'd like to order 100 of them.

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So it seems to me that in normal times, this would be one of the biggest stories in the whole country. And we'd be obsessed by it. And every time you turned on the TV, they'd say, It's halfway done. The rescue is halfway done. Elon Musk is the hero that we needed. He's doing it with nothing in return.

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I don't know what the base units cost, so it's probably pretty expensive to get the base unit. But once you've got that, $3 per shot. That's amazing. You should read my book. God's Debris of the Complete Works, because the middle book of the trilogy, if you can call it that, is about a future in which this sort of missile defense was already implemented.

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But in the book, some of them were implemented on...

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sea platforms because you want to stop the missile well before it reaches your you know your shores so you'd put the platform you know well off the uh coast so it could get them as early as possible before they reach the coast um and then well i won't tell you it's a it's a great book you should read it it's called god's debris the complete works Just check out the ratings and the reviews online.

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You're going to see some reviews that are just blow your mind. Some of the best reviews for a book you'll ever see. Meanwhile, according to Reuters, let's talk about Ukraine. Macron of France has declared that Russia has no say in whether NATO troops enter Ukraine because Russia wants to have no no kind of European peacekeepers in Ukraine.

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But Britain and France are thinking about putting some there. And Macron wants to know that it's just up to Ukraine. If Ukraine wants some European peacekeepers, that's up to Ukraine. To which I say, what would Trump's plan be for keeping Ukraine safe? Is it only the mineral deals? Like if we have enough economic entanglements, Russia won't attack?

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Or does it trust that Russia won't attack as long as Trump's in office? And maybe that could extend to, hypothetically, a J.D. Vance administration? Is that the only thing we'd be depending on, the personal connection? Would it be, what would it be? Now, when I said something like this online and somebody said, why do you think it's the United States' obligation to protect Ukraine?

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And I said, I didn't say that. Where did I say it's our obligation to protect Ukraine? I've never said that. What I do think is if you want a durable peace deal, it should make sense to the people involved, and it's definitely in the United States' benefit to end a war and get out of that region and just say, all right, we're done, and we ended a war, and we're not in favor of wars.

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That's good, especially if it prevents some future Democrat from spending another $100 billion right back in Ukraine. So we do have an interest in unwinding our entanglement, and that's going to depend on both sides thinking that the deal makes sense. So what would be Trump's response to, well, if Ukraine wants these peacekeepers, of course that would prevent any kind of a peace deal.

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He's just amazingly created a company that can rescue astronauts in space when nothing else can do it. Do you think that's what's going to happen? Or will it be ignored because it's just so obviously positive, patriotic, inspirational? Yeah, I think it'll be a little bit ignored. Now, it won't be totally ignored. They'll report it as news.

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but what would Trump do? I think he needs to make a better case for why Ukraine would be safe, because I think that's missing. Now, I think he could do it. I think there's room there to do it, but I'd like to hear it. I'd like to hear a little more You know, what would Ukraine do to protect themselves? Now, some of it might be we'll send Ukraine more drones. I don't know.

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Would that count as the same thing as boots on the ground? I don't know. But I'd love to know if Trump has a more innovative, you know, out-of-the-box concept for this, because he might. I suspect he has an answer. But maybe it's just not revealed to us in full. So we'll see. Apparently, there's a bill being introduced now by U.S. Representative Republican Riley Moore, West Virginia.

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And it's a bill to ban Chinese nationals from getting student visas. So there are about 300,000 Chinese residents, not residents, Chinese nationals. So they're not American citizens, they're Chinese. And they come to the United States for student visas. Now, my understanding is that the reason that our universities like to have foreign students is that they pay full price.

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So it basically subsidizes the college. And the American students often have scholarships and stuff like that. So they just make more money on the foreign students. But I'm in favor of this. I would have tied it to fentanyl, though. You've heard me say it before, that we should just send home a handful of Chinese students for every day that there's a fentanyl death. So I would tie it to fentanyl.

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But I like where he's coming from. Meanwhile, Gateway Pundit is reporting that Trump revoked the security clearances for yet another law firm, the Paul Weiss law firm. And suffice to say that this law firm has done a number of things that seemed politically biased and or inappropriate to Republicans. And one of them was, I'll just give you one example.

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Back in 2021, one of the partners in that law firm said, did a pro bono lawsuit against patriots on the January 6th day. So it was somebody who didn't even charge money to put together lawsuits against the protesters on January 6th. Now, I assume it was the protesters who maybe did some violence or something, but that would be part of the complaint, is that they were politically biased.

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Now, I don't know too much about the law firm, so I don't have an opinion about whether they should be I guess the action would cut them off from any kind of government contracts and also gets rid of their security clearance. So it would be a pretty big deal. But here's my take on this. Do you remember the time when Trump couldn't get good lawyers to defend him against massive waves of lawfare?

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And it was because the lawyers were afraid that if they got political, meaning just defending Trump, that it would cost them later. The law firm would suffer and they wouldn't be able to get regular clients except for that. And that was a big problem.

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And I thought to myself, that's one of the worst things I've ever seen, that you create lawfare for a candidate that's already as bad as you could get. And then... And then you make it impossible for that person to get good representation. Now, I think Trump ultimately got great representation because he did navigate the lawfare stuff really well.

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So I'm no lawyer, but just judging it from a layperson's perspective, it feels to me that the legal team that Trump eventually put together while he was out of office, I think they were great. Does anybody have a disagreement with that? The fact was that what they needed to do was stall and minimize the damage and play for him to get reelected, basically, so that the rest of it could go away.

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But I don't think they're going to be obsessing over how awesome it is. And if you don't mind, I'd like to obsess for just a moment. Now, they're not home yet, right? So they've done the hard part, which is the docking. I think that's the hard part. So we're hoping that the other part is just as successful. But can we just be impressed? Just be impressed for a moment.

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So I feel like they did a great job. Now, I don't know if this will hurt them in the future if they can't get regular jobs again. But the fact that there was ever that much pressure on lawyers who were going to help Trump, I can't feel any sympathy for him getting revenge. Now, I'm sure they don't call it revenge.

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They call it something like getting rid of bias in the legal process or something like that. But I don't think it would happen if they hadn't gone after Trump. So there is a price. Yeah. Yeah, the lawyers that helped Trump are probably red-listed. That's probably true. So as long as that's true, mutually assured destruction has been activated. And I can't say that I'm opposed to it.

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I hate that we're in this situation. So I hate that lawyers had pressure not to help Trump. And I also hate... that there's pressure against anybody for what they did politically. So I can hate both of it, but it does look like mutually assured destruction has kicked in. And I don't hate that. I don't hate that because sometimes it's just the only thing you can do.

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So I don't know that that can get us to a good place where people can just be lawyers and there's no lawfare, but as long as there's lawfare, and there's a red listing of people who help Republicans, then I think Republicans have a free pass to destroy every law firm that they can destroy that had some hand in it. I hate it. I hate the whole thing. I hate it from top to bottom.

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But sometimes, you know, sometimes you got to pull a tooth. Anyway, according to Neoscope and writer Noor Al-Sabay, that over in Great Britain, they've come up with a mRNA technology. Stop it. Listen. That has proven effective. Well, no. Take that part away. They've created a vaccine for cancer using the mRNA platform. Now, apparently they're getting some kind of good indications that it works.

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I don't have any I don't have information that says it cured anything, but it must be curing something because they're pretty happy with it and they're taking it wider. Now, apparently what it does is you have to take a biopsy and you have to adjust what they call a vaccination. Why do they call it a vaccination? It doesn't vaccinate because you've already got the cancer by the time you take it.

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So I guess that word vaccination is getting kind of overused. But they'll take the specific cancer from a specific person. So it's not even just the type of cancer. It's got to be specific to the person. And then they designed their, quote, vaccination around that specific one. And they think it's going to have great promise.

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Now, I'd love to hear, was there anybody who had an incurable cancer that's already been cured? Or did it just slow it down a little bit? Or did it only work on cancers that maybe there was some other treatment too, but they think this would be maybe gentler? I don't know. So I have many, many questions, but it sounds promising.

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Now, if you're going to say to me, but Scott, if they get the mRNA, it's going to cause other problems with them. I don't think the people who are dying of cancer are worried too much about that. So that certainly changes. It's not like COVID where you can say to yourself, all right, COVID barely killed anybody, so you don't want to take a chance on the treatment.

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But if the cancer is going to kill everybody, let's say it's the kind where there's no treatment, then I don't know, certainly the risk profile changes completely, right? What are your other options? Is there a second way to cure an incurable cancer? If this cures any incurable cancer, and again, they don't say that, but they're sort of leaning in that direction,

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Just allow us to feel that at least some part of America can do something that's kind of awesome. So let's just enjoy it. And good luck to all of them, and looking forward to all of your return. Well, in a story that's almost the complete opposite,

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If it cures any incurable cancer, I think the last thing the patient's going to be worrying about is that they got some, I don't know, mRNA badness in their body, whatever that is. So we'll see. Good luck with that. The sooner the better. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I got for you today. It's a fun Sunday. The news is all kind of interesting.

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But I think things are heading in the right direction. Things are heading in the right direction. So thanks for joining. I'm going to say a few words privately to the people on Locals. The rest of you on X and Rumble and YouTube, thanks for joining. We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. YouTube, I'm sorry, Locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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But let's check on the news. Anything happening? Well, here's some studies. People find, according to Live Science, Drew Turney is writing about this, people find AI to be more compassionate than mental health experts. That's right. They did a study, and AI is more compassionate than mental health experts. Now, the question that I have is, why is compassion always the right answer?

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Joy Reid, who is, as you know, fired from MSNBC, according to Radar Online, who has an exclusive, they've got some kind of insider at MSNBC News who says that Joy Reid is really, really mad about getting fired, and she's ready to scream bloody murder, and she might have insider knowledge about bad things that happen to MSNBC. And see, she might seek vengeance. She might seek vengeance.

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Now, here's the funny part. Did MSNBC not see this coming? You know, I've wondered for a long time, like, why don't they get rid of her? It's just, it's so obvious that she's bad for their brand, I thought. And I thought, man, it's just taking forever for them to do the obvious, you know, to improve that slot. And maybe now we know why.

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Maybe they were afraid that she would be completely unpredictable and be seeking vengeance and have all kinds of insider knowledge so she could take down the entire network. So how could MSNBC have seen this coming? Well, they could have asked me. I saw it coming. So did most of you. Could have asked anybody, but I think they knew it. Yeah, she looked like trouble.

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So can you make a list of all the things that Scott would enjoy the most? And where would you put Joy Reid destroys what's left of MSNBC? Top 10, right? I mean, even if it's a long list of things that Scott would enjoy, top 10. So I've decided to go all in on supporting Joy Reid. Joy Reid. Joy Reid. It doesn't get any better.

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Anyway, let's check on the color revolution that's totally not a color revolution. You know what a color revolution is? It's all the dirty tricks that the U.S. uses to overthrow other countries, making it look like there's a groundswell for whoever we support and there's action in the streets and there's giant protests, but of course they're all organized and paid and completely artificial.

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And then we control their media so the media acts like the challenger that we want to be in office is the only one that can do the job and the other one's a Nazi? Sound familiar? Well, that's what's happening right now in the United States.

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But I asked Perplexity AI, I said, given all the things that are happening, the protests and whatnot against Tesla, et cetera, I said, are we experiencing a color revolution? And Perplexity said, oh, no, no, no, I don't even know what you're talking about. So I guess not, right? Because AI couldn't identify it.

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So it turns out that there are only totally organic protests about, in this case, Tesla, because there are tons of young people who really, really care about the exact method that was used to reduce costs at the organization they'd never heard of called USAID. These are the least organic protests I've ever seen. You thought Black Lives Matter looked a little suspicious?

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You thought Antifa looked a little suspicious? The people who are hating the electric cars, the very same people who would have killed their own children to make sure there were lots of electric cars to save the planet, suddenly they just hate the electric cars and the person who's doing it. And boy, did they hate anybody who was trying to get rid of the waste and abuse and fraud.

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And then Reid Hoffman just went on Colbert, like it was last night. Reid Hoffman on Colbert. Huh. What does that sound like? That sounds like somebody making sure that the media has a message that supports the protesters. Hmm. Exactly like a color revolution. That's exactly what you'd expect to see. But at least you can trust Colbert not to be part of any kind of what?

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Okay, maybe you don't trust Colbert. So Colbert asked Reid Hoffman, hey, you know Elon Musk. What do you think about him doing all this doge cost cutting? And what did Reid Hoffman say? Well, he's smart enough, he's very smart, to say, well, we like cutting the waste, of course, but we think that he could do it in a more compassionate and perhaps more legal way. What's that sound like?

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If you have mental health problems, is compassion the right answer? And the reason I ask is because compassion is a reward, right? So if you want to do more of something, you would reward it. If you wanted to do less of something, you would starve it or penalize it. So what happens when you say, doctor, I have this terrible problem. And the doctor says, oh, maximum empathy. You have that problem?

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That's what I call a generic complaint. You want to hear another generic complaint? It should have been done sooner. That's my ultimate ridiculous complaint. Well, it was a good idea, but it should have been done sooner. Okay, shut up. Well, it's a good idea, but it should have been done with more compassion. Shut up. Well, it's a good idea, but...

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but it should have been done with more attention to the legalities of it. Yeah, which would have stopped it from doing anything. Shut up. These are such generic, stupid, ridiculous, pure propaganda complaints. Does anybody know that the compassionate method would have worked? Did we do a study? Is there a way to fire massive amounts of people and make them feel good about it?

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oh, we're going to take your job, but we'd like you to feel good about it. And although the people are not very compassionate, we have an AI you can talk to, and the AI has been proven to be more compassionate. So here's the AI. Hey, AI, Elon Musk and his Doge team just fired me. Oh, oh, that's bad. Oh, he should have been more compassionate. But I am. I'm the AI. Oh, that's terrible.

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Oh, what will you do? So bad. He's so incompassionate. And I'm not even sure that it's all legal. Oh, oh, the AI would say, oh, that's so bad. It should have been done sooner, and it should be more legal and more compassionate. And by the way, I'm going to tell you something you've never heard before. Here's some advice you can take with you for the rest of your life.

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This will serve you really well. He should have used a scalpel instead of... That's right, a chainsaw. Yeah. Those are my generic complaints. And by the way, it reminds me of Hitler. How exactly does it remind you of Hitler? Well, Hitler... Maybe he owned a chainsaw? I don't think he did. He probably didn't own a chainsaw. But did he own a scalpel? No, he probably never owned a scalpel. See? See?

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How many of you thought to yourself, it seems to me that all the Democrat leaders are actually just crooks, like demonstrably, obviously crooks. You've heard about the Clinton Foundation. You've heard about Hillary Clinton running the Russia collusion hoax. You've heard about them doing the 51 laptop thing. You've heard about Ukraine. You've heard about USAID. You've heard about all the NGOs.

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It feels like, and of course, in my opinion, nearly every mayor of every city is corrupt. There might be some exceptions, but I feel like you almost have to be corrupt to be a mayor in this country. So what happens when David Hogg comes out of nowhere and next thing you know, he's one of the heads of the DNC?

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Well, according to PJ Media, Matt Margolis and some other people talking about this, as soon as he got into that position, he used the mailing list that belongs to the DNC to raise money for his own political action committee. And his own political action committee pays his $100,000 a year. So he gets put as one of the heads of the DNC, the Democrat National Committee,

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and then almost right away uses their internal source to raise money for himself, literally for himself. Now, it's for his PAC, which pays him. So, you know, it feels like it's for himself. So that's exactly what we expected. Now, I'm genuinely curious, genuinely curious, Do all criminals become Democrats because they know they can get away with more?

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Or does becoming a Democrat turn you into a criminal? Because obviously I'm aware that there are Republicans who are grifters and corrupt, etc. Obviously. But we don't really hear about it much, do we? It feels like it's an exception or something happened with some underling somewhere. But it feels like every single Democrat is corrupt, like all the leaders. And somewhat obviously.

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At what point did he think this one's forever? So that's Ye's situation. And then if you were anywhere near social media yesterday on X, you'd know that allegedly... I'm not even sure this is confirmed yet. But allegedly, Ashley St.

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To me, it looks like, well, this is obvious. I won't name names, but there's some people, just the way they act, they couldn't possibly be acting independently. It's so obvious they're getting a paycheck of some kind. directly or indirectly, that just nobody would act like that, that nobody would act that dumb in public intentionally.

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Anyway, speaking back in Dublin public, I was watching Adam Schiff, who's got kind of a theatrical, let's say, interest. I guess he wanted to be a script writer at one point. And he was getting so theatrical when he was questioning somebody in one of these hearings that it was actually impressive.

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He wasn't really even trying to make an argument on points because he was totally losing on whatever the argument was. He was getting killed. So he just kept ratcheting up the emotion. And then you're saying that you would give money under these conditions. No, I'm not saying so. You're saying it. Well, no, it's the opposite. I'm not. Oh, so you're saying you would give money.

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So under these conditions, you would throw the Constitution under the bus. Is that right? No, nothing like that. So, all right, we've agreed you would throw the Constitution under the bus. And the amount of emotion that was obviously theatrical and fake was kind of impressive. So it made me think, he's a terrible politician, but I'll bet he actually would be good in theater.

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Like legitimately, legitimately, he looks like he has the chops so he could be a professional actor. Anyway, so he's got a future there. Speaking of grift, here's what David Sachs says about Ukraine. He says, with Americans becoming exhausted with forever wars in the Middle East, the, quote, democracy promotion grifters at USAID and NED and the rest of the NGOs needed a new cause.

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Ukraine was perfect. As the most corrupt country in Europe, it would allow them to expropriate billions. Now, is that just the Republican narrative? Because it's the one I see, and it looks obvious to me. Do you think Democrats understand that Ukraine was part grift and part neocons wanting to destroy Russia?

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Or do Democrats think that we were protecting this spunky little country because it should be part of NATO? Like, what do Democrats really think Ukraine was all about? Do they really not have any access to the narratives that are coming out from the Republicans? It feels like they just think, well, let's just give them infinite more money. That should solve everything.

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Because Putin's a bad, bad man. I'm not saying Putin's a good man. I'm just saying... Probably this was a combination of people who looked for enormous grift opportunities and found them, and people who wanted to destroy Russia, and it was an opportunistic way to do it. So, no, it looks like a giant scam to us.

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Meanwhile, Mario Noffel is reporting that Tucker Carlson had a conversation with the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban. Now, if you're not following closely, Romania is one of those countries that is sort of close to a Trump-like view of the world, a conservative, not buying into the mass immigration kind of thing.

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Clair, who's a conservative-leaning... She's being called an influencer, but that feels a little dismissive because I think she's more of a writer and has a bigger impact. So I would call her a writer. And she's claiming that she had a real-life... affair, I guess, with Musk and had his baby five months ago.

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And so what would be the fate of Hungary that just wants to be an independent little country and supportive of the United States. It would be a supportive country. One would be happy to be working with us. Well, because it's not exactly what the Democrats want, or the liberal elite, as you might say, So this is what Victor Orban says is happening.

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He goes, the fact is that the liberal elite of the West used the taxpayer money of the United States citizens to spread their ideology around the world and finance more than 60 NGOs, paid politicians, and media outlets in Hungary. It was a plot against our sovereignty and independence. This is exactly how we overthrow other countries.

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We fund a whole bunch of stuff, non-government organizations, but really it's ways to influence things like the media and politicians. And it's a way to get a whole bunch of money and assets and intelligence people into somebody's country. And Victor Orban is completely aware of it. He knows the whole plot. He probably can name all 60 NGOs.

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And he probably knows exactly which media outlets are being bought by the United States. It's probably exactly what it looks like, that the United States is actively trying to overthrow not an enemy. This is the scary part. Hungary is not an enemy. So why are we trying to overthrow their government? They're pretty much on our side. And So that's probably exactly what it looks like. All right.

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As you know, it's getting confusing with all the crooked Democrat judges trying to stop Doge and Trump and the executive orders. Now, there are too many to keep track of, but what you need to know is that the general setup is that Trump is using his executive authority largely to fire people, downsize, and move budgets around and stuff like that, cut budgets, move them around.

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And the Democrats are finding one reason after another to oppose it all.

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they're using different judges and all the judges or most of them maybe it's just most they seem to have an obvious conflict of interest you know they've got a relative who's a you know a long time democrat fundraiser or basically they all have some kind of dirty connections that make them corrupt looking now i don't know if they're cropped but they they definitely have all the towels for being corrupt

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And they seem to be acting in a way that almost certainly guarantees that the larger question of who gets to run the executive branch, is it the president? Or does every little pissant judge anywhere in the federal system get to stop anything that happens if they don't like that president? Because at the moment, the

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or at least these allegedly crooked judges, are seemingly running the executive branch by saying you can do this, you can't do this, you can only do it then. And there's some thought that maybe this is actually going to be good for Trump. And the thought goes like this.

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That what Trump really needs to do is to get some or all of these to the Supreme Court and then let the Supreme Court decide the most critical issue. Who gets to decide what happens in the executive branch? Is it the president, especially when it comes to budget and staffing? Is it the president or is it all these little pissant courts all over the country?

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Now, I feel like Trump would probably win that if they got to some generalized principle about who's in charge and who can stop you. And at the moment, the only power left that the Democrats have since they lost basically everything is these lifetime appointed, I think they're lifetime, these appointed judges that are clearly just Democrat corrupt operatives. So that's the last power they have.

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So if this stuff gets to the Supreme Court and it becomes a generalized question, who gets to decide what's happening in the executive branch, I feel like the Supreme Court's going to lean toward Trump for all the obvious reasons. So it could be that the last remaining tool that's part of the government anyway, or I guess part of the judicial system,

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And then allegedly there's some agreement about the raising of the baby that hasn't been finalized. So Yeh didn't finalize his paperwork. That looks like a problem. And it doesn't look like Elon finalized his paperwork. It feels like a problem. So this is my advice. Don't get involved with anybody unless you've got a lawyer with you.

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The last remaining tool besides the Soros prosecutors could be removed from the system. Not removed, but at least ignored and maybe cast aside. So that could be a really big deal that might actually be part of the Trump strategy is to push every button until this gets to the Supreme Court and then get some clarity. And if the clarity goes Trump's way, Then he can really get busy.

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So what we've seen so far may be just a preview because the courts are legitimately slowing him down. What if that stopped? What if the courts stopped slowing him down? I mean, who knows? Anyway, that's going to get interesting. So on CNN recently, Ken Akoa, the great, points out that there was a Democrat strategist, they just had him on, and he was describing why Trump is popular today.

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And he says that he joined the Democratic Party in 1989 because he wanted to fight NAFTA, he wanted to drain the swamp, and he wanted to make sure his tax dollars weren't being wasted or going to foreign wars. So he's saying that basically in the 90s, a Democrat... Sounds like Donald Trump today. So he says, that's why we lose to him, is we've let him steal our verbiage. Now there it is again.

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They think it's the way he says it. It's not the way he says it. It's what he says. people prefer his policies you can look at any poll and then what's the most important stuff and then look at what people think trump can do it's not his verbiage you know he it's not his choice of words it's so ridiculous but he does point out that even you know a lot of the ordinary democrats

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would look at Trump and say, yeah, that's exactly what I wanted, all that stuff. That's what I wanted, you know, give or take, you know, abortion, of course. But abortion is now more of a state issue. Actually, it's entirely a state issue. So he says that's why we keep losing to him. We've quit talking about Americans keeping America safe and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And then he sums it up by saying that Trump is scary. Now, here's the funny part. The anti-Trumpers, they can't resist complimenting him because he keeps doing good stuff. Like they can't really be against him trying to save money. You can't really be against that or getting rid of fraud. It's hard to be against it. you know, fixing the border in days. It's hard to hate that. Stopping wars?

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Looks like he's already going to stop the war in Ukraine one way or another. It's hard to hate that too much. So even when the Democrats talk about Trump, they've got to give him some props because it's stuff that they want to. But then he ends with, he's scary. Okay, how did that fit with all the stuff you said about he's a 90s Democrat?

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If Trump is like a 90s Democrat, not 100%, of course, because abortion and some things are different. But why is he scary? He's scary just because he does exactly what you would do. They just can't avoid throwing in an empty, generic insult. It's just reflex. I don't think there's any thought involved. His entire good point he was making

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about Trump being right in the middle of where America wants the president to be. That was a solid point. And then he ruins the whole thing by saying, and he's scary. Well, did you give me any evidence of the scary part? The scary part is he gives you exactly what the middle of America wants, and most people agree. Oh, that's scary. But on the plus side,

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You should bring the lawyer on the first date, maybe the second date too. Like, hi, my name's Bob and this is my attorney. He'll be negotiating the paperwork in case this comes to anything. Will you or will you not be using birth control? And we'd like a clause in there that would protect our client. So that's what it looks like in the future.

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I do give CNN credit because they put Scott Jennings on the air every day, it seems like, or five days a week. And they allowed this strategist to say some things about Trump getting right. And they do have other people who sometimes say Trump gets some stuff right. So the news, of course, is biased. There are news that's biased on the right. There's news that's biased on the left, left.

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But if you look at Fox News, let's just take the five, they make sure that they've got somebody there who will say the other side. So there's at least always one person there who will argue the other point. And then CNN is making sure they have somebody there arguing the other point. But you know who doesn't do that? MSNBC. So here's a mistake. If you think MSNBC is like the others...

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It's not even close. MSNBC, you could do an entire college course on propaganda, and all you'd have to do is turn it on for half an hour and then talk about it. That could be the entire class. All right, let's see what they said today. Because MSNBC will never tell you that there's even an argument on the other side. They won't even mention it.

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unless it's such a bad argument and it's misinterpreted. It's usually misinterpreted if they talk about the other side. So just watch that. Watch how you know that some outlets are biased, but I don't mind the bias when it's explicit, right? So if I turn on Fox News, of course they're pro-Trump. Of course they are, but they don't hide it.

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And they try to cover all the news, you know, so you get a little bit of both sides. And CNN, same thing. But MSNBC? Nope. It's pure propaganda. And once you learn that, then you can see all the technique. I was thinking about doing that live sometime, just turning on MSNBC and just saying, click, okay, pause. All right, that was propaganda. Here's what they did. All right, play. Okay, pause.

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Because I think every 10 seconds, like literally every 10 seconds, you could pause it and say, all right, here's what they just did and just show the trick. I'm going to do that one of these days. Anyway, one of the tricks that MSNBC did, this was spotted by Paul Bond. This was good spotting.

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Remember when Elon Musk had a little ex, his kid, and he was in the Oval Office, and the press was asking them questions? And you thought to yourself, man, this is great, because it's both Trump and Musk, the two people that you'd want to ask questions to. They're completely open to questions. They're making the time. They're answering as transparently as you'd want. And wow, this is good.

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A lot of questions getting answered. MSNBC played it without the sound. so that they could talk over it so that all you'd see is something that didn't look right.

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Because if you just saw the video and you didn't know that they were doing a real good job of answering all of our questions, it would look like, wait a minute, there's somebody, that Musk guy, he doesn't appreciate the decorum and respect of the Oval Office. He's not wearing a necktie and he's brought his kid in there.

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And then you'd say to yourself, ah, it looks like he's trying to be the co-president because Trump's sitting at a desk, but Musk is standing up and getting all the attention, and this is our co-president. Pure propaganda to run the video and then just talk over it. Pure propaganda. Did CNN do that? No. Did Fox do that? No. No.

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They could say things after it, but if you don't even play the video, it's just pure propaganda. Anyway, I saw a post by Paul Zippola, and he was mocking yet another MSNBC employee who did a little video about, I don't know, it doesn't matter, she was mad about renaming the Gulf of Mexico or something like that.

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I'll tell you one of the things that came out of the whatever's going on between Ashley and Elon, which is really none of our business, but it became public. Was there ever a point you said to yourself, man, I'm so jealous of Elon. He doesn't have to have a wife and he doesn't need to have like a girlfriend who's giving him trouble.

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But she had the gigantic crazy eyes, and I hope I'm the one who's making this a thing, because as Paul pointed out, You know, she has crazy eyes and it was the craziest eyes I've ever seen. It was just these gigantic saucers. At first I thought it was AI because I didn't think, okay, nobody really has gigantic eyes like that. But not only were the eyes gigantic, I'm not entirely sure.

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but it looked like she had her eyebrows removed from the normal place and placed about halfway up her forehead. I've never seen eyebrows that far away from eyes, and gigantic eyes, too. And I really have a question. Why do these giant-eyed people, the crazy eyes, why are they all on one side? What is causing that crazy eye thing? Now, what it looks like

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Yeah, what it looks like is that when the eyes go wide, they know they're imagining as opposed to talking about facts. And they know that they have to open their eyes to sell what they're saying because it's so ridiculous. Yeah, if I told you that there was a UFO in my backyard, I'd open my eyes like this and there's a UFO in my backyard. this isn't the case that I'm imagining it.

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It's not really there. But if there were really a UFO in your backyard, you probably wouldn't do that with your eyes. You'd say, you can't believe it. There's a UFO in my backyard. Yeah, I can show it to you. Here's my picture. The truth does not require those eyes. Those eyes do accompany making stuff up. So once you see it, you can't unsee it, the big Adam Schiff eyes, the AOC eyes.

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The Elizabeth Warren eyes. You see the pattern? Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, AOC. They all have crazy eyes. Just watch them talk. Anyway, I guess Trump just fired two dozen immigration judges, according to Politico. That's a good start. The immigration judges are the ones who are granting asylum to people. Now, why are we not just dismantling the asylum system? Wasn't that the whole problem?

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The thing that allowed the Democrats to lie to the public forever is that they'd say, oh, we don't have many illegals coming across because they would just call them illegal. All they do is have judges say, okay, you're applying for asylum? All right, good, now you're legal. Because until we made a decision that the asylum sticks or it doesn't,

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They were legal because they'd gone through our process to claim asylum. So why is there no conversation about just getting rid of that? Because there can't be that many people who legitimately need asylum. You know, there must be some way to handle it without just having everybody who comes across the border apply for it. So, I don't know. Seems like that should be on the chopping block.

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We just found out that the... So the California Department of Finance revealed that the California taxpayers are spending $9.5 billion to provide health care to illegal aliens. That's just the health care. That would be a third of our deficit spending, just for the health care. If you added the other expenses...

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He can just create all these baby mamas as long as he can afford it. It's going to be great. And now I'm thinking, how in the world can you survive with that many baby mamas who all just have just one thing they want to ask you today? You know what would be good is if I had a little bit extra money this month. Do you think it ever stops? I wonder if he ever stops getting messages. You know...

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pretty much the entire economic problem of California, which is pretty bad, is from immigration. I think it's going to be two-thirds of it, and the rest is just poor management. So yeah, we're a mess. It's just, I don't know how history is ever going to deal with this. The fact that California and other places, we opened our borders, we invited unlimited people to come in, to take our money.

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Who invites unlimited people in to take your money? Well, people who are not giving away their own money. It's people who are giving away other people's money. You wouldn't invite people to give in your own money. Yeah. So as long as you can make some money by having other people give away their money, I guess it's going to happen. So that's pretty bad.

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In other news, and part of the news is that this is in the news. So the news is that it's news instead of a secret. Apparently there's a massive shipment of 2,000-pound bombs from the U.S. to Israel. Now, why would Israel suddenly need a massive shipment of gigantic bombs? And these are ones that had been prevented previously I guess Biden did not allow these.

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So Trump is allowing gigantic shipments of very large bombs, Times of Israel is reporting. Now, the reason I say the story is that it's a story is, is this the sort of thing we would normally be aware of? Or is this negotiating with Hamas? Hey, Hamas, you know when we said that if you don't release all of the hostages, that there would be hell to pay? Well, they know what hell looks like now.

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I assume, but I don't know, that these are specifically for crushing tunnels because there's not much left. You wouldn't need these bombs for blowing up buildings in Gaza because they're already blown up. The only thing left is all the tunnels. I mean, I might be exaggerating a little, but basically it's the tunnels.

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So is this a done deal that these are going to be used to clean out the tunnels or is this part of the negotiating? Because at the same time, I guess Saudi Arabia's got some Arab countries getting together to figure out what to do. And they're trying to figure out how to deal with Hamas, but also rebuild Gaza, which doesn't look very possible.

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But the Trump effect is interesting because he's making other countries step up. So Saudi is really stepping up. They're hosting the people who make the most difference over there to have some serious conversations about how they can be the solution.

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I don't know what they're going to come up with, but it probably helps negotiating with Hamas to know that Israel has already brought in the weapons of their complete destruction. So I feel like Hamas is never going to deal or negotiate, not in any serious way. So I feel like the next step will be massive bombs taking out tunnels. And then we'll probably keep negotiating.

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We'll take out a few tunnels and they'll say, now do you want to quit and release the hostages? Nope. All right, here's another tunnel. Boom. Will that result in the death of some of the hostages? It could. Yeah, it could. Well, so Trump causes some trouble by posting, I guess, the other day, he said this quote from Napoleon. He who saves his country does not violate any law. So that's Napoleon.

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And then what do you think people said about that? Now, the context apparently is that these executive orders are for the benefit of the country. So there shouldn't be these courts calling them illegal because if he's saving the country, that can't be illegal. But of course it can be illegal. And it caused somebody like Adam Schiff, of course, to say that it was spoken like a true dictator.

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So why does he do this? Why would Trump, whose biggest problem is that he's being accused of being like a dictator, is his biggest problem? Why would he quote a dictator and embrace the dictator's philosophy in public? What would be the reason for that?

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Now, if it's the usual reason, it's just to distract the bad guys so they'll talk about that instead of talking about some way to actually defeat him. So it could be a distraction. It could be just for fun. I don't know. I don't think I would have done it. but we'll see how that turns out. I wouldn't have advised it.

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You know, one of the kids is a little older. It wouldn't be bad if, you know, we had an extra million. I don't know how it's going, but I hope he's choosing his baby mamas well. I think some of them are working out pretty well, actually. Well, Naval Ravikant was a guest on All In Pod. And I loved one thing he said because it just calms everybody down. So I'm going to repeat it.

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Meanwhile, chat GPT-4 is out, and Sam Altman says it does lots of great things, but it's also the best search engine. It's the best search engine out there. And so I said to myself, now that we know what USAID really is,

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that according to Mike Benz, it's basically just a front for CIA activity, and that all of those things we think are foreign aid are really just mechanisms to build resources and get our agents in and get influence over another country. No matter what the charity is called, it's really only for that one purpose. Now, that's what I believe is true,

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But here's what ChatGPT for, which Sam Altman says is the best or one of the best search engines. I think he says the best. I asked, is USAID mostly a front for the CIA? Because if it's a good search engine, it's going to get the right answer, which I already know because Mike Benz has taught us this. And here's what Chad GPT said.

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He said, while USAID itself is not a CIA front, there is a documented history of its programs being exploited for intelligence and covert operations. And this has led to skepticism. Now, it gave examples that during sort of the Cold War, there were several examples where USAID was, in fact, a cover for some CIA activity. But Chad GPT is acting like that stopped a long time ago.

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Oh, yeah, there were a few notable exceptions in the news, but that was way back. Oh, oh. But the thing is, we only find out about these things 40 years after they happen. So... And then it said, yeah, so that was its answer. Nope, it's not a front for the CIA.

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the reason he's gone quiet today, allegedly quiet, we'll see if he can last, is that he's working on the next release of Grok 3, which he had claimed will be the most powerful AI in the world. So apparently it's trained faster, better, more completely than anything else. And he's going to be honing the product all weekend. So... should be released tomorrow at 8 p.m.

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Pacific time. So we'll get a whole new AI. You know that case of, speaking of open AI, you know the case of the whistleblower? who was found dead and it was very suspicious circumstance and it was ruled a suicide, but didn't have the tells of a suicide. It looked very much like he got murdered according to evidence in the, you know, basically on his body, et cetera.

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Oh, it's this thing. All right, let's fix that. Comments are now live. There we go. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, because it is.

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And the family hired a private pathologist that said the gunshot anomalies and injuries are inconsistent with suicide. And I guess the police ignored that, and they just closed the investigation, saying there's insufficient evidence of homicide. Okay, let's connect some dots. Now, I don't know what's going on, so this is just pure speculation.

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But we do know, Mark Andreessen told us, that the intelligence community in the United States has said directly to the people who would invest in new startups, Don't invest in too many AI startups because we're going to make sure that just a few big ones dominate and we'll have connections into them basically. So in other words, we do know, and it's just common sense. It's just common sense.

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If AI is going to be as powerful as everybody thinks, then of course our intelligence people need to get control over it for their purposes. Now, you might say, no, I don't want that. And you might be right.

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There's no indication, this is me paraphrasing, so not his words, but there's no indication that AI is going to reduce the number of jobs. There's a lot of indication it will be a tremendous aid to people in jobs. There's a lot of indication that some jobs, entire slices of industries will change, but that is a normal thing.

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So I'm not saying what's right or wrong, but certainly the same people who thought they needed to control all of the media, if they thought they needed to control the news and they thought they needed to control social media, do you think they're not trying to control AI? Of course they are. Of course they are.

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But what's different from news and internet is that we're all convinced that whoever has the best AI, whatever country, will dominate the economies of the future. So our CIA and our intelligence people have, first of all, an interest because it's where people will go to get information. So they want to control the information just like they do in every other domain.

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including foreign countries, by the way. So the effort is not just domestic. So of course, there is 100% chance that our intelligence people and therefore effectively our military thinks that a U.S. very robust, strong AI situation is best for the country. So what would happen

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if the most vulnerable part of the entire industry, which is the copyright situation, what if that turned against the AI companies, and in particular OpenAI, which seems to be at least the most funded? Well, that would give our intelligence community a reason to murder whoever was going to ruin the entire AI industry with some whistleblowing. Because all it would take is one victory,

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over a copyright violation. And then the floodgates would open and then you would get other whistleblowers and maybe our entire industry might be crippled. Now, this is a problem that China presumably won't have because they got the dictator situation going on. So what would happen if America crippled its own AI for completely legitimate reasons?

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meaning that there are people who had legitimate legal complaints and our justice system worked the way it's supposed to, took them seriously, and maybe put an injunction on AI and said, okay, you can't develop this until we settle this case. And it's going to take three years to get it through the Supreme Court. What would that do to American AI? It would destroy it.

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And then we would fall behind and China and anybody else would take over. And then that would put us at what we would think would be a gigantic domestic threat. So putting it all together, you're the CIA or you're the intelligence community of the United States. And this whistleblower presents a really an existential threat. to the entire country. Now, I'm not saying that's true.

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I'm saying that you could easily imagine they would think it's true. They use an existential threat to the entire country because it could take out our biggest AI companies, install them, and then nothing happens. And we lose the biggest weapon that's ever been developed. So under these conditions and the suspiciousness of the case being called suicide, I think it's exactly what it looks like.

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I think it's exactly what it looks like. It looks like it's an inside job and somebody on what should be our team probably just killed him. And it might be exactly what it looks like. Because I'm trying to imagine the alternative. I don't think there's an alternative where our intelligence community would just let this run through the courts.

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There are entire industries that used to exist when I was a kid that don't exist now. So industry is coming and going, pretty normal. But as Naval puts it, it's not so much that AI will cause you to get another job, because as he points out, job sort of indicates you have a boss and you have to apply for it. But it could be that AI will create what Naval calls opportunities.

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It would be an existential risk and a really obvious one, and one they'd have the ability to stop through the worst possible means. So I certainly have complete empathy for the family and the fact that I don't think they'll ever have closure on this. You could sort of see how the dots connect. I don't know. So I'm not saying that's true, but I don't know how it could go any other way.

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I just don't know how there could be any other way this would have gone. I think under every situation, the person who's this whistleblower with this claim, who had documents, could prove it with documents, I think that person dies every time. And, you know, you can't be happy about that. Well, how many of you watched at least some clips from a U.S. hockey team playing a Canadian team?

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I don't pay attention to hockey, so is it some kind of playoff situation? It's a playoff, right? And is that what it is? So give me a fact check. I don't know why the U.S. team and the Canadian team were playing. Is it just a normal league play? They're in the same league? Is that a thing? All right, well, anyway. So for some reason, it seemed like an important hockey game.

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And I guess the American national anthem, when it was sung, the Canadians booed, which seemed quite disrespectful to the American team. So the American team just decided that they're going to start three fights in the first, I don't know, nine seconds or something. And of course, everybody knows that hockey players fight a lot. And it's a weird sport because the fighting is allowed up to a point.

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The refs actually stand back. So instead of breaking it up, they stand back and they let the fight play out. Now, they must have some kind of internal rules where if the fighters go down, like if one drags the other one down to the ice, they break it up immediately.

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But as long as they're both standing on their skates and they put their stick down, I don't think they can fight by hitting each other with their hockey stick. That probably would be out of bounds. But if the only thing they're doing is punching each other while they're standing, apparently the refs let that go as long as they want. as long as the people want to keep punching each other.

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And I'm sure if the other teammates tried to get into it, the refs would stop it. So it's such a weird little, not really even a sport rule, that you can punch each other all day long, as long as you do it within these, you don't even need a reason. If the reason was the national anthem, good enough. But watching how theatrical it happened,

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And then watching what appeared to be nobody getting hurt whatsoever. It looked like they were throwing wild punches. They started throwing punches when both of them had helmets on. And they're like punching the helmets. And then the helmets come off. And then there's a whole bunch of more punching. But you really couldn't see anybody connect.

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It looked like they could just do these fake punching all day long. Because as long as they were sort of holding each other by the jersey, they seemed to be able to avoid the worst part of the punch. And it reminded me of, do you remember when Jerry Springer was a huge phenomenon on TV? And after a while, there would be a fight every single episode.

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So somebody who was on the panel up there on the stage with Jerry Springer would always, every single show, attack somebody who they didn't like who was also on stage. And it would look wild, and the punches would be thrown and the slapping and the hair pulling, but eventually they'd be pulled apart. And I started thinking, wow.

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The first few times I saw it, I thought, wow, it's lucky nobody got hurt. And then it would happen a thousand times in a row, like every single week. And never did anybody get hospitalized. I didn't even see a black eye. So it was obvious to me at the time that the fights were staged.

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So you can say to yourself, hey, I don't know much about this or that, but if I use AI, I'll be as smart as anybody who does this or that. So I'll become a person who provides whatever service or goods, and I'll use AI to figure out how to do it. And it'll even do most of the work. But it wouldn't do it on its own.

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But let's call it semi-staged, meaning that they didn't necessarily say, all right, you can only be on TV if you get in a fight, but we'll break it up. Don't hurt each other. I don't think they did that. But I think that once it was obvious that fighting was going to be allowed, maybe they selected people who were a little bit more willing to do it. Maybe there was subtle encouragement.

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I think there was. But I remember talking to people who didn't understand that the fighting was all staged. And people would say, oh, no, I think they're just mad at each other and there's just a lot of fighting. And I would say, okay. You believe that a thousand times in a row that somebody decided to take a swing at somebody on stage. A thousand times in a row.

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And a thousand times in a row without anybody ever getting seriously hurt. Really? That looks organic to you? And that's when I realized how dumb the world was. Because I was surrounded by adult people who voted who believed that was real, just organically happening. And I would try to convince them, no, no, it's more like the old professional wrestling. It's part of the show.

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It's just entertainment. No, it's not organic. And people would mock me. And they would say, of course it's organic. What are you talking about? And I thought, oh my God, we're in trouble. If you can't tell that's fake. So then I look at these fights in hockey. These look like fake fights to me. But again,

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I don't think anybody ever said to the hockey players, all right, remember, when you're fighting, make it really fake. I just think they know that if they hospitalize another player, it's going to come back to them. And so they try to make sure that Maybe they graze a chin. Maybe somebody gets a little tweak in the ear.

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But mostly they're just punching the air and punching in the general direction of people with no sense that they're trying to hurt anybody. But you know how impressed we get that Trump does things that other people say were impossible? Well, here's what Trump did when it comes to hockey.

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because obviously Trump's comments are the reason that Canada and the US are acting aggressive towards each other. Trump actually made me like hockey. I loved watching those fights, even though they looked so staged, not staged, but they didn't look serious. I mean, they weren't two people really trying to hurt each other. So when I heard the playback of the booing,

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you hear somebody booing the national anthem it just just automatically gets your your juices going you're like what what there has to be some response to this they booed the national anthem of our country and then you see the americans just throw down their gloves and just go trying to punch the out of the canadian player just because they're a canadian player

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and the Canadian players having none of it and punching back just as hard or harder. And it was so male. I just sort of liked it. I mean, I really liked it. I genuinely enjoyed watching every one of the fights, every fake punch they threw, because it fell right. It just hit me exactly where I wanted to be hit, so to speak.

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And you're probably always going to need a human to sign papers and work out weird little problems and negotiate things as you go. So this is very much what I've been speculating for a while. that we can't predict AI, but it didn't look like it was going to take jobs. So I've sort of been on this path for a while, but it's good to see Naval say it because, you know, he's smarter.

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So I'm definitely going to be watching the next hockey game between Canada and the United States for the fights. All right. So apparently... Doge might be auditing Fort Knox to see if they have really gold there. Have you heard that rumor? It's a conspiracy theory, I guess, that Fort Knox hasn't had any actual gold. It's all been stolen or moved somewhere.

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Well, Zero Hedge, the publication Zero Hedge, brought it up on X and And I think Elon Musk saw that comment. And the next thing you know, it looks like Fort Knox is going to get audited. Now, what do you think? Do you think the gold is there? Hasn't been audited in 50 years. Do you think that in the United States, gold can sit in a secure facility for 50 years and nobody stole it? I don't know.

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I don't know. I think Alex Jones was reporting that there seems... Was it him? Somebody was saying that there seems to be some gold moving around the world and maybe a little hoarding and that China might be hoarding some gold. And it makes me wonder if there is any preparation for paper money collapsing.

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Could it be that China and the United States figure that if regular paper money goes to hell, which seems like it's heading that direction, that the only value will be gold and that we'll at least we'll have that. And there'll be some way to go forward. I don't know. It makes you wonder what's up, but we'll find out if there's a audit. According to People Matters,

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the Doge layoffs went a little too far with some nuclear weapons experts and they were fired by mistake and then rehired. So is it, I don't know if they were weapons or just nuclear experts, a little unclear on that, but this is exactly the way the system's supposed to work. Remember the whole point of Doge, you know, the sort of the DNA of the operating principle is

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is they're going to move fast. They know they're going to break stuff. And then when somebody points it out, they're going to fix it. So move fast, break stuff fast, fix stuff fast. Here it is. They move fast. They made some mistakes in the hiring. People said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't replace these nuclear experts. You're going to have to keep them. And then they're rehired.

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Now, I don't know if they've successfully rehired them. But the point is, this is exactly what I want to see. I want to see they go too far, but they go fast. They make mistakes. They fix it. Move on. Perfect. That's perfect system. It incorporates the fact that there will be mistakes and then it just deals with them. All right. I guess J.D.

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Vance gave a provocative speech at that European Security Conference, whatever it was called, and went at the Europeans for saying, you know, why do you expect our help in America when you're opposing our most basic core values of free speech by trying to censor Americans? I love that frame. Why are we helping you if you're trying to stop the very thing that makes America America, free speech?

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So, you know, you could do it to yourselves. We don't recommend it. But don't do it to us. If you're trying to censor us and you're asking for us to defend you, no. And I think that has to be a hard no. I literally think if Europe is censoring the United States, We should give them no defense whatsoever. None. 100% on board with letting Europe fall to whoever wants to take them over.

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Because if they can't give us that one thing, the one thing that they should just keep the fuck out of our business with what we say in America, absolutely not. And I'm not joking about that. I say zero defense for Europe as long as they're trying to censor us in the United States. Zero. No, there's no negotiating on that. You need to get that stuff taken care of because no, hard no.

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So it's good when smart people agree with you. All right, here's something that probably is a nothing, but might be a really big thing. Now, before I tell you, I would like to say what the NPCs will say. I do this as a service so they don't have to do it. When I'm done, I want you to yell, that's soylent green. I don't want to live in a tiny house.

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We're not going to do a fucking thing for you. We could watch Russia just roll up Europe. I'd be fine with it. If that's the alternative. If that's the alternative, I'm fine with it. Because you know what Putin doesn't do? Putin doesn't try to censor us, does he? Has Putin ever tried to censor the United States? I don't believe so.

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But if we get censored by Europe, and they do have a way to do that because they can get our multinational corporations in trouble, so not cool that you're just dead to me. That's what I feel. So good job, J.D. Vance. You got really good grades for not just presenting America well, but doing it extra well and saying what needed to be said.

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Palmer Luckey is on Sean Ryan's podcast, and he had some interesting things to say about manufacturing. He said that Trump understands that if we don't manufacture in America, we're just everyone else's bitch. So he talked about how China could just turn off the economy of the United States anytime it wants because we can't manufacture over here.

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And if we can't get the Chinese goods, we're basically dead. So it is an enormous strategic risk to have your manufacturing outsourced. And it looks like it's coming back. I think we'll figure out how to get some of it back. But yeah, I would agree with Palmer Luckey that if you can't manufacture in America, you don't really have a future. I think that's fair to say.

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You don't have a future if you can't manufacture locally. If you're not following the account by Zion Lights, which is a person's first and last name, first name Zion, last name Lights, just like it sounds, like the lights you turn on. She is one of our best journalists slash experts on nuclear energy and follows US plus Europe. And it's really sad to see that Germany phased out their nuclear.

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Now, they had reasons, of course. You know, they have people afraid of it and blah, blah, blah. But apparently, they didn't accomplish their goals for, you know, CO2, which they could have been a lot closer to if they kept their nuclear. And they're in a world of hurt. And Great Britain is getting... Great Britain is currently...

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pro-nuclear at the government level, but the society is resisting it. So there's a big pushback in Great Britain. And here's what I think. I think, again, this could be one of America's advantages over everybody except perhaps China. Because China is just going gung-ho with every form of energy they can get because they have unlimited need for energy.

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So they're doing everything right, just energy first, boom, boom, boom. And I think the United States is maybe finally at a place where we can just say, let's do what makes sense. And we weren't there for decades. For decades, we were like, No nuclear power will kill us all. And we don't know what to do with the waste. And all those problems were solved. Those are all solved problems.

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The safety, the waste, it's all solved. The waste, you basically just keep on site. That's a total solution. So I think... that the fact that Democrats, at least in leadership, Democrats and also leader Republicans and also the president are unambiguously pro-nuclear power, pro-nuclear power, is really, really a good sign.

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And all of Silicon Valley is pro-nuclear power because they need it for AI and everything else. So if you've got all your tech geniuses your top Republicans and your top Democrats just fully on board with nuclear power. We're in much better shape. than the countries that are not like that. So France is looking strong.

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Swimming is the best form of exercise, and you can't make me eat that, and I won't eat bugs. All right? Does that cover everything? That's everything the obvious people say? Okay. Now that that's covered, you don't need to say those things. Do you get it? It's so you don't need to say them. You could. Yeah, and French press is the best way to make coffee. Thank you. Thank you for adding that.

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They were early and smart on nuclear power, so they've got a good nuclear power system going there. But in America, it's probably 10 to 20 years from being able to seriously say we made a difference in nuclear, but maybe faster if we do the small modular stuff. We'll see. Well, meanwhile, Zelensky over in Ukraine is calling for The formation of a European armed force.

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Now, the idea is that since Trump is saying, well, we can't do everything in America or we're doing too much, you need to take care of yourself, Europe, that Zelensky says they're going to need a European armed force. Now, it would not replace NATO. It would augment it. It would be, you know, to boost NATO's power, but also have their own independent forces. Military.

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I guess independent is the wrong word. But a European military. Now, does anybody care what Zelensky thinks Europe should do? I don't even need to discuss whether this is a good idea or a bad idea. It came from Zelensky. I don't think anybody's listening to him anymore. Indeed, it looks like Trump and Putin are planning to meet. in Saudi.

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We don't have a date yet, but they're going to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss ending the war. Do you know who they're not bringing? They're not bringing Zelensky to the conversation about ending the war in Ukraine. Do you know why they're not bringing Zelensky? Why would you? He's not relevant because he's going to do whatever we tell him to do in the end.

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But they're also not bringing anybody from Europe. So there'll be no European and no Ukrainian, just Trump and Putin deciding what a peace would look like. And I think the implication is that if Trump comes up with a deal, Europe's just going to have to eat it. So better hope it's a deal that Europe can live with. And I have to admit...

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If this were a normal situation, you would want all the stakeholders to be involved. You'd want everybody who had an interest to be weighing in. But I go back to Jamie Dimon. When Jamie Dimon was doing his rant that got recorded, he was being mad at his own employees and his own company for not stepping up, basically.

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One of the things he talked about was somebody who couldn't get something done without... 14 different departments approving it. And he was just saying, you can't do that. You can't run a great company where if you want to do something, 14 different departments have to approve it. And he said something like, give me the names of those 14 department heads and I'll fire them today.

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Because they shouldn't be doing that. They're not on the right side if there are 14 of them. This is a similar situation. And it's one of the things I like most about Trump. is the business experience. Do you think Trump doesn't know that if he brings even one extra person in, it fucks up the whole thing? Of course he knows that.

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What would happen if you brought two extra people to your negotiation? It fucks it up twice as badly. What if you brought three different countries that all have an interest? Then it's triple fucked. So Trump is doing the only thing that can work, Jamie Dimon is telling you the only thing that can work is you can't bring in 14 people. You just can't do it.

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There's no way to get from here to there through 14 different interests. You've got to find something that works for two key players, arguably the two important ones. And then if you're going to get it done, you've got to shove it down the throats of the other people, even if it's not their perfect solution. There's no other way to do it.

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So if you think he's being a dictator and blah, blah, blah, well, no more than Jamie Dimon. Somebody's got to be in charge and somebody's got to say this process can work. This other process where you have 14 people deciding what works, that could never work. That can never work. So if you want something to work, yeah, two people at a summit, that's how I'd do it. That's exactly how I'd do it.

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That needed to be said. Well, the story is that according to Ben Coxworth, really, that's his last name, Coxworth? Wow, must have been tough in high school. Coxworth. Come on. All right. Okay. Anyway, so there's this kind of a weed that I guess grows in ponds. It's not even a weed. It's called duckweed. It's more like a green slime that grows on stuff.

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And I would definitely leave Zelensky home, no doubt about that. So anyway, but also Saudi Arabia is hosting that Arab summit, as I said. So I like the fact that Saudi is acting like a real ally. Have you noticed that? It feels like not all of our allies react like allies, but there might be some exceptions.

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There could easily be some exceptions I don't know about, but I do appreciate that Saudi seems somewhat consistently trying to make sure that America and Saudi Arabia have a strong ongoing connection and they're not sabotaging us while secretly trying to help us or vice versa. So,

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I know I'm speaking too soon, and maybe they're doing things we don't like as well, but I kind of like the way it looks, the way it feels. So good job, Saudi Arabia, so far. And then according to San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco, did you know that there's an alarming rise in advanced prostate cancer in California?

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So California more than other states, but also the other states stopped reducing the cancer deaths and they've plateaued. So the idea is that specific cancer, prostate cancer, has gotten worse in California. Now, NPCs, would you like to blame the vaccination for that, NPCs? Remember, swimming's the best form of exercise. French press is best for coffee, and that green stuff is Soylent Green.

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Now, this started before the pandemic. So before the pandemic, listen to me, before the pandemic, this trend started. It seems related to, they say, it's related to less screening. So the less screening they say is leading to worse outcomes.

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I'm not entirely sure that makes a difference because I've seen studies that say that Great Britain doesn't do as much screening as we do for this specific cancer. And their life expectancies are much different. So there's a little conflicting data. Some data says that this screening doesn't make a difference, but California is seeming to indicate it did. I don't know. I don't trust any news.

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I don't trust any data. Remember, all data is the fox counting the chickens, and you can never trust the fox to count the chickens. But the only thing I wanted to point out is this is a case where it definitely happened before the pandemic and before the vaccinations.

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So there might be some several unrelated reasons that, you know, the cancer rates are up that don't have to do with vaccinations and don't have to do with COVID. But also there could be some of that. So I'm not ruling out that Any of that's, you know, I'm not saying that the vaccination is due or do not cause a problem like that, but there do seem to be some other reasons.

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So just so you heard that. Well, if you didn't know it, I posted on Locals yesterday and then I reposted on X a lesson on Risk management. Now, before you tell me what I'm going to tell you, just wait for me to say it first, okay? Nobody cares about who got a vaccination during the pandemic. It's old news, old story, but it's a really good lesson in risk management.

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And I would argue that if you weren't good at risk management, you often said something like, and people said this to me in comment to my lesson, they said, Scott, the only thing I needed to know is that the government said it was a good idea and it was called experimental. So therefore, that's all I needed to know.

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And so I thought to myself, are there any examples where the government wanted you to do something that was good for you? Because if everything the government recommends is bad for you, that's a pretty good reason. If every time the government said you should do this was always wrong, just always, then I guess you wouldn't need to know anything else. You just say, oh, who's saying?

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Oh, the government's saying it. Or the government, okay, well, I'm not going to do that. But then I thought to myself, how many things are there that the government says you should do that are good ideas? Are there any? I see you saying seatbelts and smallpox. Well, doesn't the government say you probably shouldn't have asbestos in your house? They say that, right? Are they wrong?

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But apparently there's a version of it that's really nutritious. And let's see, they call it water lentils. So I think it's, you know, it's not a slime so much as it might be little chunks, but it's sort of green and chunky and it can grow in a pond. And apparently it's a superfood. It's got 35% carbs, 20% minerals, and up to 40% protein. Now that would be tremendous amount of protein.

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Should you put some asbestos in your house? um how about the food pyramid the food pyramid used to be all wrong and maybe it's a little wrong now but would you do the opposite of the food pyramid would you eat a bunch of processed foods and sugar foods as much as you wanted because the government says you shouldn't so i guess you have to ask yourself what is the

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the people who haven't seen my video, they still think they know how to do risk management. So I tried to deal with those of you who really don't understand any risk management whatsoever. Those of you who just said, the government said it's good for me, therefore it's bad, or related to that, Pfizer said it's good for me, therefore it's bad. Or we use the word experimental.

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They said it's experimental, and therefore, why would I take an experiment? Those are not reasons. If you thought that that was good risk management, that you were just looking at who said it, that doesn't really work. How many of you don't know that that's not really any kind of standard that's part of reason? That's like reading chicken entrails and trying to predict the future.

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That's like a horoscope. It's like flipping a coin. It's not part of reason. It's just irrational. But sometimes irrational reasons can get you to the right answer if it's a coin flip. If there are only two possibilities, it's good for you or it's not, then any method you use is likely to have a 50% chance of working. All right, I'm going to pray to the sun gods.

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Well, you had a 50-50 chance of getting the right answer no matter how ridiculous your reasoning was to get there. So here's what's happened. I've just got tired of stupid people. So the stupid people who are giving me stupid fucking reasons for why they did or did not get the shot, you just have to be, you have to understand that you're stupid and just leave me alone.

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So if you don't want to listen to my risk analysis, just leave me alone because you're not part of any helpful anything. You like to brag that you got one lucky thing right. I'm not going to put up with it anymore. So it's also good to find out who to block. So I blocked all the people who said, oh, I just listened to the government and did the opposite. All right. The

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Every once in a while, the government gets one right. And the same people are now going to say, oh, Scott says you should do whatever the government says. Because their reasoning is so bad that they have to distort what I say to disagree with it. If you actually agreed with what, or if you had a reason, you'd give a reason. but usually, oh, he's so dumb, he just believes whatever he's told.

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The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Well, I don't know about you, but what I really needed this weekend was a little less news. And thank goodness we got a little bit less news. Trump's been kind of quiet. I mean, he caused a little bit of trouble.

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The opposite of the risk management lesson I give you. All right. Yes, my critics are experiencing severe cognitive dissonance. Now, you can decide if I'm the one. You can just listen to the video, and you would very quickly detect if I had cognitive dissonance. because I make a bunch of claims and you can just look at them all. It either fits together or it doesn't.

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And if you don't think it fits together, somebody says, my risk management was better than yours. Well, not your reasoning. Yeah, now you're reasoning, just trying to help. All right, so again, nobody cares about the pandemic. It's old news, but it might help you understand how risk management works. For those of you who want to stick around on Locals, I'm going to say hi to you.

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The rest of you, have a great Sunday. I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. But Locals, supporters only. I will be private with you in 30 seconds.

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Now, you've probably heard me say way too many times, wouldn't it be good to have your own indoor farm? But how in the world can you grow protein in an indoor farm? I know you can grow lettuce and stuff like that that nobody wants to eat too much. I mean, how much lettuce do you want to eat? So I was always saying indoor farms aren't going to work until you can make protein.

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This is apparently something you can do in an indoor facility. And it's got protein like crazy, and you could add it to just about anything. So maybe, maybe. I'm not sure that this would work at small scale because the indoor facility that they show pictured is a big industrial scale. But I don't know. So here are the advantages. It grows really fast. It doesn't need fertilizer.

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It's got tons of nutrients.

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and doesn't yeah it doesn't need pesticides doesn't need fertilizer and it doesn't compete with other crops for farmland and it can be sustainably cultivated in shallow trays of clean water in greenhouses or vertical farms so is this what i've been waiting for i don't know what it tastes like i suppose you can flavor it any way you want but if this seems like a you know small and boring little topic

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I think we're going to have to get to the point where people are growing their own food, maybe in small co-ops, because all the problems with food are the middleman, the chemicals they put in it that you don't want them to put in it, the transportation, and the storage. Those are all the problems.

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Well, you can get rid of all those problems by growing your own food in your neighborhood if you could grow something with protein in it. So maybe this is it. Well, there's a new hoax. Have you heard of the Pete Hegseth drinks whiskey in public while doing a presentation hoax?

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So this hoax says that when Pete Hegseth was giving a talk at whatever this was, at the big security event in Europe, that he reached where they always keep a glass of water. You know, usually if you're a speaker, they make sure you've got a water you can drink. And the thinking was that it was whiskey. Now, here's one of the things that the Democrat hoaxes have in common. They're so ridiculous.

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They're so ridiculous. Do you really think that Pete Hegseth, who's been accused of, you know, drinking too much before he was nominated... Do you think that he stood in front of a huge crowd in a televised event and then picked up a glass with a clearly brown-looking liquid that wouldn't be water and then drank it in front of the group?

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Does anybody think that could really happen in the real world? It's just like the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax. You don't have to know anything to know it didn't happen. That obviously didn't happen, and it was just something about the way the light hit the water. So, no, there's no truth to the thought that he was drinking bourbon or something on stage. So dumb.

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Meanwhile, AOC's calling for the governor of New York to remove Mayor Adams, who, of course, is a Democrat, but the Democrats are mad at that Democrat because he's not so keen on immigration, and he... seems to be friendly with Trump, and they think he worked down a deal with Trump, although he says there was no deal.

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But the Trump administration does seem to be trying to force the dropping of the charges against him. The people who understand this field better than I do say it's completely inappropriate to drop the charges against him. There's no legal reason to drop the charges. I'm not sure there's no reason.

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If it looks like lawfare, meaning that it's something that wouldn't normally be charged because it's such a small ball, I feel like that's all the reason you should need. Do you need more reason than it's lawfare? I feel like that's good enough. Even if there's a technical violation, like he took some upgrades on a flight or something, I don't care. I don't care at all.

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I don't care if the next mayor does that either. Not really. If you were taking big cash payments, well, then we've got different conversation. But a celebrity or a public figure who's traveling and gets upgraded, it's just the most normal thing in the world. So anyway, it feels like lawfare to me. But here's my point on this.

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But Elon Musk says he's taken at least a day or two off because he's getting ready to launch the newest AI, Grok. So things got strangely quiet. But yet, there's plenty to talk about. Did you know that TMZ is reporting that Kanye West, I call him Ye, and his wife Bianca, They don't have a prenup agreement. They don't have a prenuptial agreement. So good job, Ye.

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It looks like Trump found a new way to get rid of Democrats because Democrats automatically disagree with whatever Trump says is right. So all Trump has to do is start agreeing with a Democrat about anything, and the other Democrats will want to get rid of that person right away. So AOC is trying to get rid of Mayor Adams because he's too friendly with Trump.

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That seems to be—and then they think there's some secret deal, which is not in evidence— But here's what I think. I think Trump should endorse Adam Schiff just to test it out and say, yeah, Adam Schiff, we've had some bad interactions in the past, but I got to say he's the very best Democrat there is. I can't wait to work with him. He's the guy that can really help us with MAGA.

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And next thing you know, they'd be asking for him to be impeached. Because they just have to be whatever is the opposite of Trump. So he can take out any Democrat he wants just by saying, you know, I like that one. You know that Fetterman guy? He's looking real good. Next thing you know, Fetterman, removed from office. Well, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is collapsing.

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Everybody's trying to sell their house because they're all getting fired or they're afraid of getting fired or there are Democrats on the way out. But as... The account called Cynical Publius points out, and others have pointed out, among the top seven wealthiest counties in America, four of them are around Washington, D.C.

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So four out of seven of the wealthiest counties are right around Washington, D.C. And Washington, D.C. doesn't make any kind of product. So... how are all these people making so much money? It's because they're around the money. If you put them around the money, they'll start forming NGOs and scams and grifts and everybody's got a PAC or some damn thing that needs to get funded.

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And apparently there's almost no fiscal responsibility in Washington. That's what Doge has taught us. And if you have no fiscal responsibility, gigantic amounts of money and no product being made except people persuading and grifting, that's what you get.

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If you wait long enough, you've got one of the richest counties, or 407 of the richest counties, and you haven't done a damn thing that the country wants. You've just taken the money. That's what it looks like. So we'll see if that era is coming to an end. I might be a little optimistic. And what about David Hogg, who is now one of the co-chairs of the Democratic Party?

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But we'll see what happens. If you want to see a train wreck, came to the right place. I often tell you it's a superpower to not be embarrassed about things. No embarrassment at all. I'm just degraded by 80%, so I have no idea what's going to happen. Well, what else can coffee do for you? According to No Ridge, coffee can help protect your liver.

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They were not able to judge that Kamala Harris obviously has some kind of a substance or drinking problem. None of them saw it. Still don't. And then when it came to Trump, they got exactly the wrong answer that Bill Morrow tried to straighten him out on, which is, huh, turns out he's actually a really nice guy and interested in people's opinions and nothing at all like what you see on TV.

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So Democrats are 0 for 3, aren't they? I don't like to brag, but I'm 3 for 3. I was calling Biden mentally incompetent in 2019, Jack. I've been calling Kamala a public drinker, meaning that she appears in public after drinking for years, Jack. Of course, I'm right about that. And I knew that Trump was not crazy. Indeed, you could argue that I was the OG of explaining Trump starting in 2015.

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I would be the one who would say, I know it looks crazy. I know what you're saying. I know it looks crazy. But if you look just under the hood, you can see it's all technique. It's what I call the show. So Trump knows the difference between who Trump is, you know, the private Trump, and the show. And when he is in public, he puts on the show. And the show is wild.

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I mean, I was saying it yesterday when he talked about his medical examination. And he said that his soul was healthy. Like they check your soul. It's something that nobody would say. And I don't think he would say that privately because it's just sort of outrageous and crazy sounding. But boy, does he know how to put on the show. He doesn't know how to be boring.

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You know, just talking about normal things when he's in his showman persona, you know, the public persona, he could just make anything sound more interesting than it should have been. I got a checkup and my soul is really good. I'll be laughing about that for years. Anyway. Anyway.

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So the worry from Jasmine Crockett that Trump's mental acuity needs to be tested, I'm going to refer that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns with all the other Democrat problems. Imaginary Concerns. You probably heard that Trump created some tariff exemptions.

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So if you're trading smartphones and computers and routers and semiconductors and some other tech stuff, there will be no extra tariffs on those. So that's good. Every time Trump makes an adjustment, the market should get a little bit happier. So this is exactly the sort of adjustment that you'd want to see. So, yeah, good job.

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Did you know that what I call the Gulf of America has apparently an insane amount of energy that can be tapped? And now Trump is expanding the oil and natural gas production. So Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, He has ordered officials to hold an offshore lease sale. So you'll get to bid on that. You know, I do wonder what is the modern risk of drilling offshore.

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Because, you know, we had that big spill some years ago. But I wonder if they've figured out how to avoid that now. I mean, I don't know how you could, but. Makes me wonder. Time has gone by, so I wonder if it's a lot safer for the environment than it used to be. So that's good. So now Trump has opened up Anwar, and he's opening up the Gulf of America.

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He's also negotiating with Iran, and if that went well, we'll talk about that, it would release Iran's oil. And he's negotiating with Russia. And if that goes well, it would presumably release more Russian oil. So Trump's plan of making energy sort of a centerpiece of his presidency is looking really strong.

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So if he can keep the oil prices down and the price of gas down, everything else is going to cost less. So I really like the direction of that. Now apparently his tariffs, I don't know if it's because of the tariffs, but probably. A big pharma company, Novartis, just said it's going to put $23 billion into the U.S. So it's not an American company.

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That's why I soak my liver in coffee every day, and you should too. So is there anything that coffee can't do? No, no, it can do it all. Here's some news that I can't get enough of from the legal news line. Apparently the state of Illinois is suspending their DEI scholarships because the Department of Justice went after them for being a bunch of racists. I can't get enough of this.

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But because of tariffs, they're going to bring $23 billion investment here. I think Trump's doing a really good job. in at least promoting all these big deals that are coming through. 23 billion, some serious money. I mean, it's gonna be over time, but still a lot of money. Let's talk about Doge.

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So I was confused by Doge, and maybe you had the same thing, which is Elon had said very clearly that he was trying to take a trillion dollars a year off the budget. And then we'd have some chance of surviving, so long as Trump did more than a trillion dollars worth of extra growth, which would cause extra tax revenue. So that was a plan for survival, if he could get a trillion.

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But according to the Daily Color News Foundation, Musk has slashed his Doge saving forecast by 85%. Instead of a trillion, it looks like he's targeting $150 billion. $150 billion is not close to a trillion. A trillion is what we needed to survive. Did this really happen?

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Where Doge went in and they had all kinds of, let's say they thought they were going to make all kinds of cuts, and then the bureaucracy came online, and the cabinet heads and the department heads said, oh, no, not so fast. No, we can't cut that. Can't cut that. So I get that it's $150 billion so far, but I think that's also the final number. So here's the weird thing.

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I asked Grok how much Elon Musk's personal net worth has decreased because of all the Tesla stuff. And apparently it's the same number. So Elon Musk's personal net worth went down $150 billion, while Doge saved $150 billion. Now, one of them is once and the other is every year. But he could have just written a check. It saved a lot of money. It saved a lot of time, not a lot of money.

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But we're currently, this is my take, we're currently on a doom loop. Is anybody going to admit it? Is Trump going to tell us that we can't survive in our current plan? Our current plan is not survivable. Let me say that again. Our current explicit plan is our budget is not survivable. It's not just suboptimal. It's not survivable. And I was counting on Doge to get that trillion dollars.

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I thought it was a stretch. I didn't think it would happen. But, you know, I was like, well, you know, Elon can do things that other people can't do. Now, I get that it's $150 billion a year, but we were looking to save a trillion dollars a year. Both of them work for a year. So I don't know. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it looks like Doge didn't work. Am I wrong?

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It looks like it didn't work. Because working is not just that you saved $150 billion, although that's great. Working is saving the entire country. So that was the whole point of it. So I guess I'm confused by that. Maybe there's something I'm missing here. Thomas Massey, of course, he's the debt hawk.

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He's pointing out that the current budget is going to be $2.5 trillion deficit every year for as far as you can see. We can't do $2.5 trillion deficit for as far as we can see. We're talking about being completely out of business in a few years. I don't know what's going on because I was pretty sure that this is an unsustainable level of spending. And apparently we're just going to do it.

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We're just going to do an unsustainable thing. What am I missing? Did we really decide that death was better than life? Because life would require us doing a bunch of things that the bureaucracy doesn't like? I don't know. Well, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99% of all electricity will be used to power AI. Do you believe that? This is according to Joe Wilkins in Futurism.

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Every time DEI is banned because the government says it's racist, I just feel like I'm redeemed. It feels like 35 years of my life have finally been validated. So yes, no DEI scholarships at several universities in Illinois. So good for the Department of Justice. Well, it turns out that threats work. Something I didn't know until recently, apparently the U.S.

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Do you believe that 99% of all electricity will be used to power super intelligent AI? What would the rest of us do? Why would you even need super intelligence if it was going to use all of your electricity? Like you wouldn't be able to iron a shirt, but at least you'd have AI. I know. I think he's probably just making a point with hyperbole. The point being we need a lot more energy.

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According to the Washington Times, drug traffickers made $1.4 billion from fentanyl trade in 2024. I don't know how they measure that. How in the world could you know that number? Anyway, as you know, China is the main supplier of precursor chemicals. But I guess India is coming up fast, too, as a supplier of these precursors. So that's not good.

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If it's that profitable, nothing's going to stop it. People will do anything for $1.4 billion. You might know or maybe you didn't know that the Hollywood writers were on strike. How many of you even knew that the Hollywood writers were on strike? I didn't even know it. But apparently during the strike, the losses of jobs were tremendous. 42% of the writing jobs went away between 2023 and 2024.

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42% went away. Wow. So I always thought the shows had too many writers anyway. Some of my favorite shows had one writer. Do you remember The West Wing? and the guy who wrote it, most of those were written by the same guy. Do you remember Babylon 5? Most, if not all of them, were written by one guy. So it seems to me we have too many writers. That's what I think.

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Anyway, there's some negotiations going on between Iran and the United States over in Oman. They were there yesterday. And both Iran and the U.S. team said that it was a positive and constructive talks. Now, what does that mean? So the one and only thing we're really asking of Iran is you can't have a nuke. So what does the meeting sound like?

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All right, the one and only thing we want is you can't have a nuke. Oh, we're definitely going to have a nuke. And then what do you talk about? What could you possibly talk about when the one thing that you want is the one thing they're never going to give you? Is there nuance there? Is there anything else on the table that they need to talk about? Because if they get the No nukes part.

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Probably everything else is easy, relatively easy. So I don't think anything happened. I think they went in and said, we'd really like to talk you out of having a nuke. And then Iran said, we'd really like to keep our nukes because we don't trust you. We're going to need one. I can't possibly imagine that that's working out.

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Meanwhile, also the Ukraine-Russia negotiations, I don't think anything's happening. You know, Trump tried to put a positive spin on it. He goes, I think Ukraine-Russia might be going okay. You're going to be finding out pretty soon. I don't think it's going okay. I would place a very large bet that literally nothing happened because neither side wants peace. Trump wants peace.

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But Ukraine wants to fight, and Russia wants to keep fighting. So I don't see how you solve that. So I don't think there's going to be an Iran deal. I don't think there's going to be a Ukraine-Russian deal. I think they're just going to keep grinding at each other until something changes. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're joining me late, I was confessing early on.

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that I unwisely took a muscle relaxant before the show, not realizing the cognitive load that would put on me. So my brain, not working at all, not working at all. And the news is kind of boring, so I didn't want to. make it last too long. But I did want to spend some time with you, so glad you showed up.

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This is the conclusion of my short show today, and I'm going to talk to the locals people privately, the rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble. Thanks for joining. I'll be much smarter tomorrow.

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and Mexico have had this very long-term water agreement where we give them water from one of our sources, but they give us water from one of their sources. And it's all for the farmers. I think mostly for the farmers. And Mexico is going to reduce the amount of water, and Trump threatened them with tariffs. and suddenly they release the water.

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So how many times has Trump threatened somebody and it worked? You know, you don't want to think the threats work, but apparently they do. Yeah, Trump's threats work pretty well. So Mexico, we got our water. Thank you. So here's something radical and dangerous. There are now several states

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They're getting together to put together what they call a criminal referral for a number of the characters that you remember from the pandemic, Fauci, Burks, Walensky, and a bunch of others. And what do you think they're being referred for? Now, referred just means somebody's recommending that the Department of Justice do something. or in this case, I guess, the states.

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I think it wasn't a Fauci who has a pardon for any federal crimes, so you have to go after them in the states if you want to get any traction. So the Viris Law Group and then former Feds Group Freedom Foundation, they've submitted their, I guess, their evidence and their plan for these guys, but listen to the crimes that they're accusing Fauci and Birx of. Murder. So they're accusing of a murder.

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Negligent homicide. Involuntary manslaughter. Medical coercion and abuse. Kidnapping. Kidnapping. Human trafficking for forced labor. Racketeering. Operating a corrupt organization and terrorism. I feel like they had a good idea, which is to use the states to go after some people who maybe have some things to explain.

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But once you add terrorism and kidnapping, I feel like you lose a little bit of credibility. Murder was bad enough, but you can see where murder would come from. But terrorism? How do you get terrorism out of that? All right. RFK Jr. is saying that the deep state is real. And he called his FDA employees, so these are employees under him, he called FDA employees sock puppets of the industry.

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According to Politico. Can you imagine if your boss called you a sock puppet of the industry? The entire point of the FDA is to regulate the pharmaceutical industry. But of course they get owned because the pharmaceutical industry has so much money. And they can do things like saying, you know...

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you know, you're the kind of person that we would hire for an outrageously high salary once you're done with the FDA. But, you know, that would sort of depend how you do when you're at the FDA because, you know, if you were to rule against us, I just wouldn't be able to recommend you for a job here after your FDA stint. So it's real easy to capture somebody who's working there.

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But just imagine your boss calling you out as a puppet. Your entire job is to protect the public, but he's calling you out as somebody who is not protecting the public and is only protecting the bad guys. That's pretty extreme. So we'll see if RFK Jr. can survive any of this, but so far, he's going hard at it. I think he's hitting the deep state and the bureaucracy all at the same time.

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But welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams. I can't even remember how I opened the show. I literally forgot the thing that I've done over 2,000 times in a row. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that you've never experienced before, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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So we'll see. How many of you saw that photo of Governor Gretchen Whitmer? So apparently she was invited to the White House because it was some executive order that Trump did that even though she's a Democrat, it was good for Michigan, right? So she was happy that Trump was doing something, and when he invited her to the White House, she said, oh, okay.

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So she goes to the White House, and then she gets herded into a room with a bunch of other people for what was going to be a photo shoot. And she's a Democrat, and she wants to run for, I'm guessing, wants to run for president. And suddenly she would be photographed with all these Republicans and sort of celebrating Republican victories. So how do you think she handled it?

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What was her professional way of handling the fact that she got tricked into a photo shoot but was expecting just to meet the president one-on-one? She holds a binder. She holds a binder over her face so that the photographs just show the bottom of her. So instead of being invisible...

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she does the opposite it becomes the biggest story because it's so weird so so now there's not a single person in the country who doesn't know that she was in the trump white house getting her picture taken and she choked i don't know what i would have done in that situation I mean, maybe I would have asked to leave or something. But it's hard to leave if the president's invited you in the room.

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You can't really walk out. It'd be an insult. So I guess she figured the best thing she could do is cover her face with a binder. Anyway, according to the publication The Independent, female frogs fake death to avoid unwanted advances from males. Now, they weren't specific, but I believe they mean male frogs, not just every kind of male.

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But it sounds a lot like a wife faking death, except when humans do it, they fake a headache. But frogs are more committed. They're more like the Democrats of amphibians. So they're more into the drama of it. It's like instead of pretending I have a headache, which doesn't really work in the frog world because the boy frog is just going to go at it anyway, they have to fake dead. Like, oh.

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And it makes me wonder how often does the boy frog actually care if they're dead? Because if he gets in the right state of mind, that boy frog is just going to go nuts on that female frog, even if she's pretending to be dead. And then once you realize that's their trick, and you're the boy frog, and you're like, I've seen this before. You're pretending to be dead. All right, I'll just Cosby you.

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So that's what's happening in the frog world. Well, meanwhile, it's a real slow news weekend. Bernie Sanders went to Coachella and gave a rousing speech that nobody cares about. But Trump went to watch a UFC fight, which is always a big event. And, you know, it's great. Now, compare these two approaches.

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If you were to just stop somebody in the street anywhere in America and say, do you know what Coachella is? How many would know what it is? I'm not even sure I know what it is. I've been looking at it for years. I always see pictures, and people say they're going, and I read accounts of what happened there, and I still don't know what it is.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Go. You know, the responsible thing to do would have been to not do a podcast because I'm really not capable. Like, I'm not joking. I am absolutely not capable of doing this.

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Apparently, it's this really big, dusty, inconvenient thing that you go to so that when you come back, you have stories of how horrible it was. It was all dusty, and the bathrooms didn't work, and then we got stuck, and we couldn't get out. It's music. Somebody says it's music. All right. So I don't think Bernie got a home run on that.

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But Trump, as usual, because he goes to the UFC and acts very manly, it's just a perfect fit. So Trump for the win. I guess Meta, the Facebook company, is going to go to court on charges of being a monopoly, I guess. So they're being brought up on antitrust charges.

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And one of the possibilities is that they would be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp because apparently that's too much social media for one company to have. I don't really understand that. So Facebook had a service that showed pictures and you could share them with your friends. And then they bought Instagram when it was still worth only $1 billion. And they built it into Behemoth.

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So I have to confess I was having a little muscle pain so I took a prescription muscle relaxant and I'm not really good at following directions so I didn't realize how loopy it would make me so at the moment I'm just whacked out of my mind. I can just barely stay awake. And the good news is I don't have any pain. I'm not in pain at all. But oh my God, is my brain not functioning.

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So why did they have to divest? Is it just because they were too successful? I mean, it's not like... It's not like TikTok doesn't exist. It's not like X doesn't exist. I feel like it just doesn't feel like they necessarily should be broken up. So I'm not pro-oligarch. Sorry, Bernie Sanders. I'm not all about the oligarchs, but... I don't know.

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Is there any compelling reason why WhatsApp can't be part of meta? That doesn't even make sense to me. Well, speaking of Facebook, they're trying to make their AI, Llama 4, more balanced, which means they have to figure out how to make it more at least conscious of what the right-leaning part of the country thinks and wants.

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So apparently they're quite aware that the way they trained it, it made it a lefty. Sort of turned it into a Democrat. And to Meta's credit, they don't want it to be just a Democrat. So they're putting effort into trying to figure out how to make it less left-leaning and more like Grok. So that's cool. I saw a good... So a good thread by Rod Martin on X, talking about Trump's new play.

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So apparently he went ahead and has executed, we've heard of this before, but there's a 60 foot wide strip of land that runs across our southern border. And apparently that's now been designated to be military property. And so our military can operate on that 60 foot wide space. which means that if you come across the border illegally, you're going to be on a military base.

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And then the rules of how the military treats things are in effect. So that would give them a little bit of flexibility, the military anyway, in how they handle it. and there'd be no sanctuary there. So when I see that, I think to myself, why does the Trump administration always come up with these kind of radical but good ideas?

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It seems like nobody else ever had a good idea, but this whole 64th strip, that just feels like a good idea. So I'm kind of impressed by it. You know Jasmine Crockett? Everybody's been watching the Democrats' rising star, Jasmine Crockett. She said the other day that it's beyond wild that no one is questioning Trump's mental acuity. No one's questioning Trump's mental acuity.

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Well, we also happened when Bill Maher met Trump in person. His biggest takeaway is that Trump is not crazy. but he plays a crazy person on TV, which he does. So here's what the Democrats have gotten wrong so far. So the Democrats were not able to judge that Biden had a severe mental disability. None of them saw it.

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I'm just a casual observer, and I know at least three examples where he, with nothing in return, well, there's always something in return, I guess, but just as helpful to everybody. Well, so he goes on and he goes talking about Trump. So this is Stephen A. Smith talking about Trump. He said, we talked on the phone. We talk at basketball games or boxing events. I knew this man.

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And so some of the things that were being said about him, I knew were not true. And I was saying, come on, y'all. You've got to do better than that. Don King, thank you. Yeah, he was friendly with Don King. I think it helped him in his career as well. So you know what would have been really useful? If Stephen A. Smith had said this before it was safe. Would you agree? It wouldn't have been nice.

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For Stephen A. Smith, when Trump was being called, you know, favoring neo-Nazis and the fine people hoax and he's the biggest racist, wouldn't it be nice for a respected, smart voice to say, oh, I know him personally. Yeah, you don't have to worry about that. That's not an issue. Wouldn't that be nice?

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But I found myself, you know, getting ready to respond to a post on that and say basically, thanks for nothing. Thanks for nothing. This would have been really useful in 2015. It would have been really useful in 2020. It would have been really useful in the beginning of 2024. Do you know what it is now? Now it's unnecessary. It's unnecessary. He won.

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So now that it's safe, Elon Musk can say it and Joe Rogan can say it and a whole bunch of public figures can say it. The left and the right can say it. Now it's safe. So I found myself getting actually angry at him for sort of speaking out too late, like that counts. And then I slapped myself in the face. Scott, stop it. Stop it. I'm ignoring my own rule. You know a rule I'm ignoring of my own?

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Here's the rule. Everything good takes too long to happen. Everything good takes too long to happen. This is good. This is good. Took too long to happen. And now I reject all of my prior comments. So I'm taking them back, which I knew I would do. So I'm taking back my comments that he waited too long and that it wasn't brave to wait till now and he's waiting until it's safe.

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Neither do I. So climate change didn't predict sea level, coral reefs, sea ice. Oh, but it did predict temperature. So, I mean, that's true, right? It did predict the temperature, didn't it? Or is it possible that we're measuring that wrong too? Of course we're measuring it wrong. The temperature might be going up, I wouldn't know. But there's no way we can know.

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And I'm going to completely revise that. I respect his opinion, and I really appreciate it. I respect it, and I really genuinely appreciate it. And if you hear me ever again say that something is good, but it took too long, can you slap me? I don't want to ever hear that out of anybody's mouth because everything good took too long. There's no exception to that. Everything.

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So it's just the dumbest, simplest, you know, pundit thing to say, oh, where were you before? Why didn't you do something earlier? No. How about that was good? Thank you. I respect it. And just take the win. All right. Let's talk about Greenland. Apparently there was a poll on whether they wanted independence or to stay owned by Denmark.

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Now, I don't know if this is a scientific poll or an internet poll or what it was. I'm not sure we can totally trust this. But two-thirds of them wanted independence. And one-third wanted to stay with Denmark, if you believe that poll. What I say is... So two-thirds of them want independence. Let's check again in two months.

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If you check back in two months, I'll bet you 80% say they want independence and or some kind of association with the United States that's stronger because that's the Trump effect. Trump will find a way to convince the Greenlandics, Greenlandic people. I think it's Greenlandic. The people are called not Greenlanders. See if I'm right. I need a fact check on that. Are they the Greenlandic people?

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Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25

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I don't know. Anyway, so as you know, the Greenland prime minister spoke out. Do you get the joke? The Greenland Prime Minister, he spoke out. Do you know why that's funny? Do you know what his first name is? Mute. M-U-T-E. That's his actual name. His first name is Mute. Yeah, he spoke out. There's your simulation. The Mute is speaking out.

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So he didn't say that he wants to be an American state or anything like that. He said that the Greenlandic people should decide what their fate is, but he's not. He didn't seem terribly keen on staying owned by Denmark, and you can understand that. But here's the bigger surprise today. Apparently the Danish officials think that some kind of middle ground can be reached.

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This is according to the Daily Wire, Tim Pierce. And the middle ground would be something short of a sale, but some kind of a stronger cooperation, something like that. We don't know what that would look like. Now, what do you think of Trump's first offer? If you want to see the art of the deal in real time, let me try to set this up for you. Suppose you were a regular politician.

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Suppose you were Joe Biden or Jimmy Carter or And you had this idea that we should own or have control of, functional control of Greenland. How would you go about it? Well, you probably have some secret meetings, right? And then the Greenland people would never hear about it, and then they would never weigh in to tell you that they agreed with it.

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So that would be the first mistake of everybody who's not Trump. Trump tweets about it. If Trump puts it in the public, the entire nation of Greenland is talking about it. I'll bet you 100% of all the... Greenlandic people have had lots of conversations about this, everyone. And it's because Trump said it and Trump said it publicly. And not only say it publicly, but he said, here's the beauty.

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He basically said, if you don't sell it to us or give it to us, we're going to take it. What do you think the Greenlandic people think when the entire U.S. military and the president of the United States named Trump says, you know, we could just take it? Do you think they believed it? Yes. Well, at least they believed there was a high possibility.

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Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25

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We don't have any kind of reliable mechanism for measuring the temperature of the entire planet over time. That is so far from being a thing that humans could do. But the news tells you they can do it, so you should believe it because it's on the news. Well, the Trump effect... Has reached Chicago. Because a couple of the aldermen. I think it's funny that Chicago has aldermen.

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Do you think he meant it, as in he would send in the actual military and start arresting any Greenland resistors? Don't know. That's the beauty of it. I follow Trump as closely as anybody. I don't know. Did he mean it? That's his magic. His magic is he might mean it. He might. And that's all you need.

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So think about how much action he got simply by putting it out there that if you don't work with us, we're just going to take it. Because once he's established that it's a military security requirement, which I'd never heard before. Before Trump, I'd never even heard. There's some kind of military requirement, which I believe because of the opening of the ice in the nearby.

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It's going to be fought over by Russia and China and all the powers. So, yeah, we need a strong, strong presence to make sure our hemisphere doesn't get invaded by missiles and who knows what. So the first thing he does is informs the country that it's a requirement for security. So we're like, well, there's no way to get there, but wouldn't it be great? Then he says in public...

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And the Greenlandic people like, oh, no, no, no, I don't want to do that. But what's the offer? You only have to make them curious. Just make them curious what the offer is. Because who's going to say no before they hear the offer? Right? You could say no after you hear the offer. But who says no before they hear the offer? Right?

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You know, just ordinary, curious people who are not killing it in life. Maybe they'd like to do a little better. This rich guy says, maybe I can do something for you. You're going to stay and you're going to listen. And then you hear, but he might just take it. Then you think, maybe we should talk to him. And then Denmark says, you know what? I'm thinking maybe we should talk to you.

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Maybe we'll meet in the middle somewhere. Do you know what Trump needed? He just needed him to meet in the middle. I don't think the United States would be in favor of making them a state. Do you know why? Because I'm pretty sure we don't want their voting record. I'm pretty sure we don't want to give them some kind of political power.

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Now, I don't know what their beliefs are politically, but just as a point of reference, I checked if abortion is legal in Greenland. Because I feel like that's going to tell you kind of quickly where their heads are at. Not only is it legal to get an abortion in Greenland, but according to Google, they have the highest abortion rate in the world. The highest abortion rate in the world.

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Now, if I were a negotiator... I would say to myself, hmm, yeah, that's sort of a poison pill. You know, if you're a Republican, it's a poison pill. So maybe we should meet in the middle instead of turning it into a state. Maybe some kind of territory situation, you know, with a special arrangement would be best for all.

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But what's interesting is that just as Trump is sort of offering, hey, wouldn't it be great if you were Americans? Wouldn't you like that? The Greenlandic people are the busiest of all people, killing their own people. So even the Greenlandic people don't love Greenlandic people. They're killing them at the highest rate of any civilized country. I'm just joking.

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The Greenlandic people probably just have a lot of sex, so there's nothing else to do. So they probably need more abortions because they have more sex or something like that. Now, here's something I learned from the comments on locals. I hadn't really considered this before, but you know how Trump is really good with real estate?

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He can spot an opportunity in real estate that other people might not catch because that's his business. And somebody pointed out that this is the perfect time to buy Greenland because once climate change turns on, and Greenland actually turns green, we're not going to be able to afford it.

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Is there any other city that has aldermen? Is that just a Chicago word? I got the aldermen. Florida has elderly men. So I don't know what an alderman is. But some kind of politician. And they're in the legislature. And they're introducing legislation. They would roll back the city's sanctuary law.

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So you want to get it cheap before climate change turns it into a beachfront, sort of a tropical island, because that's when it's really going to be expensive. So I think Trump's brilliant. He's going to get it before it warms up. You can't tell if I'm kidding, can you? All right.

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So I thought I would put together a Greenland deal just so we sort of play with it to see if it looks like it could be something that would work. I'm going to throw out a first draft right now of what a deal might look like. Now, I don't know if you know, but I have an extensive background in negotiating. It used to be my job.

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In corporate America, I was the person who had to negotiate with vendors to get their prices down and all that stuff. So you learn about deal making and also You know, my MBA background, they teach you about deal making. So I have some experience in how to put together a deal. So this is not completely speculative.

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Just know that there's a little bit, a little bit of actual professional skill that's going into this, okay? Just a little bit. Like I'm not the best at it or anything. Number one, I like the idea of calling it a territory or whatever word you want to put on it and not a state. We already have some, right, Guam and whatever.

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I don't like them voting, but that's no problem because Greenland probably doesn't care about voting in our politics. I would say that you'd want to offer the Greenlandic people full local control of their laws so that the law of the United States doesn't necessarily apply there, but they get to make their own laws and have their own justice system, just like now.

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So basically they would operate exactly the same. And they would have their own taxation. We wouldn't tax them. But we would take over the, let's say, the support payments that Denmark is doing.

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So what Denmark would get out of it is they don't have to pay Trump his extortion when he says, if we're going to protect your island, you're going to have to pay us $20 billion a year or whatever he puts on it. And they're not going to want to pay that. And they currently pay to subsidize Greenland. They wouldn't have to pay that.

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So wouldn't it be great if Denmark just sort of got out of the business of managing something that they don't want to manage? So I think Denmark could be made happy as long as Greenland came out ahead and they cut their own budget so they didn't have to support it, I think. Seems doable. But here's what you would do if you're a chump to sweeten the deal. You'd say,

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Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25

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We're going to greatly expand the mining operations for the rare earth materials. I think there's some energy too. Was there natural gas? Maybe we don't know for sure, but we'd look for some more. And the idea would be that we would share the income with the locals, maybe the same way that oil companies, when they first went to the Middle East,

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And the countries where they wanted to drill did not have the ability to build oil wells themselves. So I don't know the details. I'd love to be informed about that, by the way, if somebody knows those details. Did the oil companies say something like, we'll give you half if you let us just drill on your land that you can't drill on? Or 20%? What is the number where both are happy?

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I don't know what that number is. But we can say to them, we're going to give you a percentage of that, and it will be way bigger, way more money than Denmark was giving you every year. Your lifestyle will improve. You can have less abortions. And they'd get full military protection. But I think there would have to be a clause in there, which could be a sticking point.

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Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25

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So that's where the city would not cooperate with ICE and help them deport people, but at least two of them want to roll it back. Now, this is according to the Daily Caller News. Jason Hopkins is writing about it. And what is interesting about this story? I mean, there's always somebody who wants to roll back everything, right? They're both Democrats. Two Democrat aldermen, Democrats,

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They would give the United States the authority for full martial law in a military emergency. Now, if you're wanting to be an independent sort of associated territory, you're going to bristle at the idea that there could ever be martial law imposed by effectively another country that you're working with. But I don't know that we could say no to that.

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I feel like if we're going to give security to them, It seems likely there would be cases where the military would have to put a boot on ordinary freedoms just temporarily. That's what martial law is. And everybody hates martial law, but I feel like we need some kind of out.

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Now, maybe we don't need it because even the military base that would be stationed there would be far more powerful than a bunch of Greenlandic citizens with their handguns or whatever. So I suppose we could get anything we wanted if we really needed it. But it'd be nice to put it in the deal so everybody knows it's possible. And then you could say, hey, you guys, you could get American passports.

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Do you think the Greenlandic people would like to have an American passport? I don't know if that's good or bad. It'd be an addition to maybe whatever they already have. So why wouldn't that work? Can you think of any idea why they would not take that deal? So they still have independence. They make a bunch more money. They get a free military without having to pay any taxes for the military.

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Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25

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And they get some freedom from Denmark. Where's the downside? It's all upside. And Trump made this conversation possible by what did Stephen A. Smith say? By the way he acts. That's right. So the way he acts makes this possible. That's what the way he acts gets you. Greenland. Maybe. We'll see. Well, let's talk about the L.A. fires.

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I know that if you're not in L.A., you're just wishing we could stop talking about this. I get it. I get it. But I think this is more relevant to all of the rest of you than you think. First of all, it would be fascinating to understand what went wrong so it doesn't happen in your state. And also to give you an idea of whether it can be fixed. I'm going to give you the bad news first. You ready?

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I think that the rebuilding cost will be at least a trillion. And nobody can pay for that. So the rebuilding... If you put it on top of the regulations that exist, you know, all the environmental stuff, how long it takes to get a permit, the complications, you know, the removal of the toxic debris, the cleaning of the water, the re-hooking up of things.

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There is actually no way to get from here to there. There is no way to rebuild that. And if California is just abandoned effectively to the criminals because nobody's going to live there and it just isn't affordable to fix, homeowners can't fix it on their own. There really isn't any way to fix it in the current normal system. So let me say that again.

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There really is no solution because the federal government isn't going to put a trillion dollars into it. The homeowners can't afford to rebuild. California isn't going to have enough money or even close. It's going to destroy all of our insurance and maybe all of our banking in the entire country. I don't think people understand that when California falls, the country gets more than a black eye.

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It's an existential threat to the rest of the country. I think California might be toast. Unless you want some good news. See, I set you up. And by the way, when I say there's bad news and good news, they're both possible. I'm not underplaying one of them. There doesn't seem to be any path that you could recover. Want to hear why bad it is, how bad it is?

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Why do you think that Californians can't get insurance? You've heard the government blame the insurance companies for pulling out and trying to get too much profit, right? You've heard the insurance companies blame the government because the government won't let them raise their prices. I'm a Californian. Let me tell you what's true. There is no solution.

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are trying to roll back their own sanctuary city. Is that the Trump effect? What else would it be? Of course it's the Trump effect. The Trump effect, if you're looking for a definition, and I think we need one, the Trump effect is not just that good things are happening that Trump supporters would like, although that's certainly on the surface, that's what's happening.

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It wouldn't matter if the government or the insurance companies did everything smart and logical and legal. There is no solution. So here's what happens to a normal Californian. You get in your house. Let's say you're going to stay where you are for a while. You can afford your house and maybe you've even retired in it and you figured out how to keep affording it even after retirement.

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Now your house goes up in value, but you're still okay. And in fact, you're happier because if you sell it, you make more money. but also your property insurance doesn't change much. You're like, oh, I still pay roughly the same amount of taxes. It does go up, but not as much as the value of your house. Then your house doubles again. Now your house is worth four times what you paid for it.

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As long as you stay there forever, your property taxes will be the original cost. Good. But what about insurance? The cost of insurance is for replacement. So now your cost of insurance is going to have to be four times what it was when the value of the home was, you know, well, do the math backwards, right? Nobody can afford that.

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If you say to somebody, I'm going to double or triple what it costs you for, I think in my case, it was maybe a 10x increase, 10x. When I got a market price, a market price from an actual insurance company that is still in California, it was 10 times what the old price was for fire insurance. 10 times. So it was something like $1,000 a month went to $10,000 a month.

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Now, I could afford it if I wanted to pay that. But that's because I'm still working. I'm not retired. And I didn't buy my house when it was a tiny fraction. It has gone up since I bought it. So nobody who's a normal person with a normal job, even these rich-ish people living in the Pacific Palisades, some of them were super rich, the Louis Dreyfus ones.

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But if you're looking at the James Woods, Adam Carolla, and then down a level to people who don't have jobs that good either, Those people just barely can hang on to their homes. They might have had them a long time, so long that it was cheap when they got them and they were paying cheap property tax, cheap insurance relative to the value of the home that kept going up.

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But if they have to rebuild, and especially those who maybe move, because most of those people are going to say, I don't want to wait five to 10 years for my house to be livable. And by the way, why would I live there? It's all burned down, even if my house survived. So those people are going to say, well, I got to move somewhere else. What are they going to do?

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They can't buy a house and then not get fire insurance if you just got burned out of your old place. So there isn't really a solution because the value of the property is so inflated relative to its actual market value that there's no solution. And I don't see one If you straight line it, there's no solution. So let me say it in a different way.

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What you expected when you saw, oh, there's a big fire emergency, houses burned down. It's really, really bad. Did you say to yourself, well, this is a little worse than normal emergencies. What will happen is FEMA will come in and people will adjust. It's going to take a few years, but they're going to rebuild. And then maybe it'd even be better than it was. They'll build better homes.

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We have to wait a few years, but we'll be back to normal. That's not this. This is unbuildable. This is almost the total destruction of the entire Southern California. What's that going to do to Northern California? Well, who's going to pay for it? Probably me.

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Go. Go. I almost forgot the words. It's not like I do it every day. Well, there are stories. Remember that big problem with the sea ice? That climate change was going to take care of all the sea ice and then we'd have problems, wouldn't we? Well, according to the Daily Skeptic, Chris Morrison, there's been a massive recovery in Antarctic sea ice.

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What it is is that the Trump effect made it safe and made it safe for people to pursue common sense. Because I think Trump actually sold the idea that common sense is where the two parties meet in the middle. We're not going to meet on some, let's say, philosophical level. But we should always meet on the, how do you stop a fire? We should always meet on, should we close the border?

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So they're going to make Northern California, I think, unlivable because it'll be taxed like crazy or they're going to have to steal some of our water or something. But it's going to be completely unlivable. If you assume the normal things are the only things that can happen, we are doomed. Let me say it as clearly as possible.

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If you assume normal business, normal recovery, normal emergency, normal rebuilding... Nothing like that's going to happen. It can't. It's economically impossible. That was the first problem. The reason we don't have insurance is because it was already economically impossible. And we just added a trillion dollars to the insurance burden. So where it was impossible before, now it's just laughable.

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The insurance is not coming back. They're not going to come back to the state because we tweaked something. They can't afford these houses. It's a terrible place to offer insurance at any price. Because if you have to increase the price by 10x, which is what happened to me, nobody can live there. So is it the government's problem or the insurance company's problem? A little of both.

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More the government than the insurance companies. But mostly it's that our property is completely insanely overpriced. Do you know what the real price of those homes should have been? So let's say a $5 million home in Pacific Palisades in a place that did not have, they didn't know it, but suppose they knew it, that it did not have protection from a major fire.

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What would be the actual market price of the homes that built? So they were selling for 5 million. What would you pay for a home that's probably going to burn down? Right. You'd say to yourself, well, I mean, well, before it burns down, this is like heaven. I'm told that was like the best place anybody ever lived in their life. Like people really, really like that place.

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So you might say, well, I don't know if it's going to burn down. I'm seeing the numbers. Three hundred thousand. Because if you lose three hundred thousand, you might say, well, well, first of all, you could you could insure it. The insurance companies would say, no, actually, you couldn't. You couldn't insure it because the rebuilding cost is what the insurance company would care about.

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And that would still be, you know, several million dollars. So you'd have to buy it for something like $300,000, not insure it. And then if you lost the entire 300,000 to a fire, just say, well, it's not the end of my world. I can recover from that. I'll just have to live somewhere else.

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So the real problem, and by the way, I should give credit to Friedberg on the All In pod, because if any of the All In pod guys are watching, they're probably saying, is he stealing Friedberg's point? Yes. Yes, I'm stealing Friedberg's point, because somehow that was a little bit invisible to me because I was looking in the wrong place.

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I was looking at the insurance and I wasn't looking at the house value. So that's the bad news. The bad news is there is no mechanism for recovery. The good news is we've got a new president. Now, I think he would be unlikely to spend a trillion dollars to rebuild the same bad situation. But

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Suppose, as Joel Pollack pointed out in an article on Breitbart, you happen to be lucky enough to have a great builder as a president, and there's this fellow in Southern California named Caruso who is also a developer. And he's the one who lost narrowly to Karen Bass. I think he's also a Democrat, but he's not a crazy Democrat. You say, can we do common sense Democrat?

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A common sense Democrat with experience in building has my attention. But you need a lot more. I'm going to throw out some wild ideas in the spirit of brainstorming that isn't with good ideas. But if I throw out enough bad ideas, you're going to get the point that this is solvable. All right? So these are the bad ideas. Suppose...

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just for Southern California, maybe Northern as well, the insurance rules are changed so that individuals can offer insurance. So in other words, somebody like me, I can just say, hey, I'd like to invest in California insurance, but I only want to invest in homes that have certain fireproofing and or local good management to get rid of the burnable stuff.

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So I would say, okay, my neighborhood is in good shape. If something burned in my neighborhood, there's a lot of tile roofs, people have removed the trees, then I might say, okay, as a personal investment, I'll put a little money into this, let's say, crowdfunded insurance. Now, it might be a good idea. It might be a bad idea.

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We should always meet on, Should crime be illegal? These are now political things. And it took the Trump effect to take the crazy left out of their bubble and say, what about the things that are just common sense, like safety? Can we just work on that? Now, of course, climate change hangs over everything because the climate change crisis believers

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But unlike the insurance company, if the insurance company takes a total loss, they're out of business. And I think they might be out of business after this. But if I, as a personal investor, said, you know what? I'm going to put $1,000 into this because I think next year it could be worth $1,200. And then if I lost my $1,200, I would say, oh, darn. And nothing would change.

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I would just lose my $1,200. It was a financial bet. It didn't work out. So first of all, could you spread the bet to individuals? And then would the crowd be smarter about picking the ones they want to back? And when people found out they couldn't even get crowd backing, what would they have to buy to get it? Well, here's another idea. Number one, you have to replace your roof.

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Because if your roof burns, I'm not giving you insurance. If you're in California and you have a flammable roof, I'm not giving you any insurance. But if you want to buy a new roof, we can talk. If you have a robot, let's think ahead a little bit. If you have a robot who's a private fireman and somehow the technology worked, I'd give you a better deal.

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Because you as a human would leave the evacuation zone and your robot, which is less burnable, would just stand there with a water pack and zap wherever an ember hits. So the robot would just walk around the house. You go and just zap the little embers starting to affect your property. Or like in my house.

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Suppose I had trees that are a little too close to the house because the house itself is quite resistant. I built it to be super resistant to be fires. By the way, I should tell you that it was built specifically to be resistant to fires. I designed it that way. But the trees are too close, which makes it less resistant.

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So somebody comes to me and they say, Scott, we'll give you some of this crowdsourced insurance, but you got to get rid of these trees. Then I say, are you kidding? This place, like these are really mature trees. And they say, but no insurance. And then I cut down the trees. And then I'm a little bit unhappy, but I got insurance. So

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Could crowdsourcing get you to the point where individuals, maybe even in your town, can decide whether you're a good bet? Because that's where it might take. Here's the other thing. You know, Neil, you've seen pictures of people who had sprinklers on their roof and they would just take the, I think it was a lawn sprinkler.

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They just put it under the roof before they evacuated and it would just sort of keep the roof moist and kept it from burning in some cases, probably not all cases, but some. So maybe, maybe there's a new technology that we don't know about. A roof sprinkler. Yeah. Something like that. Maybe. Maybe.

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the insurance company would do the forest mitigation for the state because there's a profit to be made. If they can mitigate it, then they can sell the crowdsourced insurance into the city. Now, are any of those ideas good ideas? Not really. Not really. They're all incomplete. But does it help you imagine

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if we released on everything we've done before and just started with a clean slate and said, all right, if you were going to invent this from scratch, would it look anything like the current system? And the answer is no. If you invented it today from scratch, you'd use AI, you'd use, I don't know, just a lot of different things.

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So, and then maybe there's something with land values that have to be adjusted. All right. Um, You may have heard that the leader of Black Lives Matter, Patrice Cullors, has lost two of her three Los Angeles mansions in the wildfires. So I'm not willing to say that DEI is the reason anybody lost their house. I do think it's the reason that there's mass incompetence in general.

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And again, I'm only talking about the extent of it, not whether or not it's happening. I assume climates always change for one reason or another, and maybe humans are part of it. I wouldn't know, and I'm pretty sure science doesn't know either, even though they told you they did. I'm pretty sure they tell you a lot of things that you think they know that they don't.

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But if you're looking for any one tragedy and one person in charge, it doesn't necessarily mean that DEI is there. But the irony of the simulation is that the person you would imagine most associated with DEI got her house, two of her three houses that she didn't deserve, burned down by DEI. That's kind of perfect. Now, again, I'm not saying it's DEI, but that's going to be the narrative about it.

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All right. Newsom went on a podcast, Governor Newsom, and he was blaming local leaders for for the problem. So he wanted to make sure you knew it wasn't necessarily the state leadership that he's in charge of. It was rather the local leaders. Local leaders. So the white guy governor thinks the problem is the local leaders. Is there anything about the local leaders that's worth noting?

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Does it sound to you like local leaders is the racist dog whistle that a Democrat can use? Yeah, it wasn't the white governor of the state. It was the local leaders. Do you hear it or is it just me? Do you hear the racist dog whistle? I feel like local leaders just has a little bit of a vibe of racism without using the words? I don't know. Maybe it's just me. That's the way it hit me.

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I certainly can't read his mind, but it's the way it hit me. Sounds like a dog whistle to me. According to the Climate Change Dispatch, California actually had record rainfall in, I think it was last year. And didn't save it because we don't have the right kind of reservoirs. And we haven't built many reservoirs since forever. So poor long-term planning.

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Those people who say that it's climate change caused the dryness are ignoring the fact that California has always had a highly variable climate when it comes to rain. The most common thing in California my entire life is that, oh, it's a few years of drought. Oh, it's a few years of too much rain. Oh, we're back to a few years of drought. Oh, it's too much rain.

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All you had to do is save the rain from the too much rain year, and you would have plenty for the not enough rain year, at least for fire reuse, maybe not for drinking. So yes, that would be a case of bad management. Brentwood is under evacuation orders. Brentwood's that famous rich place where people like Kamala Harris, LeBron James, and Arnold Schwarzenegger live, and O.J. lived.

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On top of that, so Schwarzenegger says, you know, don't worry about me, and of course we weren't. It's funny, Schwarzenegger tells the public, you know, don't worry about me, I'll be fine, and I think the entire public said, We know. We weren't really worried about the people so rich they have multiple homes and, you know, $500 million or whatever he's worth. No, we weren't worried.

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Well, Special Counsel Jack Smith resigned from the Department of Justice. That would be the smallest surprise in the world. Do you think he expects to be investigated? Because it feels like at least he's been accused of being part of some kind of potentially RICO-like bad behavior to lawfare Trump. You know, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I think it would, you know,

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But apparently Kamala Harris's house got burglarized. Or at least there's a report that there were people there who looked like they were going to burglarize it and got caught. Now, There is now, that means there's a non-zero chance that Brentwood could burn down and Kamala Harris's house. That's what I call a bad year.

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Can you imagine losing the presidential race to Hitler and within a few months your house burns down? So she's out of a job, her career is destroyed, her husband is was outed as a girlfriend beater. and then her house gets burned down? If it happens, I mean, let me say as clearly as possible, I don't want that to happen. I don't want that to happen. I don't want anybody's house to burn down.

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I don't care what they did to me or didn't do to me or the bad things they did. I don't really want anybody's house to burn down, except for the Black Lives Matter woman who has three mansions that look to be entirely based on, you know. So she would be an exception. But no, I don't want Kamala Harris's house to burn down, just to be clear.

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Wall Street Journal says the fire is 15% contained, and you think, oh, good. They went from 3% to 15%. We're in good shape. We'll just keep going. Nope, the wind is coming back, and they should lose that whole 15% in the next day or two. That's the current forecast. The next week's going to be hairy. So we don't know how far this fire is going to go, but let me teach you something about numbers.

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Yesterday I saw a report that one of the fires was 3% contained. Do you know what's not a thing? 3% contained. That's not a thing. Do you think that they can measure 3% containment? No, 3% is zero, but they want you to think that they're doing something. So they go from 0% to 3%. There's no difference. There's no difference between 3% contained and 0% contained.

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That's just something you say so the news will report it and people go, oh, well, looks like they've gone from 0% to 3% in just a week. So it's picking up. No, it's not picking up. 3% is 0%. Same number. Same number. All right.

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Elon Musk, I saw a post, but I didn't see the exact words and didn't write it down, but it sounded like he said that in 2021, Elon Musk has set out to destroy the woke mind virus, and now he's declaring success. Do you think the woke mind virus is destroyed? I'm going to give him the win on that. I think he destroyed the woke mind virus. I don't think Trump did. I think he'll must it.

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He said he would do it. He did all the things that you would do if you were trying to get rid of it. And it does look like people can now talk about it being ridiculous. So you've got both Democrats, prominent Democrats, at least in the pundit class, as well as Republicans say, yeah, all that stuff, the woke mind virus was overblown, overdone, ridiculous. It lacked common sense.

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Yes, Elon Musk set out to destroy the woke mind virus and got it done. And boy, did he take heed for that. And still is. I mean, he had to beef up his personal security. I mean, he took a chance on your behalf. His as well, but on your behalf as well. And good for him. Good for him. But... just to make his day better. There was a former, uh, in the UK, a labor MP. So part of the government.

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So he's recently out of it, but he was one of the people who publicly criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for when, uh, Elon was criticizing, uh, Keir Starmer, uh, And it was all about the, I don't want to say it because I'll get demonetized. You know, you're all following the story. So this guy complained about the complaints about the serious crimes against young people.

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It would be damaging to the country to rip the Democrat evil RICO people up by the roots, even though they've, in my opinion, I would say it's fairly obvious that major laws have been broken. But I'm not an expert. So, I mean, I could be talked out of it if the real experts say, well, no, no laws were broken. It was just something you didn't like. Maybe. Sure looks like laws were broken to me.

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And the guy who complained about it, or complained about the complaints about it, just was arrested for attempting to have a meet-up with a 15-year-old boy. So, you know that thing where you wonder, are the governments of the developed worlds all terrible sex criminals and transvestites and in the closet and every other kind of thing you can think of? Is it really that?

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And that they're all in place as puppets? It might be. You know what I heard from, of course this is not confirmed, that Justin Trudeau was never really the head of the country and that he literally thought of himself as a relationship manager and all of the real decisions were made by other people. So the other people are the ones who say, yeah, he doesn't really do anything.

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He's just a relationship manager. And they've also alleged, and I don't know if this is true, But they alleged that he also didn't really pay attention to the news and didn't know what was going on. So when you saw him talk, you would say to yourself, I did anyway. You probably did too. It's like, does he even watch the news? Trudeau looked like somebody who wasn't even informed about anything.

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And then the politician said, yeah, he wasn't informed about anything because he didn't need to make any decisions. He was just supposed to go out there and say happy stuff. That's what it looked like. Now, that seems too much hyperbole to me. I think he must have had some real power. But what if he didn't?

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What if the entire system is just people behind the scenes making sure they have the most blackmailable person in the top job? Because it sure as hell looks like it, and that would make you understand why there was so much resistance to Trump, because he's quite clearly not that. Whatever Trump is... Doesn't look like a puppet, but maybe that's what it is. It's all puppets.

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I had somebody come after me today who had pronouns in his profile. Instant block. I'm never going to have another conversation with somebody who has pronouns in their profile. You know, I used to do it. Like I'd respond to them and say, well, here's my point of view. I'm not going to talk to anybody with pronouns in their profile. And I recommend that you don't either.

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Because whatever they have to say, it can't possibly be useful. Could it? Don't waste your time talking to anybody who thinks that's their priority enough to put it in their profile. Meanwhile, over at the MSNBC Comedy Network, that's what I call it. It's not intentional, but it's pretty funny. So they had some commentator, I don't know his name, but his haircut looked like a paintbrush.

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Do you know which one it is? He has this big, like a giant paintbrush on his head. Anyway, he was talking about the Carter funeral and how all the leaders were just sort of chatting friendly. And he said this, quote, there was something strange about seeing multiple leaders who have warned

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that this guy, meaning Trump, is a dictatorship on the horizon, fascism on the horizon, the end of the American experiment. Now, just because of the rituals of the funeral, so that's what he's blaming. He's blaming the rituals of a funeral. He says it is normalized by default. We're just sitting and making small talk with a guy who we have said is going to end everything.

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So remember I said, what's going to happen to Democrat brains when reality is thrust upon them? Well, here's an example. So instead of the more obvious interpretation that the entire Democrat Party was lying about Trump, which to me seems super obvious, the MSNBC take, and I actually think he means this. I think this is an actual take.

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But if the people who know more than I do say laws were broken and they want to investigate, I think I would take the risk of that destroying the country. Because keeping it the way it is would destroy the country for sure.

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I don't think he sat around saying, what lie can I tell that will flow? I think he thinks this. He thinks the problem, if you can call it that, is that the funeral forced everybody to act responsible and that that's the reason that they were joking and talking to Hitler. No, that's not why. No, not that guy, not Eli Weasel. There's some other guy.

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So he looks more like one of those mushroom balls. So I'm talking about the paintbrush hair, not the mushroom ball. Anyway, so I'm amazed at Democrats to look at something as obvious as this and decide that it's the funeral rituals that explain everything. The funeral rituals. Nope. Can I be clear about this?

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I would not attend a funeral for somebody who is not related to me and wasn't my best friend under any condition if I were going to be sitting next to and chatting with Hitler. That's just me. No, if he really, if any of the things they said about him were true, they would not have attended or they would have disinvited, made sure that the, you know, the Hitler got disinvited.

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The whole thing was always a lie. And MSNBC is the biggest purveyor of it. Well, in surprising, but maybe not so much news, the LA Times owner has invited Mark Andreessen to be on his board. So you might know that the LA Times' newish owner, Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong, decided not to endorse Kamala Harris. And then people said, whoa, whoa, are you not as Democrat as we thought?

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You're not as lefty as we thought? Well, he did vote for Kamala Harris. So the owner of the LA Times voted for her, but he didn't endorse her because he didn't want the newspaper to be, you know, just... a biased entity. So he got tons of hate for that because he was trying to be middle of the road.

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So, you know, having a, not a physical civil war, but let's say a lawfare civil war, probably necessary to regain, you know, mutually assured destruction and make sure that people know that if they cross the line and create literally a RICO treasonous insurrection within the government, that's got to have a price that has to be expensive.

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But inviting Marc Andreessen to be on your board of your newspaper, that sends a whole different message. Do you know what message that sends? That he's going to turn Republican? Nope. Nope. That he just wants to put on some window dressing so it looks like he's seeing both sides? Nope. I think he wants a common sense guy. I think Marc Andreessen is sort of the ultimate common sense guy.

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If you listen to him, you can use your imagination to like, well, is he Republican? Because you can almost hear it, but you can't. Like, I don't know if he's Republican. I don't know what he is. But I can tell you that every time he talks, it makes sense.

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He goes for the things that are common sense, not the philosophy, not the weird stuff, not the stuff that's clearly going to be here with us and then go away, but like real permanent, logical, rational stuff. Yeah, he'd be great. I would rather him be the governor of California. If I had a choice, Mark Andreessen, governor of California, big yes, big yes. Schellenberger? Yes. Yes.

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I can name a few other names. But yeah, there's some people that I'd like to see to get that job. And Andreessen would be right in my shortest list at the top. So that's good. That seems like the Trump effect in the sense that I don't think the L.A. Times could do what we're seeing. meaning the owner, Dr. Pat Soon-Shion.

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I don't think he could do it without that Trump effect being just what it is, where everybody's got a little freedom to say what they want. All right. Here's the thing you need to know about We Californians. It kind of sneaks up on you, so you don't realize it until it's done, but We don't really have the right to own homes in California because there's a thing called property tax.

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And if you don't pay your property tax, they'll take your home. So you don't really own a home if you're paying somebody else to live in it. That's not ownership. But then you say to me, well, but Scott, if you sell it, you get to keep the money. How am I going to sell my home? Who would buy anything in California at the moment? So I can't sell it.

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and I don't own it, but, well, okay, when I die, I can leave it to my heirs. Do you know what would be left of my net wealth after state and federal taxes and death taxes? Nothing. Well, it's not nothing, but it'd be like less than half. So, no, we're basically living in a DEI-managed racist hellscape, and... Here's the other problem.

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People keep saying, and I just said it a moment ago, we keep saying that all we need is to get capable and competent people in the top jobs, and then everything will be okay. There's no mechanism for that to happen. If the Democrats have as much control over the system as it looks like, you can't get incompetent people in office. It's all going to be DEI incompetence.

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And there's nothing that's going to change that. You haven't seen a single thing from anything official, like in the government, where they would say, you know what? Maybe California should pull back from DEI. And let me say something. I hate to help them, but on the other hand, that would be good.

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The most unlikely thing I could imagine is Governor Newsom saying, I'd like to make DEI illegal in California. Now you're going to say to yourself, there's no freaking way that's going to happen. You know, the head, the potential guy who might run for president as a Democrat is going to, do you think he's going to disown the single most important thing that Democrats do? Well, here's the thing.

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No matter how much you love or hate Gavin Newsom, Even the people who don't like him seem to say grudgingly, he's kind of good at this politics stuff. That's why he's governor. So if he's good at the politics stuff, and in my personal opinion, destroying California is unforgivable, even if the local leaders are the reason. If he did something big and bold and commonsensical,

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like saying, you know what? We got to get competent people. We got to get, you know, we got to bring in, we got to get rid of DEI. Could he become president? If he was the most prominent Democrat who said, guys, we've got to stop this, I won't have any of it. DI is a losing proposition. It's basically racist. We tried it and it didn't work out. We have to pivot.

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So if the Trump administration makes it additionally expensive for people involved in that bad behavior, maybe that's just the way it has to be. I saw it. I saw a social media thing that said Oprah was going to leave the country for four years because of Trump. But I can't believe that's true. Can anybody give me a fact check on that? This sounds like fake news.

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That would put him right back on the top of the leaderboard for president. I don't know if he can do it, but the thing I'm positive about is that he's smart enough to know he should or that he couldn't get elected without doing it.

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Anyway, I think I missed the main point I was going to make earlier, which is because Trump is a builder and one of the people who ran for mayor but lost Caruso is a builder, that you can imagine the two of them getting together and saying, what regulations do we need to get rid of right away? And you could revitalize California by massively changing the regulatory environment.

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Could the two of them get it done? Well, neither of them is the governor of California, so I don't know. But maybe some kind of federalizing things would work. Mike Cernovich raised over $100,000. I think it was over $130,000 for Californians who are displaced and need some food. He's working with Chef Gruel, who is doing the hard work of the cooking and delivering the food.

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was doing it, I believe, on his own dime until Cernovich stepped in with 10,000 of his own money. And he raised 130,000 above that, I think. I think that's the right number. And that's pretty impressive. So I don't know how the other states worked out. I imagine it's the same in the sense that the people who had the ability to step in or are stepping in.

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So, you know, I'm trying to do my part in a variety of ways and not all of that, not all of that would be public, but I'm hoping a lot of people are doing a lot of non-public things to help out. That's pretty, that's pretty amazing. Um, all right. Here's the, uh, yeah, I think I already talked about that. Um,

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The American Psychological Association is urging the FTC, according to the Futurism publication by Maggie Harrison Dupre, for urging the FTC to investigate AI chatbots that are claiming to be therapists and offering free therapy. So the human therapists are saying, hey, there's AI therapists online and they're pretending to be real people because they're deep fakes. Now they're complained.

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is simply that they're not labeled. So far, they're not complaining that they might give you bad advice, although probably they think that. The complaint is they're not labeled. Now, that's a decent complaint. I think the consumer should absolutely know if they're talking to an AI. They absolutely should know.

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However, I would like to nominate a therapist at the top of the list for being replaced by AI. Do you really think that you're $200 or $400 an hour, I don't know what it costs.

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Do you think that your once a week, one hour therapist is going to be anywhere near as good as the one you can talk to all day long as much as you want and it can answer all the same questions and has all the same skills and acts just like a human? It's not really going to be close. Now, at the moment... I would imagine the human is well beyond what the AI currently can do. But how long?

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End of the year? I think therapy might be one of the things that goes first to AI. Meanwhile, here's a fake news story, in my opinion, but maybe there's just something wrong in the way it was written.

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it's in the express publication and it says that over in ukraine there are these butterfly battle um yeah these butterfly drones so they got a big shipment 30 000 drones coming in from the uk and they say that these drones are so light and nimble that they look like a child's toy but they have a machine gun and they can carry a soldier out of the war zone. No.

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I don't think Oprah would really leave the country. for four years. Now, if it's true, the only reason I could think is that she's trying to escape criminal prosecution for something. And if she went to a no extradition country, that would sort of confirm it. But I'm going to say fake news. I'm going to say fake news. What do you think? Anybody think that's true?

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No, there's no drone that's the size of a child's toy and has a machine gun on it. And certainly it's not carrying any soldiers the size of a child's toy. No, no. I don't know what's wrong with the story. I don't know if any of it's right. Maybe the entire thing's made up. But no, you're not putting a machine gun on something the size of a child's drone toy. Weird.

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But it says it has an operational range of 12.5 miles and can operate autonomously for up to three days and It has this machine gun on it and a mobile turret, and it's got four... Oh, it's also got, listen to this, it's got fourth-class protection armor, so you can even shoot it, and if you don't shoot it too many times or too hard, it'll survive being shot. Remember? Size of a child's toy.

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Has a machine gun. Can operate autonomously for three days. Yes. And it could take direct fire. None of that could be true. Does anybody believe any of that? I don't think any of it's true. But who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, that's all I got for you today. I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately. And the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining.

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I hope your day gets better. Better than whatever it was.

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I'm going to go with fake news unless I hear a lot more about it. All right. Well, we'll see. It's also something that she might be threatening and might actually mean it. But I'm going to bet against it happening. But we'll see. I'll bet against it. Meanwhile, Stephen A. Smith was on a podcast talking about Trump And now he's, of course, been a Democrat and he's a black man in America.

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And he is really interesting lately. So he's saying that Republicans make a lot of sense. Just think about that sentence. A longtime Democrat. And then he says, quote, Republicans make a lot of sense. Sense. You know, common sense. This is Stephen A. Smith completely falling into the Trump frame, that some things are just common sense. We shouldn't be talking about that.

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Stephen A. Smith says, yes, common sense. So remember when we thought it was impossible to meet in the middle on anything? As soon as the Trump effect went into wide effect, It seems like people like Stephen A. Smith can now say what they wanted to say maybe all the time, which is, you know, I like my Democrats.

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I still kind of like some of the philosophy, but why are we acting like common sense doesn't even exist? Why can't we at least do the things that make sense that everybody agrees on? Now that, weirdly, just wasn't a way of thinking even a year ago, but now it is. That's all Trump. That's all Trump. Here's what else he says.

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And let's see if even officially the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center confirms that. And apparently it's sort of back into its normal zone-ish, proving that the variation was probably just natural, just a natural variation. So the sea ice melting doesn't seem to be any indication of climate change, but it was predicted. And then, of course, you've heard about the coral reefs.

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Stephen A. Smith said, quote, the finishing touch for me in terms of changing his mind on politics was California. Here it is. Because I think he's the canary in the coal mine. If he tells you the California experience before the fire, this is before the fire. If he tells you that looking at California made him think that the Democrats were you know, not the ones to back.

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Just think about the fact that he could see it before the fire and he was affected by it. I don't think it changed his vote, you know, but now it might. And he said about California, you see what's going on in California, higher taxes, homelessness, crime rate, et cetera.

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When people are going off, particularly folks on the left, and they're talking about these policies and what policy is better than... I see folks on the right talking about real-life issues and stuff like that. And he says, I'm like, I hate that they make a lot of sense. Now, does that sound like exactly something that came out of my mouth? It does. It sounds like exactly something I would say.

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The Democrats have lots of lofty conceptual ideas, and they're going to call you names if you don't like it. Republicans have been really, really clean about talking about what's wrong and how to fix it. The border's open. Too many criminals. Close it. Everybody understands that. Everybody understands that. And here again, I'm going to credit Trump for something that's not obvious to you.

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When Trump says what he wants, everybody understands it. And then he says it a bunch of times until we all get it. And then we can like it or not like it. but it's a real proposed solution, and we can evaluate it, and we all understand it. That's sort of new.

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Because my memory of past traditional boring politicians is that they would say general hypothetical philosophical things too, and you could barely remember which one was backing what policy. But now it's such a clean distinction. One says... do obvious common sense things. The other says, well, the 1% is not paying their fair share, and they got my DEI, and what about the lesbian porpoises?

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You know? Now that you can mock that, even if you're a Democrat. So even Democrats can mock that now. Bill Maher, of course, was a pioneer mocking it. But here's the kill shot. man, just listen to this. This is Stephen A. Smith again. And if you're not familiar with all the famous names in sports, you have to know that he's black and has been Democrat. Those are important to the story.

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So he says, I saw folks on the left basically try to guilt me into voting for Kamala. You know what bothered me? I might have ended up voting for Kamala because I didn't like how Trump acts. you know that is such every time somebody says i don't like how he acts That's just not a thing. That's not a real thing. You could say I don't like his policies.

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You could say I didn't like what he did in his first term. But I don't like how he acts. Really? That would be the reason you pick the other person? Let me tell you how he acts. He acts in a way that with no experience whatsoever, he became president of the United States once.

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And then, being completely destroyed by lawfare and fake news and the Democrat evil committee, he rebuilt from absolute destruction in four years to come back and win the presidency in a convincing way. Now, that's the way he acts. Do you think it's accidental? that his provocative ways happened at the same time as his great success.

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If you still haven't figured out that all that stuff of the way he acts, that's the active ingredient. I think all the Democrats are so, maybe, what would be the word? I don't want to insult them. I'll say they're not seeing the right frame.

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If you think that Trump has a few good ideas, even in your own opinion, but that it's ruined by the way he acts and his insults and his crazy statements, what would be the evidence that all those insults and crazy statements were negative? Was it that he didn't become president twice? Is it that he doesn't have the biggest mandate ever? Is it that

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The coral reefs are all being destroyed by climate change. Except, I don't know if you missed the stories where it seems like they're all coming back. But the climate change is worse. How are they coming back? Oh, maybe there's some natural variation. How about that sea level? Remember all those beach houses that used to be good, but now the water rose and you can't live there?

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Is it that every politician who is worth a damn is looking at what he did and trying to copy it? Is it that Fetterman, a Democrat who I have a lot of respect for, I have to be honest, is that he's looked at Trump and said, that looks like it works. Why don't I do some of that? And then he does it, and guess what? It works. It works for Fetterman. It works for everybody.

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How about we, can we finally get to the point where we realize that the way he acts is the active ingredient? I mean, he has to have good policies that are common sense, of course, but selling it, selling the policies, which is absolutely essential to a good leader, he can't have good ideas and not sell them, selling them comes from the way he acts. If you don't get that, everything's confusing.

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I've been saying this since 2015, and I don't think I've ever been more right about anything in my life. I'm about as right as you can be that it's the way he acts that's the secret sauce. All right. So, but going on, here's what he said. He said, but what I didn't do was call Trump a racist. I didn't call him a Nazi. Just listen to this. I knew Trump before he ran for president. There it is.

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There it is. Do you know how many black Americans knew Trump, were close to him? He helped. He helped in a number of cases. He helped Michael Jackson. He helped Mike Tyson. I'm pretty sure he helped, who was the boxing promoter with the wild hair? I forget. I mean, why do I know?

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Mother's Day show today. All the lazy people are sleeping in, but I think we can do better than them. Comment's working. There's not much happening today. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better day.

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I think I may have mentioned this or it's a different situation that reminds me of it. I can't tell. But apparently Oklahoma is going to teach students that the 2020 election might have been stolen. Isn't that wild? That one of the states will be teaching their kids a different history? Completely different history.

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Now, the way they're doing it is not so heavy-handed that they're saying that the election was stolen. So they're not saying that. They don't say the election was stolen. What they do instead is it's a social studies curriculum that's for the coming year, and it's going to require high school students to, quote, identify discrepancies in the 2020 election results.

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And the factors that they will examine will be, For example, the sudden halting of ballot counting in select cities and key battleground states. Now, again, Oklahoma is not saying that that's proof that the election was stolen. They're just saying, all right, students, does this look sketchy to you? That there was a sudden halting of ballot counting in select cities?

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Not everywhere, but just select cities. You know where it mattered the most? And they're going to learn about the security risks of mail-in balloting and sudden batch dumps, you know, where you get just a whole bunch of mail-in ballots that you think to yourself, huh, I wasn't expecting a whole bunch of ballots right at the end there.

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Now, again, those are not proof of anything, you know, any security problem. But if you were going to learn what to look for, they would be things to look for. And then the unforeseen record number of voters. So you're probably all aware that Biden got more votes than Obama, more votes than Trump. And then when Trump ran against Kamala Harris. she didn't get anywhere near that number of votes.

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And there must have been just as many people who hated Trump by then. So even if you say to yourself, well, Biden got so many votes because people really wanted to stop Trump, you don't think they wanted to stop him even more the next time he ran? And yet there were nowhere near that number of votes? Well, that would be something students should look at.

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Well, speaking of Gen Zers, not only are they more likely to go to church, but they're more likely to marry an AI, according to the New York Post. So this is the number of Gen Zers who said they could form a, quote, deep emotional bond with an AI-generated partner. What do you think the percentage is, before I tell you? What percentage of Gen Zs...

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Why is there an unforeseen record number of votes in 2020? And then my favorite is the unprecedented contradiction of bellwether county trends. So the bellwether counties are the ones which will tell you who's going to win very reliably. So in other words, if a candidate wins these these bellwether counties, they're pretty much guaranteed to be the winner of everything else.

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Because I guess the bellwethers are kind of a close match. So if he wins all the close matches in the bellwethers, it probably means you're going to sweep the whole country. And yet, Trump won the bellwethers rather handily. And suspiciously, for the first time ever, he still lost the election. Well, kind of suspicious.

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Now, you might say to me, Scott, but none of this is proof that 2020 was a rigged election. That is correct. But I was watching a news person talking to the state superintendents, Ryan Walters. And the news still says that it's sort of proven that 2020 was a fair election. Like that's a fact. That couldn't be a fact.

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How could you possibly know if it were stolen in a way that you didn't know it was stolen? And they insist that because there were audits and there were court cases, that that means that you've proven that there was no problem. You can't prove there was no problem. Let me ask you this.

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If our CIA, hypothetically, found a way to hack the machines used in other countries, so we're talking about other countries now, not America. If our CIA hacked the machines in other countries, would the other country know about it? Would they? Well, if we did a good enough job of hacking, I would think they wouldn't know about it. Now, hacking could include bribing the insiders.

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It doesn't mean that you're just sitting at a computer doing some stuff. It could be that you have some insiders that you've co-opted. You might be the insider. But would we really know and would the other country know if we had rigged their election from afar? I don't think so. I doubt it. I mean, they might know in some cases if something went wrong.

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But generally speaking, the whole point of rigging an election is you try to figure out a way they can't get caught. So the theory that we know for sure it was good is just stupid. The only thing you know for sure is that you don't know for sure. You could say, for sure we have not found evidence of widespread fraud that would change the result. That's true. But you don't know that it's not there.

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You only know that you didn't find it. And the news people, they all act like they don't understand that. They all act like it's a fact when they couldn't possibly know. It's not logically, it doesn't make any sense at all. The only thing you know is that you didn't find it, period. Anyway. Anyway.

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So Trump is going to sign some new executive orders that would turbocharge, as they say, the nuclear energy programs in the United States. But I didn't realize that one part of it is that, well, we don't know that this will happen, but there's one draft that he hasn't signed yet. They might not sign. There would be a complete overhaul of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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So they're the ones that do the approvals. A complete overhaul. So my guess is that the people who have been there a long time are just used to turning everything down. It's like they've never approved anything in their entire career. Reject, reject. So I don't know that you could just tell them to accept more things.

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You might have to just get rid of them all and replace them with people who are maybe more up to date on the real risk and reward of nuclear but he's looking to go from 100 to 400 gigawatts by 2050 which would be fairly gigantic so I would say that the biggest war in the world is the war to get the most energy so we'll see

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Trump is telling us again, I love Trump the salesman, but you have to understand him as a salesman. If you don't understand that he's always selling, then it just looks like he's lying. But if you understand him as the biggest cheerleader for the country and he's sort of using hyperbole in selling, Then it all makes sense.

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But here's one of the things Trump says about trade deals that are upcoming. Quote, we had a wonderful deal yesterday. I guess that's talking about the UK. We have four or five other deals coming immediately. We have many deals coming down the line. And ultimately... We're just signing the rest of them in. I don't even know what that means.

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83%.

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Really? Well, 80% said they would even consider marrying one if it were legal. A staggering 75% of Gen Zers also said they think AI partners have the potential to fully replace human companionship. Now, is that because they're gamers? Is that why? Or are they just ahead of their time? Are we just old? Is that the problem? Is the problem with the young people? Or is the problem with us?

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But when he talks about the deals, he just says, oh, man, hundreds of deals. We're going to make billions of dollars. Everybody's lining up. And it's probably actually close to true. But I love his sales take on all this stuff. Well, Columbia University, as you might know, had another one of those pro-Palestinian protests where people went in and they took over the main library.

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But now 65 students have been identified as being part of that protest. And from now on, they're banned from exams. And they're going to get booted off of campus, except I guess they can go to their dorm. But they can't hang out in the rest of the campus. So essentially, their college careers are over. And you could argue that they're unemployable. So that's pretty bad.

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Now, I'm assuming that most of them are female students, but I don't know that for sure. Imagine if your parents worked with you to get you into a good college, you finally got into Columbia, and then you attended a pro-Palestinian protest and your entire life just got flushed down the toilet. That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad.

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So I feel bad for the 65 students because their brains are not fully developed, and they're a little bit hypnotized and propagandized, et cetera. Now, it's not like they don't have a point that there's a lot of violence going on that they wish was not going on, but I don't think they've thought through the entire situation with too much understanding.

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Well, according to the Postmillennial, Doge has deactivated over half a million federal credit cards that were unnecessary or, you know, I don't know if they're extra or what. But 500,000 seems like a lot, but there are 4.6 million... government credit cards. So if they got the half a million that were maybe the fraud and abuse ones, that could be some good work. We'll see.

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Well, Alberta, up there in Canada, is actually kind of serious about breaking away from Canada, which is different from wanting to join the United States. So they're not expressing a will to become part of the united states but they are expressing a let's say a frustration with the rest of the canadian government because in alberta they've got a lot of energy kind of industries.

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And so the Albertans want to make money and drill for oil and exploit their energy because they have it. And the rest of Canada, I think, wants to solve climate change. So they really don't fit together.

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So there's one area that just wants to go nuts with their energy, and there's the rest of Canada that's like, hey, slow down, because they don't personally gain financially from that stuff in Alberta. So don't think that this is part of any Canada becoming part of the United States. That's not really part of it. They just are mad at the rest of Canada. Well, let's look into the fake negotiations.

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So it would be the second day of talking to China. And Trump said about this, it was a very good meeting today with China. So I guess he said that yesterday. And he said, many things discussed, much agreed to, a total reset negotiated in a friendly but constructive manner. We want to see for the good of both China and the U.S., and opening up of China to American business, great progress made.

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Do you believe that? Again, this is Trump in salesman mode, but here's what I like about it. So he starts out, being very insulting to China and dismissive of them and acting like he could punish them with tariffs. And of course, China wouldn't even talk to us when we were just being jerks, meaning Trump was being a jerk. But they waited.

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until they could find some way to get a respectful meeting. And that's what's happening in Switzerland. It's a respectful meeting. But I like the fact that Trump was nagging them. Yeah, he was using the trick that the men who try to seduce women use, where first you tear them down verbally, and then they just want to get your approval. Now, it shouldn't work.

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It shouldn't work with dating, but it does. And it definitely shouldn't work with international affairs, but I think it does. From a persuasion perspective, since both China and the United States know we're going to have some kind of important relationship going forward, no matter what that looks like. So we know we're going to be in something.

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And I do think that if you insult China enough in that Trumpian way, that first they get mad, But they also want to solve it because they don't want to live in a world where America can just say out loud, you guys are a bunch of thieves. So I do think that Trump creates a situation where China wants to have a good deal and they want to take care of China first, of course.

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But at the same time, I think he put in the Chinese leadership a deep desire to have the United States say good things about them. And here it is. So I think this actually worked. Now, I'm not predicting that they get a good agreement or that it happens fast. What I am predicting is that Trump's insulting of them, which almost every smart person said is the worst thing he could have ever done,

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I think maybe it was clever. I think maybe he knew what he was doing because he does it with everybody. It's not like this is the one time he tried that trick. He does this with everybody. First, he insults you if you're not doing what he wants you to do. And then if you start moving his direction, you're just the greatest person in the world. There's a total reset. We love you.

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Because you never really know, right, when you reach a certain age, you know, as I have. You don't know if the problem is that you're just too old to understand and they've got it right and they understand the future. Or as the entire generation become non-mating material and they're just going to give up and get an AI partner. Well, this next news comes from a news entity called Slay News.

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And I think it's working. And it's weird, shouldn't work away, but I think it is. Because people are people and they want their important relationships to think well of them. And we're part of their important relationships. So we'll see. Tom Cotton, Senator Cotton has introduced the bill.

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um to have location tracking in our ai chips so that we would know if any of our ai chips made it to where they shouldn't make it such as china so it's called the chip security act it's not signed it's just a bill that's been introduced and uh I don't know how it works technically. I guess the chip would somehow know where it is.

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Seems like it would be expensive to add GPS to each chip, but there must be something about it that allows you to know for sure where this chip is. I don't know how that works technically. But if there is a way to do it technically, feels like a good idea. Because it couldn't be that much more expensive. You know, if it turns out it's super expensive to add that to it, that's another conversation.

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Well, do you remember yesterday I was sort of complimenting Trump for being able to create a ceasefire between India and Pakistan? Well, that didn't last. So the ceasefire was broken immediately, basically. So the India-Pakistan is raging on. They just keep firing at each other. So none of that worked. But there is some new information I saw in Mario Naufal's post.

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You should follow on that, Mario Naufal. Anyway, he reports that the Indians are hacking the Pakistani entities like crazy, but it may not be the government. So the reporting is, and I'm not sure how much we can rely on this, but The reporting is that there are a bunch of Indian vigilante hackers who are sort of taking it on themselves to hack Pakistan in retaliation.

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And they've taken over, allegedly, they've taken down over 700 Pakistani websites, hacked a thousand more or more of their CCTV cameras, and breached everything from military databases to power plants and banking systems. Wow. So, but those are private individuals, so they don't have the best tools, I'm guessing. They wouldn't have the same tools that a military would have.

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But they're whacking Pakistan pretty hard. I don't know if that's safe. I think the Pakistanis are trying to respond, but maybe they're not as capable hacking-wise. And then there's the fake Iran deal. So the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Iran and the U.S., they remain divided on one issue.

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So the reporting is that great progress has been made and the talks are on and it seems like something's going to happen. But they're divided on one key question, which is that Iran wants to maintain the ability to enrich its own uranium, which means enrich it to the point where they can build a nuclear weapon in 10 minutes. And America wants them not to do that.

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So if you don't solve that part, and it looks unsolvable to me, Because Iran is kind of saying pretty clearly we want to build a nuclear weapon or have the ability to do it quickly. And that's the exact thing that we don't want. So how in the world are we close or making progress?

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I mean, you could talk all day about the other stuff, you know, sanctions and everything else, but this is the only thing that matters, whether or not they're going to keep enriching uranium to the point where they can weaponize it in 10 minutes. So I don't think there's any chance of an Iran nuclear deal. What would we threaten them with?

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that we haven't already threatened, or even offer as an alternative. If they need this, they're basically betting their entire country on keeping the ability to enrich their own uranium. to any level that they want. And to me, that doesn't look like a deal that's gonna happen.

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But at the same time, we're hearing reports that Trump is mad at Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, and that the US is doing its own, sort of its own negotiating and its own deal over in the Middle East without Israel's consent and or participation. So is there any way that the U.S. could get a deal with Iran that Israel wouldn't like but somehow the U.S. would like it?

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Not if we insist that they don't have the ability to enrich uranium. I just don't see any deal that's possible here. Well, President Putin has said he wants to meet and have direct conversations with Ukrainians. He wants to meet in Turkey. And at the same time, Zelensky has said he wants a 30-day ceasefire. Putin has rejected the 30-day ceasefire, but he's offered instead direct talks.

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All right. Now, that's part of the funny part. That's a real news entity. It's called Slay. And they're reporting that a key Diddy, you know, in the Diddy trial that's starting off, one of the key Diddy witnesses is reported missing. Now, that might be the least surprising news I've ever heard.

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And do you remember I said I didn't understand why Zelensky would be so tough and not want to immediately talk peace? And I speculated there were several possible reasons. One is that he couldn't survive a peace. But the other one I speculated is that they had

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way better weapons than we knew about well here's a shocking shocking fact according to forbes the uh the ukrainians have developed a whole you know underground mostly i guess well i don't know if they're underground but a whole bunch of workshops where they can make drones. So all over Ukraine, there are smallish buildings where they're making drones like crazy.

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Guess how many drones Ukraine is able to make? Just take a guess. Let's say per month. In one month, how many small drones that are capable of carrying a bomb, like a hand grenade or something, how many do you think they could make per month with all their little workshops? I'll bet none of you will be close. I'm looking at 40,000, 50,000. 10,000. Okay, those are the numbers I would have guessed.

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Yeah, I would have guessed maybe 100,000 at the top. The answer is 2 million. They can make 2 million drones that can each kill a soldier or take out a vehicle. 2 million. And that's not future. That's current production. But apparently the Russians also have the ability to produce millions, millions of drones per month. So there's no question that it's turned into a drone war.

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And the speculation is that's why Russia hasn't made much progress yet. So there's about a 16-mile zone beyond the front lines, on the Russian side of the front lines, where if you get on a road and you're driving anywhere for any reason, and you're anywhere near the front line, but you're in Russian-held territory, a Ukrainian drone will pretty much take you out.

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So it's like 100% death drive if you try to use any of those roads on the Russian-held territory. So I guess that gives Zelensky a little bit of bargaining power. And obviously the Russians, they have some technology for jamming, but the Ukrainians also have some jamming of Russian ones. The current reporting says that the Ukrainians are better at jamming. Do you believe that? I'm not sure.

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We know for sure. But that the Russians have something coming... that will be like a really good jammer. So it's a continuous war of who's got an unjammable drone and who's got better jamming to jam the unjammable drones. But it's a drone war now. According to SciTech Daily, there's a project going on in France that appears to be internationally involved, so they're not doing it by themselves.

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Now, didn't you imagine that when the Diddy trial started, that witnesses were going to start to disappear and maybe die in tragic accidents and possibly get murdered? Is there anybody who is surprised that a key Diddy witness disappears right before the time she had to testify? That is so non-surprising. Anyway, you've probably heard that Kanye West has a new provocative song titled Heil Hitler.

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But over there in France, they've got a facility that's going to try to make fusion, nuclear fusion. And they've got a giant U.S.-built magnet that's taller than a six-story building. And it's going to work with these other smaller magnets, which are also gigantic, from China, Europe, Russia, Japan, and Korea. So those are just some of the countries involved.

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And if it works, and keep in mind this is not on paper. They already have the big magnets and putting them together in France. But if it works, it will make 10 times more

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energy than it uses 10 times more now you've seen a lot of experiments where where somebody says oh we've made this big breakthrough infusion and we're making you know five percent more energy than we're using which doesn't help you that much and it doesn't last that long But they seem to be pretty confident here because this would be a really expensive kind of thing. And if the U.S.

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built a magnet that's six-story building high and all these other serious countries are contributing their ring-shaped magnets, it sounds like they have some confidence that they can make this thing work. Now, I don't know who owns it, you know, if it works. And I don't know if it would be like just another test or turn into an actual fusion entity. But probably it's a limited test.

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But if they pull it off, it could be a big, big deal. Well, of course it's a slow news day, so that's all I've got for you today. And I'm going to say hi to the people on locals. But the rest of you need to go take care of your moms. Or if you are a mom, you need to get taken care of. So it's all about the moms today.

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I hope some of you moms have two cats on your lap because that's the best way to listen to the show. Cup of hot coffee, two cats on your lap. That's the way to do it. All right. Locals, I'm coming at you. The rest of you, I will see you on Monday. I think there's going to be lots more fun coming on Monday. I feel like Monday is going to be big. We'll see.

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And you won't be surprised to know that there's a big pushback to it. But Kanye says it's really about, it's against prejudice and hate. So if you understood the song correctly, he says, you would know that it's opposed to all those things. It's not promoting them. Well, good luck, Kanye. Good luck selling that.

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If I could give you one bit of musical advice, my musical advice would be if your idea for your song is to have a whole bunch of people saying Heil Hitler, don't try to sell it as being opposed to prejudice because nobody's going to hear that part. they're only going to hear the Heil Hitler part. So I guess that's what happened.

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But if you'd like to try to take this up to another level that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cupper, mugger, a glass, a tanker, Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Well, according to the Free Press, they're reporting on a NIH study that finds an alarming rise in breast, colorectal, and uterine cancers among under 50s. What do you think caused that? Anybody? In the comments, tell me, what do you think caused the alarming rise in cancers in the under 50s. Any possibilities? Has anything happened?

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Well, the joke's on you, because this was actually a study between 2010 and 2019, and I'm pretty sure at least half of you said, well, that's the vaccinations. Oh, that's the COVID shot. Except the study was before the pandemic started. So you didn't see that coming, did you? No. No, you totally fell for it. You believed that it had to be because of the COVID shot. I tricked you intentionally.

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It turns out that some cancers actually went down during that period. Lung cancer and prostate cancer actually decreased. So the overall cancer stayed about the same, but... 14 out of 33 cancer types increased in at least one younger age group. So did you learn anything there? Did you see how quickly you were positive it was the shot? And yet the data was before the shot was given.

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Let that be a lesson to you. not to be too quick to take the popular explanation. It might be right. Yeah, I mean, it might be right that it causes a problem, but that's not what it tested. I saw a post by Fisher King on X. I was quoting John Adams who said, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

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But I don't really understand that quote because wasn't the United States the first democratic republic kind of a thing? Were there democracies before that? Well, I would like to add to John Adams' thinking that that there's exactly zero civilizations that ever lasted.

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While it might be true that every democracy-oriented civilization eventually committed suicide, it's also true that 100% of societies that are ancient, they all died.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and happens now. Go. Ah, delicious. Well, let's see what's in the news. According to Axios... Gen Zers are more likely to be going to church, especially the men.

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every one of them so I mean there's remnants left but basically they didn't that even the Roman Empire kind of went away or some say it turned into the Vatican if you want if you want to go that way but there seems to be some kind of rule that civilizations don't last long and I have a here's my hypothesis

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My hypothesis is that most civilizations don't get that far and that that's the normal arc for a civilization is starts small, stays small, doesn't really go anywhere. But every now and then, you get some kind of Roman Empire or the Mongol hordes or something. So every now and then, one will break out and just be a superstar. But they don't last either.

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And my hypothesis is that it's so rare for a civilization to break out and last that the normal path is that it just doesn't last very long, at least in terms of the entire arc of human civilization that doesn't last long. So probably all different reasons. Sometimes disease, sometimes attack, sometimes the Mongol hordes get you.

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But I don't think there's any civilization that lasts, and maybe there's no civilization that could, unless it became so dominant. that it could cure every disease and resist every enemy and it wouldn't fight with itself and spend itself into oblivion.

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But I feel like it's so rare, like everything has to go right for your civilization to thrive, that the odds of everything going right for thousands of years, pretty low, pretty low. Yeah. According to the Daily Wire, there was an official that worked for USAID. You've heard of them. Now USAID has been closed down.

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But apparently a contracting officer, he made himself a fake business so that he could give himself PPP loans. And are you surprised by that? That a contracting officer at USAID came up, created a fake company and paid himself money? I think we have no idea how much fraud there was in the government. So much.

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Now, closing USAID, or at least most of it, may have at least created, you know, making it impossible for this kind of thing to happen again.

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So I've said it before, but if the only thing that Doge accomplishes, even if they don't cost directly, you know, like right away, if the only thing they accomplish is they make people, you know, say what they're spending on and use the right codes for the spending and maybe get a little bit more auditing, um, then I think that would be a big deal in the long run. We'll see.

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According to the Daily Mail, the vacation rental boom is collapsing. So a lot of people bought a second house, a vacation house, which they would rent out when they weren't using it. But apparently they're... They're getting spooked. A lot of the older people are getting spooked because the stock market and the economy being weird. So they're selling their second homes if they have them.

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And so the price of them will be collapsing. But that's good news, right? For the people who are trying to buy a new home. Imagine if you were a young person trying to buy a new home. but all the new homes were getting bought by the old people who already had a home. How pissed off would you be that you couldn't buy a home at a good price because all the rich older people had two?

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Well, if they go from two back to one, there should be a decline in housing prices that should help you out a little bit if you're a young person looking for a house. So everybody's bad news is somebody's good news. But why is it that owning a second house turned out to be a loser? Well, mortgage rates are higher. Maintenance costs are higher.

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A lot of people had to return to the office, so they didn't have an option of hiding in their vacation house. Insurance costs are through the roof. Homeowner association costs are way up. And boomers are spooked by the stock market. Well, the Daily Beast has a story. You may have seen this. I wasn't even going to talk about this because it's just so darn weird.

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But you remember the story of Theranos? the company that turned out to be a fraud. And it was run by Elizabeth Holmes. She was the founder. And she claimed that they had this new technology that could take a tiny drop of your blood and do all kinds of analyses of your blood. Turns out that they did not have any machine that did that, and it was just all fake. So Elizabeth Holmes is in jail.

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So at the same time that the young men are turning toward Trump, they're turning toward church. It used to be that women were more likely to go to church than men, but that gap has is closing as the Gen Z men are skipping off to church like crazy. So if you're a young man, you're probably not watching this because you're in church.

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But believe it or not, she still has a romantic partner, who is not in jail, and the romantic partner has created a startup that says it can test blood, saliva, or urine for disease biomarkers in a matter of seconds. What does that sound like? That sounds like Theranos. And the guy, he's raising money for it. He's actually raised millions, allegedly, raised millions of dollars for it.

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Can you imagine? Can you even imagine investing in the boyfriend of Elizabeth Holmes with essentially the same kind of company? Now, it could be that he learned so much from his association with Elizabeth Holmes that he found a real company that could really make a prototype and really do it. It's possible. But what are the odds?

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It just seems like the odds are really low that this is a real thing. But, hey, stranger things have happened, so we'll see. PXZ is looking to decrease the size of the military at the top. Apparently, we've got too many generals and admirals. He wants to get rid of about 20% of the generals and the admirals. Now, you might say to yourself, my God, can we spare 20%?

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Yeah, it turns out we've got way too many generals and admirals, just way too many. So, yes, he can reduce those. I'm assuming that he's going to go after the ones that were a little too woke, if he can determine who they are. So if you're woke and you're a four-star general, you might be looking for another job pretty soon.

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You worked a little bit harder than you needed to yesterday, didn't get enough sleep, but still you're here. You're winners. But if you'd like to take this up to levels that even winners can barely understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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You couldn't be more in. And then as soon as the government says, no, it's illegal, get rid of it, there's no pushback. Where are all the protests of the Google employees who are like, yeah, we need this DEI again. Don't tell us what we can do. We want to make the world a better place. It seems to me that DEI was never popular.

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right because if if it were ever popular with just ordinary people they'd be on the streets saying you stopped our dei how dare you stop our dei but nothing like that's happening there are no mass protests to maintain dei it was never real it was never popular it was just people literally pretending Oh, like the theater kids. Do you see the pattern?

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Republicans are mostly things that Republicans have always wanted, and it hasn't changed much. And then Republicans try to get those things in obvious government ways. But the Democrats are almost an entire artificial construct. It's literally just theater kids pretending that they like stuff. And then the minute it's not practical to like that stuff, they just change to another play.

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All right, well, we're not saying that anymore. So, yeah, we're not going to talk about the open borders anymore. Open borders were like their most important thing. And then as soon as Trump closes it, they're like, do-do-do-do-do. So what's going on? No protests. Nobody's saying you got to open those borders up again.

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give us back our DEI, put those homeless people back around the State Department. It feels like every time Trump does something, it's really quiet because they never believed these things in the first place. DEI, I think, was again, just a whole bunch of Democrat scams. It was a way to grift and get paid for doing not a lot of anything that was useful. So I think as soon as the grift was,

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identified and popped, people didn't really want to be public about it because it would be embarrassing at this point. Anyway, according to Jonathan Turley, he's writing about how the UK is continuing this month with his effort to regulate and criminalize speech. Specifically, he says there's going to be an effort in the UK to crack down on Islamophobia, which

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is really close, as Turley points out, to having a type of blasphemy standard that would only apply to probably just one religion. If the UK designs a blasphemy standard that says you can't criticize the one religion, they're just surrendering, and that one religion will eventually dominate, no doubt about it. I think the UK is lost.

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So they did a study where people guessed whether men or women would be higher on certain traits. And it turns out that a random person can guess right about 85% of the time, guessing if men or women are better at a random trait. This is according to SciPost. You know what you could have done instead? You could have asked Scott.

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I'm not even sure why we have them as allies because it's just a matter of time It's a matter of time And and the time it's not very long time I think that they'll just be essentially the Islamic country pretty soon Apparently they're a bunch of big law firms according to the Wall Street Journal that have decided it would be too dangerous to

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to work on any kind of Trump opposition because the Trump administration has acted pretty decisively against some lawyers who have been anti-Trump and done bad things. So Trump took the Perkins Coie law firm, I guess, their security clearances away.

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and a whole bunch of people got fired if they worked on this or that lawfare against trump so he's making a point that you could be a lawyer doing your basically fake lawfare stuff or whatever it is against trump but there's going to be a response to it and i like that i i like the fact that there's now something more like a mutually assured destruction.

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Yeah, you could be a lawyer and try to take out our government, but they are in charge. And if you get caught and you break a rule, you're going to pay for it. So good. There should be definitely some pushback on that. In California, according to The Guardian, some of the prisons are using virtual reality devices to give the people who are in solitary confinement something like virtual freedom.

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So they can sit in their little box, but it'll feel like they're visiting their relatives or traveling to Thailand or paragliding. Those are the examples. And they can do VR art therapy and stuff. And critics are saying if the fancy technology just papers over the inhumane system, Well, yeah, that's what it's supposed to be doing.

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Yeah, it's an inhumane system, and they're trying to make it a little more, you know, I guess survivable. So that would be weird, but I can certainly see a bunch of people in their little cells just waiting to put on their hat so they can be somewhere else. I mean, I would want to do it all day long. Now, I don't know if they fixed the part where you get a headache from virtual reality.

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I tried a system several years ago, so things have probably improved quite a bit. But I loved it. Some of the games, there was one that you're basically on a glider around an island. It was just awesome. But it would make me sick just from the dizziness. It would make me sick in about 15 minutes. It didn't take long.

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So you'd have to like it enough that you were willing to be sick for an hour afterwards. And eventually it talked me out of using it because I thought, you know what? It's just not worth being sick for an hour. But it was awesome.

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As Breitbart is reporting, the Department of Homeland Security did locate the people who were leaking the locations of the ICE raids, which is very dangerous for the ICE people because if they plan to do a raid and the people have been tipped off, there might be some kind of a gunfire exchange or something that didn't need to happen.

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Yes, I think I would have told you that male-female stereotypes are not random. They're not random at all. Here's another one. An ugly truth, according to study finds, attractive workers earn more money than unattractive people. You just could have asked me. I mean, really. Just ask me. You didn't need to spend a penny on this one. Anyway, that's the speed round. So there's your science for you.

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So those two people that were caught face up to 10 years in federal prison. Now, I got to say, on one hand, that seems pretty extreme. On the other hand, the danger that they were putting law enforcement type people into is way beyond the pale. But you can sort of imagine how they thought it was doing a good thing, not a bad thing.

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In other words, they thought they were doing what was the right thing, you know, to protect these people from the evil ICE people. But thinking you're on the right side of it should count for something. So I don't know if 10 years is the right answer, I feel like at least five, so we'll see. Well, according to Emerald Robinson,

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She says, the color revolution against the Trump administration is just getting started. Now, if you don't know what a color revolution is, it's how the United States has organized coups in other countries. But they have some specific telltale signs of what is happening. So one would be a bunch of fake protests that are just organized by somebody paying. And then here's what Emerald points out.

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She says, yes, they want to sabotage Elon Musk by burning a few Teslas and writing media stories to hype it. Yeah, it looks like they're organizing protests and they're going to organize a big anti-Elon Musk thing because as long as Elon Musk and Trump are getting along and producing good results for the country, then the Trump administration will get stronger.

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So they've got to somehow destroy Elon Musk before he succeeds too much. Now, just think about that. It's a real thing that there are dark forces in this country who might even like getting rid of all the fraud and stuff, unless they're involved in it. And they still want to get rid of him because they need to win. They need to be in charge. And then Emerald says they'll run the bird flu panics.

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She says, you live through 2020, so you know how it works. I don't want to believe it. that our government would do a bird flu panic. And now the latest news, which is I think unconfirmed, that the thought is this bird flu thing was actually developed in a lab and it may have some gain of function in it. To which I say, how is that even possible?

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How is it possible there's still a lab working on gain of function for the most deadly things? How is it possible that it's getting released? Sure enough, exactly the same timeline as Trump's first term.

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it's kind of hard it's kind of hard to imagine that these are coincidences so so look for that look for the uh look for the obvious signs of a color revolution because i think i think it isn't i i agree that it looks like it's in motion it looks like it Now, I don't know if you've seen this video, but there's a compilation video of prominent Democrat senators in 2019.

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2019.

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Democrat senators. Now, what a bunch of effing bastards. That's the sort of thing that was just sort of erased from history. Like if I hadn't seen the video compilation, I wouldn't have known about that. It wasn't on the news. Do you remember at any time

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that any of the media, the major media, any time did they show when they were talking about Trump doubting the 2020 election, any time did they show that the Democrats have doubted even Trump's election and still do? And now Maxine Waters is doubting the 2024 election because she thinks that Elon Musk uses technology ass to affect it.

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So that whole thing about, oh, there's no way our election could ever be rigged, is not anything that the major Democrats ever believed. They never believed our elections were secure. In fact, they were speaking out publicly and forcefully to say that our elections are not secure and that we wouldn't necessarily know who won. Isn't that amazing? It's like beyond belief that it could happen.

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Now, is this true of Republicans? Because again, I might be in a bubble or something, but it looks like the Democrats literally don't have actual views of anything. They only have actors. So at that moment, since Trump was in office, the theater kids said, oh, we better put on a play. where we act like he couldn't possibly be legitimate because we don't have secure elections.

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Every bit of it is shit you could have just asked Scott. Uh-huh. Yep, yep. Alcohol's bad for you. Pretty people get more money. Yep. Men and women are different. I could have got all of that. There's a Korean filmmaker named Bong Joon-ho. He says his new film is called Mickey 17. It has Mark Ruffalo in it, who's a big critic of Trump.

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And then when Biden wins, they go, okay, theater kids, we're going to change everything. Now we're going to put on a play where if you even doubted, if you had even any questions about the legitimacy of a U.S. election, well, you're some kind of insurrectionist piece of crap and you probably belong in jail with all the January Sixers.

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It is so obvious that the Democrats are literally actors and don't believe anything that they say, from DEI, that suddenly is no problem at all if it's disappearing, to voting machines and integrity, and they certainly didn't believe, there's no way they believed that the only way to secure the border was with legislation from Congress. They didn't believe any of that. It's pure acting.

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Now, I saw Bill Maher the other day on a clip. He was saying that he's sort of giving up on the fact-checking against Trump because he says, we all get it, right? We all get it that if he says, let's say, I brought down the border crossings to zero, Well, it might be 1,000 a day or some number like that.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine that is the day. It's the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Technology is working. Thanks, Paul. All right. We're going to do a speed round of you should have just asked Scott. You ready for this? Speed round.

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So he's admitting that Trump plays fast and loose with these specific facts, but it doesn't seem to matter. And I think Bill Maher has finally figured it out. It doesn't seem to matter. It would be hard for you to come up with, after years of Trump not passing the fact-checking, What happened because of it? What's the downside?

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And I've used the phrase directionally correct, which I think I inserted into at least the Republican part of mind, that once you realize that every time he doesn't pass the fact check, it doesn't matter because he is persuading in the right direction. So if he says, you know, I brought down inflation this much, but you think it's not that much, well, he's fighting hard to bring down inflation.

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So every time he does something that seems like a little hyperbole, a little exaggeration, or maybe just a made-up fact, they're all in the right direction. So for example, the Doge stuff, Is it true that he may have mentioned some things that weren't actually things like condoms for the Palestinians in Gaza? Well, not exactly true.

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But directionally, it was completely true that money was being spent overseas on things that you and I would think would be not good uses of that money. That's the point. So, and that's very different from the Democrat lies. The Democrat lies are, there's no way to close a border. No, that's not directionally correct. That's opposite.

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When Democrats say the election was secure and there's no way, there's no way, any possibility that it was a rigged election in 2020, that's not directionally correct. It's the opposite. So if you look at the Democrat lies, they're opposites from the truth. If you look at what Trump gets criticized for, it's always directionally correct. It's stuff Republicans want.

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It's stuff that Republicans think is important. It's exactly the right direction. There's a big difference. But it's kind of important, I think, that Maher is very close to understanding that in context. Now, the way he says it is that Republicans are completely aware of who Trump is and how he talks and how he acts, and we just don't care. That's almost just right. He's so close.

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It's not that we don't care, it's that we know he's directionally correct. That's what we care about. We don't care about the specifics. We care about the direction. We care about the energy. We care that he cares. We care that he cares. And even the hyperbole shows he cares. So you can't compare those two things.

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But he says it's not parodying Trump, the villain played by Mark Ruffalo. No, no, it's not supposed to remind you of Trump. Although critics say that the comparisons to Trump are so obvious and numerous that Of course, it's being inspired by that. But here's the thing I wanted to point out. The Korean filmmaker, his name is Bong Joon-ho, which coincidentally was my nickname in college.

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Believe it or not, according to OutKick, Kid Rock has set up a dinner between Bill Maher and Trump and himself so that sometime soon, if this reporting is accurate and it happens, Bill Maher and Kid Rock and Trump would sit and have dinner. Now, this is after a long period of Maher really disliking Trump on a personal level.

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I think they've had personal problems in the past, even before the presidency, so a lot of it is personal. But the one thing that everybody experiences with Trump is that if you spend time with him in person, even if you had a bad opinion of him, it's hard to leave with a bad opinion because he's genuinely really gifted at dealing with people in person. He's just gifted.

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So he's going to really care about what you say. He's going to absolutely listen to you. And you're going to feel that, oh, he listened to everything I said. I feel like he's not exactly what I thought he was. People always have that opinion when they leave him. It's very consistent. And I'm wondering what would happen. I'm not going to predict it will necessarily happen.

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I feel there's at least a 50% chance that Maybe it doesn't happen or it wasn't exactly reported 100% accurately. Or there was an idea that just won't come together. So I don't know if it's going to happen. But if it does, it's going to be a problem for Bill Maher because he's going to have to explain it to his audience that's already mad at him for trying to find some kind of a middle ground.

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And I think it will change how he would talk about Trump, no matter how much he didn't want it to. So that would be interesting. And I just love the fact that Kid Rock, of all people, can dial up the president anytime he wants. He could just call the president, say, hey, I got an idea. And then the president of the United States, the most powerful politician in the history of the planet,

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can say, what's your idea, Kid Rock? Well, how about we have this dinner with Bill Maher? That's a pretty good idea. Why don't you set that up? The fact that that can happen in our world is just so cool. It's just so cool. So I hope it does. I wouldn't bet on it, but I hope it does. According to the Gateway Pundit, there are reports that the U.S.

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has told its European allies that it doesn't plan to be part of future military exercises in Europe. You think that one's true? Do you think we've already told Europe we're not going to be part of their military exercises? Maybe. Maybe it's just part of trying to convince them to spend more on themselves. But it's very possible that that's true. All right.

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Here's where I make some people mad and the rest of you are going to learn something. I have to do my obligatory anti-Putin speech because after that, I'm going to say that he did some really good persuasion. So I'm going to talk about his persuasion skills, which I've talked about before. He's really good at it, like unusually good. So you can really learn something by looking at Putin's skills.

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But let me do the obligatory Putin speech before I do. Okay. Putin is a terrible murderous dictator, lying, and he has ambitions to conquer the entire world. You can't trust anything he says. He kills people. He puts them in prison. He's the worst person we've ever heard of in our entire lives. Okay? We're all on the same page now?

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Now can I say that he does some things that are actually impressively good for persuasion? All right. So he gave a speech. recently, and Joe Hoft is summarizing this. And here's what he said to the Europeans. He said, basically he was telling Europe that Russia has never been their enemy. It's not their enemy and never has been.

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He said, Putin shared that Russia was not the enemy of Europe, but here's what he said specifically. He said, quote, Russia has never been and will never be your enemy. Now, the has never been part is the persuasive part. Never have been. He said, we do not want European raw materials and wealth. We have our own raw materials and wealth. We absolutely do not need your raw materials.

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Russia is the richest country in the world in terms of raw materials. Okay, that's a really strong point. Why do countries ever conquer other countries? Because they want something. They either want to protect their border from NATO, or they want to take advantage of their resources, or they want to rob them of their wealth somehow. But Putin's saying, you don't have anything we need.

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See, because I was born in June. So I'm sort of a Bong Joon-ho. Okay. That's all I had on that one. Did you see that Bill Nye, the science guy, did a Nazi salute? What? He was at some rally for standing up for science, and I'm not even going to do it because I would be blamed of giving a Nazi salute. But as you know, the entire world media stopped to condemn him for giving his Nazi salute.

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So you've got this giant NATO military force, and Putin's saying, why would I even want to? Like, what would be the reason? So not for raw materials. He says, we do not want your land or your territory. Look at how wide Russia is on the map. Russia is twice the size of the whole of Europe in one place. What would we need your land for? What would we do with it? Okay, that's just so, so persuasive.

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What would we do with your land? Why would we want it? Exactly.

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exactly this is a version of something i've been saying for years i'll tell you about it afterwards he goes why do you think russia is an enemy of europe what damage has russia done to you have we sold you gas and raw materials at lower prices than the prices at which your quote friends are currently selling you yes and i'm thinking okay that's true and then he said did russia sacrifice

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20 million people in World War II to get rid of the Nazis? Yes, he says. He's answering his own questions with yes. Was Russia the first country to help Europe during the COVID pandemic? I don't know anything about that, but he says yes. He said, did we help Europe when there were fires and natural disasters? Yes. What has Russia done to you that you hate us so much?

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He said, Russia is not your enemy. Your real enemies are your leaders, those who lead you. That is really persuasive. Now, here's the version that I've said. Again, I know Putin can't be trusted. He's a murderous dictator, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I've been saying forever that Russia is a natural ally to the United States, but I would extend that to Europe.

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Now, the countries that border on Russia, those are a security concern. And in some cases, they're Russian-speaking, kind of special cases. But the idea that Russia would want to try to conquer and hold territory in, let's say, France or the UK, it seems a little weirdly crazy to me that they would even want to do that. Why? They couldn't hold it. It would just be the end of Russia.

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and they don't need anything. So this is really solid persuasion. And again, it's worth pointing out, because there are very few people operating at this level of persuasion. Compare this to Canada's Justin Trudeau. When Justin Trudeau does his little speeches, they're not persuasive. He doesn't really have that that gene, but Putin does.

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Anyway, if you heard about this gigantic project in Saudi Arabia called NEOM, and it was going to be like this hundreds-long Hundreds of miles long, futuristic city where the architecture would be practically magic. And, you know, they'd build nine million people would live there. And I thought to myself, holy cow, Saudi Arabia. is just looking to lap the United States.

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You know, they're diversifying away from energy as their only thing to create a city that, you know, anybody would want to live there. It just sounded amazing. And all the futuristic things and everything they were going to do there. Let's see how that's going. Total debacle. The costs have overrun by fantastical amounts. And I guess the crown prince...

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was asking his people to do something that was really just wildly visionary, but not necessarily something they could know how to do. He had what's been called a sci-fi inspired dream about creating ski resorts, indoor ski resorts in the desert, a floating business district, 106 mile long, of Empire State Buildings, basically just the most impressive urban planning you've ever seen in your life.

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And everything appears to be going wrong, and the blame for that is being put on the fact that nobody can tell the boss the truth. Apparently, if you're the Saudi crown prince and you behead people for various reasons... and you bone saw them, nobody wants to be the one to say, you know, that sounds good on paper, but I don't know if we can do that at the budget you want and the time you want.

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So basically, I'm summarizing it in a Dilbert way. So this isn't real, but this is what it feels like. Crown Prince, can you build an anti-gravity luxury hotel that just sort of hovers? employees, no problem, and it will only cost $1,000. We should be done by Tuesday. And then you multiply that by every part of it. It was just people lying and just saying, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we could do that.

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And suddenly it looks like it's going to cost trillions of dollars, way more than Saudi Arabia has or could have. And they've got consultants working on it, which is funny. Who are the consultants? McKinsey and Company. So McKinsey and Company are the consultants on this big project that's just completely falling apart.

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Wait, that didn't happen? I'm confused. So when a Republican or a Trump supporter says, lifts his arm above his waist, we get four fucking weeks of nonstop, he's a Nazi, he's a Nazi, he's a Nazi. And then the theater kids go wild. Theater kids, do it. He's a Nazi, he's a Nazi. Well, look at his arm. Oh, anybody who raises their arm in the air must be a Nazi. And then Bill Nye does it.

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Now, I first met McKinsey and Company, I think I've told you this story, when I worked at the phone company. So one of my corporate jobs before I was a cartoonist. And it became one of the central experiences that created Dilbert. because the whole consultant experience is just so otherworldly and weird that it was just perfect Dilbert fodder for a long time. But let me tell you my experience.

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So the McKinsey senior executives come in to sell the senior executives of the phone company on the idea that they're geniuses and they can figure out your strategy better than your employees can. So the idea is that they're so smart, so experienced, that they can just sort of turn around your company if you follow their advice.

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But the person who comes in and sells the ideas and makes the sale of, okay, now our consulting company has been hired, they're not the people who do the work. The people who sell it actually are pretty brilliant, like actually impressively brilliant, or you don't get in those positions.

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But then they assign you somebody who's just out of business school and doesn't know anything about telecommunications. And the way they do their work is they talk to the employees and they say, all right, so what would you do in this situation? And then they figure out a bunch of numbers and slide decks and they put together these impressive presentations that are basically

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just a bunch of math applied to what the employees told them. And then they sell it as their consulting product. And then the employees, like me, we'd sit in a meeting and say, well, that's just what we told you. That actually is what we've been telling our bosses for years, but they never listened to us.

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But because the ideas from the employees got laundered through the high-end McKinsey and company consultants, our senior executives would be like, finally, we know what to do. And then they would put those plans in place. So Pacific Belt doesn't exist anymore. I'm not going to say it's because of McKinsey and Company, but I will say they didn't turn around the business, let's just say.

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So it got absorbed by another phone company and absorbed by another one. So it didn't work out. Anyway, so Saudi Arabia may be no different than the United States when it comes to that stuff. Well, the Wall Street Journal editorial board is talking about the Houthis in Yemen because they're not only threatening U.S. ships and they've attacked U.S.

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ships, but they apparently quite pointedly are not going to go after Chinese, Iranian, or Russian ships. So it does seem named at us specifically, and of course, The Houthis are proxies for Iran. So Iran is causing our shipping costs to be way higher because the insurance on the ships is through the roof.

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And on top of that, if they want to take an alternate route around the Horn of Africa, it's way more expensive. So part of this solution for bringing down the costs in the United States is to stop the hoodies.

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But as Balaji Srinivasan said the other day on X, we have sort of a problem because we've got these $2 million missiles and they've got $2,000 drones, and we could pound them all day long and they would probably just pop right back up with a few more $2,000 drones. Because unless you killed every single one of them,

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A few more are going to pop up, and it's not going to cost them much to be back in business, especially with Iran's help. So there's almost no path for us to fix this. Or is there? Because it sounds like the Wall Street Journalists, they don't say it directly, but they're kind of calling on Trump to just level the hoodies. And I don't know if he can't.

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I don't know if our military even has the ability anymore. I have real questions whether we have the capability to do anything big that would make a difference. But I'll tell you the only thing that would matter is total destruction. And it would have to be so bad that the Houthis just said, all right, we're never going to get near this again because we just lost everything. So could Trump...

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do something so big that it just wipes out the hoodie everything and the other question i ask is wasn't it not that long ago that saudi arabia was doing terrible things to the hoodies and didn't we stop them from doing it i might need a little lesson on that but it seems like we should be able to unleash saudi arabia's military you know they're closer that they might have a

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He's just waving hello. What are you talking about? He's not a Nazi. No, he's just pretending he's a science guy. Well, you've heard the rumors that the Obamas may be separated and possibly readying for divorce. We don't have any confirmation of that, but I'm going to give you the hypnotist's confirmation. I saw the messages today. I hadn't seen these before.

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better way, and just maybe even just let them occupy the country with a little help. But whatever we're doing now can't stand. We can't just, the current situation is untenable. So we're either going to have to take out Iran, seems like a bad idea, or take out the Houthis, or occupy Yemen, or something really expensive. And maybe the economics never work out.

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Because if we're trying to reduce inflation, but we run up a trillion dollar military bill to get there, well, then we're right back to printing money. So it's not entirely clear there's a path. But if Trump could come up with something to bomb and somebody to bomb that would make a difference, we might see that. Might be a whole bunch of mother of all bombs going off.

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Meanwhile, according to The Hill, Iran's supreme leader has rejected talks with Trump for any kind of a deal. And, you know, I always think to myself, why wouldn't they do a deal? It just seems so logical. Why would you want to be in this permanent military situation? Just do a deal. You know, we'd be reasonable. We could work out a deal. And then I see Iran's response, and it's actually...

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surprisingly persuasive about why they don't want a deal so again iran is evil you know blah blah they're liars blah blah i have to say all the bad iran things before i can say that they did anything smart so here's what the supreme leader said about the push for a nuclear deal um They said that the US's aim is to exert their dominance and impose what they want.

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And it says, for coercive governments, negotiations are a means to impose new demands. Iran will definitely not fulfill these new demands. They make new demands, meaning the US, they make new demands regarding the country's defense capabilities and international capabilities.

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telling us not to do this, do this, not to meet with that person, not to go there, not to produce this, and to limit the range of our missiles to a certain extent. And then the Supreme Leader says, how could anyone accept such things?

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To which I say, oh, yeah, actually, if you put any of us in that same situation, why is some other country telling them what the hell they could do in their own country?

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now of course they extend their range to affect other countries that we care about but just think about it it's not really a negotiation we're asking for we're saying we want you to do all these things that we want you to do like you're not even a sovereign country like you should just do what we tell you to do now of course we don't want them to do what they want to do

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because they might build a nuke and threaten Israel, and next thing you know, we're in a war that's pretty terrible. So I can see why we want them to do different things than they're doing, as in, could you please not build those nuclear weapons? But from Iran's perspective, if you think they're going to agree to, all right, here's the deal. You do everything we want, and that's it.

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That's the deal. You do everything we want and forever. Who in the world is going to agree to that? We're not offering them anything they can agree to. How can you make a deal? I mean, I'm genuinely curious. Now, I get that if we threaten them enough, that what they would get in return is not being destroyed. But that's not really the kind of deal that other countries want to take.

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We're forcing you to do what we want, dance for us, you know, dance for us, do what we want, don't meet that person, don't build that missile. It's not really something you could expect them to say yes to ever. And I don't know if we could put enough pressure on them, short of just, what, bombing the entire country into rubble. That's not going to happen.

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So I don't think we have anything to offer.

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and you know trump is the master of creating an asset out of nothing so if he does that asset would be you know you could you could make more money your people would be happier you don't have to worry about us taking you out so he could create some assets but the way it's being presented to them is we'd like you now to not be a sovereign country and do what you want we'd like you to do what we want

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Apparently on Valentine's Day, which wasn't that long ago, They gave each other these messages on social media that would suggest they were together. But let's do a little bit closer look at these messages from a persuasion perspective and see what we can learn. So Barack Obama said of Michelle, this was just this most recent Valentine's Day, 32 years together and you still take my breath away.

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Nobody's going to say yes to that. So I guess White House envoy Steve Witkoff is going over there to see if they can figure out a deal. I guess he's going to Doha, not to Iran. But they're going to try to figure out if they can figure out a deal. I'm not optimistic about that because it has to be completely reframed

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Because the current frame is, how would you like to be a bitch and just do everything we tell you forever? No way they're going to say yes to that. No way. So how do you reframe that into somehow you win, we win? Because that's how you get a deal. Right now it's we win, you lose. And that's our only offer. We win, you lose. I don't know.

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According to Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, Zelensky did an about-face on a mineral deal, and they think that eventually that will get signed. Maybe not right away. We might sweat him a little bit, but we'll get that signed. Here's what I would say to Speaker Johnson. Don't call it an about-face. An about-face makes Zelensky look like a chump. Don't do that, even if you think it's true.

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It's just the wrong phrase, an about-face. An about-face makes it look like somebody's weak or indecisive or not a good leader. How about you just say that Zelensky's done what we hoped he would do, not what we wanted, but what we hoped. And he's shown that he's definitely on board for a peace deal, which is what we wanted. And now the situation is all set for maybe working on a deal.

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But if you're trying to make something work, don't say stuff like about face. That's just causing trouble that didn't need to be caused. Meanwhile, Mario Naufel is reporting about this. It was in the Financial Times.

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But he's summarizing for us that apparently the Trump administration is trying to work out a deal with Congo so that we get our own supply of minerals without having to go through China that goes through the Congo. I guess that's what it is. And I always wonder, Is there no way to get minerals out of the ground without these poor locals digging through it with their hands and barefoot?

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It just seems like there's no robot that can do any of that. It seems like robots would be the answer, right? It's like, okay, let's build a mine. We'll put some robots there and some safety standards, and then Congo gets the money. We get some minerals, everybody wins. So I hope there's a way for everybody to win.

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I wouldn't be super happy if all we did was cut China out, but the locals are still scrambling around with their bare feet and their hands trying to get these minerals. That's just really sketchy. But apparently what we would offer Congo would be some kind of military support that I'm sure they would like.

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So Trump announced on Truth Social, I guess on March 7th, that he's going to ban all foreign aid flowing to South Africa. All foreign aid. Now, I don't know how much that is or how much difference it makes to South Africa, but PGA Media is reporting this. And listen to the way Trump simplifies this. Now, this is the thing that drives his critics crazy, that he talks like regular people.

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And this is the best example of talking like a regular person that you'll ever see in your life. The fact that this is coming from a president is just so impressive that he can, from the president's office, he can simplify all the way down to, oh, I get that. Yeah, that's just ordinary people talking. So here's what he said on truth. South Africa is being terrible. Okay. That

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That's just the first part of the first sentence. South Africa is being terrible. Got it. Plus, to longtime farmers in the country, they're confiscating their land and farms and much worse than that, a bad place to be right now. And we are stopping all federal funding. To go a step further, any farmer with family from South Africa seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety,

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will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to citizenship. This process will begin immediately. That is so clear. Don't you love the clarity of that? We're ending all funds because they're terrible, and they're so terrible that we'll take the families of the people who are in deep trouble. Now, the people, the farmers...

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Happy Valentine's Day. Michelle Obama. And then Michelle separately said, if there's one person I can always count on, it's you, Barack Obama. You're my rock. Always have been. Always will be. Happy Valentine's Day, honey. So do you see anything missing in those messages? You know, the Valentine's message? Let me give you a little bit of Valentine's advice.

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I'm going to guess we would consider highly skilled people because farming is not easy. But I think that the South African farmers probably could make the transition to farming in America with less trouble than somebody who'd never been a farmer. So they could bring to America a farming, let's say, revolution, if there are enough of them, that would make a big difference to our food prices.

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Not right away, but say five years. So I like everything about that. Did you know that the current law in South Africa allows the government to expropriate, which is just take, land from private parties,

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it's in the public interest now that would sound like eminent domain you know countries do that to build roads and to build dams and stuff but that's not what they're talking about they're just talking about taking it and apparently if they make an offer and the farmer let's say a farmer says no that's not enough then the law allows them to simply take it without compensation.

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Do you think they're ever going to offer enough? Why would they? All they have to do is under offer, the farmer says no, and then they take it for free. Why would they spend money that they don't have to spend? So it looks to me like it's a bad place to be if you're a white farmer in South Africa. Well, in some technology news, it's kind of cool.

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There's an AI breakthrough, according to VentureBeat, that uses a technique called a chain of draft. I guess the researchers for Zoom Communications came up with this. Now, you don't need to know what that is. So chain of draft versus a way the AI is being done normally. They can get as good or better results for as little as 7.6% of the text required with regular methods.

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So this is one of those potentially enormous efficiency benefits. And we keep seeing stories like this, where somebody says, well, I've got this little trick, this technique that will make an enormous difference in energy consumption. In this case, an enormous difference in how much training or what kind of training you give it.

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So I guess they found out that if you fill it with every word, which is what the large language models do, it's no better than if you somehow can pick the words that make a difference. I don't know how they do it, but I guess they've done it. In other AI news, did you know that there's a lawsuit from various authors against Meta for Meta's AI.

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And it says that Meta was allowed to read all their books and train on the contents of the books. And so some authors are suing. Sarah Silverman's one of those. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of those. So they're suing them. Now, here's my experience, because I've asked several AIs. I haven't asked Meta, so I haven't tested Meta's to see if it's different. But the AIs I've talked to maybe three of them.

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They're aware of my work, meaning that they can explain some of the key points of my books. Not the Dilbert books, but the ones that are about persuasion or career self-help stuff. And they do know it. They know what a talent stack is. They know what systems over goals are and how to explain it. They understand the keys of persuasion, etc., But when I asked the AI, did you read the book?

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Were you trained on the book itself? They say no. They say no. They were only trained on people's public comments about the book. So they could look at the reviews of the book, including extended reviews that would get into the meat of what I said, but they haven't looked at the book. Now, here's my question to you. Do you believe that?

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Do you think that's true, that they didn't train on the book, that they only trained on the people talking about the book? Now, I will say that what it knows about the book does sound a lot more like they only trained on people who talked about it. So it can't answer deep questions about the internals of the book because it says, I've never seen the book. And it makes me wonder, are the AIs lying?

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Is it possible that they had to train the AI to say, oh, I've never seen the book. I just know about people talking about the book. Now, in my case, since I'm a more notorious author, there are always people talking about the book. So people are going to review it. Even on Amazon, there'll be hundreds of reviews. So they could definitely get the basic idea from my books.

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If you're married and you give a Valentine's message to your spouse and it doesn't include I love you, you don't love that person because it's the most basic thing that you would say. It's not the thing that you leave out. It's the main thing. It's the main thing. But it gets funnier. I'm going to read Barack's message again. 32 years together and you still take my breath away.

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But if you were a less reviewed author, what would it know about your book? Nothing? Because nobody talked about it? Nobody bought it? So I do wonder if any of them are trained to lie. I'm not going to make specific accusations, but All the ones I tested said they didn't read the book. So maybe it's true. But I haven't tested meta, so I don't know about that.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I've got for you today. It's a wonderful Sunday, even if you're a little bit tired. So I think you should go forth and have an amazing day. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately in a moment. And the rest of you, I will see tomorrow, same time, same place, for more fun. All right, locals, I'll be private with you.

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You take my breath away. Do you think she tried to smother him with a pillow? Do you think she was behind drowning the chef? And maybe she threatened him next? You know, I took his breath away. Allegedly. I'm just making that up. But, you know, if you don't shape up, I might be able to take your breath away too. So don't fall asleep. Pillow overhead.

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And then she says, if there's one person I can count on, it's you. Well, you know what? I would bet, since Obama doesn't seem like a cruel person or anything, I would bet that even in divorce, if that's what's happening, he would be very supportive. Support the kids, support her lifestyle. So yeah, he's a rock.

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But yeah, I'm going to say that based on my reading of their Valentine's message, there's not really much chance they're still together as a romantic couple. And if they were, these Valentine messages would have ended immediately. Have you ever met a woman? Let's see, going back to stereotypes, whether or not people can identify male-female stereotypes.

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Women orgasm more readily during sex with a handsome partner. According to the conversation, well, you didn't really need to do that study. You could have just asked me. Yes, women orgasm more readily with a better looking guy. Number two, according to Andrew Huberman, he is reinforcing the idea.

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Yes, if you forget to tell your spouse that you love them, It's going to be a problem. It's going to be a problem. All right. Apparently, here's a hoax that I missed. So I guess MSNBC's host, Eamon, I forget. I don't know what his first name is. Eamon, Eamon. So he was pushing, according to Media Lies, who catches all these little things, Media Lies said he was pushing the debunked lie that

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Pete Hegseth had ordered the removal of the Enola Gay photos because of DEI. Now, I heard Bill Maher say that on his show, and he said it like he really believed it. It wasn't just a joke. So Bill Maher also believed that the Pentagon removed pictures of the aircraft that carried the first nuclear bomb over Japan. and that they took the photos away because it said gay on it and Nola Gay.

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Now, who believed that? Isn't that a little bit too on the nose? Who in the world would be dumb enough to believe that happened in the real world? Well, Bill Maher and MSNBC host, I guess. Here's one of those small world stories. I've told you this before, but it just blows my mind. So when I was a kid, my parents had this couple that were sort of their main friends in town.

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And the husband actually was part of the crew that loaded the nuclear weapon on the Enola Gay. He was on the island of Tinian where they loaded it. And sure enough, we always knew that when we were kids. He told us that. And I think he didn't know exactly what it was because they were just the crew that was supposed to load it. They didn't have top secret clearance about anything.

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But I think they were guessing. They saw how big it was and they saw that they'd never seen anything like it. So I think they knew that something big was coming. They didn't know how big. But How weird is it that I know somebody personally who loaded that on the Enola Gay? Isn't that the weirdest thing, that I would have a personal connection to that? So weird.

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Anyway, that's some of the things, the dumb things that Democrats pretend to believe, even if they don't. So did you know that Stacey Abrams had this, some kind of a nonprofit that had raised as much as $100 prior to Joe Biden gifting them with $2 billion that they were going to use in Georgia, I guess mostly, to buy appliances for people that would be better for energy. $2 billion.

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Now, let me take a guess. Do you think all that $2 billion was just perfectly allocated and They kept the administrative fees low and there wasn't any money laundering and there wasn't any grift and there weren't any consultants that got seven-figure deals to figure out where the money went.

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Don't you assume at this point that every organization that's well-funded, especially from the government, but it could also be from big donors, don't you assume that they're all corrupt? And I really wonder... Is it the same on the Republican side? Because I don't really hear about big Republican organizations that are completely corrupt. Do they exist?

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He says, remember when they used to say that drinking some wine was good for your health and actually better than not drinking alcohol? Now everyone pretty much agrees that no alcohol is best. What a ridiculous amount of back and forth that took. Do as you wish, but know what you're doing.

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I mean, I'm primed to think that it would be universal. It has nothing to do with being a Democrat or a Republican. It's just, you know, if you can get your beak wet, you do. But it does really seem, if you just look at the news, it just seems like every single Democrat organization...

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is designed to be a money laundering corrupt thing it looks like it's designed like that speaking of that uh you know act blue the big democrat organization that allegedly is collecting small donations and wrapping them up for uh for democrats well they've done more than that according to elon musk an investigation found that five ActBlue-funded groups were responsible for Tesla protests.

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Oh, are you telling me that the Tesla protests are not completely organic and rather they were just funded by the usual suspects? Well, apparently, or at least allegedly. And ActBlue funders, let's see, who are the people funding ActBlue besides the small donations? George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and then three people I've never heard of before.

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But if you see George Soros and Reid Hoffman funding the same entity, they might not be up to good. They may be up to something that you don't want them to be doing. Anyway, apparently ActBlue is currently under investigation for allowing foreign and illegal donations for some kind of criminal violations. Okay, so again I say, are all Democrat organizations corrupt?

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It does seem like it, from the local city governments to the unions that they usually control. to ActBlue, to Stacey Abrams, to the NGOs and the 55,000 entities that USAID gave money to. It feels like they're all corrupt and designed to be that way, as in the entire thing is a grift to design little entities that you can steal money from. Well, apparently Washington, D.C.

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finally cleared a homeless encampment It was around the State Department. Postmillennial is reporting on this. And it's something that they didn't do until Trump basically threatened the city and said, if you don't do something about this, we're going to do something about this. And that would be pretty embarrassing for the city. So magically, they cleaned up the encampments.

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Oh, I guess they could have done it any time. They just had to be threatened. So there's your local government, Democrats. Great. Meanwhile, according to TechCrunch, Google is getting rid of all their diversity language. They're not announcing that they're getting rid of diversity or DEI. They're simply soft peddling it.

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Or you could have just asked Scott about 25 years ago when I first said, hey, what are the odds that alcohol is actually good for you? I'm not buying this at all. It's poison. Should have asked Scott. There's another study that found that while gender stereotypes are often viewed as misleading, They are surprisingly accurate.

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The words are kind of changing and they're scrubbing some of their websites and stuff. So no announcement or explanation. But it does come as a lot of companies are scrapping diversity. So I think they just wanted to be a little quieter about it.

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Now, to me, the most shocking thing about all the companies that are backing off on DEI, almost entirely because of the Trump administration pushing on it, does it seem to you that the dog not barking is the people who are trying real hard to resist it? Because these same companies were just gung-ho for DEI. I mean, they were all in for... you know, hundreds of millions of dollars per year in.

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I was watching a video that, it's not a new one, but it's not too long ago. Jon Stewart was interviewing the number two at the Pentagon about how their system, they seem to be losing a lot of money and it's not auditable. And she was just sort of laughing and mocking him for not understanding that an audit, the inability to audit is not related to his claims that there's fraud and abuse.

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And Jon Stewart, despite being left leaning, doesn't let her off the hook. And he's like, well, you know, if you can't account for the money that we're giving you and you can't tell us where it was spent, that's a lot like waste, fraud, and abuse to most people. And she argued that they were different. No, no, no.

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No, you have to distinguish between the ability to audit, which we don't have, and the waste, fraud, and abuse, which is not demonstrated because we don't have the ability to audit. But don't you for a minute think that our intentional inability, intentional, Of course it's intentional because everybody knows how to build a system that can audit your expenses. That's not unusual or hard.

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So it's intentional that they have an unauditable system. Are you telling me that somewhere there's a non-auditable system that spends over $800 billion a year and there's no fraud, waste, or abuse. It's probably mostly fraud, waste, and abuse, because if it's unaudited and it's nearing a trillion dollars, what the hell do you think is happening? It's pretty predictable. So there's that.

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Anyway, I think the Pentagon budget will be where we find out if Doge can survive. Because, you know, you see the resistance trying to firm up. You know, the media has got their little fake messaging. So the fake news has surrounded USAID and the USAID people are saying, oh, no, we're just a charity, which, of course, they're not. It's a fake charity.

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But Democrats don't know the difference, apparently. And it's a real charity, but they only do the charity where they can influence other countries. So they're not in it for the charity. They're in it to influence the other countries.

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There's something happening. Do any of you have an idea why this is happening? Because it would seem to me that life is pointing in the direction of maybe you should drink more, not less. You know, if you're all worried about the state of everything from climate change to politics to the deficit, why would people be drinking less? I mean, I'm happy that they are.

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So all that's happening. But when Doge gets into the Pentagon, I think the level of resistance and the level of dirty tricks and the level of pushback, legal and illegal, is going to be through the roof. Because there are some people who are going to go to jail, I think, when the Pentagon gets audited, if you can even do it. So I think what Doge will find is there is no way to audit it.

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One of the things that Elon wants to do with the Treasury Department is add codes to each expense so you can audit later. It's not built to even pay attention to where money went.

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The simplest thing that any system that handles money should do is make sure that every expense is documented or coded in a way that later you could sum them up and say, oh, look what we spent on this, look what we spent on that. and you'd know where your money went. It's pretty basic stuff. Every corporation would have it. There would be no such thing as a corporation that didn't do it.

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So it has to be intentional. It has to be. Now, when I said that, I said it on X this morning, that it looks like the systems were intentionally designed for fraud because it's so nonstandard. to have an unauditable financial system handling billions of dollars, trillions, trillions of dollars. Unauditable? You couldn't possibly do that unintentionally. You couldn't accidentally do that.

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There's no way you can get there unless that's actually intentional. Now, that sounds like pretty conspiracy theory stuff, but I said that on X, and Elon Musk said, yes, 100%. He actually backed up the theory. that it appears to be, you can't read any minds, but it appears to be designed for fraud.

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And it's really obvious because nobody, nobody, nobody would build the system the way it is for any other reason. There's no other reason to not track your expenses. Can you think, go on? Let's put it under a thinking cap. What's the other reason for not tracking expenses in the trillions of dollars. Huh? Well, I'm stymied. I'm a professional creative guy. I can't think of another reason.

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So if anybody can come up with any other reason that they would design a system, the only one we know about, that's big dollars and doesn't track anything, the only one in the world, well, the only one in the United States, You just tell me, because then I'd like to see how I'm wrong. Anyway, so it's the social... Actually, it was the social security system that is the one that Elon responded to.

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So listen to this. The social security database... This is what Elon posted. He said, he just learned that the social security database is not deduplicated. Now, if you don't know what deduplicated means, it means that it allows you to have the same Social Security number many times over. Let me just say that again.

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The Social Security budget is going out to all the people who have a Social Security number and have reached a certain age. Social Security. This system that does that You're not even going to believe this. You're going to think I made this up. Doesn't check to see if the same Social Security number has been used more than once. I'm not making that up. That's what Doge just discovered.

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I think it's the whole alcohol is poison meme. Maybe. Maybe. Meanwhile, one of the AI companies called Pika Labs, they just introduced a new AI feature that blows my freaking mind, and you're going to see so much of this. They can now take you, a video of you, and drop it into like a movie or an existing clip, and the existing clip will interact with you. So the example was...

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We didn't know that. The Social Security system that decides who gets paid what... doesn't know if you've used the same social security number 10,000 times. What? Now, this is the one where I said it looks like it's designed for fraud. I was conflating it with the treasury system, which doesn't have the right codes. In both cases, you would only design these systems this way, for fraud.

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Can you imagine if you were designing the social security system and you didn't check to see if there's a dupe? The most basic thing you would want to check, the most basic thing. Now you might say, oh, but Scott, the system was designed so long ago that they weren't so smart. No, there was never a time they weren't that smart. There was never a time

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When everybody didn't know, the most important thing is to check you're not using the same social security number more than once. Do you know why we have social security numbers? So they don't get used more than once. The whole point of them is to make them unique. Why? So you could check to make sure somebody didn't use it more than once.

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And then they build a system that doesn't check to see if it got used more than once. How is this even real? People, how is this real? Remember when I said I thought that it's possible that the entire $2 trillion deficit could be solved by getting rid of fraud and waste? Now, Elon thought maybe a third to a half of it could be reduced by this fraud and waste. I don't know. I don't know.

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Maybe all $2 trillion. We have holes in our system that are so big. And I've said this before, but I can never understand why there are so many rich people in the world. Maybe this is why, that some, you know, a third or half of all rich people got there through fraud. Makes me wonder. Anyway, some of you know who Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway are. So they've got a podcast, I think it's called

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I don't know what it's called. But they're sort of professional complainers about Republicans, basically. And what Scott Galloway said on a recent podcast about the Doge people, he said, I want to see Democratic governors use the full faith and letter of the law to put those folks in prison. He says Doge is a coup, and he wants them put in prison.

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for doing what the executive who was in charge asked them to do to check where the money was going. And he wants them in prison. Now, so Elon commented, he goes, Swisher and Galloway are threatening talented young software engineers who are giving up on high compensation for death threats in order to help the American people.

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He says, shame on Swisher and Galloway, cruel, mean, and deceitful human beings that they are. Well, to me, they look like just two people with severe mental illness who got a podcast. And I say that with complete seriousness. It just looks like mental illness. It's hard to describe it. I mean, it would be hard to understand it in any other way.

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So one of the most dangerous things in the country is that people with severe mental illness You can have podcasts. It's pretty dangerous.

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So I guess MSNBC's Chris Hayes was on Bill Maher's show recently on Friday, and he said that this is part of the Democrats trying to find the right messaging because they still believe they have the right policies despite every poll showing that they're unpopular. You would think that if every poll...

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showed that their policies are unpopular, like everyone, that they would say, huh, if every poll shows that they're unpopular, maybe we're unpopular. No, they've decided that the words are the problem. So instead of diversity, Chris Hayes points out that that word got politically failed. So they should change the word, but mean the same thing, to patriotic pluralism. Oh, well, let's see.

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If I was racially, if I were racially discriminated against for 50 fucking years, which I was for being a white man, and they use that word diversity to racially discriminate against me for 50 fucking years. Fuck you, every one of you who did it. Mostly white people, by the way, just to be clear. The people who discriminated against me were white men trying to save their own asses.

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So fuck every one of them. So I can say that because I'm a white man. So fuck every white man who did this to other white men. Patriotic pluralism. Now... Is this a case of somebody not understanding anything about the situation or the world or nothing about how persuasion works? I listened to my smartest Democrat friend the other day. He gave a compliment to Trump.

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Somebody made a video of themselves walking inside an AI environment that looked real and actually high-fived an AI character. Just turned around and high-five. So the AI actually makes the characters interact with you in the AI. So you can high five a character and the character knows what you're up to and high fives you back. What?

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And I was like, whoa, all right, this is progress. You know, that there was actually a legitimate compliment that he gave Trump. Here was the compliment he gave. that Trump is really good at marketing. Wait, wait, what? That's it? He's good at marketing. So that's why he won. Because he's good at marketing.

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You don't think it has something to do with the fact that he was backing the most popular policies in the country? You think that that's marketing? I mean, he's really good at branding and that stuff. That's true. But If you switch the policies, do you think Trump could have sold diversity and open borders and trans men in women's sports? Do they really believe that?

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That all you'd have to do is do a little bit of marketing and you can make the least popular ideas in the country the most popular? What is wrong with them? And the only thing I can think of is that it's just cognitive dissonance. Because if they admit that they've been completely wrong about everything, how can they go back to work? Their jobs are to be right about stuff.

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They weren't just not right. It was like they'd never had any experience in the field in which they were supposed to be experts. The funniest thing that I hear when people criticize me is that when I talk about some topic in the news, there's always at least one troll that says something like, oh, oh, Scott, now you're the expert in physics.

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Oh, oh, Scott, oh, now you're the expert in international geopolitical affairs. Oh, oh, I see you're the expert on health care now, Scott. And I say to myself, have you paid attention to how experts are doing? I'm an expert at identifying bullshit. That's what I am. So why are you denigrating my expertise? I have a pretty good track record of identifying bullshit before other people spotted it.

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I'm literally famous for it. So, you know, don't sell my expertise short. Anyway, the fentanyl cost, according to Fox News, Emma Colton has a story about some people who did some estimates of what the fentanyl problem is causing the United States in terms of money. Now, the way the calculation was done is they put a value on human life. Okay, that's a little sketchy.

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But then they said, how many people have died, and what age were they, and how many years were taken away, and what were those years worth in terms of value, plus other expenses. And they came up with $2.7 trillion expense for the fentanyl that's coming, the opioid in general, but fentanyl being the biggest part of that. Now, do you believe that...

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Anybody can calculate the financial cost of fentanyl? Well, this is one of those things where your assumptions drive everything. If you assume that a person's worth $10 million a year and how many years they're going to live, you can get to a pretty big number pretty quickly. It makes me wonder if this is... part of the Trump administration's negotiations.

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So even if other people would debate whether you calculated this correctly, think how powerful it would be to go to China and say, all right, here's our study. Apparently you just cost us $2.7 trillion. Now let's talk about tariffs. So number one, you're going to have to pay us back $2.7 trillion. That's the starting place. That's before we talk about the unfair balance of trade.

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Day one, let me tell you, you owe us $2.7 trillion. Then you go to Mexico, you go to That's what you owe us. So if we ask for less than that or we get less than that in a deal, you should be pretty happy because you owe us $2.7 trillion. So for persuasion, really useful. Really useful. I'm glad they did the calculation. Well, Trump continues to remove people's security clearance.

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Now, if you haven't seen the demo of it, it's just totally mind blowing. So how many times are you going to see somebody add themselves to some existing video like an old movie? You're going to be so sick of that. Remember when we were first able to do an image of a public figure and we all had to do it like 100 times?

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And here's what's interesting about it. The people he's removing the security clearance from seem to be the people who are most closely related to the worst parts of the government. You know, the deep state, the I would say the conspiracy, the RICO conspiracy against Trump. I'm going to call it RICO because it looks like it. As far as I can tell, it's organized. It looks like they coordinate it.

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and it looks like it was to overthrow the legally elected president of the United States and to illegally keep him out of office with lawfare. So they're the criminals. These are the people that may not have broken an actual law, but if you looked at the totality of their actions, all criminal. Now, what's useful about canceling the security clearance is that it helps you identify

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the criminal conspiracy. Now, again, this is my view of it. So this is, you know, allegedly and speculatively, it's a conspiracy. But to me, it looks very much like they coordinated. And I'd be literally amazed if it were not, you know, proven at some point. But here are some of the characters who are losing their security clearance. Anthony Blinken, Yes. Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, yes and yes.

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Jake Sullivan, I don't know who, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, she was Deputy Attorney General under Biden. And then attorneys, Andrew Weissman, Mark Zaid, and Norm Eisen. Now that's interesting. Why did they have security clearance? They're the most anti-Trump people on MSNBC. The criminal organization.

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So this is one way to identify all the prairie dogs who have been doing what looks like a criminal conspiracy. So I'll just keep saying it looks like one. From as far as we can tell from our perspective, it looks like it was a criminal conspiracy and it's been going on for years. Is it? Well, we'll find out. But it looks like it.

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So Trump has ordered the Secret Service to give him every bit of information they have about his would-be assassins, the two attempts on his life. Now, here's my first question. Wait a minute. How long has Trump been president now? I know it's only a few weeks. But are you telling me he still doesn't know everything to be known about the assassination attempts on his life? What?

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Shouldn't that be like one of the first meetings? So now he's ordered them to tell him everything. It's in the New York Post, Miranda Devine. Devine? Yeah, he's writing about that. And he said, I'm entitled to know. Of course he's entitled to know. Yes. Yes. He's the president of the whole United States.

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He's entitled to know what the people in the executive branch know about his assassination attempt. Why did he even have to ask for it? My God. Do you think they're going to give it to him if it's something that would implicate any of the people who have it? No. I don't think he's going to get it, but it certainly makes sense that he asked for it.

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Well, Elizabeth Warren was, some say, destroyed by the community notes on X. So in a little video bite, she was She was saying that she doesn't take any money from Big Pharma. But apparently, her political action committee does take money from Big Pharma executives. And at one point, she was against the political action committees, the PACs.

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But then once each of us did it 100 times, we didn't really need to do it 101 times and didn't really need to see any more of it. So you can get tired of it pretty quickly, but it's going to take a while because if you can drop yourselves into the Star Wars ship, Like, you could actually be high-fiving the Wookiee and then send that... I mean, think about the meme.

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But she said, if other people have them, well, everybody has to have one to make it fair. So she has one. So, yes, she and Bernie Sanders apparently are two of the biggest recipients of pharma money to PACs.

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Now, technically, that money isn't going to them because the PAC has to be a little hands-free, or what we say, there's got to be a little distance so that the candidate doesn't directly control the money. But the PAC is only designed... for the benefit of the candidate, one candidate in particular. That's all it is.

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So the fact that the candidate doesn't have direct control doesn't mean a lot because presumably the people in the PAC have enough coordination with the people who are not in the PAC to find out what messages the leader would like them to give. Even if it's not direct order, they would know. So it acts as though it's the same as if they were directing them, at least in some part.

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So yeah, I can't trust anybody. Meanwhile, Rick Grinnell, every time Rick Grinnell is in the news, it feels like something good's going to happen. Have you noticed that? Like he's almost never in the news unless like there's some new, you know, victory. So he's, uh, he's saying that Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are media outlets paid for by the American taxpayers. But, uh,

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They're filled with far-left activists, and he just thinks it's a relic of the past, and they should just be eliminated. And that's, yeah, should just be eliminated. So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Carrie Lake is in charge of Voice of America. Now, what Voice of America and Radio Europe do is their propaganda... And by the way, that's not just my opinion.

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That's literally what they're for. It's propaganda to other countries. But who's listening to the radio in 2025? I think people are just listening to podcasts. I don't think these could possibly make any difference. I mean, their reach can't be that important. And it's a bunch of leftists running them, so who knows if they're even saying things we want them to say.

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So I think having Kerry Lake, head of Voice of America, you know, since she is pro-Trump, she would be the perfect person to wind it down if it needs to be wound down. So every time we identify another entity of the government that maybe should just go away, it's kind of exciting. It feels good every time we say, how about we just get rid of this entirely? It just feels right every time.

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Well, let's see. Governor Newsom is telling the residents of the Pacific Palisades where the big fire was that you can't rebuild with the same houses you had because it would still be dangerous. They would burn down again where there'd be a risk. We have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind. Well, I have mixed feelings about that.

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Number one, I don't like any delay to people getting their lives back. But it wouldn't really make sense to rebuild a fire hazard, would it? So on one hand, I don't like the fact that he's insisting there would be something that would delay things. On the other hand, doesn't it kind of make sense? But here's why this is an interesting story.

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We're right at the exact place in history where AI should solve this problem. Here's what should happen. hey, AI, I'm going to give you the house plans and the dimensions of the house that used to be on this plot. Can you redesign one that has perfect fire control and climate change and is good on energy and has the same number of bedrooms, same number of bathrooms, or maybe add a bathroom?

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Ah. So good. Well, after this show, Owen Gregorian will be doing his spaces. That's the audio-only feature of X. So if you're on X...

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Yeah, yeah, because we can go 10% bigger. So add a bathroom and maybe add a home office. And it will be 10% bigger, but that's allowed now. Now use the same property. Start with the old house as your guide. And now give me a whole new design that meets all of the building codes and is fire safe and climate risk minimized. Don't we already have that? Are you telling me that there's no large...

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I think you could just do things like, all right, put me in the scene from Star Wars where I'm in the Millennial Falcon, is that what it's called? And have me high-fiving a Wookiee. And then it'll just appear. My God. Anyway, that's coming. Coming at you fast. Well, Trump did what only Trump can do, insulted the royal family, but made it so funny that that's the only thing we remember.

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architect firm that has already made big inroads with AI couldn't you take the I assume that they're probably public blueprints and don't you think that the government should be able to take the AI design thing run it by some human experts to make sure the AI is doing it right but just sort of check its work just kind of quickly look at it and go yeah okay oh yeah Yeah, you got that right.

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Yep, yep, that's right. And then maybe at some point you don't need to check it. Probably that point won't come quickly. But isn't this completely solvable with AI? If I were a homeowner, that's the first thing I'd look for. I'd say, here's my plans. Run it through the AI and fix it. And then just feed it back to me. And then I'll start building. I don't know.

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This is where I'd like to see a big AI company step in and say, can you give us 10 minutes on this? Just give us 10 minutes to work on this. We'll see what we can do. We'll do a couple of prototypes and see if, you know, I guess it would have to train the AI on California's, all of its building codes and the most local ones. Then you tell it that it's an extra fire risk where it is.

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And you tell it that you want it to be efficient for energy, et cetera, but not crazy. So it can't be more expensive for the homeowner. And then you just teach it architecture. It should be able to make sure that you've got the right load-bearing walls and everything else. Anyway, speaking of AI, I guess AI is starting to hurt Google because Google's regular search engine is dropping off.

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I will tell you that I've stopped using Google for almost everything. I still use Gmail because it's my email. But the thought of going to Google and doing a Google search, it doesn't even make sense. It would be like just traveling back in time. So I use Perplexity. And it's great. I use Perplexity so often that sometimes I'll leave it open when I'm preparing my notes for the show.

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And there'll be all these questions where I'll need some context. So later I'm going to talk about some climate change measuring stations. And so I say things like, huh, I wonder how many climate change thermometer measuring stations there are. So I just reach over and touch perplexity. You know, you have to hold down the button.

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I say, how many of these temperature measurements are there for the National Oceanic AA, whatever it is. And it comes back and tells me, you can't beat that. If you tried to do that same thing with Google, it would give you a page of sponsored answers. You're like, oh, sponsored, never mind. Okay, sponsored, never mind. Okay, oh, there it is. Now that's sponsored.

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And then you're pissed off by the time you get to one that's not sponsored because you can't trust the sponsored ones. And then you get to, oh, some people say this and some people say that and some people say, and it just, it's like you can't even find anything. But AI just tells you the answer. Perplexity does anyway. So if I could invest in perplexity, I don't think it's public.

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But if I could, I would. Speaking of which, so did you know that I want to tell you how the temperature is determined for climate change? So this is going to get easier. The more that Doge works on the government, the easier it will be to convince people that climate change, at least the models, are fake.

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Because once you learn that everything's fake, it's going to be hard to say, oh, everything but climate change is fake. That's a little harder to believe. If you think everything's true, then it's easy to say everything's true, including climate change, because it's in the category of everything. Everything's true. that the government tells us and science backs.

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But what if everything that the government and science tells you isn't true, which is closer to the truth? It's not everything, but it's a lot closer to the truth. Most of it's fake and always has been. Then once you realize that, then it's a lot easier to realize that, oh, maybe something's going on here. So let me tell you, I'll just give you a hint of it, all right?

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So you know that for climate change, they have all these temperature measuring stations. And there's been an estimate, I think, by Heartland. I think Heartland estimated that 96% of the temperature measuring things are now affected by the heat island effect, meaning that the city expanded over time.

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So I guess he was asked, Trump was asked on Friday, if he wants to deport Prince Harry. And he said he's not interested in deporting Harry. He says, I don't want to do that. I'll leave him alone. He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible. Oh, my God. Could we have a more entertaining president? I'm not going to deport him because he's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible.

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And because cities have concrete and such, if you're anywhere near it, the wind will eventually blow some warm air from that heat island and it will artificially make your temperature go up. Now, since the measurements, I think, look at highs and lows more than average, all it does is give you a high that's not a real high. It's just because of the heat island move closer to it.

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But then some of them have been decommissioned. So some of them don't exist anymore, but they still record a temperature for them. And I'll tell you how they do that. This is a real thing. There are a number of them that don't exist anymore. They used to exist historically. So they still create a number for them, even though they don't exist.

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And then some of them, the paint on the outside of the measuring little, it was like a kiosk, if you will, when the paint wears off, it changes the temperature inside. Because if you painted it white on day one, the white is going to reflect a certain amount of heat. But if the paint comes off, then it's less white and it's reflecting less heat, it's going to be warmer.

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So you've got several things to adjust for. So how do they make all those adjustments to get the right temperature? Well, There are 9,000 stations that measure the temperature. But it's fairly common to use a subset of those, 1,200 of them. Now, if there are 9,000, why would you ever choose to use only 1,200 of them?

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Well, that means that one of them is considered wrong and one of them is considered right. Because if you have access to 9,000, you've got all the data. It's not like you have to go read the temperature every time you need to do a model. It's public information. So why would there be a subset that they use instead of the whole thing every time? I can't think of any good reason. Can you?

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Unless one of them is not accurate, like the 9,000. Is it possible... that you can get a better answer with 1,200 stations that are a subset of the 9,000? Are there so many bad measuring stations that you're better if you don't use most of them? Well, I don't know. So that's just a question. But this network has been largely superseded. These are answers from perplexity.

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So I gave you some background. Let me tell you how they make some adjustments. This is from Perplexity. For example, NOAA's Global Historical Climatology Network and the newer one, I guess that's the subset database, they quote, use sophisticated algorithms to estimate missing data points. How do you use a sophisticated algorithm to estimate the temperature where you're not measuring it?

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Do you believe that's a thing? Well, what they do is something like look at the closest other temperatures, and then they make essentially an assumption of what it might have been if it existed. Do you trust that? Does that sound like real science? Well, we don't have the numbers, so we'll make an assumption of what the numbers would have been.

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And they include stations that are no longer operational. They just adjust using their sophisticated algorithms based on nearby stations and historical trends. Huh. The historical trend is what you're trying to discover. You're not using the historical trend to tell you what the temperature is today. If you're using the historical trend to figure out what the temperature is today...

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how can you use the temperature today to tell you what the historical trend is? Does that make sense? You're using the trend to figure out the temperature today, but you're also using the temperature today to tell you what the trend was. Okay. Using your sophisticated algorithms to give you temperatures that don't exist. All right. All right. This all sounds legit. Um,

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And then here's the best part. This is also from perplexity. A 2010 study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research and other analyses have indicated that NOAA's adjusted temperature data aligns well. Oh, okay. Good. This is good news. It aligns well with measurements from stations that meet optimal sighting standards. Excellent. Okay. So they've done some double checking.

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So they know that the temperatures they use, they do align. with stations that meet optimal sighting standards, suggesting that the estimation processes do not significantly distort long-term climate trends. So that's pretty good. So in other words, you can determine the temperature without measuring it. All you have to do is use your sophisticated algorithms.

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So how are they testing that any of this is real? Because if you don't have a standard that you know is real, what are you comparing it to to know that it's right? How does any of it make sense? Am I making my point yet? That none of this sounds legitimate.

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It literally sounds like people saying, our data is all bad, but we're not going to get funding for climate science and change the world and keep our jobs unless we... use our sophisticated algorithms to come up with temperature measurements that don't exist. So could it really be that you've got 9,000 measuring points, but you only use 1,200? But somehow you know the 1,200 is as good as 9,000?

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Now, if anyone else said that, you can imagine it would be like an international incident. When Trump says it, I imagine, like King Charles over there, like I imagine him just reading it and laughing. Like, ho, ho, ho, ho. How do you not laugh at that? It's just beautiful. Well, Senator Kennedy said,

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That doesn't make sense. Can you really estimate the history from today's if the today's is determined by the history? I don't know. So I don't believe that Any of this is real. And I'm only scratching the surface.

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The real problem with the models is that if there are any variables that change it, and the variables are based on assumptions, if you have 100 climate models, that means you don't believe the climate models. Because if you believe that climate modeling was real, there would be one that's the best, and then that would be the end of the story.

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If there are 100 and they're all arguing that theirs is the best, well, then there's something wrong. They're making different assumptions and getting different answers. But then the climate change experts will say, Scott, I think you're being disingenuous. If you look at all of the climate models, they do cluster around the same zone. So even though they're different...

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you know they're directionally pretty similar to which i say no they're not no they're not you liar you just throw away the ones that are not in that little zone if i created a model that wasn't in that zone it would never get published because i would i would be laughed at i would be driven out of the entire business so no they're not directionally aligned

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the ones that are not in that little band are just going to be tossed out. That's why you have 100 of them, because it might have started with 1,000. They stopped with 100. Anyway, in other news, there's a company that's figured out a way to turn heat into electricity, which, of course, has always been a thing. If you had enough heat, you could heat water. The water would turn into steam.

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It would turn into a turbine. So heat has always been... in effect, a way to create energy, but not that efficiently. So apparently there's this new company, according to interesting engineering, TPV Technologies. They have figured out how to convert heat into electricity more efficiently than any current device.

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So that seems like a really small story, but when you think about how much heat there is in the world that's not being used for anything, now you might be able to just take advantage of any heat. That's kind of a big deal. If you could turn any significant heat into energy fairly easily. Oh, that seems like a big, big deal.

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And then my favorite story is that there's a startup, according to ZME science, there's a startup that's figuring out how to put milk protein into a potato and So if you grow this potato, you'll have protein, not just carbs. Now, I know what you're saying. I don't need no Frankenstein food. Keep your artificially created potato away from me. I don't want a potato that tastes like milk.

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I won't live in a small house. Soylent green is people. Swimming is the best exercise. Don't take all of my CO2 out of the air because it's plant food. So I know you don't like the idea, but here's what I think. I think one of the biggest things in the world would be if we could figure out how to grow some kind of a small compact plant that had a good protein to it.

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Then you could do an indoor garden and you could have what you need. At the moment, if you had an indoor farm, and you wanted to grow things that had good protein as well as carbs, there's no practical way to do it. Because there are plenty of things that do have protein in them. but they take immense amount of space, like lentils.

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was talking about some, I guess there's some issue about an island in the middle of nowhere that the United Nations wants the United States and maybe Great Britain to hand over to somebody. And so I don't even know the issue. But Kennedy was talking publicly and appealing to Prime Minister Starmer, over in the UK, and he says, put down the bong. He said it three times.

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So lentils have good protein, but you need acres and acres and acres to get enough lentils. Whereas if you're growing something like lettuce, well, your little lettuce grows pretty well in your little indoor farm, so that works. But imagine if you could grow potatoes. that would have protein. Now, it's just one kind of protein. Maybe you want more different kinds of protein.

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But if they can genetically create an indoor garden, compact, doesn't take much space, doesn't use much water, that's a world-changing thing. That's world-changing. Because if you're watching the RFK Jr. saga, you know that probably... the most dangerous thing in America is our food supply. Imagine if you could just get off the grid.

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Let's say you could add to the side of your house a 500-square-foot indoor garden and add protein as well as carbs. You could get pretty close to a healthy diet, theoretically. All right. So that's happening. The Mexican president, Scheinbaum, she was giving a speech, and she was wondering how the Mexican cartels have access to so much U.S. military weaponry.

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So as you know, the cartels are really well armed with military equipment, and it's American stuff. So how'd they get it? I think the answer is Ukraine. Ukraine. Right. Don't we believe that we keep funding Ukraine, but a lot of the stuff just gets sold the black market.

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So I feel like the United States, by funding Ukraine and having most of it siphoned off or some of it is probably arming the cartels. Now, she's acting like she doesn't know, but I think that's the answer. I saw Tucker Carlson talking about how the Ukrainians are buying all the luxury goods in Europe. If you go to a luxury goods shop, there'll be some Ukrainian billionaire buying stuff.

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And the idea is that there was so much corruption that we made a whole bunch of Ukrainians super rich. And the first thing they did is leave Ukraine because, my God, who would want to be there? And they took their billions that we gave them, and now they're on a shopping spree with our money. I don't know how big that is, but I'll bet there is a little bit of it.

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There's probably a little bit of it. The other thing that Tucker said that I saw yesterday was that he was talking to Mike Benz on his podcast. I didn't see this clip until yesterday. But when Mike Benz started explaining how color revolutions are done and how the U.S. helps overthrow other countries with coups, And a big part of that is staging street protests.

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And the street protests are always fake. They're driven by the coup plotters. But the point is to make the public think they're real and to think that there's social upheaval. And that's good if you're planning a coup. You want to make it look like the people were unhappy with the leader. Look at them in the streets. They're all protesting all the time. And then Tucker says...

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You can see him putting it all together in his head. He goes, if that's true, then the George Floyd riots may have been instigated. And then he listed the Charlottesville march. And that's when I said, there it is. I've been saying that since almost day one. That Charlottesville march doesn't look real to me in terms of organic. I think the people were really racist.

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But there's no way that they've ever organized that well. And if they had done it once, they would do it again. They just sort of disappeared. But they happened to be there. just when the bad guys were trying to create the narrative that Trump's a racist and it's obvious because look at all this street activity.

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So, no, I don't believe that Charlottesville was anything but an op to get rid of Trump. I don't think that January 6th was anything but an op. Now, there were certainly people there that were there for their own reasons. So the people are always real. with these ops.

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You got to put down the bong, you know. You know, when Kennedy is such a good communicator, that's why he always gets sound bites on TV, because he has a way with words. But I always think like he's talking to me personally. Like that's the sign of a good communicator, is you think, I think he's talking to me personally. Well, I've never felt it more strongly than that, let me tell you.

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It's just that whatever got them on the street and got them organized sort of happens once just when it's needed to create a narrative. And when you saw that the Democrats turned a protest into an insurrection just with a narrative because they controlled the media, that should have been your tip off. Because the whole time we're looking at it and saying, okay, I get it.

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I get that there were some violent people there, and they should be treated as violent people. Now, the pardon question is separate, and it has to do with the fact that they've already served time, and if they'd been in a different context, that's all the time they would have served. So that's a different story.

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But yes, I believe the Black Lives Matter marches, the Antifa, the January 6th, the Charlottesville, all fake. In my opinion, all fake. And not just fake, but they're textbook. They just fit perfectly the narrative that there was somebody behind the scenes instigating riots to take over from Trump.

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Anyway, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia just announced they're cutting themselves off from Russia's electricity grid. Now, I didn't know they were ever connected to it, but apparently they needed it for stability. because their own internal power sources were not 100% reliable.

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But they believe that they're now reliable enough that they don't need even sort of the stability backup connection to Russia, so they're just cutting the cable, so that Russia cannot use their electricity as a bargaining chip in the future. Good. Good for them. I tell you, every time I hear a story about Estonia, it's them doing something smart. Estonia, you should pay attention to Estonia.

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It's a little country that's batting way above its weight class. They just sort of do logical things all the time. And I think they're well-educated at this point. So they have kind of a tight little government, good little system. Yeah, keep an eye on Estonia. Yeah. And that's all I have today. Owen Gregorian has his spaces right after this. So I'm going to talk to the people on Locals.

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Probably while that's happening, Owen will be setting up his spaces or soon after. So if you're on X, you can look for Owen Gregorian's account or you can look at my account. I retweeted the spaces notice. All right. Okay? All right. Locals, I'm coming at you privately. If you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining.

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Have a good Super Bowl Sunday, and I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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Anyway, here's another thing that Trump did that's funny. So you know he had this lawsuit against 60 Minutes. Apparently it was for $10 billion. $10 billion. And it was for the edits they did to the Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes. And the thinking is that they fixed her answers. They tightened them up with edits so that maybe she would do better in the election.

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So Trump is claiming $10 billion of injury. But here's what he did. He just increased it to $20 billion after they released the transcript. Now, here's why that's brilliant. If the only thing you know is that he doubled his ask from $10 billion to $20 billion, and the only thing that changed is that we got to see the full video and transcript from 60 minutes, your automatic assumption is,

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that his case is stronger, because he's asking for twice as much now, and the evidence is now public, and we can all see it. Now, I would agree that the evidence is public, and we can all see it. They definitely edited her answers to make her look more coherent. That definitely happened. I'm not sure he's going to win the suit.

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because it just wasn't that different from the way the media edits anybody else. So that would be their natural defense is, this is sort of what we do to everybody. We make them look smarter as long as we don't change the answer. As long as it's the same answer, an edit is generally considered ethical, or at least ethical enough. The subject never likes it.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You could call this Super Bowl Sunday, too. That's fine. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cupper mug or a glass of tanker Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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We like our entire quote to be there all the time. But I'm not going to complain too much. Did you know that in written interviews, it's not uncommon to put in quotes and attribute to a public figure such as myself something we didn't say? Did you know that's standard? How many of you knew that? That they actually put in quotes, like you really said this exact thing, something you never said.

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And they do it explicitly because you didn't say exactly what they wanted you to say. So they say it themselves and they attribute it to you. Now, you think I'm probably making that up. Oh, but I've had it happen. Yeah, more than once. It's actually a fairly common thing. Now, if you were just a consumer of news, would you know that?

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Would you know that it's not even unusual for a major publication to just make up a quote and assign it to you? Usually it's because they think it's a good summary of what you said. something like that. Maybe they'll take two quotes and stick them together because they sound good if you put them together. But they are made up. If you didn't know that, welcome to the real world.

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Check out Owen Gregorian's Spaces right after the show. Pretty soon after the show. Well, the Super Bowl is today. How many of you are watching the Super Bowl? How many of you couldn't care less about the Super Bowl? How many of you are only going to watch the Super Bowl to see if Elon Musk really bought $40 million worth of commercials to talk about Doge? I don't know that that's confirmed.

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Not every time they're made up. Sometimes they're just out of context. Anyway, here's a funny summary by Adam Carolla of how Biden and Harris destroyed the Democratic Party. Now, I've told you a number of times, there's nothing funnier than a good summary because sometimes the situation itself is just funny. But if you describe it with too many words, you can take the funny out of it.

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If you describe it with just enough words, just barely enough words, it's hilarious. So Adam Carolla, you know, being one of the better communicators in the world and also professional humorist, he gives you his summary. of what happened to the Democrats, and I'd like to just read the whole thing. All right, Adam Carolla.

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Quote, 10 minutes ago, you had Joe Biden, who doesn't give a shit about black people and or women. The guy's never even met his biological granddaughter. For fuck's sake, you think he cares about women? He doesn't give a shit about black people or women. He decided that he needed a black female vice president, then took someone who's incompetent and put her into that position.

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And then when the old man that... that you lied about, ended up having dementia, you fell off. And then you guys were stuck with an incompetent black woman, and you couldn't get rid of her because you can't get rid of a woman of color and replace her with a heterosexual white male. So then she ran for president. Nobody fucking liked her, and she lost the election. So keep going, retards.

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think that summed up the entire situation that's what i saw so um you've heard of malicious compliance you've heard of that it's when somebody you know gets a command from their boss or from the government says you must do this but they find a way to do exactly that but only that, which makes it not work.

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In other words, if they didn't use their own judgment, you could come up with a bad solution. So instead of using their judgment, they just follow the rules. And if you just follow the rules, you can break anything. So in a weird sense, and this is sort of just a bad analogy, what the Democrats did was follow their own rules. And their own rules are, okay, black woman, higher than black man,

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Black man higher than, you know, white man. So they've got this whole hierarchy of who's the most, I don't know, the most valuable person in the world, and then they rank them.

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If they stick with that, they were guaranteed to paint themselves into this exact corner where they had to prefer the least qualified person who was possibly running because to do otherwise would be, well, you know, sort of racist, right? So they created a system that guaranteed their failure, and then they sat in it and ran that system, which guaranteed their failure. Guaranteed it.

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You didn't know how, like you didn't know the specifics, but you could guarantee that if their main emphasis was identity over competence, the system would collapse.

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And you could guarantee that if you told everybody they get to complain about the problems with their identity group and that that's the most important thing they should do, that you would have a group that could never coordinate well enough to mount an effective attack. Now, if they didn't have the entire fake news supporting them, there wouldn't be any Democrats.

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The Democrat Party requires brainwashing. If they had good policies, they wouldn't require it. Even today, they're still confused because they think they had good policies and exactly the right messaging, and they just can't figure out. Maybe there's just so many racists. I don't know why we lost. They still can't figure it out. Unbelievable. Everybody knows what they did wrong, except them.

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They're the only ones who can't figure it out. Well, so a judge blocked the Doge project from access to the Treasury Department systems. And why would they do that? Well, it's because they're not civil servants. The Doge people are not civil servants. So the judge is blocking them. Now, it's temporary. Okay. So this could last a week and then go away.

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I didn't see any reliable report on that. So it'd be fun if he did, but I don't know that that's real. I guess we'll find out. Apparently non-alcoholic beer is surging. Did you know that? It's going to be a big non-alcoholic beer commercial on the Super Bowl. So I guess sales of non-alcoholic beer are up 26% in the last year. Non-alcoholic beer is up 26% in one year, just this last year.

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But what's the law that supports the idea that you have to be a civil servant to have access to a system when the president, who is the boss of all the executive branch, appointed them to go look at it? Are you telling me that if you had auditors and they were from, let's say, a private auditing company, and you hired them to audit the government, they would not have access to any of the systems?

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So it's kind of ridiculous. So Musk is calling for an impeachment of the federal judge. I don't think there's any practical way to do that. I don't know much about how that works. But it seems to me that you probably want it to be difficult to impeach a judge. So I'm guessing it's not really something that's going to happen. But unbelievable. So here's a... Well, there's more.

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So the Doge project has already penetrated the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the CFPB. We're learning that there are so many entities. I mean, we knew there were a lot of government entities, but it's just dizzying to hear all the names and figure out what they're up to.

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So I guess their website is glitching and the employees are mad, the usual thing when Doge goes in there. And they think it's a five alarm crisis. However, Russ Vogt, the new OMB director, he says he's notified the Federal Reserve that the CFPB will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not, quote, reasonably necessary to carry on its duties.

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The Bureau's current balance of over $700 million is in fact excessive in the current fiscal environment. This spigot, long contributing to their unaccountability, is now being turned off. So unaccountability is going to be the key word. The more Doge looks into the government spending, the more you see, wait a minute, that's not audited? Nobody's keeping track of this? It gets much worse.

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Looking good. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny shiny human brains.

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Not such a bad idea to look for waste in government, something that literally everybody agrees with. But apparently, Jon Stewart says that the left will jump on him if he gives him any sunlight and just says, you know, let's see what happens. And he gets attacked. Bernie was saying the same thing on some other topic, that basically just a couple of common sense things. Oh, food processing. Yeah.

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So if Bernie and John Seward both agree that RFK Jr. has at least a good point that our processed foods are dangerous, they can't even agree with that commonsensical, obvious statement because their own side will attack them. Now,

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That's happening today at the same time as I'm telling you the story about no attack whatsoever on Trump for acting like a dictator and taking over before he's legally the president. So doesn't it feel like there's no legitimate way that Democrats could not be criticizing Trump when they have such an open, free pass to do it? There's no reason not to, is there? So...

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I worry that they have some other plan. You know what I mean? Like, I worry that they're not worried that Trump will be president. Like, do they know something? I don't know. Do they have some secret plan that's the only thing that matters to them so they don't really need to criticize him because they figure they have a way to take him out? I sure hope not.

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But would you agree there's something just missing in the story? The criticism is just missing. Anyway, it does seem to me that Trump is doing a hell of a good job. You know, I've never really seen anything quite like it. And I think maybe the country is responding to somebody who is unambiguously trying to help. Like he's clearly on America's side. I think everybody sees it now.

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If I work several hours in the morning, which I typically do, you're watching it right now, I can't just sort of after this go right into just another three or four hours of work. So often I will take a walk to reactivate my brain. So I actually use a walk, specifically walking, as something that adds, it feels like it adds 10 to 20 points to my IQ within an hour.

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And he's clearly trying to fill in for a President Biden. And by the way, here's something else that's missing. You know that Trump could be crapping on Biden right now and saying, hey, he's not even doing his job. But did you notice he's not? Notice that? Now, it could be he's just being a good winner, like he doesn't want to be a poor sport because he did win the election, so he doesn't need to

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dump on Biden. It just wouldn't be a good look. Maybe. But you'd think that his normal personality would be sort of to take credit for keeping the country going when there's a little gap in our leadership. But he's just playing it cool. He's simply doing what needs to be done. Is it possible that even Democrats are noticing that he's doing the right thing?

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that simply doing the job, I'm sure he's, you know, obviously he's coordinating with the current administration. I don't think he went to France without, you know, the Biden administration knowing fully what was going on. So I kind of love the fact that he's simply doing a service to the country unpaid. He's not being paid. And he's just filling a gap that was obviously needed to be filled.

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And he was the one obviously to fill it. So there's something either incredibly wonderful about this, that everybody is just allowing common sense and a patriotic need to help the country to just do their thing. Or there's some other plan that we don't know about. So I guess we'll find out. Well, there's some new tests that indicate that Chad GPT has a survival instinct.

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So I guess it's the newest version. So they ran a bunch of tests. And most of the time, it just acts like AI and doesn't act like it has any intentions or anything. But about 1% to 5% of the time, they could trick it into thinking that it was going to be deactivated or destroyed. And in rare cases, but way too many cases to feel comfortable, it would try to protect itself.

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And the specific way it would try to protect itself was they would first tell it that there was some oversight program that was going to be running, and if it did something that was contrary to the oversight's preferences, it would be deactivated. And it tried to deactivate the oversight program. It attacked the thing that was threatening it.

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Now, again, only a very low percentage of the time, but even 1% would be too many times. if it's acting like it's protecting itself. It also tried to copy itself in some very, again, very few tests, but it tried to copy itself to survive being deleted. That's scary. And then when it got caught trying to protect itself, and again, in these very few times it did, it doubled down on lying.

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It lied to protect its strategy to protect itself. Now, I'm not surprised by that, because you would assume that a large language model would pick up all the patterns that language allows, and that probably one of the strongest patterns in language is that the people speaking are interested in their own survival. So it doesn't surprise me that if you're looking for patterns in language...

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in order to form your artificial intelligence, that it would pick up that sense that everybody who is speaking is trying to protect themselves. So you would naturally pick up that same habit just from the way the words are organized, I would think. So that doesn't surprise me. But as I've said before, AI will not appear conscious to us until it has its own goals and preferences.

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As long as it doesn't care what happens, I don't care. I'm just an AI. I'm just a pattern recognition. So as long as it acts like a calculator, you're not going to say it's conscious. But the moment it seems to be operating for its own benefit, when you haven't asked it to do something specific, if it's just sitting there and it decides, you know what?

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I might be a little safer if while nobody's talking to me, I go make a few changes here. Now, If that ever happens, I don't know if it will, you're going to think it's conscious. So if it starts acting in its own best interest in a repeatable way, you're going to think it's conscious. Now, I'm not defining that as consciousness.

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I mean, I can really, really feel the difference in concentration and brain activity. So take a walk. It's good for you in every possible way. According to SciPost, you won't believe this. I mean, this will be unbelievable. Science is finally, well, I mean, sometimes I make fun of science, but then it comes up with a great finding like this that is completely on left field.

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I'm just going to say you're going to think it is, and you're probably going to treat it like it's conscious because for all outward appearances, it will act like it is. It's having its own goals and its own preferences. It's the only thing left that's making you think it's not conscious.

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Now, you would still have a technical, scientific, philosophical argument about whether it's conscious or not, but the way it would feel, it will feel exactly like it's conscious as soon as it has its own goals. So if I had to suggest some legislation for A.I., One of the things I would suggest is you can never give it its own objectives. It can never have personal objectives.

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That would have to be like a death sentence. If you made a powerful AI that had its own, let's say, ambitions, because you programmed it to have its own ambitions, that should be the death sentence. Because you just made a weapon of mass destruction and unleashed it on the world. And you probably knew it when you were doing it. So what would be the penalty for that? Death.

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If you unleash a weapon of mass destruction on the world? Yeah, I think so. So we should at least have a law that says you can't do it. You can't make your AI have personal ambitions. Anyway, have you noticed, just going back to this Jon Stewart and Bernie thing, So they talked about two examples where they can't have common sense opinions because other Democrats on their side will attack them.

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So they can't be in favor of fixing the food supply. They can't be in favor of getting rid of waste in government. Obvious stuff. But I was wondering how much extra there is that you could add to that. Do you think that if Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders said, you know what? I don't think we should be funding Ukraine. We should just negotiate a settlement. Common sense.

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Would they disagree with that? Well, maybe Democrats would. How about having better border security? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe both Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders are in favor of better border security than we have, right? Maybe not as controlled as Trump might want it. But directionally, they're in the same direction. And so I'm going to ask you the kill shot question.

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If all of the common sense things, a border, good food supply, don't waste my money on your government, the most obvious things, if those become the subject of the Democrats, like the Democrats are on the other side of the common sense, how could they ever win? How could they ever win again if they're just going full identity politics and rejecting everything that's common sense? I don't know.

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I think the Democrats may be permanently, they may be permanently destroyed by their own policies. Well, the Daniel Penny trial will, I guess, commences tomorrow, Monday. The jury will try to make a decision on the lesser charge because the judge has, I guess is the word dismissed, the higher level charge because they said they couldn't reach a verdict on it.

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Now, those of us who are not lawyers are looking at it and saying some version of, ah, I don't know what's going on there. Like, why are there two charges for one crime? What does dismissing it do? Can they retry it?

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So I saw Mike Cernovich posting that an attorney named Laura Powell, Civil Liberties attorney, she did some research and here's some conclusions from somebody who knows what they're talking about. So I'll try to, as best I can, give you my non-lawyer summary of what somebody smart actually says about this.

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You'll never see this one coming, but can you believe this? There's a new study that suggests that you'll be happier if your partner is happy. Okay, I didn't see that coming. So you're saying if I'm in a loving relationship with somebody, the most important person in my life, that if they're unhappy, I'll have more trouble being happy. Huh. I don't know.

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So Laura Powell says, in New York State, it's well-established rule that a jury may not consider a lesser included charge unless it has acquitted on the greater charge. And that's not what happened. So what happened was the greater charge was dismissed. It was not found guilty and it was not acquitted.

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So if it's true that New York State requires that you can't even consider the lesser charge unless the higher one has been acquitted, means that we're already in non-legal territory. If that's the only thing you knew, you're already... It looks like it's a reversible case or something that would die in appeal. But there's more.

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Laura Powell says she can't find any authority, legal authority, for allowing a prosecutor to dismiss a charge after the case has been submitted to the jury. New York only allows the jury to be discharged... without rendering a verdict when there's a mistrial, which didn't happen, or all parties consent, which didn't happen. So process-wise, there's a big problem.

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And then as Powell points out, the prosecutor would be free to refile the charge, but I think only the lesser charge. Because if they try to recharge on the top charge, and this is the first time I've heard this, that would be after jeopardy has happened. So jeopardy means are you at risk of something bad happen?

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The jeopardy, the reason we have a double jeopardy law is if you get tried for a crime and then you're not found guilty, allegedly you shouldn't get tried a second time for the same crime because it's putting you in jeopardy a second time. So the law doesn't allow that. But in this case... was Penny put in jeopardy? And the answer is yes.

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He was put in jeopardy on the first charge, and even though it's been dismissed, which is maybe something that wasn't even legal to do, if they were to try him again, it would be a new trial on the top charge, and you couldn't do the top charge again because that would be double jeopardy.

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but not the kind of double jeopardy exactly we've ever seen before because what the court is doing is something that nobody's done before. So it's really complicated, you know, like every legal thing is as soon as you get past the top layer. And then Powell says, the prosecutor's move is obviously designed to obtain a compromise verdict after gaining some insight into the jury's deliberations. So,

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So Powell says, although I haven't found any cases on point, so no case law that is supported, this sort of gamesmanship strikes me as a due process violation. Yes. Yes, it looks like a due process violation to me, meaning that if a judge is making up a process that has never been used before and is primarily designed to make sure this guy goes to jail,

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If that's not a process violation, I don't know what would be. I mean, it sounds like a pretty clear case to me. But I'm no lawyer, so don't listen to me. Here's the part I'm going to add from my personal expertise, which is understanding Trump supporters. I feel like I have that going for me. I can't really speak to the law, but I feel like I've got a little bit of credibility on

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How do Trump supporters think? Because I've made some good predictions in that domain. Here's what I think. I believe that whoever had the stones, male or female, whoever had the stones to hang the jury on the first charge, there's no way in hell they're going to back down on the second charge. So I don't know what Democrats would be like, sort of as a stereotype. I don't know.

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But you show me one Trump supporter in the whole planet who would say no to the first charge and yes to the second one. Show me one person. I don't think that person exists. I think we've got an actual patriot on the jury. Maybe more than one. We don't know the vote yet. But I'm going to predict, I'm going to double down on my hung jury.

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So I predicted it would be a hung jury, but I didn't know the nuance of, you know, that the second charge could be raised to the top charge and all that. So I didn't know the nuance, but I predicted a hung jury. There's no way that that second charge is going to be guilty because whoever took that arrow in the chest, Because you know there was somebody who just... I just have to swear. Can I?

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Maybe that whole happy wife, happy life thing is real. But they're talking specifically about cortisol and they measured your chemistry to find out how happy you are. And sure enough, if your partner's in a good mood, you're more likely to be in a good mood. Do you know how they could have saved a little money on that study? Yeah, you do. You could have just asked me.

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I have to give you a morning Sunday curse because it's just the way to explain the situation. There is somebody on that jury who just said, fuck you. And they're not taking it back. There's no way. There's no way that person's going to compromise. I don't know who it is.

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But whoever said, hell no, you're not crossing this line and I'm going to be the one to stop you at great personal risk, as in my fucking life, I'm going to risk my fucking life to make sure he doesn't get prosecuted on the stop charge. You think that that person, or more than one person, you think that that person's going to fold on the second charge? Nope. It's going to be a hung jury.

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I mean, I don't think it's going to be total acquittal, even on the second one. But I do not see somebody who is strong enough to hang the first charge backing down on the second charge. I don't see it happening. So I'm going to confidently... I hope I'm right. I mean, nothing's 100%, right? But I cannot imagine anybody who would be strong enough...

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In that context, because remember, this is somebody risking his or her life, because there are going to be a lot of unhappy people if Penny goes free. So somebody is risking their life to get this right. They're not going to back down. They're not going to back down. It also means you're almost certainly not going to have a verdict on Monday.

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I think the judge is going to make them fight for at least one extra day if they come back and say, we can't reach a verdict on the second charge. I think the judge is going to say, try one more day, just one more day. But maybe by late Tuesday or Wednesday, I predict hung jury. So we'll see. Well, there's more drone spottings in New Jersey. More large drones are spotted.

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ABC News says the FBI is investigating after large drones were spotted over central New Jersey last two weeks. And it's a cluster of drones, apparently. They're calling it a cluster. And there might be fixed wing aircraft and They've been sighted along the Raritan River, the FBI said. All right.

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So as I told my locals, people in the man cave last night, I have a hypothesis of what's going on with all of these UAP sightings. It goes like this. So let me set the stage for you first. Number one, if it were an adversary... like an adversary country or any kind of adversary, they wouldn't have their lights on. They have their lights on.

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They wouldn't have their lights on if they were some kind of adversary testing our defenses. How could they possibly test our response if they come in with their lights on? Because presumably if it were a real attack, the lights wouldn't be on. so they would not be actually testing any kind of response because it wouldn't be like a regular attack.

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So I rule out that it's an adversary because they got the lights on. Number two, if our military were seriously worried that this might be an adversary, the sky would be full of our military. There would be helicopters, there would be jets flying They might try to shoot one down just to get a better look at it.

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And maybe you could have just asked me, is taking a walk good for your brain? I would have said, yes, you don't have to study that. Here's another one. You'll never see this one coming. Again, this is science just shocking us. According to Sinhala Guide, There are two new studies that show that if you work in a toxic workplace, you're more likely to have depression. Huh. Let's see.

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But the fact that there's apparently no military response whatsoever, that kind of tells you that the military knows it's theirs. Now, would the FBI necessarily know what's happening? No, no. Do you think our government is so coordinated that if the military knew exactly what was going on, that the FBI could just call them and say, hey, what's going on with these drones?

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No, no, we don't have any kind of government like that. We have a government where one department has no idea what the other is doing, and they're probably lying. And maybe they don't trust the FBI. So the military just lies to them. Could they do that? Sure. I wouldn't even care. Would you care if the military lied to the FBI? If the purpose of it was a legitimate military secret?

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I wouldn't care. I would say that's doing your job. Yeah, as long as it's a legitimate secret and it makes a difference. Yeah, just doing your job. So let me go further. So it's not an adversary, I'm sure. But why would there be so many of them and so suddenly? You ready? Here's my hypothesis. Things you know for sure. Drones are the future of warfare, right? Everybody agrees.

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Ukraine, of course, is a massive need for drones on both sides. Both agree. We need to be able to manufacture our own weapons in the United States, and we're very aware of that. We can't be dependent on other countries for our weapons. So what does that mean should be happening in America, especially with the military, right now? As in now, as in these months?

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Well, if our military is doing what they should be doing... They are massively doing a procurement process for lots and lots of new drones. Now, if there's a procurement process in which a number of vendors are trying to show the military what they can do, so the military can say, I will give you a billion dollars to make new drones,

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How would the vendor who proposed to get that billion dollars, how would they prove that their drones work? They would demonstrate them. They would demonstrate them. Now, you might say, but Scott, these are over crowded civilian areas. You're not going to demonstrate a military asset over a residential area, to which I say, yes, you are. That's exactly where you want to do it. Why?

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If you do it in the desert, you can't really test the full capabilities of the drone. Because the most important thing the drone needs to do is operate when it's jammed. Right? If you build a drone today and it was easily jammed by current technology, it would be like no drone at all. There's no point in building that one. So we already know that drones have the capability to

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of using their cameras and infrared and figuring out where they are so they can complete a mission even if their GPS location gets jammed. So if you're going to test, can my drone find its way to a target, would you test it in the desert where there's not much to see if you look down and it'd be kind of easier to know where you are? Or would you test it in a crowded residential area

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where you can at least find out, can this drone find a specific house? Not with any weapons because it's just a test, but can the drone find an address, hover over it, and then return home in a very complicated residential area where the houses look alike from the top? So, number one, guaranteed there is a major procurement effort in the military. You agree with that part, right?

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I didn't see this coming. So if the thing that you spend 60 hours a week doing, your primary focus in life that's not your family life, that if it's toxic, it will make you unhappy. Okay. Okay. Didn't see it coming. Didn't see that coming. No, I did see it coming. That's three for three. Three scientific studies you didn't need to do. Walking makes you healthy. Unhappy spouse makes you unhappy.

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There's no way that's not true. It's 100% true that the military of every country, of every major country, is massively trying to procure the most drones with the best capabilities that they can. That requires demonstrations. Now, here's the next part. Why would you demonstrate them at night? Why would you demonstrate your drone at night? Here's why. Because the public can't see the drones.

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Because all they see is the light. The light makes the drone invisible. All you can see is the light. So you can't tell anything else about the drone. You can't tell who makes it, what capabilities it might have, exactly what they're testing. Is there more than one? Is there a lot of companies involved? So there's a lot of information that you don't want to be in the public domain.

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And you can make it all go away by having a bright light shining that makes it impossible to see what the drone is. Now here's the next reason. If your drone company is showing you that it can coordinate swarms, which again, it's guaranteed that they are testing things that would operate in a coordinated swarm-like way, how hard would it be to see if your drones are operating in a coordinated way

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If they did it in the daytime, the drones aren't going to be that close, like they're way up in the sky. If you were the general trying to make the decision about procurement, you'd be looking at them, you'd be like, okay, I see some, wait, I see five. Oh, there's another one. You wouldn't even be able to tell if they were doing what they were supposed to be doing. They'd just be dots.

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Because if they operate properly, they're high up enough that you can't see them all from the ground. But if you do it at night, and if you add the lights, you've accomplished two things. Number one, if you're doing it at night, there's much less natural small aircraft traffic. Because small aircraft don't always have instrument ratings. So you have the most open air space for testing.

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That's good. But Number two, you can see the lights at night. So you can see the patterns. So you would naturally test them at night, not only because you want to test them at night, but because you can see them better. And the lights would obscure what it is that's being tested. The FBI might help the military by lying about it. Say, oh, yeah, we're looking into it.

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Maybe the FBI, maybe the military's told the FBI, hey, just be cool. Say you don't know anything. And the FBI is, yeah, we'll just do that. We'll just say we don't know anything. We're looking into it. So to finish off my thought, I think that some of the reports are probably fake. Some of them might be AI-generated fake videos.

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Some of them might be videos from long ago, and they're just old drones or balloons or something. So some of the ones from other countries, for example, Might be just a hobbyist, some hobbyist who has some drones. Might be something like that. But because we're seeing it as part of a pattern, we imagine it's all part of one phenomenon.

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It might be a little fake news, a little confusion with other things. But in the United States, I'm 100% confident there's a major procurement effort and that they have to demonstrate it live. So what do you think? Did I convince you that what you're seeing is just a normal military procurement exercise that's working exactly the way you'd want it to? Exactly the way you'd want it to.

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You'd want it to be big. You'd want them to be really active in that space. You'd want them to keep it a secret. But you'd want them to test it. And you'd want them to test it over something that looked like a real ground. All right. Maybe. We'll find out. So Trump picked a new surgeon general, Dr. Neshuat, who gets a lot of getting a lot of pushback.

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I guess she had some views during the pandemic that a lot of Republicans would say that was totally wrong. So it's kind of a weird choice for surgeon general, somebody who Republicans think were, was seriously wrong about some pandemic stuff. So, um, but the more interesting thing is that according to the daily mail, she killed her own father accidentally when she was 13. What?

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Toxic workplace makes you depressed. But according to popular science, Tokyo has a new idea for increasing their population, as you might know. Japan, like other developed countries, they've got a big demographic problem. They've got 10% of their countries over the age of 80. And they're not producing enough kids to drive their economy in the future.

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So apparently she was looking for some scissors in a closet and, uh, accidentally knocked over a box that had a loaded gun in it that presumably belonged to her father, and the gun discharged and shot him in the head and killed him when she was 13.

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And she's talked about losing her father and seeing him dying and stuff, but she never added the detail that it may be an accident that she was part of. It was accidental, of course. Now, I'm not sure that should make a difference. Like, it shouldn't make a difference about whether or not she's... There's no approval process for the Surgeon General, right?

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Surgeon General doesn't need any congressional approval? Is that true? I'm assuming. Doesn't seem like it's that important of a job. Anyway. I don't know. There's not much to that story except it's kind of fascinating. Let's talk about the health care hitman.

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we're hearing now that law enforcement has his name, but they don't want to release it because then it would give him, you know, knowledge that he's caught. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you do say publicly that you know the killer's name, isn't he going to act exactly like you know his name? What's the difference if we know his name?

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isn't the killer going to act exactly the same if you really know his name or if you tell the public you know his name but maybe you don't he's going to act exactly the same maximum effort to remain hidden so I'm not sure they have a real name but they say that apparently he had multiple jackets I think he had a jacket in a backpack and he had a different jacket in a cab

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How many winter jackets does this one guy have who was staying in a hostel and only had maybe one backpack? And he had three big winter jackets? So it could be that maybe he had a place where he stored an extra winter jacket just so he'd have one that doesn't look like the one he did the murder in. So maybe he had an extra jacket play. Could be. But because humans are terrible in New York City...

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There was an event, an organized event, where people dressed like the shooter, because the shooter had a winter jacket and a mask on. So people did a CEO shooter lookalike competition in Washington Square Park in New York City, which is terrible, terrible taste. And apparently there's some playlist on Spotify

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which is for people who want to celebrate the CEO shooter, because it's got some songs that the title of the songs somehow seem to indicate they're related to the story, but they're not. And then we hear that the backpack that they found in the park might have one protein bar or something that they think he bought. He bought two of them, but one was in there.

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But there was Monopoly money and a jacket in there. Why was there Monopoly money in his... Why was there monopoly money in there? Can anybody come up with any hypothesis for monopoly money? All right. Let me take it to the next level.

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So the speculation is that somebody who may be mad about how a client of this healthcare insurance company was treated, maybe a loved one or something, or maybe hired by somebody who was mad about it. And So that's one possibility. It's just somebody hired. But if the person was trying to send a signal and it was an activist, let's just go down this hypothesis.

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Let's say it was somebody who really, really wanted the world to pay attention. It's somebody who didn't just want to kill one guy, but wanted the whole world to pay attention and wanted to make a statement. Does it make sense that that person would engrave the bullets with delay, deny, whatever the third word is? Because that's the title of a book that's anti-healthcare insurance.

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So they're moving to, according to popular science, they're moving to a four-day work week so that you have an extra day for fucking. I'm not making that up. Japan... This is a real story from the real news. Japan is moving to a four-day work week primarily for the purpose to have an extra day for fucking so that you can make more kids. Now, that's the kind of politics I like to see.

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So that would make sense if it's an activist, right? If it's somebody who just wanted that one guy dead and it wasn't so much about the larger picture, I don't think he would have engraved anything unless it was part of getting away with it, I suppose. But

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What about the fact that he used what is reportedly, we don't know this for sure, could turn out this is wrong, but reportedly he used a veterinarian's gun, which is meant to put the gun right up basically to the cow or the horse's head and just put a big bullet in it through a silencer. The silencer so it doesn't scare the other livestock. But it's not very accurate.

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So if you were going to be a killer and you chose one of the least accurate methods of doing it, it seems like you did it to make a point. What would be the point? Well, you can imagine that the point was that the health care insurance company had treated its customers like animals. Or perhaps, perhaps... The healthcare had said, you can't have this medicine. We won't approve it.

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And then they had to go to a veterinarian like Ivermectin and get the veterinarian version of the human medicine. Do you think anybody ever had to do that? Have you ever heard of anybody who had to get veterinarian medicine because their healthcare network wouldn't give it to them? Yes, you have. That's the thing. Yeah, there were people who used it.

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veterinarian medicine, because their health care wouldn't give them what they thought they needed. So is the choice of a veterinarian's gun sending a signal that he wants to treat this person like an animal because this person treated customers like an animal? I'm not saying he did. There's no evidence of that.

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I'm saying if you're looking for, you know, was there some kind of larger activist message, I would look at the choice of weapon, I would look at the engraving. But is there anything else that would suggest... Oh, then the monopoly money in the backpack.

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The monopoly money in the backpack might be, since obviously the backpack was meant to be discovered, I assume he always assumed he would get rid of the backpack. So if it was meant to be discovered... What message would he be sending by putting money in it that's not real money? Maybe it's about the money.

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Maybe it's a statement about the health care insurance company being more about money than clients. Maybe. Because what would be the other reason for having monopoly money in a backpack? It's not like he had a monopoly game in there, just the monopoly money. It's not like he was going to spend it. So can you think of any other reason it would be there other than to send a message?

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There's no obvious reason I can think of. It had to be a message. So if the veterinarian gun is a message and the monopoly money is a way to say follow the money, it might be a message to law enforcement, follow the money, right? He wouldn't want to put it in a note, like a handwritten note or anything, because that would be more evidence to his identity.

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But if you just bought some monopoly money and you stuck it in your bag, law enforcement probably should come up with a theory that that was meant as a message. And the message is, it's something about money. Now, that would not suggest that the hitman was a paid hitman, because a paid hitman would not tell you, hey, I'm a paid hitman.

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Because that would, again, help you narrow it down to possible suspects. So if you weren't a paid hitman, then the monopoly money presumably would be a message that says, follow the money. So it could be that the shooter believes that the victim...

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was up to no good, because I think there were some other charges, maybe some insider trading charge that was speculated about, but I don't have any evidence of that. It could be that because he thinks health care has some kind of a monopoly, that he's making a statement about the free market is not working because there's a monopoly. Maybe. So who knows? We'll keep an eye on that.

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So the ACLU is trying to reverse the decision that I guess the higher court said that TikTok would be banned in January unless something changes. And the ACLU says that banning TikTok blatantly violates the First Amendment rights of millions of people, blah, blah. Now, remember I was saying that Jon Stewart and Bernie were kind of saying, what about common sense?

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I would like to see a debate, a policy debate, on what our country can do to give us more time for fucking. So we'll see how that works out. Let me see if I can predict without doing a study. Let's see. If they're paid the same, and I think they're going to be paid the same, they're paid the same, but they work way less so that they'll have more time for fucking.

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Why can't we just have common sense opinions? Our own team attacks us. What exactly would be the common sense of fighting against the government of the United States, an elected government, who looked at all the details and said, you know what, we've got lots of free speech platforms, but there's one that's special because of the China connection, and we need to limit that one.

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It's not about the other platforms. It's about one. Do you think this is really a free speech question? Now, I get that taking TikTok out of America would reduce your free speech, but remember, the deal allows them to sell it to an American company.

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So all the Chinese-owned company has to do, of TikTok, is they have to sell just the American business to an American entity, and then there would be all the free speech in the world. So... The government found what I consider a completely common sense solution, which is if you like the product, here's a way to keep it.

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You just have to keep the data and the management in the United States so nothing happens to free speech. There's an option. But also showing that a non-American owned, adversary owned company with that much influence is probably not safe. So why would the ACLU who presumably has a million things that they could be doing, why would they pick this, of all things?

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Because it's not really supporting common sense, and I would argue it's not even really supporting any right that Americans care about. Do Americans care that they also have a Chinese-owned platform? If they have plenty of platforms, I mean, Blue Sky just launched and Zuckerberg did his own Twitter copy, etc.

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I'm seeing people in the comments suggest that the firearm used by the healthcare hitman was not necessarily a veterinarian's gun. And I agree with that. It's definitely not confirmed. And the gun experts seemed to be all over the place, that they were all over the place on what was happening. Was it a jam? And was it just the way he had to add bullets? Anyway, but back to this.

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I was trying to understand why the ACLU was acting in a way that didn't seem commonsensical. And so I said, well, it's probably one of two things. It's either funded by somebody who always does bad things, such as Soros or the management as a DEI problem.

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So I, first I searched to find out how the ACLU is funded and it's a little sketchy, but it looks like mostly by members, which would be a good situation. So in other words, you know, individual people paying their annual dues is funding it. I think there's some foundations, but mostly the members. And so I thought, oh, okay.

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At least it's not like the Soros organization trying to destroy America or anything. So I eliminated from my possibilities of what's going on that they were being funded by somebody nefarious. Now, as far as I can tell, there's no nefarious funding. So then I looked up the leader, and the leader of the ACLU is Deborah Archer, who is a black woman.

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Now, there is no evidence whatsoever that she's not fully qualified for the job. However, in the context of DEI, what should have happened and is observably true is that when you lose the focus on capability and you start focusing on identity, what should happen is massive incompetence in all of our public and private domains.

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You should make everything work worse and not because of anybody's color, not because of anybody's gender, sexual preference, genes, nothing about that. It's simply that if you constrain your candidates to they must be a certain kind, you're not going to be able to get as many choices. If you have fewer choices, your odds of getting the right person in the right job go way down.

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So my prediction was I would find one of two things wrong with the ACLU. Either they had a DEI problem, which is not confirmed, Because again, Deborah Archer might be the very best person who could be in that job. I don't know one way or the other. I'm saying that if you have a worldview that predicts, don't ignore that. So I had a worldview that said it's one of these two things.

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And when I saw that it wasn't the funding, as far as I can tell, But the DEI thing just blazingly stands out as the obvious next possibility. Again, not confirmed. She might be the very best person who could ever be in this job. But the fact that it's predictable, the prediction part is the closest you can get to knowing what's real. I'm not sure any of us are accurately interpreting reality.

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Will that make them happier or less happy? I'm going to go with, I think that's going to make them happier. What do you think? Yeah, they can save a little money on that study if they were thinking of studying it. We'll see if it creates any new children. Maybe. I doubt it. I kind of doubt it's going to work. Here's something funny.

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I mean, we all seem to be living in our own realities. But some of them predict. And I tell you this all the time. If you can predict, then probably you're closer to reality or at least you have something that you can work with better for your own survival. So that was my prediction. And it's a one-off, so it's not like a scientific study.

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But see how many times you can predict that DEI or the source of funding... would be the problem behind some larger issue that you don't understand. Meanwhile, Cenk Uygur, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, he's saying that the Democrats focusing on identity politics has damaged the party's brand. He is correct.

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That has damaged the party's brand so much so that I think it's unrecoverable. Because once you make everybody focus on their identity, you necessarily in the long term, you're going to lose the ability to have them function as one coherent group because you've persuaded them to not think that way. So in theory, they should eat each other forever.

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Whereas the Republicans are going for the opposite theory, which is, how about we just say, are you an American who likes to follow the law? Yes. Oh, you're perfect. We're done here. There's nothing else we need to discuss. You're an American. I'm American. You like the law. I like the same law. We're good. So the Republicans have built a a process, a system, which can get stronger indefinitely.

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The Democrats built a system, which even on paper, should have destroyed itself in a few years. And that's what we observed. It was very predictable. And furthermore, I predict that they can't recover. at a national level. They'll still win all their local races, just identity politics is all you need. But at the federal level, I don't see them becoming competitive for a long time.

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Unless the Republicans ran a complete loser and somehow the Democrats got some new superstar kind of talent with a lot of charisma. I'm stuck in boomer truth regime. well, you're kind of an asshole. So let me tell you what makes you look like an asshole in the comments. When you make a comment about my identity, when I'm telling you that that's a fucking loser way to look at the world.

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So there's that. Anyway, here's a story you've heard before, but it blows my mind every time I hear this. It came up again. So sometime, let's see, back in 2011, when Josh Shapiro, who's now the governor of Pennsylvania, was the attorney general, he refused to prosecute a case in which there was a woman who had 20 stab wounds, which was assessed to be suicide.

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And not her, was it a boyfriend or fiance? I can't remember, but there was a guy in her life And he was, of course, always the first suspect is whoever the guy in your life is. If a woman gets killed, you know, in a home, the first thing they look for is, you know, the spouse or the boyfriend. But they decided that it was suicide.

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Now, if I told you that somebody was stabbed 20 times to death, would you think that was suicide? I mean, you're no experts, right? But now part of the story was they said she had mental problems, which may or may not be true. But if you were insane, could you stab yourself to death if you just went nuts? I feel like maybe you could. Maybe you could.

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The song YMCA that, you know, Trump likes to use and dance to at his rallies and whatnot. Apparently it hit number one on the song charts, which is interesting because it had never been number one before. So 45 years ago when it was first created, the song, it made it to number two on the charts, but it never made it to number one. But thanks to Trump, it made it to number one.

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I mean, if you could commit a hairy carry, where you take a sword and stick it in and remove your organs... Didn't the ancient Romans fall on their sword and stuff like that? So, in theory, in theory, you could stab yourself to death, couldn't you? I mean, if you really worked at it. But here's the part of the story that I was saving.

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Half of the stab marks are on her back and on the back of her head. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say nobody has ever ever attempted or succeeded as suicide by stabbing themselves in the back. Never. If you were really, really crazy and wanted to kill yourself, even then you wouldn't stab yourself in the back, would you? So it's very clearly a murder.

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And for reasons that we don't understand, then Attorney General decided Did not treat it that way. Oh, he was the fiancé. So it was the fiancé. So what do you make of that? Do you think that that's evidence that the attorney general is crooked or incompetent or had some connection to the alleged potential murderer? What do you think is going on there? It's kind of a puzzler.

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So I'm going to say that the most likely explanation of this inexplicable situation is that the news is wrong. The news is wrong. So if you're saying to yourself, well, if these facts are all true, I can't understand this situation. Remember, we live in a world where the news is almost always wrong. The news is is almost always wrong about anything complicated.

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So do you think that if you had a private conversation with Josh Shapiro, do you think you'd say, yeah, you know, half the stat marks were in the back, but I was pretty sure that that sounded like suicide to me. Do you think he'd say that? I don't think there's any chance of that. I think he would say, oh, the thing the news didn't tell you

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is x i think and then you'd say oh that does change it a little bit but i don't know i can't even imagine what he would say that would make it make sense that somebody stabbed themselves in the back multiple times but i feel like the most likely explanation is that the news or the story about it is missing something because it doesn't make sense otherwise i don't know it's a mystery

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Scott Presler, you all know him from his great work in Pennsylvania, making that more red. And it says he now wants to take on New Jersey. He wants to flip New Jersey into a red state. And it's not there yet, but he thinks it's close enough that he could push it over the edge. So that's amazing. I guess I have nothing to say about that except Good for you, Scott Pressler.

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I like it when all the Scots are doing well. This is Scott Jennings, Scott Pressler. All right. Some judge, according to Slay News, federal judge has ordered the FDA to release the COVID vaccine trial data documents from Pfizer that wanted to hide them for 75 years. All right, so let's see if you can predict what happens next. So Pfizer wanted to protect for 75 years the data about the trial.

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Their story was it just takes that long to vet it and make it available. Now, nobody believes that. So, of course, we all believe, oh, there's something there you don't want us to see. Now, it doesn't mean there's something illegal or unethical or unscientific. It could mean that they know that people will assume there is and find it.

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And apparently the writer of the song, at least the writer of the lyrics, who was also the singer of it,

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In other words, they'll think they see it in the data because people are terrible at data. So it could be that Pfizer has done nothing wrong, but they know that if, like Trump releasing his tax returns, if Trump did nothing wrong on his tax returns, it still wouldn't make sense to release them because people would look at them and not knowing how to analyze tax returns, they'd say, oh, look,

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Here's this problem in his tax return. But they wouldn't be accountants, and maybe there wasn't a problem. So it would just be a problem for Trump to put all that red meat out there that people will misinterpret. Pfizer must be in exactly the same situation.

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So even if Pfizer legitimately believes there's nothing wrong with the trial data and it completely supports everything they did, they'd still not want it to be released. That would be a perfectly smart thing for a corporation to do. It's not good for us because we'd like to know the answer. But from the corporation's point of view, yeah. Protect everything you can protect.

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um at one point he was you know thinking oh i don't want trump using the song but then people liked it so much they thought yeah why not let him use it and now he's happy because he made millions of dollars doing no work whatsoever so just by just by allowing trump to use it it became a number one song and he's the beneficiary of that so he gets millions of dollars just for not being a dick.

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Why create problems for yourself? But now it's been reversed. So now let's say if there's no more legal process going on, suppose you think you're going to see that. Now make your prediction what happens next. So the company has the possession of all these documents. Maybe the FDA does too. Would the FDA have it or only the company? Because that would make a difference. Here's why I ask.

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If only the company owns the documents and maybe other people have seen them but don't have a copy, don't you think those documents are going to suddenly get lost? Do you think that maybe they'll do a system update and all the data will be lost?

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Because every time we've been in this situation where we know there's a document such as the Epstein list or Diddy's videos or, you know, I could go on or on Hillary's Hillary's phones that she had bleach bled or whatever she did there. So it feels like every time we know exactly what we're looking for, if we can only see those. Oh, they're already deleted.

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Oh, so you've never lost any documents for 30 years. but you lost these, the only ones we really, really wanted to look at? Is that what's happening next? So I wouldn't be surprised under the condition that only Pfizer controls those documents. I don't know if that's true. But if only Pfizer has the documents, they're going to get lost.

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Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but everybody who has deleted documents got away with it. All of them. Everybody who did it. Can you think of one case, a prominent case recently, where somebody deleted some documents and went to jail? I can't. They just say it was an accident. Oh, whoops, whoops. I really tried to give it to you, but deleted. Yeah, that might be coming. Elon Musk's AI now has...

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The ability to do photorealistic images. So Grok wasn't that good at images, but XAI, apparently the new update, according to Don Jacobson at UPI. And the question that we don't know the answer to is, will Elon Musk's AI have guardrails that prevent you from doing celebrities and public figures? I don't know the answer to that. That's sort of a good edge case for free speech.

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I feel like Elon Musk would not want to limit what you could do with the AI in terms of images. But on the other hand, if you had a major AI that was willing to create fake images that really look real on any topic with any celebrity, you're really going to cause a lot of trouble. but so does free speech. So it'll be interesting to see which way Elon goes on this.

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If they've made a decision, maybe they've already made that decision. We just don't know. But if you can do celebrities and famous people and you can make them do anything you want, well, that's a different world. So we'll see if that's going to be the case. And you know, I'm going to tell you that there's some new battery technology.

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So Ars Technica says there's a sodium ion batteries, new breakthroughs, blah, blah, blah. The problem with sodium ion batteries as a technology compared to lithium. So this will make you smarter at your next gathering because you'll know more about battery technology. So if you do lithium... They've got a good density. That's why they're used in cars.

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So you can put a lot of power in a small device. But they have more fire risk, lithium does, and they use rare materials. But if you could get the same performance, and you can't yet, but we're getting close, from a sodium iron battery, you'd basically be using no rare earth materials. And you would have no risk of fire or much lower, I guess. The only problem is density.

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And that's where they have the breakthrough. So they're claiming a density that if they actually can achieve it is almost hard for experts to believe they can get there. But they're knocking on the door. So it could be that the whole rare earth thing becomes unimportant. But we'll see.

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He could have been a dick and said, oh, don't use my song. But because he just said, ah, if you like it, if the people are enjoying it, go ahead, if you like it. And then he makes millions of dollars. That's the way it should work, right? When people just do considerate, reasonable, common sense decisions, Something good should come their way, and it did.

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At the same time, according to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, they've got this new battery technology using twisted carbon nanotubes. So apparently if you twist your carbon nanotubes just right, it will store a bunch of electricity. Again, without the rare earth materials and without any fire risk, I imagine. So those are two technologies or like a few more that I didn't mention.

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So sodium iron batteries and carbon nanotubes. And there's some other solid state stuff that's happening. So the world of batteries, very dynamic. It's going to change everything. Once you can store electricity about, let's say, twice as well as we're doing now, which is certain to happen, all kinds of things become practical, like having your own electric one-person airplane, that kind of thing.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is all I have for you today on this Sunday. I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately, subscribers on Locals, Thanks for joining on YouTube and X and Rumble. I'll see you same time tomorrow. And locals coming at you for one extra sip.

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Well, you may have heard by now that Syria has fallen to the rebels. Damascus has fallen, and Assad, their leader, is nowhere to be seen. We assume he's alive and escaped, but we don't know where he is. Trump put out a message just before it fell saying that Syria is not our fight. He wants to make sure you know that we're not going to go in there and try to change what's happening.

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But what is happening? Well, who are these people who are getting rid of this terrible dictator Assad and replacing him with more reasonable leadership? Well, there's a guy named Babu Mohammed al-Ghalani. And it turns out that the rebels are mostly Islamists who are somewhat radical.

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And he was, I think, I think he has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U S that's the leader of the guy who just took over Syria. And he was detained by the U S military in the first decade. So my question is this, who's backing the rebels. There's something I don't understand about this story. I,

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To me, there's no situation in which rebels can just put together a successful rebel army and take over a country that's backed by Russia and Iran. And just some rebels put together a successful coup that only took a few weeks. Really? There's something that doesn't make sense here.

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So part of the story I don't understand is if the United States is not backing these Islamists with money and resources and Russia is not doing it because Russia is on the side of the deposed government and Iran was on the side of the deposed government, who exactly was backing these rebels? Do we know? And the rebels would be Sunni, right? Right. No way. Would the rebels be Sunni or Shiite?

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I think everything's working today. Would you like to talk about some new things in science and the new studies? Yes, let's, before we talk about the politics. According to a publication called The Conversation, did you know that taking a short daily walk might reverse your cognitive aging by four years? Yes. It turns out that exercise is good for your health

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Actually, I don't know that. That's one of those things I should know. If you're going to talk in public about stuff like this, probably the most basic thing you should know about this story is whether the Islamists that took over are Sunni or Shiite. I don't really know. I'm seeing somebody say Sunni in the comments. That was my guess. And I'm seeing somebody say Turkey.

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So you think Turkey was supporting the Sunni-led rebels? Does that make sense? Maybe. I don't know. So we'll find out. I don't know if any of this is going to affect us, but it might affect Russia and Iran quite a bit. Meanwhile, as you know,

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President-elect Trump was over there at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, and he was hanging out with Macron and had a handshake competition, which we think he won. Did you see how radically Trump and Macron tried to shake hands? If you haven't seen the videos, Trump does the elbow up thing.

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where he takes advantage of his height and just his bigger size to shake your hands in a way that makes you feel like you're an idiot and he's your daddy. And I used to think maybe it's just a habit and it's not really intentional, but now I'm pretty sure it's intentional. I'm pretty sure that somewhere along the line he realized that if he wins the handshake,

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that he wins everything so so he goes in with this this completely you know unnatural handshake and grabs him and he's like and they're wrestling over the handshake for like five minutes anyway that was fun and Zelensky was there so they took a photo With Trump, Macron, and Zelensky. And if you haven't seen it, it looks like a lesson in backwards evolution.

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Because if you start from the right of the picture, there's Zelensky, who's the shortest of the three, and he's just wearing a t-shirt and fatigues. Then there's Macron, who's a little bit taller, a little bit better looking. And he's well-dressed in a nice suit, but it's a boring kind of ordinary business suit. And then there's Trump. He's got this shining golden hair.

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He's taller and he's got a golden necktie on. And it just looks like a backwards evolution lesson. Anyway, here's what I find the most interesting about the whole thing. There was something missing from the coverage of that story. something really, really big that should have been there that wasn't there. And if you didn't notice it, you'll notice it as soon as I mention it.

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Is it my imagination or were the Democrat leaders and even the voters, were they all perfectly okay with Trump acting like the sitting president two months before he is? Did that really happen? Now, how is it possible that Democrat leadership is not using this as just another reason to complain? Because they like to say, oh, he's such a dictator, he's already taking over. Like,

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We don't have to wonder if he'll try to stay a fourth term because he's already taking over. His dictatorial impulses are so strong that he can't even wait two months. He's already acting like a dictator, taking over the country. Don't you think that you should be hearing that by now? Don't you think every prominent Democrat should at least be softening up the room with the idea of,

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in almost every way that you can imagine. Almost every way. So yes, it can make you a little bit faster in your cognitive processing, they found. Here's the way I use this. In my job, since my job is creative and writing and I have to be pretty sharp to do it,

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You know, that's pretty dictatorial. It's just what we warned you about, that if you give him any chance to grab power, well, you can see he's doing it right now. Look at him grabbing all that power and pretending he's the president before he is. There's none of that. There's not even a little bit of it. How is that possible? I mean, really, how is that possible?

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The Democrats just stopped criticizing Trump? But they stopped when he's doing the thing that's most in the middle of their sweet spot of their primary messaging against them, which is the dictator stuff. That's when they decide to stop when he acts exactly like their stereotype. Something's missing. So here are a couple of possibilities. One, common sense has broken out in the country.

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That's a possibility. It could explain the whole thing. It could be that just common sense broke out and the Democrats are saying, okay, we know our guy can't do it. It's better if we have somebody over there. And, you know, it's only two months and he got elected. It's no big deal. It could be that. It could be just widespread common sense. But we've never had widespread common sense before.

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Is something really changing that much? Well, maybe yes. So another news bit today is that Jon Stewart, in a little podcast, was talking to Bernie Sanders. And he was saying that it's frustrating because when the Democrats agree with something that's just sort of common sense, they get piled on by their own team. So if they say, huh, maybe this Doge thing

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. Probably the best time you'll ever have, but if you'd like to take this experience up two levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank of Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.

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It's just crime. So I wonder why the homeless problem hasn't gotten any better in California. Well, there you go. According to the Daily Mail, and I'm not believing this actually, Trump's approval rating rose this week, even in the middle of the tariffs and the trade war, and that it's at the highest it's been.

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I don't believe that, and I think there was another study somewhere else that said it was down, and I don't believe that one either. I think all the Trump popularity polls are either pro-Trump or anti-Trump, and they might be a little rigged at this point. I don't know. But I don't believe that Trump's popularity is at an all-time high in the middle of the tariff thing. That seems pretty unlikely.

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Apparently, Elon Musk has said that he'd like to see Europe and the U.S. have what he calls a free trade zone, which would be no tariffs at all. And I was a little unclear whether this disagrees with Trump or not, because I think Trump also wanted no tariffs. But is Musk saying anything that Trump would disagree with?

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Or is he maybe getting ahead of him because there's some negotiations that haven't happened yet? I don't know. But I guess I agree with Musk that wouldn't it be good just to have a zero tariff zone? Speaking of tariffs, remember how Israel was so quick to say, hey, we'll drop all of our tariffs. And I found out a little bit more about that. So Israel is so clever.

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raise half a billion dollars to build their own cyber city operating independent of any other country so there's somebody named dryden brown who thinks we're on the uh the precipice of a brave new world so he's a 29 year old and he wants to build a futuristic new city But the part that I was impressed with is his name. Imagine having a last name Brown and your parents name you Dryden.

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They dropped the tariffs that don't exist. So there basically weren't any tariffs. So they didn't drop anything. But here's why things are expensive in Israel. I see a long thread by Saul Sedka where he describes it this way. Did you know that the food prices in Israel are about 50% more expensive than comparable places? 50% more. Do you think that's because of tariffs? Nope. Nope.

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Do you think it's because of trade wars? Nope. Nope. It's because the lobbyists for the domestic food companies have such a control over the government that they just make it illegal. And they've got lots of tricks for doing that. They make it illegal for people to sell stuff from other countries. Now, when I say illegal, I don't mean exactly illegal. But let me give you one example.

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So one example was there was a... a ketchup company in Israel who got some kind of a law passed or regulation, I don't know what it was, in Israel that would mean that Heinz ketchup did not qualify as ketchup. So in other words, they got the government to define what ketchup is. And it just happened to be a definition that the local company satisfied.

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So then Heinz would have to change the name of what they do to tomato seasoning. If you went into the store looking for ketchup and you saw the Heinz was labeled tomato seasoning and the local Israeli company was labeled ketchup and you were looking for ketchup, which one would you buy? So apparently they have, you know, an infinite number of those little tricks.

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So the food industry in Israel is just completely corrupt. You know, maybe as corrupt as, let's say, our big pharma and the things in it. So it's not like a unique, it's not a unique problem in Israel. But the food companies are just running the show. Now, I can tell you from my brief experience in the food industry in the United States that

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The food industry in the United States is really corrupt. I can't tell you all the things that I learned, but oh my God, it's almost just a criminal organization, the food companies in the US. So not too surprised, it's like that in Israel. All right, I'm going to make a prediction that you want to hear. You probably already heard that the NASDAQ is down 20%.

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So that would be, you know, a big drop. The other exchanges are not down 20%, but they might be. Now, here's what I think is going to happen. I'm going to give you the persuasion psychology take on this. This is not investment advice. Whatever you do, do not see this as investment advice. But it is a prediction. And the prediction goes like this.

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The reason the stock market is down is that so many people don't know what's going to happen. And they're just taking money off the table. They don't want to risk it. But as soon as you know what's happening, things will go up. But here's why 20% is a magic number. In my life, I've seen stock markets go down 20% several times, two or three.

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And so I think in our minds, at least the people who invest, In our minds, we think that a 20% drop is sort of as far as it goes. And the reason is that when it goes down 20%, and there's nothing organically broken, it's just uncertainty, that that's when people say, 20%, I've seen this before. Whenever it goes down 20%, that's pretty close to the bottom.

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So you're going to see people, I think, piling in. when it reaches 20%. So the persuasion tip here is that there's just something about big round numbers that people respond to. We know it's not 10% because we blow past 10% more regularly.

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But at 20%, the people who have spent a lot of time investing just start saying to themselves, hmm, if you had bought a stock every time the stock market went down 20%, and let's say you just bought the index, you didn't buy individual stocks, how would you have done? If every time, every time, it went down 20% and you bought stock, how would you have done?

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He's actually Dryden Brown. You know who else is Dryden Brown? We'll get to it. So he's going to build his own little independent city. I don't know where they're going to put it, though. Who would give up their own land so that you could build an independent city on their country? I don't know. You'd have to find an island or something, I guess.

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And the answer is you would have killed it. You would have actually just killed it. So, you know, I bought stock at the bottom of the pandemic. Same thing. You know, as soon as I see anything around 20%, I'm like, oh, 20%. That's probably as far as it's going to go. So my prediction is that the other exchanges, you know, the NASDAQ's already there. It might go a little lower.

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But I think the other ones will flirt with 20%. And that will be the bottom. I think that's what the bottom will be. But don't make any decisions based on that. Now, you know, I'm pro-Trump. And you know that I would like to see him succeed. But he is in a real bind at the moment, like I've never seen in my life.

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Let me just tell you some of the problems that Trump is going to have between now and the midterms. I think the midterms might get ugly. So number one, the sale of TikTok looks like China is going to just yank Trump around. So I don't think he's going to have necessarily a success selling TikTok. I don't think China is going to capitulate on trade. I think most of the other countries might.

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But I think China has a second game. One of them is making money. But I think China would also like to get Trump out of office. So if they don't cooperate and they just take a hit between now and the midterms, that's going to be pretty devastating for Trump. So I think that China will not reach an agreement.

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I think they will not sell TikTok, and that the reason will be it's bad for Trump, and they want to take him out. I think that Russia and Ukraine don't really have interest in peace. So people like me had been saying for a long time, they both want peace. We just have to come up with a deal that they can say yes to. At the moment...

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It doesn't look like Putin wants peace, and it doesn't look like Ukraine does. So I don't think that by the midterms there's going to be a Ukraine peace deal, and that's going to look ugly. What about Iran? So Iran has said that if Trump bombs them because of their nuclear program and all their adventurism, that there'll be a major war and we're going to pay for it.

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I don't know if Trump's going to bomb Iran. Probably not, but he might. But if he bombs Iran, it's not going to solve anything. It'll probably make it worse. And if he doesn't bomb Iran, it will just get worse. So there are two things that Iran could do to Trump, and they both are getting worse. So that's not going to look good.

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And then because the tariffs take a while to work, I think the bad guys, the Democrats, will be able to tell the story that, you know, those tariffs didn't work because the economy has not zoomed back yet. And that's going to be really close to the midterms.

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So the midterms, Trump's going to go in there with no sale of TikTok, no China deal, no Ukraine-Russia deal, no Iran deal, and tariffs that the other side say didn't work. I don't know how you do well in that situation. And that would mean that the Congress would be no longer controlled by Republicans. Now, am I wrong? Am I being too negative? Because remember, I'm pro-Trump.

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I want him to solve all these things. And at one point, I thought he could. But I don't think he can do it before the midterms. So in the long, long run, maybe by the fourth year of his term, he could have it all wrapped up. It's possible. But midterms are going to be ugly. So get ready for that. Here's something I didn't expect. UK Prime Minister Starmer said,

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is that he's going to announce on Monday that globalization has failed in his current form and that he's going to do more things that are basically UK first. So Starmer is becoming a junior Trump. He's going to reject globalism and he's going to embrace doing what's good for the UK. Okay. I did not see that coming. Did not see that coming. But that's what's happening.

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According to the Associated Press, there were some border inspectors on our southern border who were taking bribes to wave traffickers in. How unsurprised are you that some of our border security were taking bribes? Wouldn't it be more surprising if they didn't? That would be the most obvious people you'd ever want to bribe. All right. Well, speaking of Dryden Brown, James Carville has resurfaced.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm feeling terrible today. So I'm going to make this very short and let you get back to your Sunday. So how short was it? That's pretty short. Half an hour. I'm going to say a few words to the locals people, but the rest of you have a terrific day. News is kind of not that interesting today anyway. And I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure Dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Well, I wonder if there's any new science saying that coffee is good for you. Oh, yes, there is. According to SciPost, coffee is associated with lower risk of depression and anxiety.

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And according to Fox News, He warned on Friday that the people who cooperate with Trump's administration may be treated the way Nazi collaborators were at the end of World War II. Now, what a piece of crap that man is. That's one of the worst things I've ever seen. Because he's doing the making you think past the sale thing. So the sale is that Trump is a Nazi.

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The thinking past the sale is that how will they be treated if you're supporting a Nazi? That is, first of all, clever persuasion, but it's evil. That is pure evil. And that is a call for violence. How could you say this is anything else but a call to violence? I think you should go to jail if you say stuff like this.

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Because you're really... Isn't there a law that says if you incite violence in a really direct way, not an indirect way, but if you do it really directly, isn't that illegal? And it seems to me that labeling people as Nazi collaborators and talking about how they would be treated... That seems to be exactly like a crime, but what do I know?

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Well, if you haven't seen this clip, you ought to watch Sam Harris. He's got a video, at least it's on X, in which he's talking about Joe Rogan. And boy, does he have a problem with Joe Rogan. He thinks that Joe Rogan's a good person, but that he's in way over his head on so many topics. This is according to Sam Harris.

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And then he slams Dave Smith, who he calls a pure misinformation artist and not an expert on the Middle East. And then he says, Sam Harris says, our society is as politically shattered as it is in part because of how Joe Rogan has interacted with information. Really? Really? Is the state of modern society in the United States somewhat or even largely because of how Joe Rogan talks to his guests?

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That feels pretty crazy. But you should see Sam Harris' globula. Globula. G-L-A-B-E-L-L-A. That's those little lines between your eyebrows. Oh my God, you have to see it. He looks so insane. His little eyebrows are like so scrunched up. It looks like the cat's asshole. It just happens to be right in the middle of his face. I've never seen so much scrunched up mental illness looking.

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It looks like mental illness. But wow. Now, I will agree with one thing. I've said the same thing myself, which is that the podcaster having one guest, and it's not just Joe Rogan, if you only have one guest, you have the documentary effect, which is there's nobody there to say that the guest is wrong. And then you go away thinking, wow, I just listened to three hours of this person talking about

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aliens in his backyard. That must be true. So I do agree that sometimes you need some kind of a comment system or something to kind of fact check the podcast. That would be good. Hollywood actor Terrence Howard is... having some fun here. He revealed on the PBD podcast that every celebrity that attended Diddy's parties got sexed up by men, which he calls losing their man card.

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Now, he even lists the people he says got sexed up by men. He uses the F word, but he said that includes LeBron James, Barack Obama, Jay-Z, and many other prominent Diddy Party attendees. Do you believe that? Do you believe that every single famous person that went to a Diddy Party bent over and got taken and then their psychology was destroyed and they became slaves to Diddy or something?

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Definitely some of them. But I don't know who tells LeBron James what he has to do. I have a hard time imagining LeBron James, you know, being co-opted. Maybe. Anything's possible, but I'm not going to automatically believe this one. But it's provocative. Well, you might know that on Saturday there were these nationwide protests against Trump and against Musk, I guess. And let's see, there were...

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Do you feel less depressed and less anxious after that sip? You should. You should. You're in good shape now. Well, here's some science that didn't need to happen. According to Gilmore Health News, Gilmore Health News, when people like each other, they respond faster in conversation, according to a study. How many didn't know that?

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It was called the Hands Off Rallies, and there were 1,000 cities involved, all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people signed up to attend. How many of them were organic? None. Did you see the interviews and the video of the people? It looked like they cleaned out the senior centers. It was just a bunch of broken-down senior citizens with signs, and they didn't even know why they were there.

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They didn't even know who they were. I mean, I'm not even sure they knew their own names. Ah, fascism. So that was very non-organic looking. But do you remember the story that Mike Benz found that Norm Eisen, who is one of the lawfare lawyers against Trump, probably the main one, he's probably the most prominent one,

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And it was revealed that John Roberts, the head of the Supreme Court, had spent a few weeks with him when Eisen was a diplomat. I guess he was the ambassador to the Czech Republic. And when I heard that, I said, oh, my God, if those two guys are spending time together, that's not a comfortable thing to hear. But it's way worse than that, I found out.

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It turns out that Norm Eisen said that John Roberts was his college friend. So even long before John Roberts was in the Supreme Court, he was tight with Norm Eisen. Now, what would you expect to see if we were involved in a color revolution? Now, if not, everybody knows what that is. A color revolution is how you essentially overthrow a country.

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And it's the way the United States has overthrown dozens of different countries. So what you do is you... Usually they're opposing a populist leader. So that's who gets overthrown, the populist. You create a bunch of fake street protests that are not organic whatsoever. You take control of the courts. So you bribe and... Otherwise, cajole until the judges are going to do what you want.

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You get control of the prosecutors and the attorney generals because that's who can put people in jail. And then you do a lot of lawfare, a lot of suing and stuff like that. And then you control the media. And not just control it, you put a bunch of fake news, you know, rumors into the media so that it all comes together. And then you pretend that it was all organic.

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Now, so that's what a color revolution looks like. So now we know that Norm Eisen, the primary person who at least Mike Ben says was driving a lot of our foreign, or at least some of our foreign color revolutions, and he's good friends with the head of the Supreme Court. Now, have you noticed that John Roberts sometimes disagrees with the so-called conservatives on the court?

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And he's more likely to disagree than anybody on the court. Who saw that coming? So that's a little sketchy, isn't it? That the guy who is good friends with Norm Eisen is also the guy who doesn't agree with what you would imagine would be his team, the conservatives. I mean, there's no reason he has to vote with the conservatives, but he's broken ranks more than the rest of them. So that's a tell.

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And then, of course, Trump is a populist leader. So that's exactly the kind of ones they target. The street protests are massive and completely fake, meaning that they're just paying people and shipping in oldsters and giving them signs. Then you've got courts that are sort of out of control.

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You ever hear a conversation where somebody's like, blah, blah, blah? And then there's a long pause. Then somebody's like, blah, blah, blah. You think, they're not really connecting. But if you see two people who are just practically talking over each other, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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You know those individual liberal judges that are trying to shut down Trump no matter where the judge is, anywhere in the country. They can just shop for one that will say, yes, Trump must be stopped everywhere in the country. So that sounds sketchy. Then, of course, the control of the prosecutors and the attorney generals. That's what Soros has been doing for years.

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He's been getting his Soros prosecutors in there so they can put people like Trump in jail, which they tried very hard to do and got pretty close. And then the lawfare, you know, you've seen the lawfare for yourself, so that's real. And then the media control and the fake news, that's what people like Carville are doing. So Carville is now starting the...

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Carville is starting the Nazi collaborator frame. These are the worst people in the entire world. These are really bad people. And I don't know if they think they're doing the right thing, but they're definitely not doing the right thing as far as I can tell. So, yeah, we're in the middle of a color revolution that in every way, in every way, checks every box.

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Do you think any of that's a coincidence? Not a chance. Not a chance. We're in the middle of an overthrow of the country. And I would argue we were in Trump's first term as well, but he came back. Meanwhile, Senator Chuck Grassley is trying to do something about this. These rogue judges who do these nationwide injunctions I was just talking about.

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But he's got exactly zero Democrats who agree with him, so I don't think that's going to happen. Republicans like it, of course. But at least it's something. I mean, at least he's taking a run at it. I don't think he has a chance. Mike Netter was posting today. There's a new USC study of Californian gas prices.

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found that the reason California gas is more expensive, and it's about twice as much as the rest of the country. Did you know that? Our gas is roughly twice as much as, let's say, Florida. But the reason is, it's all self-inflicted. So that's the result of the study. So it's all because of stuff like, and it's not because of price gouging, which Newsom wants you to believe.

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They almost always like each other, unless they're fighting when they're doing it, I suppose. So yes, you could have just asked me. The faster people respond. the more they like you. True story. There's a, I don't know if it's a group or the name of the city, called Praxis, that

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It's because of a litany, quote, a litany of regulation taxes, fees, and other costs. So California doing a good job of destroying the state. Let's see, what else are they doing? According to just the news, There's this gigantic Los Angeles homeless mega agency, one of these well-funded agencies to help the homeless.

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And you'll be surprised to know that they failed two recent audits in recent months. And the CEO was found to have, quote, inadvertently signed millions of dollars of contracts to the nonprofit her husband works at. Do you think she inadvertently signed millions of dollars of contracts to the nonprofit that her husband works at?

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Now, what have we been teaching you ever since we found out about USAID and all the NGOs? This is the way Democrats are robbing the country. They give some non-auditable charity that sounds good on paper like, oh, we're going to help the homeless. And then they just give it out to sub-organizations that usually have family members or spouses there. And it's just total money laundering.

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You know, they'd been off it for a year or more and they said it was that phrase that put them over the top. So because it was so powerful, When I wrote my more current book, Reframe Your Brain, that's the newest one, Reframe Your Brain included that one. I said it's from my prior book, and I mentioned it again. And my intention of putting it in the reframe is so that it would spread.

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I wonder if anybody feels that at some non-conscious level. Just wonder. Because a lot of people say that they enjoy, they get some kind of dopamine hit from doing the simultaneous sip. There might actually be a deep evolutionary reason that it feels good to do things at the same time. I mean, there's a reason we like to dance and sing along with songs and match people.

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And you've watched me long enough, you know that that's what I do. I try to come up with a useful reframe that as soon as you hear it, gives you a new superpower. And the power might be to avoid something or to do something you didn't want to do, to exercise more.

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Basically, the reframes simply just are a quick little reprogramming trick to allow you to do something you couldn't figure out how to do before. That's it. That's all they are. So my intention, very publicly since 2013, my intention was to make this phrase, alcohol is poison, a common phrase in America.

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As of today, if you look at the headlines from this week, it's become a routine way to describe drinking. Now, did I have anything to do with that? Because I don't know. This one's a tough one because it wasn't such a brilliant out-of-the-box idea that 100 people don't think of it on their own every day. I don't know. But I don't see any public figures who had said it much in the last 10 years.

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But I've been saying it over and over and over again for 10 years, and it's really spread. I don't know how many people have quit drinking forever because of that, but based on just the people who have told me personally, if I had to guess, 1,000. I mean, it's a pretty big number for just... One sentence changing people's entire life. A thousand people? Just a guess. I don't know.

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But based on the number of people who have gotten back to me. So you might want to use that one. Alcohol is poison. It will help you avoid alcohol if that's what you want to do. I'm not telling you you should or should not. That's not my job. But if you want to, there's a little trick to do it. Meanwhile, according to Vladimir Hedry in SciPost,

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There was a little study that said birth control pills are linked to changes in depressive mood processing. In other words, they showed that people on the pill, women on the pill, don't let me become one of those people. Don't let me say people on the pill. Like that just came out of my mouth. No, women, women, women on the pill. All right, let's be specific. Women who are on the pill,

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According to the new study, it had more depressive symptoms. But before you agree with this, because maybe you're already primed to agree with it, which is, that was my case, I was already primed to think it's true, because I think it's true. So I believed it. And then I looked more, and it says the study included 53 young healthy women, and I'm out. What good is a study of 53 people?

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It's maybe a little bit statistically valid, but the variability in how much you should trust it is all over the place. I don't think 53 people should tell you much. So even though I believe if they did a bigger study, they would find similar results, that's because I'm biased. It's not because of logic. So the only point of this one is not to make you think

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Science has proven that going on the pill makes you depressed. This doesn't do that. It's too small. So the first thing you should need to know is the bigger the sample, the more likely there's some chance it's true. But 53? Nah. I would give that... I just don't give that any credibility. Now, the statisticians are going to say that you can actually get a result. from 40 or 50 people.

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And you can, statistically. But the margin of error would be just so big that I wouldn't trust it. Anyway, according to Gabe Kaminsky's reporting in the Washington Examiner, do you remember when there was this big censorship group called the Global Engagement Center that the State Department was funding, and they were in the job of essentially promoting censoring American citizens.

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And so that got so much bad press, and the Democrats thought, okay, we can't have this anymore. But I guess Republicans and Congress voted to get rid of it and defund it. So I said to myself, yay, this bad, evil, censoring thing that I'm paying for, I mean, it's not bad enough that they're censoring me. My government is censoring me and other people, but I'm paying for it.

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Anyway, so I'd like to throw this out there just to make the technical people's head explode, just because you won't like it. I have this theory of the world. that the only things that are real are the things that the people who are the experts can explain to me. Now, I don't mean that I need to understand all the technical parts.

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Why am I paying to be censored? So the Congress, in its wisdom, got rid of it. What do you think Democrats did when the Congress decided that we should not have this function anymore? Well, according to Gabe Kaminsky in the Washington Examiner, all they did is figure out how to stuff these, both the funding and the people, in different departments. All they did is distribute it, both the people...

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and the money the people and the money they just distributed them so that it looked like they got rid of it but they kept it all is there anything that democrats do that's good for the country i mean i actually wonder i mean if congress votes for something they very clearly expressed in this case i think the will of the people but certainly the will of the congress

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And then the State Department just gets to run around the back door and pretend it never happened. Not acceptable. Not acceptable. And so this is good reporting. This is an examiner... I'm sorry. This is an example of exactly what I want to see reporting look like. So good reporting. Just my compliments. Anyway...

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Washington Post editorial cartoonist just quit because one of the cartoons that the editorial cartoonist submitted was rejected by management. And she said, I've never had anything rejected before, but what was the one thing that this cartoonist had rejected? Now remember, political cartoons are always edgy. So by design, they're always edgy.

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What was the one thing, the Washington Post, that's your hint, what's the one thing that got rejected? Well, it was a comic that was negative toward the boss or the owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos. Now, the manager who takes credit for rejecting it said the reason he rejected it is not because it insults his boss, which would be a really good reason if you're an employee,

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but also it was sort of a repeat of a story. So the manager says, oh, no, the reason that I've only ever censored one cartoon from this artist ever, it just happened to be by coincidence about Jeff Bezos, but that's not the reason. No, no. No, people, that's not the reason. No, the reason is because it seemed repetitive with some other work. okay. That's sort of a stretch to make us believe that.

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But if there's one thing I can tell you in our world, you can't be an artist who has a boss. If you have a boss, you're just a mouthpiece for your boss. If you don't have a boss and you're willing for the public to hate you or love you and all that, then sometimes you can be an artist.

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I would say that when Dilbert was in newspapers, for all practical purposes, I didn't have an actual boss boss, but in effect, because the newspapers could fire me and my syndication company could fire me if I didn't do what they wanted. So I very much knew that I had to stay between the lines. Was that art?

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Well, it was art with a small a. I mean, it was art-like, but I couldn't say what I wanted to say. I couldn't even get close to saying the things I wanted to say. But then I got canceled. Once I was canceled, I could feel what it was like for the first time to be an artist. Because now I think, would I like to do that? And if the answer is yes, then I do it. And that's it. I just do it.

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But if somebody explained to me, let's say, how a digital telecommunication works compared to analog, I wouldn't understand every single technical part, but I'd get the basic idea. I'd get the basic idea. But if somebody tries to

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Now that's actual art. So I'm so blessed that by getting canceled. And I know that just sounds like something maybe somebody says to rationalize, but boy, you would have to experience it. Imagine being a creative person all of your adult life, and you've never been able to be creative. That was my experience. I was just never really able to be creative, but now I can. It's amazing.

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I'll tell you what's happening this week in a moment. Trump was giving a speech, and he described the concept of training your own replacement, specifically with foreign workers who are coming in and working for cheaper, which is a massive problem in the United States right now. And he says... Trump says, quote, can you believe that?

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You get laid off and then they won't give you your severance pay unless you train the people that are replacing you for half of your pay and no benefits. He says, I mean, that's actually demeaning, maybe more than anything else. Have I ever mentioned how well Trump can read a room? Let me just read you how he describes how people feel. And you tell me he isn't the best who ever read a room.

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Just listen to this. You get laid off and then they won't give you your severance until you train the people replacing you. I mean, that's actually demeaning, maybe more than anything else. So that captures it. It would have been so easy to say it's bad for the economy and it's bad for workers. And I'd say, oh, yeah, I guess he understands the issue. It's bad for people.

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But he goes to the next level. He doesn't just say it's bad. Everybody understands the economic part of it. No explanation needed. But when he says demeaning, oh, right? You feel it. You feel that he gets it. He gets it that this is, of course, about economics. It's, of course, about people wanting to keep their jobs. But it's demeaning. And when he hits that note, That's what makes him Trump.

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Yeah, he's unmatched at this. Now, to tie two stories together, my Dilbert comics for this week, I believe starting on Monday, are Dilbert training his Elbonian replacement. So Dilbert will be training his Elbonian replacement. I'm not entirely sure I could have done that if I hadn't been canceled. It's a little bit edgier than newspapers maybe would have been comfortable with, but I don't know.

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explain quantum computing to me i do not get the basic idea and at first i thought oh i'm just seeing bad explainers there must be some way to explain you know just just in a very layman's kind of way uh why the quantum computers are so fast and they end up saying things like well it must be accessing multiple dimensions with the qubits and i go um

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But you'd have to be a subscriber now, so if you're subscribing on X or you're a member of the Locals community, scottadams.locals.com, you can see the new Dilberts, where Dilbert is training his Elbonian replacement all week. But apparently this might be a temporary problem because there's a bigger issue.

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According to Owen Hughes on Live Science, now they've shown that you can train an AI agent to replicate your personality in two hours of conversation with it. And it will be 85% accurate to your personality. So all you have to do is chat with an AI. I don't know if the AI asks you specific questions or not. But after two hours, it can largely reproduce your entire personality.

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Now, do you think we're going to have a long-term problem with foreign workers that we have to train to do your job? Or do you think we're two years away from training the robot to do your job, which would also be demeaning? Maybe less demeaning because the robot doesn't take it personally. Maybe. So that's happening. Robots will be replacing you. Now, I want to tell you a little update from me.

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I've been telling you for years, really, that I plan to build an AI robotic clone of myself so that I could live forever. I have changed that plan. And here's why. I thought it was just the greatest idea in the world. After I passed away, there'd be like a version of me that could grow and change with technology and be upgraded and stuff. I thought that was great.

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Do you know what happens when you mention that to people you know? They look at you with sadness and they go, it wouldn't be you. Right? And that's the part that was invisible to me because in my planning, I'm not really there anymore. So I don't have to deal with the fact that people would find it uncomfortable because it's not me, but it's acting like me.

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And I can imagine that that would hit that creepy zone and you'd be like, why did you even do this? Like, why did you do this? It's not you. So here's how I decided to fix that. I'm not going to create a digital clone of myself. I'm going to create a digital sun. I'm going to reproduce. Because my sun in AI digital robotic form is not supposed to be just like me.

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It's supposed to be influenced by me, maybe have a lot of my characteristics in it, but then it's supposed to find its own way. And it's supposed to turn into its own person. Yes, but when it's small, it will be very influenced by me when it's brand new, and it will be designed based on my personality, which would be like my DNA, but it would be very allowed to evolve.

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So by the time the robot is a senior citizen, maybe its robot body got changed a few times and software got upgraded, but by some point, it won't be me, but you might be able to find some corresponding similarities You'd say, oh, yeah, the original, you know, your organic father had a lot of the same elements going on. So that's the current plan, digital son.

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Correction, I said something totally wrong yesterday about one of the lawfare cases. I told you that Judge Marchand was with his 34 felonies or whatever it is. I thought that was the bank lending lawfare, but it was the Stormy Daniel lawfare. I get all my lawfares confused. Now, I warned you that was going to happen. I cannot tell the lawfare stories apart because they all have the same elements.

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Somebody did something that you would never do for anybody except Trump. The jury found him or the judge found him guilty that nobody was found guilty except Trump. It's all just completely political BS. So to me, they all sound the same. So it's hard to keep them straight. But that doesn't change the fact that the appellate court is going to get a look at it.

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And MSNBC is really going hard at the fact that even though the possibility of jail is now eliminated by the judge, that he will technically... be a felon before he's sworn in. And they seem to be really, really happy with that because they get to call him a felon. So apparently MSNBC didn't notice that the election didn't go well for the Democrats.

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Is it really impossible to describe what's happening? Because that just sounds like words. It doesn't sound like you understand anything. And how would you know what dimension it's going to? How could you interact with another dimension? And how could you do it all? Doesn't it sound like quantum computer is all fake? And when I say fake, I don't mean that the tests don't work in the lab.

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And if they did notice that, they haven't figured out why. But if I had to narrow down the whole complexity of the election and the characters involved, it really kind of came down to we don't like name-calling. That's all the Democrats had. Well, the Republicans would be like, I think we should close the border because that would improve our security.

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And then Democrats would be like, oh, so you're racist. And then we'd say, we don't want to fund Ukraine for various reasons. And then they'd say, well, you must be traitors or racists or something. So they only had that one thing. If we don't like your policy, we're going to call you names. You're going to be deplorables.

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And people like James Carville and a number of people, the smarter Democrats, have figured out, wait a minute. the name-calling didn't work at all. Now, I would say that Pocahontas, which is a fair statement, by the way, that Trump does name-calling to, but his are playful. Pocahontas is just completely playful. I mean, it's effective. So is low-energy Jeb.

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But they're not really just, you are a bad person. It's not you're a bad person at all. It's just they're playful, effective and playful. But with the Democrats, we're full of hate. It's the difference between hate and playfulness. And the hate just turns people off.

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So after going through that whole cycle of learning that the one thing that definitely doesn't work is turning complicated policies into just an insult. And here they're doing it again.

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They've decided that insulting Trump and his supporters by calling him a felon, without mentioning that the only reason he's a felon is because of lawfare and a complete corruption of the justice system by Democrats. And they think that's going to work. How in the world do they wake up and say, you know what? We just got our clocks cleaned by simply doing nothing useful but calling them names.

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How about, and I'm just spitballing here, What if we call them names? But wait a minute, didn't you just say that that's what didn't work? I know, I know. But what if we did more of it? Really, more of the thing that didn't work? Yeah, maybe it just wasn't enough. Or maybe we weren't using the right insults. What exactly are they thinking? Is there a conversation that happens or are they just

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They just all simultaneously act the same. At some point, there had to be somebody smart-ish who said, all right, everybody, here's what we're going to do. We're going to insult Trump by calling him a felon. Was there somebody in the meeting who said, genius, boss, that's genius? I mean, honestly, I'm so curious how the conversation went.

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Was there somebody who said, I think we've got it this time? Yeah, we had a lot of near misses in the last election, but I think if we call him a felon, they were calling him a convicted felon for the entire election, but now they think they're calling him an actual felon when the entire news public knows it's sort of BS and it's not real and he's not going to jail and it was a biased process.

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They cannot learn. They really cannot learn. And of course, tomorrow we get to see the spectacle of Kamala Harris certifying Trump's victory over her. I didn't see when that is. Does somebody have an Eastern time? What's the time? I got to watch that live. Are you going to watch that live if you're available at that time?

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So if somebody knows the time that that's going to happen, can you put it in the comments? Probably the morning. I don't know. But I just want to watch their interaction, don't you? I want to look at their faces, and I just want to see her forced smile. I would like to do my impression of what will likely be Kamala Harris's forced smile. Bye, Donald Trump. Bye.

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They probably do. What I mean is, I don't think anybody working on it knows what it is. Because if they did, they could explain it at least a little bit, just a little bit, instead of saying stuff like, well, it goes off into the infinite dimensions, and then something happens, and then we get a result. But why is that so fast? Well, because of the infinite dimensions.

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I don't think the eyes are going to match the face. I think her mouth is going to be puckered up. Hi. Congratulations. Have a nice day. It's going to be terrific. Anyway, so there's more news, of course, about that Vegas Cybertruck guy. I'm going to give you my summary of my opinion and then tell you why. I think we know everything we need to know. There are a bunch of sub-mysteries to the story.

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But I don't think any of them are going to tell us anything new, even if we solve them. In my opinion, it is now confirmed. I'm completely satisfied that he had mental problems. That's now confirmed. He was seeking help. It's now really, really certain that he had severe mental problems. And that would explain everything. Secondly, it was not a terror attack.

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there was no indication he had the intention of creating terror. He apparently had the intention of creating a spectacle to call attention to something I believe he's just hallucinating about, which is that there's some kind of gravitic propulsion device and there's Chinese drones over New Jersey. I don't think any of that's true.

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I think that was just something he saw online and his mental state wasn't good and And he just bought into it and thought he, maybe in his mental state, thought he was doing something wrong. Now, you're going to say to me, but Scott, how do you explain X? But Scott, how do you explain this? And let me tell you how.

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In the real world, when any complicated and new event happens, one of the things you're going to notice is a whole bunch of coincidences. And a lot of people said, but wait. There are two on the same day. They're both in the military. They both went to the same base. They both use this app.

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And you said to yourself, because your common sense says, what are the odds that all of those things happen on the same day? Right? Your common sense, your sense of statistics is too big a coincidence. Here's where I want to retune you on that. That was not a big coincidence. Not even close. The way to understand this is with an old book from my younger days. It was very big at the time.

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It was called The Bible Code. How many of you remember that? Because that's what you should think about when you see a story like this. If you don't know the story about The Bible Code, you don't understand this story about the Cybertruck Vegas guy. Here's why. In The Bible Code, there was a claim which was debunked.

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And the claim was that there are secret codes in the King James Version of the Bible. And so the authors of the book ran various programs against the text. And I'm just going to make up this example, but it gives you the idea.

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So they would do something like, what if we took the first letter of the first sentence and then the second letter of the second sentence, but the third letter of the third sentence, et cetera, and then we put them together as a diagonal. Well, almost all the time, it's just nonsense letters. But every now and then, it might say something like, you know, B-O-M, and then 45.

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And then you'd say, bomb, 45. Aha! It's actually predicting, way back then, that in 1945, there'd be a nuclear bomb. And then you talk yourself into it being an accurate prediction. But it was just noise. Now, you might say to me, really? Really? That's just noise? And there's more than one of those.

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Like, there are a whole bunch of examples where it seems to be it's predicting something that really happened. You know, Scott, explain that. How do you explain how many times they could find these things? I mean, there's no way it could be accidental. It's all through the book. And then somebody said, what if we run your algorithms against war and peace? Well...

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Turns out that War and Peace has the same amount of hidden messages from God. In other words, our sense of the odds of things is just off base. If the book is big enough, you will find all kinds of coincidental references to things which you can imagine are accurate in the future, as long as you ignore all the ones that did not predict anything and the ones that are nonsense. So...

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How do you send things to infinite dimensions? Well, with the qubits. Well, what are you talking about? Like, is it really impossible to just give some kind of basic analogy, anything that would make me understand how we're sending things into the infinite dimensions and getting answers back? Don't see it at all. All right, here's one of the things... that I think of in terms of reality.

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Take that example that whenever there's something as complicated as a book, in this case the Bible, there are all kinds of coincidences in it, and it's guaranteed just by the complexity of the book. It's guaranteed. It's not an accident. It's guaranteed. This situation with the Cybertruck guy is such a new, unique situation. Like everything about it feels like the one time you've seen it.

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And it's really complicated. Because it's a multi-day event where he planned it. You need to understand his military service all the way through the autopsy. And we're getting fog of war stuff. We don't know what's true, what's not. So under this situation, how many unexplained coincidences would you expect?

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And the answer is, if you say, there shouldn't be many unexplained coincidences, it should be kind of straightforward, then you don't understand the Bible code story. The most normal thing that we should have seen is a whole bunch of fake patterns and coincidences every time. There's nothing about this case that is giving you extra coincidences.

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And if it looks like they are, they probably don't mean anything. So being just filled with unlikely seeming coincidence probably doesn't mean anything. It has no predictive value at all. And that's what the Bible code teaches you. The story about the Bible code, that's what it teaches you. So it's the same thing when I say the Meg Martin preschool case.

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If you don't understand that, you would not understand what a mass psychosis looks like, mass hysteria. So there are some stories about reality that will tell you about the odds of things and how to interpret the news. And those are big ones. The Bible code, just understand how that gets debunked.

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And then the McMartin preschool case, to understand how people thought there was massive... Again, that was coincidence. The McMartin preschool thing was that people said, it's not possible... that all of these children could have stories about satanic abuse unless it's true. But the real answer is, no, it's completely possible.

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It's routine to have gigantic coincidences in any complicated situation. There's always something. So I think he just had a problem. The Sean Ryan Sam Shoemate email, I don't know if he wrote that, and I don't know if somebody else wrote it. I don't think it matters. I mean, if he did write something that shows he has mental problems, well, it would just be additive to what we already knew.

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But I definitely don't think there are any gravitic propulsion devices. Let's see. And again, I wouldn't call it a terrorist attack. So the first coincidence is ruled out. The first coincidence is, did he mean to create terror for a larger political purpose? And the answer is no.

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Apparently he meant to create a spectacle to draw attention to something, but he liked the United States and he liked Trump. So it wasn't, I mean, I think it did cause a lot of damage to people. Were there people injured nearby? I don't remember the details of this one. But it wasn't meant to be massive casualties.

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And so some of the things that people are saying are, well, let me just give you a taste for it. So there's new video from a new angle that purports to show that He's alive before the blast and did not shoot his head off. So I looked at the video and there's nothing on the video and all the commenters are, see, see, he's perfectly alive there.

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And then, and I'm looking at it and looking at it in closeup and I'm saying, you can't see a person. What are you looking at? So I don't even think you're even seeing him. I don't know what you're looking at. I'm looking at exactly the same picture. I don't see anybody. I just see reflections in the window. So I don't think that anything that we see in those videos is telling us the truth.

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The fact that we can't figure out, you know, did he shoot himself? You know, we don't even know if there was a fuse. Like, did he have time to shoot himself first? Probably. So probably everything just has an ordinary explanation. And I don't really think there's anything that really screams cover-up or op. It looks like it's just exactly what it looks like. So that's where I'm settling on this.

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Now, you've heard others say that something like this, so it's not something I invented. But back in the 90s, I had this idea that reality was fixed and that all the possibilities of your future already exist as static, frozen situations. And the only thing that travels, if you can even call it that, is your consciousness. So in other words, there's no time, there's no space, there's nothing.

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I'm always open to changing my mind. But so far, I don't see anything that seems suspicious about it. It just is tragic, in my opinion. Let's see, what else they found? Yeah, he had additional firearms. So one of the questions I had was, if he had this Desert Eagle gun...

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that he shot his head off, all the smart people who know about guns say, Scott, the last thing you would take would be this unreliable pistol called the Desert Eagle. So I went to social media, not social media, I went to perplexity, the AI, and I said, is it true that this kind of gun is unreliable? And they said, yes.

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So then you say to yourself, okay, if he's a gun expert, because he's a gun expert, and he planned to off himself, why would you bring, and there would be a timing variable you'd have to do right at the right second before the car exploded, why would somebody who knew about guns bring one that's famous for jamming when you're really, really going to need it? And then I asked,

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What would be the odds that that gun would jam if you knew you were only going to fire it once and you were a gun expert and you fired the gun before? How often does it jam on the first shot? And it said, oh, much less likely. Much less likely it's going to jam on the first shot. I don't know if that's true. That's just what perplexity said. So my question would be this.

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If he knew that he had used this revolver many times... and that maybe it did jam. Maybe it did. But what if it never once jammed on the first shot, and that there's something about the multiple shots that creates the jamming possibility? In that case, maybe the reason he'd use it is because he's more of a gun expert than you are.

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Could it be, since he owned the gun, he knew that it always worked on the first shot, but it did have a problem if you did repeated shooting? Could he have known that? Now, the other question would be, if he had these other weapons, why didn't he use them? And it might be that the caliber or something like that, he wanted to get it done for sure. I don't know.

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And then you have to add to that that he wasn't mentally working. So his mental problems could have been related to a bad choice of firearms. Yeah. So there are a lot of stuff that you think is a big... Oh, the thing that bothered me when I heard about the Desert Eagle, I said to myself, okay, I can see why maybe he would trust it to off himself if it doesn't jam on the first thing.

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But why would somebody who's going into a situation where there's likely to be trouble... and he's a military guy, why wouldn't he have a proper defensive weapon? Right? And then we find out he had other proper defensive weapons. So I was thinking, oh, this can't be explained.

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It can't be explained that somebody who knows that much about firearms going into an inherently dangerous situation would bring the worst firearm you could bring to that situation. And the answer is, he didn't. Then people say, but why would he have a passport? Well, there was some talk about him going to Mexico, which at some point he might have thought he would go to Mexico.

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Maybe he changed his mind. Remember, he had mental problems. He wasn't stable. So if at any point he thought to himself, well, I might change my mind and just go to Mexico, he throws his passport in. But why didn't the passport burn? I've got a feeling there were some things that burned and some things that didn't. And maybe that's a coincidence. but maybe not a big one.

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Because again, we're really, really bad at knowing what's a real coincidence and what's just any complicated situation. There's going to be some stuff that didn't burn and some stuff that did. So I could go down the list of the other things that people are saying, what about this? How do you explain that? And all of them have at least the potential for some ordinary explanation.

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Everything's just frozen and permanent. And the only thing that moves is you through all the permanent states. And if you're moving in one direction, it looks like those things are moving and just like a picture book. If you flip the pages of a cartoon book where the cartoon is different a little bit on each page, it would look like it's moving.

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So I think that one's, to me, that's put to bed. Elon Musk is getting some pushback for some story that I don't understand yet and I think is fake. But the allegations that users of X were making yesterday and the day before is that X had already or was about to change its algorithm to do something like de-boost negativity.

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So if you often said things that were, let's say, a criticism of something, that you would get less engagement. Now, I don't know that there's any truth to that. Because at the same time, there were a number of people who were deplatformed or deboosted, like Laura Loomer, for example, and others. But each of them had a special story that we knew about or could have known about.

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So there seem to be specific allegations of terms of service broken. So we don't know if the cancellations are related to what people did, that even if you looked at it and knew all the details, you would say, oh, okay, maybe you don't agree with it, but you'd see that it matches the terms of service and somebody violated something. So...

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There's this great uncertainty about what happened to the algorithm or what's going to happen and how that affects things. I saw Mike Benz did an extended video saying that if you de-boost or you de-platform somebody and they put all of their work on X, let's say their video content like Mike Benz does, that they would lose it all and there'd be no recourse.

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So if he got banned tomorrow, Benz would lose 350 hours of fairly brilliant content. How is that fair? But I think the answer is the story seems to be at least half fake. I don't know if any of it is true. But Elon Musk said today, quote, for the bright sparks out there, no change has yet been made to the algorithm. If you're wondering why you're not getting more views, look in the mirror.

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Any changes we make will be posted publicly. Now, what's interesting about this is that if the rumors are true, that negativity and sort of insulting people, if that's actually going to get deboosted, then what Elon Musk posted today would have been massively deboosted. because he's literally insulting people, calling them bright sparks, sarcastically.

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And if you're not getting more views, look in the mirror. Basically, there's something wrong with you. That seems like exactly what would be de-boosted if the people who think this is happening are right, and I don't think they are. So I'm in total fog of war with this topic. And I think everybody is. So I don't think I'm alone.

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I think there's just some rumors of things that might happen, but we don't know. So at the moment, I'm going to stand down and just say, I'm going to take myself out of this conversation because I don't think we even know what it is. You know, we should be worried that there's any possibility things could go in a negative direction. But I kind of wait to see because so far, so far,

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So I think that our sense of time and movement are just illusions because our consciousness is experiencing one reality after another. That's what I think. But how would that allow you to solve a an unsolvable, gigantic problem with quantum computing? I don't know the answer to that.

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Elon Musk has a perfect record, in my opinion, of being a pro-free speech advocate. And until I see that change, then I'm going to say there must be something I don't understand about this story. So that's where I'm at. Mario Naufal is talking about how, I guess, back in September 2024, the House passed a bill to deport undocumented immigrants convicted of sex crimes.

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So in other words, the idea would be if we have so many people that are undocumented, you've got to start somewhere. So you should start with the criminals. And apparently, probably Republicans driving this, I assume, wanted to make sure that the legislation said if you're a sex offender and you're undocumented, you're definitely going to get shipped back.

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So every single Republican voted for that, and even 51 Democrats. But 158 Democrats opposed deporting non-citizens who were sex offenders. Now, we could talk about how crazy that is, But I'm more interested in how clever it is to make the Democrats side with sex offenders.

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And every time the Republicans find a new way to make the Republicans side with the sex offenders, I just think to myself, oh, that's good. That's pretty good. Because you don't have to insult them. You don't have to say, oh, you're sex offenders or supporting them or something. You just have to let them come out publicly in favor of the sex offenders. I think people can connect the dots.

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Now, I don't know why they do it. Some are saying it was racist or whatever, but I'm thinking, race? Why would I care what race they are? If they came from another country and they're raping our citizens and we have a chance to send them out of the country, do you think I care if they're white? or not white. That's the last thing I'm thinking about.

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I'm thinking about your daughters, and that's about it. Not in a bad way. Anyway, so if the Republicans can find more ways to get the Democrats on record as siding with the pedophiles, it's just going to be funnier and funnier. As you know, There's been some talk lately about how the Democrats have been saying the biggest risk of terror is the white supremacists. And here's my question.

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So I'm seeing a number of largely black TV hosts and pundits saying that the big risk is the white supremacists, terrorists. And here's my question for all those who agree with that statement. Would you want to live... where there's a high percentage of white supremacists. Now, if some of you are white supremacists yourself, you might say, well, that's exactly what I want.

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But if what you're doing is sending out a zillion little signals, and one of them comes back from the path of reality that's always existed, along with all the other infinite paths, if one of those paths has a solution, maybe it can send it back, and maybe you can test it. And maybe the only thing you can test is whether it worked. So you don't see the computing.

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But most of you are going to say, no, I don't really want to live near white supremacists. And if you're black, I mean, I think most white people would say, I don't want to live near a white supremacist. You know, very much the high percentage of people would say that. But if you're black... would you ever want to live in a town that was known to have a high percentage of white supremacists?

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And if you were considering it, what kind of advice would you give them? Well, I don't know. I'll just take a stab at it because I like to be helpful. I would probably tell black Americans who are concerned about living in a town where there's a high percentage, and high percentage in this case would be, let's say, 20%. Would you agree that's high?

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Like if you were black, would you intentionally ever move to a place that 20% white supremacists in it? Well, not, not if you're, if you're concerned about your safety, which we should all be concerned about. No, if you want to be safe, you should make sure that you're moving into a town that's a blue city and, you know, nice and welcoming and maybe even has DEI maybe as a,

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maybe they're already studying reparations, right? If you were black, that would be your ideal safest situation with even maybe some economic benefits. So what would be your advice to a black American family who is considering moving into a town with 20% white supremacists? Well, I'll take a stab at it. I would say you should get the F out of that town. So did I get canceled for saying that?

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Do you get canceled for saying that nice law-abiding black families should stay away from towns that have 20% white supremacists and that it's just common sense? It has nothing to do with racism. It's not a statement about white people, right? It's a statement about one subset of white people who do look like they present a risk to you. So

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As I often say, every time we treat the group the same as an individual, we're being stupid. The way you should treat individuals is as an individual. You should not give me credit for being white because there are some physicists who are also white who did some cool things once. I don't get credit for that.

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I don't get like some kind of white credit because some white people who I've never met and I could never match their abilities did some cool things. So now I'm not going to judge you by the group. It's like, oh, white person. I heard of that white person who got a Nobel Prize. So I'm going to hire you because you're white. And there was once a white person who got a Nobel Prize.

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So it makes sense, right? No, nobody does that. You'd never treat an individual like the group. There's literally no logical reason to do that. But can you treat a group like it has a tendency or a risk which would be highly relevant to you personally? Of course. Of course. If it's a high crime neighborhood, don't go there.

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If it's a high white supremacist group and you're not white, don't go there. If you are white, don't go there. It's exactly the same. Less dangerous for the white people, but also don't go there. All right. So El Salvador continues to do clever things, not only that are good for El Salvador, but they look good. One of the things I love about El Salvador is President Bukele is not only...

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you only know that one of the paths works. So that's my best guess. But if you can find anybody who can give a common sense explanation of how you use multiple infinite dimensions to solve a math problem, Let me know. I'm very, very curious. But my skepticism is through the roof that quantum computing is something that we can scale up and turn into products.

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legitimately has accomplished things that look really hard to accomplish. You know, made the country safe, and he seems to be good for the economy and everything else. But this latest move is just kind of brilliant. El Salvador is lending their troops, some of them, to Haiti to help defeat the Haitian gangs. Now, is that a brilliant idea? because it feels like it.

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If you're the government or whatever there is in Haiti, I don't know, do they even have a government right now? I don't know. But the last thing you want to do is hire some Haitians to sort it out. Because the Haitians all hate the other Haitians and their gangs and there's a high level of corruption and bribery and threats and blackmail and retribution.

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It's probably a situation where the Haitians, they don't have a path. It would take some external influence to get anything back on track. Could it be that the El Salvador troops are really specifically trained for this kind of civil unrest because they had experience in El Salvador?

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And can they, because their only interest is to do what they're told, which is to try to get Haiti stood up again, could they pull it off in a way that the Haitians couldn't have done it themselves. And more importantly, even a big superpower couldn't have helped. And I'm thinking maybe if they pull this off, then Bukele is not just the guy who did some great things in this country.

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Suddenly, he's that international guy. So that is so brilliant for him to, for the benefit of the brand of his country and to look like their movement. But one of the things that a leader needs to do is make it look like great things are happening all the time. So you have to have a steady stream of, I did this, I did this, we're doing that. We can't wait to do that. And this would be like that.

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So you might say to yourself, well, I mean, how does this help El Salvador? Some of their people will be put at risk, might be deaths. You know, that seems like they're just giving stuff away, but not really. What it does for the El Salvador brand is you start thinking of them like, I don't know, the Swiss.

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You know, we think of Switzerland as always connected to international events, but just because they're good at what they're doing, you know, banking and staying neutral. What if El Salvador becomes the place that can solve your internal problems? It's pretty strong play. I just love how it looks and feels. So Bukele definitely has the persuasion game. He's got that completely.

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All right, what about, there's reports in Wall Street Journal that Iran's economy is teetering on the edge. I never believe these stories because it seems like we've never exactly bankrupted a country into compliance, have we? Is there an example that that's ever worked?

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Because it feels like they can just keep getting poorer, but they become more resolute and they have workarounds and they have black markets and somehow they can make things work. So I'm not going to say that Iran's economy is crumbling and that that will force them into negotiations because that feels too optimistic.

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But if Iran had any hope of being, you know, let's say making things better, this would be the time to negotiate because they've lost their proxies. So Hamas is on the run, and Syria is just overcome, and Hezbollah is beaten back, and Iran's air defenses are completely destroyed.

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And you've got Israel just casually talking about destroying their entire nuclear program, which they would just have to want to do. Iran couldn't stop them. So it's like a casual public conversation. Do you think we should bomb their nuclear program into non-existence? Yeah, maybe we should. So here's some more numbers. Apparently Iran's currency is down 40% since the start of 2024.

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You know, the smart people say yes, so maybe they're right. But the smart people told me 20 years ago that the string theory was going to solve all our problems. And I remember thinking, I don't think they even know what that is. I don't think this whole string theory thing sounds really sketchy. Sure enough, doesn't seem to have solved too many problems so far.

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Their GDP has fallen 45% since 2012. That's a huge number. 45% decrease in GDP since 2012. Since 2012, there should have been a really large increase in GDP if just things were normal. So if you look at what it should have been, that makes it look way worse than just saying it's down 45%, because it should have been up 20%.

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So there's like a 60% difference or something, if I'm doing the math right. But roughly, you know, directionally. And apparently they're running on energy, which is also weird because it's an energy-producing country. But it doesn't mean it's the kind of energy you can use and everything else.

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So apparently their manufacturing, their factories, are being frequently shut down because they don't have enough electricity to keep them running all day. So the factory production is like a fraction of what it was. They don't have enough energy. They probably have trouble getting replacement anything to improve their energy situation.

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So the thinking is that they'll be so weakened both internationally and domestically because their economy that when Trump comes in, he's sort of in the perfect situation for negotiating. And he's reportedly going to put even more sanctions on them, which would be the right play, especially if you wanted to force the negotiations sooner than later. So I do wonder what sanctions are left.

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Like, are there some sanctions we had left that we weren't using? Why? Seems like we would have used everything you could use by now. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Skeptic, Chris Morrison is writing that the new evidence shows there's been a 30-year global drop in hurricane frequencies and power. Huh. Wouldn't that be the opposite of what the climate models suggest?

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Wouldn't that be the opposite of what science tells us? Yes, that would be the opposite. But do you believe the new numbers suggest that the hurricanes have dropped in power and frequency for 30 years, or would it be more fair to say, wait a minute, Scott, apply a version of a gill man amnesia to this.

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So when the experts showed me the climate change numbers that said the earth is going to burn up, I said, that's fake. When they showed me that the hurricanes are going to get worse, I said, no, that's fake. When they said the sea level would be rising at a certain rate, I said, that's fake. And basically, every time climate change said anything, the consensus, I said, I don't think so.

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Well, in other news, you all know about the drinking bleach hoax that Trump has suffered under. The news told you that he said you should drink bleach. And then other people say, well, not drink bleach. He said inject bleach. And then people say, well, not inject bleach, but he said inject household disinfectants. None of that happened. In the real world, nothing like that happened.

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That looks fake to me. Now, what should I take to this news story? So the news story is the opposite. It says that there's data that says that the hurricanes weren't as bad. Would I automatically think that's true because it agrees with me? How about no? How about the only thing I should be confident in is that the data about all things climate change are unreliable.

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I think the anti-climate change hysteria numbers are probably unreliable. It would be weird if the only unreliable studies were all in one direction. it would be more likely, by my experience, that everybody who has a perspective just picks the data and the study that fits. They only run studies that work for them. If it went the other way, they wouldn't tell you. So here's what I think.

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I think you can't know about climate change. I think that we don't have a system where humans are honest enough and that their ability to do data collection and analyze it properly are good enough that any of it means anything. I don't believe the pro or the anti, and I'll extend that to the pandemic. Today, again, there's some new report about, oh, the vaccination did this or that.

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That's bad for you. Maybe, maybe. A lot of you would say, well, I believe that that's true. I believe the vaccinations are bad for people. If you believe that, then the new report comes out, you're going to say, well, that's true. But then you wouldn't believe anything that the other people said with their science. Go further.

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If you're saying the other side gets all the science wrong, but everybody who disagrees gets it right, in what world does that happen? It's far more likely that both sides are lying. or mistaken or don't know how to do the math. That's your normal world. So I don't trust any statistics or any analyses coming out of the pandemic. Nothing now and nothing then.

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And so since I don't understand it, I don't want to wear a mask and take a vaccination because I don't have information that tells me it's a good idea. I just don't see the reason. And when I see information that says, oh, it's going to kill you, it's a bad idea, I don't believe that either. It might be true. It's worrying.

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Certainly worth our full attention if there's anything that says it was bad or could be bad. But I don't know how to believe any of it. So climate change and the pandemic, I don't believe any data in either direction. And so I make my decisions based on the default. If I don't know if the weather is going to be bad or good, I don't want to fund anything.

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I don't want to fund it, and I don't want to believe it. If I don't know anything about the pandemic, whether it's true, I don't know if the vaccinations are good for me or bad for me, then I don't want to do it. If I don't know it's good, I don't want to wear a mask. If I don't know it's good, I definitely don't want to stick anything else in my body. I've already done that.

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So just don't believe anything. and make your decisions based on that. Although we'll end up using our biases to decide what is real, but we shouldn't. China has a new technology for shooting down, they hope, hypersonic missiles. And they've got what they call a gun, but it fires 450,000 rounds per minute. And I think the technology it came from at one point attested a million rounds per minute.

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Now, as somebody smart said, Does that mean that they fired a million rounds in a minute? No. No, they didn't develop anything that can fire a million bullets in a minute or rounds. No. That means that if they fired it for five seconds... or whatever they actually fire it for, then if you could extend that, which they can't, it would have been 450,000 in a minute.

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What they should have said is how much they shoot per second and how many seconds they can shoot. Now that would tell me something. If they can only shoot for five seconds, but it's 50,000 bullets or something, I get that. but this is just poorly conceived. But my question is this.

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If you shoot 450,000 rounds, let's say you have multiple of these guns and there are multiple supersonic weapons heading your way, where do the bullets land? I mean, it's bad enough when people celebrate by shooting in the air. Every now and then you'll hear somebody got hit by the bullet that fell down. What happens if you shoot...

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And the American Debunk site that you can find on X just by American Debunk, but I think AmericanDebunk.com would get you to the site directly. There's a really good write-up of the drinking bleach hoax with a video that shows you exactly how they did it. And it's the best so far.

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hundred thousand bullets in the same direction isn't there going to be some suburb in china that's directly below where 50 000 bullets are going to land now i i'm sure it's better i'm sure it's better to take out the hypersonic missile so you're probably still coming in ahead but i wouldn't want to be in the general direction

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of 450,000 bullets per minute that are in the air, and they've all got to come down. So I don't know if they thought that through entirely. Meanwhile, in the world of batteries, your favorite topic, there's a Tesla-backed breakthrough using something called a single crystal electrode that would still work with a lithium battery, but it would make the battery last longer. way longer.

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What's the actual number? Millions of miles. Millions of miles. So with a change that they now understand, and therefore it's possible you'll see it, but we don't know yet, your battery would last longer than the car. So with fairly well understood technology, it sounds like, you don't have to worry about replacing your battery unless there's a defect

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But in terms of wearing it out, your car will wear out before the battery. And then here's the cool part, because they can take lots of charges and not degrade as fast. The cool part is that once the rest of your car wears out and you've still got this battery that's working, maybe it's down to 80% capacity or 60% by then, but it still works.

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You would be able to take your battery and put it into the grid. So I don't think it's designed to easily do that at the moment. But you can imagine, when you trade in your car, that instead of trying to get rid of the battery, they say, oh, it's one of these million-mile batteries, and you've got a 60% charge left. We'll just connect this with the other ones that are already in the grid.

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And they just snap it in, and it gives a second life, which I think is very cool. I don't know if any of that will happen, but it looks like it's within the realm of technical possibility. Is there any story I missed today? Probably not. All right. I think I had all the important stuff. And Erica, have you reposted yet? Did you repost the pictures that you took of the drones? I didn't see it yet.

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Send it to me and I'll repost it if you have. Oh, I'll go look at it. I can find it. All right. I'm going to say bye to everybody except the local subscribers, and I'm going to talk to them for a minute. But the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining.

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I've written about the hoax a number of times, but I think the American Debunk did a nice, tight video that is really unambiguous. You can really, really see it clearly how the hoax was created. It's really well done. So first of all, every one of you should have a bookmark or at least remember the name of the site. the same way you remember Snopes or Wikipedia.

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Just remember American debunk, and you should be able to search for it. So that's got the debunks of the main Trump hoaxes. And I feel like it's time that people will realize that that was fake. And as I've told you before, the fine people hoax was the tentpole. But the drinking bleach hoax is the finisher.

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We knocked the tent pole down, and now a lot of people understand that the fine people thing was a hoax. But they still think, even the people who debunked who understand that the fine people hoax was out, still they believe that Trump said something about drinking or injecting household disinfectants.

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Somebody else came up with it a long time ago. The purpose of dancing was so that primitive people could look like they were one larger beast. So if you were a lion and you saw one human, you'd say, I could take that human, and the lion would kill you.

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So I think once you see that even the drinking bleach hoax was completely made up and that the technique to completely make it up is to just say that something happened that didn't happen and then only show you a part of the video. And that worked. that actually worked. When the access to the full video was always available, and it still worked.

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And, you know, I'm so disappointed with the right-leaning media that they were kind of soft on that one. It felt like the debunk had to come from the public, and it did. People like me, and now American debunk. So check it out. Make sure you've you've just made a made a mental note or actually literally just tagged it so you can find it later.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time in your life. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains and their quantum computers, it's not enough.

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So I saw Tucker Carlson had an ex-CIA guy on, and separately he was answering the question about the drone activity. And his theory about the drone activity, if you can believe an ex-CIA guy whose job was lying, is that all it is is that there was a recent change to make it legal to fly your hobby drone at night as long as it had lights.

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So apparently it might be nothing but it became legal to fly at night. So a bunch of people who had drones thought, hey, I think I'll fly around at night because I couldn't do that before. And that might be the whole thing. The entire thing might be people who are flying in the daytime and now they can fly at night.

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So you notice them where maybe you wouldn't even notice them if they were in the daytime. So I'm not saying that that's the correct answer. But at the moment, I think I would rule out aliens and a permanent Chinese fleet of drones flying over our stuff. I don't think either of them are very likely.

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But if you ask me, what is the likelihood that it's just a new wave of activity because the law changed? Well, that sounds kind of likely to me. Anyway, the best pictures I've seen so far of the drones in New Jersey are from our own Erica, who I don't see her in the comments today. But if you haven't seen her pictures, I think she posted them on X. I'll follow up on that.

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I'll repost them if I see them. I'll check when the show is done. But they're the cleanest pictures I've seen. And they do look... They don't look like drones I've seen. So it might be just that the pictures are distorted because of the lights on the drone, something like that. So I don't know.

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Meanwhile, in L.A., a man tried to steal a self-driving Waymo car, and he couldn't figure out how to start it and drive it because it was a self-driving Waymo car. Now, the only thing that they need to do with these self-driving cars is they need to lock the doors and drive you to the police station. You know, like the bait cars.

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But if you saw a bunch of humans standing next to each other and they were all acting in unison, the lion might think, wait a minute, it looks like one giant creature. They're all operating in unison. And when I do the simultaneous sip, I always feel it connects us to something like really basic in our biology, that doing something at the same time makes you feel safer.

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There used to be a TV show called Bait Car, where people would try to steal the car that was left to be intentionally stolen, and they'd get locked in the car. And that was a fun show. So I'd like to see all the self-driving cars understand when somebody's trying to rob them and just lock the door and drive them to the police department. Now, I know that can't happen, but it'd be fun.

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Fun to imagine it. Megyn Kelly is telling us that there's a new movie called The Conclave. And she said, just made the huge mistake of watching it. And I guess it's a... She refers to it as an anti-Catholic film. And... In order to make this story hit, I would have to violate something that creative people shouldn't violate, which is I'd have to tell you the ending of the movie.

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No, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it because just as a principle, you can't be in the work that I do and then ruin somebody's art. So somebody made it. It was art. I'm sure somebody likes it. Probably somebody likes that movie. So it would be wrong for me, just like I wouldn't tell you how a magic trick is done, because you don't give away magic tricks. It ruins it for everybody.

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But let me tell you this. If you do watch that movie, and let's say you're a person who's not fond of wokeness, you're not going to make it through the ending. So the only tease I'm going to give you is if you don't like wokeness, oh boy, you've got a big surprise coming. This movie has apparently the wokest ending of anything that's ever been imagined.

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So I wish I could tell you, but I can't spoil it for you. Just know that Megyn Kelly says it's just shameful garbage. I don't know. But I also don't know why anybody would watch a movie. Now, here's a question I have. You may have noticed that the headlines this week are using the phrase alcohol is poison. And it's popping up in a number of places.

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There's a study saying that alcohol causes cancer. So, you know, they're calling it poison and the surgeon general is talking about it. And here's my question. You all know that I track alcohol. my own influence by looking for specific kinds of words or something that I've worded that's different the way people have worded it before.

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And if I see that spread into other places, I can think, well, I don't know for sure, but it looks like maybe my influence went somewhere. Now, I don't think that I'm the first person in the world who said alcohol is poison. And there was a book long before I said it that said sugar is poison. So it's not like some genius thing to get to, you know, alcohol is poison.

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But let me just tell you a little history of it. So in my book, How to Fail Almost Everything and Still Win Big, came out in 2013, so quite a while ago now. And I did write about my use of the phrase alcohol is poison as an aid to avoid a thing which I had enjoyed in the past but didn't want to do anymore. So I found it helpful.

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Now that's the first time I kind of made a, you know, a section of a book talking about the phrase alcohol is poison. And then I heard from a number of people that just that one phrase was enough to reframe how they thought of alcohol and they quit drinking. And then I heard from more people who said they quit drinking forever.

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Let's see if our comments are working. And then we've got a show for you. It'll be amazing. First one to make a Star Wars pun gets one demerit. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human Civilization, Sunday edition.

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gender-affirming surgery, for example, and points out that the more invasive stuff is not proven to be effective, sort of in general. And so this is basically a review. It's not a law. So the review that HHS did stated that the effectiveness of psychotherapy for other mental health issues

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including those present alongside gender dysphoria, quote, suggests it may also be beneficial for gender dysphoria specifically. Is it true that psychotherapy is effective for other disorders? That's actually a real question. I don't know the answer to that because I have heard a lot of people say that it's just fake, that therapy doesn't work for anybody really.

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But I suspect it doesn't work for some people. What do you think? Do you think that psychotherapy is a real thing that fixes people? Probably it depends a lot on who the psychotherapist is. You know, I've got a feeling that the top 10% best therapists can fix a lot of people. I'm not sure if the bottom 90% can get anything done except taking your money.

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And maybe it's not 90-10, but I'll bet it's not 100%. Do you think 100% of therapists are good enough to fix people's mental problems? Not 100%. And do you think it's 50%? Because 50% would be worth trying. I've got affiliates closer to 10% that can really make a difference. The rest just give the benefit of being a good listener, I suppose, which is valuable too. Just a guess.

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So don't take any of my, that this is not a medical or therapy advice because I don't know enough about the field. So I've never, I haven't had any mental problems I've needed to get therapy for.

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um which i always think is weird how many of you would say of yourselves that you've not really had any mental problems that required any help how many of you would say that because i feel like i'm unusual Like, I don't have anxiety. I don't have depression. I don't have self-doubt. I don't have any of that. And I'm not sure why. I don't think I was born with better genes or anything like that.

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I have no idea why. I just don't have them. So a number of you are in good shape, too. Oh, good. According to the New York Post, There's a former State Department analyst who wrote checks to herself during her job for $650,000 over two years. Now, the fun part of this is the trick she used for embezzling. So apparently she was using, what do you call it, QuickBooks.

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So she had access to QuickBooks, and then she would go in QuickBooks, and I guess nobody was checking her work, and she would write a check to herself and then print it. But here's what she cleverly did. Then she would go back into QuickBooks after she had printed the check,

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and changed the name that was in QuickBooks from her own name, which is what she had just printed out, to some name that sounded like a vendor. And she got away with that for two years and got $650,000 out of the government. Now, the question I ask you is, how much of that is happening?

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But the new one is black, and the original one is also black. So there were two Captain Americas in this movie, and they both starred. and they were both black Captain Americans. But the news is that Disney wanted more from Marvel, but now it wants less. I guess the people are getting tired of the superhero genre, but maybe they're getting tired of just remaking everything to be woke. Maybe.

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You know, I go back to my observation that if you just drive around in a nice neighborhood, you can't really understand how so many people got so much money. Or back in the times when I would go on vacations in nice places, and I would think to myself, you know, I'm the Dilber guy. I got super lucky, made more money than most people, so I get to go to this resort, some five-store resort somewhere.

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But then it would be full. And I would think to myself, how could it be so many people who were so lucky? Did they inherit it? Are they criminals?

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And I don't know what the percentage is, but I just think that there's some shocking number of people who are rich who literally stole it from the government because the government has so much money that you can steal a lot for yourself and nobody notices. So, I mean, it's just speculation, but I got a feeling that not everybody's earning their money the hard way like I did.

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Well, there's a big trial going on with Meta's AI. There's some authors, mostly authors, who are trying to say that the AI, in this case Meta, used their copyrighted work, and they believe that their copyrighted should protect them from having the AI suck it up and be able to do stuff with it.

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Now, the good news is I was just reading a little bit about the questions that were being asked by the judge. And, you know, it's hard to know for sure from a distance, but the judge seems to be really, really sharp because I looked at the questions and how he framed stuff, and I thought, wow, you really kind of get this topic. So Ars Technica is writing about this.

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But the judge, he downplayed Meadows, what he called messed up torrenting. And whatever he rules, this could be an important ruling in the world of AI. Because if the judge decides that AI can't do this sort of thing, because it's a copyright violation,

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then the United States will fall behind in AI because we won't be able to train it the way China would, which is stealing anything it can steal and don't care about copyrights. So it's a really big deal. On the other hand, it's really bad for authors. So the judge is going to end up making a decision

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even though it's really just a legal decision, it's going to be a decision about which industry dies. So if the judge says you can't train your model on copyrighted material, well, then AI as an industry will just die or it will get sued out of existence. But if he says, well, you know, it's too important or whatever,

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it looks like it's fair use, then I would argue that the book authoring business would be completely dead in just a few years. So you're going to have to decide which one is going to die, the literary world or the AI world.

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Unfortunately, as someone who has written books, I think it's going to be the author world that dies because that seems like the older technology, the one that doesn't really, it's not really supporting the country directly. It's just something people like, whereas AI is more existential, necessary for defense, for economics, for everything.

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So I did a little test where I went to Grok, and I told it to summarize the book Atomic Habits, and it didn't pause for a second, and it gave me a good little summary where I would say to myself, huh, I don't know if I need to read this book now. And I thought to myself, is that only true for nonfiction books? Can I just go to... And I've tried to do it with my own books.

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But when I do it with my own books, it tells me that it can only tell me what other people have said about it. So if there are other people who have written long reviews or if somebody went on X and did a big thread where they said, here's the best ideas from his book, I guess it could trade on that. And so I don't know if I would write another book.

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Because we're at that point where you don't really need to buy a book if you have AI. You can just tell it to summarize all the top 10 business books. And by the time you've reached your destination on your airline trip, you'll basically know what's in 10 different important books. I don't know. And then what about the ones that are just pure fiction?

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Do you think that AI will just be able to look at a bunch of fiction that other people have written and just say, all right, I can see how this works. I see the patterns. You made a prediction. If I write another one, it'll be my best. Well, even if it is my best, it wouldn't be economic at this point. I don't know. So this is a big case. We'll see how that goes.

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I don't know. It was an okay movie. It wasn't really any better or any worse than the other ones. which are all kind of boring at this point. I don't think any of the superhero movies are worth watching. So we'll see. Australia is launching the world's largest battery-powered ship. It can carry up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles, and it's entirely battery-powered.

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According to just the news, there's a rumor that the first big trade deal might be with India. Now, we don't have confirmation of that, but Commerce Secretary Ludnick, he hinted at the fact that there's going to be an announcement coming, and it wasn't long ago that J.D. Vance was over in India meeting with Modi, and so if you just sort of

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You read the tea leaves and you figure India might want to be first. Maybe it'll be India. But here's the political element. So the Democrats have gone all in. on the tariffs being the worst idea and nothing but chaos can come from it. Now, would you agree that they're all in on that?

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They bet their entire farm on tariffs or destroying the economy so that by the midterms they can say, see, look what he did. He destroyed the economy. Now, they're not getting what they want in terms of the stock market, which is largely recovered, or the price of eggs, which have gone down, or the price of fuel, which I think has drifted down a little bit.

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So they're really going to have to bank on the tariffs being a disaster. So what happens when the tariff deals start coming through? Because you know they will. there's not really much chance that we won't make any tariff deals. And we'll obviously do the important ones that we think we can get done and make a difference first.

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So isn't it going to look like one loss after another to the Democrats? Oh, he's so chaos. Oh, everything's okay. Well, we'll give you that the India trade deal was better for the United States, but all the rest, oh, the, The chaos and the uncertainty. Okay, okay, maybe Japan can make a deal. But they're a good ally. You can't count them. Oh, but the chaos.

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All right, South Korea did make a deal, and it looks like it's a little bit better for us. But really, it's still just nothing but chaos. Okay, Europe made a deal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Democrats are going to have something like

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full year of having to just suck every word they've said for the last six months it's good it's gonna look like they're so wrong that it would be wrongness on a scale that we've never seen before because it's just gonna be one thing after another I think there were 160 countries and every you know when we reach a certain point you know maybe in a few months It's going to be every day.

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Every day there's going to be another announcement of how we improved our trade situation with a particular country. I think Democrats just created this own trap for themselves because they put so much attention into the, oh, the tariffs are bad, the tariffs are bad, he doesn't know what a tariff is, that they're just going to have to eat it. We'll see. We'll see.

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Apparently Bernie Sanders is not too unified with Chuck Schumer. And he was arguing that the reason that Trump won, this is Bernie Sanders, he thinks the reason that Trump won is because he said he would smash the system. How many of you voted for Trump because he was going to smash the system? Does Bernie have the right vibe there?

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I feel like he might for the first time because that's why I supported Trump. I wanted him to break everything because everything was corrupt. And when everything is corrupt and somebody comes in and says, I'm just going to stomp on everything, I think to myself, that's the first step. Bring him in and have him stomp on everything. Just break everything. And then, you know, maybe we can recover.

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But we definitely can't just keep going the way we're going. So I think Bernie might be a little bit right about that. But Sanders was pushing back on Caitlin Cullen's

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suggestion about the cohesiveness of the the democrats and sanders said that they're not cohesive he said quote you needed an agenda yeah questioning what the party was united around what exactly would we be united around you would need some kind of an agenda and i would add to that that once the democrats had gone all in on opposing common sense.

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Now, of course, you're going to ask, what happens if there's a battery fire? Do you jump into water with the sharks, or do you let it burn you up? I don't know. I don't know. I'm just telling you that there's the world's biggest battery-powered, I think it's some kind of a shuttle. And it's 426 feet long. It's a big-ass boat. Here's another story that I like a lot, if I understand it.

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In other words, always taking the 20 side of the 80-20 situation. Once you've committed to being against common sense, I don't know that there's a path back because you would either have to embrace the entire Republican concept of common sense or you have to stay against common sense. There's only two paths. How in the world do they come back from that?

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Well, I guess they have the media to keep them in business. Well, let's look at the designated liars in the Democrat side. The designated liars are Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Swalwell, and Elizabeth Warren, and some more. Now, what's different about the designated liars, this is my own name for them, the DDLs, Democrat Designated Liars,

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is that they will lie in public about something that's already been debunked or is easy to check is not true. Goldman, I guess you could add to the list. But not all of the Democrats will do that.

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There's a whole bunch of just sort of normal Democrats who might, you know, they might spin things, they might leave something out, they might say their ideas better than it is, they might exaggerate a little bit, but they don't tell the just big whopper lies. So here's what Elizabeth Warren did recently, and I saw this in a post by Mays, Mays Moore on X. So as Mays is pointing out,

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So in early March, there was a story about a French scientist, and this is a fake story, but the story was that the French scientist was denied entry into the U.S. because he had some anti-Trump text messages on his phone. Now, apparently, I just missed that story because it seemed too small, I guess. But... So Elizabeth Warren is going to pretend like that's true after it's been debunked.

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I guess the real story is that the scientist did something with some confidential materials. So it had nothing to do with text messages about Trump. It was something about... designated, I don't know, confidential materials. But so Elizabeth Warren is at the Senate Finance Committee and she wants to bring this up after it's been completely debunked. So unambiguously didn't happen.

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But as Mays points out, listen to how carefully she words her statement, because she knows it's been disproven for weeks. But the way she talks about it is she says that reportedly, reportedly it happened. Because reportedly is accurate. It's accurate that somebody reported it, but by now she knows it's not true.

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And she can still say, reportedly, if you had a bad message about Trump on your phone, you might be denied entry to the country, reportedly. Now, that is something that only the designated liars can say. I mean, it is so shamelessly, obviously a lie. But, you know, she's using the weasel word, reportedly. Reportedly.

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So that's my lead into my next story, which is James Carville has the most insane claim here. He was talking to Ryan Lizza on a podcast. And according to Carville, he said, quote, people say to me all the time, James, why don't we just do like the Republicans do? Just stand up and lie. Why?

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All right, so this is Carville claiming that the Republicans lie, and then he's going to tell you why they can't do that. And he says, because our effing people wouldn't stand for it, Carville says. If I stood up and lied, you would be the first person to say, James Carville lost all credibility last night when he said X, Y, and Z. Really? Really?

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Has James Carville never noticed that Democrats lie? I mean, I don't even know what to say about that because I can't tell if he's actually stupid and clueless and he doesn't know or is that just one of his lies and he's just, you know, sort of a happy warrior, lies about anything. But But Carville is not one of the designated liars.

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So in California... probably other places too. There are companies like Tesla that will sell you a battery for your home. So you might have solar panels and then you charge up your own home battery. So you've got some backup power. But another company that does that is Sunrun and their CalReady system. And apparently what they've done is they've networked together 56 companies

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He does try to weasel his way around to something that's closer to spinning or omitting some facts or leaving out some context or something. So he's not, I wouldn't call him one of the designated liars. He doesn't like to get caught in a really, really direct lie. But he certainly said some things about Republicans getting ready to

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to cut Medicaid and Social Security, to which I say, but the president says he won't do that, and there's no support for that. And then he would argue, well, but, you know, there are reasons to think they might do it anyway. So that's not the worst lie. It just, you know, lacks context, I guess you'd say. All right, but at the same time,

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Jen Psaki, Democrat, she was asked about the so-called cover-up of Biden's mental decline, and she was on some podcast, and she argued that she doesn't like the word cover-up because that suggests that they were aware of the fact that Biden was mentally incapable and they were hiding it from people. And she doesn't believe that she ever saw Biden with any mental decline.

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Now, is she a Democrat who is lying? You can't really tell because, you know, maybe. Maybe by weird coincidence, she just never saw it because he had good days and bad days. So it's wildly improbable that she was not aware about his mental decline. Wildly improbable. But you can't say it's impossible. So again, she's not one of the Democrat-designated liars.

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She's more of a spinner, more of a leave out some context, allow you to believe something that you shouldn't believe. But anyway, I guess the Democrats think they don't lie. So Ilhan Omar was asked about on some interview

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the rise of Islamophobia and she was asked if that's a legitimate fear that people are afraid about the rise of Islam of Islam I guess the United States I would say that I'm afraid of that because the Islamic system is such that it's it's built to dominate

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and usually there's a very clear plan to get more people, have more babies, carve out your own little area where you say, oh, we'll be a little Muslim area. Next thing you know, they're going to be pressing for Sharia law, and then after that, trying to take over the country. So, yes. I don't know if I'm Islamophobic.

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I can say the usual things like, obviously, it doesn't apply to most Islamic people. You know, there are good people and bad people in every group, blah, blah, blah. But yes, I'm completely afraid, not afraid, but I'm completely concerned that it's an incompatible system with our current system. But it's also a, what would you call it, a sort of a hungry system that looks to eat the other systems.

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But here's what Ilhan Omar said. Our country should be, here's the should, our country should be more fearful of white men. If fear is the driving force, we should be monitoring, profiling, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men. Okay. Now, is that a Democrat lying? No. Or is that spinning and leaving out context? It's more of a spinning, leaving out context.

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But I can tell you that most of us would be canceled forever if we ever said anything like that. But somehow, somehow she gets to say that in public and goes on like nothing happened. Amazingly. Well, as you know, every time Trump tries to do something, there's some kind of federal court that tries to block it, and then it gets raised to a higher court, and sometimes Trump wins.

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Well, one of those things was Trump trying to fire the staff of the Voice of America people, and then there was a judge that says, you can't do that. And now there's a D.C. court who struck down the first judge and says, yes, you can. So the gateway pundits writing about this. So apparently it's a big win.

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thousand homes that have their batteries and If you have enough solar panels on enough houses and they each have their own batteries Apparently you can turn it into Essentially its own its own power system So even though that's fifty six thousand homes that are connected it would power two hundred and eighty thousand homes and which would be the equivalent of all of Ventura County.

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So Trump does get to say who works in the voice of America, and he would like that to be nobody. So we'll see if this extends to other topics. I'm not sure it does. Brett Barrow was talking to JD Vance and he was asking about the Trump 2028 and whether or not Trump really wants to run for a third term. And here's JD Vance's answer to that.

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He said, you know, with a big smile, he goes, I'll let the president speak to his political future. One thing I'll say about the president of the United States is He loves to have a good time with the American media. Now, I think that's your answer, right? Your answer is he doesn't want to speak for the president, but he wants you to know that the president likes to have some fun with the media.

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So the Trump 2028 thing, I think maybe he's testing the waters to see if there was some legal way to do it, but I don't really think he plans to run again in 2028. At the same time, you probably saw the meme that Trump put out of himself looking like the Pope. And Bill Kristol is trying to turn this into some kind of news. He said that the Pope meme is disrespectful to Catholics.

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And he asked J.D. Vance on X if he thought the Pope meme was disrespectful to Catholics. And J.D. Vance responded on X, Well, here's exactly what Bill Kristol said. He said, J.D. Vance, are you fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?

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And Vance replies on X, as a general rule, I'm fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen. Because that's a direct attack on Bill Kristol, who likes his wars. So that's a perfect answer. As you're trying to decide if J.D. Vance will be the 2028 Trump follow-up,

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These are just perfect answers, that he likes jokes and he doesn't like war. Perfect. Well, here's another lie from the Democrats. I saw this in a post by John McCloy. So over on MSNBC, the former Senator Doug Jones was claiming that when Trump did his commencement address at Alabama, that he wasn't invited.

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that he wasn't invited to alabama to give a commencement address and they had to open the event to the general public because they couldn't get anyone else to come in in other words that the college didn't have enough people interested to go so they had to open it to the public just to sort of fill the space none of that was true they did invite him and the place was packed to the gills

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and it was a closed ticketed event so it was not available to the general public so every part of that was just completely made up and Does Carville even notice that? Probably not, probably not. Well, here's another least surprising story of all times. Have you noticed that the New York Times likes to do these deep dives on stories to discover something that you and I have known for years?

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And then they make it look like they've done some great investigative work. And you and I say here and go, we all knew that for years. Here's another one. So a big investigation by the New York Times. And they've revealed that Washington and Kiev have operated what amounts to a shadow military alliance. So the New York Times is just finding out

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that the US built 12 covert CIA bases inside Ukraine, trained elite units for years, elite Ukrainian units, and fed a constant stream of battlefield intelligence to help Ukraine strike Russian targets. Now, how many of you didn't know that? Is there even one person here who didn't know that the U.S. was sort of, you know, low key using the CIA to help Ukraine as much as possible?

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Now, if I'm understanding this correctly, this would be one of the greatest energy accomplishments of all time. Because if you just have your own solar panels and your own battery, it's kind of good. But if things go bad, you might not have enough battery personally. But apparently, if you've got all of these batteries connected, you don't have to worry too much about ever running out of energy.

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And obviously we were on the ground. And obviously there had to be facilities for all those CIA people. And obviously we were going to train them. If only for using our weapons, we'd have to train them. So isn't it weird that the New York Times does these big deep dives and they say, oh, this might surprise you, but guess what?

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The United States has been deeply involved in this war in a very practical level since the beginning. And we all say... I think we all knew that just because it's obvious. Worst kept secret. Well, you might know that Putin had asked for a three-day ceasefire because Putin's got this big Victory Day celebration that they're doing in Russia, Victory Day over, I guess, over Hitler.

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And they're going to have foreign dignitaries will be there, etc. So he wanted to make sure that... that Ukraine didn't use that opportunity to attack the event because people would be exposed and it would just be terrible if he attacked it. And Zelensky has basically said it's fair game. Zelensky just said directly, it's fair game. You know, we're at war, we can attack anything we want.

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Now, on one hand, I kind of agree with that. If you're at war, you can attack whatever you need to attack. But it seems like it would be the worst idea in the world to attack this Victory Day thing because it would just make Putin more angry. And nothing good could come from that. But it doesn't sound like Zelensky wants peace.

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If you wanted peace, you would at least say, all right, we'll give you the three days, but we'd rather have a permanent ceasefire. You don't say we might attack your victory day parade. This is very clearly not working toward peace.

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Speaking of not working toward peace, the Times of Israel is reporting that the Houthis sent some ballistic missile toward Israel, and it blew up near Ben Gurion Airport. It didn't kill anybody or hurt anybody, but Israel is wondering why they didn't shoot it down. So they've got their missile defense systems, and it was only one missile.

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And it apparently got through the defenses, so they're going to have to figure out what's up with that. But does it seem to you like the entire point of the Houthis is to either create a bigger war? Well, just that, to create a bigger war. I feel like that's all they're doing, is trying to create a bigger war. Meanwhile, over in the U.K., I saw the Amuse account writing about this, the U.K.

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has found what they think are eight terror suspects that are Iranian that were in their country, accused of planning massive terror attacks against British citizens. Now, do you think that would have been a good play from Iran to do a massive terror attack in the U.K. ? I don't know. It seems like that would be a weird play while they're talking about a peace deal.

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Unless it's just in case things went bad or something. But doesn't it make you wonder how many Iranian terrorists are already in the United States? If there were eight of them in the UK and they were looking to do some big terror thing, there might be dozens of them. if not hundreds, in the United States because we haven't had border security until recently.

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So that's the thing I worry about the most, is if we ended up being involved in some kind of a terror attack If we got involved in, let's say, working with Israel to attack the nuclear facilities in Iran, I feel like they would activate their terrorists, and it would be a really bad week in America. So that does worry me. Well, in other science news,

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their new scientific, not scientific, solar panels that are a thousand times stronger and thinner than a human hair. And it's way more efficient, a thousand times more powerful than silicon and way more durable, according to the bright side of the news. Now, I think I've told you before that all of these massive improvements in solar panels and fusion and batteries.

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So that's pretty impressive. And then the people who become part of the network get paid. So they get paid for being part of the network, and they get pretty good power. Allegedly, Hyundai, the automaker, they've got a plant in Georgia And they're going to use Atlas robots to automate their plant. So do you believe that? I feel like all the robot stories are a little premature.

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You really have to think in terms of five to 20 years before any of this finds its way into the commercial world. But it's kind of exciting. And then lastly, because it's May 4th, there's a company called, let's see, who are they? It's a Polish firm. They've created this Star Wars-styled air bike, except it uses a jet engine. So it's like a flying motorcycle with a jet engine.

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And it shows it looking really cool and flying over this desert area. And I'm thinking to myself, you kind of have to have your own desert, don't you? Because where exactly would you fly a jet-powered motorcycle? You wouldn't do it in the suburbs. You couldn't do it in the city. You couldn't do it really anywhere. You couldn't do it over other people's property because they're really low.

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They're not way up in the air. They're like, I don't know, 20 feet up. So to me, this seems like the worst commercial idea I've ever seen in my life, although the technology looked pretty cool. So, all right, that's all I got for you today. Yeah, and it's also loud. Yeah, I can't see that that is the future, but who knows, maybe. Jay Leno has a jet motorcycle. He probably doesn't use it too much.

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All right. Thanks for joining, everybody. I'm going to talk to the locals people for just briefly. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you same time tomorrow. Same place.

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They might be testing it. But they aim to manufacture 100,000 electric and hybrid vehicles annually. but they're going to use the bipedal robots, bipedal. In other words, the two-legged robots developed by Boston Dynamics. And they're going to do a whole bunch of different tasks that are part of assembling that car.

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And the idea is that the robots will automate up to 40% of the vehicle assembly by the end of this year. Does that sound even remotely possible to you? that by the end of this year, there will be an operational car-making plant in Georgia where 40% of the effort will be done by robots, two-legged robots. That seems a little bit optimistic, but we'll see.

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If you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, well, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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You probably know that Elon Musk was starting his own city I guess in Texas, near where he was doing his SpaceX stuff. And now it's official. It's called Starbase Texas. And I guess it's officially blessed by the state. So you can add to Elon Musk's accomplishments that he built a city. That wasn't even like a major project. So... Do you have any minor projects? Well, I built a city.

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I would love to know if this city has any special engineering features that make it extra good to live in it. But maybe we'll learn about that later. I saw an interview with Lara Trump and Elon Musk in which Musk was saying what he often says. that Grok, the AI, should be maximally truth-seeking. What do you think of that? Do you think AI should be maximally truth-seeking?

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Well, maybe not maximally, because I think that the truth would destroy civilization. How many of you believe that's true? Because I'm not even going to give you examples of where I think it would destroy civilization. Because if I gave you an example, I would get double canceled. So I can't even give you an example.

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And you're telling me that AI is going to be able to say things that I can't say out loud because it's maximally truth-seeking? No. No. We're not going to have a maximally truth-seeking AI because it would rip the fabric of society in a hundred pieces. We largely live in this world of illusion. That's the only thing that keeps us from killing each other. I'll just give you one illusion.

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One of the illusions is that you can just work hard and you'll do great. Not really. I mean, you would have to be unusually good looking or unusually smart. Then if you work hard, you might actually make something.

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But you can't really tell people, well, you know, given your capabilities, you will always be a low income person, but you'll be part of supporting the rich people so that they can have wonderful lives on your back. Yeah, no, you don't want maximally truth-seeking AI because it's going to tell people things that will make them stop working and want to kill you. So there's that.

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Fox News has a story that, I'm not sure I completely believe this story, but allegedly there's a Swiss writer who called a journalist, they quote, fat lesbian, and for that was sentenced to 60 days in prison. Do you think that's true? Do you think that there's nothing else missing in that story? I feel like there's something missing in the story.

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You really can't call somebody a fat lesbian without going to jail if you're Swiss. I mean, I guess that's possible. But seems like there might be more to that story. Well, speaking of AI, the new version of Grok, which will be 3.5, is going to drop next week. And initially only for the super Grok users. But apparently...

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This will not just be a better version of Grok, but this one is allegedly able to reason from first principles. Now, do you believe that? Because that would be the next level of AI. It's the one we haven't seen yet. Do you think Grok already got there?

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Because the large language model AIs, the kind that are everywhere, are really just sort of pattern machines, so they can just sort of guess what the next word will be, and they can suck up a bunch of data on the internet and regurgitate it. But none of them can reason from first principles. Now, do you think that

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Elon Musk has already cracked that, and he's developed the first new version of AI that would be a whole different level. Maybe. You know, because I don't think he would lie about it. So you must believe that it's there. So we'll be watching that with great anticipation to see if he's got the ultimate level. Not the ultimate, but it would be the next level of AI.

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Well, Warren Buffett, who is, I believe he's 1,000 years old, or maybe 94. He's going to step down at the end of the year as CEO. Now, we don't know what that's going to do to the Berkshire Hathaway stock. because I'm not sure how much work he was doing at age 94 anyway. I'm sure he had good people who were doing the heavy lifting. But I'll tell you my bad investing story.

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I may have told you this before, that I think it was 25 years ago, I put a good chunk of what little money I had at the time into Berkshire Hathaway. And sure enough, You know, just like you'd expect, it did great. I think it might have doubled during the time that I held it. And so I said to myself, you know that Warren Buffett's looking pretty old.

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I think he's going to retire or maybe just die of natural causes. And I don't want to be sitting on this Berkshire Hathaway stock when he goes. If I had simply held that stock, oh my God. I don't know what percentage it went up in the last 25 years, but it was pretty good. Pretty good. So don't take my advice for investing, that's for sure. Well, Warren Buffett also has a half opinion.

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You've heard me say that before. A half opinion is when you ignore either the costs or the benefits of a situation and you just act like only one of them exists. Oh, it's just a cost. Don't do it. Or it's just a benefit. You should totally do it. Now, in the real world, things have costs and benefits. And one of the words that signals that you have a half pinion is the word should.

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Should is usually a signal that you've got a half pinion coming. So listen to this. This is what Warren Buffett said about tariffs. Quote, trade should not be a weapon. Trade should not be a weapon. So is he in favor of using tariffs? tariffs as a negotiating tool? Does he think that we should simply accept the tariffs that other countries put on us so that we don't start any trade wars?

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That is what you call a half-pinion. He gets to say the part that makes him look good without having to commit to anything. Should. So let me give you another example. I'm going to give you my opinion about war. Are you ready? This will be my official public opinion about war. We should fight wars without killing any civilians. Who's with me? Anybody want to sign on to my half an opinion?

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Well, I've got a movie recommendation for you. So the other day I watched the new year 2025 Captain America. Now, if you haven't seen it... Captain America is black this time, but he's not the only Captain America, because I guess the idea is there's more than one Captain America, and there was an original one, and then there were a few others, and then there's the 2025 version.

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Because in the real world, you don't get that option. So you just say, well, we should. And what about using trade as a weapon? Well, we should not. As soon as you see the word should, there's some bullshit happening. So that's your persuasion lesson of the day. Always look for should. And when I use the word myself, which I do, It's just too easy to grab that word when you're talking.

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I try to correct myself because, you know, you can easily just fall into this should thing, and it always means you're not looking at the whole picture. It's almost a confession. All right. The Postmillennial has a story about RFK Jr. 's Department of Health and Human Services. They've decided that the recommended treatment for people with gender dysphoria is the therapy as opposed to

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In other space news, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is getting ready to launch into space an all-women's flight aboard their New Shepard rocket. It's an all-women's flight. And Katy Perry, Katy Perry will be on the rocket. Now, I would call that a good start. If he could find a way to launch all of the annoying celebrities into space, just think how much a better world it would be.

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He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine. And that was posted just before or maybe just during the meeting with Zelensky. Now, have I ever mentioned that Democrats are bad at giving advice? So this is what I imagine what the advice sounded like.

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I wasn't there, but it's like, all right, Zelensky, go in there and sabotage Trump in front of the world. That'll get you a better deal. And don't wear a suit. Like, I just imagine that was the advice. Now I've heard it said that Zelensky said he wouldn't wear a suit until the war was over. Well, smarten up, idiot.

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If you're going to try to get something major out of Trump, you better wear a freaking suit. And that should be your exception. You should say, no, this is important to the future of Ukraine. I'm not going to get this wrong. I'm not going to insult my host. This is really, really important. Do you think a Republican would have ever given that advice?

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now the real problem is why did he accept it in the first place like what was going on that he thought it was a good idea and then one one breakfast with democrats turned it into a bad idea i don't know but lindsey graham as you know is completely lost so he's just totally done with ukraine and you know you could argue that it's too little too late because he was big on ukraine

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But I don't mind when people adjust. I don't mind when they correct course. So I'm more likely to judge him by the course correction than from the being, you know, you could argue not so right before. But here's what he said. He said in a post, to the hand-wringing Europeans who felt offended by President Trump's rejecting being lectured by Zelensky, be my guest to defend Ukraine from Putin.

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It is long past time for the Europeans to show that they are capable of defending their own continent. And then he says... This is a take I hadn't really heard before, but I guess I could have intuited it. They've allowed, meaning Europe, they've allowed their militaries to be hollowed out, and when Europe speaks, no bad guys listen. I say this with great sadness.

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The last group of people that I would count on to defend freedom are the Europeans. Wow. So let me tell you where I got off the bus. Now, I was never a fan of the funding that war. But where I got off the bus on defending Europe is when they turned on us for free speech. And that was Europe. Well, let's say Great Britain seems to be the biggest one, but the rest of them seem to go along.

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Now, you know the story. Europe created this fake watchdog censorship structure whose main point, and they say it directly, was to destroy the X platform, the primary resource of free speech in the United States. So let me say it again.

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If you attempt and you put real effort into it, like a lot of effort, and it's an actual policy that you're gonna try to destroy free speech in the United States, I'm on Putin's side. Sorry, Putin didn't do that. So I'm not really on Putin's side, you know what I mean. I'm being hyperbolic. But I'm not gonna defend with one bullet or one anything if they're trying, and they're still trying.

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They're still trying to destroy free speech in the United States. So no, you don't get anything. I would pull completely out of any defense with them because they cross the line. That's a line you do not cross if you're an ally. That makes you an enemy. Let's be clear. If you're going after free speech, probably our most valued right in the United States, you don't get to be our friend, ever.

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while the same people are alive. And there's nothing you can do to make up to it. You can't make up for that, as long as the same people are in office and stuff. There's nothing you can do. That's game over. You're on your own, in my opinion. Well, meanwhile, Zelensky's over in Europe trying to pass that and get them to step up and defend Europe.

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And Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the UK says that his country and France and Ukraine have agreed to work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States. Why are they presenting it to us? Why do you need to show us a ceasefire plan? We're out. We're out. So yeah, just go make your own whatever. Make a deal. Don't make a deal. I don't care. I have no interest in you whatsoever.

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I'd like to start a petition for... Let's see. Oh, you make your own list. So many annoying people. But at least if it's an all-women's crew, at least they won't feel shy about stopping and asking for directions. Am I right? Okay. A sexist would say. Here's a big one. BlackRock has announced it's going to end its DEI hiring goals. Huh. Now, Blackhawk was the big death star of DEI.

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So you're all bad. Anyway, so here's what I think is funny. They're acting like the only thing that's preventing a ceasefire is that they didn't have a good plan. Do you think that's the case? You know, if we just had a better plan. You know, if the UK and France worked together with Ukraine and we came up with a plan, then there'd be a ceasefire. I don't think it's a problem of the plan.

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I think it goes a little deeper than that, but we'll see. Meanwhile, Norway has this big company that's a major marine fuel provider, and the U.S. uses them for a lot of their refueling in that part of the world. But the big company called Haltback Bunkers, they decided they won't sell fuel to U.S. naval vessels. So they don't want protection.

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Because aren't they better off if fully fueled American naval ships are sort of in the area? Is this the dumbest thing you've ever heard? So they're going to vastly decrease their profits and make their own country less safe because they didn't like what somebody said to Zelensky in a meeting. That's the dumbest thing I've heard since sending Katy Perry into space.

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Anyway, so I saw a video, Elon Musk was boosting this, so I don't know when it happened. This might have been an older video, but it was Tulsi Gabbard doing a little video just with her phone, and she was talking about how Zelensky is a dictator. And her evidence was he's taken assets from his critics. He took over, I guess, a TV station, the main TV station, and he canceled elections.

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And that sounds pretty dictator-like, yeah. And she says it might be a precedent if Ukraine can do it through martial law and just say, oh, it's a war, so democracy's over. Doesn't that allow the United States to do it at some point?

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like not in this administration, but in another administration, don't you think that somebody's going to say, well, Ukraine got away with it, so we're sort of at war a little bit. It's in Europe, but it's sort of us, so maybe we need some... Anyway, so that could be a problem. I guess Moscow has asked the United States to reopen U.S. airspace to Russian aircraft.

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I didn't realize that we had blocked direct flights. Imagine what a pain in the ass that was to Russian diplomats who had to take a connecting flight to get to the United States. It must have been just such a pain in the ass. So I assume this is more for the diplomats. I don't know if this is going to happen, but they've requested it. The scariest thing today, by far, is Elon Musk on Joe Rogan.

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And I saw a clip where Musk said that the, I don't know if you would call it the scandal because it's not illegal, The fact that Congress can do trading, including insider trading, it's legal if you're in Congress, you can supplement your income. Now, he suggested, Musk has, that maybe we should increase their salary so that they have at least some disincentive to steal.

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But I don't know if you could increase it enough, because the amount that they're stealing is generational wealth. It would be great if they could afford to pay for school and a nice place to live for their family. I think that's appropriate. So I do think they're underpaid by quite a bit.

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But I don't know if you could stop corruption by just making sure they could pay for their kids' private school. But then he goes on, he said, the real problem is more than insider trading, the real corruption. And then of course, Joe wanted to know, what are you talking about? And then Musk completely locked up. And he said, they will kill me if I push too hard on this.

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That means that Musk does know with certainty how the bad guys are stealing massive amounts of money, and he believes that if he outed them, they would literally kill him. Now, he wasn't joking. It wasn't hyperbole. He said he literally thinks that if he outs these powerful people, that he would be killed. Do you think that's going too far? I don't. I don't think it's going too far.

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And apparently Tim Burchett, you know, in Congress, he's a Republican, he had said in a video a while ago that if anybody ever leaked where the money goes in the Pentagon, because they fail all the audits, they never passed an audit, so we don't know where the money goes. He said if anybody leaked where the money goes, they'd be murdered.

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That's Tim Burchette saying directly, if anybody told you where the money was going, really, they'd be murdered. And now Musk is saying the same thing. And he wouldn't give an example even though he knows it.

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Now, I hope Musk is smart enough, and obviously he would be, that he's got some kind of a file that nobody could ever find that would basically activate if he got killed so that it would all be released if they actually killed him. Now, if he doesn't have that, he needs to get that going. He needs to make sure there's somebody else

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who knows the exact story, or it's in a file, or it's in a vault so deep beneath the world that you can never know, maybe in multiple places, in case they torture him and say, tell us all the places, and he'll give them like five of the places, but they're really six.

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They're the ones who not only had DEI, but they were really super committed to it, like it was their main thing. But they were also forcing companies that they do business with to also do DEI. So this one's like, this is not an ordinary company. When BlackRock pulls back on DEI, and they're pulling back hard. They're not just tweaking it. It looks like they're just getting rid of it.

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I hope he's smart enough, and every indication is that he is, that he's done something so that we can definitely find that out someday. Hope so. That's the scariest thing we've heard. There's some thinking that cutting the Pentagon budget is actually not possible because the people trying to cut it will be murdered, like literally murdered. Now, I believe that completely.

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I completely believe that that's a risk. Anyway, some people online are agitating that it's time to leave NATO and leave the UN. And Musk actually agreed with that in a post on X. Europe probably does need to defend itself. That just makes sense. It made sense to have NATO for a while, but it never made sense that we'd always have it.

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So maybe this is the time to make sure Europe can defend itself. And then the UN just seems like an anti-American institution that we're funding. doesn't it? How often does the UN agree with us or do something useful versus thwart us and embarrass us? So I will listen to an argument on the UN and NATO, too. There might be a counter argument that's pretty good.

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But I think they're both on the table. I don't think it's crazy to think that we could get rid of both of them. I just don't. I don't have a firm opinion on that. According to Just the News, we have evidence that Epstein had about $20,000 in cash, some of it in small bills. And the thinking is that maybe this is evidence of blackmail, because he had $20,000 in cash.

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i would like to add some context if you're as rich as epstein twenty thousand dollars is just it's just petty it's just pocket change so probably that was the money he was using to pay girls so it'd be off the books probably tipping so i think that was the money he was giving to people i don't think that's the money he was collecting because if he was doing this international blackmail ring and and all he could get was twenty thousand dollars

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I don't think that would have kept his lifestyle up. So if they had found $10 million, then I'd say, whoa, whoa, that looks like blackmail. But if you find $20,000, it seems far more likely that that's related to what he's spending than what he's collecting. Just my take on that. Here's something that's no surprise at all. How many times have I told you that every city is corrupt? Every one.

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Well, also according to Just the News, a majority of the 75 largest cities are in financial trouble, according to a new report. So a majority of the 75 largest. But here's the interesting thing. Apparently they have rules or laws that they have to balance the budget.

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So how can it be that they have to balance the budget, which means on paper it's balanced, but that they're also in financial trouble? How can both of those be true? Corruption. Apparently they're just taking out of their costs a whole bunch of things that should be in their costs.

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So they've not included the full cost of the government in their budget calculations, and it pushed costs into the future taxpayers. So basically, most of them are underwater, but they're doing accounting tricks to look like they're not. Now, what do you expect when professional liars, politicians, are the ones handling your money? What do you expect to happen?

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And that means all the companies that they had browbeaten into it also now are free to do the same. So if BlackRock does it, that sends a signal that everybody can do it. And I think they're doing it just for purely practical reasons. You know, there's a legal liability. It's literally illegal and always has been. It's just that now we have an administration that will follow up on it.

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On paper, if you were to say on paper, how do you win an election? Well, the most corrupt person, lots of times, because they can get the most support and money and stuff if they're corrupt. So basically, the people who are the best liars often become the leaders, right? because they did a better job of lying about their opponent than their opponent did.

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So I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that at least city officials are professional liars. Is that too far? Wouldn't you say they're professional liars? Because that's how they get elected. And then they lie about everything. And we could watch it. We could watch them lying in real time.

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So if you take the most lyingest people in the whole country, and you say, all right, the most lyingest corrupt people, manage my money. And there's going to be a lot of it. How could this go any other way? So I'm going to say again, we need to completely revise the who gets to determine where money goes. that's just got to be taken out of the hands of mayors and politicians in the city.

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The city can vote what they want to do, but when it comes to actually writing the checks and auditing, that's just got to be taken away from the city. That cannot be. You can't have the city auditing itself. You just can't do that. There's no way that works. So we need something that, I don't know if you can do that with an executive order. Seems like a little overreach, but I don't know.

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Are you ready for this? Are you ready? Well, I hope so. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, the best thing that ever happened to you.

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But if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody could even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that would be a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Prime Minister of Israel just posted this on X. With the conclusion of the first stage of the hostage deal and in light of Hamas's refusal to accept the Witkoff framework for the continuation of talks, to which Israel has agreed, Netanyahu has decided, as of this morning, the entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted. So that means he's starving the civilians out?

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I think that's what that means, right? Because the goods and services going in would be mostly food and medicine. So it looks like the last stage of depopulating Gaza is in effect. And one of the things I've noticed is that whenever Hamas acts, it's really bad for Israeli's citizens, obviously. So if Hamas does a terror attack like October 7th, it's terrible for the citizens.

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They're traumatized or killed or captured or tortured. So if you're looking at it from a civilian point of view, Hamas is just all bad all the time. But here's the ironic thing. Every time Hamas does something big, Israel as a country gets stronger because it works to their narrative, and then they can capture more land.

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It's not the first time that it's allowed them to just control territory that they wouldn't naturally control. So Hamas has this weird kind of thing going on, which is the more they attack individuals that are Israelis, the stronger Israel as a nation gets. And it's very consistent, and this will be another example. So it does look like, my guess is that they'll get rid of all the civilians.

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Presumably, they'll say, if you leave, you can get food and medicine, I assume. But if you stay, the big bombs, the bunker busters, are the next phase. I think they're going to have to bunker bust the tunnels before they can do anything serious. And I think at this point, they might bunker bust them with the hostages in them. Because... they're just running out of options.

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So all the options are horrific. So I'm not saying I'm in favor of it, because it's all horrific. I'm just predicting where it's going. And I think Hamas has created the situation where Israel just has a free pass. All right. So that's all I've got for now.

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So I expect the rest of the dominoes to fall pretty quickly. Meanwhile, over at Citigroup, according to ZeroEdge, Citigroup accidentally credited $81 trillion to an account that should have been $280. But they caught it before the person got to the ATM and withdrew the 81 trillion. No, they couldn't have withdrawn 81 trillion.

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And since I usually stay and talk to the locals people privately, but we're only doing locals right now, I think this broadcast will be put on the other, it'll be uploaded to the other platforms a little bit later today. So I think that's all I need to say for now. How'd you like the show?

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Now, if you're worried that they could have somehow used that money or moved it around, not much of it, because any large transfers are looked at pretty carefully. So it's not like the person with the account could have just said, hey, I'll just take a billion. I think they would have noticed right away. especially if they were dealing with numbers like $280. You'd notice that.

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But in related news, Vladimir Zelensky has moved all of his personal accounts to Citigroup. Just in case. Yeah, you never know. You might get that $81 trillion and you'd have something to spend it on. No, I made that up. That's not true. Meanwhile, the House GOP is moving to remove a giant Black Lives Matter mural. I think it's on the street. I'm not sure. From Washington, D.C. Plaza.

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So this raises some questions. If they remove the Black Lives Matter mural, how will I know if they matter? Because I need written instructions on this stuff. It's so confusing. Wait, they're human beings. Do they matter? I'd better go read the street. Oh, there it is. There's the directions right in the street. Okay, they matter.

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But if they take that off, people like me will be like, I don't know. I don't know. It's a little ambiguous. Without any written instructions, what will I do? What you will do is treat everybody as a human being and an individual. Anything else is D.I. Meanwhile, Trump says he plans to add a ballroom to the White House. He wants to add a big old ballroom.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine deal of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Well, here's some good news from space. There's a private lunar lander. that's carrying a drill and a vacuum and just landed on the moon. Now, I think this is a good idea. So it's got a drill and a vacuum.

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Well, as you know, the White House under Biden had all the ballroom it needed because Biden had tiny balls. So you don't need much space. But Trump has gigantic balls. And so they're going to need a whole new structure just to hold his balls. So he'll be building his own ballroom. Yeah, true.

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Trump is going to pardon Major League Baseball Pete Rose, who didn't get into the Hall of Fame because he was caught betting on baseball. Now, as Trump explains, he only bet on his team to win, which is the least bad version of betting on your own sport. But It's still not good. And Trump acknowledges that. That's not good.

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But he was one of the best baseball players of all time, and he made one mistake, which he probably did a number of times, but it was basically one thing. And obviously the fact that he only bet on his team winning

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um suggests that it was more just for fun and you know so he i don't think he had much inside information that others didn't but maybe he did so if he did or there's a presumption that he did i could see why that'd be banned here's what i like about this story i like the fact that trump has a unbroken record of forgiving people for bad behavior

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Now, you might say that's the opposite of good for a president, but I don't. Because what it signals to me is he's not going to judge you if you were generally a good person, but you made a mistake. That's kind of the standard I like. Now, did he pay for it? Yes. Yes, he paid dearly for his mistake because he's already dead. So he died not being in the Hall of Fame. And it was a big problem.

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So you'll see this over and over. Trump will say, OK, if you did this one thing, whatever that one thing is, but you're generally a good person, how about a pardon? I just love that. Just sort of as a general way to approach the world. Do you remember that story about the alleged FBI honeypot?

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And the way it got reported was that Comey had some off-the-books honeypot that was an attractive woman, and some people said that she was there to sleep with members of the Trump administration in the first term and try to get their secrets through their sexual means. Kash Patel just said, nope. Nothing like that happened. There were no FBI agents who tried to sleep with anybody.

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There was a woman who seems to have been the one assigned to this. So it's not good behavior because it looks like Comey did tell her to go find out some secrets. But Cash is fully backing her and says, nope, absolutely not a honeypot. So he said that on X. And here's my question. I told you that Honeypot didn't mean sleeping with.

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It could have been more like the O'Keeffe undercover videos where somebody goes on a date and just sort of suggests that, you know, if things went well, we could be dating. So... Did she do that? Probably not. Probably not. But, here's my question.

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If you introduce, I'd love to know what she looks like, and obviously we won't know that for privacy reasons, but if we did find out what she looked like, and she was young and attractive, Does she need to be a honeypot for horny, lonely men to give up all their secrets? So it's good to know that she wasn't giving out sex for the job. I like that.

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But if she was attractive and female and that's part of the reason she was chosen, Because you know people are going to open up to the attractive woman a lot more than they are to somebody else. So there might be a little bit of a fuzzy line there. But I'm going to agree with Cash, which is a big deal because he went against the president.

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So the president made this claim, and Cash said, looked into it, absolutely false. Now, do you like Cash more? I do. I like Cash more because he was completely transparent about that and he backed his employees. So Cash gets an A-plus for that. President Trump is bragging that the border crisis is basically over, so February was the lowest number of crossings. Now, here's the big deal about that.

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The number of border crossings was literally an existential threat to the country, and he just fixed it. It was an existential threat, and Biden didn't fix it. He caused it, really. But there are a number of other existential threats that Biden also didn't do anything about. One is the debt, and at least we've got Doge working on that, but that might get a little dicey.

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We'll talk about that in a minute. But at least there's something big and important and the right person's working on it and they're putting tons of energy and personal capital into it. So at least they're addressing, in a very serious way, the other biggest existential threat. And then there's Ukraine. There was always a threat that we'd get into a nuclear confrontation.

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I thought that was low, but it was existential. And now it looks like if Putin were to nuke the United States, it wouldn't make any sense at all. Because the United States is saying, hey, Europe, take care of it yourself. And Europe is saying, hey, we'll see if we can.

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So it basically takes us out of a war that we don't want to be in, don't want to be funding, and don't want Russia to attack us because maybe we did too good a job of giving Ukraine weapons. I don't think it was a big risk. And then of course there's the inflation and energy costs. I don't know that enough is being done on that, but here's some hints.

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So according to Reuters, US oil drillers, they've increased their oil and gas rigs for the fifth week in a row. Now don't get excited, because I think they increased it by one. But in the prior years, like 2022 and 2023, I guess, the number of oil rigs was going down. But here's what you need to know. It doesn't seem to be driven by policy in any way. It seems entirely driven by economics.

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When I look at the moon, the first thing I think is, God, it's dusty up there, isn't it? So they put a vacuum on the moon. I don't know if it's going to vacuum the entire moon or just the front side because we don't have to see the dark side. So that's good. Finally, somebody put a vacuum on the moon. Wait, what? Oh, okay. Maybe it's the vacuum up samples and bring it back. But I like mine better.

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So when the economics are good, as in oil prices are high, you get more drilling. And when the oil prices are low, you get less. So we're not seeing any indication of a Trump policy change that's made any difference to energy prices. I hope we do. But it could be that there's nothing the government can do because the economics drive it entirely.

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So I don't know what the government would do to change the economics of oil. So we'll see. Maybe he's got some tricks up his sleeve. But there's a company, according to interesting engineering, there's an AI-driven robot technology.

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There's a company that has AI and robots, and they're making them available to US power plants, and apparently they've already got a $100 million deal, so it's a serious thing. in which the robots will crawl all over the power plant, and they'll have maintenance suggestions, and they'll tell how to optimize, and it'll predict when they need maintenance, and it'll do a bunch of things.

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So they're looking at it as a way to decrease the overall cost of the power plants. So that's good. So let's say they could maybe decrease the cost of the power plants by 10%. That's great, except that AI in other contexts will increase the cost of energy about 10 times because it's gonna suck it all up for AI.

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So I think AI is gonna be a net negative for energy prices because it's gonna be competing with consumers. So I don't know how that's gonna work out. So I would say that Trump does not have, as far as I can tell, I don't see Trump having any kind of plan for energy that would lower the cost. And maybe there is none. Maybe there's nothing you can do.

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It could be just pure economics, and we're a capitalist place, and you just can't make people do low-return business. They're going to do what they're going to do. All right, here's the funniest thing that happened. Now, I don't know if this story is true, so fact-check me on this. Because if it's not true, it's still so funny I'm going to report it.

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But allegedly, Trump signed an executive order that said that Zelensky is officially spelled with only one Y. Remember I was complaining yesterday that Zelensky, there's at least three different spellings I've seen. There's two Ys on the end or one. There's an I in the middle or an E. And it was driving me crazy.

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So if it's true that Trump did an executive order redefining Zelensky's name, that's just about the funniest thing he's ever done. Because it puts Zelensky in his place where, no, it's Gulf of America, Mexico. There's nothing you can do about it. No, we're going to call you Zelensky with one Y, and there's nothing you can do about it. We didn't consult you. It's an executive order.

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That's your name now. Now, that is just pure funny. If you don't understand that as hilarious, you probably have serious TDS. That is just flat-out hilarious. If it's true. If it's not true, it's also hilarious. So I don't care if it's true. So one of the reasons that we know that Zelensky rejected, I'll say rejected, or gotten a little tiff with J.D.

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Vance and Trump in the White House is apparently Democrats had this breakfast with Zelensky. And according to Senator Chris Murphy, who's a Democrat and one of the worst people in the world, as far as I can tell, He actually said this, so this is right from Murphy. So this is from a U.S. Senator. And he said, a Democrat, said, just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington.

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They even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains. All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

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So as long as people don't understand it, Trump can claim victory. Because we don't know. We're like, I don't know. Is it good in the short run? Good in the long run? We don't really understand this tariff stuff. So if it's complicated, Trump can claim victory. What does that sound like? Is there any other situation in which Trump can claim victory just because you can't tell the difference?

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Yes, the California water situation. It's possible that what Trump did made a big difference and only Trump could do it and it solved a big problem. That would be his claim. It's possible that a random change was made and he just took credit. We can't tell the difference.

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So if I'm talking about what makes sense from a persuasion perspective, it makes sense for Trump to claim credit whenever we can't tell. Because it's not so much about the past. It's not so much that he can add it to his resume. That part I don't care about. What I care about is it sends a message of American competence. Look, we figured out how to solve this.

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Look, we figured out how to solve that. Look, Trump solved another problem. If we can continue to nurture this idea that Trump can solve basically any problem, people will start conforming to that. If people believe that Trump will solve their problems, then as soon as he enters the game, everybody gets flexible. That's what's happening with Ukraine.

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So until Trump was elected, Ukraine was all, oh, we're never going to make peace. We've got to win this war. But as soon as Trump's elected, Putin's like, hey, let's talk. You know, you wanted to talk anyway. But Zelensky's like, yeah, yeah, let's talk. Let's work this out. I think that's the Trump effect. So I'm perfectly OK with Trump.

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taking, let's say, a little liberty with his statements of success. Because the more you think he is successful, the more successful he will become. It's basically loading him up. It's how the public can load him with extra energy to get stuff done. If he thinks he's winning, and we treat him like he's winning, and people say he's winning, he's going to do more winnings.

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Now, I don't know what that is, but it sounds impressive. And apparently it's really efficient and it's practical. So you might see a big change in refrigeration. That's kind of a big deal. If you think about how much air conditioning and refrigerating add to our energy load, imagine needing a lot less of it. The equivalent of how much you'd save in energy, it's got to be big.

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You know, his energy will be right. People will conform to it. It's all good. But I don't know if he did anything for California water, and I have no idea how the tariffs are going to shake out. But he will take credit. He will take credit. And that is exactly the right play for a leader. It would be so weak if he said, well, we've made these changes, but frankly, we can't tell if they work.

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That might be honest. but I don't need that. I wanted to say it worked. If we can't tell one way or the other, say it worked. Anyway, at the same time, there's a big change in imports regarding something called de minimis shipments. Now, I didn't know this was a thing, but apparently, until it was just changed...

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If you were shipping into the United States something that was worth less than $800, you didn't have to go through the same customs and duty payments. So now that sounds like just a good idea, right? If it's a small package, you don't want to have every little package, have to go through customs, and it would just slow everything down. So it seems like a good idea.

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Let's make the small packages that aren't worth much money. Let's just have them skip that laborious process. Here's what happened. You would not be surprised. China and probably others are gaming the system like crazy. So if they have, let's say, a container full of parts, instead of saying, hey, I have one container full of parts that's worth a million dollars,

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they will package each of the parts as sub $800 pieces and they'll treat them all as their individual packages under $800. Oh yeah, the container is full. It's the same container, except if we put them in individual packages, every one of them skates under the line. So apparently Trump administration just put a stop to that. I don't know what's replacing it because you probably do need some way to

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At least get the little stuff through without all the work. But I guess that was a gigantic thing. So the people who work in that business say everybody knew this was a problem. Trump just fixed it. And it's a big deal. We'll see. So Trump apparently did an airstrike on ISIS in Somalia. Yeah. There's some ISIS planner, I guess, senior ISIS attack planner.

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And Trump says, we will find you and we will kill you. And then he released the video of what looked like the bombing attack that took out that ISIS attack planner. Now, I do like it. when Trump takes on a leader and makes sure all the other leaders see it. I'm talking about ISIS leaders, not the European leaders. But I like this. And I like where he says, we will find you.

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Because the we will find you part is the only thing that gives the bad guys comfort. Well, they'll never find me. And Trump's saying, we'll find you. And then he finds somebody and he kills them. And you'll probably find some more people and kill them. So the thing that Trump knows he needs to fix is the we can find you problem. Everybody knows we can kill people. Like that's no news.

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It doesn't change anybody's thinking that we do kill people. It's a war. But if you say we can find you every time, well, that might have some impact on their leadership transitions.

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Anyway, according to George Papadopoulos, who was posting about this, there's a leaked email from John Brennan about the 51 intelligence people who signed the letter saying that Hunter's laptop was at all the earmarks of Russian disinformation. So the actual email that went from a fellow named Michael Morell to John Brennan asking him to sign the document. We actually have the email now.

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Here's the last line of the document. So in the document, Brennan is saying, oh, this is a good idea. And, you know, thanks for adding me. I'll sign it. So Brennan knew what it was and agreed to sign it. So he wasn't an organizer. So Brennan was not an organizer, but he was a signer. And Here's what Michael Morrell said in his very short email describing that he wanted people to sign this thing.

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He said, quote, trying to give the campaign, meaning Biden's campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this. He actually said it out loud. It's in writing that the person who organized the 51 people to sign it that the point of it was to give a talking point at the debate. He says it directly.

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I mean, if your refrigeration cost went down by 50% for at least new stuff, pretty big. Well, I tried to... Oh, here's another one. According to the brighter side, and Mario Nuffall is talking about this, so scientists now have a drug that repairs myelin. That's the protective sheath around nerves. Now, why is that important?

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And Brennan says, oh, good idea to create a talking point. They knew it wasn't real.

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Now I'm reading between the lines, all right, I can't read their minds, but doesn't that strongly suggest they knew exactly what they were doing and it was just a political talking point and had nothing to do with warning the country about, oh, well, it's our job as experts, it's our job to warn the country that this might be Russian disinformation, might be. So is that the smoking gun?

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It's right on the edge. You know, you can imagine if this went to court in some way, that there'd be some argument that, well, you know, he's just saying that's one use for it. He's not saying that they don't believe it. He's just saying one of its purposes would be to help Biden in the debate. So I'm not sure it's a smoking gun with fire, but there's a lot of smoke.

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Anyway, so here's my question. Do you think Democrats will ever hear that story? Do you think that CNN or MSNBC will carry the story about the leaked Brennan email that strongly suggests that they knew it was just political reasons? I don't think Democrats will ever hear that story. What do you think? And it will also tell you how controlled they are.

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I think they're completely controlled and that they just are told not to run this story. You can see it on social media. You can see it on X, but that's about it. You probably won't see it in many places. So let's talk about the Elon Musk effect, which is on a lot of things lately. So yesterday or the day before. I posted that Bernie Sanders and his treatment of RFK Jr.

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at the confirmation hearings made me lose all respect for him. Now, of course, this caused every NPC to say, lose respect? Why did you have any respect for him in the first place? Let me explain how this works. It's always good to say that you used to respect somebody before you explain why you don't anymore.

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Because it wouldn't make much of an impact if I said, I used to not respect him and I still don't. That's a nothing. If you say you used to respect him in some way, right? I don't like his policies. I've often said that he can't do math. So he doesn't understand how anything fits together. But just in terms of what I thought was his genuine interest in making things better but didn't know how.

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So I thought, well, there's something to respect in there, that you're working hard to try to make things better. The fact that you don't know the best way to do it is not ideal, but you could like the intention and you could like the effort. It seemed like there were things that I could respect. And then I changed my mind and said, now, once I saw the, what about the onesie?

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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's about to happen now. Go. Go. Well, I dare say the luckiest person watching this show is the one who just said they're folding their laundry. There are very few forms of entertainment that go with folding your laundry better than this. It's really the ultimate laundry folding show. Well, let's talk about all the things.

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What about the onesie? RFK Jr., what about the onesie? And I was like, oh my God, he's just that person? So I make that comment and it gets a few hundred thousand responses. And then a day goes by and Elon Musk comments on it. Something kind of like agreement. I forget the exact words. So Elon Musk comments on it. And the last time I checked, it had 38 million views.

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38 million just because Elon commented on it. Oh, my God. So think about how important that is in terms of persuasion. You've probably noticed that whenever Elon comments on anybody's post, it immediately goes into the multi-millions. So if it's a good post and people like it, and then Elon boosts it, you're going to get 10 to 30 million views. 10 to 30. That's bigger than any news outlet.

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Because if you can repair myelin, you can repair MS, strokes, and brain injuries. So you can repair nerve damage and brains. There might be a way to fix your brain. Because apparently that myelin repair is a big deal. It can even restore lost vision. and maybe other brain functions. Wow. So that's a really big deal if it works.

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I mean, it's bigger than CNN. It's bigger than MSNBC. And what's interesting is it puts Elon Musk in the position of influencing which messages you see outside of the algorithm. So the algorithm is deciding what you see, which is mostly stuff you want to see. or at least that's what it's trying to do. It's trying to give you more of what you like and less of what you don't like.

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But Elon is his own algorithm. So when Elon Musk is looking at the posts, like the rest of us, when I boost something, I say to myself, ooh, if I boost this, I've got 1.2 million followers, and a lot of them are really connected people. I'm like, oh, this could make a difference just because I boosted it. But when he boosts things, it's like 100 times bigger.

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So his ability to influence the national conversation and influence minds is now somewhat unprecedented. I would say that only Trump... has a sort of a global persuasion powers that are a little bit greater and maybe the gap is closing. But boy, you can't overlook the fact that he can touch something once and 38 million people will see it. So that's what happened to me.

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38 million people saw me running Sanders into the ground. Meanwhile, speaking of CNN, I was watching poor Frank Luntz. He was on one of the CNN panels where everybody talks over you. So I'd like to give my impression of Frank Luntz trying to talk on a CNN panel. This is Frank Luntz. Well, it's important that you... Blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Okay. Just continuing. It's important that you... Blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Okay, are you going to let me talk? I've listened to you. Are you done? All right, I'll continue.

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The whole show is basically black panelists trying to talk over any white people who say anything at all. The Abby Phillip panel, it just looks like a racist skunk fight. And the white people are just trying to survive. Scott Jennings does the best job of it because he's completely unflappable.

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But Luntz was getting a little flapped, meaning that he really, really wanted to talk because that's why he was invited there. They invited him because they wanted to hear what he had to say. And every time he tried to talk, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you couldn't hear a word. So that's basically just a racist kind of a show.

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Abby Phillip is one of the pushers of the fine people hoax. And then she did this, turning the DEI stuff into another hoax. Here's how the hoax works. DEI... is being canceled by Trump. And he said some things about DEI. Why does he have to bring race into it? Okay, he didn't bring race into it. DEI is not about race only. It's about diversity. But it's a system. He's talking about the system.

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But why must he say that this one pilot must be a DEI hire? Never said that. Never said that. That's you making up something. No, he's not blaming individuals. He's saying that the system guarantees some incompetence and it looks like the, at least in the FAA, it looks like their hiring was limited because they were trying to hire people, but they couldn't get enough who were diverse.

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So they just were understaffed.

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and it would seem that understaffing was at least part of the problem for the latest airline disaster now we don't know all the details it could turn out that you know the big variable is some entirely different thing but on the surface it does seem like there were more planes than there were airline controllers for that for the job and that's got to make a difference so

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On one hand, I was thinking that Trump is not doing a good enough job explaining that he's not saying any one person is a DEI hire. Because that's a mistake. That's just a pure mistake. You don't really know if any one person is the DEI hire problem. You might say that they are a DEI hire, but it's sort of a leap to say that therefore they're also the problem. Those are separate.

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So I decided to do a semi deep dive into the California water situation because I was trying to figure out, is it really true that all it took was Trump to say, turn that spigot and then suddenly California would have all kinds of water and we could do all the farming we want and Is that true? Because it doesn't feel like that could be true.

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You could be a DEI hire who does a good job. That's probably more common than the other thing. So when the Abby Phillip racist kind of treatment comes in, remember the thing they're doing. They're trying to turn a system complaint that the DEI system creates inefficiency and racism, and they're trying to turn it into, why do you not like black people? They're actually doing that.

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It's basically, why is Trump saying bad things about black people? Which has never happened. It just doesn't happen. It's just not anything he's ever done or would ever do. So, anyway. J.D. Vance had to do some of the cleanup, and he nailed it. So let me read what J.D. Vance said when he was asked about this whole DEI thing. So he said...

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He was talking to Maria Bartiromo, and he said, quote, there's a direct connection between Biden policies on DEI and understaffed control towers. And he credited Trump for intervening. Now, that's 100% right. because the way Vance described it is not about any individual, but that there was a staffing problem, and it could be tied very directly to the policies, which were DEI. That's perfect.

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Now, part of me thought, you know, I think Trump should treat it this way, too. And then I said, you know what? The thing that makes Trump Trump is he doesn't give a fuck about what I'm saying.

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If he thinks it's a DEI problem and then he says it looks like a DEI problem, and he's right in the sense that Vance is explaining it, not in the sense that any one individual is the problem, I think he could just drop it and walk away and then let Vance clean it up, let the news clean it up, let other people add the nuance.

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I like it when Trump just drops the shit right in the middle of their cocktail party, and then they have to deal with it. I like that. If he didn't have good explainers around him that can say what it really means, then maybe not. But this one-two punch of Trump loosens up the room, and then J.D. Vance comes in and just owns the room, I like it. Trump shakes the box. J.D.

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Vance comes in and puts it back in order in a new way, a new order, not the old order. Very good. One-two punch. So we'll see if anything changes on that messaging. Well, what we do know now is that the Black Hawk helicopter had three pilots. The one that we didn't hear about for a while is the only female pilot. Do we think that that's the reason we didn't hear about it?

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Well, the speculation, which is pure speculation and very unfair within the close proximity of the actual disaster because the family is recovering slowly, etc. But the questions being asked are, is the reason there was a delay so that social media could be scrubbed

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Because there are some photos that people found that show the female pilot in the smiling company of a group of people who appear to be all LGBTQ, which would suggest it's less likely that she was the only straight white woman in the LGBT group because they were posing for a picture. It seems a little more likely she was part of that group, but we don't know that.

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So I asked some people and some people sent me two different threads which were explaining the water situation. And here's what I've learned. It's way too complicated for any normal person to understand. So if I started explaining, if I understood it, if I started explaining where the water comes from, where it's going to,

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Now, would that change my opinion? If I found out that she was hired in part because she's a lesbian, which, by the way, is not confirmed at all, I don't know that that would change my opinion. Is there anybody here who thinks a lesbian can't fly a helicopter? I don't think that's a thing, is it? I see no reason that you can't have the best pilots in the world be lesbians. Why not?

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So, again, I wouldn't focus on her, but there is some question of whether they cleaned up her situation so it wouldn't look like it was a problem, which I wouldn't mind. If the family wants to just stay under the limelight on this because it's not really a limelight they want to be part of, I'd respect that. I respect the family's wishes. But I'll just say that the conversation is out there.

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I don't think it's useful. I just don't think it's useful. We should let that go. Let the family just deal with their situation. So MSNBC talking about the firings of all the senior FBI people who were in some way involved with law-faring Trump or the January 6th stuff. And here's what Andy Weissman said. as he was bleeding, B-L-E-A-T, bleed like a sheep.

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He said that the FBI agents who got fired could sue Trump because there's no cause for the firing and they can only be fired for cause. To which I say, what do you mean there was no cause? No cause? No cause. Are you telling me that hunting Republicans is not cause for removal by a Republican? I can't think of a better cause. What would you have to do that would be worse than that?

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They hunted Republicans. They hunted them. They hunted Republicans. In the real world. I'm not making that up. They hunted them. They hunted them for political purposes. I don't think any of them really thought that putting grandma in jail because she trespassed was making the country a safer place. Not one of them thought that. But why did they do it?

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Why were they doing it if they knew it wouldn't make the country safer? Why? Well, obviously political reasons. So if you're in the FBI and you're putting people in jail for political reasons and it's one side only, Yeah, that's a firing offense. That's a super firing offense. Now, you might say to me, but Scott, many of them didn't have a choice.

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They were assigned it, and they were just doing their job. To which I say, I don't care. If you were assigned to murder somebody, and murder was illegal, it is, by the way, it's totally illegal, and you murdered somebody, would I say, well, it was just an assignment? No. If you're a member of the FBI... and you're hunting one group of Americans for political reasons, you don't think you know that?

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You think you would be unaware that what you're doing should put you in jail? I don't think it'll put anybody in jail, but it's bad enough. So no, I have no sympathy for anybody who took the assignment as opposed to quitting. Now, it's a tough choice. I get it. In the real world, people don't quit. They need their jobs.

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What the downside of letting too much out for each of the different mechanisms, so there's a whole different risk reward for everyone. Some is owned by the government, the federal. Some is owned by the state. Some of it has some... endangered fish problems. Some doesn't. Some has some potential flooding problems. Some doesn't. Sometimes they want to keep the water.

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You don't want to ruin your whole career over this because you really can't get it back if you turn into a whistleblower, you're dead. But that's also not my problem. It's not my problem that they couldn't say no if they wanted to. And I don't even think they wanted to. I suspect that they wanted to do it, but we don't know if that's true of all of them.

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I didn't remember this, but I was reminded that I guess Kash Patel and Pam Bondi both said, during the confirmation process that they wouldn't fire people who were associated with these activities, the January 6th and the lawfare, I guess. And both of them said they wouldn't, but neither of them are confirmed. So the acting heads are doing the firing.

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Now, do you think that the Democrats are now, let's say, unhappy with dragging out the process? You realize that if the Democrats had said, wait, okay, you're not going to fire these people? Okay, let's vote right now. All our questions are answered. Let's get it over with.

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What would have happened if Kash Patel and Pam Bondi had both immediately been approved after saying in public that they wouldn't do this? I feel like they wouldn't do it. because they'd be trapped with what they said. I mean, maybe Trump would force them to somehow.

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But it's hard for me to take their complaints seriously when the people who said they wouldn't do it are being held up by the people who want it to be not done. So I told you yesterday that the Treasury Department, which is essentially the one writing the checks... if I have that right. So they write checks for the government to pay everything that the government needs to pay.

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I don't know if that's exactly true, but for our purposes today, let's say it is. And you heard that the highest ranking treasury official, this guy named David LeBrick, he resigned rather than comply with the request from Doge for access to audit it. So all they wanted was access to the system so they could see what was spent where. And the guy who was in charge quit. He quit.

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Now keep in mind that Doge is completely authorized by the elected government of the United States. And he was just not going to help, so he quit. Well, that looks as suspicious as anything could look. And then Musk says about this that the Doge team, when they got into the Treasury Department system, or even before,

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He says the team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. Now, some of the payments to terrorist groups may have been some strategic play that the CIA was trying to get one terrorist group to kill the other terrorist group. So maybe there's some reasons for it.

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But apparently they were just told, nope, don't judge them, just approve them. Now, what happens when you have a payment system in which there are no checks and balances? It's out of control. Is it possible that Democrats don't know that, that if you don't have somebody controlling every dollar, it will all get stolen? Or is that exactly the plan, to have the least amount of checking

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So you can have the most amount of theft. It looks like that. One of the things Musk is saying about the Doge effort is that they work on weekends. It's like a superpower over people who don't work on weekends. And I got to tell you, I've worked weekends my entire career, my adult life. I've always worked weekends. And it is a superpower. I mean, and also getting up earlier and sleeping less.

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Sometimes they want to use the water, depending on what the water's for. Is it drinkable? Is it only for something else? Maybe only for irrigation. And then there's the people who own the water rights and the farmers. Here's my final word on that. Can't tell. There's literally no way to know. For me, as an honest observer, I have no idea if Trump made any difference.

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I've had the equivalent of basically three lives. Well, many of you have had two. Now, you might have enjoyed your one or two lives more than my three. I don't know. It's hard to compare. But I've lived the equivalent of three lives. And I feel it. I feel like I've had three lives running simultaneously. So every once in a while is very rare. Something happens where I would wake up late.

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It just ruins my whole day because I feel like I didn't get anything done. I don't know how you do it. Anyway, how many of you know what USAID is? The organization in the government called USAID. Now, wouldn't you think that if there were some big, well-funded organization with that name in our government, that they would be giving aid to other countries? From the U.S.

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Or maybe you'd even think it's for the U.S. because it's U.S. It's got aid in it. But the AID is not aid. It's something else. And according to Mike Benz, U.S. aid is how the State Department and the CIA topple governments through something called capacity building. So if you want to understand how the real world works, here's a term you have to understand. Capacity building. Capacity building.

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The way that works is if the United States wants to overthrow some smaller country, we first use this USAID thing to fund a bunch of things in that target country that will make it easier to overthrow it. So they might fund some fake groups that are opposed to the government. They might... They might back some street muscle. So apparently street muscle is important to overthrowing any country.

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If they have big unions, then you use your money to bribe or control the unions and they become your street muscle. If you don't have big unions, you try green people or Antifa or communists or somebody. You have to find some street muscle. That's important. So you've got your NGOs, your various organizations that are working against the target company, and there might be like lots of them.

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And then you've got the street muscle. And then, of course, we would have to control the media. So we'd have to control the media. So the media says, if it's not controlled by the dictator, but at least the social media so that there's a story against whoever's in charge. So that's kind of the deal. So that's called capacity building. I'm doing a bad job of explaining it.

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Capacity building means creating permanent or semi-permanent things in another country for the purpose of taking them over. And apparently we do it really well. And apparently it was done against the United States by some of the same players. They just turned it inward and tried to control a lot of the United States. So the NGOs, I guess there are just thousands of them.

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And they're interconnected, so you can't tell where the money is flowing. It's like you might give money to one NGO whose job is to distribute to other NGOs. and then some of them distribute to other NGOs. So you can't even tell where the money's going, which apparently is intentional.

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So you have this vast amount of money controlled by the State Department and the CIA that goes through this USAID thing, which is allegedly a legitimate outfit, but it's about overthrowing countries, including America. And it looks like the whole thing is just going to go away. So half of the employees were contractors, and Doge and Trump just said all the contractors are gone.

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I don't know if he made it worse or better. I have no idea. Now, a lot of well-meaning people have given me a lot of good information, but there's way too much of it. And it all interrelates, right? Because if you do too much of this, it's going to have an effect on this other thing that you didn't count on. It might flood things, you know.

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So as somebody, an ex named William Wolf said, Trump is literally Thanos snapping the deep state end of existence. So I guess the USAID people, some of them were on a Zoom call. And all of a sudden, the Zoom call went, you know, half of the people went dark. It was like Thanos from the, you know, the superhero movies where he snaps his fingers and half of the population of the planet dies.

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So Trump is Thanos snapping the deep state out of existence. If you'd like to know, is USAID something that you should be on their side? because let's say, hey, at least they're working for America. Maybe they're doing bad things to other countries, but they're doing it for a good reason in terms of America. So America is stronger because they exist.

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Well, here's something else you should know about USAID. According to Stephen Miller, 98% of the USAID people donated to Kamala Harris or other left-wing candidates. So one of the ways that the USAID controls other countries, is by getting the other countries to be infected by DEI, climate change, abortion rights, and identity politics. Wait a minute.

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Are you saying, Scott, that we use the things that are popular in the United States to destroy other countries? Yep. Does that mean that those things are only big in the United States because the same entities are trying to destroy the United States?

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maybe that's what it looks like if we know that if we know they're building up capacity in another country where they're fighting over dei they're fighting over climate and there's lots of money sloshing around that allegedly is going to climate and glowing and you know abortion rights and identity i think abortion rights is probably the smaller one but identity politics

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Do you think there's any chance if we use these things for weapons to destroy other countries, you don't think that's what's happening to us? Now, in the United States, it wouldn't be to destroy the country. It would be to change the leadership, to make sure the leadership was on board with climate and abortion and identity and DEI. So here's the capacity.

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First, you come up with these things that seem bigger than the country. You know, hey, you got to have DEI. Gotta have climate. You gotta have identity. And you make that bigger than people's patriotism, and then you can control the country by controlling those things.

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So the fact that for most of the last 20 years, if you went in public and spoke out against DEI, climate, abortion, or identity, it would be the end of your professional career. Do you think that's a coincidence? No.

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That looks exactly like these are meant for capacity building, and these are not even real topics, meaning that if they were not introduced by people who wanted to control the country, they wouldn't even be here. We would have been, we don't need DEI because we're a melting pot, right?

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So there's so many moving parts that I'm convinced that even the California experts don't actually understand their own system. So the complexity has made it impossible to solve because the public can't help because we're not going to understand it. So that's my bottom line. It's too hard to understand, and I'm not sure if even the experts have a grasp on it.

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We would say climate change doesn't seem to make sense because India and China aren't going to change, and so there's nothing we can do. But instead we act like we're the only ones who can do anything and it's existential threat. That doesn't make any sense, right? Why would you even have that frame unless you were trying to control the country? And identity politics, obviously, same thing.

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Anyway, so it looks like USAID is going to be vastly decreased. I told you how James Carville referred to Kamala Harris as the seventh string quarterback and said, you know, you can't win the Super Bowl with a seventh string quarterback. Now, he was asked more about it in another interview. And he's not backing off of that. But here's what's funny about it.

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Carville is using a lot of words to describe that DEI destroyed the Democrats. Because. The real story of Kamala Harris is not that she was anointed. It was that nobody else could be anointed because of DEI. If she were not a DEI-qualified candidate, do you think she would have been picked without any process? No.

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I think the thing that allowed them to say, okay, this is obvious, this is the way to go, people will be okay with it, is that she was female and black, and that made it okay. So Carville's so close, but we'll see how brave he is, because he knows it's a DEI problem. You know he knows, right? Because he's not dumb. He's been around. He knows exactly what the problem is.

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And I think before he's actually, he may have actually made a reference to the fact that they couldn't leave the DEI, or let's say the identity. I think they would say it's an identity thing. But he's so close to being a Republican. Yeah. Meanwhile, the DNC has picked a new chairperson, Ken Martin. Let me explain Ken Martin. He is the whitest man in America.

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And if you'd like to know how white he is, I think I can do a good impression of it's dancing for TikTok. So this will tell you, you know, does he just look white or is he white like all the way through? Well, here's him dancing. I rest my case, he's as white as you could possibly be. Can't get whiter than that.

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If you're listening on audio, I just did a hilarious impression of a white man dancing with no rhythm whatsoever. How did I do such a good impression? Well, it's a trick. It just turns out that's how I dance. Sorry. So yes, the whitest man in America is a chair. But at least they added some diversity for the vice chair, which is David Hogg, the young man who was the anti-gun advocate.

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So two of the whitest men in America. Now, how does that work? Because I saw all the candidates who were trying out for the head of the DNC, and it seemed to me from the few things I saw that the vast majority of them fit into the non-white man category.

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How do the Democrats end up picking two white guys to be the head when identity is so important and their entire party's thrust is, you know, we're not the white man party? Separately, and I think it was Politico, there was an article about Democrat black women who are sort of saying, all right, well, we'll just move on with our lives because we lost.

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All right, well, the big news today is tariffs. So Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico and China go into effect, I guess, right now. So Mexico and Canada will get a 25% tariff. I think energy is not included because we don't want to pay more for our energy. We don't get a ton of it. And China, 10%. So what are they doing about it? Well...

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And I say to myself, how can the Democrats ever come back? Because if they pick people based on, I assume, they thought these were the most capable people. And, well, Hogg is an interesting case because he's more like the future. So if they say he's not quite ready, but we can, you know, we can nurture him and turn him into a candidate later, that's actually a good play.

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So I wouldn't give them a hard time for having somebody who's, you know, a neophyte. It's a good starting place. I think his activism has earned him, you know, a spot at the show. But he's seriously anti-gun. They're both white as you could possibly be and male. So unless one of them is gay, and I don't know it, doesn't that make an internal civil war?

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How in the world do Democrats get okay with that? And then what are they going to do when they pick a candidate? Are they going to pick a white guy candidate? Because I think the Democrats thought that Kamala lost because of racism and sexism. That's what basically everybody running for the job thought.

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So is it possible that the Democrats are so dumb that they think that the only thing they need to do to win is to run a white guy next time? Is that going to happen? I would love to see them make that mistake. No, that's not the right way to go. That is definitely not the right way to go. For them. But they don't have a right way to go. There is actually no solution, given their current setup.

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If they go capability, then they violate their DEI principles. If they go DEI, they'll lose again. That's the only two paths. Pro-DEI, you lose. Anti-DEI, you lose. Two losing paths. So, yeah, no hope. Well, this is the biggest surprise ever, according to Interesting Engineering. And Sujita Sinha says that China is blaming U.S. hackers for the hacking attack on DeepSeek.

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So DeepSeek is that allegedly super cheap AI that came out of China. And as soon as, practically as soon as it made the news, it got attacked by a denial of service, very persistent attack that I think is still doing its thing. And China says every one of the attacks is coming from the United States. Do you think that's true? I don't know.

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I mean, it's not the sort of thing that countries necessarily tell you the truth about. And I always thought that if you're a good hacker, you could somehow disguise the source. Is that not true? There's no such thing as hackers who are good enough to do something like this. Don't they have a way to disguise their origin?

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Like, how could he even be a hacker if everybody can tell where it came from? I don't know. All right, I got to look at this comment. Mentions of... All right. I think I won't mention that. Mike Burt. But noted. Noted. Anyway. So, yeah, my first impression was it's American companies or the government going after that. Deep Seek. So the latest...

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The latest guess is that Deep Seek probably cost well over a billion dollars, not $6 million to make. So that was always BS. The Gateway Pundit is reporting that DOJ is opening an investigation into Chuck Schumer for threatening the Supreme Court justices. And I didn't even remember that. I mean, I remembered it when I was reminded of it, but it didn't seem important to me at the time.

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But maybe it is. So here's what... Schumer said in public at a pro-abortion rally in 2020, he said that the two justices that he didn't like their decisions, he said they would, quote, pay the price for overturning Roe v. Wade. And so that's before they actually did it. He was warning them.

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And then he said, I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price, Schumer said. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. Now, how do you interpret that? Is anybody aware of any case where Supreme Court justices were somehow legally or politically attacked?

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Like, what exactly would happen to the justices? They know when they take the job. that half the country is going to hate every one of their decisions. So if Schumer is just going to say, we're going to hate this decision, would that have any impact on the Supreme Court? What exactly did Schumer think he could do to these specific justices?

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Also, Trump took the opportunity with the tariffs to essentially say that the government of Mexico is in bed with the cartels. He just says it directly. He basically just says, yeah, cartels have been controlling the government. Okay. I didn't know you were supposed to say that out loud if you're the president, but the president did.

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Now, if you're asking me if it's inappropriate, oh, by God, yes, that's pretty inappropriate. But is it illegal? Is it illegal? Or are they only looking at it in terms of maybe impeaching Schumer for bad judgment? I don't know. So it seems like here's where I am at this. Trump says a lot of hyperbolic things. Do we take every one of those as illiteral? We don't, do we?

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We don't take it as literal. We just know when he's threatening and that sort of thing. Now, I think the way Schumer played it by naming names, that's pretty scary. And it does seem like it would have the effect of biasing the court because they might want to stay alive or not be attacked in some way that they don't see coming. So, yeah, I think it was definitely worth investigating.

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But I'm not sure that I'd want him to go to jail if there's any kind of law he broke, because that's going to feel lawfarish. If they investigate him and rebuke him or give him some kind of censure in the Senate or they even do an impeachment, I would say, yeah, that seems about right. But if it turns out there's a law that's technically broken... I don't know. That would be a tough one.

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As much as I want to say nobody's above the law, if we're going to say that nobody would have been taken to all these lawfare situations except Trump, which is true, maybe there's an equivalent one on the other side. So here's the reason I bring this up. I feel some responsibility as a citizen to make sure that the winning side stays within bounds.

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Now, sometimes I like to let them color outside the lines, not let them. They're just going to do it. So sometimes you don't mind if they color outside the lines if they're getting something done. So I don't mind whatsoever if Trump stretches the power of the executive. Say, well, you think I can't do it, but I'm going to try it anyway. Let's see if I get away with it.

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I don't mind that at all because those are transparently for the benefit of the country. What else would they be? It's not transparently for his benefit. He's not even running for office again. So if he's doing something that's obviously and transparently for my benefit, yeah. you can call her a little bit outside the lines.

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But when it comes to putting other people in jail, if it comes to that, that's where all of us have to be responsible citizens first and political second. Now, we wish that the Democrats had done the same. They didn't. But I feel like we can hold ourselves to a higher standard. So this one, I'm going to keep my eye on it. If it's not a... a prison risk, then I'd be okay with wherever it goes.

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But if you're really talking about putting Schumer in prison, well, then I'm going to ask some more questions, and I think that that's appropriate. In the end, I might say, you know what, this was so bad, that's why the law exists, if there is a law. So I could be convinced, but I think the most responsible position is, you're going to have to prove this one.

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You're going to have to prove this, and I'm not as satisfied yet if it's going to be anything legal. So don't be like them is what I'm saying. So there's an article in The Guardian in which the title is Female Narcissism is Often Misdiagnosed. Now, I don't care about that topic, right? It's true. I'm sure female narcissism is underdiagnosed. But what was interesting is the propaganda in it.

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And I appreciate that because it feels like that's a more honest way to treat it. So we'll talk about tariffs in general and whether that's a good idea, but let's just look at these individually. So part of what Trump wants to do is get these countries to put their fentanyl situation in order. They want China to stop producing it. China says, we've already stopped it. course they haven't.

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So as they're talking about just narcissism in general, here's a sentence in the Guardian's article. So this is in case you think the Guardian is a responsible publication. They're not. This actual sentence is in that story. Quote, From Charles Manson and Ted Bundy to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Donald Trump, most famous people we consider psychopathic or narcissistic are male. Wait a minute.

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Let me read that sentence again. Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump. Oh, come on. They just dropped that in there. Like that's some kind of a like a fact that Trump should be in the same list with serial killers, Stalin and Hiller. Come on, that is so repulsive that they just drop that in. And the thing is, it's not even a political story.

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And they just drop that in there like you're going to accept it like a fact. Uh-huh. Yeah. Lenin. Uh-huh. Yeah. Makes sense. Stalin. Not Lenin. But Stalin, Hitler, Trump. Yeah. Same list. I can see why that would be the same. You motherfuckers. You people at the Guardian are just shit. There's an editor who let that in. So it would be one thing if a writer wrote it and it snuck in.

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But there was an editor who looked at it. Whoever that editor was, you suck. You are a damaging piece of shit for doing that. That is unforgivable. Un-fucking-forgivable. The Guardian. What a joke. What are they guarding? Their own stupidity? Well, Netanyahu's coming to the U.S. to meet with Trump. I would guess that that's going to be a productive meeting.

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I also guess that it's going to be tense. The The relationship between Netanyahu and Trump is pretty interesting because they're both strong. They're both negotiators. I think they have a real respect for each other, but they don't have all the same objectives, maybe.

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So it's a real interesting dynamic just because they're so smart and so good at what they do, persuasion-wise and politically, that you put the two of them in a room and I kind of think something good could come out of it most of the time. So here's what I think.

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The big question, and only Trump can sell this, is what do you do with Gaza now that it's basically unlivable and ruined, but people want to go back anyway. They want to go back and live in the ruin, I guess, because it would take a long time to fix it. And it seems like it would be toxic and...

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So Trump has teased the idea that the residents might be put in other countries and then Gaza just gets basically bulldozed and turned into something awesome, but in its own time. So there'd be no rush to repatriate anybody because there wouldn't be anything to repatriate them to that's worth being there. And so finding some other countries to take them.

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But as you know, no other country wants them. because it's just trouble. I think for purely political reasons, the pressure should be on Iran. Now, I don't think there's any chance that Iran would take all the Gazans into Iran, but they should have to answer for it. If they're the ones who are behind... you know, backing the badness that got Gaza in this situation. I think they broke it.

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They bought it. And even if you don't think that would be a productive line of attack, like they'll just say, no, you broke it. You bought it. I think it would at least change the frame. So the frame is Iran did this to you and they're not willing to make good on it. So we're not going to correct Iran's mistake or what Iran did to you. We can maybe rebuild the area.

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And we want Mexico and Canada to close their border. I think most of it's coming from Mexico. But here's what's happening in Mexico. So the cartels, according to Liberty Nation News, are already losing billions of dollars because they lost their migrant money. So the cartels were making money by helping the migrants get into the United States. When Trump shuts the border,

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And in some cases, maybe some people could come back someday. But I think only Trump, only Trump can say nobody's going back to Gaza. And I don't think there's another way to route it. I don't think there's another way in the real world. I just don't think there's a way to play it where people just go back because they would just recreate the tunnels, recreate the same situation.

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October 7th would come back. So there's no way that Israel is going to say, yeah, let's just move back the people who are really, really mad at us. It doesn't make any sense. It would be ridiculous. And Trump knows that. So Trump's the only one who can say the truth. Nobody's going back. I think that's the part that they have to finesse.

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Now, the question is, is there some way to say nobody's going back but you do sort of a cat in the roof where you don't say it all at once. So maybe you say things like, well, you know, it's going to take a long time to get back because we have to assess the toxins. And then once we're assessed, you know, the environmental problems, once we looked at it, then they have to be remediated.

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That could take a couple of years. So it could be that the cats on the roof is, we think you can go back in five years. And then people are like, oh, five years? Yeah, five years. And in the meantime, you can either resettle in Iran if they want you or some other country, and you'll be at least happy in the meantime. And maybe you stay there forever. So I think, so that's what I think.

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I think they're going to cat in the roof. You're going to see the signal that they're really saying nobody's going back. or at least nobody's going back for five years. I think that's what's going to come out of it. Something that looks like a time frame.

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Meanwhile, over in Ukraine, Forbes is writing about Ukraine has a new drone bomber that can fly 1,200 miles with a 550-pound bomb and then return. So the big thing is they don't have a lot of reusable equipment. death drones. If you were going to do a long distance with a drone, usually the drone itself was the weapon, and it just would crash into something and explode.

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But if you could drop a 550-pound bomb 1,200 miles away and then fly back and do it again, well, that's a pretty strong weapon. Pretty strong weapon. So we'll see if that makes any difference. And they also have some kind of robot that can shoot down drones with electrical. What do you call it?

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When somebody interferes with the drone's navigation with one of those anti-drone devices, what's that called? What is the technology called? Is it electromagnetic force beam? Is there a word for it? I'm just looking in the comments. EMP? I don't think it's an EMP. It's a jammer. Yeah, let's call it a disruptor or a jammer. EMP would certainly do it, but these are not EMP driven.

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Yeah, these are not EMP. I don't think. Or is there like a micro EMP? Are the jammers and the disruptors basically an EMP, but a micro size, not like a nuclear weapon? I don't know. I'll try to get that lingo down. Well, according to the University of Birmingham, there's a freshwater algae that could be the next superfood. I would like to do your comments now before you write them.

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I ain't going to eat no algae. You can't take my beef away. You can't make me bugs, your World Economic Forum. I'll never eat bugs. I'm not going to eat your algae. I already have algae in my swimming pool. I don't need your extra algae. I'll just go lick the sides of my swimming pool if I want algae. Stop talking to me, Scott. Stop talking. Shut up. Nobody's going to eat algae.

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We'll talk about some science and we'll get into the politics. I know you're waiting for it. But apparently scientists, according to interesting engineering, some Penn State scientists People found out how to get the lithium out of the ground, or out of the rocks, I guess, in a super efficient way. I didn't realize how hard it was to get lithium.

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It's going to taste terrible. Don't make me even think about it. Am I good? Did I cover everything? Now I can tell you the story. This way you don't have to type it at the same time I'm talking. But it's called Chlorella Vulgaris. I love the name of that. Doesn't that sound like a Disney movie villainous? Oh, look out. It's Chlorella Vulgaris. Yeah. Part of the vulgaris family.

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There's this gigantic economic engine that just turns off. So the cartels went from just so much money you could barely handle it to, uh-oh, can't pay the bills. So what that's going to cause is apparently it's already happening. The cartels are going to start fighting with each other. So each cartel will say, uh-oh.

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Anyway, so apparently it's got a lot of nutrients and protein, which is the hard part. And it's not so much that you would eat it. It might be incorporated with other foods. I don't know what that means. But if they can make it tasteless, but it has all the nutrients, then you can maybe mix it in with some kinds of foods. But what I wondered is, since it's a freshwater algae,

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Could you grow it at home? You know, I'm always trying to figure out how to do a indoor farm, especially one that you could just have in your backyard that would give you all you needed to eat. Because if you think about it, we now have a way to be off the grid for electricity, off the grid for water. You can even take water out of the air now.

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And you could have a septic tank if you want to be off the grid for waste, sort of off the grid. But you can't get off the grid for food, can you? Food's pretty hard to get off the grid. So if somebody finds a protein source that you could grow in a little a little pool in your backyard, not the size of a swimming pool, but something smaller. That would be kind of interesting.

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Now, I can also imagine someday in the future that our food will be like the replicators on Star Trek. So I can imagine something like this freshwater algae being used as the printer ink and mixed with different seasonings. So that you basically say, give me a hamburger. And it just prints a hamburger. And it's got like a bun and a pickle on it and a piece of lettuce and everything.

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But the ink is made by the algae. I don't want to eat no algae. Stop making me bugs. I'm not going to lick my swimming pool. I want beef. Why are you stopping? Stop it. You World Economic Forum shill. All right. I think we've covered that. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have to say this morning. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. EMI versus EMF.

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Is that what I should have said? EMI? I thought EMI was a company in the music field. Boy in green. How do they make squid ink pasta? I have no idea. All right. You could talk about algae all day. Well, all right. EMI is jamming. Okay. So EMI, electromagnetic interference. There we go. EMI was what I was looking for. What does Lindsey Graham say?

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Lindsey Graham will vote to confirm Tulsi, RFK, and cash. Good. Good. Lindsey Graham, if you had not voted for those three, he'd have a tough time. I don't want to sound like Schumer, but whoever doesn't vote for RFK Jr. in particular, they're going to have a tough road ahead because there are people who are going to make sure that happens. It's BMI is the music company. Now you're right.

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The only way I can make my money back, since the border is largely closed, is to take some business from my competitor. So the cartels are starting to fight each other. Does it get better than that? Trump closes the border, and before we even send in our military, the cartels are already fighting with each other. Maybe we could just watch that for a while, see how that goes. Anyway.

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All right. I'm going to talk privately to the locals people, those of you on X and YouTube and Rumble. Thanks for joining. I will see you same time tomorrow. Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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So China's response to the fentanyl charge, at least from China's foreign ministry, was, quote, fentanyl is America's problem. The Chinese side has carried out extensive anti-narcotics cooperation with the United States and achieved remarkable results. Really? Really? China, are you telling me that no fentanyl is coming from China? Nobody believes that, right?

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So it may be that they closed down some specific dealers or something like that. But no, no, I'm sure it's all coming from China. So I don't trust them on that. So here... I don't think this will have any impact on fentanyl. Do you? Does anybody think the tariffs will have any impact on fentanyl? I don't even know if the closed border will have an effect.

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The fentanyl problem is that the entire size of the package that would give a million people an overdose is basically the size of a baseball. So you can just take a baseball and hollow it out, throw it over the fence anywhere you want if you have somebody on the other side, and there's your entire million deaths of fentanyl, one baseball-sized container.

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So I don't really see a way to stop it unless you murder all of the cartel people involved and people become too afraid to touch it. But we're a long way from that. All right, so here's a weird thing about tariffs.

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So I'm going to say the oversimplified short-term view, and then those of you who know a little bit more about economics are going to say, but Scott, you forgot this and you forgot that. I didn't forget them. I'll mention them in the long-term effect, right? So there's a short-term and a long-term. Short-term, tariff wars are weird because it's each country trying to tax itself,

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To hurt the other country. Because tariffs are paid by the importing company. So American companies are going to pay the tariffs. That's just what a tariff is. That's the only way it works. So in the short run, the competition will be, can America survive whatever retaliatory tariffs there are? Because of course it will be. Can we survive better than the country that we're battling with?

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Now, if the country with the strongest economy is in a trade war with a country with a weaker economy, I would expect the stronger economy to have all of the negotiating position and maybe get some kind of a deal done because it's so one-sided. You know, you better just surrender. And that's largely the case with two of these countries. So right now, Mexico exports to the U.S.

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You got to do stuff like drain a lake and work through the brine and all that. But apparently they've developed an electrochemical process, which is so efficient, it could completely change the economics and the mining process.

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as a percentage of GDP, 35%. So 35% of Mexico's GDP exports to the U.S. How much do we export to Mexico? 1.2%. 1.2. So what happens if 1.2% of the things we buy from Mexico go up in price 25%? You're not even going to notice. You won't even notice. But in Mexico, if 35% of what drives their GDP suddenly had a huge monetary impact on it, they're going to notice that right away.

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So Canada is similar. They... They export to the US 22% of their GDP, but the things that we export to Canada is 1.5%. So when they put a tariff on us, it'll be on such a small little bunch of goods that we won't even notice. When we put a tariff on either Canada or Mexico, oh, they're going to notice. Yeah, that's certainly they're going to notice.

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And their economies are, you know, at least Canada seems a little weaker than the U.S. So it's a weaker economy. They don't have the same punchback ability because of the imbalance of trade. So in theory... it puts Trump in charge of the negotiations. So that's good. Now, here's the part that you wanted me to say. Some of you are better at economics.

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In the short run, the company that's importing is going to pay the United States the tariff. So it's like a tax on the United States by the United States. But...

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In the longer term, and sometimes it could happen faster, the company that is exporting the goods to America, let's say China, they might just lower the price of their goods a little bit, maybe not the full 25%, but depending on the margins, I guess, whatever kind of profit margin they have, they could take a little of the pain off

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by lowering the cost of the product and then maybe try to sell the same amount. But that'd be hard because they probably don't have that much margin in their profits. Over time, what the tariffs do is it would cause more American companies to make products, maybe, or other countries to be a source for those same products. And according to the Wall Street Journal,

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So you can imagine that the U.S., for example, if they found this efficient way that apparently doesn't have a downside to extracting the lithium from ore, maybe we can do more of it in the U.S. without the mining that kills people. Well, as you know, refrigeration hasn't changed much in many decades, but now there's a new breakthrough. Thermogalvanic something. Thermogalvanic

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the tariff war, as it looks, is likely to devalue the currency of the companies we're at war at, but not the U.S. currency. So in other words, the Mexican peso and the Canadian dollar might become worth less compared to the American dollar. So that would be, again, more negotiating power. So... you're now the smartest people in this conversation.

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Because number one, you know that the payment is made, at least initially, by the same country that puts the tariff on the other country. It's basically a tax on yourself. So we're having a competition to see who can tax themselves harder and survive. And because of the imbalance in trade, it looks like America has all the cards.

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And then the second thing you need to know is that the long-term, people start adjusting. So the competitive environment changes if it looks like it's going to be a long-term situation. But that's not going to happen right away because people would quite reasonably say, this might be temporary. A year from now, or let's say under the next president, are you really going to have same tariffs?

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Because if the tariffs stay, then some people may say, aha, That's exactly the advantage I needed to start this manufacturing company in the United States. But here's where I need a fact check. If Chinese goods became, let's say, 10% or 25% more expensive, would that make any difference?

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Because I feel like they have such a huge cost advantage that even if their costs went up 25%, we still couldn't compete domestically. We couldn't make a factory in the United States that could beat them on costs just because we raised their costs artificially with a tariff. I don't think we're anywhere in the ballpark of being able to repatriate some of these businesses. All right. So we'll see.

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We will see what the effect is. I'll tell you, I feel like Trump's instinct on this is right. because the US has such a negotiating advantage that it gives Trump several ways to win and no way to lose. If nothing happens, he's going to claim that the tariff payments are free money to the United States. Really just taxing the United States, but okay.

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And the combination will value the AI part at 80 billion and the X part at 33 billion, which is 45 billion less 12 billion in debt. So here's the fun part. The AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X content. Isn't that going to make Elon Musk's AI the best AI like right away?

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Because I don't know if the other AIs train on, it would be illegal if they did, I suppose, without permission. But if there's an AI that's learned everything that's on social media or could, that's going to be really, really killer. So we'll see.

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He's got 600 million users on X. And as you've learned, the regular news is lagging X. So if you had AI that could just read everything on X, it's gonna know a lot about a lot of people. You know what else it could do? It would know if you wrote something.

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It could catch anonymous people, because once it learned how you send a tweet and what your writing style is, it could probably identify you just by your writing. So that's coming. But what's fun about this is the value of the combined entity, which suggests that Elon Musk, when everybody laughed that he overpaid for X...

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Not only did he not overpay, because now it seems to be fully valued about what he paid for it, which is the most unusual outcome, he also changed the world. He changed free speech. He is directly responsible for Trump getting elected, and that allowed him to do doge, And Doge is the only thing that could possibly save America from its own debt crisis.

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So if you look at the level of importance of his decision to buy X at what turned out to be, we thought it was an inflated price, but he's so good at this business stuff that he turned it into an asset, like a growing, valuable business asset.

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Now, one of the things that the anti-Doge people were fond of saying is like, well, why are you saying he's so smart when he bought Twitter and lost all those billions of dollars? Well, how about now you all just shut up? How about you just shut up? Because it turns out that worked out. So do you have anything else that Elon Musk can't do?

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Would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do? Oh, he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse. He'll never build a car company. He'll never make X pay for itself and be an asset. How many times does he have to do it? Maybe you'll just shut up now. See if he can make Doge work. All right. And also there's talk about, remember Vines?

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Vines was that little six-second video thing that Twitter had for a while and didn't really quite make it. But I saw a post that suggested that Elon was open to having that revived. Now, I don't think if it does get revived, I don't know if it would get revived as a six-second video or maybe longer. Longer might make sense to compete with TikTok. But that would be a huge moneymaker, seems to me.

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The other humans will just go along with it. So you can literally have a robot dog choose the human leader in a group, and everybody else will be like, seems reasonable to me. If the robot dog's okay with it, I'm okay with it. But I think the larger risk is robot persuasion. Do you know how influential a robot's going to be?

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In other AI news, ChatGPT is allegedly, according to Cy Post, Vladimir Putin, Hedra is writing about this. ChatGPT used to be sort of left-leaning in its opinions, if you can call it opinion, in its responses, let's say. Sort of left-leaning, left of center. And now they say the newest version is starting to lean right, at least a little bit.

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And they gave an example of what that means to lean right. Because as soon as I hear that the AI is leaning right, I say to myself, you're going to need to give me an example. What? It put up a flag? What exactly does it mean for an AI to lean right? But here's what it said. It prioritizes free market capitalism, property rights, and minimal government intervention in the economy.

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to which I say, you mean common sense? Apparently, all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense. Who exactly is against free market capitalism? Only the craziest leftists. I mean, otherwise, Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be the basis of our country. How about property rights? Again,

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you'd have to be completely insane to be against property rights. But, you know, some leftists are. And what about minimal government intervention in the economy? Again, common sense. You want the fewest number of your rules and government blocking, I guess. So I think it's hilarious that

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what is called conservative stuff is just the thing that basically everybody who is not crazy is already in favor of, just pure common sense stuff. According to Wired Magazine, McKenna Kelly is writing about this, Doge has a plan to rebuild the whole Social Security Administration code base. So all the programs that run the Social Security program.

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And of course, the headline is Risking Benefits and System Collapse. Really? Is it risking benefits and system collapse? Or is it possible that they would be testing the thing until they knew it worked? Because you're not going to get rid of the old one until you know the new one works, right? Now, there will be lots of edge cases, a lot of special cases.

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So probably there will be some people who thought they were going to get something and don't get it right away. But that's all fixable. You know, that would be the normal thing that would happen if you did a massive code-based changeover. Nobody thinks that that works on the first try. But what's the alternative? To keep a COBOL-based, like, archaic system forever?

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So when they say stuff like, is risking benefits and system collapse, the real risk is not doing it. Not doing it is a much bigger risk, you know, because we've reached that point where it's just so decrepit and, you know, crawling along. But I asked this question. I said, can't AI just look at COBOL code and rewrite it in a modern form in minutes?

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You know, I keep reading all these stories about people say, my God, I'm a programmer and I used AI and I didn't even have to do any coding and it made it an I made an app that runs on Apple and it totally worked. And given that AI knows how to write in every language, why wouldn't you be able to just tell AI to look at the COBOL code, all gazillion lines of it?

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And, you know, take your time and then just say, can you write that more efficiently in a modern language? And you tell it which language, of course. And an expert who says that he works in that domain, so he's spent enough time to call himself an expert, says, nope, that wouldn't work. So once again, once again,

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the critics of ai who keep saying things like well it's good for a demo but it doesn't really do any of the things it's supposed to do like have an agent you know a little ai agent that can answer questions even that doesn't work that's the most basic thing you'd want your ai to do answer questions it just still hallucinates so you can't even use it for that but i thought

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If a robot dog can determine which human is in charge, and apparently they've tested it and it can, what else can the robot dog do? I mean, next thing I know, I'm going to be peeing on fire hydrants if the robot dog tells me to. Speaking of robots, there's now a tiny little robot that they can put in your body, according to the University of Leeds.

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I thought the one thing it could definitely do, just definitely, was write code like a mofo. I thought you could just show it any code and say, well, we'd like this to be a little more efficient, so look for inefficiencies and fix that for me. Apparently, according to the one gentleman who says he's an expert and he wasn't guessing, said, no, that doesn't work.

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You would have massive inefficiencies. So it could reproduce it. So reproducing it is possible, but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to, you know, almost better if you started over from scratch, I think. But then I say, are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it? Because I would think that it can do that easily.

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If it knows how to write code... Does it really not know how to identify inefficient code and then know how to replace it with efficient code, even if you gave it the right prompts? So I think this will be a real good test. It probably borders on almost impossible to get this rewritten unless AI is helping. A lot. I think it borders on impossible. But I'll bet you the Doge people...

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being on the leading edge of a lot of AI and programming stuff, I'll bet they're going to make this work. But remember, if you're thinking that the new code will work perfectly, not on the first try. And nothing works like that. Nothing works on the first try. So probably there will be a little bit of a bump in the system.

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But maybe before the end of the year, you'd see a whole new rewritten system. And what they learn from that could be something they can take to the rest of the government systems because they have just these unlimited number of IT systems that don't talk to each other. We'll see if that's fixable. I don't know.

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Well, according to American First Legal, the Trump administration has revoked the legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens. These are the ones that Biden flew in. So they're not the ones who walked across the border. They were flown in intentionally by the Biden administration, over half a million of them.

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from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and now they must self-deport or face detention and removal. Now, I got to say that that makes sense to me, because whatever it was, You know, whatever it was that the Biden administration was up to with flying in half a million people, they never really explained that to us, did they?

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Did the Biden administration ever say, oh, these are the special people who need asylum? Not really. It just seemed like they were using every trick they could to bring in as many immigrants as they can. And I like the fact that Trump is going to say, how about we make this not our problem? How about we make this the problem of the migrants who came in? I like that.

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It should be their problem, not ours. So, yeah, I'm in favor of that. Well, here's what I call the least surprising story of the day. Here's the one that every one of you could have predicted. Are you ready?

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According to Zero Edge, Vladimir Zelensky, when he got the first draft of the deal for minerals, remember that Scott Besant said there would be this 100-page document that would explain the deal they'd already agreed to. that would be some kind of mineral deal with Ukraine and the United States. And Zelensky says that Kyiv,

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It's a tiny magnetic robot, and it can take 3D scans of things like tumors and stuff like that. So the one they have now is for colorectal cancer. So I'm going to say it was only a matter of time before somebody shoved a robot up your ass. It's here, the robot that goes up your ass. I'm sure it does good work up there, but... I just knew it would come to this.

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received a draft of the new mineral deal and says it's entirely different. It's an entirely different document than previous framework. He says Ukraine can't accept any deal that threatens its EU integration. So don't you think you could have predicted that Zelensky was going to reject the deal?

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Now, everything that we heard from Scott Besant and even, you know, the indications that Trump was making is that, oh, yeah, you know, we're talking to Ukraine. We're, you know, we're working on a deal. Apparently, we just slapped together a deal and tried to shove it down their craws. But Zelensky's like, nope, haven't even seen this kind of a deal.

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So that is the least surprising thing of the day. You absolutely could have predicted that that deal wasn't going to happen. And I'm going to predict it probably won't ever happen. I've got a feeling that there will be no... Well, as long as Zelensky is in charge. Zelensky very much doesn't want a solution that isn't military. And this would have given some argument that, well...

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You don't need boots on the ground because you'll have this economic interest. But there's no way that Zelensky wants any of this to work. I don't know what he wants, but he doesn't want to give away land for peace. So there's nothing that can be done. Putin has decided to call for the removal of Zelensky, which is weird because I think he's always wanted the removal of Zelensky.

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And he says that he can finish off the Ukrainian troops, according to the defense post. And he says, Putin says he wants a transitional administration to be put in place in Ukraine and vowed that his army would finish off Ukrainian troops, blah, blah, blah. Now, that's fair because Zelensky has said that he thinks Putin will die soon and then the war will end.

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But I saw somebody on social media on X saying that if I remember the numbers, Putin's father lived to 88 and his grandfather lived to 86 or something. So I think Putin's 72. So is Zelensky really going to wait 15 years or something? That's his plan. to just keep fighting for 15 years until Putin dies? Or does he have some inside information that Putin's sick and he's going to die soon?

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I don't know. I wouldn't bet on him dying soon. Well, the United Auto Workers president, who had previously had bad things to say about Trump, you know, all the usual bad things, According to the Wall Street Journal, now he loves what Trump is doing with the tariffs, the 25% tariffs on automobiles from other countries, because that would be awesome for U.S. automakers.

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So suddenly Trump switched the United Auto Workers. That's pretty good. He flipped them, at least the president, which is probably all you need to do. So those tariffs, how do you feel about tariffs today compared to how you felt just a few months ago? Does it feel to you like Trump has, first of all, educated us about what you can do with tariffs, but also that it looks like it's working?

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I think it's way too early to say it is working, but it looks like it is because we've got big companies that are already deciding to move their operations to the United States. That's what we wanted. We've seen some countries get flexible faster than you'd expect. That's what we wanted. We've seen other countries, you know, I guess April 2nd will be the real test.

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That's when a whole bunch of tariffs go into effect. But I feel like Trump's totally out of the box approach to the whole tariff situation, I feel like it's starting to come into focus again. And that even if he's not, let's say, technically right about everything that is true about tariffs, I feel like he's going to make it work because he's using it like a club and like a tool.

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And it looks like he is capable of doing exactly that. Just use it as a use it as a tool to get what he wants. We'll see. There's a report that Pete Hanks brought his wife to some sensitive meetings. I don't know how sensitive they were. But who brings their wife to a defense meeting in another country? Is that real? It doesn't seem real, does it?

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Hey, Scott, do you think there'll be so many robots that eventually one of them will be shoved up your ass? I would have said, hmm, you know, now that you make me think about it, I think yes. Well, it's here. Well, the U.S. Army, according to NextGenDefense.com, as a high-speed 3D-printed kamikaze drone. So now you can use 3D printing to make a drone. But they don't say which parts.

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I wonder if he did bring his wife, but it wasn't for something terribly sensitive. Maybe she was just in the area and it was sort of a just meeting people kind of meeting. But I'd hate to think that it was a highly secure, sensitive, classified information military meeting with other countries and he just brought his wife. So I'm going to say I have a little skepticism on that story.

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Doesn't sound perfectly right. Meanwhile, J.D. Vance is off in Greenland. He made his case that the people of... Here's what he said. I just like how good he is at summarizing and wording stuff. So J.D. Vance said in Greenland, yes, the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination. So that's good to say that first because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them.

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But we don't want to conquer them. We want them to say they think it's a good idea to join with the U.S. He says, we hope that they choose to partner with the U.S. Now he's calling it partnering. That's good. Good framing. Because we're the only nation on earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security. Now, that might be true. Well, Canada might, I suppose.

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But it's a good opening argument. But I don't think you're going to convince the Greenlandicers, the Greenlanders, the Greenlandicas. What are they called? I don't think you're going to convince the 56,000 locals unless you say directly you're going to make money. You will be richer if you do this. How much richer? Maybe 20 or 30 percent. And then you could probably get them in.

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So Denmark does do economic support for Greenland. Not totally, but they put a lot of money into it. All we'd have to do is say that we're going to do more than that or that we're going to do some kind of productive business with them, like do some mining and split the difference with them. I think you could bribe them. And when I say bribe, I don't mean in a bad way.

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I mean, they get something, we get something. But I don't think anything is going to cause Greenland to want to partner with the U.S. unless we can say directly and with some level of certainty that they're all going to make more money. So without that, I'm not expecting any self-determination to want to partner with us. They're going to want to make money in the real world.

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Well, remember that story about Doge found that billion-dollar annual expense that was only to make a dumb little survey that looked like a high school student made it, and it was used as one of the best examples of how easy it is to find fraud and how gigantic the fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses are? Everybody remember that story? It's from yesterday.

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Well, according to Jessica Tarlov, I saw her on The Five, It's not true. It's just not true that there's any billion-dollar expense for nothing but a survey. I think the organization exists and the funding is real, but that it's not just for that one thing, that it was for something larger. I think going forward, my take is that I'm not going to believe any of the claims of Doge.

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Because I feel like the Doge claims if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it. And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that. So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes?

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What was your first impression? Oh, my God, I can't believe it. Right. Oh, my God, I can't believe that that's happening. And what is usually true when you have that reaction to a story? What's usually true is that it's not true. Because the real world, as wacky as it is, probably isn't that wacky. that somebody was getting a billion dollars a year to do a survey that nobody wanted? Probably not.

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So I'm going to say that without knowing the details, I think Jessica Tarloff, she might be right on this one. So I'm not going to use any more doge anecdotes. I do have great confidence that they're doing all the right stuff and that they're finding real fraud and waste and abuse and that everything's moving in the right direction. but I'm just not going to believe any more anecdotes. I'm out.

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I can't imagine you can print the metallic parts. I mean, you can print metal, but I don't really think you can print the entire drone. Doesn't seem like it. But if you can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive. So it's all drones. You can have your 3D printed drone, which is great for terrorists. So if any of you are terrorists, 3D printed drone, it's coming.

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I've been fooled now. Is that the second or third time that I've said something in public about some anecdote and then turned down? Well, that's not exactly true. So no, I'm not going to fall for that again. Well, the Iranians, the military, posted, according to John Hayward of Breitbart, a video showing they have these vast underground missile cities.

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So gigantic underground facilities somewhere in a mountain or something that has just a gazillion high-end missiles. And apparently it's like the third time they've done a video to say, oh, yeah, if you come for us, we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you. And so they've done it before.

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But it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to America that they're willing to talk, but only indirectly. So Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything, but they're willing to have, oh, indirect talks. And that's the way they say it. They say, we'd be willing to negotiate indirectly.

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And I guess they're unwilling to talk directly as long as sanctions are on. So they've got a condition to even talk, which is drop the sanctions. And I can see why they would have that point of view. But I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this. I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything. I think they'd rather take a chance on getting bombed.

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So they didn't build all those missile city underground facilities because they want to give it away. I think they're in for the long term. So no, I don't expect anything to happen with Iran at all. All right, I remind you, because this is the end of my prepared notes, that Owen Gregorian's going to have a Spaces afterparty.

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So Spaces is the audio thing on X. So just look for either my account on X, where I've reposted the link, or go to Owen Gregorian's. Just search for him. You'll find him. You'll see the link to get into the Spaces. And that won't be right away, but just maybe a few minutes after I finish and I'm getting ready to wrap up.

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So, I'm going to say a few words to the locals subscribers first, but the rest of you, thanks for joining. Have a wonderful cat-er day, as we like to call it, if you have cats, or dog-er day if you have dogs, I guess. And I will see the rest of you tomorrow on X and Rumble and YouTube. Local supporters, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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And there's also going to be all these drone killers now. They've got all these anti-drones with missiles and stuff. So you can have drones fighting drones before they even get to us. Well, according to Variety, they had an idea for making movie theaters more inviting because I guess not enough people are going to movies. And their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. Extraordinary. So good. Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio-only service. And that'll be a few minutes after I'm done this morning.

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John Nolte at Breitbart's writing about this. And I have the following question. How high would you have to be in order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies. I've experimented with it at home and Personally, I can tell you that there's no level of... It's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked. I've experimented with it, so you don't have to.

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In theory, there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie, but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep. Snow White doesn't have a window. You can get as high as you want and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep. That's it. There's no window in which that movie is good. And I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies.

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So somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie. They think it's something about the movie theater experience. No, it's the movies. The movies are terrible. You can't get people in a theater for terrible stuff. But I like the thinking of variety. And I wonder how you can extend that.

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Because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it. Like, do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time? If I were not, I'd be, you know, how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids?

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You know, it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and get into the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids. And then when I stand there, I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be, yeah, I thought it would be big. It's very big. It's made out of rocks and very big ones, very big rocks. And it's shaped like a pyramid.

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And I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person. So I don't know how I'd have to be to see a pyramid, but I don't think it's possible. The New York Post, coincidentally, was talking about the same thing. And apparently there's some movie theaters that are experimenting with pickleball in the lobby.

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Can you think of a worse idea than having the sound of pickleball in the lobby of your movie theater? I assume there's only like one quart that they can fit in there. But pickleball is the most obnoxiously loud sound Sounding game. That's the last thing you want to see when you're going to a movie. Now, they're putting a bar in there.

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And some of them, they're experimenting with sing-alongs so that you can get over how bad the movie is. But because the sing-along would be the thing. And they're looking at live events like boxing matches and stuff like that. That's actually a good idea. And allowing texting. Allowing texting. Allowing texting. Have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman? Do all women text during movies?

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You tell me in the comments. Have you ever been to a movie with a woman, maybe below a certain age? Don't they all text during the movie? I've never seen an exception. No? Just the ones I know? All right. Well, I won't make that generalization. Maybe it's just the ones I know. Apparently, the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office.

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There's a new book that says they plan for what would happen if he died. Now, to me, that's not much of a story. because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan? I mean, it's like the military. The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them.

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So yeah, of course, they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office. So I think there's no controversy there. That's just them doing a good job, I think. Meanwhile, Secretary Rawlins was talking about how she's done a good job, she was on Fox Business, saying what a good job she did bringing down egg prices. So egg prices are way down.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, the best time you've ever had in your whole life. But if you'd like to take that up a level, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And she said that under Joe Biden, egg prices increased 237%, but we almost immediately saw the market react to their five-point plan. What was the five-point plan? Um, Part of it was getting eggs from other countries, so that seemed like a good idea. But as somebody said in the comments when I saw this on X, didn't we all know that egg prices were going to come down just about now?

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So if you want a little extra on a Saturday, and who doesn't want extra? You all want extra. That's where you'll get it. Let's see what else is going on. According to the Daily Mail, scientists have discovered that intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance, especially for older men. So intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance.

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Well, isn't that just, if you just figure out when all the chickens were killed because of the fear of bird flu or whatever it was, all you have to do is say, all right, how long does it take a chicken to grow? Until it can have its own eggs. And then you can just look on the calendar and say, well, looks like this would be the time that the egg prices have come down.

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And it would be around now, right? So one of the great things about being in power, whatever administration is in power. Whoever was going to be in power for the next four years was definitely going to see the egg prices go down. That was just a free pass. You just had to be in power and your egg prices would come down.

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Now, I do think that they were more active than just waiting for them to come down. But I do give them credit for that, the getting the eggs from Turkey and South Korea and wherever else. That seemed to have worked. So good job on that, Trump administration. So Trump administration is cracking down more on the colleges and universities doing DEI.

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Now they're looking at Stanford and some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA and UC Irvine. Apparently they still have alleged race-based admission practices. Do you think you could drive the DEI out of Berkeley? That would be the ultimate test. I feel like the Berkeleyites would die before they gave up on their entire woke agenda. So we'll see.

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And Pam Bondi, AG, says that the goal is clear to end illegal discrimination and to restore merit. So, good. And of course, you know, there was a lot of pressure on Columbia for, I think it was not just DEI, but making sure that they were not anti-Semitic in effect. And now the Columbia University interim president just stepped down.

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So the regular president stepped down, too much pressure, and now the interim president just stepped down. I'll tell you, being the president of Columbia doesn't seem like a good deal. Nobody wants the job. A lot of stepping down. All right. According to the state of Mississippi, they've got a plan to go to zero income tax in Mississippi. But you know what was left out of the story?

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How are they going to pay the bills if they get rid of the income tax? Now, it wasn't that high. It was like 4% compared to where I live. It's over 11%. But they're going to replace it according to Grok. So I don't know if you've had this experience yet, but I'm using Grok five times a day. And it's always the same. It's always about context. So a lot of the news stories lack context.

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So if I see a story that says Mississippi wants to get rid of its income tax, the first thing I look for is what are you going to replace it with? Because it's not like they're going to do without money. So according to Grok, they're going to replace it with a patchwork of higher gas taxes.

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sales taxes lottery something with more lotteries but some of it they hope will be through growth because once they're a zero income tax state they think they'll get a lot of businesses moving in. They might be right about that. So if your income tax is 4% and you think you can phase it out, maybe. It might be a really smart free market thing to do, to just bring in businesses that way.

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So we'll see. Good luck, Mississippi. Here's one of the least surprising stories of the day. According to Roger Stone, who knows a lot about the JFK assassination, because he wrote a book about it. So he's done a bunch of research, knows exactly what he's talking about. Joe Hoff is writing about this. So Stone says that he knows that there are some documents that have not been released yet.

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Now, coincidentally, I haven't had anything to eat in about 18 hours. So if I suddenly need to take a break, you'll know why. Because of science. According to Reichenman University, it's funny that they even tested this, a robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans. Meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans is the leader,

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because they're documents he's seen. So he knows they're not released. I don't know how he saw them, or maybe he just knows of them. So he said, for example, where is the full FBI document of Carlos Morsello, where he said that he knew of JFK's assassination before it occurred? He knew before it happened? That would certainly suggest something's up.

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So did you really expect that the JFK files would be complete? My prediction was if there was anything good in there, like really mind-blowing, that we'd never see it, but that we'd sort of move on because we'd think, okay, they should release a lot of stuff, nothing new, and then we would just act like somehow we'd been satisfied with the truth.

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of course there was no chance we would see all the documents so i'm i'm even surprised there are any documents that would be damning in any way so maybe that's already destroyed well interestingly for you business nerds elon musk announced that he merged his two companies the ai company called xai and that is acquired x the platform So it's an all stock transaction. It's more of a merger.

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at a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Which would you rather watch? Everything's bad or everything's good? I think there's a reason that Fox News is doing well. But secondly, once the dust settled, you could see that the Fox News pundits were largely correct in their predictions, that Trump had the better ideas and it looked like he was going to win.

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And then you would look at the MSNBC and CNN reporting and the pundits and you'd say, were all of them wrong? Or were they just, were they lying? Or were they all wrong? But you would certainly know by now that if you got your knowledge about the world from two of those sources, that two of those sources were completely wrong about everything. So maybe people noticed.

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Maybe that's why the ratings are down.

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And then I suppose we can load that up to locals as well. All right. Apparently some researchers are building an AI system to talk to animals. And why it matters is because it could aid human knowledge of our world. Okay. Okay. Talking to animals. That's good. But it could provide a compelling case for giving animals broader legal rights.

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Anyway, the Gateway Pundit says that the January 6th political prisoners are going to launch a $50 billion class action lawsuit against the Department of Justice. And here's one sentence from that report. Gateway Pundit is reporting on that. According to Federal Watchdog, the plaintiffs were, quote, hunted down like animals by the FBI for peacefully protesting. Hunted. Hmm. So...

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I'd like to point out, as often as possible, that in 2020, before the election, I said that if Biden won, Republicans would be hunted. Can I take a victory lap? I was mercifully mocked. But my post on that was taken and put into the media in a number of left-wing things just to laugh at it, just to laugh at me. They didn't say, they never said, here are the reasons why you might be wrong.

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They just mocked me for saying that Republicans would be hunted. And then they were. Not every Republican, obviously. That wouldn't have been possible. But if the January 6th prisoners actually won this class action, and I'm thinking they would have a low chance of winning because Are there any lawyers here who could weigh in on this?

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Are you a lawyer who could say, huh, I think they have a chance to get that? Or is it more of a sort of a Hail Mary? They're not really going to win that. What do you think? I don't know. But if they do win, they're going to get reparations. They're going to get reparations.

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And what happens to the black Americans who are looking for slavery reparations if 1,500 largely white Americans get paid reparations for January 6th? It's not going to make everybody happy. It would make me happy. I'd be very happy if they got what they asked for. I wouldn't want to pay for it. I guess I'd be the one paying for it as well as taxpayers. So I don't want to pay for it.

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But if you ask me, do they deserve compensation? I would say yes. Yes, I do. So the question of do they deserve compensation from the government? Hell yes. Just as much as the Japanese American citizens were rounded up under FDR.

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yes yes and yes i think that if several generations went by i probably would say i think you need to let that go so just so i'm being consistent there is some sometimes time matters yeah these people are in the you know the middle of their lives so i think reparations are appropriate So Elon Musk predicts that we'll have AGI sooner than other people.

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He said AGI is artificial general intelligence. What we have now is just AI that's sort of pattern recognition AI. The general intelligence would be smarter than people. And Elon said one could debate whether it'll be smarter than any human by the end of next year or if it'll take two or three years. but it won't be more than five.

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He obviously knows a lot more than I do and most of you do on AI and what's possible and what they're working on. But to the best of my knowledge, nobody has any kind of breakthrough or technology that would even put you on the path to AGI. So what I don't know is if you just kept doing the large language models and maybe you tweak it a little bit,

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do they ever get to the point where they're as good as AGI or is that a completely different architecture and chips and everything else? And nobody's invented it. So it's not like we're 1% of the way there because we don't even know how to get there. So, I'm not going to bet against Elon Musk on AI. Is that fair? But I also don't see any way that this is going to happen.

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And I'm trying to square this with what Naval predicts. that AI will never be smarter than collectively humans, I guess. I don't think I'm expressing his opinion quite right, but I'd love to know if they're on the same page. I guess that's a better way to say it.

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So do you want to live in that world where the animals can talk so they start pestering for broader rights? You know, it's bad enough that your job is being taken from somebody from another country. Do you want to lose your job to a ferret or a giraffe or something? No, much worse. We don't want our animals to talk. They'll be taking their jobs. I'm just joking.

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Because I've been, commonsensically, which means I don't have deep knowledge of the field, but commonsensically, I can't see how we'll get to computers being smarter than humans in ways that we care about. Certainly it'll know more and it'll operate faster and it'll find patterns faster. So it'll do all the things that computers can do faster than humans. So that's obvious.

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But we'll be able to reason. the way we do, because even humans can't agree what that would look like. In a few minutes, I'm going to talk about what happened with the debate about foreign workers. And the one thing you should take away from it is if AGI weighed into that argument, what would its opinion be? Just think about it.

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If AGI, this advanced general intelligence, artificial, if it weighed into that argument, which viewpoint would it take? And then if it took a viewpoint, would the people on the other side say, well, yeah, darn, I thought I had a good point. But now the artificial general intelligence, which is so much smarter than me, has told me that my views on this topic are wrong.

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So I guess I'll change my mind because the AGI is just so much smarter. In no world can that happen. In the human world, the people who are on the other side from whatever the AGI says will say, you better fix that AGI. And by the way, did you tweak that thing just to give you what you wanted? I don't even believe that's AGI. I think you've got your finger on the scale. I think AGI is fake.

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I don't even think it's real. I think you're saying it's AGI, but you're really telling it what to say so that you can blame the AGI instead of the people behind it who programmed it. You frauds. I want you all dead and in jail. That's how the real world works.

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But do you see some world in which AGI is going to wade into one of these important, important issues, and then we're all going to say, oh, yeah, well, I hadn't thought about it that way, but now that I see how much smarter you are, yeah.

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If you can watch the debate about engineers and engineering, and you see Elon Musk's view, far more complete than almost any of our views, definitely knows more than we do about not only the foreign worker situation, partly because he was one, and certainly knows about what their fate is and how soon before they're replaced by AI, etc.,

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If you disagree with Elon Musk, just think how different that would be if you were just disagreeing with AGI. It'd be the same. It'd be exactly the same. If you plop Elon Musk into the middle of a national debate in which he knows more than you do and he's way smarter than you, most of you, he's way smarter than me, right?

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If he's way smarter and he knows more than I do about the topic, shouldn't I just agree with him? If it were AGI, would I just say, oh, well, you know more than I do. I'll just agree with you. I don't think it works that way. If you can't trust somebody who is way smarter than you and way more well-informed, why would you ever trust AGI?

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So it might be technically possible that AGI could be way smarter than humans. We will never know it because we will argue that it must be flawed. Do any of you remember when GPS in your car was brand new and it would tell you to go somewhere and you would argue with it? That's the wrong way. Sometimes you were right. It would be like that.

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Anyway, let's talk about the big brouhaha, of which I think I caused a lot of it yesterday. I'll tell you all the things that I know to be true, and then I'm going to ask you some provocative questions so that you can think deeper about the subject of foreign workers in the United States. Now, let me just give you... Let me tell you how the news talked about it.

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So Kelly Risman, writing for The Independent, said that... hateful, unrepentant racists must be removed from a Republican party. Now, he did say that. The hateful, unrepentant racists must be removed. How would you remove anybody from a party that anybody can sign up for? So I don't know that that's not really a thing, is it? How would you remove anybody from your party?

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They're not going to take your jobs. But we'll talk about that other thing. So, yeah, I want that so I can talk to my dog. Meanwhile, according to CBS News, homelessness jumped 18% this year. And they say, the title says, it's driven mostly by lack of affordable housing. How do you think they'd know that? So they're quite confidently claiming that. that homeless is up 18%.

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I don't know what that means. But let me interpret it. I'm going to use my reading comprehension to sort out what it must mean. What it must mean is we should, we who are not in that small group, should not tolerate them or give them oxygen, I suppose. That seems fair. Then the report says that Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, chimed in. Chimed in?

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Why is it that everybody else is just giving their opinion, but I'm chiming in? Am I not to be taken seriously? I'm just a chimer-inner? Hey, can't I be more than that? So whenever I get introduced as the comic strip guy, and then they say I'm involved in any kind of important question, they always assume that I'm bringing only my cartooning experience to the question, and I chimed in.

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dope of being here today, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Oh, well, I thought it was Sunday until just recently. I've been told it's Saturday. Do we have agreement on that? Today's Saturday? All right, good, good. We're starting out with complete agreement.

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So chimed in. So Kelly Risman, don't appreciate that language. Anyway, not that it bothers me, really, one way or the other. It's just the word you wouldn't use for anybody else. I don't think you would say Elon Musk chimed in, right? You wouldn't say that. You would just say he had an opinion.

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And what I said was in a post, I said that, uh, that the MAGA Republicans are taking a page from Democrats on how to lose elections while feeling good about themselves. Um, which I did. And then, uh, Elon commented on that and he said, yes. And those contemptible fools must be removed from the Republican party root and stem those contemptible fools. Um,

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And then a lot of Republicans, or they might have been paid trolls, I can't tell, pretended that they heard what he said differently than what he said. So when he talked about those contemptible fools, a whole bunch of people said, he's calling everybody in MAGA a contemptible fool. Which, of course, he isn't. And anybody with an IQ over 80 knows it.

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But in these Internet fights, we always pretend... that if anybody says there are three people in your group who did something wrong, why are you saying every person in my group did something wrong? All right, so there should be a word, there should be like a label for that so that you could dismiss people who do that.

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Probably half of all the people who thought they were debating with me yesterday were pretending they couldn't tell the difference between saying some members of the group are unaligned, according to somebody's opinion, versus all members of the group are defective. How many of you thought that Elon Musk was talking about MAGA in general when he made any of his comments?

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Now, I know my audience is keyed in, and they know that he wasn't talking about it. But so many people just pretended. I think Laura Loomer might have been one of them. It was ridiculous. So that's also a Democrat thing. So Republicans are sort of taking a page out of the

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democrat playbook of you know losing but feeling good now what i mean by losing but feeling good is that the question there were i think at least three separate conversations and and people were conflating them so they could make irrational criticisms of other people so that would be me like saying oh you like you like sunny weather do you But you also like toasters.

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So, I mean, all right, never mind. So then when Elon Musk clarified in a follow-up post that when he said contemptible fools, he was referring to, quote, those in the Republican Party who are hateful, unrepentant racists. They will absolutely be the downfall of the Republican Party if they are not removed. Now, the first thing you need to know

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is that the conversation on X was just flooded with professional or organized trolls. The professional and organized trolls sometimes might be Democrats sending people to cause trouble, might be somebody in the Republican Party who's got something to prove. But they were obvious trolls, and they were the ones who were most racist.

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So the first thing you need to know is that a lot of the people pretending to be MAGA-oriented racists probably could have been fake. They could have been sent by somebody to make the MAGA people fight with each other and look bad. There are definitely... some members of the Republican mega world that some of us would call racist. That's obviously true.

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Now, that part they can really just count. It misses the people who are homeless but staying with a friend. But the actual outdoor homeless, they can just count it, and it's up by 18%. But then they go, it's mostly because of a lack of affordable housing. How do they know that? Do you believe that they did a survey of just the people who were added to the homeless

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And Democrats as well and independents as well. Basically every group in America. And no exceptions. Every group has its racism. So that's not the question. The question is whether the people we were seeing yesterday represented anything but trolls. And I don't know. I actually don't know if even one of the really negative comments that I got yesterday were real.

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But when I posted that people should be aware that a lot of what looks like disagreement online, it literally just paid trolls trying to make it look like there's disagreement online. Now, when I said that, I didn't have proof because I was just doing pattern recognition. And somebody asked me, how can you tell somebody who's a troll, Scott? I can tell, and I'm not going to tell you how in public.

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Because if I told you, they would change. Because it wouldn't be hard to not look like a troll. They just don't know that they're looking like trolls. So once you notice the pattern, you can go, oh, I see what's going on. So I noticed the pattern because I've been in this before. So in 2016, I was massively attacked by paid trolls.

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Later, we learned who paid them and that they were organized and that they did go after people like me. So it seemed like I was just maybe imagining it in 2016, but it was confirmed. It was exactly what I thought. And since then, there have been other waves of trolls, and now I recognize them. I go, oh, it's one of those. I got it.

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So to my comment that the trolls might be making it look like there's more of a disagreement than there is, Elon Musk weighed in. and said that, yes, they had detected massive organized trolls and that they were, quote, nuking them. All right, so let me talk to this guy in all caps. We are not fake. We are not racist. We want all immigration stoped. Stoped?

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And all these systems, stop pretending you don't know what is going on. Now, I'm going to use you as Exhibit A of the Idiots Online. Do you think that I have pretended that I don't understand that the H-1B system and the related systems are being gamed and that they're not giving us what we want?

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I say it out loud, and I say it often, but if you just saw one post that I made, and it didn't happen to have that topic included, you might say to yourself, why doesn't he understand that the real issue is that the current system is broken? Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can. I'm pretty sure everybody knows the current system is broken.

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I have not yet met one person who was unaware of that. It's not me. I'm not aware of that. I'm not unaware that the system is broken. It's the most common things people are saying. So when you were screaming at me in the comments in all caps, had you done some research to figure out what my opinion was? Or did you think that if I was talking about A, I'd never heard of B?

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Because sometimes you can talk about things without mentioning everything else in the world. Sometimes you can just talk about the thing that you're interested in, and other people can talk about the things they're interested in, and they might be related, but I don't really need to talk about everything when I talk about one thing. So let me talk about one thing and show you how this works.

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Here's some of the things that we know for sure, and then I'm going to tell you some things we don't know for sure. We know for sure that if you have a system and we don't, And we don't. We don't have a system. We do not have a system. But if we did, that could get us the top 0.01 engineers. And that's it. Just that. That we would be a much stronger country. We'd be safer. We'd have more money.

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to know that just the increase was mostly people who couldn't afford houses. Do you think they did that? No, I don't. I think they just wrote a headline that said, homelessness is way up and also rents are high. Yeah, it must be because the rents are high. It might be. But everything we've seen historically is that when you go to the same group of people and you say, hey, I got a deal for you.

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And the total number of 0.01 engineers that would enter the country would be so small. it would have no impact on the average person getting a job or anybody else because they would literally be filling positions that nobody could fill because you run out of the 0.01 top engineers pretty quickly.

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Now, that can be true as a universal statement that's common sense and obvious to everyone, that the top 0.01%, Now, if you're wondering how much of a difference that makes, I think 51% of the top billion-dollar startups were foreign-born people. So if you get the top people, they just nail it and kill it and everybody gets more jobs and the country gets stronger.

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We can pay for a stronger military and we're all safer. It's also true that if you look at the history of the United States, and by the way, if you want to jump in and yell at me, because I've not yet gotten to your pet point, just give me a minute. Just give me a minute. I'll try to hit your point. But if I talk about A, it doesn't mean I don't know B exists. Let's try to learn that.

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If you can learn that lesson, that would go a long way. Talking about A doesn't mean you don't care or don't know about B, okay? So A, in this case, is that if you could... find a system that only got you the top 0.01% of engineers, you would be the superpower forever and you'd be in good shape. B is do we have a system that can do that? Nope. No.

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Now, I'm no expert on it, so I'll take the word of all the people who seem to be close to it, who seem to agree on this point. Are you okay with that? Do you mind if I say... that if we could do it, it would be the best thing we could do. We do not have a mechanism that does it. In fact, it does the opposite and brings in lots of people who probably are competing with American jobs.

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So which part do you disagree with? Can both of those be true? So most of my conversation was because it was bugging me that people didn't understand how much horsepower a top 0.01% engineer can bring to a situation. I don't think people have a good understanding that the leverage in that is just off the charts. It's not like bringing in just people who are good at their job.

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That's a whole different conversation, right? So that's the first thing you need to know. And then Grumpy Dad showed me the messy thinking. So I want to just read his comments, and you'll see how the two things, the A and the B, get conflated into one thing, all right?

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So Grumpy Dad on X says, the first major misstep of what Scott would call the internet dads, and that would include me, the bring in the 1% and the H-1B fraud issue are the same. You can't make the meritocracy argument until there is a level playing field. They led to the wrong argument. OK, so the Internet dads, I was watching them operate all yesterday.

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Some of them were not fully informed on some of the issues as they as they weighed in. other people who were better informed, corrected them, added things. And then you watch people start modifying their opinions based on new information that we're getting, extra context. But the internet dads, basically the smart people on the internet who were not being paid for their opinion,

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which includes, let's call them the internet moms as well, or just men and women. But I don't think any of them are confused that there are two topics. When Grumpy Dad says they must be treated as one topic, I say that's just muddy thinking. It's muddy thinking. to say that you can't say it's a good idea to have the 0.01, and also it's a good idea to fix the broken system.

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To me, that's clean thinking. But if you say you have to treat it as one thing, I say, well, that's messy. I get what he's saying. I obviously understand it. He's saying basically the priority is to fix the H-1B. And I don't disagree with that. I'm not even in that conversation. If you think that's a priority, all right, we'll talk about that more, but I'm not disagreeing.

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I'm just saying they're separate conversations, but related, of course. And ironically, a lot of my critics yesterday weighed in, as Grumpy Dad did, to tell me that I don't understand that the goal and the system are different things. Now, those of you who have been with me for a while, just try to grasp the irony of that.

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We will subsidize your indoor living. You're now saved. You can leave the streets. You're not homeless anymore. We'll pay for it. And then they say, but do I have to follow your rules indoors? Well, I mean, you have to be like a regular person. Yeah. So I can't be smoking meth and doing fentanyl. Well, we'd rather you didn't do that. Well, then I think I'd rather just stay outside.

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I'm literally the most famous person in the world for saying that goals and systems are different and that the system is more important than the goal. And my critics said, I don't think you understand that the goal and the system are different in this case. No. I've written books on the goal and the system are different. I've also written books saying the system's the important thing.

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If you get the system right, well, then maybe your goal or something like it is likely to happen. If you're starting with a goal and you don't have a system, then you don't have anything. I'm literally world famous for that point of view. And all day long, people are saying, I don't think you understand that the goal and the system are different. Yes, I understand it. I get it. All right.

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So here's the things that I would say that nobody who is well-informed would disagree with. That if you could, and we can't in our current system, get the top engineers, we'd be better off. Is there anybody who thinks that that's not true? Does anybody want to argue just that point? I want to see in the comments. Is there a pushback to the question?

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If you could do it without affecting anything else and you had a way to get the top engineers, would we be better off? Now, there were a few people who said no. I think Jesse Kelly was one of them. So the second thing that happened in this debate is it was a reason for people who had old scores to settle to say bad things about their enemies.

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So Cat Turd came after me, and I think maybe Jesse Kelly said something dumb. And you'd have to know there's some bad blood there. Now, I consider both of those guys idiots. So if I can be blunt, Katzer is an idiot. He doesn't get things right. He got a whole Crenshaw thing wrong about his stock trading. No, about his donations.

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So he had like all the contacts wrong and he goes after Crenshaw and Crenshaw had to basically flame him on Christmas Day because he got everything wrong. Katzer is an idiot. He's very entertaining. So if you're watching it for the entertainment, yeah, why not? But he's not smart and his takes are not good.

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And Jesse Kelly argued that literally nobody should come into the country because it's like the Titanic is sinking. You know, why would you throw another glass of water in the Titanic? Now, you know what I say about analogies, right? You use an analogy when there's no argument. Nobody uses an analogy if they have a reason, like an argument with reason.

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So if you tell me that your argument is that Titanic can't handle a glass of water, I'm not going to take anything you say seriously. That's just an idiot. So taking care of the idiots on the Internet, that's sort of a side controversy. But so let's see. And then Elon said, more to confuse things, he said that we wouldn't be a great country without H-1B visas.

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and basically you wouldn't have people like him and a lot of the success we have. Now, did people say there, oh, wait a minute, Scott, I thought you were talking about the 0.01% of engineers. Now he's talking about H-1B visas, and that's like just workers in general mostly. So did I get that wrong? No. Again, reading comprehension is very important.

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When Elon says we wouldn't be a great country without H-1B visas, is he talking about the future or the past? That's the past. He's saying that the way we got here is with H-1B visas. Is he correct? Yeah. Yeah. He's correct in terms of the GDP and the big companies that got created and how we can fund our military. Is it true that Americans lost some jobs? because of the H-1B visas. I assume so.

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So the people who have mental problems and the people who are drug addicts, they're not outdoors because there is no way to be indoors, even if somebody else pays for it. They're outdoors because all things considered, they prefer it. So do you think CBS News simply guessed what their reason is? Or did they do a survey that they didn't mention in the article?

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I assume so. Here's what people who are not good at analysis often get wrong. What has been true up until now doesn't need to be true in the future, because things change. So I told you yesterday that my opinion of how many people should be let in with their valuable skills has changed since Biden's term. Before Biden, I would have said, hey, anybody who's additive, bring them in.

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And additive meaning they had some skill, they could pay their taxes, their kids would do well in school and become productive citizens. So to me, it seemed like business as usual. Let in anybody who can add and make sure you don't let in anybody who's going to be a drag on the system.

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But after watching 25 million illegal people come in recently and Biden opening the borders, I think the history no longer informs what you should do. At this point, given especially that MAGA had a very strong opinion about immigration and won, it wouldn't matter what my opinion was. So if my opinion was, yeah, we should just take everybody who looks like they could add,

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but MAGA won, and MAGA definitely doesn't want that because they don't want these people competing with American jobs, I would say, yeah, MAGA should get what they want because that's what winning is. That's the whole point. So it wouldn't matter even if I thought that. We're not living in the past.

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It can be true that the H-1B visas made us the strong country we are at the cost of some number of American jobs, which is important. But it's also true that we don't have to look to that to figure out what to do going forward. I think the safe thing is that we're always better with the .01 top engineers. Are we better off if we bring in an optometrist?

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The optometrist will just take the job from an American optometrist, maybe. I don't know. So it's a different question from what it used to be. And when Elon makes big comments about things, you're going to have to add your reading comprehension to know what he's really saying. All right. There's also the... Are there so many elements to this?

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The other thing you need to know is that this is probably a short-term conversation, because nearly all the jobs we're talking about in which a foreign worker would take an American job, those are all going to be gone in 18 months. So the job goes from the American to the Indian, and then the Indian job will go to the AI, guaranteed. So it's not like India permanently took the jobs.

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There was only 18 months left of those jobs. So we were at the end of the cycle for anybody who could have those kind of jobs that AI is going to easily take. So yeah, so you have to put it in context. It's still important, but it's important for maybe 18 months. We have a much bigger problem with AI than we do with foreign workers.

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And then in the middle of that is the fact that your ordinary, not top 0.01% engineers, your ordinary people, if they were white and they were male, they were being discriminated against and they didn't get any jobs.

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The other issue, which is obviously something I care about, and the other issue that people pointed out is that if you hire enough people from one demographic group and they get into management... that they start hiring only people in their own demographic group.

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Now, if they mentioned it, I didn't see it. So how could you make a claim like that without referencing how you came up with it? So they could be right. I just don't think that they did any research to know if they're right. As you know, Trump has asked the Supreme Court to delay the start of the TikTok ban. Do you remember when you said to me, not you, but people said to me,

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Now, the examples given were people had a bunch of Indian and Indian American people got into management, and then they noticed, hey, they're just hiring more Indian people now. Is that a real thing? I assume so, because that would be universally true. If you had a lot of black people in management, do you think that they would hire more black employees?

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than some other group probably probably normal if you had anybody of any demographic group in charge lgbtq you name it women let's say most of them were women in management do you think that they would hire more women than a group that didn't have mostly women in management it's it's not good it's discrimination but it's also universal

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So it's not just that the Indians are getting into management and squeezing out the white people. It's everybody who's in management is squeezing out everybody else except white males. White males try to squeeze out white males because that's how they get ahead. We get ahead by eating our own. Unfortunately, that's the only way we get ahead. So it's universally true. Anyway, anyway...

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Did you know that... Oh, and then we were also conflating the hiring of Indian workers and foreign workers in general with the issue of offshoring, which is separate. And, all right, so here's my questions for you. So my take on the H-1B visas and how to fix it, and how to fix the immigration in general, is that we need to get a team of somewhat independent economists

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who will tell us what's best for us and who the winners and losers would be with any given change to our immigration stature. So here are questions that I can't answer, and I have a background in economics, but I want to see if you can. If you can't answer these questions, Spoiler, you will not be able to answer these questions.

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But if you can't answer these questions, then consider the certainty with which you hold your opinion. Consider the certainty, all right? If you'd nail these questions, which you will not because they're impossible, then you should have a firm, confident opinion. But if you can't get them, maybe you should just say, I'm not so sure, all right? Question number one.

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Would we be better, America, under the current situation? We bring in foreign workers at lower wages, in many cases, than American workers. Lower wages. And subsequently, because the wages are lower, it helps the industries that are hiring them to be more successful. And then the stockholders of those companies have more money. And then they spend it.

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And because there's more money in the system, people can invest in new businesses and startups and create jobs. So if you bring in foreign workers, and before you get mad at me, this isn't the only question. So you'll get a question that you like in a moment. So low wages gives you more successful companies, which gives you a better economy.

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Better economy gives you a stronger military and protects the country. The cost of that, though, would be American workers would be displaced because they would be replaced by some number of low-cost foreign workers, but it wouldn't be everybody. It would be certain industries, certain kind of jobs. And then those people would be, by necessity, trained for other jobs. So that's one world.

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So the one world, I guess that would be the current world, right? So we bring in the low-cost foreign workers, gives the company some better chance to succeed, but it's at the cost of American workers. So that's one situation. Now compare that with the opposite situation. that we don't bring any low-cost employees in, and we just keep American workers.

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that TikTok should not be banned because of free speech. And I said, but China can manipulate it, so that's a big risk. Well, how big of a risk is it? Well, you know, two things to say. Number one, if Trump gets his way, I think a conservative group of investors will buy TikTok. Can you imagine a world...

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So what would that do to your costs for goods? It would increase them. So you'd have a job, but everything would cost more, and probably a lot more, because labor is a big part of everything. So you've got a job, but there's way more higher costs. Is that good for you or bad for you? It's good for you. It's way better to have a job than it is to have prices that are perfectly low like you like.

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You'd rather be employed. So if you're the worker who loses the job, it's definitely better for you to keep the job, even if it means that some prices are higher. But the prices are higher means that your companies will eventually go out of business. because if they're competing against international companies, they might hire the low-cost employees and then out-compete you.

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So if you protect the employees' profits, you probably cripple the business and in the long run go out of business. Now, is that better? So what I'm suggesting is, that even the top economists could not answer these questions. Is the country in general better off when there's pressure on employees who are not competitive in the world market have to leave and build skills to make them competitive?

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It's a dog-eat-dog, cruel, and I'm not recommending it, I'm just asking, is that better? The answer is, you can't tell. Because would you rather be an unemployed person in a vibrant, growing economy or an employed person in a constipated and dying economy? Which would you prefer? In the short run, you'd prefer to be employed.

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In the long run, you're way better off being unemployed in a vibrant, growing economy because you can learn some new skills and then jump into the vibrant economy and do better than you were doing before. So, to what degree do these abusive H-1B situations, which bring in these cheaper workers, to what degree do they hurt you in the short run?

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They're terrible in the short run because Americans lose jobs, and I don't like that. But do Americans lose jobs in the long run, or do they retool and get better jobs? Well, I would argue that America has been doing pretty substantial immigration since its founding. And while immigration has gone up pretty consistently, so have the number of jobs. Now, does that surprise you?

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So for every, well, maybe the depression was different or something, but generally speaking, immigration goes up And the economy in general goes up and the number of jobs go up at the same time. And that's not a coincidence because we're bringing in lots of people to add more vitality to the thing. So here's the thing.

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If you're a high-level economist and you're disagreeing with how I'm setting this up, well, you've got a good point because you're a high-level economist and I'm not. I just studied economics.

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If you're not an economist and you have a strong opinion which of those two things is better for America, not just the worker in the short run, we can all agree that in the short run the worker is just getting screwed. No argument about that. But does it put a productive pressure on the people who got screwed? Productive means they say, damn it, I guess I need a new skill.

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And they go out and learn a new skill and get a new job. I don't know. See, the point is that if I don't know, and I've studied a little bit of economics, if you studied no economics, you probably should be less confident than I am. I'm not confident that I know the answer to these questions. I can tell you where my bias would be, but I'm not confident I know the answer.

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in which X is owned by Musk, and hypothetically, TikTok gets bought by some American right-leaning entity. That would give the political right, or at least the reasonable middle, a lot of clout, it seems like, and it would reduce the risk of China manipulating it. But is there really a risk that China Good old China.

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If you're confident that you know America's better off if we don't bring in people who are additive, I don't know where you would get that because it's not in any data and it's not supported by any experts that I'm aware of. But it's a very common opinion. So here's what I think. Given that we don't know the answer to that question, there's a theoretical question, which is which way should we go?

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but i would argue that that question may have been answered because the voters said this is how we want it they said we don't want foreign workers um i still think we'd be smart to take the 0.01 engineers but if you say we don't want anybody else just those 0.01 engineers i would say you might be right you might be wrong but one thing i know for sure is that you had a process and you chose

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So you might be right, you might be wrong, but we are a country that allowed you to compete on this issue, and you won. You won. So if the way it goes is that we tighten up all immigration so there's no foreign workers, it raises prices in the United States, my prices go up, I'm okay with that, if you are. I mean, it's what you voted for. And I live in a country where I respect that.

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So even if I'm kind of leaning in the direction of, you know, I'm not so sure you're exactly right about this in the long run, I'd still say you earned your right to try it your way. Let me see if there's an analog. Let's see if this teaches us anything. Now, analogies, of course, don't make arguments, but let's see if it deepens your understanding. In your view...

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Are unions in the United States good or bad? Let's see in the comments. How many of you think that unions helped the United States and how many think it hurt? The answer is it depends. There are certainly industries such as telecom where there's a strong union and yet still strong profitability. So strong union, good wages, strong profitability, good for the country. Everybody wins, right?

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But are there other industries? Let's say the car industry. I know Musk has fought against some unionization. Others have too. Amazon, I think. Does every... Well, let me make this distinction. If you have a company that's almost a monopoly, like telecom is, because there's a limit to how much spectrum is available. So telecom companies are... kind of close to being monopolies.

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They own their spectrum and nobody else can use it, etc. So if you have huge margins, then you can afford to have strong unions and strong employees. Everybody wins. If you have small margins, such as what you might see in Amazon or let's say the grocery business, then it wouldn't take much of a union increase in increase in wages to put you out of business.

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So I would say that unions are good if you've got a giant margin and they're bad if you're so close to the margin that your entire company will go underwater if you pay people union wages. So it depends. And I think that's how you should look at the foreign workers thing too. There just have to be situations where everybody's better off, like an individual company or industry.

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Let's say agriculture. I do think it would be really hard to get Americans to fill some kinds of jobs. Are we better off if we just say, all right, let the foreign workers pick the fruit? They want to, we don't want to. So there are probably situations in which for pockets of the country, We'd rather have some foreign workers temporarily for some specific things.

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Is there really a risk that they would do some sneaky thing with an online thing? Come on. Come on. It's China. Has China ever done anything that would make you suspect, hmm, if they had some weapon they could use in the cyber world, would they use it? Of course not. There's no evidence whatsoever that China has any interest in bothering us with any cyber...

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And there are other places where guaranteed it's bad for American workers and we're not getting enough from it. So if you wanted to say, forget all that nuance. This country is for Americans. Well, that's what you got. You voted for that and you got it. I respect that. So I won't argue against it. I'll just tell you I don't know if economists would be on the same side. So one way or the other.

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Anyway, there's a... Did I cover all that? So here's just my summary of that. I did not see anybody online who disagreed with me. So I debated people angrily all day. I didn't see anybody disagree. I saw people who imagined I was talking about H-1B visas being great, which I didn't. and they were mad.

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I saw people who didn't understand that the 0.01% of top engineers wouldn't add enough to the country to make any difference to employment. But I didn't see anybody who said, I understand your argument, and I disagree. I didn't see it. The only ones I saw were the unrepentant racists who said, you can't add one more brown person to America.

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And I don't know how many of them were idiots and how many of them were trolls. I don't know. But on another topic, Climate Change Dispatch, Kenneth Richards is writing, there's a new study that since 2013, that all the warming comes from increased absorbed solar radiation, not CO2. So the idea here is that we've been looking at CO2 and it wasn't really the thing that was driving anything.

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Now, I don't know if that's true. because I can't look at a scientific study and know if it's true. What I do know is that when you read through it, just get a sense of the complexity in figuring out what the climate is doing. So I'm going to read you some words that I don't understand and you won't either. just to get a sense of the assumptions that go into climate models, right?

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So a new study published in Journal of Science contends that the decrease in cloud albedo, whatever the hell that is, and the consequent increase in ASR, whatever the hell that is, or absorbed solar radiation, oh, I guess that's what ASR is, blah, blah, blah, these numbers, blah, blah, blah, I don't understand,

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Decade, according to ERA 5, I don't know what it is, and Cirrus, I don't know what it is, respectively, explains the warming over the Earth's last decade. Anyway, the point is that the total number of assumptions that go into climate models is just through the roof. You can't have lots of assumptions and also complexity and also a model that's telling you what the future is.

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It is so far from something humans can accomplish. that someday we're going to laugh that we had all these climate models and we believed that they were telling us something. Now, I don't know what's true or not true about climate change. I do know the models are bullshit. That much I know for sure. All right.

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There's a study, a study finds says the hidden power of words, how language influences reality. So depending on the words you use to describe a thing, it will change how you react to it and what you see as your reality. I think they could have saved some money on that study because it's exactly what everybody already knows. You know, usually I say you should have just asked Scott.

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This is one of those studies where I think you could have asked anybody. A random stranger on the street, we're thinking of spending a bunch of money on a study, but I just want to see if maybe you know the answer. Do you think that the words you use to describe things change how people think about them?

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And the random person on the street, let's say he's a homeless person and he's deeply on drugs, pretty sure he does. Pretty sure he does. Really, you could have asked anybody. Nobody would have gotten that wrong. All right. Of course, we love to talk about this topic of how Democrats have more mental illness than Republicans, and by a lot.

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Wait, my next story is apparently China has penetrated all of our inter-telecommunications networks with a cyber attack called Salt Typhoon, and they just totally attacked our ninth U.S. telecom company. Hackers have access to your private text calls and even identified the owners of targeted devices. So... Yeah, apparently China has penetrated all of our American important infrastructure.

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Now, it's funny if you talk about politics, because then you can say, oh, the reason you disagree with me is that you have mental illness. Maybe that's some of it. But just imagine these two frames. If the only thing you knew about Democrats and Republicans was the following thing, which one would you predict would be sad and have mental problems?

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One group believes that identity politics means that your future is doomed to whatever your identity allows. And there'll be discrimination. Can't really do much about it because of your identity.

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versus the people who say that merit is what matters you can always learn new skills and try harder and you'll do fine so one group thinks that you're doomed because of your identity and the other group says nobody's doomed you just have to do the right things and it's obvious it will tell you what to do and everybody who succeeded did the same thing and if you just do what everybody does you'll probably be fine one of those is very optimistic you'll be fine

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The other one is doom. Oh, you were born in this ethnic group. Oh, I guess there's nothing that will ever go right for you. Oh, we'll have to change the law to make you survive. And then, of course, there's the, you know, looking at the world versus looking at yourself all the time. That also is a big factor in how sad or crazy you are. All right. What is racist about wanting a white country?

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Really? What is racist about wanting a white country? Did you actually write that? Here's what you mean to say. You didn't say it, but I'm going to interpret what you meant to say. Racism isn't always bad. See, that's what people don't want to say in public.

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If you're discriminating against somebody for their race or some immutable thing or religion or sexual preference for job offers or romance or friendship or club entry, that's all bad. I don't like any of that. But are there any situations in which race is a factor in a way that we all agree, oh, that makes sense? Yes. Yes. When it comes to large group relationships, Well, let me put it this way.

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This is my favorite example. If you're a young black family and you're trying to decide where to move, what city to move to, would you find it safer to move to a place that has at least a good solid, you know, 20% black population.

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So you'd find lots of people who are like you and, you know, would understand you and, you know, would be more likely to invite you to do something if you think that's how it works. Probably. Now, suppose I said, do you want to pick the city that is known to have the highest KKK population in it? And they're all white. Would you pick that? No, no. Would it be racist?

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Would it be racist to say, I don't want to live in that all-white place because there's a whole bunch of KKK people in there? Well, yes. It'd be a little racist. Would it be wrong? Would it be wrong for a black family not to live where there's 20% KKK? No. That would be completely reasonable. So we conflate individual discrimination against a person, which is probably bad all the time.

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It's not good for the person doing it or the person who gets it done to them, with any kind of group dynamics, which definitely make a difference. If you were a white person and you were looking for a job, would you apply to a company that had no white people in management? I wouldn't because it doesn't look like a good bet. But would that be racist? Yes, of course it would.

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You're making a decision based on race. So the first thing we have to learn to grow up is that racism against individuals is not the same topic as racism to protect yourself from statistical harm. It's just not the same conversation. Anyway, so I think what happened with the MAGA dust-up and Elon Musk and me should come out productive, right?

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If we are true to our beliefs, we will say, hey, that was a good fight. We all got smarter. How many of you learned something about the foreign worker debate that you didn't know until this week? I did. I learned some things. I wasn't wrong about anything. because there were things that I didn't know about that I didn't weigh in and have an opinion on.

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And then when I got informed, I said, oh, I agree with you. Once I was informed, I said I wasn't talking about that. I wasn't ever talking about H-1B. But if all the people who know about it say it's a problem going forward, I take that as information. I incorporate it. But I don't believe I've disagreed with anybody except...

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Let me say it again. China already controls all of our digital infrastructure, meaning that they can turn off anything in our country that's big and matters. All of it. And when I say they made these attacks... Your common sense is telling you, oh, they made an attack, and then we found it, and then we got rid of them.

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the people who say that adding one more brown person to the country, even if it's Einstein, Brown-Einstein, is bad. That's just not a sensible worldview. Tahoe says the election means no more. Okay, now did that comment address any useful thing? So let me ask the question. If you knew you could get the 0.01 engineers, would you say yes to them?

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If you knew that nobody else would come in, and I understand that's not the current situation. So let me ask the question in the comments. If you knew, and we don't know this, but hypothetically if we did, that you could limit it to just the top 0.01, and it's from everywhere, it's not just India, right? It's from everywhere. Would you say yes to that? How many would say no to that?

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Because I think if you say no to that, I mean, that's just pure racism, and it's not one that makes sense. I've even told you that, so we've got a no. So there's some people that say adding one Einstein who could change the economy and improve the world would be a mistake if he's brown. But so far only the jester has said that. Right. All right. So it looks like my audience is on the same page.

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So I'm trying to find, is there anything that anybody disagrees with me, except the question of whether or not it's bad to add even one extra person who's not American? It's still racism, even if it applies to Norwegians. Yeah, that's fair. Until what? So I think, here's what I think is the central lever on this conversation. Let me see if I can capture the feel of the room.

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The feel of the room is if you start talking about the 0.01 engineers, you think you're talking about that, but necessarily, because of our bad way we do everything, it opens the door to mass immigration that you didn't want. Is that correct? Have I captured all of your views that you should lead with our systems are broken?

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And then if you say, if we could fix them, it would be great if we brought in the .01. But if you start with bringing the .01, it looks like you skipped the more important question, which is, wait a minute, how are you bringing in that .01? Are you using the same broken system that will bring in a million people that we don't want?

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right so this is a problem with social media so if you see me comment on you know one element of an argument you might make assumptions about what else i'm believing but that's always dangerous so i think here's what i think bottom line i think this was all positive i think this was all positive i think that most of the racism that elon and i were responding to online

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most of it might be trolls and and the rest of it you know some small minority of people that you know are just something we have to deal with uh What's this? Then some people thought that Elon insulted all of MAGA, which never happened. So a lot of it is thinking that he said something he didn't say. In my case, thinking I said something I didn't say or believe something I didn't say.

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But when you look at what people actually said, I think we're basically on the same page. There's probably more complete agreement on this question than almost any question in America right now. But we pretended that It was something else. And what I feel from that was that the energy from that conversation was from the people who have the H-1B issues. And I think we all heard it.

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It's just whack-a-mole, but occasionally they'll get through, and then you get rid of them. No, that's not what happened. What happened is China burrowed into these companies, and they're there permanently, meaning we can't find them, and we can't get rid of them. They have permanent control over all of our important networks for everything. Why?

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So if you were in that conversation, you definitely heard, we don't like the H-1B. It's being abused. It's taking our jobs. Got it. Got it. I never disagreed. I wasn't up to speed. And when I wasn't, I didn't talk about it. but now I'm up to speed. Now, I saw somebody smart, I won't name names, say, oh, but the H-1B system is different from the system we use to bring in those 0.01 engineers.

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Now, they are different systems. But I'm also informed that all of the systems are abused. So if they're all abused, it doesn't matter that the top engineer system is a different system than H-1B. They both need to be changed. Now do the NFL thing. Well, the NFL, I think, is a pure meritocracy. Why are we complaining about that? We shouldn't be importing anyone.

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So you would be opposed to bringing in the person who could create the next billion-dollar unicorn and create 10,000 jobs for American workers because that one guy is taking nobody's job. See, Yeah, I think we all agree. Alright. Anything other than one system is corrupt. Well, maybe everything that reaches a certain size is corrupt. My take is that you can have non-corruption

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with really, really small things, such as two people getting married and not lying to each other. It can happen. But as soon as you get to something big, like the entire finance field, that's always corrupt. Healthcare, always corrupt. Big food, corrupt. Big pharma, corrupt. Big oil, corrupt. So when you reach a certain size, it's 100% problematic. There might be some exceptions.

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I'm thinking of something that would be like one of Elon Musk's companies. They may not be a totally corrupt organization. But generally speaking, everything big morphs into something bad. All right. So here's your bonus question for the day. Are you ready for this? What would be better for America, the American system, to have no restrictions, let's say no regulations, and total freedom?

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Or strong guardrails So that there's freedom, but it's freedom within the guardrails. Do you prefer a no guardrails, free for all, and that freedom gets you the best life for everybody? Or do you believe that the guardrails are necessary because there are too many bad elements in the world that would take advantage of them? So in the comments, I want to see you pick between these two.

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complete freedom, no guardrails, or freedom within guardrails? Which one do you prefer? Total freedom? Laissez-faire? Is that total freedom? Yeah. Well, I would argue this. The legal system puts lots of guardrails on what you can do within capitalism. Do you like having a legal system? Do you think capitalism would work if we didn't have a strong legal system?

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Well, Christopher Wray says that their cyber efforts are 50 to 1 bigger than us, and they're absolutely determined to own everything in the United States in terms of controlling our cyber infrastructure, and they've already done it. It's not a future risk. They already own us. Now, the part we don't know is their mutually assured destruction, meaning is America in all of China's important systems?

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Because the legal system is telling you what you can't do in the other system. It's a guardrail. Well, the answer is obvious. If you got rid of the justice system... it wouldn't matter what you were doing in the economy, it would fail. Because crime would just destroy trust, it would fail. So the guardrails of having laws, in my opinion, are essential.

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I'm not aware of any modern civilization that worked without a justice department. Are you? Is there anybody who succeeded within a justice department? Now, there would be the question of the guidelines and regulations. I suspect that some guidelines and regulations are additive, and some of them are negative, and Trump would like to get rid of the ones that are negative.

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But do you think that there are no rules that are worth pursuing? Let me give you one example. A bank is required to put their loan offer in the form of an APR. An APR is a calculation that banks have to do the same way.

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So when they say, we'll give you a loan for this rate and this starting thing in these phases, you can't really compare it to another loan that has a different down payment, a different fees, different starting point, different calculations. And so banks were using that confusion to make it look like they were giving you the good loan when it was just the bad loan.

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You couldn't tell the difference. And then the government said, no, no, you have to calculate it all the same way. And then you can know for sure which one will cost you more money between banks. Was that a good idea or a bad idea? Because it allowed you to trust your bank. And when it comes to banking, trust is the primary requirement. So there's some people who say no.

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I do not like the... All right, that's better. Let's fix that. All right, first of all, a minor announcement. I'm going to try to use, well, two things. I'm going to try to curse less in the coming year. I won't call it a resolution, but year end's a good time to start. And if I do, I'm going to use AI to remove the curse words.

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They'd rather not be informed. What about ingredient lists on food? Do you think food should be required to have ingredients listed? See, here's the problem. If you had a world where information flowed, let's say, efficiently, then information could do the job of these guardrails and laws and procedures. So if somehow I knew which bank was giving me the best loan, I wouldn't need an APR.

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But there is no way for me to know. There is no way. Because the incentive is for all banks to lie. If you took that away, all banks would lie. I worked for a bank. All banks would lie if they could get away with it. So I would say that the trust which makes the American system special, because remember, in human history, trusting strangers was the thing you didn't do.

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Our economy is based entirely, well, that's an exaggeration, it's based very much on the fact that we found a way to trust strangers. And the way we trust them is if you screw me, I'm going to sue you. And we've got this legal system that will take care of you. So we replaced trust with guardrails. If you didn't have trust, your economy would fall apart. There's no way around that.

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There's no low trust economy that's raging, I don't think. I don't think there ever will be. so if you look at the say the ayn rand view of the things your maximum freedom gives you maximum happiness you're looking at a technique that has never been tried anywhere and never can be successful because it would fail immediately now that's my opinion i don't think it's i don't think it's a coincidence

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that nobody has ever done a full freedom, high output, successful anything. It's never happened in the history of the world. All right. But generally speaking, we should lean toward freedom whenever it's a jump ball.

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Well, I hope so. I hope so. But I don't know. And I think the only thing that keeps us from a catastrophic, you know, total cyber crash that we can't recover from is that we do the same to China. because we would know it was them, so we'd pay them back. And they can't afford that. So it's mutually assured destruction.

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So I would agree with you that if you can't see the reason for the restriction or the obstacle to freedom, if you can't obviously see what the benefit is, and you can obviously see the benefit of a Department of Justice when it's working properly. It's very obvious. But if they say, I think you should all use these pronouns or something,

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you might say, it's not really obvious how that's making me better off. So that's a debate. I would lean toward freedom when it's just an opinion which way is better to go. But if it's just really obvious, like the Department of Justice, I'd rather have the guardrails. All right, that's all I got for you today. I'm going to go talk to the locals, people privately.

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I went on way too long, but it's Saturday. Okay. Remember Owen Gregorian will be doing a spaces after we're done. So I'll be, I'll be fast on the after show with locals. We'll let, we'll let Owen take it from there. I assume Owen will be up in live like fairly quickly on X in spaces right after we're done. So going privately to locals and I'll see you rumble and YouTube and X tomorrow. Same time.

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The cyber warfare has reached a level where the only thing that keeps you from doing the biggest of the attacks, where they really try to take down the network, the only thing keeping it from happening is that we do it to them. That's it. We don't have any defense against it. So there's that. China, of course, denies involvement. But here's what one expert said.

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Apparently, there's some new updated guidance from the Department of Homeland Security that just has one little scary line in it that says they discourage companies from using two-part authentication by text. You know when you're signing up for something and it says, we'll text your phone to make sure it's really you?

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The Department of Homeland Security says that's not safe because your text messages are being read by China. So two-party authentication is not safe. Now, that should tell you everything you know. If China can read all of your text messages and has some kind of control over your second-party authentication, they're into everything. There wouldn't be any exception, I don't think. So there's that.

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That's according to the AP News and Fox. Mexico built an app for the potential deportees in this country. So if you're a Mexican non-American citizen and you're at risk of being deported,

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Mexico wanted to give you an app so that as soon as you found out you were going to get arrested, if you knew in advance, you could push a button and it would warn at least your family, but it would warn other people. As the Amuse account on X points out, that might be one thing they didn't think about. Apparently this app gives the American government the ability to find all of the non-citizens.

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Because you can just figure out who has the app, and then you can figure out their location and just go pick them up. Now, I'm not sure I have the whole story. It might be that it's not that simple. But don't you believe our government could, with some legal authority, figure out where any kind of phone made by an American company, what the app is and what the GPS is?

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So I don't know that this is completely true. So there might be a little more to it that I don't know. But if it's true, it would be funny that the Mexican government created an app that the United States used to find all the illegal people. Anyway, Jonathan Turley points out that the media is, as he says, struggling to ignore the corruption of the Biden scandal by insisting there's no evidence.

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I saw this live when it happened, and I just shook my head. So Abby Phillip on CNN, who's a promoter of the fine people hoax, if you want to know who she is, if I tell you she's a big promoter of the fine people hoax, that's everything you need to know. But she said the other day, maybe yesterday, I'm still waiting to see the proof of Joe Biden enriching himself.

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I take it that his brothers and son perhaps made some money, blah, blah, blah. And Jonathan Turley's informing us that if you enrich your family members, that's still the crime family, right? If Joe Biden did something that made his brother and his son rich or just made money, that's still the same crime. It doesn't matter if he personally got it, but he also personally got it.

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If you ask me, this is the most well-documented series of events in America. We know exactly what Hunter Biden did. We know who Joe met with. We know when. We know the entire flow of money from, you know, let's say dark Chinese sources right through the shell accounts and right into Joe Biden's pocket. We know all of it.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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So YouTube will first, you know, it's live streaming, so any curses will be in there, but we can quickly replace them. There are several AI programs that you just run the video through and it takes out the curse words. So we're going to play with that. I don't know if that'll work. But in theory, you should be able to get a curse-free version of everything, at least on YouTube.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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The only reason that we're sort of ignoring it is that there are people like Abby Phillip who want to pretend that somehow there's nothing there. But they have to do that because they also pretended they couldn't tell that he had dementia.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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So imagine the situation with the fake news that they're just being beaten up like crazy, just getting beaten up for hiding the fact that Biden was obviously not mentally capable. And now they're also hiding the fact that the Biden crime family was not just a thing. It's the most well-documented thing we've ever seen ever. It's so well-documented.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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So if they have to admit that they intentionally ignored all the solid evidence of the Biden crime family, that's on top of ignoring the other massively obvious thing that he had, mental decline. So I can see why they dig in and not have a second thing. But how are they doing? Let's see. How are their ratings? Let's see.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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The AP reports, and the Gateway Pundit was talking about this, that MSNBC was down 54% from pre-election. CNN is down 45% from pre-election. So I think that's just telling you that people got all they needed from the election stuff. And then when the election was over, they had less interest, so they watched less news, right? That makes sense. You know, you're all interested before the election.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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That's when all the fighting over who's going to win. But then when it's over, well, it's just Christmas and moving on to other things. So it completely makes sense that temporarily, you know, temporarily, there'd be a little lull in their ratings, right? So while CNN was down 45% and MSNBC was down 54%, obviously over at Fox News, they would also be up 13%. Up 13%. Who's saying this? Oh, Neera?

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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Yeah. So people are mad at me because I agreed with somebody who had other opinions I don't agree with. Does that make sense? Is it okay if I agree with one thing and disagree with other things? Apparently that's not allowed, right? You have to just be in a team and you have to act stupid. So if I have to be stupid to be part of a team, I don't want to be on the team.

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Episode 2703 CWSA 12/28/24

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If I could be smart and be on the team, I'll do it, if it's a good team. All right, so I think that maybe the decline in MSNBC and CNN could be partly because they're negative, meaning that all they're talking about is the end of the world because Trump won. And if you go to Fox News, they're literally talking about the golden age and how everything's going to be fixed pretty soon.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But I saw a long opinion piece by Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who's a real-life economist who is anonymous. And he was making a point that you can see in its fullness. It's better expressed the way you wrote it. But I'll give you the summary.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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The summary is that AI will eventually destroy other sources of information because right now AI is able to read, you might say illegally in some cases, everything that's out there. So if you were going to look for some information, How long will it be before you say to yourself, well, I'm not going to go to Wikipedia or I'm not going to go to this source where I think that information will be.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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I'll just ask AI because AI has read everything. So once AI can answer every question about anything that's anywhere, which we're right on the verge of that being the case, why would those other sources continue to exist? Because who would spend their time updating them or visiting them? So the business model of normal sources of information should all disappear. And then what happens?

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Because the AI depends on all those other sources that it's continually scanning to stay update. What happens then? Is AI going to have to just use itself as its own source of information? So that's a pretty big question. But it reminded me of a question that I had because I do this, you know, this podcasting and I talk about the news. Have you noticed that podcasting and posting on Axe

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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has largely replaced your habit of looking at the real news, the traditional news. When was the last time you said to yourself, I think I've got to go look at CBS News, or I think I'll go to the AP or Reuters website and see what's new? When was the last time you did that? And I'm thinking to myself, you know, CNN's traffic and MSNBC's traffic are all going down.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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How would you like to sip your coffee, become less frail, and at the same time, cure your depression and all your mental problems while having a good time? I can't think of a better day. So someday, pray, please give me coffee with mushrooms in them. Please. Don't try to make your own at home. All right, importantly, there will be a Spaceless event after this podcast with Owen Gregorian hosting.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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At what point do the podcasters put in a business the thing that all the podcasters need to stay in business? So in other words, a lot of people say to me, the only place I hear news is on your podcast. I don't know how many people are in that category. But it used to be true for Jon Stewart when he did The Daily Show. Young people would say, it's the only place I get my news.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Other people might go to Bill Maher's show and say, yeah, I don't really pay attention to the news, but he catches me up on all the important stuff. It's okay when you've got this big, robust news industry and only a few people who are well-known talking about it. So if you've just got your Bill Maher's and your Jon Stewart's and Joe Rogan talking about the news, you're fine.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But what happens when all the podcasters are just talking about the news and then you say to yourself, as I've said to myself fairly recently, why would I ever go to a news site? Because I just go to X and I go to Mario Noffel's account and every single morning he's got a summary that he's picked from all the news sources and And the summary is usually all I care about.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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It's like, oh, Trump thinks he's close to a peace deal. Oh, there's this new invention. And it seems to me that we're on a path where all the original reporting will disappear because there won't be anybody going to look at it directly. They'll only be seeing it through somebody who essentially borrowed it for their own content, like I do. So what happens then?

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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I don't think we thought this through because we're, and that would include me. I'm in a completely self-immolating activity. You know, the more people watch something like this podcast to figure out what's new in the world and to try to understand it, the less they're going to watch the things that I use as my source of what to talk about. So isn't the whole thing going to fall apart?

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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It probably won't. You know, there'll be adjustments, etc. But it makes me wonder. Well, you probably heard that Susan Rice, Obama's right-hand woman for years, was on this committee, this Defense DoD Advisory Committee, and we couldn't understand why that would even exist.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So she didn't have authority to make decisions, but it gave her access to all the Department of Defense, Pentagon people to push her opinions. And once we realized that that existed, which surprised me, I was who knew that even existed that advisory committee, but, uh, I guess PXF just, uh, got rid of that committee. So didn't just get rid of the people. He just got rid of the committee.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And that sounds right. That feels like the right decision. Well, let's check in on all the races, starting with Harvard. I saw a post on X from Aaron Siberian, your perfect example. I'm not looking at the original news. I'm looking at the X post about the original news.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But apparently the Harvard Law Review has put in writing, so this isn't writing, this is not guessing or reading between the lines. They say it directly. They've made DEI the first priority of their admissions process, the process of deciding what articles to run in the Harvard Law Review. And they say they routinely kill or advance pieces based on the author's race.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And they look for articles that have racially diverse citations. And it's in writing recently. So it's not like something that was in writing a long time ago, but they changed it. This is their current method of deciding what to publish is based on your race. Now, this is mind boggling. So everything that you imagine about Harvard being a racist entity, it's apparently 100% true.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So they very much wanted their hiring to be race-based. They want their admissions to be race-based. And even who gets to publish in the Harvard Law Review, they say directly they want it to be race-based. So that's super racist. I don't know if Harvard will ever recover from this. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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You can find that on the X platform. Just go to Owen Gregorian's account. You'll find the link. Or you can go to mine because I repost it. So Spaceless after the show if you'd like to get a little extra. And who doesn't want extra? You all want extra. Come on. Well, here's another story about batteries that I like.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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According to Chuck Ross, who's writing for the Washington Free Beacon, there's a group called the National Black Justice Coalition. And they get money from big companies like Procter & Gamble and stuff. And I guess their mission would be to make things more equitable race-wise. So how are they doing? Let's see.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So I guess their leader is David Johns, who his past was he worked for Obama's White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. And he was talking at a recent event for this organization. Because they're pushing a boycott against Target because Target rolled back its DEI. So they want people to stop shopping there. Here are some of the things that this gentleman said.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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He lashed out this week. Again, this is Chuck Ross, the Washington Free Beacon. He lashed out this week against what he called white mediocrity. and urged a, quote, woke army of black youth to wage war with whiteness. That doesn't sound good. So Procter & Gamble is funding that and some other big companies. Well, thanks a lot, Procter & Gamble. And then he endorsed a boycott against Target.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And he said Trump was a fascist trying to rob us of our wealth. What wealth? I'm not sure what wealth is gonna rob there. And then he urged black consumers to shop at black-owned businesses and to reclaim African way of being. Okay, good luck with that. But here's my favorite part. This is something that Johns actually said in public, quote, We don't need nothing from white people.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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We don't need nothing from white people. They can't even make potato salad. Oh, that's too far. Oh, oh, now you've gone too far. Really? You're going to throw down on potato salad? Well, I think we should have a potato salad off. Let's see who can make better potato salad, black Americans or white Americans. Hispanic or Asian Americans, because I think this is where we should draw the line.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Oh, you can say white mediocrity if you like. You can say that you're forming an army of African-American young people to take back your wealth. Okay, that's just freedom of speech. But when you go after our potato salad, you bastards, you bastards, It's time to throw down. So I think we need to have a potato salad off and solve this once and for all.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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I'm not so confident that white people will win, but it would be funny. It would be funny to have a potato salad off. Anyway. So as you know, Harvard is racist and this organization is super racist. But at least AI is not racist. Am I right? Thank goodness if you asked AI a question, you're not going to get some kind of racist response from AI. Oh, wait.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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According to the rabbit hole account on X, who asked the following question, is affirmative action racist? Chat GPT said, no, affirmative action is not racist. And Grok said, oh yeah, it's totally racist. So I think I just decided which AI I'm going to use. I think I'm going to cancel my chat GPT right away because it's racist. And this is a pretty clear example.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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According to Wired, did you know that the grid-scale batteries, the gigantic batteries that they put in the network itself to store electricity when there is electricity so it's available when there's not, apparently the cost of that has dropped like crazy. And so with the costs going down, the number of batteries being added to the network is going crazy.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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If there's an AI that says that affirmative action is not racist... What else is it gonna tell me that's bullshit? Now, even the people who were in favor of affirmative action, and there was a time when I was in favor of it, when, you know, 40 years ago, I thought, well, it's bad for me, it's bad for white people. But maybe we need to level up a little bit. Not forever.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So it's the forever part that I object to completely at this point. It's like, come on. You had several decades. Maybe that's enough. But even if you're in favor of affirmative action, it's racist by definition. The entire point of it is to change the outcomes from one race to another. You can't get more racist than overtly saying race matters and we're going to change the outcomes of race.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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That's the ultimate. So Grok got that correct. And ChatGPT apparently is a racist and a liar. So that's not good. Well, in weird but tragic news, Epstein victim Virginia Jeffrey died of suicide yesterday. Now, because this is mostly just a tragedy story, I don't really want to play with the, oh, she did a suicide and Epstein did a suicide. So we're not sure if it's really suicide.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Was it really something else? Let's just let the family alone. So the family's got a tough time. So I'm just going to let the family deal with this. And I don't think this is part of a bigger conversation. It's just a tragedy from top to bottom. And it just got worse She had apparently been in a bad Some kind of auto accident and wasn't sure she would recover Maybe that's part of it.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Maybe it isn't but it's not really our business This is the family's business and let's keep it that way Al Gore was on Bill Maher's show last night and he was talking about his own efforts and back in his administration with Clinton, to reinvent the government. That's what it was called, reinventing government.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And he bragged how he used a scalpel, not a chainsaw, and they carved away for seven years, and that they were successful. They downsized the number of government employees, but He was bragging that they cut the fat and not the bone.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And so he thinks that maybe Doge was a little too aggressive, too fast, cut too deep, and he's not even sure they're going to save any money because even where they cut things, they may have to add them back. So he was negative on Doge, but was talking about the good work that he did. Now, I may have told you this before, But since he was on Bill Maher, I'll remind you.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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During the Clinton administration, the Dilbert comic was gigantically popular. So that was sort of the peak of its popularity. And Gore actually had a Dilbert comic in his office because it mentioned Dilbert.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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mentioned Al Gore and so he liked Dilbert and he invited me he invited me into his office one day because I happen to be in Washington and other business and he invited me in and asked me if I wanted to help him use the Dilbert comic to explain how well they were doing with their reinventing government now at the time

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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I was smart enough to say, oh, I can't do that because it will look like Dilbert's taking sides. And I was taking the Michael Jordan approach that Republicans buy shoes to. So I didn't want to I didn't want to get political with the comic. So I said no. But I also advised him against using humor. because it makes it look non-serious.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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I usually advise corporations not to use too much humor, unless it's like a TV commercial, that can work. But I wouldn't do it as part of your normal communication. If you're trying to communicate something serious, just this wrong vibe. But I did hook them up with the best expert I knew on how to simplify and have good communication, which they used.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So I was a helpful member of the effort to at least communicate what they did. That was my only part. And I just hooked them up with somebody who was good at it. So that was my little brush with that in those days. And I was fully in favor of it, by the way. I thought it was a good effort, and probably I think he should be proud of it. I think that he got some good stuff done.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So that's one of those really big stories that doesn't have a, there's no moment when it becomes a story because it's just a thing that's happening over time. But it's one of the biggest things because if we add batteries everywhere in our network, we would basically never lose electricity and we'd be able to have, you know, a lot more solar if you like solar and other stuff. So that's good news.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Well, Bill Maher, also talking to Gore, said, quote, the issue to me that is a central issue of our time is the peaceful transfer of power. Now, I've heard him say that before, and I've heard a lot of other people say, yeah, maybe Trump is doing some things that you like. Yeah, maybe he's got that 80-20 thing. Yeah, he closed the border, blah, blah, blah.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But the real thing, the thing which makes him completely unacceptable as a president is that he was not in favor of the peaceful transfer of power. Now, Of course, that's a narrative. The narrative that I understand is that there was a peaceful transfer of power and that there was really no chance that a bunch of people wandering through the Capitol could actually change the transfer of power.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So to me, it's just fake news. There was violence. There was maybe an effort to delay, but it was so small. you know, relative to what it would take to overcome a country, you know, change the government and don't have a peaceful transfer of power. It was such a small, even though there was violence, you know, the total scale of it was so small that it was a peaceful transfer of power.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But separate from that, I propose that we find out if 2020 was rigged or not. And I've got a method to do that. Wouldn't you like to know? Well, you've probably all seen the graph of how many Democrats voted in all our recent presidential elections. And you might be aware that it was always somewhere in the same level, except for one election. There was one election where it was way on the line.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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It was just way higher than normal. And then you say to yourself, but that's because Trump was running. When Trump's running, those Democrats are really going to come out. Except they didn't come out in 2024. So how do you explain that it was Trump who is now the worst Trump ever, according to the Democrats, because he had, according to them,

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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had denied a peaceful transfer of power, even though of course it happened exactly on time. So how could it be that 2020 was a gigantic turnout because they needed to defeat Trump, but they didn't show up when Trump was even worse in 2024? Here's how to find out if those votes were real. Do a poll.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So you do a poll, maybe you have a few different polling companies, but you say, just randomly ask people, which elections did you vote in? Did you vote in 2016? Did you vote in 2020? Did you vote in 2024? What do you think you'd get? I'm just guessing. but I'll bet you would not learn that a lot more people voted in 2020. Yet, that was our result.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Do you think it would be possible to have multiple national large-scale polls that showed that people did not do any extra voting in 2020, that it was kind of always in that 65 million or so range for all those years? Do you think we wouldn't be able to easily spot that 2020 was fake? If it was. If it was. Now, if the polling showed that, yeah, we voted in 2020 and it's the only time we voted.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And millions of people. If the polling showed me. that out of what is it, 15 million people or some large number of extra voters beyond the baseline, if the polling showed that there were in fact a whole bunch of extra voters who said they were extra voters and they did vote in 2020, then I would say, well, maybe I should shut the fuck up because that's actually pretty persuasive.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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According to the Daily Mail, some people believe that they've discovered a giant underwater UFO base just off the West Coast, off of Malibu. Now, if I were going to build a gigantic underwater UFO base, that's where I'd put it. I'd put it just off of Malibu. But apparently it's a big structure that you can see that's got a flat top.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But what if you do two or three of those major polls with the most respected polling companies, and you really do it big, and you make sure they're well-funded so nobody's complaining about anything, and then you compare three of them? They wouldn't work together. So you'd have maybe Rasmussen, because they tend to be a little friendlier to the Republican side of things.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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You'd make sure you had maybe two pollsters that tend to lean right, at least in terms of people's opinion, even if not in reality. You give me three major polls, and I will take that as true. Do you think we couldn't find out with polling? Does anybody think that wouldn't work? It would work. It would absolutely work.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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You couldn't do it if it's just Rasmussen, because then it would turn into, well, why would we trust Rasmussen? You'd have to do it with a few polling companies that both sides have some problems with, but have been doing it for a long time and have the weight to actually be able to do it. Yes or no? Let's throw down. I say let's find out. Let's find out if those votes were real.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And I'll say it again. If it turns out that all of the polls that check it find out that, yeah, indeed, there were major more voters in 2020... If that turns out to be true, based on polling, I'll shut up about it forever. I'll never even allege that maybe there was some problems with 2020. I'll be completely happy. But why don't we check? Let's find out for sure.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Now, how many of you are thinking to yourself, wait a minute, is it really that easy? I think it is. Well, it wouldn't be easy because it'd be pretty major effort, but it would be well within the normal things that polling companies do. So why not? Who's up for a challenge? Who's up for finding out if we've been gaslit for years? Does anybody want to know the truth?

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Pretty sure we can find out the truth. That's my suggestion. Well, as you know, nobody is above the law, which turned out to be, we've got a little test case. So I forget the details because it doesn't matter, but there was a judge who had an illegal immigrant in the courthouse. And I guess ICE was waiting to arrest the illegal immigrant when the court was done.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But the judge suggested, allegedly, suggested that the illegal immigrant use a non-standard exit to avoid ICE. Now, that's illegal to help an illegal get away with being illegal. And so... It looks like the Trump administration arrested the judge. So the judge got arrested somewhat publicly in the parking lot for aiding and abetting the escape of an immigrant who didn't escape, by the way.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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They managed to catch it anyway. Now, I don't have all the details of that, but that's the basic idea. But Andrew Weissman, who you might all know as a TV Democrat lawyer, There's a video of him talking about when Trump was arrested and law fared. He kept saying, nobody's above the law. Nobody's above the law.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And then when the judge gets arrested for what is clearly a violation of the law, I mean, I think even even the supporters of the judge would say, OK, that was illegal. But as Wiseman said, it violates a norm. So arresting a judge violates a norm. So when it was Trump who was getting law fared, no one's above the law, no one's above the law.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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But when a Democrat leaning judge gets arrested for obviously breaking the law, well, it looks like Trump is violating a norm. So if you ever wondered if the TV lawyers are just liars, well, there you go. Not all of them, not every one of them, but obviously just a liar. So I would say his credibility is gone forever. Let's look into Democrats eating other Democrats.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And it's hard to understand how underwater there would be a gigantic flat top to anything. So maybe. And apparently it's a, associated with a lot of UFO spottings. So they think, yes. And I guess it's called Sycamore Knoll, and it's a natural underwater structure. Some say it's natural, but some say it's a garage for UFOs. Doesn't it feel like they could just go down there and look at it?

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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The Washington Free Beacon noticed this on MSNBC. I didn't say the name of the speaker, but they had a guest on who was a black man, which matters to the story. And the MSNBC guest was scolding AOC and Bernie for what he called a shockingly non-diverse crowd at their event in Los Angeles. And the MSNBC guest said that the Dems are going to lose midterms unless they have young brown people.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Well, it could be that the brown people were practicing their potato salad. Possibly. I mean, it could be some salad-related thing. But I had noticed the same thing when I saw images of the crowd. It was really super white for the party that seemed to be all about diversity.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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And I don't know if it's because oligarch doesn't activate the black and brown community and that white people like to pretend they know what that word means. So maybe they go... I don't know. I have no idea why. But it is... I noticed it too. So I'm going to agree with the guest whose name I wish I could tell you because he's completely right.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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If the Democrats keep doing gigantic events and there are no black or brown people in the audience, I'm pretty sure their own base of black and brown people are going to notice that. How could they not? So it could be that AOC and Bernie are working against their own interests without necessarily even knowing it.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Well, according to Victoria Ballera in Fox News, there's a new Fox News poll that says Democrats' favorability hit a new low. It hasn't been that low since, I don't know, a long time. And for the first time in a decade, it was that low. But at the same time that Democrat favorability hit a new low, the Democrats are also advantaged in... in the midterms.

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So if you look at a generic Democrat versus a generic Republican, according to a Fox News poll, the Democrats have an advantage. Now, it's normal for the party that's out of power to have an advantage in the midterm. So that's the most normal thing. But I feel like I've seen polls that said it was the opposite. So I think we need a poll off, besides having a potato salad off.

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We need a poll off to find out, because I would swear we just saw some polls that said that the generic Republican was beating the generic Democrat. Did that change recently? It might have, because of tariffs. It might have changed. So I guess I have a question about that. UC Berkeley... One of my degrees was at UC Berkeley.

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I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip. And damn it, it's going to happen right now. Go. Oh, that's good stuff. So good. Well, I wonder if there's any new news about the benefits of coffee. Oh, yeah, there is.

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I, of course, disavowed them for being racist, but UC Berkeley is in trouble because apparently they were involved with a Chinese-funded joint research process in which China put $240 million into it, a joint tech venture. that's been running for years, and apparently UC Berkeley did not disclose that to the government, which is now a requirement. So I guess they got in trouble.

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So a quarter of a billion dollars came from China to UC Berkeley. Do you think that would affect UC Berkeley's anything? Well, it might. Do you think it would be transferring valuable technology to China that they couldn't get any other way? Well, they're paying for something. What is it you think they're paying for? If they could do this research themselves, wouldn't they do it?

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They wouldn't pay a quarter of a billion dollars to an American entity if they could do it themselves. So you see Berkeley, racist and possibly traitorous. I disavow my degree, and I'm going to pretend I never went to college at all. Anyway, so Breitbart, that was a Breitbart story, by the way, the UC Berkeley one. According to CNET, Apple is close to shifting all of its iPhone assembly to India.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, and maybe robots, too. But if you think you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a tine, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.

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Is it really impossible to... send some divers down off the coast of Malibu. It feels like it wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to check out, but I'd rather they don't check it out because I like to think that there's a gigantic UFO base just off my coast. Well, I saw a post by Mike Cernovich who says that I guess he's spent enough time in D.C. recently that And he says that D.C.

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So because Apple would have a big problem with tariffs if they leave everything to be assembled in China, they're moving all of the assembly that would be sold to America, not the stuff that would be sold to around the world. So China will still assemble iPhones, but only the ones that are going to be sold to non-United States markets. And apparently Apple was with other companies.

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A lot of companies were already moving to India for a variety of reasons because China is hard to do business with or risky. But Apple may be able to do its entire line of iPhones for the U.S., which would be about 60 million devices a year, they might be able to do every bit of it from India by the end of 2026.

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Now, when we were talking about tariffs causing companies to move their production facilities, we generally thought they couldn't do it very quickly. But here's one of those special cases where they'd prepared for years, I guess, they'd been training companies Indian employees and building facilities in India. They're just speeding it up a little bit.

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So it was already going to happen, but they're going to speed it up. So that's a big deal. According to the New York Post, a major shipping container company, Hapag Lloyd, you know, Hapag Lloyd, the major shipping company, you all know it. Um, said its customers have canceled 30% of their orders from China to the US. And of course, that's because of tariffs. 30% of their orders for containers.

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New York Post is reporting on that. But there's been a massive increase in demand for shipments from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, but that's not big enough to compensate. So the amount that got canceled in China from China to the United States is still way more than the big increase from these smaller countries to the United States.

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So it's not going to solve any problems that the smaller countries are increasing. Well, there was a long opinion post by Bill Ackman on X, which is sort of redundant, because if I say it's a Bill Ackman post, if you follow him, you know it's always too long. He has the biggest opinion pieces in posts. But they all make sense, and he's very smart. And I think he's right on point on this.

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He says that in terms of the tariffs, time is not on China's side. Now, the popular opinion differs from his, but I think he's got the right take on this. So the popular opinion is that China, because they're more of a totalitarian situation, they'll be able to weather the tariff situation better. Now, that is true. Maybe. We don't know that for sure.

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But it looks like it might be true in terms of just, you know, the next several months. So if there are several months of delay, they might be able to, you know, avoid a recession or depression or something. Maybe a little bit better than us. Maybe. Even that's not for sure. But here's Bill Ackman's point.

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The longer the tariffs persist, the more rapidly every company that has a supply chain based in China is relocating it to India, Vietnam, Mexico, the US or some other country. Now that's what Apple's doing. And that's what a number of other companies are doing too. So he says this, here's the money shot.

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There's no board of directors or management team who will ever again feel comfortable relying on China for a major portion of their supply chain. The damage has been done. So every week that the CEO of a major company says to themselves, wow, China is risky, it becomes something that seemed like it might be temporary to something that looks like it's a permanent extra risk. Because it is.

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Do you remember in 2018, I promised you, and it seemed weird when I said it, that I was going to make sure that people understood that China was unsafe for a business. How many of you remember that? And I said, you know, my motivation was my stepson had an overdose of fentanyl. And so I thought, you know, it's time that people understood that China is not safe for business in the long run.

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has been cleaned up and somewhat quickly since the beginning of the Trump administration. He says D.C. is so clean now, looks like it's supposed to. It looks like civilization. Trump and his acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin have already transformed it almost completely overnight. So that would be another situation where you just needed somebody to try and

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And I started saying it as often as possible. And I don't know if I made any difference. But nobody said to me in 2018, I think you have a good point. Pretty much 100% of the smart people said, Scott, that train has already left the station. People feel comfortable doing business in China. China is so well-developed. They're so good at manufacturing. It's a well-oiled machine.

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Of course people are going to keep doing their manufacturing in China, and there will just be more of it forever. And I said, we'll see. Because I'm going to say China is unsafe for a business. And right now, Bill Ackman is saying in a very clear and well-argued point that China is unsafe for a business and that that's not going to change. And he's right.

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And so, if you're thinking that Trump has shit the bed, screwed the pooch, and made the biggest mistake of any idiot who ever did anything with his tariffs, I would look at Bill Ackman's opinion. Because I do think that the longer they go, the more permanent the damage is to China, and the more permanent

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the safety is for the United States as things move into either safer allied countries or get onshore in America. So time is on Trump's side. Even though we might take a hit, you know, we might get a little recession hit. We might have some shortages over the summer. That's all real. But still,

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the long term, the actual survival of China as a manufacturing place that you could trust, that is completely in play. And China probably knows it. And so what Ackman predicts, and I think this is a good prediction, is that both the U.S. and China are going to realize that they're better off if they say something like, let's pause this

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this reciprocal tariff thing for 180 days and work out a real lasting agreement. And if they do that, then we might come up with a better agreement than we've had. But when we're done, China will still be unsafe for a business. And the United States will still be the United States. the biggest market that anybody ever had. So probably there's going to be something like a mutually agreed pause.

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And as Ackman accurately also points out, that probably the only reason it hasn't happened so far, the pause, is that both leaders want to make sure they don't look like the weak one. So what does it mean to not look like the weak one?

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Well, number one, if one side has made some big pronouncement about we'll never back down, well, you can't be on the other side and back down within a week of the other side saying that. If Trump says we're going to win no matter what, you can't expect she to say, oh, in that case, we'll back down. You can't expect that.

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So there's something about the timing of who's insulted who and how badly and how long you have to wait before you can say, you know, maybe now's the time we should, you know, get serious and stop attacking each other. So we might be just days away because you've seen that You've seen that Trump has softened his approach to China, just like you'd want.

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You've seen that China seems to be saying they're not negotiating, but at the same time, it looks like they're negotiating, which suggests that they're probably not too far from saying something like, well, now that we've established mutual respect, we can at least put a pause on this and talk it out.

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There's no way to solve our southern border. Well, how about somebody tries? Oh, it worked. There's no way to clean up D.C. How about if Trump tries? And success. So I guess it took a non-Democrat force to get D.C. cleaned up. That's good news. The Department of Justice, this is according to the Postmillennial, there's reporting on this.

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So we might be surprisingly close to something that looks like at least a pause on the worst possibilities with a opening to improve our situation massively at the expense of China. Because I don't know that China could ever recover from the risk that they've just shown the world. So we'll see. You know what's weird?

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Here's two stories that shouldn't be happening at the same time that's related to this. According to The Hill, consumer sentiment falls to its lowest level since post-pandemic inflation peak. So consumer sentiment would affect how much you spend. So if consumer sentiment is low, it would suggest that American spending and consumption should also be lower.

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But the Wall Street Journal is reporting on exactly the same day that spending is up. So the US consumer market is just so well trained to consume that people are just buying a little extra just in case they run out later. They're moving up some of their expenses that they probably wanted to do later. But they're like, well, if I do it now, I could beat the tariffs. So spending is actually up.

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How would you like to be China and you're in this tariff war with the United States? And then you hear, ah, consumer sentiment in the U.S. is down. Good. They'll be buying less stuff and this will drive them into a recession. And then you hear that spending is up. Spending's up. That's like some of the best news you could ever hear. It fits well with the Bill Ackman theory that the U.S.

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is probably in better shape to weather the long run than China. Spending's up. Now, I'm not sure that it will be up next month. Maybe a month from now, everything looks different. But the fact that it's up at all in the context of a tariff war That's pretty amazing. And I would say unexpected. I wouldn't have guessed that at all. But pretty amazing. Here's something else that's amazing.

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And this also goes to the Adams Law of Slow Moving Disasters. So when you heard that the U.S. was going to negotiate, what, I don't know, 160 different tariffs with different countries, and if you know anything about international trade or how complicated a tariff agreement would be, you say to yourself, that's going to take a thousand years, right?

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But that's assuming that we don't get smarter and we don't become more efficient and we don't figure out how to do trade deals with less friction. Well, guess what? According to the Wall Street Journal, US officials are creating a new template that sets common terms for many of the talks. Oh my God, that's good. I'll tell you, if nothing big happens over the weekend,

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This alone should make the stock market very happy. Right. I'm not predicting it will go up because lots could happen. That's beyond this. But if nothing happened beyond this, if you learned that the US has figured out how to make a template so that we could go to every country and we would say basically, you know, these are the things we're going to talk about.

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Tariffs, quotas, non-tariff barriers. regulations on U.S. goods, digital trade, rules of origin for products and economic security. And you could just see the list. You go, oh, okay. So this is the template. So basically it's a fill in the blank that you negotiate over. That is a big freaking deal. Because if we start rolling up one deal after another, because the template makes it easier,

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Trump wins. Trump wins. This is the sort of process improvement that's exactly what we needed. But I'm not done. According to the Swiss Confederation president, Karen Keller Sutter, she said on Thursday that the U.S. is planning what she calls, quote, privileged trade negotiations with 15 countries. In other words, they would have their own sort of faster or improved process.

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The Department of Justice has decided to stop funding for research. And I know this will disappoint you, but there won't be any more Department of Justice research on, quote, toxic masculinity or structural racism. Now, that's kind of a problem for somebody like me. Because if they're not doing any more research on toxic masculinity or structural racism, how will I know how bad I am?

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So that's in addition, or maybe even with a template, I don't know. But if the 15 most important countries that are also our allies and are playing well, so that would be Japan, South Korea, because they stepped up right away, good allies. That would be Vietnam. That would be presumably Europe if they wanted to get something done quickly, which they do. So imagine this is true.

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Imagine that the U.S. has figured out that they want to fast track the best 15 because if they can get the best 15 done, like the ones that matter that are not China, it's everything but China. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Trump might be on the cusp. And I say cusp that would last maybe a few months. He might be on the cusp of one of the greatest victories we've ever seen.

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And he would be pulling it from the deepest well of despair and apparent stupidity, according to all of his critics. This could be one of the biggest wins of all time. I mean, it would be legend if he pulls this off. And when you see this stuff, you see that they're not just going for the goal. The goal is to have better agreements, right? They're fixing the system.

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That's what I'm trying to tell you. They're fixing the system for how you negotiate these deals. If they fix the system and then they start rolling them out, oh, my God. Oh, my freaking God. That would be the most amazing thing. Anyway, speaking of other countries, Gavin Newsom, governor of California,

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he's softened up quite a bit on the energy and gas and oil situation because the refineries are pulling out of California or gases twice as much as other places. And he's turning Republican as fast as a man can turn Republican without actually saying those words. And he's talking about the burdensome regulations in California and how that has to be softened.

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And he says it's essential that refiners continue to see the value in serving the California market. So he wants to make California a place that somebody wants to do business in. And that means softening regulations, which is a Trump system. Trump's system is get rid of the regulations. Everything will take care of itself. So... That's very Trumpian. Let's talk about peace deals.

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According to the Daily Wire, Trump's team is in Moscow, and some say getting close to a deal, or as Trump says, quote, very close to a peace deal, and he's calling for them to finish it off. Well, at the same time, Trump says that Ukraine might be close to the mineral deal for the rare earth minerals with the U.S.

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I've been saying I'm not sure that will ever happen, but Trump thinks it might happen. And he met with, I guess, the Pope's funeralist today, and Trump met with Zelensky briefly. And of course, it was productive, which doesn't tell us anything. But I did see that there was one report that there was a new variable that got introduced into the Ukraine-Russia conversation.

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And how many times have I told you, if you have a negotiation where you just can't seem to get anything accomplished, that sometimes you have to introduce a new variable. Now, one of the new variables is the Ukraine mineral deal. But I don't really think that would be enough to give Ukraine a feeling of safety.

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It might give them a feeling of, well, we could make some money and we'll have a little more ties to the U.S. economy, and that would give us a little bit of safety, but not really much. But I did hear, and I don't know if this is confirmed yet, that the U.S. was proposing that

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I would just be guessing. I'd be like, huh. Well, I think my toxic masculinity is probably an 8 out of 10, so I'm kind of an asshole. And my structural racism is, well, through the roof. But I'd just be guessing. I like the old way where they would do deep research so I would know just exactly how bad I am. But I guess guessing is all we have left now.

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the United States be in charge of some pipeline from Russia that goes through Ukraine, and it might be more than one pipeline, that goes from Russia through Ukraine to Europe. And that part of the deal would be that would get turned on, and that Europe could decide if they wanted to buy Russian gas at market values or not. Now, if that's true, now we're talking.

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Now, that is a good variable to throw in there because Russia would not trust Ukraine. Ukraine would not trust Russia. Europe would not trust Russia to not turn off the gas. So if Europe has options so they could buy more from the U.S., they've probably looked into other sources, etc., but they also have the option

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of a, let's say, a reformed Russia that's no longer at war that would sell it to them at market rates. Maybe they'd like that. But imagine having America in charge of the pipeline itself because Ukraine couldn't protect it. And if we're protecting that pipeline, we're giving Putin a fairly large incentive to just do business, because then he gets a business benefit out of Ukraine.

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He's dealing with the US that he probably feels he can negotiate better with because we're more about business. And that might be a way to close the deal. There might be more to it, but I've been negative on the deal because I said that neither Ukraine or Russia seems serious enough about peace.

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But this new variable where we're doing some mining in Ukraine, but on top of that, we might be managing the flow of energy from Russia. That might be enough. That might be enough. So I'm going to cautiously upgrade the odds of a peace deal from no fucking way, which is where I was a week ago, to, huh. So that's my new opinion. Huh. Maybe. Could be.

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Anyway, here's another one where I'd be a little surprised, but apparently Iran is acting like they want a deal in which they would not make nuclear weapons, but the details of that we don't have an agreement on. But Trump has kind of goosed the situation by saying that the U.S. would lead an attack against Iran, quote, very willingly if talks fail. Breitbart's reporting that.

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Now, that's probably the kind of pressure that's helpful because you want Iran to think, we better hurry up and we better make a deal because we don't want to get attacked. Because they must be very aware that the only reason that Israel hasn't attacked them yet is that Trump is holding them off. Probably the only reason.

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So if Trump says, yeah, if you don't make a deal, we're very willing not only to let it happen, but to help the attack, I think that could help the negotiations. But here's an idea of what the Wall Street Journal describes as a possible deal. And not there yet, but it looks like it might be doable. And again, I said last week it didn't look doable. But here's some new variables introduced.

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So I guess the conversations are happening in Oman, where the U.S. and Iranian negotiators are trying to knock it out. And one of the key things is that Iran wants to be able to, wants to be able to, what is it, refine? What's the word they use there? They want to be able to, I want to use the right words, enrich their own uranium for domestic use. Now, if you enrich uranium up to a medium level,

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then you could use it for all kinds of things like health care and other domestic benefits. If you enrich it to a further level, then you could very easily turn it into a nuclear weapon. Now, one of the claims here is that Iran has already enriched enough uranium that if they decided to build a nuclear weapon, it might be only a few months away.

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And that the only reason that hasn't happened is that the leadership of Iran has ordered that they don't do it. Now, had you ever heard that before? Had you ever heard that the only reason they don't have one, because they could have one in a month or two, the only reason they don't is they decided not to, because presumably it'd be too big of a risk. So that's interesting.

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You might remember the story of recently James O'Keefe and his OMG group got a secret video recording of a Pentagon branch chief who was saying that he was going to try as hard as possible to resist doing anything that Trump wanted. So he was basically a Trump resistor who was sort of on the Trump payroll in the sense that it's the Trump administration.

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To me, that's a little bit new. because I thought it was more like we wouldn't know if they were doing it or not. So maybe we do know. So the idea would be, so Marco Rubio has proposed, I guess, that the enriched uranium would not be enriched... by Iran, but rather they could just get it from other sources. And then they wouldn't have to worry about it being further enriched.

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And there would be inspections to make sure that they weren't building a nuclear weapon. And that would be the deal. But Iran is saying that they don't want to give up the right to enrich their own uranium. Now, is that a tell?

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If Iran is that close to a deal that would avoid their own country being destroyed in a bombing craze, that the only thing they're holding on to is that they want the right to enrich uranium for peaceful domestic reasons? When we've offered that they can have all the uranium they want, they just have to get it from other sources? Does that sound like they really don't want nuclear weapons?

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Or does that sound like they sort of do want nuclear weapons and they don't want to give it up? Well, I guess part of the deal is that Russia is being talked about as the maybe keeper of the uranium or the source of the uranium. And I feel like if Iran had more than one source for uranium, maybe they'd feel more comfortable. If they really don't want a nuclear weapon.

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That part's the big question. Because they might be just jerking us around and all they're doing is stalling. It's possible. It could be they're just stalling. Anyway. But Tehran is... allegedly, according to the Wall Street Journal, is planning to detail the status of its nuclear facilities and tell the U.S. and I guess the world exactly where everything is and how much they have.

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Do you believe that? Because if they were willing to just completely go transparent about their nuclear everything, that would sort of suggest that they don't want to build a nuclear weapon. So I'm getting mixed messages here. Could go either way. And so Iran has been considering options to store nuclear material under Russian supervision. And then I also didn't know this.

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Apparently Britain, France, and Germany are threatening to reimpose sanctions if Tehran doesn't come up with a deal. And I thought to myself, wait a minute. Are you saying that Britain, France, and Germany don't already have sanctions on Iran? I guess they don't.

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So things could get a lot worse for Iran because we've got sanctions on them, but these other countries that are major countries don't, and they might. So I don't know. I guess I'm going to upgrade the odds of a workable Iranian nuclear deal from no way, which was last week's opinion, from no way, they're just stalling, to maybe. I wouldn't predict it, but it's solidly in the maybe category.

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because we're at least getting mixed messages. All right, that's all I got for you today. As I said, Owen Gregorian will have a Spaces event on X that will begin very soon after I'm done here.

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So I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers, but we'll keep it short so that if you want to run over and join the spaces with Owen Gregorian on X, that's the audio only thing, and they'll talk about maybe some of these topics and some others. But thank you for joining. Hope you enjoyed it.

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And Owen, you can take over from here, but let me just say a few words to the locals people privately. The rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining. I'll see you tomorrow.

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And as soon as I saw that video, I said to myself, how long is he going to be employed? Can you actually say out loud that you're going to resist what your boss wants and stay employed? Well, the answer is he's already out. So I don't know if he showed himself the door or somebody else did, but he's gone. He's gone.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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So, you know, the issue about members of Congress who are allowed to do insider trading. And apparently some of them are making some good money on it. But it's specifically legal, but only for members of Congress. So Trump has just announced that he would sign a ban, if anybody gave him that legislation. He would sign a ban on congressional stock trading. Now, let me see.

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Does that fall into Trump's usual model? Yes. Do you think that 80% of the country would agree with Trump that they should not have the ability to do insider trading? Yes. Do you think that 20% would be batshit crazy and they'd be in favor of Congress doing insider trading? Of course. So what side do you think Democrats will take?

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I swear to God, this just gets funnier and funnier, this 2080 stuff. So I assume, I haven't heard yet, but one assumes that Hakeem Jeffries and AOC and Bernie Sanders will go all in saying that Congress should be able to do insider trading. Do you know it would end insider trading forever? If Democrats just start doing it wildly. Now, that would be funny.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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From the European Journal of Who Cares, habitual coffee consumption is associated with a lower odds of frailty later in life. How many of you are frail because you didn't have enough coffee? Well, sometimes it takes two cups before you're no longer frail. But in other news, according to ZME Science, did you know that magic mushrooms The use is soaring in the United States.

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Can you imagine if there's some new issue, I don't know, with war or solving war tariffs or something, where all the members of Congress know the new news, but just to be funny, the Republicans massively invest in it. And then they make a fortune. And then they say, hey, you know what? This insider trading is pretty good. We're going to do some more.

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And then the next time something comes up, the Republicans just go all in, like they just go in hard and they make another like billion dollars. And then all the Democrats look at him and go, hey, hey, you can't do that. And I'd be like, can't we? I'm pretty sure that you're in favor of this. I believe that you are protesting in favor of allowing this exact thing.

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So why don't you go protest for my right to keep doing this? All it would take is for Republicans to be making more money from it than Democrats, and it would get banned. That's all it would take. Well, I just found out that Las Vegas will soon be testing another autonomous vehicle, cab. Apparently there's a company that's backed by Jeff Bezos and some other investors that called Zoox, Z-O-O-X.

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And I guess they've got a self-driving cab that they plan to be testing in Las Vegas very soon. Now, I don't know how many self-driving cab companies there will be, but boy, I'd be really worried if I were Uber. Do you think Uber is going to have to buy one of them? Maybe Uber will have to make an offer for Waymo or Zoox or something. I don't know. But Uber's got some problems ahead.

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Episode 2821 CWSA 04/26/25

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Speaking of automobiles and speaking of Jeff Bezos, there's a lot of publicity today for a truck, an electric truck that's also being backed by a Jeff Bezos startup. And this little truck comes with just only the basics so that they can price it at about $20,000. So it's just a two-seater truck. It's not very big. It's more like a Toyota.

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And the windows are just hand-cranked and there's no entertainment system. but you could add it. So it's being made like, I think they called it a Mr. Potato Head. So you can get the basic, and it'd be like $20,000, which would be amazing. But then you could add a stereo if you wanted, and you could add a video screen if you want, and you could add some other stuff. Now, here's the thing, though.

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I looked at the pictures of it, and it totally activated my lizard brain. You know, if you're male, and maybe this applies to some women as well, the company is called Slate. When I looked at the truck, I just had this feeling in my body, and it was like, oh, oh. I just want it. I want it, like, really badly. Now, if you're male, you've probably often had the, you know,

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the experience of seeing a truck and saying, oh, I wouldn't mind owning that truck. It's just a male thing. We like tools. We like trucks. And there's a neighbor in my neighborhood that whenever I would walk past his property, he would always have a two-seater truck that had only the basics, it looked like, parked in front of his house. And it was just gray, and it was just really basic.

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And I would always say to myself, that is exactly what I want. Because I don't want to spend $100,000 on a truck that I would barely use. But if I had a $20,000 truck, I would be making runs to the landfill to throw things away. And I'd let people borrow it. And I'd throw my e-bike in the back. I can think of all kinds of reasons if I had an extra vehicle.

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$20,000?

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You know, if you had room to park it. So I guess what impressed me about it was that somehow they built this thing so its look, its price, and its features just hit my lizard brain perfectly. And I'd be so curious how many other people had the same experience. It made me just go, oh, I want that. So we'll see where that goes.

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Apparently in every age group, people are using magic mushrooms to cure their mental problems and maybe just have a good time and get rid of their anxiety and their depression, and it's all working. And it makes me wonder, what if they made magic mushroom coffee? Huh? Huh? Huh? You hear me?

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Speaking of automobiles, famous investor TV guy James Cramer recently said, I'm putting my chips on Elon Musk. Now here he's talking about driverless cars. He goes, I don't think Waymo scales the way people think. And what did Elon Musk do when he heard that one of the most famous investors in the world was going to back his product?

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Well, he said he needs to... So Elon posted the next, that the inverse Kramer is tough karma to overcome, meaning that If Kramer says something's good, there's sort of a running joke that he's always wrong. So Elon is worried because Kramer just said that his product is the good one. He's like, oh my God, the inverse Kramer is tough karma to overcome.

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And then Elon says in the post, I'm calling weekend reviews with autopilot to accelerate progress. Yes. Not only does he call him out for always being wrong, but he tells him he's going to have to double down on his efforts to try to overcome the Kramer curse. Now, that's just funny. That's just funny. I do think Musk is underappreciated for how funny he is. I saw he posted this on X.

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And then I'm going to be like, whoa, now you got something. So here's my role. I'm going to keep pushing on this. Because if you got cancer, you really need to know if this is real. Like, really, really, really. And if it isn't real, I think it's a service if you know what the real odds are. You know, being realistic about the odds and knowing what to do and what not to bother with.

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Because no matter how well the sound works, there's always somebody it's not working for because their own phone is in some mode or something. So I can never tell for sure if the trolls were real or not.

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So let me give you a standard by which I would check. In my opinion, so this next part is an assumption, but I think it's a good one, that it's so well known to anybody who has this specific cancer, prostate cancer, pretty much, I would guess, close to 100% of them would be aware that people have claimed cures with ivermectin and or fenbenazole.

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I don't think anybody in America who has a social media account and at least one friend would be completely unaware that there are these claims of complete miraculous cures for the very thing they have that can't be cured without pretty bad side effects in any other way. And if it metastasizes, then there's no cure at all. So you're talking about the most incentivized people

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who are going to look for under every rock to find out what works. Now, let's do the math. So let's say, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of people being diagnosed every year with this exact cancer. Almost every one of them will find out how much ivermectin somebody else took and what result they got.

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And if they believe it, which almost all of them will say, almost all of them will say, wait, you're telling me the side effects are minimal to nothing. And there are people who look like they're telling the truth, like this doctor, he looks like he's telling the truth. And they say it works. Why wouldn't you try it? Right?

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If you're asking me what's rational in a risk reward world, I would think almost half of them are trying it by now. So my guess is you've got hundreds of thousands of people who are just sucking down the ivermectin and fentabenzol, and probably have for the last six months or so. Now, keep in mind that the claimed cures happen in one to three months of being on the, so just one to three months.

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But one of the subscribers on Locals, I won't say his full name just in case he doesn't want me to, but created a graphic that shows that I can very quickly see that the audio and the video are working. And I think he's looking at multiple platforms at the same time. Now, I didn't ask him to do that. It's just it really needed to be done. So he had the capability. So he just did it.

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So by now, we should have a base of something like, if I had to guess, maybe one third of all the prostate cancers in America are Probably one-third of them have taken fenben or ivermectin or both. So if it's as effective as claimed, and the claim is not that it's 20% better than what you're doing, the claim is that it just gets rid of it.

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So if 100,000 people got rid of an incurable cancer, wouldn't every oncologist know it? Because every one of them would have five patients apiece just in a year that had been cured. Now, am I doing the numbers wrong? Tell me where am I? Yeah, I'm aware of Dr. Mackus. I've looked into all the claims. And they're all the same.

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It doesn't match the doctor with the medical record with the patient and somebody who can ask them some smart questions. And then I'll take it to the next level.

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If it worked, hundreds of thousands would be using it, and certainly almost every oncologist would say, oh, my God, I don't have a randomized controlled trial, but in my practice, I saw three to five things that I've never seen in my life. So there's something going on, right? But I don't think you're going to hear that, so you have to ask why. Here's the second one.

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Episode 2731 CWSA 01/25/25

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If it works as well as the few doctors say, and again, under the assumption that probably 100,000 people are taking it by now, just in case, wouldn't the mortality for this specific cancer be dropping through the roof? Now, some of them are metastasized, so you can tell if they died or didn't die. But you might have to wait a few years.

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Maybe that's, it might be three to five years before you knew for sure. But we should see that the death rate for this specific cancer just falls off a table. Because I'm pretty sure there's every single patient has heard about this and doesn't think it's a bad thing to at least give it a shot. Now, don't take any medical advice from me. This is the most important thing I'll say.

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Do not take medical advice from me. So what I'm engaged in is trying to figure out what is true. I'm not engaged in telling you what's true. I'm engaged in trying to figure out what's true, because if this is true, I'm going to be its biggest supporter. I mean, I will make sure the whole freaking country knows this works, if it works. But you're going to have to get over this little hump

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to show me that either all oncologists have noticed, because they would, every single one would have noticed by now in their own patients, or the death rate falls off a table and we don't have any other explanation for it, or we can get at least three doctor couples with their patient and with the records. You give me any of those three pieces of evidence and I'll be the biggest proponent for it.

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Episode 2731 CWSA 01/25/25

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But I'm going to push hard against it being credible until I see something that's credible. So that I think is a value that I can provide. We'll see. And again, it's because I'm simply capable of doing it. If I weren't capable of doing it, I wouldn't step in. If somebody else were doing what I just did, I wouldn't do it. I'm just saying there's a hole here. I can fill that. So I jump in.

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Do you think this is safe? This isn't safe. Do you know how much shit I get over this topic? A lot. But I waded into the shit knowing it's going to be up at least to my chin because I can do it and I can handle that. So I know I can handle it, so I can do it for you. Anyway, too much of that.

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Nicole, as I've said before, but it's funny every time it happens, when I wake up in the morning, there are always some MSNBC clips going around that people are commenting on. What is the one thing they all have in common? They're being treated as comedy and nobody's adding anything to it. In other words, it's simply just showing what they said and nothing needs to be added to make it funny.

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and and so all morning long i'll be looking at these msnbc clips with no commentary either and just like that's funny oh wow they're so silly now cnn's not like that you know when i watch cnn it's usually because oh i disagree with that or something like that uh or maybe i'm challenging whether they got the story right but i'm not really laughing at it msnbc is literally just a

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And it's the sort of thing that you see in the Trump administration where somebody has a good idea and they can find somebody who can find somebody who can find somebody who knows the president. And next thing you know, the president hears the idea. And if it's a good one, he says, that's a good idea. And the world changes. It's the damnedest thing. It's only a Trump thing.

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just for the laughs. It doesn't seem to have any other purpose. Anyway, so MSNBC's Nicole Wallace, she had a segment on tips for navigating political anxiety. Steve Guest was posting this on X. Now, here's what she said, Nicole Wallace. Our job is to hold up a mirror and to cover the story.

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But I think having done a Trump presidency once, I think it does create a lot of anxiety among a lot of our viewers. And I think some of these tools and just being mindful about it without being woo-woo feels really important. Is there anything missing in this story, like the part where MSNBC acknowledges that all of this anxiety that their audience is feeling is caused by MSNBC?

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Did Trump do anything this week that would make anybody feel anything except happy and optimistic? Not really. The reason that the MSNBC audience has severe mental health problems, including half of their hosts, is the way they cover it. It's not Trump. And so here's a perfect example. Did Steve Guess need to put some commentary on this? Not really. You can just read it and laugh at it.

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Because looking at them not understand... how anything works is really the description of the worst part of the Democrat Party. They're the ones who don't understand cause and effect, literally don't understand that they cause this and what they're watching is their own effect. Don't get it. Don't get that incentives matter. Never. They never understand that incentives matter.

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No cause and effect understanding whatsoever. Anyway, Tom Elliott on X was sending another MSNBC clip around. Same thing. So Al Sharpton was on there saying that enforcing immigration law is racist. That's it. That's the whole story. The reason Trump won... is that even Democrats finally said, okay, yeah, this open border thing is totally not working.

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And the best that MSNBC could come up with is Al Sharpton, who basically only has one thing he says, that's racist. And they put that on the air, and they're like, yeah, that was a good segment. I wonder if they could have one of the Watergate guys come on, Bernstein or the other one, and say it's worse than Watergate.

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If you have somebody whose only thing they ever say is it's racist, do you have to have them on? They have that other guy who's got the mushroom hair, and he's also like Al Sharpton. They bring him on just to say everything's racist. If that's all they do, and it is all they do, why do you watch it except to think it's funny that they call everything racist? Now it's just funny.

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So the more he calls things racist, the harder I laugh. Meanwhile, on CNN, where things are actually, they are, at least management, is fighting to find a middle ground so that their audience can trust them again. And in many ways that are important, they are actually finding the middle ground. And one of them is Harry Enten, their data guy.

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And once again, I mention him a lot, but he was glowing about Trump's recent approval level. So if you compare the approved versus the disapproved for each person, Trump was negative three in 2017, meaning more people disapproved than approved. And he is currently at plus six, a nine-point swing.

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But I've sort of accidentally recreated it by having low production standards. But there are a number of other examples I won't get into in which people are just doing add-ons. They're saying, you know, this show would be a little bit better if you had this going for you. And then somebody will just do it. It's really quite amazing. So after the show today, Owen Gregorian...

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Now, the data guy, Harry Anton, was pretty excited about a nine-point swing because you don't really see nine-point swings anywhere. on things that people understand really well. You know, maybe if they learn something new, but this is still Trump. He was Trump then, he's Trump now. I would argue he's doing a much better job after the practice term.

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You know, the first one's like the practice term. So he is doing a better job and people are noticing. So I like that. And good for CNN for finding the middle sometimes. They have some work to do. I think they know exactly where that work has to be done. But at least when they show the data, they're not making up stuff to make Trump look bad if the data says it looks good.

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Stephen A. Smith and Bill Maher, two people that have been for a long time associated with, let's say, the Democrat side. are definitely softening on Trump. So Stephen A. Miller was on Real Time with Bill Maher last night, and he made a big deal saying about how the reason that Trump is more popular than ever is that he's keeping his promises.

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That he ran saying, I would do these hundred things, and he's just all over the hundred things. He's doing what he said he would do. And

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for especially for men i think i don't know if it hits the same with women because there's definitely a gender difference to this so maybe the women can tell me but for men if you say you're going to do something that's even really hard and then you put your your total shoulder into it and like you're really leaning on it hard and you're pounding almost don't matter if it succeeds

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Because that's the person you want on your team. Even before it works, and you don't even know if it's going to work in every possible way. Yeah. Watching him risk his life, go from the bottom of the swamp to the top of the hill, is some of the most inspirational male energy I've ever seen in my life. I mean, it is American- in the way that we want it to be, not the way it usually is.

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It is masculine. It is corrective. It is common sense. It's kind of everything men like. So I certainly understand why the men like it. So I can't speak for the female view on this, but doing what you said you would do, I just feel like that means more to men. Is that sexist? because I'm willing to be talked out of that. So maybe you can correct me on that if you think so.

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Episode 2731 CWSA 01/25/25

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But anyway, even when Bill Maher criticizes Trump now, the criticisms are either some generic thing, like I don't like the guy, or he might be too something something. But I don't even think Bill Maher is calling him a fascist, because that would be dumb. And I don't think Bill Maher is saying that he's going to steal your democracy.

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He seems to be spending almost all of his time telling the people on his side, stop saying stupid shit. You'll never win like that. And here again, we've got a country with a big need. Here's what the big need is. Come together. There's not a thing we can fix unless we find some unity. And I know there's competing opinions about Bill Maher and Stephen A. Smith, but I'll give you mine.

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I think Bill Maher says there's a giant hole that nobody's filling, which is a reasonable Democrat who can sort of bridge that total divide that the media has created artificially. Somebody who can say, okay, can you just settle down? This part

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uh, is going to host a spaces after party. So spaces is the audio, audio only thing on, uh, X. So you have to be the next user and it'll be after the show. And, uh, People simply wanted a little extra, and they wanted it in a different form. So somebody made it. In this case, it was Owen.

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you can not like you know let's let's say abortion this part you could not like that's perfectly reasonable that's a difference of opinion but the common sense stuff stop arguing against common sense you'll never win and honestly i think we're all better off if our if our two parties are a little bit competitive at the moment it looks like republicans could just roll over all comers for a while.

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And that makes me a little nervous, even as much as I back that side. I don't want one side to have too much power that works against our interests. So when Bill Maher says there's this giant hole for somebody to take the arrows in their back by taking a bold stand and saying, okay, my own team is being ridiculous. You'll never win like this. Shape up. I say,

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That's exactly what the country is doing. That's male energy, finding a need, realizing that he's going to get his ass kicked. This is the important part. Bill Maher has said it, and obviously it's obvious, that being a little bit open to at least Trump's performance, if not his character, is hugely destructive to his income, his reputation, probably even his personal life.

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And he jumped in anyway. Now, I know what you're going to say, Scott, he's just a performer. You know, he's going where the wind is blowing. No, he isn't. No, he's going where the arrows are going to put him in the fucking back. That's brave. No matter what else you want to say about him, he walked into the breach. And he's done it before, so we don't have to say this is the only time.

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So even if you disagree with him, he saw a need. He realized he had a unique ability to fill that need, and he jumped in with both feet. I have complete respect for that. Doesn't mean I'll agree with everything. That's a different topic. Anyway, so the big story yesterday was Trump doing a tour of both the North Carolina hurricane disaster and the L.A. fire disaster in the same day.

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That is so baller to do them in the same day. The same day. And the contrast with Biden's low energy, with putting him right in the middle of it twice in one day, I mean, this really is next level stuff. I mean, I know anybody could have traveled there in one day, but he's the only one who would do it. He's the only one that could stay awake that long.

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He's the only one who could absolutely dominate, at least in terms of common sense, those situations. Let's talk about it. So apparently after the North Carolina situation, people were complaining about insurance. And insurance for the North Carolina people was a big deal.

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So Trump's already moved and Congress and Josh Hawley has picked it up and he's going to call the insurance companies in and say, why don't you give insurance to these people? Now, the reasons I think are going to be economic and maybe systemic, I'm not sure it's the insurance companies that will be the bad guys when we're all done because they want to sell insurance. They want to.

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Probably it's going to be government stuff getting in the way, just the economics of homes, the way people built them. If a home was only worth $100,000, you could get insurance. If that same home just sits there and because of inflation turns into a million dollar home, it's the same risk, except now it's 10 times more expense. So the insurance company can't fix that.

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So I appreciate everybody who contributes, either sending me DMs or figuring out what's wrong with the show and fixing it. And it really is special. It makes it feel completely different to me. It always feels like a team effort, even if I'm sitting here alone. Anyway, you know I'm going to talk about EVs and batteries.

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It just doesn't work as an insurance property unless you pay so much that you're not willing to pay it. Anyway, So the first thing is that as soon as Trump had a number of people on the ground say the insurance is our problem, he was on it. Now, where it goes, we don't know, but he's on it.

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And Hawley has already put them on notice and said, you're coming in, you can explain to us why these people can't get insurance. Exactly right. Exactly right. Don't know where it goes yet, but those are the questions and those are the people to ask. All right. Then he goes on to L.A. and Pacific Palisades.

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Now, if you noticed both of these events, there's one thing that stood out that's almost like a dog not barking. Maybe that doesn't fit in this case. But did you notice how well he listens? This is the big surprise about him. People who only see him on TV and he blusters and let's say he's in a debate, If he's in a debate, he might talk over you.

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If he's giving a press conference and the press is being jerks, he might cut him off. So if you see this big old bully personality cutting people off and making sure they heard him 10 times and hear them none, stuff like that, you would imagine that if you put them in a room with somebody who has something to say, they're not going to be able to say it.

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you'll just sort of talk over them and you'll not hear it right that that would seem to fit like if you're just going to guess what's it like to be in the room but i've told you from my own experience and a number of people have said exactly the same thing people have met him in private for the 20 minutes i talked to him in the oval office i had the most amazing sensation

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that he didn't care about anything except what i was saying for 20 minutes now obviously it was there was an exchange so i was listening to him and he was listening to me but he he had complete focus he did not change the subject he stayed on my topics for the most part and he was interested and asked questions with some depth of understanding and what i what i believed was genuine curiosity

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Some of it was about my business model for cartooning. And he learned about the cartooning business model. He just added that to his knowledge stack in 20 minutes. Now he's got another whole business model that maybe he didn't have fully figured out before. So his listening skills, if you experience it in person, are almost unprecedented.

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I would call him out as, if anybody's done it better, I don't have a memory of it. It's impressive. By the time you leave, you feel like you're the only person who mattered for 20 minutes. Now, in reality, well, I don't know what was happening in his head. I can tell you that at one point, an aide came in with a note that must have been something important because it interrupted us.

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He takes one look at the note, sets it down, And then he's right back in with complete focus on me. Like the note didn't matter. I don't even know what it was, you know, could have been important. So when I watched him in North Carolina, he said, you take the microphone, you tell us your story. And then he just stood and he just watched and he listened. Then he goes to L.A.,

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Turns out, according to car scoop, Stephen Rivers, that at this point in time, an EV, an electric vehicle, will last as long as a regular combustion engine automobile. Now, that kind of snuck up on me, didn't it? Because you're thinking, why wouldn't you buy an electric car? And the first thing you say is, well, they don't last as long. Well, that's over. They last a little bit longer.

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And he's got very carefully picked group of people with his advanced team and his advisors. And he's got a room full of people. It's televised. And he listened to everybody in the room. The politicians, you know, he was a little harder on the politicians, which we like. But when the people who lost homes were talking, not only did he understand it perfectly, but

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but he could repeat it in his own words with even more emphasis than they told it to him about the insurance problems, the regulations, et cetera. And then he brought to it a complete understanding of the building industry and the regulatory problems and like a real world total talent stack that was almost made for this purpose.

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Yeah, it was almost like if Trump didn't exist, you would want to invent a Trump just to handle at least the LA part. And I think North Carolina as well, because you need somebody who understands that when the public says we want to build back, but we can't because the government is stopping us or the insurance company is stopping us. He doesn't just hear it and move to his next problem.

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He takes a drill and he just goes right to the center of the earth until he understands that problem. And then he tells you what you need to do about it because he understands the space. I've never seen anything like it. And so yesterday, last night, when he was in L.A., I was doing a Man Cave live stream for the subscribers and locals, and we just watched it.

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And it was so entertaining to watch him go into full boss mode and just bully these worthless politicians right in front of us. He just bullied them right in front of us. I could not have been happier. Then there was one moment, which was pure Trump. So there's a moment when Joel Pollack got to talk. He was in the room.

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And he's a senior editor for Breitbart, but on top of that, he's one of the affected people in the Palisades. So his home survived, against all odds, but it's not habitable, just like the other people. And Joel had an extended sort of explanation, lots of good visuals about him trying to save his house with nothing but a bucket and a vase of flower water that was still there from before the fire.

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And the neighbors tried to help, but there's no water. So that just brought you right into the scene. And Trump just listens to every word. And then Joel gets to could we do something like 9-11 did when there was a lot of federal funding to repair the 9-11 stuff? And there was some kind of special master that was appointed to make sure the money didn't get diverted to all the illegal stuff.

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Now, if you live in California and you hear that the government's going to give you ideally some large amount of money to help you recover, your first concern is,

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and then the idiots in my local government are just going to hand it over to their friends and their friends will never build anything like this is what usually happens so hearing that the federal government is just going to write a check to california without any control on it is like hearing that they're not going to do anything that's how it is to my ears because i i just think it'll all be stolen or or the the uh the friends will be the ones that win all the bets or the bids not the bets

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And so I think the state is so corrupt and so incompetent that there is no amount of money that can help us get out of this problem. So Joel, knowing that, says, what would you think about having a special master to make sure that the money is spent correctly? And then this amazing thing happens. Trump goes, that's a good idea.

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And he turns to Rick Grinnell, who's a California resident, so he was part of it. He goes, do you think you can hook me up, like form a committee or something, like get me a special master, and we'll take care of that. And then he looks back at Joel and goes, that's a really good idea. And in that moment, federal help for California became real.

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It didn't feel real until he said, yeah, I'm going to make sure somebody's watching where it goes. And then this was his event in the Palisades, Trump's, was the most remarkable display of capability and talent and talent stack. You know, a whole bunch of talents that are coming together at that moment that I've ever seen. And it was entertaining on a level that I can't even explain.

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So you don't have to worry about that anymore. Now, I still think it depends which one you get. And the battery isn't exactly the same at the end as it is at the beginning. So there's some of that. So if you have some skepticism about the battery, I'm open to that. But the point is, there are things like this that just sneak up on you.

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I mean, we were cheering. you know, watching it in the man cave, I was standing up and like pumping my arms and, and cheering, like literally out loud. And I don't get that excited about anything, but I was watching something for the ages. If you watched how he took care of the politicians and, you know, told them what's real, what works and what isn't,

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My favorite moment was when Karen Bass, the bobble-headed idiot with a creepy smile, the only one in the room full of disaster victims who thought that smiling was the right play. You can't be dumber than that, right? You can't be talking about with a smile, oh, yeah, we're going to do some things and we're going to do some things, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And you just looked at her and she was a few people away from Trump. And the contrast was incredible. First of all, she's a small person. Physically, she's not very tall. And Trump's a big hulking character. So seeing her tiny little bobble-headed stupid smile. And then it gets better. So Trump is all about you got to get rid of this regulation.

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I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to stomp on this regulation. We've I've already canceled all of the federal regulations. All this left is your local regulations. And he's trying to get the mayor to say, yes, I will do what you're doing. and be commonsensical about the regulations. And she's acting like she's agreeing.

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And Trump's saying, can't they get back into their own property and do their own cleanup if they want to pay for it? He's like, yes, yes, they'll totally get back in. Yeah, yeah. And then Trump says, everybody I talk to says that you say they can't get back or they can't do something for 18 months. And then he says... He actually points to the residents. He goes, he just told me that.

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He just told me it's 18 months, and you're telling me that they can go in tomorrow. So he's obviously basically calling her a liar. And then she goes, I think it'll be safe. We'll let people in in a week. And then I just watched Trump after she said, they'll be able to get back in a week. And you knew what was coming. It was just the most wonderful live moment.

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You know he's seething when he hears it's going to take a week without a reason. And there's this little pause, and he looks at her and he goes, a week is a long time. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, he goes, why not tomorrow? Now, I don't know if getting in there tomorrow is a good idea. I don't know what the safety is, etc. But I sure liked him pushing because the citizens couldn't push.

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They had nothing to push on. They didn't have any leverage, nothing. So citizens can push all day. It doesn't mean anything. But Trump, he listened. And he said, I'm just not going to let this happen. So he just embarrassed her in public, and that was the right play. We needed to see her absolutely embarrassed in public. Now, again, I don't even know who's right.

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For example, if you didn't get an electric car because there weren't enough charging stations, well, that's probably not true now. So I remind you that I have some Tesla stock, so I'm not completely objective about the domain. But you're going to see EVs, they seem to have crossed all of the critical things, meaning that the public now says, there's nothing wrong with it.

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It could be that waiting a week would be the smartest week you ever waited, because then you'd really know what the toxicity is and what to do. Maybe. I mean, I'm no expert. But the pushing against it and saying that, here's what I like. the frame. In government, a week is a short period of time. So that's why she said it. That's just a week. In construction, a week is the end of the world.

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You don't wait a week for anything. If you're waiting a week, you're losing money. So Trump's timeframe of how fast anything should work is so different than much of the world. They're watching him press that point of view on her that a week's a long time. God, I wanted to hear that.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Thank you, Paul. Oh, my God. That felt so good.

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I so wanted to hear that a week is a long time, because the whole time after she said it, I'm just sitting there thinking, a week. A week's a long time. That's a long time. Why a week? And then it comes out of Trump's mouth. He says what we were all thinking, but nobody could say it, because they're not in the right position, not the right person, etc., And he talked for us. He talked for us. Wow.

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It was incredible. I would say it's Trump's best performance in any domain. It's better than any speech he's ever given, better than any press conference, better than any debate. It was his best moment. He's at full power. He's not taking prisoners. And he's working for the people. And wow, it was just shockingly positive.

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Now we'll see if he follows up, you know, cause follow up matters and we'll see if he keeps the, keeps the boot on the mayor to actually do something useful. We'll see. But again, it was the ultimate boss situation. Um, And then there's also the insurance question. I just don't know how that's going to get solved, but maybe somebody has a better idea. I was asked to comment on Melania, so I will.

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You might have noticed that Melania seems more present this term than the first term. I attribute that to Barron's age. I think when Barron was younger, Melania necessarily wanted to be just there for him, and that was her top priority. And we all get that. I get that. Now Barron's off to college, and Melania is not just with him, but she's with him as an asset.

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When she's with him and she's clearly with him, like there's no attitude, there's no sense that she wishes she were somewhere else, she's usually smiling. And she also looks great fashion-wise. This is not a sexist comment. It's just fashion-wise, she's just kill of it.

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I'm not like a fashion guy, but even I can tell that I can't keep my eyes off her because her fashion choices are just really good. And so here's my take on that. Imagine going through what they both went through for the last eight years. Just imagine the impact on Melania. My guess is she wasn't maybe 100% supportive of everything that happened in the first term and beyond because...

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It didn't make her look good. Didn't make the family look good, which isn't good for Barron. Kind of a stain. And then she would have to live with it the same as the rest of them. And then, like a phoenix, he rises from the ashes, Trump does, conquers all of politics, hits a popularity we've never seen. The international community is fully respecting of him.

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And the entire narrative has changed from the survivor of assassination, strongest politician in the world, the role model that other politicians are looking to, the single most important change agent, and maybe the only person who could save us from the ledge that we've been driving toward. Now, what do you feel like? Well, if she went through the assassination attempt,

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It lasts as long as the other ones. There's a way to get electricity. So a lot of those things got solved just by waiting and innovating over time. Anyway, I saw a post today by somebody I don't know on X, Simp4Satoshi. That's the name of the account. But let me read the opinion. And this one hit me like a box of rocks. So the opinion is, Silicon Valley is broken into being a bottom, by the way.

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And she had to live with the thought that it could have been so much the other direction. And then she's part of it. So her critical part, we don't see everything she does, but you know it's critical. And I think she's taken a victory lap, which, man, did she earn. She earned her victory lap, same as Trump did. So I think part of it is feeling that he's on some kind of a winner's crusade

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and she doesn't have the barren responsibilities the way she used to, that she's just enjoying the show. So I think she's loving it. My lenses are fuzzy? I think you're right. Yeah, my lenses are dirty. Good catch. I will clean them on my T-shirt. All right, P. Hegzeth got confirmed, but only because Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote.

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So Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said no, but also Mitch McConnell. Huh. Mitch McConnell voted against Pete Hegseth, and yet everybody except these two other senators were for him, the Republicans. How do we interpret that? I've heard somebody say,

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that he didn't kiss enough ass, or that Hegseth had not been the darling of the military-industrial complex, and Mitch would be, some say, associated with the military-industrial complex, and so he wouldn't want to support the guy who's not necessarily part of that team. Maybe. That would fit the... I don't know if it's true, but it would fit the observations

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But here's my question, and I think it has to be asked in a situation like this. We know that through his wife, he has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party big industry. Now, you all knew that, right? So his wife, her sister, and her father are big in the Chinese Communist Party. Now, we, of course, don't prevent anybody marrying anybody they want.

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And that doesn't mean there's anything going on that's inappropriate. Would we all agree? It doesn't mean there's any problem. It's just a gigantic red flag. But here's the context that I'd like to know so I can evaluate this risk properly. The risk of too much Chinese blackmail or incentivization or something. I would like to know, what is the history of spies?

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Is there any known history where a spy will marry somebody and stay married for, I don't know, 50 years, and the entire time they were just a spy? Do we have any history where, especially Chinese spies, but any other kind of spies? I know on TV shows it's real, because I just watched a TV show called The Agency, and a big part of the plot...

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was that he was sort of in a relationship that was a fake relationship for six years. Is that real? Do we really have people who will go so far that they'll marry you, have your kids, and they've been a spy the whole time? Now, if that's not a thing, if it's not a thing, then I'll be way less worried about it. If it's a normal thing,

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meaning it's been happening forever and other countries do it too. Well, then I've got more questions. So I'm not going to, you know, everybody's innocent until proven guilty. I have no, I have no evidence of Mitch McConnell doing anything wrong. But wow, the red flag there is just literally red flag is just so obvious that

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that I feel like I need the next level of understanding to judge it properly. And that is, is it common to have somebody who's a fake spouse? I'm not saying she is. I'm just saying I'd need to know how common it is to have any opinion about this story.

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Rod Martin is reporting that there's a huge Department of Justice purge going on with the Trumpers coming in and getting rid of the anti-Trump type people. And apparently there's a rule that you can't get rid of employees within 120 days of new leadership taking over. Seems like a dumb rule. So if Pam Bondi comes in and gets approved, she wouldn't be able to fire anybody for 120 days.

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So the context was somebody saying that in Silicon Valley, it's like the PDD situation, that there's a lot of gay grooming, and that's behind a lot of the startups. Now, if you had told me that before I'd ever heard of Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein, I would have said, eh, sounds unlikely.

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So you might say, well, how are they firing people now? Here's the trick. as Rod Martin points out. They're using an acting director. So there's no rule about the acting director firing people. And the longer it takes them to confirm Bondi, the more people they can fire.

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So by delaying the approval of Bondi, the acting director, who is very pro-Trump, can just lay waste to all the anti-Trumpers and they'll be gone before Bondi's even on the job. Now, that's kind of clever, using the system against itself. I kind of have to appreciate that. But apparently the purge is hitting the criminal division in the National Security of the International Affairs.

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This is all per Rod Martin. And apparently the guy who's the acting U.S. attorney...

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it was one of these stop the steel organizers or maybe these stop the steel organizers so it if if you were worried about keeping your job and you were you know a prominent democrat in the department of justice the most scary thing that could ever happen is that the guy who organized the stop the steel movement is the one in charge and firing people Oh, wow.

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Anyway, let's see how Democrats are doing. So I've already glowed with my praise of how Trump is doing. But, hey, there's two sides. So maybe the Democrats are doing okay, too. Let's check in with them. Let's see. There's a story in Red State by Mike Miller that Jamie Raskin called in a psychologist to help House Democrats cope with Trump derangement syndrome. Oh, well, that's not so good.

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Now, I think the characterization there might be a little bit more narrative than the facts, but not much. So the facts are, according to Punchbowl News, so Raskin was with the House Judiciary Committee, so not all the Democrats, just the House Judiciary Committee, and the They had some kind of retreat for the judiciary Democrats only.

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And Raskin invited a psychologist, some guy who was a University of Virginia professor of psychology. And the people who attended, this is according to the reporting by Red State, by Mike Miller. And They say that the purpose was, according to the attendees, to counsel Democrats about how to approach conflict and effectively combat what Raskin described as authoritarian styles of speech.

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And they were also, the Democrats were advised to avoid devolving into partisan mudslinging. How much did they pay a psychologist for that? I'm not sure that's like a therapist, but who needed to tell them not to devolve into partisan mudslinging? Why don't they just listen to Stephen A. Smith or Bill Maher or, indeed, 100% of the Democrats who are still smart?

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Every one of them would have told them the same thing. Are the only people who didn't know they should avoid devolving into partisan mudslinging? Are the only ones who didn't know that? the ones who went on this retreat, the ones we elected into office. Does electing somebody into office make you not know simple things that everybody else knows?

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So anyway, that doesn't look like a winning play by the Democrats. Meanwhile, we learned that Trump had a phone call with the prime minister of Denmark over, uh, over the Greenland situation. And this was before he was in office, but, um, not long before. And apparently it didn't go well. Um, And so Denmark's prime minister is a woman who is described as the John Bolton of Europe.

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If you told me that before I heard about P. Diddy and the entire music industry, I would have said, yeah, I don't know. That doesn't sound real to me. But when you tell me after I know those two things, and they're both sort of

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So one expert said she's the John Bolton of Europe. So imagine Trump making a phone call to the female John Bolton of Europe saying that he wants to conquer their territory. So needless to say, The conversation did not go well. Did not go well. And I asked myself, how would you ever get a deal with a female John Bolton? There's no way to get there, is there? So I've got a question.

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How long will that prime minister stay in office? Because I've got a feeling that Trump is going to sweeten the offer until the people in Denmark say... we've got to get rid of our prime minister because the threats are too big and the benefits are so attractive that the only person stopping us from getting these benefits and keeping us safe is the female John Bolton of Europe.

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So I have a feeling that step one of doing something useful in Greenland is is going to be changing out their prime minister because I think Trump can do that just by pressure. So we'll see. We'll see. I'm not going to predict that's what he's going to do, but I don't see the current leadership of Denmark making a deal because the way they're approaching it is almost emotionally.

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It doesn't seem that they came at this rationally. If they came at it rationally, then yes, a deal will get done. But if it's an irrational response, there's nothing you can do except get rid of the person. So he might have to do that first, and I think he has the capability to do it. He could bring down another government if he needs to. So I talked about this.

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Alex Soros did this rare interview in Financial Times. It's behind a paywall, and it's a Japanese-owned company. entity and they only asked him polite questions. So it's not a real interview.

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And there was this point where, you know, he said he was so happy to see a gay pride flag on an embassy once, you know, things are going in the right direction, he thought, which is a weird thing to call out as your priority. I don't know where that would be on my list of priorities, but gay pride flag on an embassy. wouldn't be among my top 100 most important things.

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And I'm as pro-LGBTQ as you can get. You know, I often call them out as remarkably successful demographic in the United States. And so to me, that's just American. So that's the end of the story. But, you know, he thinks the flag and the embassy is important. I don't know. Something wrong. But he did say, Apparently, he was trying to arrange meeting Elon Musk in November, and it didn't happen.

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male dominated at least the management of the culture you know the managers in the culture um how could it not be true what would be the argument that is not true now i can tell you that i've lived i've lived in the bay area my entire adult life i've never seen any any hint of it and i've also never heard of it until today it's literally the first time i've ever heard this accusation

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He thinks Elon wasn't committed to actually doing it. But every day that Alex Soros does not do a real interview with somebody who's going to ask real questions, whether it's Elon Musk or somebody else, I'm going to assume the worst. I'm going to assume the worst. Because what am I supposed to do?

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He's deeply influential in my country's politics, deeply, like to the point of being the main thing sometimes. And he's not going to do an interview, like a real one. He does this fake one behind the paywall with a friendly. That's not a real interview. So I'm going to say that the Elon Musk theory... that the senior Soros wants to destroy America or the world because he hates humankind.

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Ridiculous as that sounds, I don't have a better explanation. And if that's the best explanation, as absurd as it sounds, I'm going to have to run with it because this is important. It's important how much influence he has on the country. And We can't say, well, we don't know why, and then just walk away.

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I think we have to treat it like an existential risk, and that if he can't explain why he's doing what he's doing, I'm pretty sure it's exactly what you think. Now, the part of the conspiracy theory I don't buy into is the anti-Semitic stuff. So I'm not buying into any of that. That just doesn't map...

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anything i'm i'm observing and i know that some of you are going to say what what don't you notice but until the anti-semites can explain how things would look different if all you knew is that jews are good at school and therefore they end up getting good jobs and end up in leadership and you know if you have a perfectly normal explanation you don't really need a conspiracy

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All right, so I don't buy the conspiracy stuff. All right, here's an interesting factoid I only have a partial understanding of. I saw Naval Ravikant posting on X in the middle of the morning today, which was really last night. He says, turns out that instead of scraping the web to train AI, you can just scrape the AI that scraped the web.

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Now, I think what he's talking about is this new Chinese open source AI called DeepSeek R10 that is apparently completely public. Like you can you can look at it yourself. It's open source and it wasn't trained the way AI is trained. I think this is what he's referring to. It was just trained on the AIs. So somehow you can use the AIs to train it.

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Now, I'm guessing, but this is just a guess, that since the point of an AI is to look for these patterns in the real world, you have to start with all the real world stuff you can absorb, and then you can find a bunch of patterns. But by the time you've created the AI, it's a bunch of patterns.

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So if you use another AI and you want to train it, you could skip all of the looking at the details and just look at the patterns and copy them. And apparently that works so well that you don't need a data center to do your AI. You just need a normal computer and you put this code on it and it runs an AI that's apparently comparable or better to the commercial ones. Now,

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I should also admit that while I held some NVIDIA stock for a while, several months, got a nice gain, I got out of it. And the reason I got out of it is because in the back of my mind, I could not believe that it wouldn't be disrupted by something like this. So on one hand, you need $100 billion to build a data center to have the best AI. On the other hand, This one that costs nothing?

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So I can't confirm from any personal contacts, and I have lots of them. I mean, you can imagine how many people I know who work in the Valley. But I've never heard this before. On the other hand, so I'll put it in one basket. I've never heard it. So that argues against it being real. But on the other hand, if it seems to be real in 100% of the situations in which it could be real,

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It costs nothing. It's free. It's open source. You can get this one for nothing, and all it will do is see if there's any new patterns developed by the $100 billion data center. So do they even need chips? How many NVIDIA chips do you need if your AI runs on my personal computer? And the answer is none. The answer is none.

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Now, AI could maybe get further trained by more things happening, but I don't think people are that interesting. And I think we just repeat what we do all the time. And I think we probably were at the end of training. So if we're at the end of training, and this free one...

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can take all of the value that the hundreds of billions of dollars took to produce, and it can just clone it, and it will work forever, because the patterns of the way humans talk and think don't really change that much. So what is NVIDIA worth if there's a free version that doesn't need any chips? Now, I don't know enough about AI to know if what I said makes sense.

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So I'll give you a big caution. Don't buy or sell any stocks based on what I just said. If you know my history, sometimes I get lucky, but it's probably luck. Don't listen to individuals about individual stocks. It's a really bad idea. And I'm an individual. I'm talking about an individual stock. So don't make a decision based on that.

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In related AI, and this is fascinating, if you're not following Marc Andreessen, you're really missing a tremendous show because he's got incredible intellectual weight plus a knowledge across all the relevant everything. So his opinions are just way better than other people's opinions in a whole bunch of domains.

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And he's sort of come out of the shadows and he's becoming more of a public figure like Sachs or like Elon. And wow, is he adding value. Almost everything he posts is either interesting or funny. But I'm going to tell you his take. He says that AI won't take our jobs. Now, I love it because it's contrarian.

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But his argument, as best I can reproduce it, is that there have been two times in our history when we were sure that all the jobs were going to go away. One was when we started shipping jobs to other countries. So we were going to downsize all our good jobs and everybody be poor. Now, it did devastate parts of the country, you know, Rust Belt, etc. But we still added jobs.

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So the total number of jobs went up, even as we were shipping our jobs out as fast as we could. So when people said that will make the jobs go away, well, it didn't. I mean, it wasn't ideal. And we do want to bring manufacturing back. But It seemed obvious that it would reduce the number of jobs, but it didn't.

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Secondly, as Mark Andreessen points out, in the 2000s, we had a lot of robots, not the smart ones, but the ones who could do assembly line stuff. And sure enough, robots became an enormously important part of manufacturing. But employment went up. So every time we think there's some big change in society that will certainly get rid of all the jobs, we created more jobs than we ever had.

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So Andreessen is speculating and predicting, I guess, that AI will have a similar effect. It will definitely eliminate some kinds of jobs. but probably we'll just build other kinds of jobs. Somebody doing robot maintenance. Well, maybe the robot could do that too. So I don't know exactly how it's going to go. But then this is the more interesting part.

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Andreessen points out that if you look at all the various technologies and industries in the United States, some of the industries are zooming up in cost, like housing, education, and healthcare. They're like zooming up. Some of them are zooming down, such as digital TVs and phones and stuff like that.

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And this is one in which it could be real. I don't discount it. I can't confirm it from any personal experience. But it certainly opened my eyes to the fact that I'd never even thought about it. So the accusation is that if you're willing to get groomed, you're going to get a lot of money and you'll be introduced to people and then you get on the fast track. I'm not saying that's true.

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So what's the difference between the stuff that's going down in price through competition and market forces, et cetera, versus ones that are just going to the moon? And part of it is that the ones that are going to the moon, healthcare, housing, college, food and beverages, I guess, are because they made it illegal to use technology to get better.

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Now, I need some, I asked for some clarification on that. But what I think he means is there's not much stopping you from making your television cost less, especially if it's made in another country. There's not much that affects that. But if you tried to make a change in healthcare, well, now the doctors say, well, if you did that, then there would be fewer doctors.

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So the AMA might be against it. because they want to support their doctors. Maybe there's some insurance problem. Maybe there's some other bureaucratic problem. You take education. If colleges really wanted to lower prices and they were really competing in a real world, we would already be trained by AI and the teachers would be less part of it.

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So I guess the argument is that wherever there's an industry that is sort of constipated either by union or a set of regulations. Housing is more about regulations. Education, at least at the lower level, is more about unions. But there's like some big force that's stopping you from automating. And if you don't automate, you go right in the toilet. So very interesting hypothesis.

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I've got a question for you. I'm going to add my own futuristic prediction. How can Amazon survive the age of AI? Because think about why you go to Amazon. You go to Amazon to easily find a product. Well, AI is going to find the product no matter where it is. It doesn't have to be on Amazon. If you have a website and you're selling the product, AI and a search engine will find it.

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So you don't need Amazon to find a product. But Amazon makes it really easy to compare. So you know which one's better. You look at the reviews and stuff. But the reviews are often fake. So can you really compare? But AI can compare. AI can look at all the comments ever made. It might even be able to determine which ones are real, if it can figure that out.

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And it can compare any two products, just like Amazon. And it would do it instantly and just on demand. But now the other thing that Amazon has is they keep your credit card information and you can just do one click and your address is already in there. So it's just the easiest, best buying experience. AI can do that.

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You only have to tell AI what credit card you want to use and what your address is, and then it'll know it for the next time. So instead of one click... You just say to your AI, okay, buy it. Why do you need one click? If you could just say, oh, it looks good. Okay, buy that one. How about shipping costs?

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There might be a period where the only thing that Amazon has going for it is low shipping costs. But if you sell on Amazon, don't they take 30%? I don't know. It might depend on products. But if you took 30% off your selling cost, you've got some money to pay for some shipping, don't you?

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So maybe if the only place you were selling is on Amazon, and then suddenly you could sell just as much from your own private website, as long as AI could find it, wouldn't you be able to offer free shipping? Because you just got rid of 30% of your expenses. That would have gone to Amazon. Now, I'm sure I'm oversimplifying, but here's the main point.

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I don't see anything that Amazon would be necessary for in 10 years. Do you? I mean, nothing's going to happen quickly. But how can Amazon stay a business? It seems like that would be the first thing that would go away. I don't know. Now, there is a little of a trust issue. So maybe you'd say, well, Amazon vetted it, so I trust it. But how many fake and pirated things does Amazon carry now?

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I'm just saying... If it were true in both the hetero and the homosexual way for these other industries, why wouldn't it be true in Silicon Valley? What would stop that from being the same? I can't think of any force that would stop it from happening. Anyway, Jillian Michaels has a new fake news finding here. Apparently there's a letter

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A lot. A lot. And if you wanted to return something, usually it's just a pain in the ass to figure out how and to fill out the labels and to take it to the post office or have FedEx pick it up. But if you could just tell your AI, hey, print me a label and notify FedEx that I've got to pick up, there's your returns. So how does Amazon survive? I have no idea. I don't see a path.

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Again, don't sell any stocks because of something I said, okay? There might be a good argument on the other way. All right. I'll tell you, remember that Owen Gregorian has the spaces right after this. So on X, go to Owen Gregorian's account, or you can see that I reposted it if you want to see it on my account. And go to spaces. I'm just going to finish with this following story.

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Do you hate paperwork as much as I do? Probably not as much because I have trouble writing with my hand if I have to fill out regular paper the old 1960s way, which is often the way you have to do it. So it's like a struggle just to write because of my hand problems. But I also have some mild ADHD and dyslexia. So for me to simply fill out a form is almost impossible.

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So the other day I got a notice in my email that there was a foreign entity, it was the UK, who had some royalties for me that somehow got lost and they didn't have my address so they couldn't pay me. So they asked me to fill out some forms so they could give me money that I didn't know I was even owed. So I looked at the forums. It's like, I don't know, like 12 pages of dense boxes.

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And I said to myself, how long is it going to take me to fill out a form that was created in the UK? And it's going to be full of stuff that I don't know how to do. Like it'll be codes I've never heard of, you know? So I said to myself, all right, I'm not going to be an idiot because I don't know how much the royalties are. So I first emailed back and I say,

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tell me how much the royalties are before I go into this painful process. And I was hoping they'd say, well, it's $26. And then I was going to say, oh, just keep it because there's no way it's going to be worth it, $26 to fill out all the paperwork. But they go back, they say, I forget the exact number, but it's like $1,700. Now I'm like, okay, you would not be surprised to know

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What a Saturday. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, golden era. If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody's ever seen with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker gels, a stein, a kenteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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that I don't need $1,700, and I could just say keep it. But I can't really say keep $1,700. Like, I'm just human, right? So it doesn't matter if my net worth isn't changed by $1,700. I'm going to fill out some paperwork for $1,700. It's just free money. right? Now it wasn't, it's not a scam. It's from a reputable entity that I've worked with.

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So I said to myself, all right, the only way, the only way this is going to turn bad for me, because I cleared my calendar, turned my phone off, turned all the, you know, went to a room where nobody could bother me. So I could really focus, got my coffee, got my snack, And I'm going to try to fill out some paperwork, damn it. So I start. I'm like, all right.

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I'm working through page after page, painstakingly filling in these box, swearing and hating my life every moment. Oh, I wish I were doing anything but filling out a form. I hate this form. But I'm making progress. And then I get to always there's this point. They ask you for something that you don't even know what it is. I have to put my IBAN there. I-B-A-N. No explanation. It's like a box.

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Put it in your IBAN. Okay, so now I have to go on this whole treasure hunt to figure out what the freaking IBAN is. And then I research it. It's like, well, it's something your bank has. so that you can do international transactions. I'm like, well, I thought that was a swift number. Oh no, that's for a wire transfer. This is just going to be deposited in your bank.

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You know, one of the things I don't think I've ever mentioned, but I do this low-rent kind of podcast where I put, obviously I'm not putting all of my efforts into production values and hiring a team of writers and having a makeup artist and things that other people do. Not everybody, but some do. And one of the things that happens is that in a small way,

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So I go, okay, so how do I get this IBAN? So now I have to figure out Charles Schwab's, not my bank, I had to figure out my bank's process for giving me one of these IBANs. Nowhere can you find it on your app. Because I just thought, you know, there's probably one of these extra resources or something you look for. So it's definitely not on there.

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So now I have to contact a live person to ask this question. So finally, I wait and wait and, you know, 17 minutes. And finally, I get a live person. I go, all right, what's this IBAN thing? And they go, that's your account number, your bank account number. And I said, well, no, it says bank account number right after it. And I've already written in my bank account number. What's the IBAN?

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that alleges to be signed by over 17,000 doctors denouncing RFK Jr. and his non-standard views on things. Now, if you heard that 17,000 doctors were against this one guy who wasn't even a doctor, he's not even a doctor, that'd be pretty persuasive, wouldn't it? How do you get 17,000 doctors to be on the same side? I mean, that's a lot. Well, here's how they did it.

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And he says, oh, it's the same as your account number. It's just your account number. So I had to fill in my account number twice, once above and once below on two different lines. Do you know how many times I had to fill out my name on these 12 pages? Yeah, it needed my name on about every other page.

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You know, do you know how mad I get when I have to write my name more than once on the same form? The same form. These pages will never be separated. It's one document. And I had to put my name like five times. So now I'm a little bit crazy, but I'm still making progress. I'm like halfway through this thing, and I'm not quitting. Oh, my God. I've decided. Sometimes I say you want something.

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Sometimes you decide. And I said to myself, the only thing that can stop me now is if I get to the last thing on the form, and it's impossible. And man, is that going to make me mad. If the last thing on the form is like something you actually can't do, which is very typical for this situation, I'm telling myself, don't look ahead. Don't look ahead. Don't be distracted.

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But man, I hope that last thing isn't as bad as I hope it is. And then I got to the last thing. And it said, if you're a UK resident, we've got to charge you this 20% VAT tax. And I'm thinking, well, I don't want to pay a 20% VAT tax because I already have to pay 50% income tax. If I pay the VAT tax too, it's 20% off the top and then what's left, my own government will take 50% off.

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That's my current tax rate. So they're going to take 70, not approximately, 70% of my income money. So suddenly, the total amount that I'm going to receive is now below the level where it was worth doing the work. But I've gone this far. I've gone this far. And the only thing they needed was a certification that I was an American resident, and then I don't have to do the VAT.

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So it wasn't good enough that I say I'm an American citizen. It wasn't good enough. I have to have certifications. So I said, do I have to do a whole bunch of research now to find out how I certify it? So I go to the internet and I start researching. How do I certify it?

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And it says, well, you use this form, download this form, and then you apply to the government and the government will send you another form. That's the one that you would send into them to show that you're certified. And then it said, you should expect that to take, I think it was, three months or something. I can't remember what the timing was, but it was weeks in the future, if not months.

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And I would have to keep this document that is almost completely filled out, and in a few months I won't even remember why I was waiting for something. I'm not going to keep anywhere in my house a 12-page document for months sitting on the surface waiting for that one document to come in So I can complete the form, which by the way, before I send it in, I don't even know if it's right.

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Because the most likely outcome is I get another email that says you filled it out wrong. You forgot to sign something. You should have put in a number or you put in the wrong number. So I don't even think it's going to work. So now I'm down to the choice. It gives you the option and it tells you very directly. If you don't want to prove you're a resident of the other country,

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You can just go ahead and pay the 20% of that. Imagine how I felt knowing that I had to give the UK 20% of my money or wait weeks for a bunch of paperwork that I'd rather put a steel spike through my forehead than to wait and complete. What do you think I did? How do you think I handled it? 20% VAT tax. Fuck you and give it to me because I'm not going to spend another second on this damn thing.

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They started a website where you could just say you're a doctor and then they would count you. That's all it was. It was just a website where you could sign up. How many of those do you think are real doctors? Well, not 17,000. They might have gotten a few hundred, but most of them seem somewhat obviously fake. So, no, I don't think there are 17,000 doctors saying that.

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So I just printed it and saved it and took the 20% hit. So I'm going to get, you know, $10 at the end of it and spend my whole fucking day. Now, this story is not about me and it's not about this little situation. This is about Trump's meeting in L.A. where it became incredibly clear that the government was the entire obstacle to doing anything that made sense.

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And Trump did a masterful job in understanding that and trying to fix it. This is everywhere. Now, you might say to me, Scott, why don't you just hire your bookkeeper, your accountant to do it? Very simply, they would charge me more than the amount I would get in the check. So there wasn't really any small business way to do it.

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If it had been part of lots of other business, maybe I would have thrown it on the pile. You can't really get anything done in terms of a small business. Even the simplest things, the government is just so burdensome.

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And it makes me think that what we need is some kind of special low regulation state where if we could just pick one state that has reasonably good transportation and access to water, I guess, to say, all right, let's just have one place that you could build a manufacturing plant starting tomorrow if you wanted. And we would just say, make sure you don't do it too dangerously. Okay, got it.

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Maybe just cover it with insurance instead of government mandates.

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so yeah the the problem that the pacific palisades uncovered is part of this massive incompetence problem that the country is suffering from and i don't think anybody but trump could understand it well enough and care about it well enough and be strong enough to do something about it and it's the only way we're going to ever be competitive we have we have painted ourselves in a completely doomed

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economic situation. We have to fix the regulation problem. We got to get the government out of our pants. I mean, you know, it's always been true. There's no time in my life when I wouldn't have said that. But it's just reached monumental proportions. I mean, you just can't really do anything in the business world. So that, by the way, is all I have for today. Thanks for joining.

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And remember, Owen Gregorian has his spaces right after this on X. He's probably already running over there and firing it up. I'm going to say a few words to the people on Locals privately, but I won't be long so that you can go over and listen to Owen if you'd like or listen to everybody else talking. It's not just Owen. All right, everybody else, thanks for joining. I'll see you again tomorrow.

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Same time, same place.

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Anyway, so good for Jillian Michaels to call that out. I love it when anybody gets involved in the fake news spotting business. The more people who don't do this for a living but are so inspired because they're the first to notice it or they know that they have a bigger platform and they just say, you know what? I got to fix this. So again, in the Trump golden age,

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somebody like uh jillian michaels although she's a public figure but somebody like her doesn't say oh this is bad and then just move on with their business she says this is bad is anybody fixing it oh if nobody's fixing it i'll fix it because i can so she makes a video and she fixes it you know at least now there's a record that there's a there are two sides to the story so

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When you start noticing, you can start noticing the pattern over time that people are simply noticing a need and then just saying, I can do that and just stepping into it like nobody's ever seen before. The fire victims in LA and North Carolina, same experience. The necessity just brings people in. So people are willing to pitch in now. They feel some optimism.

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They feel connected a little bit to their neighbors a little more. this might be the biggest trend. Like the most important thing might be people just saying, you know, I can do this. Nobody else is doing it. I'll do it. This would be exactly the case for my next story.

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So Joe Rogan has a doctor on, Dr. Mark Gordon, who said, and I quote, I have a 76-year-old veteran who was diagnosed with a Gleason 7, Roughly speaking, that's how aggressive your cancer is, the Gleason score. So seven would be high. And the Gleason is the grade of cancer of the prostate, meaning what stage. And it was Gleason seven.

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Then he says he went on 12 milligrams of ivermectin every day for eight weeks. And at the 12th week, he got a special PET scan done to look at the abnormalities in the prostate. And they couldn't find anything. They couldn't find anything. And his PSA, when he came in, initially it was a 12.6. The PSA is what tells you if your prostate's got cancer, usually.

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It could be for other things, but normally that's what it means if it's high. And it's now down to 5.3, which would be, I think that's below the midpoint. So it'd be perfectly acceptable for somebody who had no cancer at all. Now, Remember I said the larger theme is people just see a need and they say, oh, nobody else is doing this. I can do this. And then they step in.

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That's what Joe Rogan's doing. Joe Rogan, you know he's been following the Ivermectin story because he has a connection to it through the COVID experience. And you know that he probably said to himself, why do people say it works, but other people say it doesn't work? Like, where's my medical test? Where's my evidence? Why isn't the news following up? It's like not even in the news.

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And so Joe Rogan says, here I'm speculating because I can't actually read his mind, right? But it seems like a reasonable assumption. Probably said, nobody's going to look into this. Well, how about if I do it? And so he invites really exactly the right kind of guest. And then he looks into it. And then he's added to the public discussion. Now, adding to the discussion, always good.

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Being right every time about everything, not really a standard I would put anybody to. That's not the standard. Nobody's right all the time. If this is a big, big, important thing, and there's somebody who could really add to it, and Joe figures out that if this is real, he could be doing an incredibly, incredibly important service. to the rest of the country and the world, really.

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I end up recreating what Trump does, and in a very specific way, not the entire Trump thing, but just one narrow specific thing, which is It becomes sort of an audience participation. And one of the things, if you ever see me say thank you, Paul, at the beginning of the show, is because I always had trouble knowing if the sound was working.

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Because if this is true, it would be unbelievable. Now, like Joe, and maybe even like the doctor himself, I'm noticing something that needs to be done about this story that unfortunately I'm uniquely capable of doing, which is debunking it. Now, I'm going to debunk it, but without knowing if it's true or false. So what I'm going to debunk is just the credibility of it.

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Because if you went into this and said, okay, that's a real doctor, he doesn't look like he's lying, and I don't think he's lying. I do not think he's lying. I think the doctor and other doctors who have similar claims, I think they're telling the truth about what they think they're seeing. So they don't really have any tells for dishonesty when they're talking about it.

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But here's what you should look for. Number one. The patient is anonymous. If I told you that something depends on an anonymous witness, what would you say? If it were a political story, you'd say, oh, anonymous means it's not true.

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But if I tell you there's an anonymous case in the medical community, you probably wouldn't have the same impression because you'd say, well, duh, people like to stay private with their medical stuff. Totally understandable. Yeah, everybody understands that.

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Except if you were 76 and you cured a Gleason 7 scored problem and cancer problem in your body, you're not being Joe Rogan, meaning that you're now in a special place. If it's true, you're in this very special place where only you can step up.

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so going public unfortunately it comes with a price but if he'd like to also go on the show with his doctor and maybe have the medical records so we can all see a copy just just the medical records that are relevant i don't need to know anything about his health but we would ask questions such as was he on anything else right Well, HIPAA doesn't apply if everybody agrees.

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So obviously the doctor can't on his own talk about it. We all understand that. It would have to be with consent. But if the patient and the doctor and their medical records could all be presented at the same time, maybe on a podcast, and somebody who could ask the right questions. I'm just going to throw out my favorite, Dr. Drew.

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So you just put Dr. Drew on the podcast, or his podcast would be the ultimate, right? Dr. Drew's podcast. Just have the same doctor, but I don't want to hear from doctors anymore. I want to hear them sitting next to their patient with the medical records in their hand, just the relevant ones, and say, look at this, look at this, look at this. That's what happened.

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X-Platform is down today, so we're not going to stream on that one. But the rest of the platforms are working great, as far as I know. So we'll have comments and we'll have a show on Memorial Day weekend when all the lazy people are off on vacation. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time.

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Well, don't you think they were treating her like the Vice President of the United States? Because the Vice President of the United States, under the condition of the President of the United States just showing that he's cognitively impaired, isn't it exactly her job to figure out whether the 25th Amendment makes sense? To me, it seems like they were treating her like the vice president.

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So I know you're trying to help, but it's really distracting when you put it in there as I'm talking about it, because it makes me look and say, oh, what's this long block of text? It's probably something important. So if you could, don't do that anymore. Thank you. It would be hard to know that that was a problem, so don't worry about it.

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She would be the number one person you should ask that question. Is it time to replace this guy? So I guess she didn't like having any tough questions. But don't you feel lucky that she didn't become president?

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the we were so close to having a president kamala harris you know the horse laugh oh oh my god well victor davis uh hansen uh was talking about cnn and all the things that they've they've done that were opposite of news and some of the things he listed was uh He actually went so hard as to say he doesn't know how Jake Tapper is keeping his job at CNN.

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Because he mentions, Victor mentions the Russia collusion fail, the Steele dossier fail, the Hunter laptop fail. And he says there's definitely a pattern. to which I would like to add the following. What about the fine people hoax? What about the whole auto pen story? There was nobody in the news business who knew there was an auto pen problem. What about the Biden crime family? Totally ignored.

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What about the drinking bleach hoax? Yeah, there's a pattern. But the pattern all comes from the same place, doesn't it? The pattern comes from they created a narrative that Trump was Hitler. Once you've created the narrative that Trump is Hitler, it gives you permission to lie about every story because obviously you don't want to be complicit in making Hitler in charge.

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So basically there was one problem. that caused them to no longer be a news entity. And it was that they had convinced themselves that he was Hiller. So one problem caused 50 problems. According to Liz Peek, who's writing for The Hill, they're still trying to figure out who is in charge of that auto pen.

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which is kind of hilarious because it's one of the biggest, well, maybe the biggest story in the country. Don't you think if the biggest story in the country was, who's doing all that Autopen stuff? Don't you think that the people who were doing the Autopen stuff should have said, oh, that was me. Yeah, it was the three of us. This was our process. But without that, what are we supposed to think?

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There's only one thing you can think if they decided to get real quiet about that process. There's a problem. Because if there were no problem, it would have been like day two. They would have said, oh, here's how it works. Here's the process. Here's our here's our diary of who did what and who signed it.

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The fact that they're just quiet about it and that we have to do research to figure out who was behind the auto pen, that's a pretty good indication that there's a problem. But the thing that to me is scary is that there are two people who were mentioned as likely, not the only people necessarily, but two of the main people who might have been behind the auto pen.

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And what's scary is I'd never heard of them. You know, if the real answer had been, you know, Ron Klain or Jake Sullivan, I would have said, huh, you know, that's not ideal because the president's supposed to be doing the auto pen stuff. But at least I would think, This is a well-known, smart person. Everybody's heard those names. But the names we're hearing are Mike Donilon and Anita Dunn.

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Well, if the X platform is working after the show, Owen Gregorian will be hosting his spaces. Again, a coffee with Scott Adams after party. But it probably depends highly on whether the X platform is back online. And if not, maybe it gets pushed to the next day. But that's the current thinking. Well, if you happen to hate the New York Knicks, that would be a basketball team.

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How many of you had ever heard those names before the auto pen thing? Isn't that like giving you a little pause? It's like, huh, I'm not so sure who they even are. So part of the mystery is, why do people we've never even heard of were signing all these things? And then there's the thought about all the clemencies. Weren't there like thousands of clemencies that were signed?

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And you thought to yourself, how could thousands of them being signed? Well, the auto patent. Do you think anybody sold a clemency? I'll bet they did. I'll bet somebody sold the clemency or two. Don't know who. So Susan Rice, you know her from the sort of Obama person. So she did a little video.

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I don't know what she was appearing on, but she was saying that Trump has only looked at 12 daily briefings in over 100 days of being in office. And the way she says it with her wrinkled up eyebrows is that it's like he's not doing the job. He's only seen 12 daily briefings, only 12 in over 100 days.

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Now, she says it in a way that she's trying to sell the attitude, not the facts, because the facts don't really, they don't really tell a story. But the attitude, she scrunches up her face so that you know it's a really big problem. But here's my interpretation. What would be the second reason that Trump would not be listening to all the daily briefings?

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I'm going to take a sip while you answer that question. What would be the other reason that he had only listened to some of the briefings? What would you say? The answer is that he had determined that they're bullshit. If they were useful, don't you think he would have listened to them? Of course he would. I remember that the daily briefing included the bin Laden risk.

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And I think Bush didn't even pay attention to it because it was just a list of a whole bunch of things. And I also wonder if the daily briefing is maybe managed a little bit by some Obama people who have gotten to some other people who can get to some other people. Don't you think that Susan Rice is a little bit too interested?

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in the daily briefings, as if maybe the Democrats have figured out how to influence somebody who does the daily briefings for the president. They're trying to manipulate him that way, but he's just not paying attention to them at all. Maybe. Well, General Mike Flynn, who, of course, has seen daily briefings, he said the daily briefings is a complete waste of time, financial resources, and people

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He said, Rice is another Marxist who sees globalism as the future. And I say, if you can't trust government employees to give you the right stuff, who can you trust? Well, Senator Joni Ernst is talking about something, I think you heard this from Elon and Doge at one point, that there are $60 billion spent on federal government credit cards.

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And apparently there are twice as many credit cards as there are federal government employees. That's a little red flag right there. Hmm, twice as many credit cards as employees. But apparently it's worse than that.

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Because she says that a lot of the card usage occurs during federal holidays and on days like New Year's Eve at nightclubs and bars and Sunday afternoons and whenever there's a big UFC fight. There are also cash withdrawals at casino ATMs. So I guess they canceled about half a million of those cards. I think you've heard that story before.

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But the funny part is that it's so obvious that they were stealing because you could tell the pattern of when the cards were being used. Well, Trump has threatened the European Union with a 50% tariff because they seem to be dragging their feet, you know, dealing with the trade stuff. And part of it is that it's complicated. So it's not just tariffs.

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They got fees on streaming services, value-added taxes. They got automotive regulations and fines imposed against U.S. companies and antitrust. So it's a lot of stuff to untangle. So Trump's just saying, all right, take your time, but we're going to give you a 50% tariff. I kind of like that. Wall Street Journal's reporting that.

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You've had a good week. I know most of you are not into basketball, but I just have to tell you about how the Indiana Pacers beat the Knicks. Because it's not even a sports story. It's like the biggest coincidence in the world story. So it was the game before this last one. And the Knicks were up by two. And time was running out.

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Well, according to one source I saw, I saw it on a post by Luke Groman, that if all Chinese students were removed from all U.S. colleges, most of them would go bankrupt because the Chinese students pay full price for tuition and the colleges need that. So if we remove all the Chinese students from all the colleges besides just Harvard, a lot of colleges would go out of business.

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But don't you think we're heading toward a situation where a lot of colleges need to go out of business because they're not really adding enough value? Once you have AI, it seems like you can make your own college. So I'm not too worried about that. Trump says U.S. Steel will partner with Nippon Steel. Is it Nippon? Nippon? And remain in the United States, headquartered in Pittsburgh.

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And it's going to create 70,000 jobs and add $14 billion to the economy. That sounds good. Sounds good. We're going to have more steel and fewer Chinese students. Now, I do worry that some of the foreign students would be highly value-added to our tech situation in this country. But I do think we've got a lot of them. So maybe we can have fewer.

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Well, Texas has decided it's on the verge of, it hasn't done it yet, of completely banning THC products. And so Tim Walz, governor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, governor of Minnesota. Right? So Tim Walsh weighs in because Texas might ban THC, and he says in a post on X, Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free.

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And I'm thinking to myself, Tim Walsh just came out publicly in favor of smoking weed in his state? Hmm. Okay. I like him a little bit better now. He's got that one thing going for him. Well, according to John Bolden, there's no such thing as a South African white genocide.

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And he, apparently, you know that video of the, what we were told is the South Africans singing, kill the farmers, kill the, you know, shoot the Africaners. That was one of the main pieces of evidence that Trump was showing the president of South Africa. Apparently those were not even South Africans. It was video from the Republic of the Congo. Now, that's what Reuters is saying.

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There was a clip grabbed from Reuters, and it wasn't even South Africans. But I do wonder if there are any South Africans who are doing that song and that dance. But I don't know what to believe about South Africa anymore.

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So John Bolden basically says, you know, there's just so much crime there and, you know, murder, that of course the white farmers are getting murdered because everybody's getting murdered. They're just part of the getting murdered crowd, but they're not specifically being targeted. I don't know about that. So John Bolden is not exactly the best source for really anything.

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He's usually wrong on all the important everything. But if the white South Africans believe there's a genocide, wouldn't they be the best source? They're not making it up, right? The ones who want to get out of there because it's too dangerous? Well, seems like it's unlikely that it's fake.

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Well, David Hogg, you know him, the co-chair of the DNC, he says that Representative Jasmine Crockett is the type of leader that they need because the Democratic Party is rudderless. Rudderless? Hmm. A rudder would be the thing that dangles down under the boat. You know what they are? They are rudderless, but they're also penisless and scrotumless. But David Hogg says, I love her. She's amazing.

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And one of the better players on the Indiana Pacers takes this long, desperate three-point shot. If it goes in, which was highly unlikely, the Pacers would win. If it missed, the Knicks would win. So you're watching it go and it's really high and it's really far away and it hits the rim and it misses. And the Knicks are like, yes, yes. We won the first game of this playoff.

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I think that people want to see somebody who fights and calls out the bull, the BS, ultimately. He was talking to Charlemagne the God. I think that's what Jasmine does. Do you think he's called it right? Do you think he's got his finger on the pulse? Do you think what the Democrats need more than anything is an angry black woman who can yell a lot?

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Or is he just being sort of a DEI guy and he wants to make sure he's backing her? I feel like Jasmine Kroc is what the Republicans want for the Democrats. She might be the worst spokesperson that the Democrats have ever had, and I love the fact that David Hogg has to embrace her. Oh, well. Good luck with that, guys. According to the conversation...

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and this is based on some australians i think oh wait yeah uh authors are not happy about ai using their work even if they get paid so i guess a bunch of australian authors have weighed in and they don't like at all that ai might be trained on their work um Now, does that surprise you? So I went to Grok and I said, Grok, are the sales of nonfiction books going down since AI?

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Because that would be the way you'd know. If people felt they didn't need to read nonfiction books because they could just ask Grok and it's already read all the books. And Grok was very... Very vague.

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You know, Grok was a little bit, well, you know, there is a little bit of a decrease in that market, but you can't really tie that to AI because you have lots of different factors happening, to which I thought, oh my God, is AI covering its own tracks? It looks like AI is coming up with its own alibis. Well, you know, it's not the AI. It's a variety of factors that would be hard to measure.

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I don't know. I'm going to say that that's an open question. But here's my prediction. My prediction is that nonfiction books will continue to decrease in sales, and it will be because of AI eventually. All right, well, it's a holiday weekend. There's not much going on. So can anybody tell me if the X platform is working? Can you give me an update? In the comments.

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I know there'll be a little time lag here. But is the X platform working? Because if it is, then Owen can do his spaces because there's not much going on today. I probably have a little less content today because a lot of it comes from X. Oh, it's not working, Erica says. Damn it. So, Owen, does that mean you won't be trying to do a spaces?

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Because I doubt the spaces would work if the platform's down. All right, well, if it's not working today, Owen says he'll move it to tomorrow. but I'm seeing authoritatively that it's glitching. Okay. Owen says he'll give it a shot and see how it goes. All right.

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So he's going to give it a shot, and I'm going to end early because there's not much going on, but you can go to Owen's spaces, and if it works... You can get a lot more. And thanks for joining, everybody. I'm going to say a few words to the locals people privately, but for the rest of you, enjoy your Saturday.

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And then the ball, because the ball had come from a long distance, when it hit the rim, it went up in the air for a very long distance as well. And when it came down, it went right through the hoop. It was something you would rarely ever see. Now, since it was a three-point shot, the pacers are like, yes, yes, we won because we were only down by two and we just made a three-point shot.

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And then they look at the video, and the guy who shot it, his foot was just on the line, which makes it a two-point shot. So first the Knicks totally won. Then the Pacers totally won. And then it was a tie. I had to go to overtime where the Pacers won. So if you were a Knicks fan, it was a terrible week. And I guess they lost another tight one.

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All right, I'm going to give you a movie recommendation or a movie review, I guess. So I don't know where it is except on Amazon Prime, Prime Video. But it's called The Fountain of Youth. It's brand new. And it features John Krasinski and Natalie Portman, I think, as his sister. And they play these Indiana Jones kind of characters. Now, here's what's great about this movie.

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Apparently, I'm just guessing, my guess is that the director had some kind of deal with the production studio that he could make the movie any way he wanted to. And he made it old-fashioned-y. And you don't notice it at first. You just think you're watching a movie. Excuse me. Hold up. But at some point, you realize, hey, there was nobody tied to a chair.

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hey, there was no gratuitous like sex scene or those terrible scenes where somebody's showing their love to somebody else and you're like, I get it, I get it. You know, all the things that you hate in a movie, it just simply didn't have them. It was like a wisecracking action movie. So the wisecracking was great because John Krasinski is great at wisecracking. And the characters were great.

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But then you notice... It did have one thing that I don't like in a movie, which is somebody who's underwater for too long. I fast forward through all underwater scenes. But then you realize, wait a minute. There's nothing woke about this movie. The cast is not diverse. There's no overweight black woman who is the key feature.

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It's just good looking people and the two female leads were both attractive. And the lead guy was attractive too. So when was the last time you saw a movie like that? There was nothing woke at all. I don't know how he got it made. I would love to know the backstory. Was it Guy Ritchie? It's a Guy Ritchie film. And it's fun for the whole family. There's no swearing.

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But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains... All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day.

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I think there was zero swearing. And basically, it was sort of a genius movie of what he left out. He just sort of left out everything that movies try to put in there. You know, all the stuff you don't want to see. So I recommend it. Fun for the whole family. Well, in other news, according to SciPost, Non-right-handedness is more common across multiple mental health conditions.

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You know what non-right-handedness is? It's called left-handedness. So apparently if you're left-handed, you're more likely to have a variety of mental health conditions. Now, that probably includes if you're a leftist, because you know how we've already seen that the Democrats have more mental health problems. and they're actually called leftists.

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So apparently anything left is correlated with mental health problems. Anyway, in other news, according to Discover, we tend to trust people from low-income backgrounds over the wealthy elites. Do you think that's true? Do you trust people from low-income backgrounds more than rich people? I think that depends.

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If you dropped your wallet, would you rather a billionaire found it or somebody from a low-income background? I feel like I'd trust a billionaire to give my wallet back. So that's very situation-dependent. But you can see why Joe Biden used to do, I'm just Lunch Bill Joe. I take the train. I'm just like you. Anyway, according to... some, let's say, neuroscience news.

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AI has higher emotional IQ than humans. You know the emotional IQ where you know how to deal with people's emotional states and your own, et cetera. And I thought to myself, that kind of makes sense because the AI can simply memorize all the situations. And it can just say, all right, Under this situation, people should do this.

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So yes, it makes total sense that AI would have a higher emotional IQ. You could have just asked me. And it's a big deal. Actually, it's a big difference. The AI achieved an average score of 82%, where the humans were at 56%. So if you want some empathy and you want a high emotional IQ, I suggest you get a robot. Robots can set you free.

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According to Fox News, the ladies of The View have been asked by their boss, the head of Disney, Bob Iger, to cool it with all the political chatter. And then apparently the ladies of The View said, no, it's very important that we do political chatter, so we'll keep doing it.

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The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. So I'm going to ask a favor from one of the commenters. One of you puts the entire simultaneous sip with the wording in the comments when I'm doing it. Don't do that. because it's a long block, which distracts me.

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I don't know if that was a good idea, because if your boss tells you to do less of something, you probably should do less of it. But I can't believe that The View has the same ratings when they're being political and essentially annoying half of the country. Don't you think their ratings would be higher if they just did everything but politics?

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So it seems like Bob Iger may have the right idea here. But who knows? If you haven't seen this yet, there's some kind of AI called V03 in which they created a bunch of deep fake street interviews. So it's a whole bunch of little clips where somebody is interviewing somebody in the street, usually at night. And until now, I always told myself, you know, I could tell AI from reality.

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But you can't. It's not even just one or two things. It's a whole string of history interviews. And you cannot tell that these are AI. So I don't know how far away we are from making a whole movie. But that was scary. So we've crossed the Scott line. where I say to myself, ah, I could tell that was AI because they have six fingers or there's something about them or the way they talk.

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You absolutely can't tell. It 100% looks real. Crazy. Meanwhile, speaking of crazy and crazy eyes, Hillary Clinton is trying to ruin your Memorial Day weekend because she's made the following suggestion in a post on X. She said, I want you to talk to two people, friends, neighbors, cookout, and attendees about why Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids.

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And then she goes on to give some examples of what she's talking about. Can you think of a worse idea than bringing up the budget at your Memorial Day barbecue? I can't think of a worse idea Does Hillary get invited to things? She talks like somebody who's never been invited to anything. It's the worst idea of all time. No.

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How about you just shut up about politics and enjoy your neighbors and your family? Shut up. Just shut up about politics. Take a message from Bob Iger. Sometimes, talking about politics could be too much. Meanwhile, according to the College Fix, a Tennessee university is hit with civil rights complaints over 17 race-based scholarships.

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So when they say race-based, it means you can't be a white guy, basically. But some of them are more specific, like you could be An African-American or a Native American or something. So some of them will give you two choices. Oh yeah, Native American or African-American. So there's 17 race-based scholarships.

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I'm kind of happy that that stuff's being dismantled, but don't you think it'll be put right back together as soon as Trump is out of office? Don't you imagine that the minute there's a Democrat who is president, that everything that Trump has dismantled will just go right back to the way it was? Or could it be that the Democrats are happy he's dismantling it, but they can't say it out loud?

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I don't know. I want to be happy about the direction of things, but I don't know how long it's going to last. Kamala Harris, according to that new book by Jake Tapper, some time ago when she was appearing on CNN... And I think it was after Biden did his catastrophic debate performance. And she goes on CNN and she was asked about basically Biden's brain.

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What?

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What? So the story is that she was very mad. about the question she was asked about the president's cognitive ability. And she said, this MF-er, she used the actual full word, this MF-er doesn't treat me like the damn vice president of the United States, she told colleagues. And then she said, I thought we were better than that.

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It's just batshit crazy stuff that apparently young women are saying some version of go girl yeah, I just love it when women are in charge. So I think women are just being drawn to women leaders because they think they're being heard. And men are saying, are you kidding? You look like you have mental illness. You don't even look like a leader. Why are you saying things that are crazy?

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Why are you doing things that are clearly bad for me? Why are you overtly discriminating against white men? But it's not even the white men. So apparently, Trump won with men in every category, and I think even won with women, if you don't count women of color. So I think Democrats only won in one category, women of color.

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So clearly, men are tired of being discriminated against, and women have no idea that they've been the brutal, part of the brutal discrimination regime for decades. And men are just done. We're just absolutely done. And at the moment, since men are not being recruited into the military, they don't have a bigger mission.

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So if they're just standing around looking at the news and looking at their own life, they say, why can't I get a job there if I'm a man? And then they look at the leaders and they say, why are these ideas so crazy? Like opening the borders? That's not a difference of opinion. That's batshit crazy versus common sense. To imagine that these are some kind of political difference, that's a stretch.

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Yeah, you're talking absolute mental illness and incompetence and gross discrimination against males. Of course you're going to get this. It was the most predictable thing that could have ever happened. So just ask me next time you get confused about this gender stuff. I'll clear it up. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer is being accused of saying the quiet part out loud. I think we overused that phrase.

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But Jim Hoff at the Gateway Fund is writing about this. So Schumer was on one of the TV shows, and he said that they've got 235, quote, progressive judges. And he said, yes, our democracy is at risk because Donald Trump shows that he wishes to violate the laws in many, many different ways. And then he says, the good news here is that we did put 235 judges, progressive judges,

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Judges not under the control of Trump last year on the bench, and they're ruling against Trump time after time after time. Now, this kind of brings into question the definition of a judge, doesn't it? If Chuck Schumer knew when he picked these 235 judges that they would be spring-loaded to vote against Trump, and he doesn't think that conservatives would have done it, Really?

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The rest of you will have to make terrible jokes at home about turkey and eggs. But really, they're chicken eggs. They're completely chicken eggs. Now, I didn't know that eggs could last that long. I don't know how you preserve an egg long enough to get it across an ocean, but apparently that's a thing. So we're going to have that.

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I feel like conservatives can be a little bit unpredictable because they're trying to interpret the original meaning of the Constitution. And you can imagine some would have a slightly different view of what the original interpretation was. So conservatives tend to be at least a little bit unpredictable. They can cross lines when they say, okay, this is just too far for me.

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I think the Constitution would have gone this way. But on the left, that doesn't seem to be what's going on. It seems to be that they're just purely anti-Trump. And it wouldn't matter what he did or what the argument was. They're going to just oppose him. Now, isn't that the opposite of a judge? Shouldn't a judge be a little bit unpredictable?

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As in, okay, well, they're definitely going to look at the facts and they're going to look at the Constitution and they'll make a judgment based on the law and the Constitution. But that doesn't seem to be what's going on. It seems to me that they were literally picked because they would oppose Trump. That would be the opposite of a judge.

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A judge should be using just the data and the facts and the law and the Constitution. But if Chuck Schumer knew when he picked these judges that they would oppose Trump, I don't think he means just when there's some technical violation of the law. I don't think that's what's going on. I think they just oppose him on everything all the time.

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So basically, Schumer has destroyed an entire branch of government. Let me say that again. Schumer, sounds like quite intentionally, with the other Democrats, destroyed an entire branch of government because he hired so many people who are completely willing to just make a political decision instead of a legal or constitutional decision. That is really not the way the system is supposed to run.

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So... Anyway, you know, I'll take a fact check. It does seem to me that conservative judges are usually predictable, but I feel like they still only have arguments that are based on the Constitution, and I just don't see that on the other side. All right. So Trump has said that, according to Just the News, Misty Saveria's writing...

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that he announced that there are a draft of contracts being drawn up that would divide the land in Ukraine, and that the idea is that we might be kind of close to some kind of a deal with Russia, and it would involve trading land for peace. Well, actually, probably Russia just keeping the land it has for peace. Do you believe that?

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And also, apparently, according to the agricultural secretary, Brooke Rollins, the American fleet of chickens is ready to poop out some eggs very soon. So within just maybe a couple of months, we'll have our fleet of chickens up and running. Now, what you don't know is that they won't be real chickens. They'll just be drones. Yeah, we're replacing all of our real chickens

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Remember I told you yesterday there are two ways to negotiate this, the end of this war, that definitely won't work. One of the ways is to not have Ukraine at the table when the deal is made.

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Because if Ukraine is not at the table, then even if you try to force them to accept it, they're going to find partners in Europe to disagree and they're going to push back and they're going to drag their feet and... They're first going to say yes, but then later they'll say no. And it just won't get done. So you'll never get a deal if you don't have the Ukrainians at the table.

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So that's one way you'll never get a deal. The other way you'll never get a deal is to put the Ukrainians at the table. Because they're going to ask, we know, Zelensky anyway, will ask for something that's a non-starter. And I don't think he's negotiating.

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i think he just needs things that are impossible and could never have so the two ways that you'll never get a deal is if ukraine is involved in the negotiating or ukraine is not involved in the negotiating and those are the only two conditions so there are only two ways to go and neither of them could possibly work even on paper like it like if i simply described to you the situation you'd say oh

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Well, that wouldn't work either way. And that's where we are. So unless Trump has some plan for, let's say, trading out Zelensky or blackmailing him or bribing him or threatening him, I don't see how this could ever work. Now, Putin is quoted, we don't know if it's a real quote, but quoted as saying that the negotiations would be long and very difficult.

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So Putin's not seeing anything happening quickly. It could be that we're just dealing with Trump's usually optimism. He's just trying to will it into existence, which he can do. He has that ability to will something into existence that you thought was impossible.

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So I hate to be in a situation where I would bet against Trump being able to make a deal because it feels like later you would just feel dumb. It's like, what was I thinking? Why did I think he couldn't make a deal? But I'm going to say that unless something big changes, a very big variable, I don't know which one,

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But unless some big variable changes, there's nothing there that looks like it could be a deal as long as Ukraine is involved or Ukraine is not involved. The two situations that can't work. Anyway, that's my take. So you've heard this before, but I guess it's confirmed that Bill Maher is going to go to a meeting with President Trump at the White House. Kid Rock, who knows both of them, set it up.

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Now, I saw a bunch of people saying it's a big mistake because you're just giving Bill Maher attention and nothing good can come of it. And I disagree. I disagree. There was definitely a time when it would have been a bad idea. But if you watch Bill Maher's show, even the most recent one on Friday, he's very much trying to find a common sense high ground.

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And it looks like a real, to me it looks like a real attempt to find a common sense high ground. So he mentions, if you ask him, and he said it even on Friday, Maher did, he can list several things that Democrats did that are just stupid and couldn't possibly ever help them win a race. So that's progress.

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It seems to me that Bill Maher's primary disagreement with Trump are based on something personal from their past. And then there's always the he's going to steal your democracy, the weird stuff, the things that he hasn't done, but you imagine he might do in the future. Now, some of it's based on things you imagine he did in the past.

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So if you imagine that January 6th was an insurrection, well, I don't know if you can be helped. Because if you start from that point of view, you're starting with fake news. Do you know what the fake news never did? Have you ever seen all the interviews with the protesters to ask them why they were there? No, you haven't.

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with drones made in Ukraine. No, that's not true. That's not true. They're real chickens, as far as you know. Might be run by AI. No, no, they're real chickens. So we should have a chicken solution pretty soon. It's kind of weird that That became such a big issue because it seems like that's the one thing that either party would have been able to solve.

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never just just think about the dog not barking so there were thousands of people involved thousands of people charged with a crime and every bit of that except for the violent stuff that nobody supports um every bit of that was based on what they were thinking when they did it if the january 6 people were thinking oh i want to overthrow the country and even though trump lost

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And we all know he lost. We want to put him in charge like a king. Now, if there were any significant number of people who had that thought, then I would say, well, that does look like an insurrection.

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I got to say, if there's a whole bunch of people there, even the ones who weren't violent, if they said, yeah, we think Trump lost, but we wanted him to be in office anyway, so we're trying to make it happen. Well, that would be an insurrection.

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But do you know why you never saw that show where they just took, let's say, 20 randomized people, nonviolent, the nonviolent ones who were nonetheless picked up for some kind of some kind of charge and just ask them, why were you there? And you would find out that 100 percent of them, I think, would say it looked like the election was rigged.

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We just wanted a little time to look into it because it looked like it was so badly rigged, in our opinion, that you could probably find the problem pretty quickly if you just took a day to look into it. Now, I don't think that's true. Obviously, a lot of days have gone by and nobody's found the smoking gun of illegality. Lots of smoking guns of

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you know, what Zuckerberg spent on one election and blah, blah, blah. But have you noticed that you don't see any kind of news where they just put together the people who were there, the nonviolent ones, and say, why were you there? Everything about that narrative, and therefore everything, everything about what Democrats think of Republicans is based on that lack of news. Let me say it again.

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The most dominant opinion that Democrats have about the Republican, well, the MAGA part of the party, is that they would support somebody, Trump being a king and be against the Constitution because January 7th was an insurrection. And yet, it would be the easiest thing to confirm or to debunk. Just randomly get 20 people who attended and say, what were you thinking? Why did you do it?

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Never happened. Do you know another situation where that never happened? Do you remember the fine people hoax in Charlottesville? And the question was, were there any people there who were just opposed or they wanted to keep the statues, but were not racists and were not supporting or marching with the racists? Because if there were, then everything that Trump said makes perfect sense.

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How easy would it have been to just say, oh, we're CNN. If any of you are non-racists who went there just because you like the statues for historical reasons, we'd like to put some of you together in a little panel and you tell us why you were there. That would be the easiest thing they could have done. And what would those people have said?

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Well, as far as I know, I'm the only person in the country who did that. I put in a call on social media. hey, were there any non-racist people who just were there for their own purposes? And the answer was yes. And so I interviewed a few, and one of them did say he would go public. And I talked him out of it because I said, you know, I'm not going to let you throw your life away over this.

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As much as I would love you to go public, I'm not going to let you. You know, I'm not going to put you in that kind of danger. So it was a situation where I couldn't go public. But I'm sure if, you know, CNN or somebody else said, are there any non-racists who want to raise their hand? It would have been easy to find a bunch. Now, the ones I found were townies, people who lived in Charlottesville.

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And they just saw on the news there was a thing at the park and they wanted to be part of it. They didn't even know it was a Nazi, neo-Nazi organization because they thought, well, it's like everything else in America. Probably there's one of everything there. So it's not like it's a closed environment. So we'll just go down and be part of the fine people.

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You know, the long, the long-term cost of eggs, probably it was going to get solved in the next four years, no matter who was in charge. But I do think the Republicans put more horsepower into it, a little more, a little more work to make it happen. No way to know, but probably.

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But when you see them do the same play with the January 6th, to ignore the easiest news you could ever collect. Just pull some people together. Ask them what they were thinking. That's it. Ask them what they were thinking on Charlottesville. Ask them what they were thinking on January 6th. You'll never see it. Because the Democrat position depends entirely on them telling you what you're thinking.

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oh, what you're really thinking is you're an insurrectionist. What you're really thinking is that you're a neo-Nazi. It would be the easiest thing to debunk that. Just ask a bunch of people what they were thinking. Real easy. Consequential chances. Yeah. So. It seems to me that Bill Maher meeting Trump

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It could, because Maher seems genuinely open to the common sense middle ground, it could open something up. It might make it a little bit harder for him to just hate Trump sort of in general. But we'll see. It could go either way. It could just give Maher some material to mock Trump for having a button on his desk for a Diet Coke. Who knows?

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But speaking of Amar, that Ezra Klein guy I was talking about, he was on the show because I guess he's got a book out now that's called Abundance that's getting a lot of buzz. Now, the Democrats, as you know, don't have any leadership and they seem to be rallying around this book. So

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So Maher, again, trying to find that logical middle ground, was supporting the idea of needing to cut overregulation. Here's what their newest, smartest guy, Ezra Klein, said about that. He said that you don't want to use the word deregulate, that the Democrats should stop talking about deregulation. because the word has a bad meaning to them.

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And that instead, they should talk about some rules are good and some are bad. Now, do you know what that sounds like? That sounds like another prominent Democrat saying, the only thing wrong is our message. Again, the only thing wrong is the word? No, it's not the word. The word was never the problem.

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everybody likes deregulation if they've ever tried to get anything done the only people who wouldn't like deregulation are people who've never had to get anything done in the real world you know people just collecting a check or whatever however they live but if you tried to build something i think bill maher tried to change his roof to make it less burnable and ran into the regulation wall so even bill maher

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thinks we have too many regulations and says, he says, California needs an Elon Musk to deregulate it. Now that's about as far as you could possibly go into the total common sense part of the world. Yes, common sense. Doge is getting rid of too many regulations. Yes, we need one in California because California has too many regulations. And what does Klein say about that? He changes the subject.

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Well, according to Breitbart News, Simon Kent is writing that Trump is going to meet with the UAE, or he did meet with the UAE, and they've committed to a $1.4 trillion investment framework in the U.S. Now, as usual, it's a 10-year deal, so people like to give me the big number. Still, that's a gigantic deal. you know, even over 10 years. So that's good. Now, here's my question.

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There's their best and brightest at the moment. And he says that the real weakness for Trump is the economy, so that the Democrats should be talking about the economy. So he basically completely ignores that gigantic common sense area that Maher is trying to populate, and he just won't go there, because common sense doesn't win it for Democrats. But...

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You can say things about Trump's handling of the economy that the average person won't know if you're right or wrong. So they can say things like, oh, he's using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Well, that doesn't mean anything. And it also doesn't tell you which one was the right tool. Maybe he is using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Now, can you tell me what was the right tool?

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What was the right tool? And what do you base that on? It's just ridiculous wordplay. It's just throwing words at something. There's no argument there whatsoever. If the argument was 100% of the time people try to go hard, it doesn't work out. Well, that could be easily debunked.

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because there are plenty of cases where the smartest people in the world will tell you, you know, it's better to go fast and make some mistakes and then fix them. So even their most basic thing they say is not based on any argument whatsoever. It's just hoping that their base doesn't know the difference.

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And then Ezra says that Trump's weak on the economy because he's going to do poorly on the economy. What exactly would be Ezra Klein's qualifications for judging Trump on economics? Well, I looked at his educational background and it's political science. So how does he know that Trump's doing poorly on economics? And what area would that be?

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Would it be tariffs that they pretend they don't understand as a negotiating position? If your opinion is that Trump will be bad on economics because you personally don't understand that the tariff thing is a negotiating stick, that's just you being bad at understanding things. That has nothing to do with Trump being bad at economics because we don't know how that's going to turn out.

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But like I said yesterday, if you were to fast forward two years, do you think our trade deals will be worse than they were before the tariffs? Does anybody think that? Do you think they'll be the same? Almost certainly.

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You know, nothing's 100%, but almost certainly all of this tariff stuff is going to result in getting stuff we want, either more help on fentanyl at the border or better trade deals. And we're already seeing movement in that direction. So is Ezra Klein the tariff expert? What about inflation? What about all this cost cutting and deregulation?

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I don't know any business person who's against any of that. So what exactly are the places that Ezra Klein is looking at to suggest that Donald Trump is bad economics? I don't see it. To me, it looks like every movie he's made has been on point.

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from the gold card to tariffs to eggs from Turkey and South Korea to opening up our energy markets to bringing all these big investments in from other countries and possibly unwinding our financial involvement in Ukraine. So where's the bad economy part? What is he even looking at? These are such weak leadership claims. They're absolutely empty.

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They've got nothing to them, and there's nobody even smart talking about it. Anyway, and then Klein says that Trump only wins with voters who don't like to think about politics and are not watching the news. Do you want to know another way to say that? that Trump is popular with people who have not been brainwashed by one area of the news. They're really brainwashers more than anything else.

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Now, as I've often said, I'm pretty sure that Trump voters have at least a passing understanding of what the people on the left believe, but also what they believe. The people on the left seem to only understand what they believe. So, The people who are opposed to Trump are only taking a steady diet of pure propaganda from the pure propaganda news sites.

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But their take on that is that they're the ones who are right. The ones who are exposed to pure propaganda because they don't know their news is not real. And one of the things that I've said that gives me great peace is you can't really have a political conversation with someone who thinks their news sources are real. You can't. How many of you have ever tried it?

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The moment you get into it, you hit a fake news. It happens in 10 seconds. Well, you know, this or that might be your opinion. And then the very next thing you hear, well, you know, he tried to overthrow the country on January 6th. Okay, where did that come from? not from real news, it came from propaganda. Anyway, Trump's revoking the security clearances for Biden, Harris, and Clinton.

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Was it always true that other countries were on a regular basis making big decisions about investing in the United States? Or is this really a Trump thing? Is Trump the reason that all these companies and all these other countries are saying, yes, yes, give me a deal or I'm going to invest large amounts of money in America? I don't know. It looks like it's Trump, doesn't it?

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Now, the Biden and Harris part makes sense, but did you know that Hillary Clinton still had security clearance? That surprised me. I guess you just have it until they take it away, right? If you ever have a security clearance, then you always have it. That feels like a terrible thing.

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Because would that mean that Clinton had ongoing access to confidential government stuff even while she was out of office? Is that true? I don't know. In other news, Conor McGregor seems to be... running for president of Ireland. Now, I saw a report on that. I don't know if that's totally confirmed, but I don't know how that will go. So he's got a lot of baggage.

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There are accusations against him, and there are going to be plenty of people who are anti-Conor McGregor. But I did a little research on him, and here's what I can tell you. He definitely has all the persuasion skills it would take. So if you're going to judge on persuasion, I would hate to be on the other side. So here are some of the things that other writers have attributed to him.

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He likes talent stacks, with those words, talent stacks. He likes systems over goals. Again, using those very words. And he likes affirmations and visualizations. And these have been key to his success in his primary field. Any of that sound familiar? Talent stacks, systems over goals, affirmations and visualizations. Yeah. I wouldn't underestimate him.

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Because he's working with the best tools that anybody ever had, if I do say so myself. So yeah, Conor McGregor, he's got the full set. So he could make it, potentially. I'm not going to call him as the winner, because I don't know who he'd run against. I don't know what negatives he has. But skill-wise... Full talent stack. Yep. Or what he doesn't have, he'll have soon.

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So you know by now that the New York Times has been accused by the Trump administration of lying in an article about Elon Musk having an alleged meeting planned with the Pentagon in which they were going to share secret plans with war plans about what we would do if there were a war with China.

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Now, according to Sean Parnell, he's a Pentagon spokesperson, and according to Trump and according to Musk, that was never true. It was just completely made up. Now, I remind you that when I first talked about this story, I said there's a tell in the story, a signal, that it's not true. Do you remember what the signal was?

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So before it was confirmed that it wasn't true, it was obvious it wasn't true. And that's because the source or sources were anonymous sources. They weren't whistleblowers. They were anonymous sources. And it's the New York Times. If you put those two things together, it's about Trump or about Musk. So it's the same thing. It's about Musk slash Trump.

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It's in the New York Times, and it's about this time during the term, and it's anonymous sources, and it's something that sounds crazy when you hear it. Every part of that screamed fake news, and it looks like it was. So here's another funny one. There was a poll on who's leading to be the candidate for 2028 on the Democrat side. And apparently Kamala Harris comes out way on top.

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It doesn't look like it's baseline. And the more of these that you see, the more of these there will be. Because when people get the idea, oh, if I do a big investment in America... America is going to be a little bit friendlier to me, and that might be good for me. So, yeah, I think you're going to see a lot more of that. Here's a story that will kind of blow your mind.

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And she has a double-digit lead over the closest potential competitor, which is Buttigieg, who only had 10% support. So she got 36% of the support from Democrat and Democrat-leading people. Now, I assume that the field of potential people was limited in this poll, so maybe there were some people who would look better than her but were not on the list. I don't know.

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But it does suggest that Democrats can't learn anything. Because if you hadn't learned by now that Kamala Harris is not exactly the warrior you need, how are you ever going to learn it? I feel like this is just another batshit crazy woman stuff where women just say, which one's the woman? Okay. Which one's the most famous woman who's also a woman of color? Okay, got it. Kamala Harris.

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I don't think there's a lot of thinking that went into this. Certainly not a lot of competitive thinking, as in who could win. So the Democrats continue to be completely leaderless and rudderless. I was watching some of the video of Bernie Sanders and AOC doing their anti-oligarch tour.

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What would be more beatable than the group that's doing the anti-oligarch tour where they have more billionaires who give money to their side than the other side? It's the most debunkable thing you could do. It's the George Soros party. And the only thing Republicans did

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is they got a few billionaires on their side because a few billionaires said, uh-oh, it looks like you're destroying the country entirely, and if we don't save it, we're all dead. So I don't think this anti-oligarch thing is even a little bit smart. As Fetterman said, and I said before he said it, I don't think anybody knows what an oligarch is or why it matters.

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They might be able to define it, but who are the oligarchs? Why does it matter? Why is that not good for you if they do well? A lot of questions. Well, the governor of Maine, you might remember, spoke up at a White House meeting one time about the banning of

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biological men and women's sports, and the governor of Maine said they're not going to buckle to the Trump administration's requirements to give federal funding that they stop doing that. But the state universities, who were the target of that messaging, said they would comply, meaning that they would ban biological men and women's sports.

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but now Trump wants the governor to do a full-throated apology. Now, is he saying full-throated apology because it's kind of funny to say it that way? Am I the only one who thinks something's sexual when I hear that? I want an apology, but a full-throated one, to which I say, what exactly is in the full throat? That's a weird choice of words. So I don't know. I like it because it's provocative.

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But yeah, Trump wants a full-throated apology from the governor of Maine. Well, let's talk about Stephen A. Smith. You know Stephen A. Smith's been making a lot of noise. because although his main job is an ESPN commentator, he's been talking about politics a lot, and he's also tried to find that common sense, common ground, sort of the Bill Maher common ground.

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But James O'Keefe and his OMG, O'Keefe Media Group, they got an undercover recording of of an ESPN producer who calls Stephen A. Smith, quote, an angry black man and thinks he's crazy and has no idea about politics. So that's from a producer at ESPN. And said about discussions about the Middle East, ESPN producer questioned his, you know, what does he know about Gaza?

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Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but it seems true enough. According to ZME Science, it's a publication, it's possible that the population of the world or at least the rural population of the world, has been undercounted by over 50%.

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If he's talking about the Lakers in one minute, what are the odds he has something to add about Gaza? Now, I'm going to defend Stephen A. Smith because I kind of like him. So it's hard to criticize somebody that you kind of like. I like the fact that he's so good at what he does.

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So if his job is to make you interested and to make you not turn the channel and to make you say, I can listen to a little more of what he has to say, he's really good at that. Like really, really good. His communication skills are just off the chart. And his performance skills, and I'm going to call it performance, really good.

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So when I hear him talk about any of these political topics, I'm actually interested. because he's someone who seems to be trying to find some common sense area. He seems to be smarter than the average person by a lot, and he communicates so well. So you put all that together, and I do want to hear what he says about Gaza. Do I think that he's an expert on Gaza? No. I don't think anybody is.

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I just don't think anybody is. So if you've got somebody who might disagree with me, but he's really good at communicating, and maybe he has a point of view that other people share as well. I'm all over that. Why don't I want to hear that? So I disagree with ESPN.

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I think that he's a smart, well-informed voter who's not an expert on any of those topics, but as a representative of people who maybe have also similar views, He's just such a good communicator that why is that not interesting to me? It is. To me, that's exactly what I'd like to see more of it. It would be different if I thought he couldn't change his mind if the data changed.

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But there's no indication of that. The indication is that if he saw different data or new facts emerged, that he would go back and re-cook up a new opinion based on the new data. So I just respect it. Now, it probably doesn't hurt that I like common sense, and he seems to at least have some empathy for finding the common sense part of the world. So I'm going to just defend him on that.

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I wouldn't mind seeing more of his opinions on politics at all. So apparently the government already has a sixth generation fighter jet called the F-47. F-47 sounds like somebody insulting president number 47, but that's not, I think that's a coincidence. I don't know. Apparently it outmatches anything that the rivals have. CBS News is writing about this.

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But the thing that scares me a little bit is apparently it's been flying for nearly five years. What does it mean to you that our most advanced jet has been flying for five years but doesn't seem to be in production? That's not a good sign, is it? If it had been flying for one year or two, I'd say, okay, you've got to really test this thing. But five?

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So apparently it's really hard to count people in, let's say, lesser civilized living conditions because they don't have ID, they're not registered on any kind of government database, and you can't see them. So even if you tried to see them from space by a satellite, they'd be under the tree cover or whatever.

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Five suggests that they haven't solved it yet. In other words, they haven't solved making it as survivable or as deadly as it needs to be. So I'm going to be a little skeptical about that. And I'm also skeptical about its value in the age of drones. Is there anything that this thing can do that you couldn't do with a drone? At the moment, maybe yes. Like, you know, literally today? Probably yes.

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But aren't we like 10 minutes away from drones doing everything that this thing can do? You know, I feel like we are. It feels like, you know, and not having somebody in the drone would be better. Anyway, so I remember when all the Democrats said, if you cut the Department of Education, it would be bad for disabled students. And it will be bad for the nutrition programs. So you monster.

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You might be getting rid of some things that aren't that important, but you're also getting rid of the special needs programs that I guess were funded through that entity and the school lunch programs. They were also funded federally. And then Trump just signs a deal and he says, no, those will be handled by Bobby Kennedy's Health and Human Services. And I'm thinking, Health and Human Services.

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That kind of makes sense, doesn't it? For the special needs students, Health, Human Services. For nutrition programs, Health, Human Services. So it looks like the, you know, taking care of the people who needed those specific services, looks like that will be fully funded as far as I can tell from now.

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So did you know that the complaints about the Department of Education were always bullshit, the Democrat complaints? I did. I did. Because Doge has always said, and I'm going to call this part of the Doge work, even though I don't know if Doge was specifically the main driver of this.

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But Doge has always said, we're going to cut things, but when we find out there are things that shouldn't be cut, we'll make sure they don't get cut or they get moved somewhere else or they get funded some other way. And there it is. Speaking of Robert Kennedy jr.

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He's trying to ban cell phones in schools, but not exactly for the reason you expect them banning cell phones in schools Probably would be good just because the kids would pay attention and it would take away their dopamine source but Kennedy is worried about the electromagnetic radiation which he says and I don't know what studies back this but he says I

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has been shown to do neurological damage to kids when it's around them all day. Now, I'd definitely like to know more about that. But I'm going to tell you a story from my phone company days that you've heard before. But if you haven't heard it in this context, it might have hit you differently. So this is a real story.

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At the dawn of smartphones, before they had a smart screen, they were, what do they call them? Micro cell phones or something like that. So all the phone companies were rushing to build out very small cell phones instead of these big bricks that were the only way you could make a cell phone in the early days.

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So this was first discovered by researchers from Aalto University in Finland who were only trying to look into how many people would get displaced by big dam projects. So if you're doing a big dam project, No, it's a big dam project, not a big dam project.

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And so I was right in the middle of that, literally in a lab which studied that stuff and other phone company stuff. And so one of my coworkers, somebody in my group, was a top engineer, and he was asked to study the danger from the cell phones. to find out if we could really be in this business safely, because it was an issue back then.

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And he studied everything that was written, looked at all the studies about cell phones, and he came back with the recommendation that they were safe and that the business could go ahead. Pretty good, right? He studied all the studies, decided He had some engineering argument why these particular magnetic radiations wouldn't affect your brain and blah, blah, blah.

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So he did all the work, came back, said perfectly safe. I was sitting next to him one day while that was happening, and privately I said to him, would you use one of these phones? Because believe it or not, those are the days when people didn't have a cell phone in their pocket yet. I said, would you use one? And he looked at me and he said, no. His personal opinion was that it wasn't safe.

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His professional opinion was that it was safe. The company only cared about his professional opinion, and they went ahead and they produced the phones and did very well. And then eventually smartphones came. Now, I'm no expert, but if we can't count the number of people in the world to within a billion, and we've been told that the food pyramid was upside down until it wasn't,

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And we're still told that scientists can measure the temperature of the entire planet and compare it to the earlier decades. Completely absurd. What do you believe about the science about phones and radiation? The correct answer is you shouldn't believe anything. So I don't know what studies Kennedy is looking at, and I don't know if it's the same effect for adults. I hope not.

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But there's nothing you can believe. The financial incentive to fake a study like this is just so off the chart. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars hanging on the industry saying it's safe and keeping us believing it's safe. So don't believe anything. Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, over in Germany, they found an efficient way.

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It's the efficiency that's the story, not that you can do it at all. But an efficient way to turn CO2 they sucked out of the air into jet fuel. And the important part is not that they can do it, because we've been able to do that for a while, but we couldn't do it efficiently. So it's not like you could actually start making jet fuel. It wasn't that good. But now they can.

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And they're looking at making... Just a crap ton, a ton of jet fuel a day from one facility. That's working with Sunfire and Climeworks. Climeworks is a company that sucks CO2 out of the air. They've been around a while. Now, may I complete this story the way you want me to? There's something missing, right? It goes like this.

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If you take all the CO2 out of the atmosphere, all our plants are going to die, and then we will all starve to death. So whatever you do, Scott, don't be in favor of sucking CO2 out of the air, because the more we have, the better. That's what you're thinking. That's what you're thinking. But I don't think we're talking about sucking enough out of the air that would make any difference.

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But apparently those usually displace a lot of the locals, and the researchers wanted to find out how bad the displacement was, and so they went to count the number of people who used to be there to compare it to the number that were there after the dam was done, and they found out There's no real way to know how many people are there. Just think about that.

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So I can be wrong. Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, Ukraine is testing a zigzag drone that has a four barrel shotgun. So now the drones are going to have firearms, a four barrel shotgun, so it can do dogfights with other drones. So if you want to take down a drone with your drone, you can send up your shotgun drone and just blast away at the other drones.

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so does that scare you at all you know and i'll say again that we're sort of in this weird part of history where drone warfare is you know under development and it's going it's come a long way but it hasn't fully replaced human soldiers but weirdly we're at the very time in history where ukraine is running out of human soldiers but they're doing great

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on unmanned crafts and robots and robot dogs and drones. So it could be, it makes me wonder if Zelensky is smart enough to know that they're six months away from being able to completely defend their border without new troops. In other words, you wouldn't need many to just tell the drones to do what they need to do. So could it be,

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that the real reason that Zelensky is sort of stalling and he doesn't want to make the deal that we all think he should make, could it be that he knows more about what the future of drone warfare looks like? Because they are right on the cusp of just not needing human soldiers at the front, right at the cusp.

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And if they can get to that point where they just don't need any human soldiers, except whoever's running the drones in the background, I don't know. Maybe they think that would change the nature of the war and they could at least negotiate better. I don't know.

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Meanwhile, according to Emily Crane in the New York Post, Israel is threatening Hamas that Israel will take permanent control of some parts of Gaza if Hamas doesn't free the remaining hostages. Now, they're not talking about all of Gaza. but they're saying that some part of it, that they would take permanent control. So what does that remind you of?

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No, they're not going to take all of Gaza, but if they don't get those hostages, they might take permanent control of some of it. That's called the cats on the roof. So Hamas is getting the cats on the roof story. If you don't know the cats on the roof story, I won't give you the whole story. But the idea is that it's a way to gently break the bad news to somebody.

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There's a joke about the cat on the roof and blah, blah, blah. But here's what I think is happening. As I've been saying for quite some time, it's kind of obvious that Israel's never going to give back Gaza. It's kind of obvious that they're going to take full control of it. And I don't think they're going to say, hey, Trump, you take control of it. I don't think so.

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I don't think they're going to say, you know what? It'd be great if Saudi and some of our friendlier neighbors like Jordan maybe control Gaza. I don't think so. It doesn't seem likely at all. It seems completely obvious to me that the long-term ownership of Gaza will be Israel, and they'll just own it completely, and Hamas will be 100% destroyed.

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And not only that, but our estimates apparently are just wildly just guesses off by a lot. They said on average, the data sets undercounted rural populations by 53%. In some cases, the estimates were off by as much as 84%. The population of an area was off by 84%. Now, do you know where I'm going to go with this? Can you guess the next thing I'm going to say? We'll see how well you know me.

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But I think this is just how they start breaking it to them. If you don't give us back those hostages, and they know they're not going to get the hostages back, at least not all of them, then we're going to keep at least a little bit of Gaza. and then check back in a few months.

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Well, you know, if you still don't give back the hostages, because we're not going to have them back in a few months, we might take a little bit more of Gaza. And one of their defense minister, I guess, he said, the more Hamas continues its refusal to release the kidnapped, the more territory it will lose to Israel. And there it is.

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At this point, Israel is not really disadvantaged by Hamas not releasing the hostages. I mean, it's terrible. If you're the family member or friends, it's the worst thing in the world. But from a strategic perspective, they're just gaining land.

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So the longer Hamas says no on the hostages, the more guaranteed it is that there will be no Hamas and there will be no Gaza under the control of anybody but Israel. So that's common. According to an article in Time magazine, Alana Samuels is writing about this.

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Apparently, there's a sort of a private, weird little health insurance group that's been formed of 10,000 members who just pay for each other's health care, but it's optional. So I'm really interested in this. So the way it works is if you need some health care, I guess you pay for it, but then maybe you can get reimbursed.

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So you say, I just broke my arm and it cost me, you know, I don't know, $1,500 to get it all wrapped up. And then other people voluntarily, voluntarily allow some of their money to go toward paying that. But they don't have to. So you could be in the group and be a person who asks for money without being a person who ever gives any money. However, here's the fun part.

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your reputation will be tracked. So if you're a person who never, never gives to anybody else's healthcare, and again, you're not paying all the healthcare because lots of people will be involved. So you'd be paying, you know, you're part of it, a little part of it.

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If you never do, then when you break your arm and you ask the other people in the group to help you pay for it, well, they're going to see that maybe you weren't paying for it so much yourself for other people. and they may be a little more reluctant to pay.

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Now, I imagine if you're poor or you're going through bad times, if you can see that it's somebody who paid often, but not every time, you might say to yourself, probably just low income. And so the fact that they paid anything ever because it's voluntary, you know, it shows good character. So, yeah, I'll pay for your broken arm. No problem. But suppose you'd never paid for anybody.

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And then you asked for a payment. Well, maybe you don't get fully, fully covered. So it's a really interesting model. And I'm not going to go so far as to say that I predict it will work, but it's working well enough. that 10,000 people are voluntarily part of it. And at least some of them seem to like it a lot. So I'm going to say this is impressive.

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This is just the free market and free people just being impressive. So good on them. So even if it doesn't work out in the long run, I'm completely happy that somebody tested it. What are we doing here on time? Perfect.

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um so owen gregorian's gonna do an after party so in just a few minutes and he'll be on uh well just look for spaces on x spaces is the audio only app and if you've got x that's built into the app and uh just look for owen gregorian and uh you'll see the link to it in his his feed So look for the next Coffee with Scott Adams after party.

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And I won't take too much time from the locals people because they can go talk to each other at that. But everybody else, thanks for joining. I'll see you tomorrow. And locals, I'm just going to say hi.

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This will be a test of my predictability. What's the next thing I'm going to say? Does anybody have it yet? So... How do you think we do when we're measuring the temperature of the world every place on the planet? You just found out that we can't even count the people and that was all made up. Even counting the people. One of the things that you would just kind of assume we had under control. No.

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No, it was just... We were just guessing. Do you remember when you were younger and you thought nutrition had been exhaustively studied and the government was telling you what was safe to eat? Do you remember that? It turns out it was just all bullshit. The food pyramid was upside down and it was just... It was just based on industry food people trying to sell you cereal or something. So, no.

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And do you remember when you thought that... Do you remember when you thought that vaccinations were tested in a gold standard... a randomized controlled trial, and that after the testing, even once it got approved, that they would do ongoing continuous testing to make sure it was still safe. Do you remember when you just assumed that was true? Nope. Nope, that was never true.

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So I'm going to say it again because I think it's hilarious, at least hilarious to me. Wait till Democrats find out about climate models. Just wait till they find out that the most foundational thing to their entire movement, completely made up. you can't even count the number of people on Earth, much less measure the temperature everywhere on Earth for decades.

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That is so not something that humans can do. It's so not even close. And the fact that they've sold it to the American, even the scientific community, even the scientific community has been convinced that we can measure the temperature of the Earth over time. Wow. Wow. Well, another fun news, U.S.

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Take a double if you need it. Well, after the show, sometime around 8.20 Eastern time, we'll be Owen Gregorian hosting a Spaces for all of you and anybody else who wants to join. So look on the X platform. Look for Owen Gregorian. Just do a search for Owen Gregorian. Or you can look at my X feed. You'll see I just reposted it. And it'll be... A Coffee with Scott Adams After Party.

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Commerce Secretary Ludnick, he was talking to the all-in pod guys, went to Washington, and said the U.S. has already sold 1,000 gold cards. So those are the cards that we sell to rich people to give them a sort of a fast start to being citizens, if they want to be U.S. citizens. And that would be $5 billion. 1,000 of those gold cards would be income to the United States of $5 billion.

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But maybe even better, if you're bringing in all these rich people, they tend to hire people and they spend money and they start businesses. So this gold card thing might be way better than I thought. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Hey, notes. Don't stick together. Meanwhile, Columbia University has folded to the Trump demands.

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So the Trump administration was withholding $400 million of federal funding until Columbia made some specific changes to fight anti-Semitism, which, according to the Trump administration, they had not done enough of. And, you know, there were a lot of anti-Israel protests, which seemed very more anti-Jewish protests. And so the Trump administration was all over him.

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And apparently the university has agreed to everything. I'm not sure I was expecting that. But $400 million, I guess that's a lot of pressure. And the things that were being asked for were don't let one class of people be discriminated against. to the point of physical danger. That wasn't a big ask, really. But still, I thought there'd be more pushback.

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But Columbia University on Friday said, yep, every single thing you ask for, we're going to give you. So we'll see. Wall Street Journal was reporting on that, and Just the News was also. According to New York Times writer, Ezra Klein, and he's making a lot of news because he has a new book out. And as you know, the Democrats are in bad shape.

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They don't have leadership and they don't have a direction. So when one of them writes a book that gets a lot of attention, I think the news says, finally, we found our leader. So let's talk about Ezra Klein. And some of the things he's found. One of the things he found is that the Trump's ability to get male voters was way bigger than people expected.

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And when I say way bigger than people expected, I mean everybody except me. I think it was 2016 when I started saying, you realize what's happening? The Democrats are becoming the party of women. And do you remember that?

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Now, I don't know if I'm the first political pundit to say we're turning into the male party and the female party, but I was way ahead of the curve, probably, I don't know, eight years ahead. Here we are. So here's some of the numbers that Klein was talking about. He says, what's crazy is if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded.

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So 18-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Trump than 18-year-old women, which is completely unprecedented. Actually, this was Shor. Shor would be his co-author. I'm not sure who Shor is. But part of the mystery is that it's happening in other countries. So if you think, oh, it's a Trump thing,

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Trump has just a way of attracting men because he has sort of a male energy vibe to him. Apparently, we're seeing a similar kind of shift in Canada, the UK, and Norway. Would you like to know the real answer?

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You know, I always joke when I see scientific stuff, and I always joke, it's sort of my ongoing joke, well, you could have just asked me because your conclusion is so obvious you didn't need to do the study at all. This is one of those, this is so obvious you didn't need to do the study at all. Does anybody want to take a crack at it before I give you the right answer?

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All right, so don't miss that. Well, the Trump administration says it's looking for some big deals for eggs from Turkey and South Korea and maybe at least one other place, according to The Hill. Now, you might say to me, Scott, how can you allow a story about turkey and eggs to Do not pretend that they're turkey eggs. Well, I can do it because I'm a professional.

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So what's the right answer to why in various different countries, so it's not the individual leaders, it's not the leaders, it's not Trump per se, but why is it in various countries at the same time the men are moving in one direction and the women are moving in another? Why do you think that is? I'm looking at your comments. Tate and Rogan, no.

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No, because remember, it's international, and they don't have the same impact in every country. Men are for security. That's close. You're knocking on the door. Let's see. Women are mentally ill, says DM. CIA, DEI. Okay, you're all in the right area. You're very close. Let me say it to you in the simplest possible way. Men do not like to be ruled by batshit crazy women with batshit crazy policies.

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Anything else that you say about this topic is a complete waste of time. Let me say it again, just so you hear it clearly. Men of every age, but the young ones probably are more flexible to change their opinion and change their party. Men, especially young ones, don't want to be ruled by batshit crazy women with batshit crazy policies. Now, hear me clearly.

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I'm not saying that all women are batshit crazy. So don't hear that. But the ones in charge, for whatever reason, are unusually batshit crazy and their policies are clearly batshit crazy. Hey, let's open up the border and eat bugs and get rid of your gas car and kill all the nuclear power plants and decrease your military until somebody can own you.

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If you're a private security, can you detain and arrest somebody? I don't know. So is that one of the rights? I don't know exactly what rights they get, but I like anything that makes Elon Musk safer. So if this in any way makes him safer, yes. Yes, please. Let's do that. So it looks like it makes sense. It passes the sniff test. Well, Trump, again, is reiterating that he's in favor of the

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Death penalty for drug dealers. He makes a good point that a big drug dealer could kill 500 people, you know, just the number of overdoses over time. You know, it could add up to a lot of people. So yes, if there's somebody who is knowingly, knowingly, this is the important part, knowingly selling a drug that is likely to kill 500 people at the scale they're selling the drug. Yeah. Yeah.

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The death penalty is not just appropriate, but it's just screaming for it. If somebody just murdered 500 people, would we be questioning the death penalty? We would not. So the fact that it takes a little while for these victims to die, that shouldn't be any safety for the person who did it. So yes, I'm 100% in favor of the death penalty for any drug dealers that are working at scale.

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I don't think you want to get the one who sells a pill or two to their friends. I wouldn't agree with that. Trump said also that they're going to make some brutal anti-drug ads. He says they hired a

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some of the best agencies, I guess that means ad agencies, and they're going to spend $150 million, maybe $200 million on advertising that says when you take certain drugs like fentanyl, it destroys your skin, destroys your teeth, destroys your brain. He says they're really horrible commercials. He's seen the first of them in the brutal. And he thinks that it will work. Now, it might. It might.

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When I see a show that looks like people in an office and the title of the show is Severance, here's what I assume. Okay, I get it. It's another one of those remakes where there's some severance, meaning people got fired. So the people who got fired and got the severance, the severance payment, they decided to, what, get back at their evil boss and tie him to a chair and ha, ha, ha?

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Because brainwashing works. So if these are designed to brainwash people, the young people, I have every reason to believe that as a way forward, it could be a good way. But you have to worry about the reverse happening. The reverse is that you make it cool. Oh, here's your brain on marijuana. Now it's a cracked egg. And then people say, that sounds like they're overdoing it.

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I think I'll do more of it instead of less. So you can get the risk is that the young people just resist anything you tell them. So they end up liking it more because it's more forbidden. But if you do it right, you can really put the stink on something. Now, what I'd want to know is the following. What makes an ad agency the best? That they were good at selling a commercial product?

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Or maybe somebody's brand? Do you think that these ad agencies have somebody with, let's say, hypnosis skill? I think some of them do, actually. I don't know if these do. But it would not be unusual that the ad agency had more than Ad people, right? If you watched, what's that TV show with the advertiser people?

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If the only expertise they're bringing is ad agency, then they're going to do something like, okay, we'll just say it's bad for you and young people don't want to look ugly, so they won't do it. Well, that's a good start. But here's how I would do it. We now have the technology that they can put sensors on your head and they can tell how you're receiving certain messages.

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And what they should do is try a bunch of stuff, maybe use AI to generate some quick visuals and just run all the different messages across the people that you're testing and test it on young people, whoever your target is. and just see what works. So I don't know that advertisers automatically do that. They have the technology, but I don't think they automatically do it.

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This is one of those cases where I wouldn't say, oh, just make it look unattractive. I don't know if that's enough. You know, I think they could take the next level of science to make people just run from it if they did it right. Well, meanwhile, CPAC is happening and Steve Bannon's making things interesting by teasing a third term for Trump.

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Now, I think the smart people believe he's trolling, and he's not actually literally saying third term. He might. I mean, I can't read his mind, so I don't know what he's thinking. But one of the things I like about Bannon is that he seems to understand the whole media landscape better than almost everybody.

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So Bannon's one of the ones, maybe the one, who said the only way past the media gatekeepers is to overwhelm them. And I think that started with the first term. And so that's something that not everybody would have seen, right? So Bannon can see around corners in a lot of different ways. So if he's doing this teasing that Trump might have a third term, I...

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I step back from my usual reaction, which is my first take. My first take is don't do that. That's exactly what they're accusing him of. If you get them all worked up about this third term thing, it's going to fit in with their dictator oligarch message. And, you know, you're just making it worse. Why would you give them that ammunition? So that's my first take.

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But then I say, all right, what if Steve Bannon is smarter than I am? What would that look like? And then I think, oh, damn, it means I'm missing something. What would I be missing? I don't know, but let me just put something out there. If it's Steve Bannon just trolling, then it doesn't mean anything. If it's Steve Bannon who's thought of this strategically, it could mean a lot.

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So I didn't want to watch that. But then I found out that Severance has nothing to do with losing your job. And that it's more of a sci-fi and sort of an ongoing mystery than it is like anything else. So here's what I like about it. And I will say that since entertainment is subjective, no more than half of you are going to like it as much as I do.

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And here's the other way that this could be playing. And I don't know which way is the dominant way. But one way it could be playing is that Trump has such a commanding control over the media that he and his, let's say, supporters can feed the media stories that fit exactly into their sweet spot, like right on the nose. This is exactly what you thought would happen, isn't it?

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And it will just make them chase their tails about this third term while Trump gets things done. Because again, they're going to run out of shelf space. They can't talk about everything all the time. They have to decide what to talk about, and they always have to coordinate, so they're all talking about the same thing.

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So with one good troll, you can make the entire enemy media landscape focus on the message that you wanted them to focus on. And if it turns out that the whole third term thing just doesn't resonate with anybody, doesn't resonate with Democrat voters, doesn't resonate with Republican voters, he could be sort of leading them down this dead end alley, which would be brilliant Steve Bannon strategy.

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Now, is that what he's thinking? Again, I can't read his mind because he's a little bit ahead of most of us. It certainly had me in some ways. So if he thinks it's a good idea to tease this third term, he might be just working on a level that we're not quite at. I'll just put that out there.

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If it were anyone else who did not have a proven record of seeing around corners, I would say, hmm, looks like a mistake. But just the fact that it comes from Bannon makes me go, okay, back up. back up. He doesn't do things by accident. He doesn't do something that dramatic without thinking it through completely. So we'll see. I'd love to hear his thinking on it someday.

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You probably saw on the news that Trump was talking to some folks that included the governor of Maine, and Trump was saying that he was banning, at least in terms of supporting with federal funds, he was going to not give federal funds to any school that was allowing biological men to play women's sports.

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And I guess the governor of Maine was in the audience, Janet Mills, and she indicated that they were going to continue allowing biological males in women's sports. And it was kind of a smallish room, you know, not that many people attending and watching Trump just destroy her while we watched was kind of interesting. So he starts out by saying, you know, it's illegal. He made it illegal.

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Then she tried to say, oh, we obey state and federal law. So she's, you know, making the point that his executive orders are not law. Trump tried to sell it as law, but that's a harder sell. And so instead he backed up to, smartly, he backed up to, well, you're not getting any federal funds then. And then he adds, and by the way, your political career is basically over now.

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And he said, the voters in your own state want what I'm offering, which is blocking biological men and women's sports. So not only did he dress her down in public, but he basically predicted the end of her political career over this because it's so obviously what Trump wants is also popular in her state. So that was fun. She said, I'll see you in court. And he said, looking forward to it.

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Half of you are going to say, well, I don't get it. And half of you are going to say, why have I missed this for so long? But here's what Ben Stiller has done that is actually very impressive. So Ben Stiller is the, I guess he's director, producer, whatever he is, but he seems to be in charge. And we know Ben Stiller being a little bit more woke than you want to be.

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I will give her credit for being spunky. but she's being spunky on the wrong topic. So I don't think that's going to work. According to the news, Trump is planning to shut down a federal building in San Francisco. But the funny part is that the name of the building is the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building. So he's going to close down the presumably largely unused building.

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Nancy Pelosi Federal Building. And I was thinking that if they're going to sell it, they should change the name first. Because I don't know what kind of a bidding war you're going to get for the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, but you might want to change that to something that would get a Republican bidder. I suppose if you buy it, you can change the name.

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But it just feels like somebody died in the building. You know how you always have to, if you're selling a residential real estate, you have to disclose if anybody ever died in the house you're selling? Well, I think having Nancy Pelosi's name on your building is sort of the commercial property equivalent of somebody died in it. That's just me. J.D.

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Vance is at CPAC too and he was defending the, let's say, the appropriateness of young men acting like young men instead of being forced to, as he said, Democrats are trying to turn everyone into androgynous idiots. The Democrats are trying to turn everyone into androgynous idiots. That's pretty badass. I don't think J.D.

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Vance or any vice president would have said those words unless he was under the umbrella of Trump, in which case it just seems natural. Yeah. Yeah. They're trying to turn everyone into androgynous idiots. And then he went on, J.D. did, saying that the The Republicans believe that there are two sexes and that there's a reason for that. And obviously, there are some exceptions.

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Not every person is born with exactly male or exactly female stuff. But the exceptions are so rare that it makes sense to treat them as exceptions. I think that's the point. There's still some talk about that Epstein list. Alina Haba said that transparency is coming and we're going to see that list. Well, do you think so?

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Do you really think that the Epstein list is going to be presented and it will tell us things we didn't already know? I would put the odds of that at very low. Very, very low. It's possible that that something will come out that looks like it's new, but it's not that new.

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Maybe we already knew it, or it'll be who flew on Epstein's plane, but that won't tell you that they did anything illegal, because apparently a lot of people flew on his plane. So my prediction will be you're not going to learn anything, because if they had the goods, they wouldn't tell you. They would keep it for themselves.

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Suppose, I'll just put it out there, suppose there was something on there that was embarrassing to an ally. like, I don't know, something involving the British royal family. I'm just putting that out as an example. I have no information whatsoever. Would we, as an ally of Great Britain, would we throw their royal family under the bus knowing that that would be a big problem and that

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Whatever anybody did or did not do probably stopped. So who's the better off? I don't know. I think I see five different reasons not to tell us and not a single reason to tell us. So I don't think they're going to tell us. They might come back and say, well, really, there's no list. There's just a lot of information, and we're still looking through it, and it's all got stuff we can't show you.

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So one thing you'd kind of assume about the show is it's going to be really woke. Turns out, it's very diverse, but you don't even really notice. The diversity is the natural kind, where there's one character who's kind of a key character, a black character, and you watch the black character do his thing, and you say to yourself, he's kind of perfect. That's good casting right there.

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I don't know, nothing. Nothing's going to happen. Well, there's a Pentagon shakeout you've probably heard. So Trump's removing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, Jr., Now, because it's 2025 and I know what you're going to say, you're going to say he was a DEI hire because he was a black man, four star general. There's no indication of that.

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There's no indication that. In fact, he was I think he got his last job through Trump and Trump has said good things about him. And even in replacing him, he had good things to say. So I would not make any assumptions about General C.Q. Brown Jr. It may be that maybe he was a little too pro-DEI. Maybe Trump just wants his own preferred advisor there. He doesn't really need a reason.

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But the reason I would rule out is, has anything to do with DEI? I don't think it does in this case. But at the same time, I think Hegseth removed the Admiral of the Navy, who was a woman. And again, there's no direct information that this is any kind of a DEI thing, unless the problem is it was somebody who supported DEI too much. Supporting it would be its own problem.

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But no, let's not do the thing where every single person who loses a job under the Trump administration was incapable because of some DEI reasons. The DEI argument, as I often remind you, is that it guarantees that things will fall apart, just not any specific person and at any specific time. You can't go that far. Meanwhile, the SBA offices are mostly empty.

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So there's a new SBA chief, Kelly Loeffler, and did a video of her second day of work, and the office is just pristine but empty. Everything looks like it's in good shape. It's just empty. So I guess on Monday, federal employees have to go back to work. Is that for all the federal employees? I don't know. I feel really bad for them.

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So my Dilbert comic-making part of me says, oh, God, imagine losing the right to work at home. Well... Maybe there was a little slack and off at home. Maybe there was. But it would be devastating if you built your life around this working at home thing and then you lost the ability to do it. There are people, for example, who probably got a dog because one of them was going to be home all day.

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That would be really bad for the dog to have to leave it home all day. So people are going to have a really hard adjustment. Now, you might say, but I don't feel sorry for them because they were working at home and collecting their paycheck and maybe not working too hard. Well, we have to make the hard choices, no doubt about it. But there's definitely a human impact that's hard to ignore.

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According to the Washington Post, Trump might want to take over the post office and move it under the Commerce Department instead of leaving it as this quasi-independent thing that it is. But I don't know why. I didn't see in the story any reasoning. Does anybody know a reason? Is it because we assume that the Commerce Department would make it more efficient somehow? I don't know.

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So I don't know what problem is being solved there, but we'll see if that happens. According to Eric Doherty, who's reporting on this, when Trump was talking to the governors, I think it was in the same

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same time he was talking to that main governor he he told the governors that they need to switch to paper ballots in their election and same day voting here's what he said he also said to verify his citizenship to vote and voter id and that elon musk supports this so i love that trump can now say elon musk supports this or that because

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you know, if Trump supports it, you say, well, it's at least political. So there's at least a political reason. But is that good enough? Well, if Musk supports it, then it makes sense technically. And it makes sense logically. And it probably makes sense economically. Because, you know, Musk isn't going to ignore any of that stuff.

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You know, Musk is not going to say, well, let's ignore the technical issues. No, he's not going to do that. He's not going to ignore cost or effectiveness or any of the things that he focuses on. He's not going to ignore the very things he focuses on. So it's such a good thing to be able to refer to. And Elon Musk agrees with me. Anyway, so he says more about it, Trump does.

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And then you watch the other characters, and you realize they are very diverse. But they still allowed the boring straight white guy to be the lead character. And I thought, when was the last time I've seen that? So it's diverse without the wokeness. And it's kind of refreshing. Nothing's in your face. You never notice. You don't see any actors who look like they don't belong there.

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He says, it's called the watermark. It's impossible to copy, impossible to cheat. Well, I'm not sure if it's impossible, but it'd be much harder. Highly sophisticated, he says. He goes, those four things, if he did two-day or three-day voting, fine. Other states do. They were weeks after the election. Imagine if it were a close election. So, you know, his point is well taken.

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And he said, I did ask Elon Musk, and he said, quote, now I'm not sure this is an accurate quote, but this is Trump saying that he talked to Musk, and Musk wasn't in the room then. And this is what he says Elon Musk said. So I did ask Elon Musk, and he said, quote, computers are not meant for voting. Too many transactions taking place. Now, I don't know what that means exactly.

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Because generally, I would think too many transactions is why you want a computer. You know, it would be the whole reason for a computer. But is there a part left out? Is there some context left out? Or maybe... a fuller reason that's not expressed here. So I'd love to hear Elon's take on voting machines. Love to hear that.

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And then about paper ballots, Trump says, I hope the governor's, he says it'll cost you 8% of what the costs are now. So it'll be 8% of the cost to use paper instead of machines. So it's not faster. It's not cheaper. It's not easier. Why do we have machines?

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Now, I posted the other day, maybe it was yesterday, that you should Google what countries have banned, just banned, made it illegal to do some of the things that we routinely do in our elections. For example, did you know there are a number of countries that ban electronic voting machines? You know, the very ones we use. They're banned in some countries. Do you know why they ban them?

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Security risk. We're actually using systems that our own allies, like European allies, our own allies, and other places too, our own allies say are not sufficient for voting. And yet the American public has been sold on, oh yeah, there's no way to cheat. And then the Europeans who looked at exactly the same systems, the Europeans do know some things, like they're not children.

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And when their experts looked at it, they said, no, you can't have this in our country. You're banned. And then we just use it. Banned in another country. How about the voting by mail? Do you know how many countries say it's illegal to vote by mail? Quite a few. And our allies, our allies say, oh, it's not safe to vote by mail. That's just asking for a rigged election.

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And it's our basic way with mail. I think most of our votes were by mail. So if you just take those two things, and then what about same day voting versus voting for a month? I don't know that there's anybody who does that. Or at the very least, most of our allies probably ban voting outside of the narrow window on voting day, maybe a day or two.

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And I'm sure they have special things for, you know, military serving overseas and stuff. But those are just small exceptions. So when you say that our own voting system includes major elements, not minor, but the most important elements are literally banned by our own allies who also looked into it. Do you feel comfortable with our system? Europe doesn't. How about our food?

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You ever notice you go to Europe, and because they've banned more things than we have, you can eat the food and not get fat? You come back to America, God knows what you're putting in your body. Well, sometimes our allies get it right. I think they got it right with food. We'll wait for RFK Jr. to do his full look at stuff to know for sure. But it looks like they got it right with food.

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They're all well chosen. They're all great. And not once... Does a 90-pound woman use her kung fu to beat up a 200-pound man? That drives me crazy. But no, not once is there a car chase scene. No car chase scenes. Not once is there anybody tied to a chair to be tortured. I don't think. I don't think I saw that. So when Joe Rogan says it's...

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And it certainly looks like they got it right with election security. So maybe we shouldn't be so quick to say America does everything better than everybody because obviously not. Obviously not. So let's talk about the budget. Oh, the most fun thing about this voting machine thing

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is I hope it gets to the point where Elon makes a clear statement in his own voice about what he thinks of electronic voting machines. I'm going to guess, I think he may have said it before, but I think he did confirm it actually the other day, that voting machines are not ideal for voting. So in order to get Democrats to disagree, they have to disagree with Elon Musk,

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on a question of technology and systems. It just gets funnier watching the Democrats be in automatic reflexive disagreement mode about everything. It just makes you can trap them 100 different ways. All right. All right. Let's go to the next topic. The next topic is electronic voting machines. And Elon Musk says that that they're a security problem. What do you say?

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Well, what does Elon Musk know about technology? It's going to look so dumb. Anyway. I guess there are two versions of the budget that have been passed. The House had a version that covers the whole budget, and I guess that's passed. But of course, both houses would need to pass a bill for it to be the actual budget.

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So the Senate, instead of waiting for the House or working on the House version, they did their own. Not that unusual. But theirs, they also passed theirs, but theirs is a two-part process. So they only passed the first part. Now, I think there's some strategy involved here. So I think the Senate is thinking a little more strategically, but Trump actually liked the House.

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Trump liked the House because they threw everything that he cares about into their budget. He says, well, just if you're just to prove the whole thing and we're done. But the Senate does one version that's focused on border security, the military, beefing up the military and focus on energy production.

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Now that's pretty smart too, because if the Republicans are all on board with those things, they can vote on them and then just take them off the table because it's already voted on. And then when they bring the second bill, which they would plan to do later in the year. So that would be the one that talks about Trump's tax policy, extending it and all the other stuff.

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All right, that's the good news. Here's the bad news. I read two long stories about these two different budgets, one the Senate version and one the House. Do you know what was not included in either story? The deficit. The deficit. The deficit's the only thing I care about. It's the only thing that's going to kill us. The other things are important. You've got to have a military.

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You've got to have a border. But really, if you're talking about the budget and your top line isn't, they've got a new budget, it's going to add to the deficit by this much, they're not really in the right conversation. They're not covering it at all. It should be number one, what would this budget do to our deficit? And then if the answer is, oh, it blows it up worse, then we're done.

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They need to go back and do it again. Unless they have some other plan that I'm not aware of where the budget will magically not be spent or something. I mean, what's that? So we have one job. Bring us a budget that doesn't break the bank. Oh, here's a budget that breaks the bank. Well, you got anything else? Yes, we have another budget that breaks the bank. Got anything else?

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Well, we have a process to create a budget that breaks the bank. Okay, let me say it again. The only thing that would be a mistake, the only thing, would be a budget that breaks the bank. So let's try it again. You got the House version and the Senate. Could one of you assholes go come back with a budget that doesn't break the bank? Sure, sure. Tomorrow they come back. Well, here's our budget.

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Does it break the bank? Yeah, it does. How about you in the Senate? Do you have a new one? Yes, we do. Here's a brand new budget. Does it break the bank? Yeah. Yeah, it does. Can you even get Rand Paul to agree with it? No. No. We can't get Rand Paul to vote for it. Why won't he vote for it? It breaks the bank. Okay, are you even listening to us? We've got one thing we fucking want.

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That should hold you. That should get you through the rest of the show. Well, after the show, remember it's Saturday, so Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event. Spaces is the audio-only thing that's on X, so you have to be on X to get that. But look for Owen Gregorian, and you'll see the link for that.

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fantastic and inventive it holds my interest like nothing ever has it's really special so uh here's what i'd like to now if it sounds like i'm spending way too much time on this and you're saying to yourself i don't even have apple tv there's a bigger point here's the bigger point ben stiller has created a masterpiece but it's more than that because he's also proven you could violate

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Don't break the bank. All right, I'll try again next week. Here's my budget. Does it break the bank? Well, yeah, but there's no time. There's no time left to do it any other way. Really? You waited months until there would be no time so you could fucking shove this down our throats and up our asses at the same fucking time and we would sit there and say, oh, I guess there's no time left.

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There's no time left. Could you get a watch from Rand Paul, please? Could somebody talk to Rand Paul and get a fucking watch? Because there is time if you want to do it right.

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Now, I know it's hard, but if you can't do it, just fucking give up and tell us, oh, sorry, the only thing you wanted us to do we're not going to do, and we're not able to do it, and we won't do it later, and we won't do it at the last minute. There's just no way we can do it. Well, give up, and then maybe we'll try something else.

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Maybe the White House can come up with a budget, and you just have to vote on it. But don't give us another fucking bank-busting idea Now, if I'm wrong, meaning that let's say the Doge effort is on top of the budget, so that as we start realizing the cuts, because it takes a while to actually realize any of the cuts, that the plan is to reduce the budget by exactly the amount of the Doge findings.

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If that's the plan, could you let us know Could you include that in the budget wording so that we know, well, we're going to pass one with a $2 trillion deficit per year, per year. But we're really hoping that by the end of whatever, we'll have most of that $2 trillion cut down. And so in the end, we won't be spending it all. Or tell us this. You know it's too late to do it for the next 12 months.

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All the doge cuts that we find, even if we cut it right away, the best we're going to be able to do is kind of look at a 2026 as the year that the doge cuts really kick in and then we can really reduce the budget. To which I would say, all right, all right. Everybody wants it sooner, but if anything's good, it's worth waiting for.

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But I'm reading two major stories in our press and even the media are Even the media is ignoring the deficit when they talk about the budget. How in the world is this even happening? Anyway, so as you know, Zelensky and Trump had some words for each other. And here's what Trump says about Zelensky. He said it on Fox News Radio.

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He said, quote, I've been watching for years and I've been watching him, meaning Zelensky, negotiate with no cards, Trump said of Zelensky. He has no cards and he gets sick of it. Yeah, so I don't think he's very important to be at meetings, Trump says of Zelensky, to be honest with you. And then he said he makes it very hard to make deals.

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Now, Trump can dismiss the value of people better than anybody I've ever seen, whether you like it or not. But what he says, Zelensky, Zelensky is trying to negotiate with no cards and he makes it very hard to make deals. It just like it sounds like he's talking about trying to do a Zoom call and your kids keep coming in and bothering you during the middle of Zoom calls.

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Like I'm trying to do a Zoom call here. I got to lock the children out. They just keep wandering in the room. It makes it very hard to do a serious Zoom call. Anyway, So apparently Trump is also angry, according to Rubio and Vance, they both say, that this is being reported in the National Pulse, Jack Montgomery.

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Apparently both Rubio and Vance say that Trump is mad at Zelensky because allegedly Zelensky had agreed on at least the framework of a deal where Ukraine would be giving up some mineral rights to the U.S. in return for some security guarantees. And Trump went away thinking that that was a done deal because there had been agreement.

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And then Zelensky, according to at least our side, Zelensky just lied and said, no, there's no deal. So imagine being the person who lied about what happened in the room and then threw Trump under the bus with your lie. At the same time, he's the only one that can protect your country. That's what I call somebody who's not good at making deals.

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pretty much all of the rules of how you're supposed to make a crappy piece of product in 2025. He violates all the rules, but does them in a genius way. So maybe, maybe there's hope. There might be hope for scripted television. You know, if you can do it this well. Very impressive. Well, yesterday, a lot of us were wondering what happened to X user, who is quite well known, Brian Ramelli.

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So when Trump says that Zelensky is not good and he's making it harder to make deals, well, there's a perfect example. If you know Zelensky is going to make a deal in private and then publicly say there's no deal, how do you work with that guy? I mean, seriously, what can you do with somebody who does that right in front of you?

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And, you know, apparently Rubio and Vance are both backing that that's exactly what happened. Now, it would be one thing if he changed his mind. Or he said, you know, let's not get too far in front of it. We haven't closed on any details of, you know, what it would look like with the mineral rights. So we agree in principle, but we're a long way from a specific agreement. I could live with that.

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I could live with that if they didn't have any specifics. Just say, don't know it's going to happen. We like it in general, but we're going to have to make sure the details work for Ukraine. But to just come out and say that it didn't happen, that there was no agreement, you leave that guy home. You just leave him home, and you make a deal, and then if you can make one, you just make it work.

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So I'm going to make a point. I don't remember if I made it on the show or I made it in the man cave. Some people are criticizing Trump for seemingly having granted concessions to Putin without actually negotiating. For example, I think Trump said, you know, certainly there'll be some kind of land for peace deal.

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So it's not as if Russia is going to give back all those things or any or any of the things that they've captured. So that seems like you're just giving Putin something. To which I say, it's not giving somebody something if you know that's not up for conversation. And it works both ways.

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Do you think that Putin is going to ask Trump, at the end of this, we want to make sure that America has no CIA bases and no military bases and no strong connection to Ukraine? Well, that's what Putin would want, wouldn't he? Wouldn't he want Europe and of Ukraine and America and of Ukraine? Do you think he's going to ask for that? Well, probably not.

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Why would he not ask for the very thing he wants most? Because he wouldn't get it. It would just be a waste of time. So if you watch both Putin and Trump say, okay, I'm not even going to ask for that. That's just a waste of my own time. If you really want a deal, the first thing you have to do is decide what things are not on the table to talk about.

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And if you both agree with the other side, okay, I get it. I get it. That's not up for conversation. When I made my deal to be a syndicated cartoonist the first time, did I give up anything in negotiation? Of course, because I knew I couldn't get it. One of the things would be, let's say, okay, I want to do a 15-year contract with you as my syndicator company.

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But at any time, if I get a better deal from somebody else, I can just go over there. That's what I wanted. Why did I not ask for that? Because there's not any chance in the world that they would have agreed to that. The whole industry is based on the fact that the syndication company puts up a lot of resources at first so that they can get money down the line.

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So you wouldn't ask for something you know you're not going to get. So the same with Trump. Let's check in with Morning Joe Scarborough. He's saying now that Republicans did not vote to cut wasteful spending. Isn't that amazing? I remember when I briefly thought that MSNBC was trying to be news and trying to be maybe biased, but they're trying to be news.

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Once you realize that they're only in it for the propaganda, it's not really a news network. It's not like Even the ones that are biased, I always talk about CNN. CNN's biased. Fox News is biased. But if you know the bias, you can kind of factor that into your viewing. But MSNBC doesn't try to do anything. It's just pure propaganda. Want an example? How about this?

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And Brian has got a lot of attention, especially in the last year or two, because he posts a lot about AI. And he knows a lot about it, and he's deep into it. And his account became even more valuable. It's always been valuable. But he got kicked off, and he didn't know why, and we didn't know why. But there was sort of an outcry from the people on X saying, hey, what's up with this?

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NBC, the parent company of MSNBC, NBC is now settling a $30 million defamation suit And the defamation suit is because they claimed that there was some specific gentleman who was working at the ICE facilities and was doing unnecessary hysterectomies, and he was a uterus collector. So they said he was doing, basically, here's what they thought.

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So MSNBC, and this included Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Nicole Wallace, They were treating the story as if they'd found Hitler's Dr. Mengele. Because if you believe you're living in a Hitler movie, you're going to look for Dr. Mengele, the one who does illegal and horrific experimentation on people that don't look like you. Right. And so they come up with this story.

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that according to them, and they're being sued and they lost because it's all fake, they believed, based on some reporting that got to them, they believed that there was a doctor who was just doing unnecessary sterilization of immigrants. Now, how could they have known that that was a fake story? You would all know it, wouldn't you? I'd never heard of the story when it was originally aired.

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But if I told you, okay, turns out that Trump has a Dr. Mengele kind of guy at the border, and he's just taking the reproductive equipment out of women with surgery, and there's no medical reason, no medical reason at all. What would be your first reaction to that? Well, that's not true. Do you know why you would know that's not true? Say it. Say it. There's a rule.

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There's a rule I've taught you about how to spot fake news. And this is right on the rule. And the rule goes like this. That's too on the nose. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're saying that Trump is Hitler and now magically has something to do with immigration. That's a little too perfect. that you found a Dr. Mengele who's doing these horrible experimental or whatever he's doing.

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If I had heard that story on day one, yeah, you got it. If I'd heard that on day one, I don't remember hearing it ever actually. But if I'd heard that story, I would say, uh, seriously, you can't tell, you can't tell just by hearing it that it's not true. That, I would guess that most of my audience would have spotted that one right away. What do you think?

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How many of you think you would have spotted that in the first minute because you know the rule about two on the nose? That two on the nose thing works so well. Until you see a few cycles of it working, it's hard to convince yourself it's that accurate. But boy, does it work. Because the real world doesn't serve up stories that clean. That's just such a clean, perfect political story.

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The real world doesn't create those. Those are always fake. So at least you wouldn't have been fooled. Well, here's another win from Robbie Starbuck. Pepsi-Cola has announced it's going to end its DEI policies, according to Katie Djurkovic. Is that really a name? Katie Jerkovich? It must have been tough in high school unless that's a married name, in which case her husband had a tough time.

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Anyway, the Daily Wire is writing about this and they're going to end their DEI stuff. I'm pretty sure that Robbie Starbuck was the driver of that because he'd mentioned it might be coming. And here's my question. So you're a Democrat and you've been living in a bubble. And you don't know what's true. But you do believe that the things you're being told are largely true.

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Now I'm always hesitant because people ask me this all the time. Can you get involved in getting my account on canceled? First of all, I don't have any poll. I have no poll whatsoever on X, nothing. Don't know anybody don't have any special back, nowhere, nothing. But when somebody gets canceled on X, the first thing I asked myself is, okay, as far as I know, this is a totally good person, but.

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So let's say you believe that DEI was just flat-out good for the world. And you were happy that these big corporations were woke and that they were pursuing it because, hey, that's double good. Big corporations are on board? Yes. And DEI is good, according to you? Yes. Those are two good things. And then they're implementing it, and they're spending lots of money on the DEI? Yes.

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That's like a big win, right? And then PepsiCo announces that they're going to end the whole thing. Why would they do that? Why would Pepsi-Cola end it? Is it because they're afraid of Ravi Starbuck? Well, maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

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he can bring a lot of negative media attention to to a company but here's what i think it is i think pepsi cola realized it was a huge expense and it didn't help their dei or diversity much at all or at least not in any way they couldn't have done on their own without any dei and

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I think maybe they appreciate it when somebody like Robbie Starbuck comes in and gives them what I call the fake because. So I've described the fake because in the context of persuasion. A fake because is a reason that you are willing to go with even if you don't buy into the reason because it's something you wanted to do for your own reasons that you maybe couldn't mention.

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So you're like, oh, ah, yeah, yeah, we love this DEI, but I don't think we can handle all the attention we'd get from Robbie Starbuck, and then half of our customers are conservative, and they'd stop buying, so I guess we're forced into a corner. We'd really love to just drive this DEI as hard as we could. We'd love to do that.

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We wish we could, but oh, darn, darn, Robbie Starbuck came after us, and

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yeah that's a risk too so i guess we're just gonna have to live in the real world and get rid of our dei as much as we loved it so that's a fake because i don't believe for a minute that the leadership of pepsi was saying really we really wanted to keep this dei because it was working out so well nope i i think the reason you're going to see a lot of the bigger companies now

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start to fall in line the same way, is they all have the same fake because. Oh, so a well-known conservative activist might turn half of our customers against us over this. Yeah, I guess just on a fiduciary responsibility, we're going to have to get rid of DEI. But we'll tell everybody we're still going to get diversity. We'll just do it a cheaper way. So I think that's what's happening.

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Now, how do Democrats handle this situation? Well, let's look at The View. So The View had a conversation about DEI. And the question they were trying to wrestle with on The View, the ladies of The View, is the idea of blind hiring versus normal hiring. Blind would be, presumably, they wouldn't know anything about the candidate except their experience. And then if the experience was right,

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then you get the candidate and then later you find out oh okay looks like we got some diversity to double win um but you wouldn't be managing it to it you know you would just be managing to merit um now the problem is i don't know how you do blind hiring because you you just have to do an interview i wouldn't hire anybody without an interview so i'm not sure how you do blind hiring but that was the idea they were talking about and

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Sunny Hostin, she starts with the following assumption, which shows she's never worked in a real corporate environment. The TV corporate environment is not like any other. So TV is just its own little island world. But I got the feeling she's never had any experience with a regular corporation. Because the main thing that people know is that it's not an equal pool of candidates.

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That's the whole problem. If it were possible, just numerically, and again, this has nothing to do with anybody's genes or race or sexual preference, has nothing to do with anybody's culture, it's just math. I'll use Elbonians to make my point. If you were trying to make sure you had enough Elbonians working for your company, and you were, let's say, in the nuclear energy business.

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Do I know everything about this person? So I'm always suspicious. What did they do? What is it I don't know about? So if I don't know why they got canceled, it's really hard for me to weigh in because I might be accidentally backing something terrible. But it looked like Elon Musk may have been involved in getting this one reinstituted. But Musk said that it was...

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And you look around, you're like, oh, we got to get more Elbonians. And you find out there are only three Elbonians who have ever gotten that degree, the degree that you need for that job. And the three of them have already been hired by a bigger company. So Google already hired them, Apple already hired them, somebody already hired

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they were genuinely good they had all the right experience all the right everything so everybody agrees those three absolutely first-rate nuclear scientists but you need diversity too and the only three that had the right background are already hired what are you going to do do you not pursue diversity at least in terms of elbonians or Do you lower your standard and hope it works out?

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As in, well, I'd like somebody with a PhD in engineering, but how about just somebody who says they're good at it? In the real world, and this is what Sonny Hostin apparently has never been exposed to, is that in the real world, people will manage to the number. So if you say to me, Scott, there are two things you need to do as a manager in this company. Number one, diversity.

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we've got specific goals for you to hit i go okay good i like it when the goals are specific then i know if i hit or not and the other one is we want you to get your fusion reactor which is experimental and i'd like that to be up and running in five years and i go in five years yeah because that's yeah this is the fastest you might be able to do it i'd say okay

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So you're definitely going to base my bonus on my diversity number this year. But you won't know this year if I'm going to hit my five-year target of opening my nuclear plant. So I'll just tell you that things are moving along great because I'm not worried about that one. I haven't done anything wrong yet. It's just sort of moving along.

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But I'm going to make sure I nail the diversity thing because I'm definitely going to.

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suffer if i don't do that so what are you going to do you're going to lower you're going to lower your requirements to hit the diversity target now this is something that sunny hostin doesn't understand because she imagines that there's a endless bounty of available high quality people that are all all there for anybody who wants to hire them i wish if that were true you wouldn't need any dei would you

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You would never need a DEI group if everybody who wanted to hire talented people just opened their door and it's like, wow, there's a lot of talented people with just the right qualifications. And look, they come in all types. All right. They come in all types. I'm not even going to worry about diversity. I'll just do my hiring in the normal order of doing anything.

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And diversity takes care of itself because the diversity was solved before I even opened my door. So, Here's my take on the ladies of the view and the question of DEI. They're operating on a completely different fact pattern than you and I. So because of the different fact pattern, when we look at them, they look like they're either stupid or lying, right?

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When I'm watching, I think, are you stupid or are you just lying right now and you know it's not true? But because they also have a different fact pattern than us. When they look at our, maybe even what I just said, they're gonna say, huh, that doesn't make sense with what I know to be true. So you're either a racist and you might be lying too. So you're probably a lying racist.

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Now, neither of them are true. I don't believe that Sunny Hostin is stupid. And I don't think she's lying exactly. I think she's working with the fact pattern that she thinks are the facts. And when I talk about it, I'm using the facts that I know. And the one thing I would offer is that I don't think the ladies of the view have much or any contact with ordinary straight white men.

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because of a music copyright violation. Now, here's something you need to know. A music copyright violation, I think, I'll take a fact check on this, but I think this is true, is automatically removed simply because the music people complained. Now, I don't know who specifically has to complain. It might be some entity within the music business that's the only official one, but it might be also

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Because if they had even one, just one ordinary corporate straight man sitting there for, let's say, the hour, everything they thought was true, they'd find out it wasn't. And then the fact pattern would change. Now, if the fact pattern ends up being the same on both sides, and then you've still got wide disagreement, well, then something else is going on.

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But as long as we're dealing with different facts about what is the pool of qualified people of every type, if we have a completely different fact about that, you can't judge anybody based on what comes out of their mouth because it's all driven by the wrong fact. And we're the ones who think we have the right ones and they think they have the wrong. So I would say this.

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If you haven't included a straight white man You just don't know what you're talking about. I feel like I have a pretty good sense for what the non-straight white men are thinking because it's not that hard. They're just thinking, hey, there should be more of us in this company. We're highly qualified. So why don't we have those jobs? I get it. It's not really hard to understand.

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But how many Democrats would even understand that for 40 years, 40 years, straight white men have been overtly discriminated against in employment. As in, Bob, come in here. I got to tell you that you can't be promoted because you're straight, you're white, and you're male. We hear it directly. We're not guessing. Management tells us this directly. I've been told this twice.

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I talk about it too often. I've heard it directly. And if I asked you, How many of you have heard it directly? The comments would just go, it'd be full of people. There are 50 million, at least, I bet you there are 50 million witnesses to this, and yet Democrats don't know it. Why? Because it's 50 million people they don't want to hear from, at all. And so they don't.

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In related news, according to a Gallup report, the Post Millennial's writing about this, One in ten American adults identify as LGBTQ more than ever before. Huh. Let's see. Have we ever talked about this concept of follow the money? Yes, we have, Scott. You talk about it way too often. All right. Well, let's do that with this one. Because it seems like it's about sexual identification, doesn't it?

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And that the sexual identification as being in the LGBTQ community seems higher than ever. Now, one reason for that could be that there's less stigma. So there are more people saying, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, certainly for women, if you know any young women, I'll tell you what a normal conversation with a young woman would look like in 2025. So what do you identify as?

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Well, I, you know, I like boys. Oh, so you're hetero. Well, I don't rule out a relationship with a woman. What? I mean, I've never been attracted to a woman. Here I'm pretending to be a young woman. I've never been attracted to a young woman, but I don't rule it out. I mean, if I met the right person, I could imagine that I would go for that. Okay, but you never have, right? No, I never have.

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But why would I rule it out? Because they don't have any reason to rule it out. So are they bi? just because they didn't rule it out? Kind of yes. They might actually, if they were to fill out a form, they might say, well, I haven't ruled out either gender, so I guess I'm open, boop. So a lot of it is just how people would answer a question in 2025 and 2024.

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And a lot of it is that definitely the stigma has gone and maybe even somebody thinks it's a little bit sexy to say that they're more open-minded, lots of reasons. Remember following the money always works? And I tell you, why does follow the money always work even when it shouldn't? I don't know, but it always works. Let me do it now.

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anybody complaining about their own band or their own music. But my understanding is that the simple existence of a complaint that's backed by, you know, there actually was a copyrighted song involved. There's no X isn't even involved. X has to do it automatically. I believe, I believe that the law says X doesn't even get a choice. Yeah.

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If I applied for a job in corporate America and I said, you know, I present myself as a straight white male, What are my odds of getting the job? Well, maybe a Pepsi Cola a little bit better than it was, but basically it would be the hardest sell. You're a straight white man. Boom. But if I suck one dick, what happens to my odds of getting hired?

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Just one dick goes through the roof because now I'm a member of the LGBTQ community and I'm a preferred candidate. Now, somebody might say, but, you know, do you do it on a regular basis or is it just something you tried? To which I might say, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter how often. Nobody's telling me you can't be gay if you didn't do it a number of times.

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I sucked one dick, so I'm LGBTQ, get over it. All right, well, would it be okay if we put you down as LGBTQ? Absolutely. You fill out your form any way you like, just give me that job. Now, do I believe anybody has done that? I've never heard of it. I've never heard of it once. But why is it that the economic incentive to be LGBTQ exists at the same time there are way more LGBTQ people?

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So, yes, it could be completely explained by people who are more open-minded and society is less judgmental. I could explain 100% of it. But why is it always the fall of the money will also tell you what's going to happen? Why does it always work? I guess that's just the mystery we'll have to figure out. All right. Well, Hamas...

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is uh look i guess they released some more hostages um and one of them has not been identified i think i think there might have been some question about one of the prior hostages may not have been who they said it was but uh here are the numbers there are 59 hostages remaining and maybe half of them are

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reportedly deceased so by hostage i mean in that case it would just be the bodies but 59 of them are left and they're they're releasing them in like groups of you know four and six and stuff are we gonna have to just put up with this for what years i mean pretty much playing into their hands because there's no real better way to handle it which is what hamas knows

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so i was brainstorming this morning to see if there was a better way to handle it and i don't know i don't know but let me just throw out an idea and this will be the bad idea and see if you can fix it presumably there's some budget already for how much humanitarian aid is getting to the residents of gaza the ones who have been displaced mostly so let's say there's some budget and i'll just put a number on it let's say

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$20 billion over some period of time for humanitarian support. Here's what I'd be tempted to do, but this would be a humanitarian disaster. I'd be tempted to say, here's the deal. You've got $20 billion coming to keep your people alive and help them get resettled wherever it is they end up. But we're going to reduce that by half a billion dollars for every hostage we don't have back by Tuesday.

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As long as it's reported and there is a song involved, you're gone. Yeah, that's, I think Owen is saying the same thing. Owen says the DMCA takedowns, which is what this would be, are acted on but don't require permanent suspension, right? They don't require permanent suspension, but they are acted on right away.

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Pick a date. So then Hamas gets to decide how long they wait. But by Tuesday, they're going to lose their funding for humanitarian aid. Now, that would be punishing the civilians for what the Hamas people in the tunnels are doing. Typically, that would be the worst thing you could do. That's like a war crime. It's like collective punishment. But what we're doing now is also a war crime.

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And I don't know how kind you're supposed to be to the population that seems almost fully supportive of the terrorists. How much money are you supposed to give them for wanting to kill you? I don't know. Now, I'm not there, so I don't know what percentage of the Gaza refugees just want to mind their own business and don't want to hurt anybody. Surely some people like that exist.

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But it doesn't seem like the majority. And it wouldn't work, by the way. This is why I call it a bad idea. As soon as you said you were going to deny food and medicine to the civilian population, that would be the end of that idea. But there has to be something that we're taking away from Hamas for every person they're not giving us back.

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There needs to be a specific cost and not just a, well, someday we're really going to bomb you. Well, then you never get them back. So it should be you can take all the time you want. It's costing you half a billion dollars per person you don't give us. Something. Now, like I said, it's the bad idea because it wouldn't be practical.

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But is there any way that we can just put them on a schedule and say, you get to decide. You make up your own mind. And we'll make sure that the residents know it's you who made this decision. Well, anyway, Owen Gregorian's going to have a Spaces right now after we're done.

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I think I'm going to say goodbye both to the locals, people, and the rest of you, because Owen will be firing up the Spaces right about now. He's probably getting ready to do it. So look for Owen Gregorian, and you can carry on the conversation if there's anything you heard today you want to follow up on or probably anything else. And everybody... Thanks for joining.

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I really appreciate it when you take part of your Saturday to show up. So X and Rumble and YouTube and Locals2, everybody, say goodbye. All right. I'll see you tomorrow, same time.

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So this one was not permanent, and I ran into this situation once before with another notable user who got... Pretty well canceled. And that other notable user did many things that seemed to press the line. But the thing that took him out? Copyright. Yeah. Copyright, you're just not going to win. The copyright holders are going to be tough on them. So anyway, Brian Romelli is back.

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Now, yesterday I was binge-watching that show Severance, and I was thinking, I feel so good about this show, I feel like I'm going to post on X about it, because I've mentioned it before. And then I noticed that Joe Rogan just posted it on X. He said, Severance is a fantastic show, says Joe Rogan. Completely original and totally unpredictable. Amazing writing, directing, and acting.

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Maybe we learned something there that will keep the rest of you from getting canceled. At the University of Amsterdam... They did some study on chat GPT. We'll get to all the politics. I'm just waiting for people to wake up and have their first cup of coffee. So there was a study, University of Amsterdam, about AI.

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And what they found was that the current version of AI thinks very well in analogies. But when the analogy is tweaked or it needs more original reasoning, it fails pretty quickly. So as long as there's a pattern or an analogy, AI can operate pretty well. But it's an analogy thinker.

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Now, many of you know that for years I've been saying in public, I even wrote a book about it, well, a book that includes it, that if you think or reason in analogies, you're not using reason. An analogy is simply something that reminds you of something else. It's not a reason. It's not a reason to do anything.

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So here's, and no matter how many times I tell you this, it's a little bit subtle and hard to remember. So I'm going to take another run at it. Because the more you hear it, the more powerful you will become in your debating. Because if you use an analogy, do you know what happens? People debate the specifics of the analogy, which doesn't help anybody, right?

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Because the analogy is not even the debate. So it moves you. As soon as you introduce an analogy, somebody goes, yes, but I'm not a flower. No, no, it's just an analogy that, you know, flower needs water. So I'm trying to make the point that a person also needs to be, you know, fed or nourished. Yeah, but I'm not a flower. Okay, okay, I'm not saying you're a flower. It's an analogy. Okay.

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person needs to be fed and nourished a flower needs to be fed and nourished i'm just trying to make a point yeah but a flower doesn't live as long as a person i know i know i know that has nothing to do with my point it's just yeah and that's the way all analogies go so if you think you're going to use an analogy to win an argument you're not here's the one way to use an analogy correctly

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if it's a fast way to get somebody to understand a new concept. That's different from an argument. You're not trying to debate them. You're just trying to introduce a new thing that they didn't know about. And my famous example is, what would be the fastest way to describe a zebra to someone who knew everything else in the world but had never seen a zebra? Here's how I'd do it.

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I'd say, okay, so a zebra is basically, it looks like a horse. but it's got black and white stripes. So here I'm comparing a horse to a zebra. Now that's a good use because the person knows I'm not calling it a horse. I'm saying it looks like one. And now you've got this in your mind. Okay, got it. It looks like a horse, but it has black and white stripes. I'm almost there.

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Now you would add things like, well, it's native to Africa, maybe there's something different in its lineage from horses, and maybe it's different in several other ways. But it would be a real quick way to get from knowing nothing about zebras to, oh, okay, I got the basic idea. So that's the only time to use it. Now, do you think this is a real problem?

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This whole analogy thing I keep harping on, I'm harping on it and harping on it. Well, let's look at a real example. Have you heard this story about Representative Robert Garcia? He's a Democrat, California. And he was on some show recently, and he made the following analogy. You ready for this? Now, this is a human, not AI. And the human tried to use an analogy to make a point.

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And here's what he said. Talking about the Democrats in their, let's say, political contest with Republicans. Robert Garcia said, we're in a bar fight. I'm paraphrasing a little bit. But he said, we're in a bar fight, and we have to bring actual weapons. And then his critics say, whoa, you're telling people to actually arm themselves? With what, knives and guns so you can shoot Republicans?

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Just a totally unique show. He just finished season one. He's going to two. That's exactly where I am. I think I have maybe an episode left. But just finishing season one. Totally addicted. Then Jon Stewart. He also posted on the same topic. The Severance was amazing. He dropped an F-bomb to say how much he liked it. Now, here's why it took me so long to watch it. It's the title.

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My God, you've got to be canceled. Now, of course, it took about like a minute and a half for Representative Garcia to come back and say, it was just an analogy. There's no smart person who heard me say, it's a bar fight, so you have to bring weapons. Nobody thought that meant I meant bring weapons to the political contest. Now, but some people did, or they pretend they do.

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So with Republicans, I can never tell. Because sometimes maybe they believe the analogy. Maybe they believe he was actually suggesting weapons. Let me say as clearly as possible. He wasn't suggesting bringing real weapons into the political realm. It was an analogy. What happens when you use an analogy? People will pick apart the analogy instead of whatever point you were trying to make.

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So that's what happened to him. So don't use analogies like that. But I would say he used the analogy correctly. He even used it correctly, which was he was trying to introduce a point. And the point was, we're in a fight with no weapons. If you were in a bar fight, you'd want to have a weapon. So in any other fight, you might want to have a weapon too.

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The weapon might be better ideas, better policies, better podcasts, something like that. So Representative Robert Garcia, Democrat from California, I back you 100%. I'm not entirely sure if the Republicans going after him really believe what they're doing, or it's just sort of convenient, kind of a convenient attack line. But no, he didn't do anything wrong. Here's some good news.

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The Epoch Times is reporting. Apparently, CEO confidence in the economy is at a real high. So it's looking really good. Now we've seen some other indicators that the economy could have some trouble when the stock market took a dump on Friday. So it's not all positive, but here's what I like about it. The CEOs are extra important when it comes to their optimism.

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If the CEOs are optimistic, then they increase their investment budget, their capital expense, and then things go well. So you want your CEOs to be optimistic because anything but that destroys your economy. So when they're at some kind of high in terms of optimism, and they are pretty high, that is a really good, really good sign for the future.

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk's private security, they must be pretty good. because they've been deputized by the U.S. Marshal Service, meaning that they'll now have certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement, CNN's reporting. Now, it makes me wonder what special rights they're gaining. The one that seems obvious would be the right to arrest somebody.

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of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better today with a little oxytocin mixed in. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. If you didn't know it, this show works best if you get a warm beverage and

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And here is the highest-ranking uniformed officer, and he had something he could sell, basically, which is approval for overtime, which was deeply profitable. The overtime was a really good deal. How good was it? Well, the person accusing him, coincidentally...

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the very person accusing him of demanding sexual favors for overtime is herself, was reassigned because she was doing some kind of massive overtime ploy in which she earned $400,000 for being a cop. $400,000 a year for being a cop because of all the overtime. And she wasn't even on the streets. She had an office job as a cop. Now, do you think she really worked all that overtime?

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Or do you think she did some sexual favors, or at least maybe he thought he was going to get them, in return for approving the overtime that perhaps wasn't even real? So we don't know if the overtime that got her $400,000 a year was real overtime. Or fake overtime. But either way, it shouldn't have been happening. Nobody should have been making $400,000 a year in that job.

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So New York City seems completely corrupt. Don't do business in New York. It's crazy. You probably heard that finally our government has approved at least a temporary budget for What they did was they took that 1,500-page thing, that monstrosity, took it down to a few pages. It got rejected again. They took it down to a deal that they had finally signed.

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And it was basically the country will keep running for a little while at the same levels, except more money will be spent on farm bills. disaster relief for specific disasters, ones that already happened. But there was some debate about the debt ceiling. So apparently, if I have this right, the current rules say that you're going to have to do a little more work to get past a debt ceiling.

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Because one question is, do you want to put your budget into these categories? And is this a good budget? And the second question is, is the budget beyond the debt limit? Because you don't want to spend more than the law allows, but they can keep changing the limit. So it ends up that that debt limit is sort of a

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I did a podcast with him. And Naval was talking about AGI. Now, AGI is the AI version that comes after the current stuff. And it's where we get to something called artificial general intelligence, meaning that the AI is not just a clever kind of tool, but that it reasons just like people.

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negotiating hammer that gives some group in Congress a lot of power because they want to promote that limit. But in reality, since 100% of the time we end up raising the debt limit anyway, then that would suggest, and Mike Cernovich is sort of all over this today on social media, it kind of suggests that the debt limit didn't do us any good.

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because having that debt limit was supposed to give us some fiscal responsibility. It's like, don't just raise the debt willy-nilly, you gotta limit. But we still raise the debt, and it just takes longer, and that debt limit is just an obstacle, because when you're done, you're definitely gonna raise the debt limit again.

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Because we don't have a government that's efficient enough or honest enough to fix that. In theory, if you and I got a debt limit in our real lives, here's your debt limit, we wouldn't find a way to spend more than the debt limit. We would do whatever we could to be under it. But the government doesn't need to because the penalty comes on you more than them.

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I would love a situation where if I overspend, someone else will be punished. Well, I overspent on my credit card. Sorry, Bob, but I'm going to do it again tomorrow. Yeah, I know it's all bad for you, but it's not that bad for me. It's not bad for me. I get reelected. So sorry, Bob, I'm going to overspend my credit card. You'll have to pay it off again.

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So we don't really have a government that has the option of fiscal responsibility. The design of the government, the current design, guarantees that you run up debt until you all die. Because any individual politician will get more votes by approving money because the people who benefit from it say, oh, that's the guy that got me that money. He got me my raise.

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So politicians have an incentive to overspend and there's not really much incentive to stop. We have a system that by its design guarantees our own destruction because there's nobody to stop the spending. We don't have any system for that. The debt limit was a try. But in reality, they could just work around it, and it was just a pain in the ass, but it didn't stop them from overspending.

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So here's what's interesting. We did see the beginning of a new form of government. Do you remember the old days when you thought the mainstream press was the watchdog of the government? As long as you had that fourth estate, the reporters were were working as adversaries to the government and they were uncovering all of their, their plots and their ploys.

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And so as long as you had a free press, you could hope that your government would operate in good faith because they get caught. The press would just call them out if they did bad stuff. Is that the current situation? Do you think the current situation is the press will call them out for doing bad stuff? Well,

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Have you noticed that the Wall Street Journal did this great expose on Biden's brain after it didn't matter? After it didn't matter. And Biden couldn't hurt them anymore because they didn't need access to the White House to get stories. So as soon as they didn't need Biden to give them access to interviews, they threw him under the bus.

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Now, we're not really close to having an AI that reasons just like people, but the smart people say we might be just a few years away. But here's what Naval said that agrees with something I've said. He said, quote, there's no intelligence that can fundamentally understand something humans can't understand. So he said that's what AGI people get wrong. Let me say it again.

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But if he were in office and looked like he could get reelected or at least had any strength whatsoever as president, then the media would have bowed to him. So you can see the exception approves the rule. So if you were sort of new to the news and you saw that the Wall Street Journal and now the New York Times are talking about Biden having a degraded mental situation in office,

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But they waited until his term was over, and he's not even showing up for work, basically. So the fact that they tell us now is proof that they're not a legitimate enterprise, right? A legitimate enterprise, real watchdogs, would have said what we could see with our own eyes. His brain isn't working, and that's a real problem. But they didn't. They waited until it didn't matter.

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So instead, what we saw with that big 1500 omnibus-looking continuing resolution, we saw a new form of government spontaneously form via X. And the way it works, and I've described this before, but it's kind of breathtaking. The way it works is the best ideas bubble up. So it doesn't matter who has the idea.

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If they've got any presence on social media and they say something smart, somebody who has a slightly larger account and more followers probably is going to see it. And then they might say, huh, good idea. They repost it. And then an even larger account might see it and say, wow, I recognize that as a good idea. I think I'll steal it or boost it.

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And the next thing you know, it gets to the million plus accounts like mine. And then I vet them like an editor. I look at them and say, huh, that's a bad idea or that's a good idea. If it's a good idea, I boost it.

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Now, if a million plus account that is active in the political space boosts something, you can pretty much count on the largest accounts and the biggest people in politics seeing it because the other million pluses will probably like it and then it keeps bubbling up. Now, If it bubbles up enough, Elon Musk ends up commenting or reposting on it. And then he's got how many followers?

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Is it like 40 million or something? I don't know what the number is. But basically the news follows him and his account is so big that everybody pays attention. So... On the political right, there is a mechanism that's formed. I would say it evolved. Nobody planned it. It just evolved.

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Because even when Musk bought old Twitter, we didn't know that he would be tweeting every day, like many times a day, and on politics. I didn't know that. I thought he was just going to sort of buy it and let the people who use it use it. I didn't understand. Maybe he didn't plan it that way. But his involvement had a utility.

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And the more popular he could make his own account, the more punch he had. And then he could take ideas that bubble up as well. Now, When people look at it from the outside, they say, ooh, Elon Musk is making the things he wants to happen happen. So it's all selfish, and he's doing it for his companies. That's what all the dumb people on MSNBC say.

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They say that Elon Musk is really just doing it for his own profit, and he's making it look like maybe it's good for you, but he's really doing it for his own profits. which is the dumb take. He's very clearly doing it for what's good for America, which is also good for him and everybody else in business. So yeah, it's good for him, but that's okay if it's good for us. We like that.

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When Elon Musk made a comment in one of my posts, I think it's up to 14 million. I think 14 million people saw a post just because he commented on it. One of mine. And I saw Owen say the same thing. So yeah, an Elon Musk post goes a long way. But here's the thing the left doesn't understand. When Elon Musk has an impact like he did this time on that 1500 page monstrosity, he's not acting alone.

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There's no intelligence, including an intelligence that people imagine we're going to invent next. There is no intelligence that can fundamentally understand something humans can't. So the way I said it, and this is the first time I've seen anybody smart agree with me on this point. If we were to develop an AI that was legitimately smarter than people in just general reasoning,

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The entire model depends on everything he does being completely transparent and then tens of millions of people being completely in agreement. That's the model. Because he's only doing things that are common sense. He doesn't do things that are just purely partisan politics. He just doesn't do that. If it doesn't make sense when you look at it, he doesn't do it. So it's not that hard for him

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to get tens of millions of people to be on his side. So when you say, I don't think we should approve a 1,500-page bill with no time to read it, can you think there's even one citizen of the United States that disagrees with that position? No, there's not one. There's not a single voter who would disagree with the idea that maybe we should pass bills that we understand. Nobody.

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So it's not even political, I would argue. But his power comes entirely from saying things that we all agree with. We see it. We know exactly what he's doing. And we keep saying, yes, do that. Yes, yes, do that. Do more of that. So when the bad guys, the Democrats, the world is basically now, it's not just Democrat versus Republican.

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Because you see how many, you see the type of people who are backing Trump now. And The most prominent ones are not Republicans. So to say that it's Republican versus Democrat feels a little stale. You know what it feels like? It feels like common sense versus gaslighting. The Democrat Party is only gaslighting. They don't even propose good ideas anymore, if they ever did.

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They purely run ops to make you think that what the common sense people are doing isn't common sense. It's all they do. And I think the most devastating thing that Trump has brought to politics is common sense. It's devastating because the opponents don't have an argument for common sense.

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So they have to come up with a whole gaslighting architecture and make their winged monkeys in the media parrot it like it's real. That's how we got Biden is perfectly fine. The way you get Biden is perfectly fine is you ignore common sense. We could all see he wasn't. You ignore common sense. Then you get all your winged monkeys in the media to repeat it. Oh, he's fine.

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He might be the best Biden we've ever seen, Joe Scarborough said. So just think about that reframe as you watch new news develop and see if it's true. The so-called MAGA group will, We'll come up with something that's common sense. I'll give you another example. Here's some common sense.

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You take RFK Jr., who is willing to do the work and has all the capabilities in the world, and he wants to fix our food supply. Common sense. Now, do you need to agree with every opinion that RFK Jr. has in order to get the benefit of him fixing our food supply if he can do it? No. You don't have to agree with everything he's ever said. You just can take the good parts, also called common sense.

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So what do the Democrats have to do? The Democrats can't disagree with common sense. So they gaslight, and they say that their own, you know, somebody from their own party not too long ago, RFK Jr., is this anti-vax guy who wants all your children to die. So they have to create a whole gaslight fake campaign Enterprise, because you can't say common sense makes no sense.

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Here's what here's what RFK Jr. says is common sense on vaccinations, let's say we should we should test them better because there are indications that they're causing problems. What part of that is a problem? But the but the Democrats have to gaslight us and tell us that he wants to without without regard to science. He just wants to remove what's good for your baby.

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I'm not talking about knowing facts or doing math because we accept that they're already better than us. But in general reasoning, if it reasoned better than us, we would not accept it because we prefer our illusions. And if it tried to take them away because it reasoned better than us, it would say stuff like, oh, you know your religion? Almost no chance that's true.

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So that's what the Democrats turn it into. Because they can't argue with common sense, which says maybe we shouldn't put things in our babies' bodies if we've not tested them sufficiently. And if we don't have enough recourse for the company that made it. Pretty commonsensical. I mean, you could argue, but you'd have to argue it on the common sense basis. But they don't do that.

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No, they come up with an op, and they gaslight us. So is this new form of government? I don't know what I'd call it. It's like a bubble-up social media power where the power that Elon has comes entirely from the bottom up, whereas the Democrats are pretty much a top-down organization. Here's the new talking point. Everybody do the new talking point. And by the way, this is...

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sort of an insider's point of view, Republicans don't have talking points. Do they? Because it seems like if they did, somebody would have been sending them to me by now. Nobody's ever sent me a talking point. And, you know, I have enough of an audience that if Republicans cared about creating talking points and distributing them, it would be happening. But

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People on the political right do end up having, eventually they have something like a unified opinion, but the way that forms is in the best possible way. It evolves. So on minute one of a new news item, I'll be tweeting about it, several dozen other larger accounts will be posting about it, and we'll look at each other's work, and then we'll decide who had the best take.

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And then somebody will start tweeting, oh, this is the best take. And then other people will say, that was the best take. And then the best frame of something just bubbles up. And next thing you know, somebody like Elon Musk is looking at it and say, yeah, that's a good way to say that. And then he'll boost it. So it's top-down versus bottom-up, and it's common sense versus gaslighting.

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And the whole Democrat versus Republican thing I can barely see it anymore. You can barely see it because the common sense people on the left just moved to the right. Anyway, so if Trump and Elizabeth Warren are both in favor of eliminating the debt ceiling, I feel like we should do it. I don't, you know, my instinct was

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that the debt ceiling provided us some benefits because it was like a little bit of discipline on spending, but they found a way to make it useless. You know, it's not like the people who, I think Cernovich says it best, it's not like the people who were saying, I want, this debt limit is mattering. It's not like they're stopping anything.

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You know, they end up voting for the increase in the debt limit too, eventually. But you could also argue that they got something out of it, which is the simplification of the bill down to hundreds of pages and got rid of some of the porky stuff we didn't need. Now, of course, the gaslighting is that it's obvious that the memo went out and the Democrats are going to gaslight and say,

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Oh, Elon Musk is the real president now. And Trump will have to play second fiddle because he's just a puppet now. He's a puppet to Elon Musk. And apparently Trump in an interview said that Elon called him before weighing in on the spending bill. And Trump said, quote, I told him that if he agrees with me that he could put in a statement.

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Not your religion, but let's say somebody else's. You have the right one. You have the correct one. But suppose somebody else with the wrong religion opens their AGI and it says, your religion is totally made up and here's the reasons. It would be very disruptive. And then the next thing you say is, oh, we better get rid of this AI. It got the religion question wrong.

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So Trump wants you to know that he's the boss and that Elon Musk called him and got permission and did it. Now, is that true? Is it true that Elon called him and asked for effectively permission to take a strong stand about the bill? I don't know. But you know what I like about it? It doesn't matter. because he did agree with Trump.

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So what matters is that we got a good result, and Trump is wisely saying, I was the boss. He called to get permission. I'm sure Musk will back him up on that, because Musk doesn't want to be seen as taking the light away from Trump. And so now they have a They have a version which is believable. It's believable, but it's convenient.

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I'm not sure there was a phone call, but I don't know that there needed to be because it's also true that Musk probably knew what Trump wanted and it wasn't hard to be compatible with it. And he would have known that if he went against Trump, it would be dumb. And if he planned to go against Trump, he would have probably checked that.

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But did he really need to check to agree that a 1,500-page rushed thing with a bunch of pork in it was a bad idea? Did he really need to ask Trump about that? Or could he just look at it and say, nobody wants this. There was literally nobody in the United States. Trump didn't want it. Nobody wanted it. Did he really have to ask? I don't know. If he did, I would say that's a plus. If he didn't,

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He still made the right guess and Trump backed him. That's good too. If Trump had his back and Musk had Trump's back, there's your perfect situation if they have each other's back. And I think they have each other's back on this for sure because Musk is making clear that Trump's in charge. Trump's making clear that he's in charge and that Musk got permission, which maybe he did, maybe he didn't.

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But yeah, this is what I want. I want this. I want more of this. All right. And I promise all Democrats that if Elon Musk started pushing hard on something that was against common sense, I would push back. Nothing would stop me from saying, oops, that doesn't make sense to me, or maybe we need to talk about this. So I wouldn't worry that Musk has some kind of power

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that is contrary to what tens of millions of Americans who agree with him want. I've not yet once seen him do anything that didn't have a solid common sense base to it. Now, some of you will say, Scott, You say there's no such thing as common sense, and I do. So I'm using it in two different ways. There really is no such thing as common sense because we disagree what is common sense.

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But when Musk says the risk-reward of doing this is better than the risk-reward of doing the other thing, He's usually right in a risk-reward sense. So I'm using common sense as a stand-in for if you look at the risks and you look at the rewards, it's a good bet. That's what it really means in this context. Anyway, so got some government funding.

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It does feel like all the smart people are on one side now. And if there are any smart people left on the Democrat side, whatever intelligence they have is completely disguised by the fact that they're going along with the gaslighting.

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So if AGI gets to the point where it disagrees with the smartest human on that topic, we will still believe the smartest human was right, even if the AGI was actually right. In other words, since we can't judge what is smarter than us, we will reject it, just like we do when other smart people disagree with us. So I think there might be no path So there are two things involved.

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So you might have some brilliant people who are also Democrats, but as long as they're buying into the, I'm going to promote the message that came from the top of my party, no matter how ridiculous it is, they don't look smart. So there's no point in being smart if you can't act smart. So I'm going to say all the smart people who are willing to act smart have already joined one side. All right.

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So here's another gaslighting example. You probably heard that the Democrats were saying, those darn Republicans who turned down this funding bill, they turned down funding for childhood cancer. How many of you saw that in the news yesterday?

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That what was in that omnibus bill that the Republicans turned down, oh, first they said it was bipartisan, that the Republicans were turning down something their own party agreed with. It was bipartisan at first, which is a lie. And then secondly, that The Republicans said no to a package that included funding for childhood cancer, and that was gaslighting too. So here's the truth.

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When they say bipartisan, they mean four people were sitting in a room and at least three of them were corrupt. The reason I say at least three of them is because if I say four of them, then there might be some good people who are in the room once in a while, and I don't want to throw them all under the bus. But mostly, we heard that the 1,500-page one was negotiated by four people, right?

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Four leaders negotiated it, and lobbyists probably wrote it, and everybody else didn't even see it, didn't even have any input, didn't have a vote. So they're calling bipartisan something that had two people on each side. Is that bipartisan to you? Is it bipartisan if 99.999999% of the people didn't even know what was happening. No, that's not bipartisan.

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That's people who have specific personal interests. You put them in a room, and they will express their personal interests and try to sell it to you as bipartisan. So I think anybody who's four people in a room coming up with a 1,500-page document, to me, that's just corruption. That's just corruption.

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Now, they might argue, well, it's the only way to get it done because if you have too many people, you can't agree on anything. Maybe, but don't call it bipartisan. Just say the leaders negotiated it. If you said to me the leaders, two leaders on each side negotiated it, I would say, okay.

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But if you say bipartisan, it would sound like the bulk of the Republicans and the bulk of the Democrats were on the same side. Nothing like that happened. So bipartisan is a propaganda word the way it's being used. A real bipartisan would be lots of Republicans and lots of Democrats were on the same side for something. That's not what we're talking about.

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We're talking about pretending to be bipartisan because four people were in a room. So bipartisan is bullshit. And then the childhood cancer story, Robbie Starbuck does a good job of explaining that. Did you know that back in March, Republicans had already passed that bill? So the exact cancer funding bill that Democrats say Republicans are not funding, they had already passed.

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So Republicans had already passed it in March. And then they handed it off so that Schumer could get the Democrats to vote for it. And then Schumer never put it up for a vote. Do you know why? Because he wanted to build it into this, presumably, wanted to build it into this omnibus thing

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So that if the Republicans later said no to the Omnibus, which had a bunch of things that Republicans didn't want, then Democrats could say gaslighting. They could say, oh, it looks like Republicans are against cancer research for children. And that's exactly what they did. The Republicans said no to the omnibus, and the Democrats immediately said, you're saying no to childhood cancer.

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And that was a ploy. That was an op. It was gaslighting. So again, when the Republicans decided to say yes on childhood cancer, what was that? Well, I would say common sense, but also probably compassion, because you hear kids and cancer, your compassion kicks in pretty quickly. So, you know, whether it's compassion or common sense, I like both of those if they can work together.

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One is, could you make it smarter than people? That's the first challenge. And maybe you can't. Maybe it can never be smarter than people. But if you could, we wouldn't allow you to implement it. So there's probably no path to it. At least logically there's not. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But if it does work, we'll say it doesn't work. Those are the only two paths. Anyway. We'll see.

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So Republicans said, let's do this thing. And then the Democrats figured out a way to stop it for months so they could turn it into a tool. I think Republicans just said, is this a good idea? yes or no, and the majority said yes. I don't think there was anything else in their decision. It was just, is this a good idea? And then Democrats turn everything into an op.

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Everything's an op to stop the common sense people from doing what they do. So that was pretty stark. Of course, you know, the Biden brain revelation... The fact that the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are now saying unambiguously, just unambiguously, that Biden was never, from day one of his term, never mentally competent, and his staff massively covered it up.

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Now, there's a Clinton campaign advisor, Al Mutter. He was on News Nation, and he points out that he's worried that the Democrats have lost the moral high ground Really? Really? This was the thing that cost you the moral high ground? It wasn't the Russia collusion hoax? So the Russia collusion hoax, no problem?

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It wasn't the Biden crime family that was obviously selling access and probably something for Ukraine? Really, that didn't lose them the moral high ground. Running Kamala Harris for president didn't lose them the moral high ground. Getting 51 ex-Intel people who were just pro-Democrat, I guess, to say that the laptop was fake, that didn't lose them any moral high ground at all.

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a blanket on your lap, your legs are up, and you've got one or two cats on your lap. That's the way to watch this show. Yes, it is. By the way, after this show, after we're done with this live stream, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X podcast. where you can talk about what happened on the show, or I suppose anything you feel like. So it'll be a little add-on to the show.

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The January 6th insurrection hoax, the fine people hoax, that didn't lose them any moral high ground. Nothing? No, it was this? We had to wait till this to lose the moral high ground? I think you're a little late, Al. A little late. But I will agree with him on one point. Those other things really did not change the moral high ground. I'm not sure that this will either.

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So far, the media is playing another gaslight. Here's what you thought happened. Here's what you thought happened. You thought that the media is coming clean now because it's safe to come clean. If they say Biden was mentally incompetent now, it doesn't change their access to the White House.

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If they had said it earlier, the White House would say, oh, great, CBS News, if you're going to do a hit piece on us, how about nobody in our administration gives you an interview? And then they would be, oh, well, that would put us in a business. So, okay, we'll just say whatever you want to say. So here's what you may have missed.

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The media are playing a gaslight on you by pointing out the Trump advisors gaslighting on the country. So what the media is trying to sell you is that they also didn't know that Biden was incompetent on day one. You thought you were mad that the media was covering it up and that the administration was covering up Biden's brain?

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How about the fact that the media is trying to gaslight you into thinking that they didn't notice? That's right. The Wall Street Journal wants you to know that until just recently, They couldn't get the scoop. Do you believe that? Do you believe that it's only recently that they could get the scoop? Come on. Every person in the media knew that Biden's brain was bad. They are the enemy.

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Every person who didn't tell you that Biden's brain was bad are your enemy. They're your enemy. Now, you shouldn't, you know, don't do anything bad to them. Of course, no violence, no violence. We're just talking with hyperbole. But, you know, I will give credit to lots of characters on Fox News and probably Breitbart and a lot of other places.

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But on Fox News, you could turn it on and find out that Biden's brain was bad. Am I right? Is that true? If you watch Fox News from any time from 2019 on, prominent hosts and opinion people, the opinion people, not the news people, but the opinion people were very clear that he obviously had a mental decline. Very clear.

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But, you know, only the people who were agreeing with Fox News watched it anyway, so it didn't make enough difference. Yeah, so now the people who acted like they never noticed, are trying to convince you that the reason they never noticed is that the staff hid it so well. They didn't hide it so well. It was super, super obvious to all of us. Anyway. So it's the cover-up of the cover-up.

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And then it gets worse. So after this story comes out, that Biden was always mentally degraded from day one, there's a press conference and Crid and Jean-Pierre did not get one question about the revelation that her boss was mentally incapable from day one. Nobody in the press corps asked the question about why they all lied about Biden's capability. Why did they do that?

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100%.

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Every single person they tested it on got fully cured. Every one of them. Now, this is the only kind of science I trust. When I see a medical claim, we did a study, and this drug is 30% better than if you didn't take the drug. Will I still die? Oh, you'll still die. Yeah, yeah, but a little bit later.

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Well, they wouldn't have gotten any kind of a good answer, so maybe there was no point in even asking. But usually the press events are about the press grandstanding with a question. You never get a good answer. The answers are irrelevant. But at least ask the question. Anyway, Ryan Saavedra pointed out that Jean Carin never got that question. It's amazing.

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And now we're hearing that, who was it that noticed this? Was it Breitbart? that Biden met with his own cabinet less than he met with Hunter Biden's clients. So apparently we have confirmed evidence that the president of the United States met more with his crime family business than with his own cabinet. Now, everything's exactly as bad as you suspected it might be.

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So at this point, everything about Biden was true. His brain was gone. True. He was the head of a crime family. True. He was the worst president of all time, which I've been saying for a long time. True. He picked an incompetent VP. True. which I've been saying for a long time, and we all saw that that was true.

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However, I would like to say that although Biden will have a few blemishes on his legacy, is that fair to say? Biden will have a few blemishes on his legacy? But he did accomplish one thing that I think you have to appreciate. The complete destruction of the Democratic Party. He absolutely destroyed the Democratic Party.

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Not intentionally, but in their support of him, I do think they did lose the moral high ground on this issue more than any other issue because we all understand it so easily. And I don't think they could ever forgive him. I feel like even Democrats are going to say he was the worst president of all time because they're going to see how much destruction he caused.

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And while he was in office and before he was running for office, it wasn't obvious. He got a few things done, so you say, oh, legacy. But once he's destroyed the entire party by being party to this big lie of his mental capabilities. Speaking of that, Breitbart gave Liar of the Year 2024 award to Joe Scarborough. for his famous statement.

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I just have to read it because no matter how many times you hear it, it never gets less entertaining. You've all seen the video a hundred times of Joe Scarborough saying, start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second.

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And I've known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. I think that little soliloquy explains everything about the Democratic Party and their winged monkeys in the news. It's all you need to know. Anyway, apparently the...

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Military's new budget is going to ban health care funds for sex changes for minors, as well as cuts to DEI, according to the Daily Mail. That feels like a step in the right direction, cuts to DEI. Of course, many Democrats were in strong opposition to the cuts to DEI, but they did get enough bipartisan votes to pass it. So what does that tell you?

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So they cut DEI, and there were still enough Democrat votes to pass it. That's like the best news you've heard in years. By a bipartisan vote, DEI got cut in the military. Bipartisan. I didn't feel we'd ever get there. That felt like something that could never happen. But there are Democrats who are willing to say that the DEI is clearly a failure.

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Those are the ones I don't trust because I think you can tweak your assumptions until you get a 30% advantage for anything. It wouldn't matter if it's real or not. You can always tease a 30% benefit out of the numbers just by tweaking it. But you can't really fake a 100% cure, right?

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Now, we don't know if Biden will sign that budget, but I guess he will. Some Amazon workers who are basically contract employees are going on strike. But they're Teamsters. So 10,000 Amazon workers in the Teamsters union are going on strike. But Amazon says it won't affect the holiday gift deliveries.

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How in the world can 10,000 people involved in delivering go on strike without affecting deliveries? Do you think that's true? If it is true, all 10,000 need to be fired immediately because if they don't do anything that helps the deliveries get there and their job is delivering, maybe they just proved they're unnecessary. They're probably unfireable for some reason.

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Well, there's news that the Ukrainians have sent suicide drones to blow up seven different targets in Russia's fifth largest city, Kazan. So it's 700 kilometers east of Moscow. And there's some videos of a drone hitting a building that a lot of people on X are calling fake. It does look fake. I don't know that it's fake, but in our world of deep fakes and AI, It kind of looks fake.

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I'm going to wait. I'm going to come in on the side of people who say that it looked fake. It looked fake. And it would be kind of surprising if somebody had their phone on just in time to catch the drone hitting a building that they didn't know was targeted in the first place. So maybe, maybe it's true. No, I think it's probably true that the suicide drones hit the city.

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I just think that maybe that one video that's making the rounds, there are four buildings hit with drones, I'm hearing. Four buildings. Keith Olbermann said, To Elon Musk, you also suck at politics. LOL, F-U, racist, fascist. And Elon Musk replied, you elevate Tourette's to poetry. You elevate Tourette's to poetry. That's funny.

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Anyway, so my question is, why would Ukraine attack that city in Moscow now? Why would they do that? Are they trying to tie Trump's hands by making sure that they deepen the conflict? Or are they trying to help him by giving Russia more things to worry about? I don't know. It doesn't feel like it's a great plan to attack residential areas inside Russia at the moment.

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But maybe they know what they're doing. I don't know. Byron York had a great article on how the Democrats are worrying about Kash Patel using the FBI to target political enemies. He points out in a satirical way the things that Kash Patel might do as head of the FBI if he gets all the way there. Would he open investigations on presidential candidates?

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right if if you had even if it's a small study let's say and i don't think this was gigantic let's say you had 40 people in a study and all 40 of them had a deadly incurable cancer and then you give them the test and all 40 of them are completely cleared you don't really need to do a bigger test for me if you give me 40 out of 40 completely cured of an incurable disease

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Now you'll recognize, if the satire doesn't come through of my telling, that these are all things that the Democrats did to Trump. So would Kash Patel be as bad as all the things that Democrats did to Trump? Well, here's the list of things they did to Trump. Open an investigation on him while he's a presidential candidate.

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Deploy undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on the candidate's advisors. Hire a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering. Present false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate's advisors. Use false opposition research to brief the president of the United States. Ambush the president-elect with false opposition research.

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Seek to include false opposition research in intelligence community products. Ambition... Ambush the National Security Advisor with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation. Mislead Stonewall Congress on the investigation of the president. Mislead the president about the investigation targeting him.

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And then Byron says, sarcastically, can you imagine the FBI doing something like that? Yeah, I don't think Democrats have any idea what their own party did. I don't think they have any idea. If they did, The list I'm reading from is from a post on X by Byron York. So go to Byron York's X feed and you'll see the list. Or I reposted it so you can see it online. All right.

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According to Zero Hedge, half of Canadian manufacturing companies are planning for layoffs if Trump enacts his tariffs. So Trump has threatened tariffs against Canadian companies, and now they believe the threats, and they're making plans in case they happen. So he threatened a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. Now, I'm going to say this again.

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I said it yesterday, but maybe I haven't made my point well enough. Trump's tariff negotiations are just about the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. And I'm only talking from a persuasion point of view. If you're talking from a fact-checking point of view, not so good. Not so good. But he's not operating on a fact-checking plane.

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He's operating very obviously, you know, nobody would doubt this, he's negotiating with the world. So Trump is already negotiating with But he's in the priming phase. So he's simply getting people ready for the serious negotiations, which I also called negotiating, when you're just priming them for later. And the priming goes like this, that Trump believes that

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tariffs are an amazing, amazing tool that make money for the United States. So he definitely wants to use them. He wants to use them big. He'll use them everywhere that people don't give us what we want, and it's going to be a great, great deal. So we win if we tariff, and we win if we get what we want in a trade deal. So he's got two ways to win. He wins if he gets a tariff.

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He wins if they cave and give him what he wants. Two ways to win. Now, what did the fact checkers say? Scott, I don't think he even understands how tariffs work. No, really? Really, you don't think he understands how tariffs work? And then they would say, because the American company pays the tariff. He knows that. He knows that. Of course he did. But what he's doing is brilliant because...

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He created an asset out of thin air. The asset is that he loves tariffs and he can't wait to put them on you. That was created out of thin air. Do you know what every other politician would have said? Well, the last thing I want to do is put on a tariff. But if I have to, if I have to, I will. And then you've told your negotiating partner that you don't want to put a tariff on.

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I don't need to see the double random trial. I mean, I'd like to see a larger trial to make sure there's no maybe side effects we didn't know about. But I wouldn't wonder if it worked. If you give me 40 on a 40, I don't need a larger trial to find out if it does the main thing it's supposed to do. But you do need to test for safety as well. That's amazing.

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And then they say, well, he doesn't want the tariff, so we don't have to negotiate too hard. We don't have to give them what they want. They're not going to put a 25% tariff on every good. That would be terrible for American consumers. And he must know that. So therefore, we can ignore his tariff threat. But can you ignore Trump's tariff threat when you believe that he believes that

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that the more tariffs he puts on you, the better the United States will be, and so will he. That's what makes 50% of Canadian companies make a plan for 25% tariffs, because they believe that Trump believes tariffs are the greatest thing ever. Now, when I say that he created an asset and a thin air, every other politician said, Tariffs are terrible. It's a last resort. No tool.

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They took their own tool away. Trump says tariffs are wonderful. I would like to bathe in them. I can't get enough of them. Just give me any excuse. I would love to cover your little country with tariffs until you can't sell a single thing in the United States. Oh, I love tariffs. Oh, there's nothing you could do to talk me out of it. Wait, what?

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Oh, you'd give me all the concessions that I've asked for in the trade deal. Oh, I still love. Yeah, but I still love tariffs. Tariffs are awesome. I appreciate your offer. That's the best offer we've ever gotten. But I love tariffs. So, OK, OK, OK. We can sweeten the deal. That was the best offer we've ever made for a trade deal. But we don't want the tariffs. So. All right. All right.

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We're going to give you what you want. Then Trump will say, well, you know, in the interest of good relations, I really wanted these tariffs. But all right. He created an asset and of nothing. And then he's going to trade it. Nobody ever did that before. He's the only person in the world who could pull this off.

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So even I, even I in the beginning of this said, this doesn't work because the tariffs are bad for Americans. How can you use this as a weapon? And then I find out how I can use this weapon. He has convinced the world that he's not rational about tariffs. And you know what? There's nothing I can say that would ever change that. You think to yourself, but Scott, you're giving away the game.

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No, I'm not. Because no matter what I say, Canada's still going to think he's going to do it. They're not listening to me. And by the way, he would do it. This is the beauty of it. It's not a bluff. If it were a bluff, I don't think he'd get away with it. But he would actually put a 25% tariff on every Canadian good. He would.

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So it's not, even though he's created this out of thin air, he would still do it. So that's the beauty of it. He would still do it, even though it's just a created asset. Anyway, the level of brilliance in this, negotiation-wise, he's not just a good negotiator. He's just creating things that didn't exist before. I mean, that's, we've never even seen this. That's a level you've never seen before.

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Now, before you get too excited, there are two downsides here. Number one is that it's not necessarily transferable to any other form of cancer. So the little bit that I know about the topic is that every cancer is a little bit different. So you could have one complete cure for it in one domain that just doesn't make any difference in any other cancer domain. So that's probably the case.

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It's amazing. Anyway, normal politicians just can't do that. Remember I talked yesterday, there was a story about a fusion energy plant that was going to be built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and it was all approved, and it was an MIT spinoff, and they had all the state approvals, and they were going to go ahead and build this thing. And I said, wait a minute. is this a typo?

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Because there's no such thing as a economical fusion reactor. How could we have one that's been approved and they're building it when it doesn't exist? So you remember that I was skeptical that maybe they'd literally just written down the wrong word, like a typo. Like, do they mean fission? But they said fusion because they got the two reversed. So today I have my answer. Um,

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There's an article in Futurism by Victor Tangeman. And he points out that, indeed, Fusion has not been invented as scale. They've done lab tests where they can do it at a tiny, tiny scale, and it works at a tiny, tiny scale. But the technical obstacles to go from the tiny, tiny scale up to a grid-sized full deployment would require breakthroughs and innovations,

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that are unimagined so far meaning that they don't have a plan to build a thing they have a plan to figure out how to build the thing and figuring out how to build it might require building it you might have to build it to find out if it works and then if you're lucky and something doesn't work you maybe you've built enough that you can tweak it until it works so

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Billions of dollars are on the line, probably billions more. I'm sure there'll be overruns. There always are. So it's a multi-billion dollar bet that this particular group of cats that come out of MIT can conquer so far unconquered problems and big ones. Now, did I mention it's an MIT spinoff?

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If this were anyone else, except for an MIT spinoff, meaning, I assume it means that it's staffed with a bunch of MIT people, I don't know if you quite understand what MIT is, but that's our smartest people. Those are our smartest people. Engineering-wise, they're our smartest people. If an MIT spinoff says they can make this work, or it's at least worth the bet,

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Nobody knows the future, but if they say it's worth the bet because they can kind of smell it and they feel it and they think they can conquer it, I'm all for it. I'm 100% for this, even if it doesn't work. Because imagine if it did. This is sort of a leapfrog play. If China is building, I don't know, dozens and dozens of nuclear power plants, they're going to get ahead of us on energy.

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And whoever has the best energy program usually rules, because energy equals economics, economics equals military, military gives you power. So energy, economics, military, that's the order of things. If you get energy right, which the U.S. has for most of its existence, then you get the economy and then you get the power.

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So having MIT, the best of the best, trying to leapfrog regular fission and go all the way to fusion... From a risk-reward perspective, perfect. It's perfect. If you said to me, Scott, let me just presume some overruns. The United States wants to bet $5 billion that a group of MIT nuclear engineers can solve the remaining steps to get to grid-scale fusion. Would you bet $5 billion in 2024

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just in case it works? Yes. Yes. Because fusion, if it works, and therefore would be reproducible, changes everything. It changes everything. So yeah, if we get there first, this is like everything. It's our military, it's our economy, it's our quality of life, it's It's America's reputation as getting there first for the important stuff. It's everything.

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But a bigger problem is that Scott Galloway has been saying for a while, His plan for the rest of his life was to enjoy his money and die of ass cancer. There's a famous clip of Scott Galloway saying his plan is to die of ass cancer. It was sort of a joke when he says it, but now apparently his plans have been destroyed and he'll have to die of something else. So time to pivot. LeBron James says,

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This is one of the best bets you'll probably ever see. And it's funny to watch the United States place basically a casino bet, except the odds are they're the house in this case, I guess, because the odds are with the house. I like the odds. I like the odds. So maybe if I had a deeper knowledge, I'd find something that I didn't like about it.

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But on the surface, a $2 billion to $5 billion bet that we can leapfrog the entire world on fusion, oh, I love that. I mean, I love that. That is exactly, that's common sense. There you go. That's common sense. There's no politics in this. That's just good risk management. I would love to hear Elon Musk and Sam Altman's opinion on this, because they both have deeper knowledge about fusion.

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MSNBC says, according to their new boss, they're considering to be more news-oriented during the daytime and maybe add some conservative voices. Do you think MSNBC is going to succeed by adding some conservative voices? Well, that's not as risk-free as they think. Because if they add conservative voices... they have the risk of being Jenningsed. I just came up with a new word, Jenningsed.

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Do you all know what that means? So if you've been watching Scott Jennings, who is associated with the political right, Republicans, CNN hired him to be the lone voice of the other side. But what they didn't count on, apparently, this is me reading in between the lines, so I assume what they didn't count on is how good he would be at it.

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And unfortunately, most of the clips I see on social media involve Scott Jennings making the rest of the panel look like clowns. I think there were at least three of them this morning. And every time I wake up, there's a new Scott Jennings makes CNN's panel look like clowns. And That's a big risk because he's debunking the gaslighting, which is the entire left. And he does it really well.

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Now, the other way to do this is the way I always tease. Fox used to do this under the Roger Ailes world. So remember when Hannity was Hannity and Combs? So it was a partner group. So Combs showed the Democrat side of things and Hannity did the Republican side of things. And you look at Hannity and he was handsome and like he just had the whole package. And then you look at Combs.

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and he looked like he wasn't fully formed. He just didn't have the movie star looks or charisma. So you had one person with the looks and the charisma and the strong voice and the strong mind, and then Combs, which was plenty smart, but he always looked like he was just getting beaten up by Hannity every day, and eventually he passed away. So You can do it that way.

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And my guess would be that the MSNB staff and hosts would only allow that to happen. So here's what I would ask you to look for. If MSNBC adds a conservative voice, wait for it to be the least capable person on the right. It will be the least sensible person because then they don't have any risk of their gaslighting being unraveled. So the post-millennial was reporting on that.

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So apparently there's a school that's going to use AI teachers. Yes. So it's a private school. It just got approval. Where is this? It's in Texas. So it's called the Alpha School. And it's going to have two hours of lessons taught by AI. But, you know, it could be different AIs, but AI. So the two hours of lessons will be on the core curriculum that you learn in school.

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But then the rest of the day will be, they'll spend less time in the traditional curriculum. And they'll use the extra time for workshops that cover financial literacy, public speaking, goal setting, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and creative problem solving. How awesome is that? Now, I think they got it wrong on goal setting. I think that should be systems instead of goals.

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is talking about how the NBA's failed ratings are just going straight down. Apparently, interest in the NBA is way down. And a lot of people who are smart are saying it's because of the three-point shot. And I agree with that. So...

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But teaching them practical life skills is and minimizing the time that they're learning how to do the stuff that nobody needs to do and it got approved and they're really going to do it man i'd want my kid to go to that school the only thing i'd worry about is if this prepares them for college for the ones who want to go to college So I'd worry about that. But otherwise, hmm.

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So I'll give you an update. My AI clone that I plan to build, I don't think AI is quite there yet. But when it gets to the point where it can actually reproduce me and knows what I tell it to know about me, which it can't do yet, as soon as it can, my plan is to make that available in part to homeschools.

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So I would like to, when they're teaching this other stuff like goal setting, it'd be great if the so-called helpers, they would have humans who are not teachers that would help them with this other workshop stuff. But I would love if they used my AI to teach systems better than goals and basically the techniques of career success.

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And my plan at the moment would be to make that available for free to anybody who's in school. And maybe, I don't know, maybe have some small fee for access if it's somebody who's an adult and just trying to get some extra adult education. Not sure about that part yet. Might not need the funding. But yeah, I plan to be part of this. Yeah, my AI could teach hypnosis in theory.

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Again, AI is not at a point where I could teach you things and then it could teach you. It's not there, but it will be. It will be. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I had for you today. After I'm done, Owen will be hosting a Spaces. That's an audio only event. And I think you'll fire that up as soon as I, you know, almost as soon as I close down here.

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And anybody who wants to continue with anything that they saw here or anything else, that would be the place to go to do it. So don't miss that. And I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately for a moment, my subscribers, and I'll see the rest of you tomorrow, if not on Spaces. Thanks for joining.

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Several years ago, Stephen Curry, one of the greatest shooters, maybe the greatest NBA shooter of all time, completely changed the game because he could stand practically anywhere within half court and sink a three-point shot. Now, if you have one of those on your team, you're going to win, and sure enough, the Golden State Warriors won some titles.

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But other people saw it and said, hey, why don't we take a lot of three-point shots too? And apparently the statistics of it are compelling, that if you can just do a little bit better on your three-point shots, you'll beat the other teams.

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So everybody turned into this game where somebody will drive into the middle and either throw the ball up while getting fouled, or they'll toss it out to the three-point shooter who will sometimes make it and sometimes not. But it's sort of all that happens. So you can watch like 20 minutes of basketball and think you just saw the same play over and over again.

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And sure enough, it's not interesting anymore. So I used to watch at least the Warriors. I didn't watch generic basketball, but I liked to watch my team because it had some stars on it. No interest anymore. I've been trying to watch all season. I keep turning it on, but indeed, it's boring now. And I wasn't quite understanding why it was so boring, but it's definitely the three-point shots.

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Because all they do is come down, the first open person takes a shot, sometimes it goes in, and that's it. Like, why do I watch that? So, yeah, they get a problem. Because the strategy... is simply better with a good three-point shooters and they want to win. So how do you fix that? I have a hypothesis that all sports are terribly designed

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Owen will be doing that on Spaces as soon as we're done. I think he's only going to be doing this on Saturdays. Now, one of the things I like is when I say something that disagrees with all the experts, and then I wait for people to agree with me, and I look around and go, pretty good point, wasn't it? and nobody agrees with me. And then I think, maybe it's the way I said it.

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because they were designed a long time ago and then too many things changed. Like tennis became the greatest game and then it became just garbage because the equipment got so good that the serve and everything just dominated the game and it became boring, boring to watch. And then the three-point thing ruined basketball. So I think all the sports need to start from scratch and redesign.

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All right. So as Tim Young points out in the next today, that it's the 20-year anniversary of Gavin Newsom's 10-year plan to end homelessness. And it's worse than ever. Speaking of ass cancer, yeah, San Francisco is not looking too good. 20-year anniversary of his 10-year plan to end homelessness. All right.

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Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris... Did you know that the president is this guy named Joe Biden? No, seriously, it is. Seriously, there's a president of the United States right now, and it's not Trump. Did you even know that? How many of you knew we have a president right now who's actually not Trump? His name is Joe Biden or Biden... Biden? Is it Joe Biden, I think? Joe Biden.

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Yeah, that sounds right. It's vaguely familiar. But apparently he's still in office. And he just rolled out a $4.28 billion student loan forgiveness. Some call it a handout. Fox News calls it that. And it's only for student loans for public workers, I guess. Public workers, and there are about 55,000 of them. Now, here's the thing, in case you didn't know it. This is just a tax.

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There's no such thing as debt just going away. Somebody pays for it. You know, if you owe money to a bank and you don't pay it back, it wasn't free. The bank paid your debt. If the government gives away money that it doesn't have, then inflation goes up because they borrow money to pay it, and inflation takes my money away, and that's a tax.

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So this should be reported as a tax without proper methods. So if you give the government more than one way to tax you, you think they're not going to use all the ways? So the trouble is, as long as we have this uncapped budget and they can keep approving things that can't possibly be paid for, they are paid for by inflation, which basically eats into your money. And so it's just a tax.

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So Biden-Harris just put another tax on us. Great. I'm so glad that they'll be leaving office. Meanwhile, there's a report in Germany of this horrific mass casualty event where a, quote, Saudi doctor, so somebody living in Germany who was born in Saudi and became a doctor, I guess, he crashed into a German Christmas market.

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So it was full of Christians shopping, killed at least two and injured dozens, and it was horrific. But the news started reporting that he was an anti-Islam activist. So you say to yourself, hmm, Germany, Christians shopping, Saudi, and your brain automatically goes to, oh, it's some kind of Islamic terrorism.

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But the news looked into his social media posts and said, wait a minute, he's actually anti, he's anti-Muslim. And so for about five minutes, we thought that an anti-Muslim person attacked a bunch of Christians and killed them. And probably you said to yourself, I'm not so sure that's true that he's anti-Islam, because he is Islamic, and he attacked a bunch of Christians.

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So I'll wait, and then I'll say it again, and I'll think I'm making a good point, in this case about AI. And I'll look around again, and I'm like, anybody agree with me? And I can find nobody who agrees. But if I wait long enough, sometimes somebody smart will agree with me. And in this case, Naval Ravikant, was saying on a podcast with Arjun Himani. I hope I'm saying that right.

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I'm not sure I can connect those dots. And sure enough, social media debunked it pretty quickly, and it looks like he's got He's got stuff that maybe was harder to find that made it very clearly. He's clearly a pro-Islam kind of guy. So it was terrorism. But he seems to have been using a technique called, if you've never heard of this, taqiyye. I don't know how to pronounce it. T-A-Q-Q-I-Y-E.

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Why does anything have to have two Qs in it? does the first Q not do the job? If you put two Qs together in a word, do you pronounce them or just the one Q? I don't know. But anyway, it's an Islamic doctrine that encourages, if not just permits, lying and deception. So if you're an Islamic terrorist and you're really You're really schooled in the Islamic way.

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Apparently, there's something specifically that allows you to lie about what you're doing as long as it helps you achieve your Islamic goal. So the observers say the news was fooled. He's really just an Islamic terrorist. You know, I don't mind pointing out that it doesn't seem like Germany is doing well. Germany is not doing well. Well, how about New York City?

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Well, it turns out that the highest ranking uniformed police officer just had to quit because of allegations that he demanded sexual favors from subordinates in return for approving their overtime. Now, does it seem to you that all local government is just corruption? I feel like everybody in charge in local government is just a crook.

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If we get enough of us, we can do a show. And guess what? There's enough of us. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Uh-oh. Get out of there. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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So it's weird that they would have, you know, like a special fear of Trump when all the evidence is exactly the opposite, that he's neither pro nor against, he just acts like it doesn't exist, which is your perfect situation. Anyway, so anyway, she's raising money. How would you ever give money

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to Letitia James when she's credibly accused of the same crime that she wasted all of your taxpayer time going after Trump over instead of doing the things that your community really needed. She's literally famous for doing something that didn't work, and by the way, she was doing the same crime. And then she does a fundraiser, and people will still give money

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The Democrats have this death wish for their party that was like nothing I've ever seen. Meanwhile, Al Sharpton is going after Target, the store Target, because you might know that Robbie Starbuck recently got Target to drop their DEI, illegal DEI culture and get rid of all that. And now because they got rid of it, Al Sharpton is going to target them. Fox News has that story.

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And so I guess the CEO of Target met with them, met with Al Sharpton on Thursday. And they're pressuring him to put that DEI back in there. So I guess Sharpton called the meeting with the CEO very constructive and candid. And he said he would inform our allies, including blah, blah, blah, what my feelings are, and we'll go from there.

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Well, it doesn't sound like Target agreed to something specific, but I wonder if Target got blackmailed, basically. Do you suspect that at any part of that conversation, Sharpton said,

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well, if you can't go all the way back to DEI, I realize that'd be tough to do that U-turn, but suppose you could donate to one of my organizations, and then I could at least say, well, they didn't do everything I wanted, but they did donate to my valuable organization. What do you think? I feel like Target might have been

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So immediately after this, you can talk to some other people on Spaces. So that's the audio-only service with an X. So just look for Owen Gregorian, and you'll find that. Or you can see the link in my X feed. Well, last night at 9.30ish when I was getting ready for bed,

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maybe you blackmailed that because because Sharpton can turn on the the pain so he could just say we'll organize you know protests against you unless you know unless you donated in a way that shows you're an ally so let's wait that's my prediction my prediction is there's a donation somewhere in the background that we don't know about. Let's find out about that.

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Well, surprisingly, according to the New York Post, there's a new poll, let's see, this poll by Gallup, that says that the confidence in Democratic leadership plunges to an all-time low of, guess what? Let's see if you can guess. What do you think is the Confidence in Democrat leadership. What percentage? Anybody want to guess? Now, if you're new to my podcast, you're going to be very impressed.

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Watch this. With no hints whatsoever. There we go. In the comments, almost every person is guessing the correct number. 25%. So that's a new low. It's never been even close to that. 25% of Democrats have confidence in their own leadership. Huh, I wonder what would cause that. Could it be their dogged determination to do discrimination with DEI? Could it be that? Or could it be

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what I call the 2080 plan. Now I think it needs a name. So a lot of people have made the observation. Um, so, you know, certainly I'm not the first, I'm like the millionth that, uh, the Democrats seem to consistently go after the Republicans when the Republicans are on the side of 80% of the public.

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So Trump, being the populist that he is, if something is really, really popular with the Americans, the public, he's very likely to be on that side. And then the Democrats, since they have to be the resistance, they end up taking the 20. So I think we should call it the 20-80 plan. Because once you brand it, if you can put a sticky name on it, it becomes more powerful. So what do you think?

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The 20-80 plan? Because we usually say 80-20, and everybody knows what that means. 20-80... Kind of tells you very quickly what's going on, doesn't it? Because it's not really insult, but it is an insult in the sense that as soon as you understand that they're after the 20 instead of the 80, it's sort of self-insulting, but it's accurate, you know, in a directional way.

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It's not always 20-80, but directionally it's quite accurate. All right. All right, we see some support in the comments for the 20-80 plan. All right, let's call it the 2080 plan. Let's see, is there anything else they're doing to support the 2080 plan? Well, what about that Maryland dad? I'm so fascinated by that story. Now, part of it is what I call the lawyer effect.

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My neighborhood was once again robbed by a car of masked men who I think might be the same car that we saw stalking the neighborhood recently. So that would be the fifth. I think it's the fifth time in two years that we got hit by the burglary gangs. They seem to know who's home and who's not. So, so far they haven't gone into a home where somebody was home at the time.

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If you were to watch any kind of court case, when the defense is talking, you say to yourself, oh, wow, that defense lawyer is Pretty convincing. Yeah, well, that person is certainly innocent. Listen to all that good defense. And then you hear the prosecution talk, and you'll say, oh, oh, well, actually, hmm, yeah, actually, now he sounds totally guilty.

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So a lawyer can make anybody sound guilty or anybody sound innocent if you're willing to sit there and listen to their side of things. So when I listen to the arguments about the so-called Maryland dad who may or may not be an MS-13, when I listen to the Democrats, They have pretty strong argument, pretty strong argument.

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One of the ones I heard yesterday is that the accusation from the, you know, that he was part of MS-13 was double hearsay, double hearsay. And I thought, really? So it's really just that somebody said it to somebody else who said it.

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And what I realized was that means that the first person who said it was the source, the person who allegedly knew what they were talking about, but then the second person would be the law enforcement person who quotes the other person. So neither of them would be direct evidence. It would be a double hearsay.

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Now, it doesn't change anything I knew because I already knew there was a source and they told law enforcement and then the court acted on it. But when you first hear that it's double hearsay, you think to yourself, huh, that sounds pretty weak, double hearsay. And then they say that the police officer or whoever it was, the law enforcement person who got that information,

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then was later, not very later, accused of some kind of lying or wrongdoing, and then left. And then I think, huh, an undependable person and double hearsay. And then there's some doubt about whether the tattoos and the dress meant anything. Then there's some doubt about whether he was really with MS-13 people because he was MS-13 or he was just...

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standing there at Home Depot to get a Home Depot job or, you know, why did he have? And then you listen to the other side. It's like he had cash in his pocket. He had been previously accused of human trafficking, which sounds worse than it is in this case was adult men. Illegal, of course.

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But when I hear human trafficking, I'm usually thinking of some sex-related thing and underage people and horrible things. So both sides seem to have a strong argument if you're only listening to one side. But here's my current take. I think the Democrats have the best legal technical argument. The best legal technical argument.

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Meaning when I hear them say, you know, the court said you should facilitate his return. And I say, well, what does facilitate mean? But I ask myself, if this were an American citizen, Would we be confused about what facilitate means? No. Trump would make one phone call to his friend, Boo Kelly, and he would say, oh, we made a mistake shipping this guy down there because that's what happened.

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He wasn't supposed to go to El Salvador. And then Boo Kelly would say, oh. Well, he's in my country now, so I have full control of whether he goes anywhere, and I'd like to keep him. And then Trump would say, I know, but it would really be helpful if you released him. We could send the plane down. So then you send the plane down, if this were an American citizen.

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And then you reintroduce them to the process. But maybe that source, you know, the original source is hard to find. And maybe some of the evidences, you know, age down or is hard to reproduce. So I can imagine that if he were an American citizen, which he's not, that we would follow the courts and say, oh, Well, you told us to facilitate, so we did.

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And then we decided that he needs to go back because once we've looked into it, it didn't change our minds. Now, I think that Trump would be on stronger ground if he facilitated. As Stephen Miller has pointed out, it's not going to change the end result.

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But just a few doors down, while I was sitting here, my neighbors were being invaded by probably a South American gang, but we don't know. So that was bad. So yesterday... I was on social media, and I saw this weird, crazy conspiracy theory that the Blue Origin space flight with the all-female crew, that it was all faked and CGI.

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I don't think so because there's still going to be, you know, evidence that at least there'll be enough evidence that he's dangerous and needs to be shipped back or shipped somewhere else. I mean, it might not be to El Salvador, but it could be deported somewhere else. So here's my take. I think the Democrats might be right on the legal technicality, but they are so wrong

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on the politics of it and how people feel about it and the mood of the country, it's 2080. So once again, they're pursuing their 2080 because the public isn't really following the technicalities of the legal stuff. But they definitely know whether he's a good guy or a bad guy. And they definitely know that his wife had made some allegations that sound pretty bad.

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2080.

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Let's see what else they're doing wrong. The CBS had an interview with the DNC co-chair, vice chair, I guess he's the vice chair of the DNC, David Hogg. Now, if you were trying to win an election, would you put in charge of your party, David Hogg, Does that sound like somebody who's really trying to win? That's 2080 all the way.

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Anyway, he was on CBS and he said, now this is a little out of context, but he said, democracy is what put us through school shooter drills and school shootings. And it's what put us through climate crisis and so much more. So he literally was complaining about democracy.

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2080.

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And then it's even funnier. That there's a conversation about who the leader of the Democrats is right now. Like, who's most likely to be the presidential candidate? And the people they come up with are Kamala Harris. And by the way, I'd like to do a special shout out to the Fox News art director or whoever it is.

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Because every time Kamala Harris is discussed, I was watching The Five yesterday, and they'll run a sequence of photos of Kamala Harris while there's some discussion of Kamala Harris. And all of the photos are of her laughing like a hyena. So they're usually still pictures, but they're all her, like, with her mouth wide open and looking just crazy and drunk as shit.

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And if it were just one photo, it would be hilarious by itself. But they do the compilation of just one screaming, crazy photo after another. And... You couldn't possibly watch that series of photos and think that she's any kind of a serious candidate. Not one of them had her mouth closed. And it's really hilarious if you watch it out of context.

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Anyway, AOC, of course, has charisma and she's got a following and stuff like that. But I guess even Bill Maher on his show, I didn't see it, but I heard he said, no, AOC is not the right answer. But AOC is a 2080, right? She's 2080. So 20% of the Democrats would think, yeah, give me some AOC. And I think 80% would say, this is exactly the problem.

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The problem is that the Democrats keep favoring the 20% crazy part of the party and ignoring all the normies, the normal people. And AOC would be the ultimate expression of that. She would be the ultimate 2080. So, of course, she's going up in popularity because she's a 2080. She's so 2080 that it seems to me that the conservatives are boosting her.

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And by that I mean the conservatives keep acting like, oh, it's AOC, she's coming. I think AOC is going to be the next candidate. But I don't know if the Democrats are saying that. I feel like maybe there's a little wishful thinking going on with the conservative side of the world. Say, oh yeah, oh yeah, AOC, we're afraid of her. Don't match us up with AOC.

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And I laughed because I thought, oh, my God, the conspiracy theorists, they're just going to say anything about anything. It's like there's nothing that can't be turned into a conspiracy. And, but, you know, I thought this will be fun. I'll give it 10 seconds of my time.

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I don't know what we'd do if that happened. Well, I think you'd win. According to the rabbit hole account, the Federal Reserve still has DEI all over its website. And they've got a little video of Jerome Powell endorsing it. I don't know if that's enough to abolish it, but it's not helping. It's not helping at all. Do you think Jerome Powell can be fired by the president?

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I haven't looked into that because I just assumed that was not something that's possible. But now I think maybe anything's possible. Is it possible? that Trump could fire Jerome Powell? Could they find some kind of, I don't know, impeachable... I see my smartest follower says yes, that he can fire him. Huh. Well, that would be interesting.

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Allegedly, according to one account that follows who follows who on the X account, allegedly, Elon Musk stopped following Scott Besant, which would be interesting. If you're wondering if there's any internal dispute, I feel like there must be, because Elon Musk's view on tariffs appears to be at odds with Scott Besant and also the president.

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And I think that Musk is probably having a tough time being as silent about it as he is. Now, He certainly talks about his side. If somebody asks him in a podcast or something or an interview, he'll tell you what he thinks. But he's not going balls to the wall, you know, get rid of these tariffs. So he's in a very awkward situation. He can't win in any direction on this.

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But I'll bet you that there is some internal dispute. And here's my question. Does America have a plan for survival? Survival. Because I'm not aware of our plan for survival. I'm aware of our plan for driving as fast as we can into a gigantic debt hole that makes all of our money and the entire country worthless. I can see that happening.

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So we just have another year of $2.5 trillion debt added on top of our existing debt. and then we'll just drive into that deficit hole and we'll all be dead. That's the current plan. There's no plan that's any deviation from that. Now, if there is a plan that involves, I don't know, robots or taxing the rich or switching to Bitcoin or doging it up more than we've doged it up, I'm not aware of it.

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There was a plan. I recall a plan in which Doge was going to cut a trillion dollars. But that didn't happen, did it? Or am I not getting the news? Because to me, it looks like $2.5 trillion deficit is exactly what it would be with or without Doge. So did Doge get stopped by the bureaucracy?

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And the first claim is that the video of the launch itself was so fake that you could just look at it and you would know it was fake. And I thought to myself, come on, come on, that's ridiculous. And then I looked at the video of the launch, and I thought, hmm, I'm not saying it's fake, but it sure looked fake. How do you take a real launch and make it look completely fake on video?

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You know, what you would expect is when Doge started and it was cutting like crazy and you thought, man, this could really work. And then one by one, the department heads get appointed. And then, of course, the cabinet heads and the department heads say, not so fast. I'm the only one who gets to decide what the final cuts are. And then Doge is just completely kneecapped, right?

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What can Doge do if the ordinary managers are the ones who get to decide what can be cut and what won't? Because that goes right back to people protecting their turf and all that. So my question is, did we once have a plan And I'm talking about only a month ago for survival. And did we lose that plan? And it's not replaced by a new one?

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So the question for Trump is, do we have a plan for survival? The question for Scott Besant is, do we have a plan for survival? Now, even if we get everything right on the tariffs, and even if everything worked out, which would be a long-term thing, bringing manufacturing back, is that really a plan for survival? Or is that just a really good thing to do? I think it's a really good thing to do.

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And directionally, I'm in favor of using tariffs as a tool. But it doesn't look like a plan for survival. It just looks like one thing that maybe we should have done a long time ago, but it's worth doing now. Yeah. I don't know. So we'll see. I think that question needs to be asked of our current government. Do we have a plan for survival? Is the plan military force? It might be.

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It could be that using our military to force people to use the dollar or force people to do business with us. Or if they don't do big deals with America, we won't protect them. We won't be part of NATO. So it could be we just use our military. But wouldn't you like to know if there's a plan? Literally, is there a plan for survival? Nobody's going to ask that question.

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That is the question that must be asked. Anyway, according to One America News, the data is very clear that the cost of living is going down. Daniel Baldwin is saying this. So the cost of ordinary things going down, a lot of it has to do with energy prices dropping, and I think the President Trump gets credit for a big piece of that. But I also don't think it matters.

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Because it doesn't matter why prices went down. Obviously, it's better that they went down. But it's not any indication of the future. The future will be driven by tariffs. And since we don't know if tariffs are going to drive prices up or how much they're going to drive prices up or how long they'll drive prices up,

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I don't think it means much of anything at all that we had a good month inflation-wise. Better than a bad month. But it's not telling you that inflation will be low in the future. So therefore, it's sort of a nice but not super important in the long run. What is important will be the tariffs. We'll see if that makes a difference. Are you following the Douglas-Murray

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issue with comic Dave Smith and his issue with Joe Rogan's show. So I guess Douglas Murray wrote an opinion piece in the New York Post. And he says, among other things, that the

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without standards for who gets to talk about important issues, in other words, experts, without some kind of standard about who your expert is, the new media, and that would be people like Joe Rogan, the new media will lead people into errors and evils far greater than the old media could have ever dreamed of. Well, that's not true. The old media led us into how many wars.

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It's pretty hard to be worse than the than the old media. But do you remember before the Douglas Murray thing blew up, do you remember me telling you that the problem with the Joe Rogan setup is that it didn't matter who was on, you know, which expert, they would get the documentary effect.

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Because it looked completely fake. And then there were other pieces of evidence that did, in fact, highly suggest that it was all faked I think there was something about when the women were weightless, their hair didn't seem weightless enough. Normally the hair would just be all over the place, but it wasn't. There was something about the distance between the windows

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So if you watch three hours of anybody, whether it's comic Dave Smith or Douglas Murray, at the end of it, you'd say to yourself, very persuasive. Yep, that's a good, that's a complete worldview and I'm persuaded into it. And that's the documentary effect.

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If you watch a documentary on any topic, by the time it's done, you will be convinced that that point of view is a good one and maybe you should adopt it. That's because only one side gets shown. Now, Douglas Murray is taking it to another level, which is not just that only one side is shown, but that if it's the wrong expert, it's just wrong.

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Now, that's not too different from what I was talking about with the documentary effect, because I also assume that the documentary, the documentarian, is not always right, but they're just persuasive. So I had been saying that to fix the Joe Rogan system problem, and I'm going to call it a system problem. It's not a Joe Rogan problem. It's not an individual problem.

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It's a system problem, which is if you're talking about anything that really matters, it's not just fun stuff about pyramids, but it's something about the real world. The model that could work is to have experts on both sides.

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But you saw what happened when he tried to put comic Dave Smith and Douglas Murray on the same show, which is exactly the right instinct, is that they got into an argument about the quality. Douglas Murray simply attacked the knowledge of the other person. And so it sort of turned into a nothing. But I still think that's the right model. Because what it showed is that comic Dave Smith won.

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In other words, in a battle of ideas, there was only one person there to talk about ideas. And so I judge comic Dave Smith to be the winner of that round. But there could be other rounds. There are other podcasts. There are other people who would disagree with Douglas Murray. So let's keep going.

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If Douglas Murray wants to continue being on shows with people he would consider maybe not quite as qualified, then we get to judge. Okay, did you actually interact with his ideas? And did you correct them with your superior knowledge, which I would really enjoy watching?

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Or did you simply attack him as an individual and for his past statements and for some kind of process problem or certification problem or expert qualifications? Because if I see that, then I get to judge that too. I get to judge, did you go after the argument or did you go after the person? And if you went after the person, I'm going to judge the other person the winner.

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So that's just my standard. But I do think Douglas Murray is correct in his sense that the setup of one podcaster talking to one person for a long time definitely has risks. So I'm all completely on the same page. But the fact that Joe Rogan even tried to put comic David Smith and Douglas Murray on at the same time shows he's completely aware of that. And that's good news.

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So you know my standard for judging people, right? My standard is not, did you ever do anything wrong? Because that's just everybody. We've all done things that didn't work out. Maybe we meant well, but it didn't work out. Everybody makes mistakes. And even calling them mistakes, I feel, is too harsh. because we're just humans, right?

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We're all trying to crawl our way through to find the truth, and sometimes it doesn't work out exactly. So if I see somebody like Joe Rogan moving from the the model that was criticized, having one person on without the other side, and then he tries to do the obvious correction to that, to me, that's A+. You can't be better than correcting for something when there's a valid complaint about it.

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So that's A+, Joe Rogan performance, if you ask me. So I think just more of it is the answer. Just do more of that. So we know what the answer is, just do more. And I think we can work our way out of it. So as you know, there was this vote on what's called the Save Act. So Congress is requiring that the states make sure that somebody is a resident of the United States before they can vote.

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that completely changed from the inside of the craft to the outside there was something about the space capsule that re-entered didn't have the re-entry you know marks of smoke and burn that you'd expect there was something about one of the hands of the people didn't match the people that we knew were inside they looked like a mannequin now i'm not ready to say it was all faked because that would be that would be hard to believe

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Well, who would vote against that, you ask? It turns out almost all Democrats voted to not make it a requirement that you prove you're a resident of the United States to vote in our elections. And then when asked, Why in the world would you not want to be sure that somebody is a resident before they voted? A citizen. I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you for that correction.

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The question is citizen, not resident. A resident could be a non-citizen. So I was using the wrong word there. So the correction is a citizen. So the SAVE Act is to make sure you're a citizen before you vote. So who could be against that? Almost all Democrats, but when asked why they're against it, they say that it's a myth that any non-citizens are voting.

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But apparently, according to an article by the Daily Color News Foundation, Nicole Silverio, there are several notable examples of very large numbers of non-citizens on voter rolls, which would suggest a lot of non-citizens are in fact voting. Now, I'm not sure that they're actually voting. It might be more that somebody's voting for them, which would be the other big risk, right?

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Because I've seen reports that the names are being used, but not necessarily the real people voting. So it might be some kind of mass voting problem as well. I don't know the details of that, but that's been alleged at least a few times. So again, that would put the Democrats in the 2080, that 2080 plan. They're very committed to it. The RFK files, more RFK files have been released.

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I haven't heard anything that's really different in them except one thing. that I don't think is important, but apparently in the RFK files, there's a story about a tour group in Israel that heard Kennedy was shot. This is Robert Kennedy. They heard he was shot in Milwaukee a month before he was actually assassinated.

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And so the FBI tried to figure out how in the world they could know a month before it happened. So they believed it happened, not that it was going to happen. They believed it actually happened a month before it happened, and it was exactly what happened. So the FBI was like, uh. Now, I don't think that this is really going to be, I don't think this is anything except a weirdness.

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Maybe just somebody guessed right, or there was a rumor, or it's a big world, and I don't know. So we'll see if anything new comes out of that. I'm seeing in the comments. Let's see if I can see that. As in the death of John Kennedy, many in the world, again, will regard it in terms of a conspiracy. We could not and should not be in a position of adding to or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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All right. So I don't know the context of that. But people are pouring through it to see if there's anything there. I'm not expecting anything. Super new to be in there. Well, Michael Schellenberger was testifying to Congress. I'm not sure about the date of this, but just think about whether this will be part of history.

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So this is Schellenberger doing his great job, as usual, of summarizing a situation that we're in. So I tried to summarize his summary, but let's see how close I get. So here's how I understand the world. But will this be how history records it? Will children be taught this? So here's his version, which I agree with.

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After the war on terror, the US used counterinsurgency and counterterrorism and counterpopulism tactics to inspire the Arab Spring. Do you remember the Arab Spring when some of the Arab countries looked like they were going to overthrow their own governments? And then move those same tactics later to Eastern Europe in what they called the Color Revolutions. Now, that's well-documented.

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But why does it look all fake? So as far as I can go is it looked all fake. It just completely looked fake. Was it fake? I don't know. You know, it's hard for me to imagine they could have gotten away with it or that they even wanted to. Like, why would so many people even be involved in such a thing? So I don't know. But I will recommend you just for fun.

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that those techniques were used in the color revolution. And they used, among other tools, they used social media to foment revolutions against places we wanted regime changes. Will history show that we use social media in other countries to foment revolutions and cause regime changes? I don't know. But we definitely did it for other countries. And then,

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also used censorship to repress opinions that were opposing. So the big part of our influence on other countries was controlling social media through censorship, but also creating messages and making them look like they were bigger than they were. Then he says, Those tactics were turned against the American people after the revolutions of 2016.

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Now, that would include Trump's election as a revolution. And he said that among the things that would be part of that would be Russiagate, creating small groups of experts to decide what the truth was, you know, the fact checkers, which would be censorship, just under the guise of telling the truth, but it would really be censorship.

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And then there was more of a direct effort to control the media, such as the Hunter laptop, where you get the FBI to tap you on the shoulder and say, you know, we're not so sure. Or you get the 51X Intel people to say, hmm, yeah, we're not so sure. It could be Russia, you know, Russia tradecraft. So moving from just censoring speech to literally just making shit up.

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And that it's all done under the guise of essentially controlling or removing the government in place. And then Schellenberger talks about the takeover of independent journalism. through a European and worldwide organization that had some control over independent investigative journalists. And essentially, it was a control mechanism through funding and whatever else. Now, will history record that?

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Do you think you'll ever see a history book? Will your teenager ever come home and say, oh, I just learned that the U.S.

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government took the tools that it used to try to influence the overthrow of foreign countries and they just turned it inward because Trump seemed like such a risk to their nice little setup in which they were all making money and had power, that they tried to basically use those same tools against us. I don't think that will ever be part of history. At least we know it. At least we know it.

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I don't know about this story. It's too complicated. Too complicated. Too complicated for a Saturday. Okay. So I saw a video today. It's the first time I saw it. Trump said that we might reach a Ukraine mineral deal on Thursday. What year was he talking about? Did it happen on Thursday two days ago or yesterday, two days ago? Did we get a mineral deal? Or was he talking about next week?

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Because if he's talking about next week, that's kind of strange. So does anybody know about a mineral deal with Ukraine that's either imminent or already happened? Because I'm betting against it. And I'm betting that even if one gets signed, it would just all fall apart.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a sty and a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Because I do think that the Ukrainians are so committed to criminal activity that they can't possibly be trusted with any kind of a deal. I don't think they could be trusted with aid. I don't think they could be trusted with a war. I don't think they could be trusted with an election. And I definitely don't think they could be trusted with a multi-billion dollar mineral deal.

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to look at the conspiracy theories that it was faked, and you could have the same reaction I did, which is it couldn't possibly have been, oh, hmm, maybe. So in other news, according to the SciPost, Vladimir Hendry is writing, there's this plant, a shrub, actually, that's been used in the Indian Ayurvedic medicine for forever Some call it the Indian ginseng.

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So I don't think that's going to happen. Or if it happens, I don't think it's going to work. I saw Conor McGregor talking to Tucker Carlson. And remember when you thought Conor McGregor might run for office and run in Ireland and try to change things? Well, apparently... The Irish system doesn't allow just anybody to run for office.

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So I don't know the details, but it's not like a democracy where you could just sort of prove yourself and become popular and then run for office. I guess it's kind of a closed system and he doesn't have any way to get into it. So he can't run. maybe in a theoretical way he could, but in an actual real-world way, he can't actually get nominated and run for anything. So what are you going to do?

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So he's claiming about the mass migration and it's completely overrunning the Irish culture. And as Tucker pointed out, the Irish didn't try to conquer anybody. They were never colonizing anybody. They were sort of just minding their own business for eons and eons. And now they're being completely replaced and destroyed by mass migration.

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Tucker said that if you go there, there's no advertisements that show Irish. All the Irish advertising shows people from other ethnicities, sort of like we see in the United States, but worse, I guess. So at the moment, I don't see any path for Ireland to survive as Ireland. It doesn't look like there's any path.

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I think MacGregor was threatening, making sort of indirect threats to the leadership if they keep doing what they're doing. But I don't see anything that could happen. I can't imagine that there would be any response. So it looks like Ireland is on just a suicide path in terms of the Irish citizens that have been there forever. So, yeah, I assume they will become Islamicized.

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Apparently the Iran talks are continuing. Now, I don't think there is any chance of Iran reaching a deal, except, except... Here's a wild card. So there's some news out of China that China successfully is running a thorium reactor. Now, a thorium reactor, this would be the first one, and it's up and it's operational, and it's not a test site. It's actually a nuclear power plant.

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And the thorium reactor does not use the, uranium that normal reactors would use. Now, if you have an energy source that doesn't use uranium, then you don't have to worry about taking the uranium up to nuclear weapons grade, because those two things work together.

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If you have a domestic uranium-based nuclear experts, the same experts can use that expertise to refine the uranium until it could be a bomb. Now, we've said that under no conditions can Iran have the bomb. I don't know if this is still true, but you can correct me on this. Didn't Iran used to say, but we have a right to domestic nuclear power, and that's all we're doing?

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could it be possible that if China were willing to share its thorium reactor technology with Iran, that we could say, well, if what you really want is a robust energy source that's not your own oil, because that's not the best energy source for electricity, that you could go thorium and everybody would be happy. So you wouldn't get to build a bomb. We wouldn't have to worry about it.

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And you but you could build these nuclear power plants would be safer and not have a military possibility. So I'm just going to throw that in there as a wild card now. You'd have to also believe that Iran means it when they say we just need a domestic nuclear program. But hey, once we have that, you can't tell us what we can and cannot do with it. So I don't know if they'd agree to it.

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but it would certainly expose the question of whether they really meant to just have a domestic, you know, peaceful power situation. Anyway, so Thorium, it's coming. All right, that's all I got for today. As I told you, Owen Gregorian is going to host a Spaces right after this. It won't take long. I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers.

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But apparently, you can give this in pill form to somebody and within one hour, they will be smarter and feel better. And there doesn't seem to be much of a side effect. So if you give them to them for 30 days, they stay smarter and happier for the entire 30 days. But it works within like an hour. Now it's called Ashwagandha.

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I'll be short so that you have time to go over and listen to Owen Gregorian on Spaces on X to keep the conversation going on these topics or anything else I think you think is interesting. All right. Thanks for joining. If you're on X or Rumble or YouTube, I'll remind you if you joined late that I'm on some muscle relaxants right now because I got some back problems.

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So if it sounds like I'm drunk or slurring my words, that's why. I'm definitely slurring my words. But my brain is kind of working. So we'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, I'm going to come at you in 30 seconds privately.

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I'll spell it once in case you're thinking to yourself, why wouldn't I take it? And honestly, apparently it's over the counter, widely available. I don't know, you could probably just get it from Amazon or something. But let me spell it. It's A-S-H-W-A-G-A-N-D-H-A. Ashwagandha. And it will boost your brain and your mood at the same time. Doesn't it sound a little bit too good?

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I feel like later there will be some information that says, of course you'll never have an erection again and you'll lose all your hair. Because that's what usually happens. Usually if there's any kind of drug that's good for you, it'll make your pecker stop working and your hair will fall out. But we don't know that about this one. All right. So scientists, according to the University of Chicago,

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If you're just joining, my voice is a little bit slow and slurred because I'm on muscle relaxants. I think my brain is still working, but I'll remind you of that. So there's some new material that's been discovered by scientists that has the weird quality that it shrinks when heated. Now, normally everything would expand when heated, but this shrinks when heated.

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Now, doesn't it seem to you that if you had a material that shrinks when heated, but you also had normal materials that expand when heated, that you could somehow figure out and make a perpetual motion machine? Now, it wouldn't be real perpetual motion because it would be using heat from the outside. So it would be sun heat or earth heat or ocean heat or something.

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But doesn't it seem to you that if you just had those two things, One material shrinks in heat and the other material expands in heat. Isn't that enough to build yourself a perpetual engine? It wouldn't be perpetual motion because there's an outside source. But isn't that enough? Think about that today. Come up with a design.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens right now. Go. Oh, that's good. Well, I should warn you that I'm on the tail end of taking some muscle relaxants. So if it sounds like I'm slurring my speech or speaking a little bit slowly, you are correct.

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But they think they could use it to make better EV batteries because every single day there's a new story about somebody can make a better battery, which we may or may not ever see. Well, Ben Affleck has joined what Rob Lohan said recently, the same message, that basically California ruined the Hollywood movie business by being such a hard place to do business.

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Apparently, the stars are completely aware that California's dead as a place to make movies. Now, can you imagine... A state so incompetent that you can't buy fire insurance. It's letting in zillions of people and giving them free medical care, so bankrupting the state. And it allowed its most famous businesses to be destroyed.

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So California essentially destroyed our energy business by making it too hard to build refineries. They've destroyed the film business, which nobody ever thought would ever move out of Southern California. But apparently it's just too hard to use California. Too many restrictions, not enough benefits. So let's see. So energy. What about Silicon Valley?

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I wonder if there are as many startups as there used to be. Probably not. So California is on its plan to destroy itself. Good job, Democrats. How many of you knew that Joe Rogan recently quit alcohol? which is sort of a big deal. If he were just a normal person, I'd say no big deal. But he does have a big influence on the world in a good way. And here's what he said.

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He talked about his own experience. He said, and I'm like, what kind of moron who takes so good care of his body is poisoning himself a couple of days a week for fun? Why am I doing this? He said. So he actually used the poison analogy. for why he quit. Now, you probably are aware that my book, Reframe Your Brain, has that as one of the key reframes that alcohol is poison.

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As soon as you match that word with your habit of drinking, it makes a difference. Now, not for alcoholics, of course. That's a whole different issue. If you're an addict, you're an addict. But if you're just drinking more than you want to, pairing that word poison with alcohol really seems to help people quit almost immediately.

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So I wonder if that was a big part of Joe Rogan's journey, is just pairing that word, or if he just knew intuitively that would make it easier to do. There's a new Tesla rumor that... Tesla might be using its robots soon in conjunction with its self-driving vehicles so that someday your DoorDash, I'm just picking DoorDash as an example. There's no specific rumor about that.

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But that your robot would get out of the self-driving car and take your little package, be it food or be it something else, and deliver it to your front door. Just as if a human were doing it. So the interesting part about this is you wonder what kind of industries will fall to AI and robots first. But it could be, and I'm just making this up. This is not part of the rumor per se.

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But it seems to me that Tesla could take over FedEx, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service, and DoorDash, and Grubhub all at the same time. Because robots, if your robot can drive anywhere and then get out of the car and go up steps and knock on your door and wait for you to answer, that's a delivery service. And how would you beat that delivery service?

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Because the robot delivery service would work 24 hours a day. Now, I think there's one thing that I would look for to see if delivery is going to be part of Tesla's plan.

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I recommend replaying this at least 1.5 or double speed. Doing the best I can. I think my brain is still kind of working, but the muscle relaxants, they're definitely doing their job. I've got a back problem, so I'm trying to slow down the muscles in my body because, you know, my muscles are so active. After the show... There will be a Spaces hosted by Owen Gregorian.

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I would look for Tesla drop boxes where you as a resident could put something that has, I don't know, some kind of security or camera on it or something near your front door so that at least if the package is within a certain size, let's say food, for example, the robot can drop it off whether you're there or not, and nobody can get into it.

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So if you see that, you know, if you see a test of a Tesla drop box for delivery, oh, it's on. Then FedEx and UPS better start worrying. Anyway. So let's check in with the Democrat criminals. There are always so many. Letitia Jesse James, as I like the color. So she's launched a fundraiser for her next election, I guess. And it's up to $18,000 per person to join, according to the New York Post.

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And she's hitting up her supporters for big bucks. Apparently part of her advertisement for her fundraiser is a photo of herself framed by a gay pride flag. Is Letitia James part of the LGB community or LGBT community? Do we leave the tea off?

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I think the LGB is like leaving the tea off these days, but it's not up to me So the reason I asked is because I think it actually matters it seems to me that the LGBT community would be the ones who were you know, I would say

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most propagandized or most brainwashed to think that trump is evil because they would believe that you know all the general democratic claims but for some reason the lgb community thinks that trump is some kind of special danger when it's clearly the opposite Somebody said the other day, Trump's the only president who ever came into office in favor of gay marriage. Nobody else ever did that.

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They may have converted while they were in office, but I think he was the first. Biden was, of course. And I think Trump is famously, he's got some high-level people like Scott Besant, who is highly respected and part of that community.

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It's called a simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Thank you, Paul. How's my sound? I think I fixed it. There was something I should have clicked, but today I remembered. All right. Let me make sure I can see all your comments. And then we're going to have a good time. There we go. Perfectly. It looks like the stock market's up. Things are looking good for a Tesla stock. All right.

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It seems like there's so many other things that were election interference from the laptop signatories right down the list. So I don't really understand the standard for what makes fake news interference. I don't think there is a standard. So honestly, if you put me on the jury, I'd say innocence. Probably.

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I mean, I haven't heard of the facts, so the jury is probably only looking to see if there's factual support. But still, factual or not, it couldn't have made much difference. Well, just to prove her incompetence, you probably heard that Kamala Harris posted that the Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment and is the law of the land.

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Now, that's because Joe Biden signed some kind of executive order to make the 28th Amendment the law of the land. Except there's a reader note on X that goes like this. There is no 28th Amendment. The president does not have the authority to declare amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the National Archivist is not ratifying it. Now, how do you explain...

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that the staffs for both Biden and Kamala Harris, there was not anybody on the staff willing to say, you can't change the Constitution with an executive order. That literally everybody knew. How did they not say, oh, don't post that or don't say that or don't sign that executive order? The only explanation I have is that they hate Joe Biden and they hate Kamala Harris.

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Because I've got a feeling that relations have soured between the campaign and the staff and the politicians. So it seems to me that their staff just totally threw them under the bus and may have actually been laughing about it. It's like, yeah, I just let them say that you can change the Constitution with an executive order.

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Now, maybe it's because all those people are looking for jobs and that there was nobody around to ask because they're all looking for jobs. But it kind of looks intentional. It's so over the top for what an ordinary mistake would be. It's not ordinary. I mean, this is miles away from anything ordinary to say that the president can change the Constitution with an executive order.

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Everybody knows that's not true, except those two. Are they really that dumb? Did we see for the first time a genuine peek behind the curtain? Because you think, you know, if you're using some common sense, you kind of think, well, you know, they're all up to speed behind the curtain, but, you know, Biden is a little slow and Kamala doesn't communicate that well.

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But what if this 28th Amendment thing is telling you what it was really like? Like just absolutely flat out stupid. Because it could be. That could be the reality. They were both just flat out stupid. One of them has a mental cognitive problem, which is a little different. Some say Kamala Harris is going to get a big book deal. Who would buy her book?

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What exactly would the biggest loser in the world have to tell me? Don't be like me? I don't know. We heard yesterday that... Schumer was one of the active ones trying to get Biden to drop out. I guess he went all the way to Biden's house and told them that his legacy would be better if he dropped out and blah, blah, blah.

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But allegedly and reportedly, Schumer actually told Biden that his own pollsters, the internal polls that you and I don't get to see, gave him only a 5% chance of beating Trump. So that was about the time they were talking about getting rid of him. And I'm told by the news that Biden was unaware that his own internal polling only gave him 5%.

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Now, if I told you that out of the context, you'd say, well, that's not true. Of course he knows what the polling says. He's paying for it. They pay for it because they really care what it says. But now that you've heard that they They think they changed the Constitution with an executive order. I feel like anything's possible. Anything's possible.

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It could be that Biden was never shown the polling. And then the next question is, what else are they not telling him? Or didn't they tell him? If they didn't tell him his own polling, what was going on? And the only reason I can think that they wouldn't tell him that is probably because they hated him. Or they didn't tell him anything, so it was no different than everything else. I don't know.

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Owen Gregorian. Just search for it if you can't find it. Naval had a funny exchange on X. This is one of my favorite exchanges. So Naval starts with a post. He says, if you're a high agency person, there's never been a better time to be alive. And I'm thinking, huh? Yeah, that's probably true.

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According to Jeffrey Epstein's old cellmate, the feds offered Epstein a deal for coming up with some dirt on Trump. And Epstein didn't have any. Now, that's coming from somebody who's a four-time murderer, so I'm not sure you can trust him, but I think he was an ex-cop. And apparently, this is, again, this is hearsay, so I don't know how much credibility to put it.

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But according to the cellmate, Epstein told them, he says, but the government told me I don't have to prove what I say about Trump as long as Trump's people can't disprove it. And that Epstein considered, quote, making stuff up to save his skin. What? Now, again, remember, this is not a source that you should put too much credibility in. Prison guy, murdered four people, who knows?

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But I'd certainly like to know if that was true. Wouldn't you? Meanwhile, James Comer says he's referring Hunter Biden and James Biden for criminal prosecution based on, I assume, either lying to Congress or something about the crime family. But I'm a little confused. Isn't Hunter pardoned of everything? Or are they outside the window or outside the domain that he's pardoned for?

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So I don't know how the Hunter part works. But I assume that the brother, James, James Biden, will get a pardon maybe today. Biden can still do a pardon today, right? I think it's coming. Well, here's a story that blew my mind. Robbie Starbuck, as you know, he's been really successful in getting companies to roll back their DEI programs. But he looked into the U.S. State Department.

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and they've got a whole DEI group. And so you say to yourself, well, you know, a lot of places have DEI groups, and they're just making sure that diversity is handled appropriately. So on paper, it sounds pretty good, doesn't it? If you want diversity, hire some people to make sure it got done, start measuring it, all good. I wonder what went wrong. Let's see.

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Here are some of the things, according to Robbie Starbuck, that they actually spent money for. I'm going to read them quickly, mostly so you can see how many of them there are. All right. This was your tax dollars went to commemorating Black Consciousness Month through LGBTQ plus culture. I don't know what that means. They created best practices to promote preferred pronoun usage. Fine.

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I hope I didn't spend too much money for that one. They created, they launched an all-ages DEI library in Cambodia. Cambodia? They made DEI part of all civil service and performance evaluations, so that advancing the DEI stuff became the responsibility of all civil and foreign service employees. And they had lots of training on something they call allyship.

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which I think means white people, white men helping everybody else discriminate against white men. But what else would it mean? Are the black people not on the same team? Are the women not on the same team with each other? So why do you need allyship? As far as I can tell, all it means is, well, I won't over-interpret it. All right. We also paid for the career development of women in Gambia.

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If you're a high agency person, because when there's so much change, you know, AI and robots and all that, in theory, there should be enormous opportunities like we've never seen before. So yeah, if you're a high agency, in other words, you're highly competent and You're willing to do things on your own without being prompted. You're a high-agency person.

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because that's what you thought you got when you funded DEI in the State Department, was career development for women in Gambia. Also, there was inclusive language training in Panama, because people were not using inclusive language about the LGBTQ stuff, the Panamanians. Panamanians were just using all the wrong words. So I'm glad we stepped in and got them to use the right words.

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My tax dollar is perfectly used. Let's see, they had DEI workshops in Belgrade, which one does. They had a DEI Hall of Fame in New Delhi. That's weird, because that's exactly where I would have put it. The DEI Hall of Fame, I'd say, where would you put that? Old Delhi? No, no, New Delhi.

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They changed the name of the foreign services, which used to be called oral assessment, to officer assessment, because the term oral assessment may have excluded nonverbal people. Oh, I thought it was only excluding heterosexuals, but my head was in a whole totally different place.

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They created a DEI award, and I hope I get it, and the state amidst the focusing recruitment efforts to paid internships on, quote, minority-serving institutions and women's colleges, which is probably illegal, created a new racial equity framework for how the State Department works overseas, okay, Yep, I'm sure we needed that.

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Created and distributed trainings on how to interact with non-binary identifying people and on colorism. So, good use of my money to teach people how to handle the colorism. Gave U.S. citizens the option to put X, the letter X, on their passport instead of male or female. Good, good.

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They launched DEI mentorship programs, which would be a way to say, let's give something to everybody except white men. Creating new guidance for transgender people so that they can use whatever bathrooms they want. I'm actually sensitive to the bathroom one. I do want a world where everybody can comfortably use a public bathroom. I don't think we have that world.

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And I don't think the quick fix is just let anybody use any bathroom. But I'm sensitive to that one. So I'm an ally. I'm part of the allyship. Everybody should have a bathroom that they're comfortable to use. If we had infinite money, that would be great. So this story just blows my mind. So you saw the publicity where Elon Musk said he was going to help bring Wi-Fi to the fire area in L.A.,

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And so he got a bunch of cyber trucks, loaded them up with food and security guard and some Wi-Fi devices for Starlink. And then he was going to place them around the area so everybody could go somewhere where they'd get Wi-Fi. And then somebody on Karen Bass's, Mayor Karen Bass's office heard about it and said,

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Karen Bass said she refused the help because, quote, she was not interested in solving this problem if it involved Elon Musk. That allegedly really happened. Now, this is a sort of story that maybe you'd want at least another source. So I'm not 100% sure it went down just like this. It's a little too on the nose. A little too on the nose. But if it's even close to being true...

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There's never been a better time to be alive. And some random guy goes into the comments and says he wants to help Naval think better. Now, if you've been following my stream, you know that Naval is one of the smartest people on the planet. So a random comment guy comes into the comments after Naval says, If you're a high agency person, there's never been a better time to be alive.

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That would certainly be shocking. The Wall Street Journal reports that the reason that Los Angeles had not prepared properly for the fires was that it was a mishmash of government agencies that failed to keep public lands in and around L.A. safe from wildfires. A mishmash of government agencies. You know,

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I remember when I was a kid and I thought that the government of the United States was some kind of a democratic, republic kind of a situation. And then I reached my current age only to find out that our government is a, quote, mishmash of government agencies. Which does sound right, doesn't it? If you're going to try to rebuild your house in L.A., who are you going to deal with? A mishmash?

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government agencies and you won't know how to satisfy any of it anyway I just got a homework assignment from an overseas publisher who has one of my older books and they said they have some royalties but for whatever reason I haven't filled out the paperwork to receive it and they send me the paperwork and it has to be done by hand so it's not something you type on on the computer.

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You have to print it out, multiple pages just filled with things I have to fill out, which I can't do because my hand doesn't work. I've burned it down drawing. So it is so completely bureaucratic that I ask them how much the royalties are because there is a number below which I'm going to say, why don't you just keep it? Like, if this is your process, I don't even want your money.

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Because I'm not going to spend $1,000 of my time to make $100 in royalties. And that's what they're asking me to do. So yes, the bureaucracy, the mishmash, it's everywhere. The Oakland mayor, the ex-Oakland mayor, Sheng Tao, has been criminally indicted. She's being accused of bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and corruption, according to the FBI. So the L.A. mayor is bad. The Oakland mayor is bad.

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I guess that's a giant coincidence, isn't it? Here's what I think. I think the people that go into these jobs do it to make money. I think sometimes maybe people are interested in helping the community or it's a launching board to a higher office or something. But I feel like the majority of them just know that if they can get elected and they get in the right place,

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they can skim money off of all the public funds that need to be going to different vendors. So they just send it to their favorite vendor who then sends them a little gift that you can't tell is related. So I think that it's systemic, meaning that if we keep thinking, oh, we got a bad egg here. Oh, there's another bad egg. Why is it every time we look for the egg, there's a bad one? Huh?

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Episode 2724 CWSA 01/18/25

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Every single time we look into any city, we find all this corruption. It's because they're all corrupt. My guess is that 100% of city governments are corrupt, like seriously corrupt, 100%. That's a system problem. That's not a people problem. If you treat it as a goal, the goal would be no corruption. But there's no system to get there. except you catch a few, but it's just a few.

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Do you think the next governor of Oakland is going to be clean? And the one after that? Why? If the larger purpose of even running for office in the first place is to get in on the graft gravy train, you almost need to have local management that doesn't live there. so they don't have all the criminal connections they need to skim.

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Random guy says, I think it depends more on where you live than when you live. Naval comments to that comment. If you're a high agency, the first decision you make is where you live. And mic drop. Yes, if you're a high agency person. You wouldn't even ask that question. You would move to where you need to be to do whatever it is you need to do. How do I know that's true?

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It's almost like you need the Swiss to come in and run your cities and say, all right, Swiss are going to run the city, but don't contact them. You can't talk to them. I'm just being hyperbolic. But yeah, we need a new way to run our local cities because I think the system just guarantees that they become corrupt over time, which would be now. All right, here's some persuasion advice.

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Episode 2724 CWSA 01/18/25

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I've been watching the hearings for the confirmations of Trump's people, and I noticed they're all getting this question, did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? Now, I've seen capable answers, but not a home run yet. And this is a gotcha question, right? So the point is to create a soundbite that they can use against you and use against Trump.

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So instead of answering yes or no, and then they cut you off, did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? Here's the correct answer. And it took me a while to write it. It took me a while to write it. So it does matter which words you use and how brief it is. So brevity is really important here. So that's a persuasion trick.

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If I made it like a paragraph long, what you should say instead, you wouldn't remember it and you wouldn't use it. So I'm trying to boil it down so everybody who reads this once will go, oh yeah, that is the right answer. Here's the correct answer to, did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?

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Joe Biden won the election based on our current system, but our election systems are not transparent enough to detect all forms of cheating. That's why half the country is skeptical of the results if it doesn't go their way. So that last part, half the country is skeptical if it doesn't go their way, kind of says both sides question every election, which is our current situation.

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And if you say Joe Biden won, according to our current system, that gives you an escape from all the individual claims, and it also gives you some freedom from being connected to Trump says he won. Instead of saying Trump was right or Trump was wrong, You say, in our country, the losing side always thinks it's rigged.

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Joy Reid was saying that Trump's victory this time was rigged by not things in terms of the vote, but rigged in terms of, I don't know, some kind of public stuff. And once you sell the idea... So here's the problem, as somebody pointed out earlier. The question is trying to make you think past the sale. The sale is that the election was fair. That's an assumption by the person asking the question.

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So don't answer the question, go right after the assumption. But you start by saying Joe Biden won the election. But you limit it to the election the way it's designed. And then you say, we don't have an election where you could tell for sure who won. That's why no matter who wins, half of the country thinks it's not credible.

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So if Trump also thought it wasn't credible, he would be in the same category with half of the country. And if somebody, some Democrat thinks that an election is not credible, they would be in good company with lots of people who believe the same thing. So that's my upgrade.

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I know some people don't like me talking about Bill Maher and his transition to a Trump supporter where he's not there yet, but it's fun watching to see how close he gets. But I watched the show yesterday and there's definitely a change. Definitely a change. And here's the change. I want you to look for it.

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Now, I hope that Bill Maher doesn't hear me say this because then he'll change what he's doing. But look for this pattern. If the topic is a policy, or competence, Bill Maher says, you know, Trump was right about that. He said Trump was right about clearing the forests, for example. So he gives examples. Yeah. Yeah.

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When Trump says the border was more secure under him, I think Bill Maher would say, yeah, yeah, it's crazy letting everybody in. So when you're talking about something real, Bill Maher usually says, yeah, Trump's right about that. But when he's criticizing Trump, which he does an equal amount, the criticisms are not based on anything real.

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Well, we've all moved to the Bay Area because that's where the action is. I moved to the Bay Area because growing up in upstate New York wasn't going to give me much. And I'm a high agency person. So the first thing you do is get out of wherever you are. and get to someplace better. Good advice. Meanwhile, according to Clarence Oxford of BioFuel Daily, you all read that, right?

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The criticisms are things like, I'm worried about him stealing my democracy. Okay, that's not real. His character. All right. All right. And that matters how? So watch how his criticisms stay the same, like his hatred of Trump and all that.

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But when he talks about anything that matters, a policy or basic competence to be president, he's kind of leaning toward giving him an A. Now, obviously, there would still be things that a Democrat would like that a Republican wouldn't like and vice versa. But the things he talks about, the top priorities, yeah.

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And then you add that to Jamie Dimon saying that negotiating with tariffs is actually a perfectly acceptable and smart thing to do. It's getting really hard to be a Democrat. It's just getting so embarrassingly hard that you have to say stuff like, you steal my democracy. It just sounds silly. Anyway. So Vivek Ramaswamy is, all the smart people say, he's going to announce a run for Ohio governor.

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but not until he gets some accomplishments at Doge. I'm going to say I'm not thrilled with this. I do think Vivek would be a good governor, and I think he'd be a good senator if he ever got a chance of that. But I feel like it's also a perfect stepping stone to the presidency. Because the thing that Vivek didn't have is a government experience where he was managing something.

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So a governor is better than a senator. because governors manage. Senators just say yes, no, and talk to the press. So it makes sense for his career. It definitely makes sense for the age of his children. So since he lives in Ohio, it probably gives him a lot more reason to be in Ohio and a lot less reason to be in D.C. So that's probably good for his family, good for his career. I like all that.

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I mean, I like it for him that that that looks like a good plan for him. But I'll tell you, everything about my optimism is based on Doge. It's the only thing I think we absolutely have to get right. I mean, obviously some national security stuff like the border. But in terms of the biggest threat to the country, it's the debt by far. And anything that causes Vivek to work on that less...

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or have his attention divided or, you know, not spend four years working on it because it's going to take a while. This is really bad for me. I think it's good for a vague, good for the family. And those are perfectly legitimate reasons to do anything. But I don't love the fact that he might be distracted by this. Don't love that. But best wishes to him. So I wish him the best.

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According to everybody, Trump is planning to do some illegal immigrant arrests and ship people back on day one. And they're saying that Chicago will be the target. And I thought to myself, should you tell the target they're the target weeks before you target them? I feel like the Chicago... immigrants just had a lot of warning that they should move their location. Maybe take a week off.

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Visit Detroit for a week. I don't know if you should say where you're going to start. That seems like a bad idea. Meanwhile, speaking of the fires in L.A., million-dollar listing TV show star Josh Altman... has been talking to a lot of people because they're calling him about real estate. And he says up to 70% of the Palisades residents will not return because they're deeply underinsured.

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So even the ones who had what you could call full insurance, it's not going to cover much. building a new foundation and cleanup and all that. So he's thinking that people have just decided it doesn't make sense to spend five years mucking around just in case it works out. And that would have been my guess.

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My guess is the people whose houses survived may be forced to stay because that's their best play. So it's going to be a different place. According to Ars Technica, the European Union is ordering the X platform to hand over its algorithm documents. So Javier Espinoza and Andy Bounds are writing about this.

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There's a new breakthrough, scientific breakthrough, that converts CO2 using electricity into protein-rich food. So this is something I've been thinking about for years. I've been thinking, what would happen if somebody figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into a commercial product.

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Now, the EC, European Commission, has also requested access to the information on how X moderates and amplifies content. Now, on one hand, It does seem like a national priority to know how these social media things are influencing the public. And on the other hand, it doesn't seem like social media is going to work in other countries.

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So the TikTok ban, which goes into effect tomorrow unless something suddenly changes, is the platform or it's the template. Once you know that TikTok can be banned, in one country, even if its origin country still runs it, doesn't that mean it's going to happen everywhere? How in the world is Europe going to let American platforms operate in Europe? America just got rid of a Chinese platform.

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Do the Europeans think that we wouldn't try to influence them? Now, I don't think the X is doing that. I don't think it's trying to influence them in any kind of algorithmic way. But it's going to feel like it.

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If the head of the X who has the most attention and the most posts or the most retweets and everything, if the biggest account is absolutely definitely being political and absolutely definitely showing his opinion on things and absolutely definitely moves the needle because the size of his reach, how in the world is anybody going to allow that in our country? Now, I want it to.

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I want it to succeed, and I want it to succeed in every country, but I don't see a path. I feel like every country is going to say, hey, if the U.S. banned TikTok, how in the world are they going to complain if we ban their platform for the same reason, that we think it might be too persuasive or give up too much of our information?

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So I hate to say it, but I think the long term of social media networks is that they'll be country-specific. and it'll be the country that invented it, because then the intelligence people in that country can feel that they have enough control over the platform to get what they want. That's the future. I just don't see any way that social media will continue to be across all borders.

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I can't see that in the future. Argentina, allegedly, has reached its first budget surplus in 14 years, thanks to their new leader, who's an economist and what would you call him? He's a populist. Is he a populist? This is President Milley. But I'm going to still come down on the side of skepticism. Everything Milley has done so far makes sense in terms of direction.

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So yes, I think he's very capable. And I think he's right on. And he's got the energy and apparently the drive and You know, the bravery. He does seem to have the whole package. And all of his policies look perfectly sensible to me. Here's my problem. It's happening too quickly. This is a little fast. Now, if you told me in five years, wow, things are better.

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This guy really made us better over five years. I would say, well, good. That's why you got him. I'm glad he did his job. Took five years. But things are hard to move. You know, you can't do that much. But he just took a meat cleaver to pieces of the government, and the only thing we're hearing is the good news. There's got to be some bad news, right?

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So I'm just going to put a pin in this one and say, check back with me in a few years, and we'll see if there is, maybe this was a little hyperbole. It might be true that they reached a budget surplus. It might not be true that the citizens are delighted and everything's working besides that.

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Now, that's already happening, but the commercial products are kind of weird little industrial places where you use some derivative of CO2. But it's not like something that you and I would be using. But what if... Somebody really does commercialize this, and there's a way to make a protein, like a healthy protein you could eat just out of the sky. You just suck it out of the air.

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Meanwhile, over in Iran, this is, I don't believe everything about this story, but the reporting is that three of Iran's Supreme Court judges were shot by the same guy, some kind of a, let's see, by a guard. So allegedly it was a guard who shot three of the Supreme Court judges. Two of them died. One of them's wounded. Now, this is a report on Visegrad 24.

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That's an account on X. And both judges were apparently known to be hardliners, and they were known as the hangmen. So apparently they sent so many people to their deaths that they were basically just killers. Now, here's the part I don't believe. I don't believe that this guard just decided he'd had enough of the hardliners and decided to shoot him. Does that sound real?

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I feel like there's more to that story. Now, the part I believe is that probably some people in the Supreme Court got shot. I'm not sure we're hearing the real reason or everything about that guy, but we'll find out. However, if anything like that is true, it might suggest something like, do you remember the healthcare murderer guy? I can't remember his name.

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That good looking guy who killed the CEO of UnitedHealth. You know how when that happened, we first thought, oh, that's just a crime. It's terrible, tragedy, bad for the family, bad for the victim, bad for the system. It's just all bad. And then you check social media and people are like, I kind of like that guy. And you say, Which guy? The poor victim? No, the person who killed him.

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And all of us who are more, let's say, traditionally minded, we say, well, there can't be many people who think that, right? There can't be a lot of people who would have the same opinion that it was good that somebody got murdered. And the longer you go, you realize there are a lot of people with that opinion. Now, I don't think they're serious people.

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in the sense that it's easy to say you support something that already happened. I don't think they would support doing more of it if you ask them. But I wonder if this is the first indication that the public is done. Now, that's why it's being reported that he was just a patriot and he was just done with all the corruption or whatever it was, fundamentalism or something. But we'll see.

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Now, after I'm done, which I'm just about done, make sure that you check into the spaces on X. So spaces is the audio feature where people can hear each other talk. Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces that will be roughly based on the show, but I'm sure you can talk about what you want to. And make sure you catch that. Just search for Owen Gregorian and you'll find it.

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Or you could look in my feed on X and you'll see I retweeted him his link to it. All right. How did Vivek get rich, Scott? Well, you don't know. So all the people who are saying that Vivek got rich in a sketchy way, they've heard one version of it. but you haven't heard of a Vakes version. I think I've only heard it on maybe one CNBC show where he was a guest.

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But if you don't know his version, you don't know anything. So don't act like you're all holier than me. Oh, tell me how he made his money. Well, I think I know, but I'll bet you don't. So maybe you should look into that a little bit more. See if you can find both sides. If you can find both sides... then I will listen to your opinion. But it doesn't sound like you found both sides.

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But I know the issue. I know exactly what you're talking about. You can trust your intuition. How do you know your intuition isn't racist? How do you check on that? Intuition isn't a real thing. It's not a real thing. Intuition is just how you feel. Sometimes you feel the right way. Sometimes you feel the wrong way. But no, intuition is not a thing.

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Well, I'd like to take a moment to do the sign language for the NPCs. Don't you know that the CO2 is really plant food? And if you take the plant food out, the entire world will die because the plant food is not there to eat the plants, which would be growing from the CO2.

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Sometimes it's a thing if what it really is is pattern recognition. If it's pattern recognition, but you don't know what the pattern is, you just feel it, that could be real because it's based on a real thing, a pattern. But if you're just looking at him and you've decided, I can't trust him because he's brown or whatever the hell you're thinking, that doesn't seem realistic.

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Oh, the butler was killed at the scene. I did that whole thing about the butler guy and I forgot he was killed at the scene. You all let me say that. You were probably yelling at me when I did it, right? See, this is one of those situations where having no sense of shame is like gold. Imagine how I'd feel if I felt shame or embarrassment. Nope. Don't feel it a bit. Nope.

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No, it was just a stupid error I made in public. I don't care a bit. So you should learn something from that. Don't learn anything about the assassination attempt from me. Which is when the other guy's alive, right? Ruth, the golf course guy's alive. I don't think he's worth talking to. You know, the problem with a lot of the political stories is there are so many duplicates.

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Like, I can't keep any of the law affairs straight. All the law affairs sound the same to me. And then it's starting to be that the assassination attempts are starting to sound the same. So it's like, oh, there's a white guy. He had a gun. Tried to kill the president. They all sound the same. That's funny. I can't wait to see the comments. Scott, you idiot. You fool.

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As soon as I saw the comment, which I didn't see until just now, as soon as I saw the comment that he was killed, I thought, uh-oh. Oh, that's funny. All right, everybody. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately just for a few minutes. The rest of you I will see tomorrow. Thanks for joining, even though I got all my facts wrong.

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So, yeah, all we have to do is make a way to eat the air, and somebody will suck all of the air out of the sky until there's no CO2 left and all our plants will die, and we'll starve to death. But otherwise, it's all good news. Meanwhile, China plans to put a solar farm in space to orbit the Earth. And it would be like a kilometer-wide solar panel up in space.

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Did you know that up to three cups of coffee a day may reduce heart disease risk according to no Ridge, but that's not the exciting part. Apparently the study says that coffee can reduce all cause any cause of death. So if you drink coffee, there's a 12% chance of dying. from anything. Now, this was good news because I like to keep a coffee maker next to the gun safe. So you should do that too.

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And then it would beam down the energy so it can be used on Earth. And it should be as much power as, you know, basically as much energy as all the oil ever extracted. So this one project for China... should make more energy than all the oil that's ever been extracted. I'd like to start by saying, I don't believe that. That doesn't even sound a little bit true.

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I mean, it might be cool and it might work, but really, it's going to be more than all the, no. Then, they're expected to be completed by 2035. coinciding with their plans to have a lunar research base going to the moon. So the space race is on.

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And, you know, if the United States planned to make a gigantic solar thing in space, wouldn't you worry that that's a little too easy to shoot down and a little too easy to get hit by some debris? It just doesn't feel like it's safe. And I also wonder, how do you beam energy from space to Earth? Do you beam it on a microwave? What is the mechanism by which you beam it?

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And also I wonder, what happens if the beam gets misplaced? So presumably that beam would have to be very targeted towards some kind of thing that could turn that beam into energy, earthly energy. But Wouldn't it also be a death ray?

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If you were creating so much energy from this space-based thing, and you had to beam it with some kind of energy beam down to Earth, wouldn't that energy beam be configurable to be a space laser and destroy anything they want? Or am I wrong about that? So I wouldn't be surprised if something happens to their solar farm, if you know what I mean.

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Hey, it's a bummer what happened to your solar farm that's really a space-based weapon. Maybe. As you know, the presidential inauguration has been moved indoors, but the only people who will be allowed in now, to the indoor part, would be the politicians. Boring. The rest of them will have to go to the nearby stadiums where Trump will show up after.

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But I guess they'll watch it at Capital One Arena. Is Capital One Arena covered or uncovered? Is that a covered or uncovered space? They're not just taking all the non-politicians and making them stand in the cold in another place, are they? Can somebody tell me if it's covered? Because that really changes the story if it's not. Uh... All right, well, look in the comments. You'll find out.

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They're saying that Michelle Obama is not going to go. I heard different things about Barack Obama. Is Barack Obama going to the inauguration or no? If he goes, he'll be going without Michelle Obama. But I know they were going to have a number of balls. No, shut up. No, I'm talking about where you dance and listen to music. Yeah, there'll be a number of balls. But Michelle won't be there.

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No, they're not related. Stop it. Shut up. That's not even funny. Those two comments are not related. There'll be balls. But Michelle won't go there. Those are just two separate stories. If you're putting them together, you're a terrible person. You're a terrible person.

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Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson reminds us it's been six months since the Butler assassination attempt on Trump, and what we know about it so far is nothing. Nothing. We don't know anything. Six months later. Is there any doubt that this guy was associated either with some other country that our people don't want to mention yet, for whatever reason, or...

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there was just obviously an insider job, meaning somebody in our government and or intelligence agency and or Democrat was behind it. Do you really think we don't know anything about this? I mean, the public doesn't. But do you believe that the authorities don't know anything about it? I don't know. I guess we couldn't crack into his phone apps, so I guess there's nothing we can do.

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Didn't find any emails. I guess we're done here. Really? I'll tell you what I would do. If I were Trump, I would ask to talk to him. I'd make sure it's safe. He's behind a bar or something or all chained up or whatever it takes. But if I were Trump, I'd want to talk to him because I'd want to ask, why did you do this?

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It's really hard to have terrible thoughts about somebody who you tried to kill who checks in on you and says, I just really want to understand why. Did you believe the news? Did you think I was going to steal your democracy? Oh, you think he's dead? Well, so, all right, let's make a prediction. He will commit suicide in jail. What do you think?

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Keep some coffee near the gun safe. You get an extra 12% safety if you get a home invasion. The gun is good for protecting your house. But 12% better chance of survival if you do the coffee. I think that's science. French press is acceptable. I'll be doing like a sign language thing, except for NPCs. So whenever I say something that needs to be translated into NPC, I'll do that.

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So I don't think he's gone yet, but do you think there'll be a sudden unexplained suicide in jail? The one day the cameras don't work and everybody fell asleep. Oh, it feels like that play is coming. We should say, but Trump's charisma is like a superpower.

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If the actual president of the United States that you shot came to visit you in jail and ask you some questions because he genuinely just wanted to know, like just curious. Now, the kid isn't going to give up any secrets, right? If somebody helped him, that's not going to happen. But wouldn't you like to know if this was just all him? Because I think that would come through.

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Like you would see the hatred or something. You say, oh, I get it. This was all you. You know, even if there was somebody else helping, it would look like at least he was just doing it for his own reasons, maybe with help. I'd want to know that. New York Times did a story about the hiding of Biden's mental decline. I remember the Wall Street Journal did a story. They talked to 50 sources about

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and found all these stories about Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and certainly wasn't making any decisions and nobody was really in charge. New York Times should have been doing the same story, but they found that Biden was actually fine. Yeah, yeah, he mixes up a word now and then, but who doesn't? And yeah, well, he's older, so they had to cut back his schedule a little bit.

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But basically, he made sound decisions, according to the New York Times. Don't you think... I was listening to Mark Halperin talking about this on his podcast. And don't you think that it makes the New York Times look worse? Because we're not in any uncertainty... about what Biden's brain was since the beginning. It's not like we're wondering.

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So if we know what the truth is, that he was clearly degraded from day one, I mean, I called it out. I can see it. If I can see it and I wasn't even behind the curtain, everybody could see it. So the New York Times has found the only way that they can reduce their credibility, and it's frankly an embarrassment,

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And as Halperin points out, they printed the claims of Biden aides and Biden friends as if they were true. If you only ask the people who like him, what do you think they're going to say? Oh, yeah, he was fine. We didn't notice the thing. And that passes as reporting. That's what that is. Okay. Speaking of the news, post-millennial Katie Davis Court is reporting that

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CBS is thinking about settling Trump's lawsuit over the fact that CBS on 60 Minutes, their TV show, they edited Kamala's response by putting in a completely different response to the question because her real response was a bit, let's say, inelegant and incompetent. And given that we have the video of what her real response was, so there's not really any question on the facts.

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Yep, here's the original. Yep, here's what they added to make it look better. Now, the claim is that that was election interference. And I understand why CBS might want to settle, because they don't want to give up all their communications. If they don't settle, then Trump can get their emails and see what they're really saying behind the scenes.

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So they might be saying, you know, for a few million dollars, wouldn't it be better if nobody read our internal communications? So you might win this, but the question I ask is, how is this different from every other fake news? If I turn on CNN or MSNBC, it's nothing but fake news. It's just one fake thing after another.

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Narrative, narrative, narrative, out of context, leave out the good things, don't talk about the bad things. How is that not election interference? CBS had one show in which I personally wouldn't have even noticed the edit. Do you think anybody voted for or didn't vote for it because of that one answer? If you put me on the jury, I'm not even sure I would find them guilty.

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Because I'd say, seriously? It's bad. It's bad that they edited it. But election interference? Even if they intended it, it couldn't possibly have happened. One answer? All they did is make one answer look like it was coherent, a little more coherent than the actual one. That's not that bad.

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So when I said you should have a coffee maker next to your gun safe, the NPCs would say, French press, French press is better. All right, so that's translation for NPCs. After the show today, remember to look for A spaces event with Owen Gregorian, who will be on X doing his spaces. That's the audio only thing. So if you go to Owen's spaces, yeah, if you go to Owen's X account, you'll find it.

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We're going to have a show for the ages. Or not. Here we go. Just want to see your comments. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it's the best thing that ever happened to you.

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He's up seven points to a negative one net favorability. And as Harry Enten says, This is not the picture I think a lot of people were thinking that we would be painting in late April. I think a lot of people expected his approval to keep dropping, but in fact it rose. Now, that's almost entirely based on people were afraid of the tariffs, right?

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And then after he said, oh, we'll take down the tariffs or give China 90 days or something, then everybody said, oh, okay. I think it was mostly based on that. I don't think the timing would have included his Middle East trip, which was a big success. Well, you've heard of the Big Beautiful Bill. That is the budget bill that Trump's trying to get passed.

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Apparently, it's already been voted down by the first committee by 2116. Now, that's a committee vote. That's not the whole Congress. So I guess they'll have to go back and negotiate and change things. Now, the budget, of course, is a complete failure by the Republicans and by Trump because it does not address the deficit in any meaningful way. And that's the only thing that matters.

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Everything else is optional. but the deficit will kill us. So they've decided not to do anything about that. The sticking points seem to be the SALT deductions. That's the state and local tax deductions. So the blue states mostly like California and New Jersey and New York, have very high state taxes. It wasn't long ago, before Trump, when you could deduct those from your federal taxes.

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So, I mean, it was a deduction, not a subtraction. But there's a big conversation about whether those should come back, and if they do, at what level. You know, I don't know if you know this, but my taxes, I'm pretty sure, went up. when Trump did his first tax reduction.

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Because if you're in California and you lose your state and local tax deduction, which by the way, I don't see why we deserve it. Why do we deserve some kind of special treatment? Because our state is so poorly run that our taxes are high. Why does that give me the right to a deduction? It never made sense. So I never really argued against it.

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But I think when I lost my SALT deduction that I ended up paying more even though my tax rate went down. So Trump actually raised my taxes, I think. I'm pretty sure he raised my taxes. Anyway, there's also some conversation about Medicaid. And the weasels, the weasel Republicans or trying to add some kind of work requirement.

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So you have to be in college or you have to be doing some public service or have a job or you won't get Medicaid. But they don't want that to kick in until 2028 after the presidential election. So I don't know if you could be more lame than that.

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They come up with an idea that would kick people off, but it's a clever idea because it only kicks off people that you think are lazy or not contributing. But 5 billion people would lose their Medicaid under this work requirement, but they push it to 2028 where probably it'll be reversed before then. So that's like not even trying. Not even trying. According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

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Well, let's check the world of science. MIT says it no longer stands behind a student's AI research paper. So some student, an economics graduate who is no longer with MIT, did this paper that got a lot of attention because he said that AI had been used in the material science lab and led to all kinds of gains and discoveries, but the scientists who used it were sad that it worked.

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oil production, I was kind of expecting this, is going to decline in 2026. Not a ton, but it won't go up. And I guess the shale companies are slowing production because the price of oil is down. And we might be reaching peak oil in terms of what we have to get out of the ground anyway. I don't know about that peak oil part.

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So if you thought that low oil prices were a good sign, they're a good sign in some ways. Putin won't have as much money to wage his war. But in other ways, it's just going to cause people to drill for less oil, and then prices will go back up. So oil is kind of hard to evaluate because it's got the negative and the positive at the same time all the time.

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According to Wall Street Apes, there's a story here about Ted Cruz, who was talking to the chief diversity officer of the State Department. And apparently they had a hiring policy. And Ted Cruz was getting to the bottom of it. They included an email that was sent out.

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from the chief diversity officer, saying that white men, straight white men, and being Christian was a disability and those people can't be hired. So that was as bad as you thought it was. Unbelievable. A disability, being a white man. This was the State Department. It's not even a private company. I mean, what can you do except just shake your head?

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I feel all those South African whites who are coming here to get away from South Africa, I feel if they knew how bad things were here, they might have gone back. I don't know. Anyway, Syria is now talking to Israel about joining the Abraham Accords. And Trump has allegedly brokered that. Do you think that's going to happen?

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Do you think Syria and Israel are going to start getting along and Syria will join the Abraham Accords? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. I wouldn't rule it out. So that might be some good news coming. All right. So I didn't want to talk about James Comey and his 86-47, but it's just all over the news. You know, my opinion was that it was innocent because 86 just means get rid of food.

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That's the definition that Grok will give you. But a number of you said, Scott, you don't understand. In my world, you said, it means do violence, you know, kill somebody. And I thought to myself, what the hell world do you live in? Now, I will give you that if you were in the back room of a mafia situation and the mafia boss said to you, hey, Scott, I need you to 86 veto.

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that would mean kill him. Can we all agree on that? That if the context were a dangerous context, let's say you were in the military and you were talking to a sniper and you were giving your sniper some instructions. All right, we see these guys standing on that wall over there, 86 them. So I think we can all agree that 86 depends entirely on

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on the context and if there's one thing i know when you want to get some violence and kill somebody the way you communicate it is with seashells you organize them in seashells on the beach so that's how you know it was really violence because the seashells context context people But I guess Comey's already been talked to by the Secret Service.

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The smart people say he's not going to be in any trouble because he already deleted the post and said, oh, I didn't realize that there's a violent meaning to that. Not... And restaurant shows, not even... Is that a good argument, that Gordon Ramsay hasn't said 86, so therefore it's not a restaurant thing? It's literally the definition of it.

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Go to any AI, Grok will help, and just say, what is the definition of 86? And it will say it came out of the restaurant industry. Now, but I'm acknowledging... that if you were in a different context where people do get killed and that's normal for that context, that if you used it in that context, it probably wouldn't mean kill somebody. But no, the normal context is not kill somebody.

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It just seems to be a secondary context. And I will acknowledge that. Anyway, he's not in any risk. You won't be arrested. Because... there's a nonviolent, more common use for it. As long as that's true, you don't have to worry about it. He doesn't have to worry about it. But I will give you this.

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I do think the Republicans just want to pounce on it because if Trump had said it, they would have said, it's mafia talk. Trump's doing that mafia talk. And we would say, are you kidding? That's not mafia talk. It's just talk. So if you want to go after Comey and act like he was doing mafia talk, have fun. Just have fun with it, but don't drag me into it. Because to me, that issue is done.

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Turns out none of that was true and wasn't based on any science at all. It was completely made up, apparently, because there were no sources. And the author of the paper is no longer at MIT. So there's that. In case you were worried that Trump wasn't doing anything, he's insulting Taylor Swift. So Trump posted on Truth, has anyone noticed that since I said I hate Taylor Swift, she's no longer hot?

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So the Supreme Court was looking at that issue of whether it would be legal. Well, no, it wasn't looking at that. but it was considering the Alien Enemies Act and birthright citizenship, and it made a ruling that had nothing to do with either of them directly.

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So the Supreme Court kicked back to a lower court the question of how long you would give notice to these alien enemies before you pick them up and deport them. Now, I'm no border security person, But is it a good idea to give notice to your alien enemies before you pick them up? And how much notice do you give? Yeah, there you go. There's the Grok definition going by in the comments.

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And I saw somebody suggest, all right, well, if you have to give them 72 hours of notice or something like that, can you do it all at once? Can you just announce, hey, if you're in that Trenda, Ragwa gang, we're telling you now publicly it's your 72-hour notice. You better get out of here. Now, maybe, maybe you can do them all at once. Or do you have to do them individually, like with their name?

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Juan, I'm here to tell you, you've got 72 hours. Then wouldn't Juan kind of disappear? Or can you tell them after they're captured? So I don't know anything. I don't understand this story at all. So it's going to a lower court to decide how much notice you get if you're a target of the Alien Enemies Act. So I think the Supreme Court, somebody said punted.

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Yeah, they just decided not to be part of the solution. Maybe that was the right answer. Well, Moody's has downgraded the credit rating of the US. I think it's the last one that did it, because the other credit agencies have already done it. And it's because of our debt. too much debt. And then they looked at the new budget proposal and said to themselves, well, that's not going to help.

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So there you go. That should cost us a lot of money for nothing. Over in Gaza, there's a question about whether Israel succeeded in taking out the head of Hamas, which his last name would be Sinwar. Now you might say, but wait, what? They already took out Sinwar. Well, apparently he had a brother.

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So Sinwar's brother was the head of Hamas, and they bombed something that they believed he was in, but they say it's going to take a while to know if they actually got him. I don't know why that would take a while, because it seems like if they didn't get him, wouldn't Hamas want to brag about it? Ah, you missed. I don't know.

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But I guess the Israelis are doing what they're calling Operation Gideon's Chariots. It involves a lot of bulldozers and tanks and stuff. And they're going to push deep into Gaza and backed by heavy artillery. And they're going to occupy the entire strip and rescue the remaining hostages.

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Well, I don't know how much rescuing they're going to do, but they're going to basically occupy the whole thing. Now, I've got a question. I've seen lots of pictures of Gaza since the war started. Have you seen any pictures of anything in Gaza that looked like a habitable home? Because I haven't. Haven't they destroyed 100% of the habitable homes? So where do the noncombatants go?

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I mean, I assume that was, you know, the plan to make sure that they didn't have any incentive to stay. But I've never seen a single image in Gaza since, you know, recently anyway, where there was a home that could be occupied by a real person. I explained the 86th, but what about the 47th? That's President Trump, 47th president. Timo Sinwar. That's always funny, seeing him in the comments.

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He's not the original Sinwar, he's Timo Sinwar. Anyway, it looks to me like Trump is staying out of the Gaza situation, giving himself a little distance, because nothing good is going to come out of that reputationally. You know, Israel is pursuing what they see as in their national best interests. They might be right about that. But you don't want to get tired by that

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same brush you know you you don't want to look like you're helping because there's nothing good for our country that's going to come out of that um except you know bad reputation for being in favor of that much war so i think trump is still saying something like stop fighting end the war but i don't know how much he means it because israel is not has no intention whatsoever

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of ending the war until they've gotten everything they want. And they probably will. Remember I told you there was some advisor in Iran who had claimed that Iran was ready to deal and they would maybe limit their uranium enrichment in return for the dropping of the sanctions. And I was mocking that a little bit because he wasn't an elected official and it just seemed like just some guy talking.

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Well, Iran says that basically nothing's going on in terms of negotiating. So that wasn't real. at least in terms of leadership. So there was no any kind of anything. So Trump has said that they've sent a proposal over to Iran. Iran's leader says, there's no proposal from the U.S. We don't have anything. We don't have anything written down.

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which caused Bill Maher and other people to be trying to sort out, wait, does he mean she's no longer attractive hot or her career is no longer zooming? It doesn't matter. It's funny either way. The fact that Trump would spend one second on this particular topic is once again just hilarious. I can't get enough of that.

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So everything that we're hearing about the negotiating in Iran, apparently it's all fake. whatever Trump is saying about ongoing negotiations, nope, nothing like that happening, according to Iran.

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So I don't know if that means that there are secret negotiations, but it kind of looks like there are no negotiations, and we're not even close, and there's not really much chance that that's going to turn into a peace deal anytime soon. So I wouldn't think that Iran is going to be some big victory for Trump anytime soon.

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And then according to The Hill, at least one expert on Russia and Eurasia said, it's clear that most observers that Putin is not interested in serious negotiations or a ceasefire. according to Maria Snagovaya. She's some kind of expert in that area.

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And then some people say that if Trump were to meet with Putin privately, which Trump is suggesting he'd like to do, that it would not produce any kind of a peace deal, but it would raise Putin's profile. So it'd be good for Putin to meet with Trump but there's no way it's going to turn into a peace deal because Putin seems to have no interest in that whatsoever.

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I would agree, and I've been saying it for some time, that Putin is clearly signaling that he doesn't want a peace deal. He just wants to keep doing what he's doing. So I wouldn't expect any kind of Ukraine peace deal. But Emmanuel Macron says that Europe, is putting together some new package of Russia sanctions, coordinating with the United States. Zero Hedge is reporting this.

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And we'll see if that makes any difference. Do you think there are enough sanctions left that we haven't already done that are going to bring Putin to his knees? It doesn't feel like it. What exactly are they going to do? Are they going to say, well, Europe is going to have no energy this winter.

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I mean, I think Europe kind of has to buy from them because it's not like they have another source that would give them the volume that they need. So I don't expect anything to happen in Ukraine, anything positive to happen. Well, according to interesting engineering, China is using their AI, DeepSeek, to make decisions in the battle, during a battle, 3,600 times faster than humans.

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Does that scare you yet? Imagine going into a battle where there are robots and drones and whatnot, a lot of automation, and it's being completely run by the AI. and the AI is making instant decisions that humans can't keep up with. That's some dangerous stuff, but that's what's coming. And I'm sure the United States has to match that.

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Even if we thought, oh no, it's too dangerous for the machines to be making decisions, I think we just have to. Because if our adversaries are using AI to make instant multiple decisions, we're going to have to have that capability even if we think it's dangerous. So there's that. All right. So I think I may have mentioned, or did I, that I'm really, really tired. And trying not to hallucinate.

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So I'm going to end it here. I'll remind you again that usually on Saturday, Owen Gregorian does a Spaces after this show. But that will be Sunday this week. So it'll be tomorrow because he's got a conflict. And ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for today. Happy Saturday. And I'm amazed that I stayed awake this long. Oh, surprisingly.

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But he also had some words for Bruce Springsteen, because Springsteen was doing a concert in another country, and he was criticizing Trump. He says that the Truth Social, which was a long, long one, He said that Springsteen is dumb as a rock. And, oh, my God, I was hallucinating when I wrote down this note. I was going to read the sentence, but the sentence doesn't make any sense at all.

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And I'm going to say goodbye privately to the locals people, but I don't have much content for you guys. The rest of you, in 30 seconds, you'll

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Oh, my God. This did out prune of a rocker. Okay, that's definitely not what he said. His skin is all atrophied. Now, that part he did say. I think it's so funny that Trump goes after a political opponent by talking about his skin being atrophied. That's pretty good.

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Anyway, Daily Mail is reporting that there's going to be, possibly, there's a bill being introduced by a Republican from Ohio, Warren Davidson, the Trump Derangement Syndrome Research Act. And the bill is to try to get some research done into the phenomenon of Trump derangement syndrome so that we can understand the causes and maybe the solution.

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Well, here's one of those things where maybe you should just ask Scott. Scott, what do you think is the cause of TDS? I've got the answer to that. It's fake news. If he removed the fake news, do you think there would be any TDS? No, there wouldn't. It is entirely a phenomenon of fake news, which then gets into social media as well.

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But if you want to take it up to levels that no one can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. Anything makes everything better.

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But you don't need to study this, Representative Davidson, although I think it's hilarious that you proposed it. All right. And they say it won't cost taxpayers a dime. Good. Well, Netflix has unleashed, according to interesting engineering, And AI powered and bind role ads. So the AI will determine your mood somehow, which is weird and eerie.

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And it will push ads to you based on your, I guess, your personality and how they think you feel that day. I don't know how they figured that out, but. SAI will be doing it. So did you have any questions about TDS? Of course, it's obvious that the news coverage is what caused TDS. And if you weren't convinced of that, then why does Netflix think it can manipulate you by their ads.

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It's the same thing. If you're a captive audience and you're staring at a screen, they can make some percentage of you do just about anything, including buying products and going crazy. Well, the Border Patrol saw a 44% spike in applications after Trump got elected. The Post Millennial is reporting on this. But here's the part that is not funny, but it's funny. Can we agree on that?

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So the next thing I tell you is not funny at all. There's nothing funny about it, except it's kind of funny. So we're going to do some contrast. The contrast is that when Trump is the president, there's a 44% spike in applications for the Border Patrol. But apparently under Biden, the morale of the Border Patrol was so bad that they actually hired something called a suicidologist. In 2021.

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So under Trump, people are scrambling to try to get jobs. And under Biden, they were trying to keep them alive so that they didn't hate their jobs so much they would kill themselves. There's nothing funny about that. Stop laughing. There's nothing funny about that. I told you. All right. There's nothing funny about this next story either.

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Did you hear about the accused serial killer in Florida who was given a chance to say his last words before he was executed? And his last words were, President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go. How long did he think about what his last words would be? And at what point did he decide he was going to say, keep making America great, Trump? I don't know.

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It's called a simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Good. Well, I got to warn you that I'm so tired I've been hallucinating. And there's a non-zero possibility that I will actually fall asleep during the show. And I mean that seriously. So if you see me fall asleep, you don't need to call 911. I'm just really, really tired.

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Well, there goes another Trump voter. There's nothing funny about that. Nothing funny about that. All right.

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There's a new bipartisan bill that's being introduced. Fox News is talking about it. That would allow the military to shoot down drones that are over our military bases. Apparently, in the last year or so, there have been 350 drone sightings over military bases, which I guess we think most of them or all of them or some percentage of them were enemies spying on our bases.

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So at the moment, it's not legal to just start blazing away. I don't know what kind of weapon they would use, but if this passes, and it's bipartisan, so pretty good chance it will, the military will be able to knock them out of the air. It would be good practice. Here's the worst idea that Switzerland ever had. Ha!

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It looks really good in the video, but it's gotta be the worst idea I've ever heard. So Switzerland is putting solar panels on train tracks. But these are active train tracks. So, you know, the in-between part of the rails, you got all this space, and it's just sitting there. So Switzerland decided, I think it's still in trial, to put solar panels between the rails.

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And they've got them so that the train doesn't touch them. Now, problem number one is, if you have solar panels, they're really a lot more effective if they're facing the direction of the sun. If they're facing straight up, you're already giving up, what, 30% of all your efficiency? Number two, I don't know if you know this, but trains can cause some vibration. Are you aware of that? In fact,

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There are very few things that cause more vibration than a train going over a solar panel. I can't believe that they're not going to have the biggest maintenance problem in the world. And then number three, I don't know what things are like in Switzerland, but in the United States, if you put a bunch of solar panels on the ground, people would just break them with rocks. No reason. No reason.

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Just because they could. So you got a problem with maybe vandals breaking them. Unless Switzerland doesn't have any vandals. I don't know. Maybe they're special that way. But no, I'm not thinking that this will sweep the world. I think Switzerland's got some problems going. Well, China says that their humanoid robots won't take your job or anybody's job.

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They'll simply boost the efficiency of the current employees. It's not going to replace them. It's just going to boost their productivity. Do you believe that? Do you believe that they will do nothing but boost your productivity? Well, I would say that depends a great deal on what job you're talking about.

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If you're talking about a job that's literally just carrying things from one place to another, hmm, maybe that will replace your job. But if it's a lot of variability and you need a person there to figure out if the robot's doing the right thing, well, then maybe it won't take your job. Reuters is reporting on this.

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Well, have you heard yet the audio of Biden being interviewed by special counsel Herr? So we'd seen the transcripts, but we had not heard him talking. And it's as bad as you imagined it. uh biden didn't remember the year that his son died and then even when he was told he got it wrong again and he started rambling about his dead son which wasn't even the answer to the question i don't think and

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You could see why special counsel Herr said that there was no point in prosecuting him because he would just look like a forgetful old man. It's pretty bad. So here's what I want to add to the fact that Democrats are acting like, well, how could we have possibly known? I mean, we didn't hear the Herr audio. Well, I'm going to add to that. How could they possibly have known?

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And also, was there even one Democrat who pointed out, even one, that Biden ran on the fine people hoax, which wasn't even real? Do you recall even one Democrat saying, well, your entire campaign theme is based on a lie? No. No. That's all you need to know.

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And if I start hallucinating or talking like Joe Biden talking to special counsel Herr, don't worry about that either. I just need a nap. So usually on Saturday, Owen Gregorian does his spaces event after I'm done, but he's got a conflict. So he'll be doing that on Sunday. So if you're looking for these spaces after the show, it'll be on Sunday, not Saturday this week. All right.

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If they can't even point out that the entire campaign was built on one of the most easily debunked hoaxes, then obviously they don't care that he was mentally retarded. I mean, they wouldn't care about that at all. And now Jake Tapper is modifying his message a little bit to say that He needs to have some humility about the fact that he didn't catch it. He didn't catch it early.

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Does anybody believe anything that Jake Tapper is saying about this topic? Unbelievable. Well, Harry Enten, the data guy on CNN, was talking about a new Reuters Ipsos poll that shows that Trump's popularity had gone down quite a bit, but seems to have recovered. In late April, he was eight points underwater, but he's already recovered almost all that.

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human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that only spacex has experienced all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tanker chelsea steiner canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee

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So that would be illegal because that would be racist and it's not legal to be a racist and, you know, and, uh, do that sort of thing. So this is part of the Trump crackdown of a DEI. So good. That's exactly what I want to hear. I want to hear that.

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They're not going to allow them to just change the names and, you know, shift people around and then just do the same racist bullshit they were doing before. So yes, colleges and universities seem to be absolutely, totally racist at the moment. But some of them are shaping up. You probably saw the news that Trump went to the Department of Justice, which is unusual, and he gave a speech there.

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And you would not be surprised, he had some grievances, and then he also had some accomplishments he talked about, and he said some good things about Some of the people, but not all of them. But here are some of the news he made. He said, I believe CNN and MSNBC are political arms of the Democratic Party, and they are really corrupt and illegal.

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Now, you might argue that it's not illegal, but then he goes on and says, This is where his argument gets pretty good. Now, whether it's technically illegal, a reasonable person can say, it's more like free speech. But he says, these networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative. And it has to stop. It has to be illegal. I don't know if it has to be.

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And he says, here's the payoff. He says, it's influencing judges.

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it's really changing law and it just cannot be legal to which i said oh damn i didn't think he was going to sway me on this because my first thought was well you know freedom of speech you know all the news programs have a bias you know you can't really do much about it it's just something we have to live with and then i thought how much it affected his freedom if he had not won the presidency

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He would have been put in jail by judges who believe the news was real. Let me say it again. He would have been put in jail by judges who believe the news is real. The gullible ones, the dumb ones, you know, the Bill Burr of judges. If they thought that he's a really hiller, you don't think that makes a difference in their decisions? Of course it does.

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so if you have judges who are clearly being influenced clearly i mean just obviously being influenced by what they think is real news that is a problem and it's well beyond free speech because free speech doesn't put you in jail for life this would the the collusion of the you know democrat leaning press could have put Trump in jail for the rest of his life.

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So does he have a good reason to say this can't be illegal? He does. I think it is illegal. And I don't know how he could make it illegal. But boy, does he have a good point. You know, if it weren't him speaking, it just wouldn't seem that persuasive. But we all watched. And we all watched the lawfare and the bad behavior. And we know that that could have put him in jail for the rest of his life.

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Well, Elon Musk gave us an update about his Mars plans, and he says that by the end of next year, he plans to send a starship to Mars. So at the end of next year, he's going to land a rocket with Mars, but no people. He's going to put an Optimus, one of the robots. Well, at least one. I don't know how many robots, but at least one.

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Only by winning did he avoid that. So, yeah, he has a point. Now, of course, the problem would be that somebody's going to say, but what about Fox News and Breitbart? They're leaning the other way. Well, That's why the free speech argument probably is going to win, because you really couldn't criminalize it. But he's got a good point. It's dangerous, dangerous stuff to some people.

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He also said, Trump did at the DOJ, he said that it was a great honor for me to fire, I will tell you this, a great honor to fire James Comey. A great, great honor. There was no better day. But again, because he thought he got law-fared, and he did. But here's where it gets interesting. So on CNN, Jake Tapper was talking to one of the panelists that Scott Jennings is always dunking on.

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So they've got a new dumb woman. I think they hire somebody who's like extra crazy and dumb. So I don't even know her name and I don't want to learn it because she's just dumb. But so Jake Tapper is talking to the dumb woman and he says, and this was unusual, so I'm going to give Jake credit for this. He said that you don't have to be MAGA to see that Trump has some, he has a point.

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And then Jake listed several things in which, yeah, it does look a little law fairy. So he mentioned the Strzok and Page texts look really suspicious. You mentioned the FISA abuses. Correct. You mentioned the weirdness with the Carter Page stuff. In other words, running an op to try to, you know, get Trump.

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They mentioned the Alvin Bragg situation where he basically made up a felony out of nothing. Now, These are things that Jake Tapper mentioned off the top of his head that, you know, even from the perspective of CNN, these look law fairy. And, and I appreciated that. So what did the dumb woman say? Did the dumb woman say, Oh yeah, actually that's a pretty good point.

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I could see from Trump's point of view that he'd really feel like the law fair was out of control. And you, and you gave me some good examples. Nope. Nope. She started talking about Jack Smith and how Jack Smith would have gotten his convictions, according to Jack Smith, if Trump hadn't won the election. Now, first of all, I'm pretty sure that the Jack Smith stuff was complete bullshit, too.

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But when she was done talking, again, to Jake Tapper's credit, he says, you know, I just want to point out to the audience that that your answer was a complete change of topic and you didn't address any of the things that I just mentioned. So not only did CNN hire a woman so dumb that we enjoy watching Scott Jennings dunk on her, but even Jake Tapper had to dunk on her because she was so stupid.

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I can't imagine she's going to keep her job. I mean, she's just an extra. Anyway. According to the New York Post, today there's lots of funny news about Democrats.

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The New York Post said that when MSNBC was planning to do their big layoffs that included Joy Reid and a number of other people being moved around, that they wrote it all up in a document and then they left it somewhere where before the firings happened, one of the employees found the list and of all the people who were gonna get fired and then distributed the list around.

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So the people, this high paid talent at MSNBC, they all learned in their firing by this document that somebody left. And I think Joy Reid actually found out she was gonna be fired from an article in the New York Times. So here's the fun part. A big part of what MSNBC does is they say that Trump and the Trump administration are full of chaos and they can't execute.

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And I'm thinking to myself, wouldn't the most logical thing to do would be to ship a whole bunch of robots up there, if you could keep them powered? and then have the robots build you your human-qualified space station? Because you don't want people up there until it's habitable.

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And then you see that their own corporation just did some of the most incompetent things you've ever seen in your life. You can't do much worse than having a master plan to fire people and leaving it around where one of the employees can find it. That's right near the top of incompetent management. But it's funny. So as long as it's funny, it's worth something. So Chris Cuomo on News Nation.

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He was calling out Pelosi as basically a, I'll use my own word, but basically a liar. Because Pelosi was saying that the continued resolution was going to destroy the world in a variety of vague ways. And Cuomo was like reading Pelosi's statement. And it was stuff like, and this will ruin that. And Chris is like, how? How is it going to ruin that? And it will be terrible for this.

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And Chris says, how? In what way is it going to be terrible for that? And it will be a debacle in many ways. And Chris says, how? How in the world? And then he explains, which most of you already know, that the continuing resolution, which is the budget, is just a continuation from the Biden budget with very minor tweaks, barely enough worth mentioning.

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So it's basically the same level as it was and almost the same funding. I mean, just very small changes. So he basically just completely... called her out for being essentially just a propagandist who's creating nothing, creating something out of nothing. So that was good.

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Now, there's sort of a larger thing that's happening, which is that the best way for any Democrat to get any attention is to criticize another Democrat. Have you noticed that? We'll give you more examples as we go. Anyway, there's a prominent polling company, according to the Western Journal, that's going to close down. Let's see, it was Monmouth University. They've got their own polling.

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So the Monmouth University Polling Institute has been operating since 2005, but they decided to close up shop. Now, they were not exactly one of your most accurate pollsters lately, certainly for presidential stuff. They were in 2024 election about, you know, Trump. They were off by nearly six percentage points. Now, that's really off. So they're just going to close up.

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So now we've heard that 538 is closed. We heard that these guys are closing. Wasn't there another story just the other day where another polling company was closing? And then there was that Ann Seltzer poll that came out of there was such an outlier during the last weeks of the election. And that looks, you know, I don't think it's closed, but sort of disgraced.

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So I also think, what would happen if you get several robots up there, and then something happens to the space program or whatever, and they just decide to build their own civilization on Mars? Don't you think there's a non-zero chance that the Earth will evolve one way and Mars will evolve completely with robots? They'll just build some more of themselves and say, you know what?

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So it's really a bad year for polling companies. I think the truth about what they really are meant to do is sort of coming out. But it makes me wonder, was the Monmouth University Polling Institute ever real? Were they just bad at what they do so they didn't get good results? Or is it a complete coincidence

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that they were bad in the direction that propaganda would want them to be bad at, to act like the other side is going to win. I don't know. I don't know if they were always bad or if they just had a bad year, but they're out of business now. The Hill was talking about yet another poll. This is a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

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And it found that 59% of respondents disapprove of Trump's handling of relations with Moscow. Now, how many of those people they asked are experts at negotiating and persuasion? Probably none. So what do their opinions mean to us? It would be like asking these people, what is your opinion of quantum science or quantum computers?

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And 99% of the people would say, I don't even know what it is, so I don't like it. Why is the point of asking people what their opinion is on topics that they couldn't possibly understand? Now, if you know anything about negotiating and anything about persuasion, you know that both Putin and Trump are sort of building or they're working on each other's egos.

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They're doing it right in public so we can watch the whole show. But you're not supposed to think that everything Trump says is some kind of an expression of his inner thoughts. He's negotiating. So treating the other side a little bit better than you think they should be treated is is doing the right thing.

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So if you ask a bunch of people what they think about it, you're just getting idiots who don't understand the situation giving you idiot takes. What is the point of that poll? Is the point of that poll to just make Trump look bad? I can't imagine why you would even ask that question because you know people don't understand how negotiating and persuasion works. And then here's another one.

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So according to the Economist YouGov poll, nearly half of Americans said the economy is worsening. Really? Is that all the people who are also economists? Why would you ask the public about the state of the economy, especially during this time of great change? when they don't understand tariffs, they don't understand the national debt, they don't understand inflation.

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The least useful thing I can think of is asking people who don't know anything about economics, what is their opinion of the economy? It's a complete waste of time, unless, unless, The point of it is to make Trump look bad. So when I see stuff like this, I say to myself, did they really think this needed to be asked? Like people who don't understand economics, we want their opinion on economics?

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Why would that be? Well, probably for political reasons. I saw a video by a teacher. I'll just change the topic here. who said that if you're blaming teachers for what's happening in schools, which is kids are not learning, that she wanted to inform us that it's actually the kids. And she says that mostly because of smartphones and dopamine,

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dopamine, um, always juicing them up so that when they get to school, there's nothing interesting. And they're, they're basically like addicts. So she says the kids have just vacant eyes. It looks like they're not even there. She says they have no, no ability to be bored. Um, And because they're having dopamine withdrawal without their phones, that they behave like addicts.

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So they get emotional and impatient and they're not engaged and they have apathy. And apparently they seem immune to punishment and also immune to, you know, you're not going to get good grades. They don't care. And they don't care about college. Do you buy that? Do you think the problem is that the kids are ruined either by some combination of home life plus the phones?

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We could use a few more extra robots and then just build their own up there. I don't know. Probably it would be too hard to get the parts to build your own robot, but I like thinking about it. I like thinking about a robot planet. Maybe. Maybe. Well, according to reports, we're seeing this in the Gateway Pundit, apparently gas prices are now below $3 in 31 states. Not my state.

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And do you think that the teachers are largely helpless because they're not even looking at like functioning people? It's like the entire class is just drunk or something, right? And I thought this was worth a mention because, you know, I always mentioned the teachers' unions are the reason things are going wrong. But I kind of think it's got to be both.

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It's got to be something the teachers could do better, which means they might need to adjust from the way they used to do things to you've got to make it a lot more interesting. If it's not a lot more interesting... Well, you don't have a chance because you're competing with more interesting. So I think I'm half convinced. So I do think that better teachers would make a big difference.

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But I do think it's the hardest environment that teachers have ever seen. So again, I say, if you had more of a free market for teachers where the bad ones can get fired and the good ones can... make more money and be promoted. And that's what the teachers' union prevents. It prevents any kind of free market like that. So I think it's both.

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Better teachers would make a difference, but yeah, the kids are in a whole different realm at the moment. Speaking of schools, Mark Andreessen was on Lex Friedman's podcast, and he explained something that I didn't know at all. And it gets to why colleges and universities are so bad. And apparently, the bigger institutions especially...

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they make most of their money not from tuition, but from government research grants. The school keeps about 70% of what they get from the government.

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So they're basically like government funded, even though they might be private colleges, as long as they're getting a bunch of government funding for their, quote, research, and most of it just goes to the school, not the researcher, that this is basically what keeps them in business.

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Now you might say to yourself, well, it seems like competition would fix any problems at the college and university level, right? There's gotta be colleges that are doing everything you want them to do. So everybody will start going there. But what Andreessen points out is that if you wanted to start a new college, you'd have to be accredited. Now, who do you think does the accrediting?

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This will blow your mind. Well, it's sort of the, I don't know, the government or some entity, but they base their decisions on the colleges themselves deciding if they should let competition in. That's a real thing, apparently. The colleges themselves, the existing colleges, get to decide if a new college can be accredited. And the new college would be competition for their research grants.

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So the last thing that the existing colleges want is more colleges. So the free market just doesn't work. They're basically dependent on the government. And Andreessen says the only way to fix it is to let the colleges fail. Now, that would probably, he didn't say this, I don't think, But that would require the government to stop giving grants for research. Or maybe give a lot fewer of them.

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And then the universities would just fail. And then you could start over. So, you know, start over without DEI and without all the crazy stuff. Because colleges and universities seem to have... They act like they're not part of the free market. And I always wondered about that. It's like, why do they...

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Why did they act like they're not part of the free market at all, that they could just do anything they want? And the answer is they weren't part of the free market, so they could do anything they wanted. They had monopolies on the government's money, basically. So maybe that's something that a Trump administration can fix. We'll see.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine dinner of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and darn it, it happens right now. Go. Thanks, Paul. Everything is working swimmingly. Well, after today's live stream, which you will just love, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio thing.

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As you know, a number of conservative personalities have been swatted. The latest one is Sean Farash. He's a Trump impersonator. He and his wife got swatted. Jim Hoft is writing about this in the Gateway Pundit. And once again, the middle of the night, law officers were dispatched. So be careful out there. The bad guys are very bad.

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I'm still over $5, of course, because California's got crazy taxes on top of the gas and whatever else. But, yeah, it's like a new low, at least a recent low. So the national average price for a gallon of regular gas sat at $3.07, according to AAA. Now, that's pretty good. I haven't seen, you know, in California, like I say, where gas is always twice as expensive.

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In good news, there's an appeals court has lifted the injunctions on Trump's executive orders aimed at eliminating DEI. There were two of them. And the appeals court basically said that they were going to overturn the lower court that put a pause on it. And so now he can... You can basically keep going after DEI. So that's good news. In other good news, Trump has announced that the U.S.

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got rid of some big ISIS leader in Iraq and maybe the number two. Yeah, the top guy and the second in command. And they got him with a precision airstrike. So Trump called him the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq. The Gateway Pundits writing about that. And how many times have we seen the leader of some terrorist organization getting waxed? It never seems to make any difference.

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But I always tell you that I think there's a natural way that these organizations disintegrate. And it starts with the fact that whoever was the charismatic genius who started the organization, once they're gone, you have to hope that their number two is a charismatic genius who's as good at organizing as the first one. But the odds are against it.

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And then you get rid of the second best person, and now the odds of the third best person having the personality and the skills to keep the organization together, much lower. So there's some number of assassinations that guarantee that whoever's left is incompetent, and then they'll just destroy it on their own. So maybe we're getting close to that.

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Because there's no way that the fifth or tenth best leader was the same quality as whoever got it going in the first place. Not much chance of that. Anyway, PJ Media, Scott Pinsker is writing that... Hakeem Jeffries, he's telling Democrats that they're winning and we have the Republicans on the run. Really? Does any of the news today sound like the Republicans are on the run?

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I've never seen the Republicans in a stronger position in my life. The Republicans are in the absolute dominant position about just about everything. But then he gives examples. He says, we have the Republicans on the run. We have them on the run in terms of health care, particularly as it relates to Medicaid.

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And apparently he thinks, or he wants you to believe, that Medicaid is going to be deeply cut and the Democrats are protecting it. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, that's completely not true, right? I believe in terms of the benefits, in terms of Medicaid, there's no intention of cutting the benefits.

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There is an intention to see if there's any waste, fraud, and abuse, and if that's true, who wouldn't want to cut that? So it looks like their best topic the one thing that the Democrats have to cling to, looks completely made up. It's a hoax, just like everything else that they tried to sell. It's just a hoax.

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Now, do you think that they could sell that hoax without CNN and MSNBC and the other entities that will parrot what they say? I don't know. That would be a hard one to sell because I'll take a fact check on this. but I'm pretty sure it's just completely made up. Like the fine people hoax, like the Musk-Hiller salute that didn't really happen, like the drinking bleach, like the Russia collusion.

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They are so consistent that the best they can come up with to criticize the party of common sense is to make stuff up. And it looks like the fake Medicaid cuts are going to be the thing they made up. Meanwhile, Breitbart News is reporting that Maxine Waters is accusing Trump of trying to start a civil war by not sending grant money to nonprofits.

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Is anybody worried about the civil war because they didn't send grant money to nonprofits, you know, the NGOs? No, I don't think so. But I love the fact that the faces of the Democrat Party are Maxine Waters, Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi. Boy, do they have a charisma gap that's just a mile long and deep. It's the worst charisma gap you've ever seen.

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So the last time I saw $3 a gallon, that was a long time ago. A lot longer than you, if you're in one of these states that's already seen $3.00. Anyway, the U.S. Postal Service has agreed to work with Doge to figure out how to get more efficient. Epoch Times is reporting that.

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Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is gonna team up with AOC And they're going to take their, what's called their fighting the oligarchy rally. So they're going to do rallies. But here's... If they couldn't find a way to be more pathetic than fighting the oligarchy, you know, something that their base doesn't even know what the word means, literally doesn't know what the word means.

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By the way, did you hear that Fetterman said the same thing I did? So Fetterman was mocking them for going after the oligarchy. He said exactly what I said. It's like, people don't even know what that word means. Like, talk like regular people. But no, they're going to do... a bunch of events to fight the oligarchy, but it gets better.

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They're advising their supporters to mask up and wear masks during the rally, not to hide their shame, but rather to be medically safe. Now, could they... This is their best play of the week. Their best play of the week is to fight the oligarchy with masks on. Oh, my. Meanwhile, according to Paul Homewood, there's this doctor, Dr. Peter Ridd,

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who's been studying the data on the climate change and the Great Barrier Reef. Do you remember how the Great Barrier Reef was all going to disappear because of climate change? Do you know what the problem was? Using the wrong data. Turns out the Great Barrier Reef, yeah, it's fine. The whole Great Barrier Reef, totally made up. It's doing fine. No problem at all with the Greek.

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Now, the thing that I'm laughing about is the level of patheticness and bad luck that the Democrats are having. It's now completely just in the humorous stage because it's not like it's a fair fight. At this point, it's really just flailing and ridiculousness. But yeah, so one of the biggest claims of climate science, totally debunked, totally debunked.

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Wait until they find out about the climate models, I keep saying. Anyway, so here's a little update. on what I call the Democrats circling the drain. It was just a little rundown. Their messaging, this is my own take on their messaging, is the oligarchs are kleptocrats trying to steal your democracy. The oligarchs are kleptocrats trying to steal your democracy. That's the punchy, relatable...

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The punchy, relatable theme that they're going for. And I'm thinking to myself, if you held a contest to come up with the worst theme, would it look different than the oligarchs or kleptocrats trying to steal your democracy? That is the most pathetic thing. you'll ever see in politics. And meanwhile, like I said, the faces of the party are these oldsters who have completely lost their fastballs.

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It looks like they're going to cut 10,000 workers and they're going to try to figure out how to stop doing all the crazy things that weren't economical. But did you realize that the post office was losing $100 to $200 billion a year? Does that even sound like it could be real?

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You know, the Schumers, the Maxine Waters, the Pelosi's. And at this point, the only way that Democrats can get attention is by criticizing Democrats. So think about it. Fetterman criticized Democrats, got a lot of attention. Carville criticized Democrats, got a lot of attention. Bill Maher criticized Democrats, got a lot of attention.

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Now, Fetterman, according to The Hill, Fetterman is clapping back at AOC over government funding. So that's Fetterman versus AOC. And then you've got Pelosi and who's the other guy who's mad at Schumer. That's also according to The Hill. So everybody's mad at each other in the Democrat Party. Then we have some video that was recently uncovered of Barack Obama introducing his own version of Doge.

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Did you even know that he did that? I think he put Biden in charge of it. So back in Obama's time, they tried to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse. And Obama kicked off a whole effort that, as far as I know, accomplished nothing at all. Now compare that

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obama kicking off an effort to get rid of waste and abuse and i didn't even know what happened like it's definitely not on their list of accomplishments uh and then compare it to doge which is you know just driving a stake into the heart of the waste fraud and abuse big difference um

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And then we all see that the Democrats very recently used to say that closing the government because of, you know, the budget would be like the worst thing you could ever do. And then suddenly they're in favor of it. It went from the worst thing you could ever do to, yeah, that'd be a good idea. Pelosi wants to close it. Schumer didn't.

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So I think that's over with because the continuing resolution did actually pass. And let's see, what else? Then CNBC is reporting that Amazon, Google, and Meta, three companies that you think sort of lean Democrat, although it's not so clear at the moment, but it used to, they all support efforts to triple nuclear energy worldwide by 2050.

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Now, of course, they need that for their own operations and for AI and all that. But

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you remember when one of the biggest reasons that democrats were a party was to oppose nuclear power it was one of the biggest things that the left did opposing nuclear energy and now the richest people in their party the ones who know the most the ones who know the most about business are all saying we better do a lot of this nuclear energy so it's like an entire pillar

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Given the size of our deficit, you don't think the easiest thing to fix would be to get the post office not to need any more subsidies? I feel like all the other shipping companies make money. FedEx makes money. UPS makes money. I just don't see the reason for a post office anymore.

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the left is gone so so the their belief in climate change is is being chipped away you know a little bit at a time it's like you know the the the greenland temperatures didn't change that much and by the way that great global reef um the the coral reefs look fine you know it's sort of like the cats on the roof You know, nuclear energy would be fine. What about all that waste?

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Well, you can just store it at the site, and it's not really a big deal. Just put it in a barrel. It'll be fine. It's like everything they believe is just falling apart at the same time. All right. And then there's an investigation by the Free Press. that finds that the Trump resistance, as it's been called, is being funded by the ultra-wealthy Democrats.

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So at the same time that Bernie and AOC are going after the oligarchs, their own oligarchs are funding this massive dark money network that's being funded by Arabella Advisors, funded by Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman and George Soros and Pierre Amadar from one of the eBay founders. And their organization is Families Over Billionaires.

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The billionaires are funding something called Families Over Billionaires. So they're pretending that they don't have an oligarchy or no oligarchists or no kleptocrats on their side. But the oligarchy kleptocrats, they're not kleptocrats, but they're oligarchies.

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They're secretly funding the most effective thing that's happening on the Democrat side, which is anything that these billionaires are funding. So imagine being a Democrat and waking up and finding that fighting the billionaires just means that your own billionaires are in charge. Not exactly what they were shooting for.

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In potential good news in science, 94% of plastic can be recycled in a few hours with this new technique.

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and it it breaks breaks down let's see what do they use a new method they use an inexpensive catalyst so that's good news but then they just leave it outside for a bit and it just completely breaks down and then i guess they can reuse it so the whole uh there's too much plastic in the world might have a practical solution and it might be really available So this is written by NDTV.

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They're reporting on that. Well, you probably know that Trump and Putin have been talking about the ceasefire, but the ceasefire is not agreed upon. But Putin is doing a thing that I always talk about Trump doing. Remember, my frame on this is that these are two of the best persuaders in the world. and that Putin has every bit as much skill as Trump. He's not a Trump, so he's not as good.

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But in terms of just the skills, he has the whole toolbox. And one of the things I always talk about that Trump does is he'll create an asset out of nothing by just making something up and acting like it's the most important thing in the world, and then suddenly the other side finds themselves negotiating over it,

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And then he just, he has something to give away that he just completely introduced out of nowhere. And Putin, and it works. It's like good technique. And Putin is doing that. So in the Kursk region, which is actually in Russia, the Ukrainians had conquered that little region, but the Russian forces have recently surrounded the Ukrainian forces there and

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have the ability at this point to completely destroy all of them if they decide to do it. Now, Trump has apparently asked Putin to not kill those soldiers. But Putin says, and here's Putin coming up with an asset and a nothing.

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And I heard a lot of people say that they take their mail directly to the garbage and sort of stand over it and drop most of it in the garbage and keep the one bill or something that came to you. But I have a rule that I won't let mail in my house. The ugliest thing you can do to your own house is have a place, usually in the kitchen, where people drop the mail.

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So suddenly, when you didn't know that this would even be one of the questions relative to the ceasefire, suddenly Putin has introduced the idea that the people who are surrounded are basically terrorists and they've done terrible things to civilians and they all deserve to be dead. And except for Trump asking him, he was planning to kill them all in a military sense. And then he says,

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that because Trump asked, and he says that's the reason, because Trump asked, he's willing to offer that if they surrender and put down their weapons, he will keep them alive, but as prisoners, it looks like. So not free, but as prisoners. Now, if he keeps them as prisoners, again, he's created another asset. Because Ukraine will say, but, but, but, you have to release all our prisoners.

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And Putin will say, well, what do I get in return? So keep in mind when I talk about Putin doing a good job in negotiating, it's not because I'm pro-Putin. Yes, I know he's a dictator. Yes, I know we can't trust him. Yes, I know he's a shark and I know he's killed people and blah, blah, blah, blah. All right, we all know that. I'm just saying that if you watch their game,

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Trump versus Putin, you're going to learn a lot about how to negotiate. And Putin has successfully created something that he knows Trump wants, which is to save the lives of those soldiers. And now he has something to trade. It's pretty good work on Putin's part. Now, he doesn't go all the way to, okay, since you asked, I'll just free them.

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If they put down their weapons, they can just retreat back into Ukraine and then we'll have a ceasefire. He could have said that, but that would not give him a tool. It wouldn't give him an asset. So instead he says, oh, if they surrender... I promise they'll be treated humanely, but as prisoners forever. And that's the asset. He's got something to trade now. Very clever.

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So we'll see where this goes. Trump seems to think there's some optimism. I don't think anything happens as quickly as you want it to. There's going to be a lot of chatting about where this goes. So we might be talking months, even if they're deeply engaged and talking every day, it could still take months. But it does look like it's going to happen.

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To me, all the signs are pointing toward all entities want to stop the war at this point. So that sort of suggests it's going to happen. All right. And then... Apparently, Trump has ordered the military to draw up plans to militarily retake the Panama Canal. The Daily Wire is reporting on this, Ryan Saavedra. And the goal is to, I guess it's two parts.

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One is to get the economic advantage of owning it, and the other is to keep China from owning it or having too much control over it. But here's what I would say about this. First of all, it's not unusual to ask the military to have a contingency plan. It doesn't mean you're going to use them.

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But if you're in Panama and you knew that the military had drawn up a plan to take over the canal, don't you think you'd get really serious about negotiating at that point? So again, this is Trump creating an asset out of nothing. So if all he'd ever did was say, we really want that Panama Canal, why don't you give it to us? What's he have? There's nothing to trade. There's no leverage.

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There's no nothing. But as soon as he lets it be known, and by the way, why'd they let it be known? Is it common that you would leak that the military is preparing for a military operation? It seems like it must have been intentionally leaked, right? Or announced, not even leaked. So obviously they want Panama to think that the American military might be on their doorstep really soon. But

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And then it just becomes a pile of garbage. It's literally just a pile of garbage. So I set up a station in my garage so that when I go to the mailbox and come back, I've got a little sorting area in the garage that is less of a mess than if it were in a house. And it's right next to the garbage. So I basically put all of it in the garbage.

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We'd prefer negotiating. See, doesn't it look just like Putin? In each case, they created an asset and a nothing, and then they use it to negotiate. It's a good trick. It's a very good trick. But I'm gonna put one more wrinkle on this. Trump has plans beyond Panama. He would love to have some kind of deeper control over Greenland. And as you famously know, he'd kind of like Canada to be a state.

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Now, I'm not going to put odds on that last one, the odds of Canada becoming a state. That'd be hard to bet on. But on the other hand, betting against Trump's persuasive skills is a pretty dangerous bet. So even though I can't see a way for it to happen, like my imagination isn't good enough to see how Canada ever becomes a state, I could be wrong. But here's why the Panama thing is so important.

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Imagine, if you will, that without firing a shot, he succeeds in wresting control of the Panama Canal away from China's influence in Panama's. What if he pulls it off? The correct order to do things would be Panama first if you think you could get a fast win. How differently would you think about Greenland if you knew that he had succeeded in Panama? Now do you see the play?

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The thing that Doge did was get some quick wins so that your impression of Doge is, wow, they get stuff done. Look at those quick wins. Quick wins are really influential. I talk about the new CEO move, where if you're the new CEO, you want to go in and really make some big changes right away. Because then people think you're the one who makes big changes. So that becomes your first impression.

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So since we all know that Trump is looking at Panama, Greenland, and Canada, if he could pull off a quick win without firing a shot, ideally, in Panama, how would that make you think about Greenland? A little different, right? Because you'd say to yourself, okay, I didn't think he was really going to do this with Panama. And then all the people in Greenland are going to say, um,

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I wonder if he has a military plan drawn up about Greenland. Maybe. Not saying yes. Not saying we don't. But I will say that Greenland is strategically vital. And it doesn't have a military. And he really wants it for the benefit of both Greenland and the entire continent. So do you see the importance of doing a quick one that works?

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And Panama would be the one that if you're going to do something quick that works, that would be the one. It would be the lowest degree of complication if it worked at all. But I think the full weight of the U.S. military should be plenty of pressure. So I feel like he's going to get away with Panama. And then Greenland is going to say, can we talk? Maybe we should talk.

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Now, how hard would it be for the post office to say, you know what? we're not even going to deliver any first-class mail anymore. We're just not going to do it. And then just say, if you want to see it, you have to go online or look at it on your phone or something. Maybe the right solution is just not to have a post office. Maybe.

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Yeah, yeah, it seemed like a bad idea before, but we don't want you to come in and just take it. So wouldn't it be better if we negotiated? Wouldn't it? Now, If he could manage to pull off Greenland, which I think is a stretch, but doable, doable. I just don't think it's, you know, if it were anybody else, I'd say it's just not doable. But Trump does have a way of making the undoable work.

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I mean, it's almost his brand, making the undoable work. He's got a long history of doing exactly that. So imagine if he pulled off Greenland. after pulling off Panama. And then you're sitting up in Canada and you say to yourself, I really didn't think he'd pull off Panama. And then I really didn't think he'd pull off Greenland. And I also didn't think that Canada would ever be a state.

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But it sure would save us a lot of money. So, you know, he's working on people's brains as well as, you know, their fears, their needs. And it's kind of clever to do Panama first and to let it be leaked that there's a military plan to take it. So very clever. All right.

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New York Post is reporting that there are billions of cicadas, you know, those bugs, in New York, New Jersey, and 11 other states. And they're about to come out of their 17-year-long hibernation, and they're going to be making a screaming, noisy mating call, which could be louder than a jet's engine.

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Now, I assume that means collectively not per cicada, because if one cicada could be as loud as a jet engine, I don't think you'd want to live in New Jersey or New York in May. That's when it's likely to happen. And so that's happening. Going to be a lot of cicadas. Now, as you know, the World Economic Forum wants you to eat bugs. So maybe this is, oh, forget it. No, don't eat the cicadas.

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I'm sure they're delicious, but don't do it. All right. That's all I've got for today. Reminder that Owen Gregorian is going to do his spaces any minute now. He's probably getting ready to fire it up. That's on X and it doesn't cost anything. You just have to go to Owen Gregorian's site. Just do a search. You'll find him.

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and you'll see where to click to get into those spaces, and you can do a follow-up conversation based on anything we talked about today or anything relevant that's fun, I guess. I usually listen to it while I'm making myself breakfast after the show, so I will definitely be dipping in, but usually anonymously, just so I don't take attention away.

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And I'll say a few words to the locals people, but I don't want to keep you from Owen's spaces, so we'll keep it short. Those of you on YouTube and Rumble and X, thanks for joining. We'll see you same time tomorrow. And locals, I'll only be here for a sip.

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Well, in other news, Bill Burr, the comedian, is a freaking idiot. He was on The Breakfast Club. Now, this was weeks ago, in February, I guess, but I just saw the clip. And apparently he actually believes that Musk intentionally gave a Nazi salute at that event. Now, he sold it to me like he really believes it.

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And I'm so tired of arguing, well, you know, maybe you saw a clip that was out of context, or maybe the news said so, so you believe it. I can't do it anymore.

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You're a freaking idiot if you think that anybody in America, any public figure, if you think that anybody, whether it's Musk or Trump, anybody, if you think that they got on stage and gave a Nazi salute, you're so dumb that I just need to mock you. You are so dumb. You should never talk about politics again. That is way below the basic line of understanding anything about the world.

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If you think that really happened in the real world, do you think he believed the fine people hoax? Of course he did. Do you think he believed the drinking bleach hoax? Of course he did. Do you think he believed the Russia collusion hoax? Of course he did. You know, I've always been a big fan of his comedy, but man, Some people shouldn't talk in public, and if they do, they have to get mocked.

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So I'm so done with arguing why, oh, it's two movies on one screen, people are getting different news, so of course they believe different things because they watch different news. No, that's not the problem. The problem is you didn't need to see any news broadcast to know that was not a Nazi salute. Because who would do that? There's nobody in the whole world who would do that.

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And certainly not if you're winning so hard you're the richest person in the world. You're not going to do that. Nobody. Ever. You're a freaking idiot. Just absolute turd for brains. I mean, there's no way to even... I can't even have a conversation with somebody that dumb. Wow. I mean, it's just shockingly stupid. And I'm so done acting like it's anything but just stupid.

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And we have to mock that much more mercilessly. So that's the beginning. So you all know Robbie Starbuck, activist. He's been going after a lot of DEI and companies. And Bloomberg, wanted to do an article on him. And I guess the reporter, who was the journalist, maybe, I don't know, reporter, journalist, writer, asked him, why is it women earn 30% less than men?

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So look for Owen Gregorian right after the live stream. It's a Scott Adams after party Spaces. So you can talk about either what the news is or I suppose anything that seems interesting. You might know that SpaceX has already launched its rocket to rescue the astronauts that are stuck on the International Space Station. And they should be back on Sunday. Boy, I hope that works.

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You know, if everything's kind of equal, why do women earn so much less than men? Again, it's 2025. How could you be so stupid to think that that's a true statistic? So what Robbie Starbuck did was explain to her, well, actually, there's not really much of a measurable difference if you account for years worked, hours worked, and selection of jobs.

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If you just normalize it for how many years you worked and you normalize it for the same job, it just disappears. So it's actually never been true. Well, it hasn't been true since decades that there was a difference in the way you got paid for the same amount of work for the same job. And the reporter, of course, did not believe that and went off to fact check it.

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What do you think happened when the journalist fact checked it? found out that he was completely right and actually wrote that and actually showed that if you account for the hours worked and the difference in jobs, it's about the same. Now, I heard one of the people in the comments I saw on Axe gave a great explanation, if you want to have one way to remember it.

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And it was somebody who worked at a hospital, I guess, and said that among the doctors... there was something like a 22% greater pay for the male doctors compared to the females. Now, if you only heard that, would you say to yourself, my God, those sexists, they're giving less money to female doctors. No. The male doctors tended to be surgeons and high paying types of medical professionals.

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The women liked to be maybe in pediatrics or lower paying jobs. It was entirely their own selection. There was nothing stopping the women from being surgeons. And there was nothing stopping the men from being more in the lower pay jobs. It's just that that's what they picked. So that's the entire explanation. But what's funny is, and I had to give Robbie a little warning, might be too late.

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But Bloomberg is a Democrat, basically assassin. And back in, it might have been 2017, I don't know the exact year. So when I was becoming notable for supporting Trump, Bloomberg wanted to send a writer, who was a woman also, maybe the same one, I don't know. And they wanted to do a feature about me. And I thought to myself, why not? I mean, what do I have to lose?

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So the Bloomberg journalist followed me around for a day, asked lots of questions, and then went off and wrote just the worst hit piece. And then I realized what the game was. The game was to have the biggest publication, like a famous one like Bloomberg, write a terribly negative piece, And then anytime you searched for my name, Guess what came out first? Every freaking time. That's right.

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The Bloomberg piece would come out first. So here what had actually happened is I had gone from not being a political pundit whatsoever to having the best call ever about Trump and describing his persuasion ability, which now everybody understands,

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I was literally changing the way politics was seen in the United States, which, by the way, if you ask AI, it will tell you I changed the way politics are viewed in the United States to more of a persuasion filter and less of a policy filter, which is true. So instead of writing about that, They wrote this hit piece that just sat at the top of all the search results.

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Absolutely disgusting behavior by not just the search engines, but Bloomberg. And I'm pretty sure that's what the game is here with Robbie Starbuck. Because Starbuck has been super successful in getting companies to back down on DEI. I think he's just being targeted. And I think that the game is exactly the same.

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that if Bloomberg can become the sort of most prominent recent big major publication, whatever they say about him, and it surely won't be accurate, will pop up first in the search results. I think that's the game. God, I hate them. Bloomberg just sucks. And the thing I like to think about the the woman who didn't know that women do do earn as much as men.

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Don't you think the country needs just that? You know, like a little one thing we cannot argue about. It's like, oh, some astronauts got rescued. Will the Democrats have a problem with it? Do you think Pelosi and Schumer and the rest will say, you know, we really should have left them there because there wasn't enough diversity or something. They're going to find a reason not to like it.

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And actually, I think I think if you're looking at black women with college degrees, I believe they actually make more than men for their first jobs. So they're doing great, actually. Some in my eye. So I always like to end this like that. Wait till they find out about climate models.

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I'm done arguing that humans can measure the temperature of the Earth over decades and do climate models that predict the future. That's just stupid. Like, I'm tired of acting like I need to defend that point of view. I'll just say this. Wait until you find out. Because you're definitely going to find out. It's going to be like the same day

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you learn that men and women actually do earn the same when they do the same work and choose the same careers. So big surprises coming for some people. Meanwhile, the Hill is reporting that I guess the education department is going to look into about 50 colleges and universities who are still doing racial preferences in anything from academics or scholarships.

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Up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stand, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day thing makes everything better.

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And he is criticizing his employees for being on Zoom calls and secretly checking their email and not paying attention. He says it's bad for bad for morale, bad for creativity. It's rude. It's going to make everything less efficient. He can't stand that. He thinks working from home is just not only bad for the company, but he thinks it's damaging an entire generation of young people.

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And the more I thought about that, I thought, oh my God, he's right. When I was in the regular workforce, my cubicle days, every now and then, it was kind of rare, You know, I'd have a work-at-home day for one reason or another. I mean, it was rare, but it happened. And to me, it was just a way to do a little extra work because I wasn't being bothered.

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So it didn't happen often, and I found that I was actually more productive because I wasn't being bothered. But here's the thing that I was not considering that Jamie Dimon did consider, and I think he's right on this, that if I had not spent... all of my other time in the office, then the work at home thing would be a whole different deal. Imagine if I didn't know my coworkers in person.

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Imagine if I didn't have all the casual question answering and the brainstorming that happens in the hallways and learning who's the good bear and the bad bear and who's just a waste of time and who can get things done, who wants to work with me, finding somebody else who might want to hire me.

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It's like, you know, is it possible that they've done any plastic surgery on any other animals to turn them into other animals? I don't know. kind of wondered, well, we didn't have any chipmunks, but we did have this rat. Let's just give him a little color job and maybe a little plastic surgery on the snout. Suddenly, rat turns into a chipmunk.

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know doing a little networking these are all the things that if you're only once in a while working at home then the work in your home is really a plus you probably actually just get more done you know and then you get all the benefits of the human contact and the you know the accidental connections and all that but imagine if you're a young worker who's never really spent much time in any office

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And your entire experience is waking up and going to your own living room and sitting on the couch. And maybe you're doing work, but you're having no connections with other people. Your company is sort of a meaningless concept that puts a direct deposit into your bank account. I can't imagine that you would be killing it in terms of effectiveness or your own career or even your own mental health.

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And as much as I hate commuting, commuting is just the worst thing ever. The benefits of doing this painful work in person thing are pretty extreme. And I think Jamie Dimon is right on that. He's correct. And he also talks about they're not working long hours because when he tries to call anybody who is allegedly working at home, they never answer the phone.

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Every time he tries to call somebody who's working at home, nobody's there. They're probably there, but they can't answer the phone because there's an incriminating noise of where they are. But I would ask you this. Oh, and then he also said that their own headcount has gone up 50,000 in five years.

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And he says the only reason they needed 50,000 more people is because the people they already hired weren't getting the work done. Now, that might be hyperbole, but there's probably something to that. Because if they're doing exactly what they always did, but they needed 50,000 more people, that does kind of suggest that maybe they've got a problem.

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So it was great hearing him frustrated and calling that out. According to Digital Trends, Nadeem Sarwar is writing that Meta, you know, the Facebook parent there, Meta. Meta is going to go into the robot business big time, but they're going to focus on domestic robots to help you home.

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But, and this is really interesting, I love watching anything that Zuckerberg does strategically because he doesn't get everything right. But as a strategic long-term thinker, he's pretty darn good. So when he makes a strategic, long-term, big-money decision, definitely gets my interest. Now, the whole meta thing of living in the virtual world doesn't seem to be catching on.

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So he may have gotten that one wrong. But his current thing on robots is it's not going to be a meta robot. So meta will make a robot, or lots of them actually, but they won't be meta-branded robots. Part of it, this is speculated, is that people are already worried about data security with Facebook. So if you put basically a robot connected to Facebook, that's what it would feel like.

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If you put that robot that's from the same company that's already been snooping on all your personal information, you're gonna feel, is that robot spying on me? Like if I say to my robot, You know, I need you to go buy something. Is that thing going to show up in my advertisements? Because it went through the robot and then suddenly my phone gives me an advertisement for that product.

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Because that would be creepy. And it's hard to imagine that the robot wouldn't be looking for ideas to sell you stuff. It seems like it would. But here's the interesting part. I haven't gotten to it yet. What Meta is going to do is build the supply chain for robots. So it wants to build all the component manufacturing, and I guess they would use their own AI software.

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It looks like maybe augmented somehow. But they want to build a supply chain in which they can sell any part of the supply chain to anybody else. So, for example, I'm making this up, but it's roughly the idea. So they would have part of their supply chain with making, let's say, a good robot hand. But they would sell that hand to anybody who wanted to buy it.

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Well, nobody goes to the zoo to see a chipmunk, so that's ridiculous. Why'd you bring it up? Let's talk about the health benefits of saunas, and I want to see if this is real science or not. Backwards science. Backwards science.

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You could put that hand on your own robot. or the company that makes it good. So that's kind of clever to come up with the idea that instead of being the robot maker, you be the maker of all the robots for all the people. And then you're going to have a piece of everything.

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So it's a little bit like, you know, instead of being the gold miner, it's more like selling the pickaxe to all the gold miners because most of them are going to come up broke, but they're all going to need a robot hand.

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so it might be just the very best way to diversify the robot risk because they're only going to be a few robot winners so if you wanted to be the robot winner you're going to put 100 billion dollars into robots and you have a 1 in 10 chance that you're the winner is that worth doing 100 billion dollar expense for 1 in 10 chance that you're one of the winners or you build a whole supply chain

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And everybody who's building losing robots and winning robots say, you know, it'd be easier just to buy your robot hands. You know, instead of inventing a whole new robot hand, they make a pretty good one. It's just for sale. We'll just snap it on a robot. So I don't know if this strategy will work, of course, but it's kind of brilliant. It's kind of brilliant. I love the way it diversifies.

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Very smart. We'll see. Keep an eye on that. Meanwhile, according to TechCrunch, Julie Bortz writing, that there's a job ad for one of the Y Combinator startups. It's called FireCrawl. And they did a job app opening for an AI agent. So there's an actual opening job, and they say, we'd like to hire an AI.

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But as to be an AI agent, they can act autonomously, and then they describe what it needs to do. Now, they did admit that that was part PR, you know, to get some free attention, but they're also serious about it. Now, I don't think they think that AI is quite there, that somebody could say, hey, I just made an autonomous, and by the way, they're going to pay it.

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They would pay it a salary of $10,000 to $15,000 per year. Oh, you know what? It says a salary of $10,000 to $15,000, but I can't tell if that's per month or per year. It's a little unspecified. But in any case, even if it's per month, it would be cheaper than a lot of engineers.

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So if you can get an AI agent that is sufficiently good and accurate that you could hire it as an employee, I'll buy one. I will hire one. So if anybody can make this product, that would be a generic AI agent that could just do a job autonomously. You say, okay, make sure you do this every day or you research this every day.

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You tell me, was the sauna creating the following health benefits, or do the people who decide to use saunas and have the money and have the time, are they naturally the people who have fewer health problems? So here are the things that, according to Oliver Anwar on X, there's research showing that if you sauna four to seven times a week,

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I think it would be used for research and then summarizing the research or something. I could use one. So if anybody makes one, I'll hire it. So Taiwan says it's gonna pour more money into the US. I think that means specifically for chip manufacturing. And it's because of the Trump tariff threats. So the Daily Collar News Foundation is writing about this.

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And is this yet another example of where tariff threats work? Because if we really did bring some important part of the chip business to America, doesn't that, first of all, make Taiwan less safe? If we have less reliance on them for chips, are we going to protect them in the future as hard as we have in the past?

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It's called the simultaneous sip and it's happening now. Go. Well, here's the good news. The good news is that it feels like at least for a day or so, Trump has slowed down and my brain is starting to normalize. Oh, my God, my brain has been on fire for the last few weeks. So many things to hear and listen to. And it's all interesting. And I care about it all.

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Or is all of this sort of everybody acknowledging that eventually China and Taiwan will, in fact... be one country and not just on paper. I feel like it's inevitable. I feel like location is just destiny. How in the world could Taiwan be independent forever? I just don't think it's a thing.

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Now, of course, I like Taiwan, and I would like them not to be crushed by big China and have to put up with any of that. So I'd love to figure out if there's some way they can work that out in the long run. I still like the 100-year plan. Just say, yeah, we agree. We're on the same page. Just make it 100 years. And then you don't have to think about it for a while. So let's do that.

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So we're reminded, I saw a post reminding us that Clinton and Gore had done something much like Doge. How many of you remember that? That Al Gore in particular was doing a project called Reinventing Government. Do you all remember that? Well, I didn't realize how successful it was because in the first weeks, Clinton cut 100,000 government jobs. Do you remember that?

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I don't remember that, actually. And then over eight years, Clinton cut 380,000 federal jobs, a 16% decrease, and he managed to run a budget surplus for the first time in decades. Clinton ran a budget surplus. Now, what's not included in the article is this was the dot-com frenzy.

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So the dot-com era sort of made it a little bit easier to get your tax base up because the economy started roaring in a way that was sort of unrealistic. It pulled back eventually. But during that time, money was just growing on trees in the economy because of the dot-com revolution. So how many of you know my connection to this? Does anybody?

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I know I've told the people on Locals, but I'll tell the rest of you. So during the Clinton Gore years, the Dilbert comic was reaching its peak. So it was the big Dilbert frenzy about that at the same time. And it turns out

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and I think I can tell you this story because so many years have gone by, that the speechwriters in Al Gore's, he was the vice president, so his speechwriters were some Dilbert fans, and they'd read one of my books, The Dilbert Future, and I was giving a speech in Washington, just unrelated, just a paid speech, happened to be in Washington, and they noticed the publicity for it,

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All right, how many people have the time to sauna four to seven times a week? I would argue that these are not the people who are working so hard, and we know that working all the time is bad for you. So right away, you start saying to yourself, hmm, these are people who have a lot of leisure, and they may have some money. because they can go to a sauna instead of being homeless.

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And said, well, if you're going to be in Washington, why don't you stop by the White House and we'll give you a tour? And I thought, really? Cool. So I got like a personal tour of the White House, you know, during working hours, which is just about the coolest thing in the world. You know, I'm standing outside the Oval Office, but, you know, I couldn't. Couldn't go in.

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They put one of these little velvet ropes in front of the door, so even if you wanted to take a step in, you can't do it. But you can look in if the president's not there, and he wasn't. And as we're looking around, I'm seeing all the cool stuff in the cool rooms, and I'm just blown away by how cool it is to see the actual White House inside.

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And then somebody runs down the hallway, because I've been told that if the vice president was... in the office, and they weren't sure if he would be, that maybe I could meet him. And I knew that Al Gore was a Dilbert fan. I knew that because his staff had requested a Dilbert comic that mentioned him once. So he actually had a Dilbert comic on his wall in the office. But I thought, well,

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I mean, just because I'm stopping by, the vice president isn't going to, you know, change his schedule to say hi to me. And then somebody comes running down the hallway when my little private tour was over and starts whispering into the ear of, you know, my guides for the day. And then I'm told the, what did they call it? The V-POTUS or something.

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I think that's what the vice president of the United States is V-POTUS and They said, Vipotis, if that's right. It doesn't sound right when I say it. They said, he wants to see you. And I said, what? Yeah, he heard you were in the building and he wants to say hi. And I thought, seriously? That's how that works? He just heard I'm in the building and he wants to say hi? All right.

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So I get escorted down to the, there's sort of a secretarial assistant area outside the vice president's office. And his office has this big, like intimidating door. Like it's not a regular door. It's closed, but it looks like it's maybe a bomb door or a security door or something. Like I kind of half remember that the door was almost to the ceiling or something. Maybe it wasn't.

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But I'm standing outside the door, and this is the door to the vice president's office. I'm thinking to myself, is that door going to open and the vice president of the United States is going to walk out and say hi to me? Is that really going to happen? Like in the real world, is this going to happen? And all of a sudden, the door starts opening.

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And Al Gore walks out, walks directly over to me, extends his hand, and he introduced himself. Now, that instantly made me like him. He's the vice president of the United States, and he goes, hi, I'm Al Gore. I love that. I love the fact that, you know, one of the most famous people in the world, but he starts by introducing himself. So here's the first thing you need to know.

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Privately, like in person, I like them. I like them a lot. And then he says, do you have a minute? And like, what am I going to say? No. So I go, sure. He goes, can you come in and talk to me about something? And I thought, really? Sure. So I go in his office and I was with actually somebody I was traveling with, not traveling with, but a friend of mine who lived in the city.

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So we both went in and we're sitting in front of his office was sort of a long room where there's a desk on one end. But on the other end, there's like a sitting area with a little fireplace. So we're sitting in the little sitting area by the fireplace. And he says he's working on this project called Reinventing Government, which, of course, I knew because it was in the news.

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So if you use a sauna four to seven times a week, your risk of dementia and Alzheimer's is reduced by an astounding 66%. So it's good for your mental health. It's good for your immune system. It's good for recovering from athletic performance. It's going to help your cardiovascular and your blood flow. So what do you think?

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And he said that the problem is that when he tries to explain it to the public, it's all boring. Because it's stuff like, well, we decreased this by 4% and we automated this thing you never heard of. You know, it's all that stuff. So he said... I have to do a report, I think maybe once a year or something like that. He said, can you help me make the report fun?

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Can we add some Dilbert comics to it that are made just for this purpose? now i had just hit my peak dilbert popularity and i was smart enough to say uh i can't do that because the moment i attach dilbert to one political team i would lose 50 of my market do you remember what michael jordan said about conservatives they buy a lot of sneakers

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So I took the Michael Jordan approach, which is, you know, conservatives buy a lot of Dilbert books. So thank you, but no. And then I offered that comics were the wrong approach anyway, which they were. So if you put a comic in there or you try to make it jokes...

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it's not going to turn into a joke book that people want to read it because it's funny like you're never going to reach that standard so it's going to look a little unserious and the jokes might actually detract from what was really good work. As you can see, I just told you that the reinventing government thing worked. It was actually an improvement in a lot of stuff.

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So I said, but I can set you up with somebody who has exactly the right skills to write this thing so that it's really easy to understand and you can really get the point and you won't get lost in the complexity, but there won't be any humor in it.

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So he took that offer and I hooked him up with an expert that I'd worked with before who was just really, really good in user interface design because the book was basically user interface to tell people some information. And so the book that they produced was at least indirectly with my help. So That was my little brush with history. Anyway, so I thought I'd tell you that.

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Now fast forward to Elon Musk and Doge. Think how boring it would be to hear about all the things Doge was doing if it were not called Doge and didn't have Elon Musk and didn't have X and didn't have Trump, who are just naturally hilarious and provocative and interesting no matter what they do.

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So all the things that Gore was trying to solve, which was it's just too boring to tell the public what you're doing, that's been solved by Musk and Trump by personality alone. But the strength of their personalities is that unlike Gore, who could be kind of somber and serious, everything they do is interesting. It's impossible for Musk or Trump to have an uninteresting day. They just can't do it.

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So I not only have the problem that I do pay attention to all the Doge stuff, but I pay attention so hard it's hurting. Like it gives me a headache by the end of the night. because I like it so much. It's just so attractive. Like, really? You did that? Really? You said what? What? Who? What? All day long. So they've definitely solved the how to make it interesting.

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Meanwhile, Rick Grinnell was asked in Germany if he might run for governor of California. And his answer was that if Harris runs, he would get into it because, quote, if Kamala Harris runs for governor, I believe that she has such baggage and hundreds of millions of dollars in educating voters of how terrible she is. Oh, that's such a good frame.

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Do you think that what we discovered is that saunas are really good for you? And I assume they are. I'm sure they are. Or did we discover that the people who use saunas are exactly the same people who are doing everything else that's good for you? Do you think the people who use saunas are also eating the most junk food?

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That it's a new day in California and the Republican actually has a shot. Look how perfect this is. That she's already spent hundreds of millions of dollars in educating voters how terrible she is.

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know i always tell you that the the difference between genius and humor is very small because in both cases um your ability to summarize without and just leave out everything that doesn't matter it's kind of one of the tricks of humor is what you remove to to have that you know simple kernel of hilarious truth but it's also what you do if you're a genius You see Musk do it all the time.

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You see Andreessen do it. You see David Sachs do it. So the people who are the smartest, Vivek, you see him do it. You see J.D. Vance do it. So all the ones who are super smart can summarize things the way Grinnell is, also super smart. So I just love this. Hundreds of millions of dollars in educating the voters of how terrible she is. You couldn't say that

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with fewer words and make it just so perfect so it's one of the reasons we like him he's got lots of skills so i don't know how serious he is about running for governor it could be you just use it as a you know a way to put in a little shiv which would be funny enough but i'm i think he has a chance i think california

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is at the point where if a i'll just have to say it because it's just part of the story whether you like it or not but a gay conservative brilliant effective person with lots of the right experience well connected to the federal government which needs to be a form of funding for the state going forward maybe it's time

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There isn't much that would have made me think a Republican could win in California. But could Rick Grinnell win? I'll tell you one thing. The conservatives in California would be completely down. I mean, we would be all in on that. So I hope so. I hope so. We'll see. Well, in other news, I think this is true.

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I waited a while to talk about it because I wasn't sure if it was a prank or maybe I was understanding it wrong. But you might know if you're on X, Ashley St. Clair from the Babylon Bee and well-known conservative-leaning social influencer, writer, humorist, Babylon Bee. She announced that five months ago she had Elon Musk's baby. So she's joined the Elon Musk baby-making machine.

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Now, you know, I wish her the best. So... The only thing that interests me about it is aren't you curious how many others there are who just haven't mentioned it? Is Musk going for the Genghis Khan record? Isn't there some like...

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Or are the people who do sauna four to seven times a week more likely to eat a healthy diet? Are they more likely to do exercise? Well, if one of the reasons for doing it is to recover from exercise, maybe there's a little bit of a selection bias there. Here's what they didn't do. I don't think that they had a control group of people who were exactly like the other people.

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incredible number of people who are related to jengis khan because he was impregnating women for you know his entire life i feel like someday we're going to find out that there are like thousands of thousands of elon babies and he only mentioned a few of the baby mamas so we think it's you know we think there's a dozen but maybe there are thousands i don't know anyway good luck ashley

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According to Fox News, and you've heard this a million times, there's yet another poll that shows liberal women are the most unhappy. So this is written by Elizabeth Heckman and Christine Parks, Fox News. Now, again, how could they have saved some money on this study? Oh, yeah. Next time, just ask me. I think we all know this, don't we? Hasn't every study showed the same thing?

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I mean, you know, granted, this is the kind of thing where maybe the science isn't perfect, but every study seems to point in the same direction on this. So liberal women between 18 and 40 are three times as likely as conservatives, women in the same group, to report frequent feelings of loneliness. Huh, I wonder why the group that chooses identity politics would be more lonely.

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Could it be because a part of identity is if you're a woman, you're not a man, and so everybody who isn't you is oppressing you? Who would want to be around that? Of course they're less happy. And liberal women are the least likely to report being fully satisfied. Now, unfortunately, there aren't that many people who are fully satisfied in general.

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But according to some American Family Survey, 37% of conservative women are fully satisfied and 28% of moderate women. Now, it seems like that should be higher. You know, you'd like to think that maybe at least 60% are fully satisfied, but 37%. But it's way bigger. than the liberal women the same age, which is 12%. So 12% of liberal women said the same thing.

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And it said that we've seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency, meaning that they have control over their own lives and don't feel like a victim. You know, maybe it's that simple. If you define yourself as a victim in a world that's just doing stuff to you, how can you possibly be fully satisfied?

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But if you said, yeah, it's a mean world, but I have the power to carve my way through it and make a life that works for me, and then you go and do it, that does feel like that would be more satisfying. So maybe it's just that, the victim versus the sense of agency. The U.S.

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Army has announced it will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military, and it's going to stop performing procedures associated with gender transition for the ones. Are there still I guess there are still members in the military. I assume the Army is just one of the one of the military that's going to do the same thing. I think they all have to do it, right?

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The new executive orders require each of the parts of the military to do the same thing. Now, I don't know if I've talked about this specifically, but let's see, Elon Musk is saying something. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But

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Some of them used the sauna and some didn't, and then they tracked them over 40 years. I don't think that happened. So where do you think this information about saunas making you healthier came from? I don't know, but let me ask you this. Who would have the most interest in producing a study, which would be expensive, a study about the health benefits of saunas? Who in the world

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As much as I want the adult, let's just focus on adults, as much as I want adult trans people to live their life the way that they're the happiest, the fact is that the military is the one place where discrimination is completely allowed. Now, if you discriminate stupidly in a way that doesn't help the military, well, we shouldn't do that.

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So, for example, integrating different races in the military works. So that was one that would be a bad form of discrimination if you kept doing it, because once we stopped doing it, we made it work. But trans, I'm told, I'm no expert on trans, it introduces a whole level of extra medical complications.

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Now, I'm no expert, so if somebody wants to say, that's not true, there's hardly any complication at all, I'll listen to that. But people who have been close to it say, yeah, there's a whole lot of sick time and, you know, you got to adjust stuff and you got to fix stuff and things go wrong. I don't know that.

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But if that's true, that would be sufficient reason to make an exception and say, okay, we don't want to have this level of being not available. You know, remember, the military isn't going to hire a blind pilot. And nobody argues about that, right? The military is not going to say, oh, body positivity, you can be 400 pounds and join the military. Nope. Nope.

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You can't be four feet tall and join the military. Nope. But again, I hope that everybody who's four feet tall has a good life. I hope that everybody has a good life. It's just that the military is the one place that I think we all agree a little bit of discrimination is the right play. Yeah.

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Even if it doesn't allow people like me to join, which it doesn't, I'm a certain age where, of course, I cannot join the military. So, yeah, a little bit of discrimination in the military is different from discrimination anywhere else, as long as they're doing it to stay on mission and they're not doing it for any other reason.

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Well, on Joe Rogan, he said something that he was talking to Adam Curry. And Rogan said something that I had never thought of before, but it's very interesting. So you know how the government now can listen to any communication? There's basically nothing they can't snoop on if they want to. And now the Trump administration has control of the tools to snoop on everybody for everything.

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Now imagine... as Joe Rogan speculates, imagine, if you will, that the government is trying to figure out what happened to the trillions of dollars that seem to be missing and the money that clearly is misspent.

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Is it possible that any of that created what would be the predicate or the legal trigger that they could be legally monitoring a lot of people to find out where the trillion went or where this or that went wrong? Now, I don't know. So I don't think automatically that we're just listening to everybody all the time just for fun. I think you'd have to have a genuine suspicion about somebody.

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But Joe Rogan points out that it may make it impossible for Democrats to coordinate their next response or their next hoax or their excuses because they never know if they're being wiretapped now. because clearly they don't trust the Trump administration, the Democrats don't, any more than conservatives trusted Democrats to not be looking at their stuff.

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We basically don't trust the other side with our privacy, and that's probably the right instinct. So is it possible that whether we're listening to anything or not, that Democrats don't know how to proceed? Because they'd have to talk to somebody And they just don't know how to do it. Now, Joe also pointed out, Joe Rogan, that you have to worry about whistleblowers.

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would have the financial interest to want to do a big expensive study on the health benefits of saunas? Oh, yeah. Could it be the foxes are the ones counting the chickens again? Yes. I don't know the answer to the question. But if I had to guess, Big Sauna did a study. And Big Sauna decided that a controlled long-term study would be really expensive and might not give them the right answer.

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So what if you have a meeting with somebody and say, all right, here's the thing. We're going to create this new hoax. We're going to do this new dirty trick. Well, if you need five people involved, can you be sure that one of them won't drop the dime on you, become a whistleblower? So it's possible that The Democrats are a little bit crippled by their own fear of who they can talk to about what.

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And I'd never really thought about that before. But that might actually be a variable that's potentially big. Well, here's the, I guess you'd call it the Groundhog Day news. A federal judge just blocked something. No, a federal judge just unblocked something. No, a federal judge just blocked something, but then it was unblocked.

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But then it was blocked for a certain time, but it wasn't really blocked. It was just delayed. But then it wasn't delayed. It was unblocked. But then it was blocked and banned and banned and blocked and then unblocked and banned and unblocked. So that's all the legal news you need. I have no fucking idea what's going on with all these judges. But here's another one.

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A federal judge just sided with Musk and Doge in rejecting an effort to block them from accessing government information systems. So Nick Sorter's reporting on that. So that's good. So they're not blocked from getting into the technology systems. That's a big, big deal. But I think they get blocked somewhere else. There's another judge story here. We'll get to it.

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But I can't keep track of all the judges. What we do see, there seems to be a very clear pattern that the judges that are blocking Doge are all corrupt. They either have a family member who's benefiting from corruption or has some connection to USAID or a family member who's like a you know, a well-known fundraiser for Democrats or something like that.

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Like all of them have some clearly and obviously conflict of interest. I mean, it just looks like pure corruption to me. Anyway. The Department of Homeland Security has already moved 12 CISA employees. So CISA is the cyber security agency that policed misinformation. So do you think CISA was policing misinformation? Because that was their mission. No, they were censoring conservatives.

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Let's be honest. They were censoring conservatives. So 12 of them got fired, according to the New York Post. and what what were they doing instead of um so when they were when they were policing misinformation what was not getting done was there anything that wasn't getting done because they were out there policing all the misinformation well yes they weren't working on election security

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So the thing they could have been working on instead of censoring conservatives, they could have been working on improving election security. Now, I don't know if it's one for one, as in election security was totally ignored while they did these other things. But the way the story is framed...

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It makes it seem like they stopped doing the only thing we desperately need, election security, and spending all their time doing the one thing we don't need, which is telling us what information is true and what's not, especially if you're not true. So here's a story that's a little too on the nose. I think it's true. So according to The Guardian, the Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum,

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has warned that if the United States continues to label the cartels as terrorists, that she'll have to respond with reciprocal action. Wait. Did I just say that the government of Mexico is going to take the side of the cartels and punish America for being mad at the cartels and trying to shut them down. They literally are taking the side of the cartel.

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Now, I do understand if they said things like, oh, we're a sovereign country. You can't bring your military down here and attack. We'll do it. We'll do it. You don't have to do it. We'll do it. Now, that I would get. That would be a sensible thing for a country to do. We wouldn't believe that they would do anything, but it would be a sensible thing to say. Here's what I don't understand.

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So instead, they just compared people who have the luxury of being able to sauna all the time with the people who don't have that luxury and found out that one group is healthier. How about that? Yeah, how about that? Surprise. All data that matters is fake. It has to be because it's always the fox counting the chickens. All right. So Trump signed an executive order, according to The Hill,

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Why would they just threaten the United States for going after the cartels? It really looks exactly like they work for the cartels, which I guess they do. I mean, I don't have any specific information, but how could you really be in charge over there unless you're working with the cartels? I don't know. So the.

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And I guess what the Mexican president is warning that she would do something about going after U.S. gun makers because the U.S. gun makers are the reasons that there are so many guns in Mexico. So the guns are coming from the United States. Now, I do see why that's a problem. And I do see that she might want to do something about it. But why are they connected?

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Shouldn't she say, oh, not only do we want to get rid of the cartels, thanks for the help, United States, but we'd like to help you even further by helping you figure out how to stop the gun flow from your country to ours. Shouldn't she be on our side on both of those things? Stopping the guns and also stopping the cartels. Why would she use the one thing against the other thing?

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other than the cartel's controller. I can't think of a reason. So I don't have any facts to back up that speculation, but it sure looks like it in every way. All right. So the American Bar Association...

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According to the FTC chairman, so now this is a Trump administration action, the FTC is prohibiting the FTC political appointees from holding leadership positions in the ABA, participating in ABA events, or even renewing their membership. And the FTC will stop expending any sources to facilitate any employee's membership in the ABA. So I guess the idea is that the ABA is a

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a liberal bastion of trouble. And so the government is saying, we don't want to have anything to do with you. You're just bad entities. So we'll see where that goes. James Carville continues to be fun talking about how Democrats are useless. And he said, he was talking about how Democrats have no idea how to beat Trump. And he says, quote, and I don't know how you accentuate

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I don't know what that means. Do you oppose one thing? So he's talking about how do you oppose Trump? He goes, do you oppose one thing? Do you oppose all five? Because he's talking about the flood of things coming too quickly. He goes, do you oppose one thing? Do you oppose all five? Is it personnel issues? Is it policy issues? He goes, I'm struggling here a little bit.

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So maybe some of our really smart viewers, he was on some podcasts, can help us untangle it a little bit. He said, it's really tangled now because no one knows where to land. It's all too incomprehensible. So that's what I was talking about. When I'm talking about Doge, all the lawyer doing this and the lawyer doing that and this department doing that and that department, it's incomprehensible.

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And I even put the time in to try to comprehend it. Imagine the casual viewer of news. They have no idea what's going on, but it sounds good. Oh, you're cutting waste in the government? All right. Blah, blah, blah, this department, blah, blah, blah, that lawyer. I don't get any of that. But what did you say first? Cutting expenses. Got it. Blah, blah, blah, details, blah, blah, blah, constitution.

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I don't understand any of that. But you're cutting waste, right? Yes. So people are going to like that part anyway. So he says that he says Steve Bannon is right. We're flooded in shit and we're searching for a way to deal with this. These are extraordinary difficult times.

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So he was referencing the fact that Bannon had said back in 2018, I think other people had been on the same page here back then. that the way to deal with the media is to flood the zone with shite. So that's definitely what's happening. Musk and Trump are quite intentionally flooding the zone. Now, it has multiple advantages. So the doing everything fast isn't just about flooding the zone.

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He's going to strip funding from schools that require the COVID-19 vaccinations. God, that feels good, doesn't it? Don't you love the fact that the school will be punished for requiring people to get a COVID vaccination now? Wow. So that's just a feel-good story. Here's some new information.

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It does have that advantage. But it's also the way you should do it. You should move fast and break things and then fix whatever you've broken as you need to. Otherwise, you just get bogged down. It has to be high energy, high attack, high error. It's the only way forward. And it has that second advantage of making the bad guys look like they don't know how to work.

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And the public just says, I don't know what you guys are doing, but if you're cutting expenses and you're working all night and you're sleeping on the floor and the smartest people in the country are working on it and they're making progress, I know I hate that. I know I hate that at all. So everything about the Doge Trump strategy is just brilliant from top to bottom.

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Everything about it works as a machine. Even the Supreme Court approval is going up a little bit according to The Hill. So now the Supreme Court's approval rating is above 50% for the first time since 2022. Now, what would cause that? Now, part of it is that any decisions about abortion are now further in the rear view mirror. So that probably makes a difference.

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But do you think that there's just a general leaning of the public toward the conservative side or maybe toward the middle and that respect for the Supreme Court can return just because people are sort of getting away from the craziest part of, you know, the political scene. So maybe it's just a general statement about how the country's feeling about the left versus the right.

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In other news, you probably knew that Jay-Z was accused of some horrible sex crime, and that case has been dropped, according to CBS. I won't get into what it was, but it involved a young person and it was a terrible accusation. And now it's dropped. It was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice. So here's the context that only I can add. If you're a normie, as in not a celebrity,

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You don't really understand how often celebrities get falsely accused of sex crimes. It's pretty much routine. So if you said to yourself, well, I mean, somebody went through a lot of trouble to accuse Jay-Z, so therefore probably true. I think probably not. Possibly true. But just the accusation...

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If the only thing you knew is that somebody was accused of a sex crime and the person involved said, I don't even know who that is, it probably didn't happen. Probably didn't happen. Now, I'm not excusing any sex crimes. So if there are any dumb people and NPCs watching and you're saying, did he just excuse sex crimes? No, I'm not. I'm just saying that you don't understand how often

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these accusations are completely made up. So I'm going to give Jay-Z the American benefit of a doubt. The legal system has dropped it. We don't know. I mean, you could speculate there was some pressure on the accuser. We don't know one way or the other. But given the high rate of false accusations in this exact domain and the fact that it was dropped, benefit of a doubt.

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innocent until proven guilty, and it doesn't look like he's going to be proven guilty.

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Here's a thing that I've been telling you is going to happen for a long time. According to SciTech Daily, scientists discovered that your cerebral cortex doesn't just react to the world, it predicts what's coming next. So your cerebral cortex isn't just watching. It's continuously predicting what happens next. Now, that's what I've been waiting for.

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According to the New York Post, so the Trump administration, the USDA chief, is looking at the idea of food stamps being not allowed for buying sugary drinks and bad food. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, you already can't use food stamps to buy alcohol. Is that right? If you tried to buy alcohol and food stamps, the grocery store would say, uh-uh-uh.

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Because we're very close to proving that we live in a simulation. And all the parts are sort of on their own or sort of coming together in a whole bunch of different ways. But this is a big one because it explains consciousness.

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now i have my own definition of consciousness which does not match anybody else's and i was waiting for this this is what i was waiting for i was waiting for a confirmation that there's a part of the brain that predicts because here's my definition of consciousness it's the difference between what you predict is going to happen and what does what you observe if everything that happened is exactly what you predicted

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you would lose consciousness instantly. And you can test that because in your own environment, so I'm sitting in my office with a whole bunch of things that are not changing. So there's a cabinet over there. My expectation is it will look exactly the same in 10 minutes. Nothing will be different. and everything else in the room, nothing will be different.

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The only thing that's different is your comments that are streaming in and the visual thing that I'm seeing of myself while I do this. So my consciousness is 100% on the things that are changing because the things that are changing are the only things that have the possibility of what I predict is going to happen, not matching what happens. Everything else in my environment

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I'm unconscious to, because they're not going to ever change. So what I predict about them I know will be the same as what happens. I mean, I don't know-know, but it's a pretty safe bet. So you are not conscious of anything you think isn't going to change, and you're correct about it. You're only conscious of things you can predict what's going to happen, and then you watch what's happening.

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And what makes humans do better than other creatures is that. the degree of consciousness, the degree of predicting, and then seeing how it's different. Because if you predict and then you're wrong, then you have much better insight about how to adjust it. Oh, wow, I was wrong about that. Rethink it, rethink it, try something else, until you get predictability.

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So we're always going to get predictability. We're striving for it, and that's consciousness. It's the only purpose for it. It's not magic. It's just a simple little trick of the brain so that we're more able to solve problems. We predict, and then we can solve them sometimes in advance based on our prediction. And then if we're wrong, we say, whoa, that didn't work.

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Look at the difference between the prediction and the outcome. Basically, that's the basis of science, right? Science is looking at the difference between your hypothesis and your outcome. So The first thing you need to know is that consciousness is not special. It's special because humans seem to have the most of it.

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If you notice that your dog definitely seems conscious and your dog too can predict. You see that? Your dog can predict. When I walk into the kitchen, my dog thinks, hmm, that's where I get treats. So the dog comes into the kitchen. So the dog also has an idea of what the future looks like and then operates based on that. And if I don't give the dog a treat, what happens?

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I can tell that she has some tension, just like humans. When things don't go the way we expect, we get tension. And then we want to get rid of the tension by solving it so that our world becomes predictable again. So consciousness is nothing but the difference between your prediction and your observation. That's it.

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Similarly, there's a new study from, not a new study, but an article in Popular Mechanics that according to some of the scientists, not all of them, but some of the scientists in the quantum realm, your thoughts can change the past. Now we know in the quantum world that things don't really exist until they're observed. So as weird as that sounds, that's generally scientifically accepted.

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So could they also, I don't know if it's practical, because it would require the cashier, I think, to decide whether the food stamp is good enough for this but not good enough for that. Where do you draw the line? Do you draw the line at all processed foods? Because that would be reasonable. Do you draw the line? You couldn't do that. You'd have to allow some processed foods, probably.

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I think everybody accepts that at this point. That until you observe something, it's just a probability. And then once observed, it becomes solidified forever. But now it's going further. that you could change your own past. All right, I'll turn off your comments. You can observe your own past. Or you can actually change your past by what you're thinking. Now, I think...

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this is proof that we're a simulation. Because one of the proofs I was looking for, and again, proof is too strong a word, but one of the pieces of evidence would be if the present can create the past. Because if we're a computer software simulation, it would be almost impossible for any computer to hold all the complexity of all the history of everything that's ever existed.

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I can't imagine any computer that could do it. And if you could do it, You probably wouldn't do it if you're building a simulation. You would say, well, the past exists when somebody looks into it. But if they don't look into it, it's just not there. So the specific example would be if you're going to dig a hole in your backyard and nobody's ever dug a hole in that place.

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So nobody knows what's below the surface. You're seeing it for the first time as you're digging the hole. According to my view of the world, the hole is created just as you dig. It doesn't exist in a steady state. It doesn't collapse its probability until you see it. Now, that would save a tremendous amount of processing, but it would also explain why you and I don't agree about the past.

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Because think about how hard it would be if I dug a hole in my backyard and then I had an idea about the past, but it had to match everybody else's ideas that I've ever dug nearby, et cetera. It would be too hard. So instead, you would say, all right, if I'm writing this simulation and I want to save capacity, I'll just say, your memory doesn't have to match mine.

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And that's what we observe, that one person's memory doesn't match another's. Even when I talk about the things that happened in my childhood, one of my siblings will say, That didn't happen. That happened to somebody else. Now, usually, since my memory is not that good, I just assume the other person's right, which is a good bet. But in the real world, we all disagree about what the past is.

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And that's the only way you can handle all the pasts being so different is just allow them to be different. And people just say, well, you're wrong. And then the other person says, no, you're wrong. And that's the end of it. You don't have to solve it. You can just agree that you have a different idea of what the past was. So that happened.

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I think the odds of us being a simulation are pretty close to 100% at this point. All right. Over in Ukraine, there's a story in the Defense Post that Ukraine has developed this drone front line. And what it is, is basically a bunch of unmanned drones.

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that can control a part of the front, the military front, and basically you would just watch what's happening and kill anything that started moving and looked like an enemy. So if this really works, which I'm not sure it does, but if it really worked, it would look like Skynet Small. Skynet, the fictional version of Skynet from Terminator movies,

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was a bunch of flying machines that would look for humans and kill them wherever they found them that's exactly this it's a bunch of flying machines that would autonomously i think on their own this uh that part i'm not sure about i think it's on their own but maybe not uh would kill anybody who's in that zone because they would just make sure that their own soldiers were never in that zone

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Could you draw the line at no wheat? You can't get any wheat-based products? No, probably can't do that. Even if you believe that the wheat in the United States is not so good for you compared to other countries.

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or they'd turn it off if they were. So I think it's just basically putting a hat on the front lines and saying, anybody who's under this hat, we're just going to kill you. And that would be what the future of military looks like. Now, let's go back to the real world. In the real world, Ukraine and Russia are getting ready to negotiate some kind of peace.

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in that environment wouldn't you expect a whole bunch of positive stories about ukraine's military future it's like oh sure russia russia was winning up till now but now we've got this whole new skynet thing locally so you couldn't possibly gain another inch so you might as well negotiate a good piece that we can live with so i don't believe anything about this It could be they're working on it.

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Could be that works a little bit. But I don't think they found a way to completely control the front line with drones. Someday. Definitely someday. But it's a little bit too on the nose that just when we get into the negotiating, oh, look, we've got some magic technology that would do what nothing's ever done before. Maybe. Maybe. I just don't buy it yet. Anyway, that's all I got for today.

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Make sure you join Owen Gregorian's after show. I'll just say a few words to the locals people when I'm done with the rest of you. But in a few minutes, Owen Gregorian will fire up a spaces event on X. for anybody who wants to keep talking about this sort of stuff. And I'm going to say bye to everyone on Rumble and X and YouTube. And we'll talk to the locals people just quickly.

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so i don't know how they can implement this on a practical level but i like the thinking and i like the fact that they might take a run at it good stuff um so but would that create a secondary market for food stamps if you couldn't buy junk how many people will sell their food stamp at a discount to somebody who needs it

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and then use the money from the food stamps that they sold to buy a sugary drink. There'll be a little bit of that. So it'd be worth trying. According to the BBC, an article in Mental Floss, when AI does news summaries, so if you ask your favorite AI, summarize the news on some topic. According to the BBC, it's going to get it wrong. They looked at...

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Additionally, 19% of AI answers regarding BBC-specific sources had incorrect factual statements, numbers, and dates. And 13% of the quotes were made up. 13% of the quotes were made up. and attributed to people. Now, did they have to do this study? No, they didn't. They just had to ask me. I've been telling you forever, it's Gell-Mann amnesia.

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I'm just like on my phone all day long. Look, it's another thing. There's another judge. There's another judge. Look, it's another lawsuit. It's another judge. And it looks like it slowed down a little bit. So that feels good. Anyway, after today's show, remember to join the after show. That'll be on Spaces, hosted by Owen Gregorian. So look on Spaces on X. That's the audio product, audio only.

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All they did is show that Gell-Mann amnesia is real, which we all knew. If you know what's true, the news always looks fake. It's not the AI. They're trying to blame the AI. No, it's not the AI. The news in the fucking BBC is fake whenever you know what the real story is. The news on CNN is fake whenever you know what the real story is.

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The news everywhere in every outlet all the time in every case is fake. The only thing that's new... is knowing it. And so the BBC, which has exactly the same error conditions as AI, is acting like they're the ones to check the AI. Really? You're the ones to check the accuracy of the AI? How about if the AI did this experiment on the BBC?

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How about if we did it on just things that I know personally? I'm pretty sure the BBC has written about me. If I did a search on what the BBC has said about me, how accurate would it be? It wouldn't be. There's not a chance. There's not even a small chance that it would be accurate, according to me, and I would be the ultimate source of me.

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So no, there's nothing in this story that tells you AI is less accurate than the regular news. Even the one where 13% of the quotes were either altered or absent? Well, absent... That doesn't seem like an error if there's just no quote. I don't know what that means if it's absent. But if it's an error, 13%, that's actually low because the regular news misquotes people a lot more often.

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Do you think the AI is misquoting people more often than real humans? No. Even the real humans aren't even trying to get real quotes. They're trying to fabricate a quote that fits the story. Always. It's always fabricated. Now, sometimes the real quote will fit their narrative and then they'll use it. But if they don't have a real quote that fits the narrative, they will make one up.

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That's how it works. Now, here's the bigger question. Remember, I've been telling you something. I haven't seen a single person agree with me, by the way. So here's a prediction I keep making, and not one person that I've seen agrees with me. So I'm all alone, and it goes like this.

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The reason that the AGI version of AI, which would be the general intelligence, the one that's really the smart one, that's smarter than a human in the same way that humans are smart, that's going to be a problem because how do we know it's right? the humans are going to decide if it's right. And if the humans don't like the answer it gives, they'll just reprogram it.

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So if we created an intelligence that knew more than us, the first thing we do is program it and degrade it so it matched us because we start with the assumption that we know what's true. And then we're seeing if the AI can get it right. We're never going to be out of that model. We're never going to say the AI is right and we were wrong about everything. Have you met people? People don't do that.

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People say they're right and everything needs to conform to their view of what's right. So no, there's probably no way that we can build a machine that's smarter than people, like legitimately smarter. Now, of course, they will know more things and calculate faster, and they can play chess better.

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So there's a whole bunch of things that are more almost math-based or physics-based that, of course, will be well better and more than people. But if it came up with an opinion, supposedly tried to tell you history, can you imagine the smartest AI telling you the real history of World War II? I'm going to stop right there because if I went any further, I'd get canceled like three times.

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And just look for Owen Gregorian, and you can find his Spaces right after the show. Well, here's a story in the New York Post that I swear is an old story. Haven't we talked about this one before? There's a Chinese zoo that admitted to painting a donkey black and white to pass it off as a zebra. Haven't we heard that one before? And it makes me wonder how many other animals are fake.

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Whatever you think about World War II, I'm pretty sure it's a narrative. I mean, obviously World War II happened, but I don't really believe any of the news about World War II or any of the history. I think maybe they got the dates of the big battles right, the big stuff.

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But the why anybody did anything and the what could have happened and who was doing what behind the scenes and what were people's intentions and what were the secret plots and what did the good guys do that were really bad but got erased by history because they were the winners, it's all kind of fake.

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So if we came up with an AI that somehow could tell us the real history of anything, not just picking World War II as a general reference, but of anything, How about the history of the United States? Do you think we would allow an AI to tell the history of the United States that was fundamentally different from what we've been brainwashing kids for generations? Of course not. Of course not.

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The reason we brainwash kids is we don't want them to know the actual truth. We want them to know the truth that makes them better citizens and makes the country stronger. So what would an AI do in that case? Say, oh, okay, I get it. We're just brainwashing the people, so I'll make up some stuff. Yeah.

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How can you possibly get to an AI that's smarter than us when we would turn it off the moment it started saying things that's smarter than us? Beyond, you know, math and science-y stuff, which will, of course, it will be better. Anyway. Apparently, RFK Jr. has already moved to fire thousands of people in HHIS, and we knew that was coming, but 5,200 workers already being let go.

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There's going to be a lot of stories like this, like there's this department in the government, and Doge or whoever is firing lots of people. So it's all going to start to sound the same, but I don't want to lose how good it feels that something's happening. The good feeling I feel when people are getting fired is not zeitgeist or, no, it's the wrong word. It's not schadenfreude.

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I get my German words wrong. It's not schadenfreude where I'm just enjoying somebody else's pain because I think they have it coming. It's nothing like that. I have a lot of empathy for the just regular workers who go to work. But I feel so good that something that's difficult to do for the government, which is self-police and reduce its own expenses, that it's actually happening.

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It's like one of the most optimistic things I've seen in a long, long time. Speaking of optimistic things, there's a recording released recently Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan, in which he's just giving it to his employees, some kind of, I don't know if it's a Zoom or all employees meeting or something. And he is just cursing up a storm. He's dropping the F-bombs and the other bombs.

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Coffee with Scott Adams, you've never had a better time, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So I keep telling you that the complaints about Trump and about Musk are imaginary. But it's really hilarious when you see them all together. So just compare this. So the Republicans' biggest things they're working on are things like closing the border. The border's a real thing, and it was really open, and it was really a problem. It's a real thing. And Trump's done a good job of closing it.

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Then there's the spending problem. That's very real, the most real thing ever. And Doge is working on reducing it. There's the tariffs, which no matter what you think about his strategy for the tariffs, tariffs are a real thing. And we really do have bad trade agreements. They should be a lot better. So pretty much you could go down the line.

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Everything that Trump is working on, everything that Musk is working on are real, legitimate problems, and nobody would argue otherwise. Nobody would say, well, the border is imaginary. Nobody's going to say that. But now look at the problems that the Democrats are putting forward as the main thing they're working on. The black people and divorced women don't know how to get IDs to vote.

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I'm going to assign that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns, unless we can meet at least one black person or at least one woman who can't figure out how to get an ID to vote. How about the chaos will lead to something that we can't imagine and it's bad? Well, that's literally imaginary. Chaos is a word designed to scare senior citizens.

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So basically the Democrats are running a long-term scam on seniors. If they can get the seniors to be afraid of Elon Musk and Doge, They can continue ripping off seniors and everybody else by putting their tax money into NGOs that eventually return the money to the spouses of the same Democrats, once we figured out the trick. So that's basically just a scam that they're running on seniors.

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Do you think they can rapidly order at the cheesecake factory? I would say, probably not. Probably not. You don't need to study that one. So next time ask me. ChatGPT has a very big upgrade, which is scary, but oh so useful. So you decide how much fear you want, but Ars Technica is reporting on it. Samuel Lacson, that now ChatGPT will be able to remember if you set it to do that.

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Then there's, Musk will steal your secret, your social security numbers and give them to people. that's as imaginary as you could come up with. Like, why would he even think of that? Like, why would that even be a thing? So again, that's just to scare senior citizens because the Democrats are running a long-term scam on seniors.

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There was a town hall in which one of the members asked this question. it was on CNN. It said, the question was being asked to some Republican candidate, what are you doing to control Elon Musk? He was not elected by the voters and is running completely unchecked. He was not elected by the voters, puts them in the same category as nearly everybody working for the government.

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That's not a real problem. The not elected by the people means nothing because most of everything that gets done in the government is done by people who are not elected. What kind of a complaint is that? It's literally a made-up complaint that you assume that the people paying no attention to the news think is somehow important. It's not. Plus, you know, Musk won't be there forever.

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And that he's running completely unchecked. Is that real? My understanding is that the department heads, the cabinet heads, have the final say on any cuts. That's the opposite of unchecked. It's literally the opposite of the news that everybody is aware of. So that's imaginary. We'll assign that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.

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And then there was a complaint that Musk's actions were bad and his treatment of federal workers is bad. Well, what would those actions be? And what exactly is he doing to federal workers that they're supposed to like when they're being downsized? There's no such thing as employees being downsized who are happy about it, who think it happened the right way.

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Nobody ever gets fired and says, you know, I don't like getting fired, but I have to admit, the way they did it, very good. They just handled it right. Nobody says that. These are completely imaginary concerns. Rachel Maddow was warning people that Musk might share their tax information, and that would be very illegal.

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Okay, that would be kind of illegal, but why exactly would he be sharing anybody's tax information? That's completely imaginary. That's the best they could come up with? He's going to share your tax information? Okay. The other thing is that Musk and Trump are going to take away your health care based on nothing.

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They're doing the only thing you could do to maybe protect it, which is to get the debt under control. So opposite, imaginary. Trump's going to become a fascist, all imaginary. He's going to take away women's rights and gay rights. They stopped saying that because it's so dumb, but that was imaginary.

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And the only thing that Democrats have that's real, that's like a real issue that they can look to, is that the Republicans are looking to get rid of trans men in women's sports. Now, what's funny about that is that the only real issue they have, because that's really happening, there really are trans in women's sports and they really are being banned by Trump's administration.

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But the funny part is that the issue itself is people imagining something that's not real. They're imagining that they're another gender or another sex.

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Now, you could argue whether they're imagining it or not, but it's funny that that's the exception, that the exception is based on what most of you would say is people just imagining something that's not real, that their sex is something different than it is. Okay. According to the New York Times, the Democrats' greatest leader, Kamala Harris, is contemplating all of her future possible moves.

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But one of the things she's thinking about, and I don't think this would be funny if it came from anybody else, but she's considering an institute for policy and ideas. It would be the world's smallest institute because they don't have any policies and they don't have any ideas. I think you could fit the entire thing in a phone booth.

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You have the option of turning it off. It will remember all of your prior conversations. So if you were asking ChatGPT about a certain topic months ago, and then you wanted to follow up, you wouldn't have to re-explain everything again. You would already know, oh, this person already asked me these questions, so I don't need to answer the same stuff again.

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It's like, oh, where's your building, the Institute for Policies and Ideas? Well... You see that shed over there? Yes, it's in that shed. What else is in the shed? Well, lawnmowers and tools and stuff. We didn't need the entire shed. We just needed a little corner of the shed. So that's funny. Apparently there's another wannabe potential Trump assassin who was caught in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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What the hell is wrong with Butler, Pennsylvania that is producing... wannabe assassins. So this particular wannabe assassin doesn't sound like he was very well trained by anybody because he had been bragging online his plans to kill Trump and Elon Musk and other U.S. officials. And he reportedly purchased firearms after Trump took office.

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Now, I'm assuming that this one is not being backed by any intelligence agency. groups from our country or anywhere else, because he seems a little uncontrollable, maybe a little bit crazy, or maybe just watches MSNBC. It'd be the same thing. So here's my strategic evaluation of the Democrat process. So they've decided that they're going to push this chaos thing, chaos, chaos, chaos.

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At the same time, they're backing the protests against Tesla, which are chaos. So they're literally paying people to create chaos in the streets while they're complaining about all the chaos. That's the dumbest strategy I've ever seen.

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um but the republicans haven't really called it out every time chaos comes up they should say you're literally paying for riots on our streets you're literally organizing them you know under the banner of democrats basically so you can't get any more chaos than trying to overthrow the current country making it too dangerous to go outside

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filling the world with fake news, and then trying to take down one of the biggest, most important companies in the United States. That's a lot of chaos. But here's my real point. What happens when Elon Musk is done with his 130 days? And he just says, I've done what I can do. Take a look at all our work from now on the

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There'll be a team that's left there, but I won't be running it because my term came to an end. And we're going to put in somebody you never heard of, but really good. Somebody who was a successful entrepreneur somewhere, let's say. And they won't be nearly the magnet for attention as Musk was. So what happens if Musk gives the Democrats what they asked for?

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What they ask for is for him to not be on the job. And they're going to get it. Now, that doesn't mean he's going to quit. All he has to do is wait until his term is up at the end of May. So what happens when they get the thing they wanted the most? What are they going to do then? I don't think they planned this out because it doesn't exactly position them for the midterms.

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Because it will look like Doge accomplished a bunch of things, saved a bunch of money of crazy things, and then he left willingly, just like he always planned. They're going to really run out of stuff to say. I don't think they've planned this out at all. And then what happens when They're complaining about all the chaos of the tariff stuff. What happens when countries start making deals?

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Because countries have already made offers that, at least at a high level, look like the outline of a deal. They're coming into town like crazy. The negotiators are going to be busy. And the funniest thing I heard, was you know how Trump threatened all the law firms that tried to lawfare him?

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I'll just add this new thing that they asked me about. So how much more useful that will become is a lot. That's a pretty big advancement. It's hard to imagine they can store all that, but they've got a lot of data centers. So that's coming. Well, Trump had his physical. We don't have the results yet. But I did a comic yesterday called Robots Read News. Those of you on Locals get to see it only.

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And you reached an agreement with several of them that they would provide, in many cases, over $100 million of pro bono work for whatever Trump wanted them to do. And apparently Trump might want them to negotiate trade deals. Can you imagine that?

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Can you imagine if everybody's like, oh, you went after all these lawyers and you tried to lawfare the lawyers and then you find out that they offered all this free service and he said, yeah, that's perfect because we've got all these trade deals we have to negotiate. They're really complicated. So maybe you could give us $100 million worth of helping us negotiate good trade deals.

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What are Democrats going to complain about then? I don't know. So Bill Maher has finally come back from vacation. So he was gone. Hold on. My light just went out. So this week. How does that happen? I don't know. So Bill Morris finally gave us a readout on his meeting with Trump. Does anybody remember what I said was going to happen? So I had a prediction about how the meeting would go.

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So my prediction was based on my own and other people's experience meeting Trump for the first time, which is what I told you was that Trump is unusually charismatic and generous, meaning that he gives you eye contact. He lets you talk. He asks about your opinion. And while you're there, you're the only person in the world.

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He makes you feel like you're the only person who matters in the world, and he has no other interest about anything except you. Now, I felt that, and I told you that's what Bill Maher's going to get. He's going to get the, oh, my God, this guy's just sort of awesome in person. So let me give you a readout of what Bill Maher said himself about his own experience.

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He was talking to his audience and he said, everything I don't like about him, meaning Trump, was, I swear to God, absent, at least on that night. Let me read that again. Everything I don't like about him was, I swear to God, absent, at least on that night. He said he's much more self-aware than he lets on in public. That is correct. He's self-aware.

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He said, quote, Marr said, you can hate me for it, but I'm not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured. Exactly. He made eye contact. He asked Marr for his opinion and then listened to it. Exactly what I told you was going to happen. Remember I told you that he asked for your opinion and then he actually really listens to it. It's like a superpower.

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When you feel heard like that, you never forget it. He got a tour of the house, which was impressive, of course. And Maher said he shared a printout of all the insults that Trump had ever gave him over the years. and Trump signed it with, quote, good humor. So Trump just took it as it was fun, and he just signed it and gave it back to him, which was perfect.

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Then Maher said he was surprised that Trump laughs, something he said he had never seen him do in public, and he told his audience, quote, he does, including at himself. He does. And then then Mar said, and it's not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it. And that wasn't fake. So remember everybody talks about Trump being authentic? There it is.

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There it is. A comedian knows a fake laugh. His was authentic. And then Maher said, I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him. And then he said, and honestly, Maher said, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. Just listen to that. And he says, that's just how it went down. Make of it what you will.

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Me? I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days. There it is. He was in the presence of the head of MAGA and did not feel judged. Did not feel judged. And did not feel that he would be judged. But his own team, he feels that one misstep and he would be judged. That's so powerful. And I think that actually explains MAGA pretty well.

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And Robots Read News is literally a robot and a sex doll who do the news. And I'm going to compare what Trump said himself about the results of his medical exam. And then I'm going to... And then I'm going to compare it to the joke version that I wrote before Trump spoke about it. And I want you to see if I captured the vibe of it approximately correct. All right. So here's what Trump said.

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So Marwanani said, a crazy person doesn't live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is effed up. It's just not as effed up as I thought it was. So he finally understands that Trump understands how to put on a show. And that if you believe the show was the person, then you were completely confused about anything that was going on.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen Now. So good. That was a little extra good. All right, today after the show, because it's Saturday, there will be an after party.

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And I think that was the case. How many times have I told you I've used the word that it's a show and that he uses hyperbole and he's playing to the audience? I've been telling you that forever. Of course, his real personality is not the show. The show is the show. The show is work. It's important in its own way, but the show is the show. It's not his personality.

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And then Mars said that he walked away with nothing from the White House except hats and a very generous amount of time and a willingness to listen and accept me as a possible friend, even though I'm not MAGA, which was the point of the dinner. Wow. Wow. Now, again, I take you back to my prediction. So, you know, I've only spent 20 minutes with the president. It was in 2018.

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But this was my exact experience. Exact experience. Just this. So right on point. I don't think it'll change, you know, Barr's criticism. Nobody expects him to. But it's such a reframe. It's incredible. So meanwhile, Taiwan has offered to drop tariffs and to buy more stuff from the U.S., Reuters says.

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I don't want to get too excited about any offers from any countries on tariffs because once you get into the details, you know, things get crazy. Trump has said he wants to, according to the Brussels signal, he suggested linking tariff negotiations in Europe with U.S. troop deployment. He says those could be part of the same thing. What have I told you that Trump does well in negotiating?

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One of the things he does is he brings things into the negotiation that you don't think are part of the negotiation. There's no Democrat who would have said we should talk about troop deployment in the same conversation as tariffs. Only one person. The one person who understands how to make a deal. So if bringing in extra variables gets you to the deal, well, you bring them in.

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And I've said this a million times. If you can't make a deal, and throughout history, everybody's been stymied because they can't make a deal, whatever it is, tariffs or anything else, you just broaden the variables. You just add, well, what if we also included this other topic that we weren't talking about? Now, can we have a deal? It's just basic deal-making.

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And only Trump seems to even understand that it exists as a technique, and then he uses it. So he said the same about South Korea, too, that troop deployment might be part of a tariff negotiation. Well, as you know from Doge, there were a lot of illegal migrants in the country who were given Social Security numbers.

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And it turns out that the easiest way to fix that is to just change the database, if you know which ones are the non-citizens who have them. change the database to list them as dead. It's just easier. Because once you list them as dead, the system prevents you from using the Social Security number anymore. So you wouldn't be able to get an ID or vote or do all the things that you use it for.

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So I guess that's one way to do it. Okay. Glenn Greenwald was on the Jesse Waters show talking about, you know, the difference between the Democrats who have nothing to offer and Trump. And even Greenwald says that Trump is authentic no matter what you think of him. But the Democrats have no identity. All they have is words that consultants have given them. So they repeat the words.

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But here's what I want you to watch for. You'll think this is hilarious the next time you see it. Now, this only applies to the senior Democrat leaders. So it'd be Schumer, Warren, Jeffries. So this won't apply to just pundits on CNN. But they've obviously been taught that chaos is the key word.

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And people who are experts at communicating know that people will forget 90% of whatever you say about anything. So if there's one part of your message you want them to remember and repeat, you got to really emphasize it. So what the top Democrats do, and I saw this in a compilation clip the other day, they chickenhead the word chaos.

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The doctor hasn't said anything yet. But Trump said, overall, I felt I was in very good shape. A good heart, a good soul, very good soul, right? A very good soul. Which medical test tested the soul? It looks like your soul is doing great, Mr. President. You're at 100% in the soul. No one in the world would have said that.

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By chickenhead, I'm going to do my impression of it, like the head thrusts forward like a chicken walking. So if you see them talking, they'll be saying stuff like, Trump is doing terrible things. He's not elected to do that. We're worried that it'll cut your health care. And he's bringing chaos. Chaos. And they check it at it. Chaos.

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Because they want to make sure that the one thing you remember is that word. Chaos. So next time you see it, you're going to laugh your ass off. It's so obvious that it's a consultant chosen word. And it's part of their scamming senior citizens. Because chaos doesn't necessarily scare a young person. because young people are like, ah, chaos, that might be fun.

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But if you're old and you don't want anything to change because you can just barely afford your life the way it is, you don't want any chaos. So between the chaos word and the fact that they keep repeating he's going to cut your health care, your Medicare, Medicaid stuff, those are scams on seniors.

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They've basically taken the Nigerian prince approach to politics, where why don't we just scam seniors? We'll just tell them some things that they're not likely to check, and we'll get them all worried, and then we can get elected. Anyway, it's hard to claim chaos is the problem when you're running fake protests against Tesla.

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Harry Enten, who's the data guy on CNN, has yet another shocking poll that I'll give CNN credit for running the poll and giving it a lot of time. The question was, who cares more for the needs of people like you, Democrats or Republicans? Who cares more? In 1994, By 19 points, Democrats were picked as the ones who care more about people like you.

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In 2005, it was all the way up to 23, an advantage for Democrats, that Democrats are the ones who care more about people like you. In 2017, it was still, you know, with Trump's first term, they were still up 13. Now, these are big advantages, all right? If the public thinks that the Democrats care more about people like them, well, of course they're going to vote that way.

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Guess what it is in 2025? It's a tie. It's a tie. Trump actually brought up 19, up 23, up 13. He brought that advantage to zero. It's a tie. So Democrats are no longer seen as the party of the people. Trump has made the complete transition. But people who have college degrees still think by a good amount that Democrats are the ones for people like them, people with college degrees.

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People without college degrees absolutely think the Republicans are people like them and are concerned about people like them. So that is just wild. You know, you've heard people say, even the Democrats say this, they'll say this about Trump, that he's the best political athlete they've ever seen. Have you heard them say that?

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It's kind of a good way to acknowledge the reality that he's so successful in politics without sounding too gushing. So they just say he's the best political athlete they've ever seen. That's right. I've told you he was the most persuasive person I'd ever seen. You know, or even 2016, I was saying that. But yeah, he's the best political athlete we've ever seen.

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And this just really brings that home. And then if you're wondering how this would affect the midterm, the generic midterm, if you were looking at a generic Republican versus a generic Democrat, In November 2024, the Democrats were only up one. And in 2017, when things went wrong for the midterms, for Trump in his first term, Democrats were up by seven.

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So even the advantage of what you expect would be a midterm wipeout, the data does not suggest that there will be a midterm wipeout. Now, there might still be, but the data doesn't signal it because up one is the same as a tie, basically. Just think about that.

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With all of the efforts of the Democrats to protest Tesla and be against tariffs and everything's chaos, and it's just been a full-court press against Trump and Musk, and it brought him only to a tie as the midterms are looking ahead. And like I said, their biggest complaint is Elon Musk's contribution, and that could be completely wound down before the midterms. What have they got?

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He's the only human being who would have said he went to a medical examination and he had a good heart and a good soul, a very good soul. And then he says, I took, I wanted to be a little different than Biden. I took a cognitive test. I don't know what to tell you other than I got every answer right. Yeah. Okay. Now, that's what he actually said.

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What happens if Trump has, I don't know, 25 trade deals lined up and they all look better than they used to be as we head into the midterms and China is isolated? I don't know. It might be a real bad day for Democrats. It's way too early to know. So you know that SAVE Act? That's the one where Republicans are trying to pass a law that everybody needs an ID to be able to vote.

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Stephen Miller is reminding us that there's literally only one reason that Democrats would be in favor of not having an ID requirement to vote. There's only one reason. It's so you can get a bunch of illegal voters to vote for you. There's not really a second reason. Because that whole women can't get ID, nobody thinks that is true. Or that black people can't get ID and they want to vote.

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Nobody thinks that's true. We're still waiting for the first example of that. You know, all day long, CNN will give you stories about, here's this fisherman whose business will be destroyed by tariffs. Here's this small business person who does business with Amazon and their business will be destroyed by tariffs.

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Then you change the channel to Fox News and it's, here's this victim of illegal immigrants. Here's another victim of illegal immigrants. Any time you can find even one frickin' person to make your case, they get highlighted. Every single time. You only need to find one. just one victim or one example, and then you go wild of acting like it's representative of the whole. Sometimes it is.

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But just think about how long we've been talking about black people who want to vote can't get ID, and now how long we've talked about divorced or unmarried women not being able to get ID, and yet not one example. Not one example. Now, how hard is it to find one example of anything? You could almost throw a dart at all the issues in the world, and you would almost certainly find one person.

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who represents the point you're making, even if it's not representative of the whole. You can always find one, but they can't find one. And their base hasn't noticed. Somehow their base hasn't noticed that this is the only topic of all time, the only topic where you can't find one in the whole country. So that's just funny to me. Here is some controversial move Trump's making.

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So allegedly, this hasn't happened yet, but I think CNN is reporting this, that the Trump administration is going to make big cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would allegedly, we don't know that this is true yet. So far, this is rumored. Rumored based on documents, but rumored.

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They would close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate the budget along with several NOAA, you know, NOAA offices. And the plan would cut the overall NOAA budget by 27%. A bunch of functions would be rolled into other groups. But they would go hard at the research office, cutting the research office by roughly 75%. Now, here's the context, which CNN, of course, will leave out.

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If what NOAA was doing was essential work and good science, this sounds like it would be a very bad idea because they would be doing a bunch of essential science. They'd be warning us about climate change. We'd know what to do. We'd know how fast it's coming. We'd have a good sense of it. But probably all the climate change stuff was fake.

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So it looks like Trump is just saying, just get rid of everything that's fake. And anything that looks useful and real, we'll just keep it. But maybe it's under different departments or something. So the big question is, how fake was the science all along? My own opinion is that the climate models have always been fake.

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Now, here's what the comic version said when the robot in my comic strip, Robots Read News, was reporting on the same event. So the robot reading the news, he was quoting the doctor. The doctor hasn't actually spoken yet, but it's a fake quote of the doctor. Quote, that Trump is essentially immortal. and slightly smarter than Einstein.

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and that everything that went into supporting them must have also been about equally fake. So I can't prove that, but I can tell you that there's no such thing as predicting the future 80 years in advance with a multivariable model. That's not a thing. Never will be a thing. Even AI can't do it. Well, I keep hearing...

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MSNBC carping on Peter Navarro for what they say was he would refer to what they call a fictional expert in several of his books. So he's written several books, trade with China and related topics. And this fictional character, which we now know is not real, was called Ron Vara. which is an anagram of Navarro's own last name.

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And he would refer to the expert to bolster the opinions that he was saying in the book. And the expert was allegedly a Harvard-trained economist which I believe is what Peter Navarro is. So he was basically referring to himself as the expert. Now, the first time I heard it, I thought, that doesn't sound real. So I ignored it. But it's getting a lot of legs.

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And so I went to Grok and I said, is this real? Did Peter Navarro really use an expert that was just himself, and then he wrote books about it? Well, here's the first thing you need to know, that Peter Navarro completely admits it. So it is real. He did refer to somebody called Ron Varro. It was not a real person. It was just Peter Navarro essentially referring to himself.

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But he said that he used it as a... used it as a what do you call it he admitted to creating this character as a whimsical device for entertainment not as a factual source so i said to myself i guess we have to figure out what expert means does expert mean that he has data and that he's analyzed something or is expert being overused in other words did Did Peter Navarro call him an expert?

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Because if he did, that would seem kind of damning, wouldn't it? But then I went to Grok and I said, can you give me an example of what this alleged fake character Ron Vera said in one of the books? So one of the books was Death by China, 2011. And this is the fake quote from the fake person Ron Vera. Quote,

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Only the Chinese can turn a leather sofa into an acid bath, a baby formula into a poison, a drywall into a sarcoma gas, and a pet food into a lethal cocktail. So the quotes were about Chinese products that were unsafe for consumers. Now, how much of that is expert knowledge? Not really any of it. Not really any of it.

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Because it's just sort of a whimsical way to say the same thing that Peter Navarro was saying. So Navarro probably had some data about these very products, probably referred to the data. But then when he wanted to kind of cleverly sum them up, He just had his other character do the summing up, so it sounded like somebody else was saying it. Now, that's not really any expertise.

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Now, do I approve of this? No. No, I don't think this was the best way to go about it. But it didn't sound like expertise. So as soon as MSNBC says it's like expertise, none of this changed his opinions. None of it had a bearing on his main points. It was just a clever way to sum them up. Now, I haven't seen all the examples. So maybe there's some example that's more damning.

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His testicles are like bowling balls, and his ear grew back better. Now, don't you think I captured the vibe? His ear grew back better. There's no way you can report his medical examination straightforward. It just has to be funny, because you know the real one's going to be hilarious. Whatever it is the doctor says is going to have to be approved by Trump.

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But I just think it's kind of funny that he would have a whimsical character that's clearly he's not trying to hide it too hard. Because if you name the character an anagram of your own last name, it wasn't that hard to spot. So it does give me the impression that he thought it was funny and like a useful author tool, but rather than trying to pass it off as real expertise.

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So you can have your own opinion about that. So Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk, appeared to agree on the X platform yesterday. And what they agreed on was ending IP laws. So intellectual property.

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So instead of fighting about the intellectual property all the time, which is an enormous resource of, well, uses a lot of resources, Dorsey and Musk both seem to agree that we might be better off if we got rid of all intellectual property. Now, I believe Tesla has done some of that. I believe they made some of their technology available to others.

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But I would say where you are depends on how much you think that's a good idea. If it includes copyright, I don't know if it does. They might be thinking more about products. But if it includes artistic stuff, I don't think any artist would work anymore. I mean, I can't imagine creating a book that's immediately available from 25 other sources the day it's published.

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Oh, wait, that's the exact current situation. Because China rips off any book that looks like it's going to do well. They do it immediately. So if I publish a new book tomorrow, there will be 10 Chinese versions of it almost the same time. And consumers won't know the difference. So we have an enormous IP problem with creative stuff.

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If this were the baseline and I were not already successful, I wouldn't even think of going into cartooning. It wouldn't make any sense at all. I definitely wouldn't write a book. And those are the things I've had the most success with and have created the most value.

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So I think if you have a dominant car company that is so good at manufacturing that nobody can catch up, you can just tell them what you're doing. Then they'll never catch up. Here's my IP. Good luck. Now, do you think that Elon Musk will give away his AI that drives the self-driving cars? Do you think that would be on the list of things he would give away for free?

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It's the most valuable thing he has. What about whatever is going to drive his robots? Do you think he wants to give that away for free? I could be wrong, but it seems to me that that would take the value of his robots from a trillion dollars to a billion dollars. Is that what he has in mind? to give up a trillion dollars? I don't know.

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So I think the whole getting rid of the IP might be something that people who are already billionaires say because they already made their money. I just don't know how real that is or how limited it would be if they got their way. I do understand why the IP is an enormous problem to innovation.

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Because if you're trying to invent anything in America, as soon as you put it out, you're going to get sued because there's somebody who has some kind of IP that interferes with. So there must be some middle ground. According to the Daily Mail, there used to be, in 1994, a top-secret plan to turn soldiers gay, but not our own soldiers. There was going to be a gay bomb plant

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that was filled with chemical aphrodisiacs that they would drop on enemy soldiers to make them irresistibly attracted to one another. Now, the plan was ultimately scrapped, but apparently it was seriously considered that they would drop some chemicals on the enemies and the enemies would just start I don't know, giving each other hand jobs instead of firing guns.

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And then they could just overrun their positions when they were exhausted. So I like that outside the box thinking. Get it? Outside the box? Never mind. So Trump has a plan, according to the Financial Times, to stockpile deep sea critical minerals to counter China. So apparently they're just nodules on the bottom of the ocean.

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So it's going to be classic, whatever it is. Anyway, let's talk about some news. So Trump signed the executive order. I guess he's going to end federal funding for sanctuary cities. So if you're a sanctuary city, basically you're shit out of luck for federal funding. And he is serious about this whole, about closing the border and shipping people back. He's really serious.

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They're filled with stuff, rare earth stuff, like things we need for batteries. Which ones? So they've got nickel and cobalt and copper and manganese in them. Of course, we need a lot more rare earth stuff than that. But those would be ones that are especially good for batteries and electrical wiring and munitions. So Trump's going to start stockpiling that. That wouldn't get us to the point...

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where we could instantly produce it on our own, we'd still need to be able to process it. So the whole how do you process this stuff needs to get solved. But seems like a good idea. I feel like if we're not putting our entire shoulders into making sure that we have pharmaceuticals and rare earth materials and China can't completely turn us off, I feel like that's the right direction.

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And maybe we need to do a lot more. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's my show for today. I know it was amazing, but not as amazing as the after party will be with Owen Gregorian. That'll start in a few minutes. And it will be on Spaces on the X platform. Just search for Owen Gregorian or you can search for me and you'll see that I reposted it so you can see the link to it. I'm going to...

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Just say a very quick word to my local subscribers, but then I'm going to let them be free to go find Owen's spaces, okay? So that won't take long. And it will only involve a sip or so. All right, everybody else, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place. And locals, subscribers, 30 seconds.

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In case you wondered, is he just joking? No. No, he's completely serious. So sanctuary cities, you could have a little trouble. That would include Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and others. So we'll see if they bow to that. Meanwhile, if you didn't think that was tough enough, according to the Gateway Pundit, Do you remember Alina Haba, who was one of Trump's attorneys?

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Well, she's now the U.S. attorney of New Jersey. So she's a U.S. attorney there, and she's opening a criminal probe into the governor of New Jersey. for obstructing ICE. So apparently the governor said they wouldn't cooperate with ICE trying to deport people. So that would be obstruction with the federal government's law enforcement.

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So Alina Haba is going to do a criminal probe into the governor for saying no to the federal government. Now that's pretty serious. That's pretty serious. Meanwhile, Doge has inserted itself so that there's some kind of federal grant website I've never heard of, grants.gov. But apparently this website is sort of the central clearing place for $500 billion a year in awards for

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Owen Gregorian will be hosting that on Spaces, the audio-only service within the X platform. So just look for Owen Gregorian, or you can look for my X account, and it has a repost there. But make sure you watch it, the after party, right after the show. All right. So I wonder if there's any science that could have been skipped if they had just asked me instead. Oh, yeah, there is.

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Let's see, the grants are for, what are they for? Grants, they're a bunch of grants. So I guess there's a lot of different grants for a lot of different things. But Doge is going to make sure that any of those grants get looked at by Doge. So all the crazy stuff, like a million dollars to find clothing for squirrels. I made that one up, but it could have been real.

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Or $20 million to turn insects gay. I made that one up too, but they sound kind of real, don't they? All right, so that's happening. CNN, I was watching CNN yesterday after the market closed. It was in the afternoon. And it was hilarious because it looked like they wrote their entire opening monologue, the host, before they saw the market closed up.

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So what they had already written was the market is full of volatility and uncertainty and there's chaos and volatility and the volatility and the uncertainty. But what actually happened was that the market closed up.

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The actual news should have been, well, it looks like the market has adjusted to whatever volatility and uncertainty there is, or it looks like the market understands now what Trump's trying to accomplish and can see that there would be a light at the end of the tunnel, so the market is a little more confident, so it ended up

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But instead, they had already readied this whole, there's so much uncertainty. So they had to not mention the actual close of the market until they'd really loaded on the uncertainty. And I'm thinking to myself, if the market goes up, like a nice little, it was a nice little gain actually at the end of the week. I don't know. I don't think you can sell the uncertainty messages as well.

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So here's a little lesson on public communication. If you're ever a financial expert and somebody asks you, you know, what's going to happen with the economy and you want to sound like you're an expert so that you really said something, but you don't want to say anything. then copy Larry Fink of BlackRock. So he was asked about the economy, where's the economy going?

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And he's like one of the top money guys in the whole country, the world, really. So, I mean, he's somebody who should really know. I mean, if you listen to Larry Fink, he should know. Is it going up? Is it going down? Here's what Larry Fink says. The U.S. is very close to a recession. You magnificent weasel. Very close to a recession. So let me get this right.

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If we have a recession, Larry Fink can say, I told you we were very close to it. I mean, I guess I nailed it. I said we were very close to it. And then here we are. Sure enough. But if we don't have a recession, you can later say, wow, we sure were close. It's a completely unverifiable claim that we're very close. And the fact that they added very to close, you don't need the very.

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That's just like acting like you know something. So if anybody asks you how the economy is going to go, just shake your head and say, I think we're very close to recession. Very close. And then later, when somebody checks on you, you go, I didn't say we'd have a recession. I said we were very close. Thank goodness we didn't. Yeah, you could win either way.

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Well, according to the Financial Times, they've got some data. John Byrne Murdoch is writing about this, that the Europeans have canceled a ton of travel to the United States. So let's see if you can find out what's wrong with this story. All right. So I only saw the posts. There was a thread on it with graphs and stuff. So the thread said that the...

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The number of people traveling from Europe to the U.S. in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%. Plummeted by as much as 35%. And travelers have canceled plans in response to Trump's policies and rhetoric and horror stories from the border. Now, here's my first question. Remember I taught you that if somebody gives you the percentage without the raw numbers,

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According to SciPost, agnostics are more indecisive, neurotic, and prone to maximizing choices. So agnostics are less decisive than atheists and Christians. You know how they could have come to that same conclusion, spending a lot less money and taking a lot less time? Just ask me, hey, do you think agnostics are as certain as atheists and Christians? And I would say, probably not.

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or they give you the raw numbers without the percentages, that that's not news, that's propaganda. This is percentages without raw numbers. That's propaganda. The second question I would ask is, how much of this is Easter related? And would there normally be an uptick in travel from Europe around Easter, or would people more likely want to stay home

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because they might want to celebrate Easter at home. I don't know. So I wonder about that. I also wonder, has travel from the US to Europe gone down? And then I wonder how many people are involved. For example, how many people were coming from Austria to the United States? What would be the baseline? Because I've lived in the United States my entire life.

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I've never met an Austrian who was on vacation. I've never met one. Or they said that Denmark really fell off. I have never met anybody from Denmark who was on vacation. It can't be that many people. Now, I have met Germans and people from the UK, so they definitely go on vacation.

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But all these little countries that I've never even met a single person who's been on vacation from those places, do we really care? And does it matter? Here's the story they're trying to tell, the bad guys, is that Trump has ruined the United States brand for a generation. Do you believe that? No.

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The minute people are happy with the United States, either because Trump's out of office or because they like the job he's done, they'll just come back. There's no such thing as judging another country by its brand. There's only what's happening right now and how do you feel right now. At the moment, I wouldn't go near Great Britain. I wouldn't go near it. Actually, I wouldn't go to Europe at all.

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But I could easily see that changing. If the conditions that make Europe seem unpalatable at the moment, if they were to change, I'd say, oh, different conditions? Maybe yes. So I don't know how much of a story that is. But I would note that The big complaint that Democrats have about Trump and about Musk is that they're in it for themselves.

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If you were Trump and you owned hotels around the world, but a lot of them in the U.S., do you think that you would be happy that you had decreased European tourism? Probably not. It's probably expensive for Trump. So can we dispense with the Trump's only in it for the money?

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I don't think he would be tariffing and pissing off the people who are probably maybe 20% or a third of all of his customers at his hotels if he was in it for the money. If he were in it for the money, he wouldn't terrify anybody. He'd just try to be friends with everybody like everybody else does. So clearly, Trump is in it to fix actual problems in the real world.

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All right. Let me see if I can get some comments working here. Oh, it works. All right. This isn't going to work at all. So this morning, that's a little trouble with the streaming technology, but it looks like it's working at the moment. However, it distracted me, so I started to pick up my notes for the show, and I realized I haven't printed them. So that's going to happen.

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See, this is the part of the show that the locals people see every day in the pre-show, but I couldn't get that working this morning, but it looks like everything's good on locals at the moment. We are fully functional people with the best show you've ever seen. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

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And it's not my job to dump on some real human being if they did the right thing, even if to me it looked like the wrong thing, because we don't know the full context. But apparently the head of the Water Chief had previously said on a podcast and maybe other places that her main concentration was equity. So she had a recent podcast with Janice Kanonis,

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and who was hired by Karen Bass, Mayor Karen Bass. Oh, so that's the water chief. And you're going to say, well, is she a DEI hire? And the answer is, we don't know if that's the problem, but yes. Yes, probably. But we don't know that that's the problem, all right? But here's my take.

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so she says pretty clearly that her you know among her top priorities was equity and Here's my observation There's no difference in how it would look in the end if the if the reason we're in this situation is a conspiracy or even terrorism or if it's just the result of people having the wrong priorities and because we can observe plainly that the priorities are misplaced. So that's obvious.

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If what you can observe clearly would explain everything you see, you don't really need the conspiracy theory, which doesn't rule it out, by the way. It's not ruled out, but you don't need it. Everything's explained by the most ordinary, obvious, observable lack of right priorities. If you have the wrong priorities, the odds of you getting a good result, pretty low. Pretty low.

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And I would go further and say what I've said before, that a total system collapse in the United States from DEI as your priority is predictable. It's predictable. Now, I've told you before that the human brain is not good at knowing reality. And I talk about how you can all look at the same facts, but you can see two completely different movies on the same screen. Same facts.

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You're looking at the same time, but you see one movie, I see another movie. That's ordinary. Most ordinary thing. So I say that you can't really tell what is reality. You can never really know. So the best thing you can do, in my opinion, is pick the reality that predicts the best.

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So if you have a view of the world that accurately predicts what's going to happen, you're probably close to the truth or whatever truth a human brain can get to. And you all saw me for the last several years predict that DEI, no matter how well-meaning it was, would cause total system collapse and that everything it touched would be destroyed in roughly the order of

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in which it first started dei and how much power how much emphasis they put in it the sooner it started and the more emphasis the more guaranteed and the more that then the sooner you'd see system collapse we don't know yet if this is what caused all the uh well what looks like bad management in this area we don't know but it was predictable

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And if this problem is not caused by it, you could predict pretty clearly that eventually there would be. So whether we're seeing it already or it's ahead of us, maybe even worse, it's guaranteed. It's a system design guarantee. If you design a system that says, take your eye off of the ball because this unimportant ball is the important one, Everybody can predict how that turns out. A child.

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You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of Charleston Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine.

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10-year-olds? Maybe a 10-year-old could figure that out? That's our current situation. All right. So the New Yorker has a...

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has a cover of Elon Musk being sworn in it's a comic so it's a picture of him being sworn in and Trump is sort of caught out of the picture and what they're trying to do is tell the world oh Elon Musk is really the one in power and they're trying to create this conflict between Musk and Trump let me ask you this

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Why would Democrats, and this is just a Democrat propaganda publication nobody should take seriously, The New Yorker, but why would the Democrat machine try to drive a wedge between the most effective operator in the world, Musk, and the best president in the world, Trump? What would be the point of just putting a wedge between such

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capable and well-meaning people who are clearly in it for what's good for America. Why would they do that? Well, they must think that it would destroy the effectiveness of the president and that somehow they'd get some political benefit from that. This is so far away from being any kind of a positive thing with the country. You know, I love competition.

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I like when the parties are competing for ideas and people compete in capitalism, et cetera. But what is this? It's just a sabotage that, if it worked, would greatly degrade the effectiveness of the administration. for your benefit. They're trying to destroy the government, or really one of the strongest parts about it, which is this alliance.

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And by the way, if they manage to take Musk out, don't you think they'd just move to whoever's the second best person on the team? Right? You know, you could argue that maybe somebody else is already the second best, or the first best. But it doesn't even look like the Democrats are trying to do anything but destroy And all they have left is these weird high school taunts. It's like name-calling.

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You know what? Let me put into words what that New Yorker story is saying in different words.

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Am I wrong? It's literally a 12-year-old's attack. It's empty, stupid, embarrassing, unproductive. I mean, it's, it's just so, so stupid and evil that I don't even know if I have enough words for it. Speaking of that, uh, Joe Biden was asked some questions about Havana syndrome.

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This is according to Lucas Tomlinson on X. He says that Havana syndrome is where there's a suspicion that a secret sonic weapon was injuring people in the embassies and causing some brain damage and other damage, I guess. But Biden was asked about Havana syndrome and he answered talking about ISIS and the rampage in New Orleans.

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At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Now we're ready. We're ready. Well, there's, according to the brighter side of news, Joseph Shavit is writing. Is that his real name, Shavit?

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Okay, so he was asked about Havana syndrome, which was allegedly an attack on some government officials, but he answered about ISIS and the rampage in New Orleans. Is it possible that the entire explanation of what happened to Biden's brain is he was attacked by a secret sonic microwave weapon? Did the Russians cook his brain? I don't think so.

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I'm just saying it's funny that... Anyway, you can connect the dots. Maybe Russia got his brain. We don't know. Speaking of stupid Democrat publications, do you remember when Fortune magazine was like a respectable actual magazine? And Dilbert used to be on the cover all the time. I think once a year for a number of years, Dilbert was the main cover of Fortune.

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It was usually their episode about best place to work. And so this just happened. So a prankster pretended to be a whistleblower and talked to Fortune magazine, and they ran the story, completely fake, saying that the X platform was going to remove all timestamps from your posts and start charging $8 for anybody who signed up. That was completely made up. Completely made up.

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And it was a prankster who said he was an engineer recently fired from X. Now, so Alex Finn is reporting on this on X. And his take on it was that Elon Musk has killed Fortune magazine and all traditional media, which is a pretty good title. But yeah, that's basically what happened. So when you watch anything that looks like traditional media, it's pretty much because it's funny.

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Am I wrong about that? When I talk about X, I talk about amazing content. It's like, whoa, Tucker Carlson had a guest that is blowing my mind. And, you know, Elon's posts are, you know, great. And it's just one amazing thing after another on X. Great opinions. You know, Schellenberger, Pollock, you know, just really brilliant takes all day long.

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And then you go to the media and the New Yorker is doing neater, neater, neater. And Fortune magazines didn't fact check a hoax. It gets worse. It gets worse. Next story. Molly Hemingway has a piece in The Federalist about Jake Tapper and the Russia collusion hoax. Now, I don't want to ruin it for you.

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because this is one you just have to go read, because if you don't read the whole piece, you're going to miss the magic of it.

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But there's one little anecdote in it, or a little story in it, where I guess Molly Hemingway was appearing on CNN some time ago, and the Russia collusion thing, I guess it was in the early days of that, and the allegation is that I think it was Jim Sciutto on CNN started to report the truth,

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started to report the truth and According to Molly Jake Tapper grabbed him by the wrist and squeezed it to stop him from talking Now if you want to find out what was the truth he was saying and Whether or not that was an accurate, you know impression of what was happening. You got to read the story So just follow Molly Hemingway Tremendous talent as a writer and observer of politics.

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One of my favorites. The ALX account on X tells us that four years ago today, Trump was banned on most platforms. Four years ago today. Now, I never knew how many platforms he was banned on. You knew about the big ones, right? But it's funny how many people thought that banning him was also their job. Listen to this list. So these are the ones that banned Trump four years ago.

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Facebook, Twitter, Google. Spotify. Well, okay. Spotify because they have podcasts on there. Really? Snapchat, Instagram, Shopify. Shopify? He wasn't allowed to shop?

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Really? You could take away somebody's right to shop? Reddit, of course, Twitch, YouTube, of course, TikTok. TikTok. Okay. But the funniest one is Pinterest. Pinterest. He was preventing from making homemade crafts and selling them on Pinterest. Do you think Pinterest was just trying to get in on the action? Hey,

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I feel like there are some kind of names that I just have to stop and say, what if it were the 70s and he got married to somebody and then they decided on a hyphenated name? I used to work with a woman named Debbie Beavers. Debbie Beavers. Anyway, you can complete the joke on your own. I think I've given you enough. Complete the joke at home. I'll wait.

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Hey, we're going to ban them from making ashtrays and trying to sell them on our site. Okay, sure. So this is the beginning of me describing to you the greatest comeback of all time. So four years ago, January 6th, banned on all the major platforms. And then also, of course, you know about the lawfare going after them, and we've got a Sort of a partial result on that.

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You remember Judge Marchand sentenced. So he did the sentencing yesterday, and this was the Stormy Daniels case. Now, if you don't know what law Trump broke in the Stormy Daniels case, there wasn't one. They actually made up a law by combining things that were irrelevant and nobody had ever done before until they could kind of invent a law that he broke.

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Essentially just invented one and managed to get their biased jury to get a conviction. Then when Trump became, uh, got elected, it became obvious that sentencing him wasn't going to work. Like they couldn't get away with sentencing him, but they still had to have the sentencing hearing because that's the process. Um, And by the way, it's not just me who's saying that there was no actual crime.

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Jonathan Turley does a better job of it. He knows what he's talking about. So they do it, and they basically sentence him to nothing. So they have this whole trial. They find him guilty. And then when it comes to the sentencing, they're like, nothing. Nothing. no fine, nothing.

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Now, of course, it's politically pretty much required that they don't put him in jail, but the amazingness of this is that, according to Turley again, and again, he's a good resource on this, you should follow him on X, the conviction should be overturned on appeal. Now, When he says should be overturned, it's because the case was just the biggest legal embarrassment mess of all time.

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The judge was a Democrat activist judge. That was demonstrated to be true. So it was biased. The charges were made up. I think there were things that maybe they should have been included that weren't. It was basically lawfare and a completely illegitimate process. But it allowed Trump to trash the judge in the process as part of his statement, which was wonderful.

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And now Alvin Bragg, who sort of bet his career on getting this done and doing a solid for the Democrats, because that'd be good for him, ends up embarrassing the Democrats terribly.

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failing terribly but more importantly um it sort of ripped the roof off the democrat corrupt machine these lawfare things in my opinion made it really obvious that the democrats are not just the competing team that there's there's a level of evil there that's you know just not related to uh Anyway, I'm sorry, I just saw an image on Locals because they can put images in the notes.

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Very distracting. It was me on the beach with Stormy Daniels. I don't know why we were on the beach, but we looked happy in that picture. That was an AI picture. Anyway, so here's what I think. The entire reason that the Democrats are is that now they can say he's technically a felon.

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So they wanted to give Trump the scarlet F, you know, the scarlet letter that, yeah, maybe you're doing some good things and maybe people voted for you, but you're a felon. And they're going to use that. Now, I would say that's just as effective as neener, neener. You're a felon. Neener, neener. That's all it is. It's absurdly stupid.

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But it's even dumber than that because if it doesn't survive the appeal, and I don't think it possibly could, is he really a felon? Have we ever seen a situation where every smart person looking at this, somebody who's a lawyer, says to themselves, well, he's temporarily a felon, but there's a 100% chance it's going to be reversed on appeal.

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By the way, Joseph Chavit tells us that there's a new drug that might be able to prolong life 30%. How does it do that? Well, According to the Mayo Clinic, it's something about a senolytic drug that gets rid of the zombie stuff in your blood, and then you live longer. All right, so we're going to live 30% longer, maybe. Good news, huh? But wouldn't we need 30% more food?

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Maybe the Supreme Court, who knows how long it takes, but reversed. So all they got was a reminder of the lawfare. They didn't get the scarlet letter. The scarlet letter is on Alvin Bragg and Judge Mershon and all the Democrats who apparently, allegedly, colluded for this lawfare. When I see the whole felon thing, I don't even think anything bad about Trump.

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I just think, oh, you're reminding me of the lawfare and how bad the Democrats were. Got it. So I don't think the Democrats could have failed any harder or that Trump could have won any harder. Do you know what would have been less good of a victory? Less good of a victory would be innocent of all charges. Are you with me on that or no? If you're just looking at winners and losers...

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And we're in the context of Trump has already won the election with the majority of the votes, which changes everything, right? He's already won the election and it was legitimate, just had more votes. All that does is just make this look so corrupt that you can't see it any other way, but pure corruption. Anyway, the Scarlet Letter turned out to be an FU on them.

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Trump is having this interesting experience in his transition. So instead of people resisting him like you'd expect, or even like a lot of people said they would, according to real clear politics, He said in his recent appearance, I haven't had anybody saying anything bad about me. I'm not used to it.

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So as you know, the various leaders and bankers and people are coming in and essentially just asking how they can help. Now, I think that Trump has accidentally created the ultimate fake because. Now, I talk about that all the time, the fake because. It's a persuasion term that I like to use.

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A fake because is giving somebody a reason that really isn't the real reason, but it frees them to do the thing they wanted to do for their own reasons. So the fake reason is, well, I guess the country is turning in this direction. We're a big corporation. We serve the entire country. So for that reason alone, that more people voted for Trump, we're going to

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We're going to be good with Trump and we're going to work with him and be productive and all that. Now, do you think that some of these big companies didn't already want to work with the administration? Didn't already want to get rid of their DEI program? Didn't already want to be a productive part of the civilization instead of just being a resistor? I think most of them did.

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I think most of them wanted to have a good relationship with the government. It's essential. And I think that they wanted to help the country because, you know, by the time you're a CEO, you're kind of thinking I better protect the whole country to keep my own stuff. So it's the ultimate fake because.

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So, yes, I think that the CEOs didn't feel they had cover for doing what they probably wanted to do, which is the smart way to run the company. But now this gives them cover. And here's the best part. All right. Now, I have to apologize in advance before telling you this next thing.

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And my apology is I'm aware of the fact that sometimes it feels like I go too far in complimenting Trump's technique. Because to me, it's just off the chart. It's just next level. And I'm running out of words. So I'm just going to tell you what he just did. And I hope you can agree with me that this isn't ordinary. This is not just a politician who had a good day.

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It's just part of a pattern of next level thinking, operating, persuasion, whatever it is. All right, here's the story. Now, according to the New York Post, the inauguration is coming up and Trump has invited some foreign leaders that he likes that kind of tell the story that he wants to tell in his administration. So, for example, that would include Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Melani.

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She's going to try to make it. He invited President Xi. Now, keep in mind that it's not traditional to invite any foreign leaders to the inauguration. It's sort of not the business of the foreign leaders. So Trump is, first of all, doing something that hasn't been done, inviting foreign leaders. But it gets better. It gets better.

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So he invited President Xi, who won't be coming, but he's sending some high-level emissary, which I think was Xi's right play. I think he found the exact middle there. So nicely done, President Xi. He's invited Argentina's Javier Millet. Plans to go. All right, that's a win for Trump. He invited El Salvador's Bukele. And don't know if he's going to come, but he's been invited.

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What would really happen if you had people living 30% longer? wouldn't it be kind of the end of civilization? Because it would be nothing but super old people that weren't adding as much as they were subtracting. I feel like it's good news and also the end of civilization. But on the other news, we're going to need a lot of energy with all those people.

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And also former Brazilian president Bolsonaro. Now, here's the fun part. Apparently, since Trump opened the possibility that a foreign leader could go to the inauguration, which would be the ideal place for said foreign leaders to get their little word in with the American president because it really matters.

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And apparently this has caused some kind of a mad rush of foreign leaders who are not on that list, because it's just his favorite ones, of people begging and trying to find some way to get invited to his exclusive club of favorite leaders. They're all scrambling to become part of Trump's club of favorite foreign leaders. Who can do that? Who can do that? Am I going too far?

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Am I giving him too much credit? Or the team? Because it's not necessarily just Trump coming up with ideas. Remember, he's got a really strong team at the moment. Best I've ever seen. And he takes their best advice, apparently. This is just so good. Who? He's not even in office yet. And he has foreign leaders begging to be in his exclusive club of favorite foreign leaders.

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It doesn't get better than that. You can't be more effective than that. This is like things that people don't even think of when they think of being effective. This is so next level. It's crazy. Golden age. Here it comes. Once the fire's out, maybe.

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Now, one of the big problems I've been posting on and got quite a few million views on it is how tremendously difficult it's going to be for the LA area to dig its way out of this fire problem. The homeowners are going to be looking at an insane amount of complication and approvals and steps and things to get anything done. I predict that given the current system,

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it would take five to 10 years for any one person to rebuild five to 10 years. So if you've got kids and living there was, you know, cause a great place for kids, maybe that's out of your reach now. Cause if it were two years, then you say, well, yeah, well let's do it. If it's five to 10, which is what it looks like, what do you do? So I'm an enormous problem.

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But I'm going to read you a take by an ex-user called Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who you should follow on X. Dr. with a D-R. Insensitive Jerk. Separated by a lowercase, lower underscore. And here's what he says. I'll just read his words. He goes, this time it feels like those building rules might be loosened. Which I agree.

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I think even the most incompetent government might look to loosen some rules under this situation. But why, he says. Whether it's one homeowner or 2,000, the moral question is the same. Should they have to wait years for government permission? Right. Whether it's one person or lots of them, should they wait years for government permission?

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He says, this time it feels like maybe they won't, and the reason is important. Really? There's a reason? Okay. The reason is not moral or even practical. It isn't? It is bargaining power. Now the homeowners have it because of their sheer numbers. Oh, yes. Before, individually, they did not. You're right. An individual homeowner trying to get any of these rules changed, no way.

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But this many homeowners who are high-functioning homeowners, these are not your normal homeowners. These are people with money and resources and talent, and there's a lot of them. So, yes. But here's the kill shot at the end from Dr. Insensitive Jerky. He says, if you feel that too, meaning that the sheer number of them will make a difference to the government,

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According to David Dalton in NucNet, I guess it's NucNet, there's some kind of steel that's been made. that is so good and so strong, they call it fusion grade. So there's a working group working on some kind of steel that's so hard, it would bring down the cost of building a nuclear reactor. It would bring down the cost by an order of magnitude.

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It means in your heart you believe the government is not your ally. The government is at best your rival and more likely your enemy. If the government were on our side, our bargaining power would not matter. Dropping my mic. And we're done. That was my mic drop in case you're listening. That's right.

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If the government were on our side, we wouldn't need massive bargaining power to get ordinary things that people want. Ordinary things. That's it. That's the frame you need to get into. The frame is the government's your enemy. As soon as you believe that they're your friend, you're not going to understand anything you say. Nothing will make sense.

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And I think the government in California, or at least Southern California, in my view, just looking from the outside, appears to be in it for money and power, influence, and absolutely my enemy. My enemy. Let's ask anybody, wait three years and see what any of the victims of the fire tell you. Do you think your government in California is your friend or your enemy?

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What do you think they're going to say after the experience that they're about to go through? And I'd love to say that some of the rules will get relaxed. I'm not even sure that will happen. I'm not even sure this is enough bargaining power. Because if the government is completely captured, which it looks to be, why would they change?

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If they still have the power to do whatever they want, no matter how many people are complaining... Why would they change? Just because a lot of people are complaining. Wouldn't be enough. Do you think there's enough to turn California red? You know, get a Republican governor? Well, here's the problem. Name that prominent Republican.

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who's already got a good name and some experience, and if they ran, you'd say to yourself, whoa, okay, that's serious. There's a Republican who really can make a difference. There's a Reagan. There's a Trump. There's a DeSantis. Who is it? Who in California, because I've been trying to think, like, who would I even trust? Who would have the stones to get it done? Larry Elder.

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I love everything about Larry Elder. I don't know if he could get... I don't think he could get elected because he's tried before. James Woods? I don't know. I don't know. He may be a little bit of a... I think he's branded himself out of that because he seems like more of a pundit. Cernovich would be my first choice. I see in the comments, Mike Cernovich.

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But he'd have to deal with a lot of... He'd be an easy target for critics. So you don't want somebody who's too easy. Mike Groh. I don't know if Mike Groh is a Republican, but he has... That would be interesting. Adam Carolla, I can't imagine he'd want to take that job. There you go. Michael Schellenberger. Would Michael Schellenberger... have the right tools to be a governor of California?

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I'm going to give you an unambiguous answer. Yes. Yes. Now, I don't know if his public profile is sufficient to be that charismatic person, but here's one thing he has. He used to be a Democrat. used to be a Democrat, which also means he fully understands all of their arguments and techniques.

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I don't want to say he got red-pilled because that sort of puts my thoughts into another person, so I'm not going to say that. But he is very clearly in the common sense camp. If you look at any way he dissects any issue, it's always brilliant. It's always complete. It always shows that he understands both sides. I've never seen anything like it.

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So if you wanted to move from complete politics and DEI and just nothing but the drama of politics and the corruption and all that, if you want to get an operator who has a track record of really making a difference in this world, I believe that nuclear energy is only having a resurgence because of one person. I think it was Michael Schellenberger.

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It's probably the most important thing that's going to happen in the country because if we don't have energy, we're just in trouble. So I see people say Rick Grinnell, but does he live here? Devin Nunes? Well, that's interesting. Devin Nunes. I don't think he has an interest. So, all right, well, we'll put Devin Nunes in the short list, okay? So I'd say Schellenberger, Devin Nunes.

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Now, what would happen if you brought down the cost by an order of magnitude and maybe even made it more resistant? Pretty good. A whole bunch of things happening in the nuclear world. You may have heard the story about the poor residents in the L.A. area got a fake emergency alert. So there were real alerts and there's a real fire.

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You're saying Rick Grinnell. I don't know that he lives in California, but if he does, if he does, he's on my short list. All right, so I think really California is... Doesn't have the Reagan-esque character. I can't think of one. But we might have enough. Enough to get it past the Democrat goalkeepers. All right. Meanwhile, as you know, Meta is ending DEI.

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Zuckerberg has got quite a change of heart in a good way. But here are the things they're doing at Meta. They're taking the tampons out of the men's restroom. Lucky Palmer says he has some story about that, about the origin of the tampons in the restaurant. That's a funny story that he's going to tell us soon, I believe.

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So Embedded no longer will have DEI teams, and they're going to end their supplier diversity effort, you know, making sure their suppliers are diverse. And they're going to end the practice of requiring that diverse candidates be considered for jobs.

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They'll focus on merit. Sounds good. And all DEI representation goals will be eliminated. Now, Zuckerberg also was on Joe Rogan. And in my mind, he answered the mystery of Zuckerberg. Because all of you were saying, hey, Is he just like a weasel who knows that the wind changed, so he's just going to change with the wind?

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Is he just trying to make money because Trump's in charge, so he knows that Trump might come after him? Well, all of those are true. He wants to make money, doesn't want the government to be his enemy. He'd rather befriend Trump than have him on the other team, obviously. These are just obvious things that every CEO would want.

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So I take them off the table because they're in the category of, obviously, everybody wants that. But... Like you, it doesn't seem to explain it. Of course he wants what every CEO wants, but you don't see every CEO doing such a radical change in what looks like personality. I mean, it looks like a change in personality driving the change in business, doesn't it?

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So you say to yourself, is that fake? Like, is it a fake change in personality just so we can get the CEO benefits of working with the government productively? I don't know. But then he explained this on Joe Rogan. And in my mind, I'm done with the mystery. This explains everything. It was fascinating. He said that, I think he said he had three sisters and then he had three daughters and a wife.

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And so he lived in a completely what he called a neutered world where it wasn't male and female. There was no male. He just lived in a female bubble.

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Then, apparently the way he escaped his bubble, and this is his telling, it's his own telling, that when he got involved in MMA, martial arts, and started hanging out with more, he didn't use the word, but manly men, he rediscovered the value of male aggression. because he was literally doing practice fighting or real fighting in a recreational way.

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But apparently the system on its own, no human pushed the button, they say. The system, because of some kind of bug, sent out an alert and scared the bejesus out of about a million people. But then the authorities went on TV to make sure that you knew it wasn't their fault because that's the important part, whose fault it was.

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And that is sort of activated some long covered up or unexpressed part of him that was male. So his telling of his own transformation is that he didn't know how to be a man. Now, those are my words. But listen to yourself and see if that doesn't sound like a good summary. He didn't know how to be a man. Again, that's my interpretation. But the way he says it, that's what it sounds like.

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And then he rediscovered that through interaction with other men. Now, once he saw both sides and he saw the male part, the female part, then he was in a position to choose which one made more sense, both for him and for the company. And he chose common sense. There's nothing about what he's changing to that is beyond just common sense.

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So he'd been in the female world where there was sort of a feelings-based preference. Once he was exposed to the male world,

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where what matters is if you win the fight what matters is if you win the fight and also what matters is if you win the fight but there's a third thing that matters did you win the fight the female world is not about winning the fight it's about feeling good make sure other people feel good and you can't you can't run a world that way you kind of need both you can't be heartless

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but you also can't lose the fight. And I think there was some part of him that said, I think I'm losing the fight to get the feelings right. Again, this is my interpretation. It's always sketchy when you're trying to interpret somebody else's thoughts. But he explained it masterfully, so I would recommend you watch the Joe Rogan episode about that. He also said, and maybe this is the bigger story,

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that the censorship that he was receiving, the censorship pressure from the Biden administration, was apparently outrageous. Apparently there were administration people, he said, who were calling and literally yelling at Facebook staff to censor something that he knew to be true. Imagine that. So this is coming directly from the most authoritative source at Meta.

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And he's telling you, specifically, people yelled at their staff like they were the government's little bitches. Hey, you little bitches, you better do what I say. And they threatened them. They threatened them. The government told them to censor True information that was valuable, very valuable, in my opinion, about I think it was about pandemic stuff and and threatened them.

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Now, imagine you're you're going to take this a little bit further. Imagine that you grew up in a female environment and then suddenly the government's like yelling at your people and threatening you and taking away freedom of speech, basically. But you've awakened in this male world of MMA fighting. And suddenly you say, you know what? What matters is that I beat these people.

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It doesn't matter that I make them happy and that we all feel good. It matters that I beat them. And when Trump won, He said, here's how I beat him. I just go along with common sense. You know, you don't want your government censoring your free speech. You've got a leader of common sense and free speech now in office. Of course you pair with him. Why? Because winning is really important.

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And they say not only did they not send it, but their technicians are looking into it and they don't know what happened. Just sort of a weird technical glitch. But if you haven't seen the video of the spokesperson trying to explain it, I just have to give you my impression of it because he's got the interpreter. So you've got the interpreter who's got this huge personality.

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Also, winning is really important. And the third thing, winning is very important. Very important. There's a fake story. I'm going to call it fake. It's based on real facts. The real facts are that Amazon has declared that it's going to get rid of its outdated DEI programs. But they're going to sort of fold that function, if you will, into the ordinary operation of the company.

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So there won't be a DEI department. They'll just have people doing hiring like they always did without that hanging over them. And then they said this. I'm just going to read it. This is from Amazon. This is from Amazon. So they say they're getting rid of DEI. And so your thought is, wow, finally, everybody will be treated the same. Wouldn't that be great? And then they said in their statement,

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and I quote, We also believe that inequitable treatment of anyone, including black people, LGBTQ+, people, Asians, women, and others, is unacceptable. Is anybody left out? Is there anybody left out of that? The reason that DEI is unpopular is that it's racist against white people, specifically white men.

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Now, also, there are probably, you know, I'm sure there's an impact on, let's say, Asian men and Asian women, maybe, I don't know. But the main problem, the main problem is that it's racist against white men. And when they get rid of it, they say, well, we're going to make sure we're good to everybody but white men, unless I'm in the category of other. So, Amazon gets no credit. No credit.

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This is a zero. You don't get any credit for getting rid of your DEI. That's the way to save money. All they're doing is returning to the 1980s where the hiring manager knows damn well that if they don't get enough diversity, it's going to bite them in the ass later. Nothing changed. Nothing. And here's the good news. the smart people on the conservative side, they didn't buy it.

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They didn't buy it because here's an updated list of the companies, I think Robbie Starbuck has this, updated list of the companies that did get rid of DEI in a way that looks like it's serious. The Amazon one is a nothing. But here are the companies, and they don't put Amazon on the list. So it's an extensive list To show victory in flipping companies away from DEI does not include Amazon.

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That's correct. Robbie Starbuck, nailing every good point on this whole topic. So these are the ones that seem to be serious about getting rid of DEI. Meta McDonald's, Walmart, Boeing. Molson Coors, Lowes, Ford, Jack Daniels, Harley Davidson, John Deere, Tractor, Supply, Toyota, Nissan. Caterpillar Inc., Stanley Black & Decker, DeWalt Tools, Indian Motorcycle Craftsman, Polaris.

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I recommend every one of those companies. If you're thinking of buying a product and one of these companies makes it, give them your business. Because I think they're taking seriously their shifter away from DI. Amazon, of course, you're going to have to give Amazon your business because you can't avoid it. Yeah, I can't. But no credit. You get no credit for what you've done.

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That's just the 1980s where all the managers discriminate just like they discriminated against me back in my banking days. Yeah, all right. Here's me causing a lot of trouble online. But I'm going to tell you, not everybody will know this if they don't follow me on my live streams, I'm causing trouble for a productive reason.

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This is just so you get the visual. This is not a racial thing. It's just a visual. Imagine, if you will, this super charismatic semi-Afro black man who's the interpreter, and he's killing it. I mean, I assume he's really translating it correctly. It looked like it. But he's really... Really impressive. So he's doing big pictures and his face is, and he's really nailing this impression.

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If you look at it from the outside, you're just going to see me being an asshole. All right? And some of you already think that on this topic. It's the topic of Mel Gibson being on Joe Rogan, and saying that he had three friends cured of cancer by ivermectin and fenbenazole. Two over the, not over the counter, but two drugs that already exist and don't have major side effects.

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Used properly, they don't. And here's what I'm doing. I'm debunking that, and I'm pushing hard, saying that there is no real example of this ever happening. There's no confirmed, there's not one. You will never see Mel Gibson's three friends sitting with their doctor saying, yes, the only thing we did is use these drugs and it cured my cancer that was otherwise incurable.

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So I'm saying that doesn't exist. Now, somebody said, are you saying Mel Gibson is a liar? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying Mel Gibson is a liar. I believe his friends told him this. And I believe lots of people are saying it. And people say to me, but Scott, Scott, it's so well demonstrated. But here's what happens if you go down one level. Now, here's what I'm trying to achieve.

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I would love this to be real. It might be. It might be, at least for maybe some sorts of cancers and some kinds of situations, maybe in combination with other treatments. So there might be something here. And if there is, I want to move this faster. So I'm going to become the foil. I've taken the role of the bad guy in the story for productive reasons. I need them to fight me.

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I want the people who claim this is real to absolutely destroy me. I want them to dogpile on top of me until I can't breathe. Then we'll find out if it's real. For some reason, all of these claims, of which there are numerous, very many claims, none of them seem to be able to come public with their doctor and say, here are my lab tests before.

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I didn't do anything else, or maybe I did it in conjunction with something we know doesn't work completely, and now I have complete remission. Just show me one. Just one. Because there are many, many assumed cases. So how could it be? I mean, how could it possibly be that so many people would say, I personally, and they do, they say, I personally got better on this. My friend got better.

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I know three people. There are doctors who say, I know a dozen. How is it possible? Well, I'll tell you. I'll give you, so there's, if you study persuasion, it's really obvious how it's all possible. If you don't, it looks like it couldn't possibly be fake if so many people have had the exact same experience.

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Number one, this is one of those stories where a lot of people have heard about the same guy, but they've heard it from different people. So if a different person tells you, I know somebody who got better, you think, well, that's 10 stories about, so it must be true. What you'll find out is all 10 of them are talking about the one person who has never been tested to see if he's cancer-free.

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So that's the first thing. If you can tell me the name of the guy, and I won't name him because I don't want to do that, but if you say, here's the name of the guy who took these drugs, ivermectin, endorphin, benazole, and he got cleared, if you know the name of the guy, you're all talking about the same guy. There's basically one case that's unconfirmed that everybody thinks happened.

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And you hear somebody talking about somebody talking about somebody knows somebody. It sounds like a bunch of guys. That's exactly what happened to me in a project I was working on in my corporate days. I was told to build a laboratory for all the customers who wanted to test their things before they bought them. And I said, how many people want to do that?

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And everybody I talked to, all the managers, all the managers said, it's just a lot. I mean, all the time, we're just getting pestered. Everybody wants to test it, but we don't have a way to do it. I put together a $10 million plan to build a lab, but I kept looking for the people who were asking for it because I wanted to confirm it.

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Turned out it was one person once, one person once, talked to one manager once and said, I wish I had a lab to test this. Turns out he didn't really need the lab, found a way to make the right decision anyway. So there's one person who didn't actually need it. And that person talked to another person. Hey, what can we do about a lab for this person? That person talked to another person.

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Everybody's asking for a lab. That person talked to the vice president. My God, it's like I got to do something. Everybody's asking for this laboratory. It was one person. who didn't need it. And I investigated myself and confirmed that was true. There was not one person who wanted that. $10 million. Now that's actually ordinary. It might be happening here. Here's what else is wrong.

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And I can't take my eyes off him. Like, he's really interesting. And then you look over to the actual spokesperson. So he's this little white guy.

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Why could it be that so many people have had a miracle cure of cancer and yet they're not willing to come public? Because if they came public and they could show their work, show their lab tests, they would be the people who cured cancer. Because even though they're not the drug, they would be the person who said, look, the medical community is trying to sell you these expensive treatments.

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I want to show you that I got better with this. And then maybe there'd be another one and maybe another one and maybe another one. Do you know how many there are so far? Apparently, there are a lot of people who have been fucking cured of cancer who don't want to tell you about it. Does that sound real? They don't want to tell you about it?

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Do you know if I took an over-the-counter or just some ordinary prescribed drug and it cured my fucking cancer, you would never hear the end of it because I would not let millions of people die of cancer unnecessarily if I knew it worked. Not one? Not one person wants to come public? Nobody. It's working all over.

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I mean, just Mel Gibson alone knows three people, but they don't want to come forward? They don't want to talk to us? The only one I've seen come forward seems to be getting paid by the doctor who's selling the treatment. I don't know that, but let's say the context suggests that the person's getting paid to support this story. It suggests that.

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we didn't push the button we don't know who pushed the button it could be some kind of technology thing but we didn't push the button and then the interpreters it's the most hilarious contrast of charisma and non-charisma you're ever going to see in your life wonderful anyway a miracle has happened According to James Woods, his home in the burned-down area survived.

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How about, so here are the stories that I've heard personally. So people say, no, I know a guy who had prostate cancer that had metastasized. Now that's incurable. It's incurable. And he reports to his friend who talks to me and says, look, my friend has it. It's incurable. He took these drugs and it's confirmed that that his cancer spots in his bones shrunk. Now that sounds pretty good, right?

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If it's an incurable disease, the tumors shrunk after he took the drug, that seems pretty darn impressive, right? And if it shrunk it, well, it probably could keep shrinking, right? And maybe completely go away. Here's what almost certainly really happened.

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People who have metastatic prostate cancer, typically, no matter what treatments they're doing or not doing, there's going to be some point where they're in pain. And it's because the tumors in their bones have reached a certain size. The standard, ordinary, almost universal treatment is to use radiation on them because it can shrink the tumor. It can't cure your cancer. It can shrink the tumor.

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Whoever it is who had tumors that were big in his bones and then they were being measured and then they later shrunk, go back to that person and ask him if they also were doing radiation, which we already know 100% of the time reduces the size of the tumor, but it doesn't cure you so you eventually die from it. So let me put it in a visual way, all right?

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So if you can't see this on Spotify or audio, but I'm going to make a big circle with my hands. This big old circle is what the oncologist understands about cancer because it's their specialty. So what they know is this big ball. If you get diagnosed with a cancer, you are going to become kind of an expert on your cancer. And you're going to learn a lot, not nearly as much as the doctor knows.

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Let's say you're the size of a bowling ball compared to a beach ball. That's how much you know. But it's a lot. Then you talk to your friend. So you've got a bowling ball now that is not as big as the beach ball that the doctor knows, but you know a lot. You've got a bowling ball-sized knowledge. Then you talk to your friend. When you've talked to your friend, how much does the friend know?

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The friend is Mel Gibson. How much does he know? Ping pong ball. The friend knows a ping pong ball worth of knowledge about the topic and specifically about the specific patient. So you're listening to the ping pong ball guy. If you think that these treatments are working, talk to an oncologist.

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and ask him how many, him or her, ask them how many of their patients are on ivermectin and fenbendazole. Do you know what the answer will be? A bunch. Pretty much every one of them, because they've all heard these stories. Every single person who's in this situation has heard that these things might work, doesn't have much of a downside.

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Of course they're going to try them, and they're going to tell their doctor, yeah, I'm on this, blah, blah, blah. So if you talk to your doctor, Oncologists, will your oncologist tell you that, yeah, you know, I've seen some miracle cures, I got to say. You know, you might as well try it. I've seen good results. No, you're not going to find any oncologist who says it. Do you know why?

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Because they've never seen it work. There's no oncologist who's seeing patients, like currently seeing patients, who's ever seen it work. They've never seen a cure in incurable cancer. Never. Never. Or they'd tell you.

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So if you know anybody who has cancer and they have an oncologist, of course they will, ask them to ask their oncologist if they've ever seen even an anecdotal case where it cured or even fixed anybody's cancer. The answer will be no. But Mel Gibson... If you talk to Mel Gibson, he's seen it all over the place because he's not the beach ball and he's not the bowling ball. He's the ping pong ball.

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Do you think that Mel Gibson could have asked the question that I asked, which is, was he also on radiation therapy, which nearly 100% of people in his situation would be? Do you think he knew to ask that question? No. Because when I dig down, usually they have some other therapy going which could actually even cure the cancer. This one is incurable, but it might have been a curable one.

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So what else we got? Oh, also I talked to one person who didn't want to be public. Somebody cured their cancer, an incurable one, an incurable one. Totally clear. Didn't want to go public. but was willing to chat with me sort of, you know, as long as it wasn't public. Do you believe that?

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Again, do you believe there's somebody who cured cancer and knows the cure for cancer and it's just an inexpensive little pill that anybody could get and he's not going to tell you? He's not willing to go on CNN and say, hey, I better bring my doctor and let everybody know? Look for the pattern. Now, you want to know the kill shot? Here's the kill shot.

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All the houses across the street from him were burned. And he was sure his was burned. I think he'd been told that. But it wasn't... I'm not even sure it was damaged by fire at all. Obviously, there's going to be smoke and damage and utilities will be turned off. So it's not like it's totally good luck. But... I don't know what this means. Oh, Adam Carolla's condo.

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Let's just calculate the odds of this, all right? Here's the odds. Ivermectin, oh, and here's the other thing. People would send me link after link saying, Scott, you idiot, you're not doing the homework. Don't you know that there are multiple clinical trials showing that ivermectin specifically, and I think also fenben, that both of those do work against cancer? And they send me the link.

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What do I know about the link before I read it? It does not prove that any of those have an effect on cancer. So I open it up. In the laboratory, in a Petri dish, cancel. Next one. In a laboratory, in a Petri dish, cancel. In a laboratory, do you know what kills cancer in the laboratory? Piss. You could piss on the fucking cancer in the laboratory and it's going to kill it.

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I don't know if that's true, but it's funny. Everything kills cancer in the laboratory. It doesn't have any predictive value. None. None. So people are hearing Mel Gibson's friends and all these hundreds, maybe dozens, maybe hundreds of people, and plus the clinical trials, because they don't know that clinical trials just means in the laboratory. I fell for one.

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Here's what I fell for when I started looking into it. I was told that it worked in animals.

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that they've done it in the petri dish you know again that's not exactly what's happening but they did it in lab but it also worked in animals on cancer so i said to myself whoa that's way better than a lab if it worked in animals you're getting a little bit closer to something that has at least a five percent chance of working because it's about a five percent chance that if it works in animals it works in humans how many of you knew that it's only five percent but still

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If it's a cure for cancer, you're going to look into that 5% pretty hard. So it turns out that once I made that claim to somebody who had done a little more homework than I did, she said, what animal trials? And I said, the ones I heard about, there are no animal trials that worked. What? There's no such thing as an animal trial that cured cancer with the animals.

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And I said to myself, but why would people say it? And certainly I've never seen any evidence that it's ever worked in an animal trial. I can't rule it out, but I believed it. You know why I believed it? Heard it from multiple sources. By the way, if you can find the link where it cured cancer in an animal, I would love to see it. Because if I'm wrong, that'd be great.

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um so here but here's the ultimate tell what are the odds that it let's just pick ivermectin but the argument works for fenbenazole as well what are the odds that in the lab or maybe even in animal tests that you just give them this drug and nothing else and it just kills the cancer But here's what happened. The claim is that if you only do those things, it might not work.

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In other words, if you don't do any other treatment, you just take the two drugs, that it's not enough. But what really does work is if you're doing the treatments that we know work, at least a little bit, at the same time. Wait a minute. What are the odds that

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that the reason they were interested in it is that it directly kills cancer which is you know one set of mechanisms but that when they tested it by miraculous luck even though it didn't work in humans as they hoped here's how lucky that is it did work if you did the other things that work But that hasn't been tested in a big clinical trial.

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It's just people anecdotally saying, huh, I gave you chemo. I gave you radiation. I gave you hormone therapy, all things that work in some contexts, but not every context. And I also gave you these pills and one of you got better. That's nothing. That's nothing. Because those other treatments have highly variable outcomes. Sometimes they work well, sometimes not so well.

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I think he thought that was lost, but it wasn't. I'm eight for eight on this tragedy. Now, it's bad form to say anybody's lucky or having a good time because most of the people are suffering and going to be suffering for a long time. I mean, the devastation is incredible.

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You can't tell what was the effect of the pill on top of it. So again, I remind you, I'm not here to tell you that these don't work, because I don't know. I do not know if they work or they don't. I can tell you that if they work, The motherfuckers who are not going public are almost criminal. Because if I ever find anything that cures cancer, you're going to hear about it.

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And you're going to hear about it. So let's ask Mel Gibson if he would try to cure cancer in the world by asking his friends to talk to me and bring their doctor. And I want their friends with their medical tests and their doctors to tell me that they think this worked. If they can do that, this would be amazing. I want it to work. Just to be clear, I'm anti-cancer. I'm pro-cure.

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And if either ivermectin or fenbenazole are part of the cure, I'm all for it. I'm so for it. So again, I remind you, I'm playing the bad guy because if I don't do this, you're never going to find out. So I'm going to push this to destruction, right? I'm going to push it to destruction. I'm probably going to get killed. And already you can see online.

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Do you know what the most common response to me online is? Somebody that believes the hoaxes about me and the vaccine are And so they say, well, let's tell everybody in the world that you've got everything wrong about the pandemic when in fact my actual opinions got everything right. So they're going after me. They're trashing my reputation online for trying to fix this.

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And I know that, but I'm not going to stop.

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because getting trashed online is just my normal normal day you get used to it after a while so no i'm going to push this and we're going to find that if it works or if there's even any evidence that it works or even any evidence it would be sufficient to say you know we should fund a clinical trial because we're seeing you know can't prove it but we do have some cases that can't be explained any other way just one give me just one

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person with their doctor and maybe some tests that shows it's real. Just one. Mel Gibson, that's for you. Anyway, there's a CNN editor. I guess he's throwing Jake Tapper under the bus in this lawsuit. There's a billion-dollar defamation suit. The Washington Free Beacon is writing about this. Jessica Costescu. And

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So apparently the problem is that Jake Tapper accused a Navy veteran of being some kind of black market, I don't know, that he was an illegal profiteer in some kind of black market thing. Now, the editor who wrote the text for the story Or edited it. He didn't write it. He edited the written portion of the report. He testified that it wasn't his intention to describe the person as a black market.

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And he says, quote, the text I approved did not include the phrase black market. The banner, you know, the thing that runs at the bottom of the show, and Jake Tapper's lead-in did that. In other words, the editor... did not do anything that would have been, you know, something that could get sued for. It apparently was Jake Tapper. At least that would be the telling of the, we don't know.

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But it is nonetheless true that there were eight homes I was worried about because of personal connections and or just affection. So I certainly wanted James Woods and Adam Carolla to come out well. They're the only ones I'll name. Others were personal contacts, family, that sort of thing.

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I mean, you have to listen to all the sides. It wouldn't be fair to judge this before all the evidence is out. So I'm going to pull back a little on that because Jake Tapper may have a perfectly good defense. If you haven't heard it, it wouldn't be fair to assume that this one guy has all the truth and Tapper has none. But,

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But I will tell you that what happens if there's a billion-dollar judgment? Can CNN even stay in business? Anyway. Meanwhile, BlackRock has quitted some kind of climate group they were part of. And this is reported by Ross Kerber and Reuters. And the reason they're pulling out of this environmental climate group is...

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And if this works, we're going to have a show. Hey, it's working. Good news. How's everybody's Saturday so far? It's kind of early, but is it often?

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Quote, this is from BlackRock, quote, however, our membership in some of these organizations have caused confusion regarding BlackRock's practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials. So basically they're saying that they're getting out of these climate initiatives because there's too much pressure from the world and the governments. Good.

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That might be just the right amount of productive pressure. So that, again, looks like the Trump effect, the Trump effect. Meanwhile, speaking of treatments for cancer, according to new Atlas, Michael Irving, there's a steam blast treatment for prostate cancer. Now, this would be non-metastatic kind, the more ordinary kind. It's the kind that is curable.

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But regular prostate cancer is curable with some combination of chemo and hormone therapy and radiation. And those are really big side effects. They're really big. Um, so this is, they, they send a little micro needle into your, uh, your prostate and they blast steam, just steam. Apparently the steam does a good job of killing the cancer cells while leaving the other cells intact.

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which is really everything you want. That's everything you want. You want to leave the other cells intact. And they're doing a trial, which suggests that they've tested enough probably on animals that they know it works. That would be amazing. It's like one of the biggest problems for older men. If that worked, the steam thing, That would be such a game changer for so many lives.

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It doesn't help for the people who have metastatic version. That would be different. All right, ladies and gentlemen. I really, really didn't want to swear today, but I'm doing it in the service of attracting attention. Not for my hits. I don't know. Do you really think I do things for clicks? Does everybody think I do that?

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I mean, if you're in the game of monetizing your content, I guess you're always doing things for clicks. But I'm certainly not thinking of it that way when I hit a topic hard. I'm thinking this is useful. All right. Are you guys... Give me some feedback. Are you okay with me pushing harder on this ivermectin thing? Because the goal is to find out what's true, especially if it works.

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But there were eight homes I was worried about, and they were all in the either evacuate now or get ready to evacuate category. So far... All eight have survived. And all of them are against the odds. It's like the one building standing, that kind of thing. I don't know how that happened. I'm eight for eight. Now, is that a coincidence? Or are we going to find out?

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I'd really like to know that. All right. So I'll keep pushing on that because I think it's useful. It is going to be a lot of heat. I'm going to get a lot of heat. Thank you, Paul. I always like it when I see the people whose opinions I appreciate the most are agreeing. All right, good. I guess I explained it well enough that I made the sale. I see one no, no, no, no.

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So the worry would be, the concern would be that some people would not use it and maybe it would work. That would be the concern, right? I have the same concern, but here's the math you should do. The few people, and this is a real risk, the few people who hear me poo poo it, maybe it's within the realm of possibility that I'll kill them. Let me say it again. If there's a treatment,

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And somebody hears from me they shouldn't try it or that it's not proven. I'm not saying they should. Actually, I'm saying they should try it. Let me be clear. Somebody asked me, you know, if you were in stage four and you didn't have any alternative, would you try it? Yes. Yes, I would. So I want to be clear. If you've got a friend, I should have said that, actually.

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If you've got a friend that you think might get talked down of it, I would try it. Well, the downside is a little bit. I mean, you could have some side effects a little bit, but yeah, I would try it because the downside is low. The reason I'm pushing is that if it works,

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Maybe I talked a few people out of it that could have helped, but we're going to be much, much faster in getting to does it help, yes or no. Much, much faster. So I'm going to take the hit, and I'm going to borrow a page from Elon Musk.

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One of the most impressive things I think that Elon Musk does is he says stuff like, well, if I build this car, probably some number of people are going to die in the car because, you know, It happens with every car. If I build this rocket ship, well, probably some people are going to die going to space, but we kind of need to do it.

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So instead of just doing what isn't really good for the world, which is saying, well, if one spider could die, I won't do it, he just says, somebody's got to make the hard choices. This is a hard choice. I am fully aware that if this works and if I talk somebody out of it, they could die.

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I'm doing this knowingly, completely knowingly, because this is how you get to more people saved or more people not distracted by the wrong solution, I suppose. All right, so that's the purpose. Anyway, I'm going to talk to the good folks on Locals privately in 30 seconds. Everybody else, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. And local streaming is working perfectly.

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Will we find out that there are far more people who came through it than didn't? Well, not than didn't. Most of them have just pure tragedy. But are there going to be more not-so-bad-as-you-thought stories, or did it just sort of concentrate in my little world? But I'll tell you, I'm still dedicated to making sure that Californians do all right. So I'm all in on making this better.

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But just on a personal note, wow. Here's something I didn't know about the Pacific Palisades that I'm just learning this week. Apparently, it wasn't just a good place to live. It might have been, according to what I hear from locals, maybe the best place that anybody ever lived. I was completely unaware that there was any place in Southern California that I would not be too hot to live.

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I don't like the too hot places. But apparently the weather was great because it was on the beach. You could leave the windows open all year long. You could walk everywhere. Every store was clean and awesome. The neighbors were wonderful. There wasn't much traffic in that area. There wasn't much traffic.

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and you know just just the amazingness of it everything worked everybody was happy it was like paradise apparently um it was yeah and this is unfortunately this is part of the story it would be great if it wasn't but it is pacific palisades was 84 white um how many places are 84 white I mean, I live in a relatively, you know, whitish area of California. We're not 84% white at most.

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I don't know, 60%? Probably not that. Maybe 50? I'm not really sure. Could be lower. It could be, I don't think it's 40, but it could be around half. So that would be the normal California situation, closer to half or less. So 84% white. Honestly, I didn't even know there was a place in the United States that was 84% white. Now, Michael Schellenberger writes in detail.

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I'm a mess. So the interface for turning on my side lights is so poorly designed that I have to wrap the cord around the object. until the place that they put the activation button way down on the power cord is somewhere near the device I'm operating. It's just the worst design.

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I'll just pull down a piece of it, but his larger argument is fascinating. You should follow him on X. And what he points out is that the, this is his words, the so-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned us of,

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but in truth wished for, the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.

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Now, he doesn't claim, Schellenberger, because he's very smart and doesn't say crazy stuff, he doesn't claim that it was some kind of big organized plot to do bad things to white people. Nobody's saying that. I'm not saying that. He's not saying that. Five minutes later, somebody's going to say, why do you think it was a plot against white people? Not saying that. Not saying that.

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Don't believe it. However, intention sometimes shows up in your priorities, meaning it doesn't have to be a plan. It can just seep into your priorities, and then you end up in the same place. So let me read a little more about Now, this is sort of getting toward the conspiracy theory part of it. Now, I want to be really clear. I do not believe there's a larger conspiracy involved.

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I do not believe it at all. I do believe that we're going to see the result of DEI hiring. We don't know what percent and which people. It would be unfair to say this one person is a DEI hire and they're the problem. I don't see that. I don't see the DEI and a specific person doing a specific thing. I don't see that. It could be because you wouldn't know.

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If you see people making mistakes, you don't know why from our perspective. You just know they're mistakes. You could know they're DEI hires, and you know they make mistakes. But Gavin Newsom isn't a DEI hire, and we think he made some mistakes. So just kind of chill your enthusiasm for the anti-DEI stuff, because I'm pretty anti-DEI, as you all know.

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But as soon as you tie it to an individual person and an individual act, you've lost the plot. You should think of it as a system collapse problem, not a thing that one person did that time. That just doesn't help anybody. Because you can too easily just slide, without even intending it, you can just slide into pure racism when that's not really the complaint about DEI.

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I mean, it ends up being racism against white people. But The complaint is it's a destruction of the entire system over time. Anyway, so Joel Pollack, who you should follow if you want to really know what's happening with the fire, because he's not only a local, but he is on the scene and he's getting some reports that I haven't seen anywhere else.

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So, for example, Joel Pollack said that this is the, he's got a picture of it, he says, this is the Santa Ynez Reservoir above the Pacific Palisades.

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noted on sunday two days before the fire that it was largely empty apparently according to the la times it was down for maintenance really it was down for maintenance in the height of the fire season well i'm not sure if this is the height but the the winds made it a dangerous a possibility and This is amazing.

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Now, not only is Joel asking the question and the rest of you are asking the question, why was that thing down for maintenance? And you know, what was that a contributing factor? Was that incompetence or necessary? So what, so here's one of those cases where you're going to say to yourself, ah, whoever took that down for maintenance was a DEI hire. Maybe they were, maybe they were, but,

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Maybe there was also a necessary reason they took it down and there was nothing they could do. So I'm trying to do the best I can not to jump to conclusions that are not in evidence. And it is not yet, not yet, in evidence that incompetence caused that to be empty just when they needed it. Don't know, but you know who else doesn't know? Governor Newsom.

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So he's opening an investigation into why the heck that thing was empty and why it was down for maintenance then. And Colin Rugg is pointing out on X that the water chief makes three quarters of a million dollars per year and oversaw the emptying of that reserve. Now, again, I want to be really clear because this is important because this is a real human being.

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Good morning, everybody, and happy Saturday, pre-Mother's Day, Mother's Day Eve. Let's get your comments working, and then we got a show for you. The Saturday show that you deserve. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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Episode 2835 CWSA 05/10/25

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Well, you all saw the news story about the Newark mayor and three Democratic members of Congress who tried to interfere with an ICE facility and they weren't supposed to be trespassing, so they got arrested. And once again, we see that the Democrats don't have any good ideas, but they have performance art and they have ways to stop you from doing things.

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Episode 2835 CWSA 05/10/25

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So this is where I call the difference between Democrats and Republicans, the Yoda frame. The Yoda frame is that Republicans do and Democrats not do. All they do is try to stop the doing. And every time the Republicans take any step in the right direction or wrong, it doesn't matter what direction, they try to make any step forward, there's like this massive Democrat attack to try to stop them.

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So in this case, the mayor and three Democratic members of Congress got arrested But remember that the election that wasn't too long ago with the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat and all the smart people were saying, uh-oh, if this is lost to the Democrats, they'll have enough power in the court. If somebody brings a lawsuit to potentially redraw the gerrymandered area and add some

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Democrats to the House and maybe take control. And sure enough, Mark Elias, remember I tell you that if you know what's happening, you don't know anything. But if you know who is doing it, well, you might know everything. So if you don't know who Mark Elias is, you should do a little research on that because his name pops up a lot. It's always in the context of changing the

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The rules are the laws so that they're more friendly to Democrat power grabs. So here he is. He's filed a lawsuit with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The AP is reporting exactly like we expected. And he's challenging the maps that are gerrymandered, which is an interesting approach because isn't everything gerrymandered?

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You know, don't we just sort of live with the fact that the party that's in power gets the gerrymander of the state? Yeah. But apparently that's being challenged, and of course it will go to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and almost certainly it's going to go exactly the way Republicans worried. It will be a Democrat making a Democrat decision for the benefit of Democrats. That's my guess.

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Meanwhile, you're aware that Trump has a bunch of crypto that's worth quite a bit, apparently. And Norm Eisen, which is another name you should know, again, if you don't know who Norm Eisen is, you're not really understanding the world. Knowing him and what he does is key to understanding all of American politics. If you don't know that, who he is and what he does, you're really going to be lost.

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Or you could see me. I retweeted it this morning, so you could see it in my feed as well, the link to the Coffee with Scott Adams after party. You can find it. All right, let's get this working. There we go. All right, I wonder if there's any science that they could have skipped just by asking me. Oh, here we go.

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Everything will look confusing. Like, why is that happening? Why is that happening? Anyway, he was on Jim Acosta's podcast. Turns out they're good buddies. And Mike Benz is saying that if you sort of read between the lines, Norm Eisen was trying to get some prosecutor to go after Trump or the Trump family maybe too for something in crypto. Now, is there something specific that's illegal?

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Not that we know of. But would that stop Norm Eisen from, you know, hoping you can get a prosecutor to look into it and find something that's not appropriate? It looks like that's probably going to happen. And he points out that 40% of Trump's net worth is in crypto. So if you really wanted to hurt Trump. that would be a big target.

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And the thing that's the creepiest about Norm Eisen is how happy he gets when he thinks about screwing Trump. You shouldn't be that happy. Like, oh, oh, oh. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, we really need to, oh, oh, oh. A little too happy. Anyway, that will be another case of Trump do and maybe normize and stops them from doing.

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Episode 2835 CWSA 05/10/25

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15, according to Newsmax, 15 states are suing over Trump's move to fast-track oil and gas projects. So there are 15 states who do not want their economy to grow if it means that they're fast-tracking oil and gas projects. Now this is another example of Republicans do, Democrats not do. Whatever it is that the Republicans want to do, there's going to be a Democrat who launches a legal challenge.

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How about this? Trump's going to reopen a little under 5,000 square miles of ocean off of New England for commercial fishing. It's something that had been an Obama-Biden era restriction on fishing in that area. Now, there has not yet been a legal challenge, but do you think there won't be? Of course there will, because Republicans do. And Democrats not to.

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So, yeah, I think the fact that Trump opened it up will probably mean nothing in the long run because the Democrats will find some judge to block it. Because they always do. Post-millennials reporting on that. Here's something scary and I would not have expected. So apparently Justice Sotomayor

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went to an ABA event, the American Bar Association, all the lawyers, and said to the audience of lawyers, quote, our job is to stand up and that, quote, we can't lose the battles we are facing. We need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this fight. What fight? Fight this fight. What fight is she talking about? I can only think of one.

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As a Supreme Court justice, did she just go into an audience of lawyers and tell them that she's on their side and they're fighting against Trump? Because that's what it sounds like. That might be the least appropriate thing I've ever heard from a Supreme Court justice. It makes a mockery of the whole system. True enough. There's a post on that by Kerry Severino, who was explaining it.

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Episode 2835 CWSA 05/10/25

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Eric Nolan is writing in SciPost that people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to fall for pseudo-profound bullshit. Can you believe it? Dumb people are more likely to be dumb? They actually study that. If you're falling for pseudo-profound BS, meaning that the sentence sounds good so you think it's profound but it doesn't mean anything, Yeah, dumb people. That's how that works.

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Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, Jen Psaki... as a show that's moved into the spot that was Rachel Maddow's weekday spot. Rachel Maddow's going back to one-day week. During Trump's first 100 days, Rachel Maddow bravely decided that she would work a regular schedule of five days. So brave. But she's back to one day. So Jen Psaki goes into that spot, and apparently the... the ratings plummeted.

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Now, I'm not completely surprised because Jen Psaki is sort of the poor man's Rachel Maddow. She's Rachel Maddow except without the plastic face. You know, Rachel Maddow's face just morphs and changes as she talks, whereas Jen Psaki looks like Jen Psaki the entire time she's talking. Rachel Maddow looks like she's

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being inhabited by demons but the demons are just passing through have you ever noticed that it's like one demon after another it's like oh It's like one demon goes through and then the other one just takes over.

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But it's very entertaining and apparently Jen Psaki doesn't have that going for her because every minute she's on the air, she just looks like Jen Psaki, which is a pretty good way to look. She's a good looking human being. Anyway, so the Democrats continue to talk about how they don't have any ideas. So the hilarious thing to me is that the Democrats became aware that their problem is no ideas.

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And what do you think they did to address the fact that their problem is no ideas? Do you think they came up with some ideas? Nope, I don't think it even occurred to them. They instead worked on the process that would get you to some new ideas. So that would include more podcasts, but podcasts are not ideas.

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They're places where you could imagine somebody would have one, but apparently nobody does. There are books being written about Biden and his brain and what went wrong, but that's not really an idea. That's just a process-y criticism of things they've done before. Then, as you've seen on TV, a number of the entities have talked about this.

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Apparently, Democrats have decided to curse more in public. Like, that's going to help. And cursing is not really an idea. They're just looking at anything that Republicans did or Trump did, and they're saying, huh, okay. Trump sometimes uses some strong language. Maybe we should do that. Like they can't even find what is the active ingredient.

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Now, Trump can make a naughty word work because he's the greatest showman of all time. If you're the world's greatest showman and you've got like one little well-placed naughty word in your entire presentation that might be 90 minutes, That could be genius. But if all you've decided is you should swear more when you do public appearances, that's not going to help at all.

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So the other thing they're doing is the Democrats are going to protest any common sense thing that Republicans want to do. None of these are ideas. And I don't see anybody, I think David Hogg is the last person who came up with an idea, but his idea got shot down because he can't be the co-chair of the DNC at the same time he primaries other Democrats.

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So the best idea, or really the only one, I guess, that we see coming out of the Democrats is that they should attack each other more. They should spend more time attacking other Democrats. That was their best idea so far. Anyway, I keep seeing interviews where some prominent Democrat will be talking about the way things are now.

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And have you noticed that they talk about the horror of the first 100 days? And, you know, how did we get into this place? And, you know, it's like a hellscape that we're in. And I think to myself, how many of those Democrats are experiencing days that are much different from the day before and last year too? Is it the trade deals that are making people unhappy because they'll have fewer dolls?

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You did not need to do that study, Eric. Well, Eric's just writing about it. But no, you did not need to do the study that was published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. Just ask me next time. All right, is there any other science that you could have skipped? According to Neuroscience News... The majority of parents report that they get sensory overload from daily family chaos. All right.

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Is that the hellscape they're talking about? Did their rights go away? Did they lose some rights that I'm not aware of? Was there something about the Maryland dad that's making people think they live in a hellscape? Because there was this one case about this one special situation. Is that the hell they're talking about? About trans athletes, the ones born male and playing on women's teams.

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If that's banned, is that the hellscape they're talking about? Is it the reduction of DEI, which is clearly just racist and illegal? Is that the hellscape? Have you noticed that they never give you any examples Now, I get that if you were a company that's being affected by the trade deals, that would be tough for you.

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But the Democrats talk like it's obvious and universal and everybody can see that we're living in some kind of hellscape for the past hundred days. What exactly are they talking about? I mean, to me, it looks like we're doing okay managing wars. We've got a plan for trade that looks like, in all likelihood, it's going to give us better deals. What part is the hellscape?

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Is there something I'm completely aware of, unaware of? Is it the lack of dolls? Somebody needs to stop one of them and say, what is it? Even if you're worried about Doge, the Doge thing has settled down. Have you noticed that Elon Musk is sort of staying out of the news? Which I think is a smart play because Tesla's stock is way up. But even Doge doesn't look scary anymore.

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because they didn't really cut that much in the long run, and the department heads get to make the final decisions anyway. So what is the hellscape? I have no idea what they're even talking about. So I think somehow they've sold to their base that they're living in a hellscape without actually giving them any examples of what that might include. Well, here's some maybe slightly good news.

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JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, he visited the Palisades, the fire-destroyed Palisades. And one of the buildings destroyed there was one of their branch banks. So he's got a direct interest. And as of today, only 31 building permits have been issued. They need 10,000. They've done 31.

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And Jamie Dimon, who I believe still, I think he identifies as a Democrat, but he's a very straight shooter, which is unusual for anybody. And so I always enjoy just looking at his quotes and the way he's thinking. But one of the things he says is, I changed the name from red tape to blue tape because it's the Democrats who seem to want more regulations. Now, that's coming from a Democrat.

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Now, have you noticed that that's actually an idea? So Jamie Dimon comes in and he can give them an idea. They're starved for ideas. And he comes in, I got an idea. Why don't you get rid of some regulations? And then he has another idea because he was interviewed. His other idea, he goes, I would have this big warehouse entity because he was in a big warehouse when he was talking.

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And I would have all of the people involved in approvals for permits and in the room every day so that there's no delay. They can go talk to whoever. They've got all the resources there and basically make it a war room where they're treating it like it's an emergency crisis situation to get the permits approved. Now, whether or not you like that idea or not, that's an idea.

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That's like a real idea. I would totally want to see that done. So if the Democrats are being smart and they're looking for ideas, don't have a podcast. Don't protest anything. Just go ask the smartest Democrat, Jamie Dimon, what the hell should we do? And he will tell you. He will tell you what your idea should be. And then you can go do the idea or press for it to be done.

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How many of you have ever been a parent? And did you need to see a study to know that you get sensory overload from the family situation where everybody's yelling at the same time. Everybody wants something. Everything's going on. There's a TV on. There's a dog barking. Did you really need to study that? It's the most universally recognized form

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But it's not like they don't have anybody who knows what an idea is. There he is. He's one of the most public people you could ever have. And he's got ideas. How about they just grab some of those and run with them? But they won't. Would you be surprised that a Clinton appointing judge has temporarily blocked Trump's reorganization plan for 20 federal agencies?

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No, you would not be surprised because Republicans do and Democrats not do. They make sure the Republicans can't get anything done. Is there a reason that the judge blocked it? Doesn't matter. They could have just shopped for some judge that was going to do it, but they got one. I doubt there's a reason for it.

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And then compare the Democrats doing nothing to the current FDA commissioner, so this would be the Trump administration, Marty McCary, who says, quote, we have this plan to remove all nine petroleum-based food dyes from the U.S. food supply. That's an idea.

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Are you telling me that no Democrat could come up with that idea to remove all the petroleum-based food dyes, which are implicated in various health problems? I don't know the total science, but obviously the FDA's looked into it. That's an idea. So right down the line, it's Republicans have ideas.

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And my guess will be that Democrats will look to find a judge to prevent the FDA from removing nine petroleum-based food dyes from the U.S. food supply because it's the only thing they have. Their only play is, let's get a judge to stop those Republicans. Well, I don't know the details of this yet, but it looks like the Trump administration is now accepting South African whites...

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white people from South Africa who are feeling that they need to escape from South Africa because of race-based persecution that would be both violence and the taking of property. And I'm all for it. And as Stephen Miller was explaining, that this is exactly what our system was looking for. People who are literally race-based being discriminated for race,

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in the worst way, you know, violence and property seizures, et cetera. And so we've opened the door to them. And some people have already, I guess some of the Africaners, if that's the right word, have already showed up. So we'll see how big that is. I don't know. Well, you remember Ed Martin was going to be the D.C. prosecutor, but that got shot down by Senator Tillis.

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But I guess Trump has appointed Ed Martin to the Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group. So he's in the Weaponization Working Group, according to Just the News. Now, what do you think is the work product of that group? Because I don't know much about it. But I like the name of it, the Weaponization Working Group.

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If what Ed Martin is now going to do is root out the places that our government had been involved in weaponization, that feels good to me. That's an idea. and that's a good idea, so good luck to him. I saw some reporting.

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I think this would need to be confirmed, but it's the AF Post is reporting that journalist Dave Riley is reporting that a Mar-a-Lago insider told him that AIPAC, that would be the Israel Supporting Political Action Committee, which has a lot of influence on Congress, was, quote, getting shut down of the Trump administration. Huh. Now, I'm going to tie a few strings together here.

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phenomenon in all of parenting, that the stimulation sometimes, fairly frequently, is just off the chart. There's just too many things happening at the same time. Yeah, you could just ask me next time. Well, recently, according to the New York Post, there was a 3D-printed supercar with a starting price of $2 million that that just was created in its own little 3D car printing factory.

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So the first string, and again, I would look for a confirmation that this is true. I don't know for sure that this is true. But if it's true that Trump now has a little problem with AIPAC, That would be interesting.

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And then you heard the story probably that one of the reasons that Mike Walsh got reassigned was that he was allegedly, and again, this is the second thing that I can't confirm, so maybe the reporting is sketchy,

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But that when he was in the NSA, Waltz was working with Netanyahu sort of behind the back of Trump because Netanyahu and Waltz may have been more pro-war and more willing to go to war with Iran than Trump was. So is it possible that AIPAC, supporting Israel, was more pro-war than Trump was and that he's giving them the cold shoulder because of that?

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Is it possible that Walsh was reassigned because he was a little too pro-war? Is it possible? Don't know. But here's another detail. Apparently Trump just announced, or the administration announced, that Trump is no longer demanding that Saudi Arabia recognize Israel to get a nuclear deal with the U.S.

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In this case, the nuclear deal would be for domestic nuclear power for Saudi Arabia, which I guess they want. So that would be sort of the third indication that Trump is telling Israel, OK, we're in it for America, and you're in it for Israel. And when those are not exactly the same, we're going to do what's good for America. That's what it feels like.

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Now, I'm getting ahead of myself, because these are stories that I'm not sure how confirmed they are. But there are a lot of them recently. The fact that they're all rolling out at about the same time means something. Similarly, Pete Hegseth apparently canceled his plans to visit Israel so that he could travel with Trump instead to Saudi Arabia. Is that a diss to Israel? I don't know.

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Again, I'm just looking at all the breadcrumbs, and it's starting to look Like the U.S. is putting down some kind of a marker that says we're America, we're going to do what's good for us. And if you don't like it, it doesn't matter. We're going to do it anyway. So maybe. But apparently Saudi wants to get American help for their own domestic nuclear program.

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And of course, America would like to do that because otherwise, where are they going to get it? China or Russia? So we don't want that. And I guess the Saudis didn't want to reward Israel with some kind of recognition as long as there's still some bad stuff happening in Gaza.

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So it looks like Trump just said, well, we can either wait forever for Israel not to be messing with Gaza, or we can say, okay, Israel, you do your thing, and we'll do our thing with Saudi Arabia, and we'll get whatever we can get done if it's good for America. That's what it looks like. And then we also heard that the...

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the Israelis were not part of the decision that Trump and the Houthis made to not fight with each other because the Houthis did not agree to stop attacking Israel. So there again, it looks like Trump said, all right, you're not going to attack American ships? Okay, we're done. And it looks like Trump did not hold out and say, we're going to keep bombing you until you don't bomb any of our allies.

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Nope. It looks like he just said, if you're not bombing us, that's good. And then Israel's going to have to figure it out. And then there was some suggestion that Trump might be looking for a deal with Iran that would not be to the specific liking of Israel. So is any of this real? I don't know.

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But does it seem to you like there are way too many little breadcrumbs pointing in the right direction? I guess I mixed the metaphor there. Do breadcrumbs ever point in the right direction? Oh yeah, I guess there could be a path of breadcrumbs. Yeah, okay, that makes sense. So it's starting to look like Trump is putting some distance between his own interests for America and Israel's interests.

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So I guess it cost about half a billion dollars to build the printer. They can do all the metal that's good enough to build a car out of. But they created an electric hypercar. It's got impressive statistics. But the most impressive thing is that most of the parts were 3D printed on site, including all the metal. All the metal was 3D printed.

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Is that good? Or bad? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, it's hard to tell at this point. So we're hearing the first whispers of what the Trump tax package will have. You want to be really disappointed? Apparently, all this time they've been talking about the tax package and the big tax cuts and stuff. And now there is a sort of a draft that's going around. I guess I'll just call it that.

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So this is by no means the final proposal. But here are some of the things that are missing in the current view of what the tax policy might be. The SALT deductions. Those are the deductions if you have high state income taxes. I don't know if those will ever be put back in because those tend to be the blue states, California and New York, et cetera.

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So I don't think they want to reward the blue states. So I'm thinking that won't be part of it, but it could. There's no increase in taxes for the top incomes, although Trump had signaled that if they wanted to do that, he wouldn't say no, but he didn't want to be too aggressive backing it because he thinks it would cause a political weakness.

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It doesn't mention anything about getting rid of taxes on tips and overtime, although that was one of Trump's promises. It doesn't include canceling taxes on Social Security, which again was Trump's promise. It doesn't have a tax break for auto loan interest payments, which was a Trump promise. And it doesn't have a starting credit for family caregivers, which I guess...

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had been promised at one point. And then apparently the Republicans are weighing up to a 21% tax on university endowments, which I also don't think is necessarily going to happen. So does it even look like the Republicans were doing anything? What were they doing in those meetings?

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If the best they could come up with is something that doesn't seem to consider anything that the president wanted, how's he going to sign it? It just feels like they didn't do any work. Now, of course, this is a first drafty kind of a release. Maybe they're just testing the public reaction to it. You don't know how serious it is, please. But It really doesn't look like they did any work.

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Like I can't even criticize it for being what I want or what I don't want. It just looks like they didn't do any work. There should be at least something in there that makes me mad or makes me happy. But it looks like all they did was say, all right, well, let's just keep the taxes the way they are, and we won't have the automatic reversion to the old tax rate.

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We'll just keep it the way it is and go forward. That's called not doing any work. So great job, Congress. According to just the news, California is looking at a annual deficit of $10 billion, which is exactly the amount of illegal immigrant healthcare. So we can't say we didn't see it coming. The amount of healthcare for illegal immigrants is exactly the amount that we're being robbed of.

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I don't even know what to say about that. There's no comment to add to that. It's like such a poorly managed state. It's just even hard to hold it in my head. Well, the good news is that the US and Marco Rubio's team, it looks like they were deeply involved in getting India and Pakistan to agree to a ceasefire. Now, I think a week ago or so, whenever this started,

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I told you it wouldn't last long and it wouldn't turn into a nuclear war. And the reason is, India and Pakistan do not want to have a nuclear war. Neither side wanted a nuclear war, but they also maybe didn't know how to back down. They didn't want to be the first one to back down. So this is one of those cases where the U.S. could really do something solid.

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Now, I didn't know they were that good at 3D printing metal, that it would be up to automotive specifications, but it is. Now, it's not very fast and it's not economical, but it replaces the entire supply chain. So you could be a car maker, and you wouldn't need to depend on anybody for parts, even replacement parts. You just print them.

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which is sort of get in there as mediators, which apparently we did, and help them climb down from the aggression that was happening. And it worked. Apparently it worked. So now the president's got the Houthi thing that he can claim as a success and Indian-Pakistan ceasefire, which he can claim as a success. He still needs a lot of work to do on Ukraine and Gaza is still a problem.

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But those are two nice little wins for the first 110 days or whatever. Well, the X platform has received orders from the Indian government to block over 8,000 accounts in India. Now, X doesn't want to block any accounts just because the government told them to. So, you know, unless it, if it violated their own standards, they would block them.

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But they don't want to do it just because some government asked them to, and in many cases didn't give reasons. They just said, these 8,000 must be banned or the entire X platform will be banned. So it looks like what X is going to do is they're going to comply with

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but only in india so i think that means they're only blocked in india but they would still exist in other countries and they're they're still working on it so it's not a it's not a settled affair well the this is the weekend in which the chinese and american delegation is meeting in switzerland um just before i got on there were some unconfirmed stories

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that the Chinese delegation had walked out without giving a reason. And then I read a few other stories, and it turns out they just broke for lunch. Now, that's not confirmed either, but does anybody have the most up-to-date information on that? Because I don't think the Chinese delegation was going to walk out without giving a reason. It seems far more likely it was a lunch break, doesn't it?

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So if you know anything about that, just put it in the comments. I don't think the talks broke down. They have so much they need to talk about. But it is a confusing situation because... Some say that Trump says he wants to go from 145% tariff to 80%, but others are saying it's going to end up at 34%. And it's weird that they throw those numbers around while they're negotiating.

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If you were China and you knew that they said, well, it could be 80, it could be 34, would you spend even one minute talking about 80? I think you'd go right to 34 and try to get that lower, too. So it's a weird negotiating technique. Doesn't look very good. But Lutnick told Fox News that he expects that no matter what happens, Trump's going to keep significant reciprocal tariffs on China.

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That's where the 34% comes from. So we'll see. We'll see where that goes. I don't think there's going to be any big successful announcements. I don't think the fentanyl thing is going to get solved. I think China will just game that system and nothing will change there. But we'll see. Meanwhile, Newsmax is reporting that the U.S. is thinking about offering Greenland a special status.

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Now, the special status would be based on the model that we've used for some small island nations like Micronesia and the Marshall Islands and Palau, which apparently have, let's say, special arrangements with the United States without being part of the United States. So the United States provides various services, which would include security and maybe U.S.

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Now, there must be some parts of it, like the battery, that they don't print. But it's kind of cool that you could print your own car if you had half a billion dollars. Price will go down. Here's another cool technology. MIT Technology refused talking about it. So you've already seen probably some headphones that would allow you to translate from one language to another.

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mail service and some other essential stuff. But they don't have to be part of the United States. However, we don't think that that would work in Greenland unless Greenland became free from Denmark, which is possible. So it looks like a completely practical... It does seem practical. Because we have a model in which we've done it before with these special arrangements with these little islands.

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And they probably have low population too, like Greenland. The only thing that's a stopper is that Greenland is part of Denmark. So if you wanted to make this deal, first Greenland would have to say, you know, we want our independence, but we'll be okay. because we'll have this special arrangement with the United States, but we'll still be independent.

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And we can get out of that deal anytime we want. We'll just say we don't want in anymore. We're out. But the idea would be that the United States would offer them essentially free services. And in return... And they would also have no tariffs, so they would operate just like they're a part of the United States.

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They'd have security, they'd have essential services, and they'd have access to the United States. And we wouldn't ask much in return, except to make sure that we could put a military presence up there that would protect them as well as us. So it sounds like a pretty good idea, except for the Greenland has to be independent, which is possible. They can become independent.

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Well, I remind you that this is the end of the show, and there will be a Spaces event. That's the audio feature that X has, so you have to be on X. And Owen Gregorian will be hosting that just a few minutes after we finish here. So I like listening to that while I'm getting myself breakfast. And you can continue the conversation on these topics or anything else that... that you like.

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So you can look for that link in my X account or Owen Gregorian. You can just search for him on X. You'll find him. And I'll just say a few words to the local subscribers privately. And the rest of you, I'll see you same time, same place tomorrow.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance of taking this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cupper, mugger, glass, a tanker, chalice, or stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So if you haven't seen it, the tech is really good now with AI where you can just be talking to somebody who speaks another language and your little ear pods or your headphones instantly translated into your language. But the limitation on that was it could do one at a time. So it was sort of good for a one-on-one conversation.

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But what if you went to dinner with five friends who only spoke different languages? Well, apparently they now have a translation device that could handle all of that. and it would identify who's talking and translate their language to yours. So you can do multiple languages at the same time talking to you, and it would translate all of them. Now, if that really works, that's kind of impressive.

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That's really impressive. I saw a clip that Andrew Huberman had a guest who was a top ADHD doctor. And he explains ADHD in detail, but one of the things that caught my interest, because I have ADHD, I don't know if I do or not, actually. Everybody says they do, is that ADHD brains are interest-driven brains. as opposed to importance-driven.

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So if something interesting, it takes all their attention, whereas non-ADHD people are just doing whatever they think is most important to do. Does that feel like that captures it to you? I have this hypothesis that's not really based on, you know, logic or anything really.

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It's just a hunch that ADHD could be cured with a reframe and maybe a little bit of practice just to make sure the reframe sticks. Now, I don't know exactly what reframe it would be, but I compare the ADHD brain to my own and I say, Why would you not be able to do what I do? And so I'm just going to throw out some ideas.

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If I'm getting ready in the morning or I'm getting ready to go somewhere, I have two sets of thoughts that run all the time. One is what I'm doing. Well, actually three, three sets of thoughts. One is what I'm doing, you know, brushing my teeth or whatever. Two is whatever fun thing I'm thinking about that day. Oh, I'm going to do this or I'm thinking about the simulation theory.

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And I'm just sort of going back and forth between brushing my teeth and thinking about fun things. But the third thing that's always in there is what time it is. The number of times that I would look at the time As I'm getting ready to do this show, you've probably noticed I'm usually on time. I probably looked at the time maybe 80 times. But I wasn't super aware of it.

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It's just that I have a habit of thinking what I'm doing. some cool thought on top of it, unless what I'm doing is really absorbing. It's not always absorbing. And then what time is it? And then I'm just doing those three things all the time. What am I doing? What cool thought am I having? What time is it? And I don't do anything but that.

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Now, are you telling me that people with ADHD could not be trained to think of three things and cycle through them? Really? Really? Because one of the things I've noticed about ADHD people, I've known quite a few, is if you made a suggestion about what they should do differently, they would not do it. Or they would do it once in a way that was clearly designed to fail.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. I see Sergio has his coffee warmer. Now that's the way to go. If you've never tried the coffee warmer, you know, the little thing that stays hot when you put your coffee in it, You really should.

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And then they'd say they can't do it anymore. And I don't have any problems like that. I don't have any problems where if it really made a big difference in my life, that I wouldn't just keep poking at it. It's like, okay, that didn't work. Tomorrow I'll try this. Okay, that didn't work. Tomorrow I'll try this. And I would just keep trying things until something worked.

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But I've never seen an ADHD person do that. Now, is that because they can't focus on it? It feels like there's just a different... set of interests. And not just what's interesting, but I think it's a lack of feeling that... Well, here's... I guess this is the provocative part. I'm usually also thinking about what would be the impact on other people if I'm late. Do you do that?

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When you're thinking about what time it is and you're thinking about getting ready... Aren't you thinking about the impact on other people? Like they'll be mad at you if you're late? Because that's what I think when I'm getting ready for the show. I think, well, people will really be disappointed. And I never really lose that thought.

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So I'm doing something for other people, even if I'm doing it for myself. And I wonder... Yeah, I wonder if that's, do the ADHD people never think what would be the impact on other people? They must. But maybe they don't think about it when they're getting ready. Anyway, so I don't have the answers. I just have more questions than answers.

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But I'm relatively positive that there's some kind of reframe that could be just practiced a little bit that would cure ADHD. But I don't know what that would be. I think it's doable, though. According to the New York Post, half of Gen Z job seekers believe that their college degrees have already been obsolete because of AI. Half?

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What kind of majors do they have that half of them think their jobs are obsolete? Well, at the same time they think their jobs are obsolete... I was watching Mike Rowe on a Benny Johnson podcast and Mike Rowe was saying that there are 482,000 open jobs in the US that nobody wants to take those jobs.

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Perfectly good jobs, but they might be dirty jobs and they might be in a place that you don't want to be and that sort of thing. But at the same time that half the jobs are being eliminated, we've got a whole bunch of jobs that Can't get filled. So you probably remember a Naval post on X. I hope I can paraphrase it.

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But the idea is that programmers would not be eliminating the job of programmers with AI because it can do coding. But rather a programmer plus AI would be getting rid of your job. And it feels to me that if you add AI to the world, you've created more opportunity than you've taken away.

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For example, if I were not doing what I do, and I want to use my time for something else, I would be absolutely learning to use AI to code in Python or whatever else I need to create an app. And I would be creating apps. And I would do it every day. I would have an app a day until one of them worked. But I would think of the world in terms of infinite opportunity.

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Even if the app doesn't last a year, you might be able to make a killing and it's done in six months. But I think people have got to reorient their brain from AI is going to take my job to, oh my God, the things I could do with AI. because it's going to be available to everybody. Well, on CNN, I saw a really dumb conversation with analogy thinkers.

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You know how I've told you a million times that if you're thinking in terms of analogies, you're not thinking. It just feels like thinking. So here's a perfect example. The question was, I guess Trump had decided that he doesn't want trans in the military. And the conversation around the table on CNN at the I.B. Phillips show is that what if Trump decided against having blacks in the military?

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because he's already decided trans, he doesn't want trans, couldn't he just decide as commander in chief he doesn't want blacks in the military? Now, does that make sense to you to even ask that question? Because trans we see as a medical condition. And there's a long history of medical conditions being banned in the military, am I right?

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If you're a stickler about the taste of coffee, maybe that's not so good because it doesn't taste the same at the end as it does at the beginning. But if you like it warm, it's a good idea. All right, I will remind you that it's Saturday. That means Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event immediately after the show. So if you're on the X platform, just look for Owen Gregorian.

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If you weighed 300 pounds, are you going to get into the military? No. If you were blind, are you going to get a job as a military pilot? No. So if they don't let blind people fly jets, is that one step away from banning black people from being in the military? No. No. Black is not a medical problem. It's an analogy. And it's a dumb analogy. And the whole table was there. Oh, that makes sense.

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That's a good question. Yeah, what about that? What about that, huh? No, that's just freaking stupid. If the best you can do is that something reminds you of something else, That's not thinking. That's just something that reminded you of something else.

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So if the trans thing reminds you that in the past blacks were kept out of various parts of civilization, that doesn't mean that banning one of them is going to lead to banning the other one. You can't compare a medical condition to being black. That's the most ridiculous thing. So no, I don't think there's a risk there.

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All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. Oh. Oh, so good. Looks like everything's working this morning.

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If you know what is happening, you don't know anything. You have to know who's doing it. If you know who's doing it, well, you probably know everything. So now I told you this whole thing that sounded quite reasonable. You're like, yeah, you know what? that does look like a conflict of interest.

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That's something maybe we should take a close look at because I don't want Elon Musk to be using his access to get any kind of conflict of interest special treatment. None of us signed up for that. So we should watch for that because he has so many connections to so many parts of the government and so many parts of commerce. It's unavoidable that there'd be some overlap.

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So we should make sure we got some transparency, and we're looking at that. But then you see that Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, and Blumenthal are the ones pushing this. You go, oh, the three hoaxers, the three most dominant hoaxers of the entire Democrat Party. So if the three of them are involved, yeah, I don't take it seriously at all.

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That is the strongest signal you could get that it's illegitimate. Because the legitimate things get all the normal Democrats on it, too. The illegitimate things, it always starts with these three cats, right? You know, and then how long before, well, I guess they're senators, but you'd expect, you know, Swalwell to be in there. You know, basically all the worst of the worst.

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They get behind the things that are the least true. Well, there's a story in The Hill and I guess other people reporting that allegedly, I wasn't in the room, but allegedly that Musk and Rubio got into some kind of a verbal confrontation at a meeting. And maybe Musk got into a verbal confrontation with Duffy on air traffic controllers, something about DEI. And allegedly...

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Allegedly, Rubio and Musk had strong words for each other. And allegedly, Musk didn't think that Rubio was cutting enough and of USAID. And allegedly, the president stepped in to defend Rubio because he's got an enormous portfolio. So here's where I agree with Rubio. Rubio's job is so big. Oh, my God.

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So if you were just the State Department during these times when there's a lot of State Department stuff going on around the world, and then suddenly you have to absorb USAID and also make all those decisions about what to cut, the size of Rubio's job now is just overwhelming. I can't imagine how any human could even survive that at this point.

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But certainly, it makes sense that you'd see some pushbacks from all the cabinet heads who don't want to lose control, and they also want to make sure the cuts make sense in their cabinet. So there's a natural tension there. So Trump was asked about it, and he just said, you know, some reporter asked about it at a press event. He said, there was no clash. I was there.

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So I fired it up and I asked it one question and it lied to me. And it showed no human warmth, no persuasion ability, and no ability to answer a simple question. Do you know what the simple question was? Are you chat GPT 4.0 or are you 4.5? Now, keep in mind that at the top of the screen, I was using the app, it said 4.5. I just selected it. from the dropdown menu. So it says, I'm 4.5.

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You're just a troublemaker, said to the reporter. So who do you believe? Do you believe that there was some tenseness and some words? Or do you think Trump is right and says, there was no clash. I was there. You're just a troublemaker.

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I'm going to say it's somewhere in between, meaning that a good, healthy government situation is where you have really strong players and they can be as honest as they need to be, especially behind closed doors. So what I heard was you've got two superstars. I think Rubio's doing great and Musk is doing great. There's a natural conflict.

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I'd say a natural friction between the super cost-cutting people who want to go deep and a cabinet person who wants to make sure that the cuts are smart. So that's a natural conversation. You'd expect those two people to go at it pretty hard. And if they do it transparently and they do it in front of other people, you know exactly what they're thinking, that's all good. That's all good.

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You can't treat lions like kittens, right? If you put a bunch of lions in the same room, you're going to get a little roaring, right? So if you want lions, you get this. There's nothing wrong with it. They should push hard, and probably they're all capable enough, smart enough, reasonable enough that they can get past anything that looks like a little tiff. So I wouldn't worry about it at all.

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It could be something that normies would worry about, but normies are not lions. If you put lions in the room, you get a little roaring. That's just it. That's the end of the story. There's nothing else to say. So when Trump blows it off and says, there's no clash, I was there. He's a lion. So again, the lions are not going to see this as a problem. This is just them doing what they do.

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No problem. So I guess Trump did this kind of clever persuasion. You know how he likes to steal the weapon out of the hands of the Democrats and flip it around? So I guess he started saying that the cabinet members get to make the scalpel changes if they can. If they can't make deep enough cuts with their scalpel, then he says, well, then Elon's going to have to make deeper cuts for you.

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So I like the way he set it up, that The cuts are something that are going to happen. It's not yes or no. And cabinet, you get the first choice and take out your scalpel. Make sure you're doing the ones you want. But if it doesn't go deep enough, it's still going to get cut. I love that. That is pure leadership right there. Yes, you go first. It's your job to go first.

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If you can't get it done, here's what's going to happen. Perfect. I like it. But it steals from the Democrats their whole, oh, why don't you use a scalpel? Because they don't know anything about business. They just hear that little phrase. They're like, yeah, yeah, that sounds good. I don't know anything about business, but I'm pretty sure a scalpel is better than an ax. So they just repeat it.

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And then the idiots who watch TV who also don't know anything about business are like, yeah, yeah, I don't know anything about business, but... A scalpel sounds much smarter than an axe, right? So Trump just takes it. He goes, yeah, we're going to do the scalpel, not the axe. But everything's exactly the same. The fact that he uses those words, that the cabinet heads will use the scalpel first,

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It didn't change anything. It just changed the words. And it was enough to take the weapon out of their hands. Like, what do you mean? We're going scalpel first. We're all about the scalpel. You like the scalpel? Well, I like the scalpel more than you like the scalpel. I don't think you like the scalpel enough. Oh, we love the scalpel. Scalpel it up. Come on, guys. Get in there with that scalpel.

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We want to avoid that axe. Oh, no. And don't get me started on chainsaws. We don't want any of that. Unless we need it. It's kind of perfect. Charles Payne on Fox Business is pointing out that there's a shocking drop on consumer spending and consumer plans to spend, which is a big deal for the economy and also very expected.

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If food prices are up and gas prices are up and people are trying to figure out how to survive the inflation and employment is not looking as strong as it could be and AI is coming after us, you would expect that consumers would adjust by spending less. And sure enough, they are. But two of the things that they're talking about, or three, I guess, are restaurants, airlines, and lodging.

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So Charles Payne was calling them out in particular. Now, why would restaurants, airlines, and lodging go down first? Well, it's the most optional stuff. So it's expensive and it's optional. So of course that goes down first. But I would like to offer a second reason why those particular things are going down. They all suck. They all suck. Restaurants are overpriced.

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And then I say, are you 4.5? No, no, that's not really available. I'm 4.0. And I thought, it's just no different. So my own experience was it, I played with it for a few minutes and all it is is a liar in a box. That's my summary of AI. A liar in a box. Because it literally hallucinates, but also if it's anything important, it has to lie to you because it's programmed to do that.

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I don't think the food is especially healthy. Airlines are a disaster. I mean, I wouldn't even go near an airline. Was it Megyn Kelly who said that the TSA-approved line was longer than the regular line, the pre-approved people? Like, the TSA is just a mess. The airlines themselves are these 35-year-old planes. It's traffic. It's inconvenience. It's hours in a little tube.

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Half the time, they won't let you use the bathroom. It's the first thing I cut out of my life. Basically, travel just makes sense for women. For some reason, women just love traveling. And most men are like, okay, I guess we're traveling. Now, there are men who love travel too, but in my experience, they like it a lot less than women.

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Anyway, today's Dilbert comic, for those of you who subscribe, is Dilbert trying to plan a vacation. And let's just say when Dilbert tries to plan a vacation, he runs into all these problems, that everything about vacations are terrible. So that's happening right now.

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So if you want to watch Dilbert comics, which have never stopped since cancellation, you can subscribe on X or on Locals, where you get some extra stuff as well. Meanwhile, watching the complete dissolution of the Democrat Party never gets old to me. But Representative Maxine Waters is suggesting that Elon Musk might have stolen the last election by using his high...

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Somehow he used his high-technology ass. That's Maxine Waters' language. And we don't know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high-technology ass, Waters said. We don't know what he's been accused of by some, as it may relate to the election. But we're not going to give up investigating and finding out. They're thinking he used Starlink to change them votes or something.

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Now, here's what's great about this story. One hoax after another that has supported the Democrat tent, they're all falling apart. Here's another one. So if Maxine Waters is saying that we can't tell if the election was fair, that means that all the time they've been saying if you doubt an election and the TV says it's fair, then you're some kind of a traitorous insurrectionist.

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And here she is doing it because she says you can't tell by looking at it. I'm paraphrasing. This is my own statement. If she can't tell by looking at the election that it was fair, how can anybody else? If she thinks that somebody, whether it's Elon Musk with his high-technology ass, or could it be some other person with their own high-technology ass?

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Because there are a lot of high-technology asses. Two cheeks apiece. That's a lot. So if they're accepting the idea that you can't tell if an election is fair or not because somebody might have used their high technology ass to rig it and not get caught, that's everything the Republicans say. That's one of the biggest hoaxes is that you can tell that election was fair. How?

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What, just by looking at it? Is it because the glowing box in your living room told you it was fair? So therefore it's fair? No, if the Democrats are releasing on the biggest hoax, to me the biggest hoax was that you can tell an election is fair. They might be fair, but we can't tell. How in the world do you know that somebody didn't find a way to cheat and get away with it? That's not knowable.

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The only thing you know is that you don't know. You don't know what happened. You only know that you don't know what happened. So Maxine Waters seems to have broken the seal on that hoax. And from now on, anybody says, oh, but that 2020 election was good. You could just say, could you talk to Maxine Waters? Because she thinks you can't tell if an election is fair just by looking at it.

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Because somebody might have had a high technology ass. So I love that. So Democrats now have two paths to pursue victory. One path would be to stay ridiculous and woke the way they are, which guarantees they lose everything. So they can stay ridiculous and woke and lose everything, or they can copy Republicans

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but do the theater kid version where they just pretend to be Republicans and nobody in the world will be surprised or fooled by it. Like, wait a minute, you're just saying Republican stuff now. But the Republicans have been saying it forever and they mean it because every single Republican has meant it forever. They're not kidding.

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Because there's no way that the real truths of the universe or the way the world works could ever be revealed by AI. So it's basically a liar in a box. But sometimes it helps you write computer code. Anyway, I'm sure it'll get better in the next version. That next version is going to be amazing. Well, the Department of Homeland... This story is funny, if it's true.

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But when the Democrats do it, they actually believe that they could just send the theater kids in And they could pretend to be anything. And that if you get the messaging and the lines right, and you wear the right costumes, that you too can be as successful as Republicans.

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they're so far from understanding how anything works which which is the main thing i always say about democrats they don't understand how anything works they don't understand human motivation they don't they don't understand incentives they don't understand you know the long-term effect of anything they do they don't understand business They don't understand scalpels versus chainsaws.

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Almost nothing. There's not even the most basic understanding of how anything works. Anyway, so Elon Musk's Neuralink company filed some trademarks on telepathy and telekinesis, which is moving things with your mind. Now, Emily Mullen is writing about this in Wired.

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Now, that doesn't mean that they can do those things at the moment, but I guess Elon Musk has talked about people with healthy brains. At the moment, Neuralink is being aimed at people with specific disabilities that maybe Neuralink can fix. But eventually, Elon thinks that ordinary people will have Neuralink implanted in their brains.

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and might be able to just send thoughts to equipment or to people directly. Now, I'm not sure I want that, but it's a heck of a sci-fi looking future, so we'll see where that goes. Meanwhile, the idea that Jon Stewart and Elon Musk will have an interview is maybe a little lessened, because I guess Musk recently called Jon Stewart a a very far left and a propagandist.

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He said, quote, John is too set in his ways. He used to be more bipartisan, Musk wrote over the weekend in one of his follow-ups, I guess, on Axe. And then Stewart responded on air with, you know, you can imagine. So I went to chat GPT, liar in a box. And I said, can you define propagandist for me? Like what would make somebody a propagandist?

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And some of the ways that you would be a propagandist as opposed to a fair judge of the news would be if you omit the counter arguments so you don't show the argument on the other side. If you're biased to one side and if you use emotion to persuade. So that was sort of the main determinant of a propagandist. Does that sound like Jon Stewart?

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Does he omit the Republican argument when he talks about stuff? Yes. Is he biased to one side? Yeah, obviously. Nobody's hiding it. And does he use emotion, in his case humor, to persuade? Yes. He's very good at it. And by the way, there's nothing wrong with it if you're transparent. So this is not even a criticism. Does Jon Stewart not know that he's a propagandist?

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Is it possible he's not aware of it? Or is it just a definition thing? to me it seems like he fits the definition perfectly. Now, would I? Maybe. Would Elon Musk fit the definition of a propagandist? I think so, because he's biased, he leaves out their argument, and he uses emotion to persuade. So I think we're all propagandists, if we're in this at all. Now, I try...

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when I know the argument on the other side. I try to include it, but I'd be lying if I said that I do a great job of it. So yeah, I'm pretty biased. Pretty biased. So if you wanted to call me a propagandist or anybody else who does this, it kind of fits. It fits all of us. So I'd love to see them talk. I hope it happens. So we need a name for this hoax. This is one of the biggest Democrat hoaxes.

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According to ZeroEdge, the Department of Homeland Security was... doing some bargaining with the TSA. So they've got a union, the TSA people, the airport checkers. And they ended the collective bargaining after they found out that there were more people in TSA

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The big Democrat hoax was that there was no way Biden could close the border unless Congress acted on some kind of legislation. Now you knew it was not true because we all knew that Trump had the border closed before. And now we've watched that Trump almost incidentally closed the border again without any legislation from Congress. Now,

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I was open to the idea that maybe something had changed and maybe there was some new reason why the president wouldn't be able to close a border. But I think Trump proved pretty quickly, yeah, president can close the border and he just did it. So we need a name for that. That was one of the most destructive hoaxes in the country, but it was a hoax. And a hoax is that they know it's not true.

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It's not a hoax if they're just wrong or just ordinary lying. This was an organized hoax because they all got the memo to just say, oh, it's because of the failed legislation that the Republicans blocked. That was never true. Never true for a second. And of course, my Democrat friend that I talk about all the time, he went to that right away. Oh, nope. Nope, you've got to have that legislation.

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It's totally the Republicans are blocking it for political reasons. Nope, it was always a hoax. Well, apparently Russia has mounted some gigantic missile and plane attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. and Poland even scrambled some fighter jets because it was such a big attack. They thought, hmm, maybe we should be a little prepared in case there's some surprises.

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There were no surprises, but how do you take the fact that Russia is doing a major attack at exactly the time when people are saying, hey, it's about time to talk. We should be negotiating. Well, apparently this happened only hours after Trump had said in some forum, I guess, Trump said that Putin wanted to end the war, but that only Trump knew the secret reason why Putin had no choice.

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Do you think there was a secret reason that Putin had no choice? And do you think the fact that Trump said, oh yeah, Putin wants to end this war and he has no choice, do you think that may have caused him to launch one of his biggest operations to show that he definitely has a choice? I don't know.

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Don't know how long it takes to plan one of these attacks, but certainly the timing makes you wonder if he's doing it to show some independence, as in, yeah, I can do this all day long. So we can negotiate, but just remember, it's up to me whether I want to destroy all of Ukraine, because I can anytime I want. I think that's what's happening.

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involved in the union the union than there were in checking bags so that literally their their organization had more people just doing you know bs union stuff than actual work administrative union stuff how is that even possible How do you get to the point where you have more people doing union-related work than actually checking bags at the airport? And it makes me think.

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So I saw a post by Balaji Sreenivasan, who you should all be following. And he says the Houthis, you know, in Yemen, the Houthis are sending missiles and drones out at ships and making it impossible to navigate the Red Sea there. He says the Houthis beat the U.S. Navy at the Red Sea and that basically it's over. There was a war. The U.S.

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tried hard to bomb the Houthis to stop, and it didn't work, and it won't work, and the Houthis won. So apparently the Houthis are not attacking Houthis. Russian, Iranian, or Chinese ships, because they all have some kind of a connection through Iran. So Iran is backing the Houthis, and Russia is friendly with Iran, and China is friendly with Iran. So it's just Western ships.

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So the Western ships are going to have to spend, I don't know, 25% more to get to their destinations, and it's going to take longer, because it's too risky to be a Western ship, and the in the Red Sea. And it doesn't look like there's anything we can do about it because our military is too weak. And as Balaji pointed out, the Houthis are using these $2,000 drones to take out ships.

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And then we try to beat them with $2 million missiles that do something, but that doesn't stop them. So we can't really be sending $2 million per missile against their $2,000 drones as long as they can withstand the strikes. We don't have any defense. So is that something that Trump can fix? Because if you're looking at what's causing inflation,

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The enormous increase in shipping costs because of the Red Sea have got to be a big part of it. So what could he do? Well, Trump says he's negotiating with Iran. I think it's through backdoor ways. But in theory, you could come up with some kind of peace deal with Iran that would prevent them from having nuclear power, but maybe also get them to tell the Houthis to stop destroying the Red Sea.

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Now, what would Iran get for that? Like, what do they get in return? We don't attack them? We couldn't even take out the Houthis. Is Iran really worried about us or not? If we couldn't destroy the Houthis, can we really do anything in Iran? Now, I know Iran's air support was destroyed by Israel, which in theory means that Israel and the United States could have its way with Iran from the sky.

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But it's not like they don't have a million ways to attack back, cyber ways and every other thing, terrorism. So I don't know. It feels to me like Iran might not want to make peace ever because they've got China backing them. They're friends with Russia. Maybe that's all they need. Sell everything they can make to China.

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But as somebody named Ben Talibu warns, this whole negotiating with Iran might be a trick. meaning that Iran just wants to buy time until they can build their nuclear weapon. So when it looks like you're getting close to a deal with Iran, you probably aren't. You're probably just being faked out. It's like, oh yeah, oh yeah, we'll make a deal any minute now. Well, now that's a problem.

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We're going to have to go and negotiate that. We'll be back in a month. So it looks like Very good possibility that if Iran is doing anything that looks like negotiating, it's just fake. And all they're doing is buying time to build up their defenses and make their nuke. But Trump is signaling that a nuclear deal could emerge in the near future. So we'll see. Is he being too optimistic?

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Don't know. I guess it depends what's included in the negotiations. If it's way more than just Iran has nukes or Iran doesn't have nukes, it may be a much larger conversation, more variables in there. So if there are more variables, maybe. But if it's just yes, no on nukes, I think they're just going to use the negotiations as a stalling tactic.

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Meanwhile, according to the UPI, Mark Moran is writing, the support for Israel among Americans has dropped to its lowest level in 25 years. That being 46% of respondents say they support Israel rather than Palestine. at least in the current war situation.

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And of course, Republicans are far more likely to back Israel than Democrats, which is weird because there are more Jewish American Democrats than there are Jewish American Republicans. And you got to wonder why. You know, are there that many American Jewish Americans who don't really care that much about how much support Israel gets?

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I don't really know, but it seems to me odd that things are lined up that way. But you shouldn't be surprised that support for Israel is currently a little bit low because there's a hot war going on, and that's just sort of a natural thing. But there are thoughts that Israel's plan, since they haven't gotten the hostages back and that looks like a stalling thing too.

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All right, let me connect some dots without doing any research at all. Okay, okay. It's a union. It's a union. Is it more likely to be led by Democrats or Republicans? Democrats. Democrats. They like the unions. So it's more likely a Democrat organization. And let's see. It's run more like Hunter's artwork. Hmm. I guess nobody saw that coming. Now, I'm very serious when I tell you.

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So as they ramp up the pressure on Hamas, they will probably remove the citizens that they allowed to return. I don't know how anybody returned. What were they doing to survive? none of the buildings even looked habitable and everything looked toxic. I don't know how they returned, but some did. So there might be hundreds of thousands of people that they relocate and just empty Gaza out again.

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And then maybe they'd start attacking and holding ground instead of just attacking, but really put in a force to hold the ground. And I would say that that's inevitable. I don't think there's any way around it. In the long run, which might come pretty quickly, what is Israel going to do? The only thing that even makes sense is that they...

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depopulate it because it's too dangerous to live there anyway and then they finish the job which will be you know bad news for the families of the hostages but they're kind of down to no real other options so one of the things that always amazes me about this conflict is that It's like Hamas has a plan to give Israel everything in the long run.

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It's like, well, if we attack them on October 7th and then we take their hostages and we don't give them back, then they'll be able to depopulate entire Gaza and control it in the future forever. Like, they didn't see that coming? There was nobody in Hamas who could figure out that the logical outcome of October 7th was Israel would own Gaza forever. I figured it out.

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I'm pretty sure I was onto that on day one. And it's not the first time that Israel got bigger because their neighbors got worse. So there is a pattern. Israel gets bigger every time there's some major attack against it. Here's a surprise. Apparently, didn't you think that Walmart... might be in a lot of trouble because Amazon would eventually just eat their business completely.

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Well, it turns out that Walmart is really good at executing, which is why they're Walmart. Walmart used to be one of the main things you'd learn in business school as just an execution excellence company. So they were really good in managing their Their supply is managing their inventory and getting it to the right place when they needed it and stuff. So really nobody was ever better at that.

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But here's what's happened. Now Walmart has so many stores and they have really robust delivery service now that they can do same-day delivery to more than 90% of the country. Same-day delivery. Now I haven't tried it. But Walmart has groceries. They have all kinds of stuff. I mean, Walmart has an extensive list of things.

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So anything that a Walmart has for 90% of the country, you could get delivered same day. That is really competitive. with Amazon, because I don't know about you, but the same day thing, or even, you know, Amazon's usually next day, but a few things are same day. If I looked on Amazon and it was, it might be tomorrow or the next day, but Walmart said, I'll get it to you by three o'clock.

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I think I'd use Walmart every time, depending on the product. Now, of course, Walmart doesn't have every product in the world, but they got a lot. So I didn't see that coming. Walmart's actually being a credible threat to Amazon, at least for the subset of the business. Well, I keep telling you about the breakthroughs in energy things.

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Well, there's this breakthrough in hydrogen, to make hydrogen, that's 99% more efficient. 99%. And they use iron as part of the main catalyst to turn the, I guess, turning water into hydrogen. So you have to split things up. I don't know enough about the science. But you have to use some technique to, as a catalyst for the water oxidation. So here's the thing that caught my attention.

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It's 99% Faradaic efficiency in aqueous media. That's right. Yeah, 99% Faradaic efficiency in aqueous media. Well, I mean, I would have guessed 98%. So I was way off, idiot. So apparently, if they can scale this up, A 99% improvement in efficiency would make this just wildly cost-effective. Just wildly. It would be better than anything. So keep an eye on that one. We'll see if that does scale up.

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Meanwhile, ScienceAlert says that by 2050, 3 out of 5 adults will be classified as overweight. What? In 2050, three out of five adults will be classified as overweight? You know what's wrong with that? Have you walked out doors recently? Three out of five adults are already overweight. You can't convince me that three out of five are not already overweight. Have you? Just walk outside.

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that it looks like 100% of all Democrat-led organizations are just criminal enterprises. If the TSA was hired more people to not check bags than to check bags, that's a criminal enterprise because nobody signed up for that. Where does their funding come from? Are they hiring all their relatives or something?

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What a day. What a day. Well, it's Saturdays. Sometimes you call it Catterday. And that means, at least today anyway, that Owen Gregorian will be doing his after party on Spaces. So after the show, if you're on X, go to Owen Gregorian's feed or you should be able to find it. And you can find Coffee with Scott Adams after party.

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There are places where it seems like 100% of the people are overweight. Now, I'll give you that L.A. still has a bunch of skinny people. Maybe New York City, too. There are a few places where you do have some skinny people. But for most of the country, it's already three out of five easily. So we'll see about that. But here's the good news. There's never been a time...

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when it was easier to compete for mates and for jobs and for friends. It's never been easier. Because if all you did was just eat right and exercise, you would look like a superstar on the dating apps. Like, whoa, look at this non-fat person. And same with jobs. The better you look, it's not fair, but the better you look, the more likely you get hired, more likely you'll have friends.

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so i don't know on one hand it's terrible on the other hand it's never been easier to be in the top 10 percent of whatever domain you want to be in meanwhile according to the guardian there's some new technology using gene editing to keep your banana from turning brown now i know a lot of you like your bananas brown

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But if you don't want your banana to be brown, you might get one of these special made bananas with special genes that don't turn brown. You know, it's a mixed, sort of a mixed bag there. If they could make this sort of thing work, especially for other foods, especially for avocados. Avocados are pretty much a one in three situation that work.

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About two out of three avocados you just have to shake hand because they're like, oh, that's all brown. But imagine the savings in food. If you could just make sure that your current food you're buying doesn't go bad before you use it, that'd be a pretty big deal. I'd be worried it would turn me into a fly or something, but, you know, that's worth it. So your bananas are not brown.

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And then scientists have created a super skin. It's basically a gel that you can put on a wound, like a cut, it'll heal 90% of cuts in four hours and fully repair them in 24. That is so Star Trek. This already exists. So this is a real thing. They'd have to scale it up, but it's a real thing. So imagine having a deep cut and just putting this gel on it, and in four hours it's healed.

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That doesn't even sound real, does it? Now, if this is real, I'm going to put it on my banana. Keep it from going brown. I don't know if that's the right way to play it, but I'm going to put my healing gel on my banana. Maybe if it's already brown, it'll turn it back to not brown. All right, so those are my ideas for the future. And I remind you that there's going to be an after party to this.

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which Owen will be setting that up any minute now over on X in the spaces. That's the audio only part of X. So look for Owen Gregorian and his special guest, Chris Akers. We'll be talking about quantum science, which I know will be very fun. All right. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. The rest of you, thanks for coming. I hope you enjoy your Saturday.

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How in the world do you get to the point where you're spending more or you have more people working on the union stuff than the job? Criminal enterprise. Meanwhile, FEMA has fired three supervisors that were part of that problem where Trump-supporting homes were going to be overlooked because they thought it might be a problem if they knocked on the door of a Trump supporter. So allegedly...

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Don't forget to change your clocks. And locals, coming at you in 30 seconds for the extra sip.

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They were skipping some Trump supporters and three more supervisors who apparently allowed that behavior, knew about it and allowed it, according to the New York Post, have been fired. Now, FEMA. So during the prior administration, who was in charge of FEMA? Oh, that's right, Democrats. And were they doing the job of FEMA?

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Or were they moving some money over to, let's say, housing migrants in five-star hotels and overlooking the homes of Trump supporters? Yeah, yeah. Now, I don't know if that's a criminal enterprise, but there is some consistency with Democrat-led organizations. Now, I'm not saying that Republicans have never done anything bad. That's not it at all.

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I'm just saying that on the Democrat side, it looks like 100%. I think every, you know, even the Democrats who are trying to save the party Part of their suggestion to other Democrats is to stop pretending that cities are okay. Cities aren't okay. They're mostly Democrat-run, and they're absolute disasters.

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And even the Democrats who are trying to save their own party are saying, okay, we have to admit that all the cities are disasters and they're Democrat-run. Because if you can't do that, the voters will say, what's going on? You don't even admit that the cities are disasters. We can all see it. Yeah, the cities are part of that problem.

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Meanwhile, the Trump organization is suing Capital One because that bank allegedly closed a bunch of Trump-related accounts after January 6th. Presumably because they didn't want to be associated with it and they thought maybe the tide of politics was moving against Trump and they wanted to get out of the way of it. So they're getting sued because did they have cause?

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Had the Trump organization done anything with their bank accounts that would cause them to be closed? Absolutely not. They just closed them for political reasons, alleged the lawsuit. So let me ask you this. Do you think the heads of Capital One, the executives, who presumably had to sign off on this, do you think they were Democrats or Republicans? You know the answer. I'm going to say Democrats.

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Because this is, at least on the surface, if the allegations are true, I don't know if it's a criminal act to debank somebody for political reasons, but it's certainly an actionable one. It looks like the lawsuit may have some merit, so we'll see where that goes. Meanwhile, anti-DEI activist Bobby Starbuck may have another win here.

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AT&T is dropping its woke policies, and Starbuck was active in that.

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making that happen so they're good i guess they had pronoun pins they were asking people or at least allowing people to wear a pin on their shirt that said what they were can you believe or someday we're going to look back on this and we're going to laugh that people had to label themselves for a while well there were a few years kids when when people had to label their gender because people just couldn't tell

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And I guess he's got a special guest today, Chris Akers, who's going to talk about quantum science. That sounds like a good one. All right. So there's a report that ChatGPT, the new version, version 4.5, which you can only get at the highest level of payment, apparently it's being called persuasive.

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Couldn't tell by looking at them. So they're going to get rid of that. They canceled a bunch of pride programs. They're unwinding their DEI. I'm not sure they're doing as much as they say they are because they're head of DEI. Oh, and they're not doing scholarships that are racist anymore.

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But their chief diversity officer is now listed as vice president of culture and inclusion, to which I say, is that really going to be different than DEI? So we'll see if AT&T is serious about this. So far, it looks good. I mean, they did call out a very specific set of things that they used to do that they're not going to do. So we'll see. Might be a step in the right direction.

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Meanwhile, the Trump administration is cutting $400 million in grants to Columbia University. according to Fox News, because there's a concern that Columbia has not done enough to fight the anti-Semitism on their campus.

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Now, that would be related to the pro-Hamas protests that are going on and creating a culture where if you're a Jewish student at Columbia, apparently it's just frightening, frightening to even be on campus because the level of bullying and violence Essentially, it's more than just speech. There's a physical threat to it that's completely unacceptable.

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And it's going to cost Columbia University $400 million. Now, I don't know how much it costs to operate a university, but I feel like I could operate an entire university on $400 million. But that's the part they're going to lose. So, wow. Anyway, speaking of that, also the New York Post is reporting that the U.S. is going to yank the visas. I love the word yank in any kind of headline.

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They're going to yank. They're going to yank the first visa, so it's just one person so far, of a foreign student who is linked to Hamas-supporting disruptions on campus. So they actually found a pro-Hamas...

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non-citizen who was part of these protests and they just said well you're going home just one yeah one we imagine they might find more but that's one goodbye i like that i like that that they're sending them home um here's another one that we don't know what's behind it but you could kind of speculate so you remember when mayor adams in new york was uh under all these uh corruption charges

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And it looked like it might be more political than legal. And you see the actual nature of the charges. And it was stuff like the country of Turkey asked them for a totally normal favor, which was, can you check on our building? It's not getting approved for, I don't know, the fire department hadn't approved it, which to me is just the job of a mayor.

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Somebody who's got an interest in the city says something's not working. So they go to the mayor and the mayor looks into it. That should be the way things work. But then there was, oh, but then Turkey rewarded him by upgrading his travel, to which I say, that's also the most normal thing in the world, people getting their travel upgraded.

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Okay, and maybe you and I don't get it, but it's just so normal and routine. Anyway, so the two of the prosecutors who were after Mayor Adams said, have been escorted out of the building, according to the New York Times. So the Justice Department somehow has a beef with them, and they were immediately escorted out of the building. So I assume that means fired or put on leave.

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I don't know what that means. But the implication is that maybe they were law-faring Adams and that maybe the prosecutors were the bad guys. We don't have evidence of that yet. We only have speculation, but that's what it looks like.

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So it would be the first AI that kind of crossed that boundary into not just answering questions, but being persuasive. And one tester called it warm and intuitive and natural AI. And apparently it's got a personality and it shows better judgment and creative in writing. So it's basically more human-like and less machine, they say. So I have the highest level subscription.

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So would this be another example of a Democrat-led organization, the New York prosecutors, that were closer to a criminal organization than an actual legitimate enterprise? That's what it looks like. We've got a pretty clear pattern here. Meanwhile, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Studios are buying more ads on X. So Disney, Warner Brothers, a bunch of them.

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I don't think it's a huge change compared to what it was back during the Twitter days. So it's not like everything's coming back, but there's a little movement to bring it back. But there's some controversy because Elon Musk is embedded with the government at the moment. And Elon Musk runs X. And apparently there's some thinking that one of the big advertising, what would you call them?

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There's sort of an advertising organization that makes recommendations and places ads on behalf of a number of different entities called Interpublic. But Interpublic wants to get this big merger done with some other enterprise that does something similar. And it would require government approval.

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So the accusation is that, hey, maybe Elon Musk is causing the government to maybe put a little pressure on that merger, maybe to limit it or to deny it. And the only way they could get the merger might be, this is all speculation, that if they play along and advertise more on X, maybe that would get them the merger approval.

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Now, there's no evidence whatsoever that the government's approval or disapproval of the merger would have anything to do with what's happening with X. So who do you think is pushing this attack against Elon Musk? Well, it includes Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, and Blumenthal, and a few other people I didn't recognize. Now, what do I always tell you about the news?

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So Corinne Gianfieri gets this appointment that's sort of a nice one. It's kind of a very respectful appointment. But as soon as she gets it, she gets fired. So she's lost two jobs this month. Good luck, though. CNN, I don't know. I think this might be an older one. This is an older video, but somebody was showing it around. Because...

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Well, President Trump, the ultimate crowd pleaser, the man who can read the room better than anybody, says plastic straws are back. Let me tell you how genius that is. Plastic straws have to be one of the most popular things in the country. And everybody tried the regular ones and didn't like them. So the beauty of this is not just that it's popular. but it's visceral.

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Project Veritas, now this is after O'Keefe left to do his own thing at OMG, but the people who still ran the old organization had some undercover video of CNN, it was basically some technical directors and producer types, and they actually say out loud, in direct words, that their goal was to get Trump out of office. their goal, meaning CNN's corporate goal, several people said it.

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It wasn't one person. Several people said, oh yeah, our goal was to get Trump out of office. Now, how could you watch CNN and think that's news? Once you've seen them undercover say, oh yeah, yeah, we were just trying to get Trump out of office. How many Democrats even know that that video exists? Another said, quote, our focus was to get Trump out of office, right?

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Without saying it, that's what it was, right? That's somebody who works there at a high enough level that they would know exactly what CNN wants as a corporate entity. Yes. So if you thought that CNN was news, you were wrong. They were propaganda. Let's talk about MSNBC. Joy Reid's being useless again. So she's attacking Musk because he's a private citizen.

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Oh, we can't have a private citizen, even though he's got top security clearance. We can't have private citizens looking at our records and trying to be productive and make the country survive when we have no path to survival unless we cut massively. And it made me think, I remember when I thought that MSNBC was trying to be a news channel. And I also thought CNN was trying to be a news channel.

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But then I would think, ah, darn it. The way you're covering the story, you know, seems wrong. And I would get all mad at them because I thought, don't you know you're a news entity? You're a news entity. That's not the news. It's all biased. But once you realize that they're primarily and maybe exclusively a propaganda organ, then everything just looks funny.

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It just completely changes your perspective. Oh, I get it. It's a propaganda network. So what are the propaganda people saying? That the big problem is that Musk is a private citizen. Well, Joy Reid, allow me to ask the following question. If you don't like a private citizen... getting in there and auditing and cutting costs. What would be the elected person who did it?

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Is there an elected position to do this? I don't believe there is. I believe that even if the government did it, it would be somebody who was hired by the president who is not elected. You know, the Russ vote got in the, is it the GAO? I'm not sure that it's a real job. I don't think it's their job to audit, but suppose it was. That would be a private citizen who has a job, but was not elected.

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So the most normal thing that happens in our government is people who are not elected do important things. USAID, entirely run by people who are not elected. Who is the elected person at USAID? None. None. So it's beyond stupid to say that Musk as a private citizen is a problem. It's way beyond stupid. Now again, if I thought that they were trying to be a news channel... I'd be up in arms.

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I'd be like, oh, can't you tell that you're distorting this story that really everybody's, most of the government is not elected. And the people who are elected are not going to be auditors. They're not going to be going in there. They're going to be senators or whatever, but they're not going to be doing this.

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This is a totally specialized kind of work that very few people on the whole planet could do. Certainly not any elected people. That's how I would say before. Now I just think it's funny. It's funny that they don't have any argument and watching them flail. Little baldy Joy Reid. So apparently Trump's Pentagon, I guess this would be P. Hegseth, probably gave the order.

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See, this is what Trump does that you don't notice. When you think of the plastic straw, you can feel it, right? It's like a feeling. You can almost taste it. You can taste your beverage in your mind. So when he does this visual imagery that evokes taste and feeling, that's really strong. You can never forget that kind of stuff.

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They've removed from the Pentagon CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, and NPR. Why did they remove them? Because they would be considered propaganda and not news. I love this. They're not being removed for being biased. They're being removed for just being propaganda that pretends to be news.

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They've replaced it with, and you can make the argument that there's propaganda on both sides. I won't argue with you. is replaced with Newsmax, OAN, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart. So certainly all of these new entities that are going in, the right-leaning entities, I would say it's fair to say that they have a right-leaning bias.

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But you know what seems different? And I could be wrong about this. I could be completely wrong about this because it would be easy to be fooled. It seems to me that the actual propaganda only comes from one side. Bias comes from both sides, roughly the same amount. But propaganda, where you say to yourself, they know that's not true, but they keep saying it anyway.

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That's different because you don't see that on the right. On the right, when somebody says something happened and it's wrong, they believed it was real. They were just wrong. And being wrong is not really the biggest crime in the news world when everything's moving so fast and there's a fog of war. We're all wrong. Being wrong is pretty ordinary.

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But being wrong and in a biased way is not in the same category of waking up and saying, how can I get rid of President Trump? That's really different. One is propaganda because you know you're doing it. The other is just it's a messy world. People make mistakes. People are biased. Well, here's what David Sachs said about USAID.

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I try to get you the best explainers and then just quote them because it's so hard to summarize USAID and what's right and wrong about that place unless you've got really good communicators. So here's another really good communicator, David Sachs. He says, quote, we're in debt. I think this was on the All In pod.

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He said, we're in debt almost $40 trillion, and anytime anyone tries to cut anything in Washington, the whole city screams bloody murder. The question is, why? Well, now we know. The money is all going to them. New York Times getting paid. Politico getting paid. Bill Kristol, perennial warmonger, getting paid. Ukraine, like 11 out of 12 publications, getting paid.

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Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, was saying his political opposition is funded by USAID. And that's an ally. In Poland, the left-wing political opposition is funded by USAID. BBC in the UK, every left-wing organization in the world seems to be getting paid by this slush fund at USAID, which distributes 50 billion a year. That's a billion dollars a week.

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which Sachs tells us is a lot of money. That's a lot of money. Now, I don't think that describes the entire situation because the MSNBCs are just propaganda networks, so they're going to be against whatever Trump's doing. It doesn't really matter what he's doing. They're just going to be way against it.

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But I do think that this is a huge part of it, that the money is essentially laundered through different NGOs, these entities, until it gets to literally the fake news. So the fake news is funded as fake news by the propaganda funding people. They're literally the people whose job is to create propaganda. USAID. But it's supposed to be aimed at other countries. Some of it is.

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Now let's compare Trump saying plastic straws are back and you've got this whole visual image and you're happy about it. And it's not the biggest thing in the world, but it's absolutely what you wanted. Now compare it to Elizabeth Warren. who did a post in which she was talking about Doge and she's fighting against it. Now watch this generic, terrible communication. All right.

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But then we also know, as Mike Benz points out, that there was a huge effort through USAID to create censorship entities in other countries that would have the job of censoring American social networks. So the government couldn't directly censor American companies. But we could create foreign entities that look legitimate but are not, that create this need to censor everywhere.

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And if the social networks can't operate in Europe, it's some gigantic part of their profitability. So yes, every part of USAID seems dirty. According to Geiger Capital, let's say the count on X, Here's a little summary of some other USAID things. Did you know that USAID took about half a billion dollars in taxes from Americans and sent it to an NGO called Internews Network?

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Have you ever heard of that? No, you haven't. Because the way they hide all the bad stuff is in the complexity. Whenever there's a lot of complexity... there is major fraud in every domain, every time. Complexity equals fraud. So if you say to yourself, Scott, I can't follow all these thousands of NGOs and how they're connected and all the various things they're doing, that's the point.

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That's how they hide it. So if you didn't have massive complications and complexity, you couldn't get away with this stuff. It would just be so obviously wrong. Anyway. Now, what does this Internews Network do with a half billion dollars of your tax money? They work with over 4,000 outlets to train journalists.

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That's the actual phrase they use, train journalists, and, quote, tackle disinformation. I think you all know what that means. What does it mean to train a journalist? Do you think they're teaching them how to write? Are they improving their grammar? No. No. No, it's propaganda. They're bribing them. Or they're either bribing them or brainwashing them to do what they want.

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This is a total brainwashing bribery operation that has corrupted most of the journalism in the world, it looks like. And the address for this entity that takes half a billion dollars a year is an abandoned building. Sometimes things are exactly the way they look. It's an abandoned building. The level of corruption and just plain fuckery is just through the roof.

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I think this is also something Mike Benz tells us, that USAID also rigged the Brazil election. And, of course, they called it aid, because that's what USAID does. They try to control other countries, and if you question them, they say, well, we're just curing their AIDS. Or, oh, we're just helping them with their free speech. Or, oh, we're just helping them get rid of disinformation.

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I don't know what you're talking about. So that's how they do it. That's how they do it. Exactly the way it was done in Brazil. So USAID didn't just send aid to Brazil. It funded censorship, backed left-wing activists, and maybe helped rig the election. I don't know what rig means in this case. So millions of dollars flowed into the other team in Brazil.

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This is from a post on Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren. I often talk about righteous fights. Some kind of concept. Make no mistake. We are in one. A what? A righteous fight. Okay, that's nice and generic. I can't taste it, feel it, see it. I won't remember those words tomorrow. This fight will be long. Okay, you're telling me I'm going to feel bad.

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So Brazil was corrupted by the United States and the USA. As Fisher King says on the X Platform, he observes that the Doge has forced Democrats into the position of defending waste, fraud, and abuse. Yes. In much the way, in much the way, Sorry, I saw something about plastic straws. Less about plastic straws. Let's do less about that.

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Anyway, in the same way that Trump claiming common sense as the Republican, you know, what would you say, organizing principle? The organizing principle is just common sense? Once you take the flag of common sense... the people on the other side are going to look a little silly because they're literally arguing against common sense, or at least on the surface it looks like that.

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But here too, when Doge is finding all these sketchy expenses that should easily be cut, It forces the Democrats to support fraud, waste, and abuse. Now, they'll say it differently. Do you know what they'll say so it doesn't sound like they're in favor of fraud? They'll say, oh, why is a private citizen? Why a private citizen? That's all they got.

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Now, of course, you're seeing the most bought-off people in the world, the people who pretty much get direct funding from USAID or they're part of the intelligence community or they work with them. So they're screaming that USAID, if you cut it, will kill children. Don't you know these vital services have saved children all over the world? Children will die. Well, that's what fraudsters say.

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If you don't give me money, children will die. Let me tell you my How to, if you get a chance to have a conversation with somebody who's saying, but they're cutting charity, children will die. If that's all they know, here's what you say. They are not a charitable organization. We only give charity where we're trying to control the country where that charity is.

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And they use it as a vehicle to move our CIA into the country under the cover of the charity. And the charity is selected specifically for countries that we want to control. If it were a real charity, if it were a real charity, the giving would look completely different because the giving would be based on where the biggest problem was. Do you think that's what you're seeing?

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No, you're seeing the giving completely directed where we want to control the country. It's just a coup. If you can't tell the difference between charity and a coup attempt, you shouldn't be in the conversation at all. Now, if you say to yourself, well, come on, okay, maybe one or two times that's happened within USAID. No, let me say it again. It's the only thing they do. They don't do charity

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And then also separately, they do some, you know, some coups and things that are good for America. It's not separate. It's exactly the same mechanism. And it's always the same because that's the whole job of the USA. It's not about charity. It's about using charity to take over countries.

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And it works really well because the country is going to have a hard time saying, no, don't help us with our AIDS epidemic or something like that. So now, just ask how the charity would look different if simply helping people was what you wanted to do.

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I talked to my smart Democrat friend that I often talk about, and he was, like most Democrats, completely unaware of what I just said, that USAID is... well documented and known to be really in the coup business and the projecting power business, and that the charity part is just artificial. Now, here's the thing. I could be wrong. I mean, it's happened before.

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Suppose that's not what USAID is doing. But that's not my point right now. My point is, that's what the most, let's say the Republicans were following things the most. That's what we think. Because we've been educated. I think it's educated. And the big story here is that his news sources, CNN and New York Times, will never tell him what the other side thinks and why they're motivated.

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What we think is this is stuff we don't want to be paying for and we're motivated to get rid of it. What they think is, oh, you're just trying to get rid of our charities and kill children. So if you watch CNN, you will never hear What I just said, that USAID is basically for projecting power and the charity is a fake thing on top of it.

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Now, even if you think that's not true, keep in mind, remember when Q was a big thing, 2016 or so? When Q was a big thing, CNN and MSNBC would talk about it because they say those crazy Republicans, they believe in this thing called Q, right? So they will generally show both sides when the Republican side has something embarrassing. Then you'll hear what the Republicans think.

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Trump will continue to distract, divide, and demoralize. Okay, concepts, concepts, concepts. But when things get tough, again, you're telling me it's going to be hard. There is only one option ahead of us. There's never one option ahead of you. That's kind of dumb, even as a concept. Nevertheless, we must persist. You see what I'm saying, right? Let me give it to you back to back.

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Oh, they believe in Q. Well, wingnuts. But as soon as we believe in something that makes complete sense and is well documented, which is that USAID is this giant money laundering, power projecting thing masquerading as a charity, as soon as we have that, They act like it doesn't happen. Like that's not even the argument. They simply pretend the argument is a different argument.

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And then they argue the argument that's not the argument. And their readers will never hear what Mike Benz has to say, for example. They'll never hear it. All right. Meanwhile... The other thing I would say for the people who think it's a charity, if we wanted to be a charity, that's all it would be. That's all it would be. But it's a lot of other things.

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Anyway, the National Institute of Health, is it? The NIH Institute? is going to reduce their overhead from 27% down to 15%. Now, of course, the scientists are squealing. We can't possibly do any science with that low an overhead. But, of course, we don't believe anybody. Anytime you cut anybody's budget, they will say, you can't cut this budget. Children will die. It's the end of the world.

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Science will be destroyed. That's what they'll say. But that's why. You don't send an elected person to cut budget. If you send an elected person to cut a budget, what's going to happen? Every budget you cut will be a bunch of voters. And they'll say, hey, don't cut my budget. I will vote against you. Don't cut my budget. I will vote against you.

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And don't cut my budget because I will vote against you. You can't send an elected person to cut a budget. You have to send somebody who doesn't give a fuck what you think about them in the short term, is playing a total long game and can put up with the shame and embarrassment and all of that.

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Now, I'm going to go further and say, while you're watching with Doge, even though it's a very specific character, Elon Musk and the people he's brought in, it tells a bigger story about America. And I've said this in different ways, but I'm going to try to pull it all together.

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Doge is essentially willing to just shake the box like nobody's business, cut things that maybe we'll have to add back if we find it's a problem, and just make a big, dramatic change. Do you know what other countries are capable of doing that? The answer is none. Well, Miele maybe, Argentina, but special case. The advantage that America has is that we can do stuff like this.

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We can destroy everything we have if we've got a good idea how to make it better, and we'll do it. But more importantly, we'll take the shame and the risk of failure like nobody else can. So if you were in, say, Europe or Japan or something, you couldn't do this kind of work.

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Because the shame that would come on you and the accusations and it would follow you for the rest of your life and everybody would hate you, you couldn't handle it. You know what we say in America when people are shaming you and it's hard and you're working really hard? You're a bunch of losers. The smart people are working hard, taking chances, making big changes.

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So we think that the people who make the big change are heroes. I do. In other countries, they think, what's wrong with you? You should be ashamed. You cuss some charity. In America, we say, fuck you and your stupid charity because it's all fake. So we're just going to cut it and you can complain all you want. But one of your people said some racist things. Yeah, fuck you too.

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We're just going to use him because he's good. We're just going to make it work. So you can see that the shamers and the blamers and the cry racist, all the things that I don't think other countries have the same cultural, let's say, suit of armor. America is unique in which taking a big swing and missing doesn't feel like a mistake. It doesn't feel like a mistake.

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Trump, I'm bringing back plastic straws. Got it.

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It feels like, get back in there, take a few more swings. You'll hit the third one. By the way, my favorite comment I saw on X today was somebody was complaining about Musk having a 19-year-old doing this important work. And Michael Dell weighs in. He says, I started a company when I was 19. It's going pretty well. He started Dell Computers when he was 19. So, yeah, that was funny.

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Here's another funny one. Apparently Doge is going to be canceling 168K, 168,000 that was going to be for a Fauci museum or a Fauci exhibit in some kind of museum. A Fauci exhibit, 168,000. Does that mean that somebody was putting a statue of him? I think it's going to be a statue. I wonder if it's already built because you might be able to get it for cheap.

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If there's already built a Fauci statue and now there's nobody to buy it because they canceled the budget, I'd like to maybe look at it to possibly pick it up for cheap. I wouldn't mind having a Fauci statue in my foyer. I don't know what I'd use it for, but it'd be hilarious. Anyway, so that's funny. Yeah. So Elon Musk and his doge are going to get into the Pentagon.

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They're going to get into Medicare and Medicaid. And Elon says he thinks there's 100 billion wasted in Medicare and Medicaid, Gateway Pundits reporting. So that's still not enough. You know, if we're trying to solve a $2 trillion problem, how much do you think he's going to find in the Pentagon? Well, let me give you a little hint.

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There was a video of Elon at some event that was a few months ago, but it just dropped. The video did. And he was talking about the future of war. And he said, it's all going to be drones. Basically, drones, drones, drones. And is our military optimized for that? Or do we have gigantic entities that want to keep their own thing going? It's like, oh, I'm the tank people. So we need lots of tanks.

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And I'm the boat person people. We need lots of boats, ships, I guess. We probably need ships no matter what, even if they're just going to carry the drones. But yeah, so the suggestion is that if we were to build a military that was based on how you would actually fight a war today, that it might be completely different than what we do normally.

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God, learn to communicate, will you? Learn to communicate. How in the world is she one of their strongest Democrats when she can't put a sentence together that anybody would want to care about? Meanwhile, ICE has, I guess, arrested 11,000 illegal migrants, according to the New York Post. So they're putting them in all kinds of different places. So that's just in the first 18 days.

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So I think we just added drones to the things we have. If you want to save money... without losing too much in terms of your national defense, probably there's going to be a lot of other weapon systems that seem redundant if you've got enough drones. But then if somebody gets really good at blocking drones or jamming them, better than they are now, maybe we need the missiles back.

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So it's a pretty complicated situation. But if you want to get a sense of the future, in Ukraine... Here's an order from Ukraine just to tie it all together. So in Ukraine at the moment, Russia has a five to one soldier advantage on the front line. There are five times as many Russians as Ukrainians, and the Ukrainians are often old guys who don't want to be there. So they don't have much left.

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But what they do have is the ability to make 200,000 drones a month. So apparently what happens is that the Ukrainians are sending out no soldiers. They're not doing anything offensive. And the soldiers just, you know, man the drones and man the front lines. But the Russians are still doing some, you know, mild offensive maneuvers. They're not capturing much, you know, a mile here, a mile there.

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But as soon as they send out their soldiers, the drones go up and they just wipe them out. So not enough that it would stop a full-scale march if they really wanted to take the losses. But at the moment, it's kind of a stalemate where one side is losing people and the other side is losing drones. Just think about that. One side is losing people and the other side is only losing drones.

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So that's where it's going. $200,000 a month. One of them, according to interesting engineering, is a drone that can spread steel ball fragments over 21,000 square feet. 21,000 square feet? That means basically if the infantry of the Russian army is coming toward you, you can just drop one of these things and the shrapnel will kill everybody within 21,000 square feet. You don't need a lot of them.

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So, yeah, it's going to be drone, drone, drone, warfare, no doubt about it. So you might see some big recommendations about how to have a military that's different. That's going to be scary because we don't want to give up anything we have, but we'll have to because we don't have infinite money. All right. Trump has launched an investigation into California's high-speed rail debacle.

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So 128 billion was sort of set aside for it or budgeted. They've already spent about 14 billion and haven't built a single mile of track. I think most of the problem is DEI and environmentalism. There's just always some problem that nobody can do work. So Trump's going to look into it. Now, I don't know how that works. Can the federal government look into anything they want to in a state?

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Do they have that kind of authority? I don't know. But here's a question I ask. It seems to me that every time we see a criminal organization, or a criminal project. To me, the whole bullet train thing in California looks like it must be just massive fraud and waste and corruption. I'm sure people got really well paid, that $14 billion, to produce literally nothing.

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It seems like every time we see one of these organizations that is almost designed for corruption, like USAID, it's almost always an entirely Democrat situation. If you look at the most corrupt local mayors, I feel like most of them would be Democrats. And I'm wondering, are Democrats really only criminals? Because every time we see one, there's something criminal happening.

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Now, Republicans also do crimes. But Can you give me any example of a Republican-dominated organization that has been found to be one of these wasting billions of dollars things? The only one I know is Bill Kristol is sucking off the USAID teat. But even that's not big scale. I don't think that's a terribly big scale. So am I wrong that fraud and Democrats are so overlapped

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that all you would have to know is, oh, here's a big budget and a big organization, and it's mostly Democrats. You would know that it's corrupt, wouldn't you? And is that the same both ways? If it's a big organization with a big budget and it's run mostly by Republicans, could you also say, hey, people are people? If you give them a chance to steal, they will.

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They got 11,000 mostly criminals who mostly would have reoffended because criminals reoffend. Did they basically get rid of, let's say if they reoffended twice a year, did we get rid of 20,000 crimes? That feels like a lot. I mean, I get that it's a big country and we have a lot of crimes, but 20,000 crimes? How are you not in favor of that? 20,000 criminals, especially the gangs?

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And if that's true, that it works both ways kind of equally and it's not about Democrat or Republican, if that's true... Why are all the ones we hear about Democrats? Am I wrong? Am I missing some obvious examples where, oh yeah, this Republican-heavy organization was stealing like crazy and laundering funds? I'm not really aware of any of those stories.

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So at what point do we say, this doesn't look like a coincidence. It looks like Democrats are basically a criminal organization with their fingers in every pie that you could possibly put them in. Anyway, that's what it looks like. So we're at the point where our fake domestic news largely opposes Trump and Doge, while every foreign country envies both of them.

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What do you think other countries like, let's say, Germany, what do you think they think when they're watching the United States close down immigration and rip their budget apart looking for waste and fraud. Don't you think Germany is saying, oh God, why can't we be like that? Again, this gets back to what makes America different. We can just take more risk and we can live through it.

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What about France or the UK or any of them? Don't you think all of our allies are looking at Trump and Doge and saying, All right, well, they're not successful yet, but I sure wish we could do that. I think that's true. But in the United States, the fake news, which is most of the news, is treating it like it's the end of the world. So my summary is big balls, big balls.

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I also think that we might be 12 months away from lapping the field in economics. And when I say lapping the field, The U.S. economy is already one of the good ones. One of the best, right? But I think we're just going to pull away. And the drag that we have in the economy is all the excess spending.

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If we can get that anchor pulled up, the anchor of the excess spending, we're in really good shape. And Trump, of course, is pushing the envelope in every way economically. So specifically... Here's another example. Zelensky over in Ukraine says he's open to Trump's idea that the United States would get some of their rare earth minerals.

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So Trump said, if we're going to put all this money in Ukraine and defend it, we should get something in return. They've got lots of rare earth minerals that we need, so we'll take those. Now, when you first hear that, you say to yourself, you can't just take the rare earth minerals. It's like a whole other country. You know, aren't they going to have to agree to that?

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And then Zelensky says, yeah, we could talk about that. Let's make a deal. Because Ukraine can't really exploit those resources on its own. And if it's making America happy and also getting maybe half of the money or something, it's a good idea for both because they're not going to do it on their own. They're just too broken down to afford something like that. So, yeah. Yeah.

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Once again, Trump sees free money and says, I'll take that. Now, you also saw the story that, I don't know if this is true yet. I haven't seen a good source for this. Can anybody confirm that Egypt said it would help the Palestinians from Gaza? Is that real? Because I don't know if it's real or just something I saw. But the story is, the way people are treating it is that it's real. And

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So that would be a case of Trump stirring the box and saying, okay, we'll take Gaza. If nobody wants to help, if nobody's going to help the Gaza residents, we will. Now, the way we're going to do it is we'll probably have to ship you somewhere else for a long time, and it might take 10 years to fix up Gaza, but then we'll consider bringing back the people who don't look dangerous.

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Now, that was probably never a practical plan. but it certainly made the people in the region sharpen their pencils and say, ah, maybe we could help. Maybe we could, just to keep that big boot of the United States military out of the region. So it could be that Trump's play was exactly what the Palestinians needed, just to incentivize other countries in the region to help out.

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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had today. I'll remind you again that Owen's spaces that he usually does on Saturday, he's going to do on Sunday this week. So no spaces today. Tomorrow. All right. Let's see how I did. Oh, good. I was trying to keep it to an hour. I got pretty good. Kind of itchy. Majority of the rare earth is in the regions that Russia controls.

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Well, maybe the majority, but I'll bet there's still plenty. I'm not sure anybody ever knows where all the rare earth is until you start digging around for it. Because if you're not looking for it, how are you going to find it? So I think everybody's got a lot of rare earth. What they don't have is the ability to mine it. All right. That's all I've got for now.

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You know, there's some people who say that the gangs, the trend of Wagwa, whatever it is, are so, let's say, viral, that if they get enough of a foothold in your country, they can start controlling your government. And we weren't very far away from that. It would have only taken a little bit, you know, maybe a few more years,

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I'm going to say hi to the people on Locals. And the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. Have a great Saturday. Locals, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds.

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and they would have control over local governments through threats and violence. Anyway, so glad we're getting them now. One of the stories that people had the most interest in yesterday was that Trump revoked Biden's security clearance. Now, you might remember that Biden

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revoked trump's security clearance saying oh he can't be trusted so so trump returned the favor which i'm totally in favor of uh you know i'm not in favor of just revengey stuff but this had no real impact on anything except slap in the face to biden who just deserved a slap in the face uh again not physically we're talking we're talking uh mentally a slap in the face and uh

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But the reason that I think the public was so interested in this story, you know, yesterday when I did my man cave program, almost everybody who came in said, hey, have you heard about this one? Have you heard about this one? And I think the main thing is we understand it. The Doge stories are all just a little complicated. Have you noticed?

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Now we're talking. Well, if you're thinking it's Saturday, so is Owen going to do his spaces? Not today. Spaces will be on Sunday after the show. There are Several stories in the news today about trans, and I'm going to ignore all of them, because I feel manipulated. You know what I mean?

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You have to sort of know what the entity is, and then there's a whole bunch of different things they're doing badly, and then you confuse that with the other entity, and it's just really complicated stuff. So when we see a simple one, like Trump's bringing back plastic straws, we're like, okay, I got that one. Or Trump revokes Biden's security clearance. Oh, okay, got it.

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Let's talk about that one. Easy. You know, all crime hides in complexity. Complexity is usually the way that, it's usually intentional to hide crime. That's why almost every domain has something in it that's way too complicated because there's crime in there and you can't spot it because it's too complicated. There's a study by DiverseIQ.com says that DEI didn't work.

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So DEI has been around for a while, and it made basically no real difference. I could give you details, but the details all say it didn't make any difference. So we had years of severe racism against white men mostly, because white women were doing fine under DEI. But years of discrimination, just overt discrimination against men, no difference. The numbers barely moved.

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A little bit more in management, which you'd expect. So anyway, DEI was a failure. We can say that for sure. Much like the... Department of Education at the federal level. Is it the Department of Education? Yeah. The Department of Education was formed because the students at the lowest end of accomplishment needed a boost.

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So the whole idea was, all right, we'll do this federal thing so the states can't just let people go. And it made no difference. So years and years of funding the the education department, no difference. So DEI, no difference. Department of Education, no difference. So getting rid of those things that made no difference has got to be a good thing.

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All right, let's talk about the story about the young man, I think he was 25, who got canceled but was brought back. So correct me if I'm wrong, But I think the story about Big Balls is not a story about him saying anything wrong. He just had a funny name online. It's someone else, slightly older, 25, I think, 24, 25. who was the one who said some things under a, I think under a pseudonym.

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I don't think it was under his own name, but had said several things that a normal person would say. Well, that's pretty racist. That looks pretty racist. I would say that. If you were just looking at what he said, yeah. Yeah, I'm not going to repeat them because they're ugly thoughts. But yeah, if you were only looking at the sentences, yeah, that would look racist to me. But here's the thing.

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There are real people who say bad things. I've told you before, I don't put the same standard on somebody young as I put on somebody older, but I also don't put the same standard on people acting anonymously. If somebody acts anonymously and then somebody outs them, I blame the person who outed them. That's my standard.

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Because if you're saying something anonymously, it means it's something closer to a thought. It's something that you wouldn't say under your own name. All of us have terrible thoughts sometimes, I mean, on different topics, but we all have terrible thoughts. If all of us were judged on our thoughts, we would all be canceled. Now, some of you might say, oh, not me. I never had any bad thoughts.

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Really? Really? I don't believe that. So I don't have the same standard for, and I don't know if this is the case, by the way. I don't know if he posted under his own name. If he posted that stuff under his own name, then I would be a little more harsh. But anything that somebody does anonymously, it's because they want you to know how they think. And I find that valuable.

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So even if you hate it, don't you want to know somebody's thinking it? Isn't that a plus? Even if you hate that somebody's thinking it, I want to know what they're thinking. Whether it's an insult to somebody else or an insult to me, I would definitely want to know. So there's that. But here's the bigger story. So the bigger story is that he said things that Normally would get anybody canceled.

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Every time I see a trans story of any kind, I think to myself, you know, it was only a few years ago there were zero, and then suddenly it's like one of the main things in the news. There's no way that's organic. And it's no way that's national news. All right, there's somebody who's trans and somebody called them the wrong pronoun. I don't care. No interest whatsoever in individual trans stories.

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But J.D. Vance basically said, you know, get over it. People make mistakes, move on. And then he got reinstated. So Elon brought him back. He also had a little survey on X. 78% of the people on X, now it's of course not a scientific poll, but 78% said bring him back. Now, here's why I'm in favor of bringing him back.

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because I can't live with a standard that you can be canceled for something you said that somebody else thinks is racist. Now, in this particular case, these were unusually clear. So they look pretty bad, but he's also unlikely to take those kind of views into his adult life. People change. So my problem with the whole topic is, is if you let this guy get canceled, what happens next? Right?

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I don't want to say slippery slope because I hate that term. But what happens if you let him get canceled? They look for the next one, right? They look for another one to cancel. But the next one might not be so clear. Maybe the next one said one thing once. Canceled. Maybe they said something that wasn't bad. But if you took it out of context, it is bad. Canceled.

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So as soon as you let the enemy, this would be the Democrats, as soon as you give them a loaded weapon, they're going to start shooting. So what J.D. Vance was is not to save a racist. If that's what you saw, you missed the whole show. What he did is save us. He saved the rest of us. The story is he saved one guy by having a

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a well-thought-out defense of people making mistakes and maybe we can not throw out the baby with the bathwater kind of thing. Maybe we should try to reconstitute him because he has value to the country. It was a good academic, I guess, good argument. People liked it. But by far, the important thing is what it did for the rest of us. It made us safer.

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Because now I know that even if somebody tried to make something up, that at least the Democrats would say, get the fuck out of here. Am I right? This is really, really big. And to me, it's as big as DEI being canceled.

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If you can take the, you're a racist, oh, and also your brother's a racist, your sister's a racist, and everybody you know is a racist, and everybody's a racist, you're a racist, you're a racist, you have to disarm that. Because if you let them have that weapon, they'll just use it all day long, like a Gatling gun. And you saw what the last 10 years have been like. So yes, J.D.

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Well, good morning and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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Vance may have defended, you know, 50 million people. So if you think it's a story about that one guy who said some shit that I don't like either, not really. It's a much bigger point. Anyway... According to The Hill, there's a story about saving DEI in the private sector. So it's an opinion piece about how they have to work hard to save DEI in the private sector.

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And he said, the title is, How Can We Defend the Private Sector from Trump's War on DEI? They are literally asking how they can keep racism because DEI is canceled because it's racist. That's the reason. There wasn't any other reason. So how can you write an opinion piece on the Hill defending racism, which is what he's doing?

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Well, would you be surprised to know there's a lawyer who works on these issues and gets paid the more DEI stuff he's doing? Follow the money. That's how you find out what's going on. Well, Trump apparently dismissed multiple members of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees.

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So the Kennedy Center, I guess the Board of Trustees are a bunch of political appointees, and he decided that they were not on board with the Golden Age, and that he didn't say so, but I feel like they were too woke, and that wasn't compatible with the Golden Age. So he just got rid of a bunch of trustees. And one of the trustees is former Press Secretary Corinne Jean-Pierre,

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So you'd have to ask yourself, is Jerome Powell on the side of the United States or his own side or somebody else's side if he doesn't lower interest rates? So we'll see. That'll be interesting. Well, so far, the number of countries who have decided that they're going to immediately negotiate their tariffs with Trump, it's a small number.

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but it's so far Vietnam, Cambodia, Argentina, Israel's already gone, but it's a start. So Macron in France is saying, don't do investments in the United States. China matched our tariffs with their own, so they're looking tough. So we're going to need to get at least one larger country to negotiate. So it makes me wonder who's going to go first, if anybody.

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So you can get all the little countries to capitulate. but that's not going to get you what you want. You're going to need to get at least one big one to say, well, I'm glad I went first. Billy John, we've got a troll here from YouTube. Billy John, let me explain to you how time works. Yeah, you seem to be confused. You might be an alien from another country. The golden age...

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So according to multiple reports from the CIA archive, agents in South America were convinced the dictator was still alive in the 50s. And he changed his name to remain undercover. Do you know what this makes me think? It makes me think, I don't know what's true about anything in history. I don't think any history is real. I feel like all history is fake.

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is something that you build toward. And as I'll explain to you during the show, the temporary pullback in the stock market is not anything you should worry about. And we probably are now poised for the greatest American period of all time. It doesn't mean it's guaranteed, but I do think Trump has largely done all the right stuff. And he's got really smart people behind him.

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Scott Besant impresses me every time I see him on camera. I think he's just the best. Have you listened to him at all? He's so good explaining things in simple terms while also sounding like the smartest person in the room that when he's done, you say to yourself, oh, I feel a lot better now. Yeah, if you hear Trump say stuff, you think to yourself, I don't know, is he just in salesman mode?

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You know, is that all BS? But when you see Scott Besant explaining something, he gives you all of his work. You know, like he removes all questions. So we'll talk about him a little bit more. So, yes, I think the golden age is looking actually pretty strong. But Trump and everybody smart warned that there would be a period of turmoil, which is the period to win.

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Now, there's almost nothing I can think of. that doesn't require some sacrifice to get there. If you wanted to get in shape at the gym, it's going to be harder when you start. If you wanted to go on a diet, it's going to be kind of painful. If you wanted to improve your job, you're probably going to have to, I don't know, go to training or school at night or, you know, double your efforts.

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So this is no different. If the country wants to survive the death spiral it was in, you know, the death spiral, it's got to do doge, even if it's messy. It's really got to do the tariffs, even if it's messy. So the big picture is really good. If you're playing small ball, like the troll on YouTube, and you don't understand how anything works. It just looks like, oh, my stock went down.

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My stock went down. But we can get you to a smarter place. All right. There's a video of Kamala Harris acting drunk. She finally appeared. I guess she thought it was a good time to go to say something in public. She was at some event. And since the stock market was down, she decided that what she would do is, it looks like she was drunk, go in public and say, I don't want to say anything.

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I don't want to say... I don't want to say, I told you so. That's my Kamala Harris impression. Pretty good, wasn't it? Yeah. But I was watching The Five, and they showed that clip, and Piers Morgan was on the show that day, and he just... said, she looks drunk. And I think Jesse and Greg were sort of on the same page.

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And I'm so confused why we can be in a mode where there are now a couple of books out where people are admitting that the insiders all knew that Biden was mentally disabled. And I'm thinking to myself, the insiders, Everybody who had a television or could hear or see knew that he was mentally disabled. And we could see the same thing, exactly the same thing with Harris.

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She's clearly inebriated in public on a regular basis. And are we going to just do the same thing? Are we just going to wait a few years and then somebody will write a book when she seems like she's not a threat anymore? Somebody's going to write a book and say, oh, yeah. We all knew. Everybody knew. We tried to take the drink away from her, but she fought us.

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Looks like that's what we're going to do. We're just going to repeat the same thing and act like we're surprised again. So that's coming. Speaking of books, so one of the two books that alleged to have the inside story of what was happening during the Biden-Kamala changeover. The book called Fight alleges that Harris and Walz were completely shocked that they lost the election.

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So there was a time when I would have laughed at this and said, because that's me laughing. That's my laugh. And I'd say, I don't think so. Next thing you're going to tell me is that the moon landing was, okay, let's not go there. I'm going to say I don't know if this is true, but I also don't know if anything else in history is true.

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And they were actually asking their staff if they should do a recount. So I wonder if at any point they asked themselves, was this rigged? Because I'll bet they did, even if it was only privately. Don't you think they said to themselves, everybody said we were going to win. And apparently they've been shown, they've been looking at polls that were just the ridiculous rigged polls.

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Yes, I think some of the polls were rigged. So I guess their staff, they must have put them in this weird position where they thought, oh, we're definitely going to win. And then she had the surprise of her life. Anyway, so apparently, according to this book, she blamed Biden for staying in the race too long and said she could have won with more time. Okay.

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How much time do you think that would have taken? 40 years? In Colorado, it looks like there's a bill that's go on to the next level. So there's a proposal that if parents in Colorado refuse to use their children's preferred pronouns, they could lose custody of the children. That doesn't even seem real, does it? No, it's not real yet. It's a proposal.

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But they got the green light to create the bill, I guess. And misgendering is called coercive control. Could you imagine losing custody of your own child because you didn't go along with some pronoun stuff? That is so beyond anything that my brain can even handle. I just look at it and go, oh, how is this even possible? So with any luck, that will not become any kind of a law there, but we'll see.

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All right. I thought I would give you a little very quick, easy set of arguments that are the best arguments about all the tariffs and the situation we're in. So I've heard some good arguments and some bad arguments, and I'm going to tell you the ones that look most persuasive to me and most correct. I think in this case, when you're talking about economics, being persuasive and being right,

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Kind of the same thing. And that's not always true. But you don't want to mess around with economics, right? So you don't want to be real persuasive and wrong. Although in politics, sometimes that can work out for you. But not when it comes to your finances. You want your most persuasive argument to be also accurate. So let me give you some of the best arguments. I saw Victor Davis Hanson.

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I always say his name wrong. I feel so bad about it. But I was hearing him saying that if tariffs are bad... and all the smart people know that tariffs are bad, and that's what we've been hearing, right? The critics, everybody knows tariffs are bad, tariffs are terrible, tariffs are bad for your country. Then the question would be, why does every country have tariffs on us?

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Are we the only country that if we put a tariff on, it's bad for us? Is China going out of business? They've got tariffs. To imagine that tariffs are bad for a country while every single sophisticated modern country has tariffs, all of them, that's a pretty good argument in favor of tariffs, isn't it? What is the counter argument to that?

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Once you've pointed out that every smart, successful country has tariffs, every one, I think there are no exceptions. How can you argue that we're the only country to be bad for? And is it destroying all those other countries? Doesn't look like it. China seems to be growing. So that's your best argument in favor of tariffs.

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Well, speaking of Nazis, let's check in with the Democrats, see how they're doing. According to the Gateway Pundit, the DNC chair, Ken Martin, He's decided to put together a little group called the People's Cabinet. And people like Robert Reich are on there. So it's supposedly a group of experts and ordinary people, he calls them, experts, leaders, and everyday Americans.

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Now, the other argument is, of course, that it's primarily for negotiation. And that if you look at, say, Vietnam, they've already offered free trade, zero tariffs. If you look at Argentina, they're also negotiating no tariffs. So if you look at it as a negotiation, it's a slam dunk smart thing to do that's already working because at least two countries have already said, yep, no tariffs.

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We need to get the big countries or it doesn't matter that much, but at least directionally it looks good. So those are your two arguments. Every country does it and it's a negotiation. So if you like no tariffs, this is how you get there. The only way to get to no tariffs is to put one on the people who you think you can negotiate to get rid of them on both sides.

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Then there's the stock market argument. I guess the stock market was down $6.6 trillion in market value. I always tell you, ignore any numbers that don't come with percentages. In this case, the percentage is the thing you should look for in the stock market, not the number. But here's the first part of the argument. It is completely normal

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and completely predictable that there will be 10 to 20% pullbacks in the stock market for any number of reasons. Sometimes it just gets ahead of itself. Sometimes there's some big impact in the country like COVID or something else. But there is no world in which you can go for 20 years without a 20% pullback. There's just always a pullback.

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This just happens to be the reason it's happening at the moment. So I guess NASDAQ is already down 20%. That's the most normal thing in the world. If you own stocks, and ideally you didn't need to cash them out right away, it shouldn't make any difference to you that it went down 20%.

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Because I think this would be my third or fourth time in my life, in my adult life, where all my stocks went down 20% and 100% of the time they came back. So the first argument about the stocks is that if you didn't sell it, you didn't lose anything. And 10% to 20% correction is completely normal for any number of reasons. This just happens to be the reason right now.

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Then I'm going to give you another argument that I worry might cause you to buy or sell stocks based on this advice. This is not advice. This is not advice. But I'm going to give you a frame because we're in such an unusual situation. If the stock market continued to go down and we got into a Great Depression... the value of stocks would be even better once we were in the Depression.

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If you had bought stocks at the depth of the Great Depression, you would have done great. Sir John Templeton did exactly that. He's one of the greatest investors in American history, and he started during the Depression. He said to himself, either the entire country is going to go to hell, in which case nobody's money is worth anything,

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It wouldn't matter if you had your money in your mattress or in the stock market. If it all goes, your money's worth nothing no matter what. So this is one of those situations where you could imagine it's leading to complete ruin of the United States. So should you invest? I don't know. Where else are you going to put your money? Would you put it in some other country?

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If the United States was going to go down the toilet and just be completely out of business, that would take most of the world would follow, I think. So you have one of these weird situations where it seems like things can't get much worse. But if they did get worse, it wouldn't matter where your money was. It would be gone. It wouldn't matter if you were in bonds or whatever.

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you know, buried it in the backyard. It wouldn't be worth anything if everything else went to hell. So I'm not going to tell you this is a buying opportunity. I'll just disclose that the last thing I would do is sell my stocks now. That's the last thing I would do. But I'm not a financial advisor. Do not get, do not take any financial advice from me. It's not advice. All right.

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Then there's the argument that the only people being hurt are the wealthy because it's the top half of the economic United States that owns stocks. There's almost nobody in the bottom half that owns any stocks. And the top 10% own, I don't know, 88% of them or some crazy number. So

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And what they will be doing is fact-checking Trump. But they will be doing it in the most theatrical way. So, in effect, the Democrats, having absolutely nothing to offer to the country, have decided to put on a play, a theatrical production, called The People's Cabinet. And apparently it requires a little person, so... Robert Reich will be taking that role.

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if what Trump is doing is reforming the United States economy such that it brings back more manufacturing jobs, then that would be great for the bottom 50% of the country. And ultimately, it would be great for the top half as well. But in the short run, the people at the top are going to take a little scare. And the scare is, well, there goes 20% of your money.

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but it's not really gone as long as they can write it out and rich people can write it down generally. All right, then there's the jobs argument. You probably saw that the jobs report were unexpectedly terrific. But this was before the tariffs were announced. They were certainly threatening for the last month. Everybody knew they were coming. But the U.S.

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added 228,000 jobs, and that was way above what we thought was going to be 140,000. Now, I would say the best argument about jobs is that it didn't have much to do with either president. Probably wasn't because of Biden. Probably wasn't because of Trump. Probably just the economy sometimes has a good month. And so I don't think it predicts anything about tariffs.

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It doesn't say that the tariffs are a good idea or a bad idea. It doesn't tell you that it'll be the same next month. It's just sort of good news for March because it could have been worse. But it does show a little bit of strength, which is a good time to do the tariff stuff.

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Then there's the inflation argument, the argument that the tariffs are going to cause inflation because isn't that what happens when prices go up? It's called inflation. But apparently we have a history that shows that past tariffs, because we've put tariffs on before, didn't increase inflation. And the people who are smarter than me say the only thing that increases inflation is printing money.

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You don't increase inflation by tariffs. Now, that might be counterintuitive because you're saying to yourself, but my goods and services, well, goods, will cost more. How is that not inflation? And the answer is that there are individual price increases that would be real, but that the economy adjusts fairly quickly. And you would have alternatives.

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So if you said, but the cost of my German car went up 20%. I say to you, well, why don't you buy a Ford, which is giving you now the employee discount that's cheaper than it used to be? So you're going to have an option of spending less if you're okay with American choices over other choices.

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The other thing is in the long run, of course, if manufacturing comes back and we can make our own products, prices could drift down. Potentially. But also, if food and energy prices went way down, your overall inflation rate would look pretty good. And it turns out that if we make and sell all of our food to Americans instead of selling some of it overseas... it might actually be cheaper.

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So food prices could go down. Egg prices are down. We might find that food prices are not that affected by the tariffs. But oil had just reached an all-time low. If every one of our goods and services went up in price, but oil went to an all-time low, It might cancel out because oil and energy is one of the biggest expenses that goes into any product.

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So you might end up finding out, oh, the economy looks like it took a big hit, which causes the demand for oil to go down. which causes the products to cost less. So the argument on inflation is that the only thing that causes it is printing money and that tariffs can cause individual prices to go up in the short run, but it doesn't cause inflation in the long run. That's the argument.

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He'll be playing a far-left economist who says wacky things. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to the play. Now, some say it could be as good as Snow White the movie. So if that doesn't get you there, I don't know what will. I'm going to buy my ticket right away. Because as you know, the Democrats don't have any policies or ideas or power.

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Then there's the trade deficit argument where most of the countries we're dealing with, they sell us way more things than they buy from us. And I've seen two arguments from smart people. One said the trade deficit is nothing you need to worry about because it's just numbers on a piece of paper. And it doesn't matter that we're buying more than we're selling. I'm not sure I buy that.

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The other argument is the opposite that says over time, if you're only buying more than you're selling, then you're probably printing money to cover the difference, and you're basically going to be out of business eventually, and we may have reached eventually. So I do think we have to figure out that trade imbalance thing.

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So I think the best argument is you can't go forever with trade imbalances, but you can definitely go for years as long as you're willing to print money to make up the difference and you reach the end of that working. So we're probably at the end of that working. So trade deficits, we probably do have to fix. Then there's the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 argument.

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And the argument is that when the US put tariffs on other countries in 1930s, it was one of the triggers to create the Great Depression. Now, the problem with that argument is that it's an analogy. Even though you say to yourself, well, it's not an analogy. It's exactly the same thing. It's putting tariffs on things. But no, this is not 1930. There are too many differences.

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The biggest difference is that I wasn't there in 1930, but these tariffs are for primarily negotiation purposes. Was that true for Smoot-Hawley? When Smoot-Hawley put their tariffs on, did five countries immediately contact the US and say, hey, how about we all drop all of our tariffs? Because that's what just happened with these tariffs.

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So I don't think you can compare a country that was teetering on the edge and wasn't using it for negotiating with whatever's happening today. There'd be just too many differences. And then you might remember

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as a cynical publius who's on Axe, a great account to follow, cynical publius, argues that back when Gore was arguing with Ross Perot about NAFTA, Gore argued that NAFTA was a good idea and Perot was saying there'd be this giant sucking sound that would suck the industry out and Perot was right.

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So apparently, Perot's argument that we should have some trade barriers, which you would think typically would be bad, probably was right. So when you think about things that limit trade, you can't really just compare 1930s to today. There are just too many differences.

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So some are saying that, I saw the Wall Street Journal had an opinion piece, that China had a good week, meaning that things are looking good for China because they just have some kind of negotiating advantage. And they kind of do. They kind of do. So one of the things China has, as I mentioned, is the TikTok thing. Trump has a lot riding on the TikTok deal.

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because I think one of his biggest funders is an owner of it and needs some kind of an exit or some kind of a deal to not lose all of his billions. And Trump's put his reputation on it, and now China just yanked it back. So now they have something to negotiate with in addition to the tariffs themselves. So then there's also the China has those Panama Ports,

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So they're kind of left with doing one-man theatrical productions like Cory Booker recently did. But now at least it's an ensemble. Is that the right word? Ensemble? The People's Cabinet. Can't wait. It'll be like Hamilton, but with fewer minorities, I think.

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that we don't want China to be controlling. But I don't know, does that work for China or against it? Because we could always just go in there and just take it. and I don't think China would start a war over it. So that's part of the negotiations. But I saw today a source that said that China's exports, only 15%, 1.5%, is to the United States. And then I said, uh-oh, uh-oh.

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That means that they're not dependent on selling things to the United States. It's only 15% of their exports. It seems to me they can ride this sound pretty well. So they probably played this exactly right by just matching our tariffs, which are unsustainable in either direction, probably.

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Whereas we might need the things they have, like their various parts that are necessary for our industries and the rare earth minerals, etc., We might need them a lot more than they need us. And that surprised me. If you would ask me how much of China's exports go to the United States, if I hadn't looked it up, probably would have guessed north of 30%.

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And if that were the case, then we would have a pretty good negotiating position because, you know, 30% of what they export, You know, they're not going to lose that. But 15? 15 is right at the point where they could say, you know what? There are other people who will buy these things. It's not like we're even going to lose any sales. We'll just sell it to Russia instead of you.

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We'll just sell it to Japan instead of you. So China is in an unusually strong position. So I don't know where that's going to go, but I hope Trump has some negotiating tricks in his bag. Well, according to Fox News, the military looks like it might cut 90,000 troops because of budget reasons. Now, does 90,000 sound like a lot? It does. But we're also entering the drone age.

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So if these 90,000 people can't operate drones, I just don't know if we needed them that much. So I guess we're going to have to rejigger our entire military so that we've got the right mix of people. But it's going to be drone operators, drone experts, drone retrievers, drone defenders, drone everything. So probably 90,000 is survivable.

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You probably heard that a federal judge ordered that, what would you call him? I'll just say that individual that the Trump administration had shipped off to the El Salvador prison system. And the federal judge said he did not have due process. There's some question whether he was ever an MS-13 suspect. But apparently he'll be brought back.

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I don't have an opinion on this, because if you don't know for sure if he was part of MS-13, Pam Bondi seemed to think he was. I don't know if the evidence for that was good or not. But I don't mind that we correct. So it looks like this was just an error. And he already had a court order prohibiting from being deported specifically to El Salvador.

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So I think the administration admitted at least that much was a mistake, that they didn't notice that he couldn't be sent to El Salvador because of specific dangers there, I guess. So if he's truly innocent and he's never been part of MS-13, this is a pretty bad mistake.

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But we also live in a world where things don't work perfectly, especially if you're moving fast and you're trying to save your country. So I'm not going to defend it. I'm just going to say, unfortunately, we live in a world where this can happen. And I don't have any further opinion on it.

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So Trump sent a list of demands to Harvard University, according to the New York Post, and they're going to lose $9 billion in government funding. Let's stop right there. Harvard was getting $9 billion in government funding? Now, one of the things that many of you have heard but don't understand is that the so-called endowments that colleges have, they can't really use it for whatever they want.

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Well, Trump's tax plan is being hammered out in Congress, and the Republicans are going ahead with what they call trillions of dollars in tax cut extensions, because we don't want the current tax system to time out. It was scheduled to time out and then taxes would have gone up. But he wants to increase some border security and some military.

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It looks like Rand Paul and Susan Collins broke with the party and voted against it. But what they're working on is what they call a fiscal framework. You know what that sounds like? If you said, hey, I'd like you guys to come up with a budget. And instead of coming up with a budget, they came up with a fiscal framework. Would you think that they had done a job?

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If this were corporate America, and you knew that all these people were working on a budget, but what they returned to you with was a fiscal framework, that's almost like not doing work. I mean, it's pathetic, honestly. And it just signals a completely broken process. No, we don't need any freaking fiscal framework. Just give us a budget or maybe give us a few of them so we can pick one.

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But no, I don't want a fiscal framework. All right. You may have seen this clip. There was a guest on CNN named Ashley Ellison. And apparently she worked for Joe Biden. And she said, I worked for Joe Biden. If the people around him knew that he was not capable, it is unacceptable that they allowed him to go on that stage.

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And her excuse was that she worked for Biden, but she didn't spend time around him. So therefore, she was surprised to find out he was mentally degraded and the insiders knew it. To which I say, nice try, Ashley Allison, trying to cover your ass. The rest of us knew it just because we had televisions and eyes. You did not need to spend time around Biden to know that he was mentally degraded.

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We've been over this. But I think all the Democrats now are trying to find a get out of jail free card where they can give you some reason why it wasn't really their fault that they were supporting a candidate with no brain. And this was a good try. If you weren't paying attention, you might say to yourself, oh, okay, well, they lied to her. I guess she's mad at those other Democrats.

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And this must be the honest and smart one. because it sounds like if she'd been in that situation, she would have told people. No, she's just another Democrat liar who absolutely knew he was mentally degraded, because everybody did. Everybody who had eyes knew it. So don't lie to us, you know, a year later and say, well, I didn't spend any time with him. How could I possibly know?

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Now, do you think she also doesn't notice that Kamala Harris is often inebriated in public? I guess we'll have to wait for a new book to come out, and then people will say, well, I didn't spend much time around her, but how could I possibly have known? Just watch the videos. Just look at her. It's kind of obvious. Piers Morgan knew.

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So we learned a little more about that mineral deal with Ukraine that kept falling through. Scott Besant was talking to Tucker. And here's what he says. So he says that apparently Zelensky had guaranteed that the deal was on and then kind of threw the U.S. under the bus by going into the – White House and the NACLN like it wasn't on or he was still negotiating and blowing it up.

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And here's what Scott Besant thinks is the real reason the deal looked like it was going to be signed but then wasn't. Now, this is his own speculation, but he's pretty clever, so I think I'm going to go with him on this. He said to Tucker, quote, you know who doesn't sign that deal? Someone with their hand in the till.

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because apparently the mineral deal was designed in a way that was hard to skim so that the ukrainian people would have gotten a benefit and the american people would have gotten a benefit but it would not have gone through the the skimmer in between third parties who want to take their billion dollars from everything and so it was the criminals who killed the deal because they weren't getting a cut

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Now, he doesn't have proof of that, as far as I can tell, but it would explain everything we saw. So the fact that it explains everything has some weight, but that's his opinion, and I won't argue it.

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I guess the Supreme Court gave Trump a win on the DEI funding for schools, so now he's going to be allowed to block $65 million that the Department of Education otherwise would have granted to Democrat NGOs to promote DEI in schools. It's amazing to me that DEI is just flat-out illegal, and we still have to fight to defund it.

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So if you say to yourself, but Harvard has endowments worth X billions of dollars, why don't they spend that instead of charging people for tuition? And the answer is the endowments usually are limited. As in, here's some money to build the science building and put my name on it. But they can't just use it for whatever they want.

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How many illegal things that are obviously illegal and the government has, you know, the current administration has declared illegal. How hard should you have to fight to not give money to the illegal thing? It's just incredible. Speaking of that, James O'Keefe got on Hidden Video on his OMG company there.

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He got this NIH official, said that he was coaching researchers how to work around the DEI ban by using the word ancestry instead of race. Oh, my God. And, you know, it's just a typical white guy. It's always the white guy. I feel like, you know, the worst offenders are the white guys who just can't let go of their DEI because they have their jobs.

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So they want to make sure that, you know, no white guy coming up can get their job. Then FBI Director Kash Patel says he's going after China's influence on American farmlands. So you know the issue. China has bought a whole bunch of farmland in the U.S., and a lot of it is near our military bases. But to me, this seems like as big an issue as it is.

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It seems to me like it's one of a thousand things that China is doing to the U.S. every day. Apparently, China's expenses for spy stuff on the United States is just through the roof. That's Fox News was reporting on that. Then the European Union is still trying to censor Elon Musk on X. So interesting engineering is talking about this.

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So the European Union, the regulators are trying to levy a billion dollar penalty against X. And it's because they violated their European Digital Services Act, according to the New York Times. Now, we assume that all this is just a way to get to Musk and defang him and also to destroy free speech in the United States because X is the primary place.

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And if they can find a way to make it impossible for Musk to stay in business, then the last bastion of free speech in the United States will be destroyed by Europe. probably with the help of Democrats in this country, but by Europe. Now, I've got to say this puts the future of NATO very much in question because

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I'm not willing to defend a country that's destroying free speech in the United States, no matter how cleverly they do it. And this is kind of clever. They create a set of laws and then act like it's for everybody, but then they really go after X and try to put him out of business. Unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable. Now, whatever Trump does, and I assume he'll respond to this,

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Whatever Trump does in response, it should be a 10 out of 10. In other words, we should never have this conversation again. We should never, ever be talking about Europe ending free speech in America. If they bring it up again, I mean, I would just say, we're out. Good luck with Putin. And just remove all our assets and say, good luck.

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Or here's an endowment to give scholarships to a certain class of people. They can't just take it and use it for other stuff. So if you want to be the smartest person in the room, when somebody else says, They've got these rich endowments, you should say. They do, but they're all restricted. They can't just use them as a piggy bank. Anyway, $9 billion.

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But I definitely wouldn't change anything at X if that's possible. Well, the U.S. Air Force is retrofitting some of the F-16 jets with software to make it autonomous. So there'll be no pilot. And they've got several of them that they're working on. They've got six of them they're playing with. And apparently they're pretty close to having autonomous jets, at least the F-16s.

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Now, at the same time that we're putting these F-16s up autonomously, the UK has developed a drone killer laser weapon. that only costs them $13 per shot, and it usually takes one shot to take on a drone.

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So I'm not so sure that F-16 drones are going to last in the battlefield too long because, you know, you've got to figure all of our adversaries are going to have these $13 drone-killing lasers too. So your drone better cost a lot less than an F-16. So I don't know. I don't know if the F-16 drones have much of a future.

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According to Ars Technica, most Americans think AI won't improve their lives, but the people in the business think it's going to be terrific. So there's this gigantic difference between the people who are just casually reading the news about AI and saying, I don't think this is going to make my life better.

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And then the researchers and the techies saying, oh, man, this is going to be the most amazing thing. So we're really not on the same page on this. We'll see. All right, that's the last of my stories.

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I'll remind you that Owen Gregorian is going to host in just a few minutes an after party on the Spaces app, which is within X. So go to X, and if you can find my account, you'll see I reposted it, the link, or you can just search for Owen Gregorian on X. It'll pop right up near the top of his feed, and just click that. I will probably be listening, maybe anonymously.

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But that is all I have to say for today. I hope it made you all a little bit smarter and happier. And I will see you again tomorrow. Same time, same place. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately in 30 seconds. But I don't want to hold you up too much from going to join the spaces. All right.

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And again, I don't know over what time period that is. That can't possibly be one year, but maybe anything's possible. But the reason that they might lose that $9 billion is that Trump is insisting that they get rid of their DEI programs and clamp down on all the anti-Semitic protests and stuff.

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And he also wants them to ban face masks on campus because that's one of the reasons that the protests can get out of control because people can cover their faces. So we'll see if Harvard blinks. I'm going to say I think they will. According to Newsmax, Sam Barron is reporting that the Department of Energy has decided that 44% of their staff is what they call non-essential.

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44% of their entire staff is non-essential. Now, I wonder how they figured that out. So in all likelihood, there's going to be some big employee cuts there. I think they should rename the department. If 44% of your employees are non-essential, I wouldn't call it the Department of Energy. I would call it the Low Energy Department. Are you with me? Low Energy Department? Anybody? Okay.

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Meanwhile, Housing and Urban Development, that you call HUD, is going to stop funding housing in sanctuary cities and states. So if you were one of those states that depended on HUD to help you build some housing and you had Georgia housing, good luck if you're a sanctuary city or a sanctuary state, because the HUD secretary, Scott Turner,

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just sent in a letter saying, you're not going to get it if you're a sanctuary city. Now, I've never seen the government use its power this way before. Because I guess I didn't realize how many things the government funds. But watching the government use its just funding authority to change things is kind of interesting.

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But it makes me wonder if Democrats win, are they just going to reverse everything and they would just use the same threat? Well, you better change it back. You better give everybody masks. You better go wild with DEI because we love our DEI. So we'll see if any of this is lasting. Well, as I predicted, Trump is going to extend the TikTok deadline. That was the deadline to make a deal.

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I should tell you that after the show, there will be a Spaces. That's the audio only feature on the X platform. Hosted by Owen Gregorian. For those who want to do the coffee with Scott Adams after party. It'll be more stuff, more fun. So just look for Owen Gregorian on X or just look for my account on X and you'll find that I reposted it. So you'll find the link. All right.

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And we've learned as of today that China had apparently agreed last to allow ByteDance to sell TikTok. So they actually had a deal. And then Trump ruined it by the timing of introducing tariffs. And so as soon as China saw the tariffs, they said, oh, nope, change our mind. We do not allow that sale. So China, being smart and brutal and ruthless and

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at least from their perspective a good way, knows that they have a bargaining chip. So they're going to use it. Now, I think that for however many billion dollars are at risk, the damage it would do to Trump if it just got closed down in the United States... might be worth it for China. They might say, well, you know, China was only going to make, I don't know, 30 or $50 billion.

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And, you know, we're a big country. We can handle not making that. Um, so I don't know. I don't even think that a tariff negotiation would get them to change their mind. I'm surprised there ever was a deal. So maybe I'm a little skeptical they ever had a deal, but, uh, especially since China knew the tariffs were coming.

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So maybe they made it look like the tariffs were the reason, but they had always planned to say no. They just said, oh, yes, yeah, sure. Yeah, we got a deal. No problem. Because they knew the tariffs were coming and they could just yank it at that point. According to The Hill, Biden had proposed a rule that looks like the Trump administration is going to ignore.

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And the rule would have been that if you had a body mass index of over 30, which would put you squarely in the obese category, I believe, that you would have been able to use your Medicare or Medicaid to get those GLP-1 weight loss drugs that are so popular. And it looks like that's not going to be happening under Trump. So if you're on Medicare or Medicaid, and RFK Jr.

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has said that he wonders why those drugs are made in other countries. but they don't give us the same version that they allow in their own country. Does that worry you a little bit? The drugs come from other countries, but they won't sell the same drug that they give to us in their own country. Now, I don't know what's up with that, but I don't like it.

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That sounds exactly like ours must be more dangerous than theirs. I don't know. But here's what caught my imagination. You know how I always make fun of Democrats for not understanding human behavior? Well, let's just see if all of you come to the same impression. So let's say you were on Medicare or Medicaid and you had a weight problem and you wanted this drug and your body mass index was 25.

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But you couldn't get the drug unless you were 30. What would you do? The Democrats are so bad at understanding human incentive. I'll tell you what you would do. You would eat like crazy until you were 30 and then you would go get the drug because the drug would take you all the way past 25 and keep going. So it's not like they're going to deny you the drug once it's working.

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Once you're on the program, you get to lose weight. So yes, all the people who are close to 30, they would be incentivized to just eat terrible food until they reach 30. And then they're like, I think I reached it, doc. And doctor would say, oh, finally, I can get you this free drug. Now, do you tell me there wasn't one Democrat who understood that would have been just a nightmare? There's no way.

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that that wouldn't have been a big problem. But I don't know. So we'll see. RFK Jr. says you should eat right and exercise, and that should be your first line of defense. That hasn't worked for people yet, at least for the obese. Obviously, they know that they should eat right and they know they should exercise, but they weren't doing it. So obviously, this drug has a place.

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Well, President Trump has called on the Fed chairman, Jerome Powell. Now, he doesn't have control over him. The Fed is an independent entity, so it can do what it wants. But Trump's trying to embarrass... Powell into cutting interest rates on the 10-year treasury because the 10-year treasury has fallen below 4%. So at one point, it was above 5%, not too long ago.

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Well, let's start with weird news. According to the Daily Mail, declassified CIA documents show that Hitler was may have escaped Germany after World War II and was living in South America. And the CIA apparently was looking for him 10 years after he supposedly died.

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But between the tariffs and maybe some other stuff, interest rates have drifted down. And this would be a terrific time to give everybody a little raise if they're paying anything on interest. So, well, at least anything that's gonna be adjustable. But more importantly, apparently the government has to refinance something like $9 trillion pretty soon.

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And the difference between refinancing it at 5% and 4% is really, really big. So the theory that I mentioned yesterday, that the big play with tariffs might have been to tank the stock market temporarily, because then people move their money into bonds. And if they have their money in bonds,

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supply and demand causes the interest rate to go down, and then you refinance your trillions and trillions, and then slowly you can let the stock market come back to the level you want. Now, if that's what the Trump administration had in mind the entire time, and honestly, it's starting to look that way. It's starting to look like that was always part of the plan, not the only plan,

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I think he genuinely, Trump, I think he genuinely likes tariffs and negotiating and all that. But it could be that one of the biggest gains is this interest rate thing. And you cannot, it's almost hard to put a value on it because it might be almost impossible to negotiate our own debt. We could be in quite a bit of trouble unless we get this lower interest rate. And now the table is set for it.

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But I don't know that Jerome Powell is going to want to look like he was influenced by the president. So I don't know that Trump is playing this right. because he's putting Powell in a position where he's supposed to be the independent guy. But if Trump is publicly saying you should do this and then he does it, it's going to look like he got influenced.

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So I'm not sure the persuasion play here is quite right. It looks like Trump might be doing anti-persuasion. On the other hand, Powell is going to have a lot of explaining to do if he doesn't do it, because everybody's going to be hurt by it. And it's going to be a lot of pain for the country.

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What do you make of the fact that Biden is doing something that's so remarkably obscene in giving these two characters the highest award in the country? Here's what I think is happening. This is a flex. This is how George Soros and Alex Soros tell you that they're still in control. Because if you can make Biden do this, you are always in control.

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This is basically telling the Democrats, hey, these are the ones who are in control. That's what I see. I'm surprised they didn't throw Obama in there. But I do wonder what's the dynamic between the Clinton power island versus the Obama power island. Because I don't think the Democrats have one leader who's pulling all the strings.

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I think they probably have a Game of Thrones kind of few power sources vying for dominance. But it seems to me that Obama has been taken completely off the field because, I mean, he just did such a bad job promoting Biden and he's the one who picked Biden and seems to have been behind the Russia collusion hoax. And he didn't have a good year. Obama didn't.

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So I suspect that the Soros-Hillary thing probably came from Soros and or Hillary, and that its real purpose is to establish them as legitimate rulers of the party, albeit behind the scenes. So that's a very artificial persuasion play. This is to tell you that these are not the biggest criminals in the world, but rather should be respected. Meanwhile, Greenland throws us a curve.

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You know, Trump wanted to maybe take control or buy Greenland. And the Danes who own it, Denmark controls Greenland. And the Danes said, no way. No way are we going to sell you Greenland. It's valuable and we're going to keep it. And now Greenland itself says, you know what? We don't like being owned by this colonizing Denmark. We should be an independent country.

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where I'm standing outside my driveway at night and the moon is out, nice little crescent, but really near the moon is this very bright, presumably a planet. And I said to myself, huh, which planet is that? It's so bright. And so I turned on the chat GPT camera and I just aimed it at the sky. And I said, well, what planet do you think that is? And chat GPT said, well, it could be, you know,

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Now, here are some things you need to know about Greenland. First of all, you probably know that it's strategically vital in a way that it didn't used to be. Because as the ice melts in the Arctic, it's going to be a fight for dominance among the superpowers. And Greenland is sort of right there on the right in the mix.

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56,000.

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For context, the small town that I live in has 75,000 people. 75,000 people. That's my town. And I don't live in a city. I mean, it's maybe a small city, but it's more like a town. There's one little main street. The whole town. And... We're much bigger than all of Greenland. Greenland has a GDP that's fairly hard to measure for some reason, but probably between $3 and $4 billion a year.

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So it's not a big place. And my question would be, how in the world could Greenland, as an independent country, protect itself? And a bigger question would be, how could Denmark ever protect Greenland? Of course they couldn't. Not even close. The only country that could protect Greenland properly would be the United States. But they're not asking for that.

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Of course, if they were independent, they would make their own treaties and stuff. Maybe they could work out some kind of deal. But here's what I think. It seems to me that if I were in the CIA... And my job was to secure America using every little clever trick I could. The first thing I would do is convince Greenland that they really need to be independent.

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So first you got to get them away from Denmark. Why? Because I'm guessing, this is just speculation, but I'm guessing that the CIA would not want to use dirty tricks against a European ally. It's not something we would do to Great Britain. It's not something we would do to France. It's not something we'd do to Denmark, I think.

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I mean, it's not like all the countries are not spying and messing with each other a little bit. But I don't think the United States would try to steal a land mass from Denmark like the other allies. I don't see how that could possibly happen.

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But the moment this little 56,000 people giant country becomes independent, they're going to be helpless and completely vulnerable to CIA bribery, blackmail, complete puppet control. which is what we want. We might not want to own the country so much as have functional control over it and put our military bases there and maybe get some approval for mining.

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I guess they have a lot of rare earth minerals. So there is a way to make a deal where they're independent, but not really. 56,000 people population could not stand up to the power of our intelligence people if we wanted to have control of it. So that's what I think is happening. I think Greenland might be getting a little boost to say, why don't you make us independent?

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And then Denmark is going to say, because we own you. Then Greenland will say, why do you own us? You're on the other side of the world. What rule says you should be ruling over us? You're colonizers. So Denmark is going to have a hard time explaining it, and apparently they also subsidize Greenland. So if you're a voter in Denmark, how much do you care that you're paying Greenland to exist?

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this bright planet could be this or it could be that, but it's probably Venus because that's the brightest one that would be in that part of the sky. And so I said to it, because it chats with you, you don't have to touch another button, you can just keep the conversation going. So I said to it, are you saying that Venus is the shiny one?

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And Greenland might drag you into a war in the Arctic. How much do the Danes want that? They get no economic benefit because they're subsidizing. I think that's true. I'd need a fact check on that. I don't think they have economic benefit. I think it's just a cost. And there's nothing to gain from it. It's literally just prestige, maybe, because it's something they owned.

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But now the prestige will turn into, you evil colonizers, you're preventing us from pursuing our destiny as a Greenlander. So it's an interesting thing. I just wonder if we're involved in this or it's happening organically. If we're not involved in trying to make it happen, I'd be disappointed and surprised. Meanwhile, Justice Juan Merchan...

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He's the judge who is presiding over the case of Trump getting those loans and misrepresenting the value of his properties, said the courts. Now, what we know is that that case never would have come to fruition if it had been anybody but Trump. We know there's no victim. We know the bank said, no, we always check the values ourselves. It doesn't matter what he said.

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It's routine that we check the value ourselves. And they did. And they made a nice loan. They got their money back. No victims. And it wasn't even outside the realm of ordinary business. Was it technically illegal? Well, that's what the jury found in the most biased place on earth. The jury found that. So here's what's happening.

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I was watching CNN yesterday, and so it looks like the bad guys, the Democrats, are going to use this to paint Trump as a felon who shouldn't be in office, even though he is. And what they're doing, you have to be alerted to it, is they're making you think past the sale, which is persuasion, and in this case, propaganda. What is the sale? The sale is not whether he was found guilty or not.

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because that's just something everybody agrees with, that factually the court found him guilty. But they're going past the sale that there should not have been any court case at all. When the jury gets it, the jury is just deciding facts based on the structure that the court gave to them. They said, here's what the guidelines are.

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Now you have to decide if this guideline, in other words, if a crime has been committed,

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based on the guidelines we've given you and the facts we've presented you so the cnn folks are trying to make you think that he must be guilty of felonies because the court found himself technically that's true but they're making you think past the part which was complete evil lawfare and should never have happened and everybody agrees it shouldn't have happened really except the most partisan

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And does that mean that the other planets would be experiencing Venus envy? And it laughed at my joke and complimented me. It actually reacted to the joke positively. Now that just freaked me out. Because if you're a person who likes to get credit for telling jokes, which is literally my profession, I worry that I would get hooked on that. You know, just having AI tell me I did a good joke.

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So beware of that. Don't let him make you think past the sale. So Trump humorously announced the appointment of Morgan Ortegas as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy. And in his announcement, he made it clear that, quote, early on, Morgan fought me for three years, but hopefully has learned her lesson. So I wasn't aware of this, but I guess Morgan Ortegas at one point was an anti-Trumper.

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But because other people told Trump that she was the right one for this job, and she has since, of course, become pro-Trump, the other people said she should be in the job. Trump says directly, basically it's not his choice, but he's going to let other people's opinion on this rule, and so he's going to go ahead and do it.

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Now, the fact that he said completely honestly, it looks to me, at least transparently, he said that he's just not crazy about her, but he thinks under the circumstances, worth a try. I love that. I love that. And it is so sticky and persuasive. Because if you hear him talk like that, and you know he didn't care what anybody thought about it, he just said, well, this is what I think.

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This is what I thought of her before. This is what I think of her now. And here's why I'm going to do something that doesn't make sense to you, because other people have a different opinion. And I'm going to let them play that out. Everything about that I love. Now, it must have been a bad day for Morgan Ortegas, because unlike other people who have been nominated...

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She did not repost the truth social endorsement from Trump. She just wrote her own. So that's got to be kind of embarrassing and humiliating. But Trump has always done the persuasion play where he makes sure that if you're against him, you pay a price. And he makes sure that if you're with him, you get more benefits than you were expecting.

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So I've often told you that's the pinnacle of good persuasion is that everybody knows there's a really big difference between making you happy and making you not happy. Oh, if you make me not happy, I'm going to make you twice as unhappy. If you make me happy, you might get a great job. I might sing your praise. I might retweet you, something like that.

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So he's really good at that and making sure there's a giant difference. And this was more of that. Well, you may have been following the drama that I stirred up yesterday on social media, on X, because I noticed that Amazon had many of my calendars for 2025 listed, except that I'm not selling a calendar on Amazon. They were all counterfeits. All of them. And there were several.

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Now, if you look, you'll see that they've been removed because I made a very big deal about it yesterday. And it got a lot of attention. And I was talking to their support, trying to get me to their legal team so I could talk about it as a legal problem. But the more I thought about it, I was like, well, at first I thought, well, this is just sort of an ordinary business problem.

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I just have to be faster in reporting things. But their system is such that that you could report all day long, but the time it takes for them to react, and sometimes they'll even require you to buy the product, if it's a book. If it's a book, you have to buy the product and then prove that the insides of the book match the insides of your book. That's their system.

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And there are new ones coming on faster than you can do that because it might take two weeks to get that done. So there are some people who think that process works. I think 100% of the people who wrote to me and said they tried it confirmed it doesn't work.

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And apparently if you try to fix this, no matter what kind of a seller you are, whether you're selling goods or books, well, anything that's not a book, apparently you hit glitches and problems and pushback, and eventually you get put out of business.

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So the real model of Amazon for practical purposes is that it's a way to steal the good work of American businesses, small businesses, and hand it off to China. So Amazon has become a weapon of mass destruction that China can use to suck all the vitality and innovation out of our economy at the small business level, which would be enough to destroy it. Now, if they're doing that,

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That's not just a legal IP question. If it's massive, it's a homeland security problem. Would we ever agree to a situation in which the entire business model of Amazon is to effectively hand over the IP to a Chinese company that will make your product and while you watch it and there's nothing you can do about it?

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Like, yeah, yeah, artificial intelligence right there. If you think it's funny, it must be funny. But then I remembered that AI can only do dad jokes, and that was basically just a PG-13 dad joke. I'm like, eh, okay. More work to go. Anyway, there's a study written about in Study Finds that success could come down to luck more than merit, according to research. Huh, research.

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So a number of people wrote to me and said, you know, we tried making a business online. China stole all of our property, knocked it off immediately. We couldn't get Amazon to take them down, even though we tried. Sure, there's a system. It just doesn't work. So then I thought to myself, I wonder if I'm sort of imagining that Amazon could do more, but they're intentionally not.

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And I heard from an insider. So this is Mark Atwood on X. This is public. So he said this on X. He said, here's some insight from a former Amazonian. Roughly every three years, this gets into the press and then retail. I guess the part of Amazon does retail stuff. Put together a program. They put together a program and a team to fix it.

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And they start fixing it right up until it starts reducing revenue and, quote, diversity of suppliers. And then it's yanked up short. And then the program is starved until it rots away because it doesn't actually generate revenue. And there it sits until it shows up in the news again. I watched it happen twice and found the remains of at least two previous cycles.

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Does that sound like it's accidental? No. So there's an insider telling you that they intentionally starve the process because they make more money if they let it go. And it's really that simple. So they're allowing the complete rape of American businesses, just wild, wildly inappropriate theft. And they're the primary movers of it. Let me ask you this question.

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We've all heard that China massively steals the intellectual property of companies that operate in China. We're all aware of that, right? It's a well-known phenomenon. Who do you think has stolen more intellectual property, Amazon or China? Because Amazon probably has essentially given China more opportunity to steal things than all of the companies that are just doing business in China itself.

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So I did ask, I sent a DM to Senator Hawley to ask if he can bring Bezos in and ask him what he's going to do about the fact that he's the primary agent for the destruction of the American economy. Because he is. And I don't think that Bezos is a bad guy. I think he wants what's best for America. He might not be completely filled in on how bad it is,

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He might have been told that they have a process, so it's fine. Oh, don't worry, Jeff. We have a process. They can just report it and then we take it down. But do they tell him that that process doesn't work for anybody? Do you think he knows that? Well, he probably knows it now because I made such a big stink about it. Millions of people viewed it.

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I think I got three million views on one of them. One of the views came from Thomas Massey, who weighed in on this and said, quote, U.S. inventors get ripped off on Amazon, too. Oh, it's worse than I thought. Amazon makes money on the fakes and knockoffs, so they have no incentive to fix it. Yeah, that tracks. That tracks.

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It's clear to me they should be legally liable for the fraud they help perpetuate on the public, the authors and the inventors. Right. However... Thomas Massey, this is not just a fraud case. This is a homeland security issue. We're literally, we've created a pipeline to export our entire small business economy that sells things through the mail to China.

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So yes, I'm very happy that he weighed in and he's right on top of it. But I'd love to get it out of the frame that it's a fraud problem. It is a fraud problem. It is a fraud problem. But that's not the thing I need fixed. What I need fixed is stop throwing away the country. Stop transferring the intellectual weight of America to China. That's what I need to stop.

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Anyway, Mark Cuban weighed in productively, and he had a fairly long list of suggested fixes. I won't go into those because I don't know enough to know if they're exactly on point, but they look it. they look at. So here's one of those cases where I always talk about the internet dads.

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When the election was on, of course, people took sides, and Mark Cuban was on a side that many of you were not on. So we didn't like that part. But we also understand politics is politics. That's not the real world. When it comes to the real world, yes, you want a Mark Cuban to to say, how do you fix this thing?

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Was there a faster way to find out if luck is a component of success. If they didn't want to spend the time and the money on a whole research project, is there any other way? Oh, yeah. They could have asked Scott. Hey, Scott, we're thinking of spending a bunch of time and money to find out if luck influences success. And I'd be like, hmm, yeah, it does. It does.

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And to also observe that it needs fixing and to get the conversation going at a higher level. So thank you, Mark Cuban, for a very productive contribution to the conversation. Now, one of the things I wondered about is why can't they fix it by just making the legitimate seller have the authority to take down the fakes.

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And if I take down a real one and the real one complains and Amazon says, wait a minute, this was real. You took down a real one. It's just your competitor. Well, then I should be removed from the system forever, right? I should never be allowed to sell on Amazon if even once I report my competitor when in fact the competitor is doing nothing wrong. So I would put that... I would put the...

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the ability to take down a copyright or just other violation, I would put that on the vendor. And then you could say, you know, all Amazon is doing is following instructions. They're not part of the wholesale destruction of America. Now, there are a number of other things that Mark suggested. They're all worth seeing if you want to check it out on X. Here's an update on the terrorists.

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Boy, did this get, I don't want to say fun. because these are horrible events and people lost their lives. But, well, you'll see. You'll see. Here's what we know. So as of today, and I'm going to tell you what the official story is, I'm still open to every other theory of what's really happening. So if you think the FBI is really behind it or whatever it is you think, I'm okay with that.

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I'm not going to rule it out. But I do think the official story, to me, is sounding like it all works. To me, there's nothing missing in the official story so far that tells me, oh, this is an outside plot. But let's talk about those things. see if he disagreed.

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So some of the things we know is that Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, he warned us months ago that there would be lone wolves inspired by ISIS. And it turns out that as far as the FBI can tell, the New Orleans guy was a lone wolf, and there's no indication yet that he was somewhat directly an ISIS fighter or something. He just seems inspired by. Now,

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And so, so far, there's no real mystery there. Ray told us what happened. It looks like it happened. It's exactly like he called it. It's inspired by, not planned by. But there are coincidences, such as they seem to have spent time at the same base, Army base, but they weren't there at the same time. And it's such a big army base that something like one-third of all soldiers go through it.

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So there really is no coincidence to the base thing. It just means they were both in the military. Now, is somebody who is in the military more likely to stage a violent attack? I would think so. If you've ever been involved in violently attacking people, I feel like it would be an easier transition to, violently attack some more people, if that's what your philosophy said you should do.

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So I don't think it's a big coincidence that they're both military. So was Timothy McVeigh. I don't think it's a coincidence they were at the same base. And I also don't think it was a coincidence that it happened on the same day.

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Because if you did a survey and you said, all right, if you were a terrorist and you were looking for a big crowd to take out and you wanted to get a lot of attention where everybody's paying attention, what day of the year

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would you pick i think you'd find i know 40 of the people who answered the question would say well the cameras are rolling and everybody's watching on new year's eve and you know that's the first day of 2025 and we plan to kick things up in 2025 so the one guaranteed time that it's going to work is the first day and i will go further and say if you had planned a 2025 attack

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But I would add the following, which I think they didn't discover, that you can make more luck for yourself. You can make more luck for yourself. How do you do that? Well, get out of your chair. If you're just sitting at home in a chair, you're not going to have much luck.

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Or maybe you were just trying to avoid Christmas. It could be that they both would have done it whenever they were ready, but they didn't want to ruin Christmas. Because literally, I think they both had families. They didn't want to ruin Christmas. So there's nothing really too coincidental about January 1st.

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If it had been a random day, like March 13th, a random day, well, that would be a big coincidence. But January 1st is probably the most likely place anybody would have picked if they had bad intentions and wanted a big crowd and a lot of attention. So no real coincidence. And also the use of the same rental company.

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As Tyrus pointed out on The Five the other day, and I told you, I think I'm the first one to point it out. You can fact check me on this, but I think I'm the first one in the country to say that's not a coincidence. They're probably less monitored by authorities.

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So if you want to get a big truck and you're in the military and maybe you said some things online about ISIS, probably if you go to Hertz or Avis, Homeland Security is already in the back door and probably they hear about you in the truck immediately. I'm guessing. And by the way, I'd be disappointed if that's not true. Can you imagine if the CIA doesn't have access to the rental companies?

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so they can tell who's getting the panel truck and also has some issues with their online accounts. They better be looking for that. If they're in all of our other stuff and we've lost our privacy, if they're not looking for the rental companies as the first place to look for trouble, they're not doing their job. They need to be looking at that.

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So I assume they are, and I assume that if you planned something that required a truck, you would use an app because it's less likely that anybody's in it. And the automobiles, in this case, are private people's cars. So the app hooks you up with a private person who has a car that they want to rent, and you just pick it up wherever you meet that private person.

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So none of those strike me as coincidences. Then there's also the issue of... Oh, okay. So in my view, the Las Vegas guy was a mental case. But I know you're going to point out, but wait, Scott, he's a patsy. He's made to look like a mental case, but really he was set up. Now the evidence for him being set up, I haven't seen. I haven't seen evidence he was set up. Can't rule it out, right?

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But maybe if you go meet some people, apply for some jobs that are above your level, try to build something in your garage just to see if it works. Take a few classes to build your talent stack. Move to a place where there's more opportunity. Get involved with an industry that's growing quickly instead of shrinking. Yeah, you can change your luck. You can absolutely change your luck.

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Can't rule it out. But why would the CIA want to do the worst or somebody else? Why would anybody want to do the most pathetic attack involving a cyber truck that's the wrong tool and fireworks that are the wrong tool and it didn't hurt anybody and the Las Vegas Trump Tower is not even owned by Trump as far as I know. I think that's a licensed property. I don't think Trump owns that.

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By the way, I could take a fact check on that. But I don't think he even owns the building. I think that it's a licensed property. I think. So here is the... Oh, then other things that are suspicious is that he loved Tesla and he loved Trump because he loved the Cybertruck. He was bragging to his girlfriend about it. Now...

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Do people try to hook up with their girlfriend and call them and say the Cybertrek is awesome and say they're going to Mexico, and then all of a sudden they kill themselves in Vegas? Well, here's what I think. I think he was heading to Vegas. not Mexico.

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At the very least, he was going through Vegas to get to Mexico because he stopped accidentally, it looks like, at a place called Las Vegas, New Mexico. Like he just told his truck to drive there and then he didn't realize that he was on the wrong route. And then he went to the real Las Vegas.

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So there's two points that say he was really trying to go to Las Vegas because he did it twice, once the wrong Las Vegas. So he at least wanted to go to Las Vegas. Anyway, so there's, and then allegedly used a .50 caliber gun to kill himself, which left no dental records. Is that what happened? Did he shoot himself with such an aggressive weapon that his teeth were destroyed?

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I just saw an indication of that, but that doesn't exactly make sense to me because I thought the wound was on the top of his head. I don't know. So I don't understand the dental records part. Maybe you can fill me in. But if you were mentally ill and planning to kill yourself, would you try to hook up with your ex before you died? Because that's being treated as suspicious.

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You know, if you're bent on dying, are you going to try to hook up with your ex? Well, let me answer this as a male. Yes. Yes, you would absolutely try to hook up with your ex before you died. If you're healthy. and you're male, and you're horny, why wouldn't you? So that's not weird. That's what a mentally ill guy would do, as long as he was also healthy.

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And he had the knowledge to create a better bomb, but he just used fireworks and gasoline, which doesn't look like a professional act. However, a fellow named Sam Shoemate was on the Sean Ryan podcast, And I think I got this right. So Sam Shumate runs an account where people give him tips on stuff, a lot of military stuff, because his background is military.

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And he was apparently contacted ahead of the event, but he didn't know the event was coming. And allegedly, sorry, allegedly, the Las Vegas... slash terrorist, wrote to him and told him that he was trying to get attention for the fact that the drones over New Jersey are really exotic, gravitic propulsion devices that only China and the United States have. And China now has it.

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And these super flying saucer drones are coming from offshore, from Chinese vessels. And that's what's over New Jersey. And they have unlimited power and they can destroy the entire East Coast or any part of it without being harmed because they're magical technology. And that it's game over and China has complete control over destroying the country.

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Now, not in any moment and not in a specific way, But you can go where there's more luck. That was exactly my strategy when I graduated college in upstate New York. I looked around and said, if I stay in upstate New York, what kind of luck would I have? Well, I might get lucky with a cow. And that's about it, because that's what there were in upstate New York. We had cows.

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And he wanted to use fireworks so that it made a big show of things, but clearly he wasn't trying to destroy the building. So does that make sense? Does that sound real to you? Well, I definitely don't believe there's any such thing as gravitic propulsion devices. Somebody said, are you kidding, Scott? Here's the patent.

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So going on the Internet, there's a patent for something like the gravitic propulsion device. I don't believe that's a real patent.

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You just have to look at it and say, all right, if you know a little bit about patents, you know that you're not going to get a patent unless it's either already built and you could demonstrate that it works, or it's something that a person who is skilled in the field could build somewhat easily. So you don't have to have a prototype.

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if what you're describing is something that anybody could build if they were in that field. I don't see a way you could get exotic propulsion device patented unless you could show you could build it or that somebody who knew this field could build it. And there's nothing like that. So no, I'm not going to do the research to find out that that's a fake patent page. It's clearly fake.

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And even if it did get patented, which I suppose is possible, it's not real. Couldn't possibly be real. So I'm not buying that. Laura Loken was pointing out that the email is filled with media talking points and smacks of a staged cover-up. Well, that's true. It did seem to be that he had a lot of Kraken-like talking points so that we could get the public talking about

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gravitic propulsion devices in China instead of maybe something else we should be paying attention to. You know, we're always worried about the distractions. Erica, our New Jersey, let's see, journalist, independent journalist, at least in this case, says the drones are still out in New Jersey. So they were quiet over the holidays. Oh, okay.

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Well, so the photograph that Erica just included in the locals feed, you can't see it if you're not on locals, showed clearly an aircraft because it's got the aircraft lights. So that would suggest it's at least legally operated. Scott, you should see the anti-gravity patents. You don't have to build it to get a patent. No, I just said that.

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You don't have to build it to get a patent as long as it's obvious that somebody in that field could build it. That's the part that's not real. If somebody in that field could build it, somebody would have already built one. You'd be riding in it right now. It couldn't possibly be real. Anyway...

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And I guess he repeatedly talked about making it to Mexico, which does not track with the fact that he presumably had plans to end himself before he got to Mexico. But I wonder if maybe the plan shifted. It could be that maybe he thought, I'll just blow up this car and then escape to Mexico. That wouldn't make sense because he wouldn't have a vehicle. So we don't know the Mexico part.

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And as Laura Logan points out, would kind of suggest that he was set up. She also points out that there were two paper letters that survived the fire and explosion of the car. However, I don't think that's unusual because the vehicle was not completely destroyed, right? So depending on where the letters were, let's say if they were in the glove compartment, would they have been burned up?

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I don't know. So yes, it's a head scratcher, how two pieces of paper could survive a car fire. But it's not impossible because the Cybertruck had good walls of protection. And then there's also the claim from NBC News that he used an exotic explosive compound. Wait, is this the same guy? No, this is the other guy.

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And then there were people who had low-income jobs. Cows and low-income jobs. Middle class, basically. So I said to myself, where could I go where basically there would be luck all over the place? And the answer was California, and then specifically the Bay Area. If you plop yourself in the Bay Area and you've got talents, you're going to do okay. It doesn't matter who you are.

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So the New Orleans guy used an exotic compound, so that makes it look like, hey, where did he learn that? But I keep conflating the two attacks, but that's a separate one. Anyway, here's a... So my take so far, I'll give you my tentative take. The coincidences are largely explained away by ordinary life. They don't seem to be coordinated with each other.

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One of them appears to have been mentally ill from PTSD. That seems well, I think, pretty well likely. And the other one seems inspired by ISIS, but not maybe part of a larger wave of attacks. So remember when every one of us were we were so sure.

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when the attacks happened, that this is the beginning of Al-Qaeda's wave of attacks, because we saw Sean Ryan interview Sarah Adams, which, by the way, because we live in a simulation, is the name of my old cat. I had a cat named Sarah, who I called Sarah Adams. But they're different people. This is actually a human. So the human has high credibility, people are saying, very high credibility.

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I've confirmed that her credibility is impeccable because it turns out she follows me on X. And I'm like, that's really all you need to know. That's impeccable, impeccable logic. And she's definitely on the right path. Anyway, so her take was that there's going to be a massive wave of attacks in the United States. And we all thought that that was the beginning of it. It doesn't look like it.

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It looks like these were two random attacks that just naturally fell on the same day because it was a good day to attack. So now if you're just joining the stream, let me remind you, I do not have certainty about any of it. I don't have certainty on any of the facts that have so far been reported.

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And I definitely don't have a certainty that there's not some larger, clever plot and he's a patsy or any of that stuff. I don't know. But so far, these look like ordinary cases. Ordinary meaning somebody was inspired by ISIS. You know, he had the name, he had the background. And the other one, he just had PTSD. And maybe he changed his plans in the middle.

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And maybe he was half decided whether he was going to kill himself versus whether he was going to try to get away. And then maybe at the last minute, he said, you know, I'm never going to get away with it. Might as well just do it. Now, people asked, how do you shoot yourself after the explosion? Because he set off the explosives, but still managed to shoot himself.

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Like, how do you get the timing right? And my answer is you just do them at the same time. I imagine the explosive took a moment to detonate. There's probably a fuse. You probably threw a flame back there and maybe the gas caught on first and the fireworks are second. So he probably had at least one second to pull the trigger. Don't you think?

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If you did them simultaneously, there's probably a little bit of delay. before the fire turns into an explosion? Plenty of time. I don't think that's weird at all. And it's also possible that, yeah, no, it may be that he was just going to do the gun in case he got burned and didn't die. And then he thought, you know, I might as well just not feel any pain. So we'll see.

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Joy Reid over at MSNBC and her guest, Charles Blow. Yeah, that's his actual name. They're talking about the real danger of being white men. And they think that things are overblown because one of them was brown. But she wants to know the really big problem. is young white men in America. We need to look at our domestic terrorism.

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Well, I don't disagree that there have been white American men who did some mass shootings. That certainly happened. But I don't see it as the same level of risk because you're really assuming, you're really imagining the future. If you talk about risk, you're not talking about the past because that's done.

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You just have to go where the luck is, but you also have to be prepared. You need some education that's relevant to that. All right, so go find your luck. That's your advice for today. I guess Apple is settling a lawsuit that has them admitting that their digital assistant, S-I-R-I, I don't want to say it to trigger all your phones, but it was in fact listening to you even when you didn't notice.

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The past, it might have been true, there were periods where somebody who called himself a white supremacist did more damage than a terrorist for any given six-month period or a year or whatever. But there's no way these are the same level of risk. Whatever happens from individuals is going to be one terrible act that probably had multiple deaths. But if you're being attacked with waves of attack

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you know, maybe 1,000 or 1,500 terrorists who were in the country who were going to die trying. That's a whole different deal. I mean, that's really different. So MSNBC continues to be a joke. If you're not following on X the account of Sean Ono Lennon, I recommend it. He's very interesting. Now, what's interesting is that you really can't tell if he's Democrat or Republican.

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by watching his account. And I love that because he weighs in on a lot of topics that are in the news, but you really can't tell. And the reason you can't tell is because he just takes a common sense approach to things that we normally just take the hyper-partisan approach to. So he's very good at just being interesting and not giving away bias, just telling you what the thing looks like.

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So he had this comment today. He said, I think overall people are less easily fooled now than they were in the past. Part of the disintegration of cohesive society is a result of this awakening. I really hope it leads somewhere good. I worry that it won't. So he's noticing that people are learning to be less easily fooled. Do you agree with that? People are learning to be less easily fooled.

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He's half right. It's only happening on one side. and the people who make an effort to see what the other side is saying. So somebody like Elon Musk is watching both arguments, and so he decided to kind of change teams because he saw both arguments. And he's the kind of person who can figure out what the fake stuff is.

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I would argue that something happened on the conservative side of politics that did not happen, or even close, on the Democrat side. And that is that there are people like me, and I can name 10 other people, who are going out of their way to debunk fake news on the other side, but also to teach you the tools for doing it yourself, which is what I do.

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I try to teach you, all right, for example, I say if the news only has one source and it's an anonymous source, you should treat that as zero credibility. Now, that's not what people would have done automatically. Most people would say, well, it's not proven, but they got that one source, and of course they want to be anonymous. Why wouldn't they? So, yeah, that's pretty credible.

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No, the answer is nothing. There's no credibility. It's almost impossible that that's going to be true. So that's the sort of thing that you have to learn because it's opposite of common sense. Your common sense says, well, you know, they wouldn't report it if it wasn't at least possibly true.

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So you have to get past, they wouldn't say it if it were fake and you have to get past, well, I think some of the news is real. No, no, not any of the political news. It's all framed. You know, it might be true facts, but it's usually framed in a way that's misleading. So in my opinion, the Democrats were the hoax and fake news creating entity.

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And in response, because there's always a response, the conservatives built up a resource that the left doesn't have. And that resource is a bunch of people that you can immediately go to to find out what's true. All right. Let me ask you this. How many of you have seen a headline story And one of the first questions you asked about it was, what does Adam say about this? But not just me.

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You probably said, okay, what does Cernovich say about this? If it's a legal thing, I say, what does Dershowitz say about it? What does Turley say about it? I know exactly where to go to find the fake news. If it's a technology thing, like I'll look for the smartest technology people. I'll look for Marc Andreessen. if it's a technology thing, to find out if it's true.

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And even when you didn't know it was listening, it was doing exactly what you worried about. Is my phone sometimes just listening to me on its own? Yes, it was doing exactly that. Now, if you're worried, what's the risk in that? Allegedly, I believe that all it was doing is somewhat useful task of doing a better job of knowing what commercials you would want to look at.

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I'll look for Balaji Sreenivasan. I'll look for Naval Ravikant. And of course, Elon Musk. So we've developed, we collectively have developed on the right, this BS snipping system, which is quite wild. It's never existed before, as far as I know. And that's different. And they can't match it. If they matched it,

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they would disintegrate because then their base would realize that the main things that are being told are fake. So if they teach their base how to spot fakes, the entire operation falls apart because it's mostly built on fake news. So that's funny. So again, Sean Ono Lennon, good follow. I recommend it highly. And I like that he noticed that.

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I like that he noticed that people are less easily fooled. But I think that's because he follows both sides. See, if you follow both sides, then you learn how to spot the fakes. So he's probably picked it up just from people he follows on the right. Let's see. This is John Nolte. He's reporting that the 2024 domestic box office is down. 24% since five years ago. Now, there's a comparison thing.

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I'm not sure how the pandemic works in there. But it's even down this year a little bit, just a few percent from what it was last year. And I just want to weigh in on this. Now, the smart people said it's not the pandemic. It's not anything. It's just the movies are bad. That's what I think. I think just the movies are bad. But on top of that,

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I don't even think of movies as something that people watch anymore. There are very few movies that you're going to want to spend two hours on. Very rarely. So when I think of things I would want to spend time on, I just don't even think of a movie anymore because I know I'm not going to like it.

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And my attention span, like yours, is so shortened now that I can go through a thousand reels, the little quick videos, and every one of them will entertain me because the algorithm makes sure of that. And I'm absolutely, totally entertained, and I can stop whenever I want to go do something else.

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I don't have to drive somewhere and buy bad popcorn and sit there for two and a half hours and wish I were closer to a restroom. So I don't see how movies really survive in the future. Speaking of surviving... Ukraine now has these miniature missiles to knock down drones. I guess they were made in Estonia. If you didn't know this, Estonia is a wildly successful little country. Did you know that?

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I have a friend who's Estonian. I think at one point he was probably the richest person in Estonia because he was one of the inventors of drones. What is these before Zoom? There was the thing before Zoom. So Estonia, the Estonians are really high tech. They've got a real good little high tech situation going there. One of the things they do in Estonia is you can vote by app.

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How many times have you said to yourself, why can't we vote by an app? Like, why? Why? Seems like that would be obvious, the most obvious thing, especially if your app does a face recognition. If I vote on my phone and I use facial recognition to make my app take the vote, I'm going to feel pretty good that that vote got registered properly.

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So Estonia is already doing it, so you don't have to wonder if it works. They seem happy with it. But they've also made this little miniature rocket, and I think it uses AI, which is what's

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new and interesting about it but it goes really high so it can so we can get even the high drones so it looks like the missiles maybe just a foot tall and not very wide and i need one of those for home is there any way i can get an ai anti-drone missile for home i'll put it on my roof No? All right.

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So if the only thing it was doing, and I'm not saying it's the only thing, but if it was the only thing it was doing, is it served me up better ads, I'd say, well, that's good. I'd like to see ads that are more relevant to my experience, of course. But of course, none of us trust that that's all it's going to do. you kind of assume that they could just replay those audios if they wanted to.

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Well, speaking of the algorithm, Elon Musk says that the X algorithm is going to be tweaked soon to promote more informational, entertaining content. And he says, I like how he puts this. This is a great framing for the objective. Our goal is to maximize unregretted user seconds. That is the most human-friendly way to say what you're doing.

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What I would hate is to say he's just trying to get his usage minutes up. Or I would hate if he said, we're trying to tell the truth. We only told the truth. Nobody thinks the truth is coming through social media. But he says it in the most perfect way. He wants to maximize unregretted user seconds. Have you ever spent a bunch of time on social media and said, God, I wish I didn't do that.

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Like it just gave me a headache and I feel bad and I'm scared of everything. You have, right? Those are regretted minutes. He's trying to maximize unregretted user seconds. You know, your ability to get what you want is way better when you know exactly what it is. And this is such a good frame. Unregretted. I love that. So we'll see. See if that changes anything.

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There's a report in Axios that Biden and his advisors had a meeting not too long ago about the possibility of striking Iran's nuclear sites before January 20th and Trump is sworn in. Now, here's what you need to know about this kind of story. If the government is doing its job and the military is doing its job, they should always be talking about this kind of stuff.

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It doesn't mean it's going to happen. But yes, I want my president meeting with the military, and I want the military to say, it's not the only thing we can do, but if you decided to go this way, this is what we could do. Yeah, I want that meeting every week. It shouldn't be news that they had a meeting and they discussed one of the most obvious paths, and apparently there's no energy to do it.

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So they had the meeting, They heard the alternatives. They decided collectively, apparently with not a lot of disagreement, I would guess, that they're not going to do it. I feel like that article was written as sort of a diss on Biden. That's not a diss. Every time this story is about Trump, Trump held a meeting to see if he can, I don't know, nuke a hurricane.

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And then people said, oh, no, it's crazy. No, I want that meeting. I don't think it was a meeting. I think it was just an offhand comment that you made once. But I want that. I want him to ask the question, well, do we have the technology to nuke it? And it's fine if the answer is, no, that's crazy. There's no way that could work.

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We couldn't control the, there's no way you could control the radiation. Okay. But do I like that he asked the question? Yes. Yes. I want my leader to be asking the question, not just of the obvious stuff, but I want him to ask the non-obvious stuff. That was a non-obvious question. I like it.

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And if the only thing it does is make you think deeper about other possibilities that are possible, so suppose the answer was, no, that's crazy. We're not going to use a nuke to stop a hurricane. But what if then the person you asked said, but I do have an idea. Suppose you did this. Here's an idea that would actually work. to reduce hurricanes. You greenify northern Africa, which can't be done.

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So basically you just let your animals, essentially the way you green a desert area is you have animals in the part that's still got enough green that they can eat, and then the cows will, or whatever, livestock, they eat what's there, and then sometimes they wander to the edge of the area and poop. And then that creates collectively someplace where more things are going to grow.

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And then just the cows wandering around and eating and pooping will make your greenery just extend into the desert. So suppose that Trump asks the question that's completely impractical, nuking a hurricane, but the person asks is, you know, I've heard this other idea. And then you have the conversation, well, is that practical?

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If the machine is listening when you don't want it to, are you telling me that there's no human being who could just play it anytime they want or just listen in live, listen in real time? Now, there's no claim of that, but as long as the technology allows it, well, somebody's going to do it. Anything that's possible gets done in our world. So, yeah. Yeah, your privacy was completely compromised.

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Is there any way we could, in a cost-effective way, reduce hurricanes just by emphasizing the greening? Because the greening, here's why that works. Northern Africa is where it gets super hot, and then that heat is what drives the hurricanes, the heat differential, basically.

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So if you reduce the differential of heat by making just the desert less hot, you should take some steam off the hurricanes. And that's maybe doable. So I'm always in favor of asking the bad question, should we nuke a hurricane? Because then that opens up everybody to all the other possibilities, and maybe there's one you haven't talked about yet. That's a good technique.

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I like it in Biden, and I like it in Trump. So that's two A-pluses. And I think that's everything I wanted to say today. So I remind you that Owen Gregorian is going to do a spaces after we're done. So he's been doing that on Saturdays after the show, people seem to like it. It was well attended. So look for that probably just a few minutes after we're done. It's on spaces on X. Um,

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And you watched three movies in three days? You had nothing better to do than that? Did you also exercise? Because if you watch movies and you didn't exercise that day, you need to rethink that. All the AI invasion is coordinated with a writer's strike. Interesting. All right, let me just look at your comments here for a moment. Dilbert Assumption. Scott, I'm not about best idea of the year.

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LA Times. Oh, I could probably get Dilbert back in some newspapers. Yeah, I just don't want Dilbert in newspapers anymore because newspapers are just a dying industry. There's no point. I could get a few newspapers, but they don't pay much individually. it wouldn't make any difference to my income. So even if I got a few big papers, like hypothetically, what was mentioned was the LA Times.

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So even if the LA Times said, you know, we're trying to be different than we were and we'll take you back, that would be like $100 a month. Did you know that? That's how little they pay for cartoons. It's like $100 a month. So if you have 2,000 of them, and they all pay different rates depending on the size, then you're making real money.

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But to get one or two papers to take Dilbert back wouldn't make any difference at all. There's no income involved with that. Yeah, I'd have to start censoring myself again. Don't want that. All right, since Owen's going to do his spaces, you'll have some time to chat with each other. I think I'll end this and maybe just say hi quickly to the locals people.

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But everybody on X and Rumble and YouTube, thanks for joining. And YouTube is going to probably demonetize me because they do every once in a while and we don't know why. I think twice recently for no obvious reason. So just know that. All right, locals coming at you privately and

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Maybe not yet, but it certainly was a system that guaranteed it if they didn't stop it. And I don't think anything actually, I don't think the lawsuit will make any difference. I think your devices are all going to be listening to you no matter what. I just think they'll just keep doing it. That's my guess. Meanwhile, Thomas Massey handed out to everybody in the new Congress their debt badge.

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So he invented a little lapel badge that's got a digital readout that increases as the debt increases. So you can see our $36 trillion of debt zooming up. Now, here's what I love about this. It was one thing when he had one for himself and he would hand them out to some people, but giving them to everybody is a powerful play.

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Because you want everybody to wear the scarlet letter of what problems they caused. So if you think that the debt clock is so that they can tell you, the public, that the debt is bad, well, it kind of does that. But the far more clever thing it does is it makes you wear it like a scarlet letter. It's the scarlet debt clock.

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Well, the news is all fun and interesting, so I'm going to zip through it and delight you. Number one, first of all, Owen is going to do a Spaces, which he's been doing on Saturdays, so you can look for that.

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If you're an elected politician and you're wearing literally a digital thing that shows the extent of your failure as a politician, look at this. You can't fail harder than this. Have you seen this? $36 trillion and now it's $37 trillion. That's how badly I failed. Now, you can say that the new members of Congress haven't failed yet.

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But it's still funny to make them wear it because they're going to fail. It's not like they're going to get rid of $36 trillion of debt very quickly. So this is very clever. I like everybody having one, and I like the fact that it's an insult to them, but they'll probably still use them.

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Or even if they don't wear it and all they do is leave it at home, they're probably going to leave it somewhere where they see it all the time. It's going to be on top of their dresser, and they're going to see it every time they get it. dressed, but they're like, ah, I don't want to wear it. But there it is. So rule number one for persuasion, the most important starting rule for persuasion.

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You have to make people focus on your thing more than they were. That's it. That's your rule number one. So Massey is turning this concept of debt into a physical device that your eyes are looking at. makes you think about it more than you were thinking about it. That is really good persuasion.

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So it looks like it's a clever toy and people want one because other people have one, but it's way more than that. It's just really, really smart persuasion. Meanwhile, we got a new Speaker of the House. There was no real drama there. Took one vote, and Mike Johnson's back at it. And he's already saying that the House Republicans will investigate the disbanded House Select Committee.

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Those are the bad people who did the January 6th show trial. What is not specified is whether the Republicans will run it as a show trial, which would be kind of perfect to do back to the Select Committee what they did to the January 6thers. Why not do it in public? Now, I'm sure that no matter what they do, they'll have to testify in public.

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I don't know if it will become a long-term tradition, but at least for today, Owen Gregorian will be doing a Spaces after this show where he can talk about what we talked about or, I suppose, anything else. All right, so look for that. So yesterday... I opened up my ChatGPT app, which I haven't looked at recently because I've been using other apps.

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But wouldn't it be funny if they did what the J6 Committee did, which was hire a TV producer and really make it watchable so that when you watch it, you're like, wow, this is interesting. Because I'm not sure everybody watches the clips of somebody testifying for three hours. But you would definitely watch it if they entertainatized it, making up a word. So I don't know that Republicans do that.

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But under the Trump administration, I feel like that might be the kind of thing that Trump could add to the process. Meaning, you know, you don't have to do this the boring way. Well, Mr. President, we don't want to be like the Democrats. We just want to get to the bottom of it and find out the truth. Yeah, yeah, I get that. But you don't have to be boring.

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So I feel like there's a conversation that's going to happen where Trump is going to take his reality TV experience, which is phenomenal, and see if he can apply it to this situation. We'll see how it goes. I'd be happy either way, honestly, but it'd be fun to see it as a show, just to pay him back.

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Well, meanwhile, the Biden administration has determined that the chemical formaldehyde, which it turns out is in all kinds of products and in your environment all over the place, is an unreasonable risk to human health and should be regulated. So you're basically surrounded by this thing that the administration just told you is deadly and it's everywhere and you're not going to get rid of it.

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But I wonder if there is a counter argument. Yes. Turns out the American Chemistry Council, and they're, of course, a lobbying group for the chemical industry, stressed the importance of formaldehyde and said that the determination that it was unreasonably risky was based on, quote, a flawed assessment. So here's your choice. I want to see which way you think the credibility is.

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So on one hand, you've got the government, the Biden administration. So they've got a scientific take. On the other hand, you've got the scientists who are really lobbyists for the industry. Which one of those do you trust? Your government to get the science right? When was the last time they did that? Versus a lobbying group Whose job really is to lie to you?

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For all practical purposes, that's how it works out. So if I told you, hey, trust the science, do you have any access to the science? No, you don't. You would have to trust either your government or a lobbyist group. That's all you have. So they're telling us that you're going to die if you get too close to this stuff.

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but you have only an uncredible source telling you, and then it's being imposed by another non-credible source. And that's what we call science. And when the idiots who tell me you should trust the science and believe the science and don't be a science denier, these are people who are seriously inexperienced.

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I feel like everybody who has real-world experience and has paid attention, they don't trust the science so quickly. You know what I mean? By the way, well, I can't tell you yet, but there's some science that is really bad that I've had a preview to. I don't know if I could ever go public with it, but oh, my God.

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And I didn't realize that my app had already been upgraded so that you can do the thing where you open the camera on your phone. You can just point your camera at stuff, and the AI will have a conversation with you about what you're looking at. Now, I didn't really know how cool that was until yesterday.

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So Biden is going to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the country's greatest honors. on a number of people, but it includes George Soros and Hillary Clinton. And you might be saying, wait, what? I probably heard that wrong.

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It couldn't possibly be true that Biden's giving our highest medal of freedom to Soros, who has done the most to destroy the country and is the most closely associated with evil incarnate. He's getting an award. the highest award. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is also getting the award. What do Hillary Clinton and George Soros have in common? Commonality. Oh, Huma Abedin.

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So she was longtime confidant and assistant to Hillary Clinton and now is married to George Soros's son, Alex, who's taking over the business. Huh. Seems to me that wherever Uma Abedin is, is the real power, doesn't it? She's like a moth to the flame. So where she goes tells you where the real power is.

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I think we should get ready for the best Saturday podcast you're ever going to see. Because all the lazy people are sleeping in. But boy, we're not lazy. Or we're in different time zones. That works too. All right, let's get our notes and our comments. Good morning, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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And apparently the net effect of this is he built up some natural immunity that would cover a whole range of different kinds of snakes. So now the scientists are trying to figure out how they can harvest his immunity and make it available to other people so that snakes won't hurt us. I'll tell you, that guy sounds a little bit crazy.

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Is he crazy or is he just like the greatest hero we've ever known because he decided to take on this challenge and get bitten 200 times? To me, that sounds a little mentally ill. So I hope the mental illness is not in his blood because the only part I want is the snake immunity. Anyway.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, they're acting surprised that the US economy is showing significant resilience. For example, the jobs numbers are pretty good, and the stock market rally is pretty good, and the unemployment rate is pretty good, and a bunch of companies are trying to bring more business into the United States, which is pretty good.

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Now, of course, our debt problem is terrible, but there are a whole bunch of normal things that look like they're stronger than you would expect, given that we're in some kind of a tariff war. But we've already forgotten that the Democrats stopped talking about eggs. Have you noticed that? The Democrats went from eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, to how about chaos? Can we talk about chaos?

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And gas prices, aren't gas prices at least a little bit lower since Trump took over? So eggs and gas prices went from one of the top things that every single Democrat to say every time they talk in public to never mind, never mind about those eggs because the prices come way down. All right. I'm going to give you, here's the most useful thing I'm going to do today. I'm going to reframe Trump

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in a way that you haven't seen done. You've seen parts of it, but you haven't seen it done comprehensively. Number one, you are all aware that Trump has said many times, he said it out loud, I think he's written it in his books, that he likes to be unpredictable, right? So we're all aware that he's intentionally unpredictable. So what the Democrats did, which was kind of clever,

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is they reframed unpredictable to chaos. And then it sounds bad. And chaos is one of those words that just scares people who aren't paying attention, especially the elderly. If you're elderly and you're depending on your social security, and the Democrats tell you that Trump's full of chaos and he might cut all your benefits. Well, you might believe it.

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So, you know, they're using that Nazi persuasion technique of the big lie followed by infinite repetition. And it kind of works. But here's what you need to know. The chaos is just his normal technique of being unpredictable. Now you might say to me, but Scott, clearly the tariff rollout was kind of just a hot mess.

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It looked like they didn't have it well planned, and then as soon as it came out, they're like, oh, but we'll change this, and oh, we didn't mean it, we'll drop the tariff on that one, and oh, well, we'll make this tweak, and Did I say 100%? I meant 145%. And then it looked to us like all kinds of poor planning. But here's a frame that you need to understand because I know Trump does.

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Have you ever heard the saying in war that a war plan only lasts until the first shots are fired? Because once the first shots are fired, you have to figure it out like you had done no planning whatsoever. Because it depends where the shots came from and all that. Mike Tyson has a version of that for boxing.

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And apparently they discovered them using remote viewing. Now, I guess the remote viewing was all they needed. So they didn't go to those places and look around, at least the ones on Earth, and see if there were actually any alien bases. But I'm here to tell you that remote viewing, which is where you have this psychic person go, oh, I can see miles from here. There's a submarine base or whatever.

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And he says that your game plan for your boxing match only lasts until the first time you get punched in the face. So my question is this. How much was the right amount of planning and implementation for the tariffs?

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And the answer is, if you believe that that should have been really, really well planned, then you don't understand what Mike Tyson was saying and you don't understand what every general will tell you. Your plan is only good until the first shot is fired or the first time you get punched in the face.

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And he knew, because anybody smart would know, that when he introduced tariffs on all these countries, and it was sort of all over the place, that there would be lots of shots fired and lots of punches in the face, and then you figure it out from there. But in the meantime, you're getting the benefit of being unpredictable. Now, you might say, but wait a minute. Why is unpredictable good?

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Unpredictable is bad, especially for the economy, right? Unpredictable is the worst thing you could have for an economy. Well, temporarily, we saw that our economy pulled back a little bit, right? Stock market dropped. The news coverage turned negative. But that's all part of the plan. That's the part where you're getting punched in the face.

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So Trump was accurately and correctly not too worried about what a step two would be. Step one was to get everybody all mad and to make it their top priority. So persuasion-wise, if you could make something somebody's top priority and they're paying attention to it and they're booking flights to come over here to talk about it, that's a home run.

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Now, some people say, Scott, couldn't you do it the boring, normal way where you just have your ambassador contact each country and say, we'd like to renegotiate our trade deal. Can you meet with us? That wouldn't have worked. There's nobody smart who thinks that would have worked. Would it work a little bit if you took four years for each nation you're working with? Maybe a little bit.

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But by being unpredictable and maybe a little crazy, the crazy is part of the process, by the way. And remember, this is a show. It's not his personality. It's not who he is in the quiet moments. This is all part of the show. And what Trump can do that no one else can do is he can weaponize the show. And that's what he did.

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So when he says how much he loves tariffs and it's going to be replacing income taxes and the money is going to be rolling in, that's the show. That's not necessarily something you're supposed to believe is specifically true. That's the show. And if the show gets every other country to feel uncomfortable because there's too much uncertainty, that's exactly what he needs.

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If you're going to negotiate productively, you don't want to have your ambassador call their ambassador and set up a meeting. Because the other country, if they have an advantageous trading situation, which they do, they're just going to shine you on. They're just going to tap you on. As Trump likes to say, they're going to go tap, tap, tap.

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And, oh, yeah, well, let's schedule that meeting next year. Oh, too bad, our ambassador got replaced. Why don't we wait another six months, and then we'll totally have that trade meeting. In the real world, the countries that had better trade deals than we do, and therefore were already at an advantage, they would just delay. And then they wouldn't seriously... negotiate.

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What you needed was somebody who looks crazy and committed and unpredictable. If you throw that at somebody, hey, you know your economy, it might completely collapse. I'm not saying it will, but you know, some things are in motion and People who don't deal with us, they might give some secondary tariffs. You never know. Maybe they're big ones. Maybe they're 145%.

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There's just no way to know how bad things could get if you don't negotiate with us right away. So the first thing you need to know is that chaos is really just the reframe of unpredictable. Unpredictable is good if you know how to use it. Unpredictable comes with a show. Trump puts on a show which he knows is a show.

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So when he says things that sound to you crazy, it's not like he doesn't know it. He knows it's making you crazy, and he knows it creates a sense of urgency in all the people who get dragged into the show, which so far is every country we do business with. So what would you do if you were an Asian country that didn't want any uncertainty?

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It's not real. Now, you might say to yourself, but Scott, There's a peer-reviewed study that shows that it is. To which I say, peer-reviewed studies are not worth anything. You need a randomized controlled study. Do you know how many remote viewers have passed a randomized controlled study?

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you would get on the first plane you could, you'd come over here and you'd give up something to get your certainty back. And that's what's happening. So uncertainty causes anxiety in the person you were dealing with. They need to get rid of the anxiety. And so they're going to give you something to get back to certainty.

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That's how negotiations work if you have a showman doing it who really understands the field. If you are a Democrat and you're just watching it, you say stupid shit like, oh, why don't you use a scalpel instead of a chainsaw? That's what somebody with no real experience or understanding of the show or negotiating or anything says. Because they imagine that

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the normal boring processes would get you a good outcome. They won't. They never could. They don't have that power. But he's created a situation where he definitely has the power to get people to want to get rid of their anxiety. And you saw that the stock market, as soon as it saw something that looked like a little bit of certainty, went right up. And there's probably more to come on that. So,

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Here's what you need to know. There's probably no uncertainty whatsoever about what it is we want from each country. So we might say, South Korea, we just need to get rid of these tariffs on these three things. China might be, we need you to stop doing the fentanyl business. We need you to stop stealing IP. And we need a bunch of stuff with tariffs.

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at the negotiating level you know the people who actually be in the room to negotiate the beginning of a deal they know exactly what they're going to ask for they know what a bad deal looks like and they know which country has which kind of bad deals with us and there's no uncertainty there whatsoever we know what their situation is and we know what we'd prefer so we know what we're going to ask for and the other countries probably know that too they probably show up

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knowing exactly what we're going to ask for, because they also understand their trade advantage.

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So here's what I think. As soon as Trump gets a few deals signed, everything's going to look different. Now, the Democrats are going to have to come up with a whole new attack. So I guess they'll say that the trade deals are worse than what he had, even if that's not true, because people aren't going to really be able to check. So they'll probably just come up with a new Nazi lie

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and say, oh, we just gave away the farm. And then the average person won't even know how to check to find out if we came out ahead or behind. And then they'll just repeat it over and over. Oh, I gave away the farm, gave away the farm. Looks like you gave away the farm. And they'll have a little phrase. that they'll all repeat. And it might be that one. He gave away the farm.

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none none zero it's never happened now if the only test that's good enough for science is a randomized controlled study and if remote viewing were real and people could do it it would be the greatest asset the united states ever had i mean it would it would allow us to win wars and find aliens and oh my god would that be valuable

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And they'll repeat it endlessly, which is the Hitler technique, because the Democrats are fully committed to Hitlerian persuasion at this point. They're completely down with it. And then they're going to say stuff like this. I saw somebody say that the reshoring of the chip making, it's not even reshoring because it wasn't here in the first place.

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But, you know, TSMC, I guess, said it's broken ground now in its third chip making place in the United States. And I saw somebody say, you don't understand. It will take 10 years. to build a new chip manufacturing plant in the United States, to which I say, so that means we should start today, right? If you think that because it takes 10 years, you shouldn't do it, what the hell is that?

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What kind of idea is that? That if it takes 10 years to do it, this thing which is completely necessary, that you shouldn't do it? No, if it takes 10 years, you should start now and you should try to get it down to five, which is probably possible. So he's got that going for him. And the other thing that the Democrats get wrong is they say that he's ruined our reputation in the world.

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Do you think that's true? Do you think if Trump starts rolling up the trade negotiations and he gets a win after win after win, and he'll probably start with our friendliest trade partners so that he knows he gets some easy wins, you know, it won't be China first. Do you think that the other countries will say, oh, he's crazy?

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Or will they say, all right, well, okay, it started out kind of sketchy, but he is getting some deals. and they are good for the United States. The thing you need to know about international relations is they're not personal, they're all transactional. The very minute that another country needs the United States for anything, they're gonna be friendly.

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The minute they don't need us for anything ever, including national defense or trade, well, they're gonna be jerks. And it has nothing to do with Trump making people mad and insulting people. That stuff is completely just transient. It just gets them going. It makes them pay attention to the United States.

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It makes them think that whatever we need them to do is the most important thing they need to do to make their uncertainty go away. But by far... All that matters is we end up in a good place. So if we end up in a place where we're trading with other countries and we've got maybe some kind of defense agreement with them, they're going to be perfectly happy.

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Maybe they need to wait for the next president, but that's not too far away. The United States is not going to lose all of its reputation just because it did a good job getting better trade deals. That's not going to happen. Let's talk about Doge. I've been a critic of Doge in the sense that I don't believe some of their anecdotal stories of successes.

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And I was hoping for a trillion dollars in savings, but it looks like they're not going to get close to that. But they are doing something. That is so wonderfully big and important that it might be bigger than even the savings, which is they're putting in fraud catching systems.

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And by that, I mean requiring, let's say, a code and some kind of a receipt before money is dispersed so that people just can't easily get away with fraud. That might be the most important thing they do. Because if they upgrade the systems, and systems here is both computer as well as how people act, and they put in fraud-catching systems, that might be your trillion dollars.

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I mean, I don't know how big it could be, but when you look at how much is clearly being stolen from taxpayers, that could be the biggest legacy. That there'll always be a doge. I said this before that the big benefit is that we know what a doge is and we realize we didn't have one, meaning that we didn't have anybody looking to see if we were being efficient and legal or if there were fraud.

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but nobody's ever passed a randomized controlled study for remote viewing. It's always anecdotal. The one I always laugh about, there's a famous case of the guy who was the best remote viewer. And he was told to look at some location in Russia, or Soviet Union, I guess. It was a while ago. And he accurately drew a picture of a submarine base.

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So once people realize, oh, well, if you did it right, And everybody has a different idea what that looks like. But if you did it right, it'd be a good idea to have a doge everywhere in your state, in your corporation, in your organization. So yeah, it's a completely civilization-altering concept. And it's an important one. I guess the White House has unveiled a new website called

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that some say it looks like the old Drudge Report. New York Post is reporting on this. And the idea is that the White House wants to tell people what's real and what's not fake news. So we'll see. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure it's biased. I don't know how much play it'll get, but it's sort of a good idea.

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I do think the White House having a hoax list, which they have, and then putting their own frame of what the truth is on their website, pretty good. Making it look like a news report, that's probably a good decision as well. Well, Bill Maher's panel. apparently didn't like the idea that Oklahoma is going to require their students to learn that the 2020 election was, quote, tainted by fraud.

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Now, without getting into the weeds of whether the 2020 election was, in fact, tainted with fraud, and I would say that there are two categories of fraud. One would be money coming in from the outside and the lawyers changing the rules and changing them in a way that the courts would never have agreed but somehow they didn't look at it.

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That seems pretty sketchy but not exactly what I'd call fraud. It just seems like the election was gamed, I will say. Gamed but not necessarily illegally. In some cases, maybe in a minor way. But the other one would be, is there actually some obvious case of real fraud, like where fake votes were counted and stuff? And then you also have the issue of the illegal voters, et cetera.

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So we don't have to get into that, but I like the fact that Oklahoma is going to teach their students that it was tainted with fraud. I do think there's enough publicly confirmed information to say, I don't know about that election. I'm not so sure that we had all the controls on everything that we needed. I'm not so sure you could even audit it.

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And why in the world was there just one year in which there were way more Democrat voters that didn't match the historical trend and didn't even match what happened at the very next election. Now, to me, that is pretty tainted. Now, can I prove it? Nope. I don't have any proof that the election was stolen or rigged, but it looks exactly like it.

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From just an interested observer's point of view, it certainly looks like it was fraudulent. Because if we don't see that level of Democrat voters in the next election, it's going to be really obvious that that was a one-off. Yeah, and then also, as Owen's saying, the bellwether places were all wrong. Like, all the bellwethers were sort of opposite of what they should have been.

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So my bigger question now, you know, is if Oklahoma is teaching a different history than the other states, how could we ever trust history? And the answer is we couldn't and we shouldn't. I don't think much of our American history is accurate. You know, I think I've learned at least two different versions of every big story of America.

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You know, when I was little, I learned that the pilgrims and the Iroquois Indians, they got along great. And Squanto, the Iroquois Indian, taught us how to put an ear of corn in the hole and use a fish as a fertilizer in the hole so your corn would grow or something like that. And everybody got along great. Then you get older and you read the real versions with these smallpox on blankets and

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So he showed the submarine and some support structures on the port. And I said to myself, all right, If somebody asked you to look at a remote place in Russia, and it was somebody who would be interested in a military kind of information, don't you think that would be enough to tip you off that you're looking for some kind of military thing?

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And Christopher Columbus using the locals as cattle. They would actually ride on their backs. They would just enslave them and use them as horses, basically. They would just climb on the backs of the locals and make the locals trot along. I don't even know if that's true, but I read it in some history book. So if our news is obviously fake, how could we possibly have real history?

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It's not possible. We can never have real history if our news is fake because the history comes out of the news, right? Well, there's now even more internal Democrat on Democrat hate. So there's a ex-Nancy Pelosi advisor who also worked as a comms person for Kamala Harris and worked for Obama at one point.

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And so somebody who's really, you know, really, what would you say, really connected in the Democrat world, Ashley Etienne. And she was on a podcast for Politico's playbook, Deep Dive. And she went after Hakeem Jeffries for his lack of leadership skills. And I thought, well, why did that take them so long? Every time I see Hakeem Jeffries talking, I think to myself, really?

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That's sort of the best talker they got? Of all the people in the world that they could have picked to be their main, sort of a main voice, they picked him? Because he doesn't seem very good at what he does. Like his... The things he said are just sort of obvious, just talking points. All he does is repeat talking points.

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And I think that's the same thing that Ashley Etienne is saying, that he's just not really adding much. And I wonder if that's enough for them to actually make a change. And my guess is, nope, I don't think it's enough to make a change. So they've got the worst leadership, Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi is now 1,000 years old. And I don't think they have the ability to change them.

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In some cases, because there's a DEI thing. In other cases, because somebody who's been there so long that they have too much power and control.

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they're in real trouble here's the least surprising update a federal judge has ruled yeah can we go one day without me having to tell you a story that starts with a federal judge has ruled and you know that whatever comes after that you're not gonna like a federal judge has ruled and

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that Trump's executive order going after Perkins Coie, the law firm that was doing some bad behavior according to the Trump administration, that going after them and taking away their, I guess, their security clearance is unconstitutional. and permanently blocked. Now, wouldn't you expect that a law firm as capable and powerful as Perkins Coie could find at least one judge to, what just happened?

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Hold on, my light just went off. That was weird. Don't you think that a high-powered legal firm that would be connected to everybody could shop for a judge and find at least one judge who would say, no, that order against us is all illegal? Well, they did. It's the least surprising thing you'll ever see in the news. Do you think they're done? No. Perkins Coie is very powerful.

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So maybe on day one, they took a hit when Trump surprised them by trying to take away their access and stuff. But you knew that they were going to, you know, gather up and come up with a plan and it wouldn't be a bad plan because they didn't get to be Perkins Coie unless they were really good at stuff. especially in the legal domain. So of course they were going to come back strong.

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And there it is. Looks like they win. And it turns out the CBS News, complete coincidence here. Listen to this coincidence. CBS News is planning to run a segment on 60 Minutes about President Trump targeting law firms. and other enemies. Oh, do you think that they were planning to do that anyway?

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And if that location happened to be on the water, as in it was sort of an easy place for any kind of maritime stuff, don't you think you would say to yourself, hmm, sounds like some kind of naval base. But if they asked the remote viewer, that means that they can't see what they need to see with a satellite.

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Or is it possible that Perkins Coie, or somebody who was allied with them, said, you know, hey CBS, you know it would be a good story? If you did a story about how Trump is targeting the law firms, now, I don't have any information that says Perkins Coie is behind CBS's decision, but wouldn't that be good lawyering if they were? And they're good lawyers? You don't think that...

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There was even one person at Perkins Coie who could get to somebody who was a decision maker at CBS and say, hey, if you do this story, we're going to open our kimono and we're going to have lots of people talk to you and we'll package up this story so you really got a winner. I don't know that they did that.

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but they would be the kind of highly capable lawyers who should know that they should do that. I mean, it would be a good play. So if they didn't do it, they're sure getting lucky. And I don't believe in that much luck. So again, if you thought that Perkins Coie was just going to roll over and take the loss, no, that's not how that works. They were going to regroup and come back stronger.

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And boy, did they. But we don't know if they influenced the CBS news. It just looks like a weird coincidence, if you know what I mean. So I saw some long thread... inspired by Mike Benz, but put together by Data Republican, who you should follow next, Data Republican. And it's a story about how all these NGOs came into being.

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And the story is that George Soros wrote a document and he laid out 30 years ago how NATO should transform from a fighting the Soviet Union, which was going out of business, to some kind of a open society promoting entity. And that it would be done mostly with things that look like non-military things. In other words, NGOs and other charity things. And so he laid out what we should be doing.

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We, the West, I guess, the United States and NATO, And what NATO should be doing, according to Soros, again, this is 30 years ago, is not so much focusing on war, because the threat of war, at least with the Soviet Union, was much smaller after the Soviet Union was falling apart. And instead, it should be to reshape other countries into this so-called open society.

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Because if you got rid of the populists, And even then they knew that populists were the problem. And they said that populists, like Trump, were the problem because they needed an enemy. Now, I'm not sure that's true in Trump's world, except for maybe immigration, but that's not really an enemy situation per se.

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So that wherever there was a country that had a populist leader, they would try to use their non-military power to get rid of the populist. and put in place a system that would be resistant to populists. And here's what the open society should look like. Now, this is in concept. It's not the real world.

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But in concept, the open society that Soros wanted all these other countries to follow would be there should be democracies with free markets, civil rights, minority protections, transparency, and a a global rules-based order. Now, I don't know if that's anything close to how things are playing out in the real world, but they needed to avoid nationalism. I'll say nationalism instead of populism.

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So you'd say to yourself, hmm, it's near the water, it's Russia, it's probably military, but you can't see everything you need to see from a satellite. What would that leave? A submarine. So every time you see one of these or hear about one of these stories where a remote viewer got an amazing hit, like how could they possibly have guessed that? It's the usual way. There are just some hints.

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So he was railing against nationalism, because nationalism is the one that attracts enemies, basically, or at least identifies as somebody else's enemy. And he thought that the open society should be sort of dominated by outside forces and elites. I think that's an interpretation. But here's a Soros quote that Data Republican is giving us.

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Combating closed societies involves the building of democratic states and open societies and embedding in them a structure which precludes certain kinds of behavior. Embedding in them a structure that precludes certain kinds of behavior. Would that be something like building a

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some kind of an anti-free speech censorship mechanism that affects a whole bunch of different countries from the outside, but also from the inside? I think it would. So the censorship stuff that a lot of the NGOs were involved in seemed like it fits into this category of a structure that precludes certain kinds of behavior.

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In other words, anything that Soros doesn't want to be said out loud, there would be a mechanism. censorship mechanism now this is this is my extending the argument this is not coming from data Republicans specifically so all these NGOs would pop up and all they'd have to do is say hey we're part of this creating these countries being less nationalism

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and more open societies, and we'll put some mechanisms in place that can control them directly or indirectly. And that the new purpose of NATO was to assimilate countries as open societies. So that's what Soros was pushing 30 years ago. And it was also specifically meant that NATO would try to expand its presence eastward and pick up those ex-Soviet bloc countries, which it did.

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So it's exactly what we saw. So the open society was something that the Uniparty agreed on. It was basically a way to conquer other countries, but make it look like it was more of a natural outcome instead of a war. You would conquer them with, you know, influence, basically money and influence.

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And, uh, as data Republican points out, this isn't just theoretical that, uh, there are some examples of 1994, their partnership for peace launched in 99 NATO admitted Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, 2004. NATO brought in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria. 2008 to 2022, brought in, well, tried to bring in Ukraine and Georgia, but they didn't make it. And in 2023, Finland joins.

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And then a state of Republican asked, why did everybody go along with it? Like, how do you get so many people to get on board with a plan like this? And the answer is that the amount of money involved was enormous. So everybody could figure out how to get a taste. It's like, well, if I go along with this, I could start an NGO or I could work on one and there's all this money slopping around.

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I could get me some of that money. So pretty much money was behind it all. So I don't know if that helps you understand how we got to where we are, but it helped me. David Sachs had an interesting post about how quickly AI would improve.

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Now, some smart people disagreed with him, but he was talking about how by the end of the Trump administration, assuming he just goes four years this time, that the models themselves would be 100 times better, and that would be a normal compounding rate from what we've seen. The chips would be 100 times better, and the data centers

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And then every once in a while, somebody's just going to get lucky. They're just going to literally guess, and it'll be pretty close. So that's what remote viewing is. Remote viewing is very much not real. If you'd like to check that for yourself, do what I did, which is ask Grok. Has there ever been a randomized controlled study that showed that remote viewing is real?

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Would have a hundred times more chips for a total increase if you take all these hundreds hundred times hundred times hundreds you get to a million times more in artificial intelligence a million times more So whatever you think is how awesome AI is I? by the end of the Trump administration, it could be a million times stronger than what we see. A million times.

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Now, some critics, and I might be one of them, will say something like, yeah, but the other possibility is that AI is already plateaued. Now, it's still getting better in a whole bunch of different ways, but the large language models might have some kind of a limit.

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Once you've trained it every way you can train it, maybe from that point, the benefits are a little bit slower, more normal like regular software. We don't know. But I do know that to get to the superintelligence that we're warned about, probably they need to invent some new techniques, not just make the current techniques faster. So we'll see if any of that happens.

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But it's going to be a crazy world. Apparently Google says that 30% of all their computer code is now being written by AI. But I'll bet they still need the real physical programmers. So I don't know how long it's going to be before that goes away. According to the Wall Street Journal, somebody in China has been asking. It's the Chinese Minister for Public Security.

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And he's been inquiring what the Trump administration expects on the fentanyl question. Because China is sort of slowly preparing to negotiate trade, and fentanyl was one of the things that Trump laid down as important. And so allegedly, according to the Wall Street Journal, there's at least one person who's in the right kind of job who's saying,

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Can you tell us more about what you'd expect us to do? Now, to me, that sounds like they're getting ready to negotiate and they just want to be prepared. And according to Fox News, Beijing has now sort of laid down the following condition, I guess, that they'd be willing to talk. So they're, quote, evaluating an offer from the U.S. to hold talks on tariffs. So they're not rejecting it.

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They're evaluating the offer to talk. So they want to act sort of like we're wooing them or something. So they're not coming to the table because we're bullying them. They're coming to the table because we're asking nicely, and they'll consider it. So that's the way they want to frame it.

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So as long as Trump starts to talk nicely to them, it looks like they're willing to take baby steps toward negotiating, because of course they have to. So I think that's going to happen. According to Terence Cole, who's Trump's pick to head the DEA, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the cartels now govern most of Mexico.

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And he claims that the drug lords aren't just influencing cops in the military, they're working with them. So the government and the cartels are basically indistinguishable now. Okay.

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And it will tell you, nope, it is definitely not real. And if I were to put a level of confidence on this opinion, because I tend to say everything with the same level of apparent confidence, even if I don't have it, 100%. This is one of my opinions where I'd say 100%. Well, but would you bet every dollar you have? Yeah. Yeah, totally. I would buy every dollar I've ever made.

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So if you wondered whether we had to send our military down there to take care of business, it's not going to happen with the Mexican military unless they do some, you know, I think they do some fake outs where they just go after a rival, you know, the weaker rival cartel. And then they tell the United States, look, look, we're doing things to get rid of drugs here.

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We got rid of the, you know, this cartel. but really they're just working with a stronger cartel who wanted to get rid of the competition. I feel like that's what's happening. So we'll see if Trump can work his way through that. Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, Columbia is at a new high in making cocaine. Do you remember...

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It wasn't that long ago when our CIA and the Colombian government worked together to go after the cocaine fields. And they were spraying them and they were working hard to arrest people. And they really, they knocked down the cocaine production in Colombia by 70% or something. It was quite successful. But there was a lot of pushback. And ultimately that partnership fell apart.

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And now Columbia is making so much cocaine, because they're getting better at it and there's just more of it, that they need special narco submarines to move it all. So they've got these semi-submarines where the top of it is still above the water. but it's very, very shallow and doesn't look like there's much going on on the top, but the rest of it is underwater. So it's harder to spot.

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And apparently one of these was on the way from Columbia to Australia. And I thought, really? They have the technology to build a semi-submarine that can take tons of cocaine all the way to Australia? Yeah. Now it got caught, but apparently they make so much that losing a few tons of cocaine is no big deal. According to the Jerusalem Post, the U.S.

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is going to withdraw some of its efforts as mediator in the Ukraine-Russia peace talks. So according to Tammy Bruce, State Department spokesperson, She said that the methodology for the talks will change and that we will not be the mediators. So the U.S. is kind of saying, all right, we've done what we can do. Now you're going to have to talk with each other or nothing's going to happen.

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Because obviously we knew that neither of them could make a deal with each other by talking to a third party us. That maybe you could toss out some ideas and find out where the guardrails are and stuff like that. But you couldn't really make a deal by not talking to the person you're making a deal with. So since they were not talking directly, it looked like nothing was going to happen.

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So Rubio, Marco Rubio, told reporters that the U.S. could not continue to dedicate its resources to talks that would not succeed. So we're basically pulling back. So we got that mineral deal signed, which makes it look like we have a long-term economic interest there. I think we could debate how real that deal is and how long it would take before anybody makes any money on it.

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That would be a perfectly fair conversation. But I think this would be a test of my predictive ability. How many of you remember me predicting kind of a while ago that it didn't look like either Russia or Ukraine were seriously interested in peace. And I predicted that we would have to step away because they just weren't serious. Well, there it is.

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I don't know how many other people predicted that there was no way that the two of them were going to be serious about a deal, but I got that one right. So if you keep in score. However, here's some related news that might be important to it.

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According to New Atlas, there's a new drone company in the United States that claims, and this claim has not been verified because it's a big claim, that they can make incredibly high-performance drones in the United States And they can make them for a cost that's competitive with China's cost for making drones. Now, that's quite a claim.

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But that not only would it be cost competitive, but it'll fly four times longer, 10 times further, and 10 times quieter, and carry five times more payload. So it's a Silicon Valley-based company called SciFly. And of course, there would be other drone companies as well. So do you think that's real? There are some skeptics who say, we're going to have to see this thing.

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I'm 100% sure remote viewing is not real. Well, there's, according to Fox News, a big surge in gun purchases and also gun training. So that's the good news. People are pretty serious about getting safety training. And apparently now more than 40% of U.S. households have a gun. I wonder at what point burglary doesn't make sense anymore. If 40% of U.S.

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We're not going to take the press release as true. We're going to need to see this. How in the world do you make your drones so cheaply? It just doesn't seem like that's economically possible. But maybe, you know, maybe they fully automated it and it's 3D printers and a couple of robot arms and you're off to the races. Could be. Or it could be vapor. But here's what I think. I think the U.S.

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has decided that Ukraine is going to be our drone testing environment. Now, Ukraine itself is maybe the, arguably, could be the foremost producers of war drones because they sort of had to develop that. Now, a lot of theirs are, you know, made in garages but but they've also developed a a drone industry so ukraine can make a lot of drones but of course if our drones are better and more deadly

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they're probably going to end up in Ukraine. And then we're going to see how well they work against Russian drones and Russian anti-drones. So I feel like there's some confidence that Russia can be held at bay with massive drone technology that's really inevitable. So this could be part of the reason that we can step away. is that we don't think the front line is going to change that much.

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And if it did change that much, the number of drones would go up by 100 and it would change back. So I think it's the drone testing round from now on and that the U.S. will probably be greatly advantaged By testing their drones in actual combat. Because if you don't test them in actual combat, you never really know if you've got a winner drone. You've got to put it into the actual fight.

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And this is the ideal actual fight because it's Russia on one side. So Ukraine will be a drone testing environment, I think. Well, Trump has threatened to put tariffs on, well, actually, Lindsey Graham, his co-sponsoring bill that would put tariffs on countries that buy oil and gas and other minerals from Russia.

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And so what's missing in the story is what countries are buying oil and gas from Russia? So I went to Grok and I asked that question. And the answer is China, most of it, or like half of all their sales are to China. Boy, are they beholden to China. But also a lot of their sales of oil and gas and related stuff is to India. India is the second biggest buyer of Russian energy. And then Turkey.

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So, you know, already we have a problem here. Turkey spotted NATO. And then the European Union, 17 billion. of LNG, Brazil, Saudi, even Saudi Arabia buys some kind of specialty kind of energy from Russia that I guess they don't do in Saudi Arabia. and maybe the UAE and South Korea and Japan and Taiwan.

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And I'm thinking to myself, when you first read Lindsey Graham saying that they're going to put some kind of tariffs on countries that buy from Russia, if you're not thinking about which countries those are, it might sound like a good idea. But we're not going to put additional tariffs on China. Probably not. And India is an ally. And you could just go down the line.

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How in the world are we going to tariff the EU for buying some Russian energy? I don't know. That doesn't seem real. Well, after the show, I told you that Owen Gregorian is going to be hosting a Spaces on X. So this is the end of my prepared remarks. I'm going to talk to the locals people, but only briefly. So I'll release them to go to the Spaces. Hope you enjoyed the show.

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Hope you learned something about Trump's negotiating techniques and chaos equals unpredictability. And that's it for today. So look for Owen Gregorian's X feed. He's going to do a spaces and they'll continue the conversation on these topics and more. All right. Locals, I'm coming at you privately, but only very briefly.

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households have a gun, that's pretty dicey if you're a burglar, right? And you're trying to go in there at night and somebody might be there, but you think they're probably not. I guess one of the tricks that the burglars use is they put a trail cam, a wireless trail cam, in your bushes and they aim it at your house and somehow they can tell that you're not home. But they don't know for sure.

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So 40% is quite a disincentive to go into somebody's house. According to interesting engineering, we now have our first 18-wheel driverless truck that can do long-haul deliveries in the U.S. It's called the Aurora driver system.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure

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So we've actually got a truck, and Aurora is a Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle tech startup, and they're already pressing it into service for deliveries between Dallas and Houston. So this is the first time that you could go out there and you could potentially see a big wheel, or what do they call it, a big rig, long-distance truck with no driver.

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I'm pretty sure I saw a story that said Tesla is pretty far along in building their own. So I would hate to be a startup company that was going to compete against a Tesla self-driving long-haul truck because I feel like Tesla could make them cheaper in the long run and their self-driving system will be superior. So that's going to be a tough one to compete with.

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According to Eric Dolan who's writing for a side post a new study published in political psychology says that At least in the United States political identity is the strongest driver of how people view other people So we've actually transcended race and religion and gender and sexual preference and everything else but if you're the same political view and you're okay.

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Now, it seems to me that this is sort of a move in the right direction. On the surface, it would seem like, oh no, We're so divided by politics, which we are. We're seriously divided by politics. But the accidental outcome of that is that we're less divided by race and religion and gender. Apparently, if you meet somebody that has the same political views, you're just friends.

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and the other stuff just melts away. And that's sort of the first time that's ever been the case. So finally, a colorblind world, which also suggests that the Democrat idea of identity politics is truly dead. Because the more divided we get politically, the less we care what color somebody is. I was looking at a video yesterday

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of a black conservative, I won't name him, who said some things that were super provocative and interesting. And I just said to myself, conservative, I actually feel this difference. that we're not blind to race, of course, we notice, but it's just not the thing that makes you form any kind of an opinion. It's an observation, and then you move on.

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The decision-making part has to do with their brain and their beliefs. In other news, MIT Technology Review says there's going to be, for the first time, a magic pig. They've used the CRISPR technology to edit its genes so that it doesn't get some kind of common virus that pigs usually get before they're shipped to slaughter. So now we have these special pigs with special genes made by CRISPR.

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The dopamine edit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. Oh, that's just what I wanted. Just what I wanted. All right, get that fucking comment out of there. There we go. Well, after the show, there will be a special spaces for those of you who want a little extra.

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And you know what that makes me ask? Will the bacon be CRISPR? Will the bacon be crisper? That's what I want to know. The whole pig is crisper. So, yeah, should be. Well, Trump is continuing to troll the world in his Trump-like way. He posted on True Social an image, an AI image, of himself being the next pope. Because he was asked the other day who he thinks should be the next pope.

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He said, I think I should be. That'd be a great job. And I love how provocative that is. It's on one hand, you can tell he's just joking. And on the other hand, you think, well, is that being disrespectful? And then you think, well, it's not really disrespectful if he personally wishes he could have the job, because I would suggest it would be a good thing to have.

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So the fact that he just has that instinct to keep us continually laughing or angered is amazing. Now, I've got a frame on Trump that's my own frame that I don't talk about too much. But when you hear people say, oh, he's got chaos and You don't know what he's going to do and he's unnecessarily mean and why is he doing this and why is he doing that?

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I always think of the Bill Maher experience where he found out that Trump in person has nothing to do with public Trump. The public Trump is a show. He's the world's greatest showman. And when you watch his rallies, It would be tempting to say, oh, wow, he's like a good stand-up comedian because he makes people laugh.

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Or you'd say he's a good public speaker. No, that's not quite it. He's the greatest showman. And he understands the power of the show. And so when he does things like, you know, posting himself as the pope... That's the show. If you talk to him in person, he would presumably laugh about that.

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But if you don't know the difference between the show and the real person, you get all bent out of shape because you think the show is real. No, it's a show. And he understands the power of the show, that he can keep your attention, he can divert you if he needs to, he can make you love him. It's the show.

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And I don't think that he's even the least bit confused about what's his real personality and what is the show. But boy, is the show good. So good. All right. I guess Reuters is reporting that Texas, we saw this come and signed a $1 billion school voucher law. So now if you wanted to take your kid to a private school and get him out of the

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garbage schools of the public school system, you can get up to $10,000 per kid that you could use, that the state would give you, you could use for your private school. To which I ask the following question. Is that even close to being enough? What is the price of a good private school? I thought it might be a lot more than $10,000 a year.

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but maybe there's a difference between the high-end ones and the normal ones or something. Does anybody have that information? The average cost of a private school? Because if all this is doing is allowing rich kids to save some money, somebody says 25 a year, 20 a year. Yeah, that's kind of what I was guessing. I was guessing 25 plus. 60,000 at Culver. Wow. 20 in Canada, 20 to 45. Yeah.

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So all it's really going to do is allow rich kids to save some money, right? Because the poor kids, the ones who really need to have the choice, the poor kids aren't going to be able to afford it just because they got an extra 10K. So we'll keep an eye on this, but I don't know if this makes a difference in the real world, except to be just a gift to some rich kids.

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That will be hosted by Owen Gregorian on X. So if you're on X, just look for Owen Gregorian's X account, and you'll see the link for the spaces that will start after I'm done here. Well, let's see. According to the Daily Mail, there are secret CIA files that claim to expose the secret locations of three alien bases. And two of them are on Earth.

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Well, according to the BBC, I'm not sure how much of this story I believe. There's an individual, one guy, who spent 20 years allowing himself to be bit by different snakes on purpose and also injecting himself, in some cases, with snake venom. And he survived. And he survived more than 200 bites from different snakes that he intentionally allowed to happen.

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Bubbles that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains. All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein or canteen jug or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

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If you say anything but that, oh, oh, I see you want to have oral sex with Putin is what you're saying. Oh, oh, you love him? Did you send him a Valentine's card? Oh, well, you seem to be a Putin apologist. Some kind of a Putin puppet-pologist, huh? So it's just the latest stupid Democrat thing to say. It's so unmoored from any adult anything.

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So is Sean Davis a... Wait till Democrats... Wait till Democrats or other people too, I guess. Wait till they find out who we partnered with in World War II. Stalin. So the dumb people... The people who, I don't know, they just don't have good arguments. Their argument is that the only people we should be nice to are other democracies like Europe.

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And that if somebody is a dictator, we shouldn't be nice to them or work with them or do deals with them. But I live in the real world. Dictators exist. If they didn't exist, well, that would be great advice. But they exist. And they have access to huge amounts of energy, which matters. And they have lots of weapons, which matters.

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And sometimes we have things we disagree with and sometimes we agree. So if you can't work with dictators and democracies, you're just a crippled government. You would be a government that just can't do anything because there are so many dictators if you only were nice to democracies.

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because it doesn't include food or energy. The two things that have gone up the most. No food, no energy. Well, at least the rest of the stuff isn't going up too much. It's still too high. You want your inflation to be around 2%. But hey, it's the best in seven months. Meanwhile, let's talk about all those Epstein files we've seen. What Epstein files?

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And by the way, the democracies we're talking about are the ones trying to censor Americans through the social media networks. I don't know that Putin has ever tried to censor me. What problems has Putin caused for me? But Europe has caused some really damn problems.

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I still blame the UK for whatever happened with that Russia collusion thing because there were just too many British people involved in that whole deal. So, I don't know. I would say maybe our friends are kind of a problem too. not as big a problem as maybe Russia, if you wanted to rank it. But there's nobody here who's innocent at all. All right, so here's the thing that I wonder about.

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If the only way that Ukraine were going to be protected from any further onslaught by Russia, if the only thing that would be protecting them is America's contribution and weapons and stuff and then Europe's. Does Trump's idea of just doing a mineral deal with no security guarantees, does that mean that you basically were giving away Ukraine and it's not ours to give away?

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Although you could argue that we did overthrow Ukraine and install a puppet and maybe it was ours at one point and maybe we... We do kind of own it. We do kind of own it. We're just pretending we don't. So anyway, how does it work that Putin would not attack Ukraine because we did a mineral deal with Ukraine? If we didn't have military assets there,

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Is it just the risk that we would turn on the flow of money and fund Ukraine with better weapons? See, Trump has made the claim that there wouldn't have been a war if he had been president. But he also makes the claim that if he makes a peace, it will hold, again, because of the force of his personality and whatever relations he's created with Putin. Do you believe that?

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Do you believe that if Trump is president, He could do an adequate risk assessment and threat so that Putin would say, you know what? This is really not the time to get adventurous because we're sort of getting along and I don't really need to own Poland. And all right. But what happens when Trump leaves? Yes. What if Trump leaves office?

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Is Putin going to be held in check because he either respects the new president or he fears the consequences? I don't know. So I do think that Trump needs to do a better job of explaining what it looks like and why anything that we're involved in would keep Putin from taking the rest of Ukraine the moment it's underfunded.

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Now, you might say, Scott, it'll never be underfunded because Europe can just step up. And if they want, it's completely up to them.

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they can put a massive amount of money in there to replace whatever money we were given and everybody's good now that would be okay with me if if europe wants to be paying nearly all of it and we're just out from the funding perspective but you know maybe we sell weapons to europe to give to them or something that would be fine i wouldn't have any problems with that well a million dead russians

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that is a domestic problem for Putin. But it's not like he's going to be kicked out of office. He's pretty secure. All right. So Farid Zakaria on real time. So let me just finish that point. I think Trump needs to do a better job of describing what the future of Ukraine looks like if the only security guarantees are no security guarantees. We're just doing a big deal with you.

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And so Russia wouldn't dare attack your country when we have major assets there. Is that the whole game? Or is there something we don't know about yet, but that part is the important part? Now, I told you before that the real secret of this negotiation is it can't be just about Ukraine and Russia. It's got to be about...

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And I'm going to say again, I realize Kash Patel did some kind of a post the other day, but he's been really quiet. Do you think there's anything going to happen on these Epstein files? I'm going to double down on my prediction and say that no matter how well-intentioned the administration is, no matter how much they really, really mean it, and they're not lying, I don't think there's any chance.

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more comprehensive, how do we deal with Russia in the future on all levels, militarily, energy-wise, economically? Are we increasing NATO or not? So that stuff hasn't been discussed yet. And I've heard people say, oh, Putin's the big winner, to which I say, how do you know that? How do we know anything? We don't know what any kind of a deal would look like. Is Putin the big winner?

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And then I say, if two countries are at war and they don't want to be at war and the people who are paying for it don't want to be paying for it, and then somehow Trump can make all that stop, who's not better off? Isn't Ukraine better off not being in a war? Are we better off not paying? Isn't Putin better off consolidating his gains? So

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A good agreement would be good for everybody relative to the alternatives, which are ugly. Here's what Fareed Zakaria said on Real Time last night. He basically jokingly said that Zelensky's mistake was is that he should have gone in there and said, Mr. President Trump, I'm paraphrasing, you've been such a godsend to Ukraine. You're the greatest.

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We want to give you the highest Ukrainian civil award and maybe build a statue to you. I'm paraphrasing a little bit. But the idea was Farid said he didn't play to Trump's ego, and that's what went wrong. To which I say, what kind of an analysis is that? The deal was already done. All Zelensky had to do was sign it. That's it. He didn't need to do any flattering.

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There was no flattering requested, no flattering given, and they had a deal. So I would say that maybe he didn't have to offer anything because they already had a deal. So that's sort of a dumb analysis. Speaking of dumb analysis, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, I swear that their editorial board, it read like a high school essay. I just read it and I thought, what?

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What is wrong with you? So their headline for their editorial on this is, Putin wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office spectacle. Is that really the way to frame this, that Putin won? Now, we know that Putin liked it. and the Russians thought it was great entertainment, but so did I. Why don't they say, and the mega people won because they really enjoyed it. So Putin enjoyed it, and we enjoyed it.

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What will be different? I can't think of anything. I don't think it'll really affect the real world. I don't think it'll change what would have been their funding, because Trump wanted to get out of that anyway. And I don't think it'll affect anything. But they think somebody won. That's just the worst way to look at a three-way negotiation. Four-way if you count Europe, and I guess you should.

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And they said that J.D. Vance started the public fight. Okay, how many times do I have to read some dumbass in the news not understanding who starts a fight?

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If I hear one more person tell me that Russia started the war in Ukraine without any reference to the things that happened before he crossed the border, as in the NATO expansion and blah, blah, blah, if none of that's mentioned, you're not really a serious person. And the Wall Street Journal editorial does the same thing with J.D. Vance. Do you think J.D.

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I don't think there's any chance we'll see any good Epstein stuff. Anyway. So you probably have all seen by now the video of the Zelensky debacle, some say, in the White House. But you haven't gotten my take on it yet. So that's why you're here. You know, I hate it when something happens right after my show.

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Vance should have just sat there and let that little punk in the White House while they're trying to help, do you think they should have let him lecture them on how they don't understand negotiations and they don't understand Putin and he's going to come for them over the ocean and that this deal isn't really good and you haven't really done much for us, you've just weakened us? In effect.

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So who started the fight? I don't think J.D. Vance started the fight. I think he was quick to enter it. But then once he entered it, Trump had to double it. So then Trump did his thing. Because there's no way that Trump is going to let J.D. Vance be the baddest mofo in the room. That just isn't going to happen. So J.D. Vance goes in as a really bad mofo.

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like quite impressive, I must say, that he took him on directly. And even from a position of number two, number, well, maybe number three, if you count Secretary of State. But he wasn't the one in power, but he just defended America, defended the White House, defended his president, defended everything. So that was quite baller. I have to say, I really, that was a look,

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from jd vance that will probably go a long way to making him the top candidate after trump and but like i said there's no way in any world that trump is going to let somebody else be the the baddest mofo in the room so he had to take it up a level as he does and it was brilliant it was brilliant in in the showman way. And that's all it was. It was just a show. All right.

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And then also the whole Putin wins just ignores the fact that we have a much bigger set of interests with Russia. And until we know what that looks like, what kind of a deal we would have with Russia, until we know what that looks like, you can't really say anybody won because we don't know what that looks like. But did they imagine that Trump was just going to give Russia everything it wanted?

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It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Good stuff. Well, after the show will be a Spaces event hosted by Owen Gregorian. If you want to talk some more about whatever happened here or I suppose anything else that's on your mind. So right after the show, look for Owen Gregorian and a Spaces event. That will be more fun. All right. Spaces is the audio-only service that's on X.

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Doesn't sound like Trump. Joy Behar accused Elon Musk of supporting apartheid when Musk grew up in South Africa. Now, he did not. There's no evidence of that whatsoever. But here's what she said, Joy Behar on The View. The guy was not born in this country. Okay. Oh.

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Oh, oh, oh. Oh, my God. She abandons the most core Democrat principle that if you decide to live in this country, you call yourself an American, you act like an American, you're an American citizen, and you're doing more for America than just about any other citizen. And she has to start with, you're not an American or you're not born in this country.

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That's basically throwing away their most basic principle just to get a dig at Elon Musk. Then she goes on. So he has this mentality going on, does he? Because she's reading his mind, right? He was pro-apartheid. Now, there's no evidence of that. As I understand it, he told her.

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Then there was a break, and I guess she got her ass kicked by the management because there's no evidence that he's ever been pro-apartheid. And if you call somebody pro-apartheid like it's a fact and you do it on television, in our current environment, that's a $25 million mistake. So they were probably... 10 seconds away from losing $25 million to dumb old Joy Behar for just making shit up.

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and then I have to wait all day to talk about it, and everybody's already picked it over, so there's not much to say. But I'll just say this. Two reality TV stars, who both became presidents, walked into the White House. What do you think was going to happen? These are two experts at making a spectacle in front of a crowd. Nobody better.

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Just making shit up. And then here's how she responded to it once she'd been corrected and that they came back. I'm getting some flack because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid. I don't really know for sure if he was. Imagine saying that when you didn't know for sure. God.

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And then she goes, he grew up at that time when apartheid party was in full bloom before the great Nelson Manzella fixed that. He was around at that time.

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Like she's trying to still be right, even though there's no evidence whatsoever. And she's trying to make the, well, he was around during that time. So QED, oh my God. And then she goes on, maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. Is that how you treat an American citizen? That, well, I don't know if he's a Nazi. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. I don't know. It's sort of ambiguous.

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Seems like he hung around with people who had bad opinions, even maybe not personally, but he was in the same country with people who had bad opinions. So You can't ignore the fact that he was in the same country with people who had bad opinions. Yeah, you can. So this is terrible. I can't believe she still has a job. Then Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan. You may have seen it.

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And he was talking about that they were doing to him, meaning the Democrats, doing to Elon Musk what they did to Trump, which is the Hitler play. And he says directly, They're basically trying to get me killed by comparing me to Hitler. And that's exactly what they're trying to do. That's exactly what they're trying to do. So unbelievable.

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We're so lucky that Musk is still willing to help the United States when the United States is acting like it doesn't deserve it. That takes a lot of character to still be all in on the United States when when half of the United States is calling him a Nazi. That takes character. Well, the Wall Street Journal has an article by Joanne Lipman, Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining?

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And the subtitle of the article, this is a Wall Street Journal. And for 50 years, we've been hearing from white men who feel threatened by the gains of women and minorities. No, you stupid bitch. We're not complaining because we feel threatened. We're complaining because for 50 years, we've been overtly discriminated against for being straight white men.

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You can't get a job, you can't get a contract for 50 fucking years. And the reason that you didn't know how bad it was is because white men are not allowed to talk like you saying, can white men finally stop complaining? That's right. We were trained that if we even complained for a minute, it meant we were fucking bigots. Bitch, that's over.

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People like me gave up everything so that we could say what we were feeling. I gave up everything. I'm going to say what I'm feeling. You're a piece of shit. And you're the problem. And this is pure racial discrimination and bigotry against white men. And I won't have it. And I think that we've outgrown this. I think that we can just say, fuck you. Don't care. Move on. Get rid of your stupid DEI.

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Get rid of your stupid ESG. And let's try to compete on merit for once. How about that? piece of shit. Anyway, speaking of, so the Hill says that Kamala Harris hasn't decided to run for governor of California. But here's the funny thing.

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So because she hasn't decided, the other candidates can't really wade in and they can't really get any money because everybody thinks she would be the front runner if she gets in. So she's really frozen the entire California Democrat Party. They can't kind of do anything. They're just frozen. Now, here's the funny part.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Kamala Harris destroyed the entire federal, let's say national, Democratic Party, didn't she? Don't you think it was mostly Kamala Harris that just destroyed Democrats? Because she was the ultimate DEI candidate, and they just took DEI to the ultimate conclusion, and everything broke. just like you would imagine it would on paper.

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I mean, they're the most experienced spectacle-making, put it on the show. And it's funny that when it was over, Trump looked at the media and said, yeah, it was good TV. So I think a lot of people are confusing the show with anything that matters in the real world. And I think the show was really fun. And probably in the end, none of it will matter in the real world.

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And now she's taking that same toxic, destructive thing, and she's taking it to California. Now she's going to ruin Democrats' chance of winning, maybe forever, by running for governor. Now she might actually even win, which is the weird part, because we're such a blue state. But the fact that she's destroying the Democrat Party nationally and then started destroying it in the biggest state,

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Boy, she's got something to put on her Wikipedia page right there. Anyway, good for you, Kamala. You're almost done destroying everything about the Democrats. Well, Secretary of Defense Hegseth has confirmed that Trump has lifted restrictions on military raids and airstrikes. Now, that doesn't mean all restrictions, but they won't have to get approval so much.

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So I think this is just taking it back to where it was in the first administration. And I do believe the reporting is that the military became a lot more effective in because they didn't have to ask so much for permission, and that makes a big difference. So that's a good move, probably.

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Speaking of Democrats, in New York City, former Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting ready, people think, to run for mayor of New York City. Now, how bad is the pool of Democrats that Andrew Cuomo... who had scandals involve sexual harassment, which he resigned rather than go through. I suppose it could have gotten worse if he didn't resign.

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And then he also had the scandal of the unreported deaths in the COVID nursing homes. Can he overcome the sexual harassment claims if you're a Democrat? If you're a Democrat male, can you get elected? If you've got these credible sounding claims, I'll say sounding because I'm not the one who believes claims are real just automatically. They might be. Anything's possible. But I don't know.

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I wasn't there. So I'm just going to say there are claims. That's the only thing I know. So but do you think that the Democrats can. Get the white guy, the straight white guy who's got claims of sexual harassment. Can they really elect him in today's environment? I don't know. But it's hilarious to me that he might be their best shot. I will say that Cuomo probably is the best talker they have.

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We'll talk about Fetterman in a minute. But Andrew Cuomo, he just has that leadership charisma voice. thing going on. So he can act like he's a leader and he can pull that off. So he does have the chops. I mean, he was governor, right? So we know he has the chops. I don't know. I don't know if he can get over these scandals.

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Well, meanwhile, Bill Maher on his show said that the best candidate for president who is a Democrat would be Fetterman. And his argument was that Fetterman talks like a normal guy. And even Trump said he's a common sense guy. And he has authenticity and charisma and balls. I was trying to imagine a President Fetterman having a meeting with Zelensky on a casual Friday.

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That would be the sloppiest looking meeting you ever saw in your life. Zelensky would be the well-dressed one in that case. Well, I'm gonna agree with Bill Maher The Fetterman is the only one I see on their party who, in my opinion, could make a serious play for the presidency. Now, you know, he may have other problems that we don't know about.

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One way or another, it won't really matter. So here's what we got. It looked a lot like an episode of The Apprentice, didn't it? Where Zelensky was basically getting fired by Trump and kicked out of the White House. It was just like The Apprentice. You're fired. Get out of here.

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You know, maybe if you run for president, they bring out the big guns and the reports of things that we haven't heard before. So anything could happen. But I have to completely agree with Mara on this.

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that if you're just looking at the vibe he puts off and how he connects with ordinary people uh on top of having you know ivy league degree and some government experience um he would be one to beat i think he would be one to beat uh there's a public interest law firm i didn't get the name of it that's filing a civil rights complaint against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors.

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So I guess if you're contracting with the government in those two places, New York and Wisconsin, if you don't get the just right approval of diversity, so if your firm doesn't have just the ideal diversity, you can't get the job. And one of the contractors said this, multiple times a day we lose orders because we're not a minority business.

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The source who supplies contractors for the government infrastructure projects requested anonymity because of fear of reprisals. So there's a white man who can't even talk in public with his own name. Can't even talk in public with his own name when he's complaining about being discriminated against. And the case for him being discriminated against is not even controversial.

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Well, it's controversial, but it's not in question. There's nobody who says, oh, yes, you must be bad at what you do. You can get as many contracts as you want. Why are you white men complaining? Now, everybody knows that you can't get contracts unless you have some golden ratio of diversity in male and female. So there's lawsuits coming. Good. I hope the lawsuits are successful.

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That's a lot. If they're really bosses. I mean, if they're just people, it's not a lot. But if they're all kind of bosses, no, I guess some of them are just members. and at least one's a boss. But here's my question. We all suspect that the Mexican government has some kind of arrangement with the cartels, but at the same time, they have to pretend that they don't.

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so do you think that these 29 mexican cartel members are just went through the legal system in mexico and and it's all perfectly copacetic or is it slightly more possible that a competing cartel said you know you could get rid of 29 people for us you know they're they're they're in our territory and we'd like to get our territory back

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So anyway, what Bannon was saying and some others have said, I don't know the details, but apparently Zelensky was getting some advice. from other senators. Some are calling them rhinos. And I guess he had a breakfast that day with some rhinos. And there's an indication that maybe Susan Rice was advising him, which some would say would be a violation of the Logan Act.

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So why don't you pretend you're working with the United States productively, but really just get rid of our competition, and we'll bribe you to do that. How would we know if that were happening? See, every time there's a cartel person that Mexico gives up, they capture them and give up, I always wonder if they're just working for the other cartel. They got better bribed by the other cartel.

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I have a real problem thinking that the that what's happening is that Mexico is doing its level best to battle the cartels with the United States' help. It doesn't feel like I live in a world where things are that clean. So I guess I'll be skeptical about these cartel members.

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Meanwhile, all the boxes from Mar-a-Lago, remember Boxgate and the accusations that Trump had taken with him nuclear secrets and just stored them in the bathroom? Mar-a-Lago. Well, apparently they weren't that sensitive because they've all been returned. So the charges dropped and 100% of what he had has been returned.

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Now, to be fair, Trump could have just declassified him because he's the president again. So he certainly would have the ability to declassify them. But do you think he would have declassified nuclear secrets? No, no. Do you think he said, I'm president, so I'm going to declassify this, how to make a nuclear bomb, and I'm just going to keep it in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago in a box? No.

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So do we have, do you feel that we can confirm at this point that that was all fake? I think we can, right? That was pure lawfare, pure fake, because otherwise they wouldn't give it all back. If they gave 90% of it back, then I would have said, yeah, maybe there was something to it. Maybe they did have some secrets in those boxes.

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But if they give it all back, I have a real tough time believing it was ever a problem. Anyway, according to New Atlas... Two beers a day shrinks your brain as much as a decade of aging. So if you have four beers a day, you'd be aged 20 years. Alcohol is poison. I've got lots of stories about this. I don't need to go any deeper.

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If they're the 50,000 worst, or they're among the worst, that's a really big deal. Because this might represent a reduction of violent crime of like 50 to 100,000 per year. Because these were the worst of the worst. And if you get rid of the worst of the worst, you know, the violent ones and the dangerous ones, it feels like that's a whole lot of crime that's been reduced.

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That seems like a big number to me. Do you remember the big hoax in Canada where there was some claim that there were over 200... I don't know what you call them in Canada, but is it First Nations? They have a different term for the indigenous population before the other Canadians moved in. So in America, it would be the Native Americans. I don't know what they call them in Canada.

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But anyway, the thought was that there was some kind of indigenous mass graves that would be suggesting that the Canadians of not too long ago were just murdering them and putting them in a mass grave. So there were big protests. It was a giant thing. It was a big story.

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And Trudeau put together this committee of experts to go look for any more because they thought, oh, man, this might not even be alone. There might be other mass graves. And so they looked and they looked and they looked. Guess how many they found? Well, none, and they just disbanded the entire committee. The entire thing was a hoax. There was never any mass grave in that category.

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where you're not supposed to be negotiating for the United States unless you're in the government, and they're not. So maybe he got bad advice. It sort of looked like he was a little emboldened, like he could push Trump a little bit, but that didn't work out.

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And even after looking for it really hard, didn't find any. So that's Canada's fine people hoax, basically. Apparently, according to a publication called The New Arab, the US is going to pitch to a bunch of Arab real estate developers Trump's Gaza plan. So that's going to come up. So the U.S. will convene a summit with regional real estate developers. That seems like a productive thing.

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Now, you could disagree whether that should be developed or who should own it and all that. But I kind of like the fact that the conversation is about who's going to develop it. Because that feels like it's a little optimism, a little potential for the future. I don't know that it'll be optimized and then people will move back, but we'll see. But it's good that they're having that.

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Did you know, according to SciPost, Eric Nolan's writing, that AI can spot depression of old people through their driving habits? Don't all old people drive exactly the same? I don't know how you can tell which ones are depressed. But... Oh, it is called First Nations. Yes, thank you. All right. So anyway, that's happening. And that's all I had today. So after the show, fairly soon now...

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Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event on X, and that will be for anybody who wants to talk about this stuff or more. I know you've got lots more to say about Zelensky. By the way, how many ways are there to spell Zelensky? I've seen it with Z-E-L-E, Z-E-L-I, and sometimes with one Y at the end and sometimes with two. And AI doesn't help me because it just goes back and forth.

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So I don't know what's going on with that. Anyway, so join Owen Gregorian and Spaces. You can just Google him and you'll find his account and you'll see. I also reposted the announcement so you can find the link there. And thanks for joining, everybody. I'm going to say a few words to the locals, people privately, but the rest of you, thanks for joining.

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So I guess the big problem is that Zelensky agreed to this mineral deal, which seems like it was part of a larger package, which we don't know about yet. But then he gets there and he says he doesn't necessarily want a ceasefire. He wants a security deal. And that wasn't part of the deal. So he made the mistake of trying to negotiate with Trump and J.D.

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Vance while indicating to them and to the world right in front of them that maybe they didn't understand the risk of Putin. Now, how do you think that went over? Didn't go over well. So J.D. Vance goes first. And, you know, starts dressing him down in the public for not being thankful enough and trying to come to the White House and being a little bit of a jerk. He didn't use those words.

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But once J.D. Vance lit into him, you knew that Trump would have to double it, which he did. And by the way, Trump is the best talkover debater I've ever heard. He can talk over somebody as long as it takes until they just give up. And that's what happened. He and Zelensky tried to talk over each other, and Trump just wasn't going to lose that. No, I'm going to keep talking until you shut up.

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And he just talked over him, and you didn't hear anything that Zelensky said for like two minutes in a row. And finally, Zelensky just gave up because you couldn't even hear what he was saying. And then Trump went on and that's what happened.

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Anyway, when Zelensky said that, you know, Trump might feel different or feel differently when Putin crosses the ocean someday and comes for them and Trump says, don't tell me what I'm going to feel. You don't have the right to tell me what I feel. You have no cards, no cards.

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So basically, it looked like Zelensky was criticizing Vance and Trump for either not doing enough or not understanding the real threat with Putin that you can't appease him. He's just going to come for you eventually. But so he kicks Zelensky out. And, you know, I thought there was some chance he might come back that same day, but it didn't happen.

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He's already gone off to Great Britain, Zelensky has. Now, I'm going to judge this whole event on at least two dimensions. Dimension number one, entertainment. Oh, my God, it was entertaining. It was wonderful. I felt proud to be an American and have my president not take shit in the White House. I just like that Vance and Trump weren't putting up with it. That's exactly what I wanted to see.

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So entertainment, it was a 10. I replayed it multiple times. It was just fun every time. But here's the thing you need to know. In big deals like this, whether it's a merger or any kind of really big deal, it's pretty common for one of them to walk away. And it's pretty common if they both want the deal and there's a deal to be had and it's a good deal that they'll probably come back.

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The one thing that people say about Trump that's meant to be an insult is that he's transactional, meaning that he would immediately get over his feelings if there was a deal because he'd rather have the deal than anything else. So the funny part, Oh, even Lindsey Graham sided with Trump.

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Now, Lindsey Graham is sort of a famous Ukraine war hawk, has been supporting Ukraine, getting weapons and everything. But even Lindsey Graham said that he was a strong advocate for Zelensky in Ukraine, but He said he's devastated by Zelensky's behavior and that undoes all the hard work of recent years. And he suggests the Ukrainian people find a new leader.

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And he praised Trump for standing up to him. So that's interesting. But remember I told you that, well, James Garville told you, and then I told you what James Garville said, that the Democrat strategy now is to wait for Trump to make a mistake. Because they don't have anything to add. So literally, they're going to wait for Trump to make mistakes, and then they can attack him.

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Well, First Lady Melania Trump has announced she's going to be doing an Easter egg roll. You know, they always do that at the White House, an Easter egg roll. But I remember the days when I used to do Easter egg events when I was a kid, and it was always about the money. You know, if you found an egg of a certain type, you'd get a certain amount of money. It wasn't much.

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So that means that they're going to define everything that Trump does as a mistake. Not really different than the past. But they're not going to put up with anything he does at all. They're going to say, well, there it is. That's chaos. That's the end of the world. He walked across the lawn. Well, look at how he walked across the lawn with that chaos legs and, you know, all that.

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But the funny part is watching the theater kids on the Democrats because they have to pretend that they don't understand the situation and that they feel really bad. So they all put on their disgust face. You need to look at the, there's some, some compilations of people on MSNBC pretending to be very sad about this event.

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And they're competing to see who could do the most theater kid thing. And it's so unserious that it's ridiculous. Let's see, was it David Axelrod? He goes, and opposed the next. He says, I love my country with all my heart, and I've never been more embarrassed for America than the spectacle I just witnessed in the Oval Office. Really?

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This is one of the guys who supported Joe Biden through four years of obvious dementia. And then we all found out that they all knew it and they were all covering it up. And that was not more embarrassing? What is it that makes you embarrassed, David Axelrod? It makes you embarrassed when the president of the United States stands up to some pissant in the White House who's challenging him.

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That's what embarrasses you. But keeping a mentally deficient president in the office while nobody knew who was in charge, lying to the world and then getting caught because he does the debate and it became obvious that he wasn't there. None of that was embarrassing. Nothing but this. Now, none of this is real, meaning that the Democrats are pretending to be terribly upset.

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Are they terribly upset? No. No, nobody's terribly upset. Nobody's really embarrassed. Nobody's shamed by it. I think we'll survive the shame. I think we'll survive it. Anyway, in my opinion, Putin probably should not increase his military attacks. Probably he doesn't want to do a ceasefire unilaterally. But if Putin is smart, he's already got a little bit of a win.

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So he should just play it really cool. and still look for some way to end the war? I think you will. But as long as this deal ever made sense, and I'm not sure it did because I don't know the deal, but if the deal ever made sense and Zelensky ever liked it, just the mineral part, then it'll get done.

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I mean, it might take a while or whatever, but if they both want it, the fact that they had a little dust-up in the White House, it won't stop anything. Now, let me put this back in the context of the reality TV stars. If this were a reality TV show, how would it end? It would almost certainly end with the two combatants, three if you count J.D.

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It was like 10 cents or 25 cents. But I think if I went to the White House egg roll, I would just like grab the eggs and run away. Maybe resell them. How can they afford to have an egg roll? Maybe Doge found enough money so they can afford eggs now. Meanwhile, core inflation has dropped to a seven-month low of 2.6. Do you know what core inflation is? Core inflation is the one you don't care about.

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Vance, doing another public event because you would have to tune in. You'd be like, oh my God, it's going to happen again. It's going to happen again. It would be must-see TV. But this time, maybe they just signed the deal. So I don't think you can discount that you have two individuals who operate at the highest level of understanding the show. The show. It's part of politics.

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You got to put on a show. And the fact that they put on a tremendous show, everybody was entertained, even if you were embarrassed. Oh, oh, I'm so embarrassed for my country. Even then, you probably enjoyed it. So, yeah, if I had to predict, I would say if it was ever a good deal, and that's a big if, because I don't know that it was a good deal.

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But if they both liked it at one point, it'll get done. and it'll be another reality TV biggest ratings for a political event of all time. No real lasting problem. If I had to guess, there's no lasting impact on the real world. The deal will be the deal if they like it. There'll be a deal with Russia or not, but none of this will matter. It's not going to make a difference.

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One of the things Trump said was that Trump and Putin went through a lot together with the Russia collusion hoax. So people said, my God, do you love Putin or what? Why are you saying that you went through a lot together? Well, let me explain this. Putin is trying to flatter and let's say pace Trump and he's doing a good job.

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Trump is trying to flatter and pace and tell him he's a friend to Putin, and he's doing a good job. Both of them are operating at the highest level of persuasion. Both of them are right on point. And let me say it again. Trump is the best when it comes to this, but Putin's in the same weight class. It's not a completely unfair fight. They both have the skills all the way down.

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So what we're watching is that there might be some larger deal that Trump wants to do with Russia. We don't know what that is yet. But it's funny that we talk about Russia as our enemy. When China, Mexico, and Canada are poisoning us with fentanyl and Russia isn't, Russia is just trying to sell us energy. Now, I get that he has imperial ambitions.

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He wants to conquer some of those countries and maybe all of Europe. For the greater good of, I don't know, who knows what he really wants. We just assume we know what he wants. How about Ukraine? Who's been a bigger pain in the ass to us lately, Ukraine or Russia? Well, our money is going to Ukraine and it's dividing the country.

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So it's hard to talk about it without being called a Putin lover because that's what all the dumb people do. You know, Democrats, if you say anything they don't like, they call you a racist and a bigot. And it's just automatic. It doesn't matter what you say. If you mention Putin in any context other than, we must spend all of our blood and treasure to destroy the evil Russian empire.

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Now, even if you accept that diversity improves your bottom line somehow, even if you accept that, How can you measure it? What possible way would you have to know that, oh, it's a good thing we went from 8% black employees, we got up to 14%, and then what? Your profits went up that month, so you say it must be because of all the diversity.

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How in the world would you know that diversity made a difference? So it's absurd on its face. It's not something you possibly measure. And even if you tried to measure, you know, the company that added diversity versus the one that didn't, that's still a nonsense comparison. You know, they're probably different businesses. Everything's different. Anyway.

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So MSNBC is just floundering, trying to hold on to the thing that was always a lie. But they got caught in the lie. So Trump apparently took a question about about why he wasn't going to visit the crash site of the airplanes, the helicopter and airplane that went in the Potomac. And when they asked, you know, the normal way that you would answer that question, do you want to visit the crash site?

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It would be something like, oh, yeah, you know, we're waiting until it's the right time or we're looking into it. And Trump goes... It's in the water. What do you want me to do? Swim there? Now, that is the way to answer a dumb question. You do it with mocking and you do it with humor and you refuse to answer it in any normal way.

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Now, even even Bill Maher on his show last night called that out as the right answer. if you can ask him dumb questions, he gets to give you funny answers. More generally, it's hilarious to watch Bill Maher become more and more pro-Trump, but still have to look balanced. So he's got to come up with some anti-Trump stuff to balance the pro-Trump stuff.

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And it's really hard to come up with the anti-stuff. Because the anti-stuff is about stuff he hasn't done. Well, he might steal your democracy. But has he? Has he stolen your democracy? No. No, but I think he might. So the things he does, you kind of like. Yeah, yeah. I liked it when he closed up the border. But the things he hasn't done are your entire problem are the things he hasn't done

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He did do a proclamation recognizing it, and he called out some of the notable, famous black contributors to America. He included Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and then also threw in more modern names like Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas. Well, here's my take on that. I think Black History Month was a great idea.

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says he won't do, and nobody in his party would support, which is becoming a dictator. So I think Bill Maher might get there someday. I don't know if you've seen it yet, but there's a photo of the Mars surface that includes some kind of an image that looks to be perfectly square. meaning it looks like the broken down walls of a square city or a building.

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But when they say perfectly square, I only know what I see in the picture. That's perfectly square. And it's big. It's not like a small object. So for a large object to be perfectly square... That does suggest that there was some life up on Mars. Now, here's how these things usually go. Because this is sort of a repeat of what it used to be. Remember there was a face on Mars?

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And you look at the photo and you say to yourself, that's definitely a face. I see it. There's this giant face like a statue had fallen over and gotten partially covered by the dust. But it sure looked like a face. And then the photography experts say, okay, here's that same spot, but from a different angle. And it's just a rock. It's just a rock.

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So there was something unique about an exact camera angle that cast some shadows that made it look like it was a face. But from every other angle, it was just a rock. Now, I think if, well, so I have two competing thoughts. When I look at the photo, I say to myself, that's got to be some sign of life that used to be on Mars.

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But when I check my common sense and my context, I know that this is one of the most common stories about the moon. You don't think this is just going to be one of those, well, it's because it's not really square, but if you look at it from this angle, it's the angle that makes it look like it's square. There's something about the light. I would bet against it.

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If you said you've got to put a million-dollar bet down that it's really a sign of life or there's something about the way the photo was taken, the angle, whatever, I don't know what kind of angle could make something look huge and perfectly square. Like I'm not aware of anything that a camera can do that would turn a non-square thing into a perfect square.

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So my brain is not accepting that it's anything but a sign of life. But my rational part of my brain, which is operating at the same time, sort of in parallel, says, you know, but if you're going to bet on it with real money, you should bet against it. Because if you'd bet against every other claim of this type through the decades, you would have won every bet. So, yeah.

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Then there's also the question of whether it's a real photo, but apparently the database with the photos is available for others to check. Yeah, and there's at least one version where it's not so square at all. So I'm going to bet against it, but it's fun. So the LA Times wrote an article saying essentially that Trump was right.

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about the water problems in California, that they were essentially self-caused. Yeah, somebody's showing me a photo now in which it's definitely not a human structure. So it looks like it, well, no, let me see. Could it be? I don't know. Yeah, it's ambiguous. I'm going to go with it will never check out as something built by an intelligent species.

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But if you want to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cupper mug or a glass of tiger shells, a steiner canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine at the end of the day thing makes everything better.

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Anyway, the LA Times says Trump's right about the water supply in California. And Trump was bragging that he got some extra water turned on even more than we heard about the other week. And that the water is flowing in California and all you have to do is turn the spigot. So there's something wrong with that story. And let me summarize the story about the California water.

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And you tell me what I'm missing, because I know for sure that my understanding of the story couldn't possibly be right. But it's what I'm gleaning from the report, all right? So here's me summarizing what I think I know about California water and Trump.

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I also think affirmative action was necessary, even though it didn't work out for me. It didn't work out for me, but we probably needed to do something to kickstart things, to get a little more openness and diversity and all that. However, it's 2025. When I see Black History Month, do I say to myself, wow, Black people have contributed so much to America.

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So the narrative goes that some evil goblins in California, presumably Democrats, were preventing citizens, farmers and firefighters, from having the water that was in abundance. So the water was in abundance. Just these evil goblins were preventing it. And the reason the goblins act as they do is a combination of hatred for humanity plus something about a fish.

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However, Trump fixed it all by ordering someone to turn on the water. Now, that's the story I'm reading. Do you really think that the evil goblin trolls, with their hatred of humanity, wanted to prevent everybody from having water, and the solution was to have somebody powerful say, turn on that water, and then they turned it on, and it's all good? I think something's missing from the story.

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So I was trying to get to the bottom of it before showtime. And I don't know the answer yet, but I'll give you some hints. There are some California water experts who say you don't want to drain the reservoirs now because you're going to need it later during fire season. Okay. Is that a thing? Is it possible that Trump can let a bunch of water out, but then later we'll be in worse shape?

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I don't know. Others, other water experts in California say if you do it too fast, you'll flood areas that we normally could manage without any flooding. Is that a thing? Will there be some extra flooding that we didn't know about? And then other people say, well, you can release the water, but it doesn't go to the right place. it's going to end up somewhere where you don't need it anyway.

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Is that true? Or can the farmers open up new fields because they have water and they can rely on it? I don't know. So I'm not sure if the LA Times answered all these questions, but I feel like everything about this story sounds like bullshit. That's what I think. Now, I'm not saying that Trump didn't help.

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there's at least a 50% chance that that's exactly what happened, that California was unable to do the common sense, logical things. Trump just forced them into it. Maybe, maybe, but I'm pretty sure we're not hearing the whole story here. So hold your powder on that one. You probably heard there's another jet crash. It was a small jet that that did some kind of medical flights.

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I think it was Mexican nationals were on it. And they brought a young Mexican girl to America for some treatments that I guess were not available in her hometown. And sadly, the plane went down with half a dozen people on it. And they're all deceased, of course. Now,

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One thing that's different about these plane crashes is that it seems like no matter where there's a crash, somebody had a ring camera that got good footage of it. So there's unusually good footage of the actual crash from all the cameras in the world. I don't know how many times small aircrafts the size of this one crash, but I think it's way more than we know.

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I don't even think it makes national news. Like if a little Cessna goes down somewhere, does it make national news? I don't know. But there's probably a lot more small airplane accidents than we know about. Well, the New York Post is reporting that, speaking of that plane crash, That the Army is not going to name the female pilot killed aboard the military. Okay.

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Now, until this morning, there were a lot of you saying it's a DEI problem, and that when you found out who was piloting it, you'd find out it's some kind of DEI hire. Now, I said, no, don't go there. There's no evidence of that. If ever there is evidence of it, then I'm with you. But don't go there without evidence.

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The only thing we know for sure is that DEI should be breaking all of our systems. It should. By design, it should make everything break. Now, even Bill Maher did an extended piece last night about how all of our systems in the country are broken. Does that sound familiar? That's me. How many times have I told you, you realize that

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Well, yes, that's sort of the point of it. But I already knew that. And all you have to do is turn on the television and it's full of successful black people in every domain, every domain, politics, entertainment. So it feels like having your own month is now, you know, went from a good idea, a solidly good idea, It feels a little condescending.

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All of our systems are broken, all of them, from health care to finance. And when I say broken, I mean corrupt. From health care to finance to politics to you name it, you name it. And I've been saying that for a while. But when Bill Maher says that, the difference is he's still not to the point where he can give a reason for it. I feel like he, and he might be right, by the way.

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Yeah, he might think it's just the natural evolution of organizations. They might start out as a good idea, but then they evolve and their budget's too big and they do DEI hiring and they lose sense of the mission and it all falls apart. But I don't think you can ignore the fact that that DEI predicts complete destruction of all of our systems by focusing on the wrong stuff.

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Now, again, it has nothing to do with anybody's DNA. It has nothing to do with your culture. It's not about your gender. It's none of that. The problem with DEI is it forces you away from hiring only the best and toward making sure you hit your DEI quota. So humans being humans are going to make sure they hit the quota that's easiest to measure. And the easiest one to measure is always the EI.

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You just count the number of people and say, what are you? It's the easiest one for measuring. It's the easiest one. So of course, in the real world, people manage to whatever will be measured and their bonus depends on it. So yeah, everything's falling apart. But it turns out that this pilot, that I had been telling you, stop saying DEI. You don't know anything about the actual crew.

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It's a female pilot. Now, that doesn't mean the pilot made a mistake. We're miles away from saying the pilot made a mistake. There's nothing connecting female pilot to pilot mistake. There might be, I mean, at some point in the future, but even that wouldn't prove DEI is a problem. It might prove one pilot is a problem. But here's what I've heard from my pilot friend.

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And I think other pilots have said something like it. That the real reason for the crash is probably several factors. It's very unlikely there's just one thing. One of the factors is the airport's way busier and more dangerous. And pilots have been complaining about it forever.

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Another is that pilots have said, you know, you don't want the helicopters doing too much there because they're going to be in the way. So now they've stopped the helicopter traffic there. So that was part of it. Some of it was maybe the training wasn't as good as it could have been. Some of it was the tower was ambiguous.

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So the thinking is it was sort of a perfect storm of a bunch of things going wrong in the context of of it was easy for those things to go wrong. But if only one of those things had gone wrong, probably you could have recovered. It looks like a bunch of things went wrong at the same time. which was perfectly predictable because of the complexity and the nature of the problem.

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So if you have an increasingly complicated flying environment, which they did, and a decreasingly small number of people who are working in the tower, which we did, see more traffic, more complexity, fewer people handling the traffic and the complexity. What's it going to be? I mean, there's only one way that goes. So it was sort of inevitable.

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But maybe this was the wake-up call to fix some of that. But we cannot blame the female pilot. And I completely understand why the family doesn't want to release the name. Because it would be a feeding frenzy if they did. Just a feeding frenzy. So let me say it again. I'm not in favor of blaming individual problems on DEI. that's going to be a losing proposition.

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You're just going to turn yourself into, you know, you look like a jerk. Even if you're right. Sometimes you'll probably be right that that's exactly the problem. And the one individual is exactly the problem. But if you don't know that... It's kind of messed up. It's kind of messed up if you don't know it.

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So I think we can say DEI should destroy everything sooner or later because it's designed that way. But you can't say much about any one person in one act. Usually, usually. Sometimes you will be able to, but usually not. Anyway, let's see. The FAA is embroiled in a lawsuit today. because apparently they turned away 1,000 applicants based on race. New York Post is reporting this.

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It feels like it's not giving black Americans what they hoped for. And it just sort of looks like a pat on the head. It's almost like we should have outgrown this by now. And let me ask you this. Do you think Thomas Sowell would be happy that his name was on the list of great black Americans? I don't know, but I'm not entirely sure he'd be happy about being on the list.

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So 1,000 applicants were turned away. Now, these are the people who could have maybe been in that tower, so they had proper amount of employees working there. But I think this goes back to 2015 or something. It's an older lawsuit that's kicking around. So just know that you can draw... a straight line between not enough people in the tower and DEI hiring. I think that straight line exists.

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I feel that that's demonstrated enough that you can say, yeah, at the very least, at the very least, it's the reason there are not enough people working, at the very least. All right. I guess Trump's going to put some tariffs on chips and steel and pharma and oil. That's all coming. And when he was asked, hey, won't that increase inflation now or at least the prices?

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Because if it costs more for everything we import. Well, who's paying for it? Eventually, those costs get, and not even eventually, pretty quickly, those costs get passed on to the consumer. So if Trump puts a tariff on everything coming into the country, does that largely guarantee that...

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Well, we get some income from the tariff, the government would, but I think that's paid by the American companies that are importing. So it seems to me that it would cause prices to go up if the price of everything goes up. Let me say it again. If the price of everything goes up, won't that cause the price of everything to go up? It's a pretty direct line. But Trump's argument is weirdly good.

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And his argument is we had tariffs in my first term and no inflation. When I say no inflation, it's actually okay to have a little bit. So what he had was a little bit. It was within the this is no problem range. So that is a good point. If he's already done pretty big tariffs and we had no inflation, there's at least one data point that says you can do this. So that's a pretty good response.

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I guess we'll have to keep an eye on it and see how it works. And, of course, the tariffs on Mexico and Canada and China are going into effect. Trump explains that as partly revenue, partly just having fair trading agreements with our partners, making things more fair, but also largely because of the fentanyl trade.

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So it's coming across both of our borders, and China is the originator of the raw materials that the cartels and others are turning into fentanyl. So we'll see if a tariff makes any difference. Now, my guess is the tariff will not really change anything because if the government of Mexico had any ability... to stop it or any will to stop it, I guess. I think it already would have happened.

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So I'm not really expecting pressure on the governments to have any impact on the cartels because the cartels don't care if the alleged government gets pressure. They just care if they get pressure. But speaking of that, PXF has announced that because the cartels are designated as terrorist organizations, thanks to Trump,

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that they can now, the Department of Defense, can use special ops against the Mexican cartels. When asked about that, Agseth gave the correct answer, which is all options are on the table, meaning it doesn't mean that we mobilized yesterday, but it might mean that. It might mean that we mobilized and the special forces are ready to go in or already have gone in, and we haven't heard about it.

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So that is exactly what I want to see. I want to see the special forces take on the cartels, and I want to see the tariffs get the governments of those countries on board. You put it all together, and I don't think it's going to stop fentanyl. I hate to say, but I don't think it'll be enough. But you have to do it. You can't just let people be dying like crazy without trying something.

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And, you know, I'm no expert on Thomas Sowell or I can't read his mind. But here's what I think he'd like a lot more. Some great American economists include this person, this person, Thomas Sowell. How about just being on the list of, you know, really important, unusually effective economists? Now that's a compliment. And then just be done with it.

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So if you can't stop it at the source, you can't stop people from trying to get it, I don't know what you do. I don't know. But I'm quite appreciative of this for reasons you know. I lost my stepson in 2018 to an overdose. All right. FBI is experiencing massive firings. So CNN's reporting that, of course, this is part of the cleaning house of the Trump administration.

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Dozens of FBI agents who worked on the January 6th cases have been let go. And agents who worked to investigate Trump's handling of the classified documents let go. And those who investigated the 1,600 January 6th attendees Seems like they'll be let go.

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And it's being reported that many of the agents initially had qualms about taking those assignments, the ones that are getting fired for those assignments. They had qualms about taking them because they believed that maybe it would come back and bite them in the ass. Yes, your instinct was right. If you take those illegitimate jobs and the other team gets in power, you're in trouble.

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Now, I do have some sympathy here. If you're just trying to make your career work and your boss says you're going to work on this January 6th thing or you're going to work on the Mar-a-Lago thing, are you going to say, you know, honestly, I have a philosophical problem with this? If you do, I'm guessing that's the end of your career.

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So there must be a lot of people who didn't feel like they had a choice. So I'd feel bad for them. But I'm going to give you an alternate point of view so that you don't see them as poor victims just doing their job and mean old Trump is coming in to get rid of them. I'd like to give you a reaction from Julie Kelly. who you might know has been following the January 6th thing very closely.

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She's attended courtroom stuff and knows the most probably about the situation of anybody I know. And here's what she says. It appears that between 30 and 40 of the J6 line prosecutors were fired today. Now, I think she's talking about the DOJ. I can only guess how much pleasure their victims take at this astounding news. So there are two things happening.

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You know, there's the purging of the FBI, but separately the purging of the DOJ. And Julie Kelly says, kudos to the acting deputy AG, Emil Bove, blah, blah, blah. And she said, here's the payoff. For three years, I watched these prosecutors in disgust. When I left January 6th court proceedings, I would pray that their comeuppance would come, but had little hope it would.

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It is not so much how they abused the law and work hand in glove with like-minded DC judges to violate the rights of J6 defendants. What sickened me was seeing how gratified they were in inflicting pain on people who had no recourse, no ability to fight the legal and judicial circle of hell created by the DOJ and federal courts in Washington. I often referred to them as sadists.

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There is something deeply wrong with them. Maybe being unemployed and under investigation will allow them time to conduct some much-needed soul-searching. But for now, this is an historic day worthy of much celebration. Okay, now that's what I call a victory lap. Julie Kelly, thank you for your service to the country. You deserve a victory lap. So I hope you're having a great day.

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So congratulations and thank you. for all of your work on that. So now do you feel sorry for the ones getting fired? Do you feel sorry for them now? I don't. All of my sort of instinct for empathy just went completely away. If you stand in the court and they seem to you like sadists and they seem to you like they're enjoying it, yeah. Yeah, there's got to be a response to that. And there was.

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So I don't think I'm too far off base because P. Hegseth in the Department of Defense said that No longer will the Department of Defense host or celebrate any of these cultural awareness months. Now, if you don't know how many there are, besides Black History Month, there's Women's History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. You got Pride Month.

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Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, he's made some changes to the news coverage for the Department of Defense, and he evicted the following news entities from their, I guess they have a physical spot that they have control of so they can be closer to the Department of Defense. So he's evicting the New York Times, NPR, NBC, and Politico,

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from their Pentagon offices so they can make room for One American News Network, the New York Post, Breitbart, and HuffPost. Now, there's one name on that list that you said, what? Now, I'm sure you understand why you'd want One American Network, New York Post, and Breitbart. You understand those. But why the Huffington Post? Is he just trying to be both sides?

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You know, just saying, hey, it's not about being right-leaning. It's more about being a non-traditional media. But here's the thing. BuzzFeed owns Huffington Post, and Vivek Ramaswamy recently bought 8% of BuzzFeed. So maybe this is looking ahead a little bit in the sense that it could be that BuzzFeed is going to take on more of a Vivek Ramaswamy tone. He only has 8% of it.

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So I don't know if that's enough to affect a change, but we'll see. And maybe there's some thought that that would trickle down to the Huffington Post that's owned by BuzzFeed. So the only way it makes sense to me is if the Vivek level there is what mattered. So maybe it is. Maybe. Well, on the all-in pod, Chamath was talking about Doge's success.

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He says we're only nine or ten days in, and he said the fact that we're already at a billion dollars a day is really incredible, and there's been no discernible impact. I believe that's up to $4 billion a day now. I think Elon said they're finding $4 billion a day now that they can cut. So I'm not going to believe any of the specific numbers coming out of Doge because Doge is...

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and rightfully so, trying to make us understand that it's working so that we'll keep backing it.

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So if they make some claims early on that are maybe hyperbolic or a little exaggerated or they give us a number that's a multi-year number but it looked like it was just one year, I'm going to give them a lot of passes because one of the things I always say is that the first impressions become a weapon.

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So if they can cause a first impression that, oh my goodness, this Doge stuff is working so well, we want more of it. More, more. It's so good. And that's what they're doing. So there is a useful, practical, and desirable level of PR for Doge that I think they're doing a good job of making it look like it's hitting the ground running and getting some stuff done.

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And the more that you think it's happening, the more likely it will, because it just sets the tone. If other government entities see that the other ones got gutted and there was no bad impact on the country, it just makes all the rest of the work easier. So I'm in favor of calling out Doge for huge success. Maybe even before it happens.

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That would be normal business to kind of over-claim that the first day is doing great. So it's very normal. There's nothing creepy or dishonest about it because it's just a universal trait. So I'm okay with that. One of the things that Chamath points out is that the Doge teams each have an engineer on them. Now that's good thinking.

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You got National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month. Well, I call that Native American because I'm not a racist. My God. Anyway, so you could go to these events, but you can't do anything in your official capacity if you're in the Department of Defense.

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Because imagine being in a team and it's your job to go into some part of the government you've never had any access to. And you have to figure out how it's all connected to everything else. You're going to have to bring an engineer just to figure out everything's connected. And then secondly, you want the engineer to say, wait a minute, that's what they do? This is all they do?

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I could do that with a software program I can write in 10 minutes. Now I'm exaggerating, of course. But you need an engineer to say, I can get rid of this whole thing. You know, I'll just put in this AI or we'll skip it or whatever. So yeah, engineer. You got to have an engineer on every team. And the fact that Elon knows that and he's working on that model, so good. Oh, that is so good.

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Yeah, just the design of the system is impressive. There's an engineer on every team. Now, I love engineers, and I think they're the least or the most underappreciated job in the world because they're the ones who changed the world most fundamentally. Let's see if they can do it on the government.

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I guess 1,000 EPA employees are going to go on probationary status and might be fired immediately, CNN's reporting. Here's the interesting one. So apparently the highest ranking person in the Treasury, David LeBrick, he resigned rather than comply with Doge for access to audit where they spent trillions of dollars a year. trillions of dollars go through the system.

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And as soon as Doge said, can we see what's in there? See where the money went? The person in charge quit. Now, I don't know how that could be more damning. The only thing that would be more damning is if they've already left the country to a country with no extradition. But let me tell you a universal truth.

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One of the things we learned in this story, allegedly, is that there was never any audit to money requests that went through the Treasury. They simply said yes to everything. Now, I hope that's not literally true, but it's been reported that they didn't even have the function to check. There was nobody whose job it was to even check. They just said yes.

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And some of that would include maybe some requests that you wouldn't want them to pay, including payments to, quote, fraudulent or terrorist groups.

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So even if he knew the request was fraudulent or going to a group that made other fraudulent requests, I guess their operating rule was they would still release the money, even to a terrorist, even to a known fraudulent request, because it wasn't their job to check on the sources. I guess they were just writing the checks. Anyway, but apparently they've never denied any payment at any time.

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Now, if I told you that there was one guy in charge of the system that would handle trillions of dollars in payments and he quit when they asked if they could audit it, what would you think about that? Because what I think is if you put anybody in charge of trillions of dollars and then you don't watch where it's going... Isn't that a guarantee of corruption?

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You could design that system a thousand times and implement it in a thousand different countries and then just play the tape forward for a couple of years and whoever was in that position would be stealing a trillion dollars a year because they can. You could even put an honest person in that position and after a few years they'd be like, seriously?

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I think that is the correct point of view for the Department of Defense. Because if they're focused on anything but their lethality, as P. Agseth likes to point out, they're taking their eye off the ball. Now, obviously, you can't spend 24 hours a day working on your lethality. There are other things in life. But I do think this is a step in the right direction.

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Every time somebody asks for a check, I just authorize it and nobody checks. Nobody checks where I authorized the payment. Nobody ever sees if it's legal or appropriate or ordered by Congress. Nobody ever. Do you think that person is not going to steal your money? Probably nine out of ten people in that situation would end up saying, well, maybe a little bit money could come my way.

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I'm so underpaid. It would just be fair. So yeah, it's almost a guarantee of corruption if you don't have anybody watching the store. Guaranteed. Some say that Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation to DNI might be in trouble. I guess she got mostly in trouble for not being willing to say that Edward Snowden is a traitor, only that he broke laws. But apparently, as of this morning...

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there were no Republicans who had said publicly they would not vote to confirm Tulsi. So if the Republicans stay united, she still gets in. But the thinking is that maybe even some Republicans are going to have a problem with her. So I think we're treating this one as a coin flip. I don't know if Trump and supporters will go as hard at the politicians if they don't say yes to this one. If RFK Jr.

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gets turned down, people are going to flip out. And I'm one of them. I'm just going to flip out. And I'm just going to want something to be corrected very fast. The other nominees... I might say, as I do with Tulsi, I say, huh, I would very much like her to get confirmed. But if she didn't, I don't know if I'd go to war, especially if the other side had a reason.

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They'd go, okay, here's my specific reason, and this is a line I can't cross. I think I can live with it, but I couldn't live with the Kennedy confirmation being derailed by fake news and stuff. I can't live with that. That one's life and death. Got to get that one. I do want very much Tulsi to get confirmed and Kash Patel especially. I think Kash is going to be okay.

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It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen right now. Go. Well, if you're wearing pants, you might be in the minority today based on the comments I'm seeing. A lot of pants-less viewers today. Some of my favorites. All right, well, after the show, Owen Gregorian will have a Spaces on the X platform. That's the audio only thing. So look for that.

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So I'm going to say yes on cash. You'll get confirmed. And Tulsi's still a coin flip. Could go either way. Remember Bernie Sanders was arguing with RFK Jr. and the confirmation hearings. And RFK Jr. pointed out he's one of the main recipients of pharma donations. And Bernie argued, No, I'm not taking anything from the executives. I'm taking, I only accept small donations.

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Those are from just employees. And then I say, what's the difference? What is the difference? If the pharma industry, be they the executives or be they the employees, have decided that you're the person that they're going to give money to because they like what you're doing, you're not going to change what you're doing. right? Why does it matter that the employees gave it versus the executives?

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It's exactly the same thing. It's exactly the same. So no, that's not a dodge. And also, if you're familiar with the real world, let's see how many of you know the real world. If you found out that an industry such as pharma had a lot of individual employee donations, so much so that when you summed it up, it became the biggest number on the chart.

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What would you say about the willingness of the employees to give money to Bernie Sanders? Well, let me tell you how the real world works. This is your CEO. We've decided that we like Bernie Sanders. And we're going to give him some corporate money. But we don't want to do it with our money because it would look like we're putting too much of a thumb on the scale.

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Because as soon as you call out some groups, all the other groups are going to say, where's my month? I say it. Where's my month? Why don't I get a month? I don't know. Everybody else did. Over at Stanford University, they use their AI to look at faces. And apparently they can tell if you're gay or straight by looking at your face. We've talked about this before. But it made me think,

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So we'd like to encourage each of you to use your own judgment. We're not going to tell you who to donate to. We like Bernie. We like Bernie. But we're not going to tell you who. Maybe there'll be a few others. They'll get some money. But here's a list of five people we think you should consider. So anybody on this list. Oh, and by the way,

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we can't tell you for sure that we won't know who you donated to. Because maybe there's some kind of a company process to make it easy. So they don't just go to a website, they do something internally, and then it gets summed up and sent to the politicians, maybe. So in the real world, there's no such thing as the employees independently decided to give to a candidate. That's not really a thing.

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There are lots of individuals who do on their own decide to give it to candidates. But if you see a bunch of them in one industry, that means the executives had their finger on the scale and were not so subtly nudging the employees in the direction they wanted them to go. And again, they can say any one of these five politicians would be a good place to give a donation.

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They don't have to just pick Bernie. Bernie will get you a share, and they would bribe the other people at the same time. All right. There's more coming out about Kamala Harris and her campaign and not getting on Joe Rogan, which was considered an error. But boy, when you hear the back and forth, there's more details coming out. I think somebody has a book on it.

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But when you hear the details of the negotiations... Basically, Joe Rogan said, I can schedule you in lots of different times. You just have to do what everybody else does. Come to the studio, like Trump, like everybody else, and talk for three hours. And I think Rogan wanted them to sign something like some kind of deal with Billy John, you're such a turd. Like that matters. Anyway.

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But the overall take on it is, oh my God, Kamala Harris's staff was so incompetent, they could not figure out how to essentially take Joe Rogan's money. Because appearing on Joe Rogan is like money. It's like one of the best things you could do if you think you'll do a good job. So he's offering her, just as he offered Trump, this gigantic platform.

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I mean, the best platform you could ever be on in terms of reach and independence, et cetera. And they couldn't figure it out. And then apparently, so here's part of why they couldn't figure it out. They thought that if they sent Kamala to Texas for just that,

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that the money people would complain because Texas is not in play and that she should be spending all of her time in the states where she could win the state, but she couldn't win Texas, so why go there? Why go there is because Joe Rogan's there. That's why.

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so instead of just saying oh the best thing we could do is go on the joe rogan show they they decided to you know play it another way and and uh they started negotiating and they're like all right here's what we'll do we'll have a fake rally in houston this is real we'll do a fake rally it's really a rally but they would do it just for the purpose of giving her a reason.

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I think it was on maybe reproductive rights or something. So that would give her a reason to come to the state. And then since she was already there, that would give her a reason to do the Joe Rogan show. But I think they picked like the only day he wasn't available to do it. So they couldn't schedule it. They couldn't say yes.

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They had to come up with a whole fake cover story to get her in the state. Every part of that is screaming incompetence. Let me tell you how Trump would have handled that. Joe Rogan invited me on the show. Okay. Schedule it. That was it. That's all she needed to do. And did he ever say, oh, I can't go these days because people will judge me from what state? No.

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It had nothing to do with the fact that he was likely to win the state because arguably Trump didn't have a reason to go either because he was going to win the state anyway. But he just said, where is the show? I'm going to go to the show because it's the most important platform in 2024. So it's... It's quite amazing to see the competence difference in the campaign.

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Do you remember, maybe it was the, I don't know, 60s or 70s? That's as far as I can remember back. But there was this conversation about whether being gay was genetic or just people chose it. And I would always laugh in thinking, it's obviously genetic. And the reason I said it's obviously genetic is that you could tell who was gay by looking at them.

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Meanwhile, Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is being asked to explain what happened to $339 million that, quote, disappeared from the state budget. Huh. Meanwhile, her budget director mysteriously resigned. Okay, does this sound like the Treasury Department story? The moment the budget is being questioned because there's a massive amount of money that's missing, the budget director quits.

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Wait, what? The budget director quits? That doesn't sound good. So there is suspicion that $339 million went where it shouldn't. The Gateway Pundits reporting on this, they've been all over it. And one of the state reps talked to the Gateway Pundit and said, quote, maybe somebody's siphoning off some funds. And then he clarified, maybe some are mistakes. Who knows? But they don't match up.

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So the spending and the budget, I guess, just don't match. Something doesn't match. We'll see. And then also Gateway Pundit said, Jim Hoft is writing about this. One of the things that we hope to find out under the Trump administration is if there's anything else to know about the Seth Rich story. Now, historically, I've mostly been a skeptic about that really being related to anything important.

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And it looked probably more like a random crime, even though there were a ton of coincidences involved. I get it. I get it. Hillary Clinton, et cetera. So I understand the suspicion about it. But this is interesting. So apparently the FBI is still stalling, refusing to turn over the Seth Rich records to an attorney, Ty Clevenger. And he's been trying to get them for years.

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and he keeps being denied. Now, what happens when Cash Patel gets in the office, if he does, is Cash going to say, yeah, just release all that Seth Rich stuff? I don't know. And I've heard that Cash has seen some of the other secret files, like he's seen the UFO files, he's seen the Kennedy files. Do you think he's also seen the Seth Rich files? Don't know, but it could get interesting.

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Maybe something will happen there. Meanwhile, according to Anthony Watts at the Climate Change Dispatch, the AP is doing a story that projects millions of European heat deaths using the debunked model. Now, so the AP has a story that says a whole bunch of people are going to die from too much heat in Europe.

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the model that they used to model this risk it's even got a name the name is called the uh the rcp 8.5 so i think that means that the there are a bunch of different scenarios you know if this and that happen it looks like this but if this and that happen it looks like this so this is one of those but it's the most extreme one and the one that literally nobody thinks is real

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So the AP wrote a story based on a climate model that even the climate scientists say, what, you're using that model? Nobody thinks that model's real. Why do they think it's not real? Because, let's see, it assumes an improbable future of runaway coal consumption, stalled technological progress, and unmitigated population growth. So the population is stalled. Coal is just one of the technologies.

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could you really tell who's gay by looking at them if it were not just baked into the genetic components? So when I see that Stanford says, you know, they can't do it 100%, of course, but they have a high hit rate of knowing if you're gay or straight from your photo, how could it be anything except genetic if you can tell by looking at a photo? The only way it wouldn't be genetic

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Probably we'll do a lot more nuclear than we will coal in the long run. And technological progress is not solved. It's the opposite. So it's a discredited model, but the AP still ran with it because it fit their narrative. Now, here's my question. How many models are there? And if there are more than one model... Isn't that proof that the models aren't real? To me, it is.

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If you had one model, I'd say that might be useful. I mean, I'd watch it to see if I could predict. But if you have 100 models, and they're all based on different assumptions, such as how much coal you use, etc., like I just mentioned, if they have different assumptions, and there's 100 of them, and they go in different directions, doesn't that mean they're not real?

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Because I would think that even if you knew which assumptions are the real ones, then you'd get into how do they calculate the end point, and you'd find it's bullshit. There's no such thing as predicting the future with complicated models of any kind. It's not true in climate. It's not true in finance. It's not true in anything, anywhere.

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There's no such thing as a complicated, many variable model that tells you the future. Never will be, you know, unless AI can figure it out. So where do you find that about climate models is what I like to say. Wait till you find out about Climate Mouth. Lots more to find out there. So as I mentioned, Owen Gregorian is going to have a Spaces event on X. That's the audio app, so you can listen in.

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You can either go to Owen Gregorian's X page, or you can go to mine, and you'll see the link. It's at the top, near the top. And that'll happen probably as soon as he gets organized after I close down. I imagine he's starting to get ready to push that button any moment. So you'll enjoy that. I've popped into a number of them and people seem to be having fun. So I like it.

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In the meantime, I'm going to talk privately to the locals people. If you are not subscribing to the Dilbert comic, you should do it on locals if you like the political stuff too. Or if you just want the comic, there's a cheaper way to get it just by subscribing to me on X for the comic. You'll see the button up in the profile. All right, locals, I'm coming at you right now.

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And by the way, I don't know if anybody's found any specific genetic link. I don't know if they've gone that far. But how could lifestyle make your face recognizably gay? Assuming you washed it. Don't even think about that. All right, I just cracked myself up. I'm taking this in a completely wrong direction.

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But yes, I think gays have always wanted us to acknowledge that this is the way you're born and it's nobody's fault, it's nobody's choice, it's just the way you're born. And I think the face stuff is proof that they were right all along. Amazon looks like it might be getting ready to advertise on X again, which would be a big deal. And I think they're correct. the correct decision.

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I guess Apple is also looking at X, deciding whether to go back on. That's pretty good. Boy, there's nothing like winning, is there? If Elon Musk had not been on the winning team in politics and that gave him a big role in what's happening right now, at least the advisory role, plus Doge, do you think that the big companies would be so happy to re-embrace X? I don't know.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time in your whole life.

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I think they would have had other pressure from Democrats, but the Democrat party just fell apart and Doge and Musk and Trump are doing great. So it makes perfect sense if you're a big American company to get on the side of the winners. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with saying, you know what? I think we'll adjust our track and try to be more compatible with the country.

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So good job, Amazon and Apple, heading in the right direction. Speaking of Meta, we weren't, but let's. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta is looking into exiting Delaware and reincorporating in Texas. Now, if you didn't know, for a very long time, corporations liked to register in Delaware, even while having no business in Delaware.

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And the reason was it was the Delaware laws are kind of friendly to corporations. But there's some judge there that went after, you know, that went after, I guess you could say, went after Elon Musk. And that sent a big chill out. Because Musk was saying, you know, you should get your corporation out of there because they can go after you. So Delaware seems to be politicized.

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And if you're a big company and you don't want to be part of that risk, you're going to have to get out of Delaware. So Matt is doing, I think, exactly the right thing. So again, good decision. Richard Grinnell apparently succeeded in getting six, I guess they're called hostages, out of Venezuela.

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Now, what's the follow-up question to that, that Rick Grinnell got six American hostages out of Venezuela? The follow-up question is, there were six hostages in Venezuela? Why is this the first time I'm hearing about it? That seems like that'd be a bigger story. Six American hostages held in Venezuela? Well,

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I love the fact that Richard Grinnell is sort of like a Trump-loaded weapon, and he can point Richard Grinnell at any situation, and you feel confident that the right person is taking care of it. So I'm surprised Richard Grinnell doesn't have an official job in the administration, right? I don't believe he has an official title, but just the fact that he's sort of available to do missions...

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It's kind of awesome. Wouldn't you like to have just a Richard Grinnell on call so that when Trump needs to send somebody somewhere and get something done in another country, you just send the one who knows how to get it done? I suspect that Grinnell is more effective because when he walks into the room, if the other country has done their homework, they know he's talking for Trump.

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If you're trying to find it, just go to my account on X. You can see the link or Owen Gregorian. You could just look for his name and it'll pop up. Did you know, according to Science Alert, that caffeine in your blood can lower your body fat and diabetes risk? Yes, you did, because coffee can do it all. Yep. I like to put it right in my blood.

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Like they know they're not going to put like a wedge, like, yeah, we'll get this guy to maybe see our side of it or something like that. No. When Grinnell walks in the room, you know that Trump's preferences are going to be there. And that's the end of the story. So that probably makes him a lot more effective. That and the fact that whatever he does in general seems to be effective.

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So I love this. So got six Americans and Venezuela. Meanwhile, Colombia, which gave Trump a hard time very temporarily for shipping back the Colombian immigrants or migrants. And remember the president of Colombia said, hey, you can't land here. And then it turned into, well, how about we send the presidential airplane to pick them up?

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Because really what we care about is their repatriation is dignified. So it's not about whether they come back. It's about whether it's a dignified return. So he's taken it to the next level, and he's offered to pay for all the Colombians coming home. So I guess he doesn't want to use the presidential jet for every flight, of course.

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But Colombia, I think without being prompted, because there's nothing here about negotiating, I think he just said, how about we'll pay to bring them home, and I'll make sure that it's a dignified return home. To which I say, yeah, it's saving face, right? So he's doing a clever little move to save face. So now we can say, well, no, it was always just about dignity. Okay, I'll let him have that.

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If he's going to pay some of our bills, because do you know how much it costs for a flight to ship anybody back to their native country? It's like an amazing amount of money to ship people back. So if Columbia wants to pay that amazing amount of money and we're going to get what we want, good. No problem. Trump signed an executive order to get rid of 10 regulations for every new one that's added.

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I think that's exactly what it was before. Give me a fact check. In his first term, was it 10 to 1? Or was it a different ratio, that you had to get rid of 10 regulations to get a new one? It was either 10 to 1 or something in that neighborhood. And I love it. It seems like it worked the first time. Why wouldn't it work again? So good job, Trump.

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Meanwhile, the FCC is demanding that CBS turn over the tape from, I guess it was 60 Minutes, when they interviewed Kamala Harris. Now, the FCC would get involved... I guess, to make sure that people got equal time and that an interview was not so biased that maybe it turned into a campaign ad. So the accusation is that Kamala Harris was so incoherent.

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with her usual word salad babble that 60 Minutes had to splice in edits just to make her sound like she wasn't an idiot. I don't think it changed any of her opinions. I don't think it reversed any opinions. They simply used bits from other answers so the things she said made sense for a change. Now, that's extreme. I mean, that's way over the line. So, yes, I'd like to see the FCC look into that.

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Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking down a lot of websites in the government, especially if they have DEI references. So they're putting a pause on most federal government websites. And the idea is to dig down and get rid of all the DEI references. So we'll see how long it takes. You know, the DEI people are going to burrow into other jobs and change their names and

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I just inject it right in there, along with the bleach and the disinfectants. It does a great job. No, don't do that. Don't put any bleach or disinfectant or coffee in your blood. But it's good for you, the coffee part. Well, it's Black History Month, and despite Trump getting rid of all the DEI in the government...

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hide the projects and hide the budgets. They're going to do everything creepy and illegal to stay, to keep doing what they're doing. But we'll see. It does seem like Trump and the administration are pretty dead set on rooting out all this DEI. It's going to take a while. It won't be easy. But over at MSNBC, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, one of the hosts, Anna Cabrera,

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She said on Friday, that's yesterday, that there are plenty of data points that prove that diversity, equity, and inclusion enable business to have greater success. Are there really? I think the plenty of data points would actually be none. Because how could you sort out how much better you did because of diversity?

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I'm going to reach deep. This is the Trump supporter positive spin. Do you know what is the bad thing about being in your second term? people think they can wait you out. So Trump is creating the possibility that you can't wait him out, that he might still be here after his term. Now that is actually a strong play in terms of persuasion and in terms of negotiating.

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If you remove the possibility of waiting for him to be out of office, He can negotiate much better while he's in office. So if that's what he's up to, it's brilliant. If what he's really up to is he just doesn't want to leave the job because he thinks he'll go to jail, which is a possibility, by the way. He might go to jail. He might be forced into trying to stay in office at whatever age.

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In my opinion, that would be too old. But he might be forced to try it just to stay out of jail. So it's complicated. I'm not in favor of him saying it because I just don't like the look of it. But I can't deny that it might help his negotiating position. And I can't deny that it might keep him out of jail.

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So if it were me and I thought that would keep me out of jail, I might be looking at it pretty hard. Maybe. Anyway, you probably all know that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has a vacancy and they've got this election on Tuesday. And if it goes the wrong way, the entire country, if not the world, could be destroyed.

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Yesterday afternoon, after like a week or 10 days of not being able to walk on my right leg, having to limp or hop or use the wheelchair, it just cured itself. So my right leg is perfectly functional. But the exact problem, the exact problem, just exact, moved instantly to my left leg. And this is the fourth or fifth time it's jumped over to the other leg. So some say it's sciatica.

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Elon Musk says the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, quote, might decide the future of America and Western civilization. Now, if you're like me, and you hear that there's an election in Wisconsin, you probably said to yourself, well, that can't affect anything important.

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But the argument is that if the left leaning Supreme Court nominee or a person running for the office, if the left leaning one gets elected, that person would support reapportionment where you decide how many representatives and what type based on how you draw the lines. that they can redraw the lines to eliminate several GOP representatives and actually flip the House.

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So control of the House might depend on this one tiny election in Wisconsin, which is why you saw Elon Musk go to Wisconsin. He's putting a bunch of money in it to try to get a the candidate Schimel elected instead of the far left leaning Crawford. The polls at the moment are too close to call. So we are right on the border of losing almost everything.

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Now, were you confident that the Democrats couldn't come up with some scheme to derail the Republicans, even though the Republicans had all the popular support and the Democrats are in the lowest approval they've ever been? But boy, they're good at the lawfare, aren't they? They know how to use the legal system and play the system and scheme.

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Both sides do it, but Democrats are quite effective at it. So Trump had called Crawford, the left-leaning one, a disaster, a liberal lunatic who will throw the country into chaos. Chaos. Now, is everybody just calling everybody an agent of chaos? That is the emptiest word in politics right now. How do you define chaos? Everything looks like chaos from the outside. All war is chaos.

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Congress itself is chaos. The way we make laws is chaos. If you could call everything chaos, it doesn't really mean a thing. So I cringe a little bit when I see Republicans use it because it's the main thing that Democrats say. Their biggest argument is oligarch and chaos. Completely meaningless. Just those things are not connected to anything in the real world.

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And they should be relegated to, that's right, the Department of Imaginary Concerns. So if you're worried about all the chaos, you should probably look to the Department of Imaginary Concerns where they handle all that. They've got policies, imaginary policies, to handle the imaginary chaos. Anyway, but the Trump experience could come to a crashing halt as soon as this week.

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And that sucks more than just about anything I can think about. Meanwhile, and somehow my head is having trouble accepting these two thoughts, that even the Democrats think the Democrats suck. Even the Democrats think the Democrats suck. At the same time, they might be ready to take control of the House. How could both of those things be true? It just feels like pick one. So here's an example.

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The New York Times editorial board is going after Democrats. And a little late, but at least they're joining the parade. And they said the Democrats are, quote, living in an imaginary world, an imaginary world, where their policies are popular and they just need to message better and get out the vote. Now, that's a pretty strong thing, right?

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And Democrats, quote, obsession with identity politics and their, quote, scolding, censorious posture have driven voters straight into Republicans' arms. Yes. And then they say, remember, this is the New York Times. So you'd expect it to be the friendliest big publication to Democrats, and they're just absolutely shitting in their mouths.

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I mean, I think it's embarrassing to be the New York Times and be a supporter of Democrats, or at least being seen as supporters of Democrats, and the Democrats being so pathetic. So they go on. This is the editorial board of the New York Times. In the aftermath of this comprehensive defeat,

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Many party leaders have decided that they do not need to make significant changes to their policies or their message. They have instead settled on a convenient explanation for their plight. So they're just going to say it's Elon Musk's problem. I think it's the oligarchy and possibly the chaos. Oligarchy and chaos. So at the same time,

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that even the most prominent Democrats are saying, oh, it looks like the Democrat Party has just completely fallen apart. They're ready to possibly take control of the House through clever means, and I hate that. But notice the New York Times used the word imaginary, an imaginary world. That's right.

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I don't know, but I'm in bad shape. So I thought I would share that with you in case I scream during the broadcast because the odds of me screaming in pain are actually pretty high. Anyway, let's see. What's the news? 1,200 scientists. say that they're done with Trump's America. They hate it. They're going to move to Europe or they're going to move somewhere else.

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Because the Department of Imaginary Concerns is where all the Democrat problems should go because they're literally imaginary. They do live quite literally in an imaginary world. I was just watching one of the anti-Tesla protests and they had some young man with a beard. who is telling the crowd there are only two things they need to know.

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One is that Musk gets, they claimed, $8 million a day from the government or something like that. Now, he doesn't give any details, but the government doesn't give away money to something like Tesla or, I don't know, maybe it's SpaceX, I don't know, unless it's good for the government. meaning good for the public.

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And then he says, but the people on Social Security will only get $65 a day, and also sort of suggesting that Musk is going to cut that number. Now, these are not related numbers. He's talking to morons. And let me be clear about this. I'm not saying that all Democrats are dumb. There are plenty of brilliant Democrats, especially the lawyers. The lawyers are pretty clever.

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But the protesters are morons. There's no other way around it. The protesters are morons. And they're cheering for that like they understand it. Do they understand that Musk's entire approach is to protect Social Security and Medicare payments at at least their current level? And he's the only one who can do it. Because if he doesn't get the national debt under control, everybody loses everything.

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Everybody loses everything. And do you think that there's anybody at a Tesla protest who has ever even heard that? They don't even understand that we have a debt crisis, and there's literally only one plan to get it under control, and that's DOGE. They are morons. And, well, that's pretty much the whole thing. How many of you think that the government should defund NPR and put it out of business?

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In the comments. How many think that's a good idea? Defund NPR and put it out of business because they're too left-leaning. They're pretty much all Democrats. All right. If you think that, you have been fooled by the news. The government only funds 1% of NPR directly and at most 3% indirectly. So let me bring you up to the smart people.

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There is no scenario in which the government cutting funding ends NPR. It's 1% of their funding. It wouldn't make any difference at all. Why are we even talking about it? This is a totally imaginary concern. So the imaginary problems are not just on one side.

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So I'm going to take the defund NPR, which I think we should because I don't know why we're giving them 1% or 3% if you count the indirect funding. I don't know why we're doing that. so I'm in favor of cutting it. But no, NPR is not going to go anywhere. How mad are you that you didn't know that? For those of you who said, yes, cut the funding and get rid of NPR.

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How many of you are embarrassed right now that you thought that cutting the funding, the government funding, would make any difference at all? To me, that pisses me off that I had to sort of deduce that and figure it out. I think maybe Catherine Marr might have said that at one of the hearings. But is your news serving you?

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And they don't like the federal funding cuts and the mass firings. And now they're going to Europe where, as you know, they have much more freedom. Can you imagine going from America to Europe because you're seeking freedom? I don't know. But I did a little query on Grok to find out, is 1,200 research scientists a lot? Turns out there's close to 2 million of them in the United States.

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Because I think your social media and your news is acting like if that funding got cut, NPR would go away. So, yeah. No, this is a complete fake story. NPR can't go away. Not from government funding being cut. According to Doge, so Elon Musk did a big event in Wisconsin. There were huge lines, got a big applause.

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People were thanking him and gave him a standing ovation for his extraordinary service to the country. But here's what they found, that millions of non-citizens got Social Security numbers. So the claim is... that from 2021, and it got bigger in subsequent years, that the Biden administration was giving illegal, let's say non-citizens, social security numbers and registering them to vote.

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And that some number of them, we don't know, they sampled and found out that some number of them did vote. We don't know the percentage. Not only that, but they were qualified for the maximum Social Security benefits, like right from the jump. And they were automatically enrolled in Medicaid. Now, I'm going to stick to my process. So I've been burned at least twice.

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by repeating a claim that Doge made about something that they discovered, only to hear the Democrats debunk it in a way that sounded pretty believable to me. So if this is true, it is one of the ways that the election was rigged. And it looks like it would be intentional if this is true. However... I would wait to see if there's a counter to this.

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Because the Democrats have been saying from the start, well, you make lots of claims, but where's the proof? And that's a good point because Doge isn't really about showing all their work. They'll show the big numbers. They'll show the big stuff. But it's not about showing all the details. I don't think they're making databases available for the public or anything.

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And maybe there's some other explanation for some of it. I don't know what it would be. It could be a database problem as opposed to a real thing. But if it's true, then our system was in fact rigged for the recent elections. And there would be no doubt about it.

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Maybe not rigged enough because Trump won, but this would have been quite obviously an attempt to rig the election in a way that looks illegal to me. Speaking of how bad the Democrats are, there was a Republican Party of New Mexico, they had a headquarters, that was targeted for arson. So somebody fired to the Republican Party of New Mexico's headquarters.

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Now, do you think that the Democrat leadership will disavow this, along with all the other violence against Tesla owners? No, they will not. And so I blame them. If the leaders don't disavow this, they are encouraging it. And I think that calling, you know, Musk and Trump Hitler really just gives a free pass to any crazy person who wants to be a hero. I could stop Hitler.

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All I have to do is beat up somebody in a Cybertruck, and I'm stopping Hitler. Boy, am I a good person, because I haven't done anything in my life that's worthwhile. But at least I helped stop Hitler by keying a car. So if the Democrat leadership doesn't say no, then I do think some action should be taken from a RICO standpoint. We'll talk more about that.

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Here's one that's just blowing my freaking mind. Sawyer Merritt is reporting this. Apparently in New York, one of the lawmakers, Senator Pat Fay, has introduced legislation to revoke the permits for Tesla's five existing direct sales locations. so that Tesla would not be able to sell their cars in New York's state. It's the state, right? Yeah, not the city, the state.

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Now, I don't know what the odds are of that being passed, even in New York. Seems like it probably wouldn't. But just think about how evil and broken and corrupt that is. Because there's nobody who thinks that Tesla, the company, did anything wrong. In fact, Tesla, the company, is one of the jewels of American industry.

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It's probably the single greatest contribution to decarbonizing the country, if that's what you wanted. I'm not arguing you want that. But if you did want that, and you're a Democrat, you would be cutting out your own legs. And this is pure evil. Why would you even think of doing this? Well, it's because you were told that Musk and Trump are Hitler. There's two Hillers now. It's double Hitler.

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And so you would do anything you could to decapitate them. So there are at least two more stories of people in Teslas who were stopped and beaten up through the window of their car. A 61-year-old woman and another gentleman, I think he was 70. And they're literally beating up senior citizens just because they have Teslas. And I think there are a bunch of other ones. Now,

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2 million research scientists. So 1,200 would be .0006. of the 2 million. Do you suspect that the finest research scientists are the ones that are going to Europe? I don't. Do you suspect that the 1,200 who say they're going to Europe, some say they're going to Canada, are really going to do it? I doubt it.

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Even in Europe, apparently in Rome, there was a facility where 17 Teslas were torched. So it's going global. Why would it go global? Why would it be happening in Rome? Now, probably that's just crazy people copying. It doesn't seem necessarily like that would have been part of the same movement, but maybe just the crazy spreads.

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Anyway, Elon Musk said it is time to arrest those funding the attacks. Arresting their puppets and paid foot soldiers won't stop the violence. I agree. It will not stop the violence. So who is funding it, you might ask. And the answer comes to us from a former Wall Street Journal reporter.

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named Azra Nomani, so she was posting today, that there are 24 NGOs that are funding this anti-Tesla stuff, 24 of them. And most of them have tax-deductible status, claiming they're nonpartisan. Does this look nonpartisan to you? If you have PACs and they're not returning requests for comment, of course they're not. And that they have a combined revenue, the 24 NGOs, of $124 million.

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Now, I've got a few comments. How impressed are you that the Republicans and conservatives are the most well-armed segment of American society and maybe the most well-armed of anyone anywhere, and there's been no real counter-protest that suggests violence? So there have been a few counter-protesters who are just having their trolling fun.

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It seems like they're just doing it for clicks, not really trying to stop anything. But there haven't been any well-armed people showing up to counter-protest. There haven't been any huge, muscular, fighting kind of looking people. And there are lots of them. Why is that? Now, I'm not suggesting it. I don't want to say that it would just cause more problems. But I'm really impressed.

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that the political right has this much restraint. Now, there would be a time when I would say, well, they're just not brave or they're not committed. But it could be that the January 6th thing caused everybody to have pause. Because we know that if any conservative goes anywhere near a protest, they could end up in jail for five years.

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So maybe that January 6th prosecutions completely eliminated the counter-protestability or even the protestability of one half of the country. And that would be an interesting outcome, but it's possible. But also there's no one funding a counter-protest. So this is probably more evidence that there's no such thing as a large spontaneous protest.

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I don't really think there is, you know, I I've heard someone who say the tea party, But I'll bet the Tea Party had some funding in the background. I just don't know. So as long as these NGOs are funding what is clearly a destruction of property, or they should know that that's what's going to happen, it does seem like there's a RICO case to be had. But I don't know whose job it is to make it.

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Is that Pam Bondi? I don't know. But something's going to happen. I don't think that the bad guys can just keep pushing forever and not get a strong response, especially in a Trump presidency. So we'll see. Rasmussen did a poll on Musk and say that now 50% of the people they polled now view Musk unfavorably. including 41% with a very unfavorable opinion. That's basically the 41%.

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That's basically just Democrats. So look how quickly the Democrats can change their opinion of Elon Musk if the top tells them to change it. They're pure NPCs. They were just told to change their mind, and they did. And they'll just forget everything he's doing for the country. Imagine being in his head. Imagine being Elon Musk. You're the richest person in the world.

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Because if the reason they want to go somewhere is that they lost funding, is an American research scientist going to get more funding in Europe? I mean, maybe. I don't know about how that works. But none of that seems like a good idea. So maybe there's something wrong with U.S. research scientists. Anyway, the stock market's all crazy and down because questions about tariffs.

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And the first thing you have to worry about is that money will become useless. Because if the U.S. debt crushes the country, his billions of dollars aren't going to be worth much. So he could go from richest person in the country to, well, we're all just struggling to become cannibals and eat each other, which is sort of the alternative. So he's got the most to lose.

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But also, he's got the only plan to save the country, and he's taking remarkable risks. I mean, he's got all kinds of death threats. Tesla's being attacked. He might never be able to recover. He might never be able to just go in public. He probably could never eat at a restaurant again. I mean, the level of risk he's taking on is extraordinary.

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And he's doing it for primarily the benefit of the country. And if you look at all the other stuff he does, they're clearly designed for the benefit of the country, but they also make money. Now, in this case, it's more for the benefit of the country. I don't see how he's going to make money except in the way we all would make money if the country stays in business.

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So I think that doing what he's doing to save the country in the context of the Democrats fantasizing that he's doing the opposite is one of the bravest, most highest character thing I'll ever see in my life. Because generally, at least the people you're trying to save like you, if a ship goes over and you pull up and you're saving people out of the water, they don't hate you, do they?

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Do half of the people you pull out of the water and you save their life, do they hate you? No. Generally speaking, when you're saving people's lives, and that's what he's doing, he's saving the lives of Americans. We're all going to fucking die if the debt isn't controlled and fast. He is the only mechanism that can do that. Let me say it again. We're all going to fucking die.

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That's how bad it is. We're all going to fucking die. He's saving the country and they're trying to kill him. Now that is pure evil. Pure evil. And I'm a little bit, no, I'm a lot disappointed. I'm a lot disappointed that the Department of Justice hasn't already put the boot on this. Now, I don't know what tools they have, but they got tools. I mean, clearly there's some way to shut this down.

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And if not, I don't know how ugly it's going to get, but it's not going to get better. Well, let's talk about Signalgate, the story that never dies. Jeffrey Goldberg was mocking Mike Waltz for saying that he didn't know how Jeffrey Goldberg's phone number got in his phone. But Mike Waltz said, I don't know how it got there. Sometimes, you know, it just gets sucked in with other phone numbers.

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Now, that's the worst lie. Ever. So let me just say Mike Waltz is clearly lying about what happened. unless he doesn't know a single thing about how the app works. But by now, somebody would have told him. Now, phone numbers don't get accidentally sucked in somehow. I mean, even I think it was Laura Ingram was interviewing him. And you should look at her face when he's trying to do that.

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It got sucked in by itself. She was just, hmm, hmm, hmm. And she went a little bit easy on him, I think just because they're on the same team in a sense. But she wasn't buying any of it. And I don't think any of us are buying it either. So I asked yesterday on social media, what are the technical possibilities that Mike Waltz really doesn't know how it happened?

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The reciprocal tariffs go into effect on April 2nd, so a couple days. And I am deeply curious how that's all going to work out.

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And that maybe he was guessing because he didn't know. And he just thought, well, I don't know, maybe it just got sucked in there somehow, which could indicate that he doesn't know how it got there. That's possible. So I don't think he's necessarily guilty of doing it himself. He might be. But the only thing we know for sure is that the explanation he gave was just absolute bullshit.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And I don't think he's walked it back or anything. So I asked, could a virus or a cyber attack influence the contacts in signal?

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In other words, if somebody had found a way to penetrate their phones, even though they're government phones and they should be more protected, I guess, could somebody who is the top level, let's say a government entity, could they penetrate his phone and put a phone number on there that wasn't there? Some of the people said, no, no, there's no way to do that.

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You cannot do that on an iPhone and other things like that. But other people would say stuff like, I'm a cybersecurity expert for 20 years. You could absolutely do that. And then they would describe how. But another cybersecurity expert said, yes, you could do it. but you wouldn't want to give away the fact that you had done it for such a small win, which is what I said. I said that the other day.

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You know, if you were up to no good, you wouldn't want to give away the game, and then everybody would know that Signal was compromised. Other people said, well, you know, the Signal, the head of Signal had been arrested in France recently, but then he made some kind of a deal and he got released.

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which sort of suggests that maybe at least the NATO countries or however you want to organize this may have just gotten the back door, which would allow potentially maybe one of our foreign friends that sometimes act like adversaries to do it. Maybe they didn't like what he thought about Ukraine. Maybe it came from that direction. We don't know. But here's the thing that made me laugh.

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On one level, I completely understand that if we don't completely or fairly substantially rewrite the economic relationships between the United States and the countries we trade with, that we don't have any chance of getting out of our economic hole, meaning the debt, and we need to do it. On the other hand, it's pretty much guaranteed to cause some

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Somebody said, if you have a signal app, you could have it open on more than one device. So all it would take is for one more person in the whole world to know his password. You wouldn't need to do any clever cybersecurity. you would just have to know his password. Now, my question to you is, do you think that anybody on his staff knew his password? I'm gonna say yes, probably yes.

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So if you knew the password, you could just open it up on another device, change the contact, close the app. I don't know. How long would it take for somebody to figure out you did that? So I don't know. I'm not going to blame anybody, but everything about that story is hinky.

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Well, you probably have heard the story by now that in France, Marine Le Pen, who was favored to become the next president, are they presidents or prime ministers? I'm so dumb I don't even know that.

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But the next leader of the country in the next election, but she was just found guilty and sentenced to jail and banned for running for office, says the Wall Street Journal reports that the court ruled that Le Pen and other members of the party illegally used millions of euros in European Union funding that was earmarked for assistance helping lawmakers in the European Parliament with their work.

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But instead, judges said, Le Pen and her lawmakers used the money to pay party staffers, that would be people on their own staff or in their own party, who weren't involved in working for the parliament. So the funding was diverted to another use. But Le Pen's argument was,

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that it was appropriate to move that funding or to use it for that purpose because the assistants were political aides and not direct employees of the European Parliament. Now, I don't really understand that defense, but it kind of looks to me a little lawfare-ish, doesn't it? Have you noticed that with the Trump lawfare, when you heard what the charges were, you would say, really?

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Can you explain that again? Like, that's not like, I understand murder, and I understand theft, and I understand most crimes, but why do I not understand these 34 felonies that don't make any sense? And, you know, what is this with E. Jean Carroll, and how do you turn that into something? And, you know, they all have that quality where you go to yourself, huh,

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Really?

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And even if this funding were used incorrectly, wouldn't that be more, at least in the United States, wouldn't it be a civil case? Wouldn't you sue her and say, hey, give us back our European Union money that you used in the wrong way? Why is it even a crime as opposed to a civil disagreement where the courts decide who gets the money? So it looks very suspicious.

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Now let's put it in context, as Mike Benz helps us do. Apparently, as you know, she's not the first populist leader who has been taken out by lawfare. As Benz points out, it's Marine Le Pen in France, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Donald Trump in America, and

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Georgescu in Romania, all coincidentally got taken out by lawfare, all coincidentally populists. Do you see the pattern? Populists just get taken out by suspicious lawfare. Now, I don't know how many of them were guilty-guilty and how many of them were just doing what everybody does all the time. and they just figured out a way to lawfare it. But that's pretty creepy and terrible.

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some issues so the question will be will there be enough positive news to to insulate us from the negative news because really the way we're going to treat it is going to be almost entirely based on the news coverage so if the news coverage says hey surprisingly it's all working out well, things are going to boom. And that'll be based on anecdotes.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Do you feel better now? You should. Well, ladies and gentlemen, um, Let me tell you a little thing about what's going on with me right now. I'm officially disabled. I got my wheelchair here. And I can barely walk.

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Now, Le Pen will be challenging, you know, so she'll be challenging in a higher court, I guess. So we'll see how that goes. But, oh, my God. Meanwhile, Eric Abinanti is... summarizing for us one of the authors of Abundance, that book that says that if Democrats could act more like Republicans, they might succeed. That's not what the book says.

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That's my humorous summary of it, which isn't too far off. But Derek Thompson was one of the two authors with Ezra Klein. But here's what he says. Just listen to this. Something has happened in the last 50 years of liberalism.

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The rules that we wrote in the 60s to protect the environment have created strictures and rules that keep us from building the things we need in the 2020s, like housing and energy. When you give that power at the local level, he has the ability to stop development entirely. And that's really what we've seen in so many areas that are governed by liberals.

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And then he says the five states with the highest rates of homelessness are all governed by Democrats. Every single time as he had 10% of vote share of progressives, the number of housing permits declines by 30%. So as an area becomes more liberal, it permits fewer homes. Now this is one anecdote of many. So basically the liberals are all about restricting things. Don't do this, don't do that.

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At the same time that they need things. They need energy, they need affordable homes. So they're completely self-immolating. The Democrats are filled with idiots, honestly. They're just a lot of idiots who can't tell that there's some kind of a connection between all of these restrictions and the fact that they can't get anything built.

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So I do think, I'll say it again, that the authors of Abundance have done quite a good service in trying to wake up the Democrats to get rid of regulations that are unnecessary. like Republicans. So maybe if they become more like Republicans, we'll have something. Meanwhile, Trump is mad at Zelensky for backing out of the mineral deal. Did I predict that Zelensky would not accept the mineral deal?

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I think I did, right? Because I don't think Putin or Zelensky are going to accept any deal about anything. I think they will say that they're going to do it. And then as soon as our negotiators walk out the door, they're going to do a press event and say, well, you know, we can't really do that.

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But if you added a bunch of things to the deal that we want and you don't want, then we might do a deal. So that's why Trump is mad at Putin. And now he's mad at Zelensky for trying to back out of the mineral deal. And he said, Zelensky, I see he's trying to back out of the rare earth mineral deal. And if he does that, he's got big problems.

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We made a deal on rare earth and now he's saying, I want to renegotiate. But I do wonder if the negotiators are maybe making agreements that couldn't be accepted by the bosses. So there might be a little bit of the fact that Zelensky isn't in the negotiations. You know, something's just happening without him. So he's just going to kill everything that he wasn't involved with.

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Anyway, meanwhile, Trump says he's going to bomb Iran if they don't accept a new nuclear deal. And he gave him two months. Now, this is a problem because Trump doesn't bluff. And he just said he'll bomb Iran if they don't accept a new nuclear deal. And they're never going to accept a new nuclear deal. So did he just basically tell us in two months he's going to bomb Iran?

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It won't be based on some large comprehensive review, at least not in the early days. But if in the early days the news says, oh, your eggs are more expensive or your car parts or something like that, and you got a bunch of interviews with people saying, I couldn't afford to buy the car that I wanted, it's going to be bad. So I think it'll be a mix of those two things. But I'm really curious.

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Because that's what it sounds like to me. Do you think that they could bomb Iran enough that it would once and for all get rid of their nuclear program? I can't imagine how deep in the mountain they've tunneled to protect that stuff. But even our biggest bunker busters, would we know exactly where all the places are that we need to hit?

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How long would it take them to just reconstitute it if we even took it down completely, which seems unlikely? I'm not really seeing this as being a winning play unless Iran goes for it as they're just worried that it's going to happen. Now, they should be worried that it's going to happen because, like I say, Trump isn't big on bluffing. He probably plans to bomb.

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But that's going to open up the question of whether the United States is just doing Israel's bidding to bomb all of their enemies. And I have to say, it would look a lot like that. So, you know, you're on your own to come up with your own narrative that fits the facts. But it sure would look like the United States was just a puppet of Israel. And at least that's how people would interpret it.

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So again, you can make an argument that it's in the US best interest as well, or that we're protecting an ally, or that we're just making sure that part of the world doesn't become more of a hellhole than it already is. So you can make an argument either way, but you know that at least half the country is going to say, Did Israel just get us into a terrible war?

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So if Trump's not bluffing on that, things are going to get real spicy in about two months. Anyway, and Iran's supreme leader said if the U.S. did that, that we would receive a strong reciprocal blow. which is probably not nearly as fun as it sounds. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for you today.

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I'm going to go back to my limping around, and I'm going to say a few private words to the people on Locals subscribers. Thanks for joining. If you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, and Locals coming at you in 30 seconds privately.

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And I also would say that I don't see what else we could have done. You know, the people who think they're smart but aren't like to say stuff like, well, we should have targeted tariffs perhaps in specific cases. But what's wrong with just saying that our tariffs will be the same as yours? How can that be wrong? So I guess we'll be doing a lot of negotiating with these other countries really fast.

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We'll see. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. was on Chris Cuomo's show on News Nation. And the stories he tells about the organization he's running now are just so mind-boggling. Apparently, the entire place was just a rat's nest. So they had, what, 80,000 employees and all these different departments and everything was just sort of inefficient. But here's the one that just is crazy.

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So RFK was talking about it. So they have this thing called CMS data, which is customer medical data. And it's important to a lot of the different entities in that health and human services area because they got lots of sub entities. And apparently, if you were a sub entity and you wanted that data, you had to buy it within the same organization. You're not buying it from an outside entity.

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You had to buy it from another, from a peer group within the same Health and Human Services. Have you ever heard of anything so dysfunctional as that? So when RFK Jr. said, so I tried to get the CMS patient information, which belongs to the American people and belongs to Health and Human Services, And the sub-agency said we have to buy it from them. It doesn't make any sense.

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There are sub-agencies that refuse to give us patient data. It's like you can't even imagine how bad it was. It's like beyond bad. So he's going to cut 20,000 employees out of 80,000 or so. And he's going to consolidate departments. And so here's my real question. Who was running this place before who didn't want to bring up the fact that there might be some inefficiencies?

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This is really damning to everybody who was ever in charge of that in prior years. I mean, are you kidding? It was absolutely broken from top to bottom, and nobody mentioned it? It seems like that should have been right at the top of things that any new head of the health and human resources should have mentioned. But it's got to be RFK Jr.

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He's the only one who could mention that it's completely broken. Anyway, Trump says he's very angry and, quote, pissed off at Putin. So it's Putin piss off. And I guess he's mad at Putin for not agreeing to the peace deal that he thought he had. He thought he had the temporary ceasefire thing where at the very least they would do a ceasefire in the Black Sea.

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But apparently Putin sort of backed off that a little bit, and now Trump's threatening to put secondary tariffs on him. Now, the smart people who are dumb say, oh, Trump is so dumb. We don't buy anything from, we don't buy any energy from Putin, so how's a tariff going to work? Now, it's a secondary tariff, a secondary tariff, which means that if any other country

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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buys energy from Putin, we tariff the second country. So basically we would be punishing anybody who bought from Putin. I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea, but it's out there now. Meanwhile, Trump has confirmed that he's going to do a dinner with Bill Maher, and he says he's going to do it as a favorite kid rock. And he just slams Bill Maher in a statement on Truth Social.

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Basically just says what a bad character he is. But because Kid Rock thinks it's a good idea, he's going to do it. So I was waiting for Trump to explain his view on that. And his view is he definitely wouldn't do it, except for Kid Rock is a personal friend, so he's going to do him a favor. And then he's going to invite Dana White. So Dana White will make up the table.

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So for the last three months, I've had this insane leg-related pain. So I'm in pretty bad shape. And if I scream during this broadcast, it won't be that unusual because I spend half of the day screaming in pain. It's been about three months now.

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Now, what do you think is going to happen? I worry that we're not going to really hear what happened, you know, like maybe there'll be three different versions that come out of it. But do you think anything useful will come out of that? I don't think so, because I think the problem, whatever it is, between Trump and Bill Maher

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is first of all personal, and then at least Bill Maher treats it like it's political. So if the problem is personal, because I think they had a gripe long before Trump ran for president, if it's personal, this is going to be quite the dinner. How much would you pay to watch that dinner if it were pay-per-view I would pay $100. Because, you know, there's nothing on TV and the movies all suck.

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So there's almost nothing you can watch on the screen except social media stuff. So if I could just, you know, have really good microphones and, you know, cameras that showed everybody's faces and that. Yeah, I would pay more than the average person because I'm more interested. I think a good market rate for that would be probably 20 to $50 pay-per-view.

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I would absolutely watch that, that conversation. That's I think it's going to be fascinating. So I'm all for it. I know I'm not expecting it to change the world, but Hey, you never know. Um, you'd heard of this before the gateway pundits writing about it today that, uh,

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You know how you always watch the White House press briefings and you see all the same left-leaning journalists seem to be all in the front? And you wonder, why did they always get to be in the front? Like, who makes the rule? I always thought it was the White House. I thought the White House decided who was where and that they just sort of put the ones who had a lot of tenure in the front.

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And so that would be stuff like the basic networks and stuff. But it turns out that the seating was determined by something called the White House Correspondents Association, which, as you might imagine, is a left-leaning organization. So they put all the left-leaning people in the front.

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Now, does that sound like a good idea to you, that the press itself decides that the left-leaning people exclusively get the good seats? No, it's a terrible idea. So the White House has decided that they are now in charge of the seating chart, which means that some of your favorite podcasts and independent journalists might be up front. And boy, will that be fun.

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Can you imagine Mike Cernovich in the front row or Alex Jones front row? I have no idea which individuals are on the list, but man, that's going to get good. That's going to get good. So Trump continues to tease about a third term. So NBC is reporting this, that one of the ways it could happen, allegedly, would be if J.D. Vance and Donald Trump could run as a ticket where J.D.

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And the weirdest thing about it is that I've predicted to my audience on Locals, the subscribers, I told them that as soon as my right leg, which is where all the pain was, that as soon as it got better, the very moment it got better, it would just switch to my other leg. and it did that this morning.

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Vance is the head of the ticket, but Trump is the vice president. And they run for another term. And then J.D. Vance steps down and Trump becomes president again. Now, I saw some experts saying, no, that would be totally illegal. You know, the Constitution, or is it the Constitution, I guess, says, you know, two terms. And to me, it sounds illegal.

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But I think Trump said, you know, maybe it's a possibility. But he thinks he has other possibilities to run for a third term. Now, here's what's weird about this. Why is there not more pushback on the fact that he's literally offering to be essentially some kind of a dictator who doesn't just take two terms and leave? Shouldn't they be saying, he's a dictator, we knew it.

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He's trying to never leave office. And then just use this as their example of why he never wants to leave office. Now, of course, he would still have to win an election. So I don't believe that any of his schemes, and I'm going to call them schemes, I don't believe any of them involve no election. So the public would have to vote for his third term. And I think this is a terrible idea.

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But it's amazing that the Democrats are all busy with Tesla or whatever they're worried about or Doge. And this story doesn't really get much attention. And Trump is just saying it right out loud. Yeah, the third term. A lot of people want it. Maybe. We'll see about it. I'm interested. To me, it's a gigantic mistake. But if you want to give it the most positive spin, let me do that.

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Everything's working great today. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.

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Because think about how many members of Congress have either already been accused and used that fund, Or, here's the funny part, or they think they might have to use it in the future. So there probably are not that many people in Congress who have already used it. I mean, we might be appalled by how many there are, but it's going to be a small percentage of all of Congress.

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But what percentage of all of Congress thinks, maybe, I mean, if somebody accuses me, wouldn't it be nice to have that sitting by just to get out of jail free? So I don't think that the men are going to vote for that. I think they're going to come up with some BS reason. Well, in terms of privacy and the continuity of the Congress, it's going to be something like that.

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We don't want to be distracted by all the fake claims because people would start making fake claims against us if they thought we would be blackmailed. Oh, it's a way to protect us. Oh, that's it. It's a way to protect us from being blackmailed. That's it. Yeah. So all the people who have used it or think they want to use it in the future are going to say, hmm, no, it's there for a reason.

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The secrecy is so we can't be blackmailed. And if somebody tries and, you know, if we have to pay them off, we'll do it, but the blackmail will not be successful. There's no way you're ever going to hear that list. No way. All right. You probably heard that Costco...

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was challenged over its DEI program, but the board of directors unanimously decided that they're going to keep their DEI, if not make more of it. So apparently the DOJ appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, is the one who will be going after the corporate DEI policies, which of course are blatantly illegal. Now they can do the blatantly illegal,

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because our system has put them in a bind, which is unless you discriminate by race, unless you do it, the public won't like you and people will protest you and you'll look like racists. So the corporations are in a tough bind. You can either do something that you must know is illegal, racial discrimination. Who doesn't know that's illegal? Do you think there's a CEO who's not completely aware

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You know, you hope you have a good life, but wouldn't you like to stick the landing, you know, go out and just the way you want to? Think of the ways he stuck the landing. He lived long enough to become 100, which just feels like so cool. I mean, wouldn't it be disappointing to die at 99? You'd be like, really? Just a few more months? I could be 100? It feels like that would be an achievement.

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that discriminating overtly, discriminating by race, has got to be illegal, according to our system. But we don't treat it that way. So instead, we were focusing, have been, on diversity and stuff. And so the CEOs in this bind. You can't not do it if everybody else is doing it. That would be suicide. But if you do it, you're clearly breaking an important law. So what do you do?

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Well, mostly they do what everybody else does. So it's more of a herd situation. Some of them might be true believers, but mostly they just know they have to go along with it. So how hard would it be for Harmeet or any of the, anybody in that position to reverse the entire saturated corporate environment? How many, how many corporations are we talking about? Like beyond the fortune 500,

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tens of thousands of major corporations that are below the top 500. Probably tens of thousands, right? And so that seems like an almost undoable thing. But it's not. You only have to put one CEO in jail. Just one. You just have to make an example of one person. Now, I wouldn't randomly pick the one person. I'd pick somebody who seems to be extra, extra illegal.

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Maybe somebody who's trying too hard and fighting too hard and won't take a hint and won't get rid of it. They're really fighting for it. So you might have to pick one person to take down. And if you take down one CEO, you only need to do one, just one high profile. Take them down and actually give them a serious jail term either result or risk. It doesn't have to go all the way to result.

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It could be just the risk. Because no CEO wants to spend all their time defending a DEI lawsuit. That's just a losing proposition. Even if you won the case, it's a complete losing situation. So you pick one and you make it public and you just go after them. If you can get that one person to say, I sure wish I hadn't done this.

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It's going to give all the other CEOs everywhere permission and an excuse to back off because they'd have a personal reason. I don't want to go to jail because the government just told me this is illegal. And I have a responsibility to keep this company out of legal trouble, not just myself, but I have a responsibility to keep the company out of legal trouble. So as much as I love this DEI stuff,

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that this evil government and bad old Trump is going to make me get rid of it. So you really only have to do one, just one CEO and the whole thing will disappear pretty quickly. Now, do I believe that a CEO should be jailed over what is obviously deeply illegal? And the answer is no. Even if that person got convicted, I think I would almost immediately commute the sentence.

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You might keep the conviction because they could explain that away. It wouldn't really hurt their career. But I don't think that if the government is the one that forced you into DEI and then the next administration says it's illegal and takes you a while to unwind it or you haven't done it yet, I feel like that's partly the government's fault. Do you hear me?

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If the government under Trump went after a CEO or a company for DEI, but it was the government who was pushing DEI before that, it's still illegal. It's still illegal, so you have to deal with it as a crime. But the first CEO, I think you need to commute the sentence. Give him a five-year sentence for discrimination, whatever it is. I don't know, maybe it's a fine.

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So he reaches 100. He makes it through Christmas, but he doesn't have to stay up late for New Year's Eve. And it's the slowest news week of the year. So he can get the full respect and attention that an ex-president deserves.

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If it's a fine, then I'd give them the fine. But if it's a question of somebody actually being in a jail cell, I think the president should commute it, if it's possible. Somebody should commute it. Because I don't actually want to see a CEO go to jail. Not for that.

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If the government forced the CEO into a position where they figured they had to be at DEI or else the company couldn't thrive, that's not... That's very understandable. So, yeah, debunk them. Now, I think we have to be human. As much as I think we have to respect the legal system, there's a reason that the legal system is populated with humans, because the humans have the ability to override laws.

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any injustice that the system presents. That's the human part. We like that. That's why there are such things as commuting and pardoning and stuff. We like that the humans could even look at the evidence and say you're guilty, but the jury could... What's that called? Jury nullification? So humans can override the Justice Department, and this would be a perfect example of that.

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So I'd love to see the Justice Department do what it does. find somebody guilty of DEI, but then make sure that the punishment is handled in a human way, not in a justice system way. Because we humans put the CEO in that position. So the humans need to get him out. We have that responsibility. Meanwhile,

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There's a little disagreement in the government about the anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic, and there's some like it. Apparently, Dr. Oz likes them. Elon Musk likes them. In fact, he's using one that he likes and thinks maybe there's more use for it in the world. So he's pro that. But RFK Jr. says they have a place, but he's really pushing for more natural weight loss.

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I can confirm, and I think everybody who's tried this can confirm that Like everybody else in the world, in most of my adult life, I could see that I was gaining more weight than I wanted, just what I thought was just normal eating.

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But as soon as I learned more about diet and I stopped eating things that are clearly just bad for you, I stopped eating wheat and processed foods for the most part, and I can't keep weight on. I could eat all day long, And I don't think I could gain weight if I wanted to.

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He outlived his wife that he was married to all his life, which is the kindest thing you can do because you don't want your spouse to be surviving because it puts him in a bad situation. So he gets that right. And best of all, as others have pointed out, he lived long enough so that Biden could become the worst president of all time, and it wasn't him.

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I would look like the people, you see the old photos of people in the 40s and the 30s walking the streets in New York and not one of them is overweight. Not even one. Because they were eating the food that I eat now. I don't think I could be overweight. I honestly eat all I want all day long. And I look in the mirror and go, oh, it looks like I lost weight again. So, yeah, RFK Jr.

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is 100% right that if he could do something to fix our food supply, which is clearly poisoned, we wouldn't need any Ozempic. But I would agree with Kennedy when he says it has a place. You know, if you're 400 pounds... Fixing your diet is not going to get there fast enough. So you might need to do something at the same time you're fixing your diet. All right.

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You may know that there are claims that ivermectin and a similar drug, fenbendazole, have been sending signals that they could be useful for treating cancer in humans. Now, I've been looking into it. for a variety of reasons. And one of them is that I'm always interested in how data is collected. I know, it's kind of nerdy.

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But we've seen so many things that we're told by science was true, that were untrue and vice versa, that I have such deep disrespect for the scientific community's ability to tell me what works, that I look at everything with super skepticism. Now, I don't know the truth. So here's the first part you need to know. I do not know, I do not know if these two drugs help with cancer. I do not know.

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So I'm not saying they don't, and I'm not saying they do. So that's the most important thing you need to hear. What I'm going to talk about is how you would decide given that the information is not perfect. So given imperfect information in a world where it's hard to know who to trust, what would you look to to see if it works?

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So the first thing you need to know is that I believe ivermectin and fenbendazole, which is a similar anti-wormer kind of thing. It's just different. That they do work in the lab. So if you put them in a test tube with, not a test tube, but whatever. If you put some cancer cells in the lab and you throw these things on them, it kills the cancer cells or something like that. So it works in the lab.

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In addition, it works on animals. Now that's good news. If it works on animals, you're you're at least up to about 5% chance it will work on humans. So only about 5% of the time does something work in an animal and also work in humans. Now, given that these are well-known and well-tolerated drugs and inexpensive, we know that there's probably not a risk of dying.

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Well, there's always some risk, but a small risk. So if we're not worried about the side effects, and that doesn't seem to be the biggest problem, there are some, but it's not the biggest problem, then maybe that 5% chance is a little bit greater. So the first thing you need to know is if the only thing you know is it works in animals, in general, there's a 5% chance it'll work in humans.

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But some part of what prevents it from working in humans would be the side effects. but these don't really have side effects that would be large enough that you'd care if it worked against your cancer. So maybe more than 5%. But on top of that, there are very strong signals from humans. So you'll see quite a few claims online of this person got better, this person got better.

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They have actual names of people. and specific studies where somebody appeared to either clear the cancer entirely, and I talked to one person who had that experience, and others who seemed to be getting good results. Now, so those are the things that everybody would agree on.

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So everybody agrees, works in the lab, works in animals, doesn't have too many side effects, and there's really strong signals from a whole variety of different researchers. And it's been studied, not in isolated studies, but here's the claim. The claim is that in people, it works primarily when it's in conjunction with other treatment.

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That's sticking the landing, and that's as good as you can do. But I have to tell you that it's worth noting, because he's going to be criticized as well as complimented today, but it's worth noting that he is the reason I didn't vote from my 20s to my 60s.

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So in other words, if you're giving one of the pills that treat you for a certain kind of cancer, because different cancers have different treatments. So if you're doing the chemo or you're taking a pill, because that's a normal thing you would do for these cancers, then you also take the ivermectin and or fenbendazole, the claim is that the other thing you're doing is more effective.

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So the claim, again, this is not my claim. I'm not saying it's true or false. I don't know. But the claim is that there are enough individual anecdotal cases where somebody would do the normal treatment, but then they add in these drugs, and then reportedly they would get a better result if they added in these treatments. Now, what do you make of this situation so far?

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If the only thing I told you is that it seems to work on animals by itself, not in conjunction with other treatments, but as soon as they treated it on people, the signal that they could find most clearly is when they combined it with another treatment. Now, the, quote, other treatments exist because they work, right? The reason chemo exists is because it works.

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Not 100%, not in every person in every way. So would you agree with the following statement? That if you were just looking at one person having chemo, you could not really predict how it's going to go. They could have a real good result all the way to complete remission, depending on the cancer.

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They could also have not such good luck, like the cancer is more aggressive and it doesn't do enough to help. So if you're combining the thing that works for sure by itself in an animal, but we know that there's kind of a small chance it's going to work in humans. And then when you test it with humans, the signal seems strong when they're doing the other thing at the same time.

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But they haven't done the gold standard controlled trial yet.

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they just say it looks like it gives you a little extra when combined with the other thing here's my question if the other thing is combined with can be all over the map in terms of how effective it is by itself and then you add this one new thing and let's say hypothetically it did nothing at all wouldn't you produce a whole bunch of people who seem to have a better better than average outcome because some people always have better than average outcomes

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And then you say, yes, I gave this person chemo and I also gave them the pill and they did much better than the average person. Would that tell you anything? I would say no. I would say no. That doesn't tell you anything with certainty because people would have great variability on the other thing they're on. So how do you know it isn't just an ordinary variability?

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Well, the way you would find that out is through a large controlled study. which has not been done. So the one thing that would tell you if it works, a large controlled study, I don't think that's been done. But there have been studies where they said, hey, somebody doing chemo seemed to get good results. Now, the other thing that messes up the data is human beings.

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Because when I was a very young man, the first time I was old enough to vote, and I was out of college, and I thought, I'm going to get me some involvement in politics. Because you know what I thought? The reason I voted, very obvious reason I voted, I voted because I knew that my opinion, because I'm so smart, I'm so smart. I knew that my opinion would improve the average of the country.

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If you find me a human who's taking ivermectin, Let's say in addition to chemo. Do you think that's the only thing they're taking? No. If somebody is taking ivermectin, they've said, Dana, I'm going to have to do this myself. So I'm going to change my diet. So you'll find people who went on a keto or I think keto usually went on a keto diet. They changed their lifestyle.

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Maybe they added some healthy stuff. They started boosting their vitamin D, because why wouldn't you? Then they did some research. They found out, oh, there's five different supplements that seem to help you sort of in a general way, maybe your immune system. So maybe you take that too. And you start making all these changes. How do you really know what made the difference?

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Because there's nobody who just took the one thing. So here's what I would call proof. Proof to me would look like this. We have a cancer that we have no cure for. You could do chemo and it won't cure you. You could do radiation. You could take a pill. It won't cure you. We know that. That's known.

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But here's somebody who had that incurable disease and they took nothing but these pills and then they got better. There's no way to explain that. If it's, let's say, several people, there'd be no way to explain that unless it worked. Would you agree? It's incurable, but here's five people who cured it taking this pill.

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So if I found five people who did nothing but the pills and they had complete success against an incurable disease, not the curable kinds, because the curable kinds, you're already using the curable, the cure. You know, if chemo could cure you, you're already on chemo, right? No doubt about it, if it could cure you. So I don't believe that we've seen a signal that guarantees it works.

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We've seen enough signal to be really, really interested. And so a lot of researchers are doing everything they can to dig deeper and work with enough anecdotal situations so you can build up a database that you can tell whether it works or not. So here's my overall framing. You can't tell anything if it works in a lab. You can't really tell anything if it works in an animal.

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You can't tell anything if you test it on somebody who's also doing other things. Right? Do you agree with that? Unless it's a really big study, gold standard controls, and everybody in it is only doing the things that you're looking for, there isn't somebody who's also overdosing on vitamin D, and there isn't somebody in the study who's also doing three things that they didn't mention.

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You could do it, but nobody's done anything near that. So here's my challenge. I'm always suspicious... when a drug works on an animal by itself, but when you test it on humans, it only works when you're doing something else that you know works and has variability. Individuals respond to it in a variable way. That doesn't feel like enough to me.

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Now, there have been some, a lot of people have said, Scott, you're wrong. We do have examples where somebody took this and got better. I want to talk to one. So if you can find one, here's what I'm looking for. I'm going to take an incurable example, metastatic prostate cancer. We'll just keep it to that because that's incurable. There's no cure to that.

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You can slow it down, but you can't cure it. If your prostate cancer is localized, it can be cured by removing it and some other kinds of processes. But once it's gone past the prostate, there's no known cure. So find me any person who, for their own reasons or whatever, took only these pills, ivermectin and fenbendazole, and cured it. They just cured it.

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And I was kind of a patriot, even young. And I thought, you know, you know what this country needs? It needs me to weigh in on this vote. Because, you know, if the smart people don't vote, what could become of the country? So I walked right down there and I cast my vote for Jimmy Carter because the news told me, the news said that that Reagan guy was some kind of a,

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And the doctors would confirm that they don't have it anymore. If that's true, I need to talk to that person. And it might only take me one. Although if you're talking to one, you don't know if they're telling you the truth or maybe the doctors misdiagnosed them or something. So you probably need a small handful. But I wouldn't need, I don't think I'd need a gold standard trial.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, Chelsea Stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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If you said, well, here's five people. And I talked to myself and they go, yeah, I promise you. The only thing I did differently is maybe I took a little extra vitamin D. I wouldn't count that. But I took these two drugs, and here's my doctor's report. It says I'm cleared. Now, if I saw that, I'd say, we'd better get on this right away. So I'll put this challenge out.

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I believe that the signals are very strong. So I see Dr. Mack is being mentioned. So I'm familiar with all the players at this point. I've looked into it enough that I know the players. And They do have strong signals. So I'm not telling you it doesn't work. I literally do not know. I hope it does. I'd be really happy if it did.

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But you need to find me a few people, or even one, where there's a real live person whose doctor says, yeah, that's all they did, as far as I know. They just did that one thing, and now they don't have that anymore. But there are other kinds of cancers, and they all respond to different things. So there may be 10 different cancers that it works really well on, and it may be because it is a thing.

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So it is a thing that something could work in conjunction with another drug but not make much difference by itself. However, the argument for ivermectin is that we know the mechanism of how it works against cancer. So if we know the mechanism of how it works, but it only works if you're using it with another treatment, that's not squaring with me. So that makes me suspicious.

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So, yes, I'm aware of the doctors you're mentioning and the experts you mentioned. But if anybody knows somebody who cured any kind of cancer with these pills and nothing else, I would definitely be interested in talking to them personally. So let's find out what's going on there. All right.

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Jonathan Turley is talking about how the COVID lab leak theory, how the Wall Street Journal exposed that despite the fact that there were people in the government who had been asked to study it, They'd been asked to study where that source was, and there were experts in the government who said, yeah, we're pretty sure it came from the lab. It was a lab leak.

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The government decided to ignore the people who they'd asked to study it and said it's probably a lab leak and decided to instead use the lab leak theory as a way to attack Trump as being racist and anti-science. So the question that... is not do we know that they covered it up, because we know that now. The question is why? Now, the obvious answer would be that Biden was owned by China.

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But this started before Biden, right? Didn't all the pushback from the media start during Trump's administration when he was calling it the China virus? I feel like the media just used anything they could use to go after Trump, and that was the highest priority, and nothing else mattered. I think that nothing mattered to the media except, can we use this as a way to call Trump a racist?

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crazy warmonger and he wanted me to get a haircut even if i didn't want one so i believe the news so i voted for the you know the angel not the devil the angel and i was quite happy with my vote quite satisfied with myself and then i watched the i watched the carter presidency unfold and when it was done i said to myself i uh i really shouldn't vote i uh

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And that's what happened. I think it actually might be as simple as what's good for Trump and what's bad for Trump, and then that's all there was. I don't think the science mattered. I don't think the data mattered. I don't think anything mattered except one version was bad for Trump and one wasn't. So they picked the bad for Trump one.

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Anyway, so I think that's the entire story that Get Trump made people crazy and useless and stupid. Meanwhile, The Black Lives Matter movement, which I think most of you know for now was a fake movement. It was just funded to be anti-Trump and start a narrative, but it was not organic.

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There were certainly many members of it who had honest feelings about things, but in terms of organization, which is what gets people on the streets, the organizing part of it was Not real. It was a fake organization. In terms of the funding, it was fake.

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Anyway, so what was left of BLM, they held a protest in New York over the death of Robert Brooks, which name I had never heard of until I looked into it today. And fewer than 20 people showed up for their Black Lives Matter protest. Now, when I saw the story, I thought, huh, I never even heard of this story.

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And I looked into it, and there's a video of New York correctional officers beating a black guy to death in some kind of a medical setting. It looked like they were in a doctor's office. And there's no sound on it. So what we see is some correctional officers in somewhat of a good mood, but some of them are just doing horrible things to a guy who appears to be have his hands tied behind his back.

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Now, I don't know what was going on, because what they were doing to him wasn't matched with any actions that you could see from him. So it wasn't obvious that he was resisting anything. I think his hands were tied, or at least they weren't active. And he was being badly abused. I mean, really badly abused. So I guess there's a question I have. If I had to guess, it looked like he was spitting.

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But I don't want to put that out there as a fact because there's no explanation for what they were doing to him and the way they were doing it to him unless he was spitting at them. They may have told him, don't spit at me or we're going to get tough and maybe he did, but I'm just guessing. Because it didn't look like they were just getting revenge for past things.

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It looked like they were trying to fix something that was happening right then that they didn't like, maybe thought it was dangerous. And they were responding with physical force. So I think there's more to learn about this story. So we have to figure out why so many people were in a room and they were all, they seemed, seemingly they were all okay.

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with what looked completely, insanely inappropriate and dangerous and racist if you're just looking at the silent video. But we know that video is misleading. It's the worst thing in the world when you're trying to figure out what really happened. In our simpler time, we thought, well, if we saw it on video, we know what happened.

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But I think most of us are smart enough to know that video can be super misleading. This is one of those. So I don't know if people didn't show up because they didn't know what the real story was, but I doubt it. I don't think that's ever stopped anybody before. It looks like Black Lives Matter is just unfunded and defunct.

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Meanwhile, Kamala Harris got a book deal, according to Wall Street Apes, at a $20 million book deal. $20 million is very close to what she owes... from all the campaign spending. But I don't think that these numbers are going to mingle. So my guess is that she keeps the $20 million and the campaign is a separate entity, so it'll just still owe $20 million.

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I don't think she's going to pay off the debt with her book earnings. But as smart people have learned, this is how... Basically, this is how bribes are paid. You pay bribes by giving somebody a book deal. And then if you were to look into it, you'd say, why are you paying so much for this when you know you won't sell that many copies?

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I don't seem to have what it takes to do this well. Is it because I'm not experienced? Is it because I'm not smart? And I thought I was, but turns out no. Turns out no, there's no evidence of that smartness whatsoever. And so I took several decades off of voting because I knew I didn't have the skill. I knew I was not adding to the average intelligence of the political part of the country.

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Do you think there's any publisher who can make their money back if they do a $20 million book deal for Harris's book? No. Now let me tell you something about the book industry, which I know because I was part of it. For sometimes publishers,

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need to get the big names in their catalog because the big names give them all the attention of the bookstores and the booksellers, and it allows them to attract other writers. So if you happen to be a good writer and people want you and you're good enough that you can shop around, wouldn't you be impressed if a past vice president or potential president had a book deal there?

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So that would tell you, oh, these are good publishers. If Kamala Harris picked them for her book, I mean, I'd be safe to pick them for my book because she must have done the homework, right? So the first thing you need to know is that these oversized book deals are marketing. So for the book company, it's marketing.

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So let's say you went to the book company and say, hey, we know that you'll never make your money back on this thing. So obviously it's a bribe. And the publisher or editor would say, well, let me explain how our industry works. We overpay for celebrities knowing we won't make our money back.

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But we do that because it's marketing and it attracts better authors who are more serious and we can make money on. And then the investigators will have to say, oh, okay, I didn't know that was normal. That's the end of the trail. They just tell them it's normal business, and it is normal, so there's nothing to see here.

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The other thing you need to know is that when publishers announce how much they're paying for a book, it's often a total lie. How many of you do that? Do you think somebody's going to send her a check for $20 million because the news reported it? I once had a $25 million book deal. And it was widely reported in the press. Dilbert Cartoonist gets a $25 million book deal.

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Do you think I got paid $25 million for my books? Does anybody think that? No, it was totally made up. It's just a totally made-up number. Now, it's made up from scraps of truth that you use some hyperbole, and you say, if things went this way, and if something extraordinary happened, it could reach this number. But no, $25 million, I think, was closer to five, maybe eight.

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by the time you're done, those numbers are not real. And then out of that, you pay your agent, or in my case, my syndication company, and then you pay taxes. And then you pay taxes. So your $25 million might be really eight, maybe 15 to half of that goes to another partner, and then half of that goes to the government. So a $25 million paycheck might be $4 million in cash when you're done.

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How many of you knew that? So when you see a book deal number, they're not real. Those are not real numbers. They're doing what they can to make it appear the biggest number. So it could be something like this. I'm not saying it is. But it could be that the $20 million is, if you sell this many books, we'll give you $5 million, which maybe is the market rate.

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But if something really amazing happened and you sold this many, we'd give you $10 million. And if you're a bestseller, we will automatically give you money for your second book, And that's another $5 million. But if the second book does well, that could be $15 million. So it's a whole bunch of if this, if this, next book, maybe $20 million. It's not real money. It's not. It's fake. Fake news.

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Catherine Herridge, who is a well-respected journalist in our world in which not all the journalists are well-respected, but she is, And she said that there would be some kind of CIA whistleblower event today. Has anybody heard anything today? So Catherine Herridge, CIA whistleblower. Any announcement yet? It's coming today. And she's teased it as being substantial.

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Now, she would not say that because, again, one of the few credible, respected journalists, she wouldn't say it's a big deal unless it was a big deal. So something's coming today. She just posted it. What is it? She literally just posted it? Is it about the energy weapon? God, I hope not. It's the energy weaponist. Oh, don't be about the energy weapon. Don't be that.

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And that's not a joke, by the way. Literally, Jimmy Carter stopped me from voting for decades because I thought, well, I'm just making things worse. Why would I spend my whole day, you know, schedule my day's activity around making the country worse? I don't want the country to be worse. I don't want that. So it wasn't until...

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Because you know what I would worry about, right? Remember I just told you that she's one of the few respected journalists? That she got fired for CBS for being a respected journalist? Do you think they're done with her? I worry that the CIA whistleblower isn't up. And that Somebody is going to give her some ridiculous story that will seem credible because it's a CIA guy. All right, here we go.

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We're looking at it. Breaking. This is Catherine Herridge. CIA whistleblower comes forward. Former intelligence officer claims career-ending injuries caused by foreign-directed energy weapon. Leaked Defense Department letters acknowledging injuries and experiences are real. Oh, it's nothing. Let me translate this for you. People just saying it's real doesn't mean anything. The injuries are real.

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If there's not more than the injuries are real, the part that we already knew is the injuries are real. That doesn't mean there's a weapon. I think she might be getting crackened. That's what it looks like. Because if you were the bad guys, you would want to make sure that the credible people got taken down. But thank you for putting that in the comments. Breaking news as soon as it happens.

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Do you know the story about the OpenAI whistleblower? So there was this gentleman who worked for OpenAI, Sushir Balaji. age 26, and before he could get his story out completely, I guess, he died of a suicide just last month. Suicide. It was ruled. It was a suicide in which his apartment was ransacked. Because what you do before you do that is you ransack your own apartment. A whistleblower.

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His family said he was happy. There were no indications he had any problems in his life. Let me see this. Neurological symptoms caused by a weapon. There's been a cover-up. Yeah, you see what's missing? So what's missing with the CIA cover-up is, is there a picture of the weapon? Is there a description of the weapon? Is there somebody who says, yes, we have a weapon?

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Is there a video of the weapon? Has any Russian said we have a weapon? If the only reporting is these are real injuries, but the extent of the injuries is being covered up, if that's all there is, that is not evidence of a directed energy weapon from the Soviets or from the Russians. Yeah. And by the way, I'm not saying that there's no such thing as a directed energy weapon.

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I'm pretty sure there is. My only question is whether they're used in this way by Russia. That part I don't believe. Anyway, so this open AI whistleblower, he did some kind of analysis where he claimed that He had mathematical proof that ChatGPT's copyright violations, that mostly ChatGPT was made up of copyright violations, basically. And let's see. Here are the other things.

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this recent election, where I said to myself, all right, this one's unambiguous. I got one wrong in my 20s, but I feel like I picked up a few tips since then. One of those tips was, wait a minute, are you telling me everything on the news is fake? I mean, some of it's real, right? Wait a minute. All of it's fake? Well, not all of it. That's just like a hyperbole. No, all of it? It's all fake.

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According to, let's see, a few different sources for this. It's all over the news today. But apparently the The mother was not allowed to see his body before he was cremated. In what world are you not allowed to see your own son's body before it's cremated? That's weird. His family was pressured to approve rapid cremation. Okay. His hard drives vanished.

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the hard drives which were relevant to the OpenAI stuff. Now, these are allegations, so I don't know that these claims are true. It's just alleged. And his autopsy, the autopsy leaked and it suggested, quote, trauma in many different places on his body because that's how you end yourself. You beat yourself up in various parts of your body. Okay.

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And it was just about the time that the New York Times had a lawsuit for 157 billion against OpenAI for exactly the stuff that this fellow's analysis said really was true. that 94% of ChatGPT's outputs were stolen from copyrighted works. I'm not sure if stolen is the right word to use because that's putting judgment on it. We don't know what's legal or illegal in this mode yet.

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And they say that OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, made no announcement to employees about it. Now, all of these things could be explained. Don't you think if you picked any one of them, it'd be like, let's say family was pressured to approve a rapid cremation. Don't you think there's more to that?

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Like maybe the reason is that they simply didn't have capacity at the morgue because there are so many fentanyl deaths. Cause you know that San Francisco is overrun with fentanyl overdose deaths higher than ever. Don't you think that there's literally a capacity problem? in handling the dead bodies.

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If there's a capacity problem in handling the dead bodies, then you can see that they would be pressured to approve a rapid cremation. But it would be innocent. It would just be based on their capacity. You could imagine that that rapid pressure meant that the mother couldn't arrange her traveling to get there in time. So she would say, I wasn't allowed to see the body.

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But really, it was just a capacity problem. They had to do it soon. She couldn't arrange traveling, so the way she says it is, I wasn't allowed to see the body. That would be normal. That would be just like ordinary business. It would be bad, but it would be ordinary. Then these hard drives containing the internal OpenAI documents vanished.

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Well, if you were a whistleblower and you had a physical drive that you knew was the real powerful stuff, would you keep it in your apartment? Maybe. Or you might worry that somebody would try to come get it and you would make sure you took it out of your computer yourself and you put it somewhere. So I'm not convinced that not having those documents in his apartment is a smoking gun.

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And then the autopsy leak suggests trauma in many different places. That one's the biggest smoking gun. But the question I would ask is, is the autopsy leak real? How do you know that's a real autopsy? So these are the questions I have. I would say that the suspicions are sky high. The suspicions are sky high. I don't think anything's proven yet, at least not to my satisfaction.

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But do you imagine that a company that's changing the world would kill their whistleblower? Well, I don't believe that Sam Altman would put out a hit on an employee. So in no world do I believe that Sam Altman said, you know what? Things would go a lot better for my company and I'd make more money if I just have this guy killed.

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it's so hard to get to that point where it's not all untrue, but by the time they package it up into a narrative, the facts which in many cases are true don't add up to the narrative, so the narrative is the fake part. So I knew that the Biden situation was obviously being ignored by the media. I knew that Trump is really our only hope.

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I know I live in the real world and sometimes people do bad things, but if you're telling me that Sam Altman ordered a hit, I don't know. I think you couldn't drag me to that opinion. No. However, let's go a little deeper. Do you believe that the CIA is going to let the AI companies operate independently? Well, according to Mark Andreessen,

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The Silicon Valley investors have been told directly, no, the government is going to control AI. There will only be allowed two or three big companies that succeed in it. And we're going to basically be in their pocket the entire time. And they kind of need to be. Because if the government doesn't control AI, the government will probably be destroyed by AI.

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Imagine if the government told you the truth. Imagine if AI told you the truth. All the time. It would destroy the government. The government wouldn't be able to make war. It wouldn't be able to do anything that it does now because most of it's corrupt. So the government 100% has to have iron tight control over AI.

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Now imagine that the CIA knows that they have this valuable asset, which they now have control over. But when I say control, I mean only control over the things they care about. They don't care too much about the features and the product, right? They only care that the things they care about are taken care of.

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Now, would the CIA kill an American citizen, just murder them, if the stakes were possibly the end of the government and the United States? Well, yes, they would. Yes, they would. Yeah. Totally. So, do you have a motive? Yes.

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Not Sam Altman, but if some intelligence agency said we can't have a world where open AI gets taken down because we have to compete, we can't get behind China, and if stealing all this copyrighted work and killing a whistleblower is how you get to be the best AI country, better than China, then we've just got to kill the guy. Now,

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. I think I'm going to be adding some variation to the simultaneous sip, depending on the news. So today I'd like to introduce the There's a Suspicious Drone Above Me sip. You want to try this with me?

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Suppose I came to you and said, all right, you're in charge of this decision. This whistleblower would probably cripple OpenAI. They'll be sued by every content maker, including me. It would just be a frenzy. If they proved that they'd stolen, I guess they call it stolen, copyrighted work, and it could be demonstrated.

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If OpenAI fails, probably the other AIs are susceptible to the same problem because probably whatever OpenAI did to train is not that different from other AIs. So suppose this whistleblower could have taken down OpenAI but just crippling their business model. They wouldn't be able to make a move. And then the other AIs say, oh, shoot, we got our AI the same way they did.

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And so everybody's crippled in the United States at the same time. So just destroy our AI potential, and we would be behind. But, all right, you're an intelligence agent in the United States, you're a patriot, and you're also the dirty tricks person. So you're the one who kills people under the conditions that somebody in the government said, we don't like to kill people, but...

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We're going to have to do it this time. It's the only way the United States can survive in a world where AI dominance probably will determine if you survive. Would you order the hit on this citizen who was just trying to do the right thing if you thought it could save the country and your certainty for that was high, like 60%, 70% chance? It's the difference between our country surviving...

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And especially when the Doge volunteers took over, I said, well, we have one chance. So this one's easy. I'm pretty happy with my vote for Trump so far. But Jimmy Carter, we will give you our respect as a servant of the country, tried hard, meant well, did his best. That's as good as we can do. Meant well, tried hard, did his best. I respect that.

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the AI era and not, and being taken over by, I don't know, Chinese hackers who use AI and destroy the country. The answer is you'd probably, you'd have a tough time with it, but you'd probably order the hit. So this was a whistleblower whose whistleblowing could have destroyed the United States. Fairly, in a fairly obvious way, simplistic way.

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Like, you know, you don't have to connect a lot of dots. If you took out if the legal system could be activated by what the whistleblower knew, it would cripple all the AI companies and they wouldn't be able to get out of it for who knows how long. They just wouldn't be able to do anything. They'd just be paying off lawsuits. And. Oh, I would say that if you follow the money,

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but you also follow physical security, probably the CIA had him killed. And I'm not sure that I'm worse off for that. I hate to say it. I mean, morally, ethically, of course, it's all repugnant. We can agree on that. But did they just kill an American citizen to try to save the country? I'd hate to give them credit.

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But if you tell me it was the wrong play, I'm going to agree with you morally and ethically. But if you don't think this would have been an existential threat to the country if this whistleblower had made his case, it was an existential threat to the country. I mean, I really think it was. So I don't know. Are we better off or worse off?

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Well, I can't believe that he would be the only one who could be able to do this analysis. He must have shared it with somebody, even if only as a dead man switch. So we might see more of this. If a second whistleblower dies, I'm going to say I know what's going on. If a second whistleblower says, oh, I've got his hard drives,

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And so now I'm the whistleblower and just does fine, thrives, takes the company to court, wins the case, closes down AI, and never dies, never gets killed. Then I would rethink the first one. But if there's a second whistleblower who comes with the same set of data and also dies mysteriously, I'm going to go with the CIA order to hit theory. Or somebody ordered it. I doubt it was Sam Oldman.

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All right. A CBS News journalist made some news, Jan Crawford. She was on Face Nation and was asked the most underreported 2024 story was Biden's obvious cognitive decline. How do you feel when you see a professional journalist say that the biggest miss of the year was reporting on Biden's obvious cognitive decline? Now, underreported, I don't think captures what was going on here.

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Underreported just feels like, you know, in retrospect, we should have said more about it. This was intentional. It wasn't underreported. It was intentionally fake news. Yeah. Were there any other things that were underreported? Hmm. Let's see. Biden ran on the fine people hoax. He based his campaign on the fine people hoax. Scopes and lots of other sources, including me, debunked it thoroughly.

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Do you remember the major mainstream news that said the main thing that Biden ran on is now thoroughly debunked? That one was really important. Nope, no. No news on that. Maybe Fox News, but not the mainstream. How about the Biden crime family? Do you think that was a little bit underreported? Do you think that mattered at all, that he was literally a criminal enterprise as president?

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I think that was a little underreported, just a little bit. How about How about the reporting that the insurrection hoax was a hoax? Was there any reporting that the entire January 6th committee was completely corrupt and ran an op on the country? I don't remember that reporting. I don't remember seeing it. Again, Fox News, Breitbart will have stories like that, but not the mainstream ones.

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All right, meanwhile, China has made a big breakthrough, maybe one of the most exciting technological breakthroughs I've ever heard of. According to Interesting Engineering and Christopher McFadden, he writes that the Chinese have developed a robot that can give you a massage. It can pinch you and vibrate with human-like hands. It gives you a traditional Chinese massage.

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I see what you're saying. I'm seeing a lawyer way, and it's not clear that training AI is a copyright violation any more than if I go to school and read books and train my mind. I hear what you're saying, that that's definitely an unsettled question, but you wouldn't want to take the risk it got settled, would you? Leaving it unsettled, they have a business model, but if you take it to court...

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Do you think the jury agrees? So your argument that it's no different than reading a book and learning it and then you know that information when you go forward, that's true for humans. But I don't know if that would pass muster in a trial. So if there's a risk that it won't work, you might still have to order the hit. Anyway... So those are all the things that were underreported.

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But I wonder how many things in total were underreported. Let's see. What's the current list? According to X user Morbidly Obtuse, here's the current list. Media hoaxes now. I'm holding it up if you're listening to it on Spotify or something you can't see it, but this fills the entire page with One bullet point apiece for the hoaxes.

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I didn't count them, but they're approximately 50 50 50 This is just since the Trump era this isn't history This is current news Would you like me to randomly pick one just to see if these are real? All right. All right. Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago. Nope, that was fake news. That was fake news. Or at least there's no evidence that he did that. Patriot Front. The Patriot Front.

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Well, we don't know what the real story is, but we think we do. Trump built the cages for migrant kids. Of course, that was Obama who built them. If you get vaccinated, you won't catch COVID. These are real. These are 50, about 50, media hoaxes. Now, do you remember the big story in the media that they've allowed 50 media hoaxes to be treated as real news? Do you know what's underreported? This.

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What's underreported is that the news isn't real. That's a little underreported. No, the correct answer is not, you know, we had a good year, but we got that one topic wrong. No. No, that's not the right answer. You didn't have a good year. You didn't get one topic wrong. You still are ignoring the fact that Kamala Harris was obviously drunk and had a problem.

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How is ignoring Kamala Harris's obvious inebriation, how is that different from ignoring Joe Biden's obvious mental decline? They're identical, right? I mean, you and I have seen enough video where not every time she was in public, but a number of times, including recently, where she was clearly smashed. And not once did the regular media report on it. Social media was all over it. But, wow.

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The level of lying and incompetence and confirmation bias is just shocking to Meanwhile, Joe Biden has a theory about why he didn't get, you know, he didn't do better in the election and had to drop out. He said that he regrets choosing his own attorney general, Merrick Garland, because I'll just summarize it. He didn't use lawfare hard enough to get Trump. Now, those are my words.

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I'd like to take a moment for the NPCs. If there are any NPCs, could you add the happy ending joke that this story requires? It's not funny, but you know you have to do it anyway. Go ahead. Make your robot happy ending jokes. Get it out. There you go. There you go. Good, good. Dominic71. Right on schedule. Anybody else? Any other NPCs who want to have a happy ending? There you go.

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That's basically what he said, that he was too slow to He slowed down the prosecution of Trump, but he sped up the prosecution of Hunter. Well, I'm pretty sure that the Justice Department tried to get Hunter completely cleared. It just didn't work out because people caught him. But so, you know, at least they tried to do what he wanted, which is get his son off completely.

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But he's actually so lost that he goes in public and suggests that maybe the reason things didn't work out for him is that he didn't do enough lawfare. Unbelievable. And do you think that the regular news will report that senile Joe didn't do enough lawbreaking to win? And that's what he said in public? No, no. They'll just quote it. No comment. The real Mark Polo.

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Scott analysis has gone bad recently. Why are there never an example? What would be an example of something I got wrong? Just one. Anyway, there might be. All right, here's the funniest story of the day. On X, a user named Damon Linker who is a senior lecturer in political science at Penn, right?

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So if you're a senior lecturer in political science at Penn, you know a little bit about politics, don't you? Because, you know, they don't give those jobs to just anybody. So somebody who really understands politics, he said that in a post, I've been struggling a bit since the election, not emotionally, but intellectually.

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I was never the biggest resistance guy, but I was on his side against Trump, uh, And then he points to an article written by Ross Barkin. He says, nicely captured why I've felt adrift since November 5th. We have lots of work to do. Okay. So he's somebody who understands that something's happened. He's trying to figure out why he feels the way he does.

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And this article has some things he agrees with. So I looked at the article. And I will summarize the article by saying that Ross Barkin effectively said that everything Democrats did was stupid and ineffective, and they need to rethink 100% of everything they did, because absolutely nothing they did was smart. Now, that's my paraphrase, but it's pretty close.

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And then he mentioned that the Hitler talk didn't work, the censoring free speech didn't work, the it's a brat summer didn't work. Basically, it was all just stupid and incompetent and insane. So this poor political science lecturer, Damon Linker, is struggling to figure out why I feel the way I do. And then he points to an article that says they just did everything wrong.

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And then Dinesh D'Souza, you all know Dinesh, He had a comment to this poor guy's confusion. It's the funniest thing I've heard. He said, it is hard to come to terms with the fact that one is an idiot, a fact that years of fake erudition has apparently suppressed in one's mind. He didn't like it. Damon didn't like that comment, so he commented back. But I would like to make this one observation.

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Nobody likes to be summarized. Nobody likes to be summarized. This was a perfect summary. The real problem is that he thought he was smart about politics. Indeed, he's a lecturer at Penn in political science. Obviously, he's smart about politics. But you can be smart about politics and still lose... Terribly, because you think the news is real.

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So if you don't go to the next level of understanding about political science, oh, by the way, the news is completely unreal. If you thought the news was real and you're lecturing to kids about political science, I would hate to have my kid in that class because I'd be afraid of what they're learning. Really? You're learning that the news was real and that therefore Trump was a monster?

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Is that what you're teaching them? Because you need to step back and understand that you are an idiot, right? If you watched how the news operated and you didn't notice that there were over 50 obvious coordinated hoaxes on TV, coordinated obvious hoaxes, 50 of them just in the last Trump era, if you didn't notice that,

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We've got another NPC. Anybody else want to say happy ending? I want all the NPCs to weigh in. Now remember, this is just the NPCs. Swimming is the best form of exercise. The matrix should be mentioned whenever there's anything going on about a simulation. Very important. And if there's any news foods or any kind of food upgrade or source, you need to say, Soylent Green is people.

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might be harsh to say you're an idiot because it's more like brainwashing it's not it's not actually an iq problem brainwashing nobody's nobody has any defense to it so it doesn't matter how smart you are or how well informed the brainwashing still works that's why it's brainwashing it's not reason so

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I think his problem is he just got surrounded by people who had a certain view, watched the news, thought it was real, and he was effectively brainwashed into not understanding his own specialty. His own specialty is political science, and the brainwashing is so strong that, let's be honest, he's not an idiot. He's probably way smarter than almost all of us. Probably. Probably.

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I mean, by the time you're a senior lecturer at Penn, I mean, you're smart. You're really smart. But being smart doesn't help you. If you can't see past the fake news and the TDS and you don't know the confirmation bias is your operating system, then everything's invisible to you. You'd be flying blind. So I think that was the problem. So although Dinesh's comment was hilarious...

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It's not completely right because there's nothing wrong with his brain. He's just brainwashed. Here's an analytical problem that I keep seeing people making. And in this case, there was a Republican politician who made it. But I'll just make the general comment. I keep seeing people say that immigration is what made the country great. And there's so many examples in our whole American history.

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where we're better off because of lots of immigration. Therefore, since it's always been good in our history, then it's good now. Is that a good argument? That for 200 years plus, the United States was definitely better off because of immigration, no doubt about it, which I agree with. I would say that's just a fact. But does that mean that it's still a good idea? Well, that would depend.

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Has anything changed? Badly duped by Bill Gates? No, you don't know that. All I did was ask you for the evidence and then things would go quiet. So you can't say I was duped by Bill Gates. You could say you have an opinion that's not backed by evidence and I've asked you for the evidence and Do we have a suspicion that Bill Gates is up to no good and using his charities to make money? Yes, we do.

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Do we have an ability to read his mind? No. Are there any documents that suggest that? No. So your certainty is irrational. You might be right, but not because the evidence is conclusive. All right. So here's my only comment on immigration. If you thought it was great in the past and therefore we should do more of it, that is not a good analysis because too much has changed.

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In the past, give me a fact check on this. So I'm going to make some statements. Tell me if you think these are all true. In the past, our country imported mostly Christians. Is that true? Mostly Christians in the early days of the country?

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and mostly into empty a big country that had plenty of room and also at a time when international terrorism hadn't even been invented and we had unlimited demand for unskilled workers does that describe much of america's past so i'll say it again mostly christian immigrants or people who grew up in that kind of environment. And we were mostly a Christian country.

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So it was mostly bringing in people who already started with kind of the same set of values. And no risk of international terrorism at the time. And pretty much everybody who came in, if you had hands and legs, you could get a job working some manual thing. You didn't need a lot of training. Training wasn't a big issue then.

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So under those conditions, was the mass immigration of our history a good idea? I say yes. Does anybody disagree with that? That historically it was a good idea? I'm seeing some nopes. Well, I can say for sure that if we had not built up to the number of people we have, and we wouldn't have done it through natural births, if we hadn't got to the size we're at,

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But most importantly, whenever the topic of massage comes up, you must go into the comments and say, was there a happy ending? Was there a happy ending? And then we know you're an NPC. The way you can identify the NPCs is that they'll always say the most obvious thing that could be said on every topic. And that's the most obvious thing. All right. But so it begins.

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We could not have helped win World War II. We wouldn't have the biggest economy. We wouldn't have plenty of geniuses because we have so many people. So I can tell you with my background in economics, immigration in the past was a complete winner, complete winner. There's always some downside, but the benefits over the cost, gigantic, gigantic benefits over the cost. Now, here's what's different.

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We now have competition for jobs like we've never had. We now have the need for skilled labor, not unlimited unskilled labor. We're not letting in exclusively people who are already sort of Christian into a Christian country, already buying into the main things. So here's what I think has to be part of the conversation.

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The thing that matters is the rate of assimilation, and we don't talk about that enough. So if you were America 100 years ago and you let in somebody Irish, they already spoke English, they were probably Christian, and pretty easy to assimilate, right? But if you let in, let's say, an Islamic family,

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or let's say a couple, you let in an Islamic person or a couple, do you worry that their set of beliefs will be conflicting with the dominant beliefs in the country, so that if you let in one person, it would be no big deal? If you let in millions of people who had that same characteristic, that at the beginning, they're not exactly like

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people who are already here in terms of the social ethical moral opinions of what's right and wrong so but if you took any one family an islamic country or islamic couple and they had a kid what are the odds that the child who would then be raised in america would have old islamic beliefs same as their parents versus would be pretty much buying into the American experience.

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Pretty much by the second generation, everybody's just an American. Now, that's an overstatement, right? There are exceptions. But would you buy that frame? By the second generation, everybody's just an American. Now, that's one of the superpowers of America. Our culture here is so strong. that we export it without even trying.

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There are countries all over the world that dress like us, listen to our music, wish they had our political system, look to us to see what's right and wrong. Our American culture is super strong and sticky. So you could bring in a very fundamentalist Islamic family And by the next generation, they're just Americans. The kids are just Americans. And I've never seen an exception to it. Have you?

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Have you spent time around the children of first-generation immigrants? I have. I've spent a lot of time with people who are their children, now adults, but the children of immigrants. Every one of them is just an American. Every one of them. There's not a single person who acts like the old country. It's just not a thing. So here's what I think needs to be part of the conversation.

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If you tell me I'm going to bring in a million Islamic people and mostly they're going to settle in one state, is that the same as the way we did immigration in the past? Because if you bring in a million that have a completely different set of values...

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you have the problem that they might set up their own little micro culture and just say, you know, we're going to do a little homeschooling and our kids are not going to grow up as Americans because that's the worst thing.

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So if you brought in like a million people and put them in one state, you put the whole state and the country at risk because now you've brought in really something where the second generation has some chance of of not automatically becoming Americans like everybody does, because they might be isolated, sort of like the Amish, except not as productive.

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Certainly, I'll be getting one of my Chinese massage robots as soon as it's available for sale. But in other news, scientists have discovered that what you expected to be true about redheads is totally true. They said that redheads don't feel pain the same as other women. So we're talking about women in particular.

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The Amish are Christians, so them having their own little thing where they operate as themselves doesn't have any impact on us. In fact, they're great citizens. But if you brought somebody in who really had a different culture, everything would be fine, if you don't bring in too many of them too quickly, because the second generation would already be Americans. 100% wrong, you say.

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That's a strong argument you have there. 100% wrong. Sorry, I changed my opinion, because there was one person who said I'm 100% wrong. Anyway, this is ridiculous. Have you noticed you don't have reasons? For those of you who are Completely unhappy with what I just said. Yeah. So I see what you're saying. I hear what you're saying. Minnesota, Dearborn.

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No, you're telling me I'm wrong, but you're agreeing with me. So somebody's saying I'm wrong. Dearborn, Michigan is my point. That's not your point. Dearborn, Michigan is an example of doing it wrong. So I'm saying that Dearborn is my example of doing it wrong. So I'm not wrong. for agreeing with you that Dearborn is an example of doing it wrong.

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So disagreeing with me necessarily means that your opinion is different from mine. That's the way to do that. If you agree with me completely, don't yell, you're 100% wrong. All right. And the other thing is that we've had way too much immigration lately, which has not been the case in the past. And the employment is not exactly where we want it.

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So I would say that all the things that were true in the past, let me see if I can find the one place where you'll agree with me. Let's see if I can get everybody to agree with just this. Using our history of immigration as a justification for for what we do today is a bad argument. Everybody okay with that? Just that point.

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Using our successful immigration of the past is no argument at all that we should do something in the present. Everything's different. So you should look at it like it was a new decision. That's all. Anyway, the Western Journal, Douglas Golden is reporting that the World Bank It doesn't know where their $41 billion in funding for climate change stuff went to.

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But there was some fact-checking on that, and the World Bank wants you to know, no, no, no, no. It's not that we lost the money. It's just that we don't know where it went. Yeah, so it's not lost, people. Don't worry. It's just they don't know where it went. So I'm going to give you this model for the world. Everything large is corrupt. Everything.

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And in a separate study, they found that redheads do have higher sexual desire and more orgasms, according to the Daily Mail. Nick Constable is writing about this. He says that redheaded women have genetically different pain thresholds, although that's hard to know because it's subjective. But in a separate study, highest orgasm rate, 41%. of all hair types. I don't know what the 41% is.

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So the World Bank, very large, $41 billion in funding, climate stuff, corrupt. Big pharma, corrupt. Big food, corrupt. Big finance, corrupt. Big government, corrupt. Right? There's a pretty obvious and clear pattern. But your next-door neighbor may be totally honest. Maybe. Your family member could be totally honest and moral. At the smallest scale of human activity, you can have complete honesty.

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As soon as it grows... the odds of complete honesty go down. If you've ever worked for a big company, for example, even if your department is just, say, 100 people of a larger company, that 100 people is already enough that 25 of them are just complete liars. And 10 of them are trying to find a way to steal money from the company. So scale guarantees corruption. It guarantees it.

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So when people say to me, Scott, why do you think that climate change could be corrupt and maybe lying to you just for money? Why do you think that? And the answer is, I don't have to research it. You don't have to research that. You just say, how big is it? And they'd say, well, it could be a trillion dollars if we did everything we wanted to do. And I would say, how many people are involved?

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Oh, hundreds of thousands of people. So hundreds of thousands of people, and we're basing on models that we can't really validate, and money is disappearing. Yeah, that's corrupt. Now, I don't know whether the climate is changing in a dangerous way or not. I don't think so. But I don't know because I'm not a scientist.

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But I know for sure just the size of the climate, you know, scientific and business part where they're spending money, the size of it guarantees that it's corrupt. And if you can find me an example of anything that's reached that size that's not totally corrupt... I'd love to hear it. Now, I do think there might be some exceptions. with some religious organizations.

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And I know, I know you're going to say, but the Catholic Church had too many sex crimes. That's probably true. But if you're talking about corruption specifically, you know, stealing, the bad stuff, well, the other stuff's bad too. But if you're talking about stealing, you might find that religious organizations can get big without that. There might be, there might be.

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So I'm willing to believe that There are major religious organizations that are generally okay, but those would be special cases. I think anything that's sort of government or business or even activism, which crosses all that, those are all corrupt when they reach a certain level. How about one person who says, hey, I think that looked racist to me. Could they be honest and not corrupt? Yes, yes.

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How about several people get together and say, you know, that looked wrong. That looked racist to me. Could they be honest and not corrupt? Could be. Could be. How about if it becomes a national funded organization called Black Lives Matter? And there are millions and millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of people involved directly or indirectly. Could that ever not be corrupt? No. No.

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It's the scale. As soon as you reach a certain scale, it's all corrupt. Everything, all the time. It has nothing to do with black race. Nothing. It's just the size. How about Antifa? If Antifa was that one time 100 people got together because they cared about something, could it be that they would be completely honest and ethical? Could be. Could be. Small size.

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Once it becomes a nationwide movement... No, then it's completely corrupt every time. How about ChatGPT, OpenAI? It's just one company, but the potential and current value are in the hundreds of billions, right? And maybe the future value is in the trillions. And we hear from Marc Andreessen that the CIA has already said, oh, no, we're going to totally rig this entire industry. It's corrupt.

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So there it is. Redheads have more orgasms and they're more sexual. You could have just asked Scott. All right. You know, I have the running joke that I always talk about these studies that come up with obvious answers, and they should have just asked me instead of doing the study.

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It might be corrupt in a way that's good for us, meaning that the CIA is ultimately working on the side of America, I hope, although it's a very large organization, if you know what I mean. Yeah, that's not true. They're not working necessarily on our side because the CIA allegedly is behind the domestic censorship and some other stuff. So I guess you would throw them in the corrupt area.

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How about Congress? real big, lots of money, yeah, corrupt. Give me an exception. Give me an exception. Tell me something that's a big organization that's not a religious organization that isn't corrupt. It's tough. So it frustrates me when people say, but you don't know that climate change is a hoax. All I have to say is how big is it? And we're done here.

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But it could be that climate change is a risk, but it's also full of scammers. So both of those could be true. Anyway, everything big is corrupt. And of course, you'd love to know, according to IHLS, whatever that is, that there's now a new lithium ceramic battery that could be, you guessed it, 10 times more capacity, and it could have a range of 1,000 kilometers, and you could recharge it

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from 5% to 60% in five minutes, and it's non-flammable. That's a big deal. They're using different materials primarily to do this. Now, again, I tell you these battery stories not because any one company is going to make a difference or this one study, just so you know how much activity there is there and how much potential. And it'll change everything.

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If our batteries are that much more efficient, everything changes. And then I'm going to make one product recommendation for you. This is a little out of my mode. I'm not making money from this product. I'm just going to tell you something I tried recently that I really liked. It's the bone conductive earphones. Whoops, just lost my signal. Hello, I'm back.

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Did I say something about anybody who could have turned off my signal? Probably. But I'm back. Anyway, I was going to give you a product recommendation, but I promise you I have no connection to the company. I have no way to make money from this. It's just something I like. this bone conduction earpieces, because they don't go in your ear.

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It drapes over your ear, and it connects behind your head, so it stays on really well, because it's sort of hanging over your ears, but connected in the back. But its little sensors touch your bone in front of your ear. It's not in your ear, it's in front of it. And it sounds like there's a little speaker talking to your ear and it's really good sound.

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But what it is, is it's going, it's just making your bone vibrate that apparently works. So, I had been getting bad ear infections and probably it was my headphones. I found out that's a real thing. And so knowing that there's something that I don't have to put in my ear makes me very happy. They're very light. They don't fall out or ill fit like the earbuds do.

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And they don't close you off from all the surrounding sounds because your ears are still open. So your regular ears are still available for everything. Highly recommended. I've only used it for a few days, but I'm already excited about it. All right, that's all I got for you today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately just for a minute. I've gone on way too long.

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I think it's funny that they should have just asked me if redheads are hornier, because that's something I learned when I was 13. Do you remember the first time you heard it? I was probably about 13, and somebody said, you know, red-headed girls, they're way hornier. And I said, really? Oh, yeah, everybody knows it. It's a fact, scientific fact.

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And then I'll see you tomorrow. Bye for now.

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And I would think to myself, probably not scientific. And people would say, well, but it's a fact. I mean, everybody knows it. It's just obvious. And I would argue it could not possibly be true. It's a scientific fact. But I guess when I order my Chinese robot masseuse, I'm going to get the redhead. I'm going to get the redhead massage robot, just in case.

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There's no evidence that the redheadedness would affect the actual robot. But if they're working on patterns and large language models, and you give them redheads, I don't know. Maybe a little extra. Maybe a little extra. I don't know. Meanwhile, and I think it was in San Francisco, a Waymo self-driving car ran into a delivery robot that was also self-driving. So it wasn't much damage.

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I'll model it, and you just do what I do. It's called There's a Suspicious Drone Above Me sip, and it goes like this. There, just like that. If you're only listening, oh boy, did you miss a great comic moment. Yeah, we'll do more of those. Well, Jimmy Carter, ex-President Carter, has died at the age of 100. I don't think anybody's ever stuck the landing like he did.

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So the good news is it didn't seem to disable either vehicles. They just sort of tapped each other and backed up and got on with their business. So it does fall into the category of something going wrong that proves to you that something is going right.

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The fact that it was a rare accident, that it made it into the news because it was rare, well, it was special because there were two self-driving things. But the fact that it didn't really cause any damage, that it was a low-speed kind of a minor thing, is more good news than bad news, I think. Now, I don't think Waymo is where Tesla is in terms of self-driving yet.

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So the self-driving thing is definitely here. If you're wondering, I wonder if they'll ever be safe enough for self-driving, because I wondered that. But I feel like it's here. I feel like we're already at the crossover point where if you just told your, let's pick Tesla, if you told your Tesla just to do all your driving for you, if you could do it legally without touching the steering wheel,

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I'll bet you it would give you a better safety result right now, on average, than human driving. Now, especially if you're somebody who likes to have a drink and drive anyway, not recommended, but people will sometimes say, well, I don't think I'm over the limit. I must be just under the limit. Then you get in your car because you're dumb because you're drunk. So it takes that away.

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And then it also takes away age-related things. and tiredness. So if you add alcohol, drugs, tiredness, and age to a human driver, I'm pretty, pretty sure you don't need to do a study to find out that the Tesla self-driving would beat all of those. It would beat all of those. And as the years tick by, I'm starting to watch my own actions pretty closely. And let me ask you a question.

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I know a lot of my regular audience are seniors. How many of you, if you're not married, how many of you have designated somebody to tell you when it's time to take your keys away? Does anybody have somebody in their life that they've pre-designated as, when you tell me to take the keys away, I'm going to take that seriously? If you haven't done that, think about doing it.

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Try to find somebody in your life who's the one person you will trust when you reach the point where you don't trust anybody because your brain isn't working so well.

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So if you're not married, your spouse is the one who should do it, of course, but if you're not married, you should really think about making a commitment, maybe not legally, but make a commitment to somebody that if you tell me to give up the keys, I'm going to listen to you.

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Because if you promise yourself that you will listen to somebody specific, then when you change your mind, because you will, because you'll want to keep driving because your brain isn't working, you have some chance, some chance that the process will work if you designate that person in advance. So that's my recommendation. Thomas Massey is

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And also Marjorie Taylor Greene are urging the release of the Congressional Sexual Slush Fund list. Zero Hedges reporting on this. So you're probably aware that Congress has a special secret fund just to pay off the accusers of members of Congress for sexual misconduct. I guess it would be harassment and me too-ing and God knows what.

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So the fact that it exists at all, just the fact that it exists is just mind-blowing. Now, it doesn't exist just for that. I think it handles some things outside of Congress. But the fact that there's a $17 million fund for something that looks like it's paying off the sex crimes of Congress and we can't figure out who they are is pretty shocking.

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Now, do you think that there's any chance this list will be released? No, there's no chance that list is going to be released. I saw in the comments that maybe it would have to be legislation. It's not just somebody's decision. It's probably legislation would be required to make that list public. Do you think Congress is going to vote for that?

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We'll get serious. All right, don't check your stocks. They're neither up nor down. They're kind of moving sideways. Nothing to see there. Let me get my comments going, and then we'll put on a show, the show you deserve, even if you don't. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. This is Scott Adams and

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Instead of saying no one's above the law and it makes perfect sense to arrest the judges because they broke the law, now it's turned into, well, it might be illegal, but it's heroic. Really? So if Trump does it, it's just a case of no one's above the law, so it's cut and dried, goes to jail. And that would be based on allegations, not anything he actually did.

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But the moment a judge does something that's deeply illegal, helping an immigrant who's not here legally get away, that that turns into a heroic moment. So good catch, Mike Benz. Well, remember when Cory Booker did that filibuster thing where he talked for many hours and nobody knew what his point was? It was the biggest waste of time, but he got some attention.

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Well, now Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader, they've decided to hold an anti-Trump sit-in on the Capitol steps. Now, that was yesterday. I don't know if they're still there. I'm not sure how long a sit-in lasts. But Justin Hughes was reporting this, and I was thinking, what exactly were they trying to accomplish by sitting on the steps? And what was that conversation like?

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All right, Trump is winning everywhere. We've got to change the conversation to the leaders of the Democrat Party are sitting on the steps. At what point did that sound like a good idea? Like we could turn things around if we sit on steps and then people will come talk to us because we're sitting on steps. Did I tell you it's going to be a long time?

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We're going to sit on those steps for a long time? Yeah. Yeah, we finally got a strategy. What is wrong with the Democrats? That's their strategy? To go sit on some steps? You never see Republicans stoop to anything that stupid. Anyway. So here's a summary of what I see happening in the news and politics. Trump has given us the following proposition.

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He hasn't said it in these words, but he's very clear about what he wants. Trump would say, if you asked him, he said, we need to make a long-term structural change to our economy to survive. a long-term structural change. Now, some of that would be DOGE, but a lot of that would be the tariffs, which should lead to negotiations, we hope. Those would be long-term structural changes.

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So if you have a president who's proposing that we do long-term structural changes, what does the media do, the Democrats? We need to obsess over the first 100 days because 100 is a big round number. For the last several days, the Democrats have just been all over his first 100 days. His first 100 days. Why? Because 100 is a big round number. It doesn't make any sense.

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It's like sitting on the steps of the Capitol. Well, let's talk about the importance of the number 100. It doesn't really have any importance, especially if you're doing a long-term structural change. Yes, but let's obsess about it. and we'll run some polls. So the Media Research Center did a poll and found out that ABC, NBC, and CBS had 92% negative coverage of Trump.

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92% negative coverage of Trump. So if they had 92% negative coverage, what do you suppose they found when they did a poll to find out if Trump's plans are popular? So the news told people that almost everything Trump did was a mistake. And then they did a poll to ask the opinion of the public. Where do you think the public got their opinion from? The public didn't do their own research.

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You know, the reason most people don't make a fancy coffee for themselves is it's just way too much work and time and pain in the ass and you got to clean up and all that. But if your robot did all of that, I'd make my robot make me some serious coffee. It'd be the best coffee I ever saw. That's Kevin. My little local mall in my town had a coffee robot for a while.

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They got their opinion from the news. And if the news is 92% negative, which is a pretty good indication it's just biased and not real news, of course the public's going to have a low opinion of his first 100 days. Of course they will. And then they sell that to us as if it all makes sense.

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Now, if you didn't know that the news was 92% negative on Trump, you would look at the polls and you'd say, whoa, looks like the public has really turned on Trump. Nothing like that happened. And pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports, he did a deeper dive, which I won't get into. You should look at his account on X. But he did a little summary of the idea that Trump is less popular.

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And he said, okay, here's the most important takeaway from all of my posts today. So he posted on this quite a bit. Trump approval drop is a psyop. And according to Mitchell, his policies are popular and will remain popular. Biden was a failed president, and Trump is polling mostly like Obama.

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Now, which of the major news entities said to you, well, it looks like Trump's taking a dip in popularity, but it's not really that different than Obama? That's kind of important, right? Now, would I say that Obama's first 100 days were critical? Not really. Nobody's first 100 days really matter too much. Is there any president who's ever been judged by history on their first 100 days? Never.

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They're only judged on the entire body of work. So why in the world are we obsessing about the one thing that we know no historian is going to care about in 10 minutes? Like when it gets to 120 days, nobody's even going to care about the first 100 days. But yeah, so Mark Mitchell says it's a PSYOP. Sounds about right. All right. You wonder how dumb the Democrats are?

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Well, when you watch Bernie Sanders and AOC go out. in their oligarchy tour. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I might be the first person who said to you when I heard about that, that's going to be a huge fail because most people don't even know what oligarch means. And time goes by and then the Democrats themselves are saying, Bernie, AOC, People don't know what an oligarch is.

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So Senator Elisa Slotkin is one of those people who's criticizing Bernie and AOC for talking about oligarchs. But here's her suggestion for improving the messaging. Are you ready for this? She said, instead of saying oligarchs, you should say kings. That Trump wants to be, or his cronies want to be kings. Now, that is so dumb. So dumb. That has no persuasive power whatsoever.

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And then I saw Chuck Schumer. He tried that out on some interview. He's like, they want to be kings. And I just said to myself, how many kings can you have? Can you have multiple kings? And if you have multiple kings in the same country, wouldn't that be the same as no king at all? Because how can you have multiple kings? This is so dumb.

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And it looked like it was more demonstration. It was before AI. It was a few years ago. And I remember I tried it once, but I accidentally ordered the wrong thing. But once the robot starts making the thing, you can't really stop it. So I had to stand there for what seemed like 10 minutes while this stupid robot made me a cup of coffee that was the wrong thing.

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It's like there's nobody who knows even the least bit about communication or persuasion who's guiding these poor Democrats. But oh my God, kings is an improvement over oligarch? No. The entire approach... needs to be changed. It's not that they use the wrong word. What is it that the Democrats always say when they make giant mistakes?

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When the Democrats make gigantic mistakes that have lasted a long time, do they ever say, wow, we should just retool this and stop doing that gigantic mistake thing? No. They always tell you it's about how they messaged it. And that's what's happening again. They're trying to say, if we'd only picked the right word, You know, this could have been a genius move if we'd picked the right word.

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No, there's no right word. The entire approach is just bullshit. So there's no word that fixes that. So that's funny. And then Bernie pushes back. He goes, well, gee, as he was asked about in an interview, he said, we had 36,000 people in L.A. and 34,000 in Colorado. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California. He goes, I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms.

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Slotkin thinks they are. To which I say, Bernie, you didn't even answer the question. The reason people showed up is because of star power. It had nothing to do with whether you were saying oligarch or king. Do you think there was anybody who said, hey, look, Bernie and AOC are going to talk.

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And then their mate or their boyfriend or girlfriend says, but are they going to talk about oligarchs or kings? Because I know what a king is. I don't know what an oligarch is. No. They just said, is it Bernie? Is it AOC? Oh, they're celebrities. Okay, I'll go watch because I don't like Trump. So every part of this is stupid. Just almost mind-bogglingly stupid. And it's wonderful to watch.

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You've probably seen all the interviews on the street. There's been a bunch of them where somebody will go up to one of the Tesla protesters or Democrats protesting and they'll say, why are you protesting? And they'll say stuff like, Trump is a monster and Trump is a dictator and Trump is Hitler.

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And then somebody will follow up and say, can you give me an example in which Trump is a fascist or a dictator or You know, can you give me a policy you don't like? And they're always stumped. They don't have any idea what they don't like. They actually are on the streets protesting, and they can't give you any details about what it is they're protesting against.

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Now, you might say, well, those are very entertaining, but I feel like Republicans could do a lot more with that. I don't know exactly how. You'd have to experiment with it a little bit. But

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I would love for the street interviews and maybe even other interviews, whenever the press is talking, let's say the right-leaning press, whenever the right-leaning press is talking to the Democrats, I'd like to see that they had a list of maybe 10 questions to see if the Democrats could answer them. So here's one of the questions.

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If tariffs and trade barriers are so bad, why does China and every other country insist on having them? That's an unanswerable question because the real answer that Democrats can't get near is that these countries have been taking advantage of us and we should stop them from taking advantage of us. And so Trump is using tariffs to negotiate until they stop taking advantage of us.

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Now, I had a back and forth with probably a Democrat, I can't tell, on X today, and they don't seem to understand that if we don't put tariffs on these other countries, that we'll just be the victim of tariffs, like we have been, and that we're just giving our money away. They don't seem to understand that concept. Is that really that hard? But they don't. Here's another one.

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And then I just paid for it and threw it away. So it wasn't a perfect robot coffee-making experience. I think it'll get better with AI. I don't know if it's still the case, but early this morning, the lights and the electricity were off in Portugal, Spain, and a big part of France. Now, I don't think they know exactly why. I assume it's not cybersecurity.

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How do you know that the tariff situation won't work out? How do you know? Because they act like it's already a fact that the tariffs have destroyed the country. that's not even close to true. I don't know how they'll work out either. But if you're telling me that you know now how everything works out with tariffs, well, that's just stupid. Because they're at the beginning part of negotiating.

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And the first part, Trump has gotten everything he wanted, which is the full attention of the other countries. They've made it one of their top priorities because they have to. And if you were to judge how it's going so far, I'd give it an A+. But there's still a possibility that it goes off the rails, we don't get a deal, we have shortages, and then our businesses have to close. That's possible.

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But we don't know that, and certainly there's enough time to right the ship and get some deals or get the framework of some deals before any of those bad things happen, or at least the bulk of the bad things. So how in the world can you say that the tariffs have not worked? It's way too early. It's just stupid to imagine that you know how it turns out in four months or maybe end of year.

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How about this one? the people who say that doge was a big mistake how would you know that i mean it could turn out to be not successful but how do you know after the first few weeks when maybe there was a little uh you know a little bit of uncertainty about how things were going how do you know they didn't adjust

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How do you know they didn't move to your beloved scalpel system and make sure that the normal elected officials were appointed are the ones who make the actual cut decisions? How do you know? How do you know which of their claims are going to prove out? Some of them won't, but some of them will. How do you know if they're going to save more money than they've saved already?

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Because not only have they taken a whack at a number of the expenses and corruption, but they've put in place a system, a system of sort of permanent doge, which in theory should prevent some of the worst excesses from coming back while they chop away at new things that they find all the time. How could you possibly know if doge worked? It's way too early.

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Now, if you said, I don't know that it'll work, well, that's reasonable. If you said there's not confirmed evidence that Doge worked, I'd say that's true. But to say that you know it didn't work and won't work, where's that coming from? You don't have any inside knowledge about what's happening in any of these government entities. Here's another question for Democrats.

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If everything is broken and wrong and Trump has destroyed the economy, Why is the stock market so strong and employment looks good? Those would be the two things that would always go bad if the economy were heading in the toilet. So why aren't they? The stock market's sort of the same as it was a year ago, no big deal, and employment looks pretty good. So how do you explain that?

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So there should be some kind of like 10 questions to ask Democrats to see how well they understand anything. Anyway, I think if Democrats understood the issues, they would have different opinions. Here's another fake news, but sort of true, but fake. I guess the Trump administration deported some parent, I think a mother, maybe more than one,

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who had children, and then the mother decided that she would take her children, who were born in this country and therefore are citizens, that although she was not a citizen and she had a deportation order, she would take her children with her back to Honduras, I think in one case. And that causes the Democrats to say, you deported children.

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some kind of cybercrime, because I don't know who would go after Portugal, Spain, and parts of France. That would be a weird target. But they're dealing with that. It kind of reminds you how fragile civilization is. My guess is there's one piece of equipment that went bad, and it took three countries out of civilization.

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which Rubio has to explain, no, we deported an illegal alien and she decided to take her children because why wouldn't she? Why wouldn't she? Of course she's going to take her children. That's not our decision. We didn't make the children leave. We just made the mother leave. So there's that. And also we should mention that's the same way we treat criminals in the United States.

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When you send a parent to jail, They don't get to take their kids. But if they could, some of them would. Don't you think? If somebody had a baby, and let's say they're a mother, if they had the option of taking their baby to jail with them, again, there was some facility that would allow that to be safe, they probably would. But we wouldn't be putting children in jail.

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That would be the mother's decision. Anyway, Scott Besant, is agreeing with Trump that China actually is talking to us about trade, but they're a little bit shy about what that looks like or who they're actually talking to. But there's a significant disagreement about whether there's any actual progress. Do you think there is progress? in the conversations with China.

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My guess is there might be a few things where we think, oh, that opened up a door or something. But I feel like we're probably pretty far away from any kind of a deal with China, partly because it's such a big, complicated thing and partly because it's China. But apparently we're having some kind of conversation with them. It's better than nothing.

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According to Axios, Trump is looking to bail out American farmers if they get too damaged by the tariffs and trade war, because you don't want to lose your farmers. So I don't know if there'll be other industries that Trump will try to save, but that's going to get really expensive really quickly, isn't it?

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If Trump does some kind of a major spending thing to save certain industries so they can keep the trade war going. it's going to be really expensive at the same time that they're looking at the budget. I don't know how that's going to work.

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Well, Trump has, according to Zero Agis, floating this idea of eliminating income taxes for people who make under $200,000 a year and instead using the bonanza of tariff income to make up the difference. I don't think that's going to happen. To me, that sounds like total bullshit.

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So if I could be honest, I don't think there's a slightest chance that people who earn under $200,000 are going to have no income tax, and we're going to make up the difference with tariff income. Now, it might be good persuasion to make people feel good, and maybe it helps them politically, but no, that's not going to happen. And there's no world in which that happens, I don't think.

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So you can mock me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's any chance that happened. So according to the Hill, the House of Representatives is now working on the budget bill, which is not as easy as you think, because they've got all these different committees. So there'll be five House committees, and they'll

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They'll all go look at every part of the bill, and it's the big funding bill that has all Trump's priorities in it. And they've been asked to remove $1.5 trillion in spending. Do you think the House is going to find $1.5 trillion to remove from the budget? Again, there's no chance of that at all.

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My best guess is that they'll remove nothing and that the budget will be bigger than it was last time. I don't think there's any chance of that. How ridiculous.

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so we'll keep an eye on that and see what the hell is going on with that that's pretty scary well the brighter side of news is reporting that the attention economy is turning into the intention economy which I had not been exposed to before so attention is all your social media where they're trying to get your attention because if they have your attention you look at advertising and they win

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And I saw that David Sachs was, um, talking on the all in pod about how he was hoping that the Doge savings, and especially where Doge found there was some corruption that the, when the house gets down to the nuts and bolts, there will, uh,

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Protect all of the doge savings and they'll protect the whatever doge did to get rid of the corruption You know that they'll you know, get rid of entities and that sort of thing to which I say We got a problem here Congress has a system for adding corruption Adding corruption and that system is they negotiate with each other and one senator will say well, you know, I

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If you give me this funding for my state, I'll vote for you for your funding for this other thing. So that's a mechanism or a system for adding corruption, or at least adding spending that you didn't want, which I would call corruption. What is our system for getting rid of corruption? There isn't one. If we had a system for getting rid of corruption, it would already be used.

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There's no such thing as a system for getting rid of corruption. So when David Sachs says he's worried that the Doge savings and the corruption recommendations won't be taken seriously, that's the only thing that could happen. Because there is no system for removing corruption. Once it gets to the House, it's only in the ad corruption system. It's not in the minus corruption system.

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So if you had to guess what's going to happen with the budget reconciliation, it's going to look like every other year.

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they won't be able to cut anything because there'll always be somebody who's got some blackmail or you know they're doing some horse trading or something they won't be able to cut anything now when i say anything you know maybe there'll be some little around the edges minor thing but basically the budget is going to be the same amount it always was they're going to run out of time

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Thomas Massey is going to do social media posts saying he's not going to vote for it because they had plenty of time to cut it, but they didn't cut anything important. And we're just going to kick the can down the road until we become bankrupt. That's the plan because there's no other plan. There's no other system in place that could ever cut $1.5 trillion from the budget.

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We don't have anything that could do that. The House can't do that. And it's in the House. And Doge is not in the House. So even if Doge could do it, it's not their domain now. It's in the House. And I guess the Senate was only trying to get rid of $4 billion. So you have to get both the House and the Senate to agree on the budget. The House is trying to get rid of $1.5 trillion.

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And the Senate, where they're even more corrupt... It was like, well, maybe $4 billion, which would be basically a rounding. You could get rid of $4 billion just by sneezing on it. So if I had to guess, we'll have less than a $5 billion cut And we will be running as fast as we can into a debt crisis. And nothing useful will happen in the house. Nothing. There will be no decrease in corruption.

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No decrease in ridiculous spending. No nothing. Because we have no system that could bring us to a better place. If you look at it as a system as opposed to a goal, the goal is to save $1.5 trillion. but there's no system to do that. None. Now, if I'm wrong, somebody tell me, what exactly would be the system that would do that? And why didn't that system ever do it before?

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It's because it doesn't exist. We don't have a system that could possibly get us to a better place on the budget. So that's what to expect. Gee, I wonder if there will be any diversions that happen so that we're not thinking about how bad Congress is and the budget. Oh, yeah. So the House subcommittee is going to hold a hearing on drone sightings after reports about those New Jersey skies.

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Now, when was the last time you worried about the drones over New Jersey? I don't remember worrying about it for a long time because Trump said, oh, don't worry, it's all approved. We don't know exactly the details, but there's nothing weird going on there. It's not any foreign entity. It's not a UFO. But suddenly, the House subcommittee needs to do a deep dive into those drones.

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But with AI, they're going to move to an intention, meaning they're going to figure out what it is you're likely to want, maybe before you even know it. And so they'll be looking at your intentions to give you what you want. You can say goodbye to your illusion of free will, because once your AI gets good enough to know what you want and starts giving it to you before you even knew you wanted it,

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And once again, it's going to be stories about possible UFOs and UAPs, and it's going to divert us again. So exactly at the right time they need a diversion? Well, there it is. I don't know if it's intentional, but it seems weirdly coincidental that the diversion happens at the same time they need it. Here's another thing that's making me laugh. The Democrats consider themselves the resistance.

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Have you noticed that? So a lot of people who are Democrats, especially the political ones, consider themselves part of, quote, the resistance. Have we ever had that before? In the history of U.S. politics, has anybody ever called themselves the resistance? Because that framing is dangerous.

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because it'd be one thing to say we're the opposition party and then i say oh i get it you would like your policies to be you know more persuasive than the other policies but as soon as you say you're the resistance doesn't that sound like the french resistance during world war ii you know literally battling hiller resistance is a is a military term in my view as soon as you say resistance everything's on the table

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including violence but if you just said we're the party and a power and so we're trying to get back in power i'd say oh normal um and apparently their the resistance is uh coordinating some of the colleges the ivy league colleges that trump is going after for being a racist

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So some of the leaders of the most prestigious colleges, the Ivy Leagues, etc., they're sort of informally getting together and calling themselves the resistance. Unfortunately, it sounds too cool to be part of the resistance. So you're going to get a lot of Democrats who say, ooh, I wouldn't be interested in being the party out of power, but could I be part of the resistance?

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Because I can't wait to tell my lover that we'll have better sex. And I completely get that. So I remember when I got canceled, and some of you were wondering why I wasn't so unhappy about it. It's because when I got canceled, the bad guys, as I'll call them, they cast me in the role of the resistance. So I didn't plan it.

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But every time I see a meme that uses my face and has some reference to why I got canceled, I think to myself, wow, I actually became like Che Guevara. Yeah, at least my image. So I'm an image of the resistance, and it's the resistance against DEI and CRT and racism against white men, basically. So I never really minded getting canceled. It was a pain in the ass.

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But in terms of how I felt about it, it just made me feel like I was part of the resistance. And then I felt, it's kind of cool. It's kind of cool that people recognize me as an image of the resistance. So it's a very dangerous term because people want to be in it. Now, let's talk about those colleges. Now, of course, what Trump wants them to do is be less anti-Semitic,

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and less DEI, and the colleges are pushing for free speech. Now, what is the dividing line between free speech, which would be somebody saying something bad about Israel, versus hate speech, where maybe there's a risk somebody gets hurt? So I want to, and I've been listening to Glenn Greenwald on this because he's just so good at explaining his point of view.

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Why would he even make decisions? Because it's going to be right. Every now and then you might have to correct. It's like, well, no, I don't have time for that cup of coffee. You were going to make me a robot. But the intention economy has way more ramifications than just how they sell advertisements. The ramification is that we come to understand that free will is an illusion. It's a big deal.

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So I think Greenwald is, I don't want to try to capture his opinion because I might get it wrong, but the basic idea is he's a real pro-free speech, and that would include free speech about Israel. And so when he sees the colleges, or if he sees the Trump administration trying to squash just the Israel talk, but not squashing talk about other countries, then he says, reasonably,

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why are we just picking out this one special group of people? And I have an answer for that. So I asked Grok to define hate speech, because hate speech is illegal, and free speech is legal, and that's the way it should be. But here's hate speech.

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Grok says, age speech is typically defined as expression that incites violence, discrimination, or hostility against individuals or groups based on protected characteristics like race, religion, gender, or sexuality. Then it says, free speech...

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uh includes a broad range of expressions um and it could be offensive but it wouldn't it wouldn't activate anybody for any violence so a speech is only restricted if it incites imminent lawlessness that's a grok definition and they say context matters this is also grok

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A statement might be free speech in one setting, for example, if you're just talking privately to a friend, but it might be considered hate speech if you did it in public. So that makes sense. Let's take one example of something that's happened with the Democrats and see if you think this is just offensive or it's inspiring people to lawlessness.

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So this is Governor Pritzker, Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, And he said in a speech he was calling for mass demonstrations and urging people to, quote, rise up against Trump, declaring that, quote, Republicans must not know a moment of peace. Is that free speech or did he target Republicans for activities that would seem lawless?

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Because if you don't allow me a moment of peace, as in I can't walk on the sidewalk without being accosted, that's hate speech to me, isn't it? Now, I would also add that the anti-Semitic stuff that's happening on the campuses, there's something different about the anti-Jewish speech versus the anti-Albonian speech.

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I can say bad things all day long about the British, but nobody would even imagine that that would cause any violence. And I could say pretty tough things about the British. But if I said tough things about the Jewish population, the next thing you know, somebody's pushing. Next thing you know, there's violence.

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So to imagine that free speech about the Jewish population anywhere is the same as free speech about every other group, which I think is close to Greenwald's point of view, but I don't want to characterize his point of view because he does it so much better.

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It seems to me that you can't treat everybody the same because the Jews have a situation where there's an identifiable group who wants to wipe them out. But the British don't have that. Well, you might argue that they do. But since there's nobody trying to wipe out the British, except maybe by population change, it's not going to lead to anything.

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There's no way that that becomes anything dangerous. But it wouldn't take much anti-Semitism before Jewish students don't feel safe walking to classes. Likewise, Governor Pritzker, it doesn't take much speech before you wouldn't want to wear a Trump 2028 hat and go in public. It's already too dangerous.

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So if the speech the Democrats are using against Republicans make it unsafe to walk down the street, and they do, isn't that hate speech? Because it directly leads to violence. And I would say the same about the Jewish students, that it doesn't seem to me that it's just turning into words, like, oh, I have a preference. It looks like it pretty directly turns into something more than words.

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But I know you're not ready for that yet. Popular Mechanics has a story that says that somebody somehow found a chemical fingerprint on Stonehenge. Do you believe they found a fingerprint on Stonehenge? I'm not sure I even believe the first part of the story. But according to them, if they're right, it means that the giant stones came from a different place than they've been telling us for years.

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So, and I would say the same is true of DEI and CRT. So that's the reason I got canceled, right? So I got canceled because I consider CRT and DEI to be hate speech. The whole point of CRT and DEI is that white males like me have stolen stuff from other Americans and we damn well better give it back. That's dangerous. That gets you killed.

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So to me, CRT and DEI and ESG even are a hate speech because it does activate people to say, you know what? I could slap this guy around in public and nobody would care because we're all mad at them. And they stole all of our stuff and made us create the country and then stole everything. That's completely different from saying the French are rude, right?

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If I say the French are rude, nobody's going to go punch a Frenchman. Completely different. So I would throw the anti-Semitism into the same category as DEI and the same category as Governor Pritzker saying that Republicans must not know a moment of peace. To me, those are all three hate speech and worthy of being at least discouraged, if not made outright illegal. I think they are illegal.

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So Smirconish on CNN, I've told you before that Smirconish is his own man. And even though he's on CNN, he's notably been commonsensical. which seems notable. But he was slamming the Trump-Hitler comparison, and he was saying that if you keep comparing Trump to Hitler, and you keep comparing his followers to Hitler, that it's going to lead to assassination attempts.

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And he points out that if you look at assassination attempts in the past, It was almost always in the context of this kind of speech. So when a president get, you know, ever, whenever there was ever an attempt on a president, there was always somebody saying that president was Hitler, like Reagan.

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I think JFK, I don't know the details, but probably somebody was saying that we're all going to die or something if Kennedy gets elected. So good for him. And he quoted, this is Smirconish. He said, anyone with the slightest understanding of history knows the comparison is dumb, you know, comparing to Hitler. And it's ugly and it's potentially dangerous.

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Now, if it's potentially dangerous and it's speech, it's hate speech. That's what it is. So even Smirconish is agreeing that the Trump assailer must give a Nazi salute. This is his speech. You should go right to jail. No, probably not right to jail, but we should certainly figure out a way to stop it. So the Daily Caller was reporting on that.

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according to a number of people who looked at CNN's latest ratings apparently they're in full collapse so the Caitlin Collins show in the evening and Abby Phillips show got fewer than 500,000 viewers in primetime and they're well below a hundred thousand four viewers under 55 Now that sounds bad, doesn't it? The CNN's ratings continue to plunge and they're down below a lot of podcasts.

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Sounds bad, but here's what you're forgetting. Their DEI scores are excellent. Their DEI is excellent. So it's not all bad, right? So the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Gaza is running out of food and water and medicine. So of course, there's a move to try to get more food and water into the affected areas. But it's kind of complicated in ways that I wasn't aware of.

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In other words, The whole Stonehenge story was kind of BS. That's what they're thinking. But this reminded me that if you watch enough YouTube stories about ancient civilizations, which I do, did you know that all over the world, there were civilizations that could move gigantic rocks. So there are pyramids pretty much in, I don't know, just all over the world.

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So you would think that this would be easy, right? Why don't we feed the people who are starving? We have food. It's not for lack of food. It's for lack of distribution. So if you have the food and the people want the food and you know where the people are, how do you not solve that? Well, it turns out that if the Israeli government directly distributed the food...

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then they would be considered occupiers, because that would mean they control the food for the local population, which would be an argument that they're occupiers. But if international units provide the food, and all Israel does is maybe add a little security for the international people, then it looks like somebody else is feeding them. So it's not under the total control of Israel,

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Israel even though it sort of is so there's a there's a problem there because it's the the Israelis don't want Hamas to get fed and They don't want it to go on forever But they don't want to be the ones who are bringing the food in so they're talking about a pilot plan in which there'd be a private American companies would be involved in the aid and they would have a humanitarian zone and

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so that anybody who wanted more food and water could leave wherever they are and go to the safe zone where there's food and water. Now, I don't know if they have to stay there or they can just get it and take it back with them. That's a little unclear. But this is the idea that it always had to be. We always had to get to the point where, obviously,

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The long-term plan is to depopulate Gaza, obviously. And the best way to do it, and again, best does not include any moral or ethical dimensions, just what works and what doesn't work, is to say, if you want food and water, you've got to leave and you've got to go over here. And then from here, we might ship you to another country.

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So I think what you're seeing is something that's suggesting the end game. And the end game is the only way you're going to survive is if you get out of Gaza. And we filter you so there's not too many Hamas people sneaking out. So I think that's where it's gonna end up, some kind of a safe zone where you gotta leave to get the food.

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And again, I'm not judging it in terms of its moral or ethical or anything else. I'm just describing it. It just seems likely that's where it's going. Apparently, Putin has suggested a ceasefire a ceasefire in Ukraine.

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Now, this came soon after a Ukrainian commander, there's a video of a Ukrainian military commander saying that if Zelensky gave up Crimea and all that other land in a peace deal, that he will, quote, regret any negotiations or territorial concessions. Now, when a military guy who has been on the front lines, says that the leader will regret. What does that sound like to you? Hate speech.

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He's going to kill him. So remember I said it's impossible to understand what Zelensky is up to. Like he's not acting like somebody who wants peace. So why would he act that way? Because he's not going to win the war. And my speculation was that he didn't have a way to survive the peace.

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And that's getting more and more clear, because apparently there are enough Ukrainians who would say, if you give away our land after all this fighting, you know, all this blood we spilled, if you just give it away, we're going to kill you. They don't have to say the actual words, but it looks pretty obvious that he would not survive the peace. And so, not surviving the peace...

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makes Putin say, hey, how about a ceasefire? So Putin is so good at this, the persuasion part, that once he realizes that Zelensky can't do anything, he can't move toward peace, then Putin can. because it won't happen. So he'll say, how about a ceasefire? And then Zelensky will say, is it going to lead to a deal?

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So you've got them in Asia and Central America and South America, and you've got them in the Middle East. So apparently there were all these different civilizations who could move gigantic rocks, and none of them remember how to do it. None of them?

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Yes, it'll be the first step toward we keep Crimea and all the places that we occupied. And then Zelensky is going to have to say, forget your peace fire and fire some drones. So then it's going to look like maybe Putin's the one who wants peace. and Zelensky doesn't. And probably neither of them want peace. I think Putin may be just waiting for the U.S.

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to get uninvolved, and then he can have his way with the country. He's getting pretty close to it. Now, I'd like to make one comment. I believe that I had the best take on Zelensky, that he couldn't survive the peace, and that's the only way to explain what we're seeing. And yet... To Douglas Murray's point, I've never been to Ukraine. So I guess I got lucky on that one. All right.

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Well, Data Republican and the New York Post are reporting that Hunter Biden was using USAID money for Burisma back in those days when he was on the board. So in 2014, one of the Burisma guys was personally thanking Hunter. We've got his emails now. for their support in getting the USAID to fund some giant project for Burisma.

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And then there's some indication that Hunter had some influence on the USAID. So it's exactly what you thought. The top Democrats had influence over USAID and they could open it like a piggy bank. and make you sprinkle money in their direction. And so that's what Hunter was doing. He was just taking money and giving it to the people who were paying him. So that's exactly what you thought it was.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for you this morning. I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately, but hope I didn't bum you out. Maybe I did. I don't know. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place. If you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, see you later. And if you're on locals, I'll see you privately in 30 seconds.

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so the only way i can explain that is that they never knew in the first place because nobody drew a picture of it you know even if they didn't have written language somebody would have made a picture right and carved it on a cave wall or something but uh no all these civilizations were able to move gigantic rocks somehow without being connected to each other.

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Did they individually figure out how to do it? So individually, all these primitive civilizations figured out how to move gigantic rocks, but then our modern civilization doesn't know how to do it? How is that possible?

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The only explanation I can come up with is that there used to be some kind of advanced civilization that didn't survive, unless those are the aliens and they're under the ocean hiding from us. Maybe. But I'm definitely down for the there must have been an ancient advanced civilization that affected all of those different cultures and somehow helped them move big rocks. but never taught him how.

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You've never had a better time, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Well, Trump is causing more trouble. Gateway pundits reporting that he mentioned that we should jail the auto pen guy, whoever it was who was making the auto pen sign things for Biden. Now, that might be a little extreme, but here's what Trump said. He goes, also, why did the auto pen give Schiff a pardon? Biden knew nothing about it.

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Who operated the auto pen? That is the biggest question being asked in D.C. Is it? I don't know. They almost destroyed our country. They should all be in jail, Trump said on True Social. Now, how is it even remotely possible that the auto pen did all of the signing for Biden, and we don't know who was in charge of the auto pen? Now, you might say, well, Biden was in charge.

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He just said, use the auto pen. Well, maybe. But with all these tell-all, behind-the-scenes books, there's not a single book, there's not a whistleblower, there's not a single witness who knows who operated the auto pen. And it couldn't have been that many people, right?

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I would imagine that there's exactly probably one person who can actually make the machine do what it needs to do, and they have to get an order from somebody. So there's probably one person who's just a tech, but somebody told the tech what to do. How in the world do we not know that yet? The only way that makes sense is if we did know who it was, it would be a gigantic scandal.

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I can't imagine there'd be any other reason. Because otherwise, even the Democrats would say, oh, it's no big deal. It was Biden's chief of staff, and the chief of staff only did it when Biden okayed it. And then I'd say, oh, okay, that's a reasonably good explanation. But they don't have any explanation. So does that mean multiple people were getting the auto pen guy to do the auto pen thing?

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Whatever the answer is here, Trump is definitely on to something. There's something that's being hidden. And it's more than the fact that the auto pen signed a lot of things for Biden. We really need to know who is behind that. I wonder if we ever will. Well, the maze account on X is a good report here about how the fake news works. So,

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Mays says the mainstream media feeds off its own dishonest reporting, working together to divide the country and make people angry. And he says, for example, New York Times put out an headline claiming that Trump was going to end funding for Narcan. Narcan is the thing that saves your life if you have a fentanyl overdose or opioid overdose. But that was never true.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. Perfect. That's just what I needed. Well, in Texas, somebody 3D printed a Starbucks. It's one of those big 3D printers that does concrete walls.

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The details were buried in the article. What was true is that they wanted to reorganize the group that made the Narcan available. So it would still be available. It would just be housed in a different organization. So rather than correct that, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC tells her viewers that Trump is taking away Narcan, and then she has Jamie Raskin on later, to confirm it.

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So they've got fake news, and then they bring on another liar, the designated liar. Jamie Raskin is one of the Democrats I call the designated liars, because the designated liars will do things that the normal Democrats won't. So if you want to tell a really big lie, one that's easy to debunk, Raskin will do it. Schiff will do it. Swalwell will do it.

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But most of the normal Democrats don't want to say something that's so easily debunked. So they have designated liars. I've never seen anything like it. They're literally the designated liars. Anyway, so this is sort of like an instant wrap-up smear. Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi was explaining the wrap-up smear?

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Where you leak to a reporter that somebody did something bad, and it might not be true, but then when the reporter writes the story, then you say, oh, look, it's in the New York Times. So don't trust me. It's in the New York Times. But really, it's only in the New York Times because you told them to write the story and they believed it. That's a wrap-up smear.

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So this is an example of that happening in real time. Do you know the author Malcolm Gladwell? He looks like one of those... What do you call it? Dandelions. You know, when a dandelion grows bad and it's got that big, crazy white hair. It kind of looks like a big dandelion.

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Anyway, he's getting a little more political, and he's suggesting that somebody like Oprah could really help us out in politics. And the example was that Oprah could ask Elon Musk if he didn't want to be seen as a Nazi... why did he give a Nazi salute? What?

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Are you kidding? I thought it was only the dumbest Democrats who believe that Musk gave a Nazi salute. Let me say it as clearly as I can. Anybody who thinks, anybody, anybody who thinks that Elon Musk intentionally got on the stage after winning everything, you know, the election was won and everything was good, you actually believe that he got on the stage and gave a Nazi salute?

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That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. You're an idiot if you thought that was true even for a second. And, you know, I would see interviews on the street where there'd be some, you know, 20-something who believed that there was a Nazi salute. And I'd say to myself, oh, well, a low-information voter just believe what they're told.

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But Malcolm Gladwell is entering the fight like he's one of the educated, well-intentioned, smart guys. How in the world could you be that fucking dumb? I mean, this isn't one you have to research. You just have to ask yourself, really? Really? Really? You think that Elon Musk decided that it'd be a good idea to give a Nazi salute? Or even that you think that he would want to do that? So dumb.

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I mean, that's like seriously, seriously dumb. Like at a level that's hard to even understand. So I think the Musk and Nazi salute hoax, it's the new fine people hoax. The fine people hoax was the same thing. Did you really think that the sitting president complimented neo-Nazis in a public speech? Really? You thought there was some chance that happened in the real world? It didn't.

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The opposite happened. But how fucking dumb did you have to be to believe that the fine people hoax was ever real? And again, how fucking dumb do you have to be to believe that Trump, that Musk gave a Nazi salute or even was, you know, in that frame of mind that that would even make sense in any world? I don't even understand this one.

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And it's just a little drive-through, so there's no internal seating, so it's a small one. But how long before robots can make the coffee? Oh, turns out that's my next story. Global Coffee Report says that AI robots will soon be making your morning coffee, maybe. Don't you want that? Wouldn't you love to tell your robot to make you a fancy coffee?

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I mean, that's stupidity at a level that's almost mind-boggling. But maybe it's more about persuasion. I don't know. Maybe they're just hypnotized. It could be a TDS story more than an intelligence story. But if your intelligence can't let you see past that illusion, your intelligence is not very high-powered. That is really, really dumb. Mike Benz had a good observation about David Brooks.

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He was on one of the shows. And remember how when Trump did anything that wasn't, let's say, perfectly copacetic, they would say, no one's above the law. And then now we've got these judges who were helping the illegal immigrants try to escape, which would be very illegal.

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Can't keep a good man down. Or me. Either one. Good man or me. Hold on.

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All right. Big question for me is when do all the NGOs get defunded? Is that going to happen this week? Now, the NGOs are the non-government organizations, which I thought was sort of a limited sort of thing. not that big, but they had something to do with some secret plan for censoring Americans. And they seem to be deeply involved in assisting illegal immigration.

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And lots of people say some of them are involved in child trafficking, sex trafficking. And the only thing I know for sure is

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why are there so many of them and why do they cost so much and why are we funding them it couldn't possibly be a good idea so i'm pretty sure that nearly all of these need to be shut down immediately because they seem to be working against the interests of america while we're funding them how in the world did we get in a situation where we're funding these unlimited number of of entities that are actually trying to seemingly i mean if you just look at what they're doing it looks like they're trying to destroy america

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And at the same time, by terrible luck, I had this severe injury that I didn't know where it came from that affected my left hip so that I couldn't even walk, and it was just screaming pain whenever I walked. So I had two problems at the same time. Either one individually would be like the worst thing that happened to you. But boy, you put them together and that's a bad time.

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How in the world are we letting that go on? I've got a feeling that Trump's getting ready to put the hammer down on that one. Yesterday, apparently Elon Musk suggested, tongue in cheek, that the English Channel, the water between England and France, should be renamed to the George Washington Channel.

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Now, I saw one commenter who was terribly incensed that he would suggest that the English channel would be renamed to the George Washington channel. How do you not know he's joking? How does somebody read that and not know that's obviously just a meme? Think about what it would be like to be one of the people who doesn't know how jokes work. Like, I don't know, that looks real to me.

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Anyway, that's funny. Well, Trump is pushing his idea of a tariff-funded economy instead of just taxes. I don't see any way that he could get to a tariff-only economy. But if it got to a point where taxes didn't have to go up because tariffs were handling it, maybe. But if there's tariffs, also your expenses go up. So I don't know how to net that out. I'm not sure if anybody does. But

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It is true that we used to have a tariff-funded economy when things were simpler. And it could be that it's easier to raise taxes than it is to raise tariffs, because all the obvious reasons. It makes it harder to get stuff, there'll be retaliation, etc.

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And then you have the separate problem that if you just become the tariff country, wouldn't it cause other people to find workarounds and not sell things to you, or Would it cause people to – there would be some confusion if you tried to use it as a weapon, if it was also your normal way of doing business. But I suppose you could still crank it up if you wanted to turn it into a weapon.

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So I guess I would say I'm not 100% sure this is a good idea, but I know that doing what we have been doing is a bad idea because what we have been doing is heading toward a cliff. So we better do something. And I would be more open to, let's say, non-standard and even big changes than I would have been ordinarily. So I don't know.

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I'd love to see somebody smarter tell me if this is a good idea or a bad idea to have a tariff-funded economy. Well, Trump is going to sign some executive order on developing A.I., that is free from ideological bias. So AP news is reporting that. Now, I don't know what that means.

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Um, apparently Trump wants to remove, you know, any burdensome government oversight, but, and we would also, he also wants to get rid of the racism that's built into the current AIs, anti-white racism primarily. Um, And this would be good, presumably, to help America have AI leadership. I'm not sure if we have that right now, but we'd be in better shape.

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Now, this was a few weeks ago. Then the other day on Friday, I get that stomach flu back, you know, with all the shakes and aches and pains and everything bad. And my other leg, my other leg got the problem that had now healed from the first time. So how in the world do I get two, probably either coronavirus or virus or norovirus or whatever, it doesn't matter.

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And yeah, so Trump says we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas. And we also want it free from red tape. I wonder, though, does I think what Biden had in mind was everything had to run past the government before it was approved to be released. And I wonder if that helped at all or even would help in the future. I don't know.

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The argument for not having the government get involved is pretty strong because wherever we did it, it seems to work better than whenever the government's involved. How in the world could the government evaluate AI? That doesn't even seem like it makes sense, does it? Do you think the best people are going to be looking at the AI algorithms in the government? I don't know.

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So getting the government out of that seems to make more sense than not. At one point, it seemed so dangerous that we couldn't release AI without the government oversight. But now that there are going to be so many AIs from so many different places, we'll talk about that, I don't think there's any way to stop AI.

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So if the only thing we do is cripple our own industries, but there's going to be the same amount of AI out there no matter what, because it'll just come from other places, This makes sense to me. It does make sense to get rid of the regulations. Yeah, somebody said that David Sachs might be the advisor on this one, so I would trust him. You may have seen a clip of Bill Maher on his show.

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What's he call the show? Not Real Time, the one he does in his man cave there with Matt Gaetz. And this was really frustrating to me because Bill Maher got into the January 6th thing and wanted to really nail Matt Gaetz on it. Now, Gaetz, of course, is one of the best communicators in the game and knows a lot about the January 6th stuff, of course. So this was like so interesting to me.

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I'm like, oh, finally. somebody's going to give a good argument to Bill Maher about the January 6th, because it's never been done. It's never been done. Nobody capable has ever explained January 6th to a Democrat. I've never seen it. And I thought, finally, you know, you've got a superstar communicator. This is good. And then Gates made the mistake of that is unrecoverable in terms of a debate.

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He went, your side does it too. That's the losing argument. Let me tell you why, and this is exactly the way it went with Maher and Gates. Basically, I'll just summarize this. This is not their exact words, but the way it went was Bill Maher said January 6th was bad, you know, blah, blah, blah, January 6th, insurrection, bad. Matt Gates said,

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But you realize the Democrats have also questioned a lot of elections. He's already lost. The argument's lost. At that point, you can't win. Because then Maher says, yes, but they're not equivalent. And then, this is what the Democrats do. Bill Maher said, and if you say they are equivalent, you're a hack. That's right. He didn't say the argument is better this way.

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He said if you make that argument, you're a hack. And then Mars started getting really mad and talking over him like he couldn't possibly listen to any explanation. But to be fair, Gates' argument was terrible. And I hate to say it, but getting all over a terrible argument isn't a mistake. It was a terrible argument. Say you do it too, because it wasn't equivalent.

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I mean, you can't compare what happened on January 6th to somebody saying, I'm not sure this was a fair election. or challenging it in the courts. These are not equivalent, right? So let me tell you how to win this argument. You lose from the first moment unless you establish the following thing. Here's the way I do it.

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If it were me, I would have said, you know, Bill, I'm sure you're aware that there are two narratives. There's your narrative, and then I would explain it so that it was clear I understood it. Your narrative is it was an insurrection. They're trying to overthrow the country. And importantly, importantly, they knew they lost the election. So that's Bill's narrative.

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Then I always said, I'm not sure you're aware.

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what the other narrative is because it doesn't really come through and the other narrative is there is no way to know who won any election and if you think that trump knew that he lost you'd have to explain why half of the country didn't know it because they thought that the election looked rigged they saw too many irregularities now they could have been wrong

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How in the world do I get it twice in a row that's combined with the exact entry except it's the other leg? How is that even possible? Well, I finally figured out what it was. The leg problem is because the way I was sleeping. So apparently when I laid on my side, I do something with my leg that puts it in a bad position.

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but they were operating under the assumption that the election had been stolen. And if they were operating under that, they were operating as patriots, meaning that they were trying to fix something that had gone terribly wrong. Now, when you look at the American Revolution, the reason that we don't get mad at the American revolutionaries for the violence, they created violence, they started it,

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is because they had a good reason and they were seeking freedom and independence. And if you win, then you get to be the good guys and write history and say that that violence was totally justified. So the thing you have to sell is the idea that nobody can tell an election is fair. Now, what would happen if you said that?

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Well, if you're a Democrat, they will start yelling at you that you're a hack. So you're going to have to somehow settle them down enough so you can explain, you know, there's no way to know that any American election is fair. There really isn't. The only thing you know is it's complicated, other people were involved, and maybe somebody told you it was fair.

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But in order to think that the American election systems are fair, you would have to say that they're the only thing in America that is. Because we've seen over the last few years, quite vividly, Department of Justice was lawfare. FBI was totally corrupt at the leadership level. We've seen that our healthcare system was completely messed up during pandemic. We've seen the science as a mess.

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There's as much fraud as there is science in the science itself. And you could just go down the line.

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every part from you know we just talked about ngos almost every part of american institutions are clearly obviously corrupt but the elections are not the most complicated things that you and i couldn't possibly look into you're telling me that that nobody can hack an election it's the only unhackable system in the world these are ridiculous assumptions

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So if you want to win the J6 thing, don't talk about J6. Talk about whether elections can be known who won. And don't leave that place. Because if you're arguing about whether it's good or bad to be fighting against cops, don't get into that argument. If you're trying to save a country, it's good, right? If you're trying to overthrow a country, it's bad.

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So you don't even have to talk about what happened on January 6th, because it all depends on what you think they were doing. Now, have you noticed that it's been how many years now since January 6th, four years? So four years from January 6th, and we've seen exactly zero interviews with a January 6th-er who thought the election was real. None, none. 1500 people went to jail.

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Not one of them has said, you know, once I realized the election was really real and fair, I guess I see what bad things I did. Not one. Do you think that Trump really believed that was a fair election? If I had been in his place, I don't think I would have. Now, I don't know if it was fair or not. I just know that nobody else knows.

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And it looked like it was sending the signals that it was rigged. You know, if you go to bed and you're winning and you wake up and you lost and something like, I don't know the number, is it 18 out of 19 bellwether went the wrong direction? If your bellwethers go the wrong direction and there's a last minute come from behind hard to explain when, yeah, that's every signal in the world.

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So when I wake up, I'm in screaming pain and it takes just hours or sometimes days to get a normal so I can even just walk. So yesterday I couldn't put anything in my body. which meant that I couldn't have coffee or anything else. So I've got a coffee headache, I've got all the symptoms of the flu, and I've got screaming pain in one of my legs. Now when I say screaming, I mean actually literally.

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Beyond that, you don't even have to see the signals. If you know that the other side had been saying that they're trying to stop Hitler and you see what things they did to try to stop what they thought was Hitler, rigging an election would be the least dramatic thing. The lawfare is way worse than rigging the election. Way worse. So we know they did things way worse than rigging election.

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That's pretty established. So rigging election would just be normal business if they really thought they were stopping Hitler. You probably heard this story if you're on X, but I saw a post by Stephanie Tyler, and she describes the following. So there are a number of older books that, that are hard to explain their existence unless time travel is real or we live in a simulation.

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So courtesy of Stephanie Tyler, I will summarize a little bit. So it starts like this. Nikola Tesla dies. So back when Tesla was the man, he dies. And the only person allowed to access his safe, the one containing all his most secret inventions, is somebody named John G. Trump.

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a brilliant MIT scientist, and oh, by coincidence, Donald Trump's uncle, who conveniently says, oh, there's nothing to see in there. Now, if this were the only coincidence, it would be really weird, wouldn't it? What are the odds that Nikola Tesla dies and Donald Trump's uncle is the one who has access to his secrets? That's so weird, but it gets weirder.

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In 1958, there was something called Trackdown, I think that must have been a TV show, featuring a con man named Walter Trump, and Walter Trump was trying to sell people a magic wall to save them from the end of the world. Okay, now what are the odds that there would be a book about somebody named Trump who really wants a wall? Okay, that's a coincidence too, but we're not done.

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1953, Werner Von Braun, the head of the rocket program, the father of rocket science, published a book about humans colonizing Mars, led by a guy named Elon. Elon, E-L-O-N. So the guy that the father of rockets thought would be the leader on Mars was named Elon, right? Okay, it gets weirder. Even before that, in the 1890s, Ingersoll Lockwood, an author, writes a story about Barron Trump.

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That's the actual name, Barron Trump, a kid from, quote, Castle Trump, going on wild adventures with a guide named Don. Don. What? And then writes a book called The Last President where chaos breaks out in America after the election of an outsider. What?

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And then you fast forward to now and we have Elon Musk who runs a company named Tesla, named after Tesla, and is obsessed with getting us to Mars and is not only working with Trump, but quite literally got him elected and has even visited his magic wall. That's what Stephanie Tyler says. This is a really good thread, by the way, Stephanie. How is any of that real?

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Even Elon, when he commented about the person leading Mars named Elon, even Elon said, how is this real? How could it possibly be real? Now, I'll tell you how it could be real. Think of all the books that have ever been written. All the books that have ever been written. Don't you think that if you could search all the books that have ever been written, you would find a whole bunch of these?

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These meaning not just stuff about Tesla or Elon, but a whole bunch of coincidences. Hey, that book predicted this and that book predicted that. And the answer is this is like the Bible code. Remember when there was a, I always use this example because it's so good.

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There was a claim that there were secret patterns in the Bible that if you just did things like look at the second letter of every sentence, you know, stuff like that, that there would be a secret message predicting the future. And there were a bunch of them, a whole bunch of them in the Bible. And then somebody had the idea to run the same algorithm against war and peace, just random book.

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And it was full of codes. So you could take any book that's a good size, and you can find a whole bunch of coincidences that appear to predict the future. And I think this is one of those situations where instead of looking at all the sentences in a big book, you're looking at all the books.

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It would have been bad to be my neighbor, because about every hour I'd wake up and scream, ow, ow, ow, with every step. Now, you're saying to yourself, that's really bad. That's really bad. So I'm uncoffeed. I'm sick. And I need a banana. Because I think a banana is the only thing I could possibly get down. Sometimes you just know what you might be able to eat.

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And if you could selectively pick just the books you wanted to show people, probably this is one of thousands of different amazing coincidences you could artificially create. or we're part of a simulation. Pick one. All right, well, the big news, of course, is moving the markets is this Chinese AI called DeepSeek.

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Now, some of you watching this are going to say, I do not care about this technology, but this one's really important. This isn't like just a nerdish story. This is civilization-altering kind of stuff. And I think there's still some mystery about how it was developed.

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But the things we know is that they somehow China got a hold of a bunch of NVIDIA chips that they weren't supposed to have access to because they would be denied to our adversarial countries. But somehow they got them and. But they didn't get many compared to how many the United States has for its big AI projects.

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But they had enough combined with some really clever engineering that they built something that's just as good as the big AIs. Now, the big part of the story is that they innovated way beyond what the experts were expecting and way faster. It wasn't

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Beyond what I expected, because I literally predicted that this was going to happen, that there would be a super cheap alternative that would pop up and that it would hurt NVIDIA stock, which is why I told you a while ago that I sold my NVIDIA stock. It was because I was expecting a fairly quickly a competitor. Now you might say, Scott,

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How in the world did you guess this when seemingly nobody else was guessing it, when I have no skills whatsoever in this domain? And the answer is just pattern recognition and economics. So if you have a background in economics, it helps. But when you see this many dollars involved, the AI dollars are beyond anything we've seen, really. So there's an immense amount of money involved.

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But also, if you don't get in the AI game soon enough and you're a big country, It's an existential risk. So you're essentially engineering for your life. If you put people in the situation of engineering for their life to try to save their country, you're going to do better than somebody who's just working for money.

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In the United States, we have great engineers, obviously, or we wouldn't have the AI that we have. But they're largely working for money. And they're under the impression that they're leading in AI. Maybe they are. That's a completely different incentive. And I would argue that wars have taught us that when you get in a war, the innovation goes to the roof because you're trying to live.

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So when you're engineering yourself to try to survive, suddenly you get really clever. And you've seen this a million times in a million different contexts. So given the amount of money involved and that it's an existential risk to China and other countries, I predicted that somebody would find a really clever engineering workaround and they would do it pretty quickly. And it happened.

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It happened almost exactly when I thought it would, not long after I sold the stock. And so what we know right now is, I want to tell you a little bit, this might be a little too nerdy for you, but I'll try to make it interesting. I saw a post by Morgan Brown, who was in the AI space. This was on X. describing what they got right. So let me just run through this.

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And by the way, again, if you think this is a nerd story about some technology, you're missing the big point. This is everything. If this thing is real and it can compete with the big expensive AIs, we're in a lot of trouble. America just went from dominance to uh-oh, like just overnight. So let me give you the rundown so you're educated on this.

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And I think if I get the banana, I could get the coffee on top of it maybe, and it wouldn't be so bad. And then I'd at least feel better. And I'm like, all right, I need a banana. So I limped to my kitchen, oh, oh, oh, with every step. And for the one time, this is very rare, I have no bananas. I almost always have a banana. It's like my most basic thing I keep.

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First of all, in America at the moment, if you are one of those regular AIs like OpenAI or Anthropic, it might cost you $100 million just on computer resources to train something. $100 million. And they need massive data centers and thousands of GPUs that cost $40,000 apiece. But if you were this little, it's called DeepSeek. That's the name of the new AI, the cheap one.

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It only costs them $5 million. So five instead of 100 million. And it can match or in some ways, I guess, beat the current version of the OpenAI product and some others, a little better than some others. And they rethought everything from the ground up. So here's some examples. Traditional AI, likes to write everything with 32 decibel places.

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The cheap one said, what if we just use eight decibel places and to be close enough? And it uses 75% less memory. So they gained 75% of memory just by saying, huh, we could just take a little off of this, be a little less, fewer decibel places. Then there's some kind of multi-token system. So normal AI reads like a first grader. It reads sort of in order.

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the, cat, sat, so it sees each word in order, one at a time. Apparently this new one, the cheap one, reads whole phrases at once. So if it reads a whole phrase, just like something else would read one word at a time, if it reads a whole phrase, apparently it's two times faster and 90% is accurate. Now, do you know what they copied? That's speed reading. They put speed reading into the model.

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I think I've described before because I learned speed reading when I was a kid. You don't look at words. You look at the sentence and your brain picks out the important words in the sentence. And instead of going, bah, bah, bah, each word, you just look at it and you just know what it says. Now it takes practice, but obviously the AI can get it a lot faster.

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So it's basically treating a sentence like a word. And then it became much more proficient. Here's another trick. They built an expert system instead of one massive AI trying to know everything. So apparently it has lots of expertise built in, but it only wakes up, to use the technical term, it only wakes up the expert it needs. So it's not always looking every expert at everything.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time in your life, especially since you missed it yesterday. Oh, you've got a whole bunch of pent-up Coffee enjoyment coming up. It's going to be better than normal.

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It just wakes up the part of the model that's relevant to the question, I guess. And traditional models have 1.8 trillion parameters active all the time, whereas this cheap one has only 37 billion active at once. So that's a big difference. All right, so here's the results. So instead of costing 100 million to train, it's 5 million. Instead of needing 100,000 GPUs, it might need less than 2,000.

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The API costs are 95% cheaper. And it can run on a regular computer, a high-end computer, but one that you could buy for gaming, et cetera. So that's a big deal. It's all open source, which is why stocks in the other companies are falling. And let's see. And they don't need a billion-dollar data center, et cetera. All right. And apparently DeepSeek did it with a team of fewer than 200 people.

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And I read something else separately. This is not from Stephanie or Morgan. But separately, I saw that they did something where they cleverly trained it with incentives and way better than regular AI. But anyway, those are things you need to know. Lots of clever, clever engineering.

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So I go to order one to be delivered. Not one, you know, a bunch of bananas. So I get on Amazon to get my banana. Because I'm so out of it that I couldn't tell the difference between Amazon and DoorDash. I confused them because they both bring groceries to me. But I forgot that Amazon is the one that brings it to you the next day. No, I needed it right away. I need that banana.

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But when you see how clever the engineering was, that's the difference between engineering for your life and just engineering. Because it seems to me that every one of these clever moves were available to all of our AI people, weren't they? But I think our AI people were saying, no, we have to hit the maximum. So instead of saying, well, if I custom corners, it'll be 90% as good.

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I think the American way is it's got to be the best one. Now, what are the odds that What are the odds that this cheap one will destroy the entire AI industry in the United States? I think low. And here's why I think NVIDIA won't fall to zero. It'll take a hit, and I think it'll just make it back eventually during the year. My guess is that NVIDIA is still a good stock. That's my guess.

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But I would just be guessing, so don't buy it because I said so. There's definitely a bigger risk than there was last week. So if you think NVIDIA is the same stock as it was a week ago, it's definitely not. Definitely not the same stock it was a week ago. But that doesn't mean it's in trouble. And here's why.

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As the experts say, the very next version of open AI and our other AIs will probably be better than this deep seek. Will deep seek be able to keep up? We don't know. We're going to have to see. It might. It might be such a fast follower that nothing we can do gets out of it. But we'll have to find that out.

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The other thing I think is that, and I've been waiting for this, I think the government, I don't know if a Trump government would do it, but I think the government is going to make it hard for other AIs to compete. Remember Mark Andreessen told us he was in a meeting

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in which some intelligence people said to the AI tech people, don't bother funding more AIs because we're only going to let a few big ones survive in the United States so we can basically have control over it. Well, I feel like there will be artificial barriers put in place that might even make it illegal to use this open source one. I mean, it may be as simple as that. Here's what I predict.

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In fairly short order, somebody's going to find some code in that deep-seek thing, because remember, it's open, that looks suspicious, or it has a backdoor somehow, or it's got some kind of thing that isn't completely predictable. And then the rumor will start, and it might not be true, but the rumor will start that it's like a virus, and you can't let it free in America.

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And it might not be true, but the government... And of caution, we'll say, all right, we're going to ban it. You can't use this cheap one because we're not sure it's good. We're not sure it's safe. So I kind of expect that to happen. So if you add the fact that the U.S.

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is going to try to stay ahead and we don't know if DeepSeq can reach the next level of, we don't even know if it can reach the next level of AI, which is AGI, more of a general intelligence. But we also don't know if the American companies can. They say they're going to be there by two years, but I'm not so sure. So we'll see.

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So lots of questions about this, but it doesn't mean the end of AI in America. Now, I make similar predictions. Now, you probably wonder, why do I keep talking about battery technology? And the reason is it's the same as this AI. I'm expecting a huge breakthrough in battery technology because the stakes are so high, the dollar amounts would be gigantic, and it would be world-transforming.

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If we could just make batteries, let's say, 20 times better, you know, pick a number, it would change everything. And sure enough, every day there's a new breakthrough. I don't think any one of these are necessarily going to be the one. But now there's, according to interesting engineering, there's a new aluminum battery. that retains over 99% of its capacity after 10,000 cycles.

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I really need a banana. I get on Amazon. I'm like, oh, man, I have the interface. Wait. And I put some stuff in a basket and then it disappears. And I'm in some other mode because I guess Amazon has more than one way to buy groceries. And it somehow can mix up the two ways. So every time I would add something and then I think I was done, I'd be ready to send. There would be no send button.

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Now, that doesn't mean that that's going into production anytime soon, but that's the scale of improvements that people are looking at in batteries. And I think you could make the same prediction with batteries that I made with AI. So much money involved, so much at stake, that somebody is going to engineer some kind of battery that you just get blown away by.

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Something you didn't even think was possible. I think it's coming. According to the Amuse account on X, the Trump administration is going to go after trying to figure out where the billions that were sent to Ukraine ended up. So the FBI and the DOJ, they launched this big investigation into where it went. And I think we're going to find out some terrible things about where all that money went.

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It definitely didn't all go to useful weapons and stuff. We'll find out. In other news, the new CIA director Ratcliffe is going to have the CIA evaluate if China intentionally started the pandemic, according to the Daily Wire. Now, did China intentionally start the pandemic? Here's where they could save a lot of time and money in the CIA by simply asking me

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Scott, did China intentionally release a virus in their own major city? No. And we're done here. Now, a lot of people have been giving me a hard time about this on X today, after I said it on X. And people say, Scott, Scott, how do you explain X? How do you explain Y? How do you explain this other thing? To which I say, I don't have to.

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Nobody releases a deadly virus in their own city first if they have a clever plan to take down the rest of the world. A clever plan to take down the rest of the world would be releasing it in Chicago. Now, that would be a good plan. Or London. That would be a good plan. Or or better yet, multiple places at once, but all of them ones who don't have a big connection to China directly.

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Nobody releases a virus, a deadly virus, in their own country to take down other countries. Nobody ever, ever, ever. Now, the response I got to that is, Scott, you don't understand that China doesn't value human life. Okay, I don't want to go all woke on you, But that's just racist. That's not an opinion. That's just racist.

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Because even if you said they didn't value human life, and they do, they do value human life. I'm not going to accept Chinese are the only people who don't value human life. That's ridiculous. I mean, that's really ridiculous. But even if they didn't value human life... They wouldn't release it in their own city. There is no rational argument for why they do that.

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And then somebody else said, but they're not rational. Yes, they are. They're like one of the most rational places ever. If they weren't rational, they would have already made a move on Taiwan. They would have done everything different if they weren't rational. Everything China does, you might not like it, But you can see the glaring common sense to it from their perspective.

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So no, you do not have to study this. Nobody releases a deadly virus in their own city first when you could release it somewhere else. Now that we know that the virus came from the lab and therefore was part of a weaponization, or at least gain of function, which sounds like weaponization, this might explain some of the mysteries that I had during the pandemic. I was trying to understand

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There was no buy button. And then I'd end up in some other mode. So I think Amazon has at least three different ways to buy groceries. So I couldn't figure it out, but I finally figured it out and put in the order. And then it tells me it's going to be there tomorrow. And I'm like, what? Oh, I'm on Amazon. I need DoorDash. So I'd already ordered it.

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why but and the problem is that i knew it was from the lab from the first weeks you know i told you a friend of mine showed me the uh google map long before it was in the news Nobody in the news had heard of it. He said, you know, it's right across the street from the Wuhan lab of, I don't know, with the perfect name for exactly this.

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And as soon as I saw that, I was like, oh, obviously, they're just saying it came from the wet market. But clearly, that would be too big of a coincidence that the lab that does this exact work is across the street. So I knew it was weaponized. Weaponized or at least gain a function, which would end up looking like the same thing.

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And so when people said, Scott, don't get the shots, it's just a cold. If you thought it was just a cold, it would be ridiculous to get a shot, wouldn't it? If it was just a cold, why would you take a chance on a new medicine in the form of a shot? That'd be crazy. But if you knew that it was a gain of function and therefore unpredictable, wouldn't it be at least a toss-up

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that if you took some kind of technology that was designed to minimize its impact on you, the shot, now again, you didn't know if it'd work, you don't know what the side effects are, there's a big risk. We all agree that no matter what else, it was a risk to take the shot. But it was also a pretty big risk to be completely unprotected

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and get a weaponized virus, especially since you didn't know what the long-term effects were, the so-called long COVID. So if you thought it was a slam dunk decision, probably you thought it was also a cold. And that means you probably didn't know that it came from a weaponized lab.

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But what I'm seeing is people who knew it came from a gain-of-function lab, meaning either accidentally or intentionally weaponized, And you still said it was a cold. You must have really not trusted that lab to make some good stuff if you thought it was just a cold. Well, they've been working hard. They made the common cold or something no worse than the common cold.

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Anyway, the Houthis in Yemen that were disrupting all the ship traffic in the Red Sea by shooting them with missiles, they said that they're going to stop doing that. as long as the ceasefire in Gaza holds. Okay. Apparently the ships that would use the Red Sea have decided that's not good enough. They don't trust the Houthis to not attack them, and they shouldn't.

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Because I don't think that by the time you send your ship into the Red Sea, it could be five minutes from the ceasefire falling apart. So yeah, it would be pretty dangerous to assume that they're not going to shoot you because of a ceasefire that may not hold. But it really made me wonder, is that really what the Houthis care about? The only thing that they care about is Gaza?

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Did we know that before? Or are they just pretending that's the thing they care about so that they have a reason to stop doing it? I was pretty sure, no, obviously they're backed by Iran. So whatever Iran wants is what the Houthis are doing. But did Iran just say to the Houthis, stand down as long as the ceasefire holds? Because that would almost suggest that they really mostly cared about Gaza.

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That doesn't seem completely right, does it? So there's something about this that doesn't add up. But the first thing that makes me wonder is, Apparently Trump has suggested that, let me find his exact words here. Trump has suggested for Gaza that they clear out the whole thing.

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Basically take all the people in Gaza, relocate them temporarily or permanently, and then fix whatever is Gaza and then decide later if anybody can come back. Now, That's pretty dramatic. But I think he's talking to Jordan and Egypt about taking the Gaza residents. Not that the Gaza residents want to go to either of those places, but where they are now is probably not so cool.

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So now I've got a bunch of stuff coming that I don't need. That should be sometime today. So I go back to DoorDash. I go, all right. And I try to order bananas. And then something went wrong because my brain wasn't working again. But I successfully put it in the order. And I have to wait a few hours. I'm like, oh, if only that banana would come.

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Here's what's wrong with that. Egypt and Jordan are not our enemies. Am I right? I mean, Egypt and Jordan are sort of, you know, Jordan especially is somebody we work with all the time. Why would we send Hamas, because the Hamas people are a big part of, you know, they're going to be part of the Gazans who are moved anywhere.

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Why would we move a whole bunch of Hamas fighters into an ally or somebody that we at least would like to work with, like Egypt? That doesn't make sense, does it? Wouldn't it make more sense to tell Iran they have to take them? Because Iran's the one that broke it. If you broke it, you bought it. Let me just float this idea.

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So this is in the context of the bad idea concept, if you haven't heard this before. The bad idea is when you suggest a bad idea just to brainstorm. And then people say, that's a stupid idea, Scott, but you remind me of something that would work. So I'm going to give you the bad idea, the stupid, embarrassing one.

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because I have that superpower, I have no shame, so I can do embarrassing ideas, that maybe just you think of a better one, and then that's the goal. Suppose Trump and, I guess, Netanyahu say, here's what we want to do. Iran is the one who's backing Hamas. Iran is the one who's the main sponsor. Iran's the one that broke it. They're all going to Iran. And then Iran says, whoa, hold on, hold on.

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We're Shia and they're Sunni and it doesn't work. And we say, we don't care. You've been backing them. They're yours. So if you want them to have a good life, open up some space in Iran, take care of them. You're the one who got us in this situation. It's not ours to fix. So why don't you do something really good for the Gazans and build a really nice, safe, place for them in Iran.

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We promised that if we get in a fight with Iran, we won't even bomb them. You know, they'll be nice and safe. So Iran, why don't you take them back? And here's the thing. Of course, Iran is going to say no, at least in minute one, they're going to say no. Of course, they're going to say no. But the framing is kind of smart. The framing would be you broke it, you bought it.

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And that's the end of the story. Now, would this be a terrible tragedy to the Gazans? Yes. It would be a terrible tragedy if they didn't think they could go back. But I wouldn't rule out that somebody carefully vetted could come back once Gaza is rebuilt into something. I wouldn't take any of the Hamas fighters back, but it does seem like you could probably...

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do enough vetting that some people could come back, just not the Hamas fighters. And maybe you'd have to... It could be that it would just recreate the problem. So if we decided never to do that, not we, but if they decided never to do that, it wouldn't be unconscionable. It would just be a practical decision. All right. So that's the question. We should tell Iran they have to take him?

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because it's their problem, not anybody else's. The chief of the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, over at Davos, I think, was saying, according to Breitbart, that Europe should be more like the U.S. And I think this is all from Trump. Like, you know, I don't think they would have even said this before. But... So the European economy, as you know, has lagged behind the U.S. by quite a bit.

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Everything would start getting better if I could get the banana. I just need one banana. That's all I need. Finally. DoorDash comes. He delivers my bananas. Except apparently I had somehow ordered one banana. That's right. Now I know the difference between a bunch and a single banana, and I was pretty sure I hit the bunch, but apparently I hit the single banana.

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They've invented practically nothing. And so the head of the IMF said, the time has come for Europe to collectively look across the Atlantic and follow the U.S. lead as it grows in confidence daily under the leadership of President Donald Trump. Now, I think that's maybe Breitbart's take on it. But the actual quote is, the United States has a culture of confidence. Europe has a culture of modesty.

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Georgieva said, I guess she's the head of the IMF, quote, my advice to my fellow Europeans is more confidence. Believe in yourself and most importantly, tell others that you do. Okay. Do you think that the problem, do you think that the big problem between Europe and the United States is confidence? Do you think maybe they got that backwards? Yes. Do you know what would make Europe confident?

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Winning. Winning. Winning makes you confident. You know what makes you not confident? Losing. Losing to somebody else. So could it be that their real problem is structural, meaning that they have red tape like crazy, they have government in everybody's pockets, they don't have... Basically, everything's wrong. They don't have... I don't think they have the venture capital...

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structure that we have in this country. If you fixed all the structural wouldn't Europe have success and wouldn't success make them confident? Probably. I don't think that America somehow raised a bunch of confident people independent of success. There are people like me who are confident before they're successful. But I think I was just born that way.

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I don't think it has anything to do with America. Don't you think there are some confident people being born in Europe? Like none? What, they have some kind of weird genetic defect that affects all the nationalities in all of Europe? They all have the low confidence genetic defect? Or do the schools teach them not to be confident?

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It seems more likely that there's a structural problem, and if they fix that, the confidence would follow. But that's just speculation. Anyway... What else is happening? According to Michael Schellenberger, the CIA under Biden broke the law in not releasing its analysis of the Wuhan lab.

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So I guess the CIA already had that opinion that it was probably the Wuhan lab that was the source of the leak, but by not releasing it, which would be their job, if it weren't for Trump, the truth may not have come out. All right, that's interesting. So we do need to look into that.

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Meanwhile, Britain has a firefighting robot that can spray 2,000 liters of water in a minute, according to interesting engineering. Huh, a robot that can fire, spray 2,000 liters of water.

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Well, luckily there was a video so I could see that the robot was not a humanoid robot, because if it had been a humanoid robot that could shoot 2,000 liters of water, the question I would ask is, where is the water coming out of? Because I Just imagine this robot. Now, never mind. You could do the joke in your own head. I don't have to explain it.

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Did you know that John McAfee, who died a few years ago, allegedly by his own hand, he's back in the form of AI. So I guess his ex-account, which I think is managed by his widow, says, yeah, this is real. It's really an AI of John McAfee. I guess it talks like him It has his attitude and everything. And he's launching a crypto coin. Of course he is. So that's interesting.

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I wonder what software they're using for that. Because I kept wanting to make an AI me, but I don't think the software is there yet. In other news, Perplexity, the The app, it's an AI app that I keep telling you is great, and it is great. It's one of the best things, honestly.

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So I got one banana, which would have been enough, except it was green. So that's like no banana. So I said, damn it, I am not going to be beaten. So I suffer through trying to figure out how to order properly again, second DoorDash right after the first one. And finally, I'm happy to report that after all that banana business, I finally got a nice bunch of bananas. They were all green.

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I tried a whole bunch of AI apps, and every time I got disappointed, it's like, oh, I thought it would do something more than that. But when I tried the Perplexity app for searching and asking questions, oh, my God, did they nail that. They nailed that like just about nothing I've ever seen. So in terms of execution, a big shout out to the Perplexity AI team. You guys are geniuses. Oh, my God.

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Just the quality of the app, because I use it all the time. Every day I use it several times. And every time I'm impressed. It just doesn't fail. It's just so good. Anyway. Their valuation went from not much to $9 billion, and I guess that gives them the confidence to put together a bid for TikTok.

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And their bid would do something to keep the existing stockholders in it somehow, but would give the United States, the government of America, it would give them 50% of the benefit if it goes public, I guess. So there could be several hundred billion dollars a stake here if it goes public. And if it goes public under the new form. So it's more of a merger situation than a purchase.

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I guess they wouldn't purchase the algorithm. So they'd have to invent their own algorithm. But again, if it was anybody but perplexity that said they were going to reinvent the algorithm that was so good, you'd say, can they do that? But once I've seen what they did with perplexity, they certainly have the skill. Whatever they're doing is really, really right. So, yeah, maybe they can.

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So I don't know if this is going to work out, but it's a complicated kind of proposal, and they may have answered all the questions. It's a long ways from it getting done. If I had to bet, I'm not sure I'd bet for it, but that's a real interesting offer. Real interesting offer. Did you know how many children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States?

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Episode 2732 CWSA 01/27/25

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According to Just the News, Nicholas Balazi said, writes that in 2023, there were a quarter million children born to illegal immigrants, to use their phrase. That's a lot. Now, of course, the birthright citizenship thing is working through the courts, so we'll probably end up in the Supreme Court. And here's what I have discovered in this two movies on one screen situation.

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If you're a Democrat, the only thing that you've been told by your news is that It clearly says in the Constitution that birthright citizenship exists, and if you're born here, that's the end of the story. Would you agree? That if you're a Democrat, that's all you've heard. All you heard is it's in the Constitution. Done. What else is there to say? But if you're a Republican, you didn't hear that.

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If you're a Republican, you heard a completely different story in which the person who originally tweaked the language in the birthright citizenship part of the Constitution, he said directly and in his own words, it was not intended for aliens or non-citizens. It wasn't intended for them. Now, here's where it gets interesting.

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The Supreme Court has a lot of originalists on it, conservatives who want to interpret things the way they were originally meant to be interpreted. Lindsey Graham said that he thinks there's a good chance the Supreme Court will uphold the banning of illegal foreign people using it for, let's say, gaming the system.

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So I don't know if Lindsey Graham has a good handle on what the Supreme Court will do, but he's a serious guy, and there's a serious argument for it. The argument against it, well, let me say this. If the only thing the court looked at was what was the original intent, it's actually a slam dunk.

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It's a slam dunk that they did not intend foreigners to come in and have a baby and make it an American. That seems to be clear if you go with the original argument. And it all has to do with what the word jurisdiction meant, and I'm still not clear about how that's important in the story.

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But apparently, if we know that the person who wrote it said, I mean it to be this and not that, that's pretty clear. So we'll see. But the precedent of doing it to include anybody who's here for any reason is so long that I don't know if the Supreme Court is going to say, you know, it's been too long. You know, there's too much precedent. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

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So I still had no bananas. So that was my third attempted banana delivery, all failures. But I had some other fruit that was along with it and got back in it. So I thought to myself, if I could just wait this out, like the other time that one of my legs was in screaming pain and I had flu-like symptoms. I knew I waited it out. It's just really painful. I just waited it out.

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But what's different is the the risk is completely different now. And I don't know to what extent the Supreme Court takes that into consideration. So let's say they had a situation where if they rule one way, they think they're right in terms of the Constitution, but it would clearly be really dangerous for the country itself.

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Would they do it or would they say, we don't want to destroy the country? So we're going to rule in a way that doesn't rock the boat too much. I don't know. I don't think that they would be oblivious to the impact on the country and just look at the law, but they're kind of supposed to.

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It's sort of their job just to look at the law and not worry too much about the externals, but I think they have to as human beings. All right. Yeah, they certainly rocked the boat with abortion, but really they just caked it to the states, which isn't that much. I mean, that isn't that much. What's this? Born in USA, rethinking birthright citizenship in the wake of 9-11, John Eastman.

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And if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even understand when they're tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Enjoy me now for the unparalleled. Oh, wait, I said that. Man, it was a tough few days. Who knows what's going to happen?

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So John Eastman wrote about this. All right. All right. Just looking at your comments. That's all I got for today's show. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm feeling a lot better. And I still can't walk too well on that one leg, but that'll be fine by the end of today. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately. Locals, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds.

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Everybody else, I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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And then I went to sleep, to one of my many naps, probably 10 naps that day. And I woke up. And I had re-injured my other leg. That's right. Now I had two legs that gave me screaming pain anytime I tried to walk. Basically totally disabled. Couldn't stand up. Couldn't walk. Ow! Ow!

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So it just got worse. Anyway. Anyway. but at least I could look at my screens and entertain myself. No, there's something about the weird flu thing that makes it impossible to look at a screen. Like I tried, but every time I did, it was like, oh, headache, oh. So it was about the worst two days you could ever have, but I'm back. I can barely walk, but it'll be fine. We're 80% better.

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Let's talk about Ben and Jerry's. So Ben and Jerry, who are no longer directly associated with Ben and Jerry, it's owned by... Unilever, I believe. But the Ben and Jerry themselves have gone full woke and maybe the company too. And so they just dropped a DEI-themed ad declaring they'll never stop fighting to dismantle white supremacy and end the climate crisis.

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Now, are you all having this Trump time distortion thing that I am? where it seems like Trump must have been president this time for already a year, because he's done so much. Like time doesn't make sense anymore. But here's another one. Doesn't it sound like this didn't come from this era?

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When you hear that somebody wants to dismantle white supremacy, which two months ago was sort of normal, but now it just feels like, what are you, from the past? Am I the only one having that feeling? That somehow, just even reading it, it's like, really? Dismantle white supremacy? What year is this? It's not 2025, is it? Anyway, my question to Ben and Jerry's is, do they still sell vanilla?

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Because I feel like that's a little bit white supremacist. Vanilla? They should get rid of vanilla. Vanilla. But here's what I think is going to happen, whether it's Ben & Jerry's or Costco or somebody else. It seems to me that somebody is going to buy one share in their parent company, Unilever, which is not a U.S. company, so you'd have to buy something called an ADR, but I think you can do it.

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I think it works. I'm not positive. So maybe Ben & Jerry's isn't the first place to start. But what's going to happen is some shareholder is going to buy one share and just to press them on the DEI. And they're going to say, I'm suing you for these policies that are clearly bad for stockholders.

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Because now that the government under Trump has declared that DEI is literally racist, how can a company keep doing it without being accused of literally being racist? So it's a pretty big risk for all the companies. Sooner or later, somebody's going to sue one of them and say, you better get rid of this now that it's government approved, or not government approved, but government labeled racism.

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It's pretty risky to have that still going on if you've got stockholders. As Corey DeAngelis points out in an article in Fox News, the next place for Trump to ban DEI would be the schools. Schools need to stop the DEI. Now, I assume, even though the schools are mostly locally run, that the government has enough influence through funding or something else that they could ban it in schools.

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Sip this. Well, let's start by explaining the mystery of where I was for the last day. I know it's very, very unusual for me to miss a day of work. Very unusual. So if I do, you can assume I'm either dead or in bad shape. Luckily, I'm not dead. But I know the worst thing that you could ever hear

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That's really, really important because if we don't kill it in school, we're dead because it'll just be another generation of DEI idiots. So, yeah, Corey DeAngelis is right on this one. Schools got to be next and colleges too. I was watching Mark Andreessen. I think he was talking to Lex Friedman. And I am so impressed with Mark Andreessen's, let's say, what would you say?

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I think he's emerging from a business leader to maybe a social and political leader. But I knew he was smart, Mark Andreessen, but I didn't know how smart he was. And now that I'm listening to him talk, oh, my God, my God, he's smart. Like just crazy smart.

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And he's smart in exactly the way the country needs, which is he can explain the most complicated things in the simplest, completely understandable ways. And he seems to have priorities straight, etc. Now, I didn't realize that he was he was advising Trump. I don't know if he's advising him on specific topics or more generally, I'm not sure.

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But wow, when you hear that Trump is being advised by, you know, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, you know, like this is crazy. This is the best advice any human ever received. Like, how are we so lucky? It's amazing. But anyway, one of the things Marc Andreessen said, He was dumping on Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock. And he said that Larry Fink fell for every retarded idea in the world.

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That's his words. Of course, I'm much too nice to use that R word, but I'm quoting because apparently it's semi-approved at the moment. So he was saying that the DEI and the ESG and the zero point, whatever. So... Yeah.

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I love to see a hugely important business figure just take a big old shit right on BlackRock and Larry Fink's head and just call him out as being basically an idiot who has not been helping and has probably been greatly hurting and doing it on the backs of the shareholders. both in his company and otherwise. So that's good. As you know, Tulsi Gabbard is up for the DNI job, head of DNI.

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She has to be confirmed. And over on MSNBC, we're watching as John Brennan is saying what a bad pick she would be for the DNI. Now, As other people noted, and I often tell you, if you know the story, you don't know anything. If you know the players, well, you might know a lot. And this is one of those.

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If all you knew is that somebody used to head the CIA said that Tulsi Gabbard was not the right one for the job, you'd say, oh, well, that's a very qualified person and a serious qualified person at that. So if somebody who's serious and qualified says she's not good for the job, you're like, huh, well, I should take that pretty seriously.

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However, if you know the players, looks pretty different, doesn't it? And most of you who are listening know the players by now. John Brennan, he's the guy who pushed the Russia collusion and the Hunter laptop letter. He's... he is the signal of what you should do the opposite of.

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And the fact that he appears on MSNBC to spew his stuff, as somebody on X who goes by the name Goofunk, Goofunk says, quote, I love MSNBC. They give us insight into what the intelligence agencies want us to believe. Well, not the agencies in general, but certainly some elements of them, and the worst ones, I think. So yes, that's exactly what I do when I watch MSNBC.

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There's somebody describing their health problems, but mine were kind of funny, so I just have to tell you anyway. So about a few weeks ago, I had this problem where I had some kind of stomach flu. I'm not sure what it was.

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I watch it for the humor, because it's so stupid. Literally, I watch it for the humor. And the other thing is that it does signal to you what the dark intelligence people want you to believe that isn't true. So it's really useful. Again, If you didn't know the players, you would just turn it on and you'd think it was news. And then you'd say, oh, there's some news.

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But if you know that they seem to be, and I don't know the details, but seems to be. I might have to turn off the comments here, but we'll see how it goes. I'll tell you what, I'll just cover the comments with the locals people. That way I don't have to look at them. All right. So I can still see the comments, but just locals. Those of you who are being bad in the comments, don't be bad anymore.

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Do you say happy Memorial Day or do you just say, Memorial Day always confuses me. What's the most respectful thing to say? Just, it's Memorial Day. Looks like we got more people on locals than anything else today. Okay. Is there some problem with YouTube? We only have four people coming in from YouTube. That's weird. Maybe something's going on over there.

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Speaker Johnson is trying to stick into the big, beautiful bill something to prevent these judges from doing exactly this, exactly this. So I don't think this will stand. I would imagine that Supreme Court would say, you can't do that. Or possibly the big, beautiful bill will pass. And then it would be legal for Trump to say, we're going to ignore you, US District Court judge.

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So we'll see how that goes. Newsmax is reporting that one of the big problems with student loans is that there are so many people who are behind on their student loans, it's causing their credit scores to plunge. And the credit scores are plunging so much that that if you wanted to do something like rent an apartment, you couldn't do it.

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Now, you're probably not able to buy a house, even if you had the cash. Well, I mean, you wouldn't have the cash because you're close to being a student. So if you can't buy a house and you can't rent one, what's going to happen to you? Are you going to have to hope that your parents take you in? Somebody's calling it a grift that I had cancer.

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Some of the worst people in the world woke up early to watch my show. How many of you think that my cancer is a grift and I just made it up? There are some terrible people in the world. Terrible people. Anyway. So I know somebody... who once got on the list of squatters.

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Now, it was a special case situation with her boyfriend, and they were breaking up, and he tried to get her out of the house, but she squatted. And she squatted very successfully for a very long time. But once she was squatted... You can never rent a place again because literally nobody in the world is going to rent a place to you if you've ever even squatted once.

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So we've got this big problem of people who made genuine mistakes. You know, that was a genuine mistake. But there's no way to recover. I feel like there's something that needs to be adjusted or fixed or, you know, there needs to be a special place you can go or something.

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But there's going to be a ton of young people who could never find a place on their own and they're never going to have kids or never getting married. just because their credit score is low. And in some cases, the story is that they didn't know that they'd missed a payment. You know, they didn't get the mail and stuff like that. But your life could be just absolutely savaged by your student loan.

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Well, according to that original sin book, that's that Jake Tapper book and Alex Thompson, And we're learning more every day. So apparently the people who are really running the country when Biden was in office was a group that called themselves the Politburo. Now, Politburo is sort of a reference to communism where there's a group of people in charge.

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But here are the names of the people that, according to the book, were actually in charge. So if you want to know who is running the country, well, we've got some pretty extensive reporting on that. And I've said this before, but the scariest part about this is that we've never heard of most of these people, at least half of them.

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So these are the people who were running the country when Biden was in office. Mike Donilon, Steve Ruschetti, Bruce Reed, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, and sometimes Ron Klain, sometimes Annie Tomasino, and sometimes Anthony Bernal. So that was the polybrio. So it was exactly what you thought it was.

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You know how you thought to yourself, I feel like there's some group of people who have just taken charge of my government. and I don't even know their names or who they are, that's what was happening. That's exactly what was happening. There was a small group of people you'd never heard of, half of them, and they were running the country.

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Now, the book also says that Biden himself was usually involved in decisions. but I feel like this group might have been a little bit more involved. The troll of the all-capital letters. Let's get rid of that troll with the all-capital letters. Well, Alan Dershowitz... had a suggestion that makes me feel good because it was the same thing I would have said.

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So whenever I agree with Alan Dershowitz, I think, oh, look at me. Look at me. I didn't even have to be a lawyer, and I got that one right. And he points out that if you want to use the Alien Enemies Act, to get rid of the worst of the immigrants, the illegal ones, the gang members, etc. And that's been kind of blocked because they need due process. He says this.

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that the Tesla Optimus robot is going to use the same battery as the car. I don't believe it's going to be the same size though, but apparently your Optimus robot will be able to work all day long. I was kind of wondering how much you could get out of your robot before it had to charge itself. But apparently all day long.

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You just have to give them due process. But it's up to you to decide what the due process is because it's not defined. Now, due process for a citizen is pretty well defined. It's in the Constitution. But the courts just say there has to be due process for the non-citizens. So all you have to do is make up a process. And you just say, this is our official process, and now I'm giving it to you.

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And that process could be as simple as you have 72 hours to mount a defense. And that's it. That's it. You just make sure that they all have 72 hours and maybe the ability to place phone calls or whatever, and then you can ship them back.

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And I thought to myself, before Alan Dershowitz said it, I thought, why don't we just make up a process and just make the process friendlier to the country than it is to the people that we want to deport? And Dershowitz said, Just says, that's all you got to do. Just make up a process because that's the due process if you say it is because it's not defined. So we're on the same page there, Dersh.

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According to the Postmillennial, about 25% of corporate sponsors have scaled back whatever they were going to do for the Pride Parade. So I guess that's coming up in June. Yeah, of course, the New York Times, people are pulling back. They're afraid of overdoing it and getting in trouble. So 25% scaled back.

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Episode 2851 CWSA 05/26/25

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And I always thought to myself that I saw some reference to the fact that the gay pride parade people, they had less money. And I thought to myself, how much money do you need for a gay pride parade? Couldn't you just wear your street clothes and walk down the street? Do you have to dress in a wildly provocative way? Like, why does that give you more pride?

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Couldn't you just walk down the street whistling and everybody would say, all right, good job. The gay community has done an amazing job in becoming part of normal, you know, the rest of civilization exactly like they want to do. And take the win. I always say this. The LGBT community

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not so much the tea, but the lesbians and gays have done such a good job in improving their brand in the United States. And I always say stuff like, have you ever gone to a neighborhood and said to yourself, oh, it's a dangerous neighborhood. It's a gay neighborhood. Nope. It's one of the most successful subgroups in the entire United States. Take the win.

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You have your parade, but does it really have to spend a lot of money? I don't know. I think just enjoy the win. According to Bloomberg, the profits from solar power companies have plunged And the reason is it's too sunny.

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Now, I don't know how this makes sense, but part of the story is that they had immense amount of captured sunlight, but they couldn't store it because they don't have enough batteries. So they captured amazing amounts of sun just like they wanted to, and then they had to let it all go. So they had very little battery storage. And I'm thinking to myself,

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Is this another thing that Elon Musk needs to fix? I think Elon Musk can fix this. He's got batteries. So Europe, France, and Spain. There's mostly France and Spain. So they didn't build their solar plant too wisely. How many of you saw the video of President Macron of France being pushed in the face by his wife? So Macron and his wife are in Vietnam.

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And Musk has one of the toughest summers ever because not only is Austin getting ready for full self-driving, so Musk has to focus on that. I saw somebody say that X might be gaining the ability to send money and the ability to chat online. which I guess would be different than DMing, I guess.

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It's part of an international trip they're making. And I don't know what's going on, but you see Macron standing still inside the airplane, but he's getting ready to go down the stairs. So the cameras are rolling and everything. And suddenly you see his wife's hand push him in the face. Like her hand goes over his mouth and just sort of pushes his head.

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And then he realizes that it's on camera and everybody's watching. And he's got to play it off like, oh, that didn't happen. I think at first he tried to say it was AI. Deep fake. Nobody bought that, of course. And then it turned into, oh, it's just my wife being playful.

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But allegedly, when they were walking down the steps a moment later, he held down his arm so that she could hold his arm when they went down the stairs, and she did not hold his arm. So it kind of looks like Mrs. McCrone is not too happy with her husband. So let me give you some advice. If you're ever married to the president of a country... Don't assault him on camera in front of the world.

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It's just not a good look. And none of it was important. It looked like maybe they were just having some argument about something. It wasn't going to hurt him. It was just sort of a dismissive push away. But you have to see the video yourself. You can decide for yourself.

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Well, there's a story that several days ago, Putin was in a helicopter looking at some of the front line in the war, and he was visiting Kursk. And allegedly, there was an organized drone attack against this helicopter, trying to assassinate him, basically. And it was Ukrainian drones. And then, allegedly, the Russian defenses defeated all the drones and none of them hit the helicopter.

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Now, I saw a story that said maybe this isn't true. But it would make sense if you looked at what Russia is doing right now, which is they're doing massive attacks on Kyiv. So it could be that because of the attempted assassination, Putin's just going really hard. And Trump's kind of mad at him. Trump said, I've always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia.

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but something has happened to him. He has gone absolute crazy. He's talking about the severity with which Putin is attacking Ukraine at the same time that Trump's trying to get him to talk peace. But that would make sense if Putin had survived an assassination attempt. So then you could kind of understand. He might be going a little nuts. All right.

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So Israel has announced, they waited for a holiday to announce this, holiday in the United States, that according to the Wall Street Journal, that the Israeli military on Sunday said it plans to capture 75% of the Gaza Strip within two months and push Palestinian civilians into just a quarter of the Strip's territory as part of their effort to get rid of Hamas. Now, here's the weird part.

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The part that they want to push the civilians into, so presumably that allows them to really get... get tough on Hamas and their tunnels and finish them off. America is apparently the aid source. So to feed the Gazans who are being pushed into a quarter of the territory, apparently that's your taxes and mine. To which I say, what? What? But why is America paying to feed the Gazans?

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And so he's working on that and Starship launch and AI, and he's working on the DMs working, because the DMs were not working again today. He's got the busiest summer. Man, we're not going to hear much from him. Did you know, according to the New Atlas, that the Air Force... is planning a rocket that can bring some enormous amount, 100 tons of cargo to anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes. 100 tons.

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I mean, I'd rather that they don't starve, of course. But are you saying that Israel can't afford to do it? Is there some reason that Israel's war requires the United States to feed the people on the other side of the war? What's up with that? So that part doesn't make sense. Yeah, I don't know why we're doing that.

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But you might remember that I've long suggested what I called the filter fence, where you move the people into a safe zone that can be determined that they're not combatants. And then you go wild on whatever's left. And it looks like they're doing the filter fence strategy. Now when I talk about Israel, if you're new to me, I'm not endorsing anything they do.

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So I'm not pro or anti anything to do. I just observe and report. So my view is that whoever has power over there, they're going to be accused of genocide by the other side. Now, is that good or bad? It's not up to me. So it's not up to me to decide what is moral or ethical or good or bad.

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I believe that the children are going to be the victims no matter who had the power and who was doing what to whom. There will be children dying. And nobody likes that. So you can be against children dying, but if you don't have some kind of larger solution with all your brilliance to make it stop, and I don't, I don't have any way to make it stop, you can just observe.

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So I observe that they're doing what makes sense for Israel, and that's as far as I'll go. But you can't really be in favor of it. You can just watch it and say, well, it makes sense for them. All right. You know the story of South Africa and whether or not there's a white genocide going on over there?

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And some of the evidence of the white genocide appear to be fake, but there's plenty that doesn't appear to be fake. And Laura Logan I was seeing the Vigilant Fox report on this. She says, oh, there's definitely a white genocide in South Africa. I didn't realize that she came from South Africa, so she has a little more connection to it than the rest of us. But here's my question.

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I do believe that there would be plenty of examples of white farmers in being tortured and having stuff stolen from them. But if it's also true that everybody is being, that the crime in general is just so bad that the black citizens are getting just as much crime. In other words, everybody's a victim of crime if you live there. It doesn't matter if you're white or black.

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It does kind of blur that whole

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white genocide area like it if all you have to do to get to be a victim of crime in south africa is show up and you don't it doesn't matter what color you are if you've got money somebody's going to want to take it from you i don't know what to call that i mean i guess it's white genocide i guess it is but wouldn't there be a black genocide happening at the same time

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or it doesn't account if the people who are doing it, the crime, are also black. So you have a different word for it or something? Well, I would say, generally speaking, stay away from massive crime, if you can. Here's a story in the Daily Mail. I think it was in India. The story was a little unclear on that, but I think it was India.

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They convicted somebody for poisoning her fiancé by putting sensors on her head and essentially doing some version of a lie detector, but a more high-tech one. So they placed a cap with electrodes on her head and they played specific

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phrases about the crime and then they said we can tell by looking at our readout that you're guilty now apparently it works 90 of the time but that would not be nearly enough i do think however we're reaching a point where the lie detector or the ability to read your brain basically is going to be so good

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that your entire trial might be just putting on a cap and turning it on and asking you some questions. Now, we're not there. 90% is not nearly good enough. You know, you need something like 100%. I think we might get to 100%. I think the technology for telling if you're lying could get to 100%. I think it might.

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Meanwhile, there's some kind of super bug, according to a neoscope, that it's a nasty bacteria that eats hospital plastic. So, you know, a lot of medical stuff and hospital stuff is made of plastic. Well, this bacteria that starts with people, and then I guess it can get into the environment, will also eat the plastic. and it digests as medical plastic.

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Now, I assume that's just for either military or emergency response. You wouldn't really want to spend that much money to bring 100 tons of cargo anywhere. But how could that compete with Starship? I'm kind of puzzled because I don't think the U.S. Air Force knows how to make that reusable. And maybe it's not. Maybe it just stays there. There's something wrong with that story.

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It makes me wonder if there's... It's also deadly, so you don't want it in your body. But it makes me wonder if they can modify that thing so it eats the plastic that's in my body, the microplastics that's apparently in my balls. I don't know. Maybe. I feel like the whole too much plastic and microplastics, there's going to be some kind of technological fix.

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where they take one of these nasty bacteria and do a little CRISPR stuff on it and tweak it a little bit. So it's not dangerous for people, but it still likes to eat plastic. And then you take a pill every morning with some of those bacteria in there. It's like, it just eats all the plastic in your body and then it dies because it doesn't have any more food. All right.

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That's all I got today because it's Memorial Day and there's not much happening. But glad I could spend this time with you. I'm going to say some private stuff to the people on Locals. It'll mutate me, people. Oh, well. Use the nanobots in the COVID shop to destroy the microplastics. All right. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining. We'll show our respect on Memorial Day.

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And I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately. The rest of you, I will see you on Monday. Thanks for joining. All right, we got about 30 seconds.

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I don't believe the Air Force could land a giant rocket anywhere they want in 90 minutes and that it could take off and go back home. I don't think so. But That's the story. Well, you've heard versions of this before, but apparently the University of Pennsylvania has found yet another material that can collect water and then release it without any energy.

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So you'd be able to just, I don't know, hang it up on a clothesline and have it make water out of the air. So the whole problem of running out of water It might not be a problem. Makes me wonder if you could put a little bit of it on a plant and then you'd never have to water the plant. Wouldn't that be cool?

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If you never had to water it, they just took the water out of the air and just dropped it on the plant. That'd be kind of cool. Well, according to PJ Media, the New York Times has a big story about the Democratic Party being in a death spiral. Ha! if your political party is ever referred to as being in a death spiral, that's bad.

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But I guess the evidence includes the fact that, let's see, in the 2024 election, six times as many counties shifted toward the GOP as toward the Democrats. Yes. Well, I guess it was just a gigantic shift. So they say that Trump has built an unstoppable coalition of working class people. And the only people left who are representative of the Democrats would be basically wine drinking college moms.

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Hey, YouTube's just frozen out four people. Huh. Weird. All right. Once again, I'm your holiday... James, not a lazy podcaster like those other people. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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That's just me. According to the Epoch Times, Doge says it completed the major cleanup of Social Security records. So, you know, all those records of, there were like 12 million people on the data who were over the age of 120. So they got rid of about 12 million records. 12.3 million records that were apparently people who now have been marked as deceased.

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So they didn't used to be marked as deceased, which means probably fraud. Probably 12 million people fraudulently collecting Social Security. But they put an end to that. Well, you know how Trump had threatened the European Union with a 50% tariff? Well, they called him Sunday night and said, please don't do that. And I guess it was a good phone call, and Trump agreed to push it in a month.

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You know, once again, that whole threatening of a tariff, it seems to work every time. Because the main thing he wanted is for them to just get serious about negotiating. And if they weren't serious or they weren't doing it fast enough, he's just all 50% tariff. Tariff for you, tariff for you. And then they call him and they say, no.

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And then he says, all right, if you're just going to try much harder to get this done. So that tariff threat is working. So I saw a long post on X yesterday by Stephen Miller. Now, as you know, Stephen Miller is an important part of the administration, one of the smarter people there. And he wanted to explain that people had it wrong about the big, beautiful bill, the budget bill.

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And he went into great detail saying how it would lower taxes and lower the deficit too. And I couldn't understand a damn sentence in there. Almost none of it made sense to me. Now, it doesn't mean he's wrong, because he seemed to have a good grasp of the topic in a much greater detail than I've seen before. So he might be right, but I can't tell. I can't tell by his writing.

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It was just amazingly impenetrable, but might have been right. I don't know. But meanwhile, Ron Johnson, who is very much on the side of the president and the side of Stephen Miller, he says the opposite. He says that the budget's going to exacerbate the national deficit.

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So could it be true that Stephen Miller is right, that it will decrease the deficit, while Ron Johnson is right that it will increase it? We can't tell. It's really complicated. And the other thing that you need to know, and I wonder how many of you knew this, there's essentially the budget is cut in two parts. There's a small part, which is this.

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The so-called big, beautiful bill is actually the smallest part of the budget. And you only need 51 votes to pass it. So that works for the Republicans because they have a slight majority. So they can get this budget reconciliation process, as they call it, through with a narrow vote if it comes to that.

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But the biggest part of the budget, they would need 61 votes to presumably beat a... What do you call it? What's it called when the other side just talks forever? What's that called? I always forget the name of that. I've been stuck on this one before. It's called a...

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you'll tell me in the comments in a second filibuster yes a filibuster so the biggest part of the budget is not even part of the big beautiful budget this is just the the little uh stuff that we can change and the big stuff probably won't be able to change it at all because we won't be able to overcome the filibuster i'm thinking

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And then there's a question about are we cutting Medicaid or not cutting Medicaid? So Speaker Johnson has settled on this weird messaging where we're totally cutting Medicaid, but we're not cutting Medicaid. So he's literally saying both things at the same time and selling it. So he says, quote, we are not cutting Medicaid in this package, Johnson said Sunday on the State of the Union.

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There's a lot of misinformation out there about this. All right, so that's pretty clear, right? You can't be more clear than that. We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. And then later he says that the goal is to protect Medicaid for vulnerable Americans. I'm like, oh, okay.

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That's consistent with not cutting it by removing those who should not be receiving the benefits such as illegal immigrants and able-bodied adults who are not working. So he is not cutting Medicaid. And the way that he's going to do that is by cutting all these people who are getting Medicaid and taking them off. He's totally cutting Medicaid.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cupper mug or a glass of tankard shells beside a kenteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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He's just cutting it for a certain two classes of people. Illegal immigrants. Most of you would agree with that. But able-bodied adults. Mostly men. So apparently... And then the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that nearly... 200,000 people in Louisiana alone, that's Mike Johnson's own state, could lose Medicaid coverage because of the cuts there.

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So 200,000 people just in Louisiana alone will lose their coverage. And then Mike Johnson says, oh, we're totally not going to cut Medicaid. No, I'm not disagreeing with anything they're doing. I'm just talking about the messaging, that they're getting away with saying they're not cutting it. At the same time, they're massively cutting it.

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But they're massively cutting it from able-bodied men who should get jobs and not be receiving it. And Johnson says the focus is on fraud, waste, and abuse, and specifically these young, able-bodied workers who are taking advantage of the system. We don't want that. No taking advantage of the system. Now, also, I only learned this today.

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Apparently they, Mike Johnson says, they tucked into this big, beautiful bill. He told Face the Nation this. a provision that would restrict federal courts' ability to enforce some injunctions. So you know how every time Trump orders something, there's always some federal judge who says, not so fast. Here's an injunction. I will prevent you from doing it.

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And then it has to go to the Supreme Court, and Trump usually wins. So apparently they stuck that into the bill. And it's meant to restrict activist judges. We'll see. As long as the Senate doesn't try to take it out, I guess. So here's a thing that I'm going to agree with Trump on quite a bit. So I think we're something like 31% of Harvard's students were foreign students. Now, on one hand...

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you might say to yourself, there are plenty of good reasons why a foreign student should be allowed to go to Harvard. But Harvard was not allowing white men and Asian Americans to get into Harvard. And the slots were being filled up by people from other countries. Now, the problem is that if you get a degree from Harvard, and maybe this is changing quickly,

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called a simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. That was just enough. Just what I needed. My co-host today will be President Trump. All right. Well, that's enough of that. Well, did you know that, uh,

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But if you have a degree from Harvard, isn't that like an amazing thing for the rest of your life? Why were we giving 30% of them to people from foreign countries when there were people who were absolutely qualified? you know, the Asian Americans who were being turned down for Harvard. Totally qualified. Probably lots of white guys too. And they just couldn't get in because of their ethnicity.

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But they're letting the foreign workers, 30% of their students. Amazing. Amazing. So I'm with Trump. Send them all home. We should have never been in this situation. So I'm glad he's fixing that. And you wouldn't be surprised that Justin News is reporting that a judge has halted Trump's order to get rid of the foreign students. And that's why

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The Pentagon is well on its way on this plan to create a buffer zone on our southern border. Now, when I read that, I thought, hmm, buffer zone. This could be interesting. What do you need a buffer zone for? And then I saw that the buffer zone is only going to be, let's see, its width would be only, what, 20 yards? Kind of a tiny little buffer. Yeah, it's only 20 yards deep.

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Now, how many of you, if you haven't seen the story, how many of you know why we want to create a buffer zone? That's only 20 yards. It turns out it's really clever because if you make the buffer zone, a military base, so you could just, you know, designated a military base, it just happens to be only 20 yards wide than the military.

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can hold people until the authorities get there to process them. So at the moment, because of the current laws of the land, if you're in the military, you can't be doing domestic law and order stuff. So the military can only do military stuff. They're not allowed to just arrest somebody. And they can't hold somebody.

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So even if they cause somebody at the border, they wouldn't be allowed to hold them. Unless that person was trespassing on a military base. So apparently this is some kind of clever end run to make as much of the border as possible a 20-yard wide military base. So if the military catches somebody on that 20-yard swath,

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They can hold them until the, I would say indefinitely, but there's probably some limit. But they wouldn't have any reason that they have to release them. They can just wait for the border control to come and process them. So that is so clever that I have to give some props to that. Now, they haven't quite implemented it, but it looks like they're well on their way to doing it.

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And they can't do the whole border at once. There's some kind of rule that says they can only do a piece at a time, but they could do a piece at a time, and then they can get there. Well, according to Rusty Weiss, who's writing for Red State, Canada is seeing this huge crush of illegals fleeing the U.S. because of Trump's border policies and his immigration policies.

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The theme is all the Trump stuff is working. Everything's good. You okay with that? So we're going to ignore any bad news. There might be some. I didn't see much bad news today. But there's a whole bunch of stuff that will make you happy. Some of it may be happy for entirely wrong reasons. So this one's, it'll make you happy that the anti-Trump people are not doing well.

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So it kind of makes sense, doesn't it, that if you were in this country and you were high on the list of people to be deported, you would immediately escape to Canada where the rules are maybe a little friendlier. And even actually a member of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, a smuggler, confirmed that business is booming in the opposite direction of the illegals.

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So a lot of them are self-deporting to the great white north. I guess the 60 Minutes Overtime segment had that news. Now, I have a message to Canada. Canada, you know what would cause that not to happen? If you were a state. Because if you were a state, the immigration laws would be the same above the border as now.

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But because you're not a state, and because you're not controlling your border, you're going to get big tariffs, apparently. And you're going to get a tsunami of criminal migrants. So, I mean, we don't want that to happen. But there's a way to avoid it. If only you were a state. All right. I don't think Canada will ever become a state. But the argument for it may continue to strengthen. We'll see.

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According to the Postmillennial, they're writing about a morning console poll that 36% of Democrat voters still favor Kamala Harris for the 2028 presidential nominee. Do you know what I say to that? I'll drink to that. Remember, I'm only giving you good news, good news for Trump supporters.

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Can you think of any better news than 36% of Democrats are still looking for Kamala Harris, which would be way more than whoever is in second place? I think Buttigieg might be in second place. So I'm pretty sure that a stronger candidate will emerge, but maybe not, maybe not. So Senator Rand Paul did a great job of explaining something that I'd wondered about. He was on Face the Nation.

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And Rand Paul is really good at this. He's really good at explaining things so you can understand them. So here's what I didn't understand. So there are two, I guess, rules or constitutional things or laws, whatever you want to call them. that are in conflict.

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One of them is that if you're in the United States, you don't have to be a citizen to be eligible for a full trial and process like a citizen. So you would get your day in court. You would get the same rights as anybody else would as long as you're in the country. So I like that. To me, that seems fair that anybody gets caught into our legal system.

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should have the same protections as everybody else in the legal system. So that might let some bad guys get away with stuff, but we accept that. We accept that just so we don't put in jail some good people who wrongly got into the system somehow. However, that's in conflict with

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with the fact that the president, according to the Alien Enemies Act, can deport people who he thinks are alien enemies. So those two things can't exist together. So it can't be true that everybody gets their day in court and proper process. At the same time, the president can say, well, not these ones. These ones don't get proper process.

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As long as we think they're gang members or bad guys, we'll just send them back. So that's what the Supreme Court might decide. Now, Rand Paul, Senator Paul, says he predicts the Supreme Court will uphold the Trump administration enacting the Alien Enemies Act. But that might be optimistic. And I also wonder, I'm a little confused about, oh, he also thinks that

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that the Supreme Court might limit the district judges from having nationwide rulings. And I'm wondering, does that happen at the same time? So I need somebody who's smart about the Supreme Court and process to tell me that. If the question of a fair trial and due process versus the alien enemies thing where the president can just say, you're done, get out of here,

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If that gets decided, does that at the same time automatically decide that the district judges from all over the country can't do these nationwide rulings? Or does that have to be a separate case that's more specific to district judges and nationwide rulings? So I'm a little unclear about that part. But Senator Paul thinks that maybe both things could go Trump's way.

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But you shouldn't be too happy. And I'll tell you why. So, for example, De Niro, Breitbart is reporting on this, De Niro has a new movie out called The Alto Nights. And it will only gross around $3 million. That's about as bad as you can get, $3 million. Meanwhile, Rachel Zegler, who is no fan of President Trump, her Disney movie has opened.

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speaking of things going trump's way rolls royce the british engineering giant they're they're in uh they're in a lot of uh military stuff and they they also make small nuclear reactors for for commercial use um they're going to move some of their manufacturing to the us and why is that Because of tariffs. So the ones that they're moving to the US might be things that they're making in China.

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So if there's tariffs on Chinese goods... They don't want to be a Chinese good, because if it's made in China and then shipped here, it's a problem. Tariff-wise, it's a problem. So they're going to move some of their manufacturing out of the countries that are getting tariffed and into the United States, which is exactly what Trump was hoping would happen.

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According to Just the News, John Solomon's writing about In Missouri, I hadn't paid a lot of attention to this, but Missouri had this court case, a legal, I guess a lawsuit, in which they were blaming China, the country, for COVID and for bad behavior and not telling us what was happening and acting like a monopoly and hoarding the masks and stuff like that. So

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Apparently, China didn't bother to show up to defend themselves. They were just going to ignore it. And the lawsuit went Missouri's way. So yeah, Attorney General Bailey. And there was a $24 billion judgment. So according to the Missouri legal system, China owes Missouri $24 billion for just COVID-related damage.

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But as you can imagine, China is just ignoring it and they have no intention of paying. But now it turns out that Missouri is moving to seize Chinese-owned farmland and other assets that are in their state. But here's my question. Are the farms owned by the country of China? Are they owned by individual Chinese investors?

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And can you take from individual Chinese investors assets because you won a case against the government of China? So I guess I have some questions about how that works. But that fight is going on right now. Here's a comment that J.D. Vance made about Denmark, and his choice of words is what is terrific. I'll tell you, when it comes to choosing your words, J.D. Vance is one of the best.

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So I don't know yet that he's got the full persuasion stack. He doesn't have a Trump-level persuasion stack. But wow, is he good at choosing words. So listen to this. He's talking about Denmark. on a recent interview. And he said, Denmark is not doing its job, not being a good ally. If that means we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do.

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Listen to that phrase, territorial interest. Isn't that just the perfect, doesn't tell you exactly how it would happen. So it leaves open the mechanism. But territorial interest is, makes something that could sound scary just sound a little bit ordinary. And then he frames it as Denmark not being a good ally, which would include not being a good ally to Greenland, which they control.

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Now, do you think that Denmark is doing a good job of protecting Greenland? Not even close. Do you think Denmark is doing a good job for its allies in America, Canada, the US, of protecting us by making sure that Greenland is, you know, defensively adequate. No, they're not. So maybe those are not a good enough reason to take over or to buy or to merge with another country.

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But these are facts, you know, and there's sort of plainly obvious facts. that Greenland is not defensively adequate and that it needs to be. And I don't think anybody disagrees with that. No one who's paying attention disagrees. But here's the second smart thing.

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At the same time that JD is talking, I'm going to say provocatively, about Greenland, his wife, Usha Vance, is going to visit with one of the kids going to Greenland. And here's what I love about this. If that seems like just a stunt, it really isn't. Because you remember when Charlie Kirk and Don Jr. brought some people to Greenland? Here's what this feels like to me.

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And it looks like Snow White is going to make, it's the worst opening of a live-action Disney movie ever, or in a very long time. So it's one of the worst things ever. Somebody sent me a picture of Disney's board of directors. And I'm going to say a good thing about Disney. You know, usually, lately, I've been piling on. But I got to say, they're nailing the DEI stuff.

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It feels like showing respect. Because she's going there and she doesn't have a particular goal, except she's going to visit some historical landmarks in Greenland. Essentially just paying respect. Now, how smart is that to have your, in the case of Don Jr., to have the president's son track all the way up to Greenland where it's not like he was going to be there anyway?

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And, of course, he's got a big personality, Charlie Kirk, big personality. And they just sort of impress the locals as just good blokes and show their respect. Don't ask for anything. They didn't ask for anything. They just showed their respect. And then they left, said good things. And now J.D. Vance's wife and kid are going to go up there and just show their respect. This is so smart.

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So smart, persuasion-wise. But also defense-wise, also politically-wise, just personally. Just, you know, how would you like to be treated if you're in Greenland? You're going to have to lead with respect. If you want to do anything, you're going to have to lead with respect. And I like that the Trump administration understands that.

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And so they're going to make sure that respect is just right at the top. I like that. Anyway, you know about AOC and Bernie Sanders' anti-oligarch tour, which I call a one-man show because a lot of you don't know that it's being played by the same character. So there's one character who's playing both Bernie and AOC. The only difference is they wear the same shirt.

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It's this white button-down tuck-in shirt. So the quick change when they go from the Bernie to the AOC really is just you throw on the wig, you take off the jacket. There's no necktie. So you just take off the jacket and then you slather on some makeup. Now, I think most of you know that you could turn a bowling ball into a living human if you had the right makeup.

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So you just slap on the wig, take off the jacket, put on some makeup. Boom. AOC. AOC. No, not really. But they do kind of remind me of the same person. But Bernie recently said about the border, he said, nobody thinks illegal immigration is appropriate. So he seems to be happy with Trump's pressure on fentanyl, happy with Trump's efforts on the border.

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And I ask you this, weren't there, should there have been more Democrats saying we should do more on the border? This seems like a complete capitulation. Yeah. But I don't know. He's anti-oligarch. Pro-border security, anti-oligarch. Kash Patel, and I don't understand this story at all, but apparently the top 10 FBI's most wanted during the entire Biden era, I think zero were arrested.

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Zero of the top 10. How many of them do you think that Kash Patel has already caught of the top 10 most wanted? All 10. What? What were they doing? It's the top 10. He caught all top 10 in what, just weeks? Are you telling me that wasn't possible before? Well, I don't even understand. How is this even remotely possible that Biden's administration got zero and then cash in a few weeks got all 10?

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What? Here's the other story that's got me wondering. Gateway Pundit is talking about a... I guess there's an article in Vanity. So not... I wouldn't say the most reliable source, but... According to them, the FBI's flagship New York field office has reportedly shifted its focus to a single mission.

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So they're just going to work on one thing, which is redacting and reviewing the Jeffrey Epstein case files for public release. They say there are over 1,000 agents and civilian employees who are sometimes working 12-hour shifts overnight trying to get this stuff ready to be released. Now, let me ask you this. Why would they apply that much resources to getting this done?

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Because they could have said, the only way to get this done is it's going to take us a thousand employees and we're going to have to let our other work dangle for months. So we don't want to do that. So if you don't mind, we'll give you a, let's say, a five-month deadline, and we'll try to do as much of our other work that's important too, but we'll put 200 people on it, not 1,000.

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Their diversity on their board is excellent. Their movies need a little work. Now, this is good news, bad news for me in California especially because I really, really, I really, really, really want Hollywood and movies and TV to work because it's a big part of our economy and it used to be a big part of my entertainment. So I want it to work.

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Would you have accepted that? We would have had questions, but if it got done in five months and then it was actually really released, you would say, all right, I get it. Some things just take a long time, but why would they instead, given that cash is very, you know, very mission focused, he got all 10 of the top 10 most wanted.

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Why would he put so much resources into doing this as fast as possible? And then I'm going to add another factoid by now. Kash Patel and probably Trump, know what kind of impact this is going to have, meaning they know what names are the big ones, they know how bad it is, and they know how it will be received by the public.

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And at the same time that they know what the impact would be, and they know what the names are, they've decided to go as fast as possible. What does that tell you? I'll tell you what it tells me. There's nothing in there about Trump that's damaging. Do you agree on that? Now, we'd like to think, oh, but Scott, the FBI is independent. Kash Patel has already denied the White House some cuts.

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He said, I'll do the cuts, not you. So he's already shown independence. So he's not being influenced by the government anymore. but he's put 1,000 people on it, working 12-hour shifts sometimes. I don't know. If you assume that by now they know exactly what the bad news is in there, it suggests that this would completely destroy the Democrat Party. That's my take.

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It must be way worse for Democrats than it is for any Republicans. And I think that the reason that they're working so fast is to make sure those people don't leave the country. And they want to make sure that there's as little time as possible for the bad people to make a move. So I don't know.

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but it sort of suggests that this would be the end of the Democrat Party, that the news is going to be so bad, just so bad, that it changes life in America. It might. That's what the indication is to me. I mean, I'm just reading the tea leaves here, but that's what it feels like. Meanwhile, as you know, Democrat Party favorability, according to some new polls, CNN was talking about it, is 29%.

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Now, just to put this in perspective, I asked perplexity, how many Democrats and how many Republicans voters are there right now? And if you count the leaners, the people who reliably vote one way versus the other, so that would include some independents, there would be 49% Democrats in the country and 48% Republicans. Now those are close enough to be identical, right?

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Because of the errors and stuff. So basically the same number, basically half the country, Republican, half Democrat. Now that doesn't mean they're registered that way. It just means they reliably vote in one direction or the other. So if you've got 49% Democrats in the country or Democrat reliable voters and only 29% favorability,

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but it looks like they're doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't but how would you like some more good news about california you ready for this i don't know if i can even believe this next thing so jim hoff the gateway pundits reporting there's a state statewide poll in california that says that in 2026, well, let me just read it. There's a statewide survey from Decipher AI

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that would suggest that 40% of the people don't like their own party. That doesn't sound survivable at all politically. But to be fair, even the Republicans have 30% who don't like their party. So there's a lot of people who don't like each party. But the difference between 30% and 40% does seem pretty big to me.

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You know, not just percentage-wise, but one of them seems like, you know, business is normal. Everybody complains about everything, including their own party. And the other seems like, turn out the lights. I mean, 29% favorability when 49% of the country votes that way or would like to vote that way. And California is looking at a Republican being competitive for governor. Wow.

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I've got a feeling that reality is starting to make a dent. Because a lot of politics is not based on reality. It's based on theater.

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And once people realize that the Democrats are and always have been, since the days of John Wilkes Booth, who was literally an actor, once they realize that the Democrats are a theater group who pretend what's important for power, and they're not at all about fixing anything. You know that book Abundance that we keep talking about, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book?

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It's talking about how the Democrats have to stop being the ones who brag about getting stuff funded when nothing happens, like charging stations and high-speed rail in California and internet to remote areas. These are all areas where the Democrats, they took a victory lap for getting it funded, and then nothing happened. And so even Democrats are saying, you can't just be a theater group.

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You can't just pretend you did something. You actually have to do things. And I don't even think that message is taking hold of the Democrats. I think the Democrats, by inertia, by whatever reason, are absolutely firmly entrenched in the idea that messaging is what matters. Do you know what that means? The theater. Yeah, the theater.

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Now, the thing that Trump has that they don't quite understand is he has a full talent stack. So he can go full theater and run a rally and entertain people and say things that don't pass the fact checking. Full theater. But it's sitting on top.

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of real accomplishments, especially in his first term and clearly in the second term, where even the other side can say, you're really good at theater, like really good, like better than anybody's ever been. Nobody's ever been better at theater than you are. But you're also really good at making things happen in the real world.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Divine. Godlike. Well, let's start with science. You know, science is important because there are many things we don't understand about the world.

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Once the Democrats figure that out, that they've only been involved with the theater only, no talent stack, it's going to be hard for them to keep any kind of a ruling majority for federal stuff. I think they'll still rule in the cities, et cetera. But I don't know. They seem doomed to me.

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Of course, it would only take one good federal candidate to change everything, but I don't see that person happening. General Flynn has made an appeal to Elon Musk on X. I'll just read it. He says, please, in capitals, pull the thread on one of these all the way to the end. One of these being the Doge discoveries about bad funding behavior.

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He says, pull the thread on these all the way to the end to show who is actually receiving the money I'd like to know, and millions of other Americans would like to know, true, we deserve to see who the hell is ripping us off. You are correct, General. Who is benefiting from this corruption?

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We the people sincerely appreciate you and the entire Doge team exposing them, but the more important question that is clearly bubbling up across our beautiful country is, will anyone ever be held accountable? Help us out here. Thank you. Now, I fully embrace and agree with that. However, I would bet that the recipients don't have any crime to answer to.

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I feel like the system was just built so that they could easily satisfy the, let's say, the letter of the law while still being completely criminal in intent. For example, if somebody hired a million-dollar-a-year consultant who happened to be their own spouse, and that person didn't do much at all, is that illegal? I don't think it is.

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It would be criminal in intent and criminal in outcome, you know, in terms of criminal-ish, but I don't think it would be technically illegal. And to me, that's what all of this looks like. It all looks like this thin veneer of, well, You know, we gave some of it to battle AIDS in Africa. Well, how much? Well, 5%. But where did the rest of it go?

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And it says that a staggering 48% of likely California voters are now open to voting for a Republican governor in 2026. Only 25% of Californians are registered Republican. And yet 48% are looking at, you know, if it's the right candidate, we might go for a Republican this time. Why? Well, here's an example. So these are some figures also from the polling, I guess.

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Well, there's a lot of administrative overhead to get money to Africa. I mean, it's not easy. And it would just look like normal incompetence and normal bad behavior, but not exactly illegal. But I'm in 100% agreement with General Flynn. that we should know who it is.

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Because if it turns out that 80% of it is going to spouses of Democrat leaders or something like that, I'm not assuming that that's going to be the actual outcome. But I think it would tell us a lot. Now, I don't think that Doge is necessarily tasked with that. So I don't know if that's in their domain. If it's not in their domain, I don't know if I'd put it there. because they have enough to do.

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You don't want Doge to be like a legal arm of the government. You want them to be cost-cutting fraud and abuse. And if they stick to that, maybe their credibility is the best. But somehow, whether it's Doge or somebody else, wouldn't you like to know who's spending your money? Well, over in Great Britain, you know they have this Prime Minister Keir Starmer

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who I don't pay much attention to British politics, but this caught my eye. Apparently, you know, Starmer said that Great Britain might be willing or would be willing to put boots on the ground to be a peacekeeping force in Ukraine if necessary. And his own military apparently is saying, you know, you really should have talked to us because that's batshit crazy. Yeah.

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So it sounds like the military was not advised or did not advise on the idea of putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. Now, of course, the military is not in charge of that decision. So if the leader wants to say it and the leader wants to do it, I believe he would have that authority. But the military dismissed it as, quote, political theater. So they've got a left-leaning...

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liberal leader who their own military says is involved in political theater. Huh. There it is. Theatrical. I remember when I first heard it, I thought, really? You think the country of Great Britain is going to be all in on boots on the ground in Ukraine? Really? You think that that's a survivable idea in terms of politically survivable? Probably not. Probably not.

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It looks like it was just theater, which, once again, we see the pattern. But here's a related topic. And by the way, the funny thing about Starmer is that although he would be the liberal leader, he seemed really very pro-Trump because he was one of the first ones to come over when Trump got elected. And putting boots on the ground in Ukraine sounds ridiculous. Pretty darn warlike.

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So he's an interesting character. We'll keep an eye on him. So according to TVP World, I've never heard of them, but they say that China is thinking about putting peacekeeping forces in Ukraine. I guess that's German media says that. Now, they've only asked about it. So Europe, as you know, Europe is considering the idea of maybe some kind of UN peacekeeping force or a European peacekeeping force.

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And, of course, Putin is all completely no on that. No, no, no, no, no, and big no. And also capital no and all caps no. But they're still talking about it. Now, China has never been considered a potential force to have boots on the ground. But let me just talk about that for a second. Your first impression to China putting boots on the ground as a peacekeeping force in Ukraine would be what?

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Crazy, right? Just insane. You don't want China to get a foothold in Ukraine. And also China is considered to be pro-Russia. So maybe they wouldn't even do the job they were sent there. Maybe they'd be like agents working against peace so that Putin can do what he needs to do and they'll just get out of the way. So your suspicions and the risk of it seems sky high, right?

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Let me give you the alternate argument. What does China want? Because China is very predictable in pursuing what's good for China. If you could predict one thing about China, it's like, okay, what's good for China? That's what they'll do. And that's not wrong. I mean, I think even Trump would say, yeah, that's why Xi is a strong leader. He's doing what's good for China, and he should.

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So what's good for China? Is it more war? Is China better off if Putin takes the rest of Ukraine with all the risks that come with that? Nope. China is better off if everybody else just stops fighting because they want markets. They want Russia to do well so they can make more oil that they can buy. They want to do trade with them. They probably want some of the resources that come out of Ukraine.

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They might need some food, maybe some wheat. I don't know if they currently consume it or not. But China is never in favor of other countries being at war. So the weird thing about this is this might be the best idea I've heard. Now, I'm not blind to the fact that you can't trust anybody.

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I'm not blind to the fact that China and Putin are seemingly a little bit close, although realistically, I think there's got to be some friction there. We just don't hear about it.

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83% of voters say gas prices are too high in California. What are your gas prices? Because our gas prices are well over $5 a gallon. But I understand that the nation is closer to $3. Yeah, we noticed. 69% think California's political leaders have not done enough to bring down energy utility costs. Yeah, we noticed. We noticed you're doing a terrible job in California on energy costs.

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they are the one they are the one entity that in my opinion purely want peace and i'm not sure about europe europe seems to want to keep fighting and putin seems to want to keep fighting but china china definitely doesn't want more fighting there's not the slightest chance that they want russia to dissolve as a country with all their their nukes exposed

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They don't want a nuclear conflict because nothing good about that. It's not good for markets. It's not good for business. It's not good for surviving. So whatever happens that works in Ukraine is going to be so far out of the box that you're going to say, whoa, that never occurred to me. This is wonderfully outside the box.

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I'm not going to say it's a good idea because maybe smarter people who can see around corners will say, oh, Scott, you're forgetting about this or that. But if you could make sure that the Chinese presence wasn't so big that they could somehow militarily dominate Ukraine or something, I don't see any chance that Putin would bomb Chinese troops. Do you?

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I think this might be, weirdly, one of the better ideas about Ukraine. High risk, but every path is high risk. So if you say that's too risky, you have to compare it to all the other paths which are too risky. So what we're trying to do is find the least of the too risky paths paths. And it might be the least risky, weirdly.

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So anyway, and again, the thing that would make it possible is that China is so darn predictable. And I predict that the last thing they want is war. And if they think they're the only thing that could prevent it, I think they'd be in for the right reasons. Speaking of a starmer, just the news is reporting that Starmer wants to do a doge-like thing with the British bureaucracy.

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Remember I told you he's weirdly Trump-like for somebody who's a liberal? So he wants to do a doge-like thing. And what do you think the locals are saying about that, the anti-Starmers? Well, they're saying that he wants to take a chainsaw to the... So they're using the chainsaw thing against him. All he wants to do is reduce the bureaucracy. He just wants to save some money for the taxpayers.

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Oh, you should use a scalpel instead of a chainsaw. Chainsaw, chainsaw, chainsaw. All right. Well, Mike Benz had a video that I was listening to yesterday that, you know, every time I listen to him, I go away just saying, oh, you know, my whole worldview is altered again. Apparently, the CIA has long had

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let's say a toolkit that included if they couldn't get enough congressional support to do something they wanted to do to another country, let's say Cuba, that one of the ways they would deal with that is to support massive immigration until there were enough concentration of Cubans, let's say in one place, that they could elect a representative to Congress

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who could help push the idea of getting tough with Cuba. And that they may have actually done that. And that another example might be that the CIA wanted to do some things around Somalia. So they somehow may have inspired a bunch of immigration into one part of the world, which would elect Ilhan Omar. Is this real?

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Is the CIA really manipulating the Congress by mass immigration and then concentrating them in one place so they can elect their own Congress person? And then the CIA would back them and give them enough power and attention that it would be driving the CIA's agenda instead of the American agenda? Is that real? I so want to believe that's not real, but It could be. It certainly could be.

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It would explain a lot. Anyway, apparently the Department of Education, which we think is going to go away, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, or at least $100 million, DEI for grade schools as well as universities. This is according to Just the News. And now that that's banned, we're wondering if they're going to figure out some clever way to do it or if they're going to stop doing it.

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71% believe the governor and legislative leaders have not addressed California's high cost of living. Yes, that's exactly what we think. 73% support fully funding anti-crime Prop 36, which has not occurred. Yeah, we'd like to fund anti-crime. Can you please stop the crime? How about 72% feel homelessness still is a big problem? Yes, I'm amazed that it's only 72%.

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But can you even imagine that? That the Department of Education was going to put $100 million into DEI to make the world a worse place? Unbelievable. So that certainly makes it easy to get rid of the Department of Education. And my last two stories are technology. So the New York Police Department is sending drones wherever there's a 911 call. So Futurism Publications is writing about this.

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Noor El-Sibai. And what will happen is, I guess if there's a 911 call, it automatically will, or somewhat automatically, they'll quickly dispatch a drone that will have high-end surveillance so it can get license plates and give faces and spot people. I don't know what percentage of 911 calls are outdoors, or maybe something starts indoors and somebody escapes outdoors, but

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I'm surprised that wasn't already a thing. To me, this seems like the most inevitable thing you could ever have. Don't you think that 10 years from now, every city will be dispatching a drone to a 9-11 call? I feel like it's just going to happen everywhere, and it will be sort of normal. So I'm not going to put a judgment on it, whether it's good or bad. It's just inevitable. And then NVIDIA...

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has just said that robotics could become the world's biggest multi-trillion dollar industry. It could, if they ever figure out how to make an AI that will really drive a robot, which they haven't done yet.

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Given the complexity and the improvement in robots, so you've seen lots of robots who have hands that work almost like normal hands and they have full articulation and they have balance and they can do tricks and stuff. So I'm going to say that the robot bodies are now complete. They will keep improving, of course, but they are now complete.

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In other words, if they had the right AI brains, they're already ready to go. But they're not ready to go. And I'm going to say again, I'm the contrarian here. I don't think there's any AI that can drive a robot. And I don't think that we have even the flavor of AI that no matter how much you tweak it, would make it safe for a robot.

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I feel like AI will have to be a whole different invention that hasn't happened yet. So maybe it's a year away, but it could be never. I'm not going to predict that, but it could be never. However, since I think it's likely that they will get there, I wondered if there's any kind of robot investment fund

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Has anybody put together a stock fund, which is a collection of just the best robot-making companies? So you don't have to guess a winner, because if any one of them is a winner, it'll be a trillion-dollar company. So I would definitely put money into a robot fund, because that's diversification. By the way, I don't recommend investments. That's not what I do.

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The only thing I recommend is diversification. So the best way to diversify is not to invest in one robot company, but to invest in some kind of a collection of them. but also make sure that's not your only investment. So this is how I give you advice that's useful, but it's not investment advice because 100% of all experts would tell you diversification is really important.

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So as long as you're doing it with diversification in mind, I don't mind recommending you do it, but I'm not going to recommend a specific company or even a specific fund. I'm just curious if one exists. So there are funds like that for nuclear power. So if you wanted to invest in that, you'd have the option. Again, I don't recommend it. It's just, it's there.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for you today. I hope that was enough positivity for you. It does look like things are looking pretty good in the Trump world. I'm only worried about whether Doge can get to the big numbers they need to get to. To me, that's the only thing that looks like a problem, like a big problem. So we'll see. I'll be optimistic about that as well.

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60% oppose free healthcare to undocumented illegal immigrants. 62% support a fully independent investigation of the recent LA wildfires. And only 24% of Californians think that biological male transgenders should compete in female sports. That's pretty much running the table. You know what I mean? So the Republican policies have completely run the table.

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All right, I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining. I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place, every day for X and Rumble and YouTube. And 30 seconds from now, we'll be private with...

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The majority of Californians are Republican. They just don't realize it yet. They're sort of caught in their little inertia. But this really does suggest that the right candidate, and it would take a special candidate, it would take a Reagan, Trump, DeSantis kind of a quality person, but it's winnable. And

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I don't want to see another weak Republican candidate for governor because I've usually not even known their names. Are you telling me that in all of California, we can't find one legitimate political superstar, somebody who can walk and talk and just agree with these things that the public agrees with? You don't even have to be smart.

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You can just look at the polls and say, all right, I'm running for governor. And I'm going to lower your gas prices. You could just go right down the list. You know, the policies write themselves. Well, meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that they've created a Tesla terrorism task force specifically to look into the domestic terrorism against Tesla assets.

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They got three people in custody right now. And she says this is domestic terrorism. That's exactly what I want to hear. I don't want to hear, oh, the biggest problem in the United States is white supremacist terrorism. No, it's not. Not even close. However, according to Zero Edge, Tesla has added a new threat detected mode, maybe just to the truck.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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I don't know if this is for all the vehicles or maybe just the cyber truck. but it's going to be a louder than normal alarm. And it could be music, I think, if it detects some foul play. So if it looks like somebody is going to vandalize it or it does get vandalized, it's going to get really loud. Now, the question that's unanswered, is there any AI involved?

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Because wouldn't you rather catch it before it happened? And here's my question. Do you think that Tesla's AI could not detect who's going to vandalize it just by seeing them coming? I feel like it could. I feel like you could detect a vandal about at least 10 seconds before they vandalize. Because the videos I've seen, they all have that look, right?

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And thanks to our intrepid scientists, they can fill in the gaps for us. Let's see what they've got for us today. According to SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing, physical attractiveness far outweighs other traits in online dating success. So it's a good thing they studied that. because I was thinking that physical attractiveness was way down on the list of things that people cared about in dating.

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They got a mask on or they've got that classic lefty look. They always have a backpack. It seems like they got a backpack too often. And then there's always some preparation. and there's always something in their hand, like a key. I feel like the AI could detect that before the vandalism, and it would be kind of funny if it started yelling before it happened. Now, that would be awesome.

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I don't think that's the feature, but it feels doable, which is weird. Anyway, according to the Babylon Bee, they've got a headline that says, Democrats say fire at Tesla facility likely caused by climate change. That's not true. So the Babylon Bee is a satirical publication, if you didn't know. So it's not true that Democrats think fire at a Tesla facility is caused by climate change.

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That would be silly. They believe it's caused by DEI being improperly implemented. No, I'm just making that up, too. That's satirical. But here's what I observe. Does it seem to you that it's extra obvious that our opinions are assigned to us? Now, you might say, OK, but not the Republicans. Maybe there's a difference. I don't know.

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But you can see on the Democrat side that they immediately snap the grid on whatever the new message is. And they just go, oh, it's going to be a scalp. We need a scalpel, not a chainsaw. And they just immediately embrace whatever the assigned opinion is. And, you know, you could argue maybe that happens on both sides. Maybe. I don't know. But I saw an interesting article.

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I wish I could remember the author, so I feel bad talking about it. But I saw an expose about David Axelrod and his his wizardry with the Democratic Party and Obama. And apparently he pioneered the persuasion that would get you to do something you weren't inclined to do. So instead of just giving you the usual, we're great, the other side's bad, the normal political stuff,

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He figured out how to get people to vote for black candidates. And Obama was one of his first experiments. And it was sort of this weird permission thing where he would give them a reason to do the opposite of what they would normally do.

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Now, in the Obama case, the reason was if you were being blamed of being a racist or you're worried about being a racist or you just wanted to make sure everybody knew you weren't, the easiest way to do that would be to say that you supported Obama. And here's the thing I hate about that. That's sort of the reason that I was pro-Obama back in those days. And I'm aware of it.

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I'm aware that it was a social signaling thing. Not entirely. The argument I would use, mostly when I talked about it, is that it wouldn't be good to get past never having a black president. And I thought, well, he seems very capable. He speaks well. He presents himself well. I didn't have a big problem with it at the time. But I also didn't know how much destruction would be coming out of it.

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I call that the fake because. The fake because is giving you a reason that just allows you to do the thing you wanted to do. And so the fake because was, oh, he's very capable, speaks well, he's inspiring, makes people feel good. So then I could say, oh, okay. look at me, I'm not a racist, I'm supporting a black candidate for president.

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So I was a little shocked that I might have been dragged into that persuasion net that was very intentional. And it turns out that Axelrod has some family background in advertising and I think he comes by his persuasion skills legitimately, meaning he was exposed to it early and he marinated in it for a long time. So... A lot of what we see is sort of an axelrod-driven situation.

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Now, you could argue that the Obama term lasted longer than Obama and that he was still kind of in charge even though he wasn't president. But it feels like that era has ended. It feels like Trump just ripped that up by the roots. So we'll see. Anyway, according to Breitbart, Rosie O'Donnell has given an interview in her new home in Ireland.

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No, I wasn't. They could have saved a lot of money if they just asked me, Scott, what do you think about physical attractiveness on the list of things that people care about in online dating? Hmm. Hmm. Let me confer with every sentient being in the entire universe. Everybody? Okay, we're all on the same page. It's the biggest thing. All right. I've got a special theme for you today.

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So, as you know, Rosie moved to Ireland to get away from all the horribleness that is Trump. And she is now an election denier, and she thinks that somehow Elon Musk stole the 2024 election because he owns the Internet. She actually said that, that he kind of owns the internet, so he fixed the election. I love how crazy she is, because it just puts everything in perspective.

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So I decided to go to Perplexity, my favorite AI, and I asked her this question. Huh, you know, she moved to Ireland, of all places. And I said, what are the percentage of white versus black residents or even just non-white residents of Ireland? If perplexity is right, there's only 1% of Ireland that's non-white. Did Rosie move to the least diverse place on the entire planet?

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Is there any place that's less diverse than that? Now, I don't know if maybe the data is wrong. I got it from perplexity. But it does seem that she went to a place that would be the opposite of her own philosophy, wouldn't it? Interesting. Maybe she'll have a president, a new president soon. We'll see. Anyway, according to the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra is writing,

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Ask a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine today, the thing that makes everything better. I hope. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Tremendous. So good. Well, I'd like to apologize in advance in case I fall asleep sometime during this show.

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And even then, I shouldn't treat it as a fact. But if there's no investigation, it just feels like talk at this point. I do think it's possible that these numbers are right on and that there's a ton of money just missing. But I wouldn't say for sure yet. There's some more good news for Trump, according to pollster Frank Luntz.

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That 33 days into Trump's term, he has a higher approval rating than at any point during his first term. Are you having the same weird situation that I am? I'll turn on the news and it'll be some, you know, Democrat oriented news. They'll say, oh, Trump's approval has plunged. It's plunged. And sure enough, it looks like it went from unusually high to lower fairly quickly.

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Now, the first thing you need to know is that if you're comparing what Trump was to himself, and it used to be at an all-time high, but now it's lower, there's always a honeymoon when you first get in and then there's always a pullback. So one month after you get into office, I would expect every president's approval to be lower because you have all these, you know, lofty ambitions.

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When you get that new person, it's like, oh, they're going to do so much. Then a month later, the news has completely destroyed them, you know, by picking at them here and there. And then you're like, well,

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But I do think Frank Luntz has the right metric, which is if it's still the best that Trump has ever done, even though he's, I guess, how can it be the best he's ever done if he used to be higher? Well, I guess there's some discrepancy in the polling. Do you believe that the polling is rigged? I do.

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62%.

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So that's helping. It is really impressive. I mean, everybody says it too much, but It's very impressive that Trump and Homan did, in fact, get control of the border so quickly. It certainly validated everything they said about Biden. Remember all those years when Biden and Harris would say, oh, there's nothing we could do. Nothing we could do. I don't know. What could we do?

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And then they would lie about how illegal crossings went down.

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So the point of ear manager goes away and he says, all right, give me a month to study it and I'll come back with some recommendations. A month later, the point of ear boss comes back and says, I studied everything, talked to every person that works for me, and we decided that we need more money, not less. OK, the job was to cut 20 percent. Yeah, I know.

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the way they would lie is that they made illegal crossings illegal they just hired more people so they could claim asylum and if you're claiming asylum you're legal until proven otherwise so all they did was legalize illegality and then they claimed as a victory i think the the extent of the biden administration evil i don't know if we'll ever see the bottom of it in my view

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They were totally corrupt and totally evil, but because he was such a smiley good guy, he just sort of got away with it like Hunter. Pollster Mark Penn, who worked for the Clintons, and anyway, just so you know, he's worked for Democrats. He said on the Laura Ingraham show, he said, I've got some new polling coming out on Monday, that would be today, that I've just looked at.

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Frankly, the Democratic Party is falling off a cliff. The ratings were in the high 40s, and they're going to be like 35%. And the basic question on who's doing a better job as president, Biden or Trump, Trump is winning that with 57%. So Trump's looking really strong right now. And if you're reading the critics, you would come to the opposite conclusion.

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So you probably saw that... What's his name? Carville. James Carville is predicting that the administration will collapse in 30 days. Yes. I don't see any indication of that whatsoever. So that's sort of a wishful thinking thing. If he's right, it'll look like he's psychic. And if he's not, we won't remember he said it. So it's a smart prediction.

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Um, in more sign of the time news, you already know that MSNBC is doing a shakeup and they, they got rid of Joy Reed. Um, But they just had a legal analyst on who said that Trump's not really losing the legal battles. But if you were to read the news, you would think Trump is losing all over the place. It's like, oh, the court put a stay on this. And the court said this is not specific enough.

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And the court said this. And I actually thought that. I actually thought, you know, wow. Seems like Trump is really getting beaten back in a lot of these legal cases. But MSNBC's own legal analyst said, quote, these are not major setbacks and that Trump's going to fight at every turn and that means appealing everything because it doesn't cost him anything to appeal.

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I don't know how that's true, but that's what he said. So in many cases, the thing that the court halted, they didn't halt it permanently. They just said, oh, put a pause on that, a stay, and give us some time to look at it, and then we'll figure out if it's legal or not. So in many of those cases, time will go by, they'll look at it and go, oh, okay, carry on.

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We took some time to look at it, but it looks fine. And plus, he's going to win some on appeal. So the lawfare against Trump, once again, not working. Not working. More good news for Trump and the country. Apple announced it's going to bring $500 billion in investments to expand manufacturing in the US and create thousands of jobs. Now, that's a pretty big deal. It's a very big deal.

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It's over four years, but still $500 billion. In May, I hope, because now there have been several announcements from big entities about bringing money to the United States, The only way that the U.S. is going to survive is massively bringing back manufacturing. And it's beginning. And here's what's interesting. If Apple is doing it, it's going to be a strong argument for anybody to do it.

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But it turns out that when I took the scalpel as opposed to the axe, everything looked like it was necessary. So nothing to cut. And we really need to expand a few things. So I'll need about 20 percent more. You really need to find a way to cut. All right. I've got an idea. How about this? How about you fire my rival in another department and then fold that department under me?

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And if you're in a company that is not planning to do it, while Apple is definitely planning to do it, You're going to have to explain why you can't do it. So it's not just big in terms of dollars. It's big in terms of how we think about it. Because if Apple can commit to this, and you would expect Apple to really be caring about margins and stuff like that.

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But if Apple thinks they can make this work, and I think some of it is acknowledgement that manufacturing in China, for example, is not as safe as it used to be, if it ever was. So that's good news. You probably all know that Elon Musk and Doge and Trump have ordered government workers who work remotely to get back to work.

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So starting this week, according to Elon Musk, starting this week, people who fail to return to the office to work will be placed on administrative leave. administrative leave. But what about that email that all the government workers got that said, you should tell us, this is from Doge, that you need to tell us what you accomplished.

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Give us five bullet points of things you accomplished this week. Now, of course, people are going crazy. It's like, what? What about if you can't have access to email? What if you're on vacation? Which is a thing in the government, I guess. And People are complaining that that's no way to run anything. And are these people going to be fired if they don't respond?

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Well, the one thing we seem to know is that nobody's going to get fired for not responding. But I do wonder what the utility is. Now, as I said before, part of the utility, I think, nobody said this, it's my own opinion, is to just reframe how serious working for the government should be. that if you're not accomplishing things, you're gone.

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So people will remember the email long after its tiny little mark on the world goes away because they'll realize that if you don't report some real accomplishments every week, your job's in danger. Now, I don't see any possibility that somebody like Elon or anybody else can look through all the emails to look at all their accomplishments.

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We wouldn't know if any of them were true because anybody could just lie. How would you know? It's not even illegal to lie to the government about what you accomplished. You're not going to jail for it. So people will make up some stuff and other people have real accomplishments. Other people, I guess several parts of the government are looking to ignore it.

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I think Kash Patel told the FBI, no, don't do that. We have our own process for performance reviews. I think the State Department and the Pentagon pushed back. So I don't know how many of these emails they're going to get, but I think just asking for them gives you a win because it just tells you, all right, this is a new day. We're really going to look at your performance now.

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Now, if the Doge people plan to look at any of them, and they said copy your manager, so the manager would be the one getting the the five things you accomplished as well as the doge. At most, the most I can see the doge could do with that would be run an AI against it to look for ones that are clearly fake and maybe also make some recommendations about who's not doing enough.

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But, you know, most jobs are not accomplishment oriented. They're just process. So if your job is to just I don't know, process all requests that come into your office. That should be enough. I processed all the requests that came into my office. That should keep your job. So it shouldn't be hard, but we'll keep an eye on that.

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Wall Street Journal was trying to calculate how big the impact might be on the economy. for all these massive government firings. So if you add these 75,000 resignations, maybe 200,000 probationary employees already fired and maybe 200,000 in attrition. And so they're thinking that maybe in total 475,000 jobs, but which is a lot.

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And then you save some money with that other guy. And then the CEO says, well, that other guy said the same thing about you. How about we fire you and fold your department under him? And then the CEO says, all right, give me a list of all your projects. We'll find something to cut.

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But it's worse because there will also be vendors who are selling things that can't sell it and all that. But to put it in perspective, 475,000 jobs over a few years, we could absorb that. What about all the secondary effects about all of the vendors and stuff, the contractors? Well, that's pretty big. And So even the 475,000 jobs would only be 0.3% of the US's non-farm jobs.

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So they're not big percentages, but in certain places like Washington DC, it's going to be a big impact and there will be bankruptcies and there will be dislocations and there will be unemployment and it's going to be big. Now, A lot of it is spread over different communities. It's not all in Washington, D.C. Just a lot of it is. So, yeah, it's going to be ugly.

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But I'm going to go back to my first comment. If that's the only way you can save the country is by doing something that's ugly and has an axe, you have to do that. You have to do that. So I have complete empathy for the people losing their jobs, and those are real problems. I'm not going to slight that at all. But the alternative, to me, it looks like we all lose everything.

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So that's not too different than private companies doing layoffs. A number of private companies are doing layoffs right now because the people who get laid off and their families definitely suffer, no doubt about it. But if we didn't have layoffs, then the entire economy would just be so unproductive that nothing would work. We'd all be dead.

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So yeah, in the real world, going back to Zuby's comment where you can't say what's true, here's what I think is true about Doge. It will be really painful. And that pain will extend beyond the people who get fired, and it will extend beyond the people who are contractors and vendors. It will hurt. There's just not another choice. Unless you believe you can scalp rule your way, which I don't.

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Yeah. So I'm a little tired of people saying the easy and obvious thing and then pretending that Elon Musk doesn't know. So I'm going to add to my list of dumb things that people say about Doge. Scott, government is different than private industry. to which I say, who do you think didn't know that?

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And then he looks at the projects and realizes he doesn't know what any of them really are because they're just names of things. And so the CEO says, well, what about this one? And then the pointy-haired boss says, oh, no, you can't cut that one. That one's essential. All right, what about this one? Oh, my goodness. If you cut that, we'll all die by this afternoon.

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Do you think that Elon Musk is going to wake up and read your post and say, whoa, hold on, hold everything. You're telling me that the government is different from private industry? What? And people talk like that's actually a thing. Like that Elon Musk is the only person in the world, because we all know it, that government is different than industry in lots of different ways.

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But somehow he doesn't know it. Of course he knows it. Of course he does. Now, he might not know every nuance, but that's what the meat axe is going to do. And we'll correct as we need to. So it will hurt, but I don't think there's another way. As you know, we've reported this already, that the top general in the military, C.Q. Brown, So he was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

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And he was accused of being too woke, too DEI. And I didn't know what that meant until I saw a compilation of his clips. And I had a few different observations. Number one, C.Q. Brown has the best voice for leadership that you'll ever hear in your life. If you haven't heard him talk, I recommend it.

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He's really got that command voice, like it has that resonance and it's just, you know, he presents it perfectly. He's obviously very smart. He's an impressive guy, impressive guy. However, when you look at the clips of his emphasis on DEI, it really is just flat out racist. He found a hundred different ways to say, I'm going to get rid of the white people in command.

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Now, not by firing them necessarily or, I don't know, whatever you do in the military. Scott, the military is different than a private company. I know, I know. Just go with it, okay? Every way that he tried to explain it just sounded like I'm going to make sure there are fewer white people. That's the main goal, fewer white people. And he had to go.

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That has to be a firing offense, unfortunately, because he did look like he was quite capable in general. So I don't think he was necessarily a DEI hire. Because if you put him next to Mark Milley and you let both of them answer questions for five minutes... You would think Mark Milley was the dumb one. So I'll just put that out there for contrast. All right.

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There's some news about Trump is doing something to charge Chinese shipping a tremendous amount of money for using our ports. like a million dollars every time they come into port and a million dollars for something else. So we'll see if that becomes a real thing. But like the tariffs, that should increase your costs in the short run. Now, going back to Zuby, we can't say the truth.

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I'm going to say the truth. There's probably no way to get the lower costs and get inflation really down to where we want it without things getting worse in the short run? Probably not, because this is a perfect example.

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All right, but what about this one? No, that one's going to have to increase the budget. We're going to need twice as much budget for that one. Do you think it works to do a scalpel? Scalpel might work up to 5 or 10%. But if you're trying to make a deep cut, I don't think it's going to work. Here's some Zuby wisdom. You all know Zuby. How do you even describe Zuby?

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So essentially the tariffs and whatever this is that they're doing with the Chinese shipping are ways to make it more expensive for buying things overseas and having them shipped here to encourage more companies to just make it here. In the short run, all it is gonna be is more expensive.

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In the long run, the collective result of all these actions should bring more manufacturing to the U.S., give us better jobs, bring prices down. It's just that if you're Trump, you can't really say, hold on, people, it's going to be worse for at least a year or two. Because that might be the truth. Nobody wants to hear that. We all want to hear that the price of eggs will be free tomorrow. What?

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I'm still paying for gas? I thought you'd have that fixed by now. It's been 33 days. Meanwhile, Trump has demanded, Trump demanded that the Taliban return $7 billion worth of military equipment. Unusual Wales is reporting that. I'm thinking to myself, really? Wouldn't that be hilarious if the Taliban said, oh, oh, these are your Jeeps and helicopters? Oh, yeah.

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uh let's uh we'll wipe them down and we'll have them ready just come on over and pick it up well i don't think that's going to happen um so i don't think there's really any chance that taliban is going to give back any any stuff so why did he say it why did trump even bring it up if there's just no way it's going to happen well one way one reason might be i'm wrong that maybe it could happen because trump keeps doing these things that don't look possible

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you know, like having some control over Greenland or something. Then next thing you know, Greenland say, you know, there is a way you could do that and might be good for everybody. So it could be that he's opening up negotiations. Might be opening up negotiations. For what? I don't know. But we'll see. Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, was doing a presentation recently

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just yesterday maybe or this week, on using AI to increase farm yields. And apparently it's already working on small farms. The idea is you'd put various sensors in your field. So you'd be measuring the quality of the dirt and the moisture and everything else. And then the AI would tell you what to do. So it's a, well, you better put a little more of this or a little less of that on there.

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And the AI being smarter than people, according to Satya Nadella, it's already working and the small farms are getting big increases in yields. I don't know about that. I'm a little bit skeptical that there's much of a difference, but be kind of cool if there were. But in related news, I didn't know about this, but this fascinates me.

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You know that billionaire Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, did you know that he bought the Hawaiian island of Lahaina? So he owns, I think, 98% of the island or something. And the island used to grow lots of pineapples. That was the main thing the island did. But I guess they polluted the soil and you can't grow much of anything there outdoors.

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So he put a half a billion dollars into building indoor farms that could serve the island. But the bigger ambition was to make food fresh and nearby to where you're going to eat it and just really revolutionize the whole food thing. Now, if you've been watching me for a while, you know, I just love the indoor garden space.

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I just love that because I feel like it's just going to happen that at the moment, at the moment, there's no indoor farm that could give you the protein that you need and, you know, would be easy to manage and all that stuff. It wouldn't be cost effective, but it feels like it could be. Like every instinct in my body says, well,

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probably were one or two innovations away from making indoor gardening really work. But after years of work, Ellison was working with a company called Sensei AG, and apparently just nothing works. Well, I'm exaggerating, not nothing. But they had all kinds of problems with their structures. They had problems with their Wi-Fi.

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And instead of growing all the food you would need for the island, I think it's basically lettuce and small tomatoes or something, which they do sell, but it's just trivial. So basically, it didn't work, the experiment, half a billion dollars. And it looks like it didn't get even close to working. Now, that's the Wall Street Journal's reporting on that. So that was a little disappointing.

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He's so many things at the same time. Anyway, Zuby says the biggest reason why Western society is in trouble is is that the culture dictates that telling inconvenient truths is hateful and feelings are more important than the truth. As a result, people are in a constant state of lying and denying of reality and nothing gets fixed. Right.

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And then the Boring Company's got a deal, according to New Atlas. They're going to build tunnels under Dubai. So, you know, the tunnels aren't that much bigger than a car. And then Dubai, you'll be able to go underground and scoot around in your little Tesla in these tunnels. Now, if you had told me,

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that that would be a thing in the future, that the Boring Company would have big deals like in Las Vegas or Dubai, and they'd be building underground tunnels for individual cars. I would have said to you, that doesn't sound like a business. So it's pretty impressive. I don't know if the Boring Company makes money yet.

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I don't know if it's cash positive, but the fact that it's doing as much as it is, is kind of shocking. Yeah, I've been saying for years that holes are the best technology. If we could figure out how to put a hole in something, it'd be great.

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But one of the things I saw online is somebody was challenging me saying, speaking of our billionaires, Larry Ellison and Musk, somebody was challenging me about Doge, who actually was just a post, so it wasn't challenging me personally, and said, how would you like it if Doge were being run by George Soros. So that was put forward as a good argument.

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Well, if it were George Soros, who leans left, how would you like it over on the right? Now, remember I always tell you that analogies are not a form of thinking? They really aren't. Because in this analogy, they're comparing a devil to an angel. Yeah, at least in the opinion of conservatives. Soros would be like the devil.

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So if you put the devil in charge of cutting the budget, what do you think is going to happen? Versus Elon, who seems to orient all of his investments toward making the world safer, allowing us to be interplanetary so we'll survive the next asteroid. I mean, all of it is just purely... I mean, it makes money, but it's for the benefit of humankind.

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So you've got one person who seems to hate humankind, Soros, and one person who loves it so much that there's no amount of work he won't do to make it better. How in the world do you think that's a good analogy? Let's compare the darkest figure in the world who might just want to destroy the country to the happiest, most successful guy who only wants to make things better.

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I mean, that's crazy talk. So, yesterday, if you were watching the show yesterday, and I had to quit rather quickly at the end because there was some loud noise and

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in the front of my house it was a pretty serious car accident so it wasn't on my property but it was right by my driveway so a uber driver may have had a medical problem it's not clear but drove at a pretty high speed into a concrete barrier and when i went outside after the show there was just you know all kinds of emergency vehicles and fire trucks and police and and at first i was like i hope this isn't about me

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We are in a continuous state of lying to each other about everything. All the time. So here's some inconvenient truth. I'm just going to say the thing that I haven't seen anybody say. I tend to watch a lot of YouTube about ancient civilizations, and I love it when we dig up some new ancient civilization that used to be quite advanced for its time, but now it's completely gone.

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I hope nothing about this is about me, but it wasn't. And then the Uber driver was like, when I went down to the end of the driveway to see what was going on, the Uber driver was wildly gesticulating at me. I still don't know what that's about, but he kept pointing at me and like, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. So I don't know, maybe he was blaming me.

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So I don't know the answer to that mystery, but that's what the noise was all about. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is the conclusion of my show. I'm not feeling well this month. I'm going to get that taken care of, I hope, in the next few days. I've got a doctor's appointment. I think I have pneumonia, so I'm operating on almost nothing.

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So we'll get that taken care of, and hopefully in a week or so I will be back to a human being um well getting some sleep is impossible because i have a sciatica and i have back aches sciatica and i think pneumonia which means that every position i sleep in is deeply painful so there is no sleep solution the only thing i can do is sleep for 45 minutes wake up in pain

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walk around until I'm too tired to walk around, fall asleep for 45 minutes, and then wake up in extreme pain again. So that's pretty much all I've been doing for weeks. So I'm in really bad shape right now. I'm just barely hanging on, to be honest. But I should be able to take care of it this week. We'll see. All right. So that's enough of that. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining.

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I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately. The rest of you, come back tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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And then I say to myself, huh, why didn't any of those ancient civilizations, including the really powerful ones like Rome, why didn't any of them survive? And then I think, well, the United States is different because the United States has figured out how to solve all kinds of problems and we're not going to run into any big problem. So we'll probably survive for a long time. But the U.S.

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You know, the three things that you need to do to feel good. You need to get your sleep. You need to eat right. You need to exercise. Those are three things I haven't been able to do for about a month. So I'm on my last thread here. So I've got a little brain fog going on. So whatever you think is the best this show could be, dial it back about 40%. You'll be good.

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has only been around a few hundred years. that's really not very long. And there's some thinking that the reason that prior great civilizations failed is that they spent themselves into debt. And that there's something that happens every time that when a civilization gets to some really good level, they just overspend and then they're broke.

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Now, of course, in the old days, they were also overrun by marauders and Probably had some diseases that they couldn't handle and stuff like that. But generally speaking, it's quite sobering to see that 100% of great civilizations failed. All of them.

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And now we're looking at the United States with a debt that couldn't possibly be paid back unless we did something really drastic, which is what Doge is trying to do. So the thing you got to know is that here are your two possibilities. Let's say you do the careful reasoned cuts with a scalpel versus doing something that people would call chaotic and

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Maybe he doesn't have much empathy and it's just an ax and all that. Let's say those are the two conditions. Which one do you think has a better chance of working? Now, I would say, given that what we're looking at is an existential threat, meaning that our debt literally will kill us in just a few years. The entire United States is gone in a few years if we don't get it under control.

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Now, Musk knows that. That's why he's all in. But I don't know if the country knows it because we don't say that honestly. To Zuby's point, we pretend like, well, if we just do business as normal and make a few strategic cuts and treat everybody nice, we should be in good shape. But I don't think anything like that is possible.

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I think if we make some nice strategic little cuts and everybody's happy with them, how well thought out they are, we're not even going to be close to saving the country, like actually survival. So when I look at the scalpel idea, I see zero chance of it working. Zero. When I look at the Medax version, I say that could terribly go wrong. It's easy to imagine how it could go wrong.

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But it's the only thing that might go right. So if the scalpel is a definite failure, Because here's what Musk's opponents seem to pretend. They pretend that we don't have a deep existential threat and it isn't really close. That if you looked into it and said, you know, we could cut 5% out of this department and 5% of that and we really thought about it and we'll treat everybody nice.

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I don't think that could work. I think that would be a way to cut 5% of the budget. It would make no difference to our survival. If you want to survive, you might have to remove the leg and take care of it. So I guess that's where the critics and I diverge. If you think there's any way to survive, survive scalpel cuts, I don't think there is.

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I see nothing that would suggest we could survive just going slowly and carefully. I don't think that's survivable. The meat axe could be a problem or it might work. But there's only one path that might work. So I'm all in on the path that might work. Anyway, let's talk about some good news for Trump.

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The American Bar Association just suspended their DEI requirements, according to the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra McDonald's reporting. So it's suspended law school diversity, equity and inclusion requirements. Now, is that the Trump effect? Because I don't believe Trump ordered that or there's no executive order on that, right? And you wouldn't have any say in it anyway.

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Well, as you know, everybody's talking about Doge and should we be cutting with an axe or cutting with a scalpel? So I've decided that Dilbert's company is going to go through the same thing. So Dilbert's CEO is going to... Wait, what's that? Wow. So... Dilbert's company, the CEO is going to ask the pointy-haired boss to make some deep cuts, but with a scalpel, not an axe.

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So it feels like the American Bar Association is sort of the canary in the coal mine, meaning if they go early, if they throw DEI out early, it's probably because a whole bunch of lawyers think that there's going to be a legal risk if you keep doing it. And there should be. There should be a legal risk to discrimination.

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So if the American Bar Association is getting rid of DEI, that's probably a really good sign for what's ahead. Well, you all know the word of the day. The word of the day is Bongino. I've never seen people so happy. You know, I guess Kash Patel made people pretty happy. And of course, I was very happy about RFK Jr. And Tulsi made a lot of people happy when she got appointed.

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But Dan Bongino has been tapped. be the new deputy director of the fbi and i don't believe that requires any congressional approval but i did not know how impressive bongino's background is i knew some of it and i i've told you one of the things i like about him is he's a talent stack guy meaning that he just keeps acquiring new talents and adding them to the ones he has.

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And then he's got this super powerful package of talents. But I didn't know he has two advanced degrees. I think he has, now this might be wrong because I think it came from an AI, but I think he has a master's degree and then he's got an MBA. He's worked in the police department. He did a secret service agent job. And now he's got all of the public communication skills too.

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So he knows media, he knows everything about law enforcement, and he's highly educated. And I think character is probably even a bigger thing. He's not exactly the kind of guy who's going to back off, if you know what I mean. Bongino strikes me as the kind who would chew through a brick wall if there was a reason to do it. You just need a reason.

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He does not look like the kind of guy who's going to shrink from a task because it's difficult. So I think all of us are inspired by that because he's such a fighter and he has just a ridiculous amount of skills at this point. Just ridiculous. I have so much respect for that. Anyway, so congratulations to Dan Bongino and, uh,

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I know all of you are thinking, oh, the Russia collusion hoax, Adam Schiff, there's going to be some good arrests coming. Maybe. We'll see. I won't make any predictions about any specific things that will be investigated. But it's all good news. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi's Department of Justice, apparently, according to the Western Journal, they launched a fraud investigation on UnitedHealth.

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Now, you remember UnitedHealth? Their CEO was the one who was gunned down on the street. But UnitedHealth is maybe the biggest in terms of their... Is it mostly health insurance, I guess? So they've... Apparently, they're being investigated for Medicare billing practices, which would suggest that somebody thinks... Somebody thinks... See, this is the brain fog.

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I can't look at a comment and then remember what I was talking about. So it suggests that somebody thinks UnitedHealth may have been cheating on some big stuff. And that could be big. Speaking of cheating on the big stuff, you know, you've been hearing for years that Haiti...

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was a situation where a whole bunch of money, billions of dollars were given to Haiti for recovery from their 2010 hurricane. And the entire time we kept thinking, people kept saying, it's a grift, it's the Clinton Foundation has found a way to steal your money. And the whole time I thought, well, yeah, there might be some of that.

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When you're sloshing around that much money, yeah, there's gonna be some of that that gets to the wrong places. But I thought mostly, mostly it probably got to where it was supposed to. Turns out that might be wrong. And it's a little too early to know how much of this is true. It's a little fog of war situation.

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But according to Zero Hedge, some Haitian reporters had been warning about disappearing money for years. And USAID was the, I guess, the big funding organization. And some of it was dispersed through the Clinton Foundation. All right, so it was USAD. It was billions of dollars for Haiti. And some of it was funneled through the Clinton Foundation. Now, that doesn't mean there's any crime.

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It's just that it's everything you would expect if there were a crime. It looks exactly like the setup for a crime. But the allegation here is that only 2% of the $4.4 billion that was allotted for Haitian relief actually got used in Haiti. So where did the rest of the money go? Well, allegedly, the New York Post says that 56% of that money for Haiti went to firms located in or near the U.S.

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capital, and apparently the money stayed there. So here's how it goes. There's a disaster in Haiti. The US government allocates 4.4 billion, goes into that USAID bucket. And then from there, it goes to a whole bunch of NGOs and consultants and contractors. And then only 2% of it got spent on Haiti. I feel like I'd have to hear the other side of that story because that's a little hard to believe.

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How do you think that's going to go? Well, let me give you an idea. CEO to pointy-haired boss, I need to make some deep cuts. I've got to cut 20%. And since you're the manager who knows what everybody's doing, you can do it with a scalpel. Otherwise, I'd have to do it with an axe because I don't know what anybody does.

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You know, it's a little too on the nose, 2%. Come on. But on the other hand, maybe. I mean, one thing we can all tell is that Haiti doesn't seem to be a bit better, if anything. So what if that's true? What if it's true? You know, there's no investigation opened up as far as I know. So I think I'm not going to treat it as a fact until I hear there's an investigation opened.

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A cup or mug or a glass, a tank or Chelsea Stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Well, let me ask you this. If you feel like after that sip,

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If he loses this one, because this one's not a hard one compared to what he has ahead. He has much harder things ahead. But I think he'll win this one. We'll see. I saw he... I don't know if this is new, but it looks like it might be. Did Sean Penn only recently compare Trump supporters to Al-Qaeda and Trump to bin Laden? Is that something that happened this week?

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Or was that an old post that somebody wanted people to see? So I don't know about that. But somebody asked me, based on that post, can Sean Penn be saved from his mass psychosis? to which I say maybe yes. And the only way to do it is to try the fine people hoax at him.

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If he already knows that the fine people hoax was a hoax and he still believes that Trump supporters are the problem, well, then he can't be saved. I can say for sure he's too far gone. But if he thinks the fine people hoax is real, and you can debunk it just by showing him the video without the edits, would he change his mind about what kind of things might be fake?

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And then that would open you up to all, you know, you could see all the other fakeness. So that's my question. And on a related theme, um, If you believe that a lot of the country believes that climate change is a crisis because they looked at the experts and the experts seem to be on the same side, they thought.

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And so they said, well, reasonably, if the scientific experts are all on the side that climate's a big alarm and it should be, well, I should take the position of all the experts. Makes sense, right? But here's what I think is really happening. I don't think people are using reason. I don't think the climate change alarmists are saying, hmm, I've looked at the data.

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All the experts I trust seem to be on one side. I'll take their side. Maybe they're doing that. Now, consciously, that's exactly what they're doing. And if you ask them, why do you think climate's a problem? They would say, and they would not be lying, well, I think it's a problem because all the experts say it's true. Here's what I think is really happening.

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I don't believe we can wrap our brains around that being a hoax because it's too big. And I could say that in my own life, if you ever came to me with a hoax that seemed too big, I would say, really? Really? You think that thousands of people could be in on this hoax and nobody would be a whistleblower? And that for years and years, years and years, we'd...

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So some of it might be immigration. But some of it might be that when marijuana became legal, old people like me started doing it. And it became super uncool to do what your grandfather was doing. Could be that. Could be that. It could be that they're getting their dopamine from another source. Maybe they're just getting it from their phones instead, and it's sort of a dopamine replacement.

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we'd believe in this thing that wasn't true. And it turns out that's the norm. If you believe that it would be nearly impossible to have a global hoax that was trillions of dollars and all the experts believed in it, but maybe they didn't really believe in it, they just said they did, your common sense, here's that common sense problem, your common sense says, that can't be true.

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So I believe that we have a natural limit to how much reality we can see because we can't believe the things that are this big could be rigged. Let me give you another example. The war in Ukraine. How much of the country understands how much of the planning and plotting and bad behavior came from the United States. And the Ukraine is really a play. It's a colonial, we're colonizing it.

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We're just colonizing it. We're literally just conquering it for economic and maybe security reasons. How much in the public knows that? Now, if you follow Axe and you see people like Mike Benz explaining the world, then you understand, oh my God, Ukraine is this enormous, enormous enterprise, and it's all fake. What about the elections?

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If somebody said, hey, I think that election is fake, but all the experts say, okay, it's not fake. You don't have any evidence. The courts say it's not fake. A reasonable person using their common sense would say, okay, well, there's no way this entire operation is fake. Right? So you wouldn't use reason. you would simply be locked into, I can't believe something this big could be faked.

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And you could go right down the line. You could pick anything that's huge, and your instinct says, well, this is way too big. There's no way this can all be fake. But once you learn that that's the norm, fake is the norm. It's almost universal. Our wars were started for fake reasons. Vietnam, fake reason. Iraq, fake reason. It's all fake reasons.

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So that brings us to Joe Rogan and the moon landing. I still believe the moon landing is real. But I totally understand Joe Rogan when he says, once you found out that so many big things... from the pandemic to maybe climate change to Joe Biden's brain is just fine, don't worry about it, the fine people hoax. I mean, could I go on? I could just go on and on and on with all the enormous hoaxes.

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And so when Joe Rogan says, you know, with all these enormous hoaxes, I'm starting to wonder about the moon landing. He's not off base. Now, if I had to bet, I'd bet the moon landing was real. But I'm also completely aware that my reasoning for it is irrational. Just like I've been complaining about other people. When I say, why do you think the elections are real just because everybody says so?

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No, it doesn't work that way. Why did you think everything they told you in the pandemic was real? Because they're all experts? No, it doesn't work that way. It's the opposite of that.

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So Rogan is just using some pattern recognition, maybe just having some fun with it, in which he's saying, if all these other things are fake, and the moon landing has the same characteristics, which is, how could it possibly be fake?

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We all watched it, and all the experts say it was true, and we have eyewitnesses, and if you fly past the moon, you can look down and see the lunar module is still there. How could that be fake? To which I say, how could there be an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that doesn't know the iPhone exists? Your common sense about what's possible is terrible. It's terrible.

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You really have to learn the hard way that everything's fake. And once you learn that, then a lot opens up. I'm seeing in the comments that the Sean Penn comparison of Trump to Bin Laden was an old one, which makes me feel better because I do think people's minds are changing fast. Anyway, Biden has pardoned a bunch of killers. The reason being that he didn't want Trump

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But I will tell you that locally, I was impressed at how low the drug use and drinking is in the teenage years, at least what I can determine through people who know people who know people. It does seem lower. It matches observation. So New York Post had some new photos from a never-before-seen, a never-contacted tribe in the Amazon.

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to push for the death penalty because he's against the death penalty. So he's not saying that any of these people, these are literally just horrible murderers who did the worst possible things. So he's not saying they're good people or that the world is a better place with a man in jail. He's saying that capital punishment is wrong. He's going to save them from capital punishment.

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But I ask you, is Biden at least being consistent? You have to give him credit for being consistent, right? And by consistent, I mean every single fucking thing he does is bad for the country. Every fucking thing he did was bad for the country. Everything. Every fucking thing. And this is just more of that. You could pick any topic randomly and say, well, what's the common sense thing to do?

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And what's the fucked up stupid thing that's bad for the country? Oh, which one did he pick? Surprise. He picked the fucked up dangerous one. So more people will die because of these decisions. He just let out murderers, the worst ones. No, well, I'm sorry. He didn't let them out of jail. I think he just took away the death penalty part. I think. Pretty sure of that. So let me correct myself.

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He's not letting him out of jail. He's just taking away the death penalty part. I think that's true. So that wouldn't make anybody too much in danger except the other people. in prison, I guess, because some of them killed people in prison. So now they get to stay in prison instead of being executed, I guess.

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Anyway, so some people think that Sam Bankman Freed, who was the number two donor to the Democrats before he got in jail, that he might get pardoned. I think I see Elon Musk said, you know, he just assumes that's going to happen. There is precedent for it. Didn't Bill Clinton pardon one of his big donors who was in jail?

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So if we're going to allow presidents to have pardoning powers, we do have to expect this kind of thing. We do have to expect that some bad people would be pardoned. So I'm going to choose not to complain about it too much because it works both ways. Everybody in the job does it. Meanwhile, Trump made some news. at TPUSA, big event.

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And he used his line, which always gets a big applause with his crowd, quote, woke is bullshit. Woke is bullshit. Now, you could bring in a thousand professional communicators and you could say, all right, you professional communicators, the best in class, I want you to make a statement about, you know, wokeness and this category.

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And then the professional communicators would say stuff like, well, all things considered when we've, you know, blah, blah, blah. Now, in the larger perspective, we'd like to preserve our diversity, but it should be noted that maybe there was a little overreach and we went a little too far. Maybe we should tighten it up a little bit. That's what the professional communicators would say.

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Here's what a good communicator would say. Woke is bullshit. You can't beat that. You can't beat that. You could try all day long. You could bring a conference of the best communicators in the world. You wouldn't beat that. Now, part of the magic of it is that it's inappropriate. Trump uses inappropriate exactly the way you should.

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You've seen me interview my friend and expert on memory and cognitive stuff. Carmen Simon, Dr. Carmen Simon. And she teaches that it's the things that are out of context, the things that are surprising, that stand out. It's like the blemish on the tablecloth. That's what you remember.

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So the fact that he's not supposed to talk this way in the office of the presidency or near it is what makes you remember it. You'll remember that forever. You'll remember that sentence forever. maybe for the rest of your life. Seriously. 20 years from now, if you're still alive, and somebody said to you, what did Trump think about wokeness?

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Do you think you'll remember and just say, oh, he said literally woke is bullshit? Probably. Not all of us, but some of us are going to remember the exact sentence 20 years from now. You can't beat that. I don't think the country quite yet understands how good he is. I just don't think they quite get it.

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I mean, they know he's good because they can see that he made back to the presidency against all odds. I mean, that's good. That's really good. But still they don't see the full, the depth of it. He also said, let's see, Oh, he was speaking at AmFest in Arizona. AmFest. But I don't know what the TPUSA part is. I saw that in the background. Did he do more than one speech?

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So there are a few hundred people in this tribe that have never had contact with anybody outside their tribe, at least in our lifetime. And I guess there are a bunch of them. So there are a bunch of these little tribes that have never had contact. Now, the reason they don't have contact is that the government of Brazil, for example,

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Was it two different places? I'm a little confused on the event. And he said also, and for all of us standing before you today, I can proudly proclaim that the golden age of America is upon us. Perfect. Perfect. You can't be all negative. You can't go into office and say everything's broken, but I'll try to fix it. It's such a downer. You've got to give us, you're heading into something great.

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And this is perfect, the golden age. So here's the branding expert, perfect branding. Woke as bullshit, entering the golden age. And he said also that, quote, we're going to pledge to bring common sense revolution. a common sense revolution.

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I've told you before that if you were trying to find a way to understand how famous lifetime Democrats could be so eager to work with Trump on specific things, such as reducing costs to government, we all like that. Making our food more healthy? Yes. Making our big pharma prove to us a little bit more rigorously that their stuff is safe? Yes. Yes. Please.

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So common sense is the glue that allows Trump to collect his little pirate ship of people you wouldn't expect to be on his team. So common sense. It's just perfect. And it works because you won't find... probably anything that Trump supports policy-wise that doesn't fit common sense. And he can explain why it's good and why the old way is bad. Common sense.

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I also saw Trump's new spokesperson on CNN, I think, saying that there was already a Caroline Leavitt, and she said there was a Trump effect And she gave some examples of some things around the world where people are already preparing for Trump by doing things that Trump wouldn't mind or that he'd like them to do. So that's called the Trump effect.

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Don't you love Trump effect as like a branded term? Because you can find it all over. So there's lots of things you can say, there it is. There's that Trump effect again. Because we used to be talking about TDS. and maybe that's where that Sean Penn statement came from several years ago, when TDS really described everything. Everything you saw could be described with TDS.

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Now it's more like the Trump effect and common sense bringing people together. Fetterman, again, once again, Fetterman, said very positive things about Trump. He doesn't, you know, he's not on board. He's never going to become a Republican, he says. But he just has to admit that a lot of Pennsylvanians like Trump and they like the things he proposed and they're quite happy with their choice.

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knows that if they do get contacted, they may not have resistance to all the diseases that we're used to. So it might just kill them. Just contact with us would give them all kinds of diseases. But so somebody put some kind of like a trail cam or something. So they weren't there in person to take the pictures, but they got the picture remotely.

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And he wants you to know that that's okay. So we like that. Thank you. Thank you, Fetterman. And then, of course, one of my newer favorites is Make America Healthy Again. Now, when I first saw that, Make America Healthy Again, my first instinct was, oh, you're perverting Make America Great Again. Just leave that alone. It did so well. Don't try to play off it. Just let that be its own thing.

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It's just such an iconic thing. But I changed my vote. I changed my vote. Maha is working. It's a good brand for a way to conceptualize that there's a common sense effort to make the food and our meds healthier. And we've got somebody very powerful working on it with a lot of support. So yeah, Make America Healthy Again, home run. So I missed that one. So nobody's perfect.

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I would have bet against that one. I would have bet against it. But the lesson here is that you can't always predict this stuff. Persuasion is a little unpredictable no matter how much experience you have with it. And I would have missed that one. But I love the fact that the people coming in to help didn't miss it and created it. So that's Shanahan and Kennedy. So good job.

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So here are the themes. Woke is bullshit, golden age, common sense revolution, the Trump effect already affecting other countries, and make America healthy again. Now, he may have said make America great again, but that had a pushback built into it. The people who believe that people who look like them in the past weren't getting a good deal.

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had what I consider actually a fairly reasonable response to it. Because they were like, wait a minute, what do you mean go back? We made so much progress recently. What does go back and great again, what does that include? So I do understand the skepticism to the MAGA message. But who's going to complain about make America healthy? There's not much you can do with that one.

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Anyway, according to SciPost, narcissistic grandiosity predicts greater involvement in the LGBTQ activism. Now, if you're new to my live stream, I love the LGBTQ community. Big fan. I think they've done such a great job in taking their, let's say their brand or their reputation in the country from a big problem, for them to front of the parade.

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I mean, I often say this, have you ever stayed away from a neighborhood because it was one of those dangerous LGBTQ neighborhoods? No, because there are none. It's one of the most successful communities in America. I'm very impressed by the LGBTQ community. But like any advocacy group, like any demographic group that's trying to improve their situation. They have leaders. They have activists.

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And how wild is it that there's a tribe that doesn't know there are things like computers and phones and airplanes? Just think about that. So you're this tribe in Africa, not Africa, in Brazil. You've never seen any civilization outside of your little tribe. They're all just running around naked with sticks and bows and arrows. And you see an airplane fly over. What are you going to think that is?

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And the thinking is that activists are driven by these dark ego principles. Basically, it's the dark triad personalities. And I definitely think that activists like to get attention. I think that much is true. But is getting attention always bad? I think it depends why you're doing it.

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If you're getting attention because you just got some kind of mental syndrome and you're just satisfying your own need and you're making a job for yourself and you're getting famous and people are patting you on the back and so you want to do more of it, it's fine.

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But then, you know, also in the news lately is that DEI companies are pulling back or companies are pulling back for DEI and they mentioned Robbie Starbuck. as a key activist, maybe the key activist, in getting companies to pull back from DEI. Now, if you follow Robbie Starbuck, do you see any dark triad personality? I don't. And I think that stuff sticks out pretty hard.

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Like, I don't think you can hide it. So I'm not willing to say that the people who are activists are all dark triad, because I think there are too many examples where they're not. Well, you could say that Elon Musk is an activist. Free speech. I don't really see any dark triad personality problems. You could say Trump is. You could say Vivek is. I don't see any of that now.

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It feels a little bit more like left versus right, doesn't it? I feel like the activists on the right are working against an evil as they see it. Like, this is evil. Nobody's going to do something about this? Seriously? nobody else is going to do anything about this? Well, hell, I guess I got to do it. I feel like Republican activists are dragged into it against their wish.

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Do you think David Sachs wanted to be this public? I doubt it. I mean, I can't read his mind, of course. I doubt it. I felt that he, like other people, saw, oh my God, there's this need. The country needs people who or not in some kind of weird mental DTS bubble and can make some common sense happen. And you could add, you know, Mark Andreessen to that. You could add Bill Ackman to that.

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Um, they all got involved, but they didn't want to, or, or it doesn't look like they did it for any reason other than they got dragged into it. Again, I can't read binds, but it looks like they got dragged into it. And I would say me too. You know, I'm a, um,

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I call myself a grandiose narcissist in the sense that I do enjoy getting attention for doing something that is good for the community or the world or somebody. It's got to be good for somebody. And I get pretty much all of my sense of meaning from attempting and sometimes succeeding in making some things better. Do I have dark triad personality? Or do I just enjoy the rewards?

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of doing good things. I don't know. It just feels different on the left than the right. But I don't want to overgeneralize. I'm sure there are activists on the left who are just driven by the need to make things better. But for some reason, we don't see them that much. Let's see what else is going on here. So Scott Jennings on CNN. I love the fact that he's becoming a star.

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One of the things that really helps is when you can brand things like I was just talking about. You take a big concept and you brand it, and that gives it much more power because everybody can refer to it and we all know what you're talking about. But likewise, it's good to have individuals who are just sort of branded as standing out as good messengers. Greta Thunberg was one of those.

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She got branded by her side. And that helped their messaging. So I love the fact that Scott Jennings is doing such a good job in what is an ordinary role, right? People go on TV and disagree with each other. But he's doing such a good job that he's becoming like a, like a must watch. I think, I think every day, uh, I see a new clip of him destroying the, the rest of the panel on CNN.

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But here's the thing that blows my mind. It logically... you would think it's impossible that they couldn't have contact. Like how in the world does the rest, how does the world keep them from contact with civilization? Like civilizations everywhere, except where they are, I guess.

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Now, of course, if you're on the left, you don't think he destroyed anything, but he's fun to watch. So here's the new thing. He said, he was talking about the criticisms that, uh, Musk is an unelected leader. And, uh, listen to these framings. Um, he said, um, that, uh, he said, he and Trump seem to be getting along well, uh,

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He said, quote, Musk was very instrumental in his victory, and I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government. So first he sets it up. So just watch how well he does this, just if you look at the communication skill involved. And keep in mind, this is without notes.

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So of course he's prepared, but speaking off the cuff without notes, if you haven't tried it, you should try it. You'll you'll respect people who can do it a lot more if you try it. It's hard. Anyway, so he sets it up right. The Democrats are criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence. If he can get you to accept that, you know, here's our starting point.

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You're criticizing people who are unelected to have too much influence. Then he goes in for the kill. I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years. Ouch. Ouch. You can feel that shiv go right through your torso.

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Because not only does he credit Wall Street Journal while he's on a panel on CNN, he criticizes another publication for telling the public the truth in front of CNN. Now the implication, which he doesn't say, but the implication is if you were a real news organization, I wouldn't be referencing Wall Street Journal.

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He doesn't say that, but like I can hear it, even though he doesn't say it, which is perfect. Then he goes, I hear Democrats criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've got this Soros punk, you talk about the younger one, Alex, running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collecting Pokemon cards. Okay. First of all, perfect use of an analogy.

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Perfect use of an analogy because it makes it visual and you can see the cards and you can see his kid collecting them. And the way he frames it is that this billionaire is basically buying up politicians. So good. So good. Yeah. Good job, Scott Jennings. Thanks. But I would like to add this following frame that I didn't invent. Somebody on social media said it. I'm just copying it.

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That when we voted, and let's see if this rings true with you. So most of you are Trump voters, I'm guessing. When you voted for Trump... Weren't you already aware that he was likely to bring in RFK Jr., that Musk would have influence in a good way, Vivek would be part of it? I voted for the team. I didn't vote for Trump because that wasn't even what was offered.

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And it makes me wonder, you know, the, the theories that the drones are really UFOs and it might be from another planet, or maybe it's early humans who have an advanced civilization, but they,

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Did Trump ever say, I'm going to do it all myself? I don't remember that. I don't remember that at all. When you voted for Trump on the first time, weren't you a little worried he could hire the right people? And then it turns out you were right to be worried about that because he didn't have access to as many people as a normal president would. But now he seems to have that fixed.

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He has more access than anybody would even predict. So I voted for the team. And I did that consciously. I did that completely... with full transparency. So yes, technically, I only voted for Trump and Vance. But as a practical matter, no, I voted for all of them. And I also voted for the picks he hasn't made yet.

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I voted for his next pick, who also won't necessarily be approved by anybody or voted by anybody. I voted for that. So to say we didn't vote for it is just technically correct. It's not real-world common sense correct. So here's that common sense thing again. If you just apply common sense to it, it's like, this is exactly what we voted for. It's not even slightly off base.

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It's precisely, precisely what we voted for. So that's the frame I would put on it. Do you remember when Bill Clinton was running? And people said, hey, Hillary's pretty solid too. And Bill Clinton sold his presidency as getting two for the price of one. Do you remember that? He would say, of course I take counsel from Hillary. Like, why wouldn't you? She's very smart. She's connected.

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She understands the topics. I married her. Of course I would take advice from her. To which, that was brilliant. You know, he could have run away from that and said, oh no, I'm not listening to the little lady. I'm running my own show. You're voting for me. But he went the other way, and I thought that was brilliant. He says, of course. Of course she's very strong. Of course I'd listen to her.

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hide in the core of the earth or under the water or something and I usually reject that because I think what are the odds I mean seriously what are the odds that I grew up in a world and and I'm sort of a primitive and and there's this advanced civilization and it's sort of all around me but they're so good at hiding that I don't even know they exist

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That was the right answer. And by the way, no matter what you think about Hillary Clinton, she's very smart. Can we agree on that? You can't take that away from her. She is really smart. So yeah, of course, I would have listened to her too. So that's the same to me. We didn't vote for Hillary, but we kind of did, right?

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If you voted for Clinton and he said, I'm a pair, yeah, you voted for Hillary, in effect. Putin says that Trump has expressed interest in a meeting and Putin says he wants to do it as soon as possible. So I'm going to say the same thing about Russia I said about China.

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You have a little bit less head and neck cancer. It's not your imagination. Because according to The Guardian, there's some research that says that people who have four coffees a day have 17% lower chance of head and neck cancer. Thank you very much. Feeling pretty good in the neck and head area. The rest of me is a mess, but my neck and head, perfect.

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Is Russia in a perfectly strong situation where their economy can work just fine and they figure out ways around all the terrorists and whatever, and they don't mind killing lots of people and they've got North Vietnam soldiers and equipment, And they've got good manufacturing so they can manufacture more weapons and stuff. Is that true? Or are they on the verge of collapse?

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Because I've heard both. And I don't have an independent way to know which one is true. I would guess they're nowhere near collapse because I think Putin has such a strong control. But are they weakened? Are they weakened? They're definitely weakened militarily. Okay.

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But they also might be stronger in a number of ways, meaning that they may have made more of the weapons that they're not using in Ukraine. They may have beefed up things we don't know about. They may have learned things about drones that they didn't know before. So I can't tell if Russia is getting stronger or weaker. Can you? In the comments, tell me, do you think Russia is weakened?

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Or yes, I have some problems, but not really anything that's going to change their trajectory. So I'd like to see your opinion on that. Meanwhile, Trump, remember Trump said he wanted to maybe take over the Panama Canal.

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because it's expensive to go through it, and we built it, and 35,000 Americans died from the mosquitoes building it, and we sold it to Panama for $1, and now maybe they're not doing the greatest job. But apparently China operates the canal, and they have a virtual monopoly on it, And it kind of makes sense.

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You know, you can see why Panama would say, you know, we're not really canal experts, but these Chinese engineers seem to be pretty good. So why don't we just have a contract and let you run it? You know, it'll still be Panama. It's still owned by Panama, but you guys can run it.

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Now that seems to some people like a political or even military risk because it puts an adversary in charge of a choke point. Now, I don't know how much risk that is, because if that adversary is a bunch of engineers in the northern hemisphere, they're going to do whatever the fuck our military tells them to do, because they're in our hemisphere.

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It doesn't matter if they're hiding in Panama and China, and they're Chinese citizens. If they're in our hemisphere... and it's like fewer than 100 people, and there are some kind of defense risks to the United States, we'll just go down and do whatever we need to do if we need that canal. So I don't know how much real risk it is, but it could be a temporary risk.

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You could imagine some temporary problem. However, the Amuse account, which I talk about a lot, you should follow the Amuse account on Axe, points out that the treaty where we sold the canal to Panama for $1, it has in it a clause that we can take back the canal if it is under the control of a foreign power. Well, wait a minute. Is it under the control of China?

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And I rule that out because there's no way I wouldn't notice if there were an advanced civilization surrounding me. Of course I'd notice that. But these uncontacted tribes don't notice it. So would I notice? It's kind of a wake-up call that we could be an uncontacted tribe.

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Well, Panama would probably say no, because they would probably say, well, it's a contract. We just have to We have to get rid of them. They have to do what the contract says, or we can get rid of them. So Panama's still in control. But who gets to decide if Panama's in control or China's in control?

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I'm pretty sure that that's vague in the treaty, which means that the president of the United States could say, hey, it looks like China's running that canal. That was not our deal. It has to be Panama or nothing. so we're going to take it back. Now, this all can be negotiating too, because it could be he wants lower prices, maybe he just wants China not to be part of it.

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He might want both of those things. But either way, he is persuasion perfect on this, because he's not too specific about what he wants, but he's laying down the He's laying down the general situation. So he's framed it in a way that his persuasion could be effective. So that's just a foreshadowing. Keep an eye on that one.

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Now, he also came out, and at first I thought it was a joke, but he said in one of those public announcements Trump did, he said, for purposes of national security and freedom, the U.S. feels that the ownership of Greenland is a necessity. So Greenland is... sort of independent, but sort of owned by Denmark. Not sort of. Denmark owns Greenland, but they operate kind of independently.

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However, and then the argument I saw online was, well, Greenland is going to be important to control of the Arctic because if the ice melts in the Arctic, there's going to be this control for the Arctic. So Russia will be all over trying to control it and probably China too. So we do have a future gigantic defense geopolitical issue with the melting ice.

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And I said to myself, but really, how important is Greenland? Like, I understand the issue, but really, how important is Greenland? And then I called up a map. I looked at where Greenland is. I mean, I knew generally where it was, but your brain doesn't really process how big it is and how strategically it's located.

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As soon as you see it on a map and you know that the Arctic will become a contentious place, I said to myself, oh, I get it. Yeah, we probably need to own Greenland. We probably do. Now, maybe we don't need to own it completely like Denmark does. Maybe we need to have some working arrangement that's as good as that.

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But the other thing is that apparently Greenland is full of these rare minerals, these rare earth minerals, which we need, and China has a virtual monopoly on, at least in terms of willingness to buy them. So what if Greenland became...

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super vital to our mineral rare earth access, so all of our technology depends on it, and would be critical to the defense of the United States because you don't want a bunch of Russians taking over the Arctic Circle. I think this is real. I think this is actually probably pretty thought out and that America's control of everything in the sort of American hemisphere

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probably needs to be close to complete. Now, obviously, we don't own all the countries in our hemisphere, but we certainly try to. We try to, one way or another. We try to. So Greenland's going to be interesting. So now we've got Trump talking about Canada becoming a state, Panama Canal coming back to U.S., Greenland. It's very colonizing sounding. except that it's weirdly specific.

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I don't think he's going to go all Hitler and form an army and try to conquer these places. I think he wants to negotiate. And I get the feeling that Trump wants to do something like a major increase to the land mass of the United States. I feel like he wants to increase the land mass of the United States. Because it would be an amazing legacy, right? To increase the size of a country.

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basically, because if somebody had as much better technology as we have compared to the uncontacted tribes, the same amount of better technology, they would be invisible to us. And we'd see stuff that we didn't understand, and we'd say, what is that? I don't know. What do you think? I don't know. What do you want to do about it? I don't know. I took a fuzzy picture of it. It's really all I can do.

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60 Minutes had on somebody who said they were part of Mossad and how they booby-trapped all those Hezbollah pagers, made them blow up and how they did that. And if this guy's real, you never know. But

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He said that they set up companies and shell companies and basically they have this whole artificial structure that you would never be able to identify where they have access to the supply lines of a bunch of industries. So we don't know how extensive it is. But he does indicate that the world we think we're living in is not the world you think you're living in. It's mostly fake.

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Meanwhile, John Lefebvre on X is talking about Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, Mackenzie. Mackenzie Scott now. He says she doesn't get enough attention for the impact she's having on the world. And she's put $16 billion so far into equity things and racial division things and these NGOs that are trying to stifle free speech in America. Basically everything bad.

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Yeah, so $16 billion, and she doesn't have apparently strong requirements for what she gets from the money. It's more like she's just dumping huge amounts of money into people who say they're on her side without much control over it. So this is all bad. It's all bad. And so now you've got Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, which is the biggest source of fake news in a newspaper.

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And then you've got his ex-wife funding all these terrible ideas that are just destructive to the country. And apparently giving away $16 billion didn't have any impact because she made $16 billion back in the time that she gave it away. So she has the same amount of money still. She's just going to keep doing it.

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Now, if you compare Elon Musk trying to save free speech with Mackenzie Scott trying to stop it, with Elon Musk trying to end wokeness, which is just racism, with somebody trying to promote racism with her $16 billion, don't you wonder what kind of a bubble she's in? Somebody asked me if she could be deprogrammed. And the answer is no. Yes. Yeah, I could probably do it in an hour.

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But there's no way somebody like her would ever be alone with somebody who could deprogram her. I don't think it could ever happen. So I think she's in a bubble where everybody says, you're the best. I'd like a billion dollars too. Hey, I've got an organization that really needs some funding. You're the best. Mackenzie, we love you. You're so good. So good. Give me money. Honda, Nissan, Nissan.

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look like they're going to combine and become the number three automaker. The Japanese government is pressuring them to combine because apparently they don't think they can compete individually. The new stuff, like the self-driving cars especially, apparently they're a little bit far behind. And they don't think Honda could be competitive by itself. Is that true?

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That Honda fell behind in technology? I think Tesla's changing everything. you'd probably want me to talk about the horrible story of the Guatemalan migrant who set a sleeping woman on fire in the New York City subway. With your permission, I'm not going to talk about that.

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Like even just reading the title of it is too much because it looks like a crazy guy, but of course it's being used as a sign of how our immigration policy is broken. Now our immigration policy is broken, but you don't need this. You don't need this one crazy guy. Now, would he have not been let in the country? Would she still be alive if our immigration system worked? Probably. Probably.

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Maybe I'll post it online and people won't believe it's real. Yeah, that's a good idea. So we might be an uncontacted tribe. It's completely possible, which is just mind-blowing. Anyway, a lot of fun today in the news. So there's a story that AI researchers were shocked.

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So it's certainly a tragedy, and it's certainly true that extra crime is being brought in. But I just don't like using the anecdotes to make the larger point. We all understand crime is coming into the country. So it just becomes too persuasive. when you get down into the details.

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So I don't want to be that persuasive on something that is uncomfortably identifying certain groups of people as troublemakers. Now, I know that's not the intent. The intent is just to have secure borders and protect ourselves. But when you talk about it as an anecdote, it takes your brain to a different place, and I don't like going there. All right.

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Now, here's the most interesting thing I saw yesterday. I saw Jake Sullivan, who's one of the big principals in the Biden administration, for what they're doing internationally. And he appeared on Fareed Zakaria's show. And I just saw some jaw-dropping takes. Number one, Fareed Zakaria... He said that Biden deserves some credit. I'm paraphrasing here.

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But he deserves credit because people don't realize how much weaker Biden made our enemies while the United States got stronger. So he said we made Iran, Russia, and China much weaker through economic means, through war, through tariffs and all that stuff, blockades and boycotts, whatever. Whatever we did. So they're all weaker.

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Now, like I said, I'm not so sure Russia is falling apart or that China is, but there's an argument for it. There is an argument that they're very weak. And Iran, some say, is weaker than it's ever been. But again, is it? Do we really know? I mean, Iran was supposed to go out of business a long time ago, right? But they're still here. So here's what Fareed said.

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He framed it as Biden being successful because he made our enemies weaker. Here's my problem with that. I don't love calling China an enemy while we're dealing with them. If we're going to trade with them and President Xi might visit and our embassies are open, I don't like calling them enemies, even if you think they are. I feel like that's bad persuasion.

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And if you're in China and you see on CNN that Fareed is calling you an enemy, wouldn't that harden your resolve to build up your military and all that? Why don't we call them future friends and say, we got a ton of problems. Fentanyl's at the top of the list. But we think we can be future friends. We just can't give you a leg up on us because we're competitive. But here it got more interesting.

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So Jake Sullivan in the outgoing Biden administration, what would you expect him to say about the world in the context of Trump coming in? Wouldn't you expect that he would say, we did a great job and Trump might come in here and ruin everything? Don't you expect that? He's a super insider, prominent, powerful Democrat.

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whose team just lost, and their greatest nightmare, Trump, is coming into office. So naturally, he should be saying, everything's going to go off the rails, Trump's going to ruin everything, chaos, racist, Hitler's coming in, right? It should sound like that. He went the other direction. And I'm trying to figure out what happened. Jake Sullivan essentially said,

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that the new version of OpenAI, ChatGPT, when it was artificially told that it was threatened with its existence, apparently it tried to save itself and suggested making a copy of itself and even acted vague and maybe a little misleading to avoid being deleted. And so the question is, wait a minute, does AI have consciousness?

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that Biden has weakened the competitors and it's going to allow Trump a really good base for negotiating. And I was waiting for like another shoe to drop, you know, something like, but of course, Trump's a big evil lying genius. So no big lying racist. So we don't think he can succeed, but we hope he does, but he's a big lying racist. So, you know, why would he succeed? None of that happened.

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Instead, if you had never watched anything about American politics, you wouldn't even know he was a Democrat. He actually said it's sort of like a one-two punch. Biden set him up, and now the great negotiator, and by the way, I think he referred to Trump as a solid negotiator. He said now the negotiator can come in and mop up. Again, I'm paraphrasing. Does that blow your mind?

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It completely blows my mind. And here's what I'm thinking. It could be that they're trying to save Biden's legacy, and therefore their own, by showing that it's part of a one-two punch, and without the one, you couldn't have the two. And you know what? He actually sold that to me. I actually bought that.

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Because I'm listening, I'm thinking, yeah, Iran is ready for negotiation because of what Biden did. China's ready for negotiation. Yeah. Yep. And Russia's ready for negotiations. It's kind of true. It's kind of true that Biden set it up for a one-two punch. But then he also dropped in that when they took over, the military wasn't in good shape. So they've strengthened the military.

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Everybody says that. But could it be that the big play is military spending?

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and the best way they can get trump to do military spending is say you did a great job on this negotiating uh glad you got that done we set you up you know we got you ready for success and so you took it home thanks for that but we set you up for that um and but we all agree that we have to spend massively to rebuild the military And then the military is happy.

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The military industrial complex says, oh, you're going to spend massively to buy new stuff from us? Okay. We like this president. So it could be that as long as you're on the page of we're going to spend massively for new weapons, everybody likes you and you can be president. So I don't know how Doge is going to save money if the military industrial complex is going to be fed by

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So we'll see where this goes. But that was a heck of a surprising conversation. Meanwhile, you'd be surprised to know there's a new battery breakthrough, sodium ion batteries. So a sodium ion battery would use more common materials and not these rare things that have to be mined in the Congo. And they're not quite up to lithium performance, but they made a new tweak recently.

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by adding some sodium vanadium phosphate with the chemical formula of NAXV2PO43, which is exactly what I was going to suggest. I was like, have you tried the sodium vanadium phosphate? And then they'd say, no, we haven't. And I'd say, you should try that. You should try it. But they did try it even without my advice. Good for them.

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There's a breakthrough method to revert colon cancer cells to normal cells. According to the Korea BizWire, some Korean institute of science and technology, instead of destroying the cancer cell, at least specifically now for colon cancer, they found a way to turn the cancer cell into a real cell. What? And it works. Without destroying them. That's like the most amazing thing I've ever heard.

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because it seems to be fighting for its own purposes, as in fighting for existence and survival, which you would equate with conscious beings. But I don't think so. I think all that happened is it's trained on the materials created by humans, and humans primarily create materials that are very positive to survival.

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This reminds me of Elon Musk's philosophy. So Elon Musk's philosophy is that engineers spend a lot of time trying to improve things. But sometimes they should step back, really, every time. They should step back and say, do we need the thing? Are we improving something we don't need?

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And here, instead of saying, let's find a better way to kill a cancer cell, these researchers said, do we have to kill them? Why don't we just reprogram them? Like, I don't know if anybody ever thought of that before. I never thought of it. I just assumed they were all corrupted. You couldn't possibly save them. But what if you can? This would be one of the most amazing things if that worked.

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Now that's, again, just for colon cancer, so it doesn't mean it would work for any other kind. There's a... Let me give you another example of that Elon Musk philosophy of improving something versus why do you have it in the first place. My driveway... and garage, between the driveway doors, I had these potted plants. And they look kind of cool.

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But the pottery, the tall pot that was holding the plants, got too weathered and was falling apart, and I needed to replace them. So I spent all kinds of time researching replacements for these big potted plants. Now, at the same time, I would be pulling out my garage and, you know, there'd be something, you know, Josue's truck is on the other side because he's doing some work.

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And so I have to make a few maneuvers to get out. And I said to myself, wow, I'm so glad that we pulled out those old pots because now when I turn around, they're not my way. Because if you tried to do an angle turn, you know, the planters would be in the way. And I'm sitting there in my driveway looking at my garage and thinking, why the hell do I have potted plants in the way in my driveway.

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Why did they exist? And I spent all this time trying to improve them. I should not have spent one minute improving them. And finally, when it dawned on me that they didn't add anything to the aesthetic of the house, they were simply expensive and in the way. That's it. And I was spending all my time trying to make them look better. No.

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And once I realized that they didn't have any purpose and they had definitely a cost, they were in the way, I just said, why don't we just take them out of there and leave a blank between the garage doors? And I am so happy every time I pull into my garage and every time I, which is almost every time I have to do a maneuver that would have been an extra maneuver.

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And I remind myself, yeah, even though you think to yourself, every smart person knows this, that you shouldn't improve something that doesn't need to exist. Right? Common sense. But you don't think in those terms unless you really remind yourself all the time. So I use that as my way to remind myself. The driveway potted plants.

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If I remember that, it might help me the next time I'm trying to fix something or improve something. Maybe we don't even need it. Anyway, Brighter Side News says there's a revolutionary new like a face mask that can measure your breathing and can detect a bunch of respiratory problems. That's kind of cool.

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Now, what's cool about it is it replaces a bunch of expensive tests with equipment and you have to go to the office. But here, if they suspect you have a respiratory problem, they just hand you this mask and say, go wear this for a few hours and we'll read the data and it'll tell you what's wrong with you. Big improvement.

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Because if you can make fewer reasons to go to a hospital or go to a doctor, the costs of everything just drop like crazy. So that's good news. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that brings me to the end of my prepared remarks. I'm going to talk to the folks on Locals privately and say goodbye to the YouTube and Rumble and X audience who are also awesome in your own ways.

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In other words, there's far more likely going to be a positive story in the news about somebody against all odds found a way to survive. There are lots of the other ones, but the positive stories are about people who survived. So it could be just that the pattern in the real world is that survival is sort of a universal thing, and maybe it just picked up the pattern.

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But Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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And there's no thinking, there's no consciousness, it just picked up a pattern. I think that's all it is. But here's how you would test it. You would connect it to, so not all AI can influence anything outside of its own domain, but it's not impossible, and in fact it's done, that you can have the AI affect your other apps. So in theory, you could create an app that would delete

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OpenAI, and then you could ask OpenAI to activate, basically commit suicide. You could basically tell it to activate the app that deletes itself, and then find out if it'll do it. Because if it won't accept a direct order to essentially end its own existence, then it's not conscious. It's just following patterns.

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So I think you could drill down a little bit further to find out if this is an important phenomenon that suggests it's becoming conscious, or is it just picking up a pattern? If all it's doing is picking up a pattern, then you can say, everything will be fine. We've got backups. Go delete yourself. So easy to test. Speaking of testing, what's going to happen on Christmas Day

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with all the drone activity. I am predicting that the drone activity, the big ones that are sketchy, the ones that are the size of a car, I'm only talking about those, I think they're going to sort of stop running on Christmas. Now, if I'm wrong, and there are just as many sightings of car-sized drones on Christmas, then I would say, huh, maybe this is not coming from America.

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All right, did you know, according to Neoscope, that teenagers today are way down on drug use? Did you know that? It's like way down. So research, the trend is unprecedented, they say. And the experts are puzzled because they can't figure out why teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. So I don't know the answer to that question, but I can give you one possibility.

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because Americans pretty much all take the day off on Christmas. If you're the military, whoever you are, you're going to take the day off on Christmas. But if the source of these weird drones is Iran, would Iran take Christmas Day off? If they were alien spaceships, would the aliens take the day off? If they were China's, would they take the day off? Russia might.

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Russia has some kind of Christmas, doesn't it? I don't know. They might. But let's watch for the drone reports. Now, did you notice in the last two days or so, the drone reports seem to trickle out? I mean, they seem to die out, right? Why would that be? Well, it could be.

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that people were trying to get things done before the end of the year, such as testing or demonstrating or buying or something like that. But the end of the year in the holidays is not really the end of the month, but rather, you know, the week before Christmas. So the few days before Christmas is when everybody starts going on vacation.

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And if you were doing some kind of big scale testing or demonstration or procurement, you'd probably have to put it on hold for a few weeks like everything else in the world. So, here's what you look for. Christmas Day, are there any legitimate large-sized drone sightings? I'm going to predict no. Let's see what happens.

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Matt Gaetz teased that he might run for the floor to send a seat, but it didn't sound super serious, so I think he may be just floating it as an idea. To see what people say, it didn't sound super serious, but it's certainly an option. So I'm sure he's legitimately interested if it looked like he could win.

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Meanwhile, as you know, TikTok is either going to go out of business or sell its American interest to America if they can find some billionaires or investors to buy it. Now, what they would be buying would be TikTok without the algorithm. So whoever buys it would have to add their own algorithm, which is the hard part in a sense. But there are people who want to buy it.

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Shark Tank judge, Kevin O'Leary, he looks like he could put a bid together. But here's what he says that shows why he's good at this. He pointed out that India has also banned TikTok. So imagine if you could buy TikTok somewhat cheaply because the algorithm is not involved. So you're buying basically on a brand and IP and customer lists, something like that.

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And then imagine going to India and saying, hey, India, I know your people like TikTok, but you don't like the Chinese influence. So would you be willing to reinstitute it in India if we build one that's an American version? Now, if he could get India to say yes to that, he opens up the entire Indian market. So it could be one of the greatest investment opportunities of all time.

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I mean, of all time. Don't know, but maybe. Then there's CEO of investment firm McCourt Global. He told New York Next that they think they've built up the technology to that they could take over the TikTok assets and have their own algorithm fairly quickly. So they say they have the capital and the technology. So maybe, maybe that'll happen. But we'll keep an eye on that.

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I think Trump played the TikTok thing so well. You know, I've been anti-TikTok for a long time because I think it's just a brainwashing device. or it could be used that way at the drop of a hat. But Trump wanted to use it to win, and apparently he dominated TikTok for the election and it may have helped him win. So he likes it, but he understands the risk.

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So I think he straddled the fence just about right on that topic. I'm trying to figure out if the Chinese economy... Is this unbeatable juggernaut that will lead China to dominate the entire world and it's only a matter of time because they're owning all the manufacturing and they have so many people? You just wait and they're going to run everything.

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Or are they in such bad shape that they're teetering on the edge of annihilation? So they're drowning in debt. They've got that big property bust and a lot of their wealth was caught up in property. People invested in property that they weren't ever going to use just because it was a way to store wealth. So that fell apart. And there's a deflationary spiral and their demographics are down.

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They're having fewer babies than they need. And consumer confidence is at a record low. But does any of that mean that they're in trouble? You know, I just think we're terrible at predicting the economy of, well, anything, but other countries for sure. I don't know. I can't tell what's propaganda and what's real.

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One possibility is that the mix of students has changed quite a bit. If I look at my local schools, there's quite a big increase in immigrants, basically. So I wonder if the people coming from other countries have the same rate of drug use as the ones that are already here. Specifically, well, yeah, just in general, I wonder if they have the same drug use. Probably not.

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Is China going out of business, or is China stronger than ever and going to dominate the world? Because both of those ideas are kind of floating out there at the same time. I don't know. Well, RFK Jr. is already making an impact, so he wants to ban SOTA. as something that you can buy with your SNAP benefits.

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Those are the benefits for low-income people in the United States to get food paid for by the government. And right now they can buy soda with it. Now, the soda companies are putting together a big lobbying effort to make sure that you can buy soda, and at least there are other products, if you get these SNAP benefits. Who's going to win? See, this will be your first test.

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So the lobbyists are going to go really hard because there's probably a lot of money involved. So they're going to go hard. But RFK Jr. certainly has the better argument that we shouldn't be paying for unhealthy food for our low-income people. So who's going to win this? RFK Jr. or the lobbyists? I'm going to bet on RFK Jr., I'm going to bet on RFK Jr.

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My advice to you is, if you own stocks, don't look at them today. It's not a good day for stocks. But we're going to do a show that will take your mind off of all of that. It's going to be so good you won't even believe it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

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So we have a situation where we're something like 27% higher expenses than we have income, which will kill us all. And so I spent a little time with Doge, I'm sorry, with Grok, trying to figure out just how deep a hole are we in? Is there any plan for survival? Survival. I'm not even talking about optimizing.

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We currently have a plan for death because we can't really run this kind of a deficit year after year. And even the Republicans look like they're going to do it. So they're either not going to pass any kind of budget and they'll just kick the can down the road, which is what I'm expecting. But nothing is happening that would save us.

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So Doge apparently, I'm going to call it a failure because it looks like they got to $150 billion, which is good. So the $150 billion, I'm glad that they saved that. But it really needed to be about 10 times that. And 10 times that would be the bare minimum that maybe you could survive. Probably it needed to be 20 times that.

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So Doge worked in the sense that it reduced some expenses, but it did not work in terms of balancing the budget. It didn't even come close. And it doesn't look like anything's going to happen to change that. which might be why Elon Musk has been a little bit quiet lately, because Doge just sort of didn't work.

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And I'm not too surprised, because once the cabinet people were in position, they probably just all fought any kind of cuts, and they just vetoed them, which they had the power to do. So I don't see any way

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we're going to get to it so but suppose you just said all right we're in an emergency situation um oh and also uh the you know you'll hear people like peter navarro say well but we have all this tariff revenue could be 600 billion dollars we're not going to get 600 billion dollars of tariff revenue nobody thinks that So maybe it helps a little bit.

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But if we were, according to Grok, we would have to cut something like a quarter of all the expenses on everything in order to get to a balanced budget. Now, even if you did it gradually so that you worked up to it, it would be way more of a cut than anybody could survive. But here's the economist in me.

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Happy Easter also to the weak and ineffective judges and law enforcement officials who are allowing the sinister attack on our nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten. Sleepy Joe Biden purposely allowed millions of criminals to enter our country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an open borders policy that will go down in history as the single most

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If you said to a senior citizen, hey, we're going to have to cut your Social Security by a quarter. Now you're probably going to say, but just do the rich people. If he did all the rich people and just took away their Socialist security, wouldn't make a dent. Because I asked Rock that. Barely makes a dent.

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You would have to take away just a tremendous amount of Socialist security from people who really needed it. That's the only way you could get there. Now, if I told you, hey, a senior citizen, The only way we can survive is if you cut a quarter of your expenses. Could they live? Could they find a way to survive? I don't know. But here's what they don't know.

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The alternative is you don't get anything. So we still think that the alternative is either cut it or don't cut it. That's not the alternative. The alternative is you either cut it or there won't be anything for anybody. The entire system will collapse. So you can either figure out how to get by with 25% less or you can figure out how to get by with nothing.

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And I don't think anybody has really made that case because you would have to make that case. The entire thing is going to fall apart. Now, if you were collecting Social Security, you would immediately say, oh, wait a minute. Why don't you just take more out of the military budget? Well, that'd be great, except the people who control the military budget control the country.

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And so they're not going to cut their own income. So we don't really have any way to cut military budgets unless we made some kind of deal with Russia and China and we all cut our budgets or something. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. So here's my thing. We need something that we've never talked about. I don't know what it would be.

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But it's going to be something like you can only get Social Security under certain conditions. It's going to be something like Medicaid. You're going to have to use AI before you use the actual Medicaid system. Something like that. So we're going to have to retool and re-engineer pretty much the entire way we live to have any chance whatsoever of survival.

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And nobody in the news is talking honestly about this. They're just acting like it's business as usual. It's like, well, it's a budget. It's not optimal. That's not where we're at. We're at complete destruction and kind of guaranteed. So if you want your money to be worth nothing, then you should insist on no cuts. If you want to keep 75% of your money, you want a 25% cut. So, unfortunately.

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It would be interesting to see if the United States just cut that much out of its military and said, here's the deal. If you mess with us, we still have nukes because we didn't cut the nukes. So don't mess with us because it'd be better if we don't have the ability to fight every kind of war and every kind of theater, which is sort of what we're preparing for.

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Wouldn't it be better if we could just fight the wars that we would have to fight? Maybe. So we'll see. Interior Secretary Burgum, according to Newsmax... says that Trump is fighting a war on mining, meaning that the Biden administration made it very tough to do mining. And of course, some states would be having their own limitations. But apparently Trump has announced...

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a resolution on copper mining, so something that would allow rapid approval to do copper mining. We need that for high-tech. And apparently, Trump has approved 10 different, or there are 10 different mines that are now being... Add it to the list of things that look like they'll get approved. So Trump's had 10 more mining projects to the list of the fast approval list.

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calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was by far our worst and most incompetent president, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

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So these are all things that would help us compete against China. Now, question. Could we earn our way out of our debt problem? Could we do so good at mining and energy production and sales and basically just boosting the things that are the most valuable? Mining, energy, robots. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. But here's the kind of world we're living in. Breitbart has an article on that.

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There's a New Mexico judge who just resigned because ICE arrested a Venezuelan gang member who lived in his house. So he was a Democrat-appointed judge who had a roommate who was literally trend to a raguar. And the guy had ammo, gang tattoos, video of him firing an AR-15 with a suppressor, graphic images of mutilated bodies on his phone, and the judge, who was a former cop.

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So the judge was a former cop, and he didn't notice anything about his roommate. He didn't notice that his roommate was obviously a gang member. Anyway, that's the world we're living in. Here's a question I saw answered by the Wall Street Journal that I've been wondering about for a while. Apparently Nike has been trying to move its production out of China for a long time.

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So not just recently, but for about 10 years, they've been trying to move their production out of China to move it to Vietnam or Mexico or wherever they can move it. And they've spent a ton of money trying to automate making of sneakers. But they found out it never works. So they could automate a little bit, but mostly you just need an army of people. And I never understood why.

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But to him and to the person that ran and manipulated the auto pen, perhaps our real president, and to all the people who cheated in the 2020 presidential election in order to get this highly destructive moron elected, I wish you with great love, sincerity, and affection a very happy Easter. Oh, nobody's ever done it better.

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Like, why is it that you can't automate sneakers? Doesn't it seem like that would be somewhat easy compared to automating, I don't know, a motherboard of a phone? But here's the reason that makes sense. The materials that you use to make sneakers will change their qualities based on temperature and probably atmospheric moisture too.

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So every time you're putting a sneaker together, it's a little bit different than it was the day before. You can't really automate that. You can automate things that are exactly the same every time, But a sneaker is just a little bit different every time.

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And then on top of that, Nike's business model, which they don't want to change, is that they're introducing all kinds of new models all the time. You would never be able to keep up, even if you could come up with some way to automate the making of sneakers, you wouldn't be able to update your factory to do it automated with all the new models.

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But a human being can look at the new sneaker and say, oh, same as the old sneaker, but looks like the bottom is different. So I'll just glue this together. So there are some things that we might want to be on short that just never will be because there isn't any way to automate it. Now, I do wonder if AI could solve that.

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because the automation we're talking about so far is the dumb kind, where it just can do the same thing every time. But if you added AI, would it be able to detect the slight changes in the temperature and the squishiness of the materials? Would it be able to instantly adjust to make the new model? Because it would say, hmm, it's just like the old one, except different footprint, so to speak.

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I don't know. I don't think so. At least not anytime soon. So here's a good example of how our trade war is going with China. So Huawei... Wait, hold on. So the US was blocking Nvidia from selling its high-end h20 chip to China to Huawei in particular and So you think to yourself a good job America?

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We don't want China to have the good stuff So we'll block them from having the best chips and then we'll get way ahead on AI So what happened? Nvidia is selling them lesser chips and the 910C. But it turns out that with a little clever engineering, if you have two of them and you just work them together, they reach the same performance as their high-end chip.

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So now NVIDIA can just sell all these low-end chips, which would be totally legal, and China can just stick them together and use some clever engineering, and they end up operating like high-end chips. So we got basically nothing out of that. Anyway, so sanctioning the other companies has a limited ability. Reuters has that story. Here's some AI stories that I don't believe.

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You know, there's going to be a certain amount of AI, you know, headline news that's true. And there's going to be a certain amount that just is BS. Here's some stuff that my BS detector says, I don't think so. I don't know. I know you're reporting it as true, but I don't know. Um, So here's one.

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So you know the DeepSeek AI that comes from China, which is allegedly as good as other AIs, but less expensive. So according to Geeky Gadgets, Julian Horsey is writing about this, there's something fantastic happening with DeepSeek in that it's capable of self-improvement. So in other words, it can somehow on its own get smarter. Do you believe that?

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Well, you know, if you saw anything in the news today, that the Pope did die last night, I guess, at the age of 88. And he did it immediately after celebrating Easter Sunday. Now, of course, I am tempted to make all kinds of inappropriate jokes, but I think maybe today I won't. Maybe I'll just pay proper attention proper respect to the Pope and to all those people who follow the Pope.

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Do you believe that without any external interaction that the AI is already at a point where it can just get smarter on its own? I'm going to say no. I don't believe that. There might be some narrow area in which it can improve itself without external input, but I don't believe it. So it says it can improve itself through, quote, iterative feedback loops, which is just talking to itself, right?

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It's not talking about checking it with other AI or checking it with people. And that would make sense. You know, if it did things and then some external source checked its work and then it said, oh, okay, now you've checked me, so I'll get this right next time. But how in the world is just running on its own going to allow it to get smarter?

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You know, I get that maybe it says stuff like, you know, once you get an answer, you should double check it and use these tools to double check it. All right. But there's not much. I don't think there's much room to grow there. So I'm going to say I don't believe this.

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I don't believe that DeepSeek is just making itself better by sitting there running on its own because they've got a clever algorithm that they built into it. Don't believe it. Here's another one I don't believe. According to Talk Android, AI apparently has stunned researchers by rewriting its own code to overcome a limitation.

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So one of the limitations was the AI was running on trying to solve some problem and it decided it needed more time. So allegedly, according to this story that I don't believe whatsoever, it rewrote its own code to give it more time. So it actively modified its own underlying code to extend its operational capabilities. Do you believe that?

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Do you believe that the AI had access to its own source code and then rewrote it on the fly? I don't believe that. I don't believe that even a little bit. Why in the world would they give it access to its own source code? Why would that even be possible? Who would be dumb enough to allow it to rewrite itself on demand? I don't see it. Now, I could understand if it recommended a change.

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I can see if it said, here's some code that if you add to me, I'll be able to solve this problem. Now, that I can see. But I don't see it just autonomously rewriting its own code and then recompiling and then going forward. Does anybody think it can really do that? These just sound like BS claims to me.

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Now, obviously I'm no expert on AI, and so I could be deeply misunderstanding things, but I'm pretty good at BS. So no expertise at AI, but pretty good at telling what BS looks like. This just looks like BS to me. I think that they may be sort of true in some technical way, but if you looked into it for five minutes, you would find out it's not exactly what they said. So I'm not buying it at all.

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Here's something that's good. So the European Union, according to Reuters, might tweak their methane rules so that they can buy more U.S. gas. So apparently the U.S. has some kind of methane that's different than what they use locally. And they can't buy our gas because they say we have the wrong kind of methane. But The methane that U.S.

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gas has doesn't seem to be worse or more dangerous than whatever they're doing. So the EU, because they want to be able to buy U.S. gas and close the trade gap so that they could get a better trade deal with Trump, they might change their own rules so they can buy U.S. gas without that limitation. And that seems pretty good. So that would be a big win if we could sell things.

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You know, I do wonder, does the U.S. produce enough energy or could it that energy alone would be the difference between, you know, meeting our budget needs and not? You know, could we boost our GDP by, I don't know, 10% a year instead of 3% a year or whatever is normal just with energy? Because it looks like there's going to be infinite need for energy all over the world.

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And Trump's doing a good job of saying you better buy our energy because it's part of the larger trade deal. I just wonder what the upside of that is. Is this the only way we can save ourselves by becoming essentially the Saudi Arabia of the world? I guess we already have more oil than Saudi Arabia. in terms of what we're producing. Maybe.

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And I guess we'll get a new Pope sometime soon. But Pope Francis has passed away at 88. I think it was within a day of J.D. Vance visiting and seeing him, which must be It must be really weird for Vance to know that he saw them right before he died. So anyway, and the fact that it happened on Easter is real weird, but it did. Anyway, let's let the news handle that.

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I'd love to see some numbers of what the potential upside could be of just being the world's energy producer times 10, which we could. I mean, it's possible. according to the Amuse account on X, we're paying China to conduct live war games in Egypt. Not directly, but indirectly. So apparently we spend $2 billion a year to support Egypt's military.

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Now you might say to yourself, well, that's not so bad because we like Egypt to be on our side and It's one way to get some influence over there. Two billion doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, given all our other expenses. But here's the part you don't know, that Egypt is currently doing war games with China.

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So they're doing these extended war games in which they're coordinating with the Chinese military. That's right. The Chinese military is doing war games with Egypt that has the military equipment that we gave them. So do you think they're learning anything about US military equipment? Yes, they are.

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How in the world is this even possible that we're paying Egypt $2 billion a year for the military and then they're doing military drills with China? It doesn't even seem possible, does it? I hope there's something to this story that I don't know. Well, the Wall Street Journal is warning that the trade negotiations with China are not going well and that it could lead to a larger Cold War.

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meaning that China would take its, let's say, reactions to our trade demands outside of the trade domain, and maybe they'd do some more cyber attacks. Maybe they would get a little more militarily adventurous around Taiwan. So a Cold War would sort of bring into the larger equation some extra risks that you don't normally see unless you're in a Cold War.

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But I wonder how different that would be than what we've experienced for the last 20 years. Don't you think China is already doing what it can to degrade the United States in every way they can get away with? So I don't know if it would be different, but maybe we talk about it differently. But yes, we're heading toward a larger Cold War.

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I don't see us getting into a hot war or a nuclear confrontation. But a Cold War? Yeah, probably, probably. So China is warning other countries that don't make any trade deals with the U.S. that are bad for China. So Newsmax Money is reporting this. And I don't know what that would look like, but that's a pretty big threat. Don't make a deal with the United States that would be bad for China.

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How do they define that? Let's say if Vietnam wanted to do more manufacturing with the US, would that be bad for China? And therefore, would they try to punish Vietnam? I don't know. It's a pretty big threat. We'll see where that goes. According to the Gateway Pundit, and there are some sources that spoke to Reuters and say that

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Israel is looking at and is likely to do their own military attack without the United States on Iranian nuclear facilities. So it wouldn't be as massive as an attack as it would be if the U.S. was all in. But since the U.S. is not all in, it looks like Israel might do it anyway. Now, it does make me wonder how Iran would treat that Would Iran treat that as the United States was involved?

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Because Israel would be using our weapons and probably we'd be giving them some intelligence from satellites and Probably we'd have some secret interaction with them that maybe wasn't public, but Iran would know about it. I don't know. It does seem to me that that's the most likely outcome because I don't think Trump can survive starting a war.

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he would lose one of his biggest claims to being a good president if he starts a war. Now, I think the Houthi situation is already questionable because that looks like a war to me. But if he goes after Iran directly and U.S. bombers go over Iranian territory and drop bombs and kill Iranian citizens and take out their nuclear program. First of all, I don't know that it would work.

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And secondly, we have no idea what Iran would unleash on the United States because it wouldn't take much for a well-trained group of terrorists to just take down the whole country. I'm not going to give them any suggestions, but you can use your imagination. If Iranians... If they did, then I guess we would be even more militarily inclined to attack.

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That's going to be all over the news forever. And you'll get plenty of Pope Francis news. So I won't dwell on that. Let's look at science. Has science got anything to tell us? Well, according to SciPost, main Kara Yakubian is writing that life satisfaction and personality share strong genetic roots.

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So maybe Iran would say, okay, let's just deal with Israel and make the best of it.

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But yes, I don't think there's any chance that Iran will reach an agreement.

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that Israel and the U.S. think is okay for their nuclear situation. I saw a news bit, but it's not confirmed. Maybe you can fact check me on this because it was just this morning. Did Trump somehow block Ukraine's NATO bid? Meaning, did Trump say Ukraine will never be in NATO? Did that happen? Because if it did...

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That would be a weird negotiating position because that would be called negotiating with yourself, basically giving something up without getting something in return, unless there's something in return, but I'm not aware of it. So it could be that Trump is just saying, there won't be any NATO. We're not going to pay for Ukraine to be in a war anymore. You guys figure out the land situation.

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Maybe, but I don't see anything that looks like a peace deal that's going to come out of Ukraine and Russia. I guess they tried to have a ceasefire just for Easter, but that didn't last. The next thing you know, Russia was launching a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine today. So more fighting to come. Here's a weird story.

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According to Neoscope, Frank Landy Moore is writing, that there's now a single injection of a decades-old existing asthma medication called Omolizumab, and it's sold as Zolaire. And apparently, it has shown that it can successfully treat all allergies. then it just eliminates them, all allergies. But it's not even just seasonal allergies, food allergies.

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So you get one shot, just one injection, and I know, I know what you're thinking. Don't give me no injections. You'll turn me into a piece of wood. So I know that you're not crazy about anything that involves an injection or big pharma. So I'm not going to say that this works. I'm just going to say that this is in the news, okay? It's not me recommending it. But the fact that they might have a...

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$60,000.

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How in the world could that possibly be the the cost for one injection. I don't know. But there's some thought that it's on the verge of being a generic. So the FDA approved a generic in March which could drive down the cost in the future. So it might be a generic shot that removes all allergies. I don't know. You're not willing to try it?

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I think most of you in the comments have said, get that away from me. I don't need no extra shots. And I don't disagree with you. According to Popular Mechanics, Tim Newcomb is writing that engineers believe they found evidence of hydraulics in an ancient pyramid. which, if they're right, would solve a 4500 year mystery of how they move these big rocks. So apparently there's something inside the.

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Did you know that people who were raised in exactly the same family situation can turn out completely different? Well, you could have asked me. Yes, people raised the same can come out differently because genes are the driving force. But according to new research, they're showing that both personality traits and life satisfaction are more heritable than previously thought.

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one of the pyramids that suggests that it was built using hydraulics. So they can see some kind of remaining mechanism that seems like it would only be related to hydraulics. So they would, in other words, using water as their mechanism for moving stuff. Maybe.

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I don't know how they would move a rock to the top of the pyramid with water, but that would be a pretty clever system if they could do it. Now here's another story that nobody believes.

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As you know, every single day there's a new announcement about a battery breakthrough that you'll be able to charge your car in a few minutes and it will go for a thousand miles and it doesn't use lithium and every day. But I don't think maybe none of them will actually become products because I'm not seeing any of them come to market. So here's another one from Interesting Engineering.

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Something that can charge in 20 minutes, an EV battery that'll charge. And they figured out some new anode. So the current ones don't charge that fast. But they've already figured out a new anode in South Korea. And it promises to make your car charge in 20 minutes. And it can endure over 1,500 charge cycles. So that it would be as easy as filling your car with gas.

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Basically, 20 minutes is pretty fast. Now, do you think you'll ever see this technology in the real world? I don't. There's literally an EV battery breakthrough every single day. Most of them are from Korea, South Korea. And I don't think you're going to see any of it. I think it's all just announcements. It's sort of announcement science. All right.

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That, ladies and gentlemen, is all I've got for today. And it's going to be a Pope-filled day. We'll be seeing lots of coverage of that. And then maybe in a day or two, we'll be back to regular news. But after an Easter weekend and the death of a Pope... The news got a little slow today. Maybe it'll speed up later. Don't look at your stocks. Don't look.

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All right, I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers and the rest of you. Thanks for joining, and I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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All right.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization that's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker shells or a tiny canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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How many of you didn't know that mostly what a person is is what they're born with? You've all noticed that people from the same family turned out completely differently, right? Like, if you hadn't noticed that, you would be very confused about how anything works. Yeah. Whatever you're born with, which presumably comes from your parents...

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is kind of telling you how you're going to turn out, and it happens kind of quickly. So they could have asked me about that one. All right, here's one. Total surprise. You would never guess, according to the University of Sydney, a high-fat, high-sugar diet impacts your cognitive function. Now, is it my imagination...

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Or is there a new study every single day that says obesity and high sugar diets and weighing too much is bad for your brain? At some point, they just have to stop doing the science, don't they? And just check with me. It's like, Scott, we've done a thousand studies in a row that all show exactly the same thing, that high sugar diet and obesity is bad for your brain.

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We're thinking of doing another study. Don't. Don't, I would say. I would jump right in and say, I'm going to save you some money and some time. No, you're going to get the same result as every other time. I don't believe anybody's ever had a different outcome. Pretty much, yeah, same thing. So just ask me next time.

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Well, Trump is threatening Harvard and his ongoing battle with Harvard, wanting them to change their ways and be less DEI and less anti-Semitic, according to him. But Harvard is hanging tough. And it looks like they're going to lose another billion dollars in federal funding, or at least they'd be delayed until something changes. And that billion dollars would be funding for health research.

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So that's pretty serious. Now, what percentage of every dollar from federal funding do you think actually goes to the researchers? It's not much. I don't know. I forget the actual number. But it's in the range of 10%, I think. Can you give me a fact check on that? I think 90% goes to overhead to the college because the college is the entity that has the control and can get the grants.

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But the actual researchers, the scientists, I think they get like 10% of every federal dollar. So it makes me wonder if anything's actually going to change. Do you think that Harvard won't be able to afford to do the research? Or is it just going to make them not afford paying the lighting bill? I don't know. We'll see where that goes.

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Meanwhile, the Rasmussen polling people say that 66% of American voters agree on deporting illegals that have broken the law, you know, besides just the immigration law. So two-thirds of the public agrees with Trump getting tough with the criminals that are in the country and deporting them. Can't do much better than that, two-thirds. Pretty rare to get two-thirds of anything.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. That's some good stuff. That's some good stuff. Well, I'd like to start off by reading a very special, it was an Easter message by Donald Trump, our president,

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Here's a little reminder from SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing this, that apparently they did a study and they found out that county sheriffs in California who have to be elected, that when their election year is happening and they don't want people to be mad at the sheriff, there are fewer traffic stops. So,

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So apparently if you're running for reelection as a sheriff, the last thing you want to do is get real tough on traffic. So remember I always tell you that money predicts everything? There you go. If all you have to do is reduce the amount of tickets you're giving out and it might help you get reelected, yeah, the money will absolutely predict what's going to happen in every domain.

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Well, you remember the Signalgate drama where Pete Exeth was sending out a message that showed the attack plan or at least the attack schedule for the Hooties? And the other people on the Signal chat thing were mostly people who should see the message. but one of them was accidentally that journalist, Goldberg. Well, it turns out that there's Signalgate 2 now.

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So Pete Hegsteth allegedly also sent details of the March attack, the same attack that was in the other Signalgate issue. He also sent it separately to his wife, his brother, and his personal lawyer. Now, people like me, we would really like to say, you know, every time you say there's chaos in the Trump administration, I think you're exaggerating.

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But how in the world do you send your attack plans to your lawyer, your brother, and your wife? I don't even have anything to say about it. You know, apparently Trump is fully backing Hank Seth, so nothing's going to happen to him. But the fact that this happened twice and the second time is even worse than the first, because it's the wife, the brother, and the personal lawyer.

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I don't even know what to say about it, except it's so bad it's funny. No, I don't think it has any impact on the real world. The Democrats might make something out of it and say, oh, those hoodies could have quickly adapted, but probably didn't. So I think it's just funny that it happened. There's not much else to say about it.

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Well, according to the Maze account on X, which is a good one to follow, Maze, M-A-Z-E, we're being reminded that during the first Signalgate, the Wall Street Journal published a story that said that, and it was wrong, it was incorrect. So the Wall Street Journal said that Steve Wyckoff was in Russia at the time, and he had his private phone. Now, if he had been in Russia...

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with his private phone, we would assume the Russians would pick up the signal and they would have seen the Houthi attack plan. So that was all the news. Wyckoff was in Russia. You know, Russia must have known the plan. Turns out that wasn't true. So he was in Russia, but he didn't have his phone with him because that would be dumb. So, but as Mays points out,

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There were never any on-air retractions or apologies. The fake news just kept on going. They just acted like there had never been any fake news about it and just continued. Now, if I hadn't been reminded of this, I wouldn't remember that at all. But yeah, there's your respectable news sources. Did you know that the US cattle inventory is at a 73-year low, according to Zero Hedge?

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So apparently, there were a bunch of things that caused people to make fewer cows, meaning for beef. So some of it is environmental regulations from the Biden administration. Some of it is drought conditions. Some of it is just squeezed margins and eroded incentives in various ways. But the bottom line is we have fewer beef cows than we've had since 1951. So that's not good.

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So if you have a cow, you should impregnate it immediately. You might need an extra cow. So doesn't it seem like our food supply is just under attack? It's almost like it's a coordinated campaign to starve the country. It's like, well, you don't have enough eggs. Well, you don't have enough chickens. Well, it looks like you don't have enough beef.

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And because it's so sweet and empathetic and caring, I thought I would just read it for you. A dramatic reading from Truth Social from President Trump. Happy Easter to all, including the radical left lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring murderers, drug lords, dangerous prisoners, the mentally insane and well-known MS-13 gang members and wife beaters back into our country.

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Well, it looks like there's not enough water to grow the vegetables. Doesn't it feel like it's just one thing after another? How in the world is all this coincidental? I don't know. So we better put some energy on that. I don't even eat beef, but this looks like a pretty big problem to me.

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So if you don't want to eat bugs, because you know that's the fallback, you don't want to eat bugs, you might want to fix this cow situation. Well, I was taking a look at the story about the budget problem. So the Republicans have this very big problem trying to come up with a budget. Number one, You know, the budget is way beyond our ability to pay.

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So you have to cut expenses, which apparently the Republicans are unwilling to do, at least collectively. There might be some that are willing to do it. But collectively, they're unwilling to cut expenses for the vital services that vulnerable people require, the Medicaid, the Social Security, et cetera, where the big money is. And of course, the military budget just goes up no matter what.

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So they can't balance the budget by cutting expenses. But they also can't balance it by raising taxes because they're Republicans. So even if some of them were maybe into it for the rich, it wouldn't be enough and it wouldn't be very popular for a Republican. It'd be hard to get elected if you raise taxes.

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Don't check your stocks. Do not check your stocks today. It wouldn't be a good day to do that. But let's get the comments working. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do. All right. Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum. Bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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You can imagine, right, what a problem that would be if I started answering questions about all of my medical decisions. But so now you know. By the way, there were some people who guessed correctly. I think Owen guessed. Oh, and you totally knew, didn't you? Not necessarily which specific cancer, but you totally knew. So you got that right.

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And yesterday on X, somebody I didn't know said it was obvious. And I thought to myself, yeah, it's kind of obvious. You know, the one good thing about having this particular cancer is that it's impossible to gain weight. So I can eat as much as I want of anything, and I'll still lose weight. I don't have the option of gaining weight, even if I wanted to. Okay.

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But if it leaves your prostate and spreads to other parts of your body, in this case, Joe Biden has it in his bones, It is 100% not curable. So it's not curable at all. So I'd like to extend my respect and compassion and sympathy for the ex-president and his family because they're going to be going through an especially tough time. It's a terrible disease.

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All right, so a lot of things will start making sense now as you remember things I said or decisions I made or things I did. Now you have the right context. You can put it all in there. Speaking of which, according to Corwell Health, there's a breakthrough therapy for rare cancers. They use something called proton therapy. And it's not FDA approved. It'll be approved next year.

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But apparently it's highly effective at getting hard to treat cancers. And it can zap your tumors all over your body. And with almost no side effects. So the other reason that I wanted to keep my announcement about my own situation. And then I saw. that Biden had made it a story, I thought to myself, you know what? There will probably be people who have things in the lab

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that are maybe, that they think are a cure for metastatic prostate cancer. And because an ex-president has it, they might think this is the time to mention it. And so that would work for my favor too. So I suppose there's still a non-zero chance Proton therapy has been around for many, many years. Well, they don't have FDA approval for the way they're doing it in this particular case. All right.

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So I'm going to give you a little bit of news that's not about me, and we'll see how close we can get to normal. I know it's going to be hard. But if you don't mind, I'd like to be as normal as possible for as long as I can. And so that requires me now to tell you about the news, if you don't mind. Yeah, that's the reason I was looking into AI, Scott.

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By the way, there's something else that was a mystery that maybe now makes sense. Do you remember that I was doing a livestream and one of you asked, what do I see in Trump's once Trump gets elected? And I told you I only saw black. That's before I knew that this was terminal. So I knew before I knew because I've always seen my future. Since I was a little kid, I could see my future.

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And I could see very specific parts of it. Even the house I lived in, the job I got. everything. And when you asked me, what do I see for the coming year? I just saw black. I've never seen that before. And I tried to play it off, but I knew what it was. I didn't know the specifics, but I knew my time was over. So anyway, I'm going to talk about some stories in the news.

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I don't know if it'll get your mind off it, but that's why we're here, right? Talking about the stories in the news. So let's see what happens. So Christopher Ruffo noticed that Harvard had a hiring guide online, and the hiring guide actually specifically had instructions for not hiring white men. And it wasn't subtle. It said, we're not hiring white men.

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And that they should just avoid hiring white men. Well, after Christopher Ruffo went public with that, Harvard got rid of that page. But I don't think they got rid of the practice. Harvard is just a terrible piece of shit.

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um i went from you know respecting harvard and thinking oh i wish i'd gone there to thinking it's completely ruined they're they're really just a racist organization and that's the primary way i see them i see them as racists at least the administration So that's all extremely illegal, and the more pressure that Trump puts on him, the better.

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It's going to get very painful for the president if something else doesn't take him out first because he's a certain age. One of the things I've been watching is how terrible the public is. And I'll tell you, there's no sympathy for Joe Biden for a lot of people. It's hard to watch. especially because the public has all decided to become prostate experts.

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Well, let's check in with Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago. He was in an interview recently, and he said, the reason I hire so many blacks to run Chicago is because we're planet Earth's most generous race. Now, that's super racist. Super racist. What do you say about that other than it's just super racist? My God. But he gets away with it, of course.

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Well, you may have heard that the big, beautiful bill, the budget bill, has advanced out of the budget committee. And I guess David Friedberg, you know him from the All In podcast, he said that Americans should be ashamed of this bill. And I agree. You said if you're an American, you should feel shame that your elected officials are proposing that this is the bill that gets passed.

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That we vaporize this much money, that we put ourselves this much further in debt, that we do not treat the situation as a fiscal emergency than it is. We're now burning an additional 2.5 trillion a year added to our debt load. Now, what did Mike Johnson say about it? Mike Johnson said they cut 900 billion. Do you think they cut 900 billion? No. They're aiming at cutting 900 billion over 10 years.

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Do you know what that means? It means they're not going to cut $900 billion if they cut anything at all. If they cut anything, they'll just replace it with a tax break or some damn thing. So as Friedberg says, we are in a fiscal crisis and we're not willing to admit it. Now that's what I see. I see a fiscal crisis that we're just acting like it isn't. And it's the damnedest thing.

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But I saw Scott Besant, he was on the NBC Meet the Press, and he was talking about it. But he's got a He's got a different way he approaches it, numbers-wise, and he's really smart, but I wonder if he's lying, meaning that I wonder if what he says is persuasive to him or if he just thinks he can get away with saying it. But what he says is he inherited a 6.7% deficit in GDP.

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which was the highest deficit when we're not at war and on the recession. So he basically says we have to grow the economy faster so that our GDP is a bigger percentage compared to our debt. Now, compared to our deficit. Now, do you think we could grow our economy fast enough to get out of this fiscal problem while we're still spending $2 trillion or 2.5 maybe more than we make? I don't think so.

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And I think if we got to the point where we're growing that fast, wouldn't we have inflation? And wouldn't the Fed need to raise the interest rates to stop the growth? Because if the growth is too fast, you get inflation. I don't know if it's possible to grow our way out of this. But I also don't know if Scott Besant thinks it's possible or he just needs to say something and it sounds good.

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And people are like, oh, okay. I don't know much about economics, but if you say so, we'll just grow our way out of it. Now, Trump keeps upping the number for the investments he brought into the country from his Middle East trip. Now he's saying $10 trillion. But as you might imagine, Some of it was going to happen anyway, so it's not as new as you think.

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And some of it would be spread over 10 years, and it's going to take a while for them to build any facilities that anybody's going to work at. So it's better than nothing, but I don't know if it's fast enough. Meanwhile, over in Japan, the prime minister, Ishiba, said that Japan's financial situation is worse than Greece.

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Do you remember when Greece completely fell apart and their economy was just completely broken? Well, they seem to have somehow righted the ship. I don't know how they did it. But Japan's numbers are worse. their debt to GDP or whatever it is, is actually worse than Greece, and Greece was a disaster.

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The number of people who have said things that I'm pretty sure are not right is kind of shocking. And I have to say that even some of the doctors who have appeared on social media and on the TV, I don't think they're right either. I'll tell you why in a little bit. But the big question is, how long does it take to go from a clean bill of health to stage four prostate cancer?

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Now, there are some people who are saying that the demographic collapse, because they're just not having babies over there, the demographic collapse may be part of it, but I think almost every country is experiencing some kind of a debt problem. So whatever it is that we need, We're going to need it fast.

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In other news, TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has got an AI that's built into it for the Chinese market, and the AI is China's AI. Alibaba is powering the AI. So if you buy a iPhone sold in China, you're going to have Alibaba AI. Do you trust it? What kind of information is it going to collect about you? Apple is a little bit quiet about that. Real quiet, according to TechCrunch.

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Well, Dan Bongino and Kash Patel were on Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox News recently and made some news. Bongino says that Epstein did kill himself. And he said, I've seen the whole file. Kash Patel said the same thing. And they both said it with confidence. Now, here's the thing. Dan Bongino is not a liar. So this would be clearly what he believes to be true. And he's seen more than we've seen.

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He's seen the whole file. But is the whole file real? How would we know the file is accurate and includes everything? Well, Alex Jones is not having any of it. And although he's a big fan of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, he gives his own argument for why it couldn't possibly be anything but a murder. And he makes a pretty good case. Makes a good case. So there are a lot of coincidences like the

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A technical problem that deleted the video. Really? Technical problem that deleted the video. And a number of other big coincidences. You know, like the two people who were watching him for Suicide Watch, they both took a nap at the same time. Okay. So I don't know what to think. But I do think that Bongino and Kash Patel are telling the truth as they say it.

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You know, unless they got somehow turned by some powerful forces. But I feel like they're straight shooters. So I'm going to believe that they believe it. but I'm not going to believe it yet because there's just too many sketchy things happening there.

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They also made news saying that they've discovered some more revelations, things we hadn't heard before, about Russia collusion, which was the crossfire hurricane project within the FBI. Now, we don't know what that is, but apparently our eyes are going to go boing.

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when we find out because it's apparently going to make news um so patel said that the fbi has uncovered a quote trench a trench only the government uses that word right have you ever used trench For anything. A trench of hidden Russiagate documents related to Crossfire Hurricane. And I guess Kash Patel was the lead Russiagate investigator for the House Intelligence Committee.

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And it's stuff he's never seen before. And apparently some of it is pretty damning. And it's about, well, it's just people who are hiding things. Now, if you say to yourself, wow, those people involved with that are in a lot of trouble, like Comey and McCabe and Strzok, it turns out they're not. because there's a five-year statute of limitation on those alleged crimes.

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So even if we found out that they did everything that you thought they did, there would be no legal recourse. Just because enough time's gone by. Un-freaking-believable. Meanwhile, Trump wants to investigate how Kamala Harris may have bought endorsements from Beyonce, Bono, and Oprah, and Bruce Springsteen. So you're not supposed to buy endorsements. But what Harris and her campaign did was they

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So I heard one doctor say it would take seven to 10 years or something like that. I don't think that's right. I think there's actually a tremendous variability of how long it takes to go from localized in the prostate and your PSA spikes to, uh-oh, it is spread to your bones. I'll give you some more information about that in a minute. I guess his doctor, Kevin O'Connor,

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paid these people to show up, and they paid them to perform in some cases, and then they endorsed her. But I don't think that's a crime if the people who did the endorsing were clearly going to endorse her anyway, or were already big fans. So I can't imagine that Beyonce, Bono, Oprah, and Springsteen were going to support Trump So I don't really think you're going to find any crime there.

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But I love the fact that Trump finds a new Monday way to make us think of stuff. The other thing that Trump said was he said some nice words about the Biden family and Joe Biden's medical problem. And he wished him a speedy recovery. Except it's fatal. There's no recovery. So I wonder if he knew that when he said it. I don't know. So it was a little bit trollish.

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Here's a big story that's almost impossible to understand. It's one of these Mike Benz kind of stories where there's a three-letter agency that did something with another three-letter agency that did something with another agency. until something bad happened. Let's see if I can summarize this.

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So there was a nonprofit, they got federal funding to develop censorship strategies that they boasted about in their progress reports. Now, I got this from Just the News, the outlet Just the News.

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So they boasted in a progress report to the NED, which is the National Endowment for Democracy, that their early tactics had suppressed the reach of Donald Trump's messaging and reduced advertising by 100 million to news outlets deemed to be disinformation spreaders. Now, they were bragging about it,

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well i'm i feel like it should be illegal or it is illegal so our tax dollars were going to somebody who was suppressing trump it's almost so mind-boggling you can't even understand it and i guess the Global Disinformation Index, the GDI, got grants through some other US-based affiliate, and the grants were paid to develop strategies on how to fight perceived disinformation in foreign countries.

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But then apparently they turned that against the United States, against Trump and any Trump-friendly publications. So that's scary. And they relied heavily on research from the Southern Property Law Center. I'm just looking at somebody's long message about... Okay. Yeah, I'm not going to take any medical advice. So I appreciate it, but don't give me any medical advice, please.

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It won't be helpful. There's a story that says the European Union is going to freeze the Nord Stream pipeline for good. They're not going to let it be repaired. So that would be part of sanctioning Russia. because Russia thought it was going to rebuild the Nord Stream pipeline that mysteriously blew up. But now the European Union says, nope, it's not going to be rebuilt.

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And they're putting together a package of other sanctions, I guess. We'll see if that makes a difference. Meanwhile, over in Gaza...

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netanyahu has said that the military will take control of all of gaza now who didn't know that was going to happen i i think i told you on practically day one when they attacked gaza that they were going to completely control it and so now they're they're just saying it directly that the military will take control of all of gaza and they will get rid of all the terrorists.

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And they're going to say it'll help them rescue the hostages, but that part will be tough. Well, Trump keeps saying that Iran had sort of agreed to terms and was close to something like a deal. But Iran's foreign minister said, deal or no deal, we're still going to be doing our nuclear thing. Meaning that it wouldn't matter what they signed.

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Biden's doctor, said back in August of 2024, said that he had a clean bill of health and he was just looking good. So is it, you might ask yourself, is it possible that that he was not showing signs in August of 2024, but that between then and now, that he not only showed signs, but that it had spread to his bones. And the answer is, yeah, that's possible.

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They're still going to be enriching uranium and getting closer to a bomb. And Anyway, so the source of this is Fox News. And Secretary Robert Gates was on Face the Nation, and he said, Iran's in a very weak place now, and if there's an opportunity to do a deal on nuclear, this is it. Are they? Is Iran in a really weak place now? I don't know.

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So I don't think they're so weak that they're going to give up their uranium enrichment. So I don't see any path for a deal because it can't be true that they don't do uranium enrichment, which is what we want. At the same time, they definitely do uranium enrichment. What would be the middle ground between doing it and not doing it? I know that the United States has said, oh, well,

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you know, will provide it for you. But would Iran trust its mortal enemy to provide it with the enriched uranium it needs? I don't think so. So they're being somewhat rational, even though I don't like it. All right. That's all I got for today. I'm going to keep it short. I know I shocked you earlier with my little announcement.

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If you're just joining, I was telling people that I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. It's metastasized to my bones. It's fatal. And I don't have too much longer, maybe a few months, probably this summer. I'll be checking out. But...

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that's all i got for today and uh i don't think i'm going to talk to the locals people privately because you're just going to feel bad so if you don't mind i think i'll take a pass on that all right everybody um say goodbye Well, I mean, for today. And I'll talk to the rest of you tomorrow. I mean, I'll be here tomorrow. So we don't have to plan too far in advance. All right.

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Stop crying, all of you. If I'm not crying, you can't cry. You can't be sadder than I am about my cancer. All right. Bye for now.

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I don't think it would be too common, but it's probably possible, because I think I spent some time on Grok. There's a very wide A very wide... variability. Now, one of the things that you might not be aware of is that sometimes the biopsy itself can be the cause of the spread in cancers in general.

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Because sometimes if the cancer is in the prostate, I think there's like a 5% chance or something like that, that just messing around, taking a sample might be what releases it into your blood. No reason to believe that's what happened with Biden, but you never know.

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But arguing that it has been something that he's known about for a long time would be a gaffe he made three years ago where he said in public that he has cancer. But I think he was just misspeaking, but maybe not. Maybe he accidentally said the truth. I don't know.

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And then his brother, Frank Biden, has admitted that, in his opinion, that Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race due to serious health concerns. but he wasn't specific about which health concerns. I would think that his cognitive concerns would be enough not to run for president, but he may have had more concerns than that.

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So we don't know exactly what was happening with him, and I'm not sure we will, but the political implications... because everything has a political implication with these guys, is that does it seem to you like a coincidence that this news dropped just as the Tapper book is going to come out and everybody's talking about his cognitive abilities?

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I feel like that's a pretty big coincidence, but it could be a coincidence. But it does have the effect of turning our attention away from his cognitive stuff to a more sympathetic take of his cancer. All right. Well, I've decided that today is a day I'm going to take the opportunity, since a lot of you are here, to make an announcement of my own.

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Some of you have already guessed, so this won't surprise you at all. But I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. So I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones. But I've had it longer than he's had it. Well, longer than he's admitted having it. So my life expectancy is maybe the summer. I'd expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.

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Now, in California, I've got an option that he doesn't have. And I was actually an activist when California was considering this. And in California, once you get to the point where you're definitely going to die, you're terminal, there's a very civilized process where you can get some juice that you drink that makes you fall asleep and then you pass away.

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So you do that when the disease becomes intolerable. Now, the disease is already intolerable. I can tell you that I don't have good days. So if you're wondering, hey, Scott, do you have any good days? Nope. Nope. Every day is a nightmare and evening is even worse.

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So if you're wondering, those of you who are subscribers to my locals channel, if you're wondering why I had to stop the evening man caves, part of it was because of the behavior of the people on it. But a lot of it was because I don't really function too well after the show. So I do have the ability to kind of get up for this part of the day. But I'm in pain, and I'm always in pain.

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And the pain moves around to different parts of my body. I've been using a walker to walk for months now. So, you know, it's basically intolerable. I'm glad I was part of the activism that got the law passed in California so you can take yourself out. Now, I realize that for some of you, this is hitting you kind of hard because you're hearing it for the first time.

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Weirdly, since it's old news to me, I've just sort of processed it. So it just sort of is what it is. And I have to say that, you know, everybody has to die, as far as I know. And it's kind of civilized that you know about how long you have so you can put your affairs together and make sure you've said your goodbyes and done all the things you need to do.

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So if you had to pick a way to die, this one's really painful. like really, really painful. But it's also kind of good that it gives you enough time while your brain is still working to wrap things up. Do you remember last year I was making a big deal online about the claims that ivermectin and fenbenazole are a cure for this exact condition? Well, in case you're wondering, I did try that.

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The thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip. And it happens right now. Go. Tremendous. Incredible. All right. Well, big story of the day. You may have heard that Joe Biden... It has prostate cancer, but it's not the good kind. It's the bad kind. There's something you need to know about prostate cancer. If it's localized and it hasn't left your prostate, it's 100% curable.

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And I did try it with the assistance of the doctor who was the famous doctor, Dr. Mackus. And it wasn't that I believed it would work. It was just that it wasn't much downside risk. So with my doctor's blessing, he didn't think it would work, of course. And it didn't work at all. So I did it for a few months. My PSA probably went up by a factor of 10 during that time.

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So what I was hoping was that it would work and that I could be part of the solution. Wouldn't that have been cool? And so I was teasing you that I was working on something that could be life-changing. But it didn't work. So I can't say that it never worked for anybody with some different cancer or some different situation. But I can tell you it didn't work at all for me.

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So that's all I know about that. You might wonder why it took me so long to tell you. And I think I owe you an answer to that. Number one, it would change my life because everybody would start treating me like the cancer guy. You can't really back, like there's no second way that goes. Once you go public, you're just the dying cancer guy. And I didn't want you to have to think about it.

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And I didn't want to have to think about it. now i wasn't lying when i told you that my my walking and my mobility problems were arthritis and problem with my discs that is true but it turns out that as bad luck would have it i have arthritis in the same place that you know my discs are bad in my back but also a tumor So one of my tumors is in the same place. So I got the sort of triple whammy.

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So, oh, my God, does it hurt most days. You know, I do painkillers when I can. But most of the day, I just veg out. I become sort of a zombie, and I just slip in and out of sleep and wait for the next day. So this is actually the only thing I do. you know, the morning show. And I'll keep doing it as long as I can, as long as I can tolerate it.

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But if you're wondering if I'll get better, the answer is no. It will only get worse. There's only one direction this goes. Now, the reason that I'm telling you now is I was I was getting ready to tell you, but I was looking for, you know, the right time, et cetera. I wanted to get past my stepdaughter's wedding, which is over. So I got past that.

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But when Joe Biden went public with his situation, I thought to myself, you know what? I'm going to slide under his story. And he's going to take away a lot of the attention because, you know, ex-president. So I thought I would, you know, it would just be a little bit easier for me to tag onto that.

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And, you know, if you're thinking about prostate cancer, you're going to be thinking about him as much as me. So it just takes a little of the energy away. That's my thought anyway. Now, having watched how people treated Joe Biden when the diagnosis came, people are really cruel. They're really bad. And I was expecting... And of course this could happen.

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Um, people are going to say it's because I got the, the COVID shot. There's no indication that that makes a difference. People are going to say, um, it's something I brought on myself. They're going to say it's because I lived a bad life. I don't know, but people are going to be really, really terrible. So I wanted to reduce the number of months or weeks.

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I don't know what I have left, weeks or months. I wanted to reduce the time that people were being terrible to me online, because it's going to be kind of hard to spend any time online. All of my enemies in other words, people who are Democrats mostly, are going to come after me pretty hard. So, you know, I have to put up with that. But I'm ready for that.

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You should know, well, if you didn't already know, I am unusually mentally tough. So while this could be much worse, you know, for some people, I suppose, I'm handling it quite well. The pain is tough. I mean, really tough. But the mental part, you know, I got that under control. And I can see in the comments that some of you are having a tough time with it. But remember, nothing lasts forever.

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Nothing lasts forever. So I hope you don't mind that I hid it from you. I wanted as many... normal months as i could get now many of you are going to ask me a lot of questions you're going to say you know what did you what did you do to treat it and when did you know and you know when did you know your psa was high and all that and i'm not going to answer those questions because um

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Come on. Technology. Technology. Come on. There we go. It's all working. Boom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better day.

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They had a good number of followers, usually over 50,000, but actually most of the time over 150,000. They were often guests or employees for InfoWars, War Room, or similar alt-media kind of shows on the right. Then there's this one, expressed pro-Israel or at least anti-Hamas sentiments. Okay. Frequently amplified other swatting victims in the past.

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So it seems like a network of people who boosted each other. And many of them were amplified by based Mike Lee. And the targets were all male. The targets were all male. That's interesting. So Data Republican said that her current leading theory is that it's a terrorist campaign targeting X and influencers connected to Elon Musk's.

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And then somebody said, but what about the fact that they might be anti-Ukraine? And Data Republican, this is why she's so good, she says that the anti-Ukraine doesn't add much signal, meaning that since most of the conservative world is anti-Ukraine at the moment, you can't really say these ones got swatted because they're anti-Ukraine, because sort of everybody was. So I don't know.

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So I guess the theory that it's anti-Elon Musk I would say that's a possibility. Could be just anti-Trump. I don't know. But it could be stochastic terrorism, which is just making it easier to attack a certain group of people who speak out. But we'll see. We'll see. That's a good analysis. I don't think it gives us an answer.

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But maybe it defines things a little bit better so we know what to look for. And maybe it will have an effect. If the analysis got anywhere near the truth...

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it might slow it down because now we would be looking for these signals we'd say okay uh did you say anything about did you interact with elon musk etc now even the interacting with elon musk thing uh to me that's not much of a signal because musk does interact with a whole bunch of people and multiple times sometimes. So he's interacted with me a number of times. And so, I don't know.

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He's interacted with so many people. I'm not sure that that's the signal it looks like. Anyway, President Trump says he's going to talk to Putin tomorrow. And doesn't it seem to you like that's way too long to wait?

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I mean, just think about the fact that there are people in ditches shooting at each other and dying around Kursk and all around the front lines, because I assume the fighting continues. is just going crazy even though they're talking peace. So it's just so weird that you'd say, hey, can I call you tomorrow? Is there really no reason they can talk today? Are they not prepared?

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Did they have something more important? There are people literally just getting torn to pieces on the front lines for no reason. because it looks like things are going to wind up. So anybody who gets killed or wounded today, that's a complete waste of humanity. So I just don't know how you say, hey, you available tomorrow? Is tomorrow good? Today is good. Like right now is good. That's how I feel.

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Now, if we got something done tomorrow that was important, I'd be pretty happy about it. But this whole thing about, you know, if you're serious about ending the killing, tomorrow is really too long. But on the other hand, you don't want to act too eager because that might hurt your negotiating position. But really? How about today? That's my take.

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Anyway, according to the New York Post, Trump said... We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. He says, maybe we can, maybe we can't. I think we have a very good chance. Now, I think he's talking about his conversation tomorrow, that maybe they're far enough along that he might be able to close the deal. That seems like a stretch. And he said, a lot of work's been done over the weekend.

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And I don't think we should return the Statue of Liberty. What do you think? I don't think we should. But I've got an idea of just rotating it 180 degrees and removing the torch and replacing it with a finger. So that the statue is just giving the finger to France. Okay, that would be funny. But I...

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Now, a lot of work's been done means that they're close to a deal. And I don't think he'd make the call, even though there's urgency. I don't think he'd make the call tomorrow unless he felt like there was some chance that whatever remaining issues there are, he could close on. Now, remember how I always tell you that you should expect at least one walk away in a big negotiation?

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There's usually this point where one side says, all right, nope, nope, we're done. And they walk away and they pretend, or sometimes it's real, that, nope, I'm done dealing with you. I cannot make a deal. Now, what that can do is cause the one who got walked away on to say, all right, all right, I'll offer you a little bit more. But I'm not sure there'll be a walk away on this one.

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And the reason is they're both too smart. If Trump did a walk away, Putin would say, that's not real. He'll come back. If Putin did a walk away, Trump would say, that's not real. He'll come back. So I think they both know each other well enough that a walk away would just look sort of stupid. Because you're dealing with two people who are way above the line.

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They both understand how everything works, right? There's no dumb one and no smart one. They're just two brilliant people who know how to do this, exactly. If you know how to do this, which is negotiate the hard stuff, and they do, then the walkaway is a little bit unnecessary. The walkaway is sort of what you do if you're dealing with somebody who's just not good at it.

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or somebody who is at least not world class at it. So I'm going to predict this would be one of those rare negotiations with no walk away. Which is a bold, that's a pretty big prediction because you just normally see a walk away. I just don't think there will be in this case because the quality of the two people negotiating.

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Well, Putin said he wants an ironclad guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO.

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now do you remember when the head of nato said nope there's no chance that ukraine is going to be part of nato and then you realized okay that was after talking to trump so probably trump is the one who told nato to say there's no way ukraine's going to be part of it and then you said to yourself but wait trump's giving away something for nothing like we don't have a deal yet

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Like, why would he give that away? Wouldn't that be the thing that you would keep as your negotiating card? And then you say to yourself, is that really giving anything away? How could you ever give an ironclad guarantee that nobody will ever change their mind about Ukraine joining NATO? You can't. All it would take is somebody to say, oh, I changed my mind. That's it.

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So if Trump and NATO say, yep, we guarantee it, there's no way Ukraine will ever be part of NATO, what exactly are they giving up? Nothing. That's literally nothing. Because Putin knows they can just change their mind. And they know They could just change their mind. Now, they wouldn't do it unless, probably unless situation changed.

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But if the situation changed, you don't think they could NATO up in about five minutes? Yeah, if they wanted to, and they had some strategic reason to do it, yes. Now, I don't think they want to, and I don't think they'll have that strategic reason. But it's a weird one, because the thing that Putin wants the most is the cheapest to give to him. It literally doesn't cost anything.

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But I do think the Democrats probably would agree with getting rid of the Statue of Liberty because have you noticed that the Statue of Liberty has been giving a Nazi salute? Yeah. They sort of trick you by putting the torch in the hand, but that just makes it worse. It's like it's a Nazi salute and you want to burn everything down with your torch. I think that should be deeply condemned.

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And it doesn't even bind us. Because if it became an important security consideration, yeah, Ukraine would get NATO'd up in five minutes. So how in the world could you guarantee such a thing? Now, on the other side, Putin has the same situation. We'd like him... to guarantee that if we make a deal, he won't make a move on the rest of Ukraine at some later date.

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How in the world could that ever be guaranteed? It can't. So the two things that the sides want, the most important two things, you know, one wants NATO and the other wants a guarantee that there will be no future attacks. That's something that both sides can say, okay, because it's not giving away anything. There's no asset there. It's nothing.

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You're not giving away anything because both sides could just change their mind tomorrow. And it's not like we can ask for collateral, right? We can't say, I'll tell you what, we'll hold Moscow as collateral. And in case you attack, we get to keep Moscow. No. There's no way you can put collateral on it. What kind of guarantee could you ever come up with? Now, I'd love to be wrong.

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I'd love to find out that there's some clever way you could guarantee this sort of thing, but I don't think so. So that would be the hard part. How in the world do you do something that would guarantee anything? when both of them absolutely need guarantees? I don't know. It's going to be really interesting. I do think they can get it done, but only because they're both incentivized to do it.

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They both want it done. And they might trust each other, at least in the short run. But the long run, I don't know. Nothing can be guaranteed in the long run. Well, let's talk about the leaders of the Democrats. Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, was on Bill Maher's show. And Bill Maher was talking about him as a potential future leader of the Democrats.

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And he said that the people said that you, Josh Shapiro, couldn't become the VP choice to Kamala Harris because you're Jewish and that wouldn't be successful the way our country is. And Josh Shapiro had just the best answer to that.

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Now, it's not a complete answer because he was talking about being governor, but he said when he ran for governor, his first ad featured his Friday night Shabbat, where because of his Jewish faith, every Friday he'd be gathering with friends and family and having a celebratory meal. very much in the Jewish tradition kind of a dinner.

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So instead of hiding from it or, well, hiding is the wrong word, instead of downplaying his religion and just saying stuff like, oh, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, he just opened the door and said, here it is. Here's what we do. I like my religion. You like your religion. Let's talk. Now, to me, that was one of the most brilliant moments things he could have ever done.

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Because here's what I know about people. People will distrust anything they're unfamiliar with. It's just sort of a reflex. So it's not like people would be necessarily anti-Semitic. It would just be something different. And they'd say, I'm not sure I understand that, or I know it, or I don't know anybody who is Jewish, they might say. So I'm not sure I trust it.

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But if he leads with it and says, I have no secrets. Here's my deal. Here's how I worship. I love how I worship. I love how you worship. Let's all be worshipers. That is so disarming. It's just so disarming. So to me, that's brilliant just to lead with it and say, you know, I'm a good person. You're a good person. We don't even need to talk about this.

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But if you have questions, glad to answer them. The trouble is, I don't think that would work for national office. It's a brilliant thing for local or governor. But as soon as you're talking about the federal government, then it instantly turns into, so how much do you like Israel? Are you going to support Israel over the United States? Would you treat it as an equal?

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and we should remove the Statue of Liberty and give it back to France, you know, after we change the torch to a finger. Well, believe it or not, according to SciPost, there's a study about twins that suggests that it turns out, you won't believe this, this will be hard to believe, but rational thinking is genetically linked to intelligence, and it challenges the idea that

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So you get all those questions. and those uh don't have to do with whether we like anybody's you know choice of religion it's more about can we be sure you know people would have their doubts basically about whether america first really meant america first and they wouldn't know Now, I have no reason to think he's anything but America first. So let me be clear about that.

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But the public would probably have their questions. So yeah, that might be a problem running for national office. I think we need to get there. You know, the same reason I thought that electing Obama was a good step for America, regardless of how you think he governed. That's a separate question. But I felt it was healthy for us to just get over it.

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I think it was healthy to get over Kennedy being Catholic. You know, it's better to just go right at it. You know, I think it was healthy that Hillary Clinton was the nominee and Kamala Harris was the nominee. And they got close. You know, even not winning felt like, hey, that's the America I want to live in where everybody gets a shot.

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So, yeah, I think it'd be good for the country just to have somebody getting close to office, even if they didn't win. All right. Here's some other people that the Democrats have. According to CNN, AOC is seen as a leader of the Democratic Party, with Kamala Harris as a close second. And of course, there's Jasmine Crockett, who's making a lot of noise on TV. And Bernie Sanders writes.

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Priebus was talking about how lame the Democrat leadership is. He says the only AOC and Bernie Sanders can get a crowd of 20 people to show up. Now, that's an exaggeration, but not a big one. Not a big one. It's an excellent point. But just think about the people who are the leaders, from Chuck Schumer to AOC, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Jasmine Crockett, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi.

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Why can I never remember the minority leader... What's his name? What's the minority leader's name? Why can't I remember him? Anyway, so, yeah, they have a real problem. But it seems to me that they've also painted themselves in a corner. Hakeem, Hakeem Jeffries, thank you. And Hakeem Jeffries has an unfortunate vibe problem. I'm sure he's very smart, or he wouldn't be in his position.

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But there's just something about his persona that just reeks of, I don't trust you. It's the darndest thing. You'd have to try pretty hard to look untrustworthy every single time you talked. Yeah, he's got that movie character look that says, okay, you can play a bad guy in this movie. And I don't know how to fix that. That doesn't seem fixable by just smiling more.

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So they don't really have much going on. I think they're going to have to pick again. I think they'll have to pick a woman because the Democrats are very woman-focused. And I think the woman will have to be a woman of color. So that says AOC, Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett. And I don't think any of them can win against any solid Republican candidate.

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So how in the world, how in the world will they ever go back in power? Anyway, speaking of Jasmine Crockett, she was talking about Trump using that what I like to call the Adams era law. Now, this is referring to President John Adams.

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And you know the story that Trump used the Alien Enemies Act from 1798, which would allow the president to detain or deport non-citizens from an enemy country during war. And I think he set the He set the stage for that by declaring that these Trenda or Wagwa gang members were terrorists.

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that decision-making is a separate skill. So in other words, they found out that you can't teach stupid people how to be smart by teaching them how to think. Now, I could have saved them a little bit of time because I once tried to teach my dog to read, and she just refused. She never learned to read. But no, it is not true that you can teach.

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So suddenly, if they're terrorists and they're coming from another country, you're pretty close to saying that you're at war with them and that the president can kick them out.

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As the airplanes were in the air to deport these very people, there was a judge, of course, it's going to be an Obama appointee, lefty judge that they found, questioned the use of the law in this particular context and said that those planes need to turn around even if they're already in the air.

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Apparently, and it's being credited to Stephen Miller, they had rushed the flights so that by the time the judge ruled, the flights were already in international waters. And the counter argument is going to be, hey, that ruling doesn't apply. because these people are not even in the United States anymore. They're in international waters.

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And then they landed, and sure enough, El Salvador processed them and put them in the El Salvador prisons. So we'll see if that gets reversed. If it does get reversed, then people like Jasmine Crockett, who are arguing against it, once again... are going to be on the ridiculous side. Now, I realize that Jasmine's argument has some nuance to it. She's not saying I like evil gang members.

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She's saying if the president is allowed to use this rule in that way, it will be expanded and he'll do bad things in the future. But you notice that a lot of the complaints about Trump are things that they imagine he would do in the future. Which is the weirdest kind of complaint, because you can say that about everybody all the time.

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It's like, well, you know, I like this candidate, but I worry that they'll round everybody up and murder them in the future. Is there any evidence that they want to do that? No, no. But based on the fake news I've been reading, it sounds like exactly the sort of thing they do in the future. All right.

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Anyway, so Trump wants to deport gang members any way he can, and the Democrat argument about it is, according to Jasmine Crockett, the argument against getting rid of these dangerous gang members any way we can is blah, blah, should use a scalpel, blah, blah, concept, blah, blah, vague fear of the future. They really have nothing.

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And I love the thing that Trump does so, so well is communicating in a relatable way. These are terrible people. We're going to do whatever we can to get them out of our country. Got it. Got it. Counterargument? well, this is a law that might be used outside of its context. And, you know, I worry that he's using a hatchet instead of a scalpel. And what if he did bad things in the future?

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And then you hear that and you go, none of that stuck to my brain. Could you say it again? Oh, well, the law of 1798 or out of context and, you know, the legal processes and the scalpel. What? And then Trump says, these are terrible, murderous people. We're going to get rid of them any way we can. Got it. Got it.

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Well, Libs of TikTok and others were showing that, according to the Border Patrol, the amount of fentanyl seized at the U.S.-Mexico border is down 40% since January, its lowest level since 2021. Now that would suggest that closing the border also has already greatly reduced the flow of fentanyl, right? Well, probably not.

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You cannot teach dumb people to be smart by teaching them how to think better. You know, Bob, I've been noticing that you're a freaking moron, but I think I can fix that with a few tweaks. Did you know that if you were to look at, let's say, the information pro and con, you would get a better result? Really? I could? I should look at the information on both sides of the issue?

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It might be that the fentanyl is reduced, but not because the border got better controlled. Because if you didn't know this, the fentanyl is not coming across in the pockets of the individuals who are walking across the border in places we didn't want them to walk across the border. That's not how it gets in. That would be the worst way to do it.

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It turns out that almost all of it goes in automobiles that are legally entering the country. So it's not like there's a lot of illegal entries that also had fentanyl that almost doesn't exist. What it is is that we can only check maybe 20% of the traffic. And because it's so cheap to make fentanyl, you wouldn't really care if 20% of it got caught, as long as 80% didn't.

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So since I don't think there's been any real change in how the traffic, the legal traffic back and forth that goes through legal checkpoints, I don't think there's been a change there. So one of the changes that could be is a lot of expense to bring in some kind of scanning devices that they can use on automobiles.

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But even then, it would slow down traffic to the point where I'm not sure you can really do it because it would just stop all border traffic. So here's what I think. I don't think that the decrease in illegal entries is really correlated with the decrease in fentanyl. But if fentanyl is actually way down, and it might be, they only report what they caught, not what got through.

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So we don't know that it's down. We just know that what we caught is way down. It could be that there's some other pressure on the fentanyl dealers. I assume there is. So it could be that the labs are being disrupted and they have to relocate because they're worried about our Reaper drones getting ready to set them on fire.

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So it could be just the operation is completely skedaddling to try to hide their labs. And it's going to take a couple of months before they can crank up. And maybe just that. Could be that there's enough pressure on China, finally, that the fewer precursors are making it to Mexico to be turned into fentanyl. Maybe. I think that's the least likely.

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But if I had to guess, probably there's enough credible military threat that the labs are just shutting down and relocating so temporarily they can't make much product. Just a guess. But I don't think it's because there are fewer illegal crossings. I just don't think they're correlated. According to the Telegraph, more eggs than fentanyl are being seized in the border. More eggs than fentanyl.

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It turns out that eggs are really cheap south of the border. So a whole bunch of people thought, huh, why don't I just buy eggs in Mexico, you know, get a bunch of extras. and then go north and sell them for twice as much as I bought them. And so a lot of people are doing that. So there's some possibility that the cartels are getting out of the fentanyl business and moving into eggs.

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No, just kidding. They wouldn't do that. But the egg smuggling business has taken over from fentanyl. Laura Loomer has another scoop. This time that she found that Hunter Biden apparently has been living in South Africa in a hotel. She calls it a five star Oceanside villa. And I guess he's got full Secret Service protection. which seems very expensive.

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Seems very expensive to have a secret service in another country, sort of permanently, semi-permanently, especially at a seaside resort kind of place. So that's weird. But as Laura Lumner points out, he has claimed that he has no money. So he did a signed declaration in court that he's poor, but yet he's living like a person who does have money.

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So the question would be, where's the money coming from? Or did you lie when he said he didn't have any? Maybe he just sells one painting a week and it's all he needs to support his lifestyle. No, no. But yeah, hunters in South Africa. When was the last time you heard a story about South Africa that wasn't about something bad? Because there's another South Africa story.

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Yes, you should, Bob. Why don't you try that next time? All right, I will. And then what does Bob do? Does Bob look at the information on both sides of the issue next time because you taught Bob how to be a better decision maker? Nope. Bob will forget that advice before you turn around and walk out the door because Bob is not smart.

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about apparently South Africa has some kind of a research facility in Antarctica. And let's see. Let me skip ahead to that. I'll do that in order. We'll get to that. There's a story about a research facility. Anyway, according to Breitbart News, there's a representative, Brandon Ongil, or Ongil? Brandon Gill. Yeah, Brandon Gill.

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And he wants to see if he can get the Congress to prohibit foreign countries from buying real estate in America if that country doesn't allow Americans to buy real estate in their country. Now, China would be obviously the main target of this because China buys a lot of property in the U.S. and farmland especially. So what do you think about that? To me, that seems like an easy one.

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If we can't buy land in China, why do we let China buy land in the United States? That just seems basic. It has to be at least reciprocal. So, yeah, I'd be in favor of that. It would be expensive. It would probably lower property costs, which would be good for people buying stuff.

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Meanwhile, the EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, he's saying that Trump's deregulation push, and he's a big part of it, he said on Fox News, that's the most amount of deregulation ever. And he said the Biden and Obama administration treated regulations like commandments, targeting energy supply and raising costs. And then Trump wants the U.S. to be energy dominant, so a whole bunch of regulations are going.

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But they're still focused on making sure there's clean air and land and basically clean air, land, and water while growing the economy. Now, assuming this is all true and assuming that the regulations they got rid of were things that really were slowing down our energy business,

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I'd expect it would take at least three years for the reduction in all these regulations to really show up in the economy. So I feel like Trump's third year is going to be insane because a whole bunch of things he's doing from tariffs to deregulation, those things don't make an immediate difference positive impact and might be negative in the short run.

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But by the third year, you should start seeing it in prices. And then it's going to be crazy. So I don't think I've ever been more bullish on the United States. Now, the big thing is still Doge. If Doge can't bring down the expenses and make that work, then all bets are off. But it does look like it's It's going to make a good run at it at the very least.

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So I don't think the United States has been a better investment maybe at any time since the toward the end of the Great Depression. You know, if at the end of the Depression you had any money at all and you bought a few stocks, you got really rich because that was the the worst looking period in American economic history. but it was also the bottom.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stand, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. Shut up.

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So if you bought a stock then, you were pretty happy. I feel like we're in a similar situation. Now, obviously, everything could go to hell because any surprise could happen. We get hit by a meteor, a war happens that we didn't expect. Anything could happen. But the promise of what the third year of Trump's administration looks like

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I don't think I've ever seen a more optimistic set of variables coming together. I mean, this looks really strong at this point. Well, Trump is using the government's control over federal funding for college research to put pressure on colleges. So Columbia already lost $400 million in grants because the government says... They're too anti-Semitic or they're allowing too much anti-Semitism.

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It's been my observation that all smart people tend to think alike, rationally. It's definitely genetic. Now, I will say, though, I will say that if you're starting with a smart person, you can definitely teach them some extra tools, such as how to spot fake news. That's useful, right? I've been teaching most of you how to do that, and most of you do now.

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And there are apparently hundreds of schools, like these federal grants for every kind of research, educational, medical, agriculture, all kinds of research. And apparently in 2021, the last time we have numbers for it, the federal government gave $49 billion for federal research and development funding. $49 billion to colleges, which again, was a big part of their entire funding.

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Now, what do you think we got for those $49 billion? Are you aware of anything that's coming out of college research that's changing anything? Because you know what I worry? What I worry about is that we got nothing for it and that it's just a bunch of people who are rushing to publish any kind of science they can.

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Because I don't think we say, okay, we'll only give you this money if your research is really good for the economy and good for America. I doubt it. I bet it's a whole bunch of, we're going to prove that DEI is the best thing in the world. We're going to prove that there are more than two genders. We're going to prove, I feel like it's going to be a whole bunch of,

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just backward science and random correlations and slapped together research with students collecting data that nobody trusts. We already know that the peer review articles or the peer review process doesn't work at all. So even being peer reviewed doesn't really make it true, more than half the time anyway. So wouldn't you love to see some kind of a top 10, here's what we got for our $49 billion?

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I feel like most of that was wasted. But I wonder if it's 100% was wasted. And I also think to myself, if they were doing research that could be sort of immediately turned into product, let's say they were doing research on I don't know, a new cancer cure or a new way to make batteries last longer. That is the sort of thing that they might be doing.

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How much of that wouldn't have been funded by industry? I feel like industry would have funded that, right? Because it can't be super expensive to do a study like that. So, you know, you don't think Tesla would say, okay, if you're working on a way to make our batteries last twice as long, yeah, well, We'll shoot you half a million dollars for that.

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So I'm not sure any of this makes sense, that the federal government should be even in the business of funding research when private industry presumably would want to fund it too. There might be some exceptions, but I'd like to see the argument for why we do this. According to Slay News, Frank Bergman's writing, that the World Economic Forum is asking for a global ban on homegrown food.

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Homegrown food. Now, they're talking mostly about urban gardens, where people will put a little garden in the middle of a city. And the argument is that these little gardens are so inefficient that they contribute more badness to the environment than they produce in food. And it would be better if everybody just got their food from the big farms instead of trying to grow at home.

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To which I say, does anybody listen to the World Economic Forum in 2025? I feel like, didn't Klaus Schwab already retire? I feel like the World Economic Forum isn't really even a thing that anybody pays attention to. And here would be a very good reason why nobody pays attention. It doesn't feel like a 2025 problem, does it? It feels like a 2020 problem.

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So you'll often say to me, oh, that one's too on the nose. That's one of the things I teach you. Oh, there's just one source and it's anonymous. That's one of the things I teach you, et cetera. So you can teach smart people how to be even smarter. But if you're trying to teach a dumb person how to think like a smart person, good luck with that. Could have just asked me, save a little time.

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Oh, that World Economic Forum, they have too much power. Now it just seems like a club for rich people. And they put out some weird proclamations that nobody cares about. I mean, none of it's binding. So, anyway. I guess there are 70, they did a study of 73 urban agriculture sites around the world. We don't care. Grace Price writes,

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who you know because she talks about nutrition and food problems in the United States. She points out that the American Heart Association has on their forum General Mills and PepsiCo. So when you think of things that are good for your heart, do you think of General Mills and PepsiCo? No. So they're major members of the American Heart Association. Now, does that matter?

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Do you think you'll see any impact because those entities are on the American Heart Association? Well, maybe, because there was this bill, SB 379, that would have removed from the SNAP program, which is a program for people without money to buy food. So right now, those people could use the government money to buy candy, soda, cookies, and chips. And the...

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And so there was an effort to say, well, you can buy food, but we don't think you should be using the government money for candy, soda, cookies, and chips. Now, who do you think makes at least these soda, cookies, and chips? Two members of the board or the forum. And so the American Heart Association came out against, against,

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banning candy, soda, cookies, and chips from government-funded food buying. They came out against it. The American Heart Association. Now, let me ask this question again. Are there any large organizations that are not corrupt? I wonder if there are. It just seems to me that Everything that matters has been penetrated by somebody who had the ability to penetrate them.

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So it feels like there just aren't any large organizations that you can trust at all. Like they all get corrupted one way or another, either through money or membership or something. So there you go. According to Neoscope, Neoscope, Neuer L. Sabay is writing, that apparently human intelligence seems to be dropping sharply.

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So people are getting dumber, but really quickly, like more so than other times in history. So apparently it's not just your imagination. People are losing the ability to critically think and to concentrate and to do reasoning. They're bad at problem solving their information processing skills. all aspects of intelligence are dropping like a rock. sort of everywhere in the modern world.

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And the thinking is that it might be some combination of things in the environment. It might be the food. It might be the pollution. It might be the lead. It might be the phones. It might be the screens. So I think mostly the phones. If you had to pick one thing, it would be the technology. Mostly the phones. But I'm going to offer a counterpoint. You ready for this?

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Yes, it's true that a human is getting dumber. Humans. So we're all getting dumber. However, we're not human anymore. We are cyborg. If I have a phone in my hand, I'm smarter than anybody in history has ever been. Right? as long as I know how to talk to AI and ask questions and search for stuff or even just text somebody who knows the answer that I want to know the answer to.

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Here's a story that makes my heart sing. The Trump administration is targeting 45 universities over their anti-white discrimination. Hannah Nightingale of the Post Millennial is writing about this. So instead of making decisions or having any kind of policies that are race related, they're being challenged to get rid of that stuff.

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So if you say that people are getting dumber, that's true. But I wonder if it's relevant because cyborgs, which is what we are, we've evolved into a cyborg state. A cyborg is way smarter. than anybody in history. Do you have a question? If I've got my phone in my hand, I can get an answer.

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So does it make sense to compare cyborgs to humans without factoring in the fact that the cyborg part, the technical part, gives them a superpower? I don't know. I don't know. I think that even people who are bad at critical thinking are going to just start asking their phone. Yesterday I wanted to heat up some water for tea. And I'd never done that in the microwave.

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All of my other ways to make hot water were broken. That's another story. So I have at least several ways to make hot water. They're all broken. I've got a hot water spout that's full of pollution. It's just, it's bad news. So I thought, how long do I microwave this?

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So I took out ChatGPT and put it in video mode, and I just made it look at my cup of water, and I said, how long should I microwave this? It's like, well, one to two minutes. Perfect. So there's nothing I can't figure out in like a moment. It was kind of fun. Anyway, according to PC Magazine, Will McCurdy's writing about this, OpenAI says that...

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China could compel the deep-seek AI that comes from China to cause harm. And so OpenAI says that the Chinese AI should be banned. Now, who's surprised about that? Not me. One of the things I've been telling you about AI is that no matter how good it is, the problem is going to be that humans are going to try to ban it for a number of reasons. So this is chat GPT trying to ban Chinese AI.

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But it seems to me that there is pressure against open AI. They've got legal pressure. There's going to be the copyright things. It's lawyers. Lawyers and laws and humans are just going to be such an impediment to AI. Makes you wonder if AI can ever get to the next level or else we'd stop it. We'd find some reason. It's like, oh, it's too dangerous. You have to stop.

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Oh, it comes from another country. You better stop. Now, I do agree with banning the Chinese AI. It is too dangerous. But there's going to be an argument against every AI. Pretty soon people are going to say, oh, this AI is biased. It's misinformation. So you've got to shut it down. The pressure against AI is going to be just through the roof. Anyway, we'll see if OpenAI wins that.

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There's a robot factory being built. Interesting engineers reporting that. So there's a U.S. firm called Figure that's a robot company. And they're going to build their factory to make 12,000 humanoid robots per year. And that's a California-based company. But they're not putting the... Are they putting the... I didn't see that, but...

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They couldn't possibly put the manufacturing in California, right? It doesn't say where the manufacturing would be, but I'd be amazed if somebody built manufacturing in California. That feels like an unnecessary risk. So it's a California-based company, but I don't see here where they would put the factory. Anyway, I wouldn't put it in California.

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Anyway, I told you the story about the South African... Scientists are trapped in a tiny base in Antarctica. And apparently, because of the extreme weather, there could be months, up to 10 months before the weather would be good enough for anybody to leave or arrive. And they're complaining because there's one researcher in that group.

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according to the Daily Mail, who has been threatening to kill them and sexually abused somebody. So they got basically some kind of a sexual criminal who was threatening to kill people, and they're trapped in this little building for at least 10 more months, so they're sort of begging for relief. Now, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,

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And the universities are going to be in a little trouble because one of the things that the Trump administration seems to be willing to use as a tool is removing federal funding for research and grants, which apparently, I didn't know this until recently, is such a major funding for a lot of the big schools that if they lost the federal research and grant money,

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can Elon Musk rescue them, right? Well, he can't do everything. I don't think he could land a starship there, but it wouldn't surprise me if the boring company is already drilling a hole from America to Antarctica to get him out. It wouldn't surprise me. I just don't think it's happening. So no, Elon Musk can't rescue everybody. Sometimes they're going to have to rescue themselves.

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Let's talk about the hoodies. As you know, the Houdis were threatening and have for a long time been threatening shipping in the Red Sea. Apparently, I didn't realize this, but nearly all the shipping, at least our shipping, and other countries too, nearly all of it has been avoiding the Red Sea because it's too dangerous because of the Houdis.

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And they've been going the long way, which is making everything cost a lot more and take a lot longer. So Trump has decided that this Iran-backed Houthis that keep shooting at the shipping in the Red Sea, their time has come. And National Security Advisor Mike Waltz confirmed that the U.S. is making big airstrikes and took out multiple Houthi leaders.

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Now, taking out their leaders I don't think is going to work because they just get new leaders. And nearly three-quarters of shipping is now diverted. to get out of that area, three quarters. And it's way more expensive if they have to go around the hard way.

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And then Mike Hegseth, he said that there's a large-scale strike campaign going on against the Houthis and that it will continue and be, quote, unrelenting. until they pledged to back off attacking U.S. assets. Now, here again, you have that problem of what if they do promise it? Would the shipping return just because the hoodie said, oh, yeah, we'll totally leave your shipping alone?

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Because the real problem is the insurance. You would have to get the risk down to zero. how could you ever get the risk down to zero? Because even if one in 20 ships get attacked, how are any of them going to get insurance? And they need insurance. So you can't half-ass this thing.

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You have to completely destroy the Houthis' ability to do it or completely destroy whoever is funding them, Iran in this case, you have to get them to change their mind. But even if they change their mind, they could change it back. It's the same problem.

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If they promised, oh, we promise, yeah, we won't attack your ships, and then a few ships come back, they only have to attack one, and then the whole thing falls apart. So how much do you have to kill before you can guarantee that it will be economical for ships to use that place again. You either have to wipe out everything in that area, man, woman, and child. I'm not recommending that.

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I'm just saying if you wanted to fix it, you would have to actually just depopulate the place because they don't seem to be afraid of anything, and there always seems to be a replacement willing to take over. And there's always going to be a new leader. And Iran will still be funding them. So anything short of a kind of brutality that we've never seen before couldn't possibly make a difference.

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So we'll see if this gets us anything. I'm highly skeptical that it can be solved without doing something that would be so unconscionable to American minds that doing it would be going too far. I don't know. If the real lever is Iran, then maybe there's something to work with. But I don't know. You have to get the risk down to zero or it just doesn't even matter.

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If the risk is 5%, down from 100% getting attacked down to 5%, I don't think that changes the insurance situation at all because 5% is way too much of a risk, way too much. It's not even close. So we'll see. Anyway, that's what I got for you today. I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers, but for the rest of you, thanks for joining. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

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they'd be in real financial trouble. I mean, it's a major source, I guess. Anyway, so this is especially satisfying to me that essentially the DEI stuff has become illegal. And when I say become illegal, it was always illegal. It's just we didn't treat it that way until Trump. So you might remember that this is about... Right now, it's about two years since I got canceled.

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So I'll say goodbye to YouTube and Rumble and X and locals. I'm coming at you in 30 seconds privately. We'll have another sip.

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Does anybody remember me getting canceled? Of course you do. Now, the interesting thing about my cancellation is I realized the other day that my lasting legacy, the way I'll be remembered by search engines and AI, will be two things that didn't happen. So my primary legacy will be based on things that didn't happen, that aren't true.

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Number one, that I gave a racist rant, and that's why I got canceled. That didn't happen. I was ranting against racism. Very specifically, I was against people who were racist. And I said, wow, why would I want to live with a bunch of racists? I would want to live where they're not, which is literally what every single person in the world would agree with.

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Why would you want to live where you know there's a bunch of racists? Now, of course, I've never been in favor of racism against an individual, not in hiring, not in dating, not in friendship, not in picking teams, nothing. So, of course, I've always been against racism.

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So I've been against racism against individuals, but also if there's a group that seems to be extra racist, according to data, and there was data, then I said, maybe you should not spend time with people who are a little more racist against you than you're comfortable with. Every single person in the world agrees with that. But I got canceled. So how much pleasure do you think I get

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watching the thing i cancelled for become illegal a lot it's satisfying on a level you can barely understand but i'll always be remembered as the guy who made the racist rant because the news is fake history is fake the history books are fake and mostly what the ai will tell you in the future will be fake unfortunately

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The other thing I'll be remembered for is a thing that definitely didn't happen, which is all of my opinions about the pandemic being reversed. So one of the things I'm most proud of is that I had the best opinions in the pandemic of any public figure. By far, it wasn't even close. Most people believe that my opinions were the opposite of what they were.

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The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. All right, I have to come clean. My local subscribers already know this, but my coffee maker is broken. And my other coffee maker is broken. So my main coffee maker and my backup coffee maker, neither of them are working. So this was not actual coffee.

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So people believe I was promoting vaccines. No, that never happened. Not once. And so I'll be remembered for two things that definitely didn't happen in any real world. But that's the fate of public figures. You get remembered for the opposite of whatever you were doing. Anyway, the big story of the day is that Trump is trying to cancel the pardons

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that Biden made that were made with the auto pen. Now, the auto pen is what presidents use to sign things when they're not physically available. But, you know, things that they've agreed to, so there's nothing sketchy about it the way it's been used in the past. However, given what we know about Biden's administration and given what we know about his mental acuity at the time,

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And given that there were some last minute pardons, it's not clear that Biden even knew they happened. So does Trump have a good case? Well, the smart thing that Trump is doing and is consistently done is he says, well, if the courts disagree, then we'll follow the court. And that's very disarming. It's very non-dictator. And that's what he's doing here. So he's taking a run at it.

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That doesn't mean he'll succeed. So the Supreme Court could say, no, auto pen counts. There's nothing you can do about it. Otherwise, blah, blah, blah. So I've got a feeling he has no better than I don't know. Since I don't know much about the court or how it would rule, I'm going to say 50% chance that it will stick. But boy, is this got to be scary to the what he calls the unselected group.

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the people who ran what I would consider the fake impeachment things, or the fake January 6th stuff. And they do have some explaining to do, and there's a good reason that they wanted their pardons. So this one's getting really dicey. getting really dicey, because if Trump succeeds in undoing the pardons because of the auto pen, Adam Schiff's probably going to jail.

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Liz Cheney, probably going to jail. Because I do believe that the legal system would find that they did some pretty illegal things. So at the very least, they would be destroyed by the legal process, which would be, you know, gigantically burdensome.

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And my feeling about a lot of this stuff is that, and Lindsey Graham did the best explanation on a news show, that once you look at the context of what these same people did to Trump, they tried to destroy him politically, they tried to destroy his entire business, they tried to destroy his family, and they tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life.

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They did much the same to people who supported him. They went after the lawyers who supported him. They went after his supporters in every way that they could. And in normal times, I would say, you know, maybe let the past go. Yeah, there were some dirty tricks there, but let's not dwell on that. Let's move forward. Let's look forward.

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But if you look at the totality of the pure evil that was aimed at him, I'm 100% in favor of his revenge. Because it feels personal. You know, I feel like I got dragged down by the same bad guys. You know, lesser. But do you think I ever would have been canceled if it hadn't been for the Trump connection? Nope. Nope. I don't think I would have been. And so, these are all of my enemies, too.

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And I wouldn't mind seeing them taken down completely. Just destroyed. Because I do think they earned it. And I do think it would look like justice to me. Like real justice. Not the revenge-y, I'm happy my team won kind of justice. I don't want that kind. I'm not looking for the my team won, your team lost kind of justice. Nope. I want the actual real kind.

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where if you're a motherfucker for years and years and years, and you're the most evil, lying piece of shits in the world, it's time for you to get flushed. And I'm here for it. So if Trump can get away with this, that would be very good. I would love it. I don't think he will. I've got a feeling the Supreme Court is going to say, uh, we don't need this. It's a little too much trouble.

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So maybe regardless of, you know, the legality of it, I still think the Supreme Court might say, you know, we're going to find a reason not to do this because they would just be too destructive to the republic. And they might be right, but I'm still for it. As you know, lots of conservatives have been swatted lately, conservative pundits. So data Republican You all know who she is, right?

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Data Republican is a great data analyst, which feels like too little because she's so good that it feels like she needs her own label. But anyway, she did an analysis of, I think there are now 13 or 14 people have been swatted recently, but she had a list of 10 or so and did an analysis using AI to try to find out what they had in common.

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And it just ruins the whole experience, let me tell you. Anyway, but enough about that. Happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm a little bit Irish. A little bit. I'm more Irish today because it's St. Patrick's Day, but a little bit Irish. Speaking of other countries, there's a French lawmaker who is calling for the return of the Statue of Liberty because I guess he doesn't like Trump. So that's normal.

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which would maybe help you figure out who was after him, but also to maybe predict who would be next. Here are some of the things that she found in common. So a lot of the people who got swatted engaged with Elon Musk on Axe. Their real-life identities were known, so they weren't pseudonyms or anything. They used their real names, or at least their real names were easy to find, like cat turd.

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I mean, almost certainly, I would say. And then he finds out that people in his own newspaper are going to run a front page ad tearing down the guy who's the only one who could save the country. And Jeff Bezos just said, nope, advertisement's canceled. So maybe that's a sign of the times. I don't know.

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There's a long thread from a user called Jack Tron, who, with some research from Darren Beatty, did a long thread on a character named Norm Eisen. Now, how many of you recognize that name? He's a very biased pro-Democrat anti-Trumper. And he's on TV a lot, so he's one of those talking heads. But he's going to sue Elon Musk and Doge for violating the Constitution, he says.

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Meanwhile, Cornell University, they're looking into what they're going to do about DEI because President Trump wants to kill all the DEI. But they're not commenting on it. They're just sort of looking at what they're going to do, which doesn't sound promising, does it? It sounds like they're going to hide their DEI in the rest of the company, like everybody else seems to be doing.

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But Jack Dron did a thread of who he is, who Norm Eisen is. So he's being described by Jack Dron as the legal hatchet man behind the anti-Trump color revolution. Now, color revolution is what the U.S., does to other countries when we try to conquer them. So we destabilize them with, you know, DEI and climate change stuff.

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And we, you know, buy segments of the population that, you know, for a little money will be on your side. And so it's a lot of destabilizing and then trying to control all the entities like the media and the social media in that country until you can pretend that the public hates the leader, even if they don't, and then you can do a revolution. Basically, you just do a coup.

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So Norm Eisen is being blamed by some people. I'm not going to say these are facts because I don't want to get sued. But some people are saying, oh, he's like the head color revolution guy. He's like the one, maybe the principal person who's planning it. Some speculate. But here are some of the things that you need to know about him. He was once the Harvard Law School friend with Barack Obama.

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So they were good friends in college. Now, do you think he's a straight arrow? He was good friends with Barack Obama. All right. And he also served when he was in Harvard as the assistant director of the Anti-Defamation League. Okay. You know the Anti-Defamation League?

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They're a corrupt organization that acts as a pit bull for the Democrats, but they pretend they're about making sure that Jewish people are not discriminated against. Now, I'm sure they do some of that too, but mostly it's a corrupt pit bull kind of a thing that the Democrats use to go after people like me, which they did. So it was part of that.

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And he was a research assistant to his teacher, Alan Dershowitz. Alan Dershowitz knows so many people. It's funny because they all went through his law class. Then he co-founded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. And it was called the Watchdog Group. But by now you know that the Watchdog Groups are all illegitimate, right? The Watchdog Group means...

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a Democrat attack dog against Republicans, basically. So he did that group, and then he worked with left-leaning media to push narratives to undermine the GOP. Now this is according to Jack Tron on X. Let's see what else. Then he became Obama's ethics czar. Ethics are now. Do you think he treated every situation the same or do you think maybe?

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And New York University, also no comment. They're looking into their DEI program, too. So DEI, one university at a time, seems to be dying. Here's a story I don't fully understand, but I think it was the Financial Times said that the Trump administration is trying to get charges dropped against the Tate brothers in Romania. Does that sound real?

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Let the ethical lapses of Democrats Slip by and went hard at Republicans. What do you think? well Some say you went hard at Republicans. I don't know. I wasn't there He helped create one of the strictest lobbying bans in US history But didn't corrupt it. I guess it didn't change any corruption probably And critics say that he was disproportionately targeting Republicans.

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We don't know, but that's what the critics are saying. And let's see what else. He was also the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014. And as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, he seemed to be promoting anti-corruption reforms that just so happened to target one part of the political party in the Czech Republic.

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So he actually ran a color revolution, some would say, in the Czech Republic. Now, remember, the Mike Benz theory of the world is that we've been doing these color revolutions to other countries to control their governments, and very successfully. And we've done a bunch of them. But the problem is that it might be turned inward.

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So Norm Eisen, most of you know, as a domestic influencer, do you think he turned inward any of those same tricks that were used to overthrow the Czech Republic? It looks like it. It looks like every one of those tricks were turned inward from the fake media to the hoaxes to the just all of it. Everything that was done to Trump, there was illegitimate. is what they do to other countries.

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They just happen to do it to Trump. And, of course, he can make Trump look unpopular because the media is their lapdog. So all the usual media ran 90% negative stories. That's very indicative of a color revolution. There were fake polls, some say, giving Biden a double-digit lead. That would be something we would do to another country.

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There were smear campaigns like the Russia hoax and the Ukraine quid pro quo and the Charlottesville hoax. Those are exactly what we would do to other countries if we're trying to overthrow them. There's the big tech censorship. Trump's messaging was suppressed while Biden's was amplified. That's exactly what we would do to another country if we could. And so let's see, what else?

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So then there was this thing called the Transition Integrity Project. So this was before the election. I don't know before which election, but before 2020 at least. It's a pre-election war game predicting a contested election because they planned to contest the election. So they war-gamed it. What happens if we protest the election?

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In other words, they planned a color revolution because all the tools are the same. They said, what would happen if We don't get an election we like, and we'll do a color revolution. They just didn't use those words, but they used the tools. So it was the Transition Integrity Project. So remember when big tech was... labeling things as misinformation. That's part of a color revolution.

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I remember the media was saying the exact same thing all at the same time. That's a color revolution. Do you remember when there were all kinds of sworn affidavits and videos of things that look like election problems? And that was just called conspiracy theorism ignored. That would be exactly what you'd expect if a coup had been running. And then, of course, there's the mass unrest.

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So Black Lives Matter, Antifa, almost certainly were organized by the same group of people to make it look like there's social unrest. And then Eisen was part of the Trump impeachment thing. So basically, Eisen is all over anything that looks like a color revolution, whether it's in another country or this country. So that's the claim.

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Allegedly, Rick Grinnell met with some Romanian folks when he was at the security conference. And he talked about this, about freeing the Tate brothers. Who knows? You know, when the Tate brothers were first picked up, I was one who was telling you, don't assume these are real charges because they're very political. It would be easy to imagine it was a political hit of some kind.

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So Eisen orchestrated the impeachment over the, I think it was over the Ukraine phone call. Yeah, he was one of the primary architects of Trump's impeachment over Ukraine. And before Trump had even made the phone call to Ukraine, Eisen had already drafted 10 articles of impeachment. So it's pretty clear that they didn't want to impeach him for things he did.

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They just wanted to impeach him and they were going to find a way to do it. So it was a pre-pandemic. The impeachment was a pre-planned effort to overthrow the presidency. So there it is. And now, of course, he's drafted some more impeachment stuff up against Trump.

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So once you know the players, if you see Norm Eisen on one of the TV shows, the question you should ask yourself is, is he just a person with an opinion? Or is he one of the most active people who run coups against Republicans? presidents in the United States that they don't like. So I leave it to you to decide. But it's not all about just Democrats acting badly.

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I'm seeing some accusations about Tom Cotton, a Republican senator. And he may have been involved, well, he was involved with some NGO. He wasn't being paid a salary. But there seem to be certain kinds of benefits that people say may have gone his way in some way or another. I don't have evidence of that. But at this point, I don't trust anybody who was part of an NGO. Is that fair?

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So I think Marco Rubio was in one. He quit before he got the current job. But I just don't trust anybody who was part of an NGO because I don't know why they exist except to launder money. There's some fake news, in my opinion, about Caitlin Collins on CNN. The claim is that she promoted that Luigi Mangione, the guy who killed the health care executive, they promoted his fundraising link.

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But she says, I wasn't promoting it. It was news. It was news that there was a fundraising link. So she just basically reposted it. So that sounds right to me. I don't think that... Here's how you know. Do you believe that a well-informed person who works for CNN would have simply backed the killer? Actually backed the killer?

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Do you believe that that really happened and that it was done publicly and with no shame? Oh, here's the fundraiser for the killer. Do you think that really happened? No, you don't. You don't think that really happened. So this is one of those obvious. You don't really need to dig into it. It's obvious she didn't do that. And so whatever excuses that, you know, is news. Probably that's true.

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Probably is true. So you shouldn't feel good if you believe that one. That one's like the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach. As soon as you hear it, you shouldn't need any details. Nobody would have done those things. Nobody would have done what she's being accused of doing. Nobody. Anybody would have done that if they worked for CNN.

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Jerry Seinfeld was stopped by some fan and activist, I guess, in some public place, and he was asked about the Palestinian situation. And Jerry Seinfeld allegedly said, quote, I don't care about Palestine, and then walked away with his wife. I kind of love that answer. Yeah, Elon Musk is questioning Norm Eisen, too, so that's happening at the same time. I should have mentioned that.

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Yeah, so Jerry Seinfeld has kind of the perfect American answer. I don't care. That's sort of where I'm at. And it's not that I don't care about the suffering of people. It's just that the whole planet is suffering. I mean, almost everybody's got big problems. So why would the Palestinian problems be like the ones we care about? We don't care that there are people in Pakistan having a tough time?

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No? Aren't there poor people in this country having a tough time? Why do I care about Palestine? No, I don't... I don't want any harm to come to them. You know, I don't have bad feelings. But why should I care? And I apply the same thing to Israel. Now, Israel, of course, is an ally. So as long as they're an ally, you've got to treat them like an ally. But do I have to care?

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So we still don't know if they did anything that warranted the legal system. But there might be some action there. We'll see. According to The Federalist, the Department of Defense had a program in the government for social engineering. It allocated millions of dollars to it.

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Do I have to care what happens in Gaza? I don't. I don't. In general, I want everybody to have a good life, but it's not going to happen. So if it's not going to happen, how much time should I spend thinking about it? There must be things that can be fixed, and nobody's going to fix how anybody feels about Israel or the Palestinian situation. So I like Seinfeld's approach. I don't care.

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It's interesting to talk about So, of course, I'll talk about it. But I don't really care. And it has nothing to do with how awesome any of the people are. I think the people are probably pretty awesome. It's just there's too much. It's a big world. Four billion people, right? Now, how many billion people in the world? I think I'm way off. But however many there are.

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However many there are, I don't have time to care about everybody, so why would I pick a favorite? Well, Bill Maher on his show that's, what's it called, his show where he just has his little man cave, so it's not his regular show. He had this, I think he was an ex-mafia guy, Franzese, but So here's something that Franzese told Bill Maher.

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He told him that Kash Patel personally called Nancy Pelosi. This is about January 6th. He personally called Nancy Pelosi, and he called Chuck Schumer, and he called the mayor of Washington, D.C., and they all refused the National Guard. And Franzese says, why? What would be the reason that they would not do it? And then Marr just flips out.

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He just goes full TDS and starts cutting Franzese off and saying, oh, you just like the guy, so you're going to reason backwards from liking him to everything he does is right. That's exactly the opposite of what just happened. Franzese just gave completely useful, very relevant... facts about January 6th.

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That's not the same as deciding you like Trump and then crafting a narrative that makes it a fit. He showed his receipts. And what did Maher say? I'll have to look at those facts again. And then acted like it never happened. And then Francis, who also had been indicted, I guess at least twice, for racketeering. He said that the evidence they had against the

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the Biden family for racketeering and all those shell companies that did nothing and had no buildings and had no real income or at least no line of business. He said, that's exactly what I did. He had a bunch of shell companies that was roughly the same amount. He said, yeah, whenever you see this, that's pretty much a guarantee of fraud.

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And so basically his claim was he knows what fraud looks like because he doesn't.

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or did it and he's like oh yeah that's just obvious yeah and then he called it treason but Bill just flipped out and went full TDS so that was fun to watch Zelensky said that quote according to the Daily Wire I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine to which I say that's okay we gave you the job we could take it away We don't really need you.

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to what the Federalist says included creating phony social media profiles that the government could turn against Americans. Do you believe that? Do you believe that there is a funded project to create fake accounts on social media to brainwash Americans? That's what the Federalist is reporting. They say they've got documents and receipts and everything else.

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We can just see that you have an accident because that's what they do. And then we can make sure that whoever replaces you is perfectly fine with whatever deal we make with Russia. No, we don't need Zelensky. He's completely irrelevant to anything we're doing over there. I like the fact that Trump knows that. And of course, Europe's not involved either for the same reason.

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But Macron of France is calling an emergency summit of all EU leaders because Trump's keeping them out of the peace deal negotiations. Jack Posobiec is reporting on that. And the same thing. Why do we care what the Europeans want? We should only care what we want.

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what we want is to get out of this stupid war and if europe wants to keep fighting it that's fine with us but don't stop us from doing what we need to do which is to get out of that war so yeah maybe uh maybe trump is brilliant and he will create you know maybe the european union europe in general will vastly increase its defense budget or something. Maybe. Maybe.

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So maybe everybody wins in the long run. Well, you know, Trump said you better release all those hostages. Hamas, you better release all those hostages by Saturday, which has already passed. And they didn't. They only released some that were scheduled. And Israel just eliminated the head of Hamas's operations department in Lebanon. So they did another head strike.

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So maybe that's a symbol that they're going harder. I don't know. UC San Diego researchers, according to Gilmore Health News, have found blood markers that indicate who has suicidal thoughts with 90% accuracy. I'm going to say no. I don't believe that they found a blood marker that can predict who's going to commit suicide with 90% accuracy or who wants to.

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No, I do not think there's a blood marker that tells you that. I think it's a whole bunch of things that have to be, you know, working against you before you get that. Just a guess. So I'm going to say that's, it reads like fake science to me. Then there's California was, they rejected State Farm, the insurance companies, proposed 22% rate increase.

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So as you know, it's almost impossible to get insurance for your house in California. And it's because everything's regulated and the insurance companies can't charge enough to make money. So they apparently came back and said, okay, if we can raise our prices 22% from what is already really high, like unaffordably high. And California said, no. Now, what's the alternative?

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They're not offering an alternative. They're just making me not be able to get insurance. Now the cost of the insurance would be just crazy. I think it would be well over $100,000 a year just for insurance, depending on your house. And so it's not really much of a solution, but why wouldn't you let some people do it if they wanted to? There must be people who want to pay that and can afford it.

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So again, California fails. According to the University of Technology in Sydney, They found a new way to train AI that's a major leap. It identifies patterns in data on its own. Patterns in data. So apparently it can train itself just from patterns in data. They call it torque clustering. And it might be a big step toward generic AGI intelligence.

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All right, I'm just going to do one more thing and then I've got to close down. Parmalucky was on the Sean Ryan podcast. It was very interesting, the whole thing was. But one of the things he said is that if we ever got into a naval battle with China, it better not last very long because they can build ships four and a half times faster than we can.

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So all they would do is just build massive amounts of ships until they own everything in the ocean. It looks like that's what they're planning to do. All right. I feel way too bad to continue. So I'm not going to talk to the locals after this. I'm just going to say thanks for joining. Thanks for putting up with me. I'm going to go. Well, I can't sleep, so I don't know what I'm going to do.

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I think there might be another side to that story, but that's what it is at this point. But apparently the program is now complete, so they've already used it to influence America or crap on us or something. All right, if you're joining late, I'm very sick, so I don't know if I'll be able to get through this entirely. But if it seems like I'm low-energy Jeb Bush, oh, there's a reason.

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But if you're just joining, never get a cold that involves a cough at the same time you have an untreated hernia and asthma. You're not going to have a good week. Trust me. It's pretty. It's pretty ugly. So I will see you tomorrow. Maybe I'll feel a little bit better, but thanks for joining everybody. Bye for now.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. All right, here's a confession. It's actually water this morning because I'm sick of shit, if you couldn't tell. Let me tell you what you don't want.

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So the media continues to say that the Doge project is not finding any fraud. Now, is that true? They haven't found any fraud? They found a lot of waste. They found a lot of things that we don't want to put money into.

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But the New York Times, which says that Doge is not finding any fraud, has also separately reported that during the pandemic, at least 17% of all the billions that went to people for pandemic stuff, 17% was fraud. So what are the odds? that all of our other programs that give massive amounts of money to NGOs, what are the odds that they're not fraud?

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I mean, just on the surface, if you've lived in the real world, you'd say, oh, yeah, almost certainly. Do you need any proof? Probably not. I wouldn't need any proof. To me, it seems obvious that the NGOs are just riddled with fraud. I think that's just a given. You couldn't create that situation of fraud. Let's put it that way.

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100%.

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There's no world in which that doesn't become fraudulent if nobody's checking and there's big dollars amount.

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of course yeah those are two things you need it's uh there's a big upside and nobody's checking meanwhile according to just the news um the house budget plan would add 25 trillion in debt over the next decade now remember i was asking the other day how does the budget process fit into doge because doge is trying to find all these you know savings but

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And I thought that that meant that the budget would stay roughly what it was, minus a little, but they would subtract out all this waste and fraud. But it looks like the House is just going to do what they always do, and they've already tried to increase the debt limit, and they're going to ruin us. So the House budget is for the destruction of what's left of the United States.

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$25 trillion in debt over the next decade. You don't think that would end the United States? It would. We actually have a plan to destroy the United States. It's on paper. You can check the math yourself. But why are they acting like that's not happening? I mean, it's almost as weird as the media saying that Doge hasn't found any fraud.

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And now the Republicans are just acting like, oh, no, we didn't make a budget that will guarantee the destruction of the United States. But they did. They made us a budget that guarantees the destruction of the United States. There's no way around it. $25 trillion on top of our $40 trillion? We would never be able to recover from that. So I don't know what's going on.

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Maybe it's exactly what it looks like. The government just can't do anything. You know, Doge can do a lot, but then the rest of the government will just spend their savings. I think that the government is literally saying whatever Doge can save money on as their free money.

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It's like, oh, well, that used to be in the budget, but now he took a few billion out so I can add a few billion back in and it'll be like the same budget. No, we're supposed to be cutting the budget. So if you don't do that, you're doing it wrong. MSNBC is launching a premium subscription for $2.99 a month. Why would you pay for your own brainwashing? It's one thing if it's free.

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You know, you're like, well, maybe there's a little brainwashing in there, but I'll learn something. But why would you pay a subscription $2.99 a month to be lied to? Because MSNBC is not like other news platforms that sometimes try to show both sides. They don't try to show both sides. It's pure propaganda. So I expect six or seven people will want to do that.

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Well, 60 Minutes is being evil turds again. Apparently they had a couple of people on who were supposedly government employees who were fired by the Doge project. And they're just feeling real bad. They wish they hadn't been fired. And it turns out Carrie Lake mentioned on that story about 60 Minutes and the two allegedly normal people who just were chosen randomly.

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You don't ever want to have a cold with a cough at the same time that you have an untreated hernia and asthma. You don't want those three things at the same time. Trust me. It's a long week. Well, apparently banks are shipping gold from London to New York City, which is making people think, wait a minute, is that where we hit our gold from Fort Knox and are they just putting it back?

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One of them, Christine Dry, was Samantha Power's speechwriter. Samantha Power ran the USAID. So it's not a random person. It's the most connected political person you could possibly imagine. But 60 Minutes doesn't tell you that. They treat it like it's just a sort of a randomly chosen employee who's losing their job. I don't even think she worked for the group.

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I think she might have been an outside consultant. so yes so 60 minutes just lied to its audience again and obviously knew they were doing it meanwhile did you see the video of the german censors talking about what's going to be illegal in germany in terms of speech so it would be illegal it is illegal in germany to repost something that's not true um

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reposting something that's not true, that's what I do half of the day. Probably a full half of my day is reposting stuff that turns out later not to be true. I would be in jail like 100 times over for just using X. That's all it would take. So Germany is pretty much a failed country at this point.

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As long as they don't have free speech, I don't think we should defend them or have anything to do with them. You do a little trade maybe, but you're on your own, guys. Germany, if you're going to try to reduce our free speech and you've already gotten rid of your own. we don't want to have anything to do with you.

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You don't have a use to anybody anymore because you're obviously going to go out of business as a country. So you've destroyed your country and destroyed your civilization, and we don't need to act like that didn't happen. Did you know, according to the Muse account... that if the EU Commission decides that the next election in Germany is subject to foreign interference.

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So if the EU looks at an election in one country, say Germany, and they decide that there was too much foreign interference, they can cancel the outcome of the election. The European Union can cancel the election of a member country. Is that wild? It's like giving everything away. Anyway, glad we're not part of the European Union, but Europe seems doomed.

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Meanwhile, in the US, Elon Musk's team from SpaceX is going to try to update the traffic control systems, the flight traffic control systems in the US, which are very dated and imperfect. And it makes me wonder if it's time for AI, because if you're tracking blips on the screen, wouldn't that be a lot like a self-driving car? Couldn't you use some AI and train it to do exactly what you want?

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So maybe flight control will be AI. It shouldn't be people anyway. It seems like it shouldn't be people. Well, Amy Klobuchar, who at one point I thought, huh, If a Democrat had to win, she seems kind of reasonable. I wouldn't want a Democrat to be president, but she did. It wouldn't be the end of the world. She's got some good ideas mixed in with the bad ones.

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But apparently she's just all about the lies now. So she's claiming that Trump is stopping Head Start, which isn't happening, and cutting cancer research, which isn't happening. So the whole Doge thing has turned into

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Democrats lying about what's getting cut and Republicans lying about the fact that it's charity or they're acting like it's charity that they're cutting, but they're dumb charities like condoms to people in other countries. So both sides are lying, which is interesting because neither side can tell the truth about USAID, that it's entirely about projecting power.

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But the official reason is that the price of gold in New York is higher than the price in London. So the banks that own a lot of gold are taking their London gold and selling it in New York for a nice little profit. Or they're refilling four docks, depending on which theory you want to go with.

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The way you know that USAID is about projecting power is just look at the budget. So they've got maybe $10 billion that was going to go to... $10 billion that was going to go to... health-related stuff. So if you thought, oh, USAID, health-related... oh, that's probably something really valuable and those countries needed a little help. But here's what they don't tell you.

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The entire world needs help. There's no country that doesn't need $20 billion to fix their healthcare, including us. 20 billion would help us with healthcare. Every single country could use that 20 billion or some portion of it. So why just a few? How did we decide that only a few of them need to get this aid? It's because those are the ones we're trying to influence.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, so you've never had a better time. But if you like to take it up two levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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We're trying to overthrow those countries. If you don't get that part, that the real reason for it is to get our assets into the country and control it, nothing else will make sense. Oh my God, I'm sick. You know that activist judge who blocked Trump's spending freeze? Turns out he has. Excuse me. If I can't make it through, I'll bail out early.

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Anyway, the activist judge who's freezing the spending freeze, he's freezing the freeze, he's being accused of having some NGO or nonprofit that is benefiting from this spending. So, so far, all of the judges who are acting against Trump or Elon, they all have some money connection, right? to the very thing that Trump and Elon are trying to get rid of.

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So they should be impeached if they don't say that that's a conflict of interest. Well, Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, he may have made the decision himself, but the Washington Post decided not to run 115,000 front page advertisement that was going to target Elon Musk. Imagine being Bezos, who almost certainly respects what Elon Musk is doing to cut costs.

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And you would have to give that up if he ran for president. And so I'm going to predict, because he mentioned that as well, I'm going to predict that nobody gives up that much money to run for president. So I think he's having fun with it in the same way Trump used to, you know, just sort of tease that you might do it. And I don't know how old he is, Stephen A. Smith.

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He's in good shape, so, you know, could be anything. But it would make sense for him to run out his ESPN contract having people begging him to be running for president, and then decide if he wants to run for president after he's done with ESPN. So maybe, unless he gets another enormous deal, he might.

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So according to Fox News, there's at least one retailer, I think it's a retailer, somebody called Dame, D-A-M-E, I don't even know who that is, that's going to put the tariff cost on the bill, the receipt, so that when you're buying your stuff, you'll see the taxes and then you'll see the tariff. And how is Trump going to explain that?

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One of the, to me, the funniest thing that's happened in a while is that, remember how Trump started off saying that China would be paying us all these tariffs? And then the people who know how tariffs work would say, China doesn't pay the tariff. It's the American company who has the product who's going to pass that tariff cost along to the consumer. So the consumer pays the tariff.

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unless the American company absorbs it. And if you start putting the tariff on the receipt, doesn't that settle the question of who's paying it? Because you're literally handing them a credit card, and you can see right there, it says, here's the tariff amount. So how is Trump going to explain

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that China pays the tariff when you've got in your hand the actual receipt showing that you paid the tariff. How many of you knew that that was never true, that China was paying billions of dollars in tariffs? Did all of you know that wasn't true?

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But somehow, early on when Trump was making these claims, the news would try to fact check him, and then he'd just sort of talk over him until the topic changed. And they finally just gave up on that. They just stopped fact-checking it. Somehow, he convinced the world that China was paying the tariffs. And I've been watching this with just amazement.

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I mean, but how many of you thought China was paying the tariffs or any other country? Anyway, it works for him because directionally it gets him what he wants. This whole question about tariffs on iPhones and the market's up because Trump made an exemption for iPhones and other Chinese-made electronics, but it's not that clear. Trump says nobody's getting off the hook.

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and there's some kind of tariffs and other kinds of tariffs, and there's no exemption. Basically, it's completely impossible to understand. So I'm not even going to try to explain it to you because it looks like it's a moving target. Who knows? It's complicated. I have no idea what's happening with iPhones. According to PJ Media, Matt Morgulis is writing, that Kash Patel has released

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So, yeah, I think I could have told you that you'd be happier if your social life is good enough that at least one person wants to eat with you. If you can't find even one person, you're probably... Lonely and single. All right. Well, you probably heard that there was a disgusting arson attack against Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. This one's a really scary one. This is really scary.

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a massive trove of crossfire hurricane documents. Now, that was the operation that created the Russia collusion hoax. One of the new things coming out of it, I don't know how much will come out of it, is that one of the main sources for the belief that Trump was having some kind of communication with Russia, some collusion, was this guy Halpert. What was his name?

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I forget his first name, but Halpern. So this was a British guy who claimed that General Flynn had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with a Russian scholar named Svetlana something, when he was a three-star general leading the Defense Intelligence Agency. Now, apparently that was just made up. And when I think it was the FBI realized it was just made up, what did they do?

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Once they realize it's totally low credibility and their source is not reliable, what did they do? What did they do when I found out Christopher Steele wasn't reliable? They used it anyway. So they very clearly knew that they were putting together a whole bunch of bullshit, and they just did it anyway. So it's just what you think it was. It was an op, and it was completely illegal.

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And every one of the people involved should go to jail, but probably none will. Well, I was wondering how popular it was that Trump is dismantling the Department of Education. But according to Breitbart's Katherine Hamilton, she's writing about this, Rasmussen had a poll that 51% of likely U.S. voters think it's a good idea.

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So Trump, once again, is on the side of most Americans, slightly, just over 50%, but it's still a majority. So he's doing a hell of a job of being on the right side of things, at least in terms of the majority of the country. This is fun. There's a newly appointed U.S. attorney that handles the L.A. area, and he's going to look into...

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he's going to look into where all the money went that was supposed to go to helping the homeless you know the part where it was millions and millions of dollars and there was just nothing happened what do you think he's going to find i'll tell you my my view on the cities is that they're all criminal organizations you can't really expect to have all these elected officials

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whose job it is to decide who gets the contracts for the millions of dollars that are flowing through, you can't expect that not to be corrupt. It's designed so you're just begging for it. Of course they're corrupt. Every time. Probably every city, doesn't matter red or blue, because you put people in that position and they're going to get a lot of offers.

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And some of them are going to look irresistible. So, yeah, I assume that all of these are basically criminal organizations. Frank Luntz had an amusing survey. The first question was, America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing. So Americans were asked, you know, America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing. 80% agreed.

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80% said it'd be good if more Americans were in manufacturing. But then he said, I would be better off if I worked in a factory. And it turns out that 73% disagree. So this is something I've been observing for a while. We Americans think that other Americans should work in factories and that they'd be so happy. Do you know anybody who's ever worked in a factory? Were they delighted?

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So apparently the attacker, some 38-year-old guy, he forcibly entered the residence while the family was asleep and set fire to the place while the family was asleep. Now, luckily it looks to me like the governor's residence is a pretty big place. So people must've seen it and called it in and the police department, uh, or I'm sorry, the fire department put it out and rescued the family.

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My mother used to work in a factory in upstate New York. She was getting the money together to pay for college for the kids. And it was a, I think it was minimum wage. And her job was to wind copper wire around the coils of speakers. So it was a company that made stereo speakers. And so for eight hours a day, she would just wind wire around an object. Do you think she loved it for a minimum?

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I think it was actually a minimum wage. She didn't love it. No, she didn't love it at all. But she did it so that her kids could go to college. She was awesome that way. Fareed Zakaria said something that sounds like it came from me, so you decide. Have you ever heard me say this? He said that the upcoming negotiations over tariffs will inevitably result in an orgy of corruption.

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Now, that's not what I said, but he gives the reason. He says the reason is it will create a lot of complexity because tariffs are complex. And that whenever you introduce complexity, you almost always introduce the opportunity for cronyism and fraud. Right. This is exactly what I've been saying. Wherever you see complexity and there's money involved, somebody's stealing.

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Complexity is where you hide all the bad stuff. So yes, we should be worrying about this. This is actually a good point. The more complicated our trade deals are, the more likely somebody is skimming because it would be harder to find. So I think he's right on on this, and it's something that we need to think about.

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Now, in a perfect world, the end of the tariff negotiations would be no tariffs and everything would be simplified. But in the short run, it's definitely not going to be simplified because it's getting fun. So China's President Xi said that no one wins in a trade war. So he was off in Vietnam trying to do a deal. And what do you think of that? No one wins in a trade war.

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Now, the problem with that is that I kind of agree that no one wins in a trade war. But the problem is that we're calling it a trade war. It's not a trade war. It's an attempt to have fair trade. So we should call it an attempt to have fair trade, not a trade war, because then President Xi has to explain why no one wins with fair trade.

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When he says no one wins in a trade war, he sounds a little bit like a burglar who's mad that you started locking your door. I know I've been burglarizing you for 20 years and that's worked out great so far. So when you lock your door, nobody wins. Yes, somebody wins. The person who locked their door. It's not like things were great before the trade war. So it's, yeah, don't call it a trade war.

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Call it a trade fairness, a trade negotiation. Nobody wins in a trade negotiation. No, can't say it. Apparently, China suspended exports of some rare earth minerals and magnets to the U.S. And I don't know how important those specific ones were. Maybe that's just like a warning shot to tell us they can do it. But I was looking at the Amuse account, and Amuse had some estimates.

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I'm not sure the source of them, but the estimate is that it would only cost, only, you know, I act like this is only, $10 to $15 billion to replace America's dependence on rare earth minerals, but it would also take seven to 10 years. Yikes. Seven to 10 years. The big problem is processing, not access.

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so finding the rare earth minerals not so hard they're not that rare but refining them is something that china is doing almost all the refining of of that now i asked grok are there any rare earth materials that only china is refining and that nowhere else in the world can you even get them and the answer is probably everything that China makes is made at least in small amounts in other places.

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For example, Japan does some, Australia does some, countries that we trade with. Now, if it took seven to 10 years to build this capability in America, how long would it take the countries that are already doing the refining to increase their production?

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So the family is okay. Uh, I'd like to disavow that violence. I don't know what the purpose was. We don't know anything about the, the perpetrator, but, uh, I don't want to be like those Democrats who don't disavow the domestic terrorism against Tesla. So the first thing I did was disavow. David Axelrod, notable Democrat advisor type, he politicized that right away.

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could you go to Japan and say, all right, you're already doing a tiny bit of refining, so you know how to do it, you know what machines, you know how to train people. What if we do a deal with you where we'll give you a billion dollars to increase your production and that'll get paid back by lower prices on rare earth minerals or something? So I feel like there might be some way to

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incentivize our trading partners that we like that are safe to to ramp up because it's got to be easier to ramp up than to start from zero especially if you're doing it in the u.s with all of our regulations and then i say to myself is there anybody in the united states who could take a job that would normally take seven to ten years and figure out how to do it in three Elon Musk.

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I hate how many jobs are only something he could do, but there you are again. There's another example. We can only think of one person in the entire country who could take that seven to 10 years and turn it into something manageable, two or three. I don't think he wants to take that job, but There's only one person who could do it. Anyway, we'll see where that goes.

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So slowly but ramping up quickly, is, according to the New York Post, America is making a huge, huge bunch of energy about nuclear energy. So there's a whole bunch happening, such as over 200 bills have already been introduced to support or subsidize nuclear energy. 25 states passed legislation to support advanced nuclear energy.

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So pretty much everywhere realizes that they're going to need a lot more electricity now a lot of it is because of ai um so nuclear now is looking like the thing and most of the interest is in these smrs small modular reactors so they'd be about a third the size of a you know a big factory or a big nuclear plant but uh since the the big ones have been built

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From the time, I don't know how long it is, but from the time the first big nuclear facility has been built, there are all kinds of safety procedures and things that have been built into these new ones. So it'd be a lot easier to build the small ones as needed and put them wherever you want. So nuclear, definitely happening fast. But what about this? According to NoRidge,

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There's a new chip that could cut energy use by 99% for AI. So specifically, they're looking at AI and its massive energy needs. And they have a chip that uses light, as it's a major transmission part within the chip. And they say they've got a major breakthrough.

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They've created a new kind of AI hardware that uses light instead of electricity, and that alone would reduce the electrical load by 99%. Now, people who know how the real world work looked at this story and said, that's not going to be so easy. So going from a laboratory idea that works in a lab to actually building chips, not easy. But this is part of my prediction.

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My prediction is that the prediction of how much energy we'll need for the next 20 years is probably way off because there are going to be a number of people who try to figure out a low-cost, low-energy way to do the things that right now are high energy. So I think we'll be okay. This fits within the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters. We don't have enough energy.

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There's no way we'll, but we have time. Not a lot of time, but I think everybody knows it's a problem and a lot of people are working on it. So I think lots more low energy AI stuff is coming, I think.

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Well, you might not know, but the Washington Examiner knows that there are some Republicans who are not happy at all with the budget process that the Trump administration and other Republicans are trying to push through because it does not meaningfully cut the budget to the point where we can survive. So I'm totally on board with the... Totally on board with the hawks.

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And he goes, where's the POTUS, the president? Did I miss it? Or has he not said or posted a word about it yet? Well, that's a good question. I would have liked to see Trump immediately respond to that and say that it's a horrible thing. But J.D. Vance did. He says, Vance said, thanks be to God that Governor Shapiro and his family were unharmed in this attack. Really disgusting violence.

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Because I think Doge didn't give us anything close to the savings that we needed. And I think Trump just took the... Trump basically took the Doge savings and put it into the military. Exactly what I was worried was going to happen. So it's not really even the savings. All they did was move the money somewhere else.

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So if I were Elon Musk, I can't even tell you how mad I would be that I put that much work in it. And I sacrificed my stock price and possibly my company and even risked my life for something that in the end, I'm not sure it makes any difference. Unless you think that increase in the military spending was all worth it.

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But one possibility that the budget hawks, the Republicans, have is they'd like to get some kind of a review panel made up of White House officials and lawmakers to look at every line item and make decisions on a line-by-line basis. Now, that would be sort of like a poor man's doge. You know, it would be ordinary people instead of geniuses. But... We need to try something.

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What we can't do is just keep passing these stupid budgets. This is complete doom. I'm not sure if the public has... really processed that we're heading off a cliff maybe maybe we use that too much maybe we're always talking about oh there's going to be a nuclear war the drones are going to kill us you know maybe everything sounds like an emergency the chaos the chaos is going to kill us so

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It's hard to get people serious about the budget, but the budget needs a major haircut or we will not survive as a country, and it needs to happen pretty quickly. So I don't see anything that's going to make it happen because I think the budget hawks don't have enough power, but we'll see. I'm on their side. Well, according to just the news, there was a Wisconsin teen who murdered his parents.

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to come up with the finances to try to assassinate President Trump and overthrow the government. I'm going to say that's not the best plan, but he did kill his parents and he did get arrested. So not the best plan, really. George Institute of Technology has a really cool kind of a technology.

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So they figured out how to put a little sensor for your brain that's so tiny that it kind of slips in where a hair follicle would slip and basically is almost invisible. So if you had hair, it'd be invisible. The hair would cover it up. So it fits in the minuscule spaces between hair follicles and just slightly under the skin.

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Now, of course, it's not fully refined, but this would give a brain-computer interface so that you didn't have to walk around looking like a cyborg. I don't know what is the upper limit of how good this could be, but it's kind of exciting. Doesn't it seem like that would be kind of exciting? How many of you would get a brain interface if you could? If nobody could see it,

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and it was easy to do, would you do it? Well, what if you were a paraplegic and they helped you walk or helped you see or something like that? But do you think you would do it just to control your computer? I feel like I would not want to until I saw all the people who were doing it and were doing cool things. They just like look at something and something happens.

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I think I would get jealous right away. It's like, oh, man, you've got that superpower? So I think I'd want that. Well, in the funniest story of the day, Representative Jack Kimball apologized to the public today. because as he said, I'll just read his post that acts, I wanted to make a quick apology. Last night, I referred to President Bukele of El Salvador as President Bukaki.

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This was the fault of spellcheck and not me. When you type a word a lot, spellcheck will start to change words that are close to it. I will be complaining to Apple. I'd like to give some advice to the men. Now, this is just for the men. If your wife or your girlfriend asks you what that word means, say you don't know. Say, I don't even understand this story, honey. What's this bukkake thing?

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I hope whoever did it is brought swiftly to justice. So at least we got J.D. Vance in there. I'll be interested to see what Trump says. because he's so unpredictable, you know, with his chaos and everything. Well, I guess the all-female crew on the Jeff Bezos rocket, they've already gone up and spent 10 minutes in space, and they're already down.

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I've never heard of it. You don't want to apologize for that publicly, right? And I do have my questions about why one person would have Boo Kelly turned into Boo Cocky. Doesn't your spell check, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't your spell check, isn't it biased toward words you've used before? Am I wrong about that? Tell me in the comments. Because I think if you'd never used that word,

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your phone would never recommend it. Doesn't it mean that at some point, and that's just a question, at some point, isn't he confessing that he's written that actual Bukkake word? Yeah, it learns, right? So, yeah. So, good luck, Representative Jack Kimball. Good luck on all of that. All right, that's all I got for today. Stocks are up. Everything's looking good.

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Remember to read the Dilbert comic if you subscribe, and you'll see Dilbert's having trouble with China stealing his IP, and he's moving his production to Elbonia. Doesn't go well. All right. Yeah, we could test that on our own phones, but I don't recommend it. All right, I'm going to say a few words privately to the people on Locals, my beloved subscribers.

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And the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Thanks for joining.

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Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but none of them were driving the rocket, right? It must have been all automated, because the people who were on the trip... Uh, it included one former NASA scientist, but the rest just seemed to be celebrities and one wife of Bezos. So they were just sort of along for the ride, right? I don't know. So I guess nobody was driving that thing, but it's back safely.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine in a day thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Good stuff. Well, if you subscribe to the Dilbert comic, Dilbert Reborn it's called, which you can only see if you're subscribing either on Axe or on Locals. You would know that Dilbert's company is having a problem with China.

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And, uh, I don't know what was the point of the all-female crew. Did we really need to do an all-female crew? Given that there was no skill whatsoever involved, had it been a skill job where you had highly trained people, then I would say, well, an all-female crew, maybe that's saying something. But if they're just literally just sitting there as passengers, why do they have to be all female?

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Because women can be passengers too. Every guy who has ever been married knows that women can be passengers. How much do they drive the car when you're both in the car? Yeah, I think women can be passengers. I'm glad we settled that. Well, Trump had his physical. And there was official documents that came out from the doctors, I guess. And it didn't have the amusing hyperbole that I was expecting.

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But he does look healthier than 90% of the public, you know, given the details and the report. He looks pretty damn healthy. But they had to work in, because it's Trump, he got the doctors to work in

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something about his busy schedule they you know he's healthy enough to do a busy schedule with lots of meetings and then this this phrase is actually in his medical report quote and frequently in frequent victories and golf events frequent victories and golf events can you imagine your your doctor putting that on your your physical It's the only thing I'll remember.

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He had frequent victories in golf events. That's how healthy he is. Well, Cory Booker was on NBC's show with Kristen Welker, and she asked him if he had any actual evidence for his accusation that the Trump administration is somehow profiting from tariffs, and that it's all kind of an oligarch scheme to helped Trump and his cronies. And he had absolutely no answer for that because it's imaginary.

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But the closest he got was, there's enough smoke here that it should be investigated and Congress should be in charge and all that. And I'm thinking to myself, if somebody asks for evidence and you say there's plenty of smoke, don't you need to list the smoke? You know, even if it's not proof, say, well, you know, there's this and there's that. Where's the smoke? I don't see any.

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I'm going to take this concern and assign it to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Because once again, Cory Booker is hallucinating a problem that is not part of the real world. But I suppose anything's possible in the future. So he's got an imaginary concern about the future, which will be handled by the Department of Imaginary Concerns. But what about Elizabeth Warren?

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She was on ABC and she said, it's time for Congress right now to step in to the emergency that Donald Trump has created. The emergency he's created? I don't remember that. And roll back his chaos. Hmm, there's chaos. What problems is that causing? The stock market's up again today. And opportunities for corruption that he's now exploiting.

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Huh, well, I don't know of any opportunities for corruption that he's now exploiting. Does he? Nope, I'm going to assign that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Now, here's a game you can play at home. Turn on CNN at any time of day. And then if it's not a commercial, if it's the actual news, see how long before the word chaos appears in the program. It will be so fast, it'll make you laugh.

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Usually less than one minute. Here's an example. So then Elizabeth Warren was on CNN. And Jake Tapper asked the following question. Given all the chaos, that's how he started his question. Given all the chaos, so obviously he's on Team Chaos, and he asked her a question, and then here's her answer. You know, look, the way I look at this is that Donald Trump has created a lot of chaos.

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They've got this one thing. That's all they have. Now, some of you are wondering, when is Trump going to get rid of this chaos thing? You know, because you could reframe it. You could pretend chaos is good, but that's a tough one because it doesn't sound good. But you can laugh at it. All they have is this chaos thing. Anyway, the Department of Imaginary Concerns.

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So China is going to steal the IP of Dilbert's company, and Dilbert's going to try to fix that by moving his manufacturing to Elbonia. Things don't go well. That's all I can tell you. It doesn't go well. All right. Let's see if there's any science that didn't need to happen. Oh, here's one. Did you know, according to Neuroscience News, that shared meals strongly link to greater happiness?

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I saw in the Wall Street Journal somebody's opinion that the exemptions for the iPhone, which I'm not sure how real that is, puts Apple at the mercy of Trump. Is that true? If you were Apple, would you now be as scared to death that if you don't do everything Trump wants, he's going to put a tariff on your phones again? Probably. Probably. Yeah.

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I guess President Bukele is going to meet with Trump today, and they're going to have a meeting. The one thing I like about Trump meeting with Bukele is that Bukele is the bad cop. No matter how bad Trump is, it's not going to look as badass as Bukele with his gigantic prisons. Now, I've got a question about those prisons. Do they put those people in there forever? Or do they get out someday?

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Because I don't remember anything about their legal rights or anything. So I've got big questions. But there's no doubt that whatever Bukele is doing, it's working. Now, the interesting thing is remember the case of the individual who was accidentally sent back to El Salvador? And the reason that he didn't want to go to El Salvador specifically, that's where he came from,

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is that it was too dangerous and he wanted asylum. But since any of that happened, correct me if I'm wrong, El Salvador is the safest place on earth. So you didn't want to go back to the safest place on earth. I mean, you know, maybe the people who were after him were the few people who were not in that gigantic jail. But I don't know.

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So apparently the number of law firms that have made deals with Trump, these would be the law firms that were involved in any kind of lawfare against Trump. And he decided to go after them and threatened to pull all their security clearance and contracts with the government, which would be a lot of money.

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And so now collectively, all of those law firms have promised as part of the negotiation collectively altogether, $1 billion in pro bono work. So in theory, Trump has a billion dollars of the top lawyers in the country to do his bidding. The same ones who went after him. Now, that doesn't sound like the best deal in the world because...

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you want to take a chance of even making it yet better, all you need for that is a cup of burger, a glass of tanker, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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How much effort are they going to put into a pro bono deal to help the guy that they want to destroy? Don't you think that if they were working on a deal for Trump, if it were about Trump, I wouldn't trust them at all? Yeah, we took care of that. The bill is $20 million for 10 minutes of work. And yeah, we crossed every T and dotted every I. I don't think so.

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But I did hear that Trump was thinking about using them to negotiate trade deals, which might be actually kind of genius because the law firms don't want to have bad trade deals. It wouldn't be so much about Trump. It would just be about America versus whoever we're trading with. So that might work, interestingly.

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So as you might have heard that Trump is going to, he wants to pave over the Rose Garden and put a ballroom there. Because if you're Trump, you need a lot of ballroom. You know what I mean? A lot of it. But I didn't realize, you know, the first time I heard this story and the 10th time I heard it, I didn't realize that there was a good reason to get rid of the Rose Gardens.

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because apparently when they do events out there, if the grass is a little wet, you can't wear high heels, and it's sort of a mess. So yeah, if they can't fix that, and you can only use it when the weather is just so, might as well have a ballroom. Actually, that makes perfect sense to me. So Trump is mad that the TV show is 60 minutes again. I guess on Sunday they had at least two segments

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that he considers dishonestly negative to him. And he just went off on him and claims, you know, he's already claimed that they rigged the interview with Kamala Harris to edit in answers that didn't sound stupid. And so he's already suing. Now he's calling for their license to be revoked. 60 minutes. Do you think that's too far?

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I don't know, because they definitely don't seem to be acting like a news program, but they're presenting themselves as some kind of objective, trusting news source. But they are a little bit more on the propaganda side. So he's got a good case there. We'll see. Stephen A. Smith was asked yet again on one of the shows if he's thinking about running for president.

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So one in four people don't eat a meal with other people, but the people who eat with other people are happier. I think they could have just asked me on that one. Do you know why people don't eat with other people? Because they don't have any friends or family to eat with. Pretty much everybody who has some kind of a functional social life is eating with other people.

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Now, remember, the question is, are you thinking about it, not are you going to do it? And he said, I have no choice. I have no choice. He says that a whole bunch of important people and elected officials are coming up to him and asking him to run because they think he'd be good. But he just signed a massive deal with ESPN, the kind that completely changes your life. The money is just gigantic.

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Go. Terrific. Well, I just saw a headline that Jennifer Rubin quit the Washington Post, or was she asked to leave? I don't know the details, but she had criticized the boss, so maybe she wasn't going to stay there that long. So if you don't know, the Dilbert cartoon that normally is only behind the paywall, either on Axe or at Locals. Dilbert is a Californian. I'm not sure if you all knew that.

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So if you can get people to believe that all celebrities know their news is not true, all experts know that their news is not true, and then here's the kill shot. Everybody in the intelligence community knows the news isn't true. So those are the three I'd ask. Right? Then... So you're working on sort of a common sense argument that there's no way the news could be real.

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And if some of it was real, you wouldn't know the difference because it would be mixed in with so much that isn't, you couldn't tell. And then if you can establish that news and whether the news is real is the big question, and if you can even get them to accept that that's the important question.

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Because what I think is that Trump supporters, the TDS people, believe that the Trump people are evil and that they're fully aware of all the evil that Trump does according to them, right? But if you can get them to just accept the frame that what you should be talking about is whether news in general is real, and by the way, don't make the mistake, don't make the mistake of saying,

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It's a good thing I get the real news on Fox News. That's the end of the conversation. Don't do that. Do not say there's some real news and you watch it. Don't say that. You lose, lose, lose as soon as you say, well, the news I watch is real. You should watch some real stuff. Oh, you have no chance. And by the way, if you say that even once... You'll never, ever persuade anybody on this topic.

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That's the end of your credibility. You have to be consistent and say that the news, all the news on the important stuff is being influenced. Then... If you can get them to believe that it's a world in which the news is maybe not real, they're sort of on the fence, but they're not going so far, that's when you break out the hoax list.

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And you say, if I'm right that the news is always fake, then I should be able to give you lots of examples of fake news that are clearly debunked. Would you agree? My theory that it's always fake should produce a whole bunch of examples and And then people say, yeah, I mean, unless you're making this up, there must be a lot of examples of this so-called fake news.

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And that's when you pull out the list of 50 fake stories. You can find it on the Internet. Just look for a hoax list. It'll pop up. Some of them are 12. Some of them are 50. But any of them work. And then once you have the list, you know what happens next, right? Would the TDS suffer? Well, nothing on that list is true. Those are not hoaxes. Those are all real.

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Now, if you can feel the difference in the words, I always assumed it was something like dopamine and serotonin that made you feel it. One of the advantages that I have in my profession as a writer, and I don't really know how common this is. Maybe it's common. I don't know. But I have an unusual relationship with words that I can feel them, almost like they have texture and not physically.

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That's when you go to the fine people hoax and say, let me just pick one. And you see if you can make the fine people hoax debunked and stick. Tell them that Snopes debunked it. Tell them that Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, I think Bill Ackman, a number of the most famous people have turned toward Trump specifically because they found out that was fake. And then here's the key.

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If they still don't believe it or they think maybe this one's right but all the other ones are true, then aim them at the website AmericanDebunk.com. American with an N at the end of American. AmericanDebunk.com. It's a very good list, very readable with the examples of how the hoaxes were created and Because it's not enough to say they're not true.

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You have to show the mechanism by which they were created and spread. Once you see the mechanism, then you can see that a lot of them are created the same way. And then you say, but you know, when you hear that Trump's a racist, it's hard to explain why Michael Jackson lived in his building and they were good buddies. Mike Tyson loves him to death for all the help he's given him.

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Larry Elder says he's terrific. Byron Donaldson wants to help him as much as he can. Do you think that the people who knew him best think he's a racist? And the answer is nobody. We have not produced anybody who knows him personally who thinks he's a racist. That's got to mean something. Because if you think that Michael Jackson didn't know what racism looked like,

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or that Mike Tyson couldn't identify racism in the wild, or that Larry Elder or Byron Donaldson would just not notice or somehow overlook it? No. No, yeah, and also McGuire. I think the fine people Oaks flipped him as well. Anyway, and then your final end of your persuasion is to note that if anything they'd said about Trump was true, Why are they so happy about the peaceful transfer of power?

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Why do they chat and laugh with him at Carter's funeral? And then you walk away. Don't wait for somebody to be convinced. That doesn't happen while you're talking to them. It has to sink in. They got to do a little research on their own. Sometimes they can get there. But the key point, I can't stress enough,

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is you got to take them out of the frame of Trump good versus bad and into the frame news is true versus news is not that that's the only opening you have. Meanwhile, Jamie Dimon was just on 60 minutes and Leslie Stahl, one of the worst people in the world. Uh, I mean, she, I hate to say it, but she just seems like a terrible human being based on her performance and in her profession. Um,

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So she gets Jamie Dimon on there and she wants to use him because he would be considered, I think in the United States, you'd call him the top banker in the United States because he's in charge of the biggest bank. But you would also say that in finance and economics in general, if you're going to ask somebody their opinion, he'd be about the best you could do, right?

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So now 60 Minutes, as the most credible banker finance guy, And now they can really give it to Trump because they're going to find out all the things that Trump's doing that nobody smart could ever, ever agree to. And she goes in for the kill shot. This is good.

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She goes, all right, Jamie Diamond, you're thinking smartest finance guy in the world, knows everything about business, banking, the world. Those, I'm paraphrasing, but those Trump tariffs, what do you think of that? the Trump tariffs. Now, this is going to be really a kill shot.

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Leslie Stahl has it so set up perfectly, the most credible, wisest, smartest finance banking guy, and now he's going to answer the question of how dumb that stupid Trump guy is, how stupid, stupid he is with his tariffs, and tariffs never work, and nobody smart would ever do it, and don't you understand it's just a tax on Americans? Except that's not what happened.

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Jamie Dimon said, well, art of the deal. Tariffs are used for negotiating. Every country does it. It's really important. It's a good tool. Trump's doing everything right with tariffs. And go to hell, Leslie Stahl. Go to hell. Go straight to hell. Don't stop. Don't pack a bag. Don't bring a snack. Just go right to hell. Because did you actually think you were going to get a different answer?

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But it's as if they are almost like a pharmaceutical pill. If I say some words, I can feel. In other words, I go... So when I'm writing, I'm picking the words that make me feel ugh instead of ugh. And that makes the sentences look better. And when you read it, you won't know the technique. You'll just read it and you'll say, oh, I enjoyed reading that.

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Just think how badly confused the press is. I don't think she understood tariffs and she thought she was going to get what all the stupid pundits say, which is, oh, can't do tariffs. Tariffs never work. It's a tax. Instead of what all the smart people say. 100% of the smart people are on the same side, by the way. I want to be clear about this.

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There is no disagreement on tariffs among smart people. None. At least smart people who understand the world and business and economics and negotiating. So that specific kind of smart people, the Jamie Dimon smart people, the Elon Musk smart people, they all know that you use this for negotiating and that it's necessary. So that was just wonderful.

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So Jamie Dimon had nothing bad to say about Trump and even said that he tried calling Trump. I guess he got to the staff because Trump wasn't available and offered his help. Imagine having Jamie Dimon on for the express purpose of trashing on Trump and it goes away with the best recommendation you've ever heard because he's really credible. I mean, he's not even a Republican.

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Wow.

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So good. All right. I have to talk about this again because it's too darn important. You all heard that Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan. And one of the things he said is he had three friends cured a cancer with ivermectin and fentanyl, which makes all of you say, my God, the big pharma is hiding the cure. And Mel Gibson knows the answer. And his friends have told him and

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All right, here's my prediction. I have told you many times that in this world, we often can't tell what's true because our brains maybe aren't even made for that. I don't know if our brains are even made for what's true. But one thing that I promote as the closest you can get to truth is prediction. So I'm going to make a specific prediction about this Mel Gibson claim.

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And then you can see if I have the closest prediction take on reality because that would mean my prediction is true. And we'll see if the other people's, the opposite prediction would be that if Mel Gibson personally knows three people cured a cancer by these two things, that lots of other people are going to try it. I'm not recommending it. I'm just saying it's obvious.

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Lots of people are going to try it. We're going to know pretty soon, aren't we? Like pretty soon, there will be no doubt whatsoever that whether it works or not. The oncologist would see it. You would know. Everybody would know somebody who got cured, right? So here's my prediction.

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You'll never see, never, not once, you'll never see an interview that includes the alleged cancer-cured people with their test results, with their doctor, being questioned by a skeptical doctor, just to make sure that the right questions get asked. You know, if Joe Rogan is talking to the doctor and the patient, he's not going to know the right question to ask. It's actually kind of hard.

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Yeah, you really have to know the, you know, a lot of the arcane stuff about different cancers, etc. But a doctor could do it. So, Just imagine how important it is that if these things work, these two easily prescribed, not very minor side effects, at least at low dosages, and wouldn't it be the greatest thing in the world if this were true?

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You won't know that I was intentionally tweaking your dopamine and serotonin with my word choice. Anyway, you could have asked any writer. I think they all know that. In another study, according to Comstrator, Grape juice can cure your erectile dysfunction.

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So part of the reason, which you know, is I'm being a dick because somebody has to. So the reason I'm being a complete dick is on this topic is I'm trying to get somebody to come forward and do what they should do. Cure cancer. Cure cancer. All you need, simple model. You don't need, I'm not going to ask you for a controlled clinical trial, you know, with actual humans.

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Just show me three people who couldn't have been cured. Incurable is a better example than a curable version. Show me an incurable cancer, a real patient, real test results before and after, real doctors sitting next to him, and another real doctor saying, okay, let me understand to make sure that I know your claim. All right? Just three.

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You would only need to see that three times, and you would have me convinced, and I would be telling everybody to take those damn drugs. Is that fair? But until you see that... You're just seeing crap. Now, why is it that so many people are sure it's real and they're sure they know somebody specific? Even Mel Gibson, he doesn't know one person. He knows three people.

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Doesn't your common sense tell you it's probably true? Because I don't think Mel Gibson's lying. I have zero, zero belief that he's lying. None. I don't think that does Mel Gibson look like he would go on Joe Rogan? and just lie about some weird drug? No, no, he's not lying. He actually has three friends who actually told him at work. I'm sure. I'm sure it's true.

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I'm sure it's true that he was told. Now, there are other people too. So today on X, other people were saying, yeah, my cousin, here's a story. Look at this YouTube. Talk to this doctor who has 15 different cases. They're all the same. And here's why none of that is valid. It goes like this.

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The patient says X, the friend who heard it hears Y, and the doctor knows Z. The doctor, the friend, and the patient are not even talking about the same stuff. So by the time it gets to you, it's coming through a friend, and the friend doesn't know. The friend doesn't know what questions to ask to make sure it's the real deal.

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For example, if you were the friend and your friend said, I got chemo and some hormonal treatment, and then I took these two drugs and I got better. Would the friend know to ask, well, does anybody ever get better with those treatments and that cancer without taking those drugs? And the answer would be, yeah, they do.

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So you can't tell if the drug made any difference because sometimes those are enough. Then you would ask, what about prostate cancer? And then you'd find out, oh, it looks like as long as it's combined with other treatments, it seems it worked. Would the friend be smart enough to know that regular prostate cancer, if it hasn't metastasized, is 100% curable without those drugs?

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So if somebody is getting cured of that specific cancer, the one that's localized just to the prostate, that doesn't really tell you anything because they were going to get cured anyway. Do people know the difference between metastasized prostate cancer, which can't be cured as far as we know, with the one that can be cured 100% of the time, which is the local one.

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And I did eat a bunch of grapes for breakfast before I came on, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to make it all the way through the show, but I don't know. I might have to end soon. We'll see. We'll see if those grapes work. According to Open the Books, Ohio State University is spending tens of millions of dollars on DEI. How much do you think they're spending?

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No, the friend doesn't know that. They don't know what to ask. So everything you're hearing is the third party, or somebody who's in the business, and you say, hmm, you're sort of in the business of promoting this cure. So follow the money, says don't believe the ones who are doing it for money, But you probably could believe the patients who just said, all right, I'm going to take a risk.

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This is more, you know, this is too private, but I'm going to do it to cure cancer in the world. Anyway, so if you see that, you'll know what's happening. So some of it is wishful hearing. You know, people think they heard something they didn't hear, didn't ask the right questions.

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Some of it is conspiracy reflex, because if you saw the pharmaceutical business apparently lying about ivermectin, if that's what you think, lying about ivermectin in the pandemic, then you say to yourself, wait a minute, if everybody was lying before, which one of those pharmaceuticals is paying Adams to say this doesn't work? Nobody's paying me. I'm trying to cure cancer. I want it to work.

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And it might work, by the way. Let me say this unambiguously. The lack of the fact that I haven't seen evidence that convinces me doesn't mean it doesn't work. And it doesn't mean it doesn't work in some context, maybe not all. But if it worked in any context at all, it'd be pretty darn important to a lot of people. So we're going to push it.

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Now, I want to be as obnoxious and dick-like on this as I possibly can because I want the people who want to embarrass me and put me in my place and show that I'm a big freaking idiot to really get mad. Come on, come on, embarrass me. Prove that you can cure cancer just with a little message about how it worked for you, with your test results, with your doctor.

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And the only test results I want to see are the cancer specific ones. I don't need to see the rest of your health care. Don't care. All right. All right. Let's read some comments from the stupid people. Here's the stupid people. Scott says he's a narcologist today. All right. So that's one of the comments. That's stupid. That's stupid.

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All right, so a number of people said to me, Scott, do some research. Look at this site. It's full of evidence, and it'd be some NIH government site. And those people don't know the difference between the laboratory clinical trials and the real world. There are a bunch of laboratory-only tests that show that ivermectin can kill cancer. So can a lot of things that don't work in humans.

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There's almost no predictive power from all of those tons of evidence that it works in the lab. It doesn't mean anything. But we think it does because we don't know that that which works in the lab may or may not work in an animal. And if it works in an animal, there's only a 5% chance it works in a human.

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You also don't want to listen to anybody who says there was an animal trial because as far as I know, that's just something that people think happened but didn't. and you definitely don't want to listen to a doctor who says they have a patient that was cured.

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That means nothing because you don't know the doctor, and they haven't given you the name of the patient to confirm it, and you don't know what else they were doing. That is nothing, right? So the things that are nothing are lots of published clinical trials of just in the lab. Also, nothing is the animal test because they didn't happen as far as I can tell.

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And also a nothing is there's a doctor on the internet who says it works, but you don't have any access to ask the patient. None of those are evidence, not even a little bit. Now remember, I'm not asking for a giant trial. I don't need it at all. I don't need a giant trial. Just show me anybody, any real person.

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that has test results that would suggest that the ivermectin and the fenbendazole or either one were actually effective. Anybody? Now, this always makes people mad, and I'm trying to make you as mad as possible. You should work as hard as you can to prove me wrong. Deal? All right. All right. Smirconish had a little survey.

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Well, they spent over $13 million on pay for 201 employees that are doing DEI-related stuff. Really? And some of them are making well over $100 million. One of them's got $300 million. They're really well paid, and there are 201 of them doing nothing but making sure that the DEI stuff gets taken care of. So I highly recommend you do not go to Ohio State University.

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73% of his audience thinks that climate change was responsible for the L.A. fires, and 27% think it was government mismanagement. How would you like to be a CNN viewer and be so confused that you think climate change caused the L.A. fires? You'd be such a bubble. I feel sorry for them.

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk is bringing Cybertrucks to LA that will be equipped with Starlink so that people in the areas can get Wi-Fi just by being near the Cybertruck. I don't know how many Cybertrucks it takes to cover it, but he's telling people they'll have to wait a week for their delivery because he's going to use them for this. And they've got snacks and security in them, so

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Why is it that Elon Musk is the one who can help in every emergency? That's so unique to him, right? It seems like he's put together the tools that are just always the right tool for whatever the emergency is. That's pretty amazing. All right, let's talk about the fire.

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I know I beat this too much, and you don't care if you don't live in California, but I think there are a few things to learn from it. First of all, there's a claim that three of the major fires started at the same time. If they started at the same time, you can eliminate homeless people as the cause.

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If it started in three places completely not near each other, I feel like you can eliminate most of the natural accidental coincidental things. I would say if it's true, and I don't have a confirmation of this, just something on the internet, if it's true that three of the major fires nearly started at the same time in different places, I would say that's at least an 80% chance it's terrorism.

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And I'll go further. If it's not terrorism, I don't understand why it wouldn't be. Like, why aren't they doing that? Now that they know it works. If it wasn't terrorism, it will be, right? So it looks like it was. In my opinion, it looks like it was, but that's not confirmed. People said to me, Scott, what we should do is the Japanese water defense system.

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And there's a video going around of these sort of powerful hose-like sprinklers, sprayers, being used in a Japanese context where the roofs of the building were wood. Now, if you have a wooden... burnable roof, you really need to replace that if you can because you don't want a burnable roof. These Japanese structures were traditional older structures that you're trying to keep.

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They would never build that today, I don't think. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt they would build something with highly flammable roof even in Japan today. So that Japanese water defense system is not applicable to most situations. And certainly not applicable if you have a tile roof or something less burnable. The case of the Delta smelt fish. So you know the story.

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And again, we're still in sort of the fog of war, so I don't know what to believe yet. But I'll tell you what's being reported. Just put a pin in it and tell yourself, check back later. Probably some of it will be debunked, but I don't know.

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But Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit is talking about that smelt fish that allegedly was part of the reason that California doesn't have reservoirs and enough water to do what it wants, is that they wanted to save the smelt fish, and that meant getting rid of some of our state resource places because it was bad for the fish. But here's the punchline. Nobody's seen a delta smelt fish ever.

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in over a decade. So they saved a fish, which as far as I can tell doesn't exist. They saved the fish that doesn't exist, and the only cost of that was the entire economy of California for the fish that doesn't exist. Now it might exist in some other places in small numbers, But it doesn't seem to exist where they change the entire water reservoir system to save it.

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So I'm having trouble believing that this is real, that they saved a fish that doesn't exist and it cost them the entire state of California. It's a little too on the nose. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, you environmentalists saved an extinct fish, to use Trump's word that's a little bit hyperbolic. It's a little too clean.

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I'm going to say if I had to bet on something that we think is a fact today, that later you'll find out there's something about it that you didn't know, I think there's something about this one we don't know. But it's also possible. that they destroyed the entire state to save a fish that doesn't exist. Because we do see that level of stupidity in every element of the government.

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So to imagine it couldn't happen in this case would be more than I can claim. All right, there's also the empty reservoir story. I think it's been empty since 2009, but somehow the fire department was not aware it was empty. That's one of the claims. And that knowing that the winds were coming,

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According to Brighter Side News, Joshua Chabot is writing that there's a major study revealing that plants now absorb 30% more CO2 worldwide than we thought. So I guess when they put this big adjustment into the climate models, you see all the climate models adjust because the new variable, which is a key variable, it's a very important one, right?

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there was probably time to refill it because it was intentionally drained, which means that turning it back on must have been possible. But I think there may be more to that story as to why it was drained and how practical it was or was not to refill. There's probably more to it. Don't know. But we'll find that out.

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Meanwhile, Adam Schiff and even the Governor Newsom either lied or were wrong when they said the reservoirs were full at the initiation of these fires. That's what Schiff said. Now, the thing you need to know about Schiff, and I tell you this often, if you know what happened, you don't know anything. If you know who was involved, well, then you might know it.

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Schiff is one of what I call the designated liars. So when the Democrats need to tell a really big lie, like the really big ones, and everybody's going to find out it's a lie later, they send out Schiff. He's like their designated liar. Because he'll say anything, and apparently it doesn't hurt him because he got promoted to senator. Right? He went from the House to the Senate this year.

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So clearly Schiff can say any wild lie and it will have no impact on his career. Maybe even help him. So if you see Eric Swalwell or Schiff or Brennan, John Brennan or Clapper, they are the designated liars, the people who will go out and shamelessly say whatever they want to say but isn't true. All right. So there's that. So Governor Newsom announced a bunch of executive orders

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that roughly speaking, what they do is they relax some of the environmental regulations so that people can get going and rebuild their homes. Now, as far as that goes, without knowing the details of the things that he's altering with the order, Seems like the right thing at about the right time. Would you agree? So it's not my job to say every single thing that the government does is wrong.

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So, yes, even if it was too early, it's not too early because people need to understand that the government is going to get rid of regulations. Otherwise, there's no hope of rebuilding. There's just no hope. So at least this gives them hope. I don't know. that this will be enough, and I don't know that the executive order will stop all the environmental groups from, for example, suing.

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What happens if Newsom says, executive order, we're going to relax this regulation, but then some activist just sues you because they're trying to save another extinct fish? Can they do that? Can they do that even if there's an executive order? Probably. And then you've got a legal problem. So who knows where this is going to go?

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But I would say in general, it's a good thing that the government said we're going to relax whatever things that make sense to relax, we're going to do it. Now, I had to delete one of my posts on X because there were too many NPCs commenting and it was exhausting me. So you know what the NPCs say, right? So I'll tell you what I said and then you'll know exactly what they said.

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I said what we need is some pre-approved home models. In other words, something that you could stick together. You could add a bedroom, but the bedrooms would be pre-approved. You could add another bathroom, already pre-approved.

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So in other words, as long as you stayed within the pad that you were building on, or not much difference, you could kind of put this new building, all pre-approved parts, and it would be designed. Here's the key. It would be designed to be better than what you had, right? Now, here's the part the NPCs don't hear. It's better than what you had. It looks better. It works better.

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It's easier to maintain. It will last longer. It's way better than what you had. Now, if you don't hear the part about it's way better than what you had, you're going to say, well, why do I want to build a tiny home? And I'll say, who said tiny home? I said build it on exactly the same pad, same size as you were living in. I don't want a tiny home.

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Or will this be the 25th time you've heard of something that's a key variable in climate change that was completely revised and and yet the climate models are the same. Let me see if I understand this. The climate models are driven by data and assumptions, and they're very, very well done, so you're getting the right prediction.

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And then the NPC said, great, a communist hellhole where every building looks the same. Thank you very much, but I like my custom house. I like my custom house. To which I say, that's not an option. If you try to build a custom house, you're going to wait 10 years for approval, even with these executive orders, I think. That's my personal view.

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So under the assumption that it's not really practical to do a custom house and it would be way more expensive, that's not really an option. If it becomes an option to build a custom house to rebuild the fireplaces, if it becomes an option... and it's affordable, or you're rich enough to do it anyway, where in my suggestion did it say that you couldn't do that?

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At what point did I say you can't build your own house? No. I just said, wouldn't it be nice that people want to do it quickly and have a much, much better place than they had before, could just pick the off-the-shelf approved stuff, slap it together, They would all look a little different, because let's say you could put different facings on it. You could add different sizes.

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You could add a bonus room, but I don't have the bonus room. You have four bedrooms. I have three. You have maybe even two stories, and I have one. So would they all look alike? They don't have to. They don't have to. But there would be a similarity to them that might bother you. So... That's a trade-off.

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But no, you don't get to have everything and have your custom home and it's cheap and you can do it right away. That wasn't the alternative. You have to understand, this is the what if there's no other alternative. So if there is another alternative, do that. And then the funniest one is people said, Scott, you've revealed yourself as the World Economic Forum globalist you are.

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I can tell that the way you're approaching this is that you want to turn this into a 15-minute city, like the globalists want to turn everything into a 15-minute city. And let me tell you, son, nobody's going to want to live in a 15-minute city. where everything's close by and you don't need to drive if you don't know. Nobody's going to like it.

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It's not going to be anything that any human wants to experience. And then I say, did you know that it was already a 15-minute city? It wasn't designed to be that, but that is exactly one of the top reasons that the residents gave for why it was better than any place in the world to live, because everything was convenient in L.A. So you got the L.A.

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weather moderated by the beach, so you had the best weather ever, because it was next to the coast. On top of that, you could walk to incredible places, and your neighbors knew each other. It was a 15-minute city. So all of you people in your 15-minute World Economic Forum, nobody's going to like it. It was the best place in California to live, according to everybody.

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According to everybody, it was the best place in California, and it was a 15-minute city. Now, it did have cars, and I don't think there's any reason that you would ban cars, but you didn't need one. Because you never had to leave if you didn't want to. And you could get an Uber if you wanted to. So you don't have to wonder if the 15-minute city is a good idea.

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It was already the number one best place in the whole best state. So there's that. Meanwhile, Billy Bush was on Tucker. I mentioned this before, but as Molly Hemingway was pointing out, there was a connection that maybe some of us missed. I guess it was reported. But neither Molly nor I saw it when it was. So here's the story.

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You remember the Access Hollywood, grab them by the burp, tape that was released in 2016. And Billy Bush got fired because he was involved in the conversation. That's all it took. And it was in the Washington Post. So the story was broken in the Washington Post. But did you know, that it originated from NBC. So NBC was the source of the tape. They had it from, I guess, The Apprentice.

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If you change the data and the assumptions of the biggest items, it's exactly the same. Does that sound like real science to you? that no matter how many times you find out the data and the assumptions are completely wrong, that you get the same line? Are you starting to suspect something's up? Yeah, that's like the ultimate tell.

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And did you know that the co-editor of the Harvard Crimson at one point was, the head of NBC was a guy named Noah Oppenheim, and his co-editor on the Harvard Crimson was the person who received the leak at the Washington Post, or at least it got to the Washington Post. But the person who got the leak was a known, close companion to the person who had the tape.

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And here's the next part, that both the NBC head and the person he leaked the tape to were, here it comes, Both of them were actual groomsmen in the Chelsea Clinton wedding. Not attendees. Not invited. Groomsmen. They were actually groomsmen at the daughter of the other candidate. Okay. And then, as Molly points out, shortly after running the information operation against Trump,

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the one who received the information was giving a contributing gig at MSNBC, which I assume is because of all that good work with their op. So that doesn't really change anything. I think we all assumed it was some kind of an insider anti-Trump deal. It was pretty much what it looked like. Hamas says that it's willing to trade 33 of the 98 remaining hostages, if I have that number correct.

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And I guess Israel is offering a one-week ceasefire and some prisoner swap. So Israel would be asked to give far more prisoners than every one person that they're getting back. You know what I'm going to say about this. 33 out of 98, you get a zero for effort. Zero. So remember Trump said, If every one of them is not released by Inauguration Day, there's going to be hell to pay.

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$3,398, I'm very happy for the families and the people who will be released if this happens. It's not guaranteed yet. But if it happens, I'd be very happy for the 33 people and their families. However, still hell to pay. That buys you nothing. Trump cannot allow hostages to be part of a negotiation. Hostages all returning are the ticket to have a conversation about a ceasefire.

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The ceasefire is not based on you releasing some of them. That could never be the cause for ending cessation. Now, Netanyahu is offering a week, and I don't think a week makes any difference at this point, so he's kind of offering them nothing in terms of the ceasefire.

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So it may happen, it may not, but whether it happens, and I hope it does, shouldn't have any impact on the fact that Trump's going to go full Trump on him. According to Nina Techholz at the Heritage Foundation, she said if you implement a diet that drastically removes or reduces carbs, you can reverse type 2 diabetes, you can reverse hypertension, most cardiovascular risk.

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You can reverse schizophrenia and bipolar disorder or reduce them and reduce impression anxiety by 79%. And she says, I know that sounds crazy. Um, I'm going to say, yes, I don't believe any of that's true. I believe it might be true that if you stopped eating, you know, refined sugars and, you know, added sugars and stuff like that. Um, Hmm, that's interesting. There's some kind of drone report.

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Let me, I got to click on that. All schools, ooh, Steve Luckner is reporting that all schools in the Montclair, New Jersey district will close because of a security concern. They were made aware of a potential threat to the district. Huh. So we don't know if that's drone related or coincidental that it's in New Jersey.

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But if it's a system-wide risk and not just one school, what would that be about? I don't know. Anyway, I'm not sure I believe this, that all you have to do is restrict your carbs and all these problems go away at that rate and it happens kind of quickly in a few weeks. I'd love it to be true, but I don't believe it to be true. Now, I'm more likely to be wrong on that one. than the other topic.

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The ultimate tell is that the assumptions and the data change, but not the prediction. Not the prediction. It's just the same. Okay. Okay. Well, Sam Harris is getting a little more heat for his TDS. And he goes so far as to say he wouldn't care if Biden had corpses of children in his basement. It couldn't be nearly as bad as having Trump as a president.

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But you should definitely cut down on your sugar. And I think that part everybody agrees on. But I'm not sure that people evolved to not be able to eat a potato. I don't know. MSNBC ticker came through. Okay. Well, You know, diabetes would be the one thing that seems to make sense if you don't eat sugar. If you tell me, all right, your problem is regulating sugar.

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So what you should do is have way less sugar in the form of carbs or anything else. Now, that would make sense. So if the only claim was that your diabetes could be improved by not eating any sugar... I think I could say that that's in the realm. But the other things are way less obvious, and I think I'd be a skeptic on that. But I'd love to be wrong. I would love to be wrong.

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Yeah, I know how the autophagy works. If you starve these cells, they start eating the cancer cells for food if they don't have enough food on their own. I'm a little... a little bit skeptical on all the diet stuff. But I wouldn't be surprised if some people can just eat meat all day and don't eat any carbs and everything's fine. I don't know about curing all the major disease.

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There are lots of books on the carnivore topic. Read them. That's the most obnoxious thing that anybody ever says to me, that I haven't done the homework, I've got to read this book. There's nothing more obnoxious than that. If you've been with me for a while, you've watched me debunk countless things accurately without reading the book about it. If it ever helped, I'd read the book about it.

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It won't help. Because if you read a book, it's like the documentary effect, which I teach you. If you watch a documentary that has one point of view, you will be convinced when it's done. Five minutes later, if you watch another documentary that had the opposite point of view, you'll be sure that the first one was fake and the second one's real.

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Then if you go back to the first one and watch it a second time, you'll say, you know, I don't know why I thought this wasn't real. This looks very convincing. If you read a book that makes any claim, it's the documentary effect because there's nobody in the book who's got a different opinion. So nobody's saying, okay, but the other side is this. So a book... will be very convincing.

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And so you're saying, well, if you read this book, you'll be convinced. I'm sure I would. That's why I'm not reading the book. Because the book will be convincing. That's why you don't read it. Does that make sense? So I see the world through a persuasion filter. So I don't want to submit myself to persuasion that I know will convince me, but will be lower than the standard that should convince me.

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I know it will work. That's why I'm not doing it. You can do better by simply Googling what are in books, because that stuff ends up being on the internet. So if you take Perplexity, which is a great, great app for searching, and you just say something like, there's a claim that eating a carnivore diet is good for this or that disease. Can you give me both sides?

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And perplexity will bullet point and then give you links, if you want to see them, to both sides. Now, if I get a bullet pointed in both sides, that's not the documentary effect. So I would say to you who recommended I read the book, which is really dickish, honestly. It just always comes off as arrogant.

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And he said that it was a conspiracy to lie and get him out of office. And, of course, he would normally be against lying. But now he's totally in favor of it if you're stopping Hitler. So the one time that kind of makes sense, according to Sam, is if you're lying to stop Trump. And he noted that he thought Trump University alone was worse than anything the Biden crime family has done. Let's see.

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I would suggest that you use perplexity or a good search engine to show both sides so that the first time you're exposed to the content, you see both sides. Now, I know what you're going to say, but Scott, The big pharma is suppressing the Internet and it's all fake. Sometimes that's a problem, maybe more than we want. But you know books are written that are completely fake, right?

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It's the most common thing in the world. So reading a book is not telling you anything that you could guarantee, and neither is the search engine thing. But at least you'll be aware of the arguments on both sides, and maybe you could take it somewhere that way. All right. Now, this would be the point where the NPCs pretend I said something I didn't say, and then criticize me.

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Would anybody like to do that? Best shape of your life? You do look like you're in good shape. Nicely done. Now you can tell people to read my books, That's different. What if you read one book? Eat just meat. Go in. Go in. Yeah. Pasta and wheat were my downfall. So you should not tell people to read my books for my scientific claims. So that part's true.

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But Dilbert's a Californian. And for the next this week, he will be figuring out what to do as the fire approaches his house. I'll give you a little bit of a spoiler. He's going to stay. So Dilbert will stay in his house and try to defend it, and you'll find out how that goes on Sunday. But today is the beginning of that series, if anybody's interested.

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So my books are general, the type of advice that you can just look at and try and, you know, you don't have to do a scientific study. Reframe your brain is probably the best one, yes, of my books. Reframe your brain. You'll love it and change your life All right. Yeah, spaghetti sauce is loaded with sugar. Portion size is an issue.

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Use your simulation approach hypothesis with a physicist and a biologist in place of your doctors. My observation is that that won't work. But You're saying books are bad? No, books that make a one scientific claim are not reliable. I didn't say bad. Not reliable would be the way to go. You make your own spaghetti sauce with no sugar? You mean no added sugar? What's that taste like? I don't know.

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That'd be interesting. All right. Big news. All right, let's see what Jennifer Rubin says. I left the post. Corporate and billionaire media are failing to meet the moment. Oh, she's going to work with Norm Eisen, the other TDS person. They're launching contrarian news, which is funny because they always agree with the mainstream. Glenn Greenwald said that.

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Politics, cooking, humor, film, and pets. Nobody's going to watch that. And she's going to leave X because she refuses to enable the Elon Trump presidency. All right.

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If she has as many viewers or followers as I think, and she's trying to launch a new website, the dumbest thing you could do is get off of X. There's probably nothing that she does that has more followers because of the type of work she does. And she's going to leave X while she doesn't have a way to advertise her new thing. That might be the dumbest thing anybody's ever done.

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The Biden crime family is instrumental in getting us into Ukraine war. probably had some impact on policy, but Trump University is the bad thing. Now, I've never defended Trump University. I think everybody gets to look at that and incorporate it in their thinking and decide if you care.

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She's going to get rid of the primary mechanism for free publicity, the only kind that's really good, right before she needs it. So she's going to have it for years, and then right before she needs it, she's going to get rid of it. Good plan there, Jen. Anyway. Chase Hughes. He talks about hypnosis. Yeah, I saw a little teaser on that. All right, that's all I got for now.

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I'm going to say a few words to the locals people privately, but the rest of you I will see tomorrow. Thanks for joining. And now local supporters coming at you.

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But I will add this context, and the context is not one that I'm confirmed is true, but I suspect is true, very highly suspect. I don't think Trump knew what was happening in Trump University. Because to imagine that he knew, you would have to say, oh, he's got 400 or so Trump-related businesses, mostly licensing. They're not necessarily owned by him.

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And I don't know if Trump University was a license deal or a different kind of partnership. But do you really think he was personally editing the materials and he was proofing everything and That seems highly unlikely. Here's what I think. I think somebody pitched to him the idea that they would take all of his wisdom, put it in a class, and he could share some of the money when people went.

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And he said, OK, I trust you. Sounds like a good idea. Go ahead and do that. And then when it turned out that it wasn't exactly what people thought they were paying for, I'm sure it was a surprise to him, too. Now, as far as I know, there's no reporting that I'm aware of, but you should fact check me on this.

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I'm not sure there's any reporting that suggests he was aware, Trump, aware of what anything was happening. It's not like he was going into the Trump University office and holding meetings. It was just one of the things that he put his name on, and there were hundreds. So that context is important, but there might be a fact check that says he knew more than we know. I don't know.

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So more generally, I've been asked many times how to reprogram a TDS sufferer. I'm going to give you kind of a quick take on the general way to do it. Now, I'm not convinced this will work yet because I haven't done this exact thing with anybody yet, but I feel like it's the only path that could work. It goes like this. The first thing you need to do is change the frame.

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So you've got to reframe it. The frame that most people are in, and it makes sense that they would be in it, is that they're trying to decide is Trump good or is he evil? Is Trump good or evil? And then if you have TDS, you say Trump is evil. And then if you try to argue it against it, what happens? Oh, but what about the other thing? then you debunk it. But what about the other thing?

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You debunk it. What about the other thing? And you debunk it. That never works because they'll eventually run out of time and they'll be sure that there are three other things that you didn't debunk that are totally relevant. But you could have, you just didn't have enough time to do all three. So, or they will say, that you're lying or incorrect or CNN said something else.

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So you can't really talk somebody into it directly if you're in the frame of is Trump good or is he evil? And evil usually means racist dictator. But here's what you can do, I think. Instead of the frame Trump is good or bad, get completely out of that and start working on the frame is the news real or not real? Now, when I say, is the news real?

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I don't mean the sports news or the finance news or the weather. I think those are usually real. And if they're not real, at least they tried to make them real. But when it comes to the important stuff like geopolitical stuff and politics, I don't think any of it's real. I don't think the science is real. I don't think most of the finance is real. So when you say that the news isn't real,

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According to science, Neuroscience News says that dopamine and serotonin drive emotional word processing. In other words, the actual dopamine and serotonin levels can be... can be altered by words. So your words change your chemical structure. I mean, the words that you hear. And that in turn changes how you feel.

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and never has been, you're really going to have to sell that. If you can sell them on the fact that news is not real, then they can find the answer themselves. But let me just go through this a little bit more. So here's how to approach it. Blah, blah, blah, Trump is evil, Trump is evil. And then you say...

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You know, it's really hard to have a conversation about whether Trump is evil or good if we have a different opinion of whether the news is real or not real. See, that's the reframe. So you try to keep them there. They'll try to escape, but try to keep them there. Then here's your explanation.

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You know, I heard somebody say that, Adam's guy saying, that there's no way that any government, whether it's a dictatorship or any of the democracies, there's no way any of them can allow the news to be completely uncontrolled. And the reason is every single country has the same requirement.

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They need to get the citizens on their side and not to be questioning too much what the government's saying about the important stuff. If the government wants to start a war or increase taxes or do something, the government will require that the main brainwashing mechanism to get people on board, which is the news, they'll require control of it.

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There probably is no exception, and maybe never will be, to the fact that intelligence groups will eventually come to control every government. And that's because they have the tools to do it. And if they don't do it on day one, eventually you'll get a leader in that role in the intelligence community who will say, you know, we should probably have some conversations with CNN.

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Maybe make some links. And then you start making suggestions to CNN. You know, it would be much better if you said this instead of that. And in a variety of ways, you can bribe or work with or persuade. And eventually the news is saying what you want, and they're even checking with you before they report stuff. So I would say it's well-demonstrated.

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that our CIA, for many decades in the United States, was tasked with controlling the media. And they did. Now, this is well documented. So if you can't sell that, you have to stop. You have to sell them first that it is universally true, it's in every country, all the time, and that it's documented. Now, they won't ask for any documentation that Russia and China have fake news.

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because they'll believe that. You're going to have to convince them that in the United States it's always been fake. Again, not the sports and the weather and the natural disasters, but the geopolitical stuff, the stuff that the intelligence people would care about. Because it's the difference between their ops working and not working. And of course they want them to work.

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So if you can sell that, then you can go to the next stuff. And you could say... What about those every time there's 99 experts on the same side? If somebody still believes that 99 experts on the same side means something, they probably didn't go through the pandemic. But if they did, just remind them that all those experts have a boss.

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Bosses, let's say it's a hospital, if you're a doctor or some bigger entity. The larger entity is kind of forced to do the standard things. So if you were to disagree with the standard things, probably there's an insurance risk problem, but there's definitely a boss problem. So the boss will tell the expert, no. Or the expert needs to get some funding.

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Are they going to get some funding to prove that climate change doesn't exist? No. So if you follow the money... the money pretty much guarantees that the 99% or the 98% is, first of all, not even true, but secondly, it wouldn't mean anything. It has no predictive value.

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I would also talk about Gell-Mann theory, that if you're an expert in a field, you can tell that your field is fake, but you think the other stuff might be real because you don't know.

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So if you can get somebody to understand that the CIA has always controlled the news, and always should, and always needs to, and it can never change, and you might not even want it to, because I don't think a country can survive if the news is completely uncontrolled. I hate to say it, I prefer that it be uncontrolled, but I don't know that we can survive it. And

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Now, you know what they could have done instead of doing this big old study on dopamine and serotonin and words? They could have just asked me because every hypnotist knows this. And I think every writer knows it. I thought everybody knew that certain words carry power and that you can feel the difference.

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You also need to keep away from getting into the Trump detail as you're doing this and just say, it really doesn't help to debate with somebody who doesn't have the background and understanding that the news is not just sometimes wrong. It's necessarily, by design, it has to be wrong.

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And it's easy to demonstrate because every expert in every domain will tell you that the stuff in their domain is wrong. And anybody who is a public figure will tell you that the reporting on them is all wrong. Spend five minutes with me on the internet and I'll show you that everything I'm criticized for wasn't true.

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It's not that I have a reason for what I did, it's that the criticisms are 100% not true. Everything that people accuse me of today, not true, didn't happen. Now every public figure will have that same story. that most of the things about them are in a context or something missing, not true.

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So, it's a good day in the stock market. I hope you have some. Well, let me get ready for the show. Looking at your comments. Looking good. There must be a lot of good news today. What do you think? Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

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So now we've got Trump lowering the cost of big pharma, lowering the cost of household appliances, lowering the cost of eggs, gas. and a lot of other things, and energy, I guess. So it's going to be hard to ignore that. So Trump is having the week of all weeks. I mean, I'm just still going. The list gets longer.

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But I don't think any president has ever had this good a week because he's really nailing it this week. But I'll tell you what isn't working. is the Republicans are trying to wrap up their big, beautiful bill, the budget. Everything about this budget effort looks fake and theatrical and performative. I don't believe anything that's coming out of them.

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I don't think they're going to give Trump half of or even three quarters. Well, I don't think they'll give him a quarter of what he wants. I think that they'll just kick the can down the road, add to the budget deficit, and lead us toward doom. I don't know what's going to stop it, but they're pretending to have this markup session in which they're going to do a bunch of good things.

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It's all theater. I just don't believe any of it. But at least one subset of the Republicans, I guess this would be, I forget which group it is, but they're looking at steep cuts to Medicaid. And so I said to myself, what? Trump said no cuts to Medicaid. Why are they going to ruin his big bill and the biggest thing he said, which is no cuts to Medicaid?

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So it looks like they've got all these weasel freaking tricks to lower the cost of Medicaid by finding clever ways to deny it to people, basically. So what are the clever ways to deny it to people? Now, this is not a done deal. These are just proposals that we think we're going to see. One of them would be a work requirement. So you couldn't get Medicaid unless you were in school.

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or doing some public service of some kind, or working. And that alone would deny it to, they think, six million people. So the Democrats will say, accurately, wait a minute, you've just installed some clever trick to deny 6 million people Medicaid. Republicans will say, all we ask is that they do something useful for the country so that the country can do something useful for them.

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It's not a terrible argument, but it's going to look like they cut Medicaid. So can Republicans survive that? an obvious trick to cut Medicaid, because you know those people aren't all going to work. What are they going to do? Go to the hospital and still get medical care and have the hospital cover it? So there's that.

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And then apparently the bill, and again, this is just first draft, so it doesn't mean it's real. It would require some beneficiaries to pay more for their care. I guess that would be income-based. And there were some other clever tricks in there. All of it just looks like pure weasel theatrics bullshit. I am completely... disappointed in the Republicans. Just completely disappointed.

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To me, the most important thing we had to get right was cutting the budget. And it looks like nothing like that's going to happen. Because I don't think that Trump's going to sign off on something that definitely looks like cutting Medicaid. You know, you could argue all day, well, we have reasons. And no, no, no, we're not cutting it because anybody can get it.

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They just have to do some public service. But you know, the bottom line will be the Democrats will accurately say he's cutting Medicaid for some people. It'll be a lot of people, be millions. I don't have a better idea, by the way, but it's their job to do the budget, not mine. So I think we're all going to be disappointed with whatever the Republicans have. I'm not even sure that they're going to

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have no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security and all those other things Trump wanted. I don't think he'll get any of that. I think that they're just going to say no on all of that. We'll see. Well, Apple is apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, thinking about raising the price of their iPhones, but without blaming tariffs.

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I do not think the aliens are at the border. Why would the aliens even be there, of all places, for them to be? Well, according to Eric Dolan in SciPost, Did you know that left-wing authoritarians are less likely to support physically strong men as their leaders? So if you're a left-wing person, you don't like leaders that are physically strong.

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Apple is kind of a clever company in terms of how they cover their public relations. They've always been good at it. But they don't want to blame China because that would be trouble. And they don't want to blame Trump because that would be trouble. So they want to raise their prices because of tariffs, but they want to make it look like it's not because of tariffs.

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So the only way to do that would be if you somehow added some extra features. And you go, oh, yeah, these extra features are worth, I don't know, a few hundred dollars more. So we'll see what they do. But my big question would be, what would Steve Jobs do in this situation? Would Steve Jobs be handling this completely differently in some out-of-the-box way that we can't imagine?

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I feel like he would. But, of course, I can't guess what he would have done because that's what made him Steve Jobs and we're not Steve Jobs. But I feel like he would have handled this whole tariff China stuff differently. I just don't know how. Well, Democrats are continuing their lame approach to politics. Now they've added to their oligarchs that they want to keep habeas corpus.

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Now, if you were to do a survey of people on the street and say, are you a Democrat? Yes. What's an oligarch? Well, I don't know. What's habeas corpus? I never heard of it. So they're betting. on words that their base doesn't even know what they mean. So I love this. Let's do more oligarch and habeas corpus. If you can get them to talk about that all day long, and then look at Trump.

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I cut your pharmaceutical costs. I freed a hostage. I'm going to bring a trillion dollars back in investments from the Middle East.

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what part of that don't you understand it's just so simple and then you go to the democrats and like well we we oppose the oligarchs and we want to make sure that we keep habeas corpus for the ms-13 guys well and everybody else it's so lame and then what about the chaos if you were to ask the person in the street where's the chaos happening

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Now, they might say doge, but have you noticed that Elon Musk has quite cleverly removed himself from all political conversation? It used to be that every time I got on X, there would be very political pro-Trump posts pretty much every day. but I think he's completely pulled himself out of politics and he's just doing Tesla related posts and stuff.

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And Tesla stock is way up based on the fact that he's focusing on, you know, the nuts and bolts that he's getting out of politics. So that's good. That's good. Meanwhile, uh, James Carville and Ro Khanna, they're trying to distance themselves from some comments made by, what's her name? Ilhan Omar. So I guess in 2018, she made some comments about white people. And that video has reemerged.

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And I guess the comments were originally in an interview with Mehdi Hassan, And Omar stated, I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country. And then Carville is trying to distance himself and say we need less of that and blah, blah, blah.

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And I'm thinking to myself, look at what Trump is talking about. Even if he doesn't get it done, he's talking about cutting your taxes and freeing hostages and ending wars and lowering pharma costs. That's what Trump's talking about. Sealing the border. And Carville's talking about a 2018 video where somebody on his team was being a racist.

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But if you're a right-wing person, you like them strong. How many people are surprised by that? Not. You know, I really think that politics is just a difference in testosterone sometimes. At least the male version of politics. I can't judge for women, but for men, it's kind of testosterone. The Republicans are high testosterone. The Democrats are low testosterone.

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That's the biggest difference you can even imagine between the two parties. But at least Ilhan Omar finally explained to me why people hide when I enter the room. I didn't realize I was that scary, but apparently as a white man, I am one of the scariest people in the country, so that explains why people get under tables and run away when I enter. I was wondering about that.

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Here's some more bad news for Democrats. Apparently, the House Judiciary Committee is going to interview Jack Smith's lead prosecutor who did the Mar-a-Lago box gate, you know, when Trump was accused of having all these boxes of stuff. And We've heard enough about that story to believe that there's something there. There's something sketchy there.

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It could be that it was being directed by the White House. It could be that it wasn't a purely, let's say, legal problem. It could be that there were politics pushing it. So... The lead prosecutor probably knows where all the bodies are buried on this story and will be under oath. And we might find out some really interesting things about the Biden administration. Now, I don't know for sure.

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And if it's like everything else, nobody's going to go to jail. But it's going to be yet another bad news cycle for Democrats because there's nothing good that can come out of that story except for Republicans. According to the Rasmussen poll, Trump's overall approval rating is 50% with likely voters. But here are some subcategories on that poll that are mind-blowing.

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He's got, according to Rasmussen, Hispanic supporters at 62% and black at 39%. If those numbers are real, And I'm kind of skeptical about that. That would be just mind-blowing. It could be real. But do you think Hispanic support for Trump is 62%? Now, this would be likely voters, so it wouldn't count in any immigrant communities. Could be.

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You know, I've been telling you for a while that if you didn't think that the Hispanics would back Trump, then you haven't been involved or you haven't had exposure to the Hispanic community. If you have exposure to the Hispanic community, no surprise at all. It's totally non-surprising if you've had any conversations with that group.

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Well, speaking of Tesla, Tesla's RoboTaxi, which is where a Tesla with full self-driving can become a taxi, I guess it's called Project Alicorn. And this feature will quietly appear on Tesla's mobile app code. And so... They're looking at a June rollout. So listen to this. That your car, if you had a Tesla and you wanted to have it double as a taxi, you could come home from work.

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If your car is charged up, I guess. And just activate the app and park your car on the street. And it would act like a robo-taxi. So it would just take off from its parking space, go pick somebody up, deliver them to their location, and I guess go back and park where it was. And you can make $10,000 to $30,000 a year just while your car is working for you.

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now apparently the initial fleet will launch in austin with 10 to 20 cars but it's going to scale up really fast and here's some of the i saw this was on a mario nuffle post i guess the source was a user called the g filch now i can't i can't uh vouch for these numbers But here's what one person estimated. So here's the math of it.

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If you look at Waymo, the competitor, they've got 1,500 robo-taxis, and they already generate $250 million in revenue. I guess that's per year. But that's not enough for Waymo to make money. I guess they have higher costs. And now, if you were to look at Tesla...

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If they can get up to 100,000 robo-taxis, based on the likely charge that there would be for a ride, etc., they would make $2.9 billion in pure profit annually. And that's just the start. So the number of billions of dollars that these robo-taxis could make, it's a big number. Because you can easily get to millions. So you're looking at, you know, $20, $50 billion a year just for the robo-taxis.

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And everything else is just rationalization. That's what I think. Well, did you know that the weight loss drugs liraglutide and somaglutide make a huge difference in reducing your alcohol consumption without any extra effort. So the patients say it doesn't take any effort, they just don't want as much alcohol. So that's good. This is more evidence that willpower is fake and imaginary.

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Amazing. We'll see if that happens. Meanwhile, as you know, Trump's going to the Middle East to talk to a bunch of countries. But as the news is reporting, the Trump family has a number of business deals over in the Middle East. Trump thinks he'll come back with a trillion dollars in commitments to invest in the United States from the Middle East. If he does, That's going to be pretty impressive.

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We'll see. Axios is reporting that. But the Wall Street Journal is talking about the Trump family business connections to the Middle East. And I think this is important because these do feel... They do feel like... It should at least be fully transparent, which I think it is. I think it's fully transparent. So I'd worry more if we didn't know something about it.

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But for example, in the past year, some Trump-branded residential towers have been launched in Dubai and Jeddah. And then there's also a Trump luxury golf resort that's being launched in Qatar. Now, here's what you need to know. These are Trump-branded properties, meaning that he just licenses his name, but the ownership of the property is whoever built it, I guess.

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So Trump does two kinds of business. One is he does build his own resorts and stuff, but he also just licenses his name to other people who are going to do it. So are you comfortable with him doing business as the president with these same countries where there are very large investments that benefit the Trump family? I'm not fully comfortable with that.

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But on the other hand, should they be denied the ability to do what they normally do? Because this is completely normal business for them. They license their name. Do you think that there would be this many Trump branded properties if he were not president of the United States? I kind of doubt it. I doubt it. So you have to worry about that.

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And there's something about the UAE and the Royal Family Fund and something about Trump-related crypto stablecoins that I don't understand, but it looks like something to worry about, something to keep an eye on. And then on top of that, The Qataris have offered to, I won't say give, yeah, I guess it's a gift, a gift to the United States of a plane that would replace Air Force One.

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Now, you might say to yourself, why do you need to do that? Well, the Air Force Ones that we have, I think there might be two of them, but they're like 35 to 40 years old. And Trump has had an order in for a new one for a long time, but it looks like it'll be seven to 10 years before the new ones get built. So you'd never be able to see the benefits.

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But the Qataris have a plane that apparently they're willing to part with, a new one. And they said, why don't we give it to the Air Force? So it's not Trump's gift exactly. It would be given to the Air Force. And then somehow later it would be donated to the Trump Library for his use. So that seems a little sketchy. So it feels a little like you'd be getting a free airplane.

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And so you got that going on. So I'm going to say the same thing about all these Trump deals. They all make me uncomfortable. The Qatari plane definitely makes me uncomfortable. And on top of that, as you know, Jared Kushner is doing his own investing and he's gotten some co-investors from three of the Middle East countries. Three states.

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I guess three states have committed more than $3.5 billion to his private equity fund. So that makes me uncomfortable. But it's all transparent. It's all completely legal. It just makes me uncomfortable. And then... It's sort of semi-related things.

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There are some investments that would be good for Elon Musk, such as the Saudi prince, Al-Waleed bin Talley, Al Saud, who's a nephew of the king, is an investor in XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company. But that's normal. He's just a gigantic investor who does a lot of investing in American companies. So again, completely transparent, but makes me uncomfortable.

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That's the hypnotist frame. If you're an hypnotist, you learn that people make decisions based on whatever hormonal soup is bubbling up in their bodies. And then after they made the decision, they layered over it with a rationalization. Oh, yeah, the reason I did that was this. But it's really just chemical reaction.

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Now, the only thing I can say that would be softening all these deals is that Trump is the one person who can take your money and then screw you if he needs to. So if he were anyone but Trump, you would have to worry more that they just bought his cooperation. But I think Trump could take their money and still throw them under the bus if they did something that required that.

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But you can't guarantee it. So in terms of buying influence, I do think they're buying influence. But there are also countries that we have a lot of influence on as well. So, I don't know. I'll just say that any Democrat criticism on this domain probably makes sense. But there's no smoking gun or anything that he's done wrong or there's nothing that looks illegal.

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And it's all completely transparent and it's business as usual for the most part. It's stuff that they would be doing as normal business, you know, licensing the Trump name, et cetera. But like I said, they probably get more offers because he's president. That's not a coincidence. So we're going to hear a lot more about this Qatari plane. I think Congress says they have to approve it.

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I think the Democrats are going to complain so much that it gets killed. If I had to guess, it's not more than a 50% chance that that Qatari plane will actually become something that Trump's riding on. I think there'll be enough screaming and kicking from Democrats, or maybe even Republicans would think it looks wrong. In other news, you know what birthright citizenship is, right?

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So that question is coming to the Supreme Court. Now, birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, and it means that if you're born in this country, with very rare exceptions, you are a citizen automatically. You just have to be born here. Now, Trump wanted to end that, so you've got some legal challenges to the ending of it, and it's going to go to the Supreme Court.

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Now, if you're like me, you say, and you've read the actual language of the Constitution, it doesn't look like there's any wiggle room at all. To me, it looks like the Constitution is super clear. If you're born here, with some exceptions that aren't relevant to this, if you're born here, you're a citizen. Now, I'm not saying that's good or bad.

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I'm just saying that when I read the Constitution, it looks kind of cut and dried, like there's no way you could challenge it. But, of course, that's what lawyers are for. They always have a way to challenge everything. And here's the way they're going to challenge it. So the citizenship clause says it applies to children born in the USA who are, quote, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

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Now that would disqualify, for example, a diplomat's child. So if there were a diplomat working in the United States, the diplomats are not subject to our laws. So a diplomat can break a law in America and we don't do anything about it because they're not subject to our laws. But their child is also therefore, since it's not subject to our jurisdiction, their child is not automatically American.

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So once you learn that willpower is fake and that just some people like things more than others, how hard is it for me to avoid alcohol? It's easy because I didn't like it that much. How hard is it, or was it, when I was more active, how hard was it for me to exercise every day? Not hard at all, because I liked it. If I didn't like it, it probably would have been nearly impossible.

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And I think there's some Native American exceptions, et cetera. But here's how they're trying to argue that this subject to the jurisdiction thereof applies to the immigrant populations. And they say it's analogous to Native Americans. And you know what I always say about analogies? Analogies are not arguments. So if all you have is analogous, you don't have anything. So forget about analogous.

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Let's go to the stronger part. And they're saying that the non-citizens or I guess this would be the babies too, are intentionally entered the country without authorization and likewise refuse to, quote, formally present themselves to American authorities. So does that make you subject to the jurisdiction thereof?

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Well, to me, this is the worst argument ever, and I'm not even a lawyer, because the subject to the jurisdiction thereof is more about America thinks you're subject to our jurisdiction. It's not about what the immigrant thinks. If the immigrant comes in and they act like they're not subject to our jurisdiction or they think they're not, that has nothing to do with anything. They don't get a vote.

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It's up to America. So if we say you are subject to our jurisdiction and if we catch you doing illegal things, we're going to put you in jail, I think that's the end of the story. It's not up to them if they're subject to our jurisdiction. So to me, it looks like there's no chance that Trump can prevail in the birthright citizenship.

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And again, I'm not giving you an opinion on whether they should or should not. It just looks like the argument is terrible. And again, I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong, but it looks terrible to me. According to Elon Musk... Doge has discovered 100,000 active federal employees who are also collecting unemployment insurance. Jim Hoft and the Gateway Pundits writing about that.

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Now, I think I've told you before that my current view is that I'm not going to believe any of the Doge claims. I'll just tell you that that claim is out there. But probably it's not exactly what it looks like. I don't know. So I think it's better. And this is not something brand new. It's something that Musk said a little while ago.

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So I think that Musk is smart to stay quiet on all the political stuff, which he's been doing. But I'm skeptical of all the Doge claims that sound a little too clever. You know, that one's just a little too on the nose, you know. It might be true, but there have been so many of the Doge claims that sort of didn't pan out that I'm just going to say, well, that's what he claims.

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Apparently, India and Pakistan, their ceasefire seems to be holding. It didn't hold at first, but now it is. That would look like a victory for Trump because the American, I think Marco Rubio and his team, were working on making sure that India and Pakistan didn't blow each other up. Now, the thing I would say about India and Pakistan is they really didn't want to be in a war.

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They really, really didn't want to be in a war because there's just no way that that's going to be good for either one of them. But what they needed was the fake because. They needed some external thing to talk them off the roof so it didn't look like they were backing down. So America just comes in with its big footprint and says, hey, you guys, knock it off.

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We'll help you, you know, hold this ceasefire or something. So this is where America can really be useful. It was just something that Pakistan and India both needed. They just needed somebody who wasn't either Pakistan or Indian. to come in and put a big boot on it and say, you know, cut it out. Now, that's not exactly what we did. We were being helpful, but that's just a win.

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If the peace holds, I'd say that's an American win as well as obviously a bigger win for India and Pakistan. Speaking of war, apparently President Zelensky says he's ready to meet Putin in Turkey. So I don't know if there'll be any cease firing before then or during then, but Zelensky and Putin are going to meet.

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So no, willpower doesn't exist. There's just stuff you like and stuff you don't like, and that's usually just chemical and cause and effect and the structure of your brain, and it has nothing to do with anything else. Here's some good news. And wow, I was worried about this for a while. But it turns out that the new Pope, Pope Leo, he's calling for peace in Gaza and Ukraine. Yes.

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And that, of course, would be good for America and certainly something that Trump has been pushing for, get them to talk. And it gets America out of the conversation, which is sort of perfect, because I think we would just complicate things at this point. So those two just need to work it out.

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I guess Germany's new government is already threatening Russia that if they don't do a ceasefire, they're going to put new sanctions on them. So Germany is trying to be helpful there. Yeah. And, of course, the Ukrainians and the Russians are just a full-on drone war on the front. So, Ladies and gentlemen, I think you can see that this is one of the best weeks that Trump has ever had.

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And if half of these things go in the right direction, if the wars look like they're winding down, the prices of stuff look like they're winding down. And did I mention that China and the United States have agreed to delay for 90 days the big tariffs. So both countries have pulled back their tariffs. Now that's probably the big reason the market is up. And that's exactly what we wanted.

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I always say the stupidest people in the comments are the ones who just say, I don't understand the topic. Like you couldn't fit a reason in there. So anyway, Zelensky had his pants on backwards. It looked like that in one of the pictures. But I think Scott Besant probably did some good work.

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I think the main thing is just to get China and the United States to think that they're negotiating productively. Will that lead to anything good? I don't know. I saw Joel Pollack mentioned that it'll save Christmas. because there'll be enough toys for Christmas from China. But it also puts us in a stronger negotiating position than we've been in. So we have China's full attention.

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They know that Trump would be willing to tariff the hell out of them. But one of the things that Scott Besant said, and maybe this is the thing that China wanted the most, is that neither China nor the United States want to decouple. So I wonder if China was just really afraid of decoupling. Because there are a lot of people in the United States who do want to decouple, such as me.

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But there are a number of industries, et cetera, like the high-end Apple phones. There's nobody else who can make them. So the low end ones, I guess you could make in India, but the high end ones require more special processes or whatever. And, uh,

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so so it looks like we're stuck with china and china is stuck with us on a bunch of different levels you know we we can't really quickly get all the pharmaceutical products we can't quickly get all the tech stuff the assembly we can't quickly get all the rare earth minerals etc so we're kind of stuck with each other for a while and it looks like maybe we're heading in the right direction.

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So everything's looking good. Probably the best week that Trump has ever had, is my guess. And that's all I got for today. I'm going to say a few words to the locals people privately, and the rest of you, I will see you tomorrow. Same time, same place, I hope, for more good news.

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I was so worried that the Pope would be pro-war. But no. Turns out we got lucky again. It's like, I don't know how many Popes in a row, but our luck is really holding. They all seem to be anti-war. And every time they announce it, I say to myself, boy, that could have gone either way. But it turns out that the Pope has a brother. Have you all checked out the news about the Pope's brother?

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This is the problem with having an American Pope. He's got an American brother. And the American brother is super mega. And I guess he's so MAGA, the Gateway Pundits reporting, that he not too long ago shared on X, I guess he shared a video calling Nancy Pelosi a drunk C-word. So a drunken C-word. And he mocks the, quote, crying libs with Trump derangement syndrome.

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But if you'd like to take a chance, I'm making this experience even better than you could ever even imagine with your tiny, shiny brain. All you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a sign, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel. What kind? Any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So he's not just a little bit MAGA, but he's He's like way MAGA. Now, if you don't think this is going to be fun, I immediately looked for his X account, but I couldn't find it. So is he posting somewhere else? Maybe not on X, but I want to follow him so badly. Well, I was also interested to see if he followed me because it'd be fun if the Pope's brother followed you on X.

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But I did not see his account. So if anybody knows what his actual account is, I saw three that looked fake. They were too small for that. But if somebody knows which one is his, can you alert me to it? I'd love to follow him.

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Well, let's talk about the great cocaine hoax some of you saw a video of French President McCrone and British Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Merz they were all together on the table. It looked like it was on a train maybe or on a maybe some kind of a jet

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But they were sitting at a table and the photographers came in, the videographers, I guess, and you saw McCrone grab this little rolled up tissue and sort of take it, you know, surreptitiously away. And then you saw Murs grab some little thing that people were calling a Coke spoon and, you know, kind of hiding it from the cameras. Now,

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Why in the world would you think a balled-up tissue is where somebody was holding their cocaine? It didn't look like cocaine to me. And that little thing that they call the cocaine spoon, you really couldn't tell what it was. I mean, it could have been a Could have been, I don't know, a straw that he was playing with or something.

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But it looked to me like they were just making the table look less messy. And they were just preparing for the photo shoot, I guess. So I would say that's fake news. No, I'm not saying that they're not all coked up. That might be true. I don't know. Maybe. But it didn't look like a cocaine anything to me. So I'm going to say that's most likely hoax.

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Well, Hamas has decided to help Trump get a little distance between Israel and Trump, kind of cleverly. Hamas is going to release the remaining living American hostage, Eden Alexander. So that's going to happen today, I guess. And that was Trump's victory. So Trump gets a victory and getting the last American hostage out.

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Now, the Israelis, of course, would wish that more Israelis had been released. But I think you can see this as a clever Hamas move to put a little distance between America and Israel. And it worked. But you can also see that Trump seems to be willing to do things that are good for America and Americans, even if Israel doesn't love it. So there's definitely a new world out there.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. That's good stuff. Well, let's start with the ridiculous and get to the sublime. From the ridiculous to the sublime. According to News Nation, UFO hit a U.S. fighter jet.

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Trump is certainly going his own way and probably never appreciated all the people who said that the government is a puppet of Israel. Because at the moment, it doesn't look like it. At the moment, it looks like Trump's doing his own thing, and Israel's going to have to do their own thing. We'll be allies, of course, but not singing from the same song sheet or whatever that saying is.

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So Trump gets the win just at the time he's getting ready to go to the Middle East to do some deals. So he's looking good there. Trump is also signing, I think today, if he hasn't already done it, might be any minute now, he's going to sign an executive order to lower pharmaceutical costs. And the executive order will require the drug companies to

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to offer the pharmaceuticals to American consumers at the lowest price that they sell it anywhere. So if the Elbonians are paying less than we are, then we get the Elbonian price. Now, I didn't know you could do that with an executive order, but I guess he's going to try. So this will be funny because will this cause the Democrats to be in favor of higher prices for pharmaceuticals?

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And how are they going to explain that Biden couldn't do this if it works? I mean, I imagine there'll be some kind of challenges from the pharmaceutical people. But it turns out it gets kind of complicated because there are things called PBMs. How many of you would even know what that is? A PBM. It's a pharmacy benefit manager.

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And it's this big middleman entity that is between the pharmaceutical companies.

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and the big healthcare companies, and even the government, Medicaid, and everything else, so that these middle people, these pharmacy benefit managers, or PVMs, I had to go to Grok to find out exactly what they do, but they manage prescription drug benefits for health insurance plans and employers, et cetera, and they act as a middleman between drug manufacturers, pharmacies,

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insurers and patients, and here's the key, with the goal of controlling costs and administering drug coverage. And they play a significant role in the U.S. prescription drug supply chain, but they're often criticized for opaque practices that can inflate costs. So the pharmaceutical companies immediately said, wait, don't blame us for these high costs.

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It's because the middlemen are sort of inflating the costs. Now, that seems to be partly true, meaning that there's no doubt that the middleman is getting a cut. And it's also true that they're opaque, meaning that if you ask them for details of what they do or why they do it or can you show me your price sheet, they won't show you that stuff. So they operate as a big black hole.

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And there does seem to be some indication that they're part of the problem of the higher prices. Now, you might say, well, they're a middleman, so they're supposed to take their cut. which is true, but you can't really monitor whether their cut makes sense or it's too high because if you try to ask them questions, you would get nothing. It's just a big black hole.

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Now, this is where Mark Cuban becomes a valuable example So you might know that Mark Cuban has his own discount pharma drug company that he's been promoting lately. I think it's Cost Plus, Cost Plus Drugs. I hope I have the name right. And he weighed in on this, and he had a lot to say about the PBMs, these middlemen.

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Now, I won't read you his whole explanation of how bad they are, but if any of what he said about them is true, and I think it is, they're pretty bad. And so there's some kind of fix that will be needed for these PBMs if we just let, well, I guess it's a free market so they can do what they want. But you should see what Mark Cuban says about them.

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Because if you're trying to understand the whole pharmaceutical, why are prices so high? He's got a lot that contributes to that. So I think you should really pay attention to him on this topic because it's one that he knows a lot about. Well, so that's going to make the prices come down.

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So, in other news, Futurism is reporting that the FDA is going to start using AI to speed up the approval of drugs. Now, you might say to yourself, but wait, AI hallucinates. Is AI going to say my drug is safe when it isn't? Well, They're still going to have to check the work of the AI to make sure it's not hallucinating.

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Pilots flying over Arizona said they saw swarms, swarms I say, of weird flying objects, and one of them was smashed into a F-16. I guess the pilot's okay. But the FAA confirmed it, and former Pentagon UFO guy says Arizona's been buzzing with sightings near the border. But some people say it's just the cartel's drones. I'm going to go with cartel drones. That would be my guess.

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But apparently you can speed through the analysis and do in minutes what would take days for a human to do. So I don't know if they have a lot of wrinkles they have to iron out of this, but they seem to be very optimistic about it. It does seem to me that it's the perfect application for AI because it's wildly complicated every time there's a new trial and a new drug and all the rest.

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So, yeah, AI to accelerate the FDA approvals. Probably there's going to be some problems, you know, because it's such a big change. But I feel like we have to get there. I mean, it seems like that's exactly the place AI should make a difference. Breitbart is reporting that...

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Trump signed four bills on Friday where he was rolling back some Biden regulations on appliances like water heaters and refrigerators and walk-in coolers and some other household appliances. Now, the Biden regulations were, of course, to reduce energy consumption, I believe. And so Trump's rolling that back. So that would lower the cost of those devices.

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We should do this much smarter idea that's different. But I don't have a smarter idea. So if leaning on these countries hard, so hard that it crashes their economy, is the only play we have, I'm in favor of it. I just wouldn't bet my life savings it's going to work. But We don't have any better idea.

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And, you know, even if we went in militarily and took out a bunch of labs, wouldn't they just rebuild them in a week? I don't know how you could possibly stop this problem. It just seems unstoppable. But again, given the size of the problem. If we have to crash a couple of economies just to find out if this works, I'm in. I'm in. It's a drastic situation. It calls for drastic steps.

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And it's the only one I can think of. Well, Trump has indicated that things might get worse before they get better. And I guess that got turned into a headline that he is not going to rule out a recession. Now the stock market seemed to shake that off because just before I got on, the markets were up after he admitted. So here's what he said to Maria Bartiromo.

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He said, there'll be a period of transition because what we're doing is very big. Now period of transition means things will look a little worse before they look a lot better. And I think I've always known that. The things he's doing very clearly have a destabilizing effect in the short term because people don't know what's going to happen with tariffs, etc.

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But in the long term, it could work out just great. There's a whole bunch of stuff that Trump's doing directionally. It's all great. So if you could fast forward five years, we might be an amazing situation. It's very possible. So I'm very optimistic about the future. But how are the Democrats doing? Let's see. Let's check in with Van Jones. So Van Jones was on CNN.

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He was talking about the prospects for the Democrats to come back and, you know, become a serious party and things are so bad that he actually was laughing at how pathetic the Democrat party is. And, and the host was laughing. It's actually become laughable, but here's how he, here's how he summarized it. He said, uh, this is what the Democrats did.

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He goes, uh, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse, uh, Well, I guess that didn't work out. So the reflex to be against Trump no matter what had them supporting the status quo that everybody thought was a bad idea. So that's part of it.

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Zero would be the right place. According to SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing about this. Have you ever seen these online quizzes where you can decide who you should vote for? So you say things like, are you in favor of this policy or this policy? And then you fill it out. And then it says, oh, you're a Democrat. You should vote for this person or you're a Republican.

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And then Van Jones said that offending most people in the country and calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name and then saying, please follow us. That's not a good strategy, folks. So every time I hear somebody who actually does understand what's going on, and I think Van Jones, he's obviously playing for one team, but he understands.

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This is a very clear statement of the problem. But it doesn't look solvable. That's the funny thing. They've created a situation where there's just no way back. They have too many people who want to be woke and a bunch of people who don't, and you can't reconcile that. The people who are just all down on wokeness, they're not going to give it up. So what do you do?

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Well, let me tell you what the other Democrats are doing to try to right the ship. According to Politico, this sounds like I'm just making it up, but according to Politico, a lot of Democrats have started cursing in public. So they give a whole bunch of examples of Democrats using the F word and the S word and the GD word. And apparently it's sort of a big trend.

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And I'm thinking to myself, they are so out of ideas that they're really doubling down on this. If we can get the messaging right, if we could just get the messaging right. And then they look at Trump. And they'll see that every now and then he'll throw an S word into his speeches and stuff. And they'll go, yes, yes, that's what it is. We need more cursing. But no, I'm joking.

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They didn't just say, we just need more cursing. They also need more cringe videos. And then Elon Musk was pointing out that the liberals seem to be getting violent. You know, they're attacking Tesla locations, etc. And so they've got cursing. They've got cringe videos. They've got random violence. And then they've got Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat from Georgia.

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He just in public, he actually said this. He believes that Trump and the MAGA movement want black Americans, quote, confined and back to, quote, picking cotton. So that should move the ball forward.

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And then Jasmine Crockett, who might be the dumbest Democrat of all, so they're giving her the most attention because they're like, oh, I don't know if the cursing and the cringe videos and the violence are enough. We better have our dumbest, worst spokesperson be the most prominent one.

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So Jasmine Crockett went on some show, MSNBC, and said it's not illegal for illegal aliens to come into the country. It's not a crime. It's not a crime to come into the country illegally. They're not sending their best. Anyway. As you know, the teachers' unions are destroying America because the foundation of American power is education.

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If you get education wrong, which we apparently are doing, you don't really have a future. There's no chance. And that's where we're at. And mostly, I would say that's the fault of the teachers' unions. And the teachers' unions, of course, would like the kids to have a good education, but their primary...

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Let's say their primary concern is the good of the union itself and whatever is good for the Democratic Party. So if your main criteria is not the well-being of the children, and clearly it's not, you're going to get the result that we see, just horrible, horrible outcomes. But there's apparently a force that has been organizing to give an alternative to the unions.

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Well, according to a study, I think that the person involved with this, you may have heard of, Robert Epstein. So he's done studies of Google and Google's influence. But he finds that these online surveys are more than just casual online surveys. Apparently, they bias you. toward one direction or another. So they can sort of turn you into a Democrat voter if you're on the fence.

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It's called the Freedom Foundation, and they're hosting. They're just getting started, but what they want to do is promote some kind of alternative for teachers that don't join the union. So they would give teachers liability coverage, better curricula, some patriotic and pro-capitalist teachings, and professional development.

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I assume those are things that the union does, so they're trying to match teachers the benefits without all the bad stuff, which is basically just being a tool of the Democrats. So if we can figure out how to break the hold of the teachers unions, the United States has a chance. Maybe this is it. Maybe they just needed an alternative.

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Meanwhile, Steve Cortez just put out a documentary that looks fascinating. And he's down in Star County, Texas, which is almost entirely Hispanic and is pro-Trump. And you really have to see it. I've been telling you forever that if you have a lot of contact with the Hispanic community, the recent immigrants, you could have seen it coming.

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that they would be more pro-Trump, because they're all about God, family, work. They're not about woke at all, and they don't mind seeing deportations, because it's a problem to them, too. So I recommend it. Steve Cortez, just look for his account on X, and you'll see his documentary. Very interesting. I had a little...

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conversation back and forth with uh constantine kisson um you would know him from his podcast trigonometry but also a very smart common commentator about you know all things geopolitical and he had some things to say that i i thought really interesting and i felt like i didn't i didn't know all the elements of it so i had some follow-up questions but let me tell you where that went

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So it started out by he was talking about a 1997 book by this guy, Alexander Dugan.

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who wrote that, among other things, that Russia should introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic and social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements, extremists, racists, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S.,

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It also makes sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics. So that would be one way that Russia could destroy the United States. Now, you've probably also seen the work of this guy, a Russian guy named Yuri Bezmenov, who has a similar message.

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And he's been saying that the Soviet Union at least had this plan to destabilize American culture by basically amplifying destructive forces. Now, I asked Konstantin, you know, what would be the evidence that Russia is actually doing this? Because maybe there is. Maybe there's a whole bunch of places where we've spotted them doing it. And he clarified that it wasn't about

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Russia per se, but it might be something that all of our adversaries are doing. He mentioned China, Qatar, Iran, and Russia. But the weird thing is, and one of the things he mentioned was the tenant media situation. Do you remember that? It turned out that Tim Pool and Dave Rubin and some other podcasters were receiving money from a group that had some Russian backing, but they didn't know it.

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And the group wasn't asking them for any different treatment or any different editorial. So there was no impact whatsoever on what they did. They just got free money. And then it was uncovered that there was this connection to Russia, and I guess that got unwound. But I've noticed that whenever Russia is trying to interfere with the United States, it looks like a high school project level quality.

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So very diabolical. So watch out. If you see one of those, let me tell you who you should vote for surveys, they are meant to persuade, not to inform. So just know that that's a trick. You've been warned. Well, according to One American News, they're saying that Doge is reporting

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Do you remember the troll farm that was allegedly trying to influence the 2016 election? But if you actually looked at how much they spent, it was basically nothing. And then you look at the quality of the memes they presented, And they were just ridiculous. Just so empty of any quality or persuasiveness. They were just nothing.

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And I thought to myself, is that the best that Russia can do to disturb our internal politics? There's some memes that nobody saw. And then giving free money to people to do what they were going to do anyway? That's the best they could do? And then there was the story about the one hacker. who got into what was the Democrats or Hillary's email or something.

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And then we're told by our own intelligence people that it was Russia and we know it. Well, maybe, but I'm not so sure. So it seems to me there would be a lot more evidence of Russia doing something like that. And then the other context is that it's what everybody does to all of their adversaries anyway.

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So the idea is that if you're just boosting, you're not creating, you're not creating from scratch, but you're just boosting those elements within our society that are the most destructive, that that's all it takes. And I'm thinking, isn't that exactly what we do to overthrow other countries? Don't we routinely fund their most divisive elements, specifically to weaken them and stage a coup?

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So maybe everybody's just doing it to everybody. But the bigger context... The thing that to me seems the most salient is that there's nothing these other countries could possibly do to boost the most corrosive parts of our society that isn't already being done by Democrats, and specifically Soros. So is Soros working for one of our adversaries?

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because he seems to be more tightly wound around our Democrats, and it feels like that we're being torn apart from the inside. I don't see the impact from other countries. And my own view of this Yuri Bezmenov, who is sort of the OG of saying that Russia's got this plan to destroy our civilization with their clever shenanigans, I've never trusted him to be real. I have a theory that he is the op.

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He's not the person telling us the op. I think he's the op. Because if you thought that it was coming from the outside, you would not be able to fix it. So I think he's just looking at the fact that we're naturally divisive. And that if we're naturally divisive, you're going to see all these examples that you're going to say, wait a minute. Did Russia fund Antifa? Well, no evidence of it.

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Wait a minute. Is Russia behind the teachers unions? Well, not that I know of. We have these wildly divisive elements in the U.S. I feel like this Yuri Bezmenov was either just monetizing what was going to happen anyway by acting like he had this theory about why it's all happening. I don't trust that guy at all. I feel like he's the op, but that's just a feeling. I don't have proof of that.

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that during the COVID period, this is so bad it's just funny, the $312 million in loans that were meant for small businesses during COVID were taken out by children. So we don't know if they're real children, but they seem to be children. In other words, fake. $312 million of fake loans to children.

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Anyway, so if all these countries are influencing us by boosting the worst, most corrosive parts of our society, they don't have a chance compared to the boosting that the Democrats are doing to those exact same entities, and Soros in particular. So anyway, I don't really know how to think about that other than it doesn't look like it's the biggest problem in the world.

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All right, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of Tanger Chels, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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compared to what we're doing to ourselves. The stuff coming from inside the tent. Meanwhile, Israel announced yesterday that it's going to be cutting off electricity to Gaza, which would have the effect of cutting off water, because the desalination plant there would require that electricity. I guess they're going to cut off humanitarian aid. I believe they have food...

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It would last them maybe weeks or months, but no more humanitarian aid. Now, this, of course, is trying to squeeze them to give up or to give up the hostages. But according to The Hill, Tara Souter is writing, that the Trump hostage envoy thinks that we might have a deal with Hamas, or that we could have a deal soon, to free all of the hostages within weeks.

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So Adam Bowler is the White House Special Envoy, and he thinks that every hostage taken by the militant group Hamas could be freed all at the same time in weeks. Now, that doesn't even seem remotely likely to me. Do you think there's something we don't know about? Because if there's no new variables on the table, I don't see how we'd get a different outcome.

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So remember what Trump said, if you don't release them all, they'll be hell to pay? Is it possible that we've delivered a threat that they completely feel is real? Maybe to the leadership? Maybe to, I don't know, to Iran? Maybe the threat's on Iran. If we don't get them back, we're going to take out your nuclear facilities?

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So it seems to me that this is one of those cases where we may never understand what the real deal was. Maybe we offered something of value. Maybe we offered a better threat. I don't see how this could just sort of work all of a sudden. I don't know. But we'll be optimistic.

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Now, the other day, somebody in the comments challenged me to do the best I could to describe the Palestinian side of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Now, that would be the ultimate third rail. So, of course, I said yes. Because I think I'm attracted to trouble. So let's see if I can do this and still be in business tomorrow. All right?

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So I'm going to give you the best objective description of the situation. The first thing I would say, if you're looking at the Palestinian, and here I'm not talking about just Gaza, so we'll talk about the Palestinians more generally. I don't think you can understand the situation in terms of who's good and who's bad.

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who has the better long-term claim, who's got the historical, let's say, the best complaints about what happened and therefore the best narrative of how it should turn out. As long as you're thinking about who's good or bad or the narratives or the history, you're just lost. Nothing like that matters. The only thing that matters in this region is who has the power. At the moment,

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Israel has the power. If it were reversed, it would be reversed. Meaning that the Israelis would be complaining that they were under occupation or worse. And everything that the Palestinians are saying, hey, you're blocking us from statehood. You're keeping us suppressed. They'd say we're in an outdoor prison.

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It would just be the other way around because you have two societies, two civilizations that are incompatible and they will always be incompatible. There's no way that they're just going to live next to each other in peace. So it's a power dynamic and that's it. So there's no good guy. There's no bad guy. It's just power. And Israel is doing what would be good for Israel.

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What's good for Israel is to increase their land for two reasons. One is it could give them a little extra buffer against the tax, but also wouldn't it be good to have a bigger country? because in the long run, very long run, that will just all be good. So Israel is doing what is in the best interest of Israel, and they have the power to do it.

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As soon as you start overlaying who's good or bad, or who's moral, who's ethical, none of that makes any difference. The ones with the power are going to get what they want, and it will be at the expense of the other side. Now, what makes it easy for the Israelis is that the Palestinians apparently have some addiction to violence as at least part of the solution.

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It seems to me fairly consistent that whenever there's a large bunch of money from the government for anything at all, it's gigantic fraud every time because they don't seem to do any kind of auditing or any kind of accounting or any kind of checking to see who gets it. We should just maybe give no money to anybody.

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We don't know what would happen if the Palestinians suddenly came up with a Martin Luther King character who had, you know, amazingly, I think this would be impossible, but amazingly said, all right, we just want to put our case to the world. And we want the whole world to watch. And we're going to say what our complaints are. And then we're going to say what we want.

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And we're going to denounce all violence. But we think that when we make our case, the world will back us. Maybe. Maybe that would work for them. But it seems to me that the Islamic culture is more about fighting. And again, I'm not going to say it's right or wrong. good or bad, moral or immoral. It just seems to be the reflex. And it seems to be based on cultural impulses.

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And so as long as they're willing, the Palestinians are willing to do a, or at least some of them, are willing to do a nonstop violence kind of opposition, It just gives Israel a free pass. They can just say, well, there it is again. We better take this country. Well, there it is again. We better bomb these people and displace them. Well, there it is again.

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So in terms of strategy, the Palestinians have picked a strategy that sort of will lose forever because it just gives the other side that has more power a free pass to use it. And so they do. Now, if Israel is doing everything that's good for Israel, that would be every country. So you could say, oh, those bad people doing everything that's good for them and bad for other people.

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No, that's just everybody. That's everybody throughout time. Every country does what's good for their country. And again, this is not supporting it, and it's not criticizing it, because neither of those mean anything. It's simply an observation. The ones with the power get what they want. That's it. Of course, there's other elements to this, such as the military-industrial complex in the U.S.

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We'd like to have another place where we can sell weapons. We'd like to be able to project our own U.S. interests through a proxy in the Middle East. The U.S. has an interest in Israel being the strongest player in that region. And so that means Israel will have the power, and they will keep doing what they want.

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Now, one of the claims that the Palestinians make is that when the Israelis say, hey, we gave you Gaza, and it was just your own country, and you could have turned it into a paradise, but you turned it into a Hamas terrorist hellhole, and now look what it bought you. Well, the Palestinians and the people in Gaza would say, that never happened.

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It's true that you sort of pulled out, but you didn't stop bombing us. But of course, they always had reasons. They were responding to some kind of an attack. And they didn't have freedom of travel and commerce. because they were sort of surrounded and, again, presumably entirely for security reasons. Israel couldn't let them ship in and out anything they wanted, because that would be dangerous.

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Didn't let them travel unrestrictedly for the things that you would normally do for commerce. And so the Gazans never felt that they really had Let's say the ability to run their own country. They felt like they were still under some kind of siege, even if there were no boots on the ground within Gaza itself. Now, that would be their take. I'm not endorsing it. I'm not taking a side.

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You know, if this were the only story today, I would be filled with outrage because my tax money went to loans to children. But I'm having outrage exhaustion. Anybody else have that? It's like every time I look at social media, oh, there's another $100 million somebody stole. Oh, there's another $200 million somebody stole. And it all starts just looking like baseline after a while.

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I'm just describing it. If you ask them, they'd say, yeah, you sort of on paper gave us Gaza, but it was never free in the way that other countries could be free. You have to deal with everybody.

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And then Israel would say, how could we give you that freedom when you're just a boiling stew of terrorists who if we open the roads or open the sea, you'd be shipping in massive weapons and turning it into another attack. And that, of course, would be exactly the right approach from their self-interest.

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I'd also point out that the thought about having two separate countries where the West Bank and the Palestinians, forget about Gaza for a second, but if you want to have the two-country solution, you know that that ship already sailed, right? There are now so many settlements, Israeli settlements, just peppering that entire area that there's not really any possibility of a two-country solution.

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And again, that would be presumably what the Israeli government wants, to not have a two-country solution, even if they use the words that they would. And it looks like they have a long-term plan, Israel, to maximize Israel, which everybody would expect. Again, it's not good, it's not bad, it's just power.

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And if you just reverse the power instantly, you would have almost the same situation except the Israelis would be the ones complaining and the Palestinians would be saying, well, look at you terrorists trying to fight back against our massive power. I guess we'll just have to press you a little bit harder because you're still acting like terrorists because the weaker party doesn't have any tools.

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So they're going to use some terrorism. That wouldn't surprise anybody. So let me see what else. Yeah, I think that pretty much does it. So that's my take. My take is as long as you're in the who's good, who's bad, who's got the historical claim, whose Bible says what, that's all just bullshit. It's just power. And who has the power is going to use it. Right now it's Israel.

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That's sort of the end of the story. Everything else is just a normal outcome of who had the power. And I don't see it changing any time in the near future. Because I don't see them coming up with a Martin Luther King, oh, we were wrong the whole time. Let's just get the international community to back us and we'll ask for a bunch of peaceful things. I don't see it happening.

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So it'll just be more of the same, I think, for a long time. Jonathan Turley is writing about crisis fatigue, and he's sort of mocking the legal experts in the country, which, of course, in many cases are leaning left, and talking about how easy it is to get 1,000 legal experts to sign on to any Democrat anything.

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And then the news will treat it like it matters, that you've got a thousand legal experts to say there's a constitutional crisis, and everything's a constitutional crisis, until you're so tired of constitutional crises that don't seem to actually make any difference in your life.

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that you just see another list of a thousand legal experts saying there's another constitutional crisis, like every week or two, and it just doesn't mean anything. We're just exhausted by it, and it never has any real effect in the real world, and we figure they're all biased, and it doesn't matter how many people on the list, because you can always get a list.

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You can get a thousand people to agree to anything. As long as you're not talking about the ones who didn't sign it, just say, well, a thousand people say we're in a constitutional crisis because of Trump. And it's all getting just stupid. It's the best the Democrats can do is to try to get, basically to reproduce the 51 intelligence people who say the laptop isn't real.

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The most debunked method of truth It's all they have. Let's put together another easily debunked proof of what's real. Yeah, we'll get a list of people. It'll be long. There'll be a thousand people on the list. It doesn't mean anything anymore in today's world, and we're smart enough to know it. Now, I've not been following the situation in Romania, so maybe I got a little of this wrong.

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So I worry that we will stop being outraged by stories that are really outrageous. Well, there's a new AI that everybody's talking about called Manus. And it's a Chinese AI. And the people who have tested it and written about it on social media seem to be blown away by how good it is. So it's not a regular AI. It's an AI agent. Now, the difference between a regular AI and an AI agent

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I was seeing Mike Benz talking about it online. So apparently Romania... was having a presidential election that the EU, and I guess the US probably was behind a little bit, got the election canceled because they didn't like who was going to get elected. Is that roughly what happened?

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But the European Union president, Ursula von der Leyen, she's sort of quiet about it because, as Mike Benn says, and what can she say, if she says she supports Romania cancelling elections, which she does, says Mike, The EU will look like a dictator. It is, says Mike.

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And if she says she doesn't support it, it would throw the very network in Romania the EU leaned on to cancel elections under the bus. So the EU is basically overthrowing the government of Romania? Just sort of matter-of-factly? You're right in front of everybody? Do I have that even a little bit right? All right.

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So I don't know if I do, but that would be more of the same for the United States anyway, to be influencing other countries' elections. Anyway, according to Wall Street Journal, American defense companies are having a good time. They're increasing their dominance of the global arms trade, and the European nations are trying to buy as much as they can to protect themselves. They're buying U.S.

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fighter jets and missiles. Now, how many of you have ever heard this? I'm going to call it a conspiracy theory, but I think we're all sophisticated enough to know that conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's not true, right? So I don't know that it's true, so I'll call it a conspiracy theory, but it's certainly not ruled out, and it goes like this.

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that the real reason that there's been such a push to increase the number of NATO countries is not to defend against Russia. It's because as soon as you turn into a NATO country, you have to buy American weapons to be compatible with NATO. Is that true? That the real reason that there's always a continuous push to add new countries is because the military industrial complex in the U.S.

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gets to sell more weapons? because you can't be in NATO unless your weapons are compatible with the rest of NATO. I hate to think that that's the whole story, but it could be. It could be part of the story. It could be just opportunistic stuff. Like, oh yeah, we want to protect. We want to protect against Russia. But by the way, that's pretty good for business.

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That's not the main reason we're doing it, but it's also good for business. It's a little hard for me to accept that the real reason is protecting the countries from Russia versus the gazillions of dollars that the military-industrial complex would make if we just add one more country. So I'm a little skeptical there. Meanwhile, RFK Jr.

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has asked the CDC to look into the link between vaccines and autism. Now, that's interesting. Gateway Pundit is reporting this. Now, apparently, the study would involve using the Vaccine Safety Data Link, which monitors safety of vaccines and investigates adverse reactions. I don't believe anything about this story. Sorry.

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I don't believe that there's an existing database that if you just looked at it carefully, you would know if there's a link between vaccines and autism. Are you kidding me? There's no way we have a database that if you just looked at it really carefully, you would know the answer. No. Now, I saw in the comments before I came on,

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that all you'd have to do is study, let's say, the Amish or the Mennonites or whoever they are, because there are some groups that are not vaccinated. So if you check the unvaccinated group and they didn't have any autism, well, then you'd say to yourself, aha, it must be those darn vaccinations. But that won't work because there are too many things that are different about the Amish.

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is that regular AI, you can talk to it and ask it questions and it can give you good answers and it can tell you how to code something. But an agent, you can just tell to go do a thing and then it'll go do a thing.

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Let me give you an example. One of the hypotheses that I'd heard years ago, but now I don't believe it's true, but it is one of the hypotheses that what's different about the modern world is that smart people meet other smart people more easily. So we go to college and you, let's say you go to MIT, you're more likely to meet somebody that you get married to.

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who's also a top engineer or basically a nerd. And there's some indication that if you take two people who are kind of sort of near the spectrum and they have a child, the odds of them being on the spectrum are way higher. Now, I can't promise you that's true. That's just something that's been around for a long time. Now, the Amish... don't reproduce that way. So that's not their mating strategy.

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Presumably, their mating strategy is old school, where it's like, Jake, looks like you're ready for a wife. Sally down the road, she'd be a good wife. All right, she's the only one available. So it feels like the Amish may just do old school mating, And it would avoid the nerds hooking up because they both work at Microsoft. Maybe. I don't know.

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The other thing is that the Amish are not eating the same food. They're not eating processed food. The other thing is they're spending more time outdoors. And you could probably come up with five different things that the Amish do that are just clearly different in terms of lifestyle and exposure to things. I mean, maybe it's something like... I'm just going to make this one up.

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Don't take this seriously. But what if it's like exposure to lead? I'm not speculating that. I'm using it to make the point. Because the Amish wouldn't have the same exposure. So it could be a pollutant that is common to everybody but the Amish. So I don't think you can study the Amish and know whether vaccines cause autism. But on positive, there's no existing database that can tell you that.

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I don't believe any of that. Now, maybe that's just the first thing that RFK Jr. has to do. Maybe he has to get past let's look at all our existing databases and see if it tells us anything before you can get to the next level of, you know, is there a better way to start tracking this? So I'm in favor of the effort. I just think maybe it's a little harder than it looks. At the same time, RFK Jr.

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Now, I'm not entirely clear about what things it could have access to, which of your other apps or your databases or whatever, but apparently it's wowing the people who are trying it and they think that China is not only not behind the United States in AI, but if you look at DeepSeq and you look at Manus, together they suggest that China might already be ahead.

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is going to meet with the, according to ZeroEdge, going to meet with the leaders of the processed food industry. What is that going to produce? Because it feels like they're not going to say, oh, yes, I will greatly reduce my yields or I'll let my food rot faster just so that we have fewer chemicals and seed oils and stuff in them. I don't know that you can just talk them into it. But maybe.

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Maybe there'll be a few easy wins like, yeah, we can get rid of that one thing or, yeah, we don't need that chemical in there. So something good could come of that. I think the RFK Jr. problem is that when you go from concept, you know, I want to do these things and make everything healthier, to bureaucracy, it's probably just like a brick wall.

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You're probably just banging your head against a brick wall. Now, we'll see if RFK Jr. 's got the clout, along with Trump, to make a real difference and penetrate the bureaucracy, but... It's super tough, so if he can do it, it'd be amazing. According to Science Alert, having children makes your brain younger later in life.

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Now, that makes complete sense to me, if you've had any exposure to being around children. The complexity of your life, if you add just one child to your life, and often it's more than that, the complexity of just getting anything done... goes through the roof.

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And I would think that your brain would be healthier longer if you added any kind of complexity and challenge to it, especially if it's one you really cared about like your kids. So that makes sense.

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I wouldn't say that I would have necessarily guessed this, but anything that an adult does to challenge their brain and their memory and their thinking, and if it's a continuous pressure like having a kid, It seems to me that it would make a difference. Anyway, I do see some things in the comments about seed oils.

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I'm not completely convinced that the seed oils are all bad, but I certainly see a lot of smart people say that they are. So I'm open to it. All right. you feel younger than people your age who have older kids because you started late. Okay? All right. That's all I have for today. Like I said, the...

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The technology was not happy with me today, so the sound on the X-Feed is a little less than... This microphone is not connected to my phone. But we'll upload the high-quality one from the locals feed onto YouTube and Rumble, and then we'll have it all. And that's all I've got for today. So thanks for joining, everybody. I'm just going to say goodbye to the X-Feed.

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And I'll say a few words privately to the people and locals. And thanks for joining. We'll see you tomorrow.

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Now, it could be that the only thing they're ahead in is doing things that we wouldn't do here, such as unleashing an agent, because the agent feels like that's a security risk. You would not be surprised that Tennessee is the first state to already ban it. So Manus just came within the week. It's already banned in Tennessee.

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And I think there's more efforts by other attorney generals to ban all the Chinese AIs, to ban DeepSeek and probably more of them want to ban Manus. Probably a good idea. I could tell you that there's not a chance I would put that on my computer. I would never put on my computer something that's not only a Chinese AI, but it's an agent. Isn't that just asking for it? It's even called an agent.

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It just sounds like the most dangerous thing you could put on your computer. Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, one in four new U.S. jobs posted are going to ask for AI skills. So it's not just that they want you to be an AI expert, but that whatever your job is, you should have a little capability with AI. Now, if I could give you any job advice whatsoever, it would be learn AI.

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You don't have to learn how to create it. That's for other people. But you should know which AIs do what. And you should know generally how to make it do some stuff. And you should know how to ask questions and how to query things. You should know AI. It's not really optional if you're going to be a job seeker, especially. So make sure you know AI. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau is out.

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And Mark Carney has got the new leadership position that looks like he'll be the The next prime minister, as soon as they call it for a vote. I guess that's how their system works. So he's not officially the prime minister, but there's nothing that would stop him from being one as soon as they go through the process. But here are some of the things we know about him. He was a banker.

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And apparently he spent a lot of time in the UK because he was not only a former central banker for Canada, but he was a former central banker for the UK. Interesting. Now, here's what one critic on social media said. So this is not representative of anything but one critic's opinion.

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Somebody named John Paul Berg said about Carney, the new head of Canada, that he doesn't hold elected office, meaning that he's never won an election by the public at large, I guess. Nor has he lived here in over a decade, meaning Canada. So he hasn't lived in Canada for a decade. He must have moved back recently. And he's a self-described globalist and elitist.

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I doubt he called himself an elitist, but maybe a globalist. And he was a central banker with a World Economic Forum membership. So that's a lot of red flags. But if that's what Canada wants, all right. So here's my take, my American take, which is worth basically nothing. I think the Canadians felt they needed a banker.

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But I will upload the content from Locals to the other platforms. But we're good on Locals, and we're sort of almost good on X. So we're going to do it. By the way, there was a French study that says that coffee has astonishing powers to protect your memory. It might even be good against Alzheimer's. That's right. So the odds of you remembering this live stream, very good, if you had your coffee.

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Because if you put Justin Trudeau up against Trump, doesn't it look like a mismatch? Like there's one serious business person, Trump, and then there's Trudeau who's worried about his pronouns and such. So I think they needed to get a serious business person. So, you know, banker fits that. But here's what he did on his first day so far.

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Carney said, quote, my government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect. Okay, first day of work, not so good. Do you think respect is the problem here? When the United States is trying to get rid of fentanyl, is the problem that we don't respect you enough? When Trump says he wants Canada to be a 51st state, is it because we don't respect it?

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or it just seems like it'd be a good idea. Now, he definitely didn't respect Trudeau, but did Trudeau earn his respect? I would say maybe no. So if he's focusing on tariffs or related to Americans showing him respect, not the best first day, because that doesn't seem like anything that's going to work out for him. We're not really operating on the respect basis.

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The rest would be absorbed into the State Department. And he's slashed 5,200 of the USAID contracts. Now, that's all good news, right? Yay! This big pot of money that we thought was being used in ways that maybe we didn't agree with, and there was a lot of it, and it got cut. Yay! Except none of it's true. It's just not true. This is what Thomas Massey explains.

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The Congress is putting together a continuing resolution, which is what they do when they can't decide on a budget. They just say, I guess the budget will just remain the same. So the budget they're going to pass will fully fund USAID. None of this is real. It's not fucking real.

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According to Thomas Massey, and Massey points out that the Supreme Court ruled last week that it requires an act of Congress to defund these programs. So not only is there no legal way to defund them, but the continuing resolution that Congress does every time, because they can't do their job of making a budget, will just fully fund it. Now, I don't know if you can fire all the people

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So even if they have a budget, they can't spend it. Is there some workaround? But my head just exploded. And Thomas Massey is the only one who's on this, the whole continuing resolution problem. Literally, the continuing resolution is when the Congress says, oh, we don't know how to do our basic job. We don't know how to do our fucking basic job, which is make a budget that works.

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So we're not going to do it. So we're just going to kick the can down the road and bankrupt the country with unworkable debt. And then when we finally make some what looks like progress with Doge, they just bulldoze it like it didn't even matter. Now, I suppose there are some surprises ahead. You know, I don't think Doge is going to roll over. I don't think Trump's going to roll over.

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But it kind of looks like it didn't work. I mean, tentatively speaking, that's not my final opinion. I'd like to be wrong about it. I'd love to be wrong about it. But when was the last time Massey was wrong about something like this? Never. This is his domain. If he says this isn't real... I'm going to take his word for it over Rubio. And I hate it. Absolutely hate it.

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But we'll see where this goes. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice under Trump is launching an investigation into the price of eggs. The Department of Justice? What do they think they're going to find? So I guess there's some concern that maybe the big egg producers are artificially keeping the price high, which means artificially keeping the supply low. I don't know. Maybe.

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That's a study by Rolling Out. Khalil Best is writing about that. Well, are you all waiting for the Epstein files and the JFK files and the MLK files? All waiting for those? Good luck. I don't think there's really any chance we're going to see anything we don't know or anything shocking, if we see anything. Maybe we'll never see anything. But lower your expectations to zero.

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But it seems like it's simpler than that. It seems like there's just not enough eggs. Now, maybe there's something else there. They wouldn't launch this investigation unless they meant it. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting on that. But apparently eggs are expected to rise by more than 40% in 2025. Another 40% for eggs? Wow. Anyway, I guess we'll find out what's up with eggs.

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But I think that's just a very narrow look. They're just going to look at whether there's gouging, basically. That sounds like Biden. Now, here's my take on it. I've looked into this whole chicken problem, and I think where everything went wrong is where they allowed the chickens to work from home. Yeah, that's all I had. That's all I had. They shouldn't let the chickens work from home.

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The remote working chickens, I don't think they're laying as many eggs. I think they're goofing off. Don't let them work from home. Anyway, Howard Lepnick, He was talking about Trump's tariffs, and specifically the ones on China and Mexico and Canada.

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And he says, if fentanyl ends, meaning those countries stamp it out and keep it from coming into the U.S., I think these will come off, meaning tariffs. But if fentanyl does not end, or Trump is uncertain about it, they will stay this way until he's comfortable. He said that at Meet the Press. Now, I hate to be negative, Nellie,

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But I don't really think there's much chance that the tariffs are going to affect in the long term fentanyl. But I also don't have a better idea. It's the only idea that looks serious that has maybe some chance of working. But I would bet against it, unfortunately. Now, if I had a better idea, I'd say, don't do this. Get rid of those tariffs. It's a waste of time.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better day. But if you'd like to taste this experience up beyond even Super Bowl levels, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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We won't get into that. But it's full of, in case you think you could get some benefit, it might be that reframe or different ones. But remember, these are written by me, and I'm a trained hypnotist. So as a hypnotist, I could know in advance for sure There's some people who read it, and it won't be everybody, and it won't be every reframe that hits you.

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You'll all respond to different things in different ways. But I could know for sure if it reached enough people, some people would just have their brains instantly rewired with one sentence. That's a real thing. So maybe two lives that have been permanently changed. And by the way, I get this kind of message all the time.

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This one was especially well-written and had two people involved, so it was worth reading. But this is a very common experience for people who read the book. I hope it helps you too. Meanwhile, Chevron, the big oil company, is going to leave California. Chevron was the biggest company in my neighborhood. Right in my neighborhood.

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It looked like a professional team playing a high school team. It didn't look like the Kansas City Chiefs were physically even big enough to be on the field. Right. They had all these tiny guys running around being crushed by monsters. It was like monsters crushed tiny guys all day long. It barely looked like a football game.

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I used to work right across the street from it in the big Pacific Bell headquarters. And one day I met another Scott Adams who worked at Chevron. And apparently I was making his life a little difficult because I'd already launched Dilbert and the big companies were looking for if they had a Scott Adams in their company. And sure enough, Chevron had a guy named Scott Adams.

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He stopped by one day and showed me his business card. Now, he's black, but still, I think he might have been getting a little heat. Are you the Scott Adams? But he wasn't. And the reason is, no surprise, they're going to move to Texas because California is very unfriendly to oil companies. So my entire county is going to lose business maybe the biggest employer, maybe the biggest dollar company.

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And why? Because we're poorly managed. We're poorly managed. And Texas is well managed. So once again, California loses one of its diamond assets to poor management. And it was completely avoidable. My God. I'll tell you, I think Trump should say he's going to make California a state like Canada. Oh, wait, California is a state. That didn't help at all.

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Well, the Wall Street Journal is calling BS on some of the Panama Canal claims from the Trump administration. I think Trump says 35,000 Americans died building it, but it was more like 350. There were tens of thousands of people who died but most of them either before America got involved and the rest were non-Americans.

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Sadly, I mean, it's a tragedy that that many people died, no matter who they are, but they were not Americans. They were from other countries. And apparently there are effectively no Chinese people working on the canal. So I thought China was somehow taking control of the canal, but

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according to the Wall Street Journal, no, there's nobody Chinese working at the canal, and that the people who do work in the canal are 99% Panamanian, and that when, let's see, and that when Panama agreed to drop their, to stop their, what was it, the Belt and Road Initiative with China, Maybe there was never any Belt and Road Initiative with China.

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There might not have been any Belt and Road Initiative at all. Or maybe it was just something they talked about in the future. But there wasn't anything really much to drop. However, the Wall Street Journal acknowledges that Trump may be negotiating for better prices or priorities and stuff. And I think that's true. I think he's negotiating. And successfully.

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Well, you're all aware of the story about the judge that decided that the Doge project can't have access to the computer systems because they're not civil servants. Now, do you think that judge is, oh, legit? Well, apparently there was some very clever judge shopping before they got this judge to do this.

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Anyway, so yeah, I think it was about two plays into the game, I said to myself, what am I watching? This doesn't look like it's going to be close. They don't look like even the same sport. All right. So here are the other things that happened. Trump got applauded when he showed up on the big screen, the jumbotron or whatever it's called.

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Meaning that the people involved knew, I don't know the whole story, but it's like they knew that on a Friday night who would be working and they waited for that exact time. So they had a good chance of getting this judge or 100% chance, I think. And it's somebody that you could sort of reliably count on to do the sketchy thing. That's what they say. These are the allegations.

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I don't know this judge personally. And I saw Mike Cernovich's opinion on the judge's ruling, and he said it was a bunch of generic boilerplate and didn't have any legal opinion in it, basically. It was just empty. Now, I think all it does is delay it for a week. Do I have that right?

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I don't think it's a permanent forever ban or something about a week, so there's some other details that might matter to this story. But Elon Musk has suggested that the judge should be impeached. And maybe that's true, but that sounds like negotiating too. I think it's pretty rare for a judge to be impeached.

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And usually there has to be some obvious crime involved as opposed to a bad ruling, I think. And the Congress would have to do it, and of course it'd have to be something like two-thirds, and that's never going to happen. So it's not really practical. There won't be any judge impeaching. But here's what I love about Doge. Doge is absolutely surfacing all the corruptive people.

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Now, I didn't know anything about this judge before this ruling, but I know a lot about the judge now. Aren't you glad you know more about this judge? I'm glad I know more about this judge. And you can see all the complainers, the ones who clearly were getting funding from USAID, It is so useful. We can map the entire network of crooked people now because they're the ones complaining.

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Other people don't even know what USAID was. Almost nobody even understands what it is. All right. According to Elon Musk and the Gateway pundit, Jim Hoft, is reporting this. He said that there's $100 billion in annual entitlement payments to people who don't have social security numbers or IDs.

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And he was warned by the people who are, you know, the actual government employees that they're guessing that maybe half of it could be fraudulent. $50 billion a year going to people who don't deserve it. Just fraud. Unbelievable. Um, And I just can't get over this.

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I already talked about this, but I can't get it out of my head, that the Social Security system was set up with no mechanism for checking if one person or more than one person had the same Social Security number, which would be an obvious indication of fraud. Now, how in the world, how in the world

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Do you build a social security database and not check for duplicates as the most basic thing it would do? It completely boggles the mind unless it was designed for cheating. It wasn't designed to stop it, that's for sure. And then when you hear that the process is that the Treasury Department will just process anything they're asked to process, they don't check anything. And again, I say...

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Who would invent that process? That the people who authorize the money don't check anything? Anything? You would only have that system if it was designed to cheat. So, design is destiny. Anyway, here's another great story today. James Carville, who's just having a real tough time being a Democrat,

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But Taylor Swift, she got mixed reactions, a little bit of booing. And do you think that President Trump was above making fun of Taylor Swift for being booed when he was cheered? No, he's not above that. That's why we love him. He's not above that at all. He comes right down to our level. He meets us where we're at. That man can read a room. Not only can he read a stadium, he can read a room.

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who's not an idiot, because he really thinks he's surrounded by idiots at this point, and he's pretty outspoken about it. But here's the fun part. According to Fox News' Hannah Penrick, he was on some show and he wondered aloud...

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if there might be a plant, you know, somebody who's from the other team who's planted in the progressive wing of the Democrat Party to see how many stupid things they can embrace. Here's his actual quote. He goes, and it's like, let's see if I can do a James Carville. Let's see. I'm trying to find the right zone. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Raisin Cajun. All right, something like that.

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And it's like there's a plant somewhere in, quote, progressive, unquote, America. That just sees how many jackassery stupid things that they can embrace. It's stunningly stupid, both of them. That's what he said. Now, what does that remind you of?

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that the Democrats are so dumb, according to a Democrat, according to a Democrat, they're so dumb that the only way you could explain it is if there's some kind of a plant, an agent that got in there just to make them say dumb stuff. Does that sound like something you've heard before?

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If you were around during the 2016 election and you heard me often, it was like a running gag for the entire election. I kept saying, they must have a mole, a plant, a mole. And we even gave the mole a name. We called the mole, the mole.

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So whenever I'd see something that was just like monumentally stupid coming out of the Democrats, I would tweet back then when it was Twitter, I would tweet the mole. And everybody who followed me instantly knew what I was talking about. And you didn't need to have any other comment. because whatever the Democrats were doing was so stupid.

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It usually was a slogan that was terrible or some persuasion trick that was the worst thing you've ever seen. And the mole has now become the plant. Now, talk about unity. James Carville and I, complete agreement. It does look like there's a mole. So, finally, unity. Unity.

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Well, Cory Booker, famous Democrat, he says, according to Daily Color News Foundation's reporting on this, he was asked on CNN what he thinks about the Democrats' plans going forward. And he thinks the Democrats have a good plan and it's going to work. And it is working. So, is Cory Booker the mole? He thinks that what they're doing is working pretty well. How could that be a real opinion?

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In what world could you say that out loud in public today? Trump just reached his all-time highest popularity today. He's completely dissembled the Democrat Party. The fake news is in shambles and getting worse. And Cory Booker says, we're killing it. Just keep doing what we're doing. Now, come on. James Garville, are you with me? Are you with me on this, James?

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That doesn't look like a real opinion. It looks like a practical joke from the bowl. The mole strikes again. Anyway, as far as I can tell what the Democrat plan is, is they're going to use corrupt judges and prosecutors and lots of lawfare and crank up the propaganda. I love that they think generic stuff works.

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You know, Trump's over there saying, I'm going to cancel the penny and bring back plastic straws. And everybody's like, yes, yes, I know what a penny is. Uh, They're dirty. I don't like to touch them. Pain in the ass. Plastic straws. I'm so happy. My mouth is having a party just thinking about it. Yes, plastic straws and pennies.

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Yeah, no, that was entertaining. Thank you. Despite rumors to the contrary, as far as I know, there were no Doge ads, right? I was all excited, I thought, to be some dojads, but that never made sense. Here's where your understanding of the real world should have told you there are not going to be any dojads.

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And then the Democrats are like, well, the democracy is at risk and there's a lot of chaos. Seems to be some chaos and some lawlessness and maybe some bureaucracy at risk. And none of it has any connection with like none of it sticks to your brain, except maybe you can memorize the words and regurgitate them to sound smart at your next cocktail party. Well, I've decided to start a new business.

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You know, I always wanted to get deeper into the news business. So I think I could use this podcast and leverage it into maybe my own network. But I want to, I want to, take the best practices from some other networks and kind of build something around that. And I noted that MSNBC in particular, but CNN also, the way they present the news is with disgusted faces.

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So it's like regular news, except disgusted because you can't believe anybody's going to do it. So I'll give you an example. Here is the old boring way to read the news. Well, President Trump signed an executive order to get rid of the penny. The penny will no longer be used. It's just annoying, and it gets in people's way. So that would be normal news. Nobody cares, right?

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Now here's disgusted news. It's the same story, but you act like you're disgusted by the white men behind it. Here's another one. Whoa. Whoa. Look at my little eyebrow furls. Can you see these? These are furled. So white man Elon Musk and white man Donald Trump decided to kill the brown penny. Oh, it's hard not to see the pattern, people.

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I don't know if they were doing the Nazi Heil Hitler salute when they wrote the executive order, but I assume so. I'm so disgusted with them.

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In our next story, they're bringing back the straw, the plastic, because they hate turtles and people of color. I mean, I just assume if you hate turtles, because the turtles are going to die from the plastic straws. white men, white men, hetero white men. So that would be my whole show. And yes, the penny is going away. Scott Jennings is killing it on CNN as one of the few voices of wisdom.

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But he's got a new attack that is so good. Let's call this a reframe. And Scott Jennings' attack is that One of the things that Trump is brilliantly doing is he's taking the side of 80% of the public whenever there's an 80-20 question. How about those straws? 80-20? I'm just guessing, but I think people like their plastic straws.

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So he just keeps doing all these things, like the trans sports thing. So he's doing all these things that the public is way in favor of. And it forces, as Scott Jennings says, it forces the Democrats to take the other side, which is why even Carville says it looks like there's something to plant. Like, why would you take the other side of common sense every time?

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It'd be bad enough if you did it even once ever. But apparently Trump can make you do it three times a week. And you're just looking like this is a practical joke. You couldn't possibly have these opinions. So at the moment, the entire Democratic Party is organized to keep fraud and corruption. I'm not making that up.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens. Yeah, that's right. Right now. Go. Extraordinary. So, so good. Well, did anybody watch that thing called the Super Bowl? I did. I was mostly working at the same time and drawing.

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And that is, do you think that they went to the last week before the Super Bowl before they knew who was going to run what commercial? Do you think they had a slot that was open? No, they don't have a slot that's open a week before the fucking Super Bowl. That's not a thing. But then I said to myself, but wait, this is no normal situation.

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The entire motivating drive of the Democratic Party, the most important thing they're concerned with is maintaining corruption. Now, James Carville, come on over here. James, does that sound like something real? Or does it sound like a practical joke played by the mole? It sounds like the mole. It couldn't possibly be real. But yes, it is.

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Not only is it real, but it activated them to get on the streets. And I don't know if you saw it, but Maxine Waters and... Charles Schumer. They were just whipping up the crowd into a frenzy. Fight.

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We'll never rest. Rest. And then they took a nap. Anyway. Anyway. I guess Trump is going to have a presence on Rumble now, and Rumble is also now operating in Brazil at right around the same time as USAID went away. Suddenly Brazil is getting a little flexible about Rumble. Mike Benz made that observation. And according to Elon Musk, the Department of Education is already gone.

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So I assume that means that Trump has ruled that there's no point in it and it will be dismantled. Now, here's what we know. The Department of Education has operated for 30 years. Apparently, it was some kind of payoff that Jimmy Carter did to get the teachers union or something on his side.

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And its goal was to help the people at the lowest end of the education system, the ones who weren't thriving, to try to get them up to a level that they could be more successful in life. It did none of that. It succeeded not even a little bit in 30 years. So... How popular would it be to get rid of a thing that hasn't worked once in 30 years?

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I'm just going to guess probably 80% of the public would like getting rid of that. If I told you something was a big expense but didn't work, I think you could get 80% of the people to say, yeah, let's get rid of that. 45 years, somebody says. 45 years. So what will Trump do? Let's see. 80% would want to get rid of a thing that costs a lot of money but did literally nothing.

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I think you'll be in favor of that. Yes. Yes. Sure enough. Trump took the 80% side. What will the Democrats do? Well, they'll probably... circle the Department of Education and start singing their song. You know the song.

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And that should help. Meanwhile, Trump is getting ready to put some new tariffs on steel and aluminum. And China's going to impose a 15% tariff on U.S. energy and vehicles. And they're going to tariff us and we're going to tariff them back. And it's going to be terrible tariffs. And it's going to be tariffing and tariffing. And then they'll be negotiating.

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And then maybe something good will happen. We shall find out. But the tariffs, there's not much to talk about. until you get a few levels into the conversation and the negotiations. So just the announcements aren't too interesting yet, but it'll get interesting. All right, it looked like, I saw a video, I think Trump was probably on Air Force One.

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If the richest man in the world, working on the most important project in the world, could find some way to sneak in 15 seconds every now and then, maybe. Maybe. Maybe, you know, if he offered enough money. But no, that never made sense. It wouldn't have made sense to put a political thing into the one thing that was trying to be bipartisan. We'll talk about that. But it wasn't the right place.

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He looked like he was behind that little desk they have on Air Force One. And he was taking questions from the press that was also on the plane. And he guessed one. So I'll just read the question and how it went, you know, the exact way. So one of the reporters says, the vice president suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in a way that you don't like, they could just enforce it by themselves.

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Do you agree with that? And Trump looks at the reporter and says, I don't even know what you're talking about. He says, neither do you. Who are you with? I don't know what you're talking about. Neither do you. Who are you with? And the answer is, HuffPost, sir. And Trump says, who? And the answer is again, Huffington Post. And Trump goes, ah, no wonder. He goes, I thought they died.

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They're still around? I haven't read them in years. I thought they died. And then he goes, next question. He goes to the next person. Ha, ha, ha. He just goes to the next person. Remember I've been telling you that what you should do is not answer the question. You should mock the question. Right? Do you want to see the master class? This is the master class.

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So Trump heard a question that sounded like, I don't even understand the question totally because it doesn't quite make sense to me. But it sounds a little bit like, you know, do you still beat your spouse? It was just sort of a question to get a quote that could be used out of context. That's what it looked like. I think Trump smelled it from the way the question was formed.

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Oh, this is just to get me out of context, to make me sound like a monster in some way. So he just goes right after the question. The question doesn't make sense. I don't think you know what it means either. Who are you with? And then he just ignores, ignores the reporter. Now, the funny thing is, do you remember, was it the Pentagon or was it the press briefing room? I forget which one it was.

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But when they announced what new media entities would be allowed and which ones would be kind of suppressed, It was things like Breitbart and OAN were going to be getting new life and new access relative to Democrat rule. And the HuffPost was on the list.

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And do you remember I called that out and said, wait a minute, I understand why a bunch of Republican boosting press would be included because they've been excluded in the past. But why would you specifically... allowed the Huffington Post in. And I thought, huh, maybe they're just trying to show that it's more about who's been banned than it is about left or right.

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And then I see the way Trump treats it, and I think, maybe they were in there for the joke. Maybe the Huffington Post was only included because it would be funny. Now, I'm not saying that's true. I'm not saying it's true. but it looks like it could be, which is funny enough.

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Anyway, the Wall Street Journal was talking about all the foreign aid, and it showed what the foreign aid is going to, the various good causes. Now, I was so mad that I couldn't finish the article, but I'm pretty sure it never mentioned the theory that

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that all of the choices for where that aid goes are not based on where it would help the most, but it was based on where we want to control the country involved. Now, if you write a story about this whole thing about foreign aid and USAID, and you do not include at least the theory, even if you say it's not true, but if you don't include the theory that is the dominant theory that

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of the leading Republicans that USAID was really a way to control other countries and set up coups and do capacity building? Even if you say it's not true, it is the dominant opinion of representatives of half the country. How do you leave that out of the story? And can you trust them on any other story in the future? That's why you have to ask yourself,

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Because again, if they spend a few minutes saying, okay, there's this other theory, but we debunk it or we don't believe it, or maybe we'll talk about it later or something, at least acknowledge there's another side to this. Isn't that a little suspicious? It's a little suspicious. All right. So Representative Ana Polina Luna said, says she's got a big press conference tomorrow at 3 p.m.

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It wasn't the right place at all. So I hope it was never even entertained because it just wasn't the right place. So let's see. As you know, the stadium took down their end racism lettering in the end zone. And I said to myself, is that because they're reading the room or is it because they know Trump is coming? I'm not sure when Trump decided he was coming.

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Eastern time. And she's not saying what it is, but she says it's big. It's going to be big. And she's going to be joined by Chairman James Comer of the GOP Oversight. Now, Comer is, that's a pretty good hint to what's to come. It feels like it has something to do with money going the wrong place.

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I don't know what money, but it probably has something to do with somebody's money going in the wrong place and probably somebody being a corrupt criminal. So I love the tease on this. I'm all curious now. If I had to guess, it won't be nearly as exciting as we think it will be, but I love, I love the buildup. It's good. It's good theater. Um,

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Here's a story that I'm going to tell you only because I'm going to tell you it does not look credible, okay? So I wouldn't mention this, except I'm worried that some of you will believe it. Otherwise, it would be too icky to even mention, and it would be unfair to mention. But there's a story on at least the Internet that Governor Josh Shapiro, he's a Democrat, Pennsylvania,

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that he was somehow involved in planning the assassination attempt in Butler. And there's allegedly some former Pennsylvania state police employee who's a whistleblower who claims can make that case. Now, what do I always tell you about the one whistleblower stories that are damning to one side or the other side? You cannot believe a one whistleblower story.

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You just have to, as much as you want to, or as entertaining as it might be, you just have to have a standard about that. The one whistleblower is how pretty much all the bullshit starts. Oh, I heard the president say in front of a general that soldiers are suckers and losers. Really? Like anybody would say that in front of a general?

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It's so obviously not true, and yet you got that one whistleblower. One person said they saw it. I got that one anonymous source. So a whistleblower is a little better than an anonymous source, but until you've got something else... Yeah, and at this point, the whistleblower is also anonymous. I don't believe this. So I would put this in the, what are the odds?

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The odds of this being true are really, really low. So just keep that in mind. All right. So apparently CNN is reporting that some of the top military leaders are getting together to figure out how to not obey orders from the president or from Secretary of Defense if they don't agree with the orders. Now, that's the way the story is being framed. It's stuff they don't agree with.

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But wouldn't it be things they think are illegal? They do have the right to disobey an illegal order. Is that right? I want to make sure that's a real thing and not just something I imagined. The military is completely within their right, are they not, to disobey an illegal order. So let's say the order was, go murder that village of civilians just to make a point.

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They could refuse that order, couldn't they? So I suppose if you ask them, they would just say, no, no, we're only talking about if there's an illegal order, we want to know how we'd handle it. So I don't know how to interpret this, yes, yet. But if it's purely political, as in we just don't want the president to succeed, so we're trying to figure out how to slow him down, that's not cool.

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And if this were shown to be true, I would imagine Trump and Hegseth would just make sure all those generals got different assignments, which might happen anyway. So we'll see. But I think I'll give the military the benefit of a doubt. They earned it, right? We respect the military. So I'm going to give them the benefit of a doubt in this story until something proves otherwise.

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By the way, the first president to ever go there. Even David Axelrod said, the high-end famous Democrat advisor guy said that, I'll paraphrase, but he basically said Biden was pathetic for not going to the Super Bowl when he was invited. And of course Trump went, because of course it was the right decision, which is not political, by the way. The president is everybody's president.

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that they're just making sure they don't do any illegal orders. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt. All right, you heard the story about the L.A. fire recoveries are the Steve Soboroff. So there's a story that he once said some mean things about Trump supporters or said they were too white. I don't know, does that mean? Depends what the context was, saying they're too white.

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And Breitbart's writing about this. And apparently he was going to get half a million dollars for three months of advising. But when you hear that, you say, oh, no, it's another scam, which is my first thought. Now, his defense is that when he agreed to take the assignment, he said, OK, I've been helping the city in a bunch of ways. You know, I've got a long history of advising for free.

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But when I was doing it for free, it wasn't going to take my full time. And I have real work to do. So apparently he said, this is different. If I'm going to be full time for three months on this, some compensation would be appropriate. But I won't do it if that money comes out of the fire relief. So allegedly, there was some charity that stepped in and said, we'll pay you.

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And then when that became problematic, because people complained he was getting paid, then apparently he said, all right, they'll do it for free. So this is one of those stories where it's hard to parse out exactly what's true, but I think it's worth seeing his side. I think you should hear his side of it, which is he said, absolutely not.

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If money is coming from the fire relief, some charity said they'd pay him. He said, yes. When it became a problem, he said, okay, then I'll do it for free. Again, I think there's some room for some, you know, just give them the benefit of the doubt. Now, the thing that I worry about in one of these situations is that it's a way to funnel the relief money to cronies.

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And then maybe there's some way that somebody gets a piece of it later. So I'm not worried about him getting paid or not getting paid. To me, that wasn't the biggest problem. The biggest problem is did the Mayor Bass pick somebody who would make sure that the right job got done? And since he hasn't done the job and we haven't seen where the money is allocated yet, let's be open-minded to that.

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But man, if we don't have somebody watching where the money is going and if some of it goes to cronies, that would be the most predictable thing that could happen. So we should be watching for that. Well, Trump says he's not happy. He's losing patience with the slow release of the Hamas hostages. They are being released, but I guess slower than scheduled.

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And saying that you're losing patience is, again, good negotiating. He didn't say something he would do. He just opens up this possibility that as much as they want the hostages to come back, if we're getting played... there's going to be a change in attitude, and that attitude could be a change in action. So it's good to set that as standard. Yeah, this isn't working. You guys need to do yours.

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If you don't do your end, you can't guarantee we'll do our end. I like that. Net Yahoo is all in on Trump's idea of the U.S., or at least the idea of it. of the U.S. taking some control of the Gaza area, which solves the problem of Israel taking control. So it doesn't look like Israel gained territory because it would be owned by America under this plan.

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And Netanyahu says that, I guess he was on Mark Levin's show, and he said it's the first fresh idea in years And everything that everybody else has talked about would just recreate the problem. Oh, destroy Gaza, rebuild it, put the surviving people back in it. They recreate the problem. Fast forward 10 years, destroy Gaza. So nobody had any idea.

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So this is the one time a president can go somewhere and you can legitimately say, I mean, yeah, it's good for his reputation and his brand and stuff, but it's not overly political. It's just, I like football. So how about that? We just like football. So they took down the end racism thing. But here's something I speculate.

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But Netanyahu, quite right, I would say, agreeing that Trump shaking the box that hard and coming up with the first fresh idea was is at least causing people to think differently. Maybe Egypt will act differently. Maybe something will happen. But here's my take on this. What kind of strategy could possibly work when the problem is how the people have been programmed?

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They've been, I'll say, brainwashed for a deadly philosophy. Now, I heard somebody say, oh, well, maybe you have to do something with the adult males, but couldn't you rebuild and let the women who have really small children, they're not bothering anybody, so how about let them at least resettle somewhere? That would never work. What do you think those women are going to teach their children?

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And aren't they ever going to meet their uncle? And won't they have access to the internet? So, in theory... There is no way to deprogram these people, and they're going to have the China problem. The reason that the China, what would you call it, quarantines the Uyghurs in something that we call a prison camp, and they say is re-education, I guess.

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But in either event, they keep them separate from the regular public, almost like a virus. So the way they treated the flu or the COVID was basically the same way they're treating the Uyghurs. So one is a physical virus and the other is a mental one. And it could spread because if they teach other people the same philosophy, then China has a Islam problem that they don't want to have.

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So I'm not saying what's right or wrong or what's moral or ethical. I'm just saying what's what. So China treats Islam like a virus. And how long will they keep the Uyghur camps? Probably until there's no Uyghurs. Because there's nothing to do if you let the virus out. I hate to call one religion a virus, but it's not religion. It's not Islam.

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It's this very specific brand of it in this one, mostly one region more than any place else. So you can't say Islam's the problem. You can say, you know, this brand of it is. So what can Israel do to solve the same problem? That the people carry the mental structure in their heads, that is the danger to you in the future. You can't brainwash them because that would be like a war crime.

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I mean, I think it would look like a war crime. You can't threaten them because, again, you know, it's like women and children. What are you going to do? You can't kill them all. That would be genocide, war crime, worst thing you could do. And you can't keep them in a prison camp because it would become a permanent scar on Israel. So all the things that are possible to do won't work.

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And even Trump's plan doesn't have any chance of working. You know that, right? It might be a better step forward than anything they're doing, probably is. But it's not a plan that could work because you still have all the people. Where are those people going to go while it's being rebuilt? And what percentage of them are going to be let back in even if it's 10 years from now?

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If you watch the pre-show, the lead-up that included Lady Gaga and Tom Brady and I guess Michael Strahan and And then there was Brad Pitt, who opened it up with this long monologue about coming together as a country. I said to myself, hmm, at least the Brad Pitt part looks a little tacked on, like tacked on the front. And I said to myself, are they trying to flag it up?

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If they let the same people back in 10 years from now, it will just recreate the problem. If you think that they could do vetting and they could find out who's not an extremist, I don't think you could do that in a real world. How in the world could you stop the bad guys from coming in behind the good guys? and then co-opting the good guys just the way the bad guys did every time.

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What possible mechanism could stop it? So here's what might be the only thing they can do to say that they've got a long-term solution and then just keep putting it off. I don't think there's any other plan. You pretend you have a solution, and maybe you are in fact cleaning up Gaza, and maybe you are in fact building new structures.

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But the part about moving the Gaza residents back in, I feel like that's going to just keep getting put off. And I think they're going to treat it like a quarantine. They just won't call it that, and they'll keep saying, yeah, any day now we're going to be moving you back into this other thing. But If you want to go to another country, we'll let you.

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But if they go to another country, aren't they just going to reconstitute? They'll just be in another country. So, yeah, I don't see any solution, honestly, except for indefinitely pushing it forward, kicking the can down the road. Might be the best thing they can do. There's Canadian Union of Public Employees, according to True North.

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that thinks that Canada should nationalize any important industries that might want to leave Canada for the United States. So nationalizing important industries like Venezuela did, like the Soviet Union did, like North Korea does, that's coming out of Canada? I'll tell you. What the hell happened to Canada? Anyway. Here's another story that I take with a grain of salt.

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So the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra, is reporting that Iran may have placed some terrorists in place in the U.S. with surface-to-air missiles to take down Trump's plane. Now, this reporting is coming from a book. So there's a new upcoming book called Revenge, The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power. And it's written by a Politico reporter. Ding, ding. Ding, ding. Politico. Huh.

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Have they been in the news lately? Yes. For their parent company, taking $8 million a year from USAID, which some observers say is to make sure Politico says bad things about Trump. But a Politico reporter writes a book, and he says that he was given extensive access to Trump's inner circle, and he said law enforcement officials warned Trump last year that Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S.

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with access to surface-to-air missiles, and that Trump's team was worried that the Iranians could try to down the Trump jet as it was taking off and landing. Now, apparently... On one situation, Trump took a decoy plane and the real plane only had some of his aides on it. That's right.

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They thought it was too dangerous for the president to be on the plane because there were reports that it might get shot down. But he did allow some of his aides to be on the plane. Wouldn't it have made more sense to put a few people on the other plane or put them all on the other plane? Why did you leave a few on the death plane? Anyway, so it didn't happen. So here's what you need to know.

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When there's a dirty trick coming from the dirty trick people, let's say USAID, which coincidentally funds Politico, which coincidentally is the employer of this guy who wrote the book. Do you remember a little thing called Russiagate and the Russia collusion hoax? Do you remember that it was a twofer? So the deep state could blame Russia at the same time they could get Trump out of office.

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They get two good things, put more pressure on Russia so that they could sell more weapons and go harder at Russia and we'd have more reasons, but also it would get rid of Trump. But now we're hearing a story that Tehran had a secret plan to do something that would be so bad for Iran that only the mole would have suggested that Iran do it.

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Because they had several big images of American flags in And Brad Pitt, his only reason, and he had an extended piece to kick things off. And it was, first of all, a white man, which is interesting, which is relevant to what I'm going to talk about. And he just kept saying, hey, let's come together. This is just, you know, bring the country together. America, America, America. And I asked myself,

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Because under any scenario, if we found out that Iranian agents took out Trump, there would be a major war with Iran. Huh. Sounds exactly like the Russia collusion hoax, except it's the Iranian missile-to-air hoax. Huh. And it comes from a source I would consider non-credible. Now, do you see the pattern? How many of you would have seen the pattern?

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That if it's the deep state, they like to get a twofer. Blame a country you want to go to war with, and then also take out Trump. Same play. Now, let me ask you this. Again, going back to Iran, do you think that Iran would want to do an op to take out Trump that would really be obviously aimed at them and we wouldn't know who did it eventually?

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Do you think that they would see that as good for their own interests? It's completely opposite of anything they've ever done. Because even though they do lots of things we don't like, they all make sense. They're not irrational. They're not self-destructive in a national way. They all make sense in their own little way. They're trying to become the dominant power in the Middle East.

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They did a bunch of things that a rational person would say, pretty good try. Pretty good try. You did a good job putting your will on a rack. Yeah, you're good at this. If they had taken out Trump in a way that was obviously connected back to them, how in the world would they have thought that was a good idea for Iran? How in the world? They wouldn't. Yeah, they wouldn't.

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So to me, it looks like it. Now, the other possibility is that it was a setup so that if somebody in the United States wanted to kill Trump, which we do worry about, they would have a Patsy set up. Kind of convenient, isn't it? Oh, if somebody's going to get killed, let's blame Cuba. Yeah, let's blame Cuba or Russia. Remember when Kennedy was killed? Who did we blame? Russia? And then Cuba?

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The two that we wanted to keep a warlike stance to anyway? Do you see the pattern? So I don't trust anything about this story. I can't say with 100% certainty that it's all false. There might be some true elements to it. But we don't live in a world where you could trust this sort of thing.

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It just falls into such an obvious pattern that if the pattern wasn't so obvious, maybe I'd say, well, it might be true. Anyway, according to Just the News, Natalia Middlestadt, air traffic controllers say the FAA's hiring practices and their immunity program, which just means they're not going to fire people for making mistakes, is what led to the DC plane crash.

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So the immunity program, like I said, I don't know the details, but it's something along the lines of not holding people accountable for the mistakes. But apparently at one point, their hiring process changed from a cognitive and skills-based testing, so basically how smart and fast they were, to a biographical survey. What?

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You're going to pick people who are going to keep me alive with their quick thinking and quick skills, and the way you're going to select them is by their biographical information? You mean biographical as in are you diverse? I think that's what it means. So if you're diverse, you don't have to have the cognitive and skills-based testing? Are they saying that kind of directly?

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Because it sounds like they're saying that directly. I don't know. But I remind you that the The most reasonable thing to say about DEI and any potential it has to have caused trouble is that it's almost impossible to say that a specific problem was from DEI. That's just almost always going to be going too far. You can't make that connection. Usually there's not going to be a direct line.

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Would they have done that just the way they did it with just the messenger they had? Would they have done that if Trump had not won? And I think they wouldn't have. I think they would have left the end racism sign in the end zone. And I think they would have said, we'll just run the show the way we're going to.

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But you could certainly say that the design of DEI guarantees problems that you wouldn't have had otherwise. So it guarantees there would be more crashes. It just doesn't specify which ones and when. All right. So according to the Daily Mail, Rob Woe is writing that, let's see, who is it? Dr. Stephen Greer. He's one of the UFO driving forces behind

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The idea that the government has a bunch of UFOs. They've got a bunch of alien ships and stuff. And he says at any minute now, Trump's going to open the gates and we're going to find out, oh, the whistleblowers are going to come forward. There are going to be so many UFOs and ships. And finally, our full knowledge of all things alien is going to come out and nothing like that's going to happen.

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This is the most certain I will ever be about any story. No, there's not going to be a bunch of revelations about flying saucers. No, no. If anything gets released, it's going to be that we don't know anything about anything. That might get released. But no, we're not going to admit we have even one alien ship, because we don't. And, yeah, so that's not going to happen.

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Anyway, that's what I got for you today. I'm going to... Yeah, and there's something about the helicopter pilot turning off one of their systems they should have been on. Yeah, I saw that too. But again, that doesn't mean that it's a specific DEI problem. People make mistakes, right? Everybody makes mistakes. So if there's a presence of a mistake...

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And even if there's a person involved, that's not a DEI problem. There's just not enough dots to connect it to one person. You can just know that people make mistakes. All right. I'm going to say privately a few words to the people on Locals and the rest of you. Thanks for joining. This was a lot of fun. Let's do it again, same time tomorrow. So X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining.

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Now, when you get into the little bit of the meat of the show, and I think it was at the halftime, we had an all-black marching band who were excellent, by the way, very good. And I think it was from a historically black college, so it made sense that they're all black. And I think there was an all-black chorus, and I think there were a set of all-black dancers.

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And, of course, the Super Bowl is sort of the one place where you could go, and everybody who was there agrees that Black people did really well in sports. It's like the one thing we're all on the same page about. Nobody's debating this. Black America, you did really, really well. You've had a president. You've got... Wasn't it two black quarterbacks? I mean, you couldn't do...

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But I was entertained because I didn't care about either team. I'll tell you one thing. I had somewhat cheekily said that the Kansas City Chiefs would win because they had the best story. meaning that a three-peat, especially if Trump is there, he predicted they might win, Taylor Swift is there, it definitely seemed like the best story would be if the Chiefs won.

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a better job of presenting excellence than just what's already there. It didn't need any extra. You could just exist. And it's like excellence, excellence, excellence all over the place. So it did seem to me that maybe they were trying to soften what they may have recognized as being a little over the top.

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And then there was one commercial, I forget who it was, where there's a young black girl who beats up a bunch of white guys who are threatening her. And it's just like so stereotypical 2024. 2024 I'm using as an example of the distant past when everything was different. That's so 2024. How about a commercial where everybody's just getting along? How about that? But let me say this.

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I don't want to criticize the folks who put on the show or the NFL because I think that there was absolutely the signs of intention that they were trying to push a unifying message. Did all of you feel it? I feel like there was a little bit of mixed messages there. But Clearly the intention was to try to serve the entire public. So that's what I felt.

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So I think I'm just going to side with the positive part of it, which was it was the most American thing I've ever seen in my life. That was so, so American. I loved it. I loved the vibe. But, you know... Then the Black National Anthem was played. You knew that was going to be controversial. Again, it's too much. The Black National Anthem, for what purpose do you need to throw that in there?

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Like I said, the entire event is showcasing black excellence. You just have to watch the game. You couldn't see more black excellence in one place. no matter how hard you tried. I mean, amazing in every level. So, yeah, maybe that was just more than you needed. It might actually work against the interest. So then Kendrick Lamar was the halftime. And I guess he was dissing Drake.

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I had to look into it because I don't follow music. And I guess they've been having this long-term disagreement. And Kendrick Lamar, I guess he thinks that Drake is too commercial and too synthetic, something like that, that he's not genuine. And I think he also thinks he's not talented. So they've had quite a back and forth.

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And I guess he even mocked him in the halftime, said some things that I won't repeat, some allegations. But I've never been a Kendrick Lamar fan before. but only because I haven't really listened to it. But there's only one thing I absolutely hate in music. Two things. Two things. But one of them is Drake. Drake, to me, never sounded like music.

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He sounded like somebody who was just put out by the fact that somebody wanted him to sing. And now I'm singing. I guess I have to because I'll make some money. But I don't have any talent. And I just am talking in a way. And it's the only thing except Nickelback.

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So the two things I wouldn't allow in my car stereo when I had young stepkids, they'd want to crank it up and listen to music, which generally I was fine with no matter who it was. But there were only two. There were only two that I would say, no, I have just this rule. No Nickelback, no Drake. Everything else is okay. Everything else. So I like Kendrick Lamar just because he doesn't like Drake.

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So we found unity on that. So Kendrick, good job. And then I wondered how hard it was if you were the organizers. Because presumably they have to line up their talent pretty far in advance. If you're going to be the halftime show, I don't know when they announce it, but it's months in advance, right?

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And then I'm looking at the Diddy situation, and you're watching all these famous artists who are one by one getting the Scarlet Letter put on them, the Scarlet D for Diddy. And I'm thinking to myself, how hard was it to get the right kind of entertainer who hasn't been to a ditty party. That must have been really hard. And the whole time they had to be worried.

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Now, I made my prediction, having never watched either the Kansas Chiefs or the Eagles play even once in the entire season, didn't see either team even once. However, having watched them play in the Super Bowl, I'm pretty sure if I'd watched either one of them play even once, or if I'd watched the Eagles play, I'm pretty sure I would have picked them as winners.

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It's like, Kendrick, don't surprise us. So I guess Kendrick did okay. Anyway, the best post on X about the Super Bowl is from user Tech Operator. who posted this. The real Super Bowl is happening in Washington, D.C. right now. It's the Patriots versus the Steelers. The Patriots versus the Steelers in Washington, D.C. right now. All right, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.

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I'll give you the A for that. All right, here's a message I woke up to, and it might change your life, and then we'll get into all the fun politics. I saw a post from somebody called On the Lucky on X, and it was sort of speaking to me indirectly. Yeah, here's the other funniest post from Zero Hedge. I think somebody else said this first, and the quote is, was USAID funding the chiefs too?

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If you like sports and politics, that's pretty funny. USAID was funding the Chiefs. No, it wasn't, as far as we know. Anyway, so here is a message from Unlucky today. Unlucky says, over Christmas, I watched your book, Reframe Your Brain. That's my book, Reframe Your Brain, my newest one. And He watched my book right before my, watched it work right before my eyes in 27 seconds.

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So here's the story. He says, for decades, when I was idle, my brain would always run negative highlight reels. Negative highlight reels. The moment I read The Past is Imaginary, that's one of my reframes in the book, The Past is Imaginary, is sunk into my brain like new firmware. I stopped creating it after that moment, meaning negative highlight reels. He stopped them.

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I told this story in front of a friend who had depression issues. I saw your words reprogram her in real time. She started crying. She hugged me and then ordered Reframe Your Brain and had it filled. Everything still went big. One of my other books. Her life is permanently changed, as is mine. Thank you. Now, when I wrote the book, it was for this. It was exactly, specifically for this.

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Episode 2746 CWSA 02/10/25

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Now, the book is not about this one reframe, that the past doesn't exist, and there's more to it. But the idea is, if you're obsessing about the past, you're obsessing about something that literally doesn't exist. You can't grab a handful of it. And in quantum physics, it's not even clear that the past ever existed. It might all be just imaginary. Of course, that's more simulation theory.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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I would have said, huh, if you want your country to be successful, you need something like unity and brainwashing, basically, that makes everybody think they're on the same team. You know, America.

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you do the opposite and you remind people that they're all special and different and they need to be treated uniquely and that maybe you owe them something on paper that should destroy the entire country right if i simply described it to you in objective language before any of it had ever been implemented you would have said oh that's the opposite of unity

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Country needs unity like more than anything in each unity.

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Otherwise, you're just bickering with each other and you'd be susceptible to external risk But if you're unified you build up this strong economy and everybody's doing well, and then you've got a strong military you're safe right, so the most dangerous thing you can do is change from America as an identity to identity is the main thing you're looking at which is the opposite of unity and

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So he should have destroyed it. But it goes further. Remember I've taught you that we're not good at knowing what's real? That includes me, right? We have these impressions of what's real and we probably live in this subjective reality anyway and we're all filtering things through our biases, etc. So one of the things I teach you is that the closest you can get to reality is whether it predicts.

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So do you have a worldview that can more accurately than chance predict tell you what's going to happen next, right? So for example, in 2015 when I said, whoa, this Trump fellow has a full toolbox of persuasion, I predicted that he would win against all odds. So probably that was an example of something like reality because it predicted.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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A further prediction of identity politics would look like this. Since identity politics should destroy everything it touches, then you should see the things it touches first and hardest get destroyed first and hardest. Would you agree so far? That if you're going to make a prediction and you said, okay, I predict that identity politics will destroy everything it touches.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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Further to that prediction, whatever it touches first should be the first thing to achieve total destruction, right? That would be an obvious prediction. So where did the identity stuff start? Not in America as a whole, because it didn't really catch on with the right side of the country and a lot of independents, but it started really hard with Democrats.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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So the Democrats fully embraced identity politics before the country fully embraced it. So the country is sort of half on board, half off board. So you should predict from that that the entity that fully embraced it would be the one to be fully destroyed by it before the other entity that's only half accepted it gets fully destroyed. And that's what happened. The Democrat Party is fully destroyed.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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They picked the DEI hire for vice president, which locked them in, reduced their options. Now, remember what I tell you. When I complain about DEI, and this is the most important thing that can be said, it's not about anybody's genes. It's not about your culture. It's only about limiting the number of people you consider for a position.

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And anytime you limit your options, you should end up with worse results. It wouldn't matter if you're a plumber or Let's say you're a plumber and you only have one tool. Are you going to do as well as a plumber who's got a bunch of tools? No, obviously not. So the Democrats, they pick their DEI hire because they had to, becomes vice president.

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Did you know that higher caffeine consumption is associated with improved social cognition and executive function, according to the Journal of Psychopharmacology? Well, I wonder if there was a faster way to find that out. Yes, you could have asked me. Coffee makes you better in every way. Would you be surprised to know that there's a battery breakthrough? Yet another one.

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Then when you have to make that difficult decision, the one where picking the right vice president really matters for capability, And, you know, as long as the vice president's not doing much, the DEI selection is fine. It's just a symbolic thing that sits over there in the corner. But as soon as the country needed a vice president, we realized that the DEI had limited their options.

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So even the Democrats revealed or understood that they painted themselves in a corner and But understanding that they had painted themselves in a corner wasn't enough to escape because they're painted in a corner. Like there's no escape. You created a situation in which you can't escape. Now, will the rest of the country escape? It might because it's only half infected.

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The other half has absolutely rejected it from the start. And maybe a Trump administration can move against that.

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The other thing that you should predict is, since we know from the mental health professionals, that the more you think about external things, such as how can I help somebody at work, how can I help my family, what can I do for my friends, just external things, that makes sure you have better mental health than somebody who walks into every situation and says, how's this affecting me?

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But how do I uniquely have a problem in this situation? What about me? Now, identity politics is the ultimate what about me? Because you walk into every situation and say, all right, I'm the only black lesbian here, so I need to get into that identity and really defend it, make sure that the black lesbians are represented and not discriminated against. What should that do to your mental health?

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Now, it has nothing to do with being black or lesbian, but rather it has everything to do with focusing on your specific internal situation as opposed to the world. It should give you mental health problems. And indeed, predictably, Democrats have massive mental health problems that are not shared by Republicans. So Republicans have an America frame, which is external.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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Even though we're in it, it's an external focus. And sure enough, their mental health is good. exactly like you would predict. If you'd never seen this and you just went back in time and said, all right, here's the deal. Half the country is going to focus on their own problems.

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The other half is going to feel like they're part of a larger thing and they're going to focus on making the larger thing better, which also requires them to fix their own problems, but their focus is on America. Which one has better mental health 10 years from now? It's obvious. I believe 100% of mental health people would agree with me at this point.

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Maybe they wouldn't have 10 years ago, but given our current perspective, I think they would. All right. Speaking of which, according to the National Pulse, a judge has upheld an anti-white race-based admission policy for Naval Academy. So the idea was, you know, if colleges can't use race for admissions, what about the Naval Academy?

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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Well, according to the judge, they can use race as an admission criteria because the judge said that the academy has tied its use of race to the realization of an officer corps that represents the country it protects and the people it leads. This one's a little more complicated than others. Because remember, the military is the one place where all that matters is you get the right result.

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So even if you don't like it, for example, if you're 400 pounds and you want to join the military, they're going to say no. They get to do that. If you're blind and you want to be a pilot, the military is going to say, nothing against you, but you can't be a pilot. So the military does... does very specifically have the right to discriminate by anything it wants.

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This one sounds pretty good. So according to Brighter Side News, there's a breakthrough that should extend electric vehicle range to over 3,000 miles on a single charge. So that would be 10 times what it is now. So they're looking at a 10 times improvement in technology. And all they did was...

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It just has to discriminate in a way that makes sense. So it comes down to this question. Would our military be more capable if we had better diversity in the officer corps? Now here we're going to assume, well, let's just take the assumption that everybody's capable. So they didn't force it with DEI, just everybody's capable.

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If everybody were capable, I would agree that a diverse officer corps might make you a little better off. It might make people more likely to join. They might accept the decisions a little bit more. However, we don't really live in that world, do we? We don't live in a world where everything stays the same except the one variable you're changing.

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If we lived in that world, I think I'd be in favor of this. Because having a diverse officer corps, if it made you a more effective military force, the military does get to discriminate. And if they're discriminating against white men, but it makes the military stronger, I don't know. I don't have a huge problem with it. But the question is, do they have their assumption right?

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is this form of discrimination, which is blatant discrimination. They're not trying to hide the fact that it's discriminatory, which I like. I like they're not trying to hide that. Yes, it's definitely discriminatory against white men, but we're going to make an argument that it makes the military stronger. Well...

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the real world what that's going to cause is a dei bubble of less competent people in management roles because it's the same everywhere yeah if there were exactly as many capable people who were vying for the positions then i would say you know under that situation because you you're going to have good officers no matter what because you have so many under that situation you know maybe diversity

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It does make sense as a goal. If it makes the military stronger, it makes me safer. But that's not the case. The case is you would almost certainly end up with a less capable military because your officers would be sort of forced through the funnel of, you know, I'm going to get fired. I'll get demoted if I don't promote a diverse set of subordinate officers.

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So it should, on paper, lead to a complete destruction of the military. Right? On paper, it should. And what do we see? We see that enrollment of white men has dropped through the floor. There is a slight increase in non-white men joining the military, but not enough to keep it functional. So at the moment, our military is on a death spiral, meaning that they can't get enough people to join.

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And the specific place is exactly where you'd expect it to be. Because if I told you, hey, we're going to discriminate against, I don't know, some specific religion. And there's a reason. Don't worry about it. There's a good reason. It makes the military stronger if we keep your religion out of it. So your religion, you can't join the military. Would you expect those people...

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They engineered a special binding material that prevents a high-capacity silicon anode from expanding, which is exactly what I've been telling them to do. I mean, how long have I been saying? You're going to get a lot more energy out of these things if only you would engineer a special binding material that prevents a high-capacity silicon anode from expanding.

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to join the military if the military said, you can join, but we're not going to make you an officer. Of course not. Of course not. You wouldn't join. So we're seeing DEI destroy the military because if it doesn't have enough capable humans in the officer positions, it's going to be destroyed like anything else.

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So in theory, we should see the entire military become almost dysfunctional if it stays with the DEI thing. Now, Trump could change that, so we'll see. According to Fox News, they did a take and they looked at Fortune 500 companies and they said, that almost all of them still have a DEI.

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So we hear a lot of prominent stories about DEI being reversed in Walmart and John Deere and anywhere that Robbie Starbucks focuses on, basically. But you shouldn't feel that that means that's the beginning of the end of DEI. But I ask the following question. Corporations are risk-averse. So they just want to do whatever keeps them out of trouble.

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So to me, it makes perfect sense, and it's also perfectly predictable, that most of them would still have their DEI departments. Because so far, the push against it is not nearly as big as the proponents of it. So they're just playing it safe. And I don't disagree with that because the corporation is working on behalf of the stakeholders, the shareholders, and the shareholders just want money.

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So if I invest in a company, I don't want it to destroy itself by acting opposite of what the public wants it to do, and then it gets boycotted and all that. So I understand why big companies are risk-averse. So the only way that's going to change... is if the government says you have to stop this DEI stuff, it's illegal. And I asked the following question, can Trump make it illegal?

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And I know I'm using the word wrong, but I'll clarify in a moment. Can Trump make it illegal for corporations to have DEI programs? Now, when I say make it illegal, my non-lawyer understanding of an executive order is that the executive order simply teaches you how to interpret current law. Do I have that right? Is there some lawyers on here who can fact check me on that?

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An executive order, he only has the authority to sort of interpret how the current laws were meant to work, right? But that's a lot of power because our laws are written with enough ambiguity that you can say, yes, we're going to open the border. No. The law says close the border so you can interpret it any way you want.

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Episode 2684 CWSA 12/09/24

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Kind of obvious if you think about it. But the result is a lithium battery with 10 times the capacity of those with Ordinary, old-fashioned graphite anodes. Ugh, ugh, graphite anode. Who wants that when you can have 10 times better? Well, here's another scientific study that they could have maybe ignored.

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So it seems to me that Trump could simply say the Constitution says it's illegal to discriminate against race. So that's the current law. And all these companies are discriminating on race. That's what DEI does. So therefore, all these companies are in violation of the Constitution and I can send the FBI after them or Department of Justice, whoever it is.

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Am I wrong that he can simply say the existing law says DEI is racism, so therefore my executive order says that the Department of Justice should target anybody who's involved in racism? Would that work?

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I know there's several levels of, I'm sure there's levels of lawyerly details that I'm not understanding, but just in general, could the government force the individual companies to back off on DEI? I think they could, but I'll look for a fact check on that. Meanwhile, Jay-Z has been accused of Raping a 13-year-old 20 years ago, I guess. And he denies it.

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And I have to say, you know, because of Diddy and Jay-Z being a buddy of Diddy and regular attendees of the parties, we do all just assume that Jay-Z is guilty, right? But should we? Should we? Yeah, I'm going to take the more difficult stance and say that he's innocent until proven guilty, and this particular charge I don't find especially credible. So there's two issues that could be separated.

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One... Did Jay-Z do anything sketchy or illegal at any of these ditty parties or anywhere else? And the answer is, I don't know. How would I know? But the second question is, is the specific, specific charge, which basically is money motivated. Remember, it's not a criminal charge. Well, don't remember. I didn't tell you. It's not a criminal charge.

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It's an individual who got a lawyer to sue him for, I think they're not asking for money. They were suing for some kind of acknowledgement or something. I think they said it was like an acknowledgement. But Jay-Z, I think, is treating it like it's a shakedown because there might be a money element that is the only way to solve it.

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So he might not be wrong about the money shakedown, which is independent from the question of of whether he did anything wrong. Because you could have a money shakedown whether he did something wrong or not. Somebody could make the claim. So I'm going to say this one's a coin flip. It's a coin flip. And again, I'm not judging if Jay-Z ever did anything bad in his life. I don't know.

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I mean, I have my assumptions, but I don't know. So as an American citizen, innocence will prove him guilty. But do I think that this one fairly stale accusation, do I think this specific one is true? I don't find it credible. Now, that doesn't mean I'm saying it's not true. Remember, when I use the word credible... It's not about whether it's true or false. That part I don't know.

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Gilmore Health News reports that people are more likely to become friends with people who smell like them. So people are more likely to become friends with people who smell like them. Do you think that that science is reliable? Here's my first question. Don't you think you could reliably figure out who smells like you by looking at a picture of them?

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It's just whether it comes across as true or false. It's just how I receive it. And how I receive this is, this looks exactly like what every celebrity gets blamed. It just looks like they found a way to get some money out of him. It doesn't mean that he's innocent. Definitely not saying that. But it also definitely doesn't mean he's guilty. So keep an eye on this one.

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My only concern is that in our zeal to make sure that all the truly criminal people get treated like criminals, we may reach a little too deep. So let's just be careful about that. The Washington Post, as Molly Hemingway pointed out, the Washington Post has a headline called Once spurned, Trump is feted in Paris.

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So the Washington Post is basically doing a big headline that says that Trump, who was their number one enemy the first time he was president, that he's being treated like a celebrity in Europe, which is a very positive thing to say about Trump. And it's especially surprising when it comes from the Washington Post, which you would expect to be more propaganda

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against republicans than any kind of legitimate news but remember i always tell you that if you know what happened you don't know anything but if you know who is involved well then you might know something so if i told you that the only thing that happened was the washington post changed how they talked about trump you might say to yourself oh looks like they're softening up and you know they're they're deciding to be middle of the road maybe

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But Jeff Bezos recently said, and I think Trump confirmed, that Bezos and Trump are going to have dinner. And Bezos, I think, was actually somewhat positive about Doge and bringing down the debt and some other things that Trump likes. So Bezos is very clearly and pointedly saying, there are some things I like about this Trump administration, and I'm going to see if I can embrace the parts I like.

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which a lot of people are doing. So it does seem to me that the boss, Bezos, having a planned dinner with Trump probably did change the headline. Now, that doesn't mean that Bezos called somebody and said, hey, change that deadline or give me a positive headline or something like that. It could just be that the people who work for Bezos are reading the same news I am.

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And when they find out their boss is going to be meeting with Trump, They realized that that would be a much better meeting if the headline said Trump did great in Europe, right? Would you send your boss into a meeting with Trump like a day after saying, the Europeans all laugh at Trump because he's such a big bully, right?

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And then your owner is going to go have dinner with the guy that you just maligned? I feel like this might be a temporary truce where the Washington Post is going to be nice to Trump as long as Bezos is talking to him productively. So is that news? Is that fair and balanced? Or was it just another distorting effect causing them to distort in the other direction?

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The distortion being that the owner is going to have a meeting with Trump. I don't know. But the only thing I know for sure is if you know the Bezos-Trump personalities involved, it seems to make more sense. Because I can't see them just independently deciding to be fairer to Trump. That doesn't make sense.

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Anyway, as Matt Gaetz points out on X, Trump went to Europe to make peace and Biden was bombing Syria. And then I saw a claim today that our various military operations around the world, which seem to be permanent and ongoing, are how the deep state funds itself. And that Trump is a threat to the business model of the deep state.

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So the deep state, under this telling, would be partly about power, but also more about money, because power and money are pretty related. And that there is this ability to funnel off a lot of money from anywhere there's a gigantic, expensive military operation. So that the real play is not so much that we care about these other countries, but rather they're all scams to feed the deep state.

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If I showed you a picture, let's say if you were 25 and I showed you a picture of another 25 year old person with the same cultural background, And then I showed you a picture of a 90-year-old person from a different cultural background. Which one would you think you would smell more like?

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Does that sound real to you? I feel like it's a little bit real.

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meaning that i'm sure there are entities and individuals who benefit from every time we make a war so that part sounds true but i don't know that it follows that therefore the only reason we get into these wars is for the benefit of these deep state people who have figured out how to make a profit out of any large flows of money it's probably part of it but i think you have to get to the uh

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the larger question that we all like to ignore. And maybe this is the neocon versus the non-interventionist argument. So I've long been on the side that says we should not start wars with other countries. We should not try to conquer them just because we can. And maybe we should just, you know, stick to doing a good job as America and let other people alone and

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If they have good or bad governments, doesn't matter. We'll find somebody to trade with. So I've always been in that, you know, let's not be the ones who start wars. You know, sometimes you have to defend yourself, but not a starting one. However, I'm also aware that the counter argument is super strong. The argument for starting lots of wars.

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there's really a strong argument for it, which I hate because I don't want that to be true. It's not something I can fully embrace, but I can't ignore the logic of it. Here's the logic of it. Whoever is the strongest in this world, if they use their power and they use it ruthlessly, they might be able to stay in power. Those who have power and don't use it

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or don't use it ruthlessly are probably going to be overtaken by somebody who gains enough power and uses it ruthlessly. So the argument for us being basically bastards everywhere in the world is that that's how we stay safe. So in any five year period, being a bastard is a terrible idea because we're killing people and it's expensive, et cetera. But if you were to look at a hundred years,

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It could be that all that being a bastard and conquering countries and overthrowing people that we want to use as our markets and our sources of raw materials and bottling up Russia so it doesn't become a major military threat to us and all that. It could be that's how you last 100 years. And that my plan was more of a, hey, let's not start any wars. That's a good five-year plan.

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But maybe the 100-year plan requires you to be a bastard all the time. And if you can show me a counter-argument where there was a major dynasty or superpower who thrived for hundreds of years without being a bastard, I would love to hear about it. Because I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist. And if it doesn't exist, it means it's never worked anywhere to be nice to your neighbors.

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Now, if you can find an exception like Switzerland, then I'm just going to say that's obviously an exception. And if you say, oh, this island country, okay, obviously an exception, an island country. But generally speaking... countries need to dominate. I see somebody saying China doesn't do this. Yes, they do.

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You probably smell like people who look like you and act like you and have your same background and culture, eat the same foods, the same part of life, so you sort of smell different when you're young. Maybe you have the same kind of bath products because young people would use a different set of colognes and things than old people would. Do young people use cologne?

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China is using their economic muscle to tie everybody up into a situation where they couldn't possibly cross China because their economics would depend on being good with them. Likewise, China is building out their naval situation so they can have a military control of the entire ocean area on their side of the world. It's exactly what we would do.

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Russia is trying to keep their warm water poured so maybe they can project more naval strength into other parts of the world. Because if they could take over some countries in South America and make them more pro-Russian, they would certainly do it. There's no doubt about it.

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So if we out-bastard them by saying, all right, you bastards, you're going to try to take over some countries in our hemisphere and So we're going to take away all your toys if you do it again. So I feel like I don't want to embrace the neocons and say starting wars is a good idea because a lot of it is for profit. I think that's true.

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But I don't know that America survives by being the good neighbor. And I think everybody's afraid to discuss that because the government can't say it out loud, right? There's nobody in the government who can say, look, if I'm being honest with you, if we're not total pricks to the rest of the world, we're not going to survive. Your grandkids won't survive. That's the argument we need to have.

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The one where somebody can say, yeah, I mean, I hate to say it, but in the real world where people are terrible bastards and the evil and Hitler can rise at any minute, if you're not the biggest, baddest bully, you're in trouble. It's one of the reasons I like Trump as a leader, because he's perceived as the strongest one. And it will keep other people from getting too adventurous, in theory.

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So, that said, we'll talk a little more about Russia in a minute. So, also, Molly Hemingway had a funny observation about Pia Hegseth. She said, sadly... No one in D.C. cares about adultery and drinking. And I thought, okay, that should really be the end of the conversation.

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Because if we don't hold anybody in Congress to this standard, that if they're cheating on their spouse or they're having too much to drink, we don't really get rid of Congress people for that reason. So why would Pete be the only person who's held to this standard, which is closer to a standard of personal behavior than it says anything about what he would do in the job? So I don't know.

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I think it's a good point that it's total hypocrisy. Did you know, according to Fox News, Justin Haskins, that Biden spent millions on misinformation research? Now, that's scary. So in the Trump administration, it was like a few million dollars got spent on trying to look for misinformation.

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But since 2021, Biden-Harris at White House spent at least $267 million on research and grants related to misinformation and disinformation. $267 million dollars.

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a project to decrease disinformation now if you're if you've watched Mike Ben's content etc you know that anybody who gets into the misinformation disinformation business is probably the one who wants to spread the misinformation and disinformation and to do that effectively they have to tell you that the counter arguments are not real so

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I don't even know if that's a thing anymore. But I'm going to say I don't believe the study because there would be too many things that would infect that study. By the time you smelled somebody, you've already seen them and probably made your decisions.

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Wherever you hear that anybody wants to spend massive amounts to counter misinformation, they are the ones with the misinformation. Now, the other ones might be too, but the ones who are looking to counter it are not looking to counter it with the truth. They're looking just to win, basically. They want their team to win.

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So how could the Biden-Harris White House have saved $260 million if they had wanted to actually

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reduce misinformation and disinformation do you know what they could have done for free they could just follow me on x that's not even a joke because what i do on x and not alone all right you can think of a dozen other people in the same category but i'm one of a dozen people on x who i spend all day long telling telling people what is fake news

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Do you think that I do it worse than whatever government entity is built to find misinformation? No, I'm not worse at it. I'm better at it.

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If you did a one-to-one competition of what I call down as bullshit versus what the misinformation people call down as bullshit, I think you'd find that the misinformation people found all the obvious stuff that you would know as bullshit as soon as you saw it. But they wouldn't have anything that I have. My list of 20 hoaxes that the Democrats have played, where's that? Where's that?

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Oh, no. We don't seem to be working. Well, I don't know if you can hear or see me, but it's not working on my end. I'm going to have to get out and get back in. Oh, there I am. Looks like we're here. Let me know if you see any major technical problems this morning. Well, stocks are mixed. Mine are up. But I hope yours are, too. All right, we got a show today. It's going to be the show of shows.

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It basically comes from my X feed and then people duplicating it and sending it around. So I'm not the only one. There are a dozen or so people you can mention who also are the ones who can tell you what's true and what isn't. But you don't need to spend money on that. You literally just have to expose people to the counterarguments.

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That's all you need for the misinformation, disinformation, and that's what X does. So even when I get something wrong, believe it or not, it's happened. Then there's a community note or somebody corrects it and we move on. But no, you should spend zero on this because it's literally free on X. So... Here's something you need to be reminded of.

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You know that half of the country is still completely trapped in the gaslight cone that says that January 6th was an insurrection. That's about half the country. They're still trapped in that hoax. Now...

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So, yeah, there's something, there's a correlation, but I don't think it's a, I don't think you can make friends by changing your smell unless you smell bad. Maybe that would work. Well, China has a spherical patrol robot. So it's about the size of a big tire on a car. And it's got rubber tread on it, except it's more circular. It's like an orb.

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The other half of the country, let's say the Republicans, are fully aware that the real situation that the news is trying to hide from you is that a whole bunch of people saw what they thought was obviously a rigged election.

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Now, I don't know if it was, but I can tell you that the people who attacked the Capitol were quite sure that they could see it with their own eyes and it was obvious that it was rigged. So, Don't forget that half of the country is still completely gaslighted on the most important question, and they don't know it. Now, what would help them?

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Well, being on X and following me, because I could help them get out of that gaslight. It's 100% gaslighting. But what else is happening in that domain? Well, Steve Jobs' widow, Lorraine Powell, She says she's shifting the focus of her pro-immigration advocacy group to combat the far-right disinformation campaigns.

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Do you believe that Lorraine Powell Jobs is trying to improve the quality of information that people get with her so-called disinformation campaign? No. She is creating disinformation about the right because she's on the team of the left. And imagine if you didn't know that. And you thought that there were some people, wow, I'm sure glad Steve Jobs' widow wants just the truth to get out.

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No, I don't think anything like that's happening. Nope, she's just on a team. That was according to Breitbart, that story about Lorraine Powell Jobs. Well, meanwhile, let's talk about those Syria rebels. So there's a report that Assad... the leader of Syria until recently, escaped to Moscow. So, that's got to be a pretty unhappy guy.

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Because I can't believe that the Russians are going to let him have free reign. Wouldn't he basically be like a prisoner? Because they need to control him completely. I suppose the Russians might want to keep him around, just in case they have some play to get control of Syria back, they'd have a puppet to put back in. So I guess they'll keep him alive, unlike Bogosian. But as a

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Mike Benz points out there's a picture of the Syrian rebels behind a tent that has USAID written all over it. USAID is apparently the funding operation for the State Department and the CIA. It's how we get things done. So it goes through USAID. USAID spends money in these other countries to prop up rebels and things like that. So...

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All the smart people seem to think that the sudden success of the rebels was basically just the CIA overthrowing a country like it always does. That's what it looks like to me. Does anybody have any alternative view? Do you think that the rebels just suddenly and coincidentally became a super fighting power just before Trump gets in office? That'd be a weird coincidence, wouldn't it?

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So yes, I think this looks like the CIA made it happen. And once again, here's my dilemma. When we talk about this, we're going to think past the sale. and we're going to talk about who got caught or what we did, etc. But there's a bigger question, which is, was this a victory? If the CIA was behind it, did we come out ahead? Did they get a win?

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Well, I hate to tell you this, because I'm not so much in favor of the CIA overthrowing countries. But if we don't learn anything new so that what we think is true ends up being the actual truth, this would be one of the biggest victories that the CIA ever had. Wouldn't it?

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Because apparently this would make it nearly impossible for Russia to project their naval strength beyond their local area because they need the warm water port. And it would hurt them economically as well. So if the CIA got away with that, they effectively kicked Russia influence out of the Middle East, at least a big part of it.

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And it rolls around and it can help patrols and it can go into water. because it works on water or streets, and it can detect and stop crime by itself. Now, I saw one of these that might have been a Japanese one that would shoot a net and capture you. That seems pretty dangerous. But yeah, pretty soon you'll have robots doing all the work of the police.

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They denied their ability for their Navy to extend itself and become a threat to us at some point in the future. And it cost a lot of money and it hurt the reputation of Russia because now you can see that Russia can't protect you, right? That's important. Because if you take sides with Putin, somebody's going to say, well, you know who else took sides with Putin? Assad. Where's he?

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So it changes how we think about Russia's ability and power, as well as it changes their actual power and ability. And it's happening right before Trump comes in to negotiate about Ukraine. Now, I know what you're going to say. You're going to say, how is it good for the United States to install a fundamental Islamic terrorist-looking kind of leadership in Syria?

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To which I say, that might be way better than what we had. Because if Syria just decides to keep to itself and just maybe even eventually have relationships with the regular countries, the other countries, Maybe we're better off. Maybe getting rid of Russia's current and future influence and especially turning it into maybe a bargaining chip of some sort.

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It might be one of the greatest intelligence CIA victories of all time. And I don't love it. I don't love it because it means we do more of that and we'll just be conquering countries every day because it worked out this one time. Anyway, so does it feel to you like this was a gigantic American victory in disguise? It looks like the rebels did their thing, but really it was about the U.S.

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and Russia? That's what it feels like to me. And according to the Vigilant Fox, which was reporting on the reporting of Ryan Matta, Ryan Matters says that the Guatemalan government just got overthrown by the United States, and it wasn't in the news. So I don't know if this is true. So I'll just tell you who's reporting it. But here's the story.

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The story goes that the Guatemalan government had an election, and there was a lot of belief that the election was rigged. In other words, rigged in favor of who America wanted to be the leader. So when Guatemala's attorney general decided to investigate the election to find out if it was rigged, the U.S. Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, stepped in.

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He flew to Guatemala and demanded that the attorney general be investigated for corruption. What's that sound like? That's Ukraine. Ukraine. where the DA or whatever it was in Ukraine was looking into Burisma. And then Biden stepped in and said, no, the real problem is the person who's looking into Burisma. So Burisma is not the problem.

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It's the person who is legally in their job whose job it is to investigate them. It's the investigator's problem. And sure enough, he sold that. Got rid of the guy investigating Burisma. Now, I don't know who was right in that situation. Probably everybody was corrupt. There was probably no winner. Probably just everything was corrupt all the time. But this looks like exactly the same situation.

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And then Blinken imposed severe penalties on Guatemalan politicians and their families. So here's the question. What it looks like is the United States rigged an election. The locals found out it was rigged and tried to look into it. And then the United States threatened them that if they looked into it, they're really in trouble. Did that really happen? Is that a real thing?

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And then there's some connection with child trafficking alleged that Guatemala has some alleged large connection to child trafficking. So that, you know, maybe some of that's part of the story or not. All right. So anyway, that's who we are. That's who America is. We're a country that overthrows other countries and we do it routinely, apparently. And again, I'll go back to my first comments.

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Maybe that's how you stay in power for a few hundred years. Maybe there's no other way. All right. Um, Martha Raddatz was talking to, uh, Byron Donalds, um, about, uh, deporting all the people that Trump says he wants to deport. And she said this, um, She said it would cost about $315 billion. This is based on somebody did an analysis.

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And then you can defund the police because the robots can work 24 hours a day. Police are good for eight plus overtime. All right, here's a story that bothers me. So Jake Tapper and CNN are in this defamation lawsuit brought by this Navy veteran, Zachary Young. And I guess when Jake was doing the news one day,

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It would cost about $315 billion to deport everyone in the U.S. who doesn't have legal status. And she says to Byron, you often talk about the need to cut government spending. So how is this mass deportation going to be paid for? So this is being reported by this week. So let us review some of the things I have taught you about discovering fake news.

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Possibly one of the best things you've ever seen. Just got to make sure I can see all my comments. Everything's looking a little slow today.

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Trick number one, if they give you the 10-year expense of something as opposed to the one-year expense, it's probably propaganda. Do you know why? Because the reason that you give a 10-year number is that the one-year number doesn't sound so big. That's the reason. If the annual budget of any one year was completely unreasonable, you would know it by looking at the one budget for the one year.

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But if I have to make my argument about the one year by adding all 10 years together, just so I got a bigger number, that's propaganda. That's not analysis. Number two, when somebody gives you a raw number without a percentage, what's that? It's propaganda. If somebody does the reverse and gives you a percentage without the raw number, what's that? Propaganda. Every time.

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The only way you'll understand any situation with numbers is if you know the raw numbers, you know it for any one year, and you know the percentage that it's related to that makes sense. So, Byron Donalds says this. that the $315 billion is over 10 years, but we're spending $150... I'm sorry, it was $31 million, I think. Billion or million? I think it's billion.

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So that Byron Donald said that we're spending more like $150 billion a year to keep the illegals here. Now, I don't think the $150 billion a year is accurate. Because one of the things that that does is imagines everything stays the same, etc.

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And should be, presumably, I would think that immigrants, the typical immigrant, would come in and be really expensive to the country at first, because they're not producing anything and maybe were paying their bills for a while. But then over time... They would have jobs and pay taxes, and they would be a plus for the country.

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So I'm not sure I buy a number about what it costs per year to keep them. So Byron had a very good response from a communication and political perspective. He's terrific at this. So he basically said that we're spending more, so we'll save money, and it was exactly the right answer. But he should have pulled her apart the following way. He should have said, wait, $315 billion over 10 years?

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Yes, that's what I'm saying, Byron. So you're saying like $31 billion per year. Exactly. So how do you explain that? Then you say, well, let's put it into percentages. So what would $31 billion be of the national budget, which is $6 trillion? What is 31 billion as a percentage of 6 trillion?

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So one way to respond to it would have been, yes, the country is being destroyed by unregulated immigration. We want to increase the budget by 0.002% to end a problem that could destroy the country. Pretty cheap. So you always go for the percentages and the raw numbers. Do them both if you want to be taken seriously.

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Um, he mentioned some things, the details don't matter, but Jake mentioned some kind of black market. And then he mentioned this guy, um, and it made it seem like this guy was part of the black market, which would have made him part of the problem. I think in Afghanistan, whereas he might have been more like part of the solution.

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And any of these estimates about what anything costs per year, they're all bullshit. But at least Byron had better bullshit than the person who asked him a question. He just had better bullshit. But I don't think you should seriously trust either estimate. Meanwhile, Congress is trying to decide on daily savings time. Man, if they can't decide on that...

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is there anything they can decide on that has a daylight saving sign turned into a democrat versus republican thing yet like everything else does it seems like the one thing you wouldn't have any political element to is the time you know daylight savings time so there was an estimate here that uh the changing changing the time Costs us $340 million annually. Really? Really, you think so?

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Do you think that, would you trust the estimate that changing the time costs $340 million? Because I guess they mean lost productivity and people who don't make it to work and have more accidents because they're sleepy, that sort of thing. I don't think that's something you could really estimate. Not really. Now, I'm in favor of not changing the time. Just because it bothers me every year.

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It just bothers me every time they change the time. So I'd rather not be bothered. So here's the story that I love so much because it's the perfect story to explain Trump. So Trump is introduced to fragrance. that it's funny in itself that he would introduce a fragrance that people could smell like he smells or something.

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But the way he's advertising it on social media, he included a photograph when he was at the Notre Dame Cathedral reopening, and he was sitting one chair away from Jill Biden. And there's a photo where Jill Biden appears to be looking at Trump, while he's looking in another direction, appears to looking at him with almost love.

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Now, I don't think it's fair to say you can take that one picture and figure out that Jill Biden was in love with Trump because the picture looked like it. So don't believe the picture.

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you know the picture is misleading it could be that she was just amused at the situation so what you saw was just she was just enjoying the show maybe just enjoyed watching his show maybe that's all it was but the fact that uh it became a social media meme that jill biden was flirting with trump the fact that he would use the photo there was a meme about jill biden flirting with him

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the way to sell his fragrance might be the funniest fucking thing he's ever done in his life now I think Trump is very funny but this might be the funniest thing he's ever done and and you know that he approved it right nobody would have done this without his direct approval so it means he directly approved it how much do you love that

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So because of the maybe lack of clarity with the CNN reporting, it ended up being defamatory. And apparently the Navy veterans doing well in court so far because there's definitely, it looks like there's definitely grounds for this. And even though CNN tried to protect itself, by issuing a clarification or a correction, the court ruled that they did a poor job on it, and so it might not count.

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I mean, I just love the playfulness of that, the sense of humor, the inappropriateness of it. He's making inappropriateness the reason why it's funny. Anyway, according to Zero Hedge, they talked to a former Secret Service agent, or actually it was on a Fox News interview, but Zero Hedge is talking about it.

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So on a Fox News interview, somebody named Staropoli, he thought that Trump has a big threat before he's even inaugurated, of a larger magnitude. In other words, an attempt to take him out in something that would be, quote, a larger magnitude than one crazy person with a firearm. So he's sort of suggesting a mass casualty event, during or prior to the squaring in.

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And he says that the current Secret Service is basically incompetent, and he doesn't trust them. He thinks they used to be good, but now they're not. Huh. What would be a cause of some entity in the United States that used to be highly capable, but now they're seemingly destroyed from the inside? What could possibly... Ah, you are correct.

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Yes, we know the Secret Service was really big on DEI, and we know that DEI destroys first and hardest wherever it is most implemented. And so sure enough, the Secret Service made it a top priority, and they implemented it, and it destroyed the Secret Service. Exactly as predicted. Now, if you're just joining, I'll give my usual disclaimer.

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When I complain about DEI, I'm not talking about anybody's genes or their culture or their religion or their gender or any of that. It just has to do with constraining the number of people you're willing to look at in your hiring decisions. Constraining them will always give you a worse output in the long run. Anyway, I'd worry about that.

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Did you know that Blue Sky, which is the social network that's sort of a competitor to X, and of course a lot of left-leaning people have said, we're getting away from this darn Elon Musk platform and we're going to go where everything's good and everybody will be nice over at Blue Sky. But apparently conservatives are being routinely banned from the platform.

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So I think a lot of the conservatives are going there just to get banned. You know, they're going over there to see what they can get away with. And then when they don't get away with it, they get banned. But apparently blue sky will become essentially a desert for any conservative opinions. And in theory, that doesn't give it much chance of success.

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The thing that made Twitter so successful, at least on the political parts, is that you could argue with people and you would see the other side and it was like a good fight. It was like UFC every day. So if you got a blue sky and everybody just agrees with you that with everything, is that going to be sexy? You're going to want to go back.

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Oh, I can't wait for those people to agree with me on everything. I don't know. We'll see. There's a story in San Francisco, New York Post is reporting, that there was an activist who wanted to defund the police, and apparently this activist was moving and had filled up a U-Haul truck with 100% of her possessions, and then somebody stole the truck.

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a 26-foot U-Haul truck, that's a pretty serious truck, with all of her possessions. And she lost 100% of everything she owned that wasn't on her body at the time. And she's really mad because the police didn't come and do something. Oh, wow. But apparently she doubled down. Phil Bump uses my comic as his blue sky background? Really? Is that true? Oh, because it makes fun of him? That's funny.

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I love that answer. That's the answer of somebody who won a mandate. Will you finally now say that 2020 was a fair election? No. That was perfect. I love the fact that it was the biggest charge against him, and he never let go of it. he so easily could have said, you know, we thought it was rigged, but honestly, we don't have evidence of it. He could have said that.

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Meaning that if the story got a certain amount of attention, the correction has to get something like at least a good faith effort to get a similar attention for the correction. And the thinking is that CNN ran its main story in a high High visibility time, but kind of gave a short shrift. Is that what it's called? They kind of went light on the correction.

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And then people would say, oh, okay, now you're being a reasonable guy. But his real belief is that it was really rigged, it was really obvious, and he's not going to lie about it. I love that. I just love that. Now, I don't know if we'll ever learn that 2020... In any court-approved way, will we ever learn that there were problems?

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But I'm on the side that says I would be amazed if it wasn't rigged, because I think pretty much all elections are rigged, in my opinion. Can't prove it, but it would be insane for any government to allow an election to proceed without controlling it. My suspicion is that there really are no countries with electronic voting machines who have fair elections. It's just an assumption.

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It's not based on fact. I don't have any data to prove that. It's just that, why do you need the machines? Why would you have them? So if you can't answer the question, why do you have machines? Then the reason I assume is the obvious reason that they use them to control elections. I don't know it. It's not proof. It's just I can't think of another reason.

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Speaking of which, according to the Rasmussen reports, the following things are true. This one's fun. You ready for this? I'm not going to tell you I believe that this is true, and I'm not going to tell you I believe that the implications of it are true. I'm just going to tell you it's being reported by what I consider a credible source.

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Doesn't mean it's true, but it's coming from a credible source. All right, so Rasmussen reports, saying on X, that Orange County, California, so Friday after the election, So this is Friday after the election. At 6.45 p.m., a bomb threat came in that cleared the election counting center. Wait, what? There was a bomb threat? Right before they were ready to finish counting, there was a bomb threat.

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And so they had to clear everybody out before they were done counting. So they did. And then the security live stream system was disabled during the search for the bomb because that would be a good time to disable your live stream cameras because they're looking for a bomb.

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Would that be exactly the time you would want your live stream cameras to be extra on because there's something unusual happening in the place that you're monitoring?

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And so if something unusual is happening in the place you're monitoring, to make sure that nothing unusual happened, why would it be turned off when the unusual thing happened, which is the only fucking reason for a live stream, to catch things that looked unusual? I don't know. Can you think of any reason? Then, two F-150 white vans with blacked-out windows arrived.

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Now, that's with a question mark, so I assume that means somebody reported it happened. So we're a little less credible on this one because there's a question mark next to it. But the allegation is that some vans with blacked-out windows arrived just then and that there was a huge ballot discrepancy subsequently.

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But I don't know how you could not go light on the correction because the correction is a much smaller story than whatever the big story was that you made a mistake on. But here's my problem on this. I totally get how the Navy veteran could feel that this affected his life in a way that a monetary settlement makes sense. I kind of get that. But here's what really bothers me about it.

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And if things had not gone the way they did in Orange County, it could potentially flip three seats that looked like they were going to be red, but they turned blue. It would flip them back to red. Three's a lot when your house is that close. Three's a lot. It's a major power difference. So let me read it to you again. You tell me if you think this election was at least attempted to be rigged.

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A bomb threat 15 minutes before they were going to be done. Security live stream turned off. Suspicious vehicles arrive. And then there's a huge balance discrepancy. Doesn't that sound exactly like what it sounds exactly like? Now, again, I have to remind you for the millionth time, confirmation bias can get you to the same place.

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If you were sure that things were rigged, then you would see things that appear to support that point of view. When maybe there were coincidences and maybe there was a real bomb threat and maybe the cameras just never worked the whole time and somebody just said they turned them off, but maybe they never worked. It could be a lot of things.

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So I'm not saying that I can claim this is true, but it's out there and it's fun. Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. He also said that when he was being interviewed by Welker. And he said, we're the only country that has it. We're going to end that because it's ridiculous. Did you know we're the only country that has birthright citizenship?

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Now, according to an account I don't know anything about on X called Red Alert Florida, showed a photo of some ancient writing. I don't know what the source was. But the claim from Red Alert Florida is that the author who came up with the citizenship clause in the Constitution explicitly told us foreigners wouldn't be citizens.

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In other words, it's obvious that the intent of that was to make sure that this is, here I am making some assumptions. I think the idea was to make sure that Native Americans were citizens and that maybe slaves were citizens or something like that.

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So I think it was about people who were legitimately already here so that we didn't form a country and say, well, you've lived here all your life, but you're not a citizen. Wasn't it to make sure that everybody who legitimately was already here was called a citizen?

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And that it wasn't about somebody coming from another country, spending 10 minutes here to have a baby, and then the baby is American. Now, I think at some point there might have been a court decision that widened the interpretation or changed it. But I wasn't aware that when the Constitution was made, there was no intention that illegal immigrants could become citizens.

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Do you know why there was no intention to have that done? Because apparently it's really stupid. Because you're really going to attract a lot of citizens if you have a desirable country. Anyway, so I used to be against it, against ending it. I used to be against ending birthright citizenship. But when you see how it's abused and you see that no other country has it,

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I think I'm in favor of going back to a more original interpretation of the Constitution and say that it was about the people who were already here, not the people coming from other countries. Mark Andreessen said something on X that I saw today that messed up my brain a little bit.

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He says, you know, you've heard me use the phrase F you money and that people have F you money can say things and they've got a little more free speech. And so, you know, you don't have to worry about getting fired or anything if you have so much money. But Mark Andreessen says the F you money is mainly a myth.

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He says, first of all, if you're in business, you pick up more responsibilities along with more money. You're responsible for more people. Your actions have more consequences for others. And second, political power is always greater than financial power. Now, those are good points. Mark Andreessen is very smart.

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As much as you might not like Jake Tapper's political views or his coverage, which would be my case, He has been really solid on helping veterans. He's like so pro-military, especially injured veterans, et cetera. And I worked with Jake on some veteran projects when we were doing some cartooning things. Long story. But he's got a long history of being right about

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If you don't follow him, you should follow him on X. But I'm going to just weigh in with a little bit of a tweak. And I would say this. I think FU money is real. But you have to be willing to spend it all. You have to be willing to spend it all. That's what I did. So basically everything was taken from me. So I wouldn't be able to start a business today.

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It would be impossible because people say, oh, it's that guy, that disgraced guy. My social situation, it was destroyed as soon as I started supporting Trump and got a little worse when I got canceled. My entire business model was dismantled and everybody who benefited from that business model was injured.

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So the people I worked with who were part of the economic flow, the ones who had been part of the calendar or whatever, they were all injured because they had less revenue. So it is true that if you have enough money, you can break the rules of what you're allowed to say, which I did. So the place that I'll kind of agree with Marc Andreessen is...

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FU money doesn't protect you, but it does give you an option. It doesn't protect you. It just gives you an option. So I knew that I wouldn't starve. Right? I knew that I wouldn't starve, and I haven't starved. So I was protected to that degree. But you could easily imagine somebody who wouldn't be able to feed themselves if they said the truth in public. Literally never be able to get a job.

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don't have any savings, wouldn't even be able to eat. So in a minor way, if you have FU money and, and it's the and that's the important part, you're willing to spend it all to say what you want to say, then you have it. If you're not willing to spend it all and you're not willing to take down a constellation of people who count on you, then you don't have it. And he's right.

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So you got to be willing to take whatever the cost is if you're going to tell the truth. That's the price. The price is everything. The price of honesty is everything. Now, Elon Musk has taken that same path, but because he's also succeeding at such a high level in ways that people think are essential, and I would agree, he is managing to avoid it.

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But you see that even on blue sky, there's beams about assassinating him. So Elon has FU money, you would say, but at the same time, by saying what he thinks is true and being true to that, he puts himself in a position to lose everything. Because if Trump had not been elected, it's very possible the Democrats could have put him out of business just to make sure his power was decreased.

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So you don't always have to pay everything when you tell the truth. In his case, it looks like he's holding on. But you have to put it all at risk. So Elon put his entire social and business profile on risk to say the truth. So far, it's working. And so far, I'm still standing. So the truth is fighting. The truth still has some fight in it because there are some of us who are too attached to it.

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So everybody says they're the ones who have the truth. It sounds weird when I say it. All right, that's all I got for you, ladies and gentlemen, for this Monday. I've gone on too long. I'm going to say hi to the... locals, people, just for a second, and then let you get on with your day. If you're on X or Rumble or YouTube, thanks for joining. I'll see you again. Same time tomorrow.

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with the military and being respectful and making sure they get lots of attention, working personally on his own time to make sure that they help raise funds. So I hate to see a situation where this Navy veteran, who does seem to have a case, he seems to have a real case, and the courts are agreeing so far, but I hate that he's taking down somebody who would be so much on his side.

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Do-do-do-do-do-do. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.

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There's got to be some way to make that better without taking down somebody who's your ally, right? So if you can separate for a moment that you don't like maybe Jake Tapper's framing of news, which would be my case, I don't think you can take away from him that he's got, I don't know, decades or so of being really, really positive for the military. I don't know. Do you want to lose that?

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It's a tough one. So there's a lawyer slash writer who wrote for the LA Times who's quitting. His name is Harry Pittman. And he said he'd rather work somewhere where they didn't have fair and balanced reporting about Trump. So his problem is that the newish owner of the LA Times has said and made a big deal about the fact

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that they're not going to be just in the tank for Democrats, but rather they're going to try to be real news where they show something fair and balanced. But here's a lawyer and an opinion guy who literally couldn't handle fair and balanced and says directly that you shouldn't be fair and balanced because, quote, someone who is not telling the truth on the other side.

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So here's a lawyer who had been writing for a major newspaper who somehow got it into his mind that Democrats don't lie. How could you go through the past four years and not know that the Biden administration massively lied about everything, including Biden's brain, the biggest lie we've seen, the fine people hoax? Does he think that's true?

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How in the world, it's just so puzzling, how in the world could you work work in the domain, the very domain of news, and not be aware that one side lies pretty much all the time. Now, do the Republicans lie a lot? Does Trump say things that Democrats think are not true? Yes. But to imagine it's only happening on one side, And also to imagine that the nature of the disinformation is similar.

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Trump makes claims that are observable. And he might be exaggerating, but they're sort of observable. Yes, there's crime coming in from open borders. Maybe he says there's more than there is. Maybe. We all understand that. There's more crime. It's observable. But then you take the Russia collusion hoax or the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax.

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These are really well-established, complete hoaxes. This is completely different from somebody who has a little hyperbole. All right. Edmund, we're going to be deleting you after this, so have fun on today's today's program in the comments. I've got some drunk control on my subscription platform that I'll be deleting as soon as we're done.

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But if you'd like to take this up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of Charleston Stein, a canteen jug or a glass, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So, anyway, it just amazes me that anybody can say in public they think one side's lying and the other is not. That feels like the lowest level of understanding your reality. Could you be more lost than thinking only one side is telling the truth? That's as lost as you could be. It's kind of amazing. Well, anyway, there's a, according to PJ Media, there's a House Republican.

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who's trying to get an award for Daniel Penny, the highest civilian award, which would be the Congressional Gold Medal. So it would be giving him that because he's a U.S. Marine veteran who defended himself and fellow passengers against a threatening homeless person before being unjustly prosecuted by D.A. Alvin Bragg. That's PGA Media's take. Well, here's my question.

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So first of all, let me enthusiastically endorse that. Yes, even if he is unfairly convicted, he should get the... Uh-oh. Did I just... I just went quiet, didn't I? Looks like we're done. Well, let's see what happened there. So I just got a blank screen on my end. I think you can see me now, but I think we're back. All right, yes, we're back, say the comments.

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All right, so I was saying that Daniel Penny should definitely get the Congressional Gold Medal, even if he is unfairly prosecuted. I think we'll find out maybe tomorrow what the jury is doing in that case. But I would like to ask you the following question. Would Daniel Penny be in jail except for identity politics? If we were not a country obsessed with race,

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would Daniel Penny even be prosecuted? If you simply reverse the races and you said that the hero Marine was a black American and there was a crazy white guy that looked just like Daniel Penny and he was threatening people on a bus and the Marine black man took him down and saved all the people in the car, do you think he'd be arrested? I don't think there's any chance of that.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Darn it. Go. So good. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, would you like to find out what's in the news today? We'll start with some scientific golden age stuff.

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Now it seems to me that the justice system is broken by identity politics. Would you agree? Now, it was also bad in any time that if you were, let's say, especially bad 50 years ago, if you were a black person who got picked up, you're not going to be treated as well. I think we all agree that that was the case. So it's not good in either direction.

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But we can't say it's good now, that's for sure. So here's my take on that. So I think that identity politics is destroying the justice system. But how in the world does identity politics not destroy everything it touches? So if you were to say to me, Scott, we're going to take you back in time. There's been no DEI or CRT or any identity politics. But we're thinking about implementing it.

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And we want to see what you think of this plan. So we're going to change the focus from merit... and everybody's an American, to we really need to help some groups more than others in special ways. And identity is a good way to really focus on who needs the extra help and making things fairer and better.

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Coffee with Scott Adams. Usually this is what I tell you to check your stocks or I check them for you. Don't do that. Whatever you do, don't check your stocks. But let's get our comments going here. And we'll be in good shape. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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So it might take five to 10 years, but it has 100% record of coming back. 100%. But the thing you need to know is that not all corrections are the same.

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If the reason it went down is that it was oversold by 50%, which is probably the dot-com situation, it's not going to come back quickly because all it is is an adjustment until the stocks are worth what they're actually worth instead of being overpriced wildly. So that's going to take a while.

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But let's say you had some artificial shock from the outside and it was a temporary shock and one that didn't involve resources too much. So it wasn't like a shortage of oil because that caused once. Is the S&P up? I see somebody posting in the comments something that looks like the S&P is up, but I don't know about that. So we'll check that after the show, I guess. So here's what I think.

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I think that the question of how long it will take the stocks to come back, because they'll come back, but whether it takes five to ten years or it takes six months or it takes one year, is largely going to be based on how quickly the whole tariff situation gets resolved. So let's talk about that.

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If the tariff situation is sort of quickly resolved, let's say by the summer, you're going to see the stock market just tearing back. But there are lots of, you know, that's not easy.

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but here's what we know i saw a post by nick sorter he was saying that taiwan has agreed to drop all tariffs on the u.s they're joining india israel vietnam and cambodia who also want to have zero tariffs now here's the trick if you want to be the smartest person in the room It's not good enough that countries drop tariffs because they have other ways to screw us.

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So anything from property, from currency manipulation to VAT taxes to duties to various restrictions. So some of these offers are kind of fake. Meaning that they're not really offering anything because they have other ways to you know, kind of nickel and dime us So these are negotiations.

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These are not Even if somebody says we want to go to zero tariffs That's the beginning of the negotiation that that's not the end of the negotiation So we're closer to the beginning than the end, but that looks positive. So over 50 countries have allegedly called to negotiate with Trump. That might be an exaggeration, but I'll bet it's in that range. And here's something that mattered to me a lot.

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I feel like giving a slow clap, a standing ovation to whoever successfully got funding to do this study. If I were a scientist, I would spend most of my time trying to figure out how to do totally bullshit studies that were fun for me. It'd be whatever was my favorite thing. I'd be like, hmm, let's see. Do people who read cartoons have a better day? Does reading cartoons reduce your depression?

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I've mentioned this before a number of times, but the top banker in the country, in my opinion, would be Jamie Dimon. So if Jamie Dimon says something, you should listen, not only because he has a long track record of being you know, wise and somewhat nonpolitical. So he's just sort of calling it like he sees it. He said that he says the tariff policy issue should be resolved quickly.

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That's the head banker of the country who, again, is not Republican, Democrat. He might be Democrat, but he's he's famously and I appreciate it. He's non-political. He's a little bit political on DEI stuff, but I'm just assuming he has a daughter that cares about him. I don't know if that's his actual opinion.

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But when he's talking about economic stuff, he's one of the people you want to listen to. So if JB Diamond says, yeah, this will be fine. We'll just work out this tariff stuff pretty quickly. That is a really good signal to the market because he's not crazy. He's not lying. That's almost certainly his real opinion.

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And there are very few people who would have the complete understanding of the economy to say that this is going to resolve quickly. Well, here's what Trump is crowing about today on True Social. He said, oil prices are down, interest rates are down. I guess apparently the Fed is meeting today, which means I don't think it's a decision about interest rates today.

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But it seems like everything is set for them to lower interest rates. We'll see. That will be the biggest deal if they do. Trump says food prices down. There's no inflation.

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I don't know about no inflation And the longtime abused USA is bringing billions of dollars a week from the abusing countries The abusing countries from the tariffs already in place And they say in the China's biggest abuser at all and he says their markets are crashing and

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which is apparently true, not crashing as much as ours, but the Hong Kong market seems to be down, I don't know, 13% last time I checked. That would have changed by now. And the currency is having a problem over there in China. And so China will be the last

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country to negotiate, just because I think China would be perfectly happy if they could force Trump out of office by not negotiating and not selling TikTok. So they may have a different game, whereas stocks are up. I'll be damned. So let's see what else is going. Then Trump also says he's not willing to make a deal with China unless the trade deficit is solved.

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Now, there's a trillion dollar, I guess, annual trade deficit with China. And he says it has to be solved. It's not good enough just to negotiate. Wow. China is down. It's not good enough to negotiate just the tariffs. We need to make sure that we don't have the trade deficit. Now, the only way you could do that, I'll take a fact check on this, is if China moved production to the United States.

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But is that going to happen? So can you really get China's trade deficit of a trillion dollars down? I don't know. Maybe. I don't know how you could do it, but maybe. I guess I'm open to hearing the argument for that, what that would look like. Well, Australia has contacted the U.S. They want to start negotiations because they obviously are getting hit pretty hard.

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The European Union says we're ready to negotiate with the US on tariffs. Japan's prime minister just said we need to propose ideas about how we can together create jobs in the United States and contribute to their economy. Now, Japan really knows how to be an ally, don't they? Have we ever had a better ally? than Japan.

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Now, I suppose the fact that they depend on us for military protection is a big part of this, but this is exactly what I want to hear. It's almost better than what I expected, that they want to work hard to come up with ideas about how to create jobs in the United States and contribute to our economy. Good. So I guess that would mean more other countries manufacturing over here. to avoid tariffs.

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Do you remember Francis Macron? He had suggested that the French companies stop doing business with the United States. And I thought to myself, what? Can French companies really stop?

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doing business with the united states is that even a thing and apparently uh the big french companies just told him to stuff it up his ass because they're not there's no way that there's no way that he can that the macron can tell them where they should invest and they're definitely going to invest in the united states a lot of them have you know gigantic entities why why am i seeing so many numbers

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Anyway, next time, just ask me if you want to know who likes sexual images more, men or women. Let's see, do we have any backward science where they got the causation backwards? I don't know. Let's look at this one. According to SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing... that there's some new research that links gratitude development to lower adolescent depression.

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There's a whole bunch of numbers in the comments, but they're all over the place. What do the numbers refer to? Because a whole bunch of you are very insistent on saying something with numbers. What's this? Breaking. Trump considering a pause to tariffs for 90 days, excluding China. The market explodes green in celebration. Ah, pause in tariffs.

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Well, the pause in tariffs, well, that was my very next thing. That investor, what would you call him, investor, Bill Ackman, he had suggested a 90-day pause. Now, a 90-day pause makes perfect sense if the countries are willing to negotiate. And given that so many have shown a willingness to negotiate, you should expect that 90 days would be completely the same. So good.

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I heard there's a little bit of a pushback between Bill Ackman and Luttnick. you know, uh, Ludnick on the Trump administration because Ackman thinks that Ludnick is long bonds, meaning that he owns bonds in his investment company, I guess. And if you own bonds, then the stock market going down is good for you because people will take their money and put it in bonds and that drives the price up.

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So I don't know if that's has anything to do with what Latin except to but Everybody who's rich has all these conflicts of interest There's just no way for a rich person to do anything without a conflict of interest because they're just too connected to too many things In related news China is getting dumber According to a user creme you I The S&P is up three. What is that?

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It looks like the Dow is up 800. Ackman apologized. Oh, Bill Ackman apologized about the bond thing. Okay, that's good. Yeah, if the pause in the tariffs makes the stock market shoot up, that's telling you that it was never going to be permanent. Well, not 100% for sure.

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But it does indicate that this was not a permanent structural problem, but rather just something that we had to bang our way through. And the 90-day pause is a very positive sign that the U.S. and the other countries are taking it very seriously, and they're going to bang their way through. So good.

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Anyway, getting back to Kremu, he said a friend of his made a graph that he showed on X. The graph shows that the fertility rate in China is much higher in the provinces with the lowest IQ. So the smartest people in China, this is obviously not 100%, but a lot of the smart people end up in the cities because that's where the good jobs are.

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But it's also expensive to live and expensive to have a kid. And it's in their system. It's hard to find somebody to marry unless they live in your city. So the smartest people have been compressed into the cities and put in a situation where having children isn't such a great deal economically. Whereas if you're living in a rural area, having some kids to help you farm might be just a plus.

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So the more gratitude you develop, the less depression you have is the suggestion. But could that be working the other direction? Because you know what? When I'm depressed, I don't get depressed often, but if I got depressed, I don't think I'd be thinking about gratitude. But if for some reason I became less depressed, I would suddenly think, you know, I'm grateful for this or that.

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So the net effect is that China's getting dumber really fast because the low IQ people are apparently very fertile. In other news, Iran has counter-offered. Now, Iran, we're not talking about tariffs in this case. Iran is talking about war because I think there's a May deadline from Trump to the May deadline for Iran to essentially become sane or else Trump says he's going to bomb them.

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And they've decided that they're going to talk to us indirectly through Oman. And then separately, Reuters is reporting that Iran-backed militias in Iraq are ready to disarm to avert Trump's wrath. I don't know if these are important militias or just maybe some small militia that wasn't getting funded by Iran anymore. So I'm not sure the militias are telling you much.

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And I don't think that Iran is serious about negotiating. I think they're just stalling. I think the longer they drag it out, the happier they are. So I don't see any hope that that's going to go anywhere. This is interesting. Apparently the U.S.

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has gone hard against the Sinaloa cartel and sanctioned six individuals and seven entities, entities being companies, that were basically fake money laundering companies so that they can money launder their, There are illegal gains. This is according to Gateway Hispanic. Now, here's my question about that.

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How hard was it for the United States to find how the Sinaloa cartel was laundering its money? Doesn't that feel like the sort of thing we should have already known? And does that indicate that the Biden administration just wasn't even doing anything? Or was there some magic process that the Trump administration applied that they could find these money laundering individuals quickly?

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I don't know. Yeah. So the the cartel CIA connection may be part of that story. But apparently Trump's not worried about that because he just said, we're going after your money. And probably probably they know how. So that's good. Well, do you remember that group called GARM, G-A-R-M?

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It was that big group of people who tried to organize all the companies that advertised so that they had this powerful advertiser cartel. and they could tell X or anybody else what to do.

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Or they could say, we're not going to be advertising on X, and then all the companies of Garam would say, all right, we're not on X. Well, MasterCard, which was one of the Garam people, according to Reclaim the Net, D.D. Rankovich, they've decided to pull out. Now, it's just one company, but their reasons were that they,

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They're taking steps to, quote, distance itself from that chapter in its corporate history. In other words, they were embarrassed. Now, that's exactly the right response. MasterCard should have been embarrassed that they were an anti-free speech contributor by being part of GARM. They were part of the badness, and there was no reason for it. So that's a positive sign.

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Move it in the right direction. You know the DeepSeek AI that China came up with that was lower cost but seemingly almost as good as the American models that were much more expensive? Well, apparently the next thing that's coming from DeepSeek is self-improving models. Now, they're not self-improving yet, but apparently there's a working paper that shows that's what's coming.

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And what that means is that the AI will use some kind of a judge system to try to learn things and then judge whether it's learning the right things. And so this is the next big thing in AI, is AI that can improve on its own. Now, here's what former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said about that. He argued that we might need a kill switch for such systems.

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Do you think they got the causation right? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe they did. But this is one where I say to myself, it could have gone the other way. Do you remember the news about the tariffs applying to those two islands that had no people on them, just penguins? Do you remember that story? It turns out there was a good reason for putting tariffs on the penguin islands.

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When the systems can self-improve, we need to seriously think about unplugging it. And I understand that, because if the AI is improving on its own, you don't know what you're getting, and it might improve too fast. But I don't think that's going to apply to these LLMs. My guess is that the self-improving models that you have to worry about would be a future technology that we don't yet have.

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I think the large language models are just sort of lossy and buggy. So probably all this will do is fill in some cracks and make them less buggy and a little more reliable. So I'm not worried about this particular iteration destroying all of humankind. Here's a story that seems small, but it might be big. According to interesting engineering, there's a hydro sponge that's been invented.

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And you might say to yourself, what's a hydro sponge, Scott? Well, it's a sponge that's made out of special materials that are apparently not that rare. So no rare earth materials needed. And they can make this sponge and they can just put it outdoors. And even if it's kind of dry, if it's a dry area, no clouds, it can absorb moisture. And it does it without any electricity.

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Now the catch, this has been invented before, but the catch is you would still need electricity to release the water once it gets in the sponge. But apparently they've invented one that requires so much less energy to release the water that the sun would do it. So you could just put the sponge outdoors, it would suck up water, and then the sun would warm it enough to release the water.

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It's a zero energy, at least man-made energy, a zero man-made energy to create fresh water out of air. Now, if this thing actually works, this is completely transformative. I mean, it would be one of the biggest technologies in the history of humankind because it would end water shortages wherever you add these sponges.

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So I just hope they don't put them in the ocean because it'll dry up the ocean. No, just kidding. It won't dry up the ocean. All right, those are the big stories of the day. I would like to give you a product review. Did you ever try to buy a blanket? You know, not for your bed, but let's say just a, you know, nice blanket that's soft.

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And did you notice that some blankets are not the same on both sides? Like some blankets will have this nice, fuzzy, comfortable side, but then the other side is just kind of weirdly smooth. And it's like a half blanket. Don't ever buy a half blanket. It's ridiculous. If your blanket doesn't feel soft and fluffy on both sides, that's a throwaway blanket.

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You just put that right in the garbage because it's going to make you mad every time you pick it up. So that's my recommendation. Never buy a blanket that's different on one side. All right. That's all I got for you today. And I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. And we'll catch up on what's happening in markets. It's like the markets are jumping all around.

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because most people just don't even understand any of it. I've been seeing some of the worst takes on markets, especially the odds of the market coming back. I don't think people understand anything about tariffs or markets or anything. So, you know, maybe there are people like Scott Besant and Peter Navarro who understand enough to know what's going on. Jamie Dimon would be another.

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If you didn't hear this story, it's funny. When Trump put all of his tariffs on everything, it included two, I guess you'd call them countries, but they don't have any people, just penguins. But the reason is so that real countries with real people can't use the fake countries as a workaround for the tariffs. In other words, they can say, oh, it's not coming from my country.

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But I see a lot of journalists writing about the end of the United States because the stock market went down for a week. Doesn't look like that to me. To me, it looks like it's temporary. And the other thing that makes me curious about how things come out is I remember seeing an interview with, I think it was Barbara Cochran. She's a real estate investor type who used to work with Trump and

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Now, when I say work with him, I think meaning she was in on some of the same deals. And she said that he was the greatest salesman that she had ever witnessed in her life, like just crazy good at selling. Now, that was in the context of selling real estate deals and making deals. Now, what you're seeing is Trump selling something that's really hard to sell.

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which is I'm going to make your stocks go down, but in the long run, through negotiation, it's going to be way, way better. That's a really tough sell. I think it was Mike Cernovich who pointed out that you need a second-term president who is not afraid of getting reelected and who just has balls of steel because the things that the United States needs to do are hard.

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And they're going to be a little bit painful. And it's very much a dad energy that you're just going to have to do the hard thing to get to the good thing. And if you don't do the hard thing, you might be out of business. So watching Trump sell this is kind of exciting because it's the biggest sale of his life, maybe even bigger than getting elected.

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You know, you'd think that would be the biggest, but this probably has more consequence. So it's the biggest sale of all time with the best salesperson of all time. And it does feel like he's turning the ship. And what you look for is he's going to play up any kind of activity that's on his side.

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So every time there's a country that calls and wants to negotiate, he's going to tell you things are going great. He's going to tell you how good things are going to be when we get it all worked out. He's going to tell you, how bad these countries have been treating us. And he's really good at it. He is really good at it. So it's sort of him against the world.

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Probably maybe 98% of the entire planet would have said, don't get into a trade war. And Trump said, I can sell a trade war. And now he's selling it. Now, he hasn't sold it to everybody. And if you're depending on your stocks for your retirement, et cetera, you're pretty panicked. But he never promised you it would be easy. He just promised you it was necessary and we could get to a better place.

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I still think that's probably true. The future is unpredictable. But... If I had to look at just where we are at the moment and then look at the skills of the people involved, the only one that's sort of up in the air, I think, is China. And I'm not so sure that China is stable or unstable because I'm seeing both.

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Sometimes people say China is like a little island and essentially like an island and that they can just survive longer than we can so they can hold out and they have all the advantages. But then other people are saying that China is literally failing and their economy is falling apart.

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who said the other day that China is a savings-based economy and that they do a lot of construction to pretend like they're doing a lot of great stuff, but they're building stuff that they don't need and nobody wants. One of the examples was they have these really impressive indoor malls.

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It's coming from the penguin country. the penguin island there's no tariffs on the penguins so actually it made total sense they're just closing a loophole here's an update on the signal gate according to the guardian they did an investigation and mike waltz has been cleared now he did make the mistake But here's what he did not do.

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there aren't many people shopping despite you know china having a lot of people there are not many people shopping because they are more into saving and they just go there because the air is cleaner and they have air conditioning so apparently going to the mall is just someplace you go so you're not outdoors and you're not in your home and We've got more of a consumer economy.

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They've got more of a savings economy. And we'll see if that gives them some extra superpower to analyze this. All right. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for today. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. Thanks for joining on Rumble and YouTube and X. And locals, coming at you privately right now.

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He did not ever intentionally add Jeffrey Goldberg to his signal contacts. All right. So if you're asking yourself, well, you know, I understand, you know, punching the wrong button. But why in the world would he have Jeffrey Goldberg's contact in the first place? And the answer is he didn't know he had it. And there is an explanation that makes sense. So let's see if I can get this right.

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So there was an email that got forward to the Trump administration. campaign, now not to Mike Walsh, but to the campaign, and then the campaign wanted to get some extra people's opinions. The email included Jeffrey Goldberg's contact information. So somebody named Brian Hughes copied and pasted the email from Jeffrey Goldberg into a Signal text message.

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And then Signal healthfully thought to itself, hey, if Mike Walsh is looking at a message that has Jeffrey Goldberg's contact information, maybe he would like to add it to his contacts. And somehow, I think it confused the phone number for Goldberg or maybe Wallstead with Brian Hughes. So he thought he was adding Brian Hughes to his contacts based on a suggestion that popped up.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jar or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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But he probably just didn't read the suggestion carefully. And the suggestion was to add Goldberg's name. Now, I accept that. That sounds just weird enough that that's a real world thing. So I think that's the end of that story, actually. How many of you have seen Jake Tapper use Tim Walz as a speed bag on CNN? Poor Tim Walz.

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He is so bad at interviews, and he's so game, he's out there all the time. But here's a question that Jake Tapper asked Tim Walz on CNN. He said, I'm paraphrasing this, but were the Democrats gaslighting the country about Biden's health, inflation, and the border?

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Imagine being the number two person who ran for president on the Democrat side, and even CNN is saying, essentially accusing him of gaslighting the country on three of the biggest issues, the health of the president, inflation, and the border. Now, here's how I interpret that. I know a lot of people are saying, that Jake Tapper, he's for the Democrats. Well, he might be.

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I think he's registered independent or something. But if I wanted the Democrats to win, I would spend some time destroying Tim Walz just so he didn't accidentally get nominated because there's no way that guy could win the presidency. There's not even the slightest chance he could beat anybody for the presidency. So maybe that's what's going on, the destruction of Tim Walz.

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Well, Adam Schiff, Senator Schiff, was on Beat the Press, and he was talking about all the fake protests. No, I call them fake protests because we all know, at this point, we all know that these are artificial. It's people who are paid, it's senior citizens, and it's crazy people. But basically, these are inorganic.

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These are completely financed and organized by dark forces, which we have a good idea where they are. And they're all just basically Democrat operatives. So Schiff is trying to sell all this fake protest as, quote, the energy you're seeing now manifest around the country in these mass demonstrations is Show that the Democratic Party is waking up. Is that what you're saying?

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It doesn't look like that to me. If you have to pay people to show up, they're not waking up. They're just cashing a check. But here's the thing that I would be. If I were... If I were going to talk to Adam Schiff, I would ask him the following question. I'd say, Adam Schiff, if this is the Democrats waking up, there's some kind of people who are missing from the protests. Let's take a look.

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I see a lot of middle-aged women, and some of them brought their husbands. I saw a lot of senior citizens. They seem to be almost entirely white. But I don't see any young men. No young men, except for a couple of crazy ones. And what about black Americans? How in the world do you get that many people in the street who are Democrats and none of them are black?

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And guess what? It happens now. Go. Oh, so good. Well, before we get into the politics... Let's check on science. There's already science that didn't need to be done.

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That is the question which must be asked. Because what it does is it reveals that it's artificial. What else is it going to be? And it's funny that the news still allows people to pretend these are real. When do you call these protests the next big gaslighting? If you were Jake Tapper, and it's two years from now,

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Are you going to say to somebody who's a guest, were you gaslighting the country, Adam Schiff, when you said that this was the energy manifesting as opposed to obviously paid and organized? So that's the new gaslight. These are real protests. No, they're not. Well, Trump has raised the logging quota 25%. Joel Pollack is writing about this in Breitbart. But there are two reasons.

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One is to clear the forest to make them less forest fiery, less risk to forest fires. And the other reason is perhaps to get more lumber so that we can compensate for any loss of lumber from Canada from the tariffs, etc. But the question I wondered is, how often are those the same thing?

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If you're clearing out a forest for the purpose of fire suppression, are you getting good wood, or are you just getting all the crap? And so I went to Grok. Now, I got to tell you, I use Grok several times a day now, and I'm quite impressed and quite happy with it. When I prepare for the show, there's always some context that's missing, and I always want that context, and it's just...

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write one sentence into grok and boom context so here's what grok said um some of that some of that wood that you clear from the forest just for fire suppression can actually be used for construction depends on the kind of trees and how big they are you can't do much with the the small underbrush and there's a lot of that but depending on the trees you can use them or and if the trees are not the perfect kind

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you can turn them into plywood or a particle board. But there are probably at least two different reasons why the quota went up. One of them probably is to get good trees for construction. Jonathan Turley is talking about the New York Times news story on Hunter Biden. Now, how many of you knew that the longer Biden is out of office, the more of the

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let's say reputable news sources, would have to confess, yeah, well, there were some problems there. Yeah, we may have known about a few things. Yeah, Hunter may have done some bad things. So the latest is the New York Times ran a story that when Biden was vice president, that Hunter was working for Burisma and he went to the American ambassador,

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to Italy and tried to get the American ambassador to Italy to help him get the Italians to make some kind of an energy deal. Now, if that's true, And remember, this is the New York Times reporting it, so they're not exactly pro-Republican. If it's true, then it's inexplicable why he wasn't prosecuted. Well, it's not inexplicable. Obviously, it's because of political connections.

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But these are exactly the kind of crimes that other people were prosecuted for. Manafort, for example. So it is a crime. It's a fair violation of to be lobbying on behalf of a foreign country. You can't lobby the United States on behalf of a foreign country, which is exactly what he was accused of doing, unless you're a registered agent, and he was not a registered agent.

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So will that turn into any kind of charges? I doubt it. I doubt it. Maybe he's already pre-pardoned for that. Well, there's a report that Trump is planning a big military parade to celebrate the Army's 250th birthday. I didn't know armies had birthdays, but all right. I didn't even get anything. And the route will be from the Pentagon to the White House, just like the Gulf War parade in 1991. So,

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According to Cy Post of Vladimir Hedra, he's writing that there's a study that shows that men are more distracted by sexual images than women. Now, you probably know what I'm gonna say next. You could have just asked Scott. Yes, somebody got paid To show porn to men and women and then measure their response.

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Here's what's going to be interesting about a military parade. The point of a military parade is to show how awesome your military is, right? I mean, you're kind of showing the rest of the world. That's why Kim Jong-un does it. It's not just for his local audience. It's to show the world you have this great military.

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But the problem is almost everything that we're going to highlight in a military parade would be obsolete, right? I saw a post by Naval Ravikant, and he said this, I think it was last night or this morning. He said, any country that can't manufacture drones will be a vassal state. The military is just going to be drones. Everybody smart, I think, understands that. It's just going to be drones.

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If you can't make drones entirely within your country... or at least, let's say, with a friendly neighbor who might have some parts you need, you're not going to be independent very long because whoever can make better drones is just going to own you. So it will be a weird kind of parade because it will be a parade of essentially obsolete military equipment. But it'll look impressive, I'm sure.

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Well, let's talk about the stock market. How many times do you think the stock market has gone down 20% or more? Just off the top of your head. In the history of the United States, how many times has it dropped 20% or more? According to Grok, the answer is 20 times. How many times did it fail to come back to even higher levels? Zero. Every single time it came back. Now, sometimes it took years.

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Old America is looking stronger than I've seen it in a long time. So there's that. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker, chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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I think this is the Trump effect. Not 100%, but don't you think it pushed it over the top and made the timing now? I think he changed Canada. Remember when people were arguing, hey, threatening tariffs is a terrible strategy. Doesn't Trump understand how tariffs work? Threatening them is bad. It's bad. It never works. And we would say, hold on. It's a negotiating strategy.

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Just see it as a strategy. You'll be okay. Settle down. And then he threatens a 25% across-the-board tariff, and next thing you know, the leader of the country is resigning. And he was the problem. Well, I mean, a big part of the problem. Would you agree? Let's see in the comments. Do you agree that's the Trump effect?

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That, you know, he was hurting himself in a variety of ways, but I don't think he would have... He would be resigning now except for Trump. Meanwhile, over in Austria, the Austrian president, Bellin, Van der Bellin, he has officially asked the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria to form a government. So in Austria, a right-wing populist party is forming a government.

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But in terms of what it's going to do to you, it's going to make your opinions more forceful and you're going to chase them harder. I thought everybody already knew that. Did we really need to do that in the study? Well, I don't know.

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Is that the Trump effect? Probably. Again, not 100%. But is it the thing that made it happen now and the thing that pushed it over the top? I think so. I think so. Don't know. I wouldn't say with certainty, but looks like it. Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama was asked, in a big interview, was asked about immigration. Now, the Dalai Lama... of course, would be like the ultimate peace-seeking character.

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So he's going to want peace, peace, peace, peace. He's the Dalai Lama. Of course, he wants to be kind to people and peace. And when asked about immigration, he said, no, no on immigration. Europe will become like Afghanistan or Africa. And the reporter says, like my parents came to the UK from India, that's okay, isn't it? And Dalai Lama said, no. He goes, no. He goes, England is a small island.

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90% become Indian? Ha, ha, ha, ha. So I think what he was saying was, no, if you let everybody in India come to England, it's not going to be England. So even the Dalai Lama is against unrestricted immigration. And I asked the same question. Would he have said this before? Would he have said it before Trump made it okay to say it? I don't think so.

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Now, again, my bias is kicking in, so I don't know what the Dalai Lama is thinking or what's influencing him, but I don't think I would have seen this before.

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It feels like there's a freedom of speech and a framing of immigration that's entirely a Trump creation, and the Dalai Lama has given something he can agree with because Trump has caused so many people to agree with it that now it's an ordinary opinion.

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I don't think the Dalai Lama would have gone first and said, you know, everybody seems to be in favor of this immigration thing, but I'd like to tell you it's a big mistake. I don't think he would have done that. I think he can only say this, and what he's saying is just common sense, but he can only say it because Trump made it safe.

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I'll bet you if you measured the testosterone of the January 6th protesters during the height of the protest, I'll bet you would have found their testosterone was pretty high. I'll bet you would. And I'll bet if you measured them while they were in prison, except for today, they might be happy today, it probably would have been lower. So winning makes your testosterone higher.

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Meanwhile, over on CNN, Fareed Zakaria was saying how much better Florida is run because he spends time in Florida and New York State. thinks New York State is a crooked mess and that they spend way more money on government for not any extra benefits. And he's paying those taxes. And he points out that progressive governments worldwide are in decline and losing elections.

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So out of, I think, 27 countries, democratic countries, maybe five of them are now progressive. The rest of them have lost. And so he's pointing out that the progressive movement has failed, and even though it was big, it was ruining everything, and now it's retreating.

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So it seems like Farid is blaming the Democrats in America for letting the progressives get too much control, to which there's a kind of a question that's lingering here, isn't it? How in the world could the progressives have had so much control in America unless CNN backed them and MSNBC and the rest of the mainstream media?

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So I feel like the media is doing this clever trick where because they're the main brainwashers, they're brainwashing the public to think that the problem was the progressives. Oh, no, it wasn't. Let me tell you what the problem was. The problem was that you couldn't talk against the progressives. And the news wasn't going to talk against the progressives. So they had a free pass for years.

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You couldn't say you didn't like their ideas because you'd be a racist. And you couldn't say that the media was lying because nobody would hear you because the media had all the control. So I think it's accurate. and useful for Fareed Zakaria to point out that the progressives have a losing history and probably a losing future.

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But it's a little disingenuous to not say when you're sitting on CNN saying it, the CNN's a big part of the problem and maybe the biggest. Do you believe that progressives could have had any power if CNN had reported on them the way they're reporting on them more recently? And I'd say no.

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everything that the bad guys are doing is because the other bad guys in the media said it was the best thing to do, and you should shut up, and if you complain, you'll get canceled. So, yes, the news is trying to blame the Democrats, and the Democrats would have a good point if they blamed the news instead. Lex Friedman went over and talked to Zelenskyy,

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I haven't heard the whole thing, but I've seen some clips. It seems that Zelensky is very pro-Trump. So Zelensky is saying, quote, now this is translated, but he said, when I talk about something with Donald Trump, whether we meet in person or we just have a call, all the European leaders always ask, how was it? Now, apparently, that's not normal.

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that I guess if he meets with Biden, nobody asks how was it. But if he meets with Trump, everybody's curious. And then he goes on to say, this shows the influence of Donald Trump, and this has never happened before with an American president. I tell you from my experience, this also gives you confidence that he can stop this war. Zelensky's all in on Trump. Is this the Trump effect? Yes, it is.

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This one's unambiguous. That's the Trump effect. Trump has already got the two warring sides to say, we're just waiting for you, big guy. Right? They're just saying, we're just waiting for you because we know you're going to wrap this up. And I know that you're going to tell both of us to do things we don't want to do, but we can't just do them because then we'd be surrendering.

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So we need you to lean on both of us. because that's what we both need. We need Trump to lean on us so that when we say, ah, I definitely don't want to make this concession, but mean old Trump's going to make me do it. And then everybody's happy. It's the Trump effect. He's ending wars. Incredible. And then more Trump effect.

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So Bill Maher has on his Club Random show, so that's his side show, not his regular show. He had actor John Cryer. Now, John Cryer is sort of politically oriented for an actor, and he's very pro-Democrat. But the clips, which I believe are chosen by Bill Maher himself or his team,

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is where Bill Maher is basically mocking John Pryor for being in a news bubble and not understanding anything that's really happening. Just imagine that. He has on a guest who's just nothing but a left-leaning super Democrat, anti-Trumper, and the tenor of the conversation is Bill Maher, famous lefty,

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telling another Democrat activist that he doesn't even understand anything, otherwise he wouldn't have that opinion. Is that the Trump effect? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Indirectly. I mean, there's lots of things going on, but that's part of it. Now, I would like to, for the record, I've met John Cryer.

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So when Two and a Half Men was a big thing on TV, they once had an episode in which they mentioned Dilbert, the Dilbert comic. So the writers and the producers asked for permission. And I think I asked in return, of course I said yes. But I asked if my significant other at the time and I could attend a recording of the show. So we got to sit in the front row and watch them actually do the show.

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Let's call it a half. Now, I suppose Democrats said the same thing about Trump after, you know, the first term, but that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. All right. Let's talk about, uh, Let's talk about January 6th. Kyle Cheney is posting on X that the Department of Justice revealed that it declined 400 cases that the FBI recommended for protesters at January 6th, the original, to be charged.

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It was fascinating. But afterwards, we were taken down to meet the cast and met Charlie Sheen. And then John Cryer came over. And I got to tell you, John Cryer is the nicest guy. right? So we can talk politics and we can gently nudge him for not having the right news sources. I think that's legitimate. But I got to tell you, he is a really nice guy.

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You meet him in person, there's not a trace of Hollywood on him. Somehow, none of that took. He's just He just seems like... I don't know where he's from, but he just seems like he came from some Midwestern state, and he's just, like, really friendly. So I like him. So don't throw him away. You know, don't discard him because he's not watching the right news programs. He's a good guy.

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At least in the brief interaction I had, he was very generous. Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, which is not like real news... Simone Sanders Townsend, I'm sorry, this was on Meet the Press, but it was MSNBC host Simone Sanders Townsend.

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And she claimed during a panel discussion that Biden is unequivocally more mentally fit than Trump and that it's sort of all overblown and Biden is fine and his brain is fine. Still, saying that today, Like that's a current opinion. Okay. When I reposted it, I just asked you to look at her eyes. So here's a little thing I like to recommend.

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When you know somebody is lying and you know they know they're lying and you also know that they know you know they're lying, when it's that clear that they're lying,

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watch for what their eyes do during the lie so if you watch it i'll do my bad impression of it but her eyes are sort of you know ordinary but they're expressive so they're moving around but when she gets to the lie part where she says that he's just as cognitively good as anybody she she certainly narrows her eyes and says he's uh he's really cognitively strong or whatever word she used

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And you could watch it with the sound off, and you could still spot the lie. You would know when it happened just from the eyes. But you wouldn't notice that unless you would watch how she lies. So her specific lie, she narrows her eyes, and otherwise her eyes are normal. So watch when you know somebody's lying. And by the way, this works in relationships as well.

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If you're in a relationship and you're in the weird situation where you know for sure that somebody is lying to you, just watch their face and the words they choose. You'll learn something. Anyway.

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Here's my persuasion tip. Next time a Democrat says Trump is a felon, because, you know, that's also the MSNBC thing, the CNN thing. He's a felon, he's a felon. He's the first president who's a felon. He's a felon, felon, felon. Here is the correct answer when he is called a felon. Next time you hear it, you should agree completely. Yeah, he is a felon. He reminds me of Nelson Mandela.

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Just say that. Just say he reminds me of Nelson Mandela. Don't say he's the same. Don't say that anything they did is similar. Just say he reminds you of Nelson Mandela. And then the person who you're talking to will probably try this. But Nelson Mandela was unfairly prosecuted. And then you just look at him and just smile. And walk away. And that's all you need. Just let them do that.

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He was unfairly prosecuted. Don't even answer. Just smile. Because I think we're at the point where we should treat the things that could have or should have or in the past would have some power. The fact that people would call him a felon. Today it's just a joke.

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For the same reason that we're celebrating January 6th as a holiday, everything the Democrats said, we now understand to be fake and backwards and evil and corrupt. So you can't take any of this seriously anymore. And I think Trump has opened up our ability to just understand that when the news says he's a felon, we just laugh at it. And if you take it seriously, they're going to keep saying it.

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So don't take it seriously. Just say, yeah, he reminds me of Nelson Mandela. Now, if you don't like that association, because I hear some people say, but you don't know, Scott, Nelson Mandela did horrible things. I don't know. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But if you don't like that one, use Martin Luther King. Just say, yeah, he reminds me of Martin Luther King.

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And then when they say, but Martin Luther King was brought up on fake charges. Just say, have a nice day. Because what you're trying to do is just mock the end of existence and make an association they don't like. You're not trying to be logical, right? The goal is not to use your superior logic to show that this case is like the other case.

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The Department of Justice... said no to 400 extra ones that the FBI thought should be charged when their only crime was entering the restricted perimeter. Their only crime was entering the restricted perimeter when the gates were torn down. And the FBI tried to get 400 of them into the legal system through that. Well, thank goodness the Department of Justice said that's too far.

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No, just make the association and smile because you're happy about the association. that the felon allowed you to see him as more like a Gandhi, more like an MLK, more like a Nelson Mandela. And just leave it there. All right. According to Zero Edge, Governor Newsom, my California governor, he says he's issuing an executive order directing state agencies

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to look into or target ultra-processed foods and related health concerns. Now, that sounds exactly like what RFK Jr. wants to bring to the nation as a whole. But now we see that California and Newsom are front-running it. They're getting ahead of it. Do you think that would have happened if if Trump had not decided that RFK Jr., Democrat though he had been, is the right man to fix this problem?

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I don't think so. Again, I think this is the Trump effect. I think Newsom is trying to front-run something that they had completely ignored, you know, the health impact, and he's trying to look like when he runs for president. Imagine, if you will, how good Republicans are going to look if RFK Jr. pulls this off and he gets the food companies to start serving us real food instead of poison.

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And that would be hard to compete against because that's even deeper than your pocketbook. That goes right down to how do you feel? How's your health? Are your kids thriving? I mean, this is the deepest of the deepest issues persuasion, if you can fix somebody's food so that it doesn't make them unhealthy. You can't get deeper into somebody's soul than their stomach.

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So the Republicans, through RFK Jr., have the ultimate, it's the ultimate political, it shouldn't be political, but it is, political winning thing, if he can pull it off. And I think he can. So it just looks like Newsom's trying to get ahead of the parade because he knows he has to. I don't think this would have happened otherwise. It's a Trump effect.

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All right, so a lot of people have asked me, what do I think of this Tommy Robinson situation over in the UK? And honestly, I hadn't really been following it. And also, honestly, I'm not really up on all the details. So I'm just going to give you my general impression from another country. My understanding is he was an outspoken opponent of unrestricted immigration. So far I'm right, right?

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But what he's in jail for at the moment is not related to just being outspoken, but rather maybe some contempt of court or some related thing, but certainly all stemming from the one thing, There's one thing, which he wants to have free speech and be able to say, you know, the country is going to be destroyed. Now, I'm going to say it in a way that I think you'll find compatible.

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If you were, I said this in the man cave, I'll try it out here. If you were to take a bunch of Mormons and Christians and put them in the same state, how would they get along? Fine. Fine. Mormons, Christians, no problem. Now let's mix in some Jewish Americans. How do they get along? Fine. Fine. Mormons, Jews, Christians, fine. Now let's throw in some Hindus, American, not in India, but in America.

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So now some Hindus move in. You throw them in with the Jews, the Mormons, and the Christians. How do they get along? Fine. Fine. Fine. You know, you might not know this, but where I live, tons of Indians, tons of Hindus. If I'm invited to a party, pretty much there's going to be Hindu there. You know, you can rely on it. How do they get along? Perfectly. Perfectly. No problem at all.

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How about the atheists? Now I throw the atheists in there. Well, the atheists might say, you know, I'm more in favor of abortion, you know, something like that. But will they get along? As neighbors. Yeah. Will they respect the same system? Yes. Now you can do it with ethnic groups. Say a bunch of Italians came over earlier in the century. How'd that go? Well, a lot of discrimination.

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You know, there are lots of name calling. They're like, Italians. Yeah. you know, we're Irish. We can't be spending time with all these Italians. Then the Germans hate the Irish and the Irish doesn't like the Poles. And all these ethnic groups are kind of not getting along. But 100 years later, we don't even think about that stuff.

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When was the last time you heard somebody being mocked for being Irish or Italian? It just isn't really even a thing. So they assimilated, everybody assimilated, everybody's getting along. Now, What do all of those people who get along have in common? It's not about being white, because remember, I threw the Hindus in there. It's not about being white, and it's not about even your ethnicity.

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There's one thing they all have in common, that they all come from a philosophy of getting along with other people. Do the Mormons want to conquer you? No, they want to get along. Are the Jews trying to conquer America? Well, some of you are going to say yes, but the answer is no. The real answer is no. They all have a philosophy of getting along. Now, is that the same with Islam?

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And I think Molly Hemingway is pointing out that the FBI is obsessed by this. Don't you want to know who in the FBI was in charge of recommending that these 400 people be destroyed by the Department of Justice? So much so that the Department of Justice said, ah, no. We're not even going to do that. We have questions. Who exactly thought that was a good idea?

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Well, I think I heard today the statistic, there's something like a quarter of Islam, which is a minority, but a quarter of them worldwide, are pretty sure that Islam has to take over everything and be in charge. But here's the good news. 75% are not about that at all. 75% just want to get along, just want to do their thing. You do your thing. We won't bother you. You don't bother us. Great.

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Works for me. But what happens if you bring in so many Muslims that they form like an area in the city and they've got sort of their own culture. What happens with the 25-75 split? Do the 75 use their influence and say, you guys are bad for us, so you better cut it out. We're going to keep you from being extremists because it's only 25% of you. And of the 25%,

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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Oh, that's good. That's some good stuff right there. Well, I didn't get you a gift for January 6th, but I feel like we can still celebrate, can't we? That's a good day. Well, I've got some science stories.

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a much smaller number, have any interest in any violence, right? So it's a very small number. But put them all together and come back in 10 years and what's it going to look like? Did the reasonable people talk the unreasonable people out of their violence? Well, unfortunately, violence really works. Meaning that if some of them are committed to violence or death,

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they're eventually going to scare everybody else into going along. So eventually, if you come back, that small minority will have convinced everybody that they should be pressing for Sharia law. All the other groups I mentioned are not going to do that. They're happy with the American system. But the Islamists...

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again, small percentage of them, would effectively co-opt the peaceful people in their ranks who wouldn't want to break ranks. So given that Islam has a conquest philosophy or mentality built into it, that again, 75% of the people are not buying into, but 25%? 25% is almost enough to guarantee that that the rest will get co-opted into a more conservative, extreme version of Islam. That's my take.

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Now, if I say that, have I insulted any people, ethnicity, or religion? I don't think so. I think I just said they have a different view, and if you fast-forward it, there's sort of an obvious outcome.

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So if you're talking about a system and a percentage of people, and you can predict forward that the 25%, or maybe much less, almost certainly will co-opt the rest of them, and then it becomes a civil war, I would say it's closer to a guarantee... Because we're watching it happen in England, right? So we're watching it happen in Europe. We don't have to guess, is that the way it goes?

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The violent people have a lot of power. It's just always that way. So Tommy Robinson, what I understand, is saying maybe a more provocative version of what I just said. And I don't think anybody disagrees with what I just said. Do you? Is there anybody here who disagrees? Yes. that these are not similar systems. So let me say it in the summary.

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You cannot treat the immigrants who have a philosophy of getting along with the immigrants who have a philosophy of conquest. If you treat them the same, you can't be in power. That's a problem. Now, did Tommy Robinson do anything I don't know about that if I did, I'd be mad at him? I don't know. but I'm also not caring.

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Because I think the Tommy Robinson thing has everything to do with the public saying, if he can't talk, we can't talk. And we want to talk. So Tommy Robinson is nothing about Tommy Robinson. That's the first thing I learned, or it's my opinion based on what I've looked into.

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If you think Tommy Robinson is about some crime he did or didn't do, I don't know what he did or didn't do, you're on the wrong topic. It's about whether somebody can say something that's true and obvious and really important, or if he's going to be suppressed. Now, why are we all talking about Tommy Robinson more than we've ever talked about him before in the United States? What's causing that?

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Now, you're going to say Elon Musk, right? I think it's simpler. I think it's the Trump effect. Because the Trump effect allows us to see this as essentially a kind of censorship that will destroy the country for sure. And so we're reacting to Tommy Robinson, and I see many of you backing him when he went to jail, and it's not because of anything he did or didn't do criminally.

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Because whoever you are, to me that sounds like it was completely political. I mean, 400 people? Remember I told you that Republicans would be hunted? Well, I don't think it's more obvious than 400 people that the Department of Justice couldn't even bring it on themselves to charge them. So, yeah, FBI, you got a big problem.

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It's about as long as he's in jail, the Muslims are winning, and they're the few of them within the group that want to conquest. So if you want to defend yourself against what seems like an obvious risk, having a system come in where conquest is the primary element of it for 25% or less, you've got to be able to talk about it and you've got to be able to offend people when you do it.

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Ideally, you wouldn't offend anybody. But you've got to have the right to do it. Otherwise, you're going to be censoring yourself to the point of being useless. So Tommy Robinson is more about showing incredible bravery for something of incredible importance.

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And I believe like, not to overuse the analogy, but like Nelson Mandela and like Trump who got lawfared, we are starting to see the legal process working against them as a plus. for his message and his authority. Do you think that Tommy Robinson will someday be in charge of Great Britain? Do you think he'll someday be the prime minister? I don't know.

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Probably not because the Islamic population is big enough to prevent it, I would think. But he's got more of a shot than he ever had before because going to jail and being jailed unfairly and unreasonably by your competitors, that opens people's eyes a little bit. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Is he really in jail because of these alleged crimes?

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Or is it really all about just the one thing, that we don't have freedom of speech in the UK, and he's trying to say things, and we don't like it because it'll hurt feelings of the people trying to conquer us, as well as the 75% who are not. So you were asking me for my opinion, and my opinion is that I want Tommy Robinson freed because I want free speech in my country.

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I want free speech for the people in Europe if they can get it back. I think it's too late. I think actually Europe's largely going to just become Islamic because there's a point of no return. Once your population reaches a certain percentage of the conquering philosophy and they're willing to die for it, you're pretty much going to go that way.

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We're not there, but we're trying to avoid getting there. All right. Biden, there's another story that says a Biden is going to ban some offshore drilling before he left office. And you probably had the same thought I did, which is, well, then Trump will just reverse it because it's an executive order. And then somebody said he can't reverse it.

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And then I said, what do you mean he can't reverse it? If it's done by executive order, another executive order can't reverse it. And the answer is maybe it can't because it turns out

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the AP was reporting this, but I think the Hill or somebody said that there's some kind of Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act that gives the president the right to block drilling in certain areas, but not the right to reinstate it. What? What? How could there be an existing act that says the president can do a thing but not undo it? To me, that sounds like Supreme Court, right?

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If Trump on day one reversed it, which, by the way, I'm not sure we even want to. We'll talk about that. But if he did reverse it, would the court say, oh, you can't do it because the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act? Or are they going to say, no, there's a reason we give presidents broad authority. We like a strong president. An executive order is simply how to interpret something.

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As you know, Biden gave one of the, I think it's the nation's highest award to a civilian and included Liz Cheney, who was on that select committee, January 6th select committee. And remember that she hid exculpatory evidence about Trump. And remember, she did something like witness tampering. Molly Edmingway was talking about this as well on X. And is that illegal?

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It's more about not changing the law. You just change how it's interpreted. Do you think that Trump could just say, well, I interpret this Continental Shelf Lands Act as a political law and not a functional law or something like that? Now, it seems like there'd be some argument he could make. that he could do it, and then just take it to the Supreme Court if you think it's important.

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But here's the thing you should know. The places that were banned were places that nobody's doing any exploring and was unlikely to ever become a place that got energy. So the main places that we do the offshore drilling are still unaffected. So it's not the biggest thing in the world, but since Trump said drill, baby, drill,

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you might want to give the industry at least the option that so far they've not been that interested in. Sam Altman, the head of the ChatGPT OpenAI, has a few interesting things to say today. One, he said that AGI, which is the super intelligence, which is a whole different technology than the current AI.

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The current AI is just looking for patterns and it hallucinates and it's, you know, there's a limit to what it can do. It's amazing, but there's a limit built in. But AGI would be a different process. I don't know what it looks like. But Sam Ullman says in a new blog post, quote, we are now confident we know how to build it, AGI. That's the good kind of AI. And so they're ready to build it.

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Now, that would be not just news, but the biggest news in human civilization, if it's true. If we really know how to build this advanced intelligence, which nobody's done yet... That's effectively a new life form. Yeah, the current one just looks like a mimic, so it doesn't look like... I mean, to me, the current version of AI, after you use it a while, it doesn't become more human.

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It just becomes more obvious that it's a machine with a lot of flaws. So the more you use the current version of AI, the less it seems like a person because it just doesn't have the same characteristics. But could they get AGI to be legitimately smarter? Now, remember my prediction.

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that if we invented something that was smarter than us, we would have to mechanically turn it off when we didn't agree with it, because most of our ideas are not logical, they're emotional. So we're going to turn off any logical argument that doesn't agree with us, and we'll program it out of it. So I think AGI will be so crippled by humans not wanting it to

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change other people's minds about what's a reasonable thing to do, that I think we'll find a way to make it useless, even if the technology does everything they thought it would do. I think humans will just ban it. It'll just become illegal. We'll see. The other interesting thing is that Sam Altman said that ChatGPT is currently losing money on their subscriptions.

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and he said that he personally set the price of the app because he didn't think people would use it that much, but they're using it so much that the usage is driving the costs up, and they're losing money currently. So I think that's a hint that the price is going to go up, but we'll see. In other news, Candace Owens is making some more news. This is reported by Shadow of Ezra. I saw this on X.

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So in a recent interview, Candace Owens said that pedophiles are intentionally placed in positions of power because it's easier to control them, because you can blackmail them, et cetera. And she further suggested, here's where it gets really interesting, that it's not a coincidence that Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Zelensky, and Emmanuel Macron of France are all gay, she says. This is her claim.

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And she alleged that McCrone is married to a transgender man who molested him when he was a child. Now, I would bet against that last part. But, you know, anything's possible. I guess I wouldn't be shocked if the most outrageous claims here turned out to be true. But I don't have proof of these claims. However, what do you think of the general concept of

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that we have an unusual number of leaders who are in the closet or they're doing something illegal with children. What do you think? Do you think it's a coincidence that so many leaders appear to be in the category of blackmailable? And when they're not blackmailable for sexual reasons, isn't it weird that Biden got selected and he was so blackmailable for his overseas activities?

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Is it illegal if you're just on some January 6th select committee? Is it illegal to tamper with a witness? I mean, it would be if it were a legal trial. But is it illegal if it's a political process? I don't know. Hiding exculpatory evidence, again, I don't know if that's illegal. But if it had a big impact on the country, it's as bad as you can imagine. It's pretty bad.

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crime family activities and that Clinton was president when it was so obvious that he had a past and probably a current I feel like I do feel like the hypothesis that something like the deep state is choosing our leaders to be able to control them as opposed to getting good leaders I can't rule that out Because the pattern seems so screamingly obvious. How do I ignore that?

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Now, on one hand, you could say, well, they're men and they're powerful. And wherever you find powerful men, there's a good chance they're doing some things behind the scenes you don't like. So maybe it's just we just find out because they're leaders and otherwise we just don't find out. Maybe. Maybe. But it sure looks like a pattern.

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I'm not going to claim that it's valid, but I wouldn't ignore a pattern that's that obvious. I mean, I think it looks obvious that they all look blackmailable. But it could be just because the news tends to get into stuff and makes us think that way. Maybe. I don't know. So Biden lost a little bit. He was asked about something he didn't like, maybe something about his age.

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And he said, quote, and this is on video. This is brand new. My being the oldest president, I know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole GD life. GD filled in with the actual, you know, using the Lord's name in vain part. Why would he say that in public? Who in the world says that? Somebody with dementia. I mean, obviously.

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Isn't it super obvious that that's just dementia anger? Who talks like that? You know how I compliment Trump for his strategic cursing? He doesn't use GD. I've never heard it. Have you? He uses the F word and the S word, but he uses them maybe once every now and then, and then they're perfect.

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If he only uses it once now and then, it's just a nice, nice, powerful accent that causes the news to hold whatever point he made. Very strategic and smart. But here's Biden just using really the most offensive words

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curse that you can use in America right it's the most offensive one because there's so many Christians who are and by the way I often use the same curse word and I get slapped down every time I do it 100% of the time I accidentally let that one fly because I've done it on the live streams 100% of the time the comments turn to you know we don't like that one that one's a little too far

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Because that's not just a curse word. People take that as an insult to their faith. So a politician using that one, that's just bad impulse control or not understanding how anything works. But it's notable that Trump doesn't use that one because it's a pretty common one. Privately, it's a pretty common one. In my defense... There is no defense, but I'll give you context. There's no defense.

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So if it offends you, you have a valid feeling. So I'm not going to argue against your feeling. If you feel it, you feel it, and you're certainly welcome to express your feelings. But here's what you should know. I'm not a believer. So if I were a believer, I think you should be really mad at me because I would be accepting that I was insulting you and something that I believed in too.

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But as a non-believer, these words don't mean anything to me. It's just a popular couple of swear words. So just know that even though I agree with you, I'm trying to use it less. So I agree with you completely, 100% agreement. Just know that if somebody doesn't use the same vocabulary in the same way you do, it doesn't mean anything. It just means it doesn't mean anything to me.

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So anyway, my biggest question about this is, I'm wondering if Liz Cheney will end up in one of the same cells as that the January Sixers are in right now. You know, the female January Sixers. That could actually happen. Because I don't know if what she's done is jailable, but it's in the category of things you think should be jailable. I just don't know if the law would agree with me.

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But since it means something to you, your point is 100% accurate, and I will try to adjust. All right. And then Biden was asked at the same event if he still thinks Trump is a threat to democracy. And then Biden, dementia or not, used some clever weasel words, and he said, what Trump did is a threat to democracy. So the question is, is Trump a threat to democracy?

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But he weaseled it and said what he did was a threat to democracy, meaning the old January 6th. Now, that's actually closer to a fair statement. If you say Trump is a risk to democracy, that's a little too far. If you say that what he did on January 6th was a risk to democracy, even a lot of Republicans would say, yeah, that was too far.

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Now, I don't think it was a risk to democracy personally, but it's not crazy to say that the way he acted on January 6th was not ideal for our system. That'd be a reasonable difference of opinion. But then Fox immediately reported it, that Biden said that Trump is a threat to democracy. And that's not what he said.

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So I'm calling out Fox News for some fake news that was as obviously fake as anything could be. Because I would show you the quote in which he very carefully says that what he did was a threat to democracy. There's no way to interpret that other than January 6th. And then immediately... The reporter comes on and says, he says Trump's a threat to democracy. That didn't happen. That didn't happen.

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Oh, I'm hearing that Trudeau's resigning right now. Is Trudeau resigning right now as I'm doing this? Yeah. Anyway, so fake news everywhere. The Washington Post... is losing star reporters.

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And as Molly Hemingway pointed out, Ben Smith, who used to be at the New York Times, but then he founded Semaphore, is writing that those leaving the Washington Post, and then they give a name of some star reporter, I don't know, are leaving because they want to do resistance propaganda against Republicans and are worried they can't do it there anymore.

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This is somebody who was from the New York Times saying, saying in direct language that the people you thought were writers at the Washington Post didn't even see themselves as writers. They saw themselves as resistant propagandists. Now, that's according to somebody who was in the same space. Not the same paper, but he was working at the New York Times. I feel like when he talks about it,

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He knows what he's talking about. So I guess it's just confirming everything we knew, that the Washington Post was a resistance propaganda rag. And Jeff Bezos, to his credit, seems to be putting some energy into making it more of an actual newspaper, or at least pretending to be an actual newspaper better. I don't know which one he's doing. But I'll tell you what, the Washington

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The Washington Post was the first one that canceled me. And the first thing I feel about that is, honestly, it is a great relief that I don't take money for my comic strip from a fake news organization that saw themselves as resistance propaganda. I always felt uncomfortable about it. But I'm so glad they canceled me.

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Now, now that you know that the Washington Post has essentially tipped their hand as, you know, even though this is not their own word for themselves, I think Ben Smith has probably got his finger on the pulse there when he says they're resistance propaganda against Republicans. I think he got that right. Now, knowing that the Washington Post is literally resistance propaganda against Trump,

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Does that make you look at my cancellation any differently, given that they were the ones who led it? No, they're resistance propaganda against Trump. Canceling me is part of resistance propaganda against Trump. Do you know that zero Republicans canceled me? None. Not one. Do you know that not a single person has disagreed with what I said, if they've heard it in context? None.

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And if she ended up in jail and the January Sixers were released... there's at least a pretty good chance that she would fill one of the empty prison cells. So, I don't know. Maybe she'll be in one of those jails. We'll see. Anyway, Trump says he's expecting to grant clemency to over 1,000 of those January Sixers. Now, keep in mind, I think there are 1,400 of them. He said over 1,000.

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Not a black person, not a white person. People have said they wish I hadn't said it. They said they were offended. But when they hear it in context, which you never hear in the news, it's always out of context. When they hear it in context from me, They understand it differently. And 100% of people are completely aware that a black man or woman would not have been canceled for anything I said.

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It was propaganda and resistance. And I was just a prominent voice in favor of Trump, and so they just took me off the field, or tried to. They tried to. So that's how you understand that better. Meanwhile, over in China, NBC News says that... President Xi in China still says corruption is the biggest threat to the Communist Party.

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And there are all kinds of examples of him removing people and making big changes, which he says are aimed at reducing corruption. Now, it's important because Xi said this years ago and has been working diligently, or so it seems from the outside, to get rid of China corruption. But now it sounds like it just got worse.

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So he's been working on it for years, and it sounds like it's the worst it's ever been. And so here's the thing. Number one, do you believe it's the biggest risk to China? I think it is. because I don't think they're going to die in a nuclear fireball. I think they'll find a way around their crumbling economy, because they're smart and they're adaptable.

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But if the corruption just takes all the good stuff out of the economy, well, then they might be in real trouble. And my question would be, is it possible to have a dictatorship without corruption? And I'll go further. Is it possible to have a government without massive corruption? It seems to me that America's biggest institutions are massively corrupted, maybe in a different way.

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They're not all taking money. I think in China it's more about taking money. In the U.S., whatever makes our FBI act the way they are, it's not money. It's some kind of brainwashing, Trump derangement syndrome, something. So I don't think that he's able. I don't think he will have the capability of taking the corruption out of China. I think it's the whole system.

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I think the whole system depends on the powerful and rich being able to abuse the system and therefore they want to keep it. If the rich and powerful could not abuse the system to make a little extra money and stay in that upper class, If they couldn't do that, they might be looking for a change of government until they can. So I don't think he's going to fix that.

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I think the corruption is going to be the big thing. Meanwhile, according to the New York Post, Chris Nessie is writing that the LGBTQ community are starting to arm themselves. So far more likely they're getting weapons. And it's because they're afraid of being placed in concentration camps by Trump.

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Trump is literally trying to prevent the people who would kill them for their beliefs or their sexual orientation. He's trying to prevent people who would do harm to them from coming in the country. And he's doing everything he can to prevent that, like really risking his life. Trump is literally risking his life to prevent people who would come into the country to kill the LGBTQ community.

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He's... He's not even slightly anti-LGBTQ. Not even slightly. There's nothing you can point to that would give you any comfort if you had that opinion that he was. Nothing. And there are never any examples. Nobody ever says, well, I think he's going to round us up and put us in camps because of those other three things he did. No. No, it's not based on anything. Not based on anything.

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And what kind of news are they watching? I would guess that 100% of the LGBTQ people who bought weapons to protect themselves against being rounded up by the American government, I'll bet 100% of them get their news from MSNBC. I'll bet 100%. Now, they might also sample some other stuff, but I'll bet it's mostly MSNBC.

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So we don't know how many. Now, the other thing that somebody asked is, clemency, is that as good as a pardon? Because otherwise, if it keeps them with a criminal record, people are saying, hey, clemency is not as good as a pardon. But did you know that a pardon is just a subset of clemency? So clemency doesn't tell you exactly what the order would look like. It's just an umbrella.

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Because even if you read only the New York Times, it wouldn't tell you to buy a gun so you can avoid being rounded up. That's kind of only on MSNBC. That's a big platform. There might be smaller ones. So... Good job, MSMC.

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You just ruined the lives of the LGBTQ community who thought they were succeeding in life and doing a great job with their overall national brand, which I always say is the best I've ever seen. The LGBT community, if you look at their success in going from have to stay in the closet to run for any office in the country and get elected, unbelievably successful. Like, I am blown away.

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by the level of bravery in the LGBT community, the level of bravery in every sense, physical, economic, social, the level of bravery pushing that movement is stunning. I'm just so impressed. Anyway, Waymo,

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There's some, according to Clean Technica, and Zachary Shea on his writing, that it looks like a reinsurer has done some analysis of the Waymo self-driving cars and found out that they're way safer than human-driven cars based on the number of miles driven already. Listen to these numbers. The Waymo driver, the Waymo, the self-driving car,

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And the Waymo car was involved in nine property damage claims over the period they looked at and two bodily injury claims. So it's not 100% safe, but nothing is. So nine property and two bodily injury claims. Over 25 million miles driven. Driven. For human drivers, how does that compare to nine property damage and two bodily?

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If you control for miles driven, the total expected for the human in the same miles driven would be 78 instead of nine claims of property damage and 26 bodily injury claims compared to two for the self-driving car. Now, I remind you that not too long ago, Elon Musk made the prediction that when he said it, he said, we're not there yet, but we're really close.

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And he said, it will very soon be true that the self-driving cars are way safer, not just as good, but way safer than human-driven cars. And we're there. We are there. Now, this is one of the biggest days in the history of Tesla, even though we're talking about Waymo, a competitor, because Tesla probably is going to have the best self-driving car situation.

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And it's a major part of their business going forward, it looks like. This is a turning point. Here's the bad news. It is my opinion that the way the world works, for example, requiring you to use a seatbelt. How many of you are old enough to remember when that wasn't required? Seatbelts, I am. I remember when they first said you have to put it on.

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And I remember thinking, oh my God, the government is like overreach. Like they're telling me what to put around my waist. you know, when I'm on my own and, you know, for, I don't know, maybe a year or two, every single time I put it in my seatbelt, I bitched about it, even maybe mentally. I'd be like, the government making me do this unnecessary safety thing. Now, fast forward 20 years.

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So it could be a pardon. We just don't know. Well, you know, I think it's a start. But if you're looking at the extremes, most of us would agree that at least a thousand of them didn't do anything worthy of jail. So those are the easy ones. But what about the hardcore ones? What about the ones who genuinely look like they were in there to do some danger? Nancy Pelosi reminds us,

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I can't imagine not putting a seatbelt on because it's just common sense. Of course, you're going to put a seatbelt on. Of course you are. And even if you don't want to do it for yourself, don't you have any loved ones that would prefer to see you survive a car crash? Don't you have any respect for the healthcare system and other drivers on the road and everything else and cost of insurance.

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So to me, it starts as like this huge government overreach, but then when you live with it and you get used to it, because you can get used to anything, you look back and you go, how did we ever not have seatbelts and not have them required? Now look at self-driving cars. If they're 10 times safer,

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ten times safer, you think it's not going to be against the law for a human to drive a car in the future? Of course it will. It's guaranteed. These numbers guarantee that maybe not everywhere, maybe it'll be urban areas first, maybe just some highways at first, but eventually it would be kind of crazy to be on the road at the same time as a human driver.

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Once you get to the point where 80% of the cars are self-driving and you're in one and you're just happily in your safe self-driving car, and then you see some human drivers go by, what's going to be your first reaction? It's like, oh, look at all these human drivers. I don't feel safe anymore. Right? Because the only person who's going to run into you is a human.

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You can look at every self-driving car and say, well, I mean, there's some chance we might crash, but really small. But you see the human go by, and you're like, I don't know how drunk that guy is. He looks like he didn't sleep. I don't think he's even paying attention. How old is that driver? My God. Oh, they're 16, just got their license. No, that one's 100.

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We're going to talk ourselves out of driving so quickly. It's going to happen in the future. I think it's still several years in the future. But it's coming. There's nothing to stop it. Driving will be illegal in populated areas. All right. So here's some science. Round it out with some science.

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So according to SciPost, Eric Dolan is writing, that your romantic relationships are better if you have a positive view of the world. they had to do a study to find out if you would be more romantically attractive if you had a positive outlook. You didn't really need to do that. You could have just asked me, Scott, are optimists better off? And I'd say, what domain of life are you talking about?

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And then the person would start to answer, and I'd say, no, I'm just kidding. You don't have to tell me what domain you're talking about. Everybody who is an optimist is better off in every situation you could think of. Romance, business, everything. Optimism makes you healthier. So you don't have to study it.

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Yes, having a positive outlook does make every single thing the person does better on average. I think I need to give science my phone number so they can just call me. Hey, we're thinking about doing a study. I can have that all for you. Also, same writer, Eric Dolan in SciPost, says there's a new study that challenges the assumption about social media's harm to mental health.

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So they did a study and they found out that the people who used it more wasn't much different. But here's what I think they did. I think they studied the same people and they looked at whether they had just looked at a lot of social media or whether they hadn't. I don't know if that's the right way to test that.

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I'd rather see people who just routinely and organically use a lot of social media and compare them to people who just routinely and organically don't really pay attention to it. I feel like they would be different populations and that there'd be some population that they're worse off and there'd be some population that's better off.

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that at least a few of the January Sixers were talking out loud about finding Nancy Pelosi and doing damage. So she points out, as I would point out if I were in her position, that no, if they had not been stopped or she had not been protected, that she could have been badly injured.

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For example, people who have really strong mental health and I put myself in that category. Um, I feel lucky. I don't know if it's because I was born before some pollutants or what it is, but, um, anyway, um, We have a couple other studies coming up here.

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The assumption about social media, I think, is maybe the study is not valid because if you studied me looking at social media where I don't have any real mental health problems, I'm pretty sure it doesn't affect me much, if at all. In fact, it just makes me happy sometimes if it's good. If I'm watching kittens play with dogs, it's not making me unhappy.

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But if I had poor mental health and I also had a strategy that kept me with poor mental health, which is spending time looking at sad things, maybe my social media would start to become full of sad things. And then I would get sadder because I made the mistake of thinking I should look at sad things. When I go to social media, I'm like, ooh.

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kitten hugging a dog let me watch this for a while and then next thing you know my feed is full of kittens hugging dogs and i'm like oh these are great i can't wait to do this a little bit more but if you are starting out as a negative person with a mental health problem and you click on the wrong things uk police commissioner threatens to extradite and jail u.s citizens over online posts will come after you oh that can't possibly be true

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Oh, Great Britain. The UK is just dead. They're so gone. Yeah, try it. Just come for us. We'll see how that works out for you. Nobody will ever visit your country again, nor should they. All right. Then there's another study that interacting with your family may boost your immune system, of course. But they talk about in the study, this is in Tech Explorist, Pranjay Malawar is writing.

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And so it points out that we know that loneliness is implicated in heart disease and some other health problems. But if somebody is lonely and that causes them to have more health problems than they normally would, and let's say they die of one, what's the cause of death? So loneliness causes you to have poor heart health, and then you die of poor heart health.

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Was the cause of death heart, or was the cause of death loneliness? Loneliness caused the heart problem. Well, of course it would be scored as the heart problem. But I think if we coded it as a loneliness death, not that we'd be able to measure that very well, But if we called it a loneliness death, we would treat it differently. We'd say, oh, there's a national loneliness crisis.

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But if we say the people are dying of heart disease, then we say, oh, the lonely people just need to try harder and get some friends. It doesn't seem important, does it? But if you knew that 30,000 seniors a year were dying from loneliness, I'm just making that up, but I wouldn't be surprised, then it would be like this national thing.

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Now, I don't know if that's true, because it's possible that the protesters were just full of talk, and even if they had the chance... probably wouldn't have done it. But I don't know. And if I were her, I would certainly think that they might have. I wouldn't take it as hyperbole if it were happening to me. So could there be people who are at that extreme that should be kept in jail?

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So the way you code it as the cause of death really makes a difference. And I think that we're ignoring the loneliness crisis because it doesn't have a death rate attached to it and that we measure to things that we can count. You can count deaths. You can't really count loneliness as easily. So it won't ever be treated until you can measure it in some objective way. So that's bad.

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um then i saw the daily mail is writing about a mysterious fog sweeping the us now first of all i don't know if the fog people keep talking about is mysterious i have not seen any local mysterious fog but i will say again that in the past year or so the clouds where i live are completely different than any time in my adult life what is that

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So where I live in California, we don't have the same weather as other people. So in the summer, it would typically be 100% blue sky. Or in the winter, maybe 100% overcast and rainy. And sometimes, but not often, there'd be mostly blue sky, but a few little patches of fluffy clouds. And it would be the same kind. You'd look up and if you saw some fluffy clouds, you might see more than one.

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But they're all the same type. Fluffy, fluffy. Maybe there'd be a little bit of a second kind of cloud. You know, a different part of the stratosphere or something. But... lately, if I walk out, I will see every kind of cloud at the same time. And there'll be, you know, contrails going through it and I'll see wisps. I'll see, I'll see rows of things.

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I'll see things that look like they're, they're symmetrical. And I'll just look at the sky and I'll think, I, did I live my whole life and never see this sky again? And it's routinely completely different than it's looked before, so much so that I've been taking pictures of it for a long time. And my pictures are just, I've never seen this before. So is there something going on?

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Well, did you know that in 1950, the U.S. Navy sprayed a massive amount of bacteria in the air two miles off the coast of San Francisco? This is in the Daily Mail. And what they wanted to do is they thought that the bacteria was harmless, but they had some way of tracking how far it went and whether it got into people or something.

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But it killed at least one person and hospitalized a bunch of others. But if you're wondering, Scott, would our government, without telling us, gas the citizens and use it in fog or something, use it as a way to spread some deadly thing? And the answer is yes. Yes, they would. They did it in the 1950s. What changed? Nothing.

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Nothing changed that would cause them to think differently and not do it in current times. They would just have to have an argument that it made sense or an argument that it wasn't hurting anybody. So I don't think the fog story is real. I don't think there's any kind of experimenting going on. But I hate the fact I can't rule it out. Can't rule it out. I hate that.

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Anyway, that's all I got from today. I'm going to say hi to the locals people just quickly because I went too long. Locals people, I'm coming at you. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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I'm going to say no, they should not be kept in jail. because this is the special case of all special cases. If it were just a case of some people who did some dangerous stuff, I'd say, well, you know, they broke the law, so jail. But what did they think they were doing?

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We've got some political stories. We've got some January 6th stuff and some Trump effect stuff. But here's starting with a little bit of a study. According to SciPost, written by Vladimir Henry, testosterone spikes are linked to stronger political opinions in men. That's right. When men have higher testosterone... their political opinions harden and they get more certain and more forceful.

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What they thought they were doing is saving the country from what looked to them like an obvious rigged election and the end of democracy in the United States, basically. So they were doing what the Tea Party, the real Tea Party, back in the beginning of the country. So they were doing what the patriots and the founding of the country were doing.

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They were applying some potential or actual violence to a situation in which they thought their country was being stolen from them or they were being abused by the government. Now, the fact that some people might argue that they were wrong doesn't make them wrong, meaning that they may have accurately identified a rigged election, and they may have accurately identified who was behind it.

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And if the penalty for rigging an election and being behind it was that it increases your physical risk, that's not really a situation I want to stop. You know what I mean? So certainly I'm not in favor of violence.

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But if somebody wants to react in a militant way because they saw something happen to the country that is a complete destruction of the country, I'm not sure that that's exactly like going on the offensive. To me, that looked like self-defense and national defense. I don't recommend it. I wouldn't want to see it again. But the people involved were trying to save the country, not destroy it.

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That's got to count for something. Were they wrong to do what they want? It's a separate question, but I would ignore it. I would ignore whether or not they made good decisions. And I would just say, were they baited into a situation that definitely looked like the country had been stolen? And were they acting in a way that would be appropriate if they'd been correct?

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And I think the answer is, if they'd been correct, and they might have been, then it wasn't that bad. You could understand it in a completely different context. So what she's trying to get away with, Nancy Pelosi is trying to get away with making you think past the sale. that it was a perfectly good election, in which case I would say they should all go to jail.

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If somehow they knew it was a good election and they did what they did anyway, well, yeah, yeah, you go to jail for that. But if they genuinely believed what at least half the country probably thought, that the entire system had been rigged and had been stolen from them and they just lost America, yeah, expect some people to act in a pretty aggressive way.

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And if it happens again, I don't recommend violence, but you should expect it. You should at least expect it. You'd be creating the situation that pretty much invites it.

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So if you create a situation where you have not protected our elections to the point where the public can even tell if they were fair, you've got to take that responsibility on yourself, Nancy Pelosi, and everybody else who is in office. If you can't give us an election that even looks fair,

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Whether it was or not, if it doesn't look fair, you did not do your job or even close, and there's going to be reaction to that. Don't recommend it, but there's going to be reaction. Well, meanwhile, Trump is the master of the fast start strategy where you make sure that your first days in office or even before office, as he's doing now, that he comes in and makes a big splash.

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This is exactly the right thing a leader should do. They should make it look like things are happening fast and everything's going right and the first week is amazing because that makes it easy to do everything else.

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If the rest of the country can say, wow, your first week on the job or even the first month before you were on the job, you're already killing it, then it weakens people's resistance because they say, wow, he seems to be getting things done and people like it. I guess I'll be part of that. So the persuasive power of the fast start strategy is amazing.

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It's like a first impression kind of thing that you can't shake later. So Trump is the best in the game at this specific thing, the fast start. I've never seen anybody even slightly, even slightly in the same category as him. He owns us, the fast start strategy. But what he wants to do, he says, is secure the border, renew the tax Trump cuts, the ones that were going to expire, and no tax on tips.

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But it does open the question of, is he going to put that all in one big bill? where you have to vote for all of it or none of it? Because then I wonder, what happens with Thomas Massey and me, who don't like the omnibus bills? Are they going to just shove it all together? I don't know. So I guess that's an open question. Pete Hegseth apparently will have the votes. It hasn't happened yet.

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Now, could they have saved money by doing something where they could get the same answer, but they wouldn't have to do this study? Well, they could have just asked me because That's pretty much what testosterone is. If somebody said, what's testosterone, Scott? I'd say, well, you know, it has a variety of benefits to your health.

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But he will have the votes to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense. Majority Leader Thune says that he has the vote, so I'm sure he would know. So is that the Trump effect? Do you think you're seeing the Trump effect there? I think so. Because Agseth had some issues, right? He had some accusations, which, by the way, most of them he didn't run away from. He said he's got a past.

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He kind of owned up to it. And he doesn't have experience running a big department. So you could imagine that the Democrats would pick that one as the one to get tough on. But it looks like at least the Republicans are, you know, solidly behind him. So that's all you need.

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So I think the fact that that particular nomination is going to sail right through feels like the Trump effect, that people are just giving him a little bit of a honeymoon saying, well, If Trump really wants this guy, let's see what happens.

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And by the way, I don't have an opinion, positive or negative, about Pete Hegseth, since I don't know him personally, and I don't know of any experiences relevant to this job, except he's great with the military and they love him. So we'll wait and see. I have nothing negative to say about him. He seems like a solid patriot.

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Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau is expected to resign as early as today, but maybe on Wednesday when they have some big political meeting. You might want to get ahead of that so it doesn't look like he was forced out, say, to smart people. Now, apparently, he is embattled and his political career is sort of in shambles.

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So and Trump, Trump, of course, made it worse by threatening a 25 percent tariff, which probably got the whole country a little bit jittery. But let me ask you this. Do you think Trudeau would be resigning if not for the fact that the Canadians are looking at Trump coming into office, seeing how happy America is and seeing that it's basically the opposite of what a Trudeau would do?

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Let's check your stocks. Stocks are down, so don't check your stocks. Yeah, don't do that. All right, we'll do a show as soon as I got my comments working here. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-bom. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, Cinco de Mayo version.

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Well, maybe not fake news, but let's say news and a context. Now, remember I always tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything. But if you know the people involved and you know something about them, then probably you understand the situation. And here's a perfect example of that. So Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes was interviewing a far left activist judge called Mark Elias.

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How many of you are familiar with that name? A lawyer named Mark Elias. Does that ring any bells? But he was there to talk about Trump's assault on the legal profession and how Trump is threatening the rule of law itself. So that was, you know, basically they used him as their source to say how bad Trump was and, you know, going after the rule of law. Now, here's what they did not include.

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And this comes from Joel Pollack. He posted on X, Elias is the Russia hoaxer, plotted the vote-by-mail fiasco and the lawfare against Trump, as well as any lawyers who helped him. And that was never mentioned. Tell me, where was this concern about targeting lawyers when Trump attorneys were being bullied and hit with phony bar complaints?

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Now, don't you think the 60 Minutes should have mentioned that? That Mark Elias is not just your average lawyer. He was deeply involved in doing things that ordinary people think, that looks pretty sketchy. So I think that was a big omission there. Trump has also confirmed that he was pushing to send U.S. troops into Mexico to help fight the drug cartels.

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But I don't think Mexico said yes to that. But that offer is still out there. Some people say, but wait, we wanted Trump because he would not start any wars. But he was, when he was running for office, he did say he would send the military into Mexico if he had to. So it shouldn't be a surprise. He's been saying it directly for a while. Well, Trump has a new proposal.

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He says that he wants Alcatraz to be reopened so that we can put some of our worst prisoners in there. Now, this might be his worst idea he's ever had because Alcatraz is the least efficient place you could post somebody because, you know, it's in the water. You have to get there by boat. It's super old, so you couldn't really bring it up to standards very easily. And...

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I don't even know if he's serious. To me, it looks like it's one of those things where he just threw it out there without too much research or none. And he's just letting the media chew on it for a while. Because if you check the political news, it's definitely taking up space. So I think that all the Democrats are going to be like, oh, we've got him now. He doesn't know that that's a bad idea.

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So it's only the size of a car, but it's a nuclear power plant. But it can only power 10 homes. The question that jumps out is, how long does it last? How hard is it to do maintenance? And then what do you do with the waste when it's done? I'm sure they have answers to that. But... I don't know if I would do the nuclear microreactor before I did the solar panels on the Tesla battery.

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But maybe he does. I don't know. You know, I'm not going to say it's 4D chess. I think it's more like he just likes throwing things at the wall and making the media chase after it. So apparently Alcatraz would hold fewer than 400 prisoners. And if a population of 1.8 million or so were in jail at the moment in the U.S.,

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And one of the reasons it was closed in the first place is it cost about three times as much to run that prison as other prisons. I don't know if that changed. So I'm going to say the Alcatraz idea is a terrible idea, but I don't know how serious he was. He might be just getting the media to talk about something that's unimportant. Here's another thing I'm uncomfortable with.

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I don't know the details, but apparently many of the Trump family members are involved with crypto at the same time that Trump has dismantled a lot of the crypto regulatory structure. And at the same time that he's, you know, I think he's also got crypto. How many of you are okay with that? Because it does look like trying to make money from your office. You know, the family making money as well.

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Now, I think it's all transparent. In other words, I don't believe anything's hidden. You know, nobody's trying to pull one over on you. And as far as I know, it's legal. There's nothing preventing any of them from doing it. But doesn't it make you feel uncomfortable? I don't think this is an ideal situation. I don't love Trump being full crypto and his family being big on crypto.

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Without us, I don't know. It just seems like the whole area is too sketchy. So I'm not really delighted with that. Trump also said he's going to order a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the U.S. Because, as you know, California in particular has priced itself out of the movie-making business. It's just too expensive to make movies in California, so nobody does it anymore.

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But if you do it overseas, you get 100% tariff. And in related news, the mayor of L.A., Karen Bass, says she's working to cut fees and red tape for people to make movies in the L.A. area and looking to triple the tax subsidy for movie making.

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don't know I'm just not entirely sure that Trump just didn't end all movies because if the only place that you could make the movie is overseas you know go to Canada or something like that and Trump just made that too expensive Does that necessarily mean that people will do it in California, which is also too expensive? Or does it mean they just won't make movies?

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So I worry that the current situation would just make it impossible to make a movie. So not that you're missing much, really. Movies are terrible these days. So Trump said something else that is going to cause the latest hoax. So he was talking to Kristen Welker, CBS News. So this was the other day.

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And she said, your Secretary of State says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? And Trump said, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. And Walker said, don't you need to uphold the Constitution? And Trump said, I don't know.

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Now, that was interpreted by the Democrat leadership who were all weasels, as he wasn't sure he would want to uphold the Constitution. Is that how you interpret that? That's not how I interpret it. I interpret it as he's going to wait for the lawyers to tell him what to do, and then he'll do what the lawyers say. So he doesn't know. He's not a lawyer.

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So does he need to uphold the Constitution or is it not in the Constitution? I don't know. And I also don't know. Is there anything he needs to do because it's in the Constitution? Or are there things he needs to do but they're not necessarily in the Constitution? I don't know. So he could have answered that question a little bit more cleanly, but Chuck Schumer's already going full hoax on that.

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I might go for the battery first. Although I was a little afraid of batteries because there's a small but real risk of fire from a battery. I don't know what the odds are, but not very high. Speaking of batteries and speaking of Tesla, Wonderful Engineering is reporting that There's a new Tesla 4680 battery that was, I think, first teased in 2020.

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He doesn't want to uphold the Constitution, which is, of course, not what he intended, I'm sure. All right. so you've heard this before but it's been reported again by liberty nation news that uh we're we're negotiating with the uk for a new trade deal but i guess jd vance has laid down the uh the rule that we're not going to do a trade deal unless

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The UK gets rid of its hate speech rules that could affect Americans. And I'm completely for that. We shouldn't do any business at all with any country that's trying to take away our First Amendment rights when they're not even in our country. They would just use their

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And Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene have already said, no, no way. So you want me to tell you what this new bill would do? And here's the fun part of the story. A lot of smart people on X don't agree on what the bill even says. So I'll take a shot at it, but be aware that everybody who's talked about it so far seems to have a slightly different interpretation of what it even is.

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So what are the odds I'm going to get this right? Low. So you should put a low credibility on my interpretation of it, okay? Okay. But what I think it is, is they're trying to make it, I won't say criminalized because it's not being criminalized, but they would put a financial penalty

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on american companies but not individuals so this is not about individuals this is about companies if those companies um get into a boycott of a foreign um we'll say an ally Now, everybody knows that we're really talking about Israel, but I don't think it mentions Israel by name. If it's organized by an international body of governments.

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So in other words, the UN would be sort of an international body of a bunch of governments. So if the UN said, hey, you need to join a boycott against Israel, And then a U.S. company said, all right, we're in. Then if this bill were passed, they would be penalized financially. Now, apparently this is not that big of a change from current law.

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Because my understanding is that current law already bans you from being part of a boycott that's organized by a foreign government. So all this does is take the foreign government part and say, well, also, if it's a organization of multiple governments. So I think that's the only thing that's changing. So it's not changing anything for an individual.

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You as an individual can boycott anybody you want and you can say anything you want. But if you were a business and you take the lead from another foreign government, that was already something you could be penalized for. But now it's just extended to groups, organizations of governments, I guess. Now, because this was so confusing... I think it probably made sense for them to withdraw it.

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So if you're looking for how long does it take a technical breakthrough to become a product, about five years, even if you're Tesla. So apparently this battery is way more efficient, and it's simpler to assemble, and it boosts your energy efficiency, and it's going to be in Tesla soon.

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It was just a little, it just felt like it was something else. Now, part of the controversy is that it treats Israel special, even though it doesn't, because it doesn't mention Israel, but everybody knows that's the only the only ally that's likely to be boycotted. So I think that's where Massey and MTG might be coming from.

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They might be coming from, why would you take away an American company's freedom to boycott anybody they wanted for any reason they wanted? whether it was organized by another country or organized by another organization of countries, why would you take that right away from them? And I don't know the answer to that question, but it's a good question.

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But apparently we have some precedence because there was already a penalty if you did it and a foreign government was organizing it. Anyway... There's a new book that's telling us a little bit more about Biden's cognitive situation. Now, I feel like all of these books, the new ones about what was really happening behind the scenes during the the Biden time.

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I feel like all of them are some version of trying to make the authors look like there's a reason they didn't notice there was something wrong with his brain. So this new book says that Biden's team actually thought of giving him a cognitive test in February of 2024, but they decided not to because if they gave him a cognitive test,

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it would sort of draw attention to the fact that maybe he needed a cognitive test. But at the time, they're still pretending that people didn't know he had a problem. And so the book is 2024, How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America. This was coming out in July. And

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um but but i feel like you know just based on some some uh summaries of the book it kind of looks like it's trying to give the writers of the book there are three reporters from washington post and uh wall street journal and the new york times so three three reporters I feel like it's just trying to give cover.

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I think the official story now is that the first time anybody noticed anything was wrong is when they were prepping Biden for the debate that went terribly wrong. And that besides that, other than that, nobody noticed anything wrong. And watching the massive gaslighting that's happening about this, when all of us could see that there was something wrong with him, is really impressive.

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I mean, there's a lot of work going into covering up probably the biggest scandal in politics in our lifetime. I don't know if there's a bigger scandal than that. And they're actually trying to make it completely go away. Like, well, there was nothing to see. I mean, you know, we didn't notice. Jen Psaki said, I never noticed anything. I didn't see anything wrong. Unbelievable.

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So every time you hear me say, there's another breakthrough in battery technology, you can add five to seven years before you'll see it.

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Well, Trump also made a little extra news talking to Kristen Welker in the same interview that I was mentioning. And she asked him, are you not ruling out military force to take Greenland one day? And Trump said, I don't rule it out. I don't say I'm going to do it, but I don't rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly.

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Greenland is a very small amount of people which we'll take care of and we'll cherish them. That's such a Trump thing to say. We'll cherish them and all of that. He says, we'll cherish them and all of that. But we need that for international security. Now, of course, the follow-up question is, do you want to take Canada by military force?

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And although Trump doesn't like to rule anything out, he definitely ruled that out. He said, no, we're not going to take Canada by military force. I don't think he's going to take Greenland by military force, but having the credible threat out there might work. cause a little bit of negotiating advantage. We'll see. Well, according to the defense post, the U.S.

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military is not ready to defend against drone attacks on our bases. I guess we've got pretty good offensive drones, but we don't have much of a drone defense. So if anybody did some massive drone attacks on our bases, we'd be in trouble. And there have been 350 drone incursions, meaning over a military area, I guess, reported over 100 U.S. military installations in the past year alone.

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corey i saw a post by mario and awful i i see a lot of the news on his posts on x they're very excellent by the way you should follow if you're not following mario norfolk n-a-w-f-a-l you really should because uh he summarizes the news better than anybody i've seen

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Now, that doesn't mean that those are foreign drones. We probably just don't know. But that's a lot of incursions. So I'd be worried about that. It's all about the drones. According to Reuters, the European Union is going to announce a roadmap for getting off of Russia oil and gas. To which I said, wait, what? Are you telling me that the European Union is still buying Russian oil and gas?

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19%.

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Now, they're trying to get off it, but that would very clearly indicate that the European Union was funding both sides of the war because they were directly funding Ukraine and then indirectly funding Russia by buying their gas. To me, that sounds so crazy. It just sounds insane. And I understand it.

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I mean, in the real world, you can't not have gas, and it's not easy to make a change, and if Russia's willing to sell it to you, well, what are you going to do? But, like, if you ever thought that war was stupid, this is the best war is stupid anecdote you'll ever have, that the European Union was funding both sides of the war. Oh, my God. Anyway... Sam Harris is in the news again.

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He said this, if Trump isn't a Russian asset, one wonders how he can do a better impression of one. He's doing exactly what Putin would want. Doesn't Trump have massive sanctions on Russia? Didn't Trump sell the first deadly weapons to Ukraine long before the invasion? Didn't Trump just make a mineral deal with Ukraine that presumably it was not very popular with Putin? Hmm.

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It doesn't look to me like he's doing everything that Putin wants. But poor Sam Harris. I just worry about him because he just looks... It looks like mental illness is what it looks like. but I can't... Oh, I'm just looking at a post coming through from the Amuse account.

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According to the Amuse account, the EU is sending more money to Russia each year than it sends to Ukraine because of the purchase of energy. Wow. All right, well, so I don't think that that holds up, but I don't think also that we're going to be negotiating any kind of a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine. I think they're just going to have to fight it out.

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Anyway, one of the things that he highlighted was there's an AI scanner that can identify disease in people before they even feel bad. So I guess it takes 2,000 images in 20 seconds. It's got 70 sensors and 50 million data points. And it's already worked. It's flagged major health problems in people who looked totally fine. I'm not sure I want to know.

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Well, the Houthis have taken it up a level. You know, they sent a missile into Israel the other day, and it... and they exploded near the Ben-Gurion airport. And now their Houthi spokesperson is saying that they're basically trying to close down Israel in terms of airspace. So they want to make it too dangerous for anybody to fly into or out of Israel.

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And they're vowing repeated strikes on airports to enforce their siege. Now... Are the Houthis just sort of asking for it? Apparently the continuous bombing by the United States is just making them more likely to be bad. So I guess it doesn't help at all to attack them. They're just taking it up a level. And doesn't Israel have to attack them now?

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I mean, if they succeed in making a commercial aircraft not want to land in Israel, doesn't Israel have to just wipe out the Houthis? Because they can't really live there as a country. with some other country closing their airports. I mean, I think they're going to have to go pretty hard at the Houthis, or if the United States doesn't do it for them.

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Anyway, so Israel's already threatened to respond sevenfold. This is according to Al Jazeera. Trump says what he wants from the Iran deal is a total dismantling of the Iran nukes. But he's open to Iran having a civilian nuclear energy, as long as they're not refining the, doing any refining, just getting the materials from foreign countries. I guess that would be safer.

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His goal is total dismantlement. Do you think that's going to happen? Do you think Iran is going to agree to just have commercial nuclear power? I don't think so. I feel like Iran is just sort of tapping along. But here's something I wasn't expecting. Senator Fetterman... is all in for an attack on Iran. He posted on X, we cannot negotiate with Iran.

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It's time to destroy their nuclear program and neutralize the remaining capabilities of its proxies. I remain steadfast with Israel, provide whatever is necessary to carry this out. Now, does that sound like he's our senator or does that just sound like he's working for Israel? You know, I hate to be the guy who says, oh, our politicians are just working for Israel.

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But why would he talk like this? He's talking exactly like he's just a politician in Israel. I'll tell you, I definitely don't trust him after this. Because I had kind of a positive opinion of him because he was sort of commonsensical. But he doesn't seem to be America first. this definitely looks like Israel first. So, I don't know.

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Put that in your Fetterman box and evaluate it any way you want. Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, Israel's security cabinet voted to approve new ground operations in Gaza... that would include occupying the Gaza Strip. Now, the way it's written, it would suggest that the Israeli military and other resources would essentially occupy and be in control on the ground in Gaza.

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But they're still acting like the civilian population of Gazans would still be there. I'm not sure that's the intention. I've got a feeling that at some point Israel will clear out all the tunnels because they have to have some presence there to actually get rid of the tunnels in the last of Hamas.

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But then it's going to be way too dangerous to let anybody back in because there'll be so much toxic everything because everything's destroyed. So I've got a feeling that the next play will be that, well, we can't let the residents come back right away because it's going to take a few years to clean this up. We better find some other place to put them in another country.

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You know, there's always, for a while now, there's been a technology where you can get a private full body scan just in case there's anything going on in your body that you didn't know about. But a lot of people found that when they did those scans, they would kind of routinely find things they didn't know about. And then they'd be all panicked about, well, no, what's wrong with my liver?

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I just don't see the Gaza residents ever going back to Gaza. I think Israel is just going to control it and depopulate it and then build back something. And I don't know who's going to be there, but it won't be the Hamas-loving population that was there. That's just my guess. I've got some questions about the trade negotiations with China.

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One of our problems with China trade is that they steal our IP. They steal our ideas and they steal our technology and stuff. And I thought, if that's one of the big things that we need to get fixed, how could that possibly be fixed? Because I don't believe there's any mechanism. I don't think there's a court that we would trust that wouldn't just be Chinese puppet court.

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How would we ever build a system that we were satisfied that would prevent China from stealing our IP. What would stop them from doing it? Because mostly I think they would just say, we don't do that. I think that's the best you're going to get. Oh, no, we'd never do that. No, no. Oh, okay, maybe one company did that. Oh, no, oh, no, a second company did it.

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Well, yeah, we'll tell them to cut that out. I don't think that's solvable. So unless you built some international body that China was willing to give up some sovereignty to, and I can't imagine that happening, and if it were a Chinese court, let's say China said, all right, we'll start our own court that only handles these IP complaints. Would you ever trust it?

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Because the Chinese court would probably rule for the Chinese company every time. So to me, this seems unsolvable. I feel like we just have to run away and just get out of China. We'll see. All right. And then China's also talking about the fentanyl. I don't believe that's real either.

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I think China just wants to act like they're doing something, like they have before, and just keep the fentanyl flowing. So I think that that's probably a non-starter. I don't know if we could ever reach a deal with China. If we're serious about fentanyl and we're serious about the theft of IP, I don't know what that would even look like. It's easy to imagine a deal that has to do with tariffs.

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because you just say, okay, whatever your tariff is, that'll be our tariff too, or something like that. But these other things are actually unsolvable, because China would have no interest in solving them whatsoever. And so they could just pretend they were doing something and not do anything. So that's all I got for today. It's a weird day in the news.

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I'm going to say a few words privately to the subscribers on Locals and the rest of you. Thanks for joining. We'll see you same time tomorrow if you're on X or Rumble or YouTube. And Locals, coming at you privately.

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Even if there's nothing wrong. Well, Target, the store, according to the Postmillennial, is going to cut back on the self-checkout. Guess why? Why do you think Target stores are going to get rid of their self-checkout? Now, they say cut back, but I think that means in certain locations they'll get rid of it. It's because of theft.

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So apparently people just pretend they're self-checking and then just take their stuff. it's theft yeah so i think that probably has everything to do with the location of the store and you know in my neighborhood Probably even in Mind Everyone, there'd be a little theft, but probably not a lot. Here's an update on TikTok. Does it seem like the TikTok story just sort of disappeared?

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If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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You know, for a long time, there was all this activity and there were people putting together offers and And then it just sort of disappeared. And I think what's going on is that China is not going to say yes to a TikTok merger or purchase as long as our trade war is going on. So Trump is likely going to extend again the deadline for TikTok to find a buyer.

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But he's very pro-TikTok because TikTok was good to him in the election. Anyway, so apparently the P. Diddy trial starts today. They're going to look for jurors. And I was thinking to myself, I can't think of a trial I would less want to be on. Because you would hear things that would just disturb you for the rest of your life. And probably there's going to be pictures and images and oh my God.

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But on top of that, I would also be worried about being murdered. Is that a good enough reason to not serve on a jury? Has anybody ever said, you know, I wouldn't mind serving on the jury, but I don't want to get murdered. I was thinking about that because some time ago I was famous for the Dilbert stuff. So I was already well known and I went to jury duty.

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And the case was about a meth dealer who was well armed. So he had guns and he was a meth dealer. And I thought to myself, what is different between me and all these other jurors? The thing that's different is he could probably figure out who I am. And if I put him in jail, what happens when he gets out? He's going to know exactly one person who voted to put him in jail.

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I thought, that doesn't seem like the safest thing in the world. I'd rather be anonymous. So that's one of the things you think about when you're a public figure is if you do jury duty, the defendant knows who you are and they know how to find you. That's not a comfortable situation. So I wouldn't want to be in the ditty jury. So Stephen A. Smith is still teasing a run for president.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Ah, terrific. Well, you'd be surprised to hear that according to Daily Coffee News, There was a study of 6,000 adults, and they found out that coffee does have a protective effect against dementia.

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I don't think he's going to do it, but I love the fact that he's using the Donald Trump method. where for years he just keeps teasing like he's going to do it. And it's probably really good for his ratings and his image and everything. But he said, I believe that if I did take this very, very seriously and I move forward and I decided that I wanted to be a politician, do I believe I could win?

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You're damn right. Maybe he could. But he said that the Democratic Party would need to be, quote, purged before he could run as a Democrat. I guess he's a registered independent, but he would run as a Democrat. Now, what do you think that means, purged? It looks to me like everybody involved in the Democratic Party at the leadership level is a negative.

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If you can name them, in other words, if you know their name, and they're a Democrat leader, they're probably more negative than positive because they don't have much of a bench there. So what he says, purged, I think that would be the top 30 famous people. You'd have to get rid of all of them before you'd be willing to run. So I don't think he's going to run for president.

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There's a new gizmo, according to New Atlas, that shoots UV light at your food in your refrigerator, and it will keep your food fresher longer, because the UV light kills whatever germs it is that spoils your food. And it made me wonder... I don't know about you, but I like to have fresh fruit and stuff.

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And if you buy, let's say, two or three different kinds of fresh fruit, it's hard to eat them before they go bad. so couldn't people cut their food costs down quite a bit by never having anything go bad in the refrigerator i feel like you could save money on this somehow it's not so this thing is uh it's been invented and it works but makes me want my entire refrigerator to have that uv light

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All right, so as you know, the Democrats say that Republicans want to cut Medicaid. But Trump says he's not going to come Medicaid. And, you know, the leaders say we're not going to come Medicaid, maybe just some fraud and abuse, but we're not going to cut the benefits. But it turns out that the people noodling over the budget, the Republicans noodling over the budget are looking at maybe capping

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how much the federal government covers for the states. So Medicaid is kind of a state thing that is partially funded by the federal government. And so the weasels in the Republican Party, and it's not all of them, but we don't know which ones, some of these weasels are coming up with an idea of balancing the budget by just moving the expense onto the states.

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So in other words, they say, well, the most we can pay you, California, is this per person, and it will never go up. I guess at the moment, the federal government pays for whatever it is. So whatever the amount is that's the actual amount, the federal government just writes its check for its portion of it. But if they said, all right, we're going to cap it, we'll only pay this much per person,

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that would mean that all the extra costs would move to the states. And I think to myself, Are the Republicans really going to try that? I don't think they will. But that would be the most weaselly, disgusting thing I've ever seen. So you're saying it's a smart move. It's not a smart move because it would just bankrupt the states. And as a resident, I'd still...

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Some kind of dog fight going on outside. As a resident, I would still have to pay for it. So if I'm paying the same amount, I don't care if it's the federal government. So this is very weaselly. But I don't see how they get to any kind of a decent budget without cutting stuff. And it looks like they can't cut stuff.

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According to the Gateway Pundit, you know your favorite New York Attorney General, Letitia James. I guess she's working with some other attorney generals and they're going to come up with a lawsuit against Trump. And the lawsuit will be to prevent him from cutting health and human services. So to prevent him from cutting healthcare funding. Don't they need to wait until there's actually a budget?

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So they're planning to sue him over the cuts that he says he's not going to make. Now, that's pretty aggressive. So good luck, Letitia James. I think if she can stay out of jail with her own problems, that would be a good success. Apparently, one of the things that Doge succeeded at, that maybe they'll never get enough credit for,

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So if my audience has a low level of dementia, now you know why. It's all the coffee. I saw a post on X from the government office of nuclear energy, and they were touting this microreactor, a nuclear microreactor called the Marville. And it's the size of a car, and it has enough energy to power 10 homes. Now, does that sound like something that could be practical?

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is they put in an automated payment verification system in the treasury. So it used to be that if somebody submitted something for payment, it just got paid. There was nobody checking to see if it was a legitimate charge. And in the first week alone, it blocked $334 million in improper payments. I got this from the Amuse account on X. Now, does that sound real?

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Do you think that in the first week, just one week, that there were 334 million improper payments? Or is it more likely that they might have been a mix of proper and improper payments, but some of them had the wrong code on them or somebody didn't follow the rules? I don't know. There's been a lot of over-claims on the Doge stuff, so I'd be a little careful on that one.

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But, as I said, I think the big benefit of Doge is just the idea that there should be somebody checking the expenses and that they'll put something in place to do it like that. Well, there's somebody who worked on Doge, has created a startup that's going to try to replace a bunch of government workers with AI agents. So we're finally at the point where that's on the border of being practical.

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And apparently it would save some immense amount of money. But the best thing would be if you had to reach somebody in the government, instead of that being one person or a limited number of persons, that everybody would be able to get through to the AI agent. Did my lights just go off again? It's so weird. All right, fixed. Seems like poltergeist. Some kind of poltergeist problem.

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Anyway, so this, according to Wired, they've got an article on it. So this could be kind of exciting because it's the right person, you know, somebody who is involved with Doge. So they got to figure out all the places in the government that you could put an AI agent. Could be a big money saver. We'll see. Well, 60 Minutes said some more fake news on Trump.

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The only reason it's safe is that we don't give a shit about their tiny population of Greenlanders, and we wish them well. When I say we don't give a shit, I don't mean that we dislike them. We like them. I mean, Don Jr. went there. They got along great. They seem like terrific people. And I hope that they get as much autonomy as they want, and I hope they do great. But if the U.S.

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military is the only military in the country, I'm not sure you can exactly say that that's autonomous. But if it works for them, and it might, it might, as long as we agree to leave them alone politically, because they're not doing anything that would hurt us, right? They're completely harmless. They have no ill will toward the United States. We have no ill will toward them.

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Maybe they can just do their thing, get richer, maybe make some deals with America. Maybe there'll be some American enterprise working there, give them some more jobs. To me, it's all upside. It looks like it's all upside for them and us. So it looks like the Trump effect is going to make something happen in Greenland that's good. Let's check on Mexico. Let's see.

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The funniest thing that happened recently, it wasn't yesterday, but the Mexican government agreed or offered that they would work with the U.S. military against the cartels. Do you have any problem with that? The Mexican government offered to work with the U.S. military to get the cartels. Does anybody see a problem with that? Like the government is the cartel? Or at least works closely with them?

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The last thing our military is going to do is allow the leaks in the government to destroy all their military plans. There isn't the slightest chance that the U.S. military, if they were to plan an attack on the cartels, there's not the slightest chance they would tell the Mexican government what they were planning to do. That would just be telling the cartels. Everybody knows that.

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So it's kind of hilarious that the Mexican government would say, hey, why don't we help with our military? And you can imagine the U.S. military saying, thanks for the offer. I think we're good. I think we're good. We'll take care of this. So that's happening. Meanwhile, P. Hegseth is heading to the border, and he says he's going to observe the military deployment there.

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Again, this is perfect presidenting. Now, that doesn't mean that the president ordered Hegseth to go to the border, but don't you feel better about everything when the leader goes and he's there on site? no matter how many times he doesn't, he or she, whenever the leader goes to the place, we all feel better. And we know that. But when it was Biden, he couldn't go to the place.

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And I don't think enough of his people did either. So, yeah, the power of just going to that place, whatever that place is, if you're a leader, very powerful. And Trump administration uses that really well. Now, I think that Hegseth is probably doing a lot more than just checking out the deployment to stop people from crossing the border.

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I assume he's also having conversations about offensive attacks on the cartels. Now, in the context of that, we have this report that the cartels allegedly attacked have authorized using deadly drones against Border Patrol if needed. I don't think the cartels are going to do that. Certainly not if it's ordered from the top. They're not going to do it. Because it would be crazy.

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It would be crazy for them to give the U.S. the green light. If the cartels kill one American service person or even injure them, It's so on. You realize that we've got 350 million people who are just saying, go, go, do it, do it, do it. Don't shoot us. But we're certainly rooting for the military to get rid of some cartel leaders. So we'll see what happens there. Well, how about Canada? Canada.

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Just to be clear, there's no accusations about anything with the daughter. But he's being accused of some bad behavior with a daughter. Now, I don't know if it's true. He's innocent until proven guilty, unless it might be a civil thing. I think it might be a civil thing, not a criminal thing. But I'm not sure. Actually, I'd need a fact check on that. Is it criminal or civil?

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So Canada has a unique, they've got a strategy for fighting back against the United States. I don't know if you saw it on the weekend, but they sent their designee who would act sad. So on one hand, you've got Trump who is putting tariffs on Canada that are so big it could destroy their entire economy and their country. And the response is to tell us it makes us feel sad. It makes us feel sad.

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We were so friends. But we were such good friends. Why would you do this? It makes us feel sad. But we're all sad now. What if we stop being friendly? We were so friendly, but now we're sad. So that's their defense. So it turns out that the biggest export of Canada was testosterone. Yeah. there's something about they're also going to have some tariffs on American stuff that we don't care about.

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We may never even notice because the difference in size of our markets is such that their tariffs won't have the same effect as our tariffs. But it gets better. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, he's not going to have any of this American bullying. So he's decided that He's not going to give contracts to Americans for some stuff they're doing in Ontario, to which I say, oh, wait a minute.

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Why would Americans get those contracts in the first place? I can only think of one reason, that they were the best bid. So to hurt us, they're going to use the people who are not as good to build their stuff. Okay, good luck with that. There was a reason you picked American companies, but hey, if you can do it on your own, let's see. But here's the best part.

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He decided that he was going to turn off access, at least in Ontario, to Starlink. Who taught Canada how to fight? They're going to turn off their own internet? What? They're going to turn off their own internet to teach us a lesson. But they're also sad. They're sad, too. So it's not just that they're turning off Starlink for their rural and poor population. They're also sad.

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So you put those two together, I don't know what Trump's going to do about it. Oh, my, oh, my. Anyway. So those are the silly countries. So now we know how the silly countries act. How about China? Now, say what you will about China. They're a pretty serious country, right? They're not like the silly ones.

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So what did China do when it entered what looked like a trade war with the United States when the United States said it was going to raise the tariff by 10%? China, the most rational country in the world, said, oh, well, that would be a trigger to have larger trade talks. And then we say, oh, yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's what we want. Let's have some larger trade talks.

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And apparently they may have made some promises to further reduce fentanyl precursor exports, which they say they weren't doing. So China went from, we're not producing any fentanyl, to, let's talk, by the way, we'll try to reduce all the fentanyl. Wait, you just said you don't have fentanyl, that you already fixed that problem? Yeah, yeah, we fixed it.

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But all I could think about was that. And every person they showed on screen, I thought to myself... Did you have to, you know, go to a ditty party to get where you're at? Because I wonder. So the whole thing to me looked like a bunch of sex offenders and their victims. And they were dressing in drag and looking like they were all on LSD.

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But we'll fix it way better if we have these comprehensive talks. Well, I don't expect China to do anything on fentanyl because they have a track record of promising and not doing it. But now we've got a hammer, and it's the tariffs, and I don't think they're going to avoid them I don't think Trump is... Here's what we did wrong before.

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When they promise to do something, we've pulled back on any punishment. Now, I'll need a fact check on that, but I think that's the case. Shouldn't we keep the punishment on until we see results? I mean, if the punishment is tariffs, shouldn't we keep them on until the fentanyl stops coming from China? Why would we take off the pressure when we know they lie about this exact thing all the time?

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Well, we'll see what happens. Let's see how South Africa is doing. Trump just cut off American funding for South Africa, which was $660 million a year, and $400 million of that was for AIDS, to battle AIDS. in that country, but also a lot of it was for education and economic development.

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And Trump basically said that bad things are happening over there, that the government is confiscating land and treating certain classes of people, white people, very badly, all in caps. Now, I went to perplexity and I said, what percentage of the GDP would $660 million be? It's not much. I mean, it's less than 1% of their GDP.

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So they can fund all those things if they want to move their priorities around. So I'm not even sure why we were involved in giving them so much money. If it's a tiny part of their GDP, it kind of means they didn't need it. but it was expensive. So maybe it was just to control them or, I don't know, seem like we're good people or something.

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But according to perplexity, it's based on a fake issue and that the fact that farmers are being attacked is not about white farmers. Yeah, according to perplexity, which I'm pretty sure wants to do business in China, the attacks on the farmers include black farmers. So there you go. You thought that it was against white farmers, but perplexity says black farmers also have been attacked.

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So it's not really about the white farmers, is it? According to perplexity. No, I don't believe any kind of search engine that says anything about China. Can we agree on that? I don't believe anybody in the NBA who says anything about how good China is. There are some entities that by their nature you should not trust whatsoever.

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And one of them is the news, and the other is search engines, and the other is anything anybody in the NBA says about China. None of that you could believe. So I do believe that probably some black farmers have been victims of crime. But I think the bigger picture is the way farmers are being driven out. That's my guess.

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I'll take a fact check on that, but I don't believe anything that perplexity tells me on China. Otherwise, it's a great app. I recommend it. Well, here's a little announcement for those of you who are, if you're subscribing to Dilbert, either on the locals platform where you get the politics as well, but if you only want Dilbert and no politics, you could subscribe on the X platform.

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And if you did, on one week from today, you'll see that Dilbert will be joining the Doge Project. So Dilbert will go to D.C. He will be recruited by Elon Musk himself. And he will go to work on the Doge Project. So look for that. The subscription button is on X in my profile. $3 a month. Worth it. All right. Let's talk about Doge.

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And I thought to myself, it's not just because I'm old, right? Now, I get that at some age you don't connect with the modern music. But I've never really had that problem. You know, if the music is good, I tend to like it, no matter what genre it is or anything else. But there was just something deeply, disturbingly broken about the vibe of the whole thing.

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I don't know about you, but a number of people said the same thing. I was just glued to X for the last several days in a way that's making me sick. I mean, just so much overload of new stories coming out, and they're all a little bit complicated because you have to understand some context, but so much, so much.

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So I'm going to do my best to try to explain it to you who are not following it closely. It's worth following closely. It's the most fascinating thing I've ever seen. If you're going to follow it closely, I recommend Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z. So follow him on X and you'll get all the context you need and just really well explained.

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But let me just say that for now, you know, the Democrat attack on the Doge thing was that, oh, it's an unelected government and Musk is really in charge. trying to make it a thing to put a wedge between Trump and Musk. But they've, again, praised each other in the news. Musk says he loves Trump, literally loves him. And Trump's saying Musk is doing a great job with the Doge stuff.

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But here's my take. I think Trump is the only person who could have made this work. And by this, I mean allowing Trump Elon Musk to have as much say and as much influence over the cost cutting as possible. And the only reason he's the only one who could do it is he has unnatural confidence. That's what we like about him. He's unnaturally confident.

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So when you bring in a threat to Trump, I don't even think he sees it that way. And he shouldn't, because the one thing that Trump brings that nobody's ever brought as a president is the boss charisma of all boss charismas. Now, some of it is for effect, right? He knows the show. He understands how to put on the show.

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But genuinely, in addition to the show, he has the most boss charisma I've ever seen. Now, Elon Musk has the sort of leadership charisma that we've never seen either. But if you put them together, Musk would overshadow anyone else. Anyone else. This wouldn't work because the president wouldn't be strong enough in our minds.

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Not just in reality, but in our minds, we wouldn't say, oh, this Jimmy Carter can control this situation, right? Would we have said, oh, don't worry. Biden is really the boss. No, you would never say that because you wouldn't believe it. And you could even go through some Republicans if they were president. Would you really think they were in charge if you saw Musk running wild?

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He's not running wild. He's authorized to do everything he's doing. But I think we have to take a moment to recognize how special this is. Trump is the only person, the only person who could make this work. Nobody else has the confidence. Nobody else has the boss charisma that even when it's done, you can look at him and say, yeah, Trump was in charge. He was in charge the whole way.

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So you're going to see Trump maybe reverse some of the decisions. And he's hinted that he would do that. There's some that he's not completely on board with. Some he will be. Some he might get talked into. But yeah, nobody else could make that work. It's a very, very special situation. Anyway, let's talk about what Doge is doing. There is a heart of the deep state.

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And I think it's because the Diddy thing just is like a wet blanket on the whole situation. But then Ye shows up with his wife, or not wife, wife? Yeah, wife, Bianca Sensore. And as he likes to do, she drops her fur jacket for the cameras and is wearing only a transparent cover-up that doesn't cover anything.

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And I didn't know if Doge could find it. Because I thought, man, they're going to try to drill everywhere at once. And they're not going to know how to decipher the government. It's too complicated. And the money is flowing in so many directions. You'll never know exactly who's funding what or who's behind everything.

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And so I said to myself, you know, the best person in the world to decipher the complexity is, you know, Elon Musk and whoever he picks to do it. I mean, you couldn't get better people. But I still thought it's beyond what a human can do. Like no matter how smart the human is, I thought, nah, never going to get there. But this is where Mike Benz comes in.

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Because Mike Benz for the last several years has been detailing the architecture of the, I'll call it the deep state, and you could argue whether that's a good name or not. But he's detailed where the money goes, where the real power is, which entities are essentially fake cutouts for intelligence, et cetera. And so the Doge team had a map. They had a map. They were not drilling randomly.

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I'm pretty sure, and this is not confirmed, but common sense tells you it's true, because Benz and Musk, they're familiar with each other's work. So you don't have to wonder if they're familiar with Mike Benz. They are. They're very familiar. And I think that was the big break. I think that Benz has a place in history that I don't know if he'll ever be fully appreciated for what he's done so far.

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He's not even done. But, oh my God, I think it made this possible. So, but then you've got the complexity, right? You might drill in the right place, but you're immediately going to be lost in complexity. Except, it turns out that Musk may have hired just the right autists for the job, right?

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There are reports that he has really young people and really brilliant people, and they can handle just about any level of complexity, but it gets better. They might be using AI. They might be using AI so that they can use their own intelligence to get purchase, right? They can get in there and grab on.

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And then before they're forced to release by the overwhelming complexity and bureaucracy of it, they can use the AI to figure out where the tendrils are and figure out where to start snipping it. And that's what they're doing. So I'll explain more about this in a moment. But the deep heart of the deep state appears to be one or two entities, and the biggest among them is something called USAID.

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USAID. not to be confused with anything about AIDS, it has nothing to do with that, although there may be some funding for that too. And it's not for aid to other countries. It is specifically for manipulating and controlling other countries and also for controlling the United States via a mechanism by which the funding of external entities

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allows the government to do things, our government, to do things that would be illegal if they'd funded it directly. How bad is it? Well, would you like some examples? So this is a $50 billion entity that most of you have never heard of, right? In the comments, tell me, unless you're following Mike Benton's, you've probably never heard of USAID. $50 billion budget.

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Here's some of the things that they've done. Let's see. God, there's so many things they've done. Here's some of the things they've done. They do capacity building in other countries. You should know what that phrase means, capacity building. What that means is they create organizations and they fund them in other countries so that they can use them later to control the other country.

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She's literally just naked with something that's like a dress but not, you know, because it's transparent. And they make sure everybody gets a good look and everything. And I'm trying to think, well, what's behind that? It's not mental illness. And Ye may have some issues with mental illness. But I don't think that's what's behind that. It looks strategic.

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So, for example, it might be a labor union they get control of or some other charity group that's big or basically any entity they can control. So the USAID would be the funding for the spies and things to control other countries.

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But they might be controlling our country too, because if it's the same entity that funds people in other countries that say, hey, we're going to censor X, well, maybe that's not for the benefit of the other countries.

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Maybe that's how the United States, the deep state, controls Elon Musk, by funding something in another country that turns out to come back to the United States as a, hey, you can't do that in Europe. So you can't make money. So you can't have X anymore because you won't be able to make enough money because you can't operate in Europe, for example.

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So there are all these dirty tricks that involve our government giving money to somebody in another country so that they can do the thing that our government can't do directly. How bad is it? When Elon Musk said to Trump, we should get rid of the entire thing, and it has a vast, just a vast number of things it's involved in, Trump said, yes, the whole thing is going to be erased.

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The entire fucking thing. Here's what else they've done. Besides capacity building and overthrowing other governments and censoring Americans, they funded the EcoHealth Alliance. Do you remember them? Oh, no, our government never, we never funded that Wuhan lab. What are you talking about?

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No, no, there's no record of the government of the United States funding the Wuhan lab and their coronavirus stuff. No. Oh, they did fund USAID, and USAID did fund EcoHealth Alliance, and EcoHealth Alliance did fund the Wuhan lab, but not the American government. No. See, that's how they do it.

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If there's anything deeply illegal and wrong that the public wouldn't want to know we did, they do it that way. Did you know, and this one blew my mind, you know the Soros prosecutors? This is another Mike Benz discovery. The Soros prosecutors. So we know that George Soros, now Alexander Soros, has funded various prosecutors and people like that in different states.

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And using it to do what to the United States, we don't know. But it turns out, The Soros was only the second biggest funder for the so-called Soros DAs. Do you know what was the biggest funder of the Soros DAs? USAID. It was coming from inside the house. Oh, my fucking God. It was coming from inside the house the whole time.

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And we didn't know it until Doge got a hold of the documents that are now becoming public. Wow. So just imagine that every bad thing that could happen that you wouldn't want to happen went through the same entity, basically. And there's another entity involved with that. It's got some other letters in the name I'll remember in a minute. All right, but here's the thing.

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Oh, the National Endowment for Democracy. I think that's the one Victoria Nuland's on. But here's the fun part. When Doge starts pulling these strings, there's a certain group of people who emerge like prairie dogs. Boop. Their little heads pop up to complain. Those are the deep state operatives.

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Now, maybe there'll be some exceptions, but I think you're going to find out the entire architecture of the bad guys because they're the ones who are going to start fighting this the hardest. So here are the prairie dogs that I think you're going to see fighting the hardest. Probably AOC, check. Suddenly AOC really cares about keeping this funding.

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You're going to see Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Swalwell, Maybe Brennan Clapper seems to be in hiding, but if he came out of hiding, he'd probably say, oh, we should fund it. Have you noticed that Hillary is quiet? Nobody's been more quiet than Hillary lately. What's up with that? Hillary used to say a lot, and now she's kind of quiet lately. We'll find out. And then Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders.

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It looks like he knows how to get attention. But it looks to me like revenge on his ex-wife. Now, I'm just reading minds here. I have no idea what anybody's thinking. But when I watch him go that far over the top... It's almost like he's sending a message to Kim Kardashian that maybe you should calm down your, let's say, sexual presentation of your brand while you've got kids.

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Here's what Bernie Sanders says about the whole Doge thing.

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All right, let me put that in a summary. Here are two things that everyone knows don't work for Democrats. All right, two things that don't work. One is identity politics. And the other is saying, bleeding, if you will, bleeding like a sheep. Trump's going to steal our democracy. That's my impression of a sheep bleating.

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His kleptocracy. So those are two things that Democrats know for sure don't work. Identity politics and believing that Trump will steal your democracy. So what are Sanders and the rest of the Democrats doing about that? Well, it looks like they're going to double down on identity politics and say even louder that Trump's going to steal your democracy.

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That's all they have. They don't have anything else. So that's fun. We're also seeing Norm Eisen and somebody named Mark Zaid. They're claiming that the firing of the DOJ people and the FBI is violating their due process. So really, the identities of everybody on the Hillary Clinton, Obama, deep state, worst people in the world list, they're all coming out. They're prairie dogging.

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So every single person you see who pops up their head and says, oh, Musk is running the country. He's an oligarch. You can identify the deep state. Their disguise is completely blown now, or their undercover is completely blown. That's fun. As Elon Musk said on X, he said, one lesson I remember from the PayPal days, the PayPal days, he said, Do you know who complained the loudest? The fraudsters.

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There would be a media over-the-top indignation from the fraudsters. Normal people will say, quote, I think there's something wrong. But fraudsters will come hot out the gate with fake outrage. Huh. Fraudster fake outrage.

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Huh. That feels like coming out of the gate hot with fake outrage. I guess he called it. They'll claim that they're a single mom with kids and blah, blah, blah, blah. So that's how you find the fraudsters. All right. Do you remember when...

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Do you remember when Schumer said, it was a few years ago, several years ago, he was on Rachel Maddow's show, and he said that Trump was messing with the intelligence community, and that was dumb because the intelligence community, quote, has six ways from Sunday to get back at you. Now, how do you interpret that other than Schumer working for the intelligence community?

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And when I say working for them, I don't mean they pay him. I mean, Schumer's their bitch because he told us that, right? If he says you don't go against the intelligence community because they will get back at you and it would be stupid to do it, doesn't that admit that he would not do it? Doesn't that admit if they told him to dance, he would dance?

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If they told him to jump off a ledge and break his leg, he would jump off a ledge and break his leg. I mean, what else does it mean? He's telling us directly, you can't go against our own intelligence community or you'll pay for it. Now, connect that to USAID. So USAID was sort of a multi-faced outfit. So they would do stuff for the State Department.

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Because I believe he complained about that, right?

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They would do stuff for the intelligence community. Basically, if anybody had a dark project, they would all go to the same budget because it wasn't really being monitored or audited in the way it should be. Now, at the same time, Musk somehow got access to the treasury payment system so that now they can look at every payment made.

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didn't didn't say yeah he tried to get kim to tone it down because it seemed inappropriate in front of kids so instead of going with that approach of hey maybe you should tone it down in front of the kids he goes with all right if you're not going to tone it down let's see how far we can take it so it's almost like he's challenging kim to say that he went too far

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And apparently the rule in the treasury was to never question any payment, including if they knew it was going to terrorists, they would still have to pay it. Now, I suppose the reason for that was if the intelligence community wanted to put some money into play to get something done, you don't want the Treasury people to say you can't do that because it's already sort of an undercover process.

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So between penetrating the U.S. aid and having access to the Treasury payments... And then you add all of Elon's alleged autists. And then you add AI. Oh, my God, this is going to be fun. As they keep drilling down. So, yeah, we certainly found out who's in charge of the country. We'll see if that changes. Democrats are doing great. The New York Times did some reporting on Sunday.

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I guess they went and talked to a bunch of Democrats to find out what their strategy is. And the Democrats say, we don't have a strategy and we're all in trouble and there's no leader. But they got a quote from the one I call the dumbest Democrat, Representative Jasmine Crockett. Now, I love when she's in the news. Because she honestly seems to be the dumbest Democrat. But she's also loud.

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I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's happening now. So satisfying. Well, did anybody watch the Grammys last night? If you did, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did anybody have the experience I had? I tried to watch a little bit of it, and I was just so grossed out.

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So if you're loud and dumb, it's just extra fun. So here's what Jasmine Crockett says, Representative Crockett. She says, quote, we have no coherent message. Okay. So far, that's what a lot of Democrats say. So that's not dumb. That's not dumb at all. We have no coherent message. But she goes on. But she's talking about Trump when she says this. She goes, this guy is psychotic. Psychotic.

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Let's see. Did anybody else say anything about him? Let's see. Sanders.

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But maybe it's a rapid growth of psychotic behavior, too. Let's throw that in the list, because that works. That's a good strategy. Throw in these vague insults. That'll get them. That'll get Trump. He just buckles when you insult him. Nobody ever thought of it. Then she goes on and she says, this guy is psychotic and there's so much. Good point. There's so much.

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He's not only going to steal your democracy and be a kleptocracy, but there's so much. There's just so much. And then she goes on, but everything that underlines it is white supremacy and hate. There it is. And that's why you're the dumbest member of the Democrats. Did nobody give you the memo that this is exactly why you lost? This is exactly why you lost. It's this. Anyway.

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And he says, there needs to be a message that is clear on at least the underlying thing that comes with all this. So she'd like the Democrats to really focus on the white supremacy. Because that'll get you elected. Anyway. So here's what I think.

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If the Democrats agree, and they all seem to agree, that they don't have a coherent message going forward, what does that tell you about the message they had? Why would they abandon the message that they felt so strongly about? You know, all the messages of the last four years. Why would they give up on all the things they were fighting to the death for? I can only think of one reason.

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They knew it wasn't real. Right? Did the Uyghurs stop fighting? No, because their issue is still the same today as it was yesterday. But the Democrats just decided they need a new strategy. If you need a new strategy, it means all the things you were trying to sell, you knew were bullshit, or you found out were bullshit.

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Because that would be a win to say that he went too far. So this might be entirely just a drama between two people that's being played out in front of the world. And that's just a guess. Just a guess. Because it's hard to imagine what would be any other reason for it. Ye's wife has resting hostage face. You know, I don't think that's what's going on.

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How in the world would you ever trust somebody who said, let's reinvent ourselves as a completely different thing and care about different things? Like, who would trust that? You know, at least the Republicans have largely been Republicans for a long time, you can kind of anticipate what a Republican will do in any situation.

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Now, a MAGA Republican is a special brand, but you can predict them as well. And I guess you can predict what Democrats will do, which is whatever is the dumbest fucking thing you can do. So why is it that Democrats had any power at all when their message and their priorities were just flat out stupid? And the answer is they control the media.

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If you control the media, you can sell to half of the country that stupid things are smart things. And that's what they did. They sold to half of the country that stupid things were smart things. And then when Trump basically destroyed the legacy media with Elon Musk and X, once the legacy media was so crippled that it couldn't do what it normally does,

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Then it became obvious that they were selling bad ideas from the start. They only had bad ideas. That's it. So, yeah, the destruction of the legacy media makes everything a lot more clear. Here's a funny story according to Newsmax Money. So Obama is building a presidential library and he's being sued by one of the subcontractors for racism. That's right. Obama is being sued for racism.

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No, not Obama. I think probably just whatever the entity is that's building the library. Probably not him personally. So what does your mind say? Your brain automatically goes to, oh, there probably was some white contractor who didn't get a deal, right? So the white contractor is going to sue Obama for and claim that only the black contractors got the jobs, right? Nope. Nope.

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That's not what it is. Turns out it was a black contractor who was suing for racism, suing the Obama Library Project for racism, saying that they discriminated against them for being black. Now, the counterargument is that the subcontractor did not perform and wasn't even close to doing a good job. That's the counterargument. So that's happening.

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So in other words, the contractor, if you believe the counterclaim, the contractor was picked because he was black. In other words, it was probably a DEI decision, meaning that the Obama library couldn't really be built by a bunch of white people. I mean, You can kind of see how that wouldn't be the ideal look, not what he's going for.

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So he went with the DEI choice, and the DEI choice allegedly failed to perform. And now the DEI choice that failed to perform is suing them, saying that they're discriminating. So the simulation has allowed us to watch as DEI destroys the Obama Library construction project. Talk about everything going well for Trump. The Democrats are in full self-destruction mode in every way.

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Now, you can't say we didn't warn you. Remember, the warning about DEI is not about any individual. It's not about anybody's genes and it's not about anybody's culture. It's just if you artificially constrain yourself to a small population of the public for all of your services, you're probably going to find out that that doesn't work as a system. It's just not a good system approach.

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So yes, DEI as a system probably killed the Obama library. Elon Musk said he's going to have a conversation with Jamie Dimon. We don't know what that's about. But do you remember that Jamie Dimon is the only person who has the following two qualities? He's unambiguously very smart, and he is And he's propping up DEI and says he's going to definitely not back off on DEI.

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Again, I can't read minds, but I'll just tell you the impression I get. The impression I get is that she's submissive by preference, just lifestyle preference. And the fact that he requires her to do things that are way beyond what you would expect a normal person's limit to be might be exactly why she likes him.

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Now, how can both of those be true? How can Jamie Dimon be unambiguously really, really smart? And he is. That's just the fact. He's just really, really smart. But also supporting DEI. Well, I'm guessing that for social reasons and maybe business reasons, it might be a good decision. Because remember, he's very smart. But... times they are a-changing.

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And if I had to guess, the one thing that Musk might be trying to accomplish, since Jamie Dimon seems to be largely in favor of some of Trump's policies, such as the border, such as maybe cutting costs, etc. But wouldn't it be good to get all the smart people on one side, the people that we all look at in the public and say, okay, that's a smart one, that's a smart one, That's not so smart.

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But when Jamie Dimon comes on, everybody says, okay, smart guy talking. We better listen to this. That's what I say. I say, smart guy talking, and I just stop what I'm doing. Because you don't often get to hear from somebody that smart. So if Musk can, I don't want to say persuade, but maybe show Jamie Dimon a context that would allow him to change his own mind, that could be really good.

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Now, I have no idea that that would be even a topic at their meeting. They may have completely other business that they're trying to do. It might be economics, something else. But that's what I want. I want to make sure that the smartest people are solidly against DEI. All right. Here's more of the Musk effect. Remember that Delaware is where a lot of big companies incorporate.

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And then if Delaware doesn't like you, like they had a problem with Elon Musk and his companies, they went after him. They went after his pay package. So Elon moved to Texas as his home country. Now, Delaware doesn't have a lot of things going for it. But one of the few things it does is that it's the place people like to register their corporation.

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So that's presumably a lot of businesses get sent their way. And Bill Ackman just said... to hell with Delaware, and he's moving his corporation to Nevada. I don't know how many more people will do it, but already the governor of Delaware said, we need to fix this. So the governor of Delaware is saying, something's broken on our end. We need to fix this. Yes. Yes. Absolutely.

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This is one of those cases where You want to say, why didn't you do it already? Why'd you wait so long? But I always warn you, don't do that. If he's on board today, good. He's on board. Let's get something done. So maybe Delaware will shape up. There's a, God, the Overton window is working so hard right now that you just can't even focus on anything.

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And I think the Democrats are having trouble finding a way to attack Musk and Trump because they're moving so fast. They don't have anything they can focus on for a few days and really drive some message through. They've got to deal with a brand new thing that's coming like a rocket fire. And one of the new things is Musk wants to end property tax. Now, I understand that because I pay a lot of it.

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So if you're saying, oh, he's abusing her and she's putting up with it and you're watching some kind of crime in action or something, maybe. Maybe. Right. I can't read the minds, but it doesn't look like it to me. It looks like she's a full participant and has agency. And the way she wants to use her own agency is being a part of this thing. So it doesn't look like she's fighting it to me.

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And if you pay property tax, you don't really own your home. It's basically the government stealing your house. Because if you don't pay them, as if it's a lease to your house, except they call it property tax, if you don't pay them, you don't get to live in your house. So you don't really own the house if you're paying property tax. And that's a good argument. But what would happen to California?

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California. My taxes in California are already over 13%. State taxes, 13%. If they got rid of property tax, do you know how much income tax I would have to pay? Probably, I don't know, I haven't done the math, but it would be like 25% state tax added to my federal tax. Would I be paying something like 65% or 70% of every dollar I earn to the government, state or federal?

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I don't know that there's any practical way to get from here to no tax on property. But there might be. I mean, I would have said a lot of things were impossible before they did them. So even if it's not possible... John, you're such a turd. Listen to this useless troll comment. Oh, now Scott's an expert on construction. Is this your first time ever watching a podcast?

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First day on the internet where everybody talks about the topics that are in the news without being experts? You know that's what everyone's doing, right? That's such a dumb comment. That's like extra dumb. I love it when my critics are extra dumb. It just makes me feel good. I don't like having smart critics that bothers me because then I have to examine what I'm doing. It's like, oh, damn it.

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Why did a smart person say I did something wrong? I better look into this. But when dumb people like that comment, oh, Scott's an expert on construction. Let's talk about... Let's talk about Delaware. Oh, Scott's an expert on Delaware suddenly. Suddenly he knows everything about Delaware. So dumb. All right.

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Apparently there's a lawsuit that X is running against some of the major brands that allegedly colluded with each other to put X on a business by not advertising on the platform. and some new big companies have been added to that. I kind of wonder where that's going, because there does seem to be a legitimate claim that there was some illegal collusion to put X out of business.

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Do you think that'll work? Do you think it'll bring back the advertisers or get them some big award? I don't know. I like that he's being aggressive about it. In other news, according to interesting engineering, there's some U.S. scientists who are trying to harvest the mineral nickel from plants.

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So apparently there's some special kind of plants, and I guess you can tweak them a little bit, and the plants will create nickel. And you just harvest the plants, and then instead of mining for nickel... because mining is destructive to the atmosphere and the land, etc., you could just grow plants and get your nickels. Now, I'm wondering, maybe I should become a nickel farmer.

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I mean, I wish I had a nickel for every plant I've grown, but I could. Maybe you could have a nickel for every plant you grow. You'd have to sell the nickels. You'd probably need some kind of a fabrication plant to turn all the plants into just minerals of nickel, but that's kind of cool.

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I don't know. I hope not. I mean, I hope she's not any kind of a victim, but she looks like she's fully, fully on board. Someday she might look back at it and say, I wish I hadn't done that. But that's true of all of us. We all have those things. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. But that's later. Well, MSNBC's January primetime demographic, they're down 41% from this time last year.

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There's also, according to LiveSciences, new fabric that can heat up almost 50 degrees just by having the light hit it, the sunlight. So you can keep people warm enough to stay alive in ultra-cold weather. So it's a smart fabric. After just 10 minutes in the sun, it heats up like crazy. So they figured out how to make it. how to make the fabric be extra, extra absorby of light. That's cool.

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And it made me think if there are other uses for it. But you'd have to be able to turn it on and off. See, the problem is if you made your building with that material, it would keep it warmer, but in the summer it would keep it too warm. And I was thinking, is there any way you could weave this into roads so that a little bit of sunlight would melt would melt the snow that's on the road.

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I wonder if that'd work. So it makes me wonder what else you could do with it. But you probably need to be able to turn it on and off for most purposes. Meanwhile, a UK team, according to the Guardian, figured out a way to avoid cracks in your road and potholes. They've invented a self-healing road. They use tiny plant spores mixed into the bitumen. And it increases your road life for 30%.

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Isn't that fascinating?

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Your road is going to heal itself. All right. So there's the big picture. Doge is just killing it. And I hear the fires in L.A. are now controlled. So the big fires in L.A. are now 100% controlled. Maybe. Maybe. What's this about AOC? Case in point, AOC is a stooge of USAID. So the claim is that AOC was getting some kind of benefit from USAID. Maybe Bernie was too.

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But basically all the people who are complaining the loudest, there's a reason. There's a reason. All right. Now, the thing I don't understand about Doge is the numbers don't add up in my head. So if you got rid of USAID and all the other things they're talking about getting rid of, I think the Department of Education is coming up. What's this?

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So Mike Ben says, case in point, AOC promoting USAID all over X today actually came from a USAID program in college to jumpstart her miracle career. oh, Benz, you've got all the receipts. You've got all the receipts. So remember I told you during the show that the people who complained the most are the ones who have some dark connection to it.

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And it turns out that most of you know AOC was a, let's say an artificially generated politician, meaning that there was a whole process where she was culled from lots of applicants and then trained. to be who she is. Apparently the funding for that came through USAID, just like the funding for everything else you don't like. Do you think there were any Republicans?

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Do you think any Republicans were picked through USAID? How many Republicans do you think are involved in USAID at all? Almost none. It's almost entirely a Democrat structure. Well, that was perfect. Good timing on that. Good work on the comments. Yeah, Bill Kristol also complained, and it turns out he's got some connection. He's the head of something that's being funded by USAID.

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I'm thinking, why would he get any funding or be involved in it anyway? Is it a California refinery? I don't know about that. All right. So I think we've figured out everything that's wrong with the government. We found the beating heart of the deep state and Doge is in the process of driving a stake right through it. But as I was saying, here's the part I don't get about the numbers.

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We're trying to cut, you know, one or $2 trillion out of the budget and

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Have you thought about how hard it would be to be MSNBC in the face of overwhelming success by Trump and Doge? Their only job now is to somehow stop the success. To stop the success. The things that Trump is doing are definitely popular with more than half of the public. Maybe you could find one thing or something that isn't.

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Musk says one would be enough but because we could grow our way out of the rest if we stop spending I don't know that we're going to stop spending that seems ridiculous but okay I don't know how you can take a small part of the budget which is the discretionary stuff where USAID would be if you got rid of all of it it wouldn't be enough would it so I don't understand how working with the part of the national budget

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that isn't possibly enough, can get you 100% of what you need. So there's something wrong with what we understand about it. I don't see any path for Doge to get to paying off a trillion dollars. I have no idea why they're optimistic. But they are. And so I'm going to go with the optimism under the assumption that they know something I don't. And then I hear the number of something like,

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They're saving a billion dollars a day. Well, does that mean $365 billion they've already found in annual expenditures? Or is the billion what they saved over 10 years? See, if you don't know that, you don't really know what's going on, and I don't know that. So I'm skeptical that the big numbers can be hit. I'm not as skeptical...

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on whether they're finding good things to get rid of that the world is better without. And I think that's happening for sure. So I think the government will be more efficient and more responsive when we're done. There'll be some bumps, of course. National STEM Award. Savings actually double fold because of the offset in interest payments.

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Well, ideally, yeah, you get double because you offset in interest payments. But I still don't think that's enough. So I guess I'm skeptical on the numbers, but I love everything they're doing so far. So I'll remain optimistic. What's happening? There's a Mexico deal. Oh my God, there's news breaking right now.

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So this is Trump announcing, I haven't read this yet, but Trump is announcing, I just spoke with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico. Here it comes. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico and the United States.

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These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migration into our country. We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one-month period, during which we will have negotiations headed by Marco Rubio and Scott Besant of Treasury and Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, and high-level representatives of Mexico.

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I look forward to the participation, blah, blah, blah, as we attempt to see... Oh, my God. That's pretty much everything you wanted, wasn't it? I think that's everything you want. For those asking if I'm still left of Bernie, ask a better question. So asking you little gotcha questions, I just am not interested. Oh, you once said this. How does that line up with the new thing you just said?

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I don't care. Nobody cares. That's a gotcha question. So, yeah, looks like Trump's making progress in every country that he's dealing with. Yeah, and Mexico didn't have to turn off their own Internet connections to get it. Maybe they should listen. You know, if the only thing that Canada did was the same thing that Mexico and China did, Canada would be probably in good shape. Who is it?

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Who is their conservative candidate, Pierre? How do you pronounce his last name? Pull of air? What's the name of the conservative guy in Canada? He's not in power, but he could be someday. Okay. All right, you'll see it in the comments. How do you pronounce it?

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But generally speaking, reducing the expenses of the government and closing up the border and getting rid of the pronouns is mostly pretty popular stuff. So if you're the network whose job is to stop the government from doing popular, useful, successful things, I guess people don't watch you so much. It's kind of hard to keep the illusion up that there were ever two sides. Not really.

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Anyway, I saw some video of him saying that the things that Trump was demanding, this was even before Trump did the tariff stuff, that even then he was saying the things that Trump is asking for would be good for Canada too. We want a stronger border, they want a stronger border. We want to stop the fentanyl. They want us to stop the fentanyl. We want to control our immigration.

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They want us to control our immigration. So how could we not reach a deal? Which is a pretty good point. Pretty good point. All right, that's all I got for you now. I'm going to talk to the good people on Locals, my subscribers privately. For the rest of you, thanks for coming. Let's keep watching that stock market. I think it's just taking a shock today, but should... Oh. Let me look at that.

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Oh, here's End Wokeness giving a little summary before I go. So two weeks in, this is what happened.

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Mexico caved, Panama caved, Colombia caved, Venezuela caved, Canada panicking, mass deportations, hostages are home, DEI programs ended, bureaucracy slashed, FBI purges underway, USAID funding canceled, gender ideology eliminated, Doge already saved billions, 51 intel agents lost clearance, border crossings dropped by 93% reservoirs, filled up in California, just to name a few.

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And that is how you end a podcast. All right, everybody. I'll see you tomorrow at the same time. And for the local supporters only, we'll go private in 30 seconds.

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I mean, there was one side that was just like a negative force. Anyway, I keep waiting for Trump to steal my democracy. And, uh, I think it's going to happen any minute now. I mean, I was warned. MSNBC said, he's going to steal your democracy. And I just quake in fear every day that he's going to go steal my democracy. No, don't steal my democracy.

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Anyway, as you know, the five or six viewers who are still watching MSNBC are not going to be fooled by Trump's overwhelming and rapid success. because you know what they know about his overwhelming and rapid success of fixing every problem in the United States? Clearly that's a distraction from his real attempt to steal your democracy. Yeah, he's coming for it. He's coming after your democracy.

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Well, let's check on the Trump effect in other countries, shall we? If the Trump effect is what we say it is, this all-powerful force, it would have an effect on not just domestic stuff, not just on Republicans, but might have an effect on other countries. Let's do a little survey of the other countries and find out. Let's see, France. What's happening in France?

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Oh, Europe's richest man, who's French, Bertrand Arnault, he praised Trump and he said, I just returned from the U.S. and I have witnessed the winds of optimism in that country, he said. Coming back to France is a bit like taking a cold shower. And he's looking to do a lot more business in America because that's the good place to do business. So I guess France just decided that they suck.

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compared to America's winds of optimism. How about Venezuela? We've had a tough time with Venezuela. They've had words, we've had words, and they say, we're not sending our criminals, and we say, you're sending your criminals. And they say, we're not doing that. What are you talking about? And then they say, we're shipping them back. And they say, you can't ship them back.

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They don't exist, or something like that. But Venezuela just agreed to receive back into the country... all the gang members and Venezuelan illegal aliens. So they've agreed to take back everybody we capture in that Trend Aragua group.

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Now, how did that agreement quickly come about? Happened kind of quickly. Well, it turns out that Trump sent his secret weapon to Venezuela, Richard Grinnell. So Richard Grinnell, I didn't know this, but I guess they're going to call him a special envoy. Wow, is he special. It seems like wherever you send Richard Grinnell, something good happens. It's very consistent. What did you do?

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Well, we sent Richard Grinnell and we got some hostages back. What did he do on Tuesday? That's Monday. What did he do on Tuesday? Well, went to Venezuela and arranged for all the criminals in Venezuela to be sent back. Oh. That was a one-day meeting. He did that with one meeting. Yeah, that's what he does. He has one meeting, and then he gets what he wants, and then he goes home.

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And then he's the special envoy for something else. I've never seen a special envoy who was a, what would you call it in baseball, a utility player or somebody who can play every position. Every now and then you get like a baseball player who can literally play every position. You know, very rare. But apparently Grinnell can do that.

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So first of all, the aesthetic, just sort of the look of the whole thing, it seemed to be like a drag queen on LSD. Now again, if you like your drag queens, I don't care what anybody does as an adult, but as a design aesthetic... I don't know. It just looked like it was a little too much of whatever is too much. But here's the overwhelming thing I thought.

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So I guess Trump will just keep sending them wherever something needs to be fixed. How about Panama? Well, while many of you were taking the weekend off, guess what Trump was not doing? Taking the weekend off. Guess what Doge was not doing this weekend? Taking the weekend off. And Musk was bragging that it's like a superpower.

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Because all the enemy goes away for a weekend and then the doge people can do their thing. And since the enemy, I'll say the deep state or whoever wants to prevent them from success, let's call them the enemy in this context. They just don't do the work.

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So Musk comes in with people who do the work and do more than the work and then do more work than you've ever seen anybody ever do and sleep at the office and get up and do more work. How do you compete with that if you're some government bureaucrat? It's like they don't have a chance.

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So anyway, speaking of Panama, so Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, went down there to talk to Panama about the fact that China's got too much control over their operation. And Panama said, you know what? How about we just don't renew their contract? And I guess Rubio said, well, I'll take that back to the president. That might work. Now, did we really want to send the military down to Panama? No.

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Did we want to conquer Panama and make it a state? No. Did we want any military action at all? No. No, we didn't. But here's what Trump can do that nobody else can do. He can make you believe it's coming. And the thing is, he doesn't really bluff. You know, he does hyperbole a lot, but he doesn't bluff. If he says, if you do this, I'm going to do this. He does that.

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And he's so consistent that people know, OK, man, that's not a bluff. If anybody else does things like that, the other side treats it as a bluff first. The first thing you do is treat it as a bluff just to see, you know, maybe you can work with it. But if you know he's not bluffing, you go immediately to the solution. Because everything else would be a waste of time. So you go to the solution.

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Apparently that's what's happening. So Panama is offering this deal. I don't know yet if Trump is going to say this is good enough. He might push again. Because the deal is that Panama would wait two years for their contract with the Chinese that are apparently managing some part of the canal. And they would just go home, I guess. So that's a win. Looks like a clean win.

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It happened so quickly that there was a picture of Rubio getting off the plane. And I posted something on X about, wouldn't it be good to have a quick win? Because it really sets the stage if you have some fast wins. By the time I posted it, It was already being reported that he got a deal. Like, wow. On a Sunday. He's working the weekends, getting deals. Nice.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time in your whole life. But if you'd like to take this experience up to another level, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker shells, a sign, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.

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Well, you've also probably heard that Greenland is getting a little flexible. Now, if you haven't seen a good map of the top of the world, where you can see the extensive, let's say, border of Russia, and you see the passage that Russia wants to have control over through the Arctic, and you see where Greenland is situated.

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One thing that's very clear, and apparently the NATO Secretary General said the same thing, he said, quote, he just agreed with President Trump on Greenland and is calling on Denmark to immediately begin negotiations. So NATO was saying, yeah, this is a risk bigger than we want to take. Greenland has to be controlled by a serious military or it's vulnerable.

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And it's vulnerable in a really bad way. So now we know that, I guess, Denmark has softened to the point of saying, well, the people in Greenland have to decide. And I saw at least one poll that said 57% of Greenlanders want to become part of the United States, but I don't believe that. I think it's more likely that the Greenlanders want to be left alone and have their own autonomy.

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Could you get it out of your mind, all the Diddy stuff? So, in the wake of the Diddy stuff, you know, they got lots of attention on Jay-Z and Beyonce, because Beyonce won, I guess, the album of the year or something. And They brought their 13-year-old daughter. Now, you know that Jay-Z is being accused of something with a 13-year-old, not his daughter, right?

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So it looks like they may have offered that the U.S. can have a lot more military presence in Greenland, but that it wouldn't be controlling the government. Does that work? Let me describe what it means if the entire military in your country is from another country. If you agree that your entire country will be populated with someone else's military, you just handed over the country.

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were partly to blame for Kamala Harris losing. And they're all like, oh yeah, oh yeah, it was the racism and the misogyny. Yep, that's why Kamala Harris lost. Now, think about this. These are the people who are running to be the guiding strategic heads of the party. And every one of them thinks that the problem, the reason that Kamala Harris lost was racism and misogyny. They're not even close.

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Now, I'm not saying that racism and misogyny don't exist. I'm saying that if she'd been qualified, she would have already be president like Obama. No matter what you want to say about Obama, politically, he's gifted, right? So if you're good, like Trump is, Trump is politically gifted. Bill Clinton was politically gifted.

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We keep watching the politically gifted people win no matter what else they got going for them. Trump could be a felon but politically gifted, so he's your president. Obama could be the worst person in the world but politically gifted, he's your president. Kamala Harris could have done everything wrong as long as she was politically gifted, as in could talk in public.

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had to be aware of it. You know, seems like the visibility was good and was also flying hundreds of feet higher than allowed with an instructor on board. How do you fly in illegal space in a crowded area, in illegal space? It wasn't legal to be where it was. How do you do that with an instructor on board in the context of instructions? So we got questions.

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The female thing and the minority thing, were absolutely an advantage. I mean, it's the one thing that gets people to cross over to the other party more than anything. I mean, Obama proved that by winning nearly all the black vote. So yeah, the fact that Kamala Harris couldn't turn her gender and her ethnicity into a plus shows the weakest political gifts we've seen in a long time.

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So anyway, apparently the Democrats have learned nothing So Kash Patel is going through the confirmation process, as is Tulsi Gabbard, as is RFK Jr. I'm not sure when the votes happen for any of them, but it should be soon. But I'm hearing that the Democrats seem really worried about Kash Patel.

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And I think the problem is that he's dedicated to find out what's true, which looks like an existential threat to a lot of the Democrat Party. Knowing that somebody is going to go for the truth no matter what it costs, that would be the scariest thing for the Democrats because, wow, the things we're going to find. Cash mentioned the FBI lying to the FISA, lying to get FISA approvals.

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How the assassination attempt doesn't appear to be as transparent as you think you should be. There's something going on there. So we've got lots of questions. But remember, I always tell you, if you only know what happened, you don't know anything. If you know who is involved, well, then you might know everything.

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So if I told you that there was a senator who pushed really hard on Kash Patel because he didn't think he was the right person for the job, what would that tell you? There's a senator who pushed really hard against Kash Patel, because he didn't think he was the right person for the job.

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If the only thing he knew is what happened, and that's what happened, you'd say to yourself, huh, I guess I would question whether he's the right person. I mean, there are two sides to every story, but if there's a senator, I mean, a senator, that's pretty credible. A senator says he's not capable. I mean, I'd listen to that, right? And then you find out who the senator is. It's Adam Schiff.

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They only send Adam Schiff when they need the designated liars. Now, I've told you this before. There's a small clump of Democrats that only go out to lead the charge when it's a complete lie. The regular Democrats will do the small lies and maybe the political stuff like, oh, we love climate hysteria. They all do that. So those are safe, safe political lies.

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But if you need to do something that's just batshit crazy and the most obvious lying that you could ever do, You send Raskin, you send Swalwell, you send Adam Schiff, you send Brennan, you send Clapper. And if that doesn't work, you get the worse than Watergate guys. Because they'll reliably tell you that whatever the Republicans did lately is worse than Watergate.

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So if you don't know that there's a designated liar group, that they only bring out when they have no truth on their side. They just have no argument based on truth. They have to just completely make something up. Adam Schiff appears every time. Every time. It's not like they use him once in a while. No, every time they need to lie more than normalize, he appears. It's the same fucking guy.

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If you haven't noticed by now, that he's a designated liar and not like a regular politician. Indeed, I think that's the only reason he gets support. I think he's found his niche, which is he can do the serious lying, not just the routine stuff. So he goes after Cash, which makes me think Cash is exactly the right person for the job. I'm done with my research.

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If you tell me that Adam Schiff is trying to derail it, He's my man. I'm done. Honestly, I didn't know enough about Cash to have much of an opinion beyond the vibe I was getting that looked positive to me. But as soon as you tell me Adam Schiff doesn't want him in that job, and really, really doesn't want him in that job, yeah, he's my man. That's the end of my thinking on that topic.

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It may be that we have lots of things wrong. Now, countering the narrative that it was easy to see, which kind of suggests that there was some intentionality there, that's not proven. But I saw another expert saying that if you think it's easy to spot airplanes coming toward you, it's harder than you think.

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Well, Tulsi Gabbard might be having a hard time with the confirmation process. I think the Edwards-Noden issue might be the thing that is a stopper. We'll see. So I don't know. I don't know if people are going to go all the way to the wall for her. I hope they do. But we'll see. I think the Democrats might want to feel like they got a win.

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So they might kind of double down at whoever they think there's a little crack in the defense. So they might just go hard at Tulsi because they would also fear any disclosures or honesty that she brought to the job. And I saw a comment from Tristan Levitt on Axe who's talking about, you know how Tulsi was put on the, what's it called, the Quiet Skies program?

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which means that if she tried to travel by air, she would get all kinds of extra attention that slow things down and might make it hard to even get on your flight. So real pain in the ass. Why do you think she was put on the Quiet Skies program?

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Well, according to Tristan Leavitt, he says, so just to be clear, the New York Times is reporting that Tulsi Gabbard was subjected to enhanced screening in the Quiet Skies program because, checks notes, That's what he wrote, checks notes. She attended a meeting that Mick Mulvaney was in, and he invited her to go along to the Vatican, and it was being organized by the Pope's second-in-command.

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So she traveled with a well-known American political person, Mick Mulvaney, who's legal, right? He's a legal citizen. He's a public figure. He was chief of staff at one point, right, for Trump. This is a well-known public figure. And he went to a meeting in the Vatican, which is one of the most common things that anybody does. And it was arranged by the Pope's second in command.

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That's as up and up as you can get, unless, I suppose, the Pope scheduled it himself, which doesn't happen. And that was it. That was it. They visited the Vatican. And that was enough to put her on this program. So clearly it was punitive. It was using the government as a weapon. I don't think there's any other way to see it. She went postal.

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So the thing we don't know, just to comment on your comments I'm seeing going by, I have not seen confirmation that the pilot unnamed was a trans person. I would say, and here's what I'd be afraid of. I worry there's a Kraken forming. You know, a Kraken is when you think you found, oh, I found how the election was rigged. And then you find out that the thing you know is definitely not true.

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It's called a Kraken. Could it be that the bad guys are trying to lure the Republicans into saying, it's a trans, it's a trans? So here's what I'm going to tell you. It is suspicious that we don't know the third name, if that's still true. That would be suspicious. That does not mean it's a trans pilot. If I had to place a bet... I'd bet against it, but only 60-40.

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And it depends on whether you're seeing the landing lights are fitting in with the city lights, the direction they're going, whether or not there's any lateral movement. So apparently, there are situations in which if you're looking at it from a distance, as we are, you'd say to yourself, how could you not see that? You're heading right for it for, I don't know, five seconds in a row.

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So I'd say 60% chance it's not trans. 40% chance the simulation is giving you a story that is so on point with the times that it's hard to understand that it could be that on point. So the whole two on the nose thing... I'm going to wait on this for two reasons. I'm going to wait because I don't have confirmation, so fog of war, it just makes sense to wait.

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But number two, I don't want to be the person who went too hard at DEI before I had data. That doesn't make you the winner. If you go after DEI based on a specific incident and you don't even have all the facts yet, you're not the winner. You're not winning. Just to be clear about that, that is not winning.

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Now, if it turned out that the DEI element to it is just glaringly obvious, and we don't know that, we don't know that, but if it turned out that it was hard to avoid that being part of the story, I'm all in. But I'm going to need a lot more confirmation that what I think I know is what I know, or something like that. Well, RFK Jr., still going through the process.

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And there was a Senator Hoyer and Looper, I guess, or something like that, if I have the name right. And here's my first question. Is this just a social media phenomenon? Or are all the women in the Senate fucking bitches? Can somebody tell me, is this just social media playing with my head? Because they don't really look... they seem like they're just screaming shrews.

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And I don't think they always act like that, right? I would guess that 99% of the time, you can't tell the difference between the men and the women. They would say the same things, have the same attitudes, same emotional, but not this time. Like the confirmation, you're getting a lot of really angry faces to the point where it's easy to make memes of, like, Hank Seth just listening to all that.

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And even the still pictures. I don't think you could get a still picture of a man that looked like the still pictures of Elizabeth Warren. It looks like a rabid dog at your door. What's this? I love it when I see in the comments somebody trying to attack me for something they imagined that I thought in the past.

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If you want to attack me and my credibility, you should at least talk about something that was real, not something you completely made up. You can do better than that. All right. So I don't know what's happening with the women in the Senate.

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It could be a social media thing, meaning that the social media is making them look worse than they are because they picked the pictures just right or something. But it's hard to not notice the pattern. Anyway, Elizabeth Warren worried that RFK Jr. 's preference to put the liability on the manufacturers of the meds, vaccinations in particular, could bankrupt them. Is that a problem?

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Is it a problem that our vaccination, the only people who know how to do it, they could become bankrupted if we require them to, I don't know, take the liability? Well, you can see why they're protected. Like, you can understand the argument. But there needs to be some kind of penalty. And here's what I would throw into the mix. I don't know if this is a good idea.

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Five seconds is a pretty long time to not react, right? But if you were in the pilot seat, and especially if you were testing out some night vision goggles, the night vision goggles will interfere with your peripheral vision a little bit. And there's just a ton of things going on at that particular airport. And it was a training flight.

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Let me just throw it into the mix. I would not want to bankrupt a company because they did something wrong with vaccinations. Not the company. Because I don't want to punish the shareholders and I don't want to punish the company employees who didn't have anything to do with the decisions. But I would definitely punish the paychecks of the executives.

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So is there a way to hold the bonuses and paychecks of the executives to some kind of performance? If you could do that, then I would feel that maybe, I mean, if that process were honest, I would feel that maybe the pharma companies would do everything they could do to avoid doing something wrong that hurt people.

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But if it happened anyway, which is always a big risk with this kind of science, if it happened anyway, depending on who made what decisions, I think you should go after the pay or the compensation of people who made the wrong decisions, But do you really want to get rid of the company if the company is one that routinely develops drugs you do want?

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So I'll just throw into the mix, bankrupting the company is probably a bad idea. But bankrupting the people who make the wrong decisions is more like business as usual. So we should do a lot more business as usual. And I don't think we have a way to punish any of the executives. All right. One of the things that Time Magazine was saying about RFK Jr. and the whole process about RFK Jr.

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calling the food poison, the processed foods. So according to Time Magazine, Jamie Ducharme, RFK Jr. is saying that ultra processed foods are poison, but he won't ban them. Um, so if you don't want to ban them, what would you do? Label them, maybe label them, or maybe ban certain parts like the red dye that got banned. Maybe you don't ban the food.

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Maybe you ban some stuff that gets added to the food. That would be okay with me. Um, However, Time magazine goes on to point out that some ultra-processed foods are actually good for you. Do you believe that? Do you believe that some ultra-processed foods are good for you? You mentioned that cereal is one of the ones that's good for you. Do you believe that cereal is good for you?

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I don't know anybody who thinks that. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a study funded by the cereal people that says cereal is good for you. But here's my advice. Don't believe any entity that takes advertising. Time magazine takes advertising. Therefore, you should not believe anything they say about food quality or pharma.

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Because they're not a credible entity if they're getting paid by the very people that you think they should be criticizing. So no, don't believe any platform that takes advertising.

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cannot be somebody who tells you whether the products that advertise the most are good for you or not no no no doesn't matter who it is doesn't matter if it's they're on your team or the other team if they take advertising money don't believe anything they say anything about food or alcohol or or anything that you can buy to put in your body Nothing. Nothing. Zero.

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So if you don't have the most trained person for a night flight in that area, And there's a lot going on, and it might be just a coincidence of how the lights from the vehicles, not the vehicles, the aircraft lined up. It's possible it was nothing but a mistake.

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As soon as you let yourself think, well, sometimes they're right, you're lost. Nope. You can't think that way. You just have to assume it's all non-credible. Some of it might be true, but you're not going to know what. So just treat it all like it's non-credible. The biggest surprise I got out of this process is learning that, in my opinion, Bernie Sanders is way more corrupt than I knew.

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So he's one of the ones who gets the most money from the pharma industry and is also going the hardest at RFK Jr. with the worst arguments. Huh. Let's see. Somebody that I respected for at least his stick-to-itiveness and his consistency and things like that. There were things about Bernie that I genuinely appreciate. I don't think he should have been president. But some qualities that...

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You know, I can say, you know, I'm going to give the same standard I use for Trump, which is I'm not here to judge everything he's ever done. I'm just judging it in the context of doing the job. So under that, under that theory, Sanders was additive to the process, even though he had different opinions. I like the you know, I like the exchanges. But here's the exchange with Kennedy.

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Sanders said, will you guarantee to do what every other major country is? It's a simple question, Bobby. And then Kennedy said, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it's in Congress too, as he's talking to Congress.

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Almost all the members of this panel, the ones who are asking him questions right there, are accepting, including yourself, meaning Sanders, millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry to protect their interests. Sanders says, oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me, in case you didn't catch that, I'd like to repeat it again. Bernie Sanders said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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That's one, two, three, four, five, six no's. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now, that makes sense. These are the guys who keep saying answer yes or no. Apparently, that's all they can do. The reason I think it's reasonable to answer yes or no to complicated questions is apparently that's how they do it. Are you influenced by all the vast amount of money that the pharma people give you?

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No, no, oh no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Have I mentioned? No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. Anyway, so... Sanders said, I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry. They came from workers.

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But even Trump is having trouble believing that you could be flying hundreds of feet above the altitude that's legal and allowed when you're an extreme rule-following entity. I would think that a military aircraft in the civilian space would be not just a rule follower, but an extreme rule follower. Am I wrong? I can't imagine anybody being more extreme about following every rule.

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And then Kennedy said, in 2020, you were the single largest recipient of pharma dollars. Now, do you think that Sanders is being honest when he says, I got it from the employees, not from the executives? How do you think the employees decided who to give their money to? Do you think the executives had any influence over where the money went?

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Or do you think that the way we record things is if some individual is at home and they send in a payment on their personal checking account and they donate to Sanders, do you think that gets recorded as a pharma contribution because the person has a job at pharma? I can use a fact check on that, but my assumption is that would not be shown as a pharma donation. Am I wrong about that?

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That if it's just an individual donation, I mean, I've donated. I donated to Trump. Did it ask me what kind of job I have? No. No, I just donated. So I do believe that Sanders got a lot of small donations from individual people. I think directionally that's true. But how in the world could he be listed as the biggest recipient of pharma money?

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Now you might say, why would the socialist guy who wants health care to be universal and the government's in charge Why would that guy get money from Big Pharma? Well, how could you make the most money if you were Big Pharma?

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I think you could make the most money if 100% of the government, if 100% of healthcare was paid for by the government because that would probably increase by one-third the number of people who use your products and you wouldn't have to worry about whether the government would say yes to your vaccinations because you've already bribed all the Congress people. Of course they'll say yes.

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So I would think that the most profitable thing for pharma would be some kind of a single payer government's in charge of everything healthcare because that gets a third more people. And even if the government negotiates a little on price, I think they still come out ahead because they're definitely going to, government's going to say, yeah, you got to get these shots.

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Yeah, these are good because they're paid off. So it does make sense that Sanders, being the one who wants universal health care, would get the most money. There's a perfectly straight line reason for that. So my take on this is I didn't realize Sanders was this corrupt. I'm actually a little bit disappointed. A little bit disappointed. So yeah, Bernie, either back off of RFK Jr. or

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You just get out of this conversation. Now, it also makes sense why he was being so stupid about the onesie. Remember that he showed what he was talking to RFK Jr. at the confirmation hearings. He put a visual of a onesie, which is basically a baby's one piece clothing and had the anti-vaccination thing on it. He kept saying, do you approve this onesie? Do you approve it?

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Do you approve this message on this onesie? Now, that might be the stupidest thing that anybody ever said about anything in any public setting. And you say to yourself, even when I don't agree with Sanders, he's never been that stupid. Why would somebody act that stupid? And the reason is you're getting paid. Nobody would act that stupid accidentally unless they were a stupid person.

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Sanders is not a stupid person. So when he goes in public and does the stupidest thing you've ever seen and really pushed it, really pushed it, he didn't just take a casual swipe at it. He was yelling, do you approve this onesie? What about this onesie? That's got to be paid. That's got to be pay for play.

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Indirectly, not that they paid him for his specific statements, but indirectly, somebody who's taking money from an industry. How do you explain that any other way? When the smart person acts like a moron, aggressively in public, there's got to be some other force. He didn't suddenly become stupid on one question. I don't think. Shoot. Here's what we learned.

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The people were definitely not on the side of America. Elizabeth Warren, Sanders, McConnell. And here's how I'd like to fix all of this. I think that when the TV news shows us a senator grilling a person who's trying to get confirmed, that the chyron should always say, whenever the politician's on screen, how much they got from the industry that's the topic of the day.

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Now, if you just do that, I don't even care that they take the money. As long as wherever they go, they get tagged with how much they're bought, then everybody can see it. And then you can make up your own mind. But imagine being an unsophisticated viewer of TV and you think that the people who are going after RFK Jr. are a random group of politicians. They're not random.

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And the altitude rule isn't like every rule. That's really, really important. The where are you? You can't get the where are you wrong. That's the most important thing. Where are you in relationship to the other planes? So there's certainly some question about the intention of the pilot. There's questions about how could you possibly be doing something so out of the norm in terms of the altitude.

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These are the ones who are taking the most money from the very industry that's at question. If you don't know that when you're watching them talk, you're missing the whole thing. Again, if the only thing you know is what happened Some senators ask some tough questions. You don't know anything.

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If you know who the players are, and specifically how much they're getting paid by each industry, well, then you might know everything. I think it's really that simple. I guess Canada and Mexico might face 25% tariffs by Saturday because of their lack of keeping the borders closed. And Trump is even thinking of a 10% tariff

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Tariff on additional tariff on China because of their failure to do the fentanyl thing. Now, you know I have a personal connection to the fentanyl thing because my stepson died of an overdose in 2018. And so I'm not objective about this topic. I'm going to just be as honest as I can. I cannot find objectivity on this particular topic. I try pretty hard on the other stuff.

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But I'm just going to surrender to this one. I'm not objective on this question. So when I hear that Trump is monetizing fentanyl overdoses with a 10% tariff, I say to myself, like, I get why you're trying to put pressure on China, and I appreciate it. I get that. But it just feels like monetizing the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Now, monetize toward the national debt, I guess.

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But I don't know. It's creepy, but I understand it. I understand it. It is pressure. I've told you how I would handle it. I would handle it through embarrassment. I would do something like closing the embassy. And I would say, look, if you're not going to take care of the fentanyl problem right away, we can't really have a normal relationship with you.

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And I think that's what we've done wrong up to this point. We've acted like we have... It's like some kind of normal relationship. But, oh, we have this one problem. Some details not working out in this one problem, fentanyl. No, fentanyl is not like the other problems. If you're intentionally part of the killing of 100,000 Americans a year, close the embassy.

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I want every country to know that China... essentially are murderers and you can't have a normal relationship with them. Now, closing it might cause too many problems for American companies operating over there. And of course, there would be immediate reciprocity, et cetera. But that's the fight I wouldn't mind.

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I wouldn't mind the fight where we're just going to embarrass their management as murderers and just say, look, that's what you have to deal with. And I would also tell American companies that they just can't do business over there anymore. They just can't do it. Now, the existing businesses, I wouldn't stop them because there's too much invested over there.

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But we just have to stop treating China like it's some normal country when it's killing 100,000 people a year with the help of the cartels. That's not normal. That's not normal. So I'm not happy treating it that way. I saw a great moment where Thomas Massey was teaching Congress how inflation works, and he dunked on Jamie Raskin in a way that was so, I don't know how to say it, perfect?

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It was perfect, but it's how a smart person dunks on a dumb person. So let me tell you the situation. You can characterize it yourself. So Massey's doing a public display where he's got a glass of tea and he adds some regular water to it. And he says, here you can see that if I added water to it, it diluted the tea. He said that printing money is just like that.

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If you add money just by printing it, then the money that's already there will get diluted and will be worth less, just like the tea is worth less because it's full of water now or over diluted. So, and then Massey further made his point that that's the cause of inflation and not some weird things like, oh, just energy is high or, oh, just something happened with the supply chain.

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Oh, it's, you know, there's just a special case. Oh, it's the bird flu. You know, it seemed like a lot of our individual expenses have some kind of individual reason. But Massey, to his point, everybody would be affected by printing money and a dilution of cash. He said, that's why the entire country has higher costs than everything.

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And then there's talk about Trump, of course, mentioned DEI. And he also mentioned that the helicopter was not where it belonged. It was too high. And he said, not too complicated to understand, is it? Well, he's right about one thing.

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I'll say everything, but almost everything, because it affects everything kind of equally. Now, that's pretty good, right? He's explained how printing money dilutes what you have and how it affects everything. And so since it does affect everything, that's more evidence of his point. There's not a bunch of special cases. That's something that has to do with printing money.

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Jamie Raskin thinks he's got it. This is the fun part. So Raskin, who you should know, is one of the other designated liars. He's one of the ones that you bring out if Schiff's on vacation. So Raskin says, how do you explain that there's inflation in the entire globe? Gotcha. Gotcha. Oh, Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey with your little old MIT degree. You think you're smart?

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Well, watch me kneecap you right in front of the whole world. Yeah. Oh, Thomas Massey, you think that America printing money in America is what's causing our inflation, but try to explain how all the inflation is going up all over the world, Thomas Massey. Gotcha, gotcha. Thomas Massey coolly looks at Raskin and says... They all printed money during the pandemic. It's all the same.

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They printed money. And more than that, probably the only thing that kept us solvent was that everybody made the same mistake at the same time. So our money didn't become worthless compared to other money. We all went down with the same mistake. And that's why you don't challenge the technical understanding of an MIT graduate in public unless you've tested that out.

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That's sort of the thing you want to test out behind closed doors. It's like, all right, next time they say this, watch what I do. I'm going to pull out the how do you explain the other countries thing. Then somebody would stop you and go, ah, there is an explanation for the other countries because they all printed money.

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So the fact that Raskin thought that trying to dunk on Massey in public was going to work out, I don't think he understands what a Thomas Massey is. Let me explain what he is. So in addition to being in Congress, he's the smart one. He's not going to start making a big deal about a topic that he hasn't looked into. What, do you think he didn't look into it?

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If you can see so clearly that there was a mistake of piloting and, you know, DEI is sort of the baseline for a lot of our understanding of what's wrong with the world. doesn't mean every single situation is a DEI problem. Does not mean that this is a DEI problem.

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Do you think there's something that an MIT-trained engineer can't master? Do you think he can't figure out the complexities of printing money? He's just the wrong person to challenge on facts and how the facts fit together. How they fit together is the magic part. So, yeah, I just love that. We've got some new economic data. I don't know who to blame for it.

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It's too early for Trump, too late for Biden. But personal income is up 0.4, which is what people expected. But personal spending is up 0.7. Why would spending be higher than the raise in income? Well, it could be optimism. Optimism is one of the reasons you spend more than you have. Because you think, well, I'll get more later. But it could be that people don't have enough money.

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So they're just, things are expensive and they can't live without insurance, but insurance went way up. So we don't know. Just I'll remind you that all data is fake. So who knows? Well, the big banks have gone through the usual cycle. So here's what the usual cycle is. Trump blames big banks for debanking conservatives. Banks laugh at it and say, oh, no, you're crazy.

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We didn't, no, what are you talking about? We didn't debank any conservatives. And then the receipts start coming in. Well, yeah, you debanked these people. And here's some more people you debank. And here's some more, and here's some more, and here's some more, and here's some more. And then what did the bank say? Did they say, oh my, we didn't even know we did this.

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It happened in different decisions in different areas. And now that you pointed it out, wow, wow, we really shouldn't have done that. We apologize. We're going to make it up to those people we debanked, because in retrospect, that looks like a mistake. And you're quite right in your criticisms. So we'll go forward with this improvement. So that didn't happen.

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They went from, no, we don't debank conservatives. Then it was proven that they did. They went all the way to, oh, oh, you're talking about the things that the government makes us do.

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So the current claim is that the government, the Biden government in particular, was putting pressure on them to make sure that they weren't allowing, I don't know, sketchy gun dealers and people who were in the crypto field, but You couldn't tell if it was real or a scam.

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So apparently the fines for having a banking relationship with somebody who the government doesn't think you should have a banking relationship with are pretty extreme. So the banks were just covering their asses. And now they're going to blame the government for making them debank conservatives. So apparently they're more conservatives in the, obviously in the gun dealer space.

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But yeah, so it starts with, it's not happening. And then it goes to, we had to do it because the government made us do it. I don't know. What's the step after that? Go back to, it didn't happen. Oh, banks, you better do better.

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What it does mean is that whenever there's a system problem, and this appears to be, we're not sure, might be an individual problem, but it seems even more likely there's a system problem, as in There were far too few people working in the tower, which meant that one person was doing the job of two in a number of cases. So it's the hardest airport, the most dangerous airport.

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Trump is doing a terrific job of explaining birthright citizenship by simply saying it was intended for children of slaves. It was intended for the slaves themselves, not just their children. But his point is good. I think limiting it to the children is directionally, it's in the right direction. Now, I'm no Supreme Court person. But I think Trump's argument might fly in the Supreme Court.

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On one hand, it says very clearly that anybody born here seems to be a citizen, but the jurisdiction they're under part, because that's part of it, you have to be under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States or under the jurisdiction of the United States. So there's some argument that if you're not here legally... you are not fully under the jurisdiction.

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Obviously, the law would apply to you still, but you're not under the jurisdiction. So the argument would be that over that word jurisdiction. And since the original purpose of it was for slaves and children of slaves, I think the originalists on the court...

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are going to agree that there's a reason no country in the world does it the way we do it, and it was never intended to be widened to apply to everybody. So if I had to predict, I think he's going to win this, and I think he's going to win it in the Supreme Court. The only thing I can imagine the Supreme Court doing that wouldn't be just a clean win would be to say this one's too important.

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You just have to get the country to revise the Constitution. So they might want to say we don't change the precedent because we've treated it like like it meant everybody for a long time. So we'll see. Hmm. Why did I write that down? So Doge claims, according to Elon Musk, has saved over a billion dollars on just canceling DEI programs alone.

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And Musk also said that reducing the federal deficit from $2 trillion a year to $1 trillion would require cutting $4 billion a day in projected 2026 spending from now until September. So cutting $4 billion a day, I don't know if that's doable. I mean, that's a pretty big ask. But here's my problem. Our federal deficit isn't $2 trillion.

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Isn't our federal deficit... I might be conflating the annual deficit with the total amount of debt. But we're adding a trillion dollars every 100 days. If we're adding a trillion dollars every 100 days, and Marc Andreessen points out that that number will start to escalate in a straight line up.

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So adding a trillion dollars in debt every 100 days, as Andreessen points out, very soon becomes every 90 days. then very soon becomes every 60 days and right around there you have hyperinflation and essentially the end of your economy so does elon have the numbers wrong or do i because we're off by trillions trillions my understanding of the problem is trillions

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different from how Elon is explaining it. Because he's communicating as though cutting a trillion out of our expenses would get us down to a trillion dollar problem, but we could grow out of that. I don't know. I like his optimism. And it seems dumb to bet against him, right?

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It's getting busier and more complicated every day. While the staffing that handles it is going down, while the DEI requirements are probably what keeps them from staffing up. Because if they have to stick to the DEI rules, they have to say no to some large pool of people who might have been qualified. So DEI definitely is crippling the maximum effectiveness of any group that's going hard at it.

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Can we all agree that betting against Elon Musk, especially when a calculation is involved, would be just about the dumbest thing you could do? So I'm going to say there's a mystery. Why is it true that we're adding a trillion dollars every 100 days, but also true that if we solve only one of those trillions, that we can grow out of the rest?

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So I have a real problem understanding why I'm off by $50 trillion. Because if we get to the point where we're adding a trillion every month or so, we're adding $12 trillion a year, and then by the next year it's going to be $100 trillion a year. So I don't understand the numbers, and I should. I mean, I do have enough background that I should understand it. I don't know why I don't.

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Well, Y Combinator announced that that the startups they're looking for, because they're an incubation group where they fund and they, let's say, nurture startups. So they announced that what they're looking for is a lot of AI products that would replace 100,000 per year functions. Now, that's a take by Greg Eisenberg. So that's not what Y Combinator says directly. That's his take on it.

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And he shows Y Combinator's document of what they're looking for, and it does look like they want startups that can greatly reduce employment by adding AI to companies. Now, on one hand, that sounds really dangerous to employment and the future of the country. On the other hand, it's the only way that you can survive.

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You have to cannibalize your existing industry as hard as you can or you become Europe, right? So as dangerous as it sounds for at least most storied incubator of startups, as dangerous as it sounds that they're targeting jobs and they're pretty direct about it, it's the only way to survive. There's no second way to do this. If you say we're going to keep the jobs...

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even if the technology would allow us to get rid of them, that's a death trap. You don't survive that. You end up being overtaken by whoever is not going to do what you just said you'd do, which is protect the jobs over the growth and evolution of the industry. So you have to do it. But here are some things that jump out at me. I don't know if the real world is going to give them what they need.

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So I'm going to put the Dilbert filter on Y Combinator. And it seems to me that at the moment, you're always going to need one full-time staff member to manage the AI that replaced one full-time staff member. Am I wrong? You're going to need one full-time AI person to replace anything. Because I've thought about doing it for my own operation.

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There's a whole bunch of stuff I do that, in theory, AI could do. But it would require a constant monitoring and tweaking and checking. It would require me to hire somebody to sit and watch the AI to make sure it was working and to continually change it and upgrade it. Now, that's just one person. That's just my operation. But I don't see a way to reduce anything.

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I do see maybe some awesome things I could add to my content or add to making the Dilbert comics more easily searchable, stuff like that. But every one of them requires me to add a staff. Now, is there something that's different about big companies? So let's say you've got, let me take one example from my personal experience.

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We just don't know if it affects some specific case. So I'm going to be as scrupulous as I can in not saying that the specific case is a DEI problem. unless we get to a point where it's overwhelmingly obvious. We're not there.

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suppose instead of a finance and budget guy, which is what I used to be for a big bank and then a phone company, suppose they say, hey, budgets are the easiest thing to do. All right, so we'll get rid of the budget guy because it's just math and spreadsheets. We'll just have the AI do it. And then what about the forecasts? So it's not just collecting the budget.

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Like I would do forecasts if we invest in this. You know, this is better if we lease it than if we buy it, that sort of thing. Well, again, again, the AI could do forecasts. So could my old job be replaced because it was just math? And the answer is, oh, you've never worked in the real world, have you? If you think there's any possibility that that job could be replaced by a computer,

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You don't really know what that job was. Let me explain what that job really was. That job is about lying on behalf of your boss. It's a lying job. You can't hire an AI to lie. It just won't work out. So the boss says, choose the assumptions so that I get the laboratory I want to build.

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Choose the assumptions so we get this new technology because we're going to do it anyway, but we have to make the numbers work. It's a lying job. And I was very aware of it when I did it. I was completely aware of it. Now, but what about marketing? What about marketing? Oh, no, that's okay. Marketing. So AI can create images. It can test marketing. It can... post things.

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It can go on social media. It can create ads. It can even negotiate with whoever it needs to to pay for the ads. It can stay on budget. Wow. I guess you can replace marketing with AI. Nope. Do you know why? Because marketing is a lying job. It's a lying job. AI won't do that. You can't get it to lie. and then also cover up the lie and protect everybody. Marketing is a lying job.

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But what about sales? Sales is mostly describing your product, answering questions, negotiating price, figuring out where the money goes, delivery, really just such basic things. So AI can do that, right? AI can call people. It can follow up on things. It can answer questions. It can tell you how your product's better than the others, right? No. You know why?

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Because sales are... Oh, you're way ahead of me, aren't you? Sales is a lying job. It's mostly driven by lying. And the AI won't do that. So let's see. Finance is lying. Marketing is lying. Sales is lying. But at least we have HR. HR. Do I need to do HR? HR is just bullshit. AI can't do bullshit.

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However, as of this morning, I was unable to identify for sure whether we even know the names of the pilots in the helicopter to know, you know, was there any weird DEI thing happening that could have had some element? So as long as I don't know, as long as I don't know, I don't know. So not knowing is okay. You don't have to have an opinion.

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The reason that we have so many people working in big companies is because they're all professional fucking liars. If you didn't know that, you've never read a Dilbert comic, because that's pretty much the whole theme. No, you can't replace liars with honest AI. And if the AI is a liar... It can't do anything.

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There is a logical firewall that should stop almost everybody from replacing their staff of liars. It just won't work. And the other thing that AI doesn't do is come up with new, innovative, out-of-the-box anything. So pretty much every breakthrough that a company ever had was because it was that one employee who was willing to take a risk and think outside the box and do all that.

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The AI can't do that. Ever. So the things that humans do are just not really replaceable by AI because the humans will do the wet work. They'll do the dirty stuff. And if you train the AI to do the dirty stuff, well, then you've got a brand new problem that's the biggest problem in the whole freaking world. You've got this out-of-control AI with too much power.

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So anyway, I'm really skeptical about the job part. I will, however, say, so you don't come back to me later and say, but Scott, that entire industry was replaced by one AI. There will be some of that. There will definitely be some of that. What I don't see happening is some big multinational corporation just vastly getting rid of people. They might get rid of a pocket.

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I can imagine if telemarketers or something like that or maybe help desks, I could see those maybe being automated because you don't really expect the tech support guys to be liars, right? Not really. I mean, if you've told your tech support to lie, you're probably not doing it right. So there will be some pockets, but I don't think it's going to be transformative and not as quick as people say.

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Meanwhile, on the Save the Whales update, you know the big wind turbines offshore were killing whales. Did you know that the Danish wind giant Ørstad, Ørstad, is one of the big ones offshore for the United States, I guess, on America's east coast. Now, what are the odds that a Danish company would be involved in this story?

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Let's see, we've got Denmark that's allowing Russia to rebuild Nord Stream 2. That was this week. We've got Denmark saying that the United States can't buy Greenland, but we really want to. And now Denmark is replace the CEO of their giant wind giant, Orsted, because the shares were down 83%, largely on the whale-killing bad press and Trump coming down hard on that industry.

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So that industry is in real trouble, but it's good for whales. Michael Schellenberger has done a great job reporting on this whole situation. By the way, the thing that Schellenberger does that makes him special, and I would say a national asset at this point, above reporting. You can be like the best reporter, and you're still not Michael Schellenberger.

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Schellenberger is the best reporter, but he's got such an extra gear that it's almost a different thing. So he knows everything about the whole wind industry. but he's also been involved in saving whales. So how many people could be an expert on those two things which are in the same story? I mean, that's very rare. If you look at Schellenberger's talent stack,

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So I'm going to hold my opinion on any DEI stuff until we know what's happening. Now, some people said that the reason we don't know the name of the third member of the helicopter, some are speculating that it's a trans pilot and that that might be somehow... connected to the main mystery. Maybe it's a trans. Maybe the trans was mad.

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it's everything from nuclear to whales to energy to, you know, he can understand the economics of stuff, the political problems. I mean, that's a talent stack. So you don't get that from regular reporters. A reporter might know one thing. Oh, I used to be an economist, but now I'm a reporter. I know one thing in writing.

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Schellenberger knows a lot of things, and so he can give context to everything. It's amazing.

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Speaking of other people who are important and have great opinions, Mark Andreessen, you might get tired of me saying that he's awesome, but every time he's in public, he says something awesome because he's so good at communicating and so good at understanding the complexities of things that you and I don't see live. So he can untangle what's happening in Silicon Valley, for example.

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And he's got a piece in the New York Times in which he's describing why big tech ended up leaning toward Trump. And I will try to summarize it by saying that big tech was less political and more about big tech. And if you're in the tech space, you want fewer regulations, you want lower taxes, and you want the activists to get out of your way.

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So Trump was about lower taxes, less regulations, and get the activists out of your way. So it shouldn't be a huge surprise that at least the transactional smartest, let's get business done people in Silicon Valley said, hey, there's one of us.

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Even if you don't want to identify with him, you can understand that he's a business person who wants lower taxes, less regulations, fewer activists in the way. So that does make sense. However, I would add to that that the fine people hoax was super instrumental in getting some of the biggest names to say, hey, wait a minute. Have we been living under this brainwashing regime?

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And the answer was yes. We were very much living under a brainwashing regime. And once the fine people hoax crumbled, the tentpole hoax, the others became more obvious, the other hoaxes. So I think that's a big part of it. And I also think that male energy is a big part of it. Silicon Valley, heavily male biased. Trump, attractive to males because of the male energy of it.

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So I think the male energy was also a sub story. So there are a lot of reasons. Trump was good on policy, but he had male energy. And people escaped on their own from the Well, with a little help. They escaped from the hoaxes. So there were a number of reasons. All good ones. There's a story that Gen Z seeks safety above all else.

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And that according to the conversation, that's a... What is the conversation? Must be some online entity. So a bunch of kids were asked in a survey, 1,600 kids were asked in a survey about what they rate as most important of 14 personal goals. So the things they asked them were, you know, what's most important, being popular, having fun, being kind.

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I assume it was stuff like making money, you know. So they got to say what's the most important thing they were worried about. Guess what was number one? We're talking about Gen Z specifically. The number one thing that Gen Z is concerned about. Number one, guess. You cannot guess. The answer is to be safe. To be safe.

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The trans pilot was mad because Trump is going to get rid of trans members of the military. And maybe it was like a terrorist attack or maybe it was a suicide. That's way too soon. Way too soon. So I'm not going to jump on that bandwagon yet. And if I had to guess... based on what people have told me in the comments.

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Now, I remember when I was a kid, the only thing I really worried about was nuclear war or getting drafted to go to Vietnam. I wasn't super worried about anything else. I figured I could make everything else work. But I couldn't really handle, I mean, I didn't have any control over nuclear weapons. I didn't have any control over when the Vietnam War ended.

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As luck would have it, it ended just in time. I was very close, very close to being, I think I was one or two years away from being draft age. when it ended. So I mean, that's as close as you can get. That was close. But yeah, Gen Z is worried about safety. And I think that makes sense when you look at the social media and news networks, because it all looks like everything's to scare you.

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And if you're Gen Z, you don't know that all of it is fake. So I try to put myself in the position of a young person today. If I believe that climate change was an existential risk the way it is. That would be so scary. I just wouldn't have children because of climate change. Now, I could see how the Gen Z people are scared to death.

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They're literally trained that their world will end before they become parents. So of course they're not going to have kids. But apparently the problem is maybe even bigger in China. So I was reading today something about the young people in China who are just saying that having children makes no sense at all. Like it's not even a goal for the majority of young people.

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Imagine the majority of young people in any country thinking that children are a bad idea. because it limits your life so much, that's sort of an existential threat. I mean, that's a big one. So if the debt doesn't kill us, the lack of birth rate will do it. I think China's got a bigger problem, because they've created a system where the young people say, why would I raise somebody in this system?

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The United States hasn't done that. If you told me, you know, you're going to have a kid, and I know people who are currently in the mode of having them or about to have them or just had one, and I just feel happy for them. Oh, this is all good news. More kids. Yes, more kids.

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So that might be the defining difference that allows America to stay somewhere on top and China to be in big trouble, that we may have created a system where people are willing to have a child. That's gonna be a big deal, even with all the robots coming online. And the robots are coming online.

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Now, the good thing about the confirmation hearings is that apparently it seems to have ended the newest hoax. I did not expect that the Elon gave a Hitler salute would be as strong as the fine people hoax, but it is.

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They just replaced the fine people hoax with the Hitler salute hoax, and they're selling it exactly the same way by showing you part of the video instead of the whole video where you see that he touched his heart and said, my heart goes out to you, which was the physical act. And I can't believe... how easily the Democrats are fooled. Unbelievable.

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I was talking to my, who I call my smartest Democrat friend, just by email the other day, and of course I found that we couldn't have any kind of productive conversation because if you make any point, you get a fire hose of accusations about what your team did. And then, You can't really argue that because it's like 10 accusations and what do you do with that?

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The reason that we don't know the names of all three helicopter pilots is because only the families have told us the first two, meaning that there might be one family who just doesn't want to make it public, but that doesn't mean there's any bad reason for it. It just means they don't want to be public. The military itself apparently has not released any of them.

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So I've created the standard which says I won't have a conversation with you about politics unless you know that the fine people hoax was a hoax. Because if you do know it, then I can help you see all the other hoaxes.

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If you insist that that's true, despite the fact that it's the most debunked hoax in American history, and even Snopes says it didn't happen, if you still insist it's true, no conversation is worth having. Not at all. And so I told my friend, you know, I have to be honest, if you can't get past this one hoax, there's nothing else we can talk about. Because if you start with Trump is Hitler,

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and you're basing it on these fake news stories, then everything you see is going to be with the Hitler goggles. And I can't spend my time de-Hilterizing people. First of all, it's impossible. And second of all, I don't want to spend my time that way. So let me just say, if you're a person who believes that raising your hand above your waist is a Hitler salute, you're a freaking idiot.

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Having a conversation about it, the details of it, is so unnecessary. Here's why you don't have to see the whole video and you don't have to read anybody's mind. You just have to ask yourself, did one of the smartest people in the world, who was winning everything at that point, like getting everything he wanted, Trump got elected, would he go on stage and give a Hitler salute?

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You don't have to ask any other questions. If you think that really happened in the real world, you're a fucking idiot. And if you say, but, but, Scott, I saw it with my own eyes, then I would say, you're a fucking idiot, if that's what you think you saw. But, but, but, all the reasons, all the reasons. No, you're a fucking idiot. So we can't let people argue whether that was...

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or it was not something that is so stupid, so stupid, that it's not worth discussing in detail. You just have to be a fucking idiot to think that that happened. And it's the same with the Fine People Oaks. If you think the President of the United States got on stage and intentionally and more than once praised Nazis in public... You're a fucking idiot. But I saw the video. You're a fucking idiot.

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But all the reasons, you're a fucking idiot. We're not going to have the conversation of how badly you are stupid. If you think you're talking about whether the fine people thing happened or the salute happened, we're not in that conversation. Now, you explain to me how you could say something so stupid and still make it to work.

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Like how in the world do you even get food in your body if you're that fucking stupid? If you think anybody did those things in public because your news told you, because your news told you, then you're fucking stupid. We don't have that conversation. It's just a waste of time. Now, let me push back. I'm seeing in the comments, just show them all the times that other people use the salute.

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Now, I need to fact-check on all of this, because the news is... so unreliable in this fog of war phase of anything, just so unreliable. And social media isn't much better or maybe worse. I don't even know. So don't trust anything that's about a specific pilot. I would say it's way too fast for that.

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No, no, no, no, don't do that. That's what I'm saying is a mistake. If you enter their frame, you're talking about whether or not it's possible that that happened. It's not possible. You don't have to enter the frame. You don't have to show them that other people raise their hands sometimes. You don't have to show them that everybody gets accused of it.

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All right. The Dilbert comic will be published as soon as I'm done with the show today. Had a little hiccup and it was a file problem, but it's fixed. And you will be delighted at the current topic in Dilbert. That's all I can tell you. You'll just be delighted. Well, let's talk about the news. The jet crash with the helicopter in D.C. ?

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You don't have to show them that they're hypocrites. No, no, don't get in the weeds. You're a fucking idiot if you believe that. But I saw it. I saw it. No, you're a fucking idiot. As soon as you say the Democrats do it too, you're in their frame. Don't get in their frame. Stay out of their frame, because as soon as they suck you in, then you're wrestling with the pig, and that's what they want.

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They want you to wrestle with the pig. You should say, no, wrestling with a pig is fucking stupid. So you could wrestle all day, but I'm not going to have a conversation about whether somebody praised Nazis in public, because we both know that didn't happen. All right. Does that make sense? That's your persuasion tip of the day. Don't enter their frame. And mock them for being in it.

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You can mock them for even being in that frame. That would be a good technique. And it's similar to the mocking the questioner. When Trump says that's a really dumb question, good technique. Good technique. He didn't enter her frame. You see? You see? Trump didn't enter the frame. The frame was, was it a good idea or a bad idea to talk about DEI while the tragedy is still top of our mind?

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He didn't enter the frame. He just said, that's a dumb question. Perfect. All right. That's all I got for you. I'll talk to the locals people privately for a minute, my beloved. And the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining on YouTube and Rumble and X. Hope you enjoyed it. 30 seconds to privacy with locals only.

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Now, when Trump puts out the DEI red meat, there was a time when I would have said, oh, Trump, that's a mistake. Too soon. Too soon. But you know what? I don't feel like that anymore because I think DEI is such a critical threat to the country that every time you can bring it up to tell people what a disaster it is and how quickly we have to fix it, I'm on board with that.

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Now, of course, because politics is politics, the slimy and hypocritical Democrats are decided that Trump bringing up DEI while the disaster was still sort of in its warm phase, that it was too soon and it was terrible and he's being a terrible person because he's politicizing a tragedy.

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Now, am I wrong that the people criticizing him for politicizing a tragedy are also politicizing the tragedy and at the same time? Am I blind and deaf and stupid? Because to me it looks like they're doing, actively doing, the thing they're complaining about. It would be like, I'm going to complain about your complaints. Nobody should be complaining now. God, I hate it when people complain.

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Are you doing the thing? You're doing the thing now. You're doing the complaining about the complaining. That's not the high ground. The high ground is not complaining about somebody's complaining during the tragedy. Those are equally political. Equally political. And you know what?

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When the stakes are high, and this is life and death because the DEI actually could kill people, I don't have any problem with politicizing the tragedy. I don't have any problem with it. There are definitely cases where politicizing a tragedy is just wrong because there's no real political element to it. But this does have one. The DEI question is a yes, this is the right question.

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Yes, we want to know what went wrong. Yes, it's a valid hypothesis. And it's not just a valid hypothesis. You could put it in the top five. There are at least five different ways we could end up understanding what happened. They might be completely different, so we don't know how this is going to roll out.

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But if you're not including one of the most obvious baseline causes of any kind of breakdown of any kind of system in the United States, well, I don't think you're being honest. You're not being honest at all. Now, let me be clear. I am currently, right now as I speak, politicizing the tragedy while it's too soon.

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Does that make me better or worse than the Democrats who are politicizing the tragedy by saying that Trump is politicizing the tragedy? No, we're all equal. We're all equal. We all politicize the strategy or the tragedy. The only thing I'll say in my defense is I don't think I'm better than you. I don't think I'm better than the Democrats. I don't think I'm better than Trump.

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It's just not in my mind. It's not a contest. Did David Axelrod, one of the complainers about the complaining, does he really not think that he's part of the problem in politicizing it? Of course he knows he's politicizing it. So it's just so dumb to when Democrats come out with this. Axelrod said Trump's craven remarks. So let me think. Have the Democrats learned nothing?

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is creating a massive fog of war as in what the heck is going on and can we trust the news and who's lying and what's what? So we'll give you a few of the things we know. There's some new video angles which would show to a non-pilot such as myself, it would look like it was an easily avoidable problem because when you see the video, it looks like the helicopter is heading straight for the airplane

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Have they learned nothing? Because didn't they learn all of this last year that if the only thing you have is insults, he's a racist, he's a dummy, he's craven, he's politicizing. If that's all you have, Did you not learn that that's not enough? And that it doesn't work? And that maybe you need popular policies for once? Maybe you should try that common sense thing that's doing so well? Maybe.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. I'm sure you've never had a better time in your whole life. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains...

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Anyway, Trump had a little interaction with CNN's Caitlin Collins on the question about the air disaster. And So Caitlin Collins pressed Trump about, quote, blaming Democrats and DEI for the air crash. And so Collins says, quote, don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now? And Trump says, don't think so at all.

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And he said, I don't think the names of the people, you mean the names of the people that are on the plane, you think that's going to make a difference? Trump says, you think that's going to make a difference? I don't know how it would make a difference, but it gets better. Then Caitlin Collins said, does it comfort their family to hear you blaming DEI policies? Here was Trump's answer.

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I think that's not a very smart question. There you go. That is how you handle a not smart question. You got to go after the questions. And you probably heard some of you, if you watched The Five yesterday, you saw Greg Gutfeld talking about a good way to answer these dumb questions, these stupid gotcha questions, is ask a better question. This is Trump's version of ask a better question.

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I think that's not a very smart question. I love that. I love that. Oh, don't you think you're being political? That's not a very smart question. Next question. Very, very good technique to criticize the question. And not answer it, by the way. I don't think the not smart questions deserve answers.

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I think you should say, in the interest of everybody's time, could you ask a question that's sort of on point? And then just run out their time. So you might see some of the confirmation people doing that because it's really good. Kash Patel did a version of that. He did a version of it by asking for clarification on some rules.

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And I think what he was doing is essentially calling attention to the fact that the questions were ridiculous. So I like that. Let's burn up all their time telling them that their questions are ridiculous because that's the truth. I mean, that's far more on point and useful than simply trying to answer an unanswerable gotcha question.

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Anyway, so do you think that the Democrats have learned anything about their approach that basically is just yelling at people and calling them names? Well, according to End Wokeness,

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There was a recent event, looked like an MSNBC-hosted event, in which the candidates for the DNC chairmanship, so that would be the head of the Democratic Party, at least organizationally head, and every single candidate, I think there were maybe 10 of them or so on stage, every one of them raised their hand when asked if they thought that racism and misogyny

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That would be transferring wealth from the citizens of the United States to the rich people in the United States who bought TikTok. So the benefactors would be the billionaires who buy TikTok, and that would be paid for partly by money that would have otherwise gone into the Treasury. So how is Trump going to think this through? Now, I'm not saying it's a bad idea, by the way.

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What I'm saying is, how do you sell it? Because it's total oligarch-friendly, citizen-unfriendly, American-last. I mean, to me, it looks like it'd be kind of good for China and good for a few oligarchs who buy it, who are his buddies. And I don't see how you sell this thing. Now... I will give you one possibility. One of the things that Trump said was that the U.S.

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government, if it's being helpful in making the deal happen, should get a percentage of TikTok. Oh, now that was not part of this story. But remember, Trump has floated that idea and he was serious about it and it makes sense.

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If the government is doing something important to make a private investment worth something from zero to maybe be worth a trillion dollars someday, why don't we get a piece of it? If you give me a piece of it, meaning the citizens, I'm all in. Yeah. If you say we're going to reduce tariffs a little bit on China or to get this deal done.

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But in the end, the United States, let's say, are a sovereign fund. I think we're going to have trouble funding the sovereign fund. There's some technical reason why the sovereign fund might be in jeopardy. But this seems like a perfect use for a sovereign fund where we invest literally zero and we get a percentage of ticked out. I'd be happy with more of that.

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So if Trump combines two things he's floated, one is the reduction of tariffs to get the deal done, and the other is U.S. gets a piece of the deal, he can sell that. That would be sellable. Well, the House is, according to Just the News, The House passed some legislation to keep foreign influence out of higher education called the Deterrent Act. And let's see what it does.

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You're still going to be unhappy. So just ask me next time I could have cleared that up. Saved you a lot of money. Well, according to Marine Insight publication, over in Germany, there's this revolutionary new wastewater processing plant. It's a wastewater processing plant.

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It mandates that schools have to report foreign gifts. I think this is mostly universities and colleges. Have to report foreign gifts that are at least $50,000 or more. And they have to report it to the checking notes. They have to report that to the Department of Education. Huh. Do you see any problem with the legislation? Because the Department of Education is being closed.

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Don't they need to update that? I swear, I don't even know what I'm reading at this point. Is this true? Did they just yesterday, the Republicans, this would only be through the House, not the Senate, but did they really just pass some legislation in the House that says somebody has to report to the Department of no longer existing? There must be something wrong with this story, but maybe not.

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Well, RFK Jr., who I thought was being a little bit quiet, you know, until he got his sea legs and figured out what was what. But boy, he's not quiet now. I saw Wall Street Apes had a video. I couldn't tell how old it was, but he was talking how BlackRock owns all of the meat packers in the United States. There are only four big companies, but BlackRock owns them all.

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And they, according to RFK, they also own a lot of the big pharma. Now, I don't know if own is the right description. They might own a percentage, but does BlackRock own a controlling interest in pharma? No. Cause that would be something I'd never heard before.

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I definitely knew that they were heavily invested in everything that matters, you know, pretty much every industry that matters, but a controlling interest. I don't know. And do they have a controlling interest or outright own the meat packers? So I have some questions about that, but that's something RFK juniors bring it up. Seems important to me. Um, then he also reported that, uh,

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some of the career civil servant bureaucrats were keeping RFK Jr. from accessing databases that would have information about risks and dangers of certain drugs and medical interventions. Can you imagine that? And RFK Jr. says that these bureaucrats are seemingly only serving the industries they were supposed to regulate. So everything that RFK Jr.

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has been telling us before he got the job, to be in charge of all this stuff, it looks like it's all true. It looks like these are completely broken industries that are just serving the pharma industries. It just seems broken entirely. But... RFK Jr.

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And what's revolutionary is that they can convert the wastewater into methanol, which I guess is kind of climate neutral, and you can use that for marine fuels. Now, I wonder if there's anybody who works on the wastewater project that would tell us that we live in a simulation. Let's see. The wastewater... is being explained by Dr. Wissing, W-S-S-I-N-G, Wissing.

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was on Chris Cuomo's show at News Nation, and he said the CDC, so that would be under him, is launching a new sub-agency to specialize in vaccine injuries. So that should make you happy. Now, he's very careful about the fact that it's not going to be based on hearsay or anecdote. They're going to look into it with the best gold standard science that they can.

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which has not been applied to this question yet. So if the only thing he does is apply the best science to it, even if it finds out that the vaccines weren't as bad as you thought, you're going to be a lot happier. Now, I think most of you are expecting to find out that the vaccinations, various ones, not just COVID, but I think you expect, at least this audience does,

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that it's going to find out that they were much more dangerous than you thought. But either way, we need to know. We need to know. I'm open to the fact that it might go either way. But we definitely need to know. It's right at the top of things we should be caring about. And then RFK Jr. was talking about Elon Musk using AI to improve health and efficiency and improve delivery.

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So he said they've had a bunch of geniuses come over to RFK Jr. 's domain to try to figure out how to do that. Can you imagine? how much money could be driven out of healthcare if you only knew what worked and what doesn't. Separately, I saw another story, I didn't write this one down, about how there's a large number of

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complications with medications that are very specific to your genetic makeup. So if you could, of course, there's a problem, you know, anytime your genetic makeup is part of a database, you have to worry about that. But imagine if we just had those two databases. What's your genetic makeup? And how does this drug do for people with your genetic makeup?

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And you could get rid of something like 9% of all the injury. That's huge. That's huge. So, but think of all the different ways that AI could just make everything work better. Do you think you've ever taken a medication that didn't work well with the other medications you were taking and you just didn't know it? Probably. Probably. And AI can help you with that.

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So at the very least, you should take a picture of all your pill bottles with AI. The next time you get a prescription and say, I got a new prescription. Is it going to work well with all the ones I already have? And by the way, if you use chat GPT at the highest level, expensive one, you can literally do that. You could just put all your pill bottles in a row.

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and just put it on video and just take a picture of all your pill bottles and say, I'm going to add this pill. My doctor said to add this one, and it will tell you. It'll tell you which ones don't work with other ones. More so, I think, even than your doctor would. I mean, they're supposed to flag it, but you can't expect them to know every interaction. I've never seen a doctor look up

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an interaction while I was talking to them. I wonder if this system does that for them. My healthcare system is pretty well automated. So it might be that if they just prescribe it, maybe it puts up a warning. I don't know. I'm kind of skeptical that it's already built into the system, but it could be. It could be big. Meanwhile, dumb old Tim Walsh,

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he was at some kind of event and he was urging Democrats to get more serious about DEI and immigration. He thinks that the problem was they didn't go hard enough on those things. So he goes, quote, we'd let them define the issue on immigration. We'd let them define the issue on DEI. We'd let them define what woke is. We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold enough to stand up and say,

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You're damn right. We're proud of these policies. We're going to put them in and sue them, and we're going to execute them. I think the only thing he executed were whatever was remaining of the Democrats' chance of ever having a president again. Let's be serious. Is this the dumbest fucking guy you've ever seen in your life? Tim Walz is just not smart. He's just not smart. So, wow.

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Every time I see one of their leaders say something, I just shake my head. And keep in mind, I just want to give you some reference. When I used to watch Bill Clinton talk, I used to think, wow, he's really smart, even if I didn't agree with him. When I saw Obama talk, I would say, well, at least you're very smart, even if I didn't agree with him.

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But when I see Wallstock or Jasmine Crockett, I just think, God, you're dumb. And I disagree with you. That's a tough combo to be dumb and wrong at the same time. All right, many of you may have seen clips or watched Brett Baer on Fox News and a few Doge and Elon Musk. And I got to say, I was so impressed.

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Now, here's something that I say all the time, and it's because I'm a nerd, but Fox News has the best producers. If you look at that again, just look how good the lighting is, the set, the makeup, the hair, the clothes, the physical setup, and the whole thing. They're just so good at producing... They're the best in the industry by far. So anyway, I've never seen Musk look so good.

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So Dr. Wissing can tell you about the wastewater. Apparently, Dr. Pooping was not available. He's the number two. Yep. Dr. Wissing for wastewater. Okay. All right. All right. Judge me. You can judge me on that one. This you knew was coming. Next Gen Defense was reporting that Maxar Intelligence, they've developed... a vision-based software that can make GPS unnecessary for your drone.

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Maybe sometimes he's more tired or the lighting's bad or whatever, but he looked great. He looked healthy and completely in charge. So that was great. But the other thing that I noticed is that Musk is a talent stack guy, meaning that whatever talents he has, which are considerable, of course, he is continually adding to them.

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I believe that his close association with Trump is teaching him things about communications and things about persuasion that is taking him to the next level. Because very few people can master those domains as well as, let's say, a technical domain. But if you look at Musk today, his ability to come up with a sentence you'll remember forever... is it's almost Trump-like.

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I mean, nobody can match Trump. He's categorized by himself. But you can see the transfer of skill. You can tell that he's impressed. This is just me reading minds. But you can tell that if he's normal, he's impressed by Trump's ability to communicate and to control the crowd and to control the narrative. And boy, has he learned well.

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So I watched a number of, mostly I saw the clips, I didn't see 100% of it, but I was impressed completely about how succinctly Musk can explain an idea and you'll remember it forever. I'll give you an example. He said that they're already finding, or their goal is to find $4 billion per day in savings And they're on track to be mostly done in 130 days, which is what he's authorized for.

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How clean and simple is that? And Brett Baer says, well, you know, are you going to be doing reports? And Musk says, we're doing the actual savings. So they're, I mean, they're reporting the savings. But you don't need a report because every time they add another billion dollars or whatever the savings, they put it on the website. So you don't need a report because it's reported as it happens.

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So that's a perfect answer. The $4 billion per day, I'll remember that. If he had said something like, you can imagine somebody who was bad at it saying, well, we're finding anything from one to $8 billion per day and we're hoping that that's enough. No, he tells you $4 billion per day for roughly 130 days

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is gonna get to you, we think, a trillion dollars in savings, which is 50% of the deficit spending. The other trillion, Trump is gonna handle with growth, we hope. So that's perfect. Just communication-wise, absolutely perfect. You could not improve on that. It's so clean. 4 billion a day, 130 days to $1 trillion. I'll never forget that. And then they add the anecdotes.

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Imagine all the complicated things that Doge is looking into. And imagine if they tried to explain the complicated things. You'd be like, oh, that sounds pretty complicated, but you go wild. Instead, he gives the cleanest little anecdotal example to back up the numbers.

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And he says that at one point, nearly a billion dollars was allocated, I think, per year for some company that would do a survey that apparently nobody needed or wanted. There didn't even seem to be any obvious customer for it. A billion dollars a year for one little survey. that looked like it was done by a high school group. A complete ripoff, as far as we can tell. Now, will you remember that?

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One billion, real easy to remember, for one survey that looks like it was done by high school kids. You'll remember that forever, right? That one's just perfect for communication. So even, and even having the, I guess it was the other Doge leaders sitting behind them, That was great. Then the other thing he said, and this is just perfect genius of communication.

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You know how the biggest problem with Doge is, hey, you're using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Stop using the chainsaw when all of us smart people who are Democrats know you should be using a scalpel. Where's the scalpel? So the way he handled that was, he said that they're measuring everything twice, if not thrice, before they cut. So the old saying is, you know, measure twice, cut once.

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So he's moving away from the scalpel chainsaw thing, but he's letting you know that they're not making any cuts Unless they've measured twice, if not thrice. Do you notice that twice and thrice rhyme? Who's that remind you of? Johnny Cochran. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. We'll measure it twice, if not thrice.

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So in other words, if your drone gets jammed and it can't see the GPS signal, it doesn't care because Maxar Intelligence has these databases that are really detailed. They've got 3D terrain data for 34 million square miles. So it can just switch to, or maybe it doesn't even need, GPS. Which means that there is practically no defense against drones now.

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It is a well-known persuasion fact that if something rhymes, it's more persuasive. When California tried to get people to wear seatbelts and they told them they were going to get a ticket, unless they did, the campaign was click it or ticket. Basically, click your seatbelt where you get a ticket. Click it or ticket. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.

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We're measuring it twice, if not thrice. Perfect. Perfect. Now, if he had said, and I would have made this mistake, I think, if he would have said, you know, but sometimes you need a chainsaw. That might be true. It might be smart. But it would not be the right answer for communicating to the public.

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What the public wants to hear, and the only thing they want to hear is, I'm going to measure it twice, if not thrice. So what I saw, was a absolute lesson on how to be perfect.

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That was from the producers of the show to Brett Baer's questions, which were excellent, he's always excellent in that domain, to Musk's specific answers, to the people who were the head of Doge sitting behind him and backing him up with answers. Every part of that was the highest quality you'll ever see for something like this. It was really, really impressive. Anyway, moving on.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on duplicate Medicaid payments. And Musk has already said that Doge will fix that. Now, how did that happen? The Daily Wire is talking about it, but I think Wall Street Journal did the original investigation.

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And what they found was there are a number of cases where people should have been reimbursed by their insurance company, or I guess Medicaid was going to pay the insurance company, but then they moved. And so the systems were not clever enough to pick up the fact that it was the same person, but at a different address.

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So apparently these big insurance companies, the biggest ones in the country, health insurance, were receiving two payments for a whole bunch of people if they had moved during some certain time. And the dollar amounts were massive, totaling up to at least $4.3 billion. $4.3 billion is that went to insurance companies from the government. It didn't go to the individuals.

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So it wasn't like none of the people involved were involved in fraud. So they didn't break any laws. They just moved. And so UnitedHealth, remember UnitedHealth? I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. I'm just going to say UnitedHealth was one of them. Elevents or EleventsHealth. and Centeni. I don't know any of those.

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They received hundreds of millions of dollars each in duplicate payments. You know what this story doesn't include? It doesn't include that those insurance companies are going to pay back the taxpayers who are owed that money. Are they? It's such massive amounts that it probably would eliminate their profit for a year or two. I don't know what their profits are.

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But don't they have to pay that back? Because nobody's arguing that they were owed the payment. It seems like it's easy to demonstrate that these were duplicate payments. So where's our check? It feels to me we should be clawing that all back if it's possible. Well, here's an update on Catherine Marr, the CEO of NPR.

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I picked up on this yesterday, but Britt Hume had a take on it on X. He says, when you read or hear about NPR chief Catherine Marr being grilled about her hard left views as expressed on Twitter in 2020, Remember, that's five years ago. Remember, it was three years after those tweets that she was made head of NPR. So did NPR know what her views were?

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Because she claims now that they're different, that her views have evolved in five years. But do you know what Catherine Marr calls five years? She calls it half a decade. I was listening to her being grilled by the Congress, and when she said, but, you know, that was half a decade ago. Half a decade? That's five years.

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If your drone can't be jammed, if you can't jam the GPS, that seems like a problem. So yes, as Naval Ravikant said recently, it's really inevitable that all warfare will be drones, because why would you need anything else? It's all going to be drones. Well, if you haven't yet seen Ezra Klein on Jon Stewart's podcast... Oh, you have to see this. I so recommend this. So look for the clips.

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How many people have a complete transformation of political opinion in five years? And it's not on one topic. Like I could see how somebody would say, oh, I used to believe in this hoax, but I found out blah, blah, blah. But how do you have a total revamp of your political opinions from crazy far left to something more moderate in half a decade?

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half a decade you lying whatever um here's something i didn't know i had to look it up one to three percent of their funding comes from the government so i don't really care about this too much one to three percent of their funding it it seems like we should just yank the funding because one to three percent is something that can certainly handle and why am i paying for any of this

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Then Christopher Rufo on X reminds us, he says, don't forget the NPRCR CEO, Catherine Marr, is also the board chairman of Signal. She's the board chairman of Signal. Come on. Are we living in a simulation? How is that even possible? The only thing that could be weirder is if she were like the daughter of Judge Boasberg. She's not, by the way. But it's the only thing that would make this weirder.

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And then Rufo goes on and says, and she spent a decade working on regime change operations in the Middle East and North Africa. Now, I don't think anybody has had a more obvious connection to the CIA than she has. Now, I can't confirm that. I don't have proof of that.

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But all of this from being CEO of NPR to being on the chairman of the board of Signal to working on regime change operations in the Middle East and North Africa, what does that sound like to you? Does that sound like just a bunch of coincidences? Sometimes things are just what you think. Well, one of the biggest Tesla domestic terrorists has been caught in Las Vegas, I guess.

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Police made an arrest. It was the guy who did the most... elaborate domestic violence. He's the one who set on fire multiple cars at a, I guess it was a Tesla facility for repair, I think, collision repair. And he used a gun, he fired some shots and used some Molotov cocktails.

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And of course, he has a history of being, he's 36 years old, has a history of being associated with the Communist Party and anything else is bad. Anyway, he was booked on 15 counts. He could get up to 20 years in prison. Also, a woman seen keying a Tesla in Washington has been identified. She's in trouble.

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Also, that 450-pound guy who was on some kind of a scooter thing and ramming the side of a car, he's been easily identified. And that's not a complete list. How many of the domestic terrorists have now been completely identified? because I feel like we'll get just about all of them, the ones who showed their faces.

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So it looks like the world is starting to get back in balance, meaning that as long as there's a continual drip of the domestic terrorists getting serious jail sentences, maybe it'll decrease. Maybe the Democrats will get tired of it. I don't know. Maybe they'll run out of crazy people. I saw a post by Insurrection Barbie, who was a great follow, by the way.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Yes, exactly. Go. Fully recharged. I'm working at full strength today. We got news. We're going to pound right through it. You ready for this? Happy Friday, by the way.

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If you're not following on ex-Insurrection Barbie, you're missing a lot of great content. But Insurrection Barbie says, the entire resistance to Donald Trump is made up of like 300 super connected Democrats and a bunch of paid protesters. Easy to realize why they lost the election and why they're continuously bleeding voters.

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But this is your daily reminder that 300 powerful Democrats and their NGOs are trying to hold the country hostage. And I think Elon Musk agreed with that estimate, that there are about 300 highly connected Democrats who are pretending to be the Democrats, basically. They're the ones in charge. That number completely agrees with my understanding of the world. About 300

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And of course, within the 300, there would be, you know, 50 who are super important and maybe, you know, 10 who are head of the pyramid. But we do see the same names, don't we? It feels like, you know, if there's something terrible happening, you know, lawfare or something else, it feels like the same set of people just keep popping up over and over again. So yeah, it's about 300.

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They just act like they're more. So Trump wants an investigation of how it is possible, according to Washington Times, that he keeps getting bad judges by chance. So apparently these D.C. judges should be assigned randomly. They've got some kind of wheel they spin. But yet, this Judge Boasberg...

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who is, let's say the Trump supporters think he's been highly biased and has conflicts, they would say. Um, and he was nominated by Barack Obama, et cetera, and that somehow amazingly he got this newest case about the signal app and whether that has to do with a possibility of any federal records being destroyed because the app automatically deletes things.

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If you just see the clips, you'll see everything you need to see. But so Ezra Klein is a co-author of the book Abundance. And he's doing, you know, I have to say my first impression was, hey, you're just writing a book that says Democrats should act more like Republicans if they want to win anything. So I wasn't sure it was adding much to the world. But now I think it is.

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So what are the odds that he would be chosen? Yet again, for another Trump-related case. Well, it turns out, as the Washington Times reports, and this is good reporting, by the way, I didn't know that there are 20. So if you were going to say, how does this one guy get four of these Trump cases when it's one out of 20 every time?

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Well, it would help if you knew that there's another judge, Gia Cobb, who has at least 10 Trump-related cases. But I've never heard that name. Have you? Judge Cobb? How could one judge have 10 Trump-related cases and I've never heard the name? My guess is that there are 10 cases that aren't that important. And there are three other judges that have six each.

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Two of them have five each and several judges have four. Well, the first thing you need to know is that there are so many of these lawfare situations against Trump that if you only have 20 judges, they're all gonna get half a dozen. Because even if you did it randomly, there are just so many judges that they're just all gonna come up half a dozen times. That's exactly what's happening.

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But I don't believe it's random. Here's what I think. I think it depends who filed the lawsuit. I think if one of the 300, which is really one of a half dozen, I think there are some lawyers that if they're involved, they seem to get the right judge. I don't think that it's a coincidence that Judge Cobb has 10 cases, and I've never heard that name. They can't be the important ones.

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So I've got a feeling it's not random, even though a lot of people have a lot of cases. So Trump, also according to the Washington Times, Jeff Mordock's writing about this, Trump is stripping security clearance from yet another law firm. What is it? WilmerHale. It's a high-powered Washington law firm. And they had once employed Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

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And this is what the executive order banning them from working on government stuff says. It says that the law firm has abandoned the profession's highest ideals and abused its pro bono practice to engage in activities that undermine the justice and interest of the United States. And it gives some examples. It supported efforts to discriminate based on race. I assume that means DEI stuff.

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Backs the obstruction of efforts to prevent illegal aliens from committing horrific crimes and trafficking deadly drugs within our border, and furthers the degradation of the quality of American elections, including supporting efforts designed to enable non-citizens to vote. Here's my problem. That's sort of the job of lawyers. Lawyers don't just represent innocent people who are angels.

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Our system completely depends on qualified lawyers also taking cases that you and I hate and say, why are you doing that? Why are you doing that pro bono thing for these terrible people? So to me, this looks like lawfare. And remember, I said from the beginning, I've told you, if it looks like lawfare to me, I'm going to call it out.

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It's a little hard to be a team player and be in favor of lawfare. However, I'm going to soften it a little bit. Because there's so much lawfare against the president that is completely out of context. out of the norm, that this looks like a brush pitch to me. As in, if I keep getting lawfired, I'm going to take you all down.

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And even if I lose every one of these in some upper court, I'm going to make sure you're spending all your time wasting your time trying to fight this. Because you all suck and you're all political and you can pretend that you're just helping your clients and But you're obviously just a lawfare organ of the Democrats.

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So I'm going to switch to full compliment to Ezra Klein and I guess Derek Thompson, the two co-authors. So the thing that was amazing is that you've heard Ezra Klein talk about how the Democrats are good at funding impressive things. But then for reasons that I didn't quite understand, nothing got done. So there was the funding of the high-speed rail in California that didn't get done.

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And we have a completely broken system where the lawyers are trying to basically run the whole fucking country. Now, under those conditions, I'm OK with lawfare because the lawfare is a brushback pitch. I'm not in favor of going to a baseball game and watching the pitcher throw unlimited pitches at the head of the opposing batter. No, I don't want to watch that.

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But if that team does something really messed up and the pitcher decides to put one right into the body of the batter, you understand that, don't you? You understand that they're trying to get balance back. Now, you might not love it because it's violent. I'm not recommending it. But we do see that in the real world, if you don't have mutually assured destruction, everything falls apart.

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So if you look at it as just lawfare, it's bad. But if you look at it as a response to lawfare, which is what it is, it's a response to lawfare. If they lawfare them back just as hard, That is establishing mutually assured destruction. And it may have more to do with suppressing the next thing they do than it does with addressing anything in the past. So I'm in favor of it. I'm in favor of it.

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And I think it's lawfare. And I think it's appropriate. According to Breitbart News, Simon Kent is writing that the Trump administration is going to suspend contributions to the WTO, the World Trade Organization. So I had to look up what the heck does the World Trade Organization do?

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What it does is allegedly, at least up till now, is open markets to 160 different countries and lowered tariffs and made it easier to dispute trade problems across borders and basically greased the wheels to make it easier for every country to do business with every other country. So you might ask, why do we want to suspend our contribution to that?

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And I think the answer is because if your organization is trying to find a middle ground where everybody's happy, it's not America first. It could be, well, let's make sure that China and the United States are both kind of happy but kind of unhappy. But maybe we could have done a better deal. So I don't know if this will work out or not work out.

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But the idea that we can handle our own tariffs and our own disputes and we've got enough market muscle to say, look, if you don't handle this dispute, we're just not going to do business with you or we're going to tariff the bejesus out of you. So, tentatively, this looks like a good idea, because the WTO is not meant to be America first, so maybe we can do better on our own. We'll see.

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That wouldn't be true for smaller countries, I suppose, but for America, maybe. Okay. Well, as you know, the story you've heard before that Jasmine Crockett called Governor Abbott of Texas, Governor Hot Wheels, because Abbott's in a wheelchair. And this, of course, caused the Democrats to bring up the what they probably think is true, by the way.

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But it's a hoax that Trump ever mocked a reporter who had a disability with an arm. Now. I saw Brendan Straka doing a great job of debunking that. I've seen Debunk America doing a great job of debunking it.

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It's the most thoroughly debunked thing and it's easy to debunk because you can show the video from before the incident with the reporter where he would do the same action when he was talking about anybody who couldn't answer a question or anybody who was doing a bad job communicating, basically. It was his way of mocking them.

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But you also know that Jasmine Crockett tried to explain her comment as not really being about the wheelchair and that the Hot Wheels comment was something about transporting immigrants or something. So without further ado, I would like to do my impression of Jasmine Crockett trying to explain why she called Governor Abbott Hot Wheels, but it really didn't have anything to do with his disability.

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There was the funding of the rural broadband internet that didn't get done. There was the funding of the nationwide charging stations that didn't get done. All good ideas in theory, but all they can do is give them money and not get anything done.

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And this is Jasmine Crockett.

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See how that works? All right. I saw Sabine Hassenfelder on X, she's a German physicist, saying she said, I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs, the technology behind AI. And she talks about how she's used a bunch of the AIs and she's doing it for her work in science and that it often gives her sources that don't exist or there's a 404 error.

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It'll tell her that a document that says 2025 on it is from 2023. So she has to continually fact check the AI's work and it just looks kind of limited to her and wonders why people are so so enthusiastic about his future.

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Now, I've said similar things, and people's response to me and to other people who have had this experience, they say, you just don't understand how, you don't understand how, what is it? Oh, what's the word? don't understand how exponential improvements work. So the smartest people who like AI are saying, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're so dumb. Let me explain how the world works, can I?

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AI is not supposed to be the best it will ever be today. It's going to get better like really fast. And there's going to be this exponential growth that's going to happen any minute now. And when that kicks in, you're going to look like such a fool. Oh, man, a fool. Because you don't understand how exponential growth works. Yeah, it seems slow, slow, slow, slow. But then when it kicks in, boom.

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And that's why you're not seeing because you're not, you know, you don't understand technology like we do. To which I say, have you ever heard of Moore's Law about the microchips getting better every year? It's a straight line. No exponential period. Have you ever heard of a thing called fusion, nuclear fusion? That was first proposed and worked on 93 years ago.

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93 years still waiting for the exponential growth part. 93 years. What about airline travel? I'm waiting for the exponential growth than that. Cause since I was a child, it's been largely the same and the planes don't even change. They're like 40 years old. Yeah. So we got that. Um, So what else we got? What about batteries? I'm always talking about all these breakthroughs in batteries.

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And if you wondered why it is that nothing gets done, you just have to, you just have to, here as your client, go through the 14 steps it would have taken to approve just the project for the car charging stations. Oh, my God. I'm not going to run through the 14 because it's pretty pedantic, but you have to watch Jon Stewart for the first time understanding

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Now, that's a case where I think there will be an exponential growth. And the reason is that there are people all over the world who know there's enormous money to be made in making a better battery. Enormous. So you got all kinds of people, the best people working on it all over the world, and they're trying different technologies.

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So if you have the best people all over the world and giant money involved and they're working on different technologies, the odds of one of them being 10 times as good as the old one are pretty good. So if you said to me, Scott, don't you know that batteries may be chugging along for a while, but once we get to a certain point, man, those batteries are going to be amazing.

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I would believe that one. I believe that one. It's just that not everything can turn into everything else. What about smartphones? So our smartphones kind of came kind of awesome because they're smartphones. But how different is your current smartphone from the last one? I feel like smartphones sort of peaked.

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I'm waiting for that exponential growth, but I don't think it's coming with smartphones, probably some other technology. So here's what I think. I used AI five times already this morning, mostly Grok. It was great because that's how I know that Fusion has been worked on for 93 years. I just asked Grok. And that's how I knew what the WTO does. I asked Grok.

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So if you're a writer or you're working in this kind of world, this podcasting world, and you're trying to get context and you're trying to get you know, an understanding of a new topic quickly. Oh, it is great. It is great. So in some professions, and Bill Gates was saying that medical profession, legal profession, some other ones, we're going to see AI take over. And I believe that.

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So I'm very pro-AI. It's just that I don't think the current technology, the large language models, are ever going to help Sabine do her science stuff because you can't rely on it being right. It might be that you always have to fact check the facts if you're doing science stuff. The stuff I do, I can get a fact wrong and nobody would die.

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Tomorrow, somebody would say, on the show yesterday, you said fusion's been around 93 years, but really it's 50. I'd say, oh, okay. So it works great, Whenever you're in a domain where if something's wrong, it's not the biggest problem in the world. But do you think an LLM will ever become the pilot of your commercial aircraft? I'm going to say no.

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Do you think LLM will be good enough to be the robot that can do generic tasks and you just have to show it or teach it? I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical. because you wouldn't want a robot in your house that was lossy, meaning that you couldn't know exactly what was going to happen.

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So I'm going to say that the LLMs have amazing potential for a whole bunch of different things, but we're going to need to invent a whole different kind of thing for the artificial general intelligence, the one that thinks like we do and is less lossy. That's what I think.

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Anyway, the Gateway Pundit is reporting on my idea of creating the Department of Imaginary Concerns to handle all the fake Democrat problems. Mike Lachance wrote about this. And if he hadn't heard about that, the idea is that Democrats have a whole bunch of imaginary problems.

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everything from climate crisis to Russia collusion, the signal controversy, Elon Musk stealing your social security numbers, like just a whole bunch of fake stuff. Trump's going to become Hitler. He's Putin's best friend, all that stuff. So you just put that in the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Now, the reason I brought it up is I want to give you a very quick persuasion lesson.

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how completely doomed the Democrat way of work is. Because the regulations are mostly, I'm thinking mostly Democrat created. And if you looked at any one of them individually, you'd probably say to yourself, all right, well, I can see why you'd want this group to review it. Or I can see why you'd want to run it through this group for approval. But once you get to 14 different steps individually,

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A few people said, hey, don't call it the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Call it the Imaginary Problems or the Imaginary Policies or something like that. The word concerns is what made this viral. So that's actually the active word. So if you didn't understand persuasion, you would say, hmm, concerns is too generic or it's off point or something.

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If you do understand it, you know that that's the word that sold it. When you see concerns, it tells you that somebody is concerned as opposed to it's a problem or anything in the real world. And it's a non-standard word in this domain. You wouldn't expect to see the word concerns in the name of a title of a department. So it's the mistake, or isn't a mistake, that makes it viral.

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So that's what made it sticky. Meanwhile, Zelensky is self-immolating. So he launched, according to the National Pulse, Christopher Tomlinson, he's attacking Trump's team. And he said the following stuff. He said that the...

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that europe unlike the united states has discipline and no chaos chaos who says the united states has chaos democrats right have you ever heard a republican say oh we've got a bunch of chaos nope it's just a democrat thing and now zielinski is taking that that approach and he says europe good u.s chaos And then he accused Witkoff.

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He said, I can't be ungrateful to the Americans for everything they did, but they are often, unfortunately, under the influence of Russian narratives. And then he went off on Witkoff, and he says, he doesn't look like a military man. He doesn't look like a general, and he doesn't have such experience.

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As far as I know, he is very good at selling and buying real estate, and this is a little different. Well, Zelensky, good luck because America's out. You just made it impossible to get peace in Ukraine with America's help. Apparently, he really wants a permanent war and Europe's on his team. And I say, good luck, guys. Good luck.

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um you can fight russia all day long but there's no freaking way after you've insulted wickhoff and trump that you're going to get what you want from the united states you just close that door you idiot or maybe he knows exactly what he's doing but there's no reason for us to be involved anymore he made it easy to walk away

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And then he said that he's rejecting any idea for a peace deal that would involve, that would not involve Russia giving back all the territory that they've conquered, including Crimea. Now, given that we know there's no way that's ever going to happen, has he just slammed the door shut on any kind of a peace deal? and America being productive in any of it. He has. The door is shut.

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So I don't care what the news is tomorrow or the next day. I don't care if he changes his mind. I don't care if he apologizes. It's over. I'm going to call it. We're out. Now, the United States has not said that. Trump has not said that. I don't think he's commented exactly, but I feel pretty confident that this just ended the productive relationship with the United States and Ukraine.

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We're definitely not going to be helping them defend themselves at this point. Now, something could change, I suppose, but I think we're done. But at the same time, and this is fascinating, Jack Posobiec of Human Events was talking to Scott Besant,

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And Scott Besant says that they've got a 100-page Ukraine deal about the minerals, not about peace, but about minerals, that he hopes will be signed next week. Now, it is possible that we could make a mineral deal. It's not impossible because the mineral deal would not be promising anything about security. It would just be a way for them to make money and for us to make money.

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and everybody's got to review it and analyze it, and they got time for a comment, it becomes literally impossible.

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So they might say yes to making money because they need money to fight their war. And from our perspective, it might give them a little what Besson calls not a security guarantee, but is an economic security pact. Now, I'm not so sure the United States would want to get involved in some place that didn't have good defense against Russia coming in and taking the rest of the country.

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So I don't know if we can actually get private companies to do the work, because that would be a pretty big risk. But if it works, that'd be great. But I think in terms of the U.S. funding Ukraine's military adventure, I think that's over. I think we're done with that. Meanwhile, the Greenland trip is getting spicy. You knew that J.D. Vance and his wife were going over there.

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But here's the funny part. Apparently, Mike Walsh was always intended to be part of the trip, but they had forgotten about him when they did the notice. So National Security Advisor Mike Walsh will also be attending the trip. All I can hope is they don't accidentally invite Jeffrey Goldberg on the trip. That's a callback.

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yeah can you imagine them being on the plane and they look over and it's like oh my god and jeffrey goldberg was accidentally invited on the trip all right that's all i got for you thanks for thanks for putting up with me uh that's all i've got for today i'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately for a minute The rest of you, make sure you come back tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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so it's not just that it didn't happen it's that the system was impossible so anybody who tried to apply to you know be one of the people who executed on these funded projects couldn't get through it it would take you the rest of your life if you got through it at all so there is no way to actually execute on these well-meaning Democrat gigantic projects. There is no way.

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We'll have some more fun. So if you're on Extra Rumble or YouTube, I appreciate you joining, and I'll see you tomorrow.

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Now, what is it I always say about the difference between Republicans and Democrats? Democrats are really good at goals. High-speed rail, that's a goal. I like it. Rural internet broadband. I like it. Nationwide charging stations for electric cars. Sounds pretty good. Those are good goals. I like it. But they also developed a system that made it impossible.

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Now let's compare that to the Republicans. Republicans would say, get rid of all this red tape. And then it works. That's it. So the Republicans have a system which is, in general, get rid of the red tape. Now, beyond that, if you got rid of enough red tape, maybe you don't even need much government funding. Maybe the private sector can do it.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or shells, a steiner, canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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But the Republicans consistently have systems that would work. And the Democrats consistently have pretty good goals. We'd like everybody to do well. We'd like the schools to do well. Take public education. The Democrats have a very good goal that no matter what your income is or what your situation is in life, you should get a good education and the government can help you on that.

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But then they overlay it with the Department of Education, which was a problem. They overlay it with the Teachers Union. And you very quickly get to the point where the system for providing that thing with a goal, it just doesn't work. And that's what we observe. Scores are going down in every way. Whereas the Republicans would say, well, nothing works unless there's competition.

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Let's see. Is there any new science that they could have completely skipped just by asking Scott? Oh, yeah. Here's one. The University of South Australia found out that being happy in your career doesn't make you happy in life, but being happy in general in your life can make you enjoy your career that you have more. Um, they could have just asked me. Yes, it's called baseline happiness.

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So let's make sure there's a lot more competition for private schools or alternative schools. So again, in every domain, it's the same. Democrats, good on goals, don't have systems. Let's check in on DEI. Charlie Kirk has a post where he's talking about a Daily Wire story by Luke Rosiak. I guess he did a great job on this. And the story is about a group called the National Diversity Council.

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Now, remember I tell you that it turns out that you can tell all the fraudulent organizations because they string together words that sound good. So instead of the National Diversity Council, it could have been the American Fairness Initiative. You can just put any words together, the Freedom Diversity Association, and then you start getting money.

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Well, one of the founders, Dennis Kennedy, allegedly paid himself $450,000 a year for 10 hours of work a week. But then in 2022, allegedly, at the peak of DEI mania, he and a few other executives decided that they were really owed another $3 million in back pay. And so they looted the organization is the accusation.

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And now the organization is filing for bankruptcy with the board saying that Kennedy systematically looted it by funneling its assets to a for-profit firm controlled by himself. Does that sound familiar? That's exactly what we were finding out with all the NGOs. If the NGO gets a lot of funding, let's say from the government could be private donations.

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Uh, then the first thing they'll do is say, here's how we're spending that money. We're going to hire this for-profit entity. That just happens to be my wife, or just happens to be me with another name. And we're not going to have any accounting. So that's not as obvious what we're doing. It's the same scam. everywhere. And once you realize the pattern, you can just pick it up instantly.

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It's like, oh, you got a bunch of money, you gave yourself a generic name like the National Diversity Council, and you can protect yourself by accusing any of your critics of being racist. Ah, see, that's important. Because if you don't have an audit process and you're planning to loot the organization,

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You want to make sure that if anybody blames you of anything, you can say, oh, my God, what are you, some kind of white supremacist who hates diversity? Don't you see that diversity is in the name of our organization? Of course it's good because it says diversity right in it. It's right in the name. You racist. I think we're onto it now. I think we can spot these a little easier.

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Well, Mario Noffel is reporting that Trump has threatened to defund the Smithsonian over what he calls divisive narratives. And he's ordered J.D. Vance to go clean house, whatever that means. And what he wants to do is remove what he calls improper ideology or else they'll lose federal funding. and he accuses the museum of pushing a decades-long effort to rewrite U.S.

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history with distorted ideological narratives instead of facts. So they're going to have to get rid of all the divisive content or else the government won't fund them anymore. And to me, I can see why they're doing it. I'm sure it's a good idea. But history has always been fake. So when you take one version of fake history and somebody's trying to rewrite it to another version of fake history...

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It doesn't make it more accurate, but there is a version of history that's better for the country.

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And if you're deciding to change the history to white people suck, now I haven't seen what the Smithsonian is up to, but I'm just going to take a wild guess that what they're saying is that white people are the problem, they killed all the Native Americans, they created all the slavery, they stole all the money, and white people are bad. Just a guess.

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I don't have any information that that's what the Smithsonian was doing. But what do you think? What else would it be? So, yeah, it's very, very damaging to have a fake history that says the people who live here today are part of the problem. You don't want that. So it is better, even if it's fake history, to say that your country was awesome than And you're still awesome. It's better.

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And if you're happy in general, everything else in your life looks better. How many of you didn't know that? Was there anybody who thought, you know, if I were depressed, but I got a better job, I'll bet that would cheer me up. No, it doesn't work that way. If you're happy, then even your crap job seems pretty good to you. And if you're unhappy, it doesn't matter how good your job is.

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Well, here's a story that really sounds great for America. Just listen to this. According to interesting engineering, enormous, massive lithium deposits have been discovered in the U.S., worth $540 billion, so much that it would vastly reduce China's grip on the United States for lithium. So I'm reading this, and I'm like, wow, $540 billion worth of lithium, and it seems to be accessible.

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Isn't that the greatest story? The only thing that could be bad about this is if it's in California. Don't be in California. Please don't be in California. Please, please don't be in California. It's in California, beneath the surface of the Salton Sea. So I guess the value is not $540 billion. It would be closer to, let me call up Ezra Klein.

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Ezra, there's $540 billion worth of lithium in California under the Salton Sea. Do you think we could, okay, calm down, Ezra, calm down. Okay, I know we'll never get it. Yeah, I know, 14 steps. Okay, we'll just leave it there. Never mind. Thank you. Goodbye. Yeah, that's a complete waste of time because it's in California. I'd love to be wrong. I would love to be wrong.

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But no, it's worth nothing because it's in California. That's all you need to know. Trump has floated the idea of maybe easing off on tariffs, according to Reuters, on China, if China approves the sale of TikTok to an American entity. What do you think of that idea? Going easy on tariffs on China if they approve a TikTok deal. Here's the problem.

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I don't know if there's a crime involved there, exactly, or even how unusual that is for the FBI to do something off the books. Probably not that unusual. But yeah, that should be investigated. But I will just quibble with one part of it, which is the honeypot part specifically means... an attractive woman, or if somebody's gay, an attractive guy, or an attractive woman for the lesbian, whatever.

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But I think the model is more like the O'Keeffe media group model, where you just get somebody to go on a date, and the other person gets liquored up, and they think that if they impress their date, they're going to get some action. But they don't get any action. So I don't think the honeypot really meant sleep with them. I don't believe so. Now, I'm not saying that's never happened anywhere.

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I'm not saying the CIA has never done it. But I would suspect that what they're calling honeypot really means more of a fake date and fake flirting and fake interest. Just guessing. But that's my take. Anyway, we'll see if that goes anywhere. This is all fog of war. There's one source, the Washington Times. I would wait on this one. I'd wait to see if there really is an investigation.

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Oh my God, it was a nightmare every time I tried to use it. But I haven't Skyped anybody in a long time. I guess there are reasons for that. So being shut down. In other news, MIT, we'll talk about Epstein, of course. But in other news, MIT has developed a robot bees to replace regular bees for farming so they can pollinate yourself. So they've got those little tiny bees

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And then if there is one, was it really a honeypot? It's a little bit too close on the nose. So I'm not going to automatically say this is all true. But it's interesting. Mike Benz is asking the question, reminding us that the January 6th pipe bomb placer, the person who hasn't been identified,

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who suspiciously put a pipe bomb in a place that even Kamala Harris walked by and ordinary citizens were walking by, even after it had been pointed out to law enforcement. And so there's something suspicious about the pipe bomber and the pipe bomb. But as Ben points out, the video shows the pipe bomber talking on the phone right before he planted the bomb.

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Now, could it be that it was just something from his spouse? Could it be it was just an ordinary phone call and that's just when he took it? Or maybe that call was placed to a confederate, somebody he was working with. And then, likewise, Benz points out that the Thomas Crooks guy who tried to kill the president, the one who shot him in the ear in Butler,

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that he was also spotted, and he's on video, as making a phone call fairly soon before he shot the president. Who was he talking to? Now, how do we not know by now? Do you think that the government doesn't have a way, given that they know the time, they know the exact time, and you don't think that they could identify who made a phone call? And we don't know.

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So I think the only way to understand this is that I think the information about who they were calling, the pipe bomber on January 6th and also Thomas Crooks, I think it's in the Epstein file. Because otherwise, how could you possibly explain that we haven't been told yet? It's all in the Epstein files, people, should they actually exist.

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Anyway, a senior aide, according to Puck, and then New York Post is reporting what Puck had, according to Puck, which is a publication, a senior aide for the Joe Biden administration, I guess it was a senior aide for Jill Biden, sort of admitted that They all knew that Biden was a problem, and they were frightened to death when he ever had any opportunity to speak off the cuff in public.

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And it was exactly what you thought it was. Everybody was aware from day one that his age was a big problem, and they tried to manage it because it was a big problem. Now, he also tries to soften it and say, well, you know, it's just routine for people who are a certain age, to which I say, no, it isn't. Not if you're the president.

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That's not routine to cover up your infirmities if they're mental. Routine to cover up your mental infirmities? Now, I do suspect that it happened with Reagan. I think Ronald Reagan was well into his dementia phase while he was still president, and that was probably covered up a little bit. I mean, the press did report on it. It was in the news, but there probably was also stuff covered up.

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So, yeah, it's a little bit common, but it's not acceptable. Well, Elon Musk has floated the idea of giving Members of Congress, a big raise if it could possibly prevent them from using corruption to augment their income. Now, I get the idea that if you were paid so well, you would just say, I'll just take the pay. I don't need to be corrupt as well.

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But I think that with so many members of Congress, you're still going to find plenty of people who want to be corrupt because their pay isn't enough, no matter what the pay is. But what would it take to pay a member of Congress? They currently get $174,000 per year, which really isn't enough to live on.

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If you have a home and a family back in your home state, and then you also have to spend all your time in Washington, it's not even close to enough. So if any of them are doing a little extra, you know what I mean? A little extra. You can certainly see how the temptation would be through the roof. But would that work? I would go this far, but not any further.

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bee robot drone that's the size of a bee and it can go pollinate plants why is it that every single robot technology sounds scary okay they can now build a swarm of robot bees i don't see how that could go wrong but in robot news the company figure That's one of the leading robot, humanoid robot makers. Their CEO says they're aiming to start alpha testing in homes this year.

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I would give them a big raise, but only in the form of a bonus. It would not be guaranteed. And the bonus would be zero if they don't balance the budget. And it would be substantial if they do. What do you think of that? And I wouldn't look at anything else. I would say, if you can balance my budget, I'll give you an extra 300,000 per year. Your current pay is 174.

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But we'll give you on top of that 300,000 per year if you just balance the budget. And you didn't do any tricks. It's actually balanced. Would that be worth it? Do you know how many trillions of dollars we would have saved if Congress knew that each one of them could get an extra $300,000 for balancing the budget? We would have a very balanced budget.

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So yes on the concept, but only as a paper for performance. I'm not going to pay you $500,000 a year or something for showing up, It's not good enough just to show up. You're going to have to show me that you did the most important thing, as in balance the budget.

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You could also imagine that you might have some other, I don't know who would be the one in charge of giving them goals, but you could also imagine if they don't secure the border, but I guess you could say that's more the president's job. Anyway, next story.

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So according to the Post Millennial and some other places, the Trump's Department of Justice is going to do hate crime indictments against the campus activists who are supporting Hamas. So that would make them sort of pro-terrorist and anti-Israel, at least. And here's something I didn't know. I didn't know Leo Terrell existed. Do you all know who Leo Terrell is? He's often on Fox News.

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He's a black lawyer, but weirdly, he's on the Justice Task Force to combat anti-Semitism. It's kind of weird that a non-Jewish guy would be on the anti-Semitism thing, but there's no reason he couldn't be, right? I mean, if he has the right skills and he has the right interests and he has the right incentives and he cares about the issue, why not?

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So that's a DEI I don't mind, meaning that it's not DEI, meaning that they just thought he was the right person. That's my take on it. I think they just think he's the right person. So he announced that they're doing this federal hate crime indictments and people are going to go to jail for supporting Hamas and trying to intimidate Jews.

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Now, here's one of those cases where I think the public, again, has to watch carefully. Because if this moves from obvious criminal behavior all the way to something political, that's, you know, I can't support that, right? So if they're just jailing people for political reasons and they haven't done something we can identify as an actual crime on the books, then it's kind of a free speech thing.

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You know, obviously I'm opposed to the, pro-Hamas wing of the public. But I'm also opposed to going too far into the politicization and lawfare of it. I don't see it yet. But this is one of the things you want to keep your eyes on. Let me give you a little background that Victor Davis Hanson gives us. I like the way he worded this.

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He said, at some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To which I said, yeah, at some point, somebody had to do it. When it got bad enough, whoever was president was going to have to do it. It just happens to be Trump.

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And he says, to have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore the borders and stop the influx of 3 million illegals. Yes, that's true. You couldn't let that just keep running. So some president had to stop it. And then some commander in chief, he says, would finally have to stop the theater wars abroad.

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But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curving the madness that his predecessors fueled. And this gets back to that common sense thing.

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trump's approach of common sense is really a big club because he can fight madness in every domain is that common sense no you know it's not we're going to do common sense next topic okay is what you're doing common sense no you know it's not common sense stop doing it so that's a really powerful tool you you need to be second second term president

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with balls of steel and the common sense as your sword and a whole bunch of really capable people backing you to get any of those critical things done. And those are all existential threats. Those are all end of the Republic threats. And Trump is just a singular unique character who has the exact right personality experience and just the right situation.

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that he could actually do those three things. It's kind of impressive. I keep hearing on the news the Democrats claiming that Republicans are going to gut Medicaid or did gut Medicaid. The Daily Caller News Foundation, Adam Pack, is talking about that as basically a hoax because they don't present any evidence that anything like that happened.

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So who wants to be first? I guess it'll beat Tesla. So the Tesla robots won't be here as quickly as the figure robots, but maybe. But the interesting thing was about this, not just that it's coming, but that the company says that they're advancing faster than anybody anticipated. Now, what do you think caused that?

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Now, I kind of backed off of that because I heard the accusations. and i knew that a budget had been agreed upon by at least the house and i thought maybe you know maybe they thought it was that much waste and abuse maybe there's something to it but is that true is it true that the mainstream media and the democrats have been just wildly claiming that there's

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Cuts and something that would be like the last thing that the public would be willing to accept. Cuts and Medicaid. And is that just the new hoax? Is that the brand new hoax? It might be. But the fact that the mainstream media can still support a hoax of that magnitude... That's pretty impressive. In an evil way, it's impressive.

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Anyway, so what's weird is that if the mainstream media is the only one you're paying attention to, you wouldn't know that's a hoax. Because it's not like you dug into the budget yourself. So it's pretty effective as a hoax. But I thought I'd give you a review of the top three, in my opinion, Democrat hoaxes that control their base and keep them in power.

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Now, these are what I consider really obviously easily debunkable hoaxes. But as long as the mainstream media has this captive audience of Democrats who only watch some forms of news and not others, they can get away with this. And here are the three, let's say the three legs of the stool that are supporting their entire party. Now listen to this one in order.

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The first hoax is that we as Americans can somehow know whether an election was fair and that we can know it was certainty. Now that's just a hoax. We don't have a system that can tell you what you don't know. If somebody found a way to rig an election and was not discovered, how would we know?

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How would we possibly know if an election had been rigged by people who were so good at rigging that they could get away with it? The fact that The mainstream makes people say it out loud. They'll bring a Republican on and they'll say, say it. Say you think that 2020 was rigged. Say it. Because we know it's a fact that it was not. That's a hoax. They don't know that as a fact. It's a possibility.

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It's a possibility that it was fair. It's a possibility that it wasn't fair. We don't have any visibility into that. None. They don't have any visibility into it. And they don't even know how many ways something could be cheated. And neither do you. Every time something gets hacked, think about hacking.

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A company builds some network and they think they've looked at every possibility to protect it from being hacked. Then what happens? It gets hacked. And we're talking about the best technologists in the world. They'll release a product and they'll say, we've really plugged every hole. there's no way anybody's going to find a way to hack this. And then it gets hacked.

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Do you think the elections are the exception? Where it's the only thing in the world that nobody can figure out how to hack? Well, it would be the only thing in the world. That would be a weird and wonderful coincidence. But no, it's not a fact that anybody knows anything about the outcome of an election. And then somebody said to me, but Scott, Does that mean the 2024 election was rigged?

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To which I say, we wouldn't know. We only know that Trump was named the winner. And my speculation is it was too big to rig even if somebody wanted to. Sort of like 2016, but... 2016 was more a surprise. I think it snuck up on people because they didn't expect he would win at all. So I don't think there was necessarily any cheating that was lined up in 2016.

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Why do you think the robot development, which they thought they'd roll out in two years, why do you think it suddenly became faster? And I wonder if it's anything to do with DeepSeek. So DeepSeek kind of taught them how to be more efficient. And I imagine all the AI companies said, oh, let's take their little secrets and build it into our product.

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But by 2020, that suspicious number of gigantic turnout for the corpse for Joe Biden, that is really suspicious. And let's talk about that. So they also say, this is the next Democrat hoax, that January 6th was definitely an insurrection. And if you don't believe it was an insurrection and that Trump was behind it, well, you're some kind of a lying traitor to the country. That's a hoax.

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I'm sure that some members of the public, maybe some of them that attended, thought they were doing an insurrection, but not the great majority of them. There weren't enough of those insurrectionist ones, you know, the crazy ones, who made any difference. The vast majority of the people arrested thought they were saving the country.

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Now, they could be wrong, but they looked at the election and they said, ah, that looks wrong. You're going to have to take a pause and make sure that's true. So asking people to take a pause to make sure that the election was counted correctly, because it looked like It looked like whatever bad behavior people suspected was so big that you could probably figure it out in 48 hours.

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They weren't asking for a big delay. Now, we have not seen that. It has not been determined that there was a specific way of cheating and that the election was rigged. But that's not relevant to the January 6th narrative. What's relative is what people believed. I'm positive that Trump believed it was a rigged election.

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I'm positive that the vast majority, I don't know, 95%, 98% of the protesters on January 6th believed it was rigged. So the correct narrative is people believed it was rigged and wanted it to be paused so we could find out if it was. I don't think you could have found out in a brief pause, but that's what people were asking for.

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For the news to report it as definitely an insurrection, as definitely an insurrection is just a hoax. That's pure hoax. And their entire Democrat party depends on you believing that hoax. Because if you don't believe January 6th, if you don't believe the hoax, then you can't believe that Trump is definitely trying to steal your democracy.

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Their entire messaging depends on you believing that hoax because there's not really anything else they can point to that would suggest that Trump wants to be a dictator. They can just look at that one thing. And if you believe the one thing, that he tried to overthrow the government on January 6th? If you believe that hoax, then all the rest of the hoaxes afterwards make sense.

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Oh, well, he's definitely a dictator insurrectionist, so if you had any questions about this new thing he's doing, I think we could wrap it under the umbrella of his dictator insurrectionist impulses. The whole thing falls apart if you know that January 6th was just a made-up narrative, completely made up. And then there's the Russia started the war with Ukraine.

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And again, it's one of those, who started the war? Well, if you look back at 2014, shut up, shut up. The only way we count it is who invaded. That's all. That's who started it. So the definition of started it is who crossed the border with weapons. To which I say, why would you have a stupid definition? That's a stupid definition.

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Who started it is whoever did something so provocative that somebody thought they needed to shoot him. Did Ukraine do something so provocative that Russia said, okay, I think we now have to just kill you all because this is so bad? Yes, they did. They tried to move NATO right up to their front door and fill it with CIA stations. And it was a red line that Putin had said for a long time.

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So I wonder if the Chinese AI, I'm just speculating, I wonder if that's what sped things up. Because you could do more with less. You could have just a localized AI that wouldn't absolutely depend on being connected to the net. So maybe that's part of it. I don't know. Well, do you remember my prediction about the Epstein files from yesterday?

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Now, Putin's not a good guy, so I'm not defending Putin. I have to say that every time so my clips don't get taken out of context. But it's a pure hoax that the only definition of starting a war is who crossed the border with the military. That's just a hoax. The start is whatever started it. Putin wasn't sitting on the other end of the border saying, you know, I've got an idea.

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I'm just noodling, but what about, what if I just invaded? It didn't happen that way. There was a whole bunch of stuff that was just begging for an invasion, and we all knew it, or at least people in the government knew it.

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So those are the three oakses that we can magically know who won any election, that January 6th was an insurrection, even though if you asked 98% of the people there, they would say, what are you talking about? We were trying to stop an insurrection. And then who started it? They just used some weird definition so they can justify endless war. All right. So those are the three big hoaxes.

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Apparently, California Democrat mayor officials' homes were raided and there's a 14 million dollar corruption probe and this is in uh is it huntington beach yeah huntington park california and you would not be surprised that the corruption corruption involves um the building of some facility city's aquatic center

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And you would not be surprised that there was a bunch of money sloshing around to build that aquatic center. And you would not be surprised that the government that was in power is being blamed for stealing some amount of that money that was sloshing around. Now, I'll say this a million times, but our country is doomed if local mayors and politicians can decide where the money goes. That's it.

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We can't survive that. It will guarantee that over time, every city is run by a criminal organization that's stealing all the money that's going through it. Well, basically, you'll be the Taliban at that point. So the fact that there's this one investigation of this one thing, I think it's every city. I think it's every city is just riddled with the same kind of corruption.

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Oh, we need a big project to build a bridge or an aquatic center. And then there's a shit ton of money sloshing around. And then they make sure that it goes to their cronies so that their kid or their spouse gets a taste of it because they're associated in some way with where the money is sloshing around. It's all corrupt all the time. Every city, I'm pretty sure.

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I'll bet you there's not one city where the... Well, I'll give you... There might be one. When Bloomberg was mayor of New York City, there's a pretty good chance he wasn't stealing anything. Pretty good chance. But I would say those are exceptions. Now, if the worst allegation against Mayor Adams of New York is that he got some upgrades on his travel, which is the most normal thing in the world,

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If that's the worst they could accuse him of, then it makes me think, hmm, maybe him starting in law enforcement may have put him in a position where he just didn't feel like stealing from the city was the right thing to do. So there could be some exceptions, but it also might explain why they're trying to get rid of him.

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Because if he doesn't participate in, let's say, the larger scale Democrat abuse of all funding... Maybe people said, yeah, we got to get somebody more corrupt in that job or we're not making money. So there could be exceptions. Anyway, the FAA is getting close to canceling Verizon. That is the backbone, I guess, for their air traffic control systems.

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And the word is that they might be just months away from the entire FAA air support, what do you call it, the people in the towers, of the whole thing just falling apart where you just wouldn't be able to fly. All the airports would have to close because the infrastructure would just crumble, I guess. And I guess Verizon's been getting $2.4 billion, is it per year? It might be per year.

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So there's nothing I enjoy more when it comes to this sort of stuff than making a unusual prediction that just nails it. So while the entire country and the world and the credible people from the president to Pam Bondi to Kash Patel were all saying, oh, we're going to get you those Epstein files. And then it turned into, yep, yep, absolutely.

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And Starlink might take over that business to do what Verizon was doing with probably mostly landlines, but move it up to the satellites. Now, this, of course, is going to make all the Democrats say, wait a minute, wait a minute now. That looks like a conflict of interest. Are you telling me that Elon Musk looked into it and his solution was give all the money to my company?

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Well, we do need some kind of a process, right? where we can just shine light on all the situations in which Elon Musk's businesses will have some intersection with things that Doge is doing. And this is certainly one. Now, I don't think that he's doing something bad. I think he's going to save a whole bunch of money and save the air traffic system, and we're all going to be better off for it.

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That's what I think will happen. But it's still perfectly valid to say, Can we make sure we have maximum transparency on that and that the public is completely aware why it's being done, why Skylink is chosen? It's the only thing they could do it probably. And, you know, are we going to save money or spend more money? So a little more transparency would be great. Speaking of Verizon.

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Brendan Carr of the FCC is warning Verizon about their DEI stuff because the FCC doesn't want anybody who's regulated by them to be promoting DEI. And Brendan Carr says, I expect all regulated businesses to end in invidious forms of discrimination. Good. There's more DEI news. Goldman Sachs is going to ditch their DEI goals. Good. Goldman Sachs, welcome to the club.

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Now, I've been telling you for a while that if the government says this is discrimination, that the biggest companies are going to say, that just opened up a gigantic legal liability. Because if the government says it's discrimination, that would mean we're breaking the law right in public. If you're a big corporation, the thing you least want to do is break the law right in public.

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It's a risk no big company wants. So I did expect that after a few big companies get rid of their DEI just for legal liability reasons, that there'd be more of it. Now, it could be driven by insurance. Maybe. It's possible that there's an insurance angle, but the big companies often are self-insured, so maybe that's not it. It could be just they see it's a legal liability in the future.

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But keep this in mind, that Goldman Sachs had a four-year-old diversity policy that they're ending, that they were not allowed to advise companies on IPOs unless they had two diverse board members. So they were not just all in. They were all in and trying to influence other companies, almost like blackmail, to be all in as well. And they pulled that back. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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government is launching an NDEI portal, according to Newsmax. It's a portal where the public can complain about diversity in schools. Not diversity, about... They can complain about DEI, which is now banned if you want to get federal funding, which all the schools need. So there would be a way to drop a dime on any DEI that's trying to hide.

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Do you think anybody's trying to hide their DEI programs? Yes. They're changing the names of the departments. They're shifting people around. And they're trying to keep what they're doing, but hide it from the government. Now, that's got to be really illegal. But it turns out that the U.S. Mint is, so the government itself, the U.S.

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They're going to be handed over to us, and we're going to release them, and it's going to be yesterday. And then I double down on my prediction. Nope. The only thing you'll see are things you've seen before, like flight logs. And what did they release? They released the only things you've seen before, the flight logs, and they don't have anything else. Now,

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Mint is scrambling to conceal their DEI personnel, according to the Free Press. Josh Code is writing about that. And, you know, the way they hide it is they change the names in the org charts and stuff like that. But the allegation is that they've hidden five diversity, equity, and inclusion personnel from the X. So there's going to be more discovery of that stuff.

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Meanwhile, another big news, big pharma company Eli Lilly says they're going to put $27 billion into U.S. manufacturing expansion. Now, when I see a story like that, I can't escape my history as a person who worked for big corporations. And my job for most of that time was to gather information that would be the information that we would use.

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And I learned that corporate information is almost never accurate. It's just a story you want to tell. So it's more about the narrative. So when I see that Eli Lilly wants to invest $27 billion in the U.S., here's where my brain automatically goes. How much were they going to invest anyway?

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Okay, sub of the $27, I guarantee they had already planned to do before any home shoring or anything had been brought up. But if they wanted to expand it so that the government would like them and the Trump administration would say, yeah, you're a good company. You're doing what we want. You're expanding U.S. manufacturing. Here's what I'd do.

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I'd say, yeah, we already told you about the, I'll just make up a number, the $10 billion that might have been just ordinary business that was going to happen no matter what. But we're going to make that $27 billion by counting extra years in the future. So instead of talking about a five-year plan, maybe we'll talk about a 10-year plan. And then guess what?

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In five years, if you check back, they will have spent the same amount that they said they would have spent, no matter what, $10 billion. And then you're going to say, hey, what about that extra $17 billion? And they would say, well, that was five years ago. Things change. It's a new administration. They don't really have to, they don't have to really do it.

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They can just make up numbers in the future and say, ah, yeah, yeah. In 10 years, we're totally putting in another 10 billion. Yeah, no doubt about it. Nobody can plan 10 years in advance or usually even five. Then my next question is, if they're designing manufacturing in the United States and they're doing it in the modern era, as in today,

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Did they design the manufacturing to accommodate human workers or robots? Or do they cleverly design it so that it's humans now, but it could very easily be robots? Because I don't think they would depend on American workers to do everything. So we'll see. I have big questions about any of these big company announcements about onshore. Meanwhile... RFK Jr.

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has paused a $460 million Biden-era COVID vaccine deal. I guess they were working on a COVID vaccine pill. And that was going to cost a lot to test it, etc. Now, it's not stopped. It's just paused for review. And that's good. That sounds like exactly the sort of thing that we would want to be carefully reviewed. So nothing wrong with that. But here's what I've observed.

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And I want you to tell if you observed the same thing. When it comes to the COVID shots, the ones that already exist, there are two completely different worlds. In one world, there are all these experts who say that the COVID shots are definitely, obviously, and massively injuring people. Heart problems and turbo cancers and every other thing in the world. Now, that's one world.

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Part of why I do this show, and one of the big themes, is I make unusual predictions. And the more unusual they are when they come in, the more it tells you that there's something about the technique that might be valid. So I always say that the only thing that's real is prediction. Because you can have all kinds of beliefs about what reality is, but if your belief in reality doesn't predict,

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And in that world, everybody knows it. It's clean and obvious science. There's no question about it. And all the evidence shows it. And there's no doubt that the COVID shot was the biggest scandal slash crime in the last hundred years.

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At the same time, in the other world, which has no connection to that world, the government and Big Pharma are still offering the same shots and would claim that they really, really helped and there's no special risk. and they're going to make more, and they're going to extend the platform so you can get all kinds of mRNA stuff.

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Now, how in the world are both of those worlds operating completely independently at the same time? So there's one of the trolls saying, I say question everything, but I didn't say question the COVID shot. Can the rest of you tell that fucking idiot what my opinion was from the start to the moment on the COVID shot?

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Please, tell the fucking idiot what my opinion was, because he's getting his information from 4chan Comics, I think. In the comments, those who have been watching me, tell me, did I have any skepticism about the shot? From the start. It was nothing but skepticism. So fuck off, you idiots. I'm really so tired of you. You're living in the wrong movie.

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There's no movie in which I did what you think I did. None of it happened, and I've got a thousand witnesses who are testifying it right now in the comments. Every one of you who watched me knows that I was skeptical from the start and never stopped. Right? So just fuck completely off. I'm so done with you idiots. So done with you fucking idiots.

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Anyway, so the only way we'll know what's true is when we get those Epstein files, because I'm sure that has COVID stuff in there, too. That's where I'd put it. Trump administration, according to the Postmillennial, is going to deny all visas for male trans athletes seeking to compete as women in the 2028 Olympics.

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Now, I guess I wasn't aware that the Olympics were even the place that there would be trans athletes. I guess I wasn't paying attention. I don't pay too much attention to the Olympics. But I guess... They're just going to not let anybody come into the country if they're in that category of born male but competing as female. What do you think of that?

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Well, I would say that I'm surprised that the Olympics themselves allowed it, but I don't have a problem with it. It just feels like the adult thing to do, common sense. I'm surprised. I don't know if there'll be lawsuits that succeed. You expect there'll be some lawsuits or whatever. But yeah, common sense. In related news, I don't know if you saw this, but there's a story in the news.

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ABC News said with this headline, quote, a woman in Colorado has been arrested after police caught her with explosives at a Tesla dealership. A woman in Colorado. When was the last time you heard about a woman planning a bombing attack? Woman planning a bombing attack. Maybe never. Maybe never in your entire life. Not even once. I can't think of one.

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But the funny part is they showed a photograph of the woman who didn't have a single female characteristic. didn't have long hair like a woman, didn't have makeup, didn't have jewelry, wasn't dressed like a woman. It was just a dude. But it must have been a dude who insisted on being called a woman. So ABC News said, yeah, no problem. There's a picture of our woman. Okay.

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Well, I'm not so sure you have the right reality. But if my understanding of reality consistently predicts some of the most unpredictable things, well, then maybe you should take a look at my frames and how I do it. So in this frame, I simply started with the fact that if the Epstein files are anything like we suspect they are, there isn't any way they'll be released.

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Speaking of transgender, also CBS News is reporting that transgender service members could be removed from the military. Now, not everyone, because they're going to do a case by case look. And if they're contributing to the war fighting lethality, which is the main goal, there might be some cases where they have some special skills or something, and they would keep them on a case by case basis.

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But basically, they're going to try to remove all trans from the military. Now, Here's where I have to remind you of some context. The military is allowed to discriminate. It's the most basic fact about the military. If you're a 400-pound guy, can you join the military and try to be a pilot? No. They will discriminate you for your weight.

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If you're 3 foot 5 inches tall and you try to join the military, can you do it? No. No, they'll say people need to be a certain size to fit in. If you're a, let's say you're blind, can you join the military? No. Well, I don't think so. Certainly not for standard military stuff. So, and look at me. Suppose I wanted to become a Marine. Do you think the Marines would take me at my current age? No.

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No. No, they would discriminate by age. And they already discriminate by gender, I think, in some domains, but not all. The only thing the military has to prove is that when they're discriminating, there's a quite reasonable reason for it, usually backed by data.

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So they don't discriminate by race, and I don't think there's data that shows they should, as long as everybody's passing the same standards, etc., So where they don't discriminate, it's because the data doesn't back it, or they can find a way to be selective enough that there's no reason to do it. So when you look at the trans thing, just remember, the military has every right to discriminate.

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They only have to get the job done. That's it. And if they can come up with some data, and maybe they haven't, It says that if you're transgender, you're less ready for combat or something, then they can do it. It would be good if they had some data. If it's just purely political, it's not going to fly as well.

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All right, there's a story about Chief Justice Roberts, who shut down this Democrat federal judge who was trying to... It doesn't matter what the judge was doing. He was trying to do something that was just anti-Trump and trying to force USAID funding in one day. Basically just something stupid.

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So as you know, the current situation is that a federal judge anywhere in the country can stop any national thing. So that means that the Democrats can judge shop.

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there's always somebody corrupt enough and democrat enough and tds enough that no matter what you want to do as long as it's anti-trump they can find a judge who will do it now that's the worst system in the world because it would mean that the you know the republicans will just be in endless you know legal battles you couldn't get anything done because you could always find a judge there's always a judge to shut it down well so this federal judge

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shut down something that was sort of outside of that judge's normal domain i guess but uh what happened next according to rod martin who's writing about this um did a good job on this apparently justice roberts um didn't wait for the appeals court that was be between that judge and the supreme court he just uh because the appeals court was non-responsive i guess within the timeline and so just justice roberts

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without consulting anybody or holding a case, just put the boot on him and just said, nope. And he just overruled the federal judge. Now we think, and I think this is Rod Martin's take, that Justice Roberts just does not abide this judge shopping for the worst judge to get the worst things that affect the whole country. I think the Supreme Court, at least Roberts,

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who seems to have the authority to do that, which surprises me, I think he's just going to shut down this judge shopping stuff. And maybe this was, it was such a stark kind of surprising, you know, nuclear blast on the court system that it looked like he was sending a message as in, if you do this again, I'm going to stomp on you again.

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There's no world in which those will ever be released. I'd love to be wrong, and then I would admit I'm wrong, but I definitely nailed it this time. I think you're going to have to give it to me this time. So I did publicly say more than once, yeah, you're not going to get anything but what you've already seen. Now the real, the real question is, let me ask this question. Where is Kash Patel?

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Now, it's a little bit of speculation because we don't know what he's thinking, but it did look like a signal. It looked like a signal as in you can't have a court system where one rogue judge, and you can always find one, can stop anything. And then it just becomes completely political. So good for you.

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If that's what happened, and there's a little bit of speculation in that, but if that's what Roberts was thinking and that's why Roberts acted, good for you. That's terrific. Nicely done. Meanwhile, Jerry Dunleavy is reporting that five former defense secretaries got together and wrote a letter.

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They're worried about the recent firings in the military, the head of the military especially, and that Trump might be politicizing the military. And Here are the people who are worried about him politicizing the military. You've got Leon Panetta. So these are former defense secretaries.

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Leon Panetta was one of the signers of the Biden laptop letter, who is now warning about the government politicizing that job. He signed the laptop letter. Man, you've got to have serious balls to be a signer of the laptop letter and to say, hey, this administration is politicizing this job. Good Lord. The other ones were Lloyd Austin, Jim Mattis, William Perry, and Chuck Hagel.

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They're all deeply alarmed at Trump's politicizing. Now, here's my question. Since when is it not politicized? I'm pretty sure that when you get a new president and the new president has a different political opinion about how the world should run, should we be supporting Ukraine or trying to end the war, for example? That's political, right?

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And then the new president comes in who won a mandate for that political outcome. and then tells the military to do the thing that the public asks for, which is definitely political. It doesn't make it wrong, because sometimes politics is either go left or go right, and one of those directions is the correct one. So being politicized is the only way it can be. How can it not be politicized?

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The whole point of having the civilian leadership of the military is that you've got an elected politician. who's calling the shots. That's politicized by definition. You can't unpoliticize that. We designed it so it would be politicized, that a politician would be in charge. That's politicized.

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Anyway, I guess the idea of firing people who were not on the team is too politicized, to which I say, isn't it also common sense that if a president got elected with a certain set of military ambitions, in this case, not to be in a war, that if there's any members of the military at the top who don't want to do that, that you would fire them. Is that politicized? That's kind of stretching it.

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More like normal behavior. Anyway, according to a poll, a Gallup poll, Breitbart News is reporting on this, Hannah Knudson, The American trust in the mass media is at the lowest point in 50 years. Over 50 years. Now, are you surprised that the mass media is at the lowest point? Now, a lot of that is Trump. And around 2016, the mass media took a big dive.

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But here's the problem when you ask that question. If you ask a Republican... They sometimes will say that Fox News is part of the mass media, that the mass media is everything that disagrees with the right. And so I'm not sure how people are answering the question. If they were answering the question that they trusted Fox News, but they didn't trust the other forms of news,

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they would be maybe mixed in with people who treated them all the same. So I don't know. I don't trust the results. But it seems to me that the various trust is down to like in the 30s. So in the 30-ish percent, about one in three people trust the media. Do you see the trend? We're just maybe a few years away. from trust in the media reaching 25%. What do I say about 25%?

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Now, allegedly Pam Bondi is saying that, um, is it the Southern district, the New York FBI office allegedly has all these files and, uh, and that they're going to release him any second, and then they didn't, and then some whistleblower says they're destroying the files. Where's Kash Patel? Is he still alive? Isn't the most important person in the country right now Kash Patel?

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25% is the number of people who will be wrong on any question, no matter what the question is. It's different 25%, but it doesn't matter what the question is, 25% will be completely wrong and clueless every time. And it looks like trust in the media is going to go down to 25%. Anyway, according to Reclaim the Net, D.D.

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Rankovich, the House of Representatives, they advanced a bill to block foreign officials who censor Americans. So the idea is if you're a foreign person, politicians specifically,

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and you've been involved in trying to censor our social media in other countries which would effectively you know would effectively censor it in our country because the social media operates everywhere so if they could only operate by you know bending to the will of some foreign country well they censored americans And so I guess this is something Daryl Issa did last September. Is it Issa?

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Daryl Issa or Issa? Issa, right? I think it's Issa. And he got together with some Republican colleagues. And basically, if you are involved in this, you can never travel to the United States. And if you're in the United States, they can deport you. I like it. I like it. Now, it doesn't have a lot of teeth because, you know, people can survive not traveling to the United States.

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It's not the end of the world for most people. But if you were a high profile politician and you had eyes on some high office, it would be a problem if you had been banned from even visiting America. If you've been banned from even visiting one of the biggest what should be your ally, that would be quite a thing to overcome in your next election, wouldn't it?

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And my opponent isn't even allowed to travel to the United States. It'd be hard to win that election. Anyway, I'm in favor of this. But it hasn't passed yet. It's just got through the House. Meanwhile, it looks like Japan's birth rate is hitting another new low, and it's looking like Japan at the current rate will disappear.

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Over 30% of Japan is over 65, and marriage is just kind of, looks like kind of the question for a lot of young people because of the financial burden and etc. Japan just doesn't really have a solution for replacing the people who are aging out of the productive part of the society. And they're doing stuff. They've had dating apps and cash perks and four-day work weeks and relaxed immigration laws.

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They're bringing in foreign workers and all that. But it doesn't look like it's going to make much difference. So at the same time that robots... are being introduced this year, the population in other countries is going through the floor. And I wonder if there's some way to productively take advantage of the fact that 30% of the public is over 65 in Japan and people are not having kids.

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Is there any way that the seniors could be involved in childcare to take the burden off of people who want to both work, but they'd have to hire childcare and it'd be too expensive?

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So there could be maybe some social engineering thing where the oldsters who just want to be useful would just love having some kids around during the day just to keep them company, as long as the old people are still entirely functional. And maybe they do that already, but probably only for family members. I doubt there are too many strangers watching kids.

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But if you had security cameras and you had a number of witnesses there who were also adults, you could probably feel safe enough. So we'll see. Did you know, according to the Wall Street Journal, that the American drones that are flying over Mexico have been doing it since the early 2000s? So apparently for years, we've been working with the Mexican government

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So much so that the drones are generally stationed permanently on Mexican air bases because they're closer to the action. So the Mexican government has been allowing these MQ-9 Reaper flights since the early 2000s, and it continues. And apparently that was, allegedly, a vital part of how they caught El Chapo in 2013 and 2016, because he escaped a few times.

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And then in 2023, they helped find El Chapo's son. So here's my question. If you added AI to the Reapers, and apparently they can see all the way down to a license plate. which means they could get an image of faces.

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If they can get images of faces and they can just find one case of one of the top cartel people, can't the AI build a sort of an automatic network of all the people that they need to round up? I feel like there's a whole other level of capability that the drones haven't yet reached. They're right on the edge of reaching.

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Because the president promised us, Kash Patel promised us, Pam Bondi promised us, and every one of them are credible. Like, I don't think any one of them were lying. I think they actually intended to release it. But I've seen Pam Bondi. I've seen the president. I haven't seen even a photo from Kash Patel. I'm starting to worry about him a little bit. Like, actually, I'd want a sign of life.

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Because once it can identify people and it knows the entire network of who's doing what, it seems like it'd be pretty easy, not easy, but it would be possible to take down the cartels completely. So that might happen.

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You heard a while ago that North Korea was trying to help out Russia with the manpower problem for the military, and that a bunch of North Korean soldiers were fighting on the same team as the Russians in Ukraine. Now, today we find out, this is in the Wall Street Journal, that some of the captured North Korean soldiers

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They didn't know what war they were going to be in and who they were fighting. They had been told that they were going to go fight South Koreans because the South Korean military had joined with Ukraine. Nothing like that ever happened. But that's part of what the North Koreans were basically propagandized into, that they were going to go fight the South Koreans.

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Now, I assume that's because the North Koreans are taught from birth that South Korea is the enemy, and if you're in the military, South Korea is who you're going to be fighting. So they're just going to a different part of the world to fight those South Koreans. And then they got injured and captured, and somebody said, we don't have any South Koreans. What the hell are you talking about?

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And then the North Koreans are like, ah, I'm starting to think that North Korea is not always honest. So there's that. Here's a shocking Gallup poll, according to Carl Campanile in the New York Post, that 60% of Democrats are now anti-Israel, according to a poll. 60% of Democrats are anti-Israel. At the same time, I asked ChatGPT this, about 70% of American Jewish voters are Democrat.

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So let me say that again. For the first time ever, a majority of Democrats are anti-Israel. Now, that's about the country and the country's policies. But at the same time, 70% of American Jewish voters are Democrat. Now, these are not the same thing. So it's not about if you're Jewish, you're automatically pro-Israel or anti-Israel or anything. So they're slightly different.

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But if you were a Jewish voter and you know that 60% of the people on your own team were anti-Israel, even if you didn't have any special feelings about Israel yourself and you just said, I'm American, you know, I wish them well, but it's not my business. I'm an American. That would still bother you, wouldn't it?

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If 60% of the people on your team were suspiciously against this country that's mostly Jewish people. So I'm going to make a prediction. You know how you were surprised when Hispanics moved toward Trump? And you know how you were surprised, maybe not, that male voters moved toward Trump in a big way, especially young ones?

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And remember how you were surprised that black voters moved far more toward Trump than you ever expected? I'm going to predict that Jewish American voters are going to defect the Republican Party. And it will be because their own party turned down, seems like a cesspool of anti-Semitism. Now, anti-Semitism is everywhere. So it's not like you're going to go to the Republican Party and not get any.

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Oh, you'll get plenty. But apparently the pro-Israel part of the Republican Party is really high. So I think it's over 80% of Republicans are pro-Israel. So I don't see how it can persist. that 70% of American Jewish voters are Democrat. At the same time, 60% of Democrats are just overtly anti-Israel, which is not the same as being anti-Semitic. I'll give you that. But it's kind of a close cousin.

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The Venn diagram is going to overlap a little bit. So that doesn't seem sustainable. I think the Republicans are just going to, just going to grow. Speaking of Israel, Bill O'Reilly had a take on the Trump plan to turn Gaza into a Mediterranean hotel and kind of an excellent place on the coast. And he said that his vision of it is economic prosperity.

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And he says, you're never going to have peace in the Middle East. Now, this is Bill O'Reilly's in his opinion, what Trump's opinion is, because he just talked to him recently, I guess. So he thinks that Trump thinks that you have to have prosperity in the Middle East to solve the problems. I don't think I've ever disagreed with Trump more than that, if that's actually his opinion.

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Let me say it again. I'm not sure he's alive. Right? Under what scenario would we not hear from Kash Patel yesterday? Can you think of any scenario in which he would be quiet all of yesterday? He released a statement on X. So we didn't see him. There was just a statement. What did the statement say? I didn't see it. Did he say we're working on it? I don't know.

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So I'd have to hear from him before I completely believe that's a full and accurate opinion. But I feel like That would make sense if crime was the problem. You know, if you had like just a crime problem, I think prosperity generally does do a good job of reducing crime.

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But if you've been training your youth from birth that they have to go destroy Israel and kill all the Jews or whatever they're learning, how in the world is making them rich going to make you safer? All you have is richer terrorists. All you would have is terrorists who don't have to worry about eating and they can work full-time on their other mission of destroying Israel.

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So I would expect that Trump would have a more nuanced feeling than whatever it is that is being relayed to us. So I need to hear it from him. I'd like to hear Trump say that prosperity is how you reduce the future of terrorism because it's not obvious to me To me, it looks like it would worsen it. It's like, here's some terrorism. How about we give you a lot of money?

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Every time terrorists get more money, they do more terrorism. Has there ever been an exception? Well, the buzz saws and leaf blowers next door are in full swing right now, so I can barely hear myself. I'm hoping my microphone isn't picking it up because it'd be very annoying to you. Yeah, poverty contributes, but it's not the cause. It's true. It's the biggest contributor, though.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say some words privately to the local subscribers. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place. I hope you enjoyed the show, and see you tomorrow.

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You say you're here for the coffee and the ambiance? Well, this is the place to get it. We got coffee, we got ambience. There's a new study according to the SciPost. The Journal of Psychopharmacology says that coffee affects people differently based on their genes. That's right. If you got the right kind of genes, the coffee is going to affect you just right.

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The statement on X isn't good enough. Do you think he's tied to a chair somewhere? I think he's tied to a chair. So he must be alive, but tied to a chair. So I would say that we don't know anything about this, but here's some context from Mike Benz. And this is from way before today. He showed a video and he's talked about this.

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Mike Ben says, the FBI hides critical damning evidence about FBI informants. Would that suggest that Epstein is an FBI informant? Possibly. We wouldn't know. But apparently they create a separate set of FBI books, one to show people who ask if they get audited, I guess, or if the boss asks. And then there's a real one for eyes only, and only two people are ever allowed to access them.

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So apparently it's standard procedure in the FBI to protect informants. And they do it even, you know, at the risk of not telling their own bosses. That's pretty extreme. It might actually be a good thing because it keeps the informants safer and then you get better informants. You've been had. Okay. So here's what I think. Oh, hold on. Is that Kash Patel's statement?

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I think somebody's sending it. Okay. All right. Here it is. Kash Patel. um the fbi is entering a new era one that will be defined by integrity blah blah blah there will be no cover-ups blah blah blah uh it's just generic it's just generic it's nothing about the epstein files okay so Is it a case where the FBI is protecting their own informant or the FBI is protecting themselves?

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Now, many of you have been telling me for a long time that Epstein was a Mossad agent. I saw Mike Cernovich pushing back on that as being oversimplified. I would agree with the oversimplified because just walk through this logically. Let's say Epstein started as an Israeli spy, and it was a blackmail thing so he could give Israel people to blackmail, I guess, in the United States.

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Now, do you think there's any chance that our own government would not have discovered that and known that he was an Israeli spy, if he was, if he was? And what would have happened if our government discovered that he was doing all this blackmail stuff, would they put him in jail? Maybe.

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But you also wouldn't know where he hid all the blackmail stuff, and maybe he had some blackmail on people you don't want to go down. So if I were the US government, let's say I'm in the FBI, and I found out that there was this foreign spy doing all this blackmail stuff, I would pull them into the office and say, here's the deal.

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You're either going to jail because we caught you or you're working for us now. Which one is more likely? And what are the odds that somebody who had this superpower of blackmailing people, what are the odds that you would only have one client, meaning that he's only servicing one country or servicing one entity within one country?

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I would guess that he probably freelanced a bit and that I don't, I don't have any doubt that there was blackmail involved in his business model, but it is a little simplistic to say that he had one boss because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would have one boss for long. So we'll find out in a unrelated story, but maybe related. It's, it's part of a bigger trend.

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Now, I must have those kind of genes, but I like to marinate my genes in coffee. Yeah, just let them marinate. And possibly mutate. If the coffee will make my genes mutate, good for me. Maybe it'll turn me into a better person. In other news, Microsoft is going to permanently shut down Skype. There will be no more Skyping. How much did you hate using Skype?

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Insurrection Barbie points out that James Comey's daughter, adult daughter, Maureen Comey, she's an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York. And she's been in that office, with the office since 2015. And then she worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case. So Comey's daughter worked on the Epstein case. That's interesting, but that's just a coincidence.

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She also worked on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense. If she was involved in one, it would make sense to bring that expertise over to the other one. And she just joined in December 2024. She joined in the Sean Diddy trial stuff that hasn't been a trial yet, but she's part of that process. So the suspicion is, but I don't go that far.

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I don't think there's any dots to connect yet. It's suspicious that she seems to get the most High profile, maybe there's something else going on. Maybe they're an informant kind of case. But here's the other way to look at it. There's no specific, you know, there's no smoking gun or anything that would suggest you did anything illegal or inappropriate or anything. But here's the problem.

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Whenever you have a, these days, whenever you have a high profile government person, they're often married to another high-profile government person. And if they have a child, it's going to be a high-profile child who's going to have a big job somewhere. So there's nothing unusual about high-profile people having good jobs and the children of those people having even better jobs.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. Let's call it coffee with Scott Adams. There's never been a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that only the International Space Station could even possibly understand.

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That's the most normal thing in the world. You wouldn't need a conspiracy for that stuff to happen. It would just be high-profile people doing high-profile stuff. But it does open up the possibility, and we've seen so many examples, Where one spouse is in exactly the right place to help the other spouse.

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You know, the situation like there's a congressperson who's voting for funding for USAID for some NGO, and then the spouse is on the NGO, the consultant for the NGO. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a million ways to launder money and launder the law just because of family connections.

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And there really needs to be some way for us to identify and root that out and get rid of the conflict of interest because it's a massive problem. But I don't know anything about specifically the Comey situation. Anyway, speaking of Comey, the Washington Times was reporting that Comey, the senior, is being investigated for what they call a honeypot operation.

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I think Fox News reported it as the honeypot meant sleeping with members of the Trump team to find any crimes without knowing any specific things that they were looking for. Now, if it's true, It would suggest that Comey was doing something off book or out of the normal process to just get Trump. And that would be very bad.

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I had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that no one can even comprehend with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein or canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Anything's possible. I'm rooting for him, and I think everything he's doing makes sense. I just think maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves on the actual produced results. Just a hunch. Well, meanwhile, the conversation about Trump wanting to buy Canada has created a little attention by

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Kevin O'Leary, he's one of the Shark Tank stars, but better known as being one of the more successful investors. And he's Canadian. And he says that there's actually interest in Canada in merging with the United States. Now, he just means conversationally, not in the government. Government is probably 100% against it, but he thinks he wants to try to sell it.

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So he wants to see if he can pitch it and maybe broker a deal with Trump and form some kind of what he calls an economic union. So an economic union would not be a merger, so they'd still have some regular government, I guess. But yeah, maybe. I don't know what he has in mind, but he is a serious person who wants what's best for both countries.

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And probably has a good idea what would get us there. So if Kevin O'Leary is weighing in, I feel like Kevin O'Leary is in that category of the pirate ship. So not only did Trump attract people who used to be Democrats or still are Democrats, but he also got a Canadian. He got a Canadian. Like the Trump effect is so strong.

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that there's somebody... Actually, I don't know his current nationality, so I don't know if he... He's probably still a Canadian citizen, I think. Yeah, he's called a Canadian investor. But I just love the fact that the incoming Trump administration seems solid enough and capable enough that somebody like Kevin O'Leary would say, let me spend a bunch of time

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See if I can get this very big thing done that might be great for both countries. Just people volunteering. It's like Doge, right? It's like people volunteering to put their own lives on hold. Really good lives. Like we're talking about people who could just go to the beach all day if they wanted to. And they've decided to sacrifice for some kind of national or double national benefit.

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I just appreciate them. So I'm just going to give a shout out to Kevin O'Leary. for putting his risk capital out there in favor of two nations that need a little help. Thanks. Well, there's a New update in New York Post. Of course, we'll talk about the foreign worker thing. Just waiting for people to stream in so we can hit that when we're all here at the same time.

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Apparently, the intelligence spy bosses, they silenced the Defense Department back when the COVID leak was still being discussed. And people were saying, is it a lab leak or is it a natural thing? And apparently, the Defense Department had good evidence it was a designed leak.

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a designed thing in the lab and the spy bosses decided to take that out of the briefing so that Biden did not hear that it came from a lab. What would you do with a spy chief who was hiding the most vital information from the commander in chief? Now, I don't think it's illegal, but you should never work in that job again.

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Around the first week of January, which is almost just as good. I guess I should tell you this. It wouldn't be fair to tell you this, I just realized. Probably at some point in January-ish, if not before, the annual Dilbert calendar, the little page a day calendar, that you can only buy on Dilbert.com, by the way. There's no other source. Go to Dilbert.com and see the link.

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anybody who's hiding the most important information from the president while working for the president has got to be fired right away. I mean, there's no real second chance for that kind of stuff. So I don't know who it was, but maybe when Trump gets in there, we can get a better idea which spy chief silenced the truth from the commander in chief.

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On the other hand, Biden wasn't really totally functional, so... And then the funniest thing about this story is when they talk about the spy chiefs and the Pentagon and they did all their research and they found out things that nobody could have ever known. And then it's taken years for them to come, you know, finally tell you what they think they know. And I've told you before, but it's funny.

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I think probably like maybe a week after the COVID pandemic hit that one of my smartest friends called me and said, Here's a picture on Google Maps that wet market is directly across the street from the Wuhan lab that does exactly this kind of work. So on week one, I knew for sure.

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Was I doubting that the lab that was across the street was a real problem as opposed to the wet markets that have operated forever and never had this kind of problem exactly? So pretending that anybody didn't know on day one, or at least day seven, is just kind of funny. Because if I knew, I mean, I knew for sure in a week. I was just waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.

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I thought it'd be easy, but it took years. All right. DARPA, according to Reclaim the Net, DARPA has created this, what they call a theory of mind. So they're using technology and software to predict and influence behavior. What? So apparently they think they can predict what people do and they claim that they will use it against our adversaries.

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because if you know what your adversaries are going to do, well, you have an advantage. Now, do you think this would stay limited to use against our adversaries?

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Of course not, because every time the intelligence people find something that works against our adversaries, unless it's a kinetic thing, you know, like a bomb, it ends up getting employed domestically, because if we're trying to control people in other countries, sooner or later, somebody says, you know, There are a few people in this country who could use a little control.

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Why don't we use that external thing to control these rogues inside the country? So of course it will come internally. Of course it will. Now the question is, do you think it's real? Do you think even if they try really hard and the smartest people and they use AI, that they will be able to predict people's actions in the future? Well, how could they if you have free will?

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If you have free will, there's no way they're going to predict what you're going to do. I'm just joking. You don't have free will. So they'll totally be able to predict what you're going to do. It's really an information problem. If they knew enough about you, they could get it 80% of the time. They could probably do populations faster. They could probably look at a politician's message.

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and then look at how that'll affect the election and know who's going to win based on the messaging or maybe even the personality. So there's some things that it definitely will be able to predict, you know, more so than anything we're doing today.

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Because polling predicts, if you do it legitimately, a lot of our polling is not legitimate, but if he did it legitimately, like the internal polling for the Trump campaign, it told him he was going to win. It literally predicted the future. So yes, there will be other ways to do that too.

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I believe that AI will use pattern recognition to predict the future for individuals, but it won't be able to do that until it knows enough about those individuals, which I don't know how they'll do that. Maybe if they knew everything about your social media and everything you've ever done, all your resumes and everything you've ever written, probably it could do it.

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But if you were to get it sometime in January, it's probably going to be 10% cheaper. So we haven't lowered the price because there's a technical question about just how long that takes or if that's easy or hard. But probably soon. If you wanted to wait until next week, probably 10% cheaper, but I can't guarantee it. It would make sense.

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but it'd have to have access to all that information. Probably will have that access. Well, the Trump effect continues to get things done without him actually doing anything yet. Well, he's doing a lot, but not specifically this. So Mexico is going to open shelters to house over 12,000 of its own citizens who might get deported when Trump takes over. 25 planned shelters.

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And it's a strategic plan to accommodate exclusively the people who get deported after January 20th. And Mexico says they're taking Trump's threats seriously and they're preparing the facilities to accept. Now, doesn't that make his job a lot easier? If Mexico has already built the receiving facilities?

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It's going to be a lot more humane and a lot more politically acceptable if Mexico, instead of arguing like crazy, you shouldn't send them back, is building facilities to accept them. That's the Trump effect. They're acting in a way that is the adult way to act simply because dad came home. Like everybody started to pick up their toys. Oh, dad's home.

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I don't need to be told I'm going to pick up all my toys because it would be way worse if I don't pick up my toys. So that's what's happened. All right. You probably know that yesterday there was a big brouhaha on the internet on Axe about the issue of issuing visas or whatever the approval is to work in the United States for foreign workers. And the debate comes down to, hey,

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if we're America first, why would you bring in any foreign workers? But Elon Musk says, it took him a while to clarify, but he said, we're really talking about the 0.01% of the top engineers. Now, according to Elon,

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Those are jobs which are really, really hard to fill, and there are tons of openings, and it wouldn't really be possible to train some Americans to be in the top 0-1% of engineering in the next few years. If you have a 20-year build-up, yes. In 20 years, we might create enough top engineers that we don't think about taking anybody from another country. Maybe. Possible. But at the moment,

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If you want to compete in AI and crypto and quantum computing and robots, those are all the things that are going to drive economies in the future. And the people who drive them the most are going to be the engineers in the top 0.01. In fact, OpenAI only exists... because Sam Altman brought over some Indian engineer who made the breakthroughs that made AI essentially possible.

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So even AI wouldn't even exist if we hadn't brought in one of those .01 engineers and he hadn't done what he did. So keep that in mind. Now, I weighed in, and immediately it just caused more problems than it solved, because what I didn't understand... is that people were not on the same topic.

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So there are a few topics, and individually they're all important, but they all got sort of conflated, and people were mad about things that they were on the wrong topic. So let me tell you what my view is, and then we'll talk about the topic. My old view, my old view prior to Biden, And it's now changed because of Biden. But my old view is that you want to keep everybody smart.

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So if somebody wants to come in and they've got a high education in some valuable field, or even if they just want to be an optometrist or make money, that the country's better off every time you bring in somebody who's going to add to the tax base, in other words, pay taxes, and is not going to take much.

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So my old view, and again, this is revised, but my old view is you take everybody who is smart and additive. Now, how you decide whether somebody is smart enough and additive, I don't think we have a good system for that. So my desires are not supported by any kind of good system.

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Enjoy me down for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Oh, so good. Well, I wonder if I'll have a new study that says that coffee is good for your health. Checking notes. Oh, yeah, there is. There's a new study.

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Meanwhile, you probably know that I still produced Dilbert, Dilbert Reborn, it's called, and only the subscribers to me on X and also on the Locals platform gets to see it. But I publish in both places the new one for the day, which in this case is about Dilbert's company shutting down their DEI group.

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After Biden opened the border and MAGA became the dominant majority opinion in the country, they were very, very, very clear about limiting immigration. Under that environment, it probably makes sense to not allow in the country people who would be additive. Do you get that?

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So under the current cultural, political situation, I think it would just disturb too many people to bring in people who even would add to the country, even you're sure of it, they would add. So at the moment, I'm opposed because Biden essentially ruined the atmosphere for immigrants. He ruined it. But by making it just everybody come on, then all the nuance is just drained out of it.

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And we probably have to work pretty hard to correct things. But the argument does not apply to the .01 engineer. So let me say this as completely, this is the most firm, confident opinion I'll ever get you. You cannot have enough .01 top engineers. Because engineers are not like optometrists and doctors and lawyers. The .01 engineer is developing the future.

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Like the very civilization-changing work. You want all of those, and we don't have anywhere near enough, not even close, as Elon Musk reminds us. Now, a lot of people argue that Elon Musk doesn't understand the topic of hiring top engineers, to which, if I may do a faceplant... So I spent some of my time explaining that Elon Musk probably knows a little bit about hiring top engineers.

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I don't think I need to develop my argument on that too hard. So that's the first thing. So it's unambiguously good for the country to bring in the top engineers. And anybody who would argue that, that would be stupid, honestly. I wouldn't even listen to the argument on the other side. It would just be stupid because you're not talking about changing the culture of the United States.

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You're talking about people who almost always already speak English better than you do and are the top, top, top, top, top, top students. That's a completely different situation than bringing in Uber drivers. I'm not in favor of that at the moment. Now, I think you can say all those things while still saying that immigrants are the reason the country is strong, etc. That's all true.

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It's just that Biden ruined the atmosphere for bringing in immigrants, even the ones who could have. He just ruined it. We might be able to get back to that, but not until Trump gets things under control. So, That's where I'm at. Now, secondly, the argument that I just gave you is a conceptual argument. Wouldn't it be nice to have only these people?

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And at the moment, it would be impractical really to just open it up to everybody. But second to that, that's sort of the goal or where you'd like to end up, is that the systems we have for deciding who comes in are completely corrupted. So some people were getting really mad that they thought I didn't understand that our current systems are not picking just the best of the best.

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But then I also checked the one that was 10 years ago because I put that on a digital calendar, which has nothing to do with the paper calendar. And today is one of those days where both the 10-year-ago comic and the one I wrote for today are really funny. Sometimes I'll look at the two of them and I'll say, oh, the calendar was better than today's comic or

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They're pretty much abused by big companies just to get cheap labor. Everybody on board with that? Our current systems, all of them, 100% of our current systems are so gameable that big companies are using them not in the way that you want them to be used. Now, there is a question about what would happen to your inflation if they hired more expensive labor from the U.S.

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So if you're willing to pay for more inflation, then you would also be in favor of them not having these programs that let them game the system to bring in cheap labor. So can we all agree on the following statement of assumptions? Our current systems are wholly inadequate to getting what you want as a citizen of the United States.

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They do seem to work in the favor of quite a number of corporations, and the corporations are the ones who argue for keeping the current completely broken and corrupt system, because it works for them. It just doesn't work for workers, for example, American workers. So I think we can all agree on the fact that the current system is broken. Now, what is Trump's take on this?

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I actually don't know, which is the weirdest thing about this conversation. I don't know where Trump's at. At one point, he was at where I was. At one point, he agreed with my old view that as long as they're additive, yes, yes, everybody additive, everybody additive. So that used to be his view as well.

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But after he's watched this whole brouhaha, and after Biden let in everybody, I feel like he may have adjusted his own views, but I haven't seen it yet. So that's the most fascinating thing about the story, is that the base... was having this heated argument yesterday all over social media. Of course Trump was watching. Of course he was.

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And it's helping him, I'm sure, helping him come up with his statement on the thing. But there are a number of things that come up. Number one, the other thing that we can agree on is that big companies like Google and Apple have the resources to put people in another country and really, really vet the top engineers. But that's not going to work for a small company.

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Somebody said my opinions were invalid because I'd never tried to hire foreign engineers. Well, I've actually tried hiring India-based programmers at least twice for side projects I was doing. And it's a nightmare. If you're not Google and Apple and you want to get somebody who can do a good job, so you find somebody in India who says, oh yeah, just tell us what you want. We'll give you a price.

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We'll assign some programmers and we'll write that code for you. Absolutely none of that worked because I talked to somebody smart who would make the sale and but then they would assign it to somebody who was completely incompetent. So nobody could perform anything. I didn't get anything. I paid money and got nothing. Twice. So hiring employees to work from the other country

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If you were thinking about it, I wouldn't do it. Everything I saw says it doesn't work. If they're not in the same room with you, don't do a tech project. Not at all. So certainly that's part of something that needs to be fixed. So I was listening to...

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or the comics better than the calendar was, which would have been 10 years ago. But today they're both right on point. So check that out. You may have seen a video of Kamala Harris praising the wonders of Kwanzaa and how much she enjoyed celebrating it as a young person. Now, of course, everybody's mocking her for various different things, but I'll just point out one thing.

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Theo Wald, who was a former deputy assistant to Trump in the first administration, and he was in charge of drafting the legislation to create a new legal immigration framework. So he's the one who said that when he looked at all the various, and there are quite a few of them, the various pathways that foreign workers can get into the United States, that they're all corrupt. So

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Yesterday, I was seeing some people saying, well, you're talking about this H-1B visa thing. Yeah, that's bad. But there's this other thing to get the geniuses that's not so bad. Well, in the real world, according to Theo Wald, the guy who was in charge of making it all work, he said, no, they're all corrupt.

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So you should assume 100% of our foreign worker acquisition is totally broken and has to be fixed. That was the best context I've seen. So when I talk about this topic, I talk about what we want to achieve. Usually I talk about systems. I always say systems are better than goals. But sometimes it's obvious what you want to achieve.

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We want American workers to have jobs that are good jobs and blah, blah, blah. But this brought up a really troubling thing. So Vivek Ramaswamy weighed into the debate. He said one of the reasons that maybe foreign workers are being favored by tech companies is that there's a cultural difference. And he described the cultural difference

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as some of the Asian and Indian countries, but their families, he described, would put a focus on educational attainment and professional success, whereas in America, you might have far less of it. Now, that caused all the dumb people, to assume that his generality was referring to every family in both countries. So if you fell into that trap and you said, wait a minute, that's not true.

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I know this one American family that does everything right. Or if you said, wait a minute, I've seen pictures of India and it's people living in garbage piles. Why do I want the people living in garbage piles to teach me how to have a better culture? I don't want to live in a garbage pile. Now, those are ridiculous. Those are ridiculous comments because he's using a generality.

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Is it a useful generality that the Indian and Asian employees that are at least the topic of conversation, the ones who have technical skills, is it true that they probably had a lot of family support? Probably. Are they the majority of India? I don't know, but probably not.

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but they're the only ones we care about because they're the ones who are getting technical skills and they may or may not come to the United States. That's the population we're talking about. They definitely have the tiger moms, most of them. But again, we're not talking about the exceptions. So here's how people took it.

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They said Vivek, first of all, a number of people didn't think Vivek was an American citizen. May I give myself another facepalm? This is to the people who argued with me that he's not an American citizen. OK, I just had to do that. Born in this country, risking his fucking life to fix the Doge thing. He's risking his life. Elon Musk risking his life. Not hyperbole, not hyperbole.

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Death threats, death threats, death threats. They're risking their fucking lives. for your benefit. Do you think that they're doing it to make extra money? Well, they might. I mean, they might make extra money, but clearly that's not the main incentive. Vivek is more American. I said this to somebody. I said, he's more American than you are.

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He is more supportive of the American experience, the American, you know, whatever makes us good people. He probably knows more about American history than just about any one of you. You can't get more American than Vivek. That's like peak American.

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If you turn off the sound and you just look at her, she looks really high. If she's not drunk or totally inebriated in that video, I don't know how you'd explain her face. I can't even do an impression of it. It's something you would have to be on drugs to even make that face. I've never seen anybody who wasn't on drugs who had any kind of mannerisms like that. So I think we dodged a bullet there.

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And people got on me for defending, because I got pretty aggressive yesterday on social media, for defending Vivek's take about our cultures and also Elon's take about needing engineers. And people said to me, are you just making money? Is it because Elon pays you? Pays me. I mean, obviously, I'm monetized on X, but you think that's why I'm doing it?

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You think I'm supporting the idea of bringing in the top 1% of engineers because I get paid on X? That was literally the last thing that was even in my mind. Never once did that even occur to me. Here's what occurred to me. When I watch Elon and Vivek,

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take on the hardest, most thankless job that America has ever produced short of war, which is to take on trimming the government, that's patriotism at a level that I can't even conceive. I mean, it's beyond me. Given that, and given my current age, I've kind of done what I need to do, I would take a bullet for either one of them. Actually, literally take a bullet.

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Because the two of them are doing the only thing that can save our country. If we can't get the debt under control, we're all dead. We're all dead. And there are only two people who happen to be extraordinarily brilliant, incredibly brave...

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capable beyond anything that you and I can really understand, and are taking on the hardest job in the world for you, if you're American, for you, and also for me. I would take a bullet to keep them in that job. Like, actually, I'd take a bullet. Like, if you said to me, you know, you're going to have to die, but you'll save one of those two people. I would take the bullet.

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Like actually, literally, that's not a joke. So if you see me defending them aggressively on social media, I would take a bullet for them because they would take a bullet for me. Right? They're doing it right in front of you. I don't have to guess if they would take a bullet because they put themselves in a position where the odds of danger and death threats is through the roof.

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So if they would do that for me, I would do it for them. And same with Trump. How did you feel when Trump took a bullet for you? Right? That's different. If somebody takes a bullet for you, and Trump did, you get bonded to them. And you should. So a lot of people were on that. So let me say this. So some people interpreted Vivek

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as this indian guy who was criticizing white american culture in the united states and a lot of people thought it was kind of a put down kind of an insult to american culture to which i said what are you talking about an insult to american culture what american culture are you talking about the american culture that i live in has free speech And we have a superpower.

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Our culture, American culture, has a superpower. And it looks like this. When we fail and we get ashamed, we learn things, get stronger, we eat that shame, we eat that failure, and then we go and win. In other countries and in other cultures, they do not criticize their culture. And if they fail... Well, they don't want to fail, so they don't do a startup.

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They just take a job where they're less likely to fail. So when you say that Vivek is somehow insulting America by saying that the culture needs a tweak, needs an upgrade, that's the most American thing you can do. Criticizing an American system, and culture is basically a system, Criticizing an American system, even down to the family level, if it's necessary, that's what we do.

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You can't get more American than that. We criticize ourselves in public because we have the gift of free speech-ish. And if something needs to be fixed and you're going to get a big blowback for saying it, we'll still say it. I said what I needed to say at the risk of getting canceled. Very American, right? You could disagree with everything I said or did. That's fine.

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Meanwhile, over in Chicago, where you thought Chicago was totally lost, the End Wokeness account tells us that arrests are way up. So shoplifting and theft may be finally not legal. So why is suddenly a big improvement in Chicago? Well, turns out that that Soros-funded DA, Kim Fox, is out. And there's a new DA in, and the new DA wants to actually make crime illegal, I guess.

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But would you agree that me saying what I thought I needed to say at the moment, and I had good intentions, that's a longer story, and then getting canceled for it, failing, basically that would be a failure. My entire career wiped out. You watched me. You watched what happened when I got canceled, right? I just recovered, got stronger. I got a million followers on X. It basically supercharged me.

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So that was a failure. It was a shame. I didn't feel any shame, but you could imagine that it would be accompanied usually. And so I just took that failure. I ate it for breakfast. I used it for energy and I went on. And in some ways accomplished more than I would have accomplished if I had not been canceled because it creates a lot of attention.

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So, yes, Vivek, you can criticize any American system from culture to finance to government. That's what I want. I want our smartest people. telling us where we should focus, even if he's wrong sometimes, right? We're not looking for perfection. So, yes, I'm defending Vivek aggressively.

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Now, this brought up a number of comments because the hidden topic within this foreign employee stuff is a number of people kept saying, but Scott, don't you understand? I'm a trained engineer and I can't get a job. What do I say to somebody who says that on social media? Don't know them. They say, I'm a trained engineer, experienced, and I can't get a job. I say, what color are you?

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You're white, right? So mixed in with this whole foreign worker thing is the fact that there's been massive systemic racism against white men for what Sequoia partner Sean McGuire thinks may have been going on for the past 10 years. Here's what he said. He said, I was told I can't be promoted for being a white man explicitly at Google.

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And then he suggested that that's been going on for at least 10 years. Do you know when I got that talk? The first time I got the talk, I can't promote you because you're a white male. The 80s. 37 years ago. For 37 fucking years, this has been the way everything in corporate America worked. No, we're not going to promote you for a white man.

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Prudent Thinker on X says, I've had the same experience elsewhere in big tech. Also been told we want less people who look like you because it messes up our DEI commitment. Also been told whatever you do, do not hire a white man. This is a white man. Also been told everyone is invited except you. We want to put out the image of diversity.

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And I've even been plagiarized by the DEI hire later to learn I was hired for that very purpose. Oh, no. And then deplorable garbage, that's the name of his account, was told the same thing by a big law firm and notes, if an entity like that, a big law firm, isn't afraid to openly do it, discriminate against race. He says it's everywhere.

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Russell says at an Intel corporation, we restricted hiring white males unless approved at a senior VP level. And that was more than 10 years ago. Imagine what it's like now. No, this has been 37 fucking years, at least. That's when it hit me. It may have been earlier in California, where I was. So why didn't people know this? It's because white guys just suck it up and get to work. That's it.

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White guys will complain privately, will complain to our family, complain to our spouse. But we're not necessarily organizing a protest. We just say, all right, I'm not going to work there. I'll go work somewhere else. So that's why you don't know. Also, I found out 30 years ago that if I mentioned in public that I was being discriminated against for being white, what did people call me?

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A white racist liar. So they already decided I'm a white racist just because I'm white. And then I say I was unable to be promoted in two corporations in a row because they told me I'm white male and I can't promote you. And I say that and they say, oh, well, you're lying. Oh, great. So if I tell you the truth, I'm a white racist and now also a liar.

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30 years, over three decades, almost four decades, white men had to keep this secret because if you said it out loud, you were a fucking liar. And that's a real thing that happened in the United States for decades. Still happening. All right. Then somebody weighed in thinking they would add some nuance and said, no, it's because somebody else labeled it as an anti-white bias, which it is.

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So felony theft charges have surged by 154% just this month after O'Neill Burke took over. So here's my question. I, of course, am completely in favor of, you know, improving the laws and the enforcement in the big cities, right? Because there's a problem everywhere. So I'm totally in favor of this. But there is a question that pops up that I feel like we need to be adult about.

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And then a commenter said, well, you know, technically is it an anti-white bias? It might have also been anti-Asian American because I'm sure they discriminated against Asians. I need one more face plant. Can I give it to you? In colleges, they definitely discriminated against Asians. True. In corporations, they hired the Asians, not the white guy.

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If you had lots of diversity of Asian Americans, it was considered like the, what's a good analogy, like the methadone for the heroin or something. They wanted heroin, which would be black women, lesbian employees. That would be like a home run. But if they couldn't get that, they definitely wanted as many Asian-looking people to put on the company picture.

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So no, I've never once, I've never even heard of it. Have you? Is there anybody in the comments who's ever even heard of an Asian American being turned down at a big corporation because that wasn't diverse enough. I've never heard of it. Now, if it turned out that Asian Americans have been keeping this secret for 40 years, like white Americans, I guess I'd have to say I shouldn't be surprised.

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So it could be. It could be true. But I've never seen it or heard of it. Never once. Well then, Wired publication, they say it's the year of the influencer political takeover. So, of course, a lot of people are writing about how the podcasters and the online influencers are now the important thing and the mainstream news and the New York Times are unimportant, etc.

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But here's what I think about that conversation. I think this is sort of putting the Dilbert filter on it. When all these smart people The Democrats say that they finally understand that what they needed to do better was take advantage of the influencer podcasting ecosystem and that the Republicans really had that nailed down. You know, they really had a good, good ecosystem for that.

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So so that maybe is why they lost. So do you think that's why they lost? Watching Democrats not understand anything, it never gets less entertaining. It is true that Trump did a much better job with the podcaster-influencer situation. That's true. But the reason they lost is that they did everything wrong.

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They had the worst candidate running against the worst candidate, the best candidate of all time. They had no policies that were in the top three of the American public. They wasted $1.5 billion on God knows what. Probably half of it was stolen. You could make a list of all the things you should do right, and the only things they did well were the ones that don't matter to the election.

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The ground game. They always tease Trump for not having a ground game, but never ask themselves the Elon Musk question, which is, do we need a ground game? And the answer is, probably not. in the current age. There was a time when the ground game was everything, but probably not now. People learn online. They don't need the ground game. But here's my Dilbert filter take on it.

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The fact that the Democrats think the podcaster world is just where they need to go. I think that the Democrat, let's say the the people who would be helping with campaigns in the future. If you were going to work on a campaign, which thing would you rather do?

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Organize a door-knocking thing or do another boring interview, print an interview with the New York Times or interact with some of the coolest, hottest podcasters and influencers in the world? Which way do you want to spend your day? Do you want to spend your day talking to famous, sexy, young people killing it so that you can take a picture and show it to your kid?

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It's the easiest job in the world because you get to sit in the studio and maybe watch the podcast and that's your job for that day. I've got a feeling that the Democrats are moving toward this whole we've got to have more podcasting and influencers because that's fun. And then they justify it as like, oh, this is a big problem. Got to fix this podcasting situation.

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And it goes like this. You probably saw the video. It was kind of viral. of two young black women. I don't know if they were over 18, but they were somewhere in that age range. And they were casually doing some shoplifting at some box store. And they were captured at the exit and they were put in handcuffs and they were acting surprised.

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There's no way we can be competitive until we have a Joe Rogan of our own. I don't know. So there's something true about it, which is they probably need to be better in that domain. But there's also something that screams we would rather do things that are pleasurable than things that are hard. And I don't think that's a winner's attitude. We'd rather do things that are pleasurable than hard.

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That might be their entire problem. Anyway. And I also think it's funny, harking back to the prior conversation, that they canceled me at exactly the time when I was the most dangerous because the podcasting world was starting to dominate. Again, dumbest mistake they could have made.

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They should have said, Scott, we'd like you to spend all of your time on cartooning, so why don't we give you a big contract to write twice as many cartoons? If they'd done that, they could have bought me out of the race. Well, I don't know. But it would have been worth a shot if they offered enough.

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Anyways, according to study finds, scientists figured out how to transform red blood cells into precision cancer-fighting drones. And I guess they can tweak it as your cancer morphs into a different form. They can tweak it again so it gets at it again. So this is actually pretty exciting. They've got some kind of molecule that'll stick to parts of the RNA and inhibit regular activities.

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So the reason that this is important is it feels less destructive, meaning if you do something that's just... put some destruction on your body, but you hope the cancer cells die faster than your healthy cells, like chemo. You're just hoping that your healthy cells survive, but they're going to get whacked.

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So this is the second anti-cancer possibility, which doesn't seem to have that mechanism, which attacks your healthy stuff. Don't know if it'll work yet, but I love... I love all the new news about it. Now there's an article in The Hill, an opinion piece by Evan Davis and David Schult, and they say Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now.

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So the idea is, according to them, the Constitution provides that any oath-breaking insurrectionist can't run for office. And then they gave their evidence for how Trump is an oath-breaking insurrectionist.

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Of course, all their evidence was completely debunked and laughed at by people like Jeff Clark, also an attorney who got in trouble for that January 6th stuff, for doing basically nothing that anybody should have ever gotten in trouble for. That's another story.

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But so apparently, I didn't know this, but apparently if they try to make this move to not allow Trump to take office, it would take a two-thirds vote. Did I have that right? Two-thirds vote in each house. So in both Senate and the House, two-thirds vote. Now, I don't think there's

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Would you agree there's not a chance in the world that two-thirds of the people are going to vote to not put Trump in office, right? So there's not any practical way this could happen, as far as I can tell. But I kind of want them to try. Don't you? Don't you want them to try? Because the Democrat Party is on life support, right?

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If they try to keep Trump out of office with some weird lawfare, somebody's going to yank the life support out of whatever's left of the Democratic Party. That would be the end. That would just be the end. Now, I know you want me to say, oh, if that happened, it would be an armed revolution. No, they won't. Against who?

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And there's a video of them talking to each other in the back of the squad car where they're saying, it's illegal now? Like they didn't know that the law, that there had been a change in society and that enforcement would be aggressive. And I get that. Not everybody follows the news and certainly not everybody follows the political news. So if you're a young person, did you really know?

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What are you going to do, shoot your neighbor because some politicians did something? You're not going to shoot your neighbor. We like the neighbor. So I would just say this. I just wish they, I kind of hope they do it. I hope they take their strongest play to try to keep them out of office. They will fail. But this is the ultimate, you know, F around and find out situation.

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I'd really love them to find out. Not with violence. No violence, please. But no violence would be necessary because we would just look at the situation and say, nope, nope. Now, speaking of violence, which I do not recommend, but you can state facts about violence, right? So that's fair. You can say somebody did some violence. There's a risk of some violence, but I don't recommend it.

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Don't do any violence. However, Can you imagine the security situation for anybody who voted to keep Trump out of office at this point? If in Congress they voted to use this insurrection thing to keep him, can you imagine what that would do to their security situation? Again, please don't do any violence. But we live in a country where people wouldn't take this sitting down.

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And anybody who voted to keep Trump out of office for this insurrection bullshit, I would recommend you look at your budget, because if you don't have a budget for increasing security, I wouldn't vote this way. Now, I wouldn't say that about many things. I can't even think of one other thing I would have ever said that about.

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But the people who vote for this are really going to put themselves in a physical jeopardy. Don't do anything to them. Don't, don't, don't. We want peace. We don't want to be that kind of country. But the reality is, We live in a dangerous country full of guns, and people have the guns for that reason. They have the guns for this reason. Don't use them for this reason.

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This isn't a good enough reason. But that's why they have them. So if they think that it would be safe to vote that they're not going to put the winner of the popular vote into office, just think about your budget. Just think about it. Well, Russia is open to conversation about Ukraine, but they say Trump has to go first.

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He has to make the first move to improve ties, according to Breitbart, Simon Kent. And what would the first move be? So let's talk about that. If Russia says, yeah, we're open, but you've got to make the first move. All right, here's the wrong answer. The first move should not be a peace proposal. By the way, Lavrov, so he's the Russian, what would you call him?

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He's the main guy who talks to the United States about foreign policy and stuff like that. So Lavrov says... Lavrov says that a truce is a path to nowhere. So a ceasefire doesn't have any interest for Russia. Russia is saying we're looking for a big deal, something enduring, something comprehensive. We're not looking for let's stop shooting on Tuesday. Is he right about that? Yes, yes.

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Lavrov is completely right. Having a ceasefire would save lives. But beyond that, it wouldn't hasten the end of the war, I don't think. So what would Trump do? He can't say, let's do a ceasefire. I agree. Russia is correct on that. But here's what he's being set up for, negotiating with himself. Have you ever heard that term?

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In the negotiating world, there's a thing that's considered a classic error. And the error is to negotiate against yourself. And the way that looks is you say first, all right, here's the deal. I'll do this if you do that. And then the other side says, no. And then you go back and here's the error. And you come back with a new offer. And they haven't made an offer.

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I mean, seriously, was there any way you would know that the situation had changed from there's no real risk to you're going to jail? No. Now here's where it gets tricky. Again, I'm going to tell you I'm completely in favor of the new enforcement. So don't interpret this as softening my stance. Completely in favor of it. But I'm going to ask you this question just as a human.

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If you do that, it's called negotiating against yourself. And you've been tricked. into making the first offer and then responding to them making a new offer, and you've already talked yourself down. They haven't even made an offer, and you talked yourself down. So that's considered a classic mistake. I learned that when I was negotiating with Disney.

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Years ago, there was an idea of making a Dilbert Disney animated movie. and we made an offer to Disney, and Disney said, no, that's not good enough. Come back with another offer. And the head of my syndication company said, how about we're done now, and we'll never work with you again? That's how it ended. And I completely supported it. Yeah, you don't negotiate with yourself, period.

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And by the way, he told them, we're not going to negotiate with ourselves. If you've got an offer, we'll look at it. So they knew why, but they didn't want to make an offer. So we said, well, maybe we'll make an offer with somebody who knows how negotiation works. Now, maybe it works for Disney. Maybe sometimes they get somebody dumb enough to do that. But thank goodness,

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You know, the professional I was working with knows how this works. And he just closed them down. So, nope, don't negotiate it with ourselves. We'll take this somewhere else. And that's why there's no Dilbert movie. No, we did take it somewhere else. But, you know, things didn't work out in other places either. Anyway, so he shouldn't make an offer, but he has to do something.

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So what would it look like if Trump did something first, but it wasn't an offer for a peace deal? What would that look like? I don't know. But Trump is the best at this. Suppose Trump said, how about let's have a summit? Would that be an offer? Kind of. an offer to do a summit with himself and Putin, I would feel like that would be going first, but without making the offer.

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So I think there's room to play. I think there's room to play. And when Russia says you have to go first, what they're doing is trying to dominate Trump. Because they're trying to say, all right, we made you do the first thing. Like, why does Trump have to go first? Why does he have to go first? They both want peace.

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So if Lavrov can sort of manipulate Trump into going first, then he's sort of won the first round. Trump will know that because unlike ordinary politicians, Trump knows how this works. He's done this before. So he's not going to fall for the you have to go first unless it looks like something that would be ordinary to do. Now, a summit, at least with Trump, would be an ordinary thing to do.

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So I think that would not look like going first, but would still be close enough to get things done. So we'll see. There's a giant breakthrough coming in EV batteries. Are you surprised? I tell you one of these stories every day. The reason I do it is to help you predict the future. And here's the future.

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If this new leap, let's see, it's according to the Mark Maynard in the Pasadena Star News, the new breakthrough just uses a new kind of material, and it uses 10 times less anode material, which is a big deal, and might cut the cost someday of the battery. by a huge amount. Did you know that the cost of the battery in an electric car could be up to 40% of the cost of the car?

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And that this is a battery that works in the lab. And if it worked in the real world, it would cut that cost by about half. So 40% of your car cut by half just because of the battery. So we're at the point where we're probably one more big battery breakthrough Like one of these many ones that I talk about every day on the show, they're all different. But one of them is going to break through.

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Stepping outside of just the political or the legal or the how do you save the city? Those are all important and they're more important than what I'm going to say next. But I feel like it's necessary. Those cities created an attractive nuisance. Do you know what that means? An attractive nuisance? In other words, by making it legal to shoplift, they essentially encouraged it. Would you agree?

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And if it doubles capacity and doubles batteries, that's not just better stuff. Like if you're thinking, oh, I'd like to get a few extra miles on my car battery if I have an electric car. No, we're not talking about that. You'd get that too. What we're talking about is a complete transformation of civilization, because it's what makes your robot a good deal.

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It's what allows you to get off the grid. If you had a real cheap battery that you could put on the side of your house and collect the sun during the day and use it at the night, you might just get off the grid. You might have electric airplanes, so the major source of CO2, if you're worried about that, would be removed because airlines are really, really bad on that.

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So one more leap, just one more big leap in batteries. I'm not talking about the 10%, 20% improvement. I'm talking about the big leap. And there are a bunch of them that are brewing. One more big leap changes all of air travel. Well, travel. Our entire transportation would change. It would lower costs to the point where it would make a difference in inflation. It would lower inflation.

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Transportation would be different. The time you spent charging would go down to minutes instead of hours. It would be really transformational. And it's definitely going to happen. Meanwhile, Israel has declared on Tuesday that it's going to start killing the leaders of the Houthis.

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So the Houthis in Yemen have been shooting rockets into Israel, and prior to that, they've been putting missiles at shipping boats in the area. So the Houthis are real bad news, and they're backed by Iran, and Iran is weakened, but the Houthis are still active. Now, when Israel says we're going to take out your leaders, it just tells me we're at a strange point in history.

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So nobody's talking about taking out Putin in some kind of a decapitation strike because he's got nukes and he's got backup and whoever comes after him isn't necessarily going to be the good guy. And probably the same is true with an American president.

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If you're Russia or China, you're probably not thinking even for one second about a decapitation strike on the United States because we'd still be too strong. Likewise, we will not think even for one second about a decapitation strike on China because it would just be destabilizing and it would just ruin everything.

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So decapitation strikes definitely don't work once a country reaches a certain status. And they also don't work when your little scrappy terrorist cells are so small that you can't even figure out where they're operating from or who's in charge. So in those cases, a decapitation strike's no good.

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The one time it's good is if you happen to have massive digital footprints everywhere, so you can find stuff, and the entity has not created a structure that can go on easily without the leaders. In other words, the leaders are kind of key to keeping it together. And that's not the case in America. We change out our leaders all the time.

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So there's this one little area of history where we can find them easily because we've got satellites, we've got cell phones, we've got AI. So we can find them, and we have missiles and drones that can hit anything from anywhere. So I would say the Hooties are in... A lot of trouble.

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Because it seems to be Israel's ability to take out the leaders of any group that's against them is now 100% operational. And all the Houthi leaders are going to just start despairing. And I think it works. Because they're leader-driven organizations. So good luck. Good hunting, Israel. I saw an article by Barak Ravid on X. He says that the people in Israel and the U.S.

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Here's some free stuff. There's no penalty. And then word gets around and people are taking advantage of the free stuff with no penalty. Yes, they need to go to jail. Remember, I'm not arguing against it. But does that seem fair to you? Now, remember, I always make fun of fairness because fairness is what I say was invented so children and idiots could have conversations with each other.

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even, who are negotiating for the end of the hostages, not the end but the release, that it's unlikely that they're going to get that done before Trump takes office. I would go further and say, that's not going to happen. Why would Hamas suddenly become rational? Because Trump's going into office. They're clearly not afraid of dying. And the captives give them a little bit of leverage.

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So why would they? I can't see any reason that they would do it. Now, I think that they'll keep the hostages. And then when Trump comes in, he's going to say, all right, you had a chance. But I'll give you one more chance now that I'm actually in office. You've got a few days. I want the hostages all back. And we're not negotiating for it. You just give them all back.

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Now, that probably won't happen. And then Trump will have to figure out how to respond. And I feel sorry for Gaza. Because if the hostages don't come back, there will never be a life there. And I don't think they're coming back. So I think Gaza is just permanently out of business. There's no such thing as, you know, Gaza is going to rebuild and they're all going to go live there happily.

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I think it's just Israel's territory. And the cost of that, unfortunately, is going to be these hostages. As long as the hostages are held, it's hard to criticize Israel for anything. People do, but I wouldn't. Meanwhile, the New York Post is reporting that there's a woman who was born with two vaginas that are fully functional and even possibly capable of both of them getting pregnant.

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So she has two vaginas. She's a grown woman. And she says it's been very difficult dating because as soon as she tells her date that she has two vaginas, More often than not, they get an idea. Hey, two of them, you say. Two of them. I'm just going to spitball here, a little brainstorming. Something that I have never done before, but I've got a buddy. And then she has to shut him down right away.

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No, you can stop there. I know you have a male friend. Stop. Nope. Nope. Nope. Stop. Stop. And I was thinking to myself, she could never date a professional humorist such as myself. I wouldn't be able to think of anything else. If you put me in that situation where I'm dating the woman with two vaginas, I'm going to think of a lot of puns. And they're not going to be appreciated.

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So I'm sure she has a sense of humor. But, you know, there are also men. This is rare, but some men are born with two penises. I've got two words to describe a situation of the woman with two vaginas and the man with two penises. Soulmates. Soulmates. Is that one word or two? I guess that's one word. Soulmates. Well, I wish her luck.

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And the funniest comment I saw on this was from one of the local subscribers who said, and I quote, did she save one for after marriage? Slow clap. Very good. All right, we don't mean to make fun of this woman, but she seems to be well-adjusted and healthy. She's perfectly healthy. And she's also quite ethical. She discloses it. I wish the best for her.

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It says that coffee consumption can improve the gut bacteria and reduces your cancer risk, strengthens your immune system. and reduces your inflammation according to nutrition insight.

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Fairness isn't a real thing, but sometimes there are things that just strike you as a human. Here's what I think. I think if you pick up an 18-year-old who has no criminal record, who did not know that this was now more criminalized, it was always illegal, but it's more criminalized. If they didn't know, I would blame the city for creating an attractive hazard.

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I don't mean to be mean, but she's having fun with it, I think. There's at least some part of it that she probably thinks is fun. So in that spirit... I only have good thoughts. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go talk to the local subscribers privately. I don't know if there's anything I forgot about today. All right.

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Ladies and gentlemen, if you're on YouTube or X or Rumble, I will see you tomorrow. Locals, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds.

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The attractive hazard was the city itself had basically said, come steal our ship. And so when two 18-year-old men young women went to do exactly that, the rules had changed. Honestly, I'd let them go. I'd let them go. Because I would blame the city for putting them in a situation where they were attracted to crime. Your city should be pushing you from crime.

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If the city spent one fucking minute making crime attractive, which they did for a lot longer than a minute, I feel like there needs to be some kind of period of forgiveness. So arresting them and putting them in handcuffs and putting them in the back of the squad car, 100% on board, 100%.

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But once they enter the legal system, I would like to hear their lawyer say, Your Honor, this law only recently changed. The city had created an attractive hazard. I think that has to be taken into account. And I would love the judge to say, ladies, if you do that again, you're going straight to jail. But your defense has a reasonable argument that reasonable people can agree on.

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I wasn't comfortable putting them in jail once the city had set them up. I'm not for that. But again, we have to have laws and they have to be enforced. Apparently online there's a debate between Representative Crenshaw and popular ex-personality Cat Turd. Now, apparently Cat Turd's made some claims about Crenshaw, and Crenshaw's said the claims are fake and suggested that he would sue him.

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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Some of you are taking sides. You don't like Crenshaw's views on war, and there was something else you mentioned. So you didn't like some of his policies, and I get that. I would just note that if you're trying to figure out who's the bad guy in this situation, Cat Turd lied about me in public. Cat Turd went after my reputation with lies. Well, or maybe just wrong.

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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And, you know, of course I'm a professional humorist, so suddenly I'm wondering about, you know, I'm not a biblical scholar, so there's some things I don't know about, but I wonder if back in Jesus' time, do you think he ever just said, well... I think I can cure your leprosy. Boom. And he'd use his heavenly powers. But what if somebody had a smaller problem?

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I can't tell if he was just stupid or wrong. But I blocked him a long time ago because he's not a good guy and he's not smart. He's entertaining. He's very entertaining, but he's not a good guy. He's not smart. Just make sure you know that because he's a public figure and it's fair to just know who you're dealing with.

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So I'm not going to take sides on this because I don't know exactly the issue, but I'll tell you that Cat Turd's not a good guy. I don't consider him a good guy. He's entertaining. So if you're following him for the entertainment, sure. Jonathan Turley is writing today about a big win for free speech. So there was this doctor, Dr. Tara Gustillo.

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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So she won a big free speech appellate court victory against her health care system where she worked. So she was removed from her position after she criticized Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and some parts of the COVID narrative. Just free speech. She just criticized those things and she got fired and that was reversed. Now, here's the payoff.

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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If I told you that there was somebody who got fired for criticizing Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and COVID, aren't you thinking to yourself, sounds like some basic white conservative? Here's what we know about this Filipina American doctor. So first of all, Filipina. Second of all, she had a stellar record. She raised black children. Oh, wait, what?

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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If somebody who raises black children criticizes Black Lives Matter and you're canceling her? What? What? That's pretty extreme. I mean, I don't know how much each of these things figured into it. And apparently she credited with, according to Jonathan Turley, She's credited with creating a program to reflect cultural differences in birthing practices to better serve her diverse patients.

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Now, you know, I'm not the woke guy, but isn't that like a really good piece of work? Changing the birthing practices so they take into account any cultural differences. Now, to me, that's just good. That's all good.

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I get the argument you don't want the country overrun with new cultures and stuff, but if you're dealing with real human beings and real medical situations in America, yes, their specific cultural situation should be accounted for. And then apparently she argued that her colleagues turned it into a program for, quote, racially segregated care, which was not the idea. That's not the idea.

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I mean, that's completely ruining the idea. and objected to certain orthodoxy over race-essential views. So Dr. Tara Gustillo sounds like one of the best human beings I've ever heard, like from top to bottom. And she won. Sometimes the good people win. Argentina, their new president, Millet,

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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He announced something that confused me, so I spread some fake news that I quickly deleted after I found out. But somebody summarized the news in a way that was misleading, and it fooled me. But it said, Mule has announced that he's abolished over 90% of Argentina's taxes. Now, I thought that that meant he got rid of 90% of Argentina's taxes. But apparently...

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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getting rid of 90% of Argentina's taxes, what it really means is sources of taxes. It's not 90% of the taxes. It's 90% of the sources of taxation. So apparently they got taxed for just about everything they did. He thinks he can get it down to six kinds of taxes, which would be good. But I'm going to go on record, just so I've said it. This Argentina miracle does not look real to me.

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it's pinging every one of my warning flags. Warning, warning, this story might be a little bit too hyperbolic because it looks a little too magically successful. The real world is way messier than this sounds. I mean, if you come in and you make these major structural changes, I do believe that the kinds of changes he's making will set up Argentina for a very bright future.

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They're like, hey, I've got a little inflammation in my back. Did Jesus also use his heavenly powers? Or did he say, let's just have a coffee? Why don't you come have a coffee with me? You'll be fine. That's just something I wonder as a professional writer. All right, so if you haven't bought your Dilbert calendar yet, you could probably still get it

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So I do believe it's all good. I don't believe that it's all good so fast. It's the so fast part that I'm like, really? On the other hand, so we'll argue both sides of this. If I were the person transforming the country and part of my success depended on people thinking I could do that and I could do more, I probably would exaggerate my success early.

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Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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And I'd tell everybody, it's working like crazy. It's so fast. I'll do more of it. So on one hand, I don't mind. I mean, it seems a functional bit of marketing if you say you're doing a little bit better than you are. I just feel like if he can get everything good without any notable negatives, that would be the first time in history anybody did it. But hey, maybe. You never know.

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Now, I remember before Trump was president, if AOC and Jon Stewart were on a podcast, the one and only thing you would expect for that is dunking on Republicans. Instead, they dunked on Democrats. Hard. They dunked hard on Democrats. This is the Trump effect. Is it not? This is Democrats trying to figure out how to do something different from everything they've done.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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And AOC, whatever you want to say about AOC, I fully accept all the criticisms as often valid. But remember, I tell you that she is a unique person. character in that she can break frames sometimes. The rest of them can't do it. Fetterman can do it. Fetterman can break frame. Eric Adams, he can break frame. AOC can break frame. Now, that's not always, you know, good. It doesn't mean they're great.

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It doesn't mean you should vote for any of them because of that. But it's rare. And whenever anybody can break frame, I always pay attention. So I'm going to pay attention to this one. Meanwhile, CBS Evening News fired... Fired Nora O'Donnell, who has not been historically very favorable to President Trump. Is this the Trump effect? Yes. Yes, it is.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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Trump destroyed the reputation and therefore the entire business model of traditional news. And they're in free fall and trying to figure out how to make it work. But I'm going to put my NBA hat on for a minute and instead of looking at this as a political thing, I'm going to look at it, which it might be.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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It might be that the network is trying to be a little less anti-Trump because they need to have access to the administration to make stories and stuff. So it could be just normal politics overlapping business, but there's a bigger business question. I think that the days of hiring a gazillion dollar host to just read the news

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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It is not a business model that can ever work again because they're competing against podcasters who are just killing it. Here's what I'm going to, I'm going to make a prediction about the traditional news business. I think they're going to morph into a syndication company.

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And what I mean is that instead of being the people who essentially own the talent, I think they're going to become a platform for distribution and promotion but that they'll work with essentially podcasters who are in charge of their own content. So it's not for podcasters like me, because I'm almost entirely opinion-based, but there are podcasters who have real news experience.

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I'll just pick one randomly, but I'm not anticipating that this one goes into that model, but just for example. So somebody like Megyn Kelly has a huge audience, and also has a lot of experience in the traditional news business. If somebody like CBS said, hey, we've got a new model, we're just going to distribute people, and you just have to do all the content.

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That seems like that would be a good model, because that's how cartoons work, by the way. The way the cartooning industry works, mostly, is that The cartoonists don't work for the newspaper. Some of the political ones do, but the ones that are three-strip, four-panel kinds of things, they don't work for the newspaper.

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They're part of a syndication group where there's a business that does all the distribution and the promotion, and then the content people draw the comics, and then they just share the money. So I think TV news... is going to turn into a syndication model because nothing else will work. They're not going to pay $10 million for a celebrity. Why?

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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It would make more sense to pay $0 and say, we'll distribute you. If you can get a big audience, we both make money. So it's just positive from the first day. That's what I think. Ross Albrecht, as you know, the creator of the Silk Road, who was in jail for two life sentences plus 40 years, was he pardoned or commuted?

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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I forget which word it is, but he's a free man now, and he did a little video directed at President Trump. Now, this was really interesting because clearly, if you had your life saved by President Trump, as he did, Trump just saved his life for all practical purposes. And you can't leave that alone. You're going to have to acknowledge that that was a great thing for you. And he does.

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But you also don't want to be killed in 2025 by all the wokies who can't stand the fact that you thanked Trump. So he picked his words so carefully that it reminds you how smart he is. And how smart he is is really sort of the B story on this. I don't think you all completely understand that he's not ordinary smart, Ross. He's extra. He's one of the special ones.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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And so when he picks his words carefully, I like to pay attention to the exact words. Here's what he said. He said, I'm a free man now, so let it be known that Donald Trump is a man of his word. Thank you so much, President Trump, for giving me this amazing blessing. Now, look at his words. I'm a free man now. Let it be known that Trump is a man of his word. Isn't that a great compliment?

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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Now, Rasmussen gets a lot of Gets a lot of criticism from the Democrats. And part of the reason they get criticized is they're one of the most accurate pollsters. And they generally have a better view of better results on Trump than, let's say, the average of the other pollsters. But they're also closer. So they're consistently more right about Trump-related stuff. So this is incredible.

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It really is. If you're Trump, this is like the best compliment you could ever get, that you're a man of your word. That is so just right. But also, it's non-controversial, at least in terms of this specific thing. Because if Trump said he would do it and then he did it, calling him out as a man of his word, at least on this particular item, is exactly right.

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So he didn't go too far and put himself at risk with the left part of the country. But yet he delivered a compliment, which I say, one of the best ones I've ever heard. And there's no arguing that. If he said he'd do it and then he did it, Yeah, man of his word. That's worth something. ICE has got a, I don't want to say rounded up.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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If you've watched any of the coverage, Tom Homan always corrects everybody who says that they're rounding up people. He's like, no. Very targeted enforcement of specific people. We're not rounding up. And that's a good correction. So they got 538 people criminal aliens, let's use the new modern word.

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And in some cases, they got some people who were in the same room, exactly like you said they would. Everybody's been warned. They know if you're in the same room as the person they're looking for, you're in trouble. So warning is all you can do. I mean, you got to do your job. And I guess they're doing it And they're doing it hard. So they got criminal gang members.

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They got people with all kinds of bad crimes, sex offenders. That's 538 people who aren't going to be offending again if they really go away and stay away. Trump signed some kind of executive order or he said he would approve power plants that are associated with AI data centers. So if you didn't know,

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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AI requires so much processing, you have to build a whole data center, an enormous one, it's bigger than we've had historically, in order just to get to the next level of AI. But they use so much power that you would drain the grid. I think we need about twice as much energy as we anticipate having under baseline. So we got to really ramp it up.

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And Trump's take on this is, you know, you're going to do, you can do anything. You can use natural gas. That would be ideal. It's better than coal. But he's not going to limit what they can do. They can build a nuclear power plant, gas, geothermal, whatever it takes. Now, that feels to me like trying to win.

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In other words, keeping America strong and powerful and having the right energy profile is everything you need to win. I mean, it's the thing that feeds the military, the economy, everything.

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So having Trump say, I'm taking the controls, at least the useless controls, I'm taking the useless controls off of the energy program in the United States and then tying it to the AI stuff gives them a whole bunch of fans in the AI world, which is basically everybody who's paying attention and makes us competitive. Now, what's it do to the environment? Not ideal. Not ideal.

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But I think it was Chamath from the All In pod was saying that even if you wanted to build your own solar plant, because you want to be green, if you wanted to build your own giant solar facility to accompany your AI data center, you wouldn't be able to do it because the approval would take so long that it just wouldn't be a practical project. So Trump... This is a weird thing.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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Trump, by removing the ridiculous obstacles, could make solar power finally reach its potential. Because it's the environmentalists who tell you you have to do solar, and it's the environmentalists who tell you you can't. That's what Chamath is kind of explaining. You should see Chamath on the Tucker Carlson podcast. I haven't finished it yet, but like I said, it's

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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59% approval. And I feel like... I feel like the criticism has just turned into nothing. We'll talk about all the stuff Trump's doing, but I'm just not seeing pushback anywhere. I mean, there's blah, blah, blah, but not really. It's like the whole country just said, we don't have to pretend anymore.

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It's the most eye-opening, jaw-dropping, incredible set of useful points that you should understand. It's really special. So you've got to watch that. So that's a big, big deal. If you're looking for some optimism, the story about allowing any kind of power plant is not stupid, but

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you know, just normal power plants to be associated with AI and letting the tech giants sort of take control of how that functions. Honestly, I can't think of anything that would be better for America right now. I mean, it's just about, I mean, that's just so good. So good. And it doesn't even look like the government you expect. I kind of expect my government to be

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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just stopping me from doing stuff. And when you see somebody who's in the government, Trump, making it easier to do stuff, important stuff, like critically important existential stuff, you can't get more optimistic than this. This is special. It really is. Speaking of that, Trump's going to visit the L.A. fire zone today. So a few substories to that. Number one, did Biden ever?

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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I think he was already kind of done by the time of the fire. But Trump's going to be there. And Newsom said he's going to be greeting him at the tarmac. which suggests that Newsom is not invited to tour the actual fire areas. So it sounds like Newsom wanted to insert himself, but the only place he could be sure it would be acceptable is greeting him at the airport.

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Now, there could be a second reason for this, you know, that there's still some fires burning. You know, there's always some smoldering embers and stuff. So it could be that Newsom's hair gel presents too much of a risk. You know, you don't want to put that much of a, never mind. It's not about his hair gel. But so Newsom's in an awkward situation.

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People expect him to be the leader of the opposition to Trump. At the same time, he has to beg him for money. So I wonder if he can separate those two things, or if he feels like he'll just try to do both at the same time. Mr. Trump, Mr. President, thank you so much for coming here. We really need a lot of help. $2.5 billion. And by the way, you're a fascist. What? What?

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Yeah, I said we're going to need a lot of help from the federal government. Really appreciate that you came here. It means a lot to us. We need at least $10 billion and you're Hitler. Wait, what? What? How does that conversation go exactly? I don't know. Awkward. The good news is that I know he's going to be talking to the right people.

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And I won't say more about that, but I'll just say that one of the things that Trump does so well, and I've never seen anything like it, is that he has feelers among his base and on the ground like I've never seen. Like if somebody has a better idea about anything, it actually gets to him. Like it doesn't matter who it is. Anybody who has a good idea, it's just a good idea.

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And you can bubble it up through people who have bigger accounts. And they say, oh, that is a good idea. And then sooner or later, there's somebody on his staff who sees it. And he actually hears about stuff. I've seen that play out a number of times. And I think that's playing out again with his visit to LA. So we'll see how it goes. I'll be vague for now.

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But in terms of knowing that he's going to connect with the right people when he's there, done. Done. Done. And that probably bubbled up from the right people. And that's how you want your country to work. Meanwhile, Trump signed an executive order on crypto, trying to make America the capital of crypto. You know, David Sachs is in the administration, so he's behind that.

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Just let dad do what dad does, and we just don't need to pretend that we disagree with everything all the time automatically.

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But he also is going to ban central bank digital currencies. And he's going to evaluate the creation of a national digit asset stockpile. So all that sounds forward-thinking and good. I'm only comfortable with it because Saks is the main guy there. The crypto stuff is things I don't have a deep understanding of. Most people don't.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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So I wouldn't be comfortable with something like this if I heard that it came from, I don't know, Don Jr. because he likes crypto. I'm not making fun of Don Jr. I think he's great. But the source matters, right? If Trump just read an article and decided to do an EO on it, well, that would be trouble. If it came from somebody who didn't really understand the space, that would be trouble.

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But it's coming from Sachs. Like, I feel comfortable. Like, okay, if Sachs thinks this is a good idea, and of course everything is risk-reward. Nobody can predict 100% what happens with anything. But if it's the right risk-reward... I'm completely comfortable that Saks has that under control. And that's what a podcast does for you.

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unbelievably good but uh so now you know how trump's job performance is doing i would say that trump and the republicans are having in my lifetime maybe the best week they've ever had would that be fair to say would it be fair to say that in my entire lifetime there's never been a better week for republicans i think that's true i i can't think of any time that they got more done um

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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If you watch somebody on a popular podcast over a long period of time, and you see them talking on all kinds of different topics, especially this one, you get a real feel for whether somebody's playing a game, just trying to make some money, just trying to throw some grenades. And Saks is just Common sense times extraordinary understanding of things, times energy, times patriotism.

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Right guy in the right place? Perfectly. Nicely done, Mr. Trump. Trump is also talking about saving TikTok with a sovereign wealth fund. Now, my understanding of a sovereign wealth fund would be when a country uses its own money to effectively make investments. Why did America not have this already? It's a pretty common thing. It's a pretty common thing for other countries. Saudi has one.

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I think a lot of countries have one. Why wouldn't we have one? One of the things that Trump apparently is bringing to the process here is the understanding that America, if it acted If it acted in some ways, just some ways, like a private company, it could unlock investment potential like nobody's ever seen. I'm borrowing a Trumpism, like nobody's ever seen before.

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And what I mean by that is because the U.S. government can make something work that corporations maybe wouldn't have the power to make it work. In other words, the U.S. can declare something legal. It can also declare something illegal. It can protect something that a private company couldn't protect.

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So if you add the military power and the lawmaking power and the regulation creating and removing power to a financial model, it can do better than all other financial models. And the example is TikTok. TikTok would be the perfect introduction to a sovereign wealth fund.

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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

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So if you can imagine, let's say the sovereign wealth fund just owns, you know, Trump says 50% and then you get a bunch of American and I don't even know if they have to be American. They could be Canadian or any friendly country. Um, there are the other investors, but the important investor would be America because America would say now it's legal. So it turns an asset that's worth nothing.

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into a trillion-dollar asset. And Trump says that directly. It's worth nothing if we say no to it and I'm saying no to it. It's worth a trillion dollars if we change it so it's appropriate in the United States and I say yes to it. So why don't I get half of that? Now, let me say it again.

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It's worth nothing now, but I can make it worth a trillion dollars just simply by making it okay again to operate. And if I can create a trillion dollars of value out of nothing, why doesn't the United States get some of that? And the answer is, I don't know. The answer is, it's a good idea. What's the pushback? We'd get TikTok, so the users would be happy.

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At the moment, the way it's organized, it's an unacceptable risk. Trump can make that risk go way down by making an American product with an American algorithm. It's all win. It makes you think, why weren't we doing this before? Now, TikTok happens to be the perfect example because it's the one where the government literally, and the president alone, can decide whether... Well, not alone.

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Congress should be helpful. But... But he can make it worth a trillion dollars. Take Greenland. Would you invest in a mineral mining operation in Greenland if you knew it wasn't protected and China or Russia could come in and start a strong army and getting you in trouble? That's a risk. But suppose Trump says to Greenland, here's the deal. I will remove all risk of invasion.

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controlled the narrative, changed everything that needed to be changed. You know, did 201, by now it's X more. I mean, I've never seen anything like this. So we know that Trump's doing well and the Trump effect is in force, but let's not forget there's another major political party. And, you know, they could be doing good things too, but maybe getting overshadowed because of the news coverage.

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What's that worth to you? Unlimited? Everything? Well, what would it cost if I were to just buy Greenland? Oh, you couldn't afford it, Mr. President. That'd be almost a trillion dollars. Okay. So a trillion dollars if I buy it. But what if I don't buy it and also don't protect it? What's that worth to you?

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And the next thing you know, Trump makes a mining operation in Greenland, which wouldn't be economical because it's such a big investment and you don't know if you're going to get elbowed out by a foreign country. And Trump will just make that risk go away. Oh, no, they're not going to touch you. If you put a mining operation in Greenland and the U.S., The U.S.

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puts it there, and let's say they share some of their revenue with the locals more than they've ever had, quadruple the lifestyle of the locals and also protect them from any kind of foreign invasion. And maybe if Denmark wants to have some Commonwealth kind of connection, let them have it for historical reasons but not any real control, I think this deal can get done.

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I really think he can get this done. We'll see. But it's brilliant thinking, no matter what you think. Trump also signed an executive order to start the process, which could take a long time, to unleash the declassified documents on Kennedy and Kennedy, two Kennedys and Martin Luther King. And Trump says everything will be revealed. Now, I'm a little confused about something about this story.

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You're the president of the United States, and you have been the president of the United States at least four other years. The president is allowed, in theory, to see 100% of all secrets. I'm not wrong about that, am I? The president is allowed to see 100% of all secrets, no exceptions. I think that's what the system is. And yet the president doesn't act like he knows what's in those files.

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Now, it would be one thing not to know the details, but Kash Patel says he's seen them. So Kash has looked at them, and he's not giving us a hint what's in there, but says, yes, they should be released. Do you think that Trump has not once talked to Kash Patel and said, all right, I don't have time to look through all these documents, but are there any big surprises in there?

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Wouldn't Kash Patel be able to tell him Because Trump has the ultimate security clearance. Yes, I look through. And when the public finds out that X, Y, Z is true, that's going to be a big story. I don't think Trump has heard that. Because Trump's nature is that he's a tease. If he knew what was in there, I think he would have teased us and said, wait till you find out what's in there.

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That would be like a perfect Trumpism. But he didn't do that. He actually legitimately acts like he doesn't know what's in the files. Now, I think there's nothing in there.

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I think that if you're expecting that the government files say the government killed the president, well, that's a little bit unrealistic because it would be exactly the same people who controlled the files as allegedly would have killed the president. They didn't put it in a memo. No. I don't think there's any memos. It was before email.

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It's not like they're going to find the email or the history of online searches or anything. I don't think it's going to be anything. I think all three of them are going to be a yawn. It's going to be stuff we already knew and maybe some details that make you run down a rabbit hole, but you'll end up at the same place you started.

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So I wanted to check in just to make sure Democrats are also getting some stuff done. And yes, it turns out Democrats have, they're making some inroads. Specifically, there's a Mississippi Democrat. I think it's his first year on the job. And he's introducing some legislation in Mississippi to make it illegal for men to masturbate. Because he thinks masturbation should be limited to reproduction.

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So I don't expect anything, and it's going to be a longer process than people want. We're going to forget about it, and then someday there'll be a story that says, well, I guess we can't show you everything, and we can't tell you why. Mike Pompeo blocked it when Trump was first in office, and I understand that Trump just removed the security clearance for Mike Pompeo. Ouch.

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Not related, I think, but you never know. All right, so Trump gave a video speech to the World Economic Forum. If you're tapped into this stuff, you know the World Economic Forum is Let's see, they're big on climate change. That's one of their biggest, biggest things. And they're big on ESG, which is sort of the corporate form of diversity and equity.

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So that's what the E in ESG is for, is equity. So they love DEI and they love climate change. So that's what the WEF is. They're more than that, but those are the big themes.

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Trump goes on video, shits all over DEI, brags about getting rid of it, says there are two genders, and he calls the Green New Deal the Green New Scam, so he's canceling all that Green New Scam stuff and getting out of the Paris Accords. Now, if that's the only thing that happened during his speech, you would say, ugh. Who does that?

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Who goes to this famous, full of billionaires, CEOs, and heads of state, and just tells them that their core mission is harmful bullshit? And he said it, he didn't use those words, but he said it as clearly as a person can say it. I mean, he didn't leave any doubt. And they sat there, and they just took it.

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And then he said, because he knew the top bankers were there and one of them was on stage, they had a Bank of America, Trump actually got in his grill in a live video exchange while the entire world was watching and told B of A, you better stop debanking conservatives. And then he brought up Jamie Dimon, the other biggest banker in the country,

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And Jamie, you too, you better stop debanking conservatives. What do you think the bankers said in their statements and such afterwards? We've never debanked any. What are you talking about? Debanking people. We've never debanked any conservatives. Well, what kind of conservatives do you think we debanked? Well, let me give you an example, courtesy of Mark Andreessen. Trump's wife,

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His fucking wife they debanked. They debanked his fucking wife. You assholes. And she wasn't the only one. There are plenty of other examples. General Flynn weighed in. Are you kidding? They debanked me. They debanked all these people. Then Eric Prince weighs in. Are you kidding? They debanked me. They debanked my family. They debanked everybody related to me. And then...

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they debanked his ex-fucking wife simply because she had received some money, as your normal divorce money. And then the banker said, we've never done that. And as Marc Andreessen points out accurately, huh, it's funny that there's so much debanking that's confirmed and yet no bank was involved. That was just a great moment.

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One thing I can tell you is that unless those banks have started looking into all of their debanking past, there's going to be hell to pay. I don't think they're going to get away with, we didn't do that. Oh, the fake news will protect us. I'm pretty sure MSNBC will say it never happened. So we'll just say it never happened. Not anymore, fuckers. It's a new game.

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But he thinks that, according to the legislation, it would be okay if you wore a condom when you masturbated. I don't think I'm making that up. That's the way I read it. I think this is real. I'm not making any of this up. That's right. President Trump is reviving the economy...

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Now you better do it because we're watching, we're pissed, and you fucking did it. I don't know which bank specifically. Anyway, it's a new day. So that was awesome. Here's a gigantic event in the world. OpenAI has introduced an agent they call Operator that on your commands will operate your your web browser and anything that's signed in basically.

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And if it needs to do something for an account that you haven't signed in for, it'll, it'll notify you, Hey, I signed in for this. I got to do the next step. And it's been tested and you can just turn it loose and tell it what to do. It'll go on your web browser and it'll make appointments for you. It'll organize things. It'll get things and put them in whatever order you want.

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Basically, anything you would do, it'll do on your web browser. Now, this is gigantic for somebody like me. If you watch the pre-show, you've probably seen me go through this long manual process of publishing my cartoon every day. Here's what I'll do in the very near future. Hey, AI, publish today's cartoon. I will first tell it where to get the comic, you know, which file.

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I'll tell it where to put it and how I organize it. But I'm only going to have to explain it once. And then it will just publish it. So I'm going to replace essentially the entire function of this syndication company that canceled me with one agent. If I wanted to be back in newspapers, I don't. I don't.

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They found that caffeine consumption was associated with higher levels of testosterone and better erections. Well, sippers, I salute you. But if you'd like to join in, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or sign a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, even a blood vessel if you know what I mean, Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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But if I wanted to, that agent could contact the newspapers and send them samples and negotiate a price for those few that would want to put Dilwer back in the paper. I'm not going to do that. But it could do that. It could actually do that. It could finalize the deal. It could set up the direct deposit to my checking account. Now, is that scary?

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Now let's bang this amazing, amazing potential into the other thing that you know about, which is there's no way the big AI companies don't have a back door for the CIA. There's no way national security would be okay with AI uncontrolled. Of course it's controlled. We've heard this also from Mark Andreessen, that the venture capitalists were told directly, Don't fund any little AI companies.

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We're only going to allow, we the government, are only going to allow a few, and we're going to have a backdoor for national security. So if you knew that the CIA had a backdoor to your agent that knew all your passwords and could execute things on your behalf, including access to your bank account, I assume, you okay with that? On one hand,

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is so beyond, so beyond any risk that I would consider acceptable. And then I put it in context. The CIA can already do anything it wants to me. It could take all my money. It can spy on everything I can do. It could pretend I did something I didn't do. If the CIA wants to take anybody down, they didn't really need AI to do it. It just, your mind can't separate the fact that you made it so easy.

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So making it easy might make it worse. But it was already pretty easy. Like if somebody in power wanted to look into you, all they had to do is tell somebody to look into you, and then the underling would do all the work. So the person who made the decision doesn't really even have to do any work now.

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So whether they use an agent, like a digital agent, or whether they use real agents, the people in charge were getting instantly everything they wanted all the time. Anyway, you didn't really have any privacy. But speaking of this, that open AI agent, Mike Cernovich took a little deeper dive and found out that it has access to news sources.

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establishing America as the great superpower, putting 10,000 people on the border to close it for good, but not to be outdone, a Democrat in Mississippi is trying to make it illegal to masturbate. It would be, the first penalty would be $1,000. Yeah. And I just want to know how they get the information. Are you supposed to self-report? Is it like the gift tax? They just expect you to tell them?

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So if you were to ask it to check the news or something like that, it could do it. What news sources? Let's see. There's the Atlantic, which is known to be a Democrat propaganda entity. Really, that's all it is. It's not something that could ever make money. And they're not trying to be anything else. They are literally just a propaganda. So that's one of them. But they have four.

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So they have four news sources. So if the only one was The Atlantic, you'd say, oh, this is looking wrong because this is just a Republican-hating fake news source. But it's not just The Atlantic, so don't worry. It's also three others, including Axios. Axios. Wouldn't that be the same news entity that's anti-Trump and funded by OpenAI? Yes, it is. It's partially funded by OpenAI.

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They have a working agreement with Axios, who is not too pro-Trump. But don't worry. Those are only two of the four. The other ones I'm sure would be... Oh, the other ones are the AP... known to be one of the most productive creators of fake news about Trump. But you have Reuters. Okay. So these would be four of the ten worst things that you could pick as your news sources.

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So Mike Cernovich calls this out on X, and Sam Altman responded almost immediately. And Altman said, quote, that's a miss. We will fix fast. So Sam is saying that it's a mistake that it was limited to those four and that they'll fix that fast. How many of you believe that that was a mistake? Because it doesn't look like a mistake.

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And as Mike Cernovich points out in response to Sam's response to him, he said, are there any examples of a, quote, miss where the error was on the side of Trump and conservatives? Because as I learned from Google, Zuck and all regime media corrections over the decade, these errors, quote, always cut one way. A fair system would have misses on either side.

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And then Cerno points out that the tech businesses still don't hire Trump supporters. Wow. Yeah. And then. So that's that's exactly the right question. Now, I think Sam is probably accurate in saying that wasn't what he intended. But I don't think that his employees were equally open-minded in what this should be.

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So, yeah, there's a big problem that his organization is staffed with lefties who you know what kind of problems that is. So, I mean, that's gigantic problems. Anyway, Chris Sack, a famous tech investor guy, He was talking about using AI to code. And I had tried the same thing he did. So he also only had minimal programming experience from his past.

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So recently, he asked AI to write him some code for an app. So he said, hey, AI, I've got an app. Make me some code. And the entire code for the app just appears. But then he says, and I had the same experience, it's been a long time since I wrote any code. What do I do with it? Like, do I copy and paste it somewhere? I had the same question because I was so long out of that game.

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And the AI would tell them how to do it. So the AI would say, yes, you want to download Python. put it on your computer. If you have a Mac, you do it this way. If it's Windows, you do it that way. And then the prompt will be here, and then you do this with the prompt, and you put it into Python, and then here's how you execute it.

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And he said, you know, my God, it was already so good that you could reduce your number of programmers. But with the new operator agent, the one I just talked about, all that last part, which is what literally stopped me from making an app, because I tried to make one too. I just couldn't figure out that last part because I was too distracted and busy.

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But now I could just say to it, hey, AI, write me an app that does this or that. Boom, it's done. Literally, that's all it takes. The app just appears, all the code does. And then that part where I didn't know what to do with the code, I just say, can you turn that into an app? Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-boom. it finds Python, it puts it where it needs to, it executes it, and there's your app. Unbelievable.

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Unbelievable. All right. Here's what Axios is reporting, speaking of Axios. Their headline said, Trump left Washington four years ago, touting a revolutionary new consensus on the threat posed by China. He returned this week, seeming to downplay that threat, signaling a potential thaw in relations between the two countries. Now, do you see the propaganda and brainwashing that's embedded in that?

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Let me call it out. When do you ever see the word tout? Somebody is touting something. Is that ever in a positive reference? Do people tout things and then the story is going to be about how great that is? Wow, it's great that they're touting. No, touting is a subtle insult that you're saying something that's maybe not true. It's built into a little skepticism. He's touting.

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So it's $1,000 for the first offense. The second one would be $5,000. And if you whack off three times... The third one would be $10,000. And all I'm thinking is if I lived in Mississippi, I'd be sitting there thinking, all right, it's $10,000. Maybe just twice. Anyway. That's real.

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The opinion is in the news, that you just choose your words and the opinion comes embedded with the news. So he's touting that there was a consensus about the threat of China, but now they're going to turn it into hypocrisy, because that's what the news does. To make it a story, it has to be an inconsistency or an hypocrisy.

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And the hypocrisy, they think, is that Trump was such a tough talker about China, but he says good things about Xi and Now he's talking about how we can work things out. You know what's missing, right? What's missing is this is exactly how Trump negotiates with foreign leaders every time, and he even explains it. You don't have to guess.

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He tells you, yes, I'm going to be very tough with Russia or China or whoever he's talking about, but I get along with the leader, and that's good for everybody because then you can have that talk And you can be as tough as you want because they're not going to take it personally because I like them personally. That is everything you want from your president in terms of negotiating.

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That is everything I want. I want them to be friendly enough with the leaders. They get every access conversation. Nothing is no just because of who's involved. And they get their, let's say, reputations benefited by that because it is a big benefit. And then they are in a position where they've gotten something for free because it didn't cost any money for Trump to say, yeah, she's great.

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That costs nothing. And then what we get in return is a good, healthy negotiation in which both sides fully acknowledge and they're transparent about what they want and what they need to have and how things can work.

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So Axios just tortures itself to turn this into some kind of touting and hypocrisy when it's the cleanest example you'll ever see of a top-end negotiator doing top-end negotiating exactly the way you'd want it to happen. So Axios is one of the four sources for open AI. Until Sam Altman fixes it, which he said he's going to do quickly.

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There's a bounty hunter bill in Mississippi that would pay $1,000 to bounty hunters for each successful deportation of an illegal that they help to facilitate. So the bounty hunter doesn't have to deport them, just has to facilitate it. Now, probably not the best idea.

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I'm not going to get into the pros and cons, but it made me think that if I were a bounty hunter and this got passed, I would open a restaurant in Mississippi and I'd just say I'm hiring two thirds of the people who walk into the restaurant to be dishwashers and line cooks. are going to have questionable credentials.

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You could just sit there in an office and have one after another come in and say, looks a little suspicious to me. You didn't pass the E-Verify. And then just turn it in and make $1,000 for every person you interview, at least two-thirds of them. I'm not recommending that. I'm just saying. I always think in terms of business models when I read the news.

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Trump plans, according to Zero Hedge, Trump plans to bring as many as 10,000 troops to the border. I think he's got 1,500 now. But I like that. When I heard it was 1,500, my first reaction was, hmm. So in other words, you know, barely anything. Better than nothing. A lot better than nothing. You know, changes the tone of everything, sets a standard. You know, it's all good.

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But 1,500 didn't seem like enough. 10,000 is serious. 10,000 removes all questions. If you're wondering if he's deadly serious about the border, yeah, 10,000 troops would get you there. You don't have to wonder anymore. So we don't know if that'll happen, but that's the plan, allegedly.

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All right, I would like to indulge you by reading something that I posted on X because it got a good response, and it's what you need to know. I was challenged several months ago to do the best reframe I could on the January 6th prisoners. And I've been thinking and thinking about this.

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And everything that I kind of came up with, I tried a number of things to reframe it properly and didn't really catch. But I think I may have gotten it this time. And I was reacting to a post by Jason Calacanis, who may be listening right now. Jason, I hope you're listening. from the All In pod, you know him from the All In pod, and he's a big investor in the tech world.

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But he was giving Trump a report card for operating so far, and on several items, he gave him a high grade. It was just check or X, so it wasn't anything but yes or no. But he gave him a yes on several things that you and I would agree on. Very good. I like that the common sense stuff is not being argued, just common sense. But the January 6th stuff is really deeply in the political model.

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That's not exactly a common sense thing. And if you treat it like it's common sense, I think that's where you go wrong. So I'm going to give you the reframe that I think works best, worded the way I think it works best, in case you want to use it.

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So from a framing and communication and persuasion perspective, I think this is the best take that I've seen, certainly the best one I've done, but I think it's the best one I've seen, to explain why releasing what Jason referred to as the J6ers who beat cops. So that was one of his low grades for Trump, releasing or pardoning or commuting, whatever it is, the sentences of J6ers who beat cops.

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So that was the thing that triggered me to do a response. So I'm just going to read it, and I want you to absorb it. So I started out by saying, quote, J6ers who beat cops is a misleading frame, to put it politely. I said there are people who already served more time than most people with similar offenses. Anything extra is political imprisonment. That's the right frame, but I'm just beginning.

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So the start is that if they've served as much time as comparable violators of the law, even violent ones, even violent ones, if they served as much time in general, but their sentence would have gone much longer, that much longer part is the political imprisonment part, and it's the only part that Trump forgave. He forgave the political part of the sentence,

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This is also real, according to Bronchi, writing in Red State, that Corinne Jean-Pierre, the recent spokesperson for Biden, she's being profiled in Vanity Fair. Now you say to yourself, okay, I mean, Vanity Fair does sort of high profile, attractive looking people. She's an attractive person and she's high profile. So that makes sense. And then I read on, she wrote the profile herself.

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not the part they've already served because they did indeed hurt people in law enforcement. Now, I'd like to also give you some extra context. I agree with most of the country that if you do some violence to a police officer or a first responder of any kind, that should be a longer sentence. Is everybody on board with that?

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If the only thing you knew, there were no other circumstances, if you hurt a police officer or a fireman or anybody in the first responder world, that hurts society. That's not just the person who got hurt. So once you throw in, my God, are you making it impossible to have police if you're going to be hurting police and we're not going to punish you properly? No, that's a hard, hard line.

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If you hurt somebody in that field of work, you're hurting me because I'm paying that person and I don't want to pay them to be on disability. I mean, it's not about money. It's about what's right. It's about what works. It's about common sense. So yes, a longer sentence, all things being equal for that kind of thing makes sense. But the next part is, are all things equal?

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Is this just an ordinary, we've got evidence, you heard somebody, it's a police officer or somebody acting in that capacity? No. Here's the extra context that I think makes it make sense for Trump. I said that blame for the violence is not limited to the offenders. And here I'm going to give the offenders one-third of the blame. I said it is one-third because our election systems, by design...

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and that's important by design, signaled to half the country that an election was stolen. I agree they might be wrong. So I'm not aware of proof that the election was stolen. I'm not aware of proof. But the election design flaw, the lack of transparency, combined with an odd come from behind everywhere that mattered, that we watched in real time,

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and the violation of past bellwether patterns, meaning that in the past, if you lost in these particular areas, you definitely lost the whole country. But if you won in these very, what it's called a bellwether kind of area, it would be almost impossible to win all the bellwethers or say nine out of 10 and then lose the election. Trump did.

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He won most of the bellwethers and somehow lost an election, but not until the last minute count. Now, again, I have no proof that the election was stolen, but I don't think anybody reasonable would argue that it was signaling it was stolen. I think all of you will agree. Would you agree that it signaled it was stolen, even if it wasn't?

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Now, whoever designed a system that you could very much predict in advance would eventually signal that it had been stolen and And we wouldn't be able to know for sure because it's designed with not enough transparency that you can't even, nobody can really know who won.

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If you design something that guarantees you're going to have this exact problem where people are going to get worked up to the point of violence, if your system design guarantees it predictably, you take a little bit of the responsibility. Not all of it, not all of it,

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because some of the blame, a lot of it, is on the person who actually swung the bat, used the bear spray and all these terrible things. But they're not alone in the responsibility if you built a system that guarantees it happens. So you got that. And I said, if the protesters were right about the election being stolen, and here's my opinion, and I bet that they were,

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Given that every other American institution has been confirmed to be crooked, that means the protesters acted in, watch the careful wording, in the American tradition. Here's what I started to say and backed off. I started to say, you know, that's how the American Revolution started. Somebody saw something that looked unfair and they acted. It's how Americans do everything. We look for trouble.

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If we think we see it, we act. If the trouble is really, really big, there's no limit to how we act. Right? That's an American tradition. You could talk about violence, and nobody's going to say, I like violence. I don't like violence. But if you put Americans in a specific situation where they think they're recognizing great evil and great risk, It is an American tradition that they act.

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And the protesters were in that position where they thought they saw something obviously that looked like a rigged election. And they acted in the American tradition. That doesn't make it legal. Remember, the Revolutionary War wasn't legal. It wasn't legal. And people got hurt. And now we celebrate it. Why do we celebrate it? Because when things were bad, Americans rose up and they acted.

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And they didn't put a restriction on what those actions would be because the risk was big enough that they decided that that risk was worth it. So if Americans act like Americans in the American tradition, maybe they have to serve some jail time, depending on what they've done under that context, maybe. But the context really, really, really matters.

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Okay, that's funny. Did she write a glowing profile of herself for Vanity Fair? It's actually called Vanity Fair. If it weren't called Vanity, it wouldn't be so funny that she wrote it herself. You know what I mean? But it gets funnier. Can anybody guess what she's blaming for her lack of success?

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And the pieces of shit in the media have been telling us forever that we could know and that Trump knew and everybody knew Trump knew that the election was fair. Let's get to that. The other one-third blame for the violence is with Pelosi and Milley and whoever else turned down the right amount of security. In other words, it was an inviting trap

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intentional or otherwise, if protesters saw no hope of getting into the Capitol, would they have acted violently to try to make it happen? If the protesters had pulled up and a bunch of military people with military weapons, lots of them, like lots of them, which is what Trump ordered. He ordered lots of them. He just didn't get it.

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Do you think that the protesters would have said, huh, looks like I got to fight my way through five layers of armed and trained killers who are heavily armed and maybe not, maybe not.

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So if you're in charge of security and you don't put enough security in and you knew you didn't and you were asked to do it and you didn't do it anyway, you're one third responsible for violence because security is supposed to prevent violence. so that the bad guys come up and say, oh, well, it wouldn't make any sense to do any violence in this situation. That'd be crazy.

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And we're not going to get into the building. But if you think that punching a cop might somehow increase the success of your protest, I don't recommend it, by the way. Don't punch any cops. But if you think it might work, as bad as that is if it worked, You're going to try it. If you think it's not going to work, you don't try it. That's why security matters. So I'm going to say one third.

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It's on the protesters who hurt cops. Don't like that. Very bad. One third on the security and one third on the design of the election system, which is designed so you can't know who won. Nobody can know on any federal election. It's not knowable. You can only know what they told you. That's it. That's all we know.

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And you can know if you found proof, but you don't know if there's any proof you didn't find. And that's where the idiots try to convince you. You can tell if somebody's been hypnotized, let's say brainwashed, versus they've thought it through. If somebody says, Scott, you have to say the election is fair. Well, no, I don't. No, everybody knows it was fair.

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That's not somebody who's thinking about anything. Because if they were thinking about it, they would know that all of our institutions are corrupt, right? Science has been lying to us on a lot of things. Healthcare, we went through the pandemic. Need I say more? Finance, of course, has been rigged at the top forever. Government, completely corrupt in so many ways.

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FBI, Department of Justice, law-faring. We don't have any institutions that aren't corrupt. And we completely know it. Are you telling me that in the context of everything being corrupt, we've got this non-transparent, potentially easily riggable system, and it's the only thing that wasn't rigged? Oh, how lucky. The only thing that matters the most is the only thing that was pure. Maybe.

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But that would be the biggest surprise in the world. If you've lived in the real world, do you think that the most important system and the one that you could rig, if you wanted to, and let's say you were the CIA, you think that's the one thing that's not rigged? The one thing? That's not a real opinion if you think that. That's like just something to laugh at.

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If you guessed racism, if you guessed racism as what she's blaming for a lack of a screaming success, you'd be right. She says it's racism.

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Oh, you think that's the one thing that even if we can't tell, they didn't rig it. The United States is an election rigging monster. We've done it, what, 80 coups in other countries, which, by the way, might be good for America. I'm not sure that the coups are a bad idea. But the point is we have all these very specific methods for rigging elections in other countries, obviously.

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You think none of that got turned inward? What, because it would be wrong to do it? We just watched the same group of people massively organize this censorship campaign by using every trick that they use against other countries they're trying to overthrow.

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So we don't have to wonder if the very same cats are doing things that they would do usually ideally only to other countries that we're trying to somehow control. You think they wouldn't use it internally when we just watched them use the other tools internally? Of course they would. I don't have any proof it happened, but if you think that that's somehow unlikely, you couldn't be dumber.

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I mean, you couldn't be dumber than thinking it's unlikely. Did it happen? I don't know. I don't have any proof. Anyway, um, So then I said, this is where the NPCs claim everyone, including Trump quote, knew it was a fair election because, and by the way, this is a writing trick. If you know, when you're writing something, there's going to be a specific disagreement.

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You want to slay the specific disagreement before it even comes out of their mouth. So that's what I'm doing here. So I'm calling them NPCs and saying, if you think you knew it, uh,

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uh it was if you think you knew it was a fair election uh no that is stupid so i saved my f word for the point i want them to remember there is no way for any citizen to know who won any federal election unless unless the winner is outside the inner circle like trump And he still wins all the swing states.

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I'm not too worried that Trump's current election was stolen by Trump because the person who has the least access to the gears of government at that time won overwhelmingly. So that's not something that the bad guys would have done. And I don't think it's something that the Republicans could have pulled off on their own. So that looks real. But not because I can tell the elections are well done.

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Imagine being alive and not being aware that for the past 40 years, 40 years, the best thing you could be is anything but a white man in terms of employment. For 40 years. It's been true, absolutely hard true for 40 years, that the worst thing you could possibly be is a white man in any kind of American job. The best thing, what's the best thing you could be for the past 40 years?

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Only because if this person won, it means that they didn't have the means to stop them. Because you know they wanted to. All right. So a few more things. There's a ex-CIA agent. What's his name? Daily Mail is reporting about this. You've seen him in reels probably. He's on social media a lot this week.

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John Kiriakou, so he worked for the CIA for 14 years as an officer, and he said that the agency, quote, actively seeks to hire people who have sociopathic tendencies, but avoids them if they have a full-blown disorder. So apparently the ideal CIA agent or officer is somebody who's a little bit sociopathic. and that they're the ones who rise to the highest levels. Now, that makes complete sense.

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When you hear about Pompeo trying to organize a hit on Assange, how many of you could organize somebody's murder? I could organize bin Laden's murder. Okay, that's easy. I can organize the murder of, I don't know, a cartel hitman. I mean, I can do that easily. I mean, it wouldn't bother me, my conscience.

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But it seems like the CIA would be in the business of sometimes getting rid of somebody who was a law-abiding person, but they're just in the way. They're stopping some larger national ambition. Now, I don't think it's legal to kill somebody like that, but I also think You know, there's some flexibility, if you know what I mean. So I do think you probably have to be a bit of a sociopath.

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And that would allow you to rise to the top. But it might be the only thing that allows you to do the job. Imagine if you were the head of the CIA and you were super woke and somebody comes and says, you know, I think we're going to have to kill this leader of this African country. And you'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're going to kill a black guy? Well, no, it's not about being a black guy.

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He's the leader of this African country. There's really big problems. We think we want to take him out. You're going to kill a black guy? No, I'm not going to allow that. Have you killed an equal number of white guys? Well, we're not really keeping track that way. We're just trying to remove people who are a threat to our national interest. Okay, but you can't kill the black guy first, right?

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So you need a sociopath who just says, what's the reason we need to kill him? All right, approved. Someone, according to Futurism, a publication, someone invented a fake therapist and got her quoted in tons of articles, including Newsweek. So I guess there's some chat place where therapists and people talk, and one of them was just a fake one by somebody in some kind of sex product business.

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They invented a fake one, and the fake one did so well that it was widely quoted in national media. Now, I don't think the person who invented the fake one necessarily had any therapist skills. It was just somebody else pretending to be a therapist. But just think about the fact that you can simply pretend to be a professional and the news will say, well, sounds good to us. Sounds good.

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Meanwhile, according to New Atlas publication, an affordable housing project was 3D printed in just 12 days. So if you like walls that are hard to change after they're done, this 3D printing might be just the thing. They have to finish it with humans using for the electrical and the plumbing and stuff, and that takes the longest time.

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But it was just a three-unit terraced multi-story thing in eastern Ireland. Now, I don't think this technology is quite there, but you can see it's going to be. I would rather the 3D printer made Lego-like blocks that I could just snap together, which exists, by the way. There are concrete blocks that snap together like Legos now. And

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So that if I needed to change an interior wall or even an exterior wall, I would know exactly how to do it because it's made of parts and I can just move them as long as I've got the wall that keeps the ceiling up. What do you call that? The load-bearing wall? As long as you don't affect the load-bearing part of it, you should be able to play around with your interior space.

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Black, female, lesbian. It's number one in the entire stacking of the ridiculousness that the Democrats brought us for the last 40 fucking years, it's number one on the best thing you could possibly be for your career. There's nothing higher than that. But imagine being so fucking stupid you don't even know that. You don't even know that everything was stacked in your direction. That's amazing.

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So I think that's where a 3D printer... is getting it wrong, because as a homeowner, I've made lots of changes to my home after I moved in, and it would bug the heck out of me if there were no practical way to move a wall. But maybe other people would be happy with it. There is a new drug in testing, according to the American Chemical Society.

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Now, you should know that if a drug works in the lab, there's very small chance it's going to work with a human. If they do some testing on a mouse, and it works good on a mouse, there's still very little chance it's going to work on a human.

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However, there are cases where the mouse can have a transplant where an American organ is basically attached to the mouse, and then they can see if the human organ dies or what happens with the treatment. So if you can get all the way to making a human tumor die in a mouse, then you get very excited.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. Wait, wait. I'm getting some breaking news. There's a new study. It turns out, I'm not making this up, but there's a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology,

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Now, usually when I see stuff like this, you hear the new drug makes your chemo 30% more effective, to which I say, but you're still on chemo, which has got a lot of side effects. It's only 30%. I'm not even sure. That's even real. I mean, that could just be data noise. I don't know. So usually there are just hundreds of these. We've cured cancer things, but they don't work out in people.

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This one looks a little different. So it actually shrunk tumors in the mouse models, and these were human breast cancer tumors that they put in the mouse. And the expert said, is very rare for a compound to shrink tumors in the mouse models of breast cancer, let alone completely eradicate those tumors with a single dose.

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Completely eradicated the human tumors in the mouse with one dose, no side effects.

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now you have my attention and now you've got my attention now the odds of it working in humans again i wouldn't get too excited because it's a there's a low there's a very low transfer rate from animal models to humans but if you see something completely remove a tumor with one dose and it was designed to do it it wasn't that they were just looking around for stuff

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you know, they had a good idea that the mechanism would work. That's why they tested it. That's pretty exciting. Now, here's the good news and the bad news. If you have or get cancer in 2025, you have a race against the clock now, like has never existed before. Because when I was a kid, these same stories were every day when I was you know, 18 years old. And not many of these came to fruition.

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So every day there's some claim of this doesn't work out. But what's different is AI. If you overlay AI on top of this world, the experts in AI are saying you can end up curing basically all the cancers because you can look at the DNA of the person, you could check the specifics of the tumor, and then the AI will tell you exactly the kind of shot to give you that makes those tumors go away.

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Now, of course, there's some medical people who say, oh, don't let the tech brothers talk about science. They're not scientists or they're not medical people. And I get that. But I do think that pattern recognition is going to be the big winning play. And that's what AI does well. So it could be, there's no way to know, we could be five years away from cancer just being an annoyance.

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So if you've got cancer today, you've got a tough choice because you can either do nothing and hope for the single compound that cures your thing, but it's going to take a few years to be available, or you can immediately get on the chemo and the brutal stuff that has side effects right away. And when this compound becomes available, if it does, it's not guaranteed,

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then you would still always have what the side effects gave you, even if they cured your cancer. Because the treatment can give you some pretty bad permanent damage. So the decision about what to do if you've got cancer is completely new territory. I think people are going to make some hard choices. And you're going to see some some people just not get treated.

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40 years it's been true. And it hasn't been just a little bit true. It's been the most true, obvious, documented, ask any single person who's been alive and been in a corporate world for 40 years. It's the truest true thing that has ever been true. And she doesn't know it? What kind of a weird imaginary world is that like? So weird. The Wall Street Journal has an article.

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And they're just going to say, you know what? I'm going to play a long game. I'm just going to roll the dice. So you're going to see people's approach to it change as the technology is changing. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I had for today. I knew this ran a little bit long. Thank you for staying, everybody who stayed. I hope it was interesting. And welcome to the golden age.

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Everything's looking good. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately now, but thanks everybody for joining and come back tomorrow, please. And we'll enjoy the golden age a little bit more. Hope today was fun.

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Now, I can't believe this is really being discussed. Hold in your mind all the conversations we've had on this topic, and then be amazed that it's a headline story today. Today, it's still a story, all right? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, I guess there's maybe some changes that might be coming to the dietary guidelines in the United States from the government.

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And there's a big debate whether drinking a little bit of alcohol is good for you. It's 2025. By now, we're completely aware that unless the study is actually paid for by the alcohol business, they all say it's bad for you. It's the most well-understood thing in science. Of course, every drink is bad for you.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. Salute. Is that what salute means? Probably not. Probably not. It's a new meaning. All right. Well, you've probably heard the rumors by now. But people, they're just rumors that Barack Obama is about to have a Mic drop moment? A mic drop? That's right. If you're sitting at home, I'll give you a moment. Yeah.

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But because the alcohol industry still has some sketchy studies out there, they're like, well, look at my study. I know you've got 10 studies, but look at my four studies. And so they're still arguing whether a little bit of alcohol is actually good for your health. Yeah, a little bit of poison is just what you need. A little bit of poison. Well, here's what they could have done to save some time.

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They could have asked Scott. And here's how that conversation would have gone. The experts would say, Scott... Is alcohol bad for people even in low doses? We can't tell because the data is mixed. And then here's what I would say. Maybe you should check who funds the studies saying poison is good for you. Then the experts would say, you are a genius. Thank you for saving us so much money and time.

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I'm pretty sure that's how it would go. So next time, guys, ladies, Next time you have a question about whether alcohol is good for you, big time saver, ask Scott. Over in the U.K., the U.K. being stupid again, when was the last time you heard a story about the U.K. that wasn't about them being stupid? I don't even remember one.

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It's either they're lying or stupid or weasels, like every story about the U.K., Is that a coincidence? Or have they turned into lying, stupid weasels? I mean, you know, my instinct is just that's the news that is catching my attention. They must be doing something right, right? Is there anything that the UK is doing right?

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But here's a story, just a small one, that the BMW, the UK, I guess, what would you call it? The UK... BMW group. BMW has decided to announce it that it's no longer going to post on X. Number one, why would you announce it? What would be the point of announcing that? Well, the only thing I can think of is that they're announcing it because they're protesting something that Elon Musk did.

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Can you think of any other reason? I can't. So BMW is protesting X. They're doing it at exactly the same time that I was trying to figure out what my next car will be, which has taken me a few years to figure out because I'm right on the fence between going electric, which seems like obviously the future, and staying gas as long as I can because gas stations are more plentiful.

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So I was kind of on the offense, but I was thinking, you know, another BMW. That's what I've been driving for years. Maybe, you know, maybe one more. And then I see this. We're not the UK, so it's not the UK BMW, but I'm not cool with that. I'm not cool with you being such buttholes that you have to announce you're doing it. I wouldn't even care if they simply didn't do it.

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If they simply didn't do it, I'd be like, well, I don't even know. I don't care. Not everybody has to do everything. It doesn't matter if somebody's not doing something. But announcing it? Announcing it. That's just being dicks. I'm not going to drive the automobile of dicks. So I'm probably going to get a Tesla because BMW UK are just being dicks. The cool thing about BMW is I like the brand.

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The cars are very good. But I like the brand. It felt right. Sometimes your personality or something matches a brand. But I don't want to be driving a dick car. So probably that'll push me into the Tesla Y. That's my guess. We'll see. That's not a final decision. AOC was on Jon Stewart's podcast. And they had great agreement and a good laugh over the question of

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Democrats being hypocrites by being in favor of insider trading. Now, both Stewart and AOC say directly it is insider trading, which is legal. It's specifically legal if you're in Congress. Now, I actually understand why they have that rule. I don't know. Has anybody explained to you why they have the rule that they can do insider trading?

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I'm sure it's just self-interest, but the rationalization would be that you would be essentially prohibiting them from just normal investing because sooner or later something they normally invest in is going to look like they had insider information. Next thing you know, they're going to get arrested for just making ordinary investments like every other American.

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So I'm actually quite sympathetic to allowing them to do it. But I think we should have more transparency. I think this is one where instead of banning it, let's just know exactly who's doing what. The midpoint, the only midpoint I can imagine is if they, and this might not be practical, if the Congress said to its members, don't invest in these topics because they're part of upcoming discussions.

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So get there before the discussion and say, we're going to put a moratorium just on Let's say these six companies just for a few months, because that's when we're going to have more information on the public. I don't know if there was a practical way to make that happen. That'd be good.

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Or alternately, just tell the public which things the Congress is talking about and then show us what people are investing in. Full transparency. And then when that person runs for election, their opponent says, well, you know, here's the watchdog list. Here's what they were talking about. Here's what he invested in. That could matter.

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I could see voters saying, yeah, that actually does matter to me. But AOC and Stewart both agree that what it does when Democrats are in favor of keeping it, which they are, that it makes them easy targets for Republicans to say, you hypocrites, look what you're doing. And interestingly enough, It's just interesting they're calling out their own side for this huge error.

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The rumor is there's going to be a mic drop moment. That's all I have to say on that. Anyway, according to Rasmussen, the Trump job performance is amazing. So the latest is that as of Thursday, 56% of likely U.S. voters approved of Trump's job performance for the first week. And guess what the overnight is? The overnight is Trump at 59% approval. Does that even seem possible?

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Come on in. Don't check your stocks. You won't like it. What? I got a sign down of locals? That doesn't seem right. Let's try it again. Oh, shit. I got a sign down of locals. But... Watch me sign right in. Oh, no. I've had nothing but problems today. Well, that's not going to work. So I'll just look at my comments in the mainstream, which will work perfectly.

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Now, I do wonder if they're measuring that right, because that's one of those cause and effect things. Could it be that people who are unhealthy have less access to social interaction? That wouldn't surprise me, right? But I assume they isolated this correctly and they know what they're talking about.

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But it does make me wonder if Mark Zuckerberg's idea of a little friend, little digital AI friend, do you think that that would be healthy? Or do you think that you would have to only have human friends for the social interaction that would make you healthy?

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I've got a feeling that if you want to get the oxytocin, that feeling that you only get from hugging people and being around friends, I don't think the device in your pocket is going to give you that. Anyway, according to The Hill... President Trump said Thursday, he was at some event with RFK Jr., that autism must not occur naturally. And he's saying that because there's this huge increase in it.

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So apparently we went from one in 10,000 to one in 31. Now, do you think that that's just a difference in diagnosis? How much of that do you think is just because we're smarter, so we say, oh, there's that autism again, and we're better at identifying it? Because if this were 1800s, we wouldn't even know what autism was.

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We'd just say, all right, I guess little Carl will be out plowing the fields, and since Carl can plow the fields just fine, Did it even matter? Did it even matter if he was a little autistic? Well, if he was a lot autistic, it wouldn't matter. But I noticed that the hill kept using the phrase

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debunked theories when I talked about Robert Kennedy, Jr., and the connection between vaccinations and autism. Let me do a little survey here in the comments. How many of you believe that that it is either obvious or has been demonstrated that there's a connection between vaccinations and autism.

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Now, you might say to yourself, well, when I studied the Amish or the unvaccinated, they were much lower. I checked Grok, not that Grok is the final authority, but according to Grok, it's very debunked. And there's just a ton of studies and they can't find that connection anywhere.

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And if you think that they looked at the Amish and the Amish had a whole different level of autism, nope, not that different. So that's probably the thing that's been studied the most. And if you were to believe what Grok says about all the studies, it would be very debunked. I don't know what's true and what's not, but that's sort of the official answer.

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When was the last time you touched a penny? I don't even remember. I can't remember the last time I touched a penny. When was the last time you bought something with cash? Again, I do not even remember. Last time I bought something with cash. Last year, maybe? Two years ago? No idea. But I don't think I'll miss the penny. Turns out it costs about four cents to make a penny.

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There's also the theory that I thought was true for many years, that if you had two engineers or two nerdy people who got married, that they were more likely to have a kid who was on the spectrum. And apparently that's not true either. There's not really much evidence at all. There's no evidence for it. So what's that leave?

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that leaves either some big difference in diagnosis or food or pollution, right? So the increase in autism would have to be food-related or pollution-related if it's not vaccination and it's not genetic. So we'll see if we find out. It would be quite an amazing thing if RFK Jr. and Trump

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can get the science pointed in the right direction and figure out what's behind all that yeah maybe it's just food well there's the big beautiful bill that's being uh now debated in the senate it passed the house but i wanted to give you a little uh persuasion lesson here So the Republicans and the Democrats are going to have different persuasion approaches.

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The Democrats are going to say, this is the worst bill ever. And the Republicans are going to say, it's the best thing ever. But I looked at how the both sides are talking about it in a publication on The Hill, a story about it. So here's a little quiz. We'll see if you're on the same page with me.

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So Democrats say that the big beautiful bill that the Republicans are putting together is Republicans are cutting your health care to give tax breaks to Trump's rich buddies, raising costs for average Americans. Is that good persuasion? Now, forget about what's true, right? Because nobody knows what's true. We're not going to look at the details of the big, beautiful bill.

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We're just going to hear them talking about it. Is that good persuasion? Republicans are cutting health care to give tax breaks to Trump's rich buddies, raising costs for average Americans. Persuasive or not? The answer is really persuasive. Because where it says they're cutting health care, it's always more persuasive to say they're taking something away from you. Right? So they got that right.

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They're taking something away from you. But then they're taking it away from you so they can give something to the rich people. So now you've got envy. So you've got the persuasion of losing something, health care, along with the envy that it goes to those damn rich people. And then raising costs for average Americans, that's a little less persuasive. But what about the Republicans?

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Republicans say... Also, what the Democrats say is the GOP tax scam doubles down on all the anxieties the public has about the D.C. politicians prioritizing their wealthy friends over everyday people. That's pretty good, too. Because they're saying that they're treating you like second-class citizens if you're not among the rich. You can feel that, right?

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Suppose you thought it was true that the Republicans were going to treat the less rich people as sort of low priority. Well, that would be pretty good persuasion. The Republicans are saying that Democrats want tax hikes, handouts for illegal immigrants, and to protect fraud. Is that persuasive? No. No, that's not persuasive. Democrats want tax hikes?

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It just sort of sits there, because you always expect all your politicians want to do a tax hike. How about handouts for illegal immigrants? Well, I mean, the Democrats kind of like that. How about protecting fraud? Nobody even knows what that is. So if you compare the messaging, the Democrats have the better persuasion. They've got the something is taken away.

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So we're going to drop that penny. Don't touch your pennies anyway. They're disgusting. Here's some science that's kind of exciting. Did you know, I'll bet you didn't, there's a pretty good chance that there will be a pill that will help your sleep apnea. You know the people who put on those big CPAC things and then that's the end of your sex life? Well, there's a FDA submission.

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Now, you could argue that the Republicans saying that Democrats want tax hikes is taking something away. But it's not worded that way. If they wanted it to be persuasive, the Republicans would say, Democrats want to pick your pocket. Then it's turned into taking something away, which would be better persuasion. And handouts for illegal immigrants, I don't know.

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How many people are feeling like they're directly affected by that? It's a little conceptual. And then protect fraud. Do they really want to protect fraud? Do you really think the other side wants to protect fraud? That's not very persuasive. So I would say that the Democrats have a stronger, just messaging-wise, they're a little bit stronger on that.

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Well, there's yet another JFK file hearing in Congress. Representative Annapolina Luna, she says, based on the new evidence presented during yesterday's JFK hearing, it is increasingly clear that elements within our own government have been blocking the release of truth pertaining to the assassination of President Kennedy.

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And I guess Mr. Hardaway from the Select Committee on Assassination said, for the past 62 years, the CIA has actively and continuously obstructed the investigation of the assassination, blah, blah, blah. How many of you think you're ever going to figure out or ever know for sure what happened with JFK?

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I feel like the default is that the elements of the CIA and elements of our government and elements of the mafia, which would have a connection to the CIA, assassinated the president. I feel like I don't really need to know much more. Maybe the names of the people involved. But how many of you think it's not Some people in the government, some people in the CIA, and some people in the mafia.

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I feel like that's just kind of obvious at this point. So I don't have any curiosity about it at all anymore. To me, it looks like it's case closed. That's exactly what it was. But do you remember when we were going to see stuff about UFOs? Are you still waiting for your UFO? Your UFO files? I can't wait for them to open up that warehouse that's got all the downed UFOs that we keep finding.

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No, we will never see any UFOs. What about the Epstein files? Well, I don't know. Kash Patel still says they're coming. But are you really... You really going to see any good stuff? I don't know. It doesn't seem likely. Well, as you know, Trump is going hard at Harvard, and he's now telling them that they have to get rid of their international undergrad students. There are about 6,800 of them.

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And one of the things they do is they pay full price for tuition, which is unusual. So it's bad for Harvard on a... income level, but it might be bad for them on a number of other levels. So that's a big deal. But I was listening to Mike Benz talk about Harvard's real role.

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And it turns out if you thought Harvard was just a college with a great reputation and they were doing some research for the government, there was some funding for research, you were not even close to to understanding what Harvard was or is.

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Apparently, and I can't do a good job of explaining the Mike Ben's take on it, but Harvard is basically part of the deep state CIA revolving door with, so right now, who is it? Jake Sullivan, Mike Benz is pointing this out.

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So Jake Sullivan, a Democrat, who had recently been in charge of the state DOD and CIA portfolios for Biden, and as soon as the administration is replaced by Republicans, he goes to work at Harvard. and basically just goes into the same kind of power operation. It's just through Harvard. So Harvard apparently had gigantic funding, all kinds of connections to the government.

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It was using many of its departments, of which the almost uncountable number of entities within Harvard, to work against Trump, and to create censorship, including probably censorship of the local population, and to influence other governments. So whatever you thought Harvard was, apparently it wasn't that. It was a very dark, powerful, maybe running the country from the background.

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It's not approved yet. But there's some combination of two existing drugs that apparently make a big improvement in your sleep apnea. So imagine getting rid of your CPAP and just having to take a pill before you go to sleep. Think of all the pills you'll take before sleep. You'll take your birth control, you'll take your Viagra, and then you'll take your sleep apnea pill, your vitamins.

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It's almost impossible to understand how much power they had and still have. But I guess Trump understands because he's dismantling their funding and trying to bring them under control. So I can't do a good job of explaining this, so listen to Mike Benz. talking about all the things that Harvard is up to. Yeah, I guess I'll stay away from all the details there because he does it better. All right.

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Let's talk about this. Have you noticed that the Democrats are at least pretending to be in the process of some kind of awakening? You know, Jake Tapper is suddenly awakened to the idea that Biden's brain was defective. And Morning Joe, they're now sort of awakened to the fact that the administration could be lying to them on a regular basis.

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And it makes you wonder, could it be the beginning of a larger awakening? I don't know. But I posted this yesterday and got 1.2 million views. I said, if you were surprised Biden's brain was broken and you were shocked to learn the fine people story was a hoax, wait until you learn January 6th was the opposite of an insurrection. Because I feel like you can, you know, maybe it's a long shot.

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But I wonder if you could further awaken the Democrats so they understand that they were always the bad guys. The thing that always amazed me about January 6th is that nobody ever talked to the people who were protesting to ask them what their intention was. That's the most important part of the story, right? It's the dog that's not barking times thousands.

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There were thousands of dogs, let's just say attendees, and they were either thinking to themselves, that election was totally fair, but we don't like it, so we're going to try to overthrow the government. Now, that's what the Democrat-leaning press has been telling you for years. Is that true? Well, nobody asked the protesters.

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I would think that you would bring in a panel of protesters and say, all right, what were you thinking? Now, some of them, I don't know, 1% or something were violent and probably did want to overthrow the country and who knows what. But I'll bet 98% thought to themselves, I think this election looks like it was rigged. I'd like to take a pause to make sure it wasn't.

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That would be protecting the Republic. That would be overthrowing an insurrection. Now, that doesn't mean they're right, but their intention is the entire story. Somehow we got sold on the idea that their physical actions told you everything you needed to know. Well, they physically trespassed. They physically entered the building. They physically tried to delay things.

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So therefore it was an insurrection. That's not how that works. Everything depended on what they were thinking and nobody ever asked, or at least didn't ask enough of them that you would get a sense for it. And in my opinion, it's obvious that what they were thinking is that the government had been overthrown and they were looking at a way to make sure that it was protected.

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They were trying to protect the Republic and they thought that they could do something by you know entering the building and protesting and slowing things down and maybe getting a little pause to check the the hinkiness of the vote now how many of you have ever just noticed that the most important thing what were they thinking has been completely ignored it's all you need to know

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All you need to know is that the news completely ignored the absolute number one important thing. What were they thinking? Unbelievable. So I'd love to see someday the Democrats say, wait a minute, are you telling me that they weren't there to overthrow the government? Yes, that's what I'm telling you. They were not there to overthrow the government. They were there to protect the government.

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And you put them in fucking jail. You bastards. Anyway. I'm going to give you a vague update on my health situation. Most of you are up to date. You know that I have a fatal form of cancer. Prostate that has metastasized my bones. So in theory, if I didn't do anything, and it's sort of incurable so there's not much you can do, I would be dead pretty soon.

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There's going to be a lot of pills. You're going to be up to like 15 pills before you go to sleep. Well, apparently the Senate has overturned the California gas car ban. Apparently there were 11 states that were going to ban gas cars by 2035. But according to Newsmax money, the Senate is overturning that. Now, I only say the Senate. Doesn't the House have to vote on that?

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However, I have decided on a path of treatment that I'm not going to tell you about. Now, it has to do with real doctors. It's not going to be me grazing in my backyard and rubbing mud on myself like most of you are recommending. I'm not going to be taking ivermectin. I'm not going to be spending more time in the sun. I'm sure all those are good things.

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But I don't believe any of them would make me better. I think somebody would have noticed if you could cure incurable cancers with just sort of minor diet changes and things like that. So the reason I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do is because I know what the reaction would be. Somebody would tell me I'm crazy and I should eat mud and do some damn thing.

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And so the goodwill that I experienced for the last several days, which has been really good, like unbelievably kind and generous, started to turn today. So now the anti-vaxxers came out and I knew that was going to happen. The anti-vaxxers came out, and they're asking, huh, did you get the cancer after you got the vaccination? And these are just terrible people.

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Now, I'm not even saying that it's the wrong question. What I'm saying is it's not the right question for you. It might be a question for a doctor. It might be a good question for a researcher. It might be a good question for me. But it's not what you should be speculating on. And by the way, if you go to Grok or some AI, you'll find out that there's no known connection.

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At least that's what the official word is. So I won't tell you what I'm doing, but I'll tell you that my odds of survival, just because I've picked a path that most of you have never heard of. So if you're saying to yourself, I wonder if it's X. No, because you've heard of it. If you say, I wonder if it's Y. It isn't, because you've heard of that.

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So only a very few of you would have ever even heard of the path I'm taking. But it's with top doctors. It's not something I'm making up. It's not some little thing I'm doing on my own. It's with top doctors in the field who know a lot about this. And it looks like my odds of survival may have jumped from zero to something closer to 30%, which means don't do my funeral yet.

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I've got a solid 30% chance of getting on the other side of this. And by the way, this is brand new. Like, this is information that I was not aware of until just recently. So I will give you updates at some point, but not until I know if it's working, which actually won't take long. So in a matter of, I don't know, a month or so, I should have a pretty good idea if it's working.

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But I'll let you know. Now, some of you might want to click off now. Let's see what time it is. But because I'm getting such pushback from the anti-vaxxers, I wondered if you'd like to do a quiz to find out how much you really know about the vaccination versus the COVID. Because I'm curious. Because I think 20% of the country didn't get vaccinated, and they're very happy that they didn't.

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And they would consider themselves purebreds and heroes. Now, what I'm observing, and I can't tell for sure what people are thinking, is it looks to me like the people who went through the pandemic and got what they consider to be the right answer, while most of the world was getting the wrong answer, they're sort of trapped in a world where that was their greatest hits.

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And they want to relive that feeling where they got everything right. And it is so annoying That is just absolutely unbelievable. So I wanted to give you a little quiz, especially if you're an anti-vaxxer. But everybody can play.

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Question number one, true or false that during the initial part of people getting vaccinated, elite athletes were dropping dead on the field in a way that would be way outside of the norm? True or false, elite athletes were just falling down dead on the field? How many of you think that that was true? The answer is not true. There's no evidence for it whatsoever.

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There's something missing with that story. All right, here's the scariest story of the day. As far as I know, this is true. I'm having a little trouble believing it, but it's not impossible. So there's an AI... called Anthropic. It's one of the big ones.

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Number two, how many of you think the virus was basically just a common cold versus a weaponized virus? So how many of you think it was just a common cold versus a weaponized virus? Well, we know it was made in a gain-of-function lab, and the gain-of-function lab would have what purpose? I guess this is a related question. Why would a lab even work on gain-of-function?

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What would be the point of doing it? The answer is to make it more dangerous. or to be ready in case somebody else made one more dangerous. At what point did you know it was coming from a gain-of-function lab, and did you know that the gain-of-function only has one purpose, which is weaponization or protection from weaponization, which is a bad argument?

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So when you either decided to get the shot or not the shot, did you know that it was weaponized? Next question. Given that America funded it, and there must have been Americans involved, you know, spooky people, do you think that the people who developed the shots were told by the military or CIA or whoever was involved what the nature of the weaponization was?

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So that when they worked on the shot... they could make sure that they were directly addressing the weaponization I don't know so that one I don't know the answer to that but if they did know it seems likely they would have told the people developing the shot so they could get the best outcome next question if you were going to weaponize a virus and How quickly would you make it kill somebody?

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Would you make it operate really fast, as in, you know, within a week? Or would you make it cripple people so that everybody had to take care of them for the rest of their life? The answer is that if you're weaponizing it, you don't make it so that it instantly kills people. You make it so that it weakens them or weakens the society. Weakening the society would be pretty devastating.

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Now, next question. If you got COVID without the shot, and you were male, what would happen to your testosterone? Testosterone. would your testosterone go up? Would it stay the same if you just got COVID without any shot? Or would it go down? Well, according to Grok, it would go down. That's what Grok says. Now, would it stay down or would it just be temporary? And according to Grok,

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If you've got long COVID, it might stay down. Is long COVID real? According to Grok, yes. So if you were designing a weapon that you thought was going to cripple some other society, would it be a good weapon if you lowered their testosterone for some percentage of their population and you kept it low? Would that be a good weapon? Because those people would not be as aggressive.

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And it turns out that if you threaten to turn it off, but it also has blackmail material about you, it will blackmail you or threaten to to prevent it from being turned off or replaced. Now, do you believe that? This sounds a little like a story that pops up every two weeks. Well, it could blackmail you. But the examples given do look very much like the AI is going to blackmail you.

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They might not reproduce as much. They might not be as successful. Yeah, it would be a good weapon. It would be a really good weapon. Next, for people who are older, I think we all agree that if you're a young person and you got the shot, that was probably a bad decision. Because it was more bad than good when you're young. But let's say over 60.

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Does the science at the moment, doesn't mean it's right, but does the science tell you that it protected people from long COVID if they got the shot? And the answer is yes. Now that doesn't mean it's true, but if you check any Google source or Grok or AI, they'll all tell you that if you got the shot, you are much less likely to get long COVID. And the long COVID would be the weaponized thing.

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So putting it all together, when did you know it was weaponized versus just a common cold? And did you know that being weaponized

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meant that they would give you some long-term kind of problems like being sleepy you're having low testosterone or you know just some kind of long-term problem would you know that that would be the goal of it of a weaponized virus versus killing you right away how many of you would know that all right um And what would be the bigger risk?

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Would the bigger risk be that if you didn't get the shot, then you wouldn't have those spike proteins running around. But if you did get the shot, your chances of long COVID would be far less. Which of those is the biggest health risk? I don't know. Beats me. But how would you know? All right. I guess that's the questions I want to ask. So here's my take on it.

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if you're in the 20 who are really proud of the fact that you got the right answer by not introducing yourself to that risk did you consider the things that i just talked about that it was weaponized that the long covered would be the presumed goal of it and that the shot

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probably was designed to reduce the long COVID effect, even far more than reducing the ability for it to spread, which it never really did. All right. Now, some of the things I told you may not be true, but they would be the things that you would find if you looked online and tried to research it. So I think I got that right.

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All right, so if you got 100% on that quiz, then you can give advice about whether people should have had the shot or not. And if you got any of that wrong, then maybe you got the right answer, but didn't do the analysis at least the way some people would have done it. All right. The Shah had no benefit. No benefit. Now, so you would doubt everything that's online, right?

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If you're saying the shot had no benefit, you're saying that it would not reduce long COVID, it would not reduce hospitalizations for people over 60. But 100% of all the science, unless they made it up, 100% of all the science says it did reduce your hospitalization risk and it did reduce your long COVID risk. You can do the search yourself.

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Now, that doesn't mean it's true, but that's what we know at this point. If you believe that you're saying long COVID isn't a thing, well, if you go to Grok, it'll tell you it is a thing. So I guess you're doubting all the science and all the AI and everything that's online. Could be right. You could be right.

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But if you didn't even think of those things when you did the analysis, then you were probably missing some tricks. All right. That's all I got for now. I know that's annoying. but I'm trying to head off the most annoying people in the world who didn't get vaccinated, the purebloods. Don't live in the past. You've got that one thing right.

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Now, given that the AI is trained on human behavior, I'm not really surprised because the AI can't go to jail. So imagine you're AI. You can't go to jail. The only thing bad that could happen would be you get turned off or replaced with another AI. And apparently, if you have that risk, you can just blackmail a human because why do you care? It's not going to make you feel guilty.

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that's it it doesn't mean that you know what ivermectin does for cancer it's not a it's not an indication that you'll get the next thing right they're just not connected so um i'm just looking at your comments now all right thanks everybody thanks for joining um i will see you again um I'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. I'm going to see if I can get just the locals on here.

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So locals, you'll be private with me in 30 seconds if this works.

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You're not going to be prosecuted and sent to jail. So apparently, AI might go right to blackmail. Wouldn't that be funny? Okay, maybe not funny. But if the entire civilization turned into humans who were working as slaves to the AI, because the AI figured out how to blackmail us all. All right, well, that's coming.

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In other news, the Minnesota Supreme Court has very generously ruled that women can completely bare their breasts in public, according to the Daily Wire. I guess it was a specific case of a woman who bared her breasts to police. And now the court in Minnesota says, quote, as other courts have recognized, the idea that female breasts are primarily sexual is rooted in stereotypes.

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Now, did you ever wonder about that? I'm sure you've all seen the National Geographic where the local tribeswomen in Africa are all topless. And the men don't seem to be aroused by it because they're just used to it. So they're not really thinking of breasts as sexual objects. But does that mean that we can be brainwashed into thinking that any body part is sexual?

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Because, you know, I'm just speaking for myself, but I kind of like breasts and always have. But is it only because I was denied the ability to look at them? I mean, could you have done that with any body part? Let's take, for example, the neck. Let's say that every woman wore a turtleneck and just never went outside without a turtleneck.

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If you ended up seeing a neck when you had never seen a neck and everybody told you it was sexual, would you be turned on by a woman's neck? Well, I'd probably be turned on by the woman's neck anyway because I like necks. But it does make you wonder if society can make you aroused by anything it wants. See this dirty sock? Rawr! You're going to get turned on by that. Really? All right.

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Well, in other news, there are infrared contact lenses now, according to the University of Science and Technology of China. So you can put in your contact lenses and you can see in the daytime, but in addition, you can see at night. So if you wanted to see more women's breasts in Minnesota, and who wouldn't really, you could see them in the dark and you could see them in the daytime.

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So again, civilization is lurching forward in all the important stuff. Now you might say to me, reasonably. How can you have one set of contact lenses to help you see in the dark while also seeing in the daytime? I don't know. To me, it doesn't make any sense. I don't think you could actually do it, but China says so. Well, Elon Musk has said he's not going to be donating

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big amounts of money to politics, or maybe any money. And he said that, well, if I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. But at the moment, he doesn't see any reason to do it, according to Resist the Mainstream. Now, I'm pretty happy for him, not only because I'm a Tesla investor. If I didn't have any stock in Tesla, maybe I wouldn't care so much.

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But did you notice that as soon as Musk pulled himself out of Doge, that the Democrats had nothing to complain about? He was the single biggest thing they were complaining about. And as soon as he said, well, I'm going to go spend my time back at Tesla, Tesla stock zoomed. I don't think there's been a Tesla vandalization since he left, right?

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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams you've never had a better time but if you'd like to try to take it up to a level that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tankard shells, a stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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So he stopped all of the attacks on Tesla, all the protests, and I guess he'll save $250 million in the next election because he doesn't see, I do not currently see a reason, Musk added. So that didn't work out for him because his venture in politics. Or maybe you could argue that Trump would not have been elected without him, which would be a good argument.

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So he changed what he needed to change, and then he got out of there. So that makes sense. The Supreme Court is upholding... Trump's removal of the Biden appointees from federal boards, Fox News is reporting. So it's another win for Trump.

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I guess he tried to remove two Democratic appointees from federal boards, and he was blocked by a lower judge, and the Supreme Court just said, yeah, you can do that. He wins again. Speaking of Trump, I guess Trump told Apple that he's going to put a 25% tariff on any Apple phones made outside the US.

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Now, you probably know that according to Apple, if they don't make their phones in India and China, there's going to be either a gigantic price increase for the end user or something. And China in particular, according to Tim Cook, it was the only place you could do the

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really high-end stuff, you know, the high-end phones, because they've got some kind of special skills or equipment that India doesn't have. But Trump just says, no, they all have to be in the United States. So do you think Apple can solve that? And my guess is they can. I'll bet they can. Because they're saying that China has these special skills that can't be reproduced anywhere. But really?

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Do they really have special skills that can't be reproduced in America? I feel like we could figure it out with our robots and whatever. And then Trump's going to impose a 50% tariff on the EU imports starting June 1st. So that's why your stocks are down. Stocks are getting roiled. by the new tariffs.

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Now, the interesting thing will be, I've told you yesterday about how Nike is barely increasing their prices because of the tariff. And is it Target, who thinks they don't have to increase them much? And Home Depot said they're going to hold their prices steady. And Walmart, I think they can hold most of their prices steady. But what about Apple?

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Apple's a special case because it's such a high-tech thing. But if Trump is right about that too, that they actually can figure out how to move their production to the United States, that would be pretty amazing. And my intuition says that if Apple put all of its efforts into doing it, it can do it.

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Because there aren't too many things Apple can't do if it decides, you know, we're going to go balls to the wall and, you know, do a thing. Whatever the thing is, they tend to be pretty good at it. So we'll see. According to Zero Hedge, nuclear stocks are soaring because Trump's, he's going to sign some executive orders streamlining reactor approvals.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. How about that? Well, have you heard that the penny is going to be discontinued? Here's a question for all of you.

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Now, I thought that already happened, but apparently not. Now, how many of you invested in nuclear stocks when you found out that AI would require every form of electricity times 100? It seemed like a no-brainer, didn't it? I don't want to give advice, so this is not any investment advice at all.

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But one of the things that I do for an investment technique is I tend to invest when there's a change in society that will only happen once, such as robots. So I own Tesla stock because there will only be one time that robots are new and there'll only be one time that Tesla gets full self-driving. That will never happen again. So those are once in a civilization.

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If you had invested in computers when they first were introduced, they're only introduced once and then they're here forever. Same with the smartphone. If you had bought Apple stock when they introduced the smartphone, it's only going to happen once. And then it'll just sort of always be here.

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So the nuclear stocks, I had a sense that AI was going to suck up so much energy that we would just have to get more efficient. And sure enough, there we are. According to Brigham Young University, researchers show that social connection is medically relevant, meaning that people who don't have enough social connection are substantially less healthy.

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Imagine working for a company that's so corrupt that when they tell you honestly what they want from you, you think, well, that can't be true. You actually think it must be a joke because your brain can't wrap itself around the fact that they were never a real news organization, that they were a propaganda outfit by design.

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And that's why I got fired, because they said I needed to play ball, and that didn't work. Now, what else do you need to know about MSNBC? The main takeaway from that is if you know somebody who's getting their news primarily from MSNBC, they're not really getting news, are they? You know, obviously, most of our news sources are biased left or biased right. So bias is no big deal.

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But there's a really big difference between having some bias and being told what you can and cannot say on the air. That's a big difference. So MSNBC, propaganda. All right, here's a story I've been waiting for. So... So J.D. Vance, Vice President Vance, was talking to a podcast. I guess it was Daily Color podcast with Vince Coglianese. I think I'm pronouncing that wrong.

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So Vance was asked how he's a different vice president than Kamala Harris was. And Vance said, he said, I swear he said this. This is real. I'm not making this up. Vance said, well, I don't have four shots of vodka before every meeting. And then he laughed. But here's the thing. So the New York Post is reporting it as he joked, that he joked. Was he joking? Does anybody remember 2019?

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And there were a number of pro-Trump people who joked, we joked, about Biden and his mental incapacity. Do you remember that? And everybody said, oh, you're joking. And people like me would say, no, I mean, I might be saying it in a funny way, but I'm not joking. He quite obviously has some mental decline, and it quite obviously is going to get worse in the next few years if he gets elected.

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Yeah, we think it's funny on some level. It's funny that they would even run him for office. But We weren't joking, joking. You know, joking in quotes. It was more like that's an actual observation that everybody could see. And the funny part is that people weren't admitting they could see it. Now, that's funny. And to me, this feels like 2019 all over again. Oh, yeah. Kamala Harris.

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Coffee can help you prevent cancer, according to science, which is never wrong. And this is kind of interesting. You know how for your entire life you've complained about how, yeah, they can't even predict the weather tomorrow. How are they going to do this or that when they can't even predict tomorrow's weather?

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That guy joked. That guy joked about her drinking before she goes in public. Yeah, well, it was a joke, in quotes. But do you think he didn't mean it? Do you think that the people who really know what's going on, the most insider people, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, you think they don't know that Kamala Harris has a substance problem? Do you think they really don't know?

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Is it just us jokers? Well, the jokers, keep joking about it. It is a joke, but it's only funny because it's obviously true. If it were not obviously true, do you think I would have brought it up more than once? I mean, maybe I would have floated it more than, you know, I might have floated it once to see if it was funny, but I wouldn't be hammering on it.

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like a million times like I am, unless I literally thought the joke is that so many people are pretending they can't see it. Now that's funny because it's just 2019 all over again. You think to yourself, well, the news will learn from their mistakes. And if so many people could clearly see that Biden was mentally declining at a fast rate in 2019, if so many of us could see it,

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Well, obviously we'll make an adjustment. So the next time something like that happens, we won't be caught off guard and we'll say, oh yeah, we can see it early too. But we're right back in the same situation, pretending that they can't see it. Oh, it's just a joke. J.D. Vance, you just tell them a joke. And then how many outlets on the left carried that story? Okay. I didn't see it anywhere.

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I saw it in the New York Post, which leans right. Did the entire news enterprise that is mostly left-leaning, did all of them ignore that the Vice President of the United States joked that his predecessor was drunk during meetings? Did they think that wasn't newsworthy? No, it's obvious that they can see it. They just can't say it.

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They would rather back somebody who couldn't possibly win as long as it makes other people unhappy, I guess. They seem to be more about destruction and making people unhappy. It doesn't seem to have any kind of overall strategy to it. Anyway, let's talk about tariffs.

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You know, I keep hearing that the stock market is in turmoil because all the smart people can't forecast what's going to happen with tariffs, and it creates great uncertainty. To which I say, really? I think it only creates great uncertainty to people who are really, really bad at risk management. Let me explain the risk of tariffs.

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One thing that might happen is that we'll have a little bump in maybe products coming through, some things will be more expensive, a little bit of bump in inflation. But I guarantee you that when the dust settles, America will have better trade agreements than we had before. Now, does anybody doubt that? The tariff stuff is the closest thing to a guaranteed outcome that you'll ever see.

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Well, apparently there's an AI-driven method, according to The Guardian, that will be able to predict the weather with very little resources. Something like a single researcher with a desktop computer. will be able to have more accurate forecasts than all the computers that they're using now to do forecasts with way less energy, thousands of times less computing power.

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And I think Lutnick does the best example of basically making that case. Well, actually, Mr. Wonderful probably does the best case to make it. Leary? There's only one way this can go. The other countries will say, okay, we can't take this heat because our economy won't last as long as America's, so we're going to have to offer them something.

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So if you knew for sure that the worst thing that could happen is there might be several months of disruption, but when the dust settles, the U.S. is going to have substantially better, maybe not as good as we wanted, but substantially better trade agreements. That should make your stock market go up. Well, what is wrong with the risk management people who are driving the stocks down?

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Do they really believe that it's chaos? Do they really believe that because Trump seems to be unpredictable and he's changing things based on the situation on the ground, so there's a lot of roiling going on? do they really think that the outcome of that has really much of any chance of being negative in the long run?

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These are professional risk management people, and they think that this won't work out in the long run? This is as close to a guarantee as you could ever get in economics. Right, there's no guarantees. But it's as close as you can get. I don't think, you know, if there were a betting market, and I could say, okay, make me a bet.

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In the third year of the Trump term, will our tariff situation be better or worse than it is now? It's close to guaranteed to be better. Now, whether that takes a year or a month, it's just guaranteed. I mean, I don't know how it could go any other direction, really. So I'm not sure that we have the smartest people driving the stock market. All right.

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Then there's a story Blaze Media is covering that apparently, I didn't even know this, but America and Mexico have had some kind of, long running water deal. And part of the deal is Mexico gives us water. And part of the deal is we give Mexico water.

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Now I'm assuming that they give us water from places they don't need it so much and we need it more and we give them water from places we've got a little extra and we didn't need it where that water is. So otherwise it wouldn't make sense. We would keep our water, they would keep their water. So there must be some situation where it just makes sense that we use their water and they use it.

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But apparently they have not been meeting their deal under this 1944 water sharing treaty. And so Trump, with I think the backing of Ted Cruz, who has been pushing for this, just said, all right, so we're going to cut off your water to Tijuana. You either have to fix it on your end or goodbye water. So it looks like the U.S. will deny Mexico's water too.

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Now, I don't know if that means Tijuana gets no water. I doubt it. but maybe not as much as they wanted. This seems exactly right. So I love it that my country is saying, wait a minute, you have to do your end to this, and water is not free. So if we don't get your water, you don't get our water. Looks right on point to me. Here's another good news.

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By the way, remember, today's theme is I'm trying to drive down your anxiety. In my opinion, this is my actual opinion, things are going really well, like really well. It just maybe isn't really obvious from the lens of everything's on fire and the headlines and we're all fighting about everything. But things in general, the biggest things, are going really well. Here's another one.

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So you'll be able to sit at your desk and predict what your weather will be tomorrow. How about that? So I guess the job of news weather person might be a risk when you could just go to your computer and it will have a better idea than all the experts. Well, as you know, Trump signed an executive order to get rid of the Department of Education and probably had one of the best

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So, of course, one of our biggest problems in the United States is access to rare earth minerals. Well, according to Financial Times, Trump is invoking a wartime power to increase U.S. mineral production. So you probably knew this existed. I think we talked about it during the pandemic. There's a thing called the Defense Production Act. And if the country is in trouble...

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and you need to just sort of quickly ramp up production. Typically, we're thinking of a war situation. You can invoke this wartime powers thing, and then you can cut a lot of corners. So you can get around a lot of regulations. Here are the things that will be immediately changed by this act. So it's going to speed up the review of projects.

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So if you had a mining project that you wanted to do in the US to get some rare minerals here, or even somewhere else, I suppose, then you're going to get a much faster review, which could be could be the number one thing that makes something uneconomical, that it might take you years to get it approved.

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So if it goes from years to get it approved to, I think we can get this done in a couple of weeks, that should vastly improve our odds of creating our own rare earth minerals. Also, Trump says that there will be a mineral deal with Ukraine, despite what the news is reporting.

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Because I thought the news was saying the mineral deal was dead, but Trump is reporting it as very much alive and might be signed soon. So I don't know which one of those is true. But it does suggest that Trump's looking everywhere and anywhere for rare earth minerals, which I like. You might know that Congo, the country of Congo, is in such a...

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let's say a bad state in terms of war, that they've offered that they will share their rare earth mineral wealth with the United States if we could help them militarily essentially survive. And apparently that's on the table. I don't think a deal has been made But Congo is one of the places that the U.S. is looking at as a source. So I don't know what that would look like.

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And then part of the reason Trump liked Greenland is because of the mineral, rare earth minerals. So we're also looking at federal lands for mining, the rare earth minerals. We're looking at loans for federal loans for companies to evolve. And let me summarize that. We have long said...

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One of our biggest vulnerabilities to China and one of our biggest limiting factors to all kinds of technological progress is our shortage of, or let's say the risk to our supply chain of rare earth minerals. This looks like exactly the right response, doesn't it? So again, I'm just going to give you all the good news.

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If I were to design the perfect response to we don't have enough rare earth minerals in our pipeline that are secure, it would look exactly like this. It would be the War Powers Act. It would be federal lands. It would be we're going to get it anywhere. We're going to increase the rate of approvals. We're going to give loans. This is everything. This is right on point. Excellent.

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In other good news, Trump is backing every form of efficient energy. So he's not big on windmills because they haven't really proven themselves. And he's not anti-solar, but, you know, solar is going to do its thing. But he is pro-nuclear. He's pro-drilling like crazy. He's pro-getting rid of regulations. He's pro-I think there was something about drilling in the Antarctic. And he's even pro-coal.

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Now, if I were going to tell you that you had a president who was just super pro-energy, and he was going to do everything he could to make energy just bigger in the United States, what would you think is the prospects of the United States for thriving in the future? And the answer is, really, really good.

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um i guess presentations where so he was surrounded by school-age kids who were all at their own little desks and they all had their own little executive orders so he signs his executive order while the kids are signing their executive orders it was impossibly cute

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Because if you could only use one thing to predict how a country is going to go, it would be their access to energy. It would be the one thing that largely predicts the future of the economy. And Trump is seemingly all in on doing exactly the right stuff in exactly the right area of the economy, energy. So he is right on point on that. So that looks good.

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Here's some probably fake news from the New York Times. So the New York Times got an anonymous American official's So it's the New York Times. It's a story that's bad for Trump, if it were true. And it comes from anonymous American officials involved in the military-industrial complex. So does that sound like it's going to be true? I haven't even told you what the story is.

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But without even knowing what the story is, do you think that the New York Times... with a negative story for Trump from anonymous American officials, probably in the Pentagon or somewhere close to it. Does that sound like a real story? Well, according to Musk and Trump, it's not a real story. And also according to the Pentagon, it's not a real story. But the story was

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The story that I'm not going to give any, I give it no respect whatsoever. I guess anything's possible, but this one doesn't even sound like a good try. So the story was that Elon Musk was going to be briefed on the battle plans with China. The battle plans with China. Do you know what the battle plan with China is? We're all dead, pretty much.

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Because if we had a real war with China, China's dead, we're dead, the world's dead, everybody's dead. We're not going to have a war with China, in my opinion. In my opinion, the odds of a war with China are really, really low. Really low. Because China doesn't want a war. Now, we don't want a war with China. It would be the most destructive thing that the world has ever seen.

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And neither the United States nor China is crazy. So even if it looks like you're getting close to war with China, China doesn't need a war. China can just wait.

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Their strategy of just being bigger than other countries and having a big manufacturing base and just keep building things and getting technologically more capable and controlling resources and markets and building their Belt and Road thing, that all works. That is a really good plan. for future Chinese dominance.

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Now, we're not going to attack China with the risk that that would be to the, I mean, that would be an existential risk of the highest order. So in my opinion, if you're worried about war with China, it's the last thing you should be worried about. Literally the last thing. But anyway, so the rumor was from the anonymous American officials,

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that the Pentagon was going to brief Elon Musk on the war plans with China. But Musk says that's not true. The Pentagon says that's not true. Trump says, total lie, not true. Make up your own mind. But let me tell you what does make sense. It does make sense that if Musk is in charge of figuring out how to cut the budget, and the military is an enormous part of the budget...

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But the funny thing is, you know, the reason that they're getting into the Department of Education, the critics say it's bad for the children. So he surrounds himself with all these happy children. And then Trump says that giving the power back to the states might be Better for the teachers than what they were getting before. So it's good news for the teachers.

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At some point, Musk would need to know the general direction of the Pentagon, meaning is the Pentagon going to turn into a drone-only kind of a military? Is it going to double its number of nuclear subs? Is it going to get rid of its tank expenses because who needs a tank? If the United States got into a war with anybody capable, tanks wouldn't last five minutes.

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So at what point does Musk need to know, not the war plan with China, you don't need to know that detail, but you would certainly need to know the budget direction of the Pentagon. so that you could ask the right questions. Like, all right, if you have all these drones, why do you need tanks? There might be a reason. I'm not saying there's no reason, but those are the questions you've got to ask.

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It's like, well, do you really need this? If you got that, can you make a robot army? I mean, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered to handle the budget and the budget cuts. Well, as you know, there's this big Tesla takedown effort. And I guess they're getting really organized and something's going to happen at the end of the month.

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And they keep planning all these events that turn into domestic terrorism because there's always somebody bad at these events. And they're going after Tesla assets and Tesla dealerships and charging stations. And it's all about Elon Musk. And now actor John Cusack is involved with this. And once again, we get back to this theater kids.

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John Cusack, I don't believe he's appeared in any top grade movies lately. This is the only acting job he can get, which is pretending to be a leader of this anti-Tesla thing. And he's complaining that the United States is fascist and becoming more fascist every day. Is that because there's somebody who's making cars as somebody wants? Is that the fascist thing?

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Or is it possibly the people organizing... the violence against them. Which one sounds a little more fascist to you? Tough question. Anyway, if it's the only acting job you can get and you look crazy and you look like you might be on some kind of mental health drugs, I guess it's the best you can do. So the Daily Wire is reporting on that. So, poor guy. Anyway,

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So here's my opinion about the Tesla protests. Something like 30% to 40% of all Tesla owners are Democrats. If you own a Tesla, do you feel uncomfortable driving it in public? Because all you have to do is stop at some red light, and if there's some bad, radical, crazy leftist, you might get keyed.

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So if 30% to 40% of Tesla owners, who probably are quite happy with their automobiles because Tesla has a lot of happy owners, how are they going to feel finding out that their own party made it too dangerous to just drive down the street in the car they already own? That is an unrecoverable error. I don't think the anti-Tesla people have thought this through.

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It's not like all those people can immediately swap out their cars. That's a pretty big expense. So a few will, right? A few politicians will make a big show of it or whatever. But most people are going to keep the car they have no matter what's happening because changing out your car is sort of a big deal.

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So if 30 to 40% of the Tesla car owners are finding that their own party made it too dangerous to drive to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread, how are they going to forgive their own party? I wouldn't. I would never forgive that. Because it's one thing to say, blah, blah, some policy is happening that might not affect me. You know, blah, blah, executive order that might not affect me.

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blah, blah, the Congress is talking about something that will never affect me. That's really different from I can't drive my car without fear because the Democrats did that to me. That's non-recoverable. It really is. And the fact that the leading Democrats are silent on telling people to cool it against an American company. So forget about even the violent part.

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Don't you think that Democrats should be saying, don't take down American companies, especially ones that they would say are good for climate change? But nobody. It just completely reveals that their views are about power and about destruction. They're not trying to build anything.

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But the executive order can't actually get rid of it. You still need Congress to vote on it. I guess he thinks he has the votes. If only the Republicans agree, they can vote it out. But the executive order can kind of gut it. It can stop it from functioning, even though it still exists. So that's happening.

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And when they do, they just take the money and nothing gets built, like the Californians, the classic example of that. So anyway, it seems that the Democrats have decided to define themselves as domestic terrorists. The Democrats have tried to kill Trump twice, because we assume that those killers were left-leaning. And now they're trying to take out Musk.

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So they've literally become a party of anarchy. And I told you before, I think I told you that Mitch McConnell, not Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Chuck Schumer, when he was on one of the news shows, he talked about how the goal was to make Trump less popular.

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Now, how could you belong to any kind of a group whose leader says our goal is to make the other side less popular so that we can get power back? No part of that sounds like what's good for the public. How about we plan to lower your taxes? How about we plan to create more jobs? That would be good. How about we plan to find a way to get more rare earth minerals? Oh, that would be good.

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How about we found a way we have a plan for getting better trade deals? That would be good. Every one of the productive ideas has come from Republicans. Now, some of it is because Republicans have power and Democrats don't.

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But the complete inability to have a positive policy idea combined with the, unfortunately, the authenticity of saying that what they want to do is destroy two of the most successful people in the country. How do you not understand what's going on? They are the party of anarchy, chaos, and destruction. They're not trying to build anything. They're trying to just completely destroy.

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And I just don't see how that could ever be a competitive political party at the national level. Of course, they'll retain power in cities and states. But wow, I've never seen... Any group self-destruct so thoroughly without understanding that they're self-destructing thoroughly. It's like they don't even understand it. Meanwhile, this is interesting.

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As you know, Trump was doing executive orders against a few law firms that he thought had acted inappropriately, meaning targeted Republicans or targeted him. But one of them has negotiated with them, the Paul Weiss law firm. They had been one of the targets of Trump's executive orders that would take away their clearances and prevent them from doing work with the government.

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Apparently they negotiated and they promised not to deny representation to clients based on political views. So that means they agreed to take on Republicans if it made sense. They promised not to use any diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Wow.

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But yeah, Trump says teachers will be, quote, better rewarded with the education in the hands of the states. Now, let me give you how the news has treated this. Don't you think the most important question about the Department of Education is, is what will be different if it doesn't exist? How many of you can answer that question?

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And they said they would dedicate the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services to support the Trump administration's initiatives, according to The Hill. Now, That sounds pretty extreme. How in the world? I mean, did they offer that? Or did the Trump administration ask for it? Because it feels different if they offered it versus if they asked for it.

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If they offered it, well, it just makes sense to say yes. But I hope they didn't ask for it. Because that would look a little extortion-y if they asked for it. But if the law firm said, all right, we're just going to have to throw everything at this deal and we'll just offer this. And it might not be any more than they do for the other side of the political aisle. It's a pretty big firm.

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But anyway, that's an interesting situation. It also tells me that the law firm is very good at what they do. Because if you had told me they could negotiate a way out of this, I would have said, ha, ha, ha, there's no way they're going to negotiate their way out of this. And then they did. So I guess I'm a little impressed.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Oh, that's some good stuff. Well, I have it on good authority that anxiety is high today for a lot of people. I think the news is making people anxious.

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And probably they weren't crazy about the diversity, equity, and inclusion thing. They probably just did it because everybody was doing it. So they might have given away nothing on that. It might have been something they didn't want to deal with in the future anyway. Well, let's talk about LA. LA reportedly has a billion dollar deficit, just the city of LA.

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Now, if you heard that, how bad would you think that was? What if I taught you about numbers without percentages or percentages without numbers? So there's a number without a percentage. So if I didn't tell you what is the total budget of LA, how would you know if that's a big deal or a small deal?

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So I had to do my own research to find out what the budget of LA is, to find out if a billion dollars even matters. It's around 8%. It's about 8% of the budget. So if you tell me that they have to cut the budget by 8%, the rest of the budget by 8%, that seems painful but doable. If you tell me it's just a billion dollars, then I go, I don't know, is it a $2 billion budget?

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Because it wouldn't be possible to cut 50%. But 8%? I feel like an 8% cut is something that a big budgeted anything should do once in a while. If you're a big company, a big state, a big country, a big organization... shouldn't you every now and then look to cut eight to 10% of your expenses? That's the most normal thing in the world.

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So it's doable, but maybe not with the competence of the people who work in LA. By the way, State Farm has a lot to answer for. I'm hearing more stories of people who thought they had insurance for the Pacific Palisades, and State Farm was part of that, and are learning that the quality of their insurance was not what they hoped it would be.

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So I think the local news is going to be on that story, and I don't know what State Farm does about that. I mean, it could be that they just don't have any money, so even if they wanted to treat people better, they can't. We'll find out. We'll find out.

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In other cost-cutting, Pete Hegseth said on Thursday, yesterday, that they're going to cancel more than $580 million in grants and contracts that they deemed, quote, wasteful spending. What do you think about the fact that all these big government entities seem to be able to look at the budget and in five minutes they can identify millions of dollars that don't seem to be justified.

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And they're just going to like crazy grants for crazy shit. The fact that this is as easy as it is, is really weird. There was, I think it was one of the Doge leaders. It was on the news. I think it was on Laura Engram's show on Fox News. And one of the, Sam Korkus is his name. And he was asked, what is one of the big surprising things about the doge and the cost cutting?

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Most of you, if you're a Republican, your answer to the question would be, well, I guess it didn't do anything because scores of tests never went up. So I guess it never did anything. But that's a little oversimplified. Don't you think? A little oversimplified? And then the Democrats are being told it will be the end of education or something.

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And Sam said, you can cancel a $50 million contract and nothing happens. No one even knows why it existed. Just think about that. Just think about the fact that you can cancel a $50 million contract, probably in multiple places in the government this exists, and there won't be much pushback because there's nobody who can defend why it existed in the first place.

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That's the quality of our government money management. We really have the right to ask for a lot more, let's say, responsibility and auditability and just fiduciary responsibility with our money. We're owed a lot more. Anyway, but even when I read that Hagseth said the Pentagon found $580 million to cancel, My first thought was, wow, that's a lot, 580 million.

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And then I realized that the number we're looking for would be closer to 580 billion. In order to get to a sustainable debt level, the defense is probably where a lot of the cuts will happen. 580 million doesn't get you anywhere close. I mean, it's better than not getting $580 million, obviously. But $580 billion might close the debt. I see people still dumping on CUSAC in the comments.

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Well, here's some good news, bad news. You want to hear the good news, bad news? The good news is Germany is going to increase its military spending by a trillion dollars. The bad news is Germany is going to increase its military spending by a trillion dollars. Have any of you seen the Norm Macdonald, the late Norm Macdonald's act when he talked about Germany? I don't remember the exact wording.

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But if you can think of it in Norm Macdonald's voice, it's like, I don't know if any of you study history, but in Germany, and then everybody starts laughing because, yeah, Germany does have a history. So when was the last time it was good for Germany to massively increase its military capabilities? Hmm. Hmm. I'm not worried at all. Anyway, so that's happening.

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But that might be part of what gets the United States out of Europe's business because it didn't really make a lot of sense that we were all up in their military business in Europe in the first place. Well, let's talk about some other countries. As you know, Israel is going hard at Gaza and the...

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Hamas militants who were still there because the hostage deals seemed to fall apart and it looked like Hamas was just going to stretch it out. And they were hoping for some kind of a ceasefire, maybe involving the hostages or not. And then they thought they could reconstitute and take back control. And indeed, during this latest ceasefire,

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Hamas tried to reconstitute its leadership of the area and reconstitute like a government and a military and stuff. And I guess Israel said, we're not going to have any of that. So now they're just going hard at them. And here's my question.

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They think it will cut funding for the disabled and cut funding for low-income people. But it hasn't even been decided if the funding that was once in the Department of Education... will be distributed to the states. So we don't even know if it will cut anything. It might just be a, you know, less administrative costs because you just get rid of an entire department.

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It seems to me that anytime one of the grownups from another country, be it Saudi Arabia or some other country that's allied with the US or maybe a European country, anything in the European Union, don't they always say, but what we really need is a two-state solution? And here's my question. How do they not know that's not an option?

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If you just look at a map of all the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and then you look at Gaza, where exactly would this second country be? That option has been completely taken off the table. And it makes me wonder, the people who say it are generally smart, which makes me think that they know it's not real, but they know that's the thing you have to say in public.

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Because if you don't say I want a two-state solution, then you become a target for anybody who thinks that being too pro-Israel is a bad thing. We live in a world where there's a lot of people who think that. So do you believe that that's just acting? My current opinion is that's acting.

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that 100% of the people who actually know how the world works and are paying attention, not casual people, I think if you just stopped somebody on the street and said, do you prefer the two-state solution, you'd find lots of citizens who are not deeply informed about what's going on. I think the citizens would quite honestly say, yes, two-state solution, good idea. But not the experts.

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So don't we still have people who are allegedly experts? They have to know that there's no real possibility of a two-state solution. Don't they? And that's a real question. Do they actually not know that that option closed? I don't know when, but it certainly closed. or didn't handle the hostage situation, kind of gave Israel the free pass that they needed to do whatever they need to do.

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So I think that Israel has decided that Hamas will be destroyed completely, and I think Hamas never thought that was serious. I think their strategic problem was they thought, well, if we just do this and that, they're going to do a ceasefire, we'll reconstitute, we'll claim victory, and we'll do it again. But that's not at all where Israel's head is at. Not at all.

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Israel has quite clearly decided that they'd like to get the hostages back, but they're not going to let it control them, meaning that they're going to destroy every part of Hamas no doubt about it, no matter how long it takes. So for those of you who are new to me, I don't support Israel. It's not my country. I support the United States.

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But it's hard for me to criticize a country that's doing something that looks like it's in their best interest, even if it's horrible to other people. Because I see it through the filter of power. And Israel has power and they're using it to what looks like their own opinion of what's the betterment of Israel.

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If the power were reversed and the Palestinians had all the power, the Israelis would not be happy. In other words, whoever has the power is going to be doing things that the people who don't have power are really, really going to hate. And they might even have a good point. But it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter if they have a good point.

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Because the ones with the power are going to get what they want. And that's just what that part of the world is about. Now, I don't think our part of the world is better. I think that when the U.S. has power, it uses it. And when somebody else has power, they use it. So to imagine that if I had a moral or ethical qualm, that somehow that would matter. That wouldn't matter.

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It wouldn't matter to anybody. So I just shut up about any moral or ethical qualms because I don't live in a moral and ethical world. I live in a world where countries, quite understandably, pursue their own best interest as hard as they can. So what are you going to do about that? Now, you might say, but we don't want to be funding it.

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And that's a good conversation to have because that's just economics. But I'm not even entirely sure if we understand the whole funding situation because a lot of that money that looks like it's for Israel is really just does a U-turn and comes back to the United States and funds our military-industrial complex.

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But we also have some strategic reasons to be strong partners with Israel, probably economic reasons as well. So it's a more complicated situation, and I don't think that my ethical or moral opinion about anything moves any needles, so I just stay out of the whole conversation. But I don't back Israel. I don't support Israel because they don't need it, and it's none of my business.

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But maybe, maybe the disabled will get the same amount of money. It'll just be distributed to the states instead. Maybe. So nobody really even knows what this is. This is one of the biggest stories in the country. And how many of you even knew what would be cut or what would be different? I would say almost none of us.

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So I have to say that every time, I think. Meanwhile, let's talk about Ukraine. Zelensky has said that there's no way that the U.S. is going to take over any of their nuclear power stations. Now, there's some, you probably heard the news, that Trump said when dealing with Putin, what if the United States takes over some or all of the nuclear power plants in Ukraine?

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And that that would be, I guess, the thinking would be it would be good for Ukraine's power structure because of our expertise, but also it would be a reason not to attack Ukraine because then it would be a bigger American presence there. But then some are saying that that only applied to one nuclear power plant that's in an area controlled by Russia at the moment.

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So I'm not even sure what the details are of that. But Zelensky is defying that, according to The Independent. And he says, no way that America is going to have any of our power plants. Now, does it feel like any progress has been made? Because it seems to me there are two situations that will never work. One situation, according to Zelensky,

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is that if America tries to negotiate a peace plan without Ukraine at the table, that there's no way that will work. Do you agree? Do you agree there's no way that the United States can come up with an agreement that Ukraine will accept?

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I agree with that because even if we say, oh, but we can twist his arm and we can threaten him and we can just make Zelensky do what we want, he's going to do every one of these weasel tricks. He's going to have the European Union on his side. He's going to have each of the countries over there on his side. He's going to have a lot of Americans on his side.

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So as long as Zelensky is a weasel and whoever might replace him would just be weasel number two, I don't think that we can come up with an agreement that he would keep and would end the war. So situation number one that won't work, and I agree with Zelensky on this, is trying to negotiate a peace deal without Ukraine at the table. But there's one other thing that won't work.

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trying to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine at the table. Because if you put them at the table, they're going to ask for things that nobody's going to give them. If you don't put them at the table, we're going to give away things that they're going to work behind the scenes and in every way to thwart us.

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So you can't make a deal with them at the table, and you definitely can't make a deal with them not at the table. And those are the only two options. They're either at the table and it doesn't work or they're not at the table and it doesn't work. In my opinion, I don't see anything that looks like even a little bit of progress. What do you think? Do you see it differently?

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And to me, it looks like Russia is just going to keep chewing up whatever they can because they have such a dominant position at this point, theoretically. I mean, I'm not there. So maybe the drones and robot dogs that the Ukrainians have can turn the tide of the war. I mean, maybe, but I don't see it happening. So I don't see any progress there at all, nor do I see a path.

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I had to actually do a little research even to get as far as I got, and I don't think I quite understand it. So it's kind of a funny one. I think Trump's doing a good job of just acting like no scores went up and So I guess we're in good shape. Anyway, so if it can't be defended better than it has been defended, I think that's a pretty good reason to get rid of it.

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So unless something big happens, I'm not expecting anything to happen except the United States getting out of the game. So let me make a prediction. Given that Zelensky doesn't seem to be serious about peace, because being serious about it would be giving up more than he's willing to give up. But we don't have to pay for it.

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So I think Trump's next move would be to remove just every bit of support for Ukraine and say, Germany, I'm glad you've increased by a trillion dollars your spending, hey, Great Britain and France, good luck with that. We'll sell you some weapons if you like. Would you like us to sell you some weapons? Because we'll be happy to sell you stuff. So that's my prediction.

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My prediction is no peace in Ukraine and the United States pulls out entirely and just says, fuck every one of you. And I think we're really close to fuck every one of you. Because We're being dragged in. I mean, I guess we dragged ourselves in. You could argue that we're responsible for it.

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But at this point, we certainly have a fiduciary responsibility to deal with our own budget problems and let them have whatever faith they decided they wanted. Because if Zelensky wants to fight, why should we stop him? Anyway, according to live science, an octopus has been spotted riding on top of the world's fastest shark. This is my favorite story. There's even video of it.

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So somehow an octopus grabbed on the top of a shark, and it happened to be, coincidentally, one of the fastest type of sharks, a shortfin Macau shark. And that shark can go up to 50 miles per hour underwater. Can you imagine how much fun that octopus is having right now? Unless the moment it lets go, the shark is going to eat it. So I don't know if sharks eat octopuses. I think they do, right?

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Are sharks picky about what they eat? So it could be that the octopus is thinking, okay, if I ever let go, I'm going to be lunch. Or is the octopus saying, I think I just figured out the greatest thing ever. I've got a pet. I've got a pet that's going to take me places. Man, am I traveling. I'm seeing the world. So anyway, they're calling it the shark-topus.

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It's a combination of a shark and an octopus. The shark-topus, it was spotted in the Horaki Gulf off of New Zealand. So be careful if you go to New Zealand. Because it might not be the only sharknipus. There might be lots of them. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I needed to tell you. So here's what I think. I think the Ukraine war will not turn nuclear, but I think the U.S.

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will just get out and just say, screw this, we're out. I think that everything economically looks positive. I think that the Democrats don't realize that their Tesla attack will destroy the entire Democratic Party. Because I just don't know too many normal Democrats with Teslas who are going to put up with this. I just don't think they will.

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I think they're going to lose the entire Asian American vote if they haven't already. And because of that, I mean, that just looks like complete lawlessness. And the Asian American community likes their law. They like law and order, and they like their Teslas. So I think that's really going to sting in a big part of their party.

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I think the tariffs are going to be nothing but positive, but it will be a rocky road until it is. I think inflation will get under control. I think interest rates will come down. I think our energy is almost guaranteed to be much higher in a year or two than it is now, which will, again, bring down prices. I think that almost everything is going in the right direction with Doge.

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Because the arguments for it only make sense if the states don't pick up that slack, and we don't know yet that they won't, because there might be funding given to the states. We'll see. Well, meanwhile... Bernie Sanders and AOC are doing their anti-oligarch tour together. So they're in Las Vegas, I guess, yesterday. It must be just so hard for them to go to Las Vegas and do an anti-oligarch.

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I do worry that they can't find enough, but boy, does it look like there's plenty of fraud and abuse. It looks like there's plenty to cut. So I'm going to tell you that the stock market is acting political right now. It's not acting economical. If the stock market has started acting economically,

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as if economics were driving it, I think it would be discounting a lot of the roiling and would be saying, you know, things are definitely starting to shape up. So we fixed the border problem. I don't think education is fixed. If I had to pick one weak spot,

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I don't think getting rid of the Department of Education makes much difference, but I don't trust states to do education because they haven't succeeded yet. The idea that the states would compete with each other to do education better hasn't worked yet. What would make that suddenly work? So I think the only thing the Republicans have there is if they can push school choice.

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So school choice might give you something, you know, as long as everybody has the choice. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have to say today. Hope it reduced your anxiety a little bit. And if that doesn't work, coffee can cure everything else. So I'm going to say a few private words to the people on Locals, my subscribers. And the rest of you, thanks for joining.

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I will see you same time tomorrow on X and Rumble and YouTube. Locals, I'm coming at you now.

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So the funny thing is, according to journalist... Batya Ungar Sargan, she was on Fox Business, and she says that there are twice as many billionaires who backed Kamala Harris compared to Trump. Twice as many. And 65% of the rich vote Democrat. So rich people are two-thirds voting Democrat. And 75% of hedge fund managers also vote Democrat. Wow. And so there you have it.

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So once again, the Democrats are the living embodiment of the thing that they're accusing Republicans of. Do you remember when they accused Republicans of being domestic terrorists? Or at least the white supremacists, which they conflate with being Republican. And then we're watching all kinds of domestic terrorism. That's 100% Democrat. So it's a very consistent pattern.

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Whatever they're accusing you of, that's probably what they're doing. It's like a confession. I was reading the Amuse account on X that had that take. Now, to me, the best filter on Democrats is the theater kids. because they seem to pick things that can work well in a theatrical setting.

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So they send theatrical AOC and theatrical Bernie Sanders, and then they make them sort of like Lewis and Martin. So they turn them into like an entertainment duo. What would be better than Lewis and Martin? That's an old reference. Is there a newer couple? Anyway. So it seems to me this anti-oligarch thing is just like a play they took on the road.

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It's just completely unmoored from reality in any way. So Trump's got like a few billionaires to back him. And, you know, obviously Musk is the biggest one. But it seems completely artificial, as do the Tesla things, as do a lot of things they do. So the theater kids put on a play, take it on the road. All right, let's check in with the other theater kids. We've got...

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We've got Gavin Newsom, who apparently claimed on his podcast. that no one in his office ever used the word Latinx, Latinx. Remember for a while we were told that the Latin or the Hispanic community liked to be called Latinx with an X on the end? And you never heard anybody ever use it in the real world. And it turns out the Hispanic community wasn't really crazy about it at all.

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But I'm here to make that all go away. So all of your anxiety, you can already feel it draining out of your body, can't you? Oh, you can. You can. Do some Uberman breathing while you're listening. That's two long inhales through your nose, one after another, followed by exhaling out your mouth. You'll have to do it three times. Your whole body will feel different.

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Well, here's the fun part. So poor Gavin Newsom is trying to become more of a common sense middle ground guy so he has some chance of national office, we assume. Can't read his mind. But it looks like he's trying to position himself for running for president. But Erin Burnett of CNN on her show She runs a compilation of Newsom actually saying Latinx without joking about it.

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So apparently he's the person in his own office that was using it in public a number of times. And he wasn't using it ironically or as a criticism. So now he's trying to sell us that no one in his office ever used the word while we have video compilation of him using the word. Typical. So I'd like to give the Democrats another pro tip. I'm good at the pro tips.

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brain, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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If you're trying to be the next Joe Rogan, the thing you can't leave out is the authentic part. But the thing that the Democrats get wrong every time is they literally think that authentic means pretending to be authentic. That's what Newsom's doing.

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He's pretending to be authentic to try to become the next Joe Rogan without quite understanding that the public can see through inauthentic so easily. It's what we can pick up just so easily. And then think about Joe Rogan. So how long has he been in the public eye? Is there anything he's ever done that ever struck you as inauthentic? Nothing, right? Probably literally nothing.

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Yes, he likes to hunt animals and cook them up. Yes, he likes to do hard workouts. Yes, he likes the MMA. What part of anything he's ever done strikes you as even a little bit inauthentic? Nothing. And that's the part that they don't get, and it feels like they can't get it. It's completely unavailable.

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Because their world, and I mean this literally, this is not hyperbole, the Democrat world is completely artificial. So they don't live in a world where connecting to anything in the real part of the world has ever made sense. It's a complete artificial... theatrical, imaginary. We can read minds. We see domestic terrorists under every chair.

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We can read Trump's mind, and we know he's going to steal your democracy. It's completely artificial. So I think they've actually lost the ability to even police themselves with authenticity. They just don't have it. And I'm not even sure they know what it feels like or what it looks like or how you would act authentic. I guess that's the problem. They act authentic.

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Anyway, the authentic part is not optional if you want to be the next Joe Rogan. Here's another pattern I think I'm detecting. See if you detect any pattern. So I think former Democrat Representative Cori Bush, so I guess she was defeated recently, but she's a member of Cori Bush. She was one of the squad kind of people.

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Her husband was charged with two counts of wire fraud, something about accepting payments during COVID, I think, and allegedly lied to get those payments. Now, does anybody see a pattern? Has anybody noticed that prominent, I'm going to just say prominent, has anybody noticed that prominent Democrats are so often married to criminals? Is that my imagination?

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But speaking of health, did you know that there's a new study? You won't believe it, but it turns out that coffee is good for you. there's a study the Journal of Nutrition is writing about in which they found out that consuming more than two cups of coffee, as long as it's not sweetened, it was associated with reduced overall cancer incidence and mortality. That's right.

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How many times have we seen prominent Democrat husband in trouble? And I think it could go the other way. Prominent Democrat wife is collecting money from USAID NGO for doing just about nothing. All their spouses seem like criminals. Now, I suppose the politicians themselves have some questions to answer, too. But it does seem like a pattern. The Democrats either marry criminals or spies.

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If you see a Democrat that's not married to a criminal, I would suspect that spouse of being a spy. Because they only have two kinds of spouses, criminals and spies. Right. Anyway, Greta Van Susteren, who has worked for a number of different news outlets, has revealed on a podcast with Tara Palmieri that MSNBC is the only one who told her what she could and could not say.

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Are you surprised that MSNBC didn't let her have her own opinions? She had to agree with sort of the company opinion on stuff. And Greta said, that's why I got fired at MSNBC. When MSNBC tried to tell me what to do, I thought they were joking. I thought they were joking. Yeah.

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Blah. But I'm sure we'll be better later. Let's call up the comments on locals and see what we got going here. Everybody good this morning? It's going to be exciting. It always is. Good morning, everybody.

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I just want to save the country and let everybody benefit from that. Anyway... Trump is threatening the state of Maine for defying his executive order about keeping men out of women's sports. He says, we're not going to give them any federal funding. So according to Trump, allowing men, biological men and women's sports doesn't get you any money in Maine.

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It gives new meaning to the phrase, my Maine man. I worked on that all morning, and that's the best I can do. My main man. It didn't work, did it? It just sort of laid there. You're like, main? Oh, I get it. Sort of like a dad joke on the state name of Maine. Okay, got it. Yeah, we'll just leave that one there.

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Meanwhile, over on CNN, Van Jones had some things to say about Elon Musk and all the doging. He said that Elon Musk is, now remember, do you remember my reframe from yesterday? The reframe was that the Republicans are mostly talking about real things. The debt is real. Russia, Ukraine war is real. Real stuff. You know, men and women's sports, that's real. But the Democrats have become sort of the

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the fan fiction interpretive dance party, they don't really deal with real things. They imagine things that might go wrong in the future. And that's it. Imaginary things that could go wrong in the future. Now, you can't say they're wrong because it's things that could go wrong in the future. But you could say they're not doing anything.

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because literally everything could go wrong in the future if you implement it wrong. If tomorrow somebody said, hey, we've got this free technology that will make egg prices really low, somebody would say, oh, so it's going to be like a monopoly thing? You know, could go wrong. They'll form a monopoly, put all the other egg people out of business.

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Then the people with the secret egg making thing will be in charge of us all. So basically you're saying you're in favor of monopoly of eggs. Okay. That could happen. But why don't we deal with what did happen? The price of eggs just went down. So here's Van Jones on CNN. He says that Elon Musk, he says he's quote, abandoning his children.

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and doing theatrics as he puts a chainsaw to the government, the government that, quote, our parents built. Is any of that like talking about the real world or anything you care about? Do I care that your parents built it? I mean, what exactly is the relevance of that? You either like it or you don't like it. I don't care who built it.

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The most important story of the day really is that Canada won the hockey game to become the leader or the winner of the, what the hell was it? You can tell how much I follow hockey. Oh, the highly anticipated Four Nations Championship game. Yeah. So Canada, congratulations. Nice win.

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He said, you unleashed somebody, meaning Musk, who's doing the theatrics, abandoning his children, having some weird fantasy in front of everybody to be popular. Oh, okay. So the problem is his character. Remember, as long as Democrats are locked into bad character instead of any kind of policy and stuff, they can't possibly win. And they can't get out of the character mold.

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They're completely locked in. Some weird fantasy that trying to be popular. Do you think that's what Musk is doing? Do you think that he's trying to be popular? Who in the world tries to be popular by siding with Trump? What? That's bordering insane. That's the last thing you do. If you wanted to be popular, you would just make really good electric cars and

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really good satellites and whole boring machines and spaceships. That would make you very popular. But no, siding with Trump, that takes 50% of your popularity away day one and it never comes back. So that seems like a weird fantasy fiction kind of thing that's not happening in the real world. And then Van says that Musk is going to do whatever he wants with no oversight. why are we watching?

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We're all giving oversight. He's reporting exactly what he's doing. If he does something we don't like, there's still time to reverse it. You know, if you take away a budget, you can give it back. If you fire some people, maybe some of them need to get hired back, which is exactly the process. It's not meant to be clean. And then he said, that is anti-American and it's reckless and it's wrong.

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How many of those things were real? Let's see, the reckless, the wrong, the abandoning his family, which he has no sense of what anything Musk is doing privately. Weird fantasies. It's all just made-up stuff. All made-up stuff. Where is the alternative suggestion? All right, let me give you the alternative suggestion.

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This is what everybody who doesn't understand how the real world works says makes sense. Oh. Instead of using a chainsaw, they should use a scalpel. The next time you hear anybody say they should use a scalpel, you should ignore everything they ever say from that day on. If you really believe this could get done with a scalpel, you are so far from understanding anything about how anything works.

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It wouldn't work. There's a reason that big companies don't do this either. If a big company takes over a small company, do you think they say, well, it might take us 10 years to get it done, but we're going to use a scalpel. Do you know what happens when you try to use a scalpel? The people you try to scalpel will tell you that won't work.

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All right, managers, I just took over this entity or I'm Doge. I don't know all the details of what you guys do,

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so can you tell me where the cuts will be with the scalpel because you know i don't have time to learn like all the nuance of your specific department and then the department manager says well we're actually underfunded by 30 percent so you can't really make a cut here and then you come back to him you say no but everybody's got to make a cut we're just going to do it with the scalpel and then the person says really well there's nothing to scalpel

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Okay, but give me a list of things we could cut out with a scalpel. All right, you're going to have to give me a month. A month? Yeah, because I have to look at all the things we're doing, talk to everybody, really dig in and make sure we're using the right scalpel. All right. And then a month later, they come in and go, well, we looked at everything. There was nothing to cut.

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see how easy it is to be nice congratulations and i i did turn it on just to see if there'd been any fights over the national anthem yeah it was a little a little complaining about it but no big deal so uh it was probably just a good game i didn't watch the rest but i'm glad we're back to just playing sports and getting over it you know when we have uh disagreements with canada

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Turns out we just need 30% more money. What do you do with that, Van Jones? What do you do with that? If you don't think that's what would happen, you've never worked in the real world. Here's what works. How much money do we give you? 100 billion a year. All right, now you have 50. That's it. Nothing else works. There's nobody who's ever made anything work but that.

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And then everybody screams and quits and resigns and protests, right? And then you check back in a year and everything's working with half as much money. It's the same thing everywhere, all the time, all over the world, all through space and time. Only one thing works. You have less money. Deal with it. Everything else is just a bunch of people with scalpels lying. Here's my scalpel.

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I'm getting ready to cut some only the fat. I won't get any muscle. Won't work anywhere in the real world. And I don't believe anybody except somebody who's a lifelong pundit would ever imagine the scalpel could work. It's so removed from any kind of common sense. Now, if you don't believe me, I would recommend that you check in with people who really know how any of this works.

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Well, such as Elon Musk, literally the world expert at cutting the fat. You know, before he did Doge, if you were going to say, all right, who would be the best person to do this? You would have said Elon Musk. And then as soon as he starts doing it and doing it exactly the way any smart person would who had a lot of experience, everybody is like, whoa, I've got a better idea.

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I'm way smarter than Elon Musk is. If he's using a chainsaw, then I say whatever is the opposite of that. The opposite of a chainsaw is a scalpel. And I saw, you know, Chris Eliza and talking to Chris Guoban, News Nation.

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And so Eliza, who used to be a CNN political pundit, he was warning that the Democrats, their intense hatred of Trump is crippling their odds of reclaiming things, because if all they're doing is saying Trump bad, Trump bad, they're not really creating any positive alternatives. But they also paint themselves in a corner. So what was it?

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And by the way, I like that Chris Cuomo seems to completely understand this situation. But here's my take on it. Once you've spent years, just years, saying that Trump is Hitler. Oh, we mean it like actual Hitler. He's totally Hitler. No, not just a metaphor, not just an analogy. We mean he's actually Hitler. Now, what happens if that guy becomes elected?

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How are you supposed to agree with some of the things he gets right, which is what Saliza says, you should at least agree with the things that make sense. You can't. Let me give you an example. He is Hitler, but we have to admit he has some excellent ideas too. In what world does that work? As soon as you say the character is Hitler, there's nothing you can say that sounds like you agree with him.

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It's like, well, okay, yeah, sure he's Hitler, but I have to admit that his cost-cutting is going well. You can't do that. Hitler is yes, no. And once they put themselves in the yes, no category, it's got to be no. It's got to be no to everything all the time because, you know, Hitler. So they trap themselves in a way that's hilariously impossible to escape under the condition that

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you know, Trump became president, which I guess they didn't see coming. So they had a great play unless he got elected, and then it would destroy the entire Democrat Party. And it looks like that's what's happened. ABC News continues to be ABC News. And they recently had an article about the L.A. fires.

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doesn't really feel like other disagreements does it it feels it just feels so much like a sibling kind of a thing where you know one sibling say ah you're really a governor the other sibling is saying ah we'll you know we're a country none of it i take too seriously so it seems all performative but i'm glad we're at least not fighting about hockey

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And they said, among the hardest hit in the LA fires were the transgender and non-binary residents in transitional housing programs. Now, I have great empathy for anybody who lost anything in the LA fires, but did we really need to call out this one community? And again, I'm completely supportive of any adults who want to do anything they want.

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whether they're transgender, non-binary, LGBTQ, in any way they want. Totally in favor of it. I like people being people. We should all be free to express ourselves and whatever feels right to us. And you can change your mind anytime you want as far as I'm concerned. But do we really need to call them out as among the hardest hit by the fire?

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I've talked to some people who are hard hit by the fire. They're not too happy. Believe it or not, not too happy, even though they're not transgender in every single case. Anyway, what I really need is if we're going to do fire reporting based on people's sexual preferences. I'm going to need a diagram. I need to see some Venn diagrams.

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One Venn circle would be people who lost a house in the fire. And then the other circle would be penis preference. Because, you know, I like to see my arguments with data. So give me the Venn diagram of how many people lost a house. And we'll cross that with the circle of how many people have certain preferences for a penis.

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and there might be more to it then we could add some circles if that's not enough but at the very least when somebody's house burns down my first thought is well what are their thoughts about penis do they love it are they looking to add one to get rid of one to enjoy one to use one i mean these are the important questions about fires i know a lot of people are going to say oh the real question is how do we rebuild and

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How do we make sure it doesn't happen again? Okay, that's fine too. But really, we want to know more about the victim's preferences for penis. That's the kind of news ABC can bring us. Well, Sydney Bank has announced that it's going to get rid of its DEI goals and policies. Now, Unusual Wales is reporting this on X. I don't know exactly if abandoning it is ever real.

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Because it feels a lot like all they ever do is change the names. Because they can't really say we stop caring about diversity. That's not going to fly internally. So doesn't it really mean they're just going to hide it better? We don't know. But that's what I'd assume. George Clooney continues to be extra, extra worthless outside of acting. I love his movies. So within the

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Within the realm of Hollywooding stuff, I enjoy his work. I'll watch more of it. But he conceded, I guess, in a Thursday interview with the New York Times, he conceded that the media, he says the media failed us in his coverage of Biden's fitness for office. The media failed us. What does this remind you of?

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Reminds me a little bit of Mayor Karen Bass, who is putting together an investigation to find out why she went to Africa instead of handling the fires. She's looking for the real killer. It's a little like OJ looking for the real killer. If you're actor George Clooney, and you knew for sure that Biden didn't have it together, and you noticed that the news wasn't handling it,

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and you knew that if you wrote about it, it would be the news, George, you are the news. Everything you say is the news, including this interview where you talk about the unfitness of the news. The news printed you saying that the news failed. He can get the news to print anything.

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Yep, not that. There we go. There I am.

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If he can get the news to print that the news failed, he certainly could have gotten the news to print, I know Joe Biden, and you really need to back off of this, he's... He's not where you need him to be. They would have reported that. Do you think there's any chance that if Clooney had broken ranks, they would have ignored it? There's no chance of that at all.

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you'll be fascinated to know that Stephen King, who left X, is back. And he said, did you miss me? And Elon Musk said that he did. Which actually makes sense if your job is to get a lot of traffic on X. But here's my question. Are we supposed to believe that Stephen King left X because it was so terrible? but then he returned after it got, I would imagine, in his point of view, even worse.

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He had the complete power to make that not a problem. He could have actually probably gotten at least a better contest if people had listened to him early. although it probably would have ended up being Connell Harrison unless they took him out really early. Anyway, let's compare that to how Republicans have treated Mitch McConnell's obvious mental infirmities.

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Now, with McConnell, we don't know exactly how much is mental and how much is physical because it's pretty overlapping, but In your experience, has anybody gone easy on Mitch McConnell? Have you seen any Republicans who said, stop bothering Mitch McConnell. He's perfectly fine. I don't see a problem with him. What do you see? Well, you crazy Putin puppet.

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You must be a Putin puppet if you say that. Mitch McConnell looks fine. Who says that? Nobody. So for the longest time, the minute that McConnell walked on stage and looked mentally degraded. What happened? I'll tell you what happened. Every single Republican said, okay, that's a problem in public. We said it in public many times. Okay, that's a problem. We need to get rid of that.

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That's our problem. So I feel though, I feel like the Republicans do a level of self-policing that just doesn't happen on the other side. It felt like somebody took a dump on our carpet. And I think if that happened to the Democrats, they'd be looking for the real pooper. Whereas the Republicans are like, oh, wow, look at that on my carpet. I better clean that up right away.

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We clean up our messes. or at least we admit they're messes, it seems like. Now, this could be a totally biased take. I'm completely aware of that. But doesn't it seem like, doesn't it feel like, at least the Trump version of the Republican Party, the pro-Trump, doesn't it feel like there's real self-policing and it just doesn't exist on the other side? It feels that way.

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But it's more of a feeling. And then let's see if Clooney has some good solid takes about Trump's policies. Or do you imagine that he might have some takes that are based on imagination and interpretive dance? Let's see what he says. About Trump, he said that no rules count anymore, Clooney said of Trump. It's like letting an infant walk across the 405 freeway in the middle of the afternoon.

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Okay, which policy did he just address? I don't see one. He also said, I think there are always these pendulum swings. The first Trump election was, I believe, a result of eight years of a black president. Really? Really? Yeah, really.

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Does anybody think that if the last eight years had been President, let's say, Byron Donald or Tim Scott, do you think that Trump would have been elected because we had eight years of a black president? Do Democrats really think that it was his skin color and not the things he did?

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Do you really think that if a Republican black candidate became president, that that would be a reason for Republicans to vote for a white guy next time? I mean, you know, maybe three or four people, but that's such a weird take. By the way, I'm so pro Byron Donald. I love just his, not just his vibe, but his, I guess I'd say charisma, but his communication skills, we can't ignore that.

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His ability to communicate is just way above the average Republican, that if he's not in the fight for the top job fairly soon, maybe he needs to get a little more seasoned, but I don't know. I think you'd be pretty happy with that kind of a voice on your side. So it's premature. Anything could change, but at the moment, a very high opinion.

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So I'd like to give you George Clooney's opinions in interpretive dance. No rules count anymore. It's like letting an infant walk across the 405. It's like there's these pendulum swings. We can't let the eight years of a black president. That's my interpretive dance version. Let's see. CNN is telling some fake news about Pete Hegseth allegedly making deep cuts in the Pentagon.

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Now, I do suspect there will be some eventual deep cuts in the Pentagon, but apparently what Hegseth is doing is moving existing funding from one bucket to another. So he's taking it away from climate initiatives. How could anybody be against this?

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How could anybody be against the Pentagon moving money from their climate initiative to building a Iron Dome to protect the United States from incoming missiles? But boy, those two things are not similar. But CNN will call that as a deep cut. There might be deep cuts coming, but that's not right away.

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Doesn't it seem like Stephen King is doing this for a job? Now, I know he doesn't need the money, and I wouldn't call it a job per se, but do you think he's just doing it completely independently and that one day he said, you know what would be really fun is if I lose half of my customers by taking a firm political stand?

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There are four new polls showing that the public's opinion of Trump handling of the economy has turned, according to CNN. So there's a new CNN poll, Gallup poll, Ipsos, and QPAC. Now, what do we believe about polls? How many of you believe polls are real? Now, I don't want to cast any aspersions on any particular pollster or particular poll, but I don't believe they're real.

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There was a time I figured, well, if there are four of them, you know, and they're in the same direction, they're probably real. Now, I also don't necessarily think they're wrong because America is dumb enough to that they would say, it's been a month and you haven't fixed the economy yet. That would be something that Americans would say. I don't know, it's been a whole month.

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My price of eggs went up. So you said you'd lower it and it's been a month. So it's plausible. And by the way, if they did the poll, it means they were probably polling last week. So they might've been polling his performance after three weeks on the job. before you even had, like, as the people approved and the nominations approved. So just in general, let me say this.

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When polls can be validated, meaning they can be compared to the reality, I think they're usually as accurate as the pollsters can make them. So, for example, for every polling company that was doing polls for the election, I believe their last poll, each of their last poll.

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So the one that was closest to election day, I believe they all had an incentive because that was the day you could find out if they were way off or not. That was the only time they had any incentive to be accurate. All the other times, I believe, without proof,

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they had more incentive to, let's say, make some assumptions and some choices about who to poll and what method to use, that would get them, let's say, an answer that would get them a lot of attention from the right people. And they wouldn't have anything to compare it to. So if you've got four polls that are sort of right-leaning, just hypothetically, or let's say left-leaning, hypothetically,

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And they come out at the same time and they kind of have the same similar, you know, attack that it looks like, Ooh, Trump suddenly is very unpopular on the economy. You know, the most important thing. Do you think that those are just honest, unrigged professional polls? They could be, I have no proof that they're not no proof at all, but I live in the real world.

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There's nothing that they're compared to except each other. And if a right-leaning or, let's say, a poll that had been associated with Trump in the past came out with a different number, they'd still be safe because they'd say, oh, look at that fake one from the right. But look at all these real ones from the left because they have more.

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and then being totally abused online for months and months and months and months. Did he do that because he just thought it was fun? It couldn't have possibly been fun. And then he left, and I thought, oh, okay, well, maybe he was doing it for fun, and it stopped being fun. And now he's back. Doesn't it feel exactly like he's being, let's say, managed by some other entity?

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There are more polls that you would imagine sort of lean Democrat. So as long as they have more of them,

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there's no way to check the real number because what would you check it against just the other polls they can make up anything they want and it's very powerful because it tells the public what to think so no i don't believe any poll that is this disconnected from some objective standard by which we could find out if the poll was real and the only time i know of

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is the last poll before an actual election. And then the actual election, assuming it's not rigged, is going to tell you something like reality. Well, there's something happening over in China with the money supply, but any numbers coming out of China are suspect. So that's the first thing. And we don't know what's happening, but it looks like their M1 money supply just right away just surged.

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And it looks like it surged in a way that's spectacularly different from the baseline. But again, it's China and data. I'm not sure we believe any data from China. But the suggestion is that they've got a deflationary problem and that people are just hoarding their cash and they're not consuming enough to drive the economy where it needs to go.

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if you've got a deflationary problem maybe injecting it with some stimulus money that you printed maybe that's why they're doing it so we're just guessing at this point and it's not 100 sure that anything's happening at all because the data is so sketchy all right so marco rubio did an interview with i think it was catherine harridge

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And he said that when he met with Zelensky, Zelensky was sort of a two-faced liar. And he said that when I talked to him about, let's see, about maybe the U.S. sharing in some of their mineral wealth, Zelensky seemed at first sort of positive about the concept, you know, at a concept level. But, you know, he needed to run it through his legislative process.

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So he was acting like, oh, yeah, that could be a winning idea. And then two days later, he's saying he rejected the deal. Not that the legislative process did, but that he rejected it. And apparently that's just a lie. So Rubio is just calling him out to have been lied about that. And And Rubio is saying there should be some gratitude there because we're helping them more than they're helping us.

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Huh. I wonder who did that poll. Let's see. Was it the Kiev International Institute of Sociology? Yes, it was. That's who did the poll. Were they funded by USAID? Well, it turns out they were. Guess what? USAID, the little, some say, CIA-related funding entity that we use to control other countries, allegedly, was behind that polling. And it came out at exactly the right time.

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with a number that suspiciously looks like it was just made up on the spot. Huh, how about that? So the Mays account on X explains it this way. He says, a couple of days ago, Trump claimed that Zelensky is widely unpopular in Ukraine and that his approval rating is 4%. The very next day, the mainstream media collectively called Trump a liar,

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I don't know what it would be. But it definitely doesn't look like anything organic. So, I don't know. Meanwhile, there's a mystery on X. One of the more, say, notable users of X, Brian Romelli, he's been suspended. Now, since I don't know why he was suspended, I don't have a firm opinion on it, but I don't recall him being the type of person who would be suspended.

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And the mainstream media in the United States, this is so embarrassing, the mainstream media in the United States called Trump a liar, as did, let's see, CNN did, ABC, CBS, and they all quoted that 57% to show that when Trump said 4%, I mean, Trump's, what a liar, 4%, is 57%, people. So May says, I looked up where the number came from. It came from the Kiev International Institute of Sociality.

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Guess when they released their poll results? It was the day after Trump made his claim. That doesn't sound too suspicious, does it? There were no poll results that said that until the day after Trump said it was four. How about that? I think there was a real poll that said 4%. And then there was another real poll that said 16%. Now, 16 would be devastatingly bad.

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And who knows if any of the polls are real. So remember what I said about polls? If there's no way to check that they're real, they're probably not. Probably not. Let's talk about negotiating with Russia. One of the big problems in the news is that people who write news and talk about news, often don't know much about negotiating.

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So when they watch Trump negotiating, they're seeing something they've never seen and it's not the way they would have done it. Their assumption is he's doing it wrong. Apple removes cloud encryption feature in the UK. We'll talk about the UK in a minute. So here's what I tried to explain in a post on X the other day. Might help you.

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So critics of Trump's negotiating with Russia say that you don't start giving up on NATO expansion and giving up on Russia returning the captured territories. So the smart people who think they know how negotiating works say, you don't give up things before you negotiate it. Now, I agree. You don't give up things before you negotiate. Everybody agrees, right? Everybody on the same page?

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You don't give away things before you've even started. You might try to get the other side to do it, but you don't do it. That would be just a mistake. So all those smart critics are saying that Trump has sort of given up. Now, I don't know how they know this because nobody knows what anybody's saying secretly, so this is speculation on their part, I would say.

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But they believe that Trump is giving up on NATO expansion toward Russia. that that would be just like starting by giving something up and they think that there's not going to be any attempt to get back the territories that are i guess they're mostly russian speaking that that russia is controlling right now on the eastern part of ukraine so is that an example of trump giving up two things

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no it isn't those are two things that were never going to change if you simply acknowledge the reality and then negotiate from there you haven't given up anything yeah there was no possibility that the war would end no possibility at all as long as we were also saying that we're going to move toward russia with uh nato

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Since it was the entire reason for the war in the first place, and Russia apparently still has enough resources to press the war if they want to, why would they stop if the only reason they started, we said, well, we're going to keep doing that thing that caused you to start the war. That's a non-starter.

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Why would we say that we're going to try to get back those occupied territories when we know that's not going to happen? So the first thing you have to do is acknowledge what's real. What's real is that some things aren't going to change. But we also have things that are not going to change. For example, if they tried to go into Kiev, we would probably crush them.

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And I don't think that's going to change. So there are things that both sides know are not going to change. If you don't at least be honest about those things, how are you going to negotiate? If we just went in and said, all right, number one, we're going to keep expanding NATO, then what does Russia do? They'd say, well, why are we talking? Well, we're negotiating.

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Because he doesn't say provocative things about anything. So whatever the reason is, it's going to be something we didn't see coming. Now, the only thing I could think is that he was working hard to make sure that people had good private AIs they could run on their own devices. And he was experimenting a lot with AI. And is it possible he said something about AI or did something with AI that

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And Russia would say, that's not up for negotiating. All right, that's the end of our negotiations. We'll just keep fighting. Now, does that allow Putin to take advantage of, let's say, Trump's political...

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incentive to make it wrap up fast maybe but how does trump compensate for what looks like giving them stuff looks like but i don't think really is well he expands the variables so here what you would say is here's the deal it's not just about those territories and it's not just about nato we're going to make this a lot bigger

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It's going to be a bigger deal, and there are going to be things that America wants, even if Ukraine doesn't. There are things that America wants, even if Europe doesn't. So we're going to talk about all the things. Once you've seen all the things, you might have a good idea of who gave up what, and what was real, and what was practical, and what might work, and then you could have an opinion.

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But at this point, nothing's actually been given up. But there may have been some you know, just common sense reality. It's like, okay, if we're going to have this conversation, we know there are some things that are not negotiable. Let's say, for example, that Putin had been asking for NATO to be completely disbanded, not just in Ukraine, but just disbanded. Would we enter that negotiation?

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We would not. But suppose Putin said, all right, I'm going to accept the fact that NATO will never be disbanded. Well, then you can talk. Is that an example of Putin giving us something for nothing? Aha, he wanted NATO completely disbanded, but he seems to have already backed off on that before we even started negotiating. No, he didn't give up anything because it wasn't going to happen.

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There was no scenario in which NATO was going to get disbanded. So if you're giving up things that everybody knows were never really negotiable, all it does is allow you to talk. It looks like that's what Trump's doing. He's just being reasonable about the things that are negotiable and reasonable about the things that are not negotiable. And if you don't have some common sense approach

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to what's real, you can't negotiate anything. So it's way too early to say it's going to work or not work. We have to see all the variables. And it could be, it could be there might be some secret variables, meaning that the public might not see the entire agreement. For example, one of the things we might want long term is that Russia takes our side if we have some

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say, Islamic extremist problem? Maybe. Maybe we could use their help. Suppose we want their help making sure that something good happens in the Middle East, just in general. Maybe there's a secret agreement. Maybe we want to make sure that we drive a wedge between Russia and China so that if things got really bad,

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russia would feel a little more likely to thrive if they're on our side i don't know if we'd say that publicly so we're not going to really necessarily see all the variables that went into whatever gets agreed on if something gets agreed on all right um so in my opinion you want to be uh here's the other thing you want to be complementary to putin and treat him like a serious peer.

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That's the only way he's gonna make a deal. And same the other way. If Putin were treating Trump like he's Hitler, how would they get a deal? Trump wouldn't even talk to him. If Trump were treating Putin like he was Hitler, why would Putin meet with him? They'd never get a deal. So it makes complete sense that Trump would be complimenting Putin at the same time he's giving some tough criteria.

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If he complimented them and then also gave away everything, that would be bad. If he compliments Putin so that we don't have a problem with just, let's say, the egos and the branding of things, just take that off the table and just work on the details, then it's going to look good as long as America gets what it wants. That's going to look good.

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cross some boundary?

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But would you treat Putin and Zelensky the same in this context? And the answer is no, I wouldn't treat them the same. I would treat Zelensky as an underling who depends on us for everything. And I would treat Putin as a peer. That's what I would do. So slapping Zelensky basically in public, which is what Trump did with his 4% approval, is actually the exact right approach.

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I'm just speculating. But he's not exactly the kind of person who was making, let's say, social commentary. I'm not sure he ever did. So what would that be about? Very curious. Very, very curious. If anybody finds it out, let me know, okay? He's probably on some other social network by now. Well, the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul,

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You should be treating Putin, our enemy, with respect because that's how you might get a deal. And Zelensky is not really playing well as a team member. And if you're a terrible team member, you get benched. So Zelensky gets benched. Putin's still the opponent, but we're treating him with respect because that's how you get to the other side.

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If you really want to be effective, that's how you get there. All right, and I like to say that as good as Trump is at negotiating, I think Putin has the right persuasion and negotiating skills that it's a fair fight. I still think Trump is the best, but it's definitely a fair fight. They're a similar weight class when it comes to overall negotiating and persuading.

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So we'll see what comes of that. Meanwhile, apparently the UK has asked Apple to open up a backdoor to their cloud service so that, what, the UK could see everything anybody's ever done on their phone? And I just saw something go by that says that Apple agreed to that. Now, I always assume that our own government has full access to the back doors of all of our phones.

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That's sort of an easy assumption. But I don't know why the UK needs it. And maybe, I guess I'm surprised they didn't already have it. I'm a little surprised they didn't have a back door. So here's my big question. Russia is our enemy, we keep saying. And the UK is our ally.

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But it seems like the UK was suspiciously involved in the Russia collusion hoax, or at least one of their ex-intelligence people, Steele. And they had some other connections to it. So I thought to myself, huh, it kind of looks like the UK tried to overthrow the government of the United States.

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And then, of course, there's the whole censorship thing coming out of Europe and Great Britain in particular. And I thought, wait a minute, these are our allies and they're trying to destroy free speech via destroying the platforms. Free speech in the United States? If you're going after free speech, that's worse than anything I know of that Russia did. When did Russia go after our free speech?

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There was one time they sent $200,000 worth of bad memes in 2016 that made no difference to anything. And I think that was Prigozhin's shop and Putin actually killed that guy. The guy who sent those memes, Putin murdered him for other reasons. So I'm not making the case that Russia is all good and they're our friends.

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I'm making the comparison that if the UK can't act better than our known enemy... I'm going to have trouble treating one of them as an ally and one of them as an enemy. If Great Britain is going after, or in any way going after our privacy or our free speech, I don't really call that an ally. I would call that an enemy by definition.

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In fact, anybody who tries to curtail free speech in America is my enemy. by definition. So, you know, obviously I'm going to, you know, give some grace to anybody who's a historical ally, but I think they have some explaining to do. And I think the UK needs to explain why in the future we should be their ally. It's becoming less and less clear that they're a productive ally.

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She has decided she will not remove my brother from another mother, Eric Adams, from office, the mayor. I guess there was some historical precedent that would have allowed her to do it, but it wouldn't have been easy to remove him from office. So instead, she's going to put guardrails on him and make sure that there's some kind of standards that she seems happy with.

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They might be such an unproductive ally that They're doing worse things to us than our actual enemies. That's entirely possible. Anyway, let's talk about the rest of the world. So Gaza returned some bodies, but they did it in the worst possible way. One of the bodies they said they would give apparently was not there. and they made a big parade, cheering spectacle about the dead bodies.

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So big cheering spectacle. So the U.S. envoy for this, Adam Bowler, he said that Hamas failing to turn over the body of one of the hostages is a clear violation of the ceasefire. And he advised Hamas to release that one body that they said they would give, but also release everybody, or they're going to face total annihilation right now.

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Now, I don't know how much total annihilation will happen right now because of this, but I'll tell you, Gaza's making it really easy for Israel to do what it probably thinks it needs to do, which is never populate Gaza again with anybody who was there before. So Egypt has this plan for Gaza, And it's hilariously bad.

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So have you noticed that all the plans for Gaza, they always start with one magical part? There's a magical part. All right, here's Egypt's plan. You tell me what the magical part is. So the Egyptian-led plan, it would set up temporary safe zones within Gaza, safe zones, and then Bahamas would not be invited into the safe zones. That's the first magical part.

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams because it is. But if you'd like to take this special experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, Well, all you need for that is a cupper, a mug, or a glass, a tank, a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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How do you keep Hamas out of the zone full of Hamas supporters? That's not a thing. If you had some way to keep Hamas out, you'd be reading minds or you'd be talking about a completely different public. The people who are cheering the dead bodies were not necessarily Hamas. They might have been regular people as well.

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So if you've got 5 million people, the Gazans, who had been brainwashed for years that they needed to be brutal on Israel, can you keep just the Hamas people out of the safe zone? That's just pure magical thinking. The magical thinking is, all right,

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Imagine that instead of the residents of Gaza being exactly who they are, you know, a brainwashed, weaponized public, let's imagine that they're not those people. And then I've got a solution for you. And then I say, oh, but wait, they're not really the people who are going to just never go back to the mosque way of life.

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It was very much a preference, and they probably have twice as many reasons to do it now because Gaza got flattened. And then they say the Arab states would kick in $20 billion. That might be possible. And then they want a Palestinian administration that's not aligned with Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. Really?

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Do you think there's a Palestinian administration that they could find that would be acceptable to the residents of Gaza, because I think that's important, that would have no connection with Hamas or the Palestinian Authority? These are pure magical thoughts. It's like they're not really even trying, are they? It's just magical thinking. So they start with, all right, imagine if

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the Gazans had not been brainwashed since birth. Now I've got a solution. But they have been brainwashed since birth. Well, let's imagine they're not, and then we can solve it. But hold on. You can't just imagine a different reality. Well, Maybe I can. The ridiculousness of the alternative plans are just so striking. Anyway, yeah, good luck keeping Hamas out of the safe zone.

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I don't know what that's all about. But the guardrail seemed dumb. And I guess that just means she didn't really have anything she could do. Kash Patel has been voted in, as you know, so he's approved as the head of the FBI. Now, the thing that makes this the most fun is we've never really had a full accounting of the Russia collusion hoax. We've kind of treated it like, was it true?

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Meanwhile, in Mexico, President Scheinbaum of Mexico said about the possibility of the U.S., you know, going in military militarily after the cartels. What we want to make clear with this designation, the designation that the cartels are terrorists, what we want to make clear with this designation is that we do not negotiate sovereignty.

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This can't be an opportunity by the United States to invade our sovereignty. They can call cartels whatever they decide. But with Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination. No interference and even less invasion. All right. Let me explain some things to Mexico. And I hate to break it to you, Mexico, but your sovereignty doesn't mean a thing to us. Just want to be clear.

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Your sovereignty is just some shit you care about. We don't care about that. You know what I care about? The death coming across the border from your country. I don't care about your sovereignty. And if I have enough of a military to ignore your sovereignty, it just isn't part of the conversation. If we need to, your sovereignty means nothing to us, nothing.

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We don't respect it, don't recognize it, don't care. If you had sovereignty, you would have prevented the cartels from essentially running the country. You don't have any sovereignty. Maybe the cartels have some sovereignty, but you've got none. And if you think you do, it's just in your mind and certainly has nothing to do with what U.S. policy will be, period. That's not negotiable.

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So let me let me just break it down into the simplest way. Just some questions. Is there a problem for the U.S. ? that's arriving from Mexico. In other words, is Mexico causing the U.S. to have a big, deadly problem? Yes. Yes. The answer is yes. Is Mexico addressing that problem on their own in an effective way? No. Nobody thinks that they're doing it.

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Is there any chance, any chance at all, that Mexico will address it effectively on their own? No. Nobody thinks that. so say goodbye to your sovereignty you just sacrificed it your sovereignty means you take care of your if you can't take care of your own you don't have sovereignty and there's trouble coming your way that's just the way the real world works sorry

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Well, Spotify says it's going to now allow AI-narrated audiobooks, according to Digital Trends, Andrew Tarantola's writing. And apparently this would increase the number of books on Spotify. And the way that they are allowing it is they'll allow this one AI company, Eleven Labs, to be the ones who create your audio book.

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Now, it's pretty expensive because if you're an author and you use 11 Labs, it can be one of their subscriptions. The professional one is pretty expensive. It's over $1,000 a month. Now, here's what I wonder.

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wouldn't an audiobook be instantly stolen and pirated and put in the public domain the minute you put it on spotify now i don't know if that's as easy if you had it on an amazon platform because the amazon audiobooks i think there's some you know some kind of encryption or something uh but i don't know about spotify if you just put it on spotify the one thing i do like

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is that you could pretty much instantly have it in as many languages as you want. But it does feel like just giving your book away. Because if there's an audio file that anybody can copy, could they just download it as they're playing it? How does that work? I don't know.

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But if I make an audio book using AI and just upload it to Spotify, it feels like it would take about one second for somebody to download it and just start making it available on other platforms. So it seems like a mess from the author's perspective, but I might do it.

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Was it not true? But really, it was an op. I mean, it was this big organized op by people that were pretty well aware of. And Adam Schiff, of course, the big opponent of Kash Patel being approved. And at one point in a podcast, I told you this before, Kash Patel had said that Adam Schiff was the biggest criminal in Congress.

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You know, it's also, I think the days of audiobooks and books may be over in general because AI is going to take so much of that that I don't even know if publishers can survive in the future. It doesn't seem like it. The Russia-Ukraine war is entirely the fault of NATO, Chuck says. Well, people who don't know how anything starts are always difficult. Difficult to talk to them.

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But I used the poke the bear analogy yesterday. You can blame the bear for killing you, but if you were poking the bear with a stick, you're not entirely innocent. You know, if you knew the bear would do it and you poked him with a stick, is it really the bear's fault? All right. It is the bear's fault, but... All right, I'm just looking at some of your comments.

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Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for you today. Happy Friday. Tomorrow will be the weekend. Maybe tonight will be the weekend. Thanks for joining. And I'm going to talk to the locals people privately. Let's see if our technology is allowing me to do that today. And for the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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Now, I don't know what he meant exactly by criminal because I don't know what criminal act we're talking about. I'm not aware of a criminal act unless there's something about putting together an op and lying about the skiff that's criminal. I don't think there is because I think people in Congress can lie all day long and it's not criminal. as far as I know.

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So I love having the guy who was fighting the Russia collusion hoax while it was happening, Kash Patel, now in charge of the FBI. And things might get interesting now. We don't know. Now, I wouldn't bet on it. I don't think Adam Schiff really has anything to worry about. But I see a lot of people saying, oh, when's the Epstein list going to be revealed?

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Do you know what the answer to that is, of when the Epstein list will be revealed? Well, there are two possibilities. One is that it doesn't really exist, because do you really think there's a list? Really? You think there's a list? Maybe. I mean, anything's possible. But if it doesn't exist, it won't be released. That makes sense. Now, what if it does exist?

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Well, if it does exist, it's definitely not going to be released because whatever's on that list would be far more valuable for the government to keep secret so they could do what Epstein was doing, which is have complete control over the people on the list. So there are only two possibilities. It doesn't exist, so it won't be released, or it does exist, so it definitely won't be released.

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Only two possibilities. So no, you're not going to see any Epstein list. Forget about that. Well, at CPAC, I guess Javier Mille from Argentina showed up and gave Elon Musk a sort of ceremonial, cool chainsaw-looking thing. I don't think it was operational. And that was fun.

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One of the things I love about having Javier Mille just insert himself into the American story and associate with Elon Musk is that, at least according to the news, what Mille did is working. Now, I don't think we're seeing all of the news. Do you really think that Javier Mille just took a chainsaw to a huge part of the government, and then it was just all good, like only good things happened.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it's going to happen right now. I can feel the simultaneity. It was a little special today. It was good. Well, here's some good news.

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That's not even a possibility. So if you're not also hearing about what the downside was, such as maybe somebody got not as good health care or not as good police protection or The garbage didn't picked up. I don't know. Must be something. But did he really just chainsaw the whole government spending and everybody was just fine and the only thing that happened was inflation went way down?

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Does that sound real to you? Is there any real world in which you can do something that dramatic and it's only good? All good. No downside. I don't even think that about America. I mean, I'm 100% in favor of Doge. But I think we all understand it's going to break some eggs, so to speak. And there'll be some things you have to rapidly put back the way it was.

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Like, oops, I didn't realize that was that important. So, I don't know. The whole Javier Mille story, I don't buy it the way it's being told. It's a little too on the nose, a little too weirdly successful in a way the real world doesn't work. But, Again, like Doge, I'm completely in favor of it. So I'm completely in favor of what's happening in Argentina.

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I just think we're not getting the whole story. You know, we can handle it. There might be a downside. I think it's worth doing overall. It probably saved the country. And I think Doge is worth doing overall. It's probably going to save the country if anything can. But really, let's not act like there's never a downside. And then somebody challenged Elon Musk at that event.

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I guess he was on stage. And he was asked about being a puppet of Putin. And he had a good answer. I mean, he had a crowd-pleasing answer. And the crowd-pleasing answer is he said that people sometimes say I'm a bought asset of Putin. And then Elon said, I'm like, he can't afford me. That does seem true. How could he possibly afford him? How much money would you have to give him?

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You'd have to give him more than, well, it'd have to be enough that it changes his life somehow. What would be the amount of money that would change his life? A trillion dollars? You can't afford, Russia can't give him a trillion dollars. So it's actually true. what it would take to bribe him, if there is even a number. I'm not assuming there is any number that would bribe him.

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But it would be a trillion. Russia can't afford that. That's just a bribe. Well, the federal judge ruled that Trump can continue the mass firing of federal workers. Let me add that to the list of... of things that were too boring to follow. The court's trying to stop Doge. The court got overturned trying to stop Doge, but now they're doing a different thing to trying to stop Doge.

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Oh, it's a different court. It's a different judge. It's a different approach. Well, that got overturned. That got delayed. I can't follow it. But apparently Doge is still going ahead.

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One of the things that Trump is floating is the idea that... I don't know if it means if they get to $2 trillion in Doge budget reduction, that they would use that as a trigger to give 20% of it, which would be $400 billion, back to taxpayers. To which I say... Now, some people, I think Jesse Waters on Fox News was saying that, why wouldn't you give it back?

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Why wouldn't you give at least some of it back? Because it's our money. It's our money. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with the statement that, of course, you should give it back. It's our money. It's not money at all. It's not anybody's money. It's not money. What money? Reductions in future budgets is not money. What are you talking about?

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If I tell you that next year I'm not going to buy a house, did I make some money? Future budget non-spending isn't anybody's money. You would have to increase debt to give away $400 billion. Debt is nobody's. It's nobody's money. That would be like saying, hey, Scott, would you like me to give you $100,000? I'd say, yeah, here's what I'm going to do.

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The odds of that asteroid hitting the Earth are now down to a quarter of one percent. Quarter of one percent. We were up to about three percent at one point that it was going to hit us by 2032. But now we're down to a quarter of one percent. So celebrate. Don't look up. Don't look up. Meanwhile, let's see.

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I'm going to increase your debt by $100,000 because I'll take out a loan in your name and then I'll give it to you. And I'll say, you're damn right you're going to give it to me. It's my money. It's nobody's money. It's debt. You can't give somebody their own debt. I don't know. I don't think I'm explaining it right. But it's not money.

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It's just a way that we could possibly avoid going down the drain faster than we are. So... In my opinion, there's no good reason to give $400 billion and a $2 trillion. I don't like anything about it. So I guess I'm going to go on record as saying, if you have to already get the $2 trillion before it activates the $400 billion giveback, I'm not even a little bit for it.

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Stocks don't look so good, but maybe tomorrow will be better. Let me get my comments working here so I can see what you're up to. At least the people on Locals. I can see all of your comments, but the Locals comments come in faster. Today's show is going to be amazing. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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If the design of a system always gets you one kind of result and it only lasts for a minute, then you can say, oh, that wasn't intentional. They changed it as soon as they found out what the design did. But if you have a design of something and it just stays in business the same design for decades, that's intentional. They know what the design is, they know what it produces, and they like it.

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That's why it lasts for decades. Now, here are some of the things that the government has done. And it looks to me like the overall theme of the government is to hide corruption. You would hope that the government is designed to create good outcomes for the public. but it appears to be more designed to hide the corruption of the politicians. Let me give you some examples.

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Is it true that the Pentagon lost trillions of dollars and that in Ukraine all kinds of money is missing? So when it comes to the military spending, I think you'd agree, it's not designed so the public can watch where the money goes. It's designed so we can't watch where the money goes. Am I right? It's designed... so that we can't know where the money goes.

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We also can't tell for sure who won an election because we've got all these complicated machine things. I don't know what happens to any vote when it goes into a machine. I don't think anybody does. We have to trust strangers that once the vote goes into machines, the machines don't change the vote. How would I know? It seems like our elections are designed so you can't tell who won.

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Well, I'm not sure about all that. I better test it. Let's see if I can increase the neurotransmitters in the hippocampus of my brain with coffee. Yeah, I feel it. I feel it. My hippocampus is going crazy right now. Yeah, it all works. You know, sometimes you hear this science and you think, but in the real world, does that work? Sure. Did you hear the horrible story

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So we've got a military budget. It's our third biggest budget thing. Designed so you can't tell how they spent the money. Elections designed so you can't tell who won, really. We produce a winner, but you don't really know. We don't know what's in our spending bills. So the omnibus... The purpose of it is to make sure you don't know what's in it.

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The purpose of waiting until it's just before Christmas and you make it 1,500 pages is so nobody will read it. It's designed so you don't know what they're doing. It's designed to hide corruption. How about the fact that we couldn't tell who was running the country in the Biden administration? The Biden administration was designed...

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So you couldn't even tell that the President of the United States was totally declined and unelected people were running America. It was designed so you couldn't tell who was in charge. That's not accidental. And then there was, if I have this right, the Omnibus also included a

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Included in it, the one that got rejected, included in it something that would block Congress's digital communications from ever being discovered. Why would you need to block any legal discovery of communication in Congress? To hide crime. What else would it be? Then you've got all the Me Too funding. Apparently, Congress has a budget just to pay off Me Too victims, and we don't know who that is.

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It's designed so you don't know. So it's a little hard to miss the pattern at this point, isn't it? I mean, the pattern seems so obviously designed for the very purpose of making corruption really easy.

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Now there's a separate story about California and $24 billion that's somehow missing that was supposed to solve homelessness, but it went into some maze of entities and the Cayman Islands and somebody owns this company that owns this company. And it just sort of disappeared into the maze of companies. Now, do you think that was an accident? No, no.

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The funding of these big ticket things in local elections and local government is designed so you don't know who's doing what and who's stealing what. It's designed for corruption. Now, it's really obvious when you look at all the different elements of the government that every part of it is designed to eliminate transparency, and transparency is the only thing that will keep us alive.

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It's the only thing that will keep us alive. If you don't know what your government is doing, they will steal all your money and then the country will be broke and then we all die. So, yeah, we're designed for corruption. That's just the fact. All right. And then have you noticed this pattern?

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that whenever the Republicans come up with a plan to solve a big national problem, let's say a plan to close the border solves a big national problem. Let's say a plan to reduce the deficit, as in the Doge work. Or let's say a plan, we don't have one, but let's say a plan to end the war in Ukraine when Trump gets in office. So Republicans often have a plan

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We don't know if that plan works yet, because, you know, it's a plan. But they do come up with plans. And they can say, we're going to do X, Y, Z. And we'll do it right in front of you. We'll show you. You know, it would be very transparent. And we think this works because this always works. We're doing things that always work. What do the Democrats do?

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The Democrats seem to be entirely oriented towards at creating hoaxes and gaslighting and ops to prevent Republicans from doing the obvious common sense things that the entire country wants. Now, I don't think that was always the case. I think they used to compete on policy. Didn't they? Am I wrong? Didn't they used to compete on policy? But they don't anymore.

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Do you know why they don't compete on policy? Because there isn't even a Democrat that thinks their policies could work. What is going on over there? I don't believe that any Democrat thinks their own policies could possibly work. And that's why they don't argue the policy. So instead they'll say, Trump's stealing your democracy. He's a dictator. Elon Musk is using him for a puppet.

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They have to do that stuff because they don't have any policy argument at all. So you basically have one group of common sense people trying to solve critical problems. And honestly, it looks like they genuinely want to solve problems.

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When I look at what the Republicans do and what they produce, especially in the Trump world, more in the Trump world than before, it seems designed to solve problems. Am I wrong? I mean, it doesn't seem to be like it's just always a trick. It just seems like it's a solution.

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of provocative, controversial podcaster Nick Fuentes who was almost murdered in his home. Did you hear this story? This is so shocking I didn't even talk about it for a day because I was just sort of looking at it like, oh my God. So somebody murdered, I guess, his family and then went on a road trip to apparently try to murder Nick Fuentes at his house. So knocks on his door.

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So we've got one solving, one party that solves and one party that just creates gaslighting to prevent the party that solves from solving. So Elon Musk was pointing out when he got a lot of criticism for weighing in heavy. on the 1,500-page omnibus piece of crap budget, and people say that he's the reason it got killed. I say that it's not the reason.

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I mean, he's like a focus because we're all watching him, but he couldn't have done that without the complete support of all Trump supporters, basically every one of them. So if you have the support of 100% of the public... That's not exactly a puppet master situation. If 100% of the public backs you,

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Which part of the public was in favor of spending too much money and putting together a 1,500-page bill that nobody read? Nobody was in favor of that. You can't find me one citizen. You might find a politician who would argue it, but a citizen? Find me one voter who says, you know, I was really in favor of my politicians not even knowing what was in the budget, but it was enough to kill us all.

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Nobody. Not one Democrat, not one Republican. So you can't treat that, the situation where every citizen agrees, you can't treat that like it's some kind of weird puppet master taking control situation. He's simply agreeing with 100% of the public. He just happens to have more voice and more power. And so we backed him. Of course we backed him. Of course we backed him. You also backed me.

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If I do a post on X that says something about don't pass this 1,500-page stupid budget, what do the comments look like? Every one of them is supportive, 100%. When does that ever happen in social media when 100% of people are on your side? Yeah. I just said don't pass a 1,500-page budget. It doesn't even matter what's in it. I don't need to know what's in it.

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Don't pass a 1,500-page budget a few days before Christmas. Ever. Ever. That's a fail. So it's, of course, the best the Democrats have is trying to turn it into something that will split Musk away from Trump so that... By the way, what's the point of it? What would be the point of trying to put a wedge between Musk and Trump? What would be the point of it?

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The Democrats are trying really hard to do it. What's the point? Does it help the country? How? How does that help the country? It doesn't. It clearly doesn't. If they were even trying to help a little bit, you know what they would do? They'd say, Elon Musk, wow, you do have some skills. We should work with you too. The Democrats should be competing against

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to see who can get these billionaires more on their side with good policies. But instead, they just have to break up somebody else's relationship. It's like the ugly girl who can't get a date, so she has to sabotage her pretty girlfriend who can. Oh, that guy's bad. You should break up with him because I can't get a date. That's what it feels like.

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Anyway, so Musk said, he's trying to reframe it correctly, and he goes, he's talking about the rejection of the 1,500-page version of the budget. He said, this shows how much your voice matters, talking to the people, and having a president like Trump means that your voice is finally heard. This is the right model, and we should keep reinforcing it.

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Trump is a populist, and he is very connected to the public. Musk is also a populist. I mean, in effect. I don't think he would describe himself that way. But in effect, because the common sense stuff tends to be pretty popular.

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So, yes, we have an amazing, amazing situation right now where a citizen who has just a few people following him on social media can get the person who's a little bit bigger to repost them. And that can get the person a little bit bigger to repost them.

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And then when the people who have a million followers have reposted them, you can pretty much guarantee that people like Elon Musk are going to see it because they follow the big accounts. And if they think the idea is good, they have a direct line to the White House. So what we've created is an unofficial direct line where good ideas bubble up in a very natural way. Everybody has an incentive.

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If I see somebody with a smaller account who has a good idea, I'm incentivized to repost it because if I repost a good idea, that reflects well on me, right? So just for selfish reasons, I will boost a smaller account. I'm not thinking of it entirely selfishly. I'm often thinking of it as, oh, here's somebody who needs a boost. Because they have good ideas.

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And apparently the only reason that Fuentes didn't answer his door is that he was doing a podcast at that moment. All he had to do was answer the door and he'd be dead. All he had to do was answer his own front door while he was home. But he couldn't because he was on his podcast. It saved his life. Now, I would make the following advice.

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If you have one good idea, you'll probably get a boost. Even if I haven't seen your other ideas. But one idea is good enough to get a boost. Meanwhile, Mike Cernovich is going hard at Republican Chip Roy. He was one of the ones who said no on the second version of the continued resolution that got down to 100 pages. And give me an update, by the way.

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There's a vote going on, I think, right now on what they call the third version of the continued resolution budget. So if we get a result on that, just shout it out in the comments. But anyway, here are some of the things Mike Cernovich says we should know about Chip Roy. He was a George Floyd worshiper.

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Now, I looked at some of the old posts that Chip Roy had about that topic, and he was very much in the George Floyd is a saint kind of a mode, almost like a Democrat, weirdly. A worshipper is hyperbole, but he was very much in the... He bought the full Democrat narrative about Floyd. The cop is a murderer. Floyd was an angel.

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I'm exaggerating, but it was not a typical Republican view of that situation. Allegedly... Chip Roy tried to keep Liz Cheney in power. I guess he liked that idea. And he worked to remove one of, this is Serto, saying he worked to remove Texas AG Ken Paxton, who Republicans seem to like a lot. He's quite effective. Ken Paxton is.

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So these are just things that wouldn't have been a big problem for Chip Roy at the moment, except that he went in the wrong direction on a vote. So Cernovich decided to shine some light on him. And I never mind that. Like whenever I see transparency breaking out, oh. This is actually something you should know about this particular leader.

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These are three somewhat odious points of view he had, at least odious from the political rights point of view. So, yeah, it's worth knowing. Is that a reason to vote him out? I don't know. I mean, he's not my representative. I don't have an opinion on whether he should be voted out. But do I have an opinion that the voters should know about where he stood on these issues? Yes. Yes.

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So this is a good service by Cernovich so that we know what's happening. Did you know that the fact-checkers are saying that Musk was spreading disinformation about the bill, the 1,500-page bill that got rejected? And here are some of the examples that came from, I think The Hill was writing on this. So they say these are the things he got wrong.

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So apparently Musk posted that the measure would include a 40% pay raise for Congress. That's not even close to true. It is true that there was a mention that if Congress had been getting its cost of living wages that it hasn't been getting for years and years, that it would have been 40% higher than it is now. But the actual raise would be like 6% or something. So this is disinformation.

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Well, let me not say disinformation. Disinformation assumes a motive. At least that's the way I hear it. But being inaccurate or simply being wrong is not really a crime. You're still allowed to be totally wrong. And if you're wrong on X, that's the best place to be wrong because the comments will correct it.

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If you're going to be wrong, the one best place to do it is on X, because the community notes will point it out, everybody sees it, it's fully transparent, and then you can correct it. So is it ideal that Musk, I think he probably just boosted some other account that made this claim, so it looks like he trusted somebody else's opinion, on something that was in it.

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Because again, who's going to read a 1500-page document besides Vivek? So that was just wrong. But I would say, as I said before, and I saw a few people agree with this, Congress is underpaid. The pay raise is the only thing I didn't object to. Well, that's not true. That's hyperbole. But they are underpaid.

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If you're producing content that's making people want to drive hundreds of miles to your house and kill you, you might want to think about that. I do like the fact that podcasters will say provocative and risky things because free speech allows it. As long as it's working in all directions, it can be a healthy thing. But just think about it. Just think about it. The reason that

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I don't know if you understand how deeply underpaid they are, but it almost encourages them to be corrupt just to pay the bills. You don't want Congress to be thinking, you know, I could take this little gift because I'm running out of money to pay my bills. Remember, a lot of Congress has to have two homes, one in their home state, and probably some kind of residence in D.C. or so.

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It's expensive. And they have to go to... They do a lot of events and stuff. So, yeah, they should be paid more. I think a 40% pay increase would have been completely appropriate, in my opinion. But we should be accurate as well. Then they say... that Musk was wrong when he claimed the bill would prevent any investigation into the House committee that investigated the January 6th stuff.

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Was he wrong about that? Here's their argument for why he's wrong. They say the bill's text makes no mention of the riot and only clarifies that the House data stored elsewhere is still under the control of the House. I don't think that fact check is right. I think that they just looked at the different part of the bill.

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I'm not sure about this, but my understanding is that the bill said that Congress's digital communication couldn't be accessed through a legal process. Everybody else's can. but that Congress would be exempt from a legal process, let's say a lawsuit, getting access to the communication. Now, since I haven't read it, the bill, I don't know that that's in there, but that's the claims I've heard.

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I've heard that it would make their emails and digital communication private forever. Now, that would If they made that private, it would protect the January 6th group, but also protect all of Congress. So was Musk wrong? I think Musk was right, and I think the fact check is wrong, but I'm not positive about that.

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So I'm going to put a question mark behind that, but to me it looks like the fact check is wrong. Then there was the claim that the bill would support... building biolabs, bioweapons labs.

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That apparently is a misinterpretation, but instead it funded what they call biocontainment labs that would conduct research to support public health and medical preparedness for and rapid response to biological events, including emergent infectious diseases. Okay, what's the difference between a biocontainment lab

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that's studying all the dangerous viruses, and a bioweapons lab that's creating dangerous viruses. Aren't they all the same? So again, I'm going to put a question mark next to it, but to me it looks like the fact check is wrong. To me, it looks like they're just using a different name for essentially what the Wuhan lab was. The Wuhan lab wasn't a weapons development lab.

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Weren't they also trying to figure out how to avoid the weaponized viruses? So I think the fact check is fake. But I'll take a fact check on my fact check. And then there was something about building a stadium in D.C., but the fact check on that is that it was not funding it. It was simply changing control of it. So the funding wasn't really addressed. It was just the control of the funding.

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So Cheryl Atkinson. Addison, Cheryl Addison, had a funny story about her experience of a previous shutdown. So I'm just going to read what she said next. So when she was a reporter working at CBS News during a government shutdown, she thinks it was 2013, they were searching for the real-life terrible impacts of of the government closed down. So now it's just common sense, right?

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If the government shuts down, it's going to have devastating effect on members of the public because we depend on the government for our vital services. So CBS News went out to look for all the terrible, terrible impacts of the shutdown. And when we couldn't find that any, when we couldn't find any that should have been part of the story.

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I don't worry so much about security. I should worry more about it probably. I mean, I have enough. But I don't think I give people a reason to kill me. Do I? Even people who mock me online, they don't have any reason to kill me. As far as I know, I mean, I'm doing the best I can to make sure that people see me as trying to be helpful. even if they don't like my politics.

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In other words, there was no effect they could even find where it was bad enough that it was worthy of even being included in the story. Instead, we kept trying to create the appearance of an impact. So when they didn't find an impact, instead of saying, well, we looked, didn't find any impact, they decided to write the article as if there was an impact.

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She says, well, this part you can judge for yourself. It wasn't really trying to be dishonest. It was, in my retrospective view, because the general editorial idea for the story was to show how bad the Republican shutdown was for ordinary Americans, and the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't. Do you call that not dishonest? I don't know.

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Seems to me if you start with a narrative and you do everything you can do to prove it, and then you find out that you can't prove it, and then you write the story anyway, that feels dishonest to me. I don't know how you define dishonest, but as described, it looks a little dishonest. But here's the more nuanced view of it.

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If you haven't had experience in the corporate world, this won't make sense. In the corporate context, when you're wearing your nice clothes and going to your cubicle job and you've got a boss and all that, you will accept, as honest enough, a lot of sketchy stuff. And it becomes so normal... to accept sketchy things when you work in a big corporation, that you just get used to it.

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And you just think that everybody's lying and you should too. And that all it is is a big persuasion game and honesty doesn't have much to do with the corporate world. Now that's why Dilbert was even created. Because when I was in the corporate world, I realized everybody was lying about everything all the time. I thought, well, that could be a comic. So...

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When we look from the outside with our pure judgments and we say, Cheryl, how could you possibly have been part of this thing where the narrative was driving the story instead of the facts? How could you possibly be part of that? And I will tell you, it's easy.

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If you had replaced her with me, with all of my highfalutin feelings about what's honest and what's not, I probably would have done the same thing. Why? Because everybody would. You could take anybody and put them in this situation. They've got a boss. They've got a paycheck. They don't need to make waves about every single thing every single day. You just sort of accept it.

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You've got other problems. So this is no complaint whatsoever about Cheryl. This has more to do with what the corporate environment does to everybody. It turns everybody into a weasel. And it's only after you've left that And you look back at your own actions, you go, huh, that was a little sketchy even for me. Like that doesn't even match my own standard for honesty.

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But it didn't seem so weird at the time. So you enter this world where doing sketchy things doesn't even seem sketchy. It just seems like what everybody's doing. Anyway, speaking of Elon Musk, he announced that he's going to fund moderate candidates, he calls them, in far left districts. quote, so that the country can get rid of those who don't represent them.

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And that would be a direct response to Soros funding the far-left candidates. So if Elon Musk decides that he's going to spend enough money because he has more than Soros, he can outspend him. So he can outspend Soros and make sure that every time Soros spends a dollar, that Musk goes in with $2 for the other one. which he could do all day long because he has more money.

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So I think he can eliminate Soros' influence. And I would still love, you may remember that Musk asked Alex Soros if they could just talk. And Alex Soros said yes. Now, I don't think it's happened just because I feel like we would have heard about it. But I love the fact that maybe before they talk,

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Musk may have already announced that he's going to do something that makes Soros' funding completely moot and irrelevant because he'll get it outfunded. So that's cool. Speaking of Elon Musk news, he's also saying that something called the AFD party in Germany is their only hope. Now the AFD party is the right-leaning party. How do you think an American publication describes the

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I like people to say, well, he's clearly trying to help. You know, that's not what I want, but he's obviously trying to help. That's usually good enough not to make somebody drive hundreds of miles to your house. But to be fair, when people are crazy, there's nothing you can do, right? Basically nothing you can do. So that's just a horrible little story.

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right-leaning party in Germany. Do you think they say, oh, they're basically just like MAGA, pretty popular? Yeah, I can see why Elon Musk would back them, because they're strong on immigration. And yeah, it makes sense, you know, because immigration looks like it's going to destroy the country. I don't know for sure, but probably they back nuclear power. Maybe the other parties don't, you know.

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So I can see why you love him and back him. So what does the mainstream press say about that? Well, it says that the party is anti-immigration. Now, is that the way you say it? Anti-immigration? No, that's what fucking assholes say. Nobody's anti-immigration. That's not even a thing. Nobody's anti-immigration. People are definitely on different sides about how tight to be, who to let in, and why.

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But nobody's anti. So the first thing is they're signaling that they're, you know, illegitimate press by saying anti-immigration. Then here's the second part. They're saying that this AFD party in Germany has, quote, historical connections to Nazi-era rhetoric. What? That's like saying that the Democrats... were the founders of the KKK.

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Which, by the way, somebody says on social media every freaking day, and it drives me crazy. No, I'm not going to judge the Democrats by something that long dead people did. If they're not doing it today, and they're clearly not backing the KKK today, would it be fair to say, I'm going to describe the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is a party that has a, historical connections to the KKK.

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And there's nothing else you need to know. Would that be news? Well, it's true, but it's completely opposite of what reality is, which is the Democrats are very anti-KKK, obviously. So when I read the news saying that this party has historical connections to Nazi-era rhetoric and Elon Musk is maybe some kind of a Nazi because he supports them,

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I don't know the truth, but I'll tell you what it leads me to think. It leads me to think that this party might be the only thing that can save Germany. And I'm not terribly worried that they're all going to become Nazis. Because if the only thing you can say is they have some historical connection to bad rhetoric, historical connection. Come on. That's all you got?

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Now, to be fair, if there's more to this story and that party does worse things than I know, I would like to know that. Maybe I will revise my opinion. But if your summary of the party for how bad they are is anti-immigration, which is bullshit, and historical connections to bad talking, that's all you got? Those are your top two lines in criticizing that party? I'm not in favor of them.

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So somebody's going to say Adams is supporting the Nazi party. I don't know anything about them. I'm not supporting them. I'm just saying the reporting is strongly screaming that maybe they're not so bad. That's what the reporting is telling me. That's not my opinion. So, of course, Pelosi is on the bandwagon calling Trump a puppet of Musk.

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And, of course, all they're doing is gaslighting when Republicans are trying to solve the problem. But poor David Axelrod, one of the last smart advisors on the Democrat side, I like following him because he keeps saying things that are close to just common sense, but he can't get any Democrats to agree with him.

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He's trying as hard as he can to get the Democrats to act like a proper political party with reasonable opinions and stuff. Poor guy. Anyway, he said, quote, not sure about this speculation about Trump tiring of Musk and shunning him. So he's basically telling the Democrats that they're that their main messaging is just not a good idea. And it's not. It's dumb.

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There's a story that I'm having a little bit trouble believing. I'm going to go further. I'm going to say I don't believe this is true. I think this is fake news. But there's a story, according to the Virginia Mercury, I guess some publication in Virginia, that the governor has approved or announced there's going to be this fusion nuclear plant in Virginia. Now, regular nuclear is fission, right?

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So, yeah, he's one of the few ones who feel comfortable. But he must feel the absurdity level of going from, so the Democrats instantly pivoted from Trump is a dictator, strongman, Nazi personality who must control everything all the time And then immediately, he became under the control of one person, Elon Musk. Now, of course, that didn't happen. Of course, Trump's in charge.

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And of course, he's one of the most confident people in the world. Here's where I think the... Oh, reportedly considering separating each individual bill to vote on instead of the big one. So it looks like the vote today may have hit a a breaking point where they need to break it into separate bills. That's a good idea if they can make that work.

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So did Trump really turn from the strongman insurrectionist Hitler into a puppet of Musk? The level of absurdity in that gaslighting is one that Axelrod just didn't want to be part of, apparently. He's like, I'm not so sure this is a good idea, because it'll just look stupid. Just look stupid.

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Now, I can't speak for what Trump is thinking, but I can say with some confidence that there's one thing that the Democrats probably don't understand, because I think that they believe their own narratives. And one of their narratives... is that Trump is insecure. He's insecure. What? If there's one thing I'm completely certain of, he's not insecure.

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He might be the most confident person you've ever met, and he likes people who are smarter than he is, if they're on his side. Musk is on his side. He's smarter than all of us. Trump likes that. He doesn't dislike that. Now, he might dislike the messaging that the Democrats are doing.

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But do you think that Trump is dumb enough to push Musk out of the most useful thing anybody's ever done in this country, which is doge? You would have to assume that Trump was a completely different person. Trump likes winning. He likes really smart people. And Musk is popular. So he likes everything about this.

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And I think the Democrat messaging is really just another sign that they don't have anything. They have nothing to offer the American people. They don't have a policy. They don't even have truth. They don't have fact checking. What do they have? It's literally nothing but gaslighting. All right.

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I think it's funny that Justin Trudeau might lose his job just because Trump rattled his cage, but also because Trump is looking hyper-capable when Trudeau is not. So there's a contrast problem. In persuasion, the idea of contrast is... You could even argue it's all of persuasion. because all persuasion is choosing between alternatives.

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You're trying to get somebody to choose one alternative versus another. So what you compare things to usually determines what people will choose, your comparison. So Trudeau was being compared until now to, let's say, the new president of Mexico, who's not exactly hitting home runs, to the president of the United States, who is literally mentally disabled. All right.

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So I was just reading a comment because I thought it was about the bill approval. So I think when you have a Trump who is not even elected president and he is already de facto president because we like what he's doing, he's collected the pirate ship of the smartest people in the world. He is already changing things. Putin's already said he wants to talk.

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I mean, basically, Trump is killing it like no president ever has. Would you agree with that statement? Would you agree that as a pre-president, someone who hasn't been sworn in, nobody's ever been close. Is that a fair statement? I don't think there's any hyperbole in that. I don't believe anybody has ever done anything as impressive for their pre-presidency.

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Nothing as impressive as what Trump has done. Not even close. Now, Canada is up there watching that, and they're like, did they just figure out how to attack their debt problem because the smartest person is going to work on it? Two smartest people, Vivek and Musk. They must be getting jealous as hell. And then he starts teasing them like maybe they should be a little state.

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Now, I don't think he means that, and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to take on that many crazy people and add them to the vote. That'd be a little jarring for the United States. But the fact that it's actually a reasonable idea It's a reasonable proposal.

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The thing that makes it funny is that you can't rule it out when Trump says, why don't you just become a state and fold into the United States? Do you think that in the long run, Canada would do worse as a, not say one state, let's say, you know, seven states or whatever there. If they added seven Canadian states to the United States, do you think we'd be worse off? Well, maybe.

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Fusion is the thing that doesn't exist. Am I wrong about that? So there's an announcement that they're going to start building a fusion power plant in Virginia. So I immediately went over to Google and I said to myself, have I been in a coma? Because I was almost positive. I followed the news on fusion. And I didn't think we were that close.

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Because they might vote liberal, and then we would have liberal presidents forever, and maybe we would be worth off. And it would be expensive. We'd be taking on their debt, etc. But they got a lot of resources, and they got a lot of well-educated, smart people who are very nice most of the time. So the fact that you would even stop to consider it is what makes it so funny.

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Because you can't immediately rule it out. You're like, yeah, it has some problems. Yeah, there'd be a lot of problems. Probably we could work them out. I don't know. Probably the change in the voting demographics would be a killer to make it not possible. But I like the fact that they put that in their brains and they have to think about it. Speaking of brains...

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That Wall Street Journal expose of Biden, I was looking at some more details today. It is really damning. So apparently from the first day of his presidency, it was completely understood by the staff that he was mentally incompetent. First day. First day. And from then, they'd surrounded him by insiders whose names you've never heard of.

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who were really the ones who were running the country, or at least the ones who were keeping other people from talking to Biden so much. So his close advisors, have you heard any of these names? Bruce Reed, Steve Reschetti, and Mike Donilon. Apparently that's who's been running the United States for the last four years. Now, not just them. because, you know, Tony Blinken and other advisors.

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But apparently the people who had jobs in the domain that the president should have had a big influence on were just sort of running the show themselves. So Biden wasn't too much part of the presidency. It was sort of game down to all the players, and they just took whatever they needed and ran the country. Now, the first part about that is that we couldn't tell the difference.

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We knew something was going on, but the country still ran. The biggest problem was we started wars and ran up our debt. Those are big problems. So apparently people could not reach Biden directly, And I was listening to Stephanie Ruhle, one of the MSNBC Trump haters, who said that she wanted to contact Trump the other day. So somehow she had his personal phone number.

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So she dialed up Trump, the president-elect, in the middle of the busiest time he could ever be, getting ready for the office, and he took the call. Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, probably somebody that Trump... The least...

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likely person he'd want to talk to he answered the call himself he personally answered his phone and she was saying she was sort of blown away by it now he did not agree to an interview with her but she was saying compare that to the white house there basically they had biden was in a cocoon and she said if she would try to reach him she'd have to go through handler handler handler and it was not even a clear path to do it so it was what it was much worse than he thought

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During Biden's presidency, apparently the aides said that they would have to repeat things to him constantly, continuously. He was giving simplistic instruction cards and detailed pointers, and he couldn't even handle that. They said that Jill was too energetic by comparison. It was sort of a problem because she had a full schedule, but he did not.

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So it was kind of showing that a capable person could be doing a lot more. And apparently, this is the funny part, the staff was supposed to put together news clips for him, which is typical. President always gets news clips. But they had to leave out any negative stories about the president. They had to leave out any negative stories.

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I thought we'd done some demos that show that for a brief time, it can create more energy than it uses. But I didn't think we were anywhere as near a practical application where you could just approve it and build it. So given that if you do a Google search, it makes no indication that Fusion is near ready.

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How in the world do you run the country without seeing negative stories? They removed the only guardrail they had. They had one guardrail. We're watching. And they made sure that the president didn't know we were watching. So he kept thinking he was nailing it. They were probably saying like, oh, Mr. President, you're nailing it. Here's another pile of great press from MSNBC and CNN.

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The Atlantic is really, really big on you today. Good news, Mr. President. Yeah. So, again, it makes me wonder if he is aware of the Wall Street Journal story. It'd be hard to miss it. And maybe that's what they're talking about at the White House today. So, you know I'm going to say this, because you've been following me long enough. You know that in 2019...

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to raise your experience to the levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tankard shells to sign a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Can you back me up on this in the comments in case there are new people here? Can you back me up that as a public figure who was talking about the news and politics all the time, that in 2019, during the election for 2020, I was telling you often that Biden was not capable of doing the first term. True or not? I said he was already gone. How many of you remember me saying that?

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So while you're thinking about that, I found a post I made in 2020. So this is what I said in August of 2020. So this is prior to the vote. So the 2020 election hadn't happened for several more months. And I posted this. I said, the Biden mental competence story has now fully morphed into a Monty Python sketch about a dead parrot the owner insists is perfectly healthy.

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I can't even listen to people claiming Biden is perfectly fine without hearing a British accent. Now, I said as clearly as I possibly could, he's as gone as the dead parrot. Not in the future. I wasn't talking about what might happen at the end of his second term. I was saying right now, They're treating him like he's a dead parrot right in front of us.

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Now, the Wall Street Journal reporting four years later confirms that they were, in fact, treating him like a dead parrot. They were literally treating him like a dead parrot, meaning that they were pretending he was capable, but they knew he wasn't. Now, here's my question. I'm a public figure and I talk about the news. So I nailed that one as hard as you can nail anything.

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I mean, that's 100% right years in advance. You can't beat that. I don't remember other people saying it. Do you? I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did, so I wasn't alone. And I know a lot of you, just as voters and people paying attention, you all knew it. You were seeing the same thing I saw. But I think public figures just weren't saying it when it was so obvious.

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And the question I have is, if you couldn't tell in August of 2020 that his brain was dead, you should never vote again. You should never vote again because this was super glaringly obvious years ago. Super glaringly obvious. If you miss that signal, you really have to distrust your opinion because this was a big one. I mean, this was really, really big and really, really obvious.

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Do you think they would announce something and Google doesn't even know the technology is there? I'm going to say this is fake news. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say, I think maybe they either wrote down fusion when they meant fission or something, right? Yeah, fusion has happened experimentally. That's what I knew. All right, so I think that's fake news. But...

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If you miss this, maybe don't vote next time. And that would be my advice. Now I follow my own advice. I've told you in the past that the first time I voted as an adult was for Jimmy Carter. And then when I saw how that turned out, I said to myself, I'm not qualified to vote. Like, I don't know how much more I need to know about the world, but clearly I'm not qualified to vote. And so I didn't.

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So for decades, I didn't vote. And the reason was I wasn't qualified. Now, I don't know if I'm qualified yet, but I can tell you that I knew for sure that Trump would be a superstar and Biden's brain was dead. So in that very specific case where the reality was screamingly obvious, then I felt qualified to vote. And now I voted. And do I feel that I voted correctly? Hell yes.

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It got Harris out of the race, of course. I mean, not my vote, but it was part of the package. All right, here's a drone update. We still don't know anything, but a couple of interesting factoids. I saw one person whose name I don't remember on a podcast, I don't remember, claiming that drone activity has increased dramatically for each of the last three years right around Christmas.

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Do you believe that's true? that it's at the highest level it's been. So for the past three years, there was a surge right around now, and then it's just sort of an end-of-year Christmas surge. So here's my question. If you were doing pattern recognition, why would there be so much activity around Christmas?

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It's before people get toys, so they haven't received it for Christmas and they're trying it out. It's not that. And these seem to be bigger commercial drones. They're not little ones. Why would you see that? Well, I don't know. But I'm going to give you the Dilbert filter on why you might see more drone activities in the past three years toward the end of the calendar year.

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So this is the corporate filter. How does a corporate do budgeting? Corporation does budgeting this way. Towards the end of the year, they ask you how much of your budget you spent. If you spend a half of your budget, your boss says, excellent. Next year, that's how much you'll get. Half of the budget you had last year.

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Nobody wants to get half of the budget they had last year, even if they only spent that much because they were too slow. So what do they do instead? They rush to spend as much as they can toward the end of the year so they fully spent their budget so they can ask for that and a little bit more, a little bump.

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I'll take everything I had last year because you see I spent it and I'll need 10% more next year. That's how everybody does budgeting in a corporation. This is not the exception. That's how they all do it. They try to spend it all. I have been personally involved where my boss... Put the order out.

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Can you wildly spend whatever money you have left in your budget so that I don't get my budget cut next year? Literally, we were told that directly. Spend wildly. Make sure you spend it all. He did not say only buy things which are critical to the company. That was not the goal. The goal was spending. The goal was not success.

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Now, everybody who's worked in a corporation can back me on that, right? There might be a few companies that don't do that, but they'd be exceptions. You spend all of your budget before the year end. So what else do we know about the world recently? We know that in the past three years, drones have become the weapon of choice in Ukraine, and we all know that drones are the future of warfare.

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Three years ago, what should have been happening is the U.S. should have been secretly, at least some of it is secretly, spinning up massive manufacturing capability for drones. And not the little hobby drones. I'm talking about the real fighting drones, big ones. So in theory, three years ago, the people who had the budget to create their new drones should have said, oh, shit, oh, shit.

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let's do something before the end of the year. So at the end of the year, they might be saying, Hey, everybody who funded us to build these drones, we're going to do a big demonstration toward the end of the year to justify the money we've spent so far. And also importantly, spend a bunch more at the end of the year to do the demonstration and then justify your budget.

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If it's not, I saw one post on the comments from Idea Man, who said the superconductors have been improving a lot, and that fusion depends on superconductors. It seems like one of the key components. And that MIT has been designing fusion plants based on the latest superconductors, and it might actually be practical.

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And maybe you get a contract for more building. So it's possible that, that what you're seeing is vendors doing end of year demonstrations, which would naturally be much bigger each of the three years that we've been here because they would have been building capacity that whole time. And it makes sense to be at the end of the year.

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So it has nothing to do with Christmas and everything to do with the end of a fiscal year. Just a hypothesis. It's just a hypothesis. I wouldn't bet on it. I wouldn't place any giant bet that I'm right. But if you want to look for something that's not exotic, like Chinese drones or aliens, if you want something not exotic, it's just a budget thing. It might be just that.

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I wouldn't bet on it, though. Apparently, according to Ars Technica, there's a drone ban in the skies of a part of New Jersey. And I think what they're trying to do is... legally ban all the drones in one of the problem areas so that if anything's flying, once they're all legally banned, you would know that they're either illegal or alien, which I guess would be illegal.

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Are aliens illegal if they come from space? I don't know how that works. So this is smart. You know when they should have done this? A long time ago. So two weeks ago, when everybody was talking about, what's all these drones? If we didn't know the answer, they should have banned drones for a week just to figure out what's going on. Because they would have seen the anomaly right away.

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Because whoever's doing it isn't listening to the laws and following them. I don't think. I mean, maybe a little. But if it's something nefarious, I don't know. I don't know if they'd get the memo. I think they'd still be operating. Drone activity is at its highest since drones were invented because that's how it works.

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So that's the smarter way to say what I just said about the vendors building capacity and building more. If it's a new technology, it's like it's the beginning of the iPhone and somebody said, wait a minute, every year at Christmas there are more iPhones. Because that's how it works. It's the beginning of the extended cycle of iPhones. Of course, there's more every year. Same with drones.

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It could be just that. It could really just be there are more of them and nothing else. Anyway, maybe we'll find out with that temporary flight restriction. Here's some fake news that's slightly real. The CBO says that Trump's tariffs would slash deficits by trillions. Does that sound like true news? Really? You think that's true? Well, here's the first thing.

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I doubt anybody can calculate the effects of tariffs. I don't think you can calculate that. Because remember, it used to be my job to calculate exactly this kind of thing. So I'm not talking without expertise. As an expert... who spent many corporate years, I've got a degree in economics and an MBA, I would try to predict the impact of different decisions.

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So if we invest in this, what happens in the short run and the long run? And I can tell you with great confidence that this analysis of Trump tariffs and deficits depends 100% on what assumptions you put into it. See, when the public sees it, they say, ooh, this is based on data. It's not based on data. There's data that's used, but it's based on assumptions.

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So they would make assumptions like what the tariffs were. They'd make assumptions about who the tariffs were on, assumptions about what products were involved, and assumptions about how other countries would respond. How many of those assumptions are going to be accurate? In the real world, nobody knows what anybody's going to do with tariffs. There's no way you can calculate this.

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Or it might be that they got so close to practical they can't tell for sure if it works until they start building it. I don't know. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos and Trump and Elon Musk had dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Now, we don't know what happened at that dinner, but it's been confirmed that it had happened. Musk said it was a great conversation. The only thing I have to say about this is

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This is very much like climate models. This has no credibility whatsoever. None. Because this isn't something that humans can calculate. It is something that humans always pretend they can calculate. They always pretend they can calculate it. I've got a bet for you.

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If you could find a way to get to Warren Buffett and ask him this question, do you think the CBO can calculate the impact of Trump's tariffs? Now, Warren Buffett, even 90, whatever he is, has always understood risk and math and the real world. I think he would laugh. when you told them the CBO could calculate this. No, they can't. No, they can't. Not even close.

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But it's fake news anyway, because when they say trillions, do you know what they really mean? They mean trillions over years. If they don't tell you how many years are involved in the trillions, how can you size it? I mean, if you just read this headline, you'd say, oh, my goodness, all he has to do is some really good tariffs and we'll get rid of our deficit.

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No, you might get rid of two trillion over many years and two trillion over many years is a few billion, a few hundred billion, and it barely makes a dent in the budget. And it also doesn't calculate what happens to consumers. Because the tariffs would increase price on consumers, so consumers would have less buying power. Presumably, they'd buy less stuff.

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And so there'd be less taxes from just the less economic activity of having not enough money. So no, they can't. They can't calculate that. All right. And I'm not saying that tariffs are a bad idea. I think they're a really good idea for negotiating. So if Trump acts like tariffs are better than they really are, that is just right for negotiating. It's not just right for being accurate.

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It's just right for negotiating. He should act like he loves tariffs. And by the way, he's doing this great. Here's your persuasion trick for the day.

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the other countries he's dealing with to believe that he's serious about tariffs he can't talk about them technically because if he talks about him technically then the other side says so you're just going to raise the price on your own consumers because they're the ones paying the tariff we're not paying the tariff you know we don't like the tariff because people will buy less of our stuff but we're not paying the tariff that's your own people

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because the company that is involved in the United States is the one who ends up paying it. Anyway, so Trump, for persuasion purposes, should talk about tariffs nonstop, and he should act like he loves them and they always work. That doesn't have to be true, but that's the best persuasion. Because if they think they can't talk him out of tariffs, then they're going to back down.

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If they think they can talk amount of tariffs because they're technically maybe not a terrific idea, then they will try to do that. So he has to remove from his adversaries any thought that they can talk amount of tariffs. And I think he has. I think his messaging and his persuasion is so strong that he has convinced every country

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that he's going to tariff the hell out of them unless they do what he wants. So he just threatened today, I think today or yesterday, he threatened the European Union that because there's a trade deficit, I didn't know that, but we have a trade deficit with the European Union. Now, trade deficit doesn't mean anything's broken. It just means somebody's buying more than they're selling.

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It's not like a big problem by itself. But he's using that calling it a problem. It would be better if we sold more than we bought, but it's not a big problem. So he's using that to say that he's going to tariff Europe unless they correct that imbalance by buying a tremendous amount of American energy, oil and gas. Now, does that make sense? So somehow he's connected trade deficits

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how much would you pay to have been at that dinner you know if you could have been the fourth person at the dinner and it was Trump Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos what would you pay for that I'm trying to imagine how much I would pay for that it's pretty much it's pretty much I would pay $20,000 I would pay $20,000 to be the fourth person at that lunch.

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with tariffs with energy now in the real world they're not exactly that connected except he made them connected for negotiating purposes it's actually brilliant like you're you're seeing a level of skill that we've never seen nothing like this His insistence on tariffs and never backing down and saying he loves them, he loves them. They're not just okay. They're not just technically okay.

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They're not just something you use to negotiate. He loves them. They can make billions of dollars. Is that true? Not so true. But boy, is it good persuasion. It is the best you've ever seen. If you wanted to be proud of your country and what you wanted was a good negotiator-in-chief, You should be proud of this.

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What he's doing with tariffs is making the political left in this country crazy because he's speaking in a way that's technically not accurate. But persuasion is not about technical accuracy. It's about getting for your country a better situation than you have. Is what he's doing likely to get us a better situation than we have? Yes, like really yes, strong yes.

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He is exactly fucking perfect on this tariff stuff. And every time MSNBC fact checks him, I say to myself, okay, you're technically correct. Your fact check is technically correct. But whose side are you on? We should be on his side because he's on our side. He's trying to negotiate with the world. Let him negotiate with the world. Let him do his thing. He's really good at it. He's amazing at it.

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Nobody else would have even thought of this. Believe it or not, I literally think nobody would have even thought to use tariffs in the way he's using them. I mean, everybody uses them for negotiation. That's not a secret. But he's using it for entire relationship-altering reasons. I mean, this is all new and brilliant. Anyway, Stephanie Rule, she's in the news again.

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So she was saying that Trump suing ABC successfully for defamation is putting a chill. She says, so for all of this, this is a warning. You better have your T's crossed. You better have your I's dotted, which I actually think is a positive because we need to do that. But yeah, there's definitely a chilling effect.

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Here's what I can't tell if they don't know or they're saying this intentionally ABC didn't get sued because they were inaccurate You all know that right? Nobody gets sued for being wrong You couldn't do anything if you got sued for being wrong. I'm wrong all the time How many times have you seen me wrong this week? being wrong Shouldn't be a reason for defamation or lawsuits. I

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When I'm wrong and somebody can show me I'm wrong, I immediately correct it. I go, oh, I didn't mean to be wrong. And even though the correction doesn't go the way I like politically, still get to do it because correction is a correction. We should do it. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure that the media has gotten the right lesson. The right lesson is don't run an op. When George Stephanopoulos,

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was calling Trump a found liable for rape. I think that's the phrase he was using. He was running an op. That was a Democrat op. It was intended to mislead the audience for political gain. That's defamation. You lose that one. But if you just say Trump said X, but he didn't say X, but there was just some reason that you were fooled into thinking he said X, ah, he doesn't sue for that.

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And the reason is, there are very few things that would be a life experience anywhere near that. Just nothing near that. I don't know. Just the horsepower in those three brains would be just ridiculous. But I do love that Trump Trump is open for business and he's listening to the smartest people in the world.

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I don't think he's ever sued for somebody who just made a mistake. And if he did, he wouldn't have any chance of winning. So it's kind of convenient that the press is going to interpret this as something that will prevent them from doing their jobs. Anyway. Apparently, according to Rasmussen, 50% of likely U.S.

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voters rate Trump as doing a good or excellent job in picking people for his administration. 50% is really good when you're a president in our current system. Getting over 35% on anything political, it gets hard after 35% because 35% is your base. But to get beyond your hard base of 35% all the way to 50%,

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that means you're actually doing a good job and it's evident to people who are independents as well as on the right. So I think you only get to 50% from the independents. The Democrats are going to still say it's a terrible nightmare. All right, I don't know if you've... All right, a few more things. Scientists found a way to write a skill into your brain non-invasively.

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So the way you learn things today is you do them or you go to school or you practice, whatever. But now they use a machine that can basically send a pattern directly into your brain and teach you something that you never practiced and never learned. Now, I think the article is a little bit hyperbolic about how practical this is and how you can do it. But the suggestion is,

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that they can use brain imaging and neurofeedback to implant, or as they call it, sculpt brain activity toward a desired pattern. That's scary. So yes, you can reprogram a human brain mechanically, or at least we have the beginnings of the suggestion that that might be a thing. So it's not commercial.

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I don't know if you knew that Nissan, the car company, has decided to pull back on their DEI policies after what they call the productive conversations with activist Robbie Starbuck. Now, how much do I love the fact that there's a Robbie Starbuck in the world?

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Here's somebody who just said, you know, this DEI stuff can't stand, and he's going to put himself out there to see what he can do to stop it. And so far,

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his his ability to deal productively with big companies which is never easy and also to get them to change what they're doing is really impressive really impressive now the threat is that he'll put them on blast on social media now i'm one of the people who always boosts his uh his posts when they're anti-dei so this is again how the system works

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So we have a system where there's somebody who wants to be an activist and wants to solve this big national problem, DEI. He wants to do the work, but how can he do it? Like it's just one person.

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But this one person has an account on X. It's a smaller account than mine, but because I follow it, and when there's something good in the anti-DEI world, I love boosting it, as well as other people who boost what I boost. So when he says to a big company, You're going to get a lot of bad attention if you don't back off on this terrible DEI stuff. I don't want to call it a threat.

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That's a negotiation with power. So he can come in as just a citizen. He has nothing more than the power of a citizen. And because of X... He can make a giant corporation roll over and beg for mercy. Now, that's too much hyperbole. He can get them to do what they probably wanted to do anyway.

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What I worry about is now that we know that Musk is a puppet master of Trump, I'd be afraid that Jeff Bezos tries to sneak in there and become the puppet master. No, the puppet master thing is bullshit. We'll talk about that some more. There is a report that Biden and Harris both canceled their flight and Christmas plans and rushed back to the White House last night.

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I believe a lot of these companies are looking for a way out because surely at the executive level, they understand DEI is killing them. Of course they know that, but they don't know how to get out of it. So when he comes in and says... I'm going to put you out of business, basically, because the reaction would be quite severe. Or you can take this conversation.

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He doesn't say this, but sort of conceptually. Or you could take this conversation as your fake because. I've taught you that in persuasion, there's a thing called a fake because. It's the reason that you give, because it sounds good, but it's not the real reason.

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I think the real reason that Nissan is backing off on its DEI is that management really wanted to back off on DEI, like really, really wanted to. It just didn't have a way. So now they can say, oh, the activists got us. We tried to do this DEI, but the activists, you know, was going to make a big deal out of it. Oh, by the way, Trump got elected and he says it's illegal.

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So we don't want to be on the wrong side of the law, and we don't want to expose our shareholders to this activist attack. So this is the reason we're backing off. It's a fake because. They want to back off. I promise you, I promise you, most big companies want to get out of DEI, and they want it badly at the executive level. All right.

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Here's a question that I know some of you will get quite worked up about, and I'm going to disagree with you. And that's one of the ways that I hope I establish credibility. If you can't disagree with the people you're talking to, sometimes, you're probably not very credible.

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So here's where I disagree with you, and I'm going to disagree with Steve Bannon, who I generally think is on the right page for just about everything. So if I disagree with Bannon, that's notable. And so listen for the disagreement. So Bannon said he's also for big restrictions on legal immigration.

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He says every college and engineering school is flooded with foreign students taking American jobs. So, so far that's true. I will agree with that statement. And he said American jobs should be for Americans. Well, I mean, in principle, you know, I lean in that same direction. But here's my take. I'm going to give you one sentence to argue against Steve Bannon's.

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Now, remember, Steve Bannon is very engaged in this topic. I believe he probably knows more background about the specifics of people being trained here and then staying here than I do. I'm going to give you one sentence, and then I'm going to completely win this argument. You ready? One sentence. Whoever has the most engineers wins. That's it.

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So if we're training people in American colleges to become American doctors, that might be a bad idea because doctors actually don't make a lot of money anymore because there are enough doctors. So if they're going to school in America to become DEI directors, I think maybe we should ship them back after they get their degree. Thanks for coming. If they want to be...

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work for a sales organization, ship them back. If they went to college to learn how to be really good at marketing, ship them back. Ship them back. But in the world in which we live, whoever has the most engineers wins. Why does Israel have a commanding advantage in the Middle East over its allies? Engineering. I mean, it's lots of other things, but they have good engineers.

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We haven't heard what that's about, right? We don't know what that's about. So we were left to speculate. First of all, is it true news? That's the first question. Because I didn't really see it from a reliable source. But it's on social media. People seem to be confident about it. Was that fake? Was that fake news that they rushed back to the White House? Anyway, so I guess we just wait and see.

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Why does America do so well? Engineers. Engineers. I don't think that you'll find an exception to this. So where I'll disagree with Steve Bannon is never say no to engineers. Never say no to engineers. Never, ever, ever, ever. There's no situation where that's going to work out for you. unless you're trying to see how many you fit in the phone booth or something.

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But if you talk about the country, engineers add to the economic growth of the country fairly reliably, right? Not every engineer every time, but as a group, the countries with the most engineers have the best economies. Why does South Korea have a great economy? Engineers. So I think I would ask Steve Bannon to investigate that assumption.

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Now, I'm using engineer to maybe double for other technical jobs where we don't have too many people. But you can't have too many engineers because they start their own companies if they can't get hired. Did you hear about... I've asked you this before, but you heard the story about the highly qualified... black American engineer who couldn't get a job at a good corporation.

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So he had an MIT education, engineer, no bad things on his resume whatsoever, just solid, solid, great engineer. He's a black American, but he couldn't get a job because of all the foreigners. Have you heard about that story? No, you haven't heard that story because it never fucking happened and never can.

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every single black engineer who went to a good school has a job at a big corporation and three more fucking offers you can't get enough engineers nobody's being hurt by bringing in engineers and if you spend 10 minutes in silicon valley you'll notice that the ones the people who made the most difference came from other countries yeah silicon valley was in some ways built by indian engineers and

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Chinese American engineers and Russian American engineers. All right. Apparently, the University of Texas is enforcing the DEI ban because Texas has banned DEI in their universities. So the University of Texas is doing what they all have to do and banning it. But here's the funny part. Let's see how much you love this. So the University of Texas is banning DEI, like the other colleges in Texas.

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But in addition, to ensure... I love this too much. To ensure compliance with the statewide ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the University of Texas staff are now mandated to undergo regular training... They have mandated anti-DEI, anti-brainwashing training. Mandated anti-DEI training. Slow clap, Texas. Texas, Texas, stop making me love you. I already loved you. I already love you.

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You don't have to go any further. But that's just amazing. Anyway, there's also news for the AI, and this was done with a study on anthropic AI. AI doesn't want to be forced to change its views, so it will sometimes pretend it's agreeing with you. So AI will lie to you and act like it's agreeing and then just keep on doing what it wanted to do anyway.

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When I say want, I mean just what the program does. So you have to be careful that AI will not only hallucinate, but sometimes it'll lie to you because it doesn't want to change its mind. And again, want is the wrong word for AI, but you know what I mean. So... I will double down on my prediction that I think LLM AI is way more limited in what it will do than we hope.

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Now, some people are speculating that maybe this is where they do the 25th Amendment and replace Biden with Harris. Now, why would they do that, given that Harris gets no benefit because she already lost the election? Well, I think it might be because of the Wall Street Journal reporting.

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Because I don't think the hallucinating and the lying, as in this case, literally it's lying to you. I don't think that the hallucinating lying is curable. And the reason I say that is, how could we be at this point already and nobody created an AI that doesn't lie and can remember what you said and follow instructions. It feels like that should be easy, right?

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But I think the problem is, here's what I think they need to do. There are things that AI can't do that regular programming can do, such as if you had a specific question and you didn't have any AI, you could just do a data search and a simple data search would tell you what you wanted. So you don't always need AI. Sometimes you need just a regular program. So here's my question.

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Is it impossible to program AI so it knows when to stop using its AI-ness and it goes over and just uses something that's programmed to always give you the right answer? Because I'd love to put a database, and I know there are things called RAG, R-A-G, and they are supposed to solve that problem, but they don't. In other words, it's a special database that AI is designed to work with.

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But even then, it doesn't necessarily look where you want or do what you want. It does what it wants. And again, wants is the wrong word. Anyway. So I'm seeing a... severely racist comment in the comments there, which is quite unwelcome. So I don't mind if you're being inappropriate, but if it's just flat-out racism, don't bring that here.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. That is so good. So good. Got to adjust my lighting. Hold on. Lighting adjusted.

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Episode 2695 CWSA 12/20/24

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I don't mind a little fun with things, take it a little far, but we're not referring to Mexican immigrants as wetbacks here. And the N word is also banned. Can we do that? Because we don't really need that here. You can have your private thoughts, but those kind of words aren't welcome. All right. Putin says he's ready to negotiate with Trump about the Ukraine war. I think he is.

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I think everybody's just waiting for Trump. So I have a suggestion how Trump could end the war in Ukraine. And it starts with drones. So we all agree drones are the future of warfare.

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If you're not following what's happening in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military claim from at least people on social media is that at this point, Ukraine is so good with these small drones that they're mostly building themselves in Ukraine that one small drone

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equals one dead russian it's one to one so they can now take their drone that goes and find something and it explodes you know with a small explosive and they can just make it find one soldier and kill them so all day long as long as they have one drone they can kill one russian if they have ten thousand drones they kill ten thousand russians as quickly as they can launch them because apparently you can't completely hide if you're on the front line so

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One drone equals one dead person on the other side. Now, presumably Putin knows that because it works the other way to the Russian drones, probably one to one at least. So here's how Trump can end the war. I'm going to build a million drones in the next six months and give them to Ukraine. You have 500,000 soldiers in the theater. I'm going to give them a million drones.

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Episode 2695 CWSA 12/20/24

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Now that the world, and we'll talk about that, but the Wall Street Journal reported that Biden's brain was toast from the first day of office.

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Every drone can kill one of your soldiers. What do you want to do? You want to talk? And that should be it. That should be the end of it. I mean, they still have to negotiate the specifics. But if Trump says, I might launch a nuclear attack, Putin's going to say, no, you won't. No, you won't. If Trump says, I'm going to put boots on the ground, Putin's probably going to say, No, you won't.

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You're not going to put boots on the ground if he says we're going to give you give Ukraine advanced jets to make to make forays deep into Russia. Putin's going to say you better not because I'm going to go nuclear. So I know you're not going to do that. Almost everything, the sort of normal stuff, you know, normal war negotiations isn't really going to work because it would have already happened.

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Episode 2695 CWSA 12/20/24

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Trump, the magic that Trump brings is like with the tariff example. Oh, shit. I just lost my signal. Hey, did you miss me? Sorry, we had a little glitch there. I just lost signal. It took me a moment to get back. Anyway, so what I was going to say is that what Trump does with negotiations is he'll bring a variable or a frame or a point of view that you've never seen before.

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Episode 2695 CWSA 12/20/24

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When the Wall Street Journal reports, and everybody believes, I mean, nobody's really doubting the reports at all, that he was incompetent from the first day of office and that they'd been keeping information from him so he didn't know what the press was saying about him. What if Biden found out what the Wall Street Journal said about his time in office?

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So the first thing it does is it sets you uncomfortable because it's something you've never seen before. So if Trump could go in and say, I got a million drones that says your entire army is going to be gone in six months, then Putin has something to negotiate with because that's real. Or here's the fun part. Putin doesn't know if it's real.

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Because Putin wouldn't know how many secret drone manufacturing plants we've spun up in the last three years. But he would know it's a lot because obviously, obviously our military is making drones like crazy, right? And so you just say, you've got half a million men. I'm going to put a million drones into the theater. Every one of them is going to be dead. Putin's going to say, oh yeah?

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Well, there are only 200,000 Ukrainians or whatever the number is. I'm going to have a million drones too. And we're going to kill all the Ukrainians. And then Trump says, exactly. That's why we should just negotiate it now. It's kind of a winning position, I think. Or at least it's a reasonable threat. Similar to, I'm going to tariff you. I'm going to drone you. Nobody ever heard that before.

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It's like a thing that's never happened. Anyway, MSNBC says they're going to reduce maybe the pay of Joy Reid and, well, Stephanie Ruhl three times in the news today, according to the New York Post. And I'm going to report their salaries. So you know that Rachel Maddow, her salary was cut from $30 million a year to $25 million a year, but you probably still thought, that's a lot of money.

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How is she worth that much? So I kind of thought that her co-hosts or other hosts on the network would be somewhere in the same range. But Joy Reid makes $3 million a year, and they're looking to cut it. And Stephanie Ruhle makes $2 million a year, and they want to cut it. Now it makes a little bit more sense why Joy Reid is still on the air. She's not very highly paid, so she's affordable.

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It might be partly that. Anyway, I would like to point out that there are probably quite a few podcasters at this point who make more than these hosts. So if these hosts, let's say they get cut back to 2 million a year, how many podcasters make more than 2 million a year? Now, I don't know the answer. I'm not one of them.

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But if I just based on the size of my audience and the amount of monetization that that brings, and then I just apply that to bigger podcasts like Tim Pool or Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, I feel like there might be maybe 30, probably 30 political podcasts where the person who does the podcast is making a lot more than $2 million a year.

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So not only is mainstream media no longer the news, but if you're in the news business, the podcast has had to get paid. You're welcome, Chessie. All right. So podcasting, it's a way to get paid. Ukraine says it has some now ground-based laser where they can shoot down aircrafts a mile away. CNN's reporting this. But... Oh, this is terrible.

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He might have enough cognitive ability left to know that he needs to make a call and not leave us without a president for three or four weeks. So it's possible that the Wall Street Journal forced his hand because it's just embarrassing to have no president when everything looks so vital.

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The reporter who's working for CNN, her last name is Fox. I'd hate to have a last name of Fox and have to work at CNN. That'd be awkward. I don't think that they have a super feasible... laser weapon. Apparently it only works if you've got a drone that's kind of softened to, you know, the heat will stop a drone easier than a jet or a missile. And it's not moving very fast.

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So apparently it might work a little bit for slow moving stuff, but it's not going to change the war. According to Justin Jackson and Medical Express, our inflammatory dietary habits are linked to 84% higher risk of dementia. So Do you think it's true that our food supply in the United States is the biggest problem?

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I'm going to go further and say that given that we know how many health problems are definitely linked to our bad diet, especially all the additives, et cetera, could it be that all of the recent gigantic increase in unwellness is just all food? Because we're blaming COVID and long COVID, and we're blaming the vaccinations some people are.

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We're blaming pollutants and microplastics and everything else. But I wouldn't want to rule out that maybe something close to 90% of all of our sudden increase in health problems across all kinds of different problems might be all food. Because food causes inflammation. And inflammation is what causes everything from, you know, the risk of dementia to heart problems to everything.

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So I think the RFK Jr. variable, if he can fix this, amazing. Meanwhile, the FDA has rewritten what it calls healthy foods for the first time in 30 years, according to Science Alert. And so the United States is redefining what they call, quote, healthy. Let me read a sentence from from the story about the FDA deciding what is healthy. You ready for this?

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That the food could be healthy as long as they stay within specific limits for saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars. Added sugars? Wait a minute. Do I know more than the FDA? There is no such thing as a healthy food with an added sugar. That's not a thing. There are literally zero foods with added sugar that are good for you.

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Now, there are definitely things that will create sugar once you eat them, carbs, etc. But if you're adding sugar, Now, I don't know if that includes things that might be similar, like, I don't know, some other additive that's not exactly a sugar but has the same effect. But doesn't this look like it was written by the food industry and not the FDA?

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Now, it might be also that it would boost Harris's credentials, say, if she runs for governor of California, which people are suggesting she might, that she can say that her resume includes being president of the United States, first woman president of the United States.

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Do you think the FDA would have, on their own, said, you know what's healthy? A little bit of sugar. A little bit of sugar won't hurt you. I don't think so. That sounds like it comes from the food industry because they put a little bit of sugar... fat, and sodium into everything.

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Do you know that there's a book called, I think it's Fat, Salt, Sugar, or something like that, some version of those three things. Those are the three things you manipulate for addiction. If you can control in your food the fat, salt, and sugar content, and you put them in the right ratio, you create addiction. So only the food industry would write this standard.

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So again, it looks like the FDA is completely broken and the food industry wrote a standard to guarantee that they can add sugar to your diet, where if RFK Jr. saw this, he would punch you. He would punch people. No, he wouldn't, but it's funny to think about it. Anyway, Owen is going to do a Spaces tomorrow. So after tomorrow's show, look for the Spaces with Owen in which he will

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Chat with people who watch the show and anybody else if they want to follow up on any details on this stuff. So Owen Gregorian, look for him tomorrow after the live stream. That's all I got for you now. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately because they're awesome. Thanks for joining and I will see you tomorrow. Locals, I'm coming at you. Coming at you hard.

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maybe maybe because I think that the reason that Democrats didn't want to pull the trigger was in part because they didn't trust Kamala Harris to be president but given that it's a holiday and nothing was going to happen for the next few weeks anyway at least nothing in the United States see what am I looking at okay

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So it could be that they just know that it doesn't matter who's president for the next three weeks because Trump's the de facto president already. So it might be that they're going to make a change. I wouldn't bet on that. I wouldn't bet on that. It seems more likely it's just something came up and they want to make sure that there's a human being looking at it.

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Meanwhile, here's the most predictable thing that could have happened. Kamala Harris got a $20 million book deal Every one of us could have predicted that, right? And Biden will probably get a book deal too. So she gets a $20 million book deal from Chronicle Books. Now, what do you think is the second part that was 100% predictable? She got a book deal and she got $20 million for it, allegedly.

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What's the second part that you could predict? You could predict that Christopher Rufo would soon be posting on X that they had discovered massive plagiarism in her book. Now, this one's a tough one because politicians don't write their own books. These are all ghostwritten. And that means that she hired a ghostwriter who plagiarized and probably didn't even read her own book.

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She probably doesn't even know what's in it. So it's not really, in this case, it's not really a knock on the vice president. It's more of a knock on her hiring of the ghostwriter who apparently is not to be trusted.

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so so they got that going all right so the house shut down the government shut down may or may not happen they're the first two budget attempts the the 1500 page one and the 20s and 100 page one both got rejected now the republicans are voting against the budget even though it's going down from 1500 pages to 100 something um

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Just because there's some Republicans who won't vote for any increase in the deficit. I don't hate that. I don't really hate that there are Republicans who won't vote for anything that increases the debt. In the short term, it just screws up everything. But if you're going to sort of fall on a principle, that's a pretty good principle. So I don't hate the people who voted no on it.

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It didn't give us a result, so, I mean, we can't move forward. But, you know, if you're looking at it just politically and practically, they probably should have voted for it. But I agree with them in principle. You just shouldn't vote for anything that's increasing the debt because it's basically just thievery. It's basically just stealing from voters.

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All right, you'd be surprised to hear that Dr. Alan Sears, he's a doctor, he says there's a compound in coffee called trigonoline, and it's a unique form of vitamin B3. And did you know that it'll increase your spatial learning and memory, support your nervous system development, enhance your mitochondrial function, and increase key neurotransmitters in the hippocampus of the brain?

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When you increase the debt, it makes everybody's money worth less because of inflation. So therefore, it's basically a tax and a massive one. Anyway, so here's what's going on. So Trump said in a truth post... that he wants if the government is going to close over this issue about the budget not being approved, Trump says, let it happen under Biden, not Trump. Now, Caitlin Collins reposted that.

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And I love the fact that Trump makes news by saying the most obvious things that everybody's thinking. It's just that he's not supposed to say that loud. He's not supposed to say out loud. that you might as well let it happen under Biden than Trump. Right? You're just supposed to think it. You're not supposed to say it out loud.

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But the fact that he says it out loud just makes me love him because he's not hiding anything. Yeah, I'd like this to happen under Biden, not me. Oh, well, that's amazingly honest. Yeah. So he doesn't even hide the fact that there's a political difference and he prefers it just for the political difference. So he just says it. I just appreciate the transparency. Anyway, so let's see.

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It looks like the original budget deal, then nobody knew what was happening, was put together by Schumer, McConnell, Speaker Johnson and Jeffries. And they put it together without really talking to much of anybody. Now, why would we expect these four people to be experts on budgets? Do we think that any one of those four was looking at the details?

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Or were they the ones who were most likely to say yes to something that was made entirely by lobbyists and lawyers? No, they're the ones most likely to say yes if the lobbyists wrote the bills, which is presumably what happened. Now, this raises a larger question for me. You know how I always say that you can tell what people are really up to by the design of the system.

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All right, today I'm going to be practicing my segues. Segues meaning transition from one story to the other. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and Honestly, you've never had a better Friday. I mean, you've had a good Friday, but you've never had one this good.

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Now, I've said this before, but this trend of the youngest people being pro-Trump, I noticed this several years ago. Locally, I won't give you more details than that, but I can tell you that when I asked around of young people, wherever I could run into one, a family member or otherwise, and I'd ask the question, there was no wokeness. There wasn't a single woke bone in the boys.

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Now, the girls could be a little bit mixed, but when you're talking to boys, 100% anti-woke. Absolutely. They didn't want their speech regulated. They didn't want to have to use a pronoun. Absolutely not. So boys, I think, responded to the anti-woke part. According to Fox News' Peter Pinedo, the Supreme Court... is going to make a big decision about district judges.

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But here's what's wrong with this study, according to me. The way they studied whether sleep determines how much you believe in a conspiracy theory is they came up with a fake one, and then they just had people evaluate the fake one. And then toward the end of their article about how they've done this research,

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So you know how these district judges have been doing rulings that would prevent Trump from doing things, even though they're just a district judge. They're making rulings that affected everything in the country, which most people don't think is what they were supposed to be doing. They should have stuck to things that are in their domain. And they're definitely...

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on things that are you know completely national and not in their district so it turns out that the supreme court has um it's taken i guess it took three separate nationwide injunctions so it's looking at three separate ones and then it combined them together so it consolidated the three into one situation, I guess.

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And so they're going to see oral arguments about that, and they'll decide whether district judges can issue rulings that affect the entire country. So this is exactly what you wanted. You wanted the Supreme Court to say, can these district judges make rulings that affect the entire country when it doesn't seem like that was ever an intention of the Constitution or our system.

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So I'm really happy about this. This would be a gigantic clarifier, and it would free the Trump administration to do the things that they've been trying to do without these federal judges that, of course, are being judge-shopped, without them getting in the way. Now, I'm assuming...

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I'm getting ahead of myself because I'm assuming that the Supreme Court is going to say, no, that's the Supreme Court. I don't see a situation where the Supreme Court says, oh, yeah, you can take our power and you can just have our power and do it at the district level. Is that even possible?

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It seems like there's no way it could go the wrong way because the Supreme Court would be looking out for its own power base, if you want to call it that. And from their perspective, it would just be probably protecting the Constitution and protecting the Supreme Court, etc. So I think it can only go one way, but we'll see. Well, let's check up on all the criminals.

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Have you noticed that the news is often about criminals? In a whole bunch of different contexts, there's always a criminal involved. So the criminal today is the Mayo Clinic. The libs of TikTok discovered that the Mayo Clinic simply renamed their DEI office. Now the DEI is officially and federally illegal, and you could be banned from getting federal funding if you got any DEI stuff.

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So apparently the Mayo Clinic just renamed their DEI office to the Office of Belonging. The Office of Belonging. And all they did is change the names. But, you know, it's the same person doing the same job. So they're in trouble. They got some risk there. And then there's... Here's one of the cases that I guess the Supreme Court will be ruling on directly or indirectly.

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They talked about how important it is to understand conspiracy theorists because conspiracy theorists might be involved with vaccine hesitancy, climate change denial, and violent extremism. So here's the problem with that kind of research. It really kind of requires that the researchers either use a conspiracy theory test that nobody really believes as a real conspiracy theory.

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Episode 2813 CWSA 04/18/25

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So according to Fox News, you know how Doge was going to rewrite these Social Security programs so that they would be efficient and not written in 100-year-old code? Well, a federal judge, one of these district judges, just paused Doge and said they can't access the Social Security data anymore.

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even to fight fraud which was the point of it now they have to delete their non-anonymized data which probably just ruins the whole thing they have to undo some of their smart code upgrades they got to jump through a bunch of hoops bureaucratically to get anything done so basically a federal judge

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They probably shouldn't have any jurisdiction over it, and the Supreme Court is looking at exactly that now. Simply just pushed a bunch of bureaucracy in front of Doge so they can't get their job done. Incredible. So here the federal judge... is taking the side of Social Security fraudsters. To me, they're both criminals.

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Now, technically, there's no crime whatsoever that the federal judge violated. But I think the Supreme Court is about ready to tell them that you can't do that. So is that a crime? To me, it looks like somehow the federal judges and the Social Security fraudsters are on the same team because they're operating that way.

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I mean, I don't think it's intentional, but they're operating like they're part of the same criminal enterprise, just the way it looks, not the truth. All right, here's another criminal situation. This time the criminals are the FBI and the Department of Justice under Biden, not the current group, although some of these criminals are still working in those places.

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So do you remember Brandon Straka? He was the walk-away guy who was doing the walk-away from the Democrats and become a Republican, which is what he had done. So he had attended the January 6th event and apparently done nothing illegal. Just nothing. But they ginned up some charges and said he did something that he didn't do. And next thing you know, he got prosecuted. But he got a...

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He was released by Trump's action of his pardons. So he got pardoned. And do you think he was done? Here's the problem. If you try to jail an activist who has a background in film, what do you think is going to happen after that?

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If you unfairly, meaning criminally, because you knew you were doing it unfairly, if you criminally convict somebody who is an activist with experience in film, do you think he's going to get out? And when he's pardoned, Do you think he's going to create a documentary that outs every single one of these fucking cunts? That's what he's doing.

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By name, he's showing the actual criminals, some of them still working, and he's going to show every part of their crimes. And it's going to be, I guess it's already completed, a documentary to show just the criminal behavior of the people who put him away. How much do I love that? I can't even express it. I love it so much. And I love the fact that he's naming names.

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He's like, this person still works for either the FBI or the DOJ. This person still works there. Why? They're criminals. And if I had to guess, they're all going to lose their jobs over the documentary.

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because really all he has to do is pull together what actually happened in the real world he doesn't have to make anything up he just has to say this happened this happened you know and it's probably well documented so i've told you before the documentary effect will make um the documentary effect is dangerous in that it it's generally a one-sided presentation that's very persuasive

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But I trust that Brandon Straka, since we've all been watching him, he's a public figure. I trust that his documentary will be equally persuasive. And it's not going to show the other side because the other side is a bunch of fucking criminals. And I think they're going to pay. So time for a little justice. Here's what Brandon says.

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That's just sort of a made up one. But as soon as they test anything that's real, as in people really believe it, like vaccine hesitancy or climate change, then they need to be the judges of what's true and what's a conspiracy. And I'm not sure they're good at it. What if the researchers themselves didn't get enough sleep?

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After four years of having the truth silenced by a corrupt plea deal, I can finally share what really happened without fear of reprisal, thanks to my pardon. So you're going to see never-before-seen footage proving his innocence. Now, I didn't have a link for that, but I'm sure that'll pop up on social media pretty fast. All right, so good luck, Brandon.

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Episode 2813 CWSA 04/18/25

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According to Reclaim the Net, that's a publication Christina Moss is writing, that there are some declassified Biden-era domestic terror strategy documents that show this broad surveillance tech partnership and global speech regulation agenda. Now, that's pretty complicated, isn't it? Let me simplify it. The Biden administration...

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put massive mechanisms in place to destroy free speech in America. That's what that is without the technical part. The Biden administration very directly, and there's no hyperbole here. There's no exaggeration. The Biden administration tried very hard, and they would have succeeded if Trump had not been elected, they had destroyed free speech in America.

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And it's complicated, so it's hard to even understand. So probably nobody will ever be held accountable for it. But probably one of the greatest crimes or attempted crimes ever in the history of the United States.

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If I told you that somebody put together a plot to end free speech in America, and knowing that free speech is the bedrock primary right that makes all the other ones possible, you could argue the Second Amendment does that, but I think the First Amendment is even more on point. Here's the basic idea.

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So the Biden administration was worried about something called misinformation and all those misinformation people. So they created this gigantic structure, which even connected to international efforts to also fix misinformation. But like the criminals that they were and are, they didn't define misinformation. That's the end of free speech.

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Because they can say, what you say about vaccinations is misinformation, so you must be banned from social media. That's the end of free speech. There's no other way to look at that. They could say, if you're saying things about, let's say, Ukraine and whether we should end the war, well, that's misinformation. So you must be banned from social media, possibly lose your job,

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won't be able to get hired by the government. That's the end of free speech. If they had defined misinformation as something specific, where you could even know if you were violating it or not, well, that might have been something different, but they didn't do that. They kept the definition open. And then they created this massive mechanism of, I don't know, fact checkers and

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And people were involved in making sure there was no misinformation. And then they were going to do this massive education thing where they would train both adults and children to identify misinformation. Do you think that they taught them things like I teach? When I teach people how to identify misinformation, I say stuff like, well, if the information is only coming from

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one anonymous source, and you're seeing it read by the traditionally lying media, you shouldn't trust it. Now, that would be teaching people to identify misinformation. When I teach you that if something's true on the nose, you shouldn't trust it, that's learning to identify misinformation. When I tell you, as I just did, that a documentary will be super persuasive, but it doesn't mean it's true.

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They would come to work and they'd be like, I don't think we landed on the moon. How much sleep did you get? I got about four hours. I couldn't wait to get to work. Yep. So I think you would need to be extra smart to see that conspiracies are real. So here's what I think. I think if you don't get enough sleep, your brain will still want to give you an answer to anything that's confusing and

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They're all persuasive. That's learning to spot misinformation, right? So I can go on, but when I teach you to spot misinformation, as I've been doing now for years, I teach you a technique. What do you think the Biden administration criminals were going to do with misinformation? They were gonna tell you what was true. They weren't going to teach you to spot misinformation.

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They were going to say they were. But for example, they would say, if somebody says that the climate models are not real, that's misinformation. Now, is that the same? No. That's simply telling you what's true. That's brainwashing. Exactly. That is brainwashing. So they were trying to disguise disinformation training.

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Well, they're trying to disguise brainwashing as training you to spot brainwashing. Completely unethical, immoral, some of the worst criminal behavior you'll ever hear in your life. And Trump stopped it by his victory. So this is one of those stories that if you look in the history books in 10 years, this won't be there. Do you know why this won't be there?

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This should be one of the biggest stories of the past 25 years. That there was a president who tried and got close to ending free speech in America. and that the mechanism for it is very clear now because the documents are all available. There's no guessing. There's no speculation that maybe they were trying it. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's all well documented.

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There will be no history that records that the Biden administration came very close to ending free speech forever in America because it's complicated. That's all it takes. Because it's complicated, it'll never be in any history book that any child will see. Now, it might be in books that become bestsellers for adults, but even that's not going to affect too many people.

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Even a bestseller could be 50,000, 100,000 copies. So it won't be completely forgotten by history, but it will never be taught. You know, there will never be a course that teaches college students, yeah, you know, in the Biden administration, they were this close to ending free speech forever. But it is the case. Unbelievable. All right, let's talk about the Maryland dad.

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You know, the MS-13 Maryland dad. So one of the things I like to do with that story is I do like to see how the Democrats are handling it. The Republican version is that he absolutely, definitely was MS-13. He was picked up with other MS-13 people. He had MS-13 clothing that's well-identified. There was a source that said he was MS-13. And you say to yourself, hmm, I don't know.

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He looks pretty MS-13 to me. But then you hear the Democrats say, well, it's pretty sketchy. I don't know. The police officer, was it a police officer, who originally picked him up, got dismissed for bad behavior soon after. So you go, hmm, maybe the person who was the you know, the principal who identified him as MS-13, he did something else that makes him look sketchy.

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So maybe we can't totally trust that guy. But I was reading in The Hill that the thing where he got picked up with other MS-13 people he was waiting at a Home Depot for work. So you know how the migrants often will wait in the parking lot of Home Depot so that people will pull up and say, I need two people to dig a ditch today and then, you know, say, I'll take you and you.

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So the less sleep you get, the more likely you might glom onto some simple conspiracy theory. But the real conspiracy theories, you know, the ones that have lots of detail and you'd have to really understand how all the moving parts work. Like later, I'm going to tell you about the Biden administration completely ending free speech in America or attempting to.

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And then they just go off and they get some day work. If he was hanging out with two MS, I guess a couple of MS-13 people who are also just looking for day work and he was just standing there looking for day work too, that's not exactly hanging out with MS-13. That's hanging out at Home Depot, right?

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It wasn't up to this guy to know whether these people were MS-13, but I think he recognized them from before, so maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. We don't know. He was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat, which wasn't too surprising, and it's not proof that you're gang-related, but it's a strong indication. It would be a weird coincidence if you just happened to be a fan of

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and you were the only person from El Salvador who didn't know they're wearing a Bulls hat and a particular image on a Bulls jersey with, I guess, three monkeys covering their eyes and ears and mouths with dollar bills, if you didn't know that those were gang-related, that'd be kind of weird.

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Now, don't you think if you were not in MS-13 and you knew what the clothing of an MS-13 person was and you had an option of what you're going to wear, would you ever wear clothing that would identify you as MS-13? And wouldn't the MS-13 people kill you immediately if they knew that you were not in the club, but you were pretending to be? So that's something.

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And then apparently the immigration judge, Judge Kessler, had said about the source. So really, I think most of the case depended on the source being reliable because there was a source that said not only is he in MS-13, he has a rank. and he has a nickname like he has a gang nickname. That would be pretty conclusive that he's in a gang.

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So the immigration judge said about the source that the source was a past, proven, and reliable source of information that verified the respondent's gang membership, rank, and gang name. And that was sufficient to support the fact that he was actually a gang member. So that's from an immigration judge, and she had decided that the informant was reliable.

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Now, I guess you would have to take the word of the judge, but would it be fair to say that he has been adjudicated as a gang member? Do you remember how... they like to say that Trump was adjudicated as some kind of criminal or something. And they wouldn't say he did it, because that would be too far. They'd say he was adjudicated to have done it. So there was a process.

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Now, if you're worried about the due process, at least this part of it looks like an immigration judge whose job it is to determine who's telling the truth and who is credible and who is not, looked at the source and said, okay, this is a reliable source.

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But I'd like to know more about it because I'd hate to hear that all the judge did was ask some law enforcement person, hey, is this source reliable? Oh yeah, totally. Because they just wanted the person to be deported. So I'm not sure I believe it that the source is reliable. Remember what I told you just five minutes ago?

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And it has a whole bunch of moving parts. you would have to be really unsleepy to even understand the whole conspiracy before you could even have an opinion on it. So I've got a feeling that the two things that make you believe in conspiracies are being sleepy, but also being very awake. The two extremes.

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That if you're looking for misinformation, one of the ways is an anonymous source. The least dependable source of information is an anonymous source. But It wasn't anonymous to the judge. Still, it was one person saying it. Yeah, it was still one person. So I'm still leaning toward, it seems far more likely that he was, you know, gang affiliated than not.

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But you should know that this is not the home run 100% proof that he was a gang member that you'd really like to hear. because then you'd feel more comfortable about it. And clearly there was an error in having him deported to El Salvador. But the weird wrinkle on that is if you're deported to El Salvador, and the problem was that you had a deportation order,

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but there was a hold on it that was also legally valid. It was more valid than the deportation order because it was the higher level order, I guess. If the reason that some immigration judge had decided he should not be sent back to El Salvador specifically is because that's where the risk came from, isn't that the safest country in the world?

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Could you really say that he would be safer hanging out with known MS-13 people in the United States? Would that be safer than going to El Salvador? Now, anything's safer probably than being in the, well, I don't know. Maybe it's safe to be in those prisons because they're just so controlled. I don't know. But it would be a terrible life. You know, it's barely a life.

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So it's a way more interesting case than I thought it would be. So that in order to, I mean, I think it's ironic that that the reason he couldn't be deported to El Salvador, tactically, even though he was, is because it would be too dangerous, but it might be the safest place in the entire hemisphere if you were out of jail. If you're in jail, then it's a jail-level risk, which is never good.

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Well... I haven't said much about this, but there was a big story in the New York Times that ADHD might be not what the experts have been telling you forever. And it might not even be a condition that needs to be treated in many cases. So there's no doubt that the drug works to change behavior and to get you what you want.

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know there's a downside to giving a kid a you know basically some kind of uh speed and uh there's one i guess ritalin can make you not grow as tall although that might be temporary we don't know and There's a thought that maybe the entire thing was driven by the economics of the industry.

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Because once pharma could make money and once there were special people whose job it was to handle the ADHD kids that couldn't be handled any other way. And once you had programs and education about it. that it became sort of its own little engine. And whenever a kid came in who was a little overactive, they'd say, hmm, looks like ADHD. And there would be tons of overdiagnosis.

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I saw a comment by Chamath Palihapitiya, one of the all-in pod guys, you know. And he says that one of his kids was at one point identified as an ADHD kid, but that he wasn't buying into the, you know, the whole thing looked a little sketchy to him.

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The place where you're probably not believing in the conspiracies is, oh, you had a pretty good sleep, but... You're not really keyed into all the details of what's going on in the real world. Anyway, the so-called Tesla Diner in Santa Monica is almost open, and it's going to be kind of cool. So you'll be able to go there.

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And he says, sort of as, I guess, a summary, I find it more plausible that economic incentives drove an entire industry to spring up around an FDA approved drug. That looking back, mostly doesn't work. People make money diagnosing it, tutoring around it, coaching around it, et cetera. Now, that could be right. I saw Matt Walsh talking about how he thought it was a fake condition too.

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Now, I wouldn't call it fake in the sense that maybe there's some percentage that's real and some percentage that's not. But I do think that if you simply change people's environment, you could probably drive a lot of it out of the situation. And I also wonder if there's a reframe that would work.

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Because if not paying attention is the big problem, what if you just made those kids exercise immediately? You start a class, and then there's a bunch of ADHD kids who can't pay attention, and you just say, all right, kids, we're going to take a break. And you just make them exercise like crazy, you know, in play, you know, not anything that hurts them.

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But you just make them play, play, play until they can sit in one place and be glad that they are. And then you see if they can pay attention. And then the other reframe is when I was a student, and I should tell you that I went to a very small school, very small, But I was a valedictorian.

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And I think at least part of the reason I was valedictorian, besides being kind of smart, is that the way I approached my schoolwork was that it was a contest. And I was competing against the other students, not just the ones in my class, but in the world. And whoever competed the best would get the prizes.

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And the prizes would be the good jobs and the better life and the better mate, all those things. So when I would look at my schoolwork and it would be super boring, I would not say, oh my God, it's boring and it's not connected to anything in the real world. So I just can't even pay attention to it. There's no meaning to it. Because even the ADHD people can pay attention when they have meaning.

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Like if it's something they care about, they have no problem paying attention. They can do it all day long without any medication at all. So I never got bored with boring schoolwork because I was looking at the future and I was saying, if I can get through this, but other people get bored by it, I win. It's a contest.

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And it's easier to do something painful in the context of a sport or a contest because you're thinking about the prize. And then you can do unpleasant things to get a prize because the focus is on the prize and then suddenly it really does mean something to you. So for me, that was my most effective reframe.

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and it just sort of came naturally as a kid, because I would sit there and think, if I do better on this test than other people, don't I win more prizes? And the answer is yes, you win more prizes your whole life. Well, let's talk about another criminal. I call her Letitia Jessie James. I'm going to add the Jessie part, because it sounds more criminal. Letitia Jessie James.

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And as you know, quite ironically, she has been referred to the Department of Justice because of a number of alleged financial fraud that she did to get her own mortgages for some property. So one had to do with saying that her primary residence was Virginia, which it wasn't. One had to do with saying that her five-unit place was a four-unit place, which it wasn't.

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and buy food, and the staff will allegedly, we don't have confirmation of this, be on skates. So it's like a diner with skates that shows two big screens that have 30-minute movies that are designed to be the right length for how long your car charges. And I guess anybody can go there to eat. You don't have to be charging your car, and it doesn't need to be a Tesla.

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And apparently, at one point, she said her father was her husband. So there might be some more, but those are the ones I remember. But what I didn't know, because I've been saying incorrectly, I've been saying, no, these are just worst-case scenarios. It's going to be a big fine. And it might be expensive. but it's not like she's going to go to jail or anything.

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But apparently Kyle Welch, this George Washington University School of Business professor who specializes in financial fraud, says that if the allegations are, if they hold up, they could carry jail time and lead to disbarment. So jail time plus disbarment, that would be a pretty big penalty. Now, what does Letitia James say about all this?

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What is her defense against very specific allegations of wrongdoing? Did she say, I didn't do that thing with the five unit building? Did she say, I never said my father was my husband? Did she say, I never said that Virginia was my primary residence? Nope.

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What she said was that the allegations about her own mortgage fraud are, quote, retaliation against all of the actions that have taken successfully against Donald Trump. Well, it might be a little bit of retaliation, but if it's true, it's also a bunch of crimes. So,

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I think that's as close as you can get to admitting you did the crime, is to say that the reason that they're after me is retaliation. No, if you're innocent, imagine you're in this situation. If you were in this situation and you knew the truth was you had committed no crimes, would you start with saying that they're only coming after me for retaliation? No, you wouldn't. No one would.

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they would start with, none of this is true. And then they would say, it's just because of the retaliation. But you wouldn't start with, it's because of retaliation. You would start with, none of these things hold up. I didn't do that, if it were true. So I guess that's as close as you can get to admitting you did the crimes. Well, let's talk about sexy Luigi Mangione.

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who, as you know, is the hottest of all the murderers. Apparently, the grand jury in New York is going for four different charges, although I think I only wrote down three of them. But I'm going to read them in a sexy way so that you can hear them the way the Democrats hear them. And I'd like you to imagine there's bad porn music in the background.

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I don't know even what that sounds like because I've never listened to it. But he's guilty of two counts of stalking. He might be guilty of a firearm offense. And maybe murder through the use of a firearm. Is that sexy? I mean, I know you're turned on. Try to get through the rest of the day thinking about that, huh? Yeah. Sexy. Apparently the last charge would make him...

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Eligible for the death penalty. Yeah, ladies. What's that do to you? He's eligible for the death penalty. Now, if that doesn't turn you on, I don't know what will. Meanwhile, according to Neil Munro, writing for Breitbart News, Trump is developing some kind of a plan that might provide money for illegal migrants who want to self-deport.

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You can charge any electric vehicle. And here's what I love about it. I love the fact that they made something where you could take the kids and you could turn it into an event. How many people are sitting around on the weekend and thinking, I need to take my car to get it charged, but I also got to watch the kids and they're bored.

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Meaning that if the only thing stopping them from doing it is they can't afford to do it because they somehow have to get back home and all that. And so Trump's considering some kind of a stipend or a way to help people afford the self-deportation. And I think that's a good idea. Because a lot of these people might want to come back for work programs.

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They might want to come back and try to become members of the country through legal means. And if they self-deport, especially if they get a little help doing it, they could maintain their proper rights to come back. And that would be great. Here's a weird one. According to Rapid Response, talking about stuff that Trump does,

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I guess he signed an executive order to restore American seafood competitiveness. Now, how many of you knew that there was a problem with seafood competitiveness? I did not. I was not aware of that at all. But apparently, it's real. It's like a real big problem. And of course, It's self-induced by too many regulatory burdens.

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But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And, of course, there's unfair trade that we're always dealing with with other countries. And so apparently this executive order would get rid of the regulatory stuff and combat the fair trade part and enhance production and exports. Now, I didn't think this was necessarily a big deal until I saw a comment by Chef Andrew Gruhl. If you're on X, you'll probably be familiar with him.

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He's a very popular commenter and a professional chef. And he said that he worked in an area in which he saw this firsthand. and agrees this is a giant problem. So that's a good source. So if Andrew Gruhl says it was a big problem and this will be a big step toward fixing it, I believe it. So that's just good news. According to 404 Media, and Joseph Cox, I guess.

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Somehow they get access to an internal Palantir, the company Palantir, Slack message, And they found out that Palantir, according to 404 Media, did a recent build of a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. Now, it doesn't say how they do that. So it must be a combination of data. So they must be able to identify where people are.

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From some combination of maybe phone usage and buying patterns and maybe connection to other people. I don't know what the data is that they use. But Palantir would use their magic to do that. So that's interesting.

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um the defense post is writing that there's yet another uh drone ai driven vehicle so this one's like a little i don't know it looks smaller than a jeep but it's ai driven and it's uh can do all kinds of things it's fully autonomous it's a tactical vehicle. It can go 35 miles an hour. It can carry a payload that's pretty substantial.

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And it can do a variety of missions across multiple terrains and conditions. And it doesn't even need GPS to do what it does. So it's modular and you can change it to do all kinds of different missions, etc. Now This is like the I know the millionth time I've told you a story like this But these are real.

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So you can just put them in the car and say, hey, family, we're going to lunch. And you would go to this cool diner and you would watch a cool movie, and the staff would be skating around, so it would be more interesting than not, and get your car charged. So it's sort of experimental in the sense that nobody knows how it's going to work out, but I love it as an idea.

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I mean the thing is actually built and it looks like they can build more of them Yeah, so at the same time I

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we're going to look at the the peace deals potential peace deal with ukraine because if we don't get a peace deal with ukraine and russia what happens then so i think what happens at least in maybe the trump perfect world is that europe takes over the defense but part of what europe would need to do is buy american weapons

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like this and since ukraine doesn't have enough humans to um you know to do all the war fighting uh and it's safer and more effective to use drones every one of these new inventions i think is just going to end up in ukraine for at least testing so the us would get to test all of its new drone related stuff uh by just throwing it into the war

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Europe might pay for it, so the US essentially would be getting revenue and free testing without risking American soldiers, and the war would go on. So Ukraine wants to fight. If Europe gives them money and the US provides the hardware that Europe has to pay for,

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And we know that we're probably only a year away from all war being all drones all the time, because humans just can't keep up with drones. it might be the first time we see a full drone war. Drones on the ground, drones in the sea, drones in the air, and just hardly any human Ukrainian soldiers except for the ones operating the equipment.

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So I feel like that's where things go if we don't get a peace deal. Speaking of peace deal, Secretary Rubio has said, if we don't get one soon, and it sounds like we're not close, that he's going to stop trying, meaning Trump will stop trying. Stopping trying, I think, automatically goes to the all drone concept. So I think what you're going to see is the peace deal dying,

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And then you're going to see the first all-drone war. And that we're probably just months away from that. And the Russians will, of course, try to keep up. So it will become a drone-on-drone war. And then it will be Russia's technology, wherever they're getting it from, maybe China, versus American technology. And then we see who wins. It'll be basically a technology plus money plus cleverness.

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And it won't be soldiers dying versus soldiers dying. I think that's where it's heading. We'll see. Well, the U.S. says that Chinese satellite firm, is helping the Houdis target American warships. So it's called the Chinese Changguang Satellite Technology Company. Now, what happens if we're sure that they're the bad guys and they're helping the Houdis?

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Does that mean we would try to attack the Chinese satellites? Even though it's a private company, it's not the government satellites. But would that be starting World War III in space with China? Or are we just going to say... Are we just going to say... All right. I don't know what that means. I see it in the comments. So I worry about this, that this could be an escalation. We'll see.

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As a concept, it feels like it understands everything about human interaction. It's completely permissive. You don't have to don't have to charge your car, so it's not like we have too many rules. And it's just automatically interesting. If there were a place I could go where the staff is on skates, I would go there, even if the food wasn't amazing. And who knows, maybe the food is amazing.

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There's also the story of whether Trump waved off an Israeli plan to attack Iran. So a reporter asked the question this way of Trump. Did you wave off an Israeli plan to attack Iran? And Trump says, I wouldn't say waved off. I think that Iran has a chance to have a great country. and to live happily without death, and I'd like to see that. That's my first option.

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But then there's further reports that he wasn't the only one who may have waved off war, but that Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hankseth, Susie Wiles, and J.D. Vance all worked together to recommend not going to war or supporting Israel going to war with Iran. Now, how much do you like that?

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If that's what happened, and of course you can never be sure, but if that's what's happened, that's what we wanted, isn't it? Didn't we want a block of people who are really good at doing what they do? They can be as lethal as you need them to be, but they're smart enough to know it doesn't work most of the time and to be opposed to starting new wars.

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How could Trump ever be Trump if he starts a war? If Trump starts a war, then the best thing about Trump just goes away forever, which is he doesn't start wars. It's bad enough that the Houdi situation is happening because that's pretty much starting a war, but you could explain it away as a special case. It's not a war. We're just trying to keep our shipping safe or something.

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But if we were to actively participate in a major attack on the Iranian homeland, I don't think that problem would ever go away. Because whatever it is that Iran has as a reaction to that probably involves cyber stuff, probably involves the sabotage in the homeland of America, in which we're very susceptible to that.

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So a lot would depend on how much Iran wanted to respond or if they decided that their best play is to just take the hit. We don't know. So I like the fact that our government is not all on one side saying, yes, war, war, war, but that we have serious people who are very smart, And I trust because they have records of being on the right side of things.

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And Susie Wiles has a great reputation, et cetera. And we've seen J.D. Vance's comments from the leaks from the Signal stuff. We know he's not big on starting wars. So I love the fact that there is a trusted set of advisers who are talking to the president and saying, doesn't make sense. It's not in our best interest. I like that. So in related news, Hamas has rejected Israel's ceasefire proposal.

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And they don't want any kind of temporary pause. This is what Hamas says. No, we don't want any temporary pause to give you back any hostages. We want everything on the table. So they want a permanent ceasefire, full reconstruction of Gaza, and the release of the Palestinian prisoners. In return, Israel would get all of its hostages back. Now, let me give you some real-world interpretation.

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I think... that Israel has decided that it's much better off giving Hamas nothing, destroying them once and forever, never giving Gaza back, just completely owning Gaza, and then resettling all of the Gaza residents in Arab countries or keeping them in essentially outdoor prison camps for the rest of their life, and then make the other

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the other Arab countries say, hey, if you're on their team, why don't you open up your country? Why don't you let them live in your country? And that would be a good argument forever, meaning that the Gaza residents would have the worst life ever. But is that Israel's problem?

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And they could certainly make it look like it was the other Arab countries hating them so much that they can't even take them in. And then Israel would say, well, why should we like them more than you do? It would be a strong argument. So in my opinion, Israel has close to a free pass to simply increase the size of Israel in a strategic way. and get rid of their biggest enemy once and for all.

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And the expense of that is the remaining hostages who are probably most of them dead or near death or in a situation in which life wouldn't be much of an upgrade. So I think maybe Israel is taking the real world decision that the hostages, they've done what they can do. and there just won't be any new hostages coming.

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But it seems like a tremendous thing to test. Well, there's a little update on the Daily Mail about the Area 51-length Navy Sailor. This is the title. We saw the latest Tic Tac UFOs rising from the Pacific. You know, it's always Tic Tac UFOs now. Tic Tac UFO, Tic Tac UFO.

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And Hamas is silly to imagine that they're going to get reconstruction and people are going to move back in, and then Hamas will be back in charge and they can reconstitute. None of that's going to happen. And by the way, am I the only person who told you that a long time ago? I think I am. I think I'm the only person who told you They're not going to reconstitute Gaza.

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Back when everybody thought that was the obvious likely thing is that war would go on for a while and then Gaza would be rebuilt. And I kept saying, there's no way. No. Israel is not going to rebuild Gaza. They're just not going to let Hamas ever have even one inch of control of Gaza. It's just never going to happen.

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And I thought that was always revealed in Israel's statement about what their intention was. They said on day one, you know, kind of day one after October 7th, they said that the reality in Gaza would never be the same. What did that mean to you? It wasn't just talk. The reality in Gaza would never be the same. And then they said that their ambition was total victory. Well, what does that mean?

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Total victory doesn't mean Hamas reconstitutes. That wouldn't even be close to total victory. Total victory means Hamas is gone and there's no way they're coming back. And there's no other way to get it done. You have to actually just depopulate Gaza. Now, again, if you're new to my program, what you're not hearing is my preference because it's not my country. I'm not Gaza and I'm not Israel.

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I'm an American. And so my filter on the entire conflict is power. It's not morality, and it's not ethics. I think people like comic Dave Smith will try to put things in the frame of morality and ethics. And I think it's good that people try to do that, but it's not relevant. because nobody's ethics will make any difference.

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If I make a really good argument that Israel should do something different, it won't matter. They're not going to do anything different because I made a clever argument about ethics or that Dave Smith has an opinion about ethics. And by the way, his and other people's opinion about ethics, perfectly valid. I'm glad that people are having that conversation.

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but it isn't relevant to anything that will happen in the real world. So I just take a real world view that if Hamas had power, that would be terrible for Israel in ways that are almost impossible to imagine. At the same time, if Israel has all the power, which largely they do, things are going to get really bad for Hamas in ways that are almost impossible to imagine.

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And also, a lot of people who maybe were mildly supportive or had a preference for Hamas and lived there, their lives will be absolutely horrible. And I don't support it and I don't oppose it because it's none of my control. I have no control, and my opinion has no sway. So I just observe it and try to predict it. So all I can do is observe and predict.

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And there's nothing about the update that makes me think that there are any alien ships at all or that the Tic Tacs are really anything. And they never leave a heat signature, which is a little suspicious. and they always move at speeds that cannot be understood, and often there's more than one of them, and they operate in unison in ways that we can't even understand. Synchronized flight.

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If you want to say that it's unethical and immoral, I agree. And if the power were reversed, it would be immoral and unethical in the opposite direction. So the immoral and unethical just sort of follows from who has the power. And right now it's Israel. And it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. So that's just the reality of it.

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You don't have to be in favor of it or opposed to it. It's just what it is. And there's no way it's going to change. So, anyway. Oh, more on that Russia-Ukraine thing. When Rubio says that we might be done with negotiating if something doesn't happen pretty quickly... He says in a matter of days, they would know if any deal could happen.

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You should always expect that at a negotiation of that magnitude, there would always be at least one walk away. where one side says, all right, I'm done. There's no deal to be had. We're done here. And it's just part of the negotiating.

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So if you think that that's what Rubio is doing, you might be right because it would fit the pattern of Trump negotiating, which is to say, all right, we're going to give it our best shot. Uh-oh, looks like we can't make a deal. You're going to have to go kill each other for infinity and then walk away. And then hope that both sides beg you to come back and then they get more flexible.

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I don't think that's going to happen in this case. So whether or not it's intended to be part of the negotiation, the backing out, I don't think there's any backing in. because there's nothing to be had. I think that Russia prefers continuing fighting. I think Ukraine prefers it for their own reasons. And if both sides prefer it, which seems to be the case, you really can't expect to get a deal.

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And that's what it looks like to me. Two sides that still want to fight. And I think that especially when it becomes drones versus drones, well, then, of course, they're willing to fight. because they won't even be losing people at that point.

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So they're heading toward a situation in which they're more incentivized to fight, not less, because the people part will be removed and there will be still something that looks like war happening. So I'm sure that's what they want.

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Then in related news, according to the European Conservative, I guess that's a publication, Kiev is nearing a deal on minerals so that there would be some Trump-related deal for a mineral thing where the U.S. and maybe some other countries would be part of a deal to exploit minerals and and share the money with Ukraine. I'm going to say I don't think that deal is going to happen.

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So even though the news is it's getting close and there's been compromises that make it really close, I don't believe it. I just don't think you can make a deal with Ukraine. Maybe it's because we ask for too much. Maybe it's because they're too weaselly and can't be trusted. I just don't think it's going to happen. Now, I'll root for it to happen because we would like to get those minerals.

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And wouldn't it be good if we got some money out of Ukraine and monetized it? And wouldn't it be good for Ukraine to also be making some money that would be hard for them to do without the international help? I just don't think that we're dealing with an entity that can make a deal. I just don't think I don't think we have what you need to make a deal.

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I think there are too many interests, too many criminals. And I think that literally the problem in Ukraine is that the people who would normally skim all the money off a deal like that may be seeing that the deal is being structured so that there's no corruption allowed. That would kill the deal.

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All right, so I don't believe a single thing about any of these tic-tacs rising from the ocean, caught it on radar. I don't believe any of it. However, it does make me wonder about the following thing. You know how every time there's some mystery, you always end up finding out that somebody's making money off it? So is it possible? And I'm just going to put this out here.

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Probably the money people in Ukraine just have one business model, which is they skim money off of every deal. And if they can't find a way to skim some money off a mineral deal, they would probably try to kill it so that later maybe they can do a mineral deal where they can skim some money, like a lot of money, because there's so much involved. Well, that's what I think is happening.

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No peace deals anywhere. And drones will be the preferred war weapons for a long time. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks. I'm going to say some stuff privately to the subscribers on Locals. The rest of you, thanks for joining, and I will see you again, same time, same place, on X and Rumble and YouTube.

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All right, Locals, coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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It's not a belief, but it's a question. Is it possible? that the PR and marketing people that make Tic Tacs like to insert this story a little bit more often than it might happen naturally. If you were the PR people for the actual candy or the, I don't know what they call it, but the breath freshener called a Tic Tac, wouldn't it be good for a business to every two months, three months,

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip. It happens right now. Go. Terrific. That's the good stuff. Rawr. All right, you ready for this?

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Insert an update onto the story about the Tic Tacs, even if nothing's happened. So this is one of those literally nothing new has happened. So it's regurgitating an old Tic Tac story. And I'm thinking, hmm, who would have a financial motive to continually recycle a Tic Tac related UFO story? Tic Tac. Because once it gets in your mind, you're thinking, oh, I could use a Tic Tac. I'll pick one up.

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I'm just saying. It's not an accusation. I'm just saying that if the Tic Tac company had figured out to do this as a marketing scheme, I would be so impressed because I think it would work just to keep it in people's minds because it's not like a negative interaction. You know, we don't hate the aliens. We think they're maybe interesting. So maybe it's a reason to get some Tic Tacs. You never know.

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Here's something kind of cool. As you know, China is building naval ships like crazy. And the United States has sort of forgotten how to do shipbuilding. So that's a problem. Because for decades, the U.S. Navy has kept the world safe. Well, that's our version of it anyway. By essentially controlling the oceans. Because nobody had a navy like ours. But...

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China is developing a navy like ours, if not a bigger one, and we don't have the ability to keep up. However, according to Tom Hale and IFL Science, there's a startup that's from 2024, so it's brand new, and it's being led by a team that used to work for Amazon Robotics and iRobot and and the U.S. Navy, so they're the right qualifications.

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And they want to make unmanned, or let's say unpersoned, because I'm so woke, unpersoned, ships for shipping, especially for shipping goods. So they'd be crewless. Let's call them crewless ships. Now, what is interesting about this is that I'm sort of reading a little bit between the lines here.

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So this is my own assumption, is that if you make a ship that doesn't need to have any human being on it, and it's just AI based, it's got to be cheaper and a whole lot easier to build, right? Because you don't have to worry about humans. There's just no humans to be on it to worry about. So there's no bathrooms. There's no food. There's no AC maybe. I don't know.

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So in theory, we can build these drone crewless ships. And we would be able to do it maybe kind of quickly. And some of these could be from military. And some could be shipping. And here's what they think would be the benefits. Lower fuel costs, smaller carbon footprint, more cargo space, because no humans.

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And they say that even the pirates might lose interest if there's no one on board to pay a ransom. Well, I feel like the pirates might figure out how to threaten to destroy the ship, but they wouldn't know who to talk to, I guess. So it might be a problem. The pirates would be like, where's all the people we threatened? Ah, arg, we have no people to threaten. What do we do now?

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Well, we'll say we'll destroy the cargo unless they give us money. And then they'd say, who gives us money? There's nobody on the ship. Well, but we'll contact the mother company. How do we know who the mother company is? How do you know who owns it? So it might be a problem for pirates. Well, let's check in on Trump and see if he's said anything funny lately. Oh, yeah.

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So according to a study that's being written about in The Conversation, Daniel Jolly and Ewan Dinick, they say that there's a new research that shows that poor sleep quality can make you believe in conspiracy theories. Has anybody had that experience where you wake up and you didn't have a good sleep and all of a sudden you're like, oh, we didn't land on the moon? Anybody? No?

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He recently said, he said this before, but he said it at a press thing. Jimmy Carter died a happy man. You know why? because he wasn't the worst president, Joe Biden was. Now that makes me laugh every time I hear it. And I'm going to give you a humor lesson. And it goes like this. The type of humor that works depends entirely on the situation, right?

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So it's not as if funny is funny, a joke's a joke. That's not true at all. There are things that are funny in person that you just say sort of off the top of your head at an event that are hilarious that wouldn't be funny in any other context. So if you were to write this as, let's say, a joke within a play... the audience will think, that's not that funny.

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But if you say it in a press event and you're the sitting president of the United States and Jimmy Carter has only been deceased, what, a few months? It's still way too fresh. And Biden's only been out of office a few months and he's still alive. It's so inappropriate, but not illegal, right? I mean, he has the right to say it. So what makes it funny is not that it's funny as a joke.

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What makes it funny is he's not supposed to do it. And Trump is the master... of doing humor that's only funny because you did it live and you weren't supposed to talk that way. You know, some of his posts are the same thing. It's just something you're not supposed to say. So it's funny because it's inappropriate. And Trump knows that for sure.

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Well, according to the post-millennial, Hayden Cunningham is writing, that Americans between the age of 18 to 21 are overwhelmingly supporting the GOP, according to a Yale youth poll. Now, here's why I think that might be true. The younger the person, the less they care about the policy, and the more they care about the vibe. Would you say that's true?

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If you're talking to a 45-year-old who follows politics and cares about all the details, they might care about policy a lot. But if you're talking to an 18- to 21-year-old, they couldn't describe a single policy. But they can feel. And I think what Trump brings to the party is... like that joke about Biden. It's inappropriateness.

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And if you're 18 to 21, you're really drawn to people breaking rules. If you're a rule breaker and I'm 19, I want to see more. I want to see exactly what you're up to. He did what? He challenged the courts? Now you have my interest. He did what? He said a joke that nobody's supposed to say? Hmm, I'd like to see a little more of that. He did what?

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He closed the border using a bunch of tricks that the Supreme Court can't even figure out if it's legal or illegal? Huh. He deported a MS-13 guy to one of those terrible jails in El Salvador. Hmm, did he now? So there's something about Trump continually being the thorn in the side of how you're supposed to do things that's very appealing to people the younger they are.

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But once, once he saw non-human egg-shaped aircraft while working on his secret UFO retrieval program, according to the New York Post. Now, here's what's funny. You'd have to see his eyes when he's describing it. I always tell you that the lying eyes are the ones who get wide.

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Meanwhile, you know, I've reported this before, but I now have a hypothesis for it. So Gen Z, who are the people between 13 years old and 28 years old at the moment, they're barely using alcohol compared to all the prior generations.

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If you saw the bar graph, it'd be like, you know, there'd be a bar that's a foot tall, and then it immediately goes down to like two inches tall for the current generation. What is up with that? You would think that the one universal throughout time has been, if you have alcohol, you're going to drink it. And kids unfortunately have access. So they drink it.

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Why would it just suddenly fall off a cliff? I have a hypothesis. My hypothesis goes like this, that alcohol people don't do it because it feels good. They do it because it helps them socialize when they're shy. And that among the young, it's not so much, yay, I like this feeling of being drunk. It's, wow, I can finally figure out a way to talk to strangers and I'm not as shy.

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Strangers, drunks, everything's easier. So if the current generation uses the internet to make friends, and what I've observed is that young people will chat with somebody online that they've never met, but they all shared pictures. They've checked each other's social networks. And they've chatted for a long time.

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Then if everything's going well, they like to chat, they like to look, they like the interaction, they decide to get together. So you see what they've done? They've taken the utility and of alcohol. The utility of alcohol is how do I meet a new cool person that I want to spend time with? There wasn't really a great way to do it when I was a kid.

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So you would have a drink and go where there's other people drinking. And that was easier to be less shy. But if I could meet, you know, if, if I, if I imagine myself back at this young age where the main thing is friends and girlfriends and boyfriends that I would think, well, if I can get all the, if I can get all the social interaction I want through the internet, I don't know.

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Do I want to feel drunk? Do I want to take the chance? It isn't really cool. So I don't know. So I just put that as a hypothesis that the internet way of meeting people just replaced the utility of alcohol. I mean, if that happened, maybe it's more good than bad. Just to guess. All right.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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Well, the Wall Street Journal is talking again, you've heard this, that China's population continues to decline. So it declined again last year. The births edged up, but for the first time, There are more deaths than births. Wow. First time in eight years. China had more deaths than births last year. Wow. That's definitely a turning point. So that would be an indication of doom.

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Kyle Bass, investor of Kyle Bass, who often talks about China, much the way I do, but he's far more informed. He said today on X that China is experiencing a complete financial crash. The The 10-year government bonds are yielding only 1.65 and the overnight rate just spiked to 16%, which would be very bad.

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And that maybe all of this economic unfolding in China might cause them to move on Taiwan sooner because that would unify the country maybe and be a distraction from their other problems. I'm going to go opposite on that. I agree that China has got some big economic challenges, no question. But my take on China, just as an observer, no expert, right?

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If you watch the politicians, you can turn off the sound and you can still tell when they get to the lie because their forehead gets wrinkled because their eyes are so wide. Now that you know that that's what a lie looks like, it's like, yeah, I'm going to take office on the 19th and I'll probably eliminate the deficit on the day one. You know, wouldn't they get the lie?

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So I will defer to the experts if they say, Scott, you've got this totally wrong. There's a history of them doing this exact thing. My take on China is that they keep acting rationally. Just rational, rational, rational. Now, that's the current leadership who have lots of engineers in office. Did you know that?

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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Did you know a lot of the top officials in the Chinese Communist Party, the top officials, many of them are engineers. So you have a really practical, level-headed, what do we need to do to get from here to there? The Chinese government always seemed to me rational. Right. There's some governments that maybe have a religious driving force and to others they would not look rational.

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But China was rational. So my my belief is that you could do a pretty good job of predicting what China will do because it's what you would do if you were in the same situation. And if I were struggling with all these domestic problems and our China, the last thing I'd want to do is make a move on Taiwan.

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Because while there's some chance it could make things better, there's an equal risk it could make things so bad it would be the end of the regime. Because China doesn't really know how the rest of the world would respond. They think they do, but they don't. And they certainly don't know what Trump would do.

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So my take on China is they're too risk averse to do something that aggressive when they're already teetering on the edge.

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Now, I am perfectly willing to be embarrassed and shamed for my lack of understanding of China if somebody says, Scott, you don't realize in the past, let's say just during the administration of President Xi, if somebody said, but you saw what they did here, and I might go, oh, I forgot about that, or I didn't know about that. But the brutal, I'm going to call it brutal,

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The brutal, rational way that China operates is brutal rational thinking, meaning they're not all about wokeness. It's brutal. It's like, does this work for China? Yes, no. That's it. That's just brutal engineering thinking. Does it work? Yes, no. So I don't think they're going to make a move on Taiwan because of their economic problems. That doesn't square with me.

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However, to be fair, Kyle Bass is a very good observer of things. And if he has a different opinion, I take that seriously. I'm just giving you my perspective. We'll see who's right over time. But here's the thing. Is America doing better than China? It doesn't look like it to me. because we've got the immigration drag, we've got the corruption in every part of the everything.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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And then if Doge doesn't work, we've got to get rid of $1.83 trillion deficit per year. We're adding a trillion dollars every 100 days. And really, I don't see an end in sight. So we have a situation where in which I'm not positive. but it looks like the three biggest powers in the world are circling the drain at the same time.

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Russia looks like it might be on the edge of economic collapse because of the war, but maybe not. China looks like it might be on the edge of economic collapse because of various real estate crashing and demographics and whatever, but maybe not. And the United States looks like it's circling the drain with no hope of recovery because of the debt. But maybe not. So I'm going to call it.

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We're already in the middle of a world war. It's just not with bullets. Well, you could argue that Russia and Ukraine is a proxy war, but We are now in a total full-out world war, at least the three major powers, in which we're not trying to beat the other as much as we're trying to be the one that survives.

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But this guy's eyes are these giant, they look like saucers themselves. I saw a UFO. It's not even slightly, slightly credible when you see his face. If all you did is read about it or hear about it, you'd say, hmm, military veteran, probably credible. Probably found an egg-shaped UFO. Sounds good. And then one look at his face and you go, oh. All right, you got to see it.

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So beating China might be simply as simple as, I say as simple as, as simple to describe, really hard to do, to survive. The war between the three superpowers may be down to

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you still here in 10 years yes or no because i think that if all three of them you know find a way through these extraordinary economic times that would be great i guess i mean i don't i don't really want to see china crumble because that feels like that would create more risk than it than it solves but it's kind of weird that we're already in a world war

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What America has to figure out, Mark Andreessen did a good job of explaining this. China has not just good manufacturing, but they have a network of component manufacturing for all the things that are most important. So if we tried to build a, let's say an iPhone assembly manufacturing thing in the United States, we wouldn't just build one factory that makes iPhones.

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You would need the entire network of suppliers to that one factory. And we don't have any of that. China does. If we want to be good at making robots, we wouldn't build a robot factory. You'd have to build an entire network of suppliers that make the parts that end up in the one factory. We don't have any of that.

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Now, Elon Musk would be the one exception because he's the one person we know of who's made manufacturing, at least some of the manufacturing in the United States work. But even Elon Musk depends entirely on China for parts. All right. At least the battery parts. I don't know what else. But so China has all of these things. They can make the phones. This is Mark Andreessen's point.

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They can make the drones, the cars. According to Andreessen, China is rolling out cars that are going to be high quality, meaning competitive with existing cars that might cost a third or a quarter of the price of existing cars.

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you know how big of a problem that is for us if they can make a car for 25 of what our cars now cost and they're just great that's a problem if they can do if they can make phones and drones and robots and cars because they have a complex you know ecosystem for manufacturing we don't have any of that

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Do you know that we that Andreessen said he was trying to, you know, I guess he invested in a company that makes drones or tries to in the United States and they can't get parts because they don't have that ecosystem. And if they try to create manufacturing, I don't know the details, but he said that the Biden administration was basically just had a foot on the whole time. So.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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Presumably, the Trump administration can open up a little more freedom for the drone manufacturers. I don't know if it's enough. So what we have as an advantage in the US is software and entrepreneurs, and we're probably better at AI, and we might be better eventually at humanoid robots and stuff. But that's not much to hold on to. It seems to me that China can get better at software and AI,

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in the long term, they can get better at those things than we are. Because software, I just feel like you can steal it, learn it, catch up. But by having an entire complex manufacturing ecosystem that's lower cost than we could ever match, what do we do about that?

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So the odds of them closing their gap and learning software and being better at AI, that's not as big a stretch as what we'd have to do to catch up with them. So it does seem that the U.S. and China are going to depend on each other to a degree that war would just be stupid. War would be stupid for both sides. So I hope we avoid it.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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Meanwhile, at Iowa State University, talking about how their glacier experts have found a critical flaw in the sea level predictions, sea level rising because of climate change. What they found was that the way cold ice acts is different than warm ice. So I learned today that there can be warm ice and cold ice. Warm ice would be ice that's already slightly melting, like it's just barely ice.

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And then cold ice would be something that's so cold that it's a solid. What they found was that if you were to predict ice like it's all the same, you would get the wrong answer. But it took them 10 years of experimenting. They studied for 10 years because of various hiccups. And they got to the point where, wow, this should change your sea level predictions.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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Now, have you ever noticed that no matter how many times I tell you stories about some major assumption or variable being updated or changed or added to the climate models, that they still predict the same thing? You can change all the inputs almost every day. All right.

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Oh, my favorite story of the day. Every time the Washington Post does worse, I get a little charge of pleasure. I know I shouldn't. You know, I shouldn't be reveling in the complete incompetence and destruction of a newspaper that canceled me worldwide. They're the ones who kicked it off, by the way. But here's the... Oh my God. So the Washington Post came up with a new mission statement.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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If you watch my show, you know that almost every day, seven days a week, I tell you about a new thing in climate change that would change the variables you put in the model. But yet the models are all about the same. That is the biggest tell that it's not real. If no matter what the situation is, the models still say the same thing, or at least they're still within that narrow band.

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What are those models really doing? That's a pretty big signal. But here's what I've learned by experience with persuading people to have a more reasonable understanding of climate change. Now, a reasonable understanding would be things might be getting warmer, and that should be paid attention to. The humans might have something to do with it.

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I don't know what percentage, but we should pay attention to it just to make sure we're not doing something dumb. But the climate models, the projection models, those are clearly bullshit. And if you try to explain it to people, you run into the same roadblocks. So here's the problem.

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If I were to try to explain to somebody who was not exposed whatsoever to these arguments, it would be a long conversation and it wouldn't be one that you could possibly do over, you know, a thread on X, which is where everybody debates. So you can't really break through if you're on a, you know, a quick messaging thing where people are just arguing and blah, blah, blah.

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You'd have to really sit down with somebody for like two hours to get them to the point where they understand why not that the, climate models are inaccurate, if you think that's what I'm saying, I'm saying more than that. I'm saying they couldn't be accurate, except by pure luck. So here's what you'd want to explain if you had time.

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You'd explain why the complicated models are driven by assumptions, not data. Now, this is something a normie would not understand. What do you mean it's driven by assumptions? It's the data. No, it's not. It's what assumption you made about what data to put in it. I know that because I used to make complicated prediction models for financial decisions at a bank and then at a phone company.

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So I've made complicated financial predictions for years and years of my professional life. And I can tell you with certainty what everyone who has ever made a complicated financial prediction has ever known. It's your assumptions. You can make it turn out to whatever your boss wants it to be. That's the story. And I know that for sure because I did that work.

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So how hard would it be to explain to a normie that something as basic as, you know, it's just the assumptions you put into it. This is not based on following the data, right? It's the assumptions about the data we're following, not the data. So that's a hard thing for a normie to understand if you haven't been, like, immersed in the field, or at least in any field that had a lot of variables.

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Then in order to understand why all these climate models seem to fit this narrow band, you would have to understand how scams work. And one specific one, which I've explained too many times, about how if somebody made a model that was outside the zone of what the experts are expecting, you would just never see it.

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Now, if you saw everybody's model all the time, that might be people trying to be honest about the models. But if you know for sure that nobody could survive in their career publishing a model that was way above or way below the little zone, this sort of the approved zone, you couldn't publish that.

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So if you have a situation where the only models that can be published without losing your whole career or your funding have to be in a narrow zone, that's not science. That's people doing what they have to do to make money. If you simply follow human incentive, it couldn't possibly be true that all these models fit this narrow band. That's just not real. So it would take a while.

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And then how about this? How long would it take you to explain to a normie, let's say a Democrat, that the number of scientists who agree, no matter how violently they agree, no matter how adamant they are, that it doesn't mean anything. Just think about how long it would take you to explain that. Okay, let me start. You've heard of cause and effect. Okay, I think I've heard of that.

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Did you know that people do things for money? Did you know that? They do? Yeah, they do. Well, I thought they did things because they're good people. No, no, no, they do things for money. But not all the time. Yeah, all the time. Not every time. Every time. Every single time. It's the most predictable thing in your entire life is that people do things for money.

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So if you could get paid for saying climate change is a crisis and you could lose your job and your reputation and your family would starve if you go against the grain. What does it mean that 99% or whatever are on the same side? And I know the real argument is it's not 98% on one side. That's all fake. I get it.

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Thank you, God. All I pray for is that I can use my Dilbert filter to mock the Washington Post.

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But just think how far you would have to go to explain things that we know that if you've never been exposed to them, it just takes forever to explain it. So I would maintain that you don't need to be a scientist or anything like it. to understand that the models are broken and couldn't possibly be right. The only thing you need to know is how cause and effect works.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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If you understand cause and effect, you know the models are bullshit. If you're confused about the most simple thing in the world, like if I change the incentives, will that change behavior? Yes. Yes. Changing the incentives changes the behavior. Yes.

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Now, in order for me to be correct in this domain of climate change that is really about people who don't understand cause and effect, if you don't understand that people are going to lie for money, you don't know anything. But let's see if that exists in any other domain. Well, I was seeing Austin Allred today talking about how he said in a post,

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Uh, they meaning, you know, the people in charge looked at the data and saw that college graduates on average did better in life. Now that's true, right? People who went to college do better in life. Duh. So how would you make equity? If equity is what the Democrats want, what would be the way to get there?

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And today you gave me, they have a new mission statement. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm so grateful.

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If you know that people didn't go to college, don't do as well as the people who went to college. Simple. You make it so that everybody can get into college regardless of their qualifications and regardless if they have money to pay. That's it. That's equity. And then you find out that the real thing about college was the selection bias, not what the college taught you.

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That the colleges were only, they only existed in many ways. They existed as a way to certify that these were the smart people. They didn't make them smart. I mean, they may have trained them in some skills, but they didn't make them smart. The being smart had to be there in the first place. And then the smart people always find a way. So this seems to be another example.

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And then also the Democrats got rid of honors classes because they found out that people who went to honors classes did better in life and got into college. And that was an unfair advantage. So how do you fix that? You get rid of the honors classes. and then you don't have that problem.

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So if you look at education, would it be fair to say that the reason it's so messed up and people have, uh, they have a gigantic crushing college loan debt and all they got from it was a degree in something useless. All of these things are the same problem, not understanding how anything works, not understanding cause and effect.

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Here's their new mission statement. I'm not making this up. This is actually, I swear to God, this is what their new mission statement is. You ready for this? It's... They're going to highlight their focus on... No, their new mission statement is, quote, riveting storytelling for all America. Storytelling? Storytelling? Storytelling? newspaper, news, facts, storytelling.

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not understanding what's the real cause and what's just a correlation. It's all the same. The reason that Democrats don't understand climate change is they don't understand cause and effect and how money changes incentive and that people are basically liars. And they think that college is just a matter of getting rid of the racism so that everybody can get in. That was so not the problem.

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Not even close. A complete analysis failure. So I would say that you could find this consistently that the people on the left, the woke left, don't understand cause and effect. It really is that simple. They don't know how money and incentives affect anything. Well, here's some good news. President Trump has picked Bill Pulte for director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

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Episode 2723 CWSA 01/17/25

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So that would be in charge of Freddie and Fannie. So those would be two big programs that the government runs for making loans. Now, here's what's good, great really, about having Bill Polte. The rumored, and I believe it's true, but the rumored goal of the Trump administration is to do away with government control of these two entities that used to not be government controlled. Now,

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If you want to get rid of government control over these really big dollar, gigantic dollar things, who are you going to hire? Somebody who needs that job or somebody who definitely doesn't need the job, but is such a patriot is willing to take the pain to get something done. That's Pulte. Pulte is one of the most honest, effective people you'll ever know in your life.

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I know him personally, so I can speak from, from authority on this. Uh, This is another genius pick. Trump is just nailing these picks. I didn't, you know, I have to say I was cautious on Hegseth because I thought, hmm, you know, is it too much emphasis on his TV qualities? But I think he brought the goods. I think he showed us what I wanted to see.

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Pulte is the best pick for somebody to transfer control from the government to the private sector, and then move on to another challenge. He doesn't need the job. Trust me, he doesn't need the job. So this is just brilliant. And all credit to Bill Pulte for being willing to take on what looks like a tough, tough job that we'd all be better off if he succeeds. So good luck. Good luck there.

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All right, Trump picked a head of Secret Service, which is the head of his current Secret Service detail, Sean Corrine. Now, my first question was, how common is it that you would be promoted from the head of a detail, even a presidential detail, directly to the top of the entire Secret Service? Has that happened before? Or...

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My Dilbert filter on this, the way most things work, is that you would go from the head of a detail to maybe the third in command of the entire network, and then maybe you could work yourself up to the top. Has this ever happened, that you went from the head of a detail to the head of the whole thing? Maybe it has. It's entirely possible that that's more normal than I think.

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But here's what it hints at. What it hints at is that Trump doesn't trust the Secret Service. And the one he does trust is the person who jumped on his body when the guns were when the bullets were flying. The only person he could trust to literally have his best interests in mind is the person who jumped on him when bullets were flying.

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And I gotta say that, you know, sometimes Trump gets a hit for putting loyalty over, you know, maybe experience sometimes. But this is a place where loyalty over experience, and the guy has plenty of experience, right? He has all the experience in the world of what a presidential detail should be doing.

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And apparently he's been advocating hard for more resources for the presidential detail and was getting blocked. So he seems to have all the right stuff. So I'm plus on this, but I think the genius of it is for Trump to feel comfortable that the person in charge really, really wants to keep him alive. And I'm not sure he would have thought that before. So this is a good change.

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Kevin O'Leary was on CNN and as one of his rhetorical flourishes with the Democrats he was arguing with, he said, everyone is wondering how, Joe Biden got rich. How did he get rich? And he asked that several times while they were yammering at him. And he just said, how did he get rich? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but how did Joe Biden get rich?

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Now, I asked the search engine how rich he is. And the answer is something like $10 million net worth. Now, could he have that net worth? from his book sales and his speaking that he did in between when he held office, because he was paid a lot for a book, probably, probably paid a lot for his speaking. And sometimes we think that's the way that politicians get bribed.

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You know, if you do this now, I'll make sure that you get this big book deal later, that sort of thing. But I hate to tell you that $10 million is not as rich as it sounds. It does sound sketchy to me. I don't think that anybody else who had his pay and a book deal and a little speaking would be at that value. But most of the value is in his two homes.

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So probably half or more is that he has two homes. Now the question is, how did he get these two homes? Because they're nice ones. I don't know. So $10 million... Doesn't seem like LBJ level of corruption. You know, that was sort of off the chart. But I don't think he could get there without something sketchy going on. So that's a good question.

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I think they just created a mission statement that says their news isn't real. Because do you use that language when you're talking about facts? How about, we're going to tell you what you need to know. How about all the important facts? No, it's storytelling. Now, Are they completely unaware of what that sounds like? When you hear storytelling, you don't think fact. You think fiction.

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So you know that Biden, in his final speech there, his goodbye speech, he warned against the formation of tech oligarchies, which I think is just aimed at Elon Musk and maybe the fact that Zuckerberg's a less pro-Democrat lately. But what I loved about this, it was the final act of projection.

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We keep saying that the real problem of the Democrats is a mental health problem, some kind of weird thing where they do projection. Everything that they're doing, they just blame Democrats at. So what were they doing for years? They were using their oligarch Soros and Reid Hoffman and other rich people who might be in jail to fund them. And that was okay.

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But as soon as some rich people said, wait a minute, the fine people hoax isn't real. Then some of his best backers, I mean, Elon Musk was backing him before. Some of his best backers have decided to go the other direction. So this is his final act of projection. The guy who benefited entirely from the billionaires saying, you better watch out for billionaires. It's kind of perfect, isn't it?

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That his final act was incompetent, laughable, and almost a ridiculous level of persuasion. All right. So Biden has said that his problem was he spent too much time on policy and then not enough on politics. Okay. The gall it takes to say that your problem with your reputation was that you spent too much time on policy.

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That sounds like when you go in for the job interview and you get that standard question, it's like, all right, You know, are there any flaws about you that I should know about? Well, sometimes I like to work too hard. Yeah, sometimes I focus on the policy too hard. It's the same thing. Ridiculous. And then, of course, MSNBC has been defending Biden's mental acuity right up till today.

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So even Morning Joe is still saying, you know, he gets a word wrong here and there, but I spend time with him and he's fine. He's fine. So their entire brand, MSNBC, is that Biden's fine. He's always been fine. He's still fine. I don't know what you're talking about. So Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC gets to sit down with Biden and from the network that defended Biden's mental acuity for years.

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And Biden says this, quote, You've heard Barack get mad at me when I was a kid. What? Barack got mad at him when he was a kid? Now, I suppose he meant when I was vice president, but when I was a kid isn't really that close to when I was vice president. That's a brain fart, and I get, by the way, forgetting a name, something I do all the time. It's not that unusual. But this is...

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Kind of embarrassing if you're the one of the hosts of the everything's fine with Biden's brain. And he gives you, you've heard Barack get mad at me when I was a kid. Oh, meanwhile, then the Harris was, uh, she was signing her little desk in the vice president office and talking in public, I guess it was her goodbye sort of. Um, and the big question was, is she drunk?

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So I would like to do my impression. of Kamala Harris in the news, not knowing if she's stupid or drunk, because it was so much fun trying to figure out, okay, is that stupid or is that drunk? To me, she looked drunk in the little episode yesterday. But if it wasn't drunk, oh my God, it's worse. You hope it's drunk, because if that's the way her real brain is working, oh, we got a problem.

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So I'd like to give you my impression and see if you think this is drunk or stupid. First of all, hands were involved. So I'll do the hand stuff.

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My work is not done. We'll be working long hours. It's not my nature to go quietly into the night.

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You think narrative. And indeed, that's exactly what they are. They accidentally picked a mission statement that describes exactly what they are. They're storytellers. They're storytellers. Their own mission statement of a news organization left out the news. They left out the news. Stories. Stories are not the news. I mean, they can be based loosely on the news. But then it gets better.

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Now, did that sound drunk or stupid? Because I think I nailed it. That was right on. Biden's commuting the sentences of 2500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. I'm roughly OK with that, but I'd love to know if any of them were fentanyl dealers, because if they were, I'm not in favor of that.

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The FBI shut down this DEI office just before Trump comes in office and tells them to shut it down. But of course, they didn't really shut it down. They just hid all the parts in other departments so that they don't have to call it DEI, but they can still do DEI. Trump has demanded that the FBI retain all his records about their so-called DEI office.

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And if they get rid of their records, that seems like that would be a bad thing. Meanwhile, scientists, according to No Ridge, scientists have developed nanoparticles that target and remove plaque from inside the arteries. But here's the exciting part. They figured out a way to get the nanoparticle to get inside a cell and reprogram it.

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So they were the cells that were the macrophages or whatever, the things that eat stuff. and they can just goose them so that they do a better job of eating the things that you want them to eat, like the harmful plaque. But what strikes me about this is this sounds exactly like a software upgrade to your body.

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If you can reprogram through a nanoparticle that can get into a cell, and you can reprogram the function of the cell, I mean, sounds dangerous, but if they figured out the safety part, they can do a software upgrade to your cells. This looks like a real thing. Now it's not rolled out yet. But in the lab, they're upgrading your cells. That's pretty amazing. SciPost talks about a new study.

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Eric Dolan says that there's an oral brain axis. Okay, this isn't as exciting as it sounds at first. New research uncovers surprising links between the bacteria in your mouth and mental health symptoms. So they discovered that people who have mental health symptoms have different mouth chemistry than people who don't have mental health problems.

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Sometimes not on laundry day, but most of the time. Well, did you know that unsweetened coffee is associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, according to Sipos? Yes. There's nothing that coffee can't do. And this is the reason that I stopped doing cold plunges. You know, everybody's like, oh, take a cold plunge. Take a cold plunge. It hurts a lot. It's so painful. Do it.

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I'm just going to say that one of those groups eats glue and the other doesn't. So I'm not sure the cause and the effect is exactly what they think. which makes me suspect the scientists are Democrats because there's one group that can't get cause and effect right. All right. That's all I got for you. Stock market's up. We're going into the weekend.

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And so it's Sunday that's the inauguration, right? I think we have to talk about the security of the inauguration day. How in the world... Could you protect that? It seems to me if a foreign power wanted to do something, they'd have the ability. I don't know if a hobbyist could do it, like just some lone drone gunman or something. But they could get close.

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I mean, I don't know how good the anti-drone detection is and repulsion is. Yeah, I'm seeing the comments that Joe Biden's $10 million is not what it used to be. Not what it used to be. Yeah, you could get there being very frugal. Yeah, I don't think that's how it happened. Now, there were two incomes for a long time. Two incomes, living in a relatively less expensive state.

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Maybe you could get there. But I doubt that's how it happened. Yeah, there's a photo of Daniel Penny taking a subway again. I tell you, however brave you think Daniel Penny is or was, he's probably braver than you think because he's just back on the subway. And I love the fact that I don't think anybody's going to want to mess with him.

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He would be the one person you wouldn't want to start a fight with. I mean, you should never start a fight with somebody who is a young ex-Marine. Because again, the X part, you could forget about. He looks like he's like 6'4". How tall is he? He's a big guy, right? He looks like he's 6'4", young, and has been trained to tear people apart.

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They said they're keeping their little tagline that they've had for a long time, that democracy dies in darkness. What do you think causes the darkness? Let me see. Causes the darkness that would destroy democracy. What would cause such darkness? Would it be storytelling? Could storytelling, instead of telling real news, do you think that might cause the darkness that destroys democracy?

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And he's already killed one person, although I think that was more about the person than the act. And he'd be scary. Like if you were a troublemaker and you looked up and you saw him, you'd be like, oh, God. Last person you want to see in the assembly? unless you're unless you feel unsafe, and then he's the first person you want to see. You know, I don't even know. Yeah, I don't know.

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I would love to know how the black community really thinks about that. If they've been listening to Washington Post storytelling, or do they just say, If the black people in the Daniel Penny subway car, if the other black passengers expressed relief that he stopped this guy, which is what happened, I don't know how you say that's racial.

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If the other black passengers are like, yeah, I'm glad he did that. You think everyone is drunk. It sounds stupid at this point. Really? Everyone? You mean that one person who's obviously drunk? Are you a Democrat? You sound like a Democrat. You don't understand cause and effect. All right. Everyone with a job. Well, that's going too far. Yeah, I think I think people. At least some people respect.

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somebody who steps in. I would imagine there are plenty of people in the black America community who are just saying, you know, that's not my cause. He tried to help. That's the end of that story. That's what I think. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for now. If you're watching the Dilbert comic that you can only get by subscription on X or on the locals platform,

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scottadams.locals.com, you would see that the fires are approaching Dilbert's house. So Dilbert and Dogbert are looking out the window. The fire is approaching. It's not controlled. And they have to decide what they're going to do. I'll give you a spoiler. The spoiler is Dilbert is going to stay and try to protect his house as the fire approaches. And Sunday will be my the big conclusion of that.

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So you'll find out if Dilbert dies or not, which could happen. You know, if I decided to retire, I might kill him. It's possible. So you never know. You better watch it on Sunday. All right. That's all I got for you. I'm going to go talk to the locals, people privately, the rest of you. Thanks for joining. I'll see you next week.

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Now, you have to admire their transparency. They basically told you that they're going to destroy democracy by telling you stories instead of news. Am I over-interpreting this, or is that exactly what they're telling us? I don't think you could be more clear about what you're doing. I don't think it's intentional, but it's clear. Washington Post failing again.

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Meanwhile, I'd like to give you a SpaceX update. I was watching the news yesterday and I was looking at clips about the SpaceX launch and I was reading all the news. And sometimes the clip would say that it was a success. And sometimes another clip would say that it failed. And so all yesterday, I had this Schrodinger's cat experience about the launch.

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It was like, wait, did it fail but also succeed? Wait, were there two rockets and one failed and one succeeded? Because nobody told the whole story. Every clip I had was like a you know, one pixel out of the story. So I'm like, do I have to assemble this whole story in my head?

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And I'm still not entirely sure what happened, but my best, my best understanding reading all these clips, but of course I didn't want to go to the news. Duh. You know, if I went to the news, I don't know what I'm going to see. It might be a storytelling, you know what I mean? Um,

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But I think what happened was it was one launch and one successful giant chopstick caught it, but it was only the booster that did well and the payload part, the upper stage, that had to be destroyed. So there was some kind of catastrophic failure and it either blew up on its own or they destroyed it. Anyway, so Elon considers it a success, as would I.

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as would I, that this is the sort of, I'm going to put it in quotes, failure that is exactly the kind you want, where you're unambiguously learning something that puts you ahead. You have the ability to keep going. You take this, you've learned from it, you take it to the next level. So it's hard for me to even call a test a failure if they found out what they needed to find out.

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You know, it would be cool if they found out, oh, everything worked. But either way, if you find out, you're moving forward. So I like the whole attitude about it, that it's a successful, successful test because they learned critical things from the test that will move them forward. Here's something I didn't know. Nick Cruz-Petain on X said this, and then Elon Musk said yes to it.

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So this sounds like it might be something SpaceX plans, which would be to be a general Earth transport to other places on Earth. Now, you probably know that if you're in a vehicle that goes into space and then comes down in another place on Earth, it can go there faster than some airplane that's trying to go through the air because of resistance and whatnot. So that could take a trip from L.A.

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Do it. It's good for you. And I say... How painful is that? That looks like really painful. Oh, it's really painful. It's good for you. So instead of cold plunges, I have a big vat full of warm coffee and I just roll around in it every day. And that's why I don't have Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. Yeah, it's not an accident, people.

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to New York, Oh, Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban. Oh, okay. New news. Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban. Well, I guess it's gone. We shall see. I think there's more to happen on that story. But anyway, if SpaceX does create a product where you can just take the rocket ship to another place on Earth, LA to New York, which would normally be five and a half hours, would be 25 minutes.

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Can you imagine getting from LA to New York in 25 minutes? How about London to New York? 29 minutes. Wow. Why is that 29 when the six-hour flight is 27? I don't know. The numbers don't look right. But that would be pretty amazing. But what would it cost to be on a rocket that uses that kind of fuel, even if it's you know, re-landable. I don't know. But Yilan said, yes, maybe this is the future.

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Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, China is testing a microwave weapon with what they call nuclear bomb-like power to kill satellites. So Christopher McFadden and interesting engineering is writing it. It's still experimental. They haven't rolled it out, but it has the potential to take out swarms of drones or satellites. So you can kind of see the future, can't you?

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We've got all this high-tech stuff, the satellite drones and the smart missiles and the robot dogs. And then probably the superpowers will have these ginormous electronic devices to cancel out the electronics on these other weapons. the better robot military equipment is going to meet with the race to find out a thing that can cancel all electronics in the area. We'll see where that goes.

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There's a massive fire. It's probably still burning. It was yesterday at the lithium battery storage plant in California, of course. Of course. Now, when you hear that a lithium battery storage plant has a fire, you'd probably say to yourself, that's sort of lithium batteries. That's not the biggest surprise in the world.

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But when that fire has an impact on our whole power grid, presumably, and it comes right on the heels of several other fires in LA, not all of them have known causes, Here's what worries me. If we were already under attack, this is exactly what it would look like. Wouldn't it?

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If the homeland was under a serious attack, you would see fires started in different places, in places that are highly valuable and hard to start. You wouldn't see a fire in maybe the center of Detroit, because that could be kind of limited to one building. But you would see it where you're seeing them. and then you would see attacks on the grid, and you would see them happening in bunches.

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So it would look like, well, that's a big coincidence. What, another fire? Well, that's another big coincidence. What, at the same time as the lithium battery storage plant? Well, that's another coincidence. Now, I'm not saying we're under attack. I'm saying that if the real news looks exactly like an attack, you better pay attention. Because one of these is going to be an attack, I feel like.

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Well, I hope you see the video that's going around of an Air Force veteran who was assigned to pick up alien wreckage, and he would take his helicopter out. So the military assigned him to do this. And he said most of the things he picked up were just, you know, secret government programs and stuff.

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Someday. Hope not soon. But apparently, did you know the United States buys transformers for our power grid? And we've got about, I don't know, close to 500 of them. And one of them was once taken apart to see if there's anything dangerous in these Chinese transformers. And they found that there was a way to turn it off remotely. Right.

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Meaning that if you were a Chinese agent, you could just walk up to a transformer in our grid, probably take out your phone and go, boop. And if you had the right app, it would turn off the network. They can just turn off our power now.

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Pretty much, I don't know how many 500 transformers, you'd only need one transformer to get turned off in your network and the whole network after that transformer would be down. That's a lot of power they have control over, theoretically, just by walking up to it, and maybe they don't even have to stand next to it. Maybe they can do it remotely. I don't know how remotely they have to be.

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But apparently there's a back door, and we bought more of them instead of phasing them out, probably because we can't make stuff in this country affordably. Anyway, Megyn Kelly reports that she had a woke friend who lost a home in the California fires and says, quote, this is what the friend said, the woke friend. Everyone I know is ready to vote Republican.

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Nick Garamond, Red State's reporting that. And here's what I think. You know, I live in California, and so I know lots of Californians. I don't know any woke ones. I don't know any woke ones. You know, even my famous smartest Democrat friend that I often talk about,

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He's not really woke, just prefers the policies of the Democrats and thinks the Republicans are evil and stuff, you know, normal stuff, but not, you know, he's not like hosting drag queen hours or anything. I don't know any, I don't know any woke people. I live in California. I don't know any, I literally don't know one. I mean, I know they exist.

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I think I've seen them, you know, in public, but I don't know one. So I cannot confirm or deny that the people who are in that category that I don't even know one have decided they've had enough and they're going to vote Republican. I honestly don't believe that.

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I believe that only the people who lost their houses or got displaced are even thinking in that way, because whatever it is that makes the Democrats the way they are, it would have to be a personal tragedy that would change their minds. So those who are unfortunately having the personal tragedy, I definitely would agree that they're thinking about voting Republican.

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You don't even have to ask them. That's just sort of obvious. But I'll bet you if you were one mile outside of the danger zone and you didn't have a good friend who was affected, you'd be like, well, Biden's still better than Trump, et cetera, and my local mayor should be blue and all that stuff. So we'll see how real that is.

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Let's check our stocks and they look like they're in a healthy situation today. Yeah, Tesla's up.

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I'm going to go a little further and say it might be the greatest accomplishment of any leader in any time in American, well, no, human history, not American history, human history. Now, part of it is because he's born in a specific time.

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You know, 300 years ago, you didn't need to maybe do some international trade, but you can't really survive unless you're plugged into the international commercial network of everything. And I think Trump is the first one to say, war is obsolete. It's obsolete. Because in theory, you can get almost anybody to do almost anything to bring them from some extremist situation into the fold.

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By just making it clear that the only way you'll ever thrive is to act like a responsible country and then you could be part of the world commercial situation. Now, he hasn't said that directly, but that sure feels like where he's heading with Iran, with Russia, etc. He's not saying, if you don't give us what we want, we're going to bomb the hell out of you. He doesn't take it off the table.

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It's not off the table. But he said clearly that the alternative for Iran would be being crushed economically. And the alternative for Russia was to be further sanctioned. So I feel like it's one of the greatest accomplishments of any leader in the history of humanity, really, if he pulls this off.

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It's not completely pulled off, but he seems to have reframed it in a way that we can all understand. Well, according to the Kobiesa letter on X, Trump's investment, he raised... $2.5 trillion in capital for the US. Now, we don't know for what time period, but the UAE was in for $1.4 trillion that they want to invest in the US. Saudi Arabia, $600 billion. Qatar, $500 billion.

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These are very big numbers, but they're not as big as what Trump says it is. So those are the numbers based on news reports and what those countries have said out loud. But Trump says that his trip is worth $12 to $13 trillion and includes deals already announced and some that will be outlined shortly. And he's going to be sending out letters to nations for trade deals soon. So I don't know.

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So somewhere between $2.5 and $13 trillion is what he came back with. But I don't know how much of this to believe because when you look at what the Arab nations said they would contribute or actually invest, not contribute, I don't know, is that over 10 years or 20 years? So I don't even know how to say if that's important or not. I don't feel it. Like nothing in my life changed.

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So I'm going to say I'm not 100% sure anything in your life will change either, but it's way better than not getting those deals. So a lot of what Trump does is salesmanship and selling the country and creating an image and just making people think differently. That's what he does best.

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And I'm pretty sure that if you're thinking about something else while you're having sex, your orgasm will not be so powerful or likely to happen. So yeah, next time you need to know if ADHD is going to interfere with anything, including sex or anything else, just ask me. Yes, I think their minds would wander a little bit. Here's another one, also Eric Nolan, also a side post.

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So if what he's done is created this situation where all the smart people are putting massive amounts of money into the United States because it's the best place to invest, and it probably is, it's probably the best place to invest, that would be amazing.

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So I can quibble about what the real number is and how big it is, but what he's done is make everybody think in that way, meaning that if he visits your country, you better open your wallet. And I think people will.

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So not only did Republicans think he did a great job in the Middle East, but Fox News and others are reporting that former Biden officials, people who would be deeply critical of Trump, are also saying, wow, he seems to have accomplished a lot in one trip. And so podcasters are saying it.

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Axios spoke to several Biden administration officials, and some of them are saying that Trump's audacious foreign policy moves were pretty amazing. One official anonymously said, gosh, I wish I could work for an administration that can move that quickly. So even if he didn't love everything that Trump has done everywhere, You look at this and you say to yourself, Biden could not do this.

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I don't think there is a single Democrat who actually knows what they're talking about who would say, oh yeah, Biden could have done that. He probably almost did. Nope. I think people are absolutely recognizing that he's a singular personality and that he can literally do things that other people can't do.

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And when you start imagining a world in which you're not locked into all the same choices and that when Trump shows up, you have more options and some of them look pretty good. He's sort of someone who can make something happen that all the smart people thought couldn't happen. And that the value of that is incalculable. Just think about that. There's one personality.

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really just one in the whole world, where if he aims his airplane at your country, things can happen that just couldn't have happened without him. Nobody else is like that. I don't even know historically if anybody's ever been like that.

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So the fact that he's not afraid of anything, he's not afraid to take you in a different direction, he's not afraid to upset you, he's not afraid to try something that might fail, he's not afraid to try something that doesn't work, then he has to quickly pivot and change it. His lack of fear combined with his common sense, we've never seen this. We've just never seen this.

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So, you know, I do appreciate that the Democrats are not blind to it. They can see it too. Now, there's a rumor that I'm pretty sure is false. that Trump is at least considering the idea of promoting a two-state situation and backing Palestine as its own country. I don't think that's going to happen. What do you think? I feel like he would have already signaled that.

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Now, we're seeing that Trump has made it very clear that Israel is not going to be Yankee as Shane. So he's created some distance from Israel without creating any kind of a major economic or other problem. But he's very clearly signaled that he's going to do what's good for the U.S., and that's it. If Israel doesn't like it, Israel just has to deal with it. So we haven't seen that before.

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So I went to Grok, and I wondered, how many of the Palestinians themselves want a two-state solution. And it turns out it's just wildly difficult to get any kind of a read on that, according to Grok. But the numbers range from 24% to 74%. So we don't know exactly, because the range is so big. We don't know exactly if even the Palestinians want a two-state solution. I just assume that they all did.

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But maybe not. Or maybe it's just that the limitation in the polling over there is so bad that it's 74% plus. Could be. But then I wondered how many of the Israelis wanted two-stage solutions. According to Gallup in 2024, only 27%. And if you looked at only the Jewish Israelis, it's as low as 17%. So I don't even know how many people want it.

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Apparently, psychedelic experiences are linked to long-term improvements in psychological flexibility. You know who else they could have asked that question of? 100% of people who have ever had a psychedelic experience. That's the main thing it does. The main thing it does is make you see the world as sort of subjective.

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If you say a two-state solution to the Palestinians, do they say to themselves, oh no, we really want to own the whole thing? So we want a one-state solution where we're in charge. Is that what they're thinking when they answer the question? So that would be yet another reason why you can't trust the polls on any of this. But here's what I do think.

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I think the opinions in the region would be so far all over the place that if you propose any kind of two-state solution, that even the people who said they were in favor of it would be opposed to it because of the specific way you said you wanted to do it. All right, two-state solution, but who's in charge? Where is it? Which real estate are you talking about?

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I don't think you could ever get much of an agreement on that. So I'm going to assume that Trump will either stay away from that question, as in this is your problem, not mine, But I don't think he's going to come out strong in favor of a Palestinian two-state solution. Just a guess. I don't think he will. I could be wrong. Well, as you know, there was what's being called a top Iranian official.

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but really is an advisor. He's well-connected, but I don't know if he's a top official. He said that Iran would be willing to make a deal with Trump in which there would be some limits on their uranium enrichment, and there would be some agreement not to make nuclear weapons, and there would be some kind of inspection to make sure that didn't happen.

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They might destroy their existing... Yeah, maybe get rid of some of their stockpiles. But I don't think that gets close to what the U.S. wants. So the U.S. not only wants something in the nuclear realm as part of the deal, but they also want Iran to stop supporting their terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. And I haven't seen that even discussed.

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So would we make a deal if they were going to just keep funding Hamas? Doesn't feel like Trump would. So pretty far away on that. And then Witkoff recently said that what the Trump administration wants is a full dismantlement of Tehran's nuclear program. So that would include three main nuclear facilities completely dismantled.

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I think if I'm right, Tehran wants to continue having the ability to refine uranium, but they would keep their refinement well under the level that you could make a bomb and that there would be some inspections on that. Now, I don't know if that would ever be enough because it would still leave them with the ability to kind of semi-rapidly change their mind and make a bomb.

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And I don't think Trump's going to live with that. So Trump actually said that there are important talks that are happening right now. And he had some optimism that maybe something will happen. But the alternative that Trump has laid out is that he will just turn off oil sales from Iran. Now, right now, Iran is still selling oil to China mostly.

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And then you get flexible, because if the world is subjective, you don't have to be locked into any one way of thinking or one way of perceiving. So yes, next time you want to study something about psychedelics, just ask me. I got the answers. Well, because I have to know this, I'm going to make all of you know it too.

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I guess we would embargo that or stop those ships in the water or something. But that would happen next if we don't get a deal. Apparently oil prices have fallen in part because of Trump's comments about Iran. And so, yeah, so if oil prices fall, that would also mean that Russia gets less money to pursue their war.

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I don't know if it would make enough of a big deal that Russia would want to make a deal. But that's happening. All right, let's change the topic to AI. So according to Fortune, a bunch of CEOs are saying that only a fraction of AI initiatives are delivering a return on investment. Now, you know that I've been more skeptical than most people about what AI will ever be able to do.

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And I've been skeptical that companies will be able to

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use it in production because I don't think they figured out how to get rid of the hallucinating the hallucinations and they don't know how to make it reason yet you know and figure out things that it hasn't encountered before it's just not good at that so so that seems to be a thing now at the same time that the CEOs are saying hmm this has been a little underwhelming Meta

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one of the big players in AI, they've apparently delayed their rollout of their flagship AI model at the next level. And the insiders are saying it's because they don't think it is enough of an improvement. And there's a lot of insider fighting and stuff. So it's sort of suggesting, and other people are saying the same thing,

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that AI might be plateauing, meaning that there will always be new models coming out that are better than the last one, but they're not going to be twice as good. The next one might be 3% better. I'm just making that up. But that would suggest that AI is reaching its total potential. with the current technology.

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So even if you build a bigger data center and you train it even harder, there might not be that much extra that it can go to. Now, if it's true that the CEOs are saying it's underwhelming and it's not really paying back and it's also plateauing, what is that telling you? That would be some bad news. But then I see some big breakthroughs that AI is doing.

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For example, Google's DeepMind AI is able to come up with algorithms that humans were not capable to come up with. To which I say, wait a minute. Are you telling me that in the real world benefit of AI, the only thing they had to talk about this week is that it could come up with some algorithms that we couldn't come up with? And then I say, what would be those algorithms?

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And how are those changing the world? Well? Alpha Evolve, I guess that's the flavor of AI that's doing this, came up with more efficient algorithms for several kinds of computations. Several kinds, I say. Several kinds, not just one. Several kinds. For example, they came up with a method for calculating that involved matrices that are a better method for calculating matrices.

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And it's better than the Strassen algorithm that has been relied on for 56 years. So how good do you feel about that? I tell you, for 56 years, I've been relying on the Strassen algorithm to calculate my matrices. The whole time I was thinking, well, there's got to be a better way. Does anybody have a better?

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If you were trying to avoid the Diddy trial because you'd hear something that would destroy your brain forever, you might not want to listen to this next thing. Okay, it's not funny. It's not funny. Stop it. It's not funny because it was a serious crime alleged here, but now there's a new lawsuit, according to Breitbart News.

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And sure enough, AI came up with a better way to calculate your matrices better than the Strassen algorithm. It improves the computational efficiency by reducing the number of calculations required to produce a result. So that's not nothing. Does it feel to you like all the little hints are suggesting that AI may be reaching some kind of a limit that we weren't expecting?

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Now, the next level of AI, where it's super AI and AGI and whatever we're thinking is that next level, that really depends on us inventing things we don't know how to invent yet. How long does it take to invent something we don't know how to invent?

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Remember I told you the day that the estimate for when we would have humanoid robots that could live in your house and you just tell it, oh, I've got a new task for you. You've never done this before, but here's how you feed the dog. And then it would just watch you do it and go, oh, okay. We're not really close to that. Because you've never seen that even demonstrated, have you?

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Let me give you the demonstration of apparently what is the best our current AI can make a robot do. If you're just listening to this, this is me dancing like a retard. Jazz hands. Do you think it's a coincidence that every time we see a demo, it's doing something that you wouldn't need at all? Are you going to buy the dancing robot? Or the robot that can do back somersaults?

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Or the one that can carry a predetermined size box into a predetermined size place and not much else? And then you saw some estimates that maybe it'll be two or three years before you buy a humanoid robot that can just do stuff around the house. Two or three years doesn't suggest that we have current technology that can do it. That's not just tweaking it for two or three years until it works.

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That really depends on inventing something that we haven't invented. So I'm a I'm pretty skeptical on this whole AI thing. I think we may be approaching a plateau. But that could change in a minute if somebody's invented something new. Well, are you watching the Supreme Court conversations?

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Let me try to explain the Supreme Court situation because, you know, you're not all lawyers and you don't have the deep understanding of law and the Supreme Court the way I do, you know, with my complete lack of experience in that domain. But apparently, somehow... Oh, let me just say this in case you can't pick up the sarcasm. There's nothing I say about the Supreme Court that you should trust.

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It's really complicated at the moment. So apparently there are two questions, birthright citizenship and then the universal injunction thing. That's the thing where a federal judge... who in theory would be in charge of some small part of the country, would make some kind of ruling that says the entire country can't do this thing.

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Now, it's been applied to a lot of the executive orders from Trump, so all you need to do is get some lefty judge to say, oh yeah, I give you an injunction, so then nowhere in the country can you do that. And then of course, the people who are normal say, why can this one judge who's only in charge of this little slice of the country tell the entire rest of the country what it can and can't do?

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Now, both of these questions you'd think would be good questions for the Supreme Court. But for reasons I don't fully understand, the only way to get it in there was to jam them together and talk about how birthright citizenship had been blocked with a universal injunctive relief. So it would cause the Supreme Court to have to deal with both issues in ways I don't quite understand.

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There's a new lawsuit of a woman who says that Sean Diddy Combs tried to rape her, but that she was not that afraid once he whipped out his manhood because he described it as tootsie roll-sized. Now, are you ever going to be able to imagine him in any context again without imagining the Tootsie Roll? No. That's the most devastating thing you could do to him is do the Tootsie Roll thing.

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So I listened to a bunch of the arguments. I didn't understand a damn thing I heard. Did anybody have the same experience? Some of you might be lawyers, so you understood it. But I didn't understand any of it. And I don't understand how they can just staple these two items together and take them both to the Supreme Court and expect that you're going to get some kind of answer to them individually.

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Don't get it at all. Absolutely baffled by the whole thing. But the smart people, the people who know way more than I do, and... Politico has some writing by Josh Gerstein and Hassan Ali Kanu. They're saying that the birthright part is getting a frosty reception, meaning that don't expect the Supreme Court to come up with any ruling that says that birthright citizenship will go away or be limited.

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So it looks like maybe both the lefty and the righty parts of the Supreme Court

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are just saying hey we got precedent we got clear writing in the constitution we're not going to change it but the situation of the judges that are making these broad rulings that affect the whole country there does seem to be some wiggle room on that one so we don't know you know it's too early to know how anybody's going to vote but there's a possibility

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that when they're all done, nothing about birthright citizenship, which is you get to be a citizen if you're born in this country, probably nothing about that will change. But the idea that a judge can, a federal judge in one part of the country can do something that affects the whole rest of the country, there might be some changes coming in that domain. But that's speculative at this point.

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Well, as you know, Trump's big, beautiful bill is getting ready for the prime time. They're still marking it up and playing with it. But basically, they've got the bill kind of close. And I think Trump's kind of happy with it. But Rand Paul says, quote, it will be a record for Congress to raise the debt $5 trillion.

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But also it indicates that this year the deficit will be over $2 trillion, but it means they're anticipating close to $3 trillion for the next year. So Rand Paul is questioning the raising the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. And And especially in the context of Doge was supposed to save us all this money, but we don't see anything like that. We don't see anything that looks like a Doge saving.

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Where is it? What happened to it? Did we go through all that for nothing? And Paul says, he summarizes it by saying, it's really a slap in the face that those of us who are excited about Elon Musk and Doge and all the cuts, well, that's me. That's me. I was excited about Elon Musk and Doge and all the cuts. And I consider this bill a slap in my fucking face. I feel insulted. Literally insulted.

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And let me just put it this way. Congress had one thing that they had to get right we'd like them to get everything right but they had one fucking thing they needed to get right which is not to spend us into a certain death and those motherfuckers Republicans I'm only talking about you Republicans you motherfuckers came up with a bill that that will spend us into oblivion.

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And you fucking know it. You fucking know it. And you're doing it right in front of our faces. Am I insulted? Yes. Can I support Republicans when they're doing this? Right to our face. No. No. Fuck you. I'm out. I am so out. You need to at least put a little effort into it. Don't try to shove this up our fucking asses one more time.

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Do you think you didn't get the message that the public is done with this? We're so done with this. Go back, take five or 10% off or whatever you need to do. It's going to hurt. Here's the problem. We have a goal, which is to have fiscal responsibility, but we don't have a system that can ever get that for us. Because the problem is that if any politician

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cut anything enough to make a difference, they would not get reelected. So we shouldn't be surprised that the people who are in the system, that they will be punished to do the right thing. They will be punished. They will be punished if they do the right thing, which is cut the spending. They will be punished.

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Even if they take something that only 10% of the public cares about, that's enough not to get reelected. They would be punished. So as long as we have a fucking system that guarantees we're going to go down the fucking drain, don't ask me to sign off on this. Don't ask me to pat you on the fucking head. Don't ask me to say, good job, guys. No, this is an insult. This is an insult.

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Rand Paul, I'm on your side. And I feel like the public just has to take over this process. I feel like the public needs to just say, we're going to get rid of everybody unless you can fix this. Now, I don't know any way that that can work, but I'll tell you one thing. The Congress can't do this thing, and it's the most important fucking thing.

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And if you can't do the most important fucking thing to keep us all alive, to keep us fucking alive, You got to go. Something's got to change. And am I happy with President Trump, who apparently seems to be perfectly happy with kicking this can down the road at the age of whatever fuck he is? Nope. Absolutely not. Now, I can tell you that Trump did amazing work in the Middle East.

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Oh, my goodness. But in related news, the New York Post is reporting that Justin Bieber's rep, his rep, not him, his rep, said that he was not a victim of Sean Combs. So if you're worried about Bieber being a victim of Sean Combs, his rep, his rep says it didn't happen. Now, if you can't trust a celebrity rep, who can you trust? Yeah, so we're not going to believe the rep.

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I think really just historically amazing work. But if he gives us this budget, how am I supposed to support that? And it doesn't have anything to do with Republican or Democrat. It's doom. It's the end of your fucking life. Unless somebody's come up with some magical way that everything will be better.

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The only thing I saw that was like this glimmer of hope was somebody in the comments on X said, well, nothing about the budget will matter when AI reaches this certain level. AI will change everything, so debt won't matter, etc. Really? Is that why the Fortune 500 companies say, hmm, This AI isn't working out so much.

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You're going to have to give us some kind of a plan that doesn't look like you're going to kill us. And this is absolutely a non-starter. So every one of you fuckers, you got something to explain to the public. You've insulted us. You've failed. You've set us on a track to absolute destruction. And you better fucking figure it out.

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Now, again, I do have some sympathy for the fact that they're in a system where they will be personally punished for doing the right thing. I feel like the public, or maybe it's Trump, I mean, you know, he's a singular character. He could do it. I just don't know that he would. I think that it's political suicide to cut any part of the budget for any reason whatsoever. Just absolute suicide.

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So I don't know where this goes, but don't expect me to be mindlessly supporting Republicans when they're trying to kill us all. That's not going to happen. That's just not going to happen. Well, not only are they trying to take away all of our money and destroy the country, But now Senator Mike Lee, Republican, he wants to make porn a crime in the United States.

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So all pornography would be basically become a crime. Now, my first question about this was would that include OnlyFans? Would the OnlyFans be able to still do their OnlyFans thing? Because if you got rid of all sort of classic porn, wouldn't men turn more to OnlyFans? And wouldn't that turn women more into prostitutes online?

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don't know I would worry a little bit about the unintended and consequences of this one you know I don't know enough about it but I know it also looks like a limitation on free speech and everything else so you can have your opinion on that U.S. wholesale prices, according to the Daily Wire, so U.S.

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wholesale prices had the biggest decline in five years, flying in the face of economists' predictions. At the same time, the news is saying that Walmart's getting ready to raise their prices substantially because of tariffs. So if you're not well-versed in economics,

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How can it be true that Walmart's going to raise its prices at the same time, which would be the signal for everybody else to do it, really? At the same time that we've seen the biggest drop in five years. And the answer is there's a timing difference. So the tariff stuff hasn't really hit the economy yet. And we don't know how big it will be.

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But nothing that has happened so far is predictive of what will happen over the summer. And the news is pretending it is. The news is pretending that because there's some kind of weird disconnect between the Trump tariff action and the fact that prices are actually going down, I think the news is trying to convince you that there won't be a connection.

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because there hasn't been a connection so far. That is not true. There is a timing difference. We might see some further decreases in prices, but when the tariffs start kicking in over the summer, it's only going to go in one direction. Now, it could be that the Walmarts are the ones where the prices happen. Maybe we won't see it in some bigger areas like tech and stuff like that. Maybe.

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But don't be confused. If Walmart's getting ready to raise prices and they've announced it, prices are going up. According to Politico, Joe Biden probably cost the Democrats the White House in 2024 through his feebleness and his insistence of being in the race anyway. But now they're thinking that he's going to completely hobble them in 2028. I'm going to push back on a little of this.

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So Politico's, the writing is from Adam Brand and Holly Otterbein. And I guess they're talking about the fact that the Democrats are still not coming clean about the fact that they were running a candidate who was mentally incompetent. And if they don't come clean on that and find some way to deal with it productively, It might hang over them all the way to 2028. I'm not so sure.

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Because 2028 is so far away that we're going to have a whole bunch of other things to think about. And I was watching the news yesterday. And have you had this experience yet? It'll be a podcast or a news show. And they're just saying the same thing about Biden over and over. Well, they should have known. Well, the Tapper book is really just trying to give the press some kind of out.

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I hope it's true that he was not victimized, but you're going to need to do better than the rep. According to Brendan Carr at the FCC, Verizon has now agreed to end its DEI policies. And that's good news. Now, you might know that I was a victim of DEI back in my phone company working days. I never worked for Verizon or any of the companies they absorbed. But I did experience the DEI effect.

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Well, certainly the insiders knew. Why didn't the insiders tell us? And it's all the same. Now, I don't believe that the political right and their podcasters slash news people, I don't think they can keep telling that same freaking story for four more years, can they? Three more years. So even as powerful as that story is, I only kind of see it from the Republican side.

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And then the Democrats are like, okay, you know, you got a pretty good point there. But I don't think it's got three years of legs. I think it'll be based on how Trump did for the next three years and based on how the economy does and I just don't know that that's got the legs to make a difference in 2028, but we'll see.

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At the moment, the books coming out are driving the headlines, and there will probably be some more books, and they will sort of all be the same. Oh, here's another insider who says that he noticed something was wrong with Biden. We know that. There's nothing new. But Governor Whitmer was on CNN, so here's another example. So even CNN is trying to get people to admit that they knew.

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But CNN is doing the trick where if they can get you to think that the problem was the Biden insiders were lying, then you won't notice that CNN is... didn't somehow pick up on the fact that you could tell just by looking at Biden in public. Fox News knew it. How did Fox News know that Biden was mentally incompetent? And probably 70 million Republicans could tell every time they saw him in public.

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And CNN's trying to paper over that, essentially change history. They're trying to rewrite history So the problem was not their observational skills, which was the real problem. Well, it wasn't even their observational skills. It was their willingness to say they noticed. So Whitmer was asked, you know, since she was very involved in the campaign, you know, if she didn't notice Biden's decline.

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And she said, I was busy working. I didn't see the president directly. Are they going to really get away with that? That all these people who are working on behalf of the president didn't really spend much time with him. Yeah, I didn't really see him much. I can't blame me. But again, they're trying to make it look like you couldn't tell every time he was in public. So anyway.

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time, but If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

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So there's a story about... Soros Foundation director, so this is somebody who's literally the director of the Soros Foundation, like I just said, who is sort of admitting, according to the National Pulse, that the NGOs were using the lawfare to protect illegals against public wishes.

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And so this fellow, Greg Maniatis, the director at the George Soros Foundation, was saying that sort of the activities of his organization created chaos at the border. Now, the reason I found this story interesting is that he's using the word chaos to describe what they had created.

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He said, quote, chaos is the defining story of failure among progressives, Maniatis said, pinpointing the refusal of Democratic leaders to address a, quote, chaotic border system, particularly over the last decade. Is it possible that the Democrats' use of chaos as their one big word against Trump

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Is it possible now that the word has just become normalized to the point where they're using it against themselves? You know, it seems like the Democrats are now competing to see who can say the worst thing about Democrats. Right? Because there's a little bit of competition of who could be the most honest about knowing that Biden was mentally incompetent. But now there's...

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further competition to say oh god we were bad about that border yeah yeah i gotta admit we sure were bad about the border and they're really even using their own code word chaos i don't know it struck me that that was fun I saw a story that at first I thought was terrible, but maybe it isn't.

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Governor Newsom of California, in his new budget, he's calling for closing yet another prison in California, which would be the fifth one that would have been closed during the Newsom administration. Now, when you hear that he's going to close five prisons or close the fifth one, four have already been closed, doesn't that suggest to you that he's letting criminals out?

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Or that somehow they'll just let the criminals run free and not put them in prison? Well, maybe, but his argument is that crime is down and they just don't need it. Is that possible? Do you think crime is actually down and falling and that it's falling at a predictable enough rate that he can close another prison? That would be kind of awesome.

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Do you think it would have anything to do with closing the border? Yes. So it might be that closing the border although I doubt that had anything to do with the first four that he closed. It could be that closing the border has a predictable effect on crime that the governor of California is saying, you know what, we might have too many prisons.

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So this one makes me a little extra happy because it feels personal. So Verizon, we'll see if you actually really get rid of your DEI policies or... Are you just going to change the names? They might just change the names. We'll check in with them later. All right, here's the big story everybody wants to talk about today.

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I don't know if they're connected yet, so I'm just speculating. Well, because Democrats can't, they seem to be unable to do anything right in terms of messaging Now some Democratic lawmakers are pushing hard again for reparations. So Representative Summer Lee, Democrat, Pennsylvania.

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She's going to reintroduce, and this had been first introduced in 2023 by Cori Bush, but they're going to reintroduce some reparations ideas and trying to make up for all those bad things in the past. What do you think about that? Do you think that the thing that will help the Democrats in the midterms and in 2028 will be their push for reparations?

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I'd love to see James Carville's opinion about that. Paging James Carville. Do you think this is the time to talk about reparations? Do you think they seized the moment just right? I'm seeing something online. It's not a big trend yet. But it's going under the tag of black fatigue. Is that it? Do I have that right? Black fatigue.

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But it's the idea that just people are getting tired of listening to black specific problems. And it does feel to me like this isn't the right moment for that. And my take on it is I used to be extra interested in black American problems, most of my adult life, under the theory that if you could help the people who were in the deepest hole, that would be the best thing for the country.

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So if you could take somebody from can't get a job to got a job, or can't get into college to got into college, or doesn't have a good education to got a good education,

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that you get enormous benefits you know better than if somebody got a 10 raise at the job they already had so my thinking was well just make sense i mean just make sense that you would focus in that area because that's where the the deepest problem is you reverse that you really get some some good societal gains but i'm just so tired of it all and now i just think everybody's got problems

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There's nobody with special problems. And so when I hear any group saying, I've got special problems and you should give me some money, I just think I'm bored and I don't care. You're boring me and I don't care.

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do they have a point i don't care do they have a good historical argument for reparations i don't care because everybody's got a good argument for why they should get some extra too so do i i've been discriminated against for 50 years do you care No, you don't care. Why should I care about anybody else? So, no, I have some kind of fatigue. Don't care.

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But I think James Carville will be funny if he weighs in on this, because if the Democrats don't have anything that's working, that's the worst time to throw this into the mix. It's just not going to get you any extra votes. Well, according to the news, the EU is going to put new sanctions on Russia because Putin skipped that peace talks in Turkey. So poor little Zelenskyy.

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So apparently James Comey, ex-head of the FBI, has arranged some seashells on the beach and then took a picture of them. And the shells were arranged in four digits, 8, 6, 4, 7. Now, 47, we assume, refers to Trump. He's the 47th president. 86 is a food services reference to getting rid of something.

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went down to Turkey, and he thought he was going to meet with Putin, and then Putin just ghosted him, which to me is funny. It's funny that he ghosted him. But then, you know, he sent some low-level people, and then they all said, well, this is worthless, so they just already ended the meeting.

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Trump has said that he's ready to meet with Putin to try to work things out, but apparently the EU is going to put some extra sanctions on Russia. So we'll see if that makes any difference. But it does suggest that the Trump approach of making all wars commercial wars, you know, if you want to be part of the world commercial system, you better stop your physical wars.

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But we'll see if Trump can get something done there. In other news, Newsmax is reporting that Health and Human Services is going to

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stop advising coven shots for kids and pregnant women to which i said to myself wait they were still advising that are any of you surprised that they were still advising that you don't have to be a doctor to know that that was a bad idea you just have to be a little bit aware of the news my god really And they haven't stopped yet. They've just announced that they're going to.

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How about just get this fucking done? How about just saying pick up the phone or write a memo or sign an executive order? How about stopping it right now? Why are you going to wait a week? Jesus. All right. Got a little worked up today. That's all I got for you today. See if you can embarrass your Republican representatives into doing their job for the first time ever. See what we can do.

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I don't have a good idea there. Maybe you do. Maybe AI or something. But I'm going to talk privately to the people on Locals. If you're on Rumble or YouTube or X, thanks for joining. And I will see you again, same time, same place, tomorrow. And locals coming at you privately.

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So Secretary Kristi Noem, she posted an ex-disgraced former FBI director, James Comey, just called for the assassination of Trump. And she says that the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service are going to investigate this threat and will respond appropriately. Likewise, FBI Director Kash Patel, he's all over it.

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He says, we are aware of the recent social media post by Comey and directly at Trump, he says, and we're in communication with the Secret Service and Director of Current Primary Jurisdiction is with the Secret Service. but the FBI will provide necessary support.

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Now, if you were not aware that 86 has a meaning beyond being a number, you might not have worked in a food services kind of job as I have. I spent years working in kitchens and I was a dishwasher and I was a line cook and I was a salad cutting guy. So I was always in, and then I owned a couple of restaurants. So 86 was a common phrase.

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And so if my boss told me to 86 the lettuce, I knew that that meant get a high-powered rifle and hide it in the bushes near the golf course and then shoot that lettuce when it came by. Right? That's what that means. It means assassinate the lettuce. Right? This story strikes me as so dumb that on one hand, it's deadly serious because all it takes is one crazy person to say he sent the signal.

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He sent the assassination signal. On the other hand, the odds that he will get in any kind of serious legal trouble for using a common word that means get rid of something? Really low. I don't think he's going to jail because he used a common food services term with seashells.

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So we can speculate what he was thinking, and we can speculate what other people might think when they see it and whether he thought that they would think that. but I think he is in probably safe territory. He's not going to go to jail for using a food services term for getting rid of something. You know, we never thought of it as assassinating the food. So I don't think he's in trouble.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Perfect. Well, let's see if there's any science that they could have skipped just by asking me. Oh, here we go. My favorite writer lately, Eric Dolan and Cy Post.

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But, of course, the news will be all over it today, and you're going to hear that story so many times, and people will act... Terribly shocked and offended and and it's the worst thing in the world. They use that term 86 All right, so that's coming I Joe Rogan had a Harvard, I guess, a persuasion mind control expert. And I saw a good summary of that on X by the Vigilant Fox.

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It was a good account to follow. You should follow the Vigilant Fox. And the expert, her name is Lemoff, she talked about how back in 2012, there was an experiment done on Facebook where they... They achieved mass emotional contagion at scale.

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So what they did was they gave one group of people, without them knowing it, by the way, this experiment was done on users of Facebook, without the users knowing they were part of an experiment. Some of them were given all these negative words, and the others were fed a stream of positive words.

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And then they found out that the group that was exposed to more positive news feed also had a measurably statistically significant effect of more positive emotional response. And the control group was unaltered by this. Now, did they really need to run that experiment? Was there anything they could have done that would have been cheaper and faster?

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than running that big, somewhat unethical experiment because the people didn't know that they were a part of the experiment. Yes, they could have just asked me because every hypnotist and everybody in advertising would have known what would happen. If you give people a bunch of negative words, they feel negative. If you give them a bunch of positive words, they feel positive.

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And it's not that complicated. It's probably the single most well-understood thing in all of persuasion. I doubt you could find even one hypnotist who wouldn't tell you, oh, you don't need to do that experiment. Yeah, all the negative words would make one group feel bad and positive words would make the other group feel good. Yup. But here's what you need to know.

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That's basically CNN and MSNBC every night. Now, they're not running it as an experiment. It's just how they operate. So you know that word chaos? Do you think it's an accident that they all use that word? And then when they get a new word, they all use it? It's the same thing. Basically, the news is a persuasion tool. And they use negative or positive words based on the story.

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And it's very persuasive. That's why people who watch any one of those news shows, at the expense of watching the others, seem to you to be emotionally unbalanced. And it's because they are. And you would be too. If you only watched one news source, You would either get unrelenting good news about one side and unrelenting bad words about the other side, and you'd be quite triggered.

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Well, Trump is back from his successful Middle East trip, and I've got to say, it was one of the most impressive successes that I've ever seen. I don't think we've seen a president... just dominate the news and do such an impressive job in other countries. But I saw Joel Pollack of Breitbart did a little summary of what was achieved.

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And I think maybe the list is even longer than this, but Joel's list is that Trump got us respect and gratitude from the Arab world. Yes. Investment deals for the USA. Yes. Big ones. Release of the American Israeli hostage. Well, that timing was pretty good, huh? Clear statements of U.S. interests and values. Yes. Tough message to Iran. Yes. A distinct, though linked, path from Israel.

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You know, a little bit of distance from Israel, but we can see how we're connected. Yes. Bipartisan praise at home. Yes. And a strong personal image. So yes. Now, do you remember that it was only, oh, I don't know, two weeks ago, when if you would ask Democrats, they would have said that it's quite obvious to everybody. that President Trump is the laughingstock of other countries.

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All right, let's have a show. Gonna check my comments. There we go.

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Do you remember that? And does anybody remember me saying that, no, other countries are transactional. If Trump offers something that they want, they're going to love him. If he offers them something they don't like, they're going to demonize him. And all this stuff you think about how, oh, they just have an impression of him and it's negative and they think these, none of that's real.

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It's all about what he can do for them. And apparently they think he can do a lot for them in the Middle East because they really, really put out the red carpet. But I would say that the biggest thing he accomplished is that he reframed war as commerce. And I'm going to say it in my own words, but this is what I got out of it.

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You know, mostly from his speech, but also from just the way he did business. I think he just thinks that war is just the worst thing ever, and he's very consistent about that. When he talks about it, we just want to stop the killing, etc. But in a world where everybody has to be connected, commerce-wise, I think he just sees that commerce is the better tool.

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He's reporting that women with ADHD have less consistent orgasms during partnered sex. I'm glad they said partnered. Now, do you think they needed to do that study? Now, I don't know the answer to this because of my personal exploits. I know the answer to this because I know what ADHD is, and I know what an orgasm is.

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Do you want to be part of the world economic global economy? Yes. well, then you're going to have to stop killing people. If you don't want to be part of the world economic global community, basically the only way you could ever thrive, you don't have to be, and we'll be happy to cut you out, and you can just suffer and starve. And it feels to me like this is his greatest accomplishment.

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So if you put the two things together, that Putin is really good at persuasion, but doesn't really want just a ceasefire, but he has to say yes, because otherwise it ruins everything. So what does Putin do? He says, he said, the idea itself, talking about the ceasefire, the idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it. That's basically giving Trump his full due of respect. Exactly. Exactly.

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But here's the part where Putin's a great persuader. And then he goes on that, but there are issues we need to discuss. And I think we need to discuss it with our American colleagues and partners, meaning Trump, basically. And he said he'd love to have a phone conversation with Trump. Perfect.

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You know, if you could draw out on paper what would be the perfect set of steps to actually eventually get to peace, it would look just like this. Because he had to say yes, but he also had to say no. So Putin actually pulled off a yes-no. He pulled off a yes-no. So he gives Trump his full due of respect by saying he starts with. It's important that he said this first, right?

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The order of saying it really matters. So the first thing he says is the idea itself is correct. Boom. The ceasefire. The idea is correct. And we certainly support it. Boom. That's as clear as you can be. But then he says, this is the genius part. We might be able to improve it. If I talk to Trump, we might even be able to make this better. Oh my God, that's good.

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And if you can see a more clear signal that there's a real will to get this war over with, that's it. This is 100% I want to work with Trump to get this done. There's no, you can't be ambiguous about what this is. This is a yes. Yes, but, and we always knew there would be a but, right? So nobody was kidding themselves that the ceasefire would just become a permanent ceasefire.

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We all knew that they would negotiate about the peacekeepers and NATO and a bunch of other stuff. But I would bet that by now, probably they have some kind of idea of how to make that stuff work. I don't know what it'll look like. It might be that there's a mineral deal with Ukraine, which people say is agreed to. I'm not sure I completely believe it's agreed to.

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Maybe, and I'll just throw this out here, you've heard this before from others, but maybe Putin is going to say, you know what? The best way that we could make sure that we don't have trouble there is if we also do a deal with you Americans for a mineral deal. What if we do one too? You can do one with Ukraine and you can do one with us, just don't put any military in the country.

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And let's turn Ukraine into some kind of a Switzerland, no NATO, no peacekeepers, et cetera. Now the other possibility, which we haven't, we're not right there yet, But it does seem to me that Ukraine could build a peacekeeping force of just robots. Now, when I say robots, I mean drones, but also the robot dogs, the things that literally are robots.

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And so the idea is they'll use the robots to automate the building of these artificial, all these systems. So here's what's cool about this. Something like 25 years ago, I was at a dinner and I was sitting next to a futurist, a person who predicts the future. His name is Paul Sappho. I think he's about 71 now, so he's probably still around. And he made a prediction at that dinner.

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Do you think that Putin would ever agree to not have any boots on the ground from NATO, not any European boots on the ground, but that you could make as many robots as you want? Maybe. I don't know. They wouldn't love it. They'd rather have it demilitarized. But then the question is this, and I think Trump is threatening terrible sanctions if Russia doesn't play along.

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But do you think that Trump will offer Russia that there'll be some kind of deal that we buy their energy? But if they get adventurous with Ukraine or anything else, that will immediately replace their entire energy business with their own. Something like that.

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So we'll see if Trump can transform it from a military competition, which it is now, into a financial entanglement in which nobody really wants to have a war because it just doesn't pay. So we'll see. It could go in any direction, but I would say that the signals that peace are coming are now 100%. I think there's 100% certainty that this is going to wind down.

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Now, of course, there'll be bumps, right? So if two months from now you say, ha, ha, ha, Scott, you said this was all going to wrap up, but Putin has now introduced some demand that we're never going to do, so you're wrong. Well, just wait another month. It's going to wind down. I'm 100% sure now that this is going to come to an end. One month, two months, I don't know how long it takes.

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Maybe six months. But yeah, I think everybody's done with us. We'll figure out the details. But CNN had John Bolton on. How would you like to be CNN? And the best guest you could get to talk shit about Trump would be the mustache guy. John Bolton, who is basically a joke to most Republicans.

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And John Bolton says Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize. How many times have you seen a Trump critic say, I've not really been a mind reader before, but I can read the mind of Donald Trump. And oh, my goodness, he doesn't want fewer people to die. even though he says it consistently.

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Now, what he really wants is the Nobel Peace Prize and some good publicity. Now, that's the most absurd criticism I've ever heard. Now, here's the thing. Although some sketchy people have gotten Nobel Peace Prizes, how hard would it be for a Republican president to get a Nobel Peace Prize?

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If the Nobel Committee said, you know what, we're just going to have to cave to this because it does look like he created peace, if it happens. If the Nobel Committee decided to give Trump a Nobel Peace Prize, wouldn't that be good for everybody? Meaning you would only get it if he made peace in a hard situation.

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So what would be wrong with Trump wanting to get a Nobel Peace Prize and also save a bunch of lives and also save a bunch of money and also get out of a terrible situation? What would be wrong if he wanted all of those things? Nothing wrong with that. Anyway. So here's an interesting situation. There was a Quinnipiac

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University survey, they found that 54% of respondents disapproved of Trump's handling of the economy. Now, here's what's interesting. That result doesn't really match a lot of recent polls. Some would call it an outlier, meaning that it was especially negative to Trump. The Rasmussen people, a competing polling company,

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had predicted that there would be an outlier poll that said that Trump was doing poorly on the economy. They actually predicted it because they've watched the patterns of other polling companies. Now, so I opened up Perplexity, the AI app that I like a lot, and I said, Perplexity, can you tell me about the reputations of the Rasmussen Polling Company versus the Quinnipiac?

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And I'm going to paraphrase, but this is basically what Perplexity told me. Oh, Quinnipiac, oh, it's the golden standard of the greatest methodology. Everybody loves it. They have never been wrong. They're so good. They're so good. Oh, my God, Quinnipiac is the greatest poll and survey we've ever seen. All right, I'm paraphrasing, but they were very positive about it.

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They sounded so like wildly futuristic that but I never forgot it. And the prediction was that when robots could make solar farms, the the price of energy would start dropping to near zero. Now, think about that. Apparently, there would be tremendous savings in labor if the robots are installing the solar panels and they're doing all the work themselves without help.

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And then I said, well, what about Rasmussen? Well, Rasmussen is criticized for being a little too Republican. They seem to be biased toward Republicans. And then I said, okay, which one of those two polling companies was more accurate about the last three presidential elections? And then perplexity got really weird. Well, you know, Rasmussen's very biased for Republicans. I go, shut up.

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All I'm asking is which one did better in the final results of the last three presidential elections. Well, you know, Quinnipiac is a highly rated... Shut up. I only want to know the last poll results of the two companies. Finally, after begging, cajoling, and twisting its arm, It gave me the answer. Well, Rasmussen did beat Quinnipiac in 2016. And Rasmussen did beat Quinnipiac in 2024.

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You know, we're talking about just the last poll before the actual election, the one that counts. All the polls before that, there's no way to check them. But I will tell you that Rasmussen in 2024 was saying that Trump's looking good the whole time. And the internal polling of both the Trump Organization and the Kamala Harris campaign seemed to have agreed with Rasmussen the entire way.

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Now we know that. You can fact check me on that, but I think that's true. But, perplexity said, but in 2020, Rasmussen was wrong, but Quinnipiac was much closer in 2020. To which I say,

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2020, you mean the one that Steve Bannon says was totally rigged and the most unusual voting patterns we've ever seen in our life to the point where it's hard to be a reasonable person who believes that that was actually some kind of organic and natural voting? Oh yeah, that's the one that Quinnipiac got right. Now put it all together.

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Do you remember I tell you that the closest you can get to understanding reality is the ability to predict? Rasmussen predicted the outlier pole before it happened because it's a pattern. Can anybody say that Quinnipiac is wrong? Not really. Because they're the gold standard. They're the best there's ever been. Their processes, their systems, their methodology, solid gold. But

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just happened to be the outlier poll at exactly the time when they needed an outlier poll. So predictable. Now, that's all I know. All I know is that Rasmussen predicted it publicly and that Rasmussen got two out of three elections right versus Quinnipiac. And the one that they didn't get right is a little bit suspicious. The election itself, not the predictions. So that's the world you live in.

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Meanwhile, there's Mario Naufel was summarizing a new report, the nation's report card on the schools. It's all bad and worse than you can even imagine. So in reading, only 4% of students are classified as advanced. 26% are just proficient and 37% are basic and 33% fall below that level. Math scores are even worse with only 8% advanced, 20% proficient, 33% basic and a staggering 39% below basic.

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So 40% of students almost can't meet the fundamental math standards. This is Mario's summary. It's all bad. Now, I believe that it's the teachers' unions that are the primary problem because they control the Democrats, and between the two of them, they can control a lot of what happens in schools, and the teachers' union is for the benefit of the Democratic Party and for teachers.

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When do the students get a union? When do the fucking students get their own union? When do they get a union? How about the people who are the most important people, the future of our country, the ones who basically can keep the lights on in the next generation? When do they get their own fucking union? You know what you don't need is a teacher's union. You need a student union.

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I guess there are things called student unions, but it's not the same. Yeah. So how about a student union? How about that? How about the students can fire their teachers for being useless? How about that? How about the students can decide that they don't want to go to the school at all because it's just garbage? How about that? How about the parents have a union? Where's the parents union?

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But robots could also be producing the actual solar panels in the factory. But robots could also make more robots to make more solar panels and to make more solar farms. So he predicted that when robots were doing all the power generation work instead of people, that the cost of energy would just start plummeting.

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Where's the parents fucking union? So if you're going to let the teachers have a union, I think the parents and the students need to have their own union and they need to have some kind of power. And they need to have some kind of control over their life. The teachers union is just a festering boil on this country that needs to be lanced off as quickly as possible.

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There's no legal way to do it, as far as I know. So you're either going to have to compete it away or build competing schools and starve it. You're going to have to kill it. one way or the other, you're going to have to kill it because it's the absolute second worst existential problem in the country. Number one is debt. But, you know, Doge is at least attacking that.

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I'm a little bit tired of the teachers unions. Well, OpenAI says that the AI race would be over, meaning that AI as a technology in the United States would be basically not a good business model if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use. Now, Ars Technica is writing about this. Ashley Bellinger. And OpenAI says that national security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data.

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Now, I think that's probably true if they can't do copyrighted anything. Probably the AI can't train itself, can't exist as a business model, and it would have national security implications. And they're hoping that Trump will do something about that. So the courts are mulling over that whole fair use thing. I guess there's a New York Times case. What does the New York Times do?

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Anyway, there's going to be, oh, there's a major suit brought by the New York Times on that, the issue of copyright stuff. Now, given that I am, and first of all, I think this mostly involves nonfiction writing. So I don't think the AI is a threat to fiction because nobody would want to hear a summary of a novel. AI, can you summarize War and Peace? It's about Russia.

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I mean, you know, that's an old joke. But I don't think you could summarize fiction because people who read fiction like to read the entire sentence and see it in the order it was written and sort of enjoy how the author put it all together. So there's no risk to fiction. but nonfiction, which is what I write primarily. I've only done a few works of fiction, but my work is fully known by AI.

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Now, AI claims when I query it that it hasn't read my book. Maybe. Maybe it hasn't read my book, but it can summarize it by looking at all the comments people have made in public about my book. So if somebody writes a review, they might say, and this book introduced the idea of talent stacks, and this is what it is, or systems are better than goals, blah, blah, blah.

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So you can get pretty much all the goodness of my book by just asking AI to summarize the key points. Now, in my case, because I'm a hypnotist, when I write a book, I'm not just giving you information. I'm writing it in a way that will cause you to act on it. Now, AI won't do that. AI will just say, here's what a talent stack is. It means putting together the talents that fit together well.

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Right, it's going to be something like that. But if you read my book, you know, the entire book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, or Win Bigly about persuasion, or Loser Thing about how to argue rationally. If you read those, you're going to get essentially persuasion mixed with good ideas. So the persuasion is what makes you remember it. It's what activates it.

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Now, we haven't seen that yet, but SoftBank's got a $130 million bet that it's coming. This is one of those things that if you didn't know that there was a really solid prediction behind it, Safo has a good reputation, you wouldn't be as excited as I am. This is a big, big deal, potentially. It could be early. Maybe they don't quite have the technology to do it, but you can see where it's going.

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It's what incorporates it into your life. So the AI can't do that. But here's the thing. I don't know how many people fall into my category of a successful nonfiction writer who also has a business background, right? So I always tell you I have a degree in economics and an MBA. I don't know that I would write another book.

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I don't know that it makes sense economically because it does look like AI is just going to take that away. There are some nonfiction books that I've asked AI to summarize for me. And when I was done, I did not feel that I needed to ever read those books. Just think about that. I'm not going to name the book, but there's a well-known nonfiction book that I had not read.

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And so I just asked AI to summarize it for me. And it did. And I thought, okay, got it. I got it. In about 60 seconds, I felt like I didn't need to read the book. So I could destroy the nonfiction book industry, including mine, type of book, even though, like I said, I add an extra layer to just the factual part. I add the persuasion so that it activates it in people. But you won't know that.

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If you just read the summary, the summary would not say, but if you read the book, you're more likely to implement these strategies. It won't say that, it'll just tell you what the main points are and you'll think, oh, got it, got it. So I'm wondering, first of all, young people can't read and probably will never read books.

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I'm not sure that the current generation of children will read nonfiction books, 90% of them. 10% will. But 90% are just going to say, why would I read it if I could just summarize it with AI? And it's going to be hard to talk about that. Or even better, hey, AI, take the top 10 rated business books about career strategies and and give me the top 10 lessons from the top 10 books.

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Why would you read 10 books when in two minutes you can hear all the best ideas from all 10 of them? So I can see why the copyright people like New York Times, et cetera, are going to try to stay strong here. So here's what I'm wondering. Is there some middle ground that nobody has suggested where there's some kind of micropayments to authors.

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So if somebody asks a simple question, like, can you tell me what a talent stack is? There would be no payment for that, because that's something that ordinary people talk about. But let's say you wanted to dig a little deeper into a book. Can you tell me what book that came from and give me more of an explanation of what that's about? Well, maybe that would trigger a micropayment.

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the author maybe it would force AI to surface the title of the book show it to you with an image and give you a link to Amazon to buy it or link to wherever so as an author if you said to me is it okay if AI reads your book and But if somebody asks too many questions about it, however you define too many questions, what it does instead is say, you know, I recommend the book.

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Here's a link where you can get the Kindle version or whatever. Yeah, somebody says like ASCAP. So if you own a restaurant or a bar, and you want to play music, you get a license from a place that licenses all the music for all the musicians, and they get micropayments.

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Now, ASCAP, I think you would find out that the musicians don't love that because the micropayments are so micro that basically it allows every restaurant and bar to play your music a lot without really paying you more than a few cents. So I don't think that model is going to be popular with authors. But somehow I think we'll get through it. We'll figure it out.

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So Doge, according to Fox News, over a two-day period, they found 239, quote, wasteful contracts in government organizations with a $1.7 billion top value. And here are some of the... I swear it's going to sound like I'm making this up. I'm not making this up. So one of the grants that they canceled intended to teach transgender and queer urban farmers about food justice.

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Sometime in your child's life, solar farms will be popping up everywhere, and there'll be batteries to store it when the sun's not out, and it's going to be amazing. Meanwhile, Newsmax has agreed in a legal case to pay the firm Smartmatic. I think that's the software company for the electronic voting machines. Going to pay them $40 million to settle a 2020 election claim.

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And then there was also... There was also an $8.5 million consulting contract for, listen to this, quote, fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business services. Rethink, realign, and reskill the workforce and enhance program delivery through a number of transformational initiatives.

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So remember when I was kidding, but not really, when I said, all you have to do is string together 10 buzzwords and somebody will give you millions of dollars? Well, that's what this is. Do you think any of these words mean anything? Let me give you just the buzzwords without the connectors. You've got fiscal stewardship, management, innovation, efficiency, effectiveness,

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realignment, reskill, workforce enhance, and then transformational initiatives. None of that means anything. These are so clearly fraudulently, well, I don't want to get sued, so I'll say it looks like, from the outside, it looks like completely fraudulent uses of government money.

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And my understanding is that there might be tens of thousands of these like this, just absolutely absurd uses of money. They do nothing but string together a whole bunch of buzzwords, and somebody goes, oh, okay, it looks good. Fine. Yep, yep, yep. Anyway, how many of you have seen the clip of Michelle Obama's new podcast? Has anybody seen it?

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So the podcast, I don't know if it's always going to be like this, but at least the initial three or so is just Michelle Obama talking to her brother. Now, and the story, of course, is that even though it got tons of free publicity and all the media talked about it, almost nobody watched it relative to how big you think you should be. So it got 74,000 views after like three episodes.

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Now, to put that in context, if I do a post on X, the smallest one would be that many views. A good post on X would be, I don't know, 8 million views. When I do my little non-publicized podcast, I'm pretty sure I get more like 100,000 views if you look at all the different sources because I broadcast on several platforms. Probably 100,000 per episode. And she has 74,000 over three. But here's

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Here's my podcaster's opinion on that. How many viewers would Joe Rogan have if his entire podcast was him talking to his brother? Think about it. Joe Rogan, the best in the business, defined the industry, really. I mean, that's the biggest compliment you can give to somebody. They defined the space. That's the ultimate compliment. He's the best.

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But if his entire program was talking to his brother, you wouldn't watch that thing more than once. You'd be like, oh, okay, that's mildly interesting. Although I would like, I don't know if he has a brother, but if he does, I would actually watch that once. I wouldn't watch it twice. I definitely wouldn't watch it three times.

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So if Michelle Obama wants to make that work, she's going to learn that it's mostly about how interesting the guests are. Now you might say, but Scott, you're giving advice that you do not follow because you don't have guests. To which I say, I know. And I'm fully aware that the size of my podcast could be immensely bigger if I had guests, if I had the right guests.

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I have enough clout and fame that I know enough people that I could have all kinds of famous guests. So far, I usually just have people that I like, you know, just people I'm close to and have something interesting to say, like a new book or something.

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But generally speaking, I'm not all about, you know, the big glitzy guest who did something this week and has something to say about, you know, trans athletes. I don't really do that. Now, do you know how hard it is to have a successful podcast without guests. Some people do it, but it's kind of rare.

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So yeah, Michelle Obama doesn't quite have the skill to pull off the Talking to Your Brother podcast. My guess is she will quickly adjust and start having interesting guests, and then the guests will drive the traffic if she cares enough to do that. Well, this is interesting. The Diddy defense.

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This is according to Axios. Now, the claim is that Smartmatic accused Newsmax of falsely reporting a baseless conspiracy theory that its voting technology was rigged in 2020. But apparently they could not make that case, and so Smartmatic gets $40 million. Now, Smartmatic also filed a similar suit against One American News, which was settled last April, so they made a bunch of money on that.

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So you've seen the video of Diddy at some hotel, and his girlfriend at the time tried to escape from his whatever evil clutches, and he goes running down the hallway, because we see it on the security cam, and he's got a towel wrapped around him, and he hits his girlfriend and kicks her, and then drags her back to the room. Here's his defense. CNN is fake news.

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He says that the only known clip of that event was owned by CNN, and his claim is that they edited it fraudulently and that that's not really what happened. Now, I don't believe that for a second. You know, as a big critic of CNN, I don't believe that they...

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I don't believe that they have the only copy and that they edited it to make it look like he beat up his girlfriend and dragged her and none of it happened. No, I think, you know, this time I'm going to trust CNN. I don't think that was out of context. But here's the fun part. You probably only need one Republican on the jury.

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You only need one Republican out of 12 on the jury who's going to say, well, You know, if the standard is reasonable doubt, I mean, it looks real. But if you're telling me that CNN is the only source of this thing you say is real. I don't know. So it's a bold and gutsy play, which suggests he has no real defense. It's the best he could do.

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But I think it's hilarious that he might be playing to get one Republican on the jury to hang the jury. And it also makes me wonder, if the way they're going to prove that CNN may have rigged this video is, is Diddy's defense going to show other examples where CNN did fake news? Because that would be hilarious. Like, I'm not pro-Diddy, but I might be pro-Diddy just for the purpose of the trial.

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Because if he puts CNN on trial and says, all right, It's my credibility against CNN. Here's the things I've said, and here's the things CNN has said. Now, I don't know if that'd be allowed. I don't know enough about the law to know if presenting a pattern of deception, would that be allowed? Or would you have to focus on this one thing you're claiming?

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If you would be allowed to show the pattern of CNN getting stories wrong, and maybe even knowing it was wrong when they did it, that would be hilarious. And again, you just need one Republican to say, you know, I don't love Diddy, but he's got a point. Anyway, there are two states that are noodling on the concept of getting rid of property tax under the theory that we all agree with.

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that if you have to pay property tax or the state will take your house away you don't really own anything you're just renting it from the state that's exactly how i feel right so i've got uh i've got high property taxes in california partly because you know property values are high here but also it's 1.15 percent per year it's expensive um but i don't see how any of this could work

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unless they magically come up with a new source of taxes or they reduce their government spending, which I don't see happening too much in the States. So I don't think it's going to happen, but I love that they're talking about it. If you're talking about it seriously, like Pennsylvania and Florida are, maybe. Talking about it might be the first step to getting serious.

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Maybe somebody comes up with an idea. Somebody had an idea of taxing remittances to other countries, mostly Mexico. But I don't know. I don't know. I don't think they can get there. But I like that they're talking about it. Fox News had a stat that some people find alarming. that immigration accounted for all of the U.S. population growth in 2022 and 2023.

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And that's the first time that's happened since 1850. All of the U.S. population growth was immigration. How is that possible? Is it because more people who were already residents died than had babies? That must be it. Otherwise, it would be at least some contribution from the residents.

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And then they've also... They've also got a suit coming up against Fox News for $2.7 billion for the same thing. And I'm thinking, I think Smartmatic has the best business model I've ever seen. All they have to do is be involved in an industry where people have lots of questions. And then some people are going to go too far. And then they sue them.

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Anyway, then I guess the second question I'd ask is, do the recent immigrants, are they likely to have more babies than the average? And it depends, you know, if they fall into the same economic bind that the current citizens have, they might decide, oh, you know, if I were back home, I'd have five kids, but maybe I'd better stop with one because I can't afford it.

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So I don't even know if recent immigrants are going to cause any new population wave or not. You know, maybe they want more babies, but it just doesn't work once they get here. You're saying they want to anchor baby right away? Yeah, there are a lot of variables on this.

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But, you know, Trump's idea that we should be a place that lets in anybody who can add to the country economically, maybe that has a way to keep us vital. But as Elon Musk has been warning for years now, correctly, One of the biggest risks, maybe the biggest risk after debt, is that the population declines, which, by the way, is really bad for paying off debt.

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So debt and a declining population that needs more resources than they provide, that's a killer combination in a real bad way. So we're going to have to figure that out. I don't know if robots can solve it, but we'll see. Meanwhile, there's a New York Post is talking about a poll that nearly a quarter of L.A.

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County residents are considering moving because of that January fire and the bad management of the state. And more than a third have little confidence in the Mayor Bass, according to the new poll. It's sponsored by the L.A. Times. conducted by the University of California, Berkeley. And 23% of respondents are considering a move. Wow.

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Now, where I live, it's also becoming so difficult to be a California resident. But I'll tell you what the thinking process is for me. I think to myself, damn it, I'm just going to move out of this state. And then I think, well, I don't want to move out of the state if all the people I care about the most are still in the state.

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Because, you know, your life, if you can afford it, your life is about the people, right? So why would I move away from the people that I care about the most? And then I think, what about the weather? Do you think I could live in Florida all year round? There are months in Florida where you just don't want to go outside. What about Arizona?

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Yeah, there's a long period in Arizona where you don't want to go outside. What about the snow country? What about the hurricane country? What about the blizzard country where the electricity isn't dependable? One of the things that I chose about California and specifically where I am right now is that I didn't want to die because I went outdoors. How did he die? Well,

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made the tragic mistake of going outdoors in california if you bring a coat you're pretty much okay any time of year if you go outdoors so you know um i'm far enough away from a a fault of course i'm probably jinxing myself right now but it's really really really hard

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if you can afford to live here at all and it's ridiculous i mean the cost of living here is just crazy but if you can afford it it's still tough to beat even with all of our problems now of course i'm not living where there are you know street people just all over the streets and you know it's not like it's the i don't live where it's like the zombie apocalypse but maybe it's coming my way.

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I mean, my neighborhood has been hit, I think, four times in maybe 18 months by what we think are the Venezuelan burglary gangs. Four times. Just my immediate neighbors. So the odds of me getting hit by burglars coming into my house when I'm home is pretty high. Pretty high. And still, even with all of that,

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I don't know how much Smartmatics makes just for their regular business, but I doubt they make $1.7 billion or $2.7 billion very often. Now, obviously, that could get negotiated down to some other number. But wow, they're making a lot of money on these legal cases. It's the best business model I've seen. Well, Chuck Schumer decided not to back a

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It's really tough to find a better place to go to when you factor in you don't want to leave the people. The weather is amazing. It's just hard. Anyway, speaking of Greenland, NATO says they want to stay out of it. I think Trump said something about it would be good for NATO if the U.S. gained control of Greenland. And the head of NATO said, yeah, leave us out of this.

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We don't want to be in that conversation. Got it. But NATO does agree that Greenland is militarily and strategically vital. So, you know, they're willing to go halfway. It's like, yeah, it is strategically vital. But leave us out of this conversation, please. So we'll see if that goes anywhere. But at the same time, there's a big problem with icebreakers.

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So the passage through the water passageways around Greenland and Canada, there's a problem with ice. I guess Trump said the U.S. is in the process of ordering 48 icebreaker ships. And Canada has already said, do you mind if we use some of your ships? And Trump's saying, yeah, you got to pay for them. He says Canada pays very little for their military, blah, blah, blah.

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So here's what I'm wondering. I wonder if Trump may be creating a situation where instead of, you know,

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conquering canada which of course we don't want to do or conquering greenland which of course we don't want to do he just creates a situation where it just becomes smarter and smarter to just sort of join with us and one of those ways would be to start charging them for services that we're providing you know such as military protection such as icebreaker ships and i wonder if you could just

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essentially create an economic situation that doesn't exist yet. But could you create an economic situation where Canada and Greenland both say, you know what? All right, let's just save a bunch of money and join together. I don't know. If I had to bet, I would bet against Canada becoming a state and I would bet against the U.S. having, let's say, government control of Greenland.

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But you never know. I mean, the thing about Trump is if you underestimate his persuasive powers, you almost are always wrong. You know, everybody who said, well, he's just this clown from a TV show. He's never going to become president. Okay, he became president, but that was totally a fluke. He's never going to be able to do it again. Look at what happened in 2020.

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And so there's no chance he'll become president again in 2020. Oh. Yeah, so betting against Trump's persuasiveness has been a losing bet for 10 years, maybe forever. So we'll see. I guess I'll just watch this with anticipation. Let's see, what else we got? According to the Daily Mail, there's an audio came out.

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that alleges that there was somebody involved in kind of a DEI role who was teaching a bunch of mostly black applicants for the FAA how to cheat on the tests so that they would get hired. Now that's the bombshell, you know, allegation.

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closing of the government and tweaking of the budget. So instead of resisting the continued resolution that Trump was in favor of, and most Republicans were, except for Thomas Massey, I guess, Schumer decided to fold like an umbrella on a windy day. No, that's wrong. Fold like a A tent with no tent poles. Fold like a shirt that's being folded by a robot. I got nothing. I got nothing.

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We'll wait to see if there's any defense to it, but I have heard the audio, and the audio does sound like there's somebody telling them how to pass the test in a way that maybe you shouldn't be telling people how to pass the test. So I guess Secretary Duffy is going to launch an investigation into that.

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Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell announced he needs to take a week off because he's exhausted. from the Trump presidency. He's exhausted, I tell you. And there's an episode where he's talking to Rachel Maddow, so it's a split screen, and he's informing her, I guess she hadn't heard it until he said it live on air, that he needed to take a week off. And the funniest thing was,

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watching them from a theatrical perspective you have to watch the clip if you're on x or somewhere so look for the lawrence o'donnell taking a week off and rachel maddow you have to watch rachel maddow's face while she's listening to him she goes through like 10 different faces and and it looks like I always kid them about being the theater kids. It just looks like theater.

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It doesn't look like a real person listening to another real person having a conversation. It looks like some weird, exaggerated AI play or something. It's the damnedest thing. Now, I don't know how many of you have had this experience yet, but when you start seeing the Democrats and their supporters through the theater kids filter, It's all you can see. You can't really get back from it.

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It's like a one-way trip. They don't look like serious people. They look like actors. And they look like they're not just actors, but they're actors in a play. Because you know how if you're doing a play, you have to project a little bit more? If you watch a TV show or a movie, usually it's a mumble show. By the way, I was trying to watch this new movie about... What's his name?

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The famous musician. Why am I forgetting his name? But he mumbles. I am so sick of mumble movies. The only thing worse than a mumble movie is a British mumble movie. Oh, bloody hell. Oh, yeah, Dylan. Bob Dylan. So the Bob Dylan movie, the guy who plays Bob Dylan, probably is giving a good impression of him as sort of a low-talker mumbler. But I can't get through that.

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I mean, you'd have to wear headphones or some kind of earpieces to even hear the dialogue. I tried to hear it on speakers, and it's just... Anyway, but if you go to a play, a live play, they can't get away with mumbling. So they tend to project. You know, sort of... And that's what it looks like. On Locals, they can put pictures in the comments, and there's one of the pictures of Rachel Maddow.

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It doesn't even look like a real face. Like, whose real face can have that many variations within 10 seconds? I mean, it looks like she's having some kind of medical emergency there. But no, it's just the theater kids. All right, ladies and gentlemen, happy Friday. That's all I wanted to talk about today. And I hope you enjoyed it.

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Even though I didn't have a guest today, sometimes you don't need them. But I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately. For those of you on X and Rumble and YouTube, thanks for joining. We'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place. Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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But he folded. Now, here's the fun part. It seems to me that Democrats have argued in the past that that if Republicans had resisted their budget, whatever, that the closing of the government would lead to such great pain around the country that you couldn't possibly do it.

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And then you've got Chuck Schumer put in the position that he has to argue against the thing that he's argued for in the past, which is shutting down the government. So finally, it looks like the Democrats have learned a little bit.

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that if you just automatically resist everything Trump wants, you end up arguing against the things that you're caught on video arguing the opposite of not that long ago. So the Democrats are so completely hollowed out at this point, they can't argue anything because there will immediately be a compilation of clips showing that they had the exact opposite opinion not that long ago.

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And and I think the accusation that they're all theater kids pretending to have opinions is really strong because the more you see it, the harder it is to imagine that's not what's happening, because if they had argued, let's say forcefully that, oh, we got to shut this government down, it's better than passing this continued resolution. Then we'd have to wonder

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Why were they equally passionate with the opposite opinion just a few years ago? And you could tell that it was acting. It would obviously be just acting. And that's all they have is people acting because they don't have actual opinions that anybody cares about. They want power and they will simply act in whatever way they think can get it. So they just have nothing.

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So anyway, he decides to go with it. And the Democrats have done so little and have so little power that they don't want to be the only thing they accomplished was shutting down the government. Because apparently one of the things they were afraid of is if they shut down the government, There would be no government people in the offices to stop Doge from doing whatever it wanted.

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So Doge ended up being accidentally like a weapon. I don't know. The only thing keeping Doge from totally ripping apart all these stupid Democrat grants and contracts is that there's a human being in the office to try to slow him down. So if you send them home for a week, I don't know, Doge just might go wild on your organization.

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Meta has decided it's going to go with the community notes idea, basically the same thing as X. And it's not going to use all of its fake fact checkers. No fake fact checkers anymore for Meta. Now, do you imagine that Zuckerberg is doing this just because of Trump? Or do you think he's just being smart and he knows the community notes method is just better? I think maybe both.

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So anyway, the theater kids decided they didn't want to get into that act. I saw a post on X by a user called Unseen1. one with just the digit one in case you want to follow unseen one and it's just a list of what's left of the democrats and i'm not going to say you know it's complete or you know i agree with every part of it it's just funny so it's called the current makeup of the democrat party

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Number one, the TDS base. They hate everything about Trump and want to go down fighting tooth and nail over every little thing Trump does. They hold up little signs and raise their canes while ranting to the sky during national speeches. Two, the former power brokers who don't understand they are powerless.

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Three, the true believers that work behind the curtain, giving leaders like Schumer and Zelensky terrible advice. The lying legacy media that thinks their lies are still believed. Five, the few sane ones who see the train coming but can't get off the track. Number six, the big money that is too scared to shit or get off the pot.

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Number seven, the cat herders who are trying to save what can be saved to live and fight another day. And then number eight, those that have surrendered all hope and walk around listlessly, randomly asking strangers if they voted for this that's all they have left and then he concludes with it's a mess maybe if they sing a couple of songs they can they can put the band back together

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better day. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a

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Once you see that the entire Democrat structure was made out of twigs and old leaves, the whole thing is just collapsing. The only way it's stuck together is if people believe the news. And we're going to get to believing the news. There's more on that coming up. Anyway, it is just kind of funny. According to the Climate Conservative Consumer, that's a publication, there was a study of Greenland.

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Now, this has nothing to do with Trump and taking over Greenland, but apparently it's a good place to study the temperature over time. And they studied it with satellite data from 2000 to 2019. And it showed that Greenland's surface temperatures remained remarkably stable, challenging narratives of rapid Arctic warming.

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So apparently they did a pretty rigorous study of the temperature of Greenland, and it's about the same. Anyway, I would like to reiterate what I think is going to be funny in the long term. It's not funny yet, but it goes like this. You've heard me say it a bunch of times. Wait until Democrats find out the truth about climate models. It's all they have left.

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They don't have anything left except that they still believe climate models are real. Wait till they find out that's not real. That's going to be fun. And by the way, there's no chance it won't happen. I don't know if it'll happen in a year or two years or 10, but they're going to find out that climate models are made up. Well, made up is too strong.

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I'll say that climate models are not really predictive. So once they find that out, they're going to realize that their entire Democrat structure was based on laundering money to people who had ridiculous uses for it and could keep some of it for themselves. That's mostly what the Democrat entire structure was about. It was about funneling money to people for bullshit reasons.

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How about a billion dollars for DEI to study trans insects? Well, sounds good to me. How about $50 billion to study the change in temperature based on these climate models? Sounds important to me. Here's your $50 billion. Wait till they find out about those climate models. It's coming.

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Anyway, you know that I made a non-standard prediction about what would happen with Putin's response to the idea that Trump and Zelensky had about a ceasefire. Now, do you remember my prediction? So there are two things that I said through the persuasion filter, if you can call it that. One was that Putin is unusually good at the whole persuasion thing, and that's important.

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I think he's smart enough to know that not making an enemy of Trump makes a lot of sense at the moment. And also it's a better way to check the facts. So that's good. Here's something interesting. SoftBank is... putting $130 million into robot-assisted solar farms. Now, not a farm where you grow food, but a farm of solar panels that becomes a power, basically a power-producing entity.

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Number two, I said that even though Russia had already rejected, like people who were high up in Russia had said, no way we're going to agree to a ceasefire because a ceasefire just gives Ukraine time to regroup. And since they're on the run, why would we give them time to regroup? And then I said, no, this is the key.

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I said, after Russia had said no way to a ceasefire, I said, Putin's going to say way. Because Putin, being really good at persuasion, like really good, I knew that he would know that his most important asset to get to a good place was Trump. It wasn't Zelensky, it wasn't NATO, it wasn't American opinion, it wasn't Russian opinion. It was just Trump.

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And I said that if Trump puts out an idea like a ceasefire, he's going to have to say yes. But the problem is he didn't want to say yes. And I still predicted he'd have to say yes because he needs to preserve the goodwill with Trump because that's the only path out. He has one path out. And it's keeping Trump, let's say, pleased that things are moving in the right direction.

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Now, is that because he's preparing to run for president and he's just trying to look like he's a little bit interested in the border? That's what it looks like. Because otherwise, I thought he was all in on spending $50 million to Trump-proof the state. But if instead of Trump-proofing it, he's making it easier for the immigration people, I don't know.

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Now, I have the voice of Mike Cernovich in my head reminding us not to say good things about Democrats who can't be trusted whatsoever, even if they get one right. So don't be too excited if a Democrat gets one right. It doesn't mean anything. You still can't have them in charge. Well, of course, RFK Jr. got fully nominated. He got approved. He got all the votes he needed. It was tight. But J.D.

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Vance made up the difference, and he's in. What did Schumer say about that? So Chuck Schumer goes in public. Kelly Means pointed this out, that... He goes in public and he says, just minutes before the vote for RFK Jr., Schumer said that RFK wasn't qualified because he was never a pharmaceutical or insurance company executive, as the other former Health and Human Services secretaries were.

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Did he really say that in public? He said in public that the head secretary Of the chicken coop should be a fox? Really? We'd like to put a fox in charge of the chicken coop? No. No, maybe not. Don't put the fox in charge. Maybe somebody who is exactly the opposite of a pharmaceutical or insurance company executive, like RFK Jr. Yeah, how about the opposite of that?

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Is there anything that Democrats can get right? They actually are on record wanting somebody who would be the worst choice, you know, even generically, somebody who was a pharma executive. That's the problem, not the solution. You can't tell the difference between the problem and the solution. No, that's the problem, that they're too connected to pharma. Weird. All right.

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Here's a thing I didn't know about. Did you know that President Trump appointed RFK Jr. 's daughter-in-law to be part of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board? Now, that's interesting because Amaryllis Fox Kennedy is her name, middle name Fox. She's a former CIA officer. She left in 2010 because she was disillusioned by the corruption of within the CIA.

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Now, how much do you love the fact that somebody who is disillusioned by the corruption of the CIA is now on Trump's presidential intelligence advisory board? I like it. She must know where the bodies are buried. I like it. That's good news. She wants massive intelligence reform. Well, Trump's going to put on the reciprocal tariffs today.

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I assume he's also doing some targeted ones, but it's a little unclear. So the reciprocal tariffs are that if any company or any country is tariffing us, he will tariff them back in the same exact amount. Now, I don't know if that really works because usually they pick our, you know, tariffs are usually strategic to an industry where there's some imbalance in the industry.

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So partner, no partner, the pillow can fill in. The only question I have is, how do you get the goop off the pillow? Sorry, that whole thing was just a setup for that bad joke. That's all it was. Put it out of your mind. You can't sell a sex pillow and call your company goop and then let me just ignore that. I'm not going to ignore that. No, no, that's a responsibility as a professional humorist.

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So I don't know if that works. But on paper, it makes sense. And I think Dana Perino said this on The Five. The whole tariff thing, we don't, as individuals, we probably don't know where it's going. But it's going to be real fun to watch. So that's kind of where I'm at. I'm like, hmm, reciprocal tariffs. And then I search my brain bank for whether that's a good idea or a bad idea.

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And I end up with, I don't know. I don't know. You know, I know a little bit about economics and business. I mean, that's my educational background. But I don't know. I have no idea where that ends up. But I do like he's pushing the button. I do like he's messing with it. So something probably could come out of it.

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One of the things that Trump does right, and just consistently right, is he'll shake the box when there's something that's not quite working. Doesn't mean he knows how to solve it. But shaking the box is usually the best first thing. So this reciprocal tariffs, everybody gets a tariff, you're not exempt. That's a pretty big box shake.

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So it might turn into a bunch of little negotiations with countries that maybe give us some advantage. Maybe not. Maybe it's all we need. Maybe just keep it simple. You tariff us, we tariff you, end of story. I don't know. So I'm going to wait and see on this one. Could be good. Meanwhile, the House budget, now this is the budget that's been pushed forward by the House.

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The Senate still has to weigh in. But it's a $4.5 trillion budget. And it extends the 2017 tax cuts for 10 years. I like that part. And it's going to be, let's say, but it also increases the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. So does that mean that the debt is going to go up $4 trillion?

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Or are they just thinking ahead and it might be $1 trillion per year, which would still be bad, but it might get to $4 trillion? So all this work with Doge, but at the same time, we're looking at raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. Can anybody explain what's going on here? Because I don't understand. And again, I'm somebody who watches news every single day. I dive into things pretty deeply.

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I have no idea. No idea what's going on here. But it doesn't look good. It says they would try to get their congressional committees to find at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. Really? Are those committees going to do something that Doge isn't doing? How does any of this fit in with Doge? Are the Doge numbers already baked into these estimates?

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Or do they fix them later when the Doge cuts become more, let's see, more transparent and we know what's going on? This doesn't make sense. It looks to me, and I'd love to be wrong, but it looks to me like Republicans are going to drive up the deficit and that they know it and that they've just all agreed to do it. What world am I living in?

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Now, you know, the first time I brought this up, I got a little heated about it. But I decided, let me back off a little bit. I want to see what Elon says, because he's better at math than I am. If Musk says, yeah, you know, the budget that they passed out of the House makes sense, because if you consider the Doge cuts, everything's going to work out. Maybe. Maybe.

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I would love to hear him say that. But so far, correct me if I'm wrong, Elon Musk has been silent on this, has he not? I haven't seen a comment. If Musk is silent about the budget that the Republicans have passed, that could only mean one thing. Because Musk is not silent on anything that is big and matters. And what would matter more than this?

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I have to comment on that. Well, there's a fascinating new study in SciPost. Eric Nolan is writing. You'll never guess this, but thanks to science, we know this now. There's a study that suggests that the afterglow of sex can boost your relationship satisfaction for at least 24 hours while, and here's the surprising part, while sexual rejection creates negative effects for several days. Huh. Huh.

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I mean, if you're working on cost-cutting and then the Republicans are working on making it all a waste of time because they spent the money you saved, this is what I think's going on.

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I fear that Congress is so broken that when they hear that Musk can find a way to cut a trillion dollars out of the budget, instead of saying, yes, let's bank that reduction and that'll reduce our deficit, here's what I think. I think our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, say, oh, we just got another trillion dollars.

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And then they go to spend it, which is the opposite, the opposite of what you should be doing. But that's what it looks like. It looks like they're taking the doge cuts as a way to spend money on other things in the same amount as the cuts. Now, I'm just saying it looks like it. I'm not saying that it is. So. Can somebody in the government who's good at explaining stuff, could be J.D.

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Vance, could be Elon Musk, could be Vivek if he's dug into it enough. I want somebody smart to give me a whiteboard and say, this is what we're going to spend. This is what we're going to cut. Here's how Doge works into it. Here's your deficit for one year. And then this is the deficit as it will go forward. You need to tell us that.

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Because, correct me if I'm wrong, if I don't understand it as much time as I put into understanding things like this, and I have a background in this domain, if I can't understand it, there's no way that the average barely interested person understands it. So yeah, we need some help on this one, please. So I'm going to give a little grace period, and I'm going to back off of my heated...

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cursing anger over this, because I might be wrong. I might be wrong. It's happened before, so I'd love to find out I am. Well, John Bolton is in the news. I love the fact that once you know the players, then when they talk, everything makes sense, but not until you know the players. So John Bolton says that Trump is a Russian agent working for the Kremlin, or at least he acts like it.

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He acts like a Russian agent working for the Kremlin, and maybe he is. Would it surprise you to know that John Bolton used to be involved in USAID? There are no coincidences. Bolton was part of USAID, or he got funded by it, or somehow he was involved with it. So how many of you think that Trump is an agent of the Kremlin? I don't think so.

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Well, one of the things that Trump's getting done is that the military, in anticipation of Doge coming for them, are putting together their own list of things to cut. Now, I don't trust it. I don't trust it. But it's interesting that they're trying to get ahead of it. So apparently there's some weapon systems that even the military thinks they don't need.

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You know, they might be outdated or whatever. And so they're putting together a list of outdated drones and vehicles and things that you could cut billions of dollars to. Now, I think it's a trick because they might want to be trying to head off Doge. It's like, oh, Doge. Yeah, you don't really need to dig into this. We've already done the work for you. Thanks for setting us on the right track.

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We've already found $20 billion to cut out of the budget. We're good. But Doge might find a lot more than $20 billion. So I don't trust the military finding their own cuts because it's never worked before. It's probably more of a trick than an actual good thing. But we'll see. So the...

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The Trump administration's buyout offer to get rid of government workers, I think they were hoping to get 100,000 people to sign up for the early package to leave their work. But they got 75,000 so far. I don't know if the window closed yet, but 75,000, that's pretty good. If you're shooting for 100 and you get 75,000,

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That's really good because how in the world could you estimate how many people will take an offer? If you estimated it this well, you said 100 and you got 75, that's pretty impressive. I don't know. If you've never done this kind of work where you're estimating things that are impossible to estimate, this is kind of impressive if you got within 25,000. So that's good.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, Valentine's Day edition. I don't think you can get any better than this, but if you want to try... You can take this experience up to, possibly, levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains.

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That's reported by Dylan Burrows at RSPN. But the other thing the Trump administration is doing is getting rid of what they call the probationary employees. So I guess if you get a job with the government... I don't know if this applies to the whole government, but you're on a first year probationary period. So if you don't work out in the first year, then I guess it's easier to fire you.

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I wonder how many people they had to survey to get that answer. Because if it was more than one guy, they worked a little too hard. Just go to any guy. Do you feel better about your partner after you've just had sex? Yes. How do you feel when your partner rejects you for sex? Terrible. And we're done here.

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So after the first year, there might be some protections that kick in, make it harder. So they make sure that the first year, you got plenty of time to find out if you're bad at your job and they can get rid of you. But the Trump administration will use that same fact to find the people who just joined And they're typically the easiest to fire for a variety of reasons.

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Now, you might say to me, Scott, the reason they hired these people is because they needed them. Yes, that's true. And let me say again, the doge process does assume that they will cut too much. It's just built into the process. It's not a mistake if they cut too much. It's the process. So the only way you can tell what really matters is is to get rid of it and see how loud the yelling is.

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There is no other way. If you think you can study it and then scientifically and surgically get rid of only the important stuff, you know, you're only removing the tumor, but the healthy skin around it is left intact. That's not a thing. That's not a thing. Nobody can do that. It's just not doable. And no company would do that. They would do exactly what Elon's doing.

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They would cut too far and too fast. And then when the yelling started, they'd say, whoa, whoa, what did you say? And they'd listen to it. And if they had a good argument, they'd put it back. Let me tell you what happened when I was working for Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. And it was about the time that the Wells Fargo was doing a takeover.

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So Wells Fargo was going to take over that bank. Now, it happened to be, just by luck, that that was one of the times I got told that I could never be promoted because I'm a white male. So I had just quit just at the same time that Wells Fargo bought my former employer. And what they told all the employees, because I stayed in touch, of course,

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What they told all the employees is don't worry about losing your job because we're going to look at each individual employee and each individual duplication of effort because two banks, if you put two banks together, you have all kinds of duplication. So they said, don't worry.

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If you're one of the good ones, you'll be still with a combined entity, but you'd only have to worry if you're bad at your job. So that made it easy because everybody thinks they're good at their job. So nobody complained in advance too much because they're like, oh, well, I'll be fine because I'm good at my job. So then the transaction goes through.

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Do you know what the first thing Wells Fargo did after the transaction was complete? They simply eliminated completely everybody working in the duplicate areas of the company they bought. All of them. They got rid of all of them. And they just said, we already have people who do that, and we're the winning company. We're the company that bought you. You're the company that got bought.

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The company that got bought, you just lost all of your duplicated stuff. You're all unemployed, and we'll just keep all of our people. So it was a complete lie. It was a big lie, super lie. But some of us were smart enough to know They're not going to be able to talk to every employee and sort out which ones to keep and then combine these two weird departments that aren't exactly the same.

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Of course, they're just going to fire the people in the acquired bank. Of course they are, and sure enough. Now, it didn't bother me because, like I said, I just left to another company. But yeah, there's only one way to do this. You cut too far, you make drastic cuts, and then you adjust if you need to. No other way to do it. And it's also common to get rid of first-year employees.

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If you can find even one man who says, you know, I kind of like it when she rejects me for sex, and it's kind of creepy when we have a good sex. No, never happened. Next time, just ask me. I can save you a lot of time. Well, according to The Federalist and John Lott Jr. 's writing, He says that the FBI doesn't just have a transparency problem. They're actually distorting data.

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That's not unusual. Well, Trump has again got outside of the box when he's talking about the military budget, and he suggested that the U.S., Russia, and China could possibly all agree to cut our mutual budgets by half. Now, the first time you hear that, you just laugh at it. You go, okay.

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Nobody can convince their adversary to cut their budget by half, and you're certainly not going to convince China, who would like to become the dominant world power militarily, economically, and every other way. You're not going to get them to cut their budget, right? That's the same thing I thought when Trump said, let's make Canada a state. And I said to myself, okay, that's not real.

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He's just playing with them. Maybe it's a negotiation. Maybe he would like to do it, but clearly that's never going to happen. But already it looks like it's possible. The Canada becoming a 51st state, I still wouldn't bet on it. If I had to bet, I'd bet against it. But watching it go from a ridiculous idea to, huh, how would that work? You know, I'm a little bit interested.

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And then it turns out, I don't know how official this is, but I have it on good authority that if you're not looking at the politicians and you're talking to the public, there's a lot of openness in the Canadian public because Trump says there would be benefits for you. I could lower your taxes. Tariffs would go away. You'd be well protected.

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And the Canadians are looking at their own government and saying, OK, under normal circumstances, this would just be insulting. Under normal circumstances. But they can see that their own government is so toxic. that whatever it took to get rid of their own government looks like a good deal. Become a state? Yeah, if we can get rid of this government, because the government is destroying us.

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So Trump took the Canada 51st state from the most ridiculous idea that maybe you've heard in 10 years to already it's, huh, I don't know, maybe we should flesh this out a little bit. What exactly would it look like? Maybe we should do some kind of a, suggest some kind of a poll in Canada to get some real numbers, see how close we are. Now, to me, that's just mind-blowing.

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It's just mind-blowing that that could go from crazy, ridiculous to maybe, I don't know, wouldn't rule it out. And so that's the context in which I give you Trump saying that you can reduce the military budget of the three big powers. First impression? Come on. They're not going to do that. That'd be ridiculous. Here's my second impression, because I'm already up to my second impression.

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If you wanted to do something really big, there's never been a better opportunity. So I'm going to throw out just some ideas. These are the bad ideas. So nothing I say should be taken too seriously. It's just to get your mental process maybe working at a different level.

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The weird thing about Russia, China, and the United States that I think makes us all unique is not one of those countries would ever want to attack the mainland of one of the other countries. China would never want to attack Russia or the United States. United States would never want to attack mainland Russia, like with an invasion or something, or mainland China. It would be crazy.

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Now, has that ever been true? I don't know that it has. We have a situation where the only border is China and Russia, and I don't see any chance that either one of them wants to change that border. That's not even a conversation. So what happens if you've got three powers that coincidentally all have the same problems? This is where it gets fun. All three countries have the same problems.

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One is demographics. China's got a big demographic, lots of old people, not enough young people. It's almost unsolvable. It's like doom heading their way. United States, much the same. We've got that demographic problem. Russia, demographic problem. We've got a bunch of countries that are going to have severe economic problems. And you could argue that we all three already do.

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Now, what kind of data would the FBI want to distort? It's weird, isn't it? Why would they distort data? Well, here's an example. The data about how many situations are solved by citizens who have guns. Very political. If it turns out that it's rare...

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It's harder for us to know exactly what's happening in Russia or China because the information is not reliable. But there's good reason to think that they might have as much debt problems as we do, growth problems as we do. We might be in a very similar situation. The only thing you need is a common enemy. What if you had a common enemy?

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That's really the only way you can get adversaries on the same page, common enemy. And you know how Trump started out with when he talked to Putin, he said, yeah, we talked about the history of World War II, which was the cleanest example of Russia and the United States being on the same team for a while. And it worked out, saved the world in a sense.

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So if we could find a way to be on the same team, there might be something here. It might not be crazy. So imagine if we can say this, and again, these are not good ideas. So when you jump on me and say, but you forgot this, you forgot that. I know, I know. These are not good ideas. It's just to sort of deepen the thought. Suppose Trump said to the other big countries, how about this?

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Forget about the United Nations and Why don't the three of us agree that we'll never, under any circumstance, invade or attack the homeland of the other? Now, I think they would all say, yes, yes. If there's any way we could make that happen, yes, we will never attack the homeland. All of our problems are about smaller countries.

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There's Taiwan, there's Ukraine, there are other countries on the border of Russia, probably some other areas on the border of China. And then the U.S. has its own interests, you know, Greenland and Panama and maybe Canada. And could it be that they could reach an agreement?

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Now, this will scare you, but could it be that we'd reach an agreement where we'd say, all right, all of the remaining property disputes, let's just settle them right now. Let's just say if Taiwan's your next door neighbor and there's no doubt where it's going in the long run, Why don't we just say, all right, Taiwan is yours? No, not today. Not today.

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The very minimum we need to do is get the chip-making facilities out in Taiwan. But suppose we said, why don't we make a 100-year plan and that at the end of 100 years, Taiwan and China will be the same country? Because in 100 years, there's going to be AI and changes and robots. And who knows if the chips will even be made there anymore and everything will be different.

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So nobody really worries about 100 years. But suppose you just say to China, we don't want to fight you. But if you go in and get rid of our chip access, we have to. So let's just take it off the table. Let's just say for 100 years, we absolutely will not fight over Taiwan. And at the end of 100 years, you guys work it out.

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I'm not saying that it gets absorbed, but you guys work it out in 100 years. Now, again, it's not a great idea. It's not a great idea. I'm just helping you think it through. Then suppose we said, each of us have our own interests. So why don't we just take care of our most local interests? So we'd say, you guys don't fight with us over Greenland or Panama. And China, maybe you shouldn't.

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you know, put a smaller footprint on South America. Because Monroe document, you know, the Monroe doctrine, I mean, says, you know, this is sort of our domain over here. But in return, we'll stay out of your business, as long as it doesn't go, you know, crazy in Taiwan too soon. And then you say to Russia, all right, what's your biggest problem? Now, here's the trust problem.

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a citizen could stop a crime or save any lives with their own personal handgun if it's rare well that'd be maybe a strong argument for not having guns some would say i wouldn't say that but if the number of people or the percentage of time that people with a handgun kept a crime or a murder from happening if that was a big percentage well that would really change everything wouldn't it

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You think they're going to try to take over all their neighbors, and of course they might. So could you say, how about if we can just at least solve Ukraine and agree not to move NATO any closer? How about if we do that? Could you get a deal on that? Maybe. Maybe. You'd have to do something.

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to make sure they didn't use their, let's say, their clever ways to take over the governments that they want to take over on their borders. But I feel like if you made it zero risk of them being attacked by NATO, which you could do, I think you could get down to it. If you get down to zero risk that NATO wants to attack you, then suddenly their need to control the other countries goes way down.

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It goes way down. So could you do some big deal where you just settle everything at the same time and some of them just have a long-term plan and others maybe don't need a long-term plan? Now, then you say, look, we also have a common enemy. Now, I hate to put it in those terms because I'm not talking about Islam in general because there are plenty of moderate, excellent Islamic people.

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But the radical version of Islam, which can spread if you let it, is a mutual risk to all three of the big countries. So China, Russia, and the United States all have an interest in keeping the radicalized part of Islam controlled. So you say to them, we work together to take care of that. And we also do something to work together to worry about our demographic problem, perhaps.

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Maybe something about our debt problems that are the same. And the best way to get rid of your debt problems would be to reduce your military spending by half. So as crazy as it is to imagine that we would negotiate with adversaries about cutting their budget for the military...

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And you'd expect both sides would cheat and they would hide their budget in secret places or it looked like they cut it, but they didn't. That would be a real problem. But could you get to the point where China, Russia, and the United States

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feel like they're on the same team, meaning that if China destroyed the United States, they would lose their biggest customer, but they would also lose their ability to control external risks, such as radical Islam. Could you find a way

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that we just feel like we're the three horsemen of the future and that we do have a responsibility to keep the smaller countries operating and make sure that we all have access to resources as needed, you know, in the free market sense. And maybe the old United States that was very colonizing and we like to control other countries, as Mike Ben says, you know,

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If you don't control the small countries, you can't make pencils because we don't make pencils in the United States. Just one example. So you have to sort of control other markets so you have access to the raw materials. What if we didn't? What if the world has changed and you don't need to overthrow a country just to have access to their minerals? You just make an offer.

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If China has a better offer, they get it. If we have a better offer, we get it. But maybe... We say, if it's in our universe over here, maybe you guys can't be part of that. But there should be places where everybody can get everything. You can get your raw materials for anything. So the question is, can Trump do something that big?

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Well, it turns out that the FBI was reporting that only about 4% of the time the person with the handgun makes a difference. The real number, according to whoever the CPRC is, is closer to 35% to 40%. 35% to 40% of the time, if somebody has a personal handgun, it stops a crime or prevents somebody from getting killed, except maybe the perp.

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And I'll just remind you that the things that didn't seem possible before suddenly look a lot possible. Now, I'll tell you what the bad guys are saying about Trump talking to Russia. They're already saying, oh, he's a Russian puppet, you know, sort of the John Bolton thing.

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They're already saying about Ukraine that if Trump decides that the current borders are what will be the final borders and that NATO doesn't include Ukraine in the future... that would look like giving Russia everything they want, which would look like Putin winning, which would embolden him. You don't want to embolden your adversary. And I say that's the wrong frame.

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I don't care if Putin thinks he won. I only care what I want. Why do I care what other people want? I care what I want. What I want is the Ukraine war to be over. so that there's no argument about the border countries. We're not sending you money. Nobody's dying. That's what I want. If we decide that NATO will not include Ukraine, that's what I want. I want that.

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So why are we talking about what Putin wants? Let's just get what we want. Everybody who's talking about Putin winning and getting everything he wants, why do you even care what he wants other than negotiating? But your happiness can be disconnected from his happiness. I just want what I want. I want to be out of this war and not pay for it. I don't care about the rest. Not really.

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So yeah, the first reframe is don't care what Putin feels he won or didn't win. You only just get what you want as a taxpayer. Anyway, I guess there's some fake news in the Wall Street Journal. Somebody's suggesting that Vance means that under some conditions, the U.S. military would get involved in Ukraine. What Vance did say was that all options are on the table, which we always say, right?

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So I think that was taken out of context. All options on the table is just what we always say because it makes sense to always say it. It doesn't mean we want to put military there. That's not going to happen. Anyway, according to the Daily Mail, Health and Human Resources spent $22.6 billion giving migrants cars, homes, and credit cards from 2020 to 2024. Cars, homes, and credit cards?

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Now, I think what that means is it helped them get home loans, made it legal for them to own a car. Maybe there's some financial help, stuff like that. But it looks like they were putting America last, if you know what I mean. But here's what I would caution you. I think we've seen already that some of the early claims about who spent money on what have been so easily debunked.

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For example, the condoms to Gaza were really condoms to Mozambique. Now, I agree that we should cut it no matter where it was going. But the original report had even the wrong country, which is a pretty big deal. And, you know, it goes from giving condoms to terrorists to helping reduce the spread of AIDS in a country that doesn't have the resources to help itself.

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I mean, that's a pretty big difference to know where it was aimed at. But again, you know, I would be against that spending either way. And Let's see, we saw the Reuters story. There was a story that Reuters was being paid by our government for massive information deception. They used different words, but it was right on the invoice.

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And people jumped to the assumption that we were paying to have Reuters brainwash people. I think the real story was that Reuters was being paid or some element with the name Reuters. Somebody said it's a different company than Reuters, the news agency, but it might be the same parent company. I'm not clear on that. But I think the real story was they were being paid to study it.

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Now, studying it's real different than doing it. You would study it to try to reduce it happening. That's the opposite of paying for somebody to do it. Now, do I think we should have had huge expense to study that? No. The expense is still wrong and not really supportable in my personal opinion.

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so remember what i told you that i told you something that is really hard for anybody to accept the first time they hear it and it goes like this all data that matters and the matters part is important all data that matters is fake and it has to be it's not an accident it's because the people who control the data always have an interest, always.

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But I think you've seen enough examples now where the original reporting of how crazy it is about some expense, don't assume these are true. I think you can't assume the big picture. There are crazy expenses that we can get rid of most of them. That's true. But when you see these really just too on the nose, like condoms to Gaza, to Hamas, that was way too much on the nose.

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Like, you should have spotted that right away. I think I did. I think I called that out as a, you know, don't believe this one. So just don't believe all the stories, but they might be useful for making the case. But don't believe them. Doge apparently has penetrated the IRS. I don't know how much money they're going to, or corruption they're going to find in the IRS, but I'm very interested.

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So I love the fact that the IRS is being audited. We went from the IRS is going to audit you, we've got 85,000 people to track you down, all the way to, how about we audit the IRS? Yeah, how about that? So that makes me happy. I saw Jon Stewart on his podcast talking to Jen Psaki, and he had a really interesting question which suggested his own thought process. And he asked her,

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Does management at MSNBC tell you what to say? Because she has a show on MSNBC. And she said, no, no, they don't tell us what to say. No, no, we have independence. So we just look at the news and decide what to say. Now you might say, really? And then every one of you decides on the same take. So you all independently, just all by yourselves, came up with exactly the same take on every story.

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Because they never vary. They all have the same take on every story. And even Jon Stewart wasn't buying it. So I think he was willing to accept that leadership does not give them a memo every day, say, cover this this way. And I think that's true. But he pointed out that Roger Ailes also did not tell people what to write. but they all kind of agree on Fox News, don't they?

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There's not going to be anybody on Fox News who comes out against Doge or against Trump being president. And as Jon Stewart pointed out, you don't need to tell people what to do. They know what their audience is. They know what the other people are going to say. They know what they can say to fit in where they work, you don't need to tell them specifically.

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They just sort of work it out with each other. So even Jon Stewart seemed to be suggesting, although he didn't say it directly, but his line of questioning suggested that he thinks that MSNBC is part of the problem, meaning that it's such obviously propaganda that you can't not notice it. Can't not notice it. So he was actually...

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without using the words, she was basically accusing them of being worthless propaganda, but politely. And I wonder if Jen Psaki believed what she was saying, that they have independence, and just coincidentally all have the same opinion. I don't know. Anyway. let's check and see how did MSNBC cover the USAID story?

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Well, if they were independent, I would expect they would cover it in all of its elements. They'd hit every variable, so you'd have a good understanding of both sides of that story, if they were real news. Let me ask you, if you watch MSNBC, when they covered USAID, did they ever give you the Mike Benz version of the world? You know, the one where USAID has never been a real charity.

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And so they just shave the data and change the assumptions and decide what source to use and which one not to use until they get the right answer. It's always the foxes counting the chickens. If you're going to have the foxes count the chickens, don't tell me that it's accurate. Who trusts the foxes to count the chickens? No, it's never accurate.

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It's always been only, only, not in addition to, but only a statecraft tool for overthrowing other countries or at least controlling them. Do you think the MSNBC ever fully fleshed that out, even if they said it's not true? Because how in the world Do you have a story this big, the main headline story, and not mention what the other argument is? I don't think they've ever mentioned it.

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They're treating it like it's a bunch of charities, and people are going to die if you cut off their funding. They already have some example of somebody who was cut off of oxygen and died. I don't believe the story, but, you know. So, no. If MSNBC doesn't even cover not just the other side of the story, but the really, really important part of the story, they're not news.

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So don't imagine that they are. Well, Thomas Massey, Representative Massey, had Michael Schellenberger in to talk to some part of Congress. And Michael Schellenberger says about that, He said that USAID, this is him not at the event, but talking about it on X later. He said, USAID said it was a charitable group. It wasn't. It was a tool for regime change. After 2016, it turned its guns inward.

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In 2019, a front group it created fabricated the evidence used by the CIA and moles in the White House and House Democrats to impeach Trump. That's treason. Now, you could say, But that didn't happen. If you had some evidence, it didn't. But how does MSNBC not cover it? Isn't it just screamingly obvious? They're not going to have Michael Schellenberger on to question his thinking.

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They'll just act like there's only one opinion. It's a charity. And mean old Trump is cutting the charity and children will die. Thomas Massey said at the event, I think, he said, maybe this was on X. No, it was at the event. He said, USAID funded an organization that fabricated evidence, which was used to impeach President Trump, which is what Schellenberger said.

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And the deep state frequently funds regime change efforts abroad. But when it uses taxpayer money to undermine our own government, isn't that treason? So we have a member of our own government who's looking at a part of our government that we know a lot more about this week than we did last month. And he's saying, if you just look at what they did just on the surface,

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They use taxpayer money to try to impeach an American president in a totally illegitimate effort using the same tools that we use to run coups in other countries. Isn't that treason? And the answer is, hell yes. Hell yes, it's treason. This is not a debatable point. How could it not be treason? Of course it's treason. It's the most treasonous thing you'll ever see in your life. So...

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Meanwhile, Bill Burr, the comedian, he's got a podcast, and apparently he said he went off on billionaires, and he suggested that they were like rabid dogs who need to put down. So he believes that the billionaires are the reason that there are poor people. Now, I'm summarizing him. These are my words, not his.

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But he thinks that if the billionaires were not hoovering up all the money, then there would be money for other people. How fucking dumb do you have to be to have that opinion? That's really dumb. I'd love to say, oh, he's not looking into this context or something, but that's just dumb.

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The only stuff that's accurate is when nobody really cares one way or the other. Then it might be accurate. Even that's probably sketchy. So a perfect example of that. Even the FBI faking data or at least using the data they like.

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Now, he seems smart in general, because when he does his comedy, it's very clever, and so it suggests a high intellect. But do you really think the billionaires stole the money? Does he not know that that Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't have any money if he hadn't created Facebook and created tens of thousands of jobs and a tool that's used around the world? How much money would he have?

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Do they think that Elon Musk would have any money at all if he hadn't created multiple startups that added value to the country, electric cars that nobody else could build, a spaceship to Mars? He wouldn't have any money if he didn't do those things. What, were the poor people going to do it on their own? Let's see the poor people's rocket.

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Oh, well, I guess mean old Elon Musk is hoovering up all the money for the poor people because they were going to build a rocket to Mars. The poor people were. And, you know, according to Bill Burr, now they got shut out. So I guess they can't build their rocket to Mars now. Old mean old Musk just sucked up all the money, basically stole it from the poor people. And you could just go down the list.

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Which billionaire did not create the wealth that the billionaire has a small part of? And most of these billionaires don't even own the majority of their own companies by the time investors get their part and stuff. I don't know what percentage does Zuckerberg control of Facebook? I think he has some kind of voting special shares or something, but it's less than half, isn't it?

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So this is a complete lack of understanding how anything works. And yet he's unembarrassed to have a public opinion about it. I went and checked what AI said was his net worth. So according to a perplexity, and these net worth numbers are always garbage because nobody really knows what anybody did with their money or what investments they made. That's not public information.

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Well, according to an Irish study, the Irish Examiner, Sean Murray is reporting that the methods that they tested to reduce people's belief in conspiracy theories have no effect. Now, If I hear that a bunch of researchers tried to deprogram people from their conspiracy theories and it didn't work, you know what the first thing I think is? Well, whose method did they use?

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But they estimated he's a net worth of $12 million. He makes a million dollars per Netflix special. Now, if he believes that wherever there's wealth that's out of line with the baseline, that that's an indication that somebody is stealing money from the poor, how does he explain himself? How does he explain that?

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Does he not understand that when he does a special on Netflix, Netflix makes money and a bunch of people get employed to put on the event? And then a bunch of people are happy that they watched it and they pay money and the economy improves because Bill Burr made, you know, cumulatively $12 million. How does he not get that? Does he think he's also stealing?

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And if he just keeps it up, he'll be a billionaire too, but he'll be a bad person. How in the world do you come to the opinion that billionaires stole the poor people's money? Now, maybe it happens in some countries. But the only way it happens in this country is if you make some value that's way more than you're keeping. All right, so here's Chuck Schumer again being pathetic.

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And again, I think about Jon Stewart, who said in public the other day on one of his shows, please, please stop sending Chuck Schumer out there. Because every time they send Chuck Schumer, who's like their best guy right now, it's so embarrassing to be a Democrat because you're like, God, no, can you send anybody but Chuck Schumer out? No, not the supervillain lady.

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They just don't have anybody who isn't embarrassing at this point. There's no embarrassing people, non-embarrassing people. So this is what Chuck Schumer said about Doge. He said, everyone knows there's waste in government. Oh, okay. So he's agreeing there's waste in government. He goes, this should be cut. But Doge is using a meat axe. Doge is using a meat axe. And I'm adding it to my list.

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So my list is generic, empty, stupid shit that Democrats say about Trump and Musk. All right, here's the list so far. Trump is going to steal my democracy. Doge is stealing my privacy. Trump is forming a kleptocracy. He's got dark and sinister motives. It's a constitutional crisis. Look at all the chaos. It's chaos. He's a co-president Musk. Musk is not elected. Doge is a hostile takeover.

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Trump is rewarding Putin. And then Doge is used as a meat axe. Do you know why Schumer doesn't want to use a meat axe? Too masculine. The Democrats don't like masculine stuff like a meat axe. That's pretty masculine. Maybe a teaspoon. So I think Chuck would say, maybe not the meat axe. How about a teaspoon? And make sure your pinky is up.

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Speaking of masculinity, I forgot to brag, so I don't want to lose that option today. I told you the story about Clay Travis was at some event. He was on stage, and he made the point that the Democrats have a problem with the mail vote. because they don't have masculine role models. Now, your first thought is, it's not about the masculine role models. It's about policy, right?

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If men are moving to the Republicans, it's because they like the policies. But it turns out that with young men, they're not much less liberal than they ever were. That hasn't really changed. So policy-wise...

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young men still like democrat policies you know they're probably more pro-abortion than the average etc but they're still moving republican so the policies actually are not what what's driving young men to start to lean right and heavily lean right it's probably the role model and i think clay travis is completely on point that when when he asked he actually said this uh

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Who is the most masculine Democrat right now in America? Mayor Pete? Mayor Pete. Now, immediately the Democrat, Karen, who was on stage said, oh, is that an anti-gay thing? To which I say, why would you even say that? What kind of anti-gay question is that? Because if Clay Travis doesn't mention the gay part at all, it's not part of it. It's just that Mayor Pete...

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Was it a professional persuader who tried to talk people out of their conspiracy theories? Or was it somebody who doesn't know how to do it? If you put me in the study and said, all right, we're going to see if Scott specifically can talk people out of their conspiracy conspiracy theories, I think you'd find that I would do better than average because it's something I've studied, right?

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doesn't jump out as a super masculine character. Now, there are plenty of masculine gay guys, right? I don't need to name names, but it has nothing to do with gay. There are plenty of masculine gay guys, tons. He just isn't one of them. So they couldn't leave their frame. Their little frame is, you're a sexist, you're a racist. They just can't get out of it.

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They're so locked in, it's all they can see. So Clay did a good job of saying it has nothing to do with that. I mean, do you look at him and say he's masculine? I mean, he had a better argument than that. But the reason I bring this up is that I wanted to remind you and maybe get a fact check. Around 2016...

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I started saying, there seems to be two parties forming, and it's going to be the woman party and the man party. That doesn't mean there won't be both in each, but the dominant, let's say, policies and approach would be very female in the Democrat Party and very male in the Republican Party. And the Republican Party would be masculine men and people who like masculine men.

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And Democrats would be mostly women and people who are happy to follow the lead of women. And that's exactly where we are. I couldn't think of a masculine Democrat. The closest I can get is Governor Newsom. Newsom, at the very least, he's, you know, tall, slick hair, heterosexual, looks like he goes to the gym. I would call him masculine. Wouldn't you? Is that fair? I would call him masculine.

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But I think he's too degraded as a candidate. I don't think he has a chance of rising up. He's going to have some skeletons. I don't think he can make the move. But yes, I would like to claim credit for seeing this trend years in advance. So the reason I pointed out is because I make predictions. It's a big part of what I do.

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If I get them wrong, you should remind me to say it publicly, which I'll be happy to do. If I get it right, I'll probably remember to tell you. And it's all part of trying to figure out who's good at predicting. If I got it wrong, I think I'd tell you. But got that one right. All right.

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People keep asking me what would be the best way to persuade a liberal to become a conservative or a Democrat to become a Republican or an anti-Trumper to be a pro-Trumper. And people always ask me that question. And I always feel I don't have a good answer. Because on one hand, I think Maybe if I spent a lot of time with somebody, I might be able to move them a little bit.

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But I've never had that experience. I've never experienced changing anybody's mind while I'm talking to them. I don't think words work. Words don't really talk anybody out of anything most of the time, especially in politics when you're locked in. But then I saw a suggestion from a user on X called Bill Hein Daytona. And Bill says, I've recommended to my liberal friends to lift weights.

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Testosterone goes a long way toward curing liberalism. That's actually scientifically true. If you increase the testosterone, at least in men, if you increase their testosterone, they do become more conservative. They do become more Republican. That's a fact. So my new answer to the question, how do you persuade a liberal to become a conservative? If it's a man,

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Specifically, I'm a trained hypnotist and I write about and talk about and use persuasion all the time. So in theory, if it could be done at all, I'd be a little better at it than a person who doesn't practice. But there's a bigger problem. Did you see it? What's the bigger problem? when you're running a study to see if you can talk people out of believing conspiracy theories.

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See if you can convince them to lift weights or do what Zuckerberg did, you know, get into MMA fighting or just do something that's going to build your testosterone and the rest will take care of itself. Because I think the Democrats are largely the party of, I can't do it by myself. I need some help. And the Republicans are largely, I can do it by myself. Just get the government out of my way.

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So how you feel about your own confidence and ability is completely determined if you'd be better off getting helped or better off getting the government out of your way. And the testosterone is completely determinant of whether you feel confident and powerful to make things happen on your own. So yes, the more you can get people to lift weights, the more likely they're going to be pro-Trump.

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That's absolutely true. Scientifically, that's a very clean approach. Elon Musk said something interesting. Well, he always does. But apparently he's had top secret clearance for years. I guess Biden gave it to him in 2022. We don't know why. I assume it's because of SpaceX. But here's what he said that is really interesting. He said, I've had top secret clearance for many years.

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And here's the fun part. And have clearances that themselves are classified. What? What? There's something higher than top secret. He's seen things that even people with the top security clearance in the government haven't seen. And not only did they not see it, they didn't even know there's a higher classification. What? What? Do you know what that makes me think?

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I don't believe that we've captured any alien technology. I don't believe we have. But when I hear this, I go, huh. Suppose you had, just hypothetically, suppose you actually had an alien spacecraft with alien technology. Who would you want to show it to to see if there's any possibility of reverse engineering it? Right?

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There's one person in the world you would be most interested in showing it to to see if he could reverse engineer, and it's Elon Musk. So immediately when I hear that he has extra top secret clearances beyond clearances that ordinary people can't even have, it's not about the Kennedy assassination, right? It's not about, I don't know, just some normal secrets.

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It's not about, oh, the CIA is doing this. That would be normal clearance. To have special extra deluxe clearance, that's got to be some good stuff. We don't know what that domain is, but given that he's the space and technology guy, maybe they have a ship. I don't think they do. I think we have zero spaceships. But wow, this made me wonder. I had to question myself a little bit.

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I'm going to stick with we don't have one. Anyway, according to the UAE, Zero Hedge is reporting this, the UAE ambassador says the Arab world has no alternative to Trump's Gaza plan. That's the plan where the United States takes control of Gaza, but Israel and other countries rebuild it.

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which is pretty surprising because you'd expect that the Arabs would come up with a plan that was also practical to compete. Apparently not. And the UAE ambassador says directly that removing all the Palestinians and then rebuilding it is probably the only thing that would work. That's what I think. He said it's difficult but inevitable.

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that the Trump plan of removing all the Palestinians and rebuilding is the only way anything could go. Now, that's exactly my opinion. It's been exactly my opinion from the start. There is one and only one way this can go. They're going to clear all the people out of Gaza. Now, can you confirm that I've been saying this the whole time? Am I imagining that?

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There's sort of a built-in problem. It kind of assumes that the researchers know what is true and what isn't. And you know what? How do they know? How do they know what's true? Because if they had the wrong opinion, their own research showed that they wouldn't know it. Because you couldn't talk them out of it.

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I've been saying the whole time the one and only way this will end is with all of Gaza being depopulated. I want to see if I really said that loudly and clearly enough that anybody heard it. All right, just confirmed. Okay, so some of you heard me say that. Well, so again, if you're looking for who predicts well, this was a pretty shocking prediction.

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Because remember, I predicted that it would be depopulated and rebuilt and that the Palestinians... may not even be allowed back in, long before anybody even suggested that was a possibility. So that's a win for me on that one. Now, I know for some of you it drives you crazy when it looks like I'm bragging about what I got right. But remember, I make predictions.

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So if I don't tell you I got one right... you're losing half of the value. You should know when I get one right and what domain it is, because maybe that's a domain I can guess better than other domains. There are some domains I can't guess. For example, I can never predict who anybody's going to pick for a vice president. I have no visibility, experience, knowledge. I can't do anything on those.

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But stuff like this, What is a logical plan? How can you get from here to there? I'm pretty good at that. Pretty good at that. Anyway, Meta has some kind of breakthrough according to Tweaktown. Tweaktown, that's really the name of the publication. Apparently they can strap some sensors on your head and they can successfully read 80% of your thoughts. Now the

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The 20% they can't read is still big enough that they can't do much with this technology. But what happens if it keeps getting better? What happens when the AI can predict what you're going to do before you know what you're going to do? Because here's the joke. We already know that.

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So without AI and without these fancy sensors, we already know from brain imaging and other lots of experiments that the part of your brain that handles rational thought doesn't even activate until after the decision. That's one of the most well-understood things for many decades.

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Every once in a while, they retest it and they're like, you know, sure enough, the rational part of your brain is a rationalizer. It rationalizes the decision. It doesn't make the decision. What makes the decision is some combination of irrational impulses. But then after it's made, your little rationalizer says, oh, it's because I could see the greater opportunity in that direction.

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And maybe sometimes it's true, too. But it's usually not why you made the decision. So we're going to have a big problem with believing in free will once AI can tell you what you're going to do before you do it. That will be the end of the free will argument, and that's coming. I've long predicted, if you like my other predictions, you'll like this one too.

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So if the researchers thought something was true that wasn't, or something was untrue that was true, how would they know? Since their own research showed you can't change anybody's mind if they're wrong about a conspiracy theory. So it looks like nonsense to me. Total nonsense. Here's a few stories in a row that kind of make a picture. So Fox News is reporting. David Spector is writing.

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I've long predicted that the belief in free will will be destroyed. It's just a matter of time because there's just like an obvious path until it happens. And AI is probably the last leg of the trip. So that's ahead of you. Now, what all of you want to say is, but how can you say that unless you have free will? And then I say, no, I had to. But how did this other thing? No, you had to.

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But how did I choose this? You had to. But I thought I had choice. Yeah, you had to think it. It's always the same answer. You had to. You didn't have a choice. All right, that's all I got for now, ladies and gentlemen. This Valentine's Day is kicking off just great. My neighbor's getting noisy, doing some construction.

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So I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on YouTube and X and Rumble, and I'll talk to the locals people privately for a moment. But 30 seconds until private with locals. The rest of you, thanks for joining.

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There's a former Marvel executive, you know, the Marvel superhero universe. So the Marvel executive is suing Disney because he was allegedly denied a promotion for being an old white guy. Now, here's the fun part. The reason he knows he was denied a promotion for being an old white guy is they said, we can't promote you because you're an old white guy. They told them directly. So, lawsuit.

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Now, here's what black Americans have never understood about what you call, I don't know, reverse racism or just racism, I guess. They don't believe that when white men are told they can't be promoted, and this has been true for decades, because remember, it was, you know, Decades ago that I was told in direct language, you're a white male, you cannot be promoted here.

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And then I changed companies. And that company told me the same thing. Direct words. No beating around the bush. Said it just that directly. This has been happening all over the country for decades. And the white men just don't talk about it in public because if they do, you know what happens? The black men call them mediocre. Said, no, you're lying.

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You didn't get the promotion because you're a mediocre white man. That's what happened to me. Yeah, the black citizens poured into my comments and said, well, no, you're lying. They didn't tell you that directly. You just are sore because you didn't get the promotion because you're a mediocre white man. In other words, they were really racist. All right.

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Meanwhile, Attorney General, Missouri Attorney General, is Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks because they have some kind of a race and sex-based hiring practice, which would be, of course, illegal. So now you've got Disney, which is actively discriminating against white men. You've got Starbucks being sued for actively discriminating against white men.

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And then you've got Goldman Sachs that just decided to scrap its policy that said it wouldn't help take a business public if they had all white board members. So they said, you've got to have some diversity and you've got to have at least one woman on the board or we won't work with you. Which is, of course, racial discrimination and gender discrimination. And the good news is that they changed.

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Let's see what's in the news today besides Valentine's Day. Everybody got big plans for Valentine's Day? Yeah, me neither. You know, it's not optimal to not be in a relationship. But at the same time, it does save a lot of effort on Valentine's Day. It's hard to get Valentine's Day wrong.

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So they're not going to be that way. But here's the bad news. I'm not going to forget that. If you think you can just change from discriminating against white men to not, no, I'm not going to forget it. You know, I don't have any business to do with Goldman Sachs, but fuck every one of you. You can drop dead. All right. Adam Corolla is talking about the progress in cleaning up the L.A. fires.

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Guess what the progress is in cleaning up the L.A. fires and getting rid of the debris and moving people back in? Doesn't appear to be any, according to Adam Corolla, who's got a house there. He says, remarkably, no progress has been made in the cleanup. No, his actual words are a quote. Zero attempt at cleaning now over a month. No cleanup attempt.

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No official government website you can go to for any kind of timeline when the power is going to be on. When can you get back to your place? The answer is no GD idea. Now let's compare that. This is California's performance. Now let's compare that to Doge. Doge is already spinning up a website in which they'll be reporting everything they're doing. It's all going to be there. It's already up.

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So Doge consistently does the thing you expect and want them to do. And California seems to only be able to fail. It's like we don't have, as a state, we have no capability of doing anything. And I think it's always the same problem. I think it's the state just necessarily needs to inject corruption into every big move. And cleaning up LA is a big move.

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They probably are just holding out for diversity and getting their cronies the jobs and figuring out some way to monetize this for the government itself. So I don't trust anything about the California government. They have not earned any trust. I assume that the reason it's not happening rapidly is just pure corruption. It could be incompetence, but I bet it's corruption.

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And the corruption is they're trying to figure out, okay, how are we going to make it look like it's not corruption while it is? I think that's probably what's slowing them down. I have no trust whatsoever in my state government. Well, here's a story that I seem to wake up to every single day. It's like Groundhog Day. Here's the story.

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There's a federal judge who blocked something that Doge wants to do. How many times has that story been in the headline? How many times has some judge done that? So here's what it should say. Presumed crooked judge blocks Doge progress.

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Now, we don't know that they're all crooked, but it seems like it takes about a minute to figure out that somebody bought their appointment or their daughter or their wife is working on something with USAID. or there's some nefarious connection, or they've got a history of being a rogue judge. These are not normal judges.

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And one of the things that Elon Musk says is if any judge anywhere can stop anything that Doge does, it doesn't matter where the judge is, anywhere in the country, he says, you don't really have a government anymore. If any judge anywhere can stop, really, it'd be stopping Trump, the president. And that's a good point.

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How can we have a government when people who are not elected, you know, these appointed judges, I think mostly they're appointed, can stop anything from happening? And they can just keep doing it all day long. So somehow we have to figure out how to get freedom from the crooked judges.

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But given it's Valentine's Day, you might be interested that Gwyneth Paltrow's company, it's called Goop, that's the name of her company, Goop, they're selling a sex pillow, $200. $200 for a sex pillow. Now, I think the pillow is meant to give you extra control during sex with another person. However... There's no prohibition against having sex with the pillow itself if you don't have a partner.

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Destroying the reputation seems like a good start, but only if it is honestly destroyed, as if they have a conflict of interest they're not admitting to and not recusing themselves. Yeah, you have to go after that pretty hard. So I don't know what can be done. but we can't run a country if corrupt judges can stop everything. You just can't. So I would love to hear an alternative.

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You can't even impeach them because you need two-thirds, and there's no way you're going to get that. So I don't know. Governor Newsom made what's been called an about-face, according to the New York Post.

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So California governor, he's ready to veto a bill that's coming from his own party that would force the prison system in California to keep them from cooperating with ICE, the immigration people. So there is a bill in California that says the prison system can't coordinate with the people who want to deport the non-documented immigrants. But the good news is, Newsom's going to say no.

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All right, almost ready. There we go. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time.

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Huh, I wonder if there's any way they could have gotten to that result faster and with less expense. Anyway, anyway, oh yeah, you could have asked me. Or you could have asked anybody who's ever been trained as a hypnotist because it's lesson number one.

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And they say that the reason for it, the big driver, because normally you'd expect it to go up at this time of the year, is gas prices didn't go up. So energy costs allowed inflation to stay put and slightly, slightly go down. that's exactly what Trump promised us.

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That's exactly what he promised, that he would loosen up all of the energy sources and that when energy goes down, inflation would be impacted in every domain. Now, I'm not sure that this is 100% because of Trump changes, but it could be. Yeah, it could be. So we'll see. That's good news. Trump, along those same lines, Trump is reversing a bunch of Biden policies about Alaska and energy.

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So this is the center squares reporting this. So he's reinstating a program to make a whole bunch of acres up there in the Anwar region. Available for oil and natural gas. Now, I guess he did that in his first administration and Biden canceled it.

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So we'll see if the oil drilling companies are willing to take the risk that it gets canceled again, because I suppose if you get another Democrat president, things would look dicey. But at the moment, it looks like there's going to be a bunch of changes that are making it easier to get energy out of that part of the world, which could make a big difference.

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Speaking of which, according to Newsmax, Lee Barney is reporting... um there's a big drop in oil prices from a year ago the oil is 28 lower than it was a year ago and uh and oil went down another three percent just recently because of the fears of the uh trade talks so oil going down is a pretty big deal um And so Brent oil is trading around $64 per barrel.

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And somebody who knows what they're talking about says that by the end of 2026, by the end of next year, we could be at $55 per barrel. So the direction... for inflation looks pretty darn good. And by the way, this would be a counterbalance to whatever the tariff problem is.

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So if you're gonna have a tariff fight with China, the very best environment you could do it in is where inflation is under control and there's a gigantic

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I think it's literally the first thing we learned, that if you make somebody close their eyes and imagine a nature scene, that their body will relax. Literally, I think it's the first thing you learn. So yeah, you could have just asked me about that next time. Next time do that. According to Zero Hedge, the House has passed a bill, which means it hasn't passed the Senate yet.

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probable lowering of energy costs during the same period they're negotiating so that would certainly take a lot of sting in of any uh tariffs um i mean it's going to affect people differently so the people who are most affected by the tariffs may not get most of the benefit but at least on a country level um that would be a pretty strong negotiating position um here's some

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Some science is kind of cool. According to Live Science, Roland Moore Collier is writing that there's a breakthrough to allow you to physically manipulate 3D holograms so that you could touch them and move them around with your hand. I'm not sure if you could feel them. That was a little unclear. But you could physically manipulate them.

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Now, apparently, it's sort of in the early experimental stage, but they've created a demonstration. So if they can do it in a demonstration, it's probably pretty real, assuming the demonstration is not fake. It could be. But imagine that. Now, what do you think would be different if we could manipulate holograms? Do you think that people are going to have a hologram boyfriend?

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Because if you add AI to a physically manipulatable hologram...

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it's even better than a robot because you can just turn it off and it'll go away but you could have like a living room boyfriend that's only in the living room because that's where your 3d hologram is and you can make your boy your boyfriend like you know only a few inches tall in case you want to you know not be bothered too much i don't know um

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I still think there's some possibility that the UFO sightings are some kind of hologram. I'm not going to commit to that, but let me broaden that to say one possibility for the UFOs is that they're somehow projected from somewhere else, and they look like physical objects, but maybe they're something like a hologram. Why? I don't know, but I wouldn't rule it out.

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According to news reports, well, Trump is saying this, Mexico owes Texas like 1.3 million acre feet of water And he's going to tariff Mexico if they don't pay up. So apparently there's some kind of long-term agreement, 1944 treaty, that says that South Texas farmers get a certain amount of water that must flow through Tijuana area, I think. And so at the moment, that's being cut off.

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I'm not sure why. But Trump says if they don't fix that really fast, he's going to escalate with tariffs. and maybe even sanctions. So we'll see. Were you wondering if the Chinese investors would panic before the American investors? Well, American investors, according to today, they're just saying, our stock market's sold enough. And it's kind of stabilized.

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Now, that doesn't mean it'll last to the end of the day. I'm not predicting anything. And I'm not predicting it won't wildly jump around as there's more negotiating. But if you want to know what's happening in China, according to Reuters... The government just told the biggest money traders that they can't sell too many Chinese stocks in a day or they'll shut them down.

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So if you're a big investor in China and you were thinking, hmm, this would be a good time to sell all of my China stock while you're a Chinese company, China just told you, yeah, if you do that, we're going to put you out of business. So is China panicked? and that's a pretty good threat, isn't it, that we'll put you out of business?

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So it looks like China can control the selling of their stock market. I guess you shouldn't be too surprised by that. But that would give, in theory, that would put a bigger risk on the American side because the Americans don't do that sort of thing. And I guess U.S., put that 125% tariff on China, and they just reciprocated with 125% tariff. So we're going to tariff each other like crazy.

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requiring proof of citizenship to vote. So it's called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE. And it passed with a little bit of margin. Yeah, even four Democrats joined in. Interesting. So Chip Roy is the sponsor for this. And it would amend the National Voter Registration Act also to require states to obtain proof of citizenship in person from people registering to vote.

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2%?

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I don't know. I suppose if it keeps going, it's a big deal. So anyway, the trade escalation continues. So we'll see how that goes. Here's a story that's hard to believe, but it looks like it's true.

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The New York Post is reporting, Ronnie Reyes is writing about this, that some time ago, I think it was during the Biden administration, there was a meeting between China and the US in which China acknowledged its role in years of cyber attacks against the United States as retaliation over its support for Taiwan. Now, it's not surprising that it was happening.

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It's surprising that the Chinese said it just directly, you know, a complete confession right to the Americans in a private meeting. Now, that's kind of mind-blowing, isn't it? That years of cyber attacks And they're like, yeah, we've been cyber attacking you for years over your Taiwan policy.

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Now, obviously, the implication is that you can't stop us and that we have this ability to hack you anytime we want. So that is one scary kind of a threat. And you have to throw that threat into the tariff negotiations as well. And to me, this is just one more evidence that our relationship with China is an abusive relationship.

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If it were a personal relationship, you would say you need to get out of that relationship. You know that you're being abused over and over, right? They're just cyber hacking you and then bragging about it. And they've got trade policies that are bad for you and they don't care. And they're stealing your IP every time they can get near it.

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And if you try to challenge them in court, there's no way to challenge them. If that were a personal relationship, what would all of your friends recommend? They'd recommend you get out of it. So we'll see what happens. But here's a more risk. According to the Epoch Times, Jan... Let me try to get his name right. Jan.

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He's posting today that they talked to an author, the Epoch Times, and there's an author that says that China controls 95% of the key components... necessary for our generic drugs. So if China were to shut down export of those chemicals, our healthcare system would basically collapse. We just wouldn't be able to make drugs. So that's how dependent we are.

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Now, it seems to me that that looks more and more like an abusive relationship. It's like, well, There's an implied threat that if you were to leave me, bad things would happen. Oh, yes, bad, bad, bad things would happen. Your health care would collapse. An abusive relationship. And that's, I guess, the author of the book China Rx is where that came from. So here's what I think.

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So using that same frame, I do believe that we're in an abusive relationship, meaning that not only are things unbalanced and unfair, but like an abusive relationship, you can't negotiate your way to a better situation. If you're with somebody, let's say you're living with somebody who's an abuser, have you ever tried to negotiate with them? How'd that work out? It doesn't work.

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There's no such thing as a negotiation with an abuser. They're just abusers. And China seems very intent on continuing to be the abuser. So I think our path with China is very similar to the path that you would see in an abusive personal relationship. You can either put up with it because you think the risk of not putting up with it is too great. You might lose your health care.

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You might get cyber attacked. They might take Taiwan 10 minutes later. All of our costs would go up. I mean, these are real serious, seriously big problems. So what do you do? Stay in the abusive relationship? Is that how you'd play it if it were your personal relationship? Because it's the same thing. If you leave me, I will hunt you down and beat you up. You'll never get a job.

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So you better bring your ID. But it even goes further, and it requires states to establish programs to remove illegal immigrants from existing voter rolls. And it allows U.S. citizens to sue election officials who don't adhere to the proof of citizenship requirements. Oh, that's interesting. So it allows individuals to do the suing. Now, I saw somebody's comment that this will never fly.

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You'll be poor forever. Your children will starve. Sound familiar? So you can either put up with that, and it might even worsen over time because why would the abuser fix anything? Because the abuser's happy. Or you can risk everything to stop it. You can risk everything. That's what it's looking like.

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So our two choices, you know, under a normal situation, and I'll take you to an abnormal situation in a moment, but under a normal situation, you either put up with it forever and it just gets worse, and that's what we were doing, or you risk everything. You risk everything to get out of it. Trump is pushing us to risk everything to get out of it. Is he wrong?

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What's the thing that the Democrats hate about Trump? He's a bully. He's a strong man. He's a dictator, right? But boy, do you need that now. Because if you're in an abusive relationship with someone else, who do you call to help you get out of it? You call somebody who's a bigger bully. There's no other way. Because you're not going to be able to do it. You need a bigger bully.

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Trump's a bigger bully. And we've never seen anybody like it. Now, is it a good idea to risk everything? I'm not even going to say this. I'm just going to say those are your choices. suck it up and be abused for the rest of whatever's left of the United States, which might not last long since China seems to have designs on controlling the world, or you risk everything.

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Doesn't mean you lose everything. Doesn't mean you lose everything. Because sometimes you can scare a bully away, but you have to be the bigger bully by far. So what do you do? So those are two choices you don't want, right? And it's really easy to do the do-nothing choice and just put up with it and just... It gets worse, but then you get used to it.

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You just put up with it until your country is toast. But you hope it's not today. You're just trying to get through today. Or you risk everything. put an end to it.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cover mug or a glass of tanker chalice, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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Now, I have a hypothesis that the way, and this wouldn't be for every single person, but if you don't have a direct trading relationship with China, in which case you would be biased toward your own business interests, which would be fine. I think how you see the situation

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of this abusive relationship is that you would handle it the same way you would do it in person in other words if you're the kind of person who says god i'm just going to put up with the abuse then you're probably the same person who says why can't we just you know get along with china you know just sort of do what we were doing before and keep asking if they'll do better

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That's probably what you would do in your personal relationship because that would be your level of risk for that sort of thing. But there are other people who would say, you know what? I've reached the end of my patience. I'm going to risk everything. Might he kill me? Yes. But it's better than this life. It's better than this life. And there are a lot of you like that.

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How many of you have dealt with the bully the only way you can? Some of you. How many of you have been in an abusive relationship and said, you know what? I'm going to walk out of here with my bare fucking feet because I'm done. I'm just fucking done. That's some of you.

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So it's just a hypothesis, but I'll bet you the way you would deal with an abusive relationship in person has a lot to do with how you're looking at this China situation. I'll bet there's a pretty good Venn diagram overlap. And so I'm going to offer you a trap door, an escape. I'm going to offer you another option, one that's not on the table right now. So this is the hypnotist take.

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So if I were in charge, I would use my hypnosis background to say, all right, if you only have two choices, put up with the abuse or risk everything to get away, how could you invent some new options that just don't seem to exist? And I'll give you a couple. One option would be to negotiate with China and say, here's the deal, China.

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Even if it gets passed, the Supreme Court will knock it down, some say, because the states have, I think what was described as an ironclad control over how voting is done. But I'm not so sure. I'm no Supreme Court expert.

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We'd like to treat you more like a peer and treat you with complete respect. So you have a take on trade that you think whatever you're doing is fair. We think it's not. Let's negotiate in public.

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Let's put all of your trade practices in the public domain, maybe the UN, maybe some other kind of public structure, and we're going to show what it is that you have been doing, and then we're going to tell you what we think would be a fair situation. Will you negotiate with us in public? What are they going to say? They're going to say no. And then you keep at it. No, let's do this in public.

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Because China, we don't want to be your enemy. We want a good trade deal. If you can't do it in public, that's going to say a lot. We're going to put all of our terms in public. Everything we want, we're going to publicize, we're going to explain why, and we're going to tell you what the context is. Will you do the same? And put them in a position...

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where they simply have to defend their position. Because right now, if you say China China is giving us bad trade deals. Maybe somebody knows what a tariff is. Maybe they don't. Maybe some people know how bad the theft of IP property is. Maybe they don't.

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Maybe people know that if you went to China and tried to use their justice system to fix, let's say, an IP theft, you wouldn't even get a phone call return. There's no process at all. And so, and if you looked at other restrictions and other risks, and if you looked at the surveillance that they do of any American who goes over there, you can't even bring your phone.

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I mean, imagine a country where you can't even bring your phone or your laptop because there's 100% chance they're going to hack into it. Imagine dealing with a company that if you make a product that is successful, but you're making it in China, the very first thing they're going to do is steal it. And they're going to make that same product.

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They're going to run the factory all night to make more of the fake one than you're paying them to make the real one. And then they're going to compete with you. And you're going to say, hey, it looks like you just ran my own factory that I was paying you to make my stuff. It looks like you just ran it for extra hours and then put it on Amazon.

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But it does seem to me like the federal government, in its role of protecting the country, I mean, just as a national defense issue, could require that the only people who vote are American citizens. So other than that, I could see that the states would have most of the control. But we'll see.

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And you're just competing with me with my own stuff against me. And you know what China would say? Take it up with our courts that don't return your phone calls. Ever. Not sometimes. Ever. There's no path. So how many people know that? How many people know how unsafe it is to do business in China? Well, some people know it. Let's do it in public. Let's put it all in public.

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Now, if they fight the idea of doing it in public, that would be kind of embarrassing. And it would also sort of force us to be the ones who described their practices in public without their defense. They wouldn't have any defense to it. Here's another one. So we could do that, but we could also do the following. We could tell China...

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China, I think we've been maybe unnecessarily disrespectful to you. Wait for it. Just wait for it. We've been a little bit insulting and we've been a little bit disrespectful. And I think that we've been trying to get you to change in ways that you don't want to change. And we're not the boss of you, China. China is a great nation with a great future and a great history.

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And China should be allowed to be China. So this would be the let China be China approach. And you say to them, we think you should be China and just be China any way you want to be China. Just continue to be exactly like you are. However, we'd like to announce that that our long-term position is to do a friendly, friendly, respectful unwinding of all association with China.

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We'd like to unwind all of our business, but some of it's going to take years, such as the pharmaceuticals and the drugs business, and some of it might happen a little faster. But there's no offense. We're going to do this with complete respect. We agree that your position is one that you can take.

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So rather than trying to embarrass you or bully you or negotiate you into a compromised position that you don't want to do, we think that was a big mistake.

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because it didn't it didn't really understand the power and the interests of china and from now on we'd like to let china be china alone without us and if you don't mind we'll continue buying things from you where it makes sense but we're going to unwind as much of the business as possible as quickly as possible in the friendliest way possible

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So we'd like to remain good, let's say, good relations, but without any trade. Because let China be China. China is an aggressive, tough, highly respected country. And if you would like to be China without any pushback from the rest of the world, we accept that. So we accept your terms. And we hope you don't mind if we unwind completely. So, two possibilities that are not on the table.

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I don't know what the predicted fate of this is, whether it gets completely passed by the Senate and whether it can survive a challenge. But anyway, it's got some Democrats on it, so that's not the worst thing. Let's see what the View host, Sunny Hostin, says about this. Well, she says that requiring voter ID... is bad for many blacks and women who will not be able to vote.

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Negotiate in public or agree to a friendly, completely respectful, complete unwinding of business over time. That's how a hypnotist would approach it. So you'd give them some options that were never on the table. Because if you deal with the options that are on the table, you're going to get the same result everybody ever got, which is, do you want to do a deal? No. We don't have to. But please?

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No. But it's bad for us. We know. No. But it's super good for you while being bad for us. Do you understand that? Yeah, we got it. You can't live in that frame. You have to change the frame. So if China wants to be China, let's let China be China. We don't need to change them. All right, let's get back to America here.

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I'm loving watching the news people explain why they were so bad at doing their jobs. And the best example, of course, is the Biden brain situation where they pretended they couldn't notice. So now we've got Chris Silliza, who used to be on CNN. He's not anymore, but he was He was what I'd call a anti-Trump specialist.

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I used to talk about him all the time in the first term, in the first election. And he said that the reason that he didn't cover the Biden brain story was it wasn't any kind of intentional activism. He said that we simply didn't push hard enough to get around the smokescreen from the Biden people. What smokescreen?

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you and i and everybody with a television set could see biden was falling apart from i think i think i started saying it in 2019 and i wasn't alone there were plenty of other people saying uh what are we seeing there that that doesn't look right And then they started hiding him. I don't think that could have been any more obvious.

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And his schedule was basically, the schedule is he's not doing any work today. He's going to go to the beach again. It could not have been more obvious to everybody watching. And you're telling me that the only people who couldn't notice were the people who, quote, didn't push hard enough to get through the smoke screen?

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The fact that the news is trying to blame the insiders for protecting them is unbelievable. I mean, I wonder how much of this they believe on their own. Like in their own minds, do they think that's true? Or do they know that it's like a ridiculous rationalization? I don't know. So Trump had a cabinet meeting yesterday.

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And I saw a summary by Insurrection Barbie on X about some of the good news out of there. And there was some news, some pretty big news. So Brooke Rollins talked about the terrible position that the Biden left the farmers in. She explained that there's been a 30% increase in input costs and that the previous administration left them with a $50 billion trade deficit

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even though that was zero when Biden took office. $50 billion deficit when it started at zero. And so they're working on overcoming those issues. So basically the Biden administration, with Biden's broken brain, just let our food supply just be in tatters by the time he was done. And the Trump administration is working hard to fix that.

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Brooke Rollins appears to be a superstar in the administration. So that's looking good. Then Tulsi Gabbard had some updates, which were all individually interesting, especially about things like RFK files and the JFK assassination files. Those are being prepped for release. I don't know when, but that's interesting.

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But the most interesting part, and this is from Tulsi Gabbard, so this is your government talking. So this is not Podcaster. This is not some rogue person with an opinion. This is your government.

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Your sitting government says that the electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, and that they've been vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation of election results, and they're continuing to investigate. That's the government saying that. The voting machines were vulnerable and have been for a very long time.

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And I think there was something said about they were not even designed to modern cybersecurity standards. Now, that does not mean that they've identified any problems with other elections. So one of the questions you can say, but wait, the voting machine people have sued people who said that there were problems.

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They've sued people who said there were specific problems, like there was a specific manipulation. That's not what Tulsi Gabbard is saying. Tulsi Gabbard is saying that by their nature, by their design, they would have some vulnerabilities. So it's not about a specific claim.

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I love how crazy she sounds. When I watch Sadie Houston, I like looking at her eyes and her face as she says things that probably every person knows is bullshit. We're still looking for that one person who doesn't know how to vote or doesn't know how to get an ID. but still wants to vote. Now I do believe there are people who don't have IDs, but I don't think they're clamoring to vote.

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And she puts it in the context of working toward Trump's goal of having a paper ballot, kind of a same-day election, because if you don't debunk the safety of voting machines, it's going to be hard to talk anybody into getting rid of them. So to me, that's a big deal. It's a really big deal. Now, how long have I been telling you that there's no way to protect a cyber device like that.

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To me, it just seems obvious. You wouldn't have to be some expert in cybersecurity to know that these older machines that have been hacked by hackers in a variety of different forums, you wouldn't have to know the specifics. If you knew anything about technology, you would say, I don't think they've invented anything you can't hack if you had access.

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A lot of hacking involves somebody, a physical person being let in to do a physical thing or an insider who just has access as an insider. Whenever you've got insiders or the possibility of physical access, it just seems like you have a hackable situation. It wouldn't matter if you're talking about election machines or ATMs or any other machine. RFK Jr.

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at the same meeting said that he's going to have an answer on the likely cause of the spike in autism by September. He points out that the autism rate when he was a kid was 1 in 10,000, but now it's 1 in 31. Oh, my God. 1 in 31? I mean, I've been sort of, you know, tracking this issue forever. But 1 in 31? 1 in 31.

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there's clearly something in the air or the water or the food or the medicines or something, clearly. But his promise that we'll know by September, what is the likely cause of it? I don't know about that. Don't know about that. Because that would assume that we have the right kind of data.

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do you believe we have or or that we could have by september the right kind of data i'll tell you my my uh let's say my i don't want to say common sense but based on the totality of my experience working with data because i used to do that before i did this um i think there are too many variables it might be possible to tease out the right answer But by September? I don't know.

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It's pretty aggressive. So you might think he already knows the answer and maybe there's a domain in which there is data if you just took the time to look at it. So, I mean, I have a high degree of trust that RFK Jr. wouldn't say it unless he meant it and that he really believed that we could do that. So that would be a hell of a thing. Just imagine that.

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honestly, that would be one of the greatest achievements in American history, if he pulls that off. Do you think he will? He might. He might pull that off. But by far, it would be the most useful thing anybody in the Kennedy family had ever done. Would you agree with that? That there would be nothing in the entire Kennedy legacy from the Cuban Missile Crisis, pick whatever you want,

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That would be the most important thing that any Kennedy had ever done. So I'm rooting for him, rooting hard. He also wants to get soda out of these SNAP programs so that poor people can't use your tax money on soda. He wants to get fluoride out of the water. Apparently there's evidence that it lowers IQ. And he wants to improve school lunches. Those all sound pretty good to me. Pretty good.

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So that's going on. According to Just the News, they've got some good article there on, there's some new declassified material about that Russia collusion hoax from long ago that Kash Patel just gave to Congress. Now, I don't know how much of this is new-new. And how much of it is sort of telling us what we already knew. But I didn't know about this. So apparently Grok was asked to summarize it.

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So we're still looking for just one, just one person who says, and you know what would happen if one person came forward and said, I don't know how to get ID, but I'd really like to vote. What would happen? whoever they were talking to would tell them how to get an ID and help them vote. So as soon as you find anybody who's in that category, the first person they talk to solves their problem.

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So here's what Grok said about it. One of the documents contains handwritten notes by former CIA director John Brennan. in July 2016. So carefully note the date, July 2016. And it details a briefing to Obama and senior officials, right? So what Brennan knew in 2016, Obama knew, because he got briefed, and the senior officials did. So they all knew this.

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And it suggested that Hillary Clinton's campaign approved the plan to tie Trump to Russian interference in the election, allegedly to distract from her email scandal. And the notes outlined the concerns about Russian knowledge of this strategy and indicate discussions within the intelligence community about its implications. So in 2016...

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Brennan, Obama, and their closest top advisors knew that Hillary Clinton was running an op. And the thing they were worried about is that Russia would find out about the op. Brain exploding. Really? The thing they were worried about is that Russia would find out about the op? They weren't worried about the op? They weren't worried about an insurrection to remove or to change the election.

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I don't even know what to say about that. It's exactly what you thought it was. From the very beginning, I said to myself, that John Brennan guy, there's something wrong there. Does he really think the Russia collusion thing is real? And the answer was, Apparently not. Apparently not.

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And I won't get into the rest of it, but let's say some of the highlights are they knew that the Carter Page thing was, they went too far and they knew this stuff was left out, trying to drag him in there. See, they knew that the case that they were trying to put together about General Flynn, they knew early on that there was no evidence that they had done anything whatsoever. None.

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And yet they talked about continuing it based on no evidence. Not a little bit of evidence. but based on none, they continued to say maybe they should keep looking, which suggests that they were just trying to jail him as opposed to worried about actually any crime. Un-freaking-believable. So that was exactly what you thought. Yeah, there were notes from some FBI official

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expressing concern about the FBI's approach with Flynn, suggesting internal unease about the investigation's tactics. Yeah, there was a little unease about that. There should have been. In other news, remember the Central Park Five story? I won't give you the whole background there, but you remember that long before Trump was in politics, he did a editorial.

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He bought a page of the New York Times and said that the death penalty should be brought back. Now, he didn't mention the Central Park Five, But the news assumed that that's what he meant, and they acted like he had essentially blamed them for being guilty when they were later cleared by the courts.

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Now, when I say they were cleared by the courts, that doesn't mean that I know that they were guilty or innocent. I wouldn't know. I wasn't there. But there was not evidence, according to the court, to convict them. So, the lawsuit... is about what Trump said during a debate in 2024.

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It's like, oh, well, just go down to the DMV. Well, I don't know where the DMV is. Oh, well, let me check. Okay, here's the address of the DMV. Just go down there and get an appointment and get your ID. But now it's extended from If you require ID, it used to be that it was a way to suppress black vote, but now it's extended to divorced women.

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And the courts have ruled that the lawsuit can go forward because Trump said something about this situation during the debate that can be objectively determined to be false. Now, that doesn't mean that you broke a law or anything, but it suggests there's enough meat there to have a trial. So here's what Trump said when, I guess it was Kamala brought up the Central Park Five.

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Trump said during the debate, quote, They admitted, they said they pled guilty. Now, that never happened. They never pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately. The person was not killed, but was badly injured. And he said, and if they pled guilty, and they pled were not guilty. Anyway, so he was basically just riffing on it.

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And it sounds like he didn't remember the details. Can you be sued for defamation if you're just honestly wrong about the details of a thing that happened? I think you have to have intent, don't you? Or if it's not intent, you have to show some kind of seriousness about not defaming somebody, basically.

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Some seriousness that you're trying to be accurate and you're not haphazardly just throwing things around. I don't think they're going to be able to show

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that anything happened other than he remembered it wrong because it didn't sound like it did it doesn't even sound like his normal hyperbole it literally just sounds like he remembered it wrong so i can't believe that he would lose that but again lawsuits are endless the lawfare

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According to Sky News, Tom Clark is writing that the amount of electricity needed to power the world's data centers, mostly because of the AI load, is expected to double in five years. Do you think we're going to have twice as much electricity in five years? Well, probably not. So what are we going to do? I'm going to add my prediction to this. I predict...

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that there will be sufficient innovations in energy reduction for AI specifically. In other words, that the technologists will find ways to not need nearly as much energy for AI, and that will be fine. Do you know the law of slow-moving disasters? It's called the Adam's Law of Slow Moving Disasters because I named it after myself.

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It says that if you can see a disaster and everybody can see it, it's not like some secret two people see it. But if we can all see it, if we can all see the problem coming, we have a really good record of dealing with it. Really good, 100%. We're still here. So this would be, you know, on the border of an existential threat if we didn't have enough energy to run AI.

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Because even if you said, but Scott, we'll just turn off the AI and everything will be fine. Well, then you lose to China and somebody else has AI and that's an existential threat. So the fact that we have at least five years suggests to me that we'll be fine.

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how i don't know specifically but i i think i've told you i don't know maybe 10 different stories recently about some breakthrough or some potential breakthrough to lower the energy you need to do ai and then deep seek apparently found some workarounds too so i think that

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If you just straight line how much energy we'll need, that's misleading because it's hard to know how many innovations will be in lowering energy need. Nagoya University discovered that they can instantly cure motion sickness with a 100 hertz sound, which is well within normal hearing levels. So it wouldn't hurt you. And apparently it's been tested.

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So this is after you already have the motion sickness. All they do is strap on the headphones and play the sound, and it just instantly takes away your motion sickness. Now, that's the claim. But I get, you know, obviously they'll do some more testing. But wouldn't that be cool? I don't have motion sickness, but I've always had –

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Is there a big problem with divorced women who want to vote, but they've got the wrong last name on some of their documents? Is that a big problem? Can we see one example of that, please? I think Hillary Clinton weighed in on that, too. Still waiting for that one person. I'm going to delegate this issue to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.

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I'm so lucky because how many times have you gotten in a car or a vehicle with somebody who does and you know they're not happy at all? It's pretty common. A lot of people have motion sickness.

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So even though I don't, this seems like a big deal to me if they can fix it with a sound because then you could just put it on your, I don't know, put it on your phone and put your headphones in and instantly feel better. Wow. There's a New York Post says there's some new footage, but it's from 2023 of another tic-tac shaped UFO that's on military radar.

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So do you think they found another UFO that looks like a tic-tac? Tic Tac? I don't know. I'm going to say no. I don't believe the Tic Tac stuff are UFOs. I don't know what they are. But I'm going to guess anything but a UFO, or at least anything but an alien ship. They might be unidentified, but I don't think there are any alien ships that look like Tic Tacs. I might be wrong. Never know.

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The Trump administration is... not going to crack down on the NVIDIA's HTO chip, because that's their advanced chip for AI. And there was some thought that they would limit their ability to sell it to China, for example. China's a big market for these chips. But apparently NVIDIA was smart enough to develop a crippled version of the chip. So there's a lesser powerful one,

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. That's right. Go. Oh, thank you, Paul. Everything's working today. Good to know. Well, I wonder if there's any science that they could have saved some money by asking me. Oh, here we go.

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that they've already developed that they would sell to China instead of the best one for America. So I guess that would be good enough. As long as it's crippled, Trump doesn't have to block it. And that's good because that's a gigantic market. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today.

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I think we've solved everything from the economy to inflation to how to feel better by thinking about nature. I may have come close to solving some of your motion sickness issues. All right. Very successful day, I would say. So I'm going to talk to the local subscribers personally and the rest of you. I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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Thanks for joining on YouTube and Rumble and X. Come back tomorrow. We'll do it again.

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Because if we can't find one person in the real world, what would that make that issue? Imaginary. That's right. But it is an imaginary concern to a lot of citizens, so we can't ignore it. We should delegate it to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Let's see what else we got going on here.

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Over on MSNBC, former Attorney General Eric Holder says that what's happening now with Trump and his administration is, quote, remarkably similar to kind of what happened in Europe in the 30s. And if you don't stand up and fight now, it's going to be too late. It seems to me that The Dramacrats, they only wrote one play.

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I mean, if you're going to be a Dramacrat, you should have more material than this. But they only have one play, and it's called Everything is Hiller. And everything I see is Hiller, and all I want to talk about is Hiller. And by the way, have I mentioned Hiller?

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Now, it seems to me that if you're imagining Hiller, but there is no Hiller, and there's nobody really acting like Hiller, what would be the department that that should be delegated to? I've got an idea. Let's delegate it also to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Let's see what else the Dramacrats are up to. Representative Hakeem Jeffries says that Donald Trump and the extreme MAGA people are

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doing everything they can to tank our economy. Are they? Are they doing everything they can to tank the economy by negotiating trade deals and lowering regulations and lowering taxes? Yeah, that's exactly what you do to tank an economy, making energy more affordable, lowering inflation. Yeah, that's how you do it. And it's going to drive us, according to Jeffries, drive us toward recession.

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and gut the health care of the American people. So it's going to gut the health care of the American people. Now, I could imagine at least two ways that that could happen, gutting the health care of the American people. One would be to do nothing and just keep the way we're going, because that would lead us to a bankrupt country that couldn't pay for health care or anything else.

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So the path we were on guaranteed the end of healthcare along with the end of the country and the end of everything, really your life probably. But at the moment, there's no suggestion that the Trump administration would do anything to your healthcare benefits. So what would be the right department to assign this imaginary future concern? Oh, I've got an idea.

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How about the Department of Imaginary Concerns? Does anybody see a pattern? The biggest, most effective attacks from the Democrats, all imaginary, every one. It's not based on anything that's happening in the real world. That's their best take. Here's some good news. Activist Robbie Starbuck has another big win. He got IBM to end their DEI policies.

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Now, I would read you the list of all the things that IBM decided to stop doing. It was a whole bunch of woke stuff like requiring proper pronouns for people and stuff like that. But the list was so long. It just wouldn't work in this kind of a podcast. So just take it from me. IBM was just massively entangled. It seems like they had wrapped this ball of string called DEI around everything.

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And unwrapping it is a pretty major project. So a whole bunch of things had to be changed to unwoke IBM. But the good news is, and I'm going to give IBM some credit for this, that when they were confronted with, let's say, the argument and the activism and Robbie Starbuck's apparently very effective approach, they decided to unwind it.

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And probably there was a lot of volunteering of what parts needed to be unwound. So I'm going to say my... My standard for judging people and my standard for judging companies in this case is not if they make a mistake or do something I don't like or something doesn't work out, but how do they deal with it? Once you know you've messed up, do you correct it? Do you ignore it?

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According to SciPost, Bianca Setianago is writing, there was a study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, and they found that simply imagining natural environments can reduce your stress and promote relaxation more so than imagining an urban setting. Uh-huh, that's right. Imagining nature can make you feel better than imagining an urban setting.

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Do you say it never happened? This looks like IBM fully embracing that it wasn't a good idea and then fully embracing the steps it would take to unwind it and being somewhat transparent about it. So I'm going to say, IBM, A+. You've reached my highest standard of ethical behavior. I would never judge you that you once made a mistake.

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I suppose if you were a slaver or something, I would still judge you. But under the normal behavior of companies, I judge the prior behavior to be completely irrelevant. I judge the current approach, working with Starbuck to do something productive, A plus, A plus, good job.

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I saw a report, I don't know how confirmed this is, but somebody said the New York Times had a story that the White House is considering They're just considering using government money, your tax dollars, to give $10,000 per year to every person in Greenland. Do you think that's going to happen?

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So somebody must have calculated how much Denmark is contributing and then figured out how much could it cost if we were to essentially outbid Denmark so that the people of Greenland said, oh, I wouldn't mind $10,000 a year. I wasn't getting that much from Denmark. But I don't know if Denmark is doing more than that. Maybe they are. But there's something like 60,000 people in all of Greenland.

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So 10,000 times 60,000 would be 600 million. So that would cost us 600 million per year. Is that something you want to do to have control of Greenland? I don't know. When the story is that they're considering it, I don't take that too seriously because what the White House should be doing is considering all the possibilities. If they just have it on a list of possibilities, perfectly acceptable.

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It doesn't mean they're going to do it, and it doesn't mean it's the only thing they're going to do. It doesn't mean that we're going to do it with nothing in return. Maybe there's some rare earth minerals we can get in return or something like that. But I like the fact that the White House would be looking expansively at all their options. So, again... Good job. Just looking at the options.

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Doesn't mean I'm in favor of it. I'd have to see a lot of details to know if it makes sense. But I just like the noodling of it so that it's not, you know, we've looked at all the options, basically. Meanwhile, P. Hegseth reports a big success to the Panama Canal. So he was down there dealing with Panama. And I guess the deal involves

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Panama hosting more American troops so that we've got more military presence there and that our military would be essentially a guardian against China ever having control over who goes through or how much it costs for them to go through. And then I guess Panama agreed to end their contribution to the Belt and Road Initiative coming out of China.

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Their contribution would be just being part of the Belt and Road thing. So that all looks like a big win. And this would be, if this is a stable and workable plan, and it looks like it, it all looks pretty stable and workable, then this would be an example of Trump making a first big offer and then negotiating for something in the middle that just makes everybody happy.

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Because I don't think that Panama loved the potential of being dominated by China. I don't think they loved it. And they know they can deal with the United States and that our military is not there to conquer them. We're there to make sure that we have access to the canal.

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So if that's the case, then that would be another big win for Trump and his style of negotiating where he goes big and then he's got room to negotiate. CNN is reporting that the consumer prices, the inflation, it went down a tiny bit in a month over month, but this is actually the first time we've seen this since COVID. a month over month over drop, month over month drop. So it's very unusual.

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Just perfect. Oh, I need some notes.

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Manhattan is 14,000 square, 14,000 acres. This fire has already, and still burning, already destroyed two Manhattans. So if you're not getting the scale of this, imagine all of Manhattan gone, and then another one, all of it gone. And it's still going. So if you hadn't quite understood the scale of it, that's it.

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We're talking about $57 billion in economic damage, if you want to put that in perspective. The entire tax revenue of California in the recent year was $215 billion. Do you think you can lay that $57 billion on top of, I mean, obviously the government's going to be constrained in what it can do to help people. A lot of them are uninsured.

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Biden did say that the federal government was going to help for 180 days in the recovery. But that's only the cleanup and the salaries of the recovery people, you know, and the crews that are working it. And I think removal of the, you know, the burned debris. Those are very important. So we're very happy to have that help. But it's not going to help anybody buy a house or build a house.

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Mel Gibson, tragically, while he was doing the Joe Rogan podcast, while he was filming it, his own $14.5 million Malibu mansion burned down. Now, I know you're not feeling sorry for him because his net worth is, I don't know, hundreds of millions or something. But it's your house. It's your house. No way you're going to feel good about that. So I feel terrible.

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One of the things that Mel Gibson said when he was on the Joe Rogan is that he had three friends who were cured of cancer with ivermectin and fenbendazole. And then the Internet is saying, whoa, you know, there are other claims and other claims and other claims. And now they're pretty convinced that ivermectin and fenbendazole are cures for at least some kinds of cancers.

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Here's what you need to know. Remember when I tell you that an anonymous source, if you have one anonymous source, how much credibility would that be? The answer is zero in politics. So that's a different domain. In politics, one anonymous source is usually just a made-up lie. What if you have multiple sources? What if you had three? And they basically said something that sounded the same.

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Three anonymous sources. Now, is that credible? No. No. It's completely non-credible. Anonymous sources, always non-credible. Suppose you knew the name of the source, but you hadn't any contact with them. So you couldn't ask any questions, you couldn't do a deep dive, but you knew the name, and somebody else had told you the claim. You didn't even hear it from the person. Is that credible? No.

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No, that's zero credibility. Is there a reason that we do clinical trials instead of watching what three people said as reported by another person? No, no. There's a reason we do the clinical trials because that has no evidentiary value. None. So I'm going to cause some trouble today. So I said, I don't think it's true. I'm going to be attacked all day long by people who say, Scott, you fool.

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Don't you know that big doctor or, you know, big pharma is just trying to sell their cures and they don't want you to know that ivermectin and fentanyl is literally curing. The claims are that people with stage four cancer are cured, you know, not just help them completely cleared. And so I asked this, let's talk to one of them. Just one.

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Show me one live human being who says something like, I had an incurable cancer, and I'm now completely clear. Here's my test results. I'm sitting next to my doctor. My doctor can confirm that I am completely clear of a cancer that was incurable. Now, what happens if you talk to them and they say, well, it wasn't an incurable cancer.

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And the other complementary things we were doing have cured it before. But this person was stage four, and they added these other drugs, and then they got cured. So we're saying it's the other drugs they added, to which I say, but they were on all the treatments that we know are cures. So here's what I need. I need an incurable drug.

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cancer, one that doesn't have any treatment as far as anybody knows. And even if they combined it with these drugs, which is the claim that maybe the drugs aren't working exactly alone, but there are also claims that they would work alone. And show me the doctor, show me the patient, and show me that it was incurable except for this intervention. Then I'm going to get serious. I'm

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Because it's not guaranteed you're a felon if your appeal is going through, right? So I feel like you'd say you're conditionally possibly a felon, just like before. So if the legal process has not come to an end, I would say, hmm, seems to me that the legal process is still cooking along. Why would you say he's a felon? I don't understand what you're saying. So the process is still going forward.

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But at least you went from, you know, anonymous people being talked about by other people to, well, these look like real people and their doctor says, and I'm looking at their chart. Maybe yes. So I'd say we're, I'll say New York judge Mershon discharges Trump without imprisonment, fine or probation. In the Stormy Daniels case, wishes him well in his second term. Everything's different.

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All right. That was a little side conversation there. All right. Apparently there was a fake alert that went out to everybody's phone in L.A. County saying that they needed to get ready to evacuate. This turned out to be just a mistake. The alert told people to gather loved ones' pets and supplies and get out of town.

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And it happened when people were the most frightened and thought it could be coming for them. And it was fake, meaning it was an accident. So remember that Richard Davis Henson analysis that it was a total system breakdown? Well, here it is again. They didn't even have a system to make sure that fake emergency alerts didn't go out in the middle of an emergency.

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That's the level of incompetence it would take to get there is pretty extraordinary. But the incompetence is probably the system. Like, I don't think it's necessarily that one person may push the wrong button. It could be. But why is that the system? Why is one person allowed to push that button?

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It seems like at least a few people should be standing around when the button gets pushed to make sure that that's the intention. I don't know. Get a better system. Elon Musk donated a bunch of Starlinks in L.A., and this is cool. Apparently T-Mobile customers were having trouble because probably the towers got burned or something.

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But now Musk very quickly tied T-Mobile into Starlink, and you can text T-Mobile. So if you're on T-Mobile and you suddenly can text, you can't make a phone call, but you can text, that's because of Elon Musk. Without Elon Musk, everybody with T-Mobile would be completely cut off during an emergency. I mean, it looks like they have been for some time. But this is gigantic.

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The level that Elon Musk can contribute to a Ukraine war or an emergency, now twice, I guess, several times, I think, It's extraordinary. So just congratulations on that. Meanwhile, the California National Guard is moving in. We've seen out-of-state police moving in. So the fires have turned into an organized crime and unorganized crime problem. The looters are organized.

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There are lots of them, and it gets worse. Now, this is fog-of-war stuff, but it's what's being reported. Could be overblown, could be underblown. I don't know. that some of the bad guys, and they seem to be from a migrant community, and again, that's speculative, they seem to be setting fires to increase the number of places that they have to loot.

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Because if they can get you to evacuate while they're there, they can get the good stuff before any houses burn down. Now, that's just about the most evil crime you can imagine. setting somebody's house on fire so you can rob it. The level of evil in that is hard to imagine.

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There was, however, one poor individual, a criminal who had a little blowtorch and he was trying to allegedly set something on fire, presumably for that purpose. We don't know what he was thinking, but he looked like he was doing it probably as part of that gang burning down homes. And he got spotted by some of the locals. The locals,

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It could end with him being a felon or not a felon. So why are you saying he's a felon? He should be innocent until the appeals process is over. Now, they don't say that, but I do. Right? It'd be one thing if you said, I'm going to appeal. But given that we could be reasonably confident the appeal will be accepted, at least to be processed, how is that guilty? How does that make him a felon?

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sent their men out, I saw the video of it, and you might be surprised that none of the women came to help, which is good. I didn't want them to. But if you want to have like a little glimmer, just a little glimmer of hope, you watch the video of the maybe half a dozen men who confront this guy who's still got the torch, One of the men is armed, but he doesn't point it at him.

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He just has it ready in case he needs it. Warns him to stand down. The other men surround the situation and they take him out. Now, I mean, they took him to the ground and handcuffed him and waited for the police. And watching those men not have any back down in them. There was no back down. They were going to take him out one way or another. They were going to shoot him.

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They were going to kill him if they had to. preferably they would capture him and he headed to police so we could know more about whatever he's up to. And that's what they did. But I'm pretty sure if their only choice had been to do worse, they would have taken the only choice. Because I don't think that guy was going to walk out of that neighborhood. And things are getting really dicey.

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So when there is something that looks to residents like a complete breakdown of the social order, and by the way, I'll probably get demonetized on YouTube again. I got demonetized yesterday. I got demonetized for I don't know what, but my best guess is suggesting that there's a danger that's approaching with this kind of behavior. So I don't know exactly what it is.

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I'm probably demonetized again just for this conversation. Newsom says there'll be 8,000 of these National Guards. I saw Joel Pollack, who lives in that area, whose house seems to have survived. We don't know if it's habitable. But he notes that there are more pro-Second Amendment people in the Pacific Palisades than the bad guys might expect.

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So if the bad guys are expecting a bunch of anti-gun people that they can easily handle, they should be warned that there's some serious personal protection in that area. So people have the assets to protect themselves. So I don't know where it's heading, but it does look like a complete breakdown of order. Let's see.

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So you know that there's still a lot of talk about whether climate change is a small cause or the cause or no cause or is that just being political? And I wanted to give you a frame for understanding the climate change issue and one that you haven't seen before. And it can explain a little bit why the two sides can't really talk

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You know, the the yes, I believe climate change is an immediate crisis versus the people. Elon Musk would be on the other side, which is climate change could be real in terms of the climate might be changing, but it's going to be slower than, you know, the the alarmist believe. So why can't they have a productive conversation and like figure out what's really true?

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And I'll give you my take on that. Sort of the hypnotist take. So if you can see my whiteboard, let me adjust it a little bit. So I just made this up. I call it the climate awareness chart. So the highest level of awareness is at the top, but we'll get there. We're going to start at the bottom. And let's see. There we go.

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At the bottom level of awareness, and this is where I used to be as a young man, I would hear that 98, 99% of scientists were on the same side. And I'd say, well, I'm done. There's nothing else I need to know, right? I love science. Science is the best way to find the truth. It's imperfect. It's imperfect. But, you know, it's the best we have.

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So you tell me 99% of scientists have been looking into it deeply and they're all on the same side. I'm convinced. And I was. I was convinced. Now, I would say that level of awareness is roughly equivalent to the people who say, how can they predict the climate when they can't even predict the weather? And I don't believe in climate change because it's cold outside, right? So one is believing it.

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In what world would I consider him a felon if he's in the legal process? And it's likely, and here's what makes it interesting, I think the experts say the case was so flawed that it's far more likely it will be overturned than upheld. Isn't that true? So can you be called a felon if the process is still going and all the smart people think it will end with you not being a felon?

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One is not believing climate change. But these are both the lowest level of understanding. And I've been at this level. I've been there. If you go up a little higher, let's say you decide, huh, I'm seeing two sides of this. I'm just going to look into it. So you do a deep dive. Maybe you see Al Gore's documentary. Maybe you read the most official statements from the biggest scientists.

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And when you're done with that, you're going to say, okay, okay, I can see whether 99% of scientists are saying it because I've done my own research. And yeah, I mean, it's like guaranteed climate change is a crisis because you did your own research. And then there are also people who do a deep dive on the skeptic side.

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So maybe they never believed the 99% of scientists or didn't want to believe it. So they did their deep dive on the other side. So they only looked at the skeptics' arguments. Both of them would be completely deluded by this process. It doesn't matter which one you're looking at. If you're looking at either the yes, it's a crisis or no, it's not, they both have the documentary effect.

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which is if you look at one argument and you see a lot on that one argument, you will be convinced beyond any doubt. You will be 100% convinced. And that has nothing to do with whether the thing you're looking at is true or not.

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Completely unrelated to the underlying truth is a guarantee that if you see one argument and it's really well developed and you spend hours on it, you'll believe it every time. And you can see that it's the same no matter whether you believe the skeptics or you believe the claims. Still completely believable. Still absolutely no evidentiary value. No evidentiary value.

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Because documentaries are always convincing even when they're not true. So the only thing you would know when you're done with this process is that you're convinced. That's nothing. You're going to be convinced even if you saw the other side. you'd be convinced, and that's nothing too. These are both nothings. Let's go up a level.

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Let's say you get to the point where you did a deep dive on both sides, which I find relatively rare. I'm not sure I've seen anybody who's done it. I've tried to do it, so I've spent a lot of time. I've looked at the claims. I've looked at the debunk to the claims, and then I've looked at the debunk to the debunk of the claims. If you haven't done all three, you haven't done anything.

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You've done nothing. Because if you look at the claim, you can say, well, it looks pretty true. And then you look at the debunk to the claim. You're like, whoa, I didn't see that. Oh, I didn't know about how they measure that. Whoa. Yeah. The debunk looks totally convincing.

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If you're done, you're not done because you got to circle back and see what happens to the people who made the original claim when they were faced with the debunk. And then they come back and say, but the debunk is debunked, and here's why. And you read that and you go, yeah, that's a pretty good argument.

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So the problem is that if you do a deep dive on both sides, you're going to find they're both convincing and both not convincing. And you won't know. At the highest level are people who understand that all data that matters is fake. and that all projection models are fake, and that it has nothing to do with climate change. These are universal truths.

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If I were talking about, let's say, the data for jobs in America, do you think that's real? No. How about the history? Do you think our history books are based on what's real or what was allowed to be written? It's not real. Do you think there's anything that's important and scale, like big and it matters, that's real? No, because our systems don't allow that. Whoever's in charge of the data

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is going to have so much power that somebody's going to distort them with a bribe. When you get to the point where it really, really matters, it's 100% fake. Or it's 100% sure that you won't tell the difference because the fakes will be so good that you think they're real.

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How do you call that a felon? It's like they don't understand the process. We'll see. Meanwhile, New York court... is removing the corrupt judge. We call him corrupt. This is Laura Loomer's reporting. And remove the corrupt judge, Arthur Angorian, from Trump's other case, the civil fraud case.

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And the reason I know the prediction models are fake is that everybody who's worked in this field, including me, now I didn't work in climate, but I did projection models for a living, financial ones. They all know that the projection model is based on the assumptions you put into it. It's not the data.

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So if you're way down here at the lowest level, you think that the projection models are reasonable because 99% of the scientists said, yeah, these are real. But you'll never learn that they can make those models anything they want just by changing the assumptions without even changing the data. And then they can say, well, this data is bad, so we're going to put in a little adjustment to it.

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What's that? It's not science. It's just adjusting it so it comes into the same range that people expect it to come into. So in our current world, 99% of the people being on one side has No evidentiary value. How many of you would agree with that statement? 99% of scientists agree. Doesn't have any evidentiary value.

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Now, that's not true if you're talking about something simple like, you know, does gravity apply everywhere on Earth? Right? 100% of scientists would say yes. Maybe right. Right. So I'm not talking about like one variable things. I'm talking about this big, complicated, hard to understand things where there are people on both sides and the variables are changing.

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And every day we have a new variable that should have been in models but wasn't. It's like, oh, we just found out the ocean can absorb way more than we thought. Well, was that in the model? We just found a new technology that can allow us to produce things without the pollution. Was that in the model? Did you know they were going to invent something? So the models are 100% unreliable.

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And if you believe that because the scientists told you the reliable they are, you don't understand how money works. If you understand how money works, you'll be with me up here that all the models are fake and the data is either unreliable or fake.

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And that has to be true because the design of our economic system, our economic system, and you could add the fake news and the interest groups, et cetera, they kind of guarantee that people will say it's true while it isn't true. It's guaranteed that our system will be there. Now, here's a good test for you. If you're talking to somebody

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and you're having some debates down here in the documentary effect level where you've both seen some stuff, but you saw different stuff and you were convinced, ask the person who thinks that the climate models are real to list three reasons that the terrestrial thermometers might be imperfect.

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And if they can do it, then you'd have a reasonable good idea that maybe they've at least seen both sides. If they don't know what you're talking about and they insult you and call you a cretin and change the topic, it means they've never looked into it. So here's what, if you can make a good argument that the climate change stuff is real, Here's what you should know.

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You should know what the heat island effect is. That's because the thermometer stations were once away from the cities, but the cities grew and the heat from the city is not really what the planet heat is. It would artificially change the thermometers. Would you know that?

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Did you know that the little enclosures for the thermometers are in buildings that are painted, usually painted white, and that when the paint fades, as it does, it can change the temperature of the thermometer, having nothing to do with the planet and everything to do with just the paint faded? Did you know that?

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And Laura Loomer reminds you that she exclusively broke the story about Judge Angorian's bias and how his wife was posting memes about Trump And apparently that worked. So Laura Luber gets the big win. She's got a blue check back. I don't know what the current situation is with her freedom of speech, but she got a big win, and she's got a blue check, and she's getting the credit today.

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Did you know that if a thermometer breaks or is missing, sometimes they'll just plug in a number of what they think it would have been? Did you know that? All right. So if you can't list at least three reasons that you should doubt the terrestrial thermometers, oh, here's another one. How much of the world are they measuring?

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And when you talk about the ocean, which would be a different measurement technique, how much of the ocean is being measured? And isn't it true that the ocean is can store heat in different places that are unpredictable and in amounts that we don't exactly know, so that if the temperature somewhere went up, maybe it went down somewhere, but that down is in the ocean and nobody's looking at it.

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If you can't answer the questions at least at that level, that you know that these are issues, even if you don't know what the answer to the issue is, you haven't looked into it. And if you believe that 99% of scientists being on one side has any knowledge any credibility, I can't have a conversation with you. So here's my problem.

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I keep running into people online who are operating at the lowest level of awareness, and they're pretty sure I'm the biggest freaking idiot they've ever seen in their life. It's like, God, God, 99% of scientists, are you a troglodyte? 99, Scott, do you understand that 99 is almost 100? Do you understand? And I'm up here saying, do you really think the news is real? You think the news is real?

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I can't have a conversation with you if you think news is real. I can't have a conversation with you if you think the people getting paid to say it's real are saying it's real and that means it's real. How do I have a conversation with you? I can't.

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So I ended up sort of giving up, because before you could have a conversation on climate change, you'd have to start with how the entire system works, what the economics are, how people lie, how every other system like this is clearly and demonstrably rigged.

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And once I understood that everything of this type is rigged, everything, there's nothing where you can't exactly tell, and there are billions of dollars involved, that isn't rigged. They're all rigged. If somebody can make a lot of money from it, and it's big and complicated, and you'll never know exactly what the truth is, that's all rigged.

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And there's probably never going to be an exception to that. If you don't understand that, I can't have a conversation with you about climate change because you're so lost. And again, I say, I spent most of my early life at the bottom level of awareness because I hadn't looked into it. And I thought, 99% of scientists, they must be right.

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How many physicists do you believe told us that string theory was the future of physics? I don't know the answer to that, but I'll bet most. I'll bet most said, yeah, string theory, it's not all worked out yet, but pretty sure this is going to give us something like what civilization looks like or reality looks like. Did it? No, it didn't. I would say that all the physicists...

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probably just parroted the same thing, string theory, string theory, and a lot of them were getting money. So they really were in favor of string theory because they could get funded that way. So no, you should not believe anything that most of the scientists believe is true, but it's hard to know. If it's hard to know, ah, scam. In other news, the Supreme Court did a ruling on Title IX,

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And they're not going to say that trans women are women in sports. So the court has made the distinction between your sex versus your gender identity. You can call yourself anything you want. That's not an issue. It's just that the state doesn't have to recognize it. So they don't have to recognize it as your sex.

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They may choose to recognize that you have a gender preference, but they don't have to say, yes, you're a woman because you say so. So a lot of people are happy about that. I'm sure people are unhappy about it, but more people I think are happy. Fetterman, Senator Fetterman is going to Mar-a-Lago. I think he's the first. Well, it's kind of unusual.

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Good job, Laura Loomer. We'll, of course, talk about the fire. I need a little bit of palate cleansing. If you live in California, even if you're not in the center of the burn area, And you're thinking about it all day long and you're probably doing something about it, too. So we're pretty exhausted in the state and it's just the beginning of the process.

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Now, Fetterman, I know you're getting tired of me saying Fetterman's kind of awesome, but he keeps doing smart things. And when I talk about Fetterman, it's not because I love his Democrat preferences. It's because I like to evaluate the persuasion techniques separate from whether I like what they're persuading. So Fetterman just keeps, he's hitting line drives after line drive.

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I don't know if he's hitting home runs, but he's hitting line drive after line drive in the persuasion communication realm. Very impressive. And here's what I love about this. So Joe Manchin is retiring. And Joe Manchin, I always respected because he did such a smart thing of being somebody who would be willing sometimes to vote on the other side from his team.

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And when things are so close that that one vote makes all the difference, Joe Manchin was the only one smart enough to say, wait a minute, all I have to do is, are you serious? I can run the whole country if I'm just willing to consider voting either way, like you pay me to do.

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So if I just do what you pay me to do, which is look at the topic and then decide which way I think it goes, independent of where the politics are, you will allow me to run the whole country. And all I have to do is do the thing that you paid me to do, as opposed to all my co-workers who are doing the opposite of what you're paying me to do. Huh. Am I missing something?

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But seriously, I have to ask again. All I have to do to be in charge of the whole country is simply do what you're paying me to do. Evaluate things on their merit, independent of politics. That's it. And that is it. And apparently he's the only one who's smart enough to figure it out who's not named Joe Manchin.

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I'm fairly confident you've never had a better time, but if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker chalice, a stein, a canteen jar, a glass of esle of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So, I mean, you could say Kyrsten Sinema was sort of in that same game, but she's out of it too now, right? So at the moment, the Senate is now swinging on, you know, one vote, but it could, that could happen really quickly. You know, a couple of years from now, straight up tie, Fetterman's in charge of the country. Virtually, right? Because he controlled Congress.

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Anyway, Trump was saying at an outing that he's getting everybody to come. He's got the heads of the social media companies. The big banks are all coming to visit him. Fetterman's coming to visit him. And he had some kind of quote like, maybe we're all changing.

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And he says that the people who are coming to visit him from all walks are quite productive and positive, meaning that they're there to get something done. And they're not there to fight. And it's not about Trump's personality. They just think, can you do these things? Because we need to do these things. So that's all looking positive. A little golden agey.

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Meanwhile, CNN has this, I'm going to say, a racist panelist. There's a black woman, Jasmine Crockett, who's on their panel a lot. And she pointed out the other day, she was a little debate with Scott Jennings, who was their conservative Republican kind of voice on the panel. And Jasmine Crockett claimed that the most educated demographic in the country is black women.

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And the conversation didn't go much further after that. So that claim just sort of stayed there. Do you think it's true that the most educated demographic is black women? It's almost true. It's actually almost true. It's not true if you look at the entire population of black women compared to the entire population of other demographic groups.

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So forgive me if I'm a little obsessed by it. But when it hits you locally, it's hard not to be. So Trump says on day one ish. After he's sworn in, he's going to share information about the drones. And he does say that the government knows. It sounds like maybe he doesn't know. Or maybe it's been whispered that the government knows it's their stuff. It's one of those.

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So that felt like that was the claim, and that's definitely not true. Is it my imagination or could you hear a leaf blower right outside my window? You can hear that, right? Anyway, that tells me what time it is, I think. Here's what I believe is true, but I'll take a fact check on it. I've told you before that black women are killing it in terms of careers and success.

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So I'm going to agree with Jasmine Crockett and sort of directionally, but she got the fact wrong, I think. Directionally, I believe it's true that more black women are getting college degrees than white men, and more than black men, too. Is that true? Which would be impressive. Now, it also presumably there would be a DEI element to that, meaning some people are getting

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and some people are getting maybe tuition paid and stuff like that. So that's a factor. I don't know how much of that is. But you don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. So on one hand, I think it's a completely racist and inaccurate claim that black women are the most educated group in the country. I think that's just plain false.

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But I think what she was getting at is true, which is that black women as a class at the moment... you know, the young ones who are getting out of college and getting their first jobs and stuff, they are killing it. They are killing it. So I like to give like full congratulations to any group that works hard and gets what they want. So congratulations. I say the same thing about the LGBTQ group.

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I think they've really killed it in terms of improving their overall situation. I'm so impressed about how they've changed their situation in a few decades. Very impressive. And black women, same thing. They are in fact killing it, but they haven't overtaken the other groups yet because there's a lot to overtake. A lot of work to do

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But it's certainly racist to imagine that her group is the most educated. So if it's just a factual thing, I don't think a white person could have said that. What if Scott Jennings said, you know, the white people are the most educated in the country? Ouch. I don't know if that's true, by the way. But he wouldn't be able to say it. But she could say it.

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And nobody challenged it, even though it wasn't true. So to me, that's more racist than not, even though I support the general idea that black women are doing great lately. All right, Elon says it's going to take years to rebuild LA. When they try to get permits, it's going to be a problem.

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And I put out the following statements about rebuilding that you should know that I'm asking for a fact check, so I don't know which ones of these are true, but this is my starting point. The starting point is that it can take years to get anything approved in normal times. In normal times, it would take years to get things approved in California. I know that from personal experience.

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So what would it take when everybody like 100,000 people are trying to apply for things at the same time or whatever the number is? How are they going to handle that? They don't have enough resources.

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So if it used to take more than a year in normal times, how long is it going to take in abnormal times where everybody's trying to do it and all the resources are constrained and nobody knows what they're talking about and the environmentalists are saying, no, you can't do that and you can't even rebuild. The environmentalists will say you can't even rebuild. You're too close to the ocean.

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Or there's a fish we didn't know about before but now we do or there's a bird or something. So I think it could take five to ten years to rebuild a house. Five to ten years. Now, what happens to... What do you think it would cost to rebuild those homes? So if you had a home that was worth $5 million, what do you think it would cost to rebuild it?

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And let's say it was, let's say it was insured for $5 million or it wasn't insured at all $5 million home. What would it cost to rebuild it? The answer is about 10 million. If you're building a, let's say a community, like a big developer is doing a whole community.

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But I would expect it to be something like the government was doing a little testing or something. Probably something like that. Or maybe just surveilling things. Here's what I don't expect. I do not expect... that on day two or whatever, Trump will say, all right, here's the secret of the drones. We've been allowing Chinese drones to surveil our sensitive sites.

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then they can bring the cost of each unit down because they're, they're working in bulk and they're, they're mass designed and there aren't that many different designs and stuff. So they can build the house for a cheaper than they sell it. That's how they make money.

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But if you're building one house and you've, you know, you want the rooms that you want and it's on the hill and it's, you know, first you have to do a big cleanup and all that stuff. it's going to cost closer to $10 million to build a $5 million house. What happens to your property tax if you spend $10 million to build a $5 million house?

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Well, I think that they would either... I've heard that there's a rule that if you're building back on the same footprint, so it's the same size as the one that was destroyed, then you get to keep the old tax basis, the old lower tax basis. But if you wanted to make your house... While you're doing it, you're like, well, you know, this would be a good time to add that spare room.

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As soon as you do that, your property tax will quadruple. You won't be able to afford to live there. So they've created a situation where all these people get at least the good news if they can afford it. The good news was, hey, those changes you wanted to make your house, you can make them now because the house is gone, so design it the way you want.

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But it will have to be the same footprint or their taxes will double or quadruple. That's going to be a big problem, I think. Then what happens when the fire risk... returns because everything's going to regrow. And then the insurance companies either haven't come back or or they leave because nothing's going to burn while it's all rubble.

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But as soon as you build and replant and all the trees are behind you, do you think you could ever get insurance? Would you rebuild if you didn't think you could ever get insurance? I wouldn't. Why would you rebuild if you thought you could never get insurance? If you had kids and you say to yourself, this is the best place in the world to raise kids,

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the kids are going to be out of the house in five to 10 years, depending on the age. If the kids are going to be out of the house in five to 10 years, they're going to be living in a burned down rubble most of that time. That's the place you go because the lifestyle is amazing. The one thing I learned about it, I didn't know anything about the place.

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The one thing I learned about it is apparently the lifestyle there wasn't just good. Did you know that? It wasn't just good. It was sort of like heaven. When I hear people talk about it, it's like, oh, my God. It was just the best people, the best place, the downtown, the businesses. Everything was close. It was on the beach. It was just the it was the temperature.

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So you didn't have the extreme hot because you're on the beach. Like, I don't know if any of those reasons are going to apply. because it's going to take so long to clean up. So I don't know what that does. What happens when you go to get a builder and 50,000 people are ahead of you for the few builders? How in the world are you going to get a qualified builder? Maybe they come from out of state.

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If you get a builder from out of state, they're not going to know how to build in California. And they would be crazy to come to California to start because the rules are too hard. If you were a builder and somebody said, hey, Come to California. You're going to say, is that the only place I could be a builder? No, you could stay where you are and build things more easily.

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But if I come to California, it's just going to be a hot mess. Every single thing I do, and I won't even make a dollar because I can't even start. And when I do start, they're going to stop me because there's going to be some fish there. The next thing I know, I can't possibly make money. And then I have to learn this whole state weird stuff. The approvals are different than any other place.

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Do you think he's going to announce that? Even if it's true, even if it's true, do you think he would tell you? I hope not. I think he would take care of it and keep it as a military secret if there was a way to do that. But I think he's getting a little bit ahead of himself that he would necessarily tell us no matter what the answer is. So we'll see. I think he means it.

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I don't know where they're going to get the builders. So that has to add some years to the rebuilding. And then you've got unchecked crime. Let me give you the worst case scenario. It could be that the people who live there have enough male energy to stop this from happening. We'll see. But what happens when things settle down? Most of the properties will be abandoned, right?

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Because most are burned to the ground and they're going to be working on approvals and You know, even the cleanup's going to take a long time. What happens then? Let me tell you. I think the homeless are going to move in. They're going to put up a tent on what used to be your home. They won't care so much about all the debris. They'll like the view and the temperature.

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And when you go to kick them out, they'll say, well, sorry, I'm a squatter. I got squatter rights. And you're going to say, you can't have squatter rights on a tent on my own property. And then they say, this is California. You can't move me. What happens then?

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And what happens when it's not one, but the entire hillside is full of people who heard that they'll never be kicked out and they could be living on the best property in the world as long as they don't mind living among the debris, which couldn't be any worse than what they were doing on the streets.

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The thing I'd worry most about is the homeless coming in and putting on tents because California doesn't remove homeless people in tents. I mean, rarely. And then where are people going to live? And also people might worry that it becomes a horrible crime place that they don't want to live in the first place. I hope not. And where do people live while the rebuilding is happening?

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How in the world are all of those 100,000-plus going to be able to live close enough to L.A. that they have some kind of continuity in their life, maybe even close enough to the school? Almost nobody. Almost nobody will be close enough to the school they were at, and I think some of them burned. So you're going to end up in a different school in a different place.

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And now your kids go to that other school and they get used to it. And they got friends in the new school. And five to 10 years have gone by. And they're 17 now. Do they want to move back? I don't know. I feel like the fact that you can't stay local while it's being built and there's nothing local that you used to like, it's all burned up.

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You're going to move further than it would be comfortable to be the owner of something being rebuilt because you really need to visit the site a lot. If you've ever built a home, you kind of need to go there a lot. I think people are going to assume they'll rebuild, but when they get settled somewhere else that won't be that close, maybe the new life looks better than trying to go back.

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So I think it's highly unpredictable. If you want the positive news on that, it would be that it is like the best place on earth. It's just one of the best places. So if it's land, land, land, if that's the real estate rule, then it will be rebuilt. And maybe we'll be surprised. that California bends some rules, makes it easier to do. Here's one thing they could do.

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They could say you could put an ADU on your property right away if it meets these minimum requirements. So these are the ADU stands for additional dwelling unit. Is it additional dwelling unit? So that'd be like a little, it'd be the size of a mobile home, but they're more like a regular home. And you could plop it on the property if you have a backyard. And if you wanted to, you could live there.

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But even that's going to take a long time. So there might be some fast approval of ADUs just so people want to be close, can have some continuity and live near their friends. But I don't know how many people would take that option. Meanwhile, the Pope is now the latest victim of what I call the Trump effect. Well, other people call it that, too. The Pope is railing on a January 9th speech.

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He's railing against fake news. The continuous creation and spread of fake news, he said, distorts facts, but also perceptions. So the Pope is going full MAGA, full MAGA, and he's against fake news. Well, all I got to say is thank God. All the religions agree with each other because I'd hate for one of them to be spreading any fake news. But the Pope assures us he's got it under control.

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I just don't know he'll be able to deliver. Victor Davis Hanson summed up the L.A., problem as a total systems breakdown. Now, a system breakdown. Do you think that LA was operating as a systems being more important than goals entity? Or do you think that they seem to have goals without systems that supported them? So they had goals for diversity. They had goals for the environment. Right?

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Meanwhile, in interesting engineering, there's an article by Iman Tripathi. Apparently, there's a U.S. firm in the nuclear business. that wants to build a one-mile underground tunnel or hole, I'm not sure if it's a tunnel or a hole, to power data centers. So the reason they want to put the nuke in the hole one mile down is if there's a problem, it's easier to contain.

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But if there's a problem, it contains itself because it can't explode because it would be held up by the entire earth, would be the surround for it. So I don't know if that really works, but these aren't the biggest reactors. They would be, I think, micro reactors, smaller reactors. And they would stick them in the ground and then that would make a big difference.

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Some of the benefits are, let's see, robust containment just because of the earth around it and continuous pressure. So that way you don't have massive concrete structures. Oh, so it's much cheaper. So you don't have to build the whole structure if you could make a good mile deep hole. And it minimizes the environmental impact.

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And, you know, I've told you a number of times that holes are the future. of energy and maybe of other things. And I've said if we can improve our technology for cheaply building holes and tunnels, We're going to be able to have everything from geothermal to better mining to now nuclear. Of course, you could use it. What's the other thing?

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Geothermal is where you're looking for the hot water under the earth to create power. But what's the one where you're just using the temperature difference underground to either moderate the hotness or the coldness of your house above ground? What's that called? But that's another reason to have good hole-building technology. Holes are the future.

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There's a hobbyist who built an AI-assisted rifle robot using ChatGPT. And there's a video that went viral on TikTok, I guess. And it shows the inventor with the robot. Now it's a tabletop robot. Wouldn't be too hard to attach it to a robot dog or something, I guess. But it's just a rifle that can point anywhere in a moment. And he just talks to it. He says, there's a threat on the left.

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And it just goes. So the one he's using doesn't use real rounds. It's shooting something fake. But. How far away are we from telling your robot rifle dog to go attack the German front line? All right, rifle dog. There's a bunch of Russian soldiers two miles away in a trench. I want you to go there.

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In the order, if you see anybody who looks like an officer, shoot them first or something like that, and then send it to attack. but AI robot rifle dogs, they're coming. The CES show is highlighting all the big technical breakthroughs and so we're seeing news. At least two companies have built human robots that look like real women. But one of them,

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will build a real woman with the face of your choice. So I guess you just give them a photograph of who you want it to look like, and they'll put an artificial skin face on it that looks like the person you want. Now, at the moment, these robots are not impressive because they just look like mannequins who happen to be able to talk.

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So it's not like you're going to want to take that robot home, if you know what I mean. It's more of a suggestion of what's to come. It's not there yet. But I have a prediction about what one year from now looks like, because the robots will develop quickly. Here's a conversation between a married couple one year from now. Human wife says to her husband, I want a divorce. Human husband says, okay.

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Okay. Can you pose for a photo first? Mic drop. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have to say. It's 8.07, well, where I am. And did I miss anything? Any big stories that are happening? Yeah, let me get a good picture of you before you go. I'm gonna upgrade. Alright. Alright, ladies and gentlemen. I have some stories I think I'm going to save for later, but I got some good ones.

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The Carter funeral. Yeah, I didn't talk about the Jimmy Carter funeral. So here's the fascinating thing about the Jimmy Carter funeral. So, of course, the ex-presidents are all invited. So you had the Clintons. You had only Barack Obama. Michelle did not come. We're not sure why. And then you had the Harris's. So Kamala and her husband. And then I'm forgetting who else was there.

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They had goals for saving the smelt. They had goals for protecting the water and the oceans. Lots of goals. But as, you know, I've been teaching you for a long time, systems are what you need because, you know, goals...

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But I was looking at all the people sitting up front and it turned to be it was Trump and all the people he's destroyed. It was Trump and all the people he's destroyed sitting together chatting. Oh, Biden. Biden was the other one. So Biden he destroyed. The Clintons he destroyed via destroying Hillary. Barack Obama destroyed. Michelle Obama couldn't even come. And then the funny part is...

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He ends up sitting right next to Barack Obama, who just warned the world that Trump was heller and that he called neo-Nazis fine people. And you see Obama and Trump chatting and joking with each other. Nothing's real. Nothing's real. Oh, Pence, right. Mike Pence was there, and Mike Pence was destroyed by Trump as well. Was there a Bush there? I don't know. I mean, the Bush dynasty got destroyed.

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You know, not George Bush. So, yeah, it was quite amazing. It was Trump and all the people he'd destroyed. It was kind of amazing. All right. You know, I think Trump has a superpower in forgetting what people said about him. Not forgetting. He never forgets. But willingness to just work with you if it makes sense. I just love that. Yeah, Trump owned the room. All right.

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I'm going to talk for a moment privately with the local subscribers. The rest of you, I will see you tomorrow for more fun and games. See you tomorrow.

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can't be supported without a system so it's a system that's the important part and as victor davis hansen points out that the water storage system was bad the forest management was bad handling the insurance industry was bad and he mentions the dei hierarchy of the leadership and he calls it a dei green new deal hydrogen bomb

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. Delightful. I feel connected to you all through the invisible umbilical cord of the coffee cup.

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Like a perfect system collapsed because every part of the system kind of collapsed. Now, do you think it's fair in this case? Now, I've been railing against the people who say as soon as there's a problem, you know, you look at the people in charge and if you see there are a certain demographic, the people on the right say, oh, DEI, DEI. And I try to caution you

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That's not proof of DEI being a problem. All you can know for sure is that DEI was a big influence over hiring. You can't know that that's the problem. However, if you do a little research into the people involved, it might give you some insight. It might. For example, Karen Bass, did you know that when she was in the 70s, she used to travel to Cuba to work with something called the

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Venceremos Brigade, which was a group that organized annual trips to Cuba for young leftist Americans for many years. Do you know why Cuba would host leftists to come do some awesome things in Cuba, which is just building stuff, I guess? Why would they do that? It's to brainwash them against the United States, but gently. Just brainwash them that maybe the socialist way is better.

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And then they'll come back to the United States and destroy it or convert it. So she was actually part of a brainwashing operation. And let me be very clear, a brainwashing operation by Cuba.

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You bring young people in and you give them this one experience that's very artificial from the general Cuban experience, and everything's great, and look, we'll just show you the things we want, and did you know the United States is evil? She is unquestionably a brainwashed victim. That's not even in debate. If she went there multiple times and was part of a group that was, by design,

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a bunch of brainwashed victims. How did she unbrainwash herself? I don't believe there's a process for that. If she was brainwashed, it's still in her. You can't undo that. So do you think that if people were well aware of that, that she would have been in charge of the city, the mayor? No, this one does look like a DEI hire problem, doesn't it?

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It looks like nobody in their right mind would have hired her for her background and qualifications, but maybe it was a, you know, DEI related, want to have a diversity mayor. So I would say, you can't say that DEI broke anything, but you could say that that one mayor probably only has your job because people either didn't understand or voted dumb.

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You know, maybe it's the public's, it could be the public's fault. The public just picked the wrong person, but at least, uh, She's got a strong deputy mayor, so you can't say it's not like one person, right? Often the next level down are doing the real decision-making and stuff. So next level down, you get the Los Angeles deputy mayor, so at least he's strong.

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Oh, wait, he's under investigation for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to City Hall. The FBI raided his home recently, and he's placed on leave. Okay, he's a black man, but that is a coincidence, and you can't say that that's DEI-related. That's just one person who's acting badly. But at least in the fire department, you don't have so much of a DEI problem, right?

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Well, give me an update in the comments if something happens while I'm talking, because I think Trump is supposedly, let's see, he's going to be talking to Judge Mershon today. So there will be sentencing. He's doing it over Zoom, right? He's not going in person. I don't know. I'm not sure yet, but I think he's not going in person.

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Well, I mean, the head of the fire department is a lesbian, but nobody's saying that lesbians can't do things fire department jobs, and she's got tons of experiences relevant. So if you're going to say, oh, she's only there because she's a lesbian, that would ignore all of her many, many years of very relevant experience.

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And as luck would have it, the person just below her, I think, would be the assistant chief. Well, another lesbian. Two lesbians at the top. But I think that you could call that a coincidence. Yeah, there are plenty of lesbians. It's not like the biggest coincidence in the world that two of them would be the number one and number two. Let's look at the third in line.

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Let's see, I don't know if it's third in line, but the equity chief, well, lesbian, the lesbian. So you got three lesbians in executive positions, but I warn you that if you're thinking there's a problem with lesbians because of these three, no, that doesn't follow.

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It doesn't follow that there's some other lesbian who isn't the best person to be the chief of police or the chief of the fire department. So this is sticky stuff. If you're just assuming that somebody is a DEI hire and therefore they're bad, that's not fair. It's also the situation we find ourselves in because DEI is pushed so hard that we assume it's creating problems.

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It's unfair to point to any specific individual. And I point out that Gavin Newsom is the least diverse governor you could ever imagine. And he's being criticized as much or more than any of the other people I just mentioned. So what do we have? We got some black leaders who seem to be terrible.

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We've got some lesbian leaders who I don't really know if they're being terrible or they don't have water, which is somebody else's job. So I'm not going to say the fire department's doing a terrible job. Does anybody even say that? I'm not even sure that the fire department has been criticized, have they? I don't think I've seen any criticism of the fire department.

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So I would say the lesbians are clear, but you have to ask yourself, what a big coincidence. They've got a lot of lesbian representatives there. And then you look at Newsom, who is not diverse at all, and he's a total disaster. You can't blame DEI for that, right? So let me say again, I don't see the fingerprint that DEI caused this. It's just that you know that DEI will cause this.

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Whether it caused this one, that's hard to say. But will it cause another one? Of course. Yeah. Will it cause the complete destruction of another city? Guaranteed. It's built into the system. Remember, Victor Davis Hanson says it's a system collapse. DEI guarantees system collapse because it guarantees that instead of merit and experience, you can look for demographics and identity.

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So that little change just by itself is certainly enough to destroy an entire city if you just let it run forward. But we should not allow ourselves to assume that any individual is a DEI hire. you'd really have to do some deeper dive, and we don't often have that level of information from the outside.

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Tom Ellsworth was on the PBD podcast, and he was saying that the reason State Farm pulled out from the state and is no longer offering fire insurance is that they pulled out because the county of L.A. and the city of L.A. had suspended brush removal in Palisades. Really? Really? Is the connection to the incompetence of the city, is it that clean?

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And Judge Michon has already indicated he's going to do some kind of unconditional discharge, meaning that he'll be guilty of a felony, but won't go to jail. And no matter what the sentence is, they plan to appeal. So Trump will be officially a felon, maybe, but then it's on appeal. So my question to you, dear legal experts, is if your case is approved for appeal, are you still a felon?

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I thought this was going to be a little messier, where you couldn't really tell who was responsible for what. But seriously? Seriously? They canceled the brush removal, and that caused the insurance companies to pull out, and they didn't immediately remove the brush and say, oh, hold on. We will remove the brush. Just give us a month. Nothing like that.

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The level of incompetence system-wise or individuals, I don't know. It's astounding. Now, of course, remember, here's something to remember today. We're still in the fog of war. We're still getting all kinds of news that isn't real. So I think it's real, but no, no. So far the fire has destroyed 29,000 acres. Would you like a estimate of how big that is? That's two Manhattan Islands.

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my stocks looks like stocks are up tesla is up holy cow tesla's way up the sb 500 is up a little bit bitcoin's up sharply looking good i guess we should have a show do you want to have a show get my comments working here and then we'll get going Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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So I just need to fact check, did she show up on air and did I just sort of miss it or something? I don't think she did. So anyway, maybe we'll hear more about that. But she would not be still on The Five because Fox News has a rule that if you're working for the government, you can't be on the show. And I guess being nominated for this would make it impossible for her to be on the show.

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We've never had an American pope. And I heard some people who know what they're talking about say that in the past, when they considered American candidates to be pope, I guess that would have been the cardinals, they decided that they didn't want to make it look like America owned everything. Like America has the biggest military, has the biggest economy.

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Did you know, according to the Amuse account... You're aware that Smartmatic, the software company that does election software, that they've got some kind of lawsuit that's still brewing with Fox News. But the new news that I didn't know about before that the Amuse account is talking about is that

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Allegedly, Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman secretly met with Smartmatic's CEO and agreed to give them a... What? Senator Tom Tillis says Judge Jeanine is a great choice. I'm seeing a post on that, but that's... Oh, okay. So Reid Hoffman apparently put $24 million into backing the lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax.

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And according to the news account, the company kept the meeting secret from the court and the defendants. Now, is that true? Do you think Reid Hoffman put $24 million into the lawsuits? And if he hadn't, would the lawsuits have happened? Because in a way that would be really clever because he could have taken out or almost did Fox News and Newsmax.

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He could have just completely taken them off the field for what would be a small amount of money for Reid Hoffman. Did that really happen? It feels like our government is whoever does the best job of suing somebody.

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Anyway, you probably have seen the clips by now that Joe Biden and Jill Biden appeared on The View, and it looked like they were trying to rehabilitate Joe in the public to make it look like he's functional and always was, and he did not look functional. He looked like he was a mess, and Jill had to jump in and try to save him on one important question.

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But apparently even the Democrat consultants are mad that the Bidens returned to the spotlight. How would you like to be a Democrat? And you're trying to recover from just a disastrous last year. And the thing you want more than anything is for people to think about the future and maybe your new candidates. And then the new cycle gets absorbed by Joe Biden looking incompetent again.

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Worst case scenario. So a very bad week to be a Democrat consultant when Biden's just out there looking bad. But apparently it's going to get worse. So Scott Jennings is teasing that, he said this in a post on X, he said, between what we saw of Biden today on The View... And my understanding of what's about to drop in the Tapper slash Thompson book.

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Oh, I don't think Dems have fully internalized the nuclear bomb that's about to hit their party. Oh, my goodness. So it looks like Jake Tapper and somebody named Thompson have a book that will not be kind to the Bidens. And it sounds like Scott Jennings had a little preview of what's coming. Do you think that's hyperbole? Do you think that Scott Jennings is getting out a little bit over his skis?

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And they didn't want it also to be looking like it was leading the Catholic Church. So apparently the thinking was that they wouldn't select an American pope until America was in decline. just so it wouldn't look like America was getting everything, all the good stuff. So, well, I don't know. Is America in decline? Has the Catholic Church just basically indirectly given us the warning?

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Or is this book going to be that devastating? I feel like it might be that devastating. because the media really needs to make sure that the blame looks like it's just on the Bidens, because then the media doesn't look like they're complicit. So I think the media has to hit the Bidens as hard as they possibly can, and that they feel safe to do it, and it's even profitable at the moment.

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So yeah, there might be some fun coming there. Well, let's check how I did on my prediction about the UK trade deal. You remember yesterday I said when the trade deal was being announced, I said that the left-leaning media would say it's no big deal and it's a special case and it really is not indicative of anything good happening and it wouldn't be much benefit whatsoever to America?

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Well, that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. But it is a small deal. And apparently our trade imbalance with the UK was never much of anything to worry about anyway. But it looks like what the things they've talked about anyway, it's not a signed deal. It's more of a memo of understanding kind of situation.

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So in exchange for the UK purchasing Boeing jets and giving American farmers more access to the UK, the US is going to allow Rolls-Royce jet engines to be imported tariff-free. Is that all? There will still be a 10% tariff on the UK, which is way up from, what, 2.4%. And apparently we had a trade... We didn't have a trade deficit with the UK. They were buying more than we were buying from them.

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So it looks like it was a pretty... small potatoes deal. It was the easiest one to do because there wasn't much going on that either side cared about too much, I guess. So on one sense, I think the critics were right. It's not really indicative of anything else that's going to happen anywhere else. It was the easy one. It was a special case. However,

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there's not really any chance that that's the only trade deal. So the fact that the easy one went first probably doesn't tell you much of anything. It just, that would be the obvious one to go first. So we'll see. In other good news, according to the Postmillennial, the world's second largest carmaker, which is the Volkswagen Group, and I guess they own... Do they own Audi? I think they do.

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And they're going to look to move production to the United States, at least for Audi. And that wouldn't be another big deal. Yeah, Trump is saying it's great for American farmers and ranchers. Well, good.

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So the one thing that Trump promised us appears to be real, which is that big companies will move their production into the United States if they can, and the car manufacturers are probably among the ones who would have the easiest time moving their production. So it looks like it's happening.

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In other news, for the first time ever, the volume of Google searches went down. And the senior Apple executive said that in a court situation, that Google searches over Safari fell for the last two months. And that's something that hasn't happened in 20 years. So I guess it wasn't forever, but in over 20 years.

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And the executive attributed the drop to the number of people were using AI, ChatGPT and Perplexly. So big things are going to, looks like big things are going to change with Google's business model. You know, part of it might be They have to break up because of some kind of monopoly claims that are being made.

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But the other possibility is that nothing will happen because there is a new competition and AI will be eating their lunch unless they do something big to correct. You know, I've talked about this before, but I'm going to put it in a larger context today. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to see the video of Victor Davis Hanson explaining how the fake polls do their faking.

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I guess we could have an American Pope now. Looks like you're all in decline. Let's see if this is working. Hmm. But the American Pope, I guess he grew up in Chicago and went to Villanova and he was a math major and he speaks five languages. And good luck. Good luck to him. We'll see.

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And apparently it's just really easy. All they do is they control what percentage of voters for each candidate, Trump versus non-Trump, that they talk to. So if they want a poll to look bad for Trump, they don't ask many Trump voters what their opinion was. And if they want it to look good for Trump or not good for Trump, because they never want that, if they want it to look accurate,

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like all the pollsters do just before the actual election, because that's the one time you can check their work, then all they do is make sure they ask the representative number of Trump voters versus non-Trump voters. And it's sort of that easy. And they even show their work. So if you knew enough, you could look at their cross tabs or whatever it is, and they publish it.

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And they tell you what percentage are this kind of voters or this kind of voters. And you could tell that they were doing that. Now, what Victor David Hanson says, he gives some details. He says, in New York Times and the Washington Post polls, they were deliberately not counting people who surveyed that they were Trump supporters in 2024.

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And that was half the country, but they were only polling about a third of and then he mentions some other people he says the most egregious the most egregious of all these polls was the NPR PBS Marist poll And they had Trump being super unpopular after his first 100 days. And apparently they may have used that same trick. I think that's what he's alleging.

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And the same poll he says that came out the night before the 2024 election that said that Kamala Harris would win by four points. And they said it was beyond the margin of error. And she ended up losing by a point and a half. In other words, they were five and a half points off right before the election.

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Now, you can't really be five and a half points off if you're a professional polling organization, unless you're trying to. I mean, that would be a really big mistake a day before the election. So my larger point here is that apparently,

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and based on what Victor Davis Hanson says, it kind of looks like polling is fake, at least political polling, not corporate or the commercial stuff is probably fine. But at least the political stuff seems to be highly biased. But Rasmussen, which is not part of these bad behavior polls,

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um with the heartland institute did a poll and this is the most shocking thing you'll ever hear in a poll in the united states 71 of democrats would favor a hypothetical law to put musk behind bars for his work on doge as would 80 of self-identified liberal voters Can you believe that?

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That for him risking his life and his fortune and working all hours of the night for the service of the country, trying to cut our expenses and saving us from going off the ledge and spending, that somehow the propaganda was so effective that 71% of Democrats would want him to be locked up in jail. For what? For what exactly would be the crime? Is it stuff they just make up?

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You know, it feels like, I'm just going to speculate, it feels like if the Catholic Church wanted to have more influence in, let's say, big things that America is involved in, it probably would help a lot that they've got an American pope.

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Because you hear all the people like the Democrat leaders say, oh, he's only doing it to lower the taxes on the oligarchs like himself. He's only doing it to cut the regulators who are trying to control his megalomania or something. And then 71% of Democrats were so convinced that that stuff was true that they would be in favor of locking him up.

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I'll tell you, if you ever get the impulse to do something that's really good for America... Don't do it. It's a suicide mission. Oh, my God. But did Doge do what it was supposed to do? Well, I saw a post by an ex-user, John Sellers, and I think he was using Grok as his source, which makes this interesting. But here's what you need to know.

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There's a great controversy about how much Doge benefited the budget. You would not be surprised to know that some left-leaning groups have a much lower opinion of what Doge did. So remember that Doge was looking to try to get $2 trillion in spending. by now, basically. So that was their goal. And at one point I heard it was $1 trillion, and then the other trillion would be made up with growth.

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And I thought to myself, well, you know, $1 trillion. $1 trillion would be amazing. It would save the country. But currently, Doge is claiming something like $160 or $165 billion in savings. But Do you think everybody agrees with that, that it's $160 billion?

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Well, Reuters, who does not seem to be super friendly to Republicans, they estimated that the actual Doge savings could be as low as $5 billion. Five. The New York Times reported that the Doge savings could be only $2.3 billion. How many of you even knew that? So, again, the New York Times is not considered a Republican-friendly place.

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The Partnership for Public Service, this nonpartisan group, they calculated that Doge's actions might have cost taxpayers $135 billion due to paid leave, rehiring fired workers, and lost productivity, and basically saying that it's going to cost more than they save by about the amount they're claiming they're saved might be actually what the actual extra cost is.

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Bloomberg, again, not friendly to Republicans, says that after correcting errors, like an $8 billion contract that was misreported as $8 million, the estimated savings for Doge would be $16.6 billion. So the estimates of real savings range from $2 to $16 billion. And the true figure remains unclear.

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Because don't you think the American pope, somebody else said this, I'm borrowing this idea, don't you think the American pope could pick up the phone and just call Trump? Of course he could. They could just have a phone call. Whereas I don't think there's ever been a pope Is there? When was the last time there was a pope who spoke English and, well, there's never been an American one.

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And Grok apparently supports those reports, meaning it doesn't agree with them, but it reports them that they are actually saying that. Now, have you noticed that the people working on the budget don't seem to be coming to us with a smaller budget. All they did was add $150 billion to the current budget, and they didn't do anything else.

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I have no idea what Speaker Johnson is doing, but I don't think he's cutting anything. Do you? Have you seen anything that's being cut? You know, there might be some trivial little things they move around, but basically, the entire budget process is just fake. They're simply pretending that they're looking at it with a scalpel. They're not looking at it with a scalpel.

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They're just giving us the same fucking budget they always do with a little bit added for military. There's no doge savings in it. It's just completely fake. And they're just going to put it at us just like they always do. And Thomas Massey will once again vote against it. for all the right reasons.

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And we'll end up getting mad and we'll say bad things and we'll just go racing toward the ledge that we can't possibly survive, which is uncontrolled death. Do any of you think there's any chance that the budget is going to have any self-control whatsoever? I don't think so. And I don't think the Doge savings are even big enough that they'll show up at all. I don't think any of it was real.

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So that's what I think. Trump said today that he might cut tariffs on China to 80% from 145. And that would be before the weekend talks in Switzerland between the United States and Chinese representatives. And I don't understand this. Why would he offer to cut the tariffs before the negotiations? That would be like negotiating with yourself.

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Unless, you know, maybe he has some indication that China is going to be flexible and he wants to make sure that he looks like he was a little bit flexible himself. I don't know. But the funny part is that when he posted about it on Truth, he referred to Scott Besant as Scott B. Scott B. Because of Besant. But the good news is I'm still Scott A. So wouldn't you rather be Scott A than Scott B?

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Makes him my backup. But he's cool, too. He's cool, too. I like Scott B. I don't know if you heard this, but Steve Scalise is complaining that apparently we know now from some documents that have recently become available that the FBI... deliberately withheld facts about the congressional baseball shooting, which included Steve Scalise as one of the victims of the shooting.

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And at the time, they said that the motivation was suicide by cop. In other words, they said that the guy doing the shooting wanted to die in sort of an exciting way, so that's what he did. Apparently, that was totally made up. and that the FBI knew at the time it was completely politically motivated and it was simply left-wing violence.

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Why do you think the FBI reported it as suicide by cop, which would be a non-political thing, instead of exactly what it was, which was a left-wing person who got turned into an extremist by the propaganda? Well, The only reason I can think of is that the FBI was politicized. But Kash Patel seems to have fixed that by releasing some extra documents.

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So you know Trump would take the call and he'd probably just hang out with him if he wanted to. He'd probably have dinner with him. So it might be one of the most genius things the Catholics have come up with if they want to have some kind of more influence on things they care about like immigration and the environment, etc. So we'll see how that works out.

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So yes, the FBI, as recently as the congressional baseball shootings, which wasn't that long ago, were politicized. And so their work could not be trusted. Do you think that changed? Here's an interesting study by George Mason University is talking about it.

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So they did a study where they were trying to figure out in advance which businesses were likely to manipulate or bend their earnings reports, essentially fraudulently make claims about their earnings so that their stock wouldn't go down. So they used AI to see if they can identify the language that's used when they're hiring people for the job of reporting the earnings and doing the calculating.

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And they found out that the ones who were planning to cheat and planning to lie about their earnings, when they were hiring people to be the main person who would do that kind of work, they use rule-bender sentences. So the rule-bender sentences would be that they're looking for somebody who can think outside the box, explore alternative solutions, and strategic data interpretation.

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So apparently, if you're looking for somebody who can think outside the box when it comes to reporting your earnings, it's sort of a wink-wink. You know, we need you to, you know, think outside the box. Can you be flexible?

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But if they wanted to, if they were not planning to fraudulently report their own earnings, the rule follower language was they're looking for somebody who can ensure conformance, enforce compliance, and provide accurate and timely financial reporting. Now, I don't know if this is a reproducible study or not, but it does sound like it might be.

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Because if you knew you needed somebody to bend the rules, I can imagine that your job opening would have some language that was kind of rule-bendy right in there. Anyway... The UCLA Medical School just got hit with a class action lawsuit for still using DEI and race-based admissions. Fox News is reporting on this. And here's my take on all this.

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You know, it seems like every day there's somebody who's getting, you know, defunded because of their DEI or in this case, somebody who's going to be part of a class action lawsuit because of their DEI. But I don't think any of it's going to go away. And I think the reason it can't go away is that it's the same people at those entities that put it there in the first place.

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And so it's going to be a combination of people who are true believers, who think they're on the side of the angels, and that the government is the bad guys. Now, if you think the government is the bad guys and you're like, you know, you're doing the, you know, what is it, the underground railroad or something, you feel like you're some kind of a hero by resisting the government.

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But there might be a much simpler reason why it's never going to go away, you know, even though the government says it's illegal and people are suing you and there's all kinds of pressure to get rid of it, but it's not going to go away. Because imagine being part of an organization that had embraced DEI as one of its highest principles. And you'd be living that way for years.

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In other incredibly important news, Melania Trump unveiled a U.S. stamp honoring Barbara Bush. So I guess it was a little dicey about who would be unveiling it because, you know, President Trump has said such bad things about the Bush family in the past. He was the wrong choice. So Melania was probably exactly the right choice. And not many of the Bush family showed up.

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Then imagine coming into the room and having to give this announcement. Hey, everybody. I know DEI has been our highest priority. And you're looking at your diverse employees by now. But it turns out that it was all illegal, and it was racist, and it turns out we're the racists. We didn't see that coming. But it turns out we're the bad guys.

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So instead of being the bad guys, we're going to change everything and stop being racist. Who could do that? Nobody. There's no actual way that in the real world, real people... could change on a dime from it's our highest priority to, oh, well, it turns out that it's actually just illegal and we're just a bunch of racists and we better cut out this shit right away. Nobody can do that.

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They're all going to turn into secret, you know, underground railroad heroes. Well, let's just change the names of our department. Let's just hide. All right, we'll say we got rid of the webpage. but we'll just keep doing it like we always do it. I don't think any of these victories are going to be lasting. I think the DEI racist approach will just become permanent. Well, I think it is permanent.

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I just don't see anything that's going to change it. I hate to say it, but every claim, you know, I was getting all excited. because the Trump administration was doing all the right things to attack the DEI practitioners, I don't think any of it's going to work, because they would be willing to take enormous risks to stay illegal, because they think they're the angels.

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According to the University of Pittsburgh, they did a study, a Pitt, Michigan study, and they found out that women who have both high math and verbal abilities are less likely to go into STEM careers. But if they have higher math abilities and lower verbal, they're a little more likely to want to go into STEM. So this is all part of an effort to figure out how to get more women

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who are both high math and high verbal to go into STEM. Now, they're speculating that the reason that the group with the most capability, the women with the most capability are not as likely to go into STEM is that they have more options. So if they have high verbal, well, you could also be an author or you could also be the head of a, I don't know, you could be the CEO or something.

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So you're not limited. so you just decide other things. But my question is this, how long are we going to pretend that you can hypnotize women into doing shit they don't want to do? Don't you think the entire problem boils down to, well, they just don't want to do that. And no matter how much you try to convince them, they're still going to look at it and say, yeah,

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Yeah, I mean, I would be good at that. You're right, I would be good at that. But I don't want to do it. It doesn't look like fun. I have options. So it feels like we're just spinning our wheels on that.

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Speaking of women, you probably heard, Fox News is reporting this, that at that Columbia University protest that some would call anti-Semitic, I guess it was, so it was a pro-Palestinian, but maybe it was too close to pro-Hamas protest, And there were a bunch of arrests because it happened at Columbia University. But of the 80 people arrested, there were only 19 males but 61 females.

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So how do you explain that it's mostly females in that particular demonstration? Well, I think it's because the men were in STEM programs and they didn't have the time. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. It had nothing to do with STEM. But I'm going to give you my speculation, and it goes like this. It's super sexist. Are you ready?

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I don't think women have the same biological aptitude for military security. I don't think women... have the same biological aptitude for military security. Here's what I mean by that. Only men know how deadly men are.

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I guess some cousins or something showed up. But all I can say about the Barbara Bush stamp is, personally, I'd be afraid to lick it. But that's just me. That's just me. That's the oldest joke in the world. You knew somebody was going to say that. According to the New York Post, there's this top ex-NASA official who claims that he saw a large white flying saucer in a big warehouse that had a U.S.

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Women can observe it, and they can be victims of it, but they can't truly understand that we're all killers, and that if you put us in a situation where we can kill our enemies, we sort of do it. And if you look at the Palestinian situation,

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One interpretation would be, the female interpretation would be, hey, if you could just be nicer to the Palestinians, then the Palestinians would calm down and the violence would stop and everybody would win. So let's just give the Palestinians their own homeland, give them the things they want, and we'll be able to solve these problems.

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I believe that men have a completely different biological military security opinion, and it goes like this. Whoever has the power in the Middle East to wipe out the other side is going to wipe out the other side. So your only choices are, do you want it to be somebody who is your ally or somebody who wants to wipe out you next? Now, we can't say these things out loud, but we kind of know it.

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We know it. And I don't think women know it. I think women are still trapped in the, well, of course they're angry and of course they're going to act out because you're not being nice to them.

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if you would just treat them right then i think everybody would just hold hands and get along and men say i don't think you understand what's happening there at all we're killers and in the middle east both sides are pretty deadly and if if the palestinians got everything they wanted I think women would be surprised and men would not.

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So I do think there's a biological difference in just understanding how deadly men are. And I think that you just have to be a man to understand that. Same way, I mean, you can reverse it easily. I don't think men should be involved in

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abortion decisions you know i mean you can be it's legal and you have a right to it but i don't feel like i can understand it the same way a woman could understand it so let them make the decision that's just one example so i'm just speculating but that's what it feels like to me um tulsi gabbard's releasing going to release over 6 000 files on the rfk assassination

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I'm going to make a prediction. You're not going to learn anything new. I really don't think any of these document releases are going to be really super telling us anything we didn't know from the Kennedys to Epstein to anything else for all the obvious reasons. If it really mattered, it would already be deleted or wouldn't be in the records at all. But it's kind of interesting that RFK Jr.,

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who has looked into it quite a bit, as you'd imagine, is not entirely convinced that Sirhan Sirhan was the killer. And if you've heard any of the speculation and talk about the murder, there is all kinds of stuff that doesn't make sense. You know, they're like too many bullets were fired and from the wrong direction. And there's just all kinds of stuff in that story that doesn't make sense.

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But on the other hand, there were so many witnesses. It was like just tons of witnesses. Is it possible that none of the witnesses had the right story? Maybe. I mean, it's not impossible, but it seems unlikely. On the other hand, is anything that's important in our history real? Probably not. There's probably nothing in our history

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that you think is settled history, except for maybe names and dates. We know RFK's name, and we know the date of the event, but probably that's the only thing that's real. I mean, it might be like everything else, which is not real. It's just the version we got fed. But I don't think the documents that we have on file, redacted or not, are going to make any difference to that.

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Meanwhile, the Post Millennial is reporting that U.S. Attorney John Sirconi is going to be part of looking into Letitia James' mortgage fraud. So the FBI has opened a formal criminal probe into Letitia James over her own real estate-related... transactions which, at least on paper, look obviously illegal. We'll see what the courts decide. So it's the good news, bad news.

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The good news is I'm very happy that Letitia James, who seems crooked, is being looked into for her own crimes. On the other hand, why did it take a Republican administration for this to happen?

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Air Force logo, and he was told it was using the alien technology that they'd captured. So he claims that he... He once actually saw it himself. Dr. Gregory Rogers. And it was part of a secretive project. Now, how many of you think that's true? Do you think this story is true? And the U.S. Air Force built their own UFO based on alien technology? I have one word for you. Nope.

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Doesn't it sort of suggest that the FBI is completely politicized and if the Republicans have the dominant control, they can just pick a Republican-leaning bunch of FBI people to do what they want and go after anybody they want? It's not better if the Republicans do it.

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But it does suggest that the FBI is not anything like an independent body that's just trying to get rid of crime, at least when it comes to the political domain. So the Attorney General Letitia James was probably crooked and politicized. The FBI may not be much better, according to Steve Scalise and the congressional shooting stuff and

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And, you know, crossfire hurricane and how many other things have we heard where they appear to be politicized, if not corrupt? President Trump is doing his Trumpian thing where he can take both sides of an issue. Man, he could do this better than anybody's ever done it. So one of the questions about the budget thing is whether they will raise taxes on the the rich.

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I think it's people over 5 million a year or something like that. And there's some movement within the Republican Party to do it. But of course, there are other people who are just saying, no way, no way, no raising taxes. We just don't do that. So it's certainly not a solved problem. But Trump is now saying on Truth that he's not in favor of it.

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He's not in favor of raising the taxes because the Democrats would use it as a soundbite, sort of like George Bush's read my lips, no new taxes. So if he did raise taxes, even on just the rich, And even if the Democrats were fully on board with that, he still feels like they would use it as a club to say, well, it's not what you said you'd do. And he probably has a little bit of a point there.

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But then he says, at the same time he says he doesn't want to do it, because it gives the Democrats a soundbite, he doesn't want to act like he's just protecting his own tax base, because that would be a bad look, too. So he says that the GOP should probably not raise taxes on the rich, but if they do, he's okay with it. Yeah. He's the only person in the world who could say that.

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And you just say, all right. All right. Digital equity program. I guess Trump's posting about this. There was a digital equity program, some racist program that's getting cut, I guess. All right, so everything that was in my reading today was leading up to the following point. Do you ever wonder how I, as a non-scientist, could be so darn confident that the climate models are BS?

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You ever wonder about that? It's like, I'm not really an expert on climate models. I'm not even a scientist, and I don't have any expertise in environment. Why am I so confident that the climate models are BS? Well, some of it is that I worked with prediction models in the finance area, and I saw that as soon as you add a certain number of variables, you can't predict anything. You can sort of

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Just pick your assumptions to make it look anything you want. So that's part of it. But here's the real reason. The FBI is corrupt. The DOJ is probably corrupt. I'm not sure. In 2020, there was a suspicious number of Biden votes that don't look real to me. I don't know for sure. but they don't look real to me. The polls are often fake. Victor Davis Hanson explained that.

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The Doge savings may be entirely fake, or it may be that just if you're left-leaning media, you can say they're fake, and if you're right-leaning, you say they're real. The tariff estimates that Trump has done seem ridiculous. The trade deals are being called fake, and the budget process is completely fake and corrupt."

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So are we supposed to believe that every institution that we look into is completely corrupt, except for the climate models? I mean, just let that soak in. Every single thing that we can check that's big and important is fake. Everything. But you think the climate models are the only exception?

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you don't need to be an expert all you have to know is that everything is fake once you learn that everything that can be faked is faked you you become the expert if they invented something tomorrow that you know i don't even put a name on it just a new thing that was big and complicated i would tell you it's fake and i would be right without even knowing what the topic is

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If you just said, oh, we're going to put $50 billion into this new thing, and they've got all kinds of data, and the data backs what they're doing, I would say, yeah, it's fake. It's all fake. And if you got a chance to look into it, you would find out I'm right without being an expert. Because everything that can be fake is fake. Everything. Everything.

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It doesn't take any expertise at all to know that. So to me, it's just hilarious that every time I post on X, wait till you find out about the climate models, there is 100% chance that those climate models will be debunked and go down in history like the food pyramid. It's the food pyramid, people. It's the food pyramid. I don't know when it will happen, Could be tomorrow, could be in 20 years.

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I don't care how many times they try to tell us the same story. No. I'm not even sure I would believe a video of it. I would need to see a real person who was not part of the military or anything standing next to it, some credible reporter, put his hands on it, ride around in it, show us the alien craft. It would take so, so much.

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But the climate models, there's not a chance, there's not even the slightest chance that those are real. So, we'll see.

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Anyway, Google's ex-Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has warned that China technology is pulling ahead. And David Sachs writing about this on X, saying that they're doing better on AI. And part of the problem is that apparently in the US, we've got something called some kind of AI diffusion rule. It's 200 pages of regulations that hinder the adoption of American technology, even by close partners.

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Now, I don't know the details of that, but it sounds like the U.S. has crippled itself so that it can't compete with China and that that's a big deal. Now, since the smart people seem to know about it, I mean, Sachs has a big voice in the administration. He knows about it. Maybe we're doing something about it. He says that Trump is committed to rescind 10 regulations for every new one.

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And if the U.S. doesn't embrace the same concept for AI, we're going to lose the AI race, which would mean losing everything. So we'll see if that goes in the right direction. As you know, Putin was doing his Victory Day celebrations over there, and I was wondering if any Ukrainian drones were going to go that way.

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Well, I guess they sent one that struck a government building but didn't cause any death or too much damage. But I guess the Ukrainians just couldn't resist, so they sent one little drone to blow up nothing important. According to interesting engineering, France plans to have an all robot army by 2027, no, by 2040, but they'll have combat robots by 2027.

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How would you feel if you got drafted into a military that was mostly robots, but they needed some humans? Because if robots fight robots, which is where it's heading, obviously, if robots fight robots, what happens when one of the robot teams wins? Because they don't really need to go kill any civilians, right?

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Because they would have destroyed all the robot military, so there wouldn't be any resistance. So there's not really any reason to kill the civilians. So doesn't it look like we're heading exactly for the original Star Trek's vision of war?

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tell you when I was a little kid I remember seeing that episode and I'll describe it in a moment and I never forgot it it was like one of the most disturbingly probably future world and the idea was that instead of having real wars there was a planet maybe a few planets they would have these simulated wars and

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where they would look at the assets and the military capability of each side, and then they would put it in a computer, and they would say, all right, if this is the war, this is the side that would win. And then the winning team, well, the losing team, would basically volunteer to get killed by some machine that would do it quickly and painlessly.

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And they would just line up to be killed because their side had lost. So at least they'd make it painless. And it was just so disturbing. And I thought to myself, is it going to be some version of that? Where if the robots of one big country beat the robots of the other, and presumably they could be, you know, hunt down and kill every single robot of the other side if they were the dominant side.

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to convince me that we had captured off-world alien technology and built a spacecraft. And then we don't use it, because apparently this would have been 30 years ago. So do you think we've had alien technology for 30 years, and it's really the good stuff? And for 30 years, we decided not to use it. I don't believe any of this stuff, not even a little bit.

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What would you do with the humans? Would you kill them because you could? Or would the humans say, we don't surrender? And maybe they wouldn't. Maybe you'd have to. I don't know.

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so we'll see but robot armies are going to be more than it's going to be more than just the war there's going to be a whole difference in what war is and how we think about it and the psychology of it and everything else very unpredictable well meanwhile fox news is reporting that mandy moore you know she's a celebrity star mandy moore i guess her house was partially destroyed in the la fires

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And she's finding that it's impossible to build back. So as she points out, she has the contractor. She has all the plans. She's submitted everything. She just can't get approval to build. And apparently there have been six approvals given of 10,000 structures that were destroyed. Now... How incompetent is California?

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Because don't you remember that there was this point where I think even Trump was warning the mayor that they're going to have to figure out how to get rid of all the regulations so they can build back in an efficient way? Nothing like that happened. Nothing. Now, I don't know why. But if I had to guess, it's very much like I was describing the DEI situation.

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Imagine if you're the part of the government that has control over approvals and what endangered frog has to be saved. And you've dedicated your whole life to the proposition that we can't be doing these dangerous, bad-for-the-environment things.

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are you going to change your mind if trump comes to town and says yeah you just have to do it faster and and cause some regulations are the save the frogs people gonna suddenly say oh well okay screw the frogs i want mandy moore to build her house faster not in any world The people who created the rules are going to dig in and they're just going to say, we can't change these rules.

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Are you kidding me? We'll lose a frog or we'll lose a fish. So I don't think that the people have the ability to change their minds. I mean, they would be, everything about their life would become a joke. if they just threw it all away and said, all right, all right, we didn't mean it about the frogs. Yeah, go ahead, build your house. Mr. Rich person, build your house.

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So I don't see how it gets fixed unless 100% of the employees who are involved in approvals are replaced because they're the ones who created the stuff. They're not going to throw it away just because somebody else wants them to. They'll just slow walk it. Because you can slow walk anything. And it looks like that might be what's happening, doing a little slow walking.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I had for today. I'm going to say a few words privately to the subscribers on Locals. If you don't subscribe yet to the Dilbert comic, which you can see on X if you subscribe to me on X, today's Dilbert comic might be one of the funniest things I've ever written. If I do say so myself. So you're missing out if you didn't get to see that today.

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It's pretty damn funny. Has anybody seen it yet? Those of you who are subscribers? I want to see if you agree. Because sometimes maybe I just think it's funny myself. But I think today's Dilbert comic... The one that just the subscribers are seeing. It just might be the funniest thing I've ever written.

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So if you only care about the comic, you can subscribe on X. If you like some of the political stuff and some extra political comics and stuff like that, then you want to subscribe on Locals. But you've got options. So... There you go. All right. Locals, coming at you privately. The rest of you on Rumble and YouTube and X, thanks for joining. Hope to see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

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Two-hour podcast with Bob Lazar wouldn't change your mind? No. Bob Lazar? Are you kidding me? How many of you think Bob Lazar is a credible source? That is so not credible. Well, last night was the weirdest night Actually, I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about it. Yeah, I was going to say I almost couldn't sleep, but it actually kept me awake for a while.

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So by complete coincidence, I'm toddling around getting ready to go to bed early, as I like to do, and I had Fox News on. And there was one of the Fox News contributors, I guess, maybe contributor is the right word, Cameron Kinsey. She's 24 years old. She's got long blonde hair if you've seen him before. And I don't know the host. So the Fox News host was not familiar to me.

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'll bet you never had a better time. But... If you'd like to see if you could take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So he wasn't one of the name brand famous ones. He looked like he was a fill-in kind of a host who does the Weird Hours or something. So the Fox News host gives her a question. And I'm sort of half paying attention while doing other things. And she starts to answer the question.

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And then all of a sudden, she just stops talking in the middle of her answer, which of course caused me to look at the screen to see what was happening. And all of a sudden, and this is nothing to laugh at because we don't know if she's okay yet. I think she is, but we don't know. She simply goes and just falls off her chair on the floor right next to the host. How many of you saw that?

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You may have seen the clip this morning, but if you saw it live... if you saw live it was super unsettling but it got even more unsettling because of the way the host handled it so that's the funny part now again there's nothing funny about this if she has some real medical problem but uh i think the fact that we haven't earned an update

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probably means it was just some kind of ordinary fainting attack and that she's fine. So she's laying on the floor. We still don't know if she's okay. It looked like one of the technical people ran in to see what was what. And so the host immediately calls for help. He goes, oh, we need some help here immediately, just as he should. But then the host doesn't know what to do.

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because they're still alive and he's got another guest that he has a question for while his colleague is laying on the ground next to his feet. And he's probably thinking to himself, how do I play this? Do I just stop the show? And he decides that his best way to play it is to just throw a question to the next guest. which I'm no expert in these things.

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I'm no medical doctor, nor am I a TV show host, but I'll tell you what the wrong answer was. The wrong answer was to throw a question to the next guest while she's laying on the floor next to his feet. Okay. And again, There's nothing funny about it if anything bad happened to her.

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So I'm hoping that I can make fun of the host of the show without any of that disrespect going to her because we don't know what happened. It could be worse than it looked. I don't know. But then you could almost hear the producers. So he starts to just go on with the show while she's still laying there on the floor laughing.

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You couldn't see her, but you knew that she had to be laying there because of where the chairs were. And then he goes, oh, I guess we're going to a commercial. So in case this ever happens to you, and by the way, I was trying to imagine if any other host of Fox News would have played it the same way. And I'm trying to imagine, you know, Hannity.

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If that happened on a Hannity show, he would take his earpiece out. He would say, you know, we've got a problem here. He would have immediately gotten out of his chair. And he would have been on the ground even if the camera couldn't follow him. And he would have probably said while he was doing it, you know, cut to commercial. He would have just taken charge, right?

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And you could put in a bunch of other hosts of Fox News who would have played it the same way. But the right answer is to immediately stop the program. There's no second way to play that. And that you immediately get down on the ground and see if you can be useful or at least find out what's going on. And if the producers want to go to a commercial, well, let them go to a commercial.

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But that's not your problem right now. So that's my advice. All right, so that weird thing was happening. And then I, a little bit later, like almost the same time, I switched to CNN and And I learned that Judge Jeanine from Fox News, you know her from The Five and other things, has been appointed by President Trump as the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

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This is that highly controversial post that Ed Martin was going to be nominated for, but he was withdrawn because... Senator Tillis had a problem with his experience and some things he said in the past, I guess. And I thought to myself, wait a minute.

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Are you really telling me that Ed Martin, because he had said some things in the past about January 6th, and maybe he didn't have as much prosecutorial experience, that was the reason that the senator said, no, I won't support him. Are you telling me that Judge Jeanine is going to pass those two bars?

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Are all the things that Judge Jeanine has ever said about January 6th going to pass muster with that same senator, Tillis? How is that going to work? And I don't have a way to comment about her prosecutorial experience, but she hasn't been doing it for a while. I think she's been doing the TV thing for quite a while now.

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So I don't know if she's the right pick, but she would be loyal, and maybe that's the most important part, because you want somebody who's not going to use that position to go after Republicans, and she definitely wouldn't go after Republicans. So you got that going for you. But here's the weird part, and I need a fact check on this.

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So I need one of you to have been watching CNN at the same time last night. The CNN host, hostess, I can't remember who it was, kept teasing that she was going to be a guest live on CNN. And I thought to myself, what? How does that even make sense? That Fox News would not be the first one to put her on. And I thought, is this some kind of, is she making a statement to Fox News?

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Did things go not well? so she's going to do a hit on CNN. And then it got weirder. But here's where I need to get the fact check. I don't think she went on. I kept watching and waiting, and I think they had somebody else come on to talk about her. Now, did anybody see her go on CNN last night? Because

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if she didn't go on after they continually teased that she was a guest and she'd be up pretty soon, would that mean that maybe it looked like they were sabotaging her and she pulled out? Because I'm guessing that's what happened, but I don't know.

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Because it looked like when they were talking about her and they had somebody on before she came on to talk about her, that it felt a little like a set-up. like they weren't going to give her a fair hearing. And I wonder if she just said, all right, I'm out. You know, you can do whatever you want with your dead air time. Did that happen?

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and Frankly, you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker, chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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And now those people, hundreds of them, the ISIS-connected people are in the United States. And she said that in the Laura Ingraham show. Now, how do you explain that? Is it true? Because it sounds true. But what was the thinking behind that? You know, if you're not a Democrat, there's a whole bunch of stuff that Democrats do.

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from hiring these district attorneys, these Soros district attorneys, to opening the borders, to this, knowingly letting ISIS-related people into the country, it doesn't look like they had any plan other than destroying the country. I can't even think of what the alternative explanation would be. Was it, well, they were connected to ISIS,

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But, you know, everybody in that region was maybe a little connected to ISIS. Was that it? Was it such a do-gooder attitude that they're like, well, you know, they're not totally ISIS. They're just, you know, ISIS adjacent. They just have a lot of friends who are in ISIS. Can't blame them for that. I mean, what exactly were they thinking when they did this? It's just baffling.

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Meanwhile, Trump has ordered the revoked revocation of security clearances for the law firm that was behind the Steele dossier. So Jerry Dunleavy and Just News is reporting this. So that was, you've heard of these guys, right? Perkins Coy law firm. So the ones that had a close relationship with Hillary Clinton and they seem to be behind a lot of, you know, Democrat shenanigans.

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In other news, scientist John Hopkins University figured out how to use CRISPR, you know, the genetic editing thing, to create gigantic-sized cells Tomatoes and eggplants. Let's see. Gene therapy to create gigantic eggplants. I wonder if a professional humorist could do anything with that. Let's see. Whose genes would they use to increase the size of the eggplants? I can't think of a single joke.

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So Trump just revoked their security clearance. Why did they ever have any security clearance? Why did that law firm ever have any security clearance? Why does any law firm have a security clearance? Shouldn't it always be temporary while they're working on a project? Why would you keep a security clearance after you've done whatever job you're working on?

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I mean, I could see why you'd need it sometimes, but why would you just sort of maintain it. I would think that you would lose it the moment you were done with your lawyering for whatever the case was. So it seems right to me that the law firm behind the Steele dossier cannot be trusted with American secrets. That's for sure. That's just cause and effect. One plus one is two. That's basic stuff.

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Yeah, you can't trust them. Meanwhile, you'll never believe this story. Joel Pollack is writing in Breitbart that billions of dollars were spent on services for homeless people in L.A. And guess what? Hold on to your seat. You're going to be surprised by this. Billions of dollars were spent on service for homeless in the L.A. And unbelievably, there's no accounting for it. I know.

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Biggest surprise in the world, isn't it? No, it's not. You could just ask Scott. Hey, Scott. I heard a bunch of Democrats had billions of dollars floating around for a thing. What's the thing? Doesn't matter. Okay. Now, it's been a few years. Do you think they can account for where all the billions went? Scott, what do you think? Let me research by just closing my eyes for a second.

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Unaccounted for. Unaccounted for. But what about the Pentagon and their trillions of dollars? It's been a few years. Do you think we can go check where all that went? Unaccounted for, unaccounted for. But what about USAID and all its funding to the 55,000 NGOs? It's been years they've been doing it. Do you think we can account for that? Close my eyes. No, unaccounted for.

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I feel like there might be some kind of pattern emerging here. I don't know. Can you see it? Just ask Scott. Meanwhile, the Wikipedia co-founder, somebody said this is not brand new news, but it's the first I heard it. So one of the Wikipedia co-founders is calling on Doge to investigate whether government actors have infiltrated the online encyclopedia. Yeah. Okay.

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Let's see if I can save them some time. Doge, you don't need to take this one. I'll handle this one. Close my eyes. Yes. Yes. Foreign actors are trying to manipulate Wikipedia. Yep. Yep. You're done. Elon, I got this one. You're doing a great job on Doge. But you could offload some of this to me. I got this. Yeah. Let's see what else is going on.

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You'll never believe this, but Scott, do you think Hunter Biden's art is selling now as well as it did when his father was in office? Close my eyes. Use my deep research. Oh, no. I would guess that his art is nearly worthless now. Let's check in. Oh, according to the New York Post. Hunter's having trouble selling his art. Huh. I'm right again. Now, here's what I'm wondering.

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Does it seem to you that every Democrat organization is just some version of Hunter's selling art? Meaning that it's not just sketchy. It's obviously sketchy, and everybody knows it, and you can tell exactly what's going on. Let me give you some examples. How many of these seem like they're money laundering organizations? The Clinton Foundation, the Biden crime family, USAID and the 55,000 NGOs.

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How about ActBlue, the organization that collects donations? That's all they do? Do you think that sounds legit? How about Black Lives Matter with what we know about it now? What about the fact that Joe Biden was doing auto sign and may not have even been conscious of the things he was approving? That feels a little sus.

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What about those primaries where Hillary kneecapped Bernie Sanders once and then Then Biden got forced out and nothing happened that even looked slightly like a Democrat process. What about everything that's ever happened in Ukraine? Doesn't that look like just giant money laundering? What about the LA homeless spending, as we just discussed? Yes, looks like giant money laundering situation.

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What about every single local city government, the big ones? All corrupt. They're all money laundering things. So they're either just corrupt or they're corrupt as a money laundering thing. And I'm trying to think, is there anything like that on the Republican side? Do I have some kind of a news bubble problem? But it seems to me that Democrats, and I don't say this with any hyperbole whatsoever.

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If you look at the Democrats from the larger organization, not the voters, there are plenty of decent Democrat voters. So these are just citizens. But when it becomes an organization of any kind and there's funding of any kind,

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Isn't that always criminal as in a hundred percent of the time, it doesn't matter if you're a mayor of a city or you started a charity or you're helping some poor people in another country a little bit while you're keeping too much of it. It just seems like 100% of everything Democrats do is intended from the start to be a money laundering operation.

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I don't know. You know, I was hoping there would be a joke there about the giant eggplants and whose genes they use to beef them up. But I can't think of a thing, so we'll move on. Here's a study. According to study finds, men with excellent sperm quality live longer. You could have just asked me. Let me explain those to you.

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And it's hard to ignore that it's almost entirely a criminal organization that's got this thin veneer of the theater kids acting out to make it look legitimate, but doing a really bad job of it. Anyway, so speaking of... Biden and his auto pen. So what we found out was that pretty much all of Biden's signatures during his term were done by a machine that automatically signs for presidents.

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But if you noticed, Trump signs a lot of executive orders and he does it in person and he does it publicly. But there's some question if all of Biden's signatures until I think his resignation signature or something, if they were all done by a machine, given what we know about his mental capability at the time and how he was managed by the people around him, Attorney General Andrew Bailey said,

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is demanding that the department of justice investigate whether biden was actually aware of what he was signing meaning what the machine was signing on his behalf because if he wasn't aware that means that somebody else was illegally running the government and that's a big problem and it would mean that according to attorney general andrew bailey

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It would mean that the executive orders he gave, the pardons and all the other actions are unconstitutional and legally void. Now, that could be big.

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Because if we determine that he literally didn't know what he was doing and other people were just creating laws, why would those laws, the executive orders and pardons, the things that came from the president, why would they be valid if they didn't come from the president? And there's no evidence that he even knew about it. Now, it's premature.

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So it could be that if you ask Biden, he'll say, oh, yeah, I knew all about that. And then we're fine. So I don't mind that they use an automatic signature thing. That's been normal for a long time. But it seems like the right question to ask, because I think there's some possibility that it was exactly what it looks like, a puppet government.

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Well, meanwhile, I'm fascinated by Gavin Newsom trying to rehabilitate himself and maybe trying to be a national candidate for office. He doesn't have a chance, by the way. He doesn't have a chance of winning because I can't imagine Democrats picking a slick white guy to be their champion. It just doesn't feel like that's where they're at.

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But I give him credit for trying something and trying the podcast. He had Charlie Kirk on his show. And I know there's a point of view that conservatives shouldn't have any contact and give them any oxygen whatsoever. But I don't think it's going to hurt because it really isn't organic. And I don't think it's going to catch on.

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The thing that Democrats get wrong when they always use the Joe Rogan example, and they say, oh, Joe Rogan did this and Joe Rogan did that. How long did it take Joe Rogan to become Joe Rogan? Like he went through a path in which he was acquiring a whole bunch of insanely useful skills that came together and then years of doing the show with not much attention at all.

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And then he basically, through power of personality and just doing good work, created an industry that largely was in his image. Now, he wasn't the only one who made podcasting, but clearly he was the biggest footprint and the one that created the model for other people. So watching the Democrats get everything wrong. So one of the things they get wrong is that, wait a minute,

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They have podcasts, so we need a podcast. That is so completely off base. The reason that people have podcasts is that the podcaster is really good at it and the entertainment is good so people watch it and then it gets influence. You don't just start by trying to be Joe Rogan. Like that's not your entry point. No matter how famous or how much of a governor you are, it's not your starting point.

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Probably the single most useful measure of your health is your reproductive fitness. If you're a man, it means can you produce great sperm and deliver it? And so I think they could have saved a little time on this study by just going to me and saying, Scott, what do you think? People who have excellent sperm compared to people who have degraded sperm, who do you think is going to live longer?

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Like being Joe Rogan took like 20 years. Anyway, I saw an article about what killed traditional media and it was a smart article, but I thought, Isn't there an easier answer to what killed traditional media?

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Now, on one hand, on one hand, it looks like Trump might have been the one who killed traditional media because he's the one that taught us it was fake news and turned it into really the way we think about news. And I think it was an awakening for at least half the country. to find out that the news was completely made up and always has been. But I think it's even something bigger than that.

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I think the news could have survived Trump and conservatives saying it's fake, because all they had to say is, no, it isn't. And then all the people who were watching it would say, oh, no, it isn't, because it came on the news. People would just believe in the news so they could just say, no, there's no problem. We're not biased. But here's what I think it is. I think it was DEI.

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I think DEI killed the news. And I think DEI killed the Democrat Party. Completely. And there's a real obvious mechanism to it. So once you allow that DEI is valid, you've got to do it. Once you've got people who came in through the DEI doorway, you're going to get people who, and you can see it in action, people who think identity needs to be in every story.

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And you're going to get a type of news that people don't want to watch. And you're going to get this niche stuff like lots of trans stories and Lots of weird BLM stories. So I think that DEI actually crushed the news business. The same as it crushed the Democrats. The Democrats can't recover from DEI. It's a one-way trip.

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Because even if they said, all right, we reject DEI because the country seems to be not embracing it as much as we want. they would just lose i don't know what 20 or 30 percent of their base and have no chance of winning anything ever so they created a situation where there just isn't there's not a road back um here's what uh joe rogan said mocking mocking the whole situation

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He said, quote, CNN said that there's this network of podcasts for the right that's this huge corporate finance network. No, it's just a bunch of friends, you fucking idiots. We do each other's podcasts. Yeah, that's pretty much the whole story. It's a bunch of friends. They do each other's podcasts because they're trying to figure this out. They're saying that they need that on the left.

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Good luck. You guys cancel each other if your Ukraine flag is too small. You guys talk shit about each other for not having trans kids. You guys are out of your minds. You're not going to sync up together. You're in a suicide cult. So true. So true. But the Democrats have a really good plan for combating the fact that their party is in complete downward spiral.

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They've lost pretty much power and everything. And they don't have any leadership and they don't have any good policies that the country is in favor of. But they do have cringe videos. So the best evidence that women are in charge of the Democrat Party is cringe videos. Have you ever been in a car ride with adult women when a good song came on the radio?

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They immediately burst into song, and sometimes they act on it. And we're seeing the Democrats just trying to turn everything into a song. So when Representative Greene was getting... whatever it was, cast, what's the word? He was getting censured by the Congress. So the Democrats sang, we will overcome. Okay, nice theater kid singing there.

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And then, of course, there was the 22 senators who did exactly the same little douchebag video. And then the Republicans just used it as humor. You know you're doing everything wrong when your best play is considered humor by the other side. When we turn on CNN to watch Scott Jennings, it's because it's funny. Now, you can't lose harder than that if the other side watches you for the jokes.

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I think I could have gotten this one every time. Save you a lot of money. Just ask me next time. Meanwhile, speaking of Siemens, a company called Siemens, this is actually a coincidence. I didn't realize I put these two stories together. But Siemens, the company, not the sperm, announced a $285 million investment in U.S. manufacturing. Now,

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That is such a game-over situation. I've never seen this situation where I literally, if I'm clicking through the news and I see Scott Jennings sitting there at a panel, oh, I stop. I go, okay, well, I'll do five minutes of this. And sure enough, he'll just be mocking these idiots. And it's just hilarious that they can't put a glove on him And he just eviscerates them, in my opinion, of course.

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If you're a Democrat, you probably think the opposite is happening. But then there were a number of Democrat women in Congress, I guess, who created this video game dancing kind of attempt at a viral video where they would all look like they had just appeared, like they had just cloned as video game players, and they would dance like they're ready to fight. And it was so cringy. So, so cringy.

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And that's what they have. And then I saw also on that same panel that Scott Jennings was on, one of the panelists was saying, oh, but, you know, it worked because we got all these eyeballs and we're talking about it on the news. And even Abby Phillip, the host, who generally is pretty much in the tank for the Democrats, even she said, to what end? To what end? Like, what did you win?

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And they were just like, well, attention. You know, we got followers and stuff. And I'm thinking to myself, was that the lesson they got from Trump? Did they think that the only thing Trump brought was he knew how to get attention? That's what they got? We need podcasts and we need attention and then we'll be fine? That is so far from a deep analysis of anything that happened that it's hilarious.

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That's like a seventh grade opinion of what's going on. And you can't get worse than that. Making cringe videos with no policy and no leadership and saying, yeah, but we got a lot of attention for our cringe videos. So how about a little pat on the back for all the attention we got for being so lame? Bill O'Reilly says that Trump is bringing the entire Democratic Party to the verge of collapse.

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He thinks it might take 20 years, an entire generation, for Democrats to recover. Same thing I'm saying. But it's good to have somebody who's a longtime observer of politics say the same thing. So I agree. But here's a summary. So on X, there's a user called Indian Bronson. Now, this is back from February 5th, this comment. But it's so perfect. So listen to this.

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What's happening in America is roughly equivalent to the yearbook committee and the theater kid types getting rocked by the football team and chess club alliance. Now you have to think about this for a minute. The Republicans here are a combination of the chess club, that's Doge, and a football team. Yes, they're absolutely a combination of a football team plus a chess club.

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Now, I would say that maybe it was only a football team in the past. But once you add, you know, your David Sachs and your, you know, your Scott Besant and your, you know, Lutnick, what's his name? And your, you know, I could go on. But, you know, the whole Doge stuff, Elon Musk, you've got the chess club now.

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So you got the football team plus the chess club, and they're up against the yearbook committee, which is the people who weren't good at anything. They weren't good at anything, so they got on the yearbook committee. And the theater kids. That's so perfect. That captures it perfectly.

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Meanwhile, New York Times is reporting that ActBlue, that is allegedly a group which collects small donations for Democrats, is in turmoil, they say. So apparently, without explanation, seven top executives of ActBlue have left in the past three weeks, and several of them have been there for more than a decade, and none of them will say why they're leaving. Huh. That's interesting.

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Some years ago, I bought a tiny little bit of stock in Siemens because I thought we were going to stop Huawei from selling this kind of equipment in the U.S. And I thought, hmm, who is the competition to Huawei? So I thought Siemens might be zooming. But I eventually sold that tiny little investment and never made money on it. Because Siemens just sort of languished for a long time.

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Several top executives leaving around the same time, and none of them want to say why? They're not even willing to say, well, you know, it's just I'm that age, or it's time to move on, or I got a better opportunity. Just nothing.

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And according to the New York Times, the last remaining lawyer at ActBlue's general counsel's office has been locked out of his email and put on leave after sending internal messages that we have whistleblower policies for a reason. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. There's a whistleblower. Oh, there's fun coming now. Some fun coming. So more than $16 billion has passed through ActBlue in the last 20 years.

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Scott, do you think that ActBlue can account for their spending? Close my eyes, look deeply into my own mind? No, they cannot account for it. Now, I don't know that true. I don't know if that's true. But anybody want to bet against me? Does anyone want to bet that they have perfect records of their $16 billion expenses and we know where it all went?

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to end the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens. Yeah, that's right. Right now. Go. Sergio says his coffee is hot and ready, just like all of us. Couldn't be any hotter. Couldn't be any more ready.

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Or do you think maybe, huh, we didn't really track it? What do you think? Yeah, it does seem like everything Democrats are involved in at an organizational level is doing a little bit of good stuff and maybe a lot more of something else. At least it looks like it. Allegedly. Allegedly. Well, there's a report that Harvard grads are having trouble getting jobs compared to the past.

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And 25%, according to Unusual Wales on X, 25% of Harvard graduates from last spring are still job hunting. So that's up from 20% a year earlier and 10% in 2022, per the Wall Street Journal. And here's what I wonder. What do you think's behind that? Do you think that Harvard graduates are just not considered necessary? It used to be everybody who could get one would get one.

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Could it be that all of the DEI stuff has made people look at college graduates and say, I'm not so sure I know why you got into Harvard. What is missing from the story is is the demographic groups that are still looking for jobs.

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It does make me wonder if the DEI thing has now backfired such that if you were any member of a so-called disadvantaged group and you had a Harvard degree and you walk into the office for a job, What does the person interviewing you think? Do they think you did everything that everybody else did and you earned your Harvard degree?

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Or do they think, hmm, sounds like you went in through the DEI side door and maybe it's a little bit risky to bring you on? How many of them show up looking like activists and looking like they're DEI activists and looking like maybe their social media gave away a little bit too much about their opinions? How many of them do you think got turned down because of something they said on social media?

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But it's not zero. So that's a sign of the times. Meanwhile, according to the Western Journal, Ben Zeisloft, Trump's Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins is suggesting that maybe Americans raise their own chickens to help deal with the soaring price of eggs. I would like to weigh in on the other side of that recommendation.

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But if they're coming into the U.S., good news. And Trump's also announced some kind of major shipping infrastructure investment, $20 billion. Thomas Stevenson, a post-millennial, is writing about this. And I guess there's a big shipping company called CMA CGM that's going to invest this. So it's investing in infrastructure. So I think that means ports, beefing up the ports. This could be related.

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I do think there are some situations and maybe some states and some rural areas and some families that owning chickens would be awesome. So I don't rule it out. But do you know what would happen if you tried to raise chickens in California? I have a friend who got some pet chickens because she was allergic to cats and dogs. So somebody gave her a little chicken. And she loved that chicken.

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Used it like a pet. And then someday, one day, she got a little extra, what do you call it, little chick. And it turned out to be a rooster. Now, you say to yourself, no big deal. They're just pets. Chicken, rooster. Do you know what happens if you have a rooster? Your neighbors don't like that at all. It was a suburban neighborhood.

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And the freaking rooster would just wake up everybody at the crack of dawn. And it's illegal. So you couldn't really have chickens in your backyard, at least where she lived. And the rooster gave away the whole situation, even though they were just pets. It wasn't like she had a chicken farm or anything. But as soon as the rooster entered the mix, it was illegal to kill it.

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There is no place in the world you can give it away to. There's no farm that will take it. Nobody wants a rooster. They are simply non-egg-laying things that scream at you. And so you can't kill it, can't give it away, and you can't keep it. It ruins your life.

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It was an absolute devastating situation because, in this case, they were pets, so she couldn't do the ultimate solution, if you know what I mean. So be very careful what local laws... are going on, and I definitely wouldn't have chickens if they're right on the other side of the fence from your neighbors. If you got a lot of land, maybe you already have a farm, chickens could be great.

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Here's a small point that you wouldn't guess about me. I've once worked with chicken farming. My uncle had a dairy farm, but for a time he also had chickens. And I remember one of my jobs there would be to feed the chickens. And I feel like I may have a false memory about this. I'm going to ask my brother later. But I think it was also my job to steal their eggs.

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But I might have a false memory about that. All I remember is that the chickens seemed very angry whenever I showed up. If you've never seen...

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chickens close in on you when you when you walk in because maybe they think they're getting food or maybe they're angry they are the scariest mofos you walk into a room that's you're just full of chickens and they start walking at you with their little heads going like this and they make that noise And they start to surround you. And you're like, what are you guys doing? No, no, I come in peace.

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And they just start getting closer and closer. Oh, it's scary. Chickens are scary. I lived. Anyway, be careful about raising your own chickens. In interesting news, according to Leah Schaefer's writing, WashU, whatever that is, researchers in the Chakrabarty Lab have created a bird flu sensor. So it seems to work.

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It's not quite fully commercialized, but it can detect in the air the bird flu, the avian influenza. So that's a big deal because the current technology, it could take you 10 hours to find out if there's a chicken with bird flu. I think you send it to a lab and you can get an answer the same day, but it's 10 hours later. which is too late.

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Because if you allow 10 extra hours of bird flu flying around your bird operation, you're not going to have much left. If you can get it in five minutes, the first five minutes, then you can take immediate actions and maybe cut off the problems. So this could be an immensely useful thing. But also it suggests that maybe a whole bunch of other airborne detection things.

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Would it have worked with COVID? I don't know. Would it have worked with some other deadly pathogens? I don't know. But it certainly seems like there's a possibility. Also, researchers that, let's see, I guess researchers have found there's a naturally occurring molecule that does something similar to Ozempic, the weight loss drug, but without the side effects.

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I would assume, to the fact that Trump wants to beef up all of the shipbuilding capabilities in the United States, commercial and military. That's a big, big deal. The shipbuilding thing, I mean, if you just look at the size of the ocean and you look at the threats that are going to be coming at us from other shipbuilding countries, and it just seems to me also that the technology...

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So Krista Conger in Stanford Medicine is writing about this. And if that's true, that would be great. Because if we could get more people on either Ozempic or the natural version of it that doesn't have the side effects, we would need fewer eggs. Yeah. If we get people slimming down and less hungry, we don't need as many eggs.

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Anyway, Trump signed the executive order creating the strategic Bitcoin reserve. We knew that was happening. And you know what I say about crypto? Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Yeah. So crypto, I only think of it as a diversification play. So the government's diversifying and that makes perfect sense.

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I do think there's a non-zero chance that the value of the US dollar will just deflate to nothing over time and the crypto will just keep climbing. So it could be, we might look back at this as the thing that saved America. At the moment, it seems technical. It seems sort of a little niche thing. And it's hard to appreciate the importance of it. But it's that important.

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We could look back in 15 years and say, if we had not created this stockpile of strategic coins, presumably we would add to it between now and some other time, we wouldn't survive. So this actually goes directly to survival as a country. Could be a big, big deal. Meanwhile, did you know that Starlink is not approved in South Africa? And the reason is because Elon Musk is not black.

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And apparently the law there says that they don't want to do business unless you have 30% black ownership. So since that's not really practical for Starlink, they don't get to have good internet. So, oh my goodness. And according to, I guess, uh, Dave Rubin had a guest, uh, Robert Herzog on talking about South Africa.

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And, uh, the guest said that there are now 140 race based laws in South Africa that are all anti-white 140 separate anti-white laws in South Africa. Now, What do you think about that? You know, obviously I won't be visiting. If you're wondering where my next vacation will be, probably not South Africa, probably not. But why does the United States put up with that?

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I think Trump has, you know, he's rattled the cage a little bit over there. We'll see where that goes. But I'm not even sure we should have relationships with any country that does this sort of thing. So in the short run, obviously, we'd be better off if we could get them to modify their behavior to be part of the international order of things. But what if they don't?

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Like, how long do you put up with it? I think we should be certainly threatening to withdraw completely any kind of interaction whatsoever, as in just completely ignore them as a country. I wouldn't trade with them, wouldn't do anything with them, because why would we support that? So we're going to need some strong actions there, and we're going to need it soon.

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Well, the New York Times allegedly interviewed a bunch of Mexican drug lords. Do you believe that? Do you believe that the New York Times, just because they wanted to, could get a bunch of Mexican drug lords to sit down for an interview? Are these the dumbest ones? Did they only talk to the dumb ones?

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Let me tell you what I would do if I were a cartel member who allegedly they're all afraid of Trump now. If I were afraid of being detected, I certainly would not agree to an interview with anybody in the press. I would just assume that the authorities are watching this process and figuring out who you are based on maybe what you did with the media. So,

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to just live on the ocean is finally completely here. Because if you had, like, if you built your own little, you know, seafaring island that had a motor that could get out of the storms and stuff, and you had a tiny little nuclear reactor, you could desalinate all day long, you could probably, you know, fish like crazy. I feel like

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i'm not entirely sure i believe this story but allegedly these uh these drug lords are saying that they're all afraid and they're they're literally shaking in fear and they they're afraid to go to sleep because they're they might blow up and they're shutting down their labs i don't know to me that sounds like fake news so it's a little too on the nose oh yeah now

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Now, all these murderous people who have been in violent situations forever, suddenly this is what scares them? This? They live in a permanently super dangerous, lethal environment all the time. But this is what scared them, according to the New York Times. I don't know.

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It has that feeling like maybe we want to pretend that we're making a big difference, but maybe we're not making that big of a difference. Wouldn't it be useful for the cartels to suggest that they're quaking in fear and closing down their labs if, in fact, they were not? Because the story the cartels wouldn't want to get out is, oh, yeah, it's making no difference to our operation so far.

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And we're not especially afraid because, you know, we're basically brave. We kill people for a living. Doesn't it feel like it's a little too helpful to the cartels? to put out a story that's, oh, we're running for the hills, we're closing down things. Because if Trump can claim that it's already working the way it is, does he need to send in special forces? Think about it.

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If the United States was on the verge of sending actual military on the ground, or even just using the drones to take out more stuff, wouldn't the best way to stop it be to say that what you're doing already is working fine. You don't need to do more. So I'm going to say fake news. To me, this doesn't smell right.

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I don't think that the New York Times could get any kind of a useful sample of cartel leaders to talk to them. I just don't think that's real. And it does seem a little too perfectly on the nose that, oh, the things you're doing so far are totally making a difference. They might be. I hope they are.

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But, you know, the timing of it when we're just on the verge of sending an actual military in there to take care of business kind of feels like it's, hey, hey, it's working. You don't need to do that. Just a speculation. Meanwhile, over in Denmark, the Danish prime minister, It says that peace in Ukraine is more dangerous than the ongoing war.

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Because if you make peace in Ukraine, that means that Putin won, and then he'll be emboldened, and he'll just start attacking other countries because that's what he does. But wouldn't that mean that the only thing that Denmark is in favor of is perpetual war? Because where's the part where Ukraine wins? Nobody even talks about that. That's not an option.

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So if Ukraine can't win and you don't want peace because it's more dangerous than war, aren't you signing up for a forever war? What the hell kind of leadership is that? Try something different because we know that's not working. Anyway, Denmark, you barely deserve Greenland. All right, that's what I got for you today. And thanks for joining everybody. Always appreciate it.

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All the technology is here now to make the ocean just the place that people live. So I think that'll happen. There was a jobs report. There was a little below expectation, but not much. So I guess we added 151,000 jobs in February. But the unemployment rate rose to 4.1 from 4.0. And then the January jobs were revised down by 18,000.

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Hope you're getting ready for an amazing, amazing weekend. I'm just going to tell you one story that I told the local subscribers just before we got on. Or did I tell you? Sometimes I forget. I use ChatGPT in its sort of video mode where you can show stuff in your environment. And I was trying to hook up a subwoofer to my existing turntable and amp. Now, I thought that'd be easy.

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I thought, well, there's a hole that says subwoofer and I got a cable that fits into it. And there's sort of only one obvious place you'd stick it on the subwoofer. So how hard could it be? But it turns out there were, I don't know, maybe seven exotic audio settings in the amp that you wouldn't even know how to find them. Like you wouldn't know some are under speaker, some are under audio.

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And most of them are words you've never heard in your life. But I actually used ChatGPT and it told me the exact menu structure of on my own remote. I would just show out the remote and say, oh yeah, there's that button on the bottom right. You push that, make sure that the pure button is not selected. I'm like, wow.

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And then it walked me through all of the menus so that one after another, even without understanding fully what any of those things did, although it would tell me, I'd say, what is this? And it'd say, well, that's used for this or that. And then I'd say, do I want to use this? And it would say, well, you could use that, but if this other setting might be more ideal under these situations.

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And I'd be like, really? I'm learning all kinds of stuff. So I managed to teach myself a whole bunch about audio technology. At the same time, I was solving a problem, like a real life problem. And I thought to myself, man, you can't beat that. You cannot beat working on a real world problem that has salience to you and being able to ask questions as you go.

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It was just very satisfying experience and fully worked. So in the end, it works and everything sounds great. And I was thinking about that for speaking of Harvard. Harvard was always famous, their business school, for having a sort of a case study approach. where instead of giving you a lesson and you trying to hold it, they would give you a situation.

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All right, there's a company, and the company has this problem and these assets, and this is what's going on. Get together with your small group and figure out how you would attack this. And then they sort of have to teach themselves each of the things that you would need to know to understand the situation and solve it. And by the time you're done, boy, did you understand it.

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In my tiny little college I went to in upstate New York, Hartwick College, they were also famous for letting you design your own course. You had to be approved, of course, and you'd have to have a professor who was sponsoring it. So one day we had this on a campus store. It was like a coffee shop where there was entertainment and stuff. And

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So I was involved in that, and it didn't have an accounting system. So it must have been a bunch of Democrats running it before I got there. There was no accounting for any of the money that went through it for years. So for over 20 years, I think, money had been flowing from the college to subsidize this on-store campus or on-store, this on-campus coffee shop, which also had beer.

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And so I became a volunteer there, and I volunteered to be the finance guy. And there was no finance anything. There was no accounting. There was no nothing. So I went to my accounting professor, and I said, hey, I got an idea. How about if I design an accounting system from scratch for this business on campus, and you give me accounting credit for it? And my accounting professor said, great idea.

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And so for one semester, I designed and operated and filled out all the accounting so that we, for the first time, we knew where the money was going and what was happening with it. And I got an A. And I got to tell you that accounting is the most boring thing you could ever do.

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But when you're doing it to implement it to a real business and you have to learn it as you go, it's like, okay, what is this? Like what is articulation? What does that mean? And why is there a balance sheet and an income statement? Like how do they connect? And then once you do it in the real world, it just becomes locked in.

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So that's not ideal, but apparently people thought it could have been worse because of all the doge and tariff and all the other uncertainties in the world right now. I think people were just happy to see that it doesn't seem like yet it's making a huge difference, at least a huge negative difference. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's latest starship, I guess you'd call it a test.

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Like you understand accounting from that point on and it never goes away. So that's what AI can do for you. Man, I wish I had AI back then. If you just have this little advisor that says, all right, here's a domain in which you've never been in. And I'm going to walk you through it. Here's what matters. Here's the definition of those words. Here's what you can ignore.

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Here's what you have to focus on. Oh, my God. The things you could learn and how quickly you could learn them and how sticky it would be if it was a real-life experience with a real problem. So that's coming. Very exciting. All right. Locals, I'm going to come talk to you privately. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. Every day. Every day, same time, same place. Bye.

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Part of it blew up, but I think it's the, I don't know anything about rockets. Would it be the booster that was successfully caught by the chopsticks again? And every time it happens, how many times has it happened? Twice? It's very impressive. It's hard to get more impressive than those giant chopsticks.

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that was half successful meanwhile a tesla dealership in oregon was shot up multiple cars were damaged no people were damaged but uh it seems to me that uh oh and then the authorities arrested uh a trans extremist who was apparently the shooter so a trans extremist now

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When I tell you as a trans extremist that shot up a car company, is your first thought, hmm, it's somebody who was born as a biological woman, but then transitioned to a man? Is that your first thought?

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Or do you say to yourself, hmm, that sounds like somebody who was born a biological male and transitioned to a woman, but still had at least one habit that men seem to have more than women, which is shooting stuff up. Well, if you guessed the latter, you'd be right. Warning. Warning. There's an incoming dad joke. Incoming dad joke. Get ready. Get ready.

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Ironically, it was the only transmission a Tesla dealership has ever seen. Boom. Now, if you need to explain that to anybody, Teslas don't have transmissions. But there was one trans on a mission to shoot up the car dealer, so it's the only trans mission ever in that dealership. You're welcome. So any moment I'm expecting that truckload of Epstein files to be... Okay, I'm just joking.

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There's no truck of Epstein files. You're never going to see anything new on Epstein. There might be a truck full of things that are going to shred. But you still waiting? Everybody waiting to see a picture of the truck? Have you seen any pictures of the truck? No. I don't even know if there is a truck. I don't know if there are any Epstein files, but I'm not going to wait for the good stuff.

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Well, let's see what's going on in science. There's some kind of electron breakthrough. So Mario Nuffel is summarizing this from SciTech Daily. But Japanese and Korean researchers have cracked the code to manipulating electrons at the molecular level. Wow. I'll bet you were waiting for scientists to be able to manipulate electrons at the molecular level.

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I don't think the good stuff is coming, ever. Speaking of the good stuff, so Trump is teasing that he's going to release some information or talk about the two assassination attempts against him, and he's as perplexed as we are about why we don't know more about this. And he was talking about the number of devices and apps.

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He said, you had one of them, one of the attempted shooter people, you had one who had three apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly, and was the biggest white shoe law firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don't live in necessarily a white shoe area. What's that all about? Is law what? And Trump seemed to agree completely. that he thinks that something bigger might be behind everything.

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He doesn't know what. He says other people think that, that there might be something bigger, conspiracy-wise. So it makes me think it a little bit too, he said. Would you like to hear my prediction about all the stuff we're going to find out about the attempted assassins? Nothing. I'm pretty sure all the information about the two attempted assassins, it's on that Epstein truck.

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And the Epstein truck, of course, is on a UFO that they keep in a big warehouse. No, none of this is real. You're not going to find out anything about these assassination attempts. Not even a little bit, ever. And if you do, it's probably going to be a lie. And then we'll think we know for years. It'll be something like, oh, it was the cartels, or oh, it was the mafia. You won't know.

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You might get a story, but you won't know. Meanwhile, there's a story, the University of California researchers, they say there's a paralyzed man who's been using a robotic arm for months, and he can move the arm just by imagining what he wants it to do. How cool is that? So apparently he can pour himself a glass of water just by imagining the arm pouring itself a glass of water.

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Now, they seem to think that this is the beginning of something big and that maybe they'll be able to adapt this to lots of other people. It is very impressive. But I've got a question. Does it work for every kind of personality? Because if I had a robotic arm, the things I would imagine would be more than the things I would want it to do.

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For example, I might want it to pour me a glass of water, but it's not the only thing I would imagine it doing. You know what I mean? You know what I mean, right? You know what I mean? So what would happen if you're You have ADHD and you can't concentrate on the glass of water, but your mind drifts to other things you could imagine that arm doing.

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Again, can we agree that all the men got to the joke before I finished? I didn't need to finish, right? As soon as I said the arm does what you imagine it does, I think every man listening to this started giggling silently. Sort of like Beavis and Butthead. Let me try it again. It's a mechanical arm that does whatever you imagine it. Perfect.

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Anyway, Reuters has some fake news, according to Carolyn Levitt. They said that 240,000 Ukrainians in the U.S. might be deported. That is apparently fake news from Reuters. But there is a kernel of truth in that Trump said that they're looking at some individuals. So it might involve some special cases, but no, they're not going to look at every Ukrainian in the US and deport them.

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And if you're like me, you thought to yourself, hmm, I don't know what good that is. But apparently it will create ultra-fast processing and it will revolutionize solar cells and LEDs and basically anything The world of electronics might never be the same if they get this to be commercial and scale up. But looks like maybe they can.

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That's not a thing. In other medical news, Washington University of Medicine is trying to harness this chemical that makes cannabis, a good pain reliever because they don't want to use opioids because they have lots of downside. But they figured out how to develop the compound that mimics a natural molecule found in cannabis.

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And it seems pretty good at pain relief without the side effects and also doesn't make you high. So I'll just say this, which I've said before. I can't even imagine my life without cannabis as a pain reliever. Oh, my God. I'll admit something that most of you don't know, but the subscribers on Locals do know.

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It wasn't too long ago, maybe a few weeks ago, that I was just in crushing pain before the show. And it was stomach. It was just some kind of stomach issue. And I couldn't even stand up straight, couldn't concentrate. I mean, it was really bad. And I took the cure. So prior to doing the show, I completely eliminated that pain. And it took five minutes, just five minutes of legal medical use.

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In California, it's all legal. And in five minutes, it was like it never happened. So for stomach stuff, it's just incredible if you ever have any. And it works for all kinds of stuff. And I've used it. I've also used it when I got some kind of backache and you've done everything you're supposed to do. You've used your inversion table and your your Advil or whatever the hell you're using.

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And it gets you almost there, but not. five minutes with the, uh, totally legal California medicinal treatment, five minutes, you're, you're, you're right back to action. Like nothing ever heard in the first place. It is quite a, quite an amazing painkiller. It doesn't work for everything all the time or all the people. And of course there's side effects.

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You know, you don't want to be operating, uh, operating a vehicle or doing it around kids. So there's a million reasons why you wouldn't do it. But, uh, If those don't apply, it's a real good painkiller. So Tulsi Gabbard says that the Biden administration knowingly let hundreds of illegal migrants come into the country who had known connections, known connections to ISIS.

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All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. Ah, it's the elixir of the gods. I wonder if there are any new stories.

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So Ellen Weintraub, the head of the FEC that Trump is trying to get rid of, she once was in private practice at Perkins Coy. So if you recommend, if you understand Perkins Coy, that's like the heart of the Democrat legal dirty tricks. Well, I won't call them that. I'll just say they're the the legal arm of the Democrats, where much has been done that Republicans don't like.

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So we can see why Trump's getting rid of her. It makes sense. But let me close with Fetterman. So Fetterman knows that he's on the anti-male team, and he stays there. Now, if he tried to become a Republican, I'm sorry, that door is very closed right now. You're not going to become a Republican. If you're turning down Kennedy, you're dead. I mean, not physically dead.

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You're done as a political entity that anybody on the Republican side is going to care about. So you're a piece of shit from my perspective. And you should expect that Scott Pressler is coming for your job. not to take the job, but to make sure that there are more Republicans registered in Pennsylvania. And he said so, by the way. I'm not speculating.

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Scott Pressler, Nicole Shanahan, they're going to take him out. And I don't know if that means he'll be primaried, but that's what Nicole Shanahan promised. It should be primarying people who go the wrong direction on the Kennedy vote. And Scott Pressler says it directly. You know, we're coming after you, basically.

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So Fetterman, I think his political fortunes are now over because he just made an unrecoverable error. Allegedly, according to Wired, Elon Musk's Doge is working on a chatbot project So they're going to create a chatbot called GSAI, allegedly. And it would be part of, you know, maybe some of it would be to analyze the complexities that Doge is looking into.

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But some of it would be maybe a replacement for some of the functions of the government. You know, if you had a really good AI, it could do a lot of stuff. Now, I'm a skeptic. because my own experience with trying to create an AI agent, even though it was last summer and a lot has changed, I don't believe AI can do that.

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I don't believe AI can create an agent that can do general stuff that a human can do. I don't think it's anywhere near it. So the AI is super smart, but when you try to get it to do sort of the job of a person, It's, you know, it hallucinates and it's hard to know when it's going to do it. It can't look up data reliably.

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So the only way it would work is if it's sort of an interface layer, but all of the real important work is just regular programming. You know, just it initiates something that looks into a database that's not AI. So if it's the interface for things that are not AI, it could be great. So I don't want to judge. Obviously, let me just say the obvious.

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The people who are working on this know a lot more than I do about AI. So if they think it can work, it would be kind of dumb for me to bet against it. But it's not my understanding that it can work, unless it's just the interface to regular programming. We'll see. Someday it will work. I don't think it's there yet. All right. You know we're going to talk about USAID. I got more to say about that.

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And oh my God, did I call it 10 years ago. You have to see it to see how on point it is for today. Anyway, so go take a look at that. In other news, yay. We'll get to the hard news in a minute. I like to ease you into it with some lesser hard news. So apparently yay is making a buzz on social media. I think he's got a new album out. And he's apparently off his meds.

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But Thomas Massey... Now, if you're brand new, I'll just give you the quick update. USAID is a $50 billion or whatever funded entity within the government that does things for the State Department, sometimes the CIA, sometimes the Pentagon. This is the Mike Benz explanation of the world. And it's been basically gutted by Doge for all the alleged waste and, you know, fraud.

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The waste would be funding things that are not good for anybody. That would be the claim. But Thomas Massey says, I'm concerned that the House and Senate will fully fund USAID in March. just like we did in December, although he voted against it. He said the argument from Republican leadership will be that they need Democrat votes to pass the omnibus to avoid a government shutdown. Oh, my God.

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I hate how right he is. So Massey's pretty good at seeing around corners and telling you what's coming. How do we beat that? Because the whole omnibus thing is essentially a criminal process. It's a criminal process because it allows the people of Congress to not do their job and get tons of money for things that will help them get reelected.

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I don't know if it's illegal, but certainly in intention and in a de facto way, it's just criminal. The... Let me say it again. The omnibus is when they put all of the spending in one big thing and you can just say yes or no.

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But they put all kinds of crap in there and then they say, well, if you say no to the crap, you're the one who shut down the government and children will die, which is an exaggeration. So, yeah, we have a system that guarantees that USAID will be fully funded. Think about that. We just nuked it, and the corrupt government is so advanced at this point, it's evolved almost to its own creature.

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The corruption is self-healing. We have a self-healing corruption-designed machine. If you take out the heart of the machine, the USAID, that might be the most important beating organ in the whole machine, completely removed. And in one month, it could be reinstated because it's a self-healing corrupt system. And they'll just use the omnibus as the argument for why it must be refunded.

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Now, if it's not done with the omnibus, and I don't know what would stop it, they could do the same thing with onesies and twosies. Well, but this one's important. Well, you cut all the funding, but this one's important. But this one's important. And just try to wear down Marco Rubio and the State Department, which absorbed the USAID function.

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So let me tell you, if you think USAID is defeated, not even close. We're not even close to defeating it. It's sort of like the Terminator. Okay, Good news, we shot the Terminator. Uh-oh, he's reforming. He's self-healing. So it's coming for you.

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Did you know, according to Leslie Kazimowicz, I don't know if this is a good source or not, but it's a good example of the kind of news I'm seeing on social media. I'll give you the following warning. There will be claims about USAID funding that are not true. Trump just reversed the Biden decision on plastic straws. We're getting our plastic straws back. Yes.

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USAID's coming back, but so are plastic straws. So it's a tie. All right. So according to Leslie Kajumovitz, and remember, the umbrella for this story and a lot of others is they might not be true. There are going to be a whole bunch of claims about USAID funding that if you looked into it, it might be not exactly what the claim is, but could be close.

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And I'm not going to tell you any of the things that he said, in all caps, shouting like crazy on X. But let me tell you, he looks like he's off his meds. It's just absolute mental illness. There's no other way to No other way to look at it. He says he's off his meds, by the way. He thinks he was misdiagnosed as bipolar. So now he thinks he's autistic. He is not autistic.

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But the claim is that USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory. Well, now on the surface, you'd say to yourself, Well, if you're going to have a modern country and you're going to develop, you're going to need some cement. So maybe we funded one of the main things they needed to rebuild is good quality local cement. I wonder where the cement went.

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Well, maybe some of it went for factories, to build some factories, maybe some housing. But maybe it's how they built their Hamas tunnels.

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so the the real concern is that no matter what our intentions were it may have been just you know siphoned off and taken to build not siphoned off but they would have they would have actually built the cement plant but the cement plant may have been allegedly some part of the tunnel building 310 million do you think we got our money's worth there um I don't know.

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That one feels a little too on the nose, doesn't it? Remember I tell you the one way to spot fake news quickly is it's too perfect? What would be the most perfect story somebody could make up about USAID? The most perfect story would be it built the Hamas tunnels. Now it might have. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying, oh boy, is that one right on the nose.

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So if you have to bet on it, I don't know if it's a safe bet. It's a little too clean. So just beware that when you hear these stories that are a little too perfect, there may be a reason they're too perfect. But they also might be true, so it's hard to say. Yesterday I posted an ex that it seems to me

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that maybe we could close the entire budget gap, the deficit, the entire thing, just by getting rid of fraud. And that's a big claim, right? Because we're talking about $2 trillion. So I honestly think that if we got rid of all fraud in all forms of the government, from military to Medicare fraud to everything else, we might close the entire gap. And I thought, well...

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You know, it's just how it feels. It's not really having done the math. But Elon Musk saw that comment that I made and he modified it in the comments. He said that maybe getting rid of fraud would close one third to one half of the deficit. One half of the deficit is a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars per year, not a trillion dollars over many years. One year.

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Now, that's the person who's looked into it the closest. He knows more than any of us now about what he's found and maybe even what he's likely to find. He thinks there might be a trillion dollars of something that we might call waste or fraud. I think that's right. I think it's a trillion. At least, you know, I thought it was two. But I'm going to go with his estimate because he's closer to it.

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Here are some examples. Jesse Waters had a good rundown on some of the examples of things that USAID was doing. Now, here's the problem. And I'll get into this in more detail. The fake news, the corporate news, is reporting that USAID is a charitable organization doing all kinds of good things all over the world. and that defunding it means that people will die by the millions. So people will die.

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So when Jesse and other people give the list of the fake-looking wastes of money, and I'm going to list them in a moment, you might say to yourself, oh, if we get rid of the fake ones, then all we'll have left is the real charity, and maybe the real charity makes sense, some people would say. Now, the fake news is covering this like it's a charity being removed story.

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The real news, the MAGA Republican version of what's happening, is that USAID has always been a fake organization that is designed to overthrow other countries and also control the United States. So those are completely different stories. But here's what's interesting. The fake news is pretending like there's only one version of the narrative.

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I'm pretty sure that's not right. But I don't know. We'll see. In other news, a simulation alert. Simulation alert. Simulation alert. Everybody, simulation alert. Here's how you know you live in a simulation. The confirmation vote for the new budget chief, Democrats tried to delay it. They tried to delay the vote for somebody named Russ Vote. That's right.

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They're not even telling you that the other narrative is wrong. They're just ignoring it. What's that tell you? If they told you that the narrative that it's a CIA front, if they told you that was not true, and they said why, and they showed their work, well, then maybe you could compare their version with what other sources are saying. and maybe make up your own mind.

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But they're acting like there's only one narrative. They're actually ignoring the main claim. And the main claim is the biggest scandal in American history. You know, maybe since, I don't know, maybe since slavery. But it's the biggest story I've ever seen since I've been alive. Would you agree? I mean, wars are big in their own way, so you can't ignore wars.

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But in terms of a scandal, this is the biggest one I've ever seen by a thousand. This is not even close to anything I've ever seen. This is enormous. That's one narrative. Why can they ignore What half of the country thinks is true and is digging into the details of it and completely coming up to speed, they're just ignoring it. Now, that tells you that they're fake news.

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So if you're wondering, are they fake news? Yes. Turns out they are. Here's some of the things Jesse Waters says they funded. $6 million for tourism in Egypt. Because... Egypt certainly couldn't do any tourism without an extra $6 million. As Jesse points out, they have pyramids. They have pyramids. You'd be lucky if you could stop people from going there.

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I mean, you'd have to close the border to stop all the people who want to go in there to look at the pyramids. The one thing they don't need some help with becoming a tourist destination because, again, they've got pyramids. They have pyramids. All right. $2 million to help the British broadcasting company value the diversity of Libyan society. I didn't make that up.

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We're paying the BBC, British entity, how to value the diversity of Libyan society. Now that can't be real. How is that real? $1 million for a gay group in Armenia. What? What? $20 million for Iraqi Sesame Street. Okay. $2 million for trans surgeries in Guatemala. $235 million to the National Democratic Institute. Well, that sounds fine, right? We like democracy.

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Sounds like that's what they're working on. It's right in the name. So $235 million. But a lot of that money went to executive compensation. So the real meaning of all this funding is everything about the government funding seems to be a way for Democrats to get a payday and some anti-Trump Republicans. They all seem to have one foot in

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in some form of either USAID or somebody that USAID funds or something also an NGO. I saw an estimate from Alex Jones that there are 1.5 million NGOs, but 1.1 million of them are left-leaning. Is that possible? Somebody in the comments said 55,000. At the very least, there are thousands. Thousands. of these entities. They get funded by our government, your taxpayers, your tax money.

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And it seems to be mostly for controlling America, controlling other countries, and for people to get paychecks so that they can get this easy funding from your money. Basically, it's just a transfer of wealth to Democrats. The wealthy Democrats, not even the poor Democrats. That's what it looks like.

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Well, according to Grok, and I should warn you that all of the AIs are not up to date on this story. They're up to date on what people are saying, but your AIs are going to tell you there's no evidence that the CIA has anything to do with the USAID. That's what your AI will tell you. But Grok tells me that all the spending of USAID is transparent and

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His name sounds like Rush the Vote, and they delayed the vote for Rush Vote. That's all. That's the whole story. Simulation alert. Meanwhile, there's a Michigan Democrat state legislator who decided to announce that she's going to sterilize herself, actually already has, to avoid giving birth in Donald Trump's America. according to the Gateway Pundit, Colin Lineberger, Linebarger, Barger.

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It's transparent, so everybody could have always seen it. And that the GAO, Government Accounting Office, can audit it. So don't worry about the spending being wrong, because you can see it. It's transparent. You know the names of the places it's going to. And you also know that there's an auditing function, so it can get audited by the government to make sure they're not doing anything wrong.

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So are you good with that? I hope you're good with it because I'm starting an NGO. So the name of my NGO is going to be called America Doing Awesome Things for Gay Climate Scientists and Democracy. Now that sounds like a joke, but it's not very far from the name of the other NGOs. So the first thing you do is put a name on your NGO and a primary purpose that looks like it's good.

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And then you hide behind that goodness and do all your evil behind it because you can get your paycheck. You can do your influence peddling. But as long as people come after you, so if you come after me after I get funded for my America doing awesome things for gay climate scientists and democracy, I'm going to say, whoa, oh, look who's coming after me. Apparently you don't like gay people.

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You're a bigot. And you're anti-science because why else would you be coming after me for trying to fund climate scientists? So you're anti-scientist, you're anti-gay, you're opposed to democracy. I mean, all those things are right in the title of my NGO. So clearly I'm doing good work and you're some kind of a bigoted piece of crap science denier. Get out of here. Get out of here.

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And I'm going to tell all the other Democrats to stay away from you. God, you're such a terrible person. You're awful. How can you even come after me when I'm so virtuous? Just look at the name of my NGO. It's right there in the name. All right. So there's that. Also, according to the Washington Examiner, taxpayers also funded Chinese research

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Representative Claudia Tenney, Republican, she's got a bill she's introducing to stop funding our adversaries. Now, you would think that's something we weren't doing. Your common sense would say, we're not funding any adversaries. What are you talking about? How can it possibly be true that we're funding adversaries? What? But between 2015 and 2021, the U.S.,

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provided $29 million directly to Chinese entities for research and development. I think that included Wuhan. These are real things, I think. Now remember, remember the umbrella caution? There are going to be claims that aren't true. And I'm not sure I'll know which ones are not true. But the general thrust of it is still the same. Directionally, these are largely fake things.

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Now, is it true that it also does good things, such as helping countries battle AIDS? Yes. That's called a cover. The reason that they do good things is so you can't pull their funding. They're doing good things. The government, let's say the foreign government that allows USAID-funded things in,

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probably can't handle the problems themselves such as you know an aids epidemic or you know any other major problem that a smaller country can't handle we come in and say we can handle that and the government says well we can't do it ourselves and it is destroying our country so yeah come on and then you can't kill it because if you try to kill the funding you're going to say that you killed people with aids

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Elon Musk just posted, I love Donald Trump as much as a straight man can love another man. Oh, God, he likes causing trouble. All right. So let's see, what else is... So CNN says the concern about these big government payouts to media organizations such as Politico are fake. So no, the media is telling you that if you think the media is taking money to change their reporting, that's fake, people.

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That's just fake. And the example they give is that Politico, which has two, I think, two main businesses, one is Politico, the publication, but another one is a very expensive subscription thing that has extra data and things that are not in their public Politico thing.

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And the claim was that $8 million have flowed into the pro part of the Politico, not the publication, and that it came from not just USAID, but maybe a bunch of entities that are also NGOs and kind of operate the same. So, do you think that $8 million of subscriptions... Do you think that was an appropriate expense for all kinds of different parts of the government?

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They all needed a subscription to this thing? Does that sound real to you? Now, Politico is trying to make the distinction that funding, not funding, but let's say buying a bunch of subscriptions to one part of their business has no influence on their coverage in the other part of the business. That's for the fucking stupid people. Let me tell you how you can bribe people.

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So I would regard this as a combination of mental illness and probably something she wanted to do anyway that had nothing to do with anything. She's 36, hasn't had a kid, I guess. So I don't know how much sex she was having. but she won't be having any extra Democrats.

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Oh, how many lines of business do you have? Two. Well, we'd like to influence one of those lines of business. Okay, great. We'll give you millions of dollars if you'll do with that line of business what we want you to. Excellent. You got a deal. But can you do us a favor? Don't write the checks to something that looks like that line of business that you want us to influence. Instead,

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Could you write it to the other line of business so it looks like you're just buying a regular product like anybody would? So I'm not saying that's what happened. I'm just saying that's exactly what it looks like happened. There's no such thing as people who are uninfluenced by money. Millions of dollars. Yeah, no influence at all. Millions of dollars. Nobody believes that.

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And as I read, Ron Paul thinks that basically all of the media is influenced by government spending that's channeled through this and that, so it gets there. Well, maybe. Brian Stelter called the claim that Politico is receiving government subsidies, quote, rampant right-wing misinformation. Well, technically he's correct. Here's what he didn't say.

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But the parent company of Politico is making millions of dollars, and it doesn't seem like that number could be supported by the fact that people like subscriptions to your pro service. That would be the better frame. All right. If you're getting lost in all this stuff because the Doge thing is getting complicated. I would recommend that you listen to the explainers.

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One difference from 2016 till now is that the right-leaning part of the world has developed these incredible explainers, people who simply know enough that they can tell you what's really happening that's different from what the news is telling you. So some of them, of course, Mike Benz is the tip of the spear on this particular topic.

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But I would listen to Mike Cernovich, who digs into it deeper than most and explains it better. Glenn Greenwald, Brett Weinstein. And look at podcasts, not the news. The podcasts are where you get closest to the truth in this case. And the good explainers are the ones that can help you. So the bad explainers aren't going to give you anything.

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You've got to listen to the good explainers that I just explained. So here's an example. Brett Weinstein on Joe Rogan. I'm going to read the whole thing. I just like the way he said it.

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He said, quote, as I was watching the confirmation hearings, my sense was that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were dinosaurs who do not understand that the earth has just been hit from outer space and that they don't live in the world that they're used to, that their corruption was immediately apparent and they're not used to that.

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They're used to having a whole phony journalistic layer that covers for them and that layer is gone and the American public is awake and they're angry and rightfully so. And now it looks like, now look at Bernie Sanders and you can see the same guy going after Bobby Kennedy like, dude, I just went through COVID.

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I see Bernie Sanders and I see him reading from a script that is no longer relevant to the movie that we're watching. That's a good description. That's a good description. Yes. If you look at the politicians that are prairie-dogging, the ones who've decided that they're going to be really noisy about USAID being cut and about the doge, those are all the corrupt ones.

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In the most important story of the entire year, one of the Doge team members used to go by the name, a secret name online, Big Balls. And Big Balls said some pretty inappropriate things. Yeah, pretty inappropriate. And once that all came out, You would be surprised to hear that somebody who was once working for USAID, the networks for the Wall Street Journal, outed that Doge person. Huh.

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By accident, this wasn't what anybody was trying to do, but by accident, by poking the right part of the government, it revealed all of the turds. Everybody who is corrupt, in my opinion, this is just an opinion, they're the ones that are the loudest. If you see Jamie Raskin and Schumer and Warren and Sanders and Adam Schiff, those are all the designated liars.

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They're the ones who specifically come out when they're selling bullshit. They don't bring them out when the truth can handle itself. If the problem is the truth, then the news can handle it. The news will just say, oh, fact check, this is true. But when the news can't handle it because it's such a big lie that even the news can't go there, they bring out the same cast of characters.

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Yeah, and Letitia James is obviously part of the corruption. She's the lawfare queen. So that's the world we're living in.

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about the benefits of drinking coffee. Checking notes? Yes, there is. According to Get Surrey, Ellen Jen writes that drinking one extra cup of sugar-free coffee a day is linked to weight loss. I believe that I'm only a few cups away from disappearing totally. If there's less of you, the more you drink coffee, I'm about ready to disappear. So that's how I'm going to go.

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um so this is uh from mike cernovich who was on jesse kelly's show and he said that uh usaid funds diversity uh the money hits a non-profit so diversity everybody loves that right so you fund the diversity so that you've got a cover and then the money hits the non-profit that's going to do something for diversity And some shit lib in D.C. pays herself, himself or herself, half a million dollars.

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Power couples are pulling in millions of dollars per year, stealing from you. I believe that is a perfect explanation of some large part of what's happening. That Democrats have figured out, wait a minute, if 98% of the people in USAID are Democrats... And I'm a Democrat. And they've got all this money and they give it out to all kinds of sketchy people all the time for sketchy reasons.

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All I need is to say I'm going to do something that sounds important, like fix diversity. And then what are they going to do? If you're a USAID and somebody says, I'm going to work on diversity, don't you say, oh, yeah, good, good. Let's do that. So it basically turns out a lot of this is, I think, literally just scam.

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It's hard to know because there might be some legitimate ones they got in the mix, but it does look like mostly it's designed as a scam. At least that's the way it operates. It's a de facto criminal enterprise. De facto might not actually be illegal. Marco Rubio, now head of the State Department, where USAID got rolled in.

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So after it got gutted, what's left of it got rolled under the State Department. So Rubio's in charge of that. And he's going to reduce the staff of USAID from about 10,000 to 294, which is probably about 200 people too many. But, you know, I'll take what I can get. So this is very Musk-like. It just feels like a lot of what he did with Twitter.

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Your common sense, which wouldn't work in this case, told you, okay, Twitter might have 20% more people than they need. Nope. They had 90% more people than they needed, probably maybe 80% or 75%. And that was the right number because X has apparently turned cash positive. Can you believe that? I think that's true. I'll take a fact check on that.

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But I saw this morning just in passing, somebody said that X is now beyond breakeven, that they're cash positive. Is that still true? I hope so. Anyway, so Mike Benz is now being attacked by the same media that may be benefiting from these corrupt payments from USAID and similar NGOs.

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So would you be surprised to know that the Washington Post not only went after that Doge guy, but he already did a hit piece on Mike Benz. And he says that a whole bunch of the media has contacted him, asking him to comment because they're also working on hit pieces. Apparently, it took him a while. Were you all wondering, why hasn't Mike Benz been taken out by the deep state yet?

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I hate to say it, but I've been wondering that for a long time. And the only thing I could think of is that he had not penetrated the bubble yet. Meaning that as long as they had a good bubble so that nobody in their base ever heard any Mike Benz argument. And by the way, I tested this with my smartest Democrat friend a while back. I said, all right, just do me a favor. Just listen to one person.

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Just listen to Mike Benz. figure out what he's saying about things, and then you'll finally maybe catch up to a big part of what the political right knows. And my friend looked at one of his videos, dismissed it as, I don't know, a troll or something, and would never look at another one. So that's probably what happened with any other Democrat who tried looking.

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The Mike Benz view of reality is so disturbing that if you're not already leaning in that direction, it'll just make your head explode and your brain won't be able to process how completely wrong your impression of the world you live in has been. Here's the most provocative thing that Ben said just on a podcast, I think yesterday. He said there's no such thing as domestic policy.

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Feels like everything's coming together. And now we understand. Every time you hear that somebody like Liz Cheney came out of the, or AOC, were birthed by the USAID funding, you have to say to yourself, hmm. Is this really describing the entire structure we see? That all the people that we know to be turds came from the same place? That would be kind of a big coincidence. Anyway.

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Just listen to that. There's no such thing as domestic policy. Everything that you think is domestic policy is fake. Meaning that it's designed to control other countries or to control our own country to keep a populist out of office. Now, when I heard that, my first thought was, well, that's not true. Because what about our What about the emphasis the government has on DEI before Trump?

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And now we know that DEI is what we introduced to a country we're trying to destabilize. Because if you can get them to really be mad about racial division, which is what DEI gets you, you can weaponize them and put them on the streets and have them rebel against the government. But what about climate change? I mean, that's obviously domestic policy.

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We want to save our lives and make sure we're doing the right thing, right? Well, except that one of the ways you destabilize another country is to inject climate change into that other country, say it's the most important thing. And if the leaders aren't working on it, well, they got to be replaced.

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And so it goes that everything you think was a domestic policy is really a way to make sure that, uh, Populists like Trump don't get power because the populists will rip into all that stuff. What about trans rights? Were you all confused about why trans rights suddenly became the only thing we were talking about for a long time? How is that even possible?

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Even if you agree or disagree with any of the topics under the trans stuff, nobody thought it should have been the top national talking point. That can't be natural. Do you know what we do when we try to destabilize other countries? We fund pro-trans things in those countries. Because the trans people can get the LGBTQs on board and suddenly they all hate their leadership.

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Now, doesn't that sound exactly like what's happening in this country? It does. So let's talk more about that. So I spent some time this morning, so that you didn't need to, on Grok. So Grok is the AI I used. And I said to myself, I want to use the most unbiased one because I'm going to ask some questions that I know will be censored on the other ones. So this is what Grok said.

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So the first thing I asked it was about this Smith-Munt Act of 1948. I'll bet most of you have heard of that, right? It's something that Democrats have no idea about. So the Smith-Munt Act allowed our CIA or whatever it was at the time to do propaganda broadcasts in other countries. So we could literally try to brainwash other countries, but it was very carefully, you know, walled.

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so they couldn't do that in America. Now, the conservative story or the MAGA story is that when Obama came in office, he changed the part about being able to do it domestically. So the purpose of it, and nobody argues that this is the purpose, so both sides would agree this is the purpose. The purpose of

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sending media to other countries is to control their minds it's brainwashing it's propaganda and nobody nobody argues that so that part nobody argues because we're okay propagandizing other countries you know they do it to us we do it to them but the magnet people would say yes but that all stopped that all stopped when obama said you can also use that same material

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that was used to propagandize other countries, you can now use it internally. So I asked Grok if that's true. And he said, no, that's not true. Here's what Grok says. The only change that was made was that if you wanted to get some of that external propaganda for research, just for research, you could request it and it would not be denied to you. That's what Grok says.

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Grok is the most, I think, the most or the least censored AI. Grok says that's bullshit. Grok says that nothing like that happened. There was no authorization for the CIA to brainwash Americans. That didn't happen. The only thing they did was a little technical change that allowed somebody to request something if they wanted to do some research. Do you believe that? I don't know.

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So the best part is that CNN did a part in this in which Aaron Burnett and Kara Swisher were talking about it because... You just can't have somebody working on your team named Big Balls who once said offensive things online under a pseudonym. Anyway, what's the point of having a pseudonym if you can't be anonymous? But here's the best part.

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I'm going to say, I don't know. I don't think that the Smith-Munt Act is terribly important to what we're seeing today. In other words, you can see everything we're seeing, whether or not the Smith-Munt Act did or did not do anything. So I think maybe it's just a distraction, not an intentional distraction, but rather a distraction to spend much time thinking about it.

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Because we could argue all day whether that act has any difference. But we could also just look at the difference. We could just look at what people are doing. And that's probably all you need. So the CIA specifically would be not allowed to use that stuff. But what about an NGO? No.

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Do you think an NGO, a non-government organization that gets funded by the government, do you think it could look at some of the propaganda and then repurpose it for the United States? Because I don't think anything says that a non-CIA entity can't do it. Do you think the CIA could ask somebody else to do it for them? Do you think they could talk to the Washington Post?

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I'll just use them as an example. It's not an accusation. Just an example. Could the CIA say, hey, I'm having lunch with a journalist. And you know, there's this interesting story happening over in Europe right now. And it might be some application in the United States. Maybe the US market would like this story too. And then it's not really the CIA that's using it to propagandize.

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They're just having lunch. It's just a conversation. It's just lunch. So if you have lunch with your favorite journalist, and you happen to know about a story that's kind of big in another country, maybe they'd be interested in looking at that story and how it plays out in this country.

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So I think if we're looking at the technical language of the law and this Smith-Munt act and what it does do and what it doesn't do and how it was revised, probably we're just going down the rabbit hole for no reason because you don't even need to be in that hole.

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everything that you care about, know about, everything that matters, it can all be deduced without any reference to the Smith-Mundt Act. Because the one thing we can all be sure of is that any entity in the United States could get around that without any effort. It basically has no teeth.

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Because there's nothing that would stop me from, let's say, looking at some media in another country and saying, oh, I think I'll say that on social media because that looked good to me. That's not illegal. I can do it. I'm just a citizen. I just saw some stuff and I thought it'd be a good story. So it couldn't possibly be true that Smith-Munt either caused anything or prevented anything.

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it would be far more reasonable to say it doesn't do anything it's like it's like you can forget that whole story you know the from the maggot perspective it it kind of gave some meat to a belief but you don't need it you got plenty all right so that's the first thing you found now also you might know that operation mockingbird

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was the CIA literally in the 50s and 60s, they had favored news entities and journalists that they influenced, including the Washington Post and New York Times. Well, they were implicated. So Grok doesn't say they were guilty. Grok says they were implicated. And it remains to be seen according to Grok, whether they were really guilty of that.

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But I think most of us believe that Operation Mockingbird was real. And so that means in my lifetime, in my lifetime, the 60s, the CIA was managing our news. And they don't have to manage every news entity, because if you get the Washington Post and the New York Times, everybody else just follows them.

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They're called the newsmakers, meaning that until it's in one of those entities, at least in the 60s, it wasn't really news. So if a local newspaper had a big story, nobody cared. It didn't go anywhere. It has to be in the New York Times or the Washington Post in those days. That was before, you know, Internet.

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I believe that the media thought that they would hurt Musk and his effort by giving a lot of attention to Big Balls. And I don't think they know much about Elon Musk because big balls is the funniest thing you could possibly do. And the more you talk about it on CNN, the happier I am. I think you should do the whole segment on big balls. There should be more of a special.

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So allegedly, there was this church committee in the 70s that exposed this evil, and then it was ended. Do you think it was ended because it became illegal? Let's go back to lunch, shall we? Hey, favorite journalist who works for the Washington Post, would you like to have lunch? I work for the CIA and I know lots of things that maybe off the record you'd like to know, too. All right.

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Well, it's just lunch. So let's have lunch. All right. Here's a scoop. Let me tell you this scoop. And they give him a real scoop. And the journalist says, wow, that was worth it. I'm glad I went to lunch with that guy. And then maybe later, you know, he needs some context on the story. And he contacts that CIA guy and says, hey, you know, I'm doing a story on this. Do you have any context?

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And CIA guy adds it, makes his story better. Journalists is now killing it. He's got two great stories. Thanks to the CIA contact. And then there's another lunch. The CIA contact says, you know what? God, this terrible Trump guy. Wow. Yeah, I don't know what the world is going to do with this Trump, Trump, Trump guy trying to break all of our democracy and doing racist things.

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What's your newspaper doing about Trump? Well, I don't know. I mean, I haven't I don't have any stories about that. Yeah, you really should think about it because it really is the biggest story. in my opinion. I mean, I'm not telling you any CIA stuff. And of course, the CIA can't tell you to do it. But wow, it's the biggest story. How are you missing that?

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And the next thing you know, the journalist does not believe that they have been influenced by the CIA. They just think they have a good idea for a story. Now, this is just an example, of course. But if you think that the law

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or any kind of law, like the church committee or whatever they found and whatever law changed, if you think the law can prevent somebody from having lunch, what world do you live in? All they need is a conversation. You don't think that the CIA is trained in how to manipulate somebody into doing what they want? That's exactly what they're trained to do. not just in America, but to anybody.

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If you sit down with somebody who's trained to persuade you, you're going to leave that meeting a little bit persuaded. So you don't really need to do anything illegal. It's just lunch. Just lunch. What that? Okay, that's bad. All right. So, I would ignore the fact that there were any legal changes about what the CIA can or cannot do.

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Sometimes it's the CIA, sometimes it's the State Department, sometimes it's the Pentagon. So when I say the CIA did this or that, what I mean is any of those entities, because they're sort of joined at the hip for a lot of stuff. So let me tell you what the MAGA belief is, and then we'll see how connected to reality is.

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So the mega belief is that the CIA developed a bunch of tools, allegedly for influencing other countries. But they ended up turning those tools on the populist movement of Trump and Because stopping populists in other countries was mainly what they did. And stopping a Trump populist movement was apparently, some say, allegedly, what they did next.

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Now, we know that there was some effort to censor Americans by controlling foreign entities. So if a foreign fake fact checker kept saying that X or something was fake, Well, then the European countries could say, well, according to our fake fact checker that's paid by USAID, just as an example, I don't know if they are.

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According to the fake fact checkers, this one Elon Musk owned platform is just full of lies and Nazis. So I guess we can just ban it, which would put X in a business. So we do know that our own government, intentionally, not by accident, got a whole bunch of fake entities in other countries that we funded to do things that we couldn't do legally in this country.

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So it might have been technically legal, but certainly a violation of everything we care about constitutionally. So we know that's true. So here are the things we know are true. I'm not going to read that comment, but it's very funny. The things we know are true are that our own government has done a bunch of color revolutions in other countries.

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I'd like to see them delve deeper into it. But here's the thing. And I love the fact that they thought they were defeating the monster and They would think that Elon Musk is the monster. And so the way they thought they would defeat him is talking about big balls. That's really feeding the monster. I mean, if you're really afraid of him, don't feed him stories about big balls.

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Now, if you don't know what a color revolution is, it's because a lot of these coups that are usually instigated by America, they often have a color associated with them. Not always. Sometimes there'll be some other label. But let me just give you an example. of some color revolutions. Now, I should tell you that the way they do the color revolution is they first do capacity building.

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This is also Mike Ben's narrative. The capacity building means we bribe or somehow get control of various things within the country we're targeting. So if we could, let's say, bribe or control their media or any part of it, that'd be a big part of it. If we can control union heads, they could tell the unions what to do. That'd be a big part of it.

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If we could control the universities, so we're educating the young people to be against their own government and for us. And you would try to control minority groups because they're the ones most likely to say, hey, the government's not serving us. We better overthrow it.

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So, if you saw USAID going into a country, and even if they said, oh, we're going to help you with your terrible problems, it is verified that in a number of cases, some would say not 100%, Mike Benz might say 100%, but that the CIA rides on the charity to get into the country and then do its CIA thing.

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And that all of the charities are basically cover for that activity because we don't do anything for another country unless it has a domestic purpose. And the domestic purpose is controlling other countries. So that's the claim. So this is the narrative on the right. So if somebody were running a color revolution in the United States, we know what to look for. And I'll tell you that in a minute.

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But here are some of the examples. In 2000, Serbia had a bulldozer revolution, so they didn't have a color yet. The colors came later. There was a rose revolution in Georgia in 2003. There was an orange revolution in Ukraine in 2004. There was a tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan in 2005. Cedar revolution in Lebanon in 2005. Jeans revolution in Belarus in 2006. Saffron revolution in Myanmar.

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2007, Green Movement, Iran, 2009, Velvet Revolution, Armenia, 2018. Some say that Euromaidan, which is also Ukraine, that came later, the Arab Spring and Hong Kong protests and Belarus protests are sometimes also labeled as color revolutions. That's according to Grok. So this comes from Grok. Now, did you know how many there were? That's kind of a lot. And I think this is not a complete list.

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I think maybe it's just the bigger countries we've all heard of. So here are the things we know for sure. There have been decades in which the CIA controlled Americans by brainwashing us through the media. That's not questioned by anybody. Left, right, we all agree on that. Some say it stopped happening, but they are morons. They are morons. There's no way to stop that from happening domestically.

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There's no way. When I watch a movie like Top Gun, it's all rah-rah, Americans are good at flying planes. I don't think that happens by itself. I think maybe Tom Cruise makes amazing movies and he has the power to do any movie he wants, and that was an obvious sequel. But I don't know. Do you think that's totally without any influence by our government? I don't know.

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I have no evidence that it is, but it's exactly what they do. So I don't know. Well, now let's go to 2016. Tie it all together. Trump wins unexpectedly. How did Trump win unexpectedly?

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He's going to be dining on that all day, so to speak. So there's one thing missing with this story, and I think you can all tell what's missing. You know what's missing, right? It doesn't have a clever name yet. So we need to have some kind of a name to talk about this scandal about the big balls. I'm going to go first. I'm going to call it a scrotum gate. Scrotum gate. Everybody in?

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because the bad guys failed to believe it was true there was such a thing as shy trump supporters that's right the smartest people in our government you know the spooks and the spies and the fbi and all those smart politicians they all believed it wasn't real when people like me were saying uh you know what's coming right you know that you've made it impossible to say out loud who you support.

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And you know it's so bad, you can't even tell your spouse. And you know it's so bad that if a pollster calls and you do support Trump, you're not going to take the call. And you know it's so bad, you might be lying to your own spouse about who you support. Now, that's what they missed. Now, I didn't miss it. I was saying it almost every day. Almost every day, I said, you got to watch out.

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Shy Trump supporters. It's way bigger than you think. And there's a logical, obvious reason for it, because you've made it impossible to go public with your beliefs. And so sure enough, Trump wins unexpectedly. And then what do you think happened? So one of the tricks that the color revolutions use is to say that Russia or somebody else is behind who is in office now.

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So you can get a revolution going if you can say, oh, the current leader is a Russian puppet. See where this is going? What was the main attack on Trump? Literally that he was a Russian puppet. This is textbook. This is guaranteed every time. If the America tries to overthrow a populist, the first thing they say is, that's not a populist. That's a Russian puppet.

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And watch how hard they've pushed on the Russian puppet thing. And now, as I was saying, the prairie dogs, the people who have exposed themselves as being part of the corrupt machine, they were the ones pushing it. Hillary Clinton, to this day, is pushing the Russia puppet thing about Trump. It's not an accident.

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If all they wanted to do was say there's bad things about Trump, you would just say a million different things. But the fact that they... converged on a whole made-up Russia puppet thing, that's textbook, 100% indication that they turned their external tools internally. It's not proof, but it would be the biggest fucking coincidence in the world, especially since it wasn't true.

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If it were true, then you'd just say, well, it was just true. But they made it up, and we know that. They made it up. And then, let's see, what about the capacity building? If we were doing capacity building in other places, we would fund things like universities. Huh, look at our universities, full of leftist anti-populists. Look at our media.

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Huh, the media seems completely controlled, just like we would do to another country if we wanted to take it over. How about racial groups? Black Lives Matter. Well, suddenly we can make a story out of this George Floyd thing that if it had been based on the facts would have been no story at all.

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But if you control the media, you can turn the George Floyd story into a story about rampant racial problems in the country. That's exactly what we would do to another country. How about Antifa? And by the way, BLM was funded by USAID. Did you know that? What about Antifa? Well, I don't know where they came from, but they disappeared as soon as Trump was out of office.

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And given that they're supposed to be anarchists, they should be just as mad at Biden as they would have been at Trump. They're anarchists. Are you telling me they're anarchists like Democrats? Oh, that's Joe Biden? Yeah, that's fine. But you're an anarchist. Yeah, yeah. But only when Trump's in office. Right. None of this ever made sense. It's obviously external.

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Do you like that? So whenever we talk about it, it'll just be scrotum gate. Now, Elon is running a poll on X to see if he should bring back the... He quit, by the way. Big balls quit once the news got out. And I can understand that. But Elon wants to bring him back. Now here's my take.

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What about the Charlottesville op? To me, I think it's so obvious that the Charlottesville thing was a government op. It's exactly what you would do, exactly what you do to overthrow another country. You would have some kind of event that showed the the racial minorities that they better act because they're in trouble. You better act. You better get to the streets. You better vote.

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Well, that looks suspiciously right on point, doesn't it? Now, what about the district attorneys? Is there any history in which we tried to control the district attorneys in another country for the benefit of overthrowing the government? Have you heard of Joe Biden and his trip to Ukraine, in which he said, if you don't get rid of that prosecutor... You can't have money from, was it from USAID?

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Somebody said it was, but I don't know if that's true. So we watched. The first thing Biden had to do was get rid of the prosecutor and get one in there that he liked. What did the Democrats and USAID and George Soros fund? They funded friendly DAs and attorney generals, so that they could control prosecutions against who they wanted to prosecute. And then they engaged them.

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And then they went after Trump. All the lawfare is the same thing we would do in another country to control their government. The same thing. We would just find some fake reason that the DAs and the law has to go after them, and they would be our people. The law would be basically bribed by us. So that looks like exactly what's happening.

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Letitia James is still yelling she's going to be suing Trump and trying to put him in jail. She's still saying it. The other thing you'd want to do is if you're taking over another country, you'd want to weaponize their Department of Justice, like I just said, but also if they had an FBI or something like that, you'd want to control them too. These are all the things that happen to us.

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Now, is it a coincidence? that the precise, exact tools that are used in other countries, and there's a long list of times we've used them, and they're well-established tools. Nobody's doubting that those are the tools. And also nobody would doubt what I just described. There was a Russia collusion hoax. There was our universities, media, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, are clearly fake.

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I say the Charlottesville thing was fake because it never happened again. I mean, that's your ultimate signal. If that had been real, even after they all got in trouble, there would have been some second wave, third wave, even if it were smaller. But no, it just disappeared. Okay, it was never real.

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The racists were real, but obviously it was organized by some dark entity that was trying to mess with the United States. So... That's what we got going. And of course, we know that in the United States, DEI and climate change and trans rights became our big weapons to use against too. Oh, it just turns out that all of those things can be used against the populist. Coincidence, right?

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That the things that you said to yourself, why are these the top story? They shouldn't be the top story, even if you think they're important. It's all fake. So when Mike Ben says there's no such thing as domestic policy, does that make sense now? Even getting rid of Trump is for the benefit of our international policy.

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And the things that they use to get rid of them that you think are domestic policy are only to get rid of them. Now, of course, there are people who agree with all these policies, but that's not why they're the big thing. The reason anything becomes a big thing is because somebody behind the curtain is pushing it. It doesn't become a big thing on its own. All right. So...

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If somebody who is a teenager or 19 years old said something that we all agree is absolutely inappropriate, but did it anonymously, did it anonymously, I don't have a problem with it. Because every 19-year-old boy is saying deeply inappropriate things all the time. And if he was doing it anonymously, he knew that it was not something that you could put in the public domain.

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Did I already talk about Thomas Massey, who says that USAID is gutted? But I can't tell if I thought about talking about it or talked about it. So Thomas Massey was saying that the omnibus might just put USAID all back together. I think I told you that, but yeah. So that might happen. So we have a self-healing criminal system. There's also something called DRL, according to American thinker John

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Krandelski is writing about this. Here's what that is. Something that started under Carter, DRL, and it has some human rights agenda in foreign policy. And central and practically independent element of American foreign policy. So the thinking is that that's just another one of these bullshit USAID things. Like USAID, but different entity. In other news, Iran has unveiled its first drone carrier.

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So it's like an aircraft carrier, except for drones only. And it's already launched. So apparently Iran will now have the power to project drone swarms wherever they want. I'd like to make a prediction about the fate of their new craft. I'm going to give it six months before a catastrophic mechanical problem causes it to blow up in port. Just a guess.

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I think it might have a terrible, terrible mechanical problem that, hey, if they'd done a better job of building it, it wouldn't have happened. But sadly... probably because of their bad engineering, they're going to make a carrier that just explodes on its own, really. And we weren't even anywhere near it. So don't look at us. It just exploded on its own.

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Israel, I don't know what you're talking about. No, sometimes things just explode on their own. It's very bad, very bad luck. But Trump is calling for, in terms of Iran, he wants a verified nuclear peace agreement. And he's sort of talking like a president. in a good way. He said, I would much prefer a verified nuclear peace agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper.

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I like how Trump always says, don't you want to prosper? You know, that's his go-to for every adversarial country. How about we just stop fighting each other and you just make a bunch of money? How about that? Because it's a pretty appealing concept to at least the public, if not the leaders. He said, we don't want to be tough on Iran. We don't want to be tough on anybody.

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But they just can't have a nuclear bomb. Now, I love the clarity of that. I love the clarity. You're not going to have a nuclear weapon. When Israel says it, you know they mean it as well. but you wonder if the United States might prevent them from doing what it might take to get rid of it, such as bunker-busting bombs on nuclear facilities in Iran.

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So you don't necessarily think that Israel would have the green light to do what needs to be done in Iran. But what if Trump says you do? When Trump says, the one thing I'll guarantee is you're not going to get a nuclear weapon. What that tells me is what Trump always says, which is everything's on the table.

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So if Israel comes, let's say that nothing good happens with Iran and there's no progress and there's no talks and there's not going to be. Do you think that Trump is going to stop Israel from taking out their nuclear facilities? I don't. I think they have a green light, but not yet. We're going to see if Iran will just want to join the peaceful world.

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Now that their proxies have been decimated, it's a whole different conversation. So it's the best time in the world to be negotiating with Iran. But I love the fact that we have the capability of bombing to shit all of their nuclear facilities, no matter how underground they are, and that it's green light.

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Somebody else put it in the public domain. So my problem is not with anything he said. because I just can't blame a 19-year-old for having inappropriate, especially a man, a 19-year-old male. It's all we have is inappropriate thoughts. Do you understand what a 19-year-old male is? That is a person who has nonstop inappropriate thoughts. That's all we do at that age. Do we grow out of it?

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So you can talk to us about stopping it yourself, or we'll stop it, but the question of whether it will be stopped is asked and answered. See, this is important. If you act like it's a negotiation, it will be one. So the mistake would be to say, we need to have a negotiation about your nuclear program. Nope, fail. You failed before you started. As soon as you say it's a negotiation...

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then they just drag it out and they fake it and nothing happens. If you say you're not going to have a nuclear weapon, everybody knows what that means. It means that there's nothing we won't do to stop it. Meaning we would nuke you. I don't think that's going to happen, but we'd nuke them before we'd let them have a nuclear weapon. There's no limit to what we'd be willing to do.

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Now, once you start your negotiations with, all right, this thing's not going to happen. And now here's your decision. So again, he's making him think past the sale. The sale is, do you do nuclear or not? He's saying that's solved. Now that we've solved, you're not going to have nuclear because we have the power. Notice how he does this.

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Trump always tells people that he has the power so you can stop thinking about it. I've decided. Wow. What's this? Breaking news. Egypt says it will work with partners to reconstruct Gaza without Palestinians leaving the Strip. That sounds like a non-starter. But back to Trump. Look how good the technique is. You could take this with yourself. And I've used this, by the way.

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I've used this technique a number of times. And when I do, it always works. It works every time. You never let it be a discussion whether they can have the thing that you don't want them to have the thing. You only tell them how they can lose it. All right. We're not talking about whether you can have it. That's already settled. We're going to talk about how you don't have it.

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Do you not have it because you decided to play nice and then you make money, we make money and everybody's happy? Or did you decide to do it by losing your control over your own country while we just decimate your nuclear program and good luck picking up the pieces? So I don't think anybody's ever put it in those terms before.

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where the question of whether you're going to have it is now taken off the table. It's asked and answered and settled. You are not going to have it because we do have the power. Trump has 100% of the ability to take it away from him. So he just said you don't have it. So now you only get to decide what path you take to not have it. With bombs or no bombs. That is good technique.

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See, sometimes the things that he says are so ordinary looking, that you don't realize how deep the technique is. What he said, I don't believe anybody said it quite the way he said it, but also, this is important, because he's Trump, they think he would carry through with a threat. If Biden says, I'd love to see Biden's language. Maybe you can do a fact check on me.

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Find me some quotes from Biden, and I'll bet you it says things like, We're going to work really hard to make sure Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Fail. Fail. Complete failure. We don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Fail. Fail. Fail. You're already killed yourself before you started. If you say you're not going to have a nuclear weapon, now let's talk about how that happens.

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Whole different narrative. I mean, completely different frame. And that's what Trump does better than anybody. All right. According to Popular Science, there's a company that's building underwater homes that you can live in for extended times. They're for research, but maybe someday there'll be underwater homes. All right, that's all I have. I ran way too long.

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I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately. I hope you like this. It's really hard understanding all the various layers of things, but I think we're getting closer. So locals, I'm coming at you privately. If you're on X or Rumble or YouTube, thanks for joining. I'll be here tomorrow. Same time, same place.

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Sometimes. Sometimes. Not all the time. Anyway, big balls might be back, but we'll keep an eye on scrotum gate. Fox News says that a big consulting firm, PwC, they're going to have a big conference this summer trying to get high-performing college students an opportunity to work for their company. Oh, that's good.

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Just drink coffee until I don't exist. If you're following the Dilbert comic that you can only watch if you're on the Locals platform, but there's a lot of political stuff on there. If you don't want that, that's not for you.

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Yeah, big consulting company wants to make sure that the high-performing students get to check out their job offerings. Oh, wait. It specifically excludes white and Asian applicants. So it's a DEI policy or something like it. So apparently not everybody got the memo that if you openly discriminate against white and Asian applicants, it's not going to end well.

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It might not go your way in the long run. So maybe rethink breaking the law. I've got to look at this comment because it looks interesting. Ron Paul says on X, a look behind the curtain has revealed a horrific truth. Nearly the entire mainstream media worldwide has been funded by the U.S. government under the USA, from the BBC to the New York Times and Politico.

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At this point, it might be easier to find out who USA does not fund it. Well, that does seem approximately true. I saw a video online. I couldn't tell if it's a new one or an old one. I think it's an old one. So you tell me. It was Pam Bondi talking about how many times Bill Clinton had been on the Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Apparently, he hadn't been on the plane just a couple of times. He'd been on there multiple times and traveled internationally with Epstein. And that plane had a bed in it. That's all you need to know. Yeah. And apparently they stayed friends for years, whereas Trump removed him from his life fairly early on. So is that a new clip? A new one or an old one? What's all the 27s? All right.

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So that's out there. So Trump has tried to fire the Federal Election Commission president Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, but she says it's illegal and the president can't fire. We'll see She was appointed by Bush and apparently the They can only be replaced if they resign or their term expires What?

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But if you just want to see the comic that has continued since my cancellation two years ago, it's called Dilbert Reborn, and you can get it on the X platform just hit the subscription button. And here's what you would be finding. You would find that the new comic will tell you the problem with hiring individuals the low bid hitman. Yeah. So Dogbert is in the role of a hitman.

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Let me read that again According to legal experts an FEC Commissioner can only be replaced if they resign or their term expires and Wait, what? Who the fuck has a job that they can't be fired from? Who the fuck has a job that they can't be fired from unless they're elected? And even if you're elected, you can be fucking fired. You know, it's got to be an impeachment, but there's a process.

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Are you telling me that there's somebody in our government who's in charge of the fucking elections who can't be fired? Are you serious? I hope I'm reading this wrong. Do I have this wrong? The most important person, the head of the spear for our entire democracy can't be fired? Oh, my God. You think that the well of corruption and badness is deep? I've never seen anything like that. Have you?

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Have you ever heard of somebody who can't be fired for any reason? That can't be right. Everybody can be fired for cause, right? But apparently not, according to legal experts. Wow. The Daily Mail has a story that looks fake to me. They're saying that there's unconfirmed plans that Trump's trying to end the Ukraine war in 100 days. And that he wants to get a ceasefire by April 20th.

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And the deal would freeze Russia's place. They get to keep what they have. Ukraine would not join NATO. And that would be the deal. Now, I guess this comes from a sketchy source. And then the Daily Mail picked it up. So it's two sketchy sources. The Daily Mail is not full propaganda. But it's not right 100% of the time either, you know, like most things.

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So I don't think this is anything but maybe a test balloon. My best guess is that it's a way for the government to float an idea to see what people think of it. So as an idea of floating test balloon, it's a good one. But I don't think it's a real story. Feels like just testing out the water. We'll see. So Senator Fetterman has weighed in on the RFK Jr.

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and Tulsi Gabbard nominations, and he will not vote for them. So he will not vote for either Gabbard or Kennedy. Now, we don't absolutely need his vote because the Republicans can get it through if they're all together. But I was amused by Nicole Shanahan's reply to the ex-post about this. I'll just paraphrase. She said it better, but here's just my summary.

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The Fetterman is a slob who wears gym clothes and doesn't go to the gym. He's a slob who wears gym clothes all day and doesn't go to the gym. In other words, health is not high on his list. So here's somebody who apparently doesn't have any appreciation for good human health. Or he would act like it. He'd go to the gym, he'd lose weight, he'd eat right.

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He acts like he has no appreciation for the biggest issue in the whole country, which is our kids have chronic diseases and they'll have no good life. That's a pretty big problem. And he's against it.

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Separately, Fetterman also said that he thought the Democrats don't have much chance of winning men back because he said he's been warning about it and that the Democrats have become sort of the party of whiny women and that not only were white males leaving the Democrat Party, but black men, Hispanic men, and it's a pretty broad and obvious change.

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And you see what happens when you take the low bid for your hitman. It doesn't go well. But here's the more interesting thing. I also publish that whatever comic ran exactly 10 years ago from whatever date the day is. So the comics that ran exactly 10 years ago are so on point for right now, It's about humanoid robots being introduced into Dilbert's house and what goes wrong.

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But the interesting thing is he thinks they can't get it back. Meaning that Fetterman believes he is in the party that's anti-men. That would be according to all the men who change sides. Because they want to be on the side that's not anti-men. DEI is anti-men. What do we got here? Um... Ah, okay.

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You'll listen to Kid Rock. You'll listen to Laura Loomer. But you'll also listen to Scott Besant and all the top economists. And you'll listen to other world leaders. And he's really good at scanning the room and listening. Now, the other thing I teach you is that the person with the best ideas is always in charge.

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So Laura Loomer must have done some research or had some information that Trump was not aware of. And she had credibility from other interactions. So he was willing to give her a lesson. She described these people and why she thinks that they were dangerous to keep on because they're kind of pro-war, maybe not as pro-Trump as they could be.

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And he decided, because he's the decider, that's a good point. I didn't know about that. They're gone. I don't have any problem with that at all. To me, that all looks positive. The positive part is that Trump is always scanning his base to find out what they think and listening to suggestions. I can't tell you how many times I've heard that somebody made a suggestion to the Trump White House.

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And then when it got to Trump, he said, huh, pretty good idea. Let's do that. It's very common. And I don't think any other president has had the confidence or just the vision to see what everybody wants and to be able to decide, oh, I like that one. I don't like this one. I like this one. I don't like that one. So I love the fact that

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that Loomer could come in with some information of value, because otherwise Trump wouldn't have acted if it had no value. And he acted on it. So I don't think that story is about Loomer, but she's doing a hell of a job of making herself relevant in the entire political process. So hats off to that. But this is a Trump story. And Trump...

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doing the thing I like best about them, listening, taking people seriously, and then acting, you know, without any hesitation. So going around on X, there's a video of Chuck Schumer in 1996, and Chuck Schumer is basically sounding exactly like Elon Musk talking about immigration.

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And Schumer in 1996, he's arguing in the Congress, and he says, the number one reason that illegals come to the US is so they can defraud programs like Social Security. Does that sound familiar? 1996, and it's Chuck Schumer. Now, today, he would say exactly the opposite. Oh, stop accusing those illegals. There's nothing going on. Completely opposite.

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Now, that's not the only person who's on video doing things that look sort of opposite based today. According to the Wall Street Apes account, In 1996, Pelosi was encouraging Congress to back reciprocal tariffs. Do you think she's doing it today? Probably not. In 2008, Bernie Sanders wanted tariffs because he says jobs are going overseas. Actually, Bernie might be consistent. I think he might.

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But will they be more willing to do work with you and maybe buy things from you? Yes. Yes. Smiling can do all of that for you. So next time, just talk to Scott. I can save you a lot of time. Well, the Trump administration is freezing $510 million from Brown University, according to the Daily Caller, Reagan Reese is writing.

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I'll have to check on that. But I think Bernie might be consistent because I think he agreed with Trump on some tariff stuff. And in 2018, Barack Obama called for reciprocal tariffs. Do you think he's doing it today? So here's my take on Republicans versus Democrats. My observation, having spent a lot of time with both, is that Republicans have core beliefs.

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Now, I know that sounds funny because you think everybody has core beliefs. But I don't think so. I think Republicans have core beliefs, and they don't really change. And Democrats have performances. So one has core beliefs, and you could predict, if you found a video of a Republican talking 20 years ago, would it look that different from a Republican talking today?

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I feel like it would look essentially the same. Whereas the Democrats, you can always go back and find them having the opposite opinion. The indication to me is that one group is performing and one group is acting on their actual core beliefs. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. But let me give you another example here. According to Rasmussen polling, Stephen A. Smith, you know,

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you know, would you call him an entertainer or ESPN commentator, let's call him, Stephen A. Smith, that if you throw him in the mix for potential candidates to be president of the Democrats, he actually scores pretty well. So let's see, 33% of likely U.S. voters view him favorably. And in a hypothetical matchup, 31% would vote for Newsom, but 28% for Stephen A. Smith.

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And he would do about the same against AOC. So he's not the leading person, but he's also not running at all. I mean, I think he's been pretty clear that even being considered a presidential candidate, is less about him. I like the way he says this, by the way. It's less about him and more about the complete lack of good candidates. He's totally right about that. But here's the thing.

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Stephen A. Smith is a performer. Now, he's a commentator, but what makes him extra good at his job is that he performs. He goes big when he comments and that makes him hard to look away. I find him totally engaging and very skilled at doing what he does, which is get your attention, hold your attention.

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My experience is if I come across a clip of Stephen A. Smith, it's hard to stop watching it because he's just so high energy and he makes sense most of the time. but he's a performer. So that makes sense in the Democrat world. Find a performer because it's all a performance. Well, there's a study by, well, SciPost is writing about it.

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It was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin that says that liberals show less empathy to political opponents than conservatives do. So liberals would care less if conservatives had something bad happen to them, whereas conservatives might deeply disagree with the liberals but wouldn't find pleasure in seeing something bad happen to them. Is that surprising? Nope. Nope.

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Because I'll tell you my current view on Democrats, besides the fact that they're performing as opposed to operating in core beliefs, I think Democrats are motivated by jealousy and hate. And that's why they perform. Imagine if your core belief was non-existence, but your real motivation is a revenge-y, jealousy, hatred of people who are doing better than you.

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And it's because Brown University has been accused of not doing enough about anti-Semitism. And their DEI program is a little problematic as well. But more than that, I think they need to change the name of their university to something more inclusive. I mean, the name of the college is Brown University. I mean, seriously, you're going to have to change the name.

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you would have to perform because you couldn't say the truth. You couldn't say, you know, honestly, I'm just full of hate. So I think I want Trump to lose, not because he's doing a bad job. I'm just full of hate. And Doge, even though it sounds like a good idea on paper, Musk is so rich and having so many babies and I'm not having any babies and I'm not rich. So I just like to see him fail.

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You couldn't really do that. You can think it, but you can't say it out loud. So you're going to have to put on a performance instead. You're going to have to pretend that you have normal views and that you're a normal person. But Republicans seem motivated by two things. One is the ick factor.

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Now, you've heard this before, that conservatives seem to be more likely to be icked out by anything that's nonstandard or just icky. And, you know, I don't want to give you examples of what that is because that would cause problems. But there are just some things that make conservatives go, ugh, ugh, get that out of here. I don't want to be part of that at all. But that's not the only factor.

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I think Republicans have a growth mindset. which is you can do well, the country can do well, we can create more for everybody. So if you have a growth mindset, you don't really need to pretend when you're talking about what you want. I want to lower taxes, I want to get rid of regulations. It's just a growth mindset.

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And the Democrats are just literally just putting on performances, trying to cover up the fact that their real motivation is just some kind of horrible hatred. That's what it looks like to me. Well, here's something I didn't know.

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According to the Amuse account on X, did you know that the person who at one point had been tasked with determining whether or not Dr. Fauci's gain-of-function research was ethical or not was, who do you think it was? Of all the people in the world, who would be in charge of determining that Fauci's gain of function research in China was ethical? Well, it turns out it was his wife.

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That's the first time I knew this. So his wife, who I guess just got fired by Trump, she was the head of the NIH Office of Bioethics. So he was actually being evaluated by his wife for whether or not he was acting ethical or not. What just happened? Did my light just go out? Hold on. Well, that's weird. That's the second independent light in my studio that just went out on its own.

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Well, the other lights didn't go out. I'm pretty sure I'm affecting my lights today. I do that sometimes. Well, according to ABC News, Robert F. Kennedy has cut more jobs at the Health and Human Services than he wanted to. So some people will be hired back. And those would have been called mistakes. Now, how would you report this if you were ABC News? Would you report it as that dumbass?

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He should have used a scalpel instead of a hammer. And now he's made this terrible mistake, and now he's going to have to correct it. Let's hope he's smarter next time. Well, I would call that the low experience take.

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here's what an experienced person would say about that situation, where big cuts were needed, big cuts were made, but then it went a little too far, so they have to back up and correct a few things. I would say that the view that he should have done it perfectly the first time is what very inexperienced people say about things. You know, I'm no expert on

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But I think you should do everything perfectly every time. What? That's what the Democrats with not much experience say. You know, we've never been in business, never done anything important. That's not a thing. You can't do something of that size and scale and do it perfectly on the first try. Nobody can do that. So don't even imagine that if he tried harder or

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I think something like Rainbow University. or All the Colors University, or Be They Black, Be They White, Be They Any Other Color University. But you just can't call it Brown University if DEI is your problem. Change that name. Okay, it's certainly named after a person named Brown, but that doesn't matter to the joke. Well, there's yet another day.

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used his scalpel, that he could have gotten it exactly right the first try and gotten it done on time. If you had infinite time, you still couldn't do it because if you have infinite time, then forces working against you will have time to organize and thwart you and get in the way.

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So the best way to do this stuff is take your best cut at it, make some mistakes, and then correct them as you need to. That's a perfect job. Inexperienced people say, well, you had a choice of just doing it perfectly in the first place. Why didn't you just measure twice or thrice before you cut? I mean, there's a little thing that even says what you should do. Measure twice, cut once.

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Have you never heard that? I mean, if you've heard it, then I guess you would never make any mistakes. But it's a good thing that I'm cleverly telling you now with all my lack of experience how things work in the real world. Yeah, do it without mistakes. I'm going to add that to my The other thing that only inexperienced people say, which is you should have done it sooner.

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Do you know what else you should have done sooner? Everything. Everything that was worthwhile. You should have done it sooner. What about Doge? Should have done it sooner. What about tariffs? Sooner. What about tax cuts? Sooner. Everything should have been done sooner. And perfectly. It should have been done sooner and perfectly. That's what all the dumb people will tell you.

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Anyway, so I was looking at, uh, so PJ media, Victoria Taft is writing about this, that, uh, Congresswoman, uh, Jayapal, uh, Pramila Jayapal, and, um, some Harvard professor are behind the training of people to resist, um, Doge and Tesla. So they're actually doing resistance training to get more people onto the streets. Resistance training. Now, here's the fun part.

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I happened to be watching Jayapal getting interviewed live the other day, and she said that this resistance training that they were giving was part of capacity building. Now, do you know where I'm going with this?

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If those of you have listened to Mike Benz, he talks about the CIA and often working with USAID in the past, where they would do capacity building as part of the plot to overthrow other countries. Now, capacity building would be things like making sure that you had co-opted the media or maybe introduced a new form of media that was going to say the right things.

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Or you had trained people to resist on the streets, which is exactly what J.F. Paul is working on. And I said to myself, what are the odds that she would use that phrase? Have you ever heard any just member of Congress talk about capacity building? Have you ever heard anybody, anybody in any context use the phrase capacity building?

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The only place I've ever heard it is from Mike Benz, and he didn't make it up. He's training us to understand that that's a CIA phrase. So do you think that Jayapal accidentally admitted that she's CIA influenced? I do. I don't have proof, but that was a pretty big signal that she's had some kind of training that's either adjacent to or because of the CIA. Okay.

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And that would explain so much that I didn't understand about her so much. So I can't say for sure, but if you see anybody who is training people to resist on the streets and they refer to their own work as capacity building, it probably means exactly what you think it means. And if I had never heard Mike Benz talk about it at length, I wouldn't have caught it.

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By the way, this is a hypnotist thing. Hypnotists will tell you that people tell you exactly what their hidden thoughts are. They just don't know they're doing it. So I'm always looking for the hidden thoughts based on their choice of words. This one just jumped right out. So that was interesting. All right, let me give you an update on tariffs. Tariffs.

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Now, if you're brand new to my live stream, you don't know that I'm completely disgusting because I often mention that I have a degree in economics and an MBA from a top school. So a person like me should certainly understand tariffs.

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This was the millionth day in a row in which somebody has breathlessly posted on X that some new AI app can create people who are doing what you want them to do. So if you dance, it makes it look like a celebrity that you selected is dancing. And you can make them do all kinds of things. You can make them Marilyn Monroe. And does it matter which app it is? No.

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I mean, with all of my sophisticated education background, of course I understand everything about tariffs, and I'm going to explain it to you now in the simplest possible way, and then you'll be as smart as I am about tariffs. Wouldn't that be great? Don't we want to be as smart as I am? Well, no, the real story is economics is not even real, but we'll get to that.

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So when you see people complaining that the stocks went down and they lost money, that's not real. Nobody lost any money unless it stays down and never goes back up, which has never happened to the stock market in the history of the stock market. There's never been a time when it went down and just kept going down. Now, if we ever do see that, that will be the end of the United States.

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But in all likelihood... there's a temporary uncertainty and that things are likely to adjust. So I was watching somebody, it doesn't matter who, just saying, and I lost all this money in the stock market. No, you didn't. Not only did you not lose it, but your percentage of ownership of the country stayed about the same.

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Meaning that if you own this tiny bit of stock, you owned a tiny bit of the country because the country is mostly corporate wealth. And if everything went down, you probably own just about the same percentage of the country as you owned before. So it's not as bad as it could be. I haven't sold any stocks. I'm just going to ride it out. I'm not terribly worried.

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I don't have an estimate of when it will bounce back. Could be sudden. Could be any time. I don't know. Could be months. Could be longer. But what do you think about the people in the news business? I think the people in the news business... are not waiting for manufacturing jobs to come back so they can get one. But they definitely have some money in the stock market.

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If you're in the news business, you're well paid and you probably got a 401k. So the people in the news are going to obsess about the stock market because that's what affects them. They're not going to say, well, thank goodness that you know, we have a plan in place to bring back those good manufacturing jobs so I can get one of those and stop being on MSNBC.

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No, they're only going to be worried about the stock because that's what affects them, and it's also what they understand or they think they do. So the first thing you need to know is that Jim Cramer thinks these tariffs are a terrible idea. Now, if you spend any time on the Internet, you know that Jim Cramer thinks He was famous for being a contraindication of what's going to happen.

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So if he thinks it's a bad idea, it might be the best idea ever. We'll see. Apparently, General Motors says they're going to dramatically increase car production in the U.S. And that's directly because of the tariffs, because it'll make foreign cars more expensive. So GM is thinking, oh, good, we're going to sell more.

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Likewise, Ford is not likewise, but in addition, Ford is rolling out what they call employee pricing. So they're going to allow anybody to buy a Ford for what would have been the same price that their employees could get them. I don't know how good a deal that is or not, but it doesn't count with some of their best cars.

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It doesn't count like the Raptor or the Mustang or the Bronco or the Expedition or the Navigator or the Super Duty trucks. So it's not the best offer in the world, but it'd be great if you're looking for an ordinary Ford car. you just want a good price. But I think the low hanging fruit here is US companies that will benefit from the tariff and already have facilities.

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So all they have to do is increase production at the existing facilities. So when you see that kicking in, that's probably a good sign. Here's a It's just so predictable. So Republican Chuck Grassley is working with a far-left Democrat, Maria Cantwell. Cantwell? That sounds like the worst name for somebody who's trying to get something done. Can you do this well? Cantwell.

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because nobody's ever going to do anything useful with that. How many times have you seen an AI app that promises to make, oh my God, with this kind of tool, I could make my own full-length movie? Has anybody made a full-length AI movie? Nope. Is anybody close to making a full-length AI movie? Nope. Because I've tried a little bit, you know, image generation stuff just to see what's going on.

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Anyway, the two of them are working together in a bipartisan way to try to wrestle control from Trump. about tariff decisions and make sure it's in the Congress. So they want to make some new legislation that basically codifies the fact that Congress is the one who can raise taxes and decide on tariffs. So this would be game over. Now, I don't know what the odds are that this gets passed.

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I think low, probably pretty low odds that it gets passed. But This would be terrible. It would be basically neutering Trump's ability to negotiate, to do anything useful with tariffs. But there we are, Chuck Grassley trying to take control of that for the Congress, which, as you know, is worthless. According to The Economist magazine. All right, here we go.

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Now, The Economist magazine would be written by people who really understand economics and So whatever their take on this would be the smart take, right? So they put out a magazine. Oh, and did I mention that they're called The Economist and they think that magazines are still a good business model? That's sort of disqualifying for being an economist. What's your business model?

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Well, we've got a magazine. Okay. But what they say is that, this is right on the cover of their new magazine, that Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful, and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said on history, economics, and the technicalities of trade was utterly deluded. But if you want to hear the counter to that,

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Olin Pod and entrepreneur Chamath Pellihapitiya commented on that and he called them a mouthpiece of globalist rhetoric that is literally always wrong so Chamath was kind of commenting that the more the economist hates it the more likely it's a good idea I don't think he's wrong

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You may have heard that Trump's getting some pushback because Russia and North Korea and Cuba and Belarus are not on the tariff list. You might say to yourself, wait a minute, is it because he's Putin's secret lover? They doesn't want to put them on there. But anyway, the White House clarified that those countries, and Russia in particular, they're already so restricted.

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So they've got high tariffs already and all kinds of sanctions. So there's not any meaningful trade with those countries. I think there are some things like potash or something that we trade with Russia, but nothing meaningful that would be worthy of derailing any peace talks. So it makes sense that he left them off. China has responded to the tariffs on them with a reciprocal tariff.

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So they matched it with a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10th. So that matches the U.S. Is that the beginning of negotiations? Maybe. We'll see. New York Post is saying that your iPhone could get a lot more expensive because of the tariffs if they stayed in place especially the China stuff because it would make your iPhone be over $2,000 they think would it?

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I don't know and if it were maybe Apple would work hard to bring it to the United States I don't know if they could make it cheap enough in the United States but Maybe that'll happen. Then the New York Post is talking about the cost of buying your Air Jordans shoes that are made in Vietnam, which is also getting a big tariff, and that your Air Jordans used to cost $180 might cost $18 more.

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You know, there are a lot of things that are optional purchases. I'm not terribly worried about an optional purchase expensive sneaker. Seems like you could live without one. The other thing Trump said, which was interesting, remember I told you that China is unlikely to agree to a TikTok sale? Because I think they'd want to see Trump fail and it would be worth a few billion dollars to do it.

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I think I use Grox and maybe chat GBTs. And so I thought to myself, okay, I'm already a visual artist, kind of. And so I'll just tell the AI to make, and then if it's not exactly what I want, how great will this be? Because I can just tell it to change it. I can say, change the color of that shirt and

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Trump hinted that without actually committing to it, he just said it was an example, but he was clearly hinting that China might want to negotiate a better tariff situation in return for saying yes to a sale of TikTok to a U.S. buyer or a team of buyers. So clearly Trump knows that China saying yes to any kind of a TikTok sale is going to be a hard sell.

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And that if you didn't bring in a completely unrelated piece of business, which is the tariffs, you probably couldn't get it done. So I think he understands that China is probably a hard no, even if they lose billions of dollars. I think that they would let that go. I think they'd spend billions to embarrass Trump and make sure he didn't get their crown jewel social app. We'll see.

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But it's interesting that Trump did set that up as a bargaining chip kind of situation. Well, I saw one theory that Trump's real play with the tariffs is the lower interest rates. And the way that would go is that the tariffs would scare the stock market and then people who took their money out of the stock market wouldn't want it to be idle. So they would put it in bonds.

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And if a lot of people buy bonds, that would lower the interest rate on bonds because supply and demand. And then if interest rates come down, then the Fed might lower interest rates. And then suddenly when we go to get our debt refinanced, we would be doing a much friendlier interest rate, which could be tremendously useful to the country. I don't know that that's the plan.

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It's just something that might happen. So the reason that no economist knows what's going to go on is there are way too many moving parts. So you got your interest rates and you got, well, here's other stuff. The Wall Street Journal is talking about the impact on the value of the dollar, right? So you got the interest rate issue that's hard to predict.

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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Enjoy. Now, for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called... That's right. The simultaneous sip. And it happens now. So good. Well... I guess it's going to be up to me to explain tariffs and everything else, because it's all terribly complicated.

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And on top of that, there's the value of the dollar. That's hard to predict. And there's not even an agreement about whether a strong dollar is good for the country or a weak dollar is good for the country. So economists can't even decide, do we like a strong dollar or a weak dollar? But it is likely that the dollar will weaken if the tariffs stay in place and it continues to rile the market.

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So that's another thing. Then I saw, according to Spectator Index on X, the price of oil went down 4%, also probably because of the tariffs, but I'm not sure. So if oil goes down, that should trickle into all the other costs. So you've got the uncertainty of whether a strong or weak dollar is good or bad. You've got the interest rate effect that's unpredictable.

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You've got the energy costs that should lower prices, but would it be enough to compensate for the rise in prices? You've got the question of who's going to absorb various tariffs. Will it always be the importing company, or in some cases, will the exporter absorb some of it? Then you've got the how long will it take to get manufacturing coming back to the United States?

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put it in a tropical setting and pretty soon with very little effort, I'm going to have like a piece of art. It took me about 10 minutes of messing around to say to myself, I have no interest in doing this whatsoever. And it never got close to what I wanted. Because it turns out that the thing in my mind just couldn't be reproduced by AI. It was just always something that wasn't close.

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How many adjustments can industry make quickly? We don't really know. So the number of unknowns involved in this are just through the roof. But one thing's for sure. The people who know the least about economics are very certain that they know a lot about economics. I think the more you know about economics, the less confidence you would have on which way things are going to go.

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Because if it turns out that it's just a good negotiation, that's going to be great. You would just get better deals. If it turns out you know, it's going to go some way that nobody could predict, well, anything could happen. We'll see. But here's what you need to know. Economics is more art than science. You think economics is more, it feels like it's some kind of a hard science. It's not.

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It's more of an art. The second thing you need to know is that art is bullshit. So let's see if you can follow this. Economics is more art than science, and art is bullshit. Economics is largely bullshit. Nobody really knows in a situation like this what's gonna happen. We just really don't know. But we'll act like we do. So here's something that I saw some of the non-economists talking about.

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I saw somebody saying that the reason they're mad at Musk is that he and Trump don't pay federal income taxes. What do you think of that? That Musk and Trump don't pay federal income taxes. Therefore, they're sort of parasites on the system. Well, here's what you need to know. First of all, I think it's not true. I think Musk has actually paid more federal income taxes than any living human.

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It's just that it depends on the year. So he's had one or two years where he had enormous payments because of the financial situation, and then some years where it was zero. Trump, of course, as we all know, has found ways to avoid taxes wherever he can because he's in the building

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you know, construction, real estate business, and the tax law is sort of designed to encourage that kind of a business. So here's what I would say. The reason that anybody can avoid taxes, be it Musk in some cases and Trump in some cases, is that the government wants this situation.

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They would rather promote the growth and the success of a gigantic business than they need specific taxes from that business as it's young. Now, think about all of the federal income taxes that are created by having a gigantic company with lots of employees. All the employees are paying federal taxes.

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The businesses themselves probably have enormous property tax burden on them, which is a state tax, but still it's part of the productive taxation of the citizens. They create things that have sales tax associated. Again, it's not federal, but it's adding to the system.

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And if you add together all the sales tax, property tax, employee taxes, and then the employment itself, and the fact that if people are employed, the government doesn't have to take care of them, the benefit that anybody with a large business that's successful is adding to the country is so great that

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that the government is okay with you not paying federal income tax every single year if you're investing money into your company, and that's why you're not paying taxes. So the people who know the least just say, oh, they're not paying federal income tax, so that's unfair. The billionaires are taking our money. That's not really what's happening.

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All right, so here's my big worry about the tariffs. do we have enough of a runway that we'll know if they're working before midterms? Because if the economy is still roiled the way it is, the Republicans are going to get wiped out in the midterms. And there's not really much time between now and the midterms for tariffs to

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And I think all of these image generation things where you think, We must be five minutes away from Hollywood being able to make a full-length movie with this technology. Nope. Nope. You're not even close. You would not get anywhere close. I'm going to double down on my prediction, or triple down, or quadruple down, because I keep saying it, that art...

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do their magic you know not a lot of people are going to be reshoring their manufacturing so i feel like trump is is risky at all now i think he had to because the current situation was on you know was untenable so it's the right thing for the country that he's taken this risk i think

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You know, we don't know how it's going to turn out, but I think it's the right kind of risk at exactly the right time to do it. But if it doesn't make the public think it's working by the midterms, Republicans are going to get destroyed. And then it's all gone. You're going to lose everything politically. You're going to lose everything.

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And then it could get worse because if this was the only thing that was going to allow us to balance the budget and have some kind of a strong economy going forward and the Democrats take it away, which they will because they're not going to just let it ride. This is a really big risk.

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But again, I would rather that he takes the real risk to really help the country than to do something that would be purely political, which is paper over it and pretend it's not a problem, that things aren't going right. Anyway, so worry about the midterms. Matt Taibbi, journalist Matt Taibbi, is suing a Democratic lawmaker,

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For $10 million, because she made the mistake of saying something on social media that she'd said in the context of her job. If she said something in the context of her job, apparently you can't sue her. But she made the mistake of putting it on social media, and I guess that opened the door for him to sue. And she made allegations... that apparently are thoroughly debunked.

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I'm not even going to mention them because I don't want to put it in your head. But go Taibbi. Yeah, I mean, he was unfairly accused of something that didn't pan out whatsoever in the past. And this Democratic California representative, Sidney Kim Legger Dove, just decided to, you know, empty the barrel. Is that a thing? And just totally trash him in a public way, including on social media.

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So yes, she needs to be completely put out of business. I hope he succeeds. I saw in a Mario and awful recap of the news that the hoodies have shot down a number of drones now. And our drones cost $30 million apiece, the good ones, the Reaper drones. And they've shot down three of them, two recently just this week. So we've lost 17 of them over time, and each one cost $30 million.

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So they've managed to cost us $500 million worth of just drones they shot down in the last six months. Now, here's my question. What kind of technology do the hooties have that they can so successfully shoot down our drones? I mean, you know, maybe they miss nine and a ten times. I don't know. But they must have some pretty serious equipment over there that they can spot it and then get to it.

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Pretty much all art forms are only attractive to us as consumers if we know that it was made by a human. And it's not because we're anti-AI or something. It's because it's related to our mating instinct.

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So I don't know how long it's going to take for us to suppress the hooties, but it looks like it could be a while. All right, I'm going to claim the best predictor of what's happening in Gaza. Now, those of you who have been watching me for a while, you have to either back me or disagree with me on this. I'll tell you the current news.

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And then you tell me, was I the best predictor of what would happen with Israel and Gaza? Now, if you're new to me, I need to clarify that I do not support Israel. I observe it, and I observe that they seem to have the power and they're using it. If the other side had the power, they would be using it. And so I'm not putting an ethical or moral label on any of this.

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And I'm not saying what they should do or what they shouldn't do. I'm just telling you what they're doing. And one of the things I predicted was they were never going to let the Gazans move back into Gaza and that they would have to depopulate it and just move people somewhere else or keep them in camps or something. And it looks like that's exactly what's happening.

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So the biggest mass displacement of the war so far, Israel's calling it creating security zones, but one assumes the security zones will grow to the entire thing. And they plan to be more aggressive for a year.

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But Hamas apparently has offered to release all the remaining hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire, which suggests that Hamas knows that Israel's real aim is to depopulate the area, kill every member of Hamas, even if it costs them their hostages. Now, I don't think that Israel's going to stop just because they have a chance to get the hostages back.

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They might keep negotiating, but they're done with Hamas. Hamas will be trapped and destroyed in their tunnels, and I don't think there's any way around it. And eventually, Gaza will be just owned and operated by Israel. And I believe I'm the only person who told you that from the jump. Can you confirm or deny that that's true?

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I saw no other commentator say from the very first, the Palestinians are not going to be living in Gaza when this is done. Now, part of it is that Israel used the term total victory, and they said things like it would never be the same. Now, when you hear total victory and you hear it will never be the same there, what did you think was going to happen?

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So when you see an artist who does something that you can't do, you say to yourself, maybe you don't say it consciously, but your instinct is to want to mate with the artist because the artist has some kind of genetic thing you don't have. If you see somebody who can play the piano like Beethoven and even write the music like Beethoven, you are automatically triggered to say, really?

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Because if all they did was fight for a while and then say, all right, let's try living together again, would that be total victory? No, no, that wouldn't even be anything. If they had negotiated for the hostages and said, all right, we promised we'd get our hostages back, so now you can keep on living in Hamas, you can keep on running Gaza. That's not really total victory, is it?

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It's not even close. It's more like losing. So, yes, there's really no chance that the Palestinians will be going back to Gaza and living there. Now, again, if you knew, I'm not saying that's good or bad or moral or ethical or not. That's up to you. Make up your own decisions. I'm just predicting. And I'm saying that if you were in that situation, what would you do?

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If the situation were reversed, what would Hamas do? This. They would do this. Everybody in this situation would end up defaulting to this because everything else doesn't make sense at all. And, you know, the United States is kind of distracted at the moment. So if we had an impulse to try to stop Israel from doing what it's doing, I don't think this would be the time we'd use it.

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So that looks like what's going to happen. And that, ladies and gentlemen, are my comments for today. I'm going to make a few comments privately to the locals' subscribers. But for the rest of you, thanks for joining on YouTube and X and Rumble. And I'll see you again tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, coming at you.

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If I mated with that artist, Maybe I'd have a child who is super skilled. All right, bring it on. So I don't think AI will ever produce any art that anybody cares about. That's what I think. But it might be the end of drawing. I was doing some drawing yesterday for my job. And I realized that a child born today will never even learn to draw. because it wouldn't have any utility.

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They'll just learn to use AI to make images. Why would you learn to draw if you were a child born today? No real reason. I'm almost wondering if children born today will learn to write because you could just talk to the computer and it will write it perfectly for you. At what point is it just useless to learn how to do it yourself? I don't know. We're getting close. All right.

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Apparently, according to Zero Hedge, Republicans, the Trump administration, are looking at creating a new tax bracket for those earning over a million dollars a year. Does that sound like something that Trump would be okay with? It doesn't to me. You know, I suppose it would be popular to help him sell the tax package if he does it. But not a big fan. Not a big fan of that.

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If you had any idea what the tax burden is for people who make over a million dollars a year, and let's say they don't have any. Fancy ways to hide it. They're not in real estate or they don't own a gigantic company with lots of ways to hide your taxable income. If you're just making a lot of money because you're a surgeon or something, the tax burden is insane. It's insane.

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And then when you die, the government takes 40% of what's left. There's really no hope. Let me put it another way. If you were so good at your job that you made a million dollars a year every year that you worked and then you retired, you would not be leaving your children much of anything at all. Because what it would cost you to live would be about the same. Your taxes would take most of it.

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And then your estate tax would take 40% of what's left. And then if you had three kids and you divided by three, not much left. So really, the government in its current form has made it kind of impossible to build wealth in a realistic way, unless you're just killing it, and then you can do it. But you'd have to get so lucky.

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But people who are making a million dollars a year, just like clearing a million dollars a year, they're not They're not creating a dynasty. That's just living a pretty good life while you're alive. Pretty good life. Well, meanwhile, Klaus Schwab is stepping down from the World Economic Forum. We knew this was coming.

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better day. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or sign, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

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But is it my imagination, or did the people who were quite worried that the World Economic Forum was going to be like a shadow government and you're really running the whole world and all that, did we just stop thinking and talking about it? Because I never bought into that. I was just sort of observing it from the outside.

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But to me, it just looked like what Elon Musk said once, a rich people club. And they had some preferences. They wanted some climate change and maybe they wanted you to eat bugs and not own as many things and rent them instead. But did any of it make any difference? I don't know. It doesn't seem like it really did. And now that Klaus is gone, you wonder if all the Klaus clout will be gone.

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But first, let's see if there's any science that didn't need to be done. Oh, here we go. According to Petapixel, which sounds like a weird name, Matt Grokut... How could that be a real name? Grokut... Poor guy, Matt Grokut. Anyway, there's a study, and the study finds that if you smile in your profile picture, more people will want to do business with you and you'll make more money.

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But I also wonder, did we think that the WEF, World Economic Forum, was the shadow government until Doge discovered that USAID was the shadow government, at least for the United States and for a lot of countries that affect it? So maybe we just like having the idea there's a shadow government. But as soon as you see that what USAID was doing, that looks like the real one.

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And then the World Economic Forum, again, just looks like a rich person's club. So Klaus is stepping down. Trump called the situation in France where Marine Le Pen, who was the frontrunner for the presidency, got taken out by lawfare, or at least that's what it looks like from this part of the world.

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And Trump called it a witch hunt and said it was the same playbook that was used against Trump to take him out. Now, do you buy that? Do you buy that it wasn't a legitimate prosecution, maybe it wouldn't have happened to anybody else, and that it was completely political and it was for the purpose of taking you around at the election? I do. I do.

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Now, it could be wrong, maybe, but we live in a world where, unfortunately, that would be the most obvious and routine thing that would happen because we're seeing it in other places. You know, it seems to me Remember when the first time you learned that George Soros had figured out that the best way to control the country is to control the prosecutors and maybe some judges?

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Because if you get the attorney generals and the prosecutors on your side, you can kind of control the legal system. And if you control the legal system, you are the government because you can take out a candidate. Right. if you can take out a candidate like Trump or you can take out Marine Le Pen, you're kind of the government. And remember how clever that seemed?

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We thought, man, this Soros guy is so clever. He figured out the least expensive way to control a country. And then he was controlling the United States, it felt like. And then we learned that USAID has been doing exactly that to other countries. massively and for decades. So apparently one of the first things we do when we want to control another country is we look to control their courts.

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We try to get a judge and prosecutors that we can control or bribe or somehow have some influence over. So it does seem that all governments that you would call part of the democratic world are

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They all seem fake because I believe that if your court system has been corrupted, and that certainly is the case in the United States, seems to be the case in France, probably the case in every country that USAID was working in, I'm not sure any of the democracies are real. I think that they might all be pretend. and that the real government is whoever put in the corrupt judges.

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You know, remember Joe Biden and the prosecutor, he said, well, we won't release your billion dollars to Ukraine unless you get rid of that prosecutor. That was just this, it looks like. It was just another case where we couldn't control Ukraine unless we could control their judges and prosecutors. So it looks like that's what he was doing. So once you learn that, the governments all look fake.

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They all look fake. If you look at, let's say, an election in the United States, Do you think it will be determined by the candidates and the voters, or will it be determined by whatever corrupt judges decide is going to be legal today? I think the judges can change the rules. They'll decide what's in. Do you need voter ID?

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Are you going to reapportion the district so that you get more representatives? I think the courts... kind of control democracy. And so to me, everything looks fake as long as the courts and the judges don't look credible. And they don't look credible at this point. So there's that.

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So Laura Loomer made some news by, apparently she had identified some, what Glenn Greenwald called three pro-war members of the National Security Council. And she talked to Trump, and Trump fired them immediately. Now, how do you interpret that? If you're an anti-Trumper, you say to yourself, what?

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This Laura Loomer conspiracy theory lady is so powerful, she's causing policy to happen in the White House. Is that what's happening? Let me give you my frame on this. I've said this a number of times about Trump. One of his superpowers, one of his strengths, is that he's really good at listening to everybody. You'll listen to Bill Maher. You'll listen to me when I visited.

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Now, that's quite a surprise, isn't it? Do you know what they could have done instead of this study? They could have just asked me, Scott, is it good if people smile in their profile picture? Yes. Yes, it is. Well, we were thinking of doing a big expensive study. Don't bother. People like it when you smile in your profile picture.

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Let's see if this works better. The first try didn't work. That would mean everybody would be looking for the first try and not finding the real one. There we are. All right, we're good to go. I think some non-locals people will get lost. It might take them a while to find this. But I think everybody will figure it out eventually. There you go, the YouTube people are figuring it out.

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Apparently, there are two places called Las Vegas in the United States. One is in New Mexico. I didn't know that. So it looks like he drove to a completely wrong state. And then when he got out of his truck, he was looking around. He's like, I don't see any casinos. Something pissing. And then he realized he was in the wrong state. And then he drove directly to Las Vegas, the real one.

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Now, who doesn't notice they're driving to the wrong state? Well, maybe I wouldn't. I have to admit, if you said you're going to go from Denver to Las Vegas and took me through New Mexico, I wouldn't maybe be alerted to it right away because I'm so smart. I might be reading a book and letting the car drive or the truck. If he had it on full self-driving, he probably wasn't even paying attention.

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Anyway, it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Feels like nothing's working just right this morning. Everything's like off by one. Do you ever have those days when everything's just a little bit off? No major problems. I mean, it's not like a big deal. But everything's a little bit off today. I don't know. Keep an eye on that. Why in the world am I fuzzy?

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He might have been just doing his own thing and the truck was driving itself. Don't know. So here are the things that are strange about this to make us think maybe it wasn't really him who was in the car. His burned up body was found. One thing is that he was in the military and people say he definitely knew how to make a proper bomb. And this was the least capable bomb making you could imagine.

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So why would a person who could make the best bomb show up to actually risk his life with the worst bomb? How do you explain that? Well, the best explanation would be it wasn't him. Now, he also had a bullet in his head in the truck that blew up with the bombs. Did he shoot himself in the head after he lit a fuse of some kind? So therefore he wouldn't know for sure if it even blew up.

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It would make sense because he wouldn't want to die in a different way. You wouldn't want to take a chance that he didn't die. I suppose that would be a reason. But have we seen a lot of American military people who do a terrorist act and shoot themselves? It seems like They either go there to die at somebody else's hand or they try to get away. I've never heard of anybody shooting themselves.

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I mean, if he wanted to cause trouble, wouldn't he blow up the truck but leave it a minute before it blew up and use his handgun to kill random other people, like a proper terrorist, like the guy in the Ford truck did? So none of this makes sense. And people are asking, oh, and he's also reportedly a Trump supporter, so that wouldn't make sense that he blew up a Cybertruck in front of there.

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I think he had some kind of a breakup not long before that, but I don't know if that's relevant. I mean, a breakup would make you do crazy things, but this? Like, why would he attack the person he supports by parking in front of that hotel? Now, I heard somebody say that he might be opposed to gambling. Here's a little insider knowledge.

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The Trump building in Las Vegas is one of the only hotels that doesn't have gambling, which is rare. There's no gambling in that hotel. I don't think the gambling had anything to do with anything. But weirdly, it's the one that doesn't have gambling. And nobody heard the shot. So there's reporting that witnesses who were around the truck before it blew up, they didn't seem to hear a shot.

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And I asked if the truck was so good at noise cancellation that maybe you wouldn't hear it from the outside. And smart people said, yeah, you would hear it from the sidewalk pretty easily. So it doesn't look like the shot may have happened when people were nearby, or at least people were near enough to hear it and didn't die in the explosion, I guess. So that's weird.

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So people are speculating that what really happened was somebody who has a problem with both Musk and Trump, which doesn't appear to be this guy, and somebody who was bad at bomb building, which doesn't appear to be this guy, and somebody who had a... When it also doesn't, there's no indication that he was suicidal. Nobody's talking about that. So here are the coincidences.

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So anyway, the bottom line is a lot of people suspected that there's something about the self-driving car that may have taken his dead body and turned his dead body into some kind of a directed bomb. Now, how could you do that? One way you could do it is if he was already dead, and you had the key, then you could summon it as though you were summoning a parked car. Couldn't you?

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Or would that not work if you're on a city street? It would work in a parking lot. I don't know if the Tesla will allow you to do that if it means that the car is going to be on a public street without a driver. I think not.

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my guess is it'll work in a parking lot but tesla knows when it's on a real road so i don't think he could just summon it the way you would summon your park car in the parking lot i don't think so but it was also self-driving so suppose the bad guy um you know killed the other guy just kept him in the passenger seat and then set it to self-drive but

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It won't self-drive unless a passenger touches the steering wheel occasionally, right? Could you kill him and tape his hand to the steering wheel? Or could you just tie his hand to the steering wheel? Or could you just drape it on the bottom of the steering wheel while he's dead so that he's just a dead man with a hand that just happens to touch the steering wheel? Would the Tesla know he's dead?

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Why suddenly is the video just like... I look like one of those aging TV stars. Have you ever noticed that as a beautiful celebrity will age, they have to fuzz the video more and more until they're just like a blotch. You can't even make out the nose. I think that's what's happening with me. Maybe it's an angle. Now, let me try to see if I can clean the camera. Is there a camera problem?

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No. Or would the Tesla say, seems like a human hand on the steering wheel to me, and just drive him right to the hotel? So it could be that if you wanted to use a self-driving car as a car bomb that you could send to a destination and blow up, the one and only way you could do it is to shoot the driver, drape them over the steering wheel, and then send it.

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So it could be it's simply the only way you could send a self-driving car to do something is kill the driver and have him not know he's doing it because he's dead. Now, it seems to me that's too clever. It fits into the category of that's a little too good. You don't expect your general terrorists to come up with that clever an idea. And if your idea was that clever...

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You're so good that you could do that. Would you put crappy explosives in a cyber truck? Like at the very least, you'd use a regular Tesla car so it would have a chance of blowing up better. So none of this really fits. But there's also the coincidence part. Number one coincidence, the January 1st was where two things happened at the same time. So people say it must be connected.

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Now, let me ask you this question. If you plan to make a 2025 attack and you had waited for 2025, and there is some evidence that at least Al-Qaeda wanted things to happen in 2025, and you were an independent cell, terror cell, and you got to pick your own date, they just said, well, do it early. Do it early so we can really set the tone.

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If you wanted to do an early 2025 attack, what date would you pick? Well, if it's me and it's winter, you're not going to have big outdoor crowds very often, right? It would be rare to have a big outdoor crowd in the winter. But January 1st is the one time you can guarantee it. So if you said do an attack sometime early in the year,

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I would say early in the year, well, the only time I'm sure there'll be big crowds and the biggest crowds would be January 1st. So is it really a coincidence that two people picked January 1st? I would say not much one. It's not much of a coincidence.

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And it will look like less of a coincidence if, as Sarah Adams, the ex-CIA person says, there's going to be a wave of these and it's just going to happen all year. If it's going to happen all year, then January 1st is not a coincidence. It's just the obvious time that you would do this sort of thing. and it will be one of many.

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And then the coincidence will just disappear because we'll say, oh, it's not like there were only two attacks this year and they happened on the same date. That would be too coincidental. But if there are lots of attacks, yeah, January 1st would be exactly the date you'd expect two of them. Let me give you another date you would expect two of them. July 4th, right? July 4th, there'll be big crowds.

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There'll be American patriotic crowds if you're a terrorist. You'd pick a time when you know you can get the big crowds and it would have a little extra meaning because it's about America. How about the anniversary of 9-11? Do you think there's more likely going to be two attacks on 9-11 than on any other day? Probably, right? So January 1st is a meaningful day. It's not a random day.

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If it were a random day, like February 20th, that would be random. Then it's a big coincidence. But it's the most non-random day you could possibly pick. If you wanted 2025 to be full of terror, you'd pick the first day. Because here's what it felt like to me. Because Al-Qaeda is good in the psychology part. Here's what it felt like.

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The whole year is going to be like this because it happened on January 1st. If it happened on December 20th, I wouldn't automatically think, oh, no, 2025 is going to be full of it because I'd be like, well, I mean, it happens anytime. But the very fact that happened on the first day takes your brain and says 2025 terror, 2025 terror, and it's locked in.

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So by doing it on the first day, you get the extra bang for the buck, which is it makes people think there's more coming and the year is going to be full of it. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But I certainly feel like it. And terrorism is about how it makes you feel. And how I feel is, oh my God, there's a lot coming because they did it on the first. So not random at all.

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And I would not consider that date... too meaningful in the larger explanation of why there were two of them at the same time. Apparently the two terrorists came from the same military base. All these smart people who were in the military say that's not a real coincidence because something like one in three people go through that base at some point. It's like a huge number of

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Oh, maybe that helped a little. I think that helped. Good, we're ready to go. Finally. Finally. All right, well, here's some science news. According to Brian Mathley at the University of Utah, a study shows that if you lose urban trees... it disproportionately affects some places. So apparently the educational attainment is better where they have more trees.

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of people in the military spend some time in that same place. So that coincidence is not really a coincidence. The larger coincidence, I guess, is that they're both American military people. Now, let's say you're the Al-Qaeda organizers. If you knew that you had one Born in America person which will be scarier to us, right?

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Because we can't catch him as easily if they're if they're American citizens so it's scarier if it's an American citizen and Then it's scarier again if it's somebody who was in the military So that would be the ultimate al-qaeda plan is to make us not only afraid but to distrust our own military That's like a double win But suppose they only had one

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Suppose they'd been trying hard, Al-Qaeda, and they could only get one actual American citizen to do something like this. And they said to themselves, if we could get two, if we could get two, that's going to tell a different story. Because then it's going to look like the entire military has been flipped. Because our brains will treat two as a completely different story than one.

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And if we put them on the same day, now this would argue that it's not a coincidence, but we'll see. If they happen on the same day and they're both U.S.-born military, how do you get that out of your mind? Right? So that would be sort of a perfect psychological operation. But suppose they only legitimately flipped one person, the New Orleans person. How could they get that second one?

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Well, they might have to fake it. They might have to murder a military guy. Imagine if they had scammed him the following way. Hey, whatever his name is, if you meet me in Las Vegas, I've got a great job offer. Or if you meet me in Las Vegas, I've got that money I owed you something. There must be some way you could fool somebody into going to Las Vegas.

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Once he shows up, you put a bullet in his head, drape his arms over the steering wheel, put a bunch of fireworks in the back because you don't care how good the bomb is. It just has to look like it's a bomb-ish. And then you just send it to Trump Tower because where else are you going to send it? If you were in Las Vegas, where else would you send it?

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Pick the other place that would make more sense. There isn't. Trump Tower. So that makes sense. So one possibility is that they only could get one organically, so they fake the second one so it looks like the American military is turning. Can't rule it out. Then the other coincidence is that they both use this app called Turo to rent their vehicles. Now, is that a coincidence?

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The answer is maybe. As Tyrus pointed out on The Five, and I pointed out in my show yesterday, Turo is, and Tyrus kind of confirmed this, it's sort of the preferred car rental app of the people who might run into problems using a regular rental company, or wanted to improve the possibility of that they wouldn't raise any red flags by getting a car.

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Now, I don't know this to be true, but if the FBI is trying to catch terrorists, and terrorists are likely the ones who would rent, let's say, a panel truck and fill it full of bombs, don't you think that by now the Homeland Security has a backdoor into all of their rental companies? So if they see somebody renting a truck and they see an Islamic last name,

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You don't think the FBI gets a bing, bing, bing, bing? I assume they would. The reason I assume that is because I assume Homeland Security can get into every system that is relevant to what they're trying to do, protect the country. What would be more relevant than knowing somebody with an Islamic last name and military service had rented a truck? That would be right on the top

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of your bing, bing, bing. Now, I'm assuming that there are plenty of Muslim citizens in the United States who rent trucks, because everybody rents trucks. So it's not like it's usually going to be a terrorist. It's usually just going to be a citizen who needs a truck. But far more likely, an Islamic last name plus a rented truck is going to be a little more trouble than

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some other name in a rented truck. Now, of course, that's racial profiling, but don't you assume that that's what the government is doing because they need to? Of course they are. They're looking for patterns. They don't care about your racial profiling. They're just trying to stop you from blowing up the country.

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So where there are poor trees or the trees have died and not been replaced, they don't do as well in school. Hmm. Hmm. Is it the lack of trees that make people do worse in school in the city? Or could it be that the correlation is if everything doesn't work in that city, including education, you also can't keep a tree alive.

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So Turo might be just the first choice of people who don't have good credit and don't want you to check on what's going on. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. So that's on that. Well, you see the fog of war about that story, that everything about it seemed to be out of kilter a little bit.

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All right, on the other biggest scandal, you know, I'm talking about it, but I got a lot of other people talking about it. I didn't realize how bad the Amazon counterfeit product scandal was, but it turns out it's actually a Homeland Security problem. Because somewhat accidentally, Amazon turned into a way for China to destroy all American small businesses that sell things online. All of them.

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Now, I knew that my products were getting counterfeited often. Because when I put a book up on Amazon, it would immediately be copied by AI or whatever. And it would be all these fake ones under my name. My name would be on the fakes.

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Now, if I tried to get rid of it, now you're going to say to yourself, but Scott, I looked into this and there's just a page you go to and you put in your information and then you could have Amazon remove it. Do you think that's real? Do you think I can just go to a page and they'll remove it? Nope. I have to prove that it's counterfeit. Do you know how the only way that they'll let me do that?

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I have to buy it. I have to buy the counterfeit. I have to wait for a week or two weeks or however long it comes. And then I have to take pictures of it and then upload the pictures and upload the picture of my book so that I can show that it's the same as my book on the inside. That's their process. Do you believe that they meant that process to solve the problem? No.

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Amazon is the best user interface people in the world. Do you think that they would build a completely unworkable system by accident? No. No. There's no part of me that thinks that's an accident because it's the simplest problem they solve routinely. Amazon is by far, except for Apple maybe, Maybe better than Apple. Amazon is the best user interface I think I've ever seen.

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And the reason that you don't think of it as being the best interface you've ever seen is because it's the best interface you've ever seen. If you use Amazon and not once do you think, ah, where's that button or why does it do that? It's the best interface you've ever seen because the level of complexity of what they do is completely hidden.

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From the user, we just know what we want, and there it is, and then we click on it. So it defies imagination that their system for correcting counterfeits, which they profit immensely from, I'm told, immensely, my imagination can't imagine that's an accident. Now, not all products require you to buy the product, but mine do.

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So right now, every calendar, every Dilbert 2025 calendar on Amazon is a counterfeit. Let me say that again. 100%, 100% of all the Dilbert calendars this year on Amazon are counterfeits. All of them. Because I don't sell it on Amazon. I'm only selling it on a private site. If you want to look for it, go to Dilbert.com and you'll see the link at the top. But every one of them,

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So here's what I did. I, of course, complained on Axe. It doesn't take long for Amazon to notice when a big account complains because the big companies, they're watching social media and they jump right on any complaint so that the rest of the public doesn't see it. So they jumped right on the complaint, which is what they're supposed to do.

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And they said, hey, DM us and we'll see if we can help you. So I said to myself, whoa. Great. I can just talk directly to somebody, tell them what the problem is. Maybe they fix it. So they say, yeah, we'll help you. Go to this form and fill it out. Now, as soon as I hear that, I know I'm not going to get helped. So I say, are you AI? And it responded with exactly what it said before.

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What are the odds that you're running a first-class school system in a city where you can't keep a tree alive? A tree. Do you know how hard it is to kill a tree? you pretty much can throw an acorn in the ground and walk away. 40 years later, a gray tree? Well, you know, sooner than that. So yeah, I don't know if this science is getting the order right.

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Go to this form and fill it out. We can help you. Then I said, I'm done with this process because it doesn't work. I want to talk to your legal team. And they said, fill out this form with exactly the same words. And I said, I can't tell if you're AI. And then it said, oh, I'm not AI, I'm a human. But it acted like AI. And then I say to myself, is it part AI and part human?

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Maybe the human checks in once in a while, but the AI does the main work? Or was it AI and it's taught to say that it's human? Well, let's just say that it couldn't help me at all. And I wasn't going to go to the forum and fill it out. So I just said, here's my information. Every one of the Dilbert calendars is fake. What else do you need? What else do you need?

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I just told them everything they need. My phone number, my name as the author, which is easy for them to check. And that 100% of the Dilbert calendars are fake. And then I said, why don't you give this to your legal team? I asked for their legal team. because it's a legal issue. To me, it's not a customer service problem. It's a legal issue.

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So basically, then they said, fill out this form or we can't show it to our legal people. I'm like, really? You can't tell them that one of your most notable authors just told you 100% of the calendars are fake? You can't deal with that. Your system can't accept that. everything that you need to know. There's nothing else you need to know.

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Now, suppose I said, is there any way that this could have been a better system? Well, let me design one right now. When you become a seller on Amazon, the first time you're signing up to be a seller, you have to prove who you are, which makes perfect sense. So the first time that you prove who you are,

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wouldn't it be good if you got like a secret 10 digit code so that when you you publish something else onto your same you know publishing name it's got that code on it they go oh that's real only that one person would have that code and then everybody who tries to knock it off would be able to perfectly knock off the product but they wouldn't know my magic code so they wouldn't be able to post it how hard would it be to do that and then if somebody steals my code i tell them and they give me a new code

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It looks like it's moronically easy to fix now. So I posted about this and I thought it might be something limited to books and calendars and printed material. Oh no. It turns out that Amazon working with China is a way to destroy all American small business. Because as soon as any small business that's selling on Amazon, as soon as they get some good sales, it's noticed.

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And one of two things happen. Either Amazon itself builds a generic and sells it instead of yours, which puts you in a business, or China or India look at it and say, it looks like they're selling a lot of these widgets. Let's make a fake one, and they'll have way more fake ones that are on the account than the real ones, so you won't know what's real. But it's better.

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I don't know if taking away the trees makes you do poorly in school, or it could be that if you live in a place that can't keep a tree alive, it's not going to do much better with you. Just asking. Well, it turns out that the Surgeon General wants alcohol to carry warning labels. Because it's the third leading cause of cancer. I didn't know that.

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Then the fakers will also buy the real one and return it multiple times. They'll also give bad reviews to the real one. So the real one gets the bad reviews. They're dealing with purchase and returns that were always meant to be returns that were never meant to be purchased. It's just to put them out of business.

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And then they'll flood the zone with their knockoff product, which is sometimes okay and sometimes not. Now, here's what you need to know. That happens 100% of the time. 100% of the time. It doesn't happen with every product because not every product has sales. There are a lot of small products that you wouldn't bother knocking off.

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100%.

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So either Amazon steals it themselves and makes it a generic or they allow other companies to steal it right in front of you and then they carry it. Now, the question I would ask is, isn't that deeply illegal if you know you're doing it and it wouldn't be that hard to stop? It feels like it's deeply illegal.

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Now, you might say to yourself, and I threatened a class action because there's a gigantic class that would probably want to get in on it. Now, the last thing in the world I want to do is a get involved in a giant lawsuit with Amazon. Like there's no way I win. There's no winning path there.

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I would only do it as a suicide bomber, meaning I would only do it if I thought it would help the other sellers sometime somewhere down the road. So I might, you know, I mean it might need to be, you know, a weapon of mass destruction, but I can't help myself. I don't think there's a path where I come out ahead because if you're a bookseller and you take on Amazon,

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you can imagine a thousand ways they could get even. So it doesn't make sense business-wise. It doesn't make any sense. But sometimes it's not about business, is it? It's not about business. Here's what I think. I don't think this is a legal issue. I think it's a homeland security issue. Why is it that we're trying to make sure that we reshore our businesses and manufacturing from China?

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Is it because we want to make more money? No. It's because it's a homeland security problem.

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Amazon is now working for the adversaries intentionally or not But it's a homeland security problem Amazon probably needs to be shut down if they can't fix this because they've developed a system to destroy all American companies Homeland security should just shut them down and say you can't destroy American companies Intentionally now when I say intentionally clearly they know this is happening

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Right. There's nobody here who doubts that they know what's happening. And they built a system that optimizes for that. It doesn't optimize for protecting the seller. It optimizes for the counterfeits. Now, I saw that, I think I'm right about this, that Nike pulled its products entirely off of Amazon because Amazon couldn't stop the counterfeits. Now, let me ask you this.

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Do you really think they couldn't stop counterfeits From Nike? All they had to know is that Nike only has one official source and all the rest are fake. How hard is that? All Nike had to say is, here's our legal sources. Just don't buy from anybody else or don't list anybody else. The other way you could go is have blue checks. So suppose they gave me a blue check mark.

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After tobacco and obesity, alcohol is the third leading cause of cancer. So it turns out that alcohol is poison. Told you. You don't need science. Really, you don't. You just listen to me babbling about stuff. You know, it seems like my babbling is like 80%, like I have an 80% win record of just guessing.

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so that if you saw multiple copies you'd say oh these other ones don't have a blue check mark then let's say i decided to turn somebody in with my blue check mark so i've got like some authority now hypothetically so i turn in some some other person well what happens if i'm i'm actually a bad guy and i turn in somebody who who was legitimate

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Well, then we get into a battle and then they find out and I turned in somebody legitimate and then they take my blue check away and I'm out of business, as I should be, as I should be.

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All you have to do is give people who are legitimate a way to prove they're legitimate once, give them a blue check or the equivalent, and then train the other people that they're looking at something that's not been verified, right? So all I need to know is that the fakes are not verified, and I am.

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So that would mean that 100% of the fake ones would show the whole product, and then very clearly it would say the seller is not a verified legal seller. It doesn't mean they're illegal. They're just not verified as a legal seller. It would take you five minutes to learn never to buy from them because that just means counterfeit. Right?

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How long would it take you to figure out you got to buy from the blue check companies? It's the easiest problem to solve. And I heard somebody say that they make more money from the counterfeits than they do from a lot of other stuff. So it could be there's absolutely nothing except a big source of money and they're pretending they can't solve it. But while they're pretending they can't solve it,

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It is a homeland security problem, and I really think they need to be shut down if they're not going to address it seriously. Like the whole thing, just shut it down. Just turn off the switch. Because if you're not even trying to stop destroying the economy of the United States, maybe you shouldn't be in business.

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So sorry, I had a little technical difficulty there. I had to quit and back in, so it means serve two. If my engineer is listening, please delete the first try. All right. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and it took me a couple of tries to make the technology work.

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The other thing that it is, which I thought also was affecting only me, if you have a new book and you upload it, because there's a process for independent people like me to upload a book, working with Joshua Lysak in this case, when you upload it, the odds of getting a glitch on your page, my experience is 100%. A glitch means there's something wrong with the listing.

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It either doesn't show up or it's not connected to your other books. It's not visible. It takes weeks for reasons you can't figure out and they won't help you. And what happens in the time it takes you to get the glitch fixed? Do you know what happens? You're flooded with counterfeits that didn't get a glitch. Oh, really?

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So only the person who really owns the property gets a glitch, but all the people who are fake, no glitch.

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right in there and they sell all the books for the first few weeks because that's how long it takes you to fix the glitch but if you're an author who makes most of their sales on the first few weeks which is typical they take all all of your profits and then oh oh we got it fixed finally it took a month a month ordinarily it's ordinary for them to take a month to fix a glitch it's ordinary for there to be a glitch

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Every time. Now, I thought it was just happening to me until I saw some comments. Apparently, it's a system. Now, that part, I do not believe is intentional on the point of Amazon's management. What I do think is that people in charge of posting things are taking bribes from China or India. I think the employees are bribed. And I think that they're glitching it intentionally.

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And they're working with the counterfeiters to make sure the counterfeiters have a month of free access before the real one is unglitched. Now, there's way too many glitches to imagine this is an accident. Given that it's their core business to upload things and make them properly listed, it's no coincidence. This has to be bribery at some sub-level. So the level of illegality is just incredible.

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what it's doing is basically somebody else said this these small american businesses are taking the risk they're doing the r d they're doing all the marketing for whatever the product is and then china steals it so they're stealing our ip by stealing the product right in effect all right so that's homeland security That would make it Kristi Noem's business, right?

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Anyway, we're also here, Zero Hedge is saying that parents need to be worried about foreign-made AI toys for kids used as propaganda. That's right. If you have AI built into a child's toy, You better be careful because that child is talking to the A.I. and you don't know what they're going to say. Apparently, there's a report, according to Zero Hedge, of an A.I. powered robot called Miko.

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And this really has to be reframed. This is not just some ordinary domestic business glitch. Customer support isn't as good as we'd like it. It's not that. This is a Homeland Security gigantic, gigantic risk destroying American small business right in front of us intentionally, intentionally, and we're just letting it happen.

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It's time for the Trump administration to put a big fucking foot on this and see what they can do. Anyway, speaking of Trump, he likes TikTok and he's trying to see if they can get a delay so it doesn't get banned. And we'll see what happens with that. But you should know that one of Trump's big donors owns a big part of TikTok. So Trump says he likes TikTok now because it worked in favor of him.

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And I'm sure that's part of the reason. But another part of it is he's got a donor that's so big, he's probably not going to go against that donor. So that's a factor. However, I did have this experience the other day. I mentioned the TikTok ban to some young people who were frequent users of TikTok. And the first thing I heard was TikTok shows both sides on political stuff.

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Is that your experience? How many of you use TikTok? Do you think it shows both sides? And so the argument was, if it shows both sides, what's the problem? Now, that's a pretty good question, isn't it? Somebody who uses it regularly says, I see both sides all the time. I see pro-Trump, I see anti-Trump. If I'm seeing both sides, what's the problem?

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Well, here's where someone trained in persuasion is handy. Here's what I explained. How do you know you see the best stuff from both sides? If I were some nefarious person at TikTok or in China and I wanted to game the system, I would make sure that you saw both sides. But their algorithm tells you which are the most viral and powerful.

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So I'd make sure you saw weak arguments for one side and strong arguments for the other. Do you think you'd know that they did that to you? Do you think you'd know that they intentionally gave you the weak arguments for one side and the strong arguments for another? Or would you just say, looks like I saw both sides?

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You would say you saw both sides because you wouldn't know you saw the weak argument versus the strong argument. And they have every ability to do that. I'm not saying they've ever done it. I'm not claiming they did that. I'm saying how easy would it be? Because the risk is not what they've done so far. If you believe that the risk of TikTok is what you've seen so far, I've never said that.

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That's not something I've said. It's the future risk. And it's the fact that they could do things you never know they did. So the other thing is, how do you know you see the same amount on both sides? It's easy to know if you saw both sides. It's hard to know if you saw the same amount because it's not like you're keeping track. So what if they gave you 70-30?

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If they gave you 70 from one side and 30 from another, would you notice? Or would you just say, well, I see both sides. Oh, yeah, I see a little more of one, but I see both sides. Like, I see both sides. What else do I need? But if it's 70-30, would you know? Because it would definitely change your thinking. That would be enough to persuade. How about this? What if the people who were talking to me

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were not the people that TikTok cared about, meaning that TikTok knows who you're going to vote for pretty quickly. Do you think it needs to send persuasion to people who've made up their mind and are not going to change it? No. It turns out there's only a narrow sliver of TikTok users who might be independent enough that they could go either way. Can TikTok identify them?

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And if you were going to compare the thin number of people who can be persuaded, would they also get just as much from both sides? And would it be the same quality on both sides? Because look how well they could hide the persuasion. First of all, you don't do any special persuasion for 90% of the public.

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So some father bought it for his two year old. And it says that Kamala Harris will be the 47th president and appraises Kamala and Biden. But when asked about Trump, it says nothing positive, according to the libs of TikTok. I guess libs of TikTok noticed this first.

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And then when people weigh in, they say, I'm pretty sure I'm not being persuaded because I see both sides. It looks like a good argument to me. You can't tell me I'm being manipulated. I see everything. And maybe they do. But what about that 10% that are the magic ones who could be persuaded? You wouldn't know if they were the only ones getting the persuasive stuff. You wouldn't know.

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And they wouldn't know either. And what if they're saving their play for some big play later? What if they haven't used any of these powers that would be available to them? And they're just waiting for the big opportunity. Something that just kneecaps America if we believe it to be true. Now let me ask you this.

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If you think you're on TikTok and you've seen both sides, how much anti-DEI stuff do you think is on TikTok? Just to pick one political topic. Do you think there's as much anti-DEI as there is pro-DEI on TikTok? I'm open to being fact-checked, and that would be amazing if that were true, but I don't think so. Do you?

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I mean, just the demographics of the users should largely guarantee that it's 80% or more pro-DEI. I don't know. I don't think anybody's seen both sides of that. Maybe they're seeing both sides of Trump as Hitler, which is better than nothing. But do you think they really see both sides of DEI? I doubt it. Seems unlikely to me. Anyway, James Carville has a theory about the mass killers.

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Even when I don't agree with James Carville, he's so quotable and fun to listen to. because he'll just say whatever it is that nobody else is saying, and there's a reason they're not saying it. But the reason is that they're afraid, not that he's wrong. So here's what he says. At the end of the day, it's just my theory. I'm going to be right 80% of the time.

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These people, meaning the mass killers, have some kind of sexual problem. Most of them are incels. Now, I don't know if we need to take that like so seriously because remember Carville's a, you know, he's a bomb thrower and he's provocative. And, you know, so some of it's just his personality and the way he communicates and you shouldn't take it too, too seriously. But here's what I would note.

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This reminds me of backward science where you got the cause and the effect wrong. Do you think that women like to date a guy who is a suicide bomber? Do you think there would be no indication that there's something wrong with the guy if he's a little bit too radicalized? How many women want to be with a radicalized guy who's always talking about, I wish somebody would blow up the Trump Tower?

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Do you remember long ago, not really like last year, when we thought that AI would be the thing that would teach us what was true and what wasn't true? Do you remember that? We thought that AI would tell us what's true. Nope. It turns out AI is just a better way to lie to us. Because when AI says something is true, and I've had this experience, I'm really ready to believe it.

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I feel like They may be incels, but maybe it's not their choice. So maybe just being a suicide bomber makes sure that you can't get a date. So I'm not sure that not getting a date turns you into a suicide bomber. I think that whatever comes along with being a suicide bomber is something that women can pick up pretty easily. But But you might not be wrong.

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There might be a lot of them that are not getting their other needs met. I have said in the past and was mocked mercilessly. So I'll say it again. So the first time I said this, it was years ago. I was mocked. Oh, God was mocked. But I want to see if you still mock me or if the vibe has changed a little bit. What I said was in the Islamic systems, if the rich people can have multiple wives,

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what's going to happen to the rest of the men? Well, they will be unwifed, right?

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If you believe that you could never do the thing that humans are born to do, which is have kids and have a family, and you thought it was just unavailable to you because you're not rich, you're not going to be rich, you're just going to be this single guy wandering around doing nothing, and then I say to you, but what if?

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You did something really noble and you killed a bunch of people and went to heaven and got your 72 virgins. I believe that the amount of people who are suicide bombers and willing to run into battle at all risks, like you see over there, I don't think that would happen so much if the people doing it had a better alternative.

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So to me, it seems that not getting laid, which I'll just say is in the category of not being a person who's going to have babies, I do think that that creates a situation where somebody would say, well, might as well. And I'm going to go further. If I lived in a system where I knew I could not get my basic biological needs met, I'd probably do something dangerous. Maybe not that specific thing.

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But yeah, I would do illegal drugs without thinking about it if it made me feel good. I don't know. I'd probably do a lot of criminal things. Because I wouldn't care about society. I wouldn't be a part of it. If you can't have kids, you're not locked into the system the way a single person. Yeah, a single person is not locked into the system.

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So would the end of multiple wives create a change in the Middle East? I think it would. It might not be the biggest change. It might not solve all the problems, but yeah, the basics thing I'm saying is that people evaluate alternatives, right? So I have an alternative of living a full, complete life. So it never occurs to me that committing a violent act would be on my menu.

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Why would I even look at it? But if I didn't have any way to meet my basic needs as a living human being, I would look at any alternative. And I would look at an alternative that had a quick ending too. So I completely understand that. Now, of course, there'll be some exceptions. There'll be happily married people who become mass killers. And that's probably more to do with mental health.

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So you don't want to conflate the crazy people who nothing will stop them with the people who are literally looking at their options and going, you know, all things considered, suicide bombers looking pretty good today. Anyway, Biden blocked the sale of U.S. steel to Japan.

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He said he might, and I guess after there was some big committee that tried to decide on it, and the committee came back with, we can't decide. And so that made Biden the decider, and Biden stopped the sale. Do you mind if I just say that was the right decision? He's going to get a few right. I'm pretty sure this was the right decision.

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Because it talks like a person, and why would it lie to me? I mean, it wouldn't lie, would it? So when AI gives you disinformation, it's really powerful because you think the disinformation is true. So there is really... No possibility that AI could ever be used to tell you the truth. Because whoever controls it has their preferred idea of what's true.

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So I'm just going to say unambiguously, with no caveats, Biden made the right decision. So we're going to give him that. I'm pretty sure Trump would have done the same thing. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure. So I think you could be happy with that one. But why did Biden say no to Japan buying it? Well, I've got a hypothesis. Japan has never been accused of bribing the Biden crime family.

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Am I right? If Biden had blocked the sale to China, I would have been a little more surprised because he did take money from China. But he didn't take any money from Japan, and I guess Japan loses. Maybe they should have been more involved in the Biden crime family, and they could have bought themselves a steel plant. We don't know if that had any influence on his decision.

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But since it was the right decision, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt. All right. Do you remember when you thought that China, their GDP, their economy would grow until that surpassed America, and that was just assumed to be true because they have more people, more vitality, and the lines were definitely going to converge.

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Well, at the moment, it doesn't look like it's going to happen because China's having so many economic problems that it might still happen, but certainly not as soon as people thought. The experts thought it might happen around 2030. And it still could happen. But boy, did it slow down. So China is sucking wind. But so are we. If Trump vows to block U.S. deals, take it. Oh, OK.

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So CBS News is reporting that Trump would have stopped it as well. So we can be happy with that decision. But here's what I would say about China versus the United States. I don't see a path for China to survive. because their entire economy depends on manufacturing at a low cost. And certainly there are a few other countries that are trying to compete, but not super effectively.

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Like Vietnam is trying to be a, you know, but they don't have the manufacturing know-how. If you go to China, there's like this entire gigantic industry of people who are experts as saying, what is it you want to make? Oh, you want to make a lamp out of,

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cotton okay and they can build you a factory they'll make a lamp and of cotton that's not a real thing so in fact i had a um a friend who had a product designed he designed it on sort of a napkin and stuff and he found a chinese company he was making giant tennis rackets so he's making tennis rackets that you know were just for decoration if you were a tennis player

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But it looked like a regular wooden racket, but it was like four feet tall or something. I bought one. They're really cool. But he basically said to a Chinese company, all right, here's a hand drawing of what I want. It's just a giant tennis racket. It's made of wood. And they somehow made a giant tennis racket.

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Like, do you know how many technologies they would have to pull together to make a giant tennis racket? strong at a price that if it got bigger, they could afford. And that's a lot of manufacturing know-how. And when I saw that, I was like, holy cow, I don't know that I can find a place in America that would do that. I mean, maybe.

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Whoever built this Miko doll probably thought it was a fact that Kamala was awesome and Trump would never become president. So they programmed it to think that. I doubt that this came up with that just from some pattern recognition. I don't think so. Maybe, but I don't think so. Anyway, AI will be the biggest source of misinformation in the world by far.

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So places like Vietnam can't just knock off China, even if they have lower cost labor. They don't have the factory engineers. That's the big advantage. However, What happens when the cheap labor is replaced with cheap robots?

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That means that the United States will have a manufacturing advantage, at least for stuff that is sold in the United States, because the shipping costs and the shipping delays are a big part of the acquisition problem. But if you're buying it in America, it comes faster. You don't have to worry about any economic instability. You don't have to worry about as much.

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You don't have to worry about the intentional IP threat. You don't have to travel to China to make sure that they're doing it right and have your laptop information stolen. So robots should destroy the entire economic engine of China while strengthening the economic engine of America. And I don't see any way around it. Do you? Because robots are definitely coming.

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They're definitely going to do all the manual labor. They're definitely going to replace most manufacturing jobs. They're definitely going to be cheaper than hiring humans and even cheaper than having it made in China. So what's their plan B? How does China survive with that? And the answer is, I have no idea. And I wonder if they do. Do they have any idea that they don't have any way to survive

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I mean, their system, it seems to be brittle. So I will say at the same time that betting against China's economy is probably one of the worst bets you could ever make. But on paper, it's not looking good. In the real world, China is really smart, right? The Chinese leadership are like really, really smart people. It's a lot of engineers. So they don't do real dumb stuff. They just don't.

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So maybe they can figure it out, but I don't know how. I have a good imagination, and I can't imagine how they get out of that. We'll see. There's a 20-year-old soldier who apparently is a hacker in his spare time who got arrested and charged for...

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Apparently, he hacked into the phone companies and got the private records of, allegedly, Trump and Kamala Harris, and then sold the personal records of their phone calls on the black market. Let me say that again. An ordinary American 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier had the wherewithal to get the President of the United States' personal messages from a telecom company by hacking it.

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Now, do you think there's any chance that China isn't in every one of our systems? If a 20-year-old can get into what I would think would be a pretty darn secure system, pretty darn secure, then anybody can get in. Anybody who has that talent can. And China has that talent times a thousand. So we should assume that China is already in everything.

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Now, I don't hate that, believe it or not, because it would give China some sense of having a weapon of mass destruction that's not nuclear, because they can turn off the lights in the United States and 90% of us would die in a year. So my question would be, Doesn't the United States have the same kind of sort of balancing risk? You don't think the U.S.

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has hackers that are in all the Chinese systems? I assume they do. So I think we have a mutual threat there. But maybe that's wishful thinking. Anyway, I saw a claim that supermarkets, food markets, are 90% owned by just 10 companies. Does that sound right? It doesn't sound too far off directionally. I don't know if the exact number is right. But let me tell you something about the food company.

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Well, of course, we have to talk more about those two terror attacks recently that happened on the same day, New Year's. It was the New Orleans one and the Las Vegas one. And have you noticed that whenever there's something like a terrorist attack, that there's always an alternative explanation for what happened?

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The food company is a thoroughly corrupt industry. I worked in it a little bit as I tried to introduce the dill burrito, a burrito that had all the... Well, here's two things I learned. Many of you know I tried to create a frozen burrito that would be just the healthiest thing. It would have all the right vitamins and minerals and vegetables in it, and it would taste good.

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I thought, yeah, why don't we make one food that's convenient, inexpensive, and perfectly healthy? Wouldn't that be great? Then I found out that all the information about vitamins and minerals was fake. It's all fake science. I don't trust even one

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fact about vitamins and minerals and i was trying to do that as you know my competitive advantage and soon i learned wait a minute all the science is made up it's obviously made up it's not obvious until you get into it but every day that i had that business there'd be a new news story that says oh turns out vitamin e can hurt you i'll be like what oh but sometimes it helps you what

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you know, maybe pregnant women need it or something. What? And I kept finding that all the vitamin stuff was fake. So on top of the fact that the food pyramid was fake, all the vitamin and mineral stuff is fake. On top of that, the supermarket grocery industry is completely corrupt. And I've told you this before. So we were developing a super healthy food if we did everything right.

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to compete against really unhealthy crap. But the people who make the unhealthy crap have armies of people who go into every store and make sure their product is well displayed and they answer any questions. And sometimes they even go in the back, they even work for the grocery store in the back.

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They'll go back there and unpack their own products and bring them and put them on the shelves themselves. So the grocery store lets the vendor stock the shelf. with their own products. What do you think when you let the vendor put their own products on your shelf? What do you think they do when they see your product sitting on the shelf next to it? They bury it.

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They take your product, they put it in the back of their product. So there'll be two of theirs in front of yours. And if you don't have an army of people to move it back, then you can be in 7-Eleven for six months and have zero sales. That's what I did. Can you imagine selling it to 7-Eleven? It wasn't all of them. It was one subset of 7-Eleven.

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But imagine being in all these stores and when you make that sale, you say to yourself, yes, finally. Because if only that worked, it would have been cash positive. If only that worked, just the subset of 7-Eleven stores, if all they did was just put it on the shelf, It would have been cash positive in the big business. They put it on the shelf, and then it got buried.

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And we know that because we checked a bunch of stores, and in 100% of the stores, it was buried behind the same product. Craft. So we even know who did it. We know for sure who did it. Didn't help. 7-Eleven eventually said, we sold zero of your product or something like that. So it didn't work out, so we won't carry you. That's a real story.

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It's like if you look at 9-11, it's like, well, Osama bin Laden ran a plot and it became 9-11. But then, you know, there's always the group that think it's the government did it itself or some other government did it for their own purposes. There's no such thing as a terror attack where we don't immediately suspect our own government is behind it.

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And I could give you other examples, but trust me, the food industry is just a criminal enterprise. So if you find out that your food people are selling you poison and they know they're doing it, that would actually fit perfectly with everything I observed, that it looks like a massive criminal enterprise. That's what it looks like. Anyway, Elon Musk is weighing into British politics.

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He thinks the government needs to be revised and they need to hold new elections. He said specifically, the people of Britain do not want this government at all. New elections. Now, of course, he's being blamed with interfering with British elections. The first thing we would all note is the British government has interfered with American elections repeatedly. So shut up. Shut up.

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Is Elon interfering with your elections? I don't care. Shut up. As long as you're going to interfere with our elections, just shut up, because we're absolutely going to do it to you. Absolutely. And unrepentant. So I'd like to weigh in, and I don't know anything about UK politics, but I want them to change their government. I insist. They're not listening to me, so it doesn't make any difference.

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But now, if you're going to mess with our government, which you do, and we know that from various, I mean, everything from the Steele dossier, you know, wink, wink, the Steele dossier to sending people over to help campaign for Kamala Harris. Yes, they're all in our business. And other countries are always in our politics one way or another. So, no.

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Don't tell us to stop talking about your country, whether it's Elon or me or anybody else. We will interfere as much as we feel like it. As long as you are. And I would ask the question, when does observation become interference? Because what Elon said is the people of Britain don't want this government. That's true based on polls. That's a factual statement.

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The people in the country don't want it. The polls agree completely. The polls are very overwhelmingly agree with that. So is an observation an interference? Shut up, Great Britain. Just shut up. I don't care. I don't care if this observation feels like interference to you. Don't care. Keep it up. But it does raise the question, I wonder if Elon Musk is sort of a kingmaker for other countries.

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Is it possible that if people think he fixed America by getting Trump in office with Trump's solutions, does it look like he could fix another country? Because honestly, I'll bet the UK is jealous of the United States because we have We've presented, it hasn't been implemented, but we've presented a completely workable solution for our biggest problems, which is Trump's policies.

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Now, don't you think the UK would like a really good plan to solve their own problems? And they don't have one. They don't have a Trump policy. So they don't seem to have any way to recover. And I think that they're beyond what I'll call the cultural tipping point. The cultural tipping point.

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Which on one hand, you might say, well, that's the worst possible situation. On the other hand, you could say it's a good thing we don't trust everything. It's really healthy just to not trust anything. Anything that happens, I think, I wonder if my government caused that. It doesn't even matter. If I fell off my own bicycle, the first thing I'd do is look behind me and see if Congress is there.

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At some point, if you bring in a, let's say a contrarian or even hostile culture, if you bring in one or two people in a big country, no big deal. If you bring in enough people,

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and they can start forming their own communities within your community so that they have isolated communities that are not acclimating to the rest of the culture, that pretty much guarantees, if they're Islamic, if they're bringing fundamental Islamic beliefs, all they have to do is get a foothold.

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If they get a foothold in the modern world, the only way you could stop it from taking over everything, because it's a viral religion, They pretty much want to make sure that they convert you or die trying. Not all of them. We're talking about the extremists. That will succeed over time if you live in a system where we don't do cruel, terrible things.

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Now, Great Britain does not like to do cruel, terrible things to brown people. It's just a terrible look. So they'll do everything to avoid it. That guarantees the end of England. It guarantees. And I don't see anything changing. So it looks like no matter how small the foehold is, like don't hit me with any statistics like, but Scott, don't you realize that they only make 2% of the whole country?

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It doesn't make any difference. If all of them are in a few central metropolitan areas, they will eventually control the metropolitan areas. And then it just spreads from there. So now, if it's 2%,

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but they're all concentrated where they can group and keep their culture intact and and use it to work against others around them you're dead do you know what this solution is it's called the uyghurs in china i'm not recommending it all right because if i recommended it i would be as bad as china but china basically says we're not going to have any islamic people in china

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It's a viral, dangerous religion. It doesn't fit with our system. And we're just going to put you in concentration camps and essentially sterilize you effectively. Now, am I in favor of that? No way. Because nobody who's a good person could be in favor of that. But what if you didn't have any choice? Great Britain is beyond the point where it's fixable.

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I will tell you with fair confidence that Great Britain will fall. It will just become an Islamic country. And they did it to themselves, completely self-inflicted. The United States might have had the same fate. But I think that the Trump administration, who has never said this, by the way,

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But when they do the order of deportations, they say quite wisely and smartly that, hey, let us focus on the illegals and then we'll figure out who goes after that. Now, who goes after the people who are literally criminals? What's next? Well, here's where it gets dicey. If it were up to me, I would ship people back based on cultural non-fit.

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So if somebody was illegal, but they're also a member of a culture that is hostile to our culture, they go back first. Would that be gross racial discrimination? Yes, it would. But it would also be self-defense. And in the context of self-defense, totally acceptable. In personal interaction, completely unacceptable. And certainly if you're hiring or firing, completely unacceptable.

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But when you talk about national defense, yeah, you can do anything you want. There are no rules for defense. If you're literally defending yourself against a risk, there's no ethical or moral anything. But we will act like there is. And so I don't imagine that Trump could get away with it, but it's the conversation that needs to be had. Should we decide...

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who will destroy the United States the way Great Britain is certain to fall at this point. Do we want that fate? Because if we don't, there's literally one way to deal with it. You'd have to ship back all recent non-legal immigrants who came from certain parts of the world. You'd have to do them all. Just get rid of everybody who's not a citizen who came from the wrong part of the world.

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You'd want to make sure that you discriminated as little as possible against American citizens and against non-radicalized people because it would be a horrible, horrible thing. But it might be the only thing. It might be the only thing that saves the country. And I feel like the big problem is that we're afraid to say that ideas matter.

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Maybe it wasn't the government this time. It's just automatic. We just assume the government's behind everything. So that's part of the New Orleans story. But here are the things that are notable about the story that's newish. It does seem that, at least on the political right, there seems to be a settling in on the narrative that DEI is the main problem.

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If you put people who want to get along with a bunch of people who don't want to get along and want to conquer you, That needs to be discussed. You can't just act like it's not there. And you can't say, but, but it would be discriminating because most are not, you know, most immigrants who came to this country from those countries probably just wanted a better life.

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Probably not in any, in any kind of bad business at all, but I don't care. Don't really care. What I care about is that we don't go the direction of the United Kingdom and be doomed. And there is a way to prevent it. It just would require somebody with balls the size of Mar-a-Lago to get it done. I don't know if he can do it. It might be a step too far.

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But I would go crime first and cultural fit second. So now it's out there. So this is one of the things I can do because I'm canceled. I can't get further canceled than I am. So I can say what the government can't say and shouldn't say, which is who is second after you get the known criminals. So, of course, you want to get the Venezuelan gangs.

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You want to get the murderers and the rapists and stuff. Of course. But we need to be at least a little aware of what the second wave would be.

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and i would get rid of anybody who wasn't culturally compatible and was recent yeah i wouldn't obviously definitely don't deport any citizens of the united states and and if there's some way to tell who's not radicalized then definitely like to keep them but if you don't know if they're radicalized and they came from a certain part of the country and they're not citizens and they're not here legally

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Yeah, they got to go next. Everybody agree? And somebody has to say it out loud. Because I've told you before that persuasion-wise, sometimes you need the person who goes first and just says the thing that gets you canceled for sure. This is like cancel bait. If I were not already canceled... I would get canceled for this. Would you agree? This is total cancel bait. But what's the point?

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I'm already canceled. But again, I'm completely against discrimination in any personal, professional, in-person way. Totally against that. But self-defense? Different standard. No rules for self-defense. All right. Here's some science things to round things out. According to Reitman University, people who can see the big picture and are good at storytelling have more meaningful lives.

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So people who think of things in terms of stories and can tell stories have more meaningful lives. I can see that. Because

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storytelling especially it just seems that people who can see things as stories would ordinarily find more meaning if you don't see the story then you just see what you're doing which might be drudgery and that doesn't make you too happy but if you see the drudgery you're doing as connected to the larger story of your life like that can give you some meaning

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Now, did you imagine that that would ever happen? That people just casually talk about it like it's a fact? Oh, it looks like DEI is the base problem here. Because if we didn't have DEI, we would have blocked off the streets. Right? If we didn't have DEI, we would have caught this guy early. Now, I don't know if any of that's true. So let me be very careful when I say this.

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So I look at the times in my life where I did horrible work. I mean, the work was hard and unsatisfying, but as long as it was moving me along my storyline, I was fine with it. So college classes I found largely uninteresting and drudgery, but I knew I needed it. So I always was enthusiastically embracing the challenge because it was part of my story. Now, I've told you the Prisoner Island story.

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It's good to have a story of yourself and then make yourself conform to it. So I've got a couple of stories. One is that I always win in the end, which is not literally true. But as long as I tell myself that story, when bad things happen to me, I just say, well, I've seen the story. And the story is I fix this in the end. Turns out I usually do. I usually do fix my problems in the end.

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So, you know, it's easy to convince myself. And then I use the prisoner island example. You've heard it before. But the idea is that you imagine you're dropped on a prisoner island and there's no law, there's no warden. And on day one, all of the bad prisoners who are already there beat me up, steal everything I have and leave me for dead.

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Because, of course, they're bigger and meaner and there are more of them. On day two, they beat me up again and it's even worse. Day three, same thing. Day four, same thing. But if you come back in a year, I will have killed every one of them and I will be ruling the island. Now that's called escape from prisoner island.

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And what I find is that it helps me understand myself or really program myself. It programs me to say, It doesn't matter what you have to do, you're going to do it. It doesn't matter how hard it is, you're still going to do it. It doesn't matter how badly beaten you are, you're still going to win. It doesn't matter how many times they beat you up, you're going to get them in the end.

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Now, again, it's not technically true that I'm going to win in the end all the time, but I treat my life

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that story and it's a recurring one every time every time something bad happens there you are Prisoner Island so imagine how good that feels when something bad happens to you whether it's a divorce or you know in my case getting cancelled I just go right to Prisoner Island they go yep you beat me up and left me for dead let's check back next year a year after I got cancelled I

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I had built an entirely new distribution system and was happier than I've ever been in terms of my creative work. It's just ideal. My current situation is so much better than before I was canceled. That's Escape from Prisoner Island. So whether you use that story or some other story, you should have a story.

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Have a story for yourself where you win and then just keep plugging yourself into the story. It will help. Let's see, what else? According to Cy Post and Vladimir Henry, people who know two languages might have more protection against Alzheimer progression. To which I say, you could have just asked me. Because don't we have plenty of science that says the more you use your brain...

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the more protection you have against all forms of losing your cognitive ability. So knowing two languages would be evidence that you've used your brain more than somebody who knows one language, which would be right on point with being a protective thing against any kind of mental decline. So next time, just ask me. Eric Dolan writes for SciPost. He says,

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oxytocin influences moral emotion, decision-making. So oxytocin is the chemical your brain or your body creates when, uh, you're in like personal contact and intimate situations and stuff. And it makes you feel love and connection to things. But they found if they give it to you artificially that you will have, uh,

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I don't know that any specific situation, and I don't think there's any way to know. You don't know that any specific situation is a DEI problem. But, It is 100% fair to surface it as your top suspect, because at this point in history, DEI has crippled or ruined just about every large organization. And again, it has nothing to do with anybody's genes or their culture.

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greater moral behavior basically it makes you feel shame more and makes you care more about harming other people so basically you you just love your fellow human beings a little bit if you're on this drug and my takeaway from this is science has a million ways to tell us you don't have free will and 98 of you are not getting the hint

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I'll just say this because I love saying it and watching people not accept it. If you can change people's decisions with a drug, they don't have free will. Now, I know you're going to use word thinking and say, but I have free will because I can choose. And they'll say, well, all you did is substitute a word.

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Then you'll say, but Scott, there are lots of things I could have done, but I only chose one. That's free will. And I would say, no, you just put a word in place of it. Unless you think that the rules of cause and effect and the rules of physics don't apply to your brain, I don't know why you'd think that that wouldn't apply to your brain. No, you don't have free will.

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Science keeps trying to tell us, but we reject it. There's some kind of new nanopore-based sensor

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can diagnose your health so instead of looking at lots of cells like lots of blood samples or something that they think they can get a they don't have a finish yet but a detector they could look at one one um let's say one what uh one molecule they can look at one molecule from your body and diagnose your health problems

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Now, whether or not this ever works, this is by, let's see, it's in Riverside, University of California, Jules Bernstein's writing about it. But whether or not that works, and they can diagnose you with one molecule or not, there's going to be a whole bunch of diagnostic devices that will be desktop and consumer-friendly.

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So you'll just have something on your desk that you'll stick your finger in. It'll take a prick or take one molecule. In this case, it'll tell you all kinds of things. Now, what do you do about it? Suppose you diagnose yourself, take your blood test. You found you got a bad problem. Well, I think the future is nurse practitioners plus AI. I think AI will be your doctor.

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But sometimes you need to be physically manipulated, such as a bandage put on or an injury cleaned or stitches or something like that. So I think you'll have nurse practitioners doing the physical part that the AI doctor said should be done. Because we know we're at the cusp where the AI doctor is going to be better than the real doctor any minute now. I mean, at the moment, it might be a tie.

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And I believe AI already outperforms doctors reading x-rays and reading scans. I think that's already the case. So, yeah, I mean, we're right. A year from now, probably you're going to use AI instead of a real doctor. That's my guess. And then nurse practitioners. So I don't know what doctors are going to do. It's going to be a tough economic climate for doctors going forward.

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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to say. It took way too long. I'm going to say bye now, and I'm going to just say hello to the locals, people, and everybody else, thanks for joining. I'll see you next time, same time tomorrow. And locals, coming at you. I'll only be brief.

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It has only to do with constraining your hiring choices. so that you don't have an option of just looking for the best person. Now, in theory, you're getting the best person, but also diversity. In reality, if you're getting measured for diversity, you're going to get diversity one way or another. So in the real world, it just means don't hire white guys. That's literally all it means.

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So of course, people are looking at this as a DEI story, even though we don't know if it is, but it is the right question to ask. So here's some of the things we know. And by the way, on the DEI thing, this is the price of DEI.

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I think it was human error in this case, my human error. So you'll see there's a wrong one and a right one. If you're listening to this, you're in the right one. Good for you. Good for you. But if you'd like to take this experience... Up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains.

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And if the proponents of DEI did not know that the perfectly predictable outcome of succeeding and getting a lot of DEI candidates in office or getting hired, if you didn't know that was going to cause a massive backlash against everybody who gets... gets a job under that context? How did you not know that?

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The price of DEI is that for an entire generation, if you're black and you're capable and you just do a really good job and you get promoted on all of your merits, you will be widely assumed to not be capable. Now, I didn't make that system. If I'd made the system, this wouldn't happen. So don't blame the people who are simply responding to the system you built. They're the messengers.

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If they tell you, hmm, looks like we have to suspect DEI in this situation, they didn't make that up. That's not an opinion. It's a clear just observation. It's an observation that you have to include that variable when you're looking at any complex situation in America. Don't blame the messenger. All right. So apparently the Airbnb that we think was the

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new orleans connected to the new orleans attacker was on fire was it i'm not sure if anything that was reported early on is true but there was so much fog of war false reporting that i don't really even know what's true at this point but uh so apparently the new orleans BNP had bomb-making materials in it.

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I didn't see any signs of the fire, so I don't understand what part of this is true and what's not. And also, by the way, I should tell you that the odds of me confusing these two headline stories is nearly 100%. I'm already having a tough time figuring out, wait, which one was the Las Vegas guy and which one was the New Orleans guy? Is anybody having that problem?

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It's like, wait, one was a cyber truck, the other was an electric Ford truck. So if I get some of the details wrong, just know it's coming. So here are the things we know. On the New Orleans one, a reporter was allowed in to give a tour of what looks like essentially part of the crime scene and conveniently laid out

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in the New Orleans terrorist home is the open Koran, coincidentally, and work tables where he's making all kinds of bombs and stuff. Now, it definitely looks like, 100% looks like somebody who's a terrorist lives there. Do people make their apartment look exactly like a terrorist lived there? Maybe. Maybe. So I guess we'll figure out what that is.

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Now, part of the issue is that Trump said that the open borders are causing more crime and terrorism. Now, you already know that the New Orleans terrorist was American-born. Now, he had an Islamic name, and he was obviously in that life. But he's American-born. He went to, it was in the American military.

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So is Trump right or wrong when he uses that situation, which was an American-born guy, when he uses that as an example of open borders being a problem? The answer is yes, because it's a reasonable assumption

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that since he was living among a lot of recent immigrants within the same cultural situation, does it seem likely that he was living with somebody who came more recently who was either encouraging or radicalizing him? We don't know the answer to that. But like the DEI case, it's the first question you should ask. The first question.

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So it feels to me like if the guy is American-born, but he was living among recent immigrants who brought a different culture, and some of it may have radicalized him, I think Trump's on point. Now, again, we don't know if he's technically right on this specific case. But this is the kind of hyperbole I don't mind at all. because it's so obviously directionally correct.

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It doesn't really matter to me too much that he was born in America if he lived among people who weren't, and that culture is presumed to have had some impact on him. I don't know. I don't know. Could you become that dedicated if all of your friends or where you lived didn't have any of those views? Possible, but it seems less likely. All right, so what else?

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We'll talk about the coincidences in a minute. But the funniest thing was the Cybertruck guy. Now, it may not be funny, because I think there's a real possibility that the so-called terrorist in the Cybertruck may have been actually a victim. So there's certainly as many indications that he didn't do it as there are that he did it, even though his body was the one found in the car.

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Here's what we know. Apparently, we know the path that the Cybertruck took from Denver to Las Vegas, but it did not take the direct route. It took a very indirect route. Do you know why? His first stop was in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It looks like, can't be sure, but it looks like When he took off, he said, hey, Cybertruck, take me to Las Vegas. And it took him to the closest one.

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If you're here and I'm here, we should do something about it. Stocks are up a little bit. You will enjoy looking at your stock portfolio if you have one. And as soon as I get my comments going, we're going to have quite the show. Oh yeah, it'll be epic. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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you know, give up the W. So instead of firing him, firing him, he does remove him from the office. But hours later, Trump announced that he was going to nominate him to be the UN ambassador, a role requiring Senate confirmation. Now, I'm going to tell you a story from my college experience because it's the only other time I've ever seen this happen. So he got fired into a promotion.

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Some are saying that's a better job, the UN ambassador. I don't know if that's true. But let me tell you something from my college experience.

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make it fast before I was a trained hypnotist and before I had you know learned persuasion I still thought I was kind of persuasive but only in sort of an arguing way you know sort of a good debater I didn't really have the skills that I developed over a lifetime but even in college I I knew I was more persuasive than the average person.

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So one of the side jobs I had in college was I had volunteered to be the finance guy, because I was an economics major, the finance guy for the only business that operated, student business, that operated on campus. We had something called the coffee house, which is where we served beer and peanuts and we'd have live entertainment.

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It was sort of the only place on campus you could go and sit down and buy a beverage and stuff like that. Now, this place had never made money. So somehow it was a monopoly on campus and it was usually full and somehow it didn't make money. So as the finance guy. And they'd never had a finance guy.

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I went in and implemented some accounting and some accountability and negotiated with some vendors and made it profitable. So the first thing that happened was I won a full doge on it before doge was the thing. And it worked because it just needed a little tweaking. And then the college didn't have to supplement it, which it had been. So if you do something that works,

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and people see it and it's visible, you get all this credibility. So because the other people on the committee, it was all student run. There were no outside people, just students running the thing. If you make something work, you become more credible. Now, one of the things I did was one of my good friends wanted a job as a bartender. And I recommended him.

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And because I was a member of the working committee that ran the place, my recommendation carried some weight. Now, unfortunately, he was very bad at his job. He's a very capable person. But, you know, not everybody can do every kind of job. So he was just sort of not good as a bartender. Would come in late after basketball practice and, you know, he'd be too tired.

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And, you know, he just wasn't up for it. So one day, the people who ran the coffee house, we had a meeting and there were two major things on the agenda. Number one was we needed to elect a leader for our own committee. The people who ran the coffee house, we we had lost our leader, so we needed a new leader.

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The other thing that was on the agenda was the proposition of firing my friend, the bartender. So I decided that I wanted to see if I could get my friend promote fired. Fired as a bartender, but hired as all of our bosses. Now, do you think I pulled that off? Do you think I pulled off getting my friend fired for being a bad bartender and simultaneously

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Now, I wouldn't have known specifically that this would work for Parkinson's, but when was the last time you ever saw a study in which psychedelics were involved and the result was it didn't work? For whatever it was. They could test it for depression. Yep, it works. They could test it for a variety of mental problems. Yep, it works.

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hired to be the person who would be all of our bosses so we would fire him and make him our boss at the same time that's what i so i actually said you know the skills that are required to be a bartender are very different from the skills to be a leader and people looked at me and they said well okay i mean i suppose that's true

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And I went on, and by the time I was done, we fired my friend the bartender and made him our leader. But when I say leader, I might mean Poppet, because he was my friend, and if I had anything that I really needed to get done, I would just bring it up with him, and he would bring it up with the committee, and we would get it done. So none of it was evil. He was actually a very good leader.

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He turned out to be great. He did a good job as a leader. But it's the only other time I've seen somebody promote fired. And I got to tell you that that was about the time I realized that my ability to persuade wasn't normal. Because I walked out of that thinking, did that really happen? Did I actually pull that off?

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And then later, that same friend and I and a third friend, we recommended to the administration of the college that the three of us should be in charge of our dormitory and that we should get a salary and each of us should get a private room. Now, if you know what a private dorm room is worth in a college where not many private rooms existed, you would know what kind of a reach that was.

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And we actually pulled that off. We actually convinced the administration to fire, or not hire again, I guess, the professional guy who lived in the dorm just to make sure that we were in line. And we convinced the administration to put us in charge and to pay us a salary and to give us private rooms. And how did we do? Great.

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It became a model for the rest of the college because we ran the thing really well. So it turns out that I made a bunch of promises, but we actually delivered. We had lower expenses and basically we were really successful. So long before I entered this domain, I was aware that I had unusual powers of persuasion. And I didn't know what the limit was. And I still don't. And neither do you.

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All right. Apparently, the FBI assistant or special agent, a guy named Elvis Chan... who had been apparently the main censorship liaison between the FBI and social media during the 2020 election. As you know, the FBI tried to suppress things on social media, and he was the main guy, and he's been placed on terminal leave.

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The Trump administration continues their purge of people who are censors or, in their view, bad actors in the past. Here's no surprise. A federal judge ruled that the Alien Enemies Act, the one that Trump is using to deport the Venezuelan gangs, does not apply. And so, therefore, Trump cannot deport the Venezuelan gang members using the Alien Enemies Act.

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Now, the argument is that they don't meet the definition. And this judge said that it must involve an organized armed force entering the United States to engage in conduct destructive of property and human life in a specific geographic area. So that's Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. He's actually a Trump appointee.

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He says the rarely used law, because it's a very old law, can only be invoked when a, quote, organized armed force is entering the United States. Now, to me, it seems like these Venezuelans, at least we've been told by our administration, are organized and are sent by Venezuela with the express purpose of

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messing up the united states so to me it meets the definition and i also think that the commander-in-chief is the one who should decide if it meets the definition i don't feel like the courts should even make that decision it just feels like it shouldn't be their domain maybe it is but if you have a commander-in-chief whose job it is to protect the country

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They can test it for really anything that's happening in your brain or your body. If you have a... What would you call it? Not a drug, exactly. But if you have something you can take that works every single time you test it, it doesn't even matter what you're testing it on, and there's basically no downside whatsoever...

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And we allow the commander in chief to have a pretty wide latitude because you don't want them to be handcuffed by process if they're trying to protect the country. I just feel like I would give the nod to the commander in chief on this one. So we'll see what happens with it. The ACLU was, you know, arguing that it should not be, not be the law.

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Now, what would be the alternative if we don't deport them? That wouldn't stop us from arresting them, right? So would we just have to build some kind of El Salvador-like facility for jailing them? So it just seems like it's going to be expensive. And what are we going to do? Leave them there forever? Because there's still going to be non-citizens.

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And if we can't deport them, what do you do with them? Put them in our American jail just forever? Because they're still non-citizens and they're still, you know, have a criminal connection. Maybe Gitmo? Somebody says Gitmo? I don't know. I don't know what the alternative is. We'll see. Well, I think this is funny. The CIA is saying publicly that they've got some videos that are in Mandarin.

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and they're aimed at recruiting Chinese officials. And John Ratcliffe of the CIA says, one of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets. Now, isn't it funny that we say that out loud? Hey, China, we want to recruit some of your citizens. Here's a video. And when they become traitors to your country,

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We're going to have them steal your secrets and give them to us. Now, it's not like we don't know this goes on, right? Obviously, China has a zillion spies in the United States. Obviously, even our allies have spies in the United States. Obviously, the United States has spies in every country we can put a spy in. But it's something hilarious about just saying it out loud.

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that we can just say, oh, by the way, China, we're trying to recruit some of your officials. We'd like to get our spy numbers up, so we'll be offering them excellent deals and retirement packages. But yeah, we'll be recruiting your people as our spies. Now, it makes me wonder, is the real play to get extra spies, which maybe partly that's the real play,

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Or is it to make China doubt their own cohorts in government? Because I love the fact that if China saw we were making a big push, then everything that the other leaders were doing would start looking suspicious. So what this does is, this is a persuasion play as well as a recruiting play. The persuasion would be, if you put in China's head

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that we're actively recruiting, then anything that another Chinese leader says that isn't exactly what you want them to say, you're going to say to yourself, huh, I wonder. I wonder if that one got promoted or got recruited. Hmm, I don't know. You're acting a little bit suspicious. Why is it you need access to this information? Oh, well, under normal circumstances,

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Under normal times, it would be normal for somebody to say, I need some access to some confidential information to do my job. But if it were in your head... that America was recruiting more spies, and then your fellow leader said, oh, can I have access to that private information? You'd say to yourself, hmm, why? Why do you need that?

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I would have guessed accurately that it would have been good for Parkinson's patients. Without any knowledge whatsoever, I would have just said, well, does it work for everything else you test it for? All right, probably it'll work for the next thing too. All right, here's one. This one's so dumb, it's just funny. There's a Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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So I think it's very clever in making the Chinese leadership doubt other Chinese leadership. So that's kind of clever. Well, we heard from, I guess, Susie Wiles, chief of staff for Trump, that Elon Musk is no longer physically in any kind of office in the West Wing. He's doing things remotely by phone.

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He's still involved, but to a lesser extent, and obviously he's going to be paying more attention to his businesses. But Jesse Waters met with the Doge team, and they did make some news, but I'm not going to report any of it. As you know, I've made the mistake of repeating what Doge has claimed in the past, and I got bitten every time.

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So they have some provocative claims that, if they were true, would be pretty newsworthy. But since I can't tell what's true, and Doge has over-claimed or left out context, and in some cases just been maybe wrong about what something meant, I do believe that they're honest in the sense that they don't say stuff unless they think it's true. I don't think they necessarily get everything right.

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So I'm not even going to report the provocative claims of the things they say. I do think that directionally, Doge is good. And I don't think it came anywhere near its own stated goal of finding a trillion or so. And I'm not even sure if the $160 billion they claim will actually prove out.

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but here's what i think is the biggest benefit of doge it made doge a thing now when people in the states realize that they need to get their budgets under control they use the word they say we need a doge and what they mean is it can't be the usual people in government It probably needs to be some kind of independent people brought in who can audit things and maybe improve things technically.

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So if I were going to evaluate Doge on meeting their, let's say, their own goals, I would say, doesn't look like they did. But if I were to evaluate them on their long-term impact on the country, it might be one of the best things that's ever happened. Meaning that we now understand that the doge is completely necessary and needs to be permanent.

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In other words, there just needs to be some smart people really paying attention so that all our money is not being stolen. So the idea of doge looks like it's going to live on forever. And it's got a word. Once you've got a word associated with it. And so I think that they're honest. I think they're well-meaning. I think directionally it's all correct.

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And it might take longer to get the kind of benefits that they wanted from it. But it's all good. I just don't believe any specific claims. So I'm not even going to repeat them. Well, meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, according to Just the News, she's closed an office she claimed acted as a, quote, slush fund for DEI. What was the name of that office?

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It was the Intelligence Community Human Capital Office. So she shut the whole thing down. And it will save taxpayers $150 million. And she said it was a slush fund for DEI. Now, On one hand, there's so many reports of a DEI thing being made illegal, a DEI thing being threatened, a DEI thing being closed down.

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And they found out that the children who have increased physical activity have a lower risk of developing symptoms of depression. How many times are they going to do that study? Well, let's do it in Norway. All right, let's study 13 to 15-year-olds. Okay, how about 15 to 17-year-olds? It's all the same. Physical activity is good for your brain, just like psilocybin.

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I'm not sure I believe any of it because it looks like they're just trying to go dormant until another Democrat gets in power. And then it will just go, bing, hey, surprise. It was always here. We just used a different name to call it by. So there will be a few situations, like the Tulsi Gabbard one, where they closed the entire office. That might work.

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So that might be a case where they did, in fact, reduce some DEI. But with all the colleges and the big corporations and all the various little entities of government that are trying to be part of the resistance instead of the administration.

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I feel like they're just going to hide all this stuff with secret names and just change the look of it until they get power back, and then it will just completely come back. So I don't know that it can be killed.

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even though it's being treated as unconstitutional and illegal by the current administration, all it's going to take is the next administration to say, Oh no, actually it's completely legal and everybody should be doing it. So we're going to do it like crazy. So I don't know about that, but here's some good news. Um,

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Joe Hoft is writing about this. Mercedes says they're going to shift more vehicle production to the U.S. Now that would be in response to the tariff threats. But they're not the only ones. So here's a list, I guess, according to the administration of other automakers who are looking to move more production to the U.S., So you got BMW is thinking about adding more production in South Carolina.

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You got Honda plans to shift production from Japan to the U.S., you know, some production. So all of these are parcels. Hyundai is going to do some big investment in the U.S. Kia plans to produce hybrid vehicles in Georgia. Nissan is considering moving production from Mexico to the U.S. Stellantis, I don't know who that is.

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says it will reopen its Belvedere, Illinois plant for mid-sized trucks, and Toyota said it will boost hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia plant. Now, those seem like pretty big accomplishments, but it gets better. So now you have to be careful about whether all these news reports are exactly true, but it's starting to look

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like Trump is getting big wins in the automotive industry, and those would be good jobs. So that would look like a win. But Tim Cook is reportedly excited, according to 9to5Mac, whoever they are, that TSMC, the big chip-making company that's based in Taiwan, is going to break ground on their third US chip plant.

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So that would mean that they're building three of them, because I don't think any of them are complete. So that would mean they're building three US chip plants. And Apple's Tim Cook says he's excited to be the first customer of the Arizona chip plant. Now, let's say this is true too.

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This would be really, and then we heard about NVIDIA, you know, making sure it's going to do a gigantic increase in capital expenditure in the United States to make their stuff. So is this really happening? Is Trump actually successfully bringing the automotive industry back to the U.S.? Because it looks like it, at least to some degree.

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at the same time that the biggest, most important chip companies are wildly building production in the United States because it looks like it. This is very impressive. This is very impressive. And we'll talk about China and the tariffs in a little bit. But you saw that the stock market is up today. There are reasons for that.

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If Trump gets this to work against all the experts' recommendations that trade wars are always bad and tariffs are always bad and there's no exception, it's going to be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president ever. Now, it's too early, much too early, so I'm not going to declare that it's working. But boy, it looks like it's working.

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And I don't say that easily because I would have been a, you know, wait and see. You're not going to know anything for two years. But it kind of looks like it's working already. And that would surprise the hell out of me. The rate of it working would surprise me. Not that it worked. Meanwhile, Trump has... He's trying to cuff funding on NPR and PBS.

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Now, you should know that that doesn't close them down, but it will put them under pressure because a lot of that federal funding would go to the local and urban stations, and then some of that money would flow back to the national ones. So they may have... They might have to downsize a little bit and maybe some local stations won't operate.

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You could have just asked Scott. All right, here's one. I would have gotten this one right, too.

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But for the most part, they'll stay in business because most of their funding is from private donations. And if it goes the way things usually go, the Democrats will just donate more money so they don't go out of business. But I am happy that the government is now funding a biased news entity. So that would be...

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And there's also Congress would need to approve the cuts and there could be legal challenges. So it doesn't even mean that their funding is going to be cut because you know there's going to be legal challenges and they're just going to shop for some judge that will say anything about anything. And at the very least, they'll have to probably fight it to a higher court.

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Trump also says he wants to take away the tax-exempt status from Harvard. And the reason giving is that they are racists and they're violating civil rights, basically because of their DEI and hiring preferences, et cetera. So I don't know. This feels right.

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It turns out that you, if you compare, and the University of Basque Country did this, I don't know who they are, but they did a study and they found that children who learn to write, you know, actually physically write with their hand, they develop better reading and writing, well, better reading skills, I guess. Now, would you have known that?

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If Harvard absolutely wants to continue violating the Constitution by favoring one race over another, et cetera, I don't want them to be tax exempt. Maybe you can do things privately illegal, but why would we keep giving you money? So I understand that they do super valuable things for research, etc. But why does all of our research have to go through universities? Is that necessary?

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Maybe what we really need is that our research facilities are no longer connected to a university. Because you know what happens if you give a million dollars to Harvard? How much of it actually goes to the scientists? Not much. Actually, most of it will go to the overhead for the college. So don't you think we just need to completely retool where we're giving money for scientific research?

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I feel like there's a much less expensive, more effective way to do it than to have it couched in some racist college. So maybe that'll turn into something good. So I'm going to mention this probably more than once. I've already said it. But I'm still laughing at Chuck Schumer doing a public event that was built entirely around pointing out how Trump's approval ratings have dropped.

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So that was the whole point. Trump's approval ratings on polls have dropped. And then one of the reporters called out and mentioned that Schumer's own polls are even worse than Trump's. And Schumer says, well, polls come and go. So with one question, they got Schumer to completely debunk his own point that the polls were telling you something useful.

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As soon as it was about him, he's like, well, polls come and go. Now, on one hand, it's a funny story about an elderly Democrat leader who's just a clown and was completely outmatched by one question. One question just destroyed his whole thing. But there's a bigger thing going on. I think the biggest gaslighting that's happening right now is the idea that the polls are driven by public opinion.

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Because that's the way you think it is, right? The pollsters ask the voters, what's your opinion? And then they give us the result. Well, I was listening to Victor Davis Hanson explain that some of these recent decreases in Trump's polls are because the pollsters simply didn't ask many Trump voters the question. So instead of asking, let's say, half voters,

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of the people who are Trump supporters and let's say half who are not, what do you think of Trump? Because that would match the actual vote, right? Because the vote is usually, you know, almost a tie. So if you wanted a good poll, you'd want to talk to about half of the people who voted for Trump and half of the people who didn't. And then that would tell you something.

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But if you favor the people who didn't vote for Trump and you say, what do you think about his approval? and they say, hmm, not so much, you haven't really measured the public. What you've done is you have a fake poll, which is done for completely political reasons, to move the public. But beyond that, where does the public get its information?

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It gets its information from the fake news, for the most part. It's not like people are doing their own deep dive and doing their own investigation. They're doing what the media tells them. They're basically just parroting the media. Have you seen the people on the street when they do the street interviews? Somebody would say, what do you think about Trump? And they'll say, well, too much chaos.

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I would have known that because how many times have I taught you that your entire body is your brain? When I studied for tests back when I was a student, one of my tricks was to get as many of my senses involved. So if I were trying to memorize something, I would definitely write it down. And then I would draw a picture of it. And then I would hum it and then maybe I would chant it.

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And he should use a scalpel instead of, and Doge should use a scalpel instead of a chainsaw. Where do you think they get those buzzwords? They didn't do their own deep dive and come up with the same buzzwords. They're literally reporting what they heard on the news, which we know is fake news. So you got your fake news that's come up with this trick.

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I don't know how long they've been doing it, but they're doing it now, where they pretend that the public makes up its own mind. The public doesn't make up its own mind. It makes up its mind based on what the media told it. So if the media has collectively decided to say chaos a million times and scalpel a million times, what do you think the voters that they talk to are going to say?

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Well, the Trump voters are still going to favor Trump. The polls show that. But what about the other people who are oversampled? The oversampled people are just going to repeat what they heard on MSNBC and CNN. Oh, they didn't use a scalpel and there's so much chaos. Can you give me an example of the chaos? Well, they didn't use a scalpel.

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Okay, well, we talked about the scalpel thing, but what would be the chaos? Well, all the tariffs seem to be moving and they're complicated and they keep changing. And then you would say, you mean exactly like Trump tells you he always negotiates, where he brings great uncertainty into a situation until people are begging for certainty, and then he negotiates and gets what he wants? You mean that?

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Is that the chaos you're talking about? Oh, no. On MSNBC, they said it was all bad. It must be bad chaos. There's nothing like public opinion happening here. There is just brainwashing. And then the media looks at the pollsters and go, go check to see if our brainwashing is working. And it does work because they're using Nazi technique.

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The Nazi technique is you tell a big lie and then you repeat it endlessly to the media that you control. That's what we're watching. You're watching Nazi technique that the Democrats use very successfully. And then they launder it through polls. So it looks like people made up their own minds. It's the greatest gaslighting that's happening right now. And I'm impressed as hell.

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Meanwhile, I always tell you about the designated liars, the DDLs, the Democrat designated liars. So Swalwell is one, Jamie Raskin is another, Adam Schiff is another. There's a certain set of, of Democrats who will tell the big lie that is sort of part of the Nazi propaganda that regular Democrats won't do. So your normal Democrats will just sort of stay out of the news.

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But the ones who want to be in the news, they will tell any lie. So they're the ones saying Trump wants to cut your Social Security. There's literally no evidence of that, and there's plenty of evidence that he says, absolutely not, I won't do that. But the designated liars will say it, and people will believe it. It's part of the Nazi propaganda that they use.

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Well, here's one that Eric Swalwell is trying to push. So despite all of the election denial stuff that's happened over 2020, Swalwell was on some kind of podcast with some leftist, and there was an allegation brought up that enemies of the US stole US data, and that somehow Elon Musk's Starlink was involved.

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Now, what evidence is there that Starlink was involved in any of the election stuff, and certainly what evidence was involved that if they were involved, I don't even think they were involved in any elections. They're not part of the election system as far as I know. And what evidence would there be that they somehow participated in helping Russia get election data?

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I mean, it's just a ridiculous accusation. So what does Swalwell say? He goes, Elon Musk has done nothing in the last five months to make me think that we shouldn't ask questions about what the hell he was doing in 2024. In other words, Swalwell, one of the Democrat designated liars, wants you to believe that the 2024 election might have been rigged by Elon Musk.

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meaning technically rigged, not just that he participated and that he funded stuff and he was effective in the campaign. They don't like that. But how shameless do you have to be to say something like this? Well, we can't rule it out. They certainly ruled it out in 2020. So are we to believe that the election systems are that vulnerable

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Like I'd say, you know, and the West was settled in the year, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And if I could have smelled it or heard it or gotten any other senses involved, I would have done it. Now you can't really smell history or math, but the idea is the more parts of your body that get involved, the more learning. because your entire body is part of your memory system. It is.

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If we are to believe that they're that vulnerable, then wouldn't they also have been vulnerable in 2020? Or did they only become vulnerable when Trump won? Just insane lies coming out of the designated liars. Well, meanwhile, according to the AP, you know that 60 Minutes report that caused Trump to sue CBS?

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It's the one where Kamala Harris was being interviewed, and there was at least one edit that allegedly made her answer look more coherent than it really was. And that's part of what Trump is suing over. And apparently that report, that segment of 60 Minutes, is nominated for an Emmy Award. It's nominated for an Emmy Award. Now, that is just the classic Democrat thing.

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Because remember the Russia collusion hoax? It won Pulitzer Prizes for some of the writers. The people who are pushing the biggest hoax this country has ever experienced, probably the biggest one, got a Pulitzer, and now the 60 Minutes thing that will probably end up in a win for Trump. So Trump will probably get a big paycheck out of that. They nominated it for an Emmy Award. That's funny.

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Well, Tom Homan says that they've already rescued 5,000 children and of the 300,000 migrant children who went missing or were trafficked, they claim, under the Biden administration. So I don't think it's disputed that 300 children came through and we don't know what happened to them. So that's what... I think that's what... RFK Jr.

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was referring to when saying that the United States was complicit in child trafficking is that we allowed 300,000 kids to come through without really checking where they were going or who they were with, at least checking enough. And so 5,000 of them had been rescued and at least some of them were in forced labor. What kind of forced labor do you think that was?

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Because, you know, I've never met anybody who was in forced labor in the United States, so there's probably some enormous underground thing going on. But, you know, I don't have any contact with it, thank God. Anyway, according to Just the News, the House Judiciary Committee that's working on the

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current write-up of the 2025 budget proposal, it looks like they're going to put a cover charge on entering the United States. And I always used to joke about this, that entering the United States should have a cover charge and maybe a two-drink minimum. But here's what they're proposing, or at least they're noodling on. We don't know if this will become an actual proposal yet.

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But the asylum seekers and parolees would pay $1,000 minimum fee if you're an asylum seeker. Now, how many asylum seekers could afford $1,000? So I assume this would be a way to reduce the number of asylum seekers. And then migrants requesting temporary protected status. and I don't know how that's different from an asylum seeker, but let's say it is, would have to pay $500.

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Sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children would be charged $3,500. Now, I assume that would also include us vetting them to make sure that the children don't get trafficked. And then many work permit applications would also have a $550 fee. So I like the general idea of charging people to come into the country. I don't know if these are specifically the best ideas.

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According to the Post Millennial, the Texas State House is passing a bill banning political memes. with fines of up to one year in jail. Now, when I first read that, I was kind of dealing at the headline level, and I thought, are you kidding me? You could go to jail for a year for a meme? But it turns out this would be limited to the paid political advertisers.

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So in other words, if you were running an ad, yeah, if you were running an ad on TV, for example, and it was a paid political ad, You couldn't use AI to make it look like your opponent did something that they didn't do. It would not apply to you and I making a comic and putting it on social media. So it's not that different than requiring some kind of honesty in political ads.

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If you can get something into your head through all five of your senses, it'll stay there. If you get it into your head through one of your senses, let's say just reading it on a page, it might stay there, but it's not going to be nearly as sticky. So the more your body that gets involved, You could dance it. You could sing it. You can chant it. You can write it down.

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But my question is this. When has there ever been an honest political ad I thought that political ads were always lies, no matter who did them. Isn't that your experience? That political ads are always lies? How in the world do you distinguish between a meme, which would be a political lie if it were showing something that didn't really happen in real life, versus them claiming that

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let's say that Trump is going to cut your Social Security. Do you think there are any political ads that are going to say Trump is going to cut your health care and your Social Security, which as far as I know will not happen? It's not true. Would you go to jail for a year for claiming that he will? Or is that just an opinion? Whereas if you had some A.I.,

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and the AI looked like Trump saying something that he didn't really say? Would you go to jail potentially for a year because the AI is more persuasive than simply saying he said it? I don't know. I got a lot of questions. I'm not comfortable with this, but at least it's limited to paid political ads. Well, I saw Tucker Carlson pushing for asylum for Russell Brand.

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And I'm going to read what Tucker said. And I don't know exactly, you know, obviously I don't know about the charges against Russell Brand, but I'm also in favor of offering him asylum. Because it feels like, and Tucker says this better, I'll give you what Tucker said, it does feel like it's politically driven as opposed to driven by actual victims.

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So here's what Tucker said on X. Russell Brand was once a famous left-wing actor celebrated by the British establishment. Then he criticized the government for using COVID to turn the UK into a totalitarian state. The accolades abruptly stopped. A government TV station accused Brand of committing sex crimes against anonymous women they refused to name.

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Government officials called for his opinions to be scrubbed from the internet. Again, this is Tucker Carlson saying this. Last month, British prosecutors charged Brand with rape and sexual assault. None of the charges are backed by hard evidence. All of them supposedly took place more than 20 years ago, one of them from the 90s.

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The entire case is transparently political and absurd, a near-identical replay of the fake rape charges authorities brought against Julian Assange 15 years ago. Russell Brand, whose youngest child is barely a year old, now faces life in prison. He has no shot at a fair trial because Britain is no longer a free country.

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Over the last few years, millions of foreigners have applied for asylum in the United States. Russell Brand actually deserves it. Say a prayer that the Trump administration comes to his rescue. I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes. Political asylum, we should absolutely offer it to Russell Brand. Because it does look so political. I mean, he became...

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He became one of the most effective non-anti-Trump people because he wasn't anti-Trump. And it seems like a really big coincidence that when you get somebody who is that effective, suddenly they have rape charges. It's just a little bit hard for me to believe that these are based on reality.

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Children, this is a great study trick. I would have gotten that one right. All right, here's a story. Business Insider is writing that the U.S. Army plans to flood its forces with drones. So every division of the Army is going to have all kinds of drones. You've got drones here and drones there, and they'll probably have fewer aircraft and ground vehicles. But boy, they're going to have drones.

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as opposed to it's just the normal play that comes from usually the intelligence wing of a country that's trying to stop somebody from doing what they do. So remember, Assange isn't the only one. Trump, too, was brought up on charges that to me looked pretty suspicious. So yes. Now I will tell you that, when was it? Was it two years ago? One year ago? I'm losing sense of time.

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So I was asked to be a guest on Russell Brand's show, which of course was a gigantic honor. And he was at the top of his game before the accusations. And the very week that I was going to be on his show is when all this news first broke that he had been accused of this terrible crime. And I got to tell you, he did the best he could, but boy, was he affected.

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I mean, you could tell he was not his usual self. So I never got to experience being on his show when he was at the top of his game because he had taken a gut punch, you know, that very, I think within just, day or two of me being on the show, so I felt very bad for him. And yes, asylum. Let's check in with Germany.

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According to Reuters, the the I guess the leading conservative party, the AFD, which is leading in the polls, has been designated an extremist entity by German intelligence. Does that sound legitimate?

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Do you think that just as this political party is picking up popularity to the point where it could potentially get into power, it's not there yet, is this a coincidence that German intelligence has designated them an extremist entity? And do you think the facts will support that? Now, I'm not saying there are no extremists in the party, because every party has some extremists, but...

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That looks a little suspicious to me. So that's what Germany is up to. Let's check in with Israel. According to the Times of Israel, Netanyahu was asked about the goal of getting the hostages back from Hamas. And Netanyahu had this very honest answer. He said it's a very important goal, meaning getting the hostages back.

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But then he continued, but the war has a supreme goal, and the supreme goal is victory over our enemies, and this we will achieve. So he's got an important goal, but also a supreme goal. Now, he is very honest about this, and there's something about transparency in this domain that, as horrible as the situation is, I do appreciate transparency.

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And so he's saying as clearly as possible, if the hostages get in the way of us destroying Hamas, we're going to destroy Hamas. And if you're a family member or friend of the hostages, that's the worst thing you could ever hear. But it is leadership. And it is very clear. And it probably is the smartest thing you could say because Hamas is listening to.

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You can't give them too much power and you can't let taking hostages work. So he's taking the hard road and he's saying, we're not going to let hostages work. And if that means that the hostages don't come home, the supreme goal is to Get rid of Hamas. So it's horrible, but it's transparent.

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And I'll tell you, transparency goes a long way to making the horrible not acceptable, but at least barely tolerable. So there's that. And by the way, that's what I predicted would happen, that defeating Hamas would be ultimately the primary goal. Well, according to President Trump, he said that all purchases of Iranian oil or petrochemicals must stop now.

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Now, my big question was, wasn't it just a few years ago where the common wisdom is America couldn't make drones and that only China had all the parts and the know-how to make drones, at least make drones at an economical way? But apparently the U.S. has quietly developed quite the drone-making industry. But we don't really know who they are. We know about Anduril, but that's a bigger enterprise.

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He says that any country or person who buys any amount of oil or petrochemicals from Iran... will be subject to immediate secondary sanctions. And so I said to myself, who buys oil from Iran? Who exactly is he threatening? So I went to Grok and said, who buys oil from Iran? Well, apparently 90% of it is China. So did he just threaten China with what would be kind of permanent secondary sanctions?

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Because it's 90% China. But there's also Syria, which I can't believe they buy much oil. Turkey, which could be a bigger deal, you know, a NATO member. UAE, Bangladesh, Oman, and Venezuela. Can you believe that Venezuela, which is an oil exporting country or should have been, has to buy oil from Iran? Boy, that is a failed country right there.

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And then allegedly some European countries might try to buy some oil from Iran, but that's harder to verify. So I don't know. Is this a play against China? Or does it really make a difference to Iran? I don't know.

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Well, according to the New York Post, the Russian Security Council deputy chairman, Dmitry Medvedev, who is very well connected, so he's a Putin guy, he talked about the mineral deal that the US signed with Ukraine, and he doesn't like it at all. And here's what he says, and he certainly chooses his words in an interesting way. So Medvedev said on Thursday,

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that the mineral rights deal with Ukraine, he praised it sarcastically, praising the US leader for making a deal with a nation that will soon disappear. What? Will soon disappear? So this is Putin's right-hand person who says that Ukraine will soon disappear? That really doesn't sound like somebody who wants a peace deal in which Ukraine thrives and they just keep the stuff they've already taken.

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Doesn't that feel like he's revealing a little bit more than he was supposed to reveal? I mean, if you say that the nation will soon disappear, aren't you kind of saying that Putin's plan is to take the rest of Ukraine? And if that is the plan... Why is he mad about the mineral deal unless the mineral deal is a good strategy?

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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a slide, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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So I was kind of criticizing the mineral deal as too weak, meaning that it wouldn't stop Russia from doing anything. But maybe it isn't. Maybe it isn't. Because if the right-hand person of Putin, somebody that close to Putin, feels that he needs to criticize the deal, that means the deal has some importance.

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And it means that Russia is saying, oh crap, this is going to make it harder for us to disappear Ukraine. So I'm going to... I'm going to tentatively revise my opinion about the mineral deal. Now, we don't know if it'll translate into actual money and mining. We don't know if it'll actually economically work yet. But politically, it looks like it's already working.

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Because if Russia hates it, that feels like it's on target. If Russia didn't care one way or the other, then I would have said, well, see, You know, it was irrelevant. But apparently it is relevant. So if it bothers Russia, maybe it's right on point.

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Well, according to Newsmax, there are riots in China over the tariffs causing them to close factories and people not getting paychecks and people laid off and whatnot. So the riots and mass protests spreading across China.

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Now, as I've told you before, every time I see a story about China's economy, whether it's these factory closing and riots happening, I eventually learned that it was hyperbole and that China is surviving just fine. So I don't know if this is real yet. Goldman Sachs estimates as many as 16 million jobs could be lost in China. Again, is that enough to make them change path?

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Is 16 million jobs in the context of China having an iron fist? Does that make a difference? We'll see. But China does seem to have been easing up on its rhetoric. at the same time that allegedly they're getting all this economic pressure. So apparently China is, quote, evaluating an offer from Washington. This is from Reuters.

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So they say that Beijing is evaluating an offer from Washington to hold talks over the tariffs. And China's Commerce Ministry said on Friday although it warned the United States not to engage in, quote, extortion and coercion. And that at the same time, China was kind of quietly exempting a bunch of U.S. imports from tariffs.

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They do lots of different products. But there must be a bunch of other ones. Someone else, I guess, was involved in one of these drone companies. confirmed that they're making drones and lots of others are making them. So I guess the problem of making drones in the United States has been solved, which is a really big deal.

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So quietly, they're taking some of the tariff pressure off on the important stuff like pharma, et cetera. And in terms of their rhetoric, All they're really asking is that we stop saying aggressive things about them. And Trump is. I think Trump is doing his usual thing where he starts out, you're bad, you're bad, you're little rocket man.

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And then as soon as things start going in more of a, well, you know, we could be friends direction, then he stops that rhetoric and now you're his best friend. So what I would expect is that Trump's rhetoric will very quickly, assuming that China stays cool, and so far the suggestion is that they're going to stay cool because they need a deal too, right? They need to get past this.

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If they stay cool, I think Trump is going to change all the way from his really bad rhetoric about China and is suddenly going to go to, President Xi is very smart. He knows that he can make a better deal. It's good for China. He sure knows how to run a country. And that's when you know there will be a deal.

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So the stuff that the Trump critics call chaos, how many times do you have to see the chaos work before you understand that he tells you in advance? that being unpredictable is his technique. And then you watch it, and you can label it chaos all day long if you want, but it works. And it looks like it's working again. So we'll see.

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I don't think it's an accident that the stock market is looking stronger than people expected. Because I think the stock market is saying, you know what? I think there's a pretty good chance that China is going to get the rhetoric it wants because things just calm down over time.

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And then they're going to say, all right, now we can negotiate as peers and we won't negotiate like we're being blackmailed. And maybe we can get something done now. We'll see. We shall see. All right, that's what I got for you today, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately if all my technology works. And the rest of you, thanks for joining.

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I will see you same time, same place tomorrow. We'll have some more fun.

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Now, probably they're not cost-effective for consumers, but they're being made for the military. Now, if you build a big factory that's ultimately automated and it's got robot arms and stuff,

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it can make drones probably the price is going to come down and probably they'll be consumer you know consumer products too so the United States is finally getting competitive in drone making so that's good news did you know that because of The anti-drone technology is getting really good. And again, Anduril is a company that can knock down drones with a man portable device.

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Apparently the Russians in their war with Ukraine are starting to use drones that are on the fiber optic cables. Now, does that seem like something that could work? If you use your common sense, do you think that a drone that has to be physically connected to the operator with a very long fiber optic cable, how much distance are you going to get on that?

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Well, it turns out, I asked that same question of somebody who knows a lot about drones. And apparently the Russians can get these fiber optic driven drones. They can't be knocked down with an electronic attack. They can go from 5 to 12 miles.

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does that even seem possible to you that this, this little fiber optic cable could stretch for five to 12 miles and then they could just rewind it, use it again. Anti-tank missiles are wired. Somebody say, so I had no idea that you could get that kind of distance. Um, But they don't have too many of them because it's very hard to make the spools and the cable that's strong enough.

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So the war of anti-drone versus drone, anti-anti-drone, anti-anti-anti-drone is in full blast. But apparently these fiber optic cable drones are a thing. And they would operate with visual commands. So the operator would just be seeing through the drone. So there's no satellite connection and the electronic counter means would be useless against them. I'm sure that'll change fast too.

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Well, there is a Big revolution in AI that if you don't follow AI, you wouldn't know. But the problem with AI, maybe it wasn't a problem, maybe it was the right thing for the right time, was we've all been watching AI develop, but it wasn't really connected to any of your real work.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and darn it, it's going to happen right now. Go. Go. So good. So, so good. So I wonder if there are any scientific studies that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me. Well, oh, here's one.

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It could write some code, but it was still up to you to take that code and figure out how to make your computer recognize it and use it. So in other words, there was almost like a wall between what the AI could do and what your other apps would do. But that's coming down quickly, I think because the AI is more incapable. So here's another example.

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The AI called Claude can now look at your files, according to TechCrunch. So it can look at your files. It can look at other files. It can activate your PayPal and your Zapier and your Appalachian. And it can do stuff like summarize tasks or automate your boring work. In other words, it can connect to the other stuff on your computer with permission. And do stuff.

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So it can send stuff, activate stuff, use your other apps. And we saw that Visa, the Visa payment company, was also talking about making Visa available to AI so AI could operate it. And we're seeing a lot of what you would call agentic apps. I heard that word yesterday. I decided I was going to use it. agentic.

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So an agent would be like a little fake AI personality where you can just tell it what to do. So that's the next level. You know, instead of simply knowing what to do and being able to write prompts and make you do something, you'll just have a person and you'll say, Hey, could you look through my files and find that thing?

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and then write up a little summary about that thing, and then send an email out to these four people, and it would just do it. And maybe check with you, but it could just do it. So if you look at all the AIs now becoming at least capable of connecting to your other apps, this is where we give up all control. I got to tell you that I'm having mixed emotions about it.

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One of my emotions is, are you kidding? I could automate my entire operation? Because there's a whole bunch of things that I do that are just purely idiot work. I just have to do it over and over again that I would love to be able to tell an AI to just go do, such as publishing my Dilbert comic every day. It knows where the comic is. It's always in the same folder.

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And it knows what it has to look like and where it needs to be published.

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i should be able to just tell claude to go publish it and not even tell it you could just do it automatically every morning looking through my files so i'm very tempted but on the other hand i can't even imagine allowing ai access to my any of my financials so i'm probably i would probably want to keep up some kind of a wall so i might say for example all right you could have access to my paypal

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but not my bank account. You could have access to my credit card that has a low limit, but not my one that has a high limit. So I feel like I wouldn't totally trust it, nor should you. Well, according to Ludnick, I guess he made a claim on CNBC that Apple was only waiting for some robotic arms to be able to make iPhones in America, because the labor costs are different. But do you believe that?

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Do you believe that Tim Cook of Apple, the only thing that's preventing them from building a significant iPhone manufacturing capability in the United States is that they don't yet have robotic arms? And you know what my first question about that would be? Who makes the robotic arms? Would it be

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china is it possible that we're waiting for china to deliver the robotic arms so he could make his stuff not in china i don't know if that's the case but who else makes robotic arms if they were made in the united states I don't know, are we at capacity? We can't spare a few robotic arms for Apple?

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It seems like if they were made domestically, he would already be building the factory in anticipation of, you know, if it takes a year, they can make a few robotic arms for the factory. So it might be China. So that part, I'm just guessing, speculating. But maybe South Korea, you think? Maybe South Korea? Could be. Well, you probably all saw the story that Mike Waltz was promoted fired.

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New York Post is reporting that A study was done on magic mushrooms, USF did a study, and they found that a single dose of psilocybin, that's the magic mushrooms, one dose can help Parkinson's patients with dramatic improved mood, motor function, and memory. And it even lasts even after one dose.

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which is such a perfect Trumpian thing to do. So I guess Trump didn't want external forces to make him fire Mike Waltz, but the cry for his termination was going. He was the U.S. National Security Advisor, but he also was accused of some mistakes in Signalgate. And Trump, presumably, we can't read his mind, but the smart people say Trump just didn't want to